Saturday, September 5, 2009

True to my word...

I was not kidding. Here are (at least) 100 movies I expected to see remastered in High Definition before Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions*.

note: this is not a "better than" or "movies that should be", it merely reflects movies I expected to see announced for Blu Ray or showing in High Definition somewhere before they got around to Lord of Illusions.


Touch of Evil
Fantasia
Citizen Kane
The African Queen
Dracula
Vertigo
Seven Samurai
Frankenstein
Psycho
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Ten Commandments
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Metropolis
La Strada
Rashomon
The Virgin Spring
The Empire Strikes Back
High Noon
Taxi Driver
Point Blank
O Brother Where Art Thou
Sullivan's Travels
The Gold Rush
Duck Soup
The City of Lost Children
The Virgin Spring
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Lolita
The Thing from Another World
Apocalypse Now
On the Waterfront
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Sunset Boulevard
Alice in Wonderland
Eraserhead
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Lawrence of Arabia
E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial
Soylent Green
Back to the Future
Ed Wood
Bringing Up Baby
Trainspotting
Jaws
Dead Man
A Hard Days Night
The Trial
Network
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Pulp Fiction
Blue Velvet
Insomnia
Toy Story
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Star Wars
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Some Like It Hot
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Tron
Rear Window
The Apartment
Spartacus
Modern Times
The Incredibles
A Fistful of Dollars
The Sound of Music
Escape from New York
The Maltese Falcon
Annie Hall
Ben-Hur
La Dolce Vita
Yojimbo
THX 1138
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Mary Poppins
Paths of Glory
M
Days of Heaven
Jules and Jim
The Night of the Hunter
Night of the Living Dead
Amelie
The Man Who Wasn't There
City Lights
8 1/2
Ran
Double Indemnity
Nosferatu
Schindler's List
Leon: The Professional
To Kill a Mockingbird
All About Eve
Singin' in the Rain
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Scarface
The Hustler
In Bruges
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Philadelphia Story
The Conversation

and for good measure, three I wasn't really expecting but would have surprised me less than Lord of Illusions:

The Toxic Avenger
Freaks
Plan 9 from Outer Space


* Nothing personal, Lord of Illusions.

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