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Director John Korty is best known for his television work (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), for which he won an Emmy) and his documentaries (Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (1977), for which he won an Oscar). But earlier in his career, he made several independent theatrical features. One of these was 1970’s RIVERRUN, which featured a cast of unknowns, except for John McLiam, a grizzled character actor who had extensive television experience and had appeared in “Cool Hand Luke” and “In Cold Blood.” McLiam would go on to appear in a number of westerns during the 1970s
RIVERRUN is a film of its time, about a conscientious objector and his girlfriend who leave the Berkeley campus for life on a San Marin County sheep farm. There they are visited by the girl’s father (McLiam), a veteran sailor who takes a dislike to the boy. Family drama follows. In addition to directing, Korty wrote the original screenplay and was his own director of photography.
Columbia picked up the film for distribution, but it didn’t get much play. I saw the film a few years after its release, in a college film appreciation class. I’ve never been able to see it since. It has never been released on any home video format.
The film gets a rather high 7.2 rating on IMDB by the 9 people who have managed to see it, but it's so obscure that Leonard Maltin doesn't even cover it in his "Movie Guide."
Thanks for letting us know about this one. It's posted.
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My all-time favorite movie (tied with Carlito's Way) is STILL not on DVD!
Richard Linklater's brilliant film version of Eric Bogosian's play SubUrbia...
This is available for streaming and on VHS but since I can't find it on DVD, it's posted.
Thanks
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With the talents involved in its production, you’d think that 1970’s TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME, JUNIE MOON would have received some sort of a release by now. But we don’t have so much as a cassette tape, let alone a DVD. Liza Minnelli stars in the film, and is supported by Ken Howard, James Coco, and Fred Williamson. Marjorie Kellogg wrote the script from her own novel, and Otto Preminger directed.
Leonard Maltin gives the “moving story” 3 and a half stars, noting that “moments of comedy, melodrama [and] compassion [are] expertly blended by Preminger in one of his best films.” Given all the obscure and dubious items that Olive Films is releasing from Paramount (such as Preminger's own SKIDOO), where is this?
Thanks for that one, the description and the poster. I "Pinterested" it.
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Hi Storyteller,
I would imagine there are thousands upon thousands of movies out there that are not (nor ever will be) on DVD mostly lower budget films of little interest to anyone, perhaps even a pain to sit through and I have sat through hundreds over the years...(I'm almost 60). The point of this post is to gather those films WE REALLY WANT TO OWN on Dvd for reasons other than idle curiosity or prurient interest. These would stand a better chance of being streamed at some point than the almost 0 percent chance of getting released on software. They cost manufacturers to license and make as I'm sure you know. Would you buy the DVDs you've suggested, at say $20 a pop? If so fine. Please tell me something about why they're meaningful to you. I appreciate you're going to the trouble to find and list the posters and perhaps those you've listed are meaningful and if so please tell us. Otherwise I could spend the rest of my life just posting films like the ones you've listed that will most likely all be ignored, certainly in my lifetime.
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THE KEEP (Michael Mann)
Just so you know the movie is available for streaming from Amazon. I found this quite interesting as you might from IMDB:
[Why hasn't this movie been released on DVD?]
"The alleged story so far was that Paramount was going to release it on DVD back in 2004 but there were two reasons that have stopped them from doing so. First, the studio wasn't able to obtain the rights of the soundtrack by Tangerine Dream. Second, is that Michael Mann (who has publicly disowned the film) forced the studio not to release it.
There is information available on the web that Michael Mann, the director of the movie, and F. Paul Wilson, the writer of the book that The Keep is based on, do not look upon this film favorably and therefore they are both uninterested in having it re-released on DVD or Blu-Ray. The film has been broadcast on a number of TV channels over the years since its original VHS and LaserDisc release and the film has had occasional screenings at cult film festivals."
I've seen the film when it was released and have no interest in seeing it again but this Pinterest Board is not exclusively about what I want so I posted it, thanks.
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Alfred The Great 1969, starring David Hemmings. I quite enjoyed it when I saw it in the cinema, despite its many faults. I'd think it has zero chance of a DVD/Blu-ray release, but maybe an official release of Raymond Leppard's beautiful score one day.
Perhaps so but it's posted thanks.
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Apr 11, 2014 - 4:24 PM
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CinemaScope
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Yup, The Games is one of those films I'd like to see, but it's never on TV, it's like a lost film. Michael Winner may have become a bit of a joke, but he made some very good films in the sixties. The best is, I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name, & The System (The Girl-Getters) is very good (& both on DVD), & one I enjoyed at the cinema is The Jokers '66 staring Oliver Reed & Michael Crawford, & that should be on the list (there is a DVD listed on Amazon, but I'm sure it's a bootleg). The big problem with The Jokers was it was about stealing the Crown Jewels from The Tower Of London by Reed & Crawford pretending to be IRA bombers, & when the IRA bombs started going off for real in London in the seventies, the film understandably disappeared from TV & was forgotten. So, The Jokers.
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RIOT ON CELL BLOCK 11 has finally been released!
Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:0
brm
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Geez, i never thought i would see the day when fans are not satified with an anamorphic dvd release- they demand it on blu-ray!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Apr 13, 2014 - 2:23 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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1970’s POUND is a real oddity. Robert Downey, Sr., wrote and directed the film, which was based upon his unproduced play. The film is an allegory wherein POUND's ensemble cast play a cageful of wayward dogs awaiting execution at the city animal shelter. These include a punch-drunk boxer (Stan Gottlieb, complete with robe and gloves), an aged, snooty Pekingese (Lucille Rogers), a bald, crazy Mexican hairless (Lawrence Wolf)—and a cameo by Robert Downey Jr. as a lost puppy.
The film had enough jailhouse humping by the cast to be rated “X” upon its initial release by United Artists, which was scant indeed. The film was considered lost until 2005, when Robert Downey Sr. discovered a print in his "cameraman’s ex-wife's closet.” The print was in such bad shape that it was impossible to run it through a projector, but it was digitally scanned and restored, and Downey showed a director’s cut of the film at the “Howl!! Festival of East Village Arts” in New York City on August 19, 2005.
Needless to say, no video of the film has ever surfaced, not even as part of Criterion’s 2012 Eclipse box set of five Downey films from 1964-1975.
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Another one I'd like to see is the Fox 1955 'scope film, Seven Cities Of Gold (great Hugo Friedhofer score). I think it got a VHS release, but no DVD or Blu-ray yet, I see you can do an HD download in the States, & I think Twilight Time has said they were considering it. I haven't seen it since the mid-sixties on the telly.
It's shown all the time on the Fox Movie Channel here in the U.S., in what seems to be a clear print, though only the main and end titles are in widescreen; the rest is pan-and-scan, typical, I'm afraid, for Fox these days, who seem to have no interest in preserving any of their widescreen titles.
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Apr 13, 2014 - 2:11 PM
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Doc Loch
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How people can misplaced films is amazing. I mean sure, a fire or robbery or flood, but why just one copy? When you think all the time and money it takes to make a film from step one to the last step months or years later, to lose that product and venture is a disgrace beyond a disgrace. Maybe this is more personal to me then others because of my first hand experiences in life, but it is mind boggling. Just utterly mind boggling.
I did a workshop and had dinner with Alan and Joyce Rudolph a couple weeks ago in Seattle, and when I mentioned that I was showing Remember My Name in my film music class Alan asked where I found it. I actually recorded it off TCM the one time they ran it late at night a couple years ago and also have a copy that ran on Cinemax years ago, but apparently Alan himself doesn't own a copy, even on a video format and doesn't have copies of some of his other films. A lot of his films were made for small companies on limited budgets and if the company no longer exists or the rights are in limbo who knows where the original negatives ended up. Even with larger companies if the rights change hands the original source materials may end up in storage somewhere and the filmmaker may be the last to know where they are.
And speaking of obscure films, I just got around to watching The Macomber Affair, which I recorded off TCM a few weeks ago. I didn't realize this was such a difficult film to locate, but apparently even TCM couldn't get a good copy to air. The version they showed appeared to be a dupe print (noticeable dark halo around Joan Bennett's hat in some of the outdoor scenes) that caught off abruptly at the end, with no "The End" title card and Rozsa's music cutting out. Hard to believe a film with that cast and director, and based on a Hemingway story, wouldn't have received a video or DVD release by now.
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