Category: Home Viewing with Peter

The Sound of Music has been released on 4K Ultra HD by Disney which now controls the 20th Century-Fox catalogue. The film of course looks and sounds better than it ever has in the format. Officially called the film’s 60th Anniversary edition, it is being released six months past its 60th anniversary which occurred in…

The Italian 4Kult has released Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon on 4K UHD, having previously released the film on Blu-ray in 2024. The release is remarkable in that the film, a co-production of Apple TV and Paramount, is the first and so far, only film controlled by the streaming giant to have been…

Kino Lorber has released 1947’s Dear Ruth and 1934’s Father Brown, Detective on Blu-ray. Both were Paramount films which became the ownership of Universal in 1948. Dear Ruth was a very popular Broadway comedy about a G.I. who falls in love with a girl through her letters to him. Unbeknownst to him, the girl, and…

Last week I focused on Hollywood films released in the period from 1941 through 1947 which covered World War II and its immediate aftermath. This week, I’m concentrating on another seven-year period, 1960 through 1966, the years in which there was a definite crack in the Production Code that had ruled Hollywood since mid-1934, leading…

This has been an underwhelming year thus far for new films and TV programming with no truly outstanding home video releases to recommend other than the occasional upgrade of a previously released film. The fall film festivals have unearthed several films worth anticipating in theatres later this year such as Hamnet and Bugonia and TV…

Warner Archive has released a rare for them Blu-ray of a classic film that had never been on DVD in the U.S., John Ford’s last film, 1966’s 7 Women. 7 Women may not be one of Ford’s masterworks but it is a fascinating film. Set in an American mission in 1935 China, the film is…

The Criterion Collection has released a beautifully restored version of Vittorio De Sica’s Shoeshine on 4K UHD. A seminal film of Italian neorealism filmed just after the end of World War II, Shoeshine was released in Italy in 1946 a year after Rome, Open City which had been a huge hit. However, with American films…

Film Masters Archive Collection has released a restored Blu-ray of John Cromwell’s 1938 film, Algiers staring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr. The film is a scene-for-scene remake of Julien Duvivier’s 1937 French film, Pepe le Moko which MGM’s Louis B. Mayer and independent producer Walter Wanger had a bidding war over for the U.S. rights,…

Warner Archive’s latest batch of Blu-ray upgrades is finally here. Easily the best of the seven new releases is Roy Rowlands’ lighter than air 1950 musical, Two Weeks with Love starring Jane Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Debbie Reynolds, and Carlton Carpenter. A throwaway story line about summertime in Old New York set in 1913 provides the…

Columbia has made available a new Blu-ray release of Blake Edwards’ 1962 film, Experiment in Terror which was previously released in the U.S. by boutique label Twilight Time. That out-of-print release is currently available on Amazon for $97.95. The new release is going for $27.55 on Amazon The film is an extremely tense thriller filmed…

Wes Anderson is a filmmaker with a unique perspective whose films people seem to either love or hate. Although his films have more lovers than haters, some people love some of his films and hate some of his others. An 8-time Oscar nominee and winner for his 2023 short film, The Wonderful Story of Henry…

Now available on 4K UHD and standard Blu-ray from Kino Lorber, George Stevens’ 1953 classic, Shane, joins Roman Holiday, Stalag 17, Sabrina, and White Christmas as the fifth of seven of Paramount’s biggest hits of the early 1950s to be released on 4K UHD, with 1950’s Sunset Boulevard due to follow on August 5th. Can…

Now available on 4k UHD and standard Blu-ray from Warner Home Video, and streaming on HBO Max, Sinners is the year’s most critically acclaimed film to date as well as the biggest box-office success thus far. Directed by Ryan Coogler, the film is another showcase for Michael B. Jordan, who previously starred in Coogler’s Fruitvale…

The Criterion Collection has released a 4K UHD upgrade of Fritz Lang’s 1953 masterwork, The Big Heat. Previously released on Blu-ray by boutique label, Twilight Time in 2014, The Big Heat has leaped ahead of such Lang films as 1936’s Fury, 1944’s The Woman in the Window, and 1945’s Scarlet Street to take its place…

Warner Archive released Blu-ray upgrades of seven classic films in June, the most it has released in some time including a rare 4K Ultra HD release. Getting the 4K upgrade is High Society, Charles Walters’ musical remake of George Cukor’s 1940 classic, The Philadelphia Story with the action moved from Philadelphia to Newport, Rhode Island.…