I Met My Love Again (1938) ClassicFlix Trailer

Out today for the first time on DVD, here's a trailer we cut for our restoration of I Met My Love Again (1938) starring Henry Fonda and Joan Bennett.

College sweethearts Julie Weir (Joan Bennett) and Ives Towner (Henry Fonda) are very much in love and engaged to be married. But because Ives feels like a “nobody”, he asks Julie if she could wait until he makes something of himself. Julie consents, but after two long years and without a wedding date in sight, she meets and impulsively marries Michael, a charismatic writer.

However, Julie soon finds out that her new husband (Alan Marshal) is a loafer who is more interested in partying than supporting his family. Things then go from bad to worse when Michael is accidentally killed (at a party), leaving Julie and her daughter penniless and stranded in Paris.

But her Aunt William (Dame May Whitty) hasn’t given up hope that Julie could rekindle her romance with Ives and provides her with enough money to come back home to Vermont. Will Julie’s arrival be enough to blunt the attentions of a young co-ed (Louise Platt) who has intentions of marrying Ives herself?

Producer Walter Wanger brought Allene Corliss’ novel Summer Lightning to the big screen in 1938 as I Met My Love Again, directed by Arthur Ripley and Joshua Logan. It would be the motion picture debut for Logan, a celebrated stage director (whose early theatrical productions starred Fonda and his pal James Stewart) who wouldn’t receive credit on another film until 1955.

I Met My Love Again also served as the cinematic debut of actress Louise Platt (whom Wanger would later cast in Stagecoach), in addition to offering an excellent showcase for such favorites such as Dame May Whitty and a young Tim Holt. Above all, it’s the luminescent teaming of Henry Fonda and Joan Bennett in a film that will be a favorite of those who believe love triumphs over all!

CRITERION: My Darling Clementine Premiering on Blu

Criterion has announced an October 14th street date for the 1946 Western, My Darling Clementine, on a newly restored DVD (2-disc) and Blu-Ray. Click here for details.

FOX BLU: Black Swan, Jesse James & Desk Set in Wave of 8

Fox has really picked up the pace in their Blu output this year and the studio has decided to end 2013 with a bang by scheduling eight Blu-Ray (below) releases for December 3rd:

• The Black Swan (Blu-Ray)
• Call of the Wild (Blu-Ray)
• Carmen Jones (Blu-Ray)
• Desk Set (Blu-Ray)
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Blu-Ray)
• Jesse James (Blu-Ray)
• North to Alaska (Blu-Ray)
• The Undefeated (Blu-Ray)

Also the bonus features from the DVD releases are expected to carry over (subtitles and dubbing too).

The Grapes of Wrath (Blu-Ray) in June

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

The Grapes of Wrath (Blu-Ray) June 5th Fox Retail: $29.99, Our: $23.99

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The Grapes of Wrath (Blu-Ray) has been announced by Fox for release on June 5th.

The heart-wrenching John Ford drama will carry most of the bonus features over from the standard edition and will retail for $29.99.


Following a prison term he served for manslaughter, Tom Joad returns to find his family homestead overwhelmed by weather and the greed of the banking industry. With little work potential on the horizon of the Oklahoma dust bowls, the entire family packs up and heads for the promised land - California. but the arduous trip and harsh living conditions they encounter offer little hope, and family unity proves as daunting a challenge as any other they face.

BONUS FEATURES:

• Commentary by Scholars Joseph McBride and Susan Shillinglaw
• FMC Presents Fox Legacy with Tim Rothman
• Darryl F. Zanuck - 20th Century Filmmaker
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• Fox Movietone News:
  • 1934: Worst Drought in Many Years Hits Mid-West
  • 1934: Drought Distress is Increasing in the Mid-West
  • 1934: Midwest Drought Distress Becomes National Disaster
  • 1934: Outtakes
  • 1941: Roosevelt Lands Motion Pictures at Academy Fete

Fort Apache (Blu-Ray) in February

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

Fort Apache (Blu-Ray) February 21st Warner Bros. Retail: $19.98, Our: $15.99

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More Blu-Ray from Warner Bros. as they have announced Fort Apache (Blu-Ray) for release on February 21st.

It will retail for $19.98, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $15.99. Bonus features, if any, are not yet known.


SYNOPSIS:
The soldiers at Fort Apache may disagree with the tactics of their glory-seeking new commander. But to a man, they're duty-bound to obey - even when it means almost certain disaster.

John Wayne, Henry Fonda and many familiar supporting players from master director John Ford's "stock company" saddle up for the first film in the director's famed cavalry trilogy (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande are the others). Roughhouse camaraderie, sentimental vignettes of frontier life, massive action sequences staged in Monument Valley - all are part of Fort Apache. So is Ford's exploration of the West's darker side. Themes of justice, heroism and honor that Ford would revisit in later Westerns are given rein in this moving, thought-provoking film that, even as it salutes a legend, gives reasons to question it.

CRITERION BLU: 12 Angry Men, Rules of the Game in November

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

12 Angry Men (1957) November 22nd Criterion Retail: 29.95, Our: $23.99

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

12 Angry Men (Blu-Ray) (1957) November 22nd Criterion Retail: 39.95, Our: $31.99

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

The Rules of the Game (1939) November 15th Criterion Retail: 29.95, Our: $23.99

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WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

The Rules of the Game (Blu-Ray) (1939) November 15th Criterion Retail: 39.95, Our: $31.99

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Criterion has announced November release dates for standard and Blu-Ray versions of 12 Angry Men (1957) and The Rules of the Game (1939).

12 Angry Men was previously released by MGM and comes loaded with the expected Criterion bonus features for such the original TV version from 1955.

Rules will carry over all the features from the previous Criterion release. More details below.




12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men, by Sidney Lumet, may be the most radical big-screen courtroom drama in cinema history. A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose’s teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the initially dissenting member of a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. What results is a saga of epic proportions that plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room. Lumet’s electrifying snapshot of 1950s America on the verge of change is one of the great feature-film debuts.

BONUS FEATURES:

• Frank Schaffner’s 1955 television version, with an introduction by Ron Simon, director of the Paley Center for Media Studies
• Twelve Angry Men: From Television to the Big Screen, a video essay by film scholar Vance Kepley comparing the Sidney Lumet and Schaffner versions
• Archival interviews with Lumet
• New interview about the director with writer Walter Bernstein
• New interview with Simon about television writer Reginald Rose
• New interview with cinematographer John Bailey in which he discusses cinematographer Boris Kaufman
• Tragedy in a Temporary Town (1956), a teleplay directed by Lumet and written by Rose
• Original theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by writer and law professor Thane Rosenbaum

The Rules of the Game
Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's masterpiece The Rules of the Game (La Regle de jeu) is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners. Amorous intrigue abounds at a weekend hunting party, where the refusal of one of the guests to play by the class-based rules sets off a chain of events that ends in tragedy. Although the original negative was destroyed during World War II, this edition features the fully reconstructed version embraced by audiences and critics around the world as a timeless representation of Jean Renoir's genius.

BONUS FEATURES:

• Introduction to the film by Jean Renoir
• Audio Commentary Written by Film Scholar Alexander Sesonske and Read by Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
• Version Comparison: Side by Side Analysis of the Two Endings of the Film, Along with an Illustrated Study of Renoir's Shooting Script
• Selected Scene Analysis by Renoir Historian Christopher Faulkner
• Excerpts from Jean Renoir, le patron: La Regle et l'exception (1966), a French Television Program Directed by Jacques Rivette
• Part one of Jean Renoir, a two-part 1993 BBC Documentary by David Thompson, featuring reflections on Renoir from his family, friends, collaborators, and admirers.
• New video essay about the film's production, release, and later reconstruction.
• Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durand discuss their reconstruction and re-release of the film.
• Interview with Renoir's son, Alain, an assistant cameraman on the film.
• Interview with The Rules of the Game set designer Max Douy
• 1995 Interview with Actress Mila Parely
• Written tributes to the film and Renoir by J. Hoberman, Kent Jones, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, and others.
• PLUS: A 24-page booklet featuring writings by Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Henri Cartier-Bresson Tavernier, and an essay by Alexander Sesonske.

The Deputy - The Complete Series in October

WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE:

The Deputy - The Complete Series October 26th Timeless Media Retail: $89.98, Our: $59.99

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Previously released in a best of 3-disc set, Timeless Media has announced The Deputy - The Complete Series for release on October 26th.

The 12-disc set will contain all 76 episodes from the Henry Fonda western series. Bonus features are not expected.

It will retail for $89.98, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $59.99.