http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Thief-of-Bagdad-Blu-ray/58234/#Forum
Cohen Media will be releasing it. It will have the Carl Davis score. Here are some of the details:
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=207298
Just bought a copy. A silent masterpiece enhanced by a superb score. I'm pumped to see this.
shareThis Blu-ray looks and sounds great.
shareThis is one awesome blu ray!
The video and audio are phenominal!!
This blu-ray version is head and shoulders above anything I've seen, not to mention a great score by Carl Davis!
I only wished that they had included the Orson Welles material from the KINO version, but regardless, I will always have that DVD handy.
I agree. The Cohen Media Group Blu-ray is outstanding visually and the Carl Davis score adds immeasurably to the enjoyment of the film. Douglas Fairbanks was amazing and the film itself is a masterpiece. The cinematography, art direction and most of the visual effects are as impressive now as they must have been to movie audiences in 1924.
shareI watched the KINO DVD and the Cohen BR side-to-side.
(This turned out to be a good idea for the experience with the movie, and not so much with making time for other movies.)
Both tinted, but in various ways.
In the 1st half the DVD employs more various tints, while BR sticks to B&W or sepia more.
I think it's the other way around for the 2nd half.
At some point BR starts looking considerably more cropped, that tips the scales for me in favor of DVD completely already. Later even more.
There are some differences in scenes, here the most noticeable
Overall DVD is faster moving for some reason though FPS seems to be the same 24
BR shows the man falling from the statue;
DVD has an extra shot with the magic apple;
BR has better picture quality in the magic apple sequence, in fact DVD dips considerably here;
DVD has longer and extra shots with the doctor and the princess and the carpet;
and later with riding through the desert;
after that there's more shots that last longer than the other version, BR has a number of slightly longer ones as well, and even extra scenes of the more pointless kind;
the army conjuring scene lasts 30 seconds longer in the DVD version;
there's more differences after that where lots of action is going on, and BR is lacking 3 minutes here, but adds about ten seconds in the final 2 minutes of carpet flying.
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