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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics Acquisitions

#2651 Post by whaleallright » Fri May 15, 2020 2:14 am

I presume the restoration of Straight Shooting is from the LoC print? It's a magnificent-looking film.

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#2652 Post by dwk » Wed May 20, 2020 2:01 pm

Diva blu-ray on August 11
Diva (1981)
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Critic and Author Simon Abrams
• Scene Specific Audio Commentary by Director Jean-Jacques Beineix
• Introduction by Professor Phil Powrie (Author of JEAN-JACQUES BEINEIX) & Eric Grinda (6:20)
• Interview with Composer Vladimir Cosma (10:47)
• Interview with Casting Director Dominique Besnehard (7:20)
• Interview with Star Frédéric Andréi (5:46)
• Interview with Actors Anny Romand and Dominique Pinon (12:02)
• Interview with Actor Richard Bohringer (6:53)
• HOLDING GROUND with Director Jean-Jacques Beineix (11:00)
• IN THE CAFÉ with Director Jean-Jacques Beineix (8:30)
• Interview with Cinematographer Philippe Rousselot (6:04)
• Interview with Set Designer Hilton McConnico (6:50)
• Theatrical Trailer
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• In French with optional English Subtitles

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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics Acquisitions

#2653 Post by agnamaracs » Wed May 20, 2020 3:10 pm

Well, so much for whoever thought Beyoncé was a clue...

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#2654 Post by swo17 » Wed May 20, 2020 3:12 pm

I guess that was a clue for An Unmarried Woman

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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics Acquisitions

#2655 Post by dwk » Thu May 21, 2020 5:05 pm

Kino announced they are releasing The Producers (1968) later this year.

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#2656 Post by What A Disgrace » Thu May 21, 2020 5:49 pm

dwk wrote:
Thu May 21, 2020 5:05 pm
Kino announced they are releasing The Producers (1968) later this year.
If this isn't one of their 4K titles, then I don't know what to think about their priorities.

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#2657 Post by kcota17 » Thu May 21, 2020 5:50 pm

I’m still wondering whatever happened to their Lost Weekend release.

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#2658 Post by beamish14 » Thu May 21, 2020 5:58 pm

Does their upcoming disc of Isadora only feature one cut of it? Their website doesn't specify whether it's the original version or the extended
cut Reisz prepared decades later, which is what was released on VHS. What an interesting pair on the commentary-Sidney J. Furie's biographer and the director of Get Crazy!/Heartbeeps.

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#2659 Post by senseabove » Thu May 21, 2020 6:22 pm

What A Disgrace wrote:
Thu May 21, 2020 5:49 pm
dwk wrote:
Thu May 21, 2020 5:05 pm
Kino announced they are releasing The Producers (1968) later this year.
If this isn't one of their 4K titles, then I don't know what to think about their priorities.
That question was literally the next post after the announcement post and they already confirmed it's BD only.

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#2660 Post by dwk » Thu May 21, 2020 7:12 pm

What A Disgrace wrote:
Thu May 21, 2020 5:49 pm
If this isn't one of their 4K titles, then I don't know what to think about their priorities.
Given the hints they had given for a future UHD release (classic from the 60s that had a 4K restoration and had already been released on Blu-ray by another label before said restoration) my guess was they were talking about The Producers, so I assume that I was right and they canceled their plans for a UHD release.

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#2661 Post by Grand Wazoo » Thu May 21, 2020 9:54 pm

Wasn't The Producers 4K restoration another piss-filter color job? I hope they attempt to correct this if the agreement allows.

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#2662 Post by dwk » Thu May 21, 2020 10:08 pm

Yes. The Kino Insider said they plan on color correcting it. But given the less than stellar job they did retiming The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly...

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#2663 Post by dustybooks » Fri May 22, 2020 2:11 pm

Their Memorial Day sale is live.

Great time to pull the trigger cheaply on Seven Days to Noon, which I strongly recommend! Some other recent releases included like Christmas in July, Brick and the Sergio Leone box.

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#2664 Post by Ribs » Fri May 22, 2020 2:57 pm

Very surprised that the Barbara Stanwyck box is included - was planning on adding it anyway once I had other things to bring it to the free shipping threshold! Overall a very good selection with great prices on a ton of recent releases, though I wish a few other certain things had been thrown in as well.

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#2665 Post by BigMack3000 » Fri May 22, 2020 3:32 pm

Is this Leone box worth getting over the older one from Fox?

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#2666 Post by senseabove » Fri May 22, 2020 3:35 pm

I think I wrote it up briefly over in the 50s thread a while back, but if for some reason you're looking for a wildcard curiosity to tip you over free shipping, Razzia Sur la Schnouf—roughly, "Smack Raid"—is a great little French underworld movie starring Jean Gabin as a crime boss tasked with a hands-on shape-up—and thus, for us, a tour—of the entire production and distribution line.

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#2667 Post by domino harvey » Sun May 24, 2020 2:46 am

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I guess I'm mildly pleased by what it means for the likelihood of more lesser Sirk coming from them that they see him as a strong enough draw to saddle something like Thunder with the barrel-scraping box-set price gouge? And while I don't exactly have high hopes, I am intrigued by The Female Animal: produced by Zugsmith between The Tarnished Angels and Touch of Evil (to which this reportedly was the "A" picture!), shot by Russell Metty, and this for a plot synopsis:
"Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he’s the ‘caretaker’ of her beach house. Vanessa’s sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an ‘octopus’ boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids…"
The Female Animal was so bad, oh my GOD. If you ever wondered how Jane Powell rates as a dramatic actress, the answer is she doesn't. Powell delivers what must be the worst on-screen drunk perf of all time. It's like watching someone imitate something they've never experienced or encountered. Perhaps that means her perf is actually great because I was as embarrassed for her as I'd be for a real drunk IRL. The movie is 100% not a Noir by even the loosest of definitions, KL prob just knew they'd never sell this without pairing it with some other movies. Arf arf 😢

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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics Acquisitions

#2668 Post by senseabove » Sun May 24, 2020 3:58 am

I can't say my curiosity about that movie had anything to do with Jane Powell, even if, uh, its stars weren't completely irrelevant to my purely historical interests. I'll have you know I'm helping Ryan Murphy with research.

But hey, I guess that's even more good news for their estimation of Sirk's draw?

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#2669 Post by domino harvey » Sun May 24, 2020 4:08 am

He is shirtless all the time and gets oiled up real good. If that’s the main draw, you will love this movie

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#2670 Post by senseabove » Sun May 24, 2020 4:35 am

"main draw" is going a bit far, but it might make the sting of the box-set upsell for the Sirk/Colbert curiosity a little more bearable. IIRC you're cool on Sirk so I'll resist asking if that's throwing good money after bad.

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#2671 Post by domino harvey » Sun May 24, 2020 4:42 am

I have seen Thunder on the Hill and can’t remember anything about it except Ann Blyth. Perhaps that reveals my own main draw?

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#2672 Post by L.A. » Sun May 24, 2020 8:03 am

captveg wrote:
Fri Feb 14, 2020 6:12 pm
Taza, Son of Cochise (1954) 3-D
Beaver and DVD Compare reviews.

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#2673 Post by Bob Furmanek » Sun May 24, 2020 4:58 pm

Cinesavant and Hi-Def Digest review TAZA after screening the Blu-ray in 3-D:

https://trailersfromhell.com/taza-son-of-cochise-3-d/

https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/82565/ ... ise3d.html

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#2674 Post by L.A. » Thu May 28, 2020 2:41 pm

Coming August 18th!

The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)
• NEW Audio Commentary by Author/Film Historian Lee Gambin and Actress/Film Historian Rutanya Alda
• Theatrical Trailer
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles

B&W 73 Minutes 1.37:1 Not Rated
Screen legends Cary Grant (North by Northwest), Fredric March (Inherit the Wind) and Carole Lombard (Nothing Sacred) star in this classic World War I film in the tradition of All Quiet on the Western Front. The Eagle and the Hawk is a powerful anti-war drama in which Grant and March play rival pilots with opposing codes of honor. Based on a story by John Monk Saunders (Wings, The Dawn Patrol) and featuring memorable supporting roles for Jackie Oakie (The Great Dictator) and Sir Guy Standing (Death Takes a Holiday), The Eagle and the Hawk is the film that The New York Times called “a drama told with a praiseworthy sense of realism.” With top-notch direction by Stuart Walker (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), The Eagle and the Hawk still packs a punch more than 75 years later.

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#2675 Post by dwk » Sun May 31, 2020 12:06 pm

Kino announces so many titles I'm not sure if these have already been announced are not
Very Happy 90th Birthday to Screen Legend, Oscar-Winning Filmmaker and Composer Extraordinaire, Clint Eastwood!

Link for the Four KL Studio Classics Releases Starring Clint Eastwood:
https://www.kinolorber.com/list/view...clint-eastwood

Coming in 2020!
Seven More KLSC Special Editions Starring Clint Eastwood!
• Coogan’s Bluff (1968) – Directed by Don Siegel
• Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) NEW 4K MASTER – Directed by Don Siegel
• The Beguiled (1971) NEW 2K MASTER – Directed by Don Siegel
• Play Misty for Me (1971) NEW 4K MASTER – Directed by Clint Eastwood
• Joe Kidd (1972) – Directed by John Sturges
• High Plains Drifter (1973) – Directed by Clint Eastwood
• The Eiger Sanction (1975) NEW 2K MASTER – Directed by Clint Eastwood

Coming August 25th!
• Breezy (1973) Directed by Clint Eastwood – Starring William Holden

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