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I'll pre-order Home of the Brave, The Goddess & Fear Strikes Out as soon as the pre-orders are up.

swo17 wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2026 5:55 am Heller in Pink Tights

Has anybody seen any restoration news for this? Surely it would've played TCM fest or something if there was one... Surely they can't be releasing the DVD-era master on BD.

Ladies in Retirement is great. Watched it a couple of times when it was on the channel. I'd love it for my collection but I've more or less given up on ordering anything from outside the EU. Remember when we used to live in a wide world? Not so long ago? Someone really needs to sit down with the economy and ask it what it's up to.

senseabove wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2026 5:17 pm

swo17 wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2026 5:55 am Heller in Pink Tights

Has anybody seen any restoration news for this? Surely it would've played TCM fest or something if there was one... Surely they can't be releasing the DVD-era master on BD.

I assume like a lot of these Paramount titles they’ve put out, they are older masters. Hud is an outlier though, as they generally look pretty good or better (Paramount in general tended to take excellent care of their materials)

Essential Noir Vol 7:
China
Lucky Jordan
Singapore
Tangier

Tales of Adventure Vol 12:
Assault on a Queen
the Devil at 4 O’clock - worldwide debut
Escape from Zahrain
In Enemy Country - worldwide debut

I'd like to know which dimension that Singapore and Tangier are even considered "essential".

Add Lucky Jordan to that. Haven't seen China yet but not optimistic! These are all of course available via KLSC for like nothing

EDIT: Well, Letterboxd tells me I have, in fact, seen China. Let that be judgment in itself

ChunkyLover wrote: Fri Jul 10, 2026 1:55 pm I'd like to know which dimension that Singapore and Tangier are even considered "essential".

You do realise Tangier stars the Siren of Atlantis right?!

nicolas wrote: Fri Nov 21, 2025 9:07 pm

ryannichols7 wrote: Fri Nov 21, 2025 8:28 pm

therewillbeblus wrote: Fri Nov 21, 2025 6:54 pm Hopefully Lust, Caution comes through with more features too. Great film, and I never picked up the KL release

yes I'm hoping they have good plans for that. I love that movie and wish it was getting a full 4K... hopefully at some point from Kino or even Criterion (who haven't worked with Lee for a little while)

+1. The film is currently locked in a 2K DI and IIRC they did quite a bit of effects work, so that's probably the basis an eventual upgrade has to work from. Still, with subtle HDR and good encoding, it'd undoubtedly be a stunning disc. That's something we won't get from Imprint, neither in HD nor 4K unless FiM is involved, but here's hoping for one of the better labels.

Lust, Caution is missing the location/time chyrons. KL's original release was also missing them but they did a replacement program. I've posted screenshots from the Imprint disc here, which can be compared with the correct way the shots should appear here.

domino harvey wrote: Fri Jul 10, 2026 1:41 pm Essential Noir Vol 7:
China
Lucky Jordan
Singapore
Tangier

Calcutta wasn't available?

Late addition to August:

DIRECTED BY... WOODY ALLEN [VOL 1] (1992 - 1994)
Husbands and Wives
Manhattan Murder Mystery [they say this is 1.78:1, OAR is 1.85:1]
Bullets Over Broadway [worldwide 4K UHD debut]

mfunk9786 wrote: Wed Jul 15, 2026 4:40 am Late addition to August:

DIRECTED BY... WOODY ALLEN [VOL 1] (1992 - 1994)
Husbands and Wives
Manhattan Murder Mystery [they say this is 1.78:1, OAR is 1.85:1]
Bullets Over Broadway [worldwide 4K UHD debut]

No new on disc extras, as expected, but no booklet or anything else either

Would love Husbands & Wives by itself, but the other 2 don't excite me enough to splurge for an Imprint box.

domino harvey wrote: Wed Jul 15, 2026 8:10 pm

mfunk9786 wrote: Wed Jul 15, 2026 4:40 am Late addition to August:

DIRECTED BY... WOODY ALLEN [VOL 1] (1992 - 1994)
Husbands and Wives
Manhattan Murder Mystery [they say this is 1.78:1, OAR is 1.85:1]
Bullets Over Broadway [worldwide 4K UHD debut]

No new on disc extras, as expected, but no booklet or anything else either

But you get to spend $100! The most special feature of all.

This does open the very realistic possibility that the weird rights situation that prevented Deconstructing Harry and Sweet and Lowdown from the previous set (which I believe was entirely that the rights for those in particular needed an extra year or two to clear their previous studio deal and they could have just waited to include them) may finally be rectified in subsequent sets to get the number of unreleased titles down to… just Melinda and Melinda, I think?

I know they can’t do 4K for the first two on this set bc of Sony locking down elements to licensors but curious if they would do UHD for further films (both immediately following this run and if they dip earlier) when they don’t have to deal with Sony. As we know they have done 4K masters of Annie Hall and Manhattan as well as I believe Hannah and her Sisters more recently this also might finally allow those to appear on 4K as they all are at this point ancient, ancient BD transfers.

It is mildly appreciated this picks up literally exactly where the Arrow sets ended, as well…

Anything Else still has the sides significantly cut off on every Blu-ray edition, so that one doesn’t count

Imprint accidentally included a non-working text link to TR Baskin in an unrelated email this morning, so presumably that’s forthcoming at some point

First set of September titles:

All Coppers Are…
And Then There Were None (1974)
Oh! What a Lovely War
Only When I Larf (with what has to be the worst title I’ve ever heard)
the Strange Affair

domino harvey wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2026 11:55 pm Only When I Larf (with what has to be the worst title I’ve ever heard)

Nothing beats 'The Greatest Story Ever Told'.

LastMinit wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2026 11:16 am

domino harvey wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2026 11:55 pm Only When I Larf (with what has to be the worst title I’ve ever heard)

Nothing beats 'The Greatest Story Ever Told'.

Have y'all forgotten The Hottie And The Nottie?

Addendum:
I just went to verify the title on IMDb and the correct spelling is actually

The Hottie & the Nottie

Lowry_Sam wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2026 3:23 pm

LastMinit wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2026 11:16 am

domino harvey wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2026 11:55 pm Only When I Larf (with what has to be the worst title I’ve ever heard)

Nothing beats 'The Greatest Story Ever Told'.

Have y'all forgotten The Hottie And The Nottie?

Multiple Sarcasms gets my vote

The Kingdom Trilogy on 4K UHD, authored/encoded by Fidelity in Motion and including a video essay by Michael Brooke

swo17 wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2026 5:38 am The Kingdom Trilogy on 4K UHD, authored/encoded by Fidelity in Motion and including a video essay by Michael Brooke

Glad I slept on MUBI's release, would be interesting to compare the releases though.

I am somewhat curious on whether or not will see anymore LVT releases from Imprint.

Captain Paranoia wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2026 6:30 am

swo17 wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2026 5:38 am The Kingdom Trilogy on 4K UHD, authored/encoded by Fidelity in Motion and including a video essay by Michael Brooke

Glad I slept on MUBI's release, would be interesting to compare the releases though.

I am somewhat curious on whether or not will see anymore LVT releases from Imprint.

Super that this is being released again, but hilarious that an intentionally grungy verité style 16mm production is getting a 4K treatment (even if the remaster has improved things some). In any case I will be curious if there is any discernable benefit to the UHD. Further to his, my usual bugaboo of PAL sourced productions will come into play here, as Mubi went to the trouble of presenting this as a 25fps BD in the UK and a 24fps BD in the US.

domino harvey wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2026 7:55 pm
Only When I Larf (with what has to be the worst title I’ve ever heard)

Nothing beats 'The Greatest Story Ever Told'.

Have y'all forgotten The Hottie And The Nottie?

Multiple Sarcasms gets my vote

Don't forget Hell Comes to Frogtown and The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies.