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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.

An international sensation, a defining sex symbol, and one of the most photographed and scrutinised women on the planet. Brigitte Bardot transcended her acting career to become a cultural phenomenon of the 50s and 60s, and one of French cinema's most enduring icons.

This 4K UHD + Blu-ray hardbox celebrates her legacy and brings together four of her most essential performances:


Come Dance with Me (Voulez-vous danser avec moi?) (1959) - Blu-ray
A Very Private Affair (Vie privée) (1962) - 4K UHD + Blu-ray - Worldwide first on 4K UHD!
Contempt (Le mépris) (1963) - 4K UHD + Blu-ray
Viva Maria! (1965) - Blu-ray

This special collection also includes the 2025 feature documentary Bardot on Blu-ray for the first time worldwide, which takes an intimate look at her work and her legacy.

Limited Edition 7-Disc Hardbox - 1500 copies only.

No new extras on the Godard but the rest have quite a few new additions. Vie privee is hilariously awful, Viva Maria not much better. Danser is not great but much better than those two. The Godard rules but you already know that. Haven’t seen the doc but it was an option on my international flight a few months back, so it’s at least of commercial release value and not a Kickstarter thing

The set also has this bonus feature on Vie privee but I can’t figure out what film this is

The Siege - feature documentary (2023)

Specs for A Very Private Affair UHD says there is an English soundtrack. Mistaken info? I find no info online about any English version.
Post 1,897:
https://www.hometheaterforum.com/commun ... 54/page-95

The bonus documentary might be L´Assiegée (The Besieged, 55 mins) reviewed here:
https://www.dvdclassik.com/test/blu-ray ... mont-video

Web browser translation from italian Wiki page:
"the Italian version has a significantly different editing from the original one and a different use of the narrative voice." (no citation)
Michel Auclair dubbed Mastroianni, Jean-Claude Brialy is the narrator in the French version.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_privata_(film_1962)
https://moviechat.org/tt0055599/A-Very- ... ferent-cut

Censorship document for the Italian version (Edizione Doppiata):
https://cinecensura.com/wp-content/uplo ... ppiata.pdf

There’s def an English language version, it aired on TCM

And yeah, good find, that must be what that extra is!

ViaVision now lists French audio for the UHD of A Very Private Affair:
https://viavision.com.au/collections/co ... 4636980537

Thanks for mentioning the English version on TCM, now I remember. Don´t know, though, if the film was intentionally produced in an English version also, or if the English dub came later through MGM, they had international distribution rights according to Variety:
https://archive.org/details/variety-196 ... 5/mode/1up

I remember watching an English dub of A Very Private Affair on TCM, too. There's also a US trailer where the characters speak in English.

Finally came across a reasonably priced second-hand copy of The Thirty-Nine Steps/The Lady Vanishes set on eBay, bought it, and so glad I did!

I enjoyed both remakes much more than expected. The video quality is very good, except for the first few minutes (the title sequence) of The Thirty-Nine Steps, which is muddy-looking with blotchy encoding. Great set of extras too, with the standouts being a new interview with Elliott Gould (whose birthday is today!) - a somewhat meandering but highly entertaining account of his participation in The Lady Vanishes and encounters with Hitchcock - and an excellent in-depth featurette, "The End of the Line", about Hammer Studios at the time the remakes were created.

I highly recommend the set while it's still available.

We missed a set of releases in March:

Another Time, Another Place
Hot Enough for June
Maroc 7
Some Girls Do
3 Into 2 Won’t Go
Up the Junction

A legal copy of Hot Enough for June is streaming free in HD on YouTube from Shout Factory’s channel btw. It’s pretty good for a British spy movie!

Some Girls Do was not as much fun as the film it’s a sequel to, Deadlier Than the Male, though. Similar goofy spirit but it feels a bit familiar (and this stuff is wayyy overplayed and outre by 1969, come on). Seeing Robert Morley in street clothes (and an earring!) is something, though!

domino harvey wrote: Wed Sep 02, 2026 1:42 am We missed a set of releases in March:

Another Time, Another Place
Hot Enough for June
Maroc 7
Some Girls Do
3 Into 2 Won’t Go
Up the Junction

A legal copy of Hot Enough for June is streaming free in HD on YouTube from Shout Factory’s channel btw. It’s pretty good for a British spy movie!

Some Girls Do was not as much fun as the film it’s a sequel to, Deadlier Than the Male, though. Similar goofy spirit but it feels a bit familiar (and this stuff is wayyy overplayed and outre by 1969, come on). Seeing Robert Morley in street clothes (and an earring!) is something, though!

Why oh why can’t it be Michael Radford’s Another Time, Another Place (1983)…

Up the Junction is a nice surprise, though

Now Imprint is putting out a 4K of The Whole Bloody Affair and of course it's over a foot tall

Hey, they have to justify their releases being $100 !
Edit : my bad : $150, actually.

20% off sale this weekend

Imprint is releasing their own UHD/Blu combo of the Insect Woman, which will cost about $10 less than buying Radiance’s entire box with five more movies included

Also a 5-film J-horror set that surprisingly doesn't appear to have any overlap with Arrow releases

The Origins of J-Horror (1991 - 2023) - Blu-ray Limited Edition Hardbox - Imprint Asia #100 - 105
Includes:

• Jaganrei: Psychic Vision (1989)
• Scary True Stories: Ten Haunting Tales from the Japanese Underground (1991)
• A Haunted School (1996)
• Don't Look Up (1996)
• Kokkuri (1997)

I grow weary of wading through all the mediocre horror to find that single scene of genuine terror. Can anyone provide their thoughts on these films? Did Imprint manage to capture the best of early, lo-fi J-Horror, or is this collection a series of historical footnotes best left in the past?

At the very least, the bonus disc with new documentary and special features looks outstanding.

FigrinDan wrote: Sat Sep 12, 2026 4:33 am I grow weary of wading through all the mediocre horror to find that single scene of genuine terror. Can anyone provide their thoughts on these films? Did Imprint manage to capture the best of early, lo-fi J-Horror, or is this collection a series of historical footnotes best left in the past?

At the very least, the bonus disc with new documentary and special features looks outstanding.

Commentary on Don't Look Up here! These are all fantastic selections–Jaganrei and Scary True Stories in particular are cited by tons of J-Horror filmmakers from Kiyoshi Kurosawa to Hiroshi Takahashi as the two films that gave birth to the movement. Jaganrei also has the added quirk of being the first Japanese found footage feature film, predating America's McPherson Tape. It's a real coup that title is in this box, as it hasn't had a Western release before.

Don't Look Up is also the horror feature debut for Hideo Nakata, and is the film that he and screenwriter Takahashi made right before Ring, and you can see them refine the approach to horror that would be perfected in that film in real time.

If you want more of a primer on these films, The J-Horror Virus can be streamed on Shudder.

FigrinDan wrote: Sat Sep 12, 2026 4:33 am The Origins of J-Horror (1991 - 2023) - Blu-ray Limited Edition Hardbox - Imprint Asia #100 - 105
Includes:

• Jaganrei: Psychic Vision (1989)
• Scary True Stories: Ten Haunting Tales from the Japanese Underground (1991)
• A Haunted School (1996)
• Don't Look Up (1996)
• Kokkuri (1997)

I grow weary of wading through all the mediocre horror to find that single scene of genuine terror. Can anyone provide their thoughts on these films? Did Imprint manage to capture the best of early, lo-fi J-Horror, or is this collection a series of historical footnotes best left in the past?

At the very least, the bonus disc with new documentary and special features looks outstanding.

A Haunted School/School of Ghosts is hilarious. It doesn’t take itself seriously at all, and it feels like the kind of movie the Ghostbusters reboots should have been

I'm starting to be intrigued by this set and Imprint's price really makes me not want to take the plunge. Have to see what Orbit will list it for.

Based on what they’ve priced other Imprint titles, you’re prob looking at $130ish

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

Release delayed to 21 Oct

"From the Bleaching Ponds"

I live close by!

The Munsters complete series coming to Blu

beamish14 wrote: Fri Mar 20, 2026 5:58 am

Matt wrote: Fri Mar 20, 2026 4:00 am Sub in The Light Between Oceans for I Want You and you've got a nice aquatic-themed Rachel Weisz set.

God, I’d LOVE a Michael Winterbottom set from someone. Two of his very best, I Want You and Wonderland, have never had decent home video releases

sorry if this has been posted somewhere; but It's been since several months since the Inprint Rachel Weisz box set is out and it's very expensive.
I would like to find some reviews of "I Want You" (which I love : for Rachel Weisz for Elvis Costello's song ) - this is an exclusive blu-ray; I would like to know if the quality is worth buying the box set (since with Imprint this can be sometimes a "hit or miss"). I have searched on blu-ray.com and found nothing; no test on DVDBeaver despite the natural attractiveness of Rachel Weisz. Voilà.
Thanks.

I alrady have the blu-ray : The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
"The Shape Of Things" by Neil LaBute could have been a great inclusion in this box set (the WEB 1080 release is great) so we only need someone to put out this movie on Blu-Ray. The last Gregg Araki's movie "I Want Your Sex" took a little bit of the "twist" of Neil's movie.
I was expecting at some point a Criterion release of this movie, since Neil LaBute did a lot of Criterion bonus appearance and this is one of his finest movie.

domino harvey wrote: Mon Sep 14, 2026 11:18 pm Based on what they’ve priced other Imprint titles, you’re prob looking at $130ish

Nailed it