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More February titles from Olive:

CAVEMAN

KISS ME, STUPID (International Version with a few newly-restored seconds of footage seen on home video for the first time.)

LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER

1969

PSYCH-OUT (Long Version with about 14 minutes not on the MGM DVD.)

THE WILD ANGELS

Jameson281 wrote:KISS ME, STUPID (International Version with a few newly-restored seconds of footage seen on home video for the first time.)

Is that the more "explicit" footage of Dino and Zelda in the trailer? The scene as it appeared in the international version was already inserted into the main presentation of the film (with the original U.S. scene relegated to alternate-scene status) years ago in the Billy Wilder Collection DVD.

Glad to see Kiss Me Stupid on Blu, quite an underrated Wilder with a viscous self-parody from Dean Martin unmatched in this era. But seriously, who has Irma la Douce?!

Gregory wrote:

Jameson281 wrote:KISS ME, STUPID (International Version with a few newly-restored seconds of footage seen on home video for the first time.)

Is that the more "explicit" footage of Dino and Zelda in the trailer? The scene as it appeared in the international version was already inserted into the main presentation of the film (with the original U.S. scene relegated to alternate-scene status) years ago in the Billy Wilder Collection DVD.

The International Version is that version released on DVD, where Dino and Zelda do go to bed. When remastering for HD, though, a couple of very brief snippets from other scenes, plus one alternate line of dialogue, were discovered and restored. So the BD will be a few seconds longer than the DVD, and will be the most complete, uncensored version.

More February titles:

The Night They Raided Minsky's
Eat Drink Man Woman
Wild Orchid
Dangerously Close
Blood Red

Olive is killing the secondhand market for long OOP MGM DVDs!

Note to Olive: is it that fucking difficult/expensive to put english subtitles on $40 blu ray releases? Aside from the shitty picture quality of "...Jimmy Dean.." (i know it was shot on 16MM but still..) aside from that, it's an Altman movie-dialogue tends to overlap in his pictures. Subtitles=helpful. I had to watch Karen Black's big scene twice (you know the part i mean) before i figured out what the hell was going on. I don't care if Olive finds and releases the lost footage from "The Magnificent Ambersons", i'm not buying shit unless i get some damn subtitles...

This may be a bit off topic - but what happened to the Fassbinder BDs they wanted to release?

nolanoe wrote:This may be a bit off topic - but what happened to the Fassbinder BDs they wanted to release?

I don't think so given they announced The Stations Master's Wife several years ago and little or nothing has been heard since.

Same goes for:

Try and Get Me
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
Raven's End
The Adalen Riots

And a number of other titles. I can only assume that are off the release schedule.

nolanoe wrote:This may be a bit off topic - but what happened to the Fassbinder BDs they wanted to release?

I have been waiting for the release of The Stationmaster's Wife since they announced it 4 or so years ago.

They also told me they would get around to upgrading 'I Only Want You to Love Me' to blu-ray, but that was a year or so ago, so......

It would be a real bummer if those are indeed off their schedule, been waiting for them to announce those Widerberg titles (and holding out on buying the Swedish releases) for almost two years now. Then again I wouldn't be so pessimistic - for example Fedora was in that same batch of "coming in 2013" announcements too, and it's was only released just now. I would assume those restorations take their time (and money)

repeat wrote:It would be a real bummer if those are indeed off their schedule, been waiting for them to announce those Widerberg titles (and holding out on buying the Swedish releases) for almost two years now. Then again I wouldn't be so pessimistic - for example Fedora was in that same batch of "coming in 2013" announcements too, and it's was only released just now. I would assume those restorations take their time (and money)

Are Raven's End & The Adelan Riots available in Sweden with English subtitles?

I've had Man on the Roof for years - beautiful transfer.

Aunt Peg wrote:Are Raven's End & The Adelan Riots available in Sweden with English subtitles?

No, as far as I know all the Swedish releases (the separate discs and the box set) have Swedish HoH subs only - I don't remember there being English ones on Man on the Roof either, and the same goes for Mannen från Mallorca. With all this "Nordic Noir" ballyhoo nowadays, I find it absolutely amazing that these seminal works have not been picked up for English-friendly release.

Someone really should start up a new label for proper international editions of this sort of neglected Eurocrime stuff - after all Arrow can't be everywhere at once... Anyone here got any money?

Coming to blu-ray in March.

Alice's Restaurant

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

Behind Enemy Lines (1997)

The Facts of Life (1960)

How to Beat the High Cost of Living

Night Game (1989)

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

Without a Clue (1989)

Best Seller (1987)

Chattahoochee (1989)

Convicts (1991)

The End of Violence

Vincent & Theo

Night Game intrigues me

The sequels to Dirty Dozen are also coming in March.

Is The End of Violence really as bad as people say it is? I've been meaning to see it for what feels like years.

Yes it is. Though it's maybe slightly less terrible than, for example, Lisbon Story, depending on your point of view. If you want to see every possible cliche about Los Angeles (the landscape, the economy, the people, the culture) rendered in the most patronizing handwringingest of manners all wrapped up in a boring narrative by one of the filmmakers who has previously really gotten the city right in films like Paris, Texas and The State of Things, yeah, then this if the film for you.

The best that can be said about The End of Violence is that Wenders has subsequently made even worse films.

Cover art for some of the March, 2015 Blu-rays:

4 More Republic/Paramount licensed titles on 3/31/15:

The Quiet Gun (1957)
The Shanghai Story (1954)
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
Stranger at My Door (1956)


That leaves the following remaining from Paramount/Republic deal (16):

The Adalen Riots (1969)
Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951)
The Beat Generation (1959)
Beware, My Lovely (1952)
A Black Veil for Lisa (1968)
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
The Eternal Sea (1955)
Flying Disc Man from Mars (1950)
Hell's Five Hours (1958)
The Invisible Monster (1950)
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1974)
Man of Conquest (1939)
No Man's Woman (1955)
Outrage (1950)
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
The Sound of Fury (1950)

And the following DVD-only releases should get upgraded to Blu-ray at some point (6):

The Buccaneer (1938)
The Lawless (1950)
No Man of Her Own (1950)
Pony Express (1953)
Something to Live For (1952)
Tropic of Cancer (1970)

The Beat Generation (1959) is also being released, but for some reason only on DVD

Ashirg wrote:The Beat Generation (1959) is also being released, but for some reason only on DVD

Interesting. That's the 1st DVD-only Republic/Paramount release in a good while, no?

Never mind. Looks like Classic Flix added blu-ray as well as DVD...

They're also releasing John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man on dvd and blu-ray.