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October titles announced - Street Date: October 27th


Breeders (Tim Kincaid, 1986)




The Meteor Man (Robert Townsend, 1993)




Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers (Tommy Chong, 1984)




The End (Burt Reynolds, 1978)




Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (J. Lee Thompson, 1989)




Messenger of Death (J. Lee Thompson, 1988)




Dark Blue (Ron Shelton, 2002)




Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara, 1993)




Impromptu (James Lapine, 1991)




The One & Only (Carl Reiner, 1978)




Partners (James Burrows, 19832)




Blue City (Michelle Manning, 1986)




Mandingo (Richard Fleischer, 1975)




No Man's Woman (Franklin Adreon, 1955)




Phase IV (Saul Bass, 1974)




Stephen King's Sometimes They Come Back (Tom McLoughlin, 1991)




The Deadly Bees (Freddie Francis, 1966)




Flying Disc Man From Mars (Fred C. Brannon, 1950)




A Black Veil for Lisa (Massimo Dallamano, 1968)




Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (Freddie Francis, 1965)

Update: Remaining from the older Paramount/Republic deal(s) (6):

The Adalen Riots (1969)
Beware, My Lovely (1952)
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1974)
Outrage (1950)
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
The Sound of Fury (1950)

DVD-only released, Blu-ray upgrade pending (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)

Season Thirteen of King of the Hill will be getting a Blu-ray release in October

The Sound of Fury is one title I've been waiting for since this whole Paramount/Republic/Olive thing literally began, and every time this thread gets updated I hope its to confirm that it is finally getting a release. But, you know.

I'm tempted by The Adalen Riots (1969) - better known over here as Adalen 31. Saw it twice on TV, many many years ago.

Paul Moran wrote:I'm tempted by The Adalen Riots (1969) - better known over here as Adalen 31. Saw it twice on TV, many many years ago.

Kubrick liked it quite a bit.

Watching Black Caesar now. It looks lovely. Great depth of field, sharp picture, great, meaty color, nice film grain. DTS stereo audio sounds very good, too.

Unfortunately, the Larry Cohen audio commentary from the DVD did not transfer to this blu-ray release. A shame, since the commentary is not only informative, but very inspiring.

Very relieved to see this given a good transfer. It's the first non-G-rated movie I ever saw, so it has a special place in my heart. It scandalized everyone in the room watching with me, but I loved it.

Hopefully, Black Caesar will come out from Arrow at a certain point as a region B blu. Their other blaxploitation blus I've seen (Foxy Brown and Coffy) are fabulous editions with excellent extras, unlike the bare-bones Olive, which do not include even English subtitles.

I wouldn't hold your breath when it comes to Arrow blaxploitation - the market in the UK just isn't big enough.

That's unfortunate, Michael, but thanks for this clarification. At least we have Foxy Brown and Coffy in lovely Arrow editions that should make any region B and region free blaxploitation fan happy.

November Titles - November 24th


How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2005)




Romance & Cigarettes (John Turturro, 2005)




Heartbreakers (David Mirkin, 2001)




Of Mice and Men (Gary Sinise, 1992)




Eight Men Out (John Sayles, 1988)




Mr. Saturday Night (Billy Crystal, 1992)




Making Mr. Right (Susan Seidelman, 1987)




Smooth Talk (Joyce Chopra, 1985)




Undercover Blues (Herbert Ross, 1993)




It Runs in the Family (Fred Schepisi, 2003)




Larger Than Life (Howard Franklin, 1996)




At First Sight (Irwin Winkler, 1999)




Almost an Angel (John Cornell, 1990)




The Kid from Cleveland (Herbert Kline, 1949)




Voodoo Man (William Beaudine, 1944)




Roar (Noel Marshall, 1981) - November 3rd

Special Features:

• Optional English subtitles
  The Making of ROAR
  Q&A with Cast and Crew at ROAR rePremiere at The CineFamily, Los Angeles, CA (4/7/15)
  The Grandeur of ROAR - an essay by Tim League
  Feature Audio Commentary with John Marshall and Tim League
  Trailer (2015)
  Photo Gallery

Did these guys forget about Fassbinder's The Stationmaster's Wife? Seems like I've been waiting for 4-5 years.

Weird choices for the next batch of releases, especially on the heels of so many classics.

What A Disgrace wrote:The Sound of Fury is one title I've been waiting for since this whole Paramount/Republic/Olive thing literally began, and every time this thread gets updated I hope its to confirm that it is finally getting a release. But, you know.

Sorry for the reply delay, but I only learned that Try and Get Me!'s original title was The Sound of Fury after your post. The Film Noir Foundation has done a restoration of the film, and since they announced that Flicker Alley will now be handling the physical releases of their restorations, it's likely they'll be putting it out, in the not-too-distant future.

Let There Be Light: John Huston's Wartime Documentaries (1942) - January 19, 2016

Content:

• Winning Your Wings (18:19)
  Report from the Aleutians (44:48)
  San Pietro (32:05)
  Let There Be Light (57:50)

Special Features:

• John Huston's Wartime Documentaries: An Introduction (26:11)
  San Pietro: Raw Camera Footage (32:58)
  Shades of Gray (1:05:46) – The military re-edited and approved version of Huston's Let There Be Light, in which actors were used to portray soldiers.

January Titles announced - all to be released January 19th

The Undesirable - Mihály Kertész (aka Michael Curtiz), 1915




Christmas Eve (Edwin L. Marin, 1947)




Serial (Bill Persky, 1980)




Life Tracker (Joe McClean, 2013)




Hana-Dama: The Origin (Hisayasu Satō, 2014)

The hungarian silent is completely unexpected, I don't think I've ever heard or read anything on Curtiz's silent period. Have Olive ever released silents before?

pointless wrote:The Undesirable - Mihály Kertész (aka Michael Curtiz), 1915

Exciting news. Curious whether MaNDA will release their edition as well.

February titles announced- The street date is February 16th for all.

Secret Admirer (David Greenwalt, 1985)




Beat Street (Stan Lathan, 1984)




Moolight and Valentino (David Anspaugh, 1995)




Amos & Andrew (E. Max Frye, 1993)




Class (Lewis John Carlino, 1983)




Code 46 (Michael Winterbottom, 2003)




Mystery Date (Jonathan Wacks, 1991)




Pressure Point (Stanley Kramer, 1962)




Speechless (Ron Underwood, 1994)




Sleep with Me (Rory Kelly, 1994)

Nothing from Paramount/Republic library. I hope they are not giving up on those remaining titles...

I watched Frank Borzage's That's My Man last night and was surprised to find it was a kind of Christmas film: a lot of the scenes incidentally take place at Christmas, even though this doesn't really become a plot point. I was even more surprised to discover how dark and peculiar in tone it rapidly became.

The movie starts out as a screwball comedy, with one of the more ridiculous meet-cutes in the genre: Don Ameche offers Catherine McLeod a ride in his cab on a rainy Christmas Eve, and she has to share it with a pony. Then she has to put up the pony (but not Ameche) in her apartment overnight, which inevitably leads to the new couple sleeping together (in separate beds), falling in love, and getting married.

And then it turns out that Don Ameche is a shit. Not tortured or misunderstood, but just a horrible, horrible husband. With a gambling problem. McLeod isn't exactly long-suffering, because the film moves briskly and she never lets Ameche get away with his awfulness. Pretty soon she's telling him to fuck off, and he does. Tonally, this is rather unusual territory for Hollywood: it neither goes all the way into noir (with Ameche turning out to be definitively evil), and nor does it sentimentalize their 'lost' relationship (since we only ever see Ameche being manipulative and generally shitty), and it certainly never gets anywhere near the comedy it initially seemed to promise. There's eventually a happy ending of sorts, but it doesn't particularly try to wipe away the darkness of what went before, and Ameche's promise to be a better person is tempered by the multiple times he's hollowly made exactly the same promise throughout the course of the film.

Ameche's performance is stiff but effective. He dials his charm down as far as it will go for most of the film, so that when he dials it back up (generally when trying to convince his skeptical wife to give him a fourth or fifth chance), it makes your skin crawl.

March releases - all titles have a street date of March 22nd

Breaker! Breaker! (Don Hulette, 1977)


Bandits (Barry Levinson, 2001)


Kill Me Again (John Dahl, 1989)


The Trip (Roger Corman, 1967)


Undertow (David Gordon Green, 2004)


Clean Slate (Mick Jackson, 1994)


Jinxed (Don Siegel, 1983)


The Boost (Harold Becker, 1988)


Making the Grade (Dorian Walker, 1984)


My Summer Story (Bob Clark, 1994)

Undertow! Hot dang!

Criminally overlooked David Gordon Green/Terrence Malick collabo that plays like a Night of the Hunter redux by way of Badlands. Can't wait to see this in HD.

pzadvance wrote:Undertow! Hot dang!

Criminally overlooked David Gordon Green/Terrence Malick collabo that plays like a Night of the Hunter redux by way of Badlands. Can't wait to see this in HD.

Yes! I love Undertow, and never really expected it to get a Blu-ray release. I haven't been paying much attention to Olive lately. Any chance the substantial extras from the MGM DVD get ported over?

Kino ports, Olive doesn't (or is at least selective/random about what they do)