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Posted: **Mon Jun 08, 2026 1:42 am**

Please note that this film reflects historical attitudes which audiences may find outdated or offensive.

This is a pretty funny content warning to use for

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The Wicker Man

Posted: **Mon Jun 08, 2026 2:33 am**

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Back when you could burn a policeman without the woke mob coming for you

Posted: **Mon Jun 08, 2026 3:11 pm**

I don't really understand who these very selective apologetic content warnings are. I don't remember what title it exactly was, but recently I saw one on a 4K UHD re-release of a catalog title from 2010s, less than 15 years old. At this point you might as well add them to every release as you can expect people to still watch these discs 15 years from now.

Posted: **Mon Jun 08, 2026 3:34 pm**

Studio Canal pretty much add them for any "non-fresh" movie release. It's clearly a systematic decision, which I suppose was driven by legal coverage before anything else, just in case.

Posted: **Mon Jun 08, 2026 7:58 pm**

Yeah, they seem to add them to every single catalogue release, surely just company policy. I just watched The Straight Story from them, and got a good chuckle seeing this disclaimer in front of the movie. Contrast that to when I saw this in a theater in my teens, so excited to finally get to see a Lynch movie on the big screen (Lost Highway had been a no-go for 12 year old me), and experiencing a warm, collective laugher in the theater as the Disney logo appeared in front of a David Lynch-movie. This time, there was no Disney logo, instead we get this disclaimer. How times have changed!

Posted: **Mon Jun 15, 2026 3:24 am**

Johnny Handsome UK 4K in August

Brand new 4K restoration

Includes 12 page booklet with new essay by Peter Raleigh

On-Disc Extras:
NEW Elizabeth McGovern on Johnny Handsome
NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker Edgar Pablos with Film Historians Nathaniel Thompson and Howard S. Berger
NEW Audio Commentary by Film Critics Alain Silver and James Ursini
Audio Commentary with film critic/author Walter Chaw
Audio Commentary with film historians Daniel Kremer and Scout Tafoya
Codes to Live By: 2020 Walter Hill on Johnny Handsome
Wordsmith: Interview with writer Ken Friedman
Eye of the Beholder: Interview with makeup artist Michael Westmore
Action Man: Interview with stuntman Allan Graf
Trailer

Posted: **Mon Jun 22, 2026 1:19 pm**

Four commentaries on Johnny Handsome? Ok, fair enough, always down for some Walter Hill.

Posted: **Mon Jun 22, 2026 1:57 pm**

Django Shoots First UK 4K coming in August

Brand new 4K restoration
Includes 12 page booklet with new essay by Peter Raleigh

On-Disc Extras:
NEW Dust and Gunfire: Glenn Saxson on Django Shoots First
NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker Alex Cox, Author of 10,000 Ways to Die: A Director's Take on the Italian Western
Erika's Saloon - interview with Erika Blanc
Evelyn in the West - an Interview with Evelyn Stewart

This film will be released by Kino in the US but not in 4K.

Posted: **Mon Jun 22, 2026 4:48 pm**

I thought Kino was going to do an individual Blu for Django Shoots First and do a UHD double feature with it and another yet to be announced Spaghetti Western?

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2026 12:29 pm**

I had no idea re. another Kino Spaghetti Western 4K set but good news for those who don't want to import.

Peter Sellers Centenary Collection coming in August

THE LADYKILLERS (1955)
THE SMALLEST SHOW ON EARTH (1957)
CARLTON BROWNE OF THE F.O. (1959)
I’M ALRIGHT JACK (1959)
TWO-WAY STRETCH (1960)
ONLY TWO CAN PLAY (1962)
THE WRONG ARM OF THE LAW (1963)
HEAVENS ABOVE! (1963)

EXTRAS

32-page booklet

+ Blood Simple and Inside Llewyn Davis 4K upgrades coming in September

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2026 3:09 pm**

nicolas wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2026 12:29 pm I had no idea re. another Kino Spaghetti Western 4K set but good news for those who don't want to import.

Well it is certainly news, but unless they get their shit together and fix their encoding,, it cant be called good.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2026 4:57 pm**

If Kino’s Italo-Crime 4K collection is any indication, Studiocanal finished these masters in SDR. I imagine Django Shoots First will be the same as it’s a similar type of film. Over the last couple of years, SDR encodes have largely succeeded in the hands of the same poor authoring houses that struggle with HDR titles - Kino included.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2026 5:12 pm**

That's good to know.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2026 5:44 pm**

Getting a $50 UHD for $20 is a great deal!

Posted: **Mon Jul 13, 2026 11:34 am**

more here

Posted: **Mon Jul 13, 2026 4:47 pm**

So it's just a repackaging of the individual discs with a booklet added. I should probably wait for a UHD set as Kino's Alec Guinness (with Ladykillers) is in UHD and I already have about half of these titles on blu-ray. I found it Interesting that Guinness got a UHD box whereas Sellers got a blu-ray in the US, but this is being repeated in the UK too. The UK box has more titles but the Kino has Man InA Cocked Hat, not included in the UK set....what to do.

Posted: **Mon Jul 13, 2026 5:55 pm**

Lowry_Sam wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2026 4:47 pm So it's just a repackaging of the individual discs with a booklet added. I should probably wait for a UHD set as Kino's Alec Guinness (with Ladykillers) is in UHD and I already have about half of these titles on blu-ray. I found it Interesting that Guinness got a UHD box whereas Sellers got a blu-ray in the US, but this is being repeated in the UK too. The UK box has more titles but the Kino has Man InA Cocked Hat, not included in the UK set....what to do.

Hi!
Man in a Cocked Hat is the U.S. title for Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlton-Browne_of_the_F.O.

The Kino box has audio commentaries and other extras; no details if it is the same video masters:
https://kinolorber.com/product/peter-se ... pHUu9hJKA5

Posted: **Mon Jul 13, 2026 10:05 pm**

So does anyone know offhand how many of the Sellers titles have actually had 4K restorations? I'm a little annoyed this isn't a UHD box, or that those titles that could be released as UHDs weren't.

Posted: **Tue Jul 14, 2026 9:12 am**

Lowry_Sam wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2026 10:05 pm So does anyone know offhand how many of the Sellers titles have actually had 4K restorations?

Hi!

All films in the centenary collection are 4K restorations, except I´m All Right Jack and Heavens Above!:
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=38680

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2026 2:46 pm**

Manhunter specs below, no theatrical cut included.

4-disc limited edition collector's set
Includes original soundtrack - exclusive to this release
100-page booklet with new essays
New and original artwork posters
NEW Manhunter Revisited: New interview with Michael Mann
NEW In the Mind of A Monster: Brian Cox on Manhunter
NEW Restoring Manhunter
Inside Manhunter
Manhunter: The Look
Audio Commentary with Michael Mann
The Music of Manhunter
The Making of Manhunter: Interviews with Actor William Petersen, Joan Allen, Tom Noonan and Dante Spinotti
Stills Gallery
Trailer

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2026 6:00 pm**

I saw this movie at the theater in 1986 when I was 10 years old. I was terrified, and have been somewhat obsessed with it since and consider it something of a small masterpiece. Michael Mann can fuck right off with this shit.

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2026 6:06 pm**

Zot! wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2026 6:00 pm I saw this movie at the theater in 1986 when I was 10 years old. I was terrified, and have been somewhat obsessed with it since and consider it something of a small masterpiece. Michael Mann can fuck right off with this shit.

He’s just the worst. It’s not just pissing on what he conceived, but it is so disrespectful to Dante Spinotti

Posted: **Tue Jul 21, 2026 7:29 pm**

The next Vintage Classics title is Accident (1967) on September 28th on UHD.

Posted: **Tue Jul 21, 2026 7:39 pm**

Would have preferred The Big Night or M or The Sleeping Tiger on UHD, oh well.

Posted: **Tue Jul 21, 2026 9:09 pm**

Lowry_Sam wrote: Tue Jul 21, 2026 7:39 pm Would have preferred The Big Night or M or The Sleeping Tiger on UHD, oh well.

UCLA had done a restoration of Losey’s M a few years back. New prints are available and presumably there’s a new internegative. I wonder why this hasn’t been picked up. I believe that the estate of Howard Nebenzal has the rights. Can no-one work out anything with family member’s since his passing?

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