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Roger Ryan wrote:

felipe wrote:I've read somewhere the Keaton set includes 15 discs, but aside from the 13 discs already released what else does it include? Is College a 2-disc edition?

GO WEST / BATTLING BUTLER is a 2-disc edition according to Kino (I don't own it), so that equals 15.

The Blu release of Go West/BB is definitely 1 disc.

Sorry for the misinformation. Looking at the individual releases on Kino's site for the discs I didn't own, I mistook the DVD cover for the Blu-ray which referred to the release as a "Two-Disc Special Edition". I checked Amazon to confirm and they claim that both the DVD and Blu-ray editions are two-discs . I should have known better.

As to that KEATON PLUS disc, Kino no longer had rights to some of that material which is why the restored HARD LUCK didn't make it on the SHORTS collection. I would be quite surprised if they were able to secure rights within the last few months to issue the KP disc again on Blu-ray. Perhaps it is within their rights to include the DVD version again?

Someone on blu-ray.com found a link that seems to indicate that Kino will be releasing White Zombie (1932) on 1/2/13.

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Awesome news.

The MoC artwork is way better.

The Kino art department sure loves that typeface. It's the same ugly-ass font they employed for the Jean Rollin covers.

January 2013:

From KINO CLASSICS:
1/15 - KING: A FILMED RECORD... FROM MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS (1970, Sidney Lumet & Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 2-DVD set)
1/15 - RULES FOR SCHOOL (Classic Educational Shorts Vol. 5) & TROUBLED TEENS (Vol. 6) (DVD only)
1/29 - WHITE ZOMBIE: REMASTERED EDITION (1932, Victor Halperin, DVD & Blu-ray)

From KINO LORBER:
1/8 - WHORES' GLORY (2012, Michael Glawogger, DVD only)
1/15 - 5 BROKEN CAMERAS (2012, Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi, DVD only)
1/22 - BREATHING (2012, Karl Makovics, DVD only)
1/29 - A HISTORY OF ISRAELI CINEMA (2009, Raphaël Nadjari, 2-DVD set)

From JEZEBEL:
1/22 - THE SEX THIEF: REMASTERED EDITION (1974, Martin Campbell, DVD & Blu-ray)

From HORIZON MOVIES:
1/8 - AFTER FALL, WINTER (2011, Eric Schaeffer, DVD only)
1/22 - A THOUSAND CUTS (2011, Charles Evered, DVD & Blu-ray)

1/15 - KING: A FILMED RECORD... FROM MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS (1970, Sidney Lumet & Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 2-DVD set)

It's about time this fine doc got a DVD release. I've had the laserdisc for ages.

"Rules For School" and "Troubled Teens"! Yes! Love these vintage sets of educational films.

If anyone hasn't heard it, on their volume 3 "Safe Not Sorry", there was a great bonus that was not mentioned on the packaging: a commentary track for "Ghost Rider" by the boy in the film.

White Zombie, blu-ray? Yes.

Serious bummer WHORES' GLORY isn't on blu.

Donald Brown wrote:

1/15 - KING: A FILMED RECORD... FROM MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS (1970, Sidney Lumet & Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 2-DVD set)

It's about time this fine doc got a DVD release. I've had the laserdisc for ages.

I'll have to double check, but I think this is my only missing Mank so I'm beyond over the moon that it is getting a good release.

Curious about more extras in the forfthcoming MoC. Anything confirmed besides seafarers?

Paupau wrote:Curious about more extras in the forfthcoming MoC. Anything confirmed besides seafarers?

Yes.

Beaver on The Penalty, which looks great.

Drucker wrote:Beaver on The Penalty, which looks great.

Except for the cop out in the last 5-10 minutes, this might just be one of the greatest silent films (not to mention gangster films) of all time. Awesome to see it lovingly restored.

Beaver on Die Nibelungen http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film4/blu-ray_ ... lu-ray.htm

Looks like they took the same gorgeous Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung restoration MOC used and fried it in butter for a few minutes.

DVDBeaver: both give an amazing presentation package for the incredulous film epic.

Incredulous?

Let's not pick knits. I find it easy enough to understand what Gary means, for all intense and porpoises.

Now your just being intragnisant

Gregory wrote:Let's not pick knits. I find it easy enough to understand what Gary means, for all intense and porpoises.

Post of the year!

The wife used to think it was "for all intensive purposes"...

fdm wrote:The wife used to think it was "for all intensive purposes"...

Well, she would, wouldn't she?

Finch wrote:

Gregory wrote:Let's not pick knits. I find it easy enough to understand what Gary means, for all intense and porpoises.

Post of the year!

Yeah, maid me larf to.

Anyone know in what language the intertitles will be in the Fritz Lang set? I see Kino used the original German language for Die Nibelungen, so there is some hope.