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Remember my post from a few months ago regarding the Rank Noirs? Well, they've been set for release in July.

Ashirg wrote:Redemption is releasing Jean Rollin's The Escapees on blu on May 26.

SO...

Is Redemption doing later Rollin on BD too? I am especially thinking of "Sidewalks of Bangkok", "Perdu dans New York" and "Killing Car".

I don't know about Rollin, but in July Redemption is releasing The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein.

Special Features: Mastered in HD from the original 35mm negative, Audio commentary by Tim Lucas, editor of Video Watchdog, French with optional English subtitles, English dubbed, Original theatrical trailer

Kino bought Mountains May Depart at Cannes.

MisterLime revealed some release dates for some silent films on HTF:


9/8/15

The Epic of Everest (1924)

10/20/15

Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)

11/17/15

Faust (1926)
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)

Who let him back in?

Sweet! Bring on the Murnau's Kino.

Geez, finally! I feel like this has been on the rep house circuit for the last ten years with still no home release

doh286 wrote:Je t'aime, je t'aime is being released on DVD/Blu-ray on Nov. 10th.

That's very good news, but I had totally expected Criterion to do this one. Oh well; at least we're getting it.

I don't care who is releasing it, this is the first Kino Blu-ray I'm going to buy in a couple of years.

I'll be buying a copy.

Kino Lorber posted on Facebook that on November 17th they are going to put out Mekas' "Walden" & "Lost Lost Lost" on blu ray.

Awesome though that keeps the box set as a must have.

And the massive Walden book keeps the solo release a must have. Sheesh...er, I mean, hooray!?

Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1926) - November 17th

Content and technical specs:
Disc One

• Original German release version (Blu-ray) 1926 | 106 min | B&W | 1920x1080p 1.33:1 | 2.0 Stereo
  German intertitles with optional English subtitles

Disc Two

• U.S Release version (DVD) 1930 | 116 min | B&W | 720x480 4x3 1.33:1 | 2.0 Stereo

Special Features:

• Piano score by Perez de Azpeitia, adapted from the original 1926 orchestral arrangement
  Orchestral score by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
  Orchestral score by Timothy Brock, performed by the Olympia Chamber Orchestra (U.S. Release version)
  "The Language of Shadows: Faust" - A 53-minute documentary on the making of the film and its subsequent restoration
  Screen test footage of Ernst Lubitsch's abandoned 1923 production Marguerite and Faust

Why will the longer cut be DVD only? :-s

Why is the DVD in 1.50:1 aspect ratio?

domino harvey wrote:Why is the DVD in 1.50:1 aspect ratio?

Square vs. non-square pixels. In essence, 720x480 is really 640x480 (1.33:1).

(If you want the technical deep dive, here's Wikipedia)

As I understand it, native NTSC ratio is 1.50:1, whilst PAL is 1.25:1 (720x576). Both are squashed or stretched as necessary by the DVD player, to 1.33:1 for a non-anamorphic disc, or 1.78:1 otherwise.

The Siege of Firebase Gloria (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1989) - December 8, 2015

This is from MGM library.

Ashirg wrote:This is from MGM library.

Ah, I thought so but I seemed to remember the thread had "MGM" in the title.
Feel free to move my post to the appropriate thread. "Kino Lorber Studio Classics Acquisitions," I assume.