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Posted: **Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:07 am**

Kino have announced Claude Sautet’s two terrific films Un Coeur En Hiver and Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud for a September release.

Posted: **Fri Jul 12, 2019 12:58 pm**

Adam Grikepelis wrote:
Alps Special Features
*NEW audio commentary by film critic Amy Simmons
*Trailers
While the commentary’s definitely appreciated, it’s a shame there couldn’t be something from Lanthimos included on Alps too - I’m pretty sure the UK DVD had nothing and it’s definitely the less spoken about of his two features, from what I’ve seen.

He may have said no, of course.

Posted: **Sat Jul 13, 2019 12:46 pm**

Naturally.

Posted: **Mon Jul 15, 2019 8:41 pm**

Does anyone know what's happened to Lars Von Trier's TV series, 'The Kingdom'? It was a Koch Lorber release over a decade ago, and a remaster was in the works from Zentropa within the last couple of years - would rights be with Kino for home video?

Posted: **Mon Jul 15, 2019 8:47 pm**

It's up on Kanopy through Kino Lorber, both seasons

Posted: **Tue Jul 16, 2019 8:54 pm**

Picked up the Blu-ray of Gregory La Cava's/W.C. Fields' Running Wild. Absolutely brilliant comedy that shows Fields as the whipped father figure twenty years before The Bank Dick. The last half-hour of the film is an absolute riot as Fields yells and plows through each character and set, leaving us with the ultimate American moral that violence does solve problems. I've seen numerous silent films at home and in the theater, but I encountered something I've never seen before. During the intertitles, the edges of the frame start to move in and out, warbling the aspect ratio a bit. Is this a restoration trick to keep the text on screen steadier? It's as though the center of the text was moving left and right, so to keep the text steady, they used this trick to keep it centered. Other than that, the transfer is absolutely gorgeous and is wonderful to have this on HD.

Posted: **Wed Jul 17, 2019 12:43 pm**

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Tue Jul 16, 2019 8:54 pm ...I've seen numerous silent films at home and in the theater, but I encountered something I've never seen before. During the intertitles, the edges of the frame start to move in and out, warbling the aspect ratio a bit. Is this a restoration trick to keep the text on screen steadier? It's as though the center of the text was moving left and right, so to keep the text steady, they used this trick to keep it centered...

Your description sounds exactly like computer-aided image stabilization. A small detail of the image is selected (in this case, part of the intertitle) and the computer program tracks each frame keeping the selected detail locked in place. Inevitably, the sides of the frame will shift so it is common practice to zoom into the image enough to crop any visible shifting. Perhaps the text of the intertitles was large enough that any cropping would affect readability? Otherwise, I'm not sure why the restorers wouldn't zoom in a bit to hide the frame movement.

Posted: **Thu Aug 08, 2019 6:39 pm**

Renoir's La Marseillaise coming to Blu-ray in October

Posted: **Thu Aug 08, 2019 7:36 pm**

Coming to DVD and Blu-ray October 22nd from Kino Classics!

The Eagle (1925)
Directed by Clarence Brown
Starring Rudolph Valentino

In a departure from his onscreen persona of Latin lover, silent-era sex symbol Rudolph Valentino delivered one of the most nuanced and powerful performances of his career in this epic romance set in 18th-century Russia, directed by Clarence Brown (Flesh and the Devil, Anna Karenina). Valentino stars as Vladimir Dubrovsky, a lieutenant in the Imperial Guard who becomes a fugitive after he rejects the amorous attentions of the Czarina Catherine II (Louise Dresser).

SPECIAL FEATURES
• 2K Restoration from 35mm material
• New musical score composed and performed by Alloy Orchestra
• Audio commentary by film historian Gaylyn Studlar

Posted: **Fri Aug 09, 2019 8:04 am**

So no Carl Davis score on THE EAGLE? If not, no sale here...

Posted: **Tue Aug 13, 2019 2:07 am**

Kino will be releasing Un Coeur en Hiver and Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud next month. I wish they had plan to release The Things of Life as well.

Posted: **Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:18 am**

Oh, great news! Really like both of those films (particularly A Heart in Winter).

Posted: **Thu Oct 10, 2019 8:25 pm**

Lou Ye's Saturday Fiction played the NYFF a couple of days ago and one review claims Kino Lorber will be releasing it in the U.S. I haven't seen any confirmation of that, but it would be the first Lou film to get distribution here since Strand released Spring Fever way back in 2010. Casting Gong Li and a Game of Thrones guy (Tom Wlaschiha) certainly wouldn't hurt its prospects.

Posted: **Fri Nov 22, 2019 12:32 am**

Maya Deren 8 Film Collection announced as coming from Kino Classics on 2/25

Posted: **Wed Dec 11, 2019 5:52 pm**

Kino will be releasing one of these 20 undistributed films (hopefully the Desplechin!)

Posted: **Wed Dec 11, 2019 6:24 pm**

senseabove wrote: Fri Nov 22, 2019 12:32 am Maya Deren 8 Film Collection announced as coming from Kino Classics on 2/25

No idea how I missed this from the above link, but they just showed up on (of course) Diabolik a day or two ago: Kino is doing a series called Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture in conjunction with Something Weird. The first three titles are showing up on 2/25, the same day as Maya Deren.

Volume 1 is Mom and Dad.
Volume 2 is Reefer Madness and Sex Madness.
Volume 3 is Unashamed: A Romance and Elysia: Valley of the Nude.

Each disc includes commentary, shorts, trailers, and so forth. Of note on the Mom and Dad disc is the wartime short Sex Hygiene, partly directed by John Ford.

I hope this series continues beyond the first three.

Posted: **Wed Dec 11, 2019 10:47 pm**

domino harvey wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2019 5:52 pm Kino will be releasing one of these 20 undistributed films (hopefully the Desplechin!)

Wouldn't it probably be the Ferrara?

Posted: **Thu Dec 12, 2019 4:06 pm**

agnamaracs wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2019 6:24 pm
No idea how I missed this from the above link, but they just showed up on (of course) Diabolik a day or two ago: Kino is doing a series called Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture in conjunction with Something Weird. The first three titles are showing up on 2/25, the same day as Maya Deren.

Volume 1 is Mom and Dad.
Volume 2 is Reefer Madness and Sex Madness.
Volume 3 is Unashamed: A Romance and Elysia: Valley of the Nude.

Each disc includes commentary, shorts, trailers, and so forth. Of note on the Mom and Dad disc is the wartime short Sex Hygiene, partly directed by John Ford.

I hope this series continues beyond the first three.

We should be getting a couple more of these. When Kino played a series of these at Film Forum, they also showed Narcotic, Child Bride, Marihuana: The Weed with Roots in Hell, Test Tube Babies and She Shoulda Said "No".

Posted: **Mon Dec 16, 2019 12:13 pm**

Je t'aime moi non plus (1976) and Blood and Sand (1922) detailed.

Posted: **Sun Dec 22, 2019 11:36 pm**

Thought it might be worth asking this here too:

Are Kino's and SC's recent releases of The Holly and the Ivy Blu-ray cut? Beaver has the Kino at 80-81 mins and Amazon UK lists the SC at 80 mins, where three reviewers are lamenting the film being incomplete with "the children's nativity play attended by Ralph Richardson, and the scene in which Denholm Elliott leads some child carolers [...] still missing". Anyone know the history of this film and why these scenes are not present? Backchannels do have longer versions of the film too.

Britmovie is quite unhelpful and NitrateVille is little more so.

Posted: **Mon Dec 23, 2019 1:03 am**

Re: The Holly and the Ivy

This seems to have both the children's nativity play and Elliott leading a group of child carolers. Having never seen the film, I'm not sure whether this is complete, but it does seem to have scenes such as you've described (at roughly 23 minutes and 51 minutes, respectively.) The lack of the latter scene in certain releases seems especially odd, as it echoes the film's title.

Posted: **Tue Dec 31, 2019 10:10 am**

DeprongMori wrote: Mon Dec 23, 2019 1:03 am Re: The Holly and the Ivy

This seems to have both the children's nativity play and Elliott leading a group of child carolers. Having never seen the film, I'm not sure whether this is complete, but it does seem to have scenes such as you've described (at roughly 23 minutes and 51 minutes, respectively.) The lack of the latter scene in certain releases seems especially odd, as it echoes the film's title.

Yeah, I have access to poor copies of the film with the extra scenes, but I'm wondering if anyone knows why they are not in the HD restored version recently released on Blu-ray.

Anyone suggest any databases that might help? Here's what the BFI holds: http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/we ... 0150036065

Posted: **Fri Jan 03, 2020 8:40 pm**

senseabove wrote: Fri Nov 22, 2019 12:32 am Maya Deren 8 Film Collection announced as coming from Kino Classics on 2/25

I just came across this by chance on amazon today, and it looks like an incredible release. Is there any benefit to picking up any other releases instead or as a supplement?

Posted: **Fri Jan 03, 2020 11:07 pm**

Zeitgeist/Kino has In the Mirror of Maya Deren on DVD which would compliment the set well.

Posted: **Fri Jan 03, 2020 11:14 pm**

DRW.mov wrote: Fri Jan 03, 2020 11:07 pm Zeitgeist/Kino has In the Mirror of Maya Deren on DVD which would compliment the set well.

That's a fantastic doc. I'll second that recommendation. Its also currently on prime if you have it.

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