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crimlaw wrote: Sat Sep 14, 2024 12:43 am Maybe a couple of these Paramount titles have been licensed before before becoming off limits:

Why would Paramount titles be “off limits”?

DRW.mov wrote: Sat Sep 14, 2024 5:46 am

crimlaw wrote: Sat Sep 14, 2024 12:43 am Maybe a couple of these Paramount titles have been licensed before before becoming off limits:

Why would Paramount titles be “off limits”?

They laid off some of their staff who work in the physical media division so new deals can't be currently made.

Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (Carax) 4K
Twin Falls Idaho (Polish) BD
Pound (Downey) HD-DVD
Taking Off (Forman)
Noi Albinoi (Kari)

There Will Be Blood UHD
Heavenly Creatures UHD
Fanny and Alexander UHD
Bright Star UHD

pianocrash wrote: Sat Sep 14, 2024 2:13 pm Twin Falls Idaho (Polish) BD

A worthy release, but I believe this is with Sony and they have slowed their licenses, so sadly unlikely unless it was already in motion

TechnicolorAcid wrote: Sat Sep 14, 2024 5:53 am

DRW.mov wrote: Sat Sep 14, 2024 5:46 am

crimlaw wrote: Sat Sep 14, 2024 12:43 am Maybe a couple of these Paramount titles have been licensed before before becoming off limits:

Why would Paramount titles be “off limits”?

They laid off some of their staff who work in the physical media division so new deals can't be currently made.

I think Terror Vision's Brad Henderson, who has a Paramount deal, and the Kino Insider have both said that there was nothing to worry about with licensing from Paramount and that, to quote Kino Insider, "Things are currently normal."

Atlantics
So This is Paris
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (UHD Upgrade)
I Know Where I'm Going! (Upgrade)
Trouble in Paradise (Upgrade)

Jia box
May December

Scarecrow UHD
The Small Back Room
Mon Oncle d'Amérique
No Country For Old Men UHD
Minnie & Moskowitz

olmo wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 4:30 pm Scarecrow UHD
The Small Back Room
Mon Oncle d'Amérique
No Country For Old Men UHD
Minnie & Moskowitz

I thought Kino said that no label was currently able to license Minnie and Moskowitz for some reason. Universal does have prints and DCPs of it. Anchor Bay’s DVD had a Gena Rowlands/Seymour Cassel commentary

Ah, ok I don’t realise (it’s more a wish fulfilment list anyway).

I have the Anchor Bay DVD, but there’s certainly room for improvement.

beamish14 wrote: Sat Sep 14, 2024 4:55 am
I wish there was a set of Bukowski adaptations that included this, Crazy Love, and Barfly (which had an excellent WB DVD that was basically ported to a R2 Blu already)

Not familiar with Crazy Love. Will seek it out. It's funny that good-looking dudes always play Bukowski. Rourke is the least like him, but his performance and the film are entertaining nonetheless. Dillon gives a decent, un-showy performance in Factotum. Too bad the film is so flavorless and muted. Gazzara is also nothing like Bukowski, but he exudes the right mix of self-loathing and self-regard. Tales is long overdue for a decent Stateside release, as are many of Ferreri's films.

Splendor in the Grass
American Symphony
An Autumn’s Tale 4K
Youth (Spring)
May December 4K

Janus Contemporaries: Last Summer

The Third Man UHD
Paris Texas UHD
Watership Down UHD
Heathers UHD
Talk To Her UHD
Busby Berkeley/Gold Diggers Box UHD

Keisuke Kinoshita box set
Mikio Naruse box set
A Taxing Woman & sequel
Tokyo Story UHD
Ugetsu UHD

Los Olvidados
Desperate Living 4K
This is Spinal Tap 4K
Random upgrade of the month: The 400 Blows 4K

I’m gonna guess that at least one of the following will be released:

Il grido
Four Nights of a Dreamer
Raise the Red Lantern
Johnny Got His Gun
Shoot the Piano Player
Trouble in Paradise

Edit: removed T̶o̶ B̶e̶ o̶r̶ N̶o̶t̶ t̶o̶ B̶e̶ and changed to Trouble in Paradise

To Be or Not to Be... 4K? The blu is already out

therewillbeblus wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 11:51 pm To Be or Not to Be... 4K? The blu is already out

Maybe it’s a Shakespeare set wish?

did Criterion lost their rights for "Blue is the Warmest Colour" (La Vie d'Adèle) ? there is a Korean (I think that it's Korean, by Novamedia) Blu-Ray + UHD release.
It's the first time that the movie is released in UHD; but apparently it was filmed in DV 2K, thus it is apparently an 4K upscale (with probably "A.I" said-so enhancement to upscale (like Topaz Video)
But some screenshots looks good on the blu-ray forum thread.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Blue-is- ... ay/368161/

Talk to Her 4K
City of God 4K
China Lost and Found: Four Films by Jia Zhangke - Xiao Wu, Platform, Unknown Pleasures, The World
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4K
Paris, Texas 4K

still hoping against hope The Third Man comes from Criterion so I can get all those extras without having to shell out or watch them on the channel. or that we get the dream "loaded" edition of The Other Side of the Wind

TechnicolorAcid wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 11:56 pm

therewillbeblus wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 11:51 pm To Be or Not to Be... 4K? The blu is already out

Maybe it’s a Shakespeare set wish?

Sorry, I meant Trouble in Paradise! I saw the new restoration in Bologna a few years ago, so think it's time for it to finally get upgraded to blu now.

ryannichols7 wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 4:35 amChina Lost and Found: Four Films by Jia Zhangke - Xiao Wu, Platform, Unknown Pleasures, The World

That's (in)credibly specific. Any hint this is gonna drop soon?

Rupert Pupkin wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 3:56 am did Criterion lost their rights for "Blue is the Warmest Colour" (La Vie d'Adèle) ? there is a Korean (I think that it's Korean, by Novamedia) Blu-Ray + UHD release.
It's the first time that the movie is released in UHD; but apparently it was filmed in DV 2K, thus it is apparently an 4K upscale (with probably "A.I" said-so enhancement to upscale (like Topaz Video)
But some screenshots looks good on the blu-ray forum thread.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Blue-is- ... ay/368161/

This is the wrong thread for this so I‘ll make it brief. Criterion most likely didn’t lose the rights as their Blu-ray is still in print. International BD/4K rights are totally separate and Novamedia were seemingly allowed to add English subtitles to their edition. This is indeed a 4K upscale made with AI and the film also got a new color grade. It’s unclear whether all this is approved by the director (probably not) because shots like this show the problems of AI usage for a less than perfectly detailed source quite well.

ryannichols7 wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 4:35 am Talk to Her 4K
City of God 4K
China Lost and Found: Four Films by Jia Zhangke - Xiao Wu, Platform, Unknown Pleasures, The World
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4K
Paris, Texas 4K

still hoping against hope The Third Man comes from Criterion so I can get all those extras without having to shell out or watch them on the channel. or that we get the dream "loaded" edition of The Other Side of the Wind

I’d say there’s about a 97% chance The Third Man comes from Lionsgate on 4K.

On a side note, WB said they have “no plans” to release The Searchers on UHD. Does it mean Criterion might handle that one?