Kino Lorber Studio Classics

[dwk]

BUG (2006) UHD November 26th

DISC 1 (4KUHD):
• Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
• Audio Commentary by Director William Friedkin
• 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
• Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles

DISC 2 (BLU-RAY):
• Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
• Audio Commentary by Director William Friedkin
• A Discussion with William Friedkin (28:02)
• Bug - An Introduction: Featurette (11:50)
• Theatrical Trailer (1:22)
• 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles

[dwk]

ON THE ROAD with HOPE & CROSBY (1940-1962) November 26th

• Audio Commentary for ROAD TO MOROCCO by Film Historian Jack Theakston
• Audio Commentary for ROAD TO UTOPIA by Filmmaker Greg Ford and Film & Wall Street Journal Reviewer Will Friedwald
• Audio Commentary for ROAD TO BALI by Film Historians Michael Schlesinger and Mark Evanier
• Audio Commentary for THE ROAD TO HONG KONG by Filmmaker/Historian Michael Schlesinger
• Bob Hope and the Road to Success
• Entertaining the Troops
• Command Performances 1944 and 1945
• Theatrical Trailers (Road to Singapore/Road to Zanzibar/Road to Morocco/Road to Utopia/The Road to Hong Kong)
• Optional English Subtitles (Road to Singapore/Road to Zanzibar/Road to Morocco/Road to Utopia/The Road to Hong Kong)
• No Subtitles (Road to Rio/Road to Bali)

[domino harvey]

They should have released this as a set to begin with. My sympathies to those who bought all of these individually (for multiple reasons)

[domino harvey]

KLSC Fall Sale is on now, btw

[domino harvey]

Does anyone know if their Blu-ray release of Rivette's La religieuse / the Nun is OOP? I only see copies of the DVD for sale on their site and no option to purchase the Blu-ray

This is not only back in stock, it’s only ten bucks as part of the sale

[hearthesilence]

Some great Milestone Blu-ray releases are included. The Magic Box: The Films of Shirley Clarke is over half off. Not sure if there's ever been a better deal, but $45 for a box set that lists at $100 seems pretty sweet.

The Exiles (which debuted on Blu-ray last year) is only $10.

Outside of Milestone, Raoul Walsh's Pursued (which comes from the new 4K restoration) is also $10. Shot by James Wong Howe, it's often considered one of Walsh's best films.

[domino harvey]

I don’t like any of the films in it, but the Truffaut 4-film set is only $18 on a $60 MSRP, for those who are more inclined to 70s Truffaut

[dwk]

I don’t like any of the films in it, but the Truffaut 4-film set is only $18 on a $60 MSRP, for those who are more inclined to 70s Truffaut

Those are also going to go OOP when MGM's rights fully expire. While I'd expect mk2 to do new 4K transfers for all of them, who knows how long until they get re-released.

[FlickeringWindow]

They should have released this as a set to begin with. My sympathies to those who bought all of these individually (for multiple reasons)

They could have back in January when they released Road to Hong Kong (on license from MGM), but not earlier. The two Hope Enterprises titles licensed from Freemantle (Rio and Bali) came out in 2017, with the four Universal-owned ones (Morocco, Zanzibar, Singapore, and Utopia) in 2019. Hong Kong was a holdout entirely because it was with Olive until recently.

[therewillbeblus]

Well that's annoying - Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XIX was on sale when I added it to my cart, but now it's no longer - I've never had this happen before on their site. Weird.

[hearthesilence]

I don’t like any of the films in it, but the Truffaut 4-film set is only $18 on a $60 MSRP, for those who are more inclined to 70s Truffaut

Those are also going to go OOP when MGM's rights fully expire. While I'd expect mk2 to do new 4K transfers for all of them, who knows how long until they get re-released.

Two of them are favorites, which was enough for me - the other two not so much, but I think they're still commendable with plenty of merit.

[dwk]

Today's announcement:

The Conqueror (1956) Blu-ray
Starring John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendáriz, Agnes Moorehead, Thomas Gomez, William Conrad, John Hoyt, Ted de Corsia & Lee Van Cleef – Produced by Howard Hughes (The Outlaw) – Directed by Dick Powell (The Enemy Below).

[domino harvey]

Surprised it took them this long (and now they’re cursed too)

[TechnicolorAcid]

Surprised it took them this long (and now they’re cursed too)

Watch this get cancelled.

[dwk]

Billy Madison UHD was today's announcement.

[domino harvey]

I know every label needs easy money releases, but I’m actually surprised the studio didn’t release these Sandler movies themselves

[dwk]

I know they say that comedies don't sell on UHD, but it is surprising that Universal licensed those two. But Universal does license out titles that one would have expected that they would have released themselves (I still am surprised they licensed Conan the Barbarian to Arrow.)

[JSC]

Watch this get cancelled.

Cancelled because John Wayne plays Genghis Khan or because the cast and crew were possibly
exposed to down-wind radiation?

[domino harvey]

Just as the latest iteration of the curse which killed so many as a result of filming. I personally think the new uranium Blu-ray cases KLSC will be using are fine though

[tenia]

It got a release in France not long ago, it seemed like it didn't need specific cases, so half-life of this possibly has been reached.

[Peacock]

The Forbidden Fruit title most have been waiting for has finally been announced for 12th November.

MANIAC (1934)

So perverse that it continues to shock and offend viewers 90 years after its release, Dwain Esper’s Maniac is a deranged retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” in the guise of an educational film on mental illness. This no-budget thriller by self-taught filmmakers has a wildly fragmented style. Its intrusive use of title scrolls, stock footage, and gratuitous nudity make it one of the first true underground films (with a gruesome wink at the eyeball-slicing scene of Un chien andalou). Maniac is presented here in a new 4K restoration, from the original camera negative and other 35mm elements preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, and is presented in cooperation with Something Weird and the Sonney Amusement Enterprises Film Collection.

Product Extras :
Audio interview with director Dwain Esper and screenwriter Hildagarde Esper
The true crime short films of Dwain Esper and Louis Sonney: You Can't Beat the Rap, The Last Hour of Killer Mears, The March of Crime, and The March of Crime (2nd Ed.)
Audio commentary by Bret Wood, author of Marihuana, Motherhood, and Madness: Three Screenplays from the Exploitation Cinema of Dwain Esper
Original theatrical trailer
2024 Re-release trailer
Trailers for Dwain Esper's The Seventh Commandment, Narcotic, and Marihuana: Weed With Roots in Hell

[ianthemovie]

Can anyone vouch for Maniac being as interesting as that description makes it sound? I've actually never heard of it before, but a transgressive proto-underground Poe adaptation has me intrigued.

[swo17]

Yes, though there's a faked scene of severe animal cruelty if anyone needs a warning about that

[dwk]

News from the recent KIno YouTube stream:
New announcements:
Promise Her Anything (1965)
Posse (1975)
Airport Film Collection 4K UHD (1970-1979)

Updates on previously announced titles:
Ilsa movies should be out next Spring or Summer. Available individually and in a box set.
Miracle Mile and Cherry 2000 remasters in December or January
Bottoms in Feb/March
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels might be dropped.
Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola is supervising the 4K restoration.

[domino harvey]

My writeup of Posse

Posse (Kirk Douglas 1975) Usually when actors direct, they either frontload a bunch of actorly scenes for themselves, hire a bunch of colleagues to showboat, or overcompensate in artsiness to hide their greenness. Douglas just gives us a mediocre western that is sold as being a hell of a lot more subversive than it ever can be bothered to be. Disappointingly, the only sin Douglas' politician commits is that of being a politician, and so whatever wretched post-Watergate social commentary the film thinks it's furthering is just, well, lame. "Lame" is kind of the watchword here. The finale, if you can even call it that, merely plays up the one-note, hopelessly cynical idea, one that's perhaps fit for a short film but dead on arrival as a feature.