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Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2026 5:53 pm**

FrauBlucher wrote: Sun Sep 13, 2026 3:01 pm Here's a good one...

Coming Soon on 4KUHD!
Brand New UHD SDR Master by UCLA!

PITFALL (1948) Starring Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Raymond Burr, Jane Wyatt & John Litel – Shot by Harry J. Wild (Murder My Sweet, The Big Steel) – Screenplay by Karl Kamb (Main Street After Dark, The Captive City) – Directed by Andre De Toth (House of Wax, Crime Wave, Day of the Outlaw, Play Dirty).

Wow! Hadn't seen that coming.

It would be nice with new commentary as well, though the old Eddie Muller one isn't bad. The main thing is the upgrade, of course (fingers crossed).

Posted: **Wed Sep 16, 2026 6:01 pm**

dwk wrote: Fri Dec 05, 2025 6:37 pm Kino Insider said that they are releasing Melville's Un flic on UHD later next year.

This has been announced, preorders up

Posted: **Sat Sep 19, 2026 9:21 pm**

French Noir III announced (hopefully better than the previous set...)

Coming Soon on Blu-ray!
2K Restorations by Gaumont!

French Noir: Collection III
• The Last One of Six (1941) Starring Pierre Fresnay | Michèle Alfa | Suzy Delair | Jean Tissier
Shot by Robert Lefebvre (Casque d’Or)
Screenplay by Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Wages of Fear)
Based on a Novel by Stanislas-André Steeman (The Murderer Lives at Number 21)
Directed by Georges Lacombe (The Night Is My Kingdom)

• The Moment of Truth (1952) Starring Jean Gabin | Michèle Morgan | Daniel Gélin | Doris Duranti
Shot by Gianni Di Venanzo (8 ½) | Luise Hölscher | Robert Lefebvre (Marie-Octobre)
Directed by Jean Delannoy (Inspector Maigret)

• The Strange Mr. Steve (1957) Jeanne Moreau | Lino Ventura | Philippe Lemaire | Armand Mestral
Shot by Jacques Lemare (They Were Five)
Screenplay by Raymond Bailly & Frédéric Dard (The Beast is Loose)
Directed by Raymond Bailly (Seul... à corps perdu)

• Paris Pick-Up (1962) Robert Hossein | Lea Massari | Robert Dalban | Maurice Biraud
Shot by André Bac (Le Jour Se Léve)
Score by Georges Delerue (A Little Romance)
Screenplay by Marcel Bluwal & Frédéric Dard (Back to the Wall)
Directed Marcel Bluwal (A Killing Success)

Posted: **Sat Sep 19, 2026 9:32 pm**

The Lacombe is a Msr Wens story, a character recently seen in the omnibus Indicator released, and was produced during Nazi occupation (seems like we’re seeing a lot of these films lately). It was already subbed in English on the French Blu, so not much of a rescue. The Bluwal is a masterpiece but already released by Radiance. Haven’t seen the Dellanoy but those are three major stars in it, so I’m intrigued

Bluwal is credited with “A Killing Success” which is an alternate title for Carambolages. Let’s hope that means it’s on Kino’s radar (though I doubt it)

Posted: **Sat Sep 19, 2026 11:17 pm**

ChunkyLover wrote: Sat Sep 19, 2026 9:21 pm French Noir III announced (hopefully better than the previous set...)

• Paris Pick-Up (1962) Robert Hossein | Lea Massari | Robert Dalban | Maurice Biraud
Shot by André Bac (Le Jour Se Léve)
Score by Georges Delerue (A Little Romance)
Screenplay by Marcel Bluwal & Frédéric Dard (Back to the Wall)
Directed Marcel Bluwal (A Killing Success)

Well this alone makes it better than all the previous releases, I thought Criterion had it. It's also in Radiance's World Noir 4., so maybe they decided to hold off for a 4k resto.

Posted: **Sat Sep 19, 2026 11:37 pm**

Haven't seen three of the films, but I liked The Moment of Truth.

The previous set was mostly kind of blah, but I'd still recommend La mort de belle (The Passion of Slow Fire).
A sharp acidic mystery with Simenon's story transplanted from America to Switzerland, tautly directed and well
acted, especially Jean Desailly.

Posted: **Sun Sep 20, 2026 3:04 pm**

Coming Soon on 4KUHD!
Brand New HDR/DV Master!

ATLANTIC CITY (1980) Starring Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Michel Piccoli, Hollis McLaren, Robert Joy, Al Waxman, Robert Goulet, Ces Linder & Wallace Shawn – Shot by Richard Ciupka (The Terry Fox Story) – Music by Michel Legrand (The Thomas Crown Affair) – Screenplay by John Guare (Taking Off, Six Degrees of Separation) – Directed by Louis Malle (Elevator in the Gallows, Viva Maria!, Murmur of the Heart, Au Revoir Les Enfants, Vanya on 42nd Street).

Posted: **Sun Sep 20, 2026 3:53 pm**

Wow. Finally! Hopefully they will do a respectable job

Posted: **Sun Sep 20, 2026 6:40 pm**

Mystified as to how the hell it took so long for this to get an HD release

Posted: **Sun Sep 20, 2026 6:48 pm**

It didn’t - Paramount released it in 2020. It was one of those weird titles that was a BDR if you bought it from Amazon but pressed from elsewhere.

Posted: **Thu Sep 24, 2026 6:51 pm**

Fall sale is live

Posted: **Thu Sep 24, 2026 8:22 pm**

Was just wondering when it would be since they happen every quarter and there’s only a few more days left on this one

Posted: **Thu Sep 24, 2026 8:39 pm**

Since my shipment from the last sale only arrived 2 or 3 weeks ago, I wasn't thinking about the next one at all.

Posted: **Thu Sep 24, 2026 8:41 pm**

domino harvey wrote: Thu Sep 24, 2026 8:22 pm Was just wondering when it would be since they happen every quarter and there’s only a few more days left on this one

I see it goes through Oct 23, so a month left

Posted: **Sat Oct 03, 2026 2:08 am**

Going OOP and added to the While Supplies Last sale:

Adventures of Captain Marvel (Serial)
Baxter
Below the Belt
The Blue Lamp
Carole Lombard Collection I
Carole Lombard Collection II
Chains of Gold
The Claim
Fluke
Garbo Talks
Goldengirl
Happy Birthday to Me (Special Edition)
Honky Tonk Freeway
I Walk Alone
The Kiss Before the Mirror
Love with a Proper Stranger
Madame Rosa
Paravision Dreams: The Golden Age 3-D Films
Percy
Quantez
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
Seven Sinners
Son of Ali Baba
The Sporting Club
The System (aka The Girl-Getters)
They Came to Cordura
Tony Curtis Collection
The Veil
The War
Who Done It?

I Walk Alone, Love With the Proper Stranger, and Quantez come recommended!

Posted: **Sat Oct 03, 2026 2:41 am**

I love Honky Tonk Freeway with every fiber of my being. A huge, unwieldy comedy that is incredibly laser-focused on the nucleus of American culture.

Definitely recommend Reincarnation of Peter Proud as well. Michael Sarrazin had such a unique screen presence

Posted: **Sat Oct 03, 2026 3:00 am**

I second I Walk Alone & would add The Blue Lamp & The Kiss Before The Mirror.

Honky Tonk Freeway was an oddball satire that I loved as a kid as it turned up on HBO in its early days, but I don't know how well it holds up today as I haven't watched it in decades, but I remember it makes a good double bill with Smile.

Posted: **Sat Oct 03, 2026 3:30 am**

Kiss Before the Mirror is available from Indicator (standalone) and Imprint (Whale box). The System also had an Indicator release (now OOP) but there are still affordable copies on eBay

Posted: **Sat Oct 03, 2026 5:11 pm**

KL is releasing "SERGEI EISENSTEIN ¡MÉXICO! /.../ newly restored versions of those films derived from Eisenstein's legendary Mexican footage: Thunder Over Mexico (1933) and Death Day (1934) by Sol Lesser, Time in the Sun (1940) by Marie Seton, Bell & Howell’s four-volume Mexican Symphony by Willam F. Kruse and Egon Mauthner (1940-41), and the debut of Idols Behind Altars (2026), a diptych of Eisenstein's raw footage conceived by Bruce Posner with a new score by Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky). This special two-disc collection also includes rare outtakes, photographs, sketches, and documentaries"
https://kinolorber.com/film/sergei-eise ... ZDLyd-qaRh

Death Day is showing in the 2026 Pordenone film festival. Notes on the restoration, from the festival catalogue:
”This 2026 restoration was sourced from a nearly complete 35mm nitrate print acquired by the British Film Institute from Upton Sinclair in 1939, and several seconds of a 16mm reduction print held in the David Bradley Collection at Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive. The original film negat ive and release prints of the 1934 Death Day were destroyed in a nitrate fire in 1938. It remains unclear which version Sinclair sold to the BFI in 1939. But the image quality i superior. I believe it is the original release print, slightly damaged in projection. This newly restored version is unique, not an altered edit: the viewer can see the entire 35mm picture full silent aperture as registered on the 1939 print. Previously much of the top and bottom were cropped by the Academy sound aperture. The version we are seeing is exactly the same, less 8-11 seconds of footage lost to projection damage; I added back 3- 4 seconds from the 16mm print. The actual film is 15'08"; the complete digital file with titles, 15'51"; with the Kino Lorber logo, 15'57”. Thanks to digital scanning technology we can see for the first time everything photographed by Tissé on the 35mm film frame, except the left-side optical track area that was blocked out in the print. In much of the Mexican footage one can see full silent compositions and sound film compositions. Tissé often reverted to silent film framing. /…/ Bruce Posner”

Source: 2026 Pordenone catalogue - PDF downloadable here, under menu Giornate:
https://www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en ... V-TB6_lGJk

See also:
https://www.americancinematheque.com/no ... o-4-18-26/
https://www.americancinematheque.com/no ... s-5-14-26/
https://www.americancinematheque.com/no ... s-5-23-26/

Two films related to the above release but apparently not included in it:

10 minutes of filmed drawings by Eisenstein;
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/se ... s-1930-32/

A Philological Quandary, Kenneth Anger’s ¡Que Viva Mexico!
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2026/films/a-p ... exico-1950

Posted: **Sat Oct 03, 2026 5:51 pm**

Begotten, E. Elias Merhige, restored; Kino Lorber theatrical:
https://kinolorber.com/film/begotten
https://www.americancinematheque.com/no ... 0-18-2026/
https://thefilmstage.com/exclusive-trai ... s-october/

Posted: **Sat Oct 10, 2026 3:04 pm**

Coming Soon on Blu-ray!
Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative!

MR. BASEBALL (1992)
Tom Selleck | Ken Takakura | Aya Takanashi | Dennis Haysbert
Shot by Ian Baker (Iceman, Plenty)
Music by Jerry Goldsmith (Planet of the Apes, Chinatown)
Directed by Fred Schepisi (Roxanne, A Cry in the Dark, The Russia House, I.Q.)

Posted: **Sun Oct 11, 2026 5:25 pm**

Coming Soon on 4KUHD!

LAST TRAIN FROM GUN HILL (1959)
Kirk Douglas | Anthony Quinn | Carolyn Jones | Earl Holliman | Brad Dexter | Brian G. Hutton
Shot by Charles Lang (The Big Heat, The Man from Laramie)
Music by Dimitri Tiomkin (High Noon, Rio Bravo)
Screenplay by James Poe (Attack) | Les Crutschfield (Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure) | Dalton Trumbo (Spartacus)
Directed by John Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Magnificent Seven)

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