Kino

[Saturnome]

what film are you discussing?

It (1927)
(I was thinking of doing something like "What, you haven't heard about it?" but, eh...)

[andyli]

Per today's digitalbits.com:

Meanwhile, our friends over at Kino Lorber have set a trio of new titles for release in April. First up is a Gaumont Treasures: Volume 2 - 1908-1916 3-disc DVD box set due on 4/19 (SRP $79.95 - includes classic films by Emile Cohl (Fantasmagoria, The Puppet's Nightmare, The Living Fan, Comic Mutations, The Twelve Labors of Hercules, Petit Faust and Bebe's Masterpiece), Jean Durand (Calino Wants to Be a Cowboy, Onesime Goes to Hell, Onesime, Clockmaker, Onesime Loves Animals, Zigoto Drives a Locomotive, The Railway of Death, Burning Heart: An Indian Tale and Under the Claw) and Jacques Feyder & The Early Masters of French Cinema (Heads... and the Women Who Use Them, The Barges, La Marseillaise, Child's Play and Feet and Hands). Additional extras will include documentaries, additional shorts, excerpts and rare behind-the-scenes clips. Total content is over 10 hours of material.

Also due on 4/19 from Kino Lorber is a 3-disc Ingrid Bergman: Swedish Film Collection DVD box set (SRP $39.95) that will include Intermezzio, A Woman's Face and June Night.

Finally, Kino Lorber will release The Scent of Green Papaya on Blu-ray and DVD on 4/26 (SRP $29.95 and $24.95).

[SpiderBaby]

Some Godard news as well:

http://www.indiewire.com/article/kino_l ... in_the_u.s

[swo17]

Excellent! It'll be particularly great to see the Cohl films with English subs.

[Zot!]

Per today's digitalbits.com:

Finally, Kino Lorber will release The Scent of Green Papaya on Blu-ray and DVD on 4/26 (SRP $29.95 and $24.95).

Awesome! I imagine this was not expected. I hope this means Vertical Ray and Cyclo are coming soon.

[knives]

All of this sounds amazing and with the level of quality for their recent releases I might just snag all of them. Almost makes me glad Criterion is terrible that month. Also has there been any reviews of their just released A Time For Drunken Horses disc?

[knives]

I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else, but their new release of A Time for Drunken Horses is aces. The PQ is so much better than I'm used to with them that I'm a little stunned. The subtitles are mostly good, but I do have a question about them. There are large chunks of dialogue that are totally untranslated. I'm assuming that it's because they decided to only subtitle one of the two languages spoken, but if I could get confirmation on that I would appreciate it.

[andyli]

Strike is coming from Kino in 2011 (no mention of Blu-ray) according to their 2011 catalog.

[eerik]

LORBER FILMS ANNOUNCES BLU-RAY EDITIONS RELEASE OF THREE SOPHIA LOREN FILMS - PLUS A 4-DVD BOX SET.
New York, NY - February 23, 2011 - Lorber Films is proud to announce the Blu-ray release of three Sophia Loren films: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (in a special two-disc set with the documentary Vittorio D.), Marriage Italian Style, and Sunflower.

This marks the first time that these films are available on Blu-ray, and Lorber Films is proud to make them available in stunning new HD transfers. The Blu-ray edition of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (with Vittorio D.), is priced at $34.95, while the Blu-ray editions of Marriage Italian Style and Sunflower are priced at $29.95 each.

The four films are available on DVD as a special four-disc set (Sophia Loren Award Collection), priced at $49.95. And while the films are available separately on Blu-ray, Lorber Films is not selling the DVDs individually, outside the box set. Each disc comes with special features, including trailers and stills galleries. The discs are available for prebook on April 5, 2011, and the street date for each is May 3.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar at the 1965 Academy Awards, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is a sparklingly original comedy that casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in three different stories set throughout Italy. In Naples, they are poor but resourceful, selling black market cigarettes on the streets. In Milan, Loren is costumed in Christian Dior and debates her preference for a Rolls Royce or her husband. And in Rome, Mastroianni is an industry scion who helps Loren's prostitute set a wavering priest back onto the spiritual plane.

This episode features Sophia's famous striptease, which was recreated 30 years later in Robert Altman's Ready To Wear. Witty and unforgettable, this gem from master filmmaker Vittorio de Sica (Two Women, Marriage Italian Style) is picture-postcard beautiful and effortlessly hilarious.

Also featured in this special 2-disc set is Vittorio D., a documentary on the life and legacy of the great director (and frequent Loren collaborator) that offers fascinating interviews with Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood, Mike Leigh and many others.

Special 2-disc set:

Disc 1:
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Trailers
Stills Gallery

Disc 2:
Vittorio D., a feature-length documentary about Vittorio DeSica
Galleries

Italy / 1963 / 118 min. / Color / Italian w/English subtitles / 16:9


Marriage Italian Style

One of the most famous, and funniest, Italian comedies of all time, Marriage Italian Style received nominations for Best Foreign Film, and Best Actress for Sophia Loren, at the Academy Awards. Marcello Mastroianni co-stars as the irrepressibly carnal businessman Domenico, who discovers Loren's Filumena as a young prostitute and keeps her as his mistress and confidante. When he chooses to marry a young cashier instead of her, Filumena is furious, and resorts to a series of wild and hilarious ruses to win back his hand. Directed by the great Vittorio De Sica (The Bicycle Thief), Marriage Italian Style is a timelessly bawdy classic.

Extras include:
Trailers
Theatrical Promo
Stills Gallery

Italy / 1964 / 101 min. / Color / Italian w/English subtitles / 16:9


Sunflower

An Oscar nominee for Best Score (Henry Mancini), Sunflower is a grandly emotional melodrama featuring a stunning performance from Sophia Loren. In another of the actress's great collaborations with director Vittorio De Sica (The Bicycle Thief), Loren plays Giovanna, a steel-willed Italian woman on a desperate search to find her husband Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), who has gone missing on the WWII battlefields of Russia. Making the grueling overland journey years after the end of the war, she tracks Antonio down and finds him a changed man. This heart-wrenching reunion will forever alter the course of their lives. Full of stunning images and powerful acting, Sunflower is a devastating romantic epic you won't soon forget.

Extras include:
Theatrical Promo
Stills Gallery

Italy / 1970 / 107 min. / Color / Italian w/English subtitles / 16:9


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[TMDaines]

Why do they lie about this being the first time that these films are being released on Blu-ray? Two of them have been out for a long while now in Germany.

[Finch]

Kino lying? Yes, if they had explicitly stated that this was the first time the films were available on Blu anywhere in the world but no. The statement as is, surely meant to infer the first US HD release for these titles.

[Perkins Cobb]

Well of course, given how much effort I recently put into finding apparently the only copy of the OOP NoShame DVD of Yesterday Today and Tomorrow in the NY Public Library system, amid a sea of PD discs.

[domino harvey]

Kino's releasing an Ingrid Bergman in Sweden boxed set containing Intermezzo, A Woman's Face, and June Night on April 19

[SpiderBaby]

They announced on Facebook that Eisenstein's STRIKE will be a July release (new DVD and BLU) and should see Come and See & Dersu Uzala upgrades in 2012. Kino being very direct with answers. I like it.

[knives]

Come and See on blu? Be still my heart.

[SpiderBaby]

Come and See on blu? Be still my heart.

I know. Plus more Eisenstein in a couple months on blu-ray.

[knives]

Just for the night time shoot out with the cow that film deserves some sort of best of title.

[SpiderBaby]

If this forum came together and put out a best of list, no way Come and See slips past it.

[knives]

Actually it's because of the '80s list on this forum I found out about it.

[SpiderBaby]

I dare to say, best WWII film.

[knives]

I'm tempted to agree, though it has some very tough competition. This is one of the few films that manages to break Truffaut's rule. I can't imagine anyone looking to that young man crusted over appearing ancient and saying, 'my that war stuff looks like fun.' It manages to be completely off putting while wholly engaging.

[swo17]

If this forum came together and put out a best of list, no way Come and See slips past it.

We did, and called it the 9th best film of the 1980s.

I noticed the Kino page also mentions that the Our Hospitality Blu is only going to be in 1080i.

[SpiderBaby]

I'm tempted to agree, though it has some very tough competition.

Yes it does, even other Soviet Union films alone. I took a glance at my War Trilogy set and made me rethink this. Let's just say one of the best.

[SpiderBaby]

If this forum came together and put out a best of list, no way Come and See slips past it.

We did, and called it the 9th best film of the 1980s.

I noticed the Kino page also mentions that the Our Hospitality Blu is only going to be in 1080i.

Thanks for the link.

I wonder how the forum is going to take to the Keaton news....

[John Edmond]

I'm going to pretend this is a misunderstanding due to it's frame rate.