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[MichaelB]

Since it's Region A and sourced from a French resto, there must be a pretty good chance of a French-intertitled version coming out in France at some point.

Though whether it'll have English subtitles is another question entirely.

[neal]

Exciting! Though, Beaver surely didn't mean to say that the Blu-ray version has the best extras...

[Zobalob]

Exciting! Though, Beaver surely didn't mean to say that the Blu-ray version has the best extras...

I thought that was a bit odd too, no extras to speak of yet it gets "best extras"?
Pity it's not region free, I'd buy it if it was.

[albucat]

Press release on Fear & Desire just came out. Date for the blu-ray: Oct. 23.

[eerik]

[Saturnome]

Have they removed the shorts?

[Jeff]

Have they removed the shorts?

It sure looks that way. Not nearly as interesting on it's own. I guess they could be just including them as supplements.

This is due on October 23. Surely it was the big title they were waiting to announce earlier.

[kidc85]

Although I understand why Kubrick wanted this suppressed, I always enjoyed this better than KILLER'S KISS. Sure, it's really rough around the edges and is essentially just a scrappy pulp movie but there's still a little something special about it. The jump in quality from nth generation bootleg to blu-ray will be astounding, a definitely minor but exciting release.

[Buttery Jeb]

Have they removed the shorts?

It sure looks that way. Not nearly as interesting on it's own. I guess they could be just including them as supplements.

According to the Digital Bits, The Seafarers will be included as a supplement. No word on the other two.

[Jeff]

Interesting that Fear and Desire was a co-production with The Library of Congress. I thought it was the Eastman House that had the only print of this and had worked on restoring it.

[brendanjc]

Blu-ray.com posted a brief snippet about the release suggesting all 3 shorts will be included. It's still odd that the cover art makes no mention though.

[matrixschmatrix]

Yeah, that's the difference between a buy and a rent, for me

[Ashirg]

As posted above, The Digital Bits indicate that only one short will be included. The snippet is from March, so who knows if it's still valid.

[Calvin]

I'm pretty sure that the Blu-Ray.com reveal originated from this Facebook post.

[Calvin]

From KINO CLASSICS:

11/6 - DIE NIBELUNGEN: DELUXE REMASTERED EDITION (1924, Fritz Lang, 2-disc DVD or Blu-ray set)
[first time ever on Blu-ray! also contains the feature length documentary "The Legacy of Die Nibelungen"]

11/6 - FRITZ LANG: THE EARLY WORKS (3-DVD set includes THE WANDERING SHADOW (1920), FOUR AROUND A WOMAN (1921) and HARAKIRI (1919))

11/13 - SERGEI EISENSTEIN DOUBLE FEATURE (2-Blu-ray set includes BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1925) and STRIKE (1924))

11/13 - THE SELZNICK COLLECTION (5-disc DVD or Blu-ray set includes NOTHING SACRED (1937), A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1932), A STAR IS BORN (1937), BIRD OF PARADISE (1932), and LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY (1936))

From KINO LORBER:

11/6 - KHODORKOVSKY (2012, Cyril Tuschi, DVD only)

From REDEMPTION FILMS:

11/20 - THE PETE WALKER COLLECTION (4-Blu-ray set includes HOUSE OF WHIPCORD (1974), DIE SCREAMING MARIANNE (1971), THE COMEBACK (1978), and SCHIZO (1976))
[first time ever on Blu-ray! SCHIZO also available as a separate DVD]

From HORIZON MOVIES:

11/20 - THEY'RE OUT OF THE BUSINESS (2011, Eric Schaeffer & Donal Lardner Ward, DVD only)

[Forrest Taft]

Very exited about the Early Fritz Lang set!

[andyli]

So the big title is DIE NIBELUNGEN then. Never thought I would be seeing Fritz Lang's HARAKIRI, though.

[Drucker]

So the big title is DIE NIBELUNGEN then. Never thought I would be seeing Fritz Lang's HARAKIRI, though.

The big title was Kubrick, this is a new set of announcements.

Bummer about the Langs being on DVD only, but still very tempting!

[andyli]

How can the big title be Kubrick when it was announced back in March?

[Calvin]

It wasn't announced back in March. It was leaked on Facebook by Indian Relay, who they were working with to get The Seafarers.

[Calvin]

Breaking: we've just added a Blu-ray of D.W. Griffith's ABRAHAM LINCOLN (restored and remastered in HD for the first time ever) to our release slate on 11/13. Take that, Mr. Spielberg!

[Calvin]

Fear and Desire will include The Seafarers. Kino "could not come to mutually agreeable terms with the owner/licensor of those shorts." (Warner, I believe?)

[knives]

I know that The Flying Padre at least is RKO.

[Forrest Taft]

I wonder if the features from the Seafarers DVD will be ported over (probably not): a commentary track with Keith Gordon and Roger Avary, and an interview with Katharina Kubrick and Roger Avary.

[Calvin]

Warner have said on Facebook that they don't own the Kubrick shorts as "only RKO shorts retained in [their] library date post-1955. All the others were sold off prior to the sale of the main library."