Kino

[Adam X]

I was kind of hoping Kino'd include that doco as part of their new release.

Is there any benefit to picking up any other releases instead or as a supplement?

Further to the above suggestion, Kino's BD would appear to include everything on Mystic Fire's DVD & more. So that might cover it.

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

Zeitgeist/Kino has In the Mirror of Maya Deren on DVD which would compliment the set well.

This is one of my favorite documentaries and my favorite John Zorn score so I'd highly recommend this film as well. (Martina Kudlacek's subsequent film Notes On Marie Menken is on Icarus.)

[Roscoe]

I just saw the new restoration of MEPHISTO at Film Forum, from Kino. The picture looks great in all its 4K restorationness. Alas, they've decided to use a soundtrack that eliminates the voice of Klaus Maria Brandauer, evidently the original Hungarian track dubbed by another actor.

It may not make a difference for everybody. For me, a longtime admirer of the film and the performance, the impact of the film was lessened significantly. I hope hope hope that Kino will be able to include the track with Brandauer's voice for the inevitable Blu-Ray. Looks like I'll be clinging to that old DVD.

[MichaelB]

That sounds even worse than Freddie Jones being dubbed into Italian for Fellini’s And the Ship Sails On, which plays infinitely better in English (as he’s the onscreen narrator), but sadly I’m not aware of any video release on any format that offers that option. (It played in English on its original UK theatrical release, which is how I saw it.)

As for Mephisto, I’ve never seen it in any language other than German. I appreciate that it’s a Hungarian film, and it probably plays OK like that to Hungarian viewers, but to anyone else it’s going to look bizarre in the extreme. Especially because, as you say, Brandauer’s voice is so essential to the impact of what is still one of the greatest pieces of screen acting I’ve ever seen.

[Mr Sausage]

That sounds even worse than Freddie Jones being dubbed into Italian for Fellini’s And the Ship Sails On, which plays infinitely better in English (as he’s the onscreen narrator), but sadly I’m not aware of any video release on any format that offers that option. (It played in English on its original UK theatrical release, which is how I saw it.)

Or Christopher Lee being dubbed by some random studio voice actor in The Whip and the Body--and into English no less, which makes it all the weirder. Always hampers my desire to revisit it.

[Roscoe]

On BluRay.com, it was confirmed that the upcoming Blu-Ray of MEPHISTO will include the Hungarian and the German tracks -- and I may be able to sleep soundly now. Curious as to why Film Forum ran the Hungarian track.

[Ribs]

Having seen the three of them I believe it’s due to the substantial amount of Hungarian audiences going to see these - at all three screenings there were couples/groups speaking in Hungarian in front of or behind me in line or in the theater itself, and that audience doesn’t exactly get ample opportunity to see films in their native language

[Glowingwabbit]

This is exciting news from the Kino Insider on blu-ray.com (very minor overlap with some of the Solax films included in the Flicker Alley set)

Coming to DVD and Blu-ray March 17th from Kino Classics!

Additional releases in our PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FILMMAKERS line!

Alice Guy-Blaché Volume 1: The Gaumont Years (DVD and Blu-ray)

SPECIAL FEATURES:
• Booklet essay by film historian Kim Tomadjoglou
• Restoration samples

CONTENTS INCLUDE:
At the Hypnotist’s (1898)
Wonderful Absinthe (1899)
At the Photographer’s (1900)
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy (1900)
Turn-of-the-Century Surgery (1900)
Midwife to the Upper Class (1902)
Alice Guy Films a “Phonoscène” (1905)
The Results of Feminism (1906)
The Drunken Mattress (1906)
The Hierarchy of Love (1906)
Madame Has Her Cravings (1906)
A Sticky Woman (1906)
The Rolling Bed (1907)
The Glue (1907) and more!

Alice Guy-Blaché Volume 2: The Solax Years (DVD and Blu-ray)

SPECIAL FEATURES
• Booklet essay by film historian Kim Tomadjoglou

BLU-RAY CONTENTS (DVD contents TBD):
Starting Something (1911)
Parson Sue (1911)
Broken Oath (1912)
A Comedy of Errors (1912)
The Detective’s Dog (1912)
Frozen on Love’s Trail (1912)
The Girl in the Armchair (1912)
His Double (1912)
Making an American Citizen (1912)
A Man’s a Man (1912)
The Sewer (1912)
The Strike (1912)
A Terrible Lesson (1912)
Cousins of Sherlocko (1913)
Dick Whittington and His Cat (1913)
Officer Henderson (1913)
The Thief (1913)
Mr. Bruce Wins at Cards (1914)

The Intrigue: The Forgotten Films of Writer & Director Julia Crawford Ivers (DVD and Blu-ray)

SPECIAL FEATURES
• Audio commentary on The Intrigue by film historian Anthony Slide
• Booklet essay by film historian April Miller

CONTENTS INCLUDE
The Intrigue (1916, 64 min.)
The Majesty of the Law (1916, 13 min.)
A Son of Erin (1916, 56 min.)
Ben Blair (1916, 64 min.)

[agnamaracs]

Kino last June:

No plans of releasing "Lightning Over Braddock" on disc.

Kino this March:

For five decades Tony Buba has chronicled the industrial decline of his hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania with bleakly disarming humor and a boldly self-reflexive style. Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films are proud to present a two-disc collection of his newly restored films starting with his 1970s shorts and working its way through his feature-length masterpiece Lightning Over Braddock: A Rust Bowl Fantasy (1988) and on into his essential recent work. In Lightning Over Braddock, Buba plays himself as a struggling director trying to make a feature with narcissistic conman Sal (subject of the short Sweet Sal), but never manages to leave Braddock, where factories keep closing despite the heroic efforts of local unions. With its mix of politically potent documentary portraiture and hilarious comic re-enactments, it’s an uncategorizable work of art that has had a vast, if underground, influence on the future of documentary, anticipating the work of everyone from Michael Moore to The Daily Show.

DISC 1
Lightning Over Braddock (1988)
To My Family (1972)
J. Roy: New and Used Furniture (1974)
Shutdown (1975)
Betty’s Corner Café (1976)
Sweet Sal (1979)
Washing Walls with Mrs. G. (1980)
Home Movies (1980)
Homage to a Mill Town (1980)

DISC 2
Mill Hunk Herald (1981)
Peabody 7 Friends (1983)
Voices from a Steeltown (1983)
Braddock Food Bank (1985)
Birthday Party (1985)
Fade Out (1998)
Year on the Throne (2007)
Ode to a Steeltown (2007)
Stigmata (2008)
“The Fall” 1980 (2009)
The Cot Club: Braddock Hospital (2012)
Pirozzi’s Barber Shop (2017)
Welcome to Sgambati’s (2017)
The Barber of New Kensington (2019)
The Last Pawn Shop in Braddock (2019)
Making Soppressata with Dom and the Guys (2019)
Pasta Lesson: A Sunday in Rabatana (2019)
Reflexions (2019)

Special Features:
-Lightning Over Braddock audio commentary by director Tony Buba and film critic Nick Pinkerton
-*Booklet essay by film critic and programmer Steve Macfarlane
-Optional English SDH subtitles for Lightning Over Braddock

[Saturnome]

Alice Guy Films a “Phonoscène” (1905)

It would be great to have some actual phonoscènes, too !
And good news if this pioneer project is now a line, like they did in the DVD era.

[captveg]

Kino Classics / Kino Lorber April releases per KL Insider:

April 7
Paracelsus (1943) - Kino Classics
The Cold Blue (2018)/Memphis Belle (1944) - Kino Lorber

April 14
The Golem (1920) - Kino Classics

April 21
The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927) - Kino Classics

[Emak-Bakia]

Maya Deren, Alice Guy, and Tony Buba sets within the span of a month? Kino is killing it! Buba's Braddock Films site has stated for a while (maybe a year?) that Lighting and the shorts were coming from Kino, so it has been no secret, but I was starting to think it would never come! Mill Hunk Herald is a perfect film and is alone worth the cost of the set.

[onedimension]

Any word on the Deren disc yet?

[Glowingwabbit]

Any word on the Deren disc yet?

It comes out this week...?

[therewillbeblus]

I think it technically came out yesterday, mine is arriving early next week though amazon currently has it in stock on March 4.

[onedimension]

I know it came out yesterday, I mean, has anyone received/screened it, or seen any reviews online? DVDBeaver hasn't put anything up.. Just wondering about the quality of the materials and transfers

[domino harvey]

Anyone ordering this might want to order it direct from Kino since they have a sale going right now on a bunch of other titles (~$10 for Christmas in July, the Good Fairy, and Buffet froid, among others) and free shipping at $50

[Glowingwabbit]

Anyone ordering this might want to order it direct from Kino since they have a sale going right now on a bunch of other titles (~$10 for Christmas in July, the Good Fairy, and Buffet froid, among others) and free shipping at $50

Thanks. I went this route and canceled my Amazon order since it's being delayed anyway and this helps me get to $50 threshold.

[Emak-Bakia]

Watched the first few films in the Solax set last night. The first one, Starting Something, has intermittent Lobster watermarks in the bottom right corner! Really surprised to see this practice usually reserved for the lowliest of bargain basement, PD discs on this Kino blu. I'm not under the illusion that Kino have a flawless track record, but still very disappointed by this unnecessary distraction. Hopefully that's the only film in the set marred by such a watermark.

To look at it from a different perspective, though: that film has a prominent Solax logo as part of the mise en scene. With the digital Lobster watermark, it's like we've got copyright strategies from a century apart captured in the same image!

[What A Disgrace]

Mambety's Hyenas and Sontag's Duet for Cannibals are getting Blu-rays in May.

[Glowingwabbit]

Mambety's Hyenas and Sontag's Duet for Cannibals are getting Blu-rays in May.

Looking forward to both of those. I really hope Cisse's Yeelen gets a release in the near future.

I found these specs on fb for those releases:

Hyenes:
*New 2K Restoration by Thelma Film AG with the support of Cinematheque suisse, at Eclair Cinema, from the original negative
*Audio commentary by film scholar Boukary Sawadogo, Ph.D.
*Booklet with introduction by culture writer Rooney Elmi and interview with director Djibril Diop Mambéty (Blu-ray only)

Duet for Cannibals:
*New 2K restoration by the Swedish Film Institute
*Audio commentary by artist and writer Wayne Koestenbaum
*Booklet essay by film critic Adam Nayman (Blu-ray only)
*Interview with Agnès Varda and Susan Sontag (1969)

[senseabove]

I'm hoping this isn't a one-off and means a continuing deal for distributing Metrograph's future releases, including the new restoration of Made in Hong Kong, which I didn't get to see thanks to coronal cancellations: https://pictures.metrograph.com/

[Glowingwabbit]

I'm hoping this isn't a one-off and means a continuing deal for distributing Metrograph's future releases, including the new restoration of Made in Hong Kong, which I didn't get to see thanks to coronal cancellations: https://pictures.metrograph.com/

They also announced The Competition (Simon, 2016) and The Raft (Lindeen, 2018) from Metrograph in the same post, so it might be an ongoing deal.

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

I'm hoping this isn't a one-off and means a continuing deal for distributing Metrograph's future releases, including the new restoration of Made in Hong Kong, which I didn't get to see thanks to coronal cancellations: https://pictures.metrograph.com/

This restoration is out in Hong Kong if you don't want to wait to see if Kino will get around to it.

[L.A.]

The Intrigue: The Forgotten Films of Writer & Director Julia Crawford Ivers (DVD and Blu-ray)

SPECIAL FEATURES
• Audio commentary on The Intrigue by film historian Anthony Slide
• Booklet essay by film historian April Miller

CONTENTS INCLUDE
The Intrigue (1916, 64 min.)
The Majesty of the Law (1916, 13 min.)
A Son of Erin (1916, 56 min.)
Ben Blair (1916, 64 min.)

CineSavant.