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[swo17]

I must concede I'm going off secondary sources for there being a 92 minute version

[Aunt Peg]

There's nothing about Kino that would suggest they wouldn't release Pretty Baby.

Somebody asked them on Blu Ray Forum if they would release the film and they indicated that they would but also indicated that it has not been offered to them.

[jazzo]

JB Hi-Fi are having a 20% off movies sale.

92JBFRENZYJUL gets you an additional 10% off, though that ends soon.

I ordered the Jim Sheridan: Four Irish Films box set, and with shipping, that came to $90, Australian, which is about $80 Canadian.

Thinking about doing a second order for China Gate and I Married A Monster From Outer Space.

[therewillbeblus]

Some of the Imprint releases also have a B2G1 deal on top of the 20%

[swo17]

Finding deals at JB Hi-Fi won't earn you a mug though

[Maltic]

JB seem to be sending me the four discs I ordered in May one-by-one.

So far, I've received only Breakdown and had to pay VAT + handling by customs for it alone = 3 x the price of the disc.

[Quote Perf Unquote]

JB seem to be sending me the four discs I ordered in May one-by-one.

So far, I've received only Breakdown and had to pay VAT + handling by customs for it alone = 3 x the price of the disc.

What country are you in?

[Maltic]

What country are you in?

Fair question - Denmark

[Ribs]

Imprint has shared a new stock update (all figures of course refer to their own store, the titles should continue to be available from the handful of other retailers as time continues on):

Copies left:
Directed by Jim Sheridan - 67
The Long Ships - 21
Julius Caesar - 97
A Night to Remmerb - 32
After Dark: Neo Noir Volume 1 - 44
Bloody Sunday - 13
The Brotherhodd - 24
Cutter's Way - 41
The Osterman Weekend - 47
Johnny Got A Gun - 10
Conquest of Space - 56
Marooned - 63

OOP
Damn the Defiant!
Barabbas
The Warriors
Across 110th Street
Last Train from Gun Hill
The Naked Jungle
The Out-of-Towners
Ned Kelly

[therewillbeblus]

Holding out for that FCE Cutter's Way, but wild that Barabbas is already OOP

[swo17]

Not even Dad movies are safe!

[hearthesilence]

I wonder if FCE will license Imprint's commentaries? It's pretty rare for AD's and UPM's to get interviewed for commentaries, but it's not a bad idea - a UPM would know how the show was run on a micro-level and AD's would need to know everything that's happening on set, so it could be a level of detail people aren't used to in a commentary. (Assuming they can still remember it all.)

[M Sanderson]

Got to say, what consistently exciting film choices by Imprint.

I’m all in for Blue Chips, North Dallas 40, Molly Maguires, Whore, After Dark Neo Noir (for After Dark, My Sweet, One False Move & Rush only), The Beast (of War).

Previously I’ve bought Stir of Echoes & Night Falls on Manhattan, not the easiest films to find.

Makes you wish they had indicator’s superb encoding and generous business model (reasonable pricing, releasing standard editions once LE’s have sold out, incl box sets). But as with TT, if you really want it you’ll try & buy it before it sells out.

[L.A.]

Wonder which version Ken Russell’s Whore has.

Beaver.

[therewillbeblus]

I recently watched Whore and hesitated to say anything about it because I don't usually find eviscerating films to be very fruitful unless there are specific thematic hypocrisies that disturb me. I'll just say that on a purely cinematic level, I thought it was one of the worst films I've ever seen. I usually like both Ken and Theresa Russell, but it's poorly made and is built around a grating central perf. Even if some of this is purposefully hammy, I refuse to believe that it's this intentionally bad. Plenty of aspects that don't work about the performance and script are sources in their ironies, but some aren't, and the sincere points it's making underneath the satirical docudrama dressing consequently fall flat, instead of becoming elevated by these devices. I typically find even the most boring media covering sex interesting from an academic or anthropological angle at least, but this was a big swing and a miss for me. Hopefully others who blind-bought it feel differently- I'd be interested in hearing an alternative perspective in its defense, even if I doubt that'll convince me to ever go back

[tolbs1010]

Considering blind buying The Music Of Chance based on some of the enthusiasm I've seen for it here and elsewhere. And because it looks like it is right in my wheelhouse thematically. It seems like the kind of obscure title that may not ever get a proper release here in the U.S. It's also nowhere to be found on any streaming outlet. Anyone else concur that it is unlikely to get a US release? The two Imprint titles I have purchased (The Winslow Boy and The Gambler) have both been disappointing visually, so I'm trying to justify an expensive blind buy.

Have to agree with twbb about Whore. One of Russell's worst. Has none of his usual visual flair and it's not even fun in a campy way.

[L.A.]

I WILL get Dersu Uzala as soon as it comes available to order from JB Hi-Fi.

[swo17]

To ALL our valued customers,

Unfortunately, three of our August 31st New Releases have been moved due to Production delays. The revised shipment date for the following three titles (and August Bundle) is now September 30th.

As noted on the Imprint website, Special Features are subject to change and as such, there has been amendments to the following titles which do not contain Special Features:

IMP3055
I AM THE LAW (IMPRINT COLLECTION #153)

IMP3057
STORM CENTER (IMPRINT COLLECTION #155)

IMP3058
GOLDEN BOY (IMPRINT COLLECTION #156)

As a goodwill gesture, we will be sending you a complimentary Imprint Films Mug to thank you for your patience and understanding.

Thank you for your support!
Imprint Films

Is this message saying that these titles will come out in September without special features? They don't presently appear on the site so I can't find clarification there

[Quote Perf Unquote]

Is the mug region-free?

[swo17]

All of their releases are so I'd be very surprised if the mug wasn't too

[Ribs]

November releases are Distant Thunder, City of God, Ladies and Gentleman the Fabulous Stains, School Ties, Directed by Roland Joffe (The Killing Fields (w The Killing Fields of Dr Haing S Ngor)/The Mission/Fat Man and Little Boy/City of Joy), and Neo Noir 2 (Blue Steel/Internal Affairs/Crimson Rivers/The Way of the Gun/The Yards/Narc).

Personally finding the line-up for the second noir set extremely compelling (Blue Steel a movie I have found utterly inexplicable in its lack of English label release (especially now that Criterion seems to have its foot in the door at Lionsgate) and reappraisal) - though I wish the addition of the extra disc for a second cut of The Yards didn’t result in them adding another $30 AUD to the price of the last volume.

[therewillbeblus]

Lumping The Yards in with the neo noirs in annoying for so many reasons, guess I’ll go with my original plan A and try to find the German blu

[beamish14]

I really hope we get an Eric Red commentary on Blue Steel. I love Internal Affairs

Glad that Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains is getting such a stacked HD release. I love films that show the lives of working musicians as being unglamorous, depressing slogs, and this one still feels years ahead of its time. The Sara Marcus interview should be great

[brundlefly]

Surprised Fabulous Stains took so long to get to blu considering its cult status, but I’m glad it’s coming with some critical extras beyond and including the new commentary. I’m not the best judge of these things but the 2008 Rhino DVD still looks really good to me so hopefully the existing master Imprint gets is a dandy.

The Adler commentary is a bit of a nothingburger – at one point he even breaks a long stretch of silence with, “I’m just watching the movie” – but the Lane/Dern track is valuable even if 80% of it consists of Look at How Young We Were and Hey Remember That Style/Technology. Lane was barely 15 (“I’m too young to have that much make-up on. My face doesn’t even hold it.”) and Dern 12 when this was shot and both their love of the project and the trauma from it are evident. Their voices – that commentary was recorded when Lane’s daughter was 15 – work for and against the film and filming. Even as they praise Adler, obviously questionable situations are quietly called out. Lane has a fully nude sex scene with Winstone and, after talking about how her mother demanded an optical zoom so she wasn’t so revealed (“What about this film is worthy of your ass?”), she’s reduced to a whisper. “I was so creeped… So freaked out.” About an arena scene filmed in front of an jeering crowd of recruited extras and early arriving Who fans, she says she still “won’t even karaoke.” As the actors point out, a lot of on-set behavior had changed even by 2008, but re-watching Stains so soon after having consumed The Rehearsal finale and Sarah Polley’s recent collection of essays may now have me cringing anytime I see an underage performer on-screen. This movie, so cynical about how the media chews up and spits out performers, was happy to be self-unaware.

(The biggest sad laugh in their commentary: In a scene where a washed-up Alice Cooper/Kiss-style singer talks about how sometimes you have to hit a woman, and how some women like that, it cuts to his incredulous audience and Lane says, “That was my [on-set] tutor!”)

It’s a movie started by women and finished by men and can feel that way. Caroline Coon’s choice of see-through blouses may have seemed assertive (and presaged Madonna) but the camera predictably leers. I wonder about the current status of Nancy Dowd (FTA, Slap Shot, Coming Home ), who was harassed off set and slapped a Smithee on her script credit – it looks like she’s pulled her name off more projects than not – and if she was available for this disc. I don’t think her name comes up once in either existent commentary. But Stains champion Sarah Jacobsen is mentioned on both, and it’s unfortunate her “Behind the Movie” (which includes Dowd) is missing from this package.

Whatever creative conflicts there were, it’s a justifiably loved flawed gem of a movie. Adler was less interested in making anything specifically feminist than using trends to comment on the opportunism cycle in the music industry, and as an industry insider certainly added perspective and connections. Despite the accelerated timeline of the movie, It’s agreeably raggedy. The nonprofessional actors and nascent stars lend to that. Characters breathe beyond practical dictate and easy caricature; Christine Lahti (a baby-faced young mom, here) is allowed to stretch a news soundbite into a moving monologue. Lane and Winstone never try to be likeable heroes, and the film’s compression lets their characters’ legitimate protestations pressure cook with a stew of adolescent impulses and fucked-up environments into something that feels more than merely righteous. And because its fate lay with the audience and not the filmmakers, women ultimately took this movie back.

[swo17]

The latest Imprint TV release is The Avengers: The Emma Peel Collection