Kino Lorber Studio Classics

[Beloved Aunt]

Kino Lorber releasing This World, Then the Fireworks-- oh boy, can't wait for this insane pulpfest to finally find an audience

It's been a few years, has this film....found a bigger audience? I wish Criterion would release this with a nice crapload of extras, but it is wall-to-wall motiveless depravity, I can't see them touching it. Maybe another actually worthy label might (i.e. not Kino)? It does, currently......have its fans, it just also has even more people who hate it and think it's beyond the pale! The film could conceivably have a bigger audience/profile and i think it merits it, but I'm also pretty sure that the ratio of enthusiasts to those who greatly dislike it will always be pretty much the same. it's no Silence of the Lambs, Psycho, fun and sympathetic serial killer stuff, which I think is probably as much the source of its detractors ire as anything else. I loved it though, esp. the amazing score and amazing cinematography

[CSM126]

The only way Criterion would ever release that godawful thing is if they finally decide “maybe Norman Mailer shouldn’t be the absolute worst filmmaker we’ve ever wasted resources on”. I would watch Maidstone a thousand times before I’d watch This World, etc. a second time. Hell, I’d fall on a sword first.

[Beloved Aunt]

See, you've proven me right! Some--a lot of--people just utterly despise it! Filmmaking prowess be damned, you're getting stuck in the Norman Mailer section! So I'm thinking maybe that might scare off most, if not all, of the truly reputable labels. I've gotta hope there's someone in charge who likes it and doesn't care. Which...could be...?

[CSM126]

Filmmaking prowess would have been welcome but was completely and utterly lacking on every level. This World is hack work in every regard.

But hey, every film has its fans. I’m one of those kooky people who holds Showgirls up as a masterpiece. Diff’rent strokes and all.

[dwk]

Death Machine (1994) was today's announcement.

[John Cope]

Kino Lorber releasing This World, Then the Fireworks-- oh boy, can't wait for this insane pulpfest to finally find an audience

It's been a few years, has this film....found a bigger audience? I wish Criterion would release this with a nice crapload of extras, but it is wall-to-wall motiveless depravity, I can't see them touching it. Maybe another actually worthy label might (i.e. not Kino)? It does, currently......have its fans, it just also has even more people who hate it and think it's beyond the pale! The film could conceivably have a bigger audience/profile and i think it merits it, but I'm also pretty sure that the ratio of enthusiasts to those who greatly dislike it will always be pretty much the same. it's no Silence of the Lambs, Psycho, fun and sympathetic serial killer stuff, which I think is probably as much the source of its detractors ire as anything else. I loved it though, esp. the amazing score and amazing cinematography

And one of the greatest opening sequences in any movie ever. Perfectly articulates in succinct terms the unique amoral sociopathy of Jim Thompson's characters.

Also, Death Machine is fantastic. One of the greatest B movies of the 90's. Possibly ever. Should have been the start of a sterling career for Stephen Norrington; instead it was the peak. Should have been the start of something for Ely Pouget but (Red Shoe Diaries episode notwithstanding) evidently not.

[colinr0380]

Definitely second on Death Machine. Its so wonderfully over the top in its tongue in cheek take on Aliens. I particularly love the guy on the level of a Vasquez from Aliens unloading one of those giant pulse rifle-style guns in a glorious display of ultraviolence, then turning around and knocking himself out by hitting his head on the top of the doorframe!

I quite like Blade (especially the opening bloody nightclub scene) but Norrington was one of those directors really damaged by the transition away from practical effects to CGI which looked barely passable at the time, and which has really dated now, so that damages a lot of his other films.

[JSC]

Coming in May. This looks like something up my street.

Soundies have been called the music videos of the 1940s, but that doesn’t begin to describe their cultural importance. It’s true that they feature a remarkable range of talent, from big-band luminaries like Duke Ellington and Count Basie to then-emerging stars like Doris Day and Ricardo Montalban, and lesser-known artists of the American nightclub circuit. But Soundies are also a rich, largely overlooked chronicle of American popular culture during and just after World War II. Produced for coin-operated jukeboxes in neighborhood bars and taverns, Soundies have an uncanny way of revealing what Americans were thinking about topics that weren’t discussed openly, from sexuality to ethnicity and race. Curated by Susan Delson, author of Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen: One Dime at a Time, this four-disc collection presents a diverse sampling of 200 shorts—jazz, country-western, folk, and the boogie woogie roots of rock ’n’ roll—newly restored from 35mm and 16mm materials preserved by the Library of Congress and other archives. Never have so many Soundies been celebrated in one collection, or presented with such care: thematically organized, accompanied by on-screen introductions and a booklet of essays, photos, and credits.
Product Extras :

Illustrated 44-page booklet with essays by Susan Delson,Ellen C. Scott, and Mark Cantor

Filmed introductions by series curator Susan Delson,with Ina Archer, Media Conservationist, National Museum of African American History and Culture

“Inside the Panoram,” a filmed interview with Mark Cantor, author of The Soundies: A History and Catalog of Jukebox Film Shorts of the 1940s

“From the Vaults,” a filmed interview with Matt Barton (Curator of Recording Sound at the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center at the Library of Congress) and Mike Mashon (Head of the Moving Image Section of the Library of Congress)
Publish Date : 2023-05-02

[captveg]

More OOP based on previously being in the "While Supplies Last" sale and now no longer appearing on the website:

Ambush Bay (1966) (BD) (DVD previously OOP)
Boomerang! (1947) (BD)
The Bounty Man (1972) (DVD)
Cops and Robbers (1973) (DVD) (BD still available)
Crazylegs Crane (The DePatie-Freleng Collection) (1978) (BD) (DVD previously OOP)
Cry of the City (1948) (BD)
D.O.A. (1988) (BD) (500 copies re-print)
Duets (2000) (DVD) & (BD)
Eleni (1985) (BD) (DVD previously OOP)
Gone Fishin' (1997) (BD) (500 copies re-print)
Loophole (1981) (BD) (DVD previously OOP)
The Rosary Murders (1987) (BD) (DVD previously OOP)
Steaming (1985) (BD) (Scorpion)
Stella (1990) (DVD) & (BD)
Table for Five (1983) (BD)
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972) (DVD) (BD previously OOP)

[M Sanderson]

Definitely second on Death Machine. Its so wonderfully over the top in its tongue in cheek take on Aliens. I particularly love the guy on the level of a Vasquez from Aliens unloading one of those giant pulse rifle-style guns in a glorious display of ultraviolence, then turning around and knocking himself out by hitting his head on the top of the doorframe!

I quite like Blade (especially the opening bloody nightclub scene) but Norrington was one of those directors really damaged by the transition away from practical effects to CGI which looked barely passable at the time, and which has really dated now, so that damages a lot of his other films.

agreed. an amazingly visualised hand crafted film. there's a Sam Raimi feel, especially in there astonishing use of camera movement. Tsukamoto, too. But also in the texture, colour, lighting and widescreen compositions, there's a '90s Tony Scott vibe. Glad to see such enthusiasm for Death Machine, which really impresses in widescreen, in the longer cut. I like to watch it with Tony Maylam's Split Second, which Norrington did some work on, as well as Russell Mulcahy's Silent Trigger, not a sci fi film but rather an existential sniper movie, but has a similar, derelict, strangely coloured appearance.

I revisited Blade on 4k recently and the integrity of the image is really compromised, in the reliance on computer generated imagery. The practical beauty almost completely absent.

[M Sanderson]

Kino Lorber releasing This World, Then the Fireworks-- oh boy, can't wait for this insane pulpfest to finally find an audience

It's been a few years, has this film....found a bigger audience? I wish Criterion would release this with a nice crapload of extras, but it is wall-to-wall motiveless depravity, I can't see them touching it. Maybe another actually worthy label might (i.e. not Kino)? It does, currently......have its fans, it just also has even more people who hate it and think it's beyond the pale! The film could conceivably have a bigger audience/profile and i think it merits it, but I'm also pretty sure that the ratio of enthusiasts to those who greatly dislike it will always be pretty much the same. it's no Silence of the Lambs, Psycho, fun and sympathetic serial killer stuff, which I think is probably as much the source of its detractors ire as anything else. I loved it though, esp. the amazing score and amazing cinematography

And one of the greatest opening sequences in any movie ever. Perfectly articulates in succinct terms the unique amoral sociopathy of Jim Thompson's characters.

Also, Death Machine is fantastic. One of the greatest B movies of the 90's. Possibly ever. Should have been the start of a sterling career for Stephen Norrington; instead it was the peak. Should have been the start of something for Ely Pouget but (Red Shoe Diaries episode notwithstanding) evidently not.

agreed, she's very appealing and striking. I do like the longer cut of Death Machine which has a fascinating reveal regarding her character's past.

[Maltic]

Coming May 16th on Blu-ray!

https://kinolorber.com/product/hustle

HUSTLE (1975)
• Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Critics Alain Silver and James Ursini, Authors of WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ROBERT ALDRICH?: HIS LIFE AND HIS FILMS
• Theatrical Trailer
• 8 TV Spots
• Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase
• Optional English Subtitles


Is this the first new Ursini/Silver commentary in, like, 10 years? Hats off, Kino.

[Fred Holywell]

Is this the first new Ursini/Silver commentary in, like, 10 years? Hats off, Kino.

They also recorded a new commentary for Imprint's Burn! (Queimada!) Blu-ray, released Dec '22.

[swo17]

And of course already OOP

[pistolwink]

Coming May 16th on Blu-ray!

https://kinolorber.com/product/hustle

HUSTLE (1975)
• Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Critics Alain Silver and James Ursini, Authors of WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ROBERT ALDRICH?: HIS LIFE AND HIS FILMS
• Theatrical Trailer
• 8 TV Spots
• Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase
• Optional English Subtitles


Is this the first new Ursini/Silver commentary in, like, 10 years? Hats off, Kino.

This is a very, very good movie made from a somewhat mediocre script. A good test case for the value of the director, in fact.

[beamish14]

Coming May 16th on Blu-ray!

https://kinolorber.com/product/hustle

HUSTLE (1975)
• Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Critics Alain Silver and James Ursini, Authors of WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ROBERT ALDRICH?: HIS LIFE AND HIS FILMS
• Theatrical Trailer
• 8 TV Spots
• Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase
• Optional English Subtitles


Is this the first new Ursini/Silver commentary in, like, 10 years? Hats off, Kino.

This is a very, very good movie made from a somewhat mediocre script. A good test case for the value of the director, in fact.

Kino has done solid work with Aldrich’s catalog

[captveg]

More OOP based on previously being in the "While Supplies Last" sale and now no longer appearing on the website:

The Knack... and How to Get It (1965) (BD)
The Rich Man's Wife (1996) (BD) (DVD previously OOP)

[ryannichols7]

The Knack... and How to Get It (1965) (BD)

wonder who's taking the rights to this one in the US now, fairly big title I'd say and one I can't see being off market too long

[soundchaser]

The Knack... and How to Get It (1965) (BD)

wonder who's taking the rights to this one in the US now, fairly big title I'd say and one I can't see being off market too long

Seems like the kind of thing (along with other Woodfall titles) that would be right up Indicator’s alley.

[beamish14]

The Knack... and How to Get It (1965) (BD)

wonder who's taking the rights to this one in the US now, fairly big title I'd say and one I can't see being off market too long

Seems like the kind of thing (along with other Woodfall titles) that would be right up Indicator’s alley.

I was thinking that as well. Bed-Sitting Room is one that’s bounced out of print, too

[ryannichols7]

The Knack... and How to Get It (1965) (BD)

wonder who's taking the rights to this one in the US now, fairly big title I'd say and one I can't see being off market too long

Seems like the kind of thing (along with other Woodfall titles) that would be right up Indicator’s alley.

Indicator collaborating with the BFI to bring the Woodfall titles stateside would be super cool...now that's an idea right there. KLSC did a good job bringing a lot of the Ealing titles out but we know there's a lot of history and context they left out. Indicator would be up to the challenge for sure, and even just porting over the BFI discs (with their own additions) would be excellent

[dwk]

Criterion has the Woodfall titles that are in the BFI boxset.

[Crimlaw25]

Hopefully, Criterion will someday release the remainder of the Woodfall films that have never been released by BFI, specifically, a restored The Charge of the Light Brigade and…highly unlikely…Laughter in the Dark, neither of which have had a proper blu ray release.

[Maltic]

This is a very, very good movie made from a somewhat mediocre script. A good test case for the value of the director, in fact.

Sounds great. I haven't seen it, but I'm getting fairly strong Late Style vibes.

[ryannichols7]

a date for a big one...

Coming May 30th on 4KUHD!
kinolorber.com/product/the-ni…

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955)
• Brand NEW HDR/Dolby Vision Master
• NEW Audio Commentary by Novelist & Critic Tim Lucas
• NEW Interviews with Filmmaker Ernest Dickerson, Actress Kathy Garver and Artist Joe Coleman
• And More

cover art is very bad though