Vinegar Syndrome and Their Partner Labels

[Peacock]

Has anyone seen the Wes Craven porno before?

[ryannichols7]

this month in "has a region B release already but is now out here" are Berberian Sound Studio and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Creepy

[domino harvey]

Looks like Icarus’ sales are down (despite being the only label releasing stuff I want from this collective), Allegret’s Chatterley only gets 500 copies w/slip

[swo17]

I very nearly preordered the Maiku Hama trilogy from Third Window the other day. I might opt for this version instead

[Peacock]

Great to see The Sadist back in print thanks to AGFA.

[yoloswegmaster]

They are releasing Ngai Choi Lam's Men from the Gutter, so this month is far from a travesty.

Looks like it is the first title of a new line:

This month, we’re delighted to debut a new series from VSA: Shaw-Sploitation, which will feature rare and wild action and thriller features from Hong Kong’s unrivaled purveyors of some of the wildest Asian genre cinema ever produced: the Shaw Brothers! Kicking off the line is our gorgeous new restoration of director Ngai Choi Lam's (Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky) gritty and violent cop thriller MEN FROM THE GUTTER (1983), which offers nearly non-stop action, jaw-dropping stunt work, and bloody shootouts. Stay tuned for much more Shaw-Sploitation to come!

Wonder if this means we will see Hong Kong Godfather be a part of this line.

[swo17]

Orbit is advertising a Vinegar Syndrome peace deal, so I'm wondering if VS have reversed some of their policies?

I'm just noticing the Second Run edition of Interrogation is now available at Orbit. Did that come out of this "peace deal"?

[ryannichols7]

Orbit is advertising a Vinegar Syndrome peace deal, so I'm wondering if VS have reversed some of their policies?

I'm just noticing the Second Run edition of Interrogation is now available at Orbit. Did that come out of this "peace deal"?

I show in my records that I purchased it from Orbit on 27 March, so it's been up a good little while!

[swo17]

Huh. I'm pretty sure there was a time when it wasn't available, at least around when it first came out

[TechnicolorAcid]

Flash Pre-Orders Are Up:
The Garbage Pail Kids Movies (4K VSU)
Timecrimes (4K VS)
Shaw Scares Volume 1 (VS containing Sex Beyond the Grave, Hell Has No Boundaries, and Haunted Tales)
At Close Range (4K Cinematographe)
The Films of Hisaysu Sato (Pink Line containing An Aria on Gazes and Love - Zero = Infinity)
Reviver 1 (Part of a new sublabel dedicated to releasing lost films that were discovered in their archive)

Secret Title Hints:

And that, still, isn’t even the half of it, as this package will also secure your copies of both VS Secret Releases, the identities of which will remain shrouded in mystery until the moment the Black Friday Sale goes live on November 28th. But we can guarantee that this set of surprises will offer the worldwide 4K UHD debuts of two twisted takes on terror from a set of directors who have both achieved legendary status for their distinctive takes on the genre, both from exclusive new restorations and in their most extensively extras-packed editions ever.

[beamish14]

Amazing that they snagged Sean Penn and Christopher Walken for At Close Range. Screenwriter Nick Kazan has never appeared on any release for this, but he’s on the commentary for his film Fallen. I wonder if he’s unhappy with what James Foley did with his work

[TechnicolorAcid]

Pretty decent lineup this month for the Partner Labels with highlights being:

An AGFA set which contains the Hellish children’s film, Fun in Ballon Land and the first ever US Blu-Ray of an Aleksandr Rou film (Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors, albeit from a VHS scan)

Jim McKay’s Girls Town

Martin Roumagnac starring Marlene Dietrich and Jean Gabin

A Kani Double Feature of Yoshimitsu Morita films (Pink Cut and Top Stripper)

Masayuki Suo‘s Shall We Dance?

Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers

[CSM126]

I gave into perverse curiosity and ordered Reviver. I assume this will be something along the lines of the stuff in the Lost Picture Show.

[What A Disgrace]

Some people have done some fishing and decided that the Reviver title is Boots and the Preacher, by J.G. Patterson Jr. He acted in Herschel Gordon Lewis's Moonshine Mountain and William Grefe's Whisky Mountain, the latter of which I found to be genuinely well crafted for a drive in flick (it was also released posthumously).

[swo17]

Mélusine is also releasing Behind the Green Door in what they're calling their most elaborate release yet

[domino harvey]

I have no idea how to find their DVDs on their website but Martin Roumagnac is now Icarus’ second recent French upgrade from DVD a few years back and the similar cover design on the DVDs tells me these were probably part of a series— anyone know what else we might be able to expect next from previous releases?

[swo17]

I have no idea how to find their DVDs on their website but Martin Roumagnac is now Icarus’ second recent French upgrade from DVD a few years back and the similar cover design on the DVDs tells me these were probably part of a series— anyone know what else we might be able to expect next from previous releases?

When I search their website for Blu-rays tagged as "France" it turns up these releases that are on the VS website:

The Human Pyramid
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Looking for Robert (an extra on Route One/USA)
Martin Roumagnac
The Punishment
Six in Paris

And these that aren't:

Alain Resnais: Five Short Films
Early Short Films of the French New Wave
Olivia
The Owl's Legacy

[domino harvey]

Thanks for that, but I meant that these two recent upgrades were released on DVD previously in similar packaging, so I was trying to see what else came out from them on DVD during this wave a few years back (if anything), which is hard to find elsewhere because no one really tracks DVD releases anymore anyways

[MichaelB]

Thanks for that, but I meant that these two recent upgrades were released on DVD previously in similar packaging, so I was trying to see what else came out from them on DVD during this wave a few years back (if anything), which is hard to find elsewhere because no one really tracks DVD releases anymore anyways

Wikipedia used to be good for that until an idiot calling himself wooden_superman launched a one-man campaign to get rid of "catalogue pages".

It then turned out that this was because he wanted to launch his own home video catalogue wiki, but this fizzled out pretty quickly, no doubt after he belatedly realised just how much work it involved - but of course nobody's going to reinstate the Wikipedia pages for fear of them being summarily deleted again.

What's really stupid is that even the more information-intensive pages can't have amounted to more than a few kilobytes.

[swo17]

Thanks for that, but I meant that these two recent upgrades were released on DVD previously in similar packaging, so I was trying to see what else came out from them on DVD during this wave a few years back (if anything), which is hard to find elsewhere because no one really tracks DVD releases anymore anyways

I think this search query might give you what you want, although some of the hits are irrelevant

[domino harvey]

Thanks! Julietta would appear likely for upgrade considering the branding

Also, never even heard of this filmed interview with Godard

In 2009, in a small theater in Geneva, Switzerland, the film directors Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard met for an unusual, surprisingly intimate and sometimes contentious dialogue with each other in front of a live audience. Luckily for us, it was filmed. Ophuls' film THE SORROW AND THE PITY triggers Godard to discuss his personal and fragmented childhood memories about his escape to Switzerland during World War, while Ophuls recalls the controversy surrounding the release of his film in France. MARCEL OPHULS AND JEAN-LUC GODARD: THE MEETING IN ST-GERVAIS gives us the unique opportunity to spend time with an encounter between two of the most influential and idiosyncratic post-war film directors. Godard and Ophuls are in the twilight of their years, but they remain provocative, sharp, and as uncompromising as ever.

[pianocrash]

Mélusine is also releasing Behind the Green Door in what they're calling their most elaborate release yet

Via Distribpix, the entire Mitchell Brothers catalog has been acquired by Melusine & is being prepped for eventual release, which would include (at the very least) Resurrection of Eve (1973), Sodom & Gomorrah (1975), & The Autobiography Of A Flea (1976), as well as, one would assume, Behind The Green Door 2 (1986).

[beamish14]

Mélusine is also releasing Behind the Green Door in what they're calling their most elaborate release yet

Via Distribpix, the entire Mitchell Brothers catalog has been acquired by Melusine & is being prepped for eventual release, which would include (at the very least) Resurrection of Eve (1973), Sodom & Gomorrah (1975), & The Autobiography Of A Flea (1976), as well as, one would assume, Behind The Green Door 2 (1986).

I really hope they’re making some documentaries on them or at least interviewing their biographers. Incredibly fascinating men

[swo17]

We've produced a brand new, 40 min documentary exploring the lives and careers of The Mitchells

[pianocrash]

As said, it looks like many supplements are/will being created for future releases, as The Rialto Report team (Ashley West, April Hall, et al) played a role in the acquisition deal.