Kino Lorber Studio Classics

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THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR (2004)
Audio Commentary by Writer/Director Tod Williams
Frame on the Wall - The Making of The Door in the Floor: Featurette
Novel to Screen - John Irving: Featurette
Anatomy of a Scene: Featurette
Theatrical Trailer
Optional English Subtitles

Color 111 Minutes 2.35:1 Rated R
Screen greats Jeff Bridges (Thunderbolt and Lightfoot) and Kim Basinger (No Mercy) give stellar performances in this spellbinding adaptation of John Irving’s best-selling novel, A Widow for One Year. The Door in the Floor chronicles one pivotal Long Island summer in the lives of famous children’s book author Ted Cole (Bridges) and his beautiful wife, Marion (Basinger). It is the provocative, tragicomic story of one couple’s emotional journey into a world of daring sensuality and stunning honesty. Co-starring Jon Foster (The Informers), Mimi Rogers (Gung Ho), Bijou Phillips (Bully) and a young Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value), writer/director Tod Williams’ film has been praised as “extraordinary in every way, from the pitch-perfect performances to the delicate handling of explosive subject matter” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone).

Coming January 6th. More Jeff Bridges.

[FrauBlucher]

More ho-hum

[hearthesilence]

Good lord why?

LOL, Kevin Spacey's making his comeback! He'll be in the Criterion Closet before you know it!

[Lowry_Sam]

He'll be in the Criterion Closet before you know it!

American Beauty, LA Confidential or Henry & June?

[Murdoch]

I was thinking K-Pax was for all the Aaron Paul completionists out there

[CSM126]

I remember thinking K-PAX was fine but it’s not crying out for a Blu-ray. Probably a cheap license though.

[Black Hat]

Good lord why?

LOL, Kevin Spacey's making his comeback! He'll be in the Criterion Closet before you know it!

oh wow, i just saw what you were referring to, this is all too much

[Maltic]

Good lord why?

LOL, Kevin Spacey's making his comeback! He'll be in the Criterion Closet before you know it!

In character as Frank Underwood.

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Coming Soon on Blu-ray!

House Calls (1978)
Walter Matthau | Glenda Jackson | Art Carney | Richard Benjamin | Dick O’Neill | Brad Dexter | Gordon Jump
Shot by David M. Walsh (Sleeper)
Music by Henry Mancini (The Pink Panther)
Directed by Howard Zieff (Private Benjamin)

[domino harvey]

Excellent!

House Calls (Howard Zieff 1978) If Glenda Jackson's earlier romantic comedy for Melvin Frank, A Touch of Class, briefly flirted with late-period screwball romances from the 40s, here she's on board for a flick bringing back the gentle sex comedies of the sixties within an era when anything goes. House Calls is a pleasant surprise: A good-hearted and likable embodiment of a subgenre rendered superfluous by the death of the Code. Jackson's divorcee and Walter Matthau's widower make a winning couple with their tinged barbs and adult expectations and the characters get into plenty of zany situations that could stand with the best of their antecedents-- the Code-mocking "One foot on the floor" scene is as good as anything in any sixties sex comedy, though it could never have existed in one! Art Carney also gives a fine comedic supporting performance as a senile Chief of Staff overseeing Matthau and company-- it's a solid comic role that somehow avoids all opportunities for maudlin emotion by never succumbing to emotion in the first place! Though I'd never heard of it before, apparently the film was a huge hit when it first came out (and even inspired a long-running TV series), and it's easy to see why, as it's all quite charming

[Lowry_Sam]

LOL, Kevin Spacey's making his comeback! He'll be in the Criterion Closet before you know it!

5 films in post production in 2025 by directors (including himself) who have no reputable directing credits under their belt looks more like manic behaviour that will end in ridicule rather than praise. This one in particular looks ripe for scorn:

Gore
A young man spends a summer in Italy where he meets his idol, Gore Vidal, who teaches him about life, love, and politics.

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5 films in post production in 2025 by directors (including himself) who have no reputable directing credits under their belt looks more like manic behaviour that will end in ridicule rather than praise. This one in particular looks ripe for scorn:

Gore
A young man spends a summer in Italy where he meets his idol, Gore Vidal, who teaches him about life, love, and politics.

That was actually a Netflix movie in post-production when the allegations first came out. I'm guessing either Netflix (or some buyer) decided they could finally finish it and try to recoup some of the costs rather than eat all of the millions already spent.

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Coming Soon on Blu-ray!

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988)
River Phoenix | Ann Magnuson | Meredith Salenger | Ione Skye | Matthew Perry | Paul Koslo | Johnny Galecki
Shot by John J. Connor (Short Time)
Music by Bill Conti (Rocky)
Written & Directed by William Richert (Winter Kills)

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Coming Soon on Blu-ray!

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988)
River Phoenix | Ann Magnuson | Meredith Salenger | Ione Skye | Matthew Perry | Paul Koslo | Johnny Galecki
Shot by John J. Connor (Short Time)
Music by Bill Conti (Rocky)
Written & Directed by William Richert (Winter Kills)

Interesting. A (former?) Fox title. Richert made an alternate cut that he sold directly from his website, and I hope that can be included

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KLI has stated they acquired this through Universal (presumably due to Image Entertainment since they did the DVD and are now owned by Universal).

[beamish14]

KLI has stated they acquired this through Universal (presumably due to Image Entertainment since they did the DVD and are now owned by Universal).

That makes sense. I asked them a while back about Richert’s very interesting collaboration with Larry Cohen, Success/The American Success Company, and they said they weren’t handling it

[Buttery Jeb]

KLI has stated they acquired this through Universal (presumably due to Image Entertainment since they did the DVD and are now owned by Universal).

Image Entertainment has nothing to do with it (Image eventually became RLJ Entertainment and is now owned by AMC Networks). Jimmy Reardon was produced by Island Pictures; it’s likely one of the films Universal picked up as part of the PolyGram library.

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Coming February 2026 on Blu-ray!

Scott Joplin (1977) Starring Billy Dee Williams, Art Carney, Godfrey Cambridge, Clifton Davis, Margaret Avery, Taj Mahal, Seymour Cassel, Samuel Fuller, Otis Day, Eubie Banks, Lionel Richie & Mabel King – Shot by David M. Walsh (Foul Play) – Music by Scott Joplin – Written by Christopher Knopf (Posse) – Directed by Jeremy Kagan (The Big Fix, The Chosen).

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Coming February 2026 on Blu-ray!

The Hi-Lo Country (1998) Starring Woody Harrelson, Billy Crudup, Patricia Arquette, Penelope Cruz, Cole Hauser, James Gammon & Sam Elliott – Shot by Oliver Stepleton (The Cider House Rules) – Music by Carter Burwell (Fargo) – Produced by Martin Scorsese (Clockers) – Screenplay by Walon Green (The Wild Bunch) – Based on a Novel by Max Evans (The Ballad of Cable Hogue) – Directed by Stephen Frears (The Hit, Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, High Fidelity, The Queen).

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Coming February 2026 on Blu-ray!

Scott Joplin (1977) Starring Billy Dee Williams, Art Carney, Godfrey Cambridge, Clifton Davis, Margaret Avery, Taj Mahal, Seymour Cassel, Samuel Fuller, Otis Day, Eubie Banks, Lionel Richie & Mabel King – Shot by David M. Walsh (Foul Play) – Music by Scott Joplin – Written by Christopher Knopf (Posse) – Directed by Jeremy Kagan (The Big Fix, The Chosen).

I feel like they’ve been sitting on this one forever. Hi Lo Country is a nice surprise

[pistolwink]

Scott Joplin was part of a small cycle of biopics of African-American musical greats, along with Lady Sings the Blues, Leadbelly, etc. Most of them are not well remembered at all, and even less historically accurate than these sorts of things usually are (Leadbelly in particular is a free adaptation of a version of Huddie Ledbetter's biography that is already almost pure myth). But I'm still curious about this one.

[Dr Amicus]

I saw it about 40 years ago, both my Dad and myself played quite a bit of Joplin on the piano and I wrote about him for my O Level Music exam (Grade D by the way…). I remember we both enjoyed this, I can’t attest to any historical accuracy but the music was good.

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The Kino Insider has revealed they are doing a 4k of Mississippi Burning sometime next year.

[FrauBlucher]

Coming Soon on Blu-ray!

The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
Peter Sellers | Elke Sommer | Lionel Jeffries | Catherine Schell | Stuart Wilson | Graham Stark | Jeremy Kemp
Shot by Arthur Ibbetson (Where Eagles Dare)
Music by Henry Mancini (The Pink Panther)
Directed by Richard Quine (Pushover | The Solid Gold Cadillac | Bell Book and Candle | The World of Suzie Wong)

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We now have every version but the best one.