Imprint

[Black Hat]

I did, but I've gotten so bad that after two weeks it's still sitting in the UPS box unopened.

[domino harvey]

February titles

the Fabulous Baker Boys
the Fan (De Niro)
Mr Jones
Racing with the Moon
True Colors
Wrong is Right

[beamish14]

February titles

the Fabulous Baker Boys
the Fan (De Niro)
Mr Jones
Racing with the Moon
True Colors
Wrong is Right

Wrong Is Right really deserved a stack release. So disappointing. There are truly unbelievable sequences; some scenes almost mimic Tony Scott television commercials from the same era

[tolbs1010]

the Fan (De Niro)

"Hey Bobbayyy! Let's go Bobbayyy!"

If there is a bonus feature collecting all of the unused takes of De Niro saying just those lines, I will buy this.

[Aunt Peg]

February titles

the Fabulous Baker Boys
the Fan (De Niro)
Mr Jones
Racing with the Moon
True Colors
Wrong is Right

First time Wrong is Right is being released in Australia under it's correct title as far as I know. When it was first released in cinemas and then VHS it's titles was changed to The Man With the Deadly Lens.

[swo17]

They also announced another Lumet box and a John Mackenzie box

[beamish14]

They also announced another Lumet box and a John Mackenzie box

All (or most of) the former’s WB films would be great.


Last of the Finest for the latter is an exciting prospect

[domino harvey]

The Lumet set is:

A Stranger Among Us
Critical Care
Daniel
Gloria
the Wiz

[beamish14]

The Lumet set is:

A Stranger Among Us
Critical Care
Daniel
Gloria
the Wiz

A seriously weird collection of films from different studios. I guess it would be interesting to finally see the Cannes cut of A Stranger Among Us that got an incredibly hostile reception, but the theatrical cut is some campy nonsense with a just baffling performance from Melanie Griffith

[domino harvey]

Looking at the cast list it’s crazy that I have never heard of Critical Care… though I said the same thing about Power and already learned my lesson after sitting through it (namely, if you stumble upon a movie with a lot of big names in it that you’ve never heard of, there’s a reason)

[JSC]

Saw Critical Care in the theater when it came out. Not worth your time unless you're a Lumet completist. Was
competently made, but in need of a better script.

[jt938]

The Lumet set is:

A Stranger Among Us
Critical Care
Daniel
Gloria
the Wiz

A seriously weird collection of films from different studios. I guess it would be interesting to finally see the Cannes cut of A Stranger Among Us that got an incredibly hostile reception, but the theatrical cut is some campy nonsense with a just baffling performance from Melanie Griffith

Yeah, I'm a huge Griffith and Lumet fan and I couldn't make it through this one, it's just bad.

[dwk]

Imprint is releasing Halloween I-V on 4K UHD and Blu-ray in this jack-o-lantern

Authoring and encoding by Fidelity in Motion

Jack-o-lantern packaging has been cancelled

[swo17]

The unacceptable structural defect compromised the integrity of the pumpkin packaging only, and in no way affects the 13 discs or the SteelBooks. This decision has not been made lightly

[mfunk9786]

Seems very weird to have some big concept packaging announced, take people’s money for it, and to simultaneously have no idea if it’s possible to produce it in the first place. I like a lot of what Imprint chooses to put out and think they have excellent taste, but between the $80 releases of studio films and this debacle… they could be doing a lot better.

Also, like… you couldn’t figure out how to make a battery-operated plastic Jack-O-Lantern? CEO of Imprint might faint if they step into a Spirit Halloween.

[Lowry_Sam]

I like a lot of what Imprint chooses to put out and think they have excellent taste, but between the $80 releases of studio films and this debacle… they could be doing a lot better.

It seems that they had some success capitalizing on releasing titles that haven't been available elsewhere & people were willing to shell top dollar to get them. However, physical media seems to be making a comeback (albeit on a smaller scale). Not only are smaller titles getting released, they're being released in better editions not long after the Imprint release, making people less likely to shell out such large amounts for something that might be surpassed in a few months by a cheaper option.

[Murdoch]

A corporate apology email about cancelling defective UHD pumpkin packaging that unironically uses "this decision has not been made lightly" feels like the perfect sendoff to 2025.

[Zot!]

Also, like… you couldn’t figure out how to make a battery-operated plastic Jack-O-Lantern?

Are you saying this is a conspiracy? because I'm totally ready to make some unsubstantiated remarks about how Australians are faking enthusiasm for American holidays.

[domino harvey]

Also, like… you couldn’t figure out how to make a battery-operated plastic Jack-O-Lantern?

Are you saying this is a conspiracy? because I'm totally ready to make some unsubstantiated remarks about how Australians are faking enthusiasm for American holidays.

Any excuse to post this banger again

[domino harvey]

Imprint released solo versions of all four films in the Gene Hackman box. This is pretty rare for them, hope it becomes a wider policy for these boxes where one or two titles are far more tempting than the rest

[omegadirective]

Any rumours of Imprint releasing more Hitchcock box sets on blu ray?
Early Years Vol 3?
Alfred Hitchcock Hour Seasons 2 and 3?

[domino harvey]

I imagine the show will continue to release, but not sure if there’s enough films left for a volume three of early years, though I’d love for them to throw Secret Agent and Juno into one so I could have them all and be done!

[swo17]

For March:

4-film Magnificent Seven Collection
5-film Tales of the Wild West Collection
- Three Violent People
- The Tin Star
- Nevada Smith
- The Professionals
- Waterhole #3

[domino harvey]

I’ve seen all of these except Waterhole #3, and it and Three Violent People I believe are new to Blu (and all are Paramount, I think?). Thank god they didn’t dump Arrowhead in it so I don’t have to buy it

Henry Hathaway's Nevada Smith has a weird lineage. It's based on Alan Ladd's fictional western referenced in the interminable the Carpetbaggers, and this spin-off(?) at the very least improves upon its original source (though so would anything). The film straddles a weird time in Hollywood filmmaking where the filmmakers were getting their feet wet in pushing the envelope a bit but still afraid or unable to really go for the extremes, meaning we get a needlessly gruesome death for Steve McQueen's parents (they are skinned alive), but the violence on-screen is still of the representational sort. McQueen is pretty terrible here, worse than usual, but the supporting cast is top-notch. It goes without saying that Arthur Kennedy rises to the top here as a smooth swamp-stuck criminal, but Karl Malden has fun with his heavy as well. Janet Margolin from David and Lisa briefly pops up as a squaw to distract everyone now watching with nagging questions as to why she wasn't a bigger star with looks like that. Suzanne Pleshette is also around as a Mexican prostitute or something-- this movie takes some pretty ridiculous leaps of logic that are a little hard to buy into at times! Overall I enjoyed the strange episodic nature of the film to a degree, but this one's mostly just a curiosity.

Richard Brooks' the Professionals was a nice palette cleanser after the cinematic dross of the Hallelujah Trail. As an Oscar fetishist, it's interesting to note that this was the last Western that the Academy really paid any serious attention to for almost 25 years. I don't think Brooks' direction really warranted his nomination, but the film fits the pattern for his output: he's quite adept at letting actors carry on, which is good if you're someone like Robert Ryan or Lee Marvin, but this method leaves lesser actors stranded, which is bad if you're Woody Strode or Jack Palance, whose character is entirely defined by looking confused. And while Brooks' screenplay gets off some nice bon mots (I particularly liked the line about "100-proof women, 90-proof whiskey, and 14-karat gold"), it can veer in the expository (the entire telegraphed business with the upside-down crosses). Brooks is also not a particularly good director of action, which could have been deadly in a film like this if the pleasures didn't lie elsewhere in its codes of professionalism. The idea that the ragtag bunch of experts are contracted to do a job, regardless of whether they agree with it after certain facts come to light, drives the film with a sense of reluctant momentum. When characters don't do what's needed of them, they are quickly punished (see Robert Ryan's animal lover's refusal to kill the horses early in the film) until only determined "professional" behavior can get them out alive. I must admit, I am predisposed to enjoy films with well-defined codes of conduct, even codes I disagree with, and by those standards alone this is worthwhile entertainment.

Three Violent People (Rudolph Mate 1956) Anne Baxter and Charlton Heston back together again, this time she's a former prostitute who tricks Heston's blustery ranching chauvinist into marrying her and then complication ensue, as they often do in such scenarios. Aside from an all-too-brief early appearance by Elaine Stritch as a madam, there's not much here to justify viewing, as government anger, carpetbagger bagging, and organized horse thievery water down what should have been a simple morality western.

[jt938]

Wild At Heart coming from Imprint. No indication on whether or not this'll be a 4k.