Indications of Incoming Indicator Entertainments

[MichaelB]

The principle underpinning the Rollin project has always been to release the restorations when they're ready, not rush them according to an artificial deadline that nobody will care about (or even remember) later. The aim is to make them totally definitive across the board.

[colinr0380]

Ah, that's OK then. No hurry!

[TMDaines]

The principle underpinning the Rollin project has always been to release the restorations when they're ready, not rush them according to an artificial deadline that nobody will care about (or even remember) later. The aim is to make them totally definitive across the board.

Based on spine numbers seemingly being chronological and consecutive for Rollins, do we know what is planned to be released? I am assuming that only a very small number of the adult titles, or titles credited under another name, will join the more established part of his oeuvre.

[MichaelB]

Well, I know, obviously, but I'm not about to leak confidential info.

Everything you'll find online is based on guesswork, but it's broadly the case that the spine numbers correspond to chronological order of production.

And I can also confirm that there are no plans to do lavish 4K UHD special editions of Folies anales, Hyperpénétrations or Entrez vite... vite, je mouille!. At least not as far as I'm aware.

[Orlac]

The principle underpinning the Rollin project has always been to release the restorations when they're ready, not rush them according to an artificial deadline that nobody will care about (or even remember) later. The aim is to make them totally definitive across the board.

Based on spine numbers seemingly being chronological and consecutive for Rollins, do we know what is planned to be released? I am assuming that only a very small number of the adult titles, or titles credited under another name, will join the more established part of his oeuvre.

ZOMBIE LAKE and LIVING DEAD GIRL have both been teased.

[What A Disgrace]

It seems that the newsletter clue is for Rosi's Lucky Luciano.

[domino harvey]

I thought that one sounded like a Radiance title but glad it’s coming from someone now that the KLSC is OOP

[rapta]

Hoping they at least are able to regrade the 4K restoration, but perhaps since it's Indicator they may be able to swing a new scan entirely? I guess we'll find out when it gets announced. Can't recall if StudioCanal have let Indicator do anything beyond some light tinkering though...

[Finch]

Orbit's owner, Mark, announced on his Livestream that they're going to have an Indicator US and UK sale starting this Monday.

Indicator themselves teased a new release with Watch it, Sailor! from 1961. Must be the Hammer comedy set.

[colinr0380]

This may be our only opportunity to get That's Your Funeral on 4K UHD!

Indicator themselves teased a new release with Watch it, Sailor! from 1961. Must be the Hammer comedy set.

Interesting! This has a much more famous film version from a few years earlier with Peggy Mount in the role of harridan mother-in-law in 1956's Sailor, Beware! (which seems to be overwhelmed on YouTube by the unrelated except in name Jerry Lewis film of the same name from a few years earlier), and which was based on a hit stage play from the previous year. That 1956 film used to regularly turn up on UK television in Film4's schedules, but has not appeared for quite a few years now. That was kind of the genesis of all of the "my mother-in-law...." jokes, and it is particularly interesting to see how this 'fun' idea of a young newlywed couple stuck trapped in a house with their parents/in-laws due to financial issues sort of curdled in the 1960s into actual dramatic explorations of the issues involved in things like The Family Way and particularly John Schlesinger's A Kind of Loving, which put Thora Hird into that indelible role.

(And I have a suspicion that this all flowed back in the 1970s into more broader television comedy with In Sickness And In Health, Some Mothers Do 'ave 'em, etc)

[Jonathan S]

...it is particularly interesting to see how this 'fun' idea of a young newlywed couple stuck trapped in a house with their parents/in-laws due to financial issues sort of curdled in the 1960s into actual dramatic explorations of the issues involved in things like The Family Way and particularly John Schlesinger's A Kind of Loving, which put Thora Hird into that indelible role...

This trope had also been explored, to some extent dramatically, in Maurice Elvey's What Every Woman Wants (1954) based on the 1952 stage play Relations Are Best Apart by Edwin Lewis.

[Finch]

Michael's thread for Ships and Giggles will be up soon but I just wanted to say I did giggle at the word play Indicator did with their title of the Hammer Vol 7 set.

[MichaelB]

It's been up for ages—it's been incorporated into the general Indicator Hammer thread.

[TVC15]

What happened to Lucky Luciano, the clue from last month?

[vertigo]

I want that Rosi's Luciano film too. Giallo is not muy cup of tea.
I don't have got a UHD player.... but I bought La notte (MoC), thinking it was a dual release. Mistake!
Does Indicator release blu rays, yet?

I only have Love Me Tonight, Borzage's Desire, When Tomorrow Comes, and the Ophuls.

[MichaelB]

What happened to Lucky Luciano, the clue from last month?

Teasers don't mean "in the next announcement", they mean "we're working on it".

Sometimes they're in the next announcement, sometimes several months down the line, in a couple of cases years down the line; it just depends on how things go. Only official announcements mean an imminent release.

Does Indicator release blu rays, yet?

Every Indicator title has been released on Blu-ray since the label's inception nearly a decade ago. The first year also saw them release DVDs, while more recently they've moved into UHD, but there's never been an Indicator release that didn't have a basic Blu-ray option.

[vertigo]

Thank you Michael four your reply.

I read, I think, that blu rays are released on a smaller numbers than the UHD edition, is that correct?
I thought on buying Carnal Knowledge when and where I noticed that.

[MichaelB]

The Indicator team was surprised to find out quite how dramatically UHDs outsold regular BDs, particularly in the US, but every single UHD release has also had a matching BD release that's identical in every way apart from the picture resolution of the main feature*. And once the limited edition sells out, there'll be a regular BD edition.

(*And, in certain contractually mandated cases, the region code - for instance, UHDs are invariably region-free, but BDs frequently have to be locked to Region A or B.)

[vertigo]

I've got a SONY blu ray player that can read the 3 zones.

[MichaelB]

I suspect most people on this board can play multiple regions.

[vertigo]

I suspect most people on this board can play multiple regions.

I would be disappointed if someone so highbrow on this forum didn't have it.

[Finch]

Indicator are teasing Bava's Four Times That Night on their social media.

[dwk]

Assuming the rights are still with the same licensor, I can't imagine a company would pick up that Bava title and not the rest of the ones from the same catalog. (Black Sunday, Kill Baby Kill, etc.)

[Thornycroft]

I'm not so sure. The Arrow releases may now be OOP but they were on the market for a long time, and Indicator have generally shied away from titles that have had the boutique label treatment so recently. It would be more Indicator's style to pick a couple of lesser-appreciated Bava titles (I don't believe Four Times That Night has ever had a disc release in the UK) and try to properly contextualise them.

[dwk]

The Arrow releases have been OOP for nearly seven years, and, assuming Indicator has picked them up, it would probably take a few years to get them all out (meaning that some could potentially be OOP for a decade or longer.)