Kino Lorber Studio Classics

[therewillbeblus]

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Brand New HDR/DV Master!
EL DORADO (1966)
John Wayne | Robert Mitchum | James Caan
Shot by Harold Rosson (The Asphalt Jungle | Singin’ in the Rain)
Music by Nelson Riddle (Paint Your Wagon | The Great Gatsby)
Screenplay by Leigh Brackett (The Big Sleep | The Long Goodbye)
Based on the Novel “The Stars and Their Courses” by Harry Brown (A Walk in the Sun | The Fiend Who Walked the West)
Produced and Directed by Howard Hawks (Red River | Rio Bravo | Hatari! | Rio Lobo)

Terrific, bring on all the underappreciated Hawks. Believe it or not, I used to believe this bested Rio Bravo across the board, though it's still a very good movie!

[pistolwink]

It's definitely not better than Rio Bravo, but it might be funnier!

[knives]

I think it’s better, but then I think Rio Bravo is one of Hawks’ worst films.

[Maltic]

Could we hope for an Indicator/Arrow/Eureka redo? Though we haven't gotten a UK Hatari! yet...

[Buttery Jeb]

KL Studios Classics releases for July are up on HTF...

July 7th
Stone Cold (1991) BD Re-Release (4K Restored Edition)

July 14th
The Island (1980) 4KUHD NEW HDR/DV Master
The Love Trap (1929) NEW 4K Restoration by Universal
Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film #18: The Wages of Sin (1938) Kino Classics

July 21st
Flight (2012) 4KUHD NEW HDR/DV Master
Money from Home (1953) NEW 3-D Restoration by 3-D Film Archives - From 4K Scans by Paramount Pictures
Triumph of the Will (Kino Classics) DVD and BD
Will It Happen Again? (Kino Classics) BD

July 28th
King Creole (1958) 4KUHD NEW HDR/DV Master
Brit Noir: Collection II [TO BE ANNOUNCED]
Walk a Tightrope (1964) NEW 4K Restoration by ParamountNEW 4K Restoration by Paramount

Also in July:
A Man Named Rocca (1961) 2021 4K Restoration by StudioCanal
La Scoumoune (1972)
Deadly Blessing (1981) 4KUHD NEW HDR/DV Master
The Maverick Queen (1956) NEW 4K Restoration by Paramount
Escape from Zahrain (1962) NEW 4K Restoration by Paramount

[pistolwink]

Does Triumph of the Will have an audio commentary by Stephen Miller?

[Lowry_Sam]

Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film #18: The Wages of Sin (1938) Kino Classics

Somehow this series completely passed me by & I noticed them for the first time in the current sale.
Has anyone done a thorough review of the series, as in which are the best to consider picking up?

[TechnicolorAcid]

Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film #18: The Wages of Sin (1938) Kino Classics

Somehow this series completely passed me by & I noticed them for the first time in the current sale.
Has anyone done a thorough review of the series, as in which are the best to consider picking up?

Reefer Madness is essential bad cinema, I think it goes by a different title in the set but either way you 100% have to pick that one up!

[What A Disgrace]

Yes, volume 2 contains Reefer Madness and Sex Madness. I'm watching the series in volume order, and have only just finished volume 2, but it's an essential disc and I enjoy it way more than some of Vinegar Syndrome's overpriced collabs with Something Weird. If the sale is going on, I think every volume of the series so far is a meager $9.99. I know Ingagi and Maniac are legends, and Damages Lives seems essential due to being directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.

[ianthemovie]

Yes, volume 2 contains Reefer Madness and Sex Madness. I'm watching the series in volume order, and have only just finished volume 2, but it's an essential disc and I enjoy it way more than some of Vinegar Syndrome's overpriced collabs with Something Weird. If the sale is going on, I think every volume of the series so far is a meager $9.99. I know Ingagi and Maniac are legends, and Damages Lives seems essential due to being directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.

I blind-bought Maniac when I heard it described as an outrageously weird pre-Code horror oddity featuring nudity and cats...and while this description is not inaccurate the movie failed to deliver for me. So mileage may vary with that one.

[Lowry_Sam]

I blind-bought Maniac when I heard it described as an outrageously weird pre-Code horror oddity featuring nudity and cats...and while this description is not inaccurate the movie failed to deliver for me. So mileage may vary with that one.

This is why I asked, to get a feel for what might be the most entertaining/rewatchable titles, which I would have to admt is highly idiosyncratic with titles like these. I remember seeing ads for Reefer Madness at midnight and drive-in showings in the 70s as a kid. When the opportunity finally arrived to watch it on tv (Night Flight), I was completely underwhelmed after having years of built up expectations from the salacious advertising that usually go along with such titles.

[FlickeringWindow]

Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film #18: The Wages of Sin (1938) Kino Classics

Somehow this series completely passed me by & I noticed them for the first time in the current sale.
Has anyone done a thorough review of the series, as in which are the best to consider picking up?

Most of the films can be a chore to watch, while being fascinating.

The essentials for me would be:
Mom and Dad - Worth it for historical context since it was a BIG deal. My grandfather saw it and he was horrified.
Unashamed - One of the nudist films with a real story, has an interesting take with an actual story instead of pure exploitation
Girl Gang/Pin-Down Girl - Pin-Down Girl, aka Racket Girls, is one of my favorite MST3K episodes and the movie itself is pretty fun if you don't mind the wrestling footage going on too long
Marijuana: Weed with Roots in Hell - Way more fun than Reefer Madness
Maniac - I loved this one a lot, worth it just for some genuinely Lynchian moments

I will say, the worst two volumes in the series are the other nudist camp one and the burlesque films one.

[Peacock]

I own most of these but have only watched a few so far.

But the set with Tomorrow’s Children is worth it, that film is insane… and shockingly something which happened for decades after.

The Nudist set is good because most of the films are so bizarre and twee. But as the gentleman said above, Unashamed is genuinely a good film, with a tragic (and mythic) ending.

[Peacock]

I assume Triumph of the Will won’t be hampered with the typo ridden newly added digital titles on the Robert Harris resto, which also had a watermark in the corner. Great news.

I do hope it includes a subtitled version of Day of Freedom, and possibly even Victory of Faith to complete Riefenstahl’s filmography on Blu… aside from her final sea life documentary.

[thebatman97080]

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RIO LOBO (1970) Starring John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O’Neill, Jack Elam, Christopher Mitchum, Mike Henry, Sherry Lansing, Jim Davis, Victor French, Susana Dosamantes, David Huddleston, Bill Williams and George Plimpton – Shot by William H. Clothier (The War Wagon, Big Jake) – Music by Jerry Goldsmith (Planet of the Apes, The Omen) – Screenplay by Leigh Brackett (The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye) & Burton Wohl (A Cold Day in August, The Third Day) – Produced and Directed by Howard Hawks (Red River, Rio Bravo, Hatari!, El Dorado).

[Drucker]

Was there any review posted of the Eureka Rio Lobo? Since theirs was BD only, I have to assume they got the dated Paramount master and now Kino bring the goods with a new one?

[FrauBlucher]

Coming in July on Blu-ray!

BRIT NOIR III

• THE MAN UPSTAIRS (1958) Richard Attenborough / Bernard Lee / Donald Houston / Dorothy Alison
Shot by Gerald Gibbs (The Green Man / Quatermass 2)
Written by Alun Falconer (Never Let Go / Underworld Informers)
Directed by Don Chaffey (Jason and the Argonauts / One Millions Years B.C.)

• NOWHERE TO GO (1959) George Nader / Maggie Smith / Bernard Lee / Geoffrey Keen / Bessie Love
Shot by Paul Beeson (Dunkirk / To Sir with Love)
Written and Directed by Seth Holt (Scream of Fear / Station Six Sahara / The Nanny)
Uncredited Direction by Basil Dearden (Pool of London)

• PAYROLL (1961) Michael Craig / Billie Whitelaw / Françoise Prévost / William Lucas
Shot by Ernest Steward (The High Commissioner / Hennessy)
Written by George Baxt (The Shadow of the Cat / Horror Hotel)
Directed by Sidney Hayers (Burn, Witch, Burn / The Trap)

[JSC]

Payroll has got to be one of the nastiest British crime films of that era, definitely anticipating Get Carter
by a decade. The Man Upstairs has an interesting performance by Richard Attenborough. It looks like Kino is
working their way through the StudioCanal back catalog, also some nice releases from the now (alas) defunct Network.

[diamonds]

Nowhere to Go! Excellent film, probably the closest a British noir ever got to certain passages in Melville's Le deuxième souffle, with a protagonist that seems like a distant cousin to both the one in Murder by Contract and Jef Costello in Le Samouraï. While Holt uses a subjective camera style to great effect in Taste of Fear and The Nanny, here he demonstrates mastery of a more objective style. Such a shame his career was cut so short.

It's long been near the top of my list of hoped-for Indicator releases.

[Lowry_Sam]

BRIT NOIR III

Nice addition, looks much better than French Noir II..hopefully they can find some better French titles to improve that series too.

[ChunkyLover]

Nice addition, looks much better than French Noir II..hopefully they can find some better French titles to improve that series too.

I've been going through the second set this month and I concur. I haven't watched La mort de Belle yet but the other three films are not particularly good or memorable.

[domino harvey]

That one will not save you, sad to say

[FrauBlucher]

Never heard of this one

Coming Soon on Blu-ray!
Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative!

THE SPY WITH A COLD NOSE (1966) Starring Laurence Harvey, Daliah Lavi, Lionel Jeffries, Eric Sykes, Eric Portman, Denholm Elliott, Colin Blakely, Robert Flemyng, June Whitefield & Paul Ford – Shot by Kenneth Higgins (Darling / Golden Rendezvous) – Music by Riz Ortolani (The Hunting Party / The Valachi Papers) – Produced by Joseph E. Levine (The 10th Victim / Robbery) – Written by Ray Galton & Alan Simpson (Call Me Genius / The Wrong Arm of the Law) – Directed by Daniel Petrie (A Raisin in the Sun / Fort Apache the Bronx).

[MichaelB]

You can tell it’s aimed at Americans: a British label would have cited a Galton & Simpson sitcom like Hancock’s Half Hour or Steptoe and Son, whose cultural footprint is far greater than any of their feature film scripts. At least in the UK.

[thebatman97080]

Coming Soon on 4KUHD and Blu-ray!
Brand New UHD SDR Master by Studiocanal!

BLUEBEARD (1972) Starring Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Sybul Danning, Nathalie Delon, Karin Schubert, Marilù Tolo, Agostine Belli, Joey Heatherton & Karl-Otto Alberty – Shot by Gábor Pogány (Two Women, A Man Could Get Killed) – Music by Ennio Morricone (For a Few Dollars More, The Mission) – Produced by Alexander Salkind (The Three Musketeers, Superman) – Screenplay by Ennio De Concini (Divorce Italian Style, The Facts of Murder), Maria Pia Fusco (Hitler: The Last Ten Days, Emmanuelle in Bangkok) & Edward Dmytryk (The Hollywood Ten) –Directed by Edward Dmytryk (Murder My Sweet, Crossfire, The Young Lions, Mirage).