Kino

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

The Kino is definitely squished Look at the gong for example whereas the MoC is more circular

[HerrSchreck]

Why will the longer cut be DVD only? :-s

Probably because the master is with David Shepard and not coming from the FWMS. They probably still have the rights to the DVD but would have to reopen the relationship to strike up BD rights . . . and as we know he flipped over to Flicker A (from my last info anyhow he hasn't come back to Kino, but I've been a bit out of the loop).

[L.A.]

John Ford's The Hurricane @ DVDBeaver

[movielocke]

I saw a really bad vhs of Hurricane a long time ago, probably worth a revisit.

[Luke M]

The Kino is definitely squished Look at the gong for example whereas the MoC is more circular

Blu-ray.com review shows the same problem. Very disappointing.

[captveg]

MisterLime has listed Renoir's The Southerner (1945) as a 1/12/16 release on the HTF release schedule

[Drucker]

Coming on Blu-ray January 5, 2016! A Kino Classics Release!
Louis Feuillade's FANTOMAS (5 Film Collection) Based on the phenomenally popular French pulp novellas, Louis Feuillade's outrageous, ambitious FANTÔMAS series became the gold standard of espionage serials in pre-WWI Europe, and laid the foundation for such immortal works as Feuillade's own Les Vampires and Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse films. René Navarre stars as the criminal lord of Paris, the master of disguise, the creeping assassin in black: Fantômas. Over the course of five feature films (which combined to form a 5 1/2-hour epic), Fantômas, along with his accomplices and mistresses, are pursued by the equally resourceful Inspector Juve (Edmund Bréon) and his friend, journalist Jerôme Fandor (Georges Melchior).
THE FILMS
• Fantômas in the Shadow of the Guillotine (1913, 54 Min.)
• Juve vs. Fantômas (1913, 62 Min.)
• The Murderous Corpse (1913, 90 Min.)
• Fantômas vs. Fantômas (1914, 60 Min.)
• The False Magistrate (1914, 71 Min.)
SPECIAL FEATURES:
• Two audio commentaries by film historian David Kalat
• Two rare Feuillade films: The Nativity (1910) and The Dwarf (1912)
• Louis Feuillade: Master of Many Forms, a ten-minute documentary
• Gallery of Fantômas images

[EddieLarkin]

Oh lovely. Please pick this up Eureka.

[ellipsis7]

MisterLime has listed Renoir's The Southerner (1945) as a 1/12/16 release on the HTF release schedule

Up @ Amazon now here... Significantly lists two sizeable supplements, the propaganda piece A Salute to France (1944) directed by Renoir & Garson Kanin and Pare Lorentz's influential commissioned documentary The River (1938)...

Full specs...

"After achieving worldwide acclaim for such films as La Grande Illusion and The Rules of the Game, French filmmaker Jean Renoir briefly worked in the United States, where he wrote and directed this adaptation of George Sessions Perry s novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand. The story follows the struggles of an idealistic farmer (Zachary Scott) trying to raise a family and a crop of cotton in the face of extraordinary challenges, both natural and societal.

Visually influenced by the documentary work of Pare Lorentz and Robert Flaherty, and assisted in the dialogue-writing by William Faulkner, Paris-born Renoir crafted a portrait of rural life that is honest, unsentimental, and filled with the emotional subtleties for which the director is best remembered. The Southerner earned three Academy Award nominations (Best Director, Original Music Score, and Sound). This Kino Classics edition was mastered in HD from a 35mm restoration performed by the UCLA Film and Television Archive."

Special Features: A Salute to France (1944, 35 min., dir: Jean Renoir and Garson Kanin), The River (1938, 31 min., dir: Pare Lorentz)

[AfterTheRain]

Jacques Rivette's Out 1 due on January 12, 2016. Here's the source.

[Gregory]

OUT 1 finally becomes available on home video for the first time

Yes, because the United States is the only country that exists.

[hearthesilence]

The only one that MATTERS. USA! USA!

To be fair, note that it says "Kino/Carlotta US wrote," which implies that they're referring only to U.S. distribution.

[Drucker]

Faust bluray at Beaver. The second cap gives it away-contrast is way off on Kino and definitely squished.

[Roscoe]

In re: FAUST -- I'm not seeing the "squishing" to be terribly drastic. Only a couple of the caps seem to be squished at all in comparison with the one above them, as opposed to the marked difference in the DIARY OF A LOST GIRL caps where it's really evident.

[EddieLarkin]

They let this happen two releases in a row? Where the hell is QC? How hard is it to do the common sense thing and check it against previous releases yourself?! Especially if you're to provide screeners to people who are going to do exactly that!

[Drucker]

In re: FAUST -- I'm not seeing the "squishing" to be terribly drastic. Only a couple of the caps seem to be squished at all in comparison with the one above them, as opposed to the marked difference in the DIARY OF A LOST GIRL caps where it's really evident.

Lots of those screencaps were also close-ups. But I think the contrast being off looks even worse. If I've studied my David M correctly, this could simply just be a bad encode which "travesties" the image.

[FrauBlucher]

I can't think of one silent film that you could say Kino has done a better job than MoC.

[Drucker]

I can't think of one silent film that you could say Kino has done a better job than MoC.

Nor sound film! The Offence, Man of the West...

[FrauBlucher]

Is Robert Harris serious (this from his Faust blu ray review)....

I love the fact that Kino Lorber sees fit to release some of the great silent motion pictures, and to do it, wherever possible with style and quality.

Yet, he has taken every opportunity to rip Olive's releases (not that some of their releases don't deserve it), but he goes out of his way to compliment one label and criticize another when the evidence suggests otherwise.

I guess he's not familiar with the silent films put out by Masters of Cinema. Clearly as an archivist he should be familiar with and interested in labels around the world that have done restoration work, besides releasing quality home entertainment product. It's hard to take his reviews seriously.

[Drucker]

The Mask bluray on beaver.

Gary doesn't mention it, but I thought there WAS going to be a version you could watch on a 2-D television as long as you had the Red/Blue glasses. I've got this pre-ordered for my father in law, who is such an old school/horror/sci-fi buff he has his own 3-D glasses that he uses on his home set-up. That's still included, right?

[EddieLarkin]

Yes, the BD includes both polarized and red/blue versions of the film. The DVD is red/blue only, so your father in law would be good with just that release if he's just interested in the 3-D.

[Drucker]

Okay, his review almost made it sound as if the disc knows if you have a 3-D set-up and will default to not giving you the option of playing it if you don't.

[EddieLarkin]

It will, but only for the polarized version.

[Drucker]

Sweet I can't wait to put the mask on, now.

[ianthemovie]

Can anyone who has looked at the Kino Blu-ray of Faust confirm whether it has the Timothy Brock score? Kino's website says it's included on the longer export cut of the film, but Beaver says the only scores included on the disc are by Mont Alto and Javier Perez.