Film Media Discussion Thread

[NoirFan]

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[redrunner97]

I just ran across this news. This label has a lot of potential and I look forward to seeing them explore some cult oddities in the near future!

[easydreamer]

Hope to see Inga on Blu-ray one of the days

[NoirFan]

A few Facebook updates I missed:


5/6:

Breaking News - The Film Media Project announced a collaboration with Something Weird Video resulting in an additional seven Joseph W. Sarno films scheduled for restoration and HD remaster in 2016 / 2017.

Spanning the mid-1960s through the early 1970s, the Something Weird Video additions include Sin in the Suburbs (1964), Pandora and the Magic Box (1965), Desire Under the Palms (1968), Odd Triangle (1968), Vibrations (1968), Love in the Third Position aka Siv, Anne and Sven (1971), and Young Erotic Fanny Hill (1971). Together with the existing prints in the Film Media Project archive, they provide a cinematic snapshot of the changing social mores and sexual politics of this important era in American exploitation and sexploitation filmmaking.

5/26:

Confessions of a Young American Housewife is one of many of the Joe Sarno films getting the HD treatment in 2016

6/21:

Work continues on the HD Joe Sarno film library. Updates coming soon. Pictured: Colorist Dave Northrop / Abigail Leslie trailer.

[NoirFan]

From Facebook:

Work continues on the Joe Sarno Retrospect Series. "Sin in the Suburbs" gets the HD treatment.

[NoirFan]

From their Facebook:

About Joseph W. Sarno – an American film director and screenwriter, Joe Sarno emerged from the New York exploitation film scene of the 1950s and 1960s and wrote / directed approximately 75 feature films including the internationally renowned Sin in the Suburbs and Inga. Often referred to as “the Ingmar Bergman of 42nd street”, the last 12 years of Joe’s life heralded a new appreciation for his body of nuanced and highly stylized erotic dramas, culminating in a series of screenings and awards at the Lake Placid Film Festival, the British Film Institute, the Turin Film Festival and the Warhol Museum among others.

Still no Amazon pre-order for the 10/11 Sin You Sinners/Vampire Ecstasy disc, but this is apparently the cover, and it's being distributed by something called 'Camp Motion Pictures':

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[junyab]

Originally Posted by NoirFan

From their Facebook:




Still no Amazon pre-order for the 10/11 Sin You Sinners/Vampire Ecstasy disc, but this is apparently the cover, and it's being distributed by something called 'Camp Motion Pictures':

9-10 years ago Camp Motion Pictures did a bunch of DVD releases of low budget splatter films:
- VIDEO VIOLENCE 1/2
- CANNIBAL CAMPOUT
- KILLING SPREE
- SPLATTER FARM
- WOODCHIPPER MASSACRE
- ZOMBIE BLOODBATH TRILOGY

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by NoirFan

Still no Amazon pre-order for the 10/11 Sin You Sinners/Vampire Ecstasy disc

Pre-order is up, release date now 10/25.

[NoirFan]

Site review of Sin You Sinners/Vampire Ecstasy



Posted on Facebook on 2/20:

"Swedish Wildcats" never looked so good! New Blu-Ray and Digital DVD releases announced soon!

[NoirFan]

Posted on Facebook on 2/28:

Sarno Retrospect 03: All The Sins of Sodom / Vibrations is being prepped for Blu-Ray / Streaming. The series brings together Sarno films from the Pop Cinema and Something Weird Video film library (all remastered to HD). Press release when? On Joe Sarno's birthday, of course! (March 15)

Interesting to see Sodom listed as an upcoming BD - was the VS disc limited due to them only having the rights for a brief period?

[Jobla]

I believe that SIN IN THE SUBURBS is being worked on, as well.

[NoirFan]

From their website:

LOST SARNO MOVIE THE NAKED FOG Expands Sarno Archive and Joe Sarno Retrospect Series


March 15, 2017

Film preservation organization Film Media announced today it has begun restoration on a 35mm print of Joseph W. Sarno’s 1966 film THE NAKED FOG. Once restored, HD assets for THE NAKED FOG will be scheduled for theatrical screenings, DVD / Blu-Ray and Digital release as part of the Joseph W. Sarno Retrospect Series under the Film Movement Classics label.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJy2Bv3wunw


Previously considered a “lost” film, little information about THE NAKED FOG is available online. What is known, is that THE NAKED FOG was produced the same year as Sarno’s seminal MOONLIGHTING WIVES and shares several cast and crew members including leads Tammy Latour and Gretchen Rudolph. A rare THE NAKED FOG pressbook reveals the movie was marketed as “A Picture that Dares to Reveal the Truth about Sin!” Film Media owner Michael Raso sheds further light on the discovery and film...

"Lisa Vraney of Something Weird Video sent me an e-mail with a link to an ebay film lot auction that included a 35mm print of THE NAKED FOG. Having assumed all prints were destroyed or lost years ago, the print is in surprisingly good condition, and I believe fans of Joe’s movies and exploitation in general will be very pleased with the post-restoration results. Although THE NAKED FOG shares some situations and themes with Joe’s other films of that era – middle class prostitution rings, swinging suburbanites - the lead Marge, played by Tammy Latour, exhibits much less agency than is typical in a Sarno heroine. She claims to be a writer, but we never see her write. Instead, she drifts from one city and one man to another, always seeking, never satisfied. As we journey with her, we meet a variety of characters grappling with their own psycho-sexual impulses, and it’s in these complicated interactions we see Joe’s deft hand. All in all, it’s an exciting discovery and one I’m thrilled to be able to share with fans soon."

NAKED FOG is the newest addition to the Film Media archive of movies by noted exploitation director Joe Sarno. Working with the Sarno Estate, Film Media continues its mission to collect and preserve as many Sarno films as possible under one roof.

Volume 1 of the Joe Sarno Retrospect (Vampire Ecstasy / Sin You Sinners) was released on Blu-Ray, DVD and Digital on October 25, 2016. Details on the 2017 release schedule is forthcoming.

[NoirFan]

From their website:

FILM MEDIA TO RESTORE LOST SARNO MOVIE WARM NIGHTS AND HOT PLEASURES



May 10, 2017 – Film preservation organization Film Media announced today it has begun restoration on a 35mm print of Joseph W. Sarno’s “lost” 1964 film WARM NIGHTS AND HOT PLEASURES. Once restored, HD assets for WARM NIGHTS AND HOT PLEASURES will be scheduled for theatrical screenings, DVD / Blu-Ray and Digital release as part of the Joseph W. Sarno Retrospect Series under the Film Movement Classics label. The upcoming release marks the first-time WARM NIGHTS AND HOT PLEASURES will be available to home entertainment since its initial theatrical run.







The 35mm print of WARM NIGHTS AND HOT PLEASURES was recently discovered in the vaults of Audubon Films, owned by pioneering filmmaker Radley Metzger, who had purchased and distributed the film to theaters in North America. Film Media would like to thank film historian Michael Bowen and director Scooter McCrae for their role in the acquisition of this title.

Cinematography for WARM NIGHTS AND HOT PLEASURES is by James J Markos, who also worked with Sarno on his early seminal films SIN IN THE SUBURBS and NUDE IN CHARCOAL.

WARM NIGHTS AND HOT PLEASURES SYNOPSIS
You Tube Tease Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRXF...ature=youtu.be

Before achieving international fame with his 1969 Swedish breakout film Inga, director Joe Sarno honed his craft on a handful of erotic dramas shot in the USA. In 1964’s Warm Nights and Hot Pleasures, Joe tells the tale of three ambitious college girls who head to New York City, eager to make their mark on Broadway. Short on funds, the girls rent a room from a men’s magazine model and are soon immersed in a lurid world of wild parties, risque men’s clubs and sleazy casting couches. Lessons are learned and hearts are broken as each one decides just how far she will go for stardom.

Featuring Bettie Page-style bondage and female wrestling, Warm Nights and Hot Pleasures is a sultry snapshot of Manhattan of the early 1960s.

WARM NIGHTS AND HOT PLEASURES is the newest addition to Film Media’s archive of Joseph Sarno films, to be released as the Joseph W. Sarno Retrospective, featuring liner notes by film historian Tim Lucas.

DVD, Blu-Ray and Digital Encodes of Vampire Ecstasy / Sin You Sinners, release 1 in the series, can be found at all leading retail and e-tailers including Amazon, FilmMovement and Alternative Cinema. Working with the Sarno Estate, Film Media continues to collect and preserve all existing Sarno films under one roof.

[NoirFan]

Finally, a second release!

August 7, 2017 (New York, NY) – Film Movement, the New York-based film distributor of first-run, award-winning foreign and independent films, announced today the release dates of the second volume in he Joseph W. Sarno Retrospect Series.

All The Sins Of Sodom / Vibrations will be available on Blu-Ray, DVD and Digital on September 26, 2017

Newly restored to High Definition from the original film elements, All the Sins of Sodom / Vibrations, directed by 'the Ingmar Bergman of 42nd St.,' Joseph W. Sarno, is the second entry in the definitive series celebrating one of the most gifted pioneers of the sexploitation genre. These two seminal films are now being released for the first time on Blu Ray.

ALL THE SINS OF SODOM - Encouraged by his agent, struggling NYC photographer Henning begins a daring portfolio of his model, Leslie. But all too soon, jealousies erupt when another model vies for his camera and bed. A strikingly filmed, penetrating study of ambition, romance and lust set in the world of 1960s fashion photography, All the Sins of Sodom is sexploitation auteur Sarno at the top of his game.

VIBRATIONS Aspiring poet Barbara moves to Manhattan to jump-start her career and sex life, only to spend her evenings listening to the sounds of her neighbor s vibrator. When her extroverted sister Julie comes to town, Barbara is forced to confront her repressed sexual desires. An early classic by sexploitation director Sarno, Vibrations is classy and sophisticated, beautifully shot, a juicy script, filled with wonderful performances and sexy as hell.

- Newly restored to High Definition from the original film elements, the double feature, All the Sins of Sodom / Vibrations, directed by 'the Ingmar Bergman of 42nd St.,' Joseph W. Sarno, is the second entry in the definitive series celebrating one of the most gifted pioneers of the sexploitation genre.

- These two seminal films are now being released for the first time on Blu Ray.

- All the Sins of Sodom has been hailed as “one of Sarno’s most captivating films.” (Video Watchdog), who was also known as the “Checkhov of soft-core” (Village Voice).

- Double feature includes rare bonus material, including an interview with Director, Joseph W. Sarno; All the Sins of Sodom film commentary by Peggy Steffans-Sarno; Vibrations film commentary by film historian Tim Lucas; Vibrations mini-commentary by Peggy Steffans-Sarno.

- Package includes liner notes by film historian Tim Lucas.

All The Sins of Sodom Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr_g...ature=youtu.be

Vibrations Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYzh...ature=youtu.be

[cropduster]

I wonder if Film Media are aware that Vinegar Syndrome already released All the Sins of Sodom on blu-ray? Technically not first time on blu-ray for that film, not that it matters since the VS release is sold out anyway. Good news for anyone who missed out on that solid release.

[tek8080]

Looks like Hana-Bi is coming too. Preorder up at diabolik and amazon..com. I already have the third window films release, as well as the Korean amaray, but I'd consider triple dipping if there was anything new other than the booklet.

[NoirFan]

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Originally Posted by Film Media FB

All The Sins Of Sodom / Vibrations will be available on Blu-Ray, DVD and Digital on September 26, 2017

[stinky bean]

Review with screen caps (some NSFW) here.

[JezelleGHartman]

All the sins of sodom definitely has a better transfer than the vs one. The vs one is overly bright and soft this ones darker and more clear. It looks AMAZING!! The only problem is the movie did skip 2 1/2 minutes in. Not sure if it was only my copy. If anyone else can check On this I’d really appreciate it. From 2:36-2:41 specifically.

[cropduster]

Bloodlust (1977) 35MM Trailer - YouTube