The Lion in Winter (1968)

[Akijama]

Coming Soon on Blu-ray!
A 2K Restoration from a 4K Scan!
Oscar Winner: Best Actress | Best Screenplay | Best Score
Oscar Nominee: Best Picture | Best Actor | Best Director | Best Costume

The Lion in Winter (1968) Starring Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry and Timothy Dalton - Shot by Douglas Slocombe - Score by John Barry - Screenplay by James Goldman, based on his play - Directed by Anthony Harvey

https://www.facebook.com/KinoLorberS...type=3&theater

[Bates_Motel]

Nice to see a US release of the new master that came out last year overseas.

[bookcase]

THRILLED this is coming to BD!!!

[Tommy0807]

This makes my day! I'd hang you from the nipples, but you'd shock the children.

[javi92]

Hope the encoding is better on this disc. UK disc had some weird stuff going on in the blacks.

[dcforsyth]

" The Lion in Winter (1968) coming from Kino "

Of course it is. I just bought it a couple months ago from Amazon de.

Edit: I enjoyed the movie by the way.

[Supermartyoh]

I thought this was with TT, but maybe something happened on MGM's side and TT couldn't cough up the coin for the StudioCanal master.

[Akijama]

Coming on March 13.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0791ZVRDG...n%3A2650305011

Newly Restored in 4K! Acting greats Peter O'Toole (Lawrence of Arabia), Katharine Hepburn (The African Queen), Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) and Timothy Dalton (The Living Daylights) star in this epic masterpiece directed by Anthony Harvey (They Might Be Giants). Behind the great stone walls of an English castle, the world's most powerful empire is in crisis. Three sons struggle to win their father's favor, as well as his crown. King Henry II (O'Toole) and his queen, Eleanor (Hepburn), engage in a battle of royal wits that pits elder son Richard (Hopkins) against his brothers John (Nigel Terry, Excalibur) and Geoffrey (John Castle, Man of La Mancha), while the cunning King Philip of France (Dalton) takes advantage of the internal fracturing in his bid to destroy their kingdom. Nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Actor (O'Toole), Director (Harvey) and Costume Design (Margaret Furse) and winner of 3 Academy Awards - Best Actress (Hepburn), Adapted Screenplay (James Goldman) and Music Score (John Barry).

Special Features:
-2016 4K Restoration
-Audio Commentary by Director Anthony Harvey
-Interview with Sound Recordist Simon Kaye
-5.1 Surround / 2.0 Audio
-Original Theatrical Trailer

[thinredline]

So, it's most likely the same transfer with the UK release..

That one didn't look good!

[yellowcakeuf6]

Originally Posted by thinredline

So, it's most likely the same transfer with the UK release..

That one didn't look good!

Do you have the UK release? I haven't seen it, but a user review gives the PQ 4.5 stars. Also, there's a 5.1 track that doesn't appear to be on the UK.

[thinredline]

Originally Posted by yellowcakeuf6

Do you have the UK release? I haven't seen it, but a user review gives the PQ 4.5 stars. Also, there's a 5.1 track that doesn't appear to be on the UK.

I've seen screenshots of it and it seems DNRed! It certainly doesn't look like a 4K scan should look.

also here:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...9&postcount=36

The transfer seems to lack much grain but detail is fair in medium to close-up shots. Long shots look a bit smoothened over to me.

[theater dreamer]

About bleeping time!!!!

This was going on my next UK import order. Now I can get something else, instead. Fantastic movie. Absolutely fantastic!!!!! I first saw this in high school. And, I'm still shocked it took this long to get a domestic release.

[gkolb]

Digital Bits has a cover shot of the Kino release, looks to be the same as the Euro release cover from last year. Very colorful and energetic IMO.

Shown here: http://www.thedigitalbits.com/column...ts/011918-1615

[TheLaughingMann]

I may go for this when it hits $15 or less. I bought Barton Fink DOR, and while I enjoyed the subtelty in the movie, I felt like I could have spent less for a catalog title.

This one will likely make up for it.

[vjo81]

Just a brilliant movie. Put this together with Becket, A Man for All Seasons and Anne of the Thousand Days for great case studies of the reigns of Henry II and Henry VIII.

[surfinhank]

Just read the review on HomeTheaterForum.... not good. Proof again that "4K" means nothing if the 4K scan is made from sub-par elements.

https://www.hometheaterforum.com/com...lu-ray.356373/

[amputd]

I've become disenchanted with Kino. They don't always produce good transfers and I've been disappointed more than a few times. I hope the review is wrong but I'm concerned this will be another disappointment.

[captveg]

Kino releases a lot of titles, and some of them simply have masters that are of lower quality. These films are often a choice between a lower quality master being released, or never seeing the light of day, because the rights holders of the elements simply have zero interest in investing the money needed to do so. Everyone has to draw their own lines of what they will or will not purchase, but for me when it comes to films that seemingly only get released every 15-20 years (Lion in Winter, They Shoot Horses), I'm willing to bite the bullet to have the title available to me, because how the hell do I know if I'll even be around in 2038 to see a better release?

[javi92]

Sounds like the same issues the U.K. disc has. Hoped better encoding would fix, but sounds like master level shortcomings. Alas.

[AsOldAsRhyme]

Would’ve loved it if this also included a digital copy, but I’ll still grab it at some point down the line regardless.