"Our Hospitality" (1923, Buster Keaton) from Kino Mar. 22

[bluskies]

Our Hospitality Blu-ray

Our Hospitality Blu-ray Review


Kino has announced yet another Buster Keaton film on Blu, Our Hospitality.

Extras include:

Music composed and conducted by Carl Davis, performed by The Thames Silents Orchestra (in 5.1 Surround or 2.0 Stereo)

Musical score compiled by Donald Hunsberger (2.0 Stereo)

“The Iron Mule” (1925, 19 min.) with music by Ben Model

Original documentary on the making of the film, written by film historian Patricia Eliot Tobias with David B. Pearson

Hospitality -- a 49-minute alternate cut of the film, with an explanatory introduction, and an organ score by Lee Erwin

2 Galleries: Photos & Snapshots

http://www.classicflix.com/hospitali...n-p-10738.html

[TJS_Blu]

Originally Posted by bluskies

Kino has announced yet another Buster Keaton film on Blu, Our Hospitality.

Wow, must admit I thought they'd stop with "the big three". I hope Kino releases Seven Chances if they're not going to follow through with the complete Art of Buster Keaton.

[Arkadin]

well this was supposed to be coming previously, so great news that it's coming in March!

[bluskies]

Originally Posted by Arkadin

well this was supposed to be coming previously, so great news that it's coming in March!

Yeah, I know...I went looking before I posted this and found the previous thread but since it was from 2009, I thought it might be a good idea to have a new thread.

[s00perd00per]

Great news. I hope they'd release some of his films that weren't available on DVD.

[BasicGreatGuy]

Excellent news. I look forward to adding it to the wish list on Amazon, once it goes live.

[bboisvert]

Day 1 buy. Awesome.

[biglou114]

Can't Wait!!

[Deciazulado]

Our Hospitality Blu-ray

[cryptkeeper]

Pre ordered today.

[shinseiRomeo]

Review is live:

Our Hospitality Blu-ray Review

[bigshot]

I'll be watching this with a group of friends this weekend. Cant wait!

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by bigshot

I'll be watching this with a group of friends this weekend. Cant wait!

Buster's OTHER funny train movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H59Z1C8a0rk

[bigshot]

I watched this last night on my ten foot projection system. Wow! This is a great bluray. It may not have been quite as sharp as some silents, but the grayscale was absolutely perfect. Not washed out like Steamboat Bill Jr. Best of all was the music score. It was perfect, matching all the moods and accenting the main actions. This is one of the most enjoyable presentations of silent film that I've ever seen.

[Putney]

Region free?

[kishiro]

Has anyone seen some early reviews of the Remastered edition ?
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Our-H...lu-ray/249264/

Putney: Yes the previous Kino version was region-free. Don't know about the new one though.

[moviebuff75]

I am so confused about which versions of Keaton to buy. Can someone quickly sum up the best versions? I have the old KINO of The General.

[thatguamguy]

These are things I believe are true, but I'm not a Keaton obsessive, so hopefully somebody will correct me if I'm wrong.

- The Kino masters are old and only 2K
- The Cohen masters are newer and are 4K, so they are assumed to be better PQ than Kino. These are also the masters used for the UK "Masters of Cinema" releases.
- Kino's standalone release of "Steamboat Bill Jr" has an exclusive alternate cut
- "Three Ages" has two different cuts spread out over the two different Kino releases. The American cut is 1080i, on a double feature disc with "Sherlock Jr". The European cut is 1080p, in a two-pack release with "The General".
- for the shorts, the five disc is more complete

All of the releases have different bonus features, you should use dvdcompare to see if any of the alternates interest you. I think there's also different scores, but I'm not sure what has what.

EDIT: Credit to Egbert for correcting me about the UK releases.

[moviebuff75]

Thank you so much for taking your time to explain this It helps!

[Egbert Souse]

The Masters of Cinema set with The General, Steamboat Bill Jr, and Sherlock Jr. uses the exact same 4K restorations and scores as the US Cohen releases.

Kino initially put out their own versions of all the Keaton silents, but when they lost the rights to the Cohen library, they replaced the four fully public domain features with double features using Lobster Films 2K restorations (The General/Three Ages and College/Steamboat Bill Jr). They also replaced their shorts collection with only the Keaton solo films with the Lobster 2K restorations of all the Arbuckle shorts added. That set is mostly identical to the MoC box set except MoC added a substantial booklet.

Since then, Our Hospitality has fallen into the public domain, which is why Lobster Films was able to do a 2K restoration. Cohen seems to have an exclusive on the Carl Davis scores (other than what's come out from Criterion).

Only problems I've seen are some errors on title cards on the Keaton shorts, variances in image quality (Hard Luck is significantly better, but Cops looks worse), and of course score differences.