Kino Lorber Studio Classics

[jkoffman]

Originally Posted by Mia69

What is Kino's track record with releasing 80s titles like The Allnighter on blu? I have the DVD and it doesn't look like much is being added. Might the picture quality be night and day, comparing Kino's blu vs Universal's DVD?

Review right here on the site.

[patrick23]

Originally Posted by donidarko

Smaller Paramount Productions I’d like to see released…

Compromising Positions
First Monday in October
Shirley Valentine
Testament
I’m Dancing as fast as I can
Falling in Love
Bad Company
Coast to Coast
Sunburn

Sad to see these films dismissed as "DVD titles". I would buy them all.
Hopefully Imprint or Paramount themselves will show them some respect

[Member-222782]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

It looks like Paramount is still more focused on their comedies as they announced a few today. I'm really hoping a lot of the stuff Kino releases is the grittier stuff that Paramount isn't that focused on.

If they like comedies so much I hope they consider We're No Angels (1989). Actually, I'm hoping Imprint picks this one up since they'll give it a nice slipbox and will use the original art. I've always had a soft spot for this film.

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by Cinema84

If they like comedies so much I hope they consider We're No Angels (1989). Actually, I'm hoping Imprint picks this one up since they'll give it a nice slipbox and will use the original art. I've always had a soft spot for this film.

Another one I'm surprised doesn't have a release. I'm sure Imprint will get to it eventually. In the US it could be anyone who releases it.

[Yami]

Originally Posted by tangerinewolf

I did not see that Facebook post. Is the bolded statement yours or Ben Stodart's?

Mine but he said "suffice it to say I wouldn't delay a release..." which says to me that it was a choice of his.

Anyway, I'm just speculating that if BFI won't use the existing master, Kino can't or won't either. I would think Kino would wait for the new restoration as well. And again I'm speculating that Kino wasn't even offered it.

Fair, I agree.

[rdf8585]

I'd be curious to know how the W.C. Fields titles are selling for Kino, the three last fall and the three put out last month? Though what's been released represents most of his best work, I'd still like to see International House, Tillie & Gus, and Three of a Kind, eventually.

[DukeTogo84]

I think the number 1 shoe in for a Kino release in the Paramount deal is The Longest Yard. They love Burt, and it's honestly one of his biggest titles not on Blu-ray. Surprised Paramount themselves didn't release with the Adam Sandler remake, but not sure what happened there.

[Benoit Blanc]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

I think the number 1 shoe in for a Kino release in the Paramount deal is The Longest Yard. They love Burt, and it's honestly one of his biggest titles not on Blu-ray. Surprised Paramount themselves didn't release with the Adam Sander remake, but not sure what happened there.

I bought that on Blu-ray.

[filmgenius89]

Also hoping for:

Come Back Little Sheba (1952)
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
Fear Strikes Out (1957)
The Five Pennies (1959)
Lil Abner (1959)
Alfie (1966)
Half A Sixpence (1968)
The Out Of Towners (both 1970 and 1990s. Imprint released the former)

I don't think most of these have been mentioned yet.

[rdf8585]

The Out of Towners with Jack Lemmon would be another prime title to get out of this Paramount deal. Fingers crossed it's included and the print is good.

[beamish13]

Originally Posted by Yami

Snake Eyes would be great. For me, it's perhaps De Palma's last (to date! we live in hope...) great film and it would be incredible if anyone could restore the original tidal wave ending



I wonder if Max Ophuls' Caught might be one of these. It has had a 4K restoration and the old Olive release is OOP. For the other one...The Miracle of Morgan's Creek? Kino have given us some Sturges in the past



If I had to choose just one Paramount-owned 50s film it would be the Frank Tashlin/Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis film Artists and Models which - like most of their films - hasn't had a good HD release anywhere.

For the 60s', there was a restoration of Robert Bresson's Une Femme Douce done a few years ago so hopefully that finally makes it onto disc courtesy of Kino.

I'd also love to see Mikhail Kalatazov's (The Cranes are Flying, I Am Cuba) final film - an odd international co-production starring Sean Connery, Peter Finch and Claudia Cardinale called The Red Tent - but I'm not sure what materials Paramount would have for it.

And like everybody else, I'd love Once Upon a Time in the West on UHD.



So, I'll have the pleasure of seeing the premiere of a new restoration of Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece The Conformist at Il Cinema Ritrovato next month. Paramount released it on DVD but Raro somehow released it on Blu-Ray so I'm not sure if Paramount somehow lost the rights but a UHD of that would be incredible. Days of Heaven is the other big one I'd love on UHD from Paramount's catalog. Criterion lost the rights a couple of years ago.

Other films I'd love to see on Blu-Ray - Robert Benton's Bad Comapny with Jeff Bridges, Louis Malle's Pretty Baby, Peter Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller




Hoping for at least one of: Jerzy Skolimowski's The Lightship, Frank Perry's Compromising Positions, American Gigolo, Children of a Lesser God, Witness



Paramount apparently has some rights to Terence Davies' Gena Rowlands-starring The Neon Bible and it would be a dream to finally get that released.

I'd also like Bogdanovich's The Thing Called Love - think Inside Llewyn Davis but with country music and a very odd but effective final performance by River Phoenix.

Many great suggestions here. I love Bresson’s A Gentle Woman, but I’m guessing it’s earmarked for Criterion. Thing Called Love is a massively underrated gem

The Lightship is a CBS title, no? Another underrated one.

[beamish13]

It’s ridiculous how Better Off Dead had never had an optimal release. Savage Steve Holland did a live commentary at the American Cinematheque, which I’m guessing could be a special feature

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Originally Posted by cloudnine

Is an announcement for WALK PROUD coming this week?

No, it's being moved to September.

[whiteberry]

Originally Posted by filmgenius89

Also hoping for:
Lil Abner (1959)

I'm not sure if people would be able to handle Leslie Parrish, Julie Newmar, and the assorted beefcake in HD.

Put 'Em Back - Stereo - Li'l Abner 1959 - YouTube

The surprise cameo in the movie by a certain individual is one of the funniest cameos of the 50s.

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming August 2nd!
https://www.kinolorber.com/product/t...dition-blu-ray

The Octagon (1980)
• Brand New 2K Master
• NEW Audio Commentary by Action Film Historians Brandon Bentley and Mike Leeder
• Audio Commentary by Director Eric Karson
• The Making of THE OCTAGON (39:24)
• 4 Radio Spots
• Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Art
• Limited Edition O-Card
• Optional English Subtitles

Color 103 Minutes 1.85:1 Rated R
Martial arts superstar Chuck Norris (A Force of One, Code of Silence) teams up with screen legend Lee Van Cleef (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Death Rides a Horse) to take on a terrorist training camp known only as The Octagon in this deadly tale of revenge! Plagued by painful memories as a fighter, Scott James (Norris) has stayed away from the dark side of battle. But when a vengeance-seeking heiress (Karen Carlson, The Candidate) hires him to infiltrate an international terrorist operation run by his adopted brother (Tadashi Yamashita, American Ninja), Scott has no idea what he’s coming up against. Drawn closer and closer to The Octagon, Scott realizes his brother is using his skill in the deadliest manner, training men in the ninja style of killing. Now it’s up to Scott to battle his brother in the ultimate showdown of Good vs. Evil! Directed by Eric Karson (Black Eagle, Angel Town) and co-starring Richard Norton (Force: Five), Art Hindle (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), Aaron Norris (Lone Wolf McQuade) and Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters), The Octagon is filled with hard-hitting Norris vs. Ninjas action!

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[StLouisRibs]

Originally Posted by rdf8585

I'd be curious to know how the W.C. Fields titles are selling for Kino, the three last fall and the three put out last month? Though what's been released represents most of his best work, I'd still like to see International House, Tillie & Gus, and Three of a Kind, eventually.

I know that Kino indicated that Never Give A Sucker An Even Break was not a good seller and that they only took on the most recent six because they represented his bigger films and had recently become available after being sat on for some time and so had a chance of doing better. So suffice it to say I have a hard time imagining them wanting to explore the deeper cuts. But I'm very happy to have gotten what we've got!

[darkness2918]

Count me in for The Octagon. Missed it the first time around.

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Originally Posted by rdf8585

I'd be curious to know how the W.C. Fields titles are selling for Kino, the three last fall and the three put out last month? Though what's been released represents most of his best work, I'd still like to see International House, Tillie & Gus, and Three of a Kind, eventually.

They've all sold well, the silent films we had released had performed poorly. We have no plans of releasing the rest of these at least not as part of the next deal we're working on.

[DukeTogo84]

Damn, that Octagon cover look really nice. Never seen this one, but will easily pick it up.

[Jobla]

Has anyone mentioned SERIAL (1980)? I wouldn't mind seeing that one hit Blu.