Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! (1965)

[Akijama]

One thread is enough.

Interesting and surprising news. I see blu-ray is not currently available for pre-order on their site. Very curious about the PQ.

[Norbie]

Originally Posted by Akijama

One thread is enough.

Interesting and surprising news. I see blu-ray is not currently available for pre-order on their site. Very curious about the PQ.

My bad, I didn't mean to. I'm trying to delete the other one but I can't select the delete button.

[Akijama]

Originally Posted by Norbie

My bad, I didn't mean to. I'm trying to delete the other one but I can't select the delete button.

There's no delete button. No biggie. Mods will delete the other one.

[Dr_Bedlo]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ani c:

I think this post is using up all the oxygen! (feeling lightheaded and giddy)

Awesomeness!

[chip75]

This is good news!

[lilboyblu]

Unbelievable! I just posted how this needed a Blu-ray release a few weeks ago and was this close to picking up the old Arrow DVD. This is great news!

[Cvalda]

I love this film, but this doesn't exactly seem promising coming from their little in-house company.

And Christ, those "sale prices" for simple DVDs are outrageous.

[John_Drake]

^^ Par for the course with RM Films, I'm afraid.

I wonder if Arrow's recent announcement had anything to do with the timing of this?
I just hope FFKK is mastered properly and not done on the cheap.

[obscurelabel]

I don't want to check out the RM site at work, does it say what the AR is? I saw this in a theater when it was revived in 1995, and I'm pretty sure it was matted to at least 1.66:1, but I can't remember for sure. One of my lifetime regrets is not going to see the film one day earlier, when Russ Meyer himself attended the screening at the long-gone Garden Hills Cinema in Atlanta and answered questions afterwards. A few years later there were reports that he was ill with dementia and he died in 2004.

This is the only RM film that I really like (maybe BtVotD also); hoping it will be a good release.

[KrugStillo]

Originally Posted by Cvalda

I love this film, but this doesn't exactly seem promising coming from their little in-house company.

And Christ, those "sale prices" for simple DVDs are outrageous.

They are pricey but Russ Meyer's films have always been distributed in the US by RM Films. This was his own personal distribution company. he was notorious for not wanting anyone outside his company to touch the films. The quality was respectable with the DVD's and I remember they were dedicated to transferring things properly without any obvious digital tinkering. They even gave specs about the amount of light used for the telecine transfers back in the day so I would expect a pretty accurate representation of the source that was used. I'm very excited to pick this up. I hope they do his others like Vixen, SuperVixens, Up and so on.

[fraz]

This is interesting news. I had abandoned hope that The Russ Meyer Trust would ever invest in upgrading any of Meyer's movies to high definition.

I'm reserving my excitement, however, and remain skeptical about this release. The Russ Meyer Trust has been very good at disappointing Russ Meyer fans since the auteur died in 2004. Their subpar, bare-bones DVD offerings are expensive. "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" deserves a deluxe, "Criterion Collection" type release of the highest technical quality with plenty of extras and supplements. I'm not confident that this is what we will get from the Russ Meyer Trust. To be blunt, I'm thinking of all the ways they might have screwed this up. Aspect ratio? Quality of high definition upgrade? Extras? Price? Availability?

Let's hope this release is worthy and the start of a broader upgrade of Meyer's unique film catalogue.

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by Akijama

Very curious about the PQ

Same here - this is my favorite Meyer film. Hopefully they lay off the DNR.