Kino Lorber Studio Classics

[Member-222782]

I thought I'd read that Times Square was due "early" in the year. Everything up through March 31st qualifies as early but I was hoping for it a bit sooner. Also, I'm hoping Kino considers licensing the 1993 TV miniseries The Fire Next Time since they deal with CBS/Viacom. A release would only make sense if it's on Blu-ray, though, as there's already a DVD but this deserves a nice special edition in HD.

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Originally Posted by revgen

Kino Lorber is releasing 21 titles on blu-ray this month. Even if they hired a dedicated cover designer, that person would have to create a new cover for 21 blu-rays in one month. Kino uses the vintage posters for a reason.

Our use of vintage posters is not due to our heavy slate, when possible, everyone should use vintage poster art as the key art.

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Originally Posted by cinerama

Would love to see them release to you one or more of their 1950's 3D titles. They spend way too much money restoring them themselves when the 3D Film Archive could do it for pennies on the dollars.

It's still a very expensive process, our masters for the 3-D films still cost us three to four times more than a regular one.

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Originally Posted by Cinema84

I thought I'd read that Times Square was due "early" in the year. Everything up through March 31st qualifies as early but I was hoping for it a bit sooner. Also, I'm hoping Kino considers licensing the 1993 TV miniseries The Fire Next Time since they deal with CBS/Viacom. A release would only make sense if it's on Blu-ray, though, as there's already a DVD but this deserves a nice special edition in HD.

Times Square is not coming out anytime soon.

The Fire Next Time is not with KL.

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming March 24th!

RETURN FROM THE ASHES (1965)
• BRAND NEW 2K MASTER
• Optional English Subtitles
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• Reversible Art
• Theatrical Trailer

(1965) B&W 107 Minutes 2.35:1 Not Rated
From J. Lee Thompson, the acclaimed director of The Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear, Taras Bulba, Eye of the Devil and The White Buffalo, comes this suspenseful thriller based on a novel by Hubert Monteilhet (Scoundrel in White) and adapted for the screen by legendary scriptwriter Julius J. Epstein (Casablanca, Arsenic and Old Lace, Cross of Iron). In Paris at the onset of WWII, wealthy Jewish doctor Michele (Ingrid Thulin, The Silence) marries Stanislaus (Maximilian Schell, Judgment at Nuremberg), a penniless yet cunning Polish chess master. She is later hauled off to Dachau and is assumed dead after her failure to return at the war’s end. But Michele is not dead after all, and returns to Paris under a new identity to find Stanislaus romancing her beautiful young stepdaughter (Samantha Eggar, The Light at the Edge of the World). Murderous twists and turns abound in this stylish Hitchcockian chiller that co-stars the great Herbert Lom (The Pink Panther Strikes Again).

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[DukeTogo84]

KLI, any idea when you will be able to reveal the rest of your Studio Canal line up? The suspense has been killer.

[Guydowood]

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

Our use of vintage posters is not due to our heavy slate, when possible, everyone should use vintage poster art as the key art.

unless someone on that key art is holding out for more $$$.

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming March 24th!

MY GUN IS QUICK (1957)
• BRAND NEW 2K MASTER
• Optional English Subtitles
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• Theatrical Trailer

B&W 91 Minutes 1.85:1 Not Rated
Based on the bestselling novel by legendary pulp writer Mickey Spillane (I, the Jury, The Girl Hunters, Kiss Me Deadly), My Gun Is Quick is a hardboiled film noir starring Robert Bray (Never Love a Stranger) as the tough-talking, no-nonsense private eye Mike Hammer. After Mike defends a prostitute from a violent thug, he cannot help noticing a unique ring on her finger. Later, when she winds up the victim of an apparent hit-and-run accident, the ring is nowhere to be found. Mike suspects it’s cold-blooded murder, so he embarks on a search to find the ring and unravel the mystery surrounding the killing. Along the way, he meets a seductive widow and confronts a deadly gang of jewel smugglers. Co-directed by Victor Saville (The Silver Chalice, Kim, Green Dolphin Street), under the pseudonym Phil Victor, and George White (The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Naked Spur, Bataan), the only directing credit for the veteran Hollywood editor.

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[Kino Lorber Insider]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

KLI, any idea when you will be able to reveal the rest of your Studio Canal line up? The suspense has been killer.

Should be soon. Hopefully in two or three weeks we'll confirm a couple of more titles.

[DWeickerSr]

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

Coming March 24th!

ENDLESS NIGHT (1972)
• BRAND NEW 4K MASTER
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger and Nathaniel Thompson
• Optional English Subtitles
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• Trailers

Color 99 Minutes 1.85:1 Not Rated
Based on the terrifying suspense novel by Agatha Christie, the legendary writer of Death on the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express, Witness for the Prosecution, The Mirror Crack’d and Ten Little Indians, Endless Night stars Hayley Mills (That Darn Cat!, Appointment with Death) as a wealthy heiress who moves into a magnificent dream house with her new husband. But when murder begins to make itself at home, the stage is set for a stunning climax that even hardcore Christie fans consider one of her darkest and most shocking twists ever. George Sanders (Hangover Square), Britt Ekland (The Wicker Man), Per Oscarsson (The Last Valley), Hywel Bennett (Twisted Nerve) and Lois Maxwell (Moonraker) co-star in this gripping psychological thriller, masterfully adapted and directed by Sidney Gilliat (co-writer of The Lady Vanishes and Night Train to Munich). Featuring a haunting and rousing score by legendary composer Bernard Herrmann (North by Northwest, Psycho).

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Just want to let you know that Hywel Bennett's name is misspelled on the cover art for Endless Night - missing a 'T'

[Gunsnroses092789]

KLI - Do you have any estimate when Kiss the Blood off My Hands will be released? Thanks!

[Member-222782]

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

Our use of vintage posters is not due to our heavy slate, when possible, everyone should use vintage poster art as the key art.

Agree 100%. The poster for Force 10 From Navarone, for instance, is epic and I'm very happy you're using it. If I saw copies of both your edition and the old studio-issued Blu with Harrison Ford's huge mug on a store shelf (hypothetical scenario) I would buy your edition even if it were more expensive. I seriously think choice of artwork could make or break a release these days.

[GuruAskew]

Is the Leone set 5 discs or 6? If it’s 5 discs then one of the TGTBTU discs has been dropped.

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Originally Posted by Gunsnroses092789

KLI - Do you have any estimate when Kiss the Blood off My Hands will be released? Thanks!

The remaining Universal titles except for the 3-D and unconfirmed one should all be out by the Summer.

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Originally Posted by GuruAskew

Is the Leone set 5 discs or 6? If it’s 5 discs then one of the TGTBTU discs has been dropped.

5

The collection includes the 162-minute theatrical cut, not the extended cut.

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Originally Posted by DWeickerSr

Just want to let you know that Hywel Bennett's name is misspelled on the cover art for Endless Night - missing a 'T'

Thanks! You would've thought they would misspell the first name.

[Slob]

Originally Posted by Guydowood

unless someone on that key art is holding out for more $$$.

Don't need permission to use likeness if it's original marketing materials. It's new art you need permission for.

[CouncilSpectre]

Are we still looking at the summer for Hannibal Brooks?

Looking forward to that one

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Originally Posted by CouncilSpectre

Are we still looking at the summer for Hannibal Brooks?

Looking forward to that one

Yes.

[sabdo]

KL Insider,

Maybe my last question got lost in the shuffle while you folks were away, so I'm pasting it below. Thanks in advance!

Can you provide any insight into the rights situation(s) with Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico! and Parajanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors? The old DVDs from Kino seem to still be in print, but I remember reading somewhere that there was a possibility that the latter might be receiving a BD release from another label at some point (I'm assuming a BD of the former is probably doubtful). Will they remain available much longer? Are BD upgrades imminent (or even plausible)?