Kino Lorber Studio Classics

[BarnDoor]

Originally Posted by BobSimms

Well, BarnDoor, it’s all up to you now.

I'll do my best lol!

I can give you the Tony Curtis 60s possibilities at least:

The Great Imposter (1961)
The Outsider (1961)
40 Pounds of Trouble (1962)
Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
Wild and Wonderful (1964)

Of these, I think the 1961 titles are unlikely as things stand, because there's only 1 1961 title and I suspect it will be The Last Sunset. Of the others, there is 1 1962 title (the other being Freud: The Secret Passion), 1 1963 title (I think this will indeed be Captain Newman, M.D.) and 1 1964 title in the deal.

[Shanghai Express]

Very happy with Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, The Song Of Songs, and The Flame Of New Orleans, all of which I received this morning. The Bluebeard disc has authoring issues (milky black/grey pillarbox) but after a few minutes they did not distract me. I’ve been waiting long enough for this and the other titles to appear on R1 Blu-ray, I can overlook.

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by BobSimms

Well, BarnDoor, it’s all up to you now.

So glad to have Barn Door here and everyone else who contribute some normalcy and help us look forward to better days.

I abandoned Twitter last year when it got so stridently political day in and day out, I had enough. Then when even some of my innocuous movie groups on Facebook started being invaded by extremist political trolls and racists, I got disgusted and abandoned that site too after 15 years. As such, I’m depending on this site for Blu updates and, to quote Blanche, “the kindness of strangers.” So in the KLI’s understandable, but still disappointing absence, I hope we can continue to stay on top of release news and other relevant label discussions and debates.

[WillieMLF]

Watched the documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy Blache on TCM last night. They played a slew of shorts after. Looking forward to picking up the Kino set when all this craziness blows over.

[Jobla]

My number one Tony Curtis want from the 60's is the largely forgotten WILD AND WONDERFUL (1964), which has never been released on home video to my knowledge. It stars Tony, his beautiful wife Christine Kauffman, and a whole bunch of French poodles.

I don't think I've seen it since the 60's, so who knows if it's as much fun as I recall? I'd enjoy revisiting it.

[bsend]

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

We will take a short break from posting here and the other forums. Our offices are closed and all of us are working from home. Please check Facebook and Twitter for announcements and updates.

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Stay safe!

[trentdiesel]

Originally Posted by Cooper67

With the office being closed im hopin and praying that someone will be able to ship out the april 7th releases the beginning of next week as ive waited a long time for these. Ever since all this stuff started i quietly thought to myself just get the Gary Cooper releases shipped and ill be ok with any closings or stopages after that.

As long as you are ok with it

[DaBargainHunta]

Originally Posted by Cooper67

With the office being closed im hopin and praying that someone will be able to ship out the april 7th releases the beginning of next week as ive waited a long time for these. Ever since all this stuff started i quietly thought to myself just get the Gary Cooper releases shipped and ill be ok with any closings or stopages after that.

This is one of the strangest posts I've ever seen here - and, believe me, I've seen some strange ones! - but I'm now fully invested and 100% rooting for you to get your Gary Cooper releases. Keep us posted!

[Jaymole]

Originally Posted by Cooper67

With the office being closed im hopin and praying that someone will be able to ship out the april 7th releases the beginning of next week as ive waited a long time for these. Ever since all this stuff started i quietly thought to myself just get the Gary Cooper releases shipped and ill be ok with any closings or stopages after that.

Gary Cooper was actually a big fan of viruses. He was quoted once as saying that one of his favorite times was when he was 17 and the Spanish Flu broke out. So if you don't get your blu-rays because of the virus, just look at the bright side, Gary Cooper would have been happy.

[rickah88]

[GetHarryPalmer]

Originally Posted by BarnDoor

I'll do my best lol!

I can give you the Tony Curtis 60s possibilities at least:

The Great Imposter (1961)
The Outsider (1961)
40 Pounds of Trouble (1962)
Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
Wild and Wonderful (1964)

Of these, I think the 1961 titles are unlikely as things stand, because there's only 1 1961 title and I suspect it will be The Last Sunset. Of the others, there is 1 1962 title (the other being Freud: The Secret Passion), 1 1963 title (I think this will indeed be Captain Newman, M.D.) and 1 1964 title in the deal.

The Great Imposter is 1960, it opened in the US and in the UK early 1961, but it premiered in Italy in 1960.

[GetHarryPalmer]

Originally Posted by Cooper67

With the office being closed im hopin and praying that someone will be able to ship out the april 7th releases the beginning of next week as ive waited a long time for these. Ever since all this stuff started i quietly thought to myself just get the Gary Cooper releases shipped and ill be ok with any closings or stopages after that.

Do you think they ship orders from their office?

[BarnDoor]

Originally Posted by GetHarryPalmer

The Great Imposter is 1960, it opened in the US and in the UK early 1961, but it premiered in Italy in 1960.

If it is 1960, that would make sense, since they have a 1960 title and the two possibilities I'd narrowed it down to weren't exactly obvious candidates. The Great Imposter would be however.

[lemonski]

Originally Posted by GetHarryPalmer

Do you think they ship orders from their office?

Sure. The KLI Insider pulls a few discs from a stash in his desk drawer, gets a stamp from a roll, licks it, sticks it on an envelope and drops the packages in the local mailbox on his way home. That's how I always imagined it working

[Show spoiler]

[Professor Echo]

Originally Posted by lemonski

Sure. The KLI Insider pulls a few discs from a stash in his desk drawer, gets a stamp from a roll, licks it, sticks it on an envelope and drops the packages in the local mailbox on his way home. That's how I always imagined it working

[Show spoiler]

The KLI Insider also chooses all the titles they release, licenses them from the various rights holders, restores a lot of the films frame by frame, moderates and records all the commentaries, writes and implements all the closed captions, translates foreign language films into English subtitles, prints up the artwork, some of which he’s designed and painted himself, manufactures each plastic case and then puts them in his desk drawer with envelopes and stamps as per your summary. While waiting for orders to come pouring in, he spends his down time with all the nice people on forums like this one.

[sonicyogurt]

Coming July 7th!

DR. WHO & THE DALEKS
• NEW Audio Commentary Kim Newman & Robert Shearman
• Audio Commentary by Jennie Linden, Roberta Tovey & Jonathan Sothcott
• Dalekmania: 57-Minute Doc
• Interview with Gareth Owen
• Restoring Dr. Who and the Daleks
• Theatrical Trailer

[DukeTogo84]

Interesting that we are getting specs on July titles. We haven't even gotten the June titles specs yet right?

[Reddington]

Just saw the announcement on Twitter. Great news. Hopefully, Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. is close behind (my favourite of the two features).

Originally Posted by sonicyogurt

[StarDestroyer52]

Originally Posted by sonicyogurt

. Will be getting this Day 1.

[Professor Echo]

I watched FUZZ from 1972, which was not technically a blind buy as I had seen it first run when I was 13, but I didn’t remember much about it. Having watched the great 1960’s US television series 87th PRECINCT on DVD, it was nice to revisit with Ed McBain’s cop world again in FUZZ, but I can’t say the film added up to much in the end. There are some great scenes, some very funny moments and a nice sort of cosmos to the denouement, but on the whole it just didn’t gel for me.

One thing that maybe our resident behind the scenes film historian Aclea can elaborate on is why Burt Reynolds, despite being credited first, ultimately ended up with what amounted to be a supporting part and how Raquel Welch was relegated to practically doing nothing. She disappears for much of the film and her last scene comes out of nowhere, seemingly tacked on just to remind us she was in the movie. I’ve read that her and Reynolds did not get along, stemming from an incident of Burt saying something offensive while they both filmed 100 RIFLES years earlier. Supposedly she told everyone she would not even make eye contact with Reynolds should they have any scenes together in FUZZ, which they really don’t anyway. I remember from the time how incensed she was by the FUZZ ad campaign which portrayed her as being scantily clad in the movie. The ads also replicated Burt’s centerfold which had absolutely nothing to do with the movie, of course, but was the talk of the town back then. Anyway, hey Aclea, got any further dirt to dish on this one?