Kino Lorber Studio Classics

[Torgon]

Originally Posted by Robert Siegel

Then you don't really care about film Kino, if there's no reason to recall a disc where on the previous DVD all 3 sections of overture, intermission and exit music are in stereo but not on your blu-ray, which was touted as the roadshow edition (which I saw in 1968 and it was ALL stereo). I totally believe it is Universal's fault, but if someone like you doesn't stand up for what you release, it's a lost fight right from the start isn't it? And for those of you who say that having those 3 sections in mono rather than the stereo they are supposed to be is no big issue, I am willing to bet this is not one of your favorite films, but each person I have seen make a comment like that, looking into their posting history, they sure have complained about the titles they love.

Universal should be repressing this and replacing it...and Kino should get behind its customers. That is what should have happened with Sweet Charity with the omission of the breaks for that "roadshow" release. There are 3 titles important to me from Universal, from the Kino deals. Sweet Charity was a big problem as the intermission and exit music were left off (yet advertised on the package). Now Millie's Overture, Intermission and exit music are in Mono. I wonder how Flower Drum Song will be screwed up.

I am sorry Kino but when a distributor like yours says "no reason to fix it." it says volumes about how much you really care for the people keeping you in business. I have had alot of respect for you and have over 400 of your titles, but my opinion of you just changed very much. You should be standing behind the film fans and at least try to force Universal to fix this problem.

Or you could say 'Thank you Kino for putting my three favorite movies of all time on blu-ray. Without you, I'd still be watching them on my crappy DVDs (but at least I could hear my intermissions). Thank you again for all your effort and I hope you sell the other 1199 copies of these movies '.

Not all releases are perfect. You get the hand you are dealt by higher authority.
Look at all of the Star Wars (A New Hope as an example) releases and they are still screwed up. But I buy them because they are my favorites and I want the best version of each even if they are not perfect.

[Gacivory]

I’m enjoying these Cohen announcements! Hoping for more! I guess I’ll be the Cohen fanboy!

[chocolat]

Originally Posted by romuald121

Hey Kino Lorber Insider,
Can you show Kay Francis some blu-ray recognition like you did for Marlene Dietrich ?
Here's a list of her movies

1929 Gentlemen of the Press -Myra May
1929 Dangerous Curves -Zara Flynn
1929 Illusion -Zelda Paxton
1929 The Marriage Playground -Lady Wrench
1930 Behind the Make-Up -Kitty Parker
1930 Street of Chance -Alma Marsden
1930 Paramount on Parade- Carmen Episode: "The Toreador"
1930 A Notorious Affair -Countess Olga Balakireff
1930 For the Defense -Irene Manners
1930 Raffles -Gwen
1930 Let's Go Native -Constance Cook
1930 The Virtuous Sin -Marya Ivanova Sablin
1930 Passion Flower -Dulce Morado
1930 Paramount on Parade- Herself
1931 Scandal Sheet -Edith Flint
1931 Ladies' Man -Norma Page
1931 The Vice Squad -Alice Morrison
1931 Transgression -Elsie Maury
1931 Guilty Hands -Marjorie West
1931 24 Hours -Fanny Towner
1931 Girls About Town -Wanda Howard
1931 The False Madonna -Tina
1932 Strangers in Love -Diana Merrow
1932 Man Wanted -Lois Ames
1932 Street of Women Natalie 'Nat' Upton
1932 Jewel Robbery Baroness Teri
1932 One Way Passage Joan Ames
1932 Trouble in Paradise Madame Mariette Colet
1932 Cynara Clemency Warlock
1933 The Keyhole Anne Vallee Brooks
1933 Storm at Daybreak Irina Radovic
1933 Mary Stevens, M.D. -Mary Stevens
1933 I Loved a Woman -Laura McDonald
1933 The House on 56th Street -Peggy Martin
1934 Mandalay -Tanya Borodoff / Spot White / Marjorie Lang
1934 Wonder Bar -Liane
1934 Dr. Monica -Dr. Monica
1934 British Agent -Elena Moura
1935 Living on Velvet -Amy Prentiss
1935 Stranded -Lynn Palmer
1935 The Goose and the Gander -Georgiana
1935 I Found Stella Parish -Stella Parish
1936 The White Angel -Florence 'Flo' Nightingale
1936 Give Me Your Heart -Belinda Warren
1937 Stolen Holiday -Nicole Picot
1937 Another Dawn -Julia Ashton Wister
1937 Confession -Vera Kowalska
1937 First Lady -Lucy Chase Wayne
1938 Women Are Like That -Claire Landin
1938 My Bill -Mary Colbrook
1938 Secrets of an Actress -Fay Carter
1938 Comet Over Broadway -Eve Appleton
1939 King of the Underworld -Carol Nelson
1939 Women in the Wind -Janet Steele
1939 In Name Only -Maida Walker
1940 It's a Date -Georgia Drake
1940 When the Daltons Rode -Julie King
1940 Little Men -Jo
1941 Play Girl -Grace Herbert
1941 The Man Who Lost Himself -Adrienne Scott
1941 Charley's Aunt -Donna Lucia d'Alvadorez
1941 The Feminine Touch -Nellie Woods
1942 Always in My Heart -Marjorie Scott
1942 Between Us Girls -Christine 'Chris' Bishop
1944 Four Jills in a Jeep -Herself
1945 Divorce -Dianne Carter
1945 Allotment Wives -Sheila Seymour
1946 Wife Wanted -Carole Raymond (final film role)

every single one of these is coming in a box set from Kino in 4k with dolby vision and original roadshow audios and one big huge slipcover that fits around a large box that is limited to 200 but they wont tell you and there's commentaries by Svet since he knows a lot about film and you can preorder this now on severin.

[romuald121]

Originally Posted by chocolat

every single one of these is coming in a box set from Kino in 4k with dolby vision and original roadshow audios and one big huge slipcover that fits around a large box that is limited to 200 but they wont tell you and there's commentaries by Svet since he knows a lot about film and you can preorder this now on severin.

Thanks for the humorous comment. On another note , I was serious , the actress, Kay Francis, is almost MIA on blu-ray to the exception of 2 only blu-rays (The Cocoanuts and Trouble in Paradise released in Spain only). Marlene Dietrich enjoyed releases from Criterion and Kino, I feel Kay Francis is as deserving if not more.

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming November 16th!

Among the Living (1941)
• NEW Audio Commentary by Professor and Film Scholar Jason A. Ney
• Trailers
• Optional English Subtitles

B&W 69 Minutes 1.37:1 Not Rated
Albert Dekker (Dr. Cyclops), Susan Hayward (Back Street), Harry Carey (The Shepherd of the Hills) and Frances Farmer (Come and Get It) star in this gripping cinematic blend of noir thrills and Southern Gothic chills. Paul Raden (Dekker) is a hopeless maniac. Twenty-five years ago, he suffered permanent brain damage trying to defend his mother from his brutal father. Paul’s last memory, before descending into the shadows of insanity, was his mother’s agonized scream. Locked away in secrecy ever since, he escapes from his prison on the night of his father’s funeral and stalks among the living. It’s up to Paul’s identical twin John (also Dekker) to put a stop to his brother’s vicious spree. Stuart Heisler (The Glass Key, Blue Skies) directed this eerie film noir with expressionistic black-and-white photography by Theodor Sparkuhl (Beau Geste, Wake Island) that perfectly complements its dark story of madness and murder.

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[danman227460]

Be glad KLI is even answering or posting anything at all. They could easily have gone silent. What other studio actually interacts and posts on this forum?

No studio is perfect and sometimes things are really out of their hand. You have to remember, there is a cost for everything. No idea how many they might have sold but I can think of their cost to recall and reprint for let's say 1000 would be not economical.

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by danman227460

Be glad KLI is even answering or posting anything at all. They could easily have gone silent. What other studio actually interacts and posts on this forum?

No studio is perfect and sometimes things are really out of their hand. You have to remember, there is a cost for everything. No idea how many they might have sold but I can think of their cost to recall and reprint for let's say 1000 would be not economical.

Code Red interacts and they’re interesting.

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Originally Posted by chocolat

KLI

will the Some Like It Hot 4K have a better cover than Criterion's blu?

I'm sure it will.

[Bobo Justus]

Are you guys doing Britannia Hospital? I remember reading that you had it in the works around the time of the Indicator release.

[chocolat]

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

I'm sure it will.

Kino's earned themselves a sale based on this response alone.

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Originally Posted by Bobo Justus

Are you guys doing Britannia Hospital? I remember reading that you had it in the works around the time of the Indicator release.

It was released a year ago:

https://www.kinolorber.com/product/b...spital-blu-ray

[romuald121]

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

It was released a year ago:

https://www.kinolorber.com/product/b...spital-blu-ray

KLI

Can you answer my question here
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...ostcount=60455

Thanks,
R

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Originally Posted by romuald121

Thanks for the humorous comment. On another note , I was serious , the actress, Kay Francis, is almost MIA on blu-ray to the exception of 2 only blu-rays (The Cocoanuts and Trouble in Paradise released in Spain only). Marlene Dietrich enjoyed releases from Criterion and Kino, I feel Kay Francis is as deserving if not more.

Most of her films are with studios we've never dealt with. We were interested in Girls About Town, but it was not legally cleared. I love Kay Francis as much as anyone, but she's not as popular as Dietrich, Lombard, Stanwyck...

Majority of the 20 films of her that are available to us, if legally cleared, are not big enough to release on their own and we haven't have the best of luck with our actor sets.

[Bobo Justus]

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

It was released a year ago:

https://www.kinolorber.com/product/b...spital-blu-ray

What a pleasant surprise!

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Originally Posted by romuald121

KLI

Can you answer my question here
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...ostcount=60455

Thanks,
R

Just did.

[filmgenius89]

Originally Posted by Robert Siegel

Then you don't really care about film Kino, if there's no reason to recall a disc where on the previous DVD all 3 sections of overture, intermission and exit music are in stereo but not on your blu-ray, which was touted as the roadshow edition (which I saw in 1968 and it was ALL stereo). I totally believe it is Universal's fault, but if someone like you doesn't stand up for what you release, it's a lost fight right from the start isn't it? And for those of you who say that having those 3 sections in mono rather than the stereo they are supposed to be is no big issue, I am willing to bet this is not one of your favorite films, but each person I have seen make a comment like that, looking into their posting history, they sure have complained about the titles they love.

Universal should be repressing this and replacing it...and Kino should get behind its customers. That is what should have happened with Sweet Charity with the omission of the breaks for that "roadshow" release. There are 3 titles important to me from Universal, from the Kino deals. Sweet Charity was a big problem as the intermission and exit music were left off (yet advertised on the package). Now Millie's Overture, Intermission and exit music are in Mono. I wonder how Flower Drum Song will be screwed up.

I am sorry Kino but when a distributor like yours says "no reason to fix it." it says volumes about how much you really care for the people keeping you in business. I have had alot of respect for you and have over 400 of your titles, but my opinion of you just changed very much. You should be standing behind the film fans and at least try to force Universal to fix this problem.

You do realize you're literally talking about music over a solid screen with no actual footage from the film missing, right?

Do you also complain when restoration credits are added to the end credits of a film since they aren't "original" to the film?

Yes, it's annoying, but kino is given what they are given. The fact that uni isn't releasing this themselves shows that they don't care about the property enough to go back and remaster it for an issue so mediocre as this.

A lot of films have been released in much poorer shape. Relax dude.

[romuald121]

Most of her films are with studios we've never dealt with.

She did movies for Paramount /WB studios, She wasn't like an independent actress she even was the highest paid actress for WB according to wiki between 1930 and 1936

We were interested in Girls About Town, but it was not legally cleared. I love Kay Francis as much as anyone,

It's a shame it didn't work out

but she's not as popular as Dietrich, Lombard, Stanwyck...

She died young in 60s ish that might explain it and she even stated that she wanted to be forgotten which is mind boggling because she was so talented.

[Shanghai Express]

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

Most of her films are with studios we've never dealt with. We were interested in Girls About Town, but it was not legally cleared. I love Kay Francis as much as anyone, but she's not as popular as Dietrich, Lombard, Stanwyck...

Majority of the 20 films of her that are available to us, if legally cleared, are not big enough to release on their own and we haven't have the best of luck with our actor sets.

A Kay Francis set would probably serve Deanna Durbin numbers or less, you're right, but a few choice Kay titles (Ladies' Man with Lombard and Wm. Powell, 24 Hours with Miriam Hopkins, Strangers In Love with Fredric March) could be sprinkled throughout two or three volumes of a pre-code collection

[romuald121]

While we're talking about Barbara Stanwyck, why there wasn't a release for Sorry ,Wrong Number in the US while Australia got special and regular editions

[ilenewoodsfan99]

Kay Francis is slowly but surely making her way up the ranking of my 100 favorite actresses. True, she likely won't rank as high as someone like Barbara Stanwyck and especially not Vivien Leigh (my #1) when all is said and done, but her talent is undeniable.