Kino Lorber Studio Classics

[cloudnine]

Kino Insider - Been waiting what seems like forever for WALK PROUD. Any update?

[Beckford]

Given Kino's rather elastic concept of what qualifies as a film noir, wouldn't 1957's "The Girl in the Kremlin" be a possibility? It's a kind of hopped-up hodgepodge about Stalinist conspiracy starring Lex Barker and Zsa Zsa Gabor (in a dual role, no less). The picture was distributed by Universal but I don't know if they actually retain the rights. Saw it once and it certainly held my attention.

[Rafows]

Originally Posted by gudemameshiba

Updating based on Kino Lorber Insider’s reply (and earlier, solid speculation from Zygmunt22). Once again these are possibilities (and not necessarily the only ones):



Legal issues
Chicago Deadline (1949)
Illegal Entry (1949)
Istanbul (1957)
Manhandled (1949) (this was a Pine-Thomas co-production)
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957)

(SanCarolina59? BarnDoor?)

Mister Cory is rulled out, as Mr. Inside already stated that no color films would be included in the film noir sets.

[Rzzzz]

Originally Posted by Rafows

Mister Cory is rulled out, as Mr. Inside already stated that no color films would be included in the film noir sets.

Here's hoping it gets a stand alone release from Kino somewhere down the line...

[Show spoiler]now give me I Was A Shoplifter please!

[mbb10429]

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

Some of these are not cleared, the others we're most likely not interested in.

KL Insider--

Are you able to say which of the titles have not been legally cleared? I'm asking because I noticed you just did the same thing with a bunch of noir titles. The up side would be that whiners like myself would shut up and stop bothering you about releasing these titles.

Thanks!

[mja345]

I gave the 4K UHD of "Hard Target" a watch, first time I'd seen it in a long time. The presentation is absolutely gorgeous and I'd forgotten just how much ass that movie kicks. I think it may be John Woo's best American film, certainly neck and neck with "Face/Off".

Van Damme acquits himself well under the direction of Woo, Wilford Brimley as a Cajun is unforgettable, and having Lance Henriksen and Arnold Vosloo as the two villains is almost an embarrassment of riches. Either one of them could have carried the film as the solo villain, but the two of them going back and forth like a tag team of hilariously over-the-top psychopathic behavior is what really turns this film into a genre classic.

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by dvining

Can't forget the Fox vault fire.

Almost all of Theda Bara's career is lost.

That Fox fire destroyed lots of titles including 4 of the first 5 Warner Oland Charlie Chan films. The MGM vault fire seems to have taken the last known print of London After Midnight. It’s really depressing if you do a search of lost films. Many early Technicolor films now only exist in b&w prints and the same is true with early widescreen films only existing in standard format. But every once in a while something miraculous happens like the discovery of the nearly complete Metropolis.

[BluPat]

I would love John Frankenheimer's "SECONDS" (1966) starring Rock Hudson on 4K UHD.
I know Criterion released the Blu-ray but would love Kino to get it.

[El Sleezo]

On While Supplies Last Adios, Sabata is now OOP.

Also The Hunting Party; DVD still available.

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming to Blu-ray July 26th from Kino Lorber!

El Cortez (2006)
Starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Bruce Weitz, Glenn Plummer, Tracy Middendorf, James McDaniel, Peter Onorati
Directed by Stephen Purvis

El Cortez is the story of an autistic man who attempts to start a new life after his incarceration. After five years in a prison for the criminally insane, Manny (Lou Diamond Phillips, La Bamba) returns to Reno. He moves into a motel and takes a job as a clerk at the Hotel El Cortez. He is befriended by Popcorn (Bruce Weitz, Hill Street Blues), a crippled prospector who seeks his help to persuade Russo (Peter Onorati, Goodfellas), a wealthy gambler, to invest in Popcorn’s gold mine. But Manny cannot escape his past and is soon caught in a labyrinth that leads to a murderous triple cross.

Special features:
*Behind-the-scenes Featurette
*Deleted Scene
*Trailer
*Optional English subtitles

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[Rayjg]

Originally Posted by hoytereden

That Fox fire destroyed lots of titles including 4 of the first 5 Warner Oland Charlie Chan films. The MGM vault fire seems to have taken the last known print of London After Midnight. It’s really depressing if you do a search of lost films. Many early Technicolor films now only exist in b&w prints and the same is true with early widescreen films only existing in standard format. But every once in a while something miraculous happens like the discovery of the nearly complete Metropolis.

I can still remember the 2008 Universal fire And of course the recent fire in Brazil. Things have improved but barely.

[Mr. Thomsen]

Originally Posted by hoytereden

That Fox fire destroyed lots of titles including 4 of the first 5 Warner Oland Charlie Chan films. The MGM vault fire seems to have taken the last known print of London After Midnight. It’s really depressing if you do a search of lost films. Many early Technicolor films now only exist in b&w prints and the same is true with early widescreen films only existing in standard format. But every once in a while something miraculous happens like the discovery of the nearly complete Metropolis.

So much has sadly been lost.

Besides London After Midnight, I dream of someone some day finding the reels of F.W. Murnau's unauthorized Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde adaptation, Der Januskopf. Not only did it have Conrad Veidt in the lead, but Bela Lugosi also appeared in a supporting role. Chances are against it, though, as it does not appear to have played much outside of Germany, and the last prints were most likely destroyed in fires during the war.

But then, sometimes miracles do happen. Prints do turn up places where nobody has thought of looking before, like the more or less complete version of Metropolis, which turned up in a South-American film archive; or the original version of Dreyer's Jeanne d'Arc, which was long thought to be lost when a print was discovered in a Norwegian asylum. And then there are the cases of films mislabeled. The sole surviving print of one of Tod Browning's and Lon Chaney's best movies, The Unknown, turned up in the national French film archive. It was labeled correctly, but due to the name on the cannisters, it was placed among a large stack of other reels with unknown content, until someone some day made the connection and checked.

[trentdiesel]

Originally Posted by mja345

I gave the 4K UHD of "Hard Target" a watch, first time I'd seen it in a long time. The presentation is absolutely gorgeous and I'd forgotten just how much ass that movie kicks. I think it may be John Woo's best American film, certainly neck and neck with "Face/Off".

Van Damme acquits himself well under the direction of Woo, Wilford Brimley as a Cajun is unforgettable, and having Lance Henriksen and Arnold Vosloo as the two villains is almost an embarrassment of riches. Either one of them could have carried the film as the solo villain, but the two of them going back and forth like a tag team of hilariously over-the-top psychopathic behavior is what really turns this film into a genre classic.

I understand Lance has been in a ton of movies over the years, but it doesn't seem like nearly enough for me. I love the guy, his role here and in Stone Cold are two favorites, having Vosloo in this and Forsythe in Stone Cold like you said is almost too much of a good thing, but I'll take it. Great, fun movie, I too watched it again for the first time in awhile and it made me long for a Surving the Game release from Warner.

[Kino Lorber Insider]

We just added 40 titles to our ongoing WHILE SUPPLIES LAST Sale:
https://www.kinolorber.com/list/view...lies-last-2022

Here’s the list of the NEW titles:

Baron Blood
A Bay of Blood
Black Sabbath (Italian Version)
Black Sunday (Italian Version)
Black Sunday (AIP Version)
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw
Burn, Witch, Burn
The Day After
Duel in the Sun
Evil Eye/The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Five Dolls for an August Moon
Four Times That Night
Hell in the Pacific
Junior Bonner
Kidnapped (Rabid Dogs)
Kill, Baby …Kill
Knives of the Avenger
Lisa and the Devil/House of Exorcism
Lost Highway
Malice
Malone
Monster Dog
The Night Stalker
The Night Strangler
The Paradine Case
Prizzi’s Honor
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
Siege of Firebase Gloria
Silkwood
Since You Went Away
SpaceCamp
The Spiral Staircase
Take the Money and Run
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Tough Guys
Trilogy of Terror
Wild at Heart (DVD)

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Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

We just added 40 titles to our ongoing WHILE SUPPLIES LAST Sale:
https://www.kinolorber.com/list/view...lies-last-2022

Here’s the list of the NEW titles:
The Night Stalker
The Night Strangler
Silkwood
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Trilogy of Terror

Dang! Not only are these among the very best titles in the Kino catalog, but a couple are among the best movies ever made, period. Hope these (and many of the other recent adds) are only being phased out for new editions.

[Dailyan]

Of the new additions, I definitely recommend "Hell in the Pacific", "Junior Bonner", "Take the Money and Run", and "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?".

[Rayjg]

Any of these getting UHD upgrades

[sb5]

Wow, lot of Mario Bava . Interesting with the announcement of specs for Kino’s new 2K scan of Planet of the Vampires.

Hopefully someone else is picking them up (and that it may result in a US release of the Rabid Dogs version of Kidnapped).

[The Sovereign]

Those are some pretty significant deletions. I’m sure a few will resurface, but can never be certain if or when.

[NeilZ]

Sounds like Bava is being discontinued from Kino.

My only issue with many of those releases were the lack of the Italian audio but otherwise most were excellent releases.