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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics Acquisitions

#2176 Post by Glowingwabbit » Thu Jul 25, 2019 12:54 pm

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Thu Jul 25, 2019 12:07 pm
Coming October 8th on DVD and Blu-ray!

Baby Blood (1990) with optional English subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Film Historian Lee Gambin and Film Critic Jarret Gahan
• Includes both Original French and English Audio
• Theatrical Trailer

It’s Time to Feed the Baby! It is a voracious parasite from the dawn of creation, surviving centuries in search of the one thing it needs: to be born of a human. But when this cunning creature slithers inside a sexy circus performer (voluptuous French starlet Emmanuelle Escourrou, Lady Blood), it demands gallons of fresh blood to grow stronger. Now this reluctantly expectant mommy and her chatty mutant fetus are off on a cross-country killing spree, where pre-natal care means violent carnage and the ultimate mother’s milk is Baby Blood! Also known as The Evil Within, this French shocker is now presented totally uncut and uncensored with all its infamous womb-raiding, gore-spewing and flesh-baring beautifully restored in HD! Co-written and directed by Alain Robak (Adrénaline).
I'm glad they are including the English audio just so we can hear Gary Oldman as the voice of the fetus monster.

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#2177 Post by Adam X » Thu Jul 25, 2019 1:06 pm

Does it really have Gary Oldman voicing the foetus?! His career was much more interesting when he seemed willing to try anything once.
I've only ever seen it in French, so never even thought about the existence of a dub before.
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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics Acquisitions

#2178 Post by Glowingwabbit » Thu Jul 25, 2019 1:10 pm

Adam Grikepelis wrote:
Thu Jul 25, 2019 1:06 pm
Does it really have Gary Oldman voicing the fetus?! His career was much more interesting when he seemed willing to try anything once.
I've only ever seen it in French, so never even thought about the existence of a dub before.
I actually haven't heard the English dub either, but I've always heard from Horror film circles that he did the voice but went uncredited.

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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics Acquisitions

#2179 Post by FrauBlucher » Thu Jul 25, 2019 6:27 pm

bluray.com..... Leon Morin, Priest....Alphaville

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#2180 Post by Der Spieler » Thu Jul 25, 2019 8:48 pm

FrauBlucher wrote:
Thu Jul 25, 2019 6:27 pm
bluray.com..... Leon Morin, Priest....Alphaville
Is LEON MORIN really using the same master than the Criterion? It looks pretty different judging by the DVDBeaver caps.

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#2181 Post by mfunk9786 » Thu Jul 25, 2019 8:51 pm

Consider the source.

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#2182 Post by nitin » Fri Jul 26, 2019 6:36 am

Der Spieler wrote:
Thu Jul 25, 2019 8:48 pm
FrauBlucher wrote:
Thu Jul 25, 2019 6:27 pm
bluray.com..... Leon Morin, Priest....Alphaville
Is LEON MORIN really using the same master than the Criterion? It looks pretty different judging by the DVDBeaver caps.
No, it’s uses Studio Canal’s new 4k restoration (it’s also a longer cut)

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#2183 Post by Der Spieler » Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:39 am

nitin wrote:
Fri Jul 26, 2019 6:36 am
Der Spieler wrote:
Thu Jul 25, 2019 8:48 pm
FrauBlucher wrote:
Thu Jul 25, 2019 6:27 pm
bluray.com..... Leon Morin, Priest....Alphaville
Is LEON MORIN really using the same master than the Criterion? It looks pretty different judging by the DVDBeaver caps.
No, it’s uses Studio Canal’s new 4k restoration (it’s also a longer cut)
Yeah that's what I thought. So the Blu-ray.com review is incorrect.

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#2184 Post by Kino Insider » Fri Jul 26, 2019 11:27 am

Coming October 15th on DVD and Blu-ray!

And Soon the Darkness (1970) with optional English subtitles
• Brand New 4K Master!
• Audio commentary with Director Robert Fuest and Co-Writer/Co-Producer Brian Clemens, moderated by Journalist Jonathan Sothcott
• Audio Commentary by Film Historian Troy Howarth
• Radio Spot
• Reverse Horizontal Blu-ray Art
• Theatrical Trailer

Two young British nurses bicycling through the desolate French countryside. A mysterious stranger on a lonely stretch of road. The women become separated and soon after, one of them disappears. Now the remaining girl, alone and frightened, begins an increasingly desperate search for answers among the strangely uncooperative locals. Where is her friend? Was there a murder? And as the darkness approaches, is the killer now stalking her? Pamela Franklin (The Legend of Hell House) and Michele Dotrice (The Blood on Satan’s Claw) co-star in this unsettling shocker directed by Robert Fuest (The Abominable Dr. Phibes). And Soon the Darkness remains a favorite of thriller fans for its sexual menace, sinister style and one of the most quietly chilling final twists in ’70s British cinema. Original story and screenplay by Brian Clemens (See No Evil) and Terry Nation (The House in Nightmare Park) with top-notch cinematography by Ian Wilson (The Crying Game, Below).

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#2185 Post by Kino Insider » Fri Jul 26, 2019 11:59 am

Coming October 15th on DVD and Blu-ray!

Sudden Terror (1970) aka Eyewitness (with optional English subtitles)
• Brand New 4K Master!
• Audio commentary with Director John Hough and Writer (uncredited)/Executive Producer Bryan Forbes
• Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger and Nathaniel Thompson
• New Interview with Star Mark Lester
• SUDDEN TERROR - U.S. Trailer
• EYEWITNESS - UK Trailer
• Reversible Eyewitness Art

Pins You to the Edge of Your Seat! Living on the island of Malta, Ziggy (Mark Lester, Crossed Swords) is an 11-year-old boy with an overactive imagination and a habit of telling wild lies. But when he sees the brutal assassination of a visiting African president by two rogue policemen, nobody will believe his story. Can Ziggy convince anybody that he is telling the truth before the psychotic cops are able to hunt down and murder the only eyewitness? This is no ordinary boy-who-cried-wolf story. Legendary director John Hough (Twins of Evil, The Legend of Hell House) packs Sudden Terror with plenty of tense style, stunning locations and startling violence. Susan George (Straw Dogs), Lionel Jeffries (The Quatermass Xperiment), Jeremy Kemp (The Blue Max), Peter Vaughan (Game of Thrones), Peter Bowles (The Offence) and Tony Bonner (Quigley Down Under) co-star in this shocking and terrifying suspense-thriller featuring music by legendary British art-rock bands Fairfield Parlour and Van der Graaf Generator.

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#2186 Post by Kino Insider » Fri Jul 26, 2019 12:22 pm

Coming October 15th on DVD and Blu-ray!

The Mind Benders (1963) with optional English subtitles
• Brand New 4K Master
• Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger and Nathaniel Thompson
• Reversible BD Art
• Theatrical Trailer

When the Dark Side of the Mind Is Opened, Can It Ever Be Closed Again? A government scientist commits suicide while clutching a briefcase full of cash, and the police accuse him of being a Communist spy. But when his friend Dr. Henry Longman (Dirk Bogarde, Accident, Modesty Blaise) suspects that the death may have been the result of brainwashing, he decides to prove his theory by subjecting himself to sensory deprivation. Can the doctor resist the experiment’s sadistic side effects… or will he fall under the control of The Mind Benders? Mary Ure (Where Eagles Dare) and Wendy Craig (The Servant) co-star this classic 1963 sci-fi thriller directed by Basil Dearden (Dead of Night, The Man Who Haunted Himself) that went on to influence Ken Russell’s mind-bending Altered States. Written by James Kennaway (Tunes of Glory) and beautifully shot by Denys N. Coop (Billy Liar) with a rousing score by Georges Auric (The Wages of Fear).

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#2187 Post by Kino Insider » Fri Jul 26, 2019 12:30 pm

Coming October 15th on DVD and Blu-ray!

The Queen of Spades (1949) with optional English subtitles
• A BFI and StudioCanal Restoration
• Audio Commentary by Film Critic Nick Pinkerton
• Introduction by Martin Scorsese
• An Analysis by Film Critic/Author Philip Horne
• 1951 Interview with Thorold Dickinson at the British Federation of Film Societies
• 1968 Screening Introduction by Thorold Dickinson
• Theatrical Trailer

A gambling craze is sweeping 19th-century St. Petersburg, yet a dashing Russian army captain (Anton Walbrook, The Red Shoes) is too impoverished to participate. But when he learns that an aging countess (Three-time Oscar-nominee Dame Edith Evans, The Whisperers) may hold the ultimate key to gambling riches, the desperate young officer will stop at nothing to steal the sinister secret for himself. When fortunes are won and lost with the turn of a card, will one man wager his very soul on a final twist of fate? Yvonne Mitchell (Demons of the Mind) co-stars in this brilliant British chiller directed by Thorold Dickinson (Gaslight), featuring extraordinary cinematography by Otto Heller (Peeping Tom, The Ipcress File) and based on the celebrated short story by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (The Eagle).

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#2188 Post by unclehulot » Sun Jul 28, 2019 11:34 am

Der Spieler wrote:
nitin wrote:
Fri Jul 26, 2019 6:36 am
Der Spieler wrote:
Thu Jul 25, 2019 8:48 pm
Is LEON MORIN really using the same master than the Criterion? It looks pretty different judging by the DVDBeaver caps.
No, it’s uses Studio Canal’s new 4k restoration (it’s also a longer cut)
Yeah that's what I thought. So the Blu-ray.com review is incorrect.
I sent a message to the reviewer to alert him to that error. He sort of acknowledged the difference and made minor changes to the review to at least mention the “director’s cut” but didn’t change his assertion that the master was likely the same. It pretty much defies logic to persist in that claim.


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#2189 Post by tenia » Sun Jul 28, 2019 11:46 am

Der Spieler wrote:
nitin wrote:
Fri Jul 26, 2019 6:36 am
Der Spieler wrote:
Thu Jul 25, 2019 8:48 pm


Is LEON MORIN really using the same master than the Criterion? It looks pretty different judging by the DVDBeaver caps.
No, it’s uses Studio Canal’s new 4k restoration (it’s also a longer cut)
Yeah that's what I thought. So the Blu-ray.com review is incorrect.
Criterion's disc was never sourced from a 4k restoration to begin with but a HD transfer made from a Spirit Datacine scan of a fine grain master positive, and the new restoration is indeed longer (by 10 min) and the OCN was scanned instead. How one can guess it could be the same restoration is baffling considering all this is public knowledge and the 2 restorations pretty much have nothing in common technically.

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#2190 Post by Kino Insider » Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:19 pm

Coming October 22nd on DVD and Blu-ray!

Parasite (1982) with optional English subtitles
• Newly Restored in HD from a 4K Scan of the Original Camera Negative
• The BD includes both the 3-D and 2-D Version of the Film
• FROM THE INSIDE OUT: WRITING PARASITE - Featuring all-new interviews with writers Alan J. Adler and Michael Shoob
• THREE DIMENSIONS OF TERROR: FILMING PARASITE - Featuring all-new interviews with director Charles Band, co-writer Alan J. Adler, production manager Charles Newirth, art director Pamela B. Warner, and make-up department head Karen Kubeck
• SYMPHONY FOR SLIMY SLUGS: COMPOSING PARASITE - Featuring an all-new interview with composer Richard Band
• Interview with Creature Designer and Creator Lance Anderson
• Audio Commentary with Writer Alan J. Adler and Filmmaker/Historian Daniel Griffith
• Still and Promotional Gallery
• Reversible Blu-ray Art
• Theatrical Trailer

3-D restoration by the 3-D Film Archive! In the future, cities are ravaged by atomic fallout and controlled by evil corporations that have developed a mutant pair of flesh-eating parasites. One is feeding inside the man who created it. The other has escaped. Now with the help of a young woman left orphaned in the wasteland (Demi Moore, The Scarlet Letter), a scientist (Robert Glaudini, Wavelength) on the run must destroy these horrific creatures before they can reproduce. But the more a parasite feeds, the bigger it becomes. And the more it grows, the hungrier and angrier it gets. Released to theaters as “The First Futuristic Monster Movie in 3-D,” this sick shocker co-stars rocker Cherie Currie (Foxes), drive-in goddess Cheryl ‘Rainbeaux’ Smith (Caged Heat) and Broadway legend Vivian Blaine (Guys and Dolls). Directed by cult great Charles Band (Trancers, Blood Dolls) and featuring juicy creature effects by Academy Award-winner Stan Winston (The Terminator, Aliens), Parasite is now available for the first time in HD and 3-D!

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#2191 Post by Kino Insider » Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:25 pm

Coming October 22nd on DVD and Blu-ray!

Zoltan… Hound of Dracula (1977) aka Dracula’s Dog (with optional English subtitles)
• Brand New 4K Master!
• Audio Commentary by Film Historians Lee Gambin and John Harrison
• Dracula's Dog - Radio Spot
• Reversible Dracula's Dog Art (DVD and BD)
• Theatrical Trailer

There’s More to the Legend Than Meets the Throat! When the Russian army unearths the vault of Dracula, they accidentally unleash his undead human slave (Reggie Nalder, Mark of the Devil) and the Count’s vampire hellhound Zoltan. But these friends need a new master and head for Los Angeles to find Dracula’s last living descendant, family man Michael Drake (Michael Pataki, Grave of the Vampire). With the help of an international vampire hunter, Inspector Branco (José Ferrer, The Sentinel), can Drake destroy Zoltan and his pack of blood-crazed devil-dogs—before “man’s best friend” fetches the final soul of the damned? Also known as Dracula’s Dog, this ferociously fun horror film was directed by Albert Band (I Bury the Living, Ghoulies II) and features makeup effects by Academy Award-winner Stan Winston (Parasite, Aliens).

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#2192 Post by Kino Insider » Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:35 pm

Coming October 22nd on DVD and Blu-ray!

Phobia (1980) with optional English subtitles
• Brand New 4K Master!
• Audio Commentary by Paul Corupe of Canuxploitation.com and Film Historian Jason Pichonsky
• Interview with Lead Actress Susan Hogan
• Interview with Actress Lisa Langlois
• Theatrical Trailer

Murder Put an End to Their Fears! The phobia-ridden patients undergoing a unique therapy treatment with Dr. Peter Ross (Paul Michael Glaser, Detective Dave Starsky of TV’s Starsky and Hutch) now face a new terror—murder! One by one they’re being killed off, and the finger points to… everyone! Set ’em up. And whittle ’em down. It’s a favorite technique in whodunit suspense-thrillers. And one of the masters is Phobia director John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, Prizzi’s Honor). See if you can identify the killer as the legendary filmmaker propels you into the most terrifying realm of all: your deepest fears. Screenplay by Lew Lehman (The Pit), Jimmy Sangster (Horror of Dracula) and Peter Bellwood (Highlander), based on a story by Gary Sherman (Dead & Buried) and Ronald Shusett (Alien). The top-notch cast includes Susan Hogan (The Brood), John Colicos (The Changeling), Lisa Langlois (Transformations), Alexandra Stewart (Goodbye Emmanuelle) and Kenneth Welsh (The Day After Tomorrow).

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#2193 Post by Kino Insider » Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:59 pm

Coming October 29th on DVD and Blu-ray!

Nightmare in Badham County (1976)
• Brand New 2K Masters
• Audio Commentary by Film Historian/Author Amanda Reyes and Author/Podcaster Justin Kerswell (TV Cut)
• Includes Both the 93-Minute TV Cut and the 101-Minute R Rated Theatrical Cut
• Interview with Director John Llewellyn Moxey
• Trailers

Where Innocence Is a Punishable Crime! Deborah Raffin (Death Wish 3) and Lynne Moody (Scream Blacula Scream) star as two young and attractive college students who become enmeshed in a trap of local prejudice and greed when their car breaks down outside a small, sleepy town. Insulted by the girls’ rejection of his amorous advances, the local sheriff (Chuck Connors, The Big Country) arrests them for trespassing and prostitution. After a mockery of a “trial,” they are sentenced to a womens’ prison farm run by brutal guards and a sex-crazed superintendent. Cut off from contact with friends and family, the girls realize that they are at the mercy of a crooked justice system, designed to supply local farms with cheap prison labor. Their only hope is to escape this nightmare, at the risk of their lives. Nightmare in Badham County exposes the terror and corruption of a vicious tyranny that actually exists in certain communities where “justice” is no more than a charade for greed. The great John Llewellyn Moxey (The Night Stalker) directed this realistic and shocking action-drama. Written by Jo Heims (Play Misty for Me) and co-starring Fionnula Flanagan (Death Dreams), Tina Louise (TV’s Gilligan Island), Robert Reed (TV’s The Brady Bunch), Della Reese (TV’s Touched by an Angel), Lana Wood (Diamonds Are Forever) and Ralph Bellamy (Trading Places).

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#2194 Post by Kino Insider » Mon Jul 29, 2019 1:14 pm

Coming October 29th on DVD and Blu-ray!

New York Stories (1989) with optional English subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Film Historian Jim Hemphill
• Theatrical Trailer

An anthology of wildly diverse, star-studded short films about life in the big city, New York Stories features the creative collaboration of three of America’s greatest filmmakers, Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver), Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather) and Woody Allen (Annie Hall). Martin Scorsese’s Life Lessons – Nick Nolte (North Dallas Forty) stars in this passionate tale of a world-famous painter torn between his obsession for his art and his infatuation with his sturdy but unresponsive assistant (Rosanna Arquette, Desperately Seeking Susan). Francis Ford Coppola’s Life Without Zoe – Talia Shire (Rocky) and Giancarlo Giannini (Seven Beauties) star in this whimsical fantasy as the childlike parents of Zoe, a very grown-up 12-year-old girl who brings charm and magic to life in New York. Woody Allen’s Oedipus Wrecks – Woody Allen (Take the Money and Run) directs and stars in this hilarious comedy as a neurotic lawyer who cannot escape the one woman who looms large in his life: his mother (Mae Questel, the legendary voice of Betty Boop). Mia Farrow (Rosemary’s Baby) and Julie Kavner (Radio Days) star as the “other women” who further complicate his situation.

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#2195 Post by Kino Insider » Mon Jul 29, 2019 1:24 pm

Coming October 29th on DVD and Two-Disc Blu-ray!

Kundun (1997) with optional English subtitles

BD Special Features:
• Audio Commentary by Film Historian and Critic Peter Tonguette
• Interview with Director Martin Scorsese (32:20)
• Interview with Composer Philip Glass (43:38)
• Interview with Screenwriter Melissa Mathison (36:40)
• IN SEARCH OF KUNDUN with Martin Scorsese - Documentary (85:00)
• Interview with IN SEARCH OF KUNDUN Director Michael Henry Wilson (53:36)
• Compassion in Exile - Documentary (62:00)
• EPK Extras with Cast and Crew (38:52)
• Limited Edition Booklet Essay by Filmmaker Zade Constantine
• Theatrical Trailer

DVD Special Features:
• Audio Commentary by Film Historian and Critic Peter Tonguette
• Interview with Director Martin Scorsese (32:20)
• EPK Extras with Cast and Crew (38:52)
• Theatrical Trailer

From Martin Scorsese, the legendary director of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas! Praised as one of the best films of 1997, Kundun received 4 Oscar nominations for Art Direction-Set Decoration (Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo), Cinematography (Roger Deakins), Costume Design (Dante Ferretti) and Score (Philip Glass). It’s the incredible true story of one of the world’s most fascinating leaders—Tibet’s 14th Dalai Lama—and his daring struggle to rule a nation at one of the most challenging times in its history. Powerfully told, deeply spiritual and visually elegant, the film chronicles the life of the young Dalai Lama as he matures in both age and learning. Greeted with both controversy and acclaim upon its release, Kundun is often considered the second film in an unofficial trilogy about crises of faith from director Scorsese, positioned between 1988’s The Last Temptation of Christ and 2016’s Silence.

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#2196 Post by Kino Insider » Mon Jul 29, 2019 1:43 pm

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#2197 Post by Cronenfly » Mon Jul 29, 2019 10:23 pm

Kundun looks very impressive. Good job.

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#2198 Post by tenia » Tue Jul 30, 2019 2:01 am

Will Kundun be a new restoration ?

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#2199 Post by barnyard078 » Tue Jul 30, 2019 3:29 am

According to KLI on Bluray.com, it is a "Late 2010's HD Transfer." They also performed additional DRS and dirt removal. KLI also said, "The master was viewed by Thelma Schoonmaker and she was very happy with it."
KLI concluded by saying, "We tried to do a new 4K master, but the studio would only green light a full restorations, which would cost high six figures to low seven."

 

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#2200 Post by tenia » Tue Jul 30, 2019 4:32 am

Extremely surprised to read it would cost that much to do a 4K restoration of a 1997 movie. AFAIK, european 4K restorations rather cost $250k for 35mm movies (and Kundun isn't 3 hours long either). I've only read about the kind of figures discussed here (high 6 - low 7) for extremely prestigious restorations (lavish Technicolor like The Red Shoes or 65mm epics like Lawrence of Arabia or Ben Hur), but not "standard" 35mm movies.

Maybe it's that much more expensive in the US, but maybe a Scorsese movie could be restored at an european lab like L'immagine Ritrovata, since they're heavily involved in the Film Foundation restorations.

I guess the 2010 (early rather than late, see further) HD master is the same than the one released in Germany and Australia (then elsewhere) in May and June 2010. It looks indeed very much decent (which also suggests the materials are in good shape), though it's starting to look dated. The German release of it however is plagued by extreme DNR and EE.

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