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This looks to be the same master as the recent Imprint edition, with a few less features and a better price point, since the Imprint is only available as part of a 5-film box set.

6.1 Rating on the IMDB 65% Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes Critics Consensus Little Buddha's storytelling may be too childlike to best service its audacious plot, but Bernardo Bertolucci's direction and Vittorio Storaro's cinematography conspire to deliver a visually strong epic 53% Audience...

FILM NOIR: THE DARK SIDE OF CINEMA XVIII All three films are from 1955. But CITY OF SHADOWS is in the 1.37:1 ratio, while the other two are 1.85:1. Odd. And according to the AFI, CITY OF SHADOWS was the last of the three to go into production.

Kino previously released THE WHIP AND THE BODY in 2013, with the same extras. But now we have a fresh 4K scan. It appears as if the French language track has been dropped. The English track for this film does not have Christopher Lee's voice, since he never did any re-recording for the film...

LET'S DANCE was on laserdisc, but was it ever on DVD?

Maybe Kino will reissue POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES. Their original release was on a BD-25 disc instead of a BD-50 (for a 137-minute film) and had no special features except a trailer. That's why I passed on it.

AFAIK COMING HOME was a mono film in the theaters. MGM/UA must have remixed the sound for the laserdisc due to all the songs on the soundtrack. I wonder what became of that mix?

These are rare admissions of sound format. Why can't this information be provided on all Kino releases? And why can't it be provided on the packaging and not just in the announcements? And why can't "2.0" sound be identified as to whether it is dual mono, front stereo, or matrixed surround?

DEATH WISH 4: THE CRACKDOWN seems to be the same as the prior Umbrella Entertainment Blu-ray from 2019, less a few minor extras. The 2012 MGM Blu-ray did not have a commentary, just a trailer.

He's also back in the sense that this is KL's second Blu-ray release of MALONE--first issued in 2015, without the commentary.

Kino's Blu-ray was the long version, and AFAIK every release since the 1996 laserdisc has included the longer version. So, it would be a real kick in the pants for someone to suddenly revert to the shorter version, and I can't see that happening.

Reportedly, the difference is six seconds of footage from a love scene that takes place atop a mountain. Vincent Canby called the R-rating “absurd and a waste,” in his 22 July 1974 New York Times review.

DEATH MACHINE was released theatrically by Trimark. Doesn't that mean Columbia/Sony?