Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3) (19 Viewers)

[RolandL]

I wish PEPE was available streaming since a blu ray will most likely never happen.

Only film with "Special Sequences Photographed in CinemaScope" in the titles that I have seen.

 

[Mike Robertson]

A while back there was a mention of VistaVision titles and it was stated that the only Universal title in VistaVision was Away All Boats. Now as this is one of my all time favorites and I would really love to ditch my Goodtimes DVD pan and scan version, I got my hopes up to finally see this film in a Blu-ray. However, does not seem to be in the cards.

 

[AnthonyClarke]

I know the Insider can't answer requests, but it would be great to see the best version put to film of 'The Great Gatsby' -- I've never seen it, but am told that the 1949 version with Alan Ladd is the best cinema adaptation yet.

 

[Barnduke98]

i know exterminator 2 and blue lightning shout factory have has expired already goes out of print. it would be great to see universal third deal and fourth deal more horror and mystery and 1950s one horror curcucu beast of the amazon.

 

[battlebeast]

I know Mr. insider can’t confirm or deny, and that’s ok, so I’m just going to wonder out lout if SHE DONE HIM WRONG is part of the Universal deal...

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Here’s the new link for our “WHILE SUPPLIES LAST" Sale:

Kino Lorber - While Supplies Last Sale

The Best In World Cinema - including European, Asian, Silent, documentary, and American Independent titles. Kino Lorber sells videos and dvds directly to customers through its online store and mail order catalog.

www.kinolorber.com

We’ve reduced most of the sale prices and added the following titles to the sale:

CONCRETE JUNGLE
D.O.A.
FLESH & BLOOD
GONE FISHIN'
MADHOUSE
MAFIA
MARTY
ONION FIELD, THE
PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES
PURPLE PLAIN, THE
ROLLING VENGEANCE
RUBY GENTRY
SISTERHOOD
STILL OF THE NIGHT
VIVA MARIA
WOMAN OF STRAW
ZONE TROOPERS

Over 230 Titles!
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The following Blu-rays and one DVD are no longer available and out of print:

52 Pick-Up (1986) Blu-ray
Across 110th Street (1972) Blu-ray
Camp Nowhere (1994) Blu-ray
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) Blu-ray
Deceived (1991) Blu-ray
Face to Face (1967) Blu-ray
Foxes (1980) Blu-ray
House on Sorority Row (1983) Blu-ray
Last Embrace (1979) Blu-ray
No Man's Land (1987) Blu-ray
Pauline at the Beach (1983) DVD & Blu-ray
Sabata (1969) Blu-ray
The Scar (1948) Blu-ray
The Sheik (1921) Blu-ray
The Skull (1965) Blu-ray
Solarbabies (1986) Blu-ray
To All a Goodnight (1980) Blu-ray
The Unforgiven (1960) Blu-ray
Welcome to L.A. (1977) Blu-ray
Wicked Lady (1983) Blu-ray

 

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I know Mr. insider can’t confirm or deny, and that’s ok, so I’m just going to wonder out lout if SHE DONE HIM WRONG is part of the Universal deal...

I believe it was already confirmed that no Mae West films were part of the Universal deal.

 

[cineMANIAC]

I love sales but I usually purchase what I need the week they come out. I have, however, picked up a fair number of blind buys during sales so I still win. Kino is single-handedly keeping physical media alive today, I just wish they would pick up more 80's titles.

 

[Jack P]

52 Pick-Up never should have been in print. Of all the Blu-Ray blind buy purchases I have ever made in my life, that is the one I regret the most.

 

[mark brown]

Woman of Straw is a fun flick!

 

[Thomas T]

52 Pick-Up never should have been in print. Of all the Blu-Ray blind buy purchases I have ever made in my life, that is the one I regret the most.

Are you referring to the quality of the film or the quality of the transfer?

 

[Jack P]

The film had no quality, period.

 

[Thomas T]

The film had no quality, period.

Well, I'll have to disagree with you there. I thought it was a nifty, tough little thriller. Not great mind you but superior to the gender reversal remake (with Robert Mitchum in Ann-Margret's role and Ellen Burstyn in Roy Scheider's role).

 

[Dick]

52 Pick-Up never should have been in print. Of all the Blu-Ray blind buy purchases I have ever made in my life, that is the one I regret the most.

Hmmm...well, I sorta liked it, especially the ending. Sorry it doesn't work for you, but each to his own.

 

[Robin9]

The film had no quality, period.

An extreme opinion! I think it does have merit.

 

[battlebeast]

I believe it was already confirmed that no Mae West films were part of the Universal deal.

Oh, shoot. I did read that. I forgot Mae West the the lead. Too bad... :/

 

[borisfw]

The film had no quality, period.

Sorry. I don't agree. Not a great film but certainly not a bad film. In my opinion.

 

[Jack P]

Let's just say that I have a low regard for a film that on top of a weak story with a silly premise (that anyone married to Ann-Margret would cheat on her) and a predictable climax that I already guessed over five minutes before it happened, decides that I have to be subjected to an endless parade of gratutious scenes in sex parlors without the slightest trace of restraint that should have given this film a retroactive NC-17 rating. John Frankenheimer has yet to prove to me that he did a good film after "Black Sunday" (I'll only give the caveat that I haven't seen all of them but this and "Holcroft Covenant" show he'd lost his touch. Plus both films showed what awful taste he had in film music in the 80s).

 

[lark144]

Sorry. I don't agree. Not a great film but certainly not a bad film. In my opinion.

It wasn't as good as the book, perhaps, nor as edge of your seat, but I thought it was a fairly faithful and well-made adaptation. Of course the book was really sleazy and purposefully shocking, so if one is objecting to the film on moral grounds--i.e. "not fit"--you can't really blame the filmmmakers as that's the whole raison d'etre of Elmore Leonard's fiction. All the characters are on morally shaky grounds. No one is "pure", in the traditional movie sense of the word. Of course, that moral realtivism, that sense of doing things to improve one's position, no matter how reprehensible, was kind of what the 80's was all about.

 

[cadavra]

Let's just say that I have a low regard for a film that on top of a weak story with a silly premise (that anyone married to Ann-Margret would cheat on her) and a predictable climax that I already guessed over five minutes before it happened, decides that I have to be subjected to an endless parade of gratutious scenes in sex parlors without the slightest trace of restraint that should have given this film a retroactive NC-17 rating. John Frankenheimer has yet to prove to me that he did a good film after "Black Sunday" (I'll only give the caveat that I haven't seen all of them but this and "Holcroft Covenant" show he'd lost his touch. Plus both films showed what awful taste he had in film music in the 80s).

Halle Berry, Beyonce, Sandra Bullock and Pamela Anderson, to name just a few, are among the most gorgeous women on the planet, yet all had husbands who cheated on them. Sometimes beauty is not enough, other times men are just a-holes. So that plot thread is far from silly.