Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3) (10 Viewers)

[Robert Crawford]

Sunday's Facebook Announcement:

Coming Soon on 4KHUD!

• Brand New Dolby Vision Master!

Out of Sight (1998) Starring George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Catherine Keener, Dennis Farina, Michael Keaton, Steve Zahn, Albert Brooks, Luis Guzman, Isaiah Washington, Viola Davis & Nancy Allen – Shot by Elliot Davis (The Underneath) – Music by David Holmes (Ocean’s Eleven) – Edited by Anne V. Coates (In the Line of Fire) – Screenplay by Scott Frank (Get Shorty) – Based on a Book by Elmore Leonard (Jackie Brown) – Directed by Steven Soderbergh (The Limey).

 

[Robert Crawford]

Yeah, baby!

 

[timk1041]

????? Aren't you going to give us film credits for Neff, Audran, Mayniel, Lugagne and Denner as well?

Not familiar with the others. I just recognized the two actresses from other films I have seen.

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming September 21st!

Golden Needles (1974)
• Brand New 2K Master
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger and Chris Poggiali
• Newly Commissioned Art by Vince Evans
• Radio Spots
• Image Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Art
• Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase
• Optional English Subtitles

Color 92 Minutes 2.35:1 Rated PG
From Robert Clouse, the sensational director of Enter the Dragon, Darker Than Amber, Game of Death, Force: Five, Gymkata and The Amsterdam Kill, comes this suspense story of a priceless ancient Chinese statue that is pursued halfway across the world. The legend of the golden statue (which contains seven youth-restoring acupuncture needles) promises the owner health and incredible vigor... but can also deliver a painful death! Joe Don Baker (Charley Varrick, Framed), Elizabeth Ashley (The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday), Ann Sothern (The Whales of August), Burgess Meredith (Burnt Offerings), Roy Chiao (Bloodsport), Frances Fong (Hellfighters) and martial arts legend Jim Kelly (Black Belt Jones, Three the Hard Way) are seven desperate people on one desperate chase to find the Golden Needles. Legendary composer Lalo Schifrin (Bullitt, Dirty Harry) provides the groovy score!

 

[Camps]

Golden Needles is fun, as are most of Clouse's flicks. That said, while it's of course one of his directorial credits I don't know if I'd include Gymkata in the precis above as though it were a selling point.... it was famously miserable and helped end Clouse's directorial career....

 

[borisfw]

Golden Needles is a fun quirky movie.

 

[cadavra]

Golden Needles is fun, as are most of Clouse's flicks. That said, while it's of course one of his directorial credits I don't know if I'd include Gymkata in the precis above as though it were a selling point.... it was famously miserable and helped end Clouse's directorial career....

I recall going to the exhibitors' screening of GYMKATA. Everyone was laughing hysterically and yelling "Missed the water!" every time someone crossing the gorge landed on that tiny rock instead of in the river. The MGM people knew then that they were in deep doo-doo. But I remembered "Missed the water!" and used it as a punchline in "Bride of Finklestein."

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming out on Blu-ray August 10th from Kino Classics and the F.W. Murnau Foundation!

F.P. 1 Doesn't Answer (1932)
Directed by Karl Hartl
Starring Hans Albers and Peter Lorre

A spectacular German science fiction film in the tradition of Metropolis (1927) and Gold (1934), F.P. 1 Doesn’t Answer dramatizes the creation of a massive floating airport serving as a way station between four continents. Hans Albers (The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes) stars as Ellissen, a dashing pilot who helps pursuade an heiress (Sybille Schmitz, Vampyr) to fund the visionary project. When communication with Floating Platform 1 is mysteriously interrupted, Ellissen risks his life to investigate its disappearance. Produced just as the Nazi government was taking control of the German film industry, F.P.1 was writer Kurt Siodmak’s last film before emigrating to England and eventually America, where (as Curt Siodmak) he would write The Ape, The Wolf Man, Donovan’s Brain, and many other classic Hollywood horrors). It was also the last pre-war German film of Peter Lorre (M, The Maltese Falcon), who costars as a sly photojournalist. This special edition includes both the restored German-language version of F.P.1 Doesn’t Answer as well as the English-language version, Secrets of F.P.1, featuring Conrad Veidt (The Man Who Laughs).

Special Features
*The complete English-language version, Secrets of F.P.1, starring Conrad Veidt, Jill Esmond, and Leslie Fenton
*Audio commentary by film historian Eddie von Mueller

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming September 14th!

Rififi in Paris (1966) aka The Upper Hand
• NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Daniel Kremer and Cinematographer Aaron Hollander
• Trailers

Color 98 Minutes 2.35:1 Not Rated
He Followed a Trail of Flesh, Gold and Violence! From acclaimed author Auguste Le Breton (Rififi, Bob Le Flambeur) comes this stylish crime caper starring screen icon Jean Gabin (Touchez Pas au Grisbi, The Sicilian Clan). In Paris, a grizzled gold-smuggler (Gabin) is at war with other local gangsters who want a piece of the action. To make matters worse, he must match wits with a coin-tossing Mafioso (George Raft, Spawn of the North) and the U.S. Treasury Department. Denys de La Patellière (Taxi for Tobruk) directed this globetrotting Eurospy thriller chock-full of international stars including Gert Fröbe (Goldfinger), Nadja Tiller (The Night Affair), Claude Brasseur (Band of Outsiders), Daniel Ceccaldi (That Man from Rio), Marcel Bozzuffi (The French Connection), Jean-Claude Bercq (The Train), Claude Cerval (Classe Tous Risques), Mino Doro (La Dolce Vita), Claudio Brook (Cronos) and Mireille Darc (Icy Breasts).

 

[skylark68]

Coming September 14th!

Rififi in Panama (1966) aka The Upper Hand
• NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Daniel Kremer and Cinematographer Aaron Hollander
• Trailers

Color 98 Minutes 2.35:1 Not Rated
He Followed a Trail of Flesh, Gold and Violence! From acclaimed author Auguste Le Breton (Rififi, Bob Le Flambeur) comes this stylish crime caper starring screen icon Jean Gabin (Touchez Pas au Grisbi, The Sicilian Clan). In Paris, a grizzled gold-smuggler (Gabin) is at war with other local gangsters who want a piece of the action. To make matters worse, he must match wits with a coin-tossing Mafioso (George Raft, Spawn of the North) and the U.S. Treasury Department. Denys de La Patellière (Taxi for Tobruk) directed this globetrotting Eurospy thriller chock-full of international stars including Gert Fröbe (Goldfinger), Nadja Tiller (The Night Affair), Claude Brasseur (Band of Outsiders), Daniel Ceccaldi (That Man from Rio), Marcel Bozzuffi (The French Connection), Jean-Claude Bercq (The Train), Claude Cerval (Classe Tous Risques), Mino Doro (La Dolce Vita), Claudio Brook (Cronos) and Mireille Darc (Icy Breasts).

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Cover art for this is beautiful. I’m excited about this one !

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming to DVD and Blu-ray August 17th from Kino Lorber!

The Indian Doctor: Complete Series (2010 - 2013)
As seen on the BBC
3-disc set

The Indian Doctor is a heartwarming and award-winning British comedy series that originally aired on BBC One. All three seasons and 15 episodes are presented in this 3-disc set. It tells the classic “fish out of water” story of Prem Sharma (Sanjeev Bhaskar, Yesterday), a highly educated Indian doctor, and Kamini (Ayesha Dharker, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, The Father), his beautiful upper class wife, who, attracted by the promise of opportunities in the new National Health Service and a glamorous lifestyle in London, leave India in 1963 only to find themselves sent to a small practice in a Welsh coal mining village. This comes as quite a shock to both the Sharmas and the villagers, who have to learn to live with each other.

Special features:
*Optional English subtitles
*Limited edition O-Card

 

[AnthonyClarke]

Yeah FP1 in the English version with Conrad Veidt.
One of my most treasured records is a 78 rpm pre-war disc (I have two copies actually ... one for 'safety') of Conrad singing the classic 'Where the Lighthouse Shines Across the Bay' from the movie, with the pastiche-Wagnerian 'Airman, Devil-May Care Man' on the flipside.
Wonderful stuff. Never seen the movie; now I can......

 

[Camps]

Excellent news re FP1! A 2-fer with the German and English (in which Veidt is outstanding) language versions!

Right up there with Kino's release a couple years back of 1934's Gold, also starring the entertaining Albers.

The only thing that could make this release even more perfect would be inclusion of the French version with Chas. Boyer... but, hey, I don't need to be greedy....

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

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[Yeoman007]

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My lips are sealed.

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming to Blu-ray August 24th from Kino Lorber and Something Weird!

Peek-A-Boo (1953) / "B" Girl Rhapsody (1952)
Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Vol. 12

From the era of pasties and a g-string come a bevy of burlesque beauties performing their signature striptease acts, accompanied by a raucous gang of hairy-armed, baggy-pants comedians, testing the boundaries of what was morally permissible on the midcentury movie screen. Both Peek-a-Boo and “B” Girl Rhapsody are directed by burlesque impresario Lillian Hunt, who shot the film in a style that preserves the theatrical experience, never allowing the viewer to cross the footlights, never affording the audience too close a view. The results are two time capsules that offer priceless front-row views of old-school bump and grind (shot on location at the New Follies Theater in Los Angeles), a treat for nostalgic octogenarians and millenial New Burlesque fans alike.

Special Features:
*Audio commentary for Peek-A-Boo by Eric Schaefer, author of Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films 1919-1959
*Audio commentary for "B" Girl Rhapsody by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
*Optional English subtitles
*Theatrical trailers

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming to Blu-ray August 24th from Kino Lorber!

Viva (2007)
Written, directed, and starring Anna Biller

Viva is a cult retro spectacle about a bored 1970s housewife who gets sucked into the sexual revolution. Abandoned by her perfect Ken-doll husband, Barbi (writer/director Anna Biller, The Love Witch) is dragged into trouble by her girlfriend, who spouts women's lib as she gets Barbi to discard her bra and go out on the town. Barbi becomes a Red Riding Hood in a sea of wolves, and quickly learns a lot more than she wanted to about the different kinds of scenes going on in the wild '70s, including nudist camps, the hippie scene, orgies, bisexuality, sadism, drugs, and bohemia. Viva is a highly stylized film that draws on classic exploitation cinema and vintage Playboy magazines for its look and characters. Saturated to the hilt with vibrant color, and exquisitely detailed in its depiction of the period, Viva looks like a lost film from 1972, even down to the campy and self-assured performances, the big lighting, the plethora of negligées, and the delirious assortment of Salvation Army ashtrays, lamps, fabrics, and bric-a-brac. Whether you're looking for naked people dancing, alcoholic swingers, stylish sex scenes, a sea of polyester, Hammond organ jams, glitzy show numbers, white horses, blondes in the bathtub, gay hairdressers, or psychedelic animation, Viva has it all!

Special Features:
*New audio commentary by writer/director/star Anna Biller
*Behind-the-scenes footage narrated by Anna Biller
*Optional English subtitles
*Trailer

 

[cineMANIAC]

Golden Needles is fun, as are most of Clouse's flicks. That said, while it's of course one of his directorial credits I don't know if I'd include Gymkata in the precis above as though it were a selling point.... it was famously miserable and helped end Clouse's directorial career....

If Gymkata ended Clouse's career, at least he had all those other great credits. Maybe he ended his career by turning in a turkey purposefully

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming to DVD and Blu-ray August 24th from Kino Classics and StudioCanal!

The Clockmaker of St. Paul (1974)
Directed by Bertrand Tavernier
Starring Philippe Noiret and Jean Rochefort

The Clockmaker of St. Paul is the debut feature of legendary director Bertrand Tavernier (A Sunday in the Country, Journeys Through French Cinema). Adapted from Georges Simenon’s novel The Watchmaker of Everton (1954), it stars Philippe Noiret (Cinema Paradiso) as the unassuming title character, a man who begins to reexamine his life when his son is wanted for murder. Asked for help by the police inspector (Jean Rochefort, Man on the Train), he realizes how little he knew about his son, and begins to seek out the truth hidden behind his family’s walls. It’s “a work of assurance and ease” (New York Times) that was cowritten by the famed duo of Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost (Forbidden Games).

Special Features:
*New introduction by filmmaker Walter Hill
*Audio commentary by director Bertrand Tavernier
*Booklet with excerpts from Tavernier's memoir (Blu-ray only)
*Interview with Tavernier and Philippe Noiret (2001)
*Interview with Tavernier (2008)
*Trailer

 

[dagover]

Coming to DVD and Blu-ray August 17th from Kino Lorber!

The Indian Doctor: Complete Series (2010 - 2013)
As seen on the BBC
3-disc set

The Indian Doctor is a heartwarming and award-winning British comedy series that originally aired on BBC One. All three seasons and 15 episodes are presented in this 3-disc set. It tells the classic “fish out of water” story of Prem Sharma (Sanjeev Bhaskar, Yesterday), a highly educated Indian doctor, and Kamini (Ayesha Dharker, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, The Father), his beautiful upper class wife, who, attracted by the promise of opportunities in the new National Health Service and a glamorous lifestyle in London, leave India in 1963 only to find themselves sent to a small practice in a Welsh coal mining village. This comes as quite a shock to both the Sharmas and the villagers, who have to learn to live with each other.

Special features:
*Optional English subtitles
*Limited edition O-Card

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A great series, especially season 2 with the smallpox outbreak. My wife and I wish it had continued.