Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3) (2 Viewers)

[Claude North]

Coming March 8th!

Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964)

• NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Michael Schlesinger with Select Remarks by Co-Star Paula Prentiss and Actor/Director Richard Benjamin
• Theatrical Trailer
• Optional English Subtitles

Color 120 Minutes 1.85:1 Not Rated
From legendary Hollywood director Howard Hawks (Rio Bravo, El Dorado), Man’s Favorite Sport? is a hilarious fish-out-of-water tale in the screwball style of Hawks’ classic Bringing Up Baby. Rock Hudson (Come September, Blindfold) is Roger Willoughby, happily employed as one of the world’s great angling experts. Unfortunately, even his own boss doesn’t know that Roger has never been fishing in his life. So when press agent Abigail Page (Paula Prentiss, What’s New Pussycat?, The Black Marble) arranges for Roger to participate in her resort’s upcoming fishing tournament, he’s thrown into a panic. At the resort, he and Abby commence a crash course to turn him into a genuine outdoorsman—only to have their plan riotously upset by a surprise visit from Roger’s fiancée. With a sparkling score by composer Henry Mancini (The Pink Panther), Man’s Favorite Sport? is a comedy classic you’ll fall for hook, line and sinker!

$19.95srp

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More Paula Prentiss is always good news! Thank you, KLSC!

 

[JPCinema]

Coming March 8th!

Strange Bedfellows (1965)

• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Eddy Von Mueller
• Theatrical Trailer
• Optional English Subtitles

Color 98 Minutes 1.85:1 Not Rated
Screen great Rock Hudson (Man’s Favorite Sport?) and Italian bombshell Gina Lollobrigida (Come September) are an estranged couple on the verge of a riotous reconciliation in this delightful comic confection. Carter Harrison (Hudson) is a high-powered company exec who needs to polish up his public image. When a P.R. expert (Gig Young, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?) tells him the answer lies in patching up his shaky marriage, Carter jets off to London to rekindle the affections of his fiery Italian wife Toni (Lollobrigida)—who is already planning her second marriage. But even as she begins to repeat the outrageously eccentric behaviors that split them up in the first place, Carter finds himself falling in love with the irresistible Toni all over again. Wonderfully directed by Melvin Frank (Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, A Touch of Class), Strange Bedfellows is a rollicking cinematic treat filled with slapstick antics and hilarious sight gags!

$19.95srp

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Interesting...this was released on Blu Ray a few years ago by Universal. The cover art is different. I wonder if it is a new transfer?

 

[Robert Crawford]

Interesting...this was released on Blu Ray a few years ago by Universal. The cover art is different. I wonder if it is a new transfer?

If Kino didn't list a new scan then it's the same one used beforehand by Universal. This applies to Man's Favorite Sport and Strange Bedfellows.

 

[battlebeast]

Does the Sony deal include Columbia titles?

 

[RichMurphy]

Does the Sony deal include Columbia titles?

A better question might be, does the Sony deal include anything OTHER than Columbia titles?

 

[battlebeast]

A better question might be, does the Sony deal include anything OTHER than Columbia titles?

That’s a good point.

 

[Thomas T]

Odd that KL would put Strange Bedfellows and Man's Favorite Sport out on blu when the previous blu rays are readily available. Of course, they don't have the addition of the new audio commentaries.

 

[Konstantinos]

Ugh... I have Man's favorite Sport but i like Kino's cover better!

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming to DVD and Blu-ray March 8th from Cohen Media Group and Kino Lorber!

Hester Street (1975)
Directed by Joan Micklin Silver
Starring Carol Kane, Steven Keats, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh, Doris Roberts

In 1890s New York City, evocatively recreated on a shoestring budget, Jewish immigrant Jake (Steven Keats) has assimilated seamlessly into the American community...until his wife from back home (Carol Kane) arrives on his doorstep.

Sumptuously shot in black and white, director Joan Micklin Silver’s loving, funny debut feature became an unexpected hit, and the rare independent American film to garner an Oscar® nomination for Kane’s heartbreaking, but ultimately empowering turn. Cohen Film Collection is proud to present a gorgeous new 4K restoration of this American classic.

Special features:
*Two new interviews with director Joan Micklin Silver by Shonni Enelow
*Archival audio commentary track with director Joan Micklin Silver and producer Raphael Silver
*Archival interviews with key cast and crew members
* Original opening title sequence and outtakes with audio commentary by Daniel Kremer, author of an upcoming book about Joan Micklin Silver
*Restoration Trailer

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming to Blu-ray March 15th from the F.W. Murnau Foundation and Kino Classics!

Farewell (1930)
Directed by Robert Siodmak
Starring Brigitte Horney, Aribert Mog, Emilia Unda

In a return to the realistic “street films” of the German silent era, Robert Siodmak (Criss Cross) directed this comedy drama of intersecting lives within the rooms of a working-class boarding house. Aribert Mog (Ecstasy) and Brigitte Horney (Munchausen) star as Peter and Hella, a young couple waiting for the opportunity to be married. When Peter receives a job opportunity in Dresden, he intends to surprise Hella with the news. But when word spreads among the other lodgers, it creates a series misunderstandings that could jeopardize the couple’s happiness.

Special features:
*Audio commentary by film historian Anthony Slide
*Alternate "happy" ending
*Optional English subtitles

 

[borisfw]

I like both Man's Favorite Sport and Strange Bedfellows but i already have both on blu ray. Maybe down the line if they are on sale really cheap. I assume they are both from the same source as the Universal Blus.

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming March 8th on 4KUHD & Blu-ray!
https://www.kinolorber.com/product/the-apartment-4kuhd-4k-uhd
https://www.kinolorber.com/product/the-apartment-blu-ray

The Apartment (1960)

4K Disc 1:
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Joseph McBride, Author of Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge
• Audio Commentary by Film Historian Bruce Block
• 5.1 Surround & Original 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Triple-Layer UHD100 Disc

BD Disc 2:
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Joseph McBride, Author of Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge
• Audio Commentary by Film Historian Bruce Block
• Inside The Apartment - Documentary (29:36)
• Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon - Featurette (12:47)
• Theatrical Trailer
• 5.1 Surround & Original 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles

B&W 125 Minutes 2.35:1 Not Rated
Unlock the door to The Apartment and welcome legendary director Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot) and screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond (One, Two, Three) at their scathing, satirical best. C.C. “Bud” Baxter (Jack Lemmon, The Fortune Cookie) knows the way to success in business…it’s through the door of his apartment! By providing a perfect hideaway for philandering bosses, the ambitious young employee reaps a series of undeserved promotions. But when Bud lends the key to big boss J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray, Double Indemnity), he not only advances his career, but his own love life as well. For Sheldrake’s mistress is the lovely Fran Kubilek (Shirley MacLaine, Irma La Douce), elevator girl and angel of Bud’s dreams. Convinced that he is the only man for Fran, Bud must make the most important executive decision of his career: lose the girl…or his job. By turns heartwarming and heartbreaking, The Apartment won five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Movie-wise, there has never been anything like it…love-wise, laugh-wise or otherwise-wise!

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming March 15th!
https://www.kinolorber.com/product/fast-charlie-the-moonbeam-rider-blu-ray

Fast Charlie… the Moonbeam Rider (1979)
• Brand New 2K Master
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Eddy Von Mueller
• Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K)
• Optional English Subtitles

Color 98 Minutes 1.85:1 Rated PG
David Carradine (The Long Riders, Kill Bill) and Brenda Vaccaro (Midnight Cowboy, Heart of Midnight) star in this action-packed comedy from legendary producer Roger Corman (The Raven, Bloody Mama). During the 1920s, World War I veteran and conman Charlie Swattle (Carradine) dreams of being the first person to win a transnational motorcycle race and enlists his comrades from the war to help. Romance and adventure ensues as Charlie meets sassy waitress Grace (Vaccaro) and her son as he pursues the big win on his classic Moonbeam motorbike. Action specialist Steve Carver (An Eye for an Eye, Lone Wolf McQuade, River of Death) directs this high-spirited cross-country escapade co-starring L.Q. Jones (The Wild Bunch), R.G. Armstrong (White Lightning), Terry Kiser (Weekend at Bernie’s) and Jesse Vint (Silent Running).

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming to DVD and Blu-ray March 15th from Kino Lorber!

The Immortal (2019)
Directed by Marco D'Amore

Starring Marco D'Amore, Giuseppe Aiello, Salvatore D'Onofrio, Gianni Vastarella, Marianna Robustelli

The Immortal is a thrilling standalone feature that further explores the characters from the hit crime series Gomorrah. It's 1980. A devastating earthquake sends buildings crashing down. Yet from underneath the rubble, the cry of a newborn baby emerges. It is none other than Ciro di Marzio (Marco D’Amore). From that day on, he will be known as “The Immortal”. What they say is true: no one and nothing can kill the Immortal. From his past as an orphan to his present-day Baltic exile, from his first petty thefts to all-out gang warfare: Ciro confronts head-on whatever comes his way, in a world in which immortality is just another form of damnation.

Includes:
*Alternate English audio
*Optional English subtitles
*Trailers

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming March 8th from CODE RED and Kino Lorber!
https://www.kinolorber.com/product/starflight-one-blu-ray

Starflight One (1983)
• Brand New 2K Master
• Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K)
• Optional English Subtitles

Color 115 Minutes 1.66:1 Not Rated
Special effects guru John Dykstra (Star Wars) brings his technical expertise to this futuristic vision of the maiden flight of the world’s first hypersonic transport jet. Touted as a technological breakthrough, the super-speed aircraft debarks amid much fanfare. All systems are “go” until a misguided missile renders the craft helpless, pushing it into a deadly orbit above Earth that threatens the total annihilation of its passengers. Time is running out for the Starflight One, a.k.a. Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land, in this nerve-jangling space-age disaster movie directed by suspense specialist Jerry Jameson (Airport ’77, TV’s Superdome) with music by the great Lalo Schifrin (Coogan’s Bluff, Bullitt). Heading the all-star cast of this sci-fi adventure are Lee Majors (TV’s The Six Million Dollar Man) as the ship’s captain, Hal Linden (TV’s Barney Miller) as the scientific genius behind the machine, Tess Harper (Tender Mercies) as Majors’ wife, Lauren Hutton (Gator) as Majors’ lover and Ray Milland (Panic in Year Zero) as the high-powered chairman of the aerospace company.

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming March 22nd!

Now and Forever (1934)
• Brand New 2K Master
• NEW Audio Commentary by Author/Film Historian Lee Gambin and Costume Historian Elissa Rose
• Theatrical Trailer
• Optional English Subtitles

B&W 82 Minutes 1.37:1 Not Rated
Screen legends Gary Cooper (Desire, Beau Geste) and Carole Lombard (Hands Across the Table, Nothing Sacred) star along with the irresistible Shirley Temple (Since You Went Away, I’ll Be Seeing You) in Now and Forever. Penny (Temple) is a poor-little-rich girl whose father, Jerry (Cooper), a jewel thief and con artist, comes to claim her from his late wife’s stuffy relatives. Together with new spouse Toni (Lombard), Jerry has sworn to mend his ways and set a good example for his beloved daughter. He soon discovers that old habits die hard, especially when the best schools cost money that Jerry does not have. Directed by Hollywood great Henry Hathaway (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Peter Ibbetson) and featuring unforgettable performances, this endearing tale of love, honor and sacrifice will touch your heart—now and forever.

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming to Blu-ray March 29th from Kino Classics!

The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
Directed by Robert Siodmak
Starring Claus Holm, Mario Adorf, Hannes Messemer, Peter Carsten

The murder of a Hamburg barmaid seems an open-and-shut case until a recently demobilized Nazi soldier, reassigned to the police force, suspects it’s the work of a serial killer. His efforts to bring the murderer to justice run afoul of the Reich, which fears the culprit is Aryan—not the foreigner, gypsy or Jew they would prefer. Director Robert Siodmak, the greatest practitioner of Hollywood noir (Criss Cross, The Killers, Phantom Lady, et al.), returned to Germany in the 1950s to finish his career. This was the most powerful film of those later years, a subtle yet scathing payback to the Nazis that chased him from his homeland. Based on the true story of murderer Bruno Lüdke, Siodmak creates a tense policier that’s also a psychological drama exploring how some of those who did not flee the Reich struggled to maintain their integrity and morality in the face of overwhelming corruption and evil. — Eddie Muller, Film Noir Foundation

Special features:
*Audio commentary by film historian Imogen Sara Smith
*Optional English subtitles

 

[David_B_K]

I have never heard of The Devil Strikes at Night. Sounds a bit like Night of the Generals.

 

[Douglas R]

I have never heard of The Devil Strikes at Night. Sounds a bit like Night of the Generals.

Exactly what I thought.

 

[Bernard McNair]

I have never heard of The Devil Strikes at Night but having done some research this morning it will be a Day 1 purchase.
Thank you, Kino.