Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3) (26 Viewers)

[Barnduke98]

nice weekend i can't wait the icpress file on blu ray 2k scan originally almost get 4k scan remastered can't find element issue/ hopeful the fourth protocol is warner bros. we hear about kino lorber have 30 title small deal warner bros or sony between some where come this sunday.

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming to DVD and Blu-ray October 20th from Kino Classics!

Three Tod Browning classics in two separate releases!

Outside the Law (1920)
Directed by Tod Browning
Starring Priscilla Dean and Lon Chaney

New 4K Restoration by Universal Pictures!

While under contract at Universal Studios, Tod Browning crafted a series of melodramas with strong female protagonists, women on the wrong side of the law, who stood defiantly against the men who tried to control them. No actress better personified this tough, glamorous anti-hero than Priscilla Dean (Drifting, White Tiger). In Outside the Law, Dean plays hard-boiled jewel thief Molly Madden. When her father is framed for murder by Black Mike Sylva (Lon Chaney), Molly partners with safecracker Dapper Bill (Wheeler Oakman) to stage a double-cross of their own. Outside the Law was Browning’s second film with actor Lon Chaney, whose gifts for elaborate makeup and ruthless villainy would flower under Browning’s direction, setting the stage for a series of monstrous characterizations that would revolutionize the melodrama and lay the foundations of the American horror film.

Special features:
*Audio commentary by film historian Anthony Slide
*Musical score by Anton Sanko
*Alternate ending
*Footage comparison
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Drifting (1923) and White Tiger (1923)
Directed by Tod Browning
Starring Priscilla Dean and Wallace Beery

After the runaway success of Outside the Law, director Tod Browning re-teamed with star Priscilla Dean on Drifting, another hard-boiled crime picture flavored with Orientalism. Set in a remote Chinese village, and staged on an epic scale, Dean stars as Cassie Cook, an opium trafficker caught between an undercover government agent (Matt Moore) and a fellow smuggler (Wallace Beery). Dean may have been the star, but it is Anna May Wong (age eighteen and on the brink of stardom), who steals the show during the film’s fiery climax.
An early attempt by Browning to infuse the crime melodrama with elements of the uncanny (spurring the evolution of the American horror film), White Tiger involves a band of jewel thieves who employ a chess-playing automaton to gain entry into the homes of the wealthy. But their elaborate plans are haunted by omens, and they seem doomed to an inescapable fate. This disc also contains the only surviving footage of Browning and Dean’s 1919 The Exquisite Thief, one of the key films in establishing Dean’s persona as the glamorous jewel thief.

Special features:
• Drifting 4K Restoration by George Eastman Museum
• Audio commentary for Drifting by film historian Anthony Slide
• Musical score by Anton Sanko
• Audio commentary for White Tiger by film historian Bret Wood
• Musical score by Andrew Earle Simpson
• Fragment of the “lost” Tod Browning/Priscilla Dean film The Exquisite Thief

 

[TheSteig]

These silents sound great, I actually have White Tiger on an Alpha Video DVD. Is that one also getting a 4K restoration or just a "regular" 1080p release ? Im looking forward to it either way

 

[Thomas T]

Coming to DVD and Blu-ray October 20th from Kino Classics!

Three Tod Browning classics in two separate releases!

Outside the Law (1920)
Directed by Tod Browning
Starring Priscilla Dean and Lon Chaney

New 4K Restoration by Universal Pictures!

While under contract at Universal Studios, Tod Browning crafted a series of melodramas with strong female protagonists, women on the wrong side of the law, who stood defiantly against the men who tried to control them. No actress better personified this tough, glamorous anti-hero than Priscilla Dean (Drifting, White Tiger). In Outside the Law, Dean plays hard-boiled jewel thief Molly Madden. When her father is framed for murder by Black Mike Sylva (Lon Chaney), Molly partners with safecracker Dapper Bill (Wheeler Oakman) to stage a double-cross of their own. Outside the Law was Browning’s second film with actor Lon Chaney, whose gifts for elaborate makeup and ruthless villainy would flower under Browning’s direction, setting the stage for a series of monstrous characterizations that would revolutionize the melodrama and lay the foundations of the American horror film.

Special features:
*Audio commentary by film historian Anthony Slide
*Musical score by Anton Sanko
*Alternate ending
*Footage comparison
---------------------------------------

Drifting (1923) and White Tiger (1923)
Directed by Tod Browning
Starring Priscilla Dean and Wallace Beery

After the runaway success of Outside the Law, director Tod Browning re-teamed with star Priscilla Dean on Drifting, another hard-boiled crime picture flavored with Orientalism. Set in a remote Chinese village, and staged on an epic scale, Dean stars as Cassie Cook, an opium trafficker caught between an undercover government agent (Matt Moore) and a fellow smuggler (Wallace Beery). Dean may have been the star, but it is Anna May Wong (age eighteen and on the brink of stardom), who steals the show during the film’s fiery climax.
An early attempt by Browning to infuse the crime melodrama with elements of the uncanny (spurring the evolution of the American horror film), White Tiger involves a band of jewel thieves who employ a chess-playing automaton to gain entry into the homes of the wealthy. But their elaborate plans are haunted by omens, and they seem doomed to an inescapable fate. This disc also contains the only surviving footage of Browning and Dean’s 1919 The Exquisite Thief, one of the key films in establishing Dean’s persona as the glamorous jewel thief.

Special features:
• Drifting 4K Restoration by George Eastman Museum
• Audio commentary for Drifting by film historian Anthony Slide
• Musical score by Anton Sanko
• Audio commentary for White Tiger by film historian Bret Wood
• Musical score by Andrew Earle Simpson
• Fragment of the “lost” Tod Browning/Priscilla Dean film The Exquisite Thief

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I can't get enough of these KL releases of silent classics. Keep 'em coming!

 

[battlebeast]

I would be BEYOND thrilled if KINO could one day reacquire the rights to ALIBI, or get the rights to THE RACKET. (1920s).

there is a film, THE PATRIOT (1928) that is missing. It would be great if KINO could one day get the trailer and extant fragments to include on a disc like they have with the Todd Browning silent. (But only if it makes sense for them.)

 

[Kino Lorber Insider]

Coming to DVD and Blu-ray October 27th from Kino Lorber!

Babylon Berlin (Seasons 1 & 2)
16 Episodes | 4-Disc Set
Written and directed by Tom Tykwer, Henk Handloegten, Achim von Borries

Babylon Berlin is one of the most critically acclaimed European television shows of the decade, a sumptuously paranoid thriller set in 1929 Berlin, a metropolis in turmoil. In Seasons 1 and 2, the glittering excesses of the city’s nightlife sparkle while an army of the impoverished strives for a better life. Organized crime and political extremists take advantage, extending their power throughout town. Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch, The Reader), a young cop from Cologne, is transferred to the vice squad in Berlin, which is headed by the seemingly affable Bruno Wolter (Peter Kurth, Good Bye Lenin!). Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries, The Wave) is a stenographer for the homicide department who lives a double life in the city’s cabarets, a valuable resource for Rath’s investigations. He is confronted with a tangled web of corruption, forcing him into an existential conflict as he is torn between loyalty and uncovering the truth. Then a freight train from the Soviet Union arrives, which appears to hold the key to political power — and is a deadly trap for anyone trying to approach it.

Special features:
*Behind-the-scenes footage
*Limited edition O-Card
*Making-of documentary (Blu-ray only)
*Optional English subtitles
*Trailers

 

[Barnduke98]

i am happy get outside the law and drifiting classic film universal. would you like get Warner bros deal 30 title Kino Lobrer the frisco kid and The SPiral Staircase Remake and THe Terminal Man and dreamlover 1986?

 

[bujaki]

Coming to DVD and Blu-ray October 27th from Kino Lorber!

Babylon Berlin (Seasons 1 & 2)
16 Episodes | 4-Disc Set
Written and directed by Tom Tykwer, Henk Handloegten, Achim von Borries

Babylon Berlin is one of the most critically acclaimed European television shows of the decade, a sumptuously paranoid thriller set in 1929 Berlin, a metropolis in turmoil. In Seasons 1 and 2, the glittering excesses of the city’s nightlife sparkle while an army of the impoverished strives for a better life. Organized crime and political extremists take advantage, extending their power throughout town. Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch, The Reader), a young cop from Cologne, is transferred to the vice squad in Berlin, which is headed by the seemingly affable Bruno Wolter (Peter Kurth, Good Bye Lenin!). Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries, The Wave) is a stenographer for the homicide department who lives a double life in the city’s cabarets, a valuable resource for Rath’s investigations. He is confronted with a tangled web of corruption, forcing him into an existential conflict as he is torn between loyalty and uncovering the truth. Then a freight train from the Soviet Union arrives, which appears to hold the key to political power — and is a deadly trap for anyone trying to approach it.

Special features:
*Behind-the-scenes footage
*Limited edition O-Card
*Making-of documentary (Blu-ray only)
*Optional English subtitles
*Trailers

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This series is highly recommended. The recreation of Weimar Berlin is breathtaking. Compelling characterizations and complex plots.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Saturday's Facebook Announcement:

Coming 2021!

Brand New 4K Restoration!

GAMBIT (1966) Starring Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine & Herbert Lom – Shot by Clifford Stine (Wings of the Hawk, This Island Earth) – Music by Maurice Jarre (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia) – Screenplay by Jack Davies (Ffolkes) & Alvin Sargent (Paper Moon) – Story by Sidney Carroll (The Hustler) – Directed by Ronald Neame (Tunes of Glory, The Chalk Garden, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Poseidon Adventure, The Odessa File, Hopscotch).

 

[Joel Arndt]

Coming to DVD and Blu-ray October 27th from Kino Lorber!

Babylon Berlin (Seasons 1 & 2)
16 Episodes | 4-Disc Set
Written and directed by Tom Tykwer, Henk Handloegten, Achim von Borries

Babylon Berlin is one of the most critically acclaimed European television shows of the decade, a sumptuously paranoid thriller set in 1929 Berlin, a metropolis in turmoil. In Seasons 1 and 2, the glittering excesses of the city’s nightlife sparkle while an army of the impoverished strives for a better life. Organized crime and political extremists take advantage, extending their power throughout town. Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch, The Reader), a young cop from Cologne, is transferred to the vice squad in Berlin, which is headed by the seemingly affable Bruno Wolter (Peter Kurth, Good Bye Lenin!). Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries, The Wave) is a stenographer for the homicide department who lives a double life in the city’s cabarets, a valuable resource for Rath’s investigations. He is confronted with a tangled web of corruption, forcing him into an existential conflict as he is torn between loyalty and uncovering the truth. Then a freight train from the Soviet Union arrives, which appears to hold the key to political power — and is a deadly trap for anyone trying to approach it.

Special features:
*Behind-the-scenes footage
*Limited edition O-Card
*Making-of documentary (Blu-ray only)
*Optional English subtitles
*Trailers

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KL Insider, will this release be in German and not dubbed? I see in the description it says "Optional English Subtitles".

 

[Peter M Fitzgerald]

Awesome! I was hoping (and, in fact, expecting) that Gambit would be part of this group of licensed Universal titles!

 

[Worth]

Is it just me, or does Michael Caine look more like Dean Martin in that Gambit poster?

 

[cadavra]

Is it just me, or does Michael Caine look more like Dean Martin in that Gambit poster?

Actually, I think he looks more like Connery!

 

[Malcolm R]

Actually, I think he looks more like Connery!

That's what I thought.

 

[Wade Sowers]

Did LADYBUG, LADYBUG drop off the October schedule?

 

[Matt Hough]

Gambit is a wonderfully entertaining caper film filled with surprises. Glad to see that it's coming.

 

[lark144]

Actually, I think he looks more like Connery!

Connery's physique, with a devil may care Steve McQueen look.

 

[borisfw]

I think Shirley MacLaine looks like Leslie Caron in the poster. So does that mean Gambit stars Dean Martin and Leslie Caron?

 

[battlebeast]

Is it just me, or does Michael Caine look more like Dean Martin in that Gambit poster?

I thought it was Gregory Peck or Cary Grant... :/

 

[Robert Crawford]

Another of my Holy Grails off my "MIA Blu-ray" listing! A fine movie that I hope is finally released on home video in its OAR.

Sunday's Facebook Announcement:

Coming Soon!

Attack (1956) Starring Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Eddie Albert, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Strauss, Buddy Ebsen & Peter van Eyck – Shot by Joseph F. Biroc (The Towering Inferno, The Longest Yard) – Music by Frank De Vol (Cat Ballou, The Big Knife) – Screenplay by James Poe (Lilies of the Field, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?) – Directed by Robert Aldrich (Kiss Me Deadly, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Flight of the Phoenix, The Dirty Dozen, Ulzana’s Raid).