Kino Lorber Studio Classics

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Coming Soon on Blu-ray!
Brand New HD Master!

NIGHT WORLD (1932) Starring Boris Karloff, Lew Ayres, Mae Clarke, Hedda Hopper, George Raft & Clarence Muse – Shot by Merritt B. Gerstad (The Man Who Reclaimed His Head) – Music by Alfred Newman (The Song of Bernadette) – Produced by Carl Laemmle (Frankenstein) – Screenplay by Richard Schayer (The Mummy) – From a Story by P.J. Wolfson (Mad Love) & Allen Rivkin (Dead Reckoning) – Directed by Hobart Henley (The Lady Lies, Bad Sister).

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Dead of Night UHD from a new HDR master.

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

Surprisingly, Kino announced this morning a 4K release of The Night of the Juggler, a film that never even made it to DVD. Does Columbia still own the rights? Was their issues with music licensing? It’s a personal favorite of mine and one I’ve seen on 35mm and VHS numerous times. Cliff Gorman is one of those character actors who instantly elevates a movie, and love him here as a weasley, resentful, bitter, casually racist New Yorker who feels the world owes him something. The intro where he draws a happy face on his breakfast with ketchup tickles me everytime. It’s a real frenetically paced thriller and one I think about often.

[captveg]

Surprisingly, Kino announced this morning a 4K release of The Night of the Juggler, a film that never even made it to DVD. Does Columbia still own the rights? Was their issues with music licensing? It’s a personal favorite of mine and one I’ve seen on 35mm and VHS numerous times. Cliff Gorman is one of those character actors who instantly elevates a movie, and love him here as a weasley, resentful, bitter, casually racist New Yorker who feels the world owes him something. The intro where he draws a happy face on his breakfast with ketchup tickles me everytime. It’s a real frenetically paced thriller and one I think about often.

It's apparently owned by either a small company or the film's producers alongside a few other films (or this status has recently changed from the company back to the producers). Blu-ray.com forum members are trying to gather various context stated over time. Here's what Fun City rep Jah13 said about it a few years back:

It’s a white whale that many labels would love to get and have tried for. The rights holder is not a traditional film company, but a much larger multinational corporation, and my understanding from those who have gotten a toe in the door, is that film sub-licensing is way too small potatoes for them to bother with.
...
My sense is it hasn't gotten that far and what this company is looking for to make it worth their while is way out of line with what anyone could pay. They also don't have that many titles to begin with. It may be just JUGGLER and FOOLIN' AROUND.

And here's a summary of what Tarzi said in a podcast recently about a small library acquisition, which many are now concluding is the one The Night of the Juggler is coming from:

Frank is currently about to sign on a deal for an independently owned film, owned by the producers of that film that's been one of his all time Holy Grails - the rights for that film were very questionable, so that's why this hasn't happened until now. The same producers owned 2-3 other films, and he picked up a couple of other small gems including one "really good kind of a horror film". None of these films have been on any home media format since VHS.

EDIT: From KL Insider -

Juggler was acquired independently. My boss has been trying to acquire it for decades. Walt Olsen would've been very happy too.

[dwk]

Audie Murphy Collection IV
• The Kid from Texas (1950) with Gale Storm, Albert Dekker & William Talman – Directed by Kurt Neumann
• The Cimarron Kid (1952) with Beverly Tyler, James Best, Hugh O’Brian & Leif Erickson – Directed by Budd Boetticher
• Drums Across the River (1954) with Walter Brennan, Lyle Bettger & Hugh O’Brian – Directed by Nathan Juran

[captveg]

More OOP based on previously being in the "While Supplies Last" sale and now no longer appearing on the website:

Foxfire (1955) (DVD still available)
The Man Called Noon (1973)

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Abbott and Costello Horror Collection (1941-1955) UHD

Brand New HDR Masters!

• Hold That Ghost (1941)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
• Abbott and Costello Meet The Killer Boris Karloff (1949)
Abbott and Costello Meet The Invisible Man (1951)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
• Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy (1955)

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May release slate (so far)

May 13th
Pete Walker Crime Collection [The Big Switch | Man of Violence | Cool It Carol | Die Screaming Marianne] Kino Cult #29
Crack in the World (1965) New HD Master by KL - From a 4K Scan of the OCN
Vice Squad (1982) New UHD SDR Master by StudioCanal - From a 4K Scan of the OCN

May 20th
Prophecy (1979) 4KUHD New HDR/Dolby Vision Master by KL
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) New HD Master by Paramount - From a 4K Scan of the OCN

May 27th
Audie Murphy Collection IV [The Kid from Texas (1950) | The Cimarron Kid (1952) | Drums Across the River (1954)]
Nate and Hayes (1983) New HD Master by KL - From a 4K Scan of the OCN
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003) New HD Master by KL - From a 4K Scan of the OCN
Bottoms (2023) Special Edition
The Magnificent 7 Deadly Sins (1971) Kino Cult #30
Dante's Peak (1997) New HDR/Dolby Vision Master by KL

and Vice Squad specs

VICE SQUAD (1982)

DISC 1 (4KUHD):
• Brand New UHD SDR Master by StudioCanal – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
• NEW Audio Commentary by Wings Hauser: Working Class Actor Writer/Director Steve Mitchell and Film Historian Nathanial Thompson
• Audio Commentary by Director Gary Sherman and Producer Brian Frankish
• 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
• Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles

DISC 2 (BLU-RAY):
• Brand New HD Master by StudioCanal – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
• NEW Audio Commentary by Wings Hauser: Working Class Actor Writer/Director Steve Mitchell and Film Historian Nathanial Thompson
• Audio Commentary by Director Gary Sherman and Producer Brian Frankish
• TV and Radio Spots
• Theatrical Trailer
• 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles

DISC 3 (BLU-RAY):
• Tracking the Beast: Interview with Actor Gary Swanson
• Of Poltergeists and Neon Lights: Interview with Director Gary Sherman
• Hollywood Magic: Interview with Producer Brian Frankish
• The Roots of Reality: Interview with Actress Beverly Todd
• Catching a Killer: Interview with Actor Pepe Serna
• Princess Driver: Interview with Actor Michael Ensign
• Hollywood Streetwalking: Vice Squad Filming Locations

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Coming Soon on 4KUHD!
Brand New HDR/DV Master!

WAYNE’S WORLD 2 (1993) Starring Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Christopher Walken, Tia Carrere, Chris Farley, James Hong, Rip Taylor, Ralph Brown, Aerosmith, Lee Tergersen, Heather Locklear, Bob Odenkirk, Robert Smigel, Kevin Pollak, Kim Basinger, Olivia d’Abo, Drew Barrymore, Tim Meadows, Harry Shearer, Ted McGinley, Jay Leno, Ed O’Neill & Charlton Heston – Shot by Francis Kenny (New Jack City) – Music by Carter Burwell (Fargo) – Produced by Lorne Michaels (¡Three Amigos!) – Written by Mike Myers (Austin Powers Trilogy), Bonnie Turner (Tommy Boy) & Terry Turner (Coneheads) – Directed by Stephen Surjik (The Punisher, Daredevil, Reacher).

[ryannichols7]

I swear to you, I just watched The Graduate the other day and was wondering when we were gonna see it's all time best spoof in 4K. so you're welcome everyone!

haven't seen it in eons, hope it holds up. personally remember it being as strong as the first movie, but maybe I was way off on that

[domino harvey]

I haven’t seen either in some time but I recall both films were much funnier than anything else coming out of SNL or its various stars at the time. This is the one with the parodies of the Doors too, right?

[beamish14]

I haven’t seen either in some time but I recall both films were much funnier than anything else coming out of SNL or its various stars at the time. This is the one with the parodies of the Doors too, right?

Yep. This film has one unbelievably great meta gag about car chases and why they always seem to involve glass panes and fruit crates

[captveg]

The

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Heston

cameo is an all-timer.

Has a great

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Kevin Pollak

scene, too. "Cross the t's and dot.... the lower case j's."

[tolbs1010]

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003) New HD Master by KL - From a 4K Scan of the OCN

Saw this in the theater when it came out and encouraged a friend to go with me based on how much I liked Croupier. My friend still cites it as the worst movie she has ever seen in the theater. I didn't like it either. Dreary and unpleasant for sure. Yet I want to see it again to see if maybe there is something that I missed 20+ years ago. Hodges' body of work is...wayward. Maybe I'll do a double feature of this and Morons From Outer Space.

[JSC]

I've never understood the critical drubbing this film got. I think because it had Clive Owen and Mike Hodges was directing,
there were certain expectations that the film would be something along the same lines as Croupier and it wasn't (saw
it in the theater back in '03 or '04 and I remember someone in the audience remarking on it at the time). Personally, it sort
of reminds me of something closer to late Jean-Pierre Meville. There's also a nasty edge to it that's more in line with the
nihilistic tone of Get Carter.

I'd love to see someone restore Hodges' two early television films Rumor and Suspect. Network did put them out in
pretty poor condition a few years ago, but I could easily see the BFI doing it as a Flipside release. Suspect in particular is
an amazing film.

[beamish14]

I've never understood the critical drubbing this film got. I think because it had Clive Owen and Mike Hodges was directing,
there were certain expectations that the film would be something along the same lines as Croupier and it wasn't (saw
it in the theater back in '03 or '04 and I remember someone in the audience remarking on it at the time). Personally, it sort
of reminds me of something closer to late Jean-Pierre Meville. There's also a nasty edge to it that's more in line with the
nihilistic tone of Get Carter.

I'd love to see someone restore Hodges' two early television films Rumor and Suspect. Network did put them out in
pretty poor condition a few years ago, but I could easily see the BFI doing it as a Flipside release. Suspect in particular is
an amazing film.

I’d kill for an official release of his 1984 Tom Stoppard collaboration Squaring the Circle

[colinr0380]

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003) New HD Master by KL - From a 4K Scan of the OCN

Saw this in the theater when it came out and encouraged a friend to go with me based on how much I liked Croupier. My friend still cites it as the worst movie she has ever seen in the theater. I didn't like it either. Dreary and unpleasant for sure. Yet I want to see it again to see if maybe there is something that I missed 20+ years ago. Hodges' body of work is...wayward. Maybe I'll do a double feature of this and Morons From Outer Space.

I like the film, though prefer Croupier slightly more. I guess both the Mike Hodges films have to be placed into context of being a kind of response to the Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughn 'laddish British gangster' trend of the late 90s-early 2000s with Lock Stock, Snatch and Layer Cake et al (my favourite of all these is still the one that came before Lock, Stock - 1997's Face). That kind of splintered off into all sorts of directions, with the football holligan films such as The Football Factory (and Elijah Wood(!?!?) being enticed by violence in Green Street) and the other Nick Love 'working class gangster' films; the 'true life crime' films like Essex Boys mostly based around the Rettendon murders; of course Sexy Beast stands out by itself; and eventually the big guns came in with old school (often period) gangster tales. Along with Terence Stamp in the The Limey, the really big one that deserves a good special edition some time is Malcolm McDowell's late period return to prominence in 2000's Gangster No. 1.

I'd hazard a guess that McDowell turning up in I'll Sleep When I'm Dead has something to do with that previous film, and Hodges coming back to do a crime film decades after Get Carter has a kind of 'showing the kids of today how its done' aspect about it, at least in its marketing. It proves to be a more melancholic film than that. But it probably suffers from getting lost in the middle of the cycle and not being quite so flippant and flashy with the attitude to crime as most of the other films surrounding it at the time were being.

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Coming Soon on 4KUHD!
Brand New HDR/DV Master!

KINGPIN (1996) Starring Woody Harrelson, Bill Murray, Randy Quaid, Vanessa Angel, Chris Elliott, Richard Tyson, Lin Shaye, Zen Gesner, Daniel Greene & Roger Clemens – Shot by Mark Irwin (Old School) – Screenplay by Barry Fanaro (Men in Black II) & Mort Nathan (Boat Trip) – Directed by Bobby & Peter Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber, There’s Something About Mary, Me, Myself & Irene).

[nicolas]

They’re releasing Billy Wilder’s Sabrina in 4K and the 1995 remake on BD from a new transfer. They’re also “probably” putting out both cuts of Mimic and Friedkin’s Rampage in 4K.

[beamish14]

They’re releasing Billy Wilder’s Sabrina in 4K and the 1995 remake on BD from a new transfer. They’re also “probably” putting out both cuts of Mimic and Friedkin’s Rampage in 4K.

Rampage would be quite a feat, as the 1987 cut is MGM, while the 1992 one that I won’t watch is Paramount via Miramax

[Big Ben]

They’re releasing Billy Wilder’s Sabrina in 4K and the 1995 remake on BD from a new transfer. They’re also “probably” putting out both cuts of Mimic and Friedkin’s Rampage in 4K.

Do you have a link for the Rampage announcement? This was announced initially back in 2023 from what I recall and then it just...didn't materialize. I've wanted to see Rampage for years.

[beamish14]

They’re releasing Billy Wilder’s Sabrina in 4K and the 1995 remake on BD from a new transfer. They’re also “probably” putting out both cuts of Mimic and Friedkin’s Rampage in 4K.

Do you have a link for the Rampage announcement? This was announced initially back in 2023 from what I recall and then it just...didn't materialize. I've wanted to see Rampage for years.

Rampage is such a hard film to watch. It’s a quality work for sure, and has great performances from Michael Biehn and Grace Zabriskie, but it’s tremendously sad

[nicolas]

They’re releasing Billy Wilder’s Sabrina in 4K and the 1995 remake on BD from a new transfer. They’re also “probably” putting out both cuts of Mimic and Friedkin’s Rampage in 4K.

Do you have a link for the Rampage announcement? This was announced initially back in 2023 from what I recall and then it just...didn't materialize. I've wanted to see Rampage for years.

They announced it on X/Twitter in 2023. Here’s the BR.com thread with the blurb & poster. https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=369429

[Stefan Andersson]

Upcoming:

Ramona (1928) "restored by the Library of Congress from color-tinted 35mm materials preserved by Gosfilmofond of Russia and the Národní National Film Archive of the Czech Republic. Music composed and performed by Ben Model."

https://kinolorber.com/product/ramona

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Coming Soon on 4KUHD!
Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master!

MouseHunt (1997) Starring Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Christopher Walken, Vicki Lewis, Maury Chaykin, Michael Jeter, Eric Christmas, Ian Abercrombie & William Hickey – Shot by Phedon Papamichael (A Complete Unknown) – Music by Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future) – Written by Adam Rifkin (Small Soldiers) – Directed by Gore Verbinski (The Ring, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Rango, The Lone Ranger).