Kino Lorber Studio Classics

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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).

Another in the prestigious “films you knew even as a kid were bad” line of releases.

[Drucker]

I saw this with my entire family in a theater in Times Square. It was a cinematic experience I'll never forget, as the theater reeked of urine and we may have been the only people there.

[colinr0380]

An interesting entry though in its attempt to turn physical stand up comic Lee Evans into a star and do a kind of live action riff on Looney Tunes slapstick. He extremely briefly turns up as I think an usher at the beginning of the opera sequence in The Fifth Element, though of course his biggest showcase (and the one that also allowed him to do some of his act) was as the sad clown potential protege of Jerry Lewis in Blackpool set Funny Bones.

[domino harvey]

Also memorable as the cripple in There’s Something About Mary

[dwk]

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Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) Starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, William Shatner, Chad Everett, Raymond Burr, Chuck Connors, Rip Torn, Peter Graves, John Dehner, Kent McCord, James A. Watson, Jr., John Vernon, Al White, Sonny Bono, Richard Jaeckel & Sandahl Bergman – Shot by Joseph F. Biroc (Airplane!) – Music by Elmer Bernstein (Ghostbusters) – Written & Directed by Ken Finkleman (Head Office, Who’s That Girl).

[dwk]

Kino has pulled the listing for Daylight and Dante’s Peak and told retailers to stop selling them. A post at the Blu-ray.com forum had the following email from Atomic

I sold out of stock this morning. I did get an email this morning to stop sales of the disc and pull the product listing down. The email also said that this product pull down wasn't related to the product's playback. And there is no need
for a replacement program as there is no issue with the discs.

[dwk]

Coming June 24th on Blu-ray!

Audie Murphy Collection V (1956-1964)
• Walk the Proud Land (1956) with Anne Bancroft, Pat Crowley & Charles Drake – Directed by Jesse Hibbs
• Seven Ways from Sundown (1960) with Barry Sullivan & John McIntire – Directed by Harry Keller
• Bullet for a Badman (1964) with Darren McGavin, Ruta Lee & Skip Homeier – Directed by R.G. Springsteen

[dwk]

Kino has commented on Daylight and Dante's Peak

DANTE'S PEAK and DAYLIGHT are delayed indefinitely, but they are not cancelled. Further updates to come. Some unforeseen legal issues have risen and need to be resolved.

And today's announcement

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THE PEACEMAKER (1997) Starring George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Marcel Iures, Aleksandr Baluev, Holt McCallany & Michael Boatman – Shot by Dietrich Lohmann (Color of Night) – Music by Hans Zimmer (Inception) – Screenplay by Michael Schiffer (Crimson Tide) – Directed by Mimi Leder (Deep Impact).

[pistolwink]

I really wonder who is eagerly splurging on a dozen+ mediocre Audie Murphy films. Although I wonder that about a lot of Kino's titles.

[jt938]

I really wonder who is eagerly splurging on a dozen+ mediocre Audie Murphy films. Although I wonder that about a lot of Kino's titles.

I actually got into argument over this with someone on blu ray.com, they said he was a war hero and deserves to be honored as much as possible.

[domino harvey]

Then honor his service, because he’s definitely not a hero of acting

[colinr0380]

I really wonder who is eagerly splurging on a dozen+ mediocre Audie Murphy films. Although I wonder that about a lot of Kino's titles.

I actually got into argument over this with someone on blu ray.com, they said he was a war hero and deserves to be honored as much as possible.

Presumably you would really only need the autobiographical Audie Murphy film To Hell and Back to do that.

[captveg]

I mean, if his movies sell then his movies sell. It could be as simple as the licensing fee on his titles being more affordable than others.

[jsteffe]

I have no complaints, because it give us a more complete picture of genre film production during the studio era. I'll order it for our library.

[pistolwink]

I really wonder who is eagerly splurging on a dozen+ mediocre Audie Murphy films. Although I wonder that about a lot of Kino's titles.

I actually got into argument over this with someone on blu ray.com, they said he was a war hero and deserves to be honored as much as possible.

Presumably you would really only need the autobiographical Audie Murphy film To Hell and Back to do that.

That is actually not a bad film at all. Although it's a total bowdlerization of Murphy's memoir, which is much more frank and bitter (and unfilmable in that era).

[dwk]

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Vertigo for a Killer (1970)

Marcel Bozzuffi / Sylva Koscina / Michel Constantin
Cinematography Roland Dantigny (La part des lions)
Music Romuald (Sin with a Stranger)
Writer/Director Jean-Pierre Desagnat (OSS 117: Double Agent)

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DEAD AGAIN (1991)

Starring Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia, Wayne Knight & Robin Williams – Shot by Matthew F. Leonetti (Strange Days) – Music by Patrick Doyle (Carlito’s Way) – Produced by Sydney Pollack (The Talented Mr. Ripley) – Written by Scott Frank (Out of Sight) – Directed by Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet, Thor).

[bearcuborg]

Branagh at the height of his next big thing hype. I’m eager to revisit this, Robin Williams seemed capable of anything at this point in his career.

[colinr0380]

And Dead Again is at the height of his luvvie couple-dom with Emma Thompson with the following year's Much Ado About Nothing. The most telling supporting cast member appearing is Branagh's regular muse actor Derek Jacobi, doing the 'explaining the mystery' exposition. And interesting to think that Robin Williams appearing here may have helped with getting him to appear in Hamlet!

Whilst this is not my favourite Branagh film (that would be 2000's musical version of Love's Labour's Lost, which tonally perfectly fits Branagh's hyper-manic style), it is very entertaining and whilst absurdly overblown that kind of works for a giallo-homaging mystery tale of romantic reincarnation. Lots of pointy objects and scissors looming menacingly into frame as was the style at the time, and probably most exemplified by De Palma's Raising Cain the following year. The big hurdle to get over with this film is Branagh's terrible American accent, which I don't think is supposed to be acting as a plot-twist and occurs in what is meant to be the more 'grounded' modern day part of the film.

[domino harvey]

The movie is just Branagh and all his stuffed shirt friends slumming it on genre nonsense, but I won’t deny there’s a certain charm to it all (not enough to recommend it, though)

[colinr0380]

At least its more interesting genre nonsense than Thor!

And whilst it is a neat touch, really the black-and-white versus colour thing in a mystery thriller motif was done the most impressively a few years earlier in the desaturation as events move towards the climax of the 1988 remake of D.O.A., which I'd love to revisit some time together with the 1950 original.

[domino harvey]

I will say that the funny twist in the reincarnation plot line blew my mind when I watched this as a kid (one of the countless odd choices my mom made for our shared viewing when I was younger)

[therewillbeblus]

Doesn't KL usually have a March sale? I feel like they had been happening more frequently until this last stretch of winter

[domino harvey]

They’ve been doing a sale each quarter lately. Not sure what happened this quarter though, unless I missed it

[brundlefly]

According to this, it starts tomorrow.