Kino Lorber Studio Classics

[captveg]

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

Bueno Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968) (DVD) (BD still available)

[FrauBlucher]

KL Insider...

Our weekend announcements on Facebook and Twitter are a 1970s French crime film and a 4K release of an MGM title previously released on DVD and Blu-ray by KL.

The French film was acquired through Euro London, when we renewed When Eight Bells Toll.

[senseabove]

KLI just (finally) announced Wyler's absolutely terrific Counsellor at Law, as well as that they're working on a deal with Gaumont.

[therewillbeblus]

Terrific news on both ends!

[Calvin]

Hopefully the Gaumont deal doesn't just end up being titles that Gaumont have already released good English-friendly Blu-Rays of themselves. Let's be having Ophuls' Sans lendemain (which would make up for Kino dropping Liebelei), Duras' Le camion, and some Michel Deville and Raymond Bernard.

[domino harvey]

Oh, maybe they’d go after Deville’s Bardot film— what a mindblower it would be to actually get one of his best films out there for everyone to see

[therewillbeblus]

That would make this 70s project delay totally worth it

[swo17]

Stop getting my hopes up!

[therewillbeblus]

I mean, it is totally the kind of film KLSC would release. Then again, that's an intimidatingly wide net

[domino harvey]

Yeah, that’s why I picked it. I doubt anyone making these decisions knows who Deville even is, but the two stars alone should hopefully be enough to give it a good chance to get released

[What A Disgrace]

I'm hoping for some Blu-ray upgrades of the Gaumont Treasures releases, myself.

[Calvin]

While Gaumont did put out those Deville box sets, I think the only ones they own themselves are Le voyage en douce, Eaux Profondes, La petite bande, and Peril en la demeure. They've released the latter on a nice English-friendly Blu but it would be nice to see Kino get the others. The only one I can realistically see Kino going for is Eaux Profondes, given that it has both Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Louis Trintignant and definitely has a Blu-Ray master ready to go.

[ChunkyLover]

Coming Soon on 4KUHD!
Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 16bit 4K Scan of the Original Camera Negative!

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) Starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam & Hector Elizondo – Directed by Joseph Sargent (White Lightning).

[dwk]

When asked about the following titles:
Sans lendemain (Max Ophuls)
The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson)
Le Camion (Marguerite Duras)
Le voyage en douce (Michel Deville)
Eaux profondes (Michel Deville)
Parsifal (Hans-Jurgen Syberberg)
Miracle of the Wolves / Tarakanova / The Chess Player (Raymond Bernard)

Kino Insider replied

We're not interested in some of these, The Devil, Probably is with another label. One of the above titles will be part of our upcoming deal.

[domino harvey]

Watch them release Eaux profondes because of the Ben Affleck movie

[therewillbeblus]

Hopefully, then that movie would be good for something

[black&huge]

Wait a sec... is Deep Water a remake?

[PfR73]

Both films are adaptations of the same Patricia Highsmith novel.

[therewillbeblus]

It's an adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith novel, which Michel Deville adapted in the early 80s. The recent adaptation is terrible, partially because all the complex implications of the psychosexual depths of the 'games' the couple are playing are negated by keeping all action and emotions on the surface-level. Everything plays out exaaacttttly as one would expect. Only the final shot gives any indication of anything 'more' and even that is too ambiguous after such a boring and trite affair. The Deville conversely gives space to explore the intricacies of this relationship underneath the exteriors- he's so interested in people, and so good at subtly hinting at emotional turmoil bubbling beneath the exterior dispositions in his most rambunctious comedy work, that it's ripe material for his strengths

[swo17]

2 / (9 - 1) = 25% chance of Deville!

[domino harvey]

It is legit the most likely of that list— two marketable stars, a marketable source name, and the ability to link to a recent film with other big names. I like the film (more than anyone here, as I recall), but once more, this would be a Deville film getting a wider release that would do little to show why some of us consider him an unjustly forgotten master auteur

[swo17]

I'm a little disheartened by the "We're not interested in some of these" comment. I haven't seen the Syberberg so can't speak to it, but otherwise I would think that all of these titles would be worthy of a good boutique label release

[therewillbeblus]

Yeah, and I prefer Le voyage en douce of the two Devilles mentioned (I know domino and I differ there) and it also has two marketable stars- though admittedly neither are of the same caliber as Eaux profondes- I'd be surprised if KLSC was disinterested in either

[Big Ben]

I legitimately wonder sometimes if I'm the only person alive who likes The Devil, Probably. I'd love to upgrade my Olive DVD.

[therewillbeblus]

Even just going by those I follow on Letterboxd, I think a lot of people like it. I'm mixed but find some value there, as I do with everything he's done. Though as far as late-period Bresson goes, it's not one of my favorites (and sandwiched between the two that are)