Kino Lorber Studio Classics

[What A Disgrace]

This, if I am not mistaken, is the very first Hammer film to hit UHD, or at least to be announced for it.

[Dr Amicus]

This, if I am not mistaken, is the very first Hammer film to hit UHD, or at least to be announced for it.

As far as I know it is, it’s just a shame it’s one of the weaker ones.

[dwk]

FRIGHT (1971) UHD Coming October 22nd

DISC 1 (4KUHD):
• 2018 UHD SDR Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Howard S. Berger
• Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles

DISC 2 (Blu-ray):
• 2018 HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Howard S. Berger
• Interview with Author/Film Historian Kim Newman
• Theatrical Trailer
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles

Color 87 Minutes 1.66:1 Rated PG
In this shining early example of what would notoriously become known as the “slasher movie,” teenage babysitter Amanda (screen goddess Susan George, Sudden Terror, Straw Dogs) arrives at the Lloyd home to watch their young son one fateful evening. It seems that the strangely nervous Mrs. Lloyd is hiding a secret—a killer secret that has just escaped from a nearby insane asylum and is now desperately trying to get inside the house! What must Amanda endure to survive the ultimate night of Fright? Directed by cult British maverick Peter Collinson (The Italian Job, The Penthouse) and written by Tudor Gates (The Vampire Lovers), Fright is a midnight-movie classic, an exercise in sheer savage peril and pure unhinged terror! Also starring Ian Bannen (Doomwatch) and the bewitching Honor Blackman (Goldfinger, Moment to Moment).

[dwk]

California(1947) Blu-ray on November
Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, Barry Fitzgerald, Anthony Quinn, Albert Dekker & George Coulouris – Shot by Ray Rennahan (Duel in the Sun) – Music by Victor Young (Sands of Iwo Jima) – Directed by John Farrow (Wake Island).

[dwk]

A great announcement today (hope KLSC doens't screw it up)

Danger: Diabolik (1968) UHD
Brand New HDR/DV Master!

John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Adolfo Celi & Terry-Thomas – Shot by Antonio Rinaldi (Baron Blood) – Music by Ennio Morricone (A Fistful of Dollars) – Directed by Mario Bava (Black Sabbath).

[dwk]

Deadly Circuit (aka Mortelle Randonnée) (Blu-ray) -release date October 29 (this may be a regular Kino release instead of a KLSC release, who the hell knows.)

Isabelle Adjani (The Story of Adele H, Possession) is the ultimate femme fatale—a serial killer who lures wealthy men to their deaths. Michel Serrault (La Cage aux Folles), a solitary detective known as “The Eye,” is in pursuit. Convinced she is his long-lost daughter, he shadows her through Europe, concealing incriminating evidence and helping her elude the police as she changes identities and conducts a blood-soaked murder spree. But when Catherine falls in love with a blind artist (Sami Frey, Band of Outsiders), The Eye’s obsession grows even more extreme—and deadly. A brilliant, seductive, blackly comic Euro-noir confection, Deadly Circuit (Mortelle randonnée) was nominated for five César Awards, including Best Actor (Serrault), Best Supporting Actress (the wonderfully eccentric Stéphane Audran) and Best Cinematography (Pierre Lhomme). Lavishly directed by Claude Miller and co-scripted by father-and-son auteurs, Michel and Jacques Audiard, from Marc Behm’s novel Eye of the Beholder, the title for the 1999 American film based on the same subject directed by Stephen Elliott; and starring Ashley Judd and Ewan McGregor. “The most stylized, the most beautiful, and the most literary of all French thrillers.” — Télérama

Product Extras :
2K Restoration by TF1
NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian/Filmmaker Daniel Kremer
Theatrical Trailer
In French with Optional English Subtitles

[dwk]

Play it Again Sam (1972) Blu-ray
Brand New HD Master – 4K Scan of the 35mm OCN

Starring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Susan Anspach & Jerry Lacy – Shot by Owen Roizman – Music by Billy Goldenberg – Screenplay by Woody Allen – Directed by Herbert Ross.

[domino harvey]

My God, finally

[dwk]

Another former Scream Factory title,

Orca (1977) UHD
Brand New HDR/DV Master

Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Will Sampson, Bo Derek, Keenan Wynn & Robert Carradine – Shot by Ted Moore – Music by Ennio Morricone – Written by Luciano Vincenzoni & Sergio Donati – Directed by Michael Anderson.

[Maltic]

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

HATARI! (1962) Starring John Wayne – Shot by Russell Harlan (Red River) – Music by Henry Mancini (The Pink Panther) – Screenplay by Leigh Brackett (The Long Goodbye) – Directed by Howard Hawks (Rio Bravo, El Dorado).

Still no news on Hatari!

I can't wait to see whether it ends up in the "worse than the BD's" bracket or it squeezes into "disappointing UHD's"

[dwk]

November's releases
November 5th
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) 4KUHD Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master (International Cut) - From a New 4K Scan of the 35mm OCN
Play Misty for Me (1971) 4KUHD Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master - From a New 4K Scan of the 35mm OCN
The Eiger Sanction (1975) 4KUHD Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master - From a New 4K Scan of the 35mm OCN

November 12th
The Martian Chronicles (1980) Re-Release
One, Two, Three (1961) Reissue
California (1947)
Cattle Drive (1951)
Triumph of the Spirit (1989)

November 19th
The Hunted (2003) 4KUHD Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master
The Lonely Man (1957) Brand New HD Master by Paramount - From a 6K Scan of the 35mm VistaVision Camera Negative
Battle of the Commandos (1969) 2023 HD Master by Paramount - From a 4K Scan
Harrison's Flowers (2001)
The Visitors (1972)
1,000 Convicts and a Woman (1971) Brand New HD Master - From a 2K Scan of the InterPositive (Kino Cult #20)

November 26th
Below (2002) 4KUHD Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master
Bug (2006) 4KUHD Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master
The Visit (2015) 4KUHD Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master
Revenge of the Zombies (1943)
Mountains of the Moon (1989)
No. 1 of the Secret Service (1977) Brand New HD Master - From a 2K Scan of the InterPositive (Kino Cult #21)

[dwk]

The Claim (2000) Blu-ray
Starring Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Mullan & Sarah Polley – Shot by Alwin H. Küchler (Hanna) – Music by Michael Nyman (The Piano) – Directed by Michael Winterbottom (Jude, Wonderland, Code 46, 9 Songs)

[beamish14]

The Claim (2000) Blu-ray
Starring Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Mullan & Sarah Polley – Shot by Alwin H. Küchler (Hanna) – Music by Michael Nyman (The Piano) – Directed by Michael Winterbottom (Jude, Wonderland, Code 46, 9 Songs)

I’m glad Kino is giving love to Winterbottom and his Hardy adaptations. I keep hoping that Wonderland will be on the docket

[dwk]

Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror (1968)
Stereoscopic alignment by 3-D Film Archive – From a 4K Scans of Both Negatives

Paul Naschy, Dyanik Zurakowska & Rosanna Yanni – Written by Paul Naschy (Fury of the Wolfman) – Directed by Enrique López Eguiluz (Santo Faces Death).

[domino harvey]

The Claim (2000) Blu-ray
Starring Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Mullan & Sarah Polley – Shot by Alwin H. Küchler (Hanna) – Music by Michael Nyman (The Piano) – Directed by Michael Winterbottom (Jude, Wonderland, Code 46, 9 Songs)

I’m glad Kino is giving love to Winterbottom and his Hardy adaptations. I keep hoping that Wonderland will be on the docket

The snowy look of the film is the best thing about it, so this is a good choice for a Blu-ray upgrade, and as a film it fits in well with the typical western focused on the impact of the railroad. I still confuse this with the Proposition to this day, though, even though the films are nothing alike!

[jazzo]

I’m a big fan of Winterbottom, mostly because he’s so adept at switching gears with his various projects, and yet still somehow seems to integrate his political convictions and personality into even the most genre-based of his works. I love his swings, even when I ultimately consider some of his projects failures.

I do, however, remember coming out of the theatre with this one and feeling it was a little flat, though it did have a breathtaking image of a fully-built house being moved through the wilderness by a team of men and horses which was worth the price of admission alone.

Perhaps I was just in the wrong mood and it’s worth a revisit.

[domino harvey]

One Two Three is getting reissued in November with a slipcover. Not sure I understand the need here, but FYI

[DeprongMori]

One Two Three is getting reissued in November with a slipcover. Not sure I understand the need here, but FYI

Their previous release was on a 25GB disk. In general I’ve found that their seemingly inexplicable re-issues have been to put the re-issue on 50GB discs, perhaps with a new encode.

[dwk]

Hot Pursuit (1987) Blu-ray
Brand New HD Master – 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative

Starring John Cusack, Robert Loggia, Jerry Stiller, Wendy Gazelle, Monte Markham, Shelley Fabares, Ben Stiller & Keith David – Directed by Steven Lisberger (Tron).

[domino harvey]

I remember enjoying it as a kid but I revisited it as an adult and found it terrible, like one of the worst movies of its kind level bad

[yoloswegmaster]

Happy Gilmore is getting a 4K UHD release from KL

[domino harvey]

I know it will sell great for them but what visual feast is awaiting someone here that merits a UHD?

[yoloswegmaster]

You mean to tell me that you don't want to watch Adam Sandler fight Bob Barker in the highest resolution possible?

[flyonthewall2983]

Netflix is doing the sequel, per the deal they have with Sandler now. He’s made the most of it but I kind of think this would do good in theaters now.

[hearthesilence]

I never got the broad appeal of Adam Sandler. To be fair, his comedic work made his film career possible and arguably makes outliers like Punch-Drunk Love and Uncut Gems all the more interesting, but on its own it's really hit-or-miss with the misses being horrendously bad. I had a classmate who used to listen to one of his comedy albums all the time, and it made Sandler seem like a real asshole in private. Off the top of my head, there's one recurring bit about beating the shit out of someone, including one where he savagely beats up a maintenance man, and that's it, that's where all the fun is supposed to come from and we're supposed to laugh hysterically at some cartoonish depiction of a working class guy howling in pain. Then there's a sketch that bizarrely ends with Sandler raping a girl he interviews on the street. In fairness, he does seem to be a nice guy in public.