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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics

#6052 Post by domino harvey » Mon Jan 06, 2025 10:07 am

Releasing the Snowman is beyond parody. The only possible positive interpretation here is that Universal made them agree to license this as part of KLSC's humiliation kink

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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics

#6053 Post by Never Cursed » Mon Jan 06, 2025 1:14 pm

What on earth are KLSC talking about re: The Snowman’s 35mm camera negative? The film was shot digitally, and on an old and crappy Arri Alexa model at that.

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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics

#6054 Post by beamish14 » Mon Jan 06, 2025 3:30 pm

Never Cursed wrote:
Mon Jan 06, 2025 1:14 pm
What on earth are KLSC talking about re: The Snowman’s 35mm camera negative? The film was shot digitally, and on an old and crappy Arri Alexa model at that.

I was confused by that as well. Studios do create celluloid negatives for films shot digitally, but surely they’d only need a digital intermediary for this

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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics

#6055 Post by tenia » Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:07 pm

Most likely simply a mistaken C+P from other announcements.

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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics

#6056 Post by domino harvey » Tue Jan 07, 2025 10:34 am

FrauBlucher wrote:
Sun Dec 31, 2023 12:04 pm
Coming Soon on Blu-ray!

Half a Chance (1CHANCE SUR 2) (1998)
Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Vanessa Paradis & Michel Aumont
Shot by Steven Poster (Donnie Darko)
Music by Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Directed by Patrice Leconte (Monsieur Hire, Man on the Train)
This took surprisingly long to materialize, but it's coming in March. Someone at KLSC sure does love Leconte, I expect we'll see the rest of his films at some point (and best of luck to them on selling Tango)

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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics

#6057 Post by TVC15 » Wed Jan 08, 2025 10:31 pm

Kino Lorber Insider;22774037 wrote:Coming March 25th!
https://kinolorber.com/product/diary-of-a-chambermaid

DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (1964)
• 2K Restoration by StudioCanal
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Imogen Sara Smith
An Angel in the Marshes: Featurette - In French with English Subtitles (27:06)
• Interview with Screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière - In English (24:41)
• Q&A with Jean-Claude Carrière - In English (51:52)
• Theatrical Trailer
• Limited Edition Reversible Art & O-Card Slipcase
• In French with Optional English Subtitles

B&W 98 Minutes 2.35:1 NR
An exquisitely enigmatic Jeanne Moreau (The Bride Wore Black) is the chambermaid Célestine, who takes a position with a decadent family on a pre-WWII Normandy estate and finds herself in the middle of a hotbed of hypocrisy and perversion. The old man has a foot fetish, his daughter is a frigid hysteric, her husband a dissolute rake, the gamekeeper a racist and sadist, while the fascist neighbor compulsively throws his garbage on their property. When a child is raped and murdered, Célestine becomes obsessed with discovering and exposing the killer, even though she finds herself attracted to him. Adapted from the Octave Mirbeau novel by cinema’s grand surrealist and satirist of the bourgeoisie, Luis Buñuel (Belle de Jour), Diary of a Chambermaid exerts a hypnotic fascination with the erotic while striking out against human hypocrisy and moral decay. Co-starring Michel Piccoli (Max and the Junkmen) and co-scripted by Buñuel’s frequent cohort, Jean-Claude Carrière (The Milky Way).

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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics

#6058 Post by dwk » Sat Jan 11, 2025 1:05 pm

Coming Soon on Blu-ray!
Brand New 2K Master!

The Countess of Monte Cristo (1934) Starring Fay Wray & Paul Lukas – Shot by Charles J. Stumar (The Raven) – Directed by Karl Freund (The Mummy, Mad Love).

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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics

#6059 Post by Aspect » Sat Jan 11, 2025 4:03 pm

This sounds intriguing. I cheer whenever anything from the 30s is released. Anyone seen it?

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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics

#6060 Post by What A Disgrace » Sat Jan 11, 2025 4:23 pm

It has 38 votes on the IMDb and one generally positive review, this might be the most obscure Hollywood talkie that Kino has ever released.

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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics

#6061 Post by domino harvey » Sat Jan 11, 2025 5:19 pm

I'm not familiar with this version (it's not even on back channels), but it was remade over a decade later as a Sonja Henie musical

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#6062 Post by dwk » Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:38 pm

Coming Soon on Blu-ray!
Brand New HD Master – From 4K Scan of the Original Camera Negative!

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) Starring Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim Nabors & Robert Mandan – Shot by William A. Fraker (Bullitt) – Directed by Colin Higgins (Foul Play, 9 to 5).

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#6063 Post by beamish14 » Sun Jan 12, 2025 6:16 pm

dwk wrote:
Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:38 pm
Coming Soon on Blu-ray!
Brand New HD Master – From 4K Scan of the Original Camera Negative!

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) Starring Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim Nabors & Robert Mandan – Shot by William A. Fraker (Bullitt) – Directed by Colin Higgins (Foul Play, 9 to 5).


Fun film with a fascinating genesis. Charles Durning is phenomenal. A rather progressive film for its time, too

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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics

#6064 Post by brundlefly » Mon Jan 13, 2025 3:13 am

beamish14 wrote:
Sun Jan 12, 2025 6:16 pm
dwk wrote:
Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:38 pm
Coming Soon on Blu-ray!
Brand New HD Master – From 4K Scan of the Original Camera Negative!

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) Starring Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim Nabors & Robert Mandan – Shot by William A. Fraker (Bullitt) – Directed by Colin Higgins (Foul Play, 9 to 5).


Fun film with a fascinating genesis. Charles Durning is phenomenal. A rather progressive film for its time, too
Counterpoint: A tiring mess that reflects its production troubles. Starts with what feels like ten minutes of Gomer Pyle narration. No laughs, chemistry, memorable tunes. Do agree about some of its values, though it's not interested in any of the women in the house beyond Parton; the locker room number is amusing for pulling a switch on what its '80s audience was expecting, as were the sober onscreen arguments made in favor of legalized sex work. Durning is phenomenal, helped by the fact he gets in and out before any of the rest of the movie's stink can rest on him.

It was one of the inspirations for Shyam Benegal's Mandi, which is a masterpiece, so its existence is justified in that way.

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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics

#6065 Post by Peg of the PreCodes » Mon Jan 13, 2025 1:00 pm

Aspect wrote:
Sat Jan 11, 2025 4:03 pm
This sounds intriguing. I cheer whenever anything from the 30s is released. Anyone seen it?
I saw it in 2017 at Capitolfest, and it's a delight. And I do hope this is a precursor of more Universal precodes to come.

(Also, the 1932 German original, even in a grotty bootleg, was also pretty sweet. Any chance of Kino picking up this?)

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#6066 Post by dwk » Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:07 pm

April 8th
Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXV [The Flame (1947) | City That Never Sleeps (1953) | Hell's Half Acre (1954)]
Burke & Hare (1972) KLSC Re-Release
I'm All Right Jack (1959)

April 15th
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) 4KUHD New HDR/Dolby Vision Master by KL
Donovan's Reef (1963) 4KUHD New HDR/Dolby Vision Master by KL
Heaven's Above (1963) 2019 4K Restoration

April 22nd
Career Opportunities (1991) 4KUHD New HDR/Dolby Vision Master by KL
Sneakers (1992) 4KUHD New HDR/Dolby Vision Master by KL
The Cruel Sea (1953)
Kino Cult #29

April 29th
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) 4KUHD New HDR/Dolby Vision Master by KL
Posse (1975) New HD Master by KL - From a 4K Scan of the OCN
The Bermuda Triangle (1979) 2017 HD Master by Paramount - From a 4K Scan

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#6067 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:50 pm

Glad they are finally putting out Sneakers, one of my favorite 90’s movies

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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics

#6068 Post by beamish14 » Fri Jan 17, 2025 9:01 pm

flyonthewall2983 wrote:
Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:50 pm
Glad they are finally putting out Sneakers, one of my favorite 90’s movies
Directed by my late father’s undergrad roommate! They were both English majors, but my father went on to medicine

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#6069 Post by dwk » Sat Jan 18, 2025 12:20 pm

Coming Soon on Blu-ray!
Brand New 2K Master!

Hold That Blonde! (1945) Starring Veronica Lake, Eddie Bracken & Albert Dekker – Shot by Daniel L. Fapp (The Great Escape) – Directed by George Marshall (The Ghost Breakers, Murder, He Says).

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#6070 Post by dwk » Sun Jan 19, 2025 1:09 pm

Coming Soon on Blu-ray!
Brand New HD Master – From 4K Scan of the Original Camera Negative!

Beethoven (1992) Starring Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones, Oliver Platt, Stanley Tucci, David Duchovny & Patricia Heaton – Shot by Victor K. Kemper (Vacation) – Music by Randy Edelman (Billy Madison) – Written by John Hughes (Uncle Buck) & Amy Holden Jones (Mystic Pizza) – Produced by Ivan Reitman (Kindergarten Cop) – Directed by Brian Levant (The Flinstones, Jingle All the Way, Are We There Yet?).

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#6071 Post by Drucker » Sun Jan 19, 2025 1:36 pm

Was about to reply with a personal memory of this film before I realized I was confusing it with Beethoven Lives Upstairs, also from 1992 apparently!

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#6072 Post by dwk » Sat Feb 01, 2025 12:54 pm

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

The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934) Starring Claude Rains, Joan Bennett, Lionel Atwill, Juanita Quigley & Wallace Ford – Shot by Merritt B. Gerstad (The Unknown, A Night at the Opera) – Music by Heinz Roemheld (The Lady from Shanghai, There’s Always Tomorrow) – Screenplay by Jean Bart (Strange Confession) & Samuel Ornitz (Fatal Lady) – Based on a Play by Bart – Directed by Edward Ludwig (The Last Gangster, Wake of the Red Witch, Sangaree).

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Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics

#6073 Post by hearthesilence » Sat Feb 01, 2025 3:15 pm

dwk wrote:
Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:07 pm
April 15th
Donovan's Reef (1963) 4KUHD New HDR/Dolby Vision Master by KL
A heads up, Joseph McBride posted that he recorded a commentary for this. He also writes:

"It's good to see they've added the rarity THE GROWLER STORY, a 16mm film Ford made with Navy trainee cameramen; Ward Bond and Ken Curtis star in it, and it's full of Fordian motifs (actually it's MOSTLY Fordian motifs, as DONOVAN'S REEF also is)."

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#6074 Post by Maltic » Mon Feb 03, 2025 3:00 pm

So it seems we get Donovan's Reef on UHD before the Indicator box sold out.

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#6075 Post by dwk » Sat Feb 08, 2025 12:45 pm

Coming Soon on Blu-ray!
New HD Master – From a 4K Scan by Universal Preservation!

FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS (1940) Starring Ray Milland, Ellen Drew, Janine Darcey, Roland Culver & Guy Middleton – Shot by Bernard Knowles (The 39 Steps) – Music by Nicholas Brodszky (Love Me or Leave Me) – From a Play by Terence Rattigan (Separate Tables) – Directed by Anthony Asquith (Pygmalion, The Browning Version).

Uncredited Screenplay Treatment by the Legendary Writing Team of Billy Wilder & Charles Brackett (The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard).

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