Kino Lorber Studio Classics

[jt938]

Maybe all these recent announcements are the reason they are looking for a head of acquisitions

For real, this MGM deal has been a complete slog so far.

[dwk]

They released that on Blu-ray just two years ago.

[captveg]

I think the first Film Noir boxset has gone. I regret not having got on with having ordered it.

While more expensive to do so, the titles in the first volume set can at least still be purchased individually.

[Lowry_Sam]

I think the first Film Noir boxset has gone. I regret not having got on with having ordered it.

While more expensive to do so, the titles in the first volume set can at least still be purchased individually.

Did these get released as the set goes oop, or have they always been available individually? Perhaps the first box was just an assembly of titles they had into one box & then they decided to release them in 3s to maximize sales of lower quality noir titles. Are there any other instances of individual titles for sale?

[domino harvey]

The first noir set was released individually first, but I don’t think they’ve broken up any of the other sets (Gatsby is receiving a simultaneous release)

[captveg]

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

The Bride Wore Black (1968)
Doc (1971) (DVD) (BD previously OOP)
The Hot Spot (1990) (DVD still available)
Some Girls (1988)
Taffin (1988)
The Time Travelers (1964) (Scorpion)

[jt938]

Coming on Blu-ray in October!
A KLSC and Dark Force Entertainment Co-Release!
THE EX (1996)
Yancy Butler | Nick Mancuso | Suzy Amis
Shot by Richard Leiterman (Watchers)
Music by Paul Zaza (Murder by Decree)
Written by Larry Cohen (It’s Alive) & John Lutz (Single White Female)
Directed by Mark L. Lester (Class of 1984 | Firestarter | Commando | Showdown in Little Tokyo)

[beamish14]

I’m not familiar with this, but a Cohen/Lester team-up is very tempting. It’s on Tubi, of course.

Suzy Amis is seriously underrated. I love her in Beth B’s Two Small Bodies, which Kino also released

[domino harvey]

I kind of remember this from Showtime et al. If we’re now at boutique label releases of Skinimax adjacent material, I’m not sure what’s even left in the bottom of the barrel

[dwk]

Those erotic thrillers of the 90s seem to the one genre that never really broke out post-DVD and have been pretty much completely absent on Blu-ray.

[jt938]

Coming in 2026 on 4KUHD!

Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative

HANG ‘EM HIGH (1968)
Clint Eastwood | Inger Stevens | Ben Johnson | Bruce Dern | Pat Hingle | Ed Begley | Dennis Hopper
Shot by Richard H. Kline (Soylent Green) & Leonard J. South (Torn Curtain)
Music by Dominic Frontiere (Brannigan)
Directed by Ted Post (The Baby | Magnum Force | Good Guys Wear Black | Go Tell the Spartans)

[dwk]

October releases

October 14th
The Bone Collector (1999) 4KUHD NEW HDR/DV Master
Last Known Address (1970) 2020 4K Restoration
Boomerang (1976) 2021 4K Restoration
Cop or Hood (1979)
Death Packs a Suitcase (1972) Kino Cult #38
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October 21st
Rampage (1987 / 1992) 4KUHD NEW HDR/DV Masters (Both Cuts)
The Ex (1996)
King and Country (1964) 2022 4K Restoration
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October 28th
Dust Devil (1992) 4KUHD NEW HDR/DV Masters (Both Cuts)
4KUHD - To be Announced
Dead of Night (1977 TV Movie)
Death Wish 3 (1985) 4KUHD NEW HDR/DV Master
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) 4K Scan of the UCLA Elements (Roadshow Edition)
TBA Kino Cult #39

[dwk]

Coming on Blu-ray in October!
DAN CURTIS’ CLASSIC MONSTERS (1968-1974)
• Dracula (1974)
Jack Palance | Simon Ward | Nigel Davenport | Pamela Brown | Fiona Lewis
Produced by Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows)
Written by Richard Matheson (The Last Man on Earth)
Directed by Dan Curtis (The Night Strangler)

• Frankenstein (1973)
Robert Foxworth | Bo Svenson | Susan Strasberg
Produced by Dan Curtis (The Night Stalker)
Written by Dan Curtis & Sam Hall (House of Dark Shadows)
Directed by Glenn Jordan (The Buddy System)

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968)
Jack Palance | Denholm Elliott | Leo Genn | Torin Thatcher | Billie Whitelaw
Produced by Dan Curtis (Burnt Offerings)
Written by Ian McLellan Hunter (Roman Holiday)
Directed by Charles Jarrott (The Other Side of Midnight)

[jt938]

Coming on 4KUHD in October!
NEW UHD/SDR Master by PHOTOPLAY | 4K Restoration from Original Nitrate Prints!

THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1927)
Starring Laura La Plante
Shot by Gilbert Warrenton (The Love Trap, Master of the World, Panic in Year Zero)
Directed by Paul Leni (Waxworks, The Man Who Laughs, The Last Warning)

[Finch]

The MoC BD was from a print from the Museum of Modern Art whereas this new Photoplay restoration is with a different rightsholder which is why Kino were able to license it.

[jt938]

Coming on Blu-ray in November!
DAN CURTIS’ GOTHIC TALES (1973-1974)

• The Pictures of Dorian Gray (1973)
Charles Aidman | Shane Briant | Nigel Davenport | Fionnula Flanagan | Vanessa Howard
Produced by Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows)
Written by John Tomerlin (The Twilight Zone)
Directed by Glenn Jordan (Only When I Laugh)

• The Turn of the Screw (1974)
Lynn Redgrave | Megs Jenkins | John Barron
Produced by Dan Curtis (The Night Stalker)
Written by William F. Nolan (Burnt Offerings)
Directed by Dan Curtis (The Night Strangler)

[Dr Amicus]

Sorry - sent above my mistake and can’t work out how to edit on Tapatalk.

The Dracula turns up a lot on Prime and elsewhere over here, but less so the others. How are they? Interesting enough to be worth considering?


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[jt938]

Coming 2026 on 4KUHD!
Brand New HDR/DV Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative!

10 TO MIDNIGHT (1983) Starring Charles Bronson, Lisa Eilbacher, Andrew Stevens, Gene Davis, Geoffrey Lewis, Wilford Brimley, Robert F. Lyons & Kelly Preston – Shot by Adam Greenberg (The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day) – Executive Producers Yoram Globus & Menahem Golan (Death Wish II, Death Wish 3) – Produced by Lance Hool (Cabo Blanco, The Evil That Men Do) – Written by William Roberts (The Magnificent Seven, Red Sun) – Directed by J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear, The White Buffalo, Murphy’s Law).

[domino harvey]

I’d say who is asking for this, but it’s worse knowing people probably are

10 to Midnight (J Lee Thompson 1983) The Charles Bronson policier meets slasher movie no one was asking for. Bronson doggedly pursues a perverted killer who likes to strip himself naked and attack young women with knives. In case it's too subtle, Bronson literally says at one point, "Don't you get it, the knife is his penis!" I wish I was joking. This is a pretty sleazy movie, especially when Bronson turns Mark Fuhrman and plants evidence to frame a guilty man, only to do the right thing by admitting it, and then the finale is Bronson doing the legally-wrong thing again, after even more people are killed and his career is ruined. I'm not sure what lesson the film ends up imparting, other than teaching us all that apparently it's harder to break open the drawer to a small wooden side-table than it is to kill at least half a dozen young girls.

[Matt]

I was literally asking for this earlier this week 8-[ Its appeal for me is only because I watched it at a wildly inappropriately young age. It's a completely vile movie and I love it.

[knives]

I was doing an ‘80s Thompson dive last year and found this one to mostly be boring. It’s not nearly as strange as it’s reputed to be.

[dwk]

The only thing that i really remember is "It's for jacking off."

[Zot!]

I think this all due to the rise of collectors of 4K schlock and Bronson’s late renaissance. Love Bronson still, but his filmography is mostly shovelware….though I think it was cute that he was in so many of his dumb violent movies with his wife (whose ashes he later kept in his walking stick! 8-[ )

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

The only thing that i really remember is "It's for jacking off."

If this isn't what cinema is about, then I'm not sure what is.

I've posted about them before, but I love the messes that are the late works of J. Lee Thompson. It's a truly bizarre career where some of those early English films are very good, but as he got older, he succumbed to alcoholism and did these low budget, low energy efforts where every step of the way are the worst creative decisions you could make. And that's why I love them! Charles Bronson is truly done at this point of his career where he's doing as little running and as little physical movement as possible. He's almost a Bressonian model in his non-acting. These are bizarre, nasty, mean-spirited films that feel like people figuring out a movie as it goes along rather than have a coherent script. 10 to Midnight also has the plus of featuring Gene Davis, brother to Brad Davis, some great LA locations including the Veteran's Hospital in Westwood and the Aero Theater, now one of the homes of the American Cinematheque, and of course Charles Bronson waving a sex toy around (not the last time he'd do it).

[dwk]

The only thing that i really remember is "It's for jacking off."

If this isn't what cinema is about, then I'm not sure what is.

That really is one scene that I wish I could see in a theater with an unsuspecting audience. It must have been amazing.