Studio Canal / Kinowelt / Optimum

[swo17]

Please note that this film reflects historical attitudes which audiences may find outdated or offensive.

This is a pretty funny content warning to use for

Spoiler

The Wicker Man

[Matt]

Spoiler

Back when you could burn a policeman without the woke mob coming for you

[eerik]

I don't really understand who these very selective apologetic content warnings are. I don't remember what title it exactly was, but recently I saw one on a 4K UHD re-release of a catalog title from 2010s, less than 15 years old. At this point you might as well add them to every release as you can expect people to still watch these discs 15 years from now.

[tenia]

Studio Canal pretty much add them for any "non-fresh" movie release. It's clearly a systematic decision, which I suppose was driven by legal coverage before anything else, just in case.

[Forrest Taft]

Yeah, they seem to add them to every single catalogue release, surely just company policy. I just watched The Straight Story from them, and got a good chuckle seeing this disclaimer in front of the movie. Contrast that to when I saw this in a theater in my teens, so excited to finally get to see a Lynch movie on the big screen (Lost Highway had been a no-go for 12 year old me), and experiencing a warm, collective laugher in the theater as the Disney logo appeared in front of a David Lynch-movie. This time, there was no Disney logo, instead we get this disclaimer. How times have changed!

[Finch]

Johnny Handsome UK 4K in August

Brand new 4K restoration

Includes 12 page booklet with new essay by Peter Raleigh

On-Disc Extras:
NEW Elizabeth McGovern on Johnny Handsome
NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker Edgar Pablos with Film Historians Nathaniel Thompson and Howard S. Berger
NEW Audio Commentary by Film Critics Alain Silver and James Ursini
Audio Commentary with film critic/author Walter Chaw
Audio Commentary with film historians Daniel Kremer and Scout Tafoya
Codes to Live By: 2020 Walter Hill on Johnny Handsome
Wordsmith: Interview with writer Ken Friedman
Eye of the Beholder: Interview with makeup artist Michael Westmore
Action Man: Interview with stuntman Allan Graf
Trailer

[Maltic]

Four commentaries on Johnny Handsome? Ok, fair enough, always down for some Walter Hill.

[nicolas]

Django Shoots First UK 4K coming in August

Brand new 4K restoration
Includes 12 page booklet with new essay by Peter Raleigh

On-Disc Extras:
NEW Dust and Gunfire: Glenn Saxson on Django Shoots First
NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker Alex Cox, Author of 10,000 Ways to Die: A Director's Take on the Italian Western
Erika's Saloon - interview with Erika Blanc
Evelyn in the West - an Interview with Evelyn Stewart

This film will be released by Kino in the US but not in 4K.

[dwk]

I thought Kino was going to do an individual Blu for Django Shoots First and do a UHD double feature with it and another yet to be announced Spaghetti Western?

[nicolas]

I had no idea re. another Kino Spaghetti Western 4K set but good news for those who don't want to import.

Peter Sellers Centenary Collection coming in August

THE LADYKILLERS (1955)
THE SMALLEST SHOW ON EARTH (1957)
CARLTON BROWNE OF THE F.O. (1959)
I’M ALRIGHT JACK (1959)
TWO-WAY STRETCH (1960)
ONLY TWO CAN PLAY (1962)
THE WRONG ARM OF THE LAW (1963)
HEAVENS ABOVE! (1963)

EXTRAS

32-page booklet

+ Blood Simple and Inside Llewyn Davis 4K upgrades coming in September

[dwk]

I had no idea re. another Kino Spaghetti Western 4K set but good news for those who don't want to import.

Well it is certainly news, but unless they get their shit together and fix their encoding,, it cant be called good.