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I've had CC's Marienbad unwatched on my shelf for years, but considering it comes with a purposefully unrestored audio track, there is no way I would give it up in this day and age.

I briefly looked at the new disc and the PQ at least looks quite good. There is only one French track, a new restoration whose high frequencies seem intact.
Extras are the same than the old SC disc plus a new 30 min doc on Resnaid and Robbe Grillet. The 2 shorts have been newly restored. And the original trailer has been replaced bt the 2018 rerelease one.

Margarethe Von Trotta's Rosa Luxemburg on February 4th.

Hopefully the first of many Von Trottas. If not, I'll be importing.

Several of the John Carpenter 4k deluxe editions seem to be out of stock on Amazon for some time. I assumed they just sold well during the holidays, but are Escape From NY and The Fog out of print permanently?

Seems like standard non-LE UHD releases are coming out in March?

The LEs seems definitely OOP and yes, standard UHD releases seem to be upcoming to replace those.

I just hope they’ll be dual format.

Blu-ray (2K) and DVD (~1K)

I guess we're at the point when the general audience got "4K" so much shoved into its throat than BD and DVD formats need these additons.

Has anyone heard any rumblings about a “Volume 2” for The Ealing Studios Collection on Blu-ray?

Volume 1 (Kind Hearts and Coronets / The Lavender Hill Mob / The Man in the White Suit) came out in 2014, and they’ve released plenty of stand-alone Blu-rays of Ealing titles since, so I’m curious about the delay. Has it officially been cancelled?

I don't think that's likely to happen. The first volume probably didn't sell enough to justify it.

Studio Canal is releasing Don't Look Now as a UHD/Blu-ray combo. Based on their infamous previous release, widely considered by many to be among the worst Blu-rays of all time, it's prob worth waiting to see more, but talk about a ballsy movie for a UHD release!

Criterion's diac already boasts a 4K transfer from OCN approved by Mr. Roeg. So is there any reason to believe StudioCanal did something new here?

This is a new different restoration, though there's no word here if it's better or not than the one used by Criterion. It'll be interesting however to compare it to the existing one, because it's recent, competently done, in 4K and approved by Roeg.

Studiocanal also botched their HDR10 encodes for the Carpenter UHD titles so it will be interesting to see if they improve that here.

If this is anyway a competently produced disc (well outside of terrible cover art), will definitely purchase it, movie is a favorite.

trailer for the restoration. I have to say it matches the look of Criterion's transfer to a great extent.

Steelbook art:

nitin wrote: Wed Jun 05, 2019 10:41 am Studiocanal also botched their HDR10 encodes for the Carpenter UHD titles so it will be interesting to see if they improve that here.

If this is anyway a competently produced disc (well outside of terrible cover art), will definitely purchase it, movie is a favorite.

Yeah the ESCAPE 4k has major issues, the black bars at the top and bottom start flickering through much of the film on my OLED which is apparently a completely foolish encoding mistake on their part.

Cocteau's Blood of a Poet and Testament of Orpheus slated for August.

EDIT: I did some digging and found both are from recent 4K restorations. Also, Studio Canal has Basic Instinct, The Son's Room, The Elephant Man all 4k restored and due for (re-)release.

Great news re Elephant Man and Basic Instinct.

Angel Heart 4K UHD Blu-ray out this September, at least in Germany.

I got the Blood of a Poet disc. It looks great and I’m very pleased to have it on BD, though I badly miss Criterion’s higher caliber of extras from the old boxed set which I checked out a while ago from the library. The half-hour documentary Canal includes is a nice primer but it’s so little to offer for such a brief film, and one that in my view benefited greatly from the added context. I may actually try to find a used copy of the Orphic box for my collection even though there are now Blu editions of all three films...

The documentary "Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown" from The Blood of a Poet and the short “La Villa Santo Sospir” from Testament of Orpheus are both available on the Criterion Blu of Orpheus. Not sure about the essays though.