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I really like the Bressan films, more optimistic and affirming than most gay films of the time. The Findlay films, on the other hand, I never want to watch again!

dwk wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2024 6:13 pm Red Rock West is from a new 4k scan of the Interpositive, so it should look better than previous releases. Having said that, the price for these fancy VS editions is a little much.

I'm glad I upgraded (though the mediabook packaging is a bit much, and just out of place for this movie in about every way, but that's a design thing) because the new scan looks very good. It's very grainy, but I feel like the picture's always been kinda waxed or condensed or something but now features and details breathe with a filmic presentation. It doesn't matter a ton, since this has never been a visually arresting film. Some neo-noirs I return to in large part due to their aesthetic pleasures, like Devil in a Blue Dress or The Hot Spot, but this is a film with a distinctive and wonderful atmosphere that doesn't try to look pretty. Anyways, I've wanted to see this look more fluid and film-like for a while now, having mostly watched it on TV or VHS as a kid and not being too pleased with recent releases, so this is a winner just for that.

Deep Discount have a listing for the regular edition of Southern Comfort for 2/27 but I saw members on the film's BR thread say that Vinegar Syndrome have boosted the colors too much (and on their Horrible Dr Hichcock 4k too) like on some of their older titles which is most evident in the cast's skintones. I think I'm going to hold off for a couple more months and see if Second Sight come through with their own edition (of SC).

Depends what the film stock was.
Here’s a Beaver review for the 4K Horrible Dr Hitchcock.

Red Rock West is going fast. Hopefully it will keep until next Friday, so I can pop it into the basket with the March announcements.

Dr. Terror 4K is up for pre-order, as is Jack Nicholson's Goin' South from Cinématographe. And Canadian International Pictures is rolling out the first volume of a series dedicated to Canadian animation - with the big boy himself, Norman McLaren, represented twice.

And not just any McLaren short but the one that won him his Oscar. Also excited to own The Big Snit in this set since it was championed as an influence of Don Hertzfeldt himself.

What is the consensus on Goin' South? It's one I've meant to see for years, and a 4K is tempting. But I'm not sure it's $30 tempting.

Also, I know Domino hates it, but are there favorable feelings on 5 Card Stud? It's another that I've been interested in seeing as the blending of Western and who-dunnit has sounded appealing to me.

Haven't seen it...but it's supposed to have an unbe-LIEVABLY hammy, leering, ridiculous performance from Nicholson, which has always made me curious. I didn't really like it when he went hypertrophically hammy in The Departed, but that was because his character was powerful and sinister and macho and kind of overbearing, while I bet I'd absolutely love to see him be go apeshit while playing some random idiot!

"He's like a commercial for cunnilingus". - Pauline Kael

cdnchris wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:24 pm What is the consensus on Goin' South? It's one I've meant to see for years, and a 4K is tempting. But I'm not sure it's $30 tempting.

Also, I know Domino hates it, but are there favorable feelings on 5 Card Stud? It's another that I've been interested in seeing as the blending of Western and who-dunnit has sounded appealing to me.

I'm curious, as well. It almost sounds like it could be From Noon Til Three, which is a picture I like quite a bit, but if the trailer's tone is anything to go on, it seems to be something far more broad, which maybe ain't my cuppa tea.

Don't both trying to find blog reviews. The few I was able to source are essentially just plot summaries for the entire entry. Yeesh.

Is anyone familiar with Adil & Bilal's Rebel? Unlike most Yellow Veil released films, it has genuinely good reception all around, and its directors are launching into what looks like a simultaneously lucrative and ill-fated Hollywood career.

cdnchris wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:24 pm What is the consensus on Goin' South? It's one I've meant to see for years, and a 4K is tempting. But I'm not sure it's $30 tempting.

Also, I know Domino hates it, but are there favorable feelings on 5 Card Stud? It's another that I've been interested in seeing as the blending of Western and who-dunnit has sounded appealing to me.

Goin’ South is what Quentin Tarantino would call a “hangout movie.” There isn’t a whole lot of narrative and if you’re looking for a rough, more profane western like China 9, Liberty 37, you won’t find it here.

I believe this was the movie Nestor Almendros had to leave Days of Heaven for

What A Disgrace wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:38 pm Dr. Terror 4K is up for pre-order, as is Jack Nicholson's Goin' South from Cinématographe. And Canadian International Pictures is rolling out the first volume of a series dedicated to Canadian animation - with the big boy himself, Norman McLaren, represented twice.

This is what I’ve been dying for. So much incredible stuff for them to hopefully release in the future. I hope we get Caroline Leaf’s work with the NFB

Yes, the animation collection is the most excited I've been foe a CIP release aside from the Other French New Wave set. The only way I could be more happy is if it were a collection of McLaren's body of work.

I loved 5 Card Stud so much that I went to see it twice when first released… when I was five! Having seen a few more Westerns and what-have-you since, I can’t say it held up for me when I watched it a third time about 54 years later. It’s very odd seeing Mitchum play a character so close to his Night of the Hunter preacher, but in the service of a much weaker film. I suppose the mixing of genres is the most interesting thing about it. This infuses the standard Western tropes with sort of a noir fatalism which I think is the thing that appealed to me as a kid for some reason.

Abel Ferrera's Dangerous Game is the next Cinematographe title.

Nice, though I wonder why they don't put out a UHD?

More inexplicably is why Singapore Sling, one of the most visually-delicious films I've ever seen, is blu-only... Anyways, what a thrilling announcement! My understanding was that the music rights made it almost impossible for Nikolaidis' work to receive physical releases (Fran seemed to allude to this beyond just the U.K.), but glad to be proven that it's not impossible! Maybe VS will rescue California Split too

This may be the best example, along with Freeway - which is puritanical, comparatively - of a title that is unapologetically straight up VS' alley and yet a bonafide masterpiece. I'm glad others will have the chance to enjoy a crisp presentation of this surreal noir-comedy-horror-fantasy-whateveritis

Seems like we're forgetting to celebrate the 10,000 copy limited edition UHD of Navy Seals (MSRP 64.99)

This label should be called "A Fool and His Money"

Well, we know one person who'll be happy...

Any guesses on the secret titles?

Never fear as our duo of Secret Surprise Releases will surely satiate your appetite for some of the wildest genre cinema of the 70s and 80s. One offers a mouth watering classic from a regional auteur, which has been meticulously restored from its lost for decades camera original for Blu-ray, while the other is a masterpiece of big budget, non-stop thrill ride from a perfect storm of producer, director, and star who all but reinvented this uniquely 80s genre for 4K UHD and Blu-ray.

We're getting a 70s film from a regional filmmaker with a new restoration from a long lost negative, and an 80s action film from a director-producer-star.

What A Disgrace wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:22 pm Any guesses on the secret titles?

Never fear as our duo of Secret Surprise Releases will surely satiate your appetite for some of the wildest genre cinema of the 70s and 80s. One offers a mouth watering classic from a regional auteur, which has been meticulously restored from its lost for decades camera original for Blu-ray, while the other is a masterpiece of big budget, non-stop thrill ride from a perfect storm of producer, director, and star who all but reinvented this uniquely 80s genre for 4K UHD and Blu-ray.

We're getting a 70s film from a regional filmmaker with a new restoration from a long lost negative, and an 80s action film from a director-producer-star.

Regional filmmaker: Jon Jost’s Last Chants for a Slow Dance? Hanson and Nilsson’s Northern Lights fits, but I thought Kino was handling it

80’s action: Cobra? (Although Stallone did not officially direct it). Something from Sammo Hung?