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On the Hong Kong VSA titles:
Love on Delivery sold out last night.

An Eye for an Eye is down to around 860 copies

Iron Angels I-III is going incredibly fast, and is already down to about 1120 copies. and An Eye for an Eye is under 600 copies. Curious to see how many more get sold in the final 90 minutes of the sale.

Do we know if Dreaming The Reality was recently restored? That and Angel Terminators 2 and Kickboxer's Tears are the three Girls With Guns titles I would like to see the most.

Partner Labels Month Releases:

Automatons - Glass Eye Pix
Cash Cow - Cartuna
Dandelion - IFC Films
David "The Rock" Nelson Collection: Volume 2 - Saturn's Core
Destroy All Neighbors - Shudder
The Devil At Your Heels - Canadian International Pictures
Edward II - Film Movement Classics
Enter the Void - IFC Films
Final Cut - Umbrella Entertainment
Kill the Moonlight - Factory 25
The Killing Tide - VHSHitfest
Limbo - Brainstorm Media
Ma Mère - KimStim
Men of Deeds - Dekanalog
Rounding - Music Box Selects
Samurai Priest Vampire Hunter - ETR Media
Scarecrow In a Garden of Cucumbers - American Genre Film Archive
Sisi & I - Film Movement
Sissy - Shudder
Suroh: Alien Hitchhiker - Bleeding Skull
Tahara - Film Movement
Tokyo Uber Blues - Kani

The Devil At Your Heels was one of the first titles announced at CIP's inception, if I'm not mistaken.

colinr0380 wrote:

domino harvey wrote: Tue Apr 01, 2025 11:51 pm

Peacock wrote: Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:53 pm Is anyone here familiar with José Bénazéraf? That’s a new name for me.

He's a Nouvelle Vague adjacent figure who later transitioned into making full pornography. I've only seen his Joe Caligula (not included, I imagine), which opens with prostitutes and johns communicating via name-checking Chabrol and closes with Gerard Blain wandering around looking for an ending. Not a complete failure, but its oddball rattiness is aggressively artless

There's an episode of the 1999 Channel 4 Eurotika series (NSFW) devoted to his films, which showed together with a screening of his 1971 psychosexual drama Frustration, which is the only film I have seen by the director. Seeing early Chabrol films like Les Biches in the years since makes me wonder if Bénazéraf was trying to do something in that area (mixed with Belle de Jour) with at least that particular film.

You have to hand it to 88 Films, putting out two Benazeraf films - Naked Sex and The French Love - when they (and he) have almost no profile even among film cognoscenti. I guess they’re trading in the allure of 70s French erotica (which certainly works for me).

Melusine (VS's separate adult line) in association w/ Pulse released a 3 disc BD set of harder-contented rare/lost Benazeraf films a few months ago, as well.

Six films, and no overlap with the two coming from 88 Films. Not sure I can say no. Thanks.

CIN-020 marks a world Blu-ray debut for a film from a major filmmaker and it goes up for preorder on July 3rd during the Vinegar Syndrome Summer Subscriber Week

Spoiler

When I hear “major filmmaker” and Vinegar Syndrome, my mind always goes to Abel Ferrara

A BR user asked Orbit why they removed Imprint's The Keep edition and was told that Vinegar Syndrome first asked then threatened them with not supplying them with their own product. Orbit told the user that they complied but they won't be doing business with VS again. It'll be interesting to see what the other boutique stores Grindhouse, Diabolik and Atomic Movie Store might do.

Good for Orbit

Is it one particular person at VS being a complete shit?

Why VS would see an Australian import costing three to four times as much as their own Limited Edition which sold out in 2 days anyway as a threat is really anybody's guess.

Surprised dwk didn't post it here but Robert Meyer Burnett stated on his podcast that he talked with George Feltenstein recently and hinted that VS made a deal with Warner Bros.

That hint occurs around the 30 minute mark. (Doesn't really fit here, but he also says that, with all the changes at WB, Feltenstein has to get permission before he is allowed to come on the show.)

Burnett also looked at a list of 55 titles on the slate for boutique labels (VS soon?), comparing it to losing his virginity—a Knowlesian slip. Also hinted at movement with The Devils

Looking forward to overpriced 4K editions of Dream Lover and The Legend of Lyla Clare.

CSM126 wrote: Fri Jun 27, 2025 6:03 pm Looking forward to overpriced 4K editions of Dream Lover and The Legend of Lyla Clare.

I’d buy both, provided that Dream Lover included the originally-intended intending. It’s actually MGM, though

Wonder why Too Late the Hero has never gotten a Blu in North America

beamish14 wrote: Fri Jun 27, 2025 6:23 pm

CSM126 wrote: Fri Jun 27, 2025 6:03 pm Looking forward to overpriced 4K editions of Dream Lover and The Legend of Lyla Clare.

I’d buy both, provided that Dream Lover included the originally-intended intending. It’s actually MGM, though

Well it had a Warner Archive DVD (which I made the horrible mistake of buying blind, a truly execrable movie).

Even though it's terrible and I probably wouldn't buy it, I'd like to see VinSyn do Bonfire Of The Vanities since the bd from Warner is mediocre and the film had a 70mm blow up and has a six track which Warner did not include. A truly terrible movie but it's a gorgeous one and in need of a upgrade.


Edit: Thank you guys for the corrections.

I'm pretty sure the film was shot in 35mm and only received a blowup to 70mm.

PfR73 wrote: Fri Jun 27, 2025 7:47 pm I'm pretty sure the film was shot in 35mm and only received a blowup to 70mm.

That makes a lot more sense.

It definitely was not shot on 70mm. Far and Away came out a couple of years later, and a major plank of its marketing was that it was the first shot-on-70mm (or 65mm, to forestall pedants) American feature in something like two decades. In fact, I went to see it at the massive Empire Cinema in London's Leicester Square specifically because of this.

But Bonfire of the Vanities would have been exhibited in a 70mm blow-up, as was common practice for high-profile titles back then - the six discrete soundtracks being one of the major beneficiaries of the process. Once true multichannel digital audio formats were introduced not long afterwards, there was no further rationale for 70mm blow-ups, not least because they were insanely expensive to produce.

jt938 wrote: Fri Jun 27, 2025 7:55 pm

PfR73 wrote: Fri Jun 27, 2025 7:47 pm I'm pretty sure the film was shot in 35mm and only received a blowup to 70mm.

That makes a lot more sense.

It's an honest mistake considering this was considered THE huge Hollywood-excess financial disaster of the era before Waterworld came along.