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...and I suspect it was in a job lot, as you'd have thought Warners of all people would want to retain those two!

MichaelB wrote:...and I suspect it was in a job lot, as you'd have thought Warners of all people would want to retain those two!

If I'm reading WB's response right, they never had them. Basically, when WB purchased the RKO library (via the MGM library, IIRC) the pre-1955 shorts had already been sold off.

I think Kino did a magnificent job with their release of Les Vampires on Blu-ray. I can only hope they'll soon release Tih-Minh, my favorite Feuillade serial, as well.

Full review at my blog:

http://whitecitycinema.com/2012/09/03/blu-vamp/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Kino's first batch of Bavas reviewed by the Beev:

Lisa & the Devil

Hatchet for the Honeymoon

Black Sunday

Kino just announced Sternberg's The Blue Angel, a few more Bavas and a Keaton boxset (with College an exclusive 'til next year). And with the flick of wrist....

Cool, an announcement I love. Win for everybody.

Dumb question: does the Blu-ray set now completely cover the Kino box? IE Can I now sell it and just pick up this?

I think there's something with the blu-ray version of Shorts Collection that makes it inferior to the DVD counterpart?

EDIT: Here.

12/4 - THE BLUE ANGEL (1930, Josef von Sternberg, Blu-ray only)

[first time ever on Blu-ray!]

I guess they don't pay much attention to the rest of the world.

And I hope the MoC team get on this soon. I would love to see if they can better the German slate of extras. They didn't with M and Metropolis though.

I can wait for the individual release of College.

Nothing really for me, but some good stuff there in general.

John Edmond wrote:Kino just announced Sternberg's The Blue Angel, a few more Bavas and a Keaton boxset (with College an exclusive 'til next year). And with the flick of wrist....

What are the Bavas, for those of us who have resisted joining Facebook?

Anyone know what we can expect of 'The Blue Angel' in terms of print/transfer quality?

starmanof51 wrote:

John Edmond wrote:Kino just announced Sternberg's The Blue Angel, a few more Bavas and a Keaton boxset (with College an exclusive 'til next year). And with the flick of wrist....

What are the Bavas, for those of us who have resisted joining Facebook?

Baron Blood and Kidnapped

Thanks Domino, sorry about that. Going by the screen capture thread, the the HD transfer of The Blue Angel that's floating around looks superb.

After such disappointment with Hitchcocks and Children of Paradise, that Blue Angel sure looks magnificent. Hope MoC gets/has its grubs on it though. Kino's will be the German version, I presume?

Anyone know exactly what's changed at Kino? I've almost reached the point of looking forward to their releases unequivocally, like I do with Criterion, instead of settling for them. New management, more money, better quality control, better tech/reduced costs for doing things right?

It's without question a number of things including fusing with Lorber, but the big thing is without question Bluray which in just being itself solves most of the issues in QC they had in the past.

Drucker wrote:After such disappointment with Hitchcocks and Children of Paradise, that Blue Angel sure looks magnificent. Hope MoC gets/has its grubs on it though. Kino's will be the German version, I presume?

Considering the German Blu-ray had both versions, I'd hope for/expect both.

TMDaines wrote:

Drucker wrote:After such disappointment with Hitchcocks and Children of Paradise, that Blue Angel sure looks magnificent. Hope MoC gets/has its grubs on it though. Kino's will be the German version, I presume?

Considering the German Blu-ray had both versions, I'd hope for/expect both.

Kino's previous SD issue had both and, as you say, the Universum has HD versions of both, so I'd say it's a pretty good chance.

I pushed pretty hard to convince the Germans to scan the English version in HD!

domino harvey wrote:Dumb question: does the Blu-ray set now completely cover the Kino box? IE Can I now sell it and just pick up this?

Expanding on what "andyli" noted, the announced Keaton Blu-ray set does not include the KEATON PLUS disc found in the original Kino DVD box (although the LOST KEATON disc covers all 16 of the Education Film shorts from the 30s which were not included in the DVD box - only two appeared on the KEATON PLUS disc). While most of the KP disc is less than essential, I wouldn't want to be without the Keaton TV show excerpts, the dramatic 1954 television play THE AWAKENING and, especially, the restored version of HARD LUCK; not only is this restored two-reeler virtually complete but the image quality is cleaner and sharper than the version included on the Blu-ray.

I've read somewhere the Keaton set includes 15 discs, but aside from the 13 discs already released what else does it include? Is College a 2-disc edition?

I was wondering the exact same thing. Maybe that original bonus DVD from the standard def set is back?

felipe wrote:I've read somewhere the Keaton set includes 15 discs, but aside from the 13 discs already released what else does it include? Is College a 2-disc edition?

GO WEST / BATTLING BUTLER is a 2-disc edition according to Kino (I don't own it), so that equals 15.

I have Go west/Battling butler and it's only 1 disc. I don't think they'd prepare a new edition of these movies for the boxset.