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Pelle the Conqueror from Film Movement Classics and Young & Beautiful (one of Ozon’s better films) from IFC are two others worth noting in this partner label batch. But we also get a lot of apparently z-grade stuff as usual (including recent Australian comedy The Emu War from Umbrella).

criterionsnob wrote: Fri Aug 01, 2025 5:19 pm Canadian International Pictures also is releasing the queer classic Winter Kept Us Warm, which I've been waiting for. I'm in for that and the 4K Brocka.

Yes! Finally. This is the title I've been waiting for ever since the label was created.

spectre wrote: Fri Aug 01, 2025 10:44 pm Pelle the Conqueror from Film Movement Classics and Young & Beautiful (one of Ozon’s better films) from IFC are two others worth noting in this partner label batch. But we also get a lot of apparently z-grade stuff as usual (including recent Australian comedy The Emu War from Umbrella).

I think the Ozon is new (it had a UK Blu, which is how I saw it) but Pelle is I think just a rewrap with a new slip

The label Hope Runs High confirmed to me that their release of "We Might as Well Be Dead" will have burned-in subtitles, and there's a strong possibility "Young & Beautiful" will have burned-in subs since IFC did the same thing to "Bastards" and "Love Crime".

lzx wrote: Fri Aug 01, 2025 10:45 pm

criterionsnob wrote: Fri Aug 01, 2025 5:19 pm Canadian International Pictures also is releasing the queer classic Winter Kept Us Warm, which I've been waiting for. I'm in for that and the 4K Brocka.

Yes! Finally. This is the title I've been waiting for ever since the label was created.

That's nice to hear. I hope they do Fortune And Men's Eyes next. I gave up on a home video release decades ago.

mfunk9786 wrote: Fri Aug 01, 2025 7:48 pm

swo17 wrote: Tue Jul 29, 2025 6:19 pm It looks like VS has started shrinkwrapping its slipcovered editions so that the entire package is sealed, not just the case inside the slipcover

Wonder if it makes it easier to shovel unsold copies into landfills this way.

Look, all I know is that all the other boutiques worth their weight should absolutely step up and start shrinkwrapping every single item they sell. The amount of dinged slips & scuffed art complaints could vanish in an instant (at least 90% of incoming emails, the other 5% being "hey, where's my order?", with the remainder percentage suggestions & kudos from me like the one I'm typing right now), and then everyone who collects can finally rest easy once all their physical media will remain safe, completely unbroken & untouched for another hundred or so years. In fact, VS should really get in front of this issue & clearly state how many sea turtles they could kill (on estimate) per annual subscription, and I swear the numbers would tip toward them like the Lusitania (Region A only, respectfully).

I do wish they would offer a cheapskate subscription (disc in paper sleeve only, with warehouse fingerprints for an additional $0.49 per release), which would cut down on lots of other known issues (except for the monthly mis-press/4K non-readable issues) [-o<

The regular edition of Iron Angels 1-3 is on their website now. That was not a given since they originally said it "may be (but probably not) coming". It loses the slip and booklet (whatever).

Apologies if this was posted before but in my reading online I came across news that The Film Desk will be releasing Michael Roemer’s documentary Dying, as well as his drama Pilgrim, Farewell. They haven’t been announced yet and are still on their theatrical tours but a home video release will happen afterwards at some point.

With these releases all of Roemer’s features will be available on Blu-Ray… (except for his student film A Touch of the Times). Sadly none of his short films seem to be out yet, maybe they’ll finally get put out with these latest two films.

Cinématographe will be presenting Henry Jaglom's Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? at this year's New York Film Festival https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2025/films ... herry-pie/

since Criterion haven't done the announcements yet, may as well post that Orbit is advertising a Vinegar Syndrome peace deal, so I'm wondering if VS have reversed some of their policies?

Scrolling through that selection, I think I choose war instead

if Orbit is really choosing to uphold VS' policies I find that really disappointing, especially in the name of selling this garbage

To be fair, Southern Comfort at $24.99 is a nice deal but I already got it from Amazon a few months ago.

It’s $17.50 (the price only shows at checkout)

Hardly "garbage" - there are quite a few discs in that line-up that I've had my eye on, and I might finally take the plunge.

Perhaps this is already known, but I'm informed by a reliable source that VS is working on a release of Andy Warhol's Bad.

I don't think I've ever seen it, so I'd pick it up. Now if only someone could get to Flesh/Trash/Heat. I've still got my 20-year-old Tartan DVD set.

luxta wrote: Sat Aug 16, 2025 4:18 pm Cinématographe will be presenting Henry Jaglom's Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? at this year's New York Film Festival https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2025/films ... herry-pie/

There is, concerningly, "lots of Jaglom to come"

He owns most of his own films, I think all but four, so if VS had one of them it makes sense for him to have all.

Releasing Henry Jaglom is proof that Cinematograph’s fruit doesn’t fall far from Vinegar Syndrome’s tree. Jaglom I think came from a ton of money through his father and famously four-walls the releases of all his movies in Los Angeles. I remember so well in the 90s and 2000s his huge ads for his movies in the LA Weekly.

I have long harbored a perverse desire to see Irene in Time which, judging by it’s trailer must be some masterpiece of awful akin to The Room or some such. Now I might get to see it in amazing 4K to really appreciate every detail of every terrible line reading.

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Tue Aug 26, 2025 6:00 pm Releasing Henry Jaglom is proof that Cinematograph’s fruit doesn’t fall far from Vinegar Syndrome’s tree. Jaglom I think came from a ton of money through his father and famously four-walls the releases of all his movies in Los Angeles. I remember so well in the 90s and 2000s his huge ads for his movies in the LA Weekly.

He’s moved into theatre in Los Angeles as well. I remember bus ads for a show he was presenting for seemingly several years. I really don’t think there is an audience for his works

Jon Jost is the kind of independent auteur who Cinematographe/VS really should be focusing on instead

VS have announced yet another new label "Pink Line" that focuses on pinku eiga films from the '70-'90s. Once upon a time I would have been quite excited by the prospect but in the last couple of years VS have stretched themselves rather thin and become increasingly expensive which significantly dampens my enthusiasm. My fingers are eternally crossed for nice restorations of the work of Hisayasu Satō but I'm not holding my breath.

Is this their 8th sublabel that they have created? This is getting ridiculous at this point.

This is exactly their 8th sub-label, after VS Archives (56 releases), VS Labs (19), VS Pictures (9), VS Ultra (13), Cinematographe (66 - I guess this one works well), Degausser (30 - though 21 of them are LE Deluxe LED VHS) & Distribpix (8).