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AfterTheRain wrote:Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bull's History Lesson is due on December 9th.

Never thought we'd get this before McCabe & Mrs. Miller!

AfterTheRain wrote:Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bull's History Lesson is due on December 9th.

Mitchell Zuckoff's Robert Altman: The Oral Biography quotes this from Reuters, July 8, 1976 concerning the film winning the Golden Bear: "In a letter to the festival, Mr. Altman said the film had been edited so drastically that it perpetrated 'a fraud' on audiences. The version at the festival was authorized by him."

Was the version released on DVD (and presumably that will be released on Blu-Ray), De Laurentiis' cut or Altman's cut?

Two titles announced for 2015 to be released by Kino Lorber (as opposed to KL Studio Classic releases) - Cult of the Damned (aka Angel, Angel, Down We Go ) (1969) and The Wicked Lady (1983) (remake of Gainsborough Pictures film). Added both to the list.

solaris72 wrote:

AfterTheRain wrote:Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bull's History Lesson is due on December 9th.

Never thought we'd get this before McCabe & Mrs. Miller!

It did come to DVD before McCabe & Mrs. Miller did, if I recall correctly. Part of one of MGM's Western months.

I'm pretty sure the cut on the DVD is the De Laurentiis cut, based on the fact that the movie seemed pretty bad to me? But I don't know the particulars.

Seems a bit of a mystery. The DVD is supposedly 123 minutes (I don't have it, so it'd be nice to have confirmation). The BBFC lists two video releases (1987 and 1992) running around 100 minutes. The later UK video releases are 118 minutes, which is 123 minutes with PAL speedup. Yet the 1976 UK theatrical release was 123 minutes...so the film was released in a director's cut in the UK but then cut when it was released on video? Stranger things have happened...but then the Australian classification database lists the 1976 35mm release as 128 minutes and a 1984 video release as 127 minutes (no PAL speedup?), and the Ontario Film Review Board gives the 1976 running time as 140 minutes. On top of that, there are a few sources (like this 1984 NYT article) that point towards a 135-minute version. So we definitely have a 123-minute version, and it seems very likely there's a 100-minute version (104 without PAL speedup), unless the BBFC listed roughly the same mistaken running time on two submissions separated by five years. Is the 123-minute the director's cut and the 104-minute cut de Laurentiis'? But then what about those longer versions listed by some sources?

How did the Empire State Building get on the cover of "The Long Goodbye"?

It's from the original Italian poster by Tino Avelli. In another poster for this film, he placed the entire New York skyline.

MisterLime has gotta be the most tactless and thin-skinned forum poster in any official capacity I've ever witnessed, LOL. I don't get how he can't just be a bit more cordial in his professional representation and also more calmly answer complainers (justified ones or otherwise) if he has no immediate answers for them. The On the Beach sync issue has caused him to leave HTF - again. Seems like this has happened with him every six months like clockwork on various forums for 4-5 years running now.

In Switzerland, they've had 500 years of cordiality and what did it produce? The cuckoo clock.

He can go hang out with the guy from Code Red

Does he actually work for any of these companies? I remember writing Olive saying they should get rid of their shill because he's making their company look ridiculous online and they insisted they had no idea who he was.

He used to describe himself as a friend of someone who worked at Olive and then Kino (Frank Tarzi) but more recently started referring to upcoming Kino releases as something "we" are putting out, suggesting he was now working for Kino in a more official capacity.

Either that or he was just Tarzi all along.

His name was listed as "Scott Peck" somewhere....

http://www.mscottpeck.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; :-k

River's Edge on January 13, 2015

vidussoni wrote:River's Edge on January 13, 2015

To those who haven't seen it, Crispin Glover's spaced out neurotic is already on it's own worth the price of admission. Certainly my favourite portrayal I've ever seen from him in anything.

Throw in Hopper's weird vegetable and it becomes an essential oddity.

Foxes (Adrian Lyne, 1980)

Release date: January 13, 2015.

Special Features:

• New on-camera interview with co-star Sally Kellerman
  Original Theatrical Trailer
  Optional English Subtitles

Falcon and the Snowman also coming on Jan 13

Terrific news about Falcon. Always held out hope that Criterion would pick it up, but a new HD transfer from Kino would be lovely. Hope they can get a Steve Zaillian commentary, too, as it was his first produced script, although he's probably quite busy adapting The Irishman for Martin Scorsese.

Ditto that. It's a great movie with excellent performances and strong direction, and it's one of the all time best and most accurate portrayals of espionage in cinema.

Sean Penn definitely gives a definitive portrayal of a movie loser. Pair it perfectly with Eric Roberts's perf in the Pope of Greenwich Village on that count!

At the Earth's Core (1976) seems to be another title coming from them picked out by Scorpion Releasing. Guessed on a clue given on Scorpion's facebook page:

Director Kevin Connor dropped by for an on camera interview for another one of my suggestions to Kino for a BluRay release. It’s one in a trilogy of a fantasy/sci-fi series, but I chose this one over the other two, simply because it stars a major cult actress/icon, as well as a Hammer icon. And it will be a test to see if this performs well, then we will be considering the other two for a possible future release.

Clearly, he refers to Caroline Munro and Peter Cushing.

Interesting that the MGM release did have subs but the Kino doesn't-- doesn't that contradict their excuse that they use the subs when MGM provides them? There's NO excuse to not throw them on in this case