criterionforum.org

dwk wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 7:54 pm They also showed a teaser reel for 2022 and it appears that the mystery Argento title they have is Five Days of Milan.

Other 2022 titles teased Hard Rock Zombies, Caligula 2: The Untold Story and Black Demons.

L.A. wrote:Caligula 2: The Untold Story is something I have wanted to see for a long time. Has this ever gotten a decent release before? I can only guess the ancient German DVD from X-Rated Kult (in that oversized case) being uncut and including two different cuts(?).

black&huge wrote:Hard Rock Zombies is the one film out of every film ever made that needs top priority HD treatment. I am so happy about this. How Citizen Kane got a 4k before this even gets a blu ray? consider that a federal crime.

black&huge wrote: Sat Nov 20, 2021 6:45 pm Btw how are the films and the series in the Lee set? Overall midtier or just kinda all over the place in terms of his best and work?

Disc 1:

Audio Commentary With Director Dennis Hopper, Executive Producer Paul Lewis And Distributor John Alan Simon
Audio Commentary With Film Scholar Kate Rennenbohm
Audio Commentary With Film Writer Kat Ellinger
Gone But Not Forgotten — Remembering Linda Manz
Subverting Normality: Linda Manz Comes From Out Of The Blue — Video Essay By Amanda Reyes And Chris O’Neill
Terminal City Blues — Vancouver Onscreen In OUT OF THE BLUE
MAINSTREET SOLDIER — A Short Film by Leonard Yakir
Partial Commentary With Director Leonard Yakir On MAINSTREET SOLDIER
Restoration Trailer
Theatrical Trailer
Jack Nicholson Radio Spot

Disc 2:

Remembering OUT OF THE BLUE
Me & Dennis
Straight To Hell — Alex Cox Recalls OUT OF THE BLUE
Dealing With Demons — Brian Cox On Acting And Dennis Hopper
AFI Q&A With 4K Restoration Producers John Alan Simon And Elizabeth Karr

cdnchris wrote: Mon Feb 14, 2022 7:15 pm I'd have to assume they're using the same 4k restoration BFI uses, which looks great. But you know what they say about assuming things...

therewillbeblus wrote: Mon Feb 14, 2022 6:35 pm Any details on how this release compares to the BFI in terms of source print? The BFI's special features appear to be superior

dwk wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 5:57 pm May's releases:
The Return of Captain Invincible

domino harvey wrote: Tue Apr 22, 2014 12:12 amthe Return of Captain Invincible (Philippe Mora 1983) Here's a movie that embodies the textbook definition of something working on paper and not translating at all to the screen. The comic premise here is sound: Cast Alan Arkin as a superhero. That mismatch could indeed be hilarious. Now make him a washed up superhero from the Golden Age who must retrain to fight a modern menace in the form of Christopher Lee. Again, could be good fun. But this movie has too many ideas on a conceptual level and yet no ideas on how to follow through in practice. And so we get a bizarre slog of Arkin's drunk prepping for his American battle in Australia and, oh, did I forget to mention that twenty minutes in the film pulls the rug out and turns into a musical? And the first song is just the word "Bullshit" repeated over and over in rhythm to a funky beat? These numbers too are problematic: In theory, the only thing funnier than Alan Arkin as a superhero is Alan Arkin as a singing superhero. But the numbers other than the first two with MIchael Pate as the president are played straight and without much zest, with the only good song being Lee's humorous ode to alcoholism (penned by the Rocky Horror Picture Show scribes no less). This is a noble failure, but it's such a spectacular mess with no conceivable intended audience that I'm surprised it doesn't have a cult following (or, if it does, a larger one).