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L.A. wrote:Coming August 22nd from Kino Classics!

Varieté (1925) (Variety) - Starring Emil Jannings, Lya De Putti and Maly Delschaft - Directed by Ewald André Dupont

Special Features:
• New score by Berklee Silent Film Orchestra
• Short documentary on the creation of the score.
• The complete OTHELLO (German 1922) - Starring Emil Jannings and Lya De Putti, Werner Krauss - Directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki

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Spoiler alert!

But she's not Sarah Jessica Parker.

knives wrote:But she's not Sarah Jessica Parker.

I laughed at this because I'm a bad person.

Apparently, the art is reversible so you might be able protect a loved one from the spoiler!

Amazon is showing the other cover as the primary one.

Coming Soon From Kino Classics and Redemption
9/12 Seven Beauties | Swept Away
9/19 Summer Night | Ferdinando and Carolina
9/26 Killer Barbys
10/10 Kill Baby, Kill | Roy Colt and Winchester Jack | La Chinoise | Le Gai Savoir
10/17 Titanic (1943)
11/14 The Last Laugh
11/21 Fritz Lang: The Silent Films Collection (10 Films)

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At last -- THE LAST LAUGH. I'm hoping it includes the score by the Berklee School of Music.

As per the Blu-ray.com forums, according to Mr Lime the Lang collection will be 12 discs and contain
HARA KIRI (1919)
THE SPIDERS (1919/1920)
THE WANDERING SHADOW (1920)
FOUR AROUND THE WOMAN (1921)
DESTINY (1921)
DR. MABUSE THE GAMBLER (1922)
DIE NIBELUNGEN (1924)
METROPOLIS (1927)
SPIES (1928)
WOMAN IN THE MOON (1929)

He also seems to be pointedly ignoring questions about whether the three exclusives will ever get individual releases.

Are these all Blu-ray?

According to Mr. Lime, they are.

Ugh, I don't want to buy nine movies I have better editions of to get the three early ones on blu. Hopefully they'll just do a straight blu ray edition of the box set those three were originally in.

If HD masters exist, I imagine it's only a matter of time before MoC puts out all the earlier films.

swo17 wrote:If HD masters exist, I imagine it's only a matter of time before MoC puts out all the earlier films.

Didn't they do a sounding out a couple of years back to evaluate potential interest in a MoC Lang blu box that didn't inspire them to continue with the project?

Le Gai Savoir looks incredible, makes me wish I was a fan of Godard!

According to Mr. Lime, Underground coming February 20th.

Will Kino release the new restos of Love and Anarchy and The Seduction of Mimi or is the 2012 box set everything that we will get when it comes to those two?

Lav Diaz's The Woman Who Left is up for pre-order at Amazon, Blu-ray and DVD editions, January 28.

Swept Away. I saw this again last night, watching the new blu (which looks terrific - really a different experience from the old LW Collection dvd). Anyway, as much as I was underwhelmed revisiting Seven Beauties a week prior, this really made me appreciate how strong a director Wertmüller could be. It's understandable that the film should have caused so much controversy upon release during the peak of the women's movement, but now with all that distance it's obvious that W was having fun satirizing every ideological position and perspective - opposing not only politics (communist vs. "Social Democrat", i.e capitalist liberal) and gender (chauvinist male vs. progressive female), but also class (rich vs. working class) and geographical background/ethnicity (northerner vs. southerner) - and exploring if it's possible to cast off one's social identity to find something deeper.

Gennarino's revenge and physical beating of Raffaella goes on a bit much, but it's obviously exaggerated because of the national comedic tradition the film is steeped in and, perhaps more significantly and more relevant to the film's themes, it shows how, sadly, it's Gennarino who in the end is truly the biggest prisoner of his mental constructs and who, tragically, loses out and ruins something special because of that. The film is really both funny and moving in the end, and with its slight L'Avventura associations (the yacht in the Mediterranean, the isolated island, the hut on the island) it's a visually gorgeous movie, which this blu really brings out.

Swept Away is wonderful. Rayon vert, I have loved your words.
Wertmülerr in the 70s made masterpieces (not the Loren- Mastroianni one). How can it be that her later films were so baaaaaad ?

A 4k upgrade of Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice will be released May 15

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I was about to complain about the fact that they already released this before I realized it's actually been 7 years since the first one, so that's great.

FrauBlucher wrote:A 4k upgrade of Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice will be released May 15

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Wording confused me there, as your post implied to me it would be a UHD!