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I wouldn't either, it makes sense to do after his death no matter what - but since we know The Yards is coming and it didn't show up last month, I figure it's in the coming-soon pipeline

Tennessee adaptation= The Fugitive Kind?

Save the Tiger deals with insurance fraud a bit, I think

Nuclear Armageddon= Testament?

beamish14 wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 5:35 pm Tennessee adaptation= The Fugitive Kind?

This Property is Condemned is a Tennessee Williams adaptation, a Paramount property, and not available anywhere on blu-ray, so I'm placing my betting money there.

Actually, I’m guessing Jack Lemmon + nuclear disaster= The China Syndrome

Revolting workers + Sean Connery = The Molly Maguires (an instant buy for me)

or perhaps, Sean Connery + nuclear apocalypse = The Russia House

Maybe "a Tennessee adaptation" is just an adaptation of something set in Tennessee, those crafty buggers! "A Fugitive charged", what the hell does that even mean. Maybe the "Fugitive" is an electric car?

dwk wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 4:35 pm Brooke Shields, Susan Sarandon, and "red-light photography" sounds like Pretty Baby.

We’d have a new contender for label that most doesn’t give a fuck about popular public mores if it is!

Testament (Lynne Littman)
Save the Tiger (John Avildsen)
The Molly Maguires (Martin Ritt)
North Dallas Forty (Ted Kotcheff)
Pretty Baby (Louis Malle)
Come Back, Little Sheba (Daniel Mann)
The Rose Tattoo (Daniel Mann)
Warning Shot (Buzz Kulik)

domino harvey wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 10:37 pm

dwk wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 4:35 pm Brooke Shields, Susan Sarandon, and "red-light photography" sounds like Pretty Baby.

We’d have a new contender for label that most doesn’t give a fuck about popular public mores if it is!

they came prepared too - new interviews with Shields, Sarandon, AND a new commentary from Kat Ellinger

Save the Tiger disappointingly doesn't note "from a new 4K scan from Paramount Pictures" like some of the other titles do, so I assume it'll be an "as is" presentation. better to have the film than not, but hopefully Kino (and it does seem very up their alley) rescue it sometime and give it a new transfer

Come Back, Little Sheba is a great movie about alcoholism- nice!

"Save the Tiger" is an instant purchase - fabulous movie!

ryannichols7 wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 6:40 am

domino harvey wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 10:37 pm

dwk wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 4:35 pm Brooke Shields, Susan Sarandon, and "red-light photography" sounds like Pretty Baby.

We’d have a new contender for label that most doesn’t give a fuck about popular public mores if it is!

they came prepared too - new interviews with Shields, Sarandon, AND a new commentary from Kat Ellinger

From a new 4K restoration too

swo17 wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 6:14 am Testament (Lynne Littman)

Anyone seen this?

L.A. wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 12:06 pm

swo17 wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 6:14 am Testament (Lynne Littman)

Anyone seen this?

I saw it on premium cable in the mid 90s, and I had the early Paramount DVD years ago. I believe it came out around the same time as The Day After, but it has a very different tone in my view. It's a much quieter film, more concerned with the emotional toll of the nuclear apocalypse. Jane Alexander pretty much owns the film. I'll definitely be picking this up, as I haven't seen it at all since becoming a parent and I wonder how it will affect me differently now.

L.A. wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 12:06 pm

swo17 wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 6:14 am Testament (Lynne Littman)

Anyone seen this?

When my parents rented it back when it came out, but not since. I remember very little about the experience except being moved a great deal by it, even if I didn't fully understand the emotional content.

This, indeed, did come out at the height of the cold war's late phase, and even just being a Canadian middle-schooler at the time, I couldn't help but be paralyzed with fear that the world was going to end at any second. I'm sure that Wargames, Threads and The Day after also didn't help.

Looking forward to a revisit.

Thank you willoneill and jazzo for your comments regarding Testament and also mentioning The Day After which I wasn’t aware of before. I want to see both definitely.

swo17 wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 6:14 am Testament (Lynne Littman)
Save the Tiger (John Avildsen)
The Molly Maguires (Martin Ritt)
North Dallas Forty (Ted Kotcheff)
Pretty Baby (Louis Malle)
Come Back, Little Sheba (Daniel Mann)
The Rose Tattoo (Daniel Mann)
Warning Shot (Buzz Kulik)

These are some amazing picks. I’m always so off with guessing the new Criterions that I can’t believe I predicted 3 of these. Testament is incredible; truly amazing how at one point, arthouse films in America could get subsidized by the government.

Beautiful performances all-around. Lucas Haas pre-Witness is unforgettable. Like When the Wind Blows, it doesn’t shy away from depicting just how agonizing and slow death from radiation particles can be. The “Testament at 20” featurette from Paramount’s disc is very interesting, and not fluffy at all. Director Lynne Littman really shits on William Devane in it

The Molly Maguires is wonderful as well. If you like Matewan, don’t hesitate to pick it up

Come Back, Little Sheba is a gorgeous looking film, but one I never, ever expected to make it to Blu. A reminder of how Hollywood knew how to do a downbeat film like this perfectly before they leaned too far into miserablisim in the last 50s

If North Dallas Forty gets a US release, it won't be from Kino as per the Insider on the other forum. NDF was not available to them, and they did not ask for Come Back Little Sheba.

"Testament" is wonderful, highly recommended.

Obviously bears comparison to other nuclear holocaust films like "Five," "Panic in Year Zero," "Threads," "The Day After," and so on. Set apart from those though by a startling modest domesticity that almost brings to mind Ozu, especially his post-45 films where family members are damaged or simply... missing... either explicitly or implicitly due to The War.

Jane Alexander's is one of my favorite female performances of the 80s. Progressing, or collapsing, from a competent, gently nagging and understandably needy housewife to a tragic character deserving of our overwhelming sympathy and respect.

It isn't just that

Spoiler

she loses her husband, then one child, then another, then friends, then neighbors.

It's how the film reframes the most basic parental functions and habits after society and bodies begin to fall apart. Bathing a child, explaining to your teenage daughter what it feels like to love someone, making a meal with limited resources, become more profound, absurd and physically abject under the circumstances. There's no shortage of films that effectively use scenes of "women's work" to convey both the limited agency granted and loss experienced by women, but there's a simple sewing scene here that never fails to ruin me.

This is where the film likely benefits from being directed by a woman, and based on a story by a woman, and what sets it apart from most other end of the world scenarios. The technical and political aspects of the bombs are hardly even considered, and why should they be? I'd love to see such a film helmed by Kathryn Bigelow, but this is not that film.

Four big mushroom clouds out of four!

Finch wrote: Fri Jul 22, 2022 11:13 pm If North Dallas Forty gets a US release, it won't be from Kino as per the Insider on the other forum. NDF was not available to them, and they did not ask for Come Back Little Sheba.

they did say "maybe so, maybe not" to a few other titles, so I wouldn't be surprised if Save the Tiger among others did come out in the US from them. the question is whether Kino would touch Pretty Baby

There's nothing about Kino that would suggest they wouldn't release Pretty Baby.

Wonder which version Ken Russell’s Whore has.

L.A. wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:50 pm Wonder which version Ken Russell’s Whore has.

It says it's 85 minutes, which is longer than the R-rated version (80 min), but shorter than the completely uncut European version (92)

I searched the classification databases of a few European countries (Germany, Norway, Finland, Spain) and none of them lists a 92-minute version. The unrated VHS from Vidmark had a stated runtime of 92 minutes on the packaging, but according to this (NSFW) the actual difference is only around three minutes, and it sounds like that version was put together at Vidmark's request for the video market, implying that the 85-minute NC-17 cut was the original version.