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domino harvey wrote: Mon Jan 23, 2017 9:26 pm Kino Lorber releasing This World, Then the Fireworks-- oh boy, can't wait for this insane pulpfest to finally find an audience

Randall Maysin Again wrote: Sun Mar 12, 2023 4:51 pm

domino harvey wrote: Mon Jan 23, 2017 9:26 pm Kino Lorber releasing This World, Then the Fireworks-- oh boy, can't wait for this insane pulpfest to finally find an audience

It's been a few years, has this film....found a bigger audience? I wish Criterion would release this with a nice crapload of extras, but it is wall-to-wall motiveless depravity, I can't see them touching it. Maybe another actually worthy label might (i.e. not Kino)? It does, currently......have its fans, it just also has even more people who hate it and think it's beyond the pale! The film could conceivably have a bigger audience/profile and i think it merits it, but I'm also pretty sure that the ratio of enthusiasts to those who greatly dislike it will always be pretty much the same. it's no Silence of the Lambs, Psycho, fun and sympathetic serial killer stuff, which I think is probably as much the source of its detractors ire as anything else. I loved it though, esp. the amazing score and amazing cinematography

Soundies have been called the music videos of the 1940s, but that doesn’t begin to describe their cultural importance. It’s true that they feature a remarkable range of talent, from big-band luminaries like Duke Ellington and Count Basie to then-emerging stars like Doris Day and Ricardo Montalban, and lesser-known artists of the American nightclub circuit. But Soundies are also a rich, largely overlooked chronicle of American popular culture during and just after World War II. Produced for coin-operated jukeboxes in neighborhood bars and taverns, Soundies have an uncanny way of revealing what Americans were thinking about topics that weren’t discussed openly, from sexuality to ethnicity and race. Curated by Susan Delson, author of Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen: One Dime at a Time, this four-disc collection presents a diverse sampling of 200 shorts—jazz, country-western, folk, and the boogie woogie roots of rock ’n’ roll—newly restored from 35mm and 16mm materials preserved by the Library of Congress and other archives. Never have so many Soundies been celebrated in one collection, or presented with such care: thematically organized, accompanied by on-screen introductions and a booklet of essays, photos, and credits.
Product Extras :

Illustrated 44-page booklet with essays by Susan Delson,Ellen C. Scott, and Mark Cantor

Filmed introductions by series curator Susan Delson,with Ina Archer, Media Conservationist, National Museum of African American History and Culture

“Inside the Panoram,” a filmed interview with Mark Cantor, author of The Soundies: A History and Catalog of Jukebox Film Shorts of the 1940s

“From the Vaults,” a filmed interview with Matt Barton (Curator of Recording Sound at the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center at the Library of Congress) and Mike Mashon (Head of the Moving Image Section of the Library of Congress)
Publish Date : 2023-05-02

colinr0380 wrote: Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:40 am Definitely second on Death Machine. Its so wonderfully over the top in its tongue in cheek take on Aliens. I particularly love the guy on the level of a Vasquez from Aliens unloading one of those giant pulse rifle-style guns in a glorious display of ultraviolence, then turning around and knocking himself out by hitting his head on the top of the doorframe!

I quite like Blade (especially the opening bloody nightclub scene) but Norrington was one of those directors really damaged by the transition away from practical effects to CGI which looked barely passable at the time, and which has really dated now, so that damages a lot of his other films.

John Cope wrote: Sun Mar 12, 2023 11:10 pm

Randall Maysin Again wrote: Sun Mar 12, 2023 4:51 pm

domino harvey wrote: Mon Jan 23, 2017 9:26 pm Kino Lorber releasing This World, Then the Fireworks-- oh boy, can't wait for this insane pulpfest to finally find an audience

It's been a few years, has this film....found a bigger audience? I wish Criterion would release this with a nice crapload of extras, but it is wall-to-wall motiveless depravity, I can't see them touching it. Maybe another actually worthy label might (i.e. not Kino)? It does, currently......have its fans, it just also has even more people who hate it and think it's beyond the pale! The film could conceivably have a bigger audience/profile and i think it merits it, but I'm also pretty sure that the ratio of enthusiasts to those who greatly dislike it will always be pretty much the same. it's no Silence of the Lambs, Psycho, fun and sympathetic serial killer stuff, which I think is probably as much the source of its detractors ire as anything else. I loved it though, esp. the amazing score and amazing cinematography

And one of the greatest opening sequences in any movie ever. Perfectly articulates in succinct terms the unique amoral sociopathy of Jim Thompson's characters.

Also, Death Machine is fantastic. One of the greatest B movies of the 90's. Possibly ever. Should have been the start of a sterling career for Stephen Norrington; instead it was the peak. Should have been the start of something for Ely Pouget but (Red Shoe Diaries episode notwithstanding) evidently not.

Maltic wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 3:49 pm Is this the first new Ursini/Silver commentary in, like, 10 years? Hats off, Kino.

Maltic wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 3:49 pm Coming May 16th on Blu-ray!

https://kinolorber.com/product/hustle

HUSTLE (1975)
• Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Critics Alain Silver and James Ursini, Authors of WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ROBERT ALDRICH?: HIS LIFE AND HIS FILMS
• Theatrical Trailer
• 8 TV Spots
• Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase
• Optional English Subtitles


Is this the first new Ursini/Silver commentary in, like, 10 years? Hats off, Kino.

pistolwink wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 1:10 am

Maltic wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 3:49 pm Coming May 16th on Blu-ray!

https://kinolorber.com/product/hustle

HUSTLE (1975)
• Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Critics Alain Silver and James Ursini, Authors of WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ROBERT ALDRICH?: HIS LIFE AND HIS FILMS
• Theatrical Trailer
• 8 TV Spots
• Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase
• Optional English Subtitles


Is this the first new Ursini/Silver commentary in, like, 10 years? Hats off, Kino.

This is a very, very good movie made from a somewhat mediocre script. A good test case for the value of the director, in fact.

captveg wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:02 am The Knack... and How to Get It (1965) (BD)

ryannichols7 wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:19 am

captveg wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:02 am The Knack... and How to Get It (1965) (BD)

wonder who's taking the rights to this one in the US now, fairly big title I'd say and one I can't see being off market too long

soundchaser wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:54 am

ryannichols7 wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:19 am

captveg wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:02 am The Knack... and How to Get It (1965) (BD)

wonder who's taking the rights to this one in the US now, fairly big title I'd say and one I can't see being off market too long

Seems like the kind of thing (along with other Woodfall titles) that would be right up Indicator’s alley.

soundchaser wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:54 am

ryannichols7 wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:19 am

captveg wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:02 am The Knack... and How to Get It (1965) (BD)

wonder who's taking the rights to this one in the US now, fairly big title I'd say and one I can't see being off market too long

Seems like the kind of thing (along with other Woodfall titles) that would be right up Indicator’s alley.

pistolwink wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 1:10 am This is a very, very good movie made from a somewhat mediocre script. A good test case for the value of the director, in fact.

Coming May 30th on 4KUHD!
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THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955)
• Brand NEW HDR/Dolby Vision Master
• NEW Audio Commentary by Novelist & Critic Tim Lucas
• NEW Interviews with Filmmaker Ernest Dickerson, Actress Kathy Garver and Artist Joe Coleman
• And More