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Just from experience, I feel like low hanging fruit like Kino's site have become more likely and frequent targets in recent years. I can only guess that not only is it easier (lower security and less protection) but hackers also realize that the info they are trying to obtain from, say, Amazon or Twitter may actually be replicated elsewhere. For that reason, I started using unique passwords for every account I have, as cumbersome as it may be, and just assume it'll be hacked some day, in which case all I need to do is change the password again and not worry about it. (I never store sensitive info like credit card numbers if I don't have to.)

More OOP based on previously being in the "While Supplies Last" sale and now no longer appearing on the website:

Delta Force 2: The Columbian Collection (1990) (BD) (DVD still available)
Luna (1979) (BD) (DVD still available)

Are titles being removed from the sale as they (temporarily) sell out?

Dated June 20th...

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) UHD
• Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative (4KUHD)
• Audio Commentary by Director John Frankenheimer (4KUHD)
• THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE INTERVIEWS with Star Frank Sinatra, Director John Frankenheimer and Screenwriter George Axelrod (7:48)
• QUEEN OF DIAMONDS: Interview with Actress Angela Lansbury (14:48)
• HOW TO GET SHOT: Outtake (1:07)
• A LITTLE SOLITAIRE: Interview with Filmmaker William Friedkin (13:15)
• PHONE CALL: Outtake (0:26)
• Theatrical Trailer
• Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase
• Optional English Subtitles

If you're in the business of saving shell space and have purchased the Arrow dual-format edition of the film, you can handily toss the DVD in the trash and replace it with the 4K disc. That's what I seem to be doing a lot with Kino 4K releases, since I don't want to get rid of booklets, Blu-rays or superior disc artwork.

Just make sure you're not throwing away those KLSC slipcovers - people are going bananas for them

Of course, I want my nephews to go to college after all

Are you serious? I just tossed a couple of slipcovers. (Not KLSC covers though)

I don't get what's so special about slipcovers when it replicates the lithograph artwork. (When it doesn't, it's nice, but still...)

I don't either, and I've thrown away like 98% of mine over time, but I've recently been informed that some people love them and can now confirm it's true. Some slipcovers aren't coveted at all though, and it's hard to determine trends. I can confirm that people want to buy KLSC 4Ks, as well as some other LEs

I like slipcovers, I just think they’re neat

I am very pro slipcover, they add a lot to studio releases that don't have anything in the way of art/packaging. KLSC works on the same model so it's nice to get them when possible, my first sale order (I usually break a sale up into 3-4 orders) was focused on getting all the titles in my list with slips before they sold out. would I pay through the roof to get one? no, but if its possible I'll take them.

another thing that I appreciate is reversible art. I got The Lady From Shanghai which has a reversible cover, neither image of which is on the slipcover. I feel for KLSC a bit - many of us (myself included) give them a hard time but I can tell they definitely wanted to release a more definitive version of this film - getting two new commentaries and the multiple covers kinda point in this direction - it's a real shame Sony didn't agree to it and we'll all be stuck with it in a Columbia Classics box with some middling mid-2000s fare or something.

also wish they'd recorded a new commentary for The Manchurian Candidate, and am surprised they didn't...

Well, if anyone is looking for cheap slipcovers, feel free to PM me

ryannichols7 wrote: Thu Apr 13, 2023 11:52 pm also wish they'd recorded a new commentary for The Manchurian Candidate, and am surprised they didn't...

It is interesting since it is the Kino norm. Though, considering Radiance had to drop an essay from "The Bride Wore Black", I wouldn't be surprised if the post-Amazon buyout is going to make MGM a bit more "strict" in terms of extras approval.

ChunkyLover wrote: Fri Apr 14, 2023 3:53 am I wouldn't be surprised if the post-Amazon buyout is going to make MGM a bit more "strict" in terms of extras approval.

What does this mean? I have to admit, I'm still in the mindset that finds the idea that a gigantic studio multinational corporation, beyond issues of defamation, give the slightest little dab of shit about what some boutique label adds in terms of a few extras, utterly hilarious. But perhaps you could enlighten me?

I have no idea what that has to do with any "post-Amazon buyout." That particular example had to do with two filmmakers (Tarantino and Hitchcock) getting mentioned in connection with Truffaut's film in its essay. No idea what the Tarantino issue is about - other than he's personally refuted an influence of that film on his "the Bride" character - but Fran said Hitchcock's estate can be difficult around using his name to sell something unrelated to him (i.e. "Hitchcockian") so sounds like risk management that would occur Amazon or no Amazon

Randall Maysin Again wrote:
What does this mean? I have to admit, I'm still in the mindset that finds the idea that a gigantic studio multinational corporation, beyond issues of defamation, give the slightest little dab of shit about what some boutique label adds in terms of a few extras, utterly hilarious. But perhaps you could enlighten me?

I haven’t had any direct dealings with MGM in recent years, but I hear from multiple colleagues who’ve had that pleasure that right now they’re incredibly tough in terms of both demanding upfront approval of all extras and insisting on cutting out anything that they don’t like, with some interviews being utterly eviscerated because the interviewee had the temerity to suggest that the experience of making the film wasn’t all roses and gambolling puppies, and the fact that the film was half a century old mattered not one iota.

Sony and Paramount are also pretty tough - I had to re-record six minutes of the commentary that Johnny Mains and I did for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein after we made the rookie error of mentioning an uncredited screenwriter, and cut a reference in my booklet essay to Paper Moon being the only film from Paramount’s short-lived spin-off The Director’s Company that made any money - but I gather MGM is in a class of its own right now.

Fran indicated that MGM was tough for UK but might be even tougher in the US, so any Radiance titles licensed from MGM would be UK-only and carefully selected (though it's very possible he just didn't even want to bother dealing with what their respective region stipulations beyond may be, and just harness energy on the demands of one territory)

I'm genuinely surprised that MGM would care about this sort of thing - many speculated that they'd stop licensing altogether after Amazon bought them, but this has been far from the case with Criterion, Arrow, Vinegar Syndrome, Kino, and Radiance all licensing new titles from them, Kino even signing on another deal. but I'm shocked they'd care at all at what's said in the extras. Sony (who won't even let labels do their own mastering) and Paramount make a little more sense, let alone Warners. the one label that seems to not have any issue with this sort of thing whatsoever is Universal - Criterion's Brazil set and MoC's Touch of Evil seem to agree with this being the case

The Directors Company really was short-lived, wasn’t it? Only three films, all released between 1973-1974 — Paper Moon, The Conversation, and Daisy Miller — with two of those being legitimate classics. Profitable or not, that’s a pretty solid record.

It would make for a great 4K UHD box set, ala Criterion’s Lost and Found in America: The BBS Story.

The following BD titles were added to the "While Supplies Last" sale (any DVD counterparts are no longer on the website and can be presumed to now be OOP):

8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
The Annihilators (1985)
The Battle of the Sexes (1960)
The Bitch (1979)
Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981)
Cuba (1979)
The Earthling (1980)
Fuzz (1972)
Grandview U.S.A. (1984)
The Group (1966)
The Internecine Project (1974)
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
Losin’ It (1983)
The Magic Sword (1962)
A Man Called Noon (1973)
The Manhattan Project (1986)
The Park Is Mine (1986)
The Revolt of the Slaves (1960)
Scream and Scream Again (1970)
Semi-Tough (1977)
Summer Lovers (1982)
Ten Little Indians (1989)
A Thousand Clowns (1965)
The Vikings (1958)
When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
The Whistle Blower (1987)
Who? (1975)

More OOP based on previously being in the "While Supplies Last" sale and now no longer appearing on the website:

Sheriff Hoot Kloot (The DePatie-Freleng Collection) (1973-1974) (DVD) (BD previously OOP)

Additionally, all DVD versions of remaining WSL sale listed BD titles have apparently gone OOP. Other DVD-only titles are still available on the website but are no longer part of the WSL sale.

domino harvey wrote: Thu Apr 13, 2023 8:26 pm I like slipcovers, I just think they’re neat

The White Dawn (1974) (BD from a 4k resto) is today's announcement. I never heard of it before but it is directed by Philip Kaufman and stars Warren Oates and Timothy Bottoms so I'm intrigued. Anyone here seen it?

Yes, very impressive early effort by Kaufman.

It’s a very good adventure film, the kind that focuses on character and culture. It’s shot entirely in the Canadian arctic, and I remember the location photography was stunning. It ought to look great in 4k.