Re: Kino Lorber Studio Classics
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2023 11:24 pm
More OOP based on previously being in the "While Supplies Last" sale and now no longer appearing on the website:
The Reivers (1969)
The Reivers (1969)
COLUMBO: THE 1970s
SEASONS 1-7
• RESTORED IN 4K BY UNIVERSAL PICTURES
• NEW Audio Commentaries for PRESCRIPTION: MURDER/BLUEPRINT FOR MURDER/A STITCH IN CRIME/A FRIEND IN DEED/TROUBLED WATERS/LAST SALUTE TO THE COMMODORE/TRY AND CATCH ME by Author Mark Dawidziak
• NEW Audio Commentaries for RANSOM FOR A DEAD MAN/DEATH LENDS A HAND/THE MOST DANGEROUS MATCH/DOUBLE SHOCK/PUBLISH OR PERISH/BY DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT/PLAYBACK/A DEADLY STATE OF MIND by Author/Historian Scott Skelton
• NEW Audio Commentaries for MURDER BY THE BOOK/LADY IN WAITING/REQUIEM FOR A FALLING STAR/LOVELY BUT LETHAL/CANDIDATE FOR CRIME/NEGATIVE REACTION/IDENTITY CRISIS/THE BYE-BYE SKY HIGH IQ MURDER CASE/MAKE ME A PERFECT MURDER/HOW TO DIAL A MURDER by Author/Historian Jim Benson
• NEW Audio Commentaries for RANSOM FOR A DEAD MAN/MURDER BY THE BOOK by Screenwriter/Historian Gary Gerani
• NEW Audio Commentaries for DEAD WEIGHT/DAGGER OF THE MIND/ANY OLD PORT IN A STORM/DOUBLE EXPOSURE/SWAN SONG/AN EXERCISE IN FATALITY/FORGOTTEN LADY/NOW YOU SEE HIM.../OLD FASHIONED MURDER by Author/Historian David Koenig
• NEW Audio Commentary for ÉTUDE IN BLACK by Authors/Historians David Koenig and Scott Skelton
• NEW Audio Commentaries for SHORT FUSE/THE GREENHOUSE JUNGLE/THE MOST CRUCIAL GAME/A CASE OF IMMUNITY/MURDER UNDER GLASS by Writers/Authors Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
• NEW Audio Commentary for A MATTER OF HONOR by Author/Historian Amanda Reyes
• NEW Audio Commentary for FADE IN TO MURDER by Author/Historian Amanda Reyes and Author/Podcaster Daniel R. Budnik
• NEW Audio Commentary for MIND OVER MAYHEM by Historian/Filmmaker Craig Bream with Special Guest Bill Malone
• NEW Audio Commentary for THE CONSPIRATORS by Television Music Historian Reba Wissner
• Selected Commentaries Include Excerpted Interviews with Peter Falk, Dick Van Dyke, Patrick McGoohan, Vincent Price, Martin Sheen, Richard Levinson, William Link, Lee Grant, Steven Bochco, Suzanne Pleshette, Norman Lloyd, Robert Butler, Stanley Ralph Ross and Many More!
• Shorter 71 Minute-Cut of ÉTUDE IN BLACK
• Booklet with Essay by Author Mark Dawidziak and Episode Guide
• Optional Music and Effects Audio Tracks for Every Episode
• Newly Commissioned Slipcase Cover Illustration by Tony Stella
• Optional English Subtitles
1968-1978 Color Approx. 3800 Minutes (20 Discs) 1.33:1 Not Rated
Columbo is the landmark series that set the standard for the murder mystery genre. Remastered in 4K by Universal, Columbo: The 1970s includes the first seven seasons of this enduring classic on Blu-ray! Starring Peter Falk in his four-time Emmy-winning role as the cigar-chomping, trenchcoat-wearing police lieutenant, this 20-disc collection includes every criminally entertaining episode from the series’ first seven seasons.

We need to see every wrinkle in his coat!
And I was hoping that -- considering the recent lip service he's given the show while promoting his mystery movies and series, his involvement with Kino's release of Brick, and his availability apparently being open enough to appear on Second Sight's May -- someone would enlist Rian Johnson (and also of course Natasha Lyonne, and maybe even Jamie Lee Curtis) to gush under an episode or two. But the world only has room for so much fun.pistolwink wrote: Tue Aug 22, 2023 4:00 pm Capitalizing on the surprising-but-very-welcome memeification of Columbo! Whatever works...
Hopefully Universal makes this up to them in their next deal. Really sucks for Kino to go through the efforts and expense to produce all that material only to have Universal discover that some agreement related to the show prevents Kino from releasing that material.Drucker wrote: Fri Aug 25, 2023 7:04 pm Kino has to drop all the new essays and commentaries they produced from their Columbo set.
They definitely have the upper hand and aren't the ones hustling for business deals, so I'd be surprised if there was any compensation, especially 'big' licensers who aren't counting on physical media for revenue. The physical media companies are the ones in a submissive position, relying on studios for their business. Not a lot of space for morality in capitalism.Finch wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 4:41 am I am aware that the representatives of the boutiques on here cannot divulge specific details but when something like this happens this late in the game with Ishtar and now the Columbo set, how do the studios tend to "compensate" (if at all?) for all the inconvenience caused? I guess it varies on a case by case basis though I can't imagine (perhaps naively?) that any (or most) studio would leave an independent label completely hanging? First dibs on titles in demand? Lower licensing costs on other titles? Or is it, well,tough luck?
The plot thickensDr Amicus wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 10:49 am As Murder By The Book was directed by Spielberg, would this have been the first commentary on something he directed?
Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Studio Classics
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Charley Varrick (1973) Starring Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andy Robinson, Sheree North, Norman Fell, Benson Fong, Woodrow Parfrey, William Schallert, Jacqueline Scott & Marjorie Bennett – Shot by Michael C. Butler (The Missouri Breaks) – Music by Lalo Schifrin (Prime Cut) – Written by Howard Rodman (Coogan’s Bluff) & Dean Riesner (The Enforcer) – Directed by Don Siegel (Madigan, Dirty Harry, The Black Windmill, Escape from Alcatraz).