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Posted: **Sun Nov 12, 2023 12:19 pm**

I actually do have The American Friend. Wings of Desire I like but not enough to want to own. I do need to explore more of Fassbinder's films.

Thank you all for clarifying the status of Paramount's library.

Posted: **Sun Nov 12, 2023 4:01 pm**

The Last Castle is getting a 4K UHD release.

Posted: **Mon Nov 13, 2023 7:27 pm**

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

Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971)

Posted: **Mon Nov 13, 2023 7:35 pm**

Hal Ashby’s Coming Home (1978) being released in January.

Posted: **Mon Nov 13, 2023 10:39 pm**

TBickle020776 wrote: Mon Nov 13, 2023 7:35 pm Hal Ashby’s Coming Home (1978) being released in January.

It's a reissue, but now on a BD-50 rather than the BD-25 for the 2014 release.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2023 5:05 pm**

ryannichols7 wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2023 7:21 am
senseabove wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2023 5:05 am The only reason I have a shred of belief that isn’t a mistake is that the Insider posted on the other forum after someone mentioned it and didn’t kibosh it. Otherwise, how the hell The Long Goodbye (with 2x the IMDb ratings and 4x the LB views) is a preposterous suggestion for 4k yet Scarlet Street isn’t I’ll never understand.
The Long Goodbye, ditto McCabe and Mrs. Miller I think would be a disaster for UHD based on their very unusual visual technique. if Vilmos Zsigmond was still with us, then absolutely I think it could be done with his approval. but I don't see The Long Goodbye being a success, given how the more recent KLSC completely slaughtered the intended look of the film. but someone who is a little more tech savvy may have a better answer

I say all of this as a massive, massive fan of The Long Goodbye who would buy any edition of it loaded to the gills. the "flashing'" technique was totally nailed by Criterion with their McCabe disc, honestly one of their best achievements. I don't think we can trust Kino to pull that off unfortunately

I stand extremely corrected on these movies coming to UHD. really intrigued to see how much of an upgrade McCabe is going to present

Posted: **Fri Nov 17, 2023 10:06 pm**

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

The Enemy Below (1957)
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955)

Posted: **Sat Nov 18, 2023 10:18 am**

Anybody know the latest on Lost In Translation 4K? It was announced as being in the works for late 2023, but no solid details since then.

Posted: **Sat Nov 18, 2023 6:24 pm**

Coming Soon on Blu-ray!

ALASKA SEAS (1954) Starring Robert Ryan, Jan Sterling, Brian Keith and Gene Barry with Timothy Carey & Aaron Spelling as The Knifer – Shot by William C. Mellor (Giant) – Screenplay by Walter Doniger (Rope of Sand) & Daniel Mainwaring (Out of the Past,) – Directed by Jerry Hopper (Secret of the Incas, Naked Alibi).

Posted: **Sat Nov 18, 2023 6:33 pm**

On whether a Paramount title being announced tomorrow is Looking for Mr Goodbar

I heard it was finally cleared for release and will be coming out from another label.

Criterion or Arrow maybe...

The Insider also said they have one silent from the latest Paramount deal. It called it a great one

Posted: **Sat Nov 18, 2023 6:59 pm**

Peter McM wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 10:18 am Anybody know the latest on Lost In Translation 4K? It was announced as being in the works for late 2023, but no solid details since then.

I believe they said there was a 4K in the works for Brick too but haven’t heard anything since

Posted: **Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:37 pm**

FrauBlucher wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 6:33 pm On whether a Paramount title being announced tomorrow is Looking for Mr Goodbar
I heard it was finally cleared for release and will be coming out from another label.
Criterion or Arrow maybe...

The Insider also said they have one silent from the latest Paramount deal. It called it a great one

Wedding March is the obvious big one MIA, but could it be Beau Geste, Mantrap, or The Racket?

Posted: **Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:41 pm**

FrauBlucher wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 6:33 pm On whether a Paramount title being announced tomorrow is Looking for Mr Goodbar
I heard it was finally cleared for release and will be coming out from another label.
Criterion or Arrow maybe...

Vinegar Syndrome teased it a few months ago in a YT video by quickly flashing a long list of fake slasher titles they were supposedly releasing with the first letters forming an acrostic of the title. If it's coming from them, we'll presumably find out next Friday.

Posted: **Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:52 pm**

senseabove wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:41 pm
FrauBlucher wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 6:33 pm On whether a Paramount title being announced tomorrow is Looking for Mr Goodbar
I heard it was finally cleared for release and will be coming out from another label.
Criterion or Arrow maybe...
Vinegar Syndrome teased it a few months ago in a YT video by quickly flashing a long list of fake slasher titles they were supposedly releasing with the first letters forming an acrostic of the title. If it's coming from them, we'll presumably find out next Friday.

It’s truly astounding that Paramount appears to have cleared this and Little Darlings

Posted: **Sat Nov 18, 2023 8:56 pm**

senseabove wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:41 pm
FrauBlucher wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 6:33 pm On whether a Paramount title being announced tomorrow is Looking for Mr Goodbar
I heard it was finally cleared for release and will be coming out from another label.
Criterion or Arrow maybe...
Vinegar Syndrome teased it a few months ago in a YT video by quickly flashing a long list of fake slasher titles they were supposedly releasing with the first letters forming an acrostic of the title. If it's coming from them, we'll presumably find out next Friday.

It’s not this Friday I can assure you, if it was a secret title it would have had a very vague clue at least partially related to it though I do think it is coming from Vinegar Syndrome for a couple of reasons.

Posted: **Sat Nov 18, 2023 11:18 pm**

Wow, terrific news nonetheless! Hopefully it gets released before the 70s decade vote - could use more exposure on the board. I think only two of us voted for it in the '77 list

Posted: **Sat Nov 18, 2023 11:25 pm**

FrauBlucher wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 6:33 pm On whether a Paramount title being announced tomorrow is Looking for Mr Goodbar
I heard it was finally cleared for release and will be coming out from another label.
Criterion or Arrow maybe...

It's the kind of title Fun City would give their firstborn to release... but that may not be a high enough price if the reported music rights issues were indeed the issue. In which case, CC or Arrow may be right.

Posted: **Sat Nov 18, 2023 11:47 pm**

therewillbeblus wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 11:18 pm Wow, terrific news nonetheless! Hopefully it gets released before the 70s decade vote - could use more exposure on the board. I think only two of us voted for it in the '77 list

That only gives them until the end of the year

Posted: **Sun Nov 19, 2023 12:40 am**

flyonthewall2983 wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 6:59 pm
Peter McM wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 10:18 am Anybody know the latest on Lost In Translation 4K? It was announced as being in the works for late 2023, but no solid details since then.
I believe they said there was a 4K in the works for Brick too but haven’t heard anything since

Ditto Brokeback Mountain.

Posted: **Sun Nov 19, 2023 12:45 am**

I've been itching for the their 4K Brick, but I wonder if Rian Johnson is holding it up - that is, If KL is trying to do things differently this time and involve him

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2023 12:13 am**

Frank Tarzi revealed in an interview that Shane will be released on 4K next year.

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2023 5:59 pm**

Perfect

Coming January 30th!
https://kinolorber.com/product/he-walke ... al-edition
HE WALKED BY NIGHT (1948)
• Brand New HD Master – From a 16bit 4K Scan of the 35mm Fine Grain
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Imogen Sara Smith
• Audio Commentary by Author/Film Historian Alan K. Rode and Writer/Film Historian Julie Kirgo

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2023 7:42 pm**

Shane was another one I was hoping Criterion would acquire, along with Hud. Disappointed. Once again. Which, leaves Sunset Boulevard (I think) as the only top shelf ‘50s title missing a UHD release. A 4K could come now from either Paramount, Kino or Criterion. Probably Paramount.

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2023 8:46 pm**

It looks like the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956) will be released on UHD per a header photo update on Facebook. Intriguing because the film doesn't look too good on Blu-ray - it had a very soft-looking transfer because Olive used what was essentially a dupe. Maybe the OCN was long-gone, but IIRC when the film was first distributed and exhibited, they cropped and blew up the original image capture in order to produce 2.00:1 Superscope prints, and that's what you get on Olive's Blu-ray. So my hope is, the OCN was located and a new 4K transfer was done from that, and at minimum they re-created the 2.00:1 crop digitally from the new transfer in order to avoid generational loss, and hopefully they also include the full-frame transfer just in case people want that.

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:08 pm**

I saw this HD master through the just-released French BD, and not only the elements most likely are what they are (and I'm not sure that making a UHD from it is technically sound, so maybe something better has since been located), but it also seemed to me like it was digitally tinkered with. Grain in particular looked like always having the same size and sharpness despite going through what seemed like elements from different generations, which make 0 technical sense and would suggest the grain has been manipated, and some shots also looked sharpened to me.

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