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criterionsnob wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 5:24 pm The Other French New Wave Vol. 1 (Featuring three features: Le chat dans le sac, The Merry World of Leopold Z, and YUL 871, plus shorts by Arthur Lipsett and Norman McLaren)

agnamaracs wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 5:42 pm [quote=criterionsnob post_id=753510 time=<a href="tel:1646155472">1646155472</a> user_id=143]
The Other French New Wave Vol. 1 (Featuring three features: Le chat dans le sac, The Merry World of Leopold Z, and YUL 871, plus shorts by Arthur Lipsett and Norman McLaren)

dwk wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 9:26 pm VS'' March releases:
Schizoid / X-Ray [4K UHD/Blu-ray Set]

domino harvey wrote: Sun Jul 12, 2015 3:46 pmSchizoid (David Paulsen 1980) Typically tasteless slasher exploiting psychoanalysis fears (a common trope in these films), with a mysterious assailant stalking and eradicating members of Klaus Kinski's group therapy clan. In an unusual casting coup, Christopher Lloyd even pops up as one of the creepy group members, who close-talks our heroine into panic more than once. This is a well-made and strongly edited slasher, clever in its fashion, and while it contains all the usual problems of the genre, this is surprisingly on the high end of things. The film makes a conscious effort to throw enough red herrings at the audience to keep it interesting, and that it was. Also, Frank Fontana shows up as a homicide detective who memorably opines, "We get at least forty Jane Does a week in here. Last week there were 32 and we thought the world had gone good."

domino harvey wrote: Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:45 am X Ray AKA Hospital Massacre (Boaz Davidson 1982) By my count this is the 80th slasher I've seen from this decade (and that bodycount will only go up as I work my way through the unwatched stacks) and even by the pretty low standards of this genre, this is a total failure. It's not even the third best hospital-set slasher, and that's about as specific as these kind of distinctions can get! What a shame that Shout Factory rescued this from the VHS shelves over countless other superior examples. The film itself is so mediocre and safe that it seems pre-edited for USA Up All Night, with mild, mostly unseen killings and one piece of gratuitous nudity courtesy of the Playboy Playmate occupying the lead that could be easily excised for TV airing. The whole film, in fact, could be easily excised. Two closing thoughts: 01, This film takes place in possibly the only hospital in existence to have never heard of fluorescent lights, or indoor lighting in general. 02, For some reason every time the murderer executes one of his PG killings, the soundtrack turns itself over to some singers chanting "He sees you, he sees you" so hurriedly that it starts to sound like "Little Caesars, Little Caesars." And that was the only interesting thing that happened in 89 minutes!

What A Disgrace wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 4:00 am For future volumes of Other French New Wave, assuming it sticks to the 60s, I'd love to see À tout prendre and Entre la mer et l'eau douce. Pour la Suite du Monde also seems like a no brainer.

We've already spilled a lot of ink on our exclusively licensed edition of THRILLER, but it bears repeating: we are currently working on a new and exclusive restoration of the film from its never before accessed uncensensored original camera negative, which will present the film looking bigger and better than it ever has before.

Extras are also stacking up, including revealing interviews with star Christina Lindberg, along with numerous other cast and crew who have never publicly discussed their work on the film. On top of that, we have plentiful trailers, stills, outtakes, and artwork galleries, and even a very special extra featuring the film's enigmatic director, Bo Arne Vibenius!

And yes, we are aware of the inferior BD, utilizing a nearly 20 year old master that is being sold and are working to resolve that situation. But if you, as a connoisseur of exploitation cinema, wish to see THRILLER looking the best it ever has, and in the most comprehensive edition that ever will be, and believe that filmmakers ought to be respected (and paid for their work) we highly encourage you to wait a few more weeks to place an order for the VS edition. It'll be worth it.

dwk wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 11:53 pm As I've said elsewhere, the Thriller issue was going to end up with lawyers. (of course Vibenius was paid, he just had sellers remorse and then refused to cash Synapse's checks.)

I still have absolutely no idea what Synapse had to gain by releasing the film if they no longer had the rights, which is why I'm betting they still have the US rights to the film.

brundlefly wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 11:22 pm For fans of Johannes Nyholm's Koko-di Koko-da, VS partner Dark Star is releasing a Region A blu in a couple weeks that bests the UK release with special features:

• Commentary with director Johannes Nyholm and lead actor Leif Edlund
• Behind the Scenes
• Deleted Scenes
• Short Films: Puppetboy (2008) and Las Palmas (2011)
• Reversible sleeve artwork
• English SDH subtitles

swo17 wrote: Wed Mar 09, 2022 2:43 pm

brundlefly wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 11:22 pm For fans of Johannes Nyholm's Koko-di Koko-da, VS partner Dark Star is releasing a Region A blu in a couple weeks that bests the UK release with special features:

• Commentary with director Johannes Nyholm and lead actor Leif Edlund
• Behind the Scenes
• Deleted Scenes
• Short Films: Puppetboy (2008) and Las Palmas (2011)
• Reversible sleeve artwork
• English SDH subtitles

The Las Palmas short is great, but the back cover also promises a short called Dreams from the Woods, which I can't find on the disc unless it's an Easter egg or something. What happened here?

• Thriller (UHD/BR)
• The third VSU title: "an early/mid 80s action-adventure classic from a writer and director, each of whom have some major genre film pedigree"
• "an early 70s horror double feature celebrating regional treasures"
• "the world UHD debut of one of the most beloved action films to emerge from the late 80s" (in original and release versions)
• Surprise title #1: "a sure to please 80s monster pic"
• Surprise title #2: "the latest in our dig into the weird world of WTF cinema"

We always try to save the weirdest, wildest, rarest, and/or most head spinning flicks for the Secret Titles, so as always we've prepared a doozy. First up, making its worldwide Blu-ray debut from a stunning new 4K restoration of its original negative is a grim, grimy, and gruesome indie monster movie featuring a very peeved creature stalking sunny SoCal. This one took a ton of wrangling to get right and we couldn't be happier to give it new life.

Plus, if you're starved for a helping of only-in-the-80s insanity, you'll no doubt fall head over heels for this star studded oddity with a typically off the wall premise that's been causing jaws to drop for nearly 40 years.

dwk wrote: Fri Mar 25, 2022 4:32 am The other titles are:
Cloak & Dagger UHD

swo17 wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 3:25 am C&D never even had a Blu-ray release, did it? This and Miami Connection are completely left-field 4K announcements of which I heartily approve. Who would've thought their first 4K of a non-X or hard R-rated film would be a light PG kids' adventure film?