Non-Criterion Boutique Home Video Discussion (Kino, Warner Archive, Arrow, Indicator, Vinegar Syndrome, Code Red, etc.)

The documentary about W.A.V.E. Productions is surprisingly good.

https://bloody-disgusting.com/home-video/3679877/exclusive-severins-folk-horror-box-set-fully-detailed-20-films-including-long-print-eyes-fire/

Excellent value and I've only got about 4 or 5 of them already.

Oh my god, that looks so good. I think I only have like two of those currently. Lake of the Dead/De dødes tjern! The British stuff like Penda's Fen and Robin Redbreast that I've only read about for years!

I really can't afford this atm buuuuut I also really can't afford to let this slip by me and inevitably go OOP in no time flat. UGH.

Oh well, Severin's website immediately and predictably went straight into the cybertoilet as soon as >5 people tried to access it at once, so the choice may be out of my hands any which way.

Haha predictably the British stuff is what I have and it's the Australian stuff I'm looking longingly at.

4000 copies so should last into the period when the website starts working again.

I did it. I'm not sorry. Although I might be sorry at some point.

The only trick they missed is having the release date after Halloween. What the hell, guys.

That's a pretty amazing looking box. I'd love to see a bunch of those movies, but I know I'd never get around to actually watching all of them and I have no place to put the damn thing. Oh, well.

not that I can afford it but it looks reasonably priced after the Eva box

Seen a handful of these and it actually exceeded my expectations but I'm going to pass on this, just too expensive. Hope people will review the best ones and maybe singletons will come out.

It's only region A though isn't it? I couldn't have bought it then, I only can do multiregion dvds.

I heard that dvd sales surged last year but maybe just in supermarkets?

If disc sales are vanishing surely it's time to get rid of regions? Importing films has always been for cineastes and cultists so it's hard for me to believe they could have had serious consequences for film sales but now? Just get rid of them already.

Region-locking for DVDs is for framerates, encodes, and licensing.

The same for Blu & above is strictly down to licensing.

that's an amazingly-curated box set, I had to get one (even though I own all the UK stuff already)

Fun City Editions strikes again with Frank Perry's Rancho Deluxe!

https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/fun-city-editions/products/rancho-deluxe-fun-city-editions

Jeff Bridges, Harry Dean Stanton, Jimmy Buffett, and PONG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_p4NsgH05E

hey aldo, here from the criterion forum again:\

The crew behind Indicator appeared on the Indicator Cast, and shared some snippets:

(recommend listening to the interview, as it's really interesting!)

-Confirmed titles: Bartleby (1970), The Swimmer (got in exchange for giving Ishtar back to Sony),

-Ishtar had gotten to a point where the studio was asking for significant cuts to every single feature on the disc and to leave off things already licensed for it altogether, and they just decided to cancel the release instead of dropping it all, the studio did not want anything that discussed the film's past reputation at all, too many sensitivities, they could have done a vanilla edition and decided it wasn't in the spirit of the label

-There will be more foreign language titles that for the most part are being restored by Indicator themselves coming in the second half of next year

-There will be UHD releases beginning next year, including some of the aforementioned foreign titles

-The Harryhausen set was basically offset from coinciding with the Anniversary by COVID, it's still not totally locked as a thing that will definitely happen but they remain in positive discussions with the relevant studios

-They tease a very big, exciting announcement coming in the next few weeks that will be made for the company's 5th anniversary ("our biggest announcement in five years")

Nice to see the Harryhausen set might still be a thing. Someone was selling both boxes and the Sinbad set for an almost reasonable price the other week so the bubble might be deflating to be honest.

Excited about what the announcement might be but dreading it ending up being a Curly Joe era Stooges set.

We watched the Al Adamson documentary on Sunday night.

mrs aldo: Why does this have more plot than any of his films?

I believe that's by David Cairns? One of my fave current critics, love his blog Shadowplay.

David Gregory, probably best known otherwise for the Richard Stanley/Moreau doc.

Fun City Editions to release Radio On later this year.

https://www.funcityeditions.com/releases/radioon

Love it but not 100% sure I need a new edition.

The Severin nunsploitation box looks good.

Turkish Star Wars available on blu, until the end of this month, from https://twitter.com/BigBosphorus/

no doubt with all the ripped music gone...

Ehh, I dunno, given the extremely limited window of availability, this may be kinda like Severin's recent 'come at me lawyer bro' release of Cruel Jaws, which was very quickly pulled just as many suspected it would be.

no doubt with all the ripped music gone...

Nope! Thus only for this month, as OL says.

Has anybody seen it yet?

I dived in. It was only $6 to ship to the UK, which had it been more would have been the point I changed my mind. Screenshots actually look pretty clean.

They're using kunaki, a pretty well established dvd/blu/vinyl on demand service so it's probably sketchy as fuck with no rights obtained and they're hoping to fly under the radar.

Yeah, I leapt as well. Been wanting a physical copy forever and it was always gonna be grey market so whatever.

Warner Archive's November slate includes Some Came Running, The Last of Sheila, Nick Ray's Party Girl, and Lang's Fury.

Plus pre-code Stanwyck and a Thin Man (late-period, but still). It's a good slate. Fears of their imminent demise seem to have been unfounded.

I think they're gradually releasing each Thin Man.

Turkish Star Wars has shipped, so it's passed the point of cancellation over rights.

Ridiculously huge Kino sale in progress: https://www.kinolorber.com/list/view/code/roctober-sale-2021

There's always too much to look through. Maybe I'll put some recommendations in later tonight.

their Marienbad has a better transfer than the Criterion version.

My random recommendation from that sale would be Mädchen in Uniform, a German LGBTQ coming of age film from 1931. One of the absolute best films I've seen this year. In several years, even.

yeah thats a stunner

think i'm gonna go for the Lionel Rogosin set for $9.99. ive seen Morbius fave On the Bowery but none of the other stuff

I know I've recommended it before but And Soon The Darkness is excellent. I watched it again last night and the end still wrong-footed me.

I've got the Masters of Cinema/Eureka version of that Holy Mountain disc and it's great.

The Apple is far, far better than the Cannon haters make out it is. Well worth it for cheap.

The Apple is amazing and yes, get it if you haven't yet.

Yeah, love The Apple. So bonkers.
Babylon is really good.
Black Sabbath a classicm though I'm confused by the two different versions here.
Just noticed they put out Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker / "Night Warning" which was also silly and nuts.

Any thoughts on:

Death Rides a Horse
Slayground
Straight to Hell
Spetters
Thousand Pieces of Gold
Any Jess Franco they have, which is a lot

The two versions of Black Sabbath are the original Italian language print and the Americanized AIP cut. They also split Black Sunday into two different releases for some reason, but all of the other Bavas with more than one cut are packaged on single discs.

The Italian and American versions of Black Sabbath place the three stories in different order as well.

Death Rides a Horse (1967) is a very good spaghetti western that was a big hit in Italy (stars Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law)

Nightmares Come at Night (1970)
A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1971)
Female Vampire (1974)

are all classic Jess Franco, the first starring Soledad Miranda, the last starring Lina Romay - Franco's two main muses

Didn't like Death Rides A Horse, mainly because John Philip Law is a vacuum of charisma. Much prefer Day Of Anger for my Van Cleef spaghetti fix.

If Straight To Hell is the Alex Cox movie, well, it's him and a buncha 80's rock stars playing spaghettin western, super disposable but if you're a fan of the ppl involved it's good fun.

much thanks for the input folx

Who is gonna step up and release SMALL AXE on a decent format? Or ATLANTA? I’m not buying a fucking DVD in 2021.

DVDs are apparently still the highest-selling physical media format in 2021. With VHS presumably coming in a close second.

Cheapest format in still being the most popular SHOCKAH!

Of course part of the continuing popularity of DVDs is mass sales to libraries, and also bargain bin catalogue titles and multi-film combo packs at big box stores.

Hey, I still buy lots of DVDs (because cheap)! It's more weird to me because physical media in general is on the wane and is being largely phased out in a lot of retail outlets so it seems like less and less of an impulse purchase for general consumers and increasingly the realm of collectors. And a lot of collectors bitch if something doesn't get a 4k release these days.

I must have every grain of film from poverty-row exploitation classics shown down to the tiniest pixel known to earth or else.