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

the Shawscope box is £70 inc postage with the code GSGSAVE at Zavvi if that's any help

Thanks Zappi - even more tempting. Although I've read mixed reports about ordering online from Zavvi (hope they're no relation :-))

there's a bunch of DVDs from Second Run on there. Ive several films on that label, would anyone care to recommend me some films on that sale from them?

Please, obviously

Im tempted by the MIKLÓS JANCSÓ films.

i have the miklos jancso box on dvd... £14 from amazon in 2011

My Way Home (1964)
The Red & The White (1967)
The Round-Up (1969)

i'm not sure i can remember them in any detail but i have been meaning to pick up more jancso / second run

yeah those ones are in my basket

It's possible Barnes and Noble will include Arrow in their 50% off Criterion next month, I'll probably wait for that since I dropped money on Shout and probably will drop a little more on Kino this weekend.

I just rooked myself on that Arrow sale.

My top ten Second Runs, maybe:

Red Psalm (Jancso)
Palms (Aristakisyan)
Marketa Lazarova (Vlacil)
Story of my Death (Serra)
Horse Money (Costa)
The Cremator (Herz)
Intimate Lighting (Passer)
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Hara)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai)
Blissfully Yours (Weerasethakul)

But there are very few duds in their catalogue

Marketa Lazarova is brilliant. I have the Criterion of that as I can watch it on my dads region free player.
The Cremator is great too.

Rd Psalm is one of the ones I watched. I'll stick the others on my watchlist for future reference, thanks.

Patiently waiting for them to upgrade Blissfully Yours and Tropical Malady to BR.

I have the latter film on dvd. Its very good.

They’re both brilliant, but the former looks like a VHS dub that’s been oversharpened to try to make it “DVD”. Part of me worries that there’s no original print available. I had thought we might see a Joe box after MEMORIA.

I know this thread is non-Criterion but this "$35 for a plain tshirt with a genre name on it" thing has been amusing me today
https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/398

Would rather have this one for half the price

https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/The-Shining-Title-Cards-by-leea1968/60329544.FB110

I could imagine walking around a gay bar wearing a shirt that just says "MELODRAMA" on it could be good for a laugh once.

let go of 20% of their staff as well, great day for the Criterion lads

$35!?? Who do they think they are, A24?

Bollywood Horror boxset sounds awesome, anyone seen any of these films?

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I think they released a smaller set on dvd ages ago? I'm slightly wary because they're really long films. Seems like they were hits but nobody tried to jump on the bandwagon?

Indicator goes UHD with a pair of Jean Rollin fang flix:

https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/frontpage/products/the-shiver-of-the-vampires-4k-uhd-le
https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/frontpage/products/two-orphan-vampires-4k-uhd-le

Shiver is one of my favorites

I love that Rollin lets his characters shut the fuck up for most of the duration

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https://metrograph.com/apichatpongweerasethakul/

GMC: I want to know more about what you’re working on, but first I must congratulate you: Tropical Malady was just voted one of the 100 best films of all time. I imagine you saw the Sight and Sound poll. Does that kind of recognition mean anything to you? And are you surprised Tropical Malady was singled out, rather than one of your other films?

AW: Well, sometimes I am asked to make a list, and often I change that list. So, it doesn’t mean much… And for me, it doesn’t mean one work; Tropical Malady belongs to the other pieces of my memory because they are all connected. Whatever film is in there, it’s the same, they’re connected. What is meaningful is that the film still resonates after all this time. It’s like a very, very old memory, so I’m surprised.

GMC: You’re in the process of restoring Tropical Malady, right?

AW: Yes, hopefully we’ll be able to release it by August next year.

prob my fave of his

Very much my favorite, though it's in "first among equals" territory

Minus Mysterious Object at Noon which I still find impenetrable

The Ballad Of Tam Lin is not a very good film, but the BFI Flipside release is v impressive - interviews with pretty much everyone in the cast still alive (and dead, via a video of McDowall talking about Ava Gardner). 30 minutes just with Jacqui McShee because Pentangle did the soundtrack! Also as usual with the BFI, they throw in some vaguely thematically linked short films - one of which, O'er Hill and Dale, directed by Basil Wright of Night Mail fame, is really quite lovely, while another, Red Red? Red, is an impressively awful early 70's hippie experimental film. I haven't checked out the commentary track but that's appreciated too.

Agreed, it's an acceptable enough film but fairly baffling I guess to anyone not familiar with the source work. The release is pretty great though and more in depth than might have been expected.

interviews with pretty much everyone in the cast still alive

Just watched Experiment In Terror and Stephanie Powers makes that exact point over why she's being interviewed.

Two amazing box sets coming from Indicator:

https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/frontpage/products/from-hollywood-to-heaven-the-lost-and-saved-films-of-the-ormond-family-le
https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/frontpage/products/mexico-macabre-four-sinister-tales-from-the-alameda-films-vault-1959-1963-le

And Zulawski box from Masters of Cinema:

https://eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/andrzej-zulawski-three-films-limited-edition-box-set/

I hope there's further Zulawski boxed sets because I've seen all those.

Really looking forward to the Creeping Horror set, not seen any of those, barely even heard about most of them and not expecting classics but they look really nice.

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love this Severin boxart, very reminiscent of 70s girls comic Misty

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Glad the Mexican Gothic set is all-region, I've wanted to see Poison For The Faries for a long time, that shot of the swing in the trailer is wonderful.

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Kino set to release a 4K of The Night of the Hunter:

https://www.kinolorber.com/product/the-night-of-the-hunter-4kuhd

***UPDATE***

The previously announced 4K UHD/BD of William Friedkin’s Bug (2006) has been cancelled at Kino Lorber.

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— Dawn of The Discs (@dawnofthediscs) March 20, 2023

I'm still waiting on that Valmont release.

I guess StudioCanal are about as bad as any collaborator out there? Even Disney allowed WALL-E to show up on Criterion.

Kino Lorber also had to cancel a 4K of To Live And Die In LA. Supposedly that and this thing with Bug were at least partially down to issues with Friedkin not making himself available to sign off on stuff because he's working on a new project.

fwiw, my understanding (from spending too much time on the Blu-ray.com forums) was that they haven't officially canceled the TLADILA 4K yet, they just removed it from the upcoming schedule after giving it a street date due to Fredkin continuing to dither on approving the new master. They canceled Bug because it sounds like they didn't want to deal with him on another title since he keeps putting off working on the TLADILA disc. There's a very good chance it does still wind up canceled eventually though since it's supposedly been like a year of waiting for him on it at this point.

arrow Easter sale. part of me just wants to blow 50 quid on random East European videos. another part has his eyes on the first Shaw box for 75 quid.

Kino sale also happening right now
https://kinolorber.com/collection/spring-sale-2023/

i got 500 points from my last arrow order. i converted it to £5 off the new order...

only there was nowhere i could see to apply it (maybe because i used paypal?).

and whilst the points just accumulate the credit expires after 14 days. customer services has bumped that to 30 days but that still means another order, on top of the £50 one i've just submitted, or i'll lose it.

(current order:
a fugitive from the past (which i think will be the 22nd or 23rd from the kinema junpo top 25 japanese films list (1995 version) that i have seen)

gamera, showa era box

vampire caudacuc (sp) and
valerie and her week of wonders (cz) because those second run dvds always look interesting)

update: the gamera films are getting better as they go, but still aren't godzilla level yet. lots of extras. overall package might be better than the actual films though.

Valerie is lovely and stunning. every single shot has something.