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

I feel like this kind of description is sort of like trying to flip an old house after giving it nothing more than a new paint job and wood slat fencing around the perimeter of the property.

well-spotted. a couple of things on my wish list there, will probably spring for the ju-on box.

the stray cat rock and female prisoner scorpion boxes are good value at £25 each

― koogs, Friday, 24 May 2024 18:29 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Aye, I did grab those.

HMV also have a sale on for Radiance blu-rays 2 for £22
https://hmv.com/store/film-tv/radiance-blu-ray-2-for-%C2%A322

Well I was excited that BFI had a sale on their recent blu ray set “Three Films by Yasujiro Ozu” - they’re not exactly top-tier titles but I assume it’ll go out of print rapidly like all such niche sets. Even the 80s Obayashi set from last year has doubled in price used.

Problem for me is VS raised the MSRP on everything, so even at 50% off... hard to throw $25-35 on a blind buy

i have two of those ozu titles on other bfi releases but have been wanting Tenement Gentleman for a while

(but that's not much cheaper than fopp was already selling it for)

fwiw I think an Ozu set from the BFI is going to have a larger printing than an Obayashi from Third Window

I have about a 50% hit rate through VS, science fiction and Spanish language are almost certainly worth it but the other ones I pick up are hit and miss. I'm not interested in 80s action movies though so over the past couple of years there's definitely been a lot to avoid.

glad I'm not into the stuff VS puts out cos that shit be expensive. appreciate their conservation efforts tho

Vinegar Sugar is nuts, Love to pay more for a DVD than the original budget of the movie.

Syndrome, not Sugar.

Invasion USA is a shitty pick. I kept hoping it would be something like the final J. Lee Thompson/Charles Bronson collab, the absolutely fucking insane Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1999)

Deaf Crocodile and Canadian International are killing it. The only 2 partner labels worth blind buying anything from. Dennis Bartok of Deaf Crocodile was the lead programmer of the American Cinematheque for years, and their schedules declined significantly after his departure

Phase IV is a rare disc I’ve bought twice, as the older Blu has Bass’ short films.

I was actually present when the Cinefamily in L.A. showed the original ending of Phase IV for the first time ever. The film doesn’t work without it-you literally SEE the titular fourth phase in it!

Yeah I’ve bought everything on Deaf Crocodile and supported their Kickstarters. Insanely good work.

yeh I've got a few DC releases and want more, no longer a partner label tho so going to be slightly harder & more expensive for people outside the US to get hold of them

Speaking of Vinegar Syndrome Partner Labels, Fun City Editions responded to a fan query on FB that if one was interested in any of their titles that VS distributed, now is the best time to grab 'em because those titles will be OOP once they're sold out: https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/going-out-of-print-pl

FCE is also doing a sale on most of their newer titles not distributed by VS: https://www.funcityeditions.com/shop

Film Movement has a big sale through Friday: https://www.filmmovement.com/search/view-by/title

^Warm Water Under a Wet Bridge is a must-buy. One of the greatest career cappers ever

People's Joker getting a physical release was not on my bingo card

Physical media just got way more TWISTED!! That's right, you clowns! Soon you can bring Joker the Harlequin into your home via (purple!!!!!) VHS and Blu-ray/DVD (with tons of special feats and a zine that tells the whole story of how we made it)!!

Preorder links below!!! pic.twitter.com/uCRXXnaDmD

— Vera🃏 (@VeraDrew22) June 4, 2024

Kino Lorber Summer Sale: https://kinolorber.com/collection/spring-into-summer-sale-2024?list_type=list&sort_type=a-z

Also if you are crazed like me, Deaf Crocodile has a full year subscription option now that they're going through Diabolik where you can order fancy new editions of forthcoming releases up to a year in an advance. (And yes I went for that.)

https://diabolikdvd.com/product-tag/subscription/

Still running as an option for the next couple of days, I gather.

have had my eye on Kino's Fantomas and Les Vampires sets for quite a while, so I am happy that Eureka announced a 10 disc Louis Feuillade set including both those serials + Judex and Tih Minh for the UK
https://eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/louis-feuillade-the-complete-crime-serials-1913-1918limited-edition-set/

LOL just saw that as I perused around Diabolik (thanks to Ned's link) and, damn, that's a total must-have if the transfers are up to snuff

It's pretty much a must buy for me, even if it'll be my third version of Les Vampires (and the second of Fantomas and Judex).

Also, that time of year again.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/the-criterion-collection/_/N-1p0i

Oh god, it came a week too early this year! My payday isn't until next week :(

It's OK, if you're in this thread, you already spend too much money on this habit

Indeed, I'm just going to get the Sembene box regardless, and probably at least 2 or 3 other titles

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

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/the-criterion-collection/_/N-1p0i

er...

lots there that i want to see but which never made it to Criterion UK releases.

confusingly the remake of 'Fires on the Plain' has a near identical cover.

ah, mb. sorry

Finding it harder to justify some boxed sets now when I only want to see one or two films in the set. Right now I can't make my mind up about the Jean-Pierre Mocky and Erotic Ghost Story sets. It's a lot of money and I prefer to spend silly money on books I might never read

This new one from Vinegar Syndrome sure looks like something:

https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/frontpage/products/intrepidos-punks-vengeance-of-the-punks

The trailer, as you might guess, is rather NSFW (less nudity, more everything else):

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

I got the Mocky set from Radiance in the mail with a couple of other films

Anyone going for Gaira's Guts Trilogy, in synopsis it doesn't sound like my kind of thing but a lot of people say they're special. I probably wont get it.

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/fellwulf/moviestv-mood-board/
This person has made some lovely collages, and in some cases making the films look a lot better than they really are. I'm still ganting for the later Masahiro Shinoda films, c'mon boutique labels!

Interesting list of titles that Radiance couldn't get the rights for:

https://letterboxd.com/radiancefilms/list/failed-licenses-2023/detail/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2_pbVkpPRTU1VSkm4oV24YXZqljtCbspVAaN6ju8bzWQ5Ycs6hlXvPJWI_aem_F94v1KDTxUpqCiutz465lQ

Demons is essential. It's a shame they couldn't get a license as I'd love to own it.

Broken Highway is one Ive wanted to see for a while now

always wanted to see Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (because the first Woob track I ever heard samples it)

Lightning by Naruse is such a good film too. I wish someone could do a big boxset of his films.

I'd really like to see The Mattei Affair from that list.

I always assumed that the Teddy Pendergrass songs in Choose Me were prohibiting its release. The MGM DVD has been OOP for years. I saw a beautiful 35mm print last year

good set of announcements from Radiance today (Daiei Gothic box, Haxan, Dogra Magra)
the email also said they are doing a Nagisa Oshima box next year

Very happy to see Snow Woman, it's great (apart from the salt of the earth dad). Bride Of Hades is less great but I'm fond of Ko Nishimura. I've seen 4 or 5 versions of Yotsuya but never this one (it's from the same year as the most famous version). More!

Anyone going for Gaira's Guts Trilogy, in synopsis it doesn't sound like my kind of thing but a lot of people say they're special. I probably wont get it.

I took the plunge on this one but mostly bc I dream of a giant hisayasu sato box and see supporting this as an incremental step towards that goal [I'm doing my part gif]

I wish someone could do a big boxset of his films.

I heard somewhere Arrow Academy's release was the lowest seller they ever had...

There was this DVD box set from Masters of Cinema, long out of print:

https://www.leninimports.com/pages/naruse_box_set_volume_one_masters_of_cinema_series_uk_dvd.html

yeah that's really expensive to get second hand. I do have a 3 film bfi set though and floating clouds new blu-ray arrived last week

Film4 showed all 3 of the films from the old BFI box set so i have those on pvr at least. but would like to be able to buy more, he seems under-released compared to the others of the same ilk

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mikio-Naruse-Collection-Hideko-Takamine/dp/B000WM9WL4/ref=sr_1_7

'When a Woman Ascends the Stairs' (1960)
'Floating Clouds' (1955)
'Late Chrysanthemums' (1958)

not a lot of Mizoguchi available either, there have been a few boxes before but they are long out of print and getting very pricey
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Late-Mizoguchi-BLU-RAY-Masters-Cinema/dp/B00EZT3KYA/

that was actually the second release of those eight, my slipcase is different (and £36 at the time). plus they were all available as pairs before the box was released (i have a copy of sansho dayo that i bought before). this and the bfi kurosawa dvds are basically what kickstarted my japanese dvd collection.

there was an 'early' mizoguchi box of 4 films as well (£17 at the time)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004SXSRS2/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s01