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

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?

AT LAST IT CAN BE REVEALED! (part two)

Next up is our first ever box set! BOLLYWOOD HORROR!

Goes on sale this upcoming Monday, October 31st at 9 AM Pacific (google what time that is where you live), only at https://t.co/cWNjUggIqB! pic.twitter.com/jQPME5t38t

— Mondo Macabro USA (@MondoMacabroUSA) October 28, 2022

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.

Long live vulgar auteurism!

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— Dawn of The Discs (@dawnofthediscs) February 24, 2023

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

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— Severin Films (@SeverinFilms) February 23, 2023

Jim McBride’s BREATHLESS (1983) is FCE #17! Thank you Jim, @kunz, @MarBarFu, @piercingscreen, @Glenn__Kenny, Dylan Haley, Johnny and Lannie for your help making this happen! You can preorder now at @VinegarSyndrome @ocndistro. #FunCityEditions #Breathless #JimMcBride #RichardGere pic.twitter.com/jumraEm5Q8

— FunCityEditions (@FunCityEdition) March 1, 2023

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.

Oh Yeah!

Coming Soon on Blu-ray!
Brand New HD Master – 4K Scan of the 35mm OCN!

Paint Your Wagon (1969) Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood & Jean Seberg – Shot by William A. Fraker (Bullitt) – Screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky (Marty) & Alan Jay Lerner (Gigi) – Directed by Joshua Logan (Picnic). pic.twitter.com/pXOdnXVGHp

— KLStudioClassics (@KLStudioClassic) March 4, 2023

(Not Really)

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.

“The BUG release is canceled. No 4K or BD. We may or may not do another SC deal, nothing to report yet.”#FilmTwitter #4KUltraHD #4K #WilliamFriedkin #Bluray… https://t.co/6gW89VV2oa pic.twitter.com/X1NAhweLiU

— 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.

Turns out Arrow managed to turn it around and the edition of Blackhat does contain the director's cut!

The Indicator El Santo release is great stuff. Not so much the films themselves, which I don't think are rated even within the context of Santo films, though they do have a weird sleepy psychotronic power to them - "Vs The Infernal Men" in particular is like someone's dream after attending a noir marathon, just scene after scene of nightclub music and punch ups and ppl saying non committal dialogue on the phone to who knows who, the omnipresent ocean sounds adding to the hypnotic effect. But the story of the making of the films is fascinating - shooting in Cuba basically as Castro was taking Havana - and the set also includes Perdida, a 90 min doc on the Mexican film family a member of whom directed these, which goes into the arrival of sound film in Mexico, early pornography (via living tableaux, just like in the UK cabaret circuit!), a daughter's affair with Ricardo Montalban, etc etc etc

Also of interest is this very niche label - Canadian experimental cinema! https://expcinema.org/site/en/blu-ray

Network, the company who specialise in UK TV discs, have just gone into receivership apparently. Think they were also the current holders of the Hammer Studios name.

awww, my brother is going to be gutted as he loved the 60s/70s TV show stuff they put out

aww man, they do a lot of good 70s sitcoms

Seen this going round but all seems to track back to a single source and their website being down. Seems to be a fair amount of scepticism but doesn't of course mean it isn't true.

Indicator would surely be favourites to pick Hammer licensing back up from them.

I've been watching their Whodunnit box again recently but been itching to put on Thriller so think I might next.

Darn

pic.twitter.com/DbsAO06deT

— gingerbrarian (@mindtheoctopus) June 22, 2023

As someone who doesn't use 5:1 it...sounds like this is not an issue? (Why yes my copy arrived the other day.)

Great, now I'll have two region locked copies I cant watch.....

I'm waiting for the sub I want to show up used on eBay and I'll soon have my very own 5.1 surround sound setup... obviously I'm going to watch Jethro Tull's Slipstream with 5.1 mix by Steven Wilson before Showgirls though

Olive Films has announced that l they've gone out of business: https://olivefilms.com/

Always sad to hear something like that

Indeed

Big Vinegar Syndrome, Arrow, and Barnes and Noble Criterion sales going on right now btw

That Arrow sale continues into the iTunes Store too in case you want a bunch of Female Convict Scorpion movies at 3.99 each

I've been waiting for arrow sale but i was in fopp the other day and they had a couple of things i wanted at sale prices so i just bought them there

Mad Fox (tomu uchida)
Blind Woman's Curse (meiko kaji's first film)
(and Here Come The Warm Jets on cd)

Mad Fox has got to be the quickest I flipped a cover around, from that crappy yellow one to the OG japanese artwork
placed my first ever order via VS to get the early Deaf Crocodile stuff that was on sale, only label they do that I'm really into tbh

(Blind Woman's Curse isn't in the website sale, maybe because it's dual dvd/br, so i lucked out there)