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Kino Lorber have confirmed that they will release on Blu-ray director director John Frankenheimer's film The Holcroft Covenant (1985), starring Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant, Lilli Palmer, Mario Adorf, and Michael Lonsdale. The release, which will be sourced from a new HD master, will be available for purchase in early 2016.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=17704
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Kino Lorber have confirmed that they will add to their Blu-ray catalog Sidney W. Pink's film Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962), starring John Agar, Ove Sprogøe, Carl Ottosen, Peter Monch, and Louis Miehe-Renard. Sourced from a new HD master, the release is expected to arrive on the market in early 2016.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=17721
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Dec 10, 2015 - 6:27 AM
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johnjohnson
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Kino Lorber have detailed four upcoming Blu-ray releases: The Vikings, After the Fox, Donovan's Brain, and The Black Sleep.
The Vikings
Synopsis: Hollywood legends Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine and Janet Leigh dazzle in this epic chronicle of brutal rivalry and blood-thirsty ambition. Roaring through the 9th century with powerful performances and 'brilliant visual drama" (Cue), The Vikings is a riveting "spectacle of have-at-'em action" (Los Angeles Examiner)!
Bitter hatred divides two brothers. Prince Einar (Douglas) is the son and heir of a savage Viking chieftain. Prince Eric (Curtis) is his unknowing half-brother, the bastard off-spring of Einar's father and an English queen. When the Vikings kidnap a princess (Leigh), her beauty inflames the desires of both men, forcing a bloody duel that decides their fate... and the future of the English throne.
Special Features:
"A Tale of Norway" - Featurette with Richard Fleischer
Trailer Gallery
STREET DATE: MARCH 8, 2016.
After the Fox
Synopsis: This wildly funny farce gives the comic genius of Peter Sellers free reign as he assumes several wacky personalities, each one funnier than the last! Superb direction by Vittorio De Sica (The Bicycle Thief) and a sparkling original script by Neil Simon (The Goodbye Girl) make After the Fox an absolute "must-see" (Leonard Maltin).
Millions of dollars worth of gold bullion is on its way from Cairo to an unknown Italian destination. There is only one criminal mastermind capable of stealing it: Aldo Vanucci (Peter Sellers), also known as "the Fox." Aldo devises the perfect plan to seize the gold: Posing as a flamboyant film director, he casts an aging, egotistical film star (Victor Mature) and his own voluptuous sister (Britt Ekland) in a fake film about a gold theft! But the action really heats up when the boat with the real gold arrives.
Special Features:
"Trailers From Hell" with Larry Karaszewski
Trailers for "After the Fox", "What's New Pussycat?" and "The Party"
STREET DATE: MARCH 22, 2016.
Donovan's Brain
Synopsis: Prepare to be scared senseless with this shocking horror-fest that's bursting with "startling special effects" (Los Angeles Daily News). Nancy Davis (Hell Cats of the Navy) stars with Lew Ayres ("Salem's Lot") in this "terrifying film experience" (Los Angeles Examiner) that'll blow your brain and fry your mind!
Dr. Patrick Corey (Ayres) has a hideous hobby - he keeps brains alive! So when the brain of dead murderer W.H. Donovan falls into his possession, bringing him back becomes his obsession. But the cunning cranium has its own agenda - to control the doctor's mind through telepathic messages! Now, Cory's wife (Davis) must put a stop to the devious brain before it destroys the man she loves - and her in the process!
Special Features:
Audio Commentary by Film Historian Richard Harland Smith
"Trailers From Hell" with Joe Dante
Trailer Gallery
STREET DATE: MARCH 22.
The Black Sleep
Synopsis: Basil Rathbone heads the cast as Sir Joel Cadman, who uses a mind-controlling drug known as "The Black Sleep" to place brilliant scientist Gordon Ramsay (Herbert Rudley) under his control. Cadman needs Ramsay's intellect and expertise to aid him in a series of mysterious, covert experiments involving brain transplants. Evidently Cadman has already endured a few failures, as witness the present feeble-minded state of his former "volunteer" Mungo (Lon Chaney Jr.). Ramsay and heroine Laurie Munro (Patricia Blake) finally learn what Cadman is up to when they stumble upon a dungeon full of his previous "experiments," including a demented, emaciated man (John Carradine) and a blank-eyed monstrosity (Tor Johnson). In his last mainstream film, Bela Lugosi essays the thankless role of Cadman's mute servant.
Special Features:
Audio Commentary by Film Historians Tom Weaver and David Schecter
"Trailers From Hell" with Joe Dante
Animated Image Gallery
Trailer Gallery
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=18096
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Who is the fox?
I am de fox!
Who are you?
I am me
who is me?
Me is a thief!
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Cue TGs favourite quote from Hopkins...
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Dec 11, 2015 - 1:15 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Kino Lorber will add to its Blu-ray catalog Etienne Perier's film When Eight Bells Toll (1971), starring Anthony Hopkins, Robert Morley, Nathalie Delon, Jack Hawkins, and Corin Redgrave. The release will be available for purchase on March 8, 2016.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=18107
FINALLY! I've waited my whole life to get this on American video, since the day that I saw it in the theater in 1971. And kudos to Kino Lorber for not using the awful British DVD artwork:
and instead going with this:
which of course is derived from the fabulous original British theatrical poster:
The American theatrical poster went with another, equally exciting, depiction:
WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL is, like most films released in the U.S. by Cinerama Releasing Corp, somewhat of an "orphan film" when it comes to home video release. CRC did not hold the copyright on its releases, and as a result, video rights are scatted to the four winds, with video labels having to track down and make individual deals with the various production companies involved in the films.
WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL was one of two screenplays that producers Jerry Gershwin and Elliott Kastner had purchased from author Alistair MacLean. The other script, also based on a MacLean novel, was WHERE EAGLES DARE, a World War II drama produced by MGM and released in 1968. Gershwin and Kastner had a unique partnership by which they found and developed properties entirely at their own expense. Kastner was based in London and Gershwin in Los Angeles. It's likely that Kino Lorber has struck a deal with the Gershwin-Kastner company Winkast Films and/or Glen Alden Corp., which had been authorized by Winkast to produce and enter into distribution agreements for WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL.
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Jan 11, 2016 - 7:26 PM
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johnjohnson
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Kino Lorber have detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of Sidney W. Pink's film Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962), starring John Agar, Ove Sprogøe, Carl Ottosen, Peter Monch, and Louis Miehe-Renard. The release will be available for purchase on April 5.
Synopsis: It's the year 2001 and most of the solar system has been explored by spacemen with the exception of the seventh planet from the sun, Uranus. The United Nations sends a five-man international team to check Uranus out. There, they are confronted by the "Being", whose mysterious brain cuts to the inner thoughts of the explorers and causes their thoughts to appear as mirages. Uranus is soon filled with a bevy of beautiful girls thought up by the spacemen. to go along with some quicksand, a one-eyed rodent and a really mean giant centipede...
Special Features:
New HD Master
Audio Commentary by Film Historian Tim Lucas
Trailer Gallery
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=18257
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Jan 12, 2016 - 12:16 AM
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Disco Stu
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Kino Lorber will add to its Blu-ray catalog Etienne Perier's film When Eight Bells Toll (1971), starring Anthony Hopkins, Robert Morley, Nathalie Delon, Jack Hawkins, and Corin Redgrave. The release will be available for purchase on March 8, 2016.
Funny, I was just thinking about that film and when it will be released on Blu-Ray.
Just as "Where eagles dare", I love this one for its visuals. The wonderful sets and land-/ seascapes are a feast for the eyes. The story I still don't get, as with all Alistair Mac Lean stories. Ships vanish but are the destroyed because they witnessed the sinking of one gold transporter or were there several? Who cares, it looks fantastic.
Now can we finally have the soundtrack?!!!! My "Captain Nemo and the underwater city" is feeling lonely.
D.S.
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Jan 13, 2016 - 6:32 AM
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johnjohnson
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Kino Lorber has detailed its upcoming Blu-ray releases of Victor Nunez's film Ulee's Gold (1997), starring Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Christine Dunford, Tom Wood, and Jessica Biel, and Ray Milland's film Panic In Year Zero (1962), starring Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon, Mary Mitchel, and Joan Freeman.
Panic In Year Zero
Synopsis: A nuclear attack leaves Los Angeles in chaos and ignites panic throughout the city. Trying to escape the disaster, a family heads for their usual vacation spot only to encounter a group of hoodlums along the way. Soundtrack by Les Baxter.
Special Features:
Brand New 2015 HD Master
"Atomic Shock" Legendary Filmmaker Joe Dante on "Panic in Year Zero"
Audio Commentary by Film Historian Richard Harland Smith
Trailer Gallery
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=18267
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Kino Lorber will release on Blu-ray director Joseph Sargent's film The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, and Tony Roberts. The release will be available for purchase on July 5.
Synopsis: A gang of thugs who have hijacked a subway train near New York's Pelham Station threaten to kill one hostage per minute. Forced to stall the assailants until a ransom is delivered or a rescue made, transit chief Lt. Garber must somehow ad-lib, con and outmaneuver one of the craftiest, cruelest villains ever.
Special Features:
Interview with Star Hector Elizondo
Interview with Composer David Shire
Interview with Editor Jerry Greenberg
Audio Commentary by Actor/Filmmaker Pat Healy and Film Historian Jim Healy
"Trailers From Hell" with Josh Olson
Animated Montage of Stills and Posters
Original Theatrical Trailer
Reverse Blu-ray Art
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=18610
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