I think it's hilarious that Kino points out Vosloo turned down an interview.

I'll likely pick it up if it gets cheap enough, but there are many Woo films I'd rather see get a 4k release than this one.

Coming Soon!
• Brand New 4K Restoration!
Violent City (1970) aka The Family - Starring Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jill Ireland, Umberto Orsini & Michel Constantin – Shot by Aldo Tonti (Nights of Cabiria) – Music by Ennio Morricone (A Fistful of Dollars) – Co-Written by Lina Wertmüller (Seven Beauties) – Directed by Sergio Sollima (The Big Gundown).

^ good movie?

Horrible, terrible movie.

Im definitely pre-ordering this one.

I liked it more than Cold Sweat and I think it might be on par with The Mechanic. I liked the ending of Violent City better. I think it's also better than Rider on the Rain.

Sometimes I think the studio libraries have been picked clean, especially of genre stuff, but then a deal like this comes along and renews hope for interesting titles. Not so sure about the Shout upgrades. I can imagine some supplements being held back for various reasons, and perhaps to maintain some value for those versions as collectibles. Besides, considering how nearly everything in the KLSC catalog ends up in one of their sales, and for a lot less than Shout ever discounted stuff (except when it was going OOP), this should present some great opportunities to get titles we might have missed out on. The continued addition of Code Red and Scorpion titles – many of which have usually been previously-released – makes me want to hold off on buying their stuff first run from now on. Seems inevitable that a lot of it will end up with Kino sooner or later, and then in the sales.

BOOM!

Damn. Kino is killing it lately!

And they have good sales to boot!

Coming October 19th on 4KUHD!

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) (30th Anniversary)

4KUHD DISC 1:
• HDR Dolby Vision
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Tim Lucas
• 5.1 Surround & 2.0 Lossless Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• UHD 100 Triple Layer Disc

BLU-RAY DISC 2:
• NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Tim Lucas
• Inside the Labyrinth: Documentary (66:28)
• Page to Screen: Documentary (41:17)
• Understanding the Madness: Featurette (19:35)
• Scoring the Silence: Featurette (16:00)
• Original 1991 Making-of Featurette (8:07)
• Jonathan Demme and Jodie Foster Interviews (52:30)
• Deleted Scenes (38:00)
• Outtakes (2:00)
• Anthony Hopkins Phone Message (:30)
• TV Spots
• Theatrical Teaser
• Hannibal Trailer
• Theatrical Trailer
• 5.1 Surround & 2.0 Lossless Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc

Color 118 Minutes 1.85:1 Rated R
Screen legends Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins deliver sensational, Oscar-winning performances in this spellbinding thriller based on the bestselling novel by Thomas Harris (Red Dragon, Hannibal). A psychopath nicknamed Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine, Heat) is murdering women across the Midwest. Believing it takes one to know one, the FBI sends trainee Clarice Starling (Foster, The Accused) to interview a demented prisoner who may provide clues to the killer’s actions. That prisoner is psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins, Nixon), a brilliant, diabolical cannibal who agrees to help Starling only if she’ll feed his morbid curiosity with details of her own complicated life. As their relationship develops, Starling is forced to confront not only her own hidden demons, but also an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage—or strength—to stop it! This terrifying masterpiece co-starred Scott Glenn (The Challenge) and garnered five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Jonathan Demme (Philadelphia) and Best Adapted Screenplay for Ted Tally (Before and After), only the third film in history to sweep the these five categories.

Well, that rules out it being Criterion's first 4K disc.

KL is really firing up on the MGM for 4K releases. They just announced To Live and Die In LA.

Classic X-rated cartoon coming to BD

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Coming October 26th!https://t.co/z8l87Uv1wJ

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)
• NEW Audio Commentary by Screenwriter Jeffrey Alan Fiskin & Historian/Filmmaker Daniel Kremer
• TV Spots
• Theatrical Trailer

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— KLStudioClassics (@KLStudioClassic) August 2, 2021

They finally detailed and dated Get Crazy!
Hopefully Times Square will follow soon.

More shameless plugs for KL Studio Classics releases I've reviewed over the past week or so: Vera Cruz (DVD Talk Collector Series) and Devil and the Deep (Recommended)

Just in time for Halloween, Kino Lorber is reissuing Code Red's long-out-of-print 2015 Blu-ray release of Trick or Treats, and...well, let me take the bullet for you with the review I just wrote (Skip It).

Catching up on some info over on the BR forum... It seems that Kino signed a deal with Sony for 31 titles, 24 have previously been released on Blu-ray. Maybe some titles that previously had Twilight Time editions? They want to try to get one of them out on UHD.

Based on decades:
90s x 3
80s x 6
70s x 9
60s x 3
50s x 9
40x x 1

New to the U.S. market:
90s x 1
80s x 1
70s x 3
60s x 1
50s x 1

I hope someone picks up the Egyptian for distribution. It's been OOP for years and the twilight time disc fetches crazy prices. It can be had overseas but they aren't cheap either.

I've been waiting for 90s x 1 to come out on blu-ray forever!

The Egyptian is a Fox title, so for all intents and purposes it no longer exists.

If you have a taste for offbeat noirs and Night Has a Thousand Eyes isn't on your radar, maybe it ought to be (Recommended).

I was thrilled to learn that Homebodies was finally released on Nov. 2nd. One of the most interesting, singular, and overlooked films of the '70s, it's a charming, meaningful, sometimes suspenseful, sometimes hilarious cross between horror and social commentary, with touching performances from an ensemble cast of oldsters, and I dig this great film anew every time I see it. I would caution, though, that it's probably not for most modern horror buffs.

It's not streaming but it is sale for $17.97