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Triumph of the Spirit Blu-ray Review

Oct 29, 2024 | hometheaterforum.com | Kino Lorber |Matt Hough

Robert M. Young’s Triumph of the Spirit is a grim and sporadically unsatisfying Holocaust docudrama. Triumph of the Spirit (1989) Released: 23 Dec 1989Rated: RRuntime: 120 min Director: Robert M.
Body and Soul (1947) Blu-ray Review

Oct 9, 2024 | hometheaterforum.com | Kino Lorber |Matt Hough

Robert Rossen’s Body and Soul offers great storytelling and memorable characters in an atmospheric and hugely engaging presentation. Released: 11 Nov 1947Rated: ApprovedRuntime: 104 minDirector: Robert RossenGenre: Drama, Film-Noir, SportCast: John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel BrooksWriter(s): Abraham PolonskyPlot: A talented boxer's young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.
Burn, Witch, Burn (AKA Night of the Eagle) - Blu-ray Review

Sep 28, 2024 | hometheaterforum.com | Kino Lorber

Beginning has career in the British film industry as an editor in the 1940’s, Sidney Hayers graduated to the director’s chair with his first film Violent Moment (1959). Over the next two years, he quickly established himself in the crime thriller and neo-noir genres – with a brief trip into the horror genre with Circus of Horrors (1960) – on the B-level with films the The White Trap (1959), The Malpas Mystery (1960) and Payroll (1961).
Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXI - Blu-ray Review

Sep 23, 2024 | hometheaterforum.com | Kino Lorber

The 21st volume of Kino’s Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema series brings us three titles from the Paramount vaults, one from the studio and one each from Warner Bros. and Allied Artists (which the studio holds the rights to the latter two titles). First, Gary Cooper is sent into Nazi-occupied Italy to retrieve a scientist working on the German version of the atomic bomb in Cloak and Dagger.
Blu-ray Review - Buffalo Bill and the Indians Blu-ray Review

Sep 19, 2024 | hometheaterforum.com | Kino Lorber |Matt Hough

Boy am I glad I have the Kino disc!Color timing more than anything makes, or breaks a film for me. Kino is fine. Indicator, not so much. Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson Blu-ray - Paul Newman (dvdbeaver.com)Kino on top, Indicator bottom. I know this is quite an old thread, but... This is from Indicator's booklet:"ABOUT THE PRESENTATIONSStudiocanal’s HD remaster of Buffalo Bill and the Indians provided the source of this remastered Indicator edition.
Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XX - Blu-ray Review

Sep 6, 2024 | hometheaterforum.com | Kino Lorber

For Volume XX in Kino’s Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema series, two Paramount noirs and one from Republic Pictures are unearthed from Paramount’s vaults for this Blu-ray boxset. First, a former O.S.S. officer returns to Italy to expose a traitor responsible for a WWII betrayal in Captain Carey, U.S.A. Next, a postal inspector seeks the help of a nun who witnessed a colleague’s murder in Appointment with Danger.
Paul Schrader Announces ‘The Basics of Philosophy’, Gives ‘Non Compos Mentis’ Update - VNExplorer

Aug 25, 2024 | vnexplorer.net | Kino Lorber

Paul Schrader attends a photocall for 'Master Gardener' at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 3, 2022 Venice, Italy. Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty ImagesPaul Schrader has a busy few months ahead as he shares an update on two upcoming films. The Oscar-nominated director revealed that he’s currently developing the new feature The Basics of Philosophy as he prepares to begin filming Non Compos Mentis (Latin for “an unsound mind”) in November.
Peril & Distress (And Soon the Darkness & Sudden Terror) - UHD Blu-ray Review

Aug 18, 2024 | hometheaterforum.com | Kino Lorber

Kino has assembled two EMI thrillers from 1970 – licensed from current rights holder Studiocanal – for a double feature of peril and distress on UHD Blu-ray. The A feature here is And Soon the Darkness, a Hitchcockian tale of suspense and terror in the French countryside; the bottom half of this double bill is Sudden Terror (AKA Eyewitness), a variation on the “boy who cried wolf” tale set in Malta. Both films previously released on Blu-ray by Kino are making their UHD Blu-ray debuts here.
Navajo Joe (Special Edition) - Blu-ray Review

Aug 13, 2024 | hometheaterforum.com | Kino Lorber

Perhaps the most successful director of Spaghetti Westerns outside of Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci got his start in the 1950’s mostly directing low budget peplum pictures and comedies.
Annie Laurie - Blu-ray Review

Aug 11, 2024 | hometheaterforum.com | Kino Lorber

Though he is largely forgotten today, director John S. Robertson – who was later immortalized by The Byrds with their 1967 single “Old John Robertson” – first broke into movies with the Vitagraph Studios in 1915 before heading to Paramount Pictures, where he directed his best known film, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) with John Barrymore in the lead.