Now then, the big release news today is that our friends at Vinegar Syndrome have just announced their long-awaited new 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray release of Michael Mann’s cult classic The Keep (1983)! Long unavailable, the film has been restored from the original camera negative. Look for Dolby Vision HDR, a commentary with film historian Asprey Gear, and multiple interview featurettes.
Oh, but that’s not all: Vinegar Syndrome has also revealed new 4K and Blu-ray releases of Phillip Noyce’s Sliver (1993), also with Dolby Vision restored from the original camera negative, as well as Frank Marshall’s Congo (1995), again restored from the original camera negative and with Dolby Vision HDR! You can order them all here.
Meanwhile, Kino Lorber Studio Classics has revealed that Jeannot Szwarc’s Somewhere in Time (1980), starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, and Christopher Plummer, is coming soon to 4K Ultra HD. Also coming soon to the format: A pair of Agatha Christie classics, Guy Hamilton’s Evil Under the Sun (1992) and John Guillermin’s Death on the Nile (1978).
The company has also set the Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXIII Blu-ray box set for release on 2/4, featuring William Dieterle’s Rope of Sand (1949), Gordon Douglas’s Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950), and Robert Stevens’ Never Love a Stranger (1958). And look for George Seaton’s Teacher’s Pet (1958) on Blu-ray on 1/28.
In the event you missed them, Warner Archive’s December Blu-ray slate will include HC Potter’s Mr. Lucky (1943), Frank Borzage’s The Spanish Main (1945), Vincent Sherman’s Nora Prentiss (1947), Anthony Mann’s The Tall Target (1951), Jack Arnold’s Black Eye (1974), and Lina Wertmüller’s A Night Full of Rain (1978). All are due on 12/17. And of course, John Wayne’s The Searchers (1956) is coming in 4K Ultra HD that day as well. Don’t forget that they also have the animated Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: The Complete Series (1972) coming, though it’s been delayed from its previous 11/26 street date (the new date is TBA).
And finally today, our friends at Arrow Video have just unveiled their February 2025 Blu-ray and 4K slate, which is set to include Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) on Blu-ray and 4K UHD (in the UK only), Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce (1985) in 4K UHD (in the UK only), Francis Galluppi’s The Last Stop in Yuma County (2023) on Blu-ray (in the UK only), Alfred Sole’s Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) in 4K UHD (in the US only with two different cover variations), a Japanese crime double feature of Raizo Ichikawa’s A Certain Killer (1967) and its sequel, Kazuo Mori’s A Killer’s Key (1967), on Blu-ray (in the UK, US, and Canada), and finally William Friedkin’s Cruising (1980) starring Al Pacino in 4K Ultra HD (in the UK, US, and Canada). Here’s what those look like...
And that’s all for now. For you Patreon supporters, I’ll have a new My Two Cents: A Video Blog entry up on over there sometime tomorrow.
By the way, my old friend Robert Meyer Burnett is hosting his 1,000 episode of his Robservations show on YouTube today, and he plans to be live for 1,000 minutes—that’s 16 hours! So feel free to drop in over there, check out the fun, and be sure to tell him (in the live chat) that Bill from The Bits sent you. ;)
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