Kino Lorber have detailed five upcoming Blu-ray releases:
Max and the Junkmen (1971),
The Third Lover (1962),
And Hope to Die (1972),
The Deadly Trap (1971), and
Line of Demarcation (1966).
Max and the Junkmen
Synopsis: An ex-magistrate (Michel Piccoli) intent on justice joins the police force, then sets up a prostitute (Romy Schneider) and her small-time criminal boyfriend (Bernard Fresson). Cinematography by René Mathelin (
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe). Music by Philippe Sarde (
Barocco).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- REMASTERED BY STUDIOCANAL
- NEW audio commentary by critic Samm Deighan
- Theatrical trailer
- In French, with optional English subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 25.
And Hope to Die
Synopsis: From René Clément, the iconic director of Forbidden Games, Purple Noon, Joy House, Rider on the Rain and The Deadly Trap, comes this action-packed crime film starring Jean-Louis Trintignant (Les Biches, The Conformist), Robert Ryan (Day of the Outlaw, The Wild Bunch) and Aldo Ray (God's Little Acre, Nightfall). Antoine "Froggy" Cardot (Trintignant), a French criminal on the run, heads to Canada where he joins a gang of criminals, Charley (Ryan), Mattone (Ray) and Rizzio (Jean Gaven, The Story of O), who are plotting a complicated robbery. Their foolproof plan blows up in their faces when they end up kidnapping a crime lord's daughter and accidently killing her. Sébastien Japrisot (A Very Long Engagement, Farewell, Friend) wrote the screenplay for this suspenseful thriller, based on a bestselling novel by David Goodis (Dark Passage, Shoot the Piano Player). Music by legendary composer Francis Lai (Love Story).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- REMASTERED BY STUDIOCANAL
- NEW Audio commentary by film Historians Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson
- Theatrical trailer
- In French, with optional English subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 25.
The Deadly Trap
Synopsis: From René Clément, the acclaimed director of Forbidden Games, Purple Noon, Joy House, Rider on the Rain and And Hope to Die, comes this top-notch thriller starring Faye Dunaway (The Thomas Crown Affair, Chinatown, Network), Frank Langella (The Twelve Chairs, Dracula, Frost/Nixon), Barbara Parkins (Valley of the Dolls, The Mephisto Waltz, Shout at the Devil) and Maurice Ronet (Elevator to the Gallows, The Fire Within, Line of Demarcation). Jill and Philip (Dunaway and Langella) are an American couple who live in Paris with their two children. Their world is torn apart when the children go missing and may have been kidnapped. In a frantic struggle to recover them alive and well, the couple's lives begin to fall apart at the seams, as Jill's mental state deteriorates and Philip struggles to make sense of what is happening to them. Based on the bestselling novel The Children Are Goneby Arthur Cavanaugh.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- REMASTERED BY STUDIOCANAL
- NEW Audio commentary by entertainment journalist and author Bryan Reesman
- Theatrical trailer
- Optional English subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 25.
Line of Demarcation
Synopsis: From Claude Chabrol, the legendary director of Les Cousins, The Third Lover, The Unfaithful Wife, Betty and La Cérémonie, comes this WWII thriller set in a small town in the Jura Mountains split in two by a border between Nazi-occupied France and the Free Zone. In 1941, Pierre (Maurice Ronet, The Fire Within, Purple Noon, The Champagne Murders), a demobilized French military officer and the Count de Damville, returns to this border village to find it occupied by the Germans. His English-born schoolteacher wife (Jean Seberg, Breathless, Lilith, Paint Your Wagon) and the town's citizens now belong to a Resistance group helping escaped prisoners reach the Free Zone. Co-starring Stéphane Audran (Les Biches, The Twist, Babette's Feast) and Daniel Gélin (Napoleon, La Ronde, The Man Who Knew Too Much), and beautifully shot by the great Jean Rabier (The 400 Blows, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION
- NEW Audio commentary by critic Samm Deighan
- Trailers
- In French, with optional English subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 25.
The Third Lover
From Claude Chabrol, the legendary director of Les Bonnes Femmes, Line of Demarcation, Les Biches, Le Boucher and L'Enfer, comes this suspenseful drama starring the great Stéphane Audran (The Twist, Babette's Feast), Jacques Charrier (The Seven Deadly Sins, The Oldest Profession) and Walther Reyer (Tiger of Bengal, Journey to the Lost City). Albin Mercier (Charrier), a failed and disillusioned journalist, is sent to Germany to cover an event. There, he meets a successful writer (Reyer) who's happily married to a Frenchwoman named Hélène (Audran). Bitterly jealous, yet besotted with the beautiful Hélène, he decides to ruin the couple's lives. This cunning critique of the bourgeoisie was beautifully shot by the great Jean Rabier (Purple Noon, Elevator to the Gallows).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION
- NEW Audio commentary by critic Kat Ellinger
- Trailers
- In French, with optional English subtitles for the main feature
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 25.