Kino Lorber have detailed a number of upcoming Blu-ray releases. Amongst them are: The System a.k.a. The Girl-Getters (1964), Hannibal Brooks (1969), Ten Little Indians (1989), and Tesnota (2017).
Synopsios: Tesnota (Closeness, 2017) is the incendiary debut feature from the young and brilliant Kantemir Balagov (Beanpole). 1998, Nalchik, the North Caucasus, Russia. 24-year-old Ilana works in her father's garage to help him make ends meet. One evening, her extended family and friends gather to celebrate the engagement of her younger brother David. Later that night, the young couple is kidnapped, and a ransom demand delivered. In this close-knit Jewish enclave, involving the police is out of the question. How will the family raise the money to save David? Ilana and her parents, each in their own way, will go as far as necessary, whatever the risks to themselves.
Synopsis: In post-WWII Leningrad, two women, Iya and Masha (astonishing newcomers Viktoria Miroshnichenko and Vasilisa Perelygina), intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners, attempt to readjust to a haunted world. As the film begins, Iya, long and slender and towering over everyone (hence the film's title), works as a nurse in a shell-shocked hospital, presiding over traumatized soldiers. A shocking accident brings them closer and also seals their fates. The 28-year-old Russian director Kantemir Balagov won Un Certain Regard's Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival for this richly burnished, occasionally harrowing rendering of the persistent scars of war..
Synopsis: Synopsis: In a picturesque village on the sea, resident Tinker (Oliver Reed) has developed a foolproof plan to seduce -- and then ditch -- wealthy ladies. Thanks to his work photographing tourists on summer vacation, he retains the names and addresses of his female clients, which get put in a pool. He and his hoodlum friends then make their selections and go out on the prowl. But the jaded Tinker finds his callous worldview shaken when he becomes smitten with an on-the-ball model (Jane Merrow). Directed by Michael Winner.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
PREVIOUSLY REMASTERED
NEW Audio Commentary by critic Stephen Vagg
Getting the Girl: Co-Star Jane Merrow on THE SYSTEM Featurette (17:52)
Synopsis: Light-hearted World War II escape adventure about a British prisoner of war working at Munich zoo who sees a chance for freedom when he is given the job of escorting an elephant out of the country. Once on the road to Innsbruck, he elects to follow the example of his namesake and take the beast across the Alps to sanctuary in Switzerland. Directed by Michael Winner.
Synopsis: Based on the terrifying suspense novel by Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, Ordeal by Innocence, Witness for the Prosecution, The Mirror Crack'd and Endless Night) and featuring a stellar cast that includes Donald Pleasence (The Black Windmill), Brenda Vaccaro (Midnight Cowboy), Herbert Lom (Return from the Ashes), Paul L. Smith (Haunted Honeymoon), Sarah Maur Thorp (River of Death) and Frank Stallone (Heart of Midnight). Ten strangers are summoned to a remote African safari by a mysterious host and find themselves trapped and isolated in their hunting camp. The absent host's recorded voice then reveals why he's gathered his baffled guests: to wreak grisly vengeance for the death each of them has caused! As predicted in the children's rhyme "Ten Little Indians," one by one, each of the victims meets a gruesome death at the hands of an unseen assailant. This classic mystery sends the viewer off on an expedition into epic suspense only Agatha Christie could devise!
Synopsis: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne won the Best Director
award at the Cannes Film Festival for this
brave new work, another intimate portrayal, in
furious motion, of a protagonist in crisis.
The filmmakers' radical empathy alights on
a Muslim teenager (extraordinary first-time
actor Idir Ben Addi) in a small Belgian town
who has been radicalized by his Imam despite
the desperate protestations of his single mother
(Claire Bodson), and who winds up hatching a
murderous plot targeting his beloved teacher
(Myriem Akheddiou). Taking a serious view of
a difficult issue—the effect of fanaticism on the
body and soul—the Dardennes here remind
viewers why they continue to be at the center of
21st-century cinema. – New York Film Festival.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Interview with directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Synopsis: More than 40 years before RuPaul's Drag Race, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag. The film takes us backstage to kiki with the contestants as they rehearse, throw shade, and transform into their drag personas for the big event. Organized by pioneering LGBTQ+ icon and activist Jack Doroshow (better known by his stage persona Flawless Sabrina), the competition boasted a star-studded panel of judges including Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, and Terry Southern. But perhaps the most memorable moment occurs after the crowning ceremony: an epic diatribe by Crystal LaBeija, who would go on to form the influential House of LaBeija, prominently featured in Paris Is Burning (1990). A vibrant piece of queer history, The Queen can now be seen in full resplendence thanks to a new restoration from the original camera negatives.
Special Features:
Audio commentary by artist and producer Zackary Drucker and journalist and author Diana Tourjée
Outtake footage
Theatrical trailers (original and re-release)
Interview with producer Si Litvinoff, by Shade Rupe
The Queen: After Party Outtakes, with Jack Doroshow, by Joe E. Jeffreys
Flawless Sabrina: Icon/Muse, a short documentary by Michelle Handelman
Irma Vep: The Last Breath, a short film by Michelle Handelman, featuring Flawless Sabrina
Queens at Heart, a 1967 short documentary on drag culture
Post-screening Q&A footage with Flawless Sabrina and Zackary Drucker
Synopsis:
In this dazzling musical romance, a young woman (Renate Müller), unable to find work as a music hall singer, partners with a down-and-out thespian (Hermann Thimig) to revamp her act. Pretending to be a man performing in drag, Victoria becomes the toast of the international stage. But she soon finds that her playful bending of genders enmeshes her personal and professional life in a tangle of unexpected complications. Produced in the final days of the Weimar Republic, Victor and Victoria received limited exposure in the United States, and is today best known by Blake Edwards's 1982 remake and the 1995 Broadway production. Viewers will be delighted to discover that the original is every bit as charming and outrageous, reminiscent of the sly sex comedies of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder.)
Synopsis: A physician, alchemist, and spiritual guru, Paracelsus (1493-1541) was one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of science. And, like its subject, this 1943 film is shrouded in mystery, even though it was directed by one of the supreme stylists of the German cinema: G.W. Pabst. Werner Krauss (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) stars as the Swiss-born scientist, who faces the seemingly impossible task of protecting the German people from a coming plague, and calming a rising tide of mass hysteria. Despite being called "a remarkably interesting film" by The New York Times's Vincent Canby (when it received its belated U.S. premiere in 1974), Paracelsus continues to be overlooked, along with most all of the films made in Germany during World War II. With fresh eyes, however, we can see that Paracelsus is not a propaganda film, but the work of an oppressed artist attempting to convey a humanist, possibly subersive message under the gaze of Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels.