Posted December 29, 2024 10:02 PM by Sean Greenwood
With no releases last week, the week of December 30 has several releases from Kino Lorber, including the new release of Randy Zisk's Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie (2023). starring Tony Shalhoub, Ted Levine, Traylor Howard, Hector Elizondo, Melora Hardin and Jason Gray-Stanford.
Description: Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub is back as Adrian Monk, the brilliant sleuth with obsessive-compulsive disorder who fought crime—and grime—on the streets of San Francisco for 8 gloriously quirky seasons of TV. Now, after more than a decade, the "defective detective" returns to solve one last, very personal case involving his stepdaughter Molly, a journalist preparing for her wedding. Series cast members Traylor Howard, Jason Gray-Stanford, Ted Levine and Hector Elizondo reprise their beloved roles as Natalie Teeger, Randy Disher, Leland Stottlemeyer and Dr. Neven Bell in this laugh-out-loud feature-length movie that recaptures the irreverent spirit of the original show while adding clever surprises for the germaphobic 2020s!
Kino's Blu-ray of Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie contains an internet / TV spot.
Catalog titles from Kino Lorber include:
A special edition of Budd Boetticher's The Killer Is Loose (1956), starring Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Alan Hale Jr., Michael Pate and John Larch. Previously released in 2017, Kino's release of The Killer Is Loose adds an audio commentary by film historian / screenwriter Gary Gerani, as well as a theatrical trailer which is newly remastered.
A remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD for Howard Hawks' Hatari! (1962), starring John Wayne, Hardy Krüger, Elsa Martinelli, Red Buttons, Gérard Blain and Bruce Cabot. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Kino presents Hatari! with a choice of lossless 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. New extras include an audio commentary by film historian / writer Julie Kirgo and writer / filmmaker Peter Hankoff, as well as a theatrical trailer.
A special edition of William A. Fraker's Monte Walsh (1970), starring Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Jeanne Moreau, Mitchell Ryan, Jim Davis and G.D. Spradlin. Previously released by Kino in 2015, this new special edition of Monte Walsh comes on a BD-50 disc with optional English subtitles and adds a new audio commentary by Lee Marvin biographer Dwayne Epstein. Also included is a theatrical trailer.
A Kino Cult edition of Philip S. Gilbert's Blood and Lace (1971), starring Melody Patterson, Gloria Grahame, Milton Selzer, Len Lesser, Vic Tayback and Dennis Christopher. Previously released in 2015, Kino's release of Blood and Lace features the audio commentary by Richard Harland Smith, an alternate opening and a theatrical trailer.
A Kino Cult edition of Philippe Mora's The Beast Within (1982), starring Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Don Gordon, Paul Clemens, R.G. Armstrong and Katherine Moffat. Previously released in 2013, Kino's release of The Beast Within features three audio commentary tracks, a making of documentary, a storyboards featurette, radio spots and a theatrical trailer.
A Blu-ray box set for the Arthur Dong Collection (1982-2007), a three-disc set containing the films Sewing Woman (1982), Forbidden City, USA (1989), Coming Out Under Fire (1994), Out Rage '69 (1995), Licensed to Kill (1997), Family Fundamentals (2002), Hollywood Chinese (2007) and The Killing Fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor (2015). Also included is a bonus disc with the films Public (1970) and the director's cut of Living Music for Golden Mountains (1981), as well as the extras Conversation: Hollywood Chinese (Jacqueline Stewart in conversation with Arthur Dong) and Arthur Dong in Conversation with Oliver Wang, as well as outtakes and trailers.
Special editions of Gordon Hessler's Pray for Death (1985), starring James Booth, Shô Kosugi, Donna Kei Benz, Norman Burton, Kane Kosugi and Parley Baer, and Rage of Honor (1986), starring Shô Kosugi, Lewis Van Bergen, Robin Evans, Gerry Gibson, Charles Lucia and Richard Wiley. Previously released in 2016, Kino's editions of Pray for Death and Rage of Honor feature new audio commentaries by action film historian Mike Leeder and UK cult film director Ross Boyask, and and each film features one half of a two-part interview with Shô Kosugi. Pray for Death is a two-disc set with both R-rated and Unrated versions of the film, and also includes a newly remastered theatrical trailer, while Rage of Honor features an interview with composer Stelvio Cipriani and a video essay by Chris Poggiali on the rise of the Ninja Film in the 1980s, as well as the film's theatrical trailer.
Remastered special editions of Steve De Jarnatt's Cherry 2000 (1987), starring Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, Ben Johnson, Tim Thomerson, Pamela Gidley and Laurence Fishburne, and Miracle Mile (1988), starring Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, Robert DoQui, Denise Crosby, Mykelti Williamson and John Agar. Sourced from new 4K scans of the original camera negatives (supervised and approved by Steve De Jarnatt), Kino presents Cherry 2000 and Miracle Mile with a choice of lossless 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks. Extensive extras for each release are split over two discs and include new audio commentaries with film historians Heather Buckley, Michelle Kisner and Heidi Honeycutt (Cherry 2000) and Los Angeles literary mavens Janet Fitch and Matthew Spector (Miracle Mile). Also included on both releases is audio commentary by De Jarnatt and film critic Walter Chaw, along with De Jarnatt's short films Eat the Sun (1975) (co-directed with Jim Cox) and Tarzana (1978) as well as two audio readings of stories by De Jarnatt. Cherry 2000 includes the 150-minute documentary Tales from Zone 7 - An Oral History of the Making of Cherry 2000, a 50-minute interview with costume designer Julie Weiss, in discussion with Steve De Jarnatt, a 2015 interview with Tim Thomerson, archival featurettes, deleted scenes, a gag reel, never-before-seen footage and more, while Miracle Mile includes archival audio commentary by by De Jarnatt, cinematographer Theo van de Sande and production designer Chris Horner, a two-part cast reunion, interviews with Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham and composer Paul Haslinger, deleted scenes, an alternate ending, outtakes and bloopers storyboards and more.
Finally from Kino this week are two 4K UHD upgrades. First is for Mike Figgis' Internal Affairs (1990), starring Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, Laurie Metcalf, Nancy Travis, Richard Bradford and William Baldwin. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Kino presents Internal Affairs with a choice of lossless 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include audio commentary by film critics Alain Silver and James Ursini, interviews with Mike Figgis, screenwriter Henry Bean and co-composer Anthony Marinelli, as well as the film's theatrical trailer.
Then from Kino is a 4K UHD upgrade for Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes (1998), starring Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard, Carla Gugino, Stan Shaw and Kevin Dunn. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Kino presents Snake Eyes with a choice of lossless 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include new audio commentary by film historians Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson and the film's theatrical trailer.
Finally this week, Crunchyroll has a Blu-ray for Dr. Stone: Season Three, Part Two (ドクターストーン ニューワールド) (2023). The two-disc set has 11 episodes, with a choice of original Japanese: Dolby TrueHD 2.0 (with English subtitles) or dubbed English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio tracks. Extras include the special episode "RYUSUI", a promo video and textless opening and ending songs.