Hello!

It’s a wish list of Upcoming Discs …

… that begins with a few titles already in hand that we’d like to cover: Kino is in with  Diary of a Chambermaid with Jeanne Moreau, the body-snatcher opus  Burke and Hare, Paul Robeson in  Borderline, and a 4K of John Frankenheimer’s notorious  Prophecy, aka  ‘Cocaine Bear’ without the laughs.

With Criterion, we’ve got a 4K of Billy Wilder’s  Some Like it Hot that’s desirable just for the new extras, Jacques Demy’s  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg in 4K, plus a 4K of Charles Burnett’s fine show  Killer of Sheep.

In hand also from Deaf Crocodile is a challenging box called  Treasures of Soviet Animation Volume 1, with The Mystery of the Third Planet and The Pass.

I’ve taken a peek at the new Radiance disc of Pietro Germi’s  The Railroad Man, which looks extremely good for video. I’m also liking it much more than I did the first time through, 20 years ago.

And also on the review launching pad are The Warner Archive’s Blu-rays of the MGM musical  Lili with Leslie Caron and the earworm theme song, the entire Clint Walker TV series  Cheyenne, and the Anthony Mann New York noir  Side Street, with Farley Granger as a postman.

Now, some things we’re waiting for …

Diabolic DVD says that they’ve just shipped the Eureka UK disc of  Strange New Worlds: Science Fiction at DEFA, the Region B collection that contains a new remaster of The Silent Star aka ‘First Spaceship on Venus.’

June for KL Studio Classics has some very promising titles:

Billy Wilder’s  Sabrina will be out in 4K. We’re also very curious to see Edward L. Cahn’s much-praised 1932 Western  Law and Order with Walter Huston, written by John Huston. And Randall William Cook under monster makeup will be back in a remastered  I, Madman.

And [Imprint] for July has some Blu-ray rarities, we aren’t usually able to review:

Paul Newman in  Hud, With Patricia Neal and Yvette Vickers, and Robert Mitchum in William Wellman’s weirdly designed  Track of the Cat.  Is this movie held by Batjac now?  If so, I hope that more Batjac movies find their way to upgraded disc.

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson