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NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 17, 2014 - Kino Lorber is proud to announce its October releases from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, the company's new label dedicated to Hollywood studio classics showcasing the talents of some of the movies' biggest stars and most highly acclaimed filmmakers. The October releases include Billion Dollar Brain, Topkapi, True Confessions, Muholland Falls, Last Embrace, Married to the Mob, Desperately Seeking Susan, The Naked Face and Gorky Park.
Kino Lorber Studio Classics brings audiences these nine hit movies on Blu-ray for the first time, allowing viewers to enjoy these big-screen classics on their home entertainment systems in the highest possible quality. These releases will also be available on DVD. With a diverse group of films showcasing stars such as Michael Caine, Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, John Malkovich, Christopher Walken, Michelle Pfeiffer, Alec Baldwin, Roy Scheider, Madonna and Roger Moore, and critically-acclaimed directors such as Ken Russell, Jules Dassin, Jonathan Demme, Susan Seidelman, and Michael Apted, Kino Lorber is proud to bring these films to Blu-ray and DVD in editions that collectors and enthusiasts of classic film will want to own.
Each title is individually priced at $29.95 for the Blu-ray and $19.95 for the DVD, with the exception of Last Embrace and The Naked Face, each of which have a SRP of $29.95 for the Blu-ray edition and are both making their DVD debuts with individual SRPs of $24.95.
Billion Dollar Brain stars Oscar®-winner Michael Caine stars as Harry Palmer, recruited by MI5 to stop an oil tycoon who wants to wipe out Communism by starting World War 3. Ken Russell's action-adventure classic will become available on October 7th.
Also streeting October 7th is Jules Dassin's expertly-directed suspense comedy Topkapi, starring a first-rate cast including Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley and Akim Tamiroff in the story of a daring jewel heist.
True Confessions is a gripping crime drama with screen greats Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall as brothers who find themselves at odds with eachother after getting wrapped up in murder investigation. Directed by Ulu Grosbard and loosely based on the "Black Dahlia" murders, this film also features such great character actors as Charles Durning, Burgess Meredith and Cyril Cusack, and will street on October 7th.
Mulholland Falls, Lee Tamahori's acclaimed thriller starring Nick Nolte and Melanie Griffith and bathed in the stylish period atmosphere of '50s LA, will also become available on October 7th.
Streeting October 14th is Jonathan Demme's Last Embrace, an homage to the thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock starring Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin and Christopher Walken in the story of a government agent whose world spirals out of control following the mysterious murder of his wife. This edition features a brand new interview with producer Michael Taylor. Married to the Mob, also streeting October 14th, is a madcap comedy starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine and Alec Baldwin about a woman married to stuck in a loveless marriage with a cheating gangster. When her gangster husband is killed by a mob kingpin, she thinks she's free of the mob for good, but when she realizes the mobster wants her as his mistress, she's torn between helping the FBI take him down or continuing to hide out in Manhattan.
Also streeting October 14th is Susan Seidelman's hit comedy Desperately Seeking Susan, starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna in the tale of a bored housewife who follows a young couple's romance as it plays out in the personal ads of a local paper, until a mishap leads to her getting involved in their affair herself! This edition features audio commentary by director Susan Seidelman and producers Barbara Boyle, Midge Sanford, and Sarah Pillsbury, and alternate endings.
Streeting October 21st are The Naked Face, directed by Bryan Forbes, a thrilling adaptation of the Sidney Sheldon novel, with Roger Moore as a doctor who finds himself targeted by assassins and must figure out why they want him dead; and the acclaimed mystery Gorky Park, directed by Michael Apted and starring William Hurt, Lee Marvin and Brian Dennehy, about a detective investigating murders in Moscow who finds himself in over his head when he it comes to light that the KGB might have been involved. This edition features a brand new interview with director Michael Apted.
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