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    So Vinegar Syndrome just announced on Facebook that they'll be launching a new label in January 2015 to cover experimental, documentary, and independant films that don't fit into the VS template of exploitation and smut cinema.

    IMPORTANT NEWS:

    In early 2015, the creators of Vinegar Syndrome will be launching Etiquette Pictures, a new home video label. Whereas Vinegar Syndrome is focused on preserving and releasing all forms of exploitation and forgotten weird cinema, Etiquette Pictures will be devoted to the preservation and distribution of unique, offbeat, and significant experimental films, documentaries and independent features, as well as some contemporary works. As with Vinegar Syndrome, the sole condition of the selected titles is that they must have been shot on and restored from film elements.

    Among the titles Etiquette Pictures has secured for 2015 are James M. Harris' bizarre adaptation of Sleeping Beauty, SOME CALL IT LOVING, David Burton Morris' Minneapolis shot drama, LOOSE ENDS, and a collection of the short films and features of Jon Moritsugu.

    However, Etiquette's debut release will be Lawrence Schiller and L. M. Kit Carson's 1971 documentary masterpiece, THE AMERICAN DREAMER, which chronicles the production of Dennis Hopper's THE LAST MOVIE. Presented in partnership with and with proceeds benefiting The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, to help further preserve their cinema archive.

    While specifics are still being worked out, Etiquette's inaugural release is scheduled for January 2015. Titles will be released initially as limited special-edition Blu-ray/DVD combo packs, exclusively available through the Etiquette Pictures website and select retailers. After the initial run sells out, titles will be re-pressed in a general release version and sold through all major retailers.
    A website is already up where you can sign up for their mailing list.

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    Interesting news, this could potentially be awesome.
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    • #3
      Yeah, I'll be very interested to see what kind of documentaries they release down the road. There's a lot of unjustly obscure ones out there.
      I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

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      • #4
        I saw a screening of American Dreamer with the director a few months back. He said the negative had been lost. It was digital projection transferred from a beat up, faded print in which the colors had been more or less restored. I wonder if Vinegar Syndrome managed to find the original elements. Otherwise they'll have quite a task restoring it. Great film and I hope The Last Movie will also be released one of these days.

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        • #5
          We did not recover the original materials bad they are indeed lost.
          We scanned four complete prints and did a shot by shot reconstruction using the best shots from the four prints. We also did will over 100 hours of frame by frame digital clean up and shot by shot color grading. The final color has been approved by both filmmakers.
          It still looks far from pristine, but it's probably the best it'll ever look.

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          • #6
            I sure appreciate the effort you're putting into restoring these films. Is there going to be a commentary with Lawrence Schiller? Needless to say there are plenty of wild stories to tell about shooting that film with Hopper in Taos, New Mexico!

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            • #7
              "THE AMERICAN DREAMER is currently being rescanned on our "newish" scanner specifically designed to scan dense prints. We're scanning four separate 16mm prints, from which we'll edit together the most complete and best looking master possible.

              Due to the rescan, the release will be pushed back until mid 2015. SOME CALL IT LOVING will now be EP-001.


              More launch info and additional titles to be announced soon! Thanks for being patient. Good film preservation takes time."

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              • #8
                Nice to see American Dreamer!
                "Ah! By god's balls what licentiousness!"

                Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom.

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                • #9
                  Actually I'm just as impressed with how clean the equipment is. :)

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                  • #10
                    So it looks like Some Call It Loving will be coming soon...

                    http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=16338
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                    • #11
                      Press release!

                      Etiquette Pictures / Vinegar Syndrome Announce Partnership with Xenon Pictures.
                      3/31/2015 - For Immediate Release:

                      Vinegar Syndrome and Etiquette Pictures, in partnership with Xenon Pictures, are proud to announce that they will be bringing three of the most culturally significant and controversial films of the 1970s to Blu-ray for the very first time.

                      Melvin Van Peebles 1971 underground masterpiece, SWEET SWEETBACKS'S BADASSSS SONG and Ralph Bakshi's visually stunning and controversial 1975 film COONSKIN will be making their US Blu-ray debuts, newly restored from their 35mm negatives. Both films will be released through Etiquette Pictures, the sister company of acclaimed genre film distributors, Vinegar Syndrome. Rudy Ray Moore's seminal blaxploitation classic, DOLEMITE (1975) will also be making its Blu-ray debut from Vinegar Syndrome, newly restored from rare 35mm vault materials. In addition to SWEETBACK, Etiquette Pictures will be releasing two other early works from Van Peebles, his 1967 debut feature, STORY OF A THREE DAY PASS and his 1973 musical, DON'T PLAY US CHEAP. All releases will be done in partnership with Xenon Pictures, which has established itself as the leader in releasing independent and avant-garde African American cinema of the 1970s.

                      Etiquette Pictures and Vinegar Syndrome co-founder Joe Rubin said of the upcoming releases: "It's an honor to have the opportunity to preserve these incredible films from three of the most unique and uncompromising American auteurs of the past half century. Few of their contemporaries left a greater mark on the underground and independent film scene of the time than Van Peebles, Bakshi, and Moore."

                      Stephen Houden, Chief Operating Officer at Xenon is also looking forward to the releases, saying “We're very happy to have joined forces with Etiquette Pictures and Vinegar Syndrome. They share our love for the work of these visionary filmmakers and high regard for preserving these incredible and important films.”

                      SWEETBACK and COONSKIN are scheduled for Blu-ray and DVD release by Etiquette Pictures in late 2015, with DOLEMITE (VS), THREE DAY PASS (EP), and DON'T PLAY US CHEAP (EP) following in early 2016. Additional collaborations between Xenon, Etiquette Pictures and Vinegar Syndrome are planned for 2016.

                      Vinegar Syndrome was founded in 2012 by film archivists Joe Rubin and Ryan Emerson to preserve and release genre films, independent features and drive-in classics. In just over two years, VS has restored and released over 100 feature films on Blu-ray and DVD and has won international praise for their restorations of lost and forgotten works of genre cinema. In 2015, Rubin and Emerson formed a sister label to Vinegar Syndrome, Etiquette Pictures, to preserve and distribute significant and forgotten arthouse, experimental and underground cinema. Etiquette's first release will be James B. Harris' SOME CALL IT LOVING (1973) followed by Lawrence Schiller and L.M. Kit Carson's THE AMERICAN DREAMER (1971). - contact: joe@vinsyn.com for more information.

                      Founded in 1986, Xenon Pictures, Inc. is recognized in the U.S. home entertainment marketplace for creating the first significant labels focused on the Black audience market. In developing the label, Xenon forged relationships with some of the most revolutionary independent film pioneers: Melvin Van Peebles, Rudy Ray Moore, Jamaa Fanaka, Ralph Bakshi and Perry Henzell to name just a few, and sought out films that are not only commercial, but that were truly groundbreaking and have maintained their appeal for decades. Xenon's most recent film project, "Straight Outta Compton" (the story of the Gangster Rap group NWA) is releasing in August through Universal.
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                      • #12
                        Please tell me that a THE HARDER THEY COME Blu-ray is one of the additional collaborations happening in 2016?

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                        • #13
                          Mondo-Digital reviews Some Call It Loving
                          LA PASIÓN ESPAÑOL: THE EROTIC MELODRAMAS OF VICENTE ARANDA (1991-1999)

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                          • #14
                            The latest VS newsletter has a teeny-tiny cover image for the upcoming Blu-ray release of the American Dreamer.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Ian Jane View Post
                              The latest VS newsletter has a teeny-tiny cover image for the upcoming Blu-ray release of the American Dreamer.

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                              Oh man, can't wait for that one, That image is perfect.

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