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Currently available [but out of stock at their website] director Michael Mann's cult classic THE KEEP [Native UHD4K from the OCN/HDR10/Dolby Vision/DTS~HD MA Stereo with music by Tangerine Dream]

https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-keep

Michael Mann's The Keep (4K UHD)'s The Keep (4K UHD)
I've never seen this but heard it's a spectacular-looking dud but still have been keen on checking it out for years. I only heard of the VS 4K release after it had sold out in a few hours but the good news is that there's an Imprint 4K on the way (the bad news is that it'll probably be very expensive and full of paper stock so waiting for a barebones release is probably what I'll end up doing).
 
I've never seen this but heard it's a spectacular-looking dud but still have been keen on checking it out for years. I only heard of the VS 4K release after it had sold out in a few hours but the good news is that there's an Imprint 4K on the way (the bad news is that it'll probably be very expensive and full of paper stock so waiting for a barebones release is probably what I'll end up doing).
Unfortunately, Mann's original cut of The Keep ran over 3 hours and the studio butchered it to death. How frustrating!

Hopefully, Vinegar Syndrome will order a represst! Even their super deluxe 4K version sold out.
 
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Unfortunately, Mann's original cut of The Keep ran over 3 hours and the studio butchered it to death. How frustrating!

Hopefully, Vinegar Syndrome will order a represst! Even their super deluxe 4K version sold out.
Cool. Hopefully these releases might fund a restoration of the whole she-bang! Might hold off the purchase.
 
Cool. Hopefully these releases might fund a restoration of the whole she-bang! Might hold off the purchase.
Stranger things have happened but such a restoration would probably preclude the major expense in locating all the materials necessary [over 2 hours] to make it whole again

BTW, watched the NEW Kino Lorber 4K restoration of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and was disappointed with the inappropriate jazzy soundtrack they chose to accompany that version. The accompanying blu ray includes a lossy [DD 2.0 stereo] but more effective D J Spooky soundtrack which decodes well via my pre/pro's DSP PLII Music mode. But the 4K does look better than the BD~V...as it hopefully should!
 
Yeah, it's weird when there's a wildly inappropriate score to a movie eh? Panic in Year Zero! (1962) is one that springs to mind that also had a jazzy score. There's some tension building on screen and then the music kicks in and you're like, "what?"!
 
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