One of the more engaging romantic-comedies of the early-mid ‘90s, Mike Binder’s INDIAN SUMMER (98 mins., 1993, PG-13) offers a different flavor to our week-long celebration of recommended, seasonal home video offerings.

INDIAN SUMMER is sort of a “Meatballs Grows Up” with a group of friends reuniting back at the camp where they spent their adolescent years. Diane Lane, Bill Paxton, Elizabeth Perkins, Kevin Pollak, Vincent Spano, Julie Warner, Matt Craven and Kimberly Williams comprise the not-quite-“Big Chill” alumni who travel back to the gorgeous Ontario camp still run by sage counselor Alan Arkin. Sam Raimi (a childhood friend of the director’s) also chips in a few laughs in a rare acting role as the camp’s resident weirdo, but it’s really the beautiful Newton Thomas Sigel lensing and Miles Goodman’s breezy score that puts “Indian Summer” over the top.

A Kino Lorber double-feature (with Binder’s inferior debut film “Crossing the Bridge”) from the Touchstone vaults marks the second time “Indian Summer” has been released on BD (it was a low-priced Mill Creek release in 2011). “Indian Summer” looks to be a slightly superior encoding than that Mill Creek release, albeit struck from the same source materials: Sigel’s 2.35 cinematography has been reproduced splendidly here in the form of a 1080p AVC encoded presentation while the 2.0 DTS MA stereo track has bit of “wow”-like flutter at the beginning (something that also affected the laserdisc way back when) but gets back on track shortly after the front credits.

Kino Lorber’s Blu-Ray also includes a 20-minute interview with Binder. He’s insightful about the process of making his first two films, and is especially candid about how he felt Touchstone brass sold “Indian Summer” short by insisting on an orchestral score and not the pop songs he felt were vital to the film’s appeal. Binder does praise Goodman’s score but says studio executives made the decision to use an original score instead of his intended song soundtrack, likely out of cost concerns – and, in his mind, to the ultimate detriment of the film.

TOMORROW: The last of our week-long summer celebration! Until then, don’t forget to drop in on the official Aisle Seat Message Boards and direct any emails to our email address. Cheers everyone!