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Film Discussion => Digital Streams & Criterion Dreams => Topic started by: wilder on November 01, 2011, 01:54:56 AM

Title: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 01, 2011, 01:54:56 AM
All titles in this thread can be found compiled at blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/community/collection.php?u=384731&categoryid=7&action=owned)




USA Labels

























































Official SiteBlu-ray.com Database
Altered Innocence (https://www.alteredinnocence.net/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=2043&sortby=releasetimestamp)
AGFA (https://www.americangenrefilm.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=2067&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Arbelos Films (http://www.arbelosfilms.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=2126&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Arrow Films USA (https://arrowfilms.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=323&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Blue Underground (http://www.blue-underground.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=68&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Breaking Glass (https://www.bgpics.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1023&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Cauldron Films (https://www.cauldron-films.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.cauldron-films.com/)
Carlotta Films U.S. (http://carlottafilms-us.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1731&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Cinelicious Pics (http://www.cineliciouspics.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1801&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Cinema Guild (http://www.cinemaguild.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=706&sortby=releasetimestamp)
ClassicFlix (https://www.classicflix.com)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=2070&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Code Red (http://www.codereddvd.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=884&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Cohen Media Group (http://cohenmedia.net/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1474&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Criterion (https://www.criterion.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=70&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Cult Epics (http://www.cultepics.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=568&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Dark Force Entertainment (https://darkforcesuperstore.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=2168&sortby=releasetimestamp)
DistribPix/FilmCentrix (http://distribpix.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1653&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Dorado Films (http://doradofilms.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=796&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Drafthouse Films (http://drafthousefilms.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=525&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Etiquette Pictures (http://etiquettepictures.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1897&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Flicker Alley (http://www.flickeralley.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=719&sortby=releasetimestamp)
The Film Detective (https://www.thefilmdetective.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1765&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Film Media (https://www.filmmedia.org/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=2001&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Film Movement (https://www.filmmovement.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=867&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Fun City Editions (https://funcityeditions.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=3199)
Garagehouse Pictures (https://www.garagehousepictures.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1966&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Grasshopper Film (http://grasshopperfilm.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=2050&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Grindhouse Releasing (http://grindhousereleasing.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1004&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Hen's Tooth Video (http://henstoothvideo.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=629&sortby=releasetimestamp)
IFC Films (http://www.ifcfilms.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=450&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Kimstim (https://www.kimstim.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=2191&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Kino (https://www.kinolorber.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=280&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Kit Parker Films (http://www.kitparker.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=2171&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Magnolia Pictures (http://www.magpictures.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=15&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Massacre Video (http://massacrevideo.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1948&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Milestone (https://www.milestonefilms.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=966&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Mondo Macabro (https://mondomacabro.bigcartel.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=828&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Mondo Vision (http://www.mondo-vision.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=829&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Music Box Films (https://www.musicboxfilms.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=504&sortby=releasetimestamp)
MVD Rewind (http://mvdvisual.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=95&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Olive Films (https://olivefilms.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=752&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Oscilloscope (http://www.oscilloscope.net/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=203&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Raro Video (https://www.rarovideousa.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=775&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Scorpion Releasing (http://www.scorpionreleasing.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=976&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Severin (https://severin-films.com/catalogue/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=282&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Shout! Factory (https://www.shoutfactory.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=100&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Strand Releasing (https://strandreleasing.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=753&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Subkultur USA (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/subkultur-usa)N/A
Synapse (https://synapse-films.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=608&sortby=releasetimestamp)
TCM Vault Collection (https://shop.tcm.com/)N/A
Twilight Time (https://www.twilighttimemovies.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=762&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Vinegar Syndrome (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1365&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Warner Archive (https://www.wbshop.com/collections/warner-archive-blu-ray?sort_by=created-descending)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=9&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Zeitgeist Films (https://zeitgeistfilms.com/)Blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=830&sortby=releasetimestamp)


UK Labels





















Official SiteBlu-ray.com Database
Anti-Worlds (https://anti-worldsreleasing.co.uk/)Blu-ray.com (https://anti-worldsreleasing.co.uk/collections/limited-editions)
Arrow Films UK (https://www.arrowfilms.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=323&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Artificial Eye (https://www.curzonartificialeye.com/blu-ray/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=116&sortby=releasetimestamp)
BFI Video (https://shop.bfi.org.uk/dvd-blu-ray.html)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=120&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Eureka Entertainment (https://eurekavideo.co.uk/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=136&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Fractured Visions (https://www.fracvis.co.uk/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=3580&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Indicator (https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=2037&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Masters of Cinema (https://eurekavideo.co.uk/masters-of-cinema/#page-1)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=136&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Network (https://networkonair.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=327&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Panamint Cinema (https://www.panamint.co.uk/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=651&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Plan B Entertainment (https://en-gb.facebook.com/PlanBentuk/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=2158&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Second Run (https://www.secondrundvd.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1113&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Second Sight (http://www.secondsightfilms.co.uk/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=106&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Shameless (https://www.shameless-films.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=659&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Signal One (https://signaloneentertainment.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1878&sortby=releasetimestamp)
StudioCanal UK (http://www.studiocanal.co.uk/Classics)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=109&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Third Window Films (http://thirdwindowfilms.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=410&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Thunderbird Releasing (http://www.thunderbirdreleasing.com/) (formerly Soda Pictures)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=636&sortby=releasetimestamp)


Australian Labels




Official SiteBlu-ray.com Database
Imprint (https://viavision.com.au/imprint-films/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=3095&sortby=releasetimestamp)


French Labels







Official SiteBlu-ray.com Database
Carlotta Films (https://carlottafilms.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=231&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Le chat qui fume (https://www.lechatquifume.com/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1814&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Gaumont (https://www.gaumont.fr/fr/resultats.html)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=270&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Pulse Video (https://pulsestore.net/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=3160&sortby=releasetimestamp)


German Labels







Official SiteBlu-ray.com Database
Bildstörung (https://www.bildstoerung.tv/blog/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1353&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Camera Obscura (https://www.facebook.com/CameraObscuraFilmdistribution/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1018&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Subkultur Entertainment (https://www.lisa-film-kollektion.de/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=669&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Turbine (https://turbine-shop.de/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=669&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Wicked Vision (https://www.wicked-shop.com/en/)Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1895&sortby=releasetimestamp)


Trailers for upcoming releases







AGFA (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr2Dm_wInUo-_wT6p6GPHZg/videos) (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1353&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Anti-Worlds (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCne30c8YiyB-oy4jpY4krCw/videos) (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1353&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Arbelos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDdCMMkU-cMWF7Gg_X5twJw/videos) (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1353&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Arrow (https://www.youtube.com/user/ArrowVideoUK/videos) (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1353&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Bildstörung (https://www.youtube.com/c/bildst%C3%B6rung/videos) (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1353&sortby=releasetimestamp)








Cauldron Films (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeIDxi7nEvPmEZf1SUPc8dw/videos) (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1353&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Le chat qui fume (https://vimeo.com/lechatquifume) (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1353&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Cult Epics (https://vimeo.com/cultepics) (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1353&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Fun City Editions (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdsqt9gTpHRyW3c31zOUODw/videos) (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1756&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Grindhouse Releasing (https://www.youtube.com/user/GrindhouseReleasing/videos) (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1756&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Mondo Macabro (https://vimeo.com/mondomacabro) (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1756&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Severin (https://www.youtube.com/c/SeverinFilmsOfficial/videos) (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1756&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Subkultur Entertainment (https://vimeo.com/subkulturentertainment) (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1756&sortby=releasetimestamp)
Vinegar Syndrome (https://www.youtube.com/user/vinegarsyndromefilms/videos) (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1756&sortby=releasetimestamp)





Blu-ray Guides


Blu-ray.com - BDs Re-Released Due to Better PQ, AQ, and/or More Extras (http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=232493)

Blu-ray.com - List of 4K film transfers on Blu-ray shot on film (http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=218262)

Blu-ray.com - List of 4K+ Masters for Digitally Shot Films  (http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=220755)

Blu-ray.com - List of International BDs with Better PQ, AQ, and/or More Extras (http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=252156)



Blu-ray.com - Keep Watching the Skies! 1950s Sci-Fi and Horror on Blu-ray (http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=258975)

Blu-ray.com - Official Film Noir on Blu-ray Thread (http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=235527)

Blu-ray.com - Official Italian Giallo & Euro Horror Movies on Blu-ray Thread (http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=274602)

Blu-ray.com - Pre-Code and Early Talkie Films on Blu-ray (http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=293709)

Blu-ray.com - Stephen Thrower's Nightmare USA: A Blu-ray Checklist (http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=280715)

Blu-ray.com - The Video Nasties Checklist (http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=289283)



DVD Beaver Guide to 50s and 60s Sci-Fi and Horror (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/50s_60s_sci-fi_on_blu-ray.htm)

DVD Beaver Guide to Film Noir (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film-noir_essential.htm)

DVD Beaver Guide to Giallo (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/giallo_blu-ray.htm)

DVD Beaver Guide to Hammer Horror (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/hammer_on_blu-ray.htm)

DVD Beaver Guide to Neo-Noir (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/neo-noir_blu-ray.htm)

DVD Beaver Guide to Ozploitation (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews28/ozploitation.htm)

DVD Beaer Guide to Pre-Code (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/pre-code_blu-ray.htm)

DVD Beaver Guide to Silent Films (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/silent_blu-rays.htm)

DVD Beaver Guide to Westerns (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/100_greatest_westerns_blu-ray.htm)




Review and Comparison Sites

Blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/)

Caps-a-holic (https://caps-a-holic.com/)

DVDBeaver (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/)

Mondo Digital (https://www.mondo-digital.com/)




Other Links

-DiabolikDVD (http://www.diabolikdvd.com/) is an online retailer that stocks genre & cult titles and some international releases for sale in the US

-Mondo Vision's titles are sold exclusively through Toufaan (https://www.toufaan.com/)

-Twilight Time titles can be purchased through Screen Archives (http://www.screenarchives.com/) and Twilight Time's official website (https://www.twilighttimemovies.com/)

-Some of Code Red and Scorpion Releasing's titles are sold exclusively through Ronin Flix (https://roninflix.com/)

-Asian releases can be purchased through YesAsia (https://www.yesasia.com/us/en/home.html)

-Film Aficionado (http://www.filmaf.com) has the most extensive database of DVD releases available online

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Couple of real odd announcements came about today. I'm starting a thread to keep track of these. Never thought these would come about...

Early Julio Medem Films Heading to Blu-ray
Independent distributors Tanelorn Films have revealed that they are planning to begin releasing on Blu-ray in Q4. The distributors will release three early films by acclaimed Spanish director Julio Medem (Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Chaotic Ana): Vacas (1992), La ardilla roja a.k.a The Red Squirrel (1993), and Tierra a.k.a Earth (1996). Preliminary release dates are yet to be revealed.

Source (http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=7650)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Just Withnail on November 01, 2011, 05:25:05 AM
Quotestarring Theresa Russell (Whore)

that's a bit harsh

QuoteGary Oldman (Romeo Is Bleeding), Christopher Lloyd (Bialy smok)

:saywhat:

do they feel obliged not to pick their big films since they're releasing an obscure one?

Also starring Tom Hanks (That Thing You Do!)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: polkablues on November 01, 2011, 10:21:55 AM
Also starring Kevin Costner (Malibu Hot Summer).
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 05, 2011, 05:12:38 PM
Robert Mulligan's The Nickel Ride (1974) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073451/) is being released with John Frankenheimer's 99 and 44/100% Dead (1974) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071089/) on DVD on December 13, 2011. I've heard The Nickel Ride mentioned in the same breath as crime flicks like Point Blank (1967) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062138), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070077/), The Outside Man (1972) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070083/), and The Outfit (1973) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071960). Both films were previously unavailable on DVD.

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Amazon Link (http://www.amazon.com/100%25-Dead-Nickel-Double-Feature/dp/B005G5NPNI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320530504&sr=8-1)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Stefen on November 05, 2011, 11:18:01 PM
Awhile back I tried watching Lips of Blood on Netflix, but it didn't have subtitles. That was weird. Looking forward to seeing these.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 15, 2011, 06:25:03 AM
William A. Wellman's Wings (1927) to be released on blu-ray by Paramount on January 24, 2012

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Wings (1927) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Wings-Blu-ray/dp/B0067MLCEI?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0067MLCEI&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 29, 2011, 11:02:55 PM
Few more catalog titles coming up...


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Velvet Goldmine (1998) (http://www.amazon.com/Velvet-Goldmine-Blu-ray-Christian-Bale/dp/B005Q4CKJY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322628870&sr=8-1) will be released on December 13, 2011

And Annie Hall (1977) (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B006FSRSFQ/dvdaficionado) and Manhattan (1979) (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B006FSRSTC/dvdaficionado) are coming to blu-ray on January 24, 2012 (cover art TBD)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: mogwai on November 30, 2011, 10:20:45 AM
Ewan McGregor looks a wee retarded.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Sleepless on November 30, 2011, 12:20:09 PM
^ Marquee. That is perfect out of context.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 15, 2011, 11:22:36 AM
Some artwork subject to change.

January 16, 2012

Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics 3 - TCM Vault Collection
- My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
- Mob, The (1951)
- Tight Spot (1955)
- Burglar, The (1957)
- Drive a Crooked Road (1954)

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My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) - IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037932/)
The Mob (1951) - IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043812/)
Tight Spot (1955) - IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048724/)
The Burglar (1957) - IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049035/)
Drive a Crooked Road (1954) - IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046935/)
TCM Shop (http://shop.tcm.com/film-noir-classics-iii-dvd/detail.php?p=364905)


January 24, 2012

Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960) on Blu-ray

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IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053604/)
Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B005LZWA5W/dvdaficionado)


Alfred Hitchocks's Notorious (1946) on Blu-ray

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IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038787/)
Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0065N6K9Q/dvdaficionado)


Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940) on Blu-ray

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IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032976/)
Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0065N6JSI/dvdaficionado)


Alfred Hitchock's Spellbound (1945) on Blu-ray

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IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038109/)
Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0065N6KNW/dvdaficionado)


February 7, 2012

Michelangelo Antonioni's Story of a Love Affair (1950) - 2-Disc Special Edition DVD from Kino

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IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042355/)
Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Story-Love-Affair-2-Disc-Special/dp/B006GVNHUM/ref=sr_1_11?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1323967347&sr=1-11)


February 21, 2012

Nicolas Roeg's Track 29 (1988) now DVD-only

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IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096294/)
Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Track-29-Gary-Oldman/dp/B0064SVNHG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323967519&sr=8-1)


February 22, 2012

Jerry Schatzberg's Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970) on Blu-ray from Carlotta. Some of Carlotta's other Blu-rays have removable subs, so here's hoping. I haven't seen this movie, but structurally I've heard it related to some stuff by Alain Resnais

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Trailer (http://youtu.be/gGmmtzE0ml4)
IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066262/)
Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Portrait-dune-enfant-d%C3%A9chue-Blu-ray/dp/B006CP512O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323968067&sr=8-1)


February 28, 2012

Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street (1945) on Blu-ray

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IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038057/)
Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B006GVNHMA/dvdaficionado)


April 10, 2012

Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) on Blu-ray

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IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044081/)
Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001QFYCZM/dvdaficionado)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Pubrick on December 31, 2011, 06:57:30 PM
Wow those guys sound like total dumbasses.

At least the guy being interviewed. He says he and his co director had never heard of the national film registry before 2008,  then you think ok they must be noobs, they must know nothing about films, but then they reveal that they considered themselves quite knowledgeable about film!

Not only that, they could have been excused as just a couple of dumb kids who don't yet know what would be considered knowledgeable.. Then it's revealed they are in fact in their FORTIES. And they say they knew nothing about Facebook or twitter etc either and that their 26 year old niece had to educate them.

I don't see a long career in filmmaking for these guys.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 09, 2012, 02:34:40 PM
March 6, 2012

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The Deer Hunter (1978) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/The-Deer-Hunter-Blu-ray/dp/B006TTC5DQ/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1326141485&sr=8-4)


April 3, 2012


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Chinatown (1974) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Chinatown-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B006VC3LES&ASIN=B006VC3LES&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Sleepless on January 09, 2012, 05:02:36 PM
Randomly, I happened to catch the last hour of These Amazing Shadows on PBS yesterday afternoon. I didn't really rate it. For unchallenging Sunday afternoon viewing it was fine, but otherwise I wouldn't bother. Essentially it was a catalogue of clips from films which are in the registry. Here's Christopher Nolan listing three films from the registry which inspired him. Here's John Lasseter doing the same. Here's a guy laughing about Let's All Go To The Lobby. Pure fluff.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 16, 2012, 05:14:51 AM
April 3, 2012

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April 23, 2012

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- It Rains on Our Love ( Det regnar på vår kärlek ) (1946)
- Ship Bound for India, A ( Skepp till India land ) ( Frustration ) (1947)
- Sawdust and Tinsel ( Gycklarnas afton ) (1953)
- So Close to Life ( Nära livet ) ( Brink of Life ) (1958)
- Dreams ( Kvinnodröm ) (1955)

Classic Bergman: 5 Films by the Master of Cinema - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00744BIDS/dvdaficionado-21)


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Faces (1968) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Faces-Blu-ray/dp/B007A0FWW4?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B007A0FWW4&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


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Shadows (1959) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadows-Blu-ray/dp/B007A0FWWY?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B007A0FWWY&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


April 24, 2012

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1900 (1977) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Novecento-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d012%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00782O7MA&ASIN=B00782O7MA&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


May 22, 2012

Jean Rollin Wave 2 from Kino

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Demoniacs (1974) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B007HO39IM/dvdaficionado)


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Requiem for a Vampire (1973) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B007HO39K0/dvdaficionado)


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The Rape of The Vampire (1968) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B007HO39AK/dvdaficionado)


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Too Late Blues (1961) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Too-Late-Blues-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d012%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B007KW5ME0&ASIN=B007KW5ME0&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


June 5, 2012

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The Color of Money (1986) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001GS7AZS/dvdaficionado)


June 19, 2012

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Empire of the Sun (1987) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Of-The-Sun-Blu-ray/dp/B007KW5N9Y/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1331889892&sr=1-2)


June 25, 2012

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Double Indemnity (1944) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Double-Indemnity-Blu-ray/dp/B007196UZM?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B007196UZM&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 21, 2012, 08:35:28 PM
May 29, 2012

Yellow Submarine (1968) Blu-ray


July 17, 2012

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Fall 2012 TBD

The early films of Stanley Kubirick on Blu-ray from Kino:

-Day of the Fight (1951)
-The Flying Padre (1951)
-Fear and Desire (1953)
-The Seafarers (1953)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Pubrick on March 22, 2012, 01:30:25 AM
i can't imagine the kubrick estate being happy about those early films being released.

swamp thing kubrick must be pulsing in his tree roots.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 22, 2012, 06:21:27 PM
July 10

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Altered States (1980) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Altered-States-Blu-ray-William-Hurt/dp/B007NQCKL6/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1332489842&sr=1-1)


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Brainstorm (1983) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Brainstorm-BD-Blu-ray-Christopher-Walken/dp/B007NR9WBG/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1332489856&sr=1-1)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Stefen on March 23, 2012, 02:57:12 AM
Any Cassavetes on BD is cause to throw a fake birthday party.

That Criterion boxset was the best thing ever, until it wasnt, because BD.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 23, 2012, 04:02:40 AM
Gaumont Secures Funding to Restore Classic Films

French distributors Gaumont have announced that they have secured funding to restore 270 films from their catalog during the next four years. The restorations will have a minimum quality of at least 2K. Amongst the films considered for restoration are such classics as Jean Renoir's Toni (1935), Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942), and Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928).

Source (http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=8423)

Guamont's full catalog is available to browse here (http://www.gaumont.fr/fr/resultats.html?from=19).
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: mogwai on April 11, 2012, 09:54:34 AM
I believe it when I see it. I hope Lucas didn't alter a scene where the shark shoots first.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 05, 2012, 03:10:45 PM
Casablanca 70th Anniversary Edition (New Transfer)

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Single disc edition exclusive to Target


May 8, 2012

The Big Heat (1953) from Twilight Time (Limited to 3,000 copies)

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The Big Heat (1953) - Screen Archives (http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/17756/THE-BIG-HEAT-1953-PRE-ORDER/)


July 4, 2012

Gerald Kargl's Schizophrenia aka Angst (1983) on blu-ray from Carlotta

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Schizophrenia aka Angst (1983) - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Schizophrenia-Blu-ray/dp/B007TTEGOQ?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B007TTEGOQ&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)


July 24, 2012

They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) from Kino

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They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B007UQ8ITW/dvdaficionado)


July 31, 2012

Body and Soul (1947) from Olive Films

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Body and Soul (1947) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Body-and-Soul-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0080JG2LE&ASIN=B0080JG2LE&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Force of Evil (1948) from Olive Films

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Force of Evil (1948) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Force-of-Evil-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0080JG2QO&ASIN=B0080JG2QO&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


August 28, 2012

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Death Watch (1980) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0080730LQ/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-20&link_code=as3&creativeASIN=B0080730LQ&creative=373489&camp=211189)


September 17, 2012

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A Woman Under the Influence (1974) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00802OGWS/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-21&link_code=as2&creativeASIN=B00802OGWS&creative=374929&camp=211189)


September 24, 2012

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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Testament-Mabuse-Masters-Edition-Blu-ray/dp/B007Z0HJZ2/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1336244227&sr=8-4)


November 6, 2012

Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd. (1950)

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Sunset Blvd. (1950) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Sunset-Boulevard-Blu-ray-William-Holden/dp/B00AEBBA9U/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1400707680&sr=1-1&keywords=sunset+blvd)


December 4, 2012

Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can (2002)

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Catch Me If You Can (2002) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Catch-Me-You-Can-Blu-ray/dp/B00962QYVC/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1400707663&sr=1-1&keywords=catch+me+if+you+can)


2012 TBD

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Pubrick on May 05, 2012, 03:58:55 PM
these bluray announcements are indeed random.

blurays are still overpriced in Australia and too expensive to acquire from overseas unless absolutely essential, but it's nice to know there's a big selection out there somewhere.

probably one of my favourite active threads.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: mogwai on May 05, 2012, 04:16:16 PM
Quote from: Pubrick on May 05, 2012, 03:58:55 PM
these bluray announcements are indeed random.

blurays are still overpriced in Australia and too expensive to acquire from overseas unless absolutely essential, but it's nice to know there's a big selection out there somewhere.

probably one of my favourite active threads.

Have you checked this one out? https://www.planetaxel.com/

Dunno if it's cheaper even though I don't know where in the world they ship the products. But just wanted to help a wee bit.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 12, 2012, 03:55:52 PM
June 8, 2012

The Seven-Ups (1973) from Koch Entertainment

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The Seven-Ups (1973) - Amazon.de (http://www.amazon.de/The-Seven-Ups-Blu-ray/dp/B007T2M8WA?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom04-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B007T2M8WA&m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF)


July 11, 2012

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Querelle (1982) on blu-ray from Gaumont

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FnUiKw.jpg&hash=9b036510a882829a423f2e17463ba807ce499c06)

Querelle (1982) - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Querelle-Blu-ray/dp/B0081U25HM?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0081U25HM&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)


July 31, 2012

Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion (1937)

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La Grande Illusion (1936) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/La-Grande-Illusion-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00827OWSO&ASIN=B00827OWSO&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


August 7, 2012

Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954) from Olive Films

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Johnny Guitar (1954) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0082LUGPI/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-20&link_code=as3&creativeASIN=B0082LUGPI&creative=373489&camp=211189)


August 27, 2012

Claude Chabrol's La Cérémonie (1995) on blu-ray from Artificial Eye

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La Cérémonie - (1995) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/La-Ceremonie-Blu-ray/dp/B00820Y1T6?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00820Y1T6&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


September 3, 2012

Orson Welles' The Trial (1962) on blu-ray from Studio Canal (UK)

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The Trial (1962) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Trial-50th-Anniversary-Blu-ray/dp/B0085MXPLG/ref=sr_1_3?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1337811157&sr=1-3)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 14, 2012, 02:42:33 PM
July 17, 2012

Singin' in the Rain (1952) on blu-ray

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Singin' in the Rain (1952) - Collector's Edition - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B007UQRW62/dvdaficionado)

Singin' in the Rain (1952) - Single Disc Edition - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Singin-in-the-Rain-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0087YYHZU&ASIN=B0087YYHZU&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 15, 2012, 03:27:19 PM
Kino has announced Jean Rollin's The Living Dead Girl (1982) (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Living-Dead-Girl-Blu-ray/45325/) and Two Orphan Vampires (1997) (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Two-Orphan-Vampires-Blu-ray/45326/) for release on blu-ray on August 28, 2012
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 24, 2012, 06:03:43 PM
Video overview of BFI's restoration of 9 of Hitchcock's early silents (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18162846)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 02, 2012, 05:06:11 PM
August 21, 2012

Raoul Walsh's Pursued (1947) from Olive Films

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Pursued (1947) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Pursued-Blu-ray-Dean-Jagger/dp/B0086IMM8G/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1338674369&sr=1-1)


August 22, 2012

Georges Lautner's Le Pacha (1968) on blu-ray from Gaumont

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Le Pacha (1968) - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0085W0ZY6)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 09, 2012, 06:04:43 AM
July 31, 2012

Billy Wilder's The Seven Year Itch (1955)

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The Seven Year Itch (1955) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Seven-Year-Itch-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0089J28C2&ASIN=B0089J28C2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

Also available in the Forever Marilyn Collection (http://www.amazon.com/Forever-Marilyn-Collection-Blu-ray-Charles/dp/B0089J27VY/ref=sr_1_sc_3?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1339239360&sr=1-3-spell&keywords=forver+marilyn) along with Gentleman Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), The Misfits (1961), River of No Return (1954), Some Like It Hot (1959), and There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) -- also available individually.


September 4, 2012

Robert Siodmak's The Dark Mirror (1946) from Olive Films

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The Dark Mirror (1946) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Dark-Mirror-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0089LT8L4&ASIN=B0089LT8L4&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Fritz Lang's Secret Beyond the Door (1947) from Olive Films

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Secret Beyond the Door (1947) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Secret-Beyond-the-Door-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0089LT8CS&ASIN=B0089LT8CS&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 20, 2012, 04:05:10 PM
September 18, 2012

Orson Welles' Macbeth (1948) from Olive Films

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October 1, 2012

Alfred Hitchcock - The Masterpiece Collection - Blu-ray

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-Rope
-Rear Window
-The Trouble with Harry
-The Man Who Knew Too Much
-Vertigo
-The Birds
-Psycho
-Marnie
-Torn Curtain
-Topaz
-Frenzy
-Family Plot
-Saboteur
-Shadow of a Doubt

Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alfred-Hitchcock-The-Masterpiece-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B008D1TNCE?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B008D1TNCE&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 21, 2012, 03:59:15 PM
US version of the above Hitchcock box set was announced today and streets on September 25th, 2012

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Pubrick on June 21, 2012, 05:28:04 PM
It's unfortunate that they had to isolate "cock" like that, especially with the knife heading for the O.

The non US version looks class.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Sleepless on June 22, 2012, 11:10:54 AM
Someone's been taking marketing tips from Bali...
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 22, 2012, 02:57:12 PM
October 9, 2012

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 25, 2012, 05:30:51 AM
July 24, 2012

Julio Medem's The Red Squirrel (1993) on DVD from Tanelorn Films.

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The Red Squirrel (1993) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Ardilla-Roja-The-Red-Squirrel/dp/B007V6ON7M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340619655&sr=8-1&keywords=ardilla+roja)


Julio Medem's movies Tierra (1996) and Vacas (1992) are also available.

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Tierra (1996) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Tierra-Julio-Medem/dp/B006BZ8OBA/ref=pd_cp_mov_0)


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Vacas (1992) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Vacas-Julio-Medem-Carmelo-G%C3%B3mez/dp/B005SIMI54/ref=pd_bxgy_mov_img_b)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 28, 2012, 07:15:32 PM
October 2, 2012

Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection - Blu-ray

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-Dracula (1931)
-Drácula [Spanish-language version] (1931)
-Frankenstein (1931)
-The Mummy (1932)
-The Invisible Man (1933)
-Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
-The Wolf Man (1941)
-Phantom of the Opera (1943)
-Creature from the Black Lagoon (3-D, 1954)

Special features detailed here (http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=9036)

Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008FL8OTK/?tag=criter-20)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 29, 2012, 09:01:23 PM
September 18, 2012

Robert Bresson's The Devil, Probably (1977) on DVD from Olive Films

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The Devil, Probably (1977) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/The-Devil-Probably-Antoine-Monnier/dp/B008DL4K8Q/ref=sr_1_9?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1340940906&sr=1-9&keywords=olive+films)


Maurice Pialat's Police (1985) on DVD from Olive Films

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Police (1985) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Police-Gerard-Depardieu/dp/B008DL4IYC/ref=sr_1_8?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1340940906&sr=1-8&keywords=olive+films)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 05, 2012, 02:56:04 PM
Columbia Pictures Pre-Code Collection from the TCM Vault Collection

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Columbia Pictures Pre-Code Collection - TCM Shop (http://shop.tcm.com/columbia-pictures-pre-code-collection-dvd/detail.php?p=371865&v=)


October 3, 2012

Michael Haneke's Benny's Video (1992) on blu-ray from French distibutor MK2

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Benny's Video (1992) - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Bennys-Video-Blu-ray/dp/B008H1H688?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B008H1H688&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 07, 2012, 03:53:07 AM
July 10, 2012

Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 4 from Warner Archive

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-Jewel Robbery (1932)
-Lawyer Man (1932)
-Man Wanted (1932)
-They Call It Sin (1932)

Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 4 - WB Shop (http://www.wbshop.com/product/forbidden+hollywood+collection+volume+4+1000334012.do?sortby=ourPicks&from=fn)


Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 5 from Warner Archive

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-Miss Pinkerton (1932)
-Hard to Handle (1933)
-Ladies They talk About (1933)
-The Mind Reader (1933)

Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 5 - WB Shop (http://www.wbshop.com/product/forbidden+hollywood+collection+volume+5+1000334190.do?sortby=ourPicksAscend&from=fn)


"...these sets will initially be available as pressed DVD discs, at least until the initial limited run is exhausted and they're switched over to WAC's normal burned-on-demand DVD-R format."

via this NY Post article (http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/movies/dvd_extra_first_look_program_the_s4Kipu1C8mkhZtsGt9PuuM)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 10, 2012, 06:01:35 PM
More Important French Films Will Be Digitally Restored
via blu-ray.com

Thanks to a new initiative from state film organization CNC, more classic and important French films will be digitally restored. Some of the films already approved for restoration are Jacques Tati's Jour de Fete, Mon Oncle and Playtime, Rene Vautier's Avoir 20 Ans Dans Les Aures, Agnes Varda's Jacquot de Nantes and Jacques Demy's Le Joli Mai and Peau d'Ane.

Claude Lelouch, Alain Resnais and Jean-Luc Godard's documentary feature Far From Vietnam will also be restored, as well as three short films.

The CNC committee, which selects the films that will be restored each year, is headed by Gilles Jacob, the current president of the Cannes Film Festival.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 11, 2012, 01:13:16 AM
Warner Archive now has a weekly podcast (http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/warner-archive-collection/id310063354)

George Feltenstein hosts the Warner Archive Collection podcast, bringing you vintage radio dramas, interviews and weekly round-table discussions culled from the rich film and television history contained within the Warner Bros. vaults.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Pozer on July 12, 2012, 11:34:57 PM
should change the name of this thread to Random DVD and Blu-ray wilderesquements.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: tpfkabi on July 13, 2012, 10:17:30 AM
Quote from: wilderesque on July 10, 2012, 06:01:35 PM
More Important French Films Will Be Digitally Restored
via blu-ray.com

Thanks to a new initiative from state film organization CNC, more classic and important French films will be digitally restored. Some of the films already approved for restoration are Jacques Tati's Jour de Fete, Mon Oncle and Playtime.

They weren't restored when Criterion released them?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Ravi on July 13, 2012, 04:35:00 PM
Quote from: tpfkabi on July 13, 2012, 10:17:30 AM
They weren't restored when Criterion released them?

Criterion probably cleaned those releases up just for DVD and Blu-Ray, without actually restoring the original film elements.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 15, 2012, 03:20:16 AM
Jacques Deray's long-unavailable The Outside Man (1973) has just been released via MGM MOD. This film sort of fuses the spirit of French crime movies with the landscape of Los Angeles. Though its plot isn't amazing, for me the cinematography elevates the movie and makes it a bit of a stylistic/thematic blood brother to something like Point Blank.

Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a french contract assassin hired by a Los Angeles crime family, ostensibly to perform a hit on some other mafia target. But simultaneously, as he arrives to do his job, a slaying occurs inside the household of the mob boss supposed to employ him. Suspicion is deliberately cast against Trintignant from within that very family. From that moment on, Trintignant is on the run from the police, and the minions of two different mob families. What makes his escape hazardous is that the real murderer shares all the information known about him to aid in his capture and death.


(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F3Uyxa.jpg&hash=cc4fb897591bc6e166ac07ec7c07dad7f617010a) (https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FIgjO4.jpg&hash=56e864e95f03606d7ba2ebd7577649425fdda905)

The Outside Man (1973) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B008BJU4YE/dvdaficionado)




Trailer




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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Reel on July 15, 2012, 10:24:31 AM
wow, that looks like a lot of fun! Where would I be without you, Wilder?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 16, 2012, 03:54:55 PM
Masters of Cinema Q4 2012


October 22, 2012

Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen in a Dual Format Blu-ray + DVD Edition

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Die Nibelungen - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008LTVKJM/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-21&link_code=as2&creativeASIN=B008LTVKJM&creative=374929&camp=211189)


Sam Fuller's Park Row (1952) on DVD

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Park Row (1952) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008LTVKGK/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-21&link_code=as2&creativeASIN=B008LTVKGK&creative=374929&camp=211189)


October 29, 2012

Soul Power (2008) in a new Dual Format Blu-ray + DVD Edition


November 12, 2012

Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) in a Dual Format Blu-ray + DVD Edition

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The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) blu-ray - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008LUICH4/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-21&link_code=as2&creativeASIN=B008LUICH4&creative=374929&camp=211189)


Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (1932) on DVD

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FyYT59.jpg&hash=bf329afd09391ea2eb00e2dfde39acb790323592)

Trouble in Paradise (1932) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008LU92FU/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-21&link_code=as2&creativeASIN=B008LU92FU&creative=374929&camp=211189)


December 3, 2012

Ozu's Floating Weeds (1959) in a Dual Format Blu-ray + DVD Edition

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F2Uvjl.jpg&hash=a75db239340f7f5eb7a922e7c6670a279d043ecc)

Floating Weeds (1959) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008LUICGA/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-21&link_code=as2&creativeASIN=B008LUICGA&creative=374929&camp=211189)


Teinosuke Kinugasa's Gate of Hell (1953) in a Dual Format Blu-ray + DVD Edition, one of the top 10 films (international list) Scorsese cited as demonstrating a 'masterful use of light and color'

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fdf3Vc.jpg&hash=1e7de742106f208a71a3878aa8c2de2666ba2e81)

Gate of Hel (1953) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008LUICHO/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-21&link_code=as2&creativeASIN=B008LUICHO&creative=374929&camp=211189)


(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Ffj9Ww.jpg&hash=8b2933f222c9fadf1de1f3d5f1a4171dbc9f384d)

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 19, 2012, 06:56:38 PM
October 16, 2012

Max Ophuls' Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) from Olive Films

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FBvK2D.jpg&hash=16b7f78a5bf48a7f646c89abee5cf210841613b3)

and the rest (http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=9163) of Olive's October slate.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 27, 2012, 12:45:43 PM
November 13, 2012

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fb8TOO.jpg&hash=e15a71509cfcfd4f465903ad6163ffd841597e67)

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Postman-Always-Rings-Twice-Blu-ray/dp/B008PJZE0E/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1344624275&sr=8-2&keywords=postman+always+rings)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 02, 2012, 11:20:30 PM
October 30, 2012

Sidney Lumet's Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) from Olive Films

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FHrHYJ.jpg&hash=c160f33c73ac904bb2d9010306f0c4e2febd1c02)

Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Long-Days-Journey-Night-Blu-ray/dp/B008SAPAI6/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1347222865&sr=1-1&keywords=long+day%27s+journey+into+night)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 10, 2012, 11:26:48 AM
November 20, 2012

Ridley Scott's The Duellists (1977) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FNLEcn.jpg&hash=cb35c707ff0b7b702fcf19a1277b424c516337ce)

The Duellists (1977) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Duellists-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B008VIMLUU&ASIN=B008VIMLUU&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 10, 2012, 01:43:40 PM
September 24, 2012

The Alexander Sokurov Collection from Artificial Eye containing Save & Protect, Second Choice, and Elegy of Life

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F8Aw54.jpg&hash=86117c71def049b0a199d375d25fb4528b3ab090)

The Alexander Sokurov Collection - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alexander-Sokurov-Collection-Disc-Set/dp/B007DIPSUY/ref=sr_1_16?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1344602566&sr=1-16)


December 18, 2012

Sokurov: Early Masterworks Box Set from Cinema Guild

Quote from: cinemaguildWe're happy to report that we're finally able to move forward on our box set, SOKUROV: EARLY MASTERWORKS. As originally planned, the set will include WHISPERING PAGES, STONE and SAVE AND PROTECT.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 22, 2012, 05:45:49 PM
November 6, 2012

Fritz Lang: The Early Works from Kino - DVD only

-The Wandering Shadow (1920)
-Four Around A Woman (1921)
-Harikari (1919)

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FyfwQ4.jpg&hash=3557399540a1461ccbbb6d09ad9517dc259d7b39)


Fritz Lang: The Early Works - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Fritz-Lang-The-Early-Works/dp/B00917IQ1I/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=JJLO92GPPRRO&coliid=I3CFLW9GGBY3GV)


Film Noir Collection Vol. 1 from Olive Films - Blu-ray

-Union Station (1950)
-Appointment With Danger (1951)
-Dark City (1950)
-Rope of Sand (1949)

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FMXcen.jpg&hash=a50a16967f416d842039291625dbd27d524232c5)

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 09, 2012, 03:33:50 PM
December 18

Paul Newman's Sometimes a Great Notion (1970) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Flag86.jpg&hash=9cf6bcb58c221bbe03381f63faa52aa0f43155fb)

Sometimes a Great Notion (1970) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Sometimes-Great-Notion-Blu-ray-Newman/dp/B0096W470W/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1347222463&sr=1-1&keywords=sometimes+a+great+notion)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Robyn on September 09, 2012, 05:42:50 PM
Quote from: wilderesque on September 09, 2012, 03:33:50 PM
(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Flag86.jpg&hash=9cf6bcb58c221bbe03381f63faa52aa0f43155fb)

What a sexy bastard.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 11, 2012, 12:14:17 PM
ImportCDs (http://www.importcds.com/) has most Olive Films titles for 50% off.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 19, 2012, 03:30:38 PM
November TBD

Kazan at Fox Vol. 1 on blu-ray

- Boomerang! (1947)
- Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
- Panic in the Streets (1950)
- Pinky (1949)

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F5Pv2f.jpg&hash=a89cb79d468c4bee40f7eb9c21244cc35b0ce517)


Kazan at Fox Vol. 2 on blu-ray

- Man on a Tightrope (1953)
- Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945)
- Viva Zapata! (1952)
- Wild River (1960)

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FvYn75.jpg&hash=e787e8e43b252f817d6f82e5feeb3a2deac72354)


December 4

Josef Von Sternberg's The Blue Angel (1930) on blu-ray from Kino

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FlZKmn.jpg&hash=4faf8b010194d3bde7e119560d45b111530e4e92)

The Blue Angel (1930) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/The-Blue-Angel-Remastered-Standard/dp/B009CSVQ7W/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1YMTTY4RNV4SJ&coliid=I1LB6RGMSXYYYX)


December 11

The Ultimate Buster Keaton Collection on blu-ray from Kino

-College [Exclusive to the Box Set until 2013]
-Buster Keaton Short Films Collection
-The Saphead
-Our Hospitality
-Sherlock Jr.
-Three Ages
-The Navigator 
-Seven Chances
-Go West
-Battling Butler
-The General
-Steamboat Bill, Jr. 
-Lost Keaton

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FU0YKO.jpg&hash=a1b4be07366e8b2cd18d332c8094186b6500d1cc)

The Ultimate Buster Keaton Collection - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Ultimate-Buster-Keaton-Collection-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B009CSVQB8&ASIN=B009CSVQB8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


January 8, 2012

Grand Hotel (1932)

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FPu1G7.jpg&hash=6520aee1f8616249039912bfd0b846b295cccaef)

Grand Hotel (1932) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Grand-Hotel-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B009CVELHG&ASIN=B009CVELHG&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 03, 2012, 07:08:32 PM
December 4, 2012

Francis Ford Coppola: 5 Film Collection

-Apocalypse Now
-Apocalypse Now Redux
-One From the Heart
-Tetro
-The Conversation

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FgyFmM.jpg&hash=344ec82d6f1b7e1986627205254fb09746204557)


Francis Ford Coppola: 5 Film Collection - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Francis-Ford-Coppola-Collection-Conversation/dp/B009AVC936/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349309029&sr=8-1&keywords=francis+ford+coppola+5+film+collection)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 04, 2012, 09:58:58 PM
Paramount, Warner Sign Catalog Distribution Pact
via Home Media Magazine

Deal includes UltraViolet access to Paramount titles on Warner's Flixster

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is assuming responsibility for marketing, merchandising and distribution of a big chunk of Paramount Pictures' movie library.

The studio today announced a strategic alliance with Paramount Home Media Distribution that is centered on more than 600 catalog titles from the Paramount film library. The deal gives Warner exclusive rights to physical Blu-rayDisc  and DVD distribution of those titles in the United States and Canada, and will make Paramount's UltraViolet offerings available on a non-exclusive basis through Flixster, the Warner Bros. movie streaming and discovery service.

Ron Sanders, president of Warner Home Video, called the arrangement "a good deal for both studios because Paramount can be assured of a revenue stream on their catalog and refocus their resources toward franchises, while Warner can leverage its scale to launch new Blu-ray titles, collections and special editions."

Dennis Maguire, president of Paramount Home Media Distribution, is equally enthusiastic. "We are bullish on this deal as it firmly supports innovation in a critical aspect of our business, while at the same time it leverages our collective strengths and assets to maximize profits in the present market," he said. "Flixster provides access to the leading movie discovery application that will promote digital content ownership and aid in expanding our digital business. At the same time, on the physical side, this agreement enables us to manage our profitability in a time of change in the marketplace and to focus more resources on new releases. With its strong infrastructure and track record, Warner will not only safeguard but enhance the long-term value of titles covered by this agreement."

"We're delighted that movie fans will now be able to access Paramount titles through Flixster, further expanding the already robust library of UltraViolet-enabled content and making the continued transition to digital much smoother for the consumer," added Thomas Gewecke, president of Warner Bros. Digital Distribution.

The agreement also grants Warner Bros. manufacturing on demand rights and the ability to include UltraViolet Digital Copy bundled with packaged media. Paramount will retain all digital rights for their titles, including electronic sell-through (EST), video-on-demand (VOD) and subscription video-on-demand. Flixster will offer, on a non-exclusive basis, Paramount titles for sale in UltraViolet EST format, UltraViolet Disc-to-Digital and VOD. Flixster will also act as an UltraViolet Locker Access Service Provider for all Paramount UltraViolet titles, and as a redemption site for Paramount UltraViolet Digital Copies.

The three-year deal, which takes effect January 1, 2013, covers U.S. and Canadian rights only and includes titles such as Braveheart, Gladiator, Ghost, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Chinatown, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Forrest Gump, The African Queen, The Ten Commandments, Hugo, Fatal Attraction, Rango, Terms of Endearment, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Airplane!, according to studio and retail sources.

The agreement excludes approximately 100 cornerstone Paramount titles, including the Transformers, Star Trek and Indiana Jones franchises. Warner also will gain access to select new titles after the initial 26-week release period.

Paramount will receive licensing fees from Warner Bros. and be entitled to various benefits under a long-term strategic cooperation agreement with Flixster.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: DocSportello on October 13, 2012, 03:37:17 PM
^This is funny. Just the other day I bought a four-film Turner Classic Movies gangster collection for $6.99 out of a bargain bin at Zellers.  It also includes Little Caesar and The Public Enemy but instead of the other two it has The Roaring Twenties (1939) and Smart Money (1931).

Watched The Roaring Twenties today and it was great. Helped kill my hangover. Highly recommend it.

After hearing PTA mention at the TIFF press conference that he has TCM on all the time around the house, it was only natural that I make the purchase.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 14, 2012, 05:40:25 PM
October 15, 2012

Directed by Billy Wilder from TCM on DVD

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FuZWei.jpg&hash=68af8d72486d9d69e41f61a7a2f5de7c885dcb96)

-Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
-A Foreign Affair (1948)

Directed by Billy Wilder - TCM Shop (http://shop.tcm.com/detail.php?p=378231&SESSID=3c17062250dd08e326e361740aba5448)


November 5, 2012

Joan Crawford - In The Fifties from TCM on DVD

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F4Ct3g.jpg&hash=63cb71d1796f789ca673723b44dc7b43112d43c5)

-Harriet Craig (1950)
-Queen Bee (1955)
-Autumn Leaves (1956)
-The Story of Esther Costello (1957)

Joan Crawford - In The Fifites - TCM Shop (http://shop.tcm.com/detail.php?p=378230&SESSID=3c17062250dd08e326e361740aba5448&pa=sli_internal)


December 18, 2012

Sokurov: Early Masterworks on blu-ray from Cinema Guild

-Whispering Pages
-Stone
-Save and Protect

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FIfLvG.jpg&hash=cc2f39128f530be7be84b87efe67fa000b5ea73d)

Sokurov: Early Masterworks - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009NWJV8I/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-20&link_code=as3&creativeASIN=B009NWJV8I&creative=373489&camp=211189)


January 8, 2013

Cape Fear (1962) from Universal

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Cape Fear (1962) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Cape-Fear-Blu-ray-Gregory-Peck/dp/B009NQX47I/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1353188892&sr=8-6&keywords=cape+fear)


2013 TBD

East of Eden, Giant, and Rebel Without a Cause on blu-ray from Warner


Masters of Cinema Q1 2013

January 28, 2013

Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel (1930)

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fclz70.jpg&hash=edc2fdfa3bc52f7b61c80efc8998d52e8bdfbd45)

The Blue Angel (1930) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009NEK24S/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-21&link_code=as2&creativeASIN=B009NEK24S&creative=374929&camp=211189)


Stanley Kubrick's Fear and Desire (1953)

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FO8CtB.jpg&hash=3562f59015fa13184a5594ec97999d26e02c534e)

Fear and Desire (1953) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fear-Desire-Masters-Cinema-Blu-ray/dp/B0098XEFAG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350253710&sr=8-1)


February 25, 2013

Sacha Guitry's La Poison (1951)

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F2XFrB.jpg&hash=df2610427318557f978d4f35b58bc5cb8db126a6)

La Poison (1951) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009NFYE9G/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-21&link_code=as2&creativeASIN=B009NFYE9G&creative=374929&camp=211189)


Federico Fellini's City of Women (1980)

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FCBzVG.jpg&hash=69cb52daf5ef2167afd8791fc3b801b0800f3022)

City of Women (1980) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009NF4YGY/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-21&link_code=as2&creativeASIN=B009NF4YGY&creative=374929&camp=211189)


Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba (1964)

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FpQ3QA.jpg&hash=d3361e4beb4e9fee8f52cacd3354f0827cd9e286)

Onibaba (1964) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009NFYE64/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-21&link_code=as2&creativeASIN=B009NFYE64&creative=374929&camp=211189)




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 26, 2012, 03:48:14 PM
January 15, 2013

Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) from Fox

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FSn2JIlP.jpg&hash=199b11f731c401ad4ad44ca06e98e24023ea97f5)

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009UTX4M8/ref=nosim?tag=dvdbeaver-20&link_code=as3&creativeASIN=B009UTX4M8&creative=373489&camp=211189)


Woody Allen's Sleeper (1973) from Fox

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FvHcrVp3.jpg&hash=8d8ed0fd58fb4f27af27a22443d64d4aa422ca93)

Sleeper (1973) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Sleeper-Blu-ray-Woody-Allen/dp/B009UTX53Q/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=ur2&qid=1353005873&sr=8-1&tag=highcom-20)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 06, 2012, 12:51:48 AM
January 22, 2013

Hal Hartley's Trust (1990) from Olive Films

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FNIpp0.jpg&hash=c8c068d4dc396073b79146be96544fa0fa650786)

Trust (1990) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Trust-Blu-ray-Adrienne-Shelly/dp/B00A32GZT0/ref=reg_hu-rd_add_1_dp)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 07, 2012, 02:35:19 AM
Michael Haneke's Funny Games (1997) is now available on blu-ray in France, with English subtitles

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FlcY5M.jpg&hash=b2bf2b353eecbab9f9dd02a21381e6f399fee17a)

Funny Games (1997) - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Funny-Games-Blu-ray-Arno-Frisch/dp/B008H1H6AG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1352277132&sr=8-2)

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 07, 2012, 08:11:33 PM
December 3, 2012

Dark Crimes - Film Noir Thrillers Box Set from TCM

-The Glass Key (1942)
-Phantom Lady (1944)
-The Blue Dahlia (1946)

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FaCTxh.jpg&hash=2af21881e54b2bbfce66835e33c254f23cc20893)

Dark Crimes - Film Noir Thrillers - TCM Shop (http://shop.tcm.com/detail.php?p=382488&SESSID=714eb4ab0142bb187a32015b278484c3)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 17, 2012, 03:45:29 PM
January 15, 2013

Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F1z9i0.jpg&hash=1760e62a5b1adc2fb9ffafdb436116869f98e0b6)

Gentleman's Agreement (1947) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Gentlemans-Agreement-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00A7OBJM2&ASIN=B00A7OBJM2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Elia Kazan's Wild River (1960)

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FJ0neQ.jpg&hash=a7ab3acbc617f5aba00baa504c6ef8222df2b004)

Wild River (1960) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Wild-River-Blu-ray-Albert-Salmi/dp/B00A3V2JPA/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1353189260&sr=1-2&keywords=wild+river)


and both Kazan at Fox box sets are now available to order exclusively through Fox's website:


(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F5Pv2f.jpg&hash=a89cb79d468c4bee40f7eb9c21244cc35b0ce517)

Kazan at Fox - Vol. 1 - Fox Connect (http://www.foxconnect.com/elia-kazan-collection-volume-1-the-13782.html)


(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FvYn75.jpg&hash=e787e8e43b252f817d6f82e5feeb3a2deac72354)

Kazan at Fox - Vol. 2 - Fox Connect (http://www.foxconnect.com/elia-kazan-collection-volume-2-the-13783.html)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 24, 2012, 12:52:00 PM
March 5, 2013

Michael Chrichton's Westworld (1973)

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fktlqv.jpg&hash=9128ef4e0b27a73472b3178e0d8200370abd6087)

Westworld (1973) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Westworld-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%256ee%2577s%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00AATFJK2&ASIN=B00AATFJK2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 27, 2012, 09:01:16 PM
January 9, 2013

Maurice Pialat's A nos amours (1983) from Gaumont

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A nos amours (1983) - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/A-nos-amours-Blu-ray/dp/B009SU02I8?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B009SU02I8&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)


Maurice Pialat's Loulou  (1980) from Gaumont

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Loulou (1980) - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Loulou-Blu-ray/dp/B009SU02LA?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B009SU02LA&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)


Maurice Pialat's Van Gogh (1991) from Gaumont

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Van Gogh (1991) - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Van-Gogh-Blu-ray/dp/B009SU02OW?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B009SU02OW&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)


All have English subtitles. Pialat's Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (1972), Police (1985), and Under the Sun of Satan (1987) are also coming on February 20, 2013.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 29, 2012, 06:37:31 PM
February 5, 2013

Otto Preminger's Laura (1944) from Fox

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Laura (1944) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Laura-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%256ee%2577s%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00AF4OTM6&ASIN=B00AF4OTM6&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 07, 2012, 08:22:49 PM
February 2013 TBD

Robert Altman's That Cold Day in the Park (1969) from Olive Films

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That Cold Day in the Park (1969) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/That-Cold-Day-Park-Blu-ray/dp/B00AKGG8NC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1356656603&sr=8-1&keywords=that+cold+day+in+the+park)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 11, 2012, 11:58:39 PM
March 18, 2013

Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Murderer Lives at 21 (1942) from Masters of Cinema

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The Murderer Lives at 21 (1942) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Murderer-Lives-at-Number-21-Blu-ray/dp/B00AMGIRCK?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00AMGIRCK&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



March 25, 2013

Claude Chabrol's Le beau Serge (1958) from Masters of Cinema

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Lea beau Serge (1958) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Le-beau-Serge-Blu-ray/dp/B00AMECA0C?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00AMECA0C&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



Claude Chabrol's Les Cousins (1959) from Masters of Cinema

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Les Cousins (1959) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Les-Cousins-Blu-ray/dp/B00AMECA2U?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00AMECA2U&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



April 22, 2013

Michelangelo Antonioni's La Notte (1961) from Masters of Cinema

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La Notte (1961) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/La-Notte-Blu-ray/dp/B00AMF8708?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00AMF8708&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 14, 2012, 09:32:33 PM
February 19th, 2013

Michael Mann's The Insider (1999)

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The Insider (1999) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Insider-Blu-ray-Al-Pacino/dp/B00AO686L0/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1355597692&sr=1-2&keywords=the+insider)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 27, 2012, 07:03:36 PM
March 6, 2013

Elio Petri's L'Assassin (1961) on blu-ray from Carlotta

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L'Assassin (1961) - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/L-Assassin-Blu-ray/dp/B00ANSYRDA?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00ANSYRDA&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)



Elio Petri's Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) on blu-ray from Carlotta

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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Indagine-su-un-cittadino-al-di-sopra-di-ogni-sospetto-Blu-ray/dp/B00ANSYQYA?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00ANSYQYA&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 04, 2013, 11:34:18 PM
April 9, 2013

John Flynn's Rolling Thunder (1977) from Shout Factory

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Rolling Thunder (1977) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Rolling-Thunder-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00AWHDFIU&ASIN=B00AWHDFIU&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: polkablues on January 04, 2013, 11:59:44 PM
Is that William Devane with a hook for a hand?  WHY AM I JUST NOW HEARING OF THIS???
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on January 06, 2013, 01:53:12 AM
partially i was like "why ARE you just hearing of this" cause qt even named his boutique label after the movie, plus bonnie prince "blood embrace" of course, but fact is it's been a hard movie to see. this release is good news. glad i didn't buy the burn on demand version.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 16, 2013, 05:59:26 PM
March 2013 TBD

Hell's Half Acre (1954) from Olive Films

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A woman who believes her missing husband is in prison in Hawaii on a murder charge travels there to see if it actually is him. However, he escapes before she sees him, when he hears that his current girlfriend has been murdered. The wife searches the slum area of Honolulu known as Hell's Half Acre for him, he searches for his girlfriend's killer, and his gangland associates are looking for the two of them.


Edward G. Ulmer's Ruthless (1948) from Olive Films

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Director Edward G. Ulmer's complex psycho-melodrama Ruthless (1948) is undoubtedly worthy of rediscovery. A flashback-structured tale of a sociopath's remorseless drive for station and wealth, Ruthless (often referred to as Ulmer's Citizen Kane) employs a relentless undercurrent of emotional violence. As relayed in an interview with Peter Bogdanovich, Ulmer envisioned his feature as "a Jesuitic morality play... a very bad indictment against 100 percent Americanism—as Upton Sinclair saw it." The film's chilling, malevolent tone is personified in a starkly muted performance by lead—and frequent screen cad—Zachary Scott.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on January 16, 2013, 06:33:22 PM
ruthless has been streaming on netflix for like a while. keep thinking about watching it. seems like quite a few olive releases stream. thinking about space children, run for cover. that might be it actually. not really a lot, i exaggerated. wilderesque you wanna watch ruthless
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 16, 2013, 09:45:23 PM
Quote from: trashculturemutantjunkie on January 16, 2013, 06:33:22 PM
wilderesque you wanna watch ruthless

I canceled Netflix a while ago -- gonna wait for the blu. There's also a shit version on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14sr38hkpSA) if anyone wants to preview it.

February 20, 2013

The next wave of Maurice Pialat releases from Gaumont are available for pre-order.

Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (1972)

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Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (1972) - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Nous-ne-vieillirons-pas-ensemble-Blu-ray/dp/B00ABIPJFM?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00ABIPJFM&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)


Police (1985)

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Police (1985) - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Police-Blu-ray/dp/B00ABIPJ84?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00ABIPJ84&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)


Under the Sun of Satan (1987)

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Under the Sun of Satan (1987) - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Sous-le-soleil-de-Satan-Blu-ray/dp/B00ABIPJ66?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00ABIPJ66&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Reel on January 16, 2013, 09:52:07 PM
Quote from: wilderesque on January 16, 2013, 09:45:23 PM
I canceled Netflix a while ago --

That explains EVERYTHING.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 21, 2013, 07:48:22 AM
April 23, 2013

Jean Rolin's Grapes of Death (1978) and Night of the Hunted  (1980) on blu-ray from Kino/Redemption

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Grapes of Death (1978) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Grapes-Death-Blu-ray-Jean-Rollin/dp/B00B2MM42M/ref=sr_1_6?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1358771126&sr=1-6&keywords=jean+rollin)


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Night of the Hunted (1980) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Night-Hunted-Jean-Rollin/dp/B00B2MKBVI/ref=sr_1_3?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1358771093&sr=1-3&keywords=jean+rollin)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 25, 2013, 10:44:41 PM
May 7, 2013

Heaven (2002) on blu-ray from Miramax/Echo Bridge. Directed by Tom Tykwer. Made from an original script by Krzysztof Kieslowski and Krzysztof Piesiewiczi.

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Heaven (2002) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Heaven-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d031%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-031-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00B4VSUSI&ASIN=B00B4VSUSI&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



She's So Lovely (1997) on blu-ray from Miramax/Echo Bridge. Directed by Nick Cassavetes. Made from an original script by John Cassavetes.

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She's So Lovely (1997) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Shes-So-Lovely-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d031%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-031-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00B4VSTTI&ASIN=B00B4VSTTI&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on January 26, 2013, 01:28:13 PM
didn't realize she's so lovely was from one of dad's scripts. then like i remember how much further dad took scripts, how much life he found in them and the work he did with actors, etc.

but i wanna see it!
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 26, 2013, 02:38:45 PM
They're both uneven movies, but it's interesting to see what they do with another director's material. There's a book called After Kieslowski: The Legacy of Krzysztof Kieślowski (http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814338384/), which is a regular book but available as a free PDF download at that link that discusses Kieslowski's projects taken on by other directors after his death (Hell (2005) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430224/) and Purgatory (2007) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0847750/) being another two) and his influence in general.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Pubrick on January 29, 2013, 09:57:31 AM
Quote from: wilderesque on January 26, 2013, 02:38:45 PM
available as a free PDF download at that link

how do i access the PDF? when i click it asks for login details.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 31, 2013, 06:26:12 PM
May 13, 2013

Hal Hartley's Amateur (1994) on blu-ray from Artificial Eye

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Amateur (1994) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Amateur-Blu-ray-Isabelle-Huppert/dp/B00B8WD0TC/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1360526257&sr=1-2)


May 27, 2013

Hal Hartley's The Unbelievable Truth (1989) on blu-ray from Artificial Eye

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The Unbelievable Truth (1989) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unbelievable-Truth-Blu-ray-Adrienne-Shelly/dp/B00B8X733K/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1360526266&sr=1-2)


June 10, 2013

Hal Hartley's Simple Men (1992) on blu-ray from Artificial Eye

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 01, 2013, 06:21:57 PM
May 21, 2013

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00BCMT2BI/dvdbeaver-20/ref=nosim)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 08, 2013, 10:07:53 PM
May 6, 2013

John Schlesinger's Billy Liar (1963) from Studio Canal UK

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Billy Liar (1963) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Billy-Liar-50th-Anniversary-Blu-ray/dp/B00BD2SFG0/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1361401212&sr=1-2)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 10, 2013, 01:55:44 PM
April 29, 2013

Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) from Artificial Eye

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Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) - Amazon  UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00B0YL0KE/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)



Robert Bresson's Mouchette (1967) from Artificial Eye

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Mouchette (1967) - Amazon  UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00B0YL0IQ/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 20, 2013, 05:17:27 PM
April 23, 2013

Champion (1949) from Olive Films

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Champion (1949) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Champion-Blu-ray-Paul-Stewart/dp/B00BFWKE5I/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=JJLO92GPPRRO&coliid=IK7LXCQCTN2IZ)


City That Never Sleeps (1953) from Olive Films

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City That Never Sleeps (1953) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/City-That-Never-Sleeps-Blu-ray/dp/B00BGARG14/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=JJLO92GPPRRO&coliid=I3MAF9048Z31LQ)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 20, 2013, 06:58:53 PM
April 2013 TBD

Hal Hartley's Flirt (1995) from Olive Films

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Hal Hartley's Meanwhile (2011) from Olive Films

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William A. Wellman's Magic Town (1947) from Olive Films

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Reed Rothchild on February 21, 2013, 08:46:29 PM
unfortunately i have lost another copy of hard eight. anyone know if it will be released again soon?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 26, 2013, 07:58:29 PM
April 2013 TBD

Cloak and Dagger (1946) from Olive Films

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The Enforcer (1951) from Olive Flms

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Hoodlum Empire (1952) from Olive Films

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 27, 2013, 09:36:57 PM
March 26, 2013

Robert Rossen's Lilith (1964) from Mill Creek

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Lilith (1964) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Ship-of-Fools-and-Lilith-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00AWI6ZS6&ASIN=B00AWI6ZS6&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Noah Baumbach's The Squid and The Whale (2005) from Mill Creek

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The Squid and the Whale (2005) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Squid-and-the-Whale-and-Running-with-Scissors-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00B04NIWM&ASIN=B00B04NIWM&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 28, 2013, 04:54:45 PM
April 2013 TBD

The Men (1950) from Olive Films

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Hal Hartley's The Unbelievable Truth (1989) from Olive Films

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on February 28, 2013, 09:10:55 PM
made it a mission to write about kino's bird of paradise (http://innergenre.blogspot.com/2013/02/bird-of-paradise-32.html) before watching the movie. for various reasons this piece is kind of bonkers and i have a strange attraction to it
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 03, 2013, 11:45:32 PM
May 21, 2013

Ultimate Gangsters Collection from Warner Bros. on blu-ray

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-Little Caesar (1931)
-The Petrified Forest (1936)
-The Public Enemy (1931)
-White Heat (1949)

Ultimate Gangsters Collection - TCM Shop (http://shop.tcm.com/ultimate-gangsters-collection-classic-blu-ray/detail.php?p=442922)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 04, 2013, 05:17:15 PM
May 7, 2013

Sidney Lumet's The Verdict (1982) on blu-ray from 20th Century Fox

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The Verdict (1982) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/The-Verdict-Blu-ray-Paul-Newman/dp/B00BN3EE14/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1373401799&sr=8-3&keywords=the+verdict)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on March 07, 2013, 01:24:59 PM
wilderesque can you rank the jean rollin movies you've seen? plz
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 07, 2013, 01:49:03 PM
The Iron Rose is my favorite, I'm still working my way through the rest. I really like the opening of Requiem for a Vampire...  Jean Rollin is def an acquired taste, try to think of his stuff as "Antonioni Horror", they're all atmosphere...maybe look at some screencaps on blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1146) (note: those aren't all Rollin titles, but all of the Redemption releases) and if you like the visual style based on them you might like the movie...

Start with The Iron Rose if you haven't seen that yet.



I love that bit in the trailer after the 2:15 mark with her dancing.


Excerpts from an extended post (http://mooninthegutter.blogspot.com/2011/10/jean-rollins-iron-rose.html) Jeremy Richey made over at The Moon in the Gutter:

"Perhaps no other major production in Jean Rollin's career has divided fans more than 1973's La Rose de fer. The film, known alternately as The Iron Rose and as The Crystal Rose, is seen by some as one of Rollin's greatest achievements, a haunting poetic production that shows the director at his minimal best, while others, turned off by Rollin's abandoning of his usual Vampiric elements, find the film a failure, and at best a bore. Regardless of one's opinion of the work, two things are for certain, The Iron Rose is one of Jean Rollin's most personal projects, and its failure in 1973 changed the direction of his career drastically.

[...]

The Iron Rose is among the most minimal modern films one could possibly imagine. Outside of an opening party sequence and a few scattered one scene appearances throughout the work, the film only features two characters. The storyline, centering on two young lovers finding themselves lost in a huge expansive old cemetery, is so spare that it is nearly non-existent. In his introduction to the film in Virgins and Vampires Rollin admitted that what interested him about the film was the notion of, "a woman's dramatic self-destruction", and that ultimately it was, "a dark and desperate film." Less a successful modern narrative film and more of a poignant tragic poetic work more akin to silent cinema, The Iron Rose is a remarkable work that grows more and more resonate with each passing year. Like Lou Reed's Berlin, that also came out in 1973, The Iron Rose is a work made by an artist not looking to satisfy the time it is in, but is instead looking to transcend it."



Images from The Iron Rose:

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on March 07, 2013, 02:58:49 PM
you got me pumped now
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 07, 2013, 02:59:10 PM
Demoniacs

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Fascination

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Requiem for a Vampire

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on March 10, 2013, 06:43:12 PM
Quote from: wilderesque on January 25, 2013, 10:44:41 PM
She's So Lovely (1997) on blu-ray from Miramax/Echo Bridge. Directed by Nick Cassavetes. Made from an original script by John Cassavetes.

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available now and for $5 at best buy

also:
Hoax
Bounty Hunters 2: Hardball
Full Frontal
Fresh
Committed
Nameless
Hellraiser VII: Deader
The Grifters
Heaven
Dragon Lord
Jersey Girl
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Mother's Boys
Best of the Best: Without Warning
Fortress
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 19, 2013, 05:16:36 PM
Ralph Bakshi's Hey Good Lookin' (1982) on DVD from Warner Archive

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Hey Good Lookin' (1982) - Warner Archive (http://shop.warnerarchive.com/product/code/1000384374.do?adid=0319WACNRcEml&ref=EW0319C)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 20, 2013, 02:22:29 AM
April 2, 2013

Forbidden Hollywood Vol. 6 from Warner Archive

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Forbidden Hollywood Vol. 6 - Warner Archive (http://shop.warnerarchive.com/product/forbidden+hollywood+collection+volume+6+1000388404.do?sortby=ourPicks&from=fn)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 18, 2013, 06:48:56 PM
May 27, 2013

John Cassavetes' Opening Night (1977) on blu-ray from BFI

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Opening Night (1977) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Opening-Night-Blu-ray-Gena-Rowlands/dp/B008K17KAO/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1366328748&sr=1-1&keywords=opening+night)


The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Killing-Chinese-Bookie-Blu-ray/dp/B008K17KE0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1366328815&sr=8-2&keywords=the+killing+of+a+chinese+bookie) to follow on July 15, 2013.

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Shadows, Faces, and A Woman Under the Influence are already available.

Hopefully this means a blu-ray redux of Criterion's Five Films box set later this year...?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 20, 2013, 05:51:22 PM
June 3, 2013

The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002) on blu-ray in the UK

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The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Kid-Stays-in-the-Picture-Blu-ray/dp/B00CE8WI06?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00CE8WI06&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 22, 2013, 05:04:33 PM
Masters of Cinema Summer 2013

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on April 22, 2013, 10:15:19 PM
two bottom titles most excite me, but

wanna share the 411 that i saw naked island in a theater with a benicio del toro introduction

benicio
del
toro
introduced naked island, mm-hmm
lil wacky, yeah. he was mellow and his intro was good. the movie is silent and realistic and lyrical, you'll prob like it wilderesque, imho
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 22, 2013, 10:17:55 PM
Cool I'll check it out, thanks for the recommendation. Shindo made a movie called Ningen (Human) (1962) that I saw a clip from and that thing looked really interesting. The movie is generally unavailable and I can't find the clip again -- it was on vimeo and seems to be gone now. Meaning to say you're probably right.

I'm excited for the bottom two, as well. Been wanting to know where this image came from forever:

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 22, 2013, 10:30:07 PM
April 30, 2013

Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 7 on DVD from Warner Archive

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Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 7 - Warner Archive (http://shop.warnerarchive.com/product/forbidden+hollywood+collection+volume+7+1000388401.do?sortby=ourPicks&from=fn)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on April 22, 2013, 10:41:24 PM
murnau and rivette are my crushes or like that, yeah for sure. bluray excited

precode, yay. some of my favs. can't remember if i already said that a couple weeks ago i watched a few with mentionable names; wanna mention right now '29's the letter w/jeanne eagles. wonderful actress and a lightning bolt irl story. movie was great too btw, some sound missing but from 29 so no big deal

new page hmm, mm-hmm
k
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 23, 2013, 02:28:58 PM
Screencaps from Gaumont's Pialat releases on blu-ray. Click through for full size.


Under the Sun of Satan (1987)

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A nos amours (1983)

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Loulou (1980)

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Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (1972)

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Police (1985)

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Van Gogh (1991)

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 26, 2013, 09:47:52 PM
July 3, 2013

Sidney Lumet's Q & A (1990) from Carlotta France

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Q & A (1990) - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Q-and-A-Blu-ray/dp/B00CHRFG4E?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00CHRFG4E&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 08, 2013, 10:13:39 AM
July 9, 2013

The Jerk (1979) from Universal

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The Jerk (1979) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Jerk-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00COHGOMU&ASIN=B00COHGOMU&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 09, 2013, 04:56:35 PM
July 30, 2013

Henry Hathaway's technicolor noir Niagara (1953) from Fox

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Niagara (1953) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Niagara-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00CPIXO62&ASIN=B00CPIXO62&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 13, 2013, 05:26:09 PM
November 12, 2013

John Carpenter's Body Bags (1993) from Shout Factory

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John Carpenter's Body Bags (1993) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Collectors-Edition-BluRay-Combo-Blu-ray/dp/B00EALTVPA/ref=reg_hu-rd_add_1_dp)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 15, 2013, 01:10:04 PM
September 10, 2013

Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) from Warner Bros.

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and


US release of John Schlesinger's Marathon Man (1976) from Warner Bros.

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 17, 2013, 04:39:59 PM
Redemption Films Acquires Five Alain Robbe-Grillet Films
via blu-ray.com

Redemption Films has announced that it has acquired five films by acclaimed French writer and director Alain Robbe-Grillet: Trans-Europe-Express (1967), The Man Who Lies (1968), Eden and After (1970) and Slow Slidings of Pleasure! (1974). Also included as an extra with Eden and After is the film's alternate version N Take the Dice (1971).

Redemption Films is yet to announce preliminary U.S. release dates for Blu-ray releases of the five Alain Robbe-Grillet films.   
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 21, 2013, 03:07:46 PM
2013 TBD

Second Sight planning to release Jean-Jacques Annaud's Quest for Fire (1981) on blu-ray. I love this film -- if memory serves me, the entire thing plays out almost completely without dialogue.

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 30, 2013, 07:42:29 PM
October 7, 2013

Poltergeist III (1988) from Fox in the UK

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Poltergeist III (1988) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poltergeist-III-Blu-ray-Heather-ORourke/dp/B00D3I17DU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1373413331&sr=8-2&keywords=poltergeist+3)

This movie was used as a visual reference for Todd Haynes' Safe (1995)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 31, 2013, 03:55:09 PM
Second Sight to Release Jean-Jacques Beineix's Betty Blue
via blu-ray.com

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British distributors Second Sight Films have revealed that they are planning to release on Blu-ray French director Jean-Jacques Beineix's 37°2 le matin a.k.a Betty Blue (1986), starring Jean-Hugues Anglade, Béatrice Dalle, and Gérard Darmon. Currently, it is unknown whether this upcoming release will contain the longer Director's Cut of the film.

Betty (Dalle) and Zorg (Anglade) have a passionate, if somewhat unconventional relationship. When she discovers his half-written novel she burns his house down and forces him to go to Paris with her in search of fame. There they team up with another couple, who run a pizza joint, before moving south, where Betty begins her tragic demise into madness and eventual death.   

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Hopefully this will improve on the botched transfer that Cinema Libre Studios put out -- which makes the whole move look like it's filtered through the "smooth motion" setting on HDTVs.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 06, 2013, 02:11:06 PM
September 17, 2013

Jean-Pierre Melville's Two Men in Manhattan (1959) on blu-ray from Cohen Film

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Pubrick on June 06, 2013, 06:27:59 PM
Quote from: wilderesque on June 06, 2013, 02:11:06 PM
September 17, 2013

Jean-Pierre Melville's Two Men in Manhattan (1959) on blu-ray from Cohen Film

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No anecdote for that one?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 08, 2013, 01:21:48 AM
September 3, 2013

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) from Warner Bros.

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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Postman-Always-Rings-Twice-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%256ee%2577s%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B008PJZDX2&ASIN=B008PJZDX2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: MacGuffin on June 14, 2013, 02:18:56 PM
Quote from: Garam on June 14, 2013, 11:22:56 AM
Jennifer Lange is catastrophically hot in that movie.

Jessica Lange is even hotter.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 19, 2013, 05:07:01 PM
October 7, 2013

James Ivory's The Remains of the Day (1993) on blu-ray from Sony UK

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The Remains of the Day (1993) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Remains-of-the-Day-Blu-ray/dp/B00DGXKNR8?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00DGXKNR8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 19, 2013, 11:43:22 PM
October 8, 2013

Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 (1953) on blu-ray from Warner Bros.

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Stalag 17 (1953) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Stalag-17-Blu-ray-William-Holden/dp/B00DHS8N5G/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1373401160&sr=8-2&keywords=stalag+17)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 26, 2013, 06:51:58 PM
August 27, 2013

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) from Olive Films

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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Tomorrow-Goodbye-Blu-ray-James-Cagney/dp/B00DO0MDSK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373413248&sr=8-1&keywords=kiss+tomorrow+goodbye)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 27, 2013, 05:06:43 PM
July 15, 2013

Elliot Silverstein's The Car (1977) on blu-ray from Arrow UK

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Reversible cover:

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The Car (1977) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Car-Blu-ray/dp/B00CKE29AI?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00CKE29AI&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Pubrick on June 27, 2013, 07:42:51 PM
Wow, you've really outrandomed yourself this time. That looks hilarious.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Pwaybloe on June 27, 2013, 10:07:11 PM
I have to admit that trailer was textbook bad (in a good way). Absolutely superb.

Rated PG?  WTF? 
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: matt35mm on June 27, 2013, 11:53:23 PM
I saw a really nice print of that movie at the Alamo Drafthouse. It was very entertaining.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 28, 2013, 02:39:53 PM
Thought this was interesting, via AVS Forum, Argo: iTunes vs. Vudu vs. Blu-ray (http://www.avsforum.com/t/1459687/argo-itunes-vs-vudu-vs-blu-ray). Click over for framegrab comparisons.

Quote

Much of Argo was shot on grainy film, which presents a serious challenge to compression algorithms. Film grain is easily mistaken for noise and also consumes bandwidth in the same way digital noise does. In this frame, Vudu HDX loses the most contrast and detail as a result of compression, all of film grain is treated as noise and eliminated. The iTunes 720p and 1080p versions look nearly identical, preserving more detail and texture than Vudu HD was able to. Unfortunately, iTunes also tends to treat the film grain as noise, just like Vudu. Of the three non Blu-ray formats, iTunes 720p had the fewest problems dealing with film grain.

[...]

The camera does not move in this shot, giving the iTunes 1080p and Vudu HDX versions time to fill in the details. When compression algorithms can draw from past and future frames, they do much better at preserving details. The Vudu version looks the sharpest, but it is also the least authentic reproduction of the original. Treating the film grain as noise makes the iTunes 1080p and Vudu HDX versions look cleaner than Blu-ray and makes fine details easy to see. The iTunes 720p version has less detail than the 1080p version but preserves some of the original film grain. The Blu-ray version renders the most accurate colors and also properly preserves the film grain.

[...]

This scene was shot handheld, likely on 16mm film stock, it is very grainy and blurry on purpose. Vudu HDX and iTunes 1080p try to process the grain, the result is ugly artifacts in the skin tones that look like smooth patches, as if it was airbrushed. Vudu HDX exhibited significant macro blocking in the shadow regions. The iTunes 720p version reduces the film grain but does so in a smooth, natural looking manner. Blu-ray preserves the character of the original film, although it also exhibits some very minor compression artifacts.

[...]

In this close-up we see the destructive effects of Vudu's algorithms in full effect, the film grain is wiped out. iTunes 1080p manages to preserve a lot of the details, but there are unnatural-looking smooth patches on the woman's face. The iTunes 720p version loses some fine details but manages to preserve enough of the film grain to look authentic, and it is free of artifacts. Blu-ray renders the scene perfectly preserving all of the film grain, as is appropriate.

[...]

In this dark action scene, both the iTunes 1080p and Vudu HDX version convert the out-of-focus background - an effect is known as "bokeh" - into colored blobs. The iTunes 1080p version suffers from the most noise-reduction artifacts while the iTunes 720p remains more faithful to the original, preserving some film grain and introducing no artifacts. When it comes to reproducing actual film, especially gritty grainy film, Blu-ray is superior by a significant margin.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 03, 2013, 03:13:09 PM
July 23, 2013

Walter Hill's The Driver (1978) from Twilight Time - Limited Edition of 3,000 copies

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The Driver (1978) - Screen Archives (http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/25385/THE-DRIVER-1978/)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 03, 2013, 04:25:04 PM
Quote from: wilderesque on July 03, 2013, 03:13:09 PM
July 23, 2013

Walter Hill's The Driver (1978) from Twilight Time - Limited Edition of 3,000 copies

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The Driver (1978) - Screen Archives (http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/25385/THE-DRIVER-1978/)

movie buyers questioned "why the limited edition stuff twilight?" and the answer i heard was that it's a stipulation from the production companies, because their goals are streamline centered

an article would would be a helpful reference. used google and first found ebert:
http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/movies-dont-stream-themselves
QuoteAnd an enterprising company named Twilight Time buys the rights to publish 3,000 copies of unavailable titles ("When they're gone, they're gone!"). Many studios just aren't interested in those kinds of DVD sales

it ups the prices and reduces the possibilities, but it's all they're allowed. i get the wonder. they're too expensive for me :(

the driver is a movie classic. its screenplay is a movie classic -- walter hill wrote it in a prose fashion that's irregular for its genre. through the script alone, you get the tone of the movie. he called it. you can read the script at the academy library (yeahyeah, you can read it online too, i bet) and it's #2 on a list of screenplays that people i know have visited the library to read. #1 is a long tie for any kubrick script, as you probably would have guessed
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 08, 2013, 05:04:42 AM
Masters of Cinema - August 2103

Michelangelo Antonioni's La Notte (1961)

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Antonio Campos' Simon Killer (2012)

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Douglas Sirk's The Tarnished Angels (1957)

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Masters of Cinema - September 2013

Federico Fellini's Il Bidone (1955)

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Douglas Sirk's A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)

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Maurice Pialat's Van Gogh (1991)

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: The Perineum Falcon on July 08, 2013, 06:55:36 AM
Beautiful covers! Eureka puts out beautiful editions of all their films, I just wish more were region free.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 09, 2013, 03:03:29 PM
October 28, 2013

-Funny Games U.S. (2007) from Artificial Eye on blu-ray

-The Definitive Michael Haneke (Released on DVD only) from Artificial Eye. This 13-DVD box set will include Funny Games US, Amour and Michael H: Profession Director. Artificial Eye will also try to bring a Blu-ray version of it in 2014 after high-definition transfers are available for all films.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 10, 2013, 02:09:39 PM
November 5, 2013

William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) from Warner Bros.

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 10, 2013, 10:10:54 PM
Q4 2013 TBD

F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922), Orson Welles' The Trial (1962), and Alexander Sokurov's Russian Arc (2002) coming to blu-ray from Kino
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 13, 2013, 03:09:04 AM
There's a new exploitation distribution label called Vinegar Syndrome (http://vinegarsyndrome.com/launch/) that seems pretty fucking awesome. They've only had a few releases so far. Some below. More to come. These trailers are worth watching.


Now Available

The Telephone Book (1971)

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The Telephone Book (1971) - ImportCDs (http://www.importcds.com/movies/2596629/telephone-book-2-discs-)

A major, though forgotten, work from New York's underground film scene of the late 60s and early 70s, Nelson Lyon's The Telephone Book tells the story of Alice, a sex-obsessed hippie who falls in love with the world's greatest obscene phone caller and embarks on a quest to find him. Her journey introduces her to an avant-garde stag filmmaker, a manipulative psychiatrist, a lesbian housewife, and more. Photographed in high-contrast black-and-white, and punctuated with a remarkable, surreal color animated sequence, The Telephone Book is one of the greatest cult films you've probably never heard of.




Punk Vacation (1987)

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Punk Vacation (1987) - ImportCDs (http://www.importcds.com/movies/2608966/punk-vacation)

A peaceful California town is shaken after the brutal murder of diner owner by a gang of vicious punks. When the daughter of the slain man attempts to avenge her father's death, she's held hostage by the gang resulting in an epic battle between punks and rednecks.




The Lost Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis (1969-1971)

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The Lost Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis (1969-1971)- ImportCDs (http://www.importcds.com/movies/2520295/lost-films-of-herschell-gordon-lewis-2-discs)




Massage Parlor Murders (1972)

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Massage Parlor Murders (1972) - ImportCDs (http://www.importcds.com/movies/2574561/massage-parlor-murders)

A vicious serial killer is stalking the streets of New York City, murdering Times Square massage girls in a variety of brutal ways. It's up to a rogue detective team to solve the case as the body count continues to rise! Chock full of over the top sex and violence and complete with a high speed car chase through Manhattan, MASSAGE PARLOR MURDERS is an exploitation film lover's dream movie.




August 13, 2013

Good Luck Miss Wyckoff (1979)

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Good Luck Miss Wyckoff (1979) - ImportCDs (http://www.importcds.com/movies/2624724/good-luck-miss-wyckoff)

Set in the small town of Freedom, Kansas in 1954, GOOD LUCK, MISS WYCKOFF stars Anne Heywood as Evelyn Wyckoff, a virginal high-school teacher who learns that she has started early menopause. Feeling hopeless and isolated, she is advised by her doctor (Robert Vaughn) and psychiatrist (Donald Pleasance) to find a lover, which results in a series of brutal and horrifying events.

Based on a novel by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright William Inge (Picnic, Splendor in the Grass), GOOD LUCK, MISS WYCKOFF is a haunting story of ill-fated lust and sexual repression set against a backdrop of American racism.





September 10, 2013

The Doll Squad (1973) and Mission: Killfast (1991)

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Also check out their DVD catalog (http://vinegarsyndrome.com/launch/?product_cat=dvd-discs)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 17, 2013, 08:49:18 PM
September 24, 2013

Joseph H. Lewis' The Big Combo (1955) from Olive Films

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The Big Combo (1955) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/The-Combo-Blu-ray-Cornel-Wilde/dp/B00E18QK9W/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2TWZT275XZBHH&coliid=I2GP0M93H8TEVV)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Pubrick on July 17, 2013, 10:45:47 PM
so.. should i buy all of these?

mostly i'm just compiling a list of interesting forgotten movies to pirate.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 17, 2013, 11:22:38 PM
Do you have a region-free blu-ray player?

I'd recommend almost anything released by Masters of Cinema -- the team behind those releases seem to have more focused tastes than Criterion, and put out a similar level product. I continue updating this thread just to keep track of interesting classic releases that would otherwise disappear into the internet ether or to highlight obscure releases I think deserve more attention. As I said a few posts back, the Rollins are an acquired taste. The Big Combo is a prime example of noir cinematography, shot by John Alton, who wrote the seminal cinematography book Painting with Light (http://www.amazon.com/Painting-Light-John-Alton/dp/0520089499). Most of the titles I post in here are put out by boutique labels that rely on making every sale they can garner to stay alive. I understand the hesitancy to blind buy anything you haven't seen, but if you sample something in this thread and dig it, consider purchasing. Especially from an outfit like Vinegar Syndrome that is run by two guys. There are tons of movies I still want HD transfers of. I figure if these labels don't see a profit, HD transfers of the remaining films I'm hoping for will mostly never come to light.

The Pialat releases I'd definitely recommend, especially if you like Cassavetes. Those directors are related to each other a lot, and while they're not really the same, Pialat movies exhibit a similarly elite level of acting that, in the realm of naturalism, isn't really equalled by anyone but the Dardennes in my opinion. I find the Dardennes Bros. movies kind of general though in comparison to stuff by Pialat, who is more specifically focused on emotionally violent relationships between families and lovers.

Check DVDBeaver and Blu-ray.com for reviews. The Olive transfers can be all over the place, but I imagine they'll put some effort into something like The Big Combo. I list the director alongside most of these titles. Figure everyone here has their own leanings. Go by that I guess.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 18, 2013, 12:05:26 AM
Raro Acquires Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist
via blu-ray.com

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Raro Video U.S. announced today that it has acquired the distribution rights to renowned Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci's Il conformista a.k.a The Conformist (1970), starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda, and Pierre Clémenti. The label also revealed that it plans to bring the film to Blu-ray later this year.

Bertolucci's visually electrifying masterpiece tells the story of 30-year-old Italian Marcello (Trintignant), who's targeted by a Fascist espionage organization to lead a deadly mission in France. On his journey, Marcello, with his naive wife Giulia (Sandrelli), will see his troubled past and current moral dilemma violently collide. Bertolucci's masterful direction and his Oscar-nominated screenplay are complemented by Vittorio Storaro's stunning cinematography.

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I'm assuming everyone is familiar with this movie, but if you aren't...


^there's a bullshit track over that clip but it features a wide variety of shots from the film

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 22, 2013, 09:12:14 PM
Stoked on these screencaps from the blu-ray release of Niagara (1953). Click for full size.

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and Bus Stop (1956)


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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 23, 2013, 12:01:17 AM
October 1, 2013

US release of From Here to Eternity (1953) from Sony

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From Here to Eternity (1953) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/From-Here-To-Eternity-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00E21QTL2&ASIN=B00E21QTL2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 23, 2013, 06:27:26 AM
Quote from: Pubrick on June 06, 2013, 06:27:59 PM
Quote from: wilderesque on June 06, 2013, 02:11:06 PM
September 17, 2013

Jean-Pierre Melville's Two Men in Manhattan (1959) on blu-ray from Cohen Film

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No anecdote for that one?

Jean-Pierre Melville's only film shot in the USA



...and the Betty Blue score just for the hell of it, because nothing destroys me quite like the first track.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 26, 2013, 04:15:40 AM
October 15, 2013

Ida Lupino's The Hitch-hiker (1953) on blu-ray from Kino

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The Hitch-hiker (1953) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Hitch-Hiker-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00E5MIMEK&ASIN=B00E5MIMEK&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



Orson Welles' The Stranger (1946) on blu-ray from Kino

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The Stranger (1946) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Stranger-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00E5MIM86&ASIN=B00E5MIM86&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



Curtis Harrington's Night Tide (1961) on blu-ray from Kino Redemption

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Night Tide (1961) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007IHH3QW?keywords=night%20tide%20blu-ray&qid=1448416501&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 28, 2013, 12:58:11 AM
George Stevens' Giant (1956), Elia Kazan's East of Eden (1955), and Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without A Cause (1955) are up for pre-order.


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Giant (1956) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Giant-Blu-ray/dp/B00E5QTW8Q/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=JJLO92GPPRRO&coliid=I366L5GAIMA6JV)



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East of Eden (1955) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/East-of-Eden-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00E5QTWCC&ASIN=B00E5QTWCC&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



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Rebel Without A Cause (1955) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Rebel-Without-a-Cause-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00E5QTWGS&ASIN=B00E5QTWGS&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 02, 2013, 05:21:06 PM
December 16, 2013

Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973) from Arrow UK

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The Long Goodbye (1973) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Long-Goodbye-Blu-ray-Elliott-Gould/dp/B00FGSJERG/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1400707328&sr=1-1&keywords=the+long+goodbye)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 07, 2013, 03:53:50 AM
December 3, 2013

Sidney Lumet's Serpico (1973) on blu-ray from Warner Bros.

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Serpico (1973) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Serpico-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00EF1PKX2&ASIN=B00EF1PKX2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER=)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 07, 2013, 03:40:55 PM
January 14, 2014

F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) on blu-ray from Fox

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Sunrise (1927) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Sunrise-Blu-ray/dp/B00GG0NABE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1385437875&sr=8-1&keywords=sunrise+blu-ray)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: samsong on August 07, 2013, 05:22:20 PM
any news if they're using a transfer from a new restoration?  i have the masters of cinema blu, wondering if this is gonna be an upgrade or not.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 07, 2013, 07:41:16 PM
No word on additional restoration work at this point. I have the MoC too and am wondering the same thing.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 29, 2013, 02:41:07 PM
Upcoming Olive Films Releases
via blu-ray.com

Independent distributors Olive Films have revealed that they are preparing a number of titles to be released on Blu-ray in 2014. Amongst them are: legendary director Abel Gance's J'accuse! (1938), Billy Wilder's recently restored Fedora (1978), an uncut version of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Stationmaster's Wife (1977), Douglas Sirk's Sleep, My Love (1948), Max Ophüls' Caught (1949), and Leo McCarey's Good Sam (1948).

COMPLETE LIST

1. J'accuse! (Abel Gance, 1938)
2. Fedora (Billy Wilder, 1978)
3. The Stationmaster's Wife (Uncut Version) (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977)
4. Caught (Max Ophüls, 1949)
5. Betty Boop: The Essential Collection Volume Three
6. Betty Boop: The Essential Colelction Volume Four
7. The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet, 1964)
8. Stranger on the Prowl (Joseph Losey, 1952)
9. Sleep, My Love (Douglas Sirk, 1948)
10. Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (Irving Pichel, 1948)
11. That's My Man (Frank Borzage, 1947)
12. I've Always Loved You (Frank Borzage, 1946)
13. Magnificent Doll (Frank Borzage, 1946)
14. Forever Female (Irving Rapper, 1953)
15. Up the Junction (Peter Collinson, 1968)
16. Home of the Brave (Mark Robson, 1949)
17. Johnny Come Lately (William K. Howard, 1943)
18. Flying Tigers (David Miller, 1942)
19. The North Star, plus the alternate shorter version Armored Attack (Lewis Milestone, 1943)
20. Operation Petticoat (Blake Edwards, 1959)
21. Distant Drums (Raoul Walsh, 1951)
22. Good Sam (Leo McCarey, 1948)
23. High School Confidential (Jack Arnold, 1958)
24. Love Happy (David Miller, 1949)
25. Sands of Iwo Jima (Allan Dwan, 1949)
26. South of St. Louis (Ray Enright, 1949)
27. Try and Get Me a.k.a The Sound of Fury (Cy Endfield, 1950)
28. So This is New York (Richard Fleischer, 1948)
29. Arch of Triumph (Lewis Milestone, 1948)
30. The Lost Moment (Martin Gabel, 1947)
31. Men in War (Anthony Mann, 1957)
32. The Other Love (André De Toth, 1947)
33. Cauldron of Blood a.k.a Blind Man's Bluff (Santos Alcocer, 1970)
34. Beware, My Lovely (Harry Horner, 1952)
35. Outrage (Ida Lupino, 1950)
36. Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (Freddie Francis, 1965)
37. Man on the Roof (Bo Widerberg, 1976)
38. Adalen 31 a.k.a The Adalen Riots (Bo Widerberg, 1969)
39. Elvira Madigan (Bo Widerberg, 1967)
40. Raven's End (Bo Widerberg, 1963)
41. Ophelia (Claude Chabrol, 1963)
42. The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Ugo Gregoretti, Hiromichi Horikawa   , Roman Polanski, 1964)
43. Guilty of Romance (Sion Sono, 2011)
44. Himizu (Sion Sono, 2011)   
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 29, 2013, 03:08:39 PM
November 19, 2013

William Lustig's Maniac Cop 2 (1990) from Blue Underground

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• Audio Commentary with Director William Lustig and Filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn
• "Back On The Beat - The Making Of MANIAC COP 2" (A newly-produced retrospective documentary including interviews with most of the cast and crew)
• Cinefamily Q&A with Director William Lustig
• Deleted Scene (The Evening News with Sam Raimi)
• Theatrical Trailers
• Poster & Still Gallery
• Isolated Music Track
• Enhanced for D-Box Motion Control Systems

• Gorgeous new 4K High Definition transfer from the original camera negative supervised by Director of Photography James Lemmo
• Blu-ray features upgraded 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio (as well as original Dolby Surround track)
• Blu-ray and DVD feature numerous subtitle options, including English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 30, 2013, 02:23:30 PM
Masters of Cinema Q4 2013

October 21, 2013

Late Mizoguchi (1951-1956) on blu-ray

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Contains:

-Oyū-sama
-Ugetsu Monogatari
-Gion Bayashi
-Sanshō Dayū
-Uwasa no Onna
-Chikamatsu Monogatari
-Yōkihi
-Akasen Chitai



October 28, 2013

Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (1922)

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Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (1922) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00EQ27RNQ/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)


Howard Hawks' Red River (1948)

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Red River (1948) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00ER15K26/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)



November 18, 2013

F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922)

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Nosferatu (1922) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00EQ27RMM/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)



November 25, 2013

Martin Scorsese Presents: World Cinema Foundation: Volume One on blu-ray

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Individual covers:

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Martin Scorsese Presents: World Cinema Foundation: Volume One - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00EQ27RK4/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 04, 2013, 09:18:02 PM
February 24, 2014

Don Siegel's The Killers (1964) on blu-ray from Arrow UK

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The Killers (1964) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Killers-Blu-ray-Lee-Marvin/dp/B00G5IVAA0/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1385437695&sr=1-2&keywords=the+killers)


March 10, 2014

Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels (1941) on blu-ray from Arrow UK

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Sullivan's Travels (1941) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sullivans-Travels-Blu-ray-Joel-McCrea/dp/B00G5IVADM/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1385437741&sr=1-2&keywords=sullivan%27s+travels)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 12, 2013, 09:10:22 PM
Singulus Technologies Develops Replication Line for 100GB Blu-ray Discs
via blu-ray.com

Singulus Technologies AG announced that it has successfully developed BLULINE III, a new replication line capable of manufacturing triple-layer Blu-ray Discs with a storage capacity of 100GB. The BLULINE III will allow the production of next generation optical discs using the current BLULINE II machines for dual-layer Blu-ray Discs.

Following the announcement Dr.-Ing. Stefan Rinck, Chief Executive Officer of Singulus Technologies AG, commented: "Just in time for the market introduction of the new ultra-high definition television technology (4K or Ultra-HD), we completed the development of the production technology for the new triple-layer Blu-ray Discs with 100GB storage capacity. For Singulus Technologies AG, in the Optical Disc segment the year 2013 has been very positive overall. Until the end of this year's August we received significantly more orders for Blu-ray Disc production machines than in the prior-year period. We also see good opportunities for the sales of our Blu-ray production equipment in the future. The positive life cycle of the Blu-ray Disc will continue for some years with the launch of the new ultra-high definition television format".

The following information was also provided with the official announcement:

"The further advancement of today's Blu-ray Discs, the triple-layer Blu-ray Discs with 100GB storage capacity, is the preferred playback medium for the new 4K technology. With the realization of a new and specifically designed data compression method for the ultra-high definition technology, the storage volume per information layer can be increased from 25GB to 33GB. In its committees, the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) is currently discussing the specifications of new, global standards. Singulus Technologies already completed the marketable concept of a new replication line.

At the IFA 2013 media and technology companies provide insights into the future of television: Sky, Astra, Sony, Harmonic, the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute and the German TV-Platform present ultra-high definition. The new generation of high definition television provides four times the resolution (3,840 x 2,560 pixels) of HDTV. 4K will become less expensive: in Berlin a Chinese manufacturer is presenting new Ultra-HD TVs with a price tag of less than €2,000.

In the 1st half of 2013 Blu-ray Disc sales increased by 41 % compared with the same period one year ago (German Association of Audio-Visual Media (BVV), August 2013). With a share of more than 90 %, physical media (Blu-ray and DVD) also continue to dominate sales in the home entertainment market in 2013. Blu-ray Disc sales in the U.S., the international key market, will expand with a double-digit growth rate in 2013. This favorable trend is amplified by the market launch of the new ultra-high definition television technology and the upcoming market introduction of the new gaming consoles Playstation PS4 by Sony and Microsoft's Xbox One. Both gaming consoles are even expected to be equipped with a Blu-ray drive with 4K support to win the consumers' favor. At several gaming conventions and the IFA, the two new consoles were a highlight."   
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 07, 2013, 06:23:54 PM
Classic Films Get a Market of Their Own
via Variety

Already featured at Cannes and Venice film festivals, classic pictures were overdue for a dedicated market, and now they have one at Lyon's Lumiere festival.

Launched by Lumiere fest director Thierry Fremaux (who is also Cannes film fest topper and creator of Cannes Classics), the three-day market is conceived as "a new meeting point for classics' right-holders, sales agents, producers and laboratories looking to show what they're up to, promote their work and/or conduct business deals," says Fremaux.

Lyon's oldies market in the Lumiere Village, running Oct. 16-18, is the first of its kind in the world and it is attracting such international players as Japan's Shochiku Eiga, which restored Yasujiro Ozu's films.

"Our goal is to show that there's a market for classics," Fremaux says.

In the U.S., the classics biz has been hurt by the collapse of homevideo revenue. "The ability to amortize the preservation costs through a DVD or Blu-ray release is becoming less and less likely," says Jan-Christopher Horak, director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

To balance out that homevideo decline, Fremaux says, "VOD presents a viable distribution avenue for classics, even if we still need to come up with a better way to monetize streaming. Television is another interesting avenue."

Classics are big in Gaul. "France hosts over a dozen distributors of classic films and more than 100 theaters that show classics because there's a cinefil audience for these films."

The U.S., France and the U.K. are the top three markets for these treasures of the past, says Vincent Paul-Boncour, topper of Paris-based classics' distributor Carlotta Films, which recently bowed an international sales division in France and will soon create a distribarm in North America.

"The spotlight drawn by prestigious international festivals like Cannes or Venice on classics and the digital switch have energized this industry, and especially in the U.S.," says Paul-Boncour.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 09, 2013, 03:16:58 PM
The Visitor (1979) - January 2014 TBD
via Blu-ray.com

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Drafthouse Films has announced the Blu-ray release of the full-length cut of the 1979 sci-fi/horror hybrid The Visitor, starring John Huston, Shelley Winters, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen, Franco Nero and Sam Peckinpah. The film is also being re-released in theaters for a limited engagement in major markets this Halloween. The Blu-ray edition is set to follow in January, 2014.

Official Synopsis: Legendary Hollywood director/actor John Huston (The Maltese Falcon; Treasure Of The Sierra Madre) stars as an intergalactic warrior battling alongside a cosmic Christ figure against a demonic eight-year-old girl and her pet hawk, as the fate of the universe hangs in the balance.

In the dawn of '70s American blockbusters, European production companies emerged stateside, attempting to recreate box office gold by cloning Hollywood. The infamous Supreme Court-banned Jaws copy Great White, The Exorcist-esque Beyond the Door and countless others were packaged for export and the burgeoning drive-in circuit. Producer Ovidio G. Assonitis and director/alleged bodybuilder Michael J. Paradise's TheVisitor stands as perhaps the most ambitious of all, taking its inspiration by artfully fusing The Omen, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Birds, Rosemary's Baby, The Fury and Star Wars alongside a baffling cast that includes Shelley Winters (Night of the Hunter), Glenn Ford (Superman), Lance Henriksen (Aliens), Franco Nero (Django) and Sam Peckinpah (director of The Wild Bunch).

The result is not so much a carbon copy of these films, but rather an entertainingly hallucinatory and inscrutable mash-up that repertory cinema programmers around the country have rediscovered for late-night bookings. "Just when you think you've nailed down which direction the film is heading in, it completely shatters your notion of the time-space continuum," says LA art-house The Cinefamily. The Village Voice also calls the film "ridiculously entertaining [and] a schizophrenic mother of all '70's drive-in oddities."

"This film is from another time, another place and a wholly different dimension," says Drafthouse Films Creative Director Evan Husney, "and contains the highest JDPM (jaw-drops-per-minute) ratio out of any movie we've ever encountered. The Visitor is a repertory mainstay at the Alamo Drafthouse and is truly one of the most joyfully delirious theatrical experiences we've unleashed on our audiences. The world wasn't ready for this film in 1979, and it still may not be. Regardless, we are ecstatic to reintroduce cinema's most colossally bizarro achievement. Ever."

The Blu-ray release of The Visitor features a new HD restoration from the original film materials. Complete tech specs and special features have yet to be revealed.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on October 10, 2013, 01:21:04 AM
Quote from: wilder on October 09, 2013, 03:16:58 PM
The Visitor (1979) - January 2014 TBD

coming to la in november (http://www.cinefamily.org/films/special-events-november-2013/), i'd like to also offer cinefamily's description (quoted in wilder's article) and clip from the movie. all i needed was "John Huston stars as an intergalactic warrior battling alongside a cosmic Christ figure against a demonic eight-year-old girl and her pet hawk, as the fate of the universe hangs in the balance" and there appears to be much more to say:
(i've bolded things)
QuoteTo celebrate Drafthouse Films' release of our all-time favorite cinematic slab of insanity, it's a weekend's worth of the movie 1979 couldn't handle! The holiest of all Holyfuckingshits, The Visitor has the highest JDPM (Jaw Drops Per Minute) ratio of any film of its era, Italian ripoff or not. It's a wonderful mishmash of The Omen and Close Encounters, but that barely hints at the whacked fervor with which director Giulio Paradisi hurls his hastily assembled "all-star" cast (John Huston, Glenn Ford, Shelley Winters, and, yes, Lance Henriksen) into the cinematic void, showering them with what the Alamo Drafthouse has called "a blackhearted blowout of interplanetary possession, telekinetic avian assault, exploding basketballs and ecclesiastical laserstorms." Just when you think you've nailed down which direction the film is heading in, it completely shatters your notion of the time-space continuum with enough force to rival a thousand screenings of Zabriskie Point. If you miss out on this one, then you have as much regard for cinema as you do for a discarded toenail clipping.
Dir. Giulio Paradisi, 1979, 35mm, 108 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O47EJMkxmCE
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 15, 2013, 04:20:12 PM
Carlotta Films Enters the U.S. Market
via blu-ray.com

Paris-based Carlotta Films has announced that it is launching a U.S. distribution company, which will be known as Carlotta Films U.S. The new company, which will be run by Calantha Mansfield, will focus on bringing classic and little seen independent films to the American market.

The first films Carlotta Films U.S. will distribute theatrically are restored prints of Leos Carax's Boy Meets Girl (1984), starring Denis Lavant, Mireille Perrier, and Carroll Brooks, and Mauvais sang a.k.a The Night is Young (1986), starring Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, and Denis Lavant, as well as Charles Lane's Sidewalk Stories (1989), starring Charles Lane, Nicole Alysia, and Tom Alpern.

Preliminary release dates for upcoming Blu-ray and DVD releases have not yet been revealed.   
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on October 16, 2013, 01:30:53 AM
statistically speaking, boy meets girl astonishes me. leos carax was 24, denis lavant was 23, jean-yves escoffier was 34. following hail mary and redenz-vous, juliete binoche joins for the night is young. an early role from julie delpy. and the imdb synopsis is

In Paris in the near future. Aging thieves Marc and Hans owe money to a tough American woman who gives them two weeks to pay. They scheme to steal and sell a new serum for a disease that's killing lovers, but they need someone with quick steady hands. They recruit Alex, a disaffected youth who's breaking up with Lise, his 16-year-old girlfriend. In the few days before the theft, Alex becomes enchanted with Anna, Marc's young mistress. They talk, they play, they sing, but she's in love with Marc. Lise hasn't given up on Alex either, and she comes to Paris on the day of the theft. There are double crosses, a daring rescue, and, for Alex, a waiting plane. Will he make it?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 27, 2013, 11:47:17 PM
January 14, 2014

Vincent Gallo's Buffalo '66 (1998) on blu-ray from Lionsgate

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Buffalo '66 (1998) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Buffalo-66-15th-Anniversary-Blu-ray/dp/B00G5GNZ78/ref=reg_hu-rd_add_1_dp)

There's some debate (http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=230071) on the blu-ray.com forum about whether or not the Lionsgate disc will be able to match the apparently flawless Japanese blu-ray (http://www.yesasia.com/us/buffalo-66-blu-ray-japan-version/1030977867-0-0-0-en/info.html) transfer. Some screencaps from it in this post (http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=8298479&postcount=17).
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 30, 2013, 09:30:12 PM
January 21, 2014

Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia (1983) on blu-ray from Kino

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Nostalghia (1983) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Nostalghia-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d049%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-049-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00GA9F2PI&ASIN=B00GA9F2PI&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on November 04, 2013, 03:11:03 AM
Quote from: jenkins<3 on October 10, 2013, 01:21:04 AM
Quote from: wilder on October 09, 2013, 03:16:58 PM
The Visitor (1979) - January 2014 TBD

coming to la in november (http://www.cinefamily.org/films/special-events-november-2013/)

bottom line: easy sell, that's all. many cinematic trinkets and that's interesting what they did with the birds there. it's got cosmos and dirty words and philosophical wizardry, huston and nero jesus and oh idk. for me this movie was sometimes beautiful and/or bizarre and not what i want. people laughed a lot because 1 omfg 2 well that was hilariously mean 3 well, whatever
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 25, 2013, 09:42:04 PM
January 21, 2014

Paul Verhoeven's Robocop (1987) mastered in 4K

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Robocop (1987) 4K Remastered Edition - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/RoboCop-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d016%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00GST8UB8&ASIN=B00GST8UB8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on November 27, 2013, 06:59:49 PM
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night of the comet bluray has been released. the movie has a lot of features i treasure, in genre and tone. it's not an overall great movie imo, but i like it, and i've written about it (http://innergenre.blogspot.com/2012/06/night-of-comet.html). the screencaps show that well anyway it's a good bluray release. recommended for the curious

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i reread my own thing and clicked my own link and today also liked my own old writing about eating raoul (http://innergenre.blogspot.com/2009/10/eating-raoul.html). you can see, for many years i've been the person i continue to be. funny enough, i mention pynchon while writing about eating raoul
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on December 10, 2013, 01:23:13 PM
big news imo:

Olivefilms will release Robert Altman's COME BACK TO THE 5 AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN on DVD/Blu-ray in 2014
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 10, 2013, 04:58:23 PM
^ Nice catch.

April 8, 2014

Billy Wilder's Sabrina (1954) from Warner Bros.

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Sabrina (1954) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Sabrina-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00H7T0HC8&ASIN=B00H7T0HC8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

This movie is weird. Humphrey Bogart feels way too old to be playing Audrey Hepburn's love interest, but the movie has beautiful b&w cinematography by Charles Lang.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 11, 2013, 08:18:07 PM
Q1 2014 TBD

Sidney Lumet's The Pawnbroker (1964) from Olive Films

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 13, 2013, 12:48:52 PM
April 15, 2014

Douglas Sirk's Sleep, My Love (1948) from Olive Films

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Alison Courtland wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she cannot remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

Sleep, My Love (1948) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Sleep-My-Love-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d016%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00H8J2KZE&ASIN=B00H8J2KZE&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 16, 2013, 03:39:48 PM
May 2014 TBD

Michelangelo Antonioni's The Vanquished (1953) on blu-ray from Raro Video

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Challenging linear narrative by weaving multiple story lines and exploring a directorial style way ahead of his time, director Michelangelo Antonioni's unique triptych film features three murders, one taking place in Paris, another in Rome, and another in London. All of the perpetrators are affluent youths, each killing for dubious motives. In the France segment, a group of adolescents kill for money, even though they don't need it; in the London segment, a poet uncovers a woman's body and tries to profit from the discovery; and in the Italian segment, a student becomes caught up in a smuggling ring, with deadly results. With elements that serve as a precursor to Blowup, Antonioni explores how modern society can produce nihilistic tendencies in the least likely characters.   
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 17, 2013, 08:07:03 PM
Just discovered that most (all?) of Eric Rohmer's films have been restored for blu-ray and were released in France this past November, all with optional English subtitles.


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- La femme de l'aviateur (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Le beau mariage (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Pauline à la plage (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Les nuits de la pleine lune (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Le rayon vert (Blu-ray + DVD)
- L'ami de mon amie (Blu-ray + DVD)

Eric Rohmer - Comedies et proverbes - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Coffret-Rohmer-Comedies-et-proverbes-Blu-ray/dp/B00E8WL4K6?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00E8WL4K6&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)


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- Conte de printemps (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Conte d'hiver (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Conte d'été (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Conte d'automne (Blu-ray + DVD)

Eric Rohmer - Contes des quatres saisons - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Coffret-Rohmer-Contes-des-quatres-saisons-Blu-ray/dp/B00E8WL672?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00E8WL672&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)


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- La boulangère de Monceau (Blu-ray + DVD)
- La carrière de Suzanne (Blu-ray + DVD)
- La collectionneuse (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Ma nuit chez Maud (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Le genou de Claire (Blu-ray + DVD)
- L'amour l'après-midi (Blu-ray + DVD)

Eric Rohmer - Contes moraux - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Coffret-Rohmer-Contes-moraux-Blu-ray/dp/B00E8WL67W?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00E8WL67W&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)


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- Le signe du lion (Blu-ray + DVD)
- La boulangère de Monceau (Blu-ray + DVD)
- La carrière de Suzanne (Blu-ray + DVD)
- La collectionneuse (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Ma nuit chez Maud (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Le genou de Claire (Blu-ray + DVD)
- L'amour l'après-midi (Blu-ray + DVD)
- La marquise d'O... (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Perceval le Gallois (Blu-ray + DVD)
- La femme de l'aviateur (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Le beau mariage (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Pauline à la plage (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Les nuits de la pleine lune (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Le rayon vert (Blu-ray + DVD)
- L'ami de mon amie (Blu-ray + DVD)
- 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Conte de printemps (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Conte d'hiver (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Conte d'été (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Conte d'automne (Blu-ray + DVD)
- L'arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (Blu-ray + DVD)
- Les rendez-vous de Paris (Blu-ray + DVD)

Coffret Rohmer intégral - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Coffret-Eric-Rohmer-lintegrale-Blu-ray/dp/B00E8WL6EA?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00E8WL6EA&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)


I love the light and framing in these screencaps included in the DVDBeaver review (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdcompare2/girlfriendsboyfriend.htm) of Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987), available in the Comedies et proverbes box set:

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...and this IMDB user's comments on this particular movie, which remind me very much of Petzold as well:

Quote from: Ilpo HirvonenEric Rohmer was more than one of the directors who formed the French New Wave. He also wrote a lot of surveys and articles about cinema, especially about his favorite director, F.W. Murnau, out who he wrote his dissertation. His first article that got published in the year 1948 was titled (directly translated:) "Film, art of space." In the year 1962 Eric Rohmer published his academic survey called: "The construction of space in Murnau's Faust." While reading about his surveys and articles, it's no surprise that space in Rohmer's films seems to be as important as the plot.

While trying to figure out the space of My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, I can't miss the futuristic city the characters live in. I got the feeling that Eric Rohmer isn't trying to tell a story of four specific people who live in France. To me he's telling about all the people living in these suburbs of Paris. The space of a futuristic city, the city full of postmodern architecture without any past. This theme of the milieu leads to rootlessness. The people of this city have no past, each of them like to analyze and talk about themselves. But none of them really know who they are.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on December 17, 2013, 09:58:05 PM
that's a strong component of peter bogdanovich, wes anderson, hong sangsoo, and others who also interact social mechanics with cinematic mechanics. the spaces of places characters inhabit offer vital substances to the connections and distances of the characters involved. cities and boats -- boats remind me of knife in the water, polanski, and the creation of measurable tension. cul-de-sac also. this is a topic i enjoy and is a thing we could essay. glad you brought it up. let's save the thought for future discussion

for now, i especially like rohmer's table shot. it's a summarizing shot of this philosophy

wilder, what's your most treasured rohmer movie? i tend to say pauline at the beach, but i wonder if that's true or if that's just my most thought about. he has so man movies with so many riches!
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on December 17, 2013, 10:23:10 PM
i discovered several years ago that my life is eric rohmers films.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 17, 2013, 10:49:14 PM
I've only seen the stuff included in The Six Moral Tales box set, and I think Claire's Knee, but I remember liking Pauline at the Beach most too back when I when I watched them as a teenager. Rohmer is a director I've been wanting to revisit for a while, I haven't watched any of his films since then. They seemed "good", but markedly different in style than any other director's work I'd seen, and probably a little over my head at that point - I distinctly remember trying to figure out what it was that made them work and specifics eluding me. This makes me want to see them again.

Quote from: jenkins<3 on December 17, 2013, 09:58:05 PM
that's a strong component of peter bogdanovich, wes anderson, hong sangsoo, and others who also interact social mechanics with cinematic mechanics. the spaces of places characters inhabit offer vital substances to the connections and distances of the characters involved.

The environments themselves almost become extensions of the characters, instead of the character's being born of their environments, or the environments and characters are offered equal importance, influencing one another, offering comment and reflection on each other...the space becomes a physical echo, and the surrounding frame is considered as an area of additional visual interest apart from the character's faces alone as if every shot were a kind of 2 shot - one character being an actor, the other being the space itself -- which seems to be the very opposite technique of most movies made now, with so much being shot in close up from "here", "to here" (hand under chin and above head), with a vaguely aesthetically pleasing mush of out-of-focus shapes in the background. Antonioni is the king of this. All pretty obvious.

In general, the importance of character's relationships to the spaces they inhabit seems to be becoming lost, to me one of the most interesting aspects of filmmaking. Even the studio guns for hire of yesteryear seemed to understand this better than most major directors working now. Maybe it's because in life, attention paid to our physical environment sort of "dims" as we engage with all things digital, it's literally becoming less relevant as time goes on.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on December 17, 2013, 11:52:02 PM
antonioni gallo malick noé von sternberg. i'm into those things, their visual atmospheres. and i adore regionalism and environment and movement (of person and camera) and every texture there is i'm into the texture, its rich layer. the culture of cinema. do you think we're having a rohmer moment. i think it's very sangsoo
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 18, 2013, 12:09:22 AM
Quote from: jenkins<3 on December 17, 2013, 11:52:02 PM
von sternberg

yes!

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: classical gas on December 18, 2013, 12:12:12 AM
which movie is that?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 18, 2013, 12:20:40 AM
They're all from The Docks of New York (1928) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018839/) except image 6, which is from Underworld (1927) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018526/)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on December 18, 2013, 01:10:57 AM
von sternberg is criiiiisp. he has a power of perceptive light. his camera's movement is a sense of space

i was thinking of gallo like this
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morvern callar like this
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i like it when you can touch the visuals. their lights and colors can be misty. without a permit one feels less burdened by questions about business and people rights. we're in los angeles, the camera is in the car, the shot is continuous, and i made it look like this
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i have a personal experience thing about it. we're so sangsoo
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 06, 2014, 05:25:43 PM
April 22, 2014

William Friedkin's Sorcerer (1977) on blu-ray from Warner Bros.

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Sorcerer (1977) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Sorcerer-Blu-ray-Roy-Scheider/dp/B00HT2RTU6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403038235&sr=8-1&keywords=sorcerer+blu-ray)


The film has been remastered by Warner Bros. under Friedkin's supervision, along with colorist Bryan McMahan who has worked with the director since 1994. "The new restoration makes the film appear as if it was just made. None of the essentials -- the clothes, the hair -- are dated in any way. It looks the way it looked to me when I looked through the lens of the camera," said Friedkin. The restoration began with a 4K film resolution scan of the original 35mm camera negative.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 08, 2014, 04:36:16 PM
March 18, 2014

Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin (2004) from Strand Releasing

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Mysterious Skin (2004) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Mysterious-Skin-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00HQVB0Q4&ASIN=B00HQVB0Q4&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

and

Samsung: 4K Blu-ray Discs Coming Up
via blu-ray.com

Vice-president for consumer electronics at Samsung Australia Philip Newton, who is currently at CES in Las Vegas, has revealed that 4K Blu-ray discs will likely become available by the end of the year. The news was leaked in an article published earlier today by The Australian.

According to Mr. Newton, the new 4K Blu-ray discs will likely have four layers but Samsung is ready to make available Blu-ray players that can play them. According to Mr. Newton, the key issue that is still holding back production is the selection of the codec that will be used for 4K content.

You can read the full article published by The Australian (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/technology/special-reports/samsung-says-125-gigabyte-bluray-disks-are-on-the-way/story-fnkygzoc-1226797125793).
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 10, 2014, 12:55:29 AM
March 11, 2014

Frank Perry's The Swimmer (1968) from Grindhouse Releasing

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The Swimmer (1968) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Swimmer-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00HRISNPM&ASIN=B00HRISNPM&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


May 6, 2014

Sam Fuller's The Big Red One (1980) from Warner Bros.

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The Big Red One (1980) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Big-Red-One-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00HS6DTTS&ASIN=B00HS6DTTS&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


May 20, 2014

Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Nosferatu-the-Vampyre-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00HRUQ8X4&ASIN=B00HRUQ8X4&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 10, 2014, 02:00:11 AM
January 27, 2014

Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai (1947) blu-ray/dvd combo from the TCM Vault Collection

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The Lady from Shanghai (1947) - TCM Sgop (http://shop.tcm.com/the-lady-from-shanghai-blu-ray-dvd-combo/detail.php?p=505914&v=tcm_vault-collection_coming-soon)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Ravi on January 10, 2014, 11:07:54 PM
You can get free 3-7 day shipping on The Lady from Shanghai with the code TCMGIFT14. I told myself not to buy anymore movies, but I ordered it anyways.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: mogwai on January 12, 2014, 03:51:30 AM
I was wondering if there's a website that helps you with requests with movies you want to be released on blu-ray?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 12, 2014, 05:00:36 PM
Not really...the easiest thing to do would be to research and contact the current rights holder.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 28, 2014, 05:00:35 PM
April 15, 2014

Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944) from Universal

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Double Indemnity (1944) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Double-Indemnity-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%256ee%2577s%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00I3C1T34&ASIN=B00I3C1T34&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958) from Universal

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Touch of Evil (1958) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Touch-of-Evil-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%256ee%2577s%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00I3C1T1Q&ASIN=B00I3C1T1Q&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 05, 2014, 03:36:13 PM
March 25, 2014

Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1982) from Fox

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The King of Comedy (1982) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-King-of-Comedy-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00I4X8KU2&ASIN=B00I4X8KU2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 19, 2014, 01:38:03 PM
Kino Lorber Signs Multi-Year Distribution Deal With Palisades Tartan
via blu-ray.com

Kino Lorber announced today it has signed a multi-year agreement with Palisades Tartan to serve as the exclusive home entertainment distributor in the US and Canada (as available). The distribution deal includes packaged media (Blu-ray/DVD), digital rights, educational sales and repertory theatrical releasing.

Kino Lorber will reintroduce this much sought after 90 title collection, and reissue many of the films on Blu-ray under the Palisades Tartan label. Kino Lorber also plans new digital releases since many of the titles have not been widely available on key and new digital platforms. In keeping with its theatrical mission, the company will also curate selected films for repertory theatrical re-release.

Palisades Tartan has been bringing high-quality, compelling art house releases to audiences in the U.S. for the past dozen years building on Tartan's distinguished 25 year history in the UK. It also established the "Asian Extreme" cinema brand that has accounted for some of its most notable successes in the U.S. market.

Among the key "Asian Extreme" titles are Park Chan-Wook's Oldboy, which won the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, first of his award winning "Vengeance Trilogy," which also includes Lady Vengeance and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. Other major Asian titles include Jonnie To's Election, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or in 2005 and its follow up Triad Election, Yoji Yamada's acclaimed samurai epic The Hidden Blade, and Shinya Tsukamoto's cyber punk cult classic Tetsuo The Iron Man, as well as the essential early films by Kim Ki Duk and other now modern classics of Asian cinema.

No less significant are other world cinema masterworks from Palisades Tartan. Among the recently released titles is Iranian dissident director Jafar Panahi's widely praised This Is Not a Film, made while under house arrest in Teheran. From Europe comes two landmark films of the Romanian new wave, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, by Cristi Puiu that won the Un Certain Regard prize in Cannes in 2005 and Porumboiu's 12:08: East of Bucharest winner in 2006 of the Cannes Camera d'Or, as well as Roy Andersson's quirkily hilarious Swedish film You, The Living, and from leading Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl Import Export, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or in Cannes in 2007. Mexican director Carlos Reygadas' is represented by Silent Light, which won the Jury Prize in Cannes in 2007 and his transcendental Battle in Heaven from 2005. The collection is rounded out with brilliant English language works including the controversial, radically sexual 9 Songs from Michael Winterbottom as well as Andrea Arnold's Red Road, winner of the Cannes Jury Prize in 2006 and widely considered one of the best British films of the last 25 years.

Richard Lorber, who negotiated the deal on behalf of Kino Lorber with Palisades CEO Vin Roberti, commented: "We are exultant to be able to bring the gems of the Palisades Tartan library back to market on all home entertainment physical and digital platforms. It's why we exist as a company-these films define our mission." Vin Roberti of Palisades added: "I've admired the companies Richard has built over many years and we feel our carefully curated collection has now found the perfect home at Kino Lorber. They get it and know how to connect with the audiences who do too."   
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 05, 2014, 03:10:18 PM
May 27, 2014

Claude Chabrol's The Color of Lies (1999) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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The Color of Lies (1999) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ISK98BQ/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=JJLO92GPPRRO&coliid=I1C3AHL0XI84DB)

In a little village in Brittany, a 10 year old girl is found murdered. René, an artist by profession and the girl's art teacher, is the last person to have seen her and he is immediately questioned by the police inspector in charge of the enquiry. In this little provincial village where everyone knows one another, René soon becomes the primary suspect in the eyes of his neighbors. The suspicion threatens to destroy his life and marriage.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on March 05, 2014, 10:37:12 PM
"is brittany part of britan?" - everyone in my state
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Pubrick on March 11, 2014, 01:21:57 AM
Quote from: 03 on March 05, 2014, 10:37:12 PM
"is brittany part of britan?" - everyone in my state

"is Britain spelled britan?" - you
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on March 11, 2014, 01:30:29 PM
that was the joke!
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 11, 2014, 01:55:09 PM
July 8, 2014

John Boorman's Point Blank (1967) from Warner Bros.

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Point Blank (1967) - WBShop (http://www.wbshop.com/product/code/1000484492.do?AID=10501819&PID=3594900&ref=CJP)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 21, 2014, 03:37:10 PM
June 3, 2014

Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders (1983) from Warner Bros.

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on March 25, 2014, 10:00:21 PM
i'll show you random, buddy (http://i.imgur.com/Y8ZmJkR.png)

get it? that's me showing my current amazon cart. amazon changed free shipping to orders over $35! tragedy. the days of 25 are gone with the roses, i need to obamacare before march 31, and after i took out mighty mouse's adventures my total dropped to below 35. life is so wacky. want to keep all this below $35 and i know i want the poetry book. that's a personal situation fyi

i need the power rangers to help me with this, please

has anyone seen city of god in the past like ten years and does it hold up? i feel like it'll float my cloud back down to the kingdom of cinema heaven, that's a solid prediction right, my memory of the movie tells me that

trying to be adult realistic and accept that the magnificent ambersons will never head to bluray. is anyone here actually an adult and is that true?

cannonball is no death race 2000 i bet i guess maybe i've never seen it shouldn't i see cannonball

seems ok i already dropped mighty mouse. i was thinking it'd be fun to see pre-ren&stimpy John Kricfalusi but wtf am i going to do with a goddamn mighty mouse dvd like longterm you know

you can chat about one of these random things with me,

or please announce random purchases you made last year and i'll probably feel inspired (last year is when i stopped crazy-mad-buying-like-very-often-buying dvds/blurays),

or for example what's the Best of the Randoms from this thread?

options here. just kick some ass. we're goddamn power rangers
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 29, 2014, 02:00:34 PM
Quote from: wilder on December 16, 2013, 03:39:48 PM
May 2014 TBD

Michelangelo Antonioni's The Vanquished (1953) on blu-ray from Raro Video

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Challenging linear narrative by weaving multiple story lines and exploring a directorial style way ahead of his time, director Michelangelo Antonioni's unique triptych film features three murders, one taking place in Paris, another in Rome, and another in London. All of the perpetrators are affluent youths, each killing for dubious motives. In the France segment, a group of adolescents kill for money, even though they don't need it; in the London segment, a poet uncovers a woman's body and tries to profit from the discovery; and in the Italian segment, a student becomes caught up in a smuggling ring, with deadly results. With elements that serve as a precursor to Blowup, Antonioni explores how modern society can produce nihilistic tendencies in the least likely characters.   

This now has a release date of June 10, 2014 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/I-vinti-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B009X66EBG&ASIN=B009X66EBG&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 29, 2014, 03:43:04 PM
Alright the lower profile stuff I think is worth a look:

-Second Sight's release of Jean-Jacques Beineix's Betty Blue (1986) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Betty-Blue-Deluxe-Edition-Blu-Ray/dp/B00F1BKSWS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396124458&sr=8-1&keywords=betty+blue) (Not the US version, which looks like garbage due to some smooth-motion type filtering)

-Curtis Harrington's Night Tide (1961) (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Night-Tide-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B007IHH3QW&ASIN=B007IHH3QW&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER) starring Dennis Hopper, which sort of has the feel of a Val Lewton movie

-Jean-Pierre Melville's Two Men in Manhattan (1959) (http://www.amazon.com/Two-Manhattan-Blu-ray-Jean-Pierre-Melville/dp/B00DPJEWAM/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1396124447&sr=1-1&keywords=two+men+in+manhattan)

-Jean Rollin's The Iron Rose (1973) (http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Rose-Blu-ray-Francoise-Pascal/dp/B0063E00KC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1396125968&sr=8-3&keywords=the+iron+rose), it being the most minimalist and poetic film he made

-Frank Perry's The Swimmer (1968) (http://www.amazon.com/The-Swimmer-Blu-ray-DVD-Combo/dp/B00HRISNPM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396125985&sr=8-1&keywords=the+swimmer), a dark, devastating dream set against the sun-soaked valley

-Schizophrenia (1983) (http://www.amazon.fr/Schizophrenia-Blu-ray-Erwin-Leder/dp/B007TTEGOQ) (aka Angst) which puts Requiem's use of doggie cam to shame

-Claude Chabrol's La Ceremonie (1995) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/La-C%C3%A9r%C3%A9monie-Blu-ray-Isabelle-Huppert/dp/B00820Y1T6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1396126024&sr=8-2&keywords=la+ceremonie) for the best example of folie à deux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_%C3%A0_deux) I can think of

-Jacques Deray's The Outside Man (1972) (http://www.amazon.com/The-Outside-Man-Jean-Louis-Trintignant/dp/B008BJU4YE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396124982&sr=8-1&keywords=the+outside+man) starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Roy Scheider, for a French Crime style take on Los Angeles

-James Ivory's The Remains of the Day (1993) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Remains-of-the-Day-Blu-ray/dp/B00DGXKNR8?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00DGXKNR8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE) for the masterclass in subtle acting by Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson

-All of the Pialat's, but especially Police (1985) (http://www.amazon.fr/Police-Blu-ray/dp/B00ABIPJ84?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00ABIPJ84&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96), Under the Sun of Satan (1987) (http://www.amazon.fr/Sous-le-soleil-de-Satan-Blu-ray/dp/B00ABIPJ66?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00ABIPJ66&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96), and We Won't Grow Old Together (1972) (http://www.amazon.fr/Nous-ne-vieillirons-pas-ensemble-Blu-ray/dp/B00ABIPJFM?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00ABIPJFM&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)

-Warner Archive's Forbidden Hollywood (http://shop.warnerarchive.com/search.do?query=forbidden+hollywood) series of Pre-Code films

-And some classics, From Here to Eternity (1953) (http://www.amazon.com/From-Here-Eternity-Blu-ray-Lancaster/dp/B00E21QTL2/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1396146771&sr=8-4&keywords=from+here+to+eternity) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) (http://www.amazon.com/The-Best-Years-Lives-Blu-ray/dp/B009L147EE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396124508&sr=8-1&keywords=the+best+years+of+our+lives+blu-ray) which will remind you of the time when Hollywood was great
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on March 29, 2014, 09:08:28 PM
oh thanks for sure
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 29, 2014, 09:37:40 PM
Hahaaa this trailer is awesome



and a higher quality assemblage of clips from the movie set to one of its themes (nsfw?)

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 08, 2014, 04:09:22 PM
July 29, 2014

Herzog: The Collection from Shout Factory

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Shout Factory has officially announced and detailed Herzog: The Collection. Limited to 5,000 copies, the 13-disc Blu-ray box set features 16 acclaimed films and documentaries, 15 of which are making their Blu-ray debuts. The release will be available for purchase on July 29th.

Herzog: The Collection also features a 40 page booklet that includes photos, an essay by award-winning author Stephen J. Smith, and in-depth film synopses by Herzog scholars Brad Prager and Chris Wahl. Bonus features include English and German audio commentaries, the documentaries Herzog in Africa and Portrait: Werner Herzog, interviews and original theatrical trailers.

Herzog has taken his camera to parts of the world no other director would dare go, and told stories in ways previously unconsidered. These sixteen masterpieces, which blur the line between "fiction" and "documentary," illustrate why Werner Herzog is the most intrepid, creative, and dangerous filmmaker of our lifetime.


Box Set Content

Even Dwarfs Started Small
Land of Silence and Darkness
Fata Morgana
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Heart of Glass
Stroszek
Woyzeck
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Fitzcarraldo
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Where the Green Ants Dream
Cobra Verde
Lessons of Darkness
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
My Best Fiend

Special Features

-English Audio Commentaries: Even Dwarfs Started Small, Fata Morgana, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Heart of Glass, Strozek and Cobra Verde.
-German Audio commentaries: Nosferatu the Vampyre, Fitzcarraldo, Where the Green Ants Dream.
-In Conversation - Werner Herzog and Laurens Straub (in German with English Subtitles)
-The Making of Nosferatu The Vampyre
-Portrait: Werner Herzog documentary
-Herzog In Africa documentary
-Theatrical Trailers

Herzog: The Collection - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Herzog-The-Collection-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00JGR3M26&ASIN=B00JGR3M26&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Ravi on April 09, 2014, 02:31:14 PM
BFI is also releasing a Herzog set with slightly different content (titles not on Shout Factory set bolded)

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/announcements/bfi-dvdblu-rays-announced-summer-2014

The Werner Herzog Collection – mammoth Blu-ray and DVD box sets compiling 18 of the legendary German director's films from late 1960s to the early 1980s, including:

The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967)
Last Words (1968)
Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)
Fata Morgana (1971)
Handicapped Future (1971)
Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)
Land Of Silence and Darkness (1971)
Heart of Glass (1976)
Stroszek (1977)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1978)
Woyzeck (1979)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Huie's Sermon (1983)
God's Angry Man (1983)
Cobre Verde (1987)

Extras include Jack Bond's long-unseen South Bank Show on Herzog from 1982. (July)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Just Withnail on April 09, 2014, 05:21:45 PM
It also lacks some of the Shout Factory titles, but it's the one I'll buy as it's about a third of the price.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 11, 2014, 04:53:13 PM
November 10, 2014

Nicolas Roeg's Bad Timing (1980) from Network

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Bad Timing (1980) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Timing-Blu-ray/dp/B00JMGX6CC?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00JMGX6CC&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 17, 2014, 02:16:47 PM
August 26, 2014

Patrice Chéreau's Queen Margot (1994) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group, from a 4K restoration

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Queen Margot (1994) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KOW49O2/ref=oh_details_o08_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 17, 2014, 02:32:32 PM
June 30, 2014

Camera Obscura: The Walerian Borowczyk Collection on blu-ray from Arrow

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Camera Obscura: The Walerian Borowczyk Collection (1959-1985) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Camera-Obscura-The-Walerian-Borowczyk-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B00IJF6Y1W?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00IJF6Y1W&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



This groundbreaking collection brings together Walerian Borowczyk's key films from a twenty-five-year period stretching from 1959 through to 1984.

This unique release includes five of Borowczyk's provocative feature films: Theatre de M et Mme Kabal, Goto, l'ile d'amour, Blanche, Contes Immoraux and La Bete as well as his groundbreaking short films from this period.

Not only are many of these films available on Blu-ray and DVD for the first time, but also in new digital high definition restorations approved by the director's widow, Ligia Branice.

In addition to exclusive documentaries featuring cast and crew, an hour long portrait of Borowczyk is to be included, featuring the director's musings on painting, animation and sex.

Accompanying this seminal release is a book edited by Borowczyk experts Daniel Bird and Michael Brooke featuring newly commissioned essays on Borowczyk's films and art, as well as an account of the meticulous restoration process involved.

To round off the release is, for the first time, an English translation of Borowczyk's 1992 collection of short stories, Anatomy of the Devil, translated by the director's assistant, Michael Levy.



LIMITED EDITION BOX SET SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:

-Brand new 2K restorations of Borowczyk films
-High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the films and extras.

THE SHORT FILMS & THEATRE OF MR AND MRS KABAL

-Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam
-Film is not a Sausage: Borowczyk's Short Films – A new interview programme featuring Borowczyk, producer Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin, assistant André Heinrich and composer Bernard Parmegiani
-Blow Ups – A new visual essay by Daniel Bird concerning Borowczyk's works on paper
-Borowczyk's commercials

GOTO, ISLE OF LOVE

-Introduction by artist and Turner Prize nominee Craigie Horsfield
-The Concentration Universe: Goto, Isle of Love – A new interview programme featuring actor Jean-Pierre Andréani, co-writer Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin, cameraman Noël Véry and camera assistant Jean-Pierre Platel
-The Profligate Door – A new documentary about Borowczyk's sound sculptures featuring curator Maurice Corbet

BLANCHE

-Introduction by director Leslie Megahey
-Ballad of Imprisonment: Blanche – A new interview programme featuring producer Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin, assistant director André Heinrich, camera operator Noël Véry and assistant Patrice Leconte
-Obscure Pleasures: A Portrait of Walerian Borowczyk – A newly edited archival interview in which Borowczyk discusses painting, cinema and sex
-Gun Point – A documentary short by Peter Graham produced and edited by Borowczyk

IMMORAL TALES

-Introduction by Borowczyk expert Daniel Bird
-Immoral Tales: L'Age d'Or Cut – featuring a fifth episode, The True Story of the Beast of Gévaudan
-Love Reveals Itself: Immoral Tales – A new interview programme featuring production manager Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin and cinematographer Noël Véry
-Boro Brunch: A reunion meal recorded in February 2014 re-uniting members of Borowczyk's crew, featuring Philippe D'Argila, Florence Dauman, Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin, Dominique Ruspoli, Noël Véry and Zoe Zurstrassen
-A Private Collection
-A Private Collection: Oberhausen Cut

THE BEAST

-Introduction by critic Peter Bradshaw
-The Making of The Beast: Camera operator Noël Véry provides a commentary on footage shot during the making of The Beast
-Frenzy of Ecstasy – A new visual essay on the evolution of Borowczyk's beast and the sequel that never was, Motherhood
-Venus on the Half Shell

CAMERA OBSCURA [LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE]

-A generously illustrated book edited by Daniel Bird and Michael Brooke featuring new essays, landmark articles by Raymond Durgnat, Philip Strick, Patrice Leconte, David Thompson and Chris Newby, Boro's Dictionary, an account of the restoration of Borowczyk films and Anatomy of the Devil, a collection of Borowczyk's short stories translated from the original French by the filmmaker's assistant, Michael Levy

LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES   
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 22, 2014, 06:26:32 PM
August 11, 2014

Francois Truffaut's The Soft Skin (1964) on blu-ray from Artifical Eye

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Francois Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player (1960) on blu-ray from Artificial Eye

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August 25, 2014

Francois Truffaut's Bed & Board (1970) on blu-ray from Artificial Eye

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Francois Truffaut's Stolen Kisses (1968) on blu-ray from Artificial Eye

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September 15, 2014

Francois Truffaut's Two English Girls (1971) on blu-ray from Artificial Eye

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Francois Truffaut's A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (1972) on blu-ray from Artificial Eye

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September 29, 2014

Francois Truffaut's Love On the Run (1979) on blu-ray from Artificial Eye

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 23, 2014, 04:10:05 PM
October 13, 2014

Francois Truffaut's Confidentially Yours (1983) on blu-ray from Artificial Eye

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Francois Truffaut's The Woman Next Door (1981) on blu-ray from Artificial Eye

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 02, 2014, 11:25:54 PM
July 29, 2014

Delbert Mann's Separate Tables (1958) on blu-ray from Kino

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Travel to the Beauregard Hotel where the eccentric guests all share one common trait - loneliness. There's Major Pollack (David Niven), who hides a dark secret behind a polished military veneer; Sibyl Railton-Bell (Deborah Kerr), a shy, neurotic old maid who lacks the courage to break away from her domineering mother; John Malcolm (Burt Lancaster), a disenchanted writer who drowns his bitterness in a pool of alcohol; and Ann Shankland (Rita Hayworth), whose narcissism masks a deep fear of growing old alone and unloved. In one emotional evening, these four unhappy misfits will bare their innermost secrets... and change each other's lives forever.   

Separate Tables (1958) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Separate-Tables-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00K6D1SAC&ASIN=B00K6D1SAC&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 03, 2014, 01:01:58 AM
Quote from: wilder on March 29, 2014, 03:43:04 PM
-Curtis Harrington's Night Tide (1961) (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Night-Tide-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B007IHH3QW&ASIN=B007IHH3QW&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER) starring Dennis Hopper, which sort of has the feel of a Val Lewton movie

-Frank Perry's The Swimmer (1968) (http://www.amazon.com/The-Swimmer-Blu-ray-DVD-Combo/dp/B00HRISNPM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396125985&sr=8-1&keywords=the+swimmer), a dark, devastating dream set against the sun-soaked valley

watched them in this order, night tide to the swimmer, for a snazzy double. i'm feeling mood oriented, atmospheric. i'm a haunted human house. thanks. good call
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 06, 2014, 04:25:42 PM
July 8, 2014

Max Ophuls' Caught (1949) on blu-ray from Olive Films

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Caught (1949) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Caught-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00K6J7IIW&ASIN=B00K6J7IIW&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 11, 2014, 08:07:25 PM
July 21, 2014

Jacques Tati Blu-ray Collection from Studiocanal

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Includes:

-Trafic
-Parade
-Playtime
-Mon Oncle
-Les Vacances De M. Hulot
-Jour de Fete

Jacques Tati Blu-ray Collection - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00GDEZNTK/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 14, 2014, 02:43:01 PM
September 29, 2014

Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema

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July 21, 2014

John Cassavetes' Too Late Blues (1961) from Masters of Cinema

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Too Late Blues (1961) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Too-Late-Blues-Blu-ray/dp/B00I5RW36Y?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00I5RW36Y&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 14, 2014, 04:10:21 PM
August 26, 2014

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The Party (1968) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00KOW4AZ0/dvdbeaver-20/ref=nosim)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 14, 2014, 05:45:38 PM
Upvote for A Face in the Crowd. That UK Tati set is a conundrum. I haven't seen the two you mentioned. Criterion will be releasing their own Tati blu-ray titles down the line, but they lost the rights to Trafic, and given that the other Studiocanal titles Criterion has lost the rights to haven't been re-licensed (La Grand Illusion, The Third Man) and Playtime is already a standalone...blah. Do I trust Studiocanal to issue Trafic as its own disc release in the US? I don't know. Don't know which way is up.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 15, 2014, 06:20:22 PM
August 18, 2014

F.W. Murnau's Faust (1926) from Masters of Cinema

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Faust (1926) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/FAUST-Masters-Cinema-BLU-RAY-FORMAT/dp/B00KE2BVKC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1400999780&sr=8-3&keywords=faust+murnau)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 17, 2014, 07:53:44 PM
Quote from: Larry Doc Sportello on May 17, 2014, 03:25:15 PMLOVED A FACE IN THE CROWD!! Need to see more KAZAN!!

edit: Trafic is awesome!!

Glad you enjoyed them. A Face in the Crowd has to be my favorite movie of the 1950s alongside Night of the Hunter.

Quote from: Larry Doc Sportello on May 17, 2014, 03:25:15 PM...the Criterion Blu Ray of Jules et Jim, THE EXTRAS!! There is la terrific interview featuring Jeanne Moreau, Truffaut and Jean Renoir.

Don't think I've listened to that - will investigate.


May 26, 2014

Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels (1941) from Arrow

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Sullivan's Travels (1941) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sullivans-Travels-Blu-ray/dp/B00G5IVADM?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00G5IVADM&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






July 22, 2014

Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution (1957) from Kino

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Witness for the Prosecution (1957) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Witness-For-the-Prosecution-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00K6D1S7A&ASIN=B00K6D1S7A&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 18, 2014, 11:17:30 PM
July 15, 2014

Delbert Mann's Marty (1955) from a screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky, from Kino

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Marty (1955) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00KE3B9US/dvdbeaver-20/ref=nosim)





July 22, 2014

Michelangelo Antonioni's Love in the City (1953) on blu-ray from Raro

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Love in the City (1953) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Love-in-the-City-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00KE3B8OK&ASIN=B00KE3B8OK&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)





July 29, 2014

Martin Ritt's Paris Blues (1961) from Kino

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Paris Blues (1961) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Paris-Blues-Blu-ray-Sidney-Poitier/dp/B00KE3B6O2/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1400485264&sr=1-1&keywords=paris+blues)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 19, 2014, 03:21:21 PM
According to this article (http://www.moviefanfare.com/the-latest-buzz-on-new-upcoming-dvd-releases/), a blu-ray of Hal Ashby's Coming Home (1978) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077362/) is in the works.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 21, 2014, 04:07:12 PM
August 26, 2014

Stanley Kramer's On the Beach (1959) from Kino

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On the Beach (1959) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00KOW4BO0/dvdbeaver-20/ref=nosim)

The war is over. Nobody won. Only the inhabitants of Australia and the men of the U.S, submarine Sawfish have escaped the nuclear destruction and radiation. Captain dwight Towers (Gregory Peck) takes the Sawfish on a mission to see if an approaching radiation cloud has weakened, but returns with grim news: the cloud is lethal. With the days and hours dwindling, each person confronts the grim situation in his or her own way. One (Fred Astaire) realizes a lifetime Grand Prix ambition, another (Ava Gardner) reaches out for a chance at love. The final chapter of human history is coming to a close...


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 22, 2014, 05:53:27 PM
July 21, 2014

Elio Petri's The Assassin (1961) from Arrow

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The Assassin (1961) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Assassin-Blu-ray/dp/B00IJF6Y0I?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00IJF6Y0I&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


August 12, 2014

John Huston's The Unforgiven (1960) on blu-ray from Kino

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Indian by birth, but secretly adopted by whites, Rachel Zachary (Hepburn) soon becomes the target of lawless racism and brutality when her true identity is revealed. The Indians want her back, the local whites want her dead, and her only hope for survival is a man (Lancaster) who must face the most terrifying fight of his life-to save the woman he loves!   

The Unforgiven (1960) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00KOW4AOG/dvdbeaver-20/ref=nosim)





September 29, 2014

David Cronenberg's Shivers (1975) from Arrow

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Shivers (1975) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shivers-Blu-ray/dp/B00KHSM936?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00KHSM936&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 23, 2014, 04:45:37 PM
Quote from: Ravi on April 09, 2014, 02:31:14 PM
BFI is also releasing a Herzog set with slightly different content (titles not on Shout Factory set bolded)

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/announcements/bfi-dvdblu-rays-announced-summer-2014

The Werner Herzog Collection – mammoth Blu-ray and DVD box sets compiling 18 of the legendary German director's films from late 1960s to the early 1980s, including:

The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967)
Last Words (1968)
Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)
Fata Morgana (1971)
Handicapped Future (1971)
Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)
Land Of Silence and Darkness (1971)
Heart of Glass (1976)
Stroszek (1977)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1978)
Woyzeck (1979)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Huie's Sermon (1983)
God's Angry Man (1983)
Cobre Verde (1987)

Extras include Jack Bond's long-unseen South Bank Show on Herzog from 1982. (July)

DVDBeaver's Nosferatu blu-ray comparison (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film4/blu-ray_reviews_61/nosferatu_the_vampyre_blu-ray.htm) shows excessive digital cleanup on Shout Factory's release compared to the BFI (credit to this thread (http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=10330&start=400) on Criterion Forum). Not sure if this will be indicative of the transfers on the other Herzog titles in Shout Factory's box set...but I might go with the BFI release (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Werner-Herzog-Collection-8-Disc-Blu-ray/dp/B00I7TXG7U/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1400881771&sr=1-1&keywords=herzog) for Nosferatu and just to be sure.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 02, 2014, 08:29:56 PM
July 7, 2014

Dark Crimes - Film Noir Thrillers, Vol. 2 on DVD from TCM

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Dark Crimes - Film Noir Thrillers, Vol. 2 - TCM Shop (http://shop.tcm.com/detail.php?p=577646&ecid=AFF-362580&AID=11403611&PID=3628627&pa=affcj&PCID=2800380)

DARK CRIMES, VOLUME TWO includes Lang's You and Me (1938) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030996/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2) and Ministry of Fear (1944) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037075/), and Castle's Undertow (1949) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042007/) and Hollywood Story (1951) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043646/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). All but Ministry are available for the first time on DVD in this collection, which also contains multiple digital bonus features including an introduction by TCM host Ben Mankiewicz, behind-the-scenes photos, production stills, poster and lobby card galleries, and an original essay by Film Noir Foundation founder and president Eddie Muller. (Note that Ministry of Fear is also available on blu-ray from Criterion)

You and Me is also available as a standalone German release (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/dvd_reviews53/you_and_me.htm). Here's a blog post (http://selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com/2012/03/you-and-me-1938.html) at Self-Styled Siren about the movie. Check out the opening sequence below.





November 4, 2014

The Sopranos: The Complete Series on blu-ray

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All 86 episodes of the award winning show will be placed on 28 Blu-ray discs. The upcoming box set will feature more than five hours of bonus material including lost scenes, two roundtable dinners with the cast and crew, 25 audio commentaries as well as a new and exclusive featurette exploring how The Sopranos was created and ultimately transformed the TV landscape.


October 6, 2014

Jim Jarmusch 6-film Box Set on blu-ray from Soda Pictures UK

-Dead Man (1995)
-Down By Law (1986)
-Mystery Train (1989)
-Night on Earth (1991)
-Permanent Vacation (1980)
-Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 03, 2014, 02:57:45 PM
wilder i keep watching night tide while i fall asleep. that's my new nighttime movie. i always like to have a nighttime movie, though sometimes i don't, and right now it's night tide. examples of previous nighttime movies: spirited away, rebels of the neon god, tmnt ii: secret of the ooze. k

today i visited xixax and found conversations about whether or not people liked the last tv show they watched. one of the tremendous advantages to watching tv is everyone watches tv now so you can watch tv and become a fabulous conversationalist around the water machine. i had a plan to restore the hearts and souls of movie people, i had a plan to find conversational movie news, and today is tuesday so it took me one click to aicn and now

movies released today for home and anyway maybe you can download them or idk the important thing is we pretend this is really fucking important so we can call this the golden age of movie discussion; i'll start with the obvious

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i'm so embarrassed. i'm sorry. i'm so sorry. my papers are a little ruffled and i planned and planned this presentation but boy i mightta blown my opening -- the birdcage. nervous cough, nervous cough. the birdcage, right. mike nichols directed, stars are omg. you can just look at the bluray and it'll tell you those things. omfg. i'm staying calm. the birdcage was shot by emmanuel lubezki, after he'd shot reality bites, before he shot sleepy hollow, and recently he shot gravity. it's cool that nichols and burton shared a dp, and the production designer was also shared by them -- before the birdcage, bo welch was the production designer for edward scissorhands and beetlejuice. this movie is fucking loaded with special features, and those special features are people. hell yeah. i last saw this movie when it was on hbo after coming out and that was a longtime ago. what's it like now? i have no fucking idea. do you? please tell me thank you and now the next

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did you see great american actor mark wahlberg's latest movie? now, pain and gain got some hoopla, good for it, and transformers 4 will do whatever those movies do, great, but goddamnit, usa's greatest living actor played a soldier, a hero, a somethingsomething i forget, and did anyone even seen the movie???

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where is reelist? where is polka? can i, i forget how this works is it #polka or @reelist. this is for people who admire the worst. for appreciating those who worked long and hard and carried with them spirit and strength to finish their movie for a mysterious reason. what did this movie give the world? goddamn mystery. it's played in los angeles multiple times but i haven't seen it once, and really if someone else doesn't also watch the movie than the whole plan is ruined. we got some shit we could be talking about here. i'm in. seems like a great reason for learning how to torrent

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it's like this: through its ingredients, it's impossible for me to not appreciate the robocop remake. i haven't seen it and i'll probably redbox it, but what i appreciate is how an "outsider," a brazilian filmmaker, was brought into hollywood to make a big budget movie. of course i agree that everything the studio did to change how he was making the film was a bad move on the studio's part. hollywood you often make yourself worse while you try make yourself better. anyway i want to see this, these are the same ingredients which brought us the original. into this

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how have you seen and appreciated boogie nights but you've never seen something like "In 1973, Lloyd Kaufman wrote and produced an erotic thriller set in the porn industry, that starred the exceedingly fun Mary Woronov and some of Andy Warhol's troop" mary woronov is the name that sells me. plus i've been meaning to watch an entire troma movie at some point
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on June 03, 2014, 03:22:59 PM
death bed and sugar cookies are amazing, jenkins. definitely worth your time.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 03, 2014, 03:29:03 PM
Quote from: jenkins<3 on June 03, 2014, 02:57:45 PM
wilder i keep watching night tide while i fall asleep. that's my new nighttime movie.

Cool? Definitely a night time movie. Puts you in that foggy half-asleep state even when you're awake. To anyone reading these aren't backhanded compliments - the movie just requires total submission to its hazy dream logic (not in a Mulholland Drive way)

Quoterebels of the neon god

^ I just learned that existed and have been trying to make time to watch it but haven't found any this week. Also noticed you mentioned it in your short film thread. From the trailer I'm in love with the look.

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Never seen The Birdcage. Never had much interest?

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did you see great american actor mark wahlberg's latest movie? now, pain and gain got some hoopla, good for it, and transformers 4 will do whatever those movies do, great, but goddamnit, usa's greatest living actor played a soldier, a hero, a somethingsomething i forget, and did anyone even seen the movie???

No...

Why does he look like Tom Hanks on the cover?

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I've seen this it sucks.

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it's like this: through its ingredients, it's impossible for me to not appreciate the robocop remake. i haven't seen it and i'll probably redbox it, but what i appreciate is how an "outsider," a brazilian filmmaker, was brought into hollywood to make a big budget movie. of course i agree that everything the studio did to change how he was making the film was a bad move on the studio's part. hollywood you often make yourself worse while you try make yourself better. anyway i want to see this, these are the same ingredients which brought us the original. into this

There was an interview (http://www.slashfilm.com/interview-robocop-director-jose-pahilla-on-ethical-issues-kubricks-influence-reinventing-steadicam/) he gave in promotion of the movie where he talked about the ideas he was trying to inject, how he was going to make it different from the original and really try to stamp out his own thing, that had me on board. Of course I didn't end up seeing it. What happened with the studio? The usual?

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how have you seen and appreciated boogie nights but you've never seen something like "In 1973, Lloyd Kaufman wrote and produced an erotic thriller set in the porn industry, that starred the exceedingly fun Mary Woronov and some of Andy Warhol's troop" mary woronov is the name that sells me. plus i've been meaning to watch an entire troma movie at some point

This is a Troma movie...? I've watched that trailer a few times in the past week thinking I'd be into it and looking for what I wasn't seeing before but it just didn't do anything for me. It's a Vinegar Syndrome release. I dig the cover? Think I like the idea of these vintage exploitation movies more than what they actually are.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 03, 2014, 03:29:59 PM
Quote from: 03 on June 03, 2014, 03:22:59 PM
death bed and sugar cookies are amazing, jenkins. definitely worth your time.

This-just-in while I was typing the above reply. Maybe you'll be into it. Trash on that level (Death Bed) might just not be my thing.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on June 03, 2014, 03:55:21 PM
yeah death bed by no means a quality well made film or anything, but its got a delicious cartoonish giallo vibe, which i love.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 03, 2014, 09:12:51 PM
had a blast of a tuesday. thanks

Quote from: wilder on June 03, 2014, 03:29:03 PM
Puts you in that foggy half-asleep state even when you're awake
movie just requires total submission to its hazy dream logic
agreed. and this is textured against california beaches, the sideshow, dennis hopper as an emotionally elastic young navy person, mystical fantasy, and these slow moods that drift by musically and through environment, through dennis hopper's curious eyes, through this dreamy whisper into my thoughts, for my dreams to be like movies and for my next day to become the dream, which well recently has been a strange american tale laced with the ponderable uncertainties of existence, and i like when i sense the strangeness to my life through the magic of movies
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 03, 2014, 11:17:06 PM
Quote from: jenkins<3 on June 03, 2014, 09:12:51 PMi like when i sense the strangeness to my life through the magic of movies

marquee
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 05, 2014, 03:27:41 PM
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changed my mind

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Full review here (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Sugar-Cookies-Blu-ray/92905/#Review)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 11, 2014, 02:34:26 AM
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and if you don't already know, wait, even if you do or don't know, b&n is having a generalized 40% off bluray deal, before next month's yearly 50% criterion sale. i totally bought the arrival on bluray for $5. other example:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dvd-spike-lee-joint-collection-1/27528143?ean=786936841862

^example
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 11, 2014, 04:19:07 AM
August 25, 2014

Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon (1929) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema

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Woman in the Moon (1929) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00KX66N66/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on June 11, 2014, 06:46:30 PM
an often overlooked masterpiece by lang.it is a straight up must watch.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 12, 2014, 03:27:26 AM
A 14 film box set of Jean Epstein's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Epstein) movies was just released in France from Potemkin Films and includes English subtitles. More information on the official site (http://www.potemkine.fr/Potemkine-film/Coffret-jean-epstein-coffret-jean-epstein-/pa61m3f219.html), and information on the restoration and some background here (http://www.cinematheque.fr/fr/musee-collections/actualite-collections/restauration-numerisatio/restauration-films-jean-.html).

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Coffret Jean Epstein - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Coffret-jean-epstein-Sandra-Milovanoff/dp/B00IIWEULC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1402560513&sr=8-1&keywords=COFFRET+JEAN+EPSTEIN)


Also going to take this opportunity to plug Masters of Cinema's blu-ray release of Coeur fidéle (1923)


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Jean Epstein's Cœur fidèle [True Heart] established the great French filmmaker as one of the most inventive directors of the (then still silent) art form. A pared-down tale of a barmaid oppressed by an exploitative foster family who attempt to push her into the arms of an unscrupulous regular-about-town, Marie's heart (exuberantly vivified by Gina Marès) belongs, as far as she's concerned, to the tenderly blank Jean (Léon Mathot)...

Cœur fidèle drives its simple story (which, with its infamous and exhilarating "carousel sequence", helped pave the way for the narrative tradition of such Murnau masterworks as Sunrise and City Girl) on into the realm of what might be considered an early incarnation of French poetic realism — all while still anticipating Epstein's magical, post-surrealist, later works.


Coeur fidéle (1923) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fidele-Format-Blu-ray-Masters-Cinema/dp/B004YJZ97M/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1402560822&sr=1-1&keywords=jean+epstein)





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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 12, 2014, 04:34:09 AM
those are such great screencaps. is that an all-region release? i'll google. just having a "gimme a sec, i'm spiraling into emotional chaos" moment regarding already having seen the robocop remake and not remembering i've already seen the robocop which remake i saw like a month ago. that's kinda mysterious
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 12, 2014, 04:36:07 AM
It's not, but you of all people on this board except maybe samsong should rectify that situation yesterday. Maybe you already did. Maybe you forgot?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 12, 2014, 01:16:09 PM
movie theaters in los angeles are my all region player, my actual player is 7yo and normal, so i'd have to buy a new player and prepare myself to spend higher costs on certain releases to make the change. haven't done it. which is too bad for under the suns of satan and judex, both of which i've owned in region 2 ways for about three years

the sidestory is masters of cinema was started by like three friends, as a way to release their personal favorite movies, and the company has grown and they no longer control the company, but one of the founders regularly sends my friend masters of cinema releases, which he receives for free and can't watch because he hasn't downloaded the thing to make his player allreigion

you of all people should know that including samsong's name ruins a pitch. btw. makes me think of someone punching my face
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 12, 2014, 05:58:57 PM
Quote from: jenkins<3 on June 12, 2014, 01:16:09 PMthe sidestory is masters of cinema was started by like three friends, as a way to release their personal favorite movies, and the company has grown and they no longer control the company

What are they up to now? They're still there and don't have ownership or...?

Quote from: jenkins<3 on June 12, 2014, 01:16:09 PM
but one of the founders regularly sends my friend masters of cinema releases

Envy.

Quote from: jenkins<3 on June 12, 2014, 01:16:09 PM
you of all people should know that including samsong's name ruins a pitch. btw. makes me think of someone punching my face

???

...did I miss something?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 12, 2014, 08:50:16 PM
i'd have to ask to remind myself what they do now. i'm a link away from the story. all i know is Trond Trondsen, a Ph.D. of Space Physics and president of Keo Scientific Ltd (<-wiki helped me there), continues to regularly attend movie festivals, sxsw at least, and he met my friend there, and trond trondsen is a nice guy whose name i initially thought wasn't his real name, and he sends my friends moc movies for free. i've now shared my full knowledge of the situation

if you missed the other story that's probably better. idgi either. but it's a regular drag for me
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: samsong on June 13, 2014, 01:34:03 AM
really? :yabbse-rolleyes:
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 13, 2014, 01:39:41 AM
yes, you're really always a drag to me. since the beginning
http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=174.msg321252#msg321252
http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=12766.msg331373#msg331373
http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=12449.msg334106#msg334106

as i've said, it's both adorable and creepy
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: samsong on June 13, 2014, 01:51:41 AM
Quote from: jenkins<3 on June 13, 2014, 01:39:41 AM
as i've said, it's both adorable and creepy

when did you say that?  i must've missed it in my scouring the board for all your posts for the purposes of responding in such a way as to be a drag.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 13, 2014, 02:01:18 AM
it'd be a fruitless "scour" because this is your battle. adorable. creepy. i hope you enjoy it because i don't
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on June 13, 2014, 02:31:33 AM
what the hell are you talking about man? chill thyself.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 13, 2014, 02:45:14 AM
as long as it ends this conversation that's stupid. no one wants to read this. i don't want to read the shit given to me, again and fucking again, by a group of people. that's what i'm saying. and i think this time if you need the footnote, go spirit quest. you got this
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: samsong on June 13, 2014, 03:17:01 AM
"creepy" implying that i, what, track your movements because i have it out for you?  normally i'd ignore something like this but, as you've down in the past, you want to make this personal, so here it goes:  i barely know who you are.  there is no battle.  rarely do i even really consider who the person posting is so much as what's being posted.  i only recently learned that you and trashjunkiewhatever and w/o horse are one and the same.  as far as your links go:  i remember that criterion exchange and i still think it's hilarious.  anyone could've written what you did and i would've said the same thing, and i'm pretty sure no one else would've resorted to personal attacks in response.  the thread for the hunt... i don't get it, i thought we were just talking.  i even said i watched the movie because of something you said, and just to nip this in the bud, i didn't go into it with any intent of being contrarian, hard as that may be for you to believe.  and the third, yes, i find your writing to be byzantine.  what of it?

i actually enjoy checking this thread for wilder's updates and i promise you, stumbling upon your pity party about my supposed obsession with you was purely coincidental.  i wish i hadn't.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 13, 2014, 03:25:25 AM
creepy in your persistence. you may have noticed. the end. always, i hope for the end to this
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: samsong on June 13, 2014, 03:26:46 AM
Quote from: 03 on June 11, 2014, 06:46:30 PM
an often overlooked masterpiece by lang.it is a straight up must watch.

BUT IT'S SO LONG.
it's streaming on netflix.  i'll watch it soon. 
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 13, 2014, 03:58:30 AM
July 8, 2014

Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987) from Twilight Time (Limited to 3,000 copies)

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Pre-order will be up on Screen Archives (http://screenarchives.com/) starting June 18


Woody Allen's remaining MGM titles are also coming to blu-ray from Twilight Time eventually. Broadway Danny Rose (1984) (http://screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/26865/BROADWAY-DANNY-ROSE-1984/) and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) (https://www1.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/26665/CRIMES-AND-MISDEMEANORS-1989/) have already been released. So good/bad news - their transfers are usually solid but their prices (and limited availability) are fucked.

P.S. they never have sales (unless you want to buy 5 for the price of 4 or whatever insane offer they sometimes have where you have to spend over $100 to get a discount)

The rest on the way:

-Alice
-Another Woman
-Bananas
-Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Too Afraid To Ask
-Interiors
-Love and Death
-A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
-The Purple Rose of Cairo
-September
-Shadows and Fog
-Stardust Memories
-Zelig
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: samsong on June 13, 2014, 04:39:23 AM
why is this happening... i can't imagine the transfers being better than when mgm puts them on blu-ray for 9.99 and unlimited.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 13, 2014, 04:47:13 AM
Studios license the titles they don't care about putting out on blu-ray themselves to Twilight Time on the condition that they limit their runs to 3,000 copies. I don't really get it either. I don't know how long TT carries the rights for, or if they'll ever come about in cheaper editions released by MGM. Even if that comes to pass, given that Twilight Time only releases a few titles each month and the three announced Woody Allen titles have been spread apart by at least two months each (Crimes - Feb '14, Broadway April '14, Radio July '14), and there are 12 left to go...if that's ever the case it will be many years away.

Edit - I might be wrong about the studios being the ones mandating the limited runs. I thought that was the whole thing, though.

From wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Time_(DVD_label)):

Quote
Release details

Due to the declining home video market for older and little-known films, most major film studios have opted to stop releasing those titles via conventional retail methods. Instead, studios like Warner Bros., Universal Studios, Sony Pictures, and MGM have gone the manufacture-on-demand (MOD) route, releasing these titles on DVD-R, often without any kind of restoration or remastering, or any kind of extras.

Unlike MOD, all Twilight Time titles are fully pressed DVDs and/or Blu-rays from a restored transfer.[7] All titles are limited editions with only 3000 units of each format created, and will not be repressed once they are sold out. As these releases are geared toward the music aficionado, all releases will feature an isolated music score. As well, all releases will include an 8-page booklet on the movie featuring original essays, movie stills, and poster art.[1] Other extras will be made available whenever possible.

Product pricing

Due to the self imposed limited edition status of all their releases, all Twilight Time titles see a normal-than-higher price range for their products. All DVDs are priced at $19.95, while all Blu-rays are priced between 10 and 20 dollars more than their DVD counterpart.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 13, 2014, 05:21:30 AM
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/topic/310943-interview-with-twilight-time-nick-redman-on-who-they-are-their-business-model-and-more/

summary: it's a hybrid of intentional and contractual decisions

the guess to make based on the biz routine is they bought a set of woody allen titles in order to release them all
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 13, 2014, 07:15:05 PM
July 14, 2014

When Twilight Time's (http://screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/25385/THE-DRIVER-1978/) limited edition release of Walter Hill's The Driver (1978) sells out, Studiocanal UK's upcoming release will be available as an alternative

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FPmIMKg5.jpg&hash=6c2a959cef662c3ef91711dd620d73d484e93492)

The Driver (1978) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Driver-Blu-ray/dp/B00KBRP0ES?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00KBRP0ES&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 16, 2014, 12:09:25 PM
August 12, 2014

Maurice Pialat's We Won't Grow Old Together (1972) on blu-ray from Kino (also DVD (http://www.amazon.com/We-Wont-Grow-Old-Together/dp/B00KUCR49S/ref=tmm_dvd_title_0))

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FZIUPHQ5.jpg&hash=746e6ffab4b9a0500521b36948fc6de9d4c6b6cc)

We Won't Grow Old Together (1972) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00KUCR3BM/dvdbeaver-20/ref=nosim)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 16, 2014, 02:54:24 PM
^that's really exciting to me. have this suspicion that i'll like every maurice pialat movie i ever see

today is the last day for b&n's 40% off bluray sale. i'm getting the spike lee joint collection 1. yeah i decided that's definitely the one for me. and while doing my little internet investigation into whether that was indeed the one for me, while doing that i learned what else the book author/screenwriter david benioff is also known for. people who'd care must already know. seems like he's a big part of that. i'm talking about game of thrones. if you were wondering, yes, there are new commentary tracks from spike lee for both 25h hour and he got game. oh i'm pumped
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 17, 2014, 03:21:16 PM
September 16, 2014

Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) on blu-ray from MPI Media Group, from a 4K restoration

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FcSOrgnx.jpg&hash=d79f63b826776bed8508156d5a530bcdb31a25ea)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Texas-Chain-Saw-Massacre-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00L22H576&ASIN=B00L22H576&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 17, 2014, 10:13:04 PM
Yeah it's my favorite Pialat, and one of my very favorite movies.


Rare is the film in movie-history that can announce the entire movement of its 'plot' with its title alone. But Pialat's second feature, Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble [We Won't Grow Old Together] does exactly that, encapsulating all the turmoil, and the final end-point, of a couple who among themselves once made a commitment -- and in living together will come to make another one yet.

Jean (Jean Yanne, of Godard's Weekend) and Catherine (Marlène Jobert, of Godard's Masculin Féminin) are the couple whose every move charts an advancement deeper into an emotional warzone. Theirs is the classic and the tragic case of an emotional abuse centred around a perplexing, but powerful, interdependency. At last the point arrives that determines the relationship, with all its weekend holidays, its apologies and submissions, can go no further -- and, in a final shot of genius, Pialat discloses all the ways in which the future might be at once liberated, and enslaved, by the past. Based on a novel by Pialat himself, and on the trauma of his own personal life in the years leading up to the film, Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble was a smash-hit at the time of its release -- and yet is arguably one of the most upsetting films ever made.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: samsong on June 18, 2014, 12:51:30 AM
Quote from: Larry Doc Sportello on June 17, 2014, 10:02:17 PM
Quote from: wilder on June 11, 2014, 04:19:07 AM
August 25, 2014

Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon (1929) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema


Have been meaning to watch this one for months now. Definitely making a trip to the campus to watch this ASAP. too bad they only have it on DVD from Kino :(

it's streaming on netflix.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 18, 2014, 01:27:30 AM
Quote from: Larry Doc Sportello on June 17, 2014, 10:22:15 PM
Quote from: wilder on June 17, 2014, 10:13:04 PM
Yeah it's my favorite Pialat, and one of my very favorite movies.


Rare is the film in movie-history that can announce the entire movement of its 'plot' with its title alone. But Pialat's second feature, Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble [We Won't Grow Old Together] does exactly that, encapsulating all the turmoil, and the final end-point, of a couple who among themselves once made a commitment -- and in living together will come to make another one yet.

Jean (Jean Yanne, of Godard's Weekend) and Catherine (Marlène Jobert, of Godard's Masculin Féminin) are the couple whose every move charts an advancement deeper into an emotional warzone. Theirs is the classic and the tragic case of an emotional abuse centred around a perplexing, but powerful, interdependency. At last the point arrives that determines the relationship, with all its weekend holidays, its apologies and submissions, can go no further -- and, in a final shot of genius, Pialat discloses all the ways in which the future might be at once liberated, and enslaved, by the past. Based on a novel by Pialat himself, and on the trauma of his own personal life in the years leading up to the film, Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble was a smash-hit at the time of its release -- and yet is arguably one of the most upsetting films ever made.


Sounds good. Will definitely check it out. Have been meaning to watch L'enfance Nue for months now.

edit: Where can I find this???

There's the Masters of Cinema DVD (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vieillirons-Ensemble-Together-Masters-Cinema/dp/B002E9DB4W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403072605&sr=8-1&keywords=we+won%27t+grow+old+together) in the UK, the French blu-ray (http://www.amazon.fr/Nous-vieillirons-pas-ensemble-Blu-ray/dp/B00ABIPJFM/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1403072652&sr=1-2&keywords=nous+ne+vieillirons+pas+ensemble) from Gaumont, which has English subtitles, and the forthcoming Kino release (http://www.amazon.com/Wont-Grow-Old-Together-Blu-ray/dp/B00KUCR3BM/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1403072687&sr=1-1&keywords=we+won%27t+grow+old+together) in the US. And I'll be damned, it's also available to rent in SD on Amazon Instant (http://www.amazon.com/Wont-Grow-Together-vieillirons-ensemble/dp/B00KC7HLD0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1403072678&sr=8-2&keywords=we+won%27t+grow+old+together) for $2.99. If none of these are what you meant, well, it's "there". Keep looking.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 19, 2014, 02:15:40 PM
September 2014 TBD

Richard Brooks' Elmer Gantry (1960) from Kino

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Elmer Gantry (1960) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Elmer-Gantry-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d016%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00LC4PD7I&ASIN=B00LC4PD7I&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 26, 2014, 04:00:27 PM
October 7, 2014

Ulu Grosbard's True Confessions (1981) on blu-ray from Kino

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FHVePGAT.jpg&hash=5a02711cf3ed7633f102af1802e87e6925361ce6)

True Confessions (1981) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/True-Confessions-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00MBVLAR8&ASIN=B00MBVLAR8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

Detective Tom Spellacy (Duvall) and Catholic Monsignor Desmond Spellacy (De Niro) find their worlds colliding amidst a flurry of political finger-pointing and public outcries over a scandalous, headline-making murder. As Tom hunts down the elusive killer, his investigation threatens to expose secrets that could ruin his brother... and rock the foundation of his beloved church. Based on the true and still-unsolved "Black Dahlia" murder case.   


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 09, 2014, 12:12:47 PM
September 15, 2014

Busby Berkeley's The Gang's All Here (1943) from Masters of Cinema

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The Gang's All Here (1943) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Gangs-All-Here-Blu-ray/dp/B00LM8KPIQ?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00LM8KPIQ&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 09, 2014, 07:39:30 PM
Quote from: wilder on January 16, 2013, 05:59:26 PM
Edward G. Ulmer's Ruthless (1948) from Olive Films

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Director Edward G. Ulmer's complex psycho-melodrama Ruthless (1948) is undoubtedly worthy of rediscovery. A flashback-structured tale of a sociopath's remorseless drive for station and wealth, Ruthless (often referred to as Ulmer's Citizen Kane) employs a relentless undercurrent of emotional violence. As relayed in an interview with Peter Bogdanovich, Ulmer envisioned his feature as "a Jesuitic morality play... a very bad indictment against 100 percent Americanism—as Upton Sinclair saw it." The film's chilling, malevolent tone is personified in a starkly muted performance by lead—and frequent screen cad—Zachary Scott.

wilder,
did you end up watching this? we chatted about it the day you made ^this post, because it was also on netflix at the time, but anyway i watched it today and it's a tasty blend of noir-biz emotions. and people zing the fuck out of each other. desperate, dark, dramatic zings, and life is portrayed in a high-pitch of human imperfections and aspirations

it's definitely b-grade but like B+++. you'll see or have seen what i mean
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 09, 2014, 09:49:23 PM
No, didn't end up getting that one. I'd still like to see it, though. How zingy are we talking about? I re-watched Ace in the Hole a couple weeks ago for the first time in maybe ten years and that's the zing I'm measuring this zing by, and every other zing that ever comes along. So on a scale of 1 to Ace in the Hole, where're you putting this?

Quote
life is portrayed in a high-pitch of human imperfections and aspirations

Sounds good to me.

This summer has been a tidal wave of good films getting restored and making it to disc, I'm hesitant to snag anything blind atm with so much on the horizon. Periodically I re-activate Netflix for specific things (Milius / ended up watching most of High School Hellcats a long time ago) but always end up canceling because you can only find so much in a landfill. If CanIStreamIt? can be trusted it's not there anymore, anyway. Might subscribe to Classic Flix (http://classicflix.com/index.php), which has most of Olive's blu's available with their disc service, and get ahold of it through that.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 09, 2014, 11:05:39 PM
between 1 and ace in the hole, it's in the bananas section. appreciate so much when imdb has the quote i want to remember in its quote section, and the very one i wanted is the only one they have:

Mrs. Burnside: [to unhappy young Horace] Be brave. Be a man.
Horace Vendig as Child: I don't want to be a man. Never! I wish there weren't any men in the whole world.

that's said during a sequence in which horace enters his house and the camera moves in a fashion that illustrates his emotions changing shape and size. i can feel horace's emotions through the camera

there's lots of emotional energy in the movie. it crackles people's dreams and abilities through a melodramatic and psychological pageantry, and i couldn't believe a damn thing but i could feel the whole trip. i could see the page through the dialogue and an example of the dialogue is:

~"i hate you from your insides"

recommended
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 09, 2014, 11:09:29 PM
Quote from: jenkins<3 on July 09, 2014, 11:05:39 PM
the camera moves in a fashion that illustrates his emotions changing shape and size. i can feel horace's emotions through the camera

Quote from: jenkins<3 on July 09, 2014, 11:05:39 PM"i hate you from your insides"

sold
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 10, 2014, 04:22:30 PM
September 30, 2014

Thom Andersen's Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) on blu-ray from Cinema Guild

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Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Los-Angeles-Plays-Itself-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00LOMGG06&ASIN=B00LOMGG06&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






November 25, 2014

Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973) on blu-ray from Kino

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The Long Goodbye (1973) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Long-Goodbye-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d016%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00MYMTANU&ASIN=B00MYMTANU&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 10, 2014, 04:36:29 PM
^ great news because, well both those movies are la movies but what i mean is i recently traded in my dvd copy of the long goodbye because i had inner certainty that its blu-ray would be arriving and bam

today i am "seriously considering" buying 5 ape movies on blu-ray for $20
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Ravi on July 10, 2014, 04:41:26 PM
Arrow Films already released The Long Goodbye on Blu-Ray with a ton of extras. If the Kino doesn't match their edition, I'll just order the Arrow edition.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 10, 2014, 04:50:59 PM
helpful chart:

kino = region a
arrow = region b

helpful if your player is unlocked or came region free or whatevs
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 10, 2014, 04:53:30 PM
Quote from: jenkins<3 on July 10, 2014, 04:50:59 PM
helpful chart:

kino = region a
arrow = region b

helpful if your player is unlocked or came region free or whatevs

And in a more general sense for the sake of this thread, Amazon UK, Amazon France, and Amazon.de = Region B
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 10, 2014, 05:55:56 PM
we're not in america, we're the internet

so true. wish i could sitdown tell my blu-ray player it needs to become multicultural. its narrow-minded philosophies make it an antique and i'm embarrassed and has anyone seen the 5 ape movies?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 11, 2014, 12:39:26 AM
August 12, 2014

Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past (1947) from Warner Archive

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Out of the Past (1947) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Out-of-the-Past-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d016%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00LPUO24Y&ASIN=B00LPUO24Y&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


These two podcast episodes on the movie are in-depth and worth a listen if you're into the genre (Click POD to the left of each episode title to download)...

Podcast - Out of the Past - Part 1 (http://outofthepast.libsyn.com/episode_1_out_of_the_past)

In this premier episode, Shannon Clute and Richard Edwards discuss Jacques Tourneur's noir masterpiece "Out of the Past." They explain why it is the first film they choose for their continuing series of podcasts delving into the history of film noir. In the course of a lively discussion of this film, Clute and Edwards argue that while "Out of the Past" is not an early noir, it is nonetheless a prototype that helps the viewer define just what is film noir.

Podcast - Out of the Past - Part 2 (http://outofthepast.libsyn.com/episode-53-out-of-the-past-act-ii)

OUT OF THE PAST is perhaps the most carefully structured of all films noir--a narrative divided (like protagonist Jeff Markum/Bailey) between an inescapable past and an impossible future, teetering on the slimmest hope for the present such that any action taken by its poor players tips them down into the abyss. Director Jacques Tourneur, cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca and screenwriter Daniel Mainwaring perfectly synchronized their efforts on this film, creating a narrative masterpiece where every image perfectly accompanies or contrasts every line of dialogue, where the whole is so self-conscious that it forces us to view each moment through every other, creating a true mise-en- abyme. It would be as impossible for the viewer to enter into such a story as it is for the characters to escape it, if it weren't for the decision to create a "Meta" narration at exactly the halfway point of the film, allowing the viewer to sort past from present in a film that constantly blurs that distinction in order to show how lives are always lived in servitude to what comes out of the past. For all of these reasons, the film is a constant source of inspiration, and a constant obsession, for those who watch it carefully.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 11, 2014, 04:17:07 PM
October 14, 2014

Jonathan Demme's Married to the Mob (1988) on blu-ray from Kino

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Married to the Mob (1988) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Married-to-the-Mob-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00MBVLEGA&ASIN=B00MBVLEGA&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 15, 2014, 05:28:33 PM
Quote from: wilder on May 14, 2014, 05:45:38 PM
That UK Tati set is a conundrum. I haven't seen the two you mentioned. Criterion will be releasing their own Tati blu-ray titles down the line, but they lost the rights to Trafic, and given that the other Studiocanal titles Criterion has lost the rights to haven't been re-licensed (La Grand Illusion, The Third Man) and Playtime is already a standalone...blah. Do I trust Studiocanal to issue Trafic as its own disc release in the US? I don't know. Don't know which way is up.

Happy to be wrong (http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 23, 2014, 01:02:09 PM
From preservationist Robert Harris in a thread on Home Theater Forum (http://www.hometheaterforum.com/topic/333087-a-few-words-about%E2%84%A2-warner-bros-home-video-the-wb-archive-collection-in-blu-ray/?p=4117249):

Quote from: Robert HarrisI have been reading seemingly constant complaints on line regarding Warner Bros. and presumed non-activity or lack of interest in bringing important catalog titles to the home video market.

Wrong.

Several weeks ago, I had a meal with friends from WB, and while I cannot report titles, I can report that things are alive and well at both Warner Home Video, as well as the Warner Archive Collection.

2015 portends to be their biggest year since the start of the format.

A quick overview.

Three-strip Technicolor.  Minnelli.  Bogart.  Flynn.  Davis.  Astaire.  Garbo.  Sinatra.

Hammer Horror is a high priority.

The immense amount of work (and expense) that must go into each film to make it right for Blu-ray can sometimes hold things up, but what's coming represents some of the finest productions from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

I would start saving up now.  For those who love classic cinema, it's going to be an expensive year.

RAH
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on July 31, 2014, 05:10:34 PM
so wilder maybe you can help me here.
i saw on amazon a new release of oliver stones first film 'SEIZURE', for sept 9.
the reviews all say its not legit, but they're from like 2007, so i'm guessing a new proper release is on the way?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 31, 2014, 05:15:30 PM
Yeah the September 9, 2014 blu-ray release is legit, coming from Scorpion Releasing.

via blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=14267):

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Independent U.S. distributors Scorpion Releasing have confirmed that they will release on Blu-ray Oliver Stone's directorial debut Seizure (1974), starring Jonathan Frid, Martine Beswick, Joseph Sirola, Troy Donahue, Mary Woronov, and Richard Cox. The release is scheduled to arrive on the U.S. market on September 9th.

The release, which will be distributed by Kino Lorber, will feature a brand new HD transfer from the original U.S elements, as well as brand new interviews with stars Mary Woronov and Richard Cox.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on July 31, 2014, 05:32:11 PM
Quote from: wilder on July 31, 2014, 05:15:30 PM
Yeah the September 9, 2014 blu-ray release is legit, coming from Scorpion Releasing.

via blu-ray.com (http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=14267):

Quote
Independent U.S. distributors Scorpion Releasing have confirmed that they will release on Blu-ray Oliver Stone's directorial debut Seizure (1974), starring Jonathan Frid, Martine Beswick, Joseph Sirola, Troy Donahue, Mary Woronov, and Richard Cox. The release is scheduled to arrive on the U.S. market on September 9th.

The release, which will be distributed by Kino Lorber, will feature a brand new HD transfer from the original U.S elements, as well as brand new interviews with stars Mary Woronov and Richard Cox.

YESSS. have any of you guys seen it before? its pretty crazy and interesting. seeing a good print will be awesome.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Pwaybloe on August 01, 2014, 06:13:59 PM
03, you are crazy. That movie is pure shit. 
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on August 01, 2014, 06:20:32 PM
hahaha. it has so much character though, man! i'm not saying it's a quality film by any means,, technical or otherwise. but it's very enjoyable. it's weird, visually bizarre, unintentionally funny, and you can see the emerging bits of his style. i like it, and i don't really like stone that much, maybe a fistful of his movies. and plus, seeing this on bluray? dude, it's gonna be a different movie totally.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 05, 2014, 05:22:28 PM
November 18, 2014

Hal Ashby's Coming Home (1978) from Kino

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Coming Home (1978) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Coming-Home-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00MYMT9W2&ASIN=B00MYMT9W2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on August 06, 2014, 11:22:18 AM
i love you, wilder. you always remind and inspire me to rewatch loved movies from my past that i nearly forgot about. i picked up the bluray of 'straight time' and 'coming home' thanks to you, man. incredibly underrated films that everyone should watch. 'straight time' feels like the subtlest 1970s scorsese film, with an insanely awesome cast including eddie bunker from reservoir dogs, and a thin and surprisingly sexy kathy bates. and coming home is hal ashby, so that should speak for itself, it's a minor film of his, but i think it is golden. keep up the updates with movies like this and sorcerer and the like, man! you kick ass.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 08, 2014, 03:08:40 PM
Cool cool. I think you mean a DVD of Straight Time, though. The day that movie comes out on blu-ray I'm going to do a backflip.


November 25, 2014

Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us (1974) on blu-ray from Kino

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Thieves Like Us (1974) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Thieves-Like-Blu-ray-Keith-Carradine/dp/B00MYMTAFS/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1409325709&sr=1-1&keywords=thieves+like+us+blu)






November 18, 2014

For jenk, Leos Carax's Mauvais Sang (1986) and Boy Meets Girl (1984) on blu-ray from Carlotta US

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on August 09, 2014, 02:25:49 PM
yeah you're right, no blu ray yet, i misspoke. but amazing film nonetheless.
i've been watching a lot of ulu grosbards films lately, he's a pretty amazing overlooked director.
i liken him to a very subtle scorsese.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 18, 2014, 04:42:24 PM
December 2, 2014

Sidney Lumet's The Offence (1972) on blu-ray from Kino

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The Offence (1972) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Offence-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00NQ4FK98&ASIN=B00NQ4FK98&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 18, 2014, 05:48:02 PM
November 3, 2013

Georg Wilhelm Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) on blu-ray from Eureka

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Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Diary-of-a-Lost-Girl-Blu-ray/dp/B00NGLJD94?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00NGLJD94&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)

A masterwork of the German Silent Cinema whose reputation has only increased over time, Diary of a Lost Girl (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen) traces the journey of a young woman from the pit of despair to the moment of personal awakening. Directed with virtuoso flair by the great G. W. Pabst, Diary of a Lost Girl represents the final pairing of the filmmaker with screen icon Louise Brooks, mere months after their first collaboration in the now-legendary Pandoras Box (Die Büchse der Pandora).

Brooks plays Thymiane Henning, an unprepossessing young woman seduced by an unscrupulous and mercenary character employed at her fathers pharmacy (played with gusto by Fritz Rasp, the degenerate villain of such Fritz Lang classics as Metropolis, Spione, and Frau im mond). After Thymiane gives birth to the child and subsequently rejects her familys expectations for marriage, the baby is stripped from her care, and Thymiane is relegated to a purgatorial reform school that functions less as an educational institution and more like a conduit for fulfilling the headmistress's sadistic libidinal fantasies. When Thymiane at last manages to escape and learn the fate of her child, she despondently enters a brothel where she nonetheless flourishes emotionally and sexually, and life begins anew.



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 20, 2014, 12:15:51 PM
October 20, 2014

Federico Fellini's The Clowns (1970) from Masters of Cinema

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The Clowns (1970) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Clowns-Blu-ray/dp/B00MUVK2BO?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00MUVK2BO&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






October 27, 2014

Seijun Suzuki's Youth of the Beast (1963) from Masters of Cinema

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Youth of the Beast (1963) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Youth-of-the-Beast-Blu-ray/dp/B00MUVK32W?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00MUVK32W&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 26, 2014, 05:10:29 PM
December 9, 2014

Arthur Penn's The Missouri Breaks (1976) from Kino

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The Missouri Breaks (1976) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Missouri-Breaks-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00NQKW8MO&ASIN=B00NQKW8MO&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 27, 2014, 08:38:45 PM
October 20, 2014

Bruce Robinson's Withnail & I (1987) and How To Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) (included in Withnail package) on blu-ray from Arrow

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Withnail & I (1987) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Withnail-and-I-Blu-ray/dp/B00N2VRH5U?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00N2VRH5U&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)







October 27, 2014

Jules Dassin's The Naked City (1948) on blu-ray from Arrow

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The Naked City (1948) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Naked-City-Blu-ray/dp/B00N2VRHAA?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00N2VRHAA&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 30, 2014, 01:10:04 PM
November 18, 2014

Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) from Kino

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Cabinet-of-Dr-Caligari-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d032%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-032-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00N5ND6PU&ASIN=B00N5ND6PU&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


November 25, 2014

Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist (1970) on blu-ray from Raro

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The Conformist (1970) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Conformist-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d032%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-032-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00N5ND6NW&ASIN=B00N5ND6NW&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


December 2, 2014

Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) on blu-ray from Sony

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Mr-Smith-Goes-to-Washington-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d032%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-032-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00N5708NE&ASIN=B00N5708NE&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 31, 2014, 02:04:14 PM
December 9, 2014

Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) on blu-ray from Kino

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Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Buffalo-Bill-and-the-Indians-or-Sitting-Bulls-History-Lesson-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00NQKW914&ASIN=B00NQKW914&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

A cynical Buffalo Bill hires Sitting Bull to exploit him and add his credibility to the distorted view of history presented in his Wild West Show.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 05, 2014, 04:33:25 PM
4K Blu-ray Confirmed, Coming in Late 2015
via blu-ray.com

4K Blu-ray is officially on the way. According to Victor Matsuda, Chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association Global Promotions Committee, the BDA expects the specs for 4K Blu-ray to be finalized in the first half of 2015, paving the way for commercial availability by the end of the year. This means we can expect to see actual 4K Blu-ray movies and players available in stores by Christmas next year.

Apart from the jump to 4K resolution (3,840×2,160) we can also expect 4K Blu-ray to support higher frame rates (up to 60fps), an expanded color gamut along with high dynamic range (HDR), as well as HEVC/H.265 encoding to compress 4K movies more efficiently.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 05, 2014, 05:00:37 PM
November 5, 2014

Orson Welles' Othello (1952) on blu-ray from Carlotta France, from a new 2K restoration

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Othello (1952) - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Orson-Welles-Othello-Blu-ray/dp/B00MBXKJKK?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00MBXKJKK&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)


Orson Welles' Macbeth (1948) on blu-ray from Carlotta France, from a new 2K restoration

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Macbeth (1948) - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Macbeth-Blu-ray/dp/B00MBXKKKO?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00MBXKKKO&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 10, 2014, 06:07:51 PM
January 13, 2015

Adrian Lyne's Foxes (1980) on blu-ray from Kino

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Foxes (1980) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Foxes-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00OZ8XHFI&ASIN=B00OZ8XHFI&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on September 12, 2014, 07:06:03 PM
being enticed by this old school renoir kicker that's $15 now

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/28066/jean-renoir-collectors-edition/

QuoteCharleston Parade (Sur un Air de Charleston) (silent; 20 min. - 1927): A strange sci-fi short adapted by Lestringuez from a story by Andre Cerf. In 2028, Paris is an apocalyptic wasteland. The Eiffel Tower even has a bend in it.

renoir! does anyone know about this set??
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: polkablues on September 12, 2014, 07:09:51 PM
Very nice, I haven't seen any of those films. Makes me want to dust off my Rules of the Game Criterion.

And holy crap, Jean Renoir directed a b-movie horror spoof in the '50s? Everything I know is wrong.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 18, 2014, 10:36:12 PM
Vinegar Syndrome to Launch New Label in 2015
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Independent U.S. distributors Vinegar Syndrome announced today that in 2015 they will launch a brand new label called Etiquette Pictures. The new label will be "devoted to the preservation and distribution of unique, offbeat, and significant experimental films, documentaries and independent features, as well as some contemporary work."

Here's Vinegar Syndrome's official announcement:

"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."
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 20, 2014, 05:30:41 PM
November 17, 2014

Fritz Lang's Spione (1928) from Masters of Cinema

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Spione (1928) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00NGNI672/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 21, 2014, 12:00:04 PM
November 18, 2014

Robert Altman's Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) from Olive Films

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Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Come-Back-to-the-5-and-Dime-Jimmy-Dean-Jimmy-Dean-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00NP06CCW&ASIN=B00NP06CCW&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Ravi on September 21, 2014, 01:45:24 PM
Yay, more Altman on Blu-Ray! WB needs to get off their asses and release McCabe and Mrs. Miller already.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Reel on September 21, 2014, 01:56:32 PM
altman must've made something like 50 movies I have no awareness of.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 23, 2014, 11:41:05 AM
October 14, 2014

Possessed (1947) from Warner Archive

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Possessed (1947) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Possessed-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00NTC7E3W&ASIN=B00NTC7E3W&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)





Yankee Doodle Dandee (1942) from Warner Archive

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Yankee Doodle Dandee (1942) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Yankee-Doodle-Dandy-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00NMQR6ZG&ASIN=B00NMQR6ZG&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 25, 2014, 04:43:43 PM
December 9, 2014

Alejandro Amenábar's Tesis (1996) on blu-ray from Tanelorn Films

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Tesis (1996) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Tesis-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00NWFE6TG&ASIN=B00NWFE6TG&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 03, 2014, 03:53:24 PM
Arrow Video to Launch North American Office in 2015
via blu-ray.com

British distributors Arrow Video announced today that they will expand its celebrated Arrow Video label into North America early in 2015. Fans will be able to learn all the details of this bold and exciting move, and discover regular updates, through a dedicated crowdfunder campaign which is launched today. (See details here (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/arrow-video-usa)).

Lauded with positive feedback from a loyal fan base for its great success in releasing various acclaimed restorations of cult and horror releases, Arrow Video have in recent years won several prestigious 'Label of the Year' awards by such notable outlets such as broadsheet newspaper The Guardian and Home Cinema Choice Magazine.

By popular demand Arrow Video will launch into North America with a host of cult titles, receiving deluxe treatment in video, audio, supplements and artwork. Launch titles include Tonino Valerii's Spaghetti Western Day of Anger [I Giorni dell'ira, aka Gunlaw] starring genre icons Lee Van Cleef and Giuliano Gemma; Michael Armstrong's bloody and brutal critique of state-funded religious corruption Mark of the Devil in a director-approved release; and the thrillingly bizarro yakuza-samurai-ghost story-horror hybrid from Teruo Ishii, Blind Woman's Curse (1971, also known as Black Cat's Revenge). Future releases include films never-before-released on DVD and/or Blu-ray from European and Japanese cult directors.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 03, 2014, 05:51:05 PM
May 12, 2015

Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn (1939) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group, from a new 4K restoration

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In Cornwall, around 1800, a young woman discovers that she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.

Restored trailer here (http://www.indiewire.com/article/watch-alfred-hitchcock-gets-high-res-in-jamaica-inn-restoration-20141003)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 06, 2014, 02:58:24 PM
January 20, 2015

Francois Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black (1968) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Peter Yates' Breaking Away (1979) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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February 10, 2015

Woody Allen's Love and Death (1975) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Bob Fosse's Lenny (1974) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Andrew L. Stone's Stormy Weather (1943) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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These will be available to pre-order about a month in advance of their release dates through Screen Archives (http://www.screenarchives.com)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 06, 2014, 09:26:16 PM
November 19, 2014

Andrej Zulawski's Boris Godounov (1989) from Gaumont, with English subtitles

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Boris Godounov (1989) - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Boris-Godounov-Blu-ray/dp/B00N58R318?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00N58R318&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 07, 2014, 07:51:04 PM
February 3, 2015

Alexander Payne's About Schmidt (2002) on blu-ray from Warner Bros.

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About Schmidt (2002) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O9KKSG8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 13, 2014, 01:44:56 AM
October 21, 2014

For those who speak French, Bruno Dumont's entire filmography up through Camille Claudel on blu-ray from Blaq Out (no subs)

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Bruno Dumont : 1997 - 2014 - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Bruno-Dumont-1997-Coffret-Blu-ray/dp/B00M262LCU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413182458&sr=8-1&keywords=bruno+dumont)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 14, 2014, 12:19:25 PM
January 6, 2015

Robert DeNiro's The Good Shepherd (2006) from Universal

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The Good Shepherd (2006) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Good-Shepherd-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00OHFZC0W&ASIN=B00OHFZC0W&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 03, 2014, 07:50:21 PM
February 15, 2015

George Armitage's Miami Blues (1990) from Shout Factory

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 04, 2014, 11:59:47 AM
March 3, 2015

Vincente Minelli's The Band Wagon (1953) on blu-ray from Warner Bros.

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The Band Wagon (1953) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Band-Wagon-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d056%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-056-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00P9E5NJA&ASIN=B00P9E5NJA&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 16, 2014, 10:07:02 PM
November 18, 2014

Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 8 on DVD from Warner Archive

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Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 8 - Warner Archive (http://shop.warnerarchive.com/product/forbidden+hollywood+collection+volume+8+(5pack)+1000537448.do?sortby=ourPicks&refType=&from=fn)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 20, 2014, 05:07:06 PM
February 17, 2015

Jacques Rivette's Le Pont du Nord (1981) on blu-ray from Kino

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Le Pont du Nord (1981) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Le-Pont-du-Nord-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00PWY0W3Y&ASIN=B00PWY0W3Y&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: max from fearless on November 20, 2014, 07:56:35 PM
FELL IN LOVE WITH LE PONT DU NORD EARLIER THIS YEAR...
THIS FILM IS A STRANGE, MAD, CONFUSING GEM...A THING OF BEAUTY...
THAT DESERVES THE ALL CAPS TREATMENT...
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: samsong on November 21, 2014, 05:50:46 AM
all rivette deserves the criterion treatment.  if kino takes celine and julie go boating i'm gonna cut a bitch.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 25, 2014, 04:34:00 PM
February 2, 2015

David Cronenberg's Rabid (1977) on blu-ray from Arrow

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Rabid - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rabid-Blu-ray/dp/B00Q4VQ10C?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00Q4VQ10C&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


February 10, 2015

Bruce Robinson's Withnail & I (1987) and How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) on blu-ray from Arrow (standard edition)

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Withnail & I (1987) and How To Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Withnail-and-I-Blu-ray/dp/B00Q4VQ0G2?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00Q4VQ0G2&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 04, 2014, 05:45:45 PM
January 19, 2015

Stanley Donen's Two for the Road (1967) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema

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Two for the Road (1967) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Two-For-the-Road-Blu-ray/dp/B00Q8NEC5W?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00Q8NEC5W&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


One of the great films by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain, Charade) after the studio era had come to a close, Two for the Road was a break-off with the old system, one which allowed Donen to further stretch his art, aided by screenwriter Frederic Raphael (Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut), in this tale of a couple voluntarily stretching themselves through the long period of their relationship.

Portrayed in fragments that span the couple's time together in marriage, Two for the Road runs the course of a relationship (between Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney) that finds a circumstantial come-together escalate into newlywed-status and, through a series of travails, into the serious situation of bearing a daughter. The disturbance of marriage, and/or life, is chronicled from here on.

After so many studio-system smash-hits, Two for the Road marked a reckoning for director Donen — which went on to influence directors like Jacques Rivette for its portrayal of a couple in interaction and its keen sense of duration across the length of their time together.






Q1 2015 TBD

Sidney Lumet's The Offence (1972) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema


2015 TBD

Andrzej Zulawski's Boris Godounov (1989) on blu-ray from Mondo Vision
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 06, 2014, 02:46:59 PM
April 14, 2015

James Ivory's The Remains of the Day (1993) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Francois Truffaut's The Story of Adele H. (1975) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 12, 2014, 06:04:35 PM
January 13, 2015

The Skin aka La Pelle (1981) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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The Skin (1981) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Skin-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%256ee%2577s%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00OZOILZ8&ASIN=B00OZOILZ8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)





Liliana Cavani (Ripley's Game) gained international fame with her daring 1974 breakthrough The Night Porter, a controversial drama about a concentration camp survivor's sadomasochistic relationship with a former Nazi SS officer. Sex-as-commodity also figures in Cavani's 1981 film The Skin. Based on the short stories of Curzio Malaparte, the film is Cavani's controversial look at the aftermath of German occupation of Italy during World War II. After the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women; many must sacrifice their dignity and morals in order to survive.

An international cast of superstars brings Malaparte's stories to life. Marcello Mastroianni plays Malaparte, a diplomatic liaison between the Allied and Italian forces, who chronicled the desperate measures taken by his Italian countrymen to endure even after the defeat of their enemy. Burt Lancaster plays liberating American Gen. Mark Clark, who struggles to fathom the devastation around him. Also starring is Claudia Cardinale, famed for her performances in masterpieces by Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Sergio Leone.

This unforgettable and disturbing film, an epic Italian-French co-production, was nominated for the top prize, the Palme d'Or, at the Cannes Film Festival; Cardinale was named best supporting actress by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists.



I don't know this movie but it looks interesting.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 13, 2014, 04:00:26 PM
Chris Marker's Level Five, released on DVD this past October by Icarus Films

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Level Five - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Level-Five-Catherine-Belkhodja/dp/B00M8UTZXI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1418506741&sr=8-2&keywords=level+five#customerReviews)





The French computer programmer Laura inherits the task of making a computer game of the Battle of Okinawa in Japan during World War 2. She searches the Internet for information on the battle, and interviews Japanese experts and witnesses. The extraordinary circumstances of the Battle of Okinawa lead Laura to reflect deeply on her own life and humanity in general, particularly the influence of history and memories.


From Slant's Top 25 of 2014

QuoteChris Marker's Level Five made for a particularly eerie cinematic experience by the fact that it was released 17 years after its making. The temporal gap gives it a cryogenic quality that only enhances the film's prophetic aura. The melancholy that afflicts the director's surrogate, Laura (Catherine Belkhodja), who addresses the camera as though she were Skyping her dead lover, is like a message in a bottle whose tragedy remained muffled for too long not to metastasize the very ocean through which it traveled. Here the essay film's most basic element, the lyrical way in which it renders public the private machinations of thinking, imbricates itself with an intimate tale of grief ensconced by technology and the communal horror of the Battle of Okinawa, itself shielded by nothing. The timbre of Marker's narration suggests an author too weathered by the human experience to be affected by his own poetry—a somberness akin to the blunt exposition of a deadly prognosis. Belkhodja's face is perennially swollen, as if sucker-punched by sudden loss, and by the realization that loss is all there is. Marker weaves his cinematic thread by contaminating world events with a mourning as inaudible to the world as it is symbiotically connected to it.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 14, 2014, 05:24:17 PM
2015 TBD

Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985), Tenebrae (1982), and Suspiria (1977) coming to blu-ray from Synapse, as well as Bill Osco's Alice in Wonderland (1976)






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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 17, 2014, 03:32:39 PM
February 17, 2015

Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) from Olive Films

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Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Kiss-Me-Stupid-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00R5TAWT8&ASIN=B00R5TAWT8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 17, 2014, 06:22:00 PM
March 31, 2015

Frank Perry's David and Lisa (1962) from Olive Films

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David and Lisa (1962) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/David-Lisa-Limited-Blu-ray-Dullea/dp/B00RWKN96I/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1431204943&sr=8-2&keywords=david+and+lisa)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 17, 2014, 07:39:09 PM
A roundup of everything mentioned in this thread from the past few years...


US Blu-ray

About Schmidt (2002)
Alfred Hitchcock - The Masterpiece Collection
Alice in Wonderland (1976)
Altered States (1980)
Annie Hall (1977)
The Apartment (1960)
The Band Wagon (1953)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Combo (1955)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Big Red One (1980)
Body Bags (1993)
Body and Soul (1947)
Brainstorm (1983)
Breaking Away (1979)
Buffalo '66 (1998)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)
Cape Fear (1962)
Casablanca (1942)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Caught (1949)
Champion (1949)
Chinatown (1974)
City That Never Sleeps (1953)
Cloak and Dagger (1946)
The Color of Money (1986)
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)
Coming Home (1978)
The Dark Mirror (1946)
David and Lisa (1962)
Death Watch (1980)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
The Doll Squad (1973)
Double Indemnity (1944)
The Driver (1978)
The Duellists (1977)
East of Eden (1955)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
The Enforcer (1951)
Film Noir Collection - Olive Films
Flirt (1995)
Force of Evil (1948)
Foxes (1980)
Francis Ford Coppola: 5 Film Collection
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Giant (1956)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Good Luck Miss Wyckoff (1979)
The Good Shepherd (2006)
Grand Hotel (1932)
Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Heaven (2002)
Hell's Half Acre (1954)
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Hoodlum Empire (1952)
The Insider (1999)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
The Jerk (1979)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Kazan at Fox - Vol. 1
Kazan at Fox - Vol. 2
The King of Comedy (1982)
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Laura (1944)
Lenny (1974)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Lilith (1964)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
The Lost Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis (1969-1971)
Love & Death (1975)
Macbeth (1948)
Mahattan (1979)
Maniac Cop 2 (1990)
Marathon Man (1976)
Married to the Mob (1988)
Marty (1955)
Massage Parlor Murders (1972)
Mean Streets (1973)
Meanwhile (2011)
The Men (1950)
Miami Blues (1990)
The Missouri Breaks (1976)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mysterious Skin (2004)
Niagara (1953)
Night Tide (1961)
Notorious (1946)
The Offence (1972)
On the Beach (1959)
Out of the Past (1947)
The Outsiders (1983)
Paris Blues (1961)
The Party (1968)
The Pawnbroker (1964)
Point Blank (1967)
Possessed (1947)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
Punk Vacation (1987)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Pursued (1947)
Radio Days (1947)
Rebecca (1940)
Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Robocop (1987)
Rolling Thunder (1977)
Ruthless (1948)
Sabrina (1954)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Secret Beyond the Door (1947)
Separate Tables (1958)
Serpico (1973)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
She's So Lovely (1997)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Sleep, My Love (1948)
Sleeper (1973)
Sometimes A Great Notion (1970)
Sorcerer (1977)
Spellbound (1945)
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Stormy Weather (1943)
The Stranger (1946)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
The Swimmer (1968)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
The Telephone Book (1971)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
That Cold Day in the Park (1969)
They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)
Thieves Like Us (1974)
Too Late Blues (1961)
Touch of Evil (1958)
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
True Confessions (1981)
Trust (1990)
The Ultimate Buster Keaton Collection
Ultimate Gangsters Collection
The Unbelievable Truth (1989)
The Unforgiven (1960)
Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection
Velvet Goldmine (1998)
The Verdict (1982)
The Visitor (1979)
We Can't Go Home Again (1973)
Westworld (1973)
Wild River (1960)
Wings (1927)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Yankee Doodle Dandee (1942)
Yellow Submarine (1968)

1900 (1977)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Boy Meets Girl (1984)
The Bride Wore Black (1968)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Color of Lies (1999)
The Conformist (1970)
Demoniacs (1974)
Grapes of Death (1978)
Grand Illusion (1937)
Herzog: The Collection
The Iron Rose (1973)
The Living Dead Girl (1982)
Love in the City (1953)
Mauvais Sang (1986)
Night of the Hunted (1980)
Nosferatu (1922)
Nostalghia (1983)
Phenomena (1985)
Le Pont du Nord (1981)
Queen Margot (1994)
The Rape of the Vampire (1968)
Requiem for a Vampire (1973)
Sokurov: Early Masterworks
The Skin (1981)
The Story of Adele H. (1975)
Tenebrae (1982)
Tesis (1996)
Two Men in Manhattan (1959)
Two Orphan Vampires (1997)
I Vinti (1953)
We Won't Grow Old Together (1972)


US DVD

Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics Vol. 3
Columbia Pictures Pre-Code Collection
Dark Crimes - Film Noir Thrillers Vol. 1
Dark Crimes - Film Noir Thrillers Vol. 2
Directed by Billy Wilder
Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 4
Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 5
Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 6
Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 7
Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 8
Fritz Lang: The Early Works
Hey Good Lookin' (1982)
Joan Crawford: In the Fifities
Level Five
The Nickel Ride (1974)
The Outside Man (1973)
Track 29 (1988)

The Devil, Probably (1977)
Police (1985)
The Red Squirrel (1993)
Story of a Love Affair (1950)
Tierra (1996)
Vacas (1992)


UK Blu-ray

Amateur (1994)
Bad Timing (1980)
Billy Liar (1963)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Car (1977)
Double Indemnity (1944)
The Driver (1978)
Faces (1968)
Fear and Desire (1953)
The Gang's All Here (1943)
The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)
The Killers (1964)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Naked City (1948)
The Offence (1972)
Opening Night (1977)
Poltergeist III (1988)
Rabid (1977)
Red River (1948)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Serpico (1973)
Shadows (1959)
Shivers (1975)
Simon Killer (2012)
Simple Men (1992)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
The Tarnished Angels (1957)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
Too Late Blues (1961)
The Trial (1962)
Two for the Road (1967)
The Unbelievable Truth (1989)
Withnail & I (1987) and How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

The Assassin (1961)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Le beau Serge (1958)
Betty Blue (1986)
Il Bidone (1955)
The Blue Angel (1930)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Camera Obscura: The Walerian Borowczyk Collection
La Ceremonie (1995)
City of Women (1980)
Classic Bergman
Coeur Fidele (1923)
Les Cousins (1959)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (1922)
Faust (1926)
Floating Weeds (1959)
The Clowns (1970)
Gate of Hell (1953)
Jacques Tati Essential Collection
Kuroneko (1968)
Late Mizoguchi
Martin Scorsese Presents: World Cinema Foundation: Volume One
Mouchette (1967)
The Murderer Lives at 21 (1942)
The Naked Island (1960)
Die Nibelungen (1924)
Nosferatu (1922)
La Notte (1961)
Onibaba (1964)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
La Poison (1951)
Le Pont du Nord (1981)
Quest for Fire (1981)
Spione (1928)
Sunrise (1927)
Tabu (1931)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Van Gogh (1991)
Woman in the Moon (1929)
Youth of the Best (1963)


UK DVD

The Alexander Sokurov Collection
Park Row (1952)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)


French Blu-ray

Macbeth (1948)
Othello (1952)
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)
Q&A (1990)

Angst (1983)
A nos amours (1983)
Benny's Video (1992)
Boris Godounov (1989)
Bruno Dumont 1997-2014
Eric Rohmer - Comedies et proverbes
Eric Rohmer - Contes des qautres saisons
Eric Rohmer - Contes moraux
Eric Rohmer - Integral
Funny Games (1997)
Loulou (1980)
Le Pacha (1968)
Police (1985)
Querelle (1982)
Under the Sun of Satan (1987)
Van Gogh (1991)
We Won't Grow Old Together (1972)


French DVD

Coffret Jean Epstein


German Blu-ray

The Seven-Ups (1973)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 21, 2014, 02:45:45 AM
March 10, 2015

Eckhart Schmidt's The Fan (1982) from Mondo Macabro

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NSFW




2015 TBD

Vasili Mass' Latvian horror movie The Spider aka Zirneklis (1991) from Mondo Macabro

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Quote from: ObskuraThe Spider is a very Freudian psychosexual drama following a young beauty Vita, modelling for a painting of Virgin Mary. At her first visit to the studio of the shady artist Albert, Vita is caught in the net of his sinister universe.

In a visually stunning sequence personages of Albert's paintings come to life and attack Vita. The girl breaks away only to realise she's now in the toils of some dark forces.

The Spider combines elements of exploitation and arthouse cinema and constantly balances between sleaze and macabre eminence. The film is clearly influenced by European cinema movements, mostly Polish New Wave, as well as is close to Jean Cocteau's poetic vision of Beauty and the Beast fairy tale. At the same time, the film acted as a mirror for the unstable state of collective consciousness after the collapse of the USSR.

The film was released in the year Latvia restored independence, which places it in the historically curious context of both the Soviet Union's death convulsions and the birth of the new Latvian Republic.

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NSFW

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on December 21, 2014, 03:01:02 AM
OOOOO thank god mando macabro has come to blu-ray. i'm as serious as i can be
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 08, 2015, 03:02:00 AM
February 23, 2015

Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lies (1996) from Channel 4

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Secrets & Lies (1996) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Secrets-and-Lies-Blu-ray/dp/B00R1MMPRQ?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00R1MMPRQ&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






February 24, 2015

Shirley Clarke's The Connection (1962) on blu-ray from Milestone

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The Connection (1962) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Connection-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%256ee%2577s%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00RY0KEDW&ASIN=B00RY0KEDW&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

A jazz quartet and sundry deadbeat friends hang out in a grungy New York City loft, waiting for their drug connection. They jam, argue, wax philosophical and ham it up for the benefit of a self-important documentary filmmaker and his cameraman. Shirley Clarke s debut feature The Connection magically transforms the ennui of their addiction into bold drama, set to an incredible score by Freddie Redd and featuring Jackie McLean s brilliant sax. A former dancer with a deep love for music, Clarke was born for the moving image. With The Connection, she created the ultimate jazz film a feature of such fluid artistry and bebop editing that the viewer never notices that the 110-minute movie was shot in one room. Camera, actors, and musicians riff constantly with and off each other to electrifying effect. Throughout her career, Clarke broke taboos (making films about junkies, ghetto teens, gay life and avant-garde jazz) and pushed the boundaries of film technique. She was an artist of such intense and innate individuality that there could only be one Shirley Clarke the most independent of all American independent filmmakers.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 08, 2015, 04:28:48 PM
March 24, 2015

Robert Altman's Vincent & Theo (1990) on blu-ray from Olive Films

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Vincent & Theo (1990) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Vincent-and-Theo-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00RYZFMQQ&ASIN=B00RYZFMQQ&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 10, 2015, 03:20:35 AM
March 24, 2015

Wim Wender's End of Violence (1997) from Olive Films

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End of Violence (1997) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-End-of-Violence-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00RYZFRRK&ASIN=B00RYZFRRK&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)





March 31, 2015

Night Game (1989) from Olive Films

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Night Game (1989) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Night-Game-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d010%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00RYZFO14&ASIN=B00RYZFO14&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 14, 2015, 03:51:01 PM
Quote from: wilder on December 21, 2014, 02:45:45 AM
March 10, 2015

Eckhart Schmidt's The Fan (1982) from Mondo Macabro

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NSFW


via Criterion Forum (http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5769&start=25#p504692):

Quote from: Jared A.
Hi guys, I work for Mondo Macabro and can answer questions if you have any.

Wanted to give a rundown on how we are releasing Eckhart Schmidt's THE FAN.

We are doing it in two versions.

In February we'll put out a BD-only version in a red case, limited to only 500 copies, numbered, and sold exclusively through the MM website, $25.

The following month will see a widely distributed BD/DVD combo, which will itself be limited to either 1500 or 2000 copies, SRP $29.99.

The content of the two editions will be exactly the same, the only difference being the packaging.

If you are interested in this release and want to see more MM blu rays, I urge you to buy the direct-sale limited version. We will be doing this for all our BD releases, trying to offset the huge costs involved. Thanks! The pre-order for the LE will be Jan. 26th.

Oh, and yes, we will ship international.

Mondo Macabro's website (http://www.mondomacabrodvd.com)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 14, 2015, 08:17:27 PM
January 20, 2015

John Maybury's Love Is the Devil (1998) on blu-ray from Strand Releasing

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Biography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook.

Love Is the Devil (1998) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00ND0D9VQ/dvdbeaver-20/ref=nosim)



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on January 14, 2015, 08:27:42 PM
thanks for the earlier mondo post, wilder, btw, imma hope i order the blu-ray-only one

wanted to say:

Quote from: wilder on December 17, 2014, 07:39:09 PM
Foxes (1980)

came out yesterday. i almost cried when i saw it

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 24, 2015, 02:10:57 PM
March 17, 2015

There's going to be another release of Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai (1947), this time from the usually terrible Mill Creek, sourced (http://www.millcreekent.com/media/sell_sheets//63224.pdf) from the same 4K restoration as the TCM release (http://classic-movies.tcm.com/search?p=R&srid=S6-USCDR02&lbc=tcm&w=lady%20from%20shanghai&url=http%3a%2f%2fshop.tcm.com%2fdetail.php%3fp%3d577543&rk=1&uid=797131678&sid=2&ts=custom&rsc=fDXxXYtNoFEQo8kB&method=and&isort=score&view=grid&SESSID=76f999d67f312a44a2ae565984bc4e3e&storename=tcm), but without the extras.

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The Lady from Shanghai (1947) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Lady-From-Shanghai-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d030%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-030-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00S1VR62K&ASIN=B00S1VR62K&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 27, 2015, 01:57:01 PM
April 7, 2015

Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life (1959) along with the 1934 original from Universal

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Imitation of Life - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Imitation-of-Life-2-Movie-Collection-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d018%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-018-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00ST5TBUI&ASIN=B00ST5TBUI&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)





October 2015 TBD

Takeshi Kitano's Fireworks (1997) on blu-ray from Third Window Films (UK)

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and pre-orders are up for Mondo Macabro's blu-ray release of The Fan (1982), both directly through their website (http://mondomacabro.bigcartel.com/product/the-fan-red-case-limited-edition-pre-sale) (LE, 500 copies) and on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/The-Fan-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d012%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00S1Q6DQU&ASIN=B00S1Q6DQU&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER) (blu-ray/dvd combo).
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 29, 2015, 04:21:38 PM
April 20, 2015

Sidney Lumet's The Offence (1972) from Masters of Cinema

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The Offence (1972) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Offence-Blu-ray/dp/B00STH63PC?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00STH63PC&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 03, 2015, 03:06:14 PM
April 2015 TBD

The Carl Theodor Dreyer Collection (1925-1964) on blu-ray from BFI

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A limited edition Blu-ray box set featuring award-winning classics Day of Wrath, Ordet, Gertrud and alternative presentations of Master of the House, as well as seven of Dreyer's celebrated short films. Special features include Torben Skjødt Jensen's fascinating 1995 documentary My Métier and extensive archival and outtake interview footage with those who knew and worked with the legendary director.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 03, 2015, 03:18:36 PM
July 2015 TBD

Jonathan Kaplan's Truck Turner (1974) on blu-ray from Kino

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Truck Turner (Hayes) is a football star-turned-bounty hunter who's tracking a sadistic pimp on the mean streets of Los Angeles. Armed with his brute strength and ace cool partner (Alan Weeks), Truck closes in on his mark. But a tragic accident soon changes all the rules, and suddenly the hunter finds himself being hunted by the city's deadliest hired killers! Truck strikes back in a series of wild car chases, shootouts and bone-crunching fistfights, knowing that the battles can lead to only one place: an intense struggle to the death against Harvard Blue (Kotto), the brutal leader of L.A.'s organized crime syndicate.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on February 03, 2015, 05:48:34 PM
great movie for grindhouse lovers;;;;;
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 11, 2015, 02:06:57 PM
May 5, 2015

Steven Spielberg's Duel (1971) on blu-ray from Universal

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Duel (1971) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Duel-Blu-ray/ref=%26%2574%2561g%3d%2562l%2575r%2561y%252d042%252d20?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-042-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00TF7KYJQ&ASIN=B00TF7KYJQ&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 12, 2015, 02:50:04 PM
June 9, 2015

Brian Yuzna's Society (1989) on blu-ray from Arrow (US)

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Society (1989) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Society-Blu-ray/dp/B00TRUJ7KS?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00TRUJ7KS&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on February 12, 2015, 09:35:48 PM
thank you jesus., you guys have seen tyhis before right?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 15, 2015, 03:46:49 PM
VinegarSyndrome.tv is fully funded (http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/vinegarsyndrome-tv-instant-digital-exploitation/) and happening
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 15, 2015, 03:53:46 PM
April 14, 2015

That Man From Rio / Up to His Ears (1964-1965) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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That Man From Rio / Up to His Ears - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00RWKNDYQ/dvdbeaver-20/ref=nosim)





Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on February 15, 2015, 04:29:13 PM
up to his ears is FANTASTIC
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 19, 2015, 02:30:51 PM
May 18, 2015

Sam Fuller's Pickup on South Street (1953) from Masters of Cinema

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Pickup on South Street (1953) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pickup-on-South-Street-Blu-ray/dp/B00TR1P5ZS?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00TR1P5ZS&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 20, 2015, 03:25:35 PM
June 15, 2015

Split Second (1992) on blu-ray from 101 Films (UK)

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Split Second (1992) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Split-Second-Blu-ray/dp/B00TS7U4SY?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00TS7U4SY&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)

Set in the year 2008, in a largely flooded London, the waterlogged and rat-infested capital is being terrorised by a monstrous serial killer, who has resurfaced after years of inactivity. Maverick policeman Harold Stone (Hauer) is on his trail, but the killer seems bent on destroying Stone, his girlfriend Michelle (Cattrall) and his new partner Dick Durkin (Neil Duncan).   




Haven't seen this but it looks like Blade Runner and that's good enough for me
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 26, 2015, 07:31:11 AM
May 12, 2015

David Wain's Wet Hot American Summer (2001) from Universal

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Wet Hot American Summer (2001) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Wet-Hot-American-Summer-Blu-ray/dp/B00TYZ35UY?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00TYZ35UY&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on March 04, 2015, 02:21:03 PM
who has seen these and can tell me about them, i wanna see 'em all

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or maybe even, his criterion release

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on March 04, 2015, 03:51:07 PM
oh man marco ferreri is awesome!

he's basically godard meets jodorowsky through a fassbinderish filter.

dillinger is dead is what hes most known for, and its amazing, so i'd watch that first. its very comprehensive of his style and maybe his most accessible.

then watch 'don't touch the white woman' with mastroianni, if you LIKE it, then go to 'bye bye monkey' which is my personal favorite, with ol depardieu.

if you DONT LIKE 'dont touch the white woman' then try 'la grande bouffe' which i dont like very much, but other people seem to love it.

seed of man and bye bye monkey are definitely my favorites of his.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 05, 2015, 08:57:33 AM
May 26, 2015

Jean Rollin's The Escapees (1981) from Kino/Redemption

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The Escapees (1981) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Escapees-Blu-ray-Laurence-Dubas/dp/B00U39G5SE/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2_vid_twi_2_blu?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1431204751&sr=1-1&keywords=the+escapees)

What an awful cover.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 14, 2015, 12:17:12 PM
March 17, 2015

The Wild One (1953) from Mill Creek

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The Wild One (1953) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/The-Wild-One-Blu-ray/dp/B00S1VR6DE?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00S1VR6DE&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)





Comparison with the darker German blu-ray release (http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00BLE7FP2/dvdbeaver0c-21/ref=nosim) can be found here (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film4/blu-ray_reviews_62_/the_wild_one_blu-ray.htm)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 17, 2015, 04:20:11 PM
May 18, 2015

Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon (1973) from Masters of Cinema

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Paper Moon (1973) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Paper-Moon-Blu-ray/dp/B00UTCIYZ2?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00UTCIYZ2&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 18, 2015, 02:20:54 PM
April 21, 2015

Busby Berkeley's 42nd Street (1933) from Warner Archive

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42nd Street (1933) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/42nd-Street-Blu-ray-Ruby-Keeler/dp/B00V58LOSS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1427398777&sr=8-2&keywords=42nd+street+blu+ray)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 23, 2015, 12:02:10 AM
December 2015 TBD

Louis Malle's Atlantic City (1980) from Gaumont (France)

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Louis Malle's The Lovers (1958) on blu-ray from Gaumont (France)

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 23, 2015, 12:36:43 AM
June 30, 2015

Penelope Spheeris' The Decline of Western Civilization (1981-1988) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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The Decline of Western Civilization - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Decline-Western-Civilization-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B00V02H58W?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1426937527&sr=1-20&tag=blurayforum-20)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 24, 2015, 11:26:01 AM
May 19, 2015

Poltergeist III (1988) from MGM

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Poltergeist III (1988) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Poltergeist-III-Blu-ray/dp/B00V0CLOM0?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00V0CLOM0&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 24, 2015, 10:24:25 PM
Available now from Grindhouse Releasing

Duke Mitchell's Massacre Mafia Style (1978)

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Massacre Mafia Style (1978) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Massacre-Mafia-Style-Blu-ray/dp/B00R8O809O?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-022-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00R8O809O&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

Italian-American actor and nightclub singer Duke Mitchell wrote, produced, directed and starred in this homemade answer to THE GODFATHER, self-financed with earnings from his career as the self-proclaimed "Mr. Palm Springs." Previously known for his Martin and Lewis act with Sammy Petrillo as seen in BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA, Duke plays the ruthless son of a Mafia kingpin who blasts his way through Hollywood on a bloody crime spree. Promising "more guts, more action, more dynamite" than the Mario Puzo gangster classic, MASSACRE MAFIA STYLE delivers an onslaught of low-budget mayhem unlike anything you've ever seen.





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Duke Mitchell's Gone with the Pope (2010) <— year explanation (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1617250/trivia?item=tr1144300)

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Gone with the Pope (2010) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Gone-with-the-Pope-Blu-ray/dp/B00TA9VS6C?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-022-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00TA9VS6C&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

Lost for over 30 years, GONE WITH THE POPE stars famed nightclub performer Duke Mitchell as Paul, a paroled gangster with an unholy scheme: to kidnap the Pope and charge "a dollar from every Catholic in the world" as the ransom.

Shot in 1975, GONE WITH THE POPE was unfinished at the time of Duke Mitchell's death in 1981. Sage Stallone and Bob Murawski of Grindhouse Releasing rediscovered GONE WITH THE POPE in 1995 and vowed to save it from obscurity. Academy Award-winning film editor Murawski (THE HURT LOCKER, ARMY OF DARKNESS) spent 15 years completing GONE WITH THE POPE from the surviving film elements.






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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 25, 2015, 12:25:08 PM
Twilight Time is having a sale on some titles starting today at 4pm EST for their fourth anniversary. List of titles on sale can be found here (https://www.facebook.com/twilighttimemovies?fref=nf) (expand the first FB post), many $19.95 and under (vs the usual $34.95). The discs can be purchased through Screen Archives (http://www.screenarchives.com/).

samsong now's your chance to pick up Crimes and Misdemeanors, Radio Days, and Broadway Danny Rose

jenk - I picked up Violent Saturday
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on March 26, 2015, 12:02:54 AM
Quote from: wilder on March 25, 2015, 12:25:08 PM
jenk - I picked up Violent Saturday

\m/

what're your favorites these are mine (not including violent saturday 'cause duh):

Hard Times
Wild at Heart
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Breaking Away
Used Cars
The Driver

that's a list of movies i last saw on a twilight blu-ray. they have a lot of good titles, some i've seen/some i haven't seen

the full list of twilight titles i actually own:
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 26, 2015, 06:26:54 AM
I only have a few, for obvious reasons - Sidney Lumet's Equus (1977) takes the cake for me

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with John Guillermin's Rapture (1965) and Blake Edwards' Experiment in Terror (1962) right behind it (Rapture DVD Beaver review (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_reviews55/rapture_blu-ray.htm), full movie on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_COu4_N4FiU))

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Some caps from Experiment in Terror:

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...TT releases are hard to recommend unless a title has no alternative availability. Like you, I'm a fan of Wild at Heart and The Driver, but they're both available in cheaper editions internationally, now. Same with The Big Heat. Remains of the Day is a great movie but it's also the case. Save RotD I bought the TT editions of these movies and now I feel like an asshole.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: mogwai on March 29, 2015, 03:15:59 PM
Cameron Crowe's Singles finally coming to Blu-ray

MARCH 4, 2015 BY SCOTT J. DAVIS

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced the long-awaited Blu-ray release of Singles, the 1992 sophomore effort from director Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Say Anything).

In Seattle during the era of grunge music, the lives and relationships of a group of young people, all living in the same apartment building, go through a period of flux. Among them are waitress and aspiring architect Janet (Fonda), who finds herself obsessed with bad boy musician Cliff (Dillon); Linda (Sedgwick), an emotionally fragile environmentalist on the look-out for love; and Steve (Scott), a quintessential nice guy who studies traffic patterns.

Singles stars Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, Matt Dillon, Bill Pullman, Tom Skerritt, Jeremy Piven, Eric Stoltz, Peter Horton and Sheila Kelly.

The Blu-ray release of Singles is presented in 1080p with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround. Extras include:
–25 Deleted/Extended/Alternate Scenes:
–The 16-minute "The Ballad of Janet and Dr. Jeff" compiling the entire relationship between Bridget Fonda and Bill Pullman's characters
–Extended Tracking Shot Opening
–Mime Club Fight
–What Would The King Do?
–No Games
–Eddie Haskell Redux
—Three Complete Live Performances:
Soundgarden – "Birth Ritual"
Alice in Chains – "Would?" and "It Ain't Like That Anymore"
–Two "Complete Take" Extras with Bill Pullman and Tad
–Gag Reel
–Theatrical Trailer

Singles is released on April 7th in the US. Crowe's latest film Aloha, starring Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Alec Baldwin and Bill Murray, is released on May 29th in the US, and in September in the UK.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 01, 2015, 05:09:31 PM
July 28, 2015

Michael Ritchie's Prime Cut (1972) on blu-ray from Kino

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Prime Cut (1972) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00X99CGWE/dvdbeaver-20/ref=nosim)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Ravi on April 03, 2015, 11:37:06 PM
Quote from: wilder on March 26, 2015, 06:26:54 AM
...TT releases are hard to recommend unless a title has no alternative availability. Like you, I'm a fan of Wild at Heart and The Driver, but they're both available in cheaper editions internationally, now. Same with The Big Heat. Remains of the Day is a great movie but it's also the case. Save RotD I bought the TT editions of these movies and now I feel like an asshole.

TT's release of Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia has the best transfer and most extras of any of the editions available. A few of TT's Blu-Rays, like Wild at Heart and Titus use older HD masters that aren't very good, but that's what they were given.

I'm hoping Woody Allen's Orion releases will be released in some other country. It's hard to justify paying TT's prices for movies with no extras. I know their business model is based on recouping the costs of a limited number of copies, but it doesn't mean I like paying $30 a movie.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on April 07, 2015, 12:18:11 PM
chill tuesday

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 09, 2015, 04:20:04 PM
July 13, 2015

The Roy Andersson Collection on blu-ray from Artificial Eye

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Contains:

-A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting Upon Existence (2014)
-Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
-A Swedish Love Story (1970)
-You, the Living (2007)

The Roy Andersson Collection - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Roy-Andersson-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B00VVIIM1E?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00VVIIM1E&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 11, 2015, 04:40:01 PM
August 11, 2015

Woody Allen's A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Sam Fuller's House of Bamboo (1955) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 20, 2015, 04:00:29 PM
July 21, 2014

Alain Resnais' Life is a Bed of Roses (1983) and Love Unto Death (1984) on blu-ray in a 2-disc set form Cohen Media Group

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Alain Resnais pays tribute to three influential French filmmakers Georges Melies, Marcel L Herbier and Eric Rohmer with this lighthearted film about happiness and the power of the imagination. Life Is a Bed of Roses is divided into three parallel narratives. The first section is set around the first decade of the twentieth century in the Ardennes, where Count Forbeck (Ruggero Raimondi) unveils his architect's designs for a utopian city. In a modern day mirroring of this story, a group of professors now inhabiting Forbeck's castle seek a new form of education through the use of the imagination, under the guidance of a guru named Guarini (Vittorio Gassman Big Deal on Madonna Street). The third segment depicts a Wagnerian fantasy landscape of kings and dragons, which arises from the imagination of the children of some of the professors at the school. With ingenuity and great craftsmanship, Resnais weaves together these three threads to make Life Is a Bed of Roses a compelling and entertaining mixture of drama, satire, comedy, fantasy and music.




In Uzès, a mysterious, austere town, four characters who live in seclusion have a simple yet superb life. It is the story of two couples. The first, Judith and Jérôme, have been living for ten years in deep, exalted mutual understanding. Both clerics, they have their own ideas on faith. Elisabeth and Simon are the other couple. Their love which is a few months old is shot through with a terrible, inescapable threat: that of their separation. Life and death, red and black, happiness and pain, passion and solitude come together in exaltation. She is illuminated by their mutual love. He is dark and tortured by a disturbing memory. This film goes beyond analysis, calling for an emotional approach. Like the passion which shines through it, it radiates violence, suffering, but above all, an immense hope, that of triumphant love.


Love Unto Death / Life is a Bed of Roses - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Love-Unto-Death-and-Life-Is-a-Bed-of-Roses-Blu-ray/dp/B00WAZHSV2?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00WAZHSV2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 21, 2015, 03:09:27 PM
New 2K Restoration of Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Heading to Cinemas and Blu-ray
via blu-ray.com

French label Carlotta Films and Carlotta Films U.S. will screen a new 2K restoration of Jacques Rivette's Out 1 (1971), starring Michèle Moretti, Hermine Karagheuz, Karen Puig, Jean-Pierre Léaud, and Michael Lonsdale. The new 2K restoration will also be released on Blu-ray in France and the U.S. in Q4.

Paris, April 1970. Two theatre groups each rehearse avant-garde adaptations of plays by Aeschylus. A young deaf-mute begs for change in cafés while playing the harmonica. A young woman seduces men in order to rob them. As a conspiracy begins to be uncovered, the protagonists' stories start to intertwine... Crowned with success after L'Amour Fou, Jacques Rivette throws himself into a film project "without any time limitation" and films a group of actors in an almost constant state of improvisation as they interact with and move through the cafés, the streets, and the apartments of Paris. Equally inspired by Honoré de Balzac's History of the Thirteen and Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, as he was by the serials of Louis Feuillade, OUT 1 is a unique snapshot of post-May 1968 society, when the utopian dreams of a new era give way to a general malaise.

AN INVISIBLE FILM FOR OVER 40 YEARS

When Jacques Rivette and his producer, Stéphane Tchalgadjieff, began the OUT 1 project, they did not set a time limit on the work. The final cut, divided into eight episodes, is 12 hours 30 minutes long and the ORTF (the national agency charged with providing public radio and television in France) refused to buy it, afraid of the extraordinary and unclassifiable nature of the film. OUT 1 was shown in its full working version in a projection, which is now considered a legendary event, at the Havre in September 1971, but was shown neither in theaters nor television. Jacques Rivette spent the entirety of 1972 on editing another version of the film, reducing the running time to just over 4 hours. This cut of the film, called OUT 1 : Spectre, which proposes a different vision from the original film, was released in French cinemas in 1974.

The public had to wait until 1989 for the long version to finally be shown in its integrality at the Festival of Rotterdam, followed by various other European festivals, and finally on French and German television in the early 1990's. From that point on, the original film is called OUT 1 : Noli Me Tangere, and has a slightly different cut from the version shown in 1971. After this, Jacques Rivette's monumental oeuvre virtually disappeared from the silver screen.

OUT 1 has remained particularly rare and almost invisible in its integral version since its creation. Restored in 2015, OUT 1 : Noli Me Tangere and OUT 1 : Spectre are finally available in 2K!
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 28, 2015, 04:32:21 PM
May 5, 2015

GoodFellas (1990) 25th Anniversary Edition, from a new 4K master

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GoodFellas (1990) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/GoodFellas-Blu-ray/dp/B00SM3GSQC?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-042-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00SM3GSQC&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on April 29, 2015, 02:14:46 PM
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Jun 29, 2015
Playback Region B (A, C untested)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 29, 2015, 02:43:28 PM
August 18, 2015

Gerald Kargl's Angst aka Schizophrenia (1983) on blu-ray from Cult Epics (US)

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Angst (1983) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Angst-Blu-ray/dp/B00ZBC5C6Y?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00ZBC5C6Y&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 29, 2015, 04:47:52 PM
Quote from: jenkins<3 on April 29, 2015, 02:14:46 PM
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Jun 29, 2015
Playback Region B (A, C untested)

Coming from Criterion (https://twitter.com/CriterionCast/status/590959910688583680)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 01, 2015, 11:12:05 PM
June 22, 2015

Sam Fuller's Forty Guns (1957) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema

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Forty Guns (1957) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Forty-Guns-Blu-ray/dp/B00WQT46CQ?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00WQT46CQ&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 04, 2015, 01:41:44 PM
Quote from: wilder on April 29, 2015, 04:47:52 PM
Quote from: jenkins<3 on April 29, 2015, 02:14:46 PM
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Jun 29, 2015
Playback Region B (A, C untested)

Coming from Criterion (https://twitter.com/CriterionCast/status/590959910688583680)


Restoration trailer

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 07, 2015, 01:11:11 AM
Awwwwwwwwwyyyyeeeah

August 18, 2015

Hackers (1995) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Hackers (1995) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Blu-ray/dp/B00X8ROQHA?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00X8ROQHA&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 07, 2015, 01:45:50 AM
i promised myself i'd never cry in front of you but, here i am crying

there's a longtime friend of mine with whom i'm now going to have to find some other way to begin our conversations than "have you written your letter to the studio president requesting hackers on bluray?" and i shall miss the corollaries of "twice this morning" and "licking the envelope on my third this hour" etc.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 09, 2015, 02:56:23 PM
has anyone seen this movie

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it has this adorable synopsis: During WW2, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.

a 7.4 on imdb and five stars on amazon with all these glowing reviews

director ralph nelson, a bit of an unknown to me except for requiem for a heavyweight (because of rod serling)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 26, 2015, 03:41:27 PM
August 17, 2015

Nagisa Oshima's Cruel Story of Youth (1960) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema

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Cruel Story of Youth (1960) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cruel-Story-of-Youth-Blu-ray/dp/B00YA458TU?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00YA458TU&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






August 24, 2015

Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool (1969) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema

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Medium Cool (1969) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Medium-Cool-Blu-ray/dp/B00YA458YU?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00YA458YU&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) on blu-ray from Eureka Classics

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The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Town-That-Dreaded-Sundown-Blu-ray/dp/B00YA458XQ?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00YA458XQ&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 26, 2015, 03:45:33 PM
Quote from: wilder on April 29, 2015, 02:43:28 PM
August 18, 2015

Gerald Kargl's Angst aka Schizophrenia (1983) on blu-ray from Cult Epics (US)

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Angst (1983) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Angst-Blu-ray/dp/B00ZBC5C6Y?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00ZBC5C6Y&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






Gerald Kargl's Angst Heading Back to U.S. Cinemas
via blu-ray.com

Cult Epics will present director Gerald Kargl's Angst a.k.a. Schizophrenia (1983) uncut and uncensored for the first time in U.S. theaters, starting June 12, 2015 at Cinefamily in Los Angeles and the Grand Illusion Cinema in Seattle.

Angst is one hell of a gorgeously stylized and shockingly visceral experience: a forgotten classic on the fringes of the slasher cycle. Zbig's innovative "first person" camerawork grabs you by the throat, never letting go.

The Los Angeles opening engagement of Angst includes a rare personal appearance by the film's cinematographer, legendary Oscar-winning Polish animator/experimentalist Zbig Rybczynski. Mr. Rybcynski will be in attendance for a special introduction and Q&A on June 12th.

Scored by Krautrock synth god Klaus Schulze (Tangerine Dream), Angst stars Erwin Leder (DAS BOOT, SCHINDLER'S LIST) as a maniacal killer based on the real-life serial murderer Werner Kniesek. Director Gaspar Noé (IRREVERSIBLE, ENTER THE VOID, LOVE) calls ANGST "the rarest unknown masterpiece of cinema" and cites the film as a major influence, "one that I have watched more than 40 times."

Following the Los Angeles and Seattle screenings, Angst will be showing at independent theaters and festivals in cities across North America through fall 2015 (additional theaters TBA).

6/12/2015 - Cinefamily, LA - Zbigniew Rybcynski in person!
6/13/2015 - Cinefamily, LA
6/15/2015 - Cinefamily, LA
6/16/2015 - Cinefamily, LA
6/17/2015 - Cinefamily, LA
6/12/2015 - Grand Illusion Cinema, Seattle
6/13/2015 - Grand Illusion Cinema, Seattle
6/20/2015 - Grand Illusion Cinema, Seattle
6/17/2015 - Alamo Drafthouse Vintage Park, Houston
6/19/2015 - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Boston
6/20/2015 - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Boston
7/10/2015 - Film Bar, Phoenix
7/10/2015 - Hi-Pointe Theatre, St. Louis
7/11/2015 - Hi-Pointe Theatre, St. Louis
7/10/2015 - Nitehawk Cinema, NYC
7/11/2015 - Nitehawk Cinema, NYC
7/10/2015 - Gateway Film Center, Columbus, OH
7/11/2015 - Gateway Film Center, Columbus, OH
7/12/2015 - Gateway Film Center, Columbus, OH
7/13/2015 - Gateway Film Center, Columbus, OH
7/14/2015 - Gateway Film Center, Columbus, OH
7/15/2015 - Gateway Film Center, Columbus, OH
7/16/2015 - Gateway Film Center, Columbus, OH
7/16/2015 - The Royal Theatre – Rue Morgue Cinemacabre, Toronto
7/17/2015 - Doc Films, Chicago
7/18/2015 - Capital Theatre, Cleveland, OH
8/3/2015 - Alamo Drafthouse, Yonkers, NY

Synopsis: Lensed by acclaimed Polish cinematographer Zbigniew Rybczynski (Tango) and boasting a music score by Klaus Schulze (Manhunter), Schizophrenia tells the story of a psychopath recently released from prison.

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Gaspar Noe recently listed this as one of his 10 favorite films (http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/gaspar-noes-list-of-10-favorite-films-makes-perfect-terrifying-sense-20150520)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 27, 2015, 12:30:41 AM
May 26, 2015

Shakma (1990) from Code Red, limited to 3,000 copies

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Shakma (1990) - Screen Archives (https://www1.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/29039/SHAKMA-1990-3000-EDITION/)





Did I buy one? You bet your red baboon ass I did.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 27, 2015, 04:25:54 PM
2015 TBD

Benoit Jacquot's A Single Girl (1995) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 02, 2015, 03:32:14 AM
Q4 2015 TBD

Maurice Pialat's Under the Sun of Satan (1987) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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Pialat's Loulou, Van Gogh, The Mouth Agape, Get Your Diploma, and L'Amour Existe are also coming to blu-ray from Cohen Media Group in the future
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 06, 2015, 11:04:46 AM
September 8, 2015

John Huston's Fat City (1972) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Reel on June 06, 2015, 04:34:20 PM
That was the most boring trailer of all time
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on June 07, 2015, 03:10:33 AM
Have you seen the film
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Reel on June 07, 2015, 10:18:57 AM
No. it looks great, though.



Carry on my wilder son



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on June 08, 2015, 01:59:56 AM
thattrailer is horrible but fat city is amazing.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 08, 2015, 03:46:46 PM
Q4 2015 TBD

John Cassavetes' A Child Is Waiting (1963) on blu-ray from Kino

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Produced by Stanley Kramer, A Child is Waiting is set in an institution for the mentally handicapped, with many actual residents playing supporting and bit roles. Doctor Burt Lancaster and instructor Judy Garland often find themselves at odds over teaching methods, with Garland preferring an intense one-on-one approach with her students. Bruce Ritchey, a non-developmentally challenged youth, plays the retarded son of Gena Rowlands and Steven Hill, whose intellectual and social progress becomes the focal point of the film. The most uplifting sequence in A Child is Waiting takes place during a play staged by the genuinely handicapped children for their parents; while director John Cassavetes gilds the lily with close-ups of the teary-eyed audience, the kids themselves are earnest, engaging, and totally devoid of self-pity. According to Stanley Kramer, Judy Garland left her best work in this film on the cutting room floor; whenever completing a scene in which she'd exercised professional restraint, she'd insist upon a retake, then resort to the sobbing and breast-beating that her fans had come to expect.




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 09, 2015, 04:58:19 PM
Restoration trailers for Maurice Pialat's Loulou (1980) and Graduate First (1978), coming to blu-ray from Cohen Media Group in Q4 2015





Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on June 09, 2015, 05:32:35 PM
Quote from: wilder on June 09, 2015, 04:58:19 PM
Restoration trailers for Maurice Pialat's Random Kissing (1978) and Random Kissing 2 (1980), coming to blu-ray from Cohen Media Group in Q4 2015

^ Fixed
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 13, 2015, 09:17:39 PM
July 8, 2015

Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin (1955) on blu-ray from Carlotta France

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Mr. Arkadin (1955) - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Mr-Arkadin-Blu-ray/dp/B00WRI4DAG?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00WRI4DAG&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)



^It's my favorite Orson Welles picture
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 15, 2015, 04:58:13 AM
June 15, 2015

Peter Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers (1988) on blu-ray from Mediumrare Entertainment

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Drowning by Numbers (1988) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Drowning-by-Numbers-Blu-ray/dp/B00TZ0KBP0?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00TZ0KBP0&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 15, 2015, 11:35:14 PM
Quote from: wilder on April 29, 2015, 02:43:28 PM
August 18, 2015

Gerald Kargl's Angst aka Schizophrenia (1983) on blu-ray from Cult Epics (US)

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Quote from: wilder on May 26, 2015, 03:45:33 PM
Gerald Kargl's Angst Heading Back to U.S. Cinemas
via blu-ray.com

6/15/2015 - Cinefamily, LA
6/16/2015 - Cinefamily, LA
6/17/2015 - Cinefamily, LA
6/12/2015 - Grand Illusion Cinema, Seattle
6/13/2015 - Grand Illusion Cinema, Seattle
6/20/2015 - Grand Illusion Cinema, Seattle
6/17/2015 - Alamo Drafthouse Vintage Park, Houston
6/19/2015 - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Boston
6/20/2015 - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Boston
7/10/2015 - Film Bar, Phoenix
7/10/2015 - Hi-Pointe Theatre, St. Louis
7/11/2015 - Hi-Pointe Theatre, St. Louis
7/10/2015 - Nitehawk Cinema, NYC
7/11/2015 - Nitehawk Cinema, NYC
7/10/2015 - Gateway Film Center, Columbus, OH
7/11/2015 - Gateway Film Center, Columbus, OH
7/12/2015 - Gateway Film Center, Columbus, OH
7/13/2015 - Gateway Film Center, Columbus, OH
7/14/2015 - Gateway Film Center, Columbus, OH
7/15/2015 - Gateway Film Center, Columbus, OH
7/16/2015 - Gateway Film Center, Columbus, OH
7/16/2015 - The Royal Theatre – Rue Morgue Cinemacabre, Toronto
7/17/2015 - Doc Films, Chicago
7/18/2015 - Capital Theatre, Cleveland, OH
8/3/2015 - Alamo Drafthouse, Yonkers, NY

Synopsis: Lensed by acclaimed Polish cinematographer Zbigniew Rybczynski (Tango) and boasting a music score by Klaus Schulze (Manhunter), Schizophrenia tells the story of a psychopath recently released from prison.


Bruh, this movie is sick.

Hadrian Belove intro'd the movie (as he does every time he's there, pretty sure) and he quoted Rybczynski from his attendance on Friday -- the entire fucking movie was shot on a steadicam mount with the camera (and film) upside-down reflecting off a mirror. Rybczynski also edited this and well, it seems the credits are misleading and Rybczynski directed this movie. This movie absolutely 100% for sure inspired Enter the Void, way more than any other movie I've seen.

Now mentioning I thought the character portrayal was marvelous. I should say there simply isn't anything negative to say about this movie, and as Belove also said (also tonight he admitted his preference isn't for horror movies, they make him squeamish, and he appreciates all great movies but he isn't inherently a fan of horror movies) (hell yeah) the movie's a "stunner" for sure.

Rybczynski sample (he won an Oscar for this, "Tango"):

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 16, 2015, 02:37:58 PM
September 8, 2015

The Coen Bros. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) from Universal

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The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Who-Wasnt-There-Blu-ray/dp/B00ZR3W3UK?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00ZR3W3UK&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 16, 2015, 02:44:56 PM
ughck. it's like the cosmos are telling me "you shoulda fucking watched your dvd last month like you were yabbering, asshole"

(i watched the beginning of this movie recently but then fell asleep and unfortunately my interests drifted away before i returned to start over)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 16, 2015, 03:33:12 PM
September 7, 2015

Federico Fellini's Casanova (1976) on blu-ray from Mr. Bongo Films

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Casanova (1976) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fellinis-Casanova-Blu-ray/dp/B00ZRU2WMM?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00ZRU2WMM&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)





Btw there are region-free blu-ray players available from $95 here (https://www.220-electronics.com/region-free-blu-ray-players.html) and here (https://www.bombayelectronics.com/All_Multi_Region_Free_Blu_Ray_Players_s/72.htm)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 18, 2015, 06:34:56 PM
Q4 2015 TBD

The Crooked Way (1949) on blu-ray from Kino

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A war hero recovers from amnesia and is confronted by his criminal past.






A Bullet for Joey (1955) on blu-ray from Kino

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In Montreal, a police inspector slowly discovers a plot to kidnap a nuclear physicist, American mobsters, foreign spies, and a blonde seductress are all involved.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 22, 2015, 03:20:26 PM
Another title I never thought would make it to this format...


November 17, 2015

André De Toth's Pitfall (1948) on blu-ray from Kino

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Dick Powell plays a returning World War II veteran who at first blush would seem to have everything going his way, a good marriage with a beautiful and loving wife in Jane Wyatt and a healthy, energetic young son in Jimmy Hunt, along with a position as a Los Angeles insurance executive and a lovely home. Powell exhibits the restlessness that many returning servicemen experienced following a global military conflict. His penchant for excitement leads him into an extra-marital affair with sexy blonde model Lizabeth Scott. What propels "Pitfall" into the ranks of a chilling film noir drama is the appearance of a ruthless sociopath willing to destroy all in his path to secure his objective, which in this case is possessing Liz Scott, body and soul. Corrupt private detective Raymond Burr overlooks the unyielding rebuff of Scott, who detests him. Burr convinces himself that eventually her feelings will change. The element thrusting Powell into the combustible picture is Burr's selfish realization that Scott holds true feeling for the decent but fallible insurance executive. He believes that to have Scott all to himself he needs to destroy both Powell and her boyfriend, who is about to be released from jail, played by Byron Barr. If he can successfully play off one man against the other they will be removed from the picture, leaving him to take up romantically with Scott.





Some reading about the movie:

It Might Get Quiet: "Ramrod" (de Toth, 1947) and "Pitfall" (de Toth, 1948) (https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/it-might-get-quiet-ramrod-de-toth-1947-and-pitfall-de-toth-1948)

Film Noir of the Week - Pitfall (1948) (http://www.noiroftheweek.com/2007/03/pitfall-1948.html)

Classic Movie Rambligs - Pitfall (1948) (http://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2011/11/pitfall-1948.html)

"The relative lack of overt noir visuals works to the film's advantage. This is a nightmare played out in broad daylight and bright sunshine."
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 22, 2015, 03:29:47 PM
August 25, 2015

Sidney Lumet's Daniel (1983) from Olive Films

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The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s.

Daniel (1983) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Blu-ray/dp/B010CVV29O?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-082-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B010CVV29O&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 26, 2015, 03:20:54 PM
Quote from: wilder on March 23, 2015, 12:36:43 AM
June 30, 2015

Penelope Spheeris' The Decline of Western Civilization (1981-1988) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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The Decline of Western Civilization - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Decline-Western-Civilization-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B00V02H58W?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1426937527&sr=1-20&tag=blurayforum-20)





Talking to Penelope Spheeris about time, rock 'n' roll, and The Decline of Western Civilization (http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/26/8851435/decline-of-western-civilization-documentary-penelope-spheeris-interview)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 27, 2015, 01:33:50 PM
July 14, 2015

John Huston's Beat the Devil (1953) on blu-ray from Film Detective

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A quartet of international crooks -- Peterson, O'Hara, Ross and Ravello -- is stranded in Italy while their steamer is being repaired. With them are a British couple, the Dannreuthers. The four are headed for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but actually to buy land supposedly loaded with uranium. They are joined by others who apparently have similar designs.

Beat the Devil (1953) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Beat-the-Devil-Blu-ray/dp/B0107GC9UK?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-082-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0107GC9UK&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 29, 2015, 02:19:51 PM
Penelope Spheeris on WTF (http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_615_-_penelope_spheeris)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 30, 2015, 05:31:16 PM
October 6, 2015

Eric Rohmer's Full Moon in Paris (1984) on blu-ray from Film Movement

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Full Moon in Paris (1984) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Full-Moon-in-Paris-Blu-ray/dp/B010ONY634?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B010ONY634&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






Eric Rohmer's The Marquis of O (1976) on blu-ray from Film Movement

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The Marquis of O (1976) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/The-Marquise-of-O-Blu-ray/dp/B010ONY5XU?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B010ONY5XU&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 01, 2015, 05:05:07 PM
August 11, 2015

Michael Tolkin's The New Age (1994) on blu-ray from Fox

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The New Age (1994) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Age-Blu-ray/dp/B010P5FT5A?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B010P5FT5A&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






The Power of One (1992) on blu-ray from Fox

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 06, 2015, 01:40:21 PM
2015 TBD

Lucio Fulci's A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971) on blu-ray from Mondo Macabro

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September 21, 2015

Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 40th Anniversary Edition from Warner Bros. (includes the documentary I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1352717/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1))

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Dog Day Afternoon (1975) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Dog-Day-Afternoon-Blu-ray/dp/B00ZVC2R5S?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00ZVC2R5S&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)








October 20, 2015

G.W. Pabst's  Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) on blu-ray from Kino

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Thymiane Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 06, 2015, 02:57:03 PM
Quote from: wilder on July 06, 2015, 01:40:21 PM
October 20, 2015

G.W. Pabst's  Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) on blu-ray from Kino

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Thymiane Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.




That's front page news.

Beginning approximately with It, starring Clara Bow in '27, there's a terrific streak of female-lead Hollywood movies, in which women are empowered and impassioned and smart and fighting back against a world that could try to bring them down. I say it all the time -- women have been strong since the beginning of cinema. To put some greats next to some greats, Greta Gerwig does Clara on her Tuesdays. Amy Schumer is doing Mae West on a Friday morning. This streak ends with the introduction of the Hays Code, which code for me exemplifies the need to allow movies to be as honest and open as they can be.

Diary of a Lost Girl is a centerpiece for the melodramatic dimensions of this style. Sirk comes later you know, after the code, and certainly within the movies of Stirk there's art and fiery passions. But what's gone is the grit. Maybe someone thinks "Pabst in the 20s, oh who cares that's old," but I don't think you get again the grit of the pre-code until the 60s. Louise Brooks gets right down to portraits of dark girls, working again with Pabst for Pandora's Box, and as long as movies exist she'll be remembered.

Haven't worked into the conversation Marlene Dietrich, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, Mary Pickford, Bebe Daniels. So I mentioned my problem with the Hays Code, what about how bad it got after, with Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn. Oh, awful. I think Diary of a Lost Girl is a good movie for seeing the power of female-lead movies.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 12, 2015, 07:57:19 PM
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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 13, 2015, 02:00:33 PM
Finally watched Equus last night. Thought it did a good job of exploring what it means to be human, and how difficult that is, and also there was the horse stuff. Its edits have a temporal rhythm, like Don't Look Now. And I appreciate the theatrics of the human condition: a beaten down Richard Burton admires the outrageously free Peter Firth, whose eyes are loaded with curiosity through the entire movie, and Burton's eyes are loaded with weariness. This movie is "realistic depressing" and a kinda classy first-world problems movie. It's reality converted into emotional perspective. Our culture now isn't serious enough about psychology to make this kind of movie. I think Firth would be into New Age and no one would have any questions about that "horse sprinkle" on his personality. That's just a side tale about ol' Firth. Robinson Devor's Zoo raised the horse love notch to a catastrophe, and the insanest always help the near-insane appear realistically ok. Thanks for recommending Equus, hand raise, spin, Magic Mike XXL, leave room.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 13, 2015, 03:24:24 PM
September 15, 2015

Walerian Borowczyk's The Beast (1975) from Arrow Films US

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The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son. The daughter and her aunt then travel out to the French countryside to meet with the family, unaware that a mysterious 'beast' is stalking the vicinity.

The Beast (1975) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/The-Beast-Blu-ray/dp/B011CMJJSI?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B011CMJJSI&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)





Walerian Borowczyk's Immoral Tales (1974) from Arrow Films US

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Four erotic tales in various historical eras. The first, 'The Tide', is set in the present day, and concerns a student and his young female cousin stranded on the beach by the tide, secluded from prying eyes. 'Therese Philosophe' is set in the nineteenth century, and concerns a girl being locked in her bedroom, where she contemplates the erotic potential of the objects contained within it. 'Erzsebet Bathory' is a portrait of the sixteenth-century countess who allegedly bathed in the blood of virgins, while 'Lucrezia Borgia' concerns an incestuous fifteenth-century orgy involving Lucrezia, her brother, and her father the Pope.





Quote from: blu-ray.comSadly, these will be the only discs from Arrow's legendary Borowczyk box to get a US release, at least from Arrow - the US rights for the other three features and all the shorts are with another label.

Because of this, the two supporting shorts that were included on the UK discs (http://www.blu-ray.com/Walerian-Borowczyk/104710/#Bluray) of Immoral Tales and The Beast had to be dropped - but in their place we've added all the non-film-specific extras from the other three UK discs, including the hour-long Borowczyk portrait Obscure Pleasures.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 16, 2015, 04:48:10 AM
September 15, 2015

Christopher Guest's The Big Picture (1989) from Mill Creek

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When a film student wins an award for his artsy short, Hollywood comes calling and insists that he compromise his vision.

The Big Picture (1989) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Picture-Blu-ray/dp/B011PS51IG?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B011PS51IG&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 16, 2015, 12:12:10 PM
^Its MSRP is going to be $15, but I bet it'll drop below $10 in no time. I have no inside knowledge about Mill Creek Entertainment, but I appreciate them in a general philosophical sense, and in fact they're so cheap and great I wish their releases would just arrive at my doorstep upon release.

This one's from January and currently costs $7 new:
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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 16, 2015, 01:51:58 PM
The cost comes at a price - they have a generally terrible reputation for dumping movies on blu-ray with transfers only slightly better than DVD (or worse), i.e. their release of The Squid and the Whale (which should have its own release but was dumped on a single disc as a double feature with Running with Scissors). Their copy of The Lady from Shanghai is a major exception in terms of video quality, but they also weren't the ones to handle it initially. I actually don't think I own anything put out by them.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 16, 2015, 02:06:47 PM
I own Gamera: Guardian of the Universe/Attack of the Legion, perhaps the first Mill Creek release, but definitely stupid fucking movies that I'm an idiot for owning. I've tried now and then my entire life to like monster attack movies, and in my childhood I think I did like them, but I can't get back to liking them though I keep trying for some reason, I guess for the reason that I think it's better in life to like things than not like things, and there are many monster attack movies in existence.

I own The Legend of Billie Jean, which I'm very glad to own. I consider that some good FYI from Mill Creek. I own The Lady from Shanghai because of course I do.

That's my complete Mill Creek inventory.  My list is missing: The Wild One, Last Action Hero, Heartbreak Hotel, and soon The Big Picture. So I was being overnice to them but yeah, they're so cheap whatever, put 'em on my doorstep and I'll just deal.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 16, 2015, 02:13:40 PM
Forgot The Wild One was theirs, that transfer is supposed to be solid. Now things get complicated. Now I can't count on them being good or bad. Tricky.

Also jenk I don't know what this is but Straight Talk (1992) (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Straight-Talk-Blu-ray/22090/) looks like something you'd appreciate
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on July 19, 2015, 03:14:01 AM
straight talk is GREAT
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 22, 2015, 08:25:28 PM
August 10, 2015

Arrow UK's upcoming limited edition blu-ray release of Videodrome (1983) contains supplements absent from Criterion's release, including the documentary David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme and a supplemental blu-ray disc containing newly restored versions of Cronenberg's early shorts Transfer (1966), From the Drain (1967), Stereo (1969) and Crimes of the Future (1970).

Crimes of the Future (1970) will be available on Criterion's upcoming release of The Brood (1979), and Stereo (1969) is already available on Criterion's release of Scanners (1981).

Full list of extra features here (http://www.cineoutsider.com/news/stories/15/07/160719.html)

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Videodrome (1983) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Videodrome-Blu-ray/dp/B00WZSOZFQ?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00WZSOZFQ&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 24, 2015, 12:12:22 AM
Quote from: wilder on February 15, 2015, 03:46:49 PM
VinegarSyndrome.tv is fully funded (http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/vinegarsyndrome-tv-instant-digital-exploitation/) and happening

Quote from: VinegarSyndromeWe owe a BIG thank you to all of our Indiegogo supporters for helping us bring the largest collection of high-def Exploitation films online.

We can't wait to open the doors to over 250 feature films,consisting of our entire home video catalog, a few other partner labels and over 80 previously unreleased films.

We're launching August 20th on the web and Roku (iOS and Android apps to follow later this year).
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 24, 2015, 10:44:29 PM
Quote from: jenkins<3 on June 15, 2015, 11:35:14 PM
Quote from: wilder on April 29, 2015, 02:43:28 PM
August 18, 2015

Gerald Kargl's Angst aka Schizophrenia (1983) on blu-ray from Cult Epics (US)

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Delayed until October 13th
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 28, 2015, 04:36:29 PM
September 22, 2015

Dirty Work (1998) from Olive Films

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 28, 2015, 04:53:51 PM
September 22, 2015

The American Dreamer (1971) on blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome/Etiquette Pictures

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A documentary about actor/director Dennis Hopper, showing him at his home and studio putting together his film "The Last Movie."

The American Dreamer (1971) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/The-American-Dreamer-Blu-ray/dp/B012HF6TQY?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B012HF6TQY&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on July 28, 2015, 06:15:24 PM
that documentary is fucking GREAT. must watch. super crazy.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 31, 2015, 10:39:51 PM
September 28, 2015

The Otto Preminger Film Noir Collection on blu-ray from BFI

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-The Fallen Angel (1945)
-Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
-Whirlpool (1949)

The Otto Preminger Film Noir Collection - Amazon UK (//http://)

The Fallen Angel (1945) and Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) will be released in the US by Twilight Time






Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 05, 2015, 11:41:16 PM
October 19, 2015

The Shohei Imamura Masterpiece Collection on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema

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-Nishi-Ginza Station (1958)
-Stolen Desire (1958)
-Pigs & Battleships (1961)
-The Insect Woman (1963)
-A Man Vanishes (1967)
-Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
-Vengeance is Mine (1979)
-The Ballad of Narayama (1983)   


The Shohei Imamura Masterpiece Collection - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Shohei-Imamura-Masterpiece-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B013GM4KDG?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B013GM4KDG&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 07, 2015, 05:40:49 PM
October 19, 2015

The Naked Prey (1965) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema

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The Naked Prey (1965) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Naked-Prey-Blu-ray/dp/B013JY850A?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B013JY850A&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



October 26, 2015

John Frankenheimer's Seconds (1966) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema

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Seconds (1966) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seconds-Blu-ray/dp/B013JY85D2?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B013JY85D2&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 08, 2015, 05:53:22 PM
October 20, 2015

The Benoit Jacquot Collection on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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-A Single Girl (1995)

A day in the life of a young and independent Parisian girl that is shot in real time as she copes with work and relationships.


-Keep It Quiet (1999)

Fabrice Luchini's businessman Grégoire has just done an undeserved stretch in the penitentiary for some sordid white-collar family business, but given his newfound hyper-awareness of the world and the way his wife (Huppert) and brother (Lindon) tiptoe around him, he might as well be returning from the dead. Keep It Quiet hides the particulars of many of its plot entanglements in order to concentrate on the complex emotions entangling its characters.


-The Disenchanted (1990)

Jacquot has often referred to this beautifully concentrated 1990 film as a new beginning, a break from the "theoretically" driven films of the 70s and 80s into the pursuit of "something human," in the director's words.

The film is built around the troubled countenance of 17-year-old Judith Godrèche in the role of Beth, a teenager in the midst of a painful moral education. She is put in the unenviable position of holding her family together and debasing herself at the suggestion of both her scornful bedridden mother and her no-good boyfriend. Everything begins and ends with Godrèche's extraordinary dark eyes, at once signaling emotional deprivation, wounded intelligence, and hard-won wisdom.

Jacquot and his extraordinary cinematographer Caroline Champetier give us the world as if refracted through those eyes, a strangely magical environment in which every object and encounter feels potentially ominous and/or liberating.

Jacquot once described the film perfectly in an interview with Gerald Peary and Peter Brunette: "Beth's losing her childhood, becoming a woman, and becoming disenchanted.


The Benoit Jacquot Collection - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/The-Benoit-Jacquot-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B012OTHH1O?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B012OTHH1O&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


A Single Girl (1995) also has a planned standalone release (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=11691.msg340204#msg340204) that I'm not sure is still happening








Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 10, 2015, 06:01:03 PM
November 10, 2015

Woody Allen's Shadows and Fog (1991) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 11, 2015, 04:13:34 PM
November 30, 2015

The Jacques Rivette Collection on blu-ray from Arrow UK

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The Jacques Rivette Collection - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B013RKM732?redirect=true&ref_=s9_simh_gw_p74_d1_i2)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 13, 2015, 12:17:27 AM
Q4 2015 TBD

Alain Resnais' Je t'aime je t'aime (1968) on blu-ray from Kino

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Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 13, 2015, 02:46:13 PM
November 2015 TBD

Donald Cammell's The White of the Eye (1987) on blu-ray from Scream Factory, also available from Arrow UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00G5IVA46?keywords=the%20white%20of%20the%20eye&qid=1439495067&ref_=sr_1_1&s=dvd&sr=1-1)

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A serial killer is on the loose in and around the small community of Globe, Arizona, and housewife Joan White (Cathy Moriarty) gradually comes to suspect that her opera-loving hi-fi engineer husband Paul (David Keith) might know more than he s letting on...

So far so familiar, but in the hands of British visionary Donald Cammell (who wrote and co-directed Performance with Nicolas Roeg), the film becomes a dazzling kaleidoscope of images and ideas, spanning everything from Apache folklore, desert landscapes and stylish murder set-pieces that recall Dario Argento to a painfully vivid dissection of the emotional fissures undermining a modern marriage. It s all set to an equally eclectic score co-written by Pink Floyd s Nick Mason.

Described by the distinguished critic David Thomson as "one of the great secret works in cinema", White of the Eye is one of the most bizarre and unforgettable thrillers ever made.



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 14, 2015, 03:20:10 PM
August 18, 2015

Sidney Hayers' Burn, Witch, Burn (1962) on blu-ray from Kino

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The powers of dark magic rule the night in this chilling masterpiece of supernatural horror as a college campus turns into a nest of evil. Professor Norman Taylor (The Innocents Peter Wyngarde) has been enjoying unusual success at work lately, but could it be due to the magic his wife Tansy (Janet Blair) practices in secret? A natural skeptic, Norman is infuriated upon discovering her methods, but when he destroys her protective spells, a vindictive force puts both of their lives in mortal danger, leading to a final showdown that ranks as one of the most chilling in horror history.

Written by Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont ("The Twilight Zone")

Burn, Witch, Burn (1962) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Burn-Witch-Burn-Blu-ray/dp/B00YQTCEI2?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-081-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00YQTCEI2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)





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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 17, 2015, 05:04:12 PM
September 15, 2015 TBD

Edward Dmytryk's Murder, My Sweet (1944) from Warner Archive

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Murder, My Sweet (1944) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Murder-My-Sweet-Blu-ray/dp/B0141SDSF0?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-082-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0141SDSF0&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on August 20, 2015, 01:48:30 PM
October 20, 2015
Kino Lorber
Why: If you've ever wondered how Tim Burton could exist, this movie explains the social environment that grew him.
Have I Been Waiting Forever For This Release: Yes.


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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on August 20, 2015, 06:24:47 PM
hadn't heard about this before but it is a bummer, from Mondo Macabro:

QuoteBAD NEWS, EVERYBODY
As of now our proposed blu ray release of ALUCARDA is on indefinite hiatus. All usable elements for this film seem to have been lost. While we will never entirely give up the chase on this one – and if you know of any pristine film prints please get in contact here or at our webstore – we are currently at a complete loss. Many apologies to all the fans who have been so anxious for this release. Believe it, we are just as bummed as you. frown emoticon

I for one appreciate how this press release anticipates some people might flip their shit when they hear Alucarda can't make it to blu-ray.  Alucarda was directed by a producer of Fando y Lis and El Topo, Mondo Macabro also released his earlier House of Madness, but Alucarda is better, Alucarda is Dracula backwards with an additional a, and it's a vague adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla, which had been vaguely adapted previously as e.g. Blood and Rose, The Vampire Lovers, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, and people still vaguely adapt it, since it's a supreme badass canonical horror piece that pre-dates and inspired Bram Stoker, and involves lesbians.

[edit]
while eating lasagna and thinking about wanting to read Carmilla I remember I've read it, it was included with Dreyer's Vampyr Criterion release.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 24, 2015, 07:49:47 PM
October 27, 2015

Stéphane Lafleur's Tu dors Nicole (2014) on blu-ray from Kino

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Making the most of the family home while her parents are away, Nicole, 22 years old, is enjoying a peaceful summer with her best friend Véronique. When Nicole's older brother shows up with his band to record an album, the girls' friendship is put to the test. Their vacation takes an unexpected turn, punctuated by a heatwave, Nicole's growing insomnia and the persistent courtship of a 10-year-old boy.

Tu dors Nicole (2014) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Tu-dors-Nicole-Blu-ray/dp/B012ELB18W?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B012ELB18W&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 27, 2015, 01:08:07 PM
November 17, 2015

F.W. Murnau's Faust (1926) from Kino

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lmaBc9TAxc



F.W. Murnau's Tabu (1931) on blu-ray from Kino

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 28, 2015, 12:20:54 PM
November 17, 2015

Jacques Becker's One Deadly Summer (1983) on blu-ray from Tanelorn Films

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Isabelle Adjani stars in this tale of misunderstanding, obsession, and madness. Elaine, a beautiful young women settles into a small town in the south of France with her introverted mother and physically handicapped father.

Traumatized by her knowledge that her mother was raped by three Italian immigrants before she was born, Elaine thinks she's on a trail of vengeance when she's courted by a young garage mechanic (Alain Souchon), whose father, now dead, was an Italian immigrant who owned a mechanical piano, the only clue to the identity of her mother's aggressors. But as the story unfolds in Rashomon-like flashbacks and narrations, the tale becomes increasingly complex and leads inexorably to a stunning conclusion.


One Deadly Summer (1983) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/One-Deadly-Summer-Blu-ray/dp/B014LHPGOC?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B014LHPGOC&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 28, 2015, 12:54:12 PM
October 27, 2015

Abel Ferrara's Dangerous Game (1993) from Shout Factory

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From the director of Bad Lieutenant comes this absorbing look at the dark side of Hollywood. Vividly raw and shocking, Dangerous Game stars two of today's most passionate and controversial performers: Harvey Keitel and Madonna. Although he's an experienced director, nothing can prepare Eddie Israel (Keitel) for what occurs on the set of his new project. Helming a film about an abusive marriage, Eddie gets incredibly real performances from his actors. But more horrifying than the scripted violence is the fact that the brutality begins to seep off the set and into real life. As Eddie becomes more involved with his production and, specifically, his leading lady (Madonna), he too becomes entangled in this terrifying trap — one where the fantasy world of his film becomes his haunting reality.

Dangerous Game (1993) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Game-Blu-ray/dp/B014L2Y90O?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-080-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B014L2Y90O&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 01, 2015, 02:05:11 AM
Vinegar Syndrome's streaming service Exploitation.TV (http://exploitation.tv/) is live
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 17, 2015, 08:10:45 PM
November 24, 2015

Jacques Rivette's Out 1 (1971) on blu-ray from Carlotta US

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Out 1 (1971) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B014LHPGXI/)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 26, 2015, 06:21:21 PM
December 7, 2015

Andre De Toth's Day of the Outlaw (1959) from Masters of Cinema

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Day of the Outlaw (1959) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B015OBHC7I/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)

Quote from: CriterionForum
This film is a favorite of Martin Scorsese's...

It's [...] something like Antonioni making a Western—there's something in the landscapes, the staging, and the long takes that puts me in mind of Story of a Love Affair or L'Avventura.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 28, 2015, 05:50:30 PM
December 7, 2015

Elaine May's A New Leaf (1971) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema

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The great Walter Matthau stars as Henry, a once-rich playboy who has obliviously spent his entire inheritance. Desperate to marry into further financial support, he meets Henrietta (Elaine May), a shy, awkward, though independently wealthy botany professor. What follows is a giddy tale of dubious legal advice, ruthless skullduggery and ferns.   

A New Leaf (1971) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/A-New-Leaf-Blu-ray/dp/B015WRBZ72?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B015WRBZ72&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 29, 2015, 10:40:29 PM
April 5, 2016

John S. Rad's Dangerous Men (2005) on blu-ray from Drafthouse

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Dangerous Men (2005) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Men-Blu-ray/dp/B019D3J3XY?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-011-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B019D3J3XY&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)




The fanatical brainchild of Iranian polymath John Rad, Dangerous Men is a passion project that remained in obsessive production for nearly two decades before finally debuted in Californian theaters in 2005. An unflappably prodigious creative force, Rad handled much of the technical duties of the film, appearing multiple times in the film's credits as the director, writer, location scout, producer, executive producer, and more.

Despite initially languishing at the box office during its limited theatrical release, and never finding a likeminded audience before Rad's untimely death in 2007, Dangerous Men developed a devoted following before vanishing as mysteriously as it appeared. Chief among them was Hadrian Belove, of the independent Los Angeles theater The Cinefamily, who saw the film multiple times during its brief theatrical run, and alerted Drafthouse Films and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema programming teams to the existence of the film. Working with the late artist's family, the team worked tirelessly alongside the American Genre Film Institute to locate and restore the original film.

"It took us almost three and a half years of continuous begging, pleading and debasement before John Rad's family agreed to license us the film," said Drafthouse COO James Emanuel Shapiro. "It was well worth it! We are immensely proud that we've carved out our own niche of mind-shredding repertory releases and beyond thrilled to unleash what should very much be considered the Holy Grail of Holy F*cking Sh#t on audiences worldwide!"


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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 08, 2015, 10:38:27 PM
December 8, 2015

Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will (1935) on blu-ray from Synapse

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The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.

Triumph of the Will (1935) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Triumph-Will-2015-Remaster-Blu-ray/dp/B0161TTI42?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1443729106&sr=1-67&refinements=p_n_format_browse-bin%3A2650305011&tag=blurayforum-20)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 09, 2015, 03:54:52 PM
January 19, 2015

Hal Ashby's Bound for Glory (1976) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Hal Ashby's The Last Detail (1973) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 12, 2015, 03:21:34 PM
October 19, 2015

Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) on blu-ray from Russ Meyer Films

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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) - Russ Meyer Films (http://www.rmfilms.com/store/)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on October 12, 2015, 04:14:27 PM
so it must be that it's somehow advantageous that he distributes his own movies, i think it's because he gets all the money back to him absolutely, but i think him and Frederick Wiseman should let out their riches and any artist decision that impedes the audience isn't worth it, ultimately, i don't think, but also we just need someone to buy them like what happened with Disney and Star Wars hey listen, my question here is does it come out on October 19, 2015 and there isn't a listed price? omg how many dollars is it? is at $30? if it's more than $30 what. ever.

i might not be looking at this page right, i'm wondering about the price. talking with people who remember how expensive laserdiscs were is always fun. good chat and thanks.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 22, 2015, 03:23:34 PM
Blog update (https://distribpixblog.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/did-you-ever-hear-the-words-blue-sunshine/) on the 4K restoration of Jeff Lieberman's Blue Sunshine (1978) for blu-ray

QuoteIt has been screened in Brooklyn at Nitehawk Cinema, and upstate NY at Proctor's Theater and is headed out west in November for its LA premiere at Cinefamily.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 23, 2015, 05:05:05 PM
December 2015 TBD

Roman Polanski's Che? (1972) on blu-ray from Koch Media (Germany)

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NSFW

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 04, 2015, 05:15:07 PM
February 23, 2016

Eric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach (1983) from Kino

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 05, 2015, 09:59:59 PM
November 3, 2015

Ulli Lommel's Tenderness of the Wolves (1973) on blu-ray from Arrow USA

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This dark horror film from director Ulli Lommel was based on the real-life crimes of Fritz Haarman (Kurt Raab), the so-called "Vampire of Dusseldorf" who murdered over 25 young boys, drank their blood, and sold their flesh as black-market meat. Several German films had depicted Haarman's murderous exploits, most notably Fritz Lang's classic M (1931), but Lommel's version is far more graphic and horrifying. Produced by filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who also appears, the film revels in pseudo-Expressionistic imagery which sears itself into the viewer's mind. Raab's performance is reminiscent of both Peter Lorre in M and Max Schreck in the vampire classic Nosferatu (1922), but is unforgettable in its own right. A deeply disturbing cinematic poem about the face of true evil.

Tenderness of the Wolves (1973) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B011CMJJLA/dvdbeaver-20/ref=nosim)


According to this thread (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070957/board/flat/136411720?p=1), it sounds like the on-set relationship between Lommel and Fassbinder was similar to Hooper/Spielberg on Poltergeist





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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 09, 2015, 05:31:34 PM
February 2, 2016

Ate de Jong's Highway to Hell (1991) on blu-ray from Kino

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I vaguely remember seeing this on tv about 20 years ago and thinking it was fun. No promises with this one.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 12, 2015, 08:45:59 PM
February 8, 2016

Richard Fleischer's Compulsion (1959) from Signal One Entertainment

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Loosely based on the famous 1924 murder trial of thrill-killers Loeb and Leopold, two homosexual students who murdered a young boy to demonstrate their intellectual superiority.

Compulsion (1959) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Compulsion-Blu-ray/dp/B017MNXKT0?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B017MNXKT0&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 18, 2015, 12:35:52 AM
Out Today

Killer Workout aka Aerobicide (1987) from Olive Films

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Killer Workout (1987) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Killer-Workout-Blu-ray/dp/B013C6ORWA?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-021-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B013C6ORWA&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on November 18, 2015, 01:24:09 PM
those YouTube videos provide what i'm calling a nice and tidy summary, thanks
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 19, 2015, 03:36:26 PM
February 23, 2016

Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon (1929) from Kino

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on November 23, 2015, 02:49:28 PM
Quote from: wilder on October 15, 2013, 04:20:12 PM
Carlotta Films Enters the U.S. Market
via blu-ray.com

Paris-based Carlotta Films has announced that it is launching a U.S. distribution company, which will be known as Carlotta Films U.S. The new company, which will be run by Calantha Mansfield, will focus on bringing classic and little seen independent films to the American market.

The first films Carlotta Films U.S. will distribute theatrically are restored prints of Leos Carax's Boy Meets Girl (1984), starring Denis Lavant, Mireille Perrier, and Carroll Brooks, and Mauvais sang a.k.a The Night is Young (1986), starring Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, and Denis Lavant, as well as Charles Lane's Sidewalk Stories (1989), starring Charles Lane, Nicole Alysia, and Tom Alpern.

Preliminary release dates for upcoming Blu-ray and DVD releases have not yet been revealed.

i like how this is where Sidewalk Stories is mentioned. i ordered it today, following my monthly policy of ordering off Amazon movies i've been thinking about and are currently at their lowest prices evar. i bought this and Away We Go. you people who are PTA fans, idk idk about trashing on this movie. we gotta have a family chat, i'll watch Away We Go again soon. here's the trailer for Sidewalk Stories:



[edit]
this edit is being performed before i post this. i did what's called "pulled an assumption" on Away We Go getting some trash talk here, but in the Xixax thread ©brad is the first to appreciate it, and it's unanimously appreciated actually. i think i agree, that's how i remember feeling about the movie. i think perhaps Sam Mendes is a tricky name because of American Beauty, which could be a great movie, which could be a terrible movie, honestly it's not a common topic in movie chats because it's such a rocky conversation, like Crash, it's only brought up like this while someone makes a point that seems incontestable, that American Beauty got majorly harshed by some people.

because really how you worry a person is you make them worry about their opinion. i like that there was that kind of worry around the release of Away We Go. i try never to get worried about my opinion. and some operational names here are Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida. i have the opinion that i'm glad they wrote the screenplay. then the actors, there's a complimentary roster. i feel about Away We Go perhaps how i feel about Young Adult, where there are some tricky names but there are some great names, and the movie pulls itself off so who cares. how's the movie? the question is always: how is the movie?

(made myself excited while typing this i realized)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 24, 2015, 07:48:01 PM
December 1, 2015

Curtis Harrington's Queen of Blood (1966) from Kino

see also: Night Tide (1961) (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=11691.msg327143#msg327143) (and max's review (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=13078.0))

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Queen of Blood (1966) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B015UDENPO/dvdaficionado)





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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 06, 2015, 12:25:29 AM
March 29, 2016

The Gong Show Movie (1980) (written by Robert Downey Sr.) from Shout Factory

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A week in the life of "The Gong Show" host and creator Chuck Barris who lives through a series of outrageous competitors, stressful situations, a nervous breakdown and other comical characters involved in his life and work on the TV show.

The Gong Show Movie (1980) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018WQBNBS/?tag=blurayforum-20)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 15, 2015, 06:58:40 PM
TBD

Christopher Guest's A Mighty Wind (2003) from Warner Archive

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March 15, 2016

Jean-Luc Godard's A Married Woman (1964) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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A Married Woman (1964) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/A-Maried-Woman-Blu-ray/dp/B019EC9R1W?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-032-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B019EC9R1W&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

A MARRIED WOMAN is an often overlooked masterwork from Godard's most productive period. The plot appears to be simple: Charlotte (Macha Méril) is a young married woman having an affair with an actor. When she discovers that she is pregnant, she must decide which man is the father and which man she will stay with. In Godard's hands, however, the film, described as a film about a woman's beauty and the ugliness of her world, is also a biting critique of consumer culture and the media constructed obsession with image. Subtitle Fragments of a film shot in 1964, in black and white, Godard creates a modernist collage that is beautifully shot by Godard's longtime cinematographer Raoul Coutard. The Cohen Media Group is proud to present for the first time in the US this stunning new restoration from the original negative.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 15, 2015, 07:19:10 PM
Upcoming Film Movement Classics Blu-ray Releases
via blu-ray.com

ANTONIA'S LINE (Marleen Gorris, 1995, Netherlands, Dutch, 102 min) - In the aftermath of WWII, strong-willed Antonia returns to her small hometown where she has inherited her mother's farm. Antonia, joined by her free-spirited artist daughter Danielle, ingratiate themselves with the town's tight-knit and eccentric community. As the years unfold, love and tragedy come to Antonia and Danielle and the pair foster a vibrant circle of strong, liberated women. ANTONIA'S LINE won the Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film, 1996 and will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of this win in 2016.

THE BEST INTENTIONS (Bille August, 1992, Sweden, Swedish, 182 min) - Swedish master Ingmar Bergman penned this loving tribute to his parent's epic romance. In 1909, poor, idealistic theology student Henrik Bergman falls in love with Anna Åkerbloom, the intelligent, educated daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After their wedding Henrik becomes a priest in the north of Sweden. Urbane Anna can't stand living in the rural county and grows increasingly restless. She returns to Uppsala and the couple's love and commitment are put to the test.

BOILING POINT (Takeshi Kitano, 1990, Japan, Japanese, 97 min) - In the second film from action auteur Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano, two members of a Japanese junior baseball team get mixed up with the local yakuza after their coach is attacked by gangsters. The pair gets more than they bargained for when they travel to Okinawa seeking revenge in this violent and strangely humorous revolutionary take on the yakuza picture.

KAMIKAZE 89 (Wolf Gremm, 1982, Germany, German, 106 min) - In his last acting role, legendary director Rainer Werner Fassbinder plays Jansen, an expert cop living in a dystopic future (and clad in a sharp leopard skin jacket) where a mysterious organization known as The Combine controls all media. After The Combine?s headquarters receives several bomb threats, Jansen is tasked with infiltrating the nefarious conglomerate. This cult classic features a soundtrack by Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream and an array of New German Cinema stars, including Brigitte Mira (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul), Frank Ripploh (Taxi Zum Klo), and Gunter Kaufmann (The Marriage of Maria Braun).

ONCE WERE WARRIORS (Lee Tamahori, 1994, New Zealand, English, 102 min) - Jake Heke lives with his family in a tenement house for native Maori in the slums of Auckland. Despite his love and devotion, Jake?s battle with alcoholism frequently results in terrifyingly erratic outbursts in front of his children and violent beatings of his wife Beth. After Jake loses his job, each member of the Heke family is forced to face their own personal demons and the societal constraints that shackle native New Zealanders.

THE QUIET EARTH (Geoff Murphy, 1985, New Zealand, English, 91 min) - In this sci-fi cult classic, Zac Hobson, a mid-level scientist working on a global energy project, wakes up to a nightmare. After his project malfunctions, Zac discovers that he may be the last man on Earth. As he searches empty cities for other survivors, Zac's mental state begins to deteriorate - culminating in the film's iconic and hotly debated ending.

UGLY, DIRTY, AND BAD (Ettore Scola, 1976, Italy, Italian, 116 min) - Acclaimed Italian auteur Ettore Scola (celebrating his 85th birthday in 2016) pairs up with legendary actor Nino Manfredi in this irreverent Cannes-winning grotesque comedy. Giacinto (Manfredi), along with four generations of his sprawling, crooked clan, lives in a cramped, dilapidated home on the outskirts of Rome. When a work accident leaves him blind in one eye, the derelict suddenly finds himself rolling in insurance money. Refusing to share the wealth, Giacinto?s relatives concoct several harebrained plots in hopes of wrenching the riches away.

VIOLENT COP (Takeshi Kitano, 1989, Japan, Japanese, 103 min) - In his directorial debut, and one of his first dramatic roles, writer/director Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano plays Detective Azuma, a hostile cop who?s not afraid of using violent means to catch his culprits. When his sister is kidnapped by a sadistic drug lord, Azuma's Dirty Harry-style tactics escalate in his quest for vengeance in this stunningly innovative cops-and-robbers thriller.   
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Garam on December 15, 2015, 11:48:19 PM
Quote from: wilder on December 15, 2015, 07:19:10 PM
THE QUIET EARTH (Geoff Murphy, 1985, New Zealand, English, 91 min) - In this sci-fi cult classic, Zac Hobson, a mid-level scientist working on a global energy project, wakes up to a nightmare. After his project malfunctions, Zac discovers that he may be the last man on Earth. As he searches empty cities for other survivors, Zac's mental state begins to deteriorate - culminating in the film's iconic and hotly debated ending.

This film is so much fun.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 17, 2015, 04:17:15 PM
May 17, 2016

Christian Marquand's Candy (1968)) on blu-ray from Kino

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Candy (1968) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Candy-Blu-ray/dp/B01CJ5WWSQ?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-030-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01CJ5WWSQ&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

Candy Christian (Ewa Aulin) is an innocent yet luscious high school student when fate sends her on a far-out journey of sexual discovery. On her trippy travels, Candy encounters lust and lunacy at the hands - and other body parts - of a drunken poet (Richard Burton), a Mexican gardener (Ringo Starr), a patriotic general (Walter Matthau), a mad surgeon (James Coburn), and a mystic guru (Marlon Brando). Can the world's most stalwart members get their own sweet piece of Candy? Or will a final freaky twist swallow her whole forever?




March 15, 2016

Sun, Sand, and Sweat Collection from Mill Creek

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-Hardbodies (1984)
-Perfect (1985)
-Private Resort (1985)
-Spring Break (1983)

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 17, 2015, 10:25:35 PM
January 26, 2016

Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956) from Warner Archive

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The Wrong Man (1956) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019HPJBY4?keywords=the%20wrong%20man&qid=1450412659&ref_=sr_1_2&refinements=p_n_format_browse-bin%3A2650305011&s=movies-tv&sr=1-2)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 22, 2015, 04:42:08 PM
May 17, 2016

Ulu Grosbard's Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971) on blu-ray from Kino

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Georgie Soloway is a pop hit love song writer who cannot love himself or others. He spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him. Cinematography by Victor J. Kemper (John Cassavetes' Husbands, Karel Reisz's The Gambler).   


March 8, 2016

Howard the Duck (1986) from Universal

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Howard the Duck (1986) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Howard-the-Duck-Blu-ray/dp/B019OI2B32?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-011-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B019OI2B32&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 29, 2015, 02:09:41 AM
April 12, 2016

Alberto De Martino's Blazing Magnum aka Shadows in an Empty Room (1976) from Scorpion Releasing

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Blazing Magnum aka Shadows in an Empty Room (1976) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AVMS8U0?keywords=blazing%20magnum&qid=1454457667&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1)

An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for revenge that he begin to use his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon he discovers that not everything is what he thought it was.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 01, 2016, 06:13:49 PM
Available Now

Warner Archive's Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 9 was released back in October and slipped under the radar

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Forbidden Hollywood Collecton Vol. 9 - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015XC8GLO?keywords=forbidden%20hollywood%209&qid=1451693316&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1)


And DVDBeaver has made an in-depth end of the year (http://www.dvdbeaver.com) post, detailing some of the year's best releases.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 04, 2016, 08:21:29 PM
March 14, 2016

David Lowell Rich's Madame X (1966) from Panamint Cinema (UK).

Cinematography by Russel Metty (All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, There's Always Tomorrow, Imitation of Life, etc.), Produced by Ross Hunter (also Douglas Sirk's films)

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Lana Turner produces one of the greatest performances of her career in this highly-charged adaptation of Alexandre Bisson's often filmed classic play.

When Holly Anderson (Lana Turner), neglected by her wealthy socialite husband (John Forsythe), is romantically pursued by Phil Benton (Ricardo Montalban), tragedy strikes. Constance Bennett in her last film role, playing Holly's mother-in-law, turns nemesis, forcing her to leave her husband and infant son to protect their reputation.

Travelling the world in a haze of drugs and alcohol for twenty years, Holly returns to her home town, only to meet more trouble, which ends with her facing a jury on a charge of murder.


Madame X (1966) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Madame-X-Blu-ray/dp/B01BOV6TUS?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01BOV6TUS&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)





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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 08, 2016, 11:02:41 PM
Q1 2016 TBD

Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep (1946) from Warner Archive

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The Big Sleep (1946) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Big-Sleep-Blu-ray-Humphrey-Bogart/dp/B01ACP59XA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1452317873&sr=8-2&keywords=the+big+sleep+blu-ray)


John Huston's Key Largo (1948) from Warner Archive

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Key Largo (1948) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Key-Largo-Blu-ray-Humphrey-Bogart/dp/B01ACP5AXE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1452317882&sr=8-2&keywords=key+largo+blu-ray)


February 16, 2016

Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess (1953) from Warner Archive

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I Confess (1953) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01ACP5426?keywords=i%20confess%20blu-ray&qid=1452317745&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on January 09, 2016, 02:26:57 PM
^he looks kinda tough on the cover but only kinda, and perhaps you can see the fear in his eyes, as Key Largo has the most terrified Bogart of all. the dude gets stepped on. so i like that movie, for its representation of both Key Largo and Bogart as a person. it's a different perspective from the days of gangsters and detectives. there'd be so much averted crying at the table if he and the Bogart from In a Lonely Place ever met and shared their stories.

recently i was browsing around on amazon, wanting to buy a pre-code movie. my favorite movies are short, melodramatic and cinematic, so i'm a sucker for pre-code movies every time. i ended up buying this:

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it was cheaper alone than in its set:

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this is Merrily We Go To Hell's synopsis:

QuoteA drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.

i think finding the dream is a kid reality, and living with or without the dream is an adult reality. what i'd need to discover is a reason not to want to see this, and such a quest would be absolutely impossible. on top of the already mentioned, the director Dorothy Arzner was "the only woman director during the 'Golden Age' of Hollywood's studio system." for me this triggers emotions brought by confirmation bias.

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a picture like this in our times is treated like a goddamn revelation. if you don't already know it, you're just blowing it, regarding the capabilities of humanity being both boundless and shared by everyone, that's what i think, and what cinema and other art from the early 20th century constantly demonstrates to me. that's a social topic, what i like to know is the topic of the movie. Merrily We Go To Hell is on order.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 13, 2016, 07:40:37 AM
March 14, 2016

Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers (1961) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (eventually coming from Milestone in the US)

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Rocco and His Brothers (1961) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01AJTERJ6/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)

Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.





March 28, 2016

Nicolas Roeg's Eureka (1983) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema

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Eureka (1983) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01AJTERXC/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)

In 1925, Arctic prospector Jack McCann becomes a rich man when he strikes gold but 20 years later he faces major personal and family problems.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 16, 2016, 11:24:29 AM
January 25, 2016

Dario Argento's Deep Red (1975) from Arrow UK, from a new 4K restoration - 3-disc set limited to 1,000 units. Full list of extras here (http://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/deep-red-3/). Sold out everywhere except Amazon Italy. Standard edition (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Deep-Red-Blu-ray/149829/) blu-ray coming on May 30, 2016.

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Deep Red (1975) - Amazon Italy (http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B0117WYPMI?keywords=deep%20red&qid=1452964412&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1)


Full size comparison screencaps at DVDBeaver (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-ray_reviews_70/deep_red_blu-ray.htm), some resized comparisons below - Old Arrow UK/Kino release top, new Arrow 4K transfer on the bottom (some quality loss)

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 21, 2016, 06:53:24 PM
April 12, 2016

Too Late for Tears (1949) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley

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Through a fluke circumstance a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and she is determined to hold onto it even it if means murder.

Too Late for Tears (1949) - Flicker Alley (http://www.flickeralley.com/film-noir/?utm_source=film-noir-pre-order-announcement&utm_medium=email&utm_content=header-image&utm_campaign=Film-Noir)






Woman on the Run (1950) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley

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Frank Johnson flees police after becoming an eyewitness to murder. He is pursued around scenic San Francisco by his wife, a reporter, the police, and... the real murderer.

Woman on the Run (1950) - Flicker Alley (http://www.flickeralley.com/film-noir/?utm_source=film-noir-pre-order-announcement&utm_medium=email&utm_content=header-image&utm_campaign=Film-Noir)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 27, 2016, 03:51:48 PM
February 23, 2016

Dario Argento's Tenebrae (1982) on blu-ray from Synapse in a 3-disc limited edition

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Tenebrae (1982) - Diabolik DVD (http://www.diabolikdvd.com/category/Horror-%5Bsl%5D-Thriller/Tenebrae-(Synapse-LE-3000-Steelbook-CD-%5Bsl%5D-Blu~Ray-%5Bsl%5D-DVD-Combo).html)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 01, 2016, 05:24:03 PM
May 17, 2016

William Castle's I Saw What You Did! (1965) from Scream Factory

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Teenagers Libby and Kit innocently spend an evening doing random crank calls. These calls lead to murderous consequences.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 02, 2016, 02:48:44 AM
April 19, 2016

Sam Fuller's Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1974) from Olive Films

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An American private eye is shot dead in Germany by an international extortion gang, and his partner arrives to seek revenge.

QuoteFuller was offered the opportunity to direct an episode of the popular German crime drama by film critic (and later writer/director) Hans-Christoph Blumenberg, in appreciation for the director's help in securing interviews with filmmakers Howard Hawks and John Ford for a documentary project. Upon meeting with the program's producers and feeling initial doubts about being able to conform to the show's standard template, he suggested a storyline inspired by the then-recent Profumo affair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profumo_affair) in England, which the producers approved to Fuller's surprise.

Fuller's screenplay took liberties with the established style of the show by eliminating a primary series protagonist early in the episode in order to introduce a one-time American character to helm the investigation, by conducting the majority of the program in English rather than German (though subtitles were provided in the German broadcast), and by ultimately treating the story with a satirical and often broadly comic tone.


April 19, 2016

Try and Get Me! aka The Sound of Fury (1950) from Olive Films, restored by The Film Noir Foundation (http://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/home.html)

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A man who is down on his luck falls in with a criminal.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on February 02, 2016, 01:43:58 PM
i wish my eyes were fresh on the noir genre and i didn't already own so many. when i hear about new releases i think about things like blu-ray prices and replay value, i don't think i've bought a noir on blu-ray except The Third Man on criterion, which is kinda funny and really i should sell that, and i know companies are choosing movies that didn't already have excellent dvd releases, i know they want me to want them, and i do, but i don't.

1974 is well outside the years of noir. i lumped Dead Pigeon in there for conversational purposes and because i'm much more likely to buy a noir movie than a general crime movie, since idgaf about crime movies. that's a Sweaty Man Cave genre, crime movies, to me, kinda, i'm also saying that for conversational purposes, the point is i also see the music credit for Dead Pigeon:

Music by Can (as The Can)

PT fans should be familiar with Can now. how the fuck did they make the music for a Fuller crime movie? idk. that's cool. maybe i should start Netflixing again, you know, could be that easy really. torrenting. idk.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 02, 2016, 03:14:43 PM
Apparently Scorsese had the last existing print of Try and Get Me! (1950). I trust Scorsese recommendations and especially Scorsese on noir. Another that comes to mind is Murder by Contract (1958), which he recorded a video introduction for in the Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0024FAG80/dvdaficionado) box set.




Nice find on the Can song.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 02, 2016, 05:49:09 PM
May 24, 2016

Michael Mann's Manhunter (1986) from Shout Factory

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ugggghhhh

Manhunter (1986) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Manhunter-Blu-ray/dp/B01BHCPQPS?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-082-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01BHCPQPS&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

QuoteThe supplemental features that will be included on the release have not yet been detailed, but the label has confirmed that director Mann is directly involved with the release.


May 24, 2016

Curtis Hanson's Bad Influence (1990) from Shout Factory

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Bad Influence (1990) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Influence-Blu-ray/dp/B01BHCPR0W?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-082-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01BHCPR0W&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
A milquetoast executive is befriended by a seductive stranger, who convinces him to come out of his shell with disastrous results.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 03, 2016, 02:12:04 PM
February 9, 2016

Otto Preminger's Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) from Twilight Time

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Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) - Screen Archives (https://www1.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/30905/WHERE-THE-SIDEWALK-ENDS-1950/)






February 9, 2016

Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953) limited edition re-issue from Twilight Time

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The Big Heat (1953) - Screen Archives (https://www1.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/30898/THE-BIG-HEAT-1953-ENCORE-EDITION/)



February 26, 2016

Val Lewton & Jacques Tourneur's Cat People (1942) on blu-ray from IVC Japan

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Cat People (1942) - Amazon Japan (http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B018W5GCH4/dvdbeaver-22/ref=nosim)




Heard a rumor about Criterion obtaining the rights to Cat People, hope they have the other Val Lewton titles as well.



February 26, 2016

Val Lewton & Jacques Tourneur's I Walked with a Zombie (1943) on blu-ray from IVC Japan

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I Walked with a Zombie (1943) - Amazon Japan (http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B018W5GC2O/dvdbeaver-22/ref=nosim)






April 29, 2016

Nicholas Ray's They Live by Night (1948) on blu-ray from IVC Japan

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They Live by Night (1948) - Amazon Japan (http://www.amazon.co.jp/They-Live-by-Night-Blu-ray/dp/B01BF3H7WE?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-22&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01BF3H7WE&m=AN1VRQENFRJN5)



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 03, 2016, 04:12:41 PM
April 11, 2016

Sydney Pollack's Three Days of the Condor (1975) from Masters of Cinema

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Three Days of the Condor (1975) - Amazon UK  (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Three-Days-of-the-Condor-Blu-ray/dp/B01BF2YN3G?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01BF2YN3G&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



April 18, 2016

Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 (1976) from Masters of Cinema

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1900 (1976) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/1900-Blu-ray/dp/B01BF2YN6I?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01BF2YN6I&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



April 18, 2016

Man with a Movie Camera + Other Works by Dziga Vertov from Masters of Cinema

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Man with a Movie Camera + Other Works by Dziga Vertov - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Man-with-a-Movie-Camera-and-Other-Works-by-Dziga-Vertov-Blu-ray/dp/B01BF2YMXM?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01BF2YMXM&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 04, 2016, 03:28:23 PM
omfg

Q2 2016 TBD

José Ramón Larraz's Symptoms (1974) from Mondo Macabro

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QuoteIn this somber horror gem, Helen (Angela Pleasance, daughter of Donald) brings Anne (Lora Heilbron, star of Freddie Francis' THE CREEPING FLESH, 1973) to her family's creepy, rarely used forest estate where they can unwind from the stress of city life and focus on their writing. The woods may be lovely, dark, and deep, but the promises they keep lead to sex, murder, and insanity!

From Jose Ramon Larraz, the director of the vampire cult classic VAMPRYRES (1974), comes SYMPTOMS (1974), part-Lewis Carroll forest fantasia, part-erotic thriller, part-Bergman-esque chamber of trauma, and 100% mental mindfuck. SYMPTOMS fits into a loose series of films by Larraz made in the early 1970s that includes the aforementioned VAMPYRES, as well as WHIRLPOOL (1970), DEVIATION (1971), and THE HOUSE THAT VANISHED (1974), all of which revolve around a small core cast of characters who venture into the woods and find themselves in a surreal, sexual, and psychotic nightmare.

Striking sustained notes of quiet unease that crescendo into madness, SYMPTOMS epitomizes the minimalist narrative, pastoral beauty, ethereal ermines, and genre revisionism that characterized Larraz's work in this period.

Quote
For years only viewable as a blurry bootleg derived from an early 80s British TV broadcast, this haunting thriller can now be seen as it was intended with a brand new HD transfer of the recently discovered negatives. It's taken us more than 15 years of searching and negotiating to get here, but with the indispensable assistance of the BFI Mondo Macabro can finally bring this film to the world on Blu-ray and DVD.

Symptoms is an intense and claustrophobic study of a woman's descent into madness and murder. Made in the same years as Larraz's better known Vampyres with much of the same crew and a similar vibe, Symptoms is more atmospheric and ambiguous, and less exploitative. But it casts a powerful spell and is perhaps the most potent example of director Jose Larraz's unique style.

Starring Angela Pleasance (From Beyond the Grave) in what is probably her best ever role, Symptoms is a film whose time has finally come. After premiering at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival as the official UK entry and a brief theatrical run, the film sank into almost complete obscurity until being rescued from oblivion by books like Tohill and Tombs' Immoral Tales and the ever-diligent video underground. With this stunning new Blu ray release Symptoms can now be seen as the masterpiece of 70s horror that it truly is.

Special Features:
-The 2011 documentary on Jose Larraz, ON VAMPYRES AND OTHER SYMPTOMS
-FROM BARCELONA to TUNBRIDGE WELLS, a 1999 TV documentary on Larraz, part of the EUROTIKA! series
-New interviews with stars Angela Pleasence and Lorna Heilbron and editor Brian Smedley-Aston

The retail version of this release will be preceded by a limited, numbered version (500 copies only) with exclusive extras, only available through MondoMacabro.BigCartel.com


Symptoms - Spectacle Theater Trailer (https://vimeo.com/76366417)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on February 04, 2016, 05:02:29 PM
Quote from: wilder on February 04, 2016, 03:28:23 PMthe ever-diligent video underground.

"brands come and go but the underground is forever."
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on February 05, 2016, 02:47:47 PM
wilder (or anyone) do you know what's going on with Drafthouse blu-ray releases for Wake in Fright and Miami Connection? curious what this means about the overall nature of Drafthouse blu-ray releases. Wake in Fright appears OOP and currently sells at $68 on Amazon. that gave me such anxiety i watched with a friend his copy last night. now i still have anxiety, but i've seen the movie more recently (i should own it, it's so good). Miami Connection i already own because i'm like that, it currently sells for $62 new.

i admit i'm being lazy and performed a cursory google search, hoping someone can give me facts.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 05, 2016, 04:03:45 PM
Seems they're both still in print, or are officially but for all intents and purposes seem OOP due to the following reasons...

Quote from: blu-ray.com forumIt's very common for boutique titles to go out of stock between pressings; in the absence of any announcement from Alamo Drafthouse I assume more will be pressed (so NOT out of print). I'm thinking the same about Miami Connection. Granted anything is possible but I wouldn't break the bank on obtaining these titles just yet.

Quote from: blu-ray.com forumI think Alamo was changing their distributor, and their older titles were supposed to have switched over to their new distrib, but that never seemed to happen for who knows why. But the titles were still avail on Alamo's site. If they are out-of-stock there right now, maybe they are just in-between print runs so no need to rush and pay exorbitant ebay prices. Maybe an e-mail inquiry to Alamo will get an answer about this?

Miami Connection (http://drafthousefilms.com/film/miami-connection) and Wake in Fright (http://drafthousefilms.com/film/wake-in-fright) can be ordered for $10 each directly from Drafthouse but shipping will set you back another 10.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on February 05, 2016, 11:09:49 PM
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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 08, 2016, 02:06:08 PM
May 23, 2016

Dissent & Disruption: The Complete Alan Clarke at the BBC on blu-ray from BFI (13 discs)

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Includes all surviving BBC TV productions directed by Alan Clarke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Clarke), extensive extra features, a comprehensive book with new essays and full credits, and an exclusive bonus DVD containing the seven surviving Half Hour Story episodes directed by Clarke: Shelter (1967), The Gentleman Caller (1967, previously considered lost), George's Room (1967, previously considered partially lost); Goodnight Albert (1968), Stella (1968), The Fifty Seventh Saturday (1968) and Thief (1968, previously considered lost).

Dissent & Disruption: The Complete Alan Clarke at the BBC - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01BGX1BK2/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)




Read more about Clarke's work in this thread (http://criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14110&sid=0d9b8973510ae054e8ace8a8fc731450&start=100) at Criterion Forum
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 08, 2016, 04:39:58 PM
May 2016 TBD

Takeshi Kitano's Kids Return (1996) on blu-ray from Third Window Films (UK)

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Masaru and Shinji are two high school juvenile delinquents who spend their time extorting classmates for small change. After Masaru is beaten up by a former victim, the pair go to a local gym to learn how to box. Shinji, however, proves to have much more innate talent than Masaru, who abandons the sport to join the local yakuza gang. After Masaru's departure, Shinji falls in with Hayashi, an older boxer whose unhealthy influence pulls the youth down. Meanwhile, Masaru's arrogant behavior is getting him into trouble with his gang. Eventually, the two friends' downward spirals of life meet again at their old school.

Kids Return was the first film from acclaimed Japanese director Takeshi Kitano (Sonatine, Hana-Bi) following his near-fatal motorcycle accident in 1994. Kitano was to undergo a long and painful physical rehabilitation, and Kids Return reflects his struggle in the question at its heart: Which is more difficult, to die or to go on living? Featuring a beautiful music score by Joe Hisaishi (Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service, Sonatine), Kids Return is a minimalist masterpiece filled with irony and melancholy.







May 2016 TBD

Takeshi Kitano's A Scene at the Sea (1991) on blu-ray from Third Window Films (UK)

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Shigeru is a deaf-mute teenager who works as a garbage collector. When he happens upon a battered surfboard, it plants in him the dream of becoming a surfing champion. He also meets Takako, a young deaf-mute woman who becomes his girlfriend and lends him her constant support during the difficult practice sessions and competitions. Throughout the summer, their profound expression of love transcends their silence.

This lyrical masterpiece from acclaimed Japanese actor and director Takeshi Kitano (Kids Return, Sonatine, Hana-Bi) reminds us that images are often as powerful as words. A heartbreakingly romantic departure from Kitano's usual subject matter of gangs and criminals, A Scene at The Sea also features a beautiful music score by Joe Hisaishi (Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service, Sonatine).   







May 30, 2016

Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Condition Trilogy (1959-1961) on blu-ray from Arrow Academy (UK)

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The Human Condition Trilogy - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Human-Condition-Trilogy-Blu-ray/dp/B01BKUCGBE?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01BKUCGBE&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)

Criterion upgrade in the works?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 09, 2016, 09:06:04 PM
Harmony Korine on Alan Clarke, posted by Criterion Forum (http://criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14110&start=125#p535796) member Antarctica

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Harmony Korine has cited Alan Clarke as a major influence.

From an interview Korine did with Mike Kelley in 1997 (https://filmmakermagazine.com/40404-from-the-archives-mike-kelley-interviews-harmony-korine/)

"Korine: You know who I love and who no one really knows about? Alan Clarke, the British director. He's a real influence. He did Scum, Made in Britain, and this film Christine about a girl growing up in council flats with size 14 feet. She walks around with a cookie tin under her arm and hooks her friends up with dope. She'll go into houses and kids will be there with a box of Ritz crackers on the television. You'd have these really long tracking shots of her walking. The film was just sort of about what her days were like. And he used real people or people who seemed right. He did this other film I like, Elephant, which is just 16 separate executions, one after the other. There are all these steadicam shots. You see a hit man walking through a gymnasium, walking up stairs and corridors –

Kelley: Are these first-person POV shots?

Korine: Exactly. And then [the hit man] would shoot the janitor, and he'd fall on a pile of jockstraps. But the intention wasn't comedy. After he died in 1988 of cancer, there was a retrospective of Clarke's work at MOMA. There were only about ten people in the audience. I was watching Elephant, and in the beginning it was a little disturbing. And then I started to find humor in the repetition – watching some Indian carwasher get his hand blown out on a squeegee. I start cracking up, and this British bastard in front of me turns and says, "Don't you know what this represents? This is the IRA, you son of a bitch!" He wanted to kill me. I liked that idea. He thought it was about the IRA, and I thought it was about Ritz crackers."


From Dazed & Confused, 1998 (http://harmony-korine.com/text/int/hk/?p=82)

Dazed: How did you come across Alan Clarke, because he's quite obscure in America?

Korine: If someone said to me who is the greatest director or my favorite, I would say Alan Clarke without hesitation. His stories, without ever being derivative, and without ever having a simple ABC narrative are totally organic, precious and amazing. It was nothing but him. In a strange way I don't even like talking about him in the press or to people because he is the last filmmaker or artist that is really sacred. But especially in America no one knows who he is, even in England there is very little attention.


From Sight & Sound Magazine, April 1998 (Posted on Nick Wringly's site (https://medium.com/alan-clarke/harmony-korine-on-alan-clarke-16e9309e700c#.p7his1xt2))

By the way, Nick, I'm looking forward to exploring your work about Alan Clarke on that site. I just saw Contact the other night and now consider it one of my favorite films. I love how he boiled everything down. The lack of music is powerful. Thanks for this great resource on an amazing director.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 10, 2016, 04:43:12 PM
April 18, 2016

José Ramón Larraz's Symptoms (1974) (coming from Mondo Macabro (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=11691.msg343168#msg343168) in the US in mid-March) is also coming to blu-ray from BFI in the UK, with the exact same disc specs

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Symptoms (1974) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Symptoms-Blu-ray/dp/B01BLONBCC?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01BLONBCC&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


And more shit stolen from Criterion Forum:

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 10, 2016, 10:21:52 PM
Created a blu-ray.com collection (http://www.blu-ray.com/community/collection.php?u=384731&categoryid=7&action=owned) with all the titles in this thread, divided into the following categories (distribution territories):

-USA
-USA - Noir
-USA - Foreign
-USA - Horror / Exploitation / Trash
-UK
-UK - Foreign
-France
-Germany
-Other

DVD titles are omitted. The first post of this thread has the link.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 11, 2016, 11:28:02 PM
April 5, 2016

Kathleen Collins' Losing Ground (1982) from Milestone

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A philosophy professor (Seret Scott) prides herself on being liberal but is jealous of her artist husband's (Bill Gunn) gorgeous model (Maritza Rivera).

Losing Ground (1982) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Losing-Ground-Blu-ray/dp/B01BLTTMGG?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01BLTTMGG&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)





Quote from: IMDB user thepixinatorI really liked this film, and its depiction of how people can use their "artistic soul" as an excuse to be just as self-serving as they want to be... The existential crisis as an excuse to be selfish is so spot on.

Quote from: IMDB user Red-125Losing Ground (1982) is one of the few independent films made in the 1980's by a Black woman director. Kathleen Collins was a brilliant, highly talented professor of film. Unfortunately, she directed only this one commercial film, and tragically, she died when she was just 46 years old.

The movie itself was largely ignored, and would have been truly lost except for a fortunate event. Collins' daughter found the negatives, and Milestone has remastered the film for theatrical release.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 15, 2016, 05:29:12 PM
New Restoration of Fritz Lang's Destiny Acquired for North American Distribution   
via blu-ray.com

Kino Lorber have acquired the North American distribution rights to director Fritz Lang's film Destiny (1921), starring Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, and Bernhard Goetzke.

The film, which was recently restored and screened at this year's edition of Berlinale Classics, will have a limited theatrical release in late spring. A home video release is expected at a later time.

Synopsis: When a woman's fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate.

Restoration information courtesy of Berlinale Classics:

"The digital restoration of Der müde Tod (Destiny) by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation was made possible with the support of Bertelsmann, and with funds from the digitisation initiative by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and through the support of the development association "Freunde und Förderer des deutschen Filmerbes e.V." (Friends and Associates of German Film Heritage). The material basis used for the digital restoration of the film is a 35mm black-and-white duplicate negative from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Individual shots were taken from a black-and-white copy from the Cinémathèque de Toulouse. The intertitles are reconstructions from the Munich Film Museum, using "blitz titles" from a copy in the Gosfilmofond of Russia in Moscow as the foundation. Missing titles were reconstructed and supplemented with the help of material from the Národní filmový archive, Prague and the Cinémathèque Royale, Brussels. The lost film tints of individual scenes were simulated using contemporary distribution copies from other Decla productions from the same period. The scan and digital image reconstruction in 2K resolution were completed by L'Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna."
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 16, 2016, 01:09:12 AM
Quote from: wilder on January 21, 2016, 06:53:24 PM
April 12, 2016

Too Late for Tears (1949) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley

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Through a fluke circumstance a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and she is determined to hold onto it even it if means murder.

Too Late for Tears (1949) - Flicker Alley (http://www.flickeralley.com/film-noir/?utm_source=film-noir-pre-order-announcement&utm_medium=email&utm_content=header-image&utm_campaign=Film-Noir)






Woman on the Run (1950) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley

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Frank Johnson flees police after becoming an eyewitness to murder. He is pursued around scenic San Francisco by his wife, a reporter, the police, and... the real murderer.

Woman on the Run (1950) - Flicker Alley (http://www.flickeralley.com/film-noir/?utm_source=film-noir-pre-order-announcement&utm_medium=email&utm_content=header-image&utm_campaign=Film-Noir)

A couple of interviews with film noir historian/preservationist Eddie Muller of The Film Noir Foundation (http://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/home.html) in San Francisco, who helped rescue these films.

One (https://thesunbreak.com/2010/03/04/noir-city-man-an-interview-with-the-czar-of-noir-eddie-muller-part-1/)

Two (http://thesunbreak.com/2010/03/05/noir-city-man-eddie-muller-speaks-part-2/)

P.S. pretty much everything put out by Eddie Muller on noir is worth reading/watching/listening to. He's a very laid back, casually conversational guy - easy to learn from and entertaining. Lots of interviews and film introductions by him are up on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=eddie+muller). Most recently he recorded a short video essay on Gilda for the Criterion edition, and he's recorded many commentary tracks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Muller#DVD_Commentaries) for other films.

P.P.S. The Film Noir Foundation also puts out an in-depth quarterly magazine / e-mag called Noir City (http://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/noircityemag.html) - extremely worth reading (the last issue was 112 pages and featured an editorial on Dorothy B. Hughes, author of the novels Ride the Pink Horse and In A Lonely Place were based on) - which can be subscribed to via a $20 donation to the foundation by Paypal.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on February 16, 2016, 03:18:10 AM
Quote from: wilder on February 16, 2016, 01:09:12 AM

P.S. pretty much everything put out by Eddie Muller on noir is worth reading/watching/listening to. He's a very laid back, casually conversational guy - easy to learn from and entertaining. Lots of interviews and film introductions by him are up on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=eddie+muller). Most recently he recorded a short video essay on Gilda for the Criterion edition, and he's recorded many commentary tracks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Muller#DVD_Commentaries) for other films.

P.P.S. The Film Noir Foundation also puts out an in-depth quarterly magazine / e-mag called Noir City (http://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/home.html) - extremely worth reading (the last issue was 112 pages and featured an editorial on Dorothy B. Hughes, author of the novels Ride the Pink Horse and In A Lonely Place were based on) - which can be subscribed to via a $20 donation to the foundation by Paypal.

you're a local phenomenon.

maybe i just like how you said Ride the Pink Horse. that's currently a seduction code for my movie tastes.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 17, 2016, 03:56:31 AM
March 14, 2016

Philip Ridley's The Reflecting Skin (1990) on blu-ray from Soda Pictures

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A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of discouraging his brother from seeing her. He must deal with an abusive mother, a father with a charge of molestation, a band of youths creating havoc, and an unforgiving environment in general.

The Reflecting Skin (1990) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Reflecting-Skin-Blu-ray/dp/B0185P7FTA?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0185P7FTA&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on February 17, 2016, 12:06:45 PM
FUCK YEAH finally
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 17, 2016, 03:07:26 PM
2016 TBD

The Claude Chabrol Collection on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

-Betty (1992)

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Alone and drunk, Betty, is led to a Paris restaurant by a stranger. Here, she meets an older woman, Laure, with whom she strikes up an instant rapport. The two women seem to have suffered the same lot in their lives. Laure takes Betty back to her hotel and helps to cure the young woman of her depression and alcoholism. Little by little, Betty pieces together her recent history and realizes that perhaps her life is not worth living. The she meets Mario, Laure's lover... Starring Stephane Audran, Jean-Francoise Garreaud and Marie Trintignant. 2K RESTORATION.

-L'Enfer (1994)

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Paul (François Cluzet) has just bought a charming waterfront hotel in the heart of France. In debt for the next ten years, he sets to work with his beautiful new wife, Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart). The life of the young couple resembles a dream come true until Paul's suspicions and jealousy get the best of him. His increasing obsession turns into madness that ends in a tragedy. Starring Emmanuelle Béart and Francois Cluzet. 2K RESTORATION.

-The Swindle (1997)

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Betty and Victor tour quietly around France in their motor home living safely on part-time swindles...until they become involved in a scam with high stakes and international implications. Chabrol's 50th film is a deft and entertaining thriller. Starring François Cluzet, Isabelle Huppert and Michel Serrault. 2K RESTORATION.








Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 22, 2016, 04:08:30 PM
April 19, 2016

Frank Tashlin's Susan Slept Here (1954) from Warner Archive

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Susan Slept Here (1954) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Susan-Slept-Here-Blu-ray/dp/B01C36ULMA?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-011-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01C36ULMA&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

Screenwriter Mark Christopher gets a Christmas present that isn't on his Santa list: a 17-year-old delinquent named Susan, deposited in his bachelor pad by a cop pal who doesn't want to see the kid spend Christmas behind bars. Touched by Susan's plight, Mark decides there's only one way to keep her out of juvie: marry her in name only and get an annulment when she comes of age. But after a Vegas elopement, Susan isn't so sure she wants to be the ex-Mrs. Christopher. Dick Powell (in his last film role before devoting himself to a hugely successful TV career) and Debbie Reynolds play the (maybe) mismatched couple in a big-hearted romantic comedy from animator-turned-director Frank Tashlin that makes merry use of its Yuletide setting.   

The blog Tish Tash (http://frank-tashlin.blogspot.com/2012/09/tish-tash-part-1-tashlins-origins.html?view=sidebar) contains a 12-part biography of Frank Tashlin, spanning his origins as an animator to his turn as a live-action feature director
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 23, 2016, 03:57:08 AM
May 31, 2016

Federico Fellini's City of Women (1980) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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City of Women (1980) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/City-of-Women-Blu-ray/dp/B01BPQG3CG?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01BPQG3CG&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 29, 2016, 08:13:04 PM
2016 TBD

Michele Soavi's The Sect (1991) aka The Devil's Daughter aka Demons 4 on blu-ray from Shameless (UK) - also coming from Code Red (US) later in the year

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Following a 1970s-set prologue, the film takes place in present day Frankfurt, Germany. Miriam Kreisl (Kelly Curtis) is a young schoolteacher who narrowly misses running down with her car an old man carrying a box. Reluctantly, she takes in Moebius Kelly (Herbert Lom), the mysterious old man. What she doesn't know is that their meeting is no accident. Moebius is the elder of a Satanic sect and she has been chosen to give birth to the son of Satan.

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on March 01, 2016, 06:30:47 PM
i forgot about this film. it's very very good.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 03, 2016, 03:17:58 PM
May 16, 2016

Josef von Sternberg's The Last Command (1928) from Masters of Cinema

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The Last Command (1928) - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Last-Command-Blu-ray/dp/B01CHPBJXW?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01CHPBJXW&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 04, 2016, 04:03:42 PM
May 24, 2016

Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection (1917-1923) from Kino

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Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Buster-Keaton-The-Shorts-Collection-1917-1923-Blu-ray/dp/B01CJCQG22?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-082-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01CJCQG22&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



June 20, 2016

Suture (1993) on blu-ray from Arrow UK / June 21, 2016 from Arrow US

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Inspired by the paranoid visions of John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate and Seconds, the desert noir of Detour and the black and white widescreen beauty of Hiroshi Teshigahara's The Face of Another and Woman of the Dunes, Suture is one of great feature debuts – by writer-directors David Siegel and Scott McGehee – and a truly unique piece of cinema.

The wealthy and self-assured Vincent (Michael Harris) meets his blue collar half-brother Clay (Dennis Haysbert) at their father's funeral and is struck by their similarity. He decides to murder Clay and take his identity, only Clay survives the assassination attempt with no memory and is mistaken for Vincent. The fact that Harris is white and Haysbert is black only complicates a film that probes into the nature of identity.

After viewing an early rough cut, Steven Soderbergh came on board as executive producer and enthusiastic patron. Suture went on to become a hit on the festival circuit, including Sundance where it won the award for Best Cinematography



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 04, 2016, 06:27:39 PM
May 3, 2016

A Kiss Before Dying (1956) from Kino

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A Kiss Before Dying (1956) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/A-Kiss-Before-Dying-Blu-ray/dp/B01CIXVVVS/189-5096118-5130311?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01CIXVVVS&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=blurayforum-20)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 07, 2016, 04:54:02 PM
Q2 2016 TBD

Michele Soavi's The Church (1989) on blu-ray from Shameless (UK), also coming from Code Red in the US later in the year

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An old Gothic cathedral, built over a mass grave, develops strange powers which trap a number of people inside with ghosts from a 12th Century massacre seeking to resurrect an ancient demon from the bowels of the Earth.






June 13, 2016

Too Late for Tears (1949) and Woman on the Run (1950) on blu-ray from Arrow  UK, coming from Flicker Alley in the US (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=11691.msg343321#msg343321) in April

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on March 08, 2016, 09:38:49 AM
holy fuck. i know this is a few posts back but if any of you have not seen 'Suture', do so immediately, the aforementioned release is also amazing quality. incredibly excited this got proper treatment. one of my all time favorites.

edity: anyone judging it by the trailer, it is misleading so dont worry
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 08, 2016, 02:52:36 PM
July 26, 2016

Deadline - U.S.A. (1952) on blu-ray from Kino

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Ed Hutcheson, tough editor of the New York 'Day', finds that the late owner's heirs are selling the crusading paper to a strictly commercial rival. At first he sees impending unemployment as an opportunity to win back his estranged wife Nora. But when a reporter, pursuing a lead on racketeer Rienzi, is badly beaten, Hutcheson is stung into a full fledged crusade against the gangster, hoping Rienzi can be tied to a woman's murder...in the 3 issues before the end of 'The Day.'   


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 08, 2016, 11:17:30 PM
April 26, 2016

Roman Polanski's What? (1972) on blu-ray from Severin

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A young American woman (Sydne Rome) traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems right. Her visit becomes an absurd, decadent, oversexed version of "Alice in Wonderland", with Marcello Mastroianni as the maddest of mad hatters and Roman Polanski a kinky March hare.

What (1972) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/What-Blu-ray/dp/B01CQ3WNDK?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-011-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01CQ3WNDK&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


NSFW

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 09, 2016, 03:56:34 AM
Available Now

Lizzie (1958) on DVD from Warner Archive

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Lizzie (1958) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01CDT63TM/dvdbeaver-20/ref=nosim)

Elizabeth has reoccurring headaches and trouble sleeping. Threatening letters signed by Lizzie are given to her, but she does not know anyone named Lizzie. As her situation deteriorates, she goes to a Dr. Wright who hypnotizes her. Deep in her subconscious, Dr. Wright finds three personalities; Elizabeth, the shy one that everyone knows; Lizzie, the wild one like her mother; and Beth, the good one she should have become. Dr. Wright must help the personality of Beth become the only one. Based on the novel 'The Bird's Nest' by Shirley Jackson.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on March 09, 2016, 02:12:35 PM
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April 19, 2016

i missed it in theaters, i'm legit excited about seeing it (Mike Tyson arrives at 0:56) --

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 15, 2016, 03:05:29 AM
April 12, 2016

Mike Nichols' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) from Warner Archive

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Whos-Afraid-of-Virginia-Woolf-Blu-ray/dp/B01CZ2NFP2?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-082-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01CZ2NFP2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 15, 2016, 05:27:30 PM
April 12, 2016

Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941) from Warner Archive

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Suspicion (1941) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Suspicion-Blu-ray/dp/B01CZ2NDY0?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-082-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01CZ2NDY0&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 30, 2016, 04:37:52 AM
June 7, 2016

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) on blu-ray from Mill Creek

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Ted Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, wrote and helped design this eccentric fantasy about a young boy named Bart who, like most young boys, doesn't enjoy his piano lessons with the mean-spirited Dr. Terwilliker. He figures his time would be better spent playing baseball with his friends or helping his grown-up buddy Arthur Zabladowski, a plumber. One night, while fast asleep, Bart has a long and remarkable dream in which he's trapped in the kingdom of the fearsome Dr. T, who has enslaved hundreds of little boys, forcing them to practice on the world's largest piano until they drop. With the help of a friendly plumber, Bart plans a revolt that will topple Dr. T's evil empire once and for all.

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/The-5000-Fingers-of-Dr-T-Blu-ray/dp/B01DL6PC6G?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01DL6PC6G&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)




This movie scared the absolute living fuck out of me as a 4 year old kid.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 30, 2016, 05:13:37 PM
Masters of Cinema's slate for the rest of the year (http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=18771)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 03, 2016, 03:05:16 AM
2016 TBD

Dark Passage (1947) from Warner Archive

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A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 04, 2016, 08:27:28 PM
Quote from: wilder on March 23, 2015, 12:02:10 AM
December 2015 TBD

Louis Malle's Atlantic City (1980) from Gaumont (France)

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Release date now May 27, 2016 (http://www.amazon.fr/Atlantic-City-Blu-ray/dp/B01BHVU3DO?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01BHVU3DO&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 06, 2016, 05:50:19 PM
October 25, 2016

Joe Sarno's Sin You Sinners (1963) and Vampire Ecstasy (1973) on blu-ray from Film Movement

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Vampire Ecstasy (1973) / Sin You Sinners (1963) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Ecstasy-and-Sin-You-Sinners-Blu-ray/dp/B01KN0GZLE?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01KN0GZLE&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)




An aging exotic dancer uses occult forces in the shape of a magic amulet to maintain her youth and beauty. Discovering her secret, her jealous daughter and employer hatch plots to steal the amulet for themselves. When the amulet goes missing, it sets off a chain of events ending in murder.




Three beautiful young women arrive at a grim and secluded castle, eager to claim their inheritance. In the castle basement, a coven of witches dance in a wild ritual, invoking the spirit of their deceased vampire leader. That same night, a brother and sister arrive, warning of the castle's evil curse. But too soon they also fall under the witches' spell, and the stage is set for the return of the Baroness Varga, for the vessel has been chosen!


Quote from: blu-ray.com

The label has also confirmed that the upcoming release will be the first in a planned series that will comprise the largest collection of Joseph Sarno films under one label. Contributing to the series are Tim Lucas, noted film critic and editor of Video Watchdog, who will provide liner notes; and Joe's widow Peggy Steffans Sarno, who will provide context and invaluable insight into Joe's process.

ABOUT THE JOSEPH W. SARNO FILM LIBRARY

The Joseph W. Sarno Film Library – the Film Media Archive currently includes the largest collection of films by erotic auteur Joseph W. Sarno. Restoration of the library to high definition media is scheduled to begin Spring of 2016, and will be managed by Michael Raso with assistance from Joe's widow, Peggy Sarno.

About Joseph W. Sarno (d. 2010) – an American film director and screenwriter, Joe Sarno emerged from the New York sexploitation film scene of the 1950s and 1960s and wrote / directed approximately 75 feature films including the internationally renowned Sin in the Suburbs and Inga. Often referred to as "the Ingmar Bergman of 42nd street", the last 12 years of Joe's life heralded a new appreciation for his body of nuanced and highly stylized erotic dramas, culminating in a series of screenings and awards at the Lake Placid Film Festival, the British Film Institute, the Turin Film Festival and the Warhol Museum among others. It was during this time that Joe Sarno and Michael Raso forged the close working relationship that would result in the location, purchase, and restoration of many of his existing films, and the production of Joe's final feature film in 2004.

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 12, 2016, 04:23:00 PM
Symptoms Trailer (https://vimeo.com/162437771) (restored)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 14, 2016, 05:53:30 PM
June 13, 2016

Peter Watkins' Edvard Munch (1974) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema

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Described by Ingmar Bergman as "a work of genius", Peter Watkins' multi-faceted masterwork is more than just a biopic of the iconic Norwegian Expressionist painter; it is one of the best films ever made about the artistic process. Focusing initially on Munch's formative years in late 19th century Kristiania (now Oslo), Watkins uses his trademark vérité style to create a vivid picture of the emotional, political, and social upheavals that would have such an effect on his art.

The young artist (Geir Westby) has an affair with "Mrs. Heiberg" (Gro Fraas), a devastating experience that will haunt him for the rest of his life. His work is viciously attacked by critics and public alike and he is forced to leave his home country for Berlin, where, along with the notorious Swedish playwright August Strindberg, he becomes part of the cultural storm that is to sweep Europe.







September 13, 2016

Road House (1948) on blu-ray from Kino

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 15, 2016, 04:55:46 PM
May 31, 2016

Psychic Killer (1975) from Vinegar Syndrome

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A former mental patient uses astral projection to destroy the people he believes have wronged him.

Psychic Killer (1975) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Psychic-Killer-Blu-ray/dp/B01EAJ4C6O?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-011-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01EAJ4C6O&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 18, 2016, 04:10:56 AM
April 19, 2016

Forbidden Hollywood Vol. 10 on DVD from Warner Archive

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Forbidden Hollywood Vol. 10 - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01DKTCANM/dvdbeaver-20/ref=nosim)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 28, 2016, 04:33:35 PM
October 18, 2016

The Laughing Policeman (1973) on blu-ray from Kino

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Stuart Rosenberg's taut police thriller, based on the Martin Beck novel by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahlöö, concerns a serial killer who is targeting bus riders. When a bus full of innocent commuters are killed on a San Francisco street, Jake Martin (Walter Matthau) is assigned to track down the killer. Jake has a personal stake in the killings because his partner was one of the victims. Teamed up with new partner Leo Larsen (Bruce Dern), Jake investigates the back alleys of San Francisco to find the serial killer. The trail leads to a tour of the underbelly of the city's gay subculture.   

The Laughing Policeman (1973) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Laughing-Policeman-Blu-ray/dp/B01IO7NX7M?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-011-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01IO7NX7M&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 29, 2016, 04:27:58 AM
November 2016 TBD

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In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.

Film Movement's super cool trailer (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/57828186/kamikaze-89-theatrical-re-release?ref=project_share) for Wolf Gremm's Kamikaze '89 (1982), to be released on blu-ray later this year.

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 03, 2016, 05:21:57 PM
July 19, 2016

Danny DeVito's The Ratings Game (1984) from Olive Films

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A New Jersey trucker creates a hit TV show with help from his girlfriend in the ratings business.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 09, 2016, 03:50:12 PM
Another unbelievable, was-never-going-to-happen announcement. Everything is on the table, now. I love the cinematography in this film.

Fall 2016 TBD

Francis Delia's (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=13076.msg335965#msg335965) Freeway (1988) on blu-ray from Kino

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There are 600 miles of freeway in Los Angeles. Every night, millions of angry motorists speed through its asphalt maze. Some of them have guns. One of them enjoys killing people. Now a traumatized ER nurse (Darlanne Fluegel of Crime Story), an acerbic talk-radio host (Richard Belzer of Homicide and Law & Order: SVU) and a stranger with a dark secret (James Russo of Donnie Brasco) must join to stop the bible-quoting madman (Billy Drago of The Untouchables) who has promised the panicked city one final fast lane massacre. Michael Callan, Kenneth Tobey and Clint Howard co-star in this suspense thriller directed by Francis Delia that shocked audiences at the height of LA's real-life freeway shooting sprees.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 12, 2016, 03:55:28 PM
June 14, 2016

Jerry Schatzberg's The Panic in Needle Park (1971) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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The lives of heroin addicts who frequent "Needle Park" in New York City.

Pre-order from Screen Archives (http://www.screenarchives.com) on June 1st


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 12, 2016, 03:59:27 PM
June 14, 2016

John Byrum's Inserts (1975) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his decaying mansion to make silent porn flicks.

Pre-order from Screen Archives (http://www.screenarchives.com) on June 1st
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 12, 2016, 06:52:43 PM
June 7, 2016

John Ford's She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949) from Warner Archive

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A masterpiece of mood and heroics, this second film in director John Ford's renowned cavalry trilogy (Fort Apache and Rio Grande are the others) features one of John Wayne's most moving performances, as a cavalry officer in his final week of service on the frontier. Under makeup aging him some 20 years, he inhabits the role of a wily veteran who knows the sting of war and vows to make his last mission one of peace. The ritual of outpost life, the sweep of battle, the advance of the patrol beneath ominous skies: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, an Academy Award"' winner* for its color cinematography, paints a memorable portrait of the honor, duty and courage in the finest tradition of the cavalry.


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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 16, 2016, 05:02:24 PM
November 8, 2016

I, the Jury (1982) on blu-ray from Kino

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After Hammer finds his best friend murdered, he vows an oath of revenge. During the course of his search for the killer, he encounters a suspicious female doctor who runs a New York sex clinic.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 17, 2016, 05:32:12 PM
June 6, 2016

Jim Clark's Every Home Should Have One (1970) from Network (UK)

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An adman (Marty Feldman) puts sex in porridge commercials, as his wife (Judy Cornwell) crusades to clean up television.

Every Home Should Have One (1970) (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Every-Home-Should-Have-Blu-ray/dp/B0123F4M3A/278-4715297-7165039?ie=UTF8&SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0123F4M3A&linkCode=xm2&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&tag=bluraycom-21)




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 20, 2016, 04:36:02 PM
Fall 2016 TBD

I Wake Up Screaming (1941) on blu-ray from Kino

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Frankie Christopher is a sports promoter who's in the hot seat, relentlessly grilled by a ruthless detective after the murder of a fashion model he made famous. Weighing even more heavily against him is the fact that he's in love with the dead girl's sister. But Frankie's not the only suspect in this taut expose of New York's cafe society. The detective also obsessively  ursues Frankie's partner, a gossip columnist, and a hotel night clerk.






August 30, 2016

Fritz Lang's Destiny (1921) from Kino

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As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers. In each story, a woman, trying to save her lover from his ultimate tragic fate, fails. The young lady realizes the meaning of the tales and takes the only step she can to reunite herself with her lover.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 21, 2016, 09:16:13 PM
July 4, 2016

Jeff Lieberman's Blue Sunshine (1977) on blu-ray from FilmCentrix in a 3-disc limited edition

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A bizarre series of murders begins in Los Angeles, where people start going bald and then become homicidal maniacs. But could the blame rest on a particularly dangerous form of LSD called Blue Sunshine the murderers took ten years before?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 23, 2016, 07:02:32 PM
August 22, 2016

Early Murnau - Five Films (1921-1925) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema

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-Schloß Vogelöd (1921)
-Phantom (1922)
-Der Letzte Mann (1924)
-The Grand Duke's Finances (1924)
-Tartuffe (1925)

Early Murnau - Five Films (1921-1925) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Early-Murnau-Vogel%C3%B6d-Finances-Tartuffe/dp/B01DLOVNAW?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&ref_=nosim&tag=dvdbeaver-21)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 24, 2016, 02:43:49 AM
July 25, 2016

Henry Hathaway's Kiss of Death (1947) from Signal One Entertainment (UK). Also coming to the US next year from Twilight Time.

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An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

Kiss of Death (1947) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kiss-Death-Blu-ray-Victor-Mature/dp/B01G2MUXPG/276-9422871-8516230?ie=UTF8&SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01G2MUXPG&linkCode=xm2&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&tag=bluraycom-21)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 24, 2016, 05:43:34 PM
August 23, 2016

Fritz Lang's The Spiders (1919-1920) from Kino

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The Spiders (1919-1920) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01FT0ZJAG/dvdbeaver-20/ref=nosim)


July 11, 2016

Max Ophuls' La Ronde (1950) on blu-ray from Screenbound (UK)

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An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900.

La Ronde (1950) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ronde-Blu-ray-Anton-Walbrook/dp/B01FUCLNDU/280-8856422-7453441?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&ref_=nosim&tag=dvdbeaver-21)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 25, 2016, 04:43:56 PM
November 8, 2016

Frank Borzage's Bad Girl (1931) on blu-ray from Kino

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A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 26, 2016, 05:56:53 PM
August 15, 2016

Luchino Visconti's Conversation Piece (1974) from Masters of Cinema

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A retired American professor (Lancaster) lives a solitary and luxurious life in a house in Rome. His world takes an unexpected turn when he is forced to rent part of his house to a countess and her companions: a lover, a daughter and the daughter's boyfriend. Forced into interaction with the unruly younger group, the professor's growing fascination begins to stir the possibilities of a life he had previously kept at arm's length.

Conversation Piece (1974) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Conversation-Masters-Cinema-Format-Blu-ray/dp/B01G6U850E/276-6082383-8904319?ie=UTF8&SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01G6U850E&linkCode=xm2&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&tag=bluraycom-21)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 26, 2016, 06:32:39 PM
August 16, 2016

Otto Preminger's Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970) from Olive Films

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Junie Moon's face has been disfigured by ill-gotten burns, and depends on her friends and her wit to cope. She, Warren, and Arthur leave the hospital - they yearn for independence - and find a house to live in. Together they stumble into adventures involving the local fish vendor, nosy neighbors, surreptitious vacations, love, and frustration in finding jobs as they face subtle prejudices in their community, and their own particular medical problems.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 31, 2016, 04:02:39 PM
November 15, 2016

Otto Preminger's Daisy Kenyon (1947) on blu-ray from Kino

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Daisy Kenyon (Crawford) is a lovelorn commercial artist caught in a romantic triangle with two men - one she loves but cannot have and one whose love she cannot return. While in an emotionally draining love affair with married attorney Dan O'Mara (Dana Andrews), who refuses to leave his wife, she meets returning army sergeant Peter Lapham (Henry Fonda) - a decent and gentle man - who instantly falls in love with here. Althought she carries a torch for Dan, she knows Peter will give her the secure life she desires and she agrees to marry him. But when Dan divorces his wife, Daisy is suddenly torn between her obligations... and her passions.   


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 01, 2016, 04:25:13 PM
November 15, 2016

Elia Kazan's Boomerang (1947) on blu-ray from Kino in a new 2K restoration. Also available in the Kazan at Fox Vol. 1 (https://www.amazon.com/Boomerang-Gentlemans-Agreement-Streets-Blu-ray/dp/B00C2TRSG6?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&tag=dvdaficionado) box set (OOP)

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The true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder.

Kino's blu-ray release will feature a new audio commentary by the great film historian Imogen Sarah Smith (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=174.msg340770#msg340770)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 02, 2016, 02:27:22 PM
November 15, 2016

Henry Hathaway's The House on 92nd Street (1945) on blu-ray from Kino

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Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the FBI in a Nazi spy ring.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 03, 2016, 02:22:32 PM
2016 TBD

Carl Schenkel's Out of Order (1984) on blu-ray from SubKultur Entertainment (Germany), from a new 4K restoration

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Gössmann, a bookkeeper who has just robbed his employer of a large sum of money, gets stuck in an elevator of an office tower together with Jörg, his lover Marion and the young Pit. Because it is Friday evening and an engineer working on the elevators in the buidlding has made a mistake, the alarm system is not working and nobody can hear the men calling for help.

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 06, 2016, 10:26:52 PM
July 4, 2016

Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace (1964) from Arrow

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A shadowy killer in black brutally murders fashion models.

Blood and Black Lace (1964) - Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Blood-and-Black-Lace-Blu-ray/dp/B00SA645LQ?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-081-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00SA645LQ&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 08, 2016, 05:37:21 PM
October 11, 2016

Takeshi Kitano's Violent Cop (1989) on blu-ray from Film Movement

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In his directorial debut, and one of his first dramatic roles, writer/director Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano plays Detective Azuma, a hostile cop who's not afraid of using violent means to catch his culprits. When his sister is kidnapped by a sadistic drug lord, Azuma's Dirty Harry-style tactics escalate in his quest for vengeance in this stunningly innovative cops-and-robbers thriller.

Violent Cop (1989) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Violent-Cop-Blu-ray/dp/B01K37H0JI?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-082-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01K37H0JI&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 10, 2016, 04:58:04 PM
September 2016 TBD

Miklós Jancsó's Private Vices, Public Virtues (1976) from Mondo Macabro

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QuoteThe story is based on the famous Mayerling incident where Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria was found dead beside his 17 year old lover in an apparent joint suicide. However as with his earlier productions, the director only used history as a jumping off point. The film is pure Jancso. The long tracking shots are there, the horses are there, the naked bodies are there, as are the snatches of folk music and group singing.

The main difference between this film and his more acclaimed earlier works is that it features a host of increasingly bizarre sexual incidents. When it screened as an official entry in the 1976 Cannes Festival and viewers caught on to some of the shocking things that it contained ... well, let's just say that it caused a scandal and in some ways Jancso's reputation never recovered. Like Borowczyk before him, he was almost written off as a one time great film maker who had strayed too far into porn and lost his artistic mojo.

In fact PRIVATE VICES PUBLIC VIRTUES now plays like an overlooked masterpiece. There really is nothing like it in world cinema. The controversy long behind us, we can see that this is one of those rare erotic productions where the point of the film lies in its excess. There's nothing gratuitous about it. Known in Germany as THE BIG ORGY (Die Grosse Orgie), this amazing piece of subversive 70s cinema has never been well treated on home video - pirated, cut and generally not given the respect it deserves. This new release from Mondo Macabro, a world Blu-ray exclusive taken from the original negative, will bring this forgotten classic of world cinema back into the spotlight. It's a film that once seen cannot be forgotten, and it deserves a place in the home of all adventurous film lovers.

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NSFW

Private Vices, Public Virtues (1976) - Trailer (https://vimeo.com/158541780)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 12, 2016, 08:30:09 PM
September 13, 2016

Colin Higgins' 9 to 5 (1980) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.





Bobby Deerfield (1977) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.





October 11, 2016

Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha (1972) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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During the depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.





Robert Aldrich's Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte (1964) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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An aging, reclusive Southern belle, plagued by a horrifying family secret, descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.





Arthur Penn's The Chase (1966) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 12, 2016, 09:41:03 PM
July 12, 2016

Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) from Twilight Time

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A self-righteous missionary man seeks to save the soul of a former prostitute.






Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 14, 2016, 01:14:41 AM
Quote from: wilder on May 21, 2016, 09:16:13 PM
July 4, 2016

Jeff Lieberman's Blue Sunshine (1977) on blu-ray from FilmCentrix in a 3-disc limited edition

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A bizarre series of murders begins in Los Angeles, where people start going bald and then become homicidal maniacs. But could the blame rest on a particularly dangerous form of LSD called Blue Sunshine the murderers took ten years before?

Pre-orders are now live on FilmCentrix (https://filmcentrix.com/product/blue-sunshine/)

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 15, 2016, 02:44:49 PM
September 19, 2016

The Blue Dahlia (1946) on blu-ray from Arrow (UK)

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An ex-bomber pilot is suspected of murdering his unfaithful wife.

The Blue Dahlia (1946) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blue-Dahlia-Blu-ray-Alan-Ladd/dp/B01H1TZLCY?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&ref_=nosim&tag=dvdbeaver-21)



The Glass Key (1942) from Arrow (UK)

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A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

The Glass Key (1942) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Glass-Key-Blu-ray-Brian-Donlevy/dp/B01H1TZLBU?ie=UTF8&SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01H1TZLBU&linkCode=xm2&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&tag=bluraycom-21)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 16, 2016, 02:58:32 AM
wilder, or general person... probably wilder

what've been the impressive and recent r1 releases? in terms of newly discoverable movies, not counting criterion. i'm currently so outside movies that i was looking at the IV blu-ray, i couldn't find The Witch, and i didn't know what else to do! surely i've missed a movie or two
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 16, 2016, 04:16:33 AM
In terms of newly discoverable, I'm not sure, you're probably aware of most of these. Here are a few recommendations:


-Symptoms (1974) (https://www.amazon.com/Symptoms-Blu-ray-Angela-Pleasence/dp/B01BUHVKW8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466067040&sr=8-1&keywords=symptoms) from Mondo Macabro

-Kamikaze '89 (1982), starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder, should be coming to blu-ray from Film Movement by the end of the year. The trailer is awesome:





-Cohen Media Group just released The Films of Maurice Pialat Vol. 1 (https://www.amazon.com/Films-Maurice-Pialat-1-Blu-ray/dp/B01BPQG38K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466067172&sr=8-1&keywords=maurice+pialat+collection), which includes Loulou (1980), The Mouth Agape (1974), Graduate First (1979), and a feature-length documentary on Pialat from 2007 called 'Love Exists'. The first set is all four of those films for 30 bucks. Under the Sun of Satan (1987) (https://www.amazon.com/Films-Maurice-Pialat-Under-Blu-ray/dp/B01DALQ0WM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466068489&sr=8-1&keywords=under+the+sun+of+satan) is also out, and Van Gogh (1991) (https://www.amazon.com/Films-Maurice-Pialat-Gogh-Blu-ray/dp/B01E7N9Q28/ref=sr_1_3?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1466068544&sr=1-3&keywords=Maurice+Pialat) will be released in July.

-Cohen also just released Fellini's City of Women (1980) (https://www.amazon.com/City-Women-Blu-ray-Marcello-Mastroianni/dp/B01BPQG3CG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1466067197&sr=8-2&keywords=city+of+women)

-Flicker Alley put out Too Late for Tears (1949) (https://www.amazon.com/Late-Tears-Newly-Restored-Blu-ray/dp/B01AXGCW9W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466067160&sr=8-1&keywords=too+late+for+tears), a great underseen noir.

-Polanski's What? (1972) (https://www.amazon.com/What-Blu-ray-Marcello-Mastroianni/dp/B01CQ3WNDK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466067123&sr=8-1&keywords=what) is now out on blu-ray from Severin

-Synapse released a 3-disc limited edition of Dario Argento's Tenebrae (1982) (http://tinyurl.com/hq77zj5) on blu-ray

And speaking of IV, Candy (1968) (https://www.amazon.com/Candy-Blu-ray-Marlon-Brando/dp/B01CJ5WWSQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466067372&sr=8-1&keywords=candy+blu-ray) is a real trip, and I'm pretty sure PT mentioned it as an influence on Inherent Vice at some point, which makes sense. The sense of humor is equally/similarly insane. Come to think of it the blonde girl in Dr. Blatnoyd's office also looks just like Ewa Aulin.




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Oh and I haven't seen it, but Belladonna of Sadness (1973) (https://www.amazon.com/Belladonna-Sadness-Blu-ray-Aiko-Nagayama/dp/B01FIOVRPY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466068305&sr=8-1&keywords=belladonna+of+sadness) is coming to blu-ray in July from Cinelicious and seems like something you might like:

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 16, 2016, 12:38:43 PM
you ~complete me xx.

once got a long e-mail from Cinefamily's head person about Belladonna of Sadness, saying its rerelease was his idea and this is the best thing he's done all year. it played there for longer than a week and was a huge hit with certain people i know, haven't seen it yet, also looking forward to it.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 17, 2016, 11:44:43 PM
Q1 2017 TBD

Lamberto Bava's Delirium (1987) on blu-ray from 88 Films (UK), also coming to blu-ray from Code Red in the US (eventually)

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This spaghetti horror's storyline revolves around a former hooker (Grandi) running a successful men's magazine. An obsessed admirer systematically slaughters her models (occasionally increasing the magazine's output) and supplies the mistress with pictures of their disfigured corpses taken in front of her semi-nude posters visible in the background. Is she going to be the psycho's next victim?


NSFW



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 20, 2016, 02:52:02 PM
December 8, 2016

Bernardo Bertolucci's La Luna (1979) on blu-ray from Kino

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While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction. Shot by Vittorio Storaro.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 20, 2016, 06:33:41 PM
Quote from: wilder on February 08, 2016, 02:06:08 PM
May 23, 2016

Dissent & Disruption: The Complete Alan Clarke at the BBC on blu-ray from BFI (13 discs)

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Includes all surviving BBC TV productions directed by Alan Clarke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Clarke), extensive extra features, a comprehensive book with new essays and full credits, and an exclusive bonus DVD containing the seven surviving Half Hour Story episodes directed by Clarke: Shelter (1967), The Gentleman Caller (1967, previously considered lost), George's Room (1967, previously considered partially lost); Goodnight Albert (1968), Stella (1968), The Fifty Seventh Saturday (1968) and Thief (1968, previously considered lost).

Dissent & Disruption: The Complete Alan Clarke at the BBC - Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01BGX1BK2/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)




Read more about Clarke's work in this thread (http://criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14110&sid=0d9b8973510ae054e8ace8a8fc731450&start=100) at Criterion Forum

Quote from: wilder on February 09, 2016, 09:06:04 PM
Harmony Korine on Alan Clarke, posted by Criterion Forum (http://criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=14110&start=125#p535796) member Antarctica

Quote
Harmony Korine has cited Alan Clarke as a major influence.

From an interview Korine did with Mike Kelley in 1997 (https://filmmakermagazine.com/40404-from-the-archives-mike-kelley-interviews-harmony-korine/)

"Korine: You know who I love and who no one really knows about? Alan Clarke, the British director. He's a real influence. He did Scum, Made in Britain, and this film Christine about a girl growing up in council flats with size 14 feet. She walks around with a cookie tin under her arm and hooks her friends up with dope. She'll go into houses and kids will be there with a box of Ritz crackers on the television. You'd have these really long tracking shots of her walking. The film was just sort of about what her days were like. And he used real people or people who seemed right. He did this other film I like, Elephant, which is just 16 separate executions, one after the other. There are all these steadicam shots. You see a hit man walking through a gymnasium, walking up stairs and corridors –

Kelley: Are these first-person POV shots?

Korine: Exactly. And then [the hit man] would shoot the janitor, and he'd fall on a pile of jockstraps. But the intention wasn't comedy. After he died in 1988 of cancer, there was a retrospective of Clarke's work at MOMA. There were only about ten people in the audience. I was watching Elephant, and in the beginning it was a little disturbing. And then I started to find humor in the repetition – watching some Indian carwasher get his hand blown out on a squeegee. I start cracking up, and this British bastard in front of me turns and says, "Don't you know what this represents? This is the IRA, you son of a bitch!" He wanted to kill me. I liked that idea. He thought it was about the IRA, and I thought it was about Ritz crackers."


From Dazed & Confused, 1998 (http://harmony-korine.com/text/int/hk/?p=82)

Dazed: How did you come across Alan Clarke, because he's quite obscure in America?

Korine: If someone said to me who is the greatest director or my favorite, I would say Alan Clarke without hesitation. His stories, without ever being derivative, and without ever having a simple ABC narrative are totally organic, precious and amazing. It was nothing but him. In a strange way I don't even like talking about him in the press or to people because he is the last filmmaker or artist that is really sacred. But especially in America no one knows who he is, even in England there is very little attention.


From Sight & Sound Magazine, April 1998 (Posted on Nick Wringly's site (https://medium.com/alan-clarke/harmony-korine-on-alan-clarke-16e9309e700c#.p7his1xt2))

By the way, Nick, I'm looking forward to exploring your work about Alan Clarke on that site. I just saw Contact the other night and now consider it one of my favorite films. I love how he boiled everything down. The lack of music is powerful. Thanks for this great resource on an amazing director.




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 21, 2016, 04:09:32 PM
November 14, 2016

David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers (1988) on blu-ray from Scream Factory

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Claire Niveau (Geneviève Bujold) is in love with handsome Beverly. Or does she love Elliot? It's uncertain because brothers Beverly and Elliot Mantle are identical twins sharing the same medical practice, apartment and women – including unsuspecting Claire.

In portrayals that won the New York Film Critics Circle Best Actor Award, Jeremy Irons plays twin gynecologists whose emotional dependency collapses into mind games, madness and murder. David Cronenberg (The Fly) won the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards Best Director honors for melding split-screen techniques, body doubles and Iron's uncanny acting into an eerie, fact-based tale.


Dead Ringers (1988) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Ringers-Blu-ray/dp/B01JQXEMYQ?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-081-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01JQXEMYQ&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 23, 2016, 04:16:07 PM
July 19, 2016

Howard Hawks' To Have and Have Not (1944) from Warner Archive

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Help the Free French? Not world-weary gunrunner Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). But he changes his mind when a sultry siren-in-distress named Marie asks, "Anybody got a match?" That red-hot match is Bogart and 19-year-old first-time film actress Lauren Bacall. Full of intrigue and racy banter (including Bacall's legendary whistling instructions), this thriller excites further interest for what it has and has not. Cannily directed by Howard Hawks and smartly written by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman, it doesn't have much similarity to the Ernest Hemingway novel that inspired it. And it strongly resembles Casablanca: French resistance fighters, a piano-playing bluesman (Hoagy Carmichael) and a Martinique bar much like Rick's Cafe Americaine. But first and foremost, it showcases Bogart and Bacall, carrying on with a passion that smolders from the tips of their cigarettes clear through to their souls.






September 5, 2016

Woody Allen: Six Films (1971-1978) on blu-ray from Arrow UK

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-Bananas (1971)
-Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
-Sleeper (1973)
-Love and Death (1975)
-Annie Hall (1977)
-Interiors (1978)
-Exclusive to this collection: Annie Hall and a 100-page hardback book featuring new and archive writing on all the films by Woody Allen, Michael Brooke, Johnny Mains, Kat Ellinger, John Leman Riley, Hannah Hamad and Brad Stevens.

Woody Allen: Six Films (1971-1978) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Woody-Allen-Films-1971-1978-Blu-ray/dp/B01HGQJWRM/280-0380451-9944423?ie=UTF8&SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01HGQJWRM&linkCode=xm2&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&tag=bluraycom-21)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 23, 2016, 04:43:55 PM
August 12, 2016

Dean Stockwell and Neil Young's Human Highway (1982) on blu-ray from Reprise

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The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizare characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way. Dean Stockwell, Dennis Hopper, Sally Kirkland, Russ Tamblyn, Charlotte Stewart and the members of Devo turned an almost non-existent script and behind-the-scenes drug shenanigans into a surreal slice of unforgettable oddness.

Human Highway (1982) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Human-Highway-Directors-Cut-Blu-Ray/dp/B01D58BDTK?ie=UTF8&SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01D58BDTK&linkCode=xm2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=bluray-011-20)




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 28, 2016, 05:06:27 PM
A lengthy article on Alan Clarke over at Film Comment, Tough Love: Alan Clarke (http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/alan-clarke/)

Quote from: Graham FullerRoughly from 1964 to 1990, the BBC's drama department poured out a wealth of studio-recorded dramas and, increasingly, 16mm films that challenged the sociopolitical status quo.

[...]

One of the fruits of this initiative was the visceral, anti-establishment filmmaking of Alan Clarke (1935-1990), who arrived at the corporation when he was 33 and directed 29 dramas there.

[...]

Loach, Clarke, and colleagues like Mike Leigh, Stephen Frears, Roland Joffé, Michael Apted, and Richard Eyre were not passive interpreters of other people's scripts—Leigh, in any case, wrote his own domestic tragicomedies. Loach shaped works he developed with such writers as Nell Dunn, Jeremy Sandford, and Jim Allen into a singularly humanistic socialist realist vision. Attentive to class divisions, manners, and behavioral nuances, Frears's films of plays by Peter Prince, David Cook, David Hare, Stephen Poliakoff, and especially Alan Bennett were characterized by a visual economy and drollness, though Frears regards himself an auteur or stylist no more than do his champions.

What about Clarke? Sympathetic to social misfits and family casualties (as is Loach), youths especially, and antagonistic to patriarchal institutions (the Church, governments, the courts, prisons, schools, hospitals, multinationals), he was the telly auteur as roving anarchist—not an ideologue, however, but a director who approached the cinematic space representing Britain as a hectic ontological battleground.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 29, 2016, 04:39:33 AM
July 12, 2016

Busby Berkeley's The Gang's All Here (1943) from Twilight Time, also available from Masters of Cinema (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=11691.msg334813#msg334813) (UK)

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A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.

The Gang's All Here (1943) - Screen Archives (http://screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/31900/THE-GANGS-ALL-HERE-1943/)







Woody Allen's Zelig (1983) from Twilight Time

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"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.

Zelig (1983) - Screen Archives (http://screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/31903/ZELIG-1983/)

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 29, 2016, 04:51:55 PM
August 9, 2016

Richard Brooks' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) from Warner Archive

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Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Hot-Tin-Roof-Blu-ray/dp/B01HQH1UWG?ie=UTF8&SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01HQH1UWG&linkCode=xm2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=bluray-011-20)





October 11, 2016

Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976) from Shout Factory, from a new 4K restoration

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 29, 2016, 07:34:52 PM
September 13, 2016

Standard edition of Dario Argento's Tenebrae (1982) from Synapse

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Tenebrae (1982) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Tenebrae-Blu-ray-Anthony-Franciosa/dp/B01HP2FAMS?ie=UTF8&SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01HP2FAMS&linkCode=xm2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=bluray-011-20)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 30, 2016, 04:14:59 PM
FUCK. YES.

October 4, 2016

"Miami Vice" (1984-1990) from Mill Creek

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Miami Vice - The Complete Series - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Miami-Vice-Complete-Don-Johnson/dp/B01HSAIOWU/183-2175001-2567604?ie=UTF8&SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01HSAIOWU&linkCode=xm2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=bluray-011-20)





Watch Matt Zoller Sietz's video essay on "Miami Vice", the first part of his 5-part video essay 'Zen Pulp' on Michael Mann, here (http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/zen-pulp-pt-1-20090701)

(parts 2 through 5 are linked in the sidebar)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 01, 2016, 05:53:37 PM
2017 TBD

Toshio Matsumoto's Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) on blu-ray from Cinelicious Pics

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A loose adaptation of Oedipus Rex set in the underground gay counterculture of 1960s Tokyo. Cross-dressing club-kid Eddie (played by real-life transvestite entertainer extraordinaire Peter, famed for his role as Kyoami the Fool in Akira Kurosawa's Ran) vies with a rival drag-queen for the favours of drug-dealing cabaret-manager Gonda. Passions escalate and blood begins to flow — before all tensions are released in a jolting climax that prefigures by nearly thirty years Tsai Ming-liang's similarly scandalous The River.

An important work of the Japanese New Wave, Funeral Parade of Roses combines elements of arthouse, documentary and experimental cinema. The film was a major influence on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971).



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 01, 2016, 06:31:31 PM
October 11, 2016

Leslie Stevens' Private Property (1960) on blu-ray from Cinelicious Pics, from a new 4K restoration, limited to 3,000 copies

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Private Property begins as two homicidal Southern California drifters wander off the beach and into the seemingly-perfect Beverly Hills home of an unhappy housewife. Shimmering with sexual tension and lensed in stunning black and white by master cameraman Ted McCord, 'Private Property' is both an eerie, neo-Hitchcockian thriller and a savage critique of the hollowness of the Playboy-era American Dream. Long thought lost, Stevens' grim exposé of gender roles and sexual psychopathy may be the missing link in noir's transition to the sixties.

Private Property (1960) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Private-Property-Blu-ray/dp/B01K5KYKXC?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-081-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01K5KYKXC&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)





Leslie Stevens' Private Property (1960): Noir's Edge of Wetness - Bright Lights Film Journal (http://brightlightsfilm.com/leslie-stevens-private-property-1960-noirs-edge-of-wetness/)

Quote from: Bright Lights Film JournalLike fellow late-phase noir auteur Paul Wendkos, writer-director-producer Leslie Stevens was an acolyte of Orson Welles — and no career path could be more dangerously vertiginous than one that emulated film's most notorious outcast. Both men would eventually succumb to the studio system that they so flamboyantly spurned in their early, impetuous days, but before they were torn from their Wellesian womb they each produced a singular film with sinuous overtones of overripe, forbidden fruit.

Of the two, however, Stevens was the more extreme — pushing beyond the Oedipal indirections that Wendkos explored in The Burglar (1957, filmed in 1955), an incendiary, overheated caper film starring Dan Duryea and Jayne Mansfield, based on the David Goodis novel of the same name. More extreme, in that Stevens plunged head-on into the hidden injuries of gender relations in postwar America, at a time when paternalism was reaching its giddy peak — and more original, in that Stevens aspired to the same level of control over his production that Welles had always sought.

Stevens' contribution to the noir nether regions that began to sprout like unwelcome weeds in the late '50s — when films were still constrained from even a rudimentary display of sexual explicitness — has long been considered a lost film. Its recent discovery, languishing in plain sight at a well-known university film archive, is a deliciously wanton metaphor for the type of secrets and taboos that were on the cusp of being exploded out into the open as the twentieth century's most tumultuous decade — the sixties — was being birthed.



Leslie Stevens also made the extremely unique Incubus (1966) (https://www.amazon.com/Incubus-William-Shatner/dp/B000059OLR?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&tag=dvdaficionado), shot by Conrad Hall

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Quote from: Bret FetzerThis black and white horror movie, filmed in California but with dialogue in Esperanto, is unlike anything you've ever seen. Incubus inverts the usual moral battle of a good person tempted by evil. When a headstrong, blond, young succubus named Kia (Allyson Ames) becomes bored with luring the corrupt and sinful to their ultimate demise, she decides she's going to tackle a truly good man (in the form of a very young William Shatner, of all people). An older, wiser succubus warns Kia that the good have an uncanny power called love, but Kia recklessly dives in, confident in her seductive powers--until she finds herself spiritually defiled by goodness and must summon an incubus (Milos Milos) to enact revenge. The pacing is slow but eerily effective, as are the stark cinematography and low-budget effects. Shatner's intonations are just as distinctive in Esperanto as in English, but that only adds to the movie's overall stylization. Incubus shares a kinship with Carnival of Souls, another low-budget black and white horror film that has more going on than buckets of gore. Though Incubus would seem to be heavily influenced by Ingmar Bergman, director Leslie Stevens has said he was more affected by Japanese samurai films. A strikingly unique and beautifully creepy film.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 08, 2016, 02:53:23 PM
Olive Films is introducing a new line, Olive Signature, which will be special edition releases of some of their films, presumably from new masters.

September 20, 2016

Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954), from a new 4K restoration

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-Mastered from new 4K restoration
-Introduction by Martin Scorsese
-Audio commentary with historian and critic Geoff Andrew
-"Tell Us She Was One of You: The Blacklist History of Johnny Guitar" - with historian Larry Ceplair and blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein
-"Is Johnny Guitar a Feminist Western?: Questioning the Canon" - with critics Miriam Bale, Kent Jones, Joe McElhaney and B. Ruby Rich
-"Free Republic: The Story of Herb Yates and Republic studios" - with archivist Marc Wanamaker
-A critical appreciation of Nicholas Ray with critics Miriam Bale, Kent Jones, Joe McElhaney and B. Ruby Rich
-"My Friend, the American Friend" - Nicholas Ray biographical piece with Tom Farrell
-"Johnny Guitar: The First Existential Western" - an original essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
-Theatrical Trailer

Johnny Guitar (1954) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Johnny-Guitar-Blu-ray/dp/B01I6RT2FW/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1468099505&sr=1-2&keywords=johnny+guitar&refinements=p_n_format_browse-bin%3A2650305011)







Orson Welles' Macbeth (1948) was also recently given a 2K restoration, so there's a possibility that that's in the pipeline to replace their old release (https://www.amazon.com/Macbeth-Blu-ray-Orson-Welles/dp/B008D19WMU?ie=UTF8&SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B008D19WMU&linkCode=xm2&m=&tag=bluray-028-20). The 2K restored version is currently available from Carlotta in France (https://www.amazon.fr/Macbeth-%C3%89dition-Collector-Orson-Welles/dp/B00MBXKKKO/280-0493392-5321407?ie=UTF8&SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00MBXKKKO&linkCode=xm2&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96&tag=bluraycom05-21).


September 27, 2016

Kamikaze '89 (1982) on blu-ray from Film Movement

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In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.

Kamikaze '89 (1982) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Kamikaze-Blu-ray-Rainer-Werner-Fassbinder/dp/B01HR48RPG?ie=UTF8&SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01HR48RPG&linkCode=xm2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=bluray-081-20)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 10, 2016, 03:05:22 AM
October 25, 2016

Claude Miller's Garde à Vue aka The Grilling (1981) on blu-ray from TF1 (France)

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Inspector Gallien is investigating the rape and murder of two little girls. The only suspect is attorney Jerome Martinaud, but the evidence against him is circumstantial. As the city celebrates New Year's Eve, Gallien calls Martinaud to his office and interrogates him for hour after hour while Martinaud continues to maintain his innocence. We learn all about the evidence; we meet Martinaud's wife and learn all about the rift between the two; but will we, and Gallien, finally learn whether Martinaud is guilty?

The Grilling (1981) - Amazon France (https://www.amazon.fr/Garde-vue-Blu-ray-Lino-Ventura/dp/B01HZ55ADE/277-2517780-4716855?ie=UTF8&SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01HZ55ADE&linkCode=xm2&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96&tag=bluraycom05-21)

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Claude Miller's Mortelle Randonnée aka Deadly Circuit (1983) on blu-ray from TF1 (France)

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Catherine (Isabelle Adjani) is a seductive predator - a serial killer who lures wealthy men to their death. Beauvoir (Michel Serrault), a solitary detective known as "The Eye," is in pursuit. Convinced she is his long-lost daughter, he shadows her through Europe, concealing incriminating evidence and helping her elude the police. But when Catherine falls in love with a blind artist (Sami Frey), Beauvoir's jealousy leads to a fatal accident, which ones again sets her on a murderous path.

Deadly Circuit (1983) - Amazon France (https://www.amazon.fr/Mortelle-randonn%C3%A9e-Blu-ray-Michel-Serrault/dp/B01HZ55AHA/277-1509778-5979066?ie=UTF8&SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01HZ55AHA&linkCode=xm2&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96&tag=bluraycom05-21)

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 19, 2016, 05:32:14 AM
September 19, 2016

Billy Wilder's Fedora (1978) from Masters of Cinema

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Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement.

Fedora (1978) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fedora-Masters-Cinema-Format-Blu-ray/dp/B01DLOVNA2?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B01DLOVNA2&linkCode=as2&redirect=true&ref_=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl&tag=httpeurekacou-21)






September 27, 2016

John Landis' An American Werewolf in London (1981) 35th Anniversary blu-ray, from a new restoration

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Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.

An American Werewolf in London (1981) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/American-Werewolf-London-Restored-Blu-ray/dp/B01IP2X72W/154-0890118-7335150?ie=UTF8&SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01IP2X72W&linkCode=xm2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=bluray-011-20)



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 21, 2016, 04:53:55 AM
September 6, 2016

Abel Ferrara's The Funeral (1996) on blu-ray from Blaq Out (France)

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New York City, the 1930s. A powerful crime family is caught in a lethal crossfire between union organizers and brutal corporate bosses. Against this turbulent backdrop, the family's three street-hardened brothers and the women they love are about to be plunged into a deadly confrontation with their enemies, with each other, and with their own dark heritage of violence, madness and murder.

The Funeral (1996) - Amazon France (https://www.amazon.fr/Nos-funerailles-BLU-RAY-Christopher-Walken/dp/B01H7AMBRA/254-7788785-6703136?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&ref_=nosim&tag=dvdbeaver0d-21)

Such a sick cast - Christopher Walken, Vincent Gallo, Benicio Del Toro, Chris Penn, and Isabella Rossellini


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 23, 2016, 06:32:48 AM
November 22, 2016

David Cronenberg's Rabid (1977) on blu-ray from Scream Factory

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A young woman develops a taste for human blood after undergoing experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into rabid, blood-thirsty zombies who proceed to infect others, which turns into a city-wide epidemic.

Rabid (1977) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Rabid-Blu-ray/dp/B01JQXEMHI?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-081-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01JQXEMHI&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's 70mm The House That Screamed (1969) on blu-ray from Scream Factory

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Mrs. Fourneau owns and runs a school for wayward girls in France. Her absolute discipline has fostered a social order among the girls with rampant sex, lesbianism and torture the norm. Mrs. Fourneau also has an adolescent son she tries to keep isolated from the young women lest he be tainted by sexual relations; she explains that he must wait for a girl "just like his mother". Meanwhile, girls are "running away" (being murdered) one by one, with their corpses and any evidence of their outcome not to be found...

The House That Screamed (1969) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/House-That-Screamed-Blu-ray/dp/B01LRCDYWA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480560497&sr=8-1&keywords=house+that+screamed)




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 23, 2016, 07:46:00 PM
Q1 2017 TBD

James Cameron's The Abyss (1989) on bu-ray from a 4K scan of the original negative

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A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGwhMHNmPpA
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 27, 2016, 06:33:16 PM
2016 TBD

Tom DeSimone's The Concrete Jungle (1982) on blu-ray from Code Red

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When her slimy boyfriend Danny (Peter Brown) uses his unsuspecting girlfriend Elizabeth (Tracy Bregman) to carry a stash of cocaine in her skis, she is nabbed by airport security. After a speedy trial, she is sent to the Correctional Institution for Women in California. There she learns quickly that she must toughen up if she hopes to leave there in one piece. She also eventually finds that the warden (Jill St John) is not only cruel and unsympathetic, but in cahoots with an inmate Cat (Barbara Luna) the prison's Queen Bee, who is her partner in a prison drug and prostitution racket. When Elizabeth witnesses a murder committed by Cat and her henchwomen, she spurns her attentions and becomes her enemy. Meanwhile, Deputy Director Shelly Meyers (Nita Talbot), aware of the drug and prostitution business run by the warden and Cat, also suspects that Elizabeth has knowledge that could help her convict the villains, and she begins to press her for information.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 31, 2016, 06:20:52 PM
September 19, 2016

The Almodóvar Collection on blu-ray from Studio Canal (UK)

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The Almodóvar Collection - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Almodovar-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B01GQ26MIE?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01GQ26MIE&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Contains:

Dark Habits (1983)

In a convent in Madrid a band of nuns called the Humble Redeemers practice their particular brand of the Catholic Religion under their motto, 'Sin Is Our Chosen Path'. Yolanda, a nightclub singer, witnesses her boyfriend die from an overdose, and with the police out to question her, she decides to take refuge with the nuns. The convent specializes in the salvation of murderesses, but their benefactor has stopped coming up with the money, and, fearful that they may have to sell the place, the nuns welcome Yolanda. Yolanda encounters an unusual religious life: a heroin-addicted lesbian Mother Superior, a soft porn writing nun, another into acid and one who wrestles tigers. Starring Carmen Maura, Christina S. Pascual, Julieta Serrano, and Chus Lampreave.


What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)

Early Almodovar black comedy, less farcical and melodramatic than his later works and much more of a social critique. Carmen Maura is Gloria, the embattled Spanish housewife trying to cope with her family in a tiny apartment. Her two sons have become drug addicts and taken to dealing, her taxi-driver husband is totally indifferent to her plight, her grouchy mother-in-law keeps a pet lizard and her friend and neighbour wants her to help in her prostitution service. Starring Carmen Maura, Gonzalo Suárez, Luis Hostalot, Ryo Hiruma, and Ángel de Andrés López.


Law of Desire (1987)

Set against the backdrop of mad, mad Madrid, this film swirls around an outrageous cast of characters. Our hero is absorbed in a cat-and-mouse game of obsessive love which before long entangles his trans-sexual brother/sister, a father/son detective team and a mother who makes the Spider Woman look tame. Almodovar brilliantly examines the idea and the attractions of absolute desire in this hilarious film. Starring Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Miguel Molina, and Manuela Velasco.


Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

Pedro Almodovar directs this fast-moving, surreal farce of obsessive love. When Ivan jilts his long-time lover Pepa, she considers suicide, laces her gazpacho soup with barbituates and lets her flat. However, the tenants turn out to be Ivan's son and his girlfriend. Revelations pile up, weirder and weirder characters appear and meanwhile Ivan is flying off to Stockholm with yet another young girl. Starring Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Fernando Guillén, Julieta Serrano, and Maria Barranco.


Kika (1993)

Black comedy from Pedro Almodovar about a make-up artist and her relationship with a philandering American writer living in Madrid. Features the usual roster of Almodovar comic stalwarts such as a rapist-thief, a narcoleptic son, a roving camerawoman voyeur, a lesbian housemaid and various transexuals, serial killers, porn stars and drug addicts - all whisked up into a gloriously immoral frothy sex comedy. Starring Peter Coyote, Verónica Forqué, Victoria Abril, Àlex Casanovas, and Rossy de Palma.


The Flower of My Secret (1995)

A woman who lives a double life finds that being a successful romantic novelist does not necessarily bring happiness. Her husband does not love her, her best friend seems distracted and her mother and sister are too busy bickering to notice that anything is wrong. She stops writing and finds solace in the bottle but finds an unlikely rescuer putting her on a collision course to a new emotional entanglement. Starring Marissa Paredes, Juan Echanove, Carmen Elias, Rossy De Palma, and Chus Lampreave.



Supposedly all coming from Criterion at some point, along with most of the rest of his filmography.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 01, 2016, 07:02:28 PM
October 11, 2016

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) from Lionsgate

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An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office.

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Glengarry-Glen-Ross-Blu-ray-Digital/dp/B01JH4FZCW?ie=UTF8&qid=1470091483&sr=8-2&keywords=glengarry+glen+ross+blu+ray&tag=blurayforum-20)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 04, 2016, 03:33:14 PM
October 11, 2016

Takeshi Kitano's Boiling Point (1990) on blu-ray from Film Movement

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Two disquieted junior baseball players seek revenge on the local yakuza for attacking their coach.

Boiling Point (1990) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Boiling-Point-Blu-ray/dp/B01K15AVP2?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-082-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01K15AVP2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 05, 2016, 05:38:53 PM
September 7, 2016

Sidney Lumet's Fail-Safe (1964) from Via Vision Entertainment (Australia)

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American planes are sent to deliver a nuclear attack on Moscow, but it's a mistake due to an electrical malfunction. Can all-out war be averted?





Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 06, 2016, 06:18:05 PM
September 27, 2016

Two Films By Douglas Sirk on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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Lured (1947)

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A serial killer in London is murdering young women whom he meets through the personal columns of newspapers; he announces each of his murders to the police by sending them a cryptic poem. After a dancer disappears, the police enlist an American friend of hers, Sandra Carpenter, to answer advertisements in the personal columns and so lure the killer.

Two Films by Douglas Sirk - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/FILMS-DOUGLAS-DOUBLE-FEATURE-Blu-ray/dp/B01JKN0IPY/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1480560654&sr=1-1&keywords=two+films+by+douglas+sirk+blu+ray)





A Scandal in Paris (1946)

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Before the dazzling colors, forbidden romances, and unavoidably tragic ends of Douglas Sirk's better-known melodramas, there was A Scandal in Paris . Taking place in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, this period piece recalls the life of actual con man and womanizer Eugène François Vidocq from his birth in a dingy prison cell to his rise as France's Chief of Police and his life as a criminal in between. After escaping yet another stint in jail, Vidocq and his right-hand man, Emile, make it to Paris, where they end up lodging with a friendly (and wealthy) family whose patriarchal head happens to be the Minister of Police. With dollar signs in their eyes, Vidocq and Emile see plenty of thievish opportunity. But what Vidocq doesn't see is the moral battle he'll have to engage in when he falls in love with the Minister's daughter.





Two Films By Douglas Sirk - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01JKN0IPY/dvdbeaver-20/ref=nosim)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 08, 2016, 05:37:05 PM
October 24, 2016

Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) from Studio Canal (UK), from a new 4K restoration

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Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft, and meets Mary-Lou, a girl who falls in love with him. He does not count on the greed and ruthlessness of business here on Earth, however.

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fell-Earth-Anniversary-Collectors-Blu-ray/dp/B01JYZ9N2C/ref=sr_1_7?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1470695719&sr=1-7&keywords=man+who+fell+to+earth)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 11, 2016, 05:54:16 PM
December 7, 2016

Claude Berri's Tchao Pantin (1983) on blu-ray from Pathe (France), from a new 2K restoration

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An alcoholic ex-policeman (Coluche) roams the Paris underworld with a punk girl (Agnès Soral) to avenge a vile Arab drug dealer (Richard Anconina). Cinematography by Bruno Nuytten (Andrzej Zulawski's Possession, Camille Claudel)

Tchao Pantin (1983) - Amazon France (https://www.amazon.fr/Tchao-pantin-Combo-Collector-Blu-ray/dp/B01LBJMW6I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480560726&sr=8-1&keywords=tchao+pantin)




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 15, 2016, 04:37:38 PM
November 14, 2016

Woody Allen's Interiors (1978) from Arrow Academy (UK)

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When Eve (Geraldine Page), an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur (E.G. Marshall), the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment, Renata (Diane Keaton), a successful writer; Flyn (Kristin Griffith), a woman crippled by indecision; and Joey (Marybeth Hurt), a budding actress; struggle to communicate for the sake of their shattered mother. But when their father unexpectedly falls for another woman (Maureen Stapleton), his decision to remarry sets in motion a terrible twist of fate...

Regarded as a startling departure at the time (although it now clearly anticipates later work), Interiors was Woody Allen's first entirely serious drama, an intimate family chamber-piece strongly influenced by his beloved Ingmar Bergman and performed by a pitch-perfect ensemble cast.


Interiors (1978) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Interiors-Blu-ray/dp/B01KG5PH3S?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01KG5PH3S&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Ravi on August 15, 2016, 05:17:15 PM
Arrow is releasing a Woody Allen box set (more sets to come)

http://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/shop/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=844

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 19, 2016, 03:13:38 PM
October 6, 2016

Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006) on MOD blu-ray from Sony

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The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

Marie Antoinette (2006) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Marie-Antoinette-Blu-ray/dp/B01LTHKNQ8?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01LTHKNQ8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






October 4, 2016

Brian De Palma's Body Double (1984) on MOD blu-ray from Sony

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A young actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences.

Body Double (1984) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Body-Double-Blu-ray/dp/B01LTHKNQI?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01LTHKNQI&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 21, 2016, 03:59:19 AM
November 15, 2016

Robert Wise's I Want to Live! (1958) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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A prostitute, sentenced to death for murder, pleads her innocence.






John Huston's Moby Dick (1956) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.






Pretty Poison (1968) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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When a mentally disturbed young man tells a pretty girl that he's a secret agent, she believes him, and murder and mayhem ensue.








December 13, 2016

Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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While attending a retrospective of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.






Joseph L. Mankiewicz's The Barefoot Contessa (1954) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when independently wealthy Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film. They go to Madrid to find Maria Vargas, a dancer who will star in the film. Millionaire Alberto Bravano takes Maria from Kirk. Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini takes Maria from Alberto.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: 03 on August 22, 2016, 05:26:56 AM
pretty poison and i want to live are amazing. highly recommended
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 22, 2016, 05:35:57 PM
Q4 2016 TBD

Ridley Scott's 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) on blu-ray from Kino

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Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 24, 2016, 03:58:20 PM
UK label Powerhouse Films has a new series, Indicator (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=2037). Many of their forthcoming releases are films previously put out by US label Twilight Time in limited edition copies (Christine, The Last Detail, Experiment in Terror, Fat City, Bunny Lake is Missing)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 31, 2016, 04:25:41 PM
November 15, 2016

Abel Glance's J'accuse (1938) from Olive Films

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After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war. He thinks he has succeeded, but the government subverts his discovery, and Europe slides with seeming inevitability toward World War II. In desperation, Diaz summons the ghosts of the war dead from the graves and fields of France to give silent, accusing protest.






Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942) from Olive Films

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When Nazi anti-aircraft fire damages a British bomber, its crew bails out and seeks help from the Dutch underground.






Jim Jarmusch's Coffee & Cigarettes (2003) from Olive Films

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A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 07, 2016, 03:46:22 PM
November 15, 2016

Orson Welles' Macbeth (1948) on blu-ray from Olive Signature, from a new digital restoration

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Welles stars as the titular Macbeth—a doomed Scottish lord tragically undone by his own ambition. Welles' noir-tinged interpretation bubbles over with supernatural prophecy and murderous intrigue, effectively mixing the use of shadow and oblique camera angles to achieve anominous sense of a land in peril. Shot by John L. Russell (Psycho).

Macbeth (1948) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Macbeth-Olive-Signature-Blu-ray-Welles/dp/B01LW2UA1S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480560791&sr=8-1&keywords=macbeth+welles)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 09, 2016, 05:59:49 PM
December 12, 2016

Woody Allen: Six Films 1979-1985 on blu-ray from Arrow (UK)

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-Manhattan
-Stardust Memories
-A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
-Zelig
-Broadway Danny Rose
-The Purple Rose of Cairo


December 12, 2016

Donnie Darko (2001) limited edition blu-ray from Arrow (UK), with 4K restorations of both the Theatrical Cut and Director's Cut from the original camera negatives

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Donnie Darko (2001) - Limited Edition - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Donnie-Darko-Limited-Format-Blu-ray/dp/B01LW6R5H7/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473634087&sr=8-1&keywords=donnie+darko+limited)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 09, 2016, 06:31:22 PM
November 2016 TBD

Peter Bogdanovich's Saint Jack (1979) on limited edition blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing

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Compelling character study, revolving around Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara), an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. He dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States to lead a life of luxury. Savvy but not unsavory he strikes up a friendship with William Leigh (Denholm Elliot), a genial and decent auditor who travels to Singapore every year. Ultimately, the background of the Vietnam War comes into the picture as Jack is offered the opportunity by the CIA to run a brothel for the R&R activities of U.S. soldiers on leave in Singapore.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 15, 2016, 10:44:37 PM
Fall 2016 TBD

Nicholas Ray's On Dangerous Ground (1951) from Warner Archive, from a 4K restoration

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Rough city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.

On Dangerous Ground (1951) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Ground-Blu-ray-Ida-Lupino/dp/B01LTHLG1O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480560835&sr=8-1&keywords=on+dangerous+ground)





Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers (1993) from Warner Archive

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A teenage girl and her father discover alien clones are replacing humans on a remote U.S. military base in Alabama.

Body Snatchers (1993) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Body-Snatchers-Blu-ray-Gabrielle-Anwar/dp/B01LTHLG1Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480560880&sr=8-1&keywords=body+snatchers)



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 06, 2016, 06:32:35 PM
November 15, 2016

Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985) on blu-ray from Synapse in a 3-disc limited edition

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A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.

Phenomena (1985) - Synapse (https://synapse-films.com/dvds/horror/phenomena-collectors-edition-steelbook/)








December 13, 2016

David Miller's Sudden Fear (1952) from Cohen Media Group, from a new 2K restoration

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After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her.

Sudden Fear (1952) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Sudden-Fear-Blu-ray/dp/B01M0ZWPY5?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-011-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01M0ZWPY5&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 11, 2016, 10:19:21 PM
December 13, 2016

Frank Llloyd and Joseph Von Sternberg's Children of Divorce (1927) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley, from a 4K restoration

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The film begins in an American "divorce colony" in Paris after the First World War, where parents would leave their children for months at a time. Jean, Kitty, and Ted meet there as children and become fast friends. Years later, in America, when wealthy Ted (Gary Cooper) reconnects with Jean (Esther Ralston), the two fall deeply in love, vowing to fulfill a childhood promise to one day marry each other. But true love and the most innocent of plans are no match for the scheming Kitty-played by the original Hollywood "It" girl, Clara Bow-who targets Ted for his fortune. After a night of drunken revelry, Ted wakes up to find he has unwittingly married Kitty. This unfortunate turn of events, however, carries with it the traumatized pasts of the three players, whose views of marriage have been shaped as children of divorce.

Children of Divorce (1927) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Children-of-Divorce-Blu-ray/dp/B01LXXB9BJ?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01LXXB9BJ&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 14, 2016, 08:09:31 PM
Cohen Media: Ten Jacques Rivette Films and Recently Discovered Shorts Acquired for U.S. Distribution
via blu-ray.com

U.S. label Cohen Media has announced that it has acquired the distribution rights for ten films directed by Jacques Rivette. The label has also secured the rights to three early, recently discovered shorts.

The newly licensed films will be digitally restored by Celluloid Dreams. Theatrical screenings are also planned for 2017.

Complete list of titles:

1. La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
2. The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991), re-edited shorter version of La Belle Noiseuse
3. The Gang of Four (1989)
4. Jeanne la Pucelle I - Les batailles a.k.a. Joan the Maiden: Part I (1994)
5. Jeanne la Pucelle II - Les batailles a.k.a. Joan the Maiden: Part II: The Prisons (1994)
6. Up, Down, Fragile (1995)
7. Secret Defense a.k.a. Top Secret (1998)
8. The Story of Marie and Julien (2003)
9. Love on the Ground (1984)
10. Wuthering Heights (1985)
11. Aux Quatre Coins (1949) - short, newly discovered
12. La Quadrille (1950) - short, newly discovered
13. La Divertissement (1952) - short

The label has also confirmed that it is working with Universal Studios on a brand new 4K restoration of James Whale's film The Old Dark House (1932), starring a very young Boris Karloff.

Another recent acquisition for the label is acclimated French helmer Philippe de Broca's film King of Hearts (1966), starring Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, and Pierre Brasseur.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 19, 2016, 06:46:37 PM
Quote from: wilder on April 06, 2016, 05:50:19 PM
October 25, 2016

Joe Sarno's Sin You Sinners (1963) and Vampire Ecstasy (1973) on blu-ray from Film Movement

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Vampire Ecstasy (1973) / Sin You Sinners (1963) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Ecstasy-and-Sin-You-Sinners-Blu-ray/dp/B01KN0GZLE?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01KN0GZLE&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


It's incredible how much difference a restoration can make in the perception of a film having production value or not:


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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on October 19, 2016, 07:33:19 PM
For some reason I can't get enough of these restoration comparisons.  :bravo:
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 27, 2016, 11:42:09 PM
May 23, 2017

The Coen Bros. Barton Fink (1991) on blu-ray from Kino

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Set in 1941, an intellectual New York playwright Barton Fink accepts an offer to write movie scripts in L.A. He finds himself with writer's block when required to do a B-movie script. His neighbor tries to help, but he continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him.

Barton Fink (1991) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Barton-Fink-Blu-ray/dp/B071GB3P5P?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B071GB3P5P&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



January 17, 2017

Michael Mann's Ali (2001) on blu-ray from Sony

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Joseph von Sternberg's The Salvation Hunters (1925) and The Case of Lena Smith (1929) on DVD from German Filmmuseum

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Before making (sound) film history with The Blue Angel, Viennese-born filmmaker Josef von Sternberg directed a series of thematically and stylistically daring silent films. This DVD presents the first and last of his surviving silents, digitally restored from archival 35mm elements and supplemented by a new video essay by film historian Janet Bergstrom. The Salvation Hunters, von Sternberg's self-financed, socially conscious directorial debut, won praise from Charles Chaplin, among others, and is featured here with a new score by award-winning Austrian composer Siegfried Friedrich. The sole extant fragment of The Case of Lena Smith brings the director's youthful memories of fin de siècle Vienna vividly to life.

The Salvation Hunters / The Case of Lena Smith - German Filmmuseum  (https://www.filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/filmmuseum/main.jart?j-j-url=/en/shop/shop_detail&shop_produkte_id=1474494605856&ss1=y)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: polkablues on October 28, 2016, 12:52:49 AM
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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 02, 2016, 11:25:38 PM
March 20, 2017

Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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A recently widowed woman on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.





Martin Scorsese's Who's That Knocking at My Door? (1967) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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A young man struggles with the fact that his girlfriend was once raped.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 07, 2016, 09:25:16 PM
November 21, 2016

Abel Glance's Napoleon (1927) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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This ambitious silent film, renowned for its groundbreaking camerawork and editing, portrays the early life of French ruler Napoleon Bonaparte (Albert Dieudonne), beginning with his childhood and ending with a successful military campaign in Italy. A native of Corsica, Napoleon becomes a staunch supporter of his island home, but eventually flees due to conflicts with its leadership. Once settled on the French mainland, Napoleon begins his climb up the military ranks.

Napoleon (1927) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01J7WSDEQ/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)





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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 21, 2016, 05:01:08 PM
January 31, 2017

Ken Russell's The Lair of the White Worm (1988) on blu-ray from Vestron Video / Lionsgate

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James D'Ampton (Grant) returns to his country castle in England. Legend has it that James' distant ancestor once slayed the local dragon- a monstrous white worm with a fondness for the sweet flesh of virgins. The young Lord dismisses the legend as folklore, until archaeology student, Angus Flint, unearths a massive reptilian skull and the ancient worship site of a pagan snake god on James' property. When James' virtuous girlfriend, Eve (Oxenburg), suddenly disappears, he and Angus set out to investigate the foreboding cavern said to be the worm's lair where a centuries-old mystery begins to uncoil.

The Lair of the White Worm (1988) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Lair-of-the-White-Worm-Blu-ray/dp/B01LTHWY2O?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01LTHWY2O&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






Bob Balaban's Parents (1989) on blu-ray from Vestron Video / Lionsgate

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Meet the Laemles- and taste the terror in this black comedy, Dad's (Randy Quaid) got a great job, Mom (Mary Beth Hurt) hasall the modern conveniences a happy homemaker could ask for, and ten-year-old Michael (Brian Madorsky) has neat new friends and two parents that kill him with kindness. They're the all-American family of 1954...with one small exception.

Parents (1989) - Amazon (//http://)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 23, 2016, 07:20:52 PM
February 13, 2017

Charles Vidor's Cover Girl (1944) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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John Coudair (Otto Kruger) was wounded long ago when his fiancée called off their engagement, and when he spots the woman's granddaughter, comely stage performer Rusty Parker (Rita Hayworth), he's reminded of what he lost. A publishing mogul, he decides to put the naive young beauty on the cover of his magazine. Although he might lose her, Rusty's boyfriend, Danny McGuire (Gene Kelly), refuses to interfere with her path to success. Ultimately, she must decide between riches and romance.

Cover Girl (1944) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cover-Masters-Cinema-Format-Blu-ray/dp/B01N0J0N18/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1480561052&sr=1-2&keywords=covergirl)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 28, 2016, 05:36:32 PM
Available Now

Ian Sellar's Venus Peter (1989) on blu-ray from Panamint Cinema (UK)

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Young Peter's world is populated with magical thoughts and fantasies, as he grows up with his elderly sage-like grandfather (Ray McAnally),  a fisherman, in the Orkney Islands during the 1950s. Based on the novel A Twelvemonth and a Day by Christopher Rush.

QuoteVenus Peter is a 1989 British drama film directed by Ian Sellar and produced by Christopher Young for Young films. The film is an adaptation of the novel A Twelvemonth and a Day by Christopher Rush. It was screened in the Un Certain Regardsection at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.

In 1999 Richard Mowe, curator of film at the National Museum of Scotland, chose the film as one of his top twenty Scottish films of the century.

Venus Peter (1989) - Amazon UK (https://www.panamint.co.uk/panamint-blu/venus-peter-blu-ray)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 02, 2016, 05:55:01 PM
Q1 2017 TBD

Peter Del Monte's Etoile (1989) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing from a new 2K remaster

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The beautiful American ballerina Claire Hamilton (Jennifer Connelly) travels to Hungary to join a prestigious ballet school. The school is haunted by the spirit of a ballerina that died in a carriage accident that possesses Claire.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 08, 2016, 05:10:32 PM
January 17, 2017

John Sturges' Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Folks in Black Rock have their own way of welcoming mysterious, one-armed stranger John J. Macreedy. He's welcome to leave. Or they'll make sure he leaves in a pine box. Two-time Academy Award(r) winner* Spencer Tracy (a 1955 Best Actor Oscar(r) nominee for this film) plays World War II veteran Macreedy, who keeps his own counsel about why he's come to Black Rock and who keeps his wits about him when confronted with threats and violence. Director John Sturges (The Great Escape) ramps up the tension while revealing Macreedy's mission and the town's grim secret. Robert Ryan, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin are among the town's thugs and lap dogs. "I'm half horse, half alligator," one says. They'll find Macreedy is even tougher stuff. This timeless classic makes exceptional use of the then-new CinemaScope screen, set to a pulsating musical score by the great Andre Previn.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 12, 2016, 10:32:10 PM
February 13, 2017

Frank Clarke's Blonde Fist (1991) on blu-ray from Network (UK)

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Liverpudlian legend Margi Clarke stars in this cult classic as a single mum who walks out on an unhappy domestic life – and into an unexpected career. The third feature from Letter to Brezhnevdirector Frank Clarke, Blonde Fist co-stars Oscar-nominated Carroll Baker and Straw Dogs' Ken Hutchison. It is featured here in a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements, in its original theatrical aspect ratio.

Fleeing problems at home, Ronnie O'Dowd heads to New York to track down her bare-knuckle-fighter father. Finding a burnt-out drunk instead of a big-time boxer, she has an immediate and pressing need to find hard cash! When a nightclub hosting a female boxing match has a no-show competitor, the offer of a thousand dollars to any woman who can last three minutes in the ring against their trained fighter proves too much for Ronnie to resist...


Blonde Fist (1991) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blonde-Fist-Blu-ray/dp/B01NBJ4CUA?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01NBJ4CUA&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Trailer for Frank Clarke's earlier film, Letter to Brezhnev (1985):





March 13, 2017

Walerian Borowczyk's Story of Sin (1975) on blu-ray from Arrow Academy (UK), restored from the original camera negative

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The life of a beautiful, young and pious woman is thrown into chaos when her parents takes in a dashingly handsome lodger. Having embarked on a torrid affair, the lodger goes off to Rome to seek a divorce from his estranged wife. Unable to live apart from her beloved, our hero leaves home only to fall prey to the infatuations and lusts of a band of noble admirers, unsavoury criminals and utopian do-gooders. The only feature Walerian Borowczyk (The Beast, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne) made in his native Poland, Story of Sin transforms Stefan Zeromski's classic melodrama into a deliriously surrealistic meditation on l'amour fou.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 13, 2016, 06:35:37 PM
February 20, 2017

Woody Allen: Seven Films - 1986-1991 on blu-ray from Arrow (UK)

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-Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
-Radio Days (1987)
-September (1987)
-Another Woman (1988)
-Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
-Alice (1990)
-Shadows and Fog (1991)

Woody Allen: Seven Films - 1986-1991 - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01MXL4AI9/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)


Favorite Woody Allen:

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 16, 2016, 06:40:19 PM
Quote from: wilder on September 09, 2016, 05:59:49 PM
December 12, 2016

Donnie Darko (2001) limited edition blu-ray from Arrow (UK), with 4K restorations of both the Theatrical Cut and Director's Cut from the original camera negatives

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Donnie Darko (2001) - Limited Edition - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Donnie-Darko-Limited-Format-Blu-ray/dp/B01LW6R5H7/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473634087&sr=8-1&keywords=donnie+darko+limited)


Screencap comparisons (http://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=9554&d2=9555&s1=92533&s2=92547&i=9&l=0) at caps-a-holic (scroll up for more / click 'Fullscreen Comparison' in the upper-right of each image). Non-limited edition coming from Arrow UK on January 9, 2017 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Donnie-Darko-Blu-ray/dp/B01MXCSRTR?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01MXCSRTR&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 17, 2016, 06:17:52 PM
Available Now

Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense (1984) on blu-ray from Second Sight (UK), from a new 2015 restoration. Region free.

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Concert film featuring a live performance by Talking Heads. It was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983, as the group was touring to promote their new album Speaking in Tongues.

Stop Making Sense (1984) - Amazon UK (//http://)





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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 26, 2016, 04:50:25 PM
2017 TBD

Dario Argento's Opera (1987) from Scorpion Releasing, from a new 2K scan of the original camera negative

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When a young opera singer takes over the leading role in an avant-garde presentation of Verdi's Macbeth, she triggers the madness of a crazed fan who repeatedly the diva to watch the brutal murders of her friends. Will the woman's recurring nightmare hold the key to the identity of this psychopath or does an even more horrific evil lay waiting in the wings?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 29, 2016, 09:18:21 PM
March 6, 2017

Alien Nation (1988) on blu-ray from 88 Films (UK), also coming from Twilight Time sometime next year

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Alien Nation (1988) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alien-Nation-Blu-ray/dp/B01N5IAEZV?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01N5IAEZV&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)

In Los Angeles circa 1991, humans live alongside extraterrestrial humanoid beings whose spaceship crash landed three years earlier. This coexistence is not always harmonious, as exemplified by segregated slums and the uneasy partnership of police detective Matthew Sykes (James Caan) with new humanoid partner Sam Francisco (Mandy Patinkin). However, the pair begin to overcome their differences as they investigate a slum drug ring led by the slippery William Harcourt (Terence Stamp).


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 01, 2017, 10:45:59 PM
March 28, 2017

Aria (1987) on blu-ray from eOne/Sony

Directed by Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, Bill Bryden, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Charles Sturridge, and Julien Temple

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Aria (1987) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Aria-Blu-ray/dp/B01NGYVU7J?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01NGYVU7J&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner), and is an interpretation of the particular aria.

Aria Trailer - Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/193750205)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 10, 2017, 07:58:55 PM
August 22, 2017

Sean Penn's The Indian Runner (1991) on blu-ray from Kino

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A Vietnam vet comes home to his small town and finds himself in conflict with rules that his brother has vowed to uphold.

The Indian Runner (1991) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Indian-Runner-Blu-ray/dp/B071Z7KLJL?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B071Z7KLJL&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






October 16, 2017

Takeshi Kitano's Getting Any? (1994) on blu-ray from Third Window Films (UK) from a new restoration

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A slapstick comedy, about a goofy middle-aged man who is obsessed with the idea of having car sex. While pursuing his 'dream', he makes all the wrong moves possible, and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.

Geting Any (1994) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Getting-Any-Blu-ray/dp/B072BWBWQR?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B072BWBWQR&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 13, 2017, 04:44:01 PM
Quote from: wilder on December 16, 2016, 06:40:19 PM
Quote from: wilder on September 09, 2016, 05:59:49 PM
December 12, 2016

Donnie Darko (2001) limited edition blu-ray from Arrow (UK), with 4K restorations of both the Theatrical Cut and Director's Cut from the original camera negatives

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Donnie Darko (2001) - Limited Edition - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Donnie-Darko-Limited-Format-Blu-ray/dp/B01LW6R5H7/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473634087&sr=8-1&keywords=donnie+darko+limited)


Screencap comparisons (http://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=9554&d2=9555&s1=92533&s2=92547&i=9&l=0) at caps-a-holic (scroll up for more / click 'Fullscreen Comparison' in the upper-right of each image). Non-limited edition coming from Arrow UK on January 9, 2017 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Donnie-Darko-Blu-ray/dp/B01MXCSRTR?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01MXCSRTR&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


US release (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Donnie-Darko-Blu-ray/172091/) of the LE Box Set from Arrow on April 18, 2017. Assuming a non-LE will follow later in the US as well.
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Post by: wilder on January 13, 2017, 09:14:21 PM
February 2017 TBD

Ken Russell's The Boy Friend (1971) from Warner Archive

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The star has injured an ankle, but the show – and inexperienced stage assistant Polly Browne – must go on. Break a leg, kid. And don't let the presence of Hollywood director and talent scout Mr. De Thrill add any pressure. And so begins this colorful tale of theater hopefuls with stars in their eyes and greasepaint in their veins, a work that, under the guidance of director Ken Russell, is not just an affectionate filmization of Sandy Wilson's London/Broadway stage hit but also an homage to the movie stagings of Busby Berkeley – complete with imaginative use of kaleidoscopic top shots and rows of leggy chorines. Fashion icon Twiggy makes her screen debut as sweet-natured Polly, a role played earlier by Julie Andrews in her Broadway debut. Curtain up. Maybe someone will be discovered tonight.






Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon (1957) from Warner Archive

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An aging American tycoon overcomes his inhibitions to court a young Parisian.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 14, 2017, 01:02:11 AM
March 14, 2017

Leos Carax's The Lovers on the Bridge (1991) on blu-ray from Kino

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Alex, who's homeless and addicted to alcohol, and Michèle, who's losing her sight, form a relationship while sleeping rough on Paris's Pont-Neuf bridge.

The Lovers on the Bridge (1991) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Lovers-on-the-Bridge-Blu-ray/dp/B01N223JBA?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01N223JBA&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 15, 2017, 06:21:48 PM
Available Now

Wolfgang Staudte's The Murderers Are Among Us aka Die Mörder sind unter uns (1946) on DVD, recently restored by the DEFA Film Library

This is one of the films that had an influence on Christian Petzold's recent movies Barbara and Phoenix

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In 1945, the artist Susanne Wallner (Hildegard Knef) returns to Berlin after spending three years in a concentration camp. Yet amid the ruins, she is filled with a renewed energy for life. When she arrives at her old apartment, she finds that Dr. Hans Mertens (Ernst Wilhelm Borchert) has taken up residence there. A physician and former German officer, Mertens is haunted by the wartime execution of Polish civilians, which he did nothing to prevent. Under Susanne's care, the broken man gathers new strength. Then, by chance, Mertens meets his former captain (Arno Paulsen) and decides to take the law into his own hands.

The Murderers Are among Us was the first film made in Germany after WWII and has since become a classic. It was supported by the Soviet Allies and produced by the newly-founded DEFA Studio. Its film noir style successfully blends German expressionism with a striking affinity to Italian neorealism.


The Murderers Are Among Us (1946) - DEFA Film Library (https://ecommerce.umass.edu/defa/store/3572)


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Post by: wilder on January 16, 2017, 05:53:27 PM
2017 TBD

Josef von Sternberg's Anatahan (1953) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 2K restoration

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In the waning days of WWII, a dozen Japanese sailors are stranded on a remote island inhabited only by the foreman of an abandoned plantation and a beautiful young woman, Keiko (Akemi Negishi). As the days turn into months and then into years, the castaways lose their grip on any semblance of societal norms and descend into a daily struggle for dominance and power.

Anatahan (1953) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Anatahan-Blu-ray/dp/B06VWL1FWL?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-081-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B06VWL1FWL&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 19, 2017, 08:26:34 PM
February 21, 2017

3 Classic Films by Claude Chabrol from Cohen Media Group

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3 Classic Films by Claude Chabrol - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/3-Classic-Films-by-Claude-Chabrol-Blu-ray/dp/B01N968RPO?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-000-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01N968RPO&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


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-Betty (1992)

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Alone and drunk, Betty, is led to a Paris restaurant by a stranger. Here, she meets an older woman, Laure, with whom she strikes up an instant rapport. The two women seem to have suffered the same lot in their lives. Laure takes Betty back to her hotel and helps to cure the young woman of her depression and alcoholism. Little by little, Betty pieces together her recent history and realizes that perhaps her life is not worth living. The she meets Mario, Laure's lover... Starring Stephane Audran, Jean-Francoise Garreaud and Marie Trintignant. 2K RESTORATION.


-L'Enfer (1994)

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Paul (François Cluzet) has just bought a charming waterfront hotel in the heart of France. In debt for the next ten years, he sets to work with his beautiful new wife, Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart). The life of the young couple resembles a dream come true until Paul's suspicions and jealousy get the best of him. His increasing obsession turns into madness that ends in a tragedy. Starring Emmanuelle Béart and Francois Cluzet. 2K RESTORATION.


-The Swindle (1997)

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Betty and Victor tour quietly around France in their motor home living safely on part-time swindles...until they become involved in a scam with high stakes and international implications. Chabrol's 50th film is a deft and entertaining thriller. Starring François Cluzet, Isabelle Huppert and Michel Serrault. 2K RESTORATION.







Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 20, 2017, 06:53:04 PM
March 7, 2017

Samuel Beckett's Film (1965) on blu-ray from Milestone

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Film by Samuel Beckett, the great playwright's only venture into the medium of the cinema, was written in 1963 and filmed in New York City in the summer of 1964. The project brought together an illustrious group of collaborators: screenwriter (and future Nobel laureate) Beckett traveled from Paris at the behest of the producer, publisher, and First Amendment champion Barney Rosset joining forces with theater director Alan Schneider, Oscar-winning cinematographer Boris Kaufman, and silent-comedy genius, Buster Keaton. Acclaimed film editor Sidney Meyers added his talents to the film in post-production. The product of their efforts, Film by Samuel Beckett, has no dialogue and takes as its basis philosopher George Berkeley s theory Esse est percipi to be is to be perceived. In essence, after all outside perception be it animal, human, or divine is suppressed, self-perception remains.

Film by Samuel Beckett premiered at the 1965 New York Film Festival and went on to win many international awards. Critics, literary scholars, and audiences have continued to be dazzled and intrigued by the film. Mark Nixon of the Beckett International Foundation calls Film by Samuel Beckett an intriguing and vital document in Samuel Beckett s life-long engagement and fascination with perception, and the image.

Restorationist Ross Lipman worked with Rosset to preserve and digitize Film by Samuel Beckett on behalf of the UCLA Film & Television Archive and was inspired to make a documentary Notfilm (2015), exploring the creation and meaning of this fascinating cinema treasure.


Film (1965) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Film-Blu-ray/dp/B01MU2G6E5?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01MU2G6E5&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



Notfilm (2015) on blu-ray from Milestone

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Notfilm is Ross Lipman s acclaimed kino-essay on the making and meaning of Film by Samuel Beckett. Unlike any other film for its in-depth, mesmerizing analysis of one short film, it has been acclaimed by critics and audiences everywhere. Lipman s obsession with Film began when, as a teenaged cinephile, he first learned that Irish Nobel Prize-winning playwright Samuel Beckett had written a short that starred silent film genius Buster Keaton. Decades later, Lipman, now an accomplished film restorationist, jumped at the chance to preserve Film and to meet and talk with the extraordinary man who produced it, maverick publisher and First Amendment champion Barney Rosset. During a visit to Rosset s NYC loft, Lipman asked if there was any extra footage from the 1964 shoot. The reels that he discovered under the sink in the publisher s kitchen started Lipman on the long road from Film to Notfilm.

For more than seven years he traveled the world interviewing friends, family, and collaborators including Beckett s biographer James Knowlson, film historian Kevin Brownlow, actress Billie Whitelaw, Keaton s friend (and actor in Film) James Karen, and writer Leonard Maltin who visited the set as a star-struck 14-year-old Buster fan. Lipman s long fascination and tireless efforts have resulted in Notfilm, a film exploration that is mesmerizing, entertaining and timeless.


Notfilm (2015) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Notfilm-Blu-ray/dp/B01N4FRK7L?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01N4FRK7L&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Notfilm (2015) trailer - Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/135676816)



April 24, 2017

Frank Clarke & Chris Bernard's Letter to Brezhnev (1985) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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Two Merseyside girls escape their humdrum lives for a night on the town, where they meet two Russian sailors on shore leave. For Teresa (Margi Clarke), it's a welcome bit of fun, but for Elaine (Alexander Pigg) it turns into much more.

One of the key British films of the 1980's Letter to Brezhnev is set against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Liverpool's club scene, one-night stands and a Europe still in the grip of the Cold War. Written by Frank Clarke and directed by Chris Bernard (both whom worked on Brookside) and starring a fresh and young cast it remains a hilarious and uplifting tale of how love and idealism can help ordinary people realise their dreams.


Letter to Brezhnev (1985) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Letter-to-Brezhnev-Blu-ray/dp/B01NBWNBFA?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01NBWNBFA&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 24, 2017, 03:43:14 AM
2017 TBD

Michele Soavi's The Church (1989) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing

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A church is built during medieval times on top of a pile of dead bodies that were considered possessed. Hundreds of years later a young librarian unleashes the evil within, by removing a rock in the catacombs. Series of events occur meanwhile, everybody just does not seem to be the same. Father Gus is the only one not possessed, he must save the city from becoming a pandemonium, he must find the ancient secret of the church so it can crumble to pieces... Starring Tomas Arana, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Hugh Quarshie, Barbara Cupisti, and Antonella Vitale.






Michele Soavi's The Sect (1991) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing

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A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of Satan worshippers. A school teacher almost runs over an old man with a box and takes him in. It's no accident that the old man has come into her life, and it quickly becomes apparent that he has plans for her, plans that involve a permanent future with the Satanic cult. Starring Kelly Curtis, Herbert Lom, and Mariangela Giordano.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 25, 2017, 04:57:43 PM
Summer 2017 TBD

The Louis Malle Collection from Artificial Eye (UK) - 10 discs



Lift to the Scaffold a.k.a. Elevator to the Gallows

French black comedy in which a crime of passion goes horribly wrong when the killer gets trapped in a lift. As Julien (Maurice Ronet)'s lover, Florence Carala (Jeanne Moreau) - who also happens to be the victim's wife - is out searching for him in Paris, a young hood and his girl steal the killer's car, complicating matters further. This was Louis Malle's first film as director and it partly set the tone for the 'new wave' to come. It is also notable for its famous jazz score, improvised in one night by Miles Davis while the film was being projected.


Les Amants a.k.a. The Lovers

An early classic from Louis Malle with Jeanne Moreau as a woman desperate to free herself from a provincial marriage. So she heads for the excitement of Paris with her friends. A chance encounter gives her the excitement she has been craving for.


Zazie dans le Métro

This merry farce depicts a satirical view of the French society: Ten-year-old Zazie has to stay two days with her relatives in Paris, so that her mother can spend some time with her lover. However Zazie escapes her uncle's custody and sets out to explore Paris on her own.


The Fire Within a.k.a. Le Feu Follet

Estranged from his wife in the United States, alcoholic and self-destructive French writer Alain Leroy resolves to commit suicide and spends the next twenty-four hours visiting old friends in Paris.


Murmur of the Heart a.k.a. Le Souffle au Coeur

Louis Malle's critically acclaimed Murmur of the Heart (Le soffle au coeur) gracefully combines elements of comedy, drama, and autobiography in a candid portrait of a precocious adolescent boy's sexual maturation. Both shocking and deeply poignant, this is one of the finest coming-of-age films ever made.


Lacombe, Lucien

One of the first French films to address the issue of collaboration during the German Occupation, Louis Malle's brave and controversial Lacombe, Lucien traces a young peasant's journey from potential Resistance member to Gestapo recruit. At once the story of a nation and one troubled boy's horrific coming of age, the film is a disquieting portrait of lost innocence and guilt.


Black Moon

Louis Malle meets Lewis Carroll in this bizarre and bewitching trip down the rabbit hole. After skirting the horrors of an unidentified war being waged in an anonymous countryside, beautiful young Lily (Cathryn Harrison) takes refuge in a remote farmhouse, where she becomes embroiled in the surreal domestic life of an extremely unconventional family. Evocatively shot by cinematographer Sven Nykvist, Black Moon is a Freudian tale of adolescent sexuality set in a postapocalyptic world of shifting identities and talking animals. It is one of Malle's most experimental films and a cinematic daydream like no other.


My Dinner with Andre

A whimsical comedy about two old friends who meet in a chic New York restaurant, where Andre recounts his mystical adventures of the past two years. The focus then turns to the relationship between the two men, their innermost feelings and loves, and their different ideas concerning the purpose of life. When the check eventually comes, one of them will have profoundly changed.


Au Revoir Les Enfants

Au Revoir Les Enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss between two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie...until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle's own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.


Milou en Mai a.k.a. May Fools

This comic excursion from Louis Malle is set in May 1968, concurrent with a series of Parisian student uprisings. After the death of family matriarch Mme. Vieuzac (Paulette Dubost), the survivors converge on the French countryside for her funeral; they include her two sons, Milou (Michel Piccoli) and Georges (Michel Duchaussoy); Camille (Miou-Miou), Milou's daughter; Camille's husband and children; and granddaughter Claire (Dominique Blanc), a lesbian. With the latest news of rebellion from Paris as their soundtrack, the family members argue over property, revive long-simmering arguments, and watch in dismay as an unlikely love affair begins. When the student uprising threatens to spill over into their community, the family heads for the hills, where the great outdoors only intensifies their reunion.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 25, 2017, 05:24:09 PM
February 14, 2017

Woody Allen's Interiors (1978) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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When Eve (Geraldine Page), an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur (E.G. Marshall), the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment, Renata (Diane Keaton), a successful writer; Flyn (Kristin Griffith), a woman crippled by indecision; and Joey (Marybeth Hurt), a budding actress; struggle to communicate for the sake of their shattered mother. But when their father unexpectedly falls for another woman (Maureen Stapleton), his decision to remarry sets in motion a terrible twist of fate...

Regarded as a startling departure at the time (although it now clearly anticipates later work), Interiors was Woody Allen's first entirely serious drama, an intimate family chamber-piece strongly influenced by his beloved Ingmar Bergman and performed by a pitch-perfect ensemble cast.







Henry Hathaway's Kiss of Death (1947) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Offered parole from Sing Sing in exchange for information about one of his old partners in crime, jewel thief Nick Bianco (Victor Mature) reluctantly cooperates with district attorney Louis D'Angelo (Brian Donlevy), who's trying to take down violent murderer Tommy Udo (Richard Widmark). But when Udo goes free despite the district attorney's best efforts, Bianco and his wife, Nettie (Coleen Gray), are in the killer's sights, and he'll stop at nothing to settle the score.





March 14, 2017

Mark Robson's Peyton Place (1957) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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An exposé of the residents of a small fictional New England mill town in the years surrounding World War II, where scandal, homicide, suicide, incest, and moral hypocrisy hide behind a tranquil façade.




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 30, 2017, 06:51:10 PM
Summer 2017 TBD

Milos Forman's Valmont (1989) on blu-ray from Kino

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In 18th-century France, a cruel and calculating playboy, Valmont, makes a malicious wager with the equally wicked Madame de Merteuil: Valmont must dishonor the married Madame de Tourvel bying with her. If Valmont succeeds, he gets the privilege of Merteuil's bed as well. But when Valmont sets out on his task, the unexpected happens - he falls in love with Tourvel! And now Merteuil will stop at nothing to destroy Valmont's newfound passion. Starring Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, and Siân Phillips.   


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 01, 2017, 05:52:11 PM
March 20, 2017

Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953) on blu-ray from Powerhouse Films / Indicator (UK)

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Fritz Lang's iconic film noir masterpiece is an uncompromising exploration of corruption and violence at the dark heart of small-town America. Glenn Ford is the good cop in a bad town, who single-handedly takes on local mobsters headed by Alexander Scourby and his psychotic right-hand man Lee Marvin.

Dave Bannion is an upright cop on the trail of a vicious gang he suspects holds power over the police force. Bannion is tipped off after a colleague's suicide and his fellow officers' suspicious silence lead him to believe that they are on the gangsters' payroll. When a bomb meant for him kills his wife instead, Bannion becomes a furious force of vengeance and justice, aided along the way by the gangster's spurned girlfriend Debbie. As Bannion and Debbie fall further and further into the Gangland's insidious and brutal trap, they must use any means necessary (including murder) to get to the truth.


The Big Heat (1953) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Big-Heat-Blu-ray/dp/B01MRBXDUL?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01MRBXDUL&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



John Huston's Fat City (1972) on blu-ray from Powerhouse Films / Indicator (UK)

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John Huston's sombre but compassionate boxing drama is a criminally-underseen late-career masterpiece from the great director. Peppered with outstanding performances this gritty yet affectionate look at the world of small-time boxing highlights a down-and-out fighter and a young up-and-comer, both moving through a world of seedy gyms and flop houses.

Fat City (1972) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fat-City-Blu-ray/dp/B01N6WRU3Y?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01N6WRU3Y&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



The Front (1976) on blu-ray from Powerhouse Films / Indicator (UK)

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In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

The Front (1976) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Front-Blu-ray/dp/B01N6WSIVK?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01N6WSIVK&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



May 9, 2017

John Waters' Serial Mom (1994) from Scream Factory

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Beverly (Turner) is the perfect happy homemaker. Along with her doting husband Eugene (Sam Waterston) and two children, Misty (Ricki Lake) and Chip (Matthew Lillard), she lives a life straight out of Good Housekeeping. But this nuclear family just might explode when Beverly's fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics – transforming her from middle class mom to mass murderer! Soon, the bodies begin to pile up... and suburbia faces a horror even worse than wearing white after Labor Day.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 02, 2017, 06:07:14 PM
2017 TBD

Luis Puenzo's The Official Story (1985) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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The Official Story is about an upper middle class couple who lives in Buenos Aires with an illegally adopted child. The mother, Alicia (Norma Aleandro), comes to realize that her daughter may be the child of a desaparecido, a victim of the forced disappearances that occurred during Argentina's last military dictatorship.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 03, 2017, 05:57:05 PM
March 17, 2017

Electra Glide in Blue (1973) on blu-ray from Odyssey Video (UK)

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Ambitious motorcycle cop John Wintergreen patrols the Arizona highways, yearning for promotion to the homicide division. Thanks to his revelation that a supposed suicide is actually a murder, his wish it granted. But 'good cop' Wintergreen is about to discover that street-smarts and integrity can have lethal consequences as he finds himself sinking into a mire of corruption – not to mention a very tricky love-triangle. Troubled star Robert Blake (Baretta) plays the lead in this crime cult classic.

Electra Glide in Blue (1973) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Electra-Glide-in-Blue-Blu-ray/dp/B01N25YTP2?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01N25YTP2&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






July 17, 2017

Fritz Lang's Destiny (1921) from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers. In each story, a woman, trying to save her lover from his ultimate tragic fate, fails. The young lady realizes the meaning of the tales and takes the only step she can to reunite herself with her lover...

Destiny (1921) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Der-mude-Tod-Blu-ray/dp/B01N6XOA4D?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01N6XOA4D&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 03, 2017, 07:07:24 PM
March 31, 2017

Steven Soderbergh's Solaris (2002) on blu-ray from Rough Trade (Germany)

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A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.

Solaris (2002) - Amazon.de (https://www.amazon.de/Solaris-Blu-ray/dp/B01MY7HZ4V?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom04-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01MY7HZ4V&m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 08, 2017, 07:13:14 PM
April 18, 2017

Paul Wendkos' The Mephisto Waltz (1971) from Kino

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Alan Alda plays a classical piano player on the rise who befriends a famous player himself who's at death's door. Unknown to Alda, the guy is a satanist, who arranges to have their souls switch places at his death, so that he can be young again and continue to play piano (thus needing a skilled piano player like Alda to switch bodies with).


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 09, 2017, 05:38:49 PM
April 18, 2017

Steve Sekely's The Scar aka Hollow Triumph (1948) from Kino, with a new audio commentary by Imogen Sara Smith (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=174.msg340770#msg340770)

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A film noir drama in which a sophisticated con man, who has just stolen from the mob, is forced to impersonate a psychiatrist who looks just like him, going so far as to cut himself on the cheek to duplicate a similar scar on the doctor. When he takes matters even further, karma arrives, forcing him to pay the debts of his double.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 10, 2017, 06:24:58 PM
2017 TBD

Blake Edwards' S.O.B. (1981) from Warner Archive

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Felix Farmer's (Richard Mulligan) latest movie flops – and lots of Hollywood types spring into action. Agents are called. Lawyers are retained. Statements are issued. It's what master comedy director Blake Edwards calls "Standard Operating Bull," the subject of his gleefully satiric S.O.B.

Julie Andrews is a wholesome superstar about to alter her image...radically. Aiding and abetting the madness are William Holden, Robert Preston, Robert Vaughn, Shelley Winters, Loretta Swit and more. Dialogue crackles like fat in a fire, gags range from dead-on deadpan to comedic broadsides, insights bristle and sting. Nothing standard here: S.O.B. is extraordinary.







Francis Ford Coppola's Finian's Rainbow (1968) from Warner Archive

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He wears a ratty old cardigan instead of tails, a battered felt hat in place of a topper — but one glimpse of those agile feet and you know he's Fred Astaire. The great entertainer sang and danced his last musical lead in FINIAN'S RAINBOW, director Francis Ford Coppola's exuberant movie of the 1947 Broadway hit. Astaire plays an Irish rogue who plants a stolen crock of leprechaun gold in the soil near Fort Knox to reap what he thinks will be a rich harvest. In tow are his spirited daughter (Petula Clark), a lovestruck leprechaun (Tommy Steele) and a bigoted Southern senator (Keenan Wynn) transformed by misbegotten magic.






Summer 2017 TBD

John Huston's Prizzi's Honor (1985) from Kino

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The Prizzi family's principal hit man, Charley (Nicholson) is about to discover that he and his new bride (Turner) share more than just body heat: They're both cold-blooded assassins and their next job is to ice each other! Now Charley must choose which contract to honor-the one to his wife or the one on his wife-in this "wickedly amoral black comedy" (Screen International)!


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 10, 2017, 08:00:17 PM
April 4, 2017

Behind the Door (1919) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley

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Legendary producer Thomas H. Ince and director Irvin V. Willat made this---"the most outspoken of all the vengeance films" according to film historian Kevin Brownlow---during the period of World War I-inspired American patriotism.

Hobart Bosworth stars as Oscar Krug, a working-class American, who is persecuted for his German ancestry after war is declared. Driven by patriotism, Krug enlists and goes to sea. However, tragedy strikes when his wife (Jane Novak) sneaks aboard his ship and is captured following a German U-boat attack. Krug's single-minded quest for vengeance against the sadistic German submarine commander (played with villainous fervor by Wallace Beery) leads to the film's shocking and brutal climax.

This newly restored edition represents the most complete version of the film available since 1919, thanks to the collaboration of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, the Library of Congress, and Gosfilmofond of Russia.

Sourced from the only two known remaining prints and referencing a copy of Willat's original continuity script, this edition recreates the original color tinting scheme and features a new score composed and performed by Stephen Horne. Flicker Alley is honored to present Behind the Door on Blu-ray (and DVD) for the first time ever.



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 12, 2017, 03:03:17 AM
Spring 2017 TBD

Juan Luis Buñuel's Leonor a.k.a. Mistress of the Devil (1975) from Scorpion Releasing

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A female vampire rises from her crypt every night in search of children as her victims. Cinematography by Luciano Tovoli (Suspiria). Score by Ennio Morricone
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 13, 2017, 07:50:55 PM
March 14, 2017

Carol Reed's Our Man in Havana (1959) from Twilight Time

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In pre-revolutionary Cuba, James Wormold (Alec Guinness), a vacuum cleaner salesman, is recruited by Hawthorne (Noël Coward) of the British Secret Intelligence Service to be their Havana operative. Instead of recruiting his own agents, Wormold invents agents from men he knows only by sight and sketches "plans" for a rocket-launching pad based on vacuum parts to increase his value to the service and to procure more money for himself and his expensive daughter Milly.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 14, 2017, 06:18:52 PM
Classicflix to Begin Releasing on Blu-ray
via blu-ray.com

Classicflix officially announced today that it will begin releasing on Blu-ray in the United States. The label's first two releases will be Irving Rapper's Another Man's Poison (1951) and Edwin L. Marin's Miss Annie Rooney (1941).

The label has confirmed that its upcoming releases will be sold at all major online retailers, including Amazon.

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March 28, 2017

Irving Rapper's Another Man's Poison (1951) from ClassicFlix

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In her first role since starring as Margo Channing in the Academy Award-winning All About Eve (Best Picture, 1950), Bette Davis plays mystery writer Janet Frobisher, a cold and conniving woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants -- and what she wants at the moment is her secretary's fiancé Larry (Anthony Steel).

But Janet's plan hits a snag when her estranged husband shows up unannounced after attempting to rob a bank. Her husband's partner in crime, George (played by real-life husband Gary Merrill), further complicates matters for Janet when he pays her a visit later the same day. Getting rid of one of them proved easy. The other, not so much.

Filmed in England and co-produced by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Another Man's Poison presents the dynamic Bette Davis at her devious and beguiling best.


Another Man's Poison (1951) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Another-Mans-Poison-Blu-ray/dp/B06WRVVV7Y?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B06WRVVV7Y&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 15, 2017, 02:19:15 AM
April 24, 2017

Walter Hill's Hard Times (1975) from Masters of Cinema (UK), from a 4K restoration

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During the Great Depression, a down-on-his-luck loner, hops a freight train to New Orleans where, on the seedier side of town, he tries to make some quick money the only way he knows how-with his fists.

Hard Times (1975) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06VVK5TV5)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 15, 2017, 04:48:48 PM
April 11, 2017

Eddy Matalon's Cathy's Curse (1977) on blu-ray from Severin

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After a terrible car accident twenty years ago killed his father and sister, a man returns to his family home with his wife and daughter. The daughter takes up residence in her deceased aunt's room and, after finding some of her possessions, becomes possessed by her spirit. Soon strange happenings and mysterious deaths begin to occur in the household as the possessed girl lashes out at those around her.

Cathy's Curse (1977) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Cathys-Curse-Blu-ray/dp/B06W2M5Y2L?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B06W2M5Y2L&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 16, 2017, 04:47:46 PM
Summer 2017 TBD

Robert Siodmak's The Spiral Staircase (1946) on blu-ray from Kino

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A young mute woman who is working in a New England mansion as a domestic is terrorized by a maniac who is killing off people with disabilities. After being warned of the danger to her personal safety she makes plans to leave the dark old house, but it is too late. The maniac is in the house, and she is his prey. Cinematography by Nicholas Musuraca ( Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past, Cat People)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 19, 2017, 03:42:16 AM
Thought this was a notable (though possibly temporary) problem with 4K UHD blu-ray at the moment, taken from blu-ray.com's review (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/GoodFellas-4K-Blu-ray/161258/) of the Goodfellas UHD blu-ray.

Short story - regular 1080p blu-rays from 4K masters of catalog titles shot and finished photochemically (everything prior to what...1998?) are currently visually superior to 4K UHD blu-rays of those same titles, until this calibration problem gets fixed:

QuoteThe UHD disc of Goodfellas is based on the same 4K scan of the original camera negative that was used to generate the 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/GoodFellas-Blu-ray/122386/#Review). This new version is something of a landmark for Warner Brothers, because Goodfellas is its first "deep catalog" release in what remains a fledgling format. All of Warner's previous 4K discs to date are 21st Century films completed on digital intermediates, but Goodfellas is entirely a product of the analog era, which constitutes the bulk of cinema history. This makes it an informative preview (along with such Sony titles as Ghostbusters (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Ghostbusters-4K-Blu-ray/151359/)  and Ghostbusters II) (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Ghostbusters-II-4K-Blu-ray/151358/) of how older titles originated on film and completed photochemically may fare in the brave new world of 4K and High Dynamic Range.

Before turning to the UHD of Goodfellas, let me take a short detour to discuss calibration. The gold standard of calibration has been set by the Imaging Science Foundation (or "ISF"), which was created in 1994 to establish standardization in electronic imaging. Calibrators trained and certified by the ISF are routinely retained to adjust and confirm the accuracy of the displays used in post houses and DI suites, and they are also hired by home theater installers and enthusiasts to provide the same services for consumer equipment. ISF calibration requires several key components. These include a colorimeter for measuring a display's light output, color values and wavelengths; and a signal generator to feed the display standardized test patterns that can be measured by the colorimeter. Top quality colorimeters are expensive devices that cost more than the average home theater, and their proper use depends on an intimate understanding of the underlying technology—which is why accurate calibration requires the hiring of a properly trained and equipped professional.

The challenge of 4K and HDR at the moment is that no signal generator currently on the market is capable of supplying the requisite test patterns. Most importantly for present purposes, these test signals would include an HDR-graded PLUGE pattern, which is an essential tool for setting black levels. In the absence of any standardization, calibration for 4K and HDR has remained a moving target, and this limitation affects the entire UHD chain, from creation to playback.

A small group of technicians has coordinated with industry representatives to develop a 4K/HDR test disc that can be used for ISF calibration. Although the disc is not yet widely available, I am fortunate enough to work with one of its creators, Kevin Miller, who is both a charter member of the ISF and its officially designated Technical Consultant. Recently, Mr. Miller used this disc to re-calibrate my system for HDR color and black levels. All of my UHD reviews written since that procedure bear the paragraph in italics below, specifying the calibration equipment and methodology.

Even before the latest calibration, it was obvious that the 2160p, HEVC/H.265-encoded UHD of Goodfellas suffered from black-level issues. Since the procedure, I have rewatched the disc several times. In comparison to the Blu-ray, the UHD reveals a slight (a very slight) increase in visible detail and grain, but the improvement continues to be overshadowed (literally) by improper black levels that cast a haze of overbrightening across the entire frame. The effect is most pronounced in scenes set in darkened interiors such as clubs and bars—and there are many such scenes in Goodfellas. A good example is the bar scene (chapter 33) in which Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) narrates the planning for the Lufthansa heist, while the camera picks up each member of the crew being assembled by Jimmy Conway (Robert De Niro). The last to enter is "Stacks" Edwards (Samuel L. Jackson), and as he walks away from the camera into the back of the bar, the outline of his figure softens and the details fade. The same phenomenon can be observed after the heist, when Jimmy is celebrating at the same bar, but his jubilation turns to fury when he discovers that members of the crew have disobeyed his orders not to attract attention with luxury purchases. In scenes such as these, the UHD's image is routinely less distinct and detailed than the Blu-ray's, because the blacks are too bright. The UHD's colors appear to have been slightly intensified compare to the Blu-ray, with reds and blues the chief beneficiary, but here again the overbrightening tends to undercut any improvements by dampening color intensity.

Is the UHD unwatchable? Not at all. As with many video phenomena, the eye quickly adjusts to the presentation, and the elevated black levels become routine. But having watched Goodfellas repeatedly on both UHD and the 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray, I find the Blu-ray to be a better viewing experience. (And yes, my setup is also ISF-calibrated for 1080p.)

Like other studios, Warner touts HDR as a major enhancement, but the UHD presentation of Goodfellas demonstrates that the HDR sticker prominently affixed to every 4K title does not necessarily guarantee a superior image. While the 4K image could no doubt be re-graded with accurate black levels, it is uncertain whether and how much the corrected image would offer any meaningful improvement over the Blu-ray. Regardless, Goodfellas stands as a demonstration of why HDR is not automatically a benefit. As UHD progresses, it may turn out that some—possibly many—older films should be left in SDR, without any attempt to "enhance" their blacks, contrast or colors.

[Viewed on a system calibrated using a Klein K10-A Colorimeter with a custom profile created with a Colorimetry Research CR250 Spectraradiometer, powered by SpectracCal CalMAN 2016 5.7, using the Samsung Reference 2016 UHD HDR Blu-ray test disc authored by Florian Friedrich from AV Top in Munich, Germany. Calibration performed by Kevin Miller of ISFTV.]


Edit - just found a thread (http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=283975) about movies that have been finished photochemically since 2004, and then this:

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Link (http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=12802819&postcount=15) to that post
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 20, 2017, 04:22:22 AM
May 16, 2017

Karel Reisz's Who'll Stop the Rain (1978) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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John Converse (Moriarty), a disillusioned war correspondent, approaches Ray Hicks (Nolte), a merchant marine sailor and acquaintance of Converse's from the US, for help in smuggling a large quantity of heroin from Vietnam to San Francisco, where he will exchange the drugs for payment with Converse's wife Marge (Weld), who has become addicted to Dilaudid.

When Hicks discovers he is being followed by thugs connected either to Converse or his suppliers, he goes on the run with Marge and the heroin, and is eventually pursued by the corrupt DEA agent (Zerbe), who initially set the deal in motion. As Marge is separated from her supply of prescription drugs, she experiences withdrawal, and Hicks decides to help her wean off her dilaudid addiction by using the heroin. Hicks also attempts to find another buyer for the heroin before his pursuers can catch up to him.



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 20, 2017, 04:39:28 PM
2017 TBD

Anthony Mann's T-Men (1947) on blu-ray from ClassicFlix

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Dennis O'Brien is a treasury agent determined to bring a counterfeiting ring to justice. O'Brien and his partner Tony Genaro go undercover to gain the confidence of the ruthless Detroit mob responsible for the phony money.


Anthony Mann's Raw Deal (1948) on blu-ray from ClassicFlix

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In this film noir classic a revenge-seeking gangster (Dennis O'Keefe) is sent to prison after being framed for a crime he didn't commit. After seducing a beautiful young woman he uses her to help him carry out his plot for vengeance leading him to the crazy pyromaniac (Raymond Burr) who set him up. Cinematography by John Alton


Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once (1937) on blu-ray from ClassicFlix

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Convicted felon Eddie Taylor ( Academy Award-winner Henry Fonda) decides to lead the straight life with his devoted girlfriend, Joan (Sylvia Sydney), who arranges for his early parole. Ignoring her relatives' advice, Joan decides to marry Eddie, who she believes is an essentially decent guy who had a few tough breaks in life. However, a bank robbery gone bad points accusing fingers at the innocent Eddie, who finds his life crumbling around him. Swearing his innocence, Eddie takes Joan on the lam in a cat-and-mouse chase with the law closing in just a few steps behind them!

This haunting and beautifully stylish gem from master director Fritz Lang (M, Metropolis) was the first of his remarkable film noir classics, including The Big Heat, Scarlet Street, The Woman In the Window and Clash By Night. Hard-hitting and unforgettable, this exciting tale of crime and revenge inspired numerous "criminal lovers on the run" films like Bonnie and Clyde and The Getaway and remains a searing, tragic and romantic exercise in suspense!
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 22, 2017, 04:54:37 PM
June 27, 2017

John Boorman's Hell in the Pacific (1968) on blu-ray from Kino

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An adventure about two wartime enemies trapped alone on a desert island. Academy Award winner Lee Marvin (The Dirty Dozen) and Toshiro Mifune (The Seven Samurai) deliver "striking and well-etched performances" in this searing psychological drama.

From the instant they meet, a marooned American soldier (Marvin) and his Japanese counterpart (Mifune) have the same objective: killing each other. But it soon becomes apparent that the only way they will survive is by forging an uneasy truce and cooperating with each other. Can they rise above the hatred that divides them long enough to stay alive?   


Hell in the Pacific (1968) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Hell-in-the-Pacific-Blu-ray/dp/B071XVK6X5?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-082-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B071XVK6X5&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

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March 28, 2017

Peter Bogdanovich's Saint Jack (1979) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing, from an HD master of the original camera negative, limited to 1,500 copies. To be sold exclusively through Screen Archives (https://www.screenarchives.com/), Diabolik DVD (http://www.diabolikdvd.com/), and Ronin Flix (http://store.roninflix.com/).

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Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara) is a street savvy American living in Singapore. And like all Americans, Jack has a dream... to open the best whorehouse in Singapore. Of course a whorehouse doesn't come easy. It takes a lot of moves and a lot of hustle. But as Jack always says "People make love for so many crazy reasons... why shouldn't money be one of them"? Cinematography by Robby Müller
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 27, 2017, 02:51:22 PM
2017 TBD

Anthony Mann's He Walked by Night (1948) on blu-ray from ClassicFlix

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Roy Morgan (Richard Basehart) is a burglar who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops. After Morgan kills a police officer, Sergeants Brennan (Scott Brady) and Jones (James Cardwell) have little success in putting the clues of the case together. But when Jones is wounded in a shoot-out with Morgan, Brennan employs all facets of detective work, including forensics and informants, to find the elusive and clever criminal.



Budd Boetticher's The Killer is Loose (1956) on blu-ray from ClassicFlix

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Humble bank teller Leon Poole (Wendell Corey) participates in a heist that doesn't go as planned. When police surround his apartment, there's a shoot-out, during which Detective Sam Wagner (Joseph Cotten) unwittingly kills Poole's wife. Poole is subsequently captured and jailed, but three years later he's back out on the street and hell-bent on revenge. Wanting the punishment to fit the crime, he vows that he won't kill Wagner -- just his wife (Rhonda Fleming).



Henry S. Kesler's Five Steps to Danger (1957) on blu-ray from ClassicFlix

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Hitchhiking on a deserted New Mexico road after his car breaks down, John Emmett (Sterling Hayden) gets picked up by Ann Nicholson (Ruth Roman), who is in a rush to reach Santa Fe, N.M. The distraught Ann is being pursued by psychiatrist Frederick Simmons (Werner Klemperer), who has been treating her in Los Angeles since she had a nervous breakdown, but she tells John that she is in possession of nuclear secrets that she must deliver to Dr. Reinhart Kissel (Karl Lindt) at a Santa Fe university.



Gerd Oswald's Crime of Passion (1957) on blu-ray from ClassicFlix

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When newspaper columnist Kathy Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) meets cop Bill Doyle (Sterling Hayden), the two quickly hit it off and get married. Kathy gives up her career and heads to Los Angeles with Bill to settle down. The homemaker lifestyle doesn't suit Kathy, however, and she becomes bored with her life and resentful toward Bill because he doesn't share her drive for success. She then secretly decides to make major moves to further Bill's career -- even if it means murdering his rivals.



Maxwell Shane's Nightmare (1956) on blu-ray from ClassicFlix

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Stan Grayson (Kevin McCarthy) dreams that he stabs an unknown man to death, but when he awakens, he is disturbed to find that he has bruises that he doesn't remember getting and a key in his room that doesn't belong to him. Confused, Stan explains his situation to his police officer brother-in-law, Rene (Edward G. Robinson), who initially believes that Stan is simply suffering from anxiety. As the evidence continues to mount, however, it seems to point to something more sinister.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 03, 2017, 09:32:49 PM
April 25, 2017

Walerian Borowczyk's Blanche (1972) from Olive Films

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Set in medieval France, an elderly noble baron (Michel Simon, L'Atalante) and his much younger bride, the beautiful Blanche (Ligia Branice, Goto, Isle of Love) welcome a visiting King (George Wilson, Les destinées) and his handsome page, Bartolomeo (Jacques Perrin, Cinema Paradiso) to their castle, and sets in motion accusations of disloyalty and marital infidelity, turning what should be a fairytale into a nightmare.



Walerian Borowczyk's Goto, Isle of Love (1969) from Olive Films

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Goto, Isle of Love is a tale of infidelity, revenge, and repressed love, both chaste and illicit, starring Pierre Brasseur (Port of Shadows) as Goto III, an unstable and jealous dictator married to the beautiful Glossia (Ligia Branice, Blanche). Unbeknownst to Goto III, Glossia is carrying on an affair with one of his guards, the handsome Lieutenant Gono (Jean-Pierre Andreani, The Story of O). Also lusting after the dictator's wife is Grozo (Guy Saint-Jean, The Killing Game), a petty thief who, by winning the confidence of Goto III, plans to win Glossia for himself. Simmering passions will boil over on the isle, leading to a surprising denouement.



Walerian Borowczyk's Theatre of Mr. & Mrs. Kabal (1967) from Olive Films

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A glimpse inside the weird and wonderful world of the theatrical Kabals. The henpecked Mr. Kabal, prone to ogling young females through his binoculars, is never quite beyond the reach of the statuesque and domineering Mrs. Kabal who flutters about (quite literally when butterflies appear inside of her stomach) in a connubial reign of terror. Although it may not always be le beau mariage, Mr. and Mrs. Kabal are nonetheless made for each other. The years-in-the-making feature length animated film from the controversial director of Goto, Isle of Love and Immoral Tales, featuring the voice talents of Pierre Collet (Greed in the Sun) and Louisette Rousseau (War of the Buttons), is akin to other Borowczyk animated works such as The Astronauts, Renaissance and The Games of Angels.


Walerian Borowczyk - Short Films Collection (1959-1984) from Olive Films

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-The Concert (1962) aka Le Concert de M. et Mme. Kabal
-The Astronauts (1959) aka Les Astronautes
-Angels' Games (1964) aka Les Jeux des Anges
-Renaissance (1963)
-Joachim's Dictionary (1965) aka Le Dictionnaire de Joachim
-The Greatest Love of All Time (1978) aka L'Amour Monstre de tous les temps
-Diptyque (1967)
-Grandma's Encyclopedia (1963) aka L'encyclopedie de Grand-Maman
-Venus on the Half-Shell (1975) aka Escargot de Venus
-Gavotte (1967)
-The Phonograph (1969) aka Le Phonograph
-Rosalie (1966)
-Scherzo Infernal (1984)
-A Private Collection Uncensored aka Une Collection Particulière – Uncensored (1973)
-A Private Collection Short Version aka Une Collection Particulière – Short Version (1973)


Claude Chabrol's Ophelia (1962) from Olive Films

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Claude Chabrol directs the inspired-by-Shakespeare cinematic gem Ophélia, starring Alida Valli. Ivan, a high-strung and intense young man of means, suspecting that his mother, Claudia, and Uncle Adrian are responsible for the death of his father, sets out to reveal their foul deed. Imagining himself a modern day Hamlet, Ivan goes about wooing Lucy, the beautiful daughter of his parents' groundskeeper, convincing her to become the de facto Ophelia of the piece. Concocting a clever ruse to unmask the accused, Ivan's fever dream of revenge takes an unexpected turn in Ophélia, Claude Chabrol's witty and darkly comic reinterpretation of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, Hamlet.



June 26, 2017

Ewald André Dupont's Moulin Rouge (1928) on blu-ray from Network (UK), from a new restoration

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One of the most lavish British films of the silent era in both budget and scope, Moulin Rouge stars Jean Bradin, Eve Gray and Russian-German screen sensation Olga Tschechowa in the story of a young aristocrat driven to a suicide attempt after falling in love with a young dancer and her elegant, ravishingly beautiful mother. Set in and around the famous dance-halls of Paris, Moulin Rouge showcased British International Pictures' engagement of leading Continental film-makers during the late 1920s. The first British film directed by expressionist pioneer Ewald Andre Dupont, it also features Werner Brandes' stylish, distinctively European cinematography and art direction by Oscar winner Alfred Junge. Filmed at Elstree through the winter of 1927, the film was originally trade shown in March 1928 as a silent film with live musical accompaniment. It was re-released in 1929 with a recorded, synchronised score by John Reynders.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on March 03, 2017, 09:38:35 PM
i could only find one trailer

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 03, 2017, 09:44:07 PM
Haha.






Screencaps (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Blanche-Blu-ray/107259/#Screenshots) from Arrow's release of Blanche
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 07, 2017, 04:03:02 PM
2017 TBD

Floyd Mutrux's Aloha, Bobby And Rose (1975) from Scorpion Releasing. Mutrux also made the underrated Dusty and Sweets McGee (1971) (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=13100.msg339997#msg339997)

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Bobby has a new '68 Camaro and a dead-end job. Rose has a young son and a nowhere life. One night, they meet, fall in love and share a dream of leaving the seedy side of Hollywood for the easy life of Hawaii. But when an innocent prank goes tragically wrong, Bobby and Rose are on the run from the law and for their lives. As they take to the highway, they find that paradise is just out of reach...and that 'aloha' can also mean 'goodbye.'




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 10, 2017, 05:02:01 PM
2017 TBD

Vasili Mass' Spider (1991) on blu-ay from Mondo Macabro

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A young model's life spins out of control after she visits the studio of an eccentric artist and poses for a painting of Virgin Mary.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 11, 2017, 06:56:25 PM
March 20, 2017

Ildikó Enyedi's My 20th Century (1989) on blu-ray from Second Run (UK)

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My 20th Century (1989) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B06WP4QR53/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)

This magical film spins a tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest on the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electric lightbulb to the world. The sisters are soon orphaned and separated in childhood, and follow different paths: one grows up to a naïvely idealistic, bomb-toting anarchist, the other a pampered, hedonistic courtesan who paths cross once again on the Orient Express on New Year s Eve 1899...

Moving at a dizzy pace between Budapest, Hamburg, New York, Burma, Austria, Paris and Siberia, this is a film of dazzling beauty and acumen. It is a modernist fable, a fantasmagoria of scientific, political and sexual revolution and radicalism, the birth of cinema, and the joy of life.



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 13, 2017, 08:05:47 PM
Available Now

Josef von Sternberg's Blonde Venus (1932) on blu-ray from Elephant Films (France)

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A nightclub singer (Marlene Dietrich) becomes a playboy's (Cary Grant) mistress to support her son and ailing husband (Herbert Marshall).

Blonde Venus (1932) - Amazon France (https://www.amazon.fr/Venus-blonde-Blu-ray-Combo-DVD/dp/B01N1K89W7/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489452467&sr=8-1&keywords=blonde+venus)





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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 14, 2017, 07:35:00 PM
Summer 2017 TBD

Michael Anderson's Conduct Unbecoming (1975) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing, from a new HD master

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Honor. Duty. Respect. The timeless moral and ethical code of our military - and the backbone of civilized Western society.

All are at risk for this British regiment stationed in colonial India at the end of the nineteenth century. The conduct unbecoming: a beautiful widow (Susannah York) is brutally attacked by one of the new officers. In a desperate bid to prevent a public scandal, the superior officers Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard, Stacy Keach, and Christopher Plummer undertake a Court Martial. Can an idealistic young officer (Michael York) defend the accused attacker (James Faulkner), even if it means shattering the military's - and his own - code of honor? Based on a play by Barry England, the British Conduct Unbecoming revolves around a sexual violation--which may or may not have occurred.







June 12, 2017

Alexander Mackendrick's Mandy (1952) on blu-ray from StudioCanal (UK)

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The film chronicles the life of a deaf girl, from the moment her parents realize that she has no hearing, through her struggle to express herself and learn how to lip-read. Her mother and father argue over the best way to deal with her condition, leading to a scandalous marriage breakdown.

Mandy (1952) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mandy-Blu-ray/dp/B06XH2QHZD?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B06XH2QHZD&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



May 30, 2017

Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961) from Kino

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C.R. MacNamara (Cagney), a top-ranking executive stationed in West Berlin, is charged with the care of his boss' visiting daughter. But when he learns that she's gone and married a fierce young communist - and that his boss will be arriving in town in 24 hours - Mac must transform the unwilling beatnik into a suitable son-in-law or risk losing his chance for advancement! Before you can say "one, two, three," his plans have spun out of control and into an international incident that could infuriate the Russians, the Germans and, worst of all, his own suspicious wife!
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 17, 2017, 03:19:50 PM
June 19/20, 2017

Dario Argento's The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970) on limited edition blu-ray from Arrow UK and Arrow US, from a new 4K restoration from the camera negative

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In 1970, young first-time director Dario Argento (Deep Red, Suspiria) made his indelible mark on Italian cinema with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage – a film which redefined the 'giallo' genre of murder-mystery thrillers and catapulted him to international stardom.

Sam Dalmas (Tony Musante, We Own the Night), an American writer living in Rome, inadvertently witnesses a brutal attack on a woman (Eva Renzi, Funeral in Berlin) in a modern art gallery. Powerless to help, he grows increasingly obsessed with the incident. Convinced that something he saw that night holds the key to identifying the maniac terrorising Rome, he launches his own investigation parallel to that of the police, heedless of the danger to both himself and his girlfriend Giulia (Suzy Kendall, Spasmo)...

A staggeringly assured debut, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage establishes the key traits that would define Argento's filmography, including lavish visuals and a flare for wildly inventive, brutal scenes of violence. With sumptuous cinematography by Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now) and a seductive score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone (Once Upon a Time in the West).
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 20, 2017, 04:04:43 AM
April 4, 2017

Douglas Sirk's Interlude (1957) on blu-ray from Elephant Films (France)

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A U.S. newswoman (June Allyson) falls in love with a married symphony composer (Rossano Brazzi) in Munich.

Interlude (1957)- Amazon France (https://www.amazon.fr/Interlude-Blu-ray/dp/B01N7PICUX?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01N7PICUX&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)






Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession (1954) on blu-ray from Elephant Films (France)

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Reckless playboy Bob Merrick (Rock Hudson) crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town's only resuscitator — at the very moment that beloved local Dr. Phillips has a heart attack and dies waiting for the life-saving device. Thus begins one of Douglas Sirk's most flamboyant master classes in melodrama, in which Bob and the doctor's widow, Helen (Jane Wyman), find themselves inextricably linked amid a series of increasingly wild twists, turns, trials and tribulations.

Magnificent Obsession (1954) - Amazon France (https://www.amazon.fr/Magnificent-Obsession-Blu-ray/dp/B01MY5L7OF?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01MY5L7OF&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)






Douglas Sirk's Captain Lightfoot (1955) on blu-ray from Elephant Films (France)

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An Irish swashbuckler (Rock Hudson) woos a rebel leader's (Jeff Morrow) daughter (Barbara Rush) in 19th-century Ireland.

Captain Lightfoot (1955)- Amazon France (https://www.amazon.fr/Captain-Lightfoot-Blu-ray/dp/B01N6O792P?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01N6O792P&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 20, 2017, 07:49:45 PM
May 30, 2017

Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947) from Kino

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The lovely Mrs. Paradine (Ann Todd) is accused of poisoning her older, blind husband. She hires lawyer Anthony Keane (Gregory Peck) to represent her. Though Keane is married to a striking and devoted woman, he finds himself strangely attracted to his glamorous defendant. His deepening feelings convince him of her innocence, even though the evidence and his sense of reason may indicate otherwise.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 24, 2017, 02:21:58 AM
April 18, 2017

Woody Allen's Another Woman (1988) on blu-ray from Twilight Time, pre-order from Screen Archives (http://screenarchives.com/) on April 5, 2017

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When philosophy professor Marion Post (Gena Rowlands) rents an apartment to work on her new book, she soon realizes that she can hear into the next room, which houses a psychiatrist's office. Marion becomes captivated by the sessions of a patient named Hope (Mia Farrow). As Hope talks about her emotional issues, Marion begins to reevaluate her life. She comes to realize that her coldness has shut her off from friends and family, and she has missed a chance for true love.





Screencaps from Arrow UK's release (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film6/blu-ray_reviews_74/another_woman_blu-ray.htm):

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 27, 2017, 05:10:24 PM
May 23, 2017

The Jacques Rivette Collection (1976-1981) on limited edition blu-ray from Arrow US

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Contains:

-Duelle (1976)
-Merry-Go-Round (1981)
-Noroît (1976)

The more expensive Arrow UK edition (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Jacques-Rivette-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B013RKM732?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B013RKM732&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE) also contains Out 1 (which is available from Carlotta (https://www.amazon.com/Out-1-Blu-ray/dp/B014LHPGXI?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-030-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B014LHPGXI&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER) in the US).

The Jacques Rivette Collection - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Jacques-Rivette-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B06XFM9KFT?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-030-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B06XFM9KFT&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)








2017 TBD

It's the Old Army Game (1926), starring W.C. Fields, on blu-ray from Kino from a new 2K master

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Elmer Prettywillie, the village druggist, is awakened by a woman who needs a 2-cent stamp in the middle of the night. Seeking again a state of somnolence, Prettywillie must contend with the clamorous collectors of garbage, and with those of his own castle who have caught forty winks and then some. The letter-carrying lady, in trying to post her missive, manages to summon the city's fire department to the pharmacy where, unable to find a fire, they sit and sip sodas while Prettywillie panders to their every want. When they leave, a bit of a blaze does erupt, but Prettywillie is forced to his own resources. Meanwhile, George Parker is smitten with Elmer's buxom assistant and uses the storefront to promote a bogus land deal. The Prettywillie fortune is thus inflated, enabling the purchase of a flivver, but Elmer ends up wrecking a Florida estate and finally the flivver, foiling the schemers and delighting the denizens of the town, whose jubilation Elmer takes for an acute case of distemper. He jails himself for safekeeping.



Running Wild (1927), starring W.C. Fields, on blu-ray from Kino from a new 2K master

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Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a fifteen-thousand dollar payoff, so his courage can last beyond the hypnosis.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 29, 2017, 07:13:07 PM
October 24, 2017

William Dieterle's Portrait of Jennie (1948) on blu-ray from Kino

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One of the most unusual romances ever filmed, Portrait Of Jennie is the picture of sumptuous perfection. Starring Joseph Cotten (Citizen Kane) and Oscar winner Jennifer Jones (A Farewell To Arms). When struggling artist Eben Adams (Cotten) meets the beautiful and mysterious Jennie (Jones), he is instantly captivated. Before long, Jennie has become his great muse and he is enjoying success and bliss beyond his dreams. But there is a price to pay for such elation, and soon Eben must face the truth about who Jennie really is.   


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 30, 2017, 04:57:07 PM
June 19, 2016

Luis Bunuel's Death in the Garden (1956) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives-a roguish adventurer (Georges Marchal), a local hooker (Simone Signoret), a priest (Michel Piccoli), an aging diamond miner (Charles Vanel) and his def-mute daughter-are to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another.

Shot in brilliant Eastmancolor and featuring a star-studded cast, Death in the Garden is a pulsating adventure film, alive with Surrealist gestures, making it classic Luis Bunuel.


Death in the Garden (1956) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-in-the-Garden-Blu-ray/dp/B06XY2S5TF?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B06XY2S5TF&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 01, 2017, 02:31:31 AM
RealorFake4K.com (http://realorfake4k.com/) - Database of UHD titles, discerns between titles from 4K or equivalent sources ("real" 4K") and titles originated from lesser sources (i.e. shot/mastered in 2K, upscaled to 4K - "fake 4K"), where not much difference will be seen compared to a 1080p blu-ray
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 10, 2017, 05:37:09 PM
Summer 2017 TBD

Henry King's Duel in the Sun (1946) on blu-ray from Kino. This movie has several other uncredited directors, including Josef von Sternberg, who was apparently hired as a visual consultant (for a film in technicolor!).

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When her father is hanged for shooting his wife and her lover, half-breed Pearl Chavez goes to live with distant relatives in Texas. Welcomed by Laura Belle and her elder lawyer son Jesse, she meets with hostility from the ranch-owner himself, wheelchair-bound Senator Jackson McCanles, and with lustful interest from womanizing, unruly younger son Lewt.




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2017 TBD

James Ivory's Maurice (1987) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group, from a new 4K restoration

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Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, E.M. Forster's Maurice is a story of coming to terms with one's sexuality and identity in the face of disapproval and misunderstanding.

Maurice Hall (James Wilby) and Clive Durham (Hugh Grant) find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. In a time when homosexuality is punishable by imprisonment, the two must keep their feelings for one another a complete secret. After a friend is arrested and disgraced for "the unspeakable vice of the Greeks," Clive abandons his forbidden love and marries a young woman. Maurice, however, struggles with his identity and self-confidence, seeking the help of a hypnotist to rid himself of his undeniable urges. But while staying with Clive and his shallow wife, Anne, Maurice is seduced by the affectionate and yearning servant Alec Scudder (Rupert Graves), an event that brings about profound changes in Maurice's life and outlook.
   


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 18, 2017, 04:56:44 PM
Summer 2017 TBD

John Frankenheimer's Seven Days in May (1964) from Warner Archive

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United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack. A classic of suspense directed by John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate, Ronin) and written for the screen by Rod Serling ("The Twilight Zone").


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 18, 2017, 06:43:10 PM
August 22, 2017

Dusty Nelson's Effects (1980) on blu-ray from AGFA and Something Weird Video, restored in 4K from the only 35mm print in existence by The American Genre Film Archive (AGFA)

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Cobbled together with loose change by George Romero's friends, Effects is a mesmerizing D.I.Y. frightmare that no one talks about, but everyone should. A group of coked-up filmmakers -- including Tom Dawn of the Dead Savini, Joe Day of the Dead Pilato, and John Tales from the Darkside: The Movie Harrison -- gather in Pittsburgh to make a slasher. As filming begins and accidents happen, it's clear that something isn't right. And no one can be trusted. Landing somewhere between Snuff and a student film by John Carpenter, Effects is a meta-enhanced takedown on the philosophy of horror that doubles as a sleazy and terrifying movie on its own.

Effects (1980) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Effects-Blu-ray/dp/B06ZYRPZH8?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-011-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B06ZYRPZH8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)







May 2017 TBD

Tony Richardson's The Loved One (1965) from Warner Archive

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The funeral business gets a giant raspberry in this wickedly wacky, resplendently ridiculous farce based on Evelyn Waugh's macabre comic masterpiece and directed with inspired verve by Tony Richardson (Tom Jones). But the American way of death isn't the film's only target: sex, greed, religion and mother love are also in the crosshairs of its satirical shots. Robert Morse plays a bemused would-be poet who gets entangled with an unctuous cemetery entrepreneur (Jonathan Winters), a mom-obsessed mortician (Rod Steiger) and other bizarre characters played by such adept farceurs as John Gielgud, Robert Morley, Tab Hunter, Milton Berle, James Coburn and Liberace.





Quote from: LetterboxdThis is one of those Rosetta Stone films you see and it suddenly explains a lot of things and puts them in their proper context. Particularly, in this case, John Waters. Hilarious, bizarre, and impeccably shot by Haskell Wexler (this looks like "Last Year at Marienbad," and he clearly nicked some shots from Godard's "Contempt")
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on April 19, 2017, 01:57:29 AM
The Loved One is a chiller. i think perhaps John Waters mentions it now and then? though if anything it explains Phantom of the Paradise, and it's worth seeing for general good humor and Paul Williams like this

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 24, 2017, 04:26:40 AM
Quote from: wilder on October 13, 2014, 01:44:56 AM
October 21, 2014

Bruno Dumont's entire filmography up through Camille Claudel on blu-ray from Blaq Out

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Bruno Dumont : 1997 - 2014 - Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Bruno-Dumont-1997-Coffret-Blu-ray/dp/B00M262LCU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413182458&sr=8-1&keywords=bruno+dumont)


Apparently this contains English subs. Oh baby.

Maybe. Twentynine Palms and Flandres do. Twentynine Palms isn't listed as having English subs on Blaq Out's website (http://www.blaqout.com/film/twentynine-palms-blu-ray) but they've been confirmed by someone who purchased the set, and Amazon France lists the box as having them. For the other titles it's unclear. Whatever, the pictures stay.


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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 25, 2017, 05:08:47 AM
August 28, 2017

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972-1973) on limited edition blu-ray from Arrow UK. Also contains the new documentary Fassbinder (2015).

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder had been making feature films for three years – and already amassed a filmography that would satisfy most careers – when he decided to take on a bigger challenge. Teaming up with West German television channel WDR, he conceived of Eight Hours Don't Make a Day, a series that would extend to five feature-length episodes to be broadcast at monthly intervals.

Centring on the Krüger family, as well as their lovers, in-laws, friends and co-workers, the series takes a sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic look at domestic relationships and labour relationships, with particular focus on skilled worker Jochen (Gottfried John, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Goldeneye) and his new girlfriend, Marion (Hanna Schygulla, The Marriage of Maria Braun).

Reminiscent of working-class soap operas such as Coronation Street and the family-based sitcoms of Carla Lane, Eight Hours Don't Make a Day has been a one of the more difficult to find entries of Fassbinder's extraordinarily prolific output, but is now presented here in full and newly restored by the Fassbinder Foundation.


Eight Hours Don't Make A Day - Arrow UK (http://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/shop/index.php?route=product/product&keyword=Nekr&product_id=970)


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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 03, 2017, 05:54:32 PM
Quote from: wilder on March 10, 2017, 05:02:01 PM
2017 TBD

Vasili Mass' Spider (1991) on blu-ay from Mondo Macabro

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A young model's life spins out of control after she visits the studio of an eccentric artist and poses for a painting of Virgin Mary.





Mondo Macabro's restored trailer - Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/214877077) (NSFW)

Up for pre-order in June
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on May 03, 2017, 06:00:44 PM
That is definitely something...
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 05, 2017, 05:46:51 PM
September 5, 2017

Sydney Pollack's They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) on blu-ray from Kino

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In Depression-era America, desperation spawned a bizarre fad: the dance marathon. Couples competed to stay on their feet for thousands of hours, and audiences flocked to watch. But Gloria (Fonda) doesn't think of herself as a spectacle. She is a fierce, unforgiving contestant in a battle she's determined to win. At stake is much more than the $1.500 prize. The marathon is her only hope for dignity, accomplishment...and salvation.   






July 24, 2017

Arthur Penn's Mickey One (1965) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Influenced by the French New Wave, director Arthur Penn's ground-breaking and wildly inventive Mickey One is a tale of a man on the run - his first teaming with Warren Beatty, two years before Bonnie and Clyde. The film also boasts a classic jazz score by Eddie Sauter and Stan Getz. World premiere Blu-ray.

Mickey One (1965) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mickey-One-Blu-ray/dp/B071S64J39?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B071S64J39&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






July 24, 2017

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Produced by Stanley Kramer and based on an original screenplay by Dr. Seuss, Roy Rowland's pioneering wild fantasy adventure is visually stunning and remains one of American cinema's most beloved – and bizarre – children's films.

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-5000-Fingers-of-Dr-T-Blu-ray/dp/B071NZQZ6D?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B071NZQZ6D&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



July 24, 2017

G.W. Pabst's Westfront 1918 and Kameradschafton (1930-1931) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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Georg Wilhelm Pabst (Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost Girl) made a flawless transition from silent to sound filmmaking with, Westfront 1918 and Kameradschaft, a pair of strongly anti-war titles (Pabst himself was a prisoner of war for the duration of WWI) that combined elements of Expressionism and New Objectivity to stunning effect.

In Westfront 1918, four infantrymen on the Western Front suffer the everyday hardships and insanity of trench warfare, and in Kameradschaft, a team of German miners risk their lives to rescue a team of French miners left trapped after an underground explosion.

Sharing many thematic elements, as well as key cast and crew (most notably cinematographer Fritz Arno Wagner, M, Nosferatu, Der müde Tod), Westfront 1918 and Kameradschaft represents a master director at the height of his powers, and The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present both these titles for the first time ever on Blu-ray in a special Dual Format edition.


Westfront 1918 & Kameradschafton (Two films by G.W Pabst) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Films-by-GW-Pabst-Blu-ray/dp/B071YVP45F?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B071YVP45F&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 05, 2017, 07:12:37 PM
Available Now

Daryl Duke's The Silent Partner (1978) on blu-ray from TC Entertainment (Japan)

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A timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash.

The Silent Partner (1978) - YesAsia (http://www.yesasia.com/us/the-silent-partner-blu-ray-hd-new-master-edition-japan-version/1038201752-0-0-0-en/info.html)

Also currently streaming on Filmstruck (https://watch.filmstruck.com/#!/detail/1300007052)

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 11, 2017, 06:28:20 PM
Quote from: wilder on May 09, 2016, 03:50:12 PM
Another unbelievable, was-never-going-to-happen announcement. Everything is on the table, now. I love the cinematography in this film.

Fall 2016 TBD

Francis Delia's (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=13076.msg335965#msg335965) Freeway (1988) on blu-ray from Kino

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There are 600 miles of freeway in Los Angeles. Every night, millions of angry motorists speed through its asphalt maze. Some of them have guns. One of them enjoys killing people. Now a traumatized ER nurse (Darlanne Fluegel of Crime Story), an acerbic talk-radio host (Richard Belzer of Homicide and Law & Order: SVU) and a stranger with a dark secret (James Russo of Donnie Brasco) must join to stop the bible-quoting madman (Billy Drago of The Untouchables) who has promised the panicked city one final fast lane massacre. Michael Callan, Kenneth Tobey and Clint Howard co-star in this suspense thriller directed by Francis Delia that shocked audiences at the height of LA's real-life freeway shooting sprees.




New release date: July 18, 2017 (https://www.amazon.com/Freeway-Blu-ray/dp/B072LHWXYK?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-081-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B072LHWXYK&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 12, 2017, 06:12:26 PM
August 29, 2017

Robert Aldrich's The Big Knife (1955) on blu-ray from Arrow Academy, from a new 2K restoration from original film elements produced by Arrow Films exclusively for this release

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Mere months after delivering one of the definitive examples of film noir with Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich brought a noir flavour to Hollywood with his classic adaptation of Clifford Odets stage play, The Big Knife.

Charles Castle, one of Hollywood s biggest stars, looks like he has it all. But his marriage is falling apart and his wife is threatening to leave him if he renews his contract. Studio boss Stanley Shriner Hoff isn't taking the news too well, and he'll do anything he can to get his man to sign on the dotted line even if means exposing dark secrets...


The Big Knife (1955) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Knife-Blu-ray/dp/B072BRQDHY?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-011-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B072BRQDHY&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 13, 2017, 05:53:34 AM
August 15, 2017

Martin Ritt's The Long, Hot Summer (1958) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Accused barn burner and con man Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

Pre-order from Screen Archives (https://www.screenarchives.com/) on August 2nd








August 15, 2017

Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.

Pre-order from Screen Archives (https://www.screenarchives.com/) on August 2nd






September 5, 2017

William Friedkin's adaptation of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party (1968) on blu-ray from Kino

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The down-at-heel lodger in a seaside boarding house is menaced by two mysterious strangers, who eventually take him away.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 16, 2017, 09:30:05 PM
2017 TBD

Sidney Lumet's Running on Empty (1988) from Warner Archive

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After antiwar activists Annie and Arthur Pope (Christine Lahti and Judd Hirsch) blew up a napalm lab in 1971, they became lifelong fugitives. They and their children have stayed just one step ahead of the law, running from state to state, job to job, identity to identity. But now elder son Danny (River Phoenix) wants to stop running from a past not his. And to do so, he might never see his on-the-lam family again.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 17, 2017, 09:33:31 PM
2017 TBD

Douglas Sirk's La Habanera (1937) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new restoration

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Trapped in Puerto Rico, a beautiful young Swede is torn between her passionate, but mildly abusive South American oligarch husband and her longing for her European homeland.

Legendary director Douglas Sirk's (Written on the Wind, Imitation of Life) La Habanera is a lushly poetic and boldly modern musical drama decades ahead of its time. Working at Germany's famed UFA Studios (Metropolis), under the very noses of the Nazi authorities that would later him into Hollywood exile and eminence, Sirk transformed a glossy musical vehicle for UFA's "new Garbo" Zarah Leander into a dark an intimate anti-colonial melodrama.

Desperate to escape the "cold Swedish minds" of her homeland, beautiful Astree (Leander) falls under the enchanting spell of the Caribbean love serenade La Habanera and into the arms of Puerto Rican land baron Don Pedro de Avila (Ferdinand Marian). But ten years later, when Astree's old flame Dr. Sven Nagel (Karl Martell) arrives in Puerto Rico on an errand of mercy, all is far from heavenly. Astree is trapped in a loveless marriage to Don Pedro and the island wind that once conveyed the music of romance now carries death in the form of an outbreak of airborne tropical fever. While racing to find a cure for Astree's fever stricken son, Dr. Nagel most elude both the island authorities that would have him jailed for revealing their fatal cover-up and a psychotically jealous Don Pedro who would rather see Astree dead than reunited with her last love.

Douglas Sirk gilds La Habanera with all the dazzling compositions, swooping camera work and ravishing but doomed characters that distinguish his revered 50's Universal melodramas. Cooly precise yet extravagantly emotional, La Habanera is the work of an assured cinematic poet and compelling tragedian already at the peak of his skill.



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 21, 2017, 11:28:28 AM
has anyone seen this movie? i bought it before canceling the order because i realized i needed to buy Out 1, i just needed to do that, but now i'm stalled on this

QuoteWhile travelling the countryside to locate his nephew, a small town doctor finds himself interacting with people from his past and future.



i mean some of those places feel straight lifted from Zhangke's Unknown Pleasures

it was warmly but moderately received by critics. Film Comment placed it 15th on its 2016 list. i liked reading internet people feeling pissed about this movie being underappreciated.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 30, 2017, 05:02:35 PM
August 21, 2017

Sidney Lumet's The Deadly Affair (1966) on blu-ray from Powerhouse Films/Indicator (UK)

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Director Sidney Lumet tackles this cold war spy thriller based on a novel by master of the genre, John Le Carre. James Mason plays British secret agent Charles Dobbs, who's puzzled by the sudden suicide of a man he's recently investigated. The suicide seems contrary to his own findings, and Dobbs questions the recent widow (Simone Signoret) in an effort to understand the man's state of mind. When the Foreign Office tells Dobbs to drop the inquiry, he persists, even enlisting a retired investigator when he turns up further disturbing evidence. All of this takes place while Dobbs is dealing with the news that his frequently unfaithful wife (Harriet Andersson) has been carrying on an affair with his friend and protege (Maximilian Schell).

The Deadly Affair (1966) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Deadly-Affair-Blu-ray/dp/B071LJV8GR?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B071LJV8GR&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






2017 TBD

Woodey Allen's Take the Money and Run (1969) on blu-ray from Kino

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Virgil Starkwell (Allen), having no talent for his beloved cello, turns to larceny as a career. Unfailingly optimistic, he is nevertheless a complete criminal failure - although his prison breakouts are often successful. And with the support of his loving wife Louise (Janet Margolin), he may yet pull off a successful bank heist...if he can just manage to write out a legible stickup note!


   
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 01, 2017, 11:15:11 PM
Quote from: wilder on July 01, 2016, 05:53:37 PM
2017 TBD

Toshio Matsumoto's Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) on blu-ray from Cinelicious Pics

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A loose adaptation of Oedipus Rex set in the underground gay counterculture of 1960s Tokyo. Cross-dressing club-kid Eddie (played by real-life transvestite entertainer extraordinaire Peter, famed for his role as Kyoami the Fool in Akira Kurosawa's Ran) vies with a rival drag-queen for the favours of drug-dealing cabaret-manager Gonda. Passions escalate and blood begins to flow — before all tensions are released in a jolting climax that prefigures by nearly thirty years Tsai Ming-liang's similarly scandalous The River.

An important work of the Japanese New Wave, Funeral Parade of Roses combines elements of arthouse, documentary and experimental cinema. The film was a major influence on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971).



yeah sorry this just landed on my radar. because it's playing at Cinefamily the end of this month

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 04, 2017, 08:42:07 PM
June 22, 2017

Larry Cohen's The Ambulance (1990) on blu-ray from Koch Media (Germany)

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Josh meets a young woman who shortly afterwards collapses and is rushed to hospital in an ambulance. He follows after her only to find that there is no record her being admitted, and he soon learns that her room mate also vanished after being picked up by the same ambulance. Convinced of a conspiracy, Josh proceeds to investigate, despite the discouragement of the police.
      
The Ambulance (1990) - Amazon Germany (https://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B06XWS7FWY/dvdbeaver0c-21/ref=nosim)





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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 05, 2017, 03:24:37 AM
August 10, 2017

Sydney Pollack's The Electric Horseman (1979) on blu-ray from Koch Media (Germany).

Shot by Owen Roizman (Network, Straight Time, The Exorcist, The Stepford Wives, The French Connection)

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A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perform with a $12 million horse that he discovers is being doped to remain docile, he flees into the desert astride the beast in an act of defiance. A story-hungry female reporter gives chase.

The Electric Horseman (1979) - Amazon Germany (https://www.amazon.de/elektrische-Reiter-Blu-ray-Robert-Redford/dp/B072FHQTZ3/ref=sr_1_1_twi_blu_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1497343007&sr=8-1&keywords=electric+horseman)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 05, 2017, 05:22:45 PM
June 13, 2017

James Landis' Rat Fink (1965) on blu-ray from Retromedia, from a new 2K restoration, limited to 1,000 copies

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One of the most exciting cinematic finds of the year was the discovery of a 35mm print of Rat Rink. Considered lost for over 50 years, its original elements destroyed in a fire, a print was recently located in an old warehouse. The film, severely damaged by crippling arc burns, was successfully restored to its present condition by Retromedia and represents the final "missing link" in the stellar career of Oscar-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond (McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Heaven's Gate).

Cult director, James Landis (The Sadist), skillfully employs Zsigmond's brilliant black and white imagery to bring RAT FINK's story of betrayal and murder to vivd life. The bizarre story of the film's history continues with its star, Schuyler Hayden, an enigmatic personality who mounted the production in an effort to achieve stardom after only appearing a spattering of small, inconsequential roles on TV. His performance here is outstanding, generating solid reviews from Variety and other showbiz journals. He was at one point compared to a young Warren Beatty.


Rat Fink (1965) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Rat-Fink-Blu-ray/dp/B072Q2N8TS?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-027-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B072Q2N8TS&m=)



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 06, 2017, 04:17:20 PM
Fall 2017 TBD

The Outer Limits: The Complete Original Series (1963-1965) on blu-ray from Kino

Season 1 (32 Episodes - 8 Discs) is expected to arrive on the market in later this year, and Season 2 (17 Episodes - 5 Discs) is planned for early 2018

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 09, 2017, 04:22:00 PM
August 22, 2017

William A. Wellman's Beggars of Life (1928) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 2K restoration

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After killing her treacherous step-father, Nancy tries to escape the country with Jim, a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.

Beggars of Life (1928) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Beggars-of-Life-Blu-ray/dp/B07218DM8C?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-082-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07218DM8C&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 09, 2017, 04:37:23 PM
i want it
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 10, 2017, 05:01:50 PM
August 15, 2017

Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 4K transfer

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By far the most ambitious, unflinchingly graphic and stylistically influential western ever mounted, The Good The Bad And The Ugly is an engrossing action shot through with a volatile mix of myth and realism. Clint Eastwood returns as the "Man With No Name," this time teaming with two gunslingers to pursue a cache of $20,000-and letting no one, not even warring factions in a civil war, stand in their way.

From sun-drenched panoramas to bold hard close-ups, exceptional camera work captures the beauty and cruelty of the barren landscape and the hardened characters who stride unwaveringly through it. Forging a vibrant and yet detached style of action that had not been seen before, and has never been matched since, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly shatters the western mold in true Eastwood style.


The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Good-the-Bad-and-the-Ugly-Blu-ray/dp/B0716XZB2B?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0716XZB2B&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 15, 2017, 04:19:04 PM
Quote from: wilder on October 27, 2016, 11:42:09 PM
May 23, 2017

The Coen Bros. Barton Fink (1991) on blu-ray from Kino

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Set in 1941, an intellectual New York playwright Barton Fink accepts an offer to write movie scripts in L.A. He finds himself with writer's block when required to do a B-movie script. His neighbor tries to help, but he continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him.

Barton Fink (1991) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Barton-Fink-Blu-ray/dp/B071GB3P5P?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B071GB3P5P&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


New release date - August 15, 2017 (https://www.amazon.com/Barton-Fink-Blu-ray/dp/B071GB3P5P?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B071GB3P5P&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 25, 2017, 08:00:42 PM
August 8, 2017

Marco Ferreri's The Flesh (1991) on blu-ray from Cult Epics, from a new restoration from the original 35mm elements

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The Flesh a.k.a. La Carne is a romantic black comedy about a divorced piano player named Paolo (Sergio Castellitto) who meets and falls in love with a most beauteously busty woman (bombshell Francesca Dellera), who uses her special powers to turn the man into her slave. The film depicts the oftentimes torturous nature of desire and the power of women in a cinematic work where Francesca becomes a symbolic representation of male desire, with her voluptuous figure and sex appeal being intoxicating to Paolo. While he is completely taken by his desire for Francesca, she eventually gets bored with him and decides to leave. Unfortunately for Francesca, Paolo loves her and has no intention of allowing her to go.

The Flesh (1991) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Flesh-Blu-ray/dp/B072ZM1G9Z?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-000-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B072ZM1G9Z&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)







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Pim de la Parra's Obsessions (1969) on blu-ray from Cult Epics

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The Obscure film OBSESSIONS (aka HOLE IN THE WALL) was directed by Dutch artsploitation auteur Pim de La Parra and co-produced by his longtime collaborator Wim Verstappen (Blue Movie). This gritty psychedelic Hitchcockian mystery, which is notable for being the first Dutch English-language film, starts in a savagely brutal fashion when a bloody painting of Vincent van Gogh falls from a wall and exposes a makeshift peephole that eventually leads to student protagonist Nils Janssen (Dieter Giessler) becoming an unwitting witness to a gruesome sex crime next door. When his young fiancée Marina (Alexandra Stewart of Truffaut's DAY FOR NIGHT), an enterprising journalist, tells him about a report of a murder that she is writing, he naturally wonders if one has to do with the other. This classic exploitation film was the birth of auteur cinema in Holland, and inspired filmmakers such as legendary Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven to make films. Originally released in over 80 countries, the film stayed unreleased in the U.S. (and France) until now. Arguably most notably, the film was co-written by a-then-young Martin Scorsese. Scored by legendary Hitchcock composer Bernard Herrmann (who later scored TAXI DRIVER). Includes new HD Transfer and bonus features.

Obsesions (1969) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Obsessions-Blu-ray/dp/B06XX22TRD?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-028-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B06XX22TRD&m=)


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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 26, 2017, 03:52:14 PM
October 2017 TBD

Billy Wilder's Avanti! (1972) on blu-ray from Kino

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A wealthy American discovers romance and the meaning of avanti while in Italy.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 26, 2017, 04:16:02 PM
wilder please update me about some of your recent most joyous region a blu-ray experiences
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 26, 2017, 05:19:19 PM
I haven't bought as many Region A titles recently but here are a few:

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 26, 2017, 05:23:56 PM
oh yeah you reading my mind or what. thanks. you know who understands us? Matthew Lillard in Serial Mom. on or after July 11, when the sale begins, i'm going to buy Multiple Maniacs out of sheer necessity
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 06, 2017, 06:20:52 PM
September 18, 2017

Lubitsch in Berlin (1918-1921) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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Before he arrived in Hollywood to leave his indelible (and inimitable) mark on timeless comedies like Trouble in Paradise and The Shop Around the Corner, Ernst Lubitsch created an expansive body of work in Germany that proved to be as varied in its tone as it was sophisticated in its measure of man and woman. This set collects six recently restored works from the silent phase of Lubitsch's career, and casts new light on the director both as a fully-formed comic master, and as a virtuoso of cinematographic technique.

Lubitsch in Berlin - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lubitsch-in-Berlin-Blu-ray/dp/B073LBYQ29?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B073LBYQ29&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



August 29, 2017

Dick Maas' Amsterdamned (1988) on blu-ray from Blue Underground

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A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and twelve-year-old daughter may be closer than he is to finding the killer.

Amsterdamned - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Amsterdamned-Blu-ray/dp/B071GW2L2Z?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-081-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B071GW2L2Z&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






2017 TBD

Dick Maas' The Lift (1983) on blu-ray from Blue Underground

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A lift begins displaying some erratic behavior, like trapping some party goers and nearly suffocating them, and decapitating a security guard. Felix, the technician from the lift company, can't find anything wrong with the circuitry. When he and a nosy reporter begin asking questions of the lift company's electronics partner (Rising Sun Electronics) his boss puts him on a leave of absence. A subsequent visit to a professor leads them to believe that some evil experiments are being conducted with MICROCHIPS.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 07, 2017, 05:11:20 PM
Quote from: wilder on February 20, 2017, 04:39:28 PM
2017 TBD

Anthony Mann's T-Men (1947) on blu-ray from ClassicFlix

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Dennis O'Brien is a treasury agent determined to bring a counterfeiting ring to justice. O'Brien and his partner Tony Genaro go undercover to gain the confidence of the ruthless Detroit mob responsible for the phony money.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 12, 2017, 01:39:41 AM
Fall 2017 TBD

John Cromwell's Since You Went Away (1944) on blu-ray from Kino. Cinematography by Stanley Cortez (The Night of the Hunter)

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With her husband Tim off at war, Anne Hilton (Colbert) struggles to be a pillar of strength for her daughters Jane (Jones) and Bridget (Temple). During America's darkest hours, she bravely steers her girls through heartbreak and hardships as she eagerly awaits news from overseas and wonders if life will ever be the same.


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Fall 2017 TBD

Mario Bava's Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966) on blu-ray from Kino

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Considered by many to be one of the Italian horror-meister Mario Bava's best, this occult murder mystery skillfully interweaves elements of the 'giallo' thriller formula with a creepy Gothic ghost story. Set in modern day Transylvania, an evil curse has fallen on the village which has been plagued by a series of bizarre murders, in which female victims keep turning up with gold coins embedded in their hearts. In order to free the village from this evil curse, the local sorceress (Fabienne Dali) must find and destroy the vengeful Baroness Graps (Gianni Vivaldi), who along with the ghost of her murdered daughter, seek to claim the villagers' souls in retribution.






September 11, 2017

Mario Bava's Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966) on blu-ray from Arrow UK

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Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kill-Baby-Kill-Blu-ray/dp/B072K3QGTL?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B072K3QGTL&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 13, 2017, 04:49:44 PM
September 12, 2017

Steven Spielberg's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) on 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 14, 2017, 07:54:13 PM
October 23, 2017

John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) on limited edition blu-ray from Arrow UK, from a new 4K transfer from the original camera negative supervised by Carpenter and director of photography Dean Cundey, in both steelbook and box set versions.

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The Thing (1982) Steelbook - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B073LZD7QF/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)

The Thing (1982) Box Set - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B073M2946S/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)



October 23/24, 2017

George A. Romero Between Night and Dawn (1971-1973) on limited edition blu-ray from Arrow UK and Arrow US

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George Romero's name may be synonymous with the living dead subgenre, but his filmography is far richer and more varied than his reputation as "the zombie guy" would suggest. Following the breakout success of his debut feature Night of the Living Dead, the director would embark upon a series of projects which, whilst firmly rooted in the horror genre for the most part, demonstrate a master filmmaker with more than mere gut-munching on his mind.

In There's Always Vanilla, Romero's sophomore 1971 directorial effort, young drifter Chris and beautiful model Lynn embark upon a tumultuous relationship which seems doomed from the outset. 1972's Season of the Witch (originally filmed as Jack's Wife but released to theaters under the title of Hungry Wives) follows the exploits of Joan Mitchell – a housewife whose dissatisfaction with her humdrum life leads to an unhealthy interest in the occult. Lastly, 1973's The Crazies, which sees Romero returning to more "straight" horror territory, has a small rural town finding itself in the grip of an infection which send its hosts into a violent, homicidal frenzy.

Taken together, these three early works, made in the period between Romero's celebrated living dead outings Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, serve to display the broader thematic concerns and auteurist leanings of a skilled craftsman too often pigeonholed within the genre.



Contains:

-There's Always Vanilla (1971) from a new 2K restoration from the original negative
-Season of the Witch (1972) from a new 4K restoration from original film elements
-The Crazies (1973) from a new 4K restoration from original film elements

George A. Romero Between Night and Dawn - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/George-A-Romero-Betweeen-Night-and-Dawn-Blu-ray/dp/B073LF8C98?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B073LF8C98&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)

George A. Romero Between Night and Dawn - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/George-A-Romero-Between-Night-and-Day-Blu-ray/dp/B073LYWG7L?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B073LYWG7L&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 16, 2017, 11:03:37 AM
i was like in this mood and i googled "black and white cartoons blu-ray" because that was my green light then, and long story short i landed at thunderbean (https://www.amazon.com/s?marketplaceID=ATVPDKIKX0DER&me=AKK5M0EM2CKQI&merchant=AKK5M0EM2CKQI&redirect=true).

first i ordered

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and that's because Fleischer's Popeye (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye_the_Sailor_filmography_(Fleischer_Studios)) started me on this btw. but so, this 1930s cartoon is amazing to me

QuoteWillie is a young lad who tells of his many outlandish adventures, which are then depicted on-screen. His fantastic accounts are in fact, outright lies, or "whoppers". His stories are usually preceded by his memorable catchphrase, "Say, did I ever tell ya this one?"

they were beginning to imagine cartoons and they were trying to figure out how to do it. they were like "let's have the kid imagine" and it works awesomely. so, sound is around, but barely anyone talks for some reason. everyone moves in that jumpy jazz way, like in Popeye, and it's more that things happen than people say things

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i haven't opened it yet because i'm so excited

but i opened Willie Whopper, who slays. Willie Whopper made me feel so excited that i've already ordered two more.

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honestly i'd been wanting to watch holiday themed cartoons anyway, because of Nicktoons (https://www.amazon.com/Nicktoons-Christmas-Tales-Good-Tidings/dp/B0000AI425). i'd been thinking about this kind of thing so boom click order fuck yeah

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are you familiar with Snafu through your Looney Tunes discs? this is early people who went on to do that, e.g. Chuck Jones. do you have Looney Tunes discs? can i borrow them? Snafu trips me out in particular because of its writing by Dr. Seuss (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0317450/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1). voice by Mel Blanc (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000305/)

just further establishing myself as a guy into cartoons. Ricky and Morty season 3 and BoJack Horseman season 4, hell yeah, i can't wait to catch up with those shows one day
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 16, 2017, 08:32:48 PM
If I played videogames I'd be playing this:

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 17, 2017, 11:22:39 PM
September 29, 2017

Doug Pray's documentary Hype! (1996) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Drop into the Pacific Northwest in the early '90s and watch a vibrant underground music scene explode into a global "grunge" media frenzy. Hype! follows the music from local bands playing for their friends, to Sub Pop Record's brilliant exploitation of "the Seattle Sound," to Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" hitting #1 on the charts. Questions of money, authenticity, and fame arise as "grunge fashion" hits the runways and a mass migration of wanna-be Seattle bands saturates the city. The Northwest experience is one of humor, loss, and epic irony. With intense live performances by Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Pearl Jam, and many more, Hype! rocks the definitive story of the world's last great local music scene.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 18, 2017, 06:31:33 PM
Quote from: wilder on April 18, 2017, 06:43:10 PM
August 22, 2017

Dusty Nelson's Effects (1980) on blu-ray from AGFA and Something Weird Video, restored in 4K from the only 35mm print in existence by The American Genre Film Archive (AGFA)

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Cobbled together with loose change by George Romero's friends, Effects is a mesmerizing D.I.Y. frightmare that no one talks about, but everyone should. A group of coked-up filmmakers -- including Tom Dawn of the Dead Savini, Joe Day of the Dead Pilato, and John Tales from the Darkside: The Movie Harrison -- gather in Pittsburgh to make a slasher. As filming begins and accidents happen, it's clear that something isn't right. And no one can be trusted. Landing somewhere between Snuff and a student film by John Carpenter, Effects is a meta-enhanced takedown on the philosophy of horror that doubles as a sleazy and terrifying movie on its own.

Effects (1980) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Effects-Blu-ray/dp/B06ZYRPZH8?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-011-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B06ZYRPZH8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 19, 2017, 09:01:08 PM
Fall 2017 TBD

Edgar Reitz's Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (1984-2004) on blu-ray from Second Sight (UK). Betting Criterion will also put it out eventually. Stanley Kubrick was a huge fan.

Quote from: Jan Harlan"Stanley was completely taken by Heimat. The idea of telling such an 'impossible to tell story' through the eyes of a bunch of simple villagers he considered completely new and brilliant. To show 'heaven' convincingly and without special effects on the top floor of a country inn and have the dead people observe 'us' – he was deeply moved. There are a number of other scenes like that. He was so taken by it that he hired the art director and costume designer for preparation of Wartime Lies (Aryan Papers). There are some specific scenes we saw together again and again (having videotaped the BBC2 broadcast) and I remember it all very well."

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Several series of films in 32 episodes written and directed by Edgar Reitz which view life in Germany between 1919 and 2000 through the eyes of a family from the Hunsrück area of the Rhineland. Personal and domestic life is set against glimpses of wider social and political events. The combined length of the 32 films is 53 hours and 25 minutes, making it one of the longest series of feature-length films in cinema history.

The title Heimat is a German word meaning "homeland" or "home place." Usage has come to include that of an ironic reference to the film genre known as Heimatfilm which was popular in Germany in the 1950s. Heimat films were characterized by rural settings, sentimental tone and simplistic morality.

Aesthetically, all three series are notable for their frequent switching between color and black-and-white film to convey different emotional states.





Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 20, 2017, 11:08:02 AM
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Release date: out across the sea, probably headed to Criterion

a (https://trailersfromhell.com/ikarie-xb-1/)
QuoteFor the discerning science fiction fan, this is the best of the Eastern-bloc Cold War Sci-fi epics, a genuinely brilliant and warmly human 'Voyage to the End of the Universe' restored in 4k resolution. It's from before 2001: A Space Odyssey and has an equally wondrous but totally different vision of the future. Hopefully this will soon be readily available here; buying it required some clever footwork by Foreign Exchange of Culver City. Starring my favorite Czech personalities Radovan Lukavský, Zdenek Stepánek, Frantisek Smolík, Irena Kacírková and Dana Medrická. Please Marek, forgive my incompetent diacritical marks! On Blu-ray from NFA (Czech).

b (http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=587671#p587671)
QuoteJanus is now the official North American partner for the NFA. From the titles they mention (in addition to the already in-print Marketa Lazarová) we could expect The Cremator, All My Good Countrymen, Three Wishes for Cinderella, and Ikarie XB1, among others.




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Release date: August 22, 2017

MoC trailer:



QuoteI can't think of a better movie to demonstrate how a good silent picture communicates, as opposed to a talking picture that just relies on dialogue. Varieté has few scenes and few dialogue inter-titles; most everything is communicated through the stylized acting and the psychologically 'active' camera. Emil Jannings' performance is 90% externalization of feelings — there's no information being given, just emotions. Boss reacts to his wife, and then he reacts to his baby. We see what a gentle and caring soul he is, and he also makes a human connection with us. Then Bertha-Marie nails Boss Huller's attention with her large, dark eyes, and he is lost. We see him resist but the attraction is too great. The basic emotions flowing across Janning's face show a lot of nuance, and they cross all language barriers. Everyone understands Boss Huller's situation as a prisoner, when his whole body seems to sag in shame. Everybody can follow Boss's thoughts when he covets the desirable Bertha-Marie. Emil Jannings isn't a handsome man, but his acting makes us identify strongly with him. If this guy can desert the baby he loves so much, he's clearly acting under an irresistible compulsion.

basically this entire review (https://trailersfromhell.com/variet/) Glenn Erickson is trying to explain how good this movie is.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 20, 2017, 04:18:39 PM
2017 TBD

Arthur Penn's Night Moves (1975) on blu-ray form Warner Archive, from a new 4K remaster

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L.A. detective Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) has problems. Missing persons and bedroom stakeouts are no match for his glory days as a pro football player. His wife is having a not-so-secret affair. And while sorting things out, he takes on the case of a runaway teenager that may be a lot more than he can handle.





September 5, 2017

Carl Reiner's Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) on blu-ray from Universal

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Parodies of the '40s hard boiled detective genre, with a very clever conceit: weaving the plot and production design around memorable movie clips (The Killers, The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, White Heat, This Gun for Hire, Sorry, Wrong Number, Notorious). Cool Rigby Reardon tries solving an incomprehensible mystery with the assistance of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Burt Lancaster, Fred MacMurray, Ingrid Bergman, and Ray Milland, among others.





October 9, 2017

Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir (1952) on blu-ray from Arrow Academy (UK)

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The French writer Guy de Maupassant has inspired many great filmmakers. Among those to adapt his short stories and novels were Jean-Luc Godard, Kenji Mizoguchi, Walerian Borowczyk, Harry Kümel, Luis Buñuel and Christian-Jacque. But it was arguably Max Ophuls, with his 1952 feature, Le Plaisir, who proved to be the most adept.

Le Plaisir takes three of de Maupassant's stories as its source: in Le Masque, a masked dandy conceals a secret; in La Maison Tellier, the girls of a small-town brothel are taken on an outing to attend the communion of the madam's niece; and in La Modèle, a painter falls in love with his model, but the course of love isn't as smooth as either expected.

To tell these tales, Ophuls assembled a remarkable cast of French talent, including Jean Gabin (Pépé le Moko, La Grande illusion), Pierre Brasseur (Eyes Without a Face, Spotlight on a Murderer), Danielle Darrieux (Madame de..., Les Demoiselles de Rochefort), Claude Dauphin (Casque d'Or, Barbarella), Simone Simon (Cat People, La Ronde) and many more besides.






October 16/17, 2017

Federico Fellini's The Voice of the Moon (1990) on blu-ray from Arrow Academy (UK) and Arrow US, from a new 2K restoration of the original film elements

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The swansong of the great Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini (La dolce vita, 8½), The Voice of the Moon emerged without fanfare: it played the Cannes Film Festival out of competition after its Italian premiere and failed to secure distribution in North America and the UK. This new restoration from the original negative seeks to right that wrong and provide the film with a second chance...

Adapted from a novel by Ermano Cavazzoni, The Voice of the Moon concerns itself with Ivo Salvini (Roberto Benigni, Life Is Beautiful), recently released from a mental hospital and in love with Aldini (Nadia Ottaviani). As he attempts to win her heart, he wanders a strange, dreamlike landscape and encounters various oddball characters, including Gonnella (Paolo Villagio, Fantozzi), a paranoid old man prone to conspiracy theories.

Concluding a career that had stretched back more than fifty years, The Voice of the Moon combines the nostalgia of Amarcord (the film is set in Emilia-Romagna countryside of the director's youth), the surreal satire of City of Women and the naïf-adrift-in-a-brutal-world structure of La strada. Plenty for Fellini fans to get their teeth into.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 20, 2017, 05:10:31 PM
Quote from: jenkins on July 20, 2017, 11:08:02 AM
b (http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=587671#p587671)
QuoteJanus is now the official North American partner for the NFA. From the titles they mention (in addition to the already in-print Marketa Lazarová) we could expect The Cremator, All My Good Countrymen, Three Wishes for Cinderella, and Ikarie XB1, among others.

right, right

The Cremator (1969)

QuoteSet in World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.



All My Good Countrymen(1969)

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QuoteVarious scenes in the life of a tight-knit community in Czechoslovakia exploring the human spirit in the backdrop of the political changes that they experience.

no trailer but two wildly different scenes





Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)

QuoteLife changes dramatically for a Czech housemaid when the house driver gives her three magical hazel nuts.



youtube description:

QuoteOne of the most beloved films in all Eastern European cinema, Václav Vorlíček's reworking of the classic Cinderella tale is both delightful and unconventional. Deviating from the original story, yet retaining an air of real magic and beauty, Three Wishes for Cinderella takes the familiar fairy tale and invests it with a feisty and rebellious Cinderella who - far from being some passive beauty - rides a horse, knows how to hunt and actively pursues her handsome Prince.

Shot on location in around the famous Švihov castle and the surrounding forests of Bohemia, the film grounds the familiar fairy tale in a realistic setting with down-to-earth characters, and a remarkable central performance by the young Libuše Šafránková.

Three Wishes for Cinderella became a treasured Christmas holiday classic in various European countries, and one which continues to charm and attract new audiences.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 20, 2017, 05:48:37 PM
Quote from: jenkins on July 20, 2017, 11:08:02 AM
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QuoteFor the discerning science fiction fan, this is the best of the Eastern-bloc Cold War Sci-fi epics, a genuinely brilliant and warmly human 'Voyage to the End of the Universe' restored in 4k resolution. It's from before 2001: A Space Odyssey and has an equally wondrous but totally different vision of the future. Hopefully this will soon be readily available here; buying it required some clever footwork by Foreign Exchange of Culver City. Starring my favorite Czech personalities Radovan Lukavský, Zdenek Stepánek, Frantisek Smolík, Irena Kacírková and Dana Medrická. Please Marek, forgive my incompetent diacritical marks! On Blu-ray from NFA (Czech).

That's what I'm talking about. Some restored footage:




Again, I'm reminded of the thing Matt said in the Ghost Story thread, which is beginning to feel like a manifesto for filmmaking in the 21st century:

Quote from: matt35mm on January 27, 2017, 05:35:25 PM
One thing I'll say is that I've recently been thinking about how we've reached the limit of how deep a literal/realistic approach to storytelling in film can go. At least for me as a viewer. There've been a bunch of recent movies that have done a great job of being observant and understated and demonstrating all these things that are true about how people behave and how things happen and so on, but... I find that I can't give that much of a shit about it anymore. Meanwhile, movies that engage with symbolism and theme are striking me as able to probe much deeper into its ideas, because of the distillation of its ideas into images and moments. There is so much more feeling in it. I would never say "cinema is dead" but I agree with Scorsese that "images don't mean anything anymore" in the great majority of contemporary cinema, especially when compared to older cinema. Most filmmakers aren't even trying to create new and striking and meaningful images.

My favorite movies of the past few years are incredibly playful with the filmmaking, even when the themes are serious. There is a joy in it. An engagement with the form, and the possibilities. Even though the word "playful" sounds unserious, it's really the only way to be serious.

THE SEVENTH SEAL is playful. PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE is playful. ERASERHEAD is playful. CITIZEN KANE is playful. POINT BLANK is playful. THE LOVE WITCH is playful. THE RED SHOES is playful. A GHOST STORY is playful.


So many of these older Russian and Czech movies are great examples of this storytelling style. Most of them are fairly difficult to find in official home video releases, at least English-friendly ones.


Quote from: jenkins on July 20, 2017, 05:10:31 PM
The Cremator (1969)



QuoteSet in World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.


Hell yeah. My boy Juraj (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=12204.msg348227#msg348227). He also made a super cool adaptation of Beauty and the Beast.

Quote from: Senses of CinemaThe 1978 adaptation by the Czechoslovak film-maker Juraj Herz is both a vital addition to – and a radical departure from – the tradition of fairy tales on film. Its title, Panna a netvor, has been translated with equal validity as The Beauty and the Beast or The Virgin and the Monster. As this alternate title implies, the dimension of horror (not to mention outright revulsion) is far stronger in this version than in any of its more mainstream rivals. The Graeco-Roman myth of Cupid and Psyche confronts its heroine with the very real fear that "the husband who comes secretly gliding into your bed at night is an enormous snake, with widely gaping jaws, a body that could coil around you a dozen times and a neck swollen with deadly poison."1 Not one of the better-known film versions conveys anything like this degree of terror.

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Beauty and the Beast (1978) trailer on Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/173961226)


Quote from: jenkins on July 20, 2017, 05:10:31 PM
Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)



QuoteLife changes dramatically for a Czech housemaid when the house driver gives her three magical hazel nuts.

QuoteOne of the most beloved films in all Eastern European cinema, Václav Vorlíček's reworking of the classic Cinderella tale is both delightful and unconventional. Deviating from the original story, yet retaining an air of real magic and beauty, Three Wishes for Cinderella takes the familiar fairy tale and invests it with a feisty and rebellious Cinderella who - far from being some passive beauty - rides a horse, knows how to hunt and actively pursues her handsome Prince.

Shot on location in around the famous Švihov castle and the surrounding forests of Bohemia, the film grounds the familiar fairy tale in a realistic setting with down-to-earth characters, and a remarkable central performance by the young Libuše Šafránková.

Three Wishes for Cinderella became a treasured Christmas holiday classic in various European countries, and one which continues to charm and attract new audiences.


Never heard of this. Looks really interesting.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 21, 2017, 07:20:35 PM
September 15, 2017

David Cronenberg's eXistenZ (1999) on limited edition blu-ray from Ledick Filmhandel GmbH (Germany). Unfortunately it's being sourced from the same lackluster transfer as every other eXistenZ blu-ray release thus far, with minor brightness adjustments. However, this German release will include all of the extra features that were absent from the Region A barebones Echo Bridge disc, including three audio commentaries.

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Video game designer Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) has created a virtual reality game called eXistenZ. After a crazed fan attempts to kill her, Allegra goes on the run with Ted (Jude Law), a young businessman who falls into the role of bodyguard. In an attempt to save her game, Allegra implants into Ted's body the video game pod that carries a damaged copy of eXistenZ. Allegra and Ted engage in a series of experiences that blur the lines between fantasy and reality.

eXistenZ (1999) - Amazon Germany (https://www.amazon.de/EXistenZ-Blu-ray/dp/B074194DX6?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom04-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B074194DX6&m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 23, 2017, 05:17:44 AM
September 26, 2017

Walter Hill's The Long Riders (1979) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 4K restoration

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Jesse James and his gang of outlaws ride again in this "extraordinary" Western that pulsates with hard-driving action and electrifying drama. Four sets of acclaimed actor brothers - Dennis and Randy Quaid, Stacy and James Keach, Christopher and Nicholas Guest and Keith, Robert and David Carradine -- each depict real-life siblings in emotionally charged portrayals of the Old West's legendary bandits.

The notorious James-Younger gang is the most famous group of outlaws in the country, robbing banks, trains and stagecoaches with a sense of daring that makes them folk heroes throughout the land. But when the mighty Pinkerton detective agency swears to track them down, these criminals must face an awesome enemy that will stop at nothing to see them behind bars. ..or dead! Only through the strength of their loyalty and blood ties can the outlaws hope to survive the brutal pursuits, unexpected betrayals and blistering showdowns that mark the end of their dangerous ride.


The Long Riders (1979) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Long-Riders-Blu-ray/dp/B07445CT9G?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-000-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07445CT9G&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






November 7, 2017

John Landis' Into the Night (1985) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Ed Orkin (Jeff Goldblum) is an insomniac with a cheating wife and a dull job. His chances for excitement look hopeless until a mysterious blond named Diana (Michelle Pfeiffer) drops onto the hood of his car. Now it's Ed's turn for some adventure and romance as Diana leads him on a merry and murderous chase where the payoff could be dollars or death.





February 13, 2018

Martn Rosen's The Plague Dogs (1982) on blu-ray from Shout Factory. From the director of Watership Down.

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Two dogs escape the research facility where they've been subjected to cruel experiments, and are subsequently hunted by the government because they may carry the plague.






2017 TBD

Kinji Fukasaku's The Green Slime (1968) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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After a perilous mission to a huge asteroid, a crew returns to its space station, unaware a bit of ooze from the asteroid clings to a crewman's uniform. The green goop grows - into murderous, tentacled monsters. And as station members fight to live, gunk from the monsters' wounds turns into more monsters!






2017 TBD

John Landis' Innocent Blood (1992) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Anne Parillaud stars as sexy vampire Marie who accidentally neglects to finish off the mob boss (Robert Loggia), her latest snack. When he awakens to find he's a member of a new underworld family, he wastes no time in turning his mob goons into vampires. Also starring Anthony LaPaglia, Don Rickles, and Chazz Palminteri.






2017 TBD

The Hidden (1987) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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A series of bizarre, inexplicable robberies and murders have L.A. police detective Tom Beck (Nouri) totally baffled. And it doesn't help when mysterious FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher (MacLachlan) tells him that a demonic extraterrestrial creature is invading the bodies of innocent victims - and transforming them into inhuman killers with an unearthly fondness for heavy-metal music, red Ferraris and unspeakable violence. The Hidden a spine-chilling, high-velocity sci-fi thriller






October 2017 TBD

Jean-Luc Godard's La Chinoise (1967) and Le Gai Savior (1969) on blu-ray from Kino. Also coming from Arrow Academy in the UK later in the year.

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1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth of communism in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their own revolution. Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire.


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While alone in an abandoned television studio, two militants, Emile Rousseau (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and Patricia Lumumba (Juliet Berto), have a discourse on language. Referring to spoken word as "the enemy"--the weapon used by the establishment to confuse liberation movements--the two deconstruct the meanings of sounds and images in an attempt to "return to zero" and truly experience the joy of learning.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 24, 2017, 06:31:53 PM
wilder, to whom i like to tell my movie collecting stories, since we're the same person like that,

i did indeed end up buying Fellini's Roma, but this morning i spent my remaining criterion money on this Kino Lorber Studio Classics sale (https://www.klstudioclassics.com/list/view/code/klsclaunchsale)

QuoteTo celebrate the launch of the new Kino Lorber Studio Classics website we're having our biggest sale ever! 401 titles! DVDs as low as $5.98! Blu-rays from $7.98!

Free USA Shipping - Orders of $50 or more
Free Canada Shipping - Orders of $100 or more

Sale starts today and ends Sunday, August 6th!

John Ford's The Hurricane is going out of print on July 31st - DVD $7.98 | BD $9.98 (while quantities last)

dude The Hurricane was (is?) on netflix forever but i never got around to watching it, but they said that thing about the blu-ray going oop and i ended up buying it. okay they duped me. because sometimes i'm a sucker. to get my free shipping i needed over $50, so i also got Freeway, which you had mentioned as a good idea. i bought Welcome to L.A. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076910/) because i read a thing that compared it to Nashville, you know. really i shouldn't read things about things. then i bought Hester Street (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073107/) because it was listed in that National Archives Registry section. so i needed one over $10, The Wanderers (https://www.kinolorber.com/product/view/id/4004) was out of stock and i decided i know well the story of rock and roll, most genre movies are feelings i know well, and i ended up buying this one because of things like this poster

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what my reactions to these movies will be i'm not sure
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 24, 2017, 11:52:35 PM
spoiler: i'll think it's a good idea you told me about the movie and thanks as always xx.

the list of movies i don't like is far, far shorter than the list of movies i like. i like movies. in the past four years i've only regretted buying The Arrival (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/). my regrets lean toward what i don't buy, this time being Ken Russell's Billion Dollar Brain (https://www.kinolorber.com/product/view/id/2325), Paul Verhoeven's Flesh + Blood (https://www.kinolorber.com/product/view/id/2264), Allan Dwan's Zaza (https://www.kinolorber.com/film/zaza), John Ford's 3 Bad Men (https://www.kinolorber.com/product/view/id/3695), Henry Hathaway's 23 Paces to Baker Street  (https://www.kinolorber.com/product/view/id/3932), and finally J.Lee Thomson's White Buffalo (https://www.kinolorber.com/film/whitebuffalo) (when will i finally see this??), i already mentioned The Wanderers, and what already drives me crazy is Deluge (https://www.kinolorber.com/film/deluge).

QuoteDeluge is a 1933 American Pre-Code apocalyptic, science fiction film released by RKO Radio Pictures, and directed by Felix E. Feist. The film depicts a group of worldwide natural disasters which lead to the destruction of the earth.

Deluge was out of stock and that broke my heart since i'm impatient. here is NYC being destroyed in Deluge--

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 25, 2017, 05:13:07 AM
August 1, 2017

Frank Capra's The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932) on MOD blu-ray from SBE

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A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love.

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Bitter-Tea-of-General-Yen-Blu-ray/dp/B0742VSVXQ?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0742VSVXQ&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






September 19, 2017

Takeshi Kitano's Hana-Bi aka Fireworks (1997) on blu-ray from Film Movement

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Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.

Fireworks (1997) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Hana-Bi-Blu-ray/dp/B07473FZSK?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07473FZSK&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 27, 2017, 12:58:03 AM
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Just learned about this German DVD & Blu-ray label Bildstörung (http://www.bildstoerung.tv). The owners, Alexander Beneke and Carsten Baiersdörfer, have really interesting taste. The label specializes in foreign arthouse and exploitation films, and what could generally be described as 'wide angle oddities'.

To give you an idea, some of the titles in their catalog already available in the US from other labels include:

-Aleksei German's Hard to Be A God (2013)
-Lodge Kerrigan's Clean, Shaven (1993)
-Andrzej Zulawski's Possession (1981)
-Stuart Cooper's Overlord (1975)
-Walerian Borowczyk's La Bete (1975)
-Jaromil Jireš' Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
-František Vláčil's Marketa Lazarová (1967)

Below are some of their titles that are unreleased or OOP in the US.


The restoration work they did on Robert Sigl's Laurin (1989) is unbelievable:

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Strange goings on in an idyllic harbour town at the turn of the last century. Children disappear without trace. Death in the form of man dressed in black seems to plague the area. The nine-year-old girl Laurin is haunted by creepy dreams and hallucinations of a man heaving a sack and children drumming in fear against closed windows. Step by step Laurin tries to unravel this terrifying mosaic and eventually puts her own life at risk.

Laurin (1989) - Restoration comparison on Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/200382088)



Zbynek Brynych's The Bitches aka Die Weibchan (1970) - Blu-ray (https://www.amazon.de/dp/B06XKYJWSK/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501132064&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=die+weibchan)

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Outrageous sleaze joins an exclusive health spa only to discover it's run by feminist cannibals.





Nikos Nikolaidis' Singapore Sling (1990) - Blu-ray (https://www.amazon.de/Singapore-Sling-Blu-ray-Meredyth-Herold/dp/B00T0XFASK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501132085&sr=8-1&keywords=singapore+sling) with English subtitles

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A man on a mission to find his missing lover meets a mother and daughter with their own grisly agenda.

NSFW




Jean-Claude Brisseau's Sound and Fury (1988) - DVD (https://www.amazon.de/L%C3%A4rm-Wut-Bruno-Cremer/dp/B00A2JTFM8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501133999&sr=8-1&keywords=L%C3%84RM+%26+WUT)

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This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a phantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he befriends the violent Jean-Roger, who's from a severely disturbed family, where nobody cares what he's doing. In school Jean-Roger drives their teacher into despair just for fun. To separate the two boys, she starts to stimulate Bruno's interests by giving him extra lessons. When Jean-Roger fears loosing his one and only friend, he becomes even more aggressive.

Quote from: IMDB user Guillaume DésiletsThis movie is like CLOCKWORK ORANGE without the science fiction. Brisseau could direct scenes as unforgettable as the Russian roulette scenes in DEER HUNTER ; He's got the same dark, ultra-realistic way of filming things that are beautiful or horrible.

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Iván Zulueta's Arrebato aka Rapture (1979) - DVD (https://www.amazon.de/Arrebato-Special-DVDs-Eusebio-Poncela/dp/B0045L3TD0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501132477&sr=8-1&keywords=arrebato)

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A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.





Rolf de Heer's Bad Boy Bubby (1993) - DVD (https://www.amazon.de/Bad-Boy-Bubby-2-DVDs/dp/B001DKEZDE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501134497&sr=8-1&keywords=bad+boy+bubby)

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Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him that the air outside is poisonous. After a visit from his estranged father, circumstances force Bubby into the waiting world, a place which is just as unusual to him as he is to the world.

NSFW




Henri Xhonneux's Marquis (1989) - DVD (https://www.amazon.de/Marquis-Bien-Moor/dp/B007BWUJAQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501134034&sr=8-1&keywords=marquis+dvd)

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In pre-French Revolution Bastille, the Marquis is held being unjustly accused of working to overthrow the king. While his talking penis, Colin, longs for action, Marquis himself only desires to write his deviant stories in peace.




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 27, 2017, 04:43:59 PM
November 28, 2017

Rob Reiner's Misery (1990) on blu-ray from Shout Factory, from a new 4K transfer

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Novelist Paul Sheldon (Cann) doesn't remember the blinding blizzard that sent his car spinning off the road. Nor does he remember being nursed back from unconsciousness. All he remembers is waking up in the home of Annie Wilkes (Bates) - a maniacal fan who is bent on keeping her favorite writer as her personal prisoner...for the rest of his 'cock-a-doodie' life!
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 28, 2017, 02:29:24 PM
Technicolor Dreams and Yuletide Flickers i'm still saving for the future, owing to my tremendous excitement, but like Willie Whopper i went right into Private Snafu.

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this has felt immensely rewarding for all sorts of reasons.

QuotePrivate Snafu cartoons were a military secret—for the armed forces only.

Private Snafu was for teaching lessons to illiterate enlistees of WW2. Snafu means Situation Normal: All Fucked Up.

QuoteThe character was created by director Frank Capra, chairman of the U.S. Army Air Force First Motion Picture Unit, and most were written by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, Philip D. Eastman, and Munro Leaf.

Capra, and then related not just to Dr. Seuss but also—

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and

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QuoteThe cartoons thus represented a multi-talent collaboration by some of America's best in their respective fields; a common occurrence in the war effort.

plus the previously mentioned Chuck Jones and Mel Blanc, and also Bob Clampett and Frank Tashlin were involved. it's a lot of fun to discover, after purchasing, that Frank Tashlin was involved.

to provide an illustration of this show, here's the fifth in the series. 1943-09-20, Dr. Seuss and Phil Eastman uncredited as its writers. Chuck Jones its director. i like this one because its theme is that each person has their own hardships.



everyone with a problem is one of many. classic. here's a cartoon designed as a reminder.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 30, 2017, 02:16:01 PM
from the US National Archives, with the War Department stamp, this next one is Chuck Jones directed, Dr. Seuss written.

this example illustrates some of the broader realities achievable through cartoon logic. the lead character is a mosquito with tremendous personality. the overall lesson is simple: don't get stung by a mosquito. isn't that a boring thing to remember? and yet what an exciting episode to remember:



clearly building up to Looney Tunes
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 31, 2017, 06:45:45 PM
November 21, 2017

William Morgan's The Violent Years (1956) on blu-ray from the The American Genre Film Archive and Something Weird Video, from a new 4K restoration.

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Paula Parkins is the teenage daughter of wealthy parents whom don't seem to make time for her, so she looks for thrills as the leader of her all-girl gang who steal, rob, and rape young men. Screenplay by Ed Wood. (The label has also confirmed that the film will be paired with Boris Petroff's crime thriller Anatomy of a Psycho).

The Violent Years (1956) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Violent-Years-Blu-ray/dp/B073ZWJWQ8?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-011-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B073ZWJWQ8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 07, 2017, 04:44:58 PM
September 26, 2017

Joe Sarno's All the Sins of Sodom (1968) and Vibrations (1968) on blu-ray from Film Movement Classics and Something Weird Video, restored from the original film elements

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QuoteAll the Sins of Sodom / Vibrations, directed by 'the Ingmar Bergman of 42nd St.,' Joseph W. Sarno, is the second entry in the definitive series celebrating one of the most gifted pioneers of the sexploitation genre. These two seminal films are now being released for the first time on Blu ray.

Encouraged by his agent, struggling NYC photographer Henning begins a daring portfolio of his model, Leslie. But all too soon, jealousies erupt when another model vies for his camera and bed. A strikingly filmed, penetrating study of ambition, romance and lust set in the world of 1960s fashion photography, All the Sins of Sodom is sexploitation auteur Sarno at the top of his game.

Aspiring poet Barbara moves to Manhattan to jump-start her career and sex life, only to spend her evenings listening to the sounds of her neighbor s vibrator. When her extroverted sister Julie comes to town, Barbara is forced to confront her repressed sexual desires. An early classic by sexploitation director Sarno, Vibrations is classy and sophisticated, beautifully shot, a juicy script, filled with wonderful performances and sexy as hell.

All the Sins of Sodom (1968) / Vibrations (1968) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/All-the-Sins-of-Sodom-and-Vibrations-Blu-ray/dp/B074BNG168?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-081-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B074BNG168&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 15, 2017, 02:28:21 PM
October 24, 2017

James Whale's The Old Dark House (1932) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group, from a new 4K restoration

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From the director of Frankenstein, a group of stranded travelers stumble upon a strange old house, and find themselves at the mercy of the highly eccentric, and potentially dangerous, Femm family. This well-performed, atmospheric thriller features the first starring horror role for Boris Karloff, as the hulking, disfigured butler. Based on the novel Benighted (1927) by J. B. Priestley.

The Old Dark House (1932) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Old-Dark-House-Blu-ray/dp/B074TR63JC?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-082-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B074TR63JC&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 15, 2017, 06:21:42 PM
August 29, 2017

Frank Tashlin's Son of Paleface (1952) on blu-ray from Kino

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Junior Potter returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found. "Mike" is the luscious head of a gang of thieves, and Roy Barton is the federal marshal hot on her trail.

Son of Paleface (1952) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071NWDWPY/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)


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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 17, 2017, 05:29:34 PM
October 9, 2017

The Aki Kaurismäki Blu-ray Collection from Artificial Eye (UK). The box set will also contain a 100-page book.

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DISC 1
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
CALAMARI UNION

DISC 2
SHADOWS IN PARADISE
DRIFTING CLOUDS
OO AINA IHMINEN (short film)

DISC 3
HAMLET GOES BUSINESS
LA VIE BOHEME

DISC 4
ARIEL
MATCH FACTORY GIRL
VALIMO

DISC 5
LENINGRAD COWBOYS
LENINGRAD COWBOYS GO AMERICA

DISC 6
TOTAL BALALAIKA SHOW
THESE BOOTS (short film)
THOSE WERE THE DAYS (short film)
THRU THE WIRE (short film)
ROCKY IV (short film)
RICH LITTLE BITCH (short film)
DOGS HAVE NO HELL (short film)

DISC 7
TAKE CARE OF YOU SCARF, TATJANA
JUHA

DISC 8
THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST
LIGHTS IN THE DUSK

DISC 9
LE HAVRE

DISC 10
THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE   

Aki Kaurismäki Blu-ray Collection - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Aki-Kaurismaki-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B074R4KSQB?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B074R4KSQB&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 25, 2017, 05:24:36 PM
2017 TBD

Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977) on blu-ray from Synapse, from a new 4K restoration

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Currently up for pre-order at Synapse Films (https://synapse-films.com/dvds/suspiria-40th-anniversary-limited-edition-steelbook/)

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 26, 2017, 12:08:55 AM
October 23, 2017

Buñuel: The Essential Blu-ray Collection from StudioCanal (UK)

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Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)

The second screen version of Octave Mirbeau's novel (originally filmed in 1946 by Jean Renoir) 'The Diary of a Chambermaid' is another of Bunuel's biting and brilliant attacks on the bourgeoisie. Written by Bunuel and his regular writing partner Jean-Claude Cariere, the film charts the ambitions of Celestine (Jeanne Moreau, 'Jules et Jim'), a woman who comes to work in the Normandy estate occupied by Monsieur Rabour (Jean Ozenne), his daughter (Francoise Lugagne) and the daughter's husband, the right wing Monsaiur Montiel (Michel Piccoli, 'Milou en mai'). Celestine quickly learns that M. Rabour is a more or less harmless boot fetishist, his daughter a frigid woman more concerned with the family furnishings than in returning the affections of her husband, who in turn, can't keep his hands off the servants. Celestine picks her way through this minefield carefully, spurning the advances of all of the men until it's convenient for her.

Charting the rise of 30s Fascisim, Bunuel's film also intelligently considers political, social and sexual positions in relation to the perversity of human desires. Moreau excels as the sharp-witted servant, one of the most fascinating of all Bunuel's proto-feminist heroines.


Belle de Jour (1967)

Synopsis: Undoubtedly Luis Buñuel's most accessible film, Belle de Jour is an elegant and erotic masterpiece that maintains as hypnotic a grip on modern audiences today as it did on its debut over 50 years ago.

Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in the afternoons while remaining chaste in her marriage. Stars the incomparable Catherine Deneuve in a career defining role as Severine, the eponymous heroine of the film.


The Milky Way (1969)

In his autobiography "The Last Sigh", Bunuel suggsests that The Milky Way, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosis and The Phantom of Liberty form a kind of trilogy, or rather a triptych. All three have te same themes, sometimes even thesame grammar, and all evoke the search for truth, aswlee as the necessity of abandoning it as soon as you've found it. Religious pilgrims Pierre (Paul Frnkeur) and Jean (Laurent Terzieff) journey to a shrine in the north of Spain. Their faith is severely tested by some of the irreverent characters they confront in the course of their pilgrimage. Even chance meetings with Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and the Devil are not quite what Pierre and Jean have been prepared for in their religious training.

One of the most challenging and irreverent of the director's later works The Milky Way also continues Bunuel's ongoing disdain of Roman Catholicism. Funnt, intelligent and sardonic, it's availability will be justly celebrated by Bunuel enthusiasts.


Tristana (1970)

Synopsis: Tristana (Catherine Deneuve) is a young devout woman who goes to live with her male guardian after her mother's death. His intentions towards her are clearly more than fatherly, leading to an enforced marriage, but Tristana flees to Madrid when she falls in love with a young artist. Years later, she is afflicted with a life-threatening illness, which, however, does not stop her plotting revenge against the man who had stripped her of her innocence.


The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

Synopsis: Luis Buñuel's surrealist satire takes on targets as diverse as South American politics, the upper class and religion. Well-to-do couple the Thévenots (Paul Frankeur and Delphine Seyrig), accompany M. Thévenot's colleague Rafael Acosta (Fernando Rey) and Mme. Thévenot's sister Florence (Bulle Ogier), to the house of Henri and Alice Sénéchal (Jean-Pierre Cassel and Stéphane Audran), who are hosting a dinner party. On arrival, however, Alice explains that she expected them the following evening and has no dinner prepared. Inviting Alice to join them for dinner at a local inn, the party quickly leave when they discover that the manager died a few hours earlier and his former employees are holding a vigil over his corpse, awaiting the coroner. So begins a series of increasingly bizarre episodes and surreal dream sequences as the diners, over the course of the following days, find themselves repeatedly frustrated in their attempts at eating out.


The Phantom of Liberty (1974)

Synopsis: Satirical comedy drama from the master of surrealistic cinema, Luis Buñuel. Variously described as surreal, comic and outrageously ironic, all of which are true, it's main theme is that the bourgeoisie is a dying class, and through their indolence and decadence they are actually destroying themselves, a theme Buñuel focussed on a number of times during his career. Amongst the large cast are a host of familiar names, including; Michel Piccoli (Belle de Jour; We Have a Pope); Monica Vitti (The Red Desert; Modesty Blaise); Jean Rochefort (The Hairdresser's Husband) & Michael Lonsdale (Day of the Jackal).


That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

Synopsis: Adapted from Pierre Louÿs' 1898 novel 'Le Femme et le Pantin', That Obscure Object of Desire marked Bunuel's final film. Recounted in flashback to a group of railway travellers, the story wryly details the romantic perils of Mathieu (Bunuel favourite Fernando Rey), a wealthy middle-aged French sophisticate who falls desperately in love with his 19-year-old former chambermaid Conchita (Carole Bouquet).

Thus begins a surreal game of sexual cat-and-mouse, with Mathieu obsessively attempting to win the girl's affections as she manipulates his carnal desires, each vying to gain absolute control of the other. Brimming with the subversive wit which characterises Bunuel's finest work, That Obscure Object of Desire takes satiric aim at a decadent, decaying society riddled with political unrest and moral bankruptcy.


Buñuel: The Essential Blu-ray Collection - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bunuel-The-Essential-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B07534L7N4?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07534L7N4&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



December 4, 2017

Melville: The Essential Blu-ray Collection from StudioCanal (UK)

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Bob Le Flambeur (1956)

Synopsis: Jean-Pierre Melville directs this pre-New Wave classic, chronicling a raid on a Parisian casino. Bob the Gambler (Roger Duchesne) reverts to his old trade as a bank robber after several bad rolls of the dice. However, his plans to rip off a casino are thrown into chaos by an unforeseen murder and the duplicitous scheming of his criminal colleagues.


Léon Morin, Pretre (1961)

Synopsis: The most commercially successful film from Jean-Pierre Melville. Starring Emmanuele Riva and Jean-Paul Belmondo, it is the story of an unfulfilled love affair set against the troubled backdrop of the Occupation.


Le Doulos (1962)

Synopsis: Jean-Pierre Melville writes and directs this French crime thriller starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Serge Reggiani. After serial burglar Maurice Faugel (Reggiani) is released from his latest stint behind bars, he quickly returns to his criminal ways and plans a robbery with Silien (Belmondo) and Rémy (Philippe Nahon). After murdering an old associate in retaliation for the killing of his former girlfriend, Maurice becomes racked with suspicion and distrust of everyone around him amid rumours that Silien has become a police informant. When Maurice and Rémy carry out a robbery of their own, the police quickly close in on them and Maurice begins to unravel the deadly web of deceit that has formed around him.


Army of Shadows (1969)

Synopsis: French war drama directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and based on the novel by Joseph Kessel. Drawing on the director's own experiences in World War II, the film follows a band of resistance fighters in German-controlled France. As the war continues, the grip of the occupying force tightens, and friendships, loyalty and trust give way to suspicion, secrecy and loss.


Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

Synopsis: A gangster film from Jean-Pierre Melville. Starring Alain Delon as a master thief, Yves Montand as an alcoholic ex-cop and Italian star Gian-Maria Volonté as an escaped criminal, the trio plot a daring heist of an upmarket Parisian jewellery story against impossible odds.


Un Flic (1972)

Synopsis: Jean-Pierre Melville's last film stars Alain Delon as Police Commissioner Coleman who finds himself playing a game of cat and mouse with a gang of thieves after a bank robbery in a small Riviera town goes wrong. The gang is led by Coleman's friend, Simon (Richard Crenna), a night-club owner and whose girlfriend (Catherine Deneuve) is also having an affair with Coleman. The two men find the rivalry between them increasing as the net begins to surround Simon. A stylish European take on the Hollywood storylines of the Seventies.   


Melville: The Essential Blu-ray Collection - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Melville-The-Essential-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B07534L84W?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07534L84W&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 26, 2017, 05:41:06 PM
2017 TBD

Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window (1944) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new restoration

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Richard Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) is no criminal... at least, he wasn't until he met "the woman in the window." With his wife and kids out of town, the chaste professor engages in an innocent flirtation with a chance acquaintance (Joan Bennett)... and inadvertently commits a shocking and unspeakable crime! But that's just the beginning of his problems, for as the cunning D.A. (Raymond Massey) - one of Wanley's dearest friends - gets closer and closer to identifying the killer, Wanley finds he's more and more willing to resort to desperate measures to avoid being caught. The Woman In The Window is "a thriller with the logic and plausibility of a nightmare" (Pauline Kael).
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 31, 2017, 07:59:36 PM
October 11, 2017

Jean-Pierre Melville's Quand tu liras cette lettre aka When You Read This Letter (1953) from Gaumont (France), with English subtitles

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Therese is a nun-in-training who returns to "civilian" life to care for her young sister Denise.

When You Read This Letter (1953) - Amazon France (https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0731RR9B8/ref=sr_1_1_twi_blu_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1504227055&sr=8-1&keywords=Quand+tu+liras+cette+lettre)



October 23, 2017

Sidney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express (1974) from StudioCanal (UK)

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Famous detective Hercule Poirot is on the Orient Express, but the train is caught in the snow. When one of the passengers is discovered murdered, Poirot immediately starts investigating.




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on September 05, 2017, 07:14:52 PM
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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 07, 2017, 06:20:57 PM
Quote from: wilder on August 15, 2017, 02:28:21 PM
October 24, 2017

James Whale's The Old Dark House (1932) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group, from a new 4K restoration

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From the director of Frankenstein, a group of stranded travelers stumble upon a strange old house, and find themselves at the mercy of the highly eccentric, and potentially dangerous, Femm family. This well-performed, atmospheric thriller features the first starring horror role for Boris Karloff, as the hulking, disfigured butler. Based on the novel Benighted (1927) by J. B. Priestley.

The Old Dark House (1932) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Old-Dark-House-Blu-ray/dp/B074TR63JC?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-082-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B074TR63JC&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 08, 2017, 05:36:59 PM
Incredible news...

New Label Arbelos to Bring 4K Restoration of Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie to Blu-ray
via blu-ray.com

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Newly founded boutique label Arbelos has announced that it is set to reveal a brand new 4K restoration of Dennis Hopper's directorial follow-up to Easy Rider, The Last Movie (1971). The label will also release the 4K restoration on Blu-ray in early 2018.

The official press release that announced the arrival of Arbelos also describes the label's future goals:

"Blending both new independent features with 4K restorations of classic and cult films, Arbelos will champion bold and innovative voices, cutting across all genres and eras. The four company founders had previously collaborated at arthouse distributor Cinelicious Pics where they had released new films like Anurag Kashyap's Gangs of Wasseypur and Tim Sutton's Dark Knight along with 4K restorations of Japanese underground anime Belladonna of Sadness, the lost Warren Oates film Private Property and (most recently) Toshio Matsumoto's transgender masterpiece Funeral Parade of Roses."

In addition to new projects, Alrbelos will handle the entire Cinelicious Pics film library of 14 feature films, which included the recent, critically acclaimed, 4K restoration of the late Toshio Matsumoto's Funeral Parade of Roses.

Arbelos was founded by David Marriott, Dennis Bartok, Craig Rogers and Ei Toshinari and Chief Business Development Officer Jonathan Marlow.

Bartok, Marriott and Toshinari left Cinelicious Pics several months ago and began to collaborate with restoration expert Rogers (who worked for parent company Cinelicious Inc.) and Marlow, who acquired a number of Cinelicious Pics releases for the SVOD streaming service Fandor.

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and


November 20, 2017

Jacques Rivette's Celine And Julie Go Boating (1974) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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Rivette's rarely seen yet biggest commercial hit, is an exhilarating combination of the themes of theatricality, paranoia and la vie parisienne, all wrapped up in an extended and entrancing examination of the nature of filmmaking, and film-watching.

Celine (Juliet Berto), a magician, and Julie (Dominique Labourier), a librarian, meet in Montmartre and wind up sharing the same flat, bed, fiance, clothes, identity and imagination. Soon, thanks to a magic sweet, they find themselves spectators, then participants, in a Henry James-inspired 'film-within-the film', a melodrama unfolding in a mysterious suburban house with the 'Phantom Ladies Over Paris' (Bulle Ogier and Marie-France Pisier), a sinister man (Barbet Shroeder) and his child. The atmosphere, however, is more Lewis Carroll, with Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier as twin Alices. The four main actresses improvised their own dialogue in collaboration with Rivette and scriptwriter Eduardo de Gregorio.


Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Celine-And-Julie-Go-Boating-Blu-ray/dp/B075DHMJH9?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B075DHMJH9&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 08, 2017, 07:36:58 PM
Quote from: jenkins on June 01, 2017, 11:15:11 PM
Quote from: wilder on July 01, 2016, 05:53:37 PM
2017 TBD

Toshio Matsumoto's Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) on blu-ray from Cinelicious Pics

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A loose adaptation of Oedipus Rex set in the underground gay counterculture of 1960s Tokyo. Cross-dressing club-kid Eddie (played by real-life transvestite entertainer extraordinaire Peter, famed for his role as Kyoami the Fool in Akira Kurosawa's Ran) vies with a rival drag-queen for the favours of drug-dealing cabaret-manager Gonda. Passions escalate and blood begins to flow — before all tensions are released in a jolting climax that prefigures by nearly thirty years Tsai Ming-liang's similarly scandalous The River.

An important work of the Japanese New Wave, Funeral Parade of Roses combines elements of arthouse, documentary and experimental cinema. The film was a major influence on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971).



yeah sorry this just landed on my radar. because it's playing at Cinefamily the end of this month




Blu-ray (http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=22047) on November 14th
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 16, 2017, 06:39:53 PM
December 8, 2017

Lech Kowalski's D.O.A.: A Right of Passage (1980) on blu-ray from High Times Productions

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Documentary chronicaling the rise and fall of the punk movement with rare interview footage of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. Also concert and news footage.

D.O.A.: A Right of Passage (1980) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/DOA-Blu-ray/dp/B075DSLWFS?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-081-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B075DSLWFS&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






November 14, 2017

F.W. Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 2K restoration

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One of the crowning achievements of the German expressionist movement, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's The Last Laugh stars Emil Jannings as an aging doorman whose happiness crumbles when he is relieved of the duties and uniform which had for years been the foundation of his happiness and pride. Through Janning's colossal performance, The Last Laugh becomes more than the plight of a single doorman, but a mournful dramatization of the frustration and anguish of the universal working class.


November 21, 2017

12-Disc Fritz Lang Collection on blu-ray from Kino

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DISC ONE

THE SPIDERS (Die Spinnen)
1919-1920 Germany 173 Min. Color Tinted
Part One: THE GOLDEN SEA 69 Min.
Part Two: THE DIAMOND SHIP 104 Min.
Music composed and performed by Ben Model


DISC TWO

HARAKIRI
1919 Germany 87 Min. Color Tinted
Music by Aljoscha Zimmermann

THE WANDERING SHADOW (Das Wandernde Bild)
1920 Germany 67 Min. Color Tinted
Music by Aljoscha Zimmermann
Note: Both films are sourced from standard definition masters that have been up-converted for Blu-ray release.


DISC THREE

FOUR AROUND THE WOMAN (Kämpfende Herzen / Hearts in Struggle / Vier um die Frau)
1921 Germany 84 Min. Color Tinted
Music by Aljoscha Zimmermann


DISC FOUR

DESTINY (Der müde Tod)
1921 Germany 98 Min. Color Tinted
Music composed by Cornelius Schwehr, performed by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB)

SPECIAL FEATURES
   •   Audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas
   •   Restoration demonstration footage
   •   2016 Re-release trailer


DISCS FIVE AND SIX

DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler)
1922 Germany 270 Min. B&W
Music (2001) by Aljoscha Zimmermann

SPECIAL FEATURES:
   •   "The Story Behind Dr. Mabuse," (52 Min.), a three-part documentary exploring the musical score by Aljoscha Zimmermann, the career of novelist Norbert Jacques, and an analysis of the film


DISCS SEVEN AND EIGHT

DIE NIBELUNGEN
1924-1925 Germany Color Tinted


DISC SEVEN: SIEGFRIED 149 Min.


DISC EIGHT: KRIEMHILD'S REVENGE 131 Min.
Original score by Gottfried Huppertz
Performed by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

SPECIAL FEATURES:
   •   "The Legacy of the Nibelungen," a 68-minute documentary on the making and restoration of the film, by Guido Altendorf and Anke Wilkening
   •   Newsreel footage taken on the set


DISC NINE

METROPOLIS
UFA 1927 Germany 148 Min. B&W
Original Score: Gottfried Huppertz
Performed by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB)

SPECIAL FEATURES:
   •   "Voyage to Metropolis," a 50-minute documentary on the making and restoration of the film
   •   Interview with Paula Felix-Didier, curator of the Museo del Cine, Buenos Aires, where previously missing footage was discovered


DISC TEN

SPIES (Spione)
1928 Germany 150 Min. B&W
Piano score (2005) by Neil Brand

SPECIAL FEATURES:
   •   "Spies: A Small Film With Lots of Action" (2006, 72 Min.) a documentary by Guido Altendorf and Anke Wilkening
   •   Original German theatrical trailer (5 min.) courtesy of the Austrian Film Museum, Vienna


DISC ELEVEN

WOMAN IN THE MOON (Frau im Mond)
1929 Germany 169 Min. B&W
Piano score (2005) by Javier Pérez de Azpeitia.

SPECIAL FEATURES:
   •   "Woman in the Moon: The First Scientific Science Fiction Film," a documentary on the making of the film (14 Min.)


DISC TWELVE - BONUS DISC

THE PLAGUE OF FLORENCE (Pest in Florenz)
1919 Germany 102 Min. B&W
Directed by Otto Rippert - Screenplay by Fritz Lang
Based on "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe
Music (2014): Uwe Dierksen.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 17, 2017, 12:34:53 AM
December 19, 2017

Paddy Chayefsky's The Hospital (1971) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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An over-burdened doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 18, 2017, 04:25:39 PM
October 31, 2017

Jerry Schatzberg's Scarecrow (1973) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Just out of jail after serving time on an assault rap, Max (Gene Hackman) is headed for Pittsburgh to open a deluxe car wash. Back from five years at sea, Lion (Al Pacino) wants to hit Detroit and visit the child he's never seen. The dreams may not be glorious but you'll want Max and Lion to fulfill them, because Scarecrow, cowinner of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize, has a heart as big as its cross-country journey. Its hard-luck drifters drift permanently into our souls. This is due to teamwork of a high order: The moving performances of Hackman and Pacino, the sensitive direction of Jerry Schatzberg and the glowing landscape cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond.

Scarecrow (1973) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Scarecrow-Blu-ray-Gene-Hackman/dp/B075TF17FW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1506457676&sr=8-4&keywords=scarecrow+blu-ray)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 20, 2017, 11:08:44 PM
November 14, 2017

Arturo Ripstein's Time to Die (1966) on blu-ray from Film Movement, from a new 2K restoration

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This classic Mexican neo-western was the first realized screenplay of Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez and legendary Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes. Under the direction of Mexican auteur Arturo Ripstein, Time to Die tells the story of a former gunman who returns to his town after serving time in prison. He plans to live a quiet life, but the sons of the man he killed have other plans.

Time to Die (1966) -
Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Time-to-Die-Blu-ray/dp/B075QQ24PX?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-000-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B075QQ24PX&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on September 21, 2017, 10:43:15 AM
want it
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 22, 2017, 11:05:25 PM
September 25/26, 2017

Ermanno Olmi's The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK

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The story of a drunken homeless man in Paris, who is lent 200 francs by a stranger as long as he promises to repay it to a local church when he can afford to; the film depicts the man's constant frustrations as he attempts to do so.

The Legend of the Holy Drinker - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Legend-of-the-Holy-Drinker-Blu-ray/dp/B071WTCM4W?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B071WTCM4W&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

The Legend of the Holy Drinker - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Legend-Holy-Drinker-Blu-ray/dp/B072MPK8GS)


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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 26, 2017, 02:14:13 PM
November 24, 2017

Slava Tsukerman's Liquid Sky (1982) on limited edition blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative

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Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear. This increasingly bizarre scenario is observed by a lonely woman in the building across the street, a German scientist who is following the aliens, and an equally androgynous, drug-addicted male model. (Both models are played by Anne Carlisle, in a dual role.)

Available to pre-order (http://www.vinegarsyndrome.com) for 24 hours on September 28th, starting at noon







December 12/11, 2017

Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960) from Arrow US & Arrow UK, from a new 4K restoration

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Bud Baxter is a struggling clerk in a huge New York insurance company. He's discovered a quick way to climb the corporate ladder - by lending out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. He often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits and one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

The Apartment (1960) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B075VVPLFD/dvdbeaver-20/ref=nosim)

The Apartment (1960) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B075VSRQVL/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 07, 2017, 03:29:26 AM
October 30, 2017

Otakar Vávra's Witchhammer (1970) on blu-ray from Second Run (UK)

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Otakar Vávra's Witchhammer, co-written by Ester Krumbachová (Daisies, Fruit of Paradise) from Václav Kaplický s 1963 novel, chronicles the series of notorious 17th Century Czech witch trials, undertaken using the infamous Malleus Maleficarum (the Witchhammer of the title), the Catholic treatise on witchcraft which endorses the extermination of witches and developed a detailed legal and theological theory for this purpose. Using genuine court transcripts from the forced confessions of those accused of sorcery and collusion with the Devil, it is a powerful and often shocking allegory of life under totalitarian rule.

With echoes of Bergman and Franti ek Vlá il, and with literary antecedents in Arthur Miller's The Crucible and Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudon, it is a disturbing political fable; and like Ken Russell's controversial, expressionistic adaptation of Huxley s text, The Devils (1971) and other films of the period such as Michael Reeves' Witchfinder General (1968) and Michael Armstrong's Mark of the Devil (1970), it serves as both grim genre film and compelling historical drama.


Witchhammer (1970) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Witchhammer-Blu-ray/dp/B07624TC5X?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07624TC5X&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 13, 2017, 06:01:10 PM
December 5, 2017

Jack Clayton's The Pumpkin Eater (1964) on limited edition blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Anne Bancroft delivers a towering performance as a deeply troubled and tormented wife in this sharply observed portrait of a woman – and a marriage – in crisis. Directed by Jack Clayton (Room at the Top, The Innocents), with a screenplay by Harold Pinter (The Birthday Party) based on the acclaimed novel by Penelope Mortimer, this spellbinding film boasts sublime cinematography by the great Oswald Morris (Look Back in Anger, Fragment of Fear), a wonderful score by Georges Delerue (Le Mépris) and outstanding supporting performances from James Mason (The Deadly Affair), Maggie Smith (California Suite) and Yootha Joyce (Fanatic, Fragment of Fear)

The Pumpkin Eater (1964) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Pumpkin-Eater-Blu-ray/dp/B076BJF742?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B076BJF742&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)








February 23, 2018

Joe Sarno's Deep Throat Part II / Pandora and the Magic Box / A Touch of Genie (1965-1974) on blu-ray from Film Media, restored in 2K from original 35mm film elements (Volume 3 in the Joseph W. Sarno Retrospect series)

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Quote from: blu-ray.comFilm Media has also confirmed that restoration is under way on the films that will make up Volumes 4-11 of the series:

Sarno 04 - Sin in the Suburbs / Confessions of a Young American Housewife

Sarno 05 - Moonlighting Wives / Naked Fog

Sarno 06 - Abigail Lesley is Back in Town / Laura's Toys

Sarno 07 - Daddy Darling / The Indelicate Balance

Sarno 08- Inga / Seduction of Inga

Sarno 09 - Odd Triangle / Desire Under the Palms

Sarno 10 - Swedish Wildcats / Siv and Anne and Sven

Sarno 11 - Butterflies / Bib



December 12, 2017

Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) on blu-ray from Kino. Previously available from Twilight Time.

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In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood (Spencer Tracy) hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning (Burt Lancaster) and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe (Maximilian Schell), but also from the widow of a Nazi general (Marlene Dietrich), an idealistic U.S. Army captain (William Shatner) and reluctant witness Irene Wallner (Judy Garland).



December 12, 2017

Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind (1960) on blu-ray from Kino. Previously available from Twilight Time.

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In the 1920s, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibits public school teachers from teaching evolution instead of creationism. Drawing intense national attention in the media with writer E. K. Hornbeck (Gene Kelly) reporting, two of the nation's leading lawyers go head to head: Matthew Harrison Brady (Fredric March) for the prosecution, and Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy) for the defense.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 15, 2017, 03:41:05 PM
January 23, 2018

Woody Allen's Husbands & Wives (1992) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Gabe (Woody Allen) and his wife, Judy (Mia Farrow), are shocked to discover that their best friends, Sally (Judy Davis) and Jack (Sydney Pollack), are splitting up. Not only did they not see the breakup coming, but it makes them start to question their own relationship. While Gabe flirts with the idea of dating one of his college students (Juliette Lewis), Sally and Jack discover that being single again isn't all its cracked up to be and contemplate getting back together.






January 23, 2018

Paul Mazursky's Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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After returning to Los Angeles from a group therapy session, documentary filmmaker Bob Sanders (Robert Culp) and his wife, Carol (Natalie Wood), find themselves becoming vigilante couples counselors, offering unsolicited advice to their best friends, Ted (Elliott Gould) and Alice Henderson (Dyan Cannon). Not wanting to be rude, the Hendersons play along, but some latent sexual tension among the four soon comes bubbling to the surface, and long-buried desires don't stay buried for long.






January 23, 2018

Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Dragonwyck (1946) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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For Miranda Wells (Gene Tierney), moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas (Vincent Price), seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter (Connie Marshall), to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.



November 27, 2017

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) on blu-ray from Second Sight (UK) in the original 25fps broadcast format. Also includes the new feature-length documentary Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands (2015)

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In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight; however he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Berlin-Alexanderplatz-Blu-Ray-G%C3%BCnter-Lamprecht/dp/B074R3ZMZF/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1508098860&sr=1-1&keywords=berlin+alexanderplatz)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 16, 2017, 02:39:42 AM
January 12, 2018

Robert Sigl's Laurin (1989) on blu-ray from Bildstoerung (Germany), restored in 2K from the original 35mm negative

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Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. In a small coastal village a boy kills. In agonizing visions, little Laurin (Dora Szinetar) sees the criminal and his gruesome deeds. But how can she put him? Her mother is dead and the father at sea...

Laurin (1989) - Amazon Germany (https://www.amazon.de/Laurin-Blu-ray/dp/B075YLPYNH?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom04-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B075YLPYNH&m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 16, 2017, 08:54:50 PM
November 7, 2017

Robert Mulligan's Summer of '42 (1971) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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The sensual, heartwarming and sentimental story of three 15-year-old boys who spend a pleasant but sometimes painful summer vacation in New England. While his friends fumble with girls their own age, one boy finds first love in the arms of Jennifer O'Neill ("Bare Essence"), a young war bride.

QuoteAs well as being a commercial success, Summer of '42 also received rave critical reviews. It went on to be nominated for over a dozen awards, including Golden Globe Awards for "Best Motion Picture – Drama" and "Best Director", and five Academy Award nominations for Best Original Music Score, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Writing-Story and Best Screenplay. It counted among its fans Stanley Kubrick, who had the film play on a television in a scene in The Shining.

Summer of '42 (1971) - Amazon (http://day)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 17, 2017, 08:57:32 PM
January 2018 TBD

Martin Scorsese's Kundun (1997) on blu-ray from Kino

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The incredible true story of one of the world's most fascinating leaders - Tibet's Dalai Lama - and his daring struggle to rule a nation at one of the most challenging times in its history.






December 12, 2017

Anthony Mann's Raw Deal (1948) on blu-ray from ClassicFlix

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An escaped convict (Dennis O'Keefe) flees with his moll (Claire Trevor) and a social worker (Marsha Hunt) he loves.

Raw Deal (1948) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Raw-Deal-Blu-ray-Dennis-OKeefe/dp/B076DQVZMK/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1511225243&sr=8-4&keywords=raw+deal)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 19, 2017, 05:15:29 PM
January 9, 2018 TBD

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger's Gone to Earth aka The Wild Heart (1950) on blu-ray from Kino. Anna Biller has mentioned liking this movie.

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Hazel Woodus (Jennifer Jones) is a child of nature in the Shropshire countryside in 1897. She loves and understands all the wild animals more than the people around her. Whenever she has problems, she turns to the book of spells and charms left to her by her gypsy mother.

Local squire Jack Reddin (David Farrar) sees Hazel and wants her, but she has already promised herself to the Baptist minister, Edward Marston (Cyril Cusack). A struggle for her body and soul ensues.
   




Full movie on youtube here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq15RmpW2jY)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 20, 2017, 05:09:59 PM
Quote from: wilder on August 25, 2017, 05:24:36 PM
2017 TBD

Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977) on blu-ray from Synapse, from a new 4K restoration

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Currently up for pre-order at Synapse Films (https://synapse-films.com/dvds/suspiria-40th-anniversary-limited-edition-steelbook/)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 23, 2017, 05:57:34 PM
Q1 2018 TBD

Sergio Corbucci's The Great Silence (1968) on blu-ray from Film Movement, from a new 2K restoration

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On an unforgiving, snow-swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski, Nosferatu) prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. As the price on each head is collected one-by-one, only a mute gunslinger named Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant, The Conformist) stands between the innocent refugees and the greed and corruption that the bounty hunters represent. But, in this harsh, brutal world, the lines between right and wrong aren't always clear and good doesn't always triumph.

Featuring superb photography and a haunting score from maestro Ennio Morricone, director Sergio Corbucci's (Django, Companeros) bleak, brilliant and violent vision of an immoral, honorless west is widely considered to be among the very best and most influential Euro-Westerns ever made.
   






December 12, 2017

David Greene's Hard Country (1981) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing

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Kyle Richardson has a boring job in a chain-link fence factory, and cuts loose on the weekends with his friends at the local bar. Eventually, his girlfriend Jodie gets tired of Kyle's carousing and give him an ultimatum, either they get married or she leaves to pursue her dream of becoming a country western singer.

Hard Country (1981) - Diabolik DVD (https://www.diabolikdvd.com/product/hard-country-scorpion-releasing-blu-ray/)








October 31, 2017

José Ramón Larraz's Estigma (1980) / Emma Puertas Oscuras (1974) on blu-ray from Dorado Films

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Estgima is about the possession of a young boy, Sabastian, who acquires the power to make his thoughts come true. A mind dictated by evil, a reincarnation of a past life destined to repeat itself all over again. Life after life?

Emma Puertas Oscuras - After a tragic accident which has mind altering consequences, Emma now becomes psychotic, endangering everyone close to her and anyone she meets.

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January 9, 2018 TBD

Gregory Ratoff's Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939) on blu-ray from Kino

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Renowned violinist Holger Brandt is delighted to be back with his family after a long tour. But when he meets his daughter's piano teacher, Anite, and hears her play, he is captivated. Despite the devastating toll on his family, Holger and Anita begin a musical partnership that quickly becomes a passionate romance. But are they meant to live in harmony forever...or is this merely an intermezzo?


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 26, 2017, 03:40:40 PM
Quote from: wilder on February 27, 2017, 02:51:22 PM
November 7, 2017

Anthony Mann's He Walked by Night (1948) on blu-ray from ClassicFlix

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Roy Morgan (Richard Basehart) is a burglar who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops. After Morgan kills a police officer, Sergeants Brennan (Scott Brady) and Jones (James Cardwell) have little success in putting the clues of the case together. But when Jones is wounded in a shoot-out with Morgan, Brennan employs all facets of detective work, including forensics and informants, to find the elusive and clever criminal.

Visually stunning, cinematographer John Alton's brilliant use of light and shadows shine in this groundbreaking police procedural that paved the way for the TV series Dragnet -- which itself spawned an entire sub-genre of television crime-dramas that are still popular to this day.


He Walked By Night (1948) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/He-Walked-by-Night-Blu-ray/dp/B075KN4FWP?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B075KN4FWP&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 27, 2017, 02:12:23 PM
December 5, 2017

Jean Delannoy's Maigret Sets a Trap (1958) on blu-ray from Kino

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Inspector Maigret tries to trap a killer and discovers why a happily married, wealthy, and talented man should want to bump off women at night. Jean Gabin is perfect as Georges Simenon's secure and steady sleuth, and old-hand Jean Delannoy expertly keeps up the pace and suspense in this enjoyable whodunnit. Based on the novel by Georges Simenon.

Maigret Sets a Trap (1958) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Maigret-Sets-a-Trap-Blu-ray/dp/B076N3PN2B?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-081-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B076N3PN2B&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






December 5, 2017

Jean Delannoy's Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959)

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Inspector Maigret is summoned by the Countess to the Château de Saint-Fiacre, where she shows him a letter she has received predicting the day on which she will die. Based on the novel by Georges Simenon.

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Maigret-and-the-St-Fiacre-Case-Blu-ray/dp/B076N79NKL?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-081-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B076N79NKL&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 29, 2017, 01:32:51 AM
January 9, 2018

The Witches aka La Streghe (1967) on blu-ray from Arrow US, from a 2K restoration of the original film elements

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In the mid-sixties, famed producer Dino De Laurentiis brought together the talents of five celebrated Italian directors for an anthology film. Their brief was simple: to direct an episode in which Silvana Mangano (Bitter Rice, Ludwig) plays a witch. Luchino Visconti (Ossessione, Death in Venice) and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini (Bicycle Thieves) open the film with The Witch Burned Alive, about a famous actress and a drunken evening that leads to unpleasant revelations. Civic Sense is a lightly comic interlude from Mauro Bolognini (The Lady of the Camelias) with a dark conclusion, and The Earth as Seen from the Moon sees Italian comedy legend Totò team up with Pier Paolo Pasolini (Theorem) for the first time for a tale of matrimony and a red-headed father and son. Franco Rosso (The Woman in the Painting) concocts a story of revenge in The Sicilian's Wife, while Vittorio De Sica (Shoeshine) casts Clint Eastwood as Mangano's estranged husband in An Evening Like the Others, concluding The Witches with a stunning homage to Italian comic books.

The Witches (1967) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Witches-Blu-ray/dp/B076VY8Z5Z?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B076VY8Z5Z&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 30, 2017, 04:58:58 PM
February 27, 2018 TBD

Howard Hughes' The Outlaw (1943) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 2K restoration

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The life of legendary outlaw Billy the Kid, including his partnership with Doc Holliday and his clashes with lawman Pat Garrett. The film was notorious in its day because of producer/director Howard Hughes' concentration on newcomer Jane Russell's cleavage, and national release in America was delayed by some years.

The Outlaw (1943) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Outlaw-Blu-ray-Jane-Russell/dp/B077Y6RBZP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1513404555&sr=8-1&keywords=the+outlaw+blu-ray)






February 13, 2018

Curtis Harrington's Games (1967) on blu-ray from Scream Factory

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A wealthy socialite couple find themselves in over their heads in the psychological thriller GAMES. After inviting a mysterious woman into their home, the couple discovers her psychic abilities and asks her to arrange some "mind games" for their amusement. The fun soon turns dangerous when one of the games goes horribly wrong in this edge-of-your-seat mystery that will leave you guessing until the very end.






February 20, 2018

William Castle's The Night Walker (1964) on blu-ray from Scream Factory

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Another frightening film from the mind of Robert Bloch, author of Psycho. Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor, reteaming for their first film following their divorce, star in this intense thriller about a wealthy widow who is haunted by her husband and seduced by a handsome stranger – all in her dreams.

Following the death of her millionaire husband, Howard (Hayden Rorke), Irene Trent (Stanwyck) endures dreams so real and terrifying, that she finds herself trapped in an eerie world existing between fact and fantasy. Isolated from the world by her husband's possessive nature, Irene feels there is no one she can turn to except for his personal attorney (Taylor), the only visitor Howard ever allowed to the house. But even as her dreams begin to take vivid shape, Irene begins to walk into a very real nightmare of deception, murder and betrayal.







January 22, 2018

Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Mystery of Picasso (1956) on blu-ray from Arrow UK

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Henri-Georges Clouzot, best known for his classic French thriller Les Diaboliques, took on a different mystery in 1956: the creative process and the essence of an artist, namely Pablo Picasso.

Utilising transparent canvases so the camera of Claude Renoir could directly capture an artwork's creation, Picasso created 20 artworks for the film. At first, these are simple sketches in marker, but each grows in complexity until the final reel, when The Mystery of Picasso switches to a CinemaScope ratio and bursts into color.

One of the greatest documentary portraits of an artist of work, this release is accompanied by two other films of Picasso: Paul Haesaerts' BAFTA-winning A Visit to Picasso from 1949 and a charming 'home movie' by fellow artist Man Ray.



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 01, 2017, 07:53:03 PM
February 6, 2018

Jess Franco's The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966) on blu-ray from Kino/Redemption

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Dr. Zimmer invents a mind control machine, and then dies from a heart attack after being insulted at a medical conference. His beautiful but deadly daughter, Irma, seeks revenge on the officials who stressed him out. At a club she sees the act of "Miss Death", a beautiful woman in a sheer body stocking whose act consists of seducing a mannequin in the center of a spider web. Inspired, Irma fakes her own death, performs plastic surgery on herself, kidnaps Miss Death, controls her mind via her father's machine, and then sends her out to seduce and slash her enemies with poison fingernails. Miss Death's boyfriend Phillip and a sleepy police inspector try to find her before she kills again... 




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 02, 2017, 02:11:10 PM
January 22, 2018

Paul Schrader's Blue Collar (1978) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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After writing Taxi Driver for Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader made his directorial debut with this profane and profound drama about life on the factory floor of a Detroit car manufacturing plant. With explosive performances from the great Richard Pryor (Silver Streak, Stir Crazy), Harvey Keitel (The Border, Pulp Fiction) and Yaphet Kotto (Live and Let Die, Alien), Blue Collar presents one of the most authentic portraits of working-class life in all American cinema, and is one of the finest films of the 1970s.






January 22, 2018

Tony Richardson's The Border (1982) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Jack Nicholson (The Last Detail, Wolf) gives one of his finest and most subtle performances as a hard-working but deeply disillusioned Mexican border-guard in this tough thriller from renowned British filmmaker Tony Richardson (Look Back in Anger, A Taste of Honey).






January 22, 2018

Don Siegel's Charley Varrick (1973) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Charley Varrick (Walter Matthau) is a former stunt-pilot who makes his living robbing small banks in the American Southwest. His latest heist sees him unwittingly steal from the local mafia, setting a psychotic hit-man on his trail and unleashing a maelstrom of violence and destruction. Directed by the great Don Siegel (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Dirty Harry), Charley Varrick is one of the best thrillers of the 70s: action-packed, memorably lurid and gleefully unsentimental.






January 22, 2018

Mike Nichols' The Fortune (1975) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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This high-concept, big-budget screwball comedy directed by Mike Nichols (The Graduate, Wolf) stars Warren Beatty (Mickey One, Bonnie and Clyde) as a slick con man and Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Border) as his dim-witted sidekick trying to get their hands on the fortune of a hapless young heiress played by Stockard Channing (Grease, The West Wing). A commercial failure on its initial release, this buoyant and beautifully staged madcap comedy is ripe for rediscovery and reappraisal.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 03, 2017, 03:06:36 PM
December 11, 2017

Juaraz Herz's The Cremator (1968) on blu-ray from Second Run (UK). Currently playing on Filmstruck.

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The Cremator has been described in many ways – as surrealist-inspired horror film, as an expressionistic political allegory, a pitch-black comic satire and as a dark and disturbing tale of terror. This brilliantly chilling film, a unique mix of Psycho, Dr Strangelove and Repulsion, is set in Prague during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. It tells the story of one Karl Kopfrkingl (Rudolf Hrušínský), a professional cremator, for whom the political climate allows free rein to his increasingly perverse and deranged impulses for the 'salvation of the world'.

"In addition to the astonishing visual inventiveness there is also a ferocious sense of humour in the details... Disorientating, disquieting and darkly humorous, The Cremator remains one of the most richly resonant celluloid nightmares" Virginie Sélavy, Electric Sheep.

"The Cremator is one of the most memorable films of the 1960s Czechoslovak New Wave, though its macabre humour and lacquer-black sensibility have tended to set it apart from the movement's gentler films" Sight & Sound.


The Cremator (1968) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Cremator-Blu-ray/dp/B076W9Y65N?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B076W9Y65N&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






February 20, 2018

Dick Richards' Farewell, My Lovely (1975) and Michael Winner's The Big Sleep (1978) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) is involved in a case of deception, double-cross and murder in Farewell, My Lovely. When Moose Malloy (Jack O'Halloran), a giant ex-con fresh from prison, asks Marlowe to find his missing sweetheart, Marlowe winds up lying unconscious on the floor with a dead man next to him. In his search for answers, Marlowe encounters a seedy collector, a seductive femme fatale and a former gangster. The case could very well cost Marlowe his life. Charlotte Rampling, Sylvia Miles, John Ireland, Harry Dean Stanton and Sylvester Stallone also star.

Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum), is caught in a deadly case of blackmail in The Big Sleep. General Sternwood (James Stewart), an aged and wealthy American, is being blackmailed over the antics of his two daughters, Charlotte (Sarah Miles) and Camilla (Candy Clark). Marlowe travels into the seedy underworld of crime beneath old London, through a dangerous web of murder and suicide and straight into the sinister world of gangster Eddie Mars (Oliver Reed). Joan Collins, Edward Fox and John Mills also star.





Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on November 06, 2017, 10:17:49 AM
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Thunderbean (http://www.thunderbeananimation.com) started an imprint, Snappy Video (https://swatthefly.wixsite.com/website). i don't necessarily recommend clicking those sites, these guys are total DIY and i adore them.

QuoteSnappy Video Presents "Explorers of the World" (1931). A fascinating compilation feature film comprised of footage from six major expeditions  from the late 20s and early 30s. This almost never seen documentary is Some of the first (and only) footage of various regions and tribes- and gives a real sense of what explorations in the 20s and 30s were like. Included are the Stoll-McCracken Siberian Arctic expedition, Borneo and Bali expeditions by Gene Lamb, African expedition by James L. Clark,  the Imperial-Trans-Atlantic Expedition under the guidance of Lieutenant Commander J. R. Stenhouse, the Byrd Antartic Expedition, shot by Dr. Laurence E. Gould, and the Tarlano Ethnological Expedition of the Amazon River by Harold Noice. The film is hosted by these various explorers, as noted filmed in "The jungle of skyscrapers that is New York City." It's understandable why this film was (and is) rarely seen, considering the nature of some of the footage, including Whaling, capturing a leopard (with ropes), killing a walrus, man-driven Elephant fights (with fighters on back) as well as various remarks on natives of various countries.  New digital HD scan restored from a rare film element; presented in its original aspect ratio and available for the first time on Blu-ray (or perhaps any home format). BDR disc.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 07, 2017, 03:04:52 PM
December 5, 2017

Max Ophuls' Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) on blu-ray from Olive Films in a Signature Edition, from a new 4K restoration

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From Max Ophüls, the legendary director of such film classics as The Earrings of Madame de... and Lola Montès, comes a timeless tale of love and obsession. In Vienna during the early 20th century, Stefan Brand (Louis Jourdan, Gigi), a concert pianist whose amorous ways have eclipsed his musical talent, is preparing to flee the city on the eve of a duel to be fought over a recent dalliance when he receives a Letter from an Unknown Woman. Moved by its contents, he'll come to realize that the author is not a stranger, but Lisa Berndle (Joan Fontaine, Rebecca), a woman he's known since her youth and discarded as he has so many others before her. But this time, Stefan's cavalier behavior will have tragic repercussions.

Featuring the master filmmaker's trademark gliding camera, baroque imagery and lush atmospherics (courtesy of cinematographer Franz Planer, The Big Country; art director Alexander Golitzen, Phantom of the Opera; set decorators Russell A. Gaussman, The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry and Ruby R. Levitt, Chinatown), Max Ophüls' Letter from an Unknown Woman, based on Stefan Zweig's novella of the same name, is written for the screen by Howard Koch (Casablanca) and produced by John Houseman (They Live by Night).




December 5, 2017

Elaine May's A New Leaf (1971) on blu-ray from Olive Films in a Signature Edition, from a new 4K restoration

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A New Leaf, the deliciously dark and deadpan comedy from writer-director-comedian Elaine May (The Heartbreak Kid), stars Walter Matthau (The Odd Couple) as Henry Graham, who, due to his extravagant lifestyle, has run through his inheritance. After pleading with his incredulous Uncle Harry (played with lip-smacking glee by James Coco, Such Good Friends) for a loan, Henry convinces Uncle Harry to give him the money with the proviso that the loan must be repaid within six weeks or Henry will forfeit all of his property used as collateral. With the aid of his gentleman's gentleman, Harold (a scene-stealing George Rose, The Pirates of Penzance), Henry decides to marry into wealth, and once the vows have been taken he'll decide how to handle getting out of the marriage. Enter wealthy heiress Henrietta Lowell (May), a klutzy botanist and the woman of Henry's get-rich-quick-scheme dreams. But as best laid plans often go, Henry must weather the obstacles placed in his path not only by his Uncle Harry, but by Andy McPherson (Jack Weston, Wait Until Dark), Henrietta's jealous and unscrupulous lawyer. Adding to the amusement are William Redfield (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) as Beckett, Henry's bemused, put-upon lawyer and Doris Roberts (TV's Everybody Loves Raymond) as Mrs. Traggert, Henrietta's pilfering housekeeper.



January 2, 2018

Umberto Lenzi's Seven Blood Stained Orchids (1972) on blu-ray from Code Red

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A woman, a survivor of a failed murder attempt by a person dubbed "The Half-Moon Killer" by the police, and her husband must find the connecting thread between herself, six other women, and the killer before the killer strikes at her again.


NSFW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcUd_EtY83g
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 14, 2017, 03:53:19 PM
Q1 2018 TBD

Billy Wilder's Irma La Douce (1963) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 4K restoration

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In Paris, an ex-cop falls in love with a prostitute, and tries to get her out of that life by paying for all of her time.








December 4, 2017

Carlos Saura's Cria Cuervos (1976) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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In Madrid, the orphan sisters Irene, Ana and Maite are raised by their austere aunt Paulina together with their mute and crippled grandmother after the death of their mother and their military father Anselmo.

Cria Cuervos (1976) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B076W3KC6J/dvdbeaver-21/ref=nosim)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 16, 2017, 05:11:57 PM
Quote from: wilder on July 31, 2017, 06:45:45 PM
November 21, 2017

William Morgan's The Violent Years (1956) on blu-ray from the The American Genre Film Archive and Something Weird Video, from a new 4K restoration.

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Paula Parkins is the teenage daughter of wealthy parents whom don't seem to make time for her, so she looks for thrills as the leader of her all-girl gang who steal, rob, and rape young men. Screenplay by Ed Wood. (The label has also confirmed that the film will be paired with Boris Petroff's crime thriller Anatomy of a Psycho).

The Violent Years (1956) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Violent-Years-Blu-ray/dp/B073ZWJWQ8?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-011-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B073ZWJWQ8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 17, 2017, 05:35:36 PM
March 20, 2018

Michele Soavi's The Church (1989) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing

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A church is built during medieval times on top of a pile of dead bodies that were considered possessed. Hundreds of years later a young librarian unleashes the evil within, by removing a rock in the catacombs. Series of events occur meanwhile, everybody just does not seem to be the same. Father Gus is the only one not possessed, he must save the city from becoming a pandemonium, he must find the ancient secret of the church so it can crumble to pieces...

The Church (1989) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Church-Blu-ray/dp/B077HP1DXC?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-082-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B077HP1DXC&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


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NSFW screengrab (https://i.imgur.com/dkARq54.jpg)




Restored footage:





February 27, 2018

Michele Soavi's The Sect (1991) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing

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A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of Satan worshippers. A school teacher almost runs over an old man with a box and takes him in. It's no accident that the old man has come into her life, and it quickly becomes apparent that he has plans for her, plans that involve a permanent future with the Satanic cult.




The Sect (1991) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Sect-Blu-ray/dp/B077HP1DX7?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-082-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B077HP1DX7&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 17, 2017, 07:45:44 PM
November 27, 2017

Jacques Becker's Montparnasse 19 (1958) on blu-ray from Arrow (UK)

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Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Modigliani, a poor painter in Paris of 1919, falls in love with a daughter from a wealthy family. Her parents are against their relation and stop financial help.

Montparnasse 19 (1958) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Montparnasse-19-Blu-ray/dp/B07515WTM8?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07515WTM8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 20, 2017, 06:55:54 PM
January 30, 2017

Ken Russell's Gothic (1986) on blu-ray from Lionsgate/Vestron Video

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Five famous friends spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears in a frenzy of shocking lunacy and horrifying visions in this fictional tale, which tells the story of Mary Shelley's conception of Frankenstein on one debauched night in Lord Byron's home.








December 12, 2017

Quote from: wilder on October 17, 2017, 08:57:32 PMAnthony Mann's Raw Deal (1948) on blu-ray from ClassicFlix

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An escaped convict (Dennis O'Keefe) flees with his moll (Claire Trevor) and a social worker (Marsha Hunt) he loves.

Raw Deal (1948) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Raw-Deal-Blu-ray-Dennis-OKeefe/dp/B076DQVZMK/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1511225243&sr=8-4&keywords=raw+deal)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 22, 2017, 12:52:05 AM
November 29, 2017

Jacques Doillon's La Drôlesse aka The Hussy (1979) on blu-ray from Gaumont (France), with English subtitles

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Misfit François kidnaps young Mado and takes her to live with him in the attic of his parents' home. A strange relationship evolves till the police comes upon them.

La Drôlesse (1979) - Amazon France (https://www.amazon.fr/Dr%C3%B4lesse-Blu-ray-Claude-H%C3%A9bert/dp/B0748PX4G3/ref=sr_1_1_twi_blu_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511332970&sr=8-1&keywords=la+drolesse)





Hoping La Pirate (1984) and Ponette (1996) will follow



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 29, 2017, 04:48:27 PM
Q1 2018 TBD

Jacques Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse (1991) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group, from a new 4K restoration

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Frenhofer, a once-famous artist hasn't painted in ten years. His last work, possibly his masterpiece, La Belle Noiseuse (the beautiful annoyance) remains unfinished. When another artist and his girlfriend Marianne visit, the beautiful and fiercely intelligent young woman inspires Frenhofer, and she reluctantly agrees to be his new model. Twisting Marianne's gloriously undressed body into torturous positions, the posing begins in wary hostility and escalates into a battle of the wills. Yet gradually, their efforts become a sincere collaboration, driving both to dangerous limits. One of the New Wave's greatest directors, Rivette creates a powerful, passionate film about an artist seeking truth, regardless of the cost.


NSFW





Q1 2018 TBD

King Vidor's Ruby Gentry (1952) on blu-ray from Kino

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Carolina is the setting for this family drama which has a young tomboy (Jennifer Jones) falling for a local gentleman (Charlton Heston). Their relationship is as tempestuous as her lifestyle, which eventually takes her off to the seas as the captain of a ship.   






February 19, 2018

Frank Borzage's Magnificent Doll (1946) on blu-ray from Arrow UK

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Dolly Payne is adored by two leaders of the fledgling American government, James Madison and Aaron Burr. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.

Magnificent Doll (1946) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Doll-Blu-ray/dp/B0784LFPMP?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0784LFPMP&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






February 12/3, 2018

Federico Fellini's Orchestral Rehearsal (1978) on blu-ray from Arrow UK and Arrow US

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Made in 1978 for Italian television, Orchestra Rehearsal is possibly Fellini's most satirical and overtly political film.

An allegorical pseudo-documentary, the film depicts an Italian television crew's visit to a dilapidated auditorium (a converted 13th-century church) to meet an orchestra assembling to rehearse under the instruction of a tyrannical conductor. The TV crew interviews the various musicians who each speak lovingly about their chosen instruments. However, as petty squabbles break out amid the different factions of the ensemble, and the conductor berates his musicians, the meeting descends into anarchy and vandalism. A destructive crescendo ensues before the musicians regroup and play together once more in perfect harmony.

Abounding with its director's trademark rich imagery and expressive style, Orchestra Rehearsal marks the last collaboration between Fellini and the legendary composer Nino Rota (due to the latter s death in 1979) who provides one of his most beautiful themes in the film s conclusion.


Orchestral Rehearsal (1978) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Orchestra-Rehearsal-Blu-ray/dp/B077R65GFS?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B077R65GFS&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



Q1 2018 TBD

Henry S. Kesler's Cold War noir 5 Steps to Danger (1957) on blu-ray from ClassicFlix, from a new 4K restoration

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Hitchhiking on a deserted New Mexico road after his car breaks down, John Emmett (Sterling Hayden) gets picked up by Ann Nicholson (Ruth Roman), who is in a rush to reach Santa Fe, N.M. The distraught Ann is being pursued by psychiatrist Frederick Simmons (Werner Klemperer), who has been treating her in Los Angeles since she had a nervous breakdown, but she tells John that she is in possession of nuclear secrets that she must deliver to Dr. Reinhart Kissel (Karl Lindt) at a Santa Fe university.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 30, 2017, 05:29:28 PM
February 12, 2018

Carl Theodor Dreyer's Michael (1924) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK), from a new 2K restoration

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Based on Herman Bang's 1902 novel of the same name, Dreyer's film is a fascinating fin-de-siècle study of a "decadent" elderly artist (Benjamin Christensen) driven to despair by his relationship with his young protégé and former model, Michael (Walter Slezak). 

Michael (1924) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Blu-ray/dp/B077R4K3SL?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B077R4K3SL&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






March 12, 2018

The Barefoot Contessa (1954) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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A high point in the already success-laden career of writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and one of the most glamorous and extravagant films from Hollywood's Golden Age, The Barefoot Contessa is a tragic drama about the tumultuous rise and fall of fictional Hollywood actress Maria Vargas. Also featuring Edmund O'Brien in an Oscar winning role as a duplicitous publicist, and featuring cinematography from the legendary Jack Cardiff

The Barefoot Contessa (1954) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Barefoot-Contessa-Blu-ray/dp/B078C4QLZZ?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B078C4QLZZ&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



February 19, 2018

Stanley Kramer's Ship of Fools (1965) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Stanley Kramer's star-studded, Oscar®-winning adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's novel about passengers aboard an ocean liner bound to Germany from Mexico in 1933 forms a potent allegory of a world drifting inexorably towards war. With its incredible cast – including Vivien Leigh (in her last screen role), Simone Signoret, Lee Marvin, George Segal, Oskar Werner and Jose Ferrer – Ship of Fools is a powerful drama and a compelling viewing experience. It remains one of the finest ensemble pieces of the period.








Quote from: wilder on July 23, 2017, 05:17:44 AMFebruary 13, 2018

Martn Rosen's The Plague Dogs (1982) on blu-ray from Shout Factory. From the director of Watership Down.

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Two dogs escape the research facility where they've been subjected to cruel experiments, and are subsequently hunted by the government because they may carry the plague.



Quote from: blu-ray.comU.S. label Shout Factory confirmed via social media today that it will work with director Martin Rosen to deliver an extended cut of The Plague Dogs. As a result, the label has postponed the previously announced street date of its upcoming Blu-ray release, which was February 13.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 04, 2017, 05:03:58 PM
February 20, 2018

Emir Kusturica's Underground (1995) on blu-ray from Kino

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Follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations. A black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans doesn't mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. Years later, they break out of their underground "shelter" --- only to convince themselves that the war is still going on.






March 13, 2018

The Orchard End Murder (1980) on blu-ray from Kino/Redemption, also available from BFI in the UK

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Set in an idyllic Kent village one balmy summer during the 1960s, The Orchard End Murder, an obscure British oddity from 1981, is a macabre tale of murder and mischief.

A young woman from the suburbs (Tracy Hyde, Melody), bored by a countryside tryst, wanders off to explore her surroundings. When she meets a gnome-like stationmaster and his towering, half-witted railway-worker friend (played by Casualty's Clive Mantle), an initially strange encounter turns sinister among the trees of a nearby orchard.

Written and directed by Christian Marnham and shot by Pete Walker's regular cameraman Peter Jessop, The Orchard End Murder is a violent, darkly humorous thriller, unseen since it originally shocked UK cinemas audiences as the supporting feature to Gary Sherman's Dead and Buried.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on December 14, 2017, 01:56:59 AM
it's arriving straight to discs in the states? i'm reading it as disc news, dvd and blu-ray, January 23.

Donnie Yen has a fucking mustache. oh i can't wait!

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 14, 2017, 04:09:38 PM
February 27, 2018

Stuart Rosenberg's The Drowning Pool (1975) on blu-ray from Warner Archive. Shot by Gordon Willis.

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Private detective Lew Harper (Paul Newman) of Los Angeles investigates a threat in Louisiana bayou country against an old flame of his, Iris Devereaux (Joanne Woodward). Iris is worried that her ex-chauffeur will tell her husband that she has been cheating on him. The story also involves Iris' daughter Schuyler (Melanie Griffith) and Iris' mother-in-law Olivia in several interesting sub-plots.

Harper is caught up in a power struggle between Olivia, the owner of the valuable, oil-rich Devereux estate, and oil tycoon Jay Hue Kilbourne (Murray Hamilton), while local police authority Broussard (Anthony Franciosa) has a personal interest in the family and wants the private eye gone.







February 27, 2018

Harper (1966) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Paul Newman memorably plays the title role in this box-office hit based on Ross MacDonald's The Moving Target. The first detective film in Newman's then 23-film career, Harper revitalized the genre. Newman's sleuth chews gum fast... and slips out of jams ever faster as he unravels a twisted case of kidnapping and murder. William Goldman's clever script throws quips and a parade of LA-LA-Land characters Harper's way. There's a woman of means (Lauren Bacall), a gun-toting attorney (Arthur Hill), a poolside gigolo (Robert Wagner), a boozy ex-starlet (Shelley Winters), a jazz junkie (Julie Harris), Harper's estranged wife (Janet Leigh) and the unholy order of the Temple of the Clouds (led by Strother Martin). Each may possess a clue. Or a bullet for Harper.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 14, 2017, 04:47:39 PM
January 30, 2018

Mick Jackson's Threads (1984) on blu-ray from Severin, from a new 2K remaster, in both standard and limited editions

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In September 1984, Threads was aired on the BBC and shocked tens of millions of UK viewers. Four months later, it was broadcast in America and became the most watched basic cable program in history. After more than three decades, it remains one of the most acclaimed and shattering made–for–television movies of all time.

Reece Dinsdale (Coronation Street):, David Brierly (Doctor Who) and Karen Meagher, in a stunning debut performance star in this "graphic and haunting" (People Magazine) docudrama about the effects of a nuclear attack on the working –class city of Sheffield, England as the fabric of society unravels. Directed by Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard, Tuesdays with Moorie) from a screenplay by novelist/playwright Barry Hines (Ken Loach's Kes) and nominated for seven BAFTA Awards.


Threads (1984) - Limited Edition - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Threads-Blu-ray/dp/B07885HYYG?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07885HYYG&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

Threads (1984) - Standard Edition - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Threads-Blu-ray/dp/B07885HYYF?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07885HYYF&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 16, 2017, 12:06:55 AM
January 23, 2018

Henry Koster's My Cousin Rachel (1952) on blu-ray from Twilight Time, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier (Rebecca)

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A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty.






Quote from: wilder on October 15, 2017, 03:41:05 PM
January 23, 2018

Woody Allen's Husbands & Wives (1992) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Gabe (Woody Allen) and his wife, Judy (Mia Farrow), are shocked to discover that their best friends, Sally (Judy Davis) and Jack (Sydney Pollack), are splitting up. Not only did they not see the breakup coming, but it makes them start to question their own relationship. While Gabe flirts with the idea of dating one of his college students (Juliette Lewis), Sally and Jack discover that being single again isn't all its cracked up to be and contemplate getting back together.






January 23, 2018

Paul Mazursky's Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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After returning to Los Angeles from a group therapy session, documentary filmmaker Bob Sanders (Robert Culp) and his wife, Carol (Natalie Wood), find themselves becoming vigilante couples counselors, offering unsolicited advice to their best friends, Ted (Elliott Gould) and Alice Henderson (Dyan Cannon). Not wanting to be rude, the Hendersons play along, but some latent sexual tension among the four soon comes bubbling to the surface, and long-buried desires don't stay buried for long.






January 23, 2018

Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Dragonwyck (1946) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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For Miranda Wells (Gene Tierney), moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas (Vincent Price), seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter (Connie Marshall), to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.

All to be up for pre-order on Screen Archives (http://www.screenarchives.com) on January 10, 2018
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 17, 2017, 11:24:50 PM
Omg...the reason I started this thread. These releases from Tanelorn never happened, but here we are 6 years later and they're finally coming from Olive Films.

Quote from: wilder on November 01, 2011, 01:54:56 AM
Couple of real odd announcements came about today. I'm starting a thread to keep track of these. Never thought these would come about...

Early Julio Medem Films Heading to Blu-ray
Independent distributors Tanelorn Films have revealed that they are planning to begin releasing on Blu-ray in Q4. The distributors will release three early films by acclaimed Spanish director Julio Medem (Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Chaotic Ana): Vacas (1992), La ardilla roja a.k.a The Red Squirrel (1993), and Tierra a.k.a Earth (1996). Preliminary release dates are yet to be revealed.

Source (http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=7650)


January 30, 2018

Julio Medem's The Red Squirrel (1993) on blu-ray from Olive Films

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Lisa suffers a motorcycle accident and loses her memory. Jota is a musician, desperate after separating from his girlfriend. When he meets Lisa he takes advantage of the situation and reinvents her life according to his desires.

The Red Squirrel (1993) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0789WCRZL?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1513437557&sr=1-378&refinements=p_n_format_browse-bin%3A2650305011&tag=blurayforum-20)






January 30, 2018

Julio Medem's Vacas (1992) on blu-ray from Olive Films

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Set in the Basque region, a story of the rivalry of two families, period 1870-1935

Vacas (1992) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0789XM3Z1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1513437557&sr=1-377&refinements=p_n_format_browse-bin%3A2650305011&tag=blurayforum-20)






January 30, 2018

Julio Medem's Tierra (1996) on blu-ray from Olive Films

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Angel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital, comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil. The local wine-making industry has found these pests responsible for giving their product an "earthy" taste that has divided local opinion. While in town, Angel becomes involved with two beautiful and very different women, and impacts their lives on a grand scale. Can either of these women accept the fact that Angel travels with a "ghost" of himself, or that he routinely speaks with the deseased townspeople?






January 30, 2018

Big Lunas' Jamón Jamón (1992)  on blu-ray from Olive Films

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Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor. When Sylvia falls pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he will marry her, most likely against the wishes of his parents. Jose Luis' mother is determined to break her son's engagement to a girl from a lower-class family, and hires Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter to seduce Sylvia.

Jamón Jamón (1992) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Jamon-Jamon-Blu-ray/dp/B07895ZV34?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07895ZV34&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: ono on December 17, 2017, 11:42:20 PM
Julio Medem is one of my favorite directors.  One of my favorite critics has always had such good things to say about him, but it's been so hard to get my hands on these films, so this is exciting news!
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 20, 2017, 03:51:59 PM
March 5, 2018

Andre DeToth's western-noir hybrid Ramrod (1947) on blu-ray from Arrow UK, also available from Olive (https://www.amazon.com/Ramrod-Blu-ray/dp/B0097RU3EA?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-022-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0097RU3EA&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER) in the US

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One of the classic Westerns of its era, Ramrod stars Veronica Lake as Connie Dickson, a headstrong cowgirl who's plans to marry a sheep rancher are thwarted when a powerful local cattle baron, Frank Ivey (Preston Foster), and her own father (Charles Ruggles), force her fiancé to flee town. Refusing to kowtow to these powerful men, Connie inherits her ex-fiancés land and determines to run the ranch with the help of her new ramrod, reformed alcoholic Dave Nash (Joel McCrea). But Dave's diplomatic attempts to resolve the dispute fall upon deaf ears and a bloody turf war on the open range ensues. With Ramrod, Andre DeToth (a Hungarian-American director who has earned praise from Tarantino and Scorsese) skilfully creates a dangerous world of greed, lies and murder whilst garnering superb performances from McCrea and Lake, two of the biggest Hollywood stars of the 1940s.

Ramrod (1947) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0788XRYJQ/?tag=bluraycom-21)

See also, David Meuel's book The Noir Western: Darkness on the Range 1943-1962 (https://www.amazon.com/Noir-Western-Darkness-Range-1943-1962/dp/0786494522/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1513806233&sr=8-1&keywords=noir+western)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 20, 2017, 11:20:23 PM
March 19/20, 2018

Robert Altman's Images (1972) on blu-ray from Arrow UK & Arrow US, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative

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Originally conceived in the mid-sixties, Images concerns a pregnant children's author (Susannah York, who won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival) whose husband (Rene Auberjonois) may or may not be having an affair. While holidaying in Ireland, her mental state becomes increasingly unstable resulting in paranoia, hallucinations and visions of a doppelgänger.

Scored by an Oscar-nominated John Williams, with "sounds" by Stomu Yamash'ta (The Man Who Fell to Earth), Images also boasts the remarkable cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond (Close Encounters of the Third Kind).


Images (1972) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Images-Blu-ray/dp/B07894ZL3K?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07894ZL3K&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 23, 2017, 04:50:32 PM
BFI's best Blu-rays and DVDs of 2017 end of the year round-up (http://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-sound-magazine/best-dvds-blu-rays-2017?utm_content=buffer093d2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitterbfi&utm_campaign=buffer)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on December 23, 2017, 06:51:35 PM
i still have my The Old Dark House dvd, but everything i hear sure makes it sound like i need that blu-ray. glad to see Lucas also mentioned The Lost World (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016039/). Fritz Lang's silent were on five lists. Beggars of Life and Varieté were represented. J'accuse and Feuillade. Buster Keaton: Sherlock, Jr., The General, Steamboat Bill, Jr. okay okay i need to watch The Marseille Trilogy. Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology. Napoleon. The Last Laugh. The Four Marx Brothers at Paramount 1929–1933.

the jenkins list sounds like a jenkins list, except i think Housekeeping is okay. i clearly need to see The Fabulous Baron Munchausen.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on December 24, 2017, 06:35:01 PM
what is this?? (https://www.hamiltonbook.com/products/search?listing_sort=10&limit=100&power_search=Start%2BSearch&fnf=all&ps%5Bpublisher%5D=Code+Red&pf%5B6%5D=6)


Marjoe's acting career is on blu-ray(!)

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 02, 2018, 06:26:02 PM
February 6, 2018

Lois Weber's Shoes (1916) on blu-ray from Milestone

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A young working girl must suport her family on only five dollars a week. The strain of trying to feed, house and clothe her mother, her father and three brothers finally gets to be too much, and she winds up selling her body for a pair of shoes.





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QuoteEva Meyer is poor shop girl working at a five-and-dime. She is the sole wage earner for three younger sisters, a mother who struggles to hold everything together, and a father who prefers beer and penny dreadfuls to work. Each week, Eva returns to her cold-water flat and dutifully hands over her meager earnings to her mother. But her wages barely cover the grocer's bill and cannot provide for decent clothing. With only cardboard to patch the holes in the soles of her shoes, Eva's life becomes harder with each rainy day and every splinter. In constant pain and with no solution in sight, the disheartened girl considers the uninvited advances of Charlie, a cad with clearly dishonorable intentions.

So begins Lois Weber's Shoes, perhaps her finest masterpiece and one of the great feminist films in the history of cinema.

Whenever the press reports on the current dearth of women directors, there is mention made of Lois Weber, the most successful female filmmaker of her time and a major influence on silent cinema. She directed and wrote many groundbreaking films — dramas that combined social and political critiques with moving personal narratives — but because her finest films have long been unavailable and others have been poorly presented, Weber's reputation has always quickly retreated back into the dustbin of history.

Together, with the recent publication of Shelley Stamp's Lois Weber in Early Hollywood (University of California Press), Milestone is working to reinstall Weber into the pantheon of great filmmakers. Thanks to the incredible restoration work of the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, Milestone celebrates the film's 100th anniversary with a release that will be an important addition to every women's studies and every film history course.

Weber adapted her script for Shoes closely from a short story by Stella Wynne Herron published in the January 1, 1916 issue of Collier's. Herron's inspiration for her story came from social reformer Jane Addams's 1912 book on prostitution A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, which Herron quoted in her epigraph: "When the shoes became too worn to endure a third soling and she possessed but 90 cents toward a new pair, she gave up the struggle; to use her own contemptuous phrase, she 'sold out for a new pair of shoes.'"

Weber weaves a beautifully simple story with a technique much celebrated in post-WWII Italy as neorealism. Shooting exteriors around Los Angeles — including a remarkable scene in Pershing Square and the actual front of Woolworth's on Broadway — and meticulously recreating a Five and Dime Store interior, Weber created a documentary feel of a young woman's life unmatched by any film of the era. The director's brand-new discovery, sixteen-year-old Mary MacLaren (resembling a young Jennifer Lawrence) is the embodiment of youthful innocence and too-early world-weariness. Much like the 1912 English play "Hindle Wakes," Shoes is a plea for women's equality (women's suffrage was still a hard-fought political goal in both countries), but where one celebrated a woman's right to sexual freedom, Weber's film portrays the reality and tragedy of a shop girl in modern society.

The Shoes restoration by the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam combined a Dutch nitrate print and a 1930s American "comedic" reissue of the film called Unshod Maiden found at the Library of Congress. Thanks to the 2016 discovery of the original script and intertitles in the 16mm microfilm files at NBC/Universal, the Milestone edition more closely reflects the original film. Prominent musicians and composers Donald Sosin and Mimi Rabson have created a mesmerizing and incredibly moving score to accompany Shoes.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 03, 2018, 05:40:28 PM
January 9, 2018

Richard Boleslawski's Garden of Allah (1936) on blu-ray from Kino

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After the death of her father, convent-educated Domini Enfilden heads for the desert seeking peace. But instead of tranquility, the sultry beauty finds passion in the arms of Boris Androvsky — secretly a Trappist monk who has broken his vows and lost his faith. Will Domini discover Boris' secret, and will his hidden past destroy their future happiness?

Garden of Allah (1936) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Garden-of-Allah-Blu-ray/dp/B0776222GG?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0776222GG&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

Resized from the Beaver (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film6/blu-ray_reviews_80/the_garden_of_allah_blu-ray.htm):

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March 27, 2018

Victor Fleming's Joan of Arc (1948) on blu-ray from Kino

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This classic epic was directed by the brilliant Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz) and starred the radiant Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca) in one of her most stunning performances. Bergman is spellbinding as the 15th century French peasant girl who rouses a nation and inspires the world with her faith and bravery. Fiercely believing that she's directed by God, Joan triumphantly leads an army into battle against the British, who are driven from France. Yet as Joan's influence grows, the king (José Ferrer, Moulin Rouge) becomes increasingly wary of her power and ultimately betrays her to her death and martyrdom. A lavish award-winning epic film, Joan of Arc is a powerful story of one of history's most fascinating heroines. The stellar cast also includes Ward Bond (The Searchers), J. Carrol Naish (Clash by Night) and Gene Lockhart (Miracle on 34th Street).


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on January 03, 2018, 07:18:48 PM
Quote from: wilder on January 02, 2018, 06:26:02 PM
February 6, 2018

Lois Weber's Shoes (1916) on blu-ray from Milestone

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it's just me and you interested in this anyway, but did you already read her imdb? i'm excited!

QuoteLois Weber, who had been a street-corner evangelist before entering motion pictures in 1905, became the first American woman movie director of note, and a major one at that. Herbert Blaché, the husband of Frenchwoman Alice Guy, the first woman to direct a motion picture (and arguably, the first director of either gender to helm a fictional narrative film), cast her in the lead of "Hypocrites" (1908). Weber first got behind the camera on A Heroine of '76 (1911), a silent that was co-directed by pioneering American director Edwin S. Porter and actor Phillips Smalley, who played George Washington. She also starred in the picture.

In 1914, a year in which she helmed 27 movies, Weber co-directed William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1914) with Smalley, who also played Shylock, making her the first woman to direct a feature-length film in the US. (Jeanie Macpherson, who would play a major role in cinema as Cecil B. DeMille's favorite screenwriter, also acted in the film).

In the spirit of her evangelism, she began directing, writing and then producing films of social import, dealing with such themes as abortion, alcoholism, birth control, drug addiction and prostitution. By 1916 she had established herself as the top director at Universal Film Manufacturing (now Universal Studios), the top studio in America at the time, making her the highest-paid director in the world. The following year she formed Lois Weber Productions.

She directed over 100 films, but her production company went bankrupt in the 1920s as her career faltered. She did not make the transition to sound, although she did make one talkie, White Heat (1934), in 1934.

Dorothy Arzner's films are currently playing at LACMA. i went to the first (Working Girls) and there was some mad shittalking from cinephiles. basically no one appreciates Arzner. all they wanted to mention was how just-okay her films are and how before sound came into film there were lots of female writers and directors making movies. so Lois Weber fits in that conversation.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 05, 2018, 06:40:06 PM
March 12, 2018

Raoul Walsh's The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958), starring Jayne Mansfield, on blu-ray from Plan B (UK)

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Jonathan Tibbs (Kenneth More) reckons that a good way to improve the fortunes of his uncle's London gun company is to sell their products in the Wild West, so he sets off for Fractured Jaw. Once there, a series of misunderstandings give him the completely false reputation of being a smooth-talking, fast-on-the-draw gunman, and he is inveigled into becoming sheriff. With the two trigger-happy local ranches squaring up against each other, it's as well he is getting advice from sassy and sweet-on-him Kate (Jayne Mansfield).

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Sheriff-of-Fractured-Jaw-Blu-ray/dp/B0789TKQF9?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0789TKQF9&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 06, 2018, 07:54:46 PM
February 27, 2018

David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone (1983) on blu-ray from Koch Media (Germany)

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A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability.

The Dead Zone (1983) - Amazon Germany (https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B077S8V5GM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?smid=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&psc=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=dvdbeaver0c-21&linkId=c598fa5fc20d8a11cfedc1cfc91d5b40)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 08, 2018, 06:12:56 PM
March 5, 2018

Henri-Georges Clouzot's La Prisonnière aka Woman in Chains (1968) on blu-ray from Studio Canal (UK). Many of the visual techniques pioneered for Clouzot's unfinished Inferno (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=11549.msg350549#msg350549) are present here.

Fairly certain this is also coming from Criterion, soon. 

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A marriage that has fallen on hard times is further tested by the couple's implication in a murder. Jenny Lamour (Suzy Delair) is a music hall chanteuse married to her pianist husband Maurice (Bernard Blier). Keen to get ahead, Jenny leaps at the chance when an ageing wealthy businessman (Charles Dullin) offers her the chance of some gigs. However, when she agrees to a meeting at his home and he is found dead later in the evening - Maurice's untamed jealousy is in the frame. A Maigret-esque detective, Antoine, played by Louis Jouvet leaves no stone unturned in his exceedingly private investigations of the down-at-heel showbiz couple's sad, tempestuous life.

La Prisonnière (1968) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/La-Prisonniere-Blu-ray/dp/B0785MQP9Y?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0785MQP9Y&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






March 5, 2018

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le Corbeau (1943) on blu-ray from Studio Canal (UK)

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Henri-George Clouzot's dark and subversive study of human nature stars Pierre Fresnay and Ginette Leclerc. A wave of hysteria sweeps the small provincial town of St Robin when a series of poison-pen letters signed 'Le Corbeau' (The Raven) appear denouncing several prominent members of society. Starting with the village doctor, the slow sinister trickle of letters soon becomes a flood and no one is safe from the malicious accusations, which include abortion and drug addiction. Beneath the town's respectful and calm surface lurks a darker side in which everyone is a suspect. With the townspeople afraid to accuse each other for fear of being accused, suspicion and hatred reach epidemic levels.

Le Corbeau (1943) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Le-Corbeau-Blu-ray/dp/B078D686LM?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B078D686LM&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)








March 5, 2018

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Quai Des Orfèvres on blu-ray from Studio Canal (UK)

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A marriage that has fallen on hard times is further tested by the couple's implication in a murder. Jenny Lamour (Suzy Delair) is a music hall chanteuse married to her pianist husband Maurice (Bernard Blier). Keen to get ahead, Jenny leaps at the chance when an ageing wealthy businessman (Charles Dullin) offers her the chance of some gigs. However, when she agrees to a meeting at his home and he is found dead later in the evening - Maurice's untamed jealousy is in the frame. A Maigret-esque detective, Antoine, played by Louis Jouvet leaves no stone unturned in his exceedingly private investigations of the down-at-heel showbiz couple's sad, tempestuous life.

Quai Des Orfèvres - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quai-des-Orfevres-Blu-ray/dp/B0785MQF5P?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0785MQF5P&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 13, 2018, 05:26:56 AM
March 19, 2018

Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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In one of the most acclaimed films of all time, Michelangelo Antonioni (Blow-up, Zabriskie Point) directed international star Jack Nicholson (The Last Detail, The Border, Wolf) and Maria Schneider (Last Tango in Paris) in an elliptical and fascinating thriller about alienation and lost identities. Now finally making its Blu-ray debut in the UK, this essential work from one of cinema's most renowned and celebrated film artists is accompanied by an array of fascinating and insightful extra features.






March 11, 2018

Stephen Frears' Gumshoe (1971) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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This brilliant feature debut from director Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters) is an affectionate – and uniquely British – tribute to the Hollywood detective movies of the 1940s. Starring the great Albert Finney (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Murder on the Orient Express, Skyfall) as a Liverpool bingo caller who dreams of being a private eye and then finds himself suddenly contacted for what appears to be an actual piece of detective work.






March 19, 2018

The Town on Trial (1957) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Investigating a murder in a small English town, a brusque Police Inspector (John Mills – Hobson's Choice, Ice Cold in Alex, Young Winston) discovers that virtually everyone he encounters has something to hide. Setting the template for British crime thrillers for decades to come (including recent TV hit Broadchurch), director John Guillermin's audacious, often salacious, drama is untypical of mainstream British cinema of its time. An intelligent and gripping police-procedural thriller and macabre melodrama, Town on Trial is a rare treat which is ripe for rediscovery.



April 23/24, 2018

G.W. Pabsts' L'Atlantide (1932) on blu-ray from Arrow UK and Arrow US

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L'Atlantide marked a change of direction for German filmmaker G.W. Pabst. Following a string of features on which he'd made his reputation – the masterpiece Pandora's Box, the classic World War I picture Westfront 1918, the Brecht adaptation The Threepenny Opera and the mining disaster movie Kameradschaft – Pabst ventured into fresh territory with an adaptation of Pierre Benoît's fantasy-adventure novel.

Set in 1896, L'Atlantide concerns the exploits of two French officers searching for missing comrades in the desert. During their rescue mission, the pair are kidnapped and taken to the subterranean lair of the goddess Antinéa (played by Metropolis's Brigitte Helm) in the ruins of the city of Atlantis – the infamous realm had not sunk beneath the sea but instead been buried under the sands of the Sahara.

Shot on location in the Sahara and at Berlin's Efa Studios, L'Atlantide presents a wonderful fantasy world. Originally filmed by Jacques Feyder in 1920, and later the inspiration for a camp Maria Montez classic, an Italian Hercules picture and a Totò parody among many others, Pabst's vision of Benoît's novel remains one of cinema's best.




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 24, 2018, 07:06:12 PM
April 17, 2018

Paul Schrader's Auto Focus (2002) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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The story of actor Bob Crane, an affable radio show host and amateur drummer who found success on Hogan's Heroes, a popular television sitcom, and his dramatic descent into the underbelly of Hollywood after the series was cancelled, and after forming a friendship with John Henry Carpenter.






April 17, 2018

Jacques Demy's Model Shop (1969) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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George Matthews is a young man who is having a bittersweet affair with a French divorcée in Los Angeles. Waiting to be drafted, he is unable to commit himself to anything or anybody, including his girlfriend Gloria. While trying to raise money to prevent his car from being repossessed, George is attracted to Lola, a Frenchwoman who works in a "model shop" (an establishment which rents out beautiful pin-up models to photographers). George spends his last twelve dollars to photograph her, and discovers that she is as unhappy as he. Although Lola is unwilling to respond to George, their brief night of lovemaking gives both the will to deal with their respective problems.








April 10, 2018

Allan Dwan's Manhandled (1924) on blu-ray from Kino

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Tessy McGuire (Gloria Swanson) is a shop girl at a department store who lives in the same building as her boyfriend Tom Moore, a mechanic with big ideas. One day, she is invited by the store owner (Arthur Housman) to a party along with a friend. Tessy impersonates a girl doing a jazz dance and later a Russian Countess. The owner of a ritzy store (Frank Morgan) offers her a job as a fake Countess to lure customers. Tessy also gets a job posing as a model, but keeps getting "manhandled."



April 10, 2018

Allan Dwan's Stage Struck (1925) on blu-ray from Kino

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Jennie Hagen dreams of becoming a great actress. When her boyfriend Orme starts to flirt with an actual actress, Jennie becomes jealous and decides to fight with her rival.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 26, 2018, 05:19:24 PM
Bunch of standard editions of previously limited releases coming out


April 24, 2018

Standard edition (https://www.amazon.com/Liquid-Sky-Blu-ray/dp/B07985BXKC?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-000-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07985BXKC&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER) of Liquid Sky (1982) from Vinegar Syndrome

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Quote from: wilder on September 26, 2017, 02:14:13 PM
Slava Tsukerman's Liquid Sky (1982) on limited edition blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative

Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear. This increasingly bizarre scenario is observed by a lonely woman in the building across the street, a German scientist who is following the aliens, and an equally androgynous, drug-addicted male model. (Both models are played by Anne Carlisle, in a dual role.)





March 13, 2018

Standard 2-disc edition (https://www.amazon.com/Suspiria-Blu-ray/dp/B07987TFN7?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07987TFN7&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER) of Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977) from Synapse, from the new 4K restoration. A 1-disc version (https://www.amazon.com/Suspiria-Blu-ray-Jessica-Harper/dp/B07985BXHP/ref=sr_1_1_twi_blu_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1517101204&sr=8-1&keywords=suspiria+blu-ray) will also be available.

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April 10, 2018

US release of the standard edition (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Deep-Red-Blu-ray/197889/) of Dario Argento's Deep Red (1975) from Arrow

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 29, 2018, 03:50:45 AM
February 20, 2018

Larry Peerce's The Incident (1967) on blu-ray from Twilight Time, from a new 4K transfer

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Late one night, two young toughs hold hostage the passengers in one car of a New York subway train.






February 20, 2018

Paul Newman's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972) on blu-ray from Twilight Time, from a new 4K transfer

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From the Pullizer Prize winning play by Paul Zindel, this is the story of Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters, Ruth and Matilda. A middle-aged widowed eccentric, Beatrice is looking for her life in the classified ads while all about her is the rubble of an unkempt house. All she needs is the right opportunity, she says puffing on a cigarette. Poorly equipped to survive the vagaries of modern life, she has nonetheless always managed to muddle through. Ruth, epileptic and making her way through the rebellious phase of adolescence, seems doomed to make the same mistakes as her mother. Quiet Matilda, on the other hand, seeks refuge in her animals and her schoolwork. "Jesus, don't you hate the world, Matilda?" Beatrice asks her youngest daughter. The title of the film is also the subject of Matilda's science project at school and serves as a metaphor for the way life affects each of us differently -- how some are able to find opportunity in adversity and thrive and how some succumb when the burden becomes too heavy. This is the story of slowly drowning and grasping desperately for a lifeline only to find that there's none there and you must save yourself. "No, Mama," Matilda says, "I don't hate the world."


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 30, 2018, 09:19:21 PM
May 22, 2018

David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Adapted from the novel by Barry Gifford, Wild At Heart stars Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, Adaptation) and Laura Dern (Inland Empire, Jurassic Park) as Sailor and Lula, a pair of young lovers on the run from Lula's mother Marietta (Dern's real-life mother Diane Ladd, in an Academy Award®-nominated role). Sailor and Lula's journey takes them into the dark heart of America, where dangers and temptations lurk ... and where only their love can truly protect them. But even their all-consuming passion may not withstand the sinister presence of Bobby Peru (Willem Dafoe in an unforgettable performance).



2018 TBD

Giulio Questi's Death Laid an Egg aka La morte ha fatto l'uovo (1968) on blu-ray from Nucleus Films (UK). This release dramatically improves on the lackluster transfer (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Death-Laid-an-Egg-Blu-ray/171311/#Screenshots) on the American blu-ray from Cult Epics

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A woman (Ewa Aulin) plans to kill both her lover (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and his wife (Gina Lollobrigida) but conspires with each one to get the job done.

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 02, 2018, 07:20:30 PM
Summer 2018 TBD

Paul Verhoeven's Spetters (1980) on blu-ray from Kino, sourced from a brand new remaster

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Rien, Eef and Hans are three young working-class guys stuck in an industrial town on the outskirts of Rotterdam. They couldn't be more different except for one thing: their shared passion for motorcycle racing, which each sees as his ticket to a better life. But a deeper passion will soon rule each of their lives, when a sexy, ambitious blonde comes between them and provokes unforeseen events that will rock their worlds.






May 14, 2018

Harry Hurwitz's Fairy Tales (1978) on blu-ray from 88 Films (UK), from a new restoration of the original camera negative

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Little Bo Peep, Old King Cole, Little Tommy Tucker, Snow White, and many others, have all grown up and are ready for action! These enchanting characters from beloved nursery rhymes sing, dance, lust, and romance their way through this hilarious, naughty, and twisted tale where music, mirth, and merriment are the rule of the day. In a clothing optional land of make believe where everything is possible. See "Scream Queen" Linnea Quigley star in her first feature role in this erotic musical funfest!!

Fairy Tales (1978) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adult-Fairy-Tales-Blu-ray/dp/B079B5KHNS?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B079B5KHNS&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


NSFW



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 05, 2018, 05:52:09 PM
Available Now (released in October '17 )

"The Prisoner" (1967-1968) TV Series on blu-ray from Network (UK). All other releases are currently out of print.

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After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.

The Prisoner - Series Only - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0766LLXL3/?tag=hidefnin-21)

In My Mind - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Mind-Blu-ray-Patrick-McGoohan/dp/B0766BKCF4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1517874778&sr=8-2&keywords=in+my+mind)


The Prisoner - Limited Deluxe Edition - Network (http://networkonair.com/all-products/2753-prisoner-the-50th-anniversary-limited-edition-blu-ray-) (includes illustrated book + OST CD set, and "In My Mind", a new feature-length documentary)

The Prisoner - Illustrated book only - Network (http://networkonair.com/all-products/2746-prisoner-the-an-illustrated-history)

The Prisoner - OST CD Set only - Network (http://networkonair.com/all-products/2748-prisoner-the-original-soundtrack-library-music-remastered)

In My Mind - Network (http://networkonair.com/all-products/2749-in-my-mind-blu-ray-)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 08, 2018, 09:03:30 PM
April 23, 2018

Ingmar Bergman's The Touch (1971) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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Unavailable for decades, the BFI are proud to present Ingmar Bergman's The Touch for the first time on Blu-ray worldwide.

Karin (Bibi Andersson), a happily married mother of two, surprises herself by responding in-kind to an unforeseen profession of love from David (Elliott Gould), an archaeologist visiting Sweden, whom her doctor husband (Max von Sydow) has befriended. But love, however toxically exhilarating, is seldom simple, and deceit and David's volatile temperament take their toll. The Touch marked the first time Bergman worked with an established Hollywood star (Gould).

Originally released in a fully English language version, this presentation of The Touch is a new 2K restoration by the Swedish Film Institute from the original negatives of Bergman's preferred Swedish/English cut.


The Touch (1971) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Touch-Blu-ray/dp/B079NBYDTQ?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B079NBYDTQ&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



April 23, 2018

Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute (1975) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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Ingmar Bergman puts his indelible stamp on Mozart's exquisite opera in this sublime rendering of one of the composer's best-loved works: a celebration of love, forgiveness, and the brotherhood of man. The Magic Flute (Trollflöjten) stars Josef Köstlinger as Tamino, the young man determined to rescue a beautiful princess from the clutches of parental evil. Available for the first time on Blu-ray the BFI are proud to present this film from one of the world's most acclaimed directors.

The Magic Flute (1975) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Magic-Flute-Blu-ray/dp/B076MDDRDZ?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B076MDDRDZ&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



June 18, 2018

Derek Jarman's Jubilee (1978) on blu-ray from BFI (UK), from a new 2K remaster of the original camea negative

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The mythological past and bleak future converge on the sparse, grey streets of London in this cult classic of the punk era.Queen Elizabeth 1 and her occult aide Dr John Dee (brilliantly played by Jenny Runacre and Richard O'Brien, respectively) travel into the future, encountering the megalomania of big business as well as gangs of violent, marauding killers.


Jubilee (1978) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jubilee-Blu-ray/dp/B079NBWJM8?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B079NBWJM8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



March 26, 2018

Derek Jarman Volume One: 1972 -1986 (5-disc Limited Edition Blu-ray box set) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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24 years have gone by since his death at just 52, but the legacy of the iconoclastic filmmaker Derek Jarman (1942-1994) lives on, and his ground-breaking and highly influential work has lost none of its relevance or impact.

The first of two deluxe Limited Edition box sets brings together a selection of his feature films on Blu-ray for the first time. Jarman Volume One: 1972-1986 contains In the Shadow of the Sun, Sebastiane, Jubilee, The Tempest, The Angelic Conversation and Caravaggio and is packed with an incredible 30 extras and accompanied by an 80-page book.

Jarman's multi-faceted work is inspirational in its fearlessness, yet remains touchingly personal. The dynamism of these features evokes comparison with the bold romanticism of directors like Ken Russell (an early champion) and Michael Powell, as well as artists Paul Nash and John Piper. But Jarman was also a subversive force in film. Beginning with his psychedelic debut feature, In the Shadow of the Sun (1972-1974), then came the provocative Jubilee (1978), the evocative Shakespeare adaptation The Tempest (1979) and The Angelic Conversation (1985), in which he invoked Elizabethan occultist Dr John Dee and explored alchemical imagery, a subject in which he was well versed. In Sebastiane (1976) and Caravaggio (1986) he revived key gay and homo-erotic figures from the past – with edgy and unmistakable style.

Derek Jarman's first six feature films have all been newly scanned at 2K from original film elements and are presented in this lavish box set alongside an exciting array of new and archival extras drawn from Jarman's archive of workbooks and papers held in BFI Special Collections. Newly interviewed exclusively for this box set are some of the people who worked on these films; punk legend Jordan, producer and filmmaker Don Boyd, production designer Christopher Hobbs and artist filmmaker John Scarlett-Davis.


Derek Jarman Vol. 1 - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Derek-Jarman-Volume-One-1976-1986-Blu-ray/dp/B076M46LKS?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B076M46LKS&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



April 23. 2018

Woodfall: A Revolution in British Cinema 1959-1965 on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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-Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson, 1959)
-The Entertainer (Tony Richardson, 1960)
-Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, 1960)
-A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson, 1961)
-The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson, 1962)
-Tom Jones (Tony Richardson, 1963) (New 4K digital restorations of the original theatrical version of the film and the 1989 director's cut)
-Girl with Green Eyes (Desmond Davis, 1964)
-The Knack...and how to get it (Richard Lester, 1965)


A new 8-disc set celebrating the 60th anniversary of Woodfall Films. Includes eight iconic films (many newly restored and available on Blu-ray for the first time) that revolutionised British cinema and launched the careers of the likes of Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and Rita Tushingham.

Woodfall: A Revolution in British Cinema 1959-1965 - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Woodfall-A-Revolution-in-British-Cinema-1959-1965-Blu-ray/dp/B079N1HQDK?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B079N1HQDK&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



April 23, 2018

Paul Newman's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972) from Indicator (UK), from a new 4K restoration of the original camera negative. Also coming from Twilight Time in the US.

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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Paul Zindel, Paul Newman's second film as director stars his wife Joanne Woodward (Three Faces of Eve, Sybil) as an abusive, over-bearing mother raising her two daughters (Nell Potts and Roberta Wallach) in an atmosphere of bitterness and hatred. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a powerful, searingly unsentimental and ultimately transformative drama, with a trio of towering performances from the three female leads at its core.

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972) - Powerhouse Films (http://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/product/the-effect-of-gamma-rays-on-man-in-the-moon-marigolds-le)



April 23, 2018

Joseph L Mankiewicz's Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK), from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative. Also available from Twilight Time in the US.

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Directed by Joseph L Mankiewicz (Dragonwyck, All About Eve, Cleopatra) from the play by Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) and brilliantly adapted for the screen by Gore Vidal (Ben-Hur, Myra Breckinridge), Suddenly, Last Summer casts three of Hollywood's most iconic talents (Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift) in a daring and often delirious mix of lurid drama and Gothic horror. Sensational and wildly controversial at the time of its release, Suddenly, Last Summer now stands as a classic – and stills packs a provocative punch.

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) - Powerhouse Films (http://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/product/suddenly-last-summer-le)



April 23, 2018

Alan Arkin's Little Murders (1971) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Adapted from the controversial stage play by Jules Feiffer (Carnal Knowledge), this savage, nihilistic black comedy was the startling directorial debut of actor Alan Arkin. When a severely depressed fashion photographer (Elliott Gould – M*A*S*H, The Long Goodbye, California Split) meets an optimistic young woman (Marcia Rodd – Citizens Band, Last Embrace), she is determined to save him amidst the series of random muggings, sniper shootings, garbage strikes and total blackouts that are ravaging the city of New York.

Little Murders (1971) - Powerhouse Films (http://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/product/little-murders-le)



Spring 2018 TBD

Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn (1949) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 4K restoration

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Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten star is this lush melodrama directed by Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock. Cotten plays Sam Flusky, a native Briton banished to Australia for murder. Bergman is his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of the man Flusky was convicted of killing. When a new governor arrives, he brings with him his cousin, Adare, an old friend of Henrietta's, who sets out to help her conquer her demons and return her life to normal. But there are complications: Is Henrietta going insane, or is someone trying to poison her?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 14, 2018, 03:58:41 AM
UK label Indicator (http://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/products) is making the jump to US releases, with the first batch coming March 30th, 2018

-Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078XY2JL1/ref=as_li_ss_tl?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=dvdbeaver-20&linkId=af56367748d4185b775b0eb937cefbfa)
-Paul Schrader's Hardcore (1979) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079MT22YB/ref=as_li_ss_tl?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=dvdbeaver-20&linkId=da4d9947d31e1460ac12c4a767e077da)
-Richard Fleischer's The New Centurions (1972) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079N9J73T/ref=as_li_ss_tl?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=dvdbeaver-20&linkId=7d3820158b846ce1483c990af80bcdcd)
-Stephen Frears' Gumshoe (1971) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078Y34WH7/ref=as_li_ss_tl?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=dvdbeaver-20&linkId=ee6dafa9302b55d2d833ff556e5030e0)
-Dick Clement's Otley (1969) Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078XXCJR8/ref=as_li_ss_tl?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=dvdbeaver-20&linkId=c55ad52e1dc201a381c4833833529357)
-John Guillermin's Town on Trial (1957) Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078XXCD6L/ref=as_li_ss_tl?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=dvdbeaver-20&linkId=e6186e95550c81e7a3a485c6fa779f3a)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 15, 2018, 07:03:03 AM
Just released

Bryan Forbes' Deadfall (1968) on blu-ray from Signal One Entertainment (UK). Blu-ray screencaps here (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Deadfall-Blu-ray/188392/#Screenshots).

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From blu-ray.com:

"Elegant, a bit subversive, and unceremoniously refusing to play by the rules that other similarly themed films from the '60s followed. Years ago a lot of critics argued that it was a dud, but I think that it is amongst the best of its kind.

Professional burglar Henry Clarke (Michael Caine) is in an upscale sanatorium where he is trying to repair the damage that years of alcohol abuse has caused to his body. Here he is approached by the elegant Fe (Giovanna Ralli) who invites him to meet her husband, Moreau (Eric Portman), because he has a business proposition that may be of interest to him. Henry is immediately intrigued because he has been getting treatment in the sanatorium under a false name. Soon after, Henry meets Moreau in his chic home and he reveals to him that he is planning to steal a very expensive jewelry collection that belongs to a prominent statesman named Salinas (David Buck) and that he wants him to break into his lavish mansion so that he can crack his safe. The loot, Moreau explains, will allow them to leave the business for good and start enjoying their lives."


Deadfall (1968) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deadfall-Blu-ray/dp/B075377V43?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B075377V43&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Most reviews I've read are downright negative, but I'm seeing great things in this trailer. It looks gorgeous & strange




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This one other review is on board:

Quote from: HEFILMBryan Forbes is an underrated director, almost forgotten today for a string of well reviewed films that ended with this one. The good reviews did that is. Perhaps at the time the direction seemed "overboard" but by today's standards of course it is merely stylish. It features lots of interesting camera angles, almost like a Joseph Losey film at times visually, and a lot of well written dialog.

Caine is very good. He played a series of almost expressionless villains and near-villains in the late 1960's. This role is one of those, crook who falls for the wrong woman, deals but he totally sells it. Even the tone of his voice is different than you'd expect. He also gets to display both surprise and rage towards the end which gives the character more of a place to go than in the more highly regarded say Harry Palmer films and the soon to be made and good but over rated GET CARTER. He really makes the film work.

The odd character relationships also help a great deal as does John Barry's music. Fans of his probably know the main robbery scene is inter cut with a specially composed piece of pseudo classical music he wrote and which the scene was edited to later. It's a fascinating sequence and not like anything else Barry ever composed and worth watching for any fan of film music, meaning music in a film connected and interacting with it, not just as a CD to buy and enjoy. The whole score has a touch of the Spanish setting the film lushly invokes. You do have to ignore the lyrics and slightly heard it before nature of the Title song.

This is not an action crime film, more of a corrupted souls and the crimes they commit type of approach with an interesting Spanish setting. It's disguised film noir with realistic occasionally funny dialog and cool oddball sinister angles and editing choices that maybe play better today than at the time. Well worth watching, but good luck finding it.

As obscure as it seems to be (nary 600 votes on IMDB) I'm betting my luck it hasn't found the right audience. Ordered it blind.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on February 15, 2018, 11:15:48 AM
well yeah cool report back please
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 15, 2018, 07:51:21 PM
May 2018 TBD

Robert Downey Sr.'s Greaser's Palace (1972) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing, from a new remaster struck from the original camera negative

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In a film that must be seen to be believed, the story of Christ's sufferings is set in the Old West. A zoot-suited drifter performs miracles and attracts a large following. But what he really wants to do is sing and dance! He finally gets to play The Palace, a saloon run by the ruthless Seaweedhead Greaser, and he's a big hit. But he's got more miracles to do...like restoring life to Greaser's son, killed by his father, and contending with Greaser's envious daughter Cholera.

PT & Jonathan Demme discuss the movie extensively here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv3_vdXvaaM)


Summer 2018 TBD

Ida Lupino's The Bigamist (1953) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 4K remaster

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San Francisco businessman Harry Graham (Edmond O'Brien) and his wife and business partner, Eve (Joan Fontaine), are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Jordan (Edmund Gwenn) uncovers the fact that Graham has another wife, Phyllis (Ida Lupino), and a small child in Los Angeles, he confesses everything. In flashback, Graham tells of the strains in his marriage with Eve and how he found himself falling for the kind-hearted waitress Phyllis while on a business trip.   


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 18, 2018, 08:59:33 PM
May 29, 2018

Roger Donaldson's Smash Palace (1981) on blu-ray from Arrow

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Premiering at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, Smash Palace was the second feature of Roger Donaldson following the success of Sleeping Dogs, a film which had heralded the arrival of the New Zealand New Wave.

Smash Palace concerns itself with the marriage of former racing driver Al (Bruno Lawrence, The Quiet Earth) and French-born Jacqui (Anna Jemison, Nomads). The pair had met when she nursed him back to health following a career-ending injury. They married, returned to Al's native New Zealand to take over his late father's wrecking yard business – the Smash Palace of the title – and had a child. But over time stagnation has set in, Jacqui's resentment of Al has grown, and things are threatening to spill over...

Playing out as a darker, more haunting New Zealand variation on such US separation movies as Kramer vs. Kramer or Shoot the Moon, Smash Palace offers a brilliant, vivid messy portrait of masculinity in crisis, driven by Lawrence's immense central performance – once again confirming his status as one of New Zealand's finest actors.


Smash Palace (1981) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Smash-Palace-Blu-ray/dp/B079PDFH5S?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B079PDFH5S&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Ravi on February 19, 2018, 08:29:06 PM
https://www.flickeralley.com/classic-movies/#!/Early-Women-Filmmakers-An-International-Anthology/p/80085513/category=20414531

May 9, 2017

Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology

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More women worked in film during its first two decades than at any time since. Unfortunately, many early women filmmakers have been largely written out of film history, their contributions undervalued. This necessary and timely collection highlights the work of 14 of early cinema's most innovative and influential women directors, re-writing and celebrating their rightful place in film history.

International in scope, this groundbreaking collection features over 10 hours of material, comprised of 25 films spanning 1902-1943, including many rare titles not widely available until now, from shorts to feature films, live-action to animation, commercial narratives to experimental works. Directors include Alice Guy Blaché, Lois Weber, Mabel Normand, Madeline Brandeis, Germaine Dulac, Olga Preobrazhenskaia, Marie-Louise Iribe, Lotte Reiniger, Claire Parker, Mrs. Wallace Reid (Dorothy Davenport), Leni Riefenstahl, Mary Ellen Bute, Dorothy Arzner, and Maya Deren.

These women were technically and stylistically innovative, pushing the boundaries of narrative, aesthetics, and genre. Going back to the beginning of cinema, this collection makes visible the tremendous directorial contributions women made all around the world. Beautifully restored in high definition, Early Women Filmmakers features new scores by Sergei Dreznin, Frederick Hodges, Tamar Muskal, Judith Rosenberg, and Rodney Sauer and the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.

This anthology is dedicated to the memory of David Shepard (1940-2017), without whom these films – along with countless others – would simply not have been made available in such beautifully-restored editions. The collection represents one of David's final produced works, completed in collaboration with several film archives, including the French National Center for Cinematography and the Moving Image (CNC), the Film Studies Center at the University of Chicago, and the Library of Congress.

Bonus Materials Include:

Booklet Essay: By film scholar and Women Film Pioneers Project Manager Kate Saccone.
Audio Commentary: For Lois Weber's The Blot by author, professor, and expert on women and early film culture Shelley Stamp, courtesy of Milestone Film and Video.

Complete list of films (http://www.flickeralley.com/list-of-films-in-early-women-filmmakers-an-international-anthology)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 20, 2018, 02:31:46 AM
March 10, 2018

Alfred Sole's Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) on blu-ray from 88 Films (UK), from a 2K restoration from positive elements. Region free.

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When ten-year-old Karen (Brooke Shields – in her first screen appearance) is killed in church on the occasion of her first communion, her seemingly innocent older sister Alice (Paula Sheppard) becomes the prime suspect. Matters become complicated as more of Alice's family members are attacked, along with residents of her apartment building. Can a twelve-year-old girl be capable of such mayhem, or is someone else with a vicious plan destroying her family?


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 23, 2018, 01:23:04 PM
March 5, 2018

Anthony Minghella's Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990) on blu-ray from BBC/2 Entertain Video (UK)

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Juliet Stevenson stars in a role especially written for her. Nina (Stevenson) misses her dead lover so much that he returns to her from the Other Side. But when a new relationship starts to blossom, will she betray the ghost she is still Truly, Madly and Deeply in love with? Oscar winning Anthony Minghella's debut film has become a classic love story of British cinema.

Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Truly-Madly-Deeply-Blu-ray/dp/B079VRTWWM?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B079VRTWWM&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubjQJQvpDyY



March 13, 2018

Fritz Lang's While the City Sleeps (1956) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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"Ask mother," says the message scrawled in lipstick at a murder scene, written by an unidentified serial killer who preys on women. It's a sensational story — if it bleeds, it leads — and a news conglomerate offers a big promotion to any high-level company exec who solves the case. So begins the wheeling, dealing and backstabbing of the competing media hotshots as they vie to unmask the so-called Lipstick Killer. Fritz Lang (The Big Heat), whose early career expressionist works would strongly influence the film-noir genre, directs this stylistically understated noir that features an abundance of starpower rare for the genre: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Ida Lupino and other notables.

While the City Sleeps (1956) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/While-the-City-Sleeps-Blu-ray/dp/B079Z8JKZN?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B079Z8JKZN&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



March 13, 2018

Fritz Lang's Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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After director Fritz Lang vaulted to prominence with such masterpieces of German cinema as Metropolis and M, he brought his art to Hollywood films, including Fury, Ministry of Fear, The Woman in the Window and more trenchant tales of innocents caught in a web of seeming guilt. His last U.S. movie is this intriguing film noir about a novelist (Dana Andrews) out to expose the injustices of capital punishment. Working with his fiancée's (Joan Fontaine) father, a newspaper publisher (Sidney Blackmer), he frames himself for murder, intending to produce exonerating evidence at the last moment.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-a-Reasonable-Doubt-Blu-ray/dp/B079ZB565T?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B079ZB565T&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



March 20, 2018

Roy Ward Bakers' Don't Bother to Knock (1952) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter in his hotel and gradually realizes she's dangerous.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 25, 2018, 06:58:23 AM
Available Now (but not for long!)

Joseph V. Mascelli's The Atomic Brain (1963) on limited edition blu-ray from Moth Inc, which was recently Kickstarted (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manos/the-atomic-brain-4k-restoration) into existence. This film has a fascinating backstory (see Kickstarter campaign video (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manos/the-atomic-brain-4k-restoration)).

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A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.

The Atomic Brain aka Monstrosity (1963) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Monstrosity-AKA-Atomic-Brain-Restored/dp/B06X9GNPTK/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1519562481&sr=8-2-fkmr0&keywords=monstrosity+blu-ray) (less than 150 copies available)






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Quote from: KickstarterMy name is Benjamin Solovey, and thanks to the support of Kickstarter backers like yourself, I had the pleasure of restoring Manos: The Hands of Fate (//http://) from the surviving 16mm elements. It's now available on Blu-ray and DVD (//http://).

With your help, I'll next be overseeing a full 4K restoration of the classic B-Movie "The Atomic Brain", also known as "Monstrosity", from the original 35mm camera negative.

In the process, we'll compile supplemental material about the circumstances of the film's creation, and create a documentary about its director, Joseph V. Mascelli, ASC, one of the most influential yet unknown cinematographers in film history.


About The Director:

A highly active member of the American Society of Cinematographers (https://www.theasc.com/ac_society/index.php) in his day, Mascelli learned his craft at a time when camera crew from the silent era were not only still alive, but still working: his collaborator on the second edition ASC Manual (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1467568309/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1467568309&linkCode=as2&tag=mih03-20&linkId=SASSTCMONVFSPRWD) had shot 1914's The Perils of Pauline (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perils_of_Pauline_%281914_serial%29).

Mascelli himself began as a cinematographer in the Armed Forces, and would shoot countless miles of newsreel and training footage before moving into TV and Film. Due to the ephemeral and anonymous nature of much of his work, a true survey of his credits has never been made.

He would become best known for condensing the collective knowledge of his field into one concise, informative book, 1965's The 5 C's of Cinematography (https://www.amazon.com/Five-Cs-Cinematography-Picture-Techniques/dp/187950541X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519562360&sr=8-1&keywords=five+c%27s+of+cinematography), that is still used to teach students the visual vocabulary of film. Mascelli's book makes the case for the democratization of film teaching, urges readers to push the boundaries of the rules (the sixth "C", he writes, is "Cheating") and fosters the easy discussion of what was once very specialized, even unspoken knowledge. It's still in print today (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/187950541X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=187950541X&linkCode=as2&tag=mih03-20&linkId=UTHXGDPBHIO3YMN7), and could be considered his most enduring contribution to filmmaking.

Our documentary will help paint a picture of Mascelli and the era in which he was working, an uneasy time when Corman  (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057449/)and Cleopatra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_%281963_film%29) coexisted, a transitional decade that would give way to the "New Hollywood" of the 1970's. As one of the old guard looking to teach the new, how did Mascelli's educational work persist through the decades? In looking to the past, we might even find some good advice for the future.

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ASC Manual: Second Edition, 1966


About "The Atomic Brain":

A year and change before The 5 C's of Cinematography was completed, Mascelli's name was conspicuously absent from the poster of Monstrosity. This B-Movie tells the story of Hetty March, a rich, somewhat vampiric old woman who conspires with a scientist to transfer her brain into a younger body through atomic fission. March employs three women in her mansion while she decides which one to kill and replace. Soon, a rejected candidate's brain is swapped with a cat's, causing her to eat a mouse and climb onto the roof.

Throughout, two other failed experiments, a zombie woman and a Moreau-esque dog man, loom nearby as if refugees from another movie. The situation deteriorates until the mansion, as well as March's plans, are obliterated in a bright atomic blast.

Monstrosity, in fact, had been directed by Mascelli in 1958 until funding abruptly fell through. Hastily finished by its producers in 1963, sleazily advertised (see above), re-titled The Atomic Brain on dreary-looking 16mm prints, rarely presented in its intended widescreen aspect ratio, destined to land on Mystery Science Theater 3000, the film was never given much attention. Yet, despite all obstacles, Mascelli's original footage is directed and shot with a professionalism and a keen visual sense that stands out from the reshoots. Even in his one foiled attempt at directing a feature film, he proved that the principles he'd write about in "The 5 C's" did not discriminate based on budget.

Monstrosity, AKA The Atomic Brain would be Mascelli's only directorial credit, and an incomplete one at that. But now, the original 35mm camera negative has been recovered, and with it comes a razor-sharp black and white image for both cult movie fans and students of cinematography to enjoy for the first time.


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Public Domain Version


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4K Sample Scan, Full Aperature


The film's public domain status has long made it a staple of bargain bin DVDs, sourced from muddy VHS transfers that drop many low-key scenes into total darkness. It also has discouraged major distributors, who would never be able to fully own the results, from investing in a proper video transfer for the film. We, the public that own it, now have an opportunity to restore The Atomic Brain in full 4K resolution, and make this once-obscure "Monstrosity" available in a condition far better than it's ever been seen.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 26, 2018, 07:42:28 PM
May 15, 2018

Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice (1986) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 4K restoration

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As a wealthy Swedish family celebrates the birthday of their patriarch Alexander (Erland Josephson, Cries and Whispers), news of the outbreak of World War III reaches their remote Baltic island — and the happy mood turns to horror. The family descends into a state of psychological devastation, brilliantly evoked by Tarkovsky's arresting palette of luminous greys washing over the bleak landscape around their home. (The film's masterful cinematography is by Sven Nykvist, Ingmar Bergman's longtime collaborator).

For Alexander, a philosopher troubled about man's lack of spirituality, the prospect of certain extinction compels the ultimate sacrifice, and he enters into a Faustian bargain with God to save his loved ones from the fear which grips them. The director's last film, made as he was dying of cancer, The Sacrifice is Tarkovsky's personal statement, a profoundly moving, redemptive tragedy steeped in unforgettable imagery and heart-wrenching emotion.




Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 01, 2018, 06:11:37 PM
May 8, 2018

Christopher Miles' The Maids (1975) on blu-ray from Kino. This looks and sounds batshit insane.

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Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and insulting her.

Jean Genet receives an unbridled, expertly cinematic rendering of his long unseen film based on his perverse play. THE MAIDS' volatile mixture of class confrontation, Freudian passion and criminal mischief frames an acid-etched portrait of two sisters whose hatred and desire twist their tortured lives together into a relentless downward spiral of guilt, degradation and freedom at any cost. Glenda Jackson and Susannah York play Solange and Claire, Paris maids who tend to cruel socialite Madame's (Vivien Merchant) unending domestic needs. Whenever Madame is away, the sisters obsessively act out a complex role-playing psychodrama of domination and control that feeds their powerful lust for revenge upon the haughty, disdainful mistress they serve. But after falsely denouncing Madame's lover to the police, Solange and Clarie's shared terror of arrest and the unchecked aggression with which they increasingly infuse their "ceremony" threaten to destroy them even as they perch on the threshold of ecstatic release.



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 08, 2018, 02:19:02 PM
May 21, 2018

Five Tall Tales: Budd Boetticher & Randolph Scott at Columbia, 1957-1960 from Indicator (UK), in a limited edition of 6,000 box sets. Region free.

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Five classic, iconic and slyly subversive westerns collected on Blu-ray for the very first time. Containing a selection of new and archival extras – including interviews with director Budd Boetticher and an appreciation by film critic Kim Newman – this collectable five-disc box set also contains an 80-page book with newly commissioned essays and archival interviews.

Includes:

-THE TALL T (1957)
-DECISION AT SUNDOWN (1957)
-BUCHANAN RIDES ALONE (1958)
-RIDE LONESOME (1959)
-COMANCHE STATION (1960)

Five Tall Tales: Budd Boetticher & Randolph Scott at Columbia, 1957-1960 - Powerhouse Films (http://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/product/five-tall-tales-budd-boetticher-randolph-scott-at-columbia-1957-1960)










June 12, 2018

Val Lewton's The Curse of the Cat People (1944) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Filled with "wonderful atmosphere [and] fine, moody fantasy" (Leonard Maltin), this continuation of 1942's Cat People follows Oliver Reed (Kent Smith), now remarried, living in idyllic Tarrytown, New York, and the father of six-year-old Amy. When Amy becomes withdrawn and speaks of consorting with a new "friend," Oliver worries that she may be under the influence of the spirit of his first wife. Is it just Amy's imagination that has manifested the enigmatic Irena (Simone Simon), who long believed herself to be descended from a race of Cat People?  Directors Gunther V. Fritsch and Robert Wise (making his directorial debut), co-helmed a gothic-laced mix of fantasy and fright so astute it was used in college psychology classes. And producer Val Lewton, given small budgets and lurid, pre-tested film titles by RKO, worked with rising filmmakers to emphasize the fear of the unseen, and turn meager resources into momentous works of psychological terror.






April 24, 2018

Leni Reifenstahl's The Holy Mountain (1926) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 2K restoration of the 35mm elements

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A strange and beguiling romance that launched the career of actress/filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, The Holy Mountain is the greatest of Arnold Fanck's legendary "mountain films," in which dramatic intrigues are played out against the breathtaking backdrop of the German Alps.

Enthralled by the scenic majesty and heaving power of nature, an alluring dancer (Riefenstahl) seeks the man of her dreams in a small mountain village. There she encounters a reclusive climber (Louis Trenker) and a young skier (Ernst Petersen), who are each pursuing their own elusive ideals amid the intoxicating beauty and treacherous dangers of the Alps. Riefenstahl, who would later direct the controversial Triumph of the Will and Olympia, no doubt acquired her fascination with the bermensch while working on this lofty mortality tale, and developed an eye for the striking compositions for which she would later become famous.


The Hoy Mountain (1926) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Holy-Mountain-Blu-ray/dp/B079PH833L?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-000-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B079PH833L&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






2018 TBD

Carol Reed's Trapeze (1956) on blu-ray from Kino

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Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida star as a triangle of lovers in this powerful drama set against the magnificent background of a European circus. Filmed on location in Paris, Trapeze has been acclaimed as one of the most spectacular and authentic circus movies ever made. Cinematography by Robert Krasker (The Third Man, Brief Encounter).

Trapeze (1956) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Trapeze-Blu-ray/dp/B079PTC3G4?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B079PTC3G4&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






April 3, 2018

James Ivory's Shakespeare Wallah (1965) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group, from a new 2K restoration

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Elegiac and atmospheric, Shakespeare Wallah was the feature film that put Merchant Ivory Productions on the international movie map, winning them great critical acclaim, and is now recognized as a classic.

Starring Shashi Kapoor, Madhur Jaffrey, and a young Felicity Kendal, the film's inspiration lies in the real-life adventures of Ms. Kendal's family as a traveling theater group in India during the final days of English colonial rule. They try to uphold British tradition by staging Shakespearean plays but are unable to compete with the wildly popular Bollywood film industry. The film also traces the developing relationship between the acting troupe's young ingénue, Lizzie (Kendal), and Sanju (Kapoor), a wealthy Indian playboy. But their romance is beset by hindrances, not the least being the machinations of Manjula (Jaffrey), a fiery Indian film star who is also in love with Sanju.


Shakespeare Wallah (1965) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Wallah-Blu-ray/dp/B0795R118Y?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0795R118Y&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






April 24, 2018

Arnold Laven's Down 3 Dark Streets (1954) on blu-ray from ClassicFlix

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When federal agent Zack Stewart turns up dead, his partner, agent John Ripley, vows to find the murderer and takes control of all of the cases that Stewart was on when he was killed. One investigation involves a ring of thugs who hijack cars, another deals with a mobster on the lam, and the third revolves around blackmail and kidnapping. Unfortunately for Ripley, each case is so dangerous that he may not live long enough to find the man who killed Stewart.

Down 3 Dark Streets (1954) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Down-Three-Dark-Streets-Blu-ray/dp/B07B64Z7NW?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07B64Z7NW&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



June 11, 2018

Abraham Polonsky's Force of Evil (1948) on blu-ray from Arrow (UK)

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A crooked lawyer tries to protect his numbers running brother from a ruthless crime boss.

Force of Evil (1948) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07B64T6XN/ref=as_li_ss_tl?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&psc=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=dvdbeaver-21&linkId=125e891563c6e0f57e9468433f9b0892)



June 25, 2018

Joseph H. Lewis' The Big Combo (1955) on blu-ray from Arrow (UK)

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Far ahead of its time, The Big Combo takes a dark, disturbing look at the battle between Police Lieutenant Diamond (Cornel Wilde), a good and honest cop, Mr. Brown (Richard Conte), a sadistic crime boss and Susan Lowell (Jean Wallace), a cool and beautiful blonde who gets caught in the middle. With the help of the gangster's ex-girlfriend, Diamond is determined to bring down the cunning gangland kingpin. But the gangster and his henchmen are ruthless. They savagely pummel Diamond and conduct gut-wrenchingly brutal acts of torture that were unusual on screen at the time of the film's release.

The Big Combo (1955) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07B64T2K8/ref=as_li_ss_tl?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&psc=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=dvdbeaver-21&linkId=6f810fa45a5c6cb271b47365192595a8)








June 25, 2018

Fritz Lang's Secret Beyond the Door (1947) on blu-ray from Arrow (UK)

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In this Freudian version of the Bluebeard tale, a young, trust-funded New Yorker goes to Mexico on vacation before marrying an old friend whom she considers a safe choice for a husband. However, there she finds her dream man -- a handsome, mysterious stranger who spots her in a crowd. In a matter of days they marry, honeymoon and move to his mansion, to which he has added a wing full of rooms where famous murders took place. She discovers many secrets about the house and her husband, but what she really wants to know is what is in the room her husband always keeps locked. ...Secret Beyond the Door/

Secret Beyond the Door (1947) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07B658B2D/ref=as_li_ss_tl?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&psc=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=dvdbeaver-21&linkId=6eadb6f8faaadfff0ebb8d75dd68b0ce)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 12, 2018, 05:47:23 PM
May 29, 2018

J. Lee Thompson's The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 4K restoration. Thompson's direction of the original Cape Fear is astounding.

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Professor Peter Proud (Michael Sarrazin) keeps having a nightmare in which he watches a mysterious woman in a rowboat commit murder. He tries his college's dream lab for help, but the real breakthrough comes when he recognizes locations from his dream in a documentary about Massachusetts. He travels there and meets Marcia (Margot Kidder), the woman from his dream, and her daughter, Ann (Jennifer O'Neill), with whom he falls in love. Could he be the reincarnation of Marcia's dead husband?






October 29, 2018

Edmund Goulding's Nightmare Alley (1947) on limited edition blu-ray from Signal One Entertainment (UK)

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Tyrone Power, cast against type -- at his own insistence -- gives the performance of his lifetime as handsome scumbag / carnival barker / con-man Stanton Carlisle. He seduces fellow sideshow performer Mademoiselle Zeena (Joan Blondell) to learn the secret of her once lucrative mind-reading act with her alcoholic husband (Ian Keith). Carlisle, a "born mentalist", secures the secret method and sets off with his new carnie wife, Molly (Coleen Grey) to milk the bigtime as a spiritualist in Chicago. As Carlisle's success grows, it's only a matter of time before his greed — and twisted involvement with femme fatale psychoanalyst Lilith Ritter (Helen Walker) — bring Stanton's world crashing down around him.

Nightmare Alley (1947) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nightmare-Alley-Blu-ray/dp/B07BCCP71L?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07BCCP71L&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 21, 2018, 06:56:07 PM
April 24, 2018

John G. Avlidesen's Joe (1970) on blu-ray from Olive Films

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Peter Boyle stars as Joe Curran, the titular everyman and unabashed hippie-hater. Joe, who equates hippies with everything un-American, finds a kindred spirit in Bill Compton (Dennis Patrick, Chances Are), an advertising executive who makes Joe's acquaintance at a neighborhood bar, boasting that he killed a drug-dealing hippie (Patrick McDermott, The French Connection). Bill, pressed for facts by the intrigued Joe, recants saying that he was merely joking. But when a news report confirms the incident, vigilante justice akin to Taxi Driver is set in motion.

Joe (1970) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Joe-Blu-ray/dp/B07B62QP51?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07B62QP51&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






Summer 2018 TBD

Byron Haskin's I Walk Alone (1948) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 4K remaster

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Bootleggers on the lamb Frankie (Burt Lancaster) and Noll (Kirk Douglas) split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. Years later Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay (Lizabeth Scott) to divert Frankie from his intended goal.






Spring 2018 TBD

George Cukor's Les Girls (1957) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Gene Kelly plays Nichols, and Mitzi Gaynor, Golden Globe® Best Actress winner Kay Kendall and Taina Elg are the femmes in this George Cukor-directed romp that won a Best Costume Design Oscar® and another Golden Globe® for Best Comedy/Musical. Among the highlights: a ribald "Ladies in Waiting" and a hepcat parody of The Wild One called "Why Am I So Gone About That Gal?" You'll be so gone about Les Girls.






May 29, 2018

Claude Berry's The Two of Us (1967) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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A comically bittersweet coming of age story, Claude Berry's The Two of Us is also a poignant drama of identity and heritage. When an 8-year-old Jewish boy (Alain Cohen) living in Nazi-occupied France is sent by his parents to live in the country with the Catholic parents of their friends, he is faced with a culture clash both religious and generational. As the grandfatherly Pepe, beloved character actor Michel Simon infuses the role with a gruff tenderness, his growing relationship with the boy a touching portrayal of connection in a broken world. Cohen Film Collection is proud to present a gorgeous new 4K restoration of this world cinema classic.



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 29, 2018, 06:19:10 PM
June 25, 2018

Abel Ferrara's The Addiction (1995) on blu-ray from Arrow US and Arrow UK, from a 4K scan of the original camera negative by Arrow Films, approved by director Abel Ferrara and director of photography Ken Kelsch

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Philosophy student Kathleen (Lili Taylor, The Conjuring) is dragged into an alleyway on her way home from class by Casanova (Annabella Sciorra, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle) and bitten on the neck. She quickly falls ill but realises this isn't any ordinary disease when she develops an aversion to daylight and a thirst for human blood...

Having made a big-budget foray into science fiction two years earlier with Body Snatchers, Ferrara's approach to the vampire movie is in a lower key. Shot on the streets of New York, like so many of his major works – including The Driller Killer, Ms. 45 and Bad Lieutenant - and beautifully filmed in black and white, The Addiction sees the filmmaker on his own terms and at his very best: raw, shocking, intense, intelligent, masterful.


The Addiction (1995) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Addiction-Blu-ray/dp/B07BSMKM17?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-011-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07BSMKM17&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

The Addiction (1995) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Addiction-Blu-ray/dp/B07BQNL5SC?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07BQNL5SC&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






April 30, 2018

Ivan Passer's Intimate Lighting (1965) on blu-ray from Second Run (UK), from a new remaster completed by the Czech National Film Archive. Region free.

This was one of Krzysztof Kieslowski's 10 favorite films.

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This wonderfully subtle comedy of provincial life is the debut film of a great director and one of the signature works of the Czech New Wave. Ivan Passer s film concerns the dreams of two musician friends, one of whom, having left their small hometown to become successful, returns to visit the other who stayed behind to become a local music teacher.

Focussing on the humour of the ordinary and routine and stunningly shot by Miroslav Ondrícek (Loves of a Blonde, Amadeus), the film shows true affection and understanding for all its characters to become that very rare thing in comedy a work of great originality and universal acceptance. One of the most important films of the Czech New Wave, and ranked among the top ten domestic films of all time, Intimate Lighting is a beautifully observed drama of the everyday.


Intimate Lighting (1965) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Intimate-Lighting-Blu-ray/dp/B07BF46STJ?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07BF46STJ&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






June 25, 2018

Peter Medak's The Changeling (1980) on limited edition blu-ray from Second Sight (UK), from a brand new restoration. Also coming from Severin in the US.

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Following the tragic death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, composer John Russell leaves the city and retires to an old mansion in the hope of rebuilding his life. The peace and quiet he craves is soon disturbed however. Unexplained noises are just the beginning. Convinced there is a supernatural presence in the house he enlists the help a local historian. What they uncover is more shocking than he could ever have imagined.

The Changeling (1980) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Changeling-Blu-ray/dp/B07B61G8J9?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07B61G8J9&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)

The Changeling (1980) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DLJ39XB?pf_rd_p=d1f45e03-8b73-4c9a-9beb-4819111bef9a&pf_rd_r=72WYWBE29WKDV0SF3W47)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on March 29, 2018, 07:02:14 PM
* DVD REVIEW * EXCLUSIVE *

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hey internet it's los angeles again.

i watched this movie 1-2 month(s) ago and just remembered. i was amazed by remembering and decided to share about it.

first i'll summarize: child Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen. Martin Sheen is post-Badlands and The California Kid, pre-Apocalypse Now. Jodie Foster began professionally acting at 7 btw. she, Jodie Foster, was indeed on a Disney show as a child. this is post-Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and the same year as Taxi Driver. this came out after Taxi Driver. then she was in Freaky Friday for example, all leading up to Contact in 1990. she even, okay i'm mentioning this:

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she played the daughter in the Paper Moon tv series, inspired by the movie Paper Moon yes. the father is Christopher Connelly, who is apparently, via imdb, best remembered for Manhattan Baby

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so the thing about Jodie Foster is she as a child began to understand how to control a room. she figured out the process of acting. and in this movie as a child she teaches me how to become an adult. she teaches me how to make wise decisions and remain calm. this is while she's being such a gas, living without her father for some reason i can't remember and might be central to the entire movie, plus either Martin Sheen's mother or some shared neighborhood i forget who was in a cellar under a rug, and there's a side-romance with this loser guy who's a magician.

i've talked about this movie what i consider an appropriate amount. thanks internet
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 23, 2018, 04:24:53 AM
June 18, 2018

Samuel Fuller at Columbia, 1937-1961 on limited edition blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

(https://i.imgur.com/GHQPLQz.jpg)


Contains:

-It Happened in Hollywood
-Adventure in Sahara
-Power of the Press
-Shockproof
(Sam Fuller's collaboration with Douglas Sirk)
-Scandal Sheet
-The Crimson Kimono
-Underworld U.S.A.


Samuel Fuller at Columbia - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samuel-Fuller-at-Columbia-1937-1961-Blu-ray/dp/B07BZBD231?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07BZBD231&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)







December 11, 2018

William A. Wellman's You Never Know Women (1926) on blu-ray from Kino

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A wealthy broker and a magician vie for a beautiful Russian vaudeville performer.



June 19, 2018

Lewis Milestone's The Garden of Eden (1928) on MOD blu-ray from Flicker Alley

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The Garden of Eden is a thoroughly entertaining romantic comedy from 1928 and was an important film for both its beguiling star, Corrine Griffith, and talented director, Lewis Milestone. The film was scripted by Hans Kraley, a scenarist of four 1920s Ernst Lubitsch comedies and contains gorgeous production design by William Cameron Menzies. This upcoming release of the film is mastered from what is considered to be the best surviving elements with a new musical score arranged and performed by Robert Israel.

Stylish and sophisticated, the film follows vocalist Toni LeBrun (Corinne Griffith), who leaves her family's bakery for Budapest to become an "opera singer," unaware that she has contracted to perform as a chorus dancer at the Palais de Paris, a cabaret run by the decadent and delightfully menacing Madame Bauer (Maude George). Toni soon escapes to Monte Carlo with the cabaret's seamstress, Rosa (Louise Dresser), after warding off the wily cabaret patron, Baron Henri D'Avril (Lowell Sherman). At the deluxe Hotel Eden, Toni attracts the attention of potential suitor Richard Dupont (Charles Ray), but she's in danger of being exposed before he asks for her hand. Dueling attention from Richard's uncle, Colonel Dupont (Edward Martindel), and a surprise guest create further romantic adventures for the couple.


The Garden of Eden (1928) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Garden-of-Eden-Blu-ray/dp/B07D739MQX?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-000-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07D739MQX&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



July 10, 2018

Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers (1960) on blu-ray from Milestone, from a new 4K restoration

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Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.

Rocco and His Brothers (1960) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Rocco-and-His-Brothers-Blu-ray/dp/B07D5QSF3B?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07D5QSF3B&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)




James Gray loved this movie so much he made it into The Yards.



July 10, 2018

Hirkazu Koreeda's Mabarosi (1995) on blu-ray from Milestone. The region-free, English-subtitled Japanese blu-ray available from YesAsia (https://www.yesasia.com/us/maborosi-blu-ray-english-subtitled-japan-version/1065172990-0-0-0-en/info.html) has a superior transfer (see DVDBeaver's comparison (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdcompare/maborosi_blu-ray.htm))

(https://i.imgur.com/suQdnqg.jpg)

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A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant. Yumiko remarries and moves from Osaka to a small fishing village, yet continues to search for meaning in a lonely world.

Mabarosi (1995) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Maborosi-Blu-ray/dp/B07D5SLXHP?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07D5SLXHP&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

Maborosi (1995) - Japanese release - YesAsia (https://www.yesasia.com/us/maborosi-blu-ray-english-subtitled-japan-version/1065172990-0-0-0-en/info.html)






May 29, 2108

Norman Lear's Cold Turkey (1971) on blu-ray from Olive Films

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Hoping for positive publicity, a tobacco company offers $25 million to any American town that quits smoking for 30 days. Amidst a media frenzy, Eagle Rock, Iowa accepts the challenge while the company's PR man tries to sabotage the effort.

Cold Turkey (1971) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Turkey-Blu-ray/dp/B07C5H8D7N?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-011-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07C5H8D7N&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 23, 2018, 07:28:08 PM
May 29, 2018

Harold French's The Paris Express aka The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1952) on blu-ray from ClassicFlix

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Mild-mannered bookkeeper Kees Popinga lives a mundane life and dreams about the places he can go on the trains that travel through his hometown of Groningen, Holland. But when a French police detective shows up at his firm to inspect the books, Popinga's unremarkable existence is instantly altered, and he soon finds himself on the way to Paris with a suitcase of cash, on the run from the law and entranced by a strange and beautiful woman.

Based on the 1938 novel by Georges Simenon—the author who created fictional sleuth Jules Maigret, and whose books like The Man on the Eiffel Tower and The Brothers Rico were also adapted for the big screen—The Man Who Watched Trains Go By casts beloved Warner Bros. character actor Claude Rains (Mr. Skeffington) as the meek Popinga. The supporting cast includes Herbert Lom, Marta Toren and Anouk Aimee... with appearances by such solid British veterans as Felix Aylmer, Marius Goring, Lucie Mannheim and Ferdy Mayne.


The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1952) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Who-Watched-Trains-Go-By-Blu-ray/dp/B07CCFSCPH?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-000-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07CCFSCPH&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 28, 2018, 05:58:07 PM
Available Now

Peter Solan's The Boxer and Death (1963) on blu-ray from Bildstoerung (Germany)

(https://i.imgur.com/QyD4tiJ.jpg)

The Boxer and Death (1963) - Amazon Germany (https://www.amazon.de/The-Boxer-and-Death-Blu-ray/dp/B079PDLQG1?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom04-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B079PDLQG1&m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF)

Concentration camp commander Kraft finds out that prisoner Kominek is a former professional boxer. Overnight, the prisoner is made Kraft's exercise partner and unwillingly rises to a privileged position at the camp. His anger over the death of his friend and co-prisoner leads to open revolt. The film brings a new view of human degradation during fascism by a tragic story of one man whose only chance for survival is to accept the rules of an unequal game.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 04, 2018, 07:01:19 PM
August 28, 2018

Alex Cox's Straight to Hell (1987) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 2K remaster

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Four hapless bank robbers bury their loot and attempt to hide out in a deserted desert town, but very soon find out that the town is not really deserted. Norwood (Sy Richardson), Simms (Joe Strummer) and Willy (Dick Rude) are three black-suited killers-for-hire. After missing their intended target and trying to escape the wrath of their employer (Jim Jarmusch), they head for the desert and rob a bank en-route. As their car dies in a ravine, the trio bury their money and head for a lonely town to hide out till the heat blows over. The insane cast includes Courtney Love, The Pogues, Grace Jones, Dennis Hopper, Elvis Costello, Kathy Burke and Xander Berkeley.






June 29, 2018

Albert Brooks' Modern Romance (1981) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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A successful film editor with far too many issues that affects the relationship between him and his remarkably patient girlfriend.

Modern Romance (1981) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BZC8BCY/ref=as_li_ss_tl?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=dvdbeaver-20&linkId=413fc072217cb328ee01b92773ec6f7f)






August 20, 2018

David Mamet's Oleanna (1994) on blu-ray Indicator (UK)

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Flustered college student Carol (Debra Eisenstadt) visits John (William H. Macy), one of her professors, and asks how she can pass his class. The narcissistic instructor barely seems to notice her presence, and goes off on tangents relating to his own personal philosophies and problems while failing to answer the pupil. Later, a more assured Carol returns and accuses John of sexual harassment. The professor is baffled, but Carol remains steadfast in her claim, and their feud escalates nastily.

Oleanna (1994) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oleanna-Blu-ray/dp/B07DM1VPB8?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07DM1VPB8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






August 20, 2018

Costa-Gavras' Missing (1982) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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In 1973, U.S. businessman Ed Horman (Jack Lemmon) arrives in Chile to look for his son, Charles (John Shea), a politically left-leaning journalist who disappeared during a military coup. Charles' wife, Beth (Sissy Spacek), has been looking for some time, but her requests for help from the U.S. consulate have thus far produced few results. As Ed and Beth try to figure out what really happened to Charles, Ed realizes that the American officials may know more than they're telling.

Missing (1982) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Missing-Blu-ray/dp/B07DM737R6?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07DM737R6&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






August 7, 2018

Nicholas Meyers' The Day After (1983) on blu-ray from Kino, starring Jason Robards

(https://i.imgur.com/9SGKxPp.jpg)

The countdown has begun! Against the real-life backdrop of the US deployment of WMDs in Europe during the escalating cold war,this dramatically involving and agonizingly graphic film about nuclear holocaust detonated a direct hit into the heartland of America. Starring Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum and John Lithgow, this controversial, potent drama remains one of the most talked-about programs in television history. When cold-war tensions reach the ultimate boiling point, the inhabitants of a small town in Kansas learn — along with the rest of America — that they have less than 30 minutes before 300 Soviet warheads begin to appear overhead! Can anyone survive this ultimate nightmare...or the nuclear winter that is sure to follow?






Available Now

Abdellatif Kechiche's Black Venus (2010) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK

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The story of Saartjes Baartman, a Black domestic who, in 1808, left Southern Africa, then ruled by Dutch settlers, for Europe, following her boss Hendrick Caesar , hoping to find fame and fortune there. Once in London her master turned manager does nothing but exhibit her as a freak in a phony and humiliating carnival show. After a series of troubles caused by their act, Caesar, Saartje and their new friend, bear-tamer Réaux, head for Paris where once again, and against her will, she has to mimic savagery and expose her body, first in carnivals, then in the aristocratic salons of Paris, later on among the libertines and finally in brothels where she ends up being a prostitute. In the meantime, French anatomists will have taken an interest in her unusual anatomy (enormous buttocks and labia) only to declare her the missing link from ape to man. In 1815, aged only 27, she dies alone, of a combination of pneumonia and venereal disease.

Black Venus (2010) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Black-Venus-Blu-ray/dp/B079PHF8NR?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-021-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B079PHF8NR&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

Black Venus (2010) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Venus-Blu-ray/dp/B079NBWJRR?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B079NBWJRR&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






August 21, 2018

John Cassavetes' Gloria (1980) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.








August 14, 2018

Terry Gilliam's Tideland (2005) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK

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Pre-teen Jeliza-Rose's parents are hopeless drug addicts. Left alone on a decrepit country estate, the girl survives as she mentally transfers into a bizzare, hallucinatory world, created by her own mind.

Tideland (2005) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Tideland-Blu-ray/dp/B07DD5P4B7?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-011-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07DD5P4B7&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

Tideland (2005) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tideland-Blu-ray/dp/B07D9VYVZJ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528156062&sr=8-1&keywords=tideland)






August 13, 2018

Percy Adlon's  Bagdad Cafe (1987) on blu-ray from StudioCanal UK, from a new 4K restoration

(https://i.imgur.com/sLPMnlH.jpg)

A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.

Bagdad Cafe (1987) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07DD7LZ8T/ref=as_li_ss_tl?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&psc=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=dvdbeaver-21&linkId=c539974b75f0cc54add4a5cdd6062634)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 18, 2018, 07:20:49 PM
August 20, 2018

Jackie Chan's Police Story (1985) and Police Story 2 (1988) on limited edition blu-ray from Eureka (UK), from new 4K restorations

(https://i.imgur.com/4umNbCi.jpg)

Police Story (1985) – Considered by Jackie Chan himself to be his best film in terms of pure action, Police Story stars Chan as "super cop" Chan Ka-Kui, who goes up against a notorious crime lord in a series of escalating set-pieces that resulted in many of Jackie's stunt team being hospitalised.

Police Story 2 (1988) – Demoted to traffic cop after the events of the first film, Chan Ka-Kui is reinstated to the detective unit when a deadly gang of explosive experts blow up a building and threaten to blow up more if their demands are not met. Featuring yet more bravura stunt work, and even more injuries to its cast and crew, Police Story 2 is to this day considered one of the best action films ever made.


Police Story 1 & 2 (1985-88) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jackie-Chans-Police-Story-and-Police-Story-2-Blu-ray/dp/B07DDPRVT2?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07DDPRVT2&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






October 23, 2018

Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) on blu-ray from Arrow, from a new 4K restoration

(https://i.imgur.com/albZSxI.jpg)

Loosely based on the director's own family and upbringing, Distant Voices, Still Lives presents an evocative account of working-class life in Liverpool, England during the 1940s and 50s. Births, marriages and deaths – and an expressive use of music – provide the underpinning for a film that is beautiful, heartbreaking, resonant but never sentimental.

Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Distant-Voices-Still-Lives-Blu-ray/dp/B07FNRJTMX?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07FNRJTMX&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






September 10, 2018

Michael Lehmann's Heathers (1988) on blu-ray from Arrow (UK), from an Arrow-exclusive 4K restoration from the original camera negative

(https://i.imgur.com/rBTlhPy.jpg)

At Westburg High, you're either a Heather or a nobody. And while Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder) might not be named Heather, she's a hands-down Heather in spirit, waging battles in the school's full-scale popularity war ... but it's all getting to be a bit too much. Enter mysterious newcomer Jason (Christian Slater), who offers her the perfect -- albeit deadly -- solution to end the Heathers's social tyranny.

Heathers (1988) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heathers-Blu-ray/dp/B07DXXG5YK?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07DXXG5YK&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






July 27, 2018

Marijan Vajda's Bloodlust (1977) on limited edition blu-ray from Mondo Macabro. Non-limited edition coming in the fall of 2018.

(https://i.imgur.com/2wqf7v3.jpg)

A deaf and dumb accountant suffers from a psychic trauma in his childhood. He is collecting puppets and mutilates female bodies in the mortuary. After his secret love died by an accident he starts to kill.






October 22, 2018

James Justice & Umberto Lenzi's Nightmare Beach (1989) on blu-ray from 88 Films (UK)

(https://i.imgur.com/D5ZwNKM.jpg)

Diablo is a biker gang leader executed for the murder of a young woman. A year after his death, it's time for Spring Break. Football players Skip and Ronnie head to the beach, where Skip meets Gail, the sister of the woman who was murdered a year ago. All the fun and glory of Spring Break, however, is about to turn into a living nightmare when a mysterious person in a biker outfit begins to kill people by electrocution. Could it be that Diablo has returned from the dead?

Nightmare Beach (1989) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nightmare-Beach-Blu-ray/dp/B07FJG1DBX?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07FJG1DBX&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






July 17, 2018

John Huston's The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

(https://i.imgur.com/m3WyMFk.jpg)

A no account outlaw establishes his own particular brand of law and order and builds a town on the edges of civilization in this farcical western. With the aid of an old law text and unpredictable notions Roy Bean distinguishes between lawbreakers and lawgivers by way of his pistols.

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Life-and-Times-of-Judge-Roy-Bean-Blu-ray/dp/B07F1SQZ7K?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-022-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07F1SQZ7K&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






September 25, 2018

Felix E. Feist's The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley, from a new 4K restoration

(https://i.imgur.com/GM7KAtd.jpg)

A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.

In the hard-boiled film noir tradition, reminiscent of the work of James L. Cain, greed, unstoppable sexual attraction, and betrayal set off a doomed course in which a femme fatale leads a once upstanding citizen down a dark path. The first independent production of Phoenix Films, the company run by Jack M. Warner, son of Warner Bros. Studios mogul Jack L., and a highlight in the lengthy career of director Felix E. Feist (Deluge), The Man Who Cheated Himself does not cheat on thrills.


The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Who-Cheated-Himself-Blu-ray/dp/B07DYPFZWR?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07DYPFZWR&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



November 13, 2018

James Bridges' Bright Lights, Big City (1988) on blu-ray from MVD Visual. Shot by Gordon Willis.

(https://i.imgur.com/AA4YmL4.jpg)

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

Bright Lights, Big City (1988) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Bright-Lights-Big-City-Blu-ray/dp/B07FN9LYHH?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07FN9LYHH&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



2018 TBD

Jean Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles aka The Storm Within (1948) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group, from a new 2K restoration

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In this heartbreaking drama based on Cocteau's highly successful stage play, a mother (Josette Day) smothers her grown son with boyish love. When the son (played by Cocteau regular Jean Marais) meets a girl and leaves the family circle, the mother flies into a rage. But when the boy tells his father, it sets off another drama - she is none other than the girl the father has been secretly seeing. Tragedy strikes in this time-honored tale of fledglings leaving the family nest.






2018 TBD

Kevin Rafferty's The Atomic Cafe on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 4K restoration

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Armageddon has never been so darkly funny as in The Atomic Cafe. This 1982 cult classic juxtaposes Cold War history, propaganda, music and culture, seamlessly crafted from government-produced educational and training films, newsreels and advertisements. Taken together, these sources cheerily instruct the public on how to live in the Atomic Age, how to survive a nuclear attack (!) ... and how to fight and win a nuclear war. As a U.S. Army training film advises, "Viewed from a safe distance, the atomic bomb is one of the most beautiful sights ever seen by man.

On its 20-year anniversary, and not a moment too soon, THE ATOMIC CAFE is back to provide us with a much-needed release of comic energy. A dark comedy in the truest sense, this timeless classic took the nation by storm when it first debuted in 1982. Atomic Cafe is a brilliant compilation of archival film clips beginning with the first atomic bomb detonation in the New Mexico desert. The footage, much of it produced as government propaganda, follows the story of the bomb through the two atomic attacks on Japan that ended World War II to the bomb's central role in the cold war. Shown along with the famous "duck and cover" Civil Defense films are lesser-known clips, many of which possess a bizarre black humor when seen today, and it's easy to see why this film, which was produced in the early 1980s, became a cult classic.







September 18, 2018

Graham Baker's Impulse (1984) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K remaster

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When Jennifer (Tilly) and her boyfriend Stuart (Matheson) return to her idyllic hometown, they discover that all boundaries of civility seem to have eroded. Mystified by the actions of normally kind townspeople who are suddenly driven to extremes of irrational-and violent-behavior, Jennifer and Stuart attempt to get to the bottom of the increasingly life-threatening chaos...before it destroys them!


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 27, 2018, 08:49:17 PM
September 17, 2018

Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad (1961) on blu-ray from StudioCanal (UK), from a new 4K restoration from the original camera negative

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In a baroque spa hotel, an unnamed sophisticate (Giorgio Albertazzi) attempts to persuade a similarly unnamed married woman (Delphine Seyrig) that they have not only previously met, but that they were also romantically involved and had planned to elope together. The woman recalls no such encounter and so begins a sensual and philosophical examination of the uncertainty of truth.

Last Year in Marienbad (1961) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Year-in-Marienbad-Blu-ray/dp/B07DDT8HXR?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07DDT8HXR&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






October 30, 2018

Sergio Martino's Torso (1973) on blu-ray from Arrow US, from a 2K restoration of the original camera negative

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A talented and versatile journeyman, director Sergio Martino (The Case of the Scorpion's Tail, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key) has lent his talents to multiple genres across his long and varied career, but it is undoubtedly his giallo thrillers from the early 70s for which he is best known. Among the most highly acclaimed of these, 1973's Torso revels in the genre's time-honored traditions while simultaneously laying the groundwork for the modern slasher movie.

A sex maniac is prowling the streets of Perugia, targeting picturesque university town's female students. Alarmed at plummeting life expectancy of the student body, Jane (Suzy Kendall, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) and her three friends elope to a secluded country villa – only to discover that, far from having left the terror behind, they've brought it with them!

Also known as Carnal Violence, Torso was released in Italy towards the end of the giallo boom before enjoying a second life on the American grindhouse circuit. Co-starring Tina Aumont (Salon Kitty) and Luc Merenda (The Violent Professionals), the film finds its director at the top of his game, delivering copious levels of violence, sleaze and one of the tensest cat-and-mouse games ever committed to celluloid!




October 15/16, 2018

John Landis' Shlock (1972) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative

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Carnage! Terror! Banana skins! The mighty prehistoric ape Schlocktropus has emerged from hiding to embark on a full-scale rampage across a quiet Southern Californian suburb. The police are baffled. The army is powerless. The body count is rising. But when Schlocktropus encounters a kindly blind woman (Eliza Garrett, National Lampoon's Animal House) who sees beyond his grotesque visage, the homicidal simian is presented with a chance at redemption...

Shot over twelve days on a micro-budget, Schlock launched the careers of both Landis and legendary effects makeup artist Rick Baker (Videodrome). An uproarious pastiche of monster movies, packed to the gills with irreverent humour and biting satire, Schlock serves as the outrageous missing link between the creature features of yesteryear and its creators' subsequent varied and celebrated careers. 



Trailer for the German release, from the same restoration:




October 15/16, 2018

Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys (1998) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative

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Following the commercial and critical success of The Fisher King, Terry Gilliam next feature would turn to science fiction and a screenplay by Janet and David Peoples (Blade Runner, Unforgiven) inspired by Chris Marker's classic short film La Jetée.

In 1996, a deadly virus is unleashed by a group calling themselves the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, destroying much of the world's population and forcing survivors underground. In 2035, prisoner James Cole (Bruce Willis, Die Hard) is chosen to go back in time and help scientists in their search for a cure.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 01, 2018, 09:31:42 AM
February 12, 2019

Lewis Allen's technicolor noir Desert Fury (1947) on blu-ray from Kino

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The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.

Caps from an older DVD transfer:

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September 18, 2018

Michael Powell's The Age of Consent (1969) on blu-ray from Mill Creek

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Bradley Morahan, a successful Australian artist living in New York, decides to return to his home country to seek new inspiration for his work. On a small island off the east coast he meets Cora, a young woman who becomes his muse and rekindles his love of art.






September 25, 2018

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger's The Wild Heart aka Gone to Earth (1950) on blu-ray from Kino

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A beautiful, superstitious, animal-loving Gypsy is hotly desired by a fox-hunting squire...even after she marries a clergyman.

The Wild Heart (1950) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Wild-Heart-Blu-ray/dp/B0776K3MX2?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-081-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0776K3MX2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



October 9, 2018

Luis Puenzo's The Official Story (1985) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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The Official Story is about an upper middle class couple who lives in Buenos Aires with an illegally adopted child. The mother, Alicia (Norma Aleandro), comes to realize that her daughter may be the child of a desaparecido, a victim of the forced disappearances that occurred during Argentina's last military dictatorship.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 02, 2018, 10:19:54 AM
October 22, 2018

Jacques Tourneur's Night of the Demon (1957) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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American professor John Holden arrives in London for a parapsychology conference, only to find himself investigating the mysterious actions of Devil-worshiper Julian Karswell.

Based on M R James' chilling short story 'Casting the Runes', this acknowledged and hugely influential classic of horror cinema is presented in a deluxe 2-Disc Blu-ray Limited Edition, with four alternative presentations of the film, a staggering array of new and archival extra features and an exclusive 80-page book containing new writing and archival re-prints.


Night of the Demon (1957) - Powerhouse Films (http://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/product/night-of-the-demon-le)






October 22, 2018

William Castle at Columbia, Volume One on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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The first of two Limited Edition Blu-ray box sets dedicated to one of American cinema's most iconic filmmakers. WILLIAM CASTLE AT COLUMBIA, VOLUME ONE features four fright films from the outrageous showman's illustrious career with Columbia Pictures – the shocking THE TINGLER (1959), starring the great Vincent Price, the intense 13 GHOSTS (1960), the controversial Psycho-inspired HOMICIDAL (1961), and the lurid MR SARDONICUS (1961). All four films are presented for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK, and are complemented by a wealth of essential extra features and comprehensive booklets containing new essays and archival material.

William Castle at Columbia, Volume One - Powerhouse Films (http://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/product/william-castle-at-columbia-volume-one-le)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 04, 2018, 09:28:33 AM
October 2, 2018

Robert Siodmak's The Spiral Staircase (1945) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 4K restoration. Includes a commentary by Film Historian Imogen Sara Smith.

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One of the all-time great Hollywood chillers! A murderer is targeting disabled young women in a New England town, and Helen (Dorothy McGuire, Gentleman's Agreement), a mute servant in a Gothic mansion, is terrified she's next. Mrs. Warren (Ethel Barrymore, Deadline – U.S.A.), the invalid, bullying mistress of the house, warns Helen to leave at once, rather than rely on her weak son and stepson for protection. But even as Helen is packing her things, she suspects she may be too late and the murderer is closer than she ever imagined. This terrifying and suspenseful thriller was produced by David O. Selznick (Duel in the Sun), directed by Robert Siodmak (Cry of the City), shot by Nicholas Musuraca (Out of the Past) and written by Mel Dinelli (The Reckless Moment), based on a novel by Ethel Lina White (The Lady Vanishes).





October 2, 2018

Joe Sarno's Sin in the Suburbs (1964), Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974), and Warm Nights and Hot Pleasures (1964) on blu-ray from Film Movement, from new 2K restorations

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Confessions of a Young American Housewife / Sin in the Suburbs - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Sin-in-the-Suburbs-and-Confessions-of-a-Young-American-Housewife-Blu-ray/dp/B07G235YSF?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-000-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07G235YSF&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974) - New York sophisticates Carole and Eddie spice up their sex life by swapping partners with their close friends, Anna and Pete. An unexpected visit from Carole's young, attractive and recently widowed mother Jennifer throws a temporary wrench into their plans, but the quartet are soon back in action after Pete tries and fails to seduce Jennifer in the kitchen. Intoxicated by life and lust, Jennifer begins a May-December romance. Stars Rebecca Brooke and Jennifer Wells.





Sin in the Suburbs (1964) - Audrey Campbell (Olga) stars as Geraldine Lewis, a lonely housewife and mother who distracts herself with racy friends and a secret affair. Discovered in the arms of another man, Geraldine immerses herself in a secret sex club, only to find a shocking secret revealed!




Warm Nights and Hot Pleasures (1964) - Never Before Released on any Home Video Format. In 1964's Warm Nights and Hot Pleasures, Joe Sarno tells the tale of three ambitious college girls who head to New York City, eager to make their mark on Broadway. Short on funds, the girls rent a room from a men's magazine model and are soon immersed in a lurid world of wild parties, risque men's clubs and sleazy casting couches. Lessons are learned and hearts are broken as each one decides just how far she will go for stardom. Featuring Bettie Page-style bondage and female wrestling, Warm Nights and Hot Pleasures is a sultry snapshot of Manhattan of the early 1960s. Stars Marla Ellis and Joe Santos.





November 13, 2018

George Marshall's The Blue Dahlia (1946) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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"A honey of a rough-'em-up romance" (The New York Times) and a film fan favorite, The Blue Dahlia stars Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, who generate sizzling screen chemistry in their final movie together. A WWII veteran (Ladd) is accused of killing his unfaithful wife and races against time to find the real murderer with the help of a sympathetic stranger (Lake). Written for the screen by acclaimed detective writer Raymond Chandler, this stylized film features moody black and white cinematography and earned a 1946 Academy Award nomination for Best Writing, Original Screenplay.



October 16, 2018

Nunnally Johnson's Black Widow (1954) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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A married Broadway producer is taken with an innocent young woman who wants to be a writer and make it on Broadway. He decides to take her under his wing, but it's not long before the young lady is found dead in his apartment.



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 10, 2018, 11:47:54 PM
September 25, 2018

Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) on MOD blu-ray from Sony - but pressed, apparently (everyone thought this was coming from Criterion so what happened?)

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An unattractive seventh grader struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish classmates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister, and her own insecurities in suburban New Jersey.

Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Dollhouse-Blu-ray-Heather-Matarazzo/dp/B07G1Z4JVD/ref=tmm_blu_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=)






Fall 2018 TBD

Lucio Fulci's Murder Rock (1984) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing

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The owner of a prestigious New York ballet school teams up with a male model to solve a series of bizarre murders of a few of the students.






November 26/27, 2018

Robert Altman's Gosford Park (2001) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK, from a new 2K restoration from a 4K scan

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In 2001, Robert Altman (MASH, The Long Goodbye) took the unexpected step into Agatha Christie territory with Gosford Park, a murder-mystery whodunit set in an English country house starring a host of British acting greats and with an Oscar-winning screenplay by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes.

Set in 1932, the action unfolds during a weekend shooting party hosted by Sir William McArdle (Alan Bates), and his wife Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas) at his estate, Gosford Park. Among the guests are friends, relatives, the actor and composer Ivor Novello (Jeremy Northam), and an American film producer (Bob Balaban). When Sir William is found murdered in the library, everyone – and their servants – becomes a suspect.




November 5, 2018

Alfonso Cauron's Children of Men (2006) on blu-ray from Arrow UK

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In 2027, following eighteen years of global human infertility, the world is a bleak and hostile place. Former activist Theo (Clive Owen, Gosford Park, Shadow Dancer) drifts through the violence-riven streets of London without hope or purpose. However, when he reluctantly agrees to help former lover Julian (Julianne Moore, The Fugitive) smuggle a miraculously pregnant woman out of the country, he is unwittingly thrust into the role of all that stands between the human race and its extinction. As the country descends into anarchy and the authorities close in, Theo must race against time to secure safe passage for the humanity's only hope of salvation.



November 13/12, 2018

Allison Anders' Gas Food Lodging (1992) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK

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Adapted from the novel Don't Look and It Won't Hurt by Richard Peck, Allison Anders (Grace of My Heart) whipped up a storm at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival with her masterfully crafted tale of a young woman trying to find love while struggling to bring up her two daughters.

Abandoned by her husband, Nora (Brooke Adams, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Stuff) waitresses to keep her head above water while raising two teenagers in a small New Mexico town trailer park. Beautiful and rebellious, Trudi (Ione Skye, Wayne's World, Zodiac) quits school to work alongside her mother, while her sister Shade (Fairuza Balk, The Craft, American History X) whittles away her time watching old movie matinees. Their life is turned on its head when Trudi finds that she has fallen pregnant after a string of promiscuous relationships and the girls' absent father returns with hopes of mending the relationships he broke when he left.

A wonderfully engaging story of the woes of teenagers reaching adulthood, Gas Food Lodging is a distinctly American portrayal of a mother trying to raise two wayward teens with growing pains, who are learning about love, life and each other.



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 21, 2018, 08:38:08 PM
Fall 2018 TBD

John Milius' Big Wednesday (1978) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Big Wednesday celebrates surfing as much as the most dedicated kid who ever waxed a board. It's also a fascinating 1962-1974 chronicle of friendships and lifestyles in transition. John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Red Dawn) directs and coscripts with a passion for the ultimate ride and a truthful feel for those turbulent times.






Fall 2018 TBD

Michael Crichton's Looker (1981) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.






Fall 2018 TBD

Franklin J. Schafnner's Papillon (1973) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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They called him Papillon, meaning butterfly. If only he had wings to go with the name. Unable to fly, Henri Charriere virtually willed himself free. He persisted until he did the impossible: escape Devil's Island. Based on Charriere's bestseller and shot in Spain and Jamaica, Franklin J. Schaffner's film of Papillon united two stars at key career junctures.






Fall 2018 TBD

Joseph Pivney's Female on the Beach (1955) on blu-ray from Kino, previously available on DVD in TCM's Women in Danger: 1950s Thrillers (https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0089EDDNA/dvdaficionado) box set

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Lynn Markham (Joan Crawford), a recent widow, moves into a beach house where the former owner fell to her death from the balcony. What seemed like an accident turns to suspicion of murder as Lynn finds herself drawn into a torrid affair with a handsome beachcomber (Jeff Chandler) who may be harboring a sinister secret.






Fall 2018 TBD

Joseph Pivney's Foxfire (1955) on blu-ray from Kino

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In Arizona, during the 1950s, privileged white girl Amanda Lawrence marries half-Apache mining engineer Jonathan Dartland who dreams of finding gold in an old abandoned Apache mine.



October 8, 2018

Fred Dekker's Night of the Creeps (1986) on blu-ray from Eureka (UK)

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When an alien experiment goes awry, it crashes to Earth in 1959 and infects a young college student. 27 years later, his cryogenically-frozen body is thawed out by fraternity pledges, and the campus is quickly overrun by alien creatures - whose victims come back as zombies! Fred Dekker's supremely enjoyable throwback chiller deftly combines classic horror and sci-fi elements with delicious humour and loving in-jokes.

Night of the Creeps (1986) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-of-the-Creeps-Blu-ray/dp/B07G2MKSRS?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07G2MKSRS&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






2018 TBD

Robert Altman's The Gingerbread Man (1998) on blu-ray from Kino

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Step into the courtly world of Savannah's top-tier law firms. Meet one of the brightest young stars of the bar, Rick Magruder. And witness how his obsession with a beautiful, mysterious client, stalked by her deranged father, plunges him into a world of terrifying intrigue and deadly deceit. As a hurricane bears down on the city, Magruder finds himself locked in a battle without a judge or jury - only an executioner.



November 13, 2018

Carl Reiner's The Jerk (1978) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Navin Johnson is the adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags. Along the way, he's smitten with a lady motorcycle racer, survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer, becomes a millionaire by inventing the "Opti-grab" handle for eyeglasses - and shows why he's one of the hottest comic performers in the world.

The Jerk (1978) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Jerk-Blu-ray/dp/B07G2CTJ25?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-010-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07G2CTJ25&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 31, 2018, 07:20:47 PM
August 28, 2018

Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30 Film Collection on blu-ray from Universal

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From the era of silent movies through present day, Universal Pictures has been regarded as the home of the monsters. The Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection showcases all the original films featuring the most iconic monsters in motion picture history including Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Phantom of the Opera and Creature from the Black Lagoon. Starring some of the most legendary actors including Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains and Elsa Lanchester in the roles that they made famous, these films set the standard for a new horror genre and showcase why these landmark movies that defined the horror genre are regarded as some of the most unforgettable ever to be filmed.

Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection includes a 48-page collectible book filled with behind-the-scenes stories and rare production photographs and is accompanied by an array of bonus features including behind-the-scenes documentaries, the 1931 Spanish version of Dracula, Featurettes on Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., and Jack Pierce, 13 expert feature commentaries, archival footage, production photographs, theatrical trailers and more. The perfect gift for any scary movie fan, the collection offers an opportunity to experience some of the most memorable horror films of our time.


Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30 Film Collection - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Classic-Monsters-Complete-30-Film-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B07DKY35N5?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-000-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07DKY35N5&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Includes

Dracula (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
The Mummy (1932)
The Invisible Man (1933)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Werewolf of London (1935)
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
The Invisible Woman(1940)
The Mummy's Hand (1940)
The Wolf Man (1941)
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
The Mummy's Ghost (1942)
The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
Invisible Agent(1942)
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Son of Dracula (1943)
House of Frankenstein (1944)
The Mummy's Curse (1944)
The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
House of Dracula (1945)
She-Wolf of London(1946)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954, and includes a 3D version)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
Revenge of the Creature(1955 and includes a 3D version)
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)




November 27, 2018

Robert Aldrich's The Grissom Gang (1971) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K remaster from the original camera negative

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Barbara Blandish, a young Kansas City heiress, gets kidnapped by some inept local hoodlums for the diamond necklace she is wearing, and then gets kidnapped a second time by the Grissom gang demanding a million dollar ransom. The Grissoms are led by Ma Grissom, a fury whose mustache and house dress clash, whose belief is that kidnapping plots go awry because the victim is allowed to live. Her bulletproof plan, however, does go haywire when her son Slim, a psychopathic, knife-wielder, falls in love with Barbara. Her billionaire father then hires Dave Fenner, a cynical private detective, to find her. A remake of the 1948 British film No Orchids for Miss Blandish. Starring starring Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante, Robert Lansing, and Connie Stevens.






November 27, 2018

Robert Aldrich's The Killing of Sister George (1968) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K remaster from the original camera negative

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June is an actress who portrays the popular Sister George in a British soap opera. The actress spends her time drinking and engaging in lesbian sex with her much younger lover Alice. A television executive decides she likes Alice and wants to write Sister George off the show. June watches as her behavior and insecurity drives Alice away. Starring Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Browne, Ronald Fraser, and Patricia Medina.



November 12/13, 2018

De Niro & De Palma: The Early Films (The Wedding Party, Greetings, Hi, Mom) on limited edition blu-ray from Arrow US and Arrow UK, from 2K restorations

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In 1963, Robert De Niro stepped in front of a movie camera for the first time. The resulting film, a low-budget black and white comedy called The Wedding Party, would take three years to complete, and another three years to be released, but it would also establish a hugely important working relationship for the aspiring actor. One of the filmmakers, long before he became synonymous with suspense thanks to Carrie, Dressed to Kill and other classics, was Brian De Palma. He and De Niro would team up again in the next few years for two more comedies, both with a countercultural bent.

Greetings, the first film to receive an X certificate in the United States, is a freewheeling satire focusing on a trio of twentysomething friends – a conspiracy theorist, a filmmaker, and a voyeur played by De Niro – as they try to avoid the Vietnam War draft. Hi, Mom!, originally named Son of Greetings, returns to De Niro's voyeur, now an aspiring maker of adult films, for another humorous glimpse at late-sixties society, this time turning its attentions to experimental theatre, cinéma vérité, the African American experience, and the white middle classes.

Brought together for the first time – and each newly restored by Arrow Films especially for this release – these three films offer a fascinating insight into the early careers of two American cinema's major talents.




November 13, 2018

William A. Wellman's Nothing Sacred (1937) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 2K remaster

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He's an unscrupulous newspaperman eager to exploit the story of a young woman's death by radium poisoning. She knows she's not really dying but can't pass up a free trip to New York with all the trimmings. Carole Lombard (Made for Each Other) and Fredric March (Inherit the Wind) co-star in this classic black comedy by the great William Wellman (Beau Geste). Legendary screenwriter Ben Hecht's sharply satirical screenplay, depicting the morbid nature of the scandal-hungry public, is more relevant than ever—with such wonderfully comic lines as "Doctor, I want to know the worst... we go to press in fifteen minutes!"






Fall 2018 TBD

Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Mystery of Picasso (1956) on blu-ray from Milestone, from a 4K restoration

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Like a matador confronting a bull, the artist approaches his easel, his eyes blazing. As he wields his brush, we see through the canvas as the artwork unfolds, erupts, dances into being before our eyes. Pablo Picasso, the most influential artist of the twentieth century, is making a painting, and Henri-Georges Clouzot, the famous French director (The Wages of Fear and Diabolique), is making a movie. And what a movie! The Mystery of Picasso stands alone as the greatest film about art and the creator.

In 1955, Clouzot joined forces with his friend Picasso to make an entirely new kind of art film "a film that could capture the moment and the mystery of creativity." Together, they devised an innovative technique the filmmaker placed his camera behind a semi-transparent surface on which the artist drew with special inks that bled through.

Clouzot thus captured a perfect reverse image of Picasso's brushstrokes and the motion picture screen itself becomes the artist's canvas. Here, the master creates and sometimes obliterates, 20 works (most of them, in fact, destroyed after the shoot), ranging from playful black-and-white sketches to Cinemascope color murals "artworks which evolve in minutes through the magic of stop-motion animation. Unavailable for more than a decade, The Mystery of Picasso is exhilarating, mesmerizing, enchanting and unforgettable. It is simply one of the greatest documentaries on art ever made.







November 20, 2018

The Mamie Van Doren Film Noir Collection on blu-ray from Kino, from 2K restorations

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The Girl in Black Stockings (1957)

Synopsis: A party girl is murdered, and everyone in a Utah motel is a suspect. Directed by Howard W. Koch (Big House, U.S.A.) and co-starring Anne Bancroft (The Graduate), Lex Barker (Tarzan's Peril) and Marie Windsor (The Killing). B&W 75M 1.75:1 NR.

Guns, Girls and Gangsters (1959)

Synopsis: In Las Vegas, a group of criminals plan to rob an armored truck hauling casino loot to the bank. Directed by Edward L. Cahn (Invisible Invaders) and co-starring Lee Van Cleef (Sabata), Gerald Mohr (The Angry Red Planet) and Paul Fix (El Dorado). B&W 70M 1.85:1 NR.

Vice Raid (1959)

Synopsis: A prostitution syndicate sends one of their callgirls (Van Doren) to New York City to frame a police officer. Once again directed by Cahn and co-starring Brad Dexter (99 River Street), Richard Coogan (Three Hours to Kill) and Barry Atwater (TV's The Outer Limits). B&W 71M 1.85:1 NR.



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 04, 2018, 01:01:48 PM
November 13, 2018

Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie (1971) on blu-ray from Arbelos, from a new 4K restoration

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A film shoot in Peru goes badly wrong when an actor is killed in a stunt, and the unit wrangler, Kansas, decides to give up film-making and stay on in the village, shacking up with local prostitute Maria. But his dreams of an unspoiled existence are interrupted when the local priest asks him to help stop the villagers killing each other by re-enacting scenes from the film for real because they don't understand movie fakery...




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March 26, 2019

Douglas Sirk's The Tarnished Angels (1957) on blu-ray from Kino. Will contain an audio commentary by film historian Imogen Sara Smith.

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Disillusioned World War I flying ace Roger Shumann (Robert Stack) spends his days during the Great Depression making appearances as a barnstorming pilot at rural airshows with his parachutist wife LaVerne (Dorothy Malone) and worshipful son Jack (Christopher Olsen) and mechanic Jiggs (Jack Carson) in tow.



December 11, 2018

Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz (1978) on limited edition blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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Perhaps the greatest rock documentary ever made, Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz captures what was advertised as legendary rock group The Band's final farewell concert appearance. Joined on stage by more than a dozen special guests, including Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Muddy Waters and Joni Mitchell, The Last Waltz started as a concert, but it became a celebration.

The Last Waltz (1971) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07GVSC1QV/ref=as_li_ss_tl?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&psc=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=dvdbeaver-21&linkId=7a2bb146199190bc8a046172aa8e2173&language=en_GB)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on September 07, 2018, 01:51:58 AM
wilder what have been your favorite region a released movies you've discovered in the past year or two please thanks
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 07, 2018, 02:53:34 AM
Answering this bums me out a bit, because I'm definitely not making as many new discoveries as I used to.


The first thing that came to mind was Richard Compton's Macon County Line (1974). The clip below is great.

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In 1954 Georgia, a lawman wrongly assumes that two travellers and their friend are behind the murder of his wife.







Leslie Stevens' Private Property (1960) for sure, which Cinelicious put out.

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A hoodlum (Corey Allen) plots to seduce a lonely housewife (Kate Manx) and turn her over to his virginal friend (Warren Oates).





I was blown away by the picture quality (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Killer-Klowns-from-Outer-Space-Blu-ray/195586/#Screenshots) of Arrow's remastered release of Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988), which is a movie I used to watch over and over as a kid. The disc is also steeped in more extras than you ever knew you wanted. It's almost more than the movie deserves.

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When teenagers Mike (Grant Cramer) and Debbie (Suzanne Snyder) see a comet crash outside their sleepy small town, they investigate and discover a pack of murderous aliens who look very much like circus clowns. They try to warn the local authorities, but everyone assumes their story is a prank. Meanwhile, the clowns set about harvesting and eating as many people as they can. It's not until they kidnap Debbie that Mike decides it's up to him to stop the clowns' bloody rampage.





The dream imagery in J. Lee Thompson's The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975) was very up my alley, even if the script was a little thin. Was into the tone of the whole thing, though. Also learned that Fincher had a remake of this in the works for a while. Now that I think about it, can see a bit of a stylistic connection to the opening flashback sequences in The Game.

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Professor Peter Proud (Michael Sarrazin) keeps having a nightmare in which he watches a mysterious woman in a rowboat commit murder. He tries his college's dream lab for help, but the real breakthrough comes when he recognizes locations from his dream in a documentary about Massachusetts.

I also can't get over how much the score in this trailer sounds like one of the tracks in Interstellar.






Robert Mulligan's Summer of '42 (1971). Again, for the tone.

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Daydreaming teen Hermie and his offbeat pals Oscy and Benjie they spend their summer vacation in a sleepy resort town. After befriending 22-year-old Dorothy, Hermie becomes determined to romance the beauty when her husband is sent to fight in World War II. Quickly, the young man leaves childhood behind as he experiences love for the first time.





I think you'll enjoy Lech Kowalski's D.O.A. A Rite of Passage (1980) if you haven't seen it already.

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Documentary chronicling the rise and fall of the punk movement with rare interview footage of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. Also concert and news footage.





Ken Russell's Women in Love (1969)

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Free-spirited sculptress Gudrun and her sister, schoolteacher Ursula, become acquainted with lifelong friends Gerald and Rupert in 1920s England. Gerald falls in love with Gudrun, and Rupert with Ursula, but their respective relationships are soon put to the test, particularly during an eventful and tense holiday in Switzerland. Adapted from the novel by D. H. Lawrence.





James Landis' Rat Fink (1965), which I didn't know existed before this disc came out. A real rescue. Shot by Vilmos Zsigmond (screenshots (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Rat-Fink-Blu-ray/181203/#Screenshots)).

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And I haven't seen this yet but have a hunch it will be interesting:

Star Time (1991), which was released a few months ago by Vinegar Syndrome.

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Henry Pinkle (Michael St. Gerard) lives for television. This world of make-believe consumes his every waking moment. But when his favorite show is canceled, Henry is driven over the edge and decides to commit suicide. Then he meets Sam Bones, a mysterious agent who promises Henry happiness and stardom - if he follows his instructions, engulfing Henry in an increasingly downward spiral of brutality and murder...

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on September 07, 2018, 02:57:11 AM
personally i felt opposite of bummed
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on September 13, 2018, 12:07:44 AM
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November 13 (https://www.amazon.com/Little-Annie-Rooney-Blu-ray-Pickford/dp/B07GVXBHZ1/)

it's actually the only Mary Pickford film i've seen. Mary Pickford is a huge fucking deal in movie land (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pickford). the academy has a building named after her. this movie really has everything. no i mean it. The Docks of New York (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018839/) has more cinematic flare, but Little Annie Rooney is a lighter, more nimble depiction of city life, with what are still the most vital elements of a city movie: a diverse cast who leverage their strength and laughs against the weight of life. it's all right here.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 18, 2018, 05:39:55 PM
Fall 2018 TBD

Robert Atlman's Brewster McCloud (1970) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Brewster McCloud (Bud Cort) lives deep within the cavernous underground of the Houston Astrodome, but his dreams rise much higher. He aims to fly. Not in a plane. But with strapped-on wings he's designing – encouraged by a mysterious woman (Sally Kellerman) who may be his guardian angel.

But Brewster McCloud, Robert Altman's wild, anarchic cult fave, isn't about dreams as much as it is about the highs and lows of humanity. It's a serial-killer mystery. A frenetic car-chase flick. A crazy circus-finale comedy. Shelley Duvall debuts as the tour guide whose seduction of Brewster may lead to his undoing. Ah, love. The thing that at once shapes and unravels us. The thing that may or may not give us wings.







November 13, 2018

Howard Avedis' The Fifth Floor (1978) on blu-ray from Code Red, from a new 4K restoration

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A young woman collapses on the disco dance floor of what's revealed to be strychnine poisoning. Assuming that this is an attempt at suicide, her boyfriend and doctor have her committed to the Fifth Floor, an asylum with obviously crazy inmates and a predatory orderly. The problem is, she's still sane!

The Fifth Floor (1978) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Fifth-Floor-Blu-ray/dp/B07H5VVLTT?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-081-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07H5VVLTT&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






December 3, 2018

Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg (1977) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK

The licensing situation here is unclear. This is also going to be available in Criterion's Bergman box set, so will the standalone release be exclusive to Arrow? Criterion edition exclusive to the box set? Who knows!

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Ingmar Bergman's THE SERPENT'S EGG follows a week in the life of Abel Rosenberg, an out-of-work American circus acrobat living in poverty-stricken Berlin following Germany's defeat in World War I. When his brother commits suicide, Abel seeks refuge in the apartment of an old acquaintance Professor Veregus. Desperate to make ends meet in the war-ravaged city, Abel takes a job in Veregus' clinic, where he discovers the horrific truth behind the work of the strangely beneficent professor and unlocks the chilling mystery that drove his brother to kill himself...

The Serpent's Egg (1977) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Serpents-Egg-Blu-ray/dp/B07HC8LPBS?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07HC8LPBS&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

The Serpent's Egg (1977) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Serpents-Egg-Blu-ray/dp/B07HCCZ3YQ?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07HCCZ3YQ&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






December 10, 2018

Paul Mazursky's Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) on blu-ray from Arrow UK

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Bob and Carl are a sophisticated California couple who, after attending a free-thinking group retreat, decide to push the boundaries of their marriage by experimenting with outside affairs.

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bob-and-Carol-and-Ted-and-Alice-Blu-ray/dp/B07HCQ617M?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07HCQ617M&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






November 19, 2018

Michael Powell's Age of Consent (1969) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form of a young girl.

Age of Consent (1969) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07GXGRMM5/ref=as_li_ss_tl?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&psc=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=dvdbeaver-21&linkId=f5edb806be2af7aee0a580f5da627f8a&language=en_GB)



Q1 2019 TBD

Lawrence Roman's Naked Alibi (1954) on blu-ray from Kino

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Though drunken baker Al Willis (Gene Barry) insists he's innocent of all charges, police chief Joe Conroy (Sterling Hayden) is determined to throw the book at Willis for murdering a fellow cop. Though the evidence is thin, Conroy is so certain of the baker's guilt that he continues to pursue his suspect even after being fired from the police force. Enlisting the aid of Willis' abused girlfriend, Marianna (Gloria Grahame), Conroy trails his man to Mexico in a heated chase.

*Fun facts: In this video introduction (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7txEENlWIk) to a screening of the film in 2012, Eddie Muller mentions that its star Gloria Grahame (of In A Lonely Place fame) was carrying on an affair with Nicholas Ray's 13-year-old son while married to Nicholas Ray. She eventually divorced Nic Ray and married his son, instead.



November 20, 2018

Clouzot: Early Works (1931-1933) on blu-ray from Kino

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Before directing his first feature, Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Wages of Fear, Diabolique) spent ten years learning the ropes. During this prolific period as a screenwriter he learned cinematic grammar and began to forge his style. To better know and understand Henri-Georges Clouzot, you have to discover these rare films, of which he was one of the principal architects. Kino Classics is proud to present CLOUZOT: THE EARLY WORKS, which collects six varied features he worked on from 1931-1933: frothy comedies, boxing dramas, musicals and melodramas. The set includes his directorial debut – the short film The Terror of Batignolles (1931), which anticipates his canonical thrillers to come.

Clouzot: Early Works (1931-1933) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Clouzot-Early-Works-Blu-ray/dp/B07H62ZCGS?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07H62ZCGS&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER#customerReviews)

Contains

-The Terror Of Batignolles (La Terreur Des Batignolles) (1931) (15 Minutes) (Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot)
-My Cousin From Warsaw (Ma Cousine De Varsovie) (1931) (86 Minutes) (Writer: Henri-Georges Clouzot) -
-Dragnet Night (Un Soir De Rafle) (1931) (103 Minutes) (Writer: Henri-Georges Clouzot)
-The Unknown Singer (Le Chanteur Inconnu) (1931) (81 Minutes) (Writer: Henri-Georges Clouzot)
-I'll Be Alone After Midnight (Je Serai Seule Après Minuit) (1931) (56 Minutes)(Writer: Henri-Georges Clouzot)
-Tell Me Tonight (La Chanson D'une Nuit) (1932) (84 Minutes) (Writer: Henri-Georges Clouzot)
-Dream Castle (Château De Rêve) (1933) (86 Minutes) (Writer: Henri-Georges Clouzot)



October 16, 2018

Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) on blu-ray from Olive Signature

(https://i.imgur.com/QNwHNje.jpg)

Mistaken for insane, a man arrives in San Francisco to inform the world that strange aliens have arrived on earth to overtake human life.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Invasion-Snatchers-Olive-Signature-Blu-ray/dp/B07GJNSC5X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1537216726&sr=1-259&keywords=blu-ray&linkCode=sl1&tag=dvdbeaver-20&linkId=ee7806327ecdfdd45f261679d4afa5a7&language=en_US)



November 20, 2018

"The Outer Limits"- Season Two (1964-1965) on blu-ray from Kino

(https://i.imgur.com/d0UHnbA.jpg)

Misused inventions, interplanetary communication, and warped time peculiarities permeate this 1960s science fiction anthology program.

The Outer Limits - Season Two - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Outer-Limits-Season-Two-Blu-ray/dp/B07H5VTB7S?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-032-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07H5VTB7S&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



October 3, 2019

Paul Schrader's Light Sleeper (1992) on blu-ray from Umbrella Entertainment (Australia). Shot by Ed Lachman.

(https://i.imgur.com/6kCz01f.jpg%5D)

John LeTour (Willem Dafoe) is a good man in a bad business working for Ann (Susan Sarandon) on the wrong side of the law. When Ann decides to close up shop, LeTour has to go straight and come up with a future. But time is running out on him as he must dodge the cops, confront a killer and find his heart before he can leave his past behind.

Light Sleeper (1992) - DiabolikDVD (http://www.diabolikdvd.com/product/light-sleeper-umbrella-blu-ray-region-b/)






October - November 2018

John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981), They Live (1988), The Fog (1980), and Prince of Darkness (1987) are being released on 4K blu-ray from StudioCanal UK

Details (https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=23917)





Available Now

Sefan Uher's The Miraculous Virgin (1966) on blu-ray from Second Run (UK), from a 2K restoration

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The Miraculous Virgin is one of Slovak's cinema's most admired and controversial works. Adapted by The Sun in a Net director Štefan Uher from the renowned 1944 novella by Dominik Tatarka, the film is an exquisite, surreal odyssey through the Slovak art scene of the 1960s. The mysterious Anabella (Knife in the Water's Jolanta Umecka) casts a spell over a group of young artists to become their muse, awakening desires and providing inspiration.

The Miraculous Virgin (1966) - Amazon UK (//http://)







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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 25, 2018, 05:38:25 PM
Quote from: wilder on July 18, 2018, 07:20:49 PMOctober 23, 2018

Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) on blu-ray from Arrow, from a new 4K restoration

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Loosely based on the director's own family and upbringing, Distant Voices, Still Lives presents an evocative account of working-class life in Liverpool, England during the 1940s and 50s. Births, marriages and deaths – and an expressive use of music – provide the underpinning for a film that is beautiful, heartbreaking, resonant but never sentimental.

Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Distant-Voices-Still-Lives-Blu-ray/dp/B07FNRJTMX?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraynews-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07FNRJTMX&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


Restoration trailer:

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 29, 2018, 01:19:24 AM
Available Now

Rashid Nugmanov's The Needle aka L'Aigulle (1988) on blu-ray from French label 1Kult. Includes English subtitles.

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The Needle by Rashid Nugmanov, released on video for the first time in France, is the spearhead of the Kazakh New Wave, born in the end of the 1980s. It was also a tremendous success in theaters in the USSR, with more than 30 million spectators during the year of its release. Today, films such as Leto by Kirill Serebrennikov, highly acclaimed at the 2018 Cannes Films Festival, openly quote The Needle.

The star of the film, Viktor Tsoi, already an icon at the time, became a legend of the punk new wave scene after his untimely death shortly after the release of the film on screen. The film is still incredibly modern and makes us think both of Jean-Luc Godard and of Jim Jarmush. The Needle is a cult film in Russia and in Korea, but for decades has been largely ignored in the West.

The combo includes a DVD and, for the first time, a Blu-ray, for the ultimate edition of the film, restored by the director himself and subtitled in several languages (English, French, German, Korean). The combo also contains Igla Remix, made by Rashid Nugmanov in 2010; his first short film, Yahha, that depicts the underground rock scene of the late Soviet Union epoch; as well as a documentary on the Kazakh New Wave. The edition and the documentary are supervised by Eugenie Zvonkine, Soviet and post-Soviet cinema specialist.


The Needle (1988) - La Petite Boutique Du Chat Qui Fume (https://laboutiqueduchatquifume.com/en/accueil/67-l-aiguille.html##Review)


Trailer - Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/291529724)


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December 3, 2018

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) on blu-ay from Arrow UK

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Having just quit her job as a Los Angeles TV horror hostess, Elvira receives the unexpected news that she's set to inherit part of her great-aunt Morgana's estate. Arriving in the small town of Fallwell, Massachusetts to claim her inheritance, Elvira receives a less than enthusiastic reception from the conservative locals - amongst them, her sinister uncle Vinny, who unbeknownst to Elvira, is an evil warlock who secretly schemes to lay his hands on the old family spellbook for his own nefarious ends...

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Elvira-Mistress-of-the-Dark-Blu-ray/dp/B07HPZRWD8?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07HPZRWD8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 01, 2018, 04:45:23 PM
October 30, 2018

The Blood Island Collection on limited edition blu-ray from Severin

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They've been called "defiantly lurid" (1000MisspentHours.com), "delightfully depraved" (FlickAttack.com) and "blood-soaked & naked broad-filled" (MrSkin.com). Their cult of fans is worldwide. And for more than fifty years, these four monster shockers from Filipino directors Gerry de Leon and Eddie Romero have stunned drive-in, grindhouse and VHS audiences, became the foundation of infamous exploitation distributors Hemisphere Pictures and Independent-International, and remain among the most insane/esteemed classics in horror history. Severin Films is now proud to present The BLOOD ISLAND Trilogy and its celebrated prequel, all featuring uncut scans from recently discovered film elements and oozing with all-new Special Features!

The Blood Island Collection - Severin (https://severin-films.com/shop/blood-island-collection/)

Terror is a Man (1959) - Severin (https://severin-films.com/shop/terror-is-a-man-bluray/)

Brides of Blood (1968) - Severin (https://severin-films.com/shop/brides-of-blood-bluray/)

Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1968) - Severin (https://severin-films.com/shop/mad-doctor-bluray/)






January 15, 2019

Brian De Palma's Obsession (1976) on blu-ray from Scream Factory

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A rich businessman's wife and daughter are killed. Years later he meets a woman with an uncanny resemblance to his late wife.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 14, 2018, 11:24:39 PM
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Joseph Cates' Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965) on blu-ray from Network (UK), region-free

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A busboy at a disco has sexual problems related to events in his childhood. He becomes obsessed with a disc jockey at the club, leading to obscene phone calls, voyeurism, trips to the porn shop and adult movie palace, and more! A police detective is similarly obsessed with sexual materials, leading him to become personally involved in the case.

Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Who-Killed-Teddy-Bear-Blu-ray/dp/B07CCFSCPP?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07CCFSCPP&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)


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December 3, 2018

John Schlesinger's Yanks (1979) on blu-ray from Eureka (UK)

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Set in England at the end of WWII, the story concerns three American GIs and their affairs with British women of varying social status. The central romance concerns Sgt. Matt Dyson and Jean Moreton, who is the daughter of shopkeepers. He falls in love with her but she is still infatuated with her boyfriend Ken. Higher up on the class scale, the officer John has a brief extramarital affair with socialite Helen. The third pairing involves Sgt. Danny Ruffelo in a fling with Mollie. Eventually, the Americans and the Britains find themselves surrounded by racism at a New Year's Eve dance.

Yanks (1979) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Yanks-Blu-ray/dp/B07HSLV951?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07HSLV951&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






January 29, 2019

Penelope Spheeris' Suburbia (1983) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Suburbia is director Penelope Spheeris's study of the Los Angeles punk rock scene in the early 1980s. Evan and his younger brother leave their broken home in an attempt to escape their alcoholic mother. They fall in with "The Rejected" (aka T.R.), a group of punks who live as squatters in an abandoned shack by the side of the highway. With the T.R.s, the boys find a new family. But their new family will be tested when they become the target of "Citizens Against Crime," a group of unhappy suburbanites.






January 15, 2019

Stuart Heisler's The Glass Key (1942) on blu-ray from Shout Select

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This engrossing and intricate murder mystery, based on Dashiell Hammett's best-selling novel, stars Brian Donlevy, Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. Ed Beaumont (Ladd) is the loyal right-hand man of Paul Madvig (Donlevy), a corrupt politician who is accused of murder. Hunting down the real killer, Beaumont must endure a brutal beating from gangsters, the annoying hindrance of the police and the beguiling advances of his boss's fiancée, socialite Janet Henry (Lake).



December 10, 2018

William Castle at Columbia, Volume Two (1962-1964) on limited edition blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Renowned for his imaginative and eccentric marketing ploys, William Castle became synonymous with delivering lurid horror films backed-up by his trademark publicity gimmicks ('Illusion-O'; 'Percepto'; the 'Punishment Poll'; 'Fright Breaks', etc.). WILLIAM CASTLE AT COLUMBIA VOLUME TWO features four more weird and wonderful films from the outrageous showman's illustrious career with Columbia Pictures, all presented on Blu-ray for the very first time in the UK. Containing a wealth of new and archival extras this stunning Limited Edition Blu-ray Box Set from Indicator is strictly limited to 6,000 units.

Includes

-Zotz (1962)
-13 Frightened Girls (1963)
-The Old Dark House (1963)
-Strait-Jacket (1964)



December 10, 2018

Jim O'Connolly's Berserk! (1967) on limited edition blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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After the huge success of Robert Aldrich's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962), Hollywood legend Joan Crawford found herself taking the lead in a series of lurid and sensational horror pictures in her later years – and Berserk was one of the best and most successful.

Crawford stars as a ruthless circus owner who exploits a series of gruesome murders for her own ends... until the killer targets her. Directed by Jim O'Connolly (Valley of Gwangi, Tower of Evil) and co-starring Diana Dors (Yield to the Night, Deep End), Michael Gough (Horror Hospital, Batman) and Judy Geeson (10 Rillington Place, Inseminoid), Berserk is a deranged slice of Great British Grand(Dame) Guignol – a bloody exploitation classic!




March 11, 2019

Tony Williams' Ozploitation classic Next of Kin (1982) on blu-ray from Second Sight (UK), from a 4K restoration

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A young woman (Jackie Kerin) and her boyfriend (John Jarratt) witness strangeness in an Australian old-folks home.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 19, 2018, 04:56:15 PM
2019 TBD

William Friedkin's Cruising (1980) on blu-ray from Arrow

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A psychopath is scouring New York City gay clubs and viciously slaying homosexuals. Detective Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is ordered to don leather attire, hang at the city's S&M joints and keep an eye out for the killer. But as Steve becomes immersed in club hopping, he begins to identify with the subculture more than he expected. Meanwhile, Steve behaves distantly around his girlfriend, Nancy (Karen Allen), the police force's homophobia becomes apparent and the killer remains at large.






2018 TBD

Hal Ashby's The Landlord (1970) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 2K restoration. Shot by Gordon Willis.

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As his 30th birthday nears, the aristocratic Elger Winthrop Enders (Beau Bridges) finally decides to leave his parents' home, and he purchases an apartment complex in the slums of New York. The coldhearted Elger plans to boot out the current residents and refashion the crumbling dwelling into a luxurious bachelor pad. But after the spoiled young man befriends locals Francine (Diana Sands) and Margie (Pearl Bailey), he abandons his plans and instead focuses on charming his lovely neighbors.






October 26, 2018

Dimi Dadiras' The Wild Pussycat (1968) on limited edition blu-ray from Mondo Macabro / standard edition coming later in the year. Includes bonus feature The Deserter (1970).

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The Wild Pussycat (1968)

The Wild Pussycat is an unsung classic of exploitation cinema. Produced in Greece in 1968, it was not officially released there until 1972 and then only in a cut and compromised version. The simple plot concerns a women whose sister was exploited and driven to suicide by a sleazy pimp. In order to get revenge on him the woman seduces the man, drugs him and imprisons him in a sound proofed room, tormenting him through a large one way mirror (he can see out, no-one can see in ) by performing sultry strip tease dances and having sex with men and women while he can only look on, helpless to stop it or join in. Her final vengeance on him is so shocking it raises eyebrows even today.

In spite of its lurid subject matter and explicit visuals, The Wild Pussycat was not a low budget quickie with a cast of unknowns and a first time film maker. It was directed by Dimi Dadiras, one of the most successful director/producers of the period, and it features one of the big stars of Greek cinema, Gisela Dali, known in her day as "the Greek Bardot". So far as we are aware, this film has never before been released on home video anywhere in the world.


The Deserter (1970)

This rarely seen Greek production from 1970 is a fascinating and powerful film about a young soldier who escapes from a seemingly endless war only to find himself trapped in an emotional and sexual battle between two desperate women. One of them, Ermina (played by Italian star Franca Parisi), is stuck in a loveless marriage with a boorish farmer who plans to make his fortune by selling cheap hootch to soldiers. The other - much younger - woman, seems to live in a bizarre and dangerous fantasy world. She is played by famous Greek singing star Alexandra Kyriakaki. The great Gisela Dali "the Greek Brigitte Bardot" also stars in this production, in a small but unforgettable role as a witch who casts a love spell on the soldier.

The film was edited by Italian genre specialist Bruno Mattei. He also claimed to have directed much of it and a few years later released a version of it in Italy, with himself credited as director, under the title of Armida, il Dramma di Una Sposa (Armida, a Wife's Story). As with The Wild Pussycat we can find no evidence of this film having been released anywhere on home video before.



The Wild Pussycat (1968) / The Deserter (1970) - Mondo Macabro (https://mondomacabro.bigcartel.com/product/greek-collection-vol-3-the-wild-pussycat-the-deserter-red-case-limited-edition-blu-ray?fbclid=IwAR2J2T8kH1-4EiKXkKiaLuk9z8BmdDcrQy3_7fx0eBM83QZl9jH9BJpoy64)


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The Wild Pussycat (1968) - Trailer - Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/255061665)

The Deserter (1970) - Trailer - Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/254894322)



November 6, 2018

Carlos Saura's The 7th Day (2004) on blu-ray from Olive Films

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From master filmmaker Carlos Saura (Cría Cuervos) comes a story of love, betrayal and revenge. Set in the Spanish village of Extremadura, and based on a true account, The 7th Day (El 7º Día) is a tale of warring families and bloodshed that would stain the region. The festering hatred between the Jiménez and Fuentes households, born out of a broken marriage vow, will unleash a vengeful wrath that engulfs an entire village, leaving no one unscathed.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 16, 2018, 07:09:32 AM
April 16, 2019

Alex Cox's Highway Patrolman (1991) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 4K restoration

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An episodic look at a young man's life in Mexico's national highway patrol. We follow Pedro Rojas from cadet training and his rookie assignment in a northern border area, to his quick courtship, his taking of bribes ("la mordida"), and his slow exposure to drug smuggling. Rojas re-forms his idealism as youthful naivete gives way to an adult's complicated choices. From the creator of Repo Man and Sid & Nancy.






January 8, 2019

Nicos Mastarakis' Blind Date aka Deadly Seduction (1984) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing, from a 4K scan of the original camera negative

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A blind adman (Joseph Bottoms) with a computerized eye implant sees enough to identify a surgical slasher.

Blind Date (1984) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Date-Blu-ray/dp/B07J35GBHH?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-000-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07J35GBHH&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






November 23, 2018

Robert Hartford-Davis' Beware, My Brethren (1972) on blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome, from a 2K restoration

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Kenny has been raised within the The Brethren, an Evangelical sect who preach purity, morality, and unwavering allegiance to the word of God. A security officer by day, he spends his nights stalking and strangling 'immoral' women thus, he believes, cleansing them of their ungodly transgressions. But when a new nurse is assigned to help care for his ailing mother, she soon becomes suspicious of the activities of the church, unwittingly bringing her closer to unleashing Kenny's unholy wrath against her.

Blending social commentary on the corrupting forces of Evangelical Christianity with a proto-slasher structure, Robert Hartford-Davis' (CORRUPTION) BEWARE MY BRETHREN (aka THE FIEND) is a sobering and suspenseful British thriller, which co-stars Patrick Magee (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE) and Ann Todd (THE PARADINE CASE). Featuring an electrifying original gospel/folk soundtrack alongside mean-spirited kills, Vinegar Syndrome is proud to bring BEWARE MY BRETHREN to Blu-ray, in its fully uncut international version.







January 14, 2019

Otto Preminger's Laura (1944) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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The only question about LAURA is whether it's simply one of the greatest film noir releases ever made, or if it's indeed the quintessential film noir. Decide for yourself. This 1944 murder mystery classic from director Otto Preminger (replacing a fired Rouben Mamoulian) has only grown in stature over the years, with its hypnotic mixture of doomed romantic obsession, dizzying intrigue, and fatalistic cynicism marking it as essential noir.

Police detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is drawn into Manhattan high society as he investigates the death of stunning ad exec Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney), apparently shotgunned in her own apartment. The slithery suspects are numerous, led by effete, snobbish columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb), and Laura's philandering fiancé Shelby (Vincent Price), who's also been cavorting with Laura's wealthy aunt (Judith Anderson). McPherson begins to fall in love with Laura through a portrait in her home and the memories relayed by those who knew her...just as it becomes apparent that even the basic facts of the case might not be what they seemed.


Laura (1944) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Laura-Blu-ray/dp/B07K17L294?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07K17L294&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






January 21, 2019

Robert Aldrich's Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte (1964) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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Originally conceived as an informal follow-up to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Robert Aldrich's Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte was yet another hit for the legendary director, receiving seven Academy Award nominations.

Charlotte Hollis (Bette Davis) has been closeted in her mansion since the grisly murder of her married lover many years earlier. When the county wants to tear down the house to build a highway, the spinster's relatives and friends appear to rally behind her, but each slowly preys on her mind until the gruesome rumours of the last 40 years appear to be coming true.


Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte (1964) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/HushHush-Sweet-Charlotte-Blu-ray/dp/B07K14BMVB?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07K14BMVB&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






November 27, 2018

Gus Trikonis' The Swinging Barmaids (1975) on blu-ray from Code Red

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A cop begins tracking down a psychotic serial killer targeting sexy cocktail waitresses.



January 21, 2019

Pinter at the BBC on DVD from BFI (UK)

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PINTER AT THE BBC is a new 4-DVD set featuring 10 BBC adaptations of the great British playwright's work, spanning the period 1965-1988. Many of these have not previously been available in any home entertainment format. Highlights include 1987's The Birthday Party starring Julie Walters and Joan Plowright.

• Old Times (Christopher Morahan, 1975)
• The Hothouse (Harold Pinter, 1982)
• Mountain Language (Harold Pinter, 1988)
• The Basement (Charles Jarrott, 1967)
• A Slight Ache (Christopher Morahan, 1967)
• A Night Out (Christopher Morahan, 1967)
• Monologue (Christopher Morahan, 1973)
• The Tea Party (Charles Jarrott, 1965)
• The Birthday Party (Kenneth Ives, 1987)



December 24, 2018

Wayne Kramer's The Cooler (2003) on limited edition blu-ray from 101 Films (UK)

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Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is an unlucky guy. Everything he touches turns bad. However, his ill fortune is actually the one thing he depends upon to do his job to the best of his abilities; Bernie Lootz is the best 'cooler' in town.

Working in one of Las Vegas' few remaining golden-era casinos, Bernie is employed by the ruthless Shelly (Alec Baldwin in an Oscar® nominated role) to end the winning streak of anyone whose luck is on the up. But life in the bad luck lane has taken its toll and, after working for Shelly for years, Bernie has decided to move on. He then meets the hard-bitten Natalie (Maria Bello) and life takes a turn for the better. But as his fortunes change, so does his ability to 'cool' a winning streak, and soon an unhappy Shelly decides to make sure that Bernie never feels happiness again.




February 18/19, 2019

Joseph H. Lewis' My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) on blu-ray from Arrow UK and Arrow US

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After a promising start on Poverty Row quickies, Joseph H. Lewis (The Big Combo) made his first film at Columbia and established himself as a director to watch with this Gothic-tinged Hitchcockian breakout hit, which later proved so popular that Columbia promoted it to A-feature status.

The morning after Julia Ross (Nina Foch, Executive Suite) takes a job in London as secretary to wealthy widow Mrs Williamson Hughes (Dame May Whitty, The Lady Vanishes), she wakes up in a windswept Cornish mansion, having been drugged. Mrs Hughes and her volatile son, Ralph (George Macready, Gilda), attempt to gaslight Julia into believing she is Ralph's wife, Marion. Her belongings have been destroyed, the windows barred and the locals believe that she is mad. Will Julia be able to escape before she falls prey to the Hughes' sinister charade? And what happened to the real Marion Hughes?

A briskly paced and brilliantly stylised mystery that grabs its audience from the start, My Name Is Julia Ross immediately cemented Lewis' place in the noir pantheon, and anticipated the elaborate identity-based deceptions found in future classic thrillers like Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Brian De Palma's Obsession.


My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Name-is-Julia-Ross-Blu-ray/dp/B07KBSX9R6?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07KBSX9R6&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



February 18/19, 2019

Joseph H. Lewis' So Dark the Night (1946) on blu-ray from Arrow UK and Arrow US

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Like his contemporaries Howard Hawks and Billy Wilder, Joseph H. Lewis (Gun Crazy) dabbled in many genres, but excelled in the film noir tradition. A Hitchcockian tale of mystery and intrigue, So Dark the Night was one of his finest pictures.

Inspector Cassin, a renowned Paris detective, departs to the country for a much-needed break. There he falls in love with the innkeeper's daughter, Nanette, who is already betrothed to a local farmer. On the evening of their engagement party, Nanette and the farmer both disappear. Cassin takes up the case immediately to discover what happened to them and who is responsible. As with his celebrated noir masterpieces My Name Is Julia Ross and The Big Combo, Lewis elevates the twisty, pulpy material with some of the finest noir touches the genre has to offer, beautifully shot by Oscar-winning cinematographer (Bonnie and Clyde)


So Dark the Night (1946) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/So-Dark-the-Night-Blu-ray/dp/B07KBTBHG8?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07KBTBHG8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



January 21, 2019

Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie (1971) on limited edition blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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A film shoot in Peru goes badly wrong when an actor is killed in a stunt, and the unit wrangler, Kansas, decides to give up film-making and stay on in the village, shacking up with local prostitute Maria. But his dreams of an unspoiled existence are interrupted when the local priest asks him to help stop the villagers killing each other by re-enacting scenes from the film for real because they don't understand movie fakery...

The Last Movie (1971) - Powerhouse Films (https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/frontpage/products/the-last-movie-le)



January 21, 2019

Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Set in 1968, the film reunites Coppola with Godfather star James Caan, who plays a disillusioned army sergeant stationed at Fort Meyers' Arlington Cemetery and views the war in Vietnam as unwinnable, despairing at the dead arriving daily for burial from the front lines.

Gardens of Stone (1987 - Powerhouse Films (https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/frontpage/products/gardens-of-stone-le)



April 9, 2019

René Clément's Rider on the Rain (1970) on blu-ray from Kino

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Melancolie Mau (Marlène Jobert) is a lonely woman on the French seaside who becomes the victim of a horrific rape, but then manages to turn the tables and shoot her attacker dead. She chooses not to tell anyone about the event and dumps the body, but this decision comes back to haunt her when a U.S. colonel (Charles Bronson) shows up and mysteriously knows everything about her ordeal. However, he seems to have his own agenda, and it may concern Melancolie's absent husband.



July 9, 2019

Claude Chabrol's The Champagne Murders (1967) on blu-ray from Kino

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A champagne tycoon's (Furneaux) partner (Ronet) suspects his partner's gigolo husband (Perkins) of murders he's been framed for.



November 20, 2018

Raúl Ruiz's Time Regained (1999) on blu-ray from Kimstim

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A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.

Time Regained (1999) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Time-Regained-Blu-ray/dp/B07HPZSXB7?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07HPZSXB7&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



July 9, 2019

Dead of Night (1945) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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Architect Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) goes to Pilgrim's Farm to see a potential client. When he arrives at the house, he gets the feeling that he has been there before. Once inside, he meets a group of people who seem oddly familiar. He tells them that he has dreamt about each one of them and begins to list events that occurred in the dream. Walter's revelations begin a conversation amongst the group, and each person admits to having experienced a strange, unexplainable event.






November 6, 2019

Ray Milland's A Man Alone (1955) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K remaster

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A gunfighter's main hope lies in the trust of a beautiful woman who hides him out when he is wrongly suspected of a stagecoach massacre.

A Man Alone (1955) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/A-Man-Alone-Blu-ray/dp/B07H6272QS?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-022-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07H6272QS&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)


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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 20, 2018, 08:20:27 PM
February 12, 2019

Sidney Lumet's The Group (1966) on blu-ray from Kino

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It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows.

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January 8, 2019

Peter Hyams' Stay Tuned (1992) on blu-ray from Sony MOD

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A husband and wife are sucked into a hellish TV and have to survive a gauntlet of twisted versions of TV shows they find themselves in.






February 5, 2019

George Englund's Zachariah (1971) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K remaster struck from the original camera negative

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Firepower meets flower power in this "outrageous western" (Motion Picture Herald) about two thrill-seeking cowboys who rock the range! Starring John Rubinstein, Don Johnson and Dick Van Patten, and featuring legendary musicians Country Joe and the Fish and White Lightnin', this psychedelic trip through the Wild West is an utterly "unique film experience" (Variety)! 

Two cowboys (Rubinstein and Johnson) set out for adventure and join up with a band of rock 'n' roll outlaws. But as the two friends are seduced by their own quick-draw ambitions, a deadly rivalry grows between them, and they must struggle to find a path to peace - before they lose more than their reputations...and kill more than their friendship!



Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on November 23, 2018, 04:33:00 AM
Q1 2019 TBD

Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Doulos (1963) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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A burglar betraying other criminals, prepares for a big heist with a trusted friend that might be as untrustworthy as he.


2019 TBD

Fernando Ayala's Argentinian noir Los Tallos Amargos aka The Bitter Stems (1956) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley, restored by the Film Noir Foundation

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A deep-seated inferiority complex leads a Buenos Aires newspaper reporter (Carlos Cores) into a seemingly innocent correspondence-school scheme with a clever Hungarian ex-pat (Vassili Lambrinos). But as the money flows in, so do suspicions—driving one man to commit the perfect crime.

This brilliant noir won Argentina's Silver Condor Award as the best film of 1956—yet it remains unknown in the rest of the world. Which is a crime, because Los Tallos Amargos is one of the best noir-drenched crime films of the 1950s—maybe ever. A Buenos Aires newspaper reporter (Carlos Cores) partners in a correspondence-school scam with a clever Hungarian (Vassili Lambrinos). But as suspicions rise about the Hungarian's true motives, one man is driven to commit the perfect crime—with stunning and tragic results. Featuring an inventive score by Astor Piazzolla, the greatest Argentine musician of the twentieth century.


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2019 TBD

Alfred L. Werker's Repeat Performance (1947) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley. Eddie Muller calls this the "film noir version of It's A Wonderful Life".

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On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.

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Saw this at The Egyptian a few years ago. Like Dead of Night (posted about, above), it's another "Twilight Zone" precursor.





2019 TBD

Richard Fleischer's Trapped (1949) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley

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U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 02, 2018, 03:25:58 AM
February 4/5, 2019

Luigi Bazzoni's The Fifth Cord (1971) on blu-ray from Arrow US and Arrow UK, from a 2K restoration from original film elements. Shot by Vittorio Storaro.

This movie has gorgeous Conformist-level lighting and compositions. One of the most visually-striking movies ever.

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The success of Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage ushered in a host of imitators, seeking to capitalise on this new, modern take on the giallo thriller. Many were highly derivative, but a number nonetheless rose above the crowd thanks to skilful execution and a willingness to experiment stylistically. Once such example is The Fifth Cord ¬– which, in the hands of director Luigi Bazzoni (The Possessed, Footprints on the Moon), turns a conventional premise into a visually stunning exploration of alienation and isolation.

When a man barely survives a brutal assault en route home from a New Year's party, washed-up, whisky-swilling journalist Andrea Bild (Franco Nero, Django) is assigned to report on the case. Before long, the maniac strikes again, this time with fatal results. As the body count rises, Andrea falls under suspicion himself, making it even more imperative that he crack the case. His only clue lies in a series of black gloves found at the location of every attack, each with a finger cut off...

Adapted from a novel by David McDonald Devine, The Fifth Cord boasts a complex, Agatha Christie-esque plot, outstanding cinematography courtesy of future Oscar-winner Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now) and supporting appearances by a raft of genre stalwarts, including Silvia Monti (A Lizard in a Woman's Skin), Edmund Purdom (Nightmare City) and Rossella Falk (Sleepless). Debuting here in high definition, arguably the most visually stunning giallo ever made now shines like never before.


The Fifth Cord (1971) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Fifth-Cord-Blu-ray/dp/B07KZ36D7N?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07KZ36D7N&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



February 4/5, 2019

Luigi Bazzoni's The Possessed (1965) on blu-ray from Arrow US and Arrow UK, from a 2K restoration from the original camera negative

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The Possessed is a wonderfully atmospheric proto-giallo based on one of Italy's most notorious crimes, The Alleghe killings, and adapted from the book on that case by acclaimed literary figure Giovanni Comisso.

Peter Baldwin (The Ghost, The Weekend Murders) stars as Bernard, a depressed novelist who sets off in search of his old flame Tilde (Virna Lisi, La Reine Margot), a beautiful maid who works at a remote lakeside hotel. Bernard is warmly greeted by the hotel owner Enrico (Salvo Randone, Fellini's Satyricon) and his daughter Irma (Valentina Cortese, Thieves Highway, The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire), but Tilde has disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Bernard undertakes an investigation and is soon plunged into a disturbing drama of familial secrets, perversion, madness and murder...

Co-written by Giulio Questi (Death Laid an Egg, Arcana) and co-directed by Luigi Bazzoni (The Fifth Cord, Footprints on the Moon), The Possessed masterfully combines film noir, mystery and giallo tropes, whilst also drawing on the formal innovations of 1960s art cinema (particularly the films of Michelangelo Antonioni). A uniquely dreamlike take on true crime, The Possessed is presented here in a stunning new restoration.


The Possessed (1965) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Possessed-Blu-ray/dp/B07KZ4H97D?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07KZ4H97D&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



Q1 2019 TBD

Lucio Fulci's The New York Ripper (1982) on blu-ray from Blue Underground, from a 4K restoration

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A blade-wielding psychopath is on the loose, turning The Big Apple bright red with the blood of beautiful young women. As NYPD detectives follow the trail of butchery from the decks of the Staten Island Ferry to the sex shows of Times Square, each brutal murder becomes a sadistic taunt. In the city that never sleeps, he's the killer that can't be stopped!



Q1 2019 TBD

George Romero and Dario Argento's Two Evil Eyes (1990) on blu-ray from Blue Underground, from a 4K restoration

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The masters of modern horror – George Romero and Dario Argento – bring you an unprecedented pair of shockers inspired by the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.

In Romero's The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar, a conniving wife (Adrienne Barbeau of The Fog) and her lover use a hypnotic trance to embezzle a fortune from her dying husband, only to receive some chilling surprises from beyond the grave. Then in Argento's The Black Cat, a deranged crime scene photographer (Harvey Keitel of Reservoir Dogs) is driven to brutal acts of madness and murder by his girlfriend's new pet. But will this cunning feline deliver a final sickening twist of its own? Also starring Adrienne Barbeau, Ramy Zada, Bingo O'Malley, Jeff Howell, and E.G. Marshall.




Q1 2019 TBD

Alexander Mackendrick's The Man in the White Suit (1951) on blu-ray from Kino

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An altruistic chemist invents a fabric that resists wear and stain as boon to humanity but both capital and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.



February 11, 2019

Fritz Lang's Human Desire (1954) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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A startlingly dark, late film noir masterwork by director Fritz Lang, HUMAN DESIRE reunites Lang with his hero Glenn Ford and femme fatale Gloria Grahame from the previous year's THE BIG HEAT and the screenwriter of Lang's 1952 noir CLASH BY NIGHT, ALFRED HAYES. Like those two classics, HUMAN DESIRE finds Lang casting a pitiless eye on all of the human weaknesses that define film noir: deception, infidelity, passion, and murder. Adapted from the same Émile Zola novel previously filmed by Jean Renoir in LA BÊTE HUMAINE (1938), Lang's gripping thriller has Ford as train engineer Jeff, just home from the Korean War. He's instantly attracted to passenger Vicki (Grahame), not yet realizing that she's the abused wife of Jeff's alcoholic railroad yard superior Carl (Broderick Crawford) -- or that Vicki was just entangled in a jealousy-fuelled murder committed by Carl. As Jeff and Vicki embark on a steamy affair, she tells him about the crime, and Carl's blackmail hold on her. If only Carl could be taken out of the picture...

The only thing that's not pitch black in this noir are the ethical shades of grey inhabited by all its characters. Yet its placid small town setting also offers a unique perspective on the genre, with Lang uncovering sinister secrets on these quiet streets that could rival any big city immorality.


Human Desire (1954) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Human-Desire-Blu-ray/dp/B07KM2RLYR?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07KM2RLYR&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



Q1 2019 TBD

John Huston's Phobia (1980) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 2K remaster

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A psychiatrist (Glaser) involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias



February 19, 2019

Oliver Stone's Talk Radio (1988) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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On-air radio personality Barry Champlain (Eric Bogosian) likes to push buttons -- and the envelope. The talk show host has gained popularity by being controversial, and now his show is going national. But as Barry enjoys his professional success, his personal life is unraveling. He is still battling with his ex-wife (Ellen Greene), and also receiving sizable amounts of hate mail. When Barry hits the airwaves for a lengthy session, he gets a deranged caller who just may prove to be his match.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Something Spanish on December 02, 2018, 09:02:37 AM
i just want to thank wilder for consistently updating this page. you are appreciated.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 10, 2018, 11:43:50 PM
December 4, 2018

Hlynur Palmason's Vinterbrødre aka Winter Brothers (2017) on DVD from KimStim

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A brother odyssey set in a worker environment during a cold winter. We follow two brothers, their routines, habits, rituals and a violent feud that erupts between them and another family.

Winter Brothers (2017) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Brothers-Elliott-Crosset-Hove/dp/B07JJ6HQ33/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1544493550&sr=8-2&keywords=winter+brothers)





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Henry King's The Bravados (1958) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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When four men who Jim Douglas believes raped and killed his wife escape from their death sentences, Jim sets out to track the men down and enact his own vengeance. An honest man, Jim sees his actions as just and brave, but as he crisscrosses Mexico to exact an eye for an eye, he comes to realize that he has lost something of himself in his self-absorbed quest for revenge.

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February 18, 2019

Jonathan Miller's Take a Girl Like You (1970) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Jonathan Miller's film of Kingsley Amis' comic novel (adapted for the screen by George Melly), casts Hayley Mills (Whistle Down the Wind, Twisted Nerve) as a naïve young girl who moves from the North of England to teach in a London school and finds herself fending off the advances of a number of lusty suitors, including Oliver Reed, John Bird and Noel Harrison. As much a document of its time as a satire on the sexual mores (and confusions) of the period, Miller's still remarkably fresh debut feature is buoyed by its terrific cast and a typically excellent Stanley Myers score






February 18, 2019

Alexander Singer's Psyche 59 (1964) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Patricia Neal (fresh from her 1963 award-winning role in Martin Ritt's Hud) stars as a woman suffering from hysterical blindness, and a blank in her memory which may hide the cause of her affliction. When she and her sex-addict husband (Curt Jurgens – The Enemy Below, The Spy Who Loved Me) move in with her younger sister (Samantha Eggar – The Collector, The Brood), she begins to piece together the events leading to her psychological trauma. Ahead of its time in its discussion and depiction of all manner of taboo subjects (rape, child abuse, nymphomania, psycho-sexual disorder, masochism), Psyche 59 is one of British cinema's most daring and provocative adult dramas.






February 18, 2019

Charles Crichton's The Third Secret (1964) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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The apparent suicide of an eminent psychologist prompts his teenage daughter (Pamela Franklin – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Legend of Hell House) and one of his patients (Stephen Boyd – Ben-Hur, Fantastic Voyage) to investigate. Convinced he was murdered, the two begin a journey into the lives and twisted psychoses of the doctor's disturbed patients.






February 18, 2019

Dick Clement's A Severed Head (1971) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Dick Clement followed the success of his first feature Otley with this wry adaptation of Iris Murdoch's celebrated 1961 satirical novel, a harbinger of the sexual liberation that was to blossom in the mid-60s. A Severed Head chronicles the sexual and amoral escapades of a group of middle-class, middle-aged London couples, portrayed by a wonderful cast which includes Ian Holm (Alien, The Lord of the Rings), Lee Remick (Days of Wine and Roses, The Omen), Claire Bloom (The Haunting, The King's Speech) and Richard Attenborough (10 Rillington Place, Young Winston). Absurdist and delightfully funny, A Severed Head is a dark satire staged with wit and intelligence.



February 12, 2019

Diane Kury's Peppermint Soda (1977) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group, from a 2K remaster

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In the vein of such classic coming of age films as Francois Truffaut's The 400 Blows, Diane Kurys's Peppermint Soda captures a particular moment in the tumultuous life and development of young people. Anne (Eléonore Klarwein) and Frederique (Odile Michel) are sisters entering their teen years in 1963 France, torn between divorced parents and struggling with the confines of their strict school. Along the way, they undergo an awakening both political and romantic. Kurys's celebrated film revels in the comedy and tragedy of the seemingly mundane, weaving a complex tapestry of everyday existence that also touches on the universal.

Peppermint Soda (1971) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Peppermint-Soda-Blu-ray/dp/6317632413?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-000-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=6317632413&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)






April 15, 2019

Jack Clayton's Room at the Top (1959) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.



September 16, 2019

Gary Oldman's Nil by Mouth (1997) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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A rough, short-tempered patriarch of a working class family has his life and the relationships around him slowly unravel.



March 19 , 2019

Cyril Franke's The Witches (1966) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Haunted by the terrors of her experience with African witch doctors, school teacher Gwen Mayfield (Fontaine) accepts an appointment as headmistress at the Haddaby School run by Alan Bax (Alec McCowen, Frenzy) and his sister Stephanie (Kay Walsh, Stage Fright). Gwen initially revels in the peacefulness she has found in the quiet English countryside but soon begins to sense "undercurrents." Before long, a local boy falls into a coma and Gwen discovers a voodoo doll impaled by pins. The danger that follows brings her face to face with witchcraft as a series of disasters unfold and lead her to the horrible truth.



January 22, 2019

George P. Cosmatos' Cobra (1986) on blu-ray from Shout Factory, from a new remaster from the original elements

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Lt. Cobretti (Sylvester Stallone) is a one-man assault team whose laser-mount submachine gun and pearl-handled Colt .45 spit pure crime-stopping venom! Director George P. Cosmatos (Rambo: First Blood Part II, Tombstone) teams up again with Stallone for this thriller pitting Cobretti against a merciless serial killer. The trail leads to not one murderer but also an army of psychos bent on slashing their way to a "New Order" – and killing a witness (Brigitte Nielsen) along the way. Fortunately, her protector is Cobra, a man who delivers vigilante justice like no other!

Cobra (1986) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Cobra-Blu-ray/dp/B07J33Q4D8?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07J33Q4D8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

From the old blu-ray transfer:
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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on December 14, 2018, 06:22:59 PM
Rupert Pupkin is the King of Comedy name and the pen name of an la cinephile. he shared his favorite releases of 2018 (http://www.rupertpupkinspeaks.com/2018/11/ruperts-2018-film-geek-gift-guide-discs.html) and i've sampled from it

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 16, 2018, 06:51:21 PM
^ Will vouch for Body Melt and Brainscan

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January 8, 2019 April 23, 2019

David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner (1997) on blu-ray from Ammo

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Everything changes for rising corporate star Joe Ross (Campbell Scott) when he meets the wealthy and mysterious Jimmy Dell (Steve Martin) at a tropical resort. Dell offers to help Ross protect his new business process invention, but in short order Ross finds himself falsely accused of murder. Working with the FBI and his assistant, Susan Ricci (Rebecca Pidgeon), Ross sets out to prove his innocence and disentangle himself from the diabolical entrapment.

The Spanish Prisoner (1997) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Spanish-Prisoner-Blu-ray/dp/B07KZGKXDN?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07KZGKXDN&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)








January 29, 2019

Raphael Nussbaum's Pets (1973) on blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome, from a 2K restoration

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Teenage Runaway Bonnie (Candice Rialson) has escaped the clutches of her controlling brother, only to become immediately embroiled in a twisted web of sexual manipulation. Initially convinced to aid in a carjacking, Bonnie is then taken in by a lecherous lesbian artist who hopes to groom her into a sapphic lover, only to have her plans thwarted by the perverse advances of a local gallery owner whose bizarre proclivities include the keeping of an unusual assortment of 'pets.'

A truly unparalleled exploitation film viewing experience, Raphael Nussbaum's PETS veers between moments of overwrought melodrama and jarring bouts of unhinged sleaze. Co-starring Ed Bishop (TV's UFO), Joan Blackman (BLUE HAWAII), and Mike Cartel (RUNAWAY NIGHTMARE), and adapted from Nussbaum's own stage play, Vinegar Syndrome presents this drive-in classic newly restored from rare 35mm elements and on Blu-ray for the very first time.







Q1 2019 TBD

Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning (1988) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K remaster

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When a group of civil rights workers goes missing in a small Mississippi town, FBI agents Alan Ward (Willem Dafoe) and Rupert Anderson (Gene Hackman) are sent in to investigate. Local authorities refuse to cooperate with them, and the African American community is afraid to, precipitating a clash between the two agents over strategy. As the situation becomes more volatile, the direct approach is abandoned in favor of more aggressive, hard-line tactics.






Q1 2019 TBD

Wim Verstappen's Blue Movie (1971) on blu-ray from Cult Epics

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Blue Movie is of historical interest as it was the first film produced in Holland with full frontal nudity for both sexes. While it has its share of graphically depicted sexual scenes, it also has a story. Released from prison for sex offences, a young man moves into an apartment house with very thin walls, and the sounds he hears make him believe his neighbors are having sex all the time. He has a married neighbor, a professor. The professor arranges things so that his wife can meet and seduce the sex offender, possibly so that the humiliating revenge of impotence can be visited upon him.

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Dutch Sex Wave Trailer - Vimeo (https://player.vimeo.com/video/261345572?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0)



March 11/12, 2019

Peter Glenville's The Prisoner (1955) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK

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Banned from the Cannes and Venice Films Festivals for being anti-Communist and excoriated elsewhere as pro-Soviet propaganda, Peter Glenville's The Prisoner stoked controversy at the time of its original release and remains a complex, challenging and multifaceted exploration of faith and power.

In an unnamed Eastern European capital, an iron-willed Cardinal (Academy Award®-winner Alec Guinness, The Ladykillers) is arrested by state police on charges of treason. Tasked with securing a confession from him by any means necessary is a former comrade-in-arms from the anti-Nazi resistance (Jack Hawkins, The Bridge on the River Kwai). Knowing the Cardinal will never fold under physical torture, the Interrogator instead sets out to destroy him mentally, breaking his spirit rather than his body.

Adapted by acclaimed playwright Bridget Boland (Gaslight) from her own stage-play and showcasing powerhouse performances by two actors at the height of their game, The Prisoner is a tense, thought-provoking and disturbing drama about the endurance of the human spirit.







March 4/5, 2019

Robert Siodmak's Phantom Lady (1944) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK

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After a fight with his wife, Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis, High Sierra) heads to a bar to drown his sorrows. There he strikes up a conversation with a mysterious, despondent lady who agrees to accompany him to a show uptown but withholds her name. Arriving home, Scott is met by grimly countenanced cops - his wife has been strangled with one of his neckties and he is the prime suspect. He has a solid alibi but his theatre companion is nowhere to be found and no one remembers seeing them together. When Scott is charged with murdering his wife, it falls to his devoted secretary 'Kansas' (Ella Raines, Brute Force) to find the phantom lady and save Scott from the electric chair... Adapted from a hit novel by acclaimed crime writer Cornell Woolrich, Phantom Lady boasts stylish cinematography, cruel characters and memorable performances from Ella Raines and Franchot Tone (Mutiny on the Bounty).



February 12, 2019

F.W. Murnau's The Haunted Castle (1921) and The Finances of the Grand Duke (1924) on blu-ray from Kino

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Before plumbing the depths of horror and despair with such films as Nosferatu (1922) and Faust (1926), Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau crafted a moody drama of a storm-bound manor and the grim mystery that lurks within: The Haunted Castle.

Also included on this double feature Blu-ray is The Finances of the Grand Duke, which has Murnau exploring the realm of light comedy in a playful espionage thriller reminiscent of Ernst Lubitsch.




April 9, 2019

Noir Archive Vol. 1 (1944-1945) on blu-ray from Kit Parker Films

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-Address Unknown (1944)
-Escape in the Fog (1945)
-The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947)
-The Black Book aka The Reign of Terror (1949)
-Johnny Allegro (1949)
-711 Ocean Drive (1950)
-The Killer That Stalked New York
-Assignment Paris (1952)
-The Miami Story (1954)

Noir Archive Vol. 1 (1944-1945) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Noir-Archive-Volume-1-1944-1954-Blu-ray/dp/B07KZ4MW2C?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07KZ4MW2C&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 17, 2018, 06:07:18 AM
Quote from: wilder-The Black Book aka The Reign of Terror (1949)

Quote from: IMDB User metaphor-2Brilliant film noir disguised as French Revolution Epic

True film noir, that densely urban, disillusioned body of work characterized by the deep shadows that separate the characters from each other and isolate them from society, was almost always set in contemporary cities... in France before WWII and in America after it. ALMOST... Anthony Mann's THE BLACK BOOK (aka REIGN OF TERROR) is one of its finest examples, a costume thriller set in the French Revolution, and somehow managing to create the visual style and emotional mood of true film noir in a completely atypical setting.

This is a film to watch for its cinematic, visual brilliance... The story is serviceable, but the experience it services is a thrilling piece of movie art. Photographed by the great John Alton (a man who, it is said, could re-light Times Square at high noon, if necessary) the frame consistently dazzles and intrigues. Anthony Mann's taut and claustrophobic work (rather at odds with the usual French Revolution epic, and with Mann's later work in other genuinely epic-scale costume dramas) draws a compelling parallel between the atmosphere of fear in post-revolutionary France and in mid-20th century McCarthyite America.

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 06, 2019, 06:36:14 AM
March 26, 2019

Blood Hunger: The Films of José Larraz on limited edition blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK

*Arrow also has a second Larraz box set in the works that will contain Edge of the Axe (1988), Black Candles (1982), and Deadly Manor (1990)

There was a great discussion about his work on the Daughters of Darkness podcast (https://diaboliquemagazine.com/episode-21-immoral-tales-part-1-jose-larraz/) a couple years ago.

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One of the most underrated and oft-neglected genre filmmakers of his generation, Spanish-born director José Ramón Larraz (Symptoms) finally receives his due with this collection of his work, the first of its kind, bringing together a fascinating cross-section of films from the first half of his lengthy cinematic career.

In Larraz's debut feature, the hitherto ultra-rare Whirlpool (1970), Vivian Neves stars as Tulia, a young model invited to a photographer's secluded country home for what purports to be a quiet weekend retreat – but soon transpires to be anything but. 1974's Vampyres – perhaps the best known and most widely-released of all José Larraz's films – sees a duo of blood hungry female vampires prowling the British countryside, from where they lure unsuspecting male motorists back to their imposing, dilapidated mansion for draining... in more ways than one. Meanwhile, in 1978's The Coming of Sin (La Visita del Vicio, in its native Spanish), a young gypsy girl experiences a violent sexual awakening as her dreams of a naked young man on horseback become reality.

By turns terrifying, titillating, artful and scandalous, these three films collected here – all newly restored from original film elements, with Whirlpool and The Coming of Sin making their Blu-ray world premieres – collectively offer film fans a unique perspective on the fascinating, highly-varied career of one of the horror genre's most overlooked auteurs.


Blood Hunger: The Films of José Larraz - Diabolik DVD (https://www.diabolikdvd.com/product/blood-hunger-the-films-of-jose-larraz-arrow-us-blu-ray/)



Q1 2019 TBD

Daryl Duke's The Silent Partner (1978) on blu-ray from Kino

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A timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash.






March 26, 2019

Val Lewton & Robert Wise's The Body Snatcher (1945) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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In Edinburgh, renowned surgeon and now teacher of anatomy Dr. MacFarlane, has been paying John Gray (Boris Karloff), a cabman, to clandestinely bring him exhumed bodies of the recently deceased for classroom demonstration purposes. With cemeteries being increasingly guarded, Gray turns to murder to provide MacFarlane with fresh bodies. Realizing that he will never be rid of Gray, who constantly taunts him with his knowledge of MacFarland's past indiscretions, MacFarlane engages the malevolent Gray in a hand-to-hand fight to the death, the ultimate results of which provide the victor with an episode of unprecedented psychological horror...

The Body Snatcher (1945) - Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Body-Snatcher-Blu-ray/dp/B07KZKCZZY?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07KZKCZZY&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER)



January 22, 2019

John Schlesinger's Yanks (1979) on blu-ray from Twilight Time. Also available from Eureka (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Yanks-Eureka-Classics-Format-Blu-ray/dp/B07HSLV951/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1546778162&sr=8-1&keywords=yanks) in the UK.

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A World War II epic both sweeping and intimate, Yanks is a triumph for director John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday), and a moving showcase for its splendid ensemble cast led by Richard Gere and Vanessa Redgrave. A war film without battle scenes, Schlesinger's drama instead focuses on relationships far from the front, examining the romantic entanglements between the stationed U.S. soldiers and the locals in a small town in Northern England in the 1944 period before the Normandy landings.

Three very different women find themselves attracted to the American G.I.s at a new military base in town. Gere is Sgt. Matt Dyson, initiating a tentative courtship with a young woman still pining for her fiancée overseas. Redgrave is wealthy socialite Helen, engaged in an affair with a captain (William Devane), while both of them long for their respective spouses far from home. And Sergeant Ruffelo's fling with Mollie (Wendy Morgan) occurs just as the interactions between the Yanks and their British hosts begin to strain under the tension of the war, and uncertainty about what happens to their new romances.

A personal passion project for Schlesinger -- who was given free creative reign after the success of Marathon Man (1976) -- Yanks was generally not afforded the attention it deserved upon initial release, and as one of the director's warmest films, it's a gem ripe for rediscovery.







January 22, 2019

John Huston's Beat the Devil (1953) on blu-ray from Twilight Time, from a 2016 restoration

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A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine. Huston and Truman Capote concocted this offbeat, very funny satire of MALTESE FALCON-ish movies on location in Italy. Low-key nature of comedy eluded many people in 1954 and it immediately became a cult favorite, which it remains today.



January 22, 2019

Fritz Lang's The Return of Frank James (1940) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse.



February 2019 TBD

André de Toth's None Shall Escape (1944) on MOD blu-ray from Sony

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The career of a Nazi officer shown as flashbacks from his trial as a war criminal.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 13, 2019, 08:59:53 AM
December 6, 2019

Roman Polanski's Bitter Moon (1992) on blu-ray from Studio Canal (Germany)

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Nigel Dobson is an English perfect gentleman, married to equally respectable Fiona. On a cruise heading for India, they meet a highly unconventional couple, American unpublished would-be literary celebrity Oscar, in a wheelchair, and his much younger Parisian wife, Mimi.

Bitter Moon (1992) - Amazon DE (https://www.amazon.de/Bitter-Moon-Blu-ray/dp/B079VD5TJD?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom04-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B079VD5TJD&m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF)






April 9, 2019

Frank Tuttle's This Gun for Hire (1942) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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A hired killer dodges police while tracking down the enemy agents who tried to frame him.



April 29/30, 2019

Aleksey German's Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK, from a 2K restoration of the original camera negative

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Named after the apocryphal exclamation of Soviet security chief Lavrentiy Beria as he rushed to Stalin's deathbed, this blackly funny, deliriously immersive satire distils the anticipation and anxiety in the Moscow air, as the Soviet despot lay dying.

Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin's hands. A military surgeon, General Yuri Georgievich Klensky (Yuri Tsurilo), finds himself a target of the "Doctors' Plot": the anti-Semitic conspiracy accusing Jewish doctors in Moscow of planning to assassinate the Soviet elite. Pursued, abused, and marked for the gulags, Yuri is chased and dragged through a Stalinist Soviet nightmare. His desperate, jolting journey encapsulates the madness of the era.

Directed by Aleksei German (Hard to Be a God), Khrustalyov, My Car! proved wildly provocative when it was screened at the 1998 Cannes film festival, despite being championed as the best film of the festival by the president of the Cannes jury that year, Martin Scorsese. A one-of-a-kind collision of nightmare and realism, German's film is presented here in a new restoration with a wealth of illuminating extras.







April 8/9, 2019

Alain Resnais' Mélo (!986) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK

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Master director Alain Resnais (Last Year At Marienbad) blurs the line between cinematic technique and theatrical artifice in his award-winning Mélo, adapted from Henri Bernstein's classic play about a doomed love triangle in 1920s Paris.

Pierre (Pierre Arditi, Love Unto Death) and Marcel (André Dussollier, A Good Marriage) are both celebrated concert violinists and lifelong friends, in spite of their differing temperaments. Pierre is modest, sensitive and content with his lot; Marcel is hungry, driven, and pursues a solo career that takes him to the four corners of the world. After years apart, the two friends reunite when Pierre invites Marcel to his home for dinner. It is then that Marcel first meets Pierre's wife Romaine (Sabine Azéma, Cosmos), sparking a passionate affair that can only end in tragedy before the curtain falls.




2019 TBD

Elmer Clifton & Ida Lupino's Not Wanted (1949) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration. New restorations of Ida Lupino's The Bigamist (1953) and The Hitch-Hiker (1953) are also forthcoming.

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After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.






March 18, 2019

Michael Apted's The Triple Echo (1972) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK), from a 2K restoration from the original camera negative

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When a young soldier (Deacon) deserts his outfit and hides in a remote farm, the farm owner (Jackson) and he fall in love. But their idyll is shattered by the arrival of a boorish, violent army sergeant (Reed) searching for his AWOL recruit.

The Triple Echo (1972) - Powerhouse Films (https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/frontpage/products/the-triple-echo-le)


This trailer is wild





March 18, 2019

John Dexter's The Virgin Soldiers (1969) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Set in Singapore in the early 1950s, this impressive adaptation of Leslie Thomas' best-selling, scandalous novel centres on a group of naïve, young British Army recruits billeted to Malaya who have no experience of either love or war.

The Virgin Soldiers (1969) - Powerhouse Films (https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/frontpage/products/the-virgin-soldiers-le)






March 18, 2019

Anthony Mann's A Dandy in Aspic (1968) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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The final film by the great Anthony Mann (Winchester '73, El Cid) A Dandy in Aspic is a stylish and complex cold-war thriller starring Laurence Harvey (Room at the Top, The Manchurian Candidate) as a Russian double-agent working for British Intelligence who is assigned to track down and kill an unusual target.

Falling between the outlandish exploits of James Bond and the dour realism of John le Carré's 'circus of spies', this paranoid thriller is a dark and refined affair, with a superb supporting cast headed by Mia Farrow (Rosemary's Baby, See No Evil) and Tom Courtenay (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Otley), wonderful cinematography by regular Powell and Pressburger cameraman Christopher Challis, and with a terrific score by Quincy Jones.


A Dandy in Aspic (1968) - Powerhouse Films (https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/frontpage/products/a-dandy-in-aspic-le)



March 18, 2019

Billy Wilder's Irma la Douce (1963) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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In Paris, a former policeman falls in love with a prostitute, and tries to get her out of that life by paying for all of her time.

Irma la Douce (1963) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Irma-la-Douce-Blu-ray/dp/B07MS59V9R?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07MS59V9R&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



April 30, 2019

Jim Sheridan's The Boxer (1997) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Young Danny Flynn is released from prison 14 years after "taking the rap" for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast neighborhood.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 25, 2019, 05:35:50 PM
2019 TBD

George Romero's Martin (1978) on blu-ray from Second Sight (UK)

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Young Martin (John Amplas) is entirely convinced that he is an 84-year-old blood-sucking vampire. Without fangs or mystical powers, Martin injects women with sedatives and drinks their blood through wounds inflicted with razor blades. After moving to Braddock, Penn., to live with his superstitious uncle (Lincoln Maazel), who also believes Martin is a vampire, Martin tries to prey exclusively on criminals and thugs but stumbles when he falls for a housewife (Sara Venable).






2019 TBD

George Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978) on blu-ray from Second Sight (UK)

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Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.



2019 TBD

Mikhail Kalatozov's I Am Cuba (1964) on blu-ray from Milestone, from a 4K restoration

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Started only a week after the Cuban missile crisis, director Mikhail Kalatozov's wildly schizophrenic celebration of Communist kitsch mixes Slavic solemnity with Latin sensuality. Four stunning vignettes feverishly explore the seductive, decadent (and marvelously photogenic) world of Batista's Cuba—deliriously juxtaposing images of rich Americans and bikini-clad beauties sipping cocktails poolside with scenes of ramshackle slums. Using wide-angle lenses that distort and magnify, Sergei Urusevsky's acrobatic camera achieves wild gravity-defying angles as it glides effortlessly through long continuous shots, exploring the innermost feelings of the characters and their often desperate situations.






Summer 2019 TBD

Paul Schrader's Blue Collar (1978) on blu-ray from Kino

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When Detroit autoworkers Zeke Brown (Richard Pryor), Jerry Bartowski (Harvey Keitel) and Smokey James (Yaphet Kotto) decide to rob their own union, they are initially disappointed by the relatively small haul. However, upon closer inspection, the three amateur thieves discover that they have made off with something potentially much more valuable than money: the union's ledger, filled with bogus figures and links to organized crime. Should they blackmail the union or go to the authorities?



February 26, 2019

Blake Edwards' Wild Rovers (1971) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and ambitious for a better life and suggests they rob a bank.

Quote from: Letterboxd user Filipe FurtadoA key Edwards film, for all his bittersweet surface his movies usually hide one of the bleakest wordviews in American cinema and this is one his more blunt treatments of the moral compromises needed to just keep going.



February 26, 2019

Tony Williams' Next of Kin (1982) on blu-ray from Severin

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When a young woman inherits a creaky retirement home, she'll find herself in a waking nightmare of murder, madness and a legacy of evil that may be inescapable. Jackie Kerin, John Jarratt (WOLF CREEK) and Alex Scott (ROMPER STOMPER) star in this "stylish and creepy must-see" (The Digital Fix) thriller featuring an intense synth score by Klaus Schulze of Tangerine Dream.






April 2019 TBD

Joseph Pevney's The Strange Door (1951) on blu-ray from Kino

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The Sire de Maletroit (Charles Laughton), is an evil French nobleman so obsessed with hatred for his own brother (Paul Cavanagh) that he imprisons him in the castle dungeon. The Sire tries to destroy the life of Cavanagh's daughter (Sally Forrest) by forcing her to marry rogue (Richard Stapley), but plans are upset when they fall in love. Aided by Voltan (Boris Karloff), an abused servant, the lovers attempt to escape but the Sire imprisons them in a cell, whose closing walls may mean violent death for these innocent victims.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 08, 2019, 08:30:51 PM
May 28, 2019

Joseph Losey's Boom! (1968) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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The wealthy, self-absorbed eccentric Sissy Goforth has taken up residence on a secluded Mediterranean island where she dictates her memoirs, flies into rages and screams insults at her servants. Her health now failing, she drinks, takes pills and has a doctor give her injections to ease the pain. Into her reclusive life comes a stranger who manages to climb to her villa and survive a guard dog attack before introducing himself as a poet. Though attracted by the visitor she soon discovers he has a reputation for appearing when wealthy women are about to meet their demise and is known locally as the Angel of Death.) Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton light up the screen in what acclaimed playwright Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire) described as the best film adaptation of his work he'd ever seen.

A notorious bomb on its initial release, Boom! has since built up a cult following for its one-of-a-kind mixture of camp, lyricism, and the highly combustible chemistry of its two leads. More than fifty years after Boom!'s debut, Shout! Factory invites you to light the fuse on a re-examination of this highly unusual drama.




May 27, 2019

Olivier Assayas' Demonlover (2002) on blu-ray from Arrow UK

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Twenty years after David Cronenberg prophesised the dark side of the Internet age in Videodrome, acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep) updated it for the New Millennium in his startlingly prescient Demonlover, a chilling exploration of the nexus between sex and violence available at the click of a button.

Up-and-coming executive Diane (Connie Nielsen, One Hour Photo) lets nothing stand in her way when it comes to landing the lucrative Tokyo Anime contract for the Volf Corporation, guaranteeing worldwide exclusive rights to the latest in cutting-edge hentai. Despised by her assistant (Chloe Sevigny, American Psycho) and engaged in a risky game of corporate espionage, her ruthless ambition meets its match in Elaine (Gina Gershon, Bound), the charismatic representative of an American Internet porn company called Demonlover. However, the company is only the front for an online portal to the Hellfire Club, which gives its users control over the next big thing in interactive extreme pornography: real women, tortured according to subscribers' whims, in real time. Diane wants a piece of the action, and will stop at nothing to get it; but as she delves deeper into the twisted world of the Hellfire Club, reality slips away and the stakes of the game are raised to the point of no return.

Armed with an iconic score by art-rock pioneers Sonic Youth, Assayas' neo-noir/cyberhorror masterpiece is finally unleashed for the first time on Blu-Ray, with revealing extras and a new director-approved restoration.


Demonlover (2002) - Arrow Films (https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/demonlover-blu-ray/FCD1884)






April 8, 2019

Henry King's The Song of Bernadette (1943) on blu-ray from Eureka (UK)

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One of the rare Hollywood studio films to address spiritual belief and religious conviction in a serious and complex fashion, the beloved classic THE SONG OF BERNADETTE made a star of its leading lady Jennifer Jones, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress, in addition to taking home a Golden Globe during those awards' very first ceremony (the film also won Globes for Best Dramatic Film and Best Director). A moving portrait of faith, the film is one of the crowning achievements of director Henry King.

Based on the best-selling historical novel by Franz Werfel, the film chronicles the life of 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, who began seeing visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France in 1858. When news of Bernadette's vision first spreads through the town, there are those who decry her as mentally unsound, while others wholeheartedly believe –particularly when the spring that erupts near the grotto that housed the visitations contains water that seems to have miraculous healing properties.


The Song of Bernadette (1943) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Song-of-Bernadette-Blu-ray/dp/B07NBCYGXW?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07NBCYGXW&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)






April 22, 2019

Max Ophuls' The Reckless Moment (1949) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Joan Bennett (Scarlet Street, Suspiria) stars as a suburban housewife who covers up a murder to protect her teenage daughter, only to find herself blackmailed by an immoral small-time crook, played by James Mason (North by Northwest, The Deadly Affair).

The Reckless Moment (1949) - Powerhouse Films  (https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/frontpage/products/the-reckless-moment-le)



April 22, 2019

Robert Rossen's Lilith (1964) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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The final film by the great, yet underrated Robert Rossen (All the King's Men, The Hustler) is a compelling tale of love, madness, and forbidden desire. Warren Beatty (Mickey One, The Fortune) stars as a young war veteran who takes a job as on orderly in a local asylum and falls under the spell of beautiful schizophrenic, Lilith (Jean Seberg – A Bout de souffle, Bonjour Tristesse).

Boasting a superb supporting cast that includes Peter Fonda, Jessica Walter, Gene Hackman and Kim Hunter, Rossen's delicate and powerful film is one of the most under-appreciated American films of the 1960s.


Lilith (1964) - Powerhouse Films  (https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/frontpage/products/lilith-le)



April 22, 2019

Anatole Litvak's The Snake Pit (1948) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK), from a 4K remaster struck from the original camera negative

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Shocking and highly controversial at the time of release, The Snake Pit broke new ground in Hollywood cinema for its depiction of mental illness and its treatment. Olivia de Havilland (Gone with the Wind, The Heiress), delivers an astounding performance as a young bride who suffers a breakdown and finds herself committed to an asylum.

Director Anatole Litvak (Sorry, Wrong Number, Anastasia) had to fight to persuade producer Darryl Zanuck to back the film, but the result remains one of the most potent and powerful films to tackle the subject and was an influence on later works such as Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor (1963), Robert Rossen's Lilith (1964) and Miloš Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).


The Snake Pit (1948) - Powerhouse Films  (https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/frontpage/products/the-snake-pit-le)



April 22, 2019

Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Dragonwyck (1946) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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The directorial debut of the great Joseph L Mankiewicz (All About Eve, Suddenly, Last Summer), Dragonwyck is a glorious melding of Gothic chills and baroque melodrama. A beautiful Connecticut farm girl (Gene Tierney) finds herself embroiled in a conspiracy of madness, murder and intrigue after she agrees to become governess and nurse to the family of her distant cousin (Vincent Price).

Echoing Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940), and reuniting stars Tierney and Price for the third time in as many years (having previously starred together in Otto Preminger's Laura, 1944, and John M Stahl's Leave Her to Heaven, 1945), Dragonwyck is a magnificently creepy chiller with a career-defining performance by Price, luminous cinematography by the legendary Arthur C Miller, and a wonderful Alfred Newman score.


Dragonwyck (1946) - Powerhouse Films  (https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/frontpage/products/dragonwyck-le)



April 2, 2019

RKO Classic Romances Collection on blu-ray from Kino

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-Millie (1931) Dir: John Francis Dillon | Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman & Joan Blondell
-Kept Husbands (1931) Dir: Lloyd Bacon | Clara Kimball Young, Joel McCrea & Ned Sparks
-The Lady Refuses (1931) Dir: George Archainbaud | Betty Compson & John Darrow
-The Woman Between (1931) Dir: Victor Schertziner | Lili Damita & Lester Vail
-Sin Takes a Holiday (1930) Dir: Paul L. Stein | Constance Bennett, Basil Rathbone & Zasu Pitts



April 2, 2019

RKO Classic Adventures Collection on blu-ray from Kino

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-The Painted Desert (1931) Dir: Howard Higgin | William Boyd, Helen Twelvetrees & Clark Gable
-The Pay-Off (1930) Dir: Lowell Sherman | Lowell Sherman, Marian Nixon & Hugh Trevor
-The Silver Horde (1930) Dir: George Archainbaud | Evelyn Brent, Joel McCrea & Jean Arthur



Q1 2019 TBD

James Ivory's The Bostonians (1984) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group, from a 4K restoration

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In 19th-century Boston, charismatic Southern lawyer Basil Ransom and his cousin, devoted suffragette Olive Chancellor, contend for the future and the soul of the gregarious and youthful Verena Tannant. Basil is simply infatuated with her as a potential lover and wife. Olive, on the other hand, hopes to shape her political and social views and use her to forward the women's-rights movement.In 19th-century Boston, charismatic Southern lawyer Basil Ransom and his cousin, devoted suffragette Olive Chancellor, contend for the future and the soul of the gregarious and youthful Verena Tannant. Basil is simply infatuated with her as a potential lover and wife. Olive, on the other hand, hopes to shape her political and social views and use her to forward the women's-rights movement.






April 15, 2019

Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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One of director Billy Wilder's most frenetic comedies, the madcap Cold War and corporate politics satire ONE, TWO, THREE has to be one of the only films almost capable of making its Wilder predecessors Some Like It Hot and The Apartment seem sedately paced in comparison. Featuring a hilarious lead performance by James Cagney (apparently so exhausted by the rapid-fire pace that he then retired for twenty years!), ONE, TWO, THREE hasn't always been as famous as Wilder's other comedies, but it's among his best.

Cagney is C.R. "Mac" MacNamara, a top Coca-Cola executive shipped off to (then West) Berlin and told to keep an eye on his boss' 17-year-old Atlanta socialite daughter Scarlett (Pamela Tiffin) while she visits Germany. Scarlett's tour seems endless, and Mac discovers she's fallen for a (then East) Berlin communist agitator and the young couple are bound for Moscow! Mac has to bust up the burgeoning romance before his boss learns the truth, all the while dealing with his wife Phyllis (Arlene Francis) and her own impatience with German living.


One, Two, Three (1961) - Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Two-Three-Blu-ray/dp/B07NBC89HG?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07NBC89HG&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)



Quote from: wilder on January 06, 2019, 06:36:14 AM
March 26, 2019

Blood Hunger: The Films of José Larraz on limited edition blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK

*Arrow also has a second Larraz box set in the works that will contain Edge of the Axe (1988), Black Candles (1982), and Deadly Manor (1990)

There was a great discussion about his work on the Daughters of Darkness podcast (https://diaboliquemagazine.com/episode-21-immoral-tales-part-1-jose-larraz/) a couple years ago.

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Quote from: wilder on December 02, 2018, 03:25:58 AM
February 4/5, 2019

Luigi Bazzoni's The Possessed (1965) on blu-ray from Arrow US and Arrow UK, from a 2K restoration from the original camera negative

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The Possessed is a wonderfully atmospheric proto-giallo based on one of Italy's most notorious crimes, The Alleghe killings, and adapted from the book on that case by acclaimed literary figure Giovanni Comisso.

Peter Baldwin (The Ghost, The Weekend Murders) stars as Bernard, a depressed novelist who sets off in search of his old flame Tilde (Virna Lisi, La Reine Margot), a beautiful maid who works at a remote lakeside hotel. Bernard is warmly greeted by the hotel owner Enrico (Salvo Randone, Fellini's Satyricon) and his daughter Irma (Valentina Cortese, Thieves Highway, The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire), but Tilde has disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Bernard undertakes an investigation and is soon plunged into a disturbing drama of familial secrets, perversion, madness and murder...

Co-written by Giulio Questi (Death Laid an Egg, Arcana) and co-directed by Luigi Bazzoni (The Fifth Cord, Footprints on the Moon), The Possessed masterfully combines film noir, mystery and giallo tropes, whilst also drawing on the formal innovations of 1960s art cinema (particularly the films of Michelangelo Antonioni). A uniquely dreamlike take on true crime, The Possessed is presented here in a stunning new restoration.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 15, 2019, 06:51:59 AM
May 21, 2019

Roman Polanski's Bitter Moon (1992) on blu-ray from Kino

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After hearing stories of her, a passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.



April 16, 2019

Gus Trikonis' Supercock (1975) on blu-ray from Garagehouse Pictures

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Seth Calhoun (Ross Hagen), an American cowboy, and his prized pet cock, Friendly, travel to the Phillipines to enter the First International Cockfighting Olympics and a for chance to win $100,000. But little do they realize the crooked contest is run by the vicious Nono brothers (Seeno, Heeno and Speeno), who will stop at nothing, including cocknapping, to block the cowboy and his cock from competing. In a race against time, Seth must team up with a comely double-crosser (Nancy Kwan) and woozy WW2 vet (Tony Lorea) to thwart the Nono gang and locate Friendly before it's too late.

Directed by underrated exploitation veteran Gus Trikonis (The Swinging Barmaids), Supercock a.k.a. Fowl Play, Bet to Kill is a fun, fast-paced, action-packed romp through the seedy, cruel underbelly of legal cockfighting championships in Manila. Available in HD for the first time ever from the only known 35mm print materials obtained from Ross Hagen's estate.






May 28, 2019

Jacques Rivette's The Nun aka La Religeuse (1966) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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In eighteenth-century France a girl (Suzanne Simonin) is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior (Madame de Moni, Sister Sainte-Christine, and Madame de Chelles) treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire. Suzanne's virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious abuses by the Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot.






May 28, 2019

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Woman in Chains aka La Prisonnière (1968) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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Stanislas Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery, packed with works of surprising shapes, colours and textures, and where exhibitions turn into media events. Gilbert Moreau is one of the artists whose sculptures are on display in the gallery. His wife, Josée, is intrigued by the stern Stanislas, who devotes his free time to photography in an apartment that highlights his sophisticated artistic tastes. But besides enlarged pictures of calligraphic samples, Stanislas is amassing a collection of photographs that reveal a disturbed character. So why would Josée endanger her mature relationship with Gilbert for the morbid observation of Stanislas's hidden personality?






March 26, 2019

Nico Mastorakis' In the Cold of the Night (1990) on blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative

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Every night in his dreams, photographer Scott Bruin goes back to the same house and kills the same woman. Again. And Again. Then one day, the girl of his nightmares becomes the girl of his dreams...and a sinister conspiracy starts to unfold. A hot, steamy erotic thriller with some unpredictable twists and turns.

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May 27, 2019

James Hadley Chase's No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Possibly the most controversial British film ever produced, this lurid crime drama caused an unprecedented storm of controversy upon release: local councils banned it, the Bishop of London denounced it, and MPs demanded an investigation into the BBFC for allowing it to be seen.

Based on the notorious novel by James Hadley Chase (which itself was condemned by George Orwell), No Orchids for Miss Blandish is a mixture of sex, violence and immorality, and tells the brutal story of a kidnapped heiress who falls for one of her crazed captors.

This fascinating example of British film noir, which the Monthly Film Bulletin described as "the most sickening exhibition of brutality, perversion, sex and sadism ever to be shown on a cinema screen", is now released on UK Blu-ray for the very first time.




May 27, 2019

Nicolas Roeg's Track 29 (1988) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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The explosive combination of director Nicolas Roeg (Performance, Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth) and writer Dennis Potter (Pennies from Heaven, The Singing Detective) created one of British cinema's most unique and disquieting works – the hugely underrated Track 29.

Freely adapted from Potter's BBC TV play Schmoedipus, this unsettling film stars Theresa Russell (Bad Timing, Black Widow) as an unhappy, possibly unstable, housewife who welcomes a young man (Gary Oldman – Prick Up Your Ears, Darkest Hour) into her home when he claims to be her long-lost son. Ambitious, ambiguous and surreal, Track 29 is a kinky psychological send-up of American mores – a view from the dis-united states of consciousness.




May 27, 2019

Jack Gold's Who? (1974) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Adapted from the novel by famed science fiction writer Algis Budrys, Who? is a fascinating cold-war thriller/sci-fi hybrid. Elliott Gould (Little Murders, California Split) is an FBI agent trying to determine the true identity of a top US physicist who was horrifically injured in a car accident in East Berlin. The scientist is returned to the West encased in a metal mask and body-suit, reconstructed via cybernetic surgery. Is the man behind the metal mask who he claims to be, or is he a Soviet dupe trained to infiltrate US security?

Who?, from director Jack Gold (The Reckoning, The National Health), is one of the most unusual and affecting science fiction thrillers of the 1970s – not least because of the extraordinary performance by Joseph Bova as the masked enigma at the heart of the story.




March 25, 2019

Jindrich Polák's Ikarie XB 1 (1963) on blu-ray from Second Run (UK)

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It is the second half of the 22nd century and a spaceship called Ikarie XB 1 is on its way to Alfa Centauri to search for extraterrestrial forms of life. Its crew, made up primarily of scientists from various fields, being far from our solar system, is exposed to unknown and unimaginable dangers. At the same time, though, it also carries a number of ordinary human worries as well as joys. Kališ´s black and white shots in a wide screen format alongside with Liška´s innovative electronic music and convincing set pieces and clothing create a stylistically refined fictional world of a distant future. In addition, the matter-of-fact type of performance by the best Czech actors from the time period add a natural feel while also providing a psychological layer to it. The script writers drew some of their inspiration from a novel by Stanisław Lem called The Magellanic Cloud. It is also worth mentioning the fact that they resisted the politicization that sci-fi films of that time frequently were subjected to which often made them fairly superficial. Instead of pitting two rivalling systems against one another, thus creating an obvious East versus West division, they depict the hope for a better, morally more advanced humankind vs the "riff raffs" of the 20th century, which did not leave anything but disasters in their wake.






May 13, 2019

Anatole Litvak's The Night of the Generals (1967) on blu-ray from Eureka (UK), from a 4K restoration

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Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif star in this powerful World War II thriller from director Anatole Litvak (The Snake Pit; Sorry, Wrong Number) about a Nazi general who becomes a serial killer. When a Polish prostitute is brutally murdered in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, her killer is identified only as a German general. For years the crime remains unsolved, until the killer strikes again, bringing this mesmerising mystery to an unforgettable finish.






May 20, 2019

Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window (1944) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK), from a 4K restoration

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One of legendary director Fritz Lang's first noir films, THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW is also rightfully considered one of the most important examples of the genre, a landmark movie that became one of the initial representations of noir first singled out by French critics after WWII. A triumph for Lang, legendary writer/producer Nunnally Johnson (THE GRAPES OF WRATH), and leading man Edward G. Robinson (shedding his earlier gangster roles to portray a love-struck obsessive), the film remains a classic American nail-biter.

Robinson is Richard Wanley, a successful psychiatrist biding his time while his wife and children are on vacation when he encounters beautiful Alice (a radiant Joan Bennett), who bears an uncanny resemblance to the subject of a portrait he had just admired. When Richard and Alice retire to her home, her wealthy, jealous boyfriend intrudes, and is killed after a struggle. Alice convinces Richard to cover up the crime, but as Richard's district attorney friend (Raymond Massey) investigates and the boyfriend's bodyguard (Dan Duryea) begins to apply pressure to Richard, the walls begin to close in...




April 8, 2019

David Miller's Beautiful Stranger (1954) on blu-ray from Network (UK)

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Hollywood icon Ginger Rogers makes her British film debut in this rarely-seen crime drama from the early 1950s. Directed by David Miller - then riding high with his American noir classic Sudden Fear! - and co-starring Herbert Lom and a young Stanley Baker, Beautiful Stranger is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.

"Johnny" Victor, a gorgeous ex-actress, lives in luxury on the French Riviera courtesy of Louis Galt - a wealthy businessman with global interests. But Louis' fortune is built on crime and his possessive mania brings about a train of violence from which death is the only certain outcome...




Summer 2019 TBD

Bryan Forbes' The Whisperers (1967) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 2K remaster

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The Whisperers tells the story of an impoverished old woman living alone in a seedy apartment who enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. When she discovers stolen money hidden by her son, she believes her fantasy has come true.



May 28, 2019

Michael Gordon's Portrait in Black (1960) on blu-ray from Kino. Produced by Ross Hunter (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=13076.0).

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As the health of tyrannical but gravely ill shipping tycoon Matthew Cabot (Lloyd Nolan) declines, he relies on pain medicine injected by his physician, Dr. David Rivera (Anthony Quinn). What Cabot doesn't know is that his frustrated wife, Sheila (Turner), is having an affair with the doctor and has conceived a plan to do away with her husband. David agrees to go through with the murder, but threatens to confess their crime when Sheila begins receiving anonymous letters from a blackmailer.



May 28, 2019

David Lowell Rich's Madame X (1966) on blu-ray from Kino. Produced by Ross Hunter (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=13076.0).

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Holly Parker (Turner) is married to high-powered diplomat Clay Anderson (John Forsythe), but finds that her attention wanders when he's away. She starts an affair with a wealthy bachelor (Ricardo Montalban), but her life unravels when he dies unexpectedly. Her mother-in-law (Constance Bennett) advises Holly to leave Clay and their baby and start a new life. Years later, when a petty criminal (Burgess Meredith) tries to blackmail Holly, who is now a prostitute, things get even worse for her.



May 17, 2019

Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers (2005) on blu-ray from Kino

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When a mysterious pink letter informs Don Johnston that he may have a 19-year-old son, he visits four former lovers, where he comes face to face with the errors of his past and the possibilities of the future.



May 4, 2019

Rian Johnson's Brick (2005) on blu-ray from Kino

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High school student Brendan Frye prefers to stay an outsider, until the day that his ex-girlfriend Emily reaches out to him unexpectedly and then vanishes. To find her, Brendan enlists the aid of his only true peer, The Brain, while keeping the assistant vice principal only occasionally informed of what quickly becomes a dangerous investigation.



June 11, 2019

Sidney J. Furie's The Entity (1982) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Carla Moran awakens one night to find herself being beaten and raped by an unseen presence. Terrified of what's happening to her, and shunned by friends and family who think she's lost her mind, she seeks help from parapsychologists.



June 25, 2019

Joseph M. Newman's This Island Earth (1955) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Two nuclear Earth scientists are kidnapped by aliens from the planet Metaluna as part of a last-ditch effort to save it from being destroyed by neighboring, rival planet Zagon.



April 2019 TBD

Juan Antonio Bardem's The Corruption of Chris Miller aka. La corrupción de Chris Miller (1973) on blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome, from a 4K restoration

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Chris Miller (former Spanish child star, Marisol) lives with her stepmother Ruth (Jean Seberg; Breathless) in a large secluded mansion in the countryside. Both women have been traumatized by the mysterious disappearance of Chris' father but their isolation is soon interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious young drifter, Barney (Barry Stokes; Prey), who they take on as a handyman. All the while, an unknown scythe wielding killer has been stalking the area, leaving an ever growing body count, and it's not long before the women grow increasingly suspicious of Barney...

A bloody and twist filled giallo from acclaimed filmmaker Juan Antonio Bardem (Death of a Cyclist), THE CORRUPTION OF CHRIS MILLER has remained one of the hardest to see of all Spanish produced gialli. Lushly photographed by Juan Gelpí (Crypt of the Living Dead) and scored by Waldo de los Ríos (House That Screamed), Vinegar Syndrome is proud to present this under-seen masterpiece of early 70s Euro horror in a brand new 4k restoration and in its original scope framing, for the first time on home video.




June 4, 2019

Paul Leni's The Man Who Laughs (1928) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley, from a 4K restoration

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Flicker Alley, in partnership with Universal Pictures, are proud to present Universal Picture s new 4K restoration of the 1928 silent classic, The Man Who Laughs, accompanied by a newly recorded orchestral score by the Berklee School of Music. Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, the story centers on the extraordinary adventures of Conrad Veidt s Gwynplaine, whose wide and mirthless grin inspired DC Comics legendary Batman villain, the Joker. Veidt's character has become well known to most cinephiles. Orphaned as a child, Gwynplaine is punished by the king for his father s transgressions, by having face carved into a hideous grin. Disfigured and alone, Gwynplaine rescues a blind girl Dea, and both end up staring in a sideshow where they fall in love. Because she cannot see, Dea does not know about her lover s tormented grin.

Masterfully directed by Paul Leni, The Man Who Laughs marks Leni s penultimate work. Having grown up in Germany during the era of Expressionism, Leni embraces haunting characters, twisted sets, harsh angles, and deep shadows. Heralded as one of the best American silents emulating German Expressionism, The Man Who Laughs presents Leni at his creative directorial peak. Originally released silent, the film was enough of a hit for Universal in 1928 that the studio released it with a synched musical score using the Movietone sound-on-film process, presented here as a secondary audio track.

Part of Universal Picture s ongoing silent restoration initiative, The Man Who Laughs honors the studio's rich film history that has spanned more than a century. The primary source element for this restoration was a 35mm composite fine grain from the Universal Pictures vault, created in 1954 from the nitrate original camera negative. NBCUniversal's restoration team was able to stabilize and deflicker the film as well as repair scratches, warps, and dirt. The 4K digital restoration was completed by NBCUniversal StudioPost.




June 4, 2019

Paul Leni's The Last Warning (1929) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley, from a 4K restoration

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Universal Pictures and Flicker Alley present Universal Pictures new 4K restoration of the 1929 silent classic, The Last Warning, accompanied by a newly recorded score from Arthur Barrow. Adapted from Thomas F. Fallon s 1922 Broadway play of the same name, The Last Warning is based on the story The House of Fear by Wadsworth Camp and centers on an unsolved murder that occurs during a live Broadway performance. When the victim s body goes missing, the death remains unsolved and the theater is condemned. That is, until years later when a suspicious new producer arrives to restage the play with the original cast and crew. As one of the last silents Universal produced, The Last Warning was later released as a part-talkie with roughly sixty feet of sound scenes added.

The Last Warning was Paul Leni's final film before his untimely death, and a prime showcase for Universal's 1920s leading lady, Laura La Plante. An artist at his creative directorial peak, Leni s camera never stops shifting, offering cutaways and trick shots involving nervous could-be culprits, a highly suspicious sleuth, and cast members who suddenly disappear in the darkened theater. The result is a cinematic funhouse that restlessly cross-examines the suspense of the story s stage play against the real murder mystery saga, all unfolding amid the outstanding production design of Charles D. Hall.

Part of Universal's ongoing silent restoration initiative, The Last Warning honors the studio's rich film history that has spanned more than a century. Universal's team of restoration experts conducted a worldwide search for The Last Warning's available elements, ultimately working with materials from the Cinémathèque française, and the Packard Humanities Institute Collection in the UCLA Film & Television Archive. NBCUniversal's restoration team was able to stabilize and deflicker the film as well as repair scratches, warps, and dirt. The 4K digital restoration was completed by NBCUniversal StudioPost.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 03, 2019, 08:27:50 PM
January 29, 2019

Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub's The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) on blu-ray from Grasshopper Film

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The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.




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April 16, 2019

Jonathan Demme's Melvin and Howard (1980) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes



April 23, 2019

Albert Brooks' Modern Romance (1981) on blu-ray from Sony

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World-class neurotic Robert Cole (Albert Brooks, The Muse) just can't stop thinking about Mary (Kathyrn Harrold, Raw Deal). Especially after he breaks up with her. Fanatically obsessed with the beautiful bank exec, he repeatedly wins her back ­ and then immediately loses her again by grilling her long-distance callers, harassing her business clients, and dogging her every move. But even as Robert and Mary head for another breakup, there's still hope for them yet. Because when it comes to true love, it ain't over 'til it's over.



July 16, 2019

Val Lewton & Jacques Tourner's The Leopard Man (1943) on blu-ray from Scream Factory

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Is it man, beast or both behind a string of savage maulings and murders? An escaped leopard provides the catalyst for a foray into fear in which a cemetery is the rendezvous for death and love, and a closed door heightens rather than hides the horror of a young girl's fate.



2019 TBD

Francesco Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) on blu-ray from Rialto, from a 2K restoration


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Carlo Levi (Gian Maria Volontè), a painter, writer, doctor, and intellectual, is exiled to Grassano, an impoverished town with only one car and one toilet, in southern Italy. Levi learns to find the humanity in this seemingly backward hamlet. Made for Italian television in four 55-minute parts, it was cut in half for its 1980 U.S. release (to 2 hours — Rosi's own theatrical cut was 2½) and senselessly re-titled Eboli. This is the U.S. theatrical premiere of Rosi's complete, uncut epic.






July 16, 2019

Noir Archive Vol. 2 (1952-1956) on blu-ray from Kit Parker Films. Available exclusively through MVD's online store (https://mvdb2b.com/s/NoirArchiveVolume2195419569filmCollection/MVD2423BR)

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-Cell 4255, Death Row
-Rumble on the Docks
-The Crooked Web
-Footsteps in the Fog
-5 Against the House
-The Night Holds Terror
-New Orleans Uncensored
-Bait
-Spin a Dark Web



June 3, 2019

Jacques Tourner's Nightfall (1957) on blu-ray from Arrow (UK), restored from the original elements

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During his long and varied career, Jacques Tourneur (The Comedy of Terrors, Cat People) tackled a breadth of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. With 1956's Nightfall, he returns to the noir trappings he tackled so successfully with Out of the Past for a tale of deception, intrigue and paranoia.

Adapted from the novel by prolific crime fiction author James Goodis (Dark Passage), Nightfall is the story of Jim Vanning (Aldo Ray, The Violent Ones; The Naked and the Dead), an innocent man wrongly accused of murder. On the same night he has a chance encounter in a bar with glamorous model Marie (Anne Bancroft, The Graduate), the hoods he's spent the past year running from catch up with him, determined to recover the money they believe he stole from them. Pursued by both the hoods and law enforcement, Vanning and Marie go on the lam, leading to a desperate chase that takes them from the streets of Los Angeles to the snowy peaks of Wyoming.

Eschewing both the big names associated with the genre and its familiar urban locales, and featuring striking monochromatic photography by Oscar-winner Burnett Guffey (From Here to Eternity), Nightfall is a gripping and inventive late-period noir which shows that, even in its twilight years, the genre still had room for innovation.




June 11, 2019

The Girl Most Likely To... (1973) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 2K restoration. Includes an audio commentary by film historians/authors Amanda Eyes and Kier-La Janisse (House of Psychotic Women)

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Stockard Channing (Grease) is Miriam Knight, an "ugly duckling" college girl who is mistreated by everyone, including her bubble-headed roommate and the callous campus jock. But after an accident causes her to undergo reconstructive surgery, Miriam emerges from behind the bandages a ravishing beauty. It's payback time when she uses her new attractiveness to exact revenge on all those who wronged her. Ed Asner (TV's Lou Grant) plays the police inspector who's hot on the trail of the femme fatale. A dark comedy written by comedy legend Joan Rivers (Rabbit Test) and directed by TV veteran Lee Philips (On the Right Track), The Girl Most Likely to... will leave you in stitches.



June 25, 2019

David Millers' Midnight Lace (1960), on blu-ray from Kino. Includes an audio commentary by film historian Kat Ellinger. Produced by Ross Hunter (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=13076.0).

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Doris Day plays Kit Preston, elegant newlywed wife of British Financier Anthony Preston. Shortly after moving to one of London's toniest neighborhoods, she is threatened by an unknown party. The tension mounts as the menacing phone calls continue and Anthony shows little concern, until Kit begins to doubt her own sanity and the motives of everyone around her.



May 21, 2019

Bernhard Wicki's Morituri (1965) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Marlon Brando plays a world-weary, conscientious objector to all wars in the tense, thoughtful Morituri, an adult drama about wartime ethics and the price of commitment to a cause. Brando plays Robert Crain, a German deserter who escaped the Nazis with his fortune intact, happy to be sitting out the battle in British-governed India. His comfort is challenged when an intelligence official (Trevor Howard) essentially blackmails him into going undercover, posing as an SS officer taking passage on a German ship carrying tons of rubber for munitions. Crain's mission is to deliver the ship into Allied hands, but once he's aboard, he becomes a target of derision by the proud, anti-Nazi captain (Yul Brynner) and suspicion by a handful of Resistance members planning to scuttle the voyage.



June 18, 2019

Jean-Luc Godard's Détective (1985) on blu-ray from Kino

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Jean-Luc Godard directs this comic thriller starring Nathalie Baye and Claude Brasseur. The film is set in an old Parisian hotel populated with extraordinary characters, including the house detective, who is still trying to solve a murder from years before.



June 18, 2019

Jean-Luc Godard's First Name: Carmen (1983) on blu-ray from Kino

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First Name: Carmen tells the parallel stories of a quartet rehearsing Beethoven and a group of young people robbing a bank, supposedly to get the funds to make a film.



June 18, 2019

Terry Bedford's Slayground (1983) on blu-ray from Kino

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From Donald E. Westlake, the creator of Point Blank, The Outfit and The Grifters! It should have been a quick and easy heist for Stone (Peter Coyote, Bitter Moon, Heart of Midnight), a cold cash hit on an armored car. But things turn ugly when a young girl is accidentally killed during the getaway and the child's grieving father hires a sadistic assassin to avenge her death. Now Stone is on the run from a relentless killing machine, a chase that will lead them to a run-down amusement park on the bleak British coast where death is the final contract and vengeance is the ultimate ride.






March 19, 2019

Allan Dwan's The River's Edge (1957) on blu-ray from Twilight Time.

Resized screencaps, below. Full-size screencaps on DVDBeaver (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews22/rivers_edge_dvd_review.htm)

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Deep in the lonely New Mexico desert, Ben Cameron and his wife Meg struggle to build their small ranch. But the arrival of the charming but deadly trickster Nardo Denning could tear apart more than their homestead. With a gun in his hand and a secret about Meg's past in his heart, Denning forces Ben to guide him safely to Mexico with his stolen fortune. As they navigate the dangerous terrain, each man struggles to gain the upper hand for survival — and for Meg — in this tense and gripping Western.

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 12, 2019, 07:28:42 PM
July 16/17, 2019

Josef von Sternberg's Crime and Punishment (1935) on blu-ray from Arrow US & UK, restored from the original film elements

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After fleeing Nazi Germany following the success of M and re-establishing himself in Britain as a villain for Alfred Hitchcock, the great Peter Lorre arrived in Hollywood in 1935, signed to a contract with Columbia Pictures. His dream star vehicle: a big-screen adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's most famous novel Crime And Punishment. His choice of director: Josef von Sternberg, already celebrated and castigated in equal measure for his seven-film collaboration with Marlene Dietrich.

Roderick Raskolnikov (Lorre) has graduated from university as a noted expert in criminology, but nonetheless lives in extreme poverty. Desperate and anguished, he murders a miserly pawnbroker, stealing her valuables before fleeing into the night. The next day, he encounters Inspector Porfiry (Edward Arnold), the detective assigned to the murder, and is asked by Porfiry to consult on the case when an innocent man is arrested as a suspect. How long until the conflicted, guilt-ridden Raskolnikov arouses the master detective's suspicions?

One of many attempts at the time by Hollywood studios to give cinema an air of prestige by adapting great works of literature, Von Sternberg's stylish direction and Lorre's tour-de-force performance are ready for rediscovery in this Blu-Ray premiere of their only collaboration.




July 14/15, 2019

Mitchell Leisen's Hold Back the Dawn (1941) on blu-ray from Arrow US & UK

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From one of the most underrated directors of Hollywood's golden era, Mitchell Leisen (Remember the Night), comes the heart-rending romantic drama Hold Back the Dawn. Charles Boyer (Gaslight) gives an enthralling performance as Georges Iscovescu, a Romanian-born gigolo who arrives at a Mexican border town seeking entry to the US. Faced with a waiting period of eight years, George is encouraged by his former dancing partner Anita (Pauline Goddard, Modern Times) to marry an American girl and desert her once safely across the border. He successfully targets visiting school teacher Emmy Brown (Olivia de Havilland, Gone with the Wind), but his plan is compromised by a pursuing immigration officer, and blossoming feelings of genuine love for Emmy.

A moving and thoughtful film with a wonderful script (co-written by Billy Wilder), Hold back the Dawn benefits from evocative performances by Boyer and de Havilland, and an over-arching sense of romantic melancholy.




2019 TBD

David Cronenberg's Early Works on blu-ray from Arrow (UK), from new restorations

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One of the most singular auteurs of the horror and science fiction genres, David Cronenberg has wowed audiences with his depictions of body transformations and explorations of society, this collection of his early short and feature films shows a master learning his craft and exploring many of the themes that would dominate his most celebrated work.

Transfer (1966), Cronenberg's first short film, is a surreal sketch of a doctor and his patient. From the Drain (1967) finds two men in a bathtub, which may be part of a centre for veterans of a future war.Stereo (1969), Cronenberg's first official feature film, stunningly shot in monochrome, concerns telepaths at the Institute for Erotic Enquiry where patients undergo tests by Dr. Luther Stringfellow. In Crimes of theFuture (1970) Cronenberg worked in colour and with a larger budget, where we find the House of Skin clinic director (Ronald Mlodzik, returning from Stereo) searching for his mentor, Antoine Rouge, who has disappeared following a catastrophic plague.

Cronenberg's early amateur feature films, shot in and around his university campus, prefigure his later films' concerns with strange institutions, male/female separation and ESP, echoing the likes ofVideodrome, Dead Ringers and Scanners.




July 23, 2019

Robert Siodmak's Criss Cross (1949) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) is a hardworking armored car driver with a fatal attraction to his ex-wife Anna (Yvonne De Carlo), who's now married to notorious hoodlum Slim Dundee (Dan Duryea). Unable to stay away from her, Steve has a secret tryst with Anna ... only to be discovered by Dundee. To cover up their affair, Steve convinces Dundee that he only met with Anna to get Dundee's help in robbing an upcoming payroll shipment he will be driving. The hood falls for the ruse, which triggers a series of harrowing events that ultimately lead to violence and death. Criss Cross is a classic film noir suspense tale from a true master of the genre, director Robert Siodmak (The Killers).



Summer 2019 TBD

Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend (1945) on blu-ray from Kino

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Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been "on the wagon" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen, he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events, all gone wrong because of the bottle. But this bout looks like being his last...one way or the other.



May 14, 2019

Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 1 (1926-1928) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group, from 4K restorations

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The General (1926)

Many critics consider The General to be the last great comedy of the silent era, and it consistently ranks as one of the greatest films of all time on international critics' polls. Set during the Civil War and based on a true incident, the film is also an authentic-looking period piece that brings the scope and realism of Matthew Brady-like images to brilliant life. Keaton portrays engineer Johnnie Gray, rejected by the Confederate Army and thought a coward by his girlfriend (Marion Mack). When a band of Union soldiers penetrate Confederate lines to steal his locomotive, Johnnie Gray sets off in pursuit. Seven of the film's eight reels are devoted to the chase, featuring hilarious comedy and amazing stunts performed by Keaton himself.

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

In this silent comedy, college boy William Canfield Jr. (Buster Keaton) reunites with his boat captain father in a Mississippi River town.



April 23, 2019

Arthur Robison's The Informer (1929) on blu-ray from Kino

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In Ireland, an IRA man (Lars Hanson) betrays a killer to the police, thinking he is his mistress's lover.



May 14, 2019

Gabe Bartalos' Saint Bernard (2013) on blu-ray from Severin

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His award-winning FX career spans both grindhouse (BRAIN DAMAGE, FRANKENHOOKER, the LEPRECHAUN series) and art-house (Matthew Barney's CREMASTER CYCLE). Now writer/producer/director Gabe Bartalos brings his own years-in-the-making vision to the screen, as an unhinged orchestra conductor named Bernard (Jason Dugre of Bartalos' SKINNED DEEP) graphically descends into a surreal odyssey of chaos, psychosis and "f*cked-up sh*t that looks cool as hell" (Bloody-Disgusting.com). Warwick Davis (WILLOW) and notorious Andy Kaufman cohort Bob Zmuda (MAN ON THE MOON) co-star – with a performance by punk legends The Damned – in this "must-see for the truly adventurous" (UnseenFilms.net), transferred from the original negative and unleashed beyond the underground festival circuit for the first time ever.





July 10, 2019

Roger Christian's The Sender (1982) on blu-ray from Arrow (UK)

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A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.





June 18, 2019

Tony Richardson's The Border (1982) on blu-ray from Kino

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A corrupt border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.



Summer 2019 TBD

Richard Compton's Return to Macon County (1975) on blu-ray from Kino

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In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job and hops in their car--and turns out to be more trouble than they thought--drag-race a gang of town punks who lose to to them and then accuse them of cheating, and come up against a local cop who is obsessed with putting these two "juvenile delinquents" in jail.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 07, 2019, 06:32:33 PM
2019 TBD

Nina Menkes' Queen of Diamonds (1991) on blu-ray from Arbelos, from a 4K remaster

Anna Biller interviewed Menkes recently for the Talkhouse (https://www.talkhouse.com/visual-pleasure-for-whom-nina-menkes-and-anna-biller-talk-queen-of-diamonds-and-female-representation-on-screen/). There's also an extended interview (https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/interview-nina-menkes/) with Menkes over at Film Comment.

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Menkes' Queen of Diamonds (Sundance '91) is the second title in a quartet of films (alongside The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983), Magdalena Viraga (1986), and The Bloody Child (1996)), that Menkes produced, wrote, directed, and shot, all of which star her sister, Tinka Menkes.

Queen of Diamonds follows the alienated life of Firdaus (Tinka Menkes), a Blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas landscape juxtaposed between glittering casino lights and the deteriorating desert oasis. Negotiating a missing husband and neighboring domestic violence, Firdaus' world unfolds as a fragmented but hypnotic interplay between repetition and repressed anger. Shot with a beautiful compositional rigor echoing Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman,Queen of Diamonds is a remarkable and demanding masterpiece of American independent filmmaking. Heralded as one of the most challenging and subversive filmmakers working today, the re-release of Queen of Diamonds marks the start of a new critical recognition for Menkes' groundbreaking body of work.

New restoration by The Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation. The film will be co-presented with Eos World Fund. Arbelos will release the film theatrically in spring of 2019, with VOD and Blu-ray to follow.






August 27, 2019

Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) on 4K Blu-ray, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative for the very first time.

Will include the recent Tribeca Q&A between Coppola and Steven Soderbergh.

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In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz, a once-promising officer who has reportedly gone completely mad. In the company of a Navy patrol boat filled with street-smart kids, a surfing-obsessed Air Cavalry officer, and a crazed freelance photographer, Willard travels further and further into the heart of darkness.





July 30, 2019

Fridrikh Ermler's Fragments of an Empire (1929) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley

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"If influence is the criterion for determining the significance of a film director," writes Russian film scholar Denise J. Youngblood, "then Fridrikh Ermler is perhaps the most important director in Soviet film history." Why he does not join the ranks of Eisenstein, Kuleshov, and Vertov as one of the great masters of Soviet filmmaking is unknown. Yet his legacy as an intricate craftsman of deceptively simple stories layered with psychological depth and technical proficiency lives on in his work.

Fragment of an Empire was Ermler's last silent feature and last of four productively contentious collaborations with the method actor Fiodor Nikitin. To prepare for his part as Filimonov - a soldier suffering from total amnesia due to shell shock from the Great War - Nikitin apparently disguised himself as a doctor's assistant in the Forel Psychiatric Clinic, where he studied actual amnesia patients. Ermler, meanwhile, may have drew upon his own first-hand knowledge of war as a former spy of the tsarist army to create a profoundly realistic and moving portrait of man whose memories begin to awaken in concert with the radical transformation of the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917.




September 17, 2019

Sidney Lumet's Find Me Guilty (2006) on blu-ray from MVD Visual

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Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.



July 22, 2019

Bloody Terror - The Shocking Cinema of Norman J Warren (1976-1987) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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One of British genre cinema's most important and distinctive independent filmmakers, Norman J Warren made a series of horror films which were at the forefront of a new wave in British horror during the 1970s. Reflecting a period of permissiveness and fearlessness, Warren's distinctive stylings are far removed from the Gothic conventions of Hammer Films, deliberately upped the ante in terms of sex, violence and gore to create a new breed of horror that was designed to shock for shock's sake.

Five of Norman J Warren's horrifying chillers are presented here in new restorations and on Blu-ray for the very first time in the UK. Containing a wealth of new and archival extras – including new appreciations by contemporary British filmmakers, new cast and crew interviews, audio commentaries on all five films, rare short films, outtakes and alternative scenes, and making-of documentaries – this stunning Limited Edition box set is strictly limited to 6,000 units.






June 18, 2019

H. Bruce Humberstone's Pin Up Girl (1944) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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Beautiful U.S.O. singer and compulsive liar Lorry Jones (Betty Grable) and her best friend leave Montana for war jobs in Washington, D.C. Stopping in New York City along the way, Lorry spins a web of lies, turning herself into a Broadway star to gain the company of handsome war hero Tommy Dooley (John Harvey). Jealous club singer Molly McKay (Martha Raye) suspects Lorry's claims are false and hopes to expose her. The situation worsens when Tommy ends up in Washington at Lorry's new office.





August 27, 2019

Philippe Mora's documentary Brother Can You Spare a Dime? (1975) on blu-ray from VCI

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Brother Can You Spare a Dime? is the chronicle of an unforgettable piece of American history - twelve crazy, painful seesaw years, from the Wall Street crash to Pearl Harbor.

By juxtaposing contemporary news and documentary footage with extracts from Hollywood classics such as Golddiggers, Lady Killer and Wild Boys of the Road, director Philippe Mora offers us an immediate, intricate and evocative scrapbook of the 1930's. Somehow there are uncanny echoes of some of our current preoccupations: strikers at Ford's, mass unemployment, breadlines, vigilante gangs and failing fortunes...

Two heroes emerge: James Cagney, the rough diamond, hood-with-a-heart-of-gold star of the Movies, the little man who won't be beaten, and Franklin D. Roosevelt himself: tough yet benign, stepping into the breach with confidence and determination, yet imperceptibly crumpling under the weight of responsibility as he leads America through her most difficult years until the final humiliation of Pearl Harbor.

Songs and images stick in the mind: fortunes dwindle, the small man's savings disappear, even the banks go bust; men lose their jobs and join the breadlines to the haunting title song of Brother, can you spare a dime?; hobos and okies take to the road while Bessie Smith sings Nobody loves you when you're down and out; a ragged child huddles against the bleak landscape as Woody Guthrie sings the Dust Bowl Blues; an abandoned cat shivers on the ledge of a flooded home... Only Hollywood offers an escape from reality for these are the Golden Years of Bogart, Cooper and Dietrich. We glimpse Gable and Vivien Leigh at the screen test of Gone with the Wind; George Raft dances a languorous tango with Carole Lombard; Shirley Temple dimples and Chaplin jokes while Busby Berkeley fills the screen with his lavish extravaganzas...and the marathon dancers stumble on... As Ginger Rogers says: It's the depression, dearie...






July 2, 2019

Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le flambeur (1956) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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In Paris, Bob Montagne (Roger Duchesne) is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector Ledru (Guy Decomble). However, when Bob's luck turns sour, he begins to lose friends and makes the most desperate gamble of his life: to rob the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend, when the vaults are full. Unfortunately, Bob soon learns that the game is rigged and the cops are on to him.



July 2, 2019

Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Doulos (1962) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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Burglar Maurice Faugel (Serge Reggiani) has just finished his prison sentence. He murders Gilbert Vanovre (René Lefèvre), a receiver, and steals the loot from another robbery. As Maurice prepares for another burglary, his friend Silien (Jean-Paul Belmondo) brings him all the necessary equipment. But Maurice doesn't know that Silien is a police informant.



July 2, 2019

Jean-Pierre Melville's Leon Morin, Priest (1961) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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As the Germans take over France during World War II, widowed mother Barny becomes increasingly anxious about her half-Jewish daughter. She decides to hide the girl on a nearby farm and have her baptized as a cover. The ceremony reminds Barny of the absurdity of religion, and inspires her to pick a fight with parish priest Léon. She's surprised to learn that he shares a great many of her views, and the two begin a chaste yet deep relationship.



July 2, 2019

Georges Lautner's Le Professionnel (1981) on blu-ray from Kino

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French secret agent Joss Baumont is sent to one of the African countries to kill their president Njala. However, at the last moment the political situation changes and the French secret service turns him in to the African authorities, and he is sentenced to a long-term imprisonment. After the daring escape he returns to France and deliberately informs his former chiefs of his presence promising them to kill Njala who has just arrived to the country with the official visit.



July 2, 2019

Jacques Deray's The Outsider aka Le Marginal (1983) on blu-ray from Kino

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The story is about Commissioner Jordan who arrives in Marseille to combat drug trafficking activities in his own unique way.



July 9, 2019

Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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A US secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.



July 23, 2019

Luis Bunuel's Death in the Garden (1956) on blu-ray from Kino

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Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives—a roguish adventurer (Georges Marchal), a local hooker (Simone Signoret), a priest (Michel Piccoli), an aging diamond miner (Charles Vanel), and the miner's deaf-mute daughter (Michèle Girardon)—are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted, and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another. Shot in vibrant Eastmancolor and featuring a star-studded cast, Death in the Garden is an adventure film with Surrealist gestures and symbolism.



July 23, 2019

Luis Bunuel's The Milky Way (1969) on blu-ray from Kino

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Jean (Laurent Terzieff) and Pierre (Paul Frankeur) are drifters who travel from Paris to Spain on the Way of St. James pilgrimage route. On the journey, the two men encounter many strangers who debate aspects of Catholic faith as well as heresies that have been rejected by the religion. Their trek defies time as they meet historical figures such as Jesus and the Marquis de Sade. At the end of their trip, Jean and Pierre are left with more questions than answers.



July 23, 2019

Mitchell Leisen's Death Takes a Holiday (1934) on blu-ray from Kino

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Death (Fredric March) is unable to relate to humans, so he takes the form of Prince Sirki, and tries life as a person. Many women are instantly attracted to Prince Sirki, but once they really get to know him, they become frightened. It isn't until he meets the beautiful Grazia (Evelyn Venable) that Death finally learns what it is to love. But when Grazia's father (Guy Standing) learns of Prince Sirki's real identity, he tries to break up the relationship.



July 23, 2019

Mitchell Leisen's Easy Living (1937) on blu-ray from Kino

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Jean Arthur and Ray Milland shine in this screwball comedy written by Academy Award winner Preston Sturges. Mary Smith (Arthur) is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier (Edward Arnold) tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept writer (Milland). It's a "delightful comedy" (Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide) full of misunderstandings that showcases high-society slapstick at its best!



July 23, 2019

Kathryn Bigelow & Monty Montgomery's The Loveless (1982) on blu-ray from Arrow, from a 2K restoration of the original camera negative

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Raw, angry and honest, The Loveless evokes, with unflinching clarity, both an attitude and a bygone era, exploring the tensions between two very different Americas.





June 6, 2019

Roman Polanski's Death and the Maiden (1994) on blu-ray from Arthaus (Germany)

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A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.



September 2019 TBD

Noir Archive Volume 3: (1956-1960) on blu-ray from Kit Parker Films

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-The Crimson Kimono
-The Lineup
-The Shadow in the Window
-The Long Haul
-Pickup Alley
-The Tijuana Story
-She Played with Fire
-The Case Against
-Brooklyn, Man on a String



July 15, 2019

Hal Ashby's Coming Home (1978) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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A woman, whose husband is fighting in Vietnam, falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.



July 22, 2019

Robert Altman's Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated lives. Who is the mysterious Joanne and what's the real story behind Mona's son, James Dean Junior ?



July 22, 2019

Elia Kazan's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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In the early 1900s, the Nolans, a poor Brooklyn tenement family, strive not only to survive, but also to improve their existence. The studious Francie worships her father, waiter and aspiring singer Johnny, despite his alcoholism and pie-in-the-sky pipe dreams. With her stony resolve, mother Katie holds the family together, including a flirtatious and impetuous aunt.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 18, 2019, 07:02:23 PM
Film Aficionado (http://www.filmaf.com), an invaluable DVD and Blu-ray database, is shutting down June 10th (https://www.facebook.com/filmafi/)

Edit - It lives!

Quote from: May 26, 2019ANNOUNCEMENT: The rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated -- well kind of. I'm happy to inform you that Samuel from DVDCompare has graciously agreed to take over FilmAf. We are working on the transition details, but there should be no interruption of service. Long live FilmAf! Long live DVDCompare!
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 30, 2019, 07:51:25 PM
October 1, 2019

Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) on 4K blu-ray from Warner Bros., from a 4K scan of the original camera negative

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A caretaker of an isolated resort, has a complete mental breakdown, terrorizing his young son and wife.



June 24, 2019

Robert Downey Sr.'s Putney Swope (1969) on blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome, from a 4K restoration

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Dark satire in which the token black man on the executive board of an advertising firm is accidentally put in charge. Renaming the business "Truth and Soul, Inc.", he replaces the tight regime of monied white ad men with his militant brothers. Soon afterwards, however, the power that comes with its position takes its toll on Putney...



June 25, 2019

George Cukor's Gaslight (1944) on blu-ray from Warner Archive, from a 4K restoration

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Lights flicker and dim. Footsteps sound from a sealed-off attic. Mysterious events only vulnerable young Paula sees and hears make her fear she's losing her mind — exactly what treacherous spouse Gregory hopes. Directed by George Cukor, Gaslight shines as a superb exercise in suspense. Ingrid Bergman won her first Academy Award® as Paula, doubting her sanity while clinging to it. Fellow Oscar nominee Charles Boyer skillfully plays against type as smoothly evil Gregory. Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty and an 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her movie debut (also capturing an Oscar nomination) help make the Victorian era vividly realized through production design that earned an Academy Award



July 22, 2019

Alan Parker's Birdy (1984) on blu-ray from Sony. Also forthcoming from Indicator (UK)

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Birdy (Matthew Modine) returns from the Vietnam War scarred from the horrific experiences of battle. He is so damaged by what he saw that he has shut himself off from reality completely, imaging that he is actually a bird. Birdy is confined to a mental hospital, where the doctors are at a loss as to how to treat him. In an attempt to help, Al (Nicolas Cage), his best friend from high school -- and who was also in Vietnam -- visits him every day to try and get through to him.





June 1, 2019

Konstantin Ershov and Georgiy Kropachyov's Viy - Spirit of Evil (1967) on limited edition blu-ray from Severin. Standard edition to be released later this year.

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A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a notorious witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with a corpse, with only his faith to protect him. *Viy was the first horror fantasy film to be made in the former Soviet Union.





Summer 2019 TBD

J. Lee Thompson's Return from the Ashes (1965) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 2K  remaster

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An expert chess player, Stanislaus Pilgrin (Maximilian Schell) is also an unrepentant cad and schemer. Looking for a way to inherit a fortune, Stanislaus marries Dr. Michele Wolf (Ingrid Thulin), a rich Jewish widow. Later, however, he becomes involved with his wife's stepdaughter, Fabienne (Samantha Eggar), resulting in a complicated web of seduction and deception that ends in murder. Will the duplicitous Stanislaus succeed in getting Michele's money?

Quote from: Criterion Forum user DRW.moveFans of Petzold's PHOENIX; Return from the Ashes is based on the same source novel, but continues the story through two more acts. Its a superbly Hitchcockian thriller that's been unavailable for far too long.



August 20, 2019

Mark Robson & Val Lewton's Isle of the Dead (1945) on blu-ray from Scream Factory

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A small island off the coast of Greece holds a secret so dreadful, that once you step on its shore, you must remain there forever. General Nikolas Pherides (Karloff) is such a visitor. He came to honor the grave of his wife, and discovers that the entire island has been overrun with a plague - a sickness that drives the victims insane. Soon, Pherides succumbs to the illness. When insanity runs rampant, grave robbery, premature burial and vampires are the unspeakable horrors that await those on the Isle of the Dead.



August 6, 2019

Billy Wilder's The Front Page (1974) on blu-ray from Kino

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Successful Chicago newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson (Jack Lemmon) is hanging up his journalist's hat to marry Peggy Grant (Susan Sarandon). When his editor, the arrogant, self-important Walter Burns (Walter Matthau), learns of Hildy's plans, he goes to great lengths to keep his star writer. They learn that the notorious (but possibly wrongfully accused) criminal, Earl Williams (Austin Pendleton), has escaped on the eve of his execution, and Hildy can't resist this one last sensational story.



August 6, 2019

Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair (1948) on blu-ray from Kino

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In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.



August 13, 2019

Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail (1929) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new restoration

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A shopkeeper''s daughter fights off blackmail after she kills a young artist who had tried to rape her.



August 13, 2019

Alfred Hitchcock's Murder! (1930) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new restoration

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A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.



June 25, 2019

Joseph Losey's Galileo (1975) on blu-ray from  Kino

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Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.



August 26, 2019

André De Toth's Day of the Outlaw (1959) on blu-ray from Kino. Also available from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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Cowboys and ranchers have to put their differences aside when a gang of outlaws, led by army captain Jack Bruhn, decide to spend the night in a little Western town.



August 13, 2019

Marcel Carné's Port of Shadows (1938) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a smoky French port city.



August 13, 2019

Jacques Becker's Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars is demanded as ransom.



August 13, 2019

Henri Decoin's Razzia sur la chnouf (1955) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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International drug baron Henri Ferré, nicknamed 'Le Nantais', is tasked with restructuring a narcotics ring operating in Paris. The gangster head Paul Liski provides him with a cover, a bar named Le Troquet, not realising that Ferré is in fact working for the police. Far from supporting the drugs racket, Ferré's mission is to break it once and for all...



August 20, 2019

Perry Hanzell's The Harder They Come (1972) on blu-ray from Shout Factory, from a new transfer of the original 16mm negative

Also included is the first-ever home entertainment release of Perry Henzell's long lost follow up feature, No Place Like Home, which had gone unfinished and was thought to have been lost. The film follows Susan, a producer from New York, visiting Jamaica to shoot a shampoo commercial. When the commercial's actress disappears, Susan finds herself venturing further into the island, and drifting further from her real life. Also includes Perry Henzell: A Filmmaker's Odyssey, a new documentary about its genesis and restoration.

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Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.



July 9, 2019

The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 2 on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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Sherlock Jr (1924)

Buster plays a movie projectionist who daydreams himself into the movies he is showing and merges with the figures and the backgrounds on the screen. While dreaming he is Conan Doyle's master detective, he snoops out brilliant discoveries.

The Navigator (1924)

Rollo (Buster Keaton) decides to marry his sweetheart Betsy and sail to Honolulu. When she rejects him he decides to go alone but boards the wrong ship, the "Navigator" owned by Betsy's father. Unaware of this, Betsy boards the ship to look for her father. whom spies capture before cutting the ship loose. It drifts out to sea with the two socialites each unaware of there being anyone else on board.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 06, 2019, 05:40:20 PM
August 19, 2019

Marlene Dietrich & Josef von Sternberg at Paramount (1930-1935) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

This is the equivalent of Criterion's box set (https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1329-dietrich-von-sternberg-in-hollywood) in terms of film contents, but includes many different extras. A detailed post (http://criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=16206#p660797) on Criterion Forum breaks down the similarities and differences between them.

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-Morocco (1930)
-Dishonored (1931)
-Shanghai Express (1932)
-Blonde Venus (1932)
-The Scarlet Empress (1934)
-The Devil is a Woman (1935)

The collaboration between filmmaker Josef von Sternberg and actress Marlene Dietrich is one of the most enduring in all Hollywood cinema. Tasked by Paramount bosses to find 'the next big thing', director von Sternberg lighted upon German silent star Dietrich and brought her to Hollywood. Successfully transitioning from the silent to the sound era, together they crafted a series of remarkable features that expressed a previously hitherto unbridled ecstasy in the process of filmmaking itself. Marked by striking cinematography, beautiful design and elaborate camerawork these vibrantly sensuous films redefined cinema of the time, while Dietrich's sexually ambiguous on-screen personas caused a sensation and turned her from actor to superstar and icon. Lavish, lascivious and wildly eccentric, the films Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich made for Paramount Pictures in the 1930s provide a unique testimony to Hollywood's Golden Age.

The six films that von Sternberg made with Dietrich in Hollywood are presented here in new restorations on Blu-ray for the very first time in the UK. Containing a wealth of new and archival extras – including new appreciations, interviews, audio commentaries, rare films, outtakes and deleted audio, documentaries... and more! This stunning box set is strictly limited to 6,000 units.




August 19/20, 2019

William Friedkin's Cruising (1980) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative supervised by William Friedkin

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New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who is preying on the patrons of the city's underground bars. Captain Edelson tasks young rookie Steve Burns with infiltrating the S&M subculture to try and lure the killer out of the shadows. As he immerses himself deeper and deeper into the underworld, Steve risks losing his own identity in the process.


August 6, 2019

Alfred Sole's Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) on blu-ray from Arrow, from a 2K restoration of the original camera negative

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A young Brooke Shields meets an untimely end in this religious-themed proto slasher par excellence from director Alfred Sole.On the day of her first communion, young Karen is savagely murdered by an unknown assailant in a yellow rain mac and creepy translucent mask. But the nightmare is far from over – as the knife-wielding maniac strikes again and again, Karen's bereaved parents are forced to confront the possibility that Karen's wayward sister Alice might be the one behind the mask.

Bearing influences from the likes of Hitchcock, the then-booming Italian giallo film and more specifically, Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now, Alice, Sweet Alice is an absolutely essential – if often overlooked – entry in the canon of 1970s American horror.




2019 TBD

Robert Altman's Beyond Therapy (1987) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing

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Neurotic New Yorker Bruce (Jeff Goldblum) is a manic bisexual who enjoys a good cry. Equally insecure Prudence (Julie Hagerty) is the uptight writer he meets through the personal ads. Bob Christopher (Christopher Guest) is Bruce's roommate and former lover who is insanely jealous of Prudence. Prudence is also sleeping with her lecherous therapist Stuart (Tom Conti) while Bruce's therapist Charlotte (Glenda Jackson) may be crazier than any of her patients. Add an extremely overprotective mother and a very odd French restaurant, and you have a one-of-a-kind comedy about life, love and the happy endings that lay BEYOND THERAPY. Genevieve Page co-stars in this dysfunctional romantic comedy directed by seven-time Oscar-nominee Robert Altman and co-written by Christopher Durang, based on his smash Broadway play.   



2019 TBD

Serge Gainsbourg's Je t'aime moi non plus (1976) on blu-ray from Kino

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Cult icon Serge Gainsbourg wrote, directed, and scored this tale of doomed love between a lonely truck stop waitress (Jane Birkin) and a hunky garbage truck driver (Joe Dallesandro), whose boyfriend (Hugues Quester) becomes increasingly jealous of the two.





July 30, 2019

Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent (1928) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative

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Adapted from Émile Zola's novel of the same name, L'Argent is an all-too-timely work of filmmaking loosely based off of the 1882 collapse of Union Générale bank, which subsequently crashed the stock market and plunged France into a decade-long recession. Helmed by Marcel L'Herbier, one of the original members of French cinema's avant-garde, the film uses Zola's tale of mid-1800s stock market speculation to comment on the 1920s greed-fueled fascination with global economies. The story centers on the unscrupulous Nicolas Saccard, played by Pierre Alcover, who makes a bad bet, loses his societal standing and his mistress, and tries to recoup it all by backing an aviator with a daredevil plan to cross the Atlantic to exploit raw materials in the New World.

L'Argent is L'Herbier's silent-era swan song. Known for his ability to translate artistic and innovative sensibilities into commercial fare, L'Herbier designed the film to compete with the super-productions coming out of France, United States, and Germany at the time. It is thus bursting with state-of-the-art techniques, a big-name international cast, 1500 extras, and was shot by France's highest paid cameraman at the time, Jules Krüger. L'Herbier made use of a dozen cameramen flying on pulleys and dollies, as well as an unmanned camera that descended and revolved to capture the stock exchange in full frenzy. Even as the pilot embarks on his trans-Atlantic flight, action on the stock market floor intensifies in a montage of Eisensteinian proportions.

L'Argent was forgotten by many until it was reconstructed in the 1970s, and did not receive a proper preservation until the 1990s. Now, thanks to Lobster Films—with the support of Marie-Ange L'Herbier (the director's daughter), the French CNC and SACEM, the original camera negative of this silent classic has been rescanned at a pristine 4K resolution. Flicker Alley's publication of L'Argent features a new score from Olivier Massot, preformed by the National Orchestra of Lyon under the direction of Timothy Brock, and an earlier orchestral adaptation from Rodney Sauer, preformed by the Mont Alto Orchestra. Also included in this deluxe edition is The Making of L'Argent, one of the first-ever behind-the-scenes documentaries of a feature film. This bonus featurette, complete with a new 4K restoration from the original 35mm elements, and two new musical compositions, including a fascinating score by Tempsion, is a masterpiece in itself.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 10, 2019, 11:59:41 PM
August 28, 2019

Roman Polanski's The Tenant (1976) on blu-ray from Shock (Australia)

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A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.





September 24, 2019

Ida Lupino: Filmmaker Collection on blu-ray from Kino

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Never Fear (1950) - from a new 2K restoration

Carol Williams (Sally Forrest, Not Wanted) is a beautiful young dancer whose body, and promising career, is suddenly crippled by polio. Carol's dance partner and fiancé, Guy Richards (Keefe Brasselle, A Place in the Sun), wants to see her through her illness, but the angry, self-pitying Carol prefers to go it alone. Her father (Herb Butterfield, Shield for Murder) takes her to the Kabat-Kaiser Institute for rehabilitation, where she meets fellow patients like Len Randall (Hugh O'Brian, Ambush Bay) on her tough road to recovery. The second feature directed by Ida Lupino (The Hitch-Hiker), who herself had been stricken with polio as an adolescent, Never Fear is a psychologically probing look at coping with chronic illness. Co-written and co-produced by Lupino and her partner Collier Young (The Bigamist) and wonderfully shot in black-and-white by Archie Stout (Fort Apache).


The Bigamist (1953) - from a new 4K restoration from the original camera negative

The Bigamist is an amazingly sympathetic portrait of a figure historically given very short shrift: the title character is not only a two-timer—he's a traveling salesman as well. But, as embodied by that perpetually pressured everyman of the 1950s, Edmond O'Brien, the bigamist comes across as a victim of his own sensitivity. Caught between two complementary spouses, O'Brien's dazed indecisiveness dominates the narrative. As always in Ida Lupino's directorial efforts, a strong social consciousness informs all choices: Joan Fontaine is an upper-crust "lady," reverently attached to her dying father, while Lupino herself plays a tough-talking working woman, waitressing in a cheap Chinese restaurant. But no on-screen triangle could beat the one behind the camera—The Bigamist was produced and written by Collier Young, Lupino's longtime collaborator and recently divorced husband, whose new wife was none other than Joan Fontaine. The wonderful cast includes Edmund Gwenn, Kenneth Tobey and Jane Darwell.


The Hitch-Hiker (1953) - from a new 2K restoration

Beyond its cultural significance as the only classic film noir directed by a woman (screen legend Ida Lupino), The Hitch-Hiker is perhaps better remembered as simply one of the most nightmarish motion pictures of the 1950s. Inspired by the true-life murder spree of Billy Cook, The Hitch-Hiker is the tension-laden saga of two men (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) on a camping trip who are held captive by a homicidal drifter (the great William Talman). He forces them, at gunpoint, to embark on a grim joyride across the Mexican desert. Renegade filmmaking at its finest, The Hitch-Hiker was independently produced, which allowed Lupino and ex-husband/producer Collier Young to work from a treatment by blacklisted writer Daniel Mainwaring, and tackle an incident that was too brutal for the major studios to even consider.


Not Wanted (1940) - from a new 4K restoration

In Ida Lupino's directorial debut Not Wanted, young and naive "unwed mother" Sally Forrest's life spirals out of control after her musician beau (Leo Penn) ditches her for an out-of-town gig, despite the presence of another man (Keefe Brasselle) determined to win her heart. After leaving Warner Brothers, legendary screen actress Ida Lupino co-founded The Filmakers, an independent production company conceived as an alternative to the dominant aesthetics of Hollywood. With the low-key, intimate Not Wanted, Lupino tackled the "taboo" topic of out-of-wedlock pregnancy, immediately venturing into terrain where big-budget mainstream fantasy-spinners feared to tread. In many ways this extraordinary first directorial effort, while uncredited, already bears the stamp of Lupino's unique vision: the remarkable empathy felt for the lead character (Sally Forrest as the dazed, traumatized young waitress thrust into the world of unwed motherhood), the hallucinatory moments (note the amazing subjective camerawork of the childbirth sequence), and the deft location shooting (as Forrest wanders through the bus stations and boarding houses of small-town America



September 23, 2019

Michael Winner's The Girl-Getters aka The System (1964) on blu-ray from Indictor (UK). Region-free. Also coming from Kino.

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The first of six collaborations between two of British cinemas most infamous figures – Oliver Reed (The Damned, The Triple Echo) and Michael Winner (Death Wish) – The System finds both at their creative peak. Reed is leader of a gang of youths, who spend a hot summer season in Devon in pursuit of women – including Jane Merrow (The Appointment) and Barbara Ferris (A Nice Girl Like You). Filmed on location, and shot by the great Nicolas Roeg before he turned his attentions to directing, The System boasts a fine supporting cast, including Julia Foster (Alfie), Harry Andrews (The Deadly Affair), and David Hemmings (Fragment of Fear).



September 23, 2019

Alberto Cavalcanti's They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK). Region-free

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They Made Me a Fugitive is a prime example of British film noir. Trevor Howard plays Clem Morgan, an RAF officer during the war, now unemployed since demobilisation. Turning to the black market, he finds himself embroiled in a life of crime that will lead to prison, a daring escape, and a deadly manhunt. Boasting striking cinematography by Otto Heller, whose later credits would include Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and classic Cold War thriller The Ipcress File, this UK Blu-ray premiere of They Made Me a Fugitive is accompanied by two rare short films, made during Howard's own time in the RAF during WWII, featuring his earliest known on-screen appearances.



September 23, 2019

Jirí Weiss' 90° in the Shade (1965) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK). Region-free

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A rare Anglo-Czech co-production, 90° in the Shade is a fascinating, little-seen drama directed by Jiří Weiss (Romeo, Juliet and Darkness) and co-written by David Mercer (Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment). Set at the height of summer, the film concerns shop assistant Anne Heywood (The Fox), and two men who will affect her life: James Booth (The Man Who Had Power Over Women), the married man with whom she is having affair, and Rudolf Hrusínský (The Cremator), an auditor who has family problems of his own. Filmed simultaneously in English and Czech versions, Indicator is proud to present both cuts on Blu-ray for the first time ever.



2019 TBD

William Asher's Johnny Cool (1963) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing

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A rich divorcee joins a Sicilian hit man sent to Los Angeles by a deported mobster.





Fall 2019 TBD

Frank Perry's Ladybug, Ladybug (1963) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 2K remaster

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The teachers and students of a countryside elementary school are thrown into a panic when an air raid siren goes off, warning them of a imminent nuclear attack. They are unaware that it has gone off by mistake, and separate the children into groups -- one of which is headed by the anxious Mrs. Andrews (Nancy Marchand) -- to take them home. Harriet (Alice Playten) invites her classmates into her family's bomb shelter, but tragedy strikes when she won't allow one of her classmates to enter.



June 30, 2020

Wild Palms (1993) on blu-ray from Kino. Written by Bruce Wagner

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A dark, sexy, noir Los Angeles of the future is the backdrop for Oliver Stone's haunting, sci-fi saga of greed, treason and virtual reality. Harry Wyckoff (James Belushi) is about to become a player in a dark and terrifying battle where everything is at stake and no one is who they seem. Featuring an all-star cast, this story about a cult, a corporation, and a conspiracy to rule the country, is one of the most original movie events in recent history.





October 1, 2019

Barry Sonnefeld's Addams Family Values (1993) on blu-ray from Paramount

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A comical Gothic horror-movie-type family tries to rescue their beloved uncle from his gold-digging new love.





2019 TBD

Stuart McGowan's The Ice House aka The Passion Pit (1969) on blu-ray from Grindhouse Releasing

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A serial killer who works in an ice house murders women, then brings their bodies back to the ice house and stores them there. He also murders his identical twin brother, who is a policeman, and takes his place in the investigation.





October 29, 2019

Chuck Russell's The Blob (1988) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government agents try to cover up the evidence and confine the creature...



August 12, 2019

Powell & Pressburger's Oh...Rosalinda!! (1956) on blu-ray from Network (UK), restored from the original camera negative

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The reappearance of any lost movie is (usually) cause for celebration: but when the movie in question is a 'lost' production from the revered partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, it's time to break open the champagne!

It flows freely enough in this spirited mid-50s musical comedy, which imports the Johann Strauss operetta Die Fledermaus to contemporary Cold War Berlin, under occupation of the four Allied powers. With music from the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and a stellar cast including Michael Redgrave, Anton Walbrook and Anthony Quayle, this sumptuous Cinemascope/Technicolor production might have been expected to repeat the towering success of The Archers' 1951 hit The Red Shoes. Yet Oh... Rosalinda!! proved a box office disappointment, and would be the last of Powell and Pressburger's extravagant musical productions. The partnership came to an amicable end two years later with Ill Met by Moonlight, while Oh... Rosalinda!! quickly disappeared into obscurity and has been seldom seen since its original theatrical exhibition in the autumn of 1955.

Oh... Rosalinda!! continued Powell and Pressburger's run of ballet-inspired movies, arising from Powell's interest in what he referred to as 'composed film'. Beginning with the finale of Black Narcissus, the idea was developed further in The Red Shoes and saw its ultimate expression in 1951's The Tales of Hoffman. Shot entirely on soundstages at Elstree, Oh... Rosalinda!!'s stylised, trompe l'oeil sets suggest an opulent theatrical production and lend the movie a dreamlike, other-worldly atmosphere. With its fruity performances, playful dance numbers and occasionally avant garde cinematography, Oh... Rosalinda!! is an undeniably eccentric piece of work – but its sheer unbridled enthusiasm is hard to resist.


Quote from: Carlos ValladaresWho the what now?!? Powell and Pressburger have always veered towards the cartooned eccentric, but this...this sets world records in drunken craziness. Imagine, if you will, that the dance sequence from The Red Shoes had a car crash with Jacques Tati's Playtime, with Gigi in the front seat and Phantom of the Paradise in the back. And then the AAA driver is Frank Tashlin.

Yadda yadda yadda fantasy becomes reality, yadda yadda yadda artifice artifice. None of those pretty words accurately capture my elated confusion at this thing called a musical.

Vienna here is depicted as a flat comic book—Expressionist libraries, punchy Americans, vodka-slugging Russians, fat German blobs called "a man" multiplied by two in drunken Anton Walbrook stupors, and va-va-voom vamps galore. P&P's soundscape (a mushy, contrived mix of English opera and trick stereo) punches the sides of my head with its strung-out surrealism—did I dream this? Did this really happen? What vicious colors, too; aggressive pinks, mad mauves, nothing is ever allowed to be "kind of expressive" in Oh... Rosalinda!!



August 20, 2019

The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 3 on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group, from 4K restorations

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Seven Chances (1925)

Buster gets word that if he can be married by seven o'clock that evening he will inherit $7,000,000. When his sweetheart refuses, he proposes to everyone in skirts, including a Scotsman. Hopeful still, he advertises for a bride and is horrified to discover 500 would-be=brides hot on his trail in a hilarious chase to the finish.

Battling Butler (1926)

Based on the popular stage musical, Battling Butler stars Keaton as a pampered socialite who pretends to be a famed prizefighter in order to impress his girlfriend's bullying brothers.



2020 TBD

Douglas Sirk's Taza, Son of Cochise (1954) on blu-ray from Kino

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The two sons of Apache leader Cochise (Jeff Chandler) have conflicting views of the white men who trepass on their land; Taza (Rock Hudson) argues for peaceful co-existence but his younger brother Naiche (Bart Roberts) joins Geronimo on the warpath. One of the few Westerns made in the 1950s that attempted to present a positive view of Native Americans, Taza, Son of Cochise was the second of eight movies that Rock Hudson made with director Douglas Sirk. Filmed on location in Utah, the natural setting of the desert is one of the movie's many assets which is vividly captured by the glorious Technicolor cinematography.



Fall 2019 TBD

Michael Winner's The Girl-Getters aka The System (1964) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 2K remaster. Also coming from Indicator (UK)

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In a picturesque village on the sea, resident Tinker (Oliver Reed) has developed a foolproof plan to seduce -- and then ditch -- wealthy ladies. Thanks to his work photographing tourists on summer vacation, he retains the names and addresses of his female clients, which get put in a pool. He and his hoodlum friends then make their selections and go out on the prowl. But the jaded Tinker finds his callous worldview shaken when he becomes smitten with an on-the-ball model (Jane Merrow). Directed by Michael Winner.


September 23/24, 2019

Billy Wilder's The Major and the Minor (1942) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK

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Legendary actress and dancer Ginger Rogers (Monkey Business) stars as Susan Applegate, a struggling young woman who pretends to be an 11-year old girl in order to buy a half-price train ticket. Fleeing the conductors, she hides in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby (Ray Milland, The Big Clock, The Pyjama Girl Case). The Major believes Susan is a child and takes her under his wing, but when they arrive at the military academy where Kirby teaches, his fiancée (Rita Johnson) grows suspicious of Susan's ruse...

Co-written by Wilder and Charles Brackett (Hold Back the Dawn), The Major and the Minor assumes the guise of a light romance narrative in order to cleverly explore themes of identity and deception. Wilder's American debut is presented here for the first time in stunning High Definition, with a selection of illuminating extras.




September 2, 2019

William Dieterle's Dark City (1950) on blu-ray from Arrow UK

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Originally developed as a star vehicle for Burt Lancaster, the lead role in the gripping revenge noir Dark City ultimately became the Hollywood debut of 26-year-old Charlton Heston, already confidently wielding the intense, rugged charisma that would define his career.

Once a decorated war hero, Danny Haley (played by Heston) now leads a group of small-time card sharks who know a sucker when they see one. They cheat their latest mark, Arthur (Don DeFore, Ramrod) out of $5000 at the poker table; but when Arthur hangs himself in despair, his unstable, hulking older brother (Mike Mazurki, Night and the City) seeks violent revenge on the grifters responsible. As the bodies pile up, Danny and his lover, nightclub singer Fran (Lizabeth Scott, Too Late For Tears), flee to Las Vegas... but Danny is about to learn he can't hide from the consequences of his actions.




August 20, 2019

Otto Preminger's Whirlpool (1949) on blu-ray from Twilight Time

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A woman secretly suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an effort to cure her condition. Soon afterwards, she is found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there and seemingly no way to prove her innocence.



July 2019 TBD

Busby Berkeley's Footlight Parade (1933) on blu-ray from Warner Archive, from a new remaster

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Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.



Fall 2019 TBD

René Clair's The Flame of New Orleans (1942) on blu-ray from Kino

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Countess Claire Ledoux has only one thing on her mind – to marry a man of means. Ledoux's engagement to Charles Giraud appears to be smooth seas ahead... until Captain Robert Latour storms into town and takes the wind out of her sails. Though it takes fainting spells and double identities to delay and disguise the truth, the Countess discovers that the greatest treasure of all – a heart of gold – is worth more than a pot of it.



July 29, 2019

Milos Forman's Loves of a Blonde (1965) on blu-ray from Second Run (UK), from a 4K restoration. Region free.

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A subtle and beautifully observed social satire which maintains a remarkable balance between despair and hope, this bittersweet romance from Milo Forman, the multiple Oscar-winning director of Black Peter, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Amadeus, unfolds as a sweetly seductive film but also provides a wry critique of life under totalitarianism. Forman is able to distill universal truths from the simplest of situations and present them with a sharp yet compassionate eye.



August 20, 2019

Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad (1961) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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In this unconventional French drama, a group of unnamed aristocrats interact at a palatial château, resulting in an enigmatic tale told partially in flashback. X (Giorgio Albertazzi) is convinced that he has met the beautiful A (Delphine Seyrig) before in the Czech resort town of Marienbad, and implies they had a romantic relationship. M (Sacha Pitoeff), who may be A's husband or boyfriend, confronts her mysterious suitor, leading to conflict and questions about the truth behind his story.



September 16, 2019

Fred Zinnemann's High Noon (1952) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK), from a 4K restoration

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While the film has become a favourite of U.S. presidents from Eisenhower and Reagan to Clinton, its release was controversial: John Wayne (who had turned down the role) and Howard Hawks hated it, precisely because it was viewed as a thinly veiled allegory for the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings investigating communism at the time. Its politics make it even more intriguing now, but regardless, High Noon is one of the most important — and gripping films — of the 1950s
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 05, 2019, 01:39:06 AM
December 10, 2019

Jacques Rivette's Joan the Maid (1994) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group, from a 4K restoration

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For the first installment of his ambitious yet restrained two-part study, director and co-screenwriter Jacques Rivette surveys the revelatory period where Joan met with royalty, joined the army, and led the French into battle against the English. As Joan, Sandrine Bonnaire gets at the reality behind the legend, showing the matter-of-fact courage of a teenage girl. For both films, costume designer Christine Laurent was additionally co-screenwriter.

The second part of Rivette's diptych, brought leading lady Sandrine Bonnaire a César Award nomination for her powerful performance. Joined in this installment by other excellent French actresses, including Edith Scob, Hélène de Fougerolles, and Nathalie Richard, Bonnaire taps into her character's vulnerability as she plays out windows in the final two years of Joan's life, from the battlefield victory to prison life to the stake.






June 21, 2019

Juraz Herz's Morgiana (1972) on blu-ray from Studio Hamburg Enterprises (Germany). No subtitles. Also available in a box set (https://www.amazon.de/Juraj-Herz-Edition-Marchenhafte-Meisterwerke-Blu-ray/dp/B07RR74MZG?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluraycom04-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07RR74MZG&m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF) along with Herz's films Ferat Vampire and Beauty and the Beast

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Klara and Viktoria are sisters. Their father dies, leaving most of his property to Klara. When Klara becomes involved with a man that her sister loves, Viktoria begins to plot her murder.





August 26, 2019

Karel Kachyna's Ucho aka The Ear (1970) on blu-ray from Second Run (UK), from a new remaster of the original materials. Region free.

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In Karel Kachyna's darkly satirical political-noir, a high-ranking Communist official and his wife begin to suspect that their home has been put under surveillance by the Party. Over one night, the growing tension exposes a bitter fault-line in their relationship, feeding an intense atmosphere of paranoia and dread.  Daring to address the taboos of the Stalinist era, The Ear was banned soon after completion, and remained unseen until the fall of Communism twenty years later. Combining a not-so-private portrait of a disintegrating marriage with a searing blackly-comic critique of totalitarianism, this landmark film is an extraordinary indictment of life under an oppressive system.



2020 TBD

Basil Dearden's The Mind Benders (1963) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 2K restoration

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Following the death of a fellow scientist accused of being a communist spy, Dr. Henry Longman (Dirk Bogarde) works to prove that his colleague had been brainwashed. To do so, Longman subjects himself to experiments in a sensory deprivation tank. This starts to take a heavy toll on his mental health; in particular, it alienates him from his wife. Additionally, his scientific credibility suffers and with it the chances for discovering the truth about his colleague.




August 20, 2019

Nicolas Roeg's The Witches (1990) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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While holidaying at a seaside resort a young boy stumbles upon a witch convention. Based on the book by Roald Dahl.



August 27, 2019

Muscha's Decoder (1984) on blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome

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FM (FM Einheit of Einstürzende Neubauten) has discovered something incredible in the monotonous 'muzak' played through the fast food restaurant H Burger's speaker system: the tracks are laced with subliminal messages designed to ensure complacency and consumerism. Experimenting with his discovery, FM soon realizes that by changing the type of music played, he can manifest a whole range of emotional responses and stir up the populace from their consumerist subordination. But as the diners are emotionally awakened, they become more and more prone to rioting and general social unrest, which puts FM in an increasingly dangerous position, especially when the sinister and mysterious organization behind the the plot to keep the public complacent takes an interest in finding and stopping him...

An underground hit from Germany's punk and new wave infused youth culture of the early 80s, director Muscha's DECODER blends arresting visuals, urban industrial aesthetics, science fiction, and moments of shocking violence, along side searing commentary on late 20th century consumerist culture. Co-starring punk icon Christiane Felscherinow and William S. Burroughs in a supporting role and featuring music by Soft Cell, The The and industrial pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten, Vinegar Syndrome is proud to bring this criminally under-seen masterpiece of German weirdness to Blu-ray, in a brand new 2k restoration of its original 16mm camera negative.




September 17, 2019

Harold Pinter and Peter Hall's The Homecoming (1973) on blu-ray from Kino

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In North London, an all-male beehive of inactivity is ruled with a foul mouth and an iron hand by the abusive Max (Paul Rogers) and his brother, the priggish palace eunuch Sam (Cyril Cusack). Rounding out the precision vulgarity of The Homecoming's "situation tragedy" are the sons, punch-drunk demolition man Joey (Terence Rigby) and the magnificient Ian Holm (Lord of the Rings, The Sweet Hereafter) as pimp-smart Lenny. When, under cover of darkness, the prodigal son Teddy (Michael Jayston) brings his wife Ruth (Vivien Merchant) home to meet his family for the first time, he gets far more and less than he bargained for. To Teddy's rueful discomfort, Ruth's Mona Lisa smile forms the gateway to a labyrinth of Freudian dread, venal family values, and naked neediness that could only come from the mind of Harold Pinter.

Director Sir Peter hall re-renders his original Royal Shakespeare Company London stage triumph as a bleached, claustrophobic delirium that exploits the jagged tempos and seductive tensions of Pinter's best play as no theater staging could. The New York Times declared the American Film Theatre's production of The Homecoming, "a movie of astonishing dynamism." Indeed, director Atom Agoyan (The Sweet Hereafter) went so far as to say, "I often find myself seeking solace from this film. Its poetry and twisted sense of compassion and humor have assuaged many moments of despair and confusion. Other people have religion, I have my copy of The Homecoming."




October 28/29, 2019

John Landis' An American Werewolf in London (1981) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative supervised by John Landis

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American tourists David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. David awakes in a London hospital to find his friend dead and his life in disarray. Retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse (Jenny Agutter, Walkabout) to recuperate, he soon experiences disturbing changes to his mind and body, undergoing a full-moon transformation that will unleash terror on the streets of the capital...



October 29, 2019

Joseph Pevney's Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) on blu-ray from Arrow

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James Cagney plays Lon Chaney in this glossy Hollywood biography, a reverent, melodramatic tribute that focuses on his turbulent private life and rise from vaudeville clown to hard-working Hollywood extra to movie star. Cagney brings to the role passion and compassion that burn through the indifferent direction and show-biz clichés to create a vivid, energetic portrait of the enigmatic cult star who rarely let audiences see his true face.



August 27, 2019

William Wyler's Jezebel (1938) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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A tempestuous Southern belle's willfulness threatens to destroy all who care for her.



October 15, 2019

Thorold Dickinson's Queen of Spades (1949) on blu-ray from Kino

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Anton Walbrook stars as Russian army captain Herman Suvorin, who secretly covets the wealth and position of his fellow officers and becomes obsessed with learning the secrets of the card game Faro. When he hears that the elderly Countess Ranevskaya (Edith Evans) has struck a bargain with the devil to gain the very knowledge he so desires, he worms his way into her household and does all he can to wrestle the knowledge from her - but the price turns out to be higher than he could ever have imagined.



September 10, 2019

Martin Scorsese's Casino (1995) on 4K blu-ray from Universal

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A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast living and fast loving socialite.



October 29, 2019

Martin Scorsese's Kundun (1997) on blu-ray from Kino

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The incredible true story of one of the world's most fascinating leaders - Tibet's Dalai Lama - and his daring struggle to rule a nation at one of the most challenging times in its history.



October 29, 2019

Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Woody Allen's New York Stories (1989) on blu-ray from Kino

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A middle-aged artist obsessed with his pretty young assistant, a precocious 12 year old living in a hotel, and a neurotic lawyer with a possessive mother make up three stories.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 17, 2019, 03:29:07 AM
October 28, 2019

Alan Parker's Birdy (1984) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Based on the acclaimed, 'unfilmable' novel by William Wharton, about a boy who dreams of flying, Alan Parker's elliptical, ethereal film is just as vividly poetic as its source.

Birdy is story of two unlikely boyhood friends, the confident and popular Al (Nicolas Cage – Wild at Heart, Leaving Las Vegas) and Birdy (Matthew Modine – Full Metal Jacket, Stranger Things), awkward, withdrawn, and obsessed with birds. The advent of the war in Vietnam shatters their youth, and they both return irrevocably changed – one physically traumatised, the other emotionally fractured.

This unique and affecting film from director Alan Parker (Midnight Express, Angel Heart), features skilful, highly committed central performances from young stars Modine and Cage (who allegedly had teeth removed for his gruelling role), and a wonderful score by Peter Gabriel. Birdy is a great unsung gem of 1980s cinema, and is presented here in a brand-new, director-approved 2K restoration.




October 28, 2019

Joseph Losey's Time Without Pity (1957) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Following his blacklisting in the McCarthy HUAC hearings, director Joseph Losey (Eva, The Damned, Secret Ceremony) moved to the England in the 1950s. The gritty British suspense thriller, Time Without Pity was the first film he made in the UK under his own name.

In a BAFTA-nominated performance, the great Michael Redgrave (Goodbye Gemini, Connecting Rooms, Dead of Night) stars as an anguished father whose son is convicted of murder and languishing on death row. In a desperate race-against-time, he attempts to prove his son's innocence whilst bringing the real murderer to justice.

With photography by Freddie Francis (The Elephant Man), and a superb supporting cast including Ann Todd (Taste of Fear), Leo McKern (X the Unknown), and Peter Cushing (Corruption, The Beast Must Die), Time Without Pity is brilliantly accomplished slice of Brit-noir, and a potent cry against capital punishment.




October 28, 2019

Howard W. Koch's Badge 373 (1973) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Inspired by the real-life exploits of New York cop Eddie Egan (who was also the basis for Gene Hackman's 'Popeye' Doyle character in The French Connection), Badge 373 is a tough detective thriller, comparable to William Friedkin's more celebrated feature. Duvall (The Godfather, Breakout) delivers a powerfully authentic performance as a brutal New York detective, ruthlessly hunting for the killer of his partner against a backdrop of social upheaval and violent gang wars.



September 16, 2019

Joseph Losey's The Criminal (1960) on blu-ray from Studio Canal (UK)

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Ex-con Johnny (Stanley Baker) used his time in prison wisely – to plan the biggest robbery of his career. The robbery goes smoothly and Johnny goes to bury the money in a field until the heat is off, as agreed with friend and racketeer Mike Carter (Sam Wanamaker) and the rest of the gang.

In a moment of weakness, Johnny pockets five hundred odd pounds from the haul. Coupled with a tip-off from his ex-girlfriend (Jill Bennett) this proves to be his undoing and Johnny is soon back in prison. The rest of the gang try in vain to get the location of the money out of him without success until Mike hits upon the idea of a break-out using Johnny's new love Suzanne (Margit Saad) as bait.




September 16, 2019

Joseph Losey's The Go-Between (1970) on blu-ray from Studio Canal (UK)

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Based on the novel by L.P Hartley and adapted by Harold Pinter, The Go-Between stars Julie Christie as Marian, about to be engaged to Hugh (Edward Fox), a well-bred viscount and her perfect match. Over the course of a sweltering Norfolk summer in 1900, young Leo (Dominic Guard), becomes besotted with the vivacious Marian whilst staying at their house. Innocent of romantic and sexual matters, he unwittingly becomes a pawn in the forbidden romance between her and eminently unsuitable local farmer Ted Burgess (Alan Bates).

As the oppressive heat intensifies so too does Leon's burgeoning adolescent questioning of love, attraction and the rules of the upper class that he doesn't really belong to. Both a beautifully subtle critique of the English class system and a visual masterpiece that perfectly captures the timeless beauty of an English Edwardian summer, The Go-Between won director Joseph Losey the Grand Prix (now the Palme D'Or) at Cannes Film Festival in 1971.




October 28, 2019

Fuller at Fox: Five Films 1951-1957 on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK), limited to 2,000 units

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A towering figure of American cinema, Samuel Fuller was a master of the B-movie, a pulp maestro whose iconoclastic vision elevated the American genre film to new heights. After the major success of THE STEEL HELMET, Fuller was put under contract by Twentieth Century Fox after being impressed by Darryl F. Zanuck's direct sales pitch (other studios offered Fuller money and tax shelters; Zanuck simply told him, "We make better movies.").

Over a six-year period, Fuller would produce some of the best work of his career, (and therefore, some of the best films in American cinema), an uncompromising series of masterpieces spanning multiple genres (the Western, the War film, film noir, the Crime-Thriller) that would establish the director as a true auteur, whose influence continues to be felt today.

Collected here are five films from this fruitful period, all presented from stunning restorations. The impossibly tense Korean-War drama FIXED BAYONETS! (1951); the outrageous and confrontational spy-thriller PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953); the Cold War submarine-actioner HELL AND HIGH WATER (1954); the lushly photographed, cold-as-ice film noir HOUSE OF BAMBOO (1955); and the audacious Western with a feminist twist, FORTY GUNS (1957).




November 19, 2019

Jean-Pierre Meville's Un Flic aka Dirty Money (1972) on blu-ray from Kino

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Coleman (Alain Delon) is a burned-out detective who has seen too much pain. His friend Simon (Richard Crenna) is a brilliant thief who fears no law. Between them is the beautiful woman (Catherine Deneuve) they both love. But when Simon plans the ultimate heist of a train full of mob money, the two men find themselves hurtling towards a final showdown of fate, friendship and betrayal.



September 24, 2019

James Ivory's Quartet (1981) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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A twisted relationship between a wealthy English couple and a young woman they take in, plays out against a stunning recreation of the Golden Age of 1920s Paris. In adapting Jean Rhys's 1928 autobiographical novel, Merchant Ivory achieved an artistic breakthrough that remains one of the team's finest works. In one of her greatest performances, Isabelle Adjani plays the vulnerable but complicated West-Indian Marya, who, after her shady husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins) is imprisoned, finds shelter in the home of a manipulative and lecherous English art patron (Alan Bates) and his painter wife (Maggie Smith). The dynamic between this trio is set against Hemingway's "moveable feast" of café culture and extravagant nightlife, glitter and literati, beneath which lie traces of something sinister.





October 29, 2019

Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life (1946) on 4K blu-ray from Paramount, restored from the original nitrate negative

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George Bailey is a small-town man whose life seems so desperate he contemplates suicide. He had always wanted to leave Bedford Falls to see the world, but circumstances and his own good heart have led him to stay. He sacrficed his education for his brother's, kept the family-run savings and loan afloat, protected the town from the avarice of the greedy banker Mr. Potter, and married his childhood sweetheart. As he prepares to jump from a bridge, his guardian angel intercedes, showing him what life would have become for the residents of Bedford Falls if he had never lived.



September 24, 2019

Roger Corman's A Bucket of Blood (1959) on blu-ray from Olive Signature, from a new 4K remaster

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In honor of its 60th anniversary, this Olive Signature edition of A Bucket of Blood celebrates the film's enduring legacy. Shot in five days on a shoestring budget of $50,000, A Bucket of Blood remains one of the most iconic collaborations between Roger Corman and Dick Miller, and has rightfully earned its "cult classic" status.

With A Bucket of Blood, the multi-talented Roger Corman singlehandedly created his own genre hyphenate: the black-comedy-beatnik-culture-horror film. Dick Miller (Gremlins, The Trip) stars as Walter, a busboy at the hep-cat hangout the Yellow Door Café who dreams of artistic greatness. Inspired by the scribes and artists who surround him, Walter is introduced to the world of sculpture quite literally by accident – thanks to thin walls and a sharp steak knife. From his very first piece – the aptly titled "Dead Cat" – Walter is hailed a genius by the art snob set, a wunderkind who, unbeknownst to his doting devotees, has raised murder to the level of high art. But when the tortured artist turns his creativity towards the human form, he's sure to make their blood run cold.




November 4, 2019

John Gilling's Pickup Alley (1957) on blu-ray from Arrow (UK)

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Spurred on by the murder of his drug-addicted sister by ruthless crime boss Frank McNally (Trevor Howard, Brief Encounter), US agent Charles Sturgis (Victor Mature, Cry of the City) launches a transnational woman-hunt for McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger (Anita Ekberg, Killer Nun, La dolce vita). His investigation takes him on a thrill-ride from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens... A globe-trotting adventure boasting a top-tier international cast, Pickup Alley affords the viewer shockingly frank portrayals of drug addiction; a glamourous travelogue of exotic locations, and intriguing depictions of sleazy villains.



October 15, 2019

Julian Rothman's The Bloody Brood (1959) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new remaster of the original 35mm elements

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Two years before directing the 3-D cult favorite The Mask (1961), Julian Roffman made his feature directorial debut with this early canuxploitation film, The Bloody Brood (1959). When his brother turns up dead after eating a hamburger laced with ground glass, Cliff (Jack Betts) sets out to investigate the murder, venturing into the underground world of beatnik culture and its sinister underbelly of drugs and vice. Peter Falk (TV's Columbo) makes his feature debut as Nico, sinister mentor and drug-dealer to the tuned-in kids of the beat generation.



September 2019 TBD

William Wyler's The Letter (1940) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Six years after exploding to stardom in Of Human Bondage, Bette Davis equaled that excitement with another W. Somerset Maugham role as an adulteress using her sexual wiles to escape a murder conviction in The Letter. The film throbs with sultry tension thanks to Davis, an impeccable supporting cast, atmospheric cinematography and the artistry of three-time Academy Award® winner* William Wyler, Davis' director on Jezebel and The Little Foxes. Nominated for seven Oscars®, including Best Picture, Actress, Director and Supporting Actor, The Letter remains one of Hollywood's most special deliveries, a peerless example of melodrama as movie art.



September 2019 TBD

Robert Wise's The Set-Up (1949) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Over-the-hill boxer Stoker Thompson thinks he can still win a bout despite doubts from his wife and his manager. He goes into his next fight determined to beat his opponent, not realizing his manager has taken money from a tough gambler to have Stoker take a dive.



Quote from: wilder on June 06, 2019, 05:40:20 PMAugust 19/20, 2019

William Friedkin's Cruising (1980) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative supervised by William Friedkin

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New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who is preying on the patrons of the city's underground bars. Captain Edelson tasks young rookie Steve Burns with infiltrating the S&M subculture to try and lure the killer out of the shadows. As he immerses himself deeper and deeper into the underworld, Steve risks losing his own identity in the process.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 22, 2019, 12:50:54 PM
November 18, 2019

Joseph Losey's Secret Ceremony (1968) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Joseph Losey's lurid and often misunderstood drama stars the great Elizabeth Taylor (Suddenly, Last Summer) as an ageing London prostitute who befriends a young woman (Mia Farrow, See No Evil) that reminds her of her long-dead daughter. As the bizarre relationship between the two evolves, the appearance of Robert Mitchum (Cape Fear), as Farrow's abusive stepfather, ignites deep emotions and dark passions.





November 18, 2019

Paul Wegener and Carl Boese's Der Golem (1920) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema, from a 4K restoration of the original film negative

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An iconic early horror masterpiece, Der Golem was Paul Wegener s third attempt at adapting the Golem character for the big screen. Starring and co-directing with Carl Boese, Wegener crafted one of silent cinema s most enduring masterpieces.

In the Jewish ghetto in 16th century Prague, Rabbi Low (Albert Streinruck, Asphalt) creates a forbidding clay Golem (played by director Paul Wegener) to protect his people from the tyrannical Emperor Luhois (Otto Gebuhr). Brought to life with a demon spirit and an amulet placed in the centre of the creature s chest, the Golem is a seemingly indestructible juggernaut, performing acts of great heroism. But when the Rabbi s assistant attempts to control the Golem for selfish gain, it becomes a terrifying force of destruction, rampaging through the ghetto leaving fire and death in its wake.

A landmark film in the horror canon, influencing most notably James Whale s 1931 adaptation of Frankenstein, Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam is also a pre-eminent example of German Expressionism, and an important contribution to the golden age of Weimar Cinema.






October 15, 2019

Roman Polanksi's The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) on blu-ray from Warner Archive, from a new remaster

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A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.



October 29, 2019

Blake Edwards' Days of Wine and Roses (1962) on blu-ray from Warner Archive, from a 4K remaster of the original camera negative

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A San Francisco public-relations hotshot is a "social" drinker...who never stops socializing. His vivacious wife starts drinking to keep him company. They live for good times. But eventually good times turn bad.



November 5, 2019

Hitchcock: British International Pictures Collection (1927-1931) on blu-ray from Kino

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2020 TBD

Vittorio De Sica's Indiscretion of an American Housewife (1953) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes (Jennifer Jones) becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria (Montgomery Clift). As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?



2020 TBD

Preston Sturges' The Great McGinty (1940) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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In a dive south of the border, bartender Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy) stops a young man from committing suicide after a moment of dishonesty, and relates how a moment of honesty brought him down in a flashback. As a young man, McGinty joins a crooked political boss and rises from extortionist to alderman. Urged by the boss to marry his secretary to give respectability to his run for mayor, McGinty agrees -- only to fall in love with his wife and decide to do an honest thing for once in his life.



December 10, 2019

Paul Schrader's Blue Collar (1978) on blu-ray from Kino.

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Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto star in this powerful, critically acclaimed drama about three auto assembly line workers who hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.




Available Now

Douglas Sirk's There's Always Tomorrow (1955) on blu-ray from Elephant Films (France). DVDBeaver review here (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film7/blu-ray_reviews_98/theres_always_tomorrow_blu-ray.htm)

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When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.



Available Now

Robert Altman's Kansas City (1996) on blu-ray from Koch Media (Germany). DVDBeaver review here (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film7/blu-ray_reviews_99/kansas_city_blu-ray.htm)

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A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.



November 12, 2019

Bertrand Blier's Buffet Froid (1979) on blu-ray from Kino

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Buffet Froid has logic that is both twisted and stark: a husband befriends his wife's murderer, a high-ranking official plans his own assassination, a lost knife is found in the belly of a subway passenger. Together with the Chief of Police and a murderer who is afraid of the dark, Gerard Depardieu is drawn into an inescapable complicity of murder, treachery and paranoia which draws him closer to a fateful end.



November 19, 2019

Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977) on 4K blu-ray from Synapse

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An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy gradually realizes that something very sinister is going on at the school.



November 26, 2019

Paul Verhoeven's Robocop (1987) on blu-ray from Arrow, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative

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In the not-too-distant future, a newly transfered Detroit police officer is remade into an indestructible cybernetic cop after being dismembered by a gang of thugs in an abandoned warehouse. Reborn as RoboCop he is programmed to serve and protect the citizens of Detroit and eliminate the rampant crime in the city streets so that a massive city-wide reconstruction project can get under way. But once he has completed his task, he sets his sights on the corruption inside Security Concepts - the corporation that created him.



December 10, 2019

The Anne Bancroft Collection o blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

Pilot Jed Towers (Richard Widmark) encounters the beautiful Nell Forbes (Marilyn Monroe) while staying at a hotel in New York City. Jed pursues Nell, initially thinking she's a woman of means, but comes to learn that she is actually a babysitter when her child charge, Bunny Jones (Donna Corcoran), interrupts a conversation between the two. Soon Jed becomes worried about Nell's mental stability when it appears the woman is physically threatening Bunny.

The Miracle Worker (1962)

Blind and deaf after suffering a terrible fever as a baby, young Helen Keller (Patty Duke) has spent years unable to communicate, leaving her frustrated and occasionally violent. As a last chance before she is institutionalized, her parents (Inga Swenson, Andrew Prine) contact a school for the blind, which sends half-blind Annie Sullivan (Anne Bancroft) to teach Helen. Helen is initially resistant, but Annie gradually forms a bond with her and shows Helen ways of reaching others.

The Pumpkin Eater (1964)

Harold Pinter pens this 'portrait of a bad marriage' drama based on the novel by Penelope Mortimer. Despite her unwillingness to stop having children, Jo Armitage (Anne Bancroft), a thrice-married mother of several children by different fathers, is not exactly cut out for motherhood. Inflicting her existing brood on her third husband, screenwriter Jake (Peter Finch), does little to cement their marriage, and Jake's serial infidelities eventually lead a depressed and isolated Jo to a complete breakdown.

The Graduate (1967)

Shy Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) returns home from college with an uncertain future. Then the wife of his father's business partner, the sexy Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), seduces him, and the affair only deepens his confusion. That is, until he meets the girl of his dreams (Katherine Ross). But there's one problem: She's Mrs. Robinson's daughter!

Fatso (1980)

This boisterous, heartwarming comedy about a man caught between his health, his self-esteem and his appetite, highlights DeLuise's genius for blending pathos and comedy. Bancroft's deft direction brings to uproarious life the joys and struggles of our relationship with food.

All his life, Dominic DiNapoli (DeLuise) has found comfort in food. But when his sister Antoinette (Bancroft) implores him to stop eating himself into an early grave, Dominic begins bouncing from crash diets to the support group "Chubby Checkers" to all manner of binges in between. In the end, Dominic discovers that what he needs most is a steady diet of love — from his family, from a new and lovely neighborhood acquaintance ... and most importantly, from himself.


To Be or Not to Be (1983)

Frederick Bronski (Mel Brooks) and his adulterous wife, Anna (Anne Bancroft), are a pair of hammy actors running a low-rent theater in Warsaw, Poland. When the Nazis invade, the Bronskis find their theater becoming a makeshift refuge for local Jews and a gateway to the Polish underground. Using their limited acting skills, the members of the theater troupe attempt to deceive the Nazis and lead an escape. Meanwhile, a Polish pilot (Tim Matheson) thinks he has found a spy in England.

Agnes of God (1985)

Dr. Martha Livingston (Jane Fonda) is a court-appointed psychiatrist sent to evaluate Sister Agnes (Meg Tilly), a young nun whose infant has been found strangled. With Agnes claiming a virgin conception and having no memory of giving birth, Livingston must distinguish between the lies and the nun's perception-altering faith. Complicating her investigation, Livingston continually clashes with the overbearing Mother Miriam Ruth (Anne Bancroft), who insists that Livingston leave Agnes alone.

84 Charing Cross Road (1987)

New York City bibliophile Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft) writes to the London bookshop Marks & Co in search of some titles she has not been able to turn up locally. Store manager Frank Doel (Anthony Hopkins) responds politely to her chatty letter, and over the course of two decades, a deep, long-distance friendship evolves. Based on Hanff's epistolary memoir and its later two-person stage adaptation, the film version incorporates new characters, including Doel's wife, Nora (Judi Dench).


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 26, 2019, 06:11:49 PM
Quote from: wilder on July 10, 2019, 11:59:41 PMSeptember 24, 2019

Ida Lupino: Filmmaker Collection on blu-ray from Kino

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on October 15, 2019, 11:22:13 PM
wilder i just learned about Grapevine (http://www.grapevinevideo.com/products_main.html) and i don't know what to do about it yet, haven't sampled them thus far. basically they release nonremastered silents on bluray

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 24, 2019, 01:38:14 AM
^ Cool to hear about more of these independent preservation efforts. They seem to be going after the obscure of the obscure.




February 11, 2020

Fred Wolf's The Point (1971) on blu-ray from MVD Visual

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In late 1970, Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson released his groundbreaking album, "The Point!", a thematically brilliant, densely orchestrated concept album packed with more hooks than a meat locker. According to Nilsson himself, "I looked at the trees and realized all the leaves came to points and even the branches came to points. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and even if it doesn't, there's a point to it.'" Produced in 1970, the animated film version of The Point! first aired February 2, 1971, as an ABC Movie of the Week. The film was directed by Academy Award© winner Fred Wolf and produced by Murakami-Wolf Films in association with Nilsson House Music. Complete with story and songs written by Nilsson and narration by Ringo Starr, The Point! is a timeless enchanting fable for the whole family to enjoy!

THE POINT: Years ago there was a place called The Land of the Point, because everything in The Land of the Point had one - the barns, the houses, the cars, everything - even the people. Everyone, that is, except Oblio (Mike Lookinland, "The Brady Bunch"), who was born round-headed. Since he had no point, Oblio - along with his trusty dog, Arrow - was banished to the Pointless Forest. Join them to see what wonders await these two intrepid travelers as they make their way on their amazing, song-filled journey of discovery!






January 28, 2020

Richard Quine's Bell, Book and Candle (1958) on blu-ray from Sony

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Meet Gillan Holroyd (Kim Novak), Greenwich Village's most seductive sorceress. Powerful, glamorous, and a wee bit bored, Gillian knows that witches can't fall in love. But they can have fun... especially if their lover belongs to another woman! So when Gillian discovers handsome new neighbor Shep Henderson (James Stewart) is the fiance of an old college nemesis (Janice Rule), she promptly puts the befuddled publisher under her spell. But while her sex hex may have heated up Shep's heart, it has also unthawed her own, leading to a romantic complication that not even Pyewacket, Gillian's mind-reading cat, could have foreseen.

Presented in eye popping Technicolor transfer that beautifully captures James Wong Howe's stunning cinematography.






2020 TBD

Joseph Strick's The Balcony (1963) on blu-ray Kino, from a 4K restoration

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In an unnamed city, Madame Irma (Shelley Winters) runs a brothel where people explore role-playing and other sexual fantasies. When her police chief lover (Peter Falk) arrives, she learns that a violent revolution is brewing outside and many of the country's leaders have been killed in the uprising. Soon, the brothel's customers and employees are forced to take to the city streets in costume and impersonate the slain leaders in order to help restore sanity.





January 21, 2020

Luis Bunuel's The Brute (1953) on blu-ray from VCI

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A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.



November 5, 2019

Daniel Petrie's Resurrection (1980) on blu-ray from Universal

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Ellen Burstyn experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ability to heal physical infirmities. While most people simply accept her gift, her lover (Sam Shepard) becomes mentally unbalanced and dangerous because she does not place the healings within a religious context.



January 21 2020

Kitten with a Whip (1964) on pressed MOD blu-ray from Universal

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Ann-Margret stars as Jody Drew, a sweet, sexy psycho-babe on the run from the law. She's escaped from a detention center, stabbed a guard and burned the place to the ground. David Patton (John Forsythe) doesn't know all this. He's just a Senatorial candidate trying to do all the right things. But, Jody makes sure that all the wrong things happen. She twists poor David's life into a knot, first threatening him with a rape charge then, with a little help from her friends, kidnapping him for a Mexican joy ride. Kitten with a Whip is so hot it sizzles... so jazzy it swings. It's the cult classic of the century that'll suck you in and knock you out!



March 10, 2020

The Bolshevik Trilogy - Three Films by Vsevolod Pudovkin (1926-1928) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley

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Experience a trilogy of Russian master filmmaker Vsevolod Pudovkin's seminal works: Mother (1926), The End of St. Petersburg (1927) and, in a stunning new 2K remaster furnished by Lobster Films, Storm Over Asia (1928).


After serving alongside his fellow Russians in the first World War, Vsevolod Pudovkin was radically altered by a life-changing screening of D.W. Griffith's Intolerance, inspiring the young man to shift away from his studies in chemistry in order to pursue the cinematic arts.


Pudovkin embarked on his narrative feature debut in 1926 with Mother, regarded by many as a masterpiece of the Russian silent era, and a showcase for Pudovkin's emotive approach to editing. Pudovkin followed Mother's tale of proletariat uprising with the Bolshevik-themed The End of St. Petersburg and the Mongolia-set Storm Over Asia in 1927 and 1928 respectively, dazzling the world with a trio of masterful films centered around this tumultuous and revolutionary period in Russian history.





January 27, 2020

Curtis Harrington's Night Tide (1961) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Presented by Nicolas Winding Refn in a new 4K restoration, Curtis Harrington's acclaimed fantasy-thriller, featuring Dennis Hopper (The Last Movie) in his first starring role, is an offbeat classic of American cinema. Hopper plays a sailor on shore leave, when he meets a young woman (Linda Lawson) who may not be as she seems...

Exclusive to this two-disc set is a bonus Blu-ray devoted to Harrington's short films, encompassing his seven decades as a filmmaker and featuring experimental works, documentaries, and the two adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher that bookended his career.



February 24, 2020

Sidney Gilliat's Endless Night (1972) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK), from a 4K restoration

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The final feature by Sidney Gilliat, Endless Night capped a career that encompassed screenplays for Alfred Hitchcock and Carol Reed, the anarchic St. Trinian'scomedies, and his own directorial gems such as mystery-thriller Green for Danger.

Adapting Agatha Christie's celebrated novel of the same name, the film reunites the co-stars of cult classic Twisted Nerve, Hywel Bennett (The Virgin Soldiers) and Hayley Mills (Take a Girl Like You), and boasts an impressive supporting cast including Britt Ekland (The Wicker Man), Per Oscarsson (A Dandy in Aspic) and George Sanders (All About Eve).




February 17, 2020

Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book (1996) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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In contemporary Japan and Hong Kong, a successful model revives memories of her calligrapher father by having her lovers give her pleasure by writing on her body. An affair with an Englishman leads her to start writing herself, using others as her paper.



February 17, 2020

Dennis Potter's Secret Friends (1991) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Unfairly neglected since its original low-key cinema run, Secret Friends is the only feature to be written and directed by Dennis Potter (Pennies from Heaven, The Singing Detective).

Made shortly after his hugely controversial mini-series Blackeyes, the film centres on a writer, played by Alan Bates (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg), who descends into a kind of madness during a train journey as memories, fantasies and psychotic visions collide.




December 3, 2019

Bruno Nuytenn's Camille Claudel (1988) on blu-ray from Kino

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The story of the troubled life of French sculptor Camille Claudel and her long relationship with legendary sculptor Auguste Rodin. The growth of this relationship coincides with the rise of Claudel's career, helping her overcome prejudices against female artists. However, their romance soon sours due to the increasing pressures of Rodin's fame and his love for another woman.



January 14, 2020

Jack CLayton's Room at the Top (1959) on blu-ray from Kino

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Classic 'kitchen sink drama' from the British New Wave of the 1960s. Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) is an ambitious young man who is tired of slaving away at his job and sets his sights on his boss's daughter, Susan, thinking she will provide a short-cut to the top. Hindered by his working class background, and frustrated by the opposition of Susan's parents, Joe seeks solace in the arms of a lonely older woman named Alice (Simone Signoret). But when he then inadvertently causes Alice's death in a road accident, Joe's whole world begins to unravel.



January 7, 2020

Robert Sidomak's Cobra Woman (1944) on blu-ray from Kino

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Upon discovering his fiancée Tollea has been kidnapped, Ramu and his friend Kado set out for a Pacific isle where all strangers are to be killed on arrival and the inhabitants, who are frequently sacrificed to an angry volcano god, worship the cobra. The island is ruled over by Tollea's evil twin Naja, the Cobra Woman, who, besides having designs on her new prisoner Ramu, also desires to eliminate any competition from her benevolent sister.



October 29, 2019

Jean Renoir's Le Marsellaise (1938) on blu-ray from Kino

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An historical epic set during the French revolution, follows a battalion of citizen soldiers as they gather together to stop aristocratic rule and take down Louis XVI and his foreign-born queen, Marie Antoinette.



2020 TBD

Francesco Rosi's Lucky Luciano (1973) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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A federal narcotics agent (Charles Siragusa) spends years trying to bring deported mob boss Luciano (Gian Maria Volonte) to justice.



November 26, 2019

Preston Sturges' Christmas in July (1940) on blu-ray from Kino

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A workplace practical joke goes awry when an office clerk (Dick Powell), believing he has won a $25,000 prize, takes his girlfriend (Ellen Drew) on an extravagant Christmas shopping spree...in the middle of July! When the truth comes out, he's not prepared for the consequences.



February 25, 2020

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Quai Des Orfevres (1947) on blu-ray from Kino

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When the sleazy movie financier who has been pursuing nightclub performer Jenny Lamour turns up dead, her jealous husband is the prime suspect in Inspector Antoine's investigation for the Quai des Orfèvres, France's Scotland Yard.



December 3, 2019

George Roy Hill's Slaughterhouse Five (1972) on blu-ray from Arrow, from a 4K restoration

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Past, present and future collide in darkly satirical fashion in Slaughterhouse-Five! Based on Kurt Vonnegut's classic 1969 novel, this tale of time travel and alien abduction emerged as part of a wave of more cerebral science-fiction films in the late 60s to early 70s, elevating the genre beyond the B-movie fare of previous decades.

Upstate New York, 1968. Mild-mannered Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks, The Sugarland Express) finds himself "unstuck in time". Traveling back and forth across the entire span of his existence, he experiences key events of his life in a random order, including his formative years, the firebombing of Dresden and finally, at some undefined point in the future, his surreal adventures on a distant planet.




December 2, 2019

Jacques Demy's Model Shop (1969) on blu-ray from Arrow UK

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French auteur Jacques Demy's enchanting and eccentric romantic drama, in which an aimless American architect (Lockwood) pursues Demy's sad-eyed French heroine Lola (Anouk Aimee) across the fractured topography of late-sixties Los Angeles.



December 9, 2019

Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control (2009) on blu-ray from Arrow UK

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Set in contemporary Spain, the story of a mysterious loner--a stranger--whose activities remain meticulously outside the law. He is in the process of completing a criminal job, yet he trusts no one, and his objectives are not initially divulged.



February 24/25, 2020

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Manon (1949) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK

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This masterful adaptation of Prévost's 1731 novel Manon Lescaut marks quite a departure for Henri-Georges Clouzot, the French director lauded for his acclaimed thrillers The Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques.

A classical tragic romance transposed to a World War II setting, Clouzot's film follows the travails of Manon (Cécile Aubry), a village girl accused of collaborating with the Nazis who is rescued from imminent execution by a former French Resistance fighter (Michel Auclair). The couple move to Paris, but their relationship turns stormy as they struggle to survive, resorting to profiteering, prostitution and even murder. Eventually escaping to Palestine, the pair attempt a treacherous desert crossing in search of the happiness which seems to forever elude them. Clouzot's astute portrayal of doomed young lovers caught in the disarray of post-war France wowed the jury of the 1949 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion award.




February 10, 2020

Michael Carné's Hotel du Nord (1938) on blu-ray from Arrow UK

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Directed by Marcel Carné, the master of poetic realism, Hôtel du Nord is a haunting, fatalistic melodrama which sits alongside Le Quai des brumes and Le Jour se lève as one of the auteur's greatest pre-war works.

Adapted from an acclaimed novel by Eugène Dabit, the son the proprietors of the real Hôtel du Nord (situated on the banks of the Canal St. Martin in Paris), Carné's film tells of Renée (Annabella) and Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Day for Night), doomed lovers who plan to end their lives at the humble guesthouse. When Pierre shoots Renée but can't pull the trigger on himself, he flees with help of a seedy criminal, Edmond (Louis Jouvet, Quai des Orfèvres) and his mistress Raymonde (Arletty, Les Enfants du paradis). Renée makes a surprise recovery and returns to the hotel to work as a maid, but when Edmond falls in love with her and Pierre returns from prison, the stage is set for tragedy.




March 3, 2020

Robert Altman's Kansas City (1996) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK

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Robert Altman's jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930's Kansas City.



March 30, 2020

The Alejandro Jodorowsky Collection on blu-ray from Arrow, from 4K restorations

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Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of world cinema s most fabled iconoclasts. Often venerated as the ultimate cult film director, the Chilean artist shot to prominence as a 1970s counter-cultural icon thanks to the masterful movies presented on this collection: Fando y Lis, El Topo and The Holy Mountain. These extraordinary films, presented here alongside his stunning new film Psychomagic, bedazzled audiences with their unique aesthetic, contrasting violence and beauty; the sublime and the sacrilegious; the mystical and the macabre...

Jodorowsky s first feature, Fando y Lis, tells of young Fando and his paraplegic sweetheart Lis s journey through a series of surreal scenarios to find the enchanted city of Tar. An acid-western packed with vivid imagery, El Topo stars Jodorowsky as a master-gunfighter who duels with four sharp-shooting adversaries on his journey across a desert dreamscape. In The Holy Mountain, Jodorowsky plays The Alchemist, a guru who guides a troupe of pilgrims on a quest to ascend the Holy Mountain in search of spiritual enlightenment. Jodorowsky s new cinematic experience, Psychomagic, A Healing Art, explores the directors radical therapeutic work.




January 28, 2020

Roy William Neill's Black Angel (1946) on blu-ray from Arrow, from a new restoration of the original elements

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When the beautiful singer Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling) is slain in her chic apartment, the men in her life become suspects. There is Martin Blair (Dan Duryea, Scarlet Street), her alcoholic musician ex-husband, nursing a broken heart; there is the shady nightclub owner Marko (Peter Lorre, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon) who has been sneaking around her place, and there is Kirk Bennett (John Phillips), the adulterer who found his mistress s dead body and fled the scene. When Bennett is convicted and sentenced to death, his long-suffering wife Catherine (June Vincent) joins forces with the heartbroken pianist Martin Blair to uncover the truth...



March 24, 2020

Philip Ridley's The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995) on blu-ray from Arrow, from a 2K restoration of the original camera negative

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Described by critic Mark Kermode as an "extraordinary filmmaker" and "one of the UK's most imaginative talents", visionary British director Philip Ridley followed his sensational debut The Reflecting Skin with another surreal incursion into the dark heart of the 'American dream' in The Passion of Darkly Noon.

Darkly Noon (Brendan Fraser) is the sole survivor of a military-style attack on an isolated religious community. Stumbling through a forest in a daze, he is rescued by the free-spirited and enigmatic Callie (Ashley Judd). Darkly finds himself feeling strange new desires for Callie as she nurses him back to health... only to watch her jump into the arms of her returning mute lover Clay (Viggo Mortensen). Lost in the woods with only his fundamentalist upbringing to make sense of his unrequited passions, Darkly soon descends into an explosive and lethal rage.






December 10, 2019

Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984) on blu-ray from Lionsgate

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In this lavish, 1930s-era drama, Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide. Now, Francis Ford Coppola's extraordinary film is brought to vivid new life in The Cotton Club Encore.

Featuring never-before-seen scenes and musical sequences that deepen and enrich the storylines, this remastered and beautifully restored version represents Coppola's fully realized vision of The Cotton Club.




November 19, 2019

Vincente Minelli's The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) on blu-ray from Warner Archive, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative

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An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director, and a writer to achieve success.



December 17, 2019

Robert Florey's Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) on blu-ray from Scream Factory

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Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe, Murders In The Rue Morgue is a haunting atmospheric thriller heavily influenced by the German Expressionist classic, The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, and features Bela Lugosi in one of his most sinister roles!

In 19th Century Paris, the maniacal Dr. Mirakle abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship. He constantly meets failure as the abducted women die. Medical student Pierre Dupin discovers what Mirakle is doing too late to prevent the abduction of his girlfriend Camille. Now he desperately tries to enlist the help of the police to get her back..




November 19, 2019

Howard Hawks' Scarface (1932) on blu-ray from Universal

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One of the most influential movies of all time, the original Scarface is an exciting story of organized crime's brutal control over Chicago during the Prohibition era. Academy Award® winner Paul Muni gives an electrifying performance as Tony Camonte, an ambitious criminal with a ruthless drive to be the city's top crime boss. Produced by the legendary Howard Hughes and directed by Howard Hawks, this compelling tale of ambition, betrayal and revenge is a groundbreaking masterpiece that influenced all gangster films to follow. Filmed during the "pre-code" era before censorship shaped the way movies were made, "this powerful gangster film is the most potent of the 1930s" (Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide).



December 17, 2019

Ben Stiller's The Cable Guy (1996) on blu-ray from Sony

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A lonely and disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend, but his target, a designer, rejects him, with bad consequences.



December 17, 2019

James Ivory's The Remains of the Day (1993) on blu-ray from Sony

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In post-World War I England, head butler Stevens has devoted his life entirely to service. With careful and unfailing devotion, he adheres to a system of old-fashioned propriety. His worldview is challenged and complicated by a vivacious housekeeper who falls in love with him and for whom he cares deeply, though he is unable to directly express it. Stevens must also quietly contend with the fact his master, Lord Darlington, is an influential, yet naïve gentleman under the spell of Nazi sympathizers.



March 24, 2020

Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that they both could not have foreseen.



January 27, 2020

Fritz Lang's Cloak and Dagger (1946) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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From legendary director Fritz Lang comes an engrossing spy thriller years ahead of its time. Gary Cooper is a US scientist, parachuted into war-torn Nazi Germany to obtain military secrets. But the deeper he probes, the deadlier his mission becomes...especially when his involvement with mysterious Lilli Palmer catapults him into an intense maelstrom of danger, betrayal and murder.


March 30, 2020

Buster Keaton: Three Films 1924-1926 on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK), from 4K restorations

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Between 1920 and 1929, Buster Keaton created a peerless run of feature films that established him as "arguably the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies". Collected here are three further films from that era; The Navigator (1924), Seven Chances (1925) and Battling Butler (1926). The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present all three films from stunning 4K restorations in their UK debuts on Blu-ray.



March 16, 2020

Sidney Lumet's Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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Author Eugene O'Neill gives an autobiographical account of his explosive homelife, fused by a drug-addicted mother, a father who wallows in drink after realizing he is no longer a famous actor and an older brother who is emotionally unstable and a misfit. The family is reflected by the youngest son, who is a sensitive and aspiring writer.



March 16, 2020

John Huston's Beat the Devil (1953) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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A quartet of international crooks -- Peterson, O'Hara, Ross and Ravello -- is stranded in Italy while their steamer is being repaired. With them are a British couple, the Dannreuthers. The four are headed for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but actually to buy land supposedly loaded with uranium. They are joined by others who apparently have similar designs



November 11, 2019

John Huston's Moby Dick (1956) on blu-ray from Studio Canal UK

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Ahab longs to hunt down and kill Moby Dick, the great white whale who tore off Ahab's leg years ago. Unfortunately, his maniacal fixation spreads to the crew and ultimately leads to disaster.



March 16, 2020

Robert Bresson's Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945) on blu-ray from Artificial Eye (UK)

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A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute.



January 13, 2020

Bryan Forbes' Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) on blu-ray from Network (UK)

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Fraught with the kind of tension that makes breathing difficult, this frighteningly eerie story of a middle-aged couple unable to cope with the loss of their own child has won numerous awards. Myra is a mentally unstable medium that believes if she kidnaps a child of wealthy parents, she can prove her psychic abilities by 'finding' the child. Award-winning performances from Kim Stanley as the disturbed Myra and Richard Attenborough as Billy the meek, apologetic husband combine with tension packed location cinematography to make this thriller an enduring portrait of madness.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on December 25, 2019, 03:18:00 PM
Quote from: wilder on May 07, 2019, 06:32:33 PM
August 27, 2019

Philippe Mora's documentary Brother Can You Spare a Dime? (1975) on blu-ray from VCI

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Brother Can You Spare a Dime? is the chronicle of an unforgettable piece of American history - twelve crazy, painful seesaw years, from the Wall Street crash to Pearl Harbor.

By juxtaposing contemporary news and documentary footage with extracts from Hollywood classics such as Golddiggers, Lady Killer and Wild Boys of the Road, director Philippe Mora offers us an immediate, intricate and evocative scrapbook of the 1930's. Somehow there are uncanny echoes of some of our current preoccupations: strikers at Ford's, mass unemployment, breadlines, vigilante gangs and failing fortunes...

Two heroes emerge: James Cagney, the rough diamond, hood-with-a-heart-of-gold star of the Movies, the little man who won't be beaten, and Franklin D. Roosevelt himself: tough yet benign, stepping into the breach with confidence and determination, yet imperceptibly crumpling under the weight of responsibility as he leads America through her most difficult years until the final humiliation of Pearl Harbor.

Songs and images stick in the mind: fortunes dwindle, the small man's savings disappear, even the banks go bust; men lose their jobs and join the breadlines to the haunting title song of Brother, can you spare a dime?; hobos and okies take to the road while Bessie Smith sings Nobody loves you when you're down and out; a ragged child huddles against the bleak landscape as Woody Guthrie sings the Dust Bowl Blues; an abandoned cat shivers on the ledge of a flooded home... Only Hollywood offers an escape from reality for these are the Golden Years of Bogart, Cooper and Dietrich. We glimpse Gable and Vivien Leigh at the screen test of Gone with the Wind; George Raft dances a languorous tango with Carole Lombard; Shirley Temple dimples and Chaplin jokes while Busby Berkeley fills the screen with his lavish extravaganzas...and the marathon dancers stumble on... As Ginger Rogers says: It's the depression, dearie...





figured you'd covered this one. just heard about it again another way and i'm like dying to see it now. same director as:

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QuoteFrom Academy Award Winning Producer David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express, The Killing Fields) comes the most controversial documentary (that was BANNED at the Cannes Film Festival) about Hitler ever made. Utilizing intimate color home movie footage shot by Eva Braun, it presents the private life of a dictator, going on picnics and joking with friends, displaying an affable face to the man labeled as the Devil incarnate by history. The film interweaves rare propaganda films, which presented Hitler as he wanted to be seen, consoling war widows and frolicking with young children. Director Philippe Mora combines these materials together to form an unintentional autobiography of Hitler's rise and fall, from the formation of the Nazi state through the end of WWII. Mora lets the images speak for themselves, leading to misinterpretations and its bans in Germany and Israel. But it is one of the most fearsome anti-Nazi films ever made. As the opening credits state, ''If Hitler is dehumanized and shown only as a devil, any future Hitler may not be recognized, simply because he is a human being.''
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on January 21, 2020, 01:35:29 AM
Quote from: wilder on February 08, 2019, 08:30:51 PM

RKO Classic Romances Collection on blu-ray from Kino

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-Millie (1931) Dir: John Francis Dillon | Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman & Joan Blondell
-Kept Husbands (1931) Dir: Lloyd Bacon | Clara Kimball Young, Joel McCrea & Ned Sparks
-The Lady Refuses (1931) Dir: George Archainbaud | Betty Compson & John Darrow
-The Woman Between (1931) Dir: Victor Schertziner | Lili Damita & Lester Vail
-Sin Takes a Holiday (1930) Dir: Paul L. Stein | Constance Bennett, Basil Rathbone & Zasu Pitts


currently wanting this while it's part of a 3for2 special at amazon

update: i bought it with Blue Velvet and Panique
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 10, 2020, 02:42:38 AM
April 20, 2020

Jack Garfein's The Strange One (1957) aka End as a Man on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Ben Gazzara stars as Cadet Sgt. Jocko DeParis, a sadomasochistic bully in a Southern military academy who uses his magnetism and the school's own military code to manipulate his fellow cadets and officers. When he engineers the expulsion of a hated rival, his reign of terror begins to unravel.

Adapted from Calder Willingham's novel, End as a Man, this uncompromising exposé of the practice of hazing in a military college features a number of actors from New York's famed Actors Studio – including Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle, Clifton James, and George Peppard – each at the start of their lengthy careers in film.



May 18, 2020

Bill Norton's Cisko Pike (1972) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Just released from prison for drug-dealing, Cisco Pike dreams of making a comeback. A once-famous rock singer, he finds his music contacts are more interested in his dope connections than his new songs.



May 18, 2020

Melvin Van Peeble's The Watermelon Man (1970) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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A bigoted, white salesman (played by stand-up comedian Godfrey Cambridge) wakes up one morning to find he has become black. Although it has been somewhat overshadowed by Melvin Van Peebles' next film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Watermelon Man has never felt more relevant than it does today.



May 18, 2020

Joseph L. Anderson's Spring Night Summer Night (1967) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK), from a new 4K restoration

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Jessica, the eldest daughter of a coal miner-turned-farmer, has a fling with her half-brother Carl, which complicates things more when she becomes pregnant.

With its non-professional cast, this sensitive drama, which explores the intimate relationship between a coal-miner's daughter and her half-brother, is American independent cinema's closest relation to Italian Neorealism. Presented by Nicolas Winding Refn in a beautiful new restoration, Joseph L Anderson's film played international festivals in 2019 to great acclaim.




April 14, 2020

Alain Corneau's Serie Noire (1979) on blu-ray from Film Movement, from a new 4K restoration

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Franck, a door-to-door salesman married to Jeanne, is looking for a customer who owes money when he meets Mona, a seventeen-year-old who lives with her rich and hateful aunt. Franck's wife leaves and his boss has him arrested for embezzlement. But Mona pays back the money and suggests he kill her aunt to get hold of her fortune.... An adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel A Hell of a Woman.





June 30, 2020

John Harrison's Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) on blu-ray from Scream Factory

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Three chilling tales with a connecting story. In "Lot 249", a college student is menaced by a mummy. "Cat From Hell" finds the millionaire owner of the titular feline hiring a hitman to kill the pet. Finally, in "Lover's Vow" an artist suffers severe retribution after taking a vow of silence after witnessing the murder of a friend.





2020 TBD

Bruno Barreto's Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976) on blu-ray from Film Movement

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Dona Flor (Sonia Braga) marries Vadinho (José Wilker), who is very handsome and passionate, but doesn't work or offer much else. She is able to make money for the family by cooking for her neighbors, but she gambles away most of the money. One day, Vadinho suddenly dies. Dona misses marriage, so she marries Dr. Teodoro Madureira (Mauro Mendonça). He is the opposite of Vadinho -- he has a great career, but he lacks passion. While Dona Flor is married to Teodoro, her late husband's ghost appears.





March 24, 2020

Downtown 81 (2000) on blu-ray from Metrograph Pictures and Kino Lorber

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In 1981, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O'Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti innovator and noise music artist who'd just begun to exhibit his paintings, hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie about the bombed out bohemia that they knew, with a script by O'Brien, Bertoglio directing, and Basquiat, a naturally compelling presence, starring. Left incomplete due to money problems and assembled for release in 2000, Downtown 81, which follows Basquiat trying to move a painting while hustling for a place to sleep, became a window on a lost world of life on the margins and crazy creative ferment.

Starring Jean-Michel Basquiat. Featuring Fab 5 Freddy, Deborah Harry. With musical performances by DNA, James White and the Blacks, Kid Creole and the Coconuts.






March 24, 2020

William Wyler's Dodsworth (1936) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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A retired auto manufacturer consents to a European vacation to please his vain wife, who is in denial about her age and uses the trip as a chance to flirt with other men.



April 28, 2020

James Ivory's The Europeans (1979) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group, from a new 4K restoration

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A pivotal film for Merchant Ivory, who demonstrate great intelligence and wit with their faithful adaptation of Henry James' story of an encounter between a family or pre-Civil War New Englanders and their European cousins, whose sophisticated ways dazzle and attract some family members and scandalize others.

The fortune-hunting Baroness Eugenia Muenster (Lee Remick) arrives with her artistic and dashing brother Felix (Tim Woodward) for a transatlantic visit with their cousins, the Wentworths. Less calculating than his sister, the bohemian, happy-go-lucky Felix falls for Gertrude Wentworth (Lisa Eichhorn), who is already being courted (and bored) by the earnest Unitarian Minister suitor Mr. Brand (Norman Snow). Eugenia meanwhile sets her sights on the reserved and attractive Robert Acton (Robin Ellis), who is torn between his captivation with the Baroness and his distrust of her European worldliness. Delightful, elegant and superbly acted, this film inaugurated Merchant Ivory's long winning streak of period literary adaptations.






2020 TBD

John Landis' Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) on blu-ray from Kino

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An episodic spoof of late-night television, set around a showing of the fictional sci-fi B-movie "Amazon Women on the Moon.





April 21, 2020

G.W. Pabst's The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927) on blu-ray from Kino

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An epic of the Weimar cinema, The Love of Jeanne Ney follows a young French woman's struggle for happiness amid the political turbulence and corruption of post-World War I Europe. A tour-de-force for director G.W. Pabst (Diary of a Lost Girl, Pandora's Box), is a stunning cinematic experiment that never fails to surprise the viewer as it races towards its exhilarating conclusion.



April 28, 2020

F.W. Murnau's Tartuffe (1925) on blu-ray from Kino

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The most gifted visual storyteller of the German silent era, F. W. Murnau crafted works of great subtlety and emotional complexity through his absolute command of the cinematic medium. Known for such dazzling films as Nosferatu (1922), The Last Laugh (1924), Faust (1926), and Sunrise (1927), Murnau was also drawn to more intimate dramas exploring the dark corners of the human mind. In Tartuffe (Herr Tartüff), he revisits Moliére's fable of religious hypocrisy, in which a faithful wife (Lil Dagover) tries to convince her husband (Werner Krauss) that their morally superior guest, Tartuffe (Emil Jannings), is in fact a lecherous hypocrite with a taste for the grape. To endow the story with contemporary relevance, Murnau frames Moliére's tale with a modern-day plot concerning a housekeeper's stealthy efforts to poison her elderly master and take control of his estate.



April 14, 2020

Paul Wegener & Carl Boese's The Golem (1920) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration of the German release version

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In 16th-century Prague, a Jewish rabbi creates a giant creature from clay, called the Golem, and using sorcery, brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution...

Widely recognized as the source of the Frankenstein myth, the ancient Hebrew legend of the Golem provided actor/director Paul Wegener with the substance for one of the most adventurous films of the German silent cinema. One of the greatest achievements of the legendary UFA Studios, it remains an undeniable landmark in the evolution of the horror film.




May 12, 2020

The Barbara Stanwyck Collection on blu-ray from Kino

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Internes Can't Take Money (1937)
Dr. Kildare (Joel McCrea) saves a gangster's (Lloyd Nolan) life and helps an ex-convict (Barbara Stanwyck) find her child. Directed by Alfred Santel

The Great Man's Lady (1942)
As Hoyt City prepares to erect a statue to its founding father, Hannah, a 109-year-old widow, recounts her touching rags-to-riches life story to a young biographer. Directed by William A. Wellman.

The Bride Wore Boots (1946)
A steeplechase horse called Albert loves a Southern breeder's (Barbara Stanwyck) husband (Robert Cummings), a writer who hates horses. Directed by Irving Pichel.



May 26, 2020

Joan Tewkesbury's Old Boyfriends (1979) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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A suicidal psychologist (Talia Shire) travels the country seeking boyfriends (Richard Jordan, Keith Carradine) from her past.



April 7, 2020

Victor Halperin's Supernatural (1933) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 2K master

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After her brother's death, Roma Courtney (Carole Lombard) becomes the heiress to his fortune. When fake psychic Paul Bavian (Alan Dinehart) claims to have a message from Roma's dead brother, he coaxes Roma into participating in a séance. Although Roma's fiancé, Grant (Randolph Scott), first believes the séance is nothing more than a scam, he eventually realizes that the vengeful spirit of an executed murderer (Vivienne Osborne) has possessed Roma's body.



April 7, 2020

Ernst Lubitsch's Angel (1937) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K remaster

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A British diplomat's (Herbert Marshall) wife (Marlene Dietrich) goes to Paris and falls for an American (Melvyn Douglas) who knows her husband.



2020 TBD

James Whales' The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933) on blu-ray from Kino

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When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.



2020 TBD

Jack Webb's Dragnet (1954) on blu-ray from Kino

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Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and Officer Frank Smith (Ben Alexander) are Los Angeles Police Department detectives, and they need every bit of skill they have to solve their latest case: the shooting death of low-end bookie Miller Starkie. While initial evidence points to gangster Max Troy (Stacy Harris) and his trigger-man, Chester Davitt, Friday and Smith have trouble getting an indictment. Only through their own tenaciousness can they make sure justice is served.



April 28, 2020

John Schlesinger's Billy Liar (1963) on blu-ray from Kino

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A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.



May 5, 2020

John Boulting's Brighton Rock (1947) on blu-ray from Kino

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Roy Boulton directs this classic adaptation of the Graham Greene novel detailing the activities of a group of thugs in 1930s Brighton. Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) is the head of a gang of small time crooks who make their money from a protection racket centred around Brighton race course. Pinkie is known for his short fuse and brutality, so his murder of a rival, Fred (Alan Wheatley), is very much in character. Pinkie believes, nonetheless, that he has got away with the crime until the promptings of a suspicious local woman, Ida (Hermione Baddeley), threaten to have the case reopened. Since only one person can identify him as the murderer, the waitress, Rose Brown (Carol Marsh), Pinkie comes up with an ingenious solution - marry Rose to stop her testifying against him. But will things go to plan?



April 28, 2020

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) on blu-ry from Shout Factory

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Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene and Dave Moss are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering who did it. Based on David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play.



May 26, 2020

Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter (1978) on 4K Blu-ray from Shout Factory

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One of AFI's Top 100 Films of All Time, The Deer Hunter follows a group of Pennsylvania steelworkers from their blue-collar lives, hunting in the woods of the Alleghenies, to the hell of Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Academy Award® winners** Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken star in this unforgettable saga of friendship and courage. Experience the brutality of war and the depths of emotional strain on the human spirit in this extraordinarily powerful film classic.



April 6, 2020

David Lynch's The Elephant Man (1980) on 4K blu-ray from StudioCanal UK, from a new 4K restoration approved by David Lynch

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A stunning new 4K restoration of THE ELEPHANT MAN, with both picture and sound overseen by revered director David Lynch, this release is the perfect celebration of the films 40th anniversary. Starring Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt, THE ELEPHANT MAN is an extraordinary and intensely moving true story of bravery and humanity. John Merrick (John Hurt) is The Elephant Man, forced into circus sideshows and spurned by society because of the disfiguring disabilities he was born with. Rescued by a well meaning surgeon (Anthony Hopkins), he tries to escape a life of prejudice and cruelty as he tries to fit into a world ruled by Victorian sensibilities. Beautifully shot in black and white by the incomparable Freddie Francis, THE ELEPHANT MAN is an unforgettable story of human dignity and survival.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 17, 2020, 04:23:50 AM
June 22, 2020

Robert Siodmak's Criss Cross (1949) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK), from a 4K master struck from the original camera negative

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Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster – Novecento, Birdman of Alcatraz) is a hardworking armoured car driver with a fatal attraction to his ex-wife Anna (Yvonne De Carlo – The Munsters), who's now married to notorious hoodlum Slim Dundee (Dan Duryea – Winchester '73). Unable to stay away from her, Steve has a secret tryst with Anna ... only to be discovered by Dundee. To cover up their affair, Steve convinces Dundee that he only met with Anna to get Dundee's help in robbing an upcoming payroll shipment he will be driving. The hood falls for the ruse, which triggers a series of harrowing events that ultimately lead to violence and death.





June 22, 2020

Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair (1948) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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As she investigates the morale of American troops, Phoebe is cynically wooed by fellow Iowan Captain John Pringle (John Lund), who is trying to cover up his affair with Nazi-tainted chanteuse Erika von Schlütow (Marlene Dietrich)



May 26, 2020

J.L. Anderson's Spring Night Summer Night (1967) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley, from a 4K restoration and reconstruction of the film. Also coming from Indicator in the UK.

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Italian Neorealism meets the coal-mining country of southeast Ohio in this little-seen wonder of 1960s, American independent cinema. Director J.L. Anderson, a film professor at the University of Ohio, utilized non-professional actors, on-location photography, a shoestring budget, and a passionate knowledge of international film to create what Richard Brody of The New Yorker calls a "tense, myth-drenched drama of liberation and retribution."

Carl (Ted Heimerdinger) and Jessie (Larue Hall) are half-siblings who feel trapped by the existential and economic pressures of living in the small mining town of Canaan, Ohio. Their shared rebellion soon takes on the form of an illicit love affair depicted in interwoven sequences of lusty poeticism and ethnographic vérité. When Jessie becomes pregnant, the tension between the couple's youthful vitality and the dire realities of rural society leads to consequences both despairing and hopeful.

Bumped from its premiere slot at the 1968 New York Film Festival to make room for John Cassavetes' Faces, the fate of Spring Night Summer Night was nearly sealed when its original distributor insisted that it be recut as an exploitation film under the title Miss Jessica Is Pregnant. Fortunately, thanks to the brilliant restoration efforts of Peter Conheim, Ross Lipman, and filmmaker Nicholas Winding Refn—along with the generous support of Refn's byNWR—the film was scanned in 4K resolution from the 35mm camera negative, and carefully reconstructed according to J.L. Anderson's original vision.






July 15, 2020

Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) on blu-ray from Arrow (UK)

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During World War II, British soldier Jack Celliers is captured by Japanese forces and held in a prison camp by the honor-bound Capt. Yanoi. Yanoi and gruff Sgt. Hara become intrigued with Celliers' open defiance in the face of their staunchly old-world ideas about cowardice and shame. Meanwhile, a translator, Lt. Col. John Lawrence, attempts to find common ground between British and Japanese beliefs.





April 28, 2020

Robert Wise's Blood on the Moon (1948) on blu-ray from Warner Archive. One of Scorsese's favorites.

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Robert Wise is at the helm as Robert Mitchum, Robert Preston, and Barbara Bel Geddes star in this taut Western thriller about a gunslinging drifter who realizes he's been hired to be a villain. Out on the Texas frontier, Jim Garry (Mitchum) rides into town, quickly getting caught in a simmering confrontation between homesteaders and cattle ranchers. After accepting employment from an old mercenary friend, Tate Riling (Preston), Garry comes to realize that Riling has been manipulating the tensions between rancher John Lufton (Tom Tully) and the local settlers in a bid to swindle the Luftons out of their livestock. Garry becomes torn between his conscience and his greed until he finds himself falling for John Lufton's daughter, the formidable Amy (Bel Geddes). Soon, the two old friends will face off in a bloody showdown from which only one will leave alive. Based on the novel Gunman's Chance by Luke Short.







April 21, 2020

John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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"An army post in peacetime is a dull place." But beneath the smooth surface of military routine, a deadly tension mounts between the Pendertons: he a hidebound career officer wrestling with inner demons, she a caged lioness needful of love, whatever the source. Their off-kilter relationship plays out under the voyeuristic gaze of a soldier soon to become the focal point of tragedy.

This 2-disc set presents Reflections in a Golden Eye in both of its forms: the original "gold"-hued version of the film, as legendary director Huston intended, and the full-color general theatrical release version. Both have been newly remastered especially for this release.








August 11, 2020

David Jacobson's Dahmer (2002) on blu-ray from MVD Marquee, from a 4K master struck from the original camera negative supervised by director David Jacobson

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One of America's most notorious serial killers was Jeffrey Dahmer, a Wisconsin sex offender whose exploits included murdering and dismembering 15 boys and storing their body parts in his freezer. Dahmer, in turn, was later murdered by an inmate during his incarceration. Jeremy Renner stars in this biographical drama that humanizes the killer to a surprising degree and explores the mental state that caused him to commit such horrific acts.



June 30, 2020

Wild Palms (1993) on blu-ray from Kino

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A dark sexy, noir Los Angeles of the future is the backdrop for Oliver Stone's haunting, sci-fi saga of greed, treason and virtual reality. Harry Wyckoff (James Belushi) is about to become a player in a dark and terrifying battle where everything is at stake and no one is who they seem. Featuring an all-star cast, this story about a cult, a corporation, and a conspiracy to rule the country, is one of the most original movie events in recent history. 



June 16, 2020

Karl Reisz's Isadora (1968) on blu-ray from Kino

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This biography of modern-dance pioneer Isadora Duncan (Vanessa Redgrave) details the performer's tumultuous life. The film reveals how the beautiful, outspoken and graceful American-born dancer rejected ballet and moved to Europe to pursue a freer form of movement. Duncan's many love affairs are also heavily featured, most notably her relationship with Paris Singer (Jason Robards), an heir to the Singer sewing-machine fortune, and the volatile Russian writer Sergei Yesenin (Ivan Tchenko).



May 5, 2020

Basil Dearden's Pool of London (1951) on blu-ray from

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Merchant sailor Dan MacDonald (Bonar Colleano) has a lucrative sideline in smuggling black market goods ashore. While docked in London, MacDonald and his best friend, Johnny Lambert (Earl Cameron), get mixed up with a gang of ruthless jewel thieves, who hire MacDonald to smuggle their loot out of the country. Complications arise when Earl falls for a charming but pernicious young woman named Pat (Susan Shaw), and is charged with a murder he did not commit.



May 19, 2020

Basil Dearden's The Captive Heart (1946) on blu-ray from Kino

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In 1940, Czech soldier Capt. Hasek (Michael Redgrave) is being pursued by the Nazi secret police. To conceal his true identity, he pretends to be a dead British soldier named Capt. Geoffrey Mitchell. But to keep the lie going, he must also write to Mitchell's wife, Celia (Rachel Kempson), as her dead husband from the POW camp where he's imprisoned. Meanwhile, Hasek's fellow prisoners are beginning to suspect that he is not who he claims to be, and so he must convince them that he's not a spy.



June 9, 2020

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 2K restoration

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Screen legends Joan Fontaine (Rebecca, Suspicion, The Bigamist) and Burt Lancaster (Desert Fury, I Walk Alone, The Train) star in Kiss the Blood off My Hands, a classic film noir about fate and love amongst the most unlikely individuals. Former POW Bill Saunders (Lancaster), now living in England, is scarred with unstable and violent tendencies. After killing a man in a bar fight, he flees the scene and manages to find cover in the home of Nurse Jane Wharton (Fontaine), who agrees to take him in and believes his story that the killing was an accident. Now in love, Nurse Wharton tries to secure Saunders a job delivering medical supplies when he's released from prison after serving time for fighting with a police officer. Things take a turn, however, when a racketeer (Robert Newton, Odd Man Out) who witnessed Saunders' murder threatens to turn him into the police unless he agrees to assist in a crime. Beautifully shot in glorious black-and-white by the great Russell Metty (Touch of Evil, The Lady Gambles) and stylishly directed by Norman Foster (Journey into Fear, Woman on the Run).



Summer 2020 TBD

Sidney J. Furie's The Ipcress File (1965) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 4K restoration

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Tasked with investigating the kidnappings and brainwashed reappearances of top scientists, including Dr. Radcliffe (Aubrey Richards), the insubordinate British spy Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) navigates his way through criminals, secret agents, and his superiors (Nigel Green, Guy Doleman). While attempting to bring in the suspect Bluejay (Frank Gatliff), Palmer discovers a mysterious audiotape labeled "IPCRESS," an inconspicuous, but ominous, piece of evidence.



May 19, 2020

Frank Capra's American Madness (1932) on blu-ray from Sony

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During the Depression, the bank owned by generous Dickson (Walter Huston) is barely staying afloat, and things get worse when $100,000 is lifted from the vault. Fingers are pointed at reformed crook Matt (Pat O'Brien), who got a job and a fresh start from Dickson. The innocent Matt can clear his name by admitting that on the night of the robbery he was breaking up a tryst between Dickson's wife and another teller. But this revelation may crush Dickson, and Matt's conscience plays tug-of-war.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 27, 2020, 12:50:31 AM
2020 TBD

Phillip Borsos' The Grey Fox (1982) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative. Shot by Frank Tidy (The Duellists)

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After decades in prison, stagecoach robber Bill Miner (Richard Farnsworth) emerges in 1901 a free man without a place in 20th century society...until he sees The Great Train Robbery and is inspired to once again do what he does best.





June 9, 2020

Ildikó Enyedi's My 20th Century (1989) on blu-ray from Kino, from a (2K or 4K?) restoration

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Awarded the Camera d'Or for best first feature at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, Hungarian trailblazer Ildikó Enyedi's My 20th Century is a luminous, unconventional fairy tale. Two twins, Lili the anarchist and Dóra, a luxurious woman of loose morals (both played by the young Polish actress Dorotha Segda), are separated as young girls. Their lives proceed on opposing tracks until their paths reconnect on the Orient Express with Mr. Z. (Tarkovsky mainstay Oleg Yankovsky) who loves them jointly. Defiantly in pursuit of happiness and in retreat from the "mass murdering century," they are all entranced by Thomas Edison's inventions and drunk on the miracle of existence. Among the greatest of cinematic debuts, My 20th Century introduced the world to Enyedi (On Body and Soul), who remains a vital, distinctive artist into the 21st century.





May 19, 2020

Paul Mazursky's Enemies: A Love Story (1989) on blu-ray from Sony

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Herman Broder (Ron Silver), a Holocaust survivor living in New York City and struggling with depression after his ordeals in the war, makes his living ghostwriting for a rabbi. Herman is married to Yadwiga (Margaret Sophie Stein) but is also having an affair with Masha (Lena Olin), a married woman. Things grow even more chaotic when Herman's first wife, Tamara (Anjelica Huston), who he thought had died in the war, shows up in New York as well. Based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer.



May 26, 2020

Louis Malle's Atlantic City (1980) on blu-ray from Paramount. Unfortunately this looks to be a BD-R.

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Atlantic City is revitalized as a resort when gambling is legalized. But the new industry also brings unsettling changes. For Lou (Burt Lancaster), 40 years a bodyguard-boyfriend to aging beauty queen Grace (Kate Reid), his number-running sideline escalates to mob involvement.



June 2, 2020

Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975) on 4K blu-ray from Universal

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When a seaside community finds itself under attack by a great white shark, three men embark on a quest to kill it before it strikes again.



May 12, 2020

Michael Curtiz's The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) on blu-ray from Warner Archive, newly restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation

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Bodies are mysteriously disappearing all over town, and a new wax museum has just opened. Is there a connection? But of course! In this horror classic, Fay Wray (King Kong) stars as the intended next victim of a mad wax sculptor obsessed with her resemblance to one of his prior creations. Glenda Farrell plays a quintessential wisecracking newspaper reporter, and noted actor Lionel Atwill is the deranged artist who loses his studio to a fire set by his partner. Filmed in the early Two-Color Technicolor® process, The Mystery of the Wax Museum was considered a lost film for decades, until a well-worn print was discovered nearly 50 years ago. Thanks to the meticulous new restoration presented on this disc, the film can now be experienced as intended.



Summer 2020 TBD

Allison Anders' Grace of My Heart (1996) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing

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Philadelphia teenager Edna Buxton (Illeana Douglas) wins a talent contest during the early rock 'n' roll era, changes her name to Denise Waverly and moves to New York City to make it big. Though she flops as a recording artist, fast-talking record producer Joel Millner (John Turturro) recognizes her songwriting talent and teams her with struggling songsmith Howard Caszatt (Eric Stoltz). The ups and downs of Denise's career parallel the tumult of the 1960s pop scene.



June 30, 2020

Airplane! (1980) on blu-ray from Paramount, from a new 4K restoration

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This spoof comedy takes shots at the slew of disaster movies that were released in the 70s. When the passengers and crew of a jet are incapacitated due to food poisoning, a rogue pilot with a drinking problem must cooperate with his ex-girlfriend turned stewardess to bring the plane to a safe landing.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 07, 2020, 10:35:47 AM
June 28, 2020

Jack Fisk's Raggedy Man (1981) on blu-ray from Kino

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While World War II rages overseas, a divorced mother of two, Nita Longley (Sissy Spacek), struggles to makes ends meet as a telephone operator in small-town Texas. As the subject of disdainful gossip due to her divorce, Nita faces a lonely existence of ostracism, where only the unscrupulous approach her -- often with ill intent. When she befriends Teddy (Eric Roberts), a sailor on leave, her situation improves, but he's soon sent to war. Once again, Nita must face her plight alone.





July 28, 2020

George Miller's Lorenzo's Oil (1992) on blu-ray from Kino

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True-life drama of a father and mother who battled against the odds to save their son's life. Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate: five-year-old Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease, but the Odones' persistence and faith leads to the cure which saves their boy and re-writes medical history. Directed by George Miller, and starring Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov, Kathleen Wilhoite, and Gerry Bamman.

Quote from:  Letterboxd user Les_VampiresHollywood Man: Okay George this is really simple Oscar bait stuff. Just show the parent's being super sad, slap some ugly makeup on the kid, and film in flat lighting and we'll all have Oscars by next year.

George Miller: Sounds good. I had a thought though. What if when the father learns of the disease we flash giant words super-imposed over his face and then have him collapse down the stairs clutching his chest like a Greek tragedy?

Hollywood Man: Oooookay sure, but again it doesn't need to be that compli-

George Miller: And what if the mother is in church and we have this massively high angle that tracks down right to her eye level as she looks up as if we're God and she's questioning why her?

Hollywood Man: George this all sounds really-

George Miller: And the music can be this operatic tome by Ennio Morricone based on the darkest movements by Mozart and Brahms!

Hollywood Man: ...look George do you just want to make a new Mad Max movie or what?

George Miller: Eventually, but first let me tell you about this script I'm writing about a talking pig.

Quote from: Andrew JohnsonMiller ping-pongs between the macabre and melodrama with such deftness that the film feels like as much of a miracle as its titular medicine. The style is too tonally inconsistent. This should not work, and yet, in Miller's hands, it does.

The first act is so brutal and uncomfortable that I nearly turned it off. Miller presents the disease as something akin to a demonic spirit, a foreign invader that twists and contorts the body into something unrecognizable.





July 28, 2020

Michael WInner's The System aka The Girl-Getters (1964) on blu-ray from Kino. Also available from Indicator (UK)

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In a picturesque village on the sea, resident Tinker (Oliver Reed) has developed a foolproof plan to seduce -- and then ditch -- wealthy ladies. Thanks to his work photographing tourists on summer vacation, he retains the names and addresses of his female clients, which get put in a pool. He and his hoodlum friends then make their selections and go out on the prowl. But the jaded Tinker finds his callous worldview shaken when he becomes smitten with an on-the-ball model (Jane Merrow).





June 2, 2020

Frank Simon's The Queen (1968) on blu-ray from Kino

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More than 40 years before RuPaul's Drag Race, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag. The film takes us backstage to kiki with the contestants as they rehearse, throw shade, and transform into their drag personas in the lead-up to the big event. Organized by LGBTQ icon and activist Flawless Sabrina, the competition boasted a star-studded panel of judges including Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, and Terry Southern.. But perhaps most memorable is an epic diatribe calling out the pageant's bias delivered by Crystal LaBeija, who would go on to form the influential House of LaBeija, heavily featured in Paris Is Burning (1990). A vibrant piece of queer history, The Queen can now be seen in full resplendence thanks to a new restoration from the original camera negative.





June 30, 2020

G.W. Pabst's Paracelsus (1943) on blu-ray from Kino

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A physician, alchemist, and spiritual guru, Paracelsus (1493-1541) was one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of science. And, like its subject, this 1943 film is shrouded in mystery, even though it was directed by one of the supreme stylists of the German cinema: G.W. Pabst. Werner Krauss (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) stars as the Swiss-born scientist, who faces the seemingly impossible task of protecting the German people from a coming plague, and calming a rising tide of mass hysteria. Despite being called "a remarkably interesting film" by The New York Times's Vincent Canby (when it received its belated U.S. premiere in 1974), Paracelsus continues to be overlooked, along with most all of the films made in Germany during World War II. With fresh eyes, however, we can see that Paracelsus is not a propaganda film, but the work of an oppressed artist attempting to convey a humanist, possibly subversive message under the gaze of Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels.



June 9, 2020

Reinhold Schünzel's Victor and Victoria (1933) on blu-ray from Kino

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In this dazzling musical romance, a young woman (Renate Müller), unable to find work as a music hall singer, partners with a down-and-out thespian (Hermann Thimig) to revamp her act. Pretending to be a man performing in drag, Victoria becomes the toast of the international stage. But she soon finds that her playful bending of genders enmeshes her personal and professional life in a tangle of unexpected complications. Produced in the final days of the Weimar Republic, Victor and Victoria received limited exposure in the United States, and is today best known by Blake Edwards's 1982 remake and the 1995 Broadway production. Viewers will be delighted to discover that the original is every bit as charming and outrageous, reminiscent of the sly sex comedies of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder.)



June 2, 2020

Michael Winner's The Mechanic (1972) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing, from a new 2K restoration

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Arthur Bishop (Charles Bronson) is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes on one of his victim's sons, Steve McKenna (Jan-Michael Vincent), as his apprentice. Arthur puts him through a rigorous training period and brings him on several hits. As Steven improves, Arthur worries that he'll discover who killed his father.



May 18, 2020

Toshio Matsumoto's Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) on blu-ray from BFI (UK), from Cinelicious' 4K restoration. Hope is this new disc will solve the encoding issues present on the US blu-ray release.

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This kaleidoscopic masterpiece, one of the most subversive, intoxicating films of the 60s and a classic of queer cinema, is a headlong dive into a dazzling unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas. 

Toshio Matsumoto, one of Japan's leading experimental filmmakers, bends and distorts time, and freely mixes documentary interviews, Brechtian film-within-a-film asides, Oedipal premonitions of disaster, his own avant-garde shorts (eight of which are included on this release), and even on-screen cartoon balloons. Trans actor Peter gives an astonishing performance as Eddie, hostess at Bar Genet – where she's ignited a violent love-triangle with reigning drag queen Leda for the attentions of club owner Gonda.






April 20, 2020

Michael Elliott's The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968) on DVD from BFI (UK)

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In the near future, society is split into two strata: The 'low-drives' make up the zombie-like majority, mentally anaesthetized by an incessant diet of television, largely consisting of pornography. Television, and by extension the masses, is controlled by the 'high-drives', an educated class who remain servile through their perpetual quest for better ratings and audience subjugation. When the low-drives start to become increasingly uninterested in the programming on offer, co-ordinator Ugo Priest (Leonard Rossiter) ends up accidentally happening upon a new entertainment concept.....reality television.

First broadcast in 1968, The Year of the Sex Olympics is one of the most original pieces of television drama ever written and would foreshadow the likes of Big Brother and the phenomenon that is Love Island.


Five ways The Year of the Sex Olympics predicted the way we live now - BFI (https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/year-sex-olympics-nigel-kneale)





June 29, 2020

Takeshi Kitano Collection (1989-1993) on limited edition blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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Violent Cop
QuoteDetective Azuma ('Beat' Takeshi) is a renegade cop who frequently resorts to violence and unethical methods to get results. While investigating a series of drug-related homicides, Azuma discovers that his friend and colleague is supplying drugs from within the police force. After his colleague is murdered and his sister is kidnapped, he breaks all the rules to dish out his particular form of justice.

Boiling Point
QuoteWhen the mild mannered Masaki (Yûrei Yanagi) falls foul of the Yakuza he decides to buy a gun to defend himself. He heads to Okinawa where he forms an unlikely partnership with Uehara ('Beat' Takeshi) who has his own reasons for wanting revenge.

Sonatine
QuoteMurakawa ('Beat' Takeshi), an established and ruthless gangster, is sent to intervene in a gang war on the island of Okinawa. When the situation takes a turn for the worse, Murakawa and his men are forced to retreat into hiding, but it's not long before their enemies track them down. A final and breathtaking showdown becomes inevitable.


May 11, 2020

Fritz Lang's The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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After enjoying fantastic success with Fritz Lang s two-part "Indian Epic" in 1959, German producer Artur Brauner signed the great director to direct one more film. The result would be the picture that, in closing the saga he began nearly forty years earlier, brought Lang s career full-circle, and would come to represent his final celluloid testament by extension: his final film masterpiece.

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse [Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse] finds that diabolical Weimar name resurfacing in the Cold War era, linked to a new methodology of murder and mayhem. Seances, assassinations, and Nazi-engineered surveillance tech all abound in Lang s paranoid, and ultimate, filmic labyrinth.

One of the great and cherished "last films" in the history of cinema, The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse provides a stylistic glimpse into the 1960s works on such subjects as sex-crime, youth-culture, and LSD that Lang would unfortunately never come to realise. Nonetheless, Lang s final film remains an explosive, and definitive, closing statement.




August 3, 2020

Mike Hodges' Flash Gordon (1980) on 4K blu-ray and standard blu-ray from StudioCanal (UK), from a 4K restoration

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Prepare to save the universe with the King of the Impossible! Alex Raymond's famous comic strip blasts to life in the timeless sci-fi cult adventure Flash Gordon!

Although NASA scientists are claiming the unexpected eclipse and strange "hot hail" are nothing to worry about, Dr. Hans Zarkov (Topol) knows better, and takes football star Flash Gordon (Sam Jones) and travel agent Dale Arden (Melody Anderson) with him into space to rectify things. They land on planet Mongo, where the despot Ming the Merciless (Max von Sydow) is attacking Earth out of pure boredom. With the help of a race of Hawkmen, Flash and the gang struggle to save their home planet.






Summer 2020 TBD

Jeff Lieberman's Blue Sunshine (1978) on 4K blu-ray from Camera Obscura (Germany)

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A bizarre series of murders begins in Los Angeles, where people start going bald and then become homicidal maniacs. But could the blame rest on a particularly dangerous form of LSD called Blue Sunshine the murderers took ten years before?

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 13, 2020, 02:48:29 PM
December 15, 2020

Jerry Schatzberg's Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970) on blu-ray from Kino

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A distraught fashion model (Faye Dunaway), once the best, recalls her empty life of alcohol, drugs and sex.





I have the French blu-ray (https://www.amazon.fr/Puzzle-of-a-Downfall-Child-Blu-ray/dp/B006CP512O?tag=bluraycom05-21&linkCode=xm2&m=A1X6FK5RDHNB96) of this movie, it's worth seeing.



July 14, 2020

Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform (1931) on blu-ray from Kino

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After the death of her mother, teenage Manuela (Hertha Thiele) is sent off to a boarding school run by the autocratic Fräulein von Nordeck (Emilia Unda). Initially withdrawn from the other girls due to her grief and anger at being sent away, Manuela is drawn out of her shell by the beautiful and sympathetic young teacher Elizabeth von Bernburg (Dorothea Wieck). But when Manuela's fondness for her teacher turns into a romantic attachment, it becomes a school-wide scandal.



July 21, 2020

István Szabó's Mephisto (1981) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supersedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.





July 21, 2020

István Szabó's Confidence (1980) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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This powerful drama from Oscar®-winning director István Szabó explores the nature of love, trust, loyalty and betrayal borne under the weight of exceptional circumstances. János and Katalin are strangers but forced to pose as husband and wife to hide their links to the anti-Nazi resistance in Budapest 1944. The intensity and intimacy of this relationship forces them to passionately confront their past, challenging what they believe and in whom they can place their trust.



July 21, 2020

István Szabó's Colonel Redl (1985) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.



May 19, 2020

David Miller's Lonely Are the Brave (1962) on blu-ray from Kino

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A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.



August 25, 2020

Larry Yust's Trick Baby (1972) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing, based on the novel by Iceberg Slim

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The son of a black prostitute and a white client, Johnny "Folks" O'Brien (Kiel Martin) spends his childhood in the ghetto hearing the hateful name "trick baby," only to realize as an adult just how useful it is to pass for white. Together with his mentor, con man "Blue" Howard (Mel Stewart), Folks succeeds in ripping off many of Philadelphia's wealthy whites with a clever diamond scam. The streak ends, however, when his latest victim turns out to be the father of a local Mafioso.



July 20, 2020

Three Edgar Allan Poe Adaptations Starring Bela Lugosi on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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This trio of classic 1930s horror films Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Black Cat, and The Raven is also distinguished by a trio of factors regarding their production. Most notably, each film is based on a work by master of the macabre Edgar Allan Poe. Part of the legendary wave of horror films made by Universal Pictures in the 30s, all three feature dynamic performances from Dracula's Bela Lugosi, with two of them also enlivened by the appearance of Frankenstein's Boris Karloff. And finally, all three benefit from being rare examples of Pre-Code studio horror, their sometimes-startling depictions of sadism and shock a result of being crafted during that brief period in Hollywood before the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code's rigid guidelines for moral content.

Director Robert Florey, who gave the Marx Brothers their cinema start with The Cocoanuts in 1929, worked with Metropolis cinematographer Karl Freund to give a German Expressionism look to Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932), with Lugosi as a mad scientist running a twisted carnival sideshow in 19th-century Paris, and murdering women to find a mate for his talking ape main attraction. Lugosi and Karloff teamed forces for the first time in The Black Cat, a nightmarish psychodrama that became Universal's biggest hit of 1934, with Detour director Edgar G. Ulmer bringing a feverish flair to the tale of a satanic, necrophiliac architect (Karloff) locked in battle with an old friend (Lugosi) in search of his family. Prolific B-movie director Lew Landers made 1935's The Raven so grotesque that all American horror films were banned in the U.K. for two years in its wake. Specifically referencing Poe within its story, Lugosi is a plastic surgeon obsessed with the writer, who tortures fleeing murderer Karloff through monstrous medical means.

Significant and still unsettling early works of American studio horror filmmaking, these three Pre-Code chillers demonstrate the enduring power of Poe's work, and the equally continuous appeal of classic Universal horror's two most iconic stars.





June 29, 2020

Lindsay Anderson's Britannia Hospital (1982) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Mick Travis is a reporter who is about to shoot a documentary on Britannia Hospital, an institution which mirrors the downsides of British Society...

The concluding installment in Lindsay Anderson's Mick Travis trilogy, following If.... and O Lucky Man!, Britannia Hospital finds the filmmaker casting a sourly satirical eye over Thatcher's Britain. With a phenomenal cast at his disposal – everyone from Alan Bates (Georgy Girl) and Joan Plowright (Time Without Pity) to Robin Askwith (Confessions of a Window Cleaner) and Mark Hamill (Star Wars) to Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) reprising the role of Travis – Anderson trains his sights on royalty, trade unions, the media, and scientific research in typically uncompromising fashion.


Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 02, 2020, 05:08:59 PM
Quote from: wilder on July 10, 2019, 11:59:41 PMJune 30, 2020

Wild Palms (1993) on blu-ray from Kino. Written by Bruce Wagner

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A dark, sexy, noir Los Angeles of the future is the backdrop for Oliver Stone's haunting, sci-fi saga of greed, treason and virtual reality. Harry Wyckoff (James Belushi) is about to become a player in a dark and terrifying battle where everything is at stake and no one is who they seem. Featuring an all-star cast, this story about a cult, a corporation, and a conspiracy to rule the country, is one of the most original movie events in recent history.


Resized caps from the forthcoming blu-ray. DVDBeaver review here (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film9/blu-ray_review_125/wild_palms_blu-ray.htm).

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 03, 2020, 09:53:37 PM
August 25, 2020

Douglas Sirk's There's Always Tomorrow (1955) on blu-ray from Kino

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When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.



August 25, 2020

Douglas Sirk's All I Desire (1953) on blu-ray from Kino

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Actress Naomi Murdoch returns home to the husband and children she abandoned ten years before. She was invited by her daughter Lily to see her in the Riverdale high school play. Her arrival wakes up old conflicts and sets off new emotional storms.



August 18, 2020

Budd Boetticher's The Red Ball Express (1952) on blu-ray from Kino

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Tense World War II tale based on the true story of a special truck convoy created to transport urgent supplies to General Patton's army situated inside German-occupied France. Charles Drake (No Name on the Bullet) and screen great Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field). During the height of the war, General Patton's Third Army is in desperate need of supplies after a successful invasion of Paris. An elite military truck force is established to deliver goods to the soldiers. Members of this platoon must not only withstand minefields and Nazi resistance, they must also learn to overcome their personal and racial prejudices towards one another. Red Ball Express is a gripping, powerful action-thriller based on true events. Hugh O'Brian (Ambush Bay) and Jack Kelly (Young Billy Young) lead the strong supporting cast. 



Juy 28, 2020

William Wyler's The Shakedown (1929) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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Dave Roberts (James Murray) is a professional boxer better at losing in fixed matches than in knocking out his opponents. He turns up in towns and is part of a group who sets up corrupt boxing matches. Dave's life on the margins changes after he meets a mother and son. As he begins to care for them, he ultimately has to decide whether to continue in his low-life ways or turn the tables on those who have been forcing him to participate in them.



August 25, 2020

Cecil B. DeMille's Sign of the Cross (1932) on blu-ray from Kino

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Claudette Colbert (Bluebeard's Eighth Wife) and Charles Laughton (Witness for the Prosecution). Ancient Rome comes to life on a grand scale in the epic spectacular The Sign of the Cross. In the year 64 A.D., the corrupt and maniacal Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar (Laughton) torches the city so he can blame the ensuing destruction on the unsuspecting Christians. Meanwhile, Roman Prefect Marcus Superbus (March) falls for an innocent and beautiful Christian maiden, Mercia (Elissa Landi, The Count of Monte Cristo). When the seductive and wicked Empress Poppaea (Colbert) learns that she has a romantic rival for Marcus's attentions, she conspires with Nero to send all Christians to a chilling death. Filled with some of the most outrageous and breathtaking scenes ever filmed, including the infamous "milk bath," this pre-Code classic is a dynamic testament to DeMille's visionary style. The great Karl Struss (Sunrise) received an Oscar nomination for his stunning cinematography.

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August 11, 2020

Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva (1981) on blu-ray from Kino

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A young mail carrier, Jules (Frederic Andrei), becomes entranced with the voice of American diva Cynthia Hawkins (Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez). She doesn't believe in being recorded, but Jules secretly records her singing on a tape. His recording gets mixed up with another tape that incriminates a police chief, who is working with the mob. Jules quickly becomes the target of mob gangsters, and he must find a way to get himself out of the situation alive.



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June 30, 2020

David S. Ward's Cannery Row (1982) on blu-ray from Warner Archive, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative

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The canneries stand empty now that the sardines have abandoned the waters, but life continues on the Row. Here, you'll find Doc (Nick Nolte), a marine biologist and community mentor; Suzy (Debra Winger), a good-hearted newcomer gone astray; and Mack, Hazel and all the boys working hard at not working. Here, you'll also find the love of a man for a woman, of a writer for a place and of life for more life. Based on works by John Steinbeck and written for the screen and directed by The Sting's David S. Ward, Cannery Row – from its lyrical John Huston narration and saggy blues to its top-drawer performances, waterfront sets and whimsical charm – is an atmospheric gem, one that has its world "spinning in greased grooves."



July 28, 2020

Jack Hazan's A Bigger Splash (1973) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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An intimate and innovative film about English-born painter of Southern California, artist David Hockney, during the multi-year creation of one of his towering achievements, "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)". Hazan creates an improvisatory narrative-nonfiction hybrid featuring Hockney, as well as his circle of friends, capturing the agonized end of the lingering affair between Hockney and his muse, Peter Schlesinger.





July 21, 2020

Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Universal

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A slave leads a violent revolt against the Imperial Rome at its glorious height. Filmed in Technirama.



October 13, 2020

Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream (2000) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Lionsgate

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Twin stories about different kinds of addiction: A young man (Jared Leto) who along with his best friend (Marlon Wayans) and girlfriend is addicted to heroin, dreams of transcending his life of hustling and owning a store in New York City, while his mother (Ellen Burstyn), depressed and obsessed by television and diet pills envisions her chance to shine again on a game show.



August 25, 2020

Lucio Fulci's The New York Ripper (1982) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Blue Underground

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A blade-wielding psychopath is on the loose, turning The Big Apple bright red with the blood of beautiful young women. As NYPD detectives follow the trail of butchery from the decks of the Staten Island Ferry to the sex shows of Times Square, each brutal murder becomes a sadistic taunt. In the city that never sleeps, he's the killer that can't be stopped! 

Quote from: blu-ray.comThe boutique label [Blue Underground] has also confirmed that it is finalizing five brand new 4K restorations of genre films, and that going forward select new releases will debut as 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray combos.



June 29, 2020

Shivendra Singh Dungarpur's  CzechMate: In Search of Jirí Menzel (2018) on blu-ray from Second Sight (UK)

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Jiří Menzel's debut film Closely Observed Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky, 1966) made a profound impression on young film student Shivendra Singh Dungarpur. Years later, he invited Menzel to meet him in a Prague café - and so began a conversation and a friendship that has culminated in this epic, seven-and -a-half-hour film that not only explores the deceptively whimsical comic films of Jiří Menzel, but all of the artists who strove to make films that whispered subversion and rebellion often at the risk of their livelihood, or even their lives.

Expansive, affectionate and deeply passionate, CzechMate – In Search of Jiří Menzel is an extraordinary documentary film, a labour of love by archivist and filmmaker Dungarpur. Its depth and scale are unparalleled in the study of the Czechoslovak cinema.

Filmed over a period of seven years, Dungarpur and his team interviewed filmmakers, actors, crew members, writers, historians and critics who had been touched by the New Wave - including Věra Chytilová, Miloš Forman, Vojtěch Jasný, Ivan Passer, Ken Loach, Juraj Jakubisko, Jaromír Šofr, Andrzej Wajda, Dušan Hanák, Štefan Uher, Jan Němec, and Miroslav Ondříček among them.




May 27, 2020

Antole Litvak's Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) on blu-ray from Imprint / Via Vision (Australia)

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Whilst on the telephone, an invalid woman overhears what she thinks is a plot to murder her.



August 26, 2020

Sidney Lumet's Night Falls on Manhattan (1996) on blu-ray from Imprint / Via Vision (Australia)

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A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.



August 26, 2020

George Stevens' A Place in the Sun (1951) on blu-ray from Imprint / Via Vision (Australia)

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George Eastman is a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of a beautiful socialite. But a factory girl with a dark secret threatens Eastman's professional and romantic prospects. Consumed with fear and desire, Eastman is ultimately driven to a desperate act of passion that unravels his world forever.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 03, 2020, 10:03:17 PM
William Wyler's The Shakedown (1929) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration
QuoteDave Roberts (James Murray) is a professional boxer better at losing in fixed matches than in knocking out his opponents. He turns up in towns and is part of a group who sets up corrupt boxing matches. Dave's life on the margins changes after he meets a mother and son. As he begins to care for them, he ultimately has to decide whether to continue in his low-life ways or turn the tables on those who have been forcing him to participate in them.

because i immediately want to see it i realize i have a thing for boxing melodramas. my generation both missed out on that and actually had De Palma's Snake Eyes, which is you know a thriller melodrama

wilder have you gotten into Cecil B. DeMille? i confess i'm afraid of him because i don't think i'll like him. although he made expensive movies i worry he's a poorman's von Sternberg

Diva for sure yeah, criterion put out Betty Blue it's true. i've been kind of waning on wonderful movies with beautiful people in my recent years
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 03, 2020, 10:21:10 PM
Must admit I haven't gone too deep into DeMille, I'm only sure I saw The Ten Commandments at some point, but see the visual connection you're making to von Sternberg. Claudette Colbert even sort of looks like Marlene Dietrich, to me.

Cleopatra (1934) (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Cleopatra-Blu-ray/131478/#Screenshots) is one I really want to see. Interested in his films for their elaborate production design and deliberate artifice.

I'd never really been into that, before, but Anna Biller's twitter posts turned me on to the style. She's a fan of DeMille's Madame Satan (1930) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021106/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1), as well as stuff I think of being in a similar vein like Robert Siodmak's Cobra Woman (1944) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036716/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0), which also has theatrical styling and production design.

Speaking of Dietrich/Colbert, Karina Longworth did an episode on their supposed ties for her Hollywood history podcast 'You Must Remember This', which can be listened to here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJsjuOFQ5KE).
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 03, 2020, 10:31:54 PM
you really brought it with that reply. i think Madame Satan could warm me up for Cleopatra
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 04, 2020, 10:37:27 AM
Quote from: wilder on May 07, 2020, 10:35:47 AMJune 9, 2020

Reinhold Schünzel's Victor and Victoria (1933) on blu-ray from Kino

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In this dazzling musical romance, a young woman (Renate Müller), unable to find work as a music hall singer, partners with a down-and-out thespian (Hermann Thimig) to revamp her act. Pretending to be a man performing in drag, Victoria becomes the toast of the international stage. But she soon finds that her playful bending of genders enmeshes her personal and professional life in a tangle of unexpected complications. Produced in the final days of the Weimar Republic, Victor and Victoria received limited exposure in the United States, and is today best known by Blake Edwards's 1982 remake and the 1995 Broadway production. Viewers will be delighted to discover that the original is every bit as charming and outrageous, reminiscent of the sly sex comedies of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder.)



Quote from: wilder on May 13, 2020, 02:48:29 PMJuly 14, 2020

Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform (1931) on blu-ray from Kino

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After the death of her mother, teenage Manuela (Hertha Thiele) is sent off to a boarding school run by the autocratic Fräulein von Nordeck (Emilia Unda). Initially withdrawn from the other girls due to her grief and anger at being sent away, Manuela is drawn out of her shell by the beautiful and sympathetic young teacher Elizabeth von Bernburg (Dorothea Wieck). But when Manuela's fondness for her teacher turns into a romantic attachment, it becomes a school-wide scandal.



Will also be available to rent through Kino Marquee (https://kinomarquee.com) starting June 12th
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 22, 2020, 12:48:50 PM
September TBD

Fellini's Casanova (1976) on blu-ray from Kino

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The myth of Giacomo Casanova, the notorious womanizer is presented as a pitiable and terrifying figure. A sex scandal lands him in prison, but an escape to Paris provides him a new lease of life.





September 1, 2020

Lindsay Anderson's Britannia Hospital (1982) on blu-ray from Kino. Also coming from Indicator in the UK.

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Mick Travis is a reporter who is about to shoot a documentary on Britannia Hospital, an institution which mirrors the downsides of British Society...



September 22, 2020

Roger Corman's The Masque of Red Death (1964) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites several dozen of the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the "Red Death". Prospero orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst a general atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry of a mysterious hooded stranger dressed all in red. Believing the figure to be his master, Satan, Prospero is horrified at the revelation of his true identity...

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2020 TBD

John D. Hancock's California Dreaming (1979) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing

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T.T. (Dennis Christopher), a Midwesterner, has traveled to the beaches of California for a dose of the surfin' life. He believes that the people he finds there are glamorous and knowledgeable. They reject his Midwestern nerdiness, make fun of him, and generally give him a hard time for not fitting in and wanting to. However, eventually he figures out that they are no wiser than he is, and that their lives are surprisingly empty.





Fall 2020 TBD

Harry Kümel's Daughters of Darkness (1971) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Blue Underground

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International screen icon Delphine Seyrig (Last Year at Marienbad) stars as Elizabeth Bathory, an ageless Countess with a beautiful young "companion" (Goth goddess Andrea Rau) and a legendary legacy of perversion. But when the two women seduce a troubled newlywed couple (French beauty Danielle Ouimet and John Karlen of Dark Shadows and Cagney & Lacey), they unleash a frenzy of sudden violence and depraved desire that shocked both art house audiences and grindhouse crowds worldwide.



August 24, 2020

Joseph Losey's Eve (1962) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK), from a new 4K master

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A raw Welsh novelist in Venice is humiliated by a money-loving Frenchwoman who erotically ensnares him.





August 17, 2020

Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo (1943) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK), from a 4K restoration

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Only the second Hollywood film directed by Billy Wilder, the riveting World War II spy thriller Five Graves to Cairo is an underrated early gem from the filmmaker, who would ascend to the industry's highest ranks with his next project, Double Indemnity. Five Graves demonstrates that Wilder and screenwriter Charles Brackett—who would collaborate on thirteen films, winning screenplay Oscars for The Lost Weekend and Sunset Boulevard—were already working at the peak of their powers, delivering an espionage yarn that never lets up on the suspense.

The only survivor in his unit after a battle with Rommel's soldiers in North Africa, British Corporal Bramble (Franchot Tone) staggers through the desert until arriving at the largely deserted Empress of Britain hotel, staffed only by owner Farid (Akim Tamiroff) and his French employee Mouche (Anne Baxter). While Bramble hopes to hide there, the hotel doesn't remain deserted for long – Rommel (a scene-stealing Erich von Stroheim) and his men arrive and take over the building as new headquarters. Bramble assumes the identity of a recently killed waiter...only to soon discover that this waiter was also serving as a German spy, a role Bramble now has to adopt for his own survival. And while Mouche knows Bramble's true identity, she has her own reasons for not wanting to aid in his plot.

Named by Quentin Tarantino as one of his favourite films, Five Graves to Cairo is filled with duplicity and danger at every turn. Wilder ratchets up the tension surrounding a disparate group of characters trapped together in wartime, with each hiding their own secrets and their own schemes. The director would soon become one of Hollywood's most lauded talents, but his genius was clearly evident in this early work. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the film in its UK debut on Blu-ray.




September 21, 2020

George Méliès' A Trip to the Moon (1902) on blu-ray from Arrow (UK), limited to 1,000 copies

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Georges Méliès was not just a pioneer of early cinema, he was central to what we know as film today. An illustrator, magician, filmmaker, and inventor he paved the way for animation and multi-media filmmaking. Of all of Méliès films, his boldest and most well known is certainly A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune), loosely based on the writings of Jules Verne. A Trip to the Moon follows a group of travellers who jet off to the moon from earth on an exploration mission only to end up in peril and captured by the the local inhabitants, the Selenites. Featuring a who's who of theatrical cast from the era, with Méliès himself taking a lead role, this is one of the very first forays into sci-fi cinema, and spawned one of the most iconic images of cinema – the man in the moon with a rocket in his eye.



August 17, 2020

Sidney Lumet's Equus (1977) on blu-ray from BFI (UK). The US release from Twilight Time is OOP.

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A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 08, 2020, 01:09:06 AM
September 29, 2020

Bette Gordon's Variety (1983) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 2K restoration of the original camera negative

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Follows Christine (Sandy McLeod, Something Wild), a bright and unassuming young woman, after she takes a job selling tickets at a porno theater near Times Square. Christine soon develops an obsession that begins to consume her life, finding self-expression through an interest in porn.





September 22, 2020

George Axelrod's Lord Love a Duck (1966) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 2K restoration

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With a special gift for manipulating the outcome of any situation, high-minded high schooler Mollymauk (Roddy McDowall) sets out to help beautiful new girl on campus Barbara Anne (Tuesday Weld). Trouble is, Barbara Anne wants everything,and Mollymauk's "help" is making a mess out of everyone's lives including hers.

Directed, produced and co-written George Axelrod, the acclaimed writer of The Seven Year Itch, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and The Manchurian Candidate.






September 29, 2020

James Whale's The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933) on blu-ray from Kino

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When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.



September 29, 2020

Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo (1943) on blu-ray from Kino. Also available from Masters of Cinema in the UK.

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The fate of Cairo is in the hands of a British corporal undercover in Rommel's headquarters.



September TBD

The Alfred Hitchcock Classic Collection on 4K UHD blu-ray from Universal

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September 14/15, 2020

Bernard Rose's Ivans xtc. (2000) on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK

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Danny Huston, Peter Weller and Lisa Enos star in this biting satire on the behind-the-scenes of the Hollywood film industry, with all its drink and drug-fueled excess, from director Bernard Rose (Candyman, Paperhouse).

Opening with the death of its titular protagonist, ivansxtc goes back in time to chart the final days of hot-shot Tinseltown agent Ivan Beckman (Huston) and his fast-paced, wheeler-dealer lifestyle, which will ultimately lead him to an early grave after a shock cancer diagnosis.

Loosely based on Leo Tolstoy's celebrated 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and featuring a searing performance by Danny Huston at its core and wonderfully sleazy turn from Peter Weller as Ivan's biggest client, ivansxtc is a powerful meditation on life, death and morality set against the glitzy backdrop of La La Land.




2020 TBD

Grindhouse Releasing is reissuing Frank Perry's The Swimmer (1968) with a remastered CD soundtrack

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In suburban Connecticut, a handsome advertising executive heads home by swimming from pool to pool through his neighborhood. Along the way, more of his life story is revealed via his complicated interaction with his neighbors.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 08, 2020, 05:59:42 PM
A very special announcement...

Summer 2020 TBD

Paul Flaherty's Clifford (1994) is coming to blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing

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Clifford is a ten-year-old troublemaker, who puts not only his parents through hell, but also his uncle with whom his parents have discarded him to.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on July 08, 2020, 08:26:08 PM
If any of you have not seen this movie^ it iz one of the best ways to bully yourself. Pure, comedy out of anger.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Something Spanish on July 09, 2020, 02:06:44 AM
I saw it during its theatrical run, a childhood fave
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 13, 2020, 08:06:38 PM
Quote from: jenkins on May 18, 2020, 12:15:26 AMAdaptation. is 66 used on amazon today, and you can't even trust amazon oop, let's check ebay, okay it's 55 there you're fucked. that's fucked.

Being released (https://www.shoutfactory.com/product/adaptation?product_id=7450) by Shout Factory October 20, 2020

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Alethia on July 14, 2020, 12:48:52 PM
Ooh lovely cover.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 20, 2020, 11:22:39 PM
July 29, 2020

Phil Goldstone's The Sin of Nora Moran (1933) on blu-ray from Film Detective, restored from the original camera negative. A lower resolution version is available to watch on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbq68vwqCJY)

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The Poverty Row, Pre-Code marvel that stunned audiences when released in 1933 stars Zita Johann as Nora Moran, a young woman sentenced to death for a murder she did not commit. Awaiting her sentence, Nora explores the patterns of her life in a dream-like haze, including the dark secret that could change not only her own fate, but the fate of those she holds most dear.

Directed by Phil Goldstone, The Sin of Nora Moran masterfully utilizes flashbacks, dreams and hallucinations to tell the tale of fateful doom, true to the thematic style of the Pre-Code era.

A star of stage and screen, Johann was fresh from performances in Boris Karloff's The Mummy (1932) and Edward G. Robinson's Tiger Shark (1932) before delivering a haunting performance as Nora Moran. Also starring John Miljan, Alan Dinehart and Paul Cavanagh, as the many surrounding Nora Moran who play a part in sealing her fate.




September 15, 2020

Jack Nicholson's The Two Jakes (1990) on blu-ray from Paramount

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The sequel to Chinatown finds Jake Gittes investigating adultery and murder... and the money that comes from oil.




September 1, 2020

Amos Poe's Alphabet City (1984) on blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome

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Johnny (Vincent Spano, Baby It's You and Over the Edge) controls the drug trade in New York's rough Alphabet City neighborhood—as long as his mob bosses let him. But, when he refuses to follow orders to torch the tenement building he grew up in, Johnny puts himself and his loved ones in their unforgiving crosshairs. No Wave filmmaker Amos Poe's (The Blank Generation and Subway Riders) neo-noir cult favorite oozes '80s neon-lit, punk-tinged style.

The innovative and vividly colorful visuals spring from the lens of cinematographer Oliver Wood (TV's Miami Vice, The Honeymoon Killers and Face/Off). Chic co-founder and dance music legend Nile Rodgers' supremely catchy synth-pop score propels the action.


Quote from: Vinegar SyndromeFun City Editions is a new boutique label focused on creating deluxe home video editions of maverick repertory cinema that can best be described as works that exist "outside of their time." Spanning an array of genres and countries, but with a unifying focus on forgotten and overlooked treasures, the initial wave of titles will come from the New American Cinema. Each Fun City release will present stunning new restorations produced and overseen by Vinegar Syndrome and comprehensive extras which contextualize and illuminate the film's artistic and historic value. Vinegar Syndrome's sister company, OCN Distribution, is thrilled to be representing this diverse and unique home video line!

(https://i.imgur.com/QhKPdg7.jpg)



September 22, 2020

Frank Capra's The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) on pressed blu-ray from Sony. The previously issued blu-ray (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Bitter-Tea-of-General-Yen-Blu-ray/184119/) was a BD-R

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Set in war-torn Shanghai, this visually stunning melodrama opens as Megan, the fiancée of a missionary, arrives in China for their marriage. Their plans are interrupted by civil war and Megan finds herself caught in a riot after visiting an orphanage. General Yen, a ruthless Chinese warlord, rescues and whisks her away to safety in his palace. Megan soon suspects she is not his guest but his prisoner yet she begins to feel a strange attraction to her captor. The once controversial topic of interracial romance between a Caucasian woman and a Chinese man earned this film some notoriety upon its release but Capra considered it a "strangely poetic romance" which was a risky art film for its era.



September 22, 2020

Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975) on blu-ray from Sony. Also available from Indicator in the UK

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A melancholy, depressed and jaded television reporter assumes the identity of a dead man while at a hotel in a north African country, not knowing that the man was a renowned arms smuggler. The newsman sees this switch as a last desperate chance to escape his old life and start anew. However, as he begins to take on the characteristics of his new persona and understand his shady involvements, the decision becomes a risky one, which leads to an inevitable showdown.



September 1, 2020

William Wyler's Roman Holiday (1953) on blu-ray from Paramount

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A runaway princess in Rome finds love with a reporter who knows her true identity.



Fall TBD

George Stevens' A Place in the Sun (1951) on blu-ray from Paramount

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In this classic version of Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy," George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), the nephew of a wealthy industrialist, is excluded from high society and given a blue-collar job at his uncle's factory. While ascending the ranks of the company, George becomes romantically involved with co-worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters). However, when he is introduced to socialite Angela Vickers (Elizabeth Taylor), he quickly falls for her, leading to a tragic love triangle.



February 23, 2021

Noah Baumbach's Mr. Jealousy (1997) on blu-ray from Moonstone Entertainment

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After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriends with jealousy and suspicion. While dating Ramona Ray, paranoia gets the best of him when he discovers that her most recent ex is successful novelist Dashiell Frank. Lester begins attending the same group therapy sessions as Dashiell to learn about Ramona's past with him.





September 7, 2020

Edmund Goulding's Nightmare Alley (1947) on blu-ray from Signal One (UK)

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Stanton Carlisle is a lowlife working in a carnival. Knowing a good con when he sees one, he learns the tricks of a mind-reading act from Zeena, then tosses her aside. In time, he becomes "The Great Stanton," star attraction of swanky nightclubs and the darling of society. But with all his notoriety built on lies, it's only a matter of time before exposure brings Stanton's world crashing down around him.



July 27, 2020

Michelangelo Antonioni's Story of a Love Affair (1950) on blu-ray from Cult Films (UK)

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Paola is a young, beautiful woman married to a wealthy entrepreneur. She meets her former lover Guido after seven years, but their relationship is marked by tragic events.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 24, 2020, 02:22:52 PM
Film Aficionado (http://www.filmaf.com/) is shutting down for real this time on July 30, 2020.

Quote from: FilmAF on FacebookThe server is shutting down July 30th and not coming back (we assume).

We recommend exporting or saving your collections now.

Samuel Scott, who generously came to the rescue of FilmAF when it was recently set to expire, before, died earlier this month (http://www.dvdcompare.net/):

Quote from: DVDcompareRIP - SITE OWNER SAMUEL SCOTT (1984-2020)
Monday 13th July 2020 - posted by Eric_Cotenas

It is with a heavy heart and great sadness that we have to inform you our site owner Samuel Scott suddenly passed at the young age of 36. His passing was far too early and he will be missed.

Sam had a profound love for movies and it showed in his collection and his devotion to keeping this website alive. If you've met Sam in person or through this site you would have met a wonderful human. Sam has been a good friend to a lot of us.

As it stands, we will be keeping DVDcompare going, since this is what Sam would have wanted. For the time being, operations as usual. But do expect certain changes to occur in the near future.

Rest in peace Sam, you will be missed dearly.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 07, 2020, 03:51:17 AM
September 22, 2020

Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Warner Bros., also coming in a box set (https://www.amazon.com/Stanley-Kubrick-3-Film-4K-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B08DPT6ZDR?tag=bluray-016-20&linkCode=xm2&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER) along with 2001 and The Shining

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The story of an 18-year-old marine recruit named Private Joker - from his carnage-and-machismo boot camp to his climactic involvement in the heavy fighting in Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive.





August 19, 2020

Nicolas Roeg's Cold Heaven (1991) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing

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From Nicolas Roeg (Walkabout, Performance, Don't Look Now), comes this haunting, wild and chilling psychological thriller. Seduction, deception and death all lead to the ultimate test of an unfaithful woman's love and fate when her deceased husband comes back to life.





November 10, 2020

Clint Eastwood's Play Misty for Me (1971) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 2K restoration

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Popular radio show host Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) becomes restless in his relationship with his girlfriend (Donna Mills). Impulsively, he goes out and sleeps with a woman (Jessica Walter) he meets at a nightclub. After the fact, he finds out she was not an anonymous hookup, but an obsessive fan who has called in repeatedly to request he play the song "Misty." Garver soon discovers extricating himself from the woman will be no easy feat as she becomes increasingly psychotic.



November 10, 2020

Don Siegel's The Beguiled (1971) on blu-ray from Kino, remastered

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During the civil war, injured Yankee soldier, John McBurney is rescued on the verge of death by a teenage girl from a southern boarding school. She manages to get him back to the school, and at first the all-female staff and pupils are scared. As he starts to recover, one by one he charms them and the atmosphere becomes filled with jealousy and deceit.



Fall 2020 TBD

John Carpenter's They Live (1988) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Nada (Roddy Piper), a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued, and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking discovery, Nada fights to free humanity from the mind-controlling aliens.



October 6, 2020

Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Paramount

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In 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.



November 17, 2020

The Rita Hayworth Collection (19490-1959) on blu-ray from Mill Creek

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Rita Hayworth is the epitome of Hollywood glamour with an unparalleled on-screen presence whose talent was only surpassed by her beauty. Her rise from a Spanish dancer and vaudeville performer to one of the world's greatest movie goddesses is chronicled in this song, dance, drama, and suspense-filled film collection.

QuoteMusic in My Heart (1940)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Tonight and Every Night (1945)
Down To Earth (1947)
The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
The Loves of Carmen (1948)
Affair in Trinidad (1952)
Salome (1953)
Miss Sadie Thompson (1954)
Fire Down Below (1957)
Pal Joey (1957)
They Came to Cordura (1959)



November 3, 2002

Paul Leni's Waxworks (1924) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley, from a 2K restoration, also coming to blu-ray in the UK from Masters of Cinema (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Waxworks-Blu-ray/275563/)

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Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) was the final film Paul Leni directed in Germany before striking out for Hollywood, where he made such classic genre films as The Cat and the Canary, The Man Who Laughs, and The Last Warning. Its sophisticated medley of genres was in fact what inspired Universal's Carl Laemmle to invite Leni to come to Hollywood, as Laemmle was hoping to capitalize on the emerging comedy-horror craze of the 1920s. Stylistically, Waxworks was celebrated as a late example of German Expressionism. Its stylized sets (designed by Leni), fantastical costumes, chiaroscuro lighting, and startlingly bold performances are characteristic of that cinematic movement and contribute to the film's lasting appeal.

The three episodes of Waxworks are united by the character of a young poet (William Dieterle), who is hired by the owner of a wax museum to create backstories for a trio of the museum's figures: Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid (Emil Jannings), Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt), and Jack the Ripper (Werner Krauss). The stories with leading actors of Weimar cinema are depicted successively, the poet casting himself together with the daughter of the wax museum's owner at the center of each tale. Though the poet and the daughter play different characters every time, they are always lovers threatened by an animated wax figure tyrant.

As the original German version of Waxworks has not survived, this newly restored English edition—a joint effort by the Deutsche Kinemathek and Cineteca di Bologna, L'Immagine Ritrovata (with funding from the German Commission for Culture and the Media)—is composed of vintage export prints and additional film materials from archives around the world. The elements, including English intertitles, were scanned in 4K resolution and then restored in 2K.






November 16, 2020

Abel Ferrara's King of New York (1990) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Arrow (UK)

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In New York, crime gets done Frank's way - or it doesn't get done at all. Recently freed from prison, Frank White hooks up with his old crew to challenge his fellow drug lords. Each bloody battle aims at a piece of the high-priced action where being at the top of the chain can mean the difference between life and death. Unable to keep him behind bars, the cops declare war on him. Frank's answer-put a contract out on the cops.



November 2, 2020

Bernardo Bertolucci's The Sheltering Sky (1990) on blu-ray from Arrow (UK)

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In the hopes of rekindling their marriage, sophisticated American couple Port and Kit Moresby (John Malkovich and Debra Winger) set off for North Africa intending to travel through Algeria – uncertain of exactly where they are heading but determined to leave the modern world behind. They are instead tested to their limits by the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the desert.



November 16, 2020

Columbia Noir #1 on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Six tough, no-nonsense noirs from six of the genre's toughest, no-nonsense directors: Budd Boetticher's Escape in the Fog, in which a nurse and a war veteran take on Nazi spies in San Francisco; Joseph H Lewis' The Undercover Man, inspired by the real-life case against Al Capone; Richard Quine's Drive a Crooked Road, which finds Mickey Rooney moving away from comedies and musicals to a tougher persona; Phil Karlson's 5 Against the House, starring Kim Novak as a nightclub singer embroiled in a casino heist; Vincent Sherman's The Garment Jungle, from which Kiss Me Deadly director Robert Aldrich was famously fired; and Don Siegel's police procedural The Lineup, based on the radio and television series, and as brutal a film as he ever made.

QuoteESCAPE IN THE FOG  (Budd Boetticher, 1945)

Veteran nurse Eilene Carr (Nina Foch) experiences disturbing nightmares and wakes up screaming in a hotel in San Francisco. To her amazement the man she was dreaming about, Barry Malcolm (William Wright), is at her hotel. Relating her dream of three men attempting to kill him, Eilene then agrees to accompany Barry to a meeting, unaware that he's involved in an espionage plot relating to Japanese agents. In spite of her continued dreams and blackouts, Eilene proves invaluable to Barry's mission.

THE UNDERCOVER MAN  (Joseph H Lewis, 1949)

Determined Treasury Department investigator Frank Warren (Glenn Ford) goes after a ruthless mobster known as The Big Fellow. When a key informant is murdered, Warren pursues the gangster on charges of tax evasion. But, with a slick mob lawyer hampering him at every turn, and threats being lobbed toward Warren's wife (Nina Foch), the lawman's chances of achieving a conviction are slim to none. His only hope is that one syndicate bookkeeper will have the courage to turn state's evidence.

DRIVE A CROOKED ROAD  (Richard Quine, 1954)

Eddie Shannon (Mickey Rooney) is a guileless Los Angeles auto mechanic with dreams of one day racing in European car meets. Eddie encounters fetching Barbara Mathews (Dianne Foster) and, much to his surprise and delight, she agrees to date him. But Barbara's true intentions are revealed when she introduces Eddie to her associates -- Steve Norris (Kevin McCarthy) and Harold Baker (Jack Kelly) -- who, as it turns out, need a getaway driver for a planned bank heist.

5 AGAINST THE HOUSE[  (Phil Karlson, 1955)

When college buddies Ronnie (Kerwin Mathews) and Roy (Alvy Moore) are briefly detained by the Reno police in association with a casino robbery, Ronnie becomes obsessed with figuring out how to plan the perfect heist. At first it is a strictly intellectual exercise, but when the emotionally disturbed Korean War vet Brick (Brian Keith) gets involved, the friends -- including straitlaced Al (Guy Madison) and his nightclub-singer girlfriend, Kaye (Kim Novak) -- have to pull the job for real.

THE GARMENT JUNGLE  (Vincent Sherman and Robert Aldrich, 1957)

New York garment factory owner Walter Mitchell (Lee J. Cobb) goes the extra, deceitful mile in battling his employees' efforts to unionize. He hires gangster Artie Ravage (Richard Boone) to interfere with the grassroots efforts. After Mitchell's son, Alan (Kerwin Matthews), returns from Europe and befriends one of the union organizers (Robert Loggia), Mitchell eventually tries to mend his unethical ways. Unfortunately, this does not sit well with the violent, vengeful Ravage.

THE LINEUP (Don Siegel, 1958)

From legendary director Don Siegel (Dirty Harry) comes this compelling crime thriller based on a popular television series. Dancer (Eli Wallach, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) is a psychopathic San Francisco gangster who uses unwitting tourists to bring in heroin from the Orient. When one of the deliveries goes awry, a cop gets killed, bringing the police into action. But Dancer and his associate, Julian (Robert Keith, Guys and Dolls), have three new unsuspecting carriers, including a little girl with a Japanese doll. It is up to the police to solve the case before Dancer kills innocent people.



September 21, 2020

Tony Richardson's Mademoiselle (1966) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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In a French village, Manou is an Italian logger, virile, with a broad laugh. He can't say no to women's sexual invitations, and jealous villagers blame him for recent fires and a flood. He is innocent; the culprit is "Mademoiselle," town schoolmarm, a recent arrival admired by all, but sexually repressed and obsessed with Manou.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 11, 2020, 04:56:51 AM
February 21, 2021

Paul Leni's The Last Warning (1928) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK), also available from Flicker Alley (http://blu-ray.com/movies/The-Last-Warning-Blu-ray/237674/) in the US

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Adapted from Thomas F. Fallon's 1922 Broadway play of the same name, THE LAST WARNING is based on the story THE HOUSE OF FEAR by Wadsworth Camp and centres on an unsolved murder that occurs during a live Broadway performance. When the victim's body goes missing, the death remains unsolved and the theatre is condemned. That is, until years later when a suspicious new "producer" arrives to restage the play with the original cast and crew.

THE LAST WARNING was Paul Leni's final film before his untimely death, and a prime showcase for Universal's leading lady of the era, Laura La Plante (THE CAT AND THE CANARY, SKINNER'S DRESS SUIT). A visual artist at the peak of his career, Leni's camera never stops shifting, offering cutaways and trick shots involving nervous could-be culprits, a highly suspicious sleuth, and cast members who suddenly disappear in the darkened theatre. The result is a cinematic funhouse that restlessly cross-examines the suspense of the story's stage play against the "real" murder mystery saga, all unfolding amid the outstanding production design of Charles D. Hall.






March 29, 2021

Tales From the Urban Jungle: Brute Force and The Naked City on blu-ray from Arrow (UK)

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Writer, director, producer and actor Jules Dassin was one of Hollywoods most remarkable talents. Between 1947 and 1955 he directed a string of stylish, gritty, and hard-hitting Film Noir classics including Thieves Highway and Night And The City. Blacklisted in the communist witch hunts of the House Un-American Activities, he would continue that run with Rififi, directed in France. Each film is a diamond hard classic, weathering the test of time with sharp edges intact.

Tales from The Urban Jungle brings together the two films which started that extraordinary streak of hits. In Brute Force, Burt Lancaster is Joe Collins, one of a number of convicts squeezed into cell R17 and intent on breaking out. Desperate to return to his cancer-ridden wife (Ann Blyth), and to escape the clutches of sadistic warden Captain Munsey (an unforgettable performance from Hume Cronyn) who enjoys a reign of terror over the inmates.

Meanwhile, in The Naked City, a blonde ex-model is murdered in her bathtub and detectives Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) and Halloran (Don Taylor) are assigned to the case. Their investigation leads them all over New York City, from Park Avenue to the Lower East Side, reaching its thrilling climax atop the Williamsburg Bridge. Inspired by the work of infamous tabloid photographer Weegee, The Naked City was the first major Hollywood production to be shot entirely on the streets of New York, making use of more than a hundred authentic locations. Both films feature stark cinematography and taut writing to land an incredible one-two punch that remains impactful to this day.

Sourced from new 4K restorations, and complemented by a wealth of bonus features, this Special Edition Blu-Ray set is both the perfect entry point for newcomers to the work of a great director, and a must have for die-hard fans of Film Noir and Jules Dassin.




December 1, 2020

Robert Altman's Popeye (1980) on blu-ray from Paramount

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The sailor-man travels to a town called Sweet Haven, falls in love with Olive Oyl, adopts Swee' Pea, and makes an enemy with Bluto.



February 9, 2021

Bert Stern's Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959) on blu-ray from Kino

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Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer, Bert Stern. JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonius Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O'Day, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, and closes with a beautiful rendition or The Lord's Prayer by Mahalia Jackson at midnight to usher in Sunday morning.

The 1959 classic is considered one of the most extraordinary and possibly the first concert film ever made. Its sparkling new 4K restoration by IndieCollect, recently premiered at the 57th New York Film Festival. The film was named to the National Film Registry in 1999, and its restoration was funded by the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress in time to celebrate the film's 60th Anniversary.






April 2021 TBD

Douglas Sirk's Battle Hymn (1957) on blu-ray from Kino

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A remorseful bomber pilot-turned-minister rejoins for the Korean War.



March 9, 2021

Sam Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration completed in 2017

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An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.



February 16, 2021

Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) on blu-ray from Kino

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One of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era, Dziga Vertov's Man With A Movie Camera utilizes rapid editing and innumerable other cinematic effects to create a work of amazing modernity and power. This dawn-to-dusk view of urban Soviet life shows people at work, at play, and at the machines that endlessly whirl to keep the metropolis alive. It was Vertov's first full-length film, and it employs all the cinematic techniques at the director's disposal—dissolves, split-screens, slow-motion, and freeze-frames—to produce a work that is as exhilarating as it is intellectually brilliant. Restored by the British Film Institute, this edition features an orchestral score composed and conducted by Michael Nyman (The Piano), first performed on May 17, 2002 at London's Royal Festival Hall.



February 16, 2021

Film Worker (2018) on blu-ray from Kino

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It's a rare person who would give up fame and fortune to toil in obscurity for someone else's creative vision. Yet, that's exactly what Leon Vitali did after his acclaimed performance as Lord Bullingdon in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon.





February 16, 2021

The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002) on blu-ray from Kino

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Robert Evans' rise from second-string actor to head of one of Hollywood's biggest movie studios to legendary producer is told from the viewpoint of Evans himself.



December 15, 2020

Frank Perry's Ladybug Ladybug (1963) on blu-ray from Kino

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Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or a mistake.



March 23, 2021

Frank Perry's Doc (1971) on blu-ray from Kino

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Revisionist retelling of the familiar Wyatt Earp/Doc Holliday story in Tombstone with fascinating character development, stressing such details as Wyatt's campaign for the Sheriff's seat, the romance between Doc Holliday and Kate Elder, their addiction to gambling, the conflict with local cowboys and concluding with a blistering depiction of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.



Q1 2021 TBD

Dennis Hopper's The Hot Spot (1990) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 2K restoration

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Harry Madox (Don Johnson) is a drifter who settles into a small Texas town, taking a job at a used car dealership. He proceeds to have affairs with the sultry Dolly Harshaw (Virginia Madsen), the wife of the dealership's owner, and pretty accountant, Gloria Harper (Jennifer Connelly), all while plotting to rob the local bank. When Harry is arrested for the robbery, Dolly provides him with an alibi, but when he plans on leaving town with Gloria, Dolly is understandably upset.



Q1 2021 TBD

Francesco Rosi's Illustrious Corpses (1976) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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A detective (inspector Rogas) is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges. During the investigation he discovers a complot that involves the Italian Communist Party.



November 24, 2020

Vincente Minelli's The Pirate (1948) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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On a Caribbean isle in the early 19th century, sheltered young Garland comes to believe that travelling troubadour Kelly is in reality "Mack the Black," a notorious pirate. Kelly realizes that the surest way to win Garland's heart is to impersonate the romantic buccaneer, and this is what he does--nearly getting himself hanged in the process.



December 22, 2020

Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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A Budapest store clerk finds himself feuding with his pretty co-worker, who, unbeknownst to him, is the secret pen pal with whom he is falling in love.



November 3, 2020

Frank Borzage's The Mortal Storm (1940) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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The Roth family lead a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930's. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.



December 15, 2020

Michael Curtiz's Young Man with a Horn (1950) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Stars Kirk Douglas as a driven trumpet player who devotes his life to music, to the exclusion of almost everything else. Doris Day and Lauren Bacall are the women in his life; Harry James performed Douglas' tunes.



December 14, 2020

Richard Franklin's Road Games (1981) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer who uses a young female hitchhiker as bait to lure victims on a desolate Australian highway.



January 18, 2021

Paul Schrader's Light Sleeper (1992) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Light Sleeper tells of John LeTour (Willem Dafoe, Auto Focus), a drug dealer servicing a high-society clientele of Manhattan professionals. When his boss (Susan Sarandon, The Hunger) announces she is going straight and John encounters an old flame he still loves, his life is thrown into crisis. As he becomes involved in a police investigation surrounding a mysterious drug death, John prowls the night-time streets in search of redemption.



February 15, 2021

Columbia Noir #2 (1947-1958) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Our second Columbia Noir box set takes a dive once more into the studio's archives and the world of film noir – a world of undercover detectives (The Mob) and emotionless hitmen (Murder by Contract), a world where film is inspired by real-life criminal activities (Tight Spot, based loosely on Virginia Hill's testimony against Bugsy Siegel) and real-life criminal activities are inspired by film (711 Ocean Drive, which attracted the unwanted attention of mobsters), and a world where Glenn Ford finds himself unwittingly embroiled in murder – twice (Framed, Affair in Trinidad).



March 22, 2021

David Mamet's Things Change (1988) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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An elderly cobbler agrees to take the rap for a Mafia don and a low-level mobster is tasked with guarding him before he testifies.



March 22, 2021

Howard Hawks' Twentieth Century (1934) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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A tempestuous theatrical director tries to win back the star he created and then drove away.



March 22, 2021

Howard Hawks' The Criminal Code (1931) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Howard Hawks (Twentieth Century) made his first film for Columbia Pictures with this pre-Code prison movie. The great Walter Huston (Dragonwyck) stars as a district attorney-turned-prison warden who gets to witness first-hand the effects of his convictions, especially Phillip Holmes (An American Tragedy), imprisoned after killing a man in a drunken brawl. Co-starring Boris Karloff (Frankenstein), The Criminal Code is tough, no-nonsense, quintessential Hawks.



October 28, 2020

Essential Film Noir Collection Volume 1 (1947-1957) on blu-ray from Impulse (Australia).

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Essential Film Noir Collection 1 includes four acclaimed and much sought after classics including Framed (1947), Alias Nick Beal (1949), Detective Story (1951) and The Garment Jungle (1957). Join Hollywood's legendary tough guys and femme fatale film noir icons such as Glenn Ford, William Bendix, Audrey Totter, Ray Milland & Eleanor Parker and Directing greats including William Wyler & John Farrow. Bonus material includes feature audio commentaries from Hollywood's top film noir historians including Eddie Muller & Alan K. Rode. FRAMED (1947) Mike Lambert takes to driving a truck when he falls on hard times. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he is quickly drawn into a criminal plot. ALIAS NICK BEAL (1949) The mysterious Nick Beal materialises to offer honest politician, Joseph Foster, not only wealth but also the charms of Donna Allen. DETECTIVE STORY (1951) The personal conflict between a principled, rigid police detective and his tormented wife reaches an explosive, unforgettable climax. THE GARMENT JUNGLE (1957) Alan Mitchell must join forces with rebellious labour union leaders in order to save his family's dress company from the mob.



Q1 2021 TBD

Ralph Bakshi's Fire and Ice (1983) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Blue Underground

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It began as a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between two of the greatest icons of the fantasy genre: Controversial animator Ralph Bakshi (director of 'Fritz the Cat', 'Wizards' and the original 'The Lord of the Rings') and legendary illustrator Frank Frazetta (creator of the iconic Conan the Barbarian, Vampirella and Edgar Rice Burroughs book covers). It became – and remains – one of the most startling animation epics of all time. Now experience a world unlike any ever seen, where savage warriors, horrific monsters and luscious maidens battle for the soul of a civilization in a time of good and evil, pleasure and pain, and Fire and Ice.



August 21, 2020

Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin (2003) on blu-ray from Camera Obscura (Germany). See comparison to the US blu-ray here (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film9/blu-ray_review_132/mysterious_skin_blu-ray.htm).

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A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.



March 22, 2021 TBD

Peter Bogdanovich's Targets (1968) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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A quiet insurance agent/Vietnam veteran murders his young wife, his mother and a grocery delivery boy at home and then initiates an afternoon shooting rampage from atop a Los Angeles area oil refinery. When the police respond and start to close in on him, he flees and resumes his shootings at a Reseda drive-in theater where an aging horror film icon is making a final promotional appearance before retirement.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Find Your Magali on December 16, 2020, 08:48:08 PM
Really stoked for that Kino release of "Ladybug Ladybug"
Incredibly unsettling film
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Alethia on December 16, 2020, 09:17:15 PM
First I've heard of it! Very intriguing.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on December 16, 2020, 09:29:53 PM
it played at The New Beverly during the Frank Perry retrospective. his Play It As It Lays sucks but that's fine. I adore his Diary of a Mad Housewife although I consistently misattribute it to Jerry Schatzberg, who also had a New Beverly retrospective

I guess maybe there are other reasons it's too bad the plague happened this year but it is too bad you missed out on a year of the New Beverly, eward. obvious shit would sell out but everything unknown would play to small crowds and of course they always rip. it's silly to think QT doesn't have good taste in movies. about the craziest scenario I can remember is when I sat behind QT (I actually sat down first, so he sat in front of me, but not like directly in front of me, respectfully off to the side, not blocking the screen) during a screening of Hi Diddle Diddle, and the theater was less than half full, maybe a third full, which just, you know, it's almost hard to believe, based on how good that movies is, and QT put it on his fucking 2002 Sight and Sound list, but honestly if not's well known people don't think to see it lmao that is how it goes
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: Alethia on December 17, 2020, 11:42:42 AM
Ugh I'm so desperate for it to re-open !! I hear so many conflicting things about the New Bev from my LA movie friends. Some describe its programming similarly to what you said above, others say it's non-stop Quentin deep-dive exploitation stuff that frequently fails to engage and quickly grows tiresome (particularly those that have gotten a taste of NYC programming a la Metrograph). I'm going to take your word for it, Jenkins, and when the world rights itself again, I shall follow your lead.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on December 17, 2020, 11:45:29 AM
Quote from: eward on December 17, 2020, 11:42:42 AM
Some describe its programming similarly to what you said above, others say it's non-stop Quentin deep-dive exploitation stuff that frequently fails to engage and quickly grows tiresome (particularly those that have gotten a taste of NYC programming a la Metrograph).

Considering you mentioned the Metrograph, that doesn't sound conflicting at all lmfao
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on December 17, 2020, 12:06:16 PM
well the calendars are right here

https://thenewbev.com/print-calendars/

oh i forgot that it was just in january i sat behind josh safdie during little women. and as i've said before i was there the last night it closed during the plague, at the bitter tea of general yen
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on January 04, 2021, 11:15:01 PM
I joined the Vinegar Syndrome Collectors page on Facebook and it's such a whole thing. it's really quite hilarious. so many people saying "I can't help myself" and it's the juice you know the addiction it's a movie hunger. anyway they released Rad and that was a huge hit and I didn't buy it because I have my own unusual interests but so they received a limited license which resulted in a limited release yet fear not for it's on its way from Mill Creek, in a steel case

March 16, 2021
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QuoteCollectible SteelBook packaging with artwork from Mondo artist JJ Harrison
Directed by Hal Needham (Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper, The Cannonball Run) who was also known for being
the highest paid stuntman in the world and revolutionized the art of stunts in the film industry
Scanned & restored in 4k from its 35mm original camera negative
Bonus features include: "Rad" Q&A Session featuring cast members Bill Allen, Talia Shire, Bart Conner,
screenwriter Sam Bernard, and hosted by Jorma Taccone, Archival video interviews with cast and crew, Original
Behind-the-Scenes Featurette and "Break the Ice" music video
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 10, 2021, 08:06:47 PM
May 18, 2021

Jérôme Boivin's Baxter (1989) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing. Written by Jacques Audiard.

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A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.





Q1 2021 TBD

Frank Perry's Rancho Deluxe (1975) on blu-ray from Fun City Editions

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Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contemporary Montana.



Q1 2021 TBD

Michael Ritchie's Smile (1975) on blu-ray from Fun City Editions

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The time has come for the annual Young American Miss Pageant in California. Executive producer Brenda (Barbara Feldon) focuses maniacally on the event, ignoring any complaints. While her husband, Andy (Nicholas Pryor), sulks, choreographer Tommy French (Michael Kidd) looks after the safety of the contestants. With all the girls trying to outdo each other, tension increases as the pageant drags on and the skeptical contestant, Robin (Joan Prather), takes the lead despite her reservations.





Q1 2021 TBD

Josef von Sternberg's Thunderbolt (1929) on blu-ray from Kino

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A condemned criminal (George Bancroft) plots revenge on the young man (Richard Arlen) who stole his gal (Fay Wray) and landed next to him on death row.



March 23, 2021

Luis Trenker's Der Kaiser von Kalifornien aka The Kaiser of California (1936) on blu-ray from Kino

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On the surface, The Kaiser of California appears to be a cinematic anomaly: an epic Western produced under the state-controlled cinema of the Third Reich. But the film's novelty value is quickly eclipsed by its dazzling visual artistry: striking compositions and stunning location photography worthy of John Ford (who was still three years away from making his signature Western, Stagecoach). In telling the story of German-born pioneer John Sutter, actor/director Luis Trenker returned to the awe-inspiring vistas and daring feats of rock-climbing that had made his "mountain films" such a sensation. The result is a film whose style is deeply Germanic and spectacularly American at the same time, virtually unseen in the United States, prior to this 2K restoration by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung.

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February 23, 2021

Helmut Käutner's Große Freiheit Nr. 7 aka Port of Freedom (1944) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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Under the direction of Helmut Käutner (Black Gravel), German heartthrob Hans Albers stars as Hannes, a former sailor who now works as an entertainer, playing his accordion in the streets and cabarets of the garish red light district of Hamburg. When he meets a headstrong young farmgirl (Ilse Werner), Hannes's passions are reawakened, and he is torn between his love for Gisa and the beckoning call of the sea. Produced in Germany in the final years of World War II, Port of Freedom (Grosse Freiheit Nr. 7) demonstrates how independent-minded artists were able to circumvent the demands of state-run film industry under the Third Reich. Rather than a propagandistic celebration of German might, it is a melancholy ode to lost love and happier times, lavishly photographed by Werner Krien in the rich warmth of Agfacolor.





July 6, 2021

Georges Lautner's La route de Salina aka The Road to Salina (1970) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration. See Larry Karaszewski's introduction (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYALYAuD5Fw) via Trailers from Hell.

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Jonas (Walker Jr) is on the road to Salina. He stops at a gas station/restaurant and its owner, Mara (Hayworth), is struck by his resemblance to her dead son, Rocky (Porel). He decides to stay on and meets Mara's friend Warren (Begley) and Rocky's sister Billie (Famer), but dark facts are to be revealed about the death of Rocky.



March 9, 2021

Little Fugitive: The Collected Films of Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin on blu-ray from Kino

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Shooting on location in New York City and capturing intimate moments in the lives of the common person, Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin have come to be recognized as pioneers of the American independent cinema. François Truffaut remarked, "Our New Wave would never have come into being if it hadn't been for the young American Morris Engel, who showed us the way to independent production." Kino Lorber now presents the most comprehensive collection of Engel and Orkin's work on three Blu-ray discs: all four feature films (including the home video premiere of the 1960s counter-culture film I Need a Ride to California, newly restored by the Museum of Modern Art), short films, commercials, and two documentaries by their daughter Mary Engel.



March 23, 2021

Andrew Niccol's Gattaca (1997) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Sony, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative

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Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin and Jude Law star in this engrossing sci-fi thriller about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. Hawke stars as Vincent, an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation. However, a week before his mission, a murder marks Vincent as a suspect. With a relentless investigator in pursuit and the colleague he has fallen in love with beginning to suspect his deception, Vincent's dreams steadily unravel.



January 26, 2021

Frank Perry's The Swimmer (1968) is being re-released on blu-ray from Grindhouse Releasing in a new edition that includes a soundtrack CD

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Well-off ad man Ned Merrill (Burt Lancaster) is visiting a friend when he notices the abundance of backyard pools that populate their upscale suburb. Ned suddenly decides that he'd like to travel the eight miles back to his own home by simply swimming across every pool in town. Soon, Ned's journey becomes harrowing; at each house, he is somehow confronted with a reminder of his romantic, domestic and economic failures, until a final visit with an old flame (Janice Rule) leaves him devastated. Based on a story by John Cheever.





March 3, 2021

Frank Perry's Mommie Dearest (1981) on blu-ray from Shock (Australia)

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Mommie Dearest, best selling memoir, turned motion picture, depicts the abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother...screen queen Joan Crawford.



2021 TBD

Sam Peckinpah's The Killer Elite (1975) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing

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Friends George Hansen (Robert Duvall) and Mike Locken (James Caan) are hit men who do contract jobs for a company called Com-Teg, associated with the CIA. Bu, when George gets a better offer from the competition, he turns on Mike, breaking his elbow and shoulder. It takes Mike a long time and a lot of physical therapy to get back on the job, but he does -- and coincidentally finds himself protecting a client whom Hansen and his gang are simultaneously being paid to assassinate.



2021 TBD

Karel Reisz's Who'll Stop the Rain? (1978) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing, to be sold exclusively through Ronin Flix

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Vietnam veteran Ray Hicks gets conned into helping his buddy John Converse smuggle some heroin, only to wind up on the lam with John's wife when the deal goes sour.



April 27, 2021

Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.



November 23, 2020

Tsai Ming-Liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) on blu-ray from Second Sight (UK)

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In a cavernous movie palace, King Hu's classic 1968 film Dragon Inn plays for a sparse crowd. As the movie progresses, the ticket-taker makes dinner, cleans the bathroom, and checks in on the projectionist. Audience members wander in and out, occasionally interacting in the restroom or the vast hallways that surround the theater proper. Minimally plotted, Tsai Ming-Liang's film is a poetic, dryly humorous portrait of a place and its denizens, and an homage to a director who influenced his career.

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on January 10, 2021, 08:41:39 PM
Quote from: wilder on January 10, 2021, 08:06:47 PM
Q1 2021 TBD

Josef von Sternberg's Thunderbolt (1929) on blu-ray from Kino

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A condemned criminal (George Bancroft) plots revenge on the young man (Richard Arlen) who stole his gal (Fay Wray) and landed next to him on death row.

that's between The Docks of New York and Blue Angel so it's a pretty big deal. his first sound film. he's missing Ben Hecht and Marlene Dietrich but he has Mank
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on January 18, 2021, 10:31:26 PM
i wanted to buy what author Toni Bentley considered the "crown jewel" of the Golden Age of Porn but so at amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Opening-Misty-Beethoven-Constance-Money/dp/B00A6ORF30) it pops up for 75, thankfully thought fuck that, can tell you it comes from Distribpix (http://www.distribpix.com/film/opening-misty-beethoven-blu-ray/opening-misty-beethoven-blu-ray) and I bought it at Diabolik (https://www.diabolikdvd.com/product/opening-of-misty-beethoven-blu-ray-all-region/) for 24.99
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on January 19, 2021, 09:32:18 AM
Dang that iz some neat cover art!
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on January 20, 2021, 10:04:13 AM
https://twitter.com/GhopperFilm/status/1351911356539285505
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on January 21, 2021, 02:15:47 AM
thought i'd written about one of those but i wrote about The Day the Pig Fell into the Well (http://innergenre.blogspot.com/2012/05/hong-sangsoos-day-pig-fell-into-well.html). not disappointed because i love how I love Sangsoo there
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 06, 2021, 08:32:35 AM
February 16, 2021

Elia Kazan's Baby Doll (1956) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Times are tough for cotton miller Archie (Karl Malden), but at least he has his child bride (Carroll Baker), who'll soon be his wife in title and truth. The one-year agreement keeping them under the same roof – yet never in the same bed – is about to end. But a game with a sly business rival (Eli Wallach) is about to begin. In Baby Doll, as in A Streetcar Named Desire, director Elia Kazan and writer Tennessee Williams broke new ground in depicting sexual situations – earning condemnation from the then-powerful Legion of Decency.







February 23, 2021

Allan Moyle's Pump Up the Volume (1990) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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By day, Mark Hunter (Christian Slater) is a painfully shy new kid in a small Arizona town. But by night, he's Hard Harry, the cynical, uncensored DJ of a pirate radio station. Idolized by his high school classmates (who are unaware of his real identity), Harry becomes a hero with his fiercely funny monologues on sex, love, and rock and roll. But when he exposes the corrupt school principal, she calls in the FCC to shut Harry down. An outrageous rebel with a cause, Slater gives a brilliant performance as the reluctant hero who inspires his classmates to find their own voices of rebellion and individuality. A movie with a message, Pump Up the Volume is a raw and witty celebration of free speech that will make you laugh, make you cheer and make you think.







March 9, 2021

Val Lewton & Mark Robson's Isle of the Dead (1945) on blu-ray from Warner Archive, from a 4K restoration of the original nitrate camera negative

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On a lonely Greek island, a disparate group of people are in fear. Plague has come to the island making them virtual prisoners and then there is talk of the vorvolakas, a vampire-like creature that preys on the living. Among those trapped there is General Nikolas Pherides (Boris Karloff), nicknamed the Watchdog, who is taken aback when he is visits his wife's mausoleum only to find her grave empty. As several of those quarantined die from the plague, paranoia sets in creating a tense, fear-filled atmosphere...



March 22, 2021

Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire (1947) on blu-ray from Warner Archive, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative

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One of the first Hollywood films to explore bigotry follows the story of three World War II soldiers who become suspects in the murder of a Jewish hotel guest.



April 27, 2021

Lewis Gilbert's Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) & Lawrence Huntington's Wanted for Murder (1946) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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Cast a Dark Shadow

In this taut thriller, Dirk Bogarde plays a scheming young man who uses his charm to wed an older wealthy woman. He stages her death to look accidental, but when he finds out that he will not be reaping financial reward from the death, he seeks out another victim.

Wanted for Murder

As the son of a Victorian hangman is driven insane by thoughts of his father's profession, the young man emulates his father by strangling young women. He then meets and falls in love with a woman, but can he suppress his urge to kill her?







May 17, 2021

Columbia Noir #3 (1947-1959) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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QuoteJohnny O'Clock (1947)

When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy (Evelyn Keyes), looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock (Dick Powell), a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.

The Dark Past (1948)

Synopsis: Taken hostage along with his family and friends, psychologist Andrew Collins (Lee J. Cobb) is held by the murderous fugitive Al Walker (William Holden) and his gang. While Walker's crew, which includes his lover, Betty (Nina Foch), tends to the other hostages, the desperate mastermind talks to Collins about his troubled past. As the night progresses, Collins gets Walker to focus on a disturbing dream, resulting in a psychological breakthrough that may help avoid a violent conflict.[/I]

Convicted (1950)

During a barroom brawl, Joe Hufford (Glenn Ford) accidentally kills the son of a powerful, prominent man. The district attorney, George Knowland (Broderick Crawford), wins a manslaughter conviction, despite having doubts about the defendant's guilt. Joe is sent to prison, and George, who eventually becomes the warden there, hopes to get him released. But Joe gets so immersed in the culture and codes of the jailhouse that he finds it difficult to believe in his own innocence.

Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)

Dan Purvis (Edmond O'Brien) and Rocky Barnes (Mark Stevens) are lifelong pals who survived WWII and continue their armed service as uniformed prowl car boys on the night shift in L.A. But their friendship is tested by their ongoing battle with a ruthless racketeer (Donald Buka), and the love they share for a beautiful radio announcer (Gale Storm). Often seen as the first example of the now common buddy cop movie, this film shows the genre has always been rife with tension.

The Sniper (1952)

In San Francisco, Eddie Miller (Arthur Franz) is a severely disturbed professional driver who fantasizes about killing beautiful women. He sends out several warning signs about his deteriorating mental state, but they're ignored by those around him. When he begins killing beautiful women and leaving clues for the authorities, the hardened Lt. Kafka (Adolphe Menjou) and police psychiatrist Dr. James G. Kent (Richard Kiley) must help track him down.

City of Fear (1959)

Irving Lerner directs Vince Edwards as a convict who breaks out of prison with a canister of what he thinks is pure heroin, hoping to make a big score. The white powder, however, turns out to be a deadly radioactive substance. As Vince tries to deal away his treasure, he works through his sleazy contacts — all of whom are doomed by their greed and stupidity — as the police desperately try to find him before he contaminates the entire city.





May 17, 2021

Ridley Scott's Someone to Watch Over Me (1987) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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After exploring the science-fiction and fantasy worlds of Alien, Blade Runner and Legend, famed British director Ridley Scott turned to modern-day New York for Someone to Watch Over Me, one of a number of adult-orientated erotic thrillers, including Fatal Attraction, Black Widow and Jagged Edge, to appear in the late eighties.

Tom Berenger (Platoon, Inception) plays a blue-collar NYPD detective assigned to protect a wealthy murder witness (Mimi Rogers, The Rapture). Soon, the relationship becomes an affair, threatening Berenger's marriage to Lorraine Bracco (Goodfellas, The Sopranos), and the killer is still on the loose...

Stylishly shot by Steven Poster (Donnie Darko), Someone to Watch Over Me is glossy, high-concept filmmaking from start to finish.




April 19, 2021

Karloff at Columbia (1935-1942) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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QuoteOne of the most recognisable faces in horror, Boris Karloff (or simply 'KARLOFF', as he was often billed) has been described as "to the horror movie what Fred Astaire was to the musical". Presented here are the six films he made for Columbia Pictures, a collaboration which produced some of Karloff's finest acting roles.

In THE BLACK ROOM, Karloff takes on a dual role as twin brothers in 19th century Europe. One of the twins inherits the family castle and suddenly the local women start disappearing...

THE MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG, THE MAN WITH NINE LIVES, BEFORE I HANG, and THE DEVIL COMMANDS form the "Mad Doctor" cycle, a thematically linked series of films where Karloff always plays a doctor whose obsessions inevitably lead them to murder!

And finally, THE BOOGIE MAN WILL GET YOU is a delightful parody of the "Mad Doctor" films, starring both Karloff and Peter Lorre.





March 22, 2021

Two Films by Lois Weber (1923-1927) on blu-ray from Kino, from 2K restorations

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Among the most exciting rediscoveries of silent cinema are the films of Lois Weber, who produced and directed a series of popular and provocative films at Universal Studios, often depicting women's struggles for independence within the ever-shifting moral landscape of 1920s modernity.

Sensation Seekers stars Billie Dove (The Black Pirate) as the free-spirited Egypt, a small-town girl who dreams of escape and adventure, and resists the efforts of a pious minister (Raymond Bloomer) to tame her thirst for excitement. Egypt's progress is highlighted by moments of cinematic spectacle, including a lavish masquerade ball and a stunning shipwreck sequence.

A Chapter in Her Life explores the efforts of a young girl (Jane Mercer) whose childish innocence exposes the hypocrisy and weakness that threaten the happiness of an aristocratic family.




May 11, 2021

Marvin J. Chomsky's Tank (1984) on blu-ray from Kino

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Sergeant-Major Zack Carey is completing his final stint of duty at a post in a small southern town. After defending a prostitute, he finds himself doing battle with the town's maniacal sheriff. When the sheriff jails Zack's son Billy on a phony drug charge, the sergeant takes justice into his own hands—with help from his personal World War II Sherman tank!

Quote from: Letterboxd user KrautsalatFirst Blood on a tank, directed by Noam Chomsky's cousin. Unlike First Blood this picture forgoes any moral ambivalence by making redneck Sheriff G. D. Spradlin completely loathsome, he's just 100% a dick. James Garner uses this PG rated film's single fuck to praise some apple cobbler. This is just as awesome as the poster suggests.





May 11, 2021

Harry Keller's Quantez (1957) on blu-ray from Kino

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Screen legend Fred MacMurray (Gun for a Coward, Double Indemnity) stars as John Coventry, the leader of a gang of robbers trying to escape across the Mexican border. The outlaws manage to elude the law and navigate the rough terrain, but the flight comes to a dangerous halt in the mysterious abandoned town of Quantez. As their enemies get closer, tempers flare, betrayals set in and lines are drawn between the men. Ruthless criminals end up as heroes and villains plunge further into despair in this suspenseful, action-packed western. 

Quote from: Letterboxd userImagine The Thing without any actual monster and just a group of really well-defined character types trapped in an isolated location on the Mexican border slowly turning on one another.





Quote from: wilder on January 10, 2021, 08:06:47 PMFebruary 23, 2021

Helmut Käutner's Große Freiheit Nr. 7 aka Port of Freedom (1944) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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Under the direction of Helmut Käutner (Black Gravel), German heartthrob Hans Albers stars as Hannes, a former sailor who now works as an entertainer, playing his accordion in the streets and cabarets of the garish red light district of Hamburg. When he meets a headstrong young farmgirl (Ilse Werner), Hannes's passions are reawakened, and he is torn between his love for Gisa and the beckoning call of the sea. Produced in Germany in the final years of World War II, Port of Freedom (Grosse Freiheit Nr. 7) demonstrates how independent-minded artists were able to circumvent the demands of state-run film industry under the Third Reich. Rather than a propagandistic celebration of German might, it is a melancholy ode to lost love and happier times, lavishly photographed by Werner Krien in the rich warmth of Agfacolor.


DVDBeaver review here (http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film9/blu-ray_review_134/port_of_freedom_blu-ray.htm)

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Quote from: wilder on June 22, 2020, 12:48:50 PM
September 22, 2020

Roger Corman's The Masque of Red Death (1964) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites several dozen of the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the "Red Death". Prospero orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst a general atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry of a mysterious hooded stranger dressed all in red. Believing the figure to be his master, Satan, Prospero is horrified at the revelation of his true identity...

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on February 06, 2021, 10:32:55 AM
Pump Up the Volume has great energy!
This'll be my first time watching that Ridley Scott.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on February 07, 2021, 07:31:03 PM
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VS they're so hardwired into the minds of nerds, okay, in this situation you're looking at hand numbered limited editions this person owns, and this person has put each one in a case. activating that level nerdy is genius marketing. oh the person is one case short for The House of Usher, may they get on that asap
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on February 09, 2021, 12:18:16 PM
Quote from: wilder on January 10, 2021, 08:06:47 PM

Q1 2021 TBD

Frank Perry's Rancho Deluxe (1975) on blu-ray from Fun City Editions

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Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contemporary Montana.


They successfully marketed this one to me with jimmy Buffett

https://twitter.com/FunCityEdition/status/1358834804494581763
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on February 19, 2021, 09:42:01 PM
wilder, you were right about In the Cold of the Night, so this guy posted a photo of that movie with Blue Sunshine and I immediately sensed that you were right about that one too. so I ordered it. you know, just for kicks
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on February 19, 2021, 10:53:23 PM
I paid over 40 dollars for it with shipping which is insane to me. it was like 1999 again. it felt good! and my other Distribpix movie is The Opening of Misty Beethoven so it fits in perfectly. I'm porn and weird art shit these days

I'm on my fifth night with The Claim and I'm having a hard time with it. last night I felt pissed at Michael Nyman. it was a scene with a marriage proposal and I wanted to throw my television out the window. the porn arrives tomorrow, thank god
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on February 24, 2021, 01:22:29 PM
Cecil Howard's Command Cinema (https://commandcinema.com/shop/?fbclid=IwAR2Ed4ULDznfkeiSSTPButK1kXKtU9MPuJvR4b3BScZ9zZBfoOXolI6yfBI) is a thing. appears to be glorious adult movie releases. I'd post about it in the adult movie thread but this is a random dvd and blu-ray announcement. I want to eventually own all of them I'm sure. and I want whoever is making those covers to write my obituary

QuoteCecil Howard's, Command Cinema Corporation, was arguably one of the most successful and prolific production houses through the 1970's and 80's. A well established artist and businessman, Cecil Howard not only had the drive, but the artistic vision to elevate his films to a higher level. With high production values, skillful cinematography,well- written scripts, and brilliant editing, the films of Command Video represent the apex of classic erotica. The films of Command were incredibly successful, in both a commercial sense, and from a creative standpoint and Cecil Howard's films would often play for months on end throughout the cinemas of Times Square and across the US. With countless awards and thousands of fans around the globe, Cecil Howard's, Command Video has realized the importance of keeping the films and legacy alive forever. Please join us on a tribute and adventure through one of the greatest film legacies from the golden age of erotic filmmaking-COMMAND VIDEO!
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on February 25, 2021, 01:47:38 AM
a Bava-family release through Kino

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QuoteComing June 29th from Code Red DVD!
Distributed by Kino Lorber!
Delirium (1987) Le foto di Gioia
• 2016 HD Master
• Interviews with Director Lamberto Bava, Actor George Eastman, Cinematographer Gianlorenzo Battaglia and Art Director Massimo Antonello Geleng
• Vintage Interviews with Lamberto Bava, George Eastman and David Brandon
• Trailers
Gioia (Serena Grandi, star of Tinto Brass' Miranda) is a buxom centerfold working for Pussycat magazine. In such a profession, having an admirer or two is expected, but Gioia's new admirer is a vicious killer! He murders her fellow magazine models one at a time, using a variety of twisted implements of death. Gioia is the lucky recipient of a collection of photos, each with murdered bodies arranged around posters of her. Renowned Italian star Grandi, known as the Dolly Parton of Italy, leads the cast in this Giallo classic, which features George Eastman (Hands of Steel, Blastfighter, After the Fall of New York, Ironmaster) David Brandon (Stage Fright, Caligula the Untold Story, She), Daria Nicolodi (Deep Red, Tenebre, Inferno, Opera) and screen legend Capucine (The Pink Panther, Red Sun). Delirium was wonderfully directed by Lamberto Bava (Monster Shark, Blastfighter, Ironmaster) – now see this colorful Giallo in HD!
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on February 25, 2021, 11:26:38 AM
Quote from: jenkins on February 24, 2021, 03:50:33 PM
< 3


Glad i caught that wilder post.
Y'all are legit making me excited about an entire avenue of cinema that gets swept under the marketrug.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on February 26, 2021, 01:07:58 AM
May 26, 2021

Karel Reisz's The Gambler (1974) on blu-ray from Imprint (Australia). Written by and based on the personal experiences of James Toback. Up for pre-order (https://viavision.com.au/shop/the-gambler-1974/).

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FOR $10,000 THEY BREAK YOUR ARMS. FOR $20,000 THEY BREAK YOUR LEGS. AXEL FREED OWES $44,000. New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.

Quote from: Letterboxd user suttercainThis film really understands the mindset of a degenerative, addicted gambler better than any other I've seen. The desperate yearning pit in the soul that can never be filled no matter how many hits of adrenaline, whether from positive or negative reinforcement. The action really is the juice.

Ecstatic that this is coming out. James Caan's performance is incredible. I love this movie to death.





June 2021 TBD

John Scheinfeld's Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talking' About Him?) (2010) on blu-ray from MVD Visual

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A wildly entertaining, star-studded documentary about The Beatles' favorite American musician, Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him?) is a vibrant and definitive portrait of one of the most talented singer-songwriters in pop music history. The film delves deeply into Nilsson's artistic process, his spirited relationship with John Lennon, and the additions that haunted him. Brian Wilson, Yoko Ono and Robin Williams are among Nilsson's friends, family and colleagues who delve into the acclaimed singer-songwriter's music, creative process and personal demons.





June 22, 2021

Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected (2008) on blu-ray from MVD Visual

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A Jewish circus entertainer is kept alive by the Nazis to entertain Jews as they march to their deaths. He ends up in an asylum for Holocaust survivors, fighting to survive the madness around him.



Summer 2021 TBD

Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas (Charlton Heston) begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles). When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies (Joseph Calleia), are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie (Janet Leigh), in jeopardy.



June 22, 2021

Robert Altman's Fool for Love (1985) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing

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May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from.



April 6, 2021

Robert Siodmak's The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931) on blu-ray from Kino

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A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.

Quote from: IMDB user keksekaa minor classic of the mixed style 1930-1931

This film has a story that is not in the least original. It had been one before 1931 and it has done many times since - the man who wants to commit suicide, hires someone to kill him and then changes his mind. The first occurrence I know of is in the Jules Verne story Les Tribulations d'un chinois en Chine in 1879 which appears to have been the inspiration for Ernst Neubach who provided the idea for the script (whether he actually wrote a play on the subject seems uncertain). Much the same idea had already been used in a US film, Douglas Fairbanks' Flirting with Fate in 1916. The strength of this film is not therefore in its story nor in the writing in itself (which is relatively not very special) so much as in the general organization of the film (mise en scène, sound, scenery, acting style) which is absolutely outstanding.

To appreciate how good it is, just look at a version for the same story that Neubach himself directed in 1952 (Man lebt nur einmal). Despite the fact that Neubach employed set designer Emil Hasler who had worked on some classics of the Weimar period (inc. M and The Blue Angel) and on the excellent 1943 film Münchhausen, it is a very, very ordinary and uninteresting farce and, frankly, painfully unfunny. It was simply impossible in fifties Germany to create the style of the brilliant pre-war years (as Fritz Lang would also discover on his return). Neubach had actually made the film in exile in France too in 1949 as On demande un assassin with Fernandel but this I have not seen.

This is not a silent film but belongs to a special category of film for which as far as I know we have no name - films made in the thirties that employed sound (often, as here, in very interesting and inventive ways) not primarily for the purpose of dialogue (which is often minimal) or as incidental score but as an element of mise en scène (a part simply of the general ambiance of the film) while still retaining the visual values of silent films. Apart from the entirely exceptional case of Chaplin (Modern Times) this was a style unknown in the US - Von Sternberg is to some extent an exception - and US films that hesitate involuntarily between "silent" and "sound" are simply badly made films (poor sound quality, stilted over-enunciated dialogue, too much dialogue etc).

But there are some very fine and important examples pf this "mixed style" both in France (Clair's 1931 À nous la liberté is a perfect example as well as being an influence on Chaplin) and in Germany. The style is associated to some extent with the great directors of the silent era (Jean Epstein for instance) but also, more surprisingly, with a younger generation who had only just started making films at the end of that era (like the Siodmak or Clair or Machaty in Czechoslovakia) and in some cases with film-makers who had never made a silent film (Jean Vigo for instance in France). It can also be observed less markedly but to some extent in the great classics of these years (M, The Blue Angel, La Chienne). It is a style, in other words, that produced some of the greatest masterpieces of cinema.

Robert and Curt Siodmak and Billy Wilder as a team, until their enforced departure for the US, proved unsurprisingly real artists in the genre, having also produced the wonderful silent masterpiece Menschen am Sonntag the year before this.

Even if we are missing the beginning of the film explaining why the central character wishes to kill himself, this film still stands as a fine example of this mixed style of the early thirties. Beautiful expressionistic sets (something of a revival by this time in Germany), mildly stylized acting (in fact, more accurately a typical mix of the stylized and the naturalistic), superbly ironic use of sound.

Had the rise of Hitler not destroyed he German film industry, the style might have survived as a natural bridge between the golden age of European film in the late twenties and the "new wave" of the sixties. It does to a certain extent in French "poetic realism" (early Renoir, Carné etc) and in the films of Sacha Guitry but in Germany it died the death while the Germans, Austrians and Hungarians fleeing to the US had no choice but to accept the more banal strictures of US "realist" style.

As is also the case with silent films, later ill-advised "sound" remakes of "mixed style" films are nearly always inferior, and often vastly inferior, to the originals.



Summer 2021 TBD

John Farrow's Alias Nick Beal (1949) on blu-ray from Kino

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After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster  says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.



April 21, 2021

Jean-Jacques Annaud's Quest for Fire (1981) on blu-ray from Gaumont (France)

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In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes. Lacking the knowledge to start a new fire, the tribe sends three warriors (Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nameer El-Kadi) on a quest for more. With the tribe's future at stake, the warriors make their way across a treacherous landscape full of hostile tribes and monstrous beasts. On their journey, they encounter Ika (Rae Dawn Chong), a woman who has the knowledge they seek.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on February 26, 2021, 11:25:05 AM
https://twitter.com/ArrowFilmsVideo/status/1365316059738341376

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QuoteSPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray transfer
Original uncompressed mono audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Archive commentary by director Jonathan Kaplan, producer George Litto and writers Tim Hunter & Charlie Haas
New commentary by star Michael Kramer and journalist Mike Sacks
Isolated music and effects track
Wide Streets + Narrow Minds, an exclusive retrospective documentary featuring newly recorded interviews with cast and crew, including Jonathan Kaplan, Tim Hunter, Charlie Haas, talent scouts Jane Bernstein and Linda Feferman, production designer Jim Newport, stars Michael Kramer, Harry Northup, Vincent Spano, Pamela Ludwig, Julia Pomeroy, Kim Kliner, Diane Reilly, Eric Lalich and others
Full post-film Q&A from a 2010 screening at the Walter Reade Theater in New York, featuring Litto, Hunter, Haas, Bernstein, Northup, Kramer, Ludwig, Pomeroy and Tom Fergus
Excerpts from the Projection Booth podcast episode on the film, including discussion by Mike White, Leon Chase and Heather Drain, plus interviews with Haas, Hunter, Spano, Northup and Andy Romano
Destruction: Fun or Dumb?, the full educational short excerpted within the film, in high definition
US theatrical trailer and TV spots
UK VHS promo
Image galleries
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sister Hyde
FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collectors' booklet featuring new writing by Kim Morgan and Henry Blyth, and the original San Francisco Examiner article that inspired the film

*** EXTRAS STILL IN PRODUCTION AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE ***

the hype iz real ~
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on March 04, 2021, 07:14:19 PM
learned about Canadian stuff (https://www.videonomicon.com/current-releases/)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilberfan on March 06, 2021, 11:04:40 PM
Apocalypse Now - Final Cut (4K-Ultra HD)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 12, 2021, 08:44:19 PM
June 1, 2021

Daniel Petrie's Buster and Billie (1974) on blu-ray from Zephina Media, from a restoration of the original film elements. Available to pre-order from busterandbillie.com (https://www.busterandbillie.com)

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In a rural 1940s southern town, a socially awkward high school girl is taken advantage of by the boys, because it's the only way she knows to relate to boys. But one, Buster, falls in love with her. The other boys, however, still consider her their convenient "squeeze", with tragic results.





June 29, 2021

David Hemmings' Just a Gigolo (1978) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.

Quote from: IMDB user AbuAhzanOffbeat, parallel-universe look at Weimar poised between romanticism and despair

This is one of the most unusual films I have ever seen. It's an offbeat, sensitively filmed look at Weimar Germany in a sort of parallel-universe version. "Cabaret" it is not! If you ever get a chance to see it, I don't want to spoil the ending for you . . . but when you see it, you'll say to yourself, "Of course! Why didn't I foresee that coming?!?" David Bowie plays a sort of innocent ne'er-do-well discharged from the German army after World War I and drifting through existence; he can't find anything to do with himself except hire himself out as a "gigolo" for rich, proto-Eurotrash war widows in ballrooms where they "dance to forget". Bowie's father is a once-domineering tyrant who has been silenced by a stroke. Bowie tries to break the news to him that he has descended so far as to play the gigolo, a betrayal of his father's macho ideals, but Dad only sits in stony silence -- a disturbing scene. Bowie plays a poor lost soul. As Western civilization decays all around him, a sinister character stalks him and tries to gain control over him; this bloke is vaguely homosexual (only suggested), and one of his lines is a real groaner of a double-entendre: "We will have you in the end!" Marlene Dietrich is the center of romantic gravity in this story; she sadly, sweetly tells Bowie the raison d'etre of forlorn women dancing with gigolos in the ballrooms -- the only way to assuage loss and stave off despair. Then she performs the song "Just a Gigolo", bringing out all the heartbreak from its depths. The end of the film is dark and truly chilling. Go see it if you can!

QuoteThe Thin White Duke is offered as a sort of symbol for Germany in the years between the wars: everyone wants to claim him for their own but no-one really cares about him. Pointlessly proud but aimlessly drifting without any particular talents or a sense of purpose to compensate while the Nazis gradually rise, he slowly drifts into becoming part of Marlene Dietrich's regiment of gigolos.





July 6, 2021

Alejandro Galindo's Espaldas mojadas aka Wet Backs (1955) on blu-ray from VCI, from a 4K restoration by the Mexican National Cinematheque

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Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and crosses the Mexican-American border, helped by an American, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael struggles to adapt to his new life.





April 6, 2021

Norman Jewison's Rollerball (1975) on blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing, from a 4K restoration. Available exclusively from RoninFlix (https://roninflix.com/collections/coming-soon/products/rollerball)

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The year is 2018. There are no wars. There is no crime. There is only....the Game. In a world where ruthless corporations reign supreme, this vicious and barbaric "sport" is the only outlet for the pent-up anger and frustrations of the masses. Tuned to their televisions, the people watch "Rollerball": A brutal mutation of football, motocross and hockey. Jonathan E. is the champion player-- a man too talented for his own good. The Corporation has taken away the woman Jonathan loves, but they can't take away his soul-- even if the diabolical corporate head tells him he better retire.... or suffer the old-fashioned way.





June 1, 2021

Frank Perry's Mommie Dearest (1981) on blu-ray from Paramount, from a 4K restoration

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Based on Christina Crawford's controversial best-selling tell-all novel, MOMMMIE DEAREST features a powerhouse performance by Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford, struggling for her career while battling the inner demons of her private life. While the public Crawford was a strong-willed, glamorous object of admiration, behind the scenes is a private Crawford—the woman desperate to be a single mother and trying to survive in a devastating industry that swallows careers thoughtlessly.



July 27, 2021

David Mamet's State and Main (2000) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.



April 27, 2021

Michael Ritchie's Smile (1975) on blu-ray from Fun City Editions, from a 2K restoration of an interpositive

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The time has come for the annual Young American Miss Pageant in California. Executive producer Brenda (Barbara Feldon) focuses maniacally on the event, ignoring any complaints. While her husband, Andy (Nicholas Pryor), sulks, choreographer Tommy French (Michael Kidd) looks after the safety of the contestants. With all the girls trying to outdo each other, tension increases as the pageant drags on and the skeptical contestant, Robin (Joan Prather), takes the lead despite her reservations.





June 15, 2021

John Sturges' Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) on blu-ray from Paramount from a 6K restoration of the original VistaVision camera negative

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A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.



July 6, 2021

Harold Becker's The Black Marble (1980) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative

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Pragmatic Sgt. Natalie Zimmermann is paired with Valnikov, a romantic detective of Russian origin who is going through a midlife crisis. They fall in love while solving the case of the kidnapping of a socialite's pet dog.





May 11, 2021

Douglas Sirk's To New Shores (1937) and La Habanera (1937) on blu-ray from Kino

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To New Shores
Gloria takes the blame for Sir Albert Finsbury's forgery and is sent to Australia. Sir Albert refuses to marry her and free her from prison after he makes a strategic proposal to a governor's daughter, leaving Gloria to marry a local farmer.

La Habanera
Trapped in Puerto Rico, a beautiful young Swede is torn between her passionate, but mildly abusive Caribbean oligarch husband and her longing for her European homeland.



July 20, 2021

Wesley Ruggles' The Gilded Lily (1935) on blu-ray from Kino

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This often overlooked comedy gem marks the first teaming of screen legends Claudette Colbert (The Bride Comes Home, The Palm Beach Story) and Fred MacMurray (The Princess Comes Across, The Apartment) and is the epitome of a New York City urban fantasy. Newspaper reporter Peter Dawes (MacMurray) and stenographer Marilyn David (Colbert) meet regularly on a park bench sharing popcorn along with their dreams. Their budding romance is soon threatened by a chance meeting between Marilyn and Charles Gray (Ray Milland, Beau Geste, The Lost Weekend), an English nobleman visiting America. Marilyn's fantasy of landing a handsome millionaire becomes a reality as she is pursued by Charles in a whirlwind courtship, leaving Peter fighting to reclaim his love. When the press learns of the affair, it turns into an international tabloid scandal for everyone involved. Directed by Wesley Ruggles (I'm No Angel), The Gilded Lily helped launch the career of Fred MacMurray who would make six more films with Claudette Colbert over the years.



July 13, 2021

George Sherman's Larceny (1948) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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A con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money she's received to build a memorial to her war-hero husband, but instead winds up falling in love with her.



Summer 2021 TBD

Robert Aldrich's Vera Cruz (1954) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 2K remaster

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During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of adventurers from the US are hired by the forces of Emperor Maximiliano to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.



May 25, 2021

Irving Pichel's They Won't Believe Me (1947) on blu-ray from Warner Archive, from a 4K restoration from nitrate preservation elements

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On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.



June 28, 2021

Mel Stuart's Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Warner Bros.

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A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.



June 14, 2021

Robert Wiene's The Hands of Orlac (1924) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK), from a restoration of the original film elements by Film Archiv Austria

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Reuniting the star and director of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, The Hands of Orlac [Orlac's Hände] is a deliciously twisted thriller that blends grand guignol thrills with the visual and performance styles of German Expressionism.

Based on a novel by medical-horror novelist Maurice Renard, it charts the mental disintegration of a concert pianist (Conrad Veidt) whose hands are amputated after a train crash, and replaced with the hands of an executed murderer. When Orlac's father is murdered by the dead man's hands, Orlac begins a steady descent towards madness.






June 16, 2021

James Foley's After Dark, My Sweet (1990) on blu-ray from Carlotta Films (France)

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When a couple of conniving lowlifes hatch a plot to kidnap the scion of a wealthy local family, they pick the wrong man to carry out the job: Kid Collins, a disturbed ex-boxer on the lam from a mental institution.





April 28, 2021

Graeme Clifford's Frances (1982) on blu-ray from StudioCanal (France)

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The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.



2022 TBD

Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection are being remastered in 4K for 4K Blu-ray and Disney+ release. Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection are the only films in the Alien series not to have 4K editions available but this is set to change with the plan being to release them on Disney+/Star initially with a subsequent 4K Alien Collection heading to 4K Blu-ray some time in 2022.

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on April 19, 2021, 12:00:27 AM
wilder I'm pretty close to being super familiar with VS and I began with adult movies, as you know, so now I'm surveying the rest of the catalogue and I recently confirmed The Passing (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/the-passing?_pos=1&_sid=2a5449085&_ss=r) as something special. the whole "seven-year passion project for director, writer, producer, and co-star" angle doesn't even cover how truly authentic and touching the movie feels, and it's a sci-fi! the principle characters are two old men and their friendship breaks you. it's a true discovery

I'm on my way to The Candy Snatchers (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/the-candy-snatchers?_pos=1&_sid=af7cee7cb&_ss=r), which the fb vs community just won't let me skip. "Unflinchingly dark, violent, and merciless" is a thing certain people tend to appreciate, you know. feels realistic. its sibling that doesn't sound too similar is Sudden Fury (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/sudden-fury?_pos=1&_sid=19c490e7e&_ss=r), "A riveting and criminally under-seen Hitchcockian thriller, prolific NFB short films director Brian Damude's SUDDEN FURY ranks as one of the finest forgotten films to emerge out of Canada's mid 70s tax shelter era."

I've previously written about Sweet Sweetback and let me just say, not in terms of black filmmakers but in terms of general filmmaking, and he just happens to be black, Jamaa Fanaka (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/search?q=%27Jamaa+Fanaka%27&type=product) is a name to know, oh god is he. his movies are better than you're anticipating through your familiarity with low-budget 70s movies. LA Rebellion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Rebellion) is best known here through Charles Burnett (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Burnett_(director)). I began with Emma Mae and how much it delighted me is being demonstrated

like with wbf here, lots of the older genre movies have older fans who know of a different world than I do. familiarity with dtv vhs movies trips me out. I learn a lot by listening and I've been warmly accepted because like-minded people find each other
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on April 19, 2021, 12:24:51 PM
This and the cult cinema thread posts bring the heat ^
thanks for the links -- alwayz so much Genre to learn from
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on April 27, 2021, 09:43:18 PM
my becoming enthusiastic about this boxset happened through a natural process. because it sounds like something I would do. encountering abnormalities born outside the Hollywood system is my party, I'm a voyeur to cinema. I watch cinema take place, and when it comes from the hands of normal people it touches me not only through sincerity but conviction. someone believed in these movies. I am a sucker in this regard, but as they say, everybody is a sucker to somebody. has someone really said that? hmm

(https://i.imgur.com/LHNKWJT.jpeg)

QuoteBEYOND DREAM'S DOOR:

Lately, Ben hasn't been sleeping well. His dreams are filled with violent and terrifying visions of monsters and death. Seeking out answers, he begins to pursue the subtext and hidden meanings of his strange and terrifying nightmares, with the help of his professor and several friends. As the dreams grow increasingly lifelike, Ben fears that he's losing his grip on sanity, especially as those around him start turning up dead; horribly mutilated just like he's seen in his sleep...

A low-on-budget but extremely high on ambition apocalyptic horror film, and the first feature written and directed by jack-of-all-trades filmmaker, Jay Woelfel, the Ohio lensed BEYOND DREAM'S DOOR skillfully blends elements of surrealism, mystery, and grotesque and violent horror set-pieces, resulting in a wholly singular vision. Sadly relegated direct-to-video, BEYOND DREAM'S DOOR has earned a sizable cult following and comes to Blu-ray for the very first time, from Vinegar Syndrome, painstakingly reconstructed shot by shot from its original, unedited 16mm camera negative, and is presented in its director's cut.

QuoteWINTERBEAST:

Weird things are happening in and around the Wild Goose Lodge, a snowy inn located in rural Massachusetts. People are being found dead and mutilated, while others are vanishing without a trace. Realizing that the violence might have something to do with Native American black magic and the ancient secrets of the area's historic totem poles, a trio of cops decide to investigate the goings on, and are faced with an array of monsters, ghouls, and even a sampling of murderous locals!

A film which truly justifies the term 'unclassifiable,' and the sole feature from writer and director Christopher Thies, WINTERBEAST was shot on and off for nearly half a decade and in a mix of super 8mm and 16mm, resulting in a one of a kind piece of outsider art horror filmmaking that must be seen to be believed. Loaded with surreal dialogue, mind-blowing stop motion animation, homemade gore effects, and more than a few genuinely creepy moments, Vinegar Syndrome is delighted to bring this forgotten cult gem to Blu-ray, newly restored and reconstructed from it's original film elements and presented in both its commonly seen released version along with a never before released workprint edit.

QuoteFATAL EXAM:

A group of college students have been given a very unusual assignment: spend the night inside of a supposedly haunted house, as part of their studies into the supernatural and occult. Although the rag tag team of collegiates would much rather party and get stoned than look for ghosts, it's not long before unexplained events begin to occur. Initially suspecting that some of their classmates might be playing a practical joke, their fears are proven very real when someone - or something - dressed in robes and carrying a scythe starts bumping them off one by one.

A truly local slice of ultra low budget supernatural-slasher made by a first time cast and crew based in St. Louis, Missouri, Jack Snyder's FATAL EXAM plays its haunted house tropes for its first half, before shifting gears into slice n' dice mayhem for its second half. Barely released in any format and never officially made available on disc, Vinegar Syndrome is happy to bring this low-fi curiosity on Blu-ray, newly restored in 2K from its 16mm original camera negative and featuring an illuminating array of extras.

I don't want to watch the trailer, myself, because I want it raw, but here is the trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCPr30meVXY

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on April 30, 2021, 08:46:10 PM
basically, this is me nerd-chatting with wilder:

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so, that'll happen tonight (edit: tomorrow at noon, right). "OCN Distribution is the distribution sister company of VS which handles the partner labels," is the situation. there are currently seven partner labels, and a question is whether a new one will appear or not.

for the seven already around, AGFA is the most significant partner label, to me, in terms of I knew about it before I knew about VS. Fun City Editions (https://funcityeditions.com) has landed strong, quite strong. Altered Innocence (https://www.alteredinnocence.net/shop) shows every sign of promise. Utopia (https://www.utopiadistribution.com) began with Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and is releasing the soundcloud rappers who live in the desert documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCdPHcWJjEw&feature=emb_title). ETR Media is a question mark: their release of Green Jelly concert material was, shall we say, appreciated by a select few. Music Box Selects began with that nordic movie I posted the trailer to, and whether they're related to Chicago's famous Music Box or not I'm not sure. Pulse Video  (https://pulsestore.net/categorie-produit/films-en/?lang=en&fbclid=IwAR34ZZvDJJWOyB1vyxScOBxbQP-o8ara8Thq-sEz68dQ3uUhiCnw6ZoneaU)is France based and VS handles certain US distribution

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you know this sale as well as I do. Here is the entirety of Six-String Samurai (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaPP00uNkNI) btw. Six-Sting Samurai is receiving the cult world equivalent to Come and See's recent situation: a repackaging of a movie that creates a richer impression than its initial impact. we both remember the Kino release of Come and See. marketing, timing, and etc as influential properties. it's also the second example of the most beautiful packaging in boutique label history, VSU. The Beastmaster was the initial, and that fucker has a ribbon, what more can they do for you. Surf II (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088207/) is troma-type humor, which, in earlier years at least, depressed me in that way people say they are depressed by depressing movies (which I enjoy). I'm trying to stay open to 80s humor though. the people who were teenagers then speak about it with a level of fondness that touches me. television terror has three movies with notable actors and the titles have been listed somewhere but I forget where. somehow people already know the Cardona titles, too, but I forget them. he has passed through Kino (https://www.kinolorber.com/product/tintorera-tiger-shark-blu-ray) and in fact another of his will come out soon, I forget which one and also I forget the name of the cult movie company associated with Kino you know the one. this guy is a whole thing (https://letterboxd.com/director/rene-cardona-jr-1/). the two surprise VS releases will have limited-edition slips of course. the VSA are limited-edition in general, and they have a different type of slip, one with a top. what I hear is the slip craze began with one that had a thousand, and the four new catalogue slips will be for titles released before the craze began. "legacy" slips
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on May 01, 2021, 09:47:42 AM
Holy crap, alwayz wanted to watch this and now it's up for free. Weekend made
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 01, 2021, 12:09:54 PM
Quote from: WorldForgot on May 01, 2021, 09:47:42 AM
Holy crap, alwayz wanted to watch this and now it's up for free. Weekend made

niice

they announced the six new partner label titles and there are two new partner labels now, Gunpowder & Sky (https://gunpowdersky.com) and Circle Collective (https://www.circlecollective.com)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F96wbQ698Z0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1r4y_RK10g
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 01, 2021, 05:47:32 PM
The new American indie cinema: Vinegar Syndrome partner labels (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/partner-labels) + Oscilloscope (https://www.oscilloscope.net/films/) / Mubi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mubi_(streaming_service)#MUBI_Releases) / Neon (https://neonrated.com/films). It's a small club now but that makes it easy.

Kino's also begun dabbling in new releases (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=280&sortby=productionyear) (Abel Ferrara's Tommaso (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Tommaso-Blu-ray/269719/), the Dardenne Bros. Young Ahmed (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Young-Ahmed-Blu-ray/267766/), Bruno Dumont's Coincoin & the Extra-Humans (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Coincoin-and-the-Extra-Humans-Blu-ray/252658/), and Rick Alverson's The Mountain (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Mountain-Blu-ray/252650/), among others)

Shout Factory put out The Nest (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Nest-Blu-ray/285800/) and The House That Jack Built (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-House-That-Jack-Built-Blu-ray/236793/), but those are stylistic standouts from their usual focus.

Criterion and A24 seem to catch what James Gray would call "the middle" - the slightly bigger budget fare.


On the foreign front for new releases you've got Cohen Media Group (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?studioid=1474&sortby=productionyear) / Grasshopper Film (https://grasshopperfilm.com/in-theaters/) / Kimstim (https://www.kimstim.com/), and across the pond there's Anti-Worlds (https://anti-worldsreleasing.co.uk/).

Cohen Media can be counted on for Ozon and some French cinema. Grasshopper Film had Bertrand Bonello's Nocturama (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Nocturama-Blu-ray/195924/). Kimstim has put out Bruno Dumont's past couple features.

Breaking Glass, Film Movement, and Strand Releasing have slowed to a trickle.


These labels are detailed on the first page (https://xixax.com/index.php?topic=11691.0) of this thread, relevant links, etc. but not separated by new release companies vs catalog.




Prospect (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/partner-labels/products/prospect-gunpowder-sky) looks interesting but that's quite a price.

Will get Adoration (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/partner-labels/products/adoration-altered-innocence) of course, likely the two you recommended above (The Candy Snatchers  & The Passing), and maybe The Leather Boys (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/partner-labels/products/the-leather-boys-agfa) and Donny's Bar Mitzvah depending if the May sale includes those.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 01, 2021, 06:20:27 PM
I receive different information about the cutoff date for movie release dates included in the sale, but there is a cutoff, most likely February, though as indicated I can't say for certain. but anyway today's announcements won't be a part of the sale. Six-String Samurai won't be, or any of the may releases, or April releases, and I don't think March either

so, since they won't be part of the sale, and I'm hype for them, I just now ordered Home Grown Horrors and Donny's Bar Mitzvah, although there are plenty more that interest me, and if this was in fact sale season I'd add on The Leather Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4tWA-S-PHA

AGFA has the best trailers and descriptions in the game
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 01, 2021, 11:46:23 PM
Quote from: jenkins on April 30, 2021, 08:46:10 PM
I forget the name of the cult movie company associated with Kino

Code Red (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Red_DVD). their upcoming Cardona release is Guyana: Cult of The Damned  (https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=27927)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 07, 2021, 02:19:20 PM
QuoteSo which of our announced May slate are you most excited for? Is it SURF II, on Blu-ray for the first time and presented in both its standard theatrical version along with its unreleased, original director's cut? Vol. 1 in our three part, expanding box set of the films of Rene Cardona Jr., featuring his gory jungle cannibal epic, TREASURE OF THE AMAZON, along with the nasty CYCLONE (in both its Spanish and English cuts), and the off the wall BERMUDA TRIANGLE? Or perhaps its Televised Terror: Vol1, offering a trio of star-studded, made-for-tv murder thrillers, CALENDAR GIRL MURDERS, ARE YOU IN THE HOUSE ALONE?, and CHILD IN THE NIGHT?

But what of our three (!?!) surprise titles? As you may remember, we're about to unveil another world's first in the form of a UHD two-pack. That's two gory (and gooey) films in UHD (and Blu-ray), packaged together, totaling over three hours of explosive 4K entertainment. Plus the world Blu-ray premier of a wild sci-fi/fantasy spectacle that's all but guaranteed to trigger pangs of late 80s cable nostalgia.

(https://i.imgur.com/u9NNiny.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/v088DYC.jpeg)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 13, 2021, 05:14:34 PM
wilder,

have you dipped your toes into Cauldron (https://www.cauldron-films.com/collections/cauldron-films) (American Rickshaw?,) Culture Shock (https://www.cultureshockreleasing.com/store), (???,) or Massacre Video (http://massacrevideo.com/site/?product_cat=blu-ray) (the people's court company, recently released Toxic Zombies)?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 13, 2021, 06:03:43 PM
I've got Abrakadabra (https://xixax.com/index.php?topic=14335.0) from Cauldron, American Rampage / Danger USA (https://xixax.com/index.php?topic=13639.30) (last post) from Massacre Video, and will gamble on Death Collector (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Death-Collector-Blu-ray/288653/) from Culture Shock. Those are the only releases I'm familiar with from them.

This is how Death Collector has been described:

Quote from: Letterboxd user Justine WieseA low budget, regionally shot, dystopian sorta-western that feels like an Alex Cox film with Lynchian overtones

I remember when Louis C Justin was posting YouTube videos like 10 years ago before his label started. As soon as Massacre Video went live he took them all down.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 13, 2021, 06:20:04 PM
always my dude. for some this board is 100% PTA and for me it's 90% wilder

let me remind myself about what I read about American Rickshaw on the VS fb group, here it is

Quoteit's like an Italian version of big trouble little China. It's batshit wild.

the website info

QuoteDirected by Italian genre legend Sergio Martino (All the Colors of the Dark) and Written by Sauro Scavolini (A Man Called Blade) with a story by Roberto Leoni (Santa Sangre) this late 80s Miami-lensed Action/Horror hybrid

you know I haven't gone all region although it's not that expensive to and rather practical, but it appears to be that the UK equivalent of VS is 88 Films (https://88-films.myshopify.com). 88 Films has gone Hong Kong. I adore this movie but consider this ridiculous (https://88-films.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/short-circuit-2-deluxe-collectors-edition?variant=32422286852138)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 13, 2021, 06:44:52 PM
I love parts of Sergio Martino's The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh. It's stylistically bold enough that I'd definitely take a look at anything else Martino produced. Saw All the Colors... many years ago but can't remember much of it. I think it had some hallucinatory, wide angle stuff involving an orgy or ritual (?) or something. I get all gialli confused.

Quote from: jenkins on May 13, 2021, 06:20:04 PMyou know I haven't gone all region although it's not that expensive to and rather practical, but it appears to be that the UK equivalent of VS is 88 Films (https://88-films.myshopify.com).

There's some crossover in titles and maybe they're using some VS transfers (no idea) but I wouldn't necessarily call 88 Films the UK equivalent of Vinegar Syndrome. As far as I know they're not doing their own scans or spearheading restoration work. I could be wrong. There is definite title crossover but I'm not certain their transfers are as consistently top-tier across the board. Hollow Man, for example. Mostly basing this off of caps and reviews.

I've got 88's releases of Delirium (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Delirium-Blu-ray/158279/#Screenshots), which has a US release forthcoming that I know you posted about, and Just Before Dawn (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Just-Before-Dawn-Blu-ray/166388/), which has an inferior transfer to at least one of Code Red's releases, but I think that's it.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 13, 2021, 07:00:17 PM
yeah. some superficial similarities but interior differences. I heard about them through the VS group who bring them up like all the time. but totally, VS' restoration work is a cut above. and the fact is they got a wide range of movies, it's taken me roughly a year to familiarize myself with the possibilities. I previously mentioned some mentionables but I forgot to then mention this Curtis Harrington movie (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/the-killing-kind)

that cover to Delirium is really something else. it has noticeable charms. eventually I need to own Just Before Dawn
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 15, 2021, 09:30:25 PM
June 14, 2021

Paul Verhoeven's Basic Instinct on 4K UHD blu-ray from StudioCanal (UK), from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative supervised by Paul Verhoeven.

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Michael Douglas stars as hardboiled San Francisco detective Nick Curran, a troubled cop with a history of trigger-happy shootings and a weakness for beautiful women and dangerous relationships. Sharon Stone is Catherine Tramell, a stunning, enigmatic novelist with a talent for seduction and a history of relationships that end in death. The death of a former rock star sends Nick into the orbit of the victim's lover, Catherine, who immediately becomes prime suspect in the murder. Catherine ignites Nick's suspicions and his passion, and he soon becomes involved in his most dangerous liaison yet.





July 19, 2021

Tony Scott's True Romance (1993) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Arrow (UK), from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative

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Runaway lovers Clarence and Alabama play a dangerous game when they come to possess a suitcase of mob contraband. They head for Los Angeles, where they'll sell the goods and begin a new life. But both sides of the law have other ideas.



July 13, 2021

Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous (2000) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Paramount

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In the 1970s, a high school boy is given an opportunity to follow and write a story about the hot new rock band Stillwater as they tour the USA.



2021 TBD

Wolfgang Petersen's The Neverending Story (1984) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Constantin Film (Germany)

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A troubled boy dives into a wondrous fantasy world through the pages of a mysterious book.

This movie has a sordid history on blu-ray. Previous to this release, the best transfers were on the Dutch blu-ray (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-NeverEnding-Story-Blu-ray/16389/) and the latest German release (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Die-unendliche-Geschichte-Blu-ray/256493/) from Constantin Film.

See rollover comparisons between the most recent German blu-ray and the US blu-ray transfer here:

Comparison 1 (https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=13616&d2=13614&s1=137285&s2=137245&i=0&l=0)
Comparison 2 (https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=13616&d2=13614&s1=137280&s2=137249&i=5&l=0)
Comparison 3 (https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=13616&d2=13614&s1=137290&s2=137247&i=15&l=0)



June 8, 2021

Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (1991) on blu-ray from Film Movement, from a 4K restoration

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Maggie Cheung embodies tragic silent screen siren Ruan Lingyu, known as the "Greta Garbo of China," in this unconventional biopic by Hong Kong New Wave master Stanley Kwan. Praised for her moving and emotive onscreen presence, Ruan's private life, which was frequent fodder for the vicious Shanghai tabloids, began to mirror the melodramas which brought her fame, culminating in her suicide at age 24. Kwan and Cheung paint a kaleidoscopic yet intimate portrait of the ill-fated actress, deftly blending lush period drama, archival footage, and metatextual documentary sequences of Cheung reflecting on Ruan's lasting legacy.





June 8, 2000

Francois Ozon's Under the Sand (2000) on blu-ray from Kino

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For many years, Marie (Charlotte Rampling) and Jean (Bruno Cremer) have happily spent their vacations together at their country house. One day at the beach, Marie naps in the sand while Jean goes for a swim. When she awakens, he is gone. Did he drown? Did he run off? Distraught, Marie notifies the authorities. But after an extensive search, no body is found, and Marie is left in a painful limbo, unable to properly grieve for her lost love.



May 25, 2021

Jacques Doillon's Ponette (1996) on blu-ray from Kino

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An extremely captivating movie on how a little girl copes with her mother's death. She withdraws from all the people around her, waiting for her mother to come back. She tries waiting, and when her mother still doesn't appear, tries magic chants, praying to God, and then becoming a child of God, to have some power over Him.



July 27, 2021

Veit Harlan's Immense (1943) & Opfergang aka The Great Sacrifice (1944) on blu-ray from Kino

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During World War II, Kristina Söderbaum came to represent, for the German people, an ideal woman: the embodiment of strength and beauty, as well as a paragon of fidelity and sacrifice. Immensee stars Söderbaum as Elisabeth, a woman in love with Reinhardt, a brilliant composer (Carl Raddatz), but who instead marries someone more reliable (Paul Klinger). Years later, Reinhardt returns, and Elisabeth has a chance to be true to her one greatest love.

In The Great Sacrifice, Söderbaum is Äls, a goddess of a woman who captures the heart of a married man Albrecht (Raddatz). When Äls falls victim to a serious illness, Albrect's loyal wife (Irene von Meyendorff) sacrifices her own happiness for the sake of her husband. Filmed in the rich, warm hues of the Agfacolor process (exquisitely restored by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung), both films are heavy with mood, highlighted by feverish dream sequences that give sublime visual expression to the character's overwrought emotions.


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Quote from: BFIOpfergang and Veit Harlan's sexual subversions
By Brad Stevens

In the second part of a special focus on Veit Harlan, Brad Stevens reveals how the director's later work continued to undermine fascist ideology.

It is now generally acknowledged that the ideological underpinnings of classical Hollywood were frequently subverted by auteur directors, with the masterpieces of Howard Hawks and John Ford taking a critical perspective on American society while superficially appearing to affirm its norms. Indeed, ever since Cahiers du cinéma published Young Mr. Lincoln, texte collectif in 1970, the notion of ideological contradiction has been central to discourses on American cinema.

Yet a different set of rules would seem to apply to films made in Nazi Germany, which are seldom discussed in aesthetic (as opposed to historical) terms. This proscription pertains not just to propagandistic texts, but also to those Nazi-era productions which contain no reference to fascist politics. To an extent, such a viewpoint is understandable: what business had directors turning out innocuous comedies or romances when millions of Jews were being slaughtered by their government? Since overtly criticising the regime was, of course, impossible, the only action any self-respecting German artist could have taken was to leave the country.

Yet a recent viewing of several titles by Veit Harlan has led me to conclude that Nazi cinema may have been as riven with contradictions and disturbances as anything by Alfred Hitchcock or Vincente Minnelli. In last month's column, I claimed that the mise en scène of Harlan's Jew Suss (Jud Süß, 1940) disrupted the film's surface antisemitism. But the director's later output may well be even more subversive.

As Harlan's oeuvre progresses, a strikingly obsessive narrative structure emerges, one in which a young man either woos or is wooed by a young woman who is considered an acceptable match for him, even though (or perhaps because) their relationship is quasi-incestuous. In Opfergang (1944) this woman is the protagonist's cousin; in Hanna Amon (1951) she is his sister; and in Different from You and Me (Anders als du und ich, 1957) she is a live-in maid whose relationship to the protagonist, Klaus (Christian Wolff), is essentially that of a sibling. In all three films, the young man falls under the spell of a temptress – one representing a world of exotic sophistication – whom he must ultimately renounce. In Opfergang this is Äls (Harlan's wife, Kristina Söderbaum), an unconventional foreigner who refuses to settle in one place, while in Hanna Amon it is Vera Colombani (Ilse Steppat), who has many of the same characteristics. Different from You and Me provides a fascinating variation on this theme, since its 'other woman' is actually a man, the gay Manfred (Günther Theil).

This pattern, already dimly visible in Jew Suss (in which Karl and Dorothea seem more like brother and sister than husband and wife) and Immensee (1943), can be traced back to F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), which Harlan remade as The Journey to Tilsit (Die Reise nach Tilsit, 1939). Yet what distinguishes Harlan's approach from Murnau's is the greater sympathy he accords his 'woman from the city' characters. This is apparent even in Jew Suss where, although the project's nature prevents Harlan from taking an unambiguously positive view of his 'snake in paradise' (an image explicitly evoked in Hanna Amon), the film's ostensible villain is clearly its emotional centre. But Opfergang goes much further in this direction, suggesting not merely an intuitive resistance to a reactionary formula, but rather a coherent oppositional project.

Opfergang is notable for many reasons, not least the ways in which it anticipates Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999); the masked women who tempt Dr. Harford (Tom Cruise) with the possibility of consequenceless sexual intercourse might have been taken directly from Opfergang. What makes this more than just a random reference is the fact that Kubrick was married to Harlan's niece, Christiane Harlan, and once considered directing a film about the making of Jew Suss. (Christiane relates a story about an awkward meeting between Kubrick and her uncle in Felix Moeller's documentary Harlan: Im Schatten von Jud Süß.)

Commentators often claim that Opfergang's emphasis on sacrifice has propagandistic overtones, insisting it prepared German cinemagoers to make whatever sacrifices were necessary for the good of the fatherland. It is easy enough to see how such a view might be sustained by attending solely to the film's plot. The central character, Albrecht (Carl Raddatz), returns to Germany after having travelled the world, and decides to marry his cousin, Octavia (Irene von Meyendorff). Albrecht subsequently meets and falls in love with Octavia's neighbour, Äls, who chooses death rather than destroy his marriage.

This, one might assume, is the 'sacrificial rite' of the title. But Harlan's dialogue places the emphasis elsewhere. When Äls is confined to her sickbed by a typhus epidemic, Albrecht keeps her spirits up by appearing beneath her window on horseback at the same time every day – at least, that is, until he also succumbs to the epidemic.

Albrecht later learns that, during his illness, Octavia had taken his place, disguising herself as a man and riding past Äls's house. It is Äls's doctor who informs Albrecht of this, preceding his remarks with the observation that "Octavia does not need a sacrifice. She is making a sacrifice." There would, then, appear to be two 'sacrificial rites', and though both are performed by women eager to defend socially permissible expressions of heterosexual ardour, they effectively render heterosexuality redundant. Octavia's masquerade as Albrecht – taken in conjunction with the scene in which she mediates her own voyeuristic look by commenting on how Äls attracts the gaze of men in the street – suggests the real nature of the desire being affirmed here. While Äls and Octavia both imagine themselves to be undertaking rites of sacrifice for Albrecht's sake, the final scene – in which Octavia, who had earlier sent Äls a gift of flowers, throws a rose into the sea – makes it quite clear that the love at this film's heart is a lesbian one.

This celebration of same-sex passion, anticipated by the two women at the masked ball (who seem as likely to make love with each other as with Albrecht), is rendered all the more audacious by its appearance in a work aimed at an audience which would have regarded homosexuality as an abomination. Opfergang deserves our respect, not despite its being a product of the Third Reich, but precisely because of that fact.



August 10, 2021

David Miller's Back Street (1961) on blu-ray from Kino. Produced by Ross Hunter.

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From David Miller, the acclaimed director of Sudden Fear, Midnight Lace, Lonely Are the Brave and Captain Newman, M.D., comes this quintessential tearjerker starring Susan Hayward (Rawhide, I Want to Live!) and John Gavin (Psycho, Thoroughly Modern Millie). Based on the bestselling novel by Fannie Hurst (Imitation of Life), Back Street tells the story of two people who meet and fall in love but are unable to marry due to impossible circumstances. However, despite their situation, they carry on a lifelong illicit affair until tragedy strikes. For this lush 1961 color version that garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design, producer Ross Hunter (All That Heaven Allows) teamed Hayward and Gavin as the star-crossed lovers with Vera Miles (23 Paces to Baker Street), Charles Drake (Harvey) and Virginia Grey (Portrait in Black) cast in prominent supporting roles.



June 8, 2021

Curtis Bernhardt's The Woman One Longs For (1929) on blu-ray from Kino

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The Woman One Longs For is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner and Frida Richard. It was based on the novel of the same title by Max Brod, published in Vienna by Paul Zsolnay Verlag in 1927.



August 10, 2021

Frank Borzage's Desire (1936) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 2K remaster struck from an interpositive

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An automotive engineer bound for a holiday in Spain meets a sultry jewel thief.



August 17, 2021

Billy Wilder's The Emperor Waltz (1948) on blu-ray from Kino

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American gramophone salesman Virgil Smith (Crosby) wants to sell his wares in pre-WWI Austria. To get the ball rolling, he hits on the idea of going straight to the top and selling one to Emperor Franz Joseph (Richard Haydn, No Time for Love, The Sound of Music). First off, the palace guards think he's carrying a bomb and he's arrested. He subsequently meets Countess Johanna von Stolzenberg-Stolzenberg (Fontaine) and, after the usual misunderstandings, falls in love with her. She falls in love with his dog, Buttons. The relation is fraught with obstacles and the emperor thinks royal blood marrying a commoner is bad darts altogether—what is to become of Smith and his countess?



2021 TBD

Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 4K restoration

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Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.



2021 TBD

Delbert Mann's Marty (1955) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 2K remaster

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A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love, meet at a dance and fall in love.



April 20, 2021

Michael Curtiz's Doctor X (1932) on blu-ray from Warner Archive, from a 4K restoration of the last-known surviving nitrate technicolor print

Scorsese had a framed poster for this film on a wall in his office visible in the background of a video interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlCVlanZCPY) he did during lockdown

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The New York newspapers have dubbed him "The Moon Killer". He stalks the streets at night, strangling and cannibalizing men and women. There have been six victims so far, and the police believe that a scientist at the Academy of Surgical Research is responsible. Is it Dr. Wells, Dr. Haines, Dr. Rowitz, Dr. Duke or is it Dr. Xavier ("Dr. X"), who runs the academy? Dr. X's young and lovely daughter will be instrumental in solving the crime, as will the hysterical maid and the sinister butler. Our trip through this morbid tale is guided by the wisecracking reporter who will find himself toe-tagged, gassed, tossed around and generally manhandled before the mystery is solved...




April 27, 2021

Louis CK's Pootie Tang (2001) on blu-ray from Paramount

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He's the too-hip hero with a style and a language all his own! Based on the hilarious character who first appeared on "The Chris Rock Show," Pootie Tang (Lance Crouther) is a hit-record-singing, criminal-empire-busting, superhero idolized by kids-and women-everywhere. But when Pootie's one-man war against greed, cuts into profits LecterCorp's, demented CEO (Robert Vaughn) plunges the superdude into a super-funk by swiping his magical villain-whupping belt.



September 7, 2021

Paul Guilfoyle's Life at Stake (1954) on blu-ray from Film Detective

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Spoiled young Doris Hillman (Lansbury) invites struggling architect Edward Shaw (Andes) to come in as her husband's partner in a lucrative real estate deal. However, when Edward becomes romantically involved with Doris, he learns that something deadly is going on. There's a life at stake, and it could be his own. This independent production from the golden age of film noir was described by the Los Angeles Times as "a study in fear." It also shows Angela Lansbury, already a double Oscar nominee, as you've never seen her. She's a charming femme fatale. But is she as bad as she seems?



July 19, 2021

Ingmar Bergman Vol. 1 (1944-1950) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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Contain's Eva, not included in Criterion's box set



July 19, 2021

Joseph Losey's The Damned (1962) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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In England, a young American falls in love with the sister of a sadistic and lecherous motorcycle gang leader who despises the American. The couple takes refuge from the gang leader's harassment in a cave where they discover a group of children, who are the result of an experiment by a scientist seeking to develop a race of humans capable of surviving an atomic blast.



July 19, 2021

Werner Herzog's Invincible (2001) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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The film is based on the true story of Zishe Breitbart, a Jewish blacksmith's son from Poland who becomes a sensation in Weimar, Berlin as a mythical strongman. His employer Hanussen dreams of establishing an all-powerful Ministry of the Occult in Hitler's government. Yet as Hitler's hold on power grows more sure, and Berlin erupts in a ferment of anti-Semitism, Zishe must decide how he will use his strength. Plagued by nightmares, he takes counsel from a local rabbi. He becomes convinced that he has been chosen by God to warn his people of the grave danger they face.



June 21, 2021

Ewald André Dupont's Piccadily (1929) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act which soon leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love and murder.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 19, 2021, 10:33:32 PM
bit embarrassed bc this movie was sold out  (https://www.cauldron-films.com/products/blackcatlimited)so I could only buy the shirt and I therefore own a shirt to a movie I haven't seen. I did it for the cat. and it's a giallo shirt that's yellow I mean

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on May 19, 2021, 10:51:51 PM
Quote from: jenkins on May 19, 2021, 10:33:32 PM
I did it for the cat. and it's a giallo shirt that's yellow I mean

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Hype.

Great cover art for that Almost Famous release!
Also, saved that Opfergang and Veit Harlan's sexual subversions bfi write up as a pdf. I ought to start making excursions to Cinefile again to watch what I can't cop. Rly want to purchase Center Stage.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 25, 2021, 12:25:20 AM
long story short, the distribution company for Little Annie Rooney doesn't have it in stock (https://www.flickeralley.com/classic-movies-2/#!/Little-Annie-Rooney/p/114484286/category=20414531) and they might have lost that licensing, although it's currently sitting around for a decent price at Hamilton (https://www.hamiltonbook.com/little-annie-rooney-blu-ray) and trust me, it's a silent movie that's worth it
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 27, 2021, 01:30:25 PM
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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 28, 2021, 08:48:00 PM
wilder, I'm sure you know the halfway to Black Friday sale is taking place. I got this before it sold out (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/altered-innocence/products/the-wild-boys-altered-innocence) but that's just something I mentioned. I'm here to say Champagne & Bullets (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/frontpage/products/champagne-bullets-aka-geteven-road-to-revenge-vsa) and Alley Cat (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/frontpage/products/alley-cat-vsa) are two of their good idea VSA releases, and those tend to sell out and then they're gone. they're not on sale but they're not likely to make it to the next sale
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 28, 2021, 09:05:25 PM
The Wild Boys is great and I think you'll enjoy it. I considered Alley Cat but decided to wait for the actual Black Friday sale. 5,000 units seems like a lot...is there a particular reason you think it won't last? Have you already seen those two VSA titles?

Got the ones I mentioned and then some. I didn't think I'd even care about this set but the Calendar Girl Murders section of the promo trailer they posted last minute pushed me. They're marketing geniuses for sure because half the time I'm not even sure if I want something but they tell me I definitely do.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 28, 2021, 09:12:59 PM
they absolutely treat us like children and it works so well, and it's even evil. the perspective is they're the most customer-friendly boutique label and the most cold-hearted collector-targeting FOMO label

I guess Champagne & Bullets is the more likely, yeah. I heard someone call Alley Cat an actual, something, I forget the wording of the compliment but he was implying it was better at this than others, and it's the "seedy Los Angeles of the early 80s" so I was projecting
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 28, 2021, 09:30:45 PM
Quote from: jenkins on May 28, 2021, 09:12:59 PMit's the "seedy Los Angeles of the early 80s" so I was projecting

Was literally going to be my reason for buying. The plot description didn't sound so hot to me but I was like "this is going to be a cool time travel travelogue"
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 28, 2021, 10:17:39 PM
totally because, one way to watch a movie is you watch a movie, and another way to watch a movie is as a portrait of a time and historical epoch, which is quoting Kushner because I wanted to steal her line, but she's talking about direct cinema and its reality and just, of course, as you know, wilder, you go full-cinephile when every movie is a representation of the reality of a place and time, and every actor is really there acting, and how are they acting, and what does acting mean then, compared to what acting means now, what is their naturalism like, and what is the size of the emotions being conveyed, what is the fashion of the period both culturally and socially, what are they wearing and saying, what is the script and what is behind them, the production design, it's all really there, you know, it's like life in terms of there aren't boring movies there are boring people, but you can have a lot more fun if you look for the reality in fun movies
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on May 29, 2021, 12:12:54 AM
The Wild Boys slip cover o_o Sister Hyde has been able to work on so many dope releases over the last year (https://instagram.com/hydesister?utm_medium=copy_link)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 29, 2021, 04:31:44 PM
I think your interests in depressing movies and different types of movies coalesce in Baby Rosemary (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/baby-rosemary-hot-lunch) which I learned about through the guy who runs the adult movie wing of VS, who said "One of the most downbeat and misery driven sex films out there. And I mean that as high praise."
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 29, 2021, 06:19:42 PM
QuoteALLEY CAT is streaming on Amazon Prime, if anyone's interested in checking it out. This was my first viewing. It's inept trash—bad acting (the lead lady, Karin Mani, actually does a decent job), ridiculous incidental music, and cliche after cliche—and I loved every minute of it. I can't wait to see VS's remastering job. It's a perfect VSA entry.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPN2i_QIITA

lol description of movie:
QuoteIts about a guy that invents a dance called the shimmy slide. Unintentionally the song causes some people to turn satanic and sacrifice people die to hidden backwards messages.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 29, 2021, 08:46:26 PM
Quote from: jenkins on May 29, 2021, 04:31:44 PM
I think your interests in depressing movies and different types of movies coalesce in Baby Rosemary (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/baby-rosemary-hot-lunch) which I learned about through the guy who runs the adult movie wing of VS, who said "One of the most downbeat and misery driven sex films out there. And I mean that as high praise."

Okay, you got me. That sounds fucking horrible:

QuoteBABY ROSEMARY (1976):
After the death of her father, a beautiful, though sexually traumatized, young woman enters an erotic nightmare while awaiting his funeral. "Baby Rosemary" is a haunting adult film like no other.

The plot description reminds me of Through the Looking Glass (1976), which was even mentioned in Mondo Digital's review (https://www.mondo-digital.com/babyrose.html). They also relationally referenced The Devil in Miss Jones (1973), which sounds pretty good, and a gay reimagining, The Destroying Angel (1976)

Quote from: IMDB User melvelvit-1In the envelope-pushing "Me Decade", pornography very nearly went mainstream after DEEP THROAT played to packed houses across the country and a good many porno chic films from this "Golden Age" had decent budgets, actual plot lines, and attractive stars. One such film was THE DEVIL IN MISS JONES (1973), which was considered "thinking man's porn" due to the intelligent, No Exit-esque narrative wherein a virginal suicide makes a pact with the devil to come back for a few days and earn her consignment to hell ("If you have to go to hell go for a reason", the tag line urged).

Peter de Rome's all-male XXX THE DESTROYING ANGEL is a gay version that re-"tool"s the Edgar Allan Poe yarn "William Wilson" into the story of Caswell Campbell, a conflicted seminary student who's given a three-month sabbatical to find himself and come back to God a stronger man. He straight-away gives in to lust and magic mushrooms which, of course, is just another way of saying "If you have to go to hell go for a reason".

Caswell literally "finds himself" being haunted by his dark side, a doppelganger he even has a threesome with in a cleverly staged scene. Despite the low budget and amateur acting, this is an expertly executed vision of a homosexual hell and it's dark theme is brought home through shadowy, seemingly candlelit mis-en-scène inter-cut with religious iconography. The last scene is a black attack on organized religion's denial of natural desires. The oil painting of Poe and his raven over the mantle in Caswell's apartment was also a nice touch.

The sex -and there's lots of it- is on the masochistic side and includes watersports, sex toys, and a cucumber. de Rome's wetdream-cum-nightmare is obviously very personal, the creation of a man with some interesting issues -which begs the question, who was this film intended for? Like Jonas Middleton's XXX THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (made the same year), the disturbing imagery of a phantasmagorical universe would be a guaranteed "wood-killer" for the trenchcoat crowd. It's interesting to note that all three films (MISS JONES, ANGEL, LOOKING GLASS) hypnotically chant the same mantra: heaven and hell are one and the same. Life also imitated art at the time with the LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR crime.

These are excellent films made pornographically and the 1970s actually might have been on to something but, alas, AIDS and the '80s killed that party -literally- and porn went back to being smut kept behind closed doors thanks to the VHS home-video boom. THE DESTROYING ANGEL deserves to be much better-known ...and not just in jerk circles.


I added it to my existing oder. Thanks for the rec!
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on May 29, 2021, 10:12:43 PM
it really is a whole other world of possibilities. Gerard Damiano is going OOP through VS all his releases are hot to the touch, Memories Within Miss Aggie (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/memories-within-miss-aggie) is another adult movie categorized next-level. I haven't bought it yet but I'm sure I will eventually. I own his Skin Flicks (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/skin-flicks?_pos=2&_sid=33f98a664&_ss=r), I watched and liked Let My Puppets Come (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/let-my-puppets-come?_pos=1&_sid=33f98a664&_ss=r) on xHamster, and I bought Throat... 12 Years After (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/throat-12-years-after?_pos=4&_sid=33f98a664&_ss=r) just before it zeroed though it's not very good tbh

in this sale the adult movies I bought are all dvds, Showdown (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/showdown?_pos=1&_sid=07886d8f5&_ss=r), Sex in the Comics (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/sex-in-the-comics?_pos=1&_sid=c5f24e375&_ss=r), The Ribald Tales of Canterbury (https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/ribald-tales-of-canterbury-tasty?_pos=1&_sid=b55e954d8&_ss=r), and Baby Rosemary

in terms of the ground VS is occupying in the world of contemporary cinephilia, their partner label Utopia (through OCN Distribution) will be the ones who release Shiva Baby, which I saw and is solid but you know it was a bit of a cultural moment so it's considered a good score

https://twitter.com/utopiamovies/status/1397594580170821632
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on May 30, 2021, 03:30:09 AM
I'm optimistic about Utopia. They're also putting out The Scary of Sixty-First (https://xixax.com/index.php?topic=14457.0) later in the year. Saw the short film Shiva Baby evolved from, online, but haven't checked out the feature.

I've got Memories Wihin Miss Aggie in the current bag, and Skin Flicks and Puppets on my shelf but they haven't made it to the player.

You've definitely gone farther down this lane than I have. I never thought my cinephile adventures would take me here, but most mainstream movies are no longer showing me something I'm uncomfortable to see, and if a movie can't hurt me why would I watch it?
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on May 31, 2021, 10:54:22 AM
Well put, wilder. Cronenberg on Cronenberg cites a philosophy I adored; paraphrasing here, creating within cinema as a medium 'to show us what we can't see.'

I must witness the shimmy slide o_o

Nearly made a thread for Shiva Baby cuz one of my best friends AD'd the short and feature,and it got so much buzz. Then I saw the film...

Utopia does seem interested in distributing independent voices. That's promising, to a degree.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 01, 2021, 05:48:48 PM
The trailers for Cauldron's releases today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uep201i3vas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptki_HtKTDo
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 04, 2021, 08:59:37 PM
VS's new partner label is Saturn's core, which is some deep cut stuff (https://saturnscoreaudiovideo.bigcartel.com). I'd never heard of these fucks. AGFA is most in-line in terms of scavenging the surface of the American cinematic landscape

first I got into adult movies then I got into VS in general and now I've achieved a feeling of familiarity that's followed by detachment
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 06, 2021, 03:18:41 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/wMX0l9I.jpg)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on June 06, 2021, 04:29:59 PM
LOL

Immediate send to multiple chats
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 11, 2021, 06:32:50 PM
July 6, 2021

Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Sony

(https://i.imgur.com/Yr4GX0q.jpg)

After a psychotic Air Force general unleashes an ingenious, foolproof and irrevocable schemesending bombers to attack the Soviet Union, the U.S. President phones the Soviet premier in a desperate effort to save the world.



Late 2021

Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight (1998) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

(https://i.imgur.com/C1SltC9.jpg)

A career bank robber breaks out of jail and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a US Marshall he has kidnapped.



October 5, 2021

Bill Webb's Dirty Laundry (1987) on blu-ray from MVD Visual

(https://i.imgur.com/2awGIcb.jpg)

A young man and his girlfriend unwittingly come into possession of a bag containing one million dollars belonging to a drug-smuggling ring. The mobsters try to catch the couple and retrieve their money.





August 31, 2021

Jacques Deray's The Gang (1977) & Three Men to Kill (1980) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

(https://i.imgur.com/9wbtMwK.jpg)

QuoteThe Gang

In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang lead by the charismatic Alain Delon. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang." The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?


Three Men to Kill

In this gritty, violent and suspenseful thriller, Delon plays Gerfaut, who comes to the aid of a man laying wounded in the road, not knowing the man has taken two bullets to the belly. Soon he becomes the target for the killers, who see him as a dangerous witness. But Gerfaut has been around the block a couple of times and he won't be so easily eliminated.






2021 TBD

Jacques Rivette's Gang of Four (1989) on blu-ray from Kino, restored in 4K by Cohen Media Group

(https://i.imgur.com/A6cl1Vw.jpg)

Intimations of conspiracy hover over a group of actors in Rivette's playful revisiting of his debut, Paris Belongs to Us. Four women share a house and study acting with a legendary performer (Bulle Ogier). Outside class, each is questioned by a mysterious investigator on the trail of a former roommate who may be involved in a criminal enterprise.





July 20, 2021

Lesley Selander's Flight to Mars (1951) on bu-ray from Film Detective, from a 4K restoration from original 35mm Cinecolor Separation Negatives

(https://i.imgur.com/pRAXHYx.jpg)

Five astronauts successfully fly to Mars where they encounter seemingly friendly and advanced inhabitants who harbor covert plans to use their ship to invade Earth.





Late 2021

Archie Mayo's Angel on My Shoulder (1946) on blu-ray from VCI

(https://i.imgur.com/v5OGfZ1.jpg)

Prominent gangster Eddie Kagle (Paul Muni) lands in Hell after he is murdered by his childhood friend and business partner Smiley Williams (Hardie Albright). There he meets Nick (Claude Rains), who tries to get him to return to the living to take over the body of Judge Frederick Parker (also Muni). Kagle agrees, enticed by the prospect of seeking revenge on Smiley. But Kagel's attempts to tarnish Parker's reputation backfire, and when he finally confronts Smiley, his frustration becomes impossible to contain.





June 15, 2021

Ziegfeld Follies (1945) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

(https://i.imgur.com/1jNoH4t.jpg)

Heaven's harps and wings are nice, but what showman extraordinaire Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. wants most now that he's no longer on Earth is to put on another extravaganza. It would have the brightest stars and creative talents. The most in glamour, gams and optimism. In short, it would be like Ziegfeld Follies. With a who's who of credited and uncredited Hollywood talents, this all-star revue is heaven to fans of musicals. Fred Astaire dazzles once, twice...four numbers in all. Red Skelton reprises his funny Guzzler's Gin skit. Esther Williams swims, Lena Horne sings, and Judy Garland spoofs snobbery. There's Verdi opera and Fanny Brice vaudeville. Patter and pantomime. And The Babbitt and the Bromide, with Gene Kelly joining Astaire in their first-ever screen pairing. What a show! The man called Flo must be proud.



July 13, 2021

Erich von Stroheim & James Cruze's The Great Gabbo (1929) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 2K restoration

(https://i.imgur.com/jjjVEAn.jpg)

One of Hollywood's earliest -- and most peculiar -- musicals, The Great Gabbo stars Erich von Stroheim as an egotistical ventriloquist who casts a Svengali-like spell upon an ingenue (Betty Compson), against a backdrop of singularly strange numbers (including "Icky" and the spider-and-fly-themed "Caught in a Web"). Director James Cruze (The Covered Wagon) allowed von Stroheim to endow the character with his signature flourishes, resulting in a wicked cocktail of garish stage shows and Austro-Hungarian villainy that is a diabolical delight.



July 20, 2021

Jean Renoir's La Fille de l'eau aka The Girl of the Water (1925) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

(https://i.imgur.com/GpfvQox.jpg)

Whirlpool of Fate (1925) is Jean Renoir's debut feature, a lyrical tale of the tragic life of an orphan girl. An independent feature shot on family friend Paul Cézanne's property, La Nicotiere, it is a dreamy episodic melodrama that follows the poor girl as she endures the loss of her father, the abuse of her alcoholic uncle, and a perilous fall down a well that erases her memory and triggers surreal dreams.



July 20, 2021

Jean Renoir's Nana (1926) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

(https://i.imgur.com/aW22Yw3.jpg)

It is an elaborately mounted adaptation of Emile Zola's novel that tracks the doomed romances of its title character—an actress who would go on to be the most notorious courtesan of her era. When her father dies, a young girl is sent to live with her uncle. Mistreated, she runs away to lead a vagabond's life in the forest. When she is found, she becomes Nana, a fashionable actress of loose morals, becoming first the mistress of a count, and then of the Emperor's chamberlain. Nana's love affairs are set against gorgeously mounted sets designed by Claude Autant-Lara.



August 24, 2021

Bertrand Tavernier's L'horloger de Saint-Paul aka The Clockmaker of St. Paul Blu-ray (1974) on blu-ray from Kino

(https://i.imgur.com/lIKxJB7.jpg)

A Watchmaker finds out one day that his son has become a murderer. He tries to understand for whom and why.



2021 TBD

Max Ophüls' Liebelei (1933) on blu-ray from Kino

(https://i.imgur.com/WGquyny.jpg)

A Viennese opera house, early in the century. In attendance are lieutenants Kaiser and Lobheimer. Two young ladies on the balcony, Mizzi and Christine, drop their opera glasses, hitting one of the officers. The Baron von Eggersdorff arrives in his box. Lobheimer leaves early for his tryst with the Baron's wife. The Baron soon arrives home, in a suspicious mood. Lobheimer rejoins Kaiser in a café with the two girls. Lobheimer soon falls for Christine... The Baroness wonders why her lover has been absent for so long; the two now part for good. But the Baron learns the secret and discovers that a key still in his wife's possession opens the lieutenant's door. He challenges Lobheimer to a duel...



September 2021

Claude Chabrol's Bluebeard (1963) on blu-ray from Kino

(https://i.imgur.com/X2aaUNX.jpg)

Legendary French New Wave director Claude Chabrol (Les Bonnes Femmes, The Champagne Murders) brings the shocking true story of serial killer Henri Désiré Landru to the screen with Bluebeard. Landru, played with dastardly charm by Charles Denner (The Bride Wore Black), is a seemingly respectable Parisian who devises a sick and ingenious scheme to supplement his dwindling income during the First World War. First, he lures wealthy dowagers to his villa. Then, he cons them into forking over their fortunes. Finally, he kills them, chops them up and immolates the pieces. This jet-black comedy was written by acclaimed author Françoise Sagan (Bonjour Tristesse) and features a host of superb actresses including Michèle Morgan (Port of Shadows), Danielle Darrieux (The Earrings of Madame de...), Hildegard Knef (Fedora), Juliette Mayniel (Les Cousins), Stéphane Audran (The Third Lover), Catherine Rouvel (Borsalino), Françoise Lugagne (Diary of a Chambermaid) and Mary Marquet (Fellini's Casanova).



September 2021

Claude Chabrol's Blue Panther (1965) on blu-ray from Kino

(https://i.imgur.com/6AOQtFY.jpg)

French New Wave legend Claude Chabrol, the director of Le Boucher, The Third Lover, Line of Demarcation and L'Enfer, took a turn into the Eurospy genre with this '60s-chic romp. On a train bound for Switzerland, a secret agent (Roger Hanin, Breathless, Code Name: Tiger) entrusts Marie-Chantal (Marie Laforêt, Purple Noon, The Girl with the Golden Eyes) with a jewel in the shape of a panther with ruby eyes. Unbeknownst to her, this jewel contains a virus powerful enough to destroy all humankind. The fiendish Doctor Kha (Akim Tamiroff, Touch of Evil, Alphaville) is just one among many spies from different nations trying to get their hands on the panther. But the cool-as-ice Marie-Chantal will evade all attacks by sheer female cunning, and shows panther-like qualities in dealing with her male—and female—foes. Francisco Rabal (L'Eclisse), Serge Reggiani (Le Doulos), Charles Denner (Bluebeard) and Stéphane Audran (Les Biches) lead the star-studded supporting cast in this colorful spoof of international espionage capers.



August 10, 2021

George Stevens' A Place in the Sun (1951) on blu-ray from Paramount, from a new 4K restoration

(https://i.imgur.com/IdLpMZW.jpg)

George Eastman is a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of a beautiful socialite. But a factory girl with a dark secret threatens Eastman's professional and romantic prospects. Consumed with fear and desire, Eastman is ultimately driven to a desperate act of passion that unravels his world forever.



August 10, 2021

Robert Altman's Nashville (1975) on blu-ray from Paramount, from a new 4K restoration

(https://i.imgur.com/xL0Ado0.jpg)

The lives of 24 major characters interweave during five days in the country music capital of the world.



August 31, 2021

Alan Parker's Bugsy Malone (1976) on blu-ray from Paramount, from a new 4K restoration

(https://i.imgur.com/GQyQjR1.jpg)

Set in 1929 New York City, BUGSY MALONE captures a flashy world of would-be hoodlums, showgirls, and dreamers—all portrayed by child actors. As Tallulah, the sassy girlfriend of the owner of Fat Sam's Grand Slam Speakeasy, future superstar Jodie Foster leads a talented cast. Parker's sharp script, combined with the music and lyrics of Paul Williams (PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE) makes for an irresistible satire that's truly one-of-a-kind.



August 16, 2021

David Greene's The People Next Door (1970) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK), also coming in July from Scorpion Releasing (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-People-Next-Door-Blu-ray/283607/)

(https://i.imgur.com/LwjOyfe.jpg)

Comfortable New York suburbanites Arthur and Gerrie Mason discover one night that their seemingly perfect 16-year old daughter, Maxie has been tripping on LSD.



September 20, 2021

Columbia Noir #4 (1948-1947) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

(https://i.imgur.com/xPAcVlt.jpg)

QuoteWalk a Crooked Mile (1948)

After evidence surfaces of an information leak at a major nuclear lab, FBI Agent Dan O'Hara (Dennis O'Keefe) pairs up with Scotland Yard Detective Philip Grayson (Louis Hayward) to track down those responsible. An investigation of the scientists, including the enigmatic beauty Dr. Toni Neva (Louise Allbritton), leads the agents to a Communist Party spy operation in San Francisco, which they must shut down before sensitive state secrets are handed over to the wrong people. Directed by Gordon Douglas.


Walk East on Beacon! (1952)

FBI agent James Belden (George Murphy) is tasked with finding and bringing down a communist spy ring operating in Boston. After an anonymous tip, Belden and his agents tail a man who leads them to various suspects, as they try to determine how far the espionage reaches. Meanwhile, the spies force a scientist (Finlay Currie) to divulge secret information by holding his son hostage. As the investigation continues, it seems the Russian agent Alexi Laschenkov (Karel Stepanek) might be behind it all. Directed by Alfred L. Werker.


Pushover (1954)

In the wake of a bank heist, Paul Sheridan (Fred MacMurray) is part of a team of cops assigned to recover the stolen $200,000. They stake out the apartment of Lona McLane (Kim Novak), the girlfriend of the one of the robbers, and before long Paul and Lona begin a steamy affair. Lona persuades Paul to kill her boyfriend so that the two of them can escape with the money, but, in order to pull it off, Paul first has to trick his boss and fellow detectives. Directed by Richard Quine.


A Bullet Is Waiting (1954)

Storms trap a Utah sheriff (Stephen McNally) and his prisoner (Rory Calhoun) in a coastal cabin with a professor's daughter (Jean Simmons). Directed by John Farrow.


Chicago Syndicate (1955)

An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda. Directed by Fred F. Sears.


The Brothers Rico (1957)

Former Mafia bookkeeper Eddie Rico (Richard Conte) has decided to go straight and lives with his wife in Florida, where they plan to adopt a child. However, his brothers, Johnny (James Darren) and Gino (Paul Picerni), still work for his ex-boss, Sid Kubik (Larry Gates) -- and, when Eddie finds out their lives are in danger, he tries to re-establish his connection to the world he thought he had left behind. But when one of his brothers is killed, Eddie realizes that he may be next. Directed by Phil Karlson.



July 19, 2021

Michael Powell's Honeymoon (1959) on blu-ray from Network (UK)

(https://i.imgur.com/rTqPZek.jpg)

Kit and Anna, a rich and happy couple, are touring sunny Spain in an open-top Bentley on their fabulous honeymoon. But Anna is a prima ballerina who has forgone her career for marriage – a situation that the fiery Spanish dancer Antonio finds intolerable!



July 12, 2021

Márta Mészáros' Örökbefogadás aka Adoption (1975) on blu-ray from Second Run (UK)

(https://i.imgur.com/IBV0rSC.jpg)

Single factory worker Kata, 43, wants to have a child with her long-time secret lover, a married man called Joska. He doesn't like the idea. Kata befriends teenage schoolgirl Anna, abandoned by her parents at the age of six. Anna runs away from the local children's home and moves in with Kata so that she can keep on seeing her boyfriend Sanyi. Kata goes to see Anna's parents and persuades them to give the young lovers their permission to marry. Through Anna, Kata becomes interested in neglected children and decides to adopt a baby from the children's home.





August 25, 2021

Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy (1989) on blu-ray from Imprint (Australia)

(https://i.imgur.com/o061m4G.jpg)

A realistic road movie about a drug addict, his 'family', and their inevitable decline into crime.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 12, 2021, 12:40:53 AM
ummm necessary sounding

Quote from: wilder on June 11, 2021, 06:32:50 PM
July 13, 2021

Erich von Stroheim & James Cruze's The Great Gabbo (1929) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 2K restoration

(https://i.imgur.com/jjjVEAn.jpg)

One of Hollywood's earliest -- and most peculiar -- musicals, The Great Gabbo stars Erich von Stroheim as an egotistical ventriloquist who casts a Svengali-like spell upon an ingenue (Betty Compson), against a backdrop of singularly strange numbers (including "Icky" and the spider-and-fly-themed "Caught in a Web"). Director James Cruze (The Covered Wagon) allowed von Stroheim to endow the character with his signature flourishes, resulting in a wicked cocktail of garish stage shows and Austro-Hungarian villainy that is a diabolical delight.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 15, 2021, 02:36:30 AM
my biggest get as a collector (and I'm not a collector I'm a hoarder) was that Wild Boys slip (https://www.ebay.com/itm/133789390395?epid=17046030250&hash=item1f2678163b:g:NPEAAOSwn4tgx-bp). that slip is so fire the regular edition has sold out at vs, amazon, diabolik. i never even heard of a slip so fire the movie benefits. i got 1 of 600 on that, although the lowest count for a slip is the Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets at 500. But it ain't as pretty

I got LA Wars which I know you did, too, wilder. we both slept on Action USA but whatever. did you Martial Law? I didn't Martial Law and I led the countdown to its sell out. did you Vice Academy? I slept on that and he's maybe like one of those true bad directors they support but it does have a sexual cover so I woulda bought it

this is fun to me
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 15, 2021, 07:24:53 PM
I'm not into box opening videos but I adore sale photos. looking at what everyone else bought lets you learn about them and also validates your own decisions. this is my internet-friend jeff's photo and I think it's a cutie photo. he is not a hoarder, he is a collector. this is a photo from a seasoned collector receiving his newest goods. special appreciation for the fanned-out legacy slips

(https://i.imgur.com/prcFbbC.jpg)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 16, 2021, 02:09:02 AM
now keep in mind we're people purchasing movies instead of stocks or real estate and we're all basically failing at life together, some more than others, all people who post on a fb vs group. honestly, one guy the other day called us daily visitors losers and, I did, I felt a little hurt. so don't go thinking this is showing off a better life. this, really, is an absurd life. and I have a crush on it

this is an example of a pre-sale purchase arriving, and the person is excited because they have movies to watch while waiting for their sale order to arrive

(https://i.imgur.com/L7iOWlj.jpg)

some people, shall we say, know a little more about having some fun. these pjs are famous in vs land, I own them too, they're from the movie Don't Panic

(https://i.imgur.com/NyUNoO3.jpg)

some people somehow amass a large order that's a million miles away from what my large order would be

(https://i.imgur.com/cpINVnb.jpg)

and I think, wow lame, and then of course, somehow of course, a lame joke happens right under that picture too

(https://i.imgur.com/OEq3CRE.jpg)

I fucking just die of laughter from people like this person, who is like "I am sorry my order wasn't bigger, next time I'll have a bigger order" lmao it's a tough life, lots of competition, out there in the world of movie collecting

(https://i.imgur.com/33x1tH2.jpeg)

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on June 16, 2021, 12:44:32 PM
All of y'all lucky as heck. My one VS remains Tammy and the T-Rex, and Knife + Heart on Altered Innocence. lol
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 16, 2021, 02:02:28 PM
this guy's daughter told him it looks like a waste of money (he's holding the pj movie)

(https://i.imgur.com/Of6uh7t.jpg)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 17, 2021, 01:07:15 AM
for near the whole month people will be receiving their sale orders. some people are upset about not yet receiving their shipping confirmation, understandably

what we have here is a large order

(https://i.imgur.com/JVFu8yc.jpg)

and it's so much, so many movies, a wife arrives to give her blessing

(https://i.imgur.com/x1ZWoYh.jpg)

and because yesterday I gave an example of a bad joke (the merits of a movie are somehow related to one's sexual orientation), here is an example of a good joke (it's funny)

(https://i.imgur.com/aaliftU.jpg)

and, I'm a fan of this (for some reason), some people will simply post a photo of the box that arrived

(https://i.imgur.com/HkKC3PR.jpg)

some people demonstrate their personality their own way, for example this person says, please notice my foot tattoo

(https://i.imgur.com/eaos4En.jpg)

the pjs represent personality, they're fashion emblems and simply, every photo is better with pjs

(https://i.imgur.com/7W6eYxe.jpg)

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 21, 2021, 02:29:24 AM
Baby Rosemary begins with this:

(https://i.imgur.com/ivgKE6u.jpg)


Quote from: jenkins on June 15, 2021, 02:36:30 AMI got LA Wars which I know you did, too, wilder. we both slept on Action USA but whatever. did you Martial Law? I didn't Martial Law and I led the countdown to its sell out. did you Vice Academy? I slept on that and he's maybe like one of those true bad directors they support but it does have a sexual cover so I woulda bought it

Action USA I picked up MVD Visual's release of, and the Vice Academy set I snatched off eBay late last year. I don't know what to say about most of these VS titles because their taste is tastelessness and we all know what we like when we see it. I'm pro-Vice Academy.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on June 24, 2021, 08:57:31 PM
idk wtf

(https://imgur.com/hcPpkQI.png) (https://i.imgur.com/iQqqE0s.jpeg)

trailers (https://vimeo.com/564133719/e3b43958a1?fbclid=IwAR3jY0Ybiod8qVtnfzUwgfiVL7MAsyq03SJ8nt1cPKB9IQdMCRvX0yzj2AY) on Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/564375970/fb3d0e2f68?utm_content=buffer3f7db&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR05J5GJP8Pmua2e-mNn8WFTVr3Mqt5SaOQe-V3eLPr8palptcSQ7iinINM)
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on June 25, 2021, 01:07:03 PM
Drusilla keeps blessing us, good-golly

https://twitter.com/HydeSister/status/1408484791880617984

https://twitter.com/HydeSister/status/1408527078744461322
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 09, 2021, 04:05:07 PM
very nice blu-ray presentations of King Boxer, The Boxer from Shantung, Five Shaolin Masters, Shaolin Temple, Mighty Peking Man, Challenge of the Masters, Executioners from Shaolin, Chinatown Kid, The Five Venoms, Crippled Avengers, Heroes of the East and Dirty Ho. damn that's sweet. The Boxer from Shantung was the first martial arts movie I saw in a theater, during the LA Film Fest of 2007 (?) at the Billy Wilder Theater

https://twitter.com/ArrowFilmsVideo/status/1413498711376867329
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 22, 2021, 04:58:49 AM
September 20, 2021

Joseph Losey's The Servant (1963) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Studiocanal (UK)

(https://i.imgur.com/6Qo7lqt.jpg)

The Servant depicts the story of Barrett, a seductive and subtle manservant hired by foppish aristocrat Tony to manage his new townhouse. Barrett's awe-inspiring efficiency gives way to a suspicious and insidious control, where the roles of master and servant are subtly reversed.



November 2, 2021

Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors Trilogy (1993-1994) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Potemkine (France). Will include English subtitles. Update: doesn't have them.

(https://i.imgur.com/MB2CsWo.jpg)





October 19, 2021

Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, & Videotape (1989) on 4K UHD blu-ray from L'atelier d'images (France)

(https://i.imgur.com/JNwWyPa.jpg)

Ann is trapped in a sexually and emotionally unfulfilled relationship with her husband, John, a successful but unpleasant lawyer who is sleeping with her sister, Cynthia. The underlying tensions in the couple's marriage rise to the surface when Graham, a friend of John's from college who's been drifting for nine years, returns to town and videotapes Cynthia and Ann as they talk about their sexual desires.



September 7, 2021

John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Universal

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A twelve-man research team stationed in Antarctica finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and has been buried for over 100,000 years.



October 19, 2021

Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs (1991) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

(https://i.imgur.com/1OVLuW1.jpg)

An FBI trainee enlists the help of an infamous Serial killer, to gain insight into the mind of another killer.



2021 TBD

Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, California, where they replicate the residents into emotionless automatons one body at a time.



October 12, 2021

Rob Reiner's Misery (1990) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A successful romance novelist, after being disabled in a car crash, is held captive by a psychotic fan.



October 9, 2021

Wes Craven's Scream (1996) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Paramount

(https://i.imgur.com/o10kCMK.jpg)

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.



September 14, 2021

Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption (1994) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Warner Bros.

(https://i.imgur.com/rEuACol.jpg)

Framed for the double murder of his wife and her lover, banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his tenure in prison, Dufresne becomes admired by the other inmates, ultimately befriending another prisoner named Red during the process.



July 8, 2021

Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003) on blu-ray from Koch Media (Germany). Includes English subtitles.

(https://i.imgur.com/ANhfYqU.jpg)

A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.



August 24, 2021

Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City (1981) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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New York police officer Daniel Ciello (Treat Williams) is not a perfect cop. When Rick Cappalino (Norman Parker) from the U.S. Justice Department approaches him with a personal request to investigate police corruption, Ciello agrees -- provided he is not forced to turn in his fellow crooked cops. But as he delves deeper into the underbelly of drug crime, he realizes that it may be impossible to keep his promises. He will have to bring his friends down, or he'll end up going down himself.



October 26, 2021

Robert Aldrich's The Last Sunset (1961) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 2K restoration

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Western justice takes a dark turn in The Last Sunset, as American lawman Dana Stribling (Hudson) enters Mexico with one mission: to hunt down the infamous Brendan O'Malley (Douglas), who killed his brother-in-law. He finds his culprit working for a wealthy cattleman (Cotten) and arranging a herd to cross the border. Unable to serve his warrant, Stribling signs on as a trail boss, warning O'Malley of his intentions once they reach Texas. The two slo




Late 2021

Josef Von Sternberg's Jet Pilot (1957) on blu-ray from Kino

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Air Force Colonel is tasked to escort a defecting Soviet pilot who is scheming to lure him to the USSR.



November 9, 2021

Stuart Gordon and David Mamet's Edmond (2005) on blu-ray from MVD Visual

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Seemingly mild-mannered businessman Edmond Burke (William H. Macy) visits a fortuneteller and hears a remark that spurs him to leave his wife abruptly and seek what is missing from his life. Encounters with strangers and unsavory people weaken the barriers encompassing his long-suppressed rage, until Edmond explodes in violence.



September 28, 2021

Ridley Scott's Legend (1985) on blu-ray from Arrow

(https://i.imgur.com/1tU0XPo.jpg)

A young man must stop the Lord of Darkness from both destroying daylight and marrying the woman he loves.


The reasoning behind the lack of a 4K UHD release:

QuoteSo, the big controversy from today's @ArrowFilmsVideo announcement: no 4K UHD for Legend. As I hinted a few weeks ago, there are sound reasons for this, and I'm going to try and explain why in this thread.

Obviously we wanted to, and it's not Universal stopping us (they have no plans either AFAIK). It's a visually stunning film and I understand people's dismay when Alien and Blade Runner are both on UHD and they want Legend to sit alongside those. Believe me, I get it. But...

It's important to understand Legend's post-production and release history and the materials issues relating to it, which is much more complex and fraught than Alien or even Blade Runner, both of which have enjoyed multi-million dollar restoration projects by Fox and Warner.

Reputation is an important factor too. Alien and Blade Runner are undisputed classics, one an instant franchise-spawning hit and the other a hard-earned unlikely triumph. Legend has still never quite enjoyed that level of respect, as much as we may love it.

There are three versions of the film (not counting TV edits): the 113-min Director's Cut, restored by Universal in 2002 (SD) and 2011 (HD); the 93-min International cut, released outside the US by Fox; and the 90-min cut with Tangerine Dream score released in the US by Universal.

The Director's Cut was restored from one of only two surviving 35mm answer prints, with additional post-production by Universal. There is no better quality source for this version, certainly not a negative. So why not scan the answer print in 4K? I mean, go big or go home right?

These are Scott's notes from the 2011 Blu-ray explaining the inherent quality issues on the Director's Cut master. He sums it up well; even though an answer print is often struck direct from the negative, there is significant generational quality loss that cannot be reversed.



In addition, the answer prints do not wholly represent what is in the Director's Cut HD master; they contain unfinished effects and other issues that would need to be corrected all over again in 4K.

Universal spent a lot of money in 2011 getting the Director's Cut to look as good as it does in HD, but make no mistake: its imperfections would be utterly naked in 4K, and the diminished dynamic range would make HDR a moot point.

Some wise aleck might be piping up with one of the rare examples to prove me wrong. "What about the Cannes cut of Dawn of the Dead, restored in 4K HDR from a CRI!" True, but the Cannes cut is a curio, not Romero's preferred cut that most people would reach for before any other.

The negative of Legend is conformed to the 93-min International Cut... and here's where things get tricky. The negative is owned by Universal, there's even a Universal copyright at the end... but Fox/Disney own distribution rights to that particular version of the film.

We went ahead and did a 4K scan of the negative anyway, knowing we could still put it to some use and hoping that we might be able to pull off a miracle and clear a US/UK edition with all three cuts, which might make UHD a little more feasible logistically and financially.

We tried very, very hard to make headway with Fox on clearance to include the International Cut as an extra, but no dice. Ever notice that the International Cut's never been released in the US, nor the US cut in the UK? You need both to sign it off and we couldn't make it happen.

You may ask, "Why not use the negative to make the Director's Cut look even better? It's only 20 mins shorter, right?" In fact, there are so many tiny cuts and minute differences throughout that less than an hour of negative material could be used in a Director's Cut restoration.

So even if we used our 4K negative scans to upgrade portions of the Director's and US cuts, what does that leave us on UHD? Two compromised, Frankenstein masters that would inevitably fall short of people's high expectations, no matter what we did.

Make no mistake, if Arrow does a new 4K master, whether it's Tremors or King of New York or Donnie Darko, and spend as much as we do on restoration, UHD authoring etc, we want it to be a massive improvement. Legend in this form would not qualify.

So here's the deal: the Arrow Blu-Ray, in addition to awesome new extras, has both Director's and US cuts in the best quality they've ever been seen in. It's still a stonking upgrade, thanks in no small part to those neg scans of the one cut that's unfortunately missing.



September 6, 2021

Edward Dmytryk's Walk on the Wild Side (1962) on blu-ray from Arrow (UK)

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Jane Fonda, Laurence Harvey, Barbara Stanwyck and Capucine give exceptional performances in this lurid drama of love and lust set in New Orleans during the thirties. The story centers around Dove Linkhorn (Harvey), a down-to-earth, good-natured man who trainhops from Texas to Louisiana with runaway Kitty Twist (Fonda) in search of his love Hallie (Capucine). Once in New Orleans, Dove makes a monumental effort to find Hallie, a sophisticated, soft-spoken artist, but is devastated to learn that she has been reduced to working the "Doll House," a high-society brothel run by ruthless madam Jo Courtney (Stanwyck). When Dove tries to take Hallie away from the "Doll House," he finds himself fighting for his life against brothel thugs and the jealous Jo, who wants Hallie for herself.

Quote from: jenkins on December 29, 2020, 11:49:58 AMJan 10  Walk on the Wild Side is coming to the channel. that's the most successful screenplay accomplishment of John Fante and it's southern melodrama (which i like)



September 20, 2021

Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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Vienna has built a saloon outside of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the railroad is put through, but the townsfolk want her gone.





September 27, 2021

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger's One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942)  on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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Shot down over occupied Holland, the crew of a Wellington bomber must navigate their way to safety through enemy territory.



September 13, 2021

Joseph Losey's Mr. Klein (1976) on blu-ray from Studiocanal (UK). Eventually coming from Criterion.

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In Nazi-occupied Paris, the immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr Klein clear his name?



August 4, 2021

Edward Dmytryk's The Sniper (1952) on blu-ray from Imprint (Australia). Also available in Indicator's box set (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Columbia-Noir-Number-3-Blu-ray/285564/). For now this is the only standalone release.

(https://i.imgur.com/TJPFWzV.jpg)

A sniper kills young brunettes as the police attempt to grapple with the psychology of the unknown assailant.





September 9, 2021

Andrew Dominik's Chopper (2000) on blu-ray from Madman (Australia)

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Chopper tells the intense story of Mark "Chopper" Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison. His book, "From the Inside", upon which the film is based, was a best-seller.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 30, 2021, 07:47:54 PM
September 21, 2021

Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Warner Bros.

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Urban thugs run wild and new methods of crime deterrence are being explored. Career gang member Alex is nabbed by the police and offered the chance to a commuted sentence if he undergoes a kind of surgical therapy. One where his brain does not allow him to execute his violent urges.



2021 TBD

William Friedkin's To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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When his partner is murdered just days before retirement, Secret Service Agent begins an obsessive hunt for the killer counterfeiter and all-round psychopath.



November 2, 2021

Román Viñoly Barreto's La bestia debe morir aka The Beast Must Die (1952) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley

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A long-lost treasure of Argentine noir rediscovered! Thanks to the efforts of the Film Noir Foundation and UCLA Film & Television Archive, director Román Viñoly Barreto's compelling 1952 thriller has been rescued and restored to its original brilliance.

Mystery writer Felix Lane, (legendary Spanish actor Narciso Ibáñez Menta), suffers a tragic loss; his nine-year-old son is killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Desperate for vengeance, Lane bypasses the authorities, adopts a new identity, and begins looking for clues that will lead him to the culprit. The suspense reaches hair-raising levels as Felix's vendetta leads him to infiltrate an affluent family rife with its own intrigues. But who among this highly suspect bunch is the killer? And will Felix follow his mission to its bitter end? Based on Cecil Day-Lewis' influential 1936 novel The Beast Must Die (written as Nicholas Blake), Viñoly Barreto's film is a stunning adaptation of one of the true landmarks of crime fiction and psychological suspense.

Flicker Alley is honored to present this world-premiere Blu-ray disc edition of the superb The Beast Must Die (La bestia debe morir), a heretofore virtually unknown addition to the canon of classic international noir. This landmark release, gorgeously restored, was achieved through the dedicated efforts of the Film Noir Foundation and UCLA Film and Television Archive, with special thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust.




November 2, 2021

Fernando Ayala's Los Tallos Amargos aka The Bitter Stems (1956) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley

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This rarely seen 1956 film was lauded in its day but only recently rediscovered, hidden away in a private collector's home outside Buenos Aires. Thanks to the diligent efforts of the Film Noir Foundation and Argentine cinephile Fernando Martín Peña, a gorgeous new print of The Bitter Stems (Los tallos amargos) was created, by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, from the reconditioned original negative, now presented in its first ever home video release–with special thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust.

Alfredo Gasper, a dissatisfied Buenos Aires newspaperman (Carlos Cores), partners with Paar Liudas, a clever Hungarian refugee (Vassili Lambrinos) who needs money to bring his family from Argentina. Together they create a bogus correspondence school, exploiting the hopes of would-be journalists. As their scheme succeeds beyond their wildest dreams, a mystery woman from Liudas' past sparks Gasper's suspicion: his charming colleague may be playing him for a sucker. Soon Gasper finds himself plotting the perfect crime – but fate has many twists in store.

This adaptation of journalist Adolfo Jasca's award winning novel was acclaimed upon its release, earning top prizes in 1957 from the Argentine critics association for Best Picture, with Fernando Ayala named Best Director. American Cinematographer magazine listed Los Tallos Amargos #49 on its roster of the 100 Best Photographed Films of All-Time. The innovative and evocative score, combining elements of tango, jazz, and classical music, is one of the first film scores by legendary composer Astor Piazolla. After more than 60 years in darkness, The Bitter Stems (Los tallos amargos) is finally restored and ready for rediscovery.




Late 2021

Raphael D. Silver's On the Yard (1985) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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Landing himself in a state penitentiary, Juleson (John Heard), a con artist, fails to adjust to the intricate social order of the prison system. Juleson's independent way of thinking does little to impress his fellow inmates and runs him afoul of Chilly (Thomas Waites), the leader of one of the most powerful gangs in the prison. Facing a group of cold-blooded killers on his own, Juleson discovers firsthand what individualism can bring to a loner behind bars.





October 26, 2021

George Abbot's The Cheat (1931) on blu-ray from Kino

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Temptation meets its match in The Cheat, a scandalous Pre-Code classic starring Tallulah Bankhead (Lifeboat). Elsa Carlyle (Bankhead) is an impulsive and charismatic gambler who has fallen on hard times and owes a large sum of money. A wealthy playboy (Irving Pichel, The Story of Temple Drake) promises to help her but his price may be more than Elsa is prepared to give. When her devoted husband (Harvey Stephens, Beau Geste) takes the fall for her passions, Elsa's loyalties are put to the test. Directed by legendary Broadway and Hollywood ace George Abbott (Damn Yankees) during the most decadent era in motion picture history, this daring story explores a woman whose addictions lead her on a path of danger and discovery.



October 26, 2021

Marion Gering's Devil and the Deep (1932) on blu-ray from Kino

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Screen legends Tallulah Bankhead (Lifeboat), Gary Cooper (Beau Geste), Charles Laughton (The Sign of the Cross) and Cary Grant (Hot Saturday) ignite the screen in Devil and the Deep. Grant, in his first major supporting role for Paramount studios, plays a lieutenant whose commanding officer (Laughton) suspects him of seducing his wife (Bankhead) when the real threat is another officer (Cooper). This sultry Pre-Code melodrama serves up a deadly love triangle with a thrilling climax set aboard a submarine that is trapped at the bottom of the sea. Directed by Marion Gering (Madame Butterfly) and featuring the stunning cinematography of Charles Lang (A Farewell to Arms), this offers a rare opportunity to see four screen legends together at the beginnings of their film careers.



October 26, 2021

Alexander Hall's The Torch Singer (1933) on blu-ray from Kino

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One of the most popular and versatile actresses of all time, Claudette Colbert (Four Frightened People, It Happened One Night, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife) dazzles audiences in the Pre-Code musical drama Torch Singer. When Sally Trent (Colbert) can no longer support her illegitimate child, she puts her daughter up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Under the name Mimi Benton, she soon climbs to fame as a sexy nightclub singer and attempts to find her daughter through a children's radio show. Featuring rare performances of Colbert singing, this emotionally charged classic from directors Alexander Hall (Goin' to Town) and George Somnes (Midnight Club) showcases the truly great talent of its star. Co-starring Ricardo Cortez (The Maltese Falcon) and David Manners (Dracula).



October 26, 2021

William A. Selter's Hot Saturday (1932) on blu-ray from Kino

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Cary Grant (The Eagle and the Hawk), Nancy Carroll (The Kiss Before the Mirror) and Randolph Scott (Supernatural) star in the Pre-Code scorcher Hot Saturday about small-town gossip that leads to enormous damage. When a wealthy city man, Romer Sheffield (Grant), hosts a party at his summer lake house, a rumor soon starts that Ruth (Carroll), a lovely small-town girl, spent the night with him. As Ruth seeks someone who will believe her innocence, the scandal rocks her community, forcing the girl to make a desperate decision that will change her life forever. They call her "bad"—and she tries to live up to it—in this classic from director William A. Seiter (A Lady Takes a Chance).



August 30, 2021

Zbynek Brynych's A pátý jezdec je Strach aka The Fifth Horseman is Fear (1965) on blu-ray from Second Run (UK)

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A Jewish physician in Nazi-occupied Prague is compelled to work cataloguing the homes and possessions of his countrymen as they are displaced to designated ghettos. When he helps an injured resistance fighter, he is plunged into a moral and ethical dilemma, and begins a nightmarish odyssey to help save the man.

Focusing on the intense anxiety, paranoia and terror prevalent in a fascist state, Zbyněk Brynych's The Fifth Horseman is Fear subverts its historical context, creating an expressionistic, thinly disguised allegory about communist Czechoslovakia – or indeed living under any totalitarian system - that is richly atmospheric and frighteningly real.




October 11, 2021

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection Vol. 1 on blu-ray from Arrow (UK).

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His debut feature Love is Colder Than Death (1969) is a playful but cynical crime picture, inspired by the nouvelle vague. Katzelmacher (1969) depicts the dynamics of a group of young layabout friends, which are radically altered by the arrival of an immigrant worker in their community. Beware of a Holy Whore (1971) pulls the curtain on the backstage dramas of the cast and crew of a film shoot as they wait in a Spanish seaside hotel for the arrival of funds to continue their production. The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971) portrays the downfall of a beleaguered fruit seller in 1950s Munich as he struggles to keep his family, body and soul together.

Originally written and produced as a stage play, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) focuses on the loves, losses and lamentations of the titular Petra, a successful fashion designer with two marriages behind her and an estranged daughter. The Ulli Lommel-directed Tenderness of the Wolves (1973) sees Fassbinder adopting the role of producer in a bleak tale based on the German serial killer Fritz Haarmann, memorably played by Fassbinder regular Kurt Raab, who also wrote the screenplay.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: jenkins on July 30, 2021, 08:17:44 PM
within this week three of those movies arrived my way through this box set (https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Code-Hollywood-Collection-Saturday-Universal/dp/B001QFFBAM) that was gifted to me. I already posted about murder at the vanities
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on July 30, 2021, 08:29:15 PM
Nice. Also bodes well for the rest of the set being upgraded.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on July 30, 2021, 08:37:01 PM
Quote from: wilder on July 30, 2021, 07:47:54 PM

October 11, 2021

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection Vol. 1 on blu-ray from Arrow (UK).

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His debut feature Love is Colder Than Death (1969) is a playful but cynical crime picture, inspired by the nouvelle vague. Katzelmacher (1969) depicts the dynamics of a group of young layabout friends, which are radically altered by the arrival of an immigrant worker in their community. Beware of a Holy Whore (1971) pulls the curtain on the backstage dramas of the cast and crew of a film shoot as they wait in a Spanish seaside hotel for the arrival of funds to continue their production. The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971) portrays the downfall of a beleaguered fruit seller in 1950s Munich as he struggles to keep his family, body and soul together.

Originally written and produced as a stage play, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) focuses on the loves, losses and lamentations of the titular Petra, a successful fashion designer with two marriages behind her and an estranged daughter. The Ulli Lommel-directed Tenderness of the Wolves (1973) sees Fassbinder adopting the role of producer in a bleak tale based on the German serial killer Fritz Haarmann, memorably played by Fassbinder regular Kurt Raab, who also wrote the screenplay.


design by Drusilla Adeline

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"I was blessed with near carte blanche by the team at Arrow to represent the films of RWF in a new light. The first step was to highlight each film in his diverse filmography on their own terms, starting with his neuvelle vague tinged noir debut - LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH"

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"and then immediately followed by a more personal film for RWF, KATZELMACHER, tells the story of an immigrant on the fringe of society, setting the blueprint for themes that would carry through his career. You now have the option of alternate artwork for each film on the same disc"

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"Beware of a Holy Whore launched Fassbinder into an all new arena in international film. Inspired by the making of his film Whity, his stock company is joined by Lou Castel and Eddie Constantine in the most nihilistic film about film ever. Like 8 1/2 with teeth (and Leonard Cohen)"

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"The most important and fertile period of RWF's career begins with the Merchant of Four Seasons! Recontextualizing the hollywood melodrama for postwar germany, this Sirkian tale of a fruit vendor at odds with his family and self is as emotionally raw as it is gorgeous."

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"And now for my favorite film in the set....the staggering sapphic beauty and pain that is THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT. Doing artwork for this was one of the most daunting challenges of my entire career. Few films mean this much to me. Margit Carstensen is god."

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"Finishing off the first set is Ulli Lommell's take on the true case that inspired Lang's M, produced by RWF and featuring his iconic stable of actors. Twins of Evil did a stellar cover for the previous release that I couldn't compete with, had to do something a bit left field."
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilberfan on August 04, 2021, 11:51:35 PM
'A Clockwork Orange' Gets a 4K Ultra HD Release Date (https://collider.com/a-clockwork-orange-4k-bluray-digital-release-date-details-bonus-content/)

The 4k Ultra HD and Blu-ray Combo Pack contains the following previously released special features:

Commentary by Malcolm McDowell and Nick Redman
Still Tickin': The Return of Clockwork Orange [2000 Channel 4 Documentary]
Great Bolshy Yarblockos! Making A Clockwork Orange
Turning Like Clockwork
Malcolm McDowell Looks Back
O Lucky Malcolm!
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on August 27, 2021, 01:55:48 PM
Umbrella Ent will be releasing Super Mario Bros (https://shop.umbrellaent.com.au/collections/coming-soon/products/super-mario-bros-blu-ray) on region 4 blu ray and dvd with a restoration of its workprint cut. Huzzah!!

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QuoteThis Ain't No Video Game Featurette
'Making Of' Featurette
Original electronic press kit with cast interviews and behind the scenes footage
Galleries: Stills, storyboards and concepts
Extended workprint with deleted scenes
US Theatrical Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-4yy9oBKN4

janky VHS archive (https://archive.org/details/super-mario-bros-1993-the-morton-jankel-cut-extended-vhs)

Seems like a loving release for a movie that earns its cult-cred. Excited to watch its extended cut.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSholc4rIEZ/
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on October 21, 2021, 03:32:48 PM
November 9, 2021

Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders: The Complete Novel (1983) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Universal

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Coming-of-age drama about teenagers growing up in 1950s Oklahoma. The youngest of three orphaned brothers gets into trouble with the law after he and his "greaser" friend are attacked at a park by the rich "socs."





Q1 2022 TBD

John Waters' Cry Baby (1990) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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"Drape" (or Greaser) Wade Walker, also known as Cry-Baby for his ability to shed a single tear, falls head over heels for square Allison Vernon-Williams who, incidentally, is tired of being good.



January 18, 2022

Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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Two down on their luck jazz musicians find themselves on the run after the police raid the speakeasy they perform in. With nowhere to hide, a gig with Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators at a beach resort seems like the perfect getaway. There's just one problem: the Syncopators are an all-female band, and Joe and Jerry aren't women — yet. Armed with some dodgy wigs and wobbly falsettos, they manage to join the Syncopators and meet Sugar Kane: a hooch-swilling, ukulele-playing knockout with a soft spot for saxophone players. Things start to go off the rails when they begin to attract unwanted attention from lecherous millionaires and some familiar faces show up at their hotel for a gathering of the country's most dangerous criminals.



Q1 2022 TBD

John Sturges' The Great Escape (1963) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.



October 12, 2021

Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds (2009) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Universal

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In Nazi-occupied France, a group of Jewish-American soldiers are on a mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich.



October 5, 2021

Universal Monsters (1931-1941) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Universal

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-Todd Browning's Dracula (1931)
-James Whale's Frankenstein (1931)
-James Whale's The Invisible Man (1933)
-George Waggner's The Wolf Man (1941)



November 1, 2021

Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957) on 4K UHD blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess.



September 21, 2021

Ulu Grosbard's Straight Time (1978) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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A career criminal, Max Dembo (Dustin Hoffman) is determined to go straight after his latest stint in prison. He takes a mindless job in a cannery, patiently endures the abuse of his pompous parole officer, Earl (M. Emmet Walsh), and begins a romance with a sympathetic girl from the employment office, Jenny (Theresa Russell). But when Earl erroneously busts Jack for drug abuse, the ex-con cracks, assaulting Earl and setting off on a reckless crime spree.



November 9, 2021

Fritz Lang's Fury (1936) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Spencer Tracy stars in this provocative drama by director Fritz Lang about an innocent man who barely escapes a violent lynch mob. Believed dead, he secretly returns to seek revenge.



November 16, 2021

Vincente Minelli's Some Came Running (1958) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Drama about the difficult challenges facing a veteran when he returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.



October 12, 2021

Val Lewton's Ghost Ship (1943) & Bedlam (1946) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Bedlam

After getting a glimpse of the conditions at the St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum, known as "Bedlam," Nell Bowen (Anna Lee) is concerned that the patients are being mistreated. When she seeks to better the situation, the head of St. Mary's, George Sims (Boris Karloff), uses his political savvy to have Nell committed. Being within St. Mary's does not deter Nell, however, and she starts to turn the patients against Sims in a bid to violently oust him from power.

The Ghost Ship

Tom Merriam (Russell Wade) boards the freighter Altair in San Pedro, where he meets Capt. Will Stone (Richard Dix). During that first voyage, Tom begins to suspect that Stone is crazy, but he also learns that the crew is fiercely protective of him. When fellow sailor Louie (Lawrence Tierney) is killed in a freak accident, Merriam suspects Stone. However, he has no proof. As the killings continue, Tom decides to leave the ship, but the captain has other plans.



November 9, 2021

Howard Bretherton & William Keighley's Ladies They Talk About (1933) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Gun moll Barbara Stanwyck is thrown into San Quentin thanks to her involvement in a bank robbery and the machinations of D.A./preacher David Slade (Preston Foster). It isn't political ambition that motivates Slade: he's in love with Stanwyck, and hopes that her incarceration will rehabilitate her. Instead, Stanwyck becomes a hard-bitten prison-block leader, spearheading a jailbreak. When things go awry, she holds Slade responsible. Upon her release, she goes gunning for Slade, and doesn't realize that she's really in love with him until she nearly puts him six feet under.



November 30, 2021

Nicholas Ray's Party Girl (1958) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Party Girl follows a bum-legged mouthpiece for the mob and a gorgeous, wised-up vamp who fall in love, try to go straight, and head straight for trouble.



October 19, 2021

Karl Freund's Mad Love (1935) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Doctor Gogol is a renowned surgeon who is obsessed with stage performer Yvonne Orlac. So much so that he actually goes to the theater every evening just to see her. He is disappointed to learn from her that she is leaving the show to join her husband, famed pianist Stephen Orlac, on a much delayed honeymoon. The Orlacs no sooner set off than they are involved in an accident where Stephen's hands are crushed. She begs Dr. Gogol to do anything to save her husband. He decides to graft new hands to replace those that are crushed and uses those from a recently executed prisoner, Rollo the Knife Thrower. When Stephen regains the use of his hands those around him find that he has also undergone a personality change and is now prone to violent fits of temper. He's also very good at knife throwing...



October 19, 2021

Terence Young's Corridor of Mirrors (1948) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

Eric Portman (A CANTERBURY TALE) plays an artist obsessed with the past. He surrounds himself with Renaissance artwork, infatuated with the notion that he and his lover (Edana Romney) are reincarnations of the lovers in a centuries-old painting. Portman's delusions have deadly consequences. One of the most unusual British films of the 1940s, CORRIDOR OF MIRRORS incorporates aspects of gothic horror, film noir, melodrama, fantasy, romance and thrillers.






November 23, 2021

Mike Leigh's All Or Nothing (2002) on blu-ray from Severin

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All or Nothing is set in the house of a working-class London couple, and also tells the stories of a range of Phil and Penny's neighbors, some of whom become involved in the family's lives, and all of whom experience an emotional journey.





November 30, 2021

Catherine Breillat's Romance (1999) on blu-ray from Strand Releasing

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Although deeply in love with her boyfriend - and indeed sleeping in the same bed with him - a schoolteacher cannot handle the almost complete lack of intimacy he will allow. Increasingly frustrated, she gradually finds her sexual appetites leading her into ever more risky situations, including a developing one with the headmaster.





November 23, 2021

The Woody Allen Collection (1994-2003) on blu-ray from Quiver Films

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-Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
-Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
-Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
-Celebrity (1998)
-Small Time Crooks (2000)
-The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
-Hollywood Ending (2002)
-Anything Else (2003)



November 23, 2021

Robert Muggs' Deep Blues (1992) on blu-ray from Film Movement

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In 1990, commissioned by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, veteran music film director Robert Mugge and renowned music scholar Robert Palmer ventured deep into the heart of the North Mississippi Hill Country and Mississippi Delta to seek out the best rural blues acts currently working. Starting on Beale Street in Memphis, they headed south to the juke joints, lounges, front porches, and parlors of Holly Springs, Greenville, Clarksdale, Bentonia, and Lexington. Along the way, they visited celebrated landmarks and documented talented artists cut off from the mainstream of the recording industry. The resulting film expresses reverence for the rich musical history of the region, spotlighting local performers, soon to be world-renowned, thanks in large part to the film, and demonstrating how the blues continues to thrive in new generations of gifted musicians.





September 21, 2021

Francis Ford Coppola's Dementia 13: Director's Cut (1963) on blu-ray from Vestron Video/Lionsgate, from a 4K restoration supervised by Francis Ford Coppola

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"Dementia 13: Director's Cut" is quintessential gothic horror, wrapped in the twisted mysteries of a family's deepest, darkest secrets. A widow deceives her late husband's mother and brothers into thinking he's still alive when she attends the yearly memorial to his drowned sister, hoping to secure his inheritance. But her cunning is no match for the demented, axe-wielding thing roaming the grounds of the family's Irish estate in this cult favorite featuring Patrick Magee, Luana Anders, William Campbell, and Bart Patton.





November 9, 2021

Mick Jackson's LA Story (1991) on blu-ray from Lionsgate

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With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.



2021 TBD

Uli Lommel's Blank Generation (1980) on blu-ray from Dark Force Entertainment

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Nada, a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up and coming punk rock star, Billy. Soon she enters into a volatile relationship with him and must decide whether to continue with it, or return to her lover, a fellow journalist trying to track down the elusive Andy Warhol.



November 30, 2021

Warren Beatty & Buck Henry's Heaven Can Wait (1978) on blu-ray from Paramount

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A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an over-anxious angel before he was supposed to die, comes back to life in the body of a recently-murdered millionaire.



December 14, 2021

David Steinberg's Going Berserk (1983) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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SCTV stars John Candy (Stripes), Joe Flaherty (Freaks And Geeks), and Eugene Levy (Schitt's Creek) team up on the big screen for the free-wheeling comedy Going Berserk! Part-time chauffeur John Bourgignon (Candy) has decided to settle down with Nancy, the love of his life and daughter to a powerful congressman. But when news of his impending nuptials leaks, John gets entangled in a plot more twisted than the knot he was preparing to tie with Nancy! Kidnapped by a cult and brainwashed to assassinate his future father-in-law, our hero soon finds himself on an odyssey of sheer lunacy.



December 7, 2021

Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude (1971) on blu-ray from Paramount

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Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.



October 19, 2021

In the Shadow of Hollywood: Highlights from Poverty Row 1934-1935 on blu-ray from Flicker Alley

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Independent films produced in the shadow of Hollywood's major studios were given the less than complimentary nickname "Poverty Row," which existed in Hollywood between the 1920s and 1960s. They were usually produced on small budgets, at rented facilities, and on a short production schedule. Despite being overshadowed by bigger studio projects, many of these films have since been rediscovered and appropriately hailed as exceptional and inventive. In fact, more than a few notable names were featured in these films, such as Humphrey Bogart, Fay Wray, Erich von Stroheim, Sterling Holloway and others. Each of these new restorations, from archival 35mm material, feature a film scholar commentary that offers production history, historical context, and an opportunity to explore this under-appreciated part of film history - an enriching experience for film enthusiasts of all ages!

Featured in this premiere Flicker Alley publication are four entertaining and beautifully restored films that explore crime, romance, horror, and mystery - all Poverty Row hallmarks:

Midnight aka Call It Murder (1934) - Directed by Chester Erskine and starring Sidney Fox, O.P. Heggie, and Humphrey Bogart – Jury foreman Edward Weldon (Heggie), a firm believer in following the letter of the law, is caught in complicated situation when his daughter, Stella (Fox), admits to having committed a murder.

Back Page (1934) - Directed by Anton Lorenze and starring Peggy Shannon – A young reporter, Jerry Hampton (Shannon), leaves her job at a big city newspaper for a position as the editor of a newspaper in a small California town. Political complications ensue as she struggles to keep the paper from being forced out of business.

Woman in the Dark (1934) - Directed by Phil Rosen and starring Fay Wray and Ralph Bellamy – John Bradly (Bellamy), recently released from prison, and attempting to live a quiet life, has his plans interrupted by a new love interest and a false murder accusation, causing him to flee the authorities. The film is an adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's mystery novel, Woman in the Dark.

The Crime of Dr. Crespi (1935) - Directed by John H. Auer and starring Erich von Stroheim – The Crime of Dr. Crespi is the story of a respected surgeon, Dr. Andre Crespi (Stroheim), who, when asked to operate on another surgeon that he believes stole the affection of the woman he loved, invents a serum that will induce a catatonic state, in order to bury his enemy alive. The film is an adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's short story, The Premature Burial.




January 18, 2022

John Sturges' The Capture (1950) on blu-ray from Film Detective

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From writer Niven Busch, the author of Duel in the Sun, comes an equally torrid sizzler, loaded with the intrigue and passion that marked the golden age of cinema. Cast with strong performers, this story of guilt and forbidden love still packs a jolt. Injured and on the run from police, Lin Vanner (Lew Ayres) confesses the sordid details of his life to a priest, which includes the death of a man he'd turned over to the police. Vanner also reveals that he fell in love with the dead man's widow (Teresa Wright), only to have his past catch up to him. Haunting and offbeat, The Capture (1950) was directed by one of Hollywood's best, John Sturges (The Great Escape).



December 7, 2021

Gregory Ratoff's Black Magic (1949) on blu-ray from ClassicFlix

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After watching his gypsy parents executed by hanging for the alleged crime of sorcery, a young Joseph Balsamo is tortured mercilessly for the insolence of objecting to his parents' conviction. After a narrow escape from his captors, he vows revenge on the nobleman who sentenced his parents to death.

Having honed his skills as a charmer through his teen years and into adulthood, Joseph (Orson Welles) now dons the name Cagliostro and becomes a famous sorcerer throughout Europe earning wealth, fame and privilege. His misadventures culminate in a bit of palace intrigue with a plot against Queen Marie Antoinette (Nancy Guild)—whose exact double is under Cagliostro's spell and is helpless to be his instrument in usurping the throne of France.




December 14, 2021

Luchino Visconti's Ludwig (1973) on blu-ray from Arrow

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Ludwig. He loved women. He loved men. He lived as controversially as he ruled. But he did not care what the world thought. He was the world.



2021 TBD

Andrei Konchalovskiy's Maria's Lovers (1984) on blu-ray from Code Red

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Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ethnic Yugoslavian virgin Maria Bosic. She dates him again, thus ruining a virtual engagement to captain Al Griselli. Against Ivan's dad's advice, they get married. But Ivan became psychologically impotent, feels unworthy of her and starts wondering, even looking for another girl. Meanwhile slick guitar-and-song-busker Clarence Butts moves in to South-Western PA, and seduces Maria.



November 30, 2021

John Huston's Freud: The Secret Passion (1962) on blu-ray from Kino

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This pseudo-biographical movie depicts 5 years from 1885 in the life of the Viennese psychologist Freud (Montgomery Clift). Disillusioned with the way his colleagues refuse to treat patients in a mental asylum, following a trip to Paris to visit Dr Charcot he sees how hysterical patients are treated by means of hypnosis.

The film follows Freud's descent into a region almost as black as Hell itself—man's unconscious—as he develops the notion that neurosis stems from sexual repression. By treating patients with various issues, including a woman haunted by recurring dreams (Susannah York, The Killing of Sister George) and a man with an Oedipus complex (David McCallum, The Great Escape), Freud experiences epiphanies that lead to the birth of modern analysis, despite the scorn his theories initially receive from his colleagues.




November 23, 2021

Rod Serling's Night Gallery - Season 1 (1969) on blu-ray from Kino

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Prepare for the chill of a lifetime as the master of suspense, Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone), hosts every spine-tingling episode from the complete first season of Night Gallery.



December 7, 2021

Peter Hyams' Busting (1974) on limited edition blu-ray from Kino

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LA cops Gould and Blake get in over their heads when they don't heed orders from above and go after a big crime boss. While higher ups in the police department want the cop duo to just focus on nabbing petty criminals, the team does so while still going after LA kingpin Rizzo. Various fist fights, chases, shootouts and other carnage occur as the two cops go after Rizzo's crime syndicate.





December 7, 2021

Alfred Hitchcock's Number Seventeen (1932) on blu-ray from Kino

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A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.



January 4, 2022

Alfred Hitchcock's Rich and Strange (1931) on blu-ray from Kino

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Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.



2022 TBD

Preston Sturges' The Great Moment (1944) on blu-ray from Kino

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The saga of W.T.G. Morton, the 19th century Boston dentist who, after inventing the first truly effective anesthesia, was forced to give up his proprietary interest in the invention and ended up dying in poverty and obscurity



November 16, 2021

William Dieterle's The Accused (1949) on blu-ray from Kino

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A beautiful psychology professor tries to hide a self-defense killing.



January 4, 2022

William Beaudine's The Crime of the Century (1933) on blu-ray from Kino

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A doctor who is also a "mentalist" confesses to a murder. The only problem is that the murder he's confessed to hasn't happened yet--although dead bodies are now starting to turn up all over the place. A reporter sets out to solve the "mystery".



July 27, 2021

Don Siegel's TV movie Stranger on the Run (1967) on blu-ray from Kino

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In search of a woman, the washed-up alcoholic vagabond and former convict Ben Chamberlain ends up in a god-forsaken and dusty railhead town, where Sheriff McKay and his trigger-happy deputies rule with a heavy hand. Under those circumstances, the drifter who thirsts for answers, and above all redemption, will begin his investigation, only to soon find himself wrongfully accused of murder. Inevitably, as Ben runs for cover in the rough wilderness, an angry posse of hateful gunslingers will hunt him down before he reaches the borders. Can Ben make it out alive?

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British Distributors Indicator/Powerhouse Films Enter U.S. and Canada Markets, Confirm First Catalog Releases Coming in 2022
October 12, 2021
Blu-ray.com

British Distributors Indicator/Powerhouse Films announced today that they have signed a physical media distribution deal with Distribution Solutions, a division of Alliance Entertainment. Distribution Solutions will handle sales, distribution of all Powerhouse Films sell-through releases in the US and Canada.

Complete announcement:

"Distribution Solutions, a division of Alliance Entertainment, is pleased to announce a physical media partnership with Powerhouse Films' UK-based label Indicator.

Distribution Solutions will handle sales, distribution of all Powerhouse Films sell-through releases in the US and Canada.

"We are very excited to be in business with Powerhouse Films," states Distribution Solutions President, Ben Means. "Partnering internationally with a film label like Indicator, which has such a driven passion for physical media, helps expand the quality and coverage of classic films we distribute to the US and Canada."

Powerhouse Films has an extensive collection of classic films that includes limited-edition box sets and single-title releases, as well as standard-edition reissues of limited-edition titles that have gone out of print, such as John Carpenter's Christine, Jacques Tourneur's Night of the Demon, and Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie.

"We're thrilled to be bringing our unique blend of cult and classic cinema to audiences in the US and Canada in partnership with the fantastic team at Distribution Solutions," says Powerhouse Films' co-founder, Sam Dunn. "We've been working hard unearthing and restoring a raft of incredible titles in order to put together a schedule that will surprise and delight even the most adventurous viewer."

Celebrated filmmaker Guillermo del Toro added his praise for the label, stating "Indicator lovingly curates and enshrines obscure, precious gems for the obsessive collector and the genre connoisseur."

The first physical Powerhouse Films releases distributed by Distribution Solutions will be available for purchase January 2022.





January 18, 2022

Alvin Rakoff's Hoffman (1970) on blu-ray from Indicator (US & UK), from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative

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A businessman blackmails his pretty young secretary into spending the weekend with him.



January 18, 2022

Gerry O'Hara's The Brute (1977) on blu-ray from Indicator (US & UK), from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative

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In The Brute, Sarah Douglas (Superman II) gives a courageous performance as Diane, a glamorous fashion model trying to escape the brutal blows of her sadistic husband, fearsomely portrayed by Julian Glover (For Your Eyes Only). After a particularly savage attack, Diane leaves to stay with photographer friend Mark (Bruce Robinson, writer and director of Withnail & I) and his girlfriend Carrie (Suzanne Stone). Finding solidarity with other victims at a nearby women's refuge, she aims to forge a new life alone, but her violent ex-partner is determined to track her down.



January 18, 2022

John Gould's The Blockhouse (1973) on blu-ray from Indicator (US & UK), from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative

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Based upon harrowing real events which were turned into a 1955 novel by Jean-Paul Clébert, The Blockhouse starts explosively with an Allied air raid on a Nazi prison camp. Six escaped prisoners take shelter in an underground blockhouse, which is soon destroyed by heavy shelling. Trapped underground, with an almost endless supply of food, wine and candles, the men must endure confinement with no prospect of escape or rescue.



2022 TBD

Budd Boetticher's A Time for Dying (1969) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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In Silver City, naive farm boy Cass and newcomer saloon girl Nellie are married by Judge Roy Bean in a shotgun wedding but their honeymoon is marred by outlaws.



December 13, 2021

Mae West in Hollywood 1932-1943 on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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When Mae West went to Hollywood in the early 1930s, she was already a major star. Having sensationalised Broadway, it was time for the movies to receive the same. Her fame allowed her control, picking her co-stars (including a young Cary Grant), receiving screenwriter credits, and baiting censors and audiences alike as the pre-Code era gave way to a more sanitised period in American filmmaking. This six-disc collection brings together all ten of West's classic Hollywood features, from her supporting turn in 1932's Night After Night to 1943's musical extravaganza, The Heat's On.



November 22, 2021

Mike Leigh's Bleak Moments (1971) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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Sylvia leads a quiet life caring for her sister Hilda, who has complex care needs. Their lonely suburban existence is accentuated by a social awkwardness that detaches them from the community and fuels a life of seclusion and despair.



November 8, 2021

Mike Leigh's Vera Drake (2004) on blu-ray from StudioCanal (UK)

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London, 1950. Vera Drake lives with her husband Stan and their grown-up children, Sid and Ethel. They are not rich, but they are a happy, close family. Vera cleans houses, Stan is a mechanic in his brother's garage, Sid works for a tailor and Ethel works in a factory testing lightbulbs. But selfless Vera has a sideline which she keeps secret from all of those around her: without accepting payment, she helps young women to end unwanted pregnancies. When one of these girls is rushed to hospital following an abortion, the police investigation leads to Vera and her world comes crashing in on her.



November 29, 2021

Jean-Pierre Melville's Les enfants terribles (1950) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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Elisabeth and Paul close themselves off from the world by playing an increasingly intense series of mind games with the people who dare enter their lair.



October 18, 2021

Ann Turner's Celia (1989) on blu-ray from Second Run (UK)

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An imaginative and somewhat disturbed young girl fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to mask her insecurities while growing up in rural Australia.





August 13, 201

Francois Ozon's Swimming Pool (2003) on blu-ray from Ara Media (South Korea)

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A British mystery author visits her publisher's home in the South of France, where her interaction with his unusual daughter sets off some touchy dynamics.



November 30, 2021

Lino Brocka's Bayan Ko (1984) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Le Chat Qui Fume (France)

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A political worker in a printing press, who works as a scab during company strike, realizes rather belatedly that everyone is affected by the ills of society.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on November 21, 2021, 07:58:05 PM
Hell yeah, Kino Lorber bringing the noir heat. This movie is intense and forms a neat element out of its parallel trios.

https://twitter.com/KLStudioClassic/status/1462450736378400769
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on December 03, 2021, 12:06:20 PM
Quote from: wilder on July 27, 2017, 12:58:03 AM
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Just learned about this German DVD & Blu-ray label Bildstörung (http://www.bildstoerung.tv). The owners, Alexander Beneke and Carsten Baiersdörfer, have really interesting taste. The label specializes in foreign arthouse and exploitation films, and what could generally be described as 'wide angle oddities'.

To give you an idea, some of the titles in their catalog already available in the US from other labels include:

-Aleksei German's Hard to Be A God (2013)
-Lodge Kerrigan's Clean, Shaven (1993)
-Andrzej Zulawski's Possession (1981)
-Stuart Cooper's Overlord (1975)
-Walerian Borowczyk's La Bete (1975)
-Jaromil Jireš' Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
-František Vláčil's Marketa Lazarová (1967)

Below are some of their titles that are unreleased or OOP in the US.

Iván Zulueta's Arrebato aka Rapture (1979) - DVD (https://www.amazon.de/Arrebato-Special-DVDs-Eusebio-Poncela/dp/B0045L3TD0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501132477&sr=8-1&keywords=arrebato)

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A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.




https://twitter.com/AltInnocence/status/1466817423688957952

Now to receive another home release on the Altered Innocence label!

directed by: Iván Zulueta
starring: Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Helena Fernan-Gomez, Marta Fernandez Muro
1979 / 115 min / 1.66:1 / Spanish 2.0 with English subtitles

Additional info:
• Region Free Blu-ray
• Commentary Track w/ Mike White of The Projection Booth
• Documentary: Ivan Z by Andrés Duque (51 min.)
• Theatrical Trailer
• Other Trailers
• Reversible Art
• English subtitles
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on December 04, 2021, 02:23:34 AM
Early 2022

Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A World War I French colonel goes head-to-head with the army's ruthless top brass when his men are accused of cowardice after being unable to carry out an impossible mission.



March 8, 2022

Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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Bud Baxter is a struggling clerk in a huge New York insurance company. He's discovered a quick way to climb the corporate ladder - by lending out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. He often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits and one night he's left with a major problem to solve.



Early 2022

Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill (1980) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A mysterious woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the call girl who witnessed the murder.



January 25, 2022

Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Lover aka L'Amant (1992) on 4K UHD blu-ray from MPI Media Group

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It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having some monetary difficulties is returning to boarding school. She is alone on public transportation when she catches the eye of a wealthy Chinese businessman. He offers her a ride into town in the back of his chauffeured sedan, and sparks fly. Can the torrid affair that ensues between them overcome the class restrictions and social mores of that time? Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Maugerite Duras.



Early 2022

Frank Darabont's The Green Mile (1999) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Warner Bros.

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The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.



March 29, 2022

Robert Redford's Ordinary People (1980) on blu-ray from Paramount

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Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore star as the upper-middle-class couple whose "ordinary" existence is irrevocably shattered by the death of their oldest son in a boating accident.



Early 2022

Sidney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express (1974) on blu-ray from Paramount

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Having concluded a case, detective Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney) settles into what he expects will be a relaxing journey home aboard the Orient Express. But when an unpopular billionaire is murdered en route, Poirot takes up the case, and everyone on board the famous train is a suspect. Using an avalanche blocking the tracks to his advantage, Poirot gradually realizes that many of the passengers have revenge as a motive, and he begins to home in on the culprit.



December 28, 2021

Tsai Ming-liang's Rebels of the Neon God (1992) on blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome partner label Big World Pictures

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Within the urban gloom of Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.





January 25, 2022

Alfred L. Werker's Repeat Performance (1947) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley

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Repeat Performance, the most requested film in the early years of the Film Noir Foundation's restoration campaign, is finally available in digital form! An amazingly original hybrid of film noir, supernatural fantasy, and backstage melodrama, the film stars Joan Leslie as a Broadway actress who magically relives the previous year of her life, but can she alter the fateful mistakes and misjudgments that led to a New Year's Eve tragedy? Think of it as film noir's answer to It's a Wonderful Life or a full-length precursor to The Twilight Zone.

Produced as a rare prestige picture by fledgling Eagle-Lion Pictures, the movie features an array of vivid performances: 21-year-old Joan Leslie as Sheila Page, her first mature role following a parade of teenage ingenues at Warner Bros.; Louis Hayward as her husband Barney, a bitter and vengeful playwright; Virginia Field as Sheila's personal and professional rival, Paula Costello; Tom Conway as suave stage producer John Friday; and Richard Basehart in his movie debut as poet William Williams, one of the era's most sensitive depictions of a gay artist.

In the years after its 1947 release, Repeat Performance seemingly vanished. For many who'd seen it, the film's startling premise and stunning set-pieces became merely a tantalizing memory. It fell so far off the cultural radar people began to think they'd only imagined the movie. But thanks to the dedication and diligence of the Film Noir Foundation, Repeat Performance was restored in collaboration with UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Packard Humanities Institute. And now, it lives again in a beautiful Blu-ray/DVD dual-format edition loaded with special features.




January 31, 2022

Justin Kurzel's Snowtown (2011) on blu-ray from 101 Films (UK)

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When 16 year-old Jamie (Lucas Pittaway) is introduced to a charismatic man, a friendship begins. As the relationship grows so do Jamie's suspicions, until he finds his world threatened by both his loyalty for, and fear of his newfound father figure, John Bunting (Daniel Henshall): Australia's most notorious serial killer.





January 31, 2022

Jan Němec's The Party and the Guests (1966) on blu-ray from Second Run, from a 4K restoration by the Czech National Film Archive. Previously included in Criterion's Czech New Wave Eclipse box set.

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A group of friends on an afternoon picnic are accosted by mysterious authority figures and compelled to join a lavish banquet in the woods. Jan Němec's surreal and sinister fable is a barbed satire of authoritarianism and conformity, as each of the 'guests' find their place among the revellers, succumbing to the will of their menacing hosts.

Distinguished by being 'banned forever' by Czech authorities, Nemec's disquieting film was considered the most politically dangerous film made during the short flowering of Czechoslovak cinema in the 1960's.






February 22, 2022

Lies and Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol on blu-ray from Arrow US & Arrow UK

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-Madame Bovary (1991) (new 4K restoration)
-Betty (1992) (new 4K restoration)
-Torment (1994) (new 4K restoration)
-Cop au Vin (1985)
-Inspector Lavardin (1986)

Too often overlooked and undervalued, Claude Chabrol was the first of the Cahiers du Cinema critics to release a feature film and would be among the most prolific. The sneaky anarchist of the French New Wave, he embraced genre as a means of lifting the lid on human nature. Nothing is sacred and nothing is certain in the films of Claude Chabrol: anything can be corrupted, and usually will be.

The hidden meaness of provincial life is at the heart of Cop Au Vin (Poulet au vinaigre), as deaths and disappearances intersect around the attempt by a corrupt syndicate of property developers to force a disabled woman and her son from their home. Actor Jean Poiret would prove so compelling as the laconic Detective Inspector Lavardin good cop/bad cop all in one that the sequel would be titled after him. Inspector Lavardin sees the titular detective investigating the murder of a wealthy and respected catholic author, renowned for his outspoken views against indecency, whose body is found naked and dead on the beach. In Madame Bovary, Chabrol directs one of his greatest collaborators, actress Isabelle Huppert, in perhaps the definitive depiction of Flaubert's classic heroine. Meanwhile Betty, adapted from the novel of the same name by Maigret author Georges Simenon, is a scathing attack on the uppermiddle classes, featuring an extraordinary performance by Marie Trintignant as a woman spiraling into alcoholism, but fighting to redefine herself. Finally, in Torment (L'enfer) Chabrol picks up a project abandoned by Henri Georges Clouzot, in which a husband's jealousy and suspicion of his wife drive him to appalling extremes. Francois Cluzet and Emmanuelle Beart give career best performances as the husband and wife tearing each other apart.






December 6, 2021

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Vol. 2 on blu-ray from Arrow (UK)

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-Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
-Effi Briest (1974)
-Fox and His Friends (1975)
-Chinese Roulette (1976)
-The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)

Among Fassbinder's best-loved works, Fear Eats the Soul sees the director paying homage to the classic melodramas of Douglas Sirk in its poignant portrayal of a relationship between a widowed cleaning lady in her sixties and a Moroccan immigrant in his thirties that causes an outrage with her family, friends and neighbours. Fassbinder's long-gestating adaptation of Theodor Fontane's classic German novel Effi Briest, his most expensive production to date as well as one of his most ambitious, tells the tale of a seventeen-year-old girl who is married off by her parents to a wealthy Baron more than twice her age.

Fassbinder himself plays the protagonist of Fox and His Friends, a sweet working class soul whose relationship with wealthy industrialist Eugen, he discovers, is based almost wholly on his unexpected lottery win. Chinese Roulette is a tense psychodrama set in an isolated house during a weekend break in which infidelities are revealed and families break down. Fassbinder's international breakthrough film, The Marriage of Maria Braun charts the rise to prosperity of its tenacious and pragmatic central character across the post-war years as she holds out hope for the return of the young soldier she was married to for less than 24-hours before he was dispatched to the Russian front and later reported dead.




January 25, 2022

Dancing with Crime (1947) and The Green Cockatoo (1937) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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A true rarity, William Cameron Menzies' THE GREEN COCKATOO was completed in 1937, but not released until 1940. It is often cited as one of the earliest of the British Noirs and helped set the stage for the classical period of Brit Noir which flourished in the years following WWII. It's a taut little thriller based on a Graham Greene story, directed by the American William Cameron Menzies, and featuring a stellar cast and crew. After witnessing the murder of a racketeer, a young woman is pursued by both gangsters and the police. She is aided by a Soho entertainer, who is the brother of the victim.

In DANCING WITH CRIME (1947), Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim, married in real life at the time, put themselves in harms way when they go undercover to investigate the murder of a friend with ties to black market racketeers. Watch for Dirk Bogarde and Diana Dors in uncredited roles.






January 11, 2022

Tom Holland's The Temp (1993) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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The Temp stars Timothy Hutton as an executive with a history of paranoia and jealousy. When his company is taken over by a large corporation, everyone scrambles and jockeys for position -- but Hutton finds himself rising to the top with the assistance of his temporary secretary. As rivals and foes start turning up dead, Hutton struggles to figure out if his madness is returning, or is his curvaceous secretary taking her job a little too seriously?





February 8, 2022

Freddie Francis' Paranoiac (1963) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Simon Ashby is a wealthy psychotic who is is coddled by his aunt in their palatial mansion outside of London. One day, Ashby's long lost brother mysteriously arrives at the house, but events prove that he is an impostor, sent by Keith Kossett, son of the attorney for the family estate, who has been dipping into the family trust fund.



February 8, 2022

Carl Reiner's Summer School (1987) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Freddy the gym teacher has to teach remedial English in summer (high) school, if he wants tenure. As he can only teach gym and his students want fun, emphasis is on "field trips" - until he's fired unless all his students pass the test.



December 7, 2021

Michael Curtiz's Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Childhood friends on opposite sides of the law fight over the future of a street gang.



January 18, 2022

Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright (1950) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high society entertainer.



January 11, 2022

Max Ophul's Laughing Heirs (1933) on blu-ray from Kino

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A young salesman may inherit a wine-estate on one condition: he can't drink a drop of alcohol for at least a month.



January 18, 2022

Ernst Lubitch's Three Women (1924) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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With his third American film, Three Women (made just after The Marriage Circle) Ernst Lubitsch continued to endow Hollywood studio films with the European sophistication and graceful storytelling that had become his hallmark while working as a director in Germany. Pauline Frederick and May McAvoy star as a mother and daughter who find themselves competing for the attention of George, a handsome opportist (Lew Cody) who yearns to lay hands on the women's $3 million fortune. Marie Prevost stars as George's mistress, a sultry femme fatale who threatens to sabotage any romance that may transpire, further testing the strength of the primal mother/daughter relationship.



January 18, 2022

John Stahl's When Tomorrow Comes (1939) on blu-ray from Kino

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Romance and heartbreak walk hand-in-hand when Philip Chagal accidentally meets Helen Lawrence in a restaurant where she is a waitress. Unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness, he is attracted to her and they make a date to go sailing, arriving at Philip's country home just as a storm is breaking. Helen learns who he is for the first time, a celebrated-and-famous concert pianist and, falling in love with him, decides to leave before matters go further. A hurricane hits and their car is crippled by a falling tree. Rising water forces then to seek shelter in the choir loft of a church, where they spend the night.



December 1, 2021

Fred Schepisi's The Devil's Playground (1976) on blu-ray from Umbrella Entertainment (Australia)

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In August 1953, the 13-year old Tom Allan attends a Catholic seminary in Melbourne, Australia. Students and brothers face individual challenges of faith and self-restraint.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 11, 2022, 04:54:57 AM
March 22, 2022

Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Trilogy (1972-1990) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Paramount

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Epic tale of a 1940s New York Mafia family and their struggle to protect their empire from rival families as the leadership switches from the father to his youngest son.



April 26, 2022

Stanley Donen's Singin' in the Rain (1952) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Warner Bros.

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A Hollywood star of the silent era, production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.



March 15, 2022

John Landis' American Werewolf in London (1981) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Arrow

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The tale of a tourist from the U.S. whose stay in London is disrupted when, after being bitten by a wolf, he turns into a werewolf.



April 12, 2022

Paul Verhoven's Robocop (1987) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Arrow

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In the not-too-distant future, a Detroit police officer returns as a powerful cyborg after being dismembered by a gang of thugs.



March 15, 2022

Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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After a murder is committed in a small town right on the US-Mexico border a rogue cop from the US tries to frame his Mexican counterpart for it.



Late 2022 TBD

Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino, from a new 4K restoration

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A demented preacher relentlessly torments two small children in the Depression-era Bible Belt in order to get at their dead father's stolen fortune.



July 26, 2022

Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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Before settling down to a respectable life, career criminal Johnny Clay teams with a group of pitiful two-bit crooks to pull off one final, elaborate heist at a racetrack.



June 28, 2022

Stanley Kubrick's Killer's Kiss (1955) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A prize-fighter intervenes when private dancer Gloria is being attacked by her corrupt employer.



Summer 2022

Sidney Lumet's 12 Angry Men (1956) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A jury holdout attempts to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence.



2022 TBD

John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate (1962) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A US Army hero returns to New York from Korea, but has been mysteriously programmed by Communists to assassinate a presidential nominee, but when his Army buddy becomes suspicious of the goings on, he is on the trail to stop him.



May 31, 2022

Sergio Leone's A Fistful of  Dollars (1964) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A mysterious gunman has just arrived in San Miguel, a grim, dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. A master of the "quick-draw," the stranger soon receives offers of employment from each gang. But his loyalty cannot be bought; he accepts both jobs...and sets in motion a plan to destroy both jobs...and sets in motion a plan to destroy both groups of criminals, pitting one against the other in a series of brilliantly orchestrated set-ups, showdowns and deadly confrontations.



May 31, 2022

Sergio Leone's For A Few Dollars More (1965) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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Eastwood is a keen-eyed, quick-witted bounty hunter on the bloody trail of Indio, the territory's most treacherous bandit. But his ruthless rival, Colonel Mortimer, is determined to bring Indio in first...dead or alive! Failing to capture their prey—or eliminate each other—the two are left with only one option: team up, or face certain death at the hands of Indio and his band of murderous outlaws.



May 17, 2022 TBD

John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Scream Factory

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Manhattan Island has been turned into a maximum security prison, a plane carrying the US president goes down there. An anti-hero is entrusted with the task of rescuing him.



February 22, 2022 TBD

John Carpenter's Escape from L.A. (1996) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Paramount

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It's 16 years later and Snake Plissken is once again called in by the US government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles.



June 28, 2022 TBD

David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Sony

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Due to his knowledge of the native Bedouin tribes, British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence is sent to Arabia to find Prince Faisal and serve as a liaison between the Arabs and the British in their fight against the Turks. With the aid of native Sherif Ali, Lawrence rebels against the orders of his superior officer and strikes out on a daring camel journey across the harsh desert to attack a well-guarded Turkish port.



June 7, 2022 TBD

David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Sony

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Allied commandos are dispatched deep inside the Burmese jungle to blow up a strategic bridge built by British POWs.



2022 TBD

George Stevens' Giant (1956) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Warner Bros.

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Jordan 'Bick' Benedict Jr., is a wealthy landowner and cattle rancher who marries a spoiled and wealthy Virginian woman. When the two return to his cattle empire in Texas, conflicts around race, class and changing traditions including former cowboy and now rich oil tycoon Jett Rink rise to epic proportions through the years and test the unity of the family and surrounding community.



May 31, 2022

Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Paramount, from a new 4K restoration

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Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone. Because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team, including a tough-as-nails street cop and a rookie sharpshooter.



May 17, 2022

John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Paramount

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A lawyer becomes a hero after shooting a notorious outlaw, but was the shot really fired by his friend?



2022 TBD

Paul Schrader's First Reformed (2017) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Lionsgate or Criterion?

First Reformed was shot at 2.8K and the digital intermediate was completed in 2K, so like many digitally-captured films released in the 4K UHD format, this will be an upscale.

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A minister of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormented past.



March 29, 2022

David Fincher's Panic Room (2002) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Sony

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After purchasing a brownstone in New York, a thirty-something divorced woman and her daughter are forced to take advantage of the hidden room- the "panic room" -when intruders break into their home. However, they soon find that what the intruders want is locked in the panic room with them.



Late 2022 TBD

Robert Harmon's The Hitcher (1986) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Second Sight (UK), restored from the original camera negative

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A magnanimous young man who picks up a strange hitchhiker on a desert highway on a dark, rainy night soon wishes he had just driven on. The deranged hitchhiker turns the innocent fellow's journey into a living nightmare.



April 20, 2022

Walter Hill's The Driver (1978) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Universal (Australia)

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In Los Angeles, a mysterious getaway driver renowned for his speed and ability behind the wheel is pursued by an obsessive detective and his men. Drawn into their cat-and-mouse game is a beautiful gambler who saw the driver's face during a casino heist, but refuses to identify him to the police.



June 20, 2022

Columbia Noir #5: Humphrey Bogart (1947-1956) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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A fifth foray into the film noir output of Columbia Pictures, but, this time, with a twist. Not only does this volume bring together six more gems from the studio's archives, but it also serves as a showcase for the great Humphrey Bogart.

Having established his stardom in the gangster pictures of the 1930s, Bogart fit easily into the world of film noir, where he was equally at home playing troubled servicemen, slick-talking lawyers, black marketeers, gambling den owners, or hard-up journalists.

Columbia Noir #5: Humphrey Bogart brings together five of the iconic actor's starring vehicles: John Cromwell's Dead Reckoning, Nicholas Ray's Knock on Any Door, Stuart Heisler's Tokyo Joe, Curtis Bernhardt's Sirocco, and Mark Robson's The Harder They Fall, plus Henry Levin's The Family Secret, a rarity starring Lee J Cobb and John Derek that was produced by Bogart's Santana Pictures, an outfit that regularly delved into the seedy, shadowy world of noir.


QuoteDead Reckoning (1947)

War heroes Rip Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) and Johnny Drake (William Prince) are sent to Washington, D.C., by train, but are not told why. During the trip, they learn they're about to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler (Lizabeth Scott). Directed by John Cromwell.

Knock On Any Door (1949)

Having pulled himself out of the poverty and squalor of a big city slum, idealist lawyer Andrew Morton (Humphrey Bogart) agrees to defend a young juvenile delinquent from his old neighborhood. Nick Romano (John Derek), the son of an innocent man Morton had unsuccessfully defended as a young lawyer years earlier, stands accused of murdering a policeman. In opposition to a law-and-order prosecutor (George Macready), Morton argues that Nick's deprived upbringing led to his life of crime. Directed by Nicholas Ray.

Tokyo Joe (1949)

In the wake of Japan's surrender, American expatriate Joseph Barrett (Humphrey Bogart) hopes to revive the Tokyo club he ran before he left to fight in World War II. Soon Barrett discovers that Trina (Florence Marly) -- the wife he assumed was dead -- has married another man and has a young daughter. As an overwhelmed Barrett struggles to obtain approval for residency in Japan, he becomes the blackmail target of Baron Kimura (Sessue Hayakawa), a crime boss with a dirty job for him to do. Directed by Stuart Heisler.

Sirocco (1951)

American Harry Smith (Humphrey Bogart) is selling guns to Emir Hassan (Onslow Stevens), whose Syrian rebels are battling occupying French troops. Hoping to stem the fighting, French Col. Feroud (Lee J. Cobb) asks Harry to introduce him to Hassan. Meanwhile, Feroud's girlfriend, Violette (Märta Torén), is increasingly drawn to Harry. While she wants Harry to ferry her out of the dangerous country, he boldly tries to make a profit from his dealings with both Hassan and Feroud. Directed by Curtis Bernhardt.

The Family Secret (1951)

After David Clark (John Derek) kills his drunk, violent friend Art, he explains to his lawyer father, Howard (Lee J. Cobb), that he acted in self-defense. Howard lets David decide whether or not to confess. Disappointed when David refuses to admit to his crime, Howard is further disturbed when district attorney George Redman (Santos Ortega) prepares to prosecute Joe Elsner (Whit Bissell), a bookie Art was in debt to. When his son still refuses to turn himself in, Howard agrees to defend Joe.

The Harder They Fall (1956) (new 4K restoration)

Broke and without work, newspaper reporter Eddie Willis (Humphrey Bogart) agrees to work for the corrupt boxing promoter Nick Benko (Rod Steiger) to help hype his new boxer, Toro Moreno (Mike Lane). While Toro is beastly in appearance, he has no actual boxing talent, and all his fights are fixed. When Toro gets a shot at the title against the brutal Buddy Brannen (Max Baer), Willis is faced with the tough decision of whether or not to tell Toro that his entire career is a sham. Directed by Mark Robson.



March 22, 2022

Philippe Mora's Mad Dog Morgan (1976) on blu-ray from Indicator US & UK

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Based on the true story of Dan Morgan – the infamous Australian outlaw once described as 'the most bloodthirsty ruffian that ever took to the bush' – Mad Dog Morgan provides the perfect showcase for the unique star quality of Dennis Hopper (Night Tide, The Last Movie).

After witnessing a bloody massacre of Chinese workers on Australia's goldfields, Morgan turns to a life of crime, becoming a bushranger and the scourge of the vicious authorities – and, ultimately, a local legend – leaving a bloody legacy in his wake.





March 22, 2022

Budd Boetticher's A Time for Dying (1969 on blu-ray from Indicator US & UK

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The final western from one of the genre's greatest directors, Budd Boetticher (Ride Lonesome), and the last screen appearance of war hero-turned-movie star Audie Murphy (To Hell and Back), A Time for Dying is an offbeat, elegiac look at the Old West, prefiguring Don Siegel's classic western, and John Wayne's final picture, The Shootist.

Richard Lapp stars as a young man with fine shooting skills who crosses paths with real-life figures, such as Jesse James (played by Murphy) and Judge Roy Bean (Victor Jory), only to discover the true violence of the West.




March 22, 2022

Ramón Peón's La Llorona (1933) on blu-ray from Indicator US & UK

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An early horror classic drawn from Mexico's rich tradition of folklore, La Llorona recounts the chilling tale of the 'wailing woman' who kills herself and her child before returning to haunt the living.

Expressionistic, lyrical and atmospheric, Ramón Peón's film draws on the influence of Universal Pictures' contemporaneous horror cycle and incorporates elements of period melodrama and romance. This landmark production in the evolution of Mexican cinema has been newly restored from the only surviving film elements, and is presented here with a selection of essential extras.




March 22, 2022

Fernando de Fuentes' El fantasma del convento aka The Phantom of the Monastery (1934) on blu-ray from Indicator US & UK

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Made in the wake of La llorona's success and directed with flair by Fernando de Fuentes (regarded as one of the masters of early Mexican cinema), The Phantom of the Monastery (El fantasma del convento) tells the macabre tale of a troupe of hikers who become lost in a forest and take refuge in a haunted monastery. There, they encounter shape-shifting shadows, ominous sealed doorways, and a cellar crowded with coffins...

An expressionistic Gothic triumph which has tragically languished in obscurity outside of Mexico, The Phantom of the Monastery has now been lovingly restored and is presented on Blu-ray at long last in a world debut edition, along with a selection of illuminating extras.




March 29, 2022

Dennis Hopper's Out of the Blue (1980) on blu-ray from Severin, from a new 4K restoration

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A young girl whose father is an ex-convict biker and whose mother is a junkie has a difficult time coping with her parents' problems. It centers on Cebe, a rebellious young girl, interested only in Elvis Presley and punk rock music — as well as her ex-convict father Don Barnes, and her high-strung mother Kathy. The title is taken from the Neil Young song "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)".




March 29, 2022

Twisting the Knife: Four Films by Claude Chabrol (1997-2003) on blu-ray from Arrow, from new 4K restorations

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-THE SWINDLE (RIEN NE VA PLUS)
-THE COLOR OF LIES (AU COEUR DU MENSONGE)
-NIGHTCAP (MERCI POUR LE CHOCOLAT)
-THE FLOWER OF EVIL (LA FLEUR DU MAL)



2022 TBD

Tsai Ming-liang's Vive L'Amour (1994) on blu-ray from Film Movement, from a 2K restoration

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The sophomore feature from Tsai Ming-liang (Rebels of the Neon God, Goodbye, Dragon Inn) finds the acclaimed master of Taiwan's Second New Wave demonstrating a confident new cinematic voice. Vive L'Amour follows three characters unknowingly sharing a supposedly empty Taipei apartment. The beautiful realtor May Lin (Yang Kuei-mei) brings her lover Ah-jung (Chen Chao-jung) to a vacant unit she has on the market, unaware that it is secretly being occupied by the suicidal funeral salesman Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-sheng). The three cross paths in a series of precisely staged, tragicomic erotic encounters, but despite their physical proximity, they find themselves no closer to a personal connection.

Featuring an intoxicating mix of Antonioni-esque longing and surprising deadpan humor, Vive L'Amour catapulted Tsai to the top of the international filmmaking world and earned him the prestigious Golden Lion at the 1994 Venice International Film Festival.





February 22, 2022

The Douglas Sirk Collection II on blu-ray from Kino

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Douglas Sirk is commonly credited with transforming the American melodrama into high art. What is less commonly known is that, prior to fleeing Germany in the 1930s, he was already exploring the boundaries of the genre, and refining the sophisticated visual style and emotional complexity that would become his trademarks in the 1950s.

The Girl from the Marsh Croft
An adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's popular novel, a tale of shame and superstition set in an insular farming community in the northern region of Germany. Hansi Knoteck stars as a moral outcast who is willing to sacrifice her own happiness for the sake of the man she loves (Kurt Fischer-Fehling). Female self-sacrifice is also the theme of

The Final Chord
Alavish drama set in the classical concert halls of Germany. Maria von Tasnady is a woman who gives up her child for adoption, only to become its nursemaid years later. But even that tenuous happiness is threatened by the influence of a domineering nanny (Lil Dagover).



March 29, 2022

Robert Siodmak's Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam aka The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) on blu-ray from Kino. Includes in an audio commentary by Imogen Sara Smith.

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A serial killer strikes again during WWII in Germany. The wrong man is arrested and a detective hunts down the real killer. But justice in Nazi Germany is not so easily administered.



March 15, 2022

Robert Siodmak's Abschied aka Farewell (1930) on blu-ray from Kino

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In a return to the realistic "street films" of the German silent era, Robert Siodmak (Criss Cross) directed this comedy drama of intersecting lives within the rooms of a working-class boarding house. Aribert Mog (Ecstasy) and Brigitte Horney (Munchausen) star as Peter and Hella, a young couple waiting for the opportunity to be married. When Peter receives a job opportunity in Dresden, he intends to surprise Hella with the news. But when word spreads among the other lodgers, it creates a series misunderstandings that could jeopardize the couple's happiness.



May 24, 2022

Henry Koster's Flower Drum Song (1961) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 2K restoration

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A young Chinese girl travels to the United States as part of an arranged marriage and discovers a new and modern world.



April 26, 2022

Douglas Day Stewart's Thief of Hearts (1984) on blu-ray from Kino

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A San Francisco cat burglar steals a married woman's diaries and seduces her with what he knows.



Summer 2022

Fritz Lang's Human Desire (1954) on blu-ray from Kino

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Korean War vet Jeff Warren returns to his job as a railroad engineer, and quickly succumbs to his boss's wife, Vicki Buckley. Thus begins a tangled web of suspicion, sex and murder involving Vicki and her brutish husband Carl.



Summer 2022

Fritz Lang's You and Me (1938) on blu-ray from Kino

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George Raft and Sylvia Sidney star as Joe and Helen Dennis, two former convicts who find honest work in a department store and love in one another — until a dark secret from Helen's past drives them apart and drives Joe back to his criminal ways.



2022 TBD

James William Guercio's Electra Glide in Blue (1973) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 4K restoration

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An Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to the homicide unit following the mysterious murder of a hermit. He is forced to confront his illusions about himself and those around him in order to solve the case.



April 19, 2022

Erle C. Kenton's You're Telling Me! (1934) on blu-ray from Kino

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A hard-drinking, socially-awkward inventor wrecks his daughter's chances of marriage into a rich family and bungles his own chances of success by selling one of his more practical inventions.



April 19, 2022

Clyde Bruckman and W.C. Fields' Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) on blu-ray from Kino

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Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.



April 19, 2022

George Marshall and Edward F. Cline's You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) on blu-ray from Kino

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Larson E. Whipsnade (W.C. Fields) runs a seedy circus which is perpetually in debt. His performers give him nothing but trouble, especially Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.



2022 TBD

Erle C. Kenton's Search for Beauty (1934) on blu-ray from Kino

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Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.



2022 TBD

Mitchell Leisen's Murder at the Vanities (1934) on blu-ray from Kino

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A homicide detective with an eye for the ladies investigating a murder in Earl Carroll's Vanities allows the music review to continue during the investigation.



July 19, 2022

Rod Serling's "Night Gallery" - Season Two (1971-1972) on blu-ray from Kino

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Prepare for the unexpected as Season Two of Night Gallery comes to Blu-ray. The two-disc set contains 61 stories, created and hosted by the master of mystery, The Twilight Zone's Rod Serling.



Early 2022 TBD

Master Shot: The Films of Miklós Jancso on blu-ray from Kino, from 4K restorations

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-The Round-Up (1965)
-The Red and the White (1967)
-The Confrontation (1968)
-Winter Wind (1969)
-Red Psalm (1971)
-Electra, My Love (1974)

Screenwriter and director Miklós Jancsó was the creator of a unique film language centered around his mastery of the tracking shot. The first internationally recognized representative of modern Hungarian filmmaking, his extraordinary works examined oppressive authority and the mechanics of power. Kino Lorber is proud to present six of his classic features restored in 4K from their original camera negatives by the National Film Institute Hungary – Film Archive.


QuoteThe Round-Up (1966)

Miklós Jancsó's most renowned work depicts a prison camp in the aftermath of the 1848 Hungarian Revolution. After the Hapsburg monarchy succeeds in suppressing Lajos Kossuth's nationalist uprising, the army sets about arresting suspected guerillas, who are subject to torture and other mental trickery in an effort to extract information about highwayman Sándor Rózsa's band of outlaws, still waging armed struggle against the Hapsburgs on the outside. Jancsó's camera stays in constant, hypnotic motion, taking in the developing dynamics and antagonisms between the prisoners and their captors, meditating upon and exalting its characters' resistance and perseverance in the face of brutal, authoritarian repression. A true classic of world cinema.


The Red and the White (1967)

A haunting, powerful film about the absurdity and evil of war. Set in Central Russia during the Civil War of 1918, The Red and The White details the murderous entanglements between Russia's Red soldiers and the counter-revolutionary Whites in the hills along the Volga. The epic conflict moves with skillful speed from a deserted monastery to a riverbank hospital to a final, unforgettable hillside massacre.

The Red and The White is a moving visual feast where every inch of the Cinemascope frame is used to magnificent effect. With his brilliant use of exceptionally long takes, vast and unchanging landscapes and Tamas Somlo's hypnotic black and white photography, Jancso gives the film the quality of a surreal nightmare. In the director's uncompromising world, people lose all sense of identity and become hopeless pawns in the ultimate game of chance.


The Confrontation (1968)

Paralleling the dramatic student protests and riots that were exploding across the world in the 1960s at the time the film was made, The Confrontation is a story of protest and rebellion.

Set in 1947 Hungary when the Communist Party have just taken power, dancing, singing Communist students debate Catholic seminary students at a People's college, all the while worrying their words will escalate into a fight.

Jancsó's first color film is a virtuoso display by a director at the peak of his powers. The film eloquently explores the complex issues and inherent problems of revolutionary democracy, and was set to compete in the famously cancelled Cannes 1968.


Winter Wind (1969)

In the mid-1930s a group of Croatian anarchists led by the grim revolutionary ascetic Marko Lazar (played by the film's French producer Jacques Charrier) escape a bungled ambush in Yugoslavia crossing the dense forests at that country's Northern border in an effort to seek refuge in Hungary.

Winter Wind consists largely of twelve fluid long takes, some as long as ten minutes, and each a completely mapped-out sequence. Jancsó's interest is more geometric than geopolitical, eschewing the big picture historic story for micro-social behavior. In a series of sweeping motions, effectively communicating the abstract conflict between the idealist anarchists and reality.


Red Psalm (1971)

Set on the Hungarian plains of the 1890s. When a group of farm workers go on a strike, demanding basic rights from a landowner, they are met with soldiers on horseback, facing harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.

Structured as a passion play. An awesome fusion of form with content, and politics with poetry. Stylized dance with collective choreography depicts the fight of those answering terror with violence. The film honors the agrarian Socialist movements of the end of the nineteenth century, while. conveying a historical philosophical critique of the Socialist ideas.

Winner of the best director prize at Cannes in 1972, and widely considered to be the greatest Hungarian film of the 60s and 70s.


Electra, My Love (1974)

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra, still burning with hatred towards his murderer, the tyrant Aegisztosz, attempts to rouse an apathetic population against the rule of this usurper.

A richly inventive adaptation of the two-thousand-year-old Greek myth. This searing exposé of oppression and the abuse of power resonates inescapably in twentieth century Hungary, reflecting attitudes towards tyranny and dictatorship from the modern man's perspective. Jancsó makes use of the play's framework to make charges against the then Russian rulership that continues to resonate today.

A thoroughly enjoyable cinematic tour de force, the 71 minute film consists of 12 single take, intricately choreographed set pieces.



May 10, 2022

Christopher Frank's L'année des méduses aka Year of the Jellyfish (1984) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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Set in Saint Tropez during mid-summer, this biting coming of age story is a tale of obsession and sexual desire. A young woman vacations in an upscale beach resort with her mother, where it becomes clear that a layer of secrets and jealousy lay beneath the sun-drenched paradise.




April 5, 2022

Val Guest's Jigsaw (1962) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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When a woman is found murdered in Brighton it is left to two local detectives, Sergeant Wilks (Lewis) and Inspector Fellows (Warner), to piece together the clues, solve the crime and catch the killer.




April 26, 2022

John Parker's Dementia (1955) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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A young woman wanders the streets in a nightmare through a landscape of mutilations, patricide, and paranoia, waking in her apartment amidst clues that suggest it wasn't a dream!




February 5, 2022

Mervyn LeRoy & Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Millionaire turned composer Dick Powell rescues unemployed Broadway people with a new play.



March 29, 2022

William A. Wellman's A Star is Born (1937) on blu-ray from Warner Archive, remastered from its original nitrate Technicolor camera negatives

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The classic story about the fragility of fame and the cost of stardom. A young woman arrives at Hollywood with dreams of stardom and with the help of a leading man achieves them, but his best days are behind him and she eclipses him.



May 17, 2022

Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale (2002) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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A con-woman tries to straighten out her life, even as her past comes back to haunt her.



March 15, 2022

Robert Siodmak and Louis de Rochemont's The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley, from a 2K restoration

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Flicker Alley invites you to discover The Whistle at Eaton Falls, a rarely seen 1951 film by renowned filmmakers Robert Siodmak and Louis de Rochemont, featuring Lloyd Bridges, Ernest Borgnine, Murray Hamilton, and Dorothy Gish (in one of her rare later screen appearances). Making its home video debut, this superb quasi-documentary labor drama has been brilliantly restored, utilizing 2K scanned materials from the Library of Congress.

Shot on location in New Hampshire and set during a post war economic crisis, The Whistle at Eaton Falls follows the newly appointed manager of Doubleday Plastics, Brad Adams (Lloyd Bridges), and the labor union that represents their factory workers. Brad, a former factory worker and union president, is tasked with the unfortunate responsibility of laying off employees and friends to ease the company's financial struggles. Despite his relentless commitment to protect the workers, Brad must find a way to keep the company on its feet and thereby ensure the stability of the local economy.





March 23, 2022

El Escapulario (1968) aka The Scapular (1968)) and Ladron De Cadaveres (1957) on blu-ray from VCI

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Quote from: wilder on April 19, 2020, 06:16:07 PMThe Scapular aka El Escapulario (1968)

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A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.

Quote from: Letterboxd user Carlos ValladaresIf Val Lewton produced and Orson Welles directed the story of a quiet Mexican Revolution-era pueblo where the lines between the supernatural and the miraculous, the holy and the satanic, blur.

MVP: Gabriel Figueroa's constantly astonishing photography, with loads and loads of beautiful, well-staged compositions. Montage is internalized; the cut disappears, and the statuesque Mexican actors are the glue that keep the off-kilter imagery together. The daring opening: we become one with the camera, as we stalk a priest who's delivering the last rites of a doña on her death-bed. There's no specific source to the ghoulishness: it's palpable, we can sense it in the air and in the murky-muddy photography, but we can't grasp it. The elusiveness of Figueroa's phantom images (fog curls around the actors, zooms serve to make the actor bigger-than-life and ant-sized) is breathtaking. The film becomes a powerful metaphor for the dangers that come to non-believers...but also, how concrete facts seem to vanish when we come face-to-face with the Utterly Irrational (a Jacques Tourneur-like swinging of hanged bodies, Figueroa's camera panning across them one-by-one, like a fascinated morgue inspector). André Bazin would have killed to have seen this. RKO "God is absent" horror, disguised as a Catholic parable.





February 8, 2022

Lewis Milestone's A Walk in the Sun (1945) on blu-ray from Kit Parker Films

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During WWII, a platoon of American soldiers trudge through the Italian countryside in search of a bridge they have been ordered to blow up, encountering danger and destruction along the way.

Quote from: Letterboxd user Nitrate_DietImpressionistic WWII tale and a worthy addition to the Lewis Milestone war movie canon. Less pacifist than All Quiet on the Western Front, but still willing to consider soldiers' fears and insecurities. More than other genres in classical Hollywood, war movies get away with an unusual amount of narrative freedom. The story here is about a trek to a farmhouse six miles away, a scenario so simple it's forced to revolve around the characters and their existential reflections on what they're doing. A lot of the cast were becoming familiar faces in noir pictures, so in a roundabout way that also contributes to the film's sense of absurdism and dread. Screenplay is by Robert Rossen, who would become a director himself the following year.



June 7, 2022

Noah Baumbach's Highball (1997) on blu-ray from MVD Visual

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Diane and Travis throw great parties. This year they are throwing three: a birthday bash for Felix; a Halloween masquerade; and a New Year's celebration. Whether it's the faulty pyrotechnics of a recovering magician... Travis' struggle to turn Diane's kitchen into a micro-brewery... the imagined death of Phillip's Ethiopian son... Fletcher's attempt to bed a celebrity or Diane's drunken attempt at seduction... something is always out of place and someone is definitely going to get hurt!



March 15, 2022

Jonathan Kaplan's The Accused (1988) on blu-ray from Paramount

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After a woman suffers a brutal rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.



April 19, 2022

Hal Ashby's Bound for Glory (1976) on blu-ray from Sandpiper Pictures. Previously released by Twilight Time.

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Based on the life of Woody Guthrie, Bound for Glory explores the social, economic, and political hardships that molded his beliefs. Beginning with his life in Texas and his horrific experiences in the Southwest Dust Bowl, the film follows Guthrie as he moves to California to begin his radio career. There he discovers the political power of music, which he harnesses by writing and singing his own songs about human suffering.



May 17, 2022

Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker's Top Secret! (1984) on blu-ray from Paramount

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Parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany.



March 22, 2022

Alain Resnais: Five Short Films on blu-ray from Icarus Films

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Icarus Films is proud to present five newly restored early short film masterpieces from legendary filmmaker Alain Resnais (1922-2014). Resnais would go on to make his mark in feature films, including the Oscar- nominated Hiroshima mon amour, but these early-career shorts demonstrate an already keenly developed eye. The films are a remarkable compendium of the stylistic elements found in his features, and represent an important contribution to the distinguished French documentary tradition.

QuotePAUL GAUGUIN(1949, 13 minutes)
PAUL GAUGUIN uses the artist's own writings and artwork to trace his creative journey. The flm begins with Gauguin losing his job in fnance―the catalyst for his commitment to paint every day―and continues through to his fnal days in Tahiti.

VAN GOGH (1948, 18 minutes)
Winner of the 1950 Academy Awards Best Short Film, this boundary-pushing short brilliantly evokes the life of Vincent Van Gogh, using only his paintings as visuals.

GUERNICA (1949, 14 minutes)
GUERNICA, about the city's horrifying bombing during the Spanish Civil War, features Picasso's paintings, drawings and sculptures. Co-directed with Robert Hessens.

ALL THE WORLD'S MEMORY: TOUTE LA MÉMOIRE DU MONDE (1956, 21 minutes)
ALL THE WORLD'S MEMORY pays homage to the National Library of France and takes us on an impressive and impressionistic tour. It received the Best Picture Award at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.

THE SONG OF STYRENE: LE CHANT DU STYRÈNE (1957, 14 minutes)
Alain Resnais carries out a poetic investigation into the origins of plastic. It is the perfect example of how to turn a commissioned industrial film into a lyrical, satirical film masterpiece.



February 1, 2022

Zander the Great (1925) on blu-ray from Undercrank Productions. Undercrank previously put out When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922) (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/When-Knighthood-Was-in-Flower-Blu-ray/183166/)

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Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with the lad, and nicknames him "Zander". When Mrs. Caldwell dies, the authorities decree that the boy must be placed in the same orphanage where Mamie was mistreated. Horrified, Mamie determines to see to it that the boy will be spared the same treatment that she had to suffer.

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April 11, 2022

Liv Ullman's Faithless (2000) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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Marianne is a theatre actress married to an orchestra conductor, Markus. She becomes involved in an affair with their director friend, David, which leads to a painful divorce and battle for custody of their daughter, Isabelle.



February 7, 2022

Mike Leigh's Career Girls (1997) on blu-ray from 4dvd (UK)

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Mike Leigh's film explores the changing face of friendship as times goes by. Hannah (Katrin Cartlidge) and Annie (Lynda Steadman) shared a flat together at college, but have not seen each other for six years. They meet up for the weekend, reminiscing about their student days and the characters they used to know. These include their flatmate Claire, Adrian Spinks (with whom they both had flings), and Ricky, Annie's unstable would-be suitor.



May 30, 2022

Geoffrey Wright's Romper Stomper (1992) on blu-ray from 88 Films (UK)

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Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running.



February 28, 2022

Frantisek Vlacil's The Devil's Trap (1962) on blu-ray from Second Run (UK)

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The first in František Vláčil's trilogy of beautifully realized historical epics (which also includes his legendary works Marketa Lazarová and The Valley of the Bees), The Devil's Trap is set in 16th century Bohemia where a miller and his son find themselves under investigation by Inquisition authorities after daring to question the local landowner's decision to build on unstable land.

Evoking a time where religious authority holds sway, and an understanding of the natural world is interpreted as evidence of a diabolical pact, The Devil's Trap stunningly creates a cruel but credible world torn between superstition and science.




March 28, 2022

Karel Kachyna's Coach to Vienna (1966) on blu-ray from Second Run (UK)

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In the final days of World War Two, a young Czech widow is abducted by two deserting German soldiers and forced to ferry them to the Austrian border. Unbeknown to them, she is plotting a brutal revenge for the recent killing of her husband by Wehrmacht forces.

Banned even before its release (and remained unseen for over twenty years), Karel Kachyňa's powerful and often harrowing film takes a humanist approach to war. Controversially, it rejected traditional notions of 'evil Germans' and 'good Czechs' and instead explores notions of guilt and vengeance, and how war degrades everyone in such violent times.




April 18, 2022

Tavernier: The Essential Collection (1975-2010) on blu-ray from Studio Canal (UK)

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-QUE LA FÊTE COMMENCE (1975)
-UNE SEMAINE DE VACANCES (1980)
-COUP DE TORCHON (1981)
-L.627 (1992)
-LA GUERRE SANS NOM (1992)
-ÇA COMMENCE AUJOURD'HUI (1999)
-LAISSEZ-PASSER (2002)
-LA PRINCESSE DE MONTPENSIER (2010)

Bertrand Tavernier was one of the most outstanding French film makers of his time. Born in Lyon in 1941, he began his career with a short-lived stint as an assistant to Jean-Pierre Melville - an experience and environment that affected him so deeply that he took up first film journalism then worked as a highly influential press agent for ten years before returning to filmmaking.

A diverse filmmaker whose works covered a spectacular range of genres, settings and time periods, Tavernier imbued his films with intelligence and grace, but they were also often a commentary on political and social injustice and the strength of the human spirit. This essential collection includes 8 of his films, a tribute and testimony to the spectacular work of the legendary filmmaker.




May 30, 2022

Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr (1932) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK), from a new 2K restoration by the Danish Film Institute completed in 2020

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The first foray into sound filmmaking by one of cinema's pivotal artists, Vampyr remains a cornerstone work of the horror genre. The dreamlike tale of an occult-obsessed student's visit to a small French village, as he is drawn into the unsettling mystery around a stricken family's struggle with malevolent forces, remains an unparalleled evocation of the uncanny.

Adapting the haunted stories of Sheridan Le Fanu, Dreyer's ceaseless innovation delivers a tour-de-force of supernatural phantasmagoria and creeping unease, via audacious camerawork and sound design.




May 25, 2022

After Dark: Neo Noir Cinema Collection One (1990-1998) on blu-ray from Impulse (Australia)

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-After Dark My Sweet (1990)
-Rush (1991)
-One False Move (1992)
-Mortal Thoughts (1992)
-Flesh & Bone (1993)
-Twilight (1998)



April 27, 2022

Ivan Passer's Cutter's Way (1981) on blu-ray from Impulse (Australia)

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Alex Cutter is a boozy, belligerent and deeply cynical Vietnam veteran whose encounter with a landmine during the war has left him minus an eye, a leg and an arm. When his drifter playboy friend Richard Bone is falsely accused of murder, Cutter sets out for revenge in his own inimitable style

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on March 11, 2022, 06:40:34 PM
Wow! Thank you for this comprehensive post, and including asides such as the short film and collection inclusionz, and the upscale note.

That Neo Noir collection iz dank. Also, Femme Fatale via Shout! Definitely going to grab that.

I hadn't heard of Liv Ullmann's Faithless before but that sounds like a gem that was out of my sight. Looking forward to revisiting this post and checking out more of the films as the year goes on.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on March 17, 2022, 06:37:31 PM
May 10, 2022

The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection: Volume Two (1942-1976) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Universal. Individual releases also coming, simultaneously.

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Alfred Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense, directed some of the most exciting and memorable films in cinema history. The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection features five films from the acclaimed director's illustrious career, including Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, The Trouble with Harry, Marnie, and Family Plot in stunning 4K resolution. Starring Hollywood favorites such as Sean Connery, Tippi Hedren, Shirley MacLaine, Joseph Cotten, Robert Cummings, Norman Lloyd, Teresa Wright, Bruce Dern, and John Forsythe, this collection includes hours of bonus features and captures the artistry of one of the most innovative directors of all time.


Saboteur (1942)

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Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur is a riveting wartime thriller following an innocent man who suddenly finds himself in a very deadly situation. After aircraft factory worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings) witnesses his plant's firebombing by a Nazi agent, he finds himself falsely accused of sabotage and killing his best friend. To clear his name, Kane begins a relentless cross-country chase that takes him from Los Angeles to Boulder Dam and New York's Radio City Music Hall. The suspense builds to a climactic finale atop the Statue of Liberty that has become one of the most iconic scenes ever filmed by the Master of Suspense.



Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

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One of Alfred Hitchcock's most chilling films, Shadow of a Doubt, was considered a personal favorite by the director himself. After her charming Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotton) comes to visit in the sleepy town of Santa Rosa, his favorite niece and namesake, "Young Charlie" (Teresa Wright), begins to suspect him of being the infamous Merry Widow murderer. As she draws closer to the truth, a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse begins, leading to a shocking climax in this riveting psychological thriller from the Master of Suspense.



The Trouble with Harry (1955)

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Set against a picturesque New England backdrop, Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry is a dark comedy starring Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine and Jerry Mathers. The trouble with Harry is that he is dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. After Harry's body is discovered in the woods, several of the local residents must determine not only how and why he was killed but what to do with the body. Featuring romance, humor...and several unearthings of the corpse, this quirky romp showcases a decidedly different type of story from the Master of Suspense.



Marnie (1964)

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Director Alfred Hitchcock creates a spellbinding portrait of disturbed woman and the man who tries to save her in the unrelenting psychological thriller Marnie. A compulsive liar and thief, Marnie (Tippi Hedren) winds up impulsively marrying the very man (Sean Connery) she attempts to rob. When a terrible accident pushes her over the edge, her husband struggles to help her face her demons and her past as the plot races to a shattering, inescapable conclusion. Originally marketed as a "suspenseful sex mystery," this shocking story from the Master of Suspense is a mesmerizing classic.



Family Plot (1976)

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Director Alfred Hitchcock delivers a diabolically entertaining thriller in Family Plot starring Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris and William Devane. A phony psychic (Harris) and con man (Dern) are a conniving couple who plot to swindle an old lady out of her fortune by telling her they can find her long-lost nephew. In the process, their lives become intertwined with a larcenous jewel merchant (Devane) and his beautiful girlfriend (Black) who have an affinity for kidnapping. Filled with plot twists from beginning to end, the final film from the Master of Suspense is a fitting finale to his illustrious career.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on April 26, 2022, 01:48:35 AM
Summer 2022 TBD

The Coen Bros. Fargo (1996) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi), (Peter Stormare) to kidnap his own wife. Jerry will collect the ransom from her wealthy father (Harve Presnell), paying the thugs a small portion and keeping the rest to satisfy his debts. The scheme collapses when the thugs shoot a state trooper.



April 7, 2022

Uli Edel's Christiane F. (1981) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Euro Video (Germany). Includes English subtitles.

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In 1970s Berlin, an aimless teenager, living with her single mother, falls in with a drug dealer.



July 19, 2022

Paul Schrader's Cat People (1982) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Shout Factory

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A young woman's sexual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.



Late 2022 TBD

Joseph Sargent's The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A gang of thugs who have hijacked a subway train near New York's Pelham Station threaten to kill one hostage per minute. Forced to stall the assailants until a ransom is delivered or a rescue made, transit chief Lt. Garber must somehow ad-lib, con and outmaneuver one of the craftiest, cruelest villains ever.



June 28, 2022

Tony Scott's True Romance (1993) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Arrow US

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Runaway lovers Clarence and Alabama play a dangerous game when they come to possess a suitcase of mob contraband. They head for Los Angeles, where they'll sell the goods and begin a new life. But both sides of the law have other ideas.



May 31, 2022

Ivan Passer's Born to Win (1971) on blu-ray from Fun City Editions

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J. (George Segal, Where's Poppa?) was a hairdresser until his escalating heroin addiction broke up his family and overtook his life. In filmmaker Ivan Passer's Fun City-set Born to Win, J. and his friend and fellow junkie Billy Dynamite (Jay Fletcher, Foxy Brown), are reduced to running scams all over town together, desperately angling for their next fix. When a free-spirited young woman (Karen Black, Easy Rider) falls for J., it seems they might have a chance to escape this bleak world together, but J.'s addiction means they are never too far from the reach of a merciless drug dealer and pimp (Hector Elizondo, The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3) and a relentless narcotics cop (Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver). In the supporting cast, are Paula Prentiss (The Stepford Wives) as J.'s estranged wife, who turns tricks to support her habit, and, in one of his first roles, Burt Young (Rocky) as a hoodlum.

After directing his acclaimed debut film Intimate Lighting in his native Czechoslovakia, Passer fled to America, following the Warsaw Pact invasion of his homeland. He teamed with playwright and novelist David Scott Milton and producer-star Segal to make Born to Win, his first English-language film. Over fifty years after its initial release, it stands as one of the quintessential and most influential cinematic portrayals of the down-and-out New York City of the early 1970s, and some of its less fortunate inhabitants. For this first-ever Blu-ray release, Born to Win has been restored in 2K from its 35mm interpositive, beautifully preserving the film's indelible images of a New York that otherwise exists only in our memories.





June 14, 2022

Herzog: The Collection Vol. 2 on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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QuoteSIGNS OF LIFE

THE GREAT ECSTASY OF WOODCARVER STEINER

HOW MUCH WOOD WOULD A WOODCHUCK CHUCK

LA SOUFRIÈRE

GOD'S ANGRY MAN

HUIE'S SERMON

THE DARK GLOW OF THE MOUNTAINS

HERDSMEN OF THE SUN

ECHOES FROM A SOMBER EMPIRE

WHEEL OF TIME

THE WILD BLUE YONDER



Late 2022 TBD

Seven films directed by Francois Truffaut Prepped for blu-ray from Kino

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QuoteThe Bride Wore Black (1968)

After newly widowed Julie Kohler's (Jeanne Moreau) mother stops her from committing suicide, she hatches a different plan to deal with her grief. In a small black book, she lists five men. One by one she visits the men with murderous intentions, assuming different identities to get close to them. Only one man remains elusive, having been captured by the cops before Julie could reach him -- but despite the obstacles, Julie intends to see her task through to the end.

Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

Lonely on the island of Réunion, tobacco planter Louis Mahe (Jean-Paul Belmondo) decides to wed a mail-order bride. Although the woman who arrives off the ship, Julie Roussel (Catherine Deneuve), looks nothing like her picture, she's still gorgeous. Their marriage seems to be going fine until Julie empties his bank accounts and disappears. This should be the end of Louis' obsession -- but then he spots Julie in the south of France and falls under her spell once more.

The Wild Child (1970)

A young boy (Jean-Pierre Cargol) is discovered in a forest, living a feral existence among a pack of wolves. Captured by hunters, he is sent to Paris and placed in a school for deaf-mute children. There he is observed by Dr. Itard (François Truffaut) who concludes that the boy is neither deaf nor intellectually stunted, but has simply been deprived of normal, humanizing influences. With no shortage of tenderness, patience and ambition, Itard devotes himself to educating and civilizing the boy.

The Story of Adele H (1975)

Adèle Hugo (Isabelle Adjani), daughter of renowned French writer Victor Hugo, falls in love with British soldier Albert Pinson (Bruce Robinson) while living in exile off the coast of England. Though he spurns her affections, she follows him to Nova Scotia and takes on the alias of Adèle Lewly. Albert continues to reject her, but she remains obsessive in her quest to win him over. When Albert is stationed in the West Indies, Adèle once again trails him, furthering her downward spiral.

Small Change (1976)

Filmed in the small French city of Thiers, François Truffaut's episodic comedy-drama concerns one of the director's favorite subjects: childhood. A class clown stalls the teacher long enough to avoid answering a question, a toddler ends up on a high window ledge, a little girl announces to the neighborhood that her parents are punishing her, and the new boy in school hides his poor, abusive home life in these intertwining stories illustrating the joys and sorrows of growing up.

The Man Who Loved Women (1977)

Middle-aged Frenchman Bertrand Morane (Charles Denner) is relentless in his pursuit of women, constantly moving from conquest to conquest without any qualms about his promiscuity. He attempts to woo Helene (Geneviève Fontanel), a lovely lingerie store owner, but she prefers younger men, so he moves on to a married woman, Delphine Grezel (Nelly Borgeaud). Bertrand eventually begins his sex-filled memoirs, and his editor, Genevieve Bigey (Brigitte Fossey), becomes his next amorous relationship.

The Green Room (1978)

Julien Davenne (François Truffaut) is a French writer who becomes consumed with the concept of death. After losing many friends during the fighting in World War I, Julien constructs a shrine to those close to him who died in battle. At the heart of Julien's obsession is his late wife, whom he honors throughout his home, which is essentially one large memorial dedicated to her memory. Though Julien makes fleeting attempts to connect with the living, he seems more comfortable with the dead.



May 17, 2022

Victor Fleming's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Gentle Dr. Jekyll (Spencer Tracy) experiments with human nature, believing that each person has both good and evil sides that can be brought forth chemically. Jekyll tests a serum on himself, releasing his vicious alter ego, Mr. Hyde, on 19th-century London. Prowling the town, Hyde ventures to a music hall and encounters Ivy (Ingrid Bergman), whom he takes forcibly as his mistress. When the serum's effects wear off, Jekyll vows never to take it again. But Hyde is not gone for good.



June 14, 2022

Busby Berkeley's For Me and My Gal (1942) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Delightful romp set in pre-WWI vaudeville, with naive young singer Jo Hayden (Judy Garland) being wooed away from her stage partners by debonair hoofer Harry Palmer (Gene Kelly, in his film debut). The pair struggles to make it big, and find their romance interrupted by Harrys enlistment in an entertainment troupe overseas. Directed by Busby Berkeley, and starring Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Mártha Eggerth, George Murphy, and Ben Blue.



June 14, 2022

Busby Berkeley's Ziegfeld Girl (1941) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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An elevator operator, a wife of a struggling concert violinist, a born-in-the-trunk vaudevillian: they're three different women on three different paths of life, yet they soon share one dream: to become a Ziegfeld Girl.

Lana Turner, Hedy Lamarr and Judy Garland play the respective three trying for stardom in this sumptuous extravaganza. James Stewart adds to the star wattage, playing the jilted truck-driving beau of Turner's footlight diva. And legendary innovator Busby Berkeley brings his imaginative camerawork and pacing to numbers that include Garland's massively scaled and calypso-infused Minnie from Trinidad, plus a lavish, showgirl-revue finale that reprises the rhapsodic You Stepped Out of a Dream. Sweet dreams, movie fans.




June 7, 2022

John Reinhardt's The Guilty (1947) & High Tide (1947) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley

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QuoteThe Guilty (1947)

Released by Monogram Pictures, is a triumph of resourcefulness for its nomadic Viennese director, John Reinhardt. Based on a short story by legendary suspense writer Cornell Woolrich, this little-seen B movie centers on war veterans Mike Carr (Don Castle) and Johnny Dixon (Wally Cassell), roommates in a low-rent tenement. They are romantically entangled with twin sisters Estelle and Linda Mitchell (Bonita Granville, in a dual role). When one sister turns up dead, the boys are hounded by a suspicious police inspector (Regis Toomey)—although there's no shortage of suspects. Working on only three sets, with a shoestring budget, Reinhardt and director of photography Henry Sharp evoke the dreadful, dead-of-night ambiance that was the domain of the era's most prolific noir scribe, Cornell Woolrich.

Thanks to the dedication of the Film Noir Foundation, The Guilty has been restored from a 35mm nitrate composite fine-grain master by UCLA Film & Television Archive.


High Tide (1947)

Forgotten noir, set in a spectacularly corrupt Los Angeles, is a crackling crime thriller rescued thanks to the combined efforts of the Film Noir Foundation, UCLA Film & Television Archive, and the British Film Institute.

In flashback, we learn that Slade was brought in by muckraking editor Fresney as protection against a mobster (Anthony Warde) his paper is investigating. Things quickly get complicated as Fresney's boss has a wife (Julia Bishop) eager to resume a smoldering romance with Slade. When a main character gets iced early, everybody becomes a suspect, and the double-crosses start multiplying at a breakneck pace.

High Tide was the second of two crime thrillers independently produced in 1947 by Texas oil tycoon Jack Wrather. It carries over from The Guilty the same screenwriter and cameraman, the same protagonist in actor Don Castle, and the same director, John Reinhardt, whose playful inventiveness enlivened several post-WW II films noir.

Restoration funding was provided by the Film Noir Foundation in conjunction with the Packard Humanities Institute. The action gets rolling with one of the greatest framing gimmicks in noir: a speeding car crashes onto a rocky shoreline and its occupants, newspaper editor Hugh Fresney (Lee Tracy) and private eye Tim Slade (Don Castle) recount the plot as the rising tide threatens to drown them.



June 5, 2022

George Armitage's Miami Blues (1990) on blu-ray from MVD Visual

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Veteran criminal Junior Frenger has moved to Miami to get a fresh start.... at robbing a whole new set of people.



July 12, 2022

Don Siegel's Rough Cut (1980) on blu-ray from Paramount, from a 4K restoration

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Jewel thief Jack Rhodes, a.k.a. "Jack of Diamonds," is masterminding a heist of $30 million worth of uncut gems. He also has his eye on lovely Gillian Bromley, who becomes a part of the gang he is forming to pull off the daring robbery. Chief Inspector Cyril Willis from Scotland Yard, however, is blackmailing Gillian, threatening her with prosecution on another theft if she doesn't cooperate in helping him bag the elusive Rhodes, the last jewel in his crown before the Chief Inspector formally retires from duty.




July 5, 2022

William Friedkin's The Hunted (2003) on blu-ray from Paramount

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An FBI deep-woods tracker captures a trained assassin who has made a sport of hunting humans.



August 23, 2022

Luis Bunuel's The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) on blu-ray from VCI

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The wealthy Archibaldo is a potential serial killer. This might be the result of a childhood incident: his governess caught him trying on some of his mother's clothes and scolded him. He wished the governess dead, and she was immediately killed by a stray bullet from a revolution raging outside the window. Conflating violent death with sexual desire, the adult Archibaldo plots to murder numerous women, but his elaborate schemes are constantly thwarted.



July 18, 2022

Frank Perry's Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Superbly directed by Frank Perry (The Swimmer, Play It as It Lays), with a scathing screenplay by Eleanor Perry (David and Lisa, Ladybug Ladybug), Diary of a Mad Housewife tells the story of Tina Balser (Carrie Snodgress, The Fury, Pale Rider) a frustrated housewife trapped in an unhappy marriage to an insufferably controlling, status-obsessed bore (Richard Benjamin, Catch-22). Tina seeks solace in a fling with an abusive lover, the arrogant writer Georg Prager (Frank Langella, Dracula), who treats her like a sex object, leading to therapy and further unhappiness.



July 18, 2022

Budd Boetticher's Bullfighter and the Lady (1951) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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American sportsman Johnny Regan (Robert Stack, Written on the Wind) goes to a bullfight while holidaying in Mexico and witnesses the great matador Manolo Estrada (Gilbert Roland, She Done Him Wrong) in action. The two men meet later that evening, and Johnny becomes entranced by Anita (Joy Page, Casablanca), a friend of Manolo's. Impressed by the world of bullfighting, and seeking to impress Anita, Johnny becomes Manolo's pupil so that he, too, may become a champion torero.

Produced by John Wayne, and based in part on Budd Boetticher's experiences as a novice bullfighter, Bullfighter and the Lady was initially released in a shorter 87-minute cut, reputedly edited by John Ford. In 1986, with the aid of Boetticher and Stack, the complete 124-minute version was restored, revealing the film to be a true masterpiece. Both cuts are presented on this edition, alongside Boetticher's final work as a director, the 1985 documentary My Kingdom For... which is part autobiography, part history of the bullfighting art of rejoneo.




June 13, 2022

The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection Vol. 3 on blu-ray from Arrow (UK)

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, wrote, directed, produced and starred in over 40 films in his short but prolific life, before passing away of a drugs overdose in 1982 aged just 37. Rainer Werner Fassbinder vol. 3 brings together a collection of his lesser seen works from various stages in his career, featuring high definition digital restorations prepared by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation.

Quote-The American Soldier
-The Niklashausen Journey
-Gods of the Plague
-Rio Das Mortes
-Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven
-Fear of Fear
-Satan's Brew



April 25, 2022

Francois Truffaut's Jules and Jim (1962) on blu-ray from BFI (UK), from a new 2K restoration

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In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim. Both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine, but it's Jules who wins her hand. After the war, Jim visits Jules, Catherine, and their daughter in their Austrian home and discovers not only that his feelings for Catherine are unchanged, but also that they're reciprocated.



May 16, 2022

Alan Arkin's Fire Sale (1977) on blu-ray from Signal One (UK)

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Benny and his wife Ruthie a getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look after his store while he's gone. Though he doesn't think much of him, Benny hands the responsibility over to his son, Russel. While Russel doesn't get much respect from his parents, he's better off than his brother, Ezra, whom Benny has gone so far as to disown. Ezra is currently battling with his work (coach of a high school basketball team that hasn't won in ages) and his wife (who keeps nagging him that she wants to have a baby as soon as possible) at the same time.




May 4, 2022

Shirley Barrett's Love Serenade (1996) on blu-ray from Umbrella Entertainment (Australia)

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Though one is shy and the other is flashy and outgoing, the Hurley sisters are both lonely young women on the lookout for love! So when a slick, smooth-talking radio deejay from the big city blows into their tiny town - and moves in next door - it sets off a hilarious competition to win his affections!




July 27, 2022

Ken Russell's Whore (1991) on blu-ray from Imprint (Australia)

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The life of a jaded L.A. prostitute is described in this haunting drama, through flashbacks of her past marriage, brutal, inhumane abuse and her time on the streets.



July 27, 2022

Philip Haas' The Music of Chance (1993) on blu-ray from Imprint (Australia)

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Two men face the consequences of gambling after playing with men beyond their league.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on June 03, 2022, 06:27:42 PM
October 2022 TBD

Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist (1982) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Warner Bros.

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A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.



August 16, 2022

John Milius's Red Dawn (1984) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Shout Factory, from a 4K restoration of the original camera negative

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In the heartland of the United States of America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet and Cuban forces.



July 12, 2022

Alan Parker's Angel Heart (1987) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Lionsgate

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In the 1950s Brooklyn a seedy PI is hired by a shady client to track down a singer who reneged on a debt. The investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.



June 20, 2022

Luis Bunuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) on 4K UHD blu-ray from StudioCanal (UK)

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The Ambassador of the small South American country of Miranda is trafficking in drugs with some French bourgeois friends of his. But every time they want to have dinner together, their plans are put off due to unexpected events. In their quest of a lavish feast, the dividing-line between reality and dreams becomes unclear for each guest, leading to complete and utter ridicule.




May 31, 2022

William Peter Blatty's The Ninth Configuration (1980) on blu-ray from Shout Factory, from a new 2K restoration of the original camera negative. Exclusive to their online store (https://www.shoutfactory.com/product/the-ninth-configuration?product_id=7832)

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In the final days of the Vietnam War, a remote castle in the Pacific Northwest serves as a mental hospital for troubled soldiers scarred by their experiences. Isolated and all-but-forgotten, the inmates are running the asylum ... until Colonel Kane (Stacy Keach) arrives to take over their treatment. Taking a special interest in one of his new patients – former astronaut Billy Cutshaw (Scott Wilson) who inexplicably aborted his mission to the Moon during its final countdown – Kane seeks answers to the mysteries of the breakdown. But as his time in the castle goes on, the riddles in Kane's own mind reveal themselves in shocking and violent ways.




2022 TBD

Gavin Millar's Dreamchild (1985) on blu-ray from Kino

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Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters she was once so amused by. As she thinks back on it, she starts to see her relationship with the shy author/professor in a new way and realizes the vast change between the young Alice and the old.

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2022 TBD

Vincent J. Donehue's Lonelyhearts (1958) on blu-ray from Kino

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Eager to land a journalistic position, Adam White goes to work as an advice-giving newspaper columnist. His editor, Shrike, takes pleasure in browbeating his alcoholic wife Florence for her past adultery, and assigning his employees journalistic jobs for which they have little aptitude or interest. Shrike goads Adam into meeting one of his correspondents, Fay Doyle, a teary, self-pitying woman who makes a play for him. Adam is torn between his loyalty to the newspaper and his girl Justy.



2022 TBD

William Dieterle's Love Letters (1945) on bu-ray from Kino

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During World War II, Roger Morland (Robert Scully) persuades his friend Alan Quinton (Joseph Cotton) to write passionate love letters to Victoria Remington (Jones). Believing that Roger is the author of the letters, she marries him. Roger's deception sets in motion a dire chain of events that locks Victoria in a world of fear and clouded memories. So begins a tale of intrigue, love and suspense, as Alan returns home in search of Victoria, the woman he loves. Once he finds her, can he risk driving her over the edge with the knowledge of her past life?



August 30, 2022

Milton Moses Ginsberg's Coming Apart (1969) on blu-ray from Kino

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Joe is a psychiatrist who puts a hidden camera behind his couch, facing a wall sized mirror in order to document a number of women who come and go. Obsessed with a former lover, Joe intends to perform and record an "experiment in contemporary sexual aberration." In the process, Joe documents his own mental breakdown as well as a number of sexually volatile encounters with the women who come to see him.




2022 TBD

Anthony Mann and Laurence Harvey's A Dandy in Aspic (1968) on blu-ray from Kino

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A Russian double-agent working for British Intelligence is assigned to track down and kill an unusual target...himself!



August 16, 2022

Lasse Halstrom's What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) on blu-ray from Paramount

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A young man in a small Midwestern town struggles to care for his mentally-disabled younger brother and morbidly obese mother while attempting to pursue his own happiness.



May 30, 2022

The Pemini Organisation (1972-1974) on blu-ray from Indicator

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In the early 1970s, three ambitious friends – Peter Crane, Michael Sloan and Nigel Hodgson – combined the first letters of each of their names and set up the Pemini Organisation, a young and vital independent British film production company. Active between 1972 and 1974, Pemini produced one mid-length film, Hunted, a high-suspense thriller starring Edward Woodward and June Ritchie, and two feature films: Assassin, a grimly realistic spy film starring Ian Hendry, Edward Judd, Frank Windsor, Ray Brooks and Mike Pratt; and Moments, an enigmatic romantic mystery starring Keith Michell and Angharad Rees. When Pemini disbanded, the films disappeared into the ether...

Now, these three lost works, made by one of the most vibrant independent production companies of the era, have been rescued from the archives to be given their first ever home entertainment release in this deluxe, individually numbered Limited Edition Blu-ray set, accompanied by a wealth of newly produced extras, including feature-length director commentaries, cast and crew interviews, and an 80-page book.


Quote from: Mondo DigitalHunted (1972)
Features Edward Woodward (just before shooting The Wicker Man) as a Scottish man named John who sets up a late morning appointment to check out an office space with real estate agent Margaret. Inside the space (which is adorned with amazing half-sheets for plays like Oh, Calcutta!), she comes to realize that he has something a lot more sinister in mind when he keeps hanging out by the window and soon whips out a hunting shotgun in what appears to be a plan to fire at passersby during the lunch hour. John promises not to hurt her if she doesn't try to escape, and as the time approaches and she gradually gleans more information out of him, it becomes apparent that his plan could be far different than it appears.

Assassin (1973)
Ian Hendry stars as a nameless MI5 agent who's flown in for on an elaborate mission to research and carry out a hit for the government on someone who's been leaking state secrets within the Ministry of Defense. His client doesn't care if the killing looks like an accident (saying blame will go to "the other side"), but Hendry has his own personal code about killing within the machinery of government that could throw a major wrench into the works. Along the way we meet other government officials who decide to send in a pair of backups in case things go wrong. There's very little dialogue here, with the use of sound effects and stylized photography carrying across what feels like a mixture of gritty '70s U.K. crime thriller with an austere art film.

Moments (1974)
Traumatized by the deaths of his wife and daughter, businessman Peter Samuelson takes a train to a seaside hotel where he had some happy memories from childhood. Finding the place largely empty off season, he reunites with the porter who's aged considerably in the ensuing decades. That first night he pulls out a gun with clear intentions of committing suicide, but he's interrupted by another guest, Chrissy, an energetic spirit who's having trouble with the gas line. 

Moments (1974) looks especially interesting, which Mondo Digital's review (https://www.mondo-digital.com/pemini.html) compared to Footprints on the Moon (1975) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071950/)






August 22, 2022

Robin Hood at Hammer: Two Tales from Sherwood Forest (1960-1967) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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For 1960's Sword of Sherwood Forest, Richard Greene (The Blood of Fu Manchu, The Castle of Fu Manchu) reprises the role he made famous in the classic television series The Adventures of Robin Hood. Directed by Terence Fisher (The Gorgon, The Revenge of Frankenstein), and starring Peter Cushing (The Devil's Men, Corruption) as the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham, the film sees Robin Hood thwart a plot to assassinate the Archbishop of Canterbury (Jack Gwillm, Jason and the Argonauts, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb). The film also boasts an uncredited early role for Oliver Reed (The System, The Damned).

In 1967's A Challenge for Robin Hood, Barrie Ingham (The Day of the Jackal) dons the Lincoln green as he and his merrie men hide out in Sherwood Forest after his cousin (Peter Blythe, Frankenstein Created Woman) frames him for murder. This action-packed adventure features acting support from Gay Hamilton (Barry Lyndon, The Duellists) and Leon Greene (Adventures of a Private Eye, Adventures of a Plumber's Mate).





August 22, 2022

Frank Perry's The Swimmer (1968) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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One of the few bona fide counter-cultural films to be produced by a major studio, The Swimmer is a sun-scorched and surreal suburban satire that boasts a fine performance from Burt Lancaster (Castle Keep, Buffalo Bill and the Indians) as Ned Merrill, the all-American man who one day determines to swim home to his Connecticut mansion via a series of pools in his neighbourhood. Directed by Frank Perry (Diary of a Mad Housewife) imbues Eleanor Perry's (David and Lisa, Ladybug Ladybug) adaptation of John Cheever's short story with stunning expressionistic flourishes, creating a true masterpiece of cinema.




June 6, 2022

The Vise: Volume One (1954) on blu-ray fro Network (UK)

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Edward J. and Harry Lee Danziger, producers extraordinaire – native New Yorkers, they set up shop in Britain in 1952 and, for a decade, became arguably the world's most prolific independent supplier of television shows and 'B' movies, creating nearly 100 films and in excess of 300 TV episodes for the British and American market. Their longest-running creation was one-armed detective Mark Saber, who sleuthed his way through more than 150 episodes of murder, blackmail and conduct unbecoming!

But before Saber appeared on the scene, there was The Vise – an anthology series that nailed its colors to the mast in the opening sentence of each episode: "The story we're going to tell is about people caught in the jaws of a vise – in a dilemma of their own making!". Over 65 episodes a rotating cast played out a succession of noir-tinged morality tales, with each show bookended by a monologue from moody Australian actor Ron Randell.
Featuring screenplays from a very young Brian Clemens among others, this volume showcases 21 episodes from the first series of The Vise – unseen for over fifty years they have been newly transferred from original film elements especially for this release!





September 27, 2022

Eduardo Coutinho's Man Marked for Death, 20 Years Later (1984) on blu-ray from new UK label Mawu Films, a "new independent blu-ray company focusing on rare and forgotten cinematic masterpieces from Africa and Latin America"

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'Man Marked for Death, 20 Years Later' is an intensely moving portrait of a family ripped apart by the murder of the Sapé Peasant League leader, João Pedro Teixeira. Structurally daring, this seminal documentary creates a complex, genre-defying mosaic and the film's triptych design makes for a compelling odyssey through twenty years of Brazilian political upheaval.

Quote"In 1964, Eduardo Coutinho was at work on a film about João Pedro Teixeira, who was murdered by the police as a result of his efforts to organize farm workers in northeast Brazil. The director cast non-actors in the production, including Teixeira's widow, who plays herself, but shooting was cut short in the wake of the military coup that same year; footage was seized, a number of participants imprisoned. The project was resumed 20 years later, as the country was transitioning to a democracy, but had begun to take a rather different shape: Coutinho incorporated the earlier material as well new interviews with those originally involved and reflections on the injustices of the interval, yielding a prismatically reflexive, genre-defying essay on political commitment and life under dictatorship." —Film at Lincoln Center




August 31, 2022

The World of Suzie Wong (1960) on blu-ray from Imprint (Australia)

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William Holden and Nancy Kwan star in this soul-searching look at an East-meets-West romance. He's a struggling American artist who's down on his luck. She's a beautiful Chinese prostitute who captures his heart. The scenery is as spectacular as the colorful and exotic streets of Hong Kong in this wonderfully warm story about the strength of true love.

Video essay discussing this movie:

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September 13, 2022

Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction (1987) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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Stylish and sexy, Fatal Attraction took audiences to terrifying new heights with its thrilling story of a casual encounter gone terribly awry. This box-office smash was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (Adrian Lyne - Indecent Proposal, Flashdance). Michael Douglas plays Dan Gallagher, a New York attorney who has a tryst with seductive Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) while his wife (Anne Archer) is away. Dan later shrugs off the affair as a mistake and considers it over. But Alex won't be ignored. Not now, not tomorrow, not ever... even if it means destroying Dan's family to keep him.



September 27, 2022

Adrian Lyne's Indecent Proposal (1993) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson are Diana and David Murphy, a financially strapped couple who are betting on a quick trip to Las Vegas to deal them a lucky hand. But the odds are suddenly even more attractive when billionaire John Gage (Robert Redford) ups the ante - complete financial freedom.

The price? One night of passion with Diana. The Payoff? A cool $1 million. But what seems to be a quick and simple solution to their money problems creates more friction that the couple bargained for as the high stakes of trust, love and attraction come into play as part of Gage's compelling proposal.




2022 TBD

John Frankenheimer's The Train (1964) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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With the Allies poised to retake Paris from the Germans, Col. Franz Von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) conspires to sneak out by train all of the art masterpieces looted by the German army. But museum curator Mademoiselle Villard (Suzanne Flon) alerts the French Resistance, and soon railway inspector Paul Labiche (Burt Lancaster) is pressed into service. He reroutes the train, and cleverly deceives Von Waldheim by renaming each train station along the way.



Late 2022 TBD

Don Siegel's Escape from Alcatraz (1979) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood), a hardened con with a history of prison breaks, is sent to serve the rest of his life sentence at Alcatraz -- America's most infamously brutal and inescapable maximum security prison. Morris quickly realizes the prison's dehumanizing effects and clashes with its cruel warden (Patrick McGoohan). Fed up with life at Alcatraz, Morris and two convict brothers (Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau) meticulously plan the unthinkable: an escape from the island.



July 26, 2022

George Kaczender's Don't Let the Angels Fall (1969) on blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome partner label Canadian International Pictures

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Haunted by memories of a recent affair, securities advisor Robert Harrison (The Andromeda Strain's Arthur Hill) feels a growing sense of alienation from his wife Myrna (Last Night's Charmion King) and their sons Michael (John Kastner) and Guy (Jon Michaelson). As Michael embraces radical politics and Guy becomes dangerously isolated from his peers, Robert remains largely oblivious, distracted by visions of his recent mistress (Point Blank's Sharon Acker) and other infidelities. As confidence in Robert fades, the family spirals out of control, which paves the way for a shocking, perception-shifting discovery.

The first Canadian film to compete for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, this remarkable feature directorial debut from George Kaczender (In Praise of Older Women, Agency) builds on the experiments of Michelangelo Antonioni and Alain Resnais to deliver an impressively modern, unsentimental look at family dysfunction and midlife malaise. The only original screenplay by celebrated novelist Timothy Findley (The Wars), Don't Let the Angels Fall taps into the existential currents of '60s literary icons John Updike (Rabbit, Run) and John Cheever (The Swimmer) to deliver a haunting, evocative, occasionally psychedelic experience.





July 26, 2022

Aleksandr Ptushko's Sampo (1959) on blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome partner label Deaf Crocodile Films

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Based on the Finnish national epic "Kalevala," director Aleksandr Ptushko's ravishing, mystical fantasy tells the story of a sinister witch Louhi (Anna Orochko) who covets the Sampo, a magical, rainbow-colored mill that can produce endless salt, grain, and gold. When the hero Lemminkäinen (Andris Oshin) attempts to stop her, Louhi steals the sun, plunging the world into eternal darkness. A Finnish/Soviet co-production and shot like its predecessor ILYA MUROMETS in gorgeous CinemaScope, SAMPO features some of Ptushko's most surreal and fantastical imagery: a glowing red horse plowing a field of vipers; a boat of fire with a stag's head; a weeping mother literally walking across the sea to find her lost son. With its witch's incantations and repeated scenes of forging magical items – "Give me fire for the furnace from the nave of the sky!" – there is a Macbeth-like occult force to the film as well, underscored by the raging blue-gray seas and rock-strewn landscapes.




July 26, 2022

Bruno Barreto's Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976) on blu-ray from Film Movement

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Based on the novel by Jorge Amado, this Brazilian comedy follows the strange events that befall Doña Flor (Sonia Braga) after she is left a widow by the death of her wild, irresponsible husband. (He died after another wanton night of carousing) Attempting to marry more wisely the second time around, Doña Flor weds a stable, but boring, pharmacist who has no interest in sex. When she discovers that her new sex life is less than satisfying, Doña Flor is visited by the sexy ghost of her late husband.




August 30, 2022

Julio Medem's Sex and Lucía (2001) on blu-ray from Music Box Films

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Lucía is a young waitress in Madrid, who seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island after the loss of her longtime boyfriend. Amidst the fresh air, dazzling sun, and glistening deep blue water, Lucía begins to piece together the dark corners of her past relationship.



2022

Jacques Deray's The Outside Man (1972) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.





August 30, 2022

Curtis Harrington's Mata Hari (1985) on blu-ray from Kino

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Based loosely on the real-life story of the World War I spy. The exotic dancer uses her contacts in European high society, along with her seductive charm, to collect military secrets during the war. She successfully plays both sides against each other until at last her deceptions catch up with her.

Quote from: Letterboxd user Lencho of the ApesA cineaste's wet-dream, a triumph of kino-eye authorship, magpie-style -- opening scenes reference Shaw Brothers exotica and Colonel Blimp before it settles down into a softcore pastiche of Visconti that's heaven to look at, with glancing references along the way to anything else that Harrington thought was appropriate. (There's some Shanghai Express in there, and... um... I forget...)



August 9, 2022

Frank Borzage's Little Man, What Now? (1934) on blu-ray from Kino

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A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.



September 6, 2022

Jules Dassin's He Who Must Die aka Celui qui doit mourir (1957) on blu-ray from Kino

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Set in a Turkish-occupied Greek village shortly after World War I, Jules Dassin's stunning He Who Must Die tells the story of the townspeople's efforts to stage their Passion Play, an event that occurs once every seven years. The leading citizens choose who will play the parts: a stuttering young shepherd is chosen as Jesus; the town butcher as Judas; the town prostitute as Mary Magdalene. But as the movie unfolds, the Passion becomes a reality, and the villagers actualize their biblical roles against the tragic backdrop of a country uprooted by war and poverty.

Adapted from author Nikos Kazantzakis (Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ) by the world-renowned Jules Dassin, the director of Rififi, Never on Sunday and Topkapi, this powerful film asks: What would happen if Jesus came down to Earth a second time?




2022 TBD

Rene Clement's Joy House aka Les Felins (1964) on blu-ray from Kino

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"The French James Dean," Alain Delon (Un Flic) stars as Marc, a small-time con man on the run from a mobster. After seeking refuge in the mansion of the widowed Barbara (Lola Albright) and her curvaceous cousin, Melinda (Jane Fonda), Marc becomes trapped in the passionate snares of both women, who are full of deadly surprises.



August 9, 2022

Sidney Lumet's Equus (1977) on blu-ray from Sandpiper Pictures

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Dr. Martin Dysart (Richard Burton), a psychiatrist who has grown unhappy with his life, takes on the peculiar case of Alan Strang (Peter Firth), a reserved teenager who has been accused of brutally blinding six horses. Dysart slowly unravels Alan's background, learning that he grew up in a strained household with a devoutly religious mother (Joan Plowright) and an atheist father (Colin Blakely). But as Dysart begins to trace the roots of Alan's problems, his own also begin to surface.




August 9, 2022

Phil Joanou's State of Grace (1990) on blu-ray from Sandpiper Pictures

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Gone for a decade, Terry Noonan (Sean Penn) is welcomed back into the fold in his Irish-American neighborhood in New York City. A one-time street tough, Terry is now an undercover officer targeting crime boss Frankie Flannery (Ed Harris). In the name of duty, Terry rekindles his dormant friendship with Frankie's younger brother, Jackie (Gary Oldman). But as Terry gets closer to his goal, his feelings for the youngest Flannery, his old flame Kathleen (Robin Wright), complicate his mission.



October 25, 2022

James Foley's At Close Range (1986) on blu-ray from MVD Visual

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Based on a true story, "At Close Range" follows the lives of the Whitewood family in rural Pennsylvania. Brothers Brad Jr. (Sean Penn) and Tommy (Chris Penn) are the sons of organized crime leader Brad Sr. (Christopher Walken), who draws his sons into his life of crime. After starting their own gang, Brad Jr. and Tommy are arrested in a failed robbery attempt, and are forced to face the truth: that their father will do anything to avoid being arrested for his crimes.



September 19, 2022

Universal Noir #1 (1947-1954) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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A new series of box sets – following Indicator's acclaimed Columbia Noir series – focusing on the film noir output of another of the major Hollywood studios, Universal Pictures.

QuoteThe Web (1947)

Leopold Kroner, formerly of Colby Enterprises, is released after five years in prison for embezzlement. Andrew Colby (Price), claiming that Kroner has threatened him, hires lawyer Bob Regan (O'Brien) as a secret bodyguard. Sure enough, Kroner turns up in Colby's room with a gun, and Regan kills him. Then Regan, who sticks around to romance Colby's secretary Noel (Raines), begins to suspect he's been used. Director Gordon and the superb cast spin a web of deception, seduction and murder in this first-rate crime drama. Cinematography by Irving Glassberg (The Tarnished Angels, Bend of the River).

Larceny (1948)

A con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money she's received to build a memorial to her war-hero husband, but instead winds up falling in love with her. Cinematography by Irving Glassberg (Bend of the River, The Tarnished Angels).

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)

Bill Saunders, disturbed ex-soldier, kills a man in a postwar London pub brawl. Fleeing, he hides out in the apartment of lonely nurse Jane Wharton. Later, despite misgivings about his violent nature, Jane becomes involved with Bill, who resolves to reform. She gets him a job driving a medical supplies truck. But racketeer Harry Carter, who witnessed the killing, wants to use Bill's talents for crime.

Abandoned (1949)

Dennis O'Keefe and Gale Storm expose a baby-selling racket in the searing crime drama Abandoned, co-starring Jeff Chandler and Raymond Burr. When Paula Considine (Storm) arrives in Los Angeles to find her sister Mary, she soon learns the unwed mother is dead and her newborn infant is missing. Teaming up with cynical reporter named Mark Sitko (O'Keefe), Paula discovers Mary was the victim of a black market adoption ring run by Mrs. Leona Donner (Marjorie Rambeau) and her sleazy assistant Kerric (Burr). Hoping to entrap the pair, Paula and Sitko devise a plan but the sting operation proves to have deadly consequences. Directed by Joe Newman.

Deported (1950)

The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy renews his criminal activities. Chandler masterminds a black-market racket, capitalizing upon wartime shortages in Europe. He falls in love with a Contessa (Marta Toren), who is the benign patroness of the small village where he lives. Under her influence, Chandler abandons his life of crime, turns his back on the ill-gotten gains that he's already smuggled into Italy, and becomes a pillar of the community. And if you believe all that, we have some land in Florida we'd like to show you.

Naked Alibi (1954)

Though drunken baker Al Willis (Gene Barry) insists he's innocent of all charges, police chief Joe Conroy (Sterling Hayden) is determined to throw the book at Willis for murdering a fellow cop. Though the evidence is thin, Conroy is so certain of the baker's guilt that he continues to pursue his suspect even after being fired from the police force. Enlisting the aid of Willis' abused girlfriend, Marianna (Gloria Grahame), Conroy trails his man to Mexico in a heated chase.



September 20, 2022

Anthony Asquith's Orders to Kill (1958) on blu-ray from Indicator US

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Based on a story by real-life spy Donald Downes, and co-scripted by another former spy, Paul Dehn (The Deadly Affair, Fragment of Fear), Anthony Asquith's film follows an American airman sent into occupied France with orders to kill a suspected double agent... but the mission does not go according to plan.



July 18, 2022

Jirí Menzel's Larks on a String (1990) on blu-ray from Second Run (UK), from a 4K restoration

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Shot in 1968, whilst Czechoslovakia enjoyed a brief moment of political liberalization, Larks on a String is a searing political satire from director Jirí Menzel and writer Bohumil Hrabal. Like their earlier Oscar-winning triumph Closely Observed Trains, it audaciously combines black humour with grim reality.

Set in a scrap metal yard where dissidents are interned to be 're-educated', the film is both a powerful critique of totalitarianism and a celebration of the resilience of the human spirit. Promptly banned by the Communist regime, the film remained unseen until 1990, when it was released to great acclaim, winning the grand prize at the Berlin Film Festival. Now regarded as a lost masterpiece, Menzel's wry comic drama is a hymn to humanity and nonconformity.





September 19, 2022

The Oslo Trilogy: Three Films By Joachim Trier (2006-2021) on blu-ray from Mubi (UK)

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QuoteReprise (2006)

Phillip (Anders Danielsen Lie) and Erik (Espen Klouman Høiner) have been best friends since childhood. Both young men share a passion for the works of reclusive novelist Sten Egil Dahl, and both harbor literary ambitions. However, fate deals differently with the friends as each strives to make his dream come true.

Oslo, August 31 (2011)

Anders is about to finish a detox treatment in a rural center. As part of his therapy, one morning he goes to the city to perform for a job interview. Taking advantage of the permit, he stays in the city and meets people who have not seen for a long time. He is an intelligent man, handsome and of good family, but he is deeply disturbed by the opportunities he has missed and by the people he has disappointed. However, when night comes he dreams of finding love and starting a new life full of hope in the future from the next day. Starring Anders Danielsen Lie, Hans Olav Brenner, Ingrid Olava, and Renate Reinsve.

The Worst Person in the World (2021)

Acclaimed filmmaker Joachim Trier (Oslo, August 31st, Louder Than Bombs) returns with The Worst Person in the World, a wistful and subversive romantic drama about the quest for love and meaning. Set in contemporary Oslo, it features a star-making lead performance from Renate Reinsve as a young woman who, on the verge of turning thirty, navigates multiple love affairs, existential uncertainty and career dissatisfaction as she slowly starts deciding what she wants to do, who she wants to be, and ultimately who she wants to become.



August 22, 2022

John Dahl's Red Rock West (1993) on blu-ray from Plan B Entertainment (UK)

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Dead tired and flat broke after driving 12,000 miles, an unemployed Texan, Michael (Cage), walks into a tavern in tiny Red Rock, Wyoming, and is immediately offered a job. There's just one problem: the owner thinks Michael is a hitman, and the "job" is murdering the owner's wife (Boyle). Just when Michael decides to take the money and run, the real hitman (Hopper) arrives, ready to do the job right.



Summer 2022 TBD

Walter Hill Box Set (1975-2006) on blu-ray from Imprint (Australia)

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September 28, 2022

Barbet Schroeder's Barfly (1987) on blu-ray from Imprint (Australia)

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Henry Chinaski never cared for the American dream, the thought of needing to become 'something' and fit into the system disgusts him. He believes that life is free and yours to live like you see fit, and if that in some cases involves copious amounts of whiskey then so be it. Henry spends his days drinking and listening to the radio, and he spends his nights drinking and fighting against Eddy who he thinks personifies shallowness and shameless self promoting. Sometimes in the middle of this he finds the time to jot down a few lines of poetry or a short story. After fighting Eddy and winning for a change Henry is thrown out of his regular bar where Eddy is a bartender.



September 28, 2022

Adrian Lyne's Lolita (1997) on blu-ray from Imprint (Australia)

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Humbert Humbert is a remarkable man with a poisonous wound: the indelible memory of a fated childhood love and a haunting urge to rediscover its lost passion through an obsession with a twelve-year-old girl named Lolita.



September 28, 2022

Akira Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala (1975) on blu-ray from Imprint (Australia)

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A Russian explorer brings the Asiatic hunter who saved his life back to civilization.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
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October 25, 2022

Hal Ashby's The Last Detail (1973) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.



Late 2022

John Schlesinger's Marathon Man (1976) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A graduate history student is unwillingly trapped in a killing game of intrigue involving a Nazi fugitive.



October 11, 2022

Steven Soderbergh's The Limey (1999) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Lionsgate

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An extremely volatile and dangerous Englishman goes to Los Angeles to find the man he considers responsible for his daughter's death.



November 15, 2022

Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Lionsgate

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They were perfect strangers, set to pull off the perfect crime. When a heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.



October 25, 2022

Peter Medak's The Changeling (1980) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Severin

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A man staying at a old mansion which has been unoccupied for years finds himself disturbed by a strange presence which haunts the house.




September 13, 2022

John Carpenter's The Fog (1980) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Centennial celebration are underway in seaside town of Antonio Bay, glowing fog rolls in and all hell breaks loose.



September 13, 2022

Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Shout Factory

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A young soldier must choose between his two platoon leaders and confront the horrors of war and the duality of man.



October 25, 2022

Columbia Classics Collection: Volume 3 (1934-1997) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Sony

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-It Happened One Night (1934)
-From Here to Eternity (1953)
-To Sir with Love (1967)
-The Last Picture Show (1971)
-Annie (1982)
-As Good as It Gets (1997)



December 31, 2022

Walter Hill's The Driver (1978) on 4K UHD blu-ray from StudioCanal (France)

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In Los Angeles, a mysterious getaway driver renowned for his speed and ability behind the wheel is pursued by an obsessive detective and his men. Drawn into their cat-and-mouse game is a beautiful gambler who saw the driver's face during a casino heist, but refuses to identify him to the police.



August 4, 2022

Mike Hodges' Get Carter (1971) on 4K UHD blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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After his brother's suspicious death, coldblooded gangster Jack Carter returns to his hometown of Newcastle to investigate and exact vengeance.



November 1, 2022

Román Viñoly Barreto's El Vampiro Negro (1953) on blu-ray from Flicker Alley

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A virtually unknown remake of M, Fritz Lang's seminal 1931 thriller, El vampiro negro (The Black Vampire) is a revisionist take on the tale by Argentine director Román Viñoly Barreto. Thanks to the diligent efforts of the Film Noir Foundation, a stunning restoration of the film was created by UCLA Film & Television Archive, now presented in its first-ever home video release – with special thanks to Fernando Martín Peña and Argentina Sono Film.

Argentine beauty Olga Zubarry stars as a cabaret performer trying to protect her young daughter (Gogó) from a mysterious murderer while parrying the advances of the prosecutor (Roberto Escalada) pursuing the killer. Nathán Pinzón, who also appeared in Viñoly Barreto's The Beast Must Die (La bestia debe morir) a year earlier, gives an impressive against-type performance as the disturbed pedophile hiding in plain sight.

This variation on Fritz Lang's classic is a proto-feminist reimagining of the tale, focusing on the lives of female characters ignored in the earlier iterations. The film's brooding cinematography (by Aníbal González Paz) enhances Olga Zubarry's exceptional performance, which won her the Argentine Film Critics Association award for Best Actress. El vampiro negro (The Black Vampire) is a significant rediscovery in cinema history, and, thanks to the dedication of the Film Noir Foundation and its partners at UCLA Film & Television Archive, it is now available in a beautiful Blu-ray/DVD dual-format edition packed with special features.




September 27, 2022

Reinhard Hauff's A Knife in the Head (1978) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group, from a new 4K restoration

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Hoffman (Bruno Ganz) is searching for his wife (Angela Winkler) at the youth center where she works. When a police raid turns into an armed struggle with revolutionaries, Hoffman is caught in the crossfire and shot in the head. Once a promising bio-geneticist, Hoffman is now unable to move and barely able to remember the incident. While terrorists claim him as a hero, police frame him to justify shooting him. Hoffman must painstakingly piece together his memory to discover what really happened.




September 13, 2022

Diane Kurys' Entre Nous (1983) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point.



October 11, 2022

Bertrand Blier's Going Places (1974) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: whether it's cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She's on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.



October 25, 2022

Joseph Anthony's The Rainmaker (1956) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 6K (!) restoration of the original VistaVision negative

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During the Great Depression, a drought is wreaking havoc on a small, destitute Kansas town. Bill Starbuck (Burt Lancaster), a slick grifter, arrives in town, promising he can make it rain in exchange for $100. His offer is accepted by H. C. Curry (Cameron Prudhomme), a rancher whose spinster daughter, Lizzie (Katharine Hepburn), is desperate for a suitor. Lizzie finally finds confidence when Starbuck, ever the smooth talker, convinces her she's beautiful.



September 13, 2022

Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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This charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations is structured around a video-recorded confession. In Patricia Rozema's fanciful character study, aspiring photographer Polly (comedian Sheila McCarthy) lands a job at a Toronto art gallery run by Gabrielle (Paule Baillargeon), who is also a painter. Polly is impressed with Gabrielle's paintings, but as Polly gets to know her lover Mary (Ann-Marie MacDonald) and becomes entangled in their lives, she realizes Gabrielle isn't exactly who she appears to be. The gauche absent-minded temp with spiky orange hair and the polished, bourgeois curator with a gift for gab are like night and day, yet a strong connection builds between these two women through their shared love of art, and their genuine curiosity and appetite for love. Winner of the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.




2022 TBD

Milos Forman's Valmont (1989) on blu-ray from Kino

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Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman.




November 29, 2022

William Wyler's Detective Story (1951) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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James McLeod (Kirk Douglas) is a stern police detective who has no tolerance for crime. At home, however, he is a loving husband to his wife, Mary (Eleanor Parker). The police are ready to conclude the case of abortionist Karl Schneider (George Macready), who is responsible for the death of at least one patient, but McLeod's hatred for the doctor prolongs the investigation. The detective soon uncovers a dark secret that threatens to destroy his sanity and ruin his life.



October 18, 2022

Irvin Kershner's Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) on blu-ray from Kino

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Faye Dunaway (The Thomas Crown Affair) stars in this deviously original supernatural thriller from acclaimed director Irvin Kershner (The Empire Strikes Back). World-renowned for her sensational, erotic portraits of models in settings of glorified urban violence, Laura Mars (Dunaway) exhibits a mystifying psychic ability. In her mind's eye, she "witnesses" a series of bizarre murders with terrifying clarity. All of the victims are people Laura has known. Homicide detective John Neville (Tommy Lee Jones, Black Moon Rising) attempts to unravel the mystery...and makes a bloodcurdling discovery.

The chilling Eyes of Laura Mars was scripted by masters of suspense John Carpenter (Halloween) and David Zelag Goodman (Straw Dogs), with a crackerjack cast that includes Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Rene Auberjonois (M*A*S*H) and Raul Julia (The Addams Family).




September 6, 2022

Paul Newman's Rachel, Rachel (1968) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.



August 16, 2022

Hal Saline's Denise Calls Up (1995) on blu-ray from Sony

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An inventive romantic comedy, Denise Calls Up follows a group of workaholic young professionals who keep their social lives and interactions restricted solely to the telephone lines. With a strong ensemble cast Denise Calls Up is a clever and funny examination of love in the '90s, as well as all of life's modern hang-ups.




September 20, 2022

Lewis Milestone's The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 4K restoration

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Young Martha (Barbara Stanwyck) inadvertently causes the death of her cruel, authoritarian aunt. Martha lies to the cops, and Walter (Kirk Douglas), who saw the crime, corroborates the girl's story. Eventually, they wed out of convenience; the meek Walter is genuinely in love, and Martha thinks that her secret is safe since she has married the one witness to her aunt's death. However, when her childhood pal, Sam (Van Heflin), shows up, Martha knows her dark past may not stay a secret for long.



August 23, 2022

Douglas Sirk's Thunder on the Hill (1951) on blu-ray from Universal

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A convicted murderer is being transported to Norwich for execution when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. During her stay, a nun becomes convinced of her innocence and sets out to find the real killer.



September 20, 2022

Woody Allen's Bananas (1971) on blu-ray from Sandpiper Pictures

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When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.



September 20, 2022

Woody Allen's Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (1972) on blu-ray from Sandpiper Pictures

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In a series of vignettes, Woody Allen reveals the fools we all become in the name of sex.



September 20, 2022

Woody Allen's Love & Death (1975) on blu-ray from Sandpiper Pictures

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A devout coward vows to assassinate Napoleon in the name of love.



September 27, 2022

Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980) on blu-ray from Sandpiper Pictures

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While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.



September 27, 2022

Woody Allens Interiors (1978) on blu-ray from Sandpiper Pictures

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Three sisters find their lives spinning out of control in the wake of their parents' sudden, unexpected divorce.



September 27, 2022

Woody Allen's Zelig (1983) on blu-ray from Sandpiper Pictures

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Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others. Written by Scott Renshaw



November 14, 2022

Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) on blu-ray from BFI (UK), from a 4K restoration

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Six years after the Glorious Revolution, during the reign of William and Mary over England, haughty and gifted artist Neville is contracted by a woman to produce 12 drawings of her wealthy husband's estate and garden. In return, she pays him a modest fee and sleeps with him. However, there is more intrigue and mystery unfolding around him than Neville first realizes, and he becomes part of a complicated plot beyond his control.




October 10, 2022

Roddy McDowall's The Ballad of Tam Lin (1970) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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Based on an ancient Scottish folk song, an older woman uses witchcraft to keep her young jet-set friends.




December 5, 2022

Gary Oldman's Nil by Mouth (1997) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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The dramatically brutal life of a family struggling to get by in South London is unflinchingly depicted in Gary Oldman's debut feature as writer/director. In a moving performance for which she was named Best Acterss at the Cannes Film Festival, Kathy Burke stars with Ray Winstone, Charlie Creed-Miles, Laila Morse and Edna Dore in this story of love, dependency, abuse and poverty.




August 8, 2022

Robert Bresson's The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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A reconstruction of the trial of Joan of Arc (based entirely on the transcripts of the real-life trial), concerning Joan's imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English, filmed in a spare, low-key fashion.



December 5, 2022

Mitchell Leisen's Remember the Night (1940) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Legendary screen duo Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray star in this heartwarming holiday classic, which is more popular than ever as it celebrates its 75th anniversary. Stanwyck is a petty shoplifter caught stealing a bracelet and MacMurray is the Assistant District Attorney who gets her sent off to jail just before the holidays, then suffers a crisis of conscience and bails her out. When he invites her to join him and his family for Christmas, it begins a relationship that strains—but ultimately redeems—all parties. Featuring a wonderful supporting cast (Beulah Bondi, Sterling Holloway and Elizabeth Patterson), stylish costumes by Edith Head, a hilarious yet poignant script by Preston Sturges and superb direction by Mitchell Leisen, this is a timeless holiday favorite that can be enjoyed in any season.



October 24, 2022

Irving Pichel & Ernest B. Schoedsack's The Most Dangerous Game (1932) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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An insane hunter arranges for a ship to be wrecked on an island where he can indulge in some sort of hunting and killing of the passengers.



September 19, 2022

Károly Makk's Szerelem aka Love (1971) on blu-ray from Second Run (UK)

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The wife of a political prisoner tends to her mother-in-law and keeps from the old woman the truth about her son, whom she believes is in New York making a film. Károly Makk's beloved film, based on the autobiographical writings of Tibor Déry, is a meditation on time, memory, love and loss.




October 26, 2022

Louis Malle' Pretty Baby (1978) on blu-ray from Imprint (Australia)

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A pre-teen girl grows up in a house of prostitution in the Storyville section of New Orleans in 1917.





October 26, 2022

John G. Avlidsen's Save the Tiger (1973) on blu-ray from Imprint (Australia)

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Jack Lemmon plays Harry Stoner, a man caught in violent collision with his past and present life. He believes there is nothing significant in his life except survival, and that instinct pushes him beyond moral conduct. He'll juggle the books, supply women for clients... and even set fire to his own dress manufacturing factory. He is drawn to an America when life not only had values and heroes, it all seemed worth living and building. But Harry is frightened to break away from the emptiness of his seemingly successful life.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on September 13, 2022, 12:11:25 AM
A new British label, Radiance Films (https://www.radiancefilms.co.uk/collections/all), founded by Arrow Video's Francesco Simeoni, has announced their first slate of releases. Kat Ellinger is working with them as a disc producer.

QuoteRadiance Films is founded on a passion for cinema. A series of films, books, merchandise and more curated from a variety of genres and modes of filmmaking, from arthouse provocateurs to genre classics. Each release is created from the best available materials and includes a wealth of supplementary features on disc and extensive booklets featuring new and archival writing, where applicable.

January 2, 2023

Elio Petri's The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) on blu-ray from Radiance Films (UK), from a 2K restoration

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Gian Maria Volonté (A Fistful of Dollars), stars in one of provocative filmmaker Elio (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion) Petri's most politically charged films as factory worker Lulu: a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown, following an accident at work. Too tired to sleep with his girlfriend, cut out of his son's life by his ex, humiliated and disrespected, The Working Class Goes to Heaven is an oftentimes surreal and darkly comic look at the life of an everyday Italian trying to find a sense of purpose in a world where he is only allowed to be a tool for industry. A savage takedown of capitalism and industrial corruption, the film was recipient of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or and features a gloriously unhinged, award-winning performance from Volonté, accompanied by an exceptional score by Ennio Morricone and stunning cinematography by Luigi Kuveiller (Deep Red).



January 2, 2023

Kôsaku Yamashita's Big Time Gambling Boss (1968) on blu-ray from Radiance Films (US & UK)

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Tokyo, 1934. Gang boss Arakawa is too ill and a successor must be named. The choice falls on Nakai, but being an outsider he refuses and suggests senior clansman Matsuda instead. But Matsuda is in jail and the elders won't wait for his release, so they appoint the younger and more malleable Ishido to take the reins. Clan honour and loyalties are severely tested when Matsuda is released, resulting in an increasingly violent internal strife. An atmospheric tale of gangland intrigue written by Kazuo Kasahara (Battles Without Honour and Humanity) and starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, (Lone Wolf and Cub, The Bounty Hunter Trilogy) and genre legend Koji Tsuruta, Big Time Gambling Boss is one of the all-time classics of the yakuza genre. Paul Schrader called it the richest and most complex film of its type, while novelist Yukio Mishima hailed it as a masterpiece. Radiance Films is proud to present this crucial re-discovery for the first time ever on Blu-ray.



February 6, 2023

Jean-Denis Bonan's A Woman Kills (1968) on blu-ray from Radiance Films (US & UK), from a 2K restoration

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A series of prostitute murders disturb the public with the thought of a serial killer on the loose. Hélène Picard, a prostitute, is sentenced and executed for the murders, but shortly thereafter similar crimes continue. Executioner Louis Guilbeau meanwhile develops a relationship with the investigating officer, Solange, who soon learns Louis may not be who he says he is. Filmed in the tumultuous events of May 1968, Jean-Denis Bonan's A Woman Kills never found distribution due to controversy around the director's first film and producer Anatole Dauman (The Beast, Hiroshima mon amour) was unable to find distribution for the film for 45 years until Luna Park Films brought it back to life in a new restoration. Now released on Blu-ray for the first time anywhere, audiences outside of France can finally experience this utterly singular film, a new wave-influenced serial killer film that presents its narrative in an almost true crime approach yet focuses more on the psychological aspect with echoes of Polanski and Franju, set to a discordant, jazzy score.




February 6, 2023 TBD

George Armitage's Miami Blues (1990) on blu-ray from Radiance Films (UK)

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George Armitage (Grosse Pointe Blank) adapted celebrated noir author Charles Willeford's novel Miami Blues for the screen with new star Alec Baldwin in the lead role as Frederick J. Frenger, Jr., a sociopathic criminal. Arriving in Miami fresh out of jail he commits one crime after another when he meets young hooker Susie (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Single White Female) who he starts to build a pseudo-married life with, including the home cooking and the white picket fence. As Frederick tries to juggle domesticity with his mounting crimes, dogged cop Hoke Moseley (Fred Ward, Tremors) threatens to put his freedom in jeopardy. Baldwin is brilliant as the unhinged criminal tearing through Miami while Armitage perfectly balances the humour and violence in this singular crime comedy that betrays the quirky influence of producer Jonathan Demme (Something Wild, Married to the Mob).



2023 TBD

Rudolf Thome's Red Sun (1970) on blu-ray from Radiance Films (US & UK)

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Thomas (Marquard Bohm, Kings of the Road) gets a ride to Munich where he finds his ex-girlfriend Peggy (counter culture activist and model Uschi Obermaier) who takes him in. In her flat he finds Peggy and her roommates have a commune-like lifestyle where they kill the men in their lives after five days, but will Thomas realise in time? A pop fantasy focused on the post-'68 and women's liberation movements, Red Sun was compared to a comic strip by Wim Wenders and is a beautiful art-genre collision that is both brilliantly bizarre and provocative. Director Rudolf Thome was an emerging talent in the New German Cinema alongside Wenders, Fassbinder and Herzog, but received little international distribution and fell into international obscurity despite a consistent career covering six decades. Radiance Films is proud to present Red Sun to English-speaking audiences for the first time in a restoration overseen by Thome.




2023 TBD

Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) on blu-ray from Radiance Films (UK)

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Junior high school student Dawn "Wiener-dog" Wiener is perpetually teased by her classmates and tormented by the school bully, Brandon. All she wants is to be popular and that would certainly help her emerging crush on the lead of her brother's garage band. Todd (Happiness) Solondz's celebrated coming-of-age comedy won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and young star Heather Matarazzo was awarded Best Debut Performance at the prestigious Independent Spirit Awards.



2023 TBD

Bo Widerberg's The Man on the Roof (1976) on blu-ray from Radiance Films (UK)

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Police officer Stig Nyman is murdered by an unseen assailant brandishing a bayonet. His colleagues Beck, Rönn and Kollberg pick up the case quickly, keen to solve the crime on one of their own. Investigating Nyman and drawing up a list of potential suspects leads the team to discover he was a lousy cop who abused his power with a history of brutality. As their search draws closer they are caught unaware by a rooftop assassin with a sniper rifle, picking off every cop he can. The Man on the Roof was adapted from the novel by celebrated writers Sjöwall and Wahlöö, whose Martin Beck character has been realised in multiple films and recent TV series Beck. Influenced by The French Connection's gritty vérité style, celebrated director Bo Widerberg created an incredible spectacle here that would become legendary in Sweden and remains the greatest crime film from the heart of Scandi noir.



2023 TBD

Luigi Comencini's The Sunday Woman (1975) on blu-ray from Radiance Films (US & UK), from a new 2K restoration of the original camera negative

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An odious architect is beaten to death and a high society wife (Jacqueline Bisset, Day for Night) and her gay friend (Jean-Louis Trintignant, The Conformist) are the key suspects with a discarded letter implicating them in the crime. Commissioner Santamaria (Marcello Mastroianni, Fellini's 8 ½) is assigned to the case and tries to uncover the murder suspect in upper-class Turin. With a murder mystery narrative worthy of Agatha Christie, The Sunday Woman is also a sharp critique of Turin's upper crust. The screenplay, by the celebrated duo Age & Scarpelli, famed for their masterpieces in the Commedia all'Italiana boom including Big Deal on Madonna Street and The Organizer, is a whip-smart adaptation of the best-selling novels by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini with the lead character of Santamaria inspired by the real-life head of the Flying Squad. The much-heralded director Luigi Comencini (Misunderstood) often worked in a combination of comedy and drama, finding humour in tragedy, and is only waiting to be rediscovered as a master of post-war Italian cinema.



2023 TBD

Alain Cavalier's Fill 'er up with Super (1976)  on blu-ray from Radiance Films (US & UK), from a new 2K restoration of the original camera negative

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Klouk (Bernard Crombey) is a car salesman who has to miss a family holiday to deliver a luxury Chevrolet station wagon to his boss' wealthy client. He decides to take his friend Philippe (Xavier Saint-Macary) along with him for the ride across the length of France from Lille to the Cote d'Azur. On the way they give a lift to hitchhiker Charles (Etienne Chicot) who also brings along his friend Daniel (Patrick Bouchitey). A buddy road movie that came together from genuine friendship developed throughout the months-long script workshop giving the film a casual and naturalistic quality that pre-dates Richard Linklater's similar approaches by some decades. A meditation on friendship and masculinity, this was one of the last films Alain Cavalier made before approaching more experimental forms of filmmaking but prefigures his later breaking down of fiction and documentary barriers with the freewheeling approach of Fill 'er up with Super .



2023 TBD

Amy Seimetz's She Dies Tomorrow (2020) on blu-ray from Radiance Films (UK)

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When Amy is suddenly stricken by the random idea she will die tomorrow, a bizarre phenomena starts passing through her social circle, where each and every person is eventually hit by the same realisation they will not last until the next sunrise, despite there being no obvious reason to believe this. Rather than riffing on the notion of contagion as conventional plague Amy Seimetz's She Dies Tomorrow takes an abstract route into the subject, one which recalls films such as Pulse, where contagion features a strong existential element, in its sometimes absurdly comic, yet deeply unsettling, exploration of a group of people facing imminent unexplained death. As such, the film fits neatly into the stable of Lynchian horror, which seeks to explore genre by breaking down boundaries, as well as enhancing sensory elements such as the use of hallucinatory colour and dreamlike sequences.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on September 13, 2022, 12:53:04 AM
Woahh those editions of Red Sun and She Dies Tomorrow are very enticing.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on January 13, 2023, 04:54:02 PM
November 8, 2022

Michael Curtiz's Casablanca (1942) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Warner Bros.

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A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.




April 25, 2023

Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without A Cause (1955) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Warner Bros.

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Story of rebellious middle-class teens, disenfranchised with their parents, and given to a life of thuggery and deadly dangerous drag racing to win over women.



April 11, 2023

John Huston's The Maltese Falcon (1941) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Warner Bros.

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A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade wants to find out why—and who will take the fall for his partner's murder.



April 11, 2023

Stuart Rosenberg's Cool Hand Luke (1967) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Warner Bros.

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His crime: nonconformity. His sentence: the chain gang. Paul Newman plays one of his best-loved roles as Cool Hand Luke, the loner who won't—or can't—comform to the arbitrary rules of his captivity.



February 7, 2023

Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Dark Sky Films

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Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.



December 13, 2022

Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.



March 28, 2023

William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist III (1990) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Fifteen years after Regan's exorcism, a police lieutenant hunts a cruel serial killer, whose murders involve torture, decapitation, and the desecration of religious icons.



2023 TBD

Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist (1970) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.




March 28, 2023

Sidney Lumet's 12 Angry Men (1957) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A jury holdout attempts to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence.



December 6, 2022

Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Paramount

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The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.



February 21, 2023

Barry Levinson's Rain Man (1988) on 4K UHD blu-ray from MVD Visual

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After a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.



February 21, 2023

James Ivory's The Remains of the Day (1993) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.




Q1 2023

William Friedkin's Bug (2006) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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An unhinged war veteran holes up with a lonely woman in a spooky Oklahoma motel room. The line between reality and delusion is blurred as they discover a bug infestation.



2023 TBD

Sidney Lumet's Serpico (1973) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.



2023 TBD

Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino, also coming from Masters of Cinema in the UK

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Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.



January 24, 2023

Michael Winner's Death Wish (1974) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks. In self-defense, the vengeful man kills muggers on the mean streets after dark.



December 6, 2022

Spike Jonze's Adaptation (2002) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Sony

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A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.



November 22, 2022

Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves (1984) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Shout Factory

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A teenage girl in a country manor falls asleep while reading a magazine, and has a disturbing dream involving wolves prowling the woods below her bedroom window.



February 13, 2023

Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor (1987) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Arrow UK

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The life of Emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne at age three, in 1908, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval, within and without the walls of the Forbidden City.



November 21, 2022

Orson Welles' The Trial (1962) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Studio Canal UK

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An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.




February 8, 2023

Max Ophuls' Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) on 4K UHD blu-ray from The Jokers (France)

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A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.



October 19, 22

Jacques Becker's Casque d'Or (1952) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Studio Canal (France). Includes English subtitles.

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Three gangsters and an ex-con carpenter all fall for the same beautiful golden-haired woman in Belle Époque France.




April 14, 2023

Newt Arnold's Bloodsport (1988) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Capelight Pictures (Germany)

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"Bloodsport" follows Frank Dux, an American martial artist serving in the military, who decides to leave the army to compete in a martial arts tournament in Hong Kong where fights to the death can occur.



December 16, 2022

Cinematic Journeys: Two Films by Juleen Compton on blu-ray from Flicker Alley

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Stranded (1965)
follows Raina, a young American woman (played by Compton), traveling through Greece with her American lover (Gary Collins), and her French, gay best friend (Gian Pietro Calasso). A free spirit, Raina rejects the limitations of marriage and domesticity imposed on women of her generation and instead chooses to adventure across Europe on a quest for self-determination.

The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean (1966)
The story of a clairvoyant teenage girl, Norma Jean (Sharon Henesy), who struggles between the responsibility of seeing the future and the attentions of a rock-n-roll band (Marco St. John, Sam Waterston, Skip Hinnant) set on exploiting her powers for profit. Centered around an enigmatic dome structure delivered to the magical pastoral Ozark countryside, this film explores a battle of wills, both spiritual and material.





November 29, 2022

Ivan Passer's Cutter's Way (1981) on blu-ray from Fun City Editions

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Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.





January 31, 2023

Julien Duvivier's Flesh and Fantasy (1943) on blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome Labs

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A trilogy of tales of love and death.

First, a drowning during Mardi Gras leads to a bitter woman's masked reckoning. Next, an upstanding citizen is driven to madness and murder by a palm reader's prophesy. Finally, a circus tightrope walker is haunted by dreams of a mysterious woman and his own death.

One of the first horror anthology films made by an American studio – and two years before DEAD OF NIGHT – award-winning director Julien Duvivier (PÉPÉ LE MOKO) delivers FLESH AND FANTASY, three strange and at times surreal stories of the supernatural with an all-star cast that includes Edward G. Robinson (Soylent Green), Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity), and Charles Boyer (Gaslight), who also co-produced. Stunningly photographed by Oscar® winner Stanley Cortez (THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER) and lushly scored by Oscar® nominee Alexander Tansman, Vinegar Syndrome Labs presents the Blu-ray debut of this landmark in 1940s genre filmmaking, newly restored in 2K and featuring insightful critical appreciations along with rare archival materials.





December 27, 2022

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Distant (2002) on blu-ray from Big World Pictures (2002)

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After his wife leaves him, a photographer has an existential crisis and tries to cope with his cousin's visit.



December 27, 2022

Jean Becker's Elisa (1995) on blu-ray from Altered Innocence

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Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.




January 31, 2022

Peter Weir's Gallipoli (1981) on blu-ray from Paramount

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Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.



February 21, 2023

Régis Wargnier's Indochine (1992) on blu-ray from Sony

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Catherine Deneuve stars in this Oscar-winning (Best Foreign Language Film, 1992) tale of passion and revolution in colonial Veitnam. Deneuve stars as Elaine Devries, the seemingly repressed owner of a prosperous rubber plantation in French Indochina. Her steely exterior, however, is only a mask intended to hide her torrid love affairs from upperclass society. But when her adopted Indochinese daughter innocently falls in love with Elaine's secret lover, the scandalous lover's triangle threatens to destroy their entire family. A sensual story of unbridled passion set against the violence of the bloody Communist uprising, Indochine is a historically accurate, emotionally wrenching epic of love and war.




January 10, 2023

Jacques Rivette's Gang of Four (1989) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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A drama following 4 women at stage school. Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivette's work as a whole.




January 24, 2023

Fritz Lang's Rancho Notorious (1952) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Vern Haskell, a nice rancher, seeks out to avenge his fiancé's death when she is killed during a robbery. His revenge leads him to Chuck-a-luck, Altar Keane's ranch set up to hide criminals, and he finds more than he bargains for.



October 25, 2022

Rouben Mamoulian's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Mr. Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug it is already too late...



December 6, 2022

John Huston's The Night of the Iguana (1964) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.



February 14, 2023

Jacques Rivette's Love on the Ground (1984) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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A play within a play within a play within a play. Actors perform a play in a house, an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life. The line between fiction and reality blurs.



December 13, 2022

Raphael D. Silver's On the Yard (1978) & A Walk on the Moon (1987) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group

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November 29, 2022

Abel Ferrara's R 'Xmas (2001) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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A New York drug dealer is kidnapped, and his wife must try to come up with the money and drugs to free him from his abductors before Christmas.



November 22, 2022

John Schlesinger's A Kind of Loving (1962) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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A young man, inching his way up from working-class traditions via a white-collar job, finds himself trapped by the frightening reality of his girlfriend's pregnancy and is forced into marrying her and moving in with his mother-in-law due to a housing shortage in their Northern England town.



March 21, 2023

Anatole Litvak's Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Whilst on the telephone, an invalid woman overhears what she thinks is a plot to murder her.



December 13, 2022

Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha (1972) on blu-ray from Sandpiper Pictures (formerly Olive Films)

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During the depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.



December 20, 2022

Arthur Hiller's The Hospital (1971) on blu-ray from Sandpiper Pictures. From a screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky.

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Black comedy in which a suicidal doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.



November 1, 2022

Nicholas Kazan's Dream Lover (1993) on blu-ray from Sandpiper Pictures

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Ray is young, charming, successful and the owner of a prosperous architect company. However, he has recently gone through a very painful divorce. His friends try to cheer him up by showing him the positive sides of being single but for Ray marriage and stability is just too important. But when he meets Lena his gloom is quickly forgotten. She is beautiful, sensual, mysterious and he is drawn to her like a moth to a candle. They marry quickly, have their first child and Ray lives in a total bliss. But then strange incidents occur which shed some light on Lena's background. Ray slowly realizes that he hardly knows anything about her at all. Who has he really married?



January 31, 2023

Ralph Nelson's Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) on blu-ray from Mill Creek Entertainment. Written by Rod Serling.

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After suffering a knockout against Cassius Clay, it´s the final bell for Mountain Rivera. A fight doctor confirms one more punch for the washed-up heavyweight and he could become permanently disabled. Reluctantly but with but with the support of his faithful trainer and a kindly employment counselor Rivera tries to land a job outside the ring. But his calculating manager Maish has other plans for Rivera.



November 22, 2022

Rod Serling's Night Gallery: Season 3 (1972-1973) on blu-ray from Kino

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Rod Serling presents tales of horror.



2023 TBD

James Foley's After Dark My Sweet (1990) on blu-ray from Kino

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When a couple of conniving lowlifes hatch a plot to kidnap the scion of a wealthy local family, they pick the wrong man to carry out the job: Kid Collins, a disturbed ex-boxer on the lam from a mental institution.



January 31, 2023

Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai (1947) on blu-ray from Kino

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When unemployed Irishman Michael O'Hara saves Elsa Bannister from thugs, she obtains him a position on her invalid lawyer husband Arthur's yacht, as a deckhand. It soon becomes clear that Elsa has designs on O'Hara, and also wants her husband out of the way.



2023 TBD

Ken Russell's Whore (1991) on blu-ray from Kino

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The life of a jaded L.A. prostitute is described in this haunting drama, through flashbacks of her past marriage, brutal, inhumane abuse and her time on the streets.




2023 TBD

Edward Dmytryk's The Carpetbaggers (1964) on blu-ray from Kino

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Harold Robbins' best-seller about '30s Hollywood comes to the screen in a torrent of frank, controversial and (for the times) sensational scenes that helped break the Production Code. George Peppard is the ruthless tycoon who (with amazing parallels to Howard Hughes) builds a multi-million-dollar empire. Carroll Baker, who performs a razzle-dazzle striptease atop a glittery chandelier, is the Jean Harlow-type star. In addition to its depiction of the wild life in Tinseltown's early days, the film also boasts Alan Ladd's terrific final screen performance as the hero's sidekick, Nevada Smith.



2023 TBD

Tom Gries' Will Penny (1968) on blu-ray from Kino

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Aging cowboy Will Penny (Charlton Heston) takes a new job on an Oregon ranch and finds himself lodging for the winter in an old mountain cabin which has been temporarily occupied by Catherine, a married woman who is travelling to rejoin her husband. The pair soon finds themselves attracted to each other, but propriety prevents them from following their feelings. However, the situation changes when they are interrupted by the lunatic Preacher Quint (Donald Pleasence) and his gang of dangerous bandits.




2023 TBD

Mark Robson's The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) on blu-ray from Kino

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Two jet pilots forge a lasting friendship while fighting the Korean War.



March 7, 2023

Cecil B. DeMille's Crusades (1935) on blu-ray from Kino

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King Richard of England (Henry Wilcoxon) has no desire to marry the awful Princess Alice of France (Katherine DeMille). The Third Crusade offers him a good excuse to flee, so he sets off with his knights on a long journey to the Holy Land. When supplies diminish, Richard marries Princess Berengaria of Navarre (Loretta Young) in exchange for food from her father. Nearing their destination, Berengaria is captured by Saladin, Sultan of Islam (Ian Keith), whom Richard is determined to destroy.

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November 29, 2022

Harry Keller's The Unguarded Moment (1956) on blu-ray from Kino. One of the few examples of 'color noir'.

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In a rare dramatic role, Esther Williams stars as a high school teacher stalked by a peeping tom who might be the same homicidal sex fiend wanted by the police. Based on a story by Rosalind Russell and Larry Marcus, The Unguarded Moment is a moody melodrama that co-stars John Saxon in one of his first major roles and George Nader as the investigating detective.



February 14, 2022

Stuart Walker's White Woman (1933) on blu-ray from Kino

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Carole Lombard and Charles Laughton star in the gripping Pre-Code drama about forbidden love, White Woman. The life of a glamorous nightclub performer (Lombard) changes drastically when she agrees to marry a wealthy plantation owner (Laughton). As the two begin their domestic life together on his remote Malaysian estate, she realizes the extent of his cruel and jealous nature. She soon finds herself drawn to another man but must keep their love secret to avoid the wrath of her husband.



March 7, 2023

Joe May's Asphalt (1929) on blu-ray from Kino

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From its elaborate and stylish opening scenes, Asphalt immediately establishes itself as a startling cinematic achievement of Weimar cinema. Gustav Frölich, best known as the young protagonist of Metropolis, stars as a strait-laced traffic cop who has the simple task of escorting a diamond thief to the police station. However, Holk's routine assignment becomes complicated when he discovers the criminal in his custody: the exotic and beautiful Else (Betty Amann). Working alongside cinematographer Günther Rittau (The Blue Angel), director Joe May (The Indian Tomb) takes a simple melodrama and transforms it into a masterwork, with a brooding visual style, nuanced performances, and psychological complexity.



2023 TBD

Ida Lupino's Outrage (1950) on blu-ray from Kino

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A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.



March 21, 2023

Frank Tuttle's Lucky Jordan (1942) on blu-ray from Kino

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Alan Ladd (China, O.S.S., Calcutta, Shane) stars as a wise guy who finds himself in one predicament after another in Lucky Jordan. When he discovers that he can no longer avoid the draft, a self-serving New York racketeer (Ladd) fails at his half-hearted attempt at military life. He goes AWOL, stealing a car that happens to contain a briefcase full of valuable military plans. What follows is an escapade filled with Nazi spies, espionage, assassins, saboteurs...and a beautiful member of the WAC determined to reform the gangster.



March 7, 2023

Susan Seidelman's Making Mr. Right (1987) on blu-ray from Kino, from a 2K restoration. Shot by Ed Lachman.

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A scientist builds a robot that looks exactly like him to go on a long-term space mission. A lovelorn female publicist, hired to promote the robot as a fundraising tool, "educates" him on human behavior -- with surprising results.




March 28, 203

If I Had A Million (1932) on blu-ray from Kino

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To prevent his inheritance from going to his greedy family, a steel tycoon (Richard Bennett) chooses eight random strangers and gives them each $1 million. Among those chosen are an entertainer (W.C. Fields) who uses the money to clear bad drivers from the road, a Marine (Gary Cooper) who believes the check is an April Fool's Day prank, and an office clerk (Charles Laughton) who finally sees an opportunity to quit his job. The unexpected windfalls bring joy -- or tragedy -- to the recipients. Segments directed by James Cruze (The Great Gabbo), H. Bruce Humberstone (I Wake Up Screaming), Ernst Lubitsch (Broken Lullaby), Norman Z. McLeod (It's a Gift), Lothar Mendes (The Man Who Could Work Miracles), Stephen Roberts (The Story of Temple Drake), William A. Seiter (Hot Saturday) & Norman Taurog (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer).



November 15, 2022

Terence Young's The Valachi Papers (1972) on blu-ray from Kino

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Sentenced to 15 years in prison, former mob "button man" Joe Valachi turns informant when he learns top Mafia capo Vito Genovese has put a $100,000 contract out on his life.



February 14, 2023

The Francois Truffaut Collection on blu-ray from Kino

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THE WILD CHILD (1970)
In a most mature and aesthetic achievement, Truffaut creates an absorbing drama, delicate and unpredictable as life itself. Based on the true account of 18th-century doctor Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard, the film follows the capture of a young boy who is discovered living like an animal in the forest. Truffaut himself gives a memorable performance as Itard, unyielding in his belief that the child, played with haunting precision by Jean-Pierre Cargol, can be transformed into a civilized being.

SMALL CHANGE (1976)
Truffaut weaves his love of kids and cinema seamlessly together in this tribute to the joys, yearnings, pains and wonders of childhood. The film presents a group of ten youngsters, boys and girls, whose adventures in the quaint village of Thiers illustrate—from the first baby bottle to the first kiss—the different stages of passage from early childhood to adolescence. Also known as Pocket Money, this kaleidoscopic coming-of-age tale finds Truffaut at his most charming and insightful.

THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN (1977)
This irresistibly sophisticated comedy paints the delirious portrait of saturnine satyr Bertrand Morane (Charles Denner), who worships the feminine spirit—the idea of woman. Truffaut neither condemns nor glorifies him, for what could be so worthy of a subject of obsession as women? The film is a splendid example of the auteur's nimble way with stories of erotic love. Featuring screen goddesses Brigette Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud, Geneviève Fortanel, Nathalie Baye and Leslie Caron.

THE GREEN ROOM (1978)
In a most personal and rigorous film, Truffaut stars as Julien Davenne, a man who so loves the dead that he can no longer love the living. While building a shrine to his deceased wife, he meets Cecilia (Nathalie Baye), who is also in mourning. She falls in love with him, thereby giving him a last chance at resurrection. Also known as The Vanishing Fiancée and based on the writings of Henry James, this classic film is a somber, haunting parable of life and death—and the barrier of memory that stands between.



February 14, 2023

Francois Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black (1968) on blu-ray from Kino

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Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?



February 14, 2023

Francois Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid (1969) on blu-ray from Kino

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In this tale of obsessive love, based on Cornell Woolrich's WALTZ INTO DARKNESS, wealthy plantation owner Louis Mahé, of Réunion Island, falls madly in love with his mail-order bride, Julie, despite the fact that she is not quite what she seems — and is, in fact, a lot worse. Even after becoming the victim of her deleterious influences and discovering that she is not the woman with whom he had been corresponding, Louis allows himself to be drawn into a downward spiral of criminality and a self-injurious lifestyle just to prove his undying devotion to this French femme fatale.



February 14, 2023

Francois Truffaut's The Story of Adele H. (1975) on blu-ray from Kino

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Adèle Hugo, youngest daughter of famed French poet and author Victor Hugo, develops an obsession for a young British officer and stalks him, despite his scorn for her, following him first to Halifax, Nova Scotia and then to Barbados.



November 28, 2022

Jacques Becker: The Essential Collection on blu-ray from Studio Canal (UK)

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Jacques Becker was an important and influential French filmmaker who was admired by the directors that led the French New Wave movement. He made his directorial debut in 1942 after a year in a German prisoner-of war camp. The entire output of his working career was only 13 films including some of the greatest French masterpieces. Becker had a very strong presence in French cinema and constantly tried to create something different which is noticeable in his films as each is unique and very different in style and genre. This essential collection includes 5 films of the prestigious filmmaker: Falbalas (1944), Edward and Caroline (1951), Casque d'Or (1952), Touchez pas au Grisbi (1954) and Le Trou (1960).



March 1, 2023

Cosa Nostra: Franco Nero in three Mafia Tales by Damiano Damiani on blu-ray from Radiance Films (UK)

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The most American of directors according to celebrated critic Paolo Mereghetti, Damiano Damiani (A Bullet for the General) nevertheless surveyed his own country's mafia history unlike anyone before him, to critical and box office success. Three such classic films are collected in this Blu-ray box set, presented from new restorations.

The Day of the Owl stars Franco Nero as a police chief who, while investigating the death of a construction worker, goes up against corrupt officials and a ruthless mafia boss (Lee J. Cobb). Adapted from the celebrated novel by Leonardo Sciascia (Illustrious Corpses, Todo Modo), The Day of the Owl was the first book to openly deal with organised crime in Sicily. A prestigious production, it was in the running for best film at the Berlin Film Festival and found wins at home in the David di Donatello Awards for Claudia Cardinale, Nero, Damiani, and Best Production.

Nero portrays a simple man thrown in jail for a misdemeanour in The Case is Closed: Forget It. Inside, he sees the grim reality of life behind bars, where the mafia controls everything. A powerful production with Nero in top form and supported by a strong cast including Riccardo Cucciolla (Rabid Dogs) and John Steiner (Tenebrae), the intensity of Damiani's film places it among the finest prison dramas. Presented in Italian and for the first time with the original English dub.

In How to Kill a Judge, Nero plays filmmaker Giacomo Solaris, whose latest film features a judge corrupted by the mafia and who is later found murdered. The real judge the character is based on seizes the footage, but is later killed in the same way. Feeling a degree of responsibility, Solaris investigates, but as the assassinations increase around him, will he reach the source of the conspiracy? Full of twists and a fascinating meta-commentary on cinema, Damiani points the camera at himself and the genre as he investigates the social impact of mafia violence, a fitting end to this survey of Damiani's Cosa Nostra.




October 24, 2022

Eduard Grecner's Dragon's Return (1968) on blu-ray from Second Sight (UK)

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Set at an unspecified past time in a world ruled by superstition, a reclusive potter nicknamed 'Dragon', is exiled from his isolated homestead. He returns years later, aiming to win back the trust of the villagers – but faces suspicion, guilt, and simmering violence. A key film from Slovak cinema's golden era, Eduard Grečner's film is a radical fusion of ancient folklore and experimental modernism. Shot in luminous monochrome and boasting an extraordinary score by Ilja Zeljenka, it is an elemental vision of a world lost in time.



February 20, 2023

Vojtech Jasný's The Cassandra Cat (1963) on blu-ray from Second Run (UK)

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Human behavior is observed by a glasses wearing cat, who is capable of seeing human beings as they really are.



February 8, 2023

John Huston's Freud (1962) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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This pseudo-biographical movie depicts 5 years from 1885 in the life of the Viennese psychologist Freud. Disillusioned with the way his colleagues refuse to treat patients in a mental asylum, following a trip to Paris to visit Dr Charcot he sees how hysterical patients are treated by means of hypnosis



March 20, 2023

Ernst Lubitsch's Broken Lullaby (1932) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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ften overlooked amongst director Ernst Lubitsch's comedies and musicals, Broken Lullaby is a riveting and brilliant romantic drama from the pre-Code era, starring Lionel Barrymore (It's a Wonderful Life), Nancy Carroll (The Kiss Before the Mirror), and Phillips Holmes (The Criminal Code).

Musician Paul Renard is haunted by the memory of Walter, a German soldier he killed during the First World War. He travels to Walter's home town, and, passing himself off as a friend of the deceased, is taken in by his grieving family. But when he finds himself falling in love with Elsa, Walter's fiancée, he becomes worried that the truth will emerge...

With a screenplay by regular Lubitsch collaborator Samson Raphaelson (The Shop Around the Corner, Heaven Can Wait), Broken Lullaby was rapturously received by critics at the time, with one describing it as 'the most unusual and dramatic situation the screen has presented'.




March 20, 2023

Ernst Lubitsch's Bluebeards Eighth Wife (1938) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Seven-times married, the wealthy playboy Michael Brandon meets the beautiful, tempestuous Nicole, and makes her his eighth wife. Determined she won't be just another of his conquests, Nicole contrives to frustrate Michael's advances in order to keep him keen. Michael, however, believes she is trying to force him to divorce her in order to take advantage of a generous pre-nuptial agreement, and a battle of wills ensues.

One of Lubitsch's greatest films, and a huge influence on the modern romantic comedy, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife boasts a sizzling screenplay by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend, Sunset Blvd.), and a memorable supporting turn from David Niven (A Matter of Life and Death).




March 20, 2023

James Whales' The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Whilst defending a man who stands accused of murdering his wife, attorney Paul Lukas comes to suspect that his own wife is being unfaithful. Following her through the streets of Vienna, he becomes increasingly obsessed with the idea of her infidelity.

Made in between Whale's Universal horror classics The Old Dark House and The Invisible Man, The Kiss Before the Mirror is a ravishingly staged pre-Code classic.




March 20, 2023

Frank Capra's State of the Union (1948) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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The immortal screen couple Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) take the lead in this fabulously witty political comedy drama from director Frank Capra (It's a Wonderful Life), filmed against the background of the 1948 Presidential election.

Wealthy aeroplane manufacturer Grant Matthews is encouraged to become a presidential candidate by his girlfriend, press baron Kay Thorndyke. Forced to publicly reunite with his estranged wife Mary in order to present the illusion of a happy marriage, he comes close to nomination. But, as Grant and Mary realise that political success will mean compromising their principles, Grant has a change of heart.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Harold Lindsay and Russel Crouse (The Sound of Music), and with supporting turns from Angela Lansbury (Gaslight) and Adolphe Menjou (The Sniper), State of the Union is a brilliant blend of political satire and romantic comedy.




November 7, 2022

Joseph Losey's The Sleeping Tiger (1954) on blu-ray from Studio Canal (UK)

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A psychiatrist, Clive Esmond (Alexander Knox) catches young gunman Frank Clemens (Dirk Bogarde) breaking into his house. Rather than send him to prison he invites the delinquent to stay at his home as a social guinea pig – Esmond believes he can curb the fugitive's criminal tendencies. Further tensions arise however when the youth begins an affair with Esmond's wife (Alexis Smith).



October 31, 2022

Jocelyn Moorhouse's Proof (1991) on blu-ray from Film4 (UK)

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Multi-layered and intensely original this is the widely-acclaimed story of a blind man whose deeply rooted mistrust of humanity prompts him to compulsively take photographs that document his world. The only problem is he's got to get somebody to describe his pictures to him. And when there's no one you can trust it's hard to find someone on whom you can rely.






December 7, 2022

John Ruane's Death in New Brunswick (1991) on blu-ray from Umbrella Entertainment (Australia)

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Carl Fitzgerald is down-on-his-luck until he meets Sophie, a beautiful Greek girl. He gets a job as a cook, but accidentally kills fellow worker Mustafa. He turns to his unscrupulous best friend for help and together they attempt to dispose of the body.



October 26, 2022

Lynne Littman's Testament (1983) on blu-ray from Imprint (Australia)

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There are errands to run, laundry to sort, piano lessons to tackle. But an ordinary day like any other ends abruptly with a startling TV news bulletin, followed moments later by a blinding flash. With her husband away and her three frightened children gathered around her, Carol Wetherly (Jane Alexander) must face the unthinkable – the devastating aftermath of a nuclear attack.




February 22, 2023

Daniel Petrie's Resurrection (1980) on blu-ray from Imprint (Australia)

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In Resurrection, an unforgettable story of love and devotion, Ellen Burstyn delivers a tour-de-force performance as a woman who experiences clinical death and returns to life with the amazing ability to heal others. Attributing her powers to human love rather than divine intervention, she begins to aid the residents of her childhood town. After healing a zealous young farmer (Sam Shepard), she starts to fall in love with him. As their affair develops, he tries to make her confess that her powers come from God and not from within. Her refusal leads to a violent climax that will change the healer and all who touch her forever.

Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: WorldForgot on January 27, 2023, 12:52:47 PM
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The Street Fighter Trilogy from Arrow Video UK (https://www.arrowfilms.com/blu-ray/the-street-fighter-trilogy/14249987.html)

New 2K restorations of The Street Fighter/Return of the Street Fighter from 2K scans of the negatives by Arrow
New HD remaster presentation of TSFLR by Arrow

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Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 07, 2023, 04:51:46 AM
September 19, 2023

William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973) on 4K UHD from Warner Bros.

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When an innocent young girl is possessed by a demon, a priest struggling with his faith is asked by her mother, to perform the ancient rite of exorcism.



October 10, 2023

Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968) on 4K UHD from Paramount

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A young couple move into an apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life.



November 7, 2023

George Lucas' American Graffiti (1973) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Universal

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A summer night in 1962 with the radio as a backdrop becomes the focal point in the lives of four small town California teenagers as they face decisions, both immediate and long term, about the directions of their lives. Steve, wants to break up with Laurie, his devoted high school sweetheart and pursue new experiences away from home. Curt, is hesitant about going away to school and leaving the comfortable, familiar surroundings of family and friends. John, tries to maintain his "too cool for school" image as a hip guy, but can't seem to shake a nagging awareness that life is somehow passing him by. Finally, there's Terry, the nerdy wannabe trying to fit in but who still manages to screw up.. By the next morning, their lives will be changed, some only temporarily and some for a lifetime.



November 14, 2023

Steven Spielberg's Duel (1971) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Universal

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While traveling through the California desert for a business appointment, David Mann passes a smoky tanker truck. A game of cat-and-mouse quickly escalates into a life-and-death battle between David and the unseen trucker, with their vehicles as weapons.



August 1, 2023

Elia Kazan's East of Eden (1955) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Warner Bros.

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In 1917 California farm country, two brothers contend for the favor of their strict, Bible-quoting father. Unbeknownst to the father, the wife who left him when the boys were small has returned to the nearby town, where she now runs a successful brothel.



August 1, 2023

Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo (1959) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Warner Bros.

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A small-town sheriff enlists the help of a cripple, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.



November 7, 2023

Andrew Davis' The Fugitive (1993) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Warner Bros.

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A Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife is determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the man who actually committed the crime.



May 30, 2023

Peter Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers (1988) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Severin

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In between his celebrated THE BELLY OF AN ARCHITECT and THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER, writer/director Peter Greenaway – "one of the most distinctive, provocative talents of his generation" (The Guardian) – shocked/delighted international audiences with this slyly deranged black comedy classic: Oscar® nominee Dame Joan Plowright (ENCHANTED APRIL), four-time BAFTA Award nominee Juliet Stevenson (TRULY MADLY DEEPLY) and two-time Golden Globe nominee Joely Richardson (THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO) star as three generations of women who murder their husbands in an unsettling salvo of sumptuous visuals, macabre capers and numerical mischief. Bernard Hill (THE LORD OF THE RINGS, TITANIC) co-stars in this "fascinating brain buster of very bad manners" (Entertainment Weekly), now featuring a new 4K scan from the original negative personally supervised by Greenaway.




July 18, 2023

Martin Scorsese's Hugo (2011) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Arrow

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Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.



July 11, 2023

Michael Mann's Blackhat (2015) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Arrow

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A man is released from prison to help American and Chinese authorities pursue a mysterious cyber criminal. The dangerous search leads them from Chicago to Hong Kong.



May 30, 2023

Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A demented preacher relentlessly torments two small children in the Depression-era Bible Belt in order to get at their dead father's stolen fortune.



2023 TBD

Sidney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express (1974) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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Famous detective Hercule Poirot is on the Orient Express, but the train is caught in the snow. When one of the passengers is discovered murdered, Poirot immediately starts investigating.



June 20, 2023

John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate (1962) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A US Army hero returns to New York from Korea, but has been mysteriously programmed by Communists to assassinate a presidential nominee, but when his Army buddy becomes suspicious of the goings on, he is on the trail to stop him.



August 29, 2023

Sydney Pollack's 3 Days of the Condor (1975) 4K UHD from Kino

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A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.



2023 TBD

Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 (1953) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A cynical serviceman in a World War II POW camp has to prove he's not an informer.



2023 TBD

Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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Mistaken for insane, a man arrives in San Francisco to inform the world that strange aliens have arrived on earth to overtake human life.



2023 TBD

Michael Ritchie's Prime Cut (1972) on 4K UHD from Kino

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Marvin is an underworld enforcer sent to Kansas City to collect money from Hackman, a mysterious mobster who has no intention of paying up.



2023 TBD

Ted Kotcheff's North Dallas Forty (1979) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.




2023 TBD

Fred Zinnemann's High Noon (1952) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A retired Marshal must defend his town from a revengeful villain.



2023 TBD

Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Kino

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A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.



July 4, 2023

Peter Weir's The Truman Show (1998) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Paramount

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An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.



August 15, 2023

William Wyler's Roman Holiday (1953) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Paramount

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A runaway princess in Rome finds love with a reporter who knows her true identity.



July 25, 2023

Byron Haskin's War of the Worlds (1953) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Paramount

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A mysterious object has landed in a small California town. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun.



April 4, 2023

Martin Brest's Midnight Run (1988) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Jack Walsh is a tough ex-cop turned bounty hunter. Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas is a sensitive accountant who embezzled $15 million from the Mob, gave it to charity and then jumped bail. Jack's in for a cool $100,000 if he can deliver The Duke from New York to L.A. on time. The FBI is after The Duke to testify - the Mob is after him for revenge - and Walsh is after him to just shut up.



October 10, 2023

Robert De Niro's A Bronx Tale (1993) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Tribeca Film

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In Robert De Niro's stunning directorial debut, a devoted father battles a local mob boss for the life of his son. Growing up on the racially divided streets of 1960s New York, 9-year-old Calogero, or "C", idolizes sophisticated local gangster Sonny (Chazz Palminteri), despite stern warnings from his working-class father (Robert De Niro). But when "C" gets older, he finds himself torn between two worlds and must choose between earning respect like his father or commanding it like Sonny. Vividly evoking the sights and sounds of the iconic neighborhood, "A Bronx Tale" is a compelling story of love and loyalty.



May 1, 2023

Peter Weir Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Second Run (UK)

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On Valentine's Day 1900, three school girls and a school teacher go missing under mysterious circumstances during a trip to Hanging Rock in Victoria, Australia.



May 22, 2023

Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Arrow (UK)

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Journalist Raoul Duke and his lawyer Dr. Gonzo drive from L.A. to Las Vegas on a drugs binge. They nominally cover news stories, including a convention on drug abuse, but also sink deeper into a frightening psychedelic otherworld. As Vietnam, Altamont, and the Tate killings impinge from the world of TV news, Duke and Gonzo see casinos, reptiles, and the American Dream.



April 3, 2023

Jean-Pierre Jeunet's City of Lost Children (1995) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Studio Canal (UK)

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The City of Lost Children is a dazzling fantasy adventure from Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, creators of Delicatessen and has been newly restored. They bring their surreal vision to the story of Krank, a tormented scientist who sets about kidnapping local children in order to steal their dreams and so reverse his accelerated ageing process. When Krank's henchmen kidnap his brother, local fisherman and former circus strongman One (Hellboy's Ron Perlman) sets out on a journey to Krank's nightmarish laboratory, accompanied by a little orphan girl called Miette.



2023 TBD

Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Delicatessen (1991) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Studio Canal (UK)

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In a burnt-out city on the verge of collapse, a canny butcher employs various young handymen, kills them, and then sells them as meat. When ex-circus performer Louison arrives looking for work, it seems that his head will be the next on the block. But Louison falls in love with Julie, the butcher's daughter, and together they join forces with an underground vegetarian group who plan to bring an end to the butcher's cruel regime.



September 18, 2023

Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Studio Canal (UK)

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The true story of a Polish Jewish musician, who struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.



June 26, 2023

Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (1963) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Studio Canal (UK)

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A screenwriter finds his marriage falling apart as he attempts to get started a film version of the "The Odyssey."



June 2023

John Huston's The Misfits (1961) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Capelight Pictures (UK)

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While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber (Marilyn Monroe) ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland (Clark Gable) and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli (Eli Wallach). The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland (Montgomery Clift) arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses




August 21, 2023

Newt Arnold's Bloodsport (1988) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Altitude Film Distribution (UK)

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Inside a hidden Hong Kong arena, elite combatants clash in the Kumite, the little-known but hotly contested world championship of full-contact fighting. No Westerner had ever won this titanic tournament - until iron-willed American Frank Dux entered it.



August 25, 2023

David Cronenberg's Shivers (1975) on 4K UHD blu-ray from NSM Records (Germany)

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The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.



August 23, 2023

Peter Weir's The Last Wave (1977) on 4K UHD blu-ray from Umbrella Entertainment (Australia)

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Richard Chamberlain stars as Australian lawyer David Burton, who takes on the defense of a group of aborigines accused of killing one of their own. He suspects the victim has been killed for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. Burton, plagued by apocalyptic visions of war, slowly realized his own involvement with the aborigines...and their prophecies.



July 13, 2023

Peter Greenaway's The Draughtman's Contract (1982) on blu-ray from Zeitgeist

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In an apparently idyllic 17th century Wiltshire, an ambitious draughtsman is commissioned by the wife of an aristocrat to produce twelve drawings of her husband's estate and negotiates terms to include sexual favours from his employer. But when a corpse is dragged from the moat, the draughtsman's drawings may reveal more than he realised.




June 20, 2023

Peter Greenaway's A Zed & Two Noughts (1985) and The Falls (1980) on blu-ray from Zeitgeist

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A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985) is Peter Greenaway's beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death. In a horrific automobile-swan accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo, two women die and a third, Alba (Andrea Ferréol), loses her leg. The two widowers, twin zoologists Oliver and Oswald (Eric and Brian Deacon, in roles originally offered to the Quay Brothers), fixate on their wives' bodies, and slowly become obsessed with evolution and decomposition—even going as far as to meticulously craft exquisitely morbid time-lapsed films of decaying creatures. The plot thickens when a mad surgeon schemes to use Alba as a subject in his experiments with animal symmetry and Vermeer homage. Full of surprises and magnificent conundrums, A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS is a perversely comic and teasing treat for the mind and senses.


The Falls (1980)
The Falls (1980) is arguably the most significant film of Peter Greenaway's prolific career. Shot as a pseudo-documentary, this magnum opus dazzlingly details 92 case histories of people who have been affected by the VUE (Violent Unknown Event)—a mysterious, apocalyptic phenomenon related to birds, flying, and bizarre invented languages.





June 20, 2023

Guy Maddin's Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux (1988) on blu-ray from Zeitgeist

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While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told a tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the Lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofridur in a Gimli of old.




April 25, 2023

Karen Shakhnazarov's Assassin of the Tsar (1991) on blu-ray from Deaf Crocodile

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From Karen Shakhnazarov, director of ZEROGRAD, ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR is a mysterious and labyrinthine psychological drama in which the tormented chambers of a patient's mind come to warp everything around him, even the folds of history itself. In one of his finest latter-day performances, the great Malcolm McDowell (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, TIME AFTER TIME) stars as Timofeyev, a severe schizophrenic in a dreary Soviet mental hospital who is convinced that, impossibly, he's the killer of two Tsars: Alexander II in 1881 and Nicholas II in 1918. The thoughtful new head of the hospital, Dr. Smirnov (Oleg Yankovskiy) is determined to cure Timofeyev of his madness – but instead finds himself literally pulled back through time, inhabiting the ghosts of the past as they march towards their tragic destiny.




April 25, 2023

Jim McBride's Breathless (1983) on blu-ray from Fun City Editions

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Richard Gere (American Gigolo and Days of Heaven) is electrifying as Jesse Lujack, a small-time criminal obsessed with Jerry Lee Lewis, the Silver Surfer and Monica (Valérie Kaprisky, Andrzej Żuławski's La Femme Publique), the beautiful French exchange student he spent a passionate couple of nights with in Vegas. High-tailing it to Los Angeles to rendezvous again with Monica, Jesse steals a fast car and accidentally shoots and kills a highway patrolman. Now the most wanted fugitive in L.A., Jesse should get across the border to Mexico as soon as possible, but Monica leaves him breathless...

Co-writer and director Jim McBride (David Holzman's Diary and Great Balls of Fire) and co-writer L.M. Kit Carson (Paris, Texas and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2) boldly set out to create an American version of Jean-Luc Godard's groundbreaking debut Breathless and the result is a wildly energetic and imaginative neo-noir romance that has become a cult classic. The spirited supporting cast includes memorable character players John P. Ryan, Garry Goodrow, Art Metrano, James Hong, Miguel Pinero, William Tepper and Lisa Jane Persky. With its rockin' and atmospheric soundtrack, candy-colored cinematography by Richard H. Kline (Body Heat) and production design by Richard Sylbert (Chinatown), as well as the uncommonly strong sexual chemistry of its leads, Breathless is truly a cinematic feast for the senses. Ahead of its time when released, viewers have finally caught up to Breathless and now it's been restored in 2K from its 35mm interpositive and presented with an alternate ending that's been unseen for decades!





April 25, 2023

Atom Egoyan's Speaking Parts (1989) on blu-ray from Canadian International Pictures

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Hotel employee Lisa (The Sweet Hereafter's Arsinée Khanjian) develops an obsession with her co-worker Lance (Dog Park's Michael McManus), a struggling actor who has appeared in several films as an extra. With the help of a local video store, Lisa carefully investigates Lance's body of work, as he undergoes his own pursuit – of screenwriter Clara (The Stepfather's Gabrielle Rose) and a film role inspired by her late brother. As their connection grows, this production's ties to reality start to unravel... and so do our three protagonists.

One of the most singular and defining films from celebrated Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan (The Adjuster, Exotica), Speaking Parts mixes the all-consuming video addictions of Videodrome with an artfully perverse exploration of fractured inner lives. Produced in collaboration with Egoyan, this deluxe special edition also includes three of the filmmaker's early shorts and Sarabande, his little-seen 1997 film starring Khanjian, Yo-Yo Ma, Don McKellar, and Lori Singer.





April 25, 2023

Denys Arcand's Gina (1975) on blu-ray from Canadian International Pictures

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After being sent to rural Quebec to perform at a seedy motel, exotic dancer Gina (The Silent Partner's Céline Lomez) establishes a friendship with a group of visiting documentary filmmakers and becomes aware of a lecherous Ski-Doo gang hiding out on an abandoned ship. Keenly aware of one another's presence, Gina and the gang develop an antagonistic relationship that eventually leads to a horrific assault. But what these ski-masked snow deviants don't realize is that Gina works for some of Montreal's most dangerous criminals, and they're on their way to enact an ugly revenge.

Three decades before winning the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for The Barbarian Invasions, Denys Arcand started his fiction filmmaking career with an informal trilogy (Dirty Money, Réjeanne Padovani, and Gina) that remains the high-water mark for Canadian crime cinema. Improbably fusing labor politics with an explosive exploitation narrative, Gina has a conviction and assurance that resists easy categorization. Part frigid hangout movie, part vicious revenge saga, this is a one-of-a-kind powerhouse that builds to a gruesome climax and the greatest snowmobile chase in movie history.





April 25, 2023

Wojciech Has' The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973) on blu-ray from Yellow Veil Pictures

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Józef visits his dying father at a remote mental institutions, where time itself doesn't seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories become indistinguishable.

Adapted from a selection of short stories from Polish-jewish writer Bruno Schultz, Wojciech J. Has's masterpiece of surrealist Polish cinema is a phantasmagoric look at the collective trauma of the Holocaust.





April 25, 2023

Patrice Chéreau's The Wounded Man (1983) on blu-ray from Altered Innocence

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New 4K restoration from the original camera negative! Henri is a frustrated teenager living with his parents in a provincial French coastal town. When they drag him to the train station to bid adieu to his sister, Henri sneaks off to a secluded bathroom and interrupts a hustler named Jean satisfying the masochistic desires of an older male client. Henri falls desperately in love with the sexy criminal, but Jean evades Henri's affections. Undeterred, Henri shadows Jean as he traverses the dark and dangerous underbelly of their sleepy village. But as he descends deeper and deeper into Jean's world, there may not be an easy way out. Patrice Chéreau's 1983 drama is a revelation: an amazingly accomplished work that genuinely channels the transgressive, unsanitized sensibility of Jean Genet, boasting a breakout lead performance by young Jean-Hugues Anglade and a script that took co-writers Chéreau and legendary gay French author and activist Hervé Guibert six years to perfect. The result is a rich, strange, and sumptuous film leading us to exhilaratingly mysterious and unfamiliar spaces both physical and psychological.




May 30, 2023

Wojciech Has' The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) on blu-ray from Yellow Veil Pictures

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Set during the Napoleonic wars, the film follows the exploits of Alfons von Worden, an officer traveling through the sierra Mountains and with each passing traveler, the interweaving stories grow stranger.

One of Wojciech Has' most acclaimed films, this surrealist cult epic has attracted support from Luis Buñuel, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and even Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead.






May 30, 2023

Alex Proyas' Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds (1988) on blu-ray from Umbrella Entertainment

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Set against an overwhelming desert landscape, Felix (Michael Lake, Sweetie) and Betty Crabtree (Rhys Davis, Dead End Drive-In) are eccentric siblings living together in an isolated homestead in a post-apocalyptic era. Modern technology is absent, with wheels and gears operating a variety of broken devices to assist their struggle to survive. When they encounter a wandering stranger named Smith (Norman Boyd), their simple lives become tumultuous as the wheelchair-bound Felix dreams of flying and Betty believes their new arrival to be a demonic presence - the characters all yearning for escape but seemingly do not know how. The debut feature from Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City) Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds is presented here in its original 4:3 ratio from a 2K scan of the original 16mm negatives. This audio and visual feast has been resurrected from cinematic obscurity to coincide with its 30th anniversary of production.




May 30, 2023

Aleksandr Ptushko's The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1967) on blu-ray from Deaf Crocodile

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Based on a famous fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin, THE TALE OF TSAR SALTAN is one of director Aleksandr Ptushko's most sublime creations: a ravishingly beautiful fantasy about love, magic, betrayal and abandoned family. Driven from the Russian court by her sisters' scheming, the young Tsarina (Larisa Golubkina) is thrown into the sea in a cask with her infant son. Surviving the storm-tossed voyage, the mother and her now magically-adult son (Oleg Vidov) land on a remote island where he falls in love with a Swan Princess in human form (Kseniya Ryabinkina), and longs for reunion with his estranged father, Tsar Saltan (Vladimir Andreyev). Like his earlier masterpieces SAMPO and ILYA MUROMETS (also released by Deaf Crocodile), TSAR SALTAN is filled with breathtaking imagery: carved wooden lions who shed tears; peasants in pagan ritual masks, dancing in the snow; the treacherous faces of conspirators bathed in red candle glow like the witches in Macbeth. Ptushko's second-to-last feature, TSAR SALTAN has been gorgeously restored by Mosfilm and Deaf Crocodile for its first-ever Blu-ray release in the U.S., co-presented with Seagull Films.




May 30, 2023

Claire Denis' Trouble Every Day (2001) on blu-ray from The Film Desk

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American newlyweds Dr. Shane and June Brown (Vincent Gallo and Tricia Vessey) travel to Paris for their honeymoon. Once there, Shane begins a search for his former medical collegaue Leo (Alex Descas), who may have information or a cure for the tropical virus that has transformed Leo's wife (Béatrice Dalle) into a murderous sexual carnivore, and may soon do the same to Shane.




July 25, 2023

Wojciech Has' How to Be Loved (1963) on blu-ray from Yellow Veil Pictures

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During a trip from Warsaw to Paris an actress reflects on the last few years of her life during the German occupation while hiding a fellow actor wanted for murder. Based on a novel by Kazimierz Brandys and told in a series of vignettes, Wojciech Has's psychological tragedy marks the end of the Polish Film School and an important transition in the Polish director's career.




July 25, 2023

Miloš Makovec, Jiří Brdečka, Evald Schorm's Prague Nights (1969) on blu-ray from Deaf Crocodile

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In the vein of horror anthologies like Mario Bava's BLACK SABBATH, the long-unseen PRAGUE NIGHTS is a gorgeous and supernatural vision of ancient and modern Prague, caught between Mod Sixties fashions and nightmarish Medieval catacombs, and filled with Qabbalistic magic, occult rituals, giant Golems, clockwork automatons and satanic visitors.




August 29, 2023

Michael Roemer's Vengeance is Mine (1984) on blu-ray from The Film Desk

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Returning to her East Coast childhood home to heal old familial wounds, Jo (Brooke Adams, Days Of Heaven, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers), finds her adoptive mother withdrawn and distant, and a half-sister who has successfully escaped the cold clutches of their family. Impulsively, Jo enters into the troubled life of the neighbors, befriending a couple whose marriage is collapsing under the weight of alcoholism and mental illness.

A melodrama without the traditional indicators, Vengeance Is Mine (originally titled Haunted), is a considerably more pointed continuation of Roemer's previous insights on fraught relationships. Though completely different in tone than Nothing But A Man and The Plot Against Harry, Vengeance Is Mine forms a trinity of utterly original works confronting the inevitable complications within the American family.





October 17, 2023

William Wyler's The Desperate Hours (1955) on blu-ray from Arrow

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Director William Wyler's suspense classic marks the only time cinema giants Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March worked together. And the result is everything you'd expect: taut, terrifying and terrific. Bogart plays an escaped con who has nothing to lose. March is a suburban Everyman who has everything to lose - his family is held hostage by Bogart. As the Desperate Hours tick by, the two men square off in a battle of wills and cunning that tightens into an unforgettable, fear-drenched finale.




June 13, 2023

Marleen Gorris' A Question of Silence (1982) on blu-ray from Severin

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Three women, strangers with no premeditated thoughts, kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day. A female psychiatrist (Cox Habbema) is assigned to the case to find out why.




May 30, 2023

Marek Kanievska's Another Country (1983) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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In a shabby apartment in Moscow, an American journalist asks a retired spy why he betrayed his country and defected to the USSR fifty years ago. The answers take them back to 1932, where in the closed atmosphere of a British boys' school, young Guy Bennett realises that his attraction to his classmates is more than a passing phase.




May 30, 2023

Sidney Lumet's The Morning After (1986) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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A washed up, alcoholic actress who is prone to blackouts wakes up next to a murdered man. Did she kill him and, if not, is she in danger?



June 6, 2023

The Strangler (1964) on blu-ray from Shout Factory

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Leo Kroll is a mother-fixated lab technician who collects dolls. He is also a serial killer, responsible for the strangulation deaths of several nurses.



June 27, 2023

Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar (2002) on blu-ray from MVD Visual. Previously released by Fun City Editions

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Morvern Calllar's boyfriend kills himself, leaving behind a mix tape and an unpublished novel. Instead of reporting his death, Morvern puts her name on his novel, sends it to a publisher, and uses his bank card to pay for a trip to Spain with her friend Lana, where she tries to lose herself in sensation and chaos.



October 24, 2023

Agustín Navarro's Cautro balazos aka Four Bullets for Joe (1964) on blu-ray from MVD Visual

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The mysterious death of a man who is about to leave a small town in Kansas with his girlfriend sets off a series of unfortunate events that will only end when her brother, the legendary and notorious gunslinger Frank Dalton (Paul Piaget, Hour of Death) exacts a ruthless and bloody revenge.



September 19, 2023

Early Short Films of the French New Wave (1956-1968) on blu-ray from Icarus Films

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19 Short Films: All the World's Memory (Alain Resnais) Fool's Mate (Jacques Rivette) The Marines (François Reichenbach) All the Boys are Called Patrick (Jean-Luc Godard) The Song of Styrene (Alain Resnais) Ô Saisons, Ô Châteux (Agnès Varda) The Overworked (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) A Story of Water (Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, 1958) Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (Jean-Luc Godard) Love Exists (Maurice Pialat) Janine (Maurice Pialat) 500 Francs (Melvin Van Peebles) Paris, a Winter's Day (Guy Gilles) In Memory of Rock (François Reichenbach) The Little Cafe (François Reichenbach) The Goumbé of the Young Revelers (Jean Rouch) The Botanical Avatar of Mademoiselle Flora (Jeanne Barbillon) The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows (Jean Rouch) Directing Actors by Jean Renoir (Gisèle Braunberger)



September 26, 2023

E.A. Dupont's Piccadilly (1929) on blu-ray from Milestone

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A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act which soon leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love and murder.



July 13, 2023

Erich von Stroheim's Foolish Wives (1922) on BD-R from Flicker Alley

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In this silent classic, Sergius Karamzin (Erich von Stroheim) is a con artist who pretends to be a count in order to charm and swindle naïve women for money. He lives in Monte Carlo, Monaco, with his cousins, "princesses" Olga (Maude George) and Vera (Mae Busch), who are in on his scams. When Karamzin meets American diplomat Andrew Hughes (Rudolph Christians), the count immediately takes aim at his wife, Helen (Miss DuPont). But Karamzin soon finds he has double-crossed too many women.



March 7, 2023

Frank Borzage: 1922 Silents on blu-ray from Undercrank Productions

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Academy Award-winning director Frank Borzage is perhaps best known today for his silent film masterpieces 7th HEAVEN (1927) and STREET ANGEL (1928) starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. But Borzage had a substantial silent era career directing a string of dramatic hits in the 1920s, none of which have been available for fans.

FRANK BORZAGE: 1922 SILENTS presents two important films Borzage made for Cosmopolitan Productions - BACK PAY and THE VALLEY OF SILENT MEN. These two rare features are presented here in new 2K digital scans from 35mm archival preservations by the Library of Congress, and new musical scores have been created for them by Andrew Earle Simpson.


Back Pay (1922)
The tale of Hester Bevins (Seena Owen), a restless small-town girl who leaves town and boyfriend Jerry (Matt Moore) behind for luxury in the big city. But that luxury comes at a terrible cost.

The Valley of Silent Men (1922)
An adventure story of the far North, shot on location in Canada. Following a series of bizarre and identical murders, suspicion falls on the mysterious Marette Radisson (Alma Rubens). Or is the man who loves her - Corporal James Kent of the Mounties (Lew Cody) - the killer?



July 8, 2023

Jack Bernhard's Blonde Ice (1948) on blu-ray from ClassicFlix

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A society reporter keeps herself in the headlines by marrying a series of wealthy men, all of whom die under mysterious circumstances.



2023 TBD

David Mamet's Oleanna (1994) on blu-ray from ?

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When a student visits her professor to discuss how she failed his course, the discussion takes an awkward turn.



March 14, 2023

Michael Curtiz's Flamingo Road (1949) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Carnival dancer Lane Bellamy finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by corrupt political boss Titus Semple. Lane becomes romantically involved with sheriff Fielding Carlisle, a weakling whose career is being driven by Titus. Seeing Lane as a liability to his own political ambitions, Titus mounts a campaign to get her driven out of town.




March 14, 2023

Edward Buzzell's Neptune's Daughter (1949) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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A swimsuit fashion designer is determined to protect her scatterbrained sister from a South American heart-breaker, but a case of mistaken identity complicates matters.




April 25, 2023

William A. Wellman's Safe in Hell (1931) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Gilda (Dorothy Mackaill) thought she had fallen as far as a woman could fall when she got a call telling her a client was requesting her "services." But when the client turns out to be the man responsible for her fall from grace, Gilda flies into a murderous rage. Taking it on the lam, Gilda finds shelter in the arms of a sailor boyfriend (Donald Cook) who smuggles her to sanctuary and safety, or so he thinks. In reality he has booked her a bridal suite in hell. This pre-code crime classic, touted at the time as "Not For Children," is frank, startling and arresting, as gripping today as it was eight decades ago. Directed by William A. Wellman, SAFE IN HELL is full of terrors and delights, including the most striking ensemble seen this side of FREAKS and a truly twisted stunner of a finale.



March 14, 2023

Laurence Olivier's The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Elsie Marina, a second-rate hoofer living in a theatrical boarding house in Brixton, is plucked from the chorus to entertain the Regent of Carpathia for the evening and ultimately smooths his rough edges.



April 25, 2023

Raoul Walsh's The Strawberry Blonde (1941) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Quick-tempered but likable Biff grimes falls big for beautiful Virginia Brush, but he's not the only young man in the neighborhood who's smitten.



April 25, 2023

Tay Garnett's One Way Passage (1932) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.



April 25, 2023

Raoul Walsh's A Lion in the Streets (1953) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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A charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics.



May 30, 2023

Vincente Minelli's The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Who will be the next Mrs. Corbett? Will it be the chic designer? The Miss Montana Pageant hopeful? The headstrong lady across the hall? It's a big decision for any boy to make for his recently widowed dad! Like father, like son. You'll like'em both when renowned child actor and future Oscar winner* Ronny Howard portrays Eddie and Glenn Ford is his dad. Vincente Minnelli (Gigi) directs, using his flair for vivid colors and balancing the film's humor with the real sense of loss a family feels over a loved one's passing. Shirley Jones, Dina Merrill and Stella Stevens portray the prospects under Eddie's self-appointed scrutiny.



May 2, 2023

Fritz Lang's Clash by Night (1952) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.



March 14, 2023

Anatole Litvak's Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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In the wake of a trial that convicted four Nazi agents of spying against the U.S., Warner Bros. became the first Hollywood studio to fire a salvo at Hitler's Germany. Months before World War II erupted, it released this thriller based on revelations that emerged from the trial and other real-life sources. The story is a brisk connect-the-dots tale that ties German-American Bund operatives (Francis Lederer, George Sanders and Paul Lukas among others) to Berlin. Chief among those connecting the dots: FBI agent Edward Renard (Edward G. Robinson). The drama wasn't limited to the screen. Production personnel received threats and violence erupted at some screenings. Directed with hard-hitting verve by Anatole Litvak, CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY struck a nerve in its era. It remains a milestone of filmmaking commitment today.



April 25, 2023

Stuart Heisler's Storm Warning (1980) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Marsha Mitchell, a traveling dress model, stops in a southern town to see her sister who has married a Ku Klux Klansman. Marsha sees the KKK commit a murder and helps District Attorney Burt Rainey in bringing the criminals to justice.



March 7, 2023

Daniel Mann's I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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Lillian Roth has it all: youth, beauty, movie and Broadway fame and a devoted fiance. Then her fiance dies, and Lillian takes one drink to ease her grief. Then another. Then ten. Then thousands. And soon her youth, her career and her life are drowning in an ocean of booze.



May 30, 2023

Rouben Mamoulian's Queen Christine (1933) on blu-ray from Warner Archive

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To escape the burdens of rule, Sweden's Queen Christina rides into the countryside disguised as a boy. There she meets and secretly falls for a dashing Spanish envoy on his way to the royal court. Imagine the envoy's delighted surprise when he and the young "nobleman" must share a bed at an overcrowded inn. "It had been so enchanting to be a woman, not a queen. Just a woman in a man's arms," Christina murmurs to her lover when her true identity is revealed. But she knows her people will not accept her marriage to a foreigner. Torn between her duty and her heart, she must make a fateful decision.
Title: Re: Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements
Post by: wilder on August 07, 2023, 04:55:14 AM
July 11, 2023

Abraham Polonsky's Force of Evil (1948) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 4K restoration

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A crooked lawyer tries to protect his numbers running brother from a ruthless crime boss.



July 18, 2023

John Cassavetes' Gloria (1980) on blu-ray from Kino

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She's an ex-gun moll and showgirl suddenly forced to protect a kid whose parents have been rubbed out by the mob.



August 22, 2023

Paul Schrader's Hardcore (1979) on blu-ray from Kino

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A deeply religious Midwestern businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films.



August 22, 2023

Louise Malle's Pretty Baby (1978) on blu-ray from Kino

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A pre-teen girl grows up in a house of prostitution in the Storyville section of New Orleans in 1917.



September 12, 2023

James Foley's After Dark My Sweet (1990) on blu-ray from Kino

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When a couple of conniving lowlifes hatch a plot to kidnap the scion of a wealthy local family, they pick the wrong man to carry out the job: Kid Collins, a disturbed ex-boxer on the lam from a mental institution.



June 20, 2023

The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) on blu-ray from Kino

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Two jet pilots forge a lasting friendship while fighting the Korean War.



May 9, 2023

Max Ophuls' There's No Tomorrow (1939) on blu-ray from Kino

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After an unhappy marriage, a woman of the world is forced to become a dancer in a cabaret in order to raise her young son.



July 18, 2023

Abel Glance's End of the World (1931) on blu-ray from Kino

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The two Novalic brothers, Jean and Martial, are in love with the same woman, Genevieve. Jean is an impoverished actor and an idealistic dreamer, who does not want Genevieve to share in his life of suffering. Martial is an internationally-respected astronomer who discovers the return of Lexell's Comet, on a collision course for Earth. Meanwhile, the rich play while the world is arming for war. Martial decides to use the impending threat of world destruction to reorganize and improve global society. But he is opposed by the rich financiers and government officials who stand to lose their power and influence.



August 15, 2023

Marcel Ophuls' Is Paris Burning? (1966) on blu-ray from Kino

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August 1944. With the invasion of Europe well underway and Germany in retreat, the Allied forces are poised to take the French capital. General Von Choltitz receives a direct order from Hitler that if he cannot hold Paris he must destroy it, completely. After a group of students serving in the French resistance are massacred, Colonel Tanguy incites the public to turn on the occupying Nazis. Reluctantly, Von Choltitz gives the order for bombs to be placed at strategic points in the city, sufficient to decimate all its historical monuments and most of the population...



May 9, 2023

Marcel Ophuls' The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) on blu-ray from Kino

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In 1969 this epic account of France under the Nazi occupation opened at a tiny theater on the Left Bank of Paris. This documentary, which had already been refused by French TV, was immediately hailed as one of the most moving and influential films of all time. "The Sorrow and the Pity" went on to garner international acclaim --including an Oscar nomination and a recurring homage in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall."



2023 TBD

Elia Kazan's The Last Tycoon (1976) on blu-ray from Kino

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F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.



2023 TBD

Sam Wood's For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) on blu-ray from Kino

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During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.










November 27, 2023

Alain Cavalier's Le Combat dans l'île (1962) on blu-ray from Radiance Films (UK)

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Clement (Jean-Louis Trintignant, Il sorpasso) is a wealthy son of an industrialist who lives a secret life as a right-wing terrorist. Double-crossed following an assassination attempt he flees to the countryside with his wife, Anne (Romy Schneider, La piscine) where they stay with his childhood friend, Paul (Henri Serre, Jules et Jim). Clement plots his revenge but Anne falls for Paul and a love triangle is just one of many complications in this multi-layered discovery from the French New Wave. With the support of producer Louis Malle, Alain Cavalier (Fill 'Er Up with Super) directed his debut, a noirish drama beautifully shot by cinematographer Pierre Lhomme (Army of Shadows). While echoing the political turmoil of the 1960s, the film probes bourgeois values and the relationship between sex and violence, acting as a precursor to The Conformist and demonstrating the influence of Chabrol.




July 17, 2023

Robert Altman's O.C. and Stiggs (1985) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, they plot against it. They seek revenge against the middle class Schwab family, who embody all they detest: middle class. The film, a raunchy teen comedy described by the British Film Institute as "probably Altman's least successful film," was shot in 1983, but not released until long after post-production was completed. MGM shelved it for a couple of years, finally giving it a theatrical release in 1987 and 1988.



July 17, 2023

Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us (1974) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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In the 1930s Bowie, T-Dub and Chicamaw escape prison and begin robbing banks to get above the poverty that has saturated the nation and stay ahead of the law...



July 24, 2023

Josef Von Sternberg's Jet Pilot (1957) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Air Force Colonel is tasked to escort a defecting Soviet pilot who is scheming to lure him to the USSR.



July 24, 2023

Josef Von Sternberg's Thunderbolt (1929) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.



July 24, 2023

John Farrow's Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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A mind reader discovers he has been cursed with the gift of seeing the future.



July 24, 2023

Rouben Mamoulian's The Song of Songs (1933) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Country orphan Lily goes to Berlin to stay with her aunt and meets Richard, a handsome sculptor. Persuaded to pose for Richard, her physical charms melt away his 'strictly business' attitude and they become lovers. But Richard, wanting his freedom, connives to marry her to his wealthy client Baron von Merzbach... whose household includes a jealous former mistress and a susceptible farm manager.



September 18, 2023

Universal Noir #2 on blu-ray from Indicator (UK)

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Starring the cream of US and British acting talent – including Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, Phyllis Calvert, Fred MacMurray, Ava Gardner, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Fredric March, and Barbara Stanwyck – these dark and dangerous dramas feature witnesses to murder (Lady on a Train), family rifts (Time Out of Mind), amnesia and smuggling (Singapore), murderous infidelity (A Woman's Vengeance), mercy killing (An Act of Murder), and gambling addiction (The Lady Gambles).



October 30, 2023

G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box (1929) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema (UK)

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The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.




April 24, 2023

Jerzy Skolimowski's Identification Marks: None + Hands Up!  (1965-1981) on blu-ray from BFI (UK)

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Identification Marks: None (1965

A day in the life of student Andrzej (played by Skolimowski himsef) who, between the morning and late afternoon, gives up on his studies, breaks up with his partner, and decides to join the army. Before his departure, Andrzej tries to straighten out his life, and encounters Barbara, who he sees as the woman he has always waited for.


Hands Up! (1981)

The fourth of a series of semi-autobiographical films in which Skolimowski plays his alter ego Andrzej Leszczyc. Hands Up! was made in 1967 but was banned for 18 years by Poland's then Communist regime. After Poland's liberation, Skolimowski was invited to revisit the film which he duly did, adding a 20 minute sequence that explains why the film was so withheld by the censors.



March 13, 2023

Basil Dearden's Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) on blu-ray from Studio Canal (UK)

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Young Sophia Dorothea marries Prince George Louis, but it's far from a love match. Then she falls for Swedish Count Philip Christoph von Königsmark.



September 18, 2023

Kira Muratova's Brief Encounters (1967) on blu-ray from Studio Canal (UK)

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BRIEF ENCOUNTERS (1967) was the debut feature from Kira Muratova. It was here we saw the beginnings of Muratova's impressionistic style, blending observational realism with new wave experimentation. Despite the continued censorship Muratova's work received (Brief Encounters was banned for twenty years), she still managed to emerge as one of the leading figures in Ukraine and Russian cinema, building a very successful film career from the 1960s onwards due to her boundary pushing directorial approach and aesthetics.

Brief Encounters tells the story of an intricate love triangle, connecting a city planner (played by Muratova herself), her free-spirited geologist husband (legendary Soviet protest singer Vladimir Vysotsky), and the young woman from the countryside (Nina Ruslanova) whom she hires as their housekeeper.





October 25, 2023

William Friedkin's Bug (2006) on blu-ray from Imprint (Australia)

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At a rundown desert motel, Agnes (Ashley Judd) begins a tentative relationship with a newcomer named Peter (Michael Shannon). He has a strange charisma, one that offers fearful and unstable Agnes a flicker of hope. When Peter reveals that the military deliberately infected him with a bug and that he has tiny insects crawling under his skin, paranoia begins to envelope the desperate pair.



June 28, 2023

Louise Malle's Damage (1992) on blu-ray from from Imprint (Australia)

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A member of Parliament (Irons) falls passionately in love with his son's fiancée. They pursue their affair with obsessive abandon despite the dangers of discovery and what it would do to his complacent life and his son.



July 26, 2023

Directed by Sidney J. Furie on blu-ray from Imprint (Australia)

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Influential auteur Sidney J. Furie is best known for his strong visual style and clever use of cinematography. A BAFTA Award-winner for Best Director, and a Palme d'Or nominee, Furie's remarkable career spans more than five decades, countless genres, and has seen him helm over 40 feature films. These five classic films are accompanied by brand NEW audio commentaries featuring Sidney J. Furie himself, as well as featurettes, interviews, video essays, and a collectable booklet exploring Furie's legacy.

-The Lawyer (1970)
-Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970)
-Hit! (1973)
-Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living In New York (1975)
-The Boys In Company C (1978)





May 10, 2023

Essential Film Noir Collection 4 on blu-ray from Imprint (Australia)

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Essential Film Noir: Collection 4 includes five acclaimed and much sought after classics: Rope of Sand (1949), Appointment with Danger (1950), The Enforcer (1951), Beware, My Lovely (1952) & Jennifer (1953).




July 26, 2023

Larry Clark's Kids (1995) on blu-ray from Umbrella Entertainment (Australia)

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An HIV-positive skateboarder sets out to deflower as many virgins as possible while a local girl who contracted his disease tries to save his next target from her same fate.