Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements

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July 4, 2016

Jeff Lieberman's Blue Sunshine (1977) on blu-ray from FilmCentrix in a 3-disc limited edition





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?

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August 22, 2016

Early Murnau - Five Films (1921-1925) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema



-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

wilder

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.



An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

Kiss of Death (1947) - Amazon UK



wilder

August 23, 2016

Fritz Lang's The Spiders (1919-1920) from Kino



The Spiders (1919-1920) - Amazon


July 11, 2016

Max Ophuls' La Ronde (1950) on blu-ray from Screenbound (UK)



An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900.

La Ronde (1950) - Amazon UK

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#544
November 8, 2016

Frank Borzage's Bad Girl (1931) on blu-ray from Kino



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.

wilder

August 15, 2016

Luchino Visconti's Conversation Piece (1974) from Masters of Cinema



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



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August 16, 2016

Otto Preminger's Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970) from Olive Films



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.

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#547
November 15, 2016

Otto Preminger's Daisy Kenyon (1947) on blu-ray from Kino



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.   



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#548
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 box set (OOP)



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



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#549
November 15, 2016

Henry Hathaway's The House on 92nd Street (1945) on blu-ray from Kino



Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the FBI in a Nazi spy ring.



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2016 TBD

Carl Schenkel's Out of Order (1984) on blu-ray from SubKultur Entertainment (Germany), from a new 4K restoration



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.









wilder

July 4, 2016

Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace (1964) from Arrow



A shadowy killer in black brutally murders fashion models.

Blood and Black Lace (1964) - Amazon




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#552
October 11, 2016

Takeshi Kitano's Violent Cop (1989) on blu-ray from Film Movement



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



wilder

September 2016 TBD

Miklós Jancsó's Private Vices, Public Virtues (1976) from Mondo Macabro



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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Private Vices, Public Virtues (1976) - Trailer

wilder

September 13, 2016

Colin Higgins' 9 to 5 (1980) on blu-ray from Twilight Time



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



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



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



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



The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.