Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements

Started by wilder, November 01, 2011, 01:54:56 AM

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February 3, 2015

Alexander Payne's About Schmidt (2002) on blu-ray from Warner Bros.



About Schmidt (2002) - Amazon



wilder

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)



Bruno Dumont : 1997 - 2014 - Amazon France

wilder

January 6, 2015

Robert DeNiro's The Good Shepherd (2006) from Universal



The Good Shepherd (2006) - Amazon

wilder

February 15, 2015

George Armitage's Miami Blues (1990) from Shout Factory





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March 3, 2015

Vincente Minelli's The Band Wagon (1953) on blu-ray from Warner Bros.



The Band Wagon (1953) - Amazon



wilder

November 18, 2014

Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 8 on DVD from Warner Archive



Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 8 - Warner Archive

wilder

February 17, 2015

Jacques Rivette's Le Pont du Nord (1981) on blu-ray from Kino



Le Pont du Nord (1981) - Amazon

max from fearless

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...

samsong

all rivette deserves the criterion treatment.  if kino takes celine and julie go boating i'm gonna cut a bitch.

wilder

February 2, 2015

David Cronenberg's Rabid (1977) on blu-ray from Arrow



Rabid - Amazon UK


February 10, 2015

Bruce Robinson's Withnail & I (1987) and How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) on blu-ray from Arrow (standard edition)



Withnail & I (1987) and How To Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) - Amazon UK

wilder

January 19, 2015

Stanley Donen's Two for the Road (1967) on blu-ray from Masters of Cinema



Two for the Road (1967) - Amazon UK


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

wilder

April 14, 2015

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







Francois Truffaut's The Story of Adele H. (1975) on blu-ray from Twilight Time


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January 13, 2015

The Skin aka La Pelle (1981) on blu-ray from Cohen Media Group



The Skin (1981) - Amazon





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.

wilder

Chris Marker's Level Five, released on DVD this past October by Icarus Films



Level Five - Amazon





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.

wilder

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)