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RADIANCE'S MARCH RELEASES INCLUDE THREE HARDBOILED THRILLERS, A PALME D'OR WORLD PREMIERE, AND A TIME-TRAVELLING SCI-FI STORY

Sunday 15th December 2024

Coming to the UK and US on March 24th/25th: In the spirit of Dirty Harry and Jean-Pierre Melville, three hardboiled thrillers from Alain Corneau - Police Python 357, Série noire and Choice of Arms - with new 4K restorations from the original camera negatives.

The hardboiled genre of crime fiction evolved from the mystery crime novels of the early 20th century - closely associated with the US pulp magazines, these cynical and unsentimental stories of desperate criminals and social corruption were both influenced by and an influence on the golden era of film noir. As their popularity waned in the US, the hardboiled genre remained hugely popular and relevant throughout the 1960s and 70s in France, thanks to the successful Serie Noire imprint and a succession of new translations. In Alain Corneau's early films, he sought to continue the noir tradition in his native France, and was both directly and indirectly inspired by titans of hardboiled genre, including Kenneth Fearing and Jim Thompson. A heady combination of classic noir and 70s grit, these three darkly thrilling films are vastly underrated and important works in the canon of crime cinema. In Police Python 357, Yves Montand (The Wages of Fear) plays a tough cop who, when his lover is found murdered, finds himself implicated in her death and in a battle of wits with a powerful rival, in the second screen adaptation of Kenneth Fearing's The Big Clock. Série noire adapts Jim Thompson's A Hell of A Woman to the banlieues of Paris: in an astonishing performance, Patrick Dewaere (Themroc) attempts to save a young girl from prostitution, with murder the only solution. In Choice of Arms, Yves Montand heads an all-star cast, including Catherine Denueve and Gerard Depardieu, as a former crook pulled out of retirement when a gang on the run turn to him for shelter after a prison break.

The Limited Edition Blu-ray features 4K restorations from the original negatives by Studio Canal, presented on three discs, uncompressed mono PCM audio for each film, an audio commentary by Mike White on Police Python 357 (2024), Maxim Jakubowski on Police Python 357's source novel and adaptation (2024), an archival interview with Alain Corneau and François Périer about Police Python 357 from Belgian Television (1976), Série noire set interviews with Alain Corneau, Patrick Dewaere and Miriam Boyer from Belgian Television (1981), "Série noire: The Darkness of the Soul" archival documentary featuring cast and crew on the making of the film (2013, 53 mins), an archival interview with Alain Corneau and Marie Trintignant about Série noire (2002, 30 mins), a visual essay about Jim Thompson adaptations for the screen by Paul Martinovic (2024), an introduction by documentary filmmaker Jérôme Wybon (2024), "Shooting Choice of Arms" interviews with the cast and crew including behind-the-scenes footage (1981), interviews with Deneuve, Montand and Depardieu from the set (1981), an interview with Manuela Lazic on Yves Montand in the 1970s (2024), trailers and optional English subtitles for each film, along with a reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters and a limited edition 80-page booklet featuring new writing by Andrew Male, Nick Pinkerton, Charlie Brigden, and newly translated archival writing, presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

PREORDER LINKS:
- Amazon UK
- Amazon US
- Radiance (direct)


Coming to the UK and US on March 24th/25th: A Blu-ray world premiere for The Eel, a transfixing drama starring Koji Yakusho (Perfect Days) and which won master filmmaker Shohei Imamura (Vengeance Is Mine) his second Palme d'Or.

After serving time in prison for murdering his unfaithful wife, Yamashita (Koji Yakusho, Perfect Days, Cure) is released on parole, accompanied only by his pet eel. Hoping to stay out of trouble, he takes over a rural barber shop that quickly becomes a gathering point for the eccentric locals. However, the discovery of a woman's failed suicide starts a chain reaction that brings back past demons - and not just his own. The Eel won master filmmaker Shohei Imamura his second Palme d'Or, after 1983's The Ballad of Narayama and was the breakthrough of its star Yakusho.

The Limited Edition Blu-ray features a High-Definition digital transfer, uncompressed mono PCM audio, an interview with critic Tony Rayns (2024), an interview with screenwriter Daisuke Tengan (2024), a visual essay by Tom Mes on the year 1997 as a turning point in Japanese cinema (2024), a trailer and a newly improved English subtitle translation, along with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow and a limited edition booklet featuring a newly translated archival interview with Imamura, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

PREORDER LINKS:
- Amazon UK
- Amazon US
- Radiance (direct)


Coming to the UK on March 24th: Alain Resnais' time-travelling sci-fi Je t'aime, je t'aime, a noted influence on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which interweaves themes around love and loss to dazzling effect.

Claude leaves hospital recovered from a failed suicide attempt when some scientists offer him the chance to be part of a project. He will be the first human subject in a time travel experiment. Travelling back in time one year for just one minute, he becomes lost in a continually shifting mosaic of temporal episodes. A noted influence on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in Je t’aime, je t’aime, Alain Resnais (Last Year In Marienbad) brings his cinematic obsession of time to the fore in this ingenious melding of sci-fi and romance.

The Limited Edition Blu-ray features a 2K restoration, presented on UK Blu-ray for the first time, uncompressed mono PCM audio, an interview with critic and David Jenkins (2024), an audio interview with director Alain Resnais (2007), an interview with actor Claude Rich (2007), an interview with screenwriter Jacques Sternberg and film historian and Resnais expert François Thomas (2007), "In the Ears of Alain Resnais" documentary on the filmmaker with a focus on music and voices in his work, featuring collaborators and critics including the filmmaker himself, actor Lambert Wilson, writer and actress Agnés Jaoui, critic Michel Ciment and others (Geraldine Boudot, 2020, 54 mins) and optional English subtitles, along with a reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original poster designs and a limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Catherine Wheatley, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

PREORDER LINKS:
- Amazon UK
- Radiance (direct)

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Wednesday 27th November 2024

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Sorry for the long outage, but Rewind DVDCompare is at this point quite an old site. In fact, we are 25 years old as of this month. Unfortunately, there have been a bit of stuff around the site, that have running out of date for some time, and it was finally time for something to truly break.

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RADIANCE'S FEBRUARY RELEASES INCLUDE A THRILLER, A WORLD PREMIERE, A SUNDANCE AWARD-WINNER AND TWO CLASSICS BY A HONG KONG NEW WAVE MASTER

Wednesday 13th November 2024

Coming to the UK and US on February 24th/25th: Dominik Graf's (who may be Germany's best-kept secret) heist thriller The Cat, a delirious mix of Die Hard and Michael Mann precision.

Two robbers hold up a bank and its employees, demanding 3 million marks for their ransom. The police plot to storm the bank but are unaware the robbers have an accomplice on the outside, anticipating their every move. Genre master Dominik Graf specialised in crime films and The Cat is one of his greatest. A heist film of the highest order, it grabs you from its opening scenes and doesn't let go. Winner of Best Direction at the German Film Awards, The Cat is an undiscovered treasure and Radiance Films is proud to present it on Blu-ray for the first time outside Germany.

The Limited Edition Blu-ray features a High-Definition digital transfer newly graded by Radiance Films and overseen by director Dominik Graf, interviews with Dominik Graf (2024, 62 mins), screenwriter Christoph Fromm (2024, 31 mins), and producer Georg Feil (2024, 31 mins), a select-scene commentary by Dominik Graf (2024), a trailer and a new English subtitle translation, along with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

PREORDER LINKS:
- Amazon UK
- Amazon US
- Radiance (direct)


Coming to the UK and US on February 24th/25th: The latest Kinji Fukaksaku yakuza classic is the director's swansong to the genre and one of his very finest films. Newly restored in 4K and featuring new extras with writer Koji Takada and Yoko Takahashi, it is presented on Blu-ray for the first time in the world.

Loose-cannon gangster Kawada rebels when his two-timing boss forms an alliance with a major crime syndicate. The syndicate's main rivals see Kawada as their perfect proxy, but his furious temper quickly rubs them the wrong way, leaving Kawada to face overwhelming forces. Fukasaku's final yakuza film features some of the strongest women's roles in his career, plus a raucous central performance from Hiroki Matsukata (Cops vs Thugs) and support from the legendary Sonny Chiba.

The Limited Edition Blu-ray features a High-Definition digital transfer, uncompressed mono PCM audio, new interviews with actress Yoko Takahashi (2024, 15 mins) and with screenwriter Koji Takada (2024, 19 mins), Yakuza film historian Akihiko Ito on the real-life Hokuriku Proxy War murder case (2024, 15 mins), a trailer and a newly improved English subtitle translation, along with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow and a limited edition booklet featuring newly translated archival writings on the film, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

PREORDER LINKS:
- Amazon UK
- Amazon US
- Radiance (direct)


Coming to the UK on February 24th: A multi-award-winning masterpiece, What Happened Was... is a brilliantly observed comedy-drama on dating in the big city, anchored by two stunning performances.

Jackie (Karen Sillas) and Michael (Tom Noonan, Manhunter, also writer-director) are co-workers at a New York law firm who, after months of flirtation, agree to meet for a 'first date' at Jackie's apartment. Their initially charged and playful interactions eventually evolve into a long, dark night of the soul, as the two would-be lovers get to know each other properly for the first time, and discover that all may not be as it seems. Winner of the Sundance Festival Jury Prize in 1994, What Happened Was... is a landmark work of American independent cinema anchored around two stunning performances, presenting an often hilarious, often bleak, but always excoriatingly honest exploration of dating in the big city. Radiance is proud to present the film on UK home video for the very first time.

The Limited Edition Blu-ray features a 4K restoration by Oscilloscope Films, uncompressed stereo PCM audio, interviews with director Tom Noonan and producer Scott Macaulay (2021), Karen Sillas (2021), and with critic Charles Bramesco (2024), a trailer and optional English SDH subtitles, along with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista and a limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Adam Nayman, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

PREORDER LINKS:
- Amazon UK
- Radiance (direct)


Coming to the UK on February 24th: Two inspired classic masterpieces by Patrick Tam (mentor to Wong Kar-wai), and starring Hong Kong's finest, Nomad and My Heart Is That Eternal Rose, in their UK Blu-ray premiere across two discs.

An icon of the Hong Kong New Wave and mentor to Wong Kar-wai, Patrick Tam worked with icons including Tony Leung (In the Mood for Love), Leslie Cheung (Days of Being Wild), Kenny Bee (Armour of God) and others in these two inimitable classics. In Nomad, two couples, equal parts rich and working class, bond and experience the frolics of youth. The arrival of a Red Army deserter brings violence and disruption prompting incredible plot twists and inspired set-pieces. My Heart Is That Eternal Rose finds Tam in the more familiar Heroic Bloodshed genre. A young couple are torn apart by a botched Triad job that forces Rick to relocate to the Philippines and Lap to become a gangster's moll. Six years later they meet again but their reunion only reignites the danger that drove them apart. Stunningly shot by David Chung (Once Upon a Time in China) and Christopher Doyle (Chungking Express), both films are newly restored and made available on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.

The Limited Edition Blu-ray features a 4K restoration of the Nomad director's cut, a 2K restoration of My Heart Is That Eternal Rose, interviews with critic Tony Rayns on Nomad (2024), assistant director Stanley Kwan on Nomad (2024), Nomad producer Dennis Yu (2024), a visual essay on Patrick Tam and the Hong Kong New Wave by author David Desser (2024), an audio commentary on My Heart Is That Eternal Rose by Frank Djeng (2024), an interview with producer John Sham (2019), two episodes of C.I.D. directed by Tam (1976, 49 mins each), a trailer and newly improved English subtitle translations by Dylan Cheung, along with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow and a limited edition booklet featuring an archival career-spanning interview with Patrick Tam by Arnaud Lanuque and a new essay by Kambole Campbell, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

PREORDER LINKS:
- Amazon UK
- Radiance (direct)

RADIANCE'S JANUARY RELEASES DEBUT THREE WORLD BLU-RAY PREMIERES

Saturday 26th October 2024

Coming to the UK and US on January 27th/28th: A world-exclusive Blu-ray release of Weak Spot, the paranoid thriller from Peter Fleischmann, newly restored in 4K by Studio Canal.

Ugo Tognazzi (La grande bouffe) is an innocent playboy holiday rep in Greece who is picked up by two secret agents (Michel Piccoli, Le Mépris and Mario Adorf, The Italian Connection). Suspected of being part of an underground resistance, he is to be transported by the agents to Athens where he will be interrogated by superior officers. Their journey is the start of a cat-and-mouse game that beautifully plays on Tognazzi's screen persona with the thrilling tension of Costa-Gavras' Z.

The Limited Edition Blu-ray features a new 4K restoration from the original negative by Studio Canal, uncompressed mono PCM audio, an audio commentary by critic Travis Woods (2024), an archival TV interview with Michel Piccoli discussing Weak Spot (1975), soundtrack expert Lovely Jon discussing the Ennio Morricone score (2024) and a newly improved English subtitle translation, along with a reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters and a limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Kat Ellinger, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

PREORDER LINKS:
- Amazon UK
- Amazon US
- Radiance (direct)


Coming to the UK and US on January 27th/28th: Seijun Suzuki's Underworld Beauty makes its world debut on Blu-ray, featuring new extras with William Carroll, Mizuki Kodama and Suzuki's 1959 40-minute film Love Letter.

Retrieving the diamonds he stashed before his arrest, thief Miyamoto hopes to help his old partner Mihara, crippled during the heist. Their former boss, crime lord Oyane, offers to mediate with a foreign buyer, but secretly wants the stones for himself. The deal goes awry when gunmen appear on the scene. Mihara swallows the diamonds but dies in the chase, leaving a valuable corpse in the police morgue. Miyamoto forms an uneasy alliance with Mihara's wildcat sister Akiko to keep the gems away from gangsters, cops and even Akiko's greedy boyfriend. This wildly inventive early noir sees Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill, Tattooed Life) infectiously playing with genre rules and gender stereotypes.

The Limited Edition Blu-ray features a new 4K restoration of the film by Nikkatsu Corporation, uncompressed mono PCM audio, a new interview with critic Mizuki Kodama (2024, 15 mins), the bonus feature Seijun Suzuki's Love Letter (1959, 40 mins), an audio commentary on Love Letter by Suzuki biographer William Carroll (2024), trailers and a newly improved English subtitle translation, along with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow and a limited edition booklet featuring new writing by critic Claudia Siefen-Leitich and an archival review of the film, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

PREORDER LINKS:
- Amazon UK
- Amazon US
- Radiance (direct)


Coming to the UK on January 27th: A two-disc, double-bill release of films from the legendary Ermanno Olmi, Il posto + I fidanzati, bring two newly restored classics to Blu-ray in 4K, for the first time.

Domenico is thrust into the big city by his family to find a job for life. He's up for an exam to secure a post along with many hopefuls. There he meets Antonietta (played by Olmi's then wife Loredana Detto) and the two strike up a friendship and experience the world of work for the first time together. Stunningly shot on the streets of Milan, Ermanno Olmi's (The Tree of Wooden Clogs) Il posto is a touching and often funny portrait of modern life and work. Winning numerous awards on release, it is recognised as a classic of world cinema. Giovanni works in a manufacturing plant and takes a promotion that will send him to Sicily. His transfer causes him to leave his fiancée, Liliana, his father and friends behind. Once in Sicily, he begins to wonder if he made the right choice. Stunningly shot, I fidanzati channels the industrial isolation of Antonioni with a dreamy and heartfelt lyricism.

The Limited Edition Blu-ray features 4K restorations of both films from the original camera negatives by Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Titanus, presented on two discs, with uncompressed mono PCM audio for both films, an appreciation by filmmaker Maurizio Zaccaro (2024), interviews with cinematographer Lamberto Caimi (2024), with author Richard Dyer on the films (2024), and with programmer Ehsan Khoshbakht on Ermanno Olmi (2024), along with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista and a limited edition booklet with new writing by critic Christina Newland, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

PREORDER LINKS:
- Amazon UK
- Radiance (direct)

IMPRINT FILMS - JANUARY 2025 NEW RELEASES

Saturday 12th October 2024

Film Focus: Marlon Brando – Volume Two (1969 – 1989) – Imprint Collection #369 – 373

Five more classic films from one of the world’s greatest actors of all time Marlon Brando!

Limited Edition 6-Disc Hardbox, featuring brand NEW Special Features for every film, plus the acclaimed 2015 feature documentary 'Listen To Me Marlon'.

1500 copies only.

The Night of the Following Day (1969) – Imprint Collection #369

Marlon Brando stars in this gripping action thriller, filmed on location in France.

A gang of four professional criminals kidnaps a wealthy teenage girl from an airport in Paris in a meticulous plan to extort money from the girl’s wealthy father. Holding her prisoner in an isolated beach house, the gang’s scheme runs perfectly until their personal demons surface and lead to a series of betrayals.

Also starring EGOT winner Rita Moreno (West Side Story), Richard Boone, and Pamela Franklin, and directed by Hubert Cornfield.

Special Features & Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
- NEW Audio Commentary by film historian Tim Lucas
- Audio Commentary by director Hubert Cornfield (2004)
- "Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It" feature documentary (2021)
- Trailers from Hell with film director Joe Dante
- Theatrical Trailer
- Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
- English LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English HOH Subtitles

The Nightcomers (1971) – Imprint Collection #370

A prequel to Henry James’ 1898 novella ‘The Turn of the Screw’, The Nightcomers is the terrifying British horror film that earned Brando a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor.

When their parents are killed, Miles and Flora are left in the care of an attractive young governess and an elderly housekeeper. But it is the charming Irish manservant Peter Quint who is destined to have the strongest influence upon them. Soon the children are under his spell and his evil aura pervades the Victorian household.

Special Features & Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
- NEW Audio Commentary by film historian Alain Silver & Jim Ursini
- Audio Commentary by director Michael Winner
- NEW "The Adaptations of Turn of The Screw" video essay by film historian Kat Ellinger
- NEW "Turn of the Camera" interview feature with the production crew
- Introduction by director Michael Winner
- Interview with director Michael Winner
- Theatrical Trailer
- Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
- English LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English HOH Subtitles

Last Tango In Paris (1972) – Imprint Collection #371

Brando and Maria Schneider star in this erotic drama from acclaimed Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci.

Paul, a middle-aged American living in emotional exile, comes to Paris when his estranged wife commits suicide. Chancing to meet a young Frenchwoman named Jeanne, Paul enters into a sadomasochistic, carnal relationship with her, indirectly attacking the hypocrisy all around him and his own feelings of guilt through his raw, outrageous sexual behaviour.

Film critic Pauline Kael gave what Roger Ebert once called "the most famous movie review ever published", describing the film as having "the same kind of hypnotic excitement as the Sacre, the same primitive force, and the same thrusting, jabbing eroticism. The movie breakthrough has finally come."

In Italy, the film was banned and all copies were ordered to be destroyed, and director Bertolucci received a four-month suspended prison sentence.

Special Features & Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
- NEW "Journey to the End of Death" interview with film critic Piero Spila
- NEW "Master of the Italian New Wave" interview with editor Roberto Perpignani
- NEW "Of Tango and Light" interview with camera assistant Mauro Marchetti
- Previously unseen video interview with director Bernardo Bertolucci
- Trailers from Hell with film producer Larry Karaszewski
- Theatrical Trailer
- Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
- English LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English HOH Subtitles

The Missouri Breaks (1976) – Imprint Collection #372

Acting powerhouses Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson face off in this star-studded Western.

Directed by Oscar nominee Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde), and with a score from John Williams, the star-studded cast also includes Randy Quaid, Harry Dean Stanton, Frederic Forrest, John McLiam, and Kathleen Lloyd in her film debut.

When vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan, Logan’s gang decides to get even by purchasing a small farm next to Braxton’s ranch. From there the rustlers begin stealing horses, using the farm as a front for their operation. Determined to stop the thefts at any cost, Braxton retains the services of eccentric sharpshooter Robert E. Lee Clayton, who begins ruthlessly taking down Logan’s gang.

Special Features & Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
- NEW Audio Commentary by film historians Lee Pfeiffer, Tony Latino and Paul Scrabo
- NEW Interview with film professor Lucy Bolton
- Theatrical Trailer
- Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
- English LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English HOH Subtitles

A Dry White Season (1989) – Imprint Collection #373

In Brando’s final Academy Award nominated role, A Dry White Season follows a white middle class family during the apartheid in South Africa.

Directed by Academy Honorary Award winner Euzhan Palcy, the film also stars the great Donald Sutherland, alongside Jürgen Prochnow, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae and Susan Sarandon.

A white South African schoolteacher, ignorant about racism in his country, becomes involved in the struggle against apartheid when the son of his black gardener is killed and he attempts to bring the police official responsible to justice.

Special Features & Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray from a 4K scan
- NEW Interview with actress Janet Suzman
- NEW Interview with actress Susannah Harker
- "A Dry White Season: Introduction and Q&A"
- Theatrical Trailer
- Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
- English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
- Optional English HOH Subtitles

Bonus Disc: Listen To Me Marlon (2015)
With exclusive access to personal archives, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary.

Charting his exceptional career as an actor and extraordinary life away from the stage and screen; the film explores the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon’s perspective.

Special Features & Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
- Making Of featurette
- "Digitising Marlon" featurette
- More Special Features TBC
- Theatrical Trailer
- Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
- English LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English HOH Subtitles

Film Focus: Burt Reynolds (1973 – 1976) – Imprint Collection #374 – 376

The quintessential leading man Burt Reynolds stars in three action-packed thrill rides from the 70s

Limited Edition 4-Disc Hardbox, featuring brand NEW Special Features for every film, plus the acclaimed 2020 feature documentary 'I Am Burt Reynolds'.

1500 copies only.

White Lightning (1973) – Imprint Collection #374

This cult classic film cemented Reynolds as a charismatic action star, as he plays an ex-con in a pursuit for revenge against the man who killed his brother.

Also starring Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins, R. G. Armstrong and Diane Ladd, as well as featuring Laura Dern in her film debut, at just six years old!

When the police pick up Gator McKlusky for running moonshine, they agree to let him out of jail if he will help them capture the key figures in his moonshine operation. Since the suspected ringleader is the man who killed Gator’s little brother, he agrees to help out the cops to get himself out of prison and get his revenge.

Special Features & Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
- NEW Audio Commentary by writer/film scholar Travis Woods
- NEW "Burt: A Decade Behind the Wheel" interview with writer Wayne Byrne, author of "Burt Reynolds on Screen"
- NEW Interview with composer Charles Bernstein
- TV Spots
- Radio Spots
- Theatrical Trailer
- Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
- English LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English HOH Subtitles

Hustle (1975) – Imprint Collection #375

Burt Reynolds and Catherine Deneuve (Belle de Jour) turn the heat up in this box-office smash, neo-noir crime thriller directed by Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen).

Everybody “hustles” – especially in Los Angeles. Caught in the web of modern reality is an old-fashioned detective who is tasked with investigating a young girl’s suicide.

Also starring Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan, Eddie Albert, Ernest Borgnine, Colleen Brennan, Catherine Bach, Jack Carter, and Robert Englund (A Nightmare On Elm Street).

Gene Siskel called Hustle "the kind of picture you don’t want to see end. It’s going to be a cult favourite."

Special Features & Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray from a 4K Scan
- NEW Audio Commentary by film historian/filmmaker Daniel Kremer
- NEW Video Essay by film critic Blake Howard
- TV Spots
- Theatrical Trailer
- Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
- Audio TBC
- Optional English Subtitles

Gator (1976) – Imprint Collection #376

Burt Reynolds’ directorial debut! This sequel to White Lightning sees Burt return as Bobby “Gator” McKlusky, a high-octane ride packed with action and laughs.

Gator is blackmailed by federal agents to fink on his good buddy – and local crime czar – Bama McCall. Although reluctant at first, Gator soon discovers his old friend is involved in extortion, prostitution and murder.

Special Features & Technical Specs: - 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
- NEW Audio Commentary by author/film critic Patrick Bromley
- NEW "Burt: A Decade Behind the Camera" interview with writer Wayne Byrne, author of "Burt Reynolds on Screen"
- Archival interview with Jim Whaley for Cinema Showcase
- Radio Spots
- Theatrical Trailer
- Audio: English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
- Optional English HOH Subtitles

Bonus Disc: I am Burt Reynolds (2020)

I Am Burt Reynolds follows an iconic career from its beginnings in Old Hollywood through to breakout roles in Deliverance and The Longest Yard, to the smash hit, Smokey and the Bandit and on to Boogie Nights, revealing how Southern charm combined with a progressive attitude towards women, race and sexuality made Burt Reynolds a hero to all.

Special Features & Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray
- NEW Interview with Adrian Buitenhuis, director of "I Am Burt Reynolds"
- Aspect Ratio 1.78:1
- Audio: English DTS-HD 5.1 Surround + LPCM 2.0 Stereo
- Optional English HOH Subtitles

Blaxploitation (1972 – 1973) – Imprint Collection #377 – 380

Four classic films from the Blaxploitation sub-genre come to stunning high-definition Blu-ray for the first time worldwide!

The Legend of Black Charley (1972) – Imprint Collection #377

Worldwide first on Blu-ray!

This controversial Western stars professional footballer and actor Fred Williamson in the titular role.

Charley, a slave who kills a white man in self-defence, heads West towards freedom while pursued by a professional slave hunter.

Special Features & Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray from a NEW 4K Scan
- NEW Audio Commentary by filmmaker/critic Mike Sargent
- NEW Interview with Josiah Howard, author of "Blaxploitation Cinema"
- Theatrical Trailer
- Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
- English LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English HOH Subtitles

The Soul of Black Charley (1973) – Imprint Collection #378
Worldwide first on Blu-ray!

An action-packed sequel to The Legend Of Black Charley, once again starring Fred Williamson in the iconic role of Charley.

During the Civil War, a Southern colonel captures renegade slaves for a colony of aristocrats living in Mexico. Escaped slave Charley and his friend and fellow escapee Toby bend all their energies to freeing the 71 blacks captured by the colonel.

Special Features & Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray from a NEW 4K Scan
- NEW Audio Commentary by filmmaker/critic Mike Sargent
- Fred Williamson Speaks About His Career in Blaxploitation
- Theatrical Trailer
- Aspect Ratio 2.35:1
- English LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English HOH Subtitles

Super Fly T.N.T. (1973) – Imprint Collection #379
Worldwide first on Blu-ray!

Reprising his role of Youngblood Priest from the 1972 film ‘Super Fly’, Ron O’Neal stars in and directs this thrilling crime drama sequel.

While in Rome, one-time crime-lord Priest, is ready for some permanent R’n’R. But when an African freedom fighter asks for his help on a gun-running mission, Priest ultimately discovers he cannot turn his back on the land of his ancestors. He joins the fight. And when he’s in a fight, it means war.

Special Features & Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray from a NEW 4K scan
- NEW Audio Commentary by journalist/author Bryan Reesman & filmmaker/critic Mike Sargent
- More Features TBC
- Theatrical Trailer
- Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
- Audio: English LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English HOH Subtitles

Detroit 9000 (1973) – Imprint Collection #380

Worldwide first on Blu-ray!

Hari Rhodes (The Streets of San Francisco) and Alex Rocco (The Godfather) team up in this beloved cult crime classic!

A gang of gun-toting goons have staged a daring, big-money rip-off at a high-society fundraiser for the state’s first black candidate for governor. For the two Detroit cops assigned to solve the caper, politically charged corruption and violence then explode in what turns out to be the deadliest case of their careers.

Quentin Tarantino championed a theatrical re-release in 1998, leading to newfound praise from critics and audiences alike.

Special Features & Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray from a NEW 4K scan
- NEW Audio Commentary by Mikel Koven, author of 'Blaxploitation Films'
- NEW Interview with Yvonne D. Sims, author of 'Women of Blaxploitation'
- Theatrical Trailer
- Aspect Ratio 1.78:1
- English LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Optional English HOH Subtitles

Walk Like A Dragon (1960) – Imprint Collection #381

Worldwide first on Blu-ray!

This classic Western is lead by Hawaii Five-O star Jack Lord, written and directed by the writer behind historical novel Shōgun, and acclaimed films The Great Escape and To Sir, With Love – James Clavell. Coming to Blu-ray for the first time worldwide from a brand NEW 4K scan, Walk Like A Dragon is a remarkable tale of bigotry and slavery, filled with racial tensions and cultural conflict in 1870’s California.

Also starring Nobu McCarthy, James Shigeta, Mel Tormé, Josephine Hutchinson, Rodolfo Acosta and Benson Fong.

A westerner frees a beautiful young Oriental woman from the notorious slave market in San Francisco, then fights for her with a Chinese gunslinger.

1500 copies only.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray from a NEW 4K scan
- NEW Audio Commentary by film historian Toby Roan
- Academy Museum of Motion Pictures: Q&A with Nancy Kwan
- Theatrical Trailers
- English LPCM 2.0 Mono
- Original Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
- Optional English HOH Subtitles
- Limited Edition Slipcase

RADIANCE'S DECEMBER RELEASES GATHER 3 FILMS BY BUÑUEL AND DEBUT A UK BLU-RAY PREMIERE AND A WORLD-EXCLUSIVE BLU-RAY RELEASE

Wednesday 11th September 2024

Coming to the UK and US on December 16th/17th: A world exclusive Blu-ray release, Yokohama BJ Blues from acclaimed samurai movie director Eiichi Kudo (The Fort of Death), this urban neo-noir captures the mood of urban Japan, in a time of peak 1980s decadence.

When his police detective best friend is killed, down-at-heel private eye and part-time blues singer BJ (Yusaku Matsuda, The Game Trilogy) gets the blame. He must start his own investigation to clear his name, but what he uncovers is a tangled web involving crooked cops, drug-dealing gangsters, the city's underground gay and biker scenes, and even his own past. A loose remake of Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye that also draws from Visconti's Death in Venice, this was Matsuda's break with his action hero image.

The Limited Edition Blu-ray features a High-Definition digital transfer, uncompressed mono PCM audio, an interview with star Mari Hemmi, an interview with screenwriter Shoichi Maruyama, an interview with writer and Yokohama expert Toru Sano, a trailer and a newly improved English subtitle translation, along with a reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters and a booklet featuring new writing by Dimitri Ianni on Toei Central Film - a subsidiary of Toei studios famed for releasing Pink Films and independent productions such as Yokohama BJ Blues - and an archival review of the film, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

PREORDER LINKS:
- Amazon UK
- Amazon US
- Radiance (direct)


Coming to the UK on December 16th: Nothing Is Sacred, a box set containing three of Buñuel's most provocative works from his late-period collaborations with producer Gustavo Alatriste and actress Silvia Pinal: Viridiana (1961), The Exterminating Angel (1962), and Simon of the Desert (1965).

From 1946 to 1965, Luis Buñuel directed 21 films in Mexico, the country that became his naturalised home. Towards the end of this period, the great master of surrealism would meet two of his most important collaborators - the husband-and-wife duo of producer Gustavo Alatriste and actress Silvia Pinal - and together they would create three of his most provocative and enduring works: Viridiana (1961), The Exterminating Angel (1962), and Simon of the Desert (1965). Presented here in new restorations, all three films are frequently hailed as some of the greatest of all time. All of what makes Buñuel one of the greatest of directors can be found within them: the startling imagery, the uncompromising surrealism, the wicked humour, the unapologetic eroticism, and the overwhelming disdain for contemporary boundaries of good taste.

The Limited Edition Blu-ray box set features new 4K restorations of Viridiana and Simon of the Desert from the original negatives, a new restoration of The Exterminating Angel from a 4K scan by Radiance Films, uncompressed mono PCM audio for each film, newly filmed appreciations for each film and Buñuel by filmmakers Richard Ayoade, Alex Cox, Guillermo del Toro, and Lulu Wang, "The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel" BBC Arena documentary on Buñuel featuring contributions from Bunuel and collaborators including Catherine Deneuve, presented on Blu-ray for the first time (1983, 98 mins), "A Mexican Buñuel" documentary directed by Emilio Maille on Buñuel's Mexican period (1995, 50 minutes), "Buñuel: A Surrealist Filmmaker" feature-length documentary directed by Javier Estpada on Buñuel's life and career, presented on Blu-ray for the first time (2021, 83 mins), an interview with Buñuel from 1964 recorded for French TV's Cinéastes de notre temps (1964, 43 mins), "The Other Trinity: Alatriste, Buñuel and Pinal" visual essay on Buñuel in Mexico by Abraham Castillo Flores, "Dinner and Other Rituals" visual essay on The Exterminating Angel and the dinner party on film by critic and writer Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, an audio commentary on Viridiana by critic Michael Brooke, an audio commentary on Simon of the Desert by critic and filmmaker Kat Ellinger, a gallery of stills and a trailer, along with optional English subtitles, reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sister Hyde, and an 80-page book featuring new writing by Glenn Kenny, Justine Smith, Lindsay Hallam and David Hering, as well as archive material, presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

PREORDER LINKS:
- Amazon UK
- Radiance (direct)


Coming to the UK on December 16th: The UK Blu-ray premiere of 1984's The Man from Majorca.

Following a slick post office robbery, two police officers see their investigation turn into one of high-level corruption and institutional intrigue. Bo Widerberg follows his earlier investigative thriller The Man on the Roof with a focus on realism and procedural detail. Adapted from a novel by Leif Persson and starring Sven Wollter (The 13th Warrior), Widerberg's film channels the style of his earlier crime masterpiece but presents a new world. Gritty and often intense, The Man from Majorca is another classic of Nordic noir.

The Limited Edition Blu-ray features a High-Definition digital transfer by Svensk Filmindustri, uncompressed mono PCM audio, on-set reportage including behind-the-scenes images and comments from Widerberg (1984, 2 mins), a TV featurette featuring Widerberg (1984, 3 mins), an interview with assistant director Harald Hamrell (2022, 24 mins), an interview with Barry Forshaw, author of Nordic Noir (2024), a teaser trailer, a gallery and a newly improved English subtitle translation, along with a reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters and a booklet featuring new writing, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.


PREORDER LINKS:
- Amazon UK
- Radiance (direct)

RADIANCE'S NOVEMBER RELEASES DEBUT FOUR BLU-RAY PREMIERES

Monday 19th August 2024

Coming to the UK and US on November 18th/19th: Kinji Fukasaku makes his third entry in the Radiance collection with his proto Battles Without Honour classic Japan Organised Crime Boss.

Two major yakuza factions from Tokyo and Osaka battle over control of Yokohama, using local gangs as their proxies. Amid this violent struggle, Tsukamoto (Koji Tsuruta, Big Time Gambling Boss), the head of one of the local gangs, is released from an eight-year prison sentence. The feud forces him into action, but he learns that those pulling the strings have political connections and that he is up against overwhelming forces. A predecessor to and blueprint for Fukasaku's Sympathy for the Underdog, Japan Organised Crime Boss also signals the director's first collaboration with Bunta Sugawara, the later star of Battles Without Honour and Humanity as well as with Tomisaburo Wakayama (The Bounty Hunter Trilogy) and gangster-turned-movie star Noboru Ando (Eighteen Years in Prison).

The Limited Edition Blu-ray features a new 4K restoration by Toei Company, uncompressed mono PCM audio, an archival interview with Kinji Fukasaku, an interview with yakuza film historian Akihiko Ito (2024), a visual essay on Koji Tsuruta's collaborations with Fukasaku by yakuza cinema expert Nathan Stuart (2024), a trailer and a newly improved English subtitle translation, along with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow and a booklet featuring new writing by Stuart Galbraith IV and an archival review of the film, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

PREORDER LINKS:
- Amazon UK
- Amazon US
- Radiance (direct)


Coming to the UK and US on November 18th/19th: Fresh from its Cannes premiere, Marco Bellocchio's powerful Years of Lead political thriller Slap the Monster on Page One makes its world Blu-ray debut from a new 4K restoration.

Days before a general election a young girl is raped and murdered. Bizanti (Gian Maria Volonté, The Working Class Goes to Heaven), the editor of a right-wing newspaper uses the story to help the conservative candidate his paper supports. The tumultuous time of Italy's 'Years of Lead' are captured in Marco Bellocchio's powerful political drama which directly addressed topics of its day and even prefigured the creation of the right-wing paper Il giornale, which came into being two years after this film. In an age of media manipulation Slap the Monster on Page One has never been more relevant and stands proudly alongside such Italian activist classics as We Still Kill the Old Way and The Mattei Affair.

The Limited Edition Blu-ray features a 4K restoration of the film from the original negative by Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Surf Film and Kavac Film, under the supervision of director Marco Bellocchio, uncompressed mono PCM audio, an archival interview with Marco Bellocchio (21 mins), a newly filmed interview with critic and author Mario Sesti (2024, 25 mins), an appreciation by filmmaker Alex Cox (2024, 10 mins) and a newly improved English subtitle translation, along with a reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters and a booklet featuring new writing by Wesley Sharer, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

PREORDER LINKS:
- Amazon UK
- Amazon US
- Radiance (direct)


Coming to the UK on November 18th: Ray Milland directs and stars in Panic in Year Zero, an apocalyptic sci-fi thriller featuring teen idol Frankie Avalon.

When Harry Baldwin (Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend) takes his family on a fishing trip, their holiday is brutally interrupted as a catastrophic atomic war breaks out, destroying their suburban Los Angeles home. What remains of the United Nations announces on the radio that society has broken down, and the Baldwins realise that they must quickly learn how to navigate this new 'year zero', and do whatever it takes in order to survive. Milland stars alongside teen idol Frankie Avalon as well as directing this bleak and visceral apocalypse thriller, described as 'the most expressive on-the-ground nightmare of the cold-war era' (Village Voice).

Mastered in HD from the 35mm fine grain positive by MGM, the Limited Edition Blu-ray features uncompressed mono PCM audio, an audio commentary by critic Richard Harland Smith (2016), a new interview with Kim Newman (2024), an archival interview with Ray Milland (1972), "Atomic Shock!" - an interview with filmmaker Joe Dante (2016, 9 mins), a trailer and optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, along with a reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters and a booklet featuring new writing by film critic Christina Newland, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

PREORDER LINKS:
- Amazon UK
- Radiance (direct)


Coming to the UK on November 18th: Francois Truffaut makes his third entry in the Radiance collection with dark costume drama The Story of Adele H., featuring a stunning performance from Isabelle Adjani and co-starring Bruce Robinson.

The year is 1863. Adele Hugo (Isabelle Adjani, Possession) is the daughter of the legendary poet and novelist Victor Hugo. After falling in love with the British soldier Lt. Pinson (Bruce Robinson), Adele sails by herself to Nova Scotia, intending to persuade Pinson to marry her. Pinson callously rejects her advances; unperturbed, she continues to pursue him, and her obsession becomes wilder and more desperate, leading her to become increasingly outcast from society. The Story of Adele H. is a handsomely mounted costume drama that is nevertheless one of Francois Truffaut's darkest and most psychologically complex works, with a legendary, Oscar-nominated central performance from the then 20-year-old Adjani.

The Limited Edition Blu-ray features a High-Definition digital transfer, uncompressed mono PCM audio, an interview with Francois Truffaut (1975), an interview with Isabelle Adjani (1980), footage of the premiere in Lyon with Truffaut and Isabelle Adjani (1975), an interview with cinematographer Nestor Almendros (1986), an interview with critic Phuong Le (2024), a trailer and optional English subtitles, along with a reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters and a booklet featuring archival writing, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

PREORDER LINKS:
- Amazon UK
- Radiance (direct)

AKIRA KUROSAWA'S SEVEN SAMURAI ON 4K UHD / BLU-RAY FROM BFI

Thursday 1st August 2024

Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece newly restored in 4K is released on UHD & Blu-ray on 21 October 2024


Akira Kurosawa’s SEVEN SAMURAI, one of the greatest action films ever made, and the BFI’s best-selling Blu-ray/DVD/VHS release of all time, is released on 4K UHD (Ultra High Definition) for the first time in the UK on 21 October 2024 along with a Blu-ray release. The BFI’s new presentation will have its UK premiere at BFI IMAX on 26 September as part of the BFI’s forthcoming UK-wide season ART OF ACTION and will be screened in selected cinemas in the UK and Ireland from 27 September.

The 1954 film, nominated for two Oscars and three BAFTAs, has influenced the work of directors from George Lucas to Steven Spielberg, and spawned remakes, most notably John Sturges’ acclaimed THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960). Newly restored in 4K by Toho, Japan, it had a world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival 2024.

Each home entertainment format will be available as a Limited Edition 2-disc set with a perfect-bound book, a set of four postcards and a double-sided poster. Special features include a newly recorded commentary and the English subtitles have been updated and improved.

When 16th-century farmers whose village is repeatedly attacked by merciless bandits ask an elderly masterless samurai (Takashi Shimura) for help, offering nothing but food in return, he hesitantly agrees, and assembles a band of warriors to defend and train the villagers. Boasting terrific performances, particularly from Shimura and Toshirô Mifune as a peasant masquerading as a samurai, the film has superb camerawork and expertly mounted battle sequences.

Special Features
4K (2160p) presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) for the UHD release, HD (1080p) presentation for the standard Blu-ray release
Newly recorded audio commentary by film critic Adrian Martin
Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create – Seven Samurai (2002, 50 mins)
The Art of Akira Kurosawa (2013, 49 mins): Asian-cinema expert Tony Rayns discusses Kurosawa's career and influence
Original trailer
BFI rerelease trailer
Double-sided poster featuring artwork by Matt Needle and the BFI’s poster designed for the film’s rerelease
A set of four postcards featuring iconic scenes from the film
Perfect-bound book featuring new and archival writing on the film
Updated and improved English subtitles
Other extras TBC

BFI Shop link (4K UHD + bonus features Blu-ray)

Amazon UK link (4K UHD + bonus features Blu-ray)

BFI Shop link (Blu-ray + bonus features Blu-ray)

Amazon UK link (Blu-ray + bonus features Blu-ray)

AKIRA KUROSAWA'S IKIRU ON BLU-RAY FROM BFI

Tuesday 30th July 2024

Released on BFI 2-disc Blu-ray on 19 August 2024


With a beautifully nuanced performance by Takashi Shimura (who starred in 21 of Kurosawa’s films) as the dying bureaucrat, IKIRU is an intensely lyrical and moving film that explores the nature of existence and how we find meaning in our lives. This classic of world cinema and of Kurosawa’s non-Samurai films, was re-made in 2022 as the Oscar-nominated LIVING, starring Bill Nighy. It comes to Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, restored in 4K and presented in High Definition. Extras include an audio commentary.

Opening with a simple shot of an X-ray, IKIRU proceeds to tell the tale of Watanabe (Takashi Shimura), a dedicated, downtrodden civil servant now diagnosed with terminal cancer. After a bout of self-pity, he determines to change his unfulfilling existence and discover a zest for life, plunging into hedonistic pleasure-seeking on the frenetic streets of post-war Tokyo. But Watanabe is soon driven to give lasting meaning to his life, and lights upon a plan to construct an urban children’s playground.

Special features
Restored in 4K and presented in High Definition
Audio commentary by film critic Adrian Martin
Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create – Ikiru (2002, 42 mins): made as part of the Toho Masterworks series and featuring interviews with Kurosawa, script supervisor Teruyo Nogami, writer Hideo Oguni, actor Takashi Shimura and others
Introduction by Alex Cox (2003, 15 mins)
It’s Ours Whatever They Say (1972, 39 mins): a community action film by Jenny Barraclough telling of the battle fought by a group of mothers against a London council to establish a playground for children on a derelict site
The People People (1970, 22 mins): intended for school leavers, this COI film shows the vast range and variety of jobs available within the civil service, highlighting the ways in which civil servants help individuals, the community in general and Parliament
Original theatrical trailer
Image gallery
***First pressing only*** Illustrated booklet with essays by Tony Rayns and James-Masaki Ryan, a review originally published in Monthly Film Bulletin in 1959, notes on the special features and film credits

Product details
RRP: £24.99 / Cat. no. BFIB1521 / PG
Japan / 1952 / black and white / 143 minutes / Japanese language with optional English subtitles / original aspect ratio 1.37:1 // Disc One: BD50, 1080p, 23.98fps, LPCM 1.0 mono audio (48kHz/24-bit) Disc Two: BD25, 1080i, 29.97fps, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo audio (192kbps)

BFI Shop link

Amazon UK link

ARROW VIDEO HEATS UP IN AUGUST WITH GREEK GODS, MARIACHIS, AND FERAL CANNIBALS IN DELUXE BOX SET EDITIONS!

Saturday 27th July 2024

On August 13th, Arrow Video release WHEN TITANS RULED THE EARTH: CLASH OF THE TITANS AND WRATH OF THE TITANS in Limited Edition 4K UHD and Blu-ray 2-Disc box sets.

Release the Kraken! Sam Worthington (Avatar) leads an all-star cast in the fantasy adventure classic, CLASH OF THE TITANS. Follow Perseus (Worthington) as he fights for humanity's survival against Hades (Ralph Fiennes, No Time To Die) as the God of the Underworld attempts to seize control from Zeus (Liam Neeson, Schindler's List), who holds Perseus's true origins and destiny in the balance. Director Louis Leterrier (Fast X) helms this modern update of the original 80s classic.

In WRATH OF THE TITANS, Hades has returned to complete his plan to create hell on earth. Picking up ten years after the events of CLASH OF THE TITANS, Perseus is called into action after his half-brother Ares (Édgar Ramírez, The Bourne Ultimatum) helps Hades overthrow Zeus. Perseus must now traverse the underworld to free his father and save the world. The demi-god is aided on his dangerous quest by the Queen Andromeda (Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl), fellow demi-god Agenor (Toby Kebbell, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) and Hephaestus (Bill Nighy, Pirates of the Caribbean). Director Jonathan Liebesman (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning) leads this fast-paced sequel filled with action and adventure.

The box sets feature an illustrated collector's book containing new writing, double-sided fold-out posters for each film, six postcard sized art cards, and reversible sleeves for each film.

On August 27th, THE MEXICO TRILOGY: EL MARIACHI, DESPERADO & ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO arrives as a Limited Edition 4K UHD + Blu-ray 4-disc box set. The set features an illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing, reversible sleeves for all three films, double-sided posters for each film, and a collectible poster featuring Robert Rodriguez's original poster concept for El Mariachi.

Wunderkind Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, From Dusk Til Dawn) burst onto the scene in 1993 with his $7,000 action spectacular EL MARIACHI, the tale of a lowly musician (Carlos Gallardo) who is mistaken for a deadly assassin that uses his guitar case to hide an arsenal of weapons. Music, action, car chases, and a finale you won't soon forget all swirl in this visually stunning debut of one of the masters of action cinema.

The special features on the EL MARIACHI Blu-ray include an audio commentary, new interviews with the director and star, a new interview on the music of the film, a featurette on the making of the film, a short film by the director, the theatrical trailer and a TV spot.

DESPERADO picks up where the previous story left off, with the guitar case-toting avenger (now played by Antonio Banderas, The Mask of Zorro) in search of Bucho (Joaquim de Almeida, Fast Five), the drug dealer who injured him and the woman he loved. In his blood-soaked search for vengeance, he is aided by a lovely bookstore owner (Salma Hayek, Frida) and an in-over-his-head con man (Steve Buscemi, Reservoir Dogs). Armed with a $7 million budget, the do-it-all Rodriguez created the sequel to top all sequels with his John Woo-inspired south of the border action epic.

The special features on the DESPERADO 4K UHD and Blu-ray editions include a new 4K restoration from the original camera negative by Sony Pictures, an audio commentary, new interviews with the director, producer, stunt coordinator, and special effects coordinator, an appreciation by Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans (The Raid), a featurette on making the film, textless opening, and theatrical trailers.

Rodriguez concludes his epic trilogy with ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO, with the Mariachi (Banderas) returning to help Mexico as its democracy stands in the balance. When CIA agent Sands (Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean) hires Mariachi to kill the Army General that murdered Carolina (Salma Hayek), he never thought it would put him in the middle of a military coup and assassination of the President of Mexico. Using digital cameras, Rodriguez creates a clever, and cost-effective, epic ending to his Mexico trilogy. Featuring an all-star cast that includes Banderas, Depp, Hayek, ACADEMY AWARD® nominee Mickey Rourke, Eva Mendes, Danny Trejo, Enrique Iglesias, Cheech Marin, Rubén Blades, and quadruple ACADEMY AWARD® nominee Willem Dafoe.

The special features on the ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO Blu-ray edition include an audio commentary, new interviews with director and visual effects editor, deleted scenes with director's commentary, multiple archival featurettes on all aspects of the director's filmmaking process, a featurette showing how to cook the famous dish featured in the film, a director's Q&A about digital photography from 2003, archival featurette on the hero's journey through the trilogy, and theatrical trailers.

On August 27th, THE WOMAN and OFFSPRING is released in a Limited Edition 4K UHD two-disc set featuring an illustrated collector's booklet featuring writing on each film, and a reversible sleeve featuring artwork for both films.

"Master of Horror" Lucky McKee (May) and cult horror author Jack Ketchum (The Girl Next Door) join forces to bring the one-of-a-kind, brutal tale of family values gone awry in The Woman. Chris (Sean Bridgers, Deadwood), a lawyer, husband, and father of three, hides a dark secret – he's captured a feral cannibal woman (Pollyanna McIntosh, The Walking Dead) and chained her in his cellar for the purpose of "civilizing" her. His twisted and violent methods soon infect his young son and the entire family. McKee's unblinking look at the toxicity of men left to their own devices caused a stir when it premiered at Sundance in 2011. The Woman remains one of the most searing horror films of the last twenty years.

The special features on THE WOMAN 4K UHD edition includes a 4K restoration supervised and approved by Lucky McKee, multiple commentary tracks featuring the director, editor sound designer, the film's star, and film critic, a feature-length making of documentary, an interview with actor, multiple featurettes on the making of the film, deleted scenes, a short film by the editor, a music video, a Frightfest discussion panel from 2011, theatrical trailers, and image galleries.

Also included in this set is director Andrew van den Houten's 2009 adaptation of Ketchum's prequel to THE WOMAN, OFFSPRING. Pollyanna McIntosh, in the role that she would later reprise in The Woman, stars as the matriarch of a feral cannibal pack that has terrorized the Northeast coast for two centuries. When the pack kidnaps the family's baby, it becomes a race against time for the family to find the cannibal's lair. van den Houten's prequel is as harrowing as McKee's sequel and as insightful.

The special features on the OFFSPRING 4K UHD include a 4K restoration supervised and approved by Andrew van den Houten, multiple audio commentary tracks featuring the director/producer, the digital colorist, the writer, and the cinematographer, multiple interviews with the cast and crew, a restoration comparison, an audition comparison, webisodes, easter eggs, the theatrical trailer, and image gallery.

IMPRINT FILMS - JULY NEW RELEASES

Monday 29th April 2024

Eleven incredible pieces of cinema from the 90’s – five releases jam-packed with iconic actors and unforgettable performances.

Film Focus: Harvey Keitel (1992 - 1999) - Imprint Collection #333 - 338

With a career spanning almost sixty years, Hollywood’s favourite tough guy Harvey Keitel is one of the most beloved and iconic actors of all time.

These six classic 90’s films celebrate his remarkable career and feature performances from Madonna, Elisabeth Moss, John Wood, Kate Winslet, Iain Glen, James Russo, Kelly Lynch, and John Turturro.
- Bad Lieutenant (1992)
- The Young Americans (1993)
- Dangerous Game (1993)
- Imaginary Crimes (1994)
- Clockers (1995)
- Holy Smoke (1999)

Limited Edition 6-Disc Hardbox packed with brand NEW special features including audio commentaries and interviews, plus an exclusive booklet featuring essays on Bad Lieutenant by film critic Sean Burns, Holy Smoke by film critic/podcast producer Blake Howard, and Harvey Keitel by filmmaker Scout Tafoya.

Smoke/Blue In The Face (1995) - Imprint Collection #339 - 340

Harvey Keitel stars as Augustus “Auggie” Wren, a Brooklyn Cigar Store manager, in the hilarious independent comedy Smoke, plus its sequel Blue in the Face.

Limited Edition 2-Disc Hardbox, strictly limited to 1500 copies only.

Men Of Respect (1990) - Imprint Collection #341

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth receives the mobster treatment in this 1990 crime drama, starring John Turturro (The Big Lebowski) as a Mafia hitman killing his way to the top.

8mm (1999) - Imprint Collection #342

8mm is the box office smash that stars Nicolas Cage as a private investigator who falls deep into the world of snuff films. Directed by Joel Schumacher (The Lost Boys), and written by Andrew Kevin Walker (Seven), this crime thriller also stars Joaquin Phoenix and James Gandolfini.

The Juror (1996) - Imprint Collection #343

Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin light up the screen in this thrilling crime drama from the Academy Award winning screenwriter of The Silence of the Lambs, Ted Tally.

All of the titles can be ordered in a special bundle HERE.

BLUE UNDERGROUND ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF DEATHDREAM TOM ON 4K/BLU-RAY!

Thursday 25th April 2024

In honor of its 50th anniversary, director Bob Clark’s Deathdream (aka Dead of Night) makes its world-wide debut on 4K UHD and Remastered Blu-ray on May 21st from a brand new 4K restoration, overflowing with exclusive new and archival extras.

Charles and Christine (Academy Award® nominees John Marley and Lynn Carlin) receive the tragic news that their son Andy (Richard Backus) has died in Vietnam. As Charles and their daughter (Anya Ormsby) begin to process their grief, Christine refuses to believe her son has been killed. Indeed, when Andy shows up at the front door soon thereafter, the family joyfully welcomes him home and chalks the whole thing up to a clerical error. As the days go by, Andy’s behavior becomes stranger and more erratic and when his true violent nature is revealed, sides are drawn in the family – setting up an unforgettable ending.

Inspired by the W. W. Jacobs short story The Monkey’s Paw, screenwriter Alan Ormsby and director Bob Clark created one of the first Vietnam vet parables, a film that Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called, "a potent and compelling thriller!"

The 4K UHD and Blu-ray special features include audio commentaries with co producer/director Bob Clark, writer/make-up artist Alan Ormsby, and others; cast and crew retrospective interviews; restored theatrical trailer; extensive still galleries; and more.

Pre-order 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray Combo HERE!

Pre-order Blu-ray HERE!

SEVERIN’S MARCH UHD MADNESS BRINGS FOUR WORLDWIDE UHD PREMIERES

Saturday 9th March 2024

Feast your glowing eyes on our four worldwide UHD premieres, including the 1981 psychosexual shocker BUTCHER BAKER NIGHTMARE MAKER starring Jimmy McNichol, Bo Svenson and Oscar® nominee Susan Tyrrell; Sergio Martino’s 1979 behemoth reptile chomp-a-thon THE GREAT ALLIGATOR starring Mel Ferrer and Barbara Bach; the 1977 Canadian supernatural classic CATHY’S CURSE, featuring both the Director’s Cut and U.S. Release Version; and Lucio Fulci’s infamous 1986 erotic thriller THE DEVIL’S HONEY. Each film has been scanned in 4K with hours of Special Features. BUTCHER BAKER NIGHTMARE MAKER and THE GREAT ALLIGATOR will also be available on Blu-ray.

In addition, Severin will release Standard Editions of two ‘80s horror classics from Italian genre director Michele Soavi: THE CHURCH and THE SECT, both recently released for the first time on UHD in North America.

BUTCHER BAKER NIGHTMARE MAKER

It remains the most joltingly violent, psychosexual grindhouse shocker of the ‘80s, directed by a veteran of I Love Lucy and starring a frequently shirtless former teen idol with an epically demented performance by an Oscar® nominee. And now it can be experienced for the first time ever in UHD: Jimmy McNichol stars as an orphaned high-school student raised by his strangely overprotective aunt (Susan Tyrrell of FAT CITY fame) who becomes implicated in a grisly murder investigated by a psychotic police detective (an equally unhinged Bo Svenson of INGLORIOUS BASTARDS). 7x Emmy® nominee Julia Duffy (Newhart) and Bill Paxton (in one of his first film roles) co-star in this “jaw-dropping hunk of genre insanity” (Pop Culture Beast) and former DPP 39 Video Nasty – also known as NIGHT WARNING – now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with 6 hours of new and archival Special Features.

  *Webstore Exclusive Slipcover *Reversible Wrap
BUTCHER BAKER NIGHTMARE MAKER Special Features:

DISC 1: Region ABC UHD (Feature + Special Features)
- Audio Commentary by actor Jimmy McNichol
- Audio Commentary by co-writer/producer Steve Breimer and co-writer Alan Jay Glueckman, moderated By Mondo Digital’s Nathaniel Thompson
- Audio Commentary by co-producer and unit production manager Eugene Mazzola
- Theatrical Trailer

DISC 2: Region ABC Blu-ray (Feature + Special Features) - Audio Commentary by actor Jimmy McNichol
- Audio Commentary by co-writer/producer Steve Breimer and co-writer Alan Jay Glueckman, moderated By Mondo Digital’s Nathaniel Thompson
- Audio Commentary by co-producer and unit production manager Eugene Mazzola
- "Extreme Prejudice" interview with actor Bo Svenson
-"Point and Shoot" interview with director of photography Robbie Greenberg
- "Family Dynamics" interview with editor Ted Nicolaou
- Cast and Crew Interviews with actors Jimmy McNichol, Susan Tyrrell, and Steve Eastin, make-up artist Allan A. Apone and producer Steve Breimer
- Theatrical Trailer
-TV Spot

*Also available on Blu-ray

THE GREAT ALLIGATOR

Director Sergio Martino (ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK) combines a monster reptile with an all-star EuroCult cast for one of the most outrageously entertaining Italian Jungle Carnage movies of them all, now in UHD for the first time ever: At the opening of a tropical resort, a photographer (Claudio Cassinelli of SLAVE OF THE CANNIBAL GOD), an anthropologist (Barbara Bach of THE SPY WHO LOVED ME) and an arrogant hotelier (Mel Ferrer of EATEN ALIVE!) are besieged by hostile natives, obnoxious tourists and a gargantuan river beast that intends to devour them all. Romano Puppo (ROBOWAR), Richard Johnson (ZOMBIE) and Silvia Collatina (THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY) co-star in this “top ten killer alligator/crocodile movie” (JoBlo), co-written by George Eastman (ANTHROPOPHAGOUS), Cesare Frugoni (SPIDER LABYRINTH) and Ernesto Gastaldi (ALMOST HUMAN), newly scanned in 4K from the original negative.
 
*Webstore Exclusive Slipcover
*Reversible Wrap

THE GREAT ALLIGATOR Special Features:

Disc 1: Region ABC UHD (Feature + Special Features)
- Theatrical Trailer
Disc 2: Region A Blu-ray (Feature + Special Features)
- "Down by the River" interview with director Sergio Martino
- "Minou" interview with actress Silvia Collatina
- "Beware of the Gator" interview with camera operator Claudio Morabito
- "Later Alligator" interview with production designer Antonello Geleng
- "Underwater" interview with underwater camera operator Gianlorenzo Battaglia
- "3 Friends and an Alligator" discussion with cinematographer Giancarlo Ferrando, production designer Antonello Geleng and special effects supervisor Paolo Ricci
- "Paradise House: Christianity and the Natural World in THE GREAT ALLIGATOR" video essay by Lee Gambin, author of "Massacred by Mother Nature"
- "Alligator Land" Antonello Geleng Shares Original Production Drawings
- Theatrical Trailer

*Also available on Blu-ray

CATHY'S CURSE

It’s been called “chilling and disturbing” (Film Fracture), “an absolute revelation” (Kindertrauma) and “unlike anything you’ve ever seen” (Bloody Disgusting). Now experience The Director’s Cut and American R-Rated Release Version in UHD for the first time ever: In 1947, a young girl is roasted alive in a car accident. Thirty years later, her grown brother returns to their childhood home with his mentally unstable wife and sweet daughter Cathy. But when the dead aunt’s vengeful spirit possesses the child, it will unleash an unnerving nightmare of creepy mediums, demonic dolls and plenty of sick ‘70s foul-mouthed moppet mayhem. In an unprecedented source upgrade, both versions are scanned in 4K from the recently discovered negatives with 2+ hours of Special Features.
 
*Limited Edition Webstore Exclusive Slipcase With Glowing LED Eyes Available Separately
*Reversible Wrap

CATHY'S CURSE Special Features:

Disc 1: Region ABC UHD (Feature + Special Features)
- Audio Commentary by Fangoria contributor Brian Collins and filmmakerSimon Barrett (U.S. Cut Only)
- Theatrical Trailers

Disc 2: Region ABC Blu-ray (Feature + Special Features)
- Audio Commentary by Fangoria contributor Brian Collins and filmmaker Simon Barrett (U.S. Cut Only)
- "Tricks and Treats" interview with director Eddy Matalon
- "Cathy's Daddy" Alan Scarfe remembers CATHY'S CURSE
- "Cathy & Mum" interview with actress Randi Allen and costume designer Joyce Allen
- Introduction to Cinematic Void/American Cinematheque Screening by Brian Collins
- Theatrical Trailers
- Booklet by Simon Barrett and Brian Collins

THE DEVIL'S HONEY

In one of the most twistedly intense films of his career, Lucio Fulci takes on the erotic thriller genre and unleashes an onslaught of glossy depravity in UHD for the first time ever: Brett Halsey (DEMONIA), Corinne Cléry (THE STORY OF O) and Blanca Marsillach (FLESH+BLOOD) star in this insane S&M saga complete with torrid romance, rampant nudity, woodwind-induced orgasms and a cavalcade of kink to deliver what The Digital Bits calls “one of the sleazier films Fulci ever made.” Stefano Madia (BODY COUNT), Bernard Seray (HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD) and Fulci himself co-star in this psychosexual sickie – also known as DANGEROUS OBSESSION – now scanned in 4K from the original negative with Special Features that include an all-new interview with Blanca Marsillach and a newly-discovered audio interview with Lucio Fulci.

  *Webstore Exclusive Slipcover
*Reversible Wrap

THE DEVIL'S HONEY Special Features:

Disc 1: Region ABC UHD (Feature + Special Features)
- Theatrical Trailer

Disc 2: Region A Blu-ray (Feature + Special Features)
- "Sax, Lies and Videotape" interview with actress Blanca Marsillach
- Archival Audio Interview with director Lucio Fulci by Michele Romagnoli
- "The Devil's Halsey" interview with actor Brett Halsey
- "Wild Flower" interview with actress Corinne Cléry
- "Producing Honey" interview with producer Vincenzo Salviani
- "The Devil's Sax" interview with composer Claudio Natili
- Stephen Thrower, author of "Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci", on THE DEVIL'S HONEY
- "Fulci's Honey" audio essay by Troy Howarth, author of "Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and His Films"
- Alternate Opening
- Theatrical Trailer

CULT EPICS PRE-ORDER – ALL LADIES DO IT 4K UHD + BLU-RAY & TINTO BRASS HARDCOVER BOOK LIMITED EDITIONS!

Wednesday 24th January 2024

World Premiere on 4K UHD & North American Premiere on Blu-ray of ALL LADIES DO IT (1992)

After five years of marriage, Diana discovers the joys of adultery, claiming that she can save her failing relationship with her husband through betrayal.

From the director of Caligula and Salon Kitty comes the stylish, erotic comedy drama All Ladies Do It, starring the sexy Claudia Koll. Cult Epics presents the Uncut & Uncensored Director’s Cut with new and vintage bonus features.

Italy / 1992 / Color / 97 Mins / 1.85:1 / DTS-HD MA 2.0 Stereo / English & Italian Languages / Optional English Subtitles

Special Features:
4K UHD Blu-ray:
- 4K Transfer (from the original negative) & Restoration + HDR
- Audio Commentary by Eugenio Ercolani & Troy Howarth
- 4K Theatrical Trailers
Blu-ray:
- 4K Transfer (from the original negative) & Restoration
- Audio Commentary by Eugenio Ercolani & Troy Howarth
- Theatrical Trailers
- Interview with Director Tinto Brass (2001)
- Outtakes
- Photo Gallery
- Dual-layered Disc
Limited Edition Collectibles:
- Exclusive Slipcase
- Reversible Sleeve with Original Uncensored Italian Poster Art
- 20-Page Illustrated Booklet with Essay by Eugenio Ercolani & Domenico Monetti

WEB EXCLUSIVE: 4K UHD+Blu-ray/Exclusive Slipcase Art/Booklet/4 Lobby Card Postcards $49.95.

2-DISC TRADE EDITION: 4K UHD+Blu-ray/Standard Slipcase Art/Reversible Sleeve/Booklet/4 Lobby Card Postcards: $49.95.

1-DISC BLU-RAY EDITION: Blu-ray/Standard Slipcase Art/Reversible Sleeve/Booklet: $34.95.

PRE-ORDER SIGNED HARDCOVER BOOK with Exclusive Dust-Jacket, Fold-out Poster & Tinto Brass DVD Trailer Reel

Tinto Brass (1933), whose long-life career includes 30 films, is the Italian director best known for the soft adult films he shot in the 1970s and 1980s—his most famous being Salon Kitty (1976), The Key (1983) with Stefania Sandrelli, and the notorious Caligula (1979) which film producer Bob Guccioni, founder of Penthouse, took away from Brass and cut himself. This homage to his fascinating career includes his earliest avant-garde films like Who Works is Lost (1963); the western Yankee (1966) and the giallo Deadly Sweet (1967); experimental arthouse films Attraction (1968), The Howl (1969), including the hard-to-be-seen Dropout (1970) and Vacation (1971) with Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave; and the decidedly derrière-obsessed fetishism of his later work, including Paprika (1991), All Ladies Do It (1992), The Voyeur (1994), Frivolous Lola (1998), and Cheeky! (2000). The Films of Tinto Brass: From the Avant-Garde to Erotica is a film-by-film guide to one of the most interesting and uncompromising Italian film directors.

Limited Hardcover Edition of 1500 copies: Approx. 9"x11" / 244 pages / 200+ images / Color+B&W / Edited by Nico B

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Hardcover Book + Exclusive Dust-jacket + Fold-out Poster + Signed by Nico B + Tinto Brass DVD Trailer Reel: $69.95.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Hardcover Book + Exclusive Dust-jacket + Fold-out Poster + Signed by Nico B + Tinto Brass DVD Trailer Reel + All Ladies Do It (2-Disc Edition) 4K UHD+Blu-ray + Exclusive Slipcase + Reversible Sleeve + 20-page Booklet + 4 Lobby Card Postcards: $119.95.

SHIPPING (UHD+Blu-ray/Blu-ray Only)
US: $5.00
Canada: $14.50
Worldwide: $17.50

SHIPPING (Hardcover Book + UHD+Blu-ray)
US: $10.00
Canada: $50.00
Worldwide: $80.00

THE CRITERION COLLECTION - APRIL 2024 - NEW RELEASES

Friday 19th January 2024

LA HAINE: Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)—Jewish, African, and Arab, respectively—give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of 1990s French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- New 4K digital master, supervised by director of photography Pierre Aïm and approved by director Mathieu Kassovitz, with 2.0 and 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary by Kassovitz
- Introduction by actor Jodie Foster
- Ten Years of "La haine" a documentary featuring cast and crew members
- Featurette on the film’s banlieue setting
- Production footage
- Deleted and extended scenes, with an afterword by Kassovitz
- Behind-the-scenes photos
- Trailers
- An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 2006 appreciation by filmmaker Costa-Gavras

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK: This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Based on an acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock is set at the turn of the twentieth century and concerns a small group of students from an all-female college who vanish, along with a chaperone, while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society, Weir’s gorgeous, disquieting film is a work of poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Peter Weir and director of photography Russell Boyd, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Interview with Weir
- Program on the making of the film, featuring interviews with executive producer Patricia Lovell, producers Hal McElroy and Jim McElroy, and cast members
- Introduction by film scholar David Thomson, author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
- On-set documentary hosted by Lovell and featuring interviews with Weir, actor Rachel Roberts, and source-novel author Joan Lindsay
- "Homesdale" (1971), a black comedy by Weir
- Theatrical Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
An essay by author Megan Abbott and an excerpt from film scholar Marek Haltof’s 1996 book "Peter Weir: When Cultures Collide"

WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES: This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus—complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince—arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably toward violence. In thirty-nine hypnotic long takes engraved in ghostly black and white, auteur Béla Tarr and codirector-editor Ágnes Hranitzky conjure an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Béla Tarr, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the 4K UHD disc and the Blu-ray
- In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- "Family Nest" (1979), Tarr’s first feature film
- New interview with Tarr by film critic Scott Foundas
- New English subtitle translation
- An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim

I AM CUBA: Both a landmark of radical political cinema and one of the most visually ravishing films ever made, this legendary hymn to revolution shimmers across the screen like a fever dream of rebellion. The result of an extraordinarily ambitious collaboration between the Soviet and Cuban film industries, director Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba unfolds in four explosive vignettes that capture Cuban life on the brink of transformation, as crushing economic exploitation and inequality give way to a working-class uprising. Backed by Carlos Fariñas’s stirring score, the dazzling camera work by Sergei Urusevsky—an inspiration for generations of filmmakers to follow—gives flight to the movie’s message of liberation.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
"I Am Cuba: The Siberian Mammoth" a 2004 documentary on the making of the film featuring key participants
- Interview from 2003 with filmmaker Martin Scorsese
- New appreciation of the film by cinematographer Bradford Young
- Trailer
- Alternate Russian-dubbed soundtrack
- New English subtitle translation
- An essay by film critic Juan Antonio García Borrero

DOGFIGHT: An ineffably bittersweet portrait of youth in the 1960s, Nancy Savoca’s funny, sensitive tale of love and war etches two vividly alive characters: aspiring San Francisco folk singer Rose (Lili Taylor) and hotheaded, Vietnam-bound marine Eddie (River Phoenix), who meet on the occasion of a cruelly misogynistic party where men compete to bring the most unattractive dates they can find. But what begins as a night to forget unexpectedly develops into something far more meaningful. Featuring music by folk legends Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Pete Seeger, Dogfight captures the miracle of human connection while gracefully subverting ideas surrounding machismo, patriotic duty, and the very meaning of America itself.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Nancy Savoca, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Audio commentary featuring Savoca and producer Richard Guay
- New interview with Savoca and actor Lili Taylor conducted by filmmaker Mary Harron
- New interviews with cinematographer Bobby Bukowski, production designer Lester Cohen, script supervisor Mary Cybulski, music supervisor Jeff Kimball, supervising sound editor Tim Squyres, and editor John Tintori
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
-An essay by film critic Christina Newland

ARROW VIDEO CELEBRATES VALENTINE’S DAY WITH A RIVETING CRIME THRILLER AND AN ACTION-PACKED MARTIAL ARTS MASTERPIECE!

Friday 19th January 2024

Arriving on February 13th is the unique action/crime thriller Fear is the Key, based on a novel by Alistair MacLean (The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare), and featuring car-chase choreography by the legendary Carey Loftin (French Connection, Vanishing Point, Bullitt). The story offers surprising twists at every turn, including an assassination, an unexpected witness, a kidnapping, and an intricate conspiracy with millions of dollars at its center. Director Michael Tuchner brings MacLean’s complex international espionage bestseller to life. The film stars Barry Newman, Suzy Kendall, John Vernon, Dolph Sweet, and Sir Ben Kingsley in his feature film debut.

The Blu-ray special features include a new audio commentary by filmmaker and critic Howard S. Berger; a visual essay, featurettes and interviews; the theatrical trailer; a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Nathanael Marsh; a double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Nathanael Marsh; and an illustrated collector’s booklet with new writing by filmmaker and critic Sean Hogan.

The Shaolin Plot kicks Valentine’s Day into high gear with a 2K restoration from the original film elements. The film stars Sammo Hung in his final collaboration with directing legend and mentor Huang Feng. With only the Shaolin and Wu-Tang missing from his collection of martial arts manuals, Prince Daglen (Chan Sing) concocts a plan to steal both with the aid of a vicious agent (Hung). But Daglen didn’t count on the heroics of the surviving Shaolin and Wu-Tang warriors (Casanova Wong, Kwan Yung Moon, and James Tien) to thwart his plot. Intrigue, double-crossing, and feats of heroism all culminate in one of the greatest action film finales ever. Filmmaker Huang Feng is one of the most influential martial arts filmmakers in the world and was instrumental in the careers of John Woo (Hardboiled, Face/Off) and Stanley Tong (Supercop, Rumble in the Bronx).

The Blu-ray special features include a commentary by martial arts film experts Frank Djeng & Michael Worth; commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder & Arne Venema; alternate English credits; the original theatrical trailers; a double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ilan Sheady; a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ilan Sheady; and an illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing by Peter Glagowski.