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 A Question of Silence BD

 Joy House BD

 Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XIV BD

 The Night of the Hunter 4K UHD

 From Hollywood to Heaven: The Lost and Saved Films of the Ormond Family 1951-1997 BD

 Cosa Nostra: Franco Nero in three Mafia Tales by Damiano Damiani BD

 Petite Maman BD

 Love Letters (1945) BD

 Hopping Mad: The Mr Vampire Sequels  BD

 12 Angry Men 4K UHD

 Morgiana BD

 Mexico Macabre: Four Sinister Tales from the Alameda Films Vault, 1959–1963 BD

 Pasolini 101 BD

 Resurrection BD

 Branded to Kill 4K UHD

 The Assassin of the Tsar BD

 Something To Live For BD

 Wild Reeds BD

 Picnic at Hanging Rock BD 4K UHD

 Carrie (1952) BD

 Yakuza Graveyard BD

 The Sunday Woman BD

 The Assassination Bureau BD

 Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XII BD

 Danza Macabra - Volume 1: The Italian Gothic Collection BD

 Two Orphan Vampires BD 4K UHD

 The Shiver of the Vampires BD 4K UHD

 The Seventh Seal (Criterion added!) 4K UHD

 Heat (1986) BD

 Counsellor at Law BD

 Drowning By Numbers 4K UHD

 Serpico 4K UHD

 Silent Avant-Garde BD

 Targets BD

 The Cat Creeps BD

 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) BD

 Living BD

 You and Me BD

 Death of a Gunfighter BD

 The Green Hornet (serial) BD

 Creeping Horror BD

 Cool Hand Luke 4K UHD

 Return to Paradise BD

 Lucky Jordan BD

 I Think We're Alone Now BD

 The Bullet Train BD

 The Seventh Seal 4K UHD

 The Maltese Falcon 4K UHD

 Little Buddha BD

 Laurin BD

 I'll Sleep When I'm Dead BD

 They Might Be Giants BD

 Black Sunday BD

 Small Axe BD

 Party Girl BD

 Mexican Gothic: The Films of Carlos Enrique Taboada BD

 Broken Lullaby BD

 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife BD

 The Kiss Before the Mirror BD

 State of the Union BD

 Chilly Scenes of Winter BD

 Mad Love BD

 The Whale BD

 Sorry Wrong Number BD

 Mildred Pierce 4K UHD

 Tár 4K UHD

 The Story of Adele H BD

 Last Hurrah For Chivalry BD

 Mississippi Mermaid BD

 Inland Empire BD

 The Double Exposure of Holly BD

 The Final Programme BD

 The Devonsville Terror BD

 The House That Screamed BD

 Knockabout BD

 Marathon Man 4K UHD

 Violent Streets: The Umberto Lenzi / Tomas Milian Collection BD

 Two Films by Marguerite Duras BD

 Hollywood Shuffle BD

 Fill 'er Up with Super BD

 Nudist Life, 10 Days in a Nudist Camp and Shangri-La BD

  Secret of the Incas BD

 Dazed and Confused 4K UHD

 The Hunter BD

 The Crimson Rivers BD

 Magnificent Warriors BD

 The Cassandra Cat BD

 Flesh and Fantasy BD

 Love on the Ground BD

 Romeo and Juliet BD

 Three Colors: Blue 4K UHD

 Francois Truffaut Collection BD

 

Comparisons

 

 The Shiver of the Vampires BD 4K UHD

 The Seventh Seal (Criterion added!) 4K UHD

 The Bullet Train BD

 They Might Be Giants BD

 Black Sunday BD

 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife BD

 The Kiss Before the Mirror BD

 Chilly Scenes of Winter BD

 Sorry Wrong Number BD

 Mississippi Mermaid BD

 Inland Empire BD

 The Devonsville Terror BD

 Knockabout BD

 Secret of the Incas BD

 Dazed and Confused 4K UHD

 The Bride Wore Black BD

 Lady Whirlwind & Hapkido BD

 Warning Shot BD

 Tormented BD

 Walking the Edge (UK) BD

 Cutter's Way (UK) BD

 High Plains Drifter 4K UHD

 Malcolm X BD

 Mystery Men 4K UHD

Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Akira Kurosawa, 1990) Criterion (BEAVER Blu-ray COMPARISON)

The Manchurian Candidate [4K UHD Blu-ray] (John Frankenheimer, 1962) Kino (BEAVER Blu-ray REVIEW)

Rio Bravo [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Howard Hawks, 1959) Allied Vaughn

The Wicker Man [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Robin Hardy, 1973) Studiocanal UK (BEAVER Blu-ray COMPARISON)

Blood Money: Four Western Classics Vol. 2 [Blu-ray] - $10,000 Blood Money, Vengeance is Mine, Find a Place to Die, Matalo! (Kill Him) - Arrow UK

Commedia all'italiana: Three Films by Dino Risi [Blu-ray] (Il Sorpasso, Il Mattatore and Il Vedovo) - RB UK Radiance Films

Bo Widerberg’s New Swedish Cinema [Blu-ray] (The Baby Carriage/Raven’s End/Elvira Madigan/Ådalen 31) Criterion

To Live and Die in L.A. [4K UHD Blu-ray] (William Friedkin, 1985) Kino (BEAVER Blu-ray COMPARISON)

Angel Face [Blu-ray] (Otto Preminger, 1952) Warner Archive

Targets [Blu-ray] (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968) BFI (ALT-BEAVER REVIEW)

Laurel & Hardy: Year One [Blu-ray] The Newly Restored 1927 Silents - Flicker Alley

Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart [Blu-ray] (Wayne Wang, 1985) Criterion

Human Desire [Blu-ray] (Fritz Lang, 1954) Kino (ALT-BEAVER REVIEW)

Force of Evil [Blu-ray] (Abraham Polonsky, 1948) Kino (ALT-BEAVER REVIEW)

Ruben Östlund | A Curzon Collection [Blu-ray] (The Guitar Mongoloid, Involuntary, Play, Force Majeure, The Square, Triangle of Sadness) RB UK Curzon Film

Messiah of Evil [Blu-ray] (Willard Huyck / Gloria Katz, 1974) RB UK Radiance Films (ALT-BEAVER REVIEW)

Drylongso [Blu-ray] (Cauleen Smith, 1998) Criterion

Ronin [4K UHD Blu-ray] (John Frankenheimer, 1998) Kino (BEAVER Blu-ray REVIEW)

Le mépris [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) Studiocanal UK

Night Has a Thousand Eyes [Blu-ray] (John Farrow, 1948) RB UK Indicator (ALT-BEAVER REVIEW)

The Old Man and the Sea [Blu-ray] (John Sturges / Fred Zinnemann, 1958) Warner Archive

Caged [Blu-ray] (John Cromwell, 1950) Warner Archive

The Damned Don't Cry [Blu-ray] (Vincent Sherman, 1950) Warner Archive

Hugo [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Martin Scorsese, 2011) Arrow US (BEAVER Blu-ray COMPARISON)

Upgrade [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Leigh Whannell, 2018) Shout! Factory (ALT-BEAVER REVIEW)

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XV [Blu-ray] - Man Afraid (1957), The Girl in the Kremlin (1957), The Tattered Dress (1957) - Kino

Gloria [Blu-ray] (John Cassavetes, 1980) Kino (ALT-BEAVER REVIEW)

The War of the Worlds [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Byron Haskin, 1953) Paramount (BEAVER REVIEW)

Mr. Wong Collection [Blu-ray] Mr. Wong, Detective (1938), The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939), Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939), The Fatal Hour (1940), Doomed to Die (1940) - Kino

52 Pick-Up [Blu-ray] (John Frankenheimer, 1986) Kino (ALT-BEAVER REVIEW)

The Song of Songs [Blu-ray] (Rouben Mamoulian, 1933) RB UK Indicator (ALT-BEAVER REVIEW)

Jet Pilot [Blu-ray] (Josef von Sternberg, 1957) RB UK Indicator (ALT-BEAVER REVIEW)

Prison Girls 3-D [Blu-ray] (Tom DeSimone, 1972) Kino

Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Classmates [Blu-ray] (Masahiro Shimura, 1973) Discotek Media

A Dandy in Aspic [Blu-ray] (Anthony Mann / Laurence Harvey, 1968) Kino (ALT-BEAVER REVIEW)

Michael [Blu-ray] (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1924) Kino

Thunderbolt [Blu-ray] (Josef von Sternberg, 1929) RB UK Indicator

The Spanish Dancer [Blu-ray] (Herbert Brenon, 1923) Kino

Gothic [Blu-ray] (Ken Russell, 1986) RB UK BFI

The Anderson Tapes [Blu-ray] (Sidney Lumet, 1971) Kino (ALT-BEAVER REVIEW)

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round [Blu-ray] (Bernard Girard, 1966) Kino

The Secret of Santa Vittoria [Blu-ray] (Stanley Kramer, 1969) Sandpiper Pictures (ALT-BEAVER REVIEW)

Partie de Campagne aka "A Day in the Country" [Blu-ray] (Jean Renoir, 1946) RB UK BFI (ALT-BEAVER REVIEW)

The Flesh and Blood Show - The Horror Films of Pete Walker [Blu-ray] (7 Films) - Die Screaming, Marianne (1971), The Flesh and Blood Show (1972), House of Whipcord (1974), Frightmare (1974), House of Mortal Sin (1976) Schizo (1977) and The Comeback (1978) - RB UK 88 Films

You'll Like My Mother [Blu-ray] (Lamont Johnson, 1972) RB UK Final Cut Entertainment (ALT-BEAVER REVIEW)

The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher [4K UHD Blu-ray] [The Tall T/Decision at Sundown/Buchanan Rides Alone/Ride Lonesome/Comanche Station] Criterion

After Hours [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Martin Scorsese, 1985) Criterion

After Hours [Blu-ray] (Martin Scorsese, 1985) Criterion

Breathless [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) Criterion

Bruce Lee at Golden Harvest Limited Edition [4K UHD Blu-ray] (The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, The Way of the Dragon and Game of Death) Arrow UK

One False Move [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Carl Franklin, 1992) Criterion

The Watermelon Woman [Blu-ray] (Cheryl Dunye, 1996) Criterion

Cold Eyes of Fear [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Enzo G. Castellari, 1971) Indicator UK

Cold Eyes of Fear [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Enzo G. Castellari, 1971) Indicator US

Black Magic Rites [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Renato Polselli, 1972) Indicator UK

Black Magic Rites [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Renato Polselli, 1972) Indicator US

Inland Empire [Blu-ray] (David Lynch, 2006) Criterion UK (BEAVER REVIEW)

Fists in the Pocket [Blu-ray] (Marco Bellocchio, 1965) Criterion UK (BEAVER REVIEW)

Millennium Mambo [Blu-ray] (Hsiao-Hsien Hou, 2001) Metrograph Pictures

Shaw Brothers Classics, Vol. 1 [Blu-ray] (The Assassin / The Thundering Sword / The Golden Swallow / The Jade Raksha / The Bells of Death / The Sword of Swords / Killer Darts / The Invincible Fist / Dragon Swamp / The Flying Dagger / The Golden Sword) Shout! Factory

Thieves Like Us [Blu-ray] (Robert Altman, 1974) Radiance UK (ALT-BEAVER REVIEW)

Foolish Wives [Blu-ray] (Erich von Stroheim, 1922) Flicker Alley (ALT-BEAVER REVIEW)

May 29th, 2023

 

 

American Flyers [Blu-ray] (John Badham, 1985) Warner Archive UK

Badge 373 [Blu-ray] (Howard W. Koch, 1973) RB UK Indicator (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Boy with Green Hair [Blu-ray] (Joseph Losey, 1948) Warner Archive

Burning Paradise [Blu-ray] (Ringo Lam, 1994) RB UK Eureka

Close [Blu-ray] (Lukas Dhont, 2022) RB UK MUBI

The Courtship of Eddie's Father [Blu-ray] (Vincente Minnelli, 1963) Warner Archive

Danza Macabra - Volume 1: The Italian Gothic Collection [Blu-ray] (The Monster of the Opera, The Seventh Grave, Scream of the Demon Lover, and Lady Frankenstein) Severin Films (BEAVER REVIEW)
Drowning by Numbers [4K UHD
Blu-ray] (Peter Greenaway, 1988) Severin Films (BEAVER REVIEW)
Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XIV [
Blu-ray] (Undercover Girl, One Way Street, Appointment With a Shadow) Kino (BEAVER REVIEW)

Five Corners [Blu-ray] (Tony Bill, 1987) RB UK Signal One Entertainment

The Ghost Ship / Bedlam [Blu-ray] - Warner Archive UK

Golgo 13 [Blu-ray] (Jun'ya Satô, 1973) Discotek Media

The Haunting [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Jan de Bont, 1999) Shout! Factory

Hey There, It's Yogi Bear [Blu-ray] (Joseph Barbera / William Hanna, 1964) Warner Archive

Joy House [Blu-ray] (René Clément, 1964) Kino (BEAVER REVIEW)

King Solomon's Mines [Blu-ray] (Compton Bennett / Andrew Marton, 1950) Warner Archive

The Last Starfighter [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Nick Castle, 1984) Arrow US (BEAVER Blu-ray REVIEW)

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne [Blu-ray] (Jack Clayton, 1987) RB UK Indicator (BEAVER REVIEW)

Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Volume 1 [Blu-ray] - Warner Archive

Mad Heidi [Blu-ray] (Johannes Hartmann, Sandro Klopfstein, 2022) Umbrella Ent.

The Morning After [Blu-ray] (Sidney Lumet, 1986) Shout! Factory

The Night of the Hunter [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Charles Laughton, 1955) Kino (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Nutty Professor [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Jerry Lewis, 1963) Paramount US

The Nutty Professor [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Jerry Lewis, 1963) Paramount UK

The People Under the Stairs [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Wes Craven, 1991) Shout! Factory (BEAVER Blu-ray REVIEW)

The Pillow Book [Blu-ray] (Peter Greenaway, 1996) Indicator (BEAVER REVIEW)
Queen Christina [
Blu-ray] (Rouben Mamoulian, 1933) - Warner Archive

Rain Man [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Barry Levinson, 1988) Mvd Marquee Collection

The Rules of the Game [Blu-ray] (Jean Renoir, 1939) RB UK BFI (BEAVER REVIEW)

Someone to Watch Over Me [Blu-ray] (Ridley Scott, 1987) RB UK Indicator (BEAVER REVIEW)

Take a Girl Like You [Blu-ray] (Jonathan Miller, 1970) RB0 Indicator (BEAVER REVIEW)

Thelma & Louise [Blu-ray] (Ridley Scott, 1991) Criterion
Thelma & Louise [4K UHD
Blu-ray] (Ridley Scott, 1991) Criterion

Town on Trial [Blu-ray] (John Guillermin, 1957) R0 UK Indicator (BEAVER REVIEW)

Track 29 [Blu-ray] (Nicolas Roeg, 1988) RB UK Indicator (BEAVER REVIEW)

June 5th, 2023

 

 

Broker [Blu-ray] (Kore-eda Hirokazu, 2022) RB UK Picture House Entertainment

Bus Riley's Back in Town [Blu-ray] (Harvey Hart, 1965) Imprint

The Changeling [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Peter Medak, 1980) Second Sight Films UK
The Fabelmans [4K UHD
Blu-ray] (Steven Spielberg, 2022) Universal UK

A Fistful of Dollars [Blu-ray] (Sergio Leone, 1964) Kino (BEAVER REVIEW)
For a Few Dollars More [
Blu-ray] (Sergio Leone, 1965) Kino (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Great Gatsby [Blu-ray] (Elliott Nugent, 1949) Imprint
The Long Voyage Home [
Blu-ray] (John Ford, 1940) Imprint

Reservoir Dogs [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Quentin Tarantino, 1992) Via Vision

ROBOCOP: The Complete 1994 TV Series [Blu-ray] - RB UK Screenbound Pictures Ltd

The Rules of the Game [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Jean Renoir, 1939) Criterion
The Spiral Road [
Blu-ray] (Robert Mulligan, 1962) Imprint
The Strangler [
Blu-ray] (Burt Topper, 1964) Shout! Factory
Uptight [
Blu-ray] (Jules Dassin, 1968) Imprint

Wish You Were Here [Blu-ray] (David Leland, 1987) RB UK Film 4

Wolf Creek - Ultimate Edition [Blu-ray] (Greg McLean, 2005) Via Vision

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