Newsletter - FOR THE WEEK

OF February 22nd, 2016
  This Week's Highlights
 
 

Salaam aleekum! A massive quality week with Blu-ray reviews and comparisons from discs by Criterion, Arrow, Masters of Cinema, Flicker Alley, Studio Canal, Artificial Eye, Grindhouse Releasing, Signal One, Film Detective, Sogepaq of features directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, John Frankenheimer, Luchino Visconti, Terrence Malick, John Huston, Jacques Rivette, Marcel L’Herbier, Alejandro Amenábar, Jacques Audiard, Frank Perry and more (ex. Douglas Sirk on DVD). Our Release Calendar updates future films-to-Blu-ray including May Criterions - directed by the likes of Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray, Kaneto Shindo, Robert Altman, Dennis Hopper, Andrei Tarkovsky, Delmer Daves, Ron Howard, Quentin Tarantino, Todd Haynes, Yuriy Bykov, Costa-Gavras, Curtis Hanson and more! Feature Blu-ray and DVD is posted for February. We have a CONTEST posted with a Brand New Arrow Blu-ray prize! NOTE: Our Year-End Poll Results for Blu-ray and DVD of the Year 2015 are POSTED HERE THANKS TO ALL PARTICIPANTS! What a year!. Enjoy!

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LATEST ADDITIONS TO THE RELEASE CALENDAR:

 

Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy [Blu-ray] (Alice in the Cities - 1974, Wrong Move - 1975, Kings of the Road - 1976) Criterion

In a Lonely Place [Blu-ray] (Nicholas Ray, 1950) Criterion

The Naked Island [Blu-ray] (Kaneto Shindo, 1960) Criterion

The Player [Blu-ray] (Robert Altman, 1992) Criterion

Easy Rider [Blu-ray] (Dennis Hopper, 1969) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Hateful Eight [Blu-ray] (Quentin Tarantino, 2015) Twentieth Century Fox

Concussion [Blu-ray] (Peter Landesman, 2015) Sony Pictures

Carol [Blu-ray] (Todd Haynes, 2015) Twc

The Major [Blu-ray] (Yuriy Bykov, 2013) Olive Films

Point Break 3D [Blu-ray] (Ericson Core, 2015) Warner Home Video

Betrayed [Blu-ray] (Costa-Gavras, 1988) Olive Films

The Fool [Blu-ray] (Yuriy Bykov, 2014) Olive Films

Bad Influence [Blu-ray]  (Curtis Hanson, 1990) Shout! Factory

Venom [Blu-ray] (Piers Haggard, 1981) Blue Underground

Camino [Blu-ray] (Josh C. Waller, 2015) Our Alchemy

Pandemic [Blu-ray] (John Suits, 2016) Our Alchemy

Sex World [Blu-ray] (Anthony Spinelli, 1977) Vinegar Syndrome

Pigs [Blu-ray] (Marc Lawrence, 1972) Vinegar Syndrome

Blue Ice [Blu-ray] (Phillip Marshak, 1985) Vinegar Syndrome

The Big Short [Blu-ray] (Adam McKay, 2015) Paramount

Iona [Blu-ray] (Scott Graham, 2015) RB UK Verve Picture

Nostalgia [Blu-ray] (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983) RB UK Curzons / Artificial Eye

Stalker [Blu-ray] (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) RB UK Curzons / Artificial Eye

Doris Day and Rock Hudson Romantic Comedy Collection [Blu-ray] (Pillow Talk / Lover Come Back / Send Me No Flowers) - Universal

Symptoms [Blu-ray] (José Ramón Larraz, 1974) RB UK BFI

The Red House [Blu-ray] (Delmer Daves, 1947) Film Detective

Sex Murder Art: The Films Of Jorg Buttgereit [Blu-ray] - Cult Epics

Arrow: Season 1 [Blu-ray] - Warner

In the Heart of the Sea [Blu-ray] (Ron Howard, 2015) Warner

Girls of Shame (Robert Hartford-Davis, 1969) R2 UK Screenbound

Dissent & Disruption: The Complete Alan Clarke at the BBC (Limited Edition Blu-ray Box Set) RB UK BFI

The Firm [Blu-ray] (Alan Clarke, 1989) RB UK BFI

Eisenstein in Guanajuato [Blu-ray] (Peter Greenaway, 2015) RB UK Axiom Films

Killer Dames: Two Gothic Chillers by Emilio P. Miraglia [Blu-ray] (The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The Red Queen Kills Seven Times) RB UK Arrow

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia [Blu-ray] (Sam Peckinpah, 1974) RB DE Koch Media

Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street [Blu-ray] (Samuel Fuller, 1970) Olive Films

Try and Get Me! [Blu-ray] (Cy Endfield, 1950) Olive Films

The Brave One [Blu-ray] (Irving Rapper, 1956) VCI

Mirror [Blu-ray] (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) RB UK Curzons / Artificial Eye

Ran (restored in 4K) [Blu-ray] (Akira Kurosawa, 1985) RB UK Studiocanal
 

 

ONE VOICE (not Ellsworth Monkton Toohey): Unreal week for top-shelf releases. First nod goes to Masters of Cinema's 4K restoration Blu-ray of Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers - masterpiece looking pristine - our highest recommendation! John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate gets the Criterion Blu-ray treatment - filled with positives. Marcel L’Herbier's L'Inhumaine is such a cool film experience and the Flicker Alley Blu-ray looks magnificent. Arrow provide a totally stacked Blu-ray package for their American Horror Project Vol. 1 - film appreciation to the absolute max. Speaking of stacked Grindhouse Releasing's Blu-ray edition knows no bounds in the extras for the iconic 80's slasher-flic Pieces. Alejandro Amenábar's Open Your Eyes is available in an English-friendly Blu-ray release out of Spain - amazing film - fully endorsed. Criterion give us Jacques Rivette's Paris Belongs to Us on Blu-ray - and more Rivette is always welcome. I was very keen on Signal One's Blu-ray of Frank Perry's "Doc" - a highly interesting film and valuable extras including a brilliant commentary. Jacques Audiard's The Beat That My Heart Skipped goes Blu-ray - a keen and remarkable effort on a BD loaded with extras. Per-Olof informs us that Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups is available on Blu-ray - even before a North American theatrical run! Film Detective give us an imperfect Blu-ray of John Huston's Beat the Devil - still containing some value. Unfortunately one of my favorite Antonioni films - The Passenger gets poor treatment in the move to Blu-ray. I suggest a pass with hopes it comes to bona-fide 1080P soon. On DVD Eric reviewed Two Films By Vera Chytilova - who was regarded as one of the Czech New Wave s most rebellious, irreverent and boundary-breaking talents. I covered two, bare-bones, Screenbound Pictures DVDs - Douglas Sirk's Thunder on the Hill is a good mystery and I compared the 50's creature-feature The Atomic Submarine to the Criterion SD.

Quote for today: “Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it."     Have a dynamic week! - Gary

  THIS WEEK's REVIEWS / COMPARISONS
 

"Doc" BD - In 1881, Doc Holliday enters the 'No Name Saloon' and challenges a man to a game of poker. He bets his horse for the opponent's wife, the whore Katie Elder, and wins. From then on, Elder goes wherever Doc goes. When they arrive in Tombstone, Sheriff Wyatt Earp is standing as a candidate in the local election, but hostilities erupt and the Clanton family, a gang of outlaw cowboys, make their opposition felt. Doc soon joins forces with Earp and his brothers to take on the Clanton gang. This gritty, revisionist take on the true story of the legendary gunfight at the OK Corral stars Stacy Keach as Doc Holliday and Faye Dunaway as Kate Elder. Blu-ray Release date: February 29th, 2016

The Beat That My Heart Skipped BD - Tom is an aspiring musician who plays seedy bars in the backstreets of Paris. The one thing tearing him away from his music is the example set by his father - a sleazy life of crime which Tom seems set to follow. But when he meets by chance a friend of his concert pianist mother s, his musical ambitions are rekindled and he strives to make a better life for himself. Blu-ray Release Date: March 14th, 2016

American Horror Project Vol. 1 BD - Volume I of this series presents three tales of violence and madness from the 1970s. Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (Christopher Speeth, 1973) sees a family arrive at a creepy, dilapidated fairground in search of their missing daughter, only to find themselves at the mercy of cannibalistic ghouls lurking beneath the park. Meanwhile, The Witch Who Came from the Sea (Matt Cimber, 1976), stars Mollie Perkins (The Diary of Anne Frank) as a young woman whose bizarre and violent fantasies start to bleed into reality literally. Lastly, every parent s worst nightmare comes true in The Premonition (Robert Allen Schnitzer, 1976), a tale of psychic terror in which five-year-old Janie is snatched away by a strange woman claiming to be her long-lost mother. Blu-ray Release date: February 22nd in the UK, March 8th, 2016 in the US

Rocco and His Brothers BD - Arriving at the end of the neorealism movement in Italian cinema, Rocco and His Brothers (1960) was Luchino Visconti's most ambitious production to date and a personal favorite among his many films. Recounting the tale of a widow, Rosaria Parondi (Katina Paxinou), and her five sons - Rocco (Alain Delon), Simone (Renato Salvatori), Ciro (Max Cartier), Luca (Rocco Vidolazzi) and Vincenzo (Spiros Focas), Visconti paints a sprawling canvas that tells several stories. At the center is the Parondi family, poor Italians from the south who have moved north to Milan in search of a better life. As they adapt to new jobs and relationships, these simple country people are inevitably corrupted by the city. Blu-ray Release Date: March 14th, 2016

Open Your Eyes BD - You might think seeing is believing, but tell that to Amenábar, writer/director of this dazzling thriller, which toys with our perceptions to exquisitely torturous effect. Initially, it appears that playboy César (Noriega) has it all: money, looks, girls. One night at a party, however, eager to escape jealous Nuria (Nimri), he strikes up a conversation with Sofía (Cruz), and soon realises he's in love. After one chaste evening together, it all goes wrong: Nuria is waiting outside, offers a lift, then deliberately drives off the road. She's killed, but he survives with a face so horribly disfigured he needs a mask. His hopes of getting back together with Sofía seem slim, especially since he's now facing a possible murder charge. Will this nightmare never end? Actually, it's only just beginning, as Amenábar adds layers of information overload, altering the picture from noir-ish poser to latter-day Beauty and the Beast, and eventually to head spinning sci-fi mode. What holds us through the revelations are the sheer chutzpah with which Amenábar and his cast deliver them, the emotional imperative of the material and the fascinating way it touches on concepts of interior/exterior worth, personal responsibility and phenomenology. This is so smart, mischievous and stylish, you'll instantly want to see it again. Blu-ray Release date: April 3rd, 2015

Beat the Devil BD - Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying to get uranium out of East Africa. Bogart's associates include pompous fraud Robert Morley, and Peter Lorre as the German-accented "O'Hara", whose wartime record is forever a source of speculation and suspicion. Becoming involved in Bogart's machinations are a prim British married couple (Edward Underdown and blonde-wigged Jennifer Jones). As a climax to their many misadventures and double-crosses, the uranium seekers end up facing extermination by an Arab firing squad. The satirical nature of Beat the Devil eluded many moviegoers in 1953, and the film was a failure. The fact that the picture attained cult status in lesser years failed to impress its star Humphrey Bogart, who could only remember that he lost a considerable chunk of his own money when he became involved in the project. Blu-ray Release Date: September 11th, 2014

Knight of Cups BD - Malick's style remains the same; by this point, it should be familiar to us all. The camera stays nimble and low, circling the actors and pushing in close, all while staring up at them in low-angled awe. Conventional scene structures and dialogue exchanges are altogether left out; replaced with glimpses of interactions began in media res and whispered voiceovers of feelings and thoughts. In the Malickverse (assisted by phenomenal DP Emmanuel Lubezki) every hour is magic hour. Like I said - you know how it is. Blu-ray Release date: January 14th, 2016

The Passenger (Antonioni) BD - Michelangelo Antonioni takes his own uniquely unanswerable and elliptical look at the basic precepts of identity and truth. Character study, suspense and road picture wrapped up into one intentionally-paced masterpiece of pure cinema. Not unlike Antonioni's L'Avventura and Blow-Up we are introduced to a mystery - soon to uncover an even deeper one hidden under its emotional surface. An international reporter (another of Antonioni's working-class professional heroes - ex. see Il Grido) David Locke, played by a young-ish Jack Nicholson, chances upon the circumstance to switch identities with a similar looking guest of the Hotel he is staying at in Africa. The doppelganger is deceased on his bed. The switch is easy... too easy. Perhaps again, the atmospheric conditions strike influence as a typical Antonioni trapping. The surrounding barren and arid environment spark some unaccustomed behavior - sculpting more of the uncertainties that tie the film together. Included is one of the most memorable, and technically infuriating, tracking shots in the history of film coupled with an important use of natural audio throughout. Blu-ray Release Date: March 8th, 2016

L'Inhumaine BD - Released to intense controversy in 1924 for its cinematic and technical innovations, L’Inhumaine (The Inhuman Woman) is a visual tour-de-force; a fantastical, science-fiction melodrama; and a momentous collaboration of legendary figures from the avant-garde movement. Directed by Marcel L’Herbier (L’Argent, Feu Mathias Pascal) and starring the famous French opera singer Georgette Leblanc – who helped produce the film along with L’Herbier’s company, Cinégraphic – L’Inhumaine is most notable for the style of filmmaking. In L’Herbier’s words, it represents a “miscellany of modern art,” bringing together some of the greatest artists from the time period, including painter Fernand Léger, architect Robert Mallet-Stevens, glassmaker René Lalique, fashion designer Paul Poiret, and directors Alberto Cavalcanti and Claude Autant-Lara, among others, to create a collaborative cinematic experience. Blu-ray Release date: March 1st, 2016

Paris Belongs to Us BD - One of the original critics turned filmmakers who helped jump-start the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette began shooting his debut feature in 1958, well before that cinema revolution officially kicked off with The 400 Blows and Breathless. Ultimately released in 1961, the rich and mysterious Paris Belongs to Us offers some of the radical flavor that would define the movement, with a particularly Rivettian twist. The film follows a young literature student (Betty Schneider) who befriends the members of a loose-knit group of twentysomethings in Paris, united by the apparent suicide of an acquaintance. Suffused with a lingering post–World War II disillusionment while also evincing the playfulness and fascination with theatrical performance and conspiracy that would become hallmarks for the director, Paris Belongs to Us marked the provocative start to a brilliant directorial career. Blu-ray Release Date: March 8th, 2016

The Manchurian Candidate (Criterion) BD - The name John Frankenheimer became forever synonymous with heart-in-the-throat filmmaking when this quintessential sixties political thriller was released. Set in the early fifties, this razor-sharp adaptation of the novel by Richard Condon concerns the decorated U.S. Army sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), who as a prisoner during the Korean War is brainwashed into becoming a sleeper assassin in a Communist conspiracy, and a fellow POW (Frank Sinatra) who slowly uncovers the sinister plot. In an unforgettable performance, Angela Lansbury plays Raymond’s villainous mother, the controlling wife of a witch-hunting anti-Communist senator with his eyes on the White House. The rare film that takes aim at the frenzy of the McCarthy era while also being suffused with its Cold War paranoia, The Manchurian Candidate remains potent, shocking American moviemaking. Criterion Blu-ray Release Date: March 15th, 2016

Pieces BD - Grindhouse Releasing is proud to present the sickest and most violent of all the early '80s slasher movies. A psychopathic killer stalks a Boston campus, brutally slaughtering nubile young college co-eds, collecting body parts from each victim to create the likeness of his mother who he savagely murdered with an axe when he was ten years old! PIECES is a wild, unrated gorefest, with enough splatter and sleaze to shock the most jaded horror fan. Blu-ray Release Date: March 1st, 2016
 

Two Films By Vera Chytilova - Something Different follows the lives of two women a gymnast in gruelling training (real life Olympic gold-medallist Eva Bosáková), and a dissatisfied housewife (Vera Uzelacová). The two strands never meet, but provide a progressive comment on each other and the differing roles of the women. In A Bag of Fleas, the everyday world of young factory girls lives in the cotton mills of Náchod conflict with officialdom. DVD Release Date: February 29th, 2016

The Atomic Submarine - Seasoned serial director Spencer Gordon Bennett helmed this story of a one-eyed, octopoidal space alien, wreaking havoc upon atomic subs at the North Pole. The monster is determined to take over the world, though it seems ill equipped for that purpose. Heroes Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, and Brett Halsey head underwater to neutralize the alien's submerged flying saucer. The cast is peopled with such veterans as Tom Conway, Bob Steele, Victor Varconi, Selmer Jackson, and Jack Mulhall. Movie buffs may wish to take note of the exterior scenes in Atomic Submarine; several of them are played out in front of the easily recognizable studios of Allied Artists, formerly Monogram and later the home of LA's PBS channel 28. Screenbound Pictures DVD Release Date: February 29th, 2016

Thunder on the Hill - Charlotte Hastings' West End stage hit Bonaventure was adroitly translated to the American screen as Thunder on the Hill. The bulk of the action takes place at convent, presided over by Sister Mary (Claudette Colbert). Circumstances -- namely, a dangerous rainstorm and raging flood -- dictate that the convent become a stopover for Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth), a convicted murderess who is being escorted to Death Row by a brace of guards. Slowly becoming convinced that Valerie is innocent, Sister Mary sets about to clear the girl and bring the genuine killer to justice. DVD Release Date: February 29th, 2016

 Next 4 weeks on the Calendar

February 22nd, 2016

 

American Horror Project Vol 1 [Blu-ray] - Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (Christopher Speeth, 1973), The Witch Who Came from the Sea (Matt Cimber, 1976), The Premonition (Robert Allen Schnitzer, 1976) - RB UK Arrow Video (BEAVER REVIEW)

American Horror Project Vol 1 [Blu-ray] - Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (Christopher Speeth, 1973), The Witch Who Came from the Sea (Matt Cimber, 1976), The Premonition (Robert Allen Schnitzer, 1976) - Arrow US (BEAVER REVIEW)

Autumn Almanac (Bela Tarr, 1984) Artificial Eye

The Bees [Blu-ray] (Alfredo Zacarías, 1978) Vinegar Syndrome

The Big Sleep [Blu-ray] (Howard Hawks, 1946) Warner Archive

Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death [Blu-ray] (J.F. Lawton, 1989) Full Moon

Cat People [Blu-ray] (Jacques Tourneur, 1942) Region FREE JP IVC

Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things [Blu-ray] (Bob Clark, 1972) VCI (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Curse / Curse II: The Bite [Blu-ray] - Shout! Factory

Demonoid [Blu-ray] (Alfredo Zacarías, 1981) Vinegar Syndrome

Frankenstein [Blu-ray] (Bernard Rose, 2015) Alchemy / Millennium

Frankenstein [Blu-ray] (Bernard Rose, 2015) RB UK Signature Entertainment

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [Blu-ray] (Richard Lester, 1966) RB UK 101 Films

The Graduate [Blu-ray] (Mike Nichols, 1961) Criterion Collection (BEAVER REVIEW)

Hawks and Sparrows (1966) / Pigsty (1969) [Blu-ray] Limited Edition RB UK Masters of Cinema  (BEAVER REVIEW)   (BEAVER REVIEW)

Heroes Behind the Badge [Blu-ray] (Wayne Derrick, 2012) HBTB

I Knew Her Well [Blu-ray] (Antonio Pietrangeli, 1965) Criterion Collection (BEAVER REVIEW)

I Walked with a Zombie [Blu-ray] (Jacques Tourneur, 1943) Region FREE JP IVC

Jesus Of Nazareth: The Complete Miniseries (40th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray] Shout! Factory

Key Largo [Blu-ray] (John Huston, 1948) Warner Archive

Kikujiro [Blu-ray] (Takeshi Kitano, 1999) RB UK Third Window Films

Millennium / R.O.T.O.R [Blu-ray] - Shout! Factory

Moonwalkers [Blu-ray] (Antoine Bardou-Jacquet, 2015) Alchemy / Millennium

Pauline at the Beach [Blu-ray] (Eric Rohmer, 1983) Kino Lorber (BEAVER REVIEW)

Photo Kano [Blu-ray] (Akitoshi Yokoyama, 2013) Section 23

Secret in Their Eyes [Blu-ray] (Billy Ray, 2015) Universal

The Serpent and the Rainbow [Blu-ray] (Wes Craven, 1988) Shout! Factory

The Sinful Dwarf [Blu-ray] (Vidal Raski, 1973) Severin Films

Spies [Blu-ray] (Fritz Lang, 1928) Kino Lorber (BEAVER REVIEW)

Spotlight [Blu-ray] (Tom McCarthy, 2015) Universal

Suspicion [Blu-ray] (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941) Region FREE JP IVC

The Thing from Another World [Blu-ray] (Howard Hawks, 1951) Region FREE JP IVC

Woman in the Moon [Blu-ray] (Fritz Lang, 1929) Kino Lorber (BEAVER REVIEW)

 

February 28th, 2016

 

Arrow: Season 1 [Blu-ray] - Warner

The Atomic Submarine (Spencer Gordon Bennett, 1959) R2 UK Screenbound Pictures (BEAVER REVIEW)

Audition [Blu-ray] (Takashi Miike, 1999) RB UK Arrow Video (BEAVER REVIEW)
 Audition Steelbook [Blu-ray] (Takashi Miike, 1999) RB UK Arrow Video (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Boy [Blu-ray] (Craig William Macneill, 2015) Shout! Factory

Childhood's End [Blu-ray] (2015 Mini-Series) Universal

Compulsion [Blu-ray] (Richard Fleischer, 1959) RB UK Signal One

Cop [Blu-ray] (James B. Harris, 1988) Kino Lorber

Creed [Blu-ray] (Ryan Coogler, 2015) Warner

Dear God No! [Blu-ray] (James Bickert, 2011) Big World Pictures

'Doc' [Blu-ray] (Frank Perry, 1971) RB UK Signal One (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Fall, Series 1 [Blu-ray] - Acorn Media
 The Fall, Series 2 [Blu-ray] - Acorn Media

Gog 3-D [Blu-ray] (Herbert L. Strock, 1954) Kino Lorber

Gored [Blu-ray] (Ido Mizrahy, 2015) FilmRise

Headline (John Harlow, 1943) R2 UK Network

L'inhumaine [Blu-ray] (Marcel L'Herbier, 1924) Flicker Alley (BEAVER REVIEW)

It! The Terror from Beyond Space [Blu-ray] (Edward L. Cahn, 1958) RB UK 101 Films

James White [Blu-ray] (Josh Mond, 2015) Alchemy / Millennium

Legend [Blu-ray] (Brian Helgeland, 2015) Universal

Lost in Hong Kong [Blu-ray] (Zheng Xu, 2015) Well Go USA

The Martian 4K UHD [Blu-ray] (Ridley Scott, 2015) 20th Century Fox

The Maze Runner 4K UHD [Blu-ray] (Wes Ball, 2014) 20th Century Fox

Pieces [Blu-ray] (Juan Piquer Simón, 1982) Grindhouse Releasing (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Rosary Murders [Blu-ray] (Fred Walton, 1987) Kino Lorber

Sicario 4K UHD [Blu-ray] (Denis Villeneuve, 2015) Lionsgate

So Evil My Love (Lewis Allen, 1948) R2 UK Screenbound Pictures

Something Different / A Bagful Of Fleas - Two Films By Vera Chytilova - R2 UK Second Run (BEAVER REVIEW)

Strange Brew [Blu-ray] (Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, 1983) Warner Brothers

Sunshine Superman [Blu-ray] (Marah Strauch, 2014) Magnolia

Taxi Tehran [Blu-ray] (Jafar Panahi, 2015) Kino Lorber

Thunder on the Hill (Douglas Sirk, 1951) R2 UK Screenbound Pictures (BEAVER REVIEW)
 Transformations [Blu-ray] (Jay Kamen, 1988) Kino Lorber

Underground [Blu-ray] (Emir Kusturica, 1995) RB UK BFI (BEAVER REVIEW)

Valentino [Blu-ray] (Ken Russell, 1977) RB UK BFI

Wild 4K UHD [Blu-ray] (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2014) 20th Century Fox

Youth [Blu-ray] (Paolo Sorrentino, 2015) 20th Century Fox

 

March 7th, 2016

 

47 Ronin [Blu-ray] (Carl Rinsch, 2013) Universal

*Batteries Not Included [Blu-ray] (Matthew Robbins, 1987) Universal Studios

The Benefactor [Blu-ray] (Andrew Renzi, 2015) Entertainment One

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas [Blu-ray] (Colin Higgins, 1982) Universal Studios

Black Widow [Blu-ray] (Bob Rafelson, 1987) RB UK Signal One

Coming Home [Blu-ray] (Yimou Zhang, 2014) Sony Pictures

The Forbidden Room [Blu-ray] (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, 2015) Kino Lorber

Howard the Duck [Blu-ray] (Willard Huyck, 1986) Universal

In the Heart of the Sea [Blu-ray] (Ron Howard, 2015) Warner

Jane B. Par Agnès V. / Kung-Fu Master! [Blu-ray] (Agnes Varda, 1988) Cinelicious Pics

Macbeth [Blu-ray] (Justin Kurzel, 2015) Anchor Bay

ParaNorman [Blu-ray] (Chris Butler, Sam Fell, 2012) Universal

Paris Belongs to Us [Blu-ray] (Jacques Rivette, 1960) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Peanuts Movie [Blu-ray] (Steve Martino, 2015) Twentieth Century Fox

The Playboys [Blu-ray] (Gillies MacKinnon, 1992) RB UK 101 Films

Scalps [Blu-ray] (Fred Olen Ray, 1983) RB UK 88 Films

The Seven-Ups [Blu-ray] (Philip D'Antoni, 1973) RB UK Signal One

Snow White and the Huntsman [Blu-ray] (Rupert Sanders, 2012) Universal Studios

The Tribe [Blu-ray] (Miroslav Slaboshpitsky, 2014) Cinedigm

Victoria [Blu-ray] (Sebastian Schipper, 2015) Adopt Films

The Vikings [Blu-ray] (Richard Fleischer, 1958) Kino Lorber

When Eight Bells Toll [Blu-ray] (Etienne Périer, 1971) Kino Lorber

You Can't Take It With You (Standard Case) [Blu-ray] (Frank Capra, 1938) Sony Pictures

 

March 14th, 2016

 

Basket Case - The Trilogy [Blu-ray] - RB UK Second Sight

The Big Short [Blu-ray] (Adam McKay, 2015) Paramount

Carol [Blu-ray] (Todd Haynes, 2015) Twc

The City of Lost Children [Blu-ray] (Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1995) RB UK Studiocanal

Drive In Massacre [Blu-ray] (Stu Segall, 1977) 88 Films

Dolls [Blu-ray] (Takeshi Kitano, 2002) RB UK Third Window Films

The Beat That Skipped My Heart [Blu-ray] (Jacques Audiard, 2005) RB Curzon / Artificial Eye (BEAVER REVIEW)

Horse Money [Blu-ray] (Pedro Costa, 2014) RB UK Second Run

Lady in White [Blu-ray] (Frank Laloggia, 1988) Shout! Factory

Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne: The Early Works - R2 UK Artificial Eye
 The Manchurian Candidate [Blu-ray] (John Frankenheimer, 1962) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)
 Monster Dog [Blu-ray] (Claudio Fragasso, 1984) Kino Lorber

Rage of Honor [Blu-ray] (Gordon Hesslerm, 1987) Arrow US

Re-Animator [Blu-ray] (Stuart Gordon, 1985) RB UK Second Sight

The Reflecting Skin [Blu-ray] (Philip Ridley, 1990) RB UK Soda Pictures

Rocco and His Brothers [Blu-ray] (Luchino Visconti, 1960) RB UK Masters of Cinema (BEAVER REVIEW)

Waking Life [Blu-ray] (Richard Linklater, 2001) RB UK Arrow

 
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