Newsletter - FOR THE WEEK

OF March 21st, 2016
  This Week's Highlights
 
 

Bon dia! Updates to both our Desert Island Top 100 and Noir Essentials lists. SALE CONTINUES: All Criterion Blu-rays and DVDs are up to 47% OFF at Amazon HERE (see below.) Perhaps our biggest week in years with Blu-ray and DVD reviews and comparisons of discs by Criterion, Masters of Cinema, Studio Canal, BFI, Elephant Films, Kino-Lorber, Sony, Olive of features on Blu-ray directed by Akira Kurosawa, Fritz Lang, David Lean, Zhang Yimou, Howard Hawks, Nicolas Roeg, Tsai Ming-Liang, Peter Watkins, Robert Montgomery, Whit Stillman, John Dahl, Robert Parrish, Felix E. Feist, Roger Corman, Harold Becker and DVDs of films by Joseph Losey and Erle C. Kenton. Our Release Calendar has updates of future films-to-Blu-ray including June Criterions and others of films by Alfred Hitchcock, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean Renoir, Stanley Kubrick, René Laloux, Olivier Assayas, Joseph Losey, and Mike Nichols and more! Feature Blu-ray and DVD is posted for MARCH. We have a CONTEST posted with a Brand New Criterion Blu-ray prize! NOTE: Our Year-End Poll Results for Blu-ray and DVD of the Year 2015 are COLLECTING DUST HERE THANKS TO ALL PARTICIPANTS! What a year!. Enjoy!

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LATEST ADDITIONS TO THE RELEASE CALENDAR:

Le amiche [Blu-ray] (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1955) Criterion

Here Comes Mr. Jordan [Blu-ray] (Alexander Hall, 1941) Criterion

La Chienne [Blu-ray] (Jean Renoir, 1931) Criterion

Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb [Blu-ray] (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) Criterion

Fantastic Planet [Blu-ray] (René Laloux, 1973) Criterion

Clouds of Sils Maria [Blu-ray] (Olivier Assayas, 2014) Criterion

Suspicion [Blu-ray] (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941) Warner Archive

M [Blu-ray] (Joseph Losey, 1951) RB FR Sidonis

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [Blu-ray] (Mike Nichols, 1966) Warner Archive

A Woman's Vengeance (Zoltan Korda, 1948) R2 UK Screenbound

The House of the Seven Gables (Joe May, 1940) R2 UK Screenbound

The Midnight Story (Joseph Pevney, 1957) R2 UK Screenbound

Danger Tomorrow (Terry Bishop, 1960) R2 UK Network

Catherine Deneuve Bundle (On My Way, In The Courtyard, 3 Hearts, In The Name Of My Daughter) Cohen Media

Stories from the Middle East Bundle (May in the Summer, The Other Son, The Attack, The Wind Will Carry Us) Cohen Media

I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman - Icarus Films

Chantal Akerman: Four Films - Icarus Films

Universal Hollywood Icons Collection: Marlene Dietrich (Blonde Venus / Desire / Angel / Seven Sinners) - Universal

Universal Hollywood Icons Collection: Carole Lombard (Hands Across the Table / Love Before Breakfast / My Man Godfrey / True Confessions) - Universal

Art House (Don Freeman, 2015) First Run Features

Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears, 2002) Lionsgate

Legend of the Lost (Henry Hathaway, 1957) Olive Films

Tokyo Story (single disc) [Blu-ray] (Yasujirô Ozu, 1953) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

City Lights (single disc) [Blu-ray] (Charles Chaplin, 1931) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens [Blu-ray] (J.J. Abrams, 2015) Walt Disney Studios

Minions [Blu-ray] (Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin, 2015) Universal

Joy 4K UHD [Blu-ray] (David O. Russell, 2015) 20th Century Fox

Not So Dumb (King Vidor, 1929) Warner Archive

Follow The Money [Blu-ray] (Complete First Season) - RB UK Arrow

Madigan (Don Siegel, 1968) R2 UK Screenbound

The Amsterdam Kill (Robert Clouse, 1977) R2 UK MediumRare

Hammer Film Collection - Volume Two - 6 Films - The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), The Snorkel (1958), Never Take Candy From a Stranger (1960), Maniac (1963), Die! Die! My Darling! (1965), Creatures the World Forgot (1971) - Mill Creek

The Films Of Maurice Pialat: Volume 1 [Blu-ray] (Maurice Pialat - Graduate FIrst, Mouth Agape, Loulou, Love Exists) Cohen Media

The Ninth Configuration [Blu-ray] (William Peter Blatty, 1980) RB UK Second Sight

Anomalisa [Blu-ray] (Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman, 2015) Paramount

Losing Ground [Blu-ray] (Kathleen Collins, 1982) Milestone Video

Carefree [Blu-ray] (Mark Sandrich, 1938) Region FREE JP IVC

Follow the Fleet [Blu-ray] (Mark Sandrich, 1936) Region FREE JP IVC

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Blu-ray BOX [Blu-ray] (The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, Follow the Fleet, Swing Time, Shall We Dance, Carefree, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle) Region FREE JP IVC

The Gay Divorcee [Blu-ray] (Mark Sandrich, 1934) Region FREE JP IVC

Shall We Dance [Blu-ray] (Mark Sandrich, 1937) Region FREE JP IVC

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle [Blu-ray] (H.C. Potter, 1939) Region FREE JP IVC

Top Hat [Blu-ray] (Mark Sandrich, 1935) Region FREE JP IVC

Brooklyn [Blu-ray] (John Crowley, 2015) 20th Century Fox

Suture [Blu-ray] (Scott McGehee, David Siegel, 1993) Arrow US

Matinee [Blu-ray] (Joe Dante, 1993) Region FREE JP Makuzamu

What Lola Wants [Blu-ray] (Rupert Glasson, 2015) Anchor Bay

Vampires [Blu-ray] (John Carpenter, 1998) Fox Home Entertainment

Backtrack [Blu-ray] (Michael Petroni, 2015) Lionsgate

Jane Got a Gun [Blu-ray] (Gavin O'Connor, 2015) Starz / Anchor Bay

What? [Blu-ray] (Roman Polanski, 1972) Severin Films

Tales That Witness Madness [Blu-ray] (Freddie Francis, 1973) RB UK Fabulous Films

Black Orpheus [Blu-ray] (Marcel Camus, 1959) RB UK Screenbound Pictures

Three Films by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani [Blu-ray] [Padre Padrone, The Night of the Shooting Stars, Kaos] - RB UK Arrow Academy

Too Late for Tears [Blu-ray] (Byron Haskin, 1949) RB UK Arrow

Woman on the Run [Blu-ray] (Norman Foster, 1950) RB UK Arrow

Room [Blu-ray] (Lenny Abrahamson, 2015) RB UK StudioCanal

Anomalisa [Blu-ray] (Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman, 2015) RB UK Curzon Artificial Eye

Taking of Pelham One Two Three (42nd Anniversary Special Edition) [Blu-ray] (Joseph Sargent, 1974) Kino Lorber

The Night Manager (complete series) [Blu-ray] RB UK Sony

Candy [Blu-ray] (Christian Maquand, 1968) Kino Lorber
 

 

ONE VOICE (not Ellsworth Monkton Toohey): So much this week... prominent mention should go to Studio Canal's Akira Kurosawa's RAN (4k-Restoration) - a monumental Blu-ray package of a true masterpiece. And speaking of which, Criterion bring use their Blu-ray (available on both sides of the pond) of Howard Hawks' Only Angels Have Wings - one of the less-mentioned classics from the golden year of 1939. Masters of Cinema give us Nicolas Roeg's enigmatic Eureka to Blu-ray - a disc worth revisiting for years. I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting Son of Frankenstein on Region FREE Blu-ray from Elephant Films in France - one of the most desirable of Universal's vintage horrors. How about the Tsai Ming-Liang Collection with indelible cinema with The River, Vive L'Amour and Rebels of the Neon God on individual Blu-rays. I'm a huge fan of Donovan's Brain and Kino Lorber's new Blu-ray transfer is leaps and bounds beyond my worn-out DVD. BFI bring us a two-pack of Peter Watkins' unique cinema with The War Game / Culloden on Blu-ray. Zhang Yimou's Coming Home with Gong Li harkens back to the director's memorable humanist works. I enjoyed more of John Dahl's twisting neo-noirs with Kill Me Again - now on Blu-ray. Harold Becker's The Boost is a fateful story of ambition and addiction from Olive on Blu-ray. David Lean's Ryan's Daughter isn't a perfect Blu-ray from Spain but it still worthy of consideration. Criterion complete Whit Stillman's trilogy with the contemplative Barcelona on Blu-ray (individually and in a boxset) involving more of the “urban haute bourgeoisie.” Robert Montgomery's The Gallant Hours is a very strong film and worthy of Blu-ray status. The same can be said for The Purple Plain with Gregory Peck and the unusual but affecting Ulee's Gold with Peter Fonda. We do a full comparison of Roger Corman's The Trip looking at Blu-rays from US and UK. Fritz Lang's delicious Noir The Woman in the Window doesn't get the treatment it deserves in a sloppy Spanish Blu-ray transfer. Notable on DVD is 951's M (Losey) - the best of a bad bunch from Films sans Frontières with hopes for the upcoming Sidonis Blu-ray. And lastly, House of Frankenstein is another of the appealing Universal horrors drenched in monsters, a mesmerized maiden, a mad scientists-type, his hunchback lackey and less tolerant villagers carrying torches. Yummy.

Quote for the week (from The Bad and the Beautiful):

Georgia Lorrison (Lana Turner): "Jonathan, will you marry me?"
Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas): "Not even a little bit."  

Look out for the other guy! - Gary

  THIS WEEK's REVIEWS / COMPARISONS
 

Ryan's Daughter BD - Lovely, headstrong Rosy (Sarah Miles) cannot forsake her passionate romance with the handsome British officer (Christopher Jones). Yet there is a greater love ? the devotion of her reserved schoolteacher husband Charles (Robert Mitchum), who stands by Rosy when her illicit affair leads to a charge of treason. Two honored alumni of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago director David Lean and screenwriter Robert Bolt frame this brooding tale within the expansive beaches, craggy cliffs and heathered hills of Ireland's Dingle Peninsula. Freddie Young's lush cinematography and John Mills' memorable portrayal of a town simpleton won Academy Awards.* The remarkable movie containing them casts a haunting spell. Blu-ray Release Date: April 14th, 2015

The Woman in the Window BD - A classic noir thriller with Robinson in top form as the likeable professor of criminal psychology who finds his most vivid fantasies and fears fulfilled when his wife and kids take a vacation and leave him alone to cope with the evils of the big city. Meeting up (innocently, it seems) with the woman of his dreams - the subject of a painting in a gallery window he passes regularly - he becomes involved first in the violent killing of a man, then in blackmail. Meanwhile his DA pal (Massey) keeps him in touch with the police's search for the killer. With Bennett and Duryea superb as the eponymous heroine and the blackmailer, and atmospheric camerawork by Milton Krasner, it's not merely a dazzling piece of suspense, but also a characteristically stark demonstration of Lang's belief in the inevitability of fate: Robinson, basically a good man, makes one small slip in a moment of relaxation, and he's doomed. Blu-ray Release Date: May 5th, 2015

RAN (4k-Restoration) BD - One of the most important and influential film makers in cinematic history, Akira Kursawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. His final masterpiece, RAN has been beautifully restored in 4k for the first time. With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa’s late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power. Blu-ray Release Date: April + May, 2016 (depending on country)

Coming Home BD - Lu (Chen Daoming) and Feng (Gong Li) are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. When Lu is released years later, he returns home to find his beloved wife has amnesia and remembers little of her past. Unable to recognize him, she still patiently awaits her husband's return. A stranger within his own family, Lu is determined to awaken his wife's memory through gentle displays of unconditional and eternal love. Blu-ray Release date: March 8th, 2016

Barcelona BD - The second film from writer/director Whit Stillman, Barcelona is a smart, urbane comedy of manners set in Spain at the tail end of the Cold War. Taylor Nichols stars as Ted, an American salesman living in Barcelona. Out of the blue, he is visited by his acidic cousin Fred (Chris Eigeman), a U.S. Navy officer sent abroad to work damage control on rising anti-American sentiment. The textbook "Ugly American," Fred travels through the city in full military regalia, impervious to the constant taunts of "Fascist!" Like the similarly self-absorbed Ted, who has become involved with political activist Monsterrat (Tushka Bergen), Fred also finds romance, with a party girl played by Mira Sorvino. A brittle fish-out-of-water comedy, Barcelona is literate and sophisticated, a knowing essay on cultural identity and perception. Blu-ray Release date: April 19th, 2016

Only Angels Have Wings BD - Electrified by crackling dialogue and visual craftsmanship of the great Howard Hawks, Only Angels Have Wings stars Jean Arthur as a traveling entertainer who gets more than she bargained for during a stopover in a South American port town. There she meets a handsome and aloof daredevil pilot, played by Cary Grant, who runs an airmail company, staring down death while servicing towns in treacherous mountain terrain. Both attracted to and repelled by his romantic sense of danger, she decides to stay on, despite his protestations. This masterful and mysterious adventure, featuring Oscar-nominated special effects, high-wire aerial photography, and Rita Hayworth in a small but breakout role, explores Hawks’s recurring themes of masculine codes and the strong-willed women who question them. Blu-ray Release Date: April 12th, 2016

The War Game / Culloden BD - Culloden, Watkins first full-length film, a docudrama, made for the BBC, portrays the 1746 Battle of Culloden which in the words of the narrator 'tore apart forever the clan system of the Scottish Highlands'. The film was hailed as a breakthrough for its cinematography, as well as its use of non-professional actors and presentation of an historical event in the style of modern TV reporting. The War Game is Watkins 1965 Academy Award-winning television drama-documentary depicting a nuclear war, written, directed and produced by Peter Watkins for the BBC's The Wednesday Play anthology series. The film shows the prelude to, and immediate weeks of the aftermath, of a Soviet nuclear attack against Britain. Told in the style of a news magazine programme, the cast was made up of non-actors, with narration by Peter Graham and Michael Aspel reading quotations from source material. Blu-ray Release Date: March 28th, 2016

Son of Frankenstein BD - The most elaborate--and longest--of Universal's Frankenstein series, Son of Frankenstein represents Boris Karloff's last appearance in the role of the Monster. The title character is played by Basil Rathbone, who with wife Josephine Hutchinson and son Donnie Donegan returns to the Old Country to take over his late father's estate. Rathbone receives a cool reception from the local villagers, who remember all too well the havoc wreaked by his father's monstrous creation. Though he assures his neighbors that he has no intention of following in his father's footsteps, Rathbone is hounded by suspicious town constable Lionel Atwill, whose stiff artificial arm is an unfortunate legacy of an earlier confrontation with Karloff. Also hanging around Frankenstein Castle is crazed shepherd Bela Lugosi), whose neck was broken in an unsuccessful hanging attempt. Blu-ray Release date: October 21st, 2015

Eureka BD - A reclusive, unhappy gold magnate finds his isolated tropical paradise threatened by the intrusion of organized criminals in director Nicolas Roeg's convoluted, arty drama. Gene Hackman stars as Jack McCann, a one-time gold prospector who his parlayed the discovery of a rich deposit in the Canadian wilderness into an immense fortune. Instead of satisfaction, McCann's wealth leads to depression and paranoia, and he moves to a remote island and withdraws from the world. The bulk of the film centers on what has become of McCann some thirty years later, as he attempts to deal with a troubled daughter (Theresa Russell) and the attentions of the Mafia, who want to build a new casino on his tropical home. As the pressures increase, his efforts to protect his property and maintain his family become increasingly desperate, culminating in an extended public trial. Even stranger and more stylized than most of Roeg's work, the disjointed Eureka will seem incomprehensible and painfully pretentious to those with little patience for his indirect narratives and purposefully exaggerated approach. Devoted fans, however, will find further proof of the director's impressive visual sense, especially during the film's earlier sequences. Blu-ray Release Date: March 21st, 2016

Vive L'Amour BD - This second film by prominent Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang is a brilliant portrayal of isolation and urban disillusionment in modern Taipei. The movie focuses on three lonely souls: Hsiao-kang, a gay salesman of crematorium niches who wanders the city on his scooter; Ah-jung, a handsome street hawker of counterfeit designer goods; and May Lin, a struggling real estate agent. Hsiao-kang sneaks into a vacant apartment with a stolen key, takes a bath, and tries to slash his wrists. Meanwhile, May picks up Ah-jung and enters the same flat for a late-night tryst. As the film progresses, each character goes through the tedium of their lives: May waits in empty houses for prospective clients; Ah-jung hawks his wares while avoiding the police, and Hsiao-kang places fliers in anonymous mailboxes. All three use the unoccupied apartment at various times for their own needs without realizing the presence of the others, until Hsiao-kang and Ah-jung run into each other. After they both flee the place when May arrives, they develop an odd sort of friendship. Blu-ray Release Date: May 27th, 2015

The River BD - Tsai Ming-Liang's The River, the Taiwanese master's third feature, opens with a chance encounter between Xiao-Kang (Lee Kang-Sheng) and an old friend (Chen Shiang-Chyi), an unexpected meeting that sets this bleak and ultimately disturbing film on its course. Persuaded to accompany his friend to a film set where she works as a production assistant, Xiao-Kang is recruited by the director to play a corpse floating in a polluted river. After the shoot, Xiao-Kang struggles to wash the river's stench off -- and begins to feel a twinge in his neck. Meanwhile, the movie shifts its attention to two other people, a middle-aged woman (Lu Hsiao-Ling) working as an elevator operator in a restaurant, and a man (Miao Tien) who alternates his time at McDonald's and a gay bathhouse. Blu-ray Release Date: May 27th, 2015

Rebels of the Neon God BD - Tsai's first film is of interest for its roots in his eventual styling - a more conventional drama than his future films, we are shown an ambitious student who leaves his studies to seek revenge on the hoodlums who wrecked his father's taxi cab. We are also privy to a couple of petty teenage thieves (Tse and Ping) living in an overcrowded apartment building with a constantly gurgling floor drain. Residing in their complex is a girl (Kuei) they are currently seeking attention from, yet as always with Tsai, communication is the barrier. Told in a series of Taipei-based tableaux's, Tsia's eventual themes are already obvious and will reoccur in his future films in a more concrete and polished form. Blu-ray Release Date: May 27th, 2015

The Gallant Hours BD - The "mutual admiration society" consisting of actor James Cagney and actor/director Robert Montgomery culminated in the 1960 film The Gallant Hours. Cagney stars as war hero Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey. On the verge of retirement, Halsey recalls his most fateful wartime experience: his five-week showdown between himself and Japanese Admiral Yamamoto (James T. Goto) in 1942. In command of the American naval forces in the Pacific, Halsey scores a crucial, tide-turning victory at Guadalcanal. In concentrating on the participants rather than the battle itself, The Gallant Hours is a character study of a remarkable American. Blu-ray Release date: April 5th, 2016

The Purple Plain BD - An H.E. Bates novel was the source for this psychological wartime drama set in Burma. Canadian pilot Gregory Peck and two comrades-in-arms crash in the Burmese wilds. The three men are forced to hack and crawl their way to safety, surrounded on all sides by the Japanese. Peck's subordinates don't completely trust their leader, and not without reason: Peck's nerves have been at the breaking point for months, and this experience may send him around the bend. But the ordeal strengthens Peck's psyche. Despite its American star, director and distributor (United Artists), The Purple Plain is a British production; thanks to its top-drawer production values and evocative color photography by Geoffrey Unsworth, the film brought in customers on both sides of the big pond. Blu-ray Release date: April 5th, 2016

Donovan's Brain BD - Felix E. Feist directed this second adaptation of the novel by Curt Siodmak (filmed previously in 1944 as The Lady and the Monster and later in 1963 as The Brain), which tells the story of a brilliant brain specialist (Lew Ayres) whose attempts to save the life of an accident victim result in the extraction of the dying patient's brain, kept alive via electrodes and a special solution. Before long, the disembodied gray-matter -- which previously belonged to sinister, wealthy industrialist Donovan -- begins to exert a supernatural influence over the doctor, until the once-kindly scientist begins taking on Donovan's aggressive, paranoid personality traits and is compelled to carry out the brain's nefarious commands. This is by far the most effective and intelligent treatment of its source material, building a creepy, suspenseful mood while avoiding lapses into pulp-novel camp. Blu-ray Release Date: March 22nd, 2016

Ulee's Gold BD - ''Ulee's Gold,'' which is also the best work of its director, Victor Nunez, is beautiful and heartfelt, an oasis of humanity in a season of furious hyperbole. Simple almost to a fault and yet effortlessly wrenching, it shows nothing more than the spiritual reawakening of a hard-bitten loner. Yet the star and filmmaker make this story resonate in moving, meaningful ways. Blu-ray Release date: April 19th, 2016

The Trip BD - Roger Corman directed this psychedelic odyssey concerning the curative properties of LSD, with a surrealistic screenplay written by Jack Nicholson. Peter Fonda is Paul Groves, a television commercial director whose estranged wife Sally (Susan Strasberg) is pressuring him to sign their divorce papers. Feeling strain in both his professional and his personal life, Paul talks to a guru named John (Bruce Dern), who suggests that an acid trip will cure what ails him. Paul goes to John's pad and his trip begins -- at first calm and sedate, but when Sally and a sexy blonde hippie enter his hallucinations, it's every man for himself. Paul experiences crazed sexual couplings, paranoiac visions, and even gets to attend his own funeral. After imagining he's seeing John's head bashed in, he runs from the apartment in terror and takes to the streets. He is finally rescued and brought to a beach house, where he completes his trip while making love to a beautiful woman. After the trip subsides, Paul is convinced he has been reborn and is prepared to face the new day. Olive Films Blu-ray Release Date: March 22nd, 2016

Kill Me Again BD - In his film debut, novice director John Dahl (who would later make The Last Seduction), weaves a quirky tale of love, murder and deception. Jack Andrews (Val Kilmer), a seedy private detective is hired by Fay Forrester (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer), to help her fake her own death in a clever scheme to escape from her mob pursuers, whom she double-crossed stealing money she had been sent to pick up, and are now intent on killing her. There then ensues a series of complicated plot-twists, double-crosses and surprises as Fay and Jack race each other to escape the mobsters, who have found them, and to get the money before the other does. Blu-ray Release date: March 22nd, 2016

The Boost BD - A well-crafted, hard-hitting look at an ideal marriage torn apart by personal insecurity, material greed and designer drugs. After years of frustration, Woods meets a sympathetic Californian businessman (Hill), who soon has him selling tax-shelter real estate investments as if his life depended on it. The market is wiped out overnight. Woods is left with no job and a lot of bills. He still has his beautiful wife (Young), but his fragile self-respect is shattered. Offered a little 'boost' by a pal, Woods snorts coke for the first time, instantly dispelling despair but also tapping into an already dangerously addictive personality. The addiction scenario is standard stuff: stress and temptation followed by steep decline, short-lived clean up, and final tragic lapse. The real fascination, though, is the sense that Woods is a disaster waiting to happen, a hollow man constantly on the verge of implosion. The approach here is slightly too monotone and distanced, curiously at odds with Woods' compulsively energetic performance. Blu-ray Release date: March 22nd, 2016

House of Frankenstein - In many ways the most endearing of Universal's B-grade "monster rallies" of the 1940s, House of Frankenstein manages within its 70-minute time span to make room for Frankenstein's monster (Glenn Strange), Dracula (John Carradine) the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.), and a couple of new recruits, mad scientist Boris Karloff and demented hunchback J. Carroll Naish. Escaping from prison, Karloff vows to continue his diabolical efforts to emulate Dr. Frankenstein's "eternal life" experiments; he also swears vengeance on the three men (Sig Ruman, Frank Reicher and Michael Mark) who were responsible for sending him to prison. With the help of fellow escapee Naish, Karloff murders a travelling-carnival impresario (George Zucco) and assumes his identity. DVD Release Date: October 21st, 2015

M (Losey) - It only required one viewing to realize that the ’51 M is a criminally undervalued film – for a variety of unfair reasons – and one of the very best noirs from that year, if not the best. Even if it was a turkey, it still would be essential viewing for the performances of its exceptional cast, the spectacularly shabby Los Angeles/Bunker Hill location settings of the period and the mesmerizing cinematography of Ernest Laszlo. It’s a near classic if not a full-fledged one, and one that complements the original’s vision and power as opposed to diminishing it, demonstrating pretty effectively that the social conditions which produced such a film in early 1930s Germany could be successfully transported to 1950s noir-era America. DVD Release Date: April 29th, 2015
 

 Next 4 weeks on the Calendar

March 21st, 2016

 

After the Fox [Blu-ray] (Vittorio De Sica, 1966) Kino Lorber

Bande a Part [Blu-ray] (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) RB UK BFI

Black Mama White Mama [Blu-ray] (Eddie Romero, 1973) Arrow US (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Black Sleep [Blu-ray] (Reginald Le Borg, 1956) Kino Lorber

The Boost [Blu-ray] (Harold Becker, 1988) Olive Films (BEAVER REVIEW)

Breaker! Breaker! [Blu-ray] (Don Hulette, 1977) Olive Films
 A Brighter Summer Day [Blu-ray] (Edward Yang, 1991) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

Brotherly Love (J Lee Thompson, 1970) Warner Archive

City Lights (single disc) [Blu-ray] (Charles Chaplin, 1931) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

Clean Slate [Blu-ray] (Mick Jackson, 1994) Olive Films
 Culloden + The War Game [Blu-ray] (Peter Watkins) RB UK BFI (BEAVER REVIEW)

Disturbing Behavior [Blu-ray] (David Nutter, 1998) Shout! Factory

Donovan's Brain [Blu-ray] (Felix E. Feist, 1953) Kino Lorber (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Drum (Zoltan Korda, 1938) R2 UK Network

Eureka [Blu-ray] (Nicolas Roeg, 1983) RB UK Masters of Cinema (BEAVER REVIEW)

Farewell My Concubine [Blu-ray] (Kaige Chen, 1993) RB UK BFI (BEAVER REVIEW)

A Fine Pair (Francesco Maselli, 1968) Warner Archive

Forbidden (George King, 1949) R2 UK Network

Fort Apache [Blu-ray] (John Ford, 1948) Region FREE JP IVC

Freaks And Geeks: The Complete Series [Blu-ray] - Shout! Factory

The Fugitive [Blu-ray] (John Ford, 1947) Region FREE JP IVC

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

The Hunger Games 4-Film Complete Collection [Blu-ray] - LionsGate

Jinxed! [Blu-ray] (Don Siegel, 1982) Olive Films

Kill Me Again [Blu-ray] (John Dahl, 1989) Olive Films (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Last Wagon [Blu-ray] (Delmer Daves, 1956) RB DE Koch Media

Melinda (Hugh A. Robertson, 1972) Warner Archive

Michael Collins [Blu-ray] (Neil Jordan, 1996) Warner Archive

Midnight Run [Blu-ray] (Martin Brest, 1988) Shout Factory (BEAVER REVIEW)

My Summer Story [Blu-ray] (Bob Clark, 1994) Olive Film

Occupied [Blu-ray] (2015–TV Series) RB UK Spirit

The Pearl Button [Blu-ray] (Patricio Guzmán, 2015) Kino Lorber

The Return of Frank James [Blu-ray] (Fritz Lang, 1940) RB DE Koch Media

Revenge [Blu-ray] (Sidney Hayers, 1971) RB UK Network

Shooting Stars [Blu-ray] (Anthony Asquith, A.V. Bramble, 1928) RB UK BFI

Tokyo Story (single disc) [Blu-ray] (Yasujirô Ozu, 1953) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Trip [Blu-ray] (Roger Corman, 1967) Olive Films (BEAVER REVIEW)

The War Between Men and Women [Blu-ray] (Melville Shavelson, 1972) Kino Lorber

The Water Babies [Blu-ray] (Lionel Jeffries, 1978) RB UK Screenbound Entertainment

White Feather [Blu-ray] (Robert D. Webb, 1955) RB DE Koch Media

 

March 28th, 2016

 

Bicycle Thieves [Blu-ray] (Vittorio De Sica, 1948) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

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

Burial Ground [Blu-ray] (Andrea Bianchi, 1981) RB UK 88 Films

Chantal Akerman: Four Films - Icarus Films

Cherry Falls [Blu-ray] (Geoffrey Wright, 2000) Shout! Factory

The City of the Dead [Blu-ray] (John Llewellyn Moxey, 1960) VCI
 Code 7, Victim 5 / Mozambique [Blu-ray] (Robert Lynn, 1964-1965) Blue Underground

Concussion [Blu-ray] (Peter Landesman, 2015) Sony Pictures
 Confession of a Child of the Century [Blu-ray] (Sylvie Verheyde, 2012) Cohen Media

Culloden + The War Game [Blu-ray] (Peter Watkins, 1964-65) - RB UK BFI

Death Walks Twice: Two Films by Luciano Ercoli (4-Disc Limited Edition Boxset) [Blu-ray + DVD] (includes Death Walks on High Heels and Death Walks at Midnight) - Arrow US

Exposed [Blu-ray] (Declan Dale, 2016) LionsGate

Fear Eats the Soul [Blu-ray] (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) RB UK Arrow

Forsaken [Blu-ray] (Jon Cassar, 2015) Entertainment One

Frightmare [Blu-ray] (Norman Thaddeus Vane, 1983) Vinegar Syndrome

The Gong Show Movie [Blu-ray] (Chuck Barris, 1980) Shout! Factory

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

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

Into the Deep [Blu-ray] (Gerald Rascionato, 2015) RB UK Metrodome

The Ken Russell Collection: The Great Composers [Blu-ray] (Elgar (1962), The Debussy Film (1965), Delius: Song of Summer (1968) RB UK BFI (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Ken Russell Collection: The Great Passions [Blu-ray] (Always on Sunday, Isadora: The Biggest Dancer in the World (1966), Dante's Inferno (1967) RB UK BFI (BEAVER REVIEW)

Lenny [Blu-ray] (Bob Fosse, 1974) RB FR Wild Side Video

The Lion In Winter [Blu-ray] (Anthony Harvey, 1968) RB UK Studiocanal

The Merchant of Four Seasons + Beware of a Holy Whore [Blu-ray] (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970, 1971) RB UK Arrow

Murders in the Rue Morgue / The Dunwich Horror [Blu-ray] - Shout! Factory

The Night Manager (complete series) [Blu-ray] RB UK Sony

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

A Poem Is a Naked Person [Blu-ray] (Les Blank, 1974) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

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

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

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

The Sicilian [Blu-ray] (Michael Cimino, 1987) Shout! Factory

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

Three Amigos! [Blu-ray] (John Landis, 1986) RB UK 101 Films

The Vault of Horror [Blu-ray] (Roy Ward Baker, 1973) RB UK Final Cut Entertainment

The Wages of Fear [Blu-ray] (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953) RB UK BFI

 

April 4th, 2016

 

Aimy in a Cage [Blu-ray] (Hooroo Jackson, 2015) Ankaboot

The Amsterdam Kill (Robert Clouse, 1977) R2 UK MediumRare

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant [Blu-ray] (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972) RB UK Arrow

The Black Cat aka "Gatto nero" [Blu-ray] (Lucio Fulci, 1981) - Arrow US (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Black Cat aka "Gatto nero" [Blu-ray] (Lucio Fulci, 1981) - Region FREE UK Arrow (BEAVER REVIEW)

Black Mama White Mama [Blu-ray] (Eddie Romero, 1973) Arrow UK (BEAVER REVIEW)

Danger Tomorrow (Terry Bishop, 1960) R2 UK Network

Dangerous Men [Blu-ray] (Jahangir Salehi, 2005) Simma Sim

The Forbidden Room [Blu-ray] (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, 2015) RB UK Soda Pictures

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens [Blu-ray] (J.J. Abrams, 2015) Walt Disney Studios

The Gallant Hours [Blu-ray] (Robert Montgomery, 1960) Kino Classics (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Hallow [Blu-ray] (Corin Hardy, 2015) Shout! Factory

Hammer Film Collection - Volume Two - 6 Films - The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), The Snorkel (1958), Never Take Candy From a Stranger (1960), Maniac (1963), Die! Die! My Darling! (1965), Creatures the World Forgot (1971) - Mill Creek

Leaving Las Vegas - 20th Anniversary Edition [Blu-ray] (Mike Figgis, 1995) RB UK Studiocanal

Losing Ground [Blu-ray] (Kathleen Collins, 1982) Milestone Video

Journey to the Seventh Planet [Blu-ray] (Sidney W. Pink, 1961) Kino Classics (BEAVER REVIEW)

M [Blu-ray] (Joseph Losey, 1951) RB FR Sidonis

The Marriage of Maria Braun [Blu-ray] (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979) RB UK Arrow

Prefontaine [Blu-ray] (Steve James, 1997) Mill Creek Entertainment

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

The Purple Plain [Blu-ray] (Robert Parish, 1955) Kino Classics (BEAVER REVIEW)

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

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon [Blu-ray] (John Ford, 1949) Region FREE JP IVC

Stories from the Middle East Bundle (May in the Summer, The Other Son, The Attack, The Wind Will Carry Us) Cohen Media

Three Brothers [Blu-ray] (Francesco Rosi, 1981) RB UK Arrow

Tales That Witness Madness [Blu-ray] (Freddie Francis, 1973) RB UK Fabulous Films

Wagon Master [Blu-ray] (John Ford, 1950) Region FREE JP IVC

Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key [Blu-ray] (Sergio Martino, 1972) - Arrow US (BEAVER REVIEW)

Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key [Blu-ray] (Sergio Martino, 1972) - Region FREE UK Arrow (BEAVER REVIEW)

 

April 11th, 2016

 

Bride of Re-Animator [Blu-ray] (Director Approved 3-Disc Limited Edition) (Brian Yuzna, 1989) Arrow R0 UK

Bride of Re-Animator [Blu-ray] (Director Approved 3-Disc Limited Edition) (Brian Yuzna, 1989) Arrow US

Destroyer / Edge of Sanity [Blu-ray] - Shout! Factory

Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears, 2002) Lionsgate

Half Nelson [Blu-ray] (Ryan Fleck, 2006) RB UK Axiom Films

Ivan's Childhood [Blu-ray] (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962) RB UK Artificial Eye

Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne: The Early Works - R2 UK Artificial Eye

The Mississippi Gambler [Blu-ray] (Rudolph Maté, 1953) RB DE Koch Media

Mysterious Object at Noon [Blu-ray] (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2000) RB UK Second Run

No Exit (Norman Lee, 1936) R2 UK Network

Only Angels Have Wings [Blu-ray] (Howard Hawks, 1939) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

Parasyte: Part 1 [Blu-ray] (Takashi Yamazaki, 2014) RB UK Manga Entertainment

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

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

Shadows in an Empty Room [Blu-ray] (Alberto De Martino, 1977) Scorpion Releasing

The Sound Barrier (Restored) [Blu-ray] (David Lean, 1952) RB UK Studiocanal

The Spoilers [Blu-ray] (Jesse Hibbs, 1955) RB DE Koch Media

Suspicion [Blu-ray] (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941) Warner Archive

Three Days of the Condor [Blu-ray] (Sidney Pollock, 1975) RB UK Masters of Cinema

Trapped [Blu-ray] (Baltasar Kormákur, 2015) RB UK Arrow Films

Village of the Damned [Blu-ray] (John Carpenter, 1995) Shout! Factory

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [Blu-ray] (Mike Nichols, 1966) Warner Archive

 

Make Way for Tomorrow [Blu-ray] (Leo McCarey, 1937) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Friends of Eddie Coyle [Blu-ray] (Peter Yates, 1973) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The River [Blu-ray] (Jean Renoir, 1951) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Sullivan's Travels [Blu-ray] (Preston Sturges, 1941) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Odd Man Out [Blu-ray] (Carol Reed, 1947) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Cries and Whispers [Blu-ray] (Ingmar Bergman, 1972) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Hoop Dreams [Blu-ray] (Steve James, 1994) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Thin Blue Line [Blu-ray] (Errol Morris, 1988) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Gates of Heaven/Vernon, Florida [Blu-ray] (Errol Morris, 1978/1984) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Soft Skin [Blu-ray] (François Truffaut, 1964) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Ride the Pink Horse [Blu-ray] (Robert Montgomery, 1947) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Satyricon [Blu-ray] (Federico Fellini, 1969) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

An Autumn Afternoon [Blu-ray] (Yasujiro Ozu, 1962) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Don't Look Now [Blu-ray] (Nicolas Roeg, 1973) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Every Man for Himself [Blu-ray] (Jean-Luc Godard, 1980) Criterion 47% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

La Ciénaga [Blu-ray] (Lucrecia Martel, 2001) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Palm Beach Story [Blu-ray] (Preston Sturges, 1942) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

My Winnipeg [Blu-ray] (Guy Maddin, 2007) Criterion Collection 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant [Blu-ray] (RW Fassbinder, 1972) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Dressed to Kill [Blu-ray] (Brian De Palma, 1980) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Breaker Morant [Blu-ray] (Bruce Beresford, 1980) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Two Days, One Night [Blu-ray] (Dardennes, 2014) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Throne of Blood [Blu-ray] (Akira Kurosawa, 1957) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Day for Night [Blu-ray] (François Truffaut, 1973) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The French Lieutenant's Woman [Blu-ray] (Karel Reisz, 1981) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Night and the City [Blu-ray] (Jules Dassin, 1950) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

My Beautiful Laundrette [Blu-ray] (Stephen Frears, 1985) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Hiroshima Mon Amour [Blu-ray] (Alain Resnais, 1959) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

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The Killers [Blu-ray] (Robert Siodmak, 1946 / Don Siegel, 1964) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders [Blu-ray] (Jaromil Jireš, 1970) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Fisher King [Blu-ray] (Terry Gilliam, 1991) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Merchant of Four Seasons [Blu-ray] (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Limelight [Blu-ray] (Charles Chaplin, 1952) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Moonrise Kingdom [Blu-ray] (Wes Anderson, 2012) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Honeymoon Killers [Blu-ray] (Leonard Kastle, 1970) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

A Room with a View [Blu-ray] (James Ivory, 1986) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Brood [Blu-ray] (David Cronenberg, 1979) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Kwaidan [Blu-ray] (Masaki Kobayashi, 1965) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Mulholland Dr. [Blu-ray] (David Lynch, 2001) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Code Unknown [Blu-ray] (Michael Haneke, 2000) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

In Cold Blood [Blu-ray] (Richard Brooks, 1967) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Don't Look Back [Blu-ray] (D. A. Pennebaker, 1967) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Ikiru [Blu-ray] (Akira Kurosawa, 1952) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Downhill Racer [Blu-ray] (Michael Ritchie, 1969) Criterion45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Jellyfish Eyes [Blu-ray] (Takashi Murakami, 2013) Criterion 43% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Speedy [Blu-ray] (Ted Wilde, 1928) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Burroughs: The Movie [Blu-ray] (Howard Brookner, 1983) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Gilda [Blu-ray] (Charles Vidor, 1946) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Inside Llewyn Davis [Blu-ray] (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2013) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Bitter Rice [Blu-ray] (Giuseppe De Santis, 1949) Criterion 43% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The American Friend [Blu-ray] (Wim Wenders, 1977) Criterion 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Complete Lady Snowblood [Blu-ray] Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Harakiri [Blu-ray] (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Samurai Trilogy [Blu-ray] (Hiroshi Inagaki, 1956) 46% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)  (BEAVER REVIEW)  (BEAVER REVIEW)

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Insignificance [Blu-ray] (Nicolas Roeg, 1985) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Life is Sweet [Blu-ray] (Mike Leigh, 1990) 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Black Moon [Blu-ray] (Louis Malle, 1975) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Sword of Doom [Blu-ray] (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966) Criterion 45% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

Yojimbo & Sanjuro [Blu-ray] (Akira Kurosawa, 1962) Criterion 46% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW) (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Fisher King [Blu-ray] (Terry Gilliam, 1991) Criterion 46% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Wages Of Fear [Blu-ray] (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953) 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Nashville [Blu-ray] (Robert Altman, 1975) 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Heaven's Gate [Blu-ray] (Michael Cimino, 1980) 47% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

All That Heaven Allows [Blu-ray] (Douglas Sirk, 1955) 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

My Darling Clementine [Blu-ray] (John Ford, 1946) Criterion 45% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

Hiroshima Mon Amour [Blu-ray] (Alain Resnais, 1959) Criterion 46% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Rules of the Game [Blu-ray] (Jean Renoir, 1939) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Killers [Blu-ray] (Robert Siodmak, 1946 / Don Siegel, 1964) Criterion 45% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

My Own Private Idaho [Blu-ray] (Gus Van Sant, 1991) Criterion 46% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

La dolce vita [Blu-ray] (Federico Fellini, 1960) Criterion 46% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Complete Monterey Pop Festival - Criterion Collection [Blu-ray] 46% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

Three Outlaw Samurai [Blu-ray] (Hideo Gosha, 1964) 43% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Watership Down [Blu-ray] (Martin Rosen, 1978) Criterion 46% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

In the Mood for Love [Blu-ray] (Wong Kar-wai, 2000) 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Persona [Blu-ray] (Ingmar Bergman, 1966) Criterion 45% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Night of the Hunter [Blu-ray] (Charles Laughton, 1955) Criterion 47% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Double Life of Veronique [Blu-ray] (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Rose [Blu-ray] (Mark Rydell, 1979) Criterion 46% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

My Beautiful Laundrette [Blu-ray] (Stephen Frears, 1985) Criterion 46% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

I Married a Witch [Blu-ray] (Rene Clair, 1944) 43% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Devil’s Backbone [Blu-ray] (Guillermo del Toro, 2001) Criterion 46% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

Breaker Morant [Blu-ray] (Bruce Beresford, 1980) Criterion 45% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

F For Fake [Blu-ray] (Orson Welles, 1976) Criterion Collection 45% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold [Blu-ray] (Martin Ritt, 1965) Criterion 45% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

Picnic at Hanging Rock [Blu-ray] (Peter Weir, 1975) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Rififi [Blu-ray]  (Jules Dassin, 1955) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Bridge [Blu-ray] (Bernhard Wicki, 1959) Criterion 46% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

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Still Walking [Blu-ray] (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2008) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Five Easy Pieces [Blu-ray] (Bob Rafelson, 1970) Criterion 45% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

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A Day in the Country [Blu-ray] (Jean Renoir, 1936) Criterion 47% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

Make Way for Tomorrow [Blu-ray] (Leo McCarey, 1937) Criterion 45% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

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La Cage Aux Folles [Blu-ray] (Edouard Molinaro, 1942)  45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

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The Shooting / Ride In the Whirlwind [Blu-ray] (Monte Hellman, 1966) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Au revoir les enfants [Blu-ray] (Louis Malle, 1987) Criterion 45% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

Weekend [Blu-ray] (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

An Autumn Afternoon [Blu-ray] (Yasujiro Ozu, 1962) Criterion 45% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

Letter Never Sent [Blu-ray] (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1959) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Every Man for Himself [Blu-ray] (Jean-Luc Godard, 1980) Criterion 47% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

State of Siege [Blu-ray] (Costa-Gavras, 1972) Criterion 46% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Confession [Blu-ray] (Costa-Gavras, 1970) Criterion 46% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

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Monsieur Verdoux [Blu-ray] (Charles Chaplin, 1947) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Vengeance Is Mine [Blu-ray] (Shohei Imamura, 1979) Criterion 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

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Like Someone in Love [Blu-ray] (Abbas Kiarostami, 2012) 45% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)

Here is Your Life [Blu-ray] (Jan Troell, 1966) Criterion 45% OFF (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Ballad of Narayama [Blu-ray] (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1958) Criterion 43% OFF! (BEAVER REVIEW)
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