Newsletter - FOR THE WEEK

OF June 22nd, 2015

  This Week's Highlights
 
 

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O mbetô nga?! This week we are stacked with reviews of Blu-rays from Criterion, Masters of Cinema, Arrow, Kino Lorber, Artificial Eye, Olive, Network, Koch, Flicker Alley, Twilight Time, of films by Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, Samuel Fuller, Robert Siodmak, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jan Troell, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Don Siegel, Hayao Miyazaki, Jack Arnold, Takashi Miike, Jack Hill and more. Our Release Calendar includes two new films-to-Blu-ray by Criterion and awaiting more to be listed on Amazon. We have a CONTEST posted with a wonderful new Criterion Blu-ray prize! Enjoy!

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LATEST ADDITIONS TO THE RELEASE CALENDAR:

Moonrise Kingdom [Blu-ray] (Wes Anderson, 2012) Criterion

Mister Johnson [Blu-ray] (Bruce Beresford, 1990) Criterion

Closely Observed Trains [Blu-ray] (Jirí Menzel, 1966) RB UK Arrow Academy

Hammer Horror Collection [Blu-ray] - Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Taste the Blood of Dracula, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, The Mummy - Warner

Them! [Blu-ray] (Gordon Douglas, 1954) Warner Bros.

Mr. Arkadin [Blu-ray] (Orson Welles, 1955) RB FR Carlotta Films

The Mummy [Blu-ray] (Terence Fisher, 1959) Warner Bros.

The Front Page [Blu-ray] (Lewis Milestone, 1931) Kino Lorber

The Firemen's Ball [Blu-ray] (Milos Forman, 1967) RB UK Arrow Academy

True Story [Blu-ray] (Rupert Goold, 2015) 20th Century Fox

He Ran All the Way [Blu-ray] (John Berry, 1951) Kino Lorber

Zardoz [Blu-ray] (John Boorman, 1974) RB UK Arrow Films

Special Effects Collection [Blu-ray] (Them!, Mighty Joe Young, Son of Kong, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms) Warner

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms [Blu-ray] (Eugène Lourié, 1953) Warner

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave [Blu-ray] (Freddie Francis, 1968) Warner
The Ladykillers [
Blu-ray] (Alexander Mackendrick, 1955) RB UK Studiocanal

Mighty Joe Young [Blu-ray] (Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1949) Warner Bros.

Face to Face [Blu-ray] (Sergio Sollima, 1967) Kino Lorber

British Noir: Five Film Collection - They Met in the Dark (1943), The October Man (1947), Snowbound (1948), The Golden Salamander (1950) and The Assassin (1952) - Kino

The Reivers [Blu-ray] (Mark Rydell, 1969) Kino Lorber

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed [Blu-ray] (Terence Fisher, 1969) Warner Bros.

Taste the Blood of Dracula [Blu-ray] (Peter Sasdy, 1970) Warner Bros.

The Man Who Could Cheat Death [Blu-ray] (Terence Fisher, 1959) RB UK Eureka

The Duke of Burgundy [Blu-ray] (Peter Strickland, 2014) Shout! Factory

The Bear [Blu-ray] (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1988) Shout! Factory

Burn, Witch, Burn [Blu-ray] (Sidney Hayers, 1962) Kino Lorber

Requiescant [Blu-ray] (Carlo Lizzani, 1967) RB UK Arrow

Storm Fear [Blu-ray] (Cornel Wilde, 1955) Kino Lorber

Big House, U.S.A. [Blu-ray] (Howard W. Koch, 1955) Kino Lorber

War-Gods of the Deep [Blu-ray] (Jacques Tourneur, 1965) Kino Lorber

The Connection [Blu-ray] (Cédric Jimenez, 2014) Cinedigm

Still of the Night [Blu-ray] (Robert Benton, 1982) Kino Lorber

The Monster That Challenged the World [Blu-ray] (Arnold Laven, 1957) Kino Lorber

Rumble in the Bronx [Blu-ray] (Stanley Tong, 1995) New Line Home Video

Girlhood [Blu-ray] (Céline Sciamma, 2014) RB UK Studiocanal

Naked Lunch [Blu-ray] (David Cronenberg, 1991) RB UK Studiocanal

Killing Zoe [Blu-ray] (Roger Avary, 1993) RB UK Fabulous Films

The Goob [Blu-ray] (Guy Myhill, 2014) RB UK Soda Pictures

The Skull [Blu-ray] (Freddie Francis. 1965) RB UK Eureka

Navajo Joe [Blu-ray] (Sergio Corbucci, 1966) Kino Lorber

Blastfighter [Blu-ray] (Lamberto Bava, 1984) RB UK 88 Films

A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die [Blu-ray] (Tonino Valerii, 1972) Kino Lorber

The January Man [Blu-ray] (Pat O'Connor, 1989) Kino Lorber

Shocker [Blu-ray] (Wes Craven, 1989) Shout! Factory

Madhouse [Blu-ray] (Jim Clark, 1974) Kino Lorber

The Runner [Blu-ray] (Austin Stark, 2015) Millennium Media Services

A Town Called Hell [Blu-ray] (Robert Parrish, Irving Lerner, 1971) Kino Lorber

Play Motel [Blu-ray] (Mario Gariazzo, 1979) Raro

The Revengers [Blu-ray] (Daniel Mann, 1972) Kino Lorber

The Harvest [Blu-ray] (John McNaughton, 2013) Shout! Factory

The Town That Dreaded Sundown [Blu-ray] (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, 2014) Image Entertainment

The Editor [Blu-ray] (Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, 2014) Shout! Factory

Flesh for the Beast: Tsukiko's Curse [Blu-ray] (Carl Morano, 2013) Shriek Show

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

 

 

ONE VOICE (not Ellsworth Monkton Toohey): There were so many great films that I saw this past week. It's hard not to be impressed with Criterion's Blu-ray package of The Killers with the Siodmak, Siegel and Tarkovsky versions on one Blu-ray disc loaded with great supplements. I was also blown away by Jan Troell's Here is Your Life also on a stacked Criterion Blu-ray. Sticking with Criterion Alain Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour is a monumental film experience and it was a pleasure to see the new restoration in 1080P. Samuel Fuller's Forty Guns is an unforgettable cracker of a western and its gets a strong transfer from The Masters of Cinema group in the UK. How about Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage? What a super film and pleasing region 'B' Blu-ray from Network. Flicker Alley's 3-D Rarities will appeal to many even beyond its nostalgia - what a labor of love Blu-ray that we can strongly recommend! Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away is brilliant and looks appropriately stunning on Disney's new Blu-ray. MoC have created the definitive Blu-ray release for Mankiewicz' A Letter to Three Wives. Excellent. I'm a huge fan of the inventive The Incredible Shrinking Man and having on Blu-ray was a no brainer. A pure classic that I will revisit once or twice a year. Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid is an unusual film from the director but its hard to deny the presentation improvement on the new Twilight Time Blu-ray. Wild Tales still holds up as a very amusing movie and we've compared the Artificial Eye to the Sony Blu-ray. Okay, time for some honesty - if you don't have The Thing With Two Heads on Blu-ray in your digital library - you may as well burn it. Nu'ff said. I've always liked Harry in Your Pocket - very cool exploration of the pickpocket lifestyle and now on Blu-ray from Kino-Lorber. Milano Calibro 9 may very well be Fernando Di Leo's best film and now on a superb Region FREE Blu-ray from Arrow films. I also found Pit Stop (now in the US on Blu-ray) to be a very surprising and underrated effort from Jack Hill and Corman. Takashi Miike's The Happiness of the Katakuris is a wild surreal musical and its unique qualities export a lot of fun. Similarly Tokyo Tribe has something to offer along those lines of inventive, performance-based and directionless energy, but I doubt I will watch it ever again. Gregory leapt on three new Noirs on DVD this week - Robert Wise's Criminal Court. George raft as Johnny Angel and Ted Tetzlaff's top-notch Riffraff all desirable for devotees of the dark cinema. Speaking of which I covered the essential Noir - John Farrow's creepy Night Has a Thousand Eyes with Edward G. Robinson. Eric reviewed the music comedy Big In Japan, the intriguing Danish TV drama The Legacy - Season One, the crime-drama As Night Comes and fantasy, horror, thriller Apparition. See you next week - “The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.” - Raymond Chandler

  THIS WEEK's REVIEWS / COMPARISONS
 

Pit Stop BD - Richard Davalos (Cool Hand Luke) stars as Rick Bowman, a street punk who winds up in jail after a street race goes wrong. Bailed out by race promoter Grant Willard, Davalos is put in the deadly track where he comes up against Haig's maniacal winner Hawk Sidney. Featuring an outstanding supporting cast including Brian Donlevy (Hoodlum Empire) in his last film appearance, Ellen Burstyn, billed as Ellen McRae (The Exorcist) and Beverly Washburn (Spider Baby) Pit Stop is one of Hill's lesser known films but arguably his greatest. US Arrow Blu-ray Release date: June 23rd, 2015

Here is Your Life BD - This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. Based on a series of autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, Here Is Your Life follows a working-class boy’s development, from naive teenager to intellectually curious young adult, from logger to movie projectionist to politically engaged man of the people—all set against the backdrop of a slowly industrializing rural landscape. With its mix of modernist visual ingenuity and elegantly structured storytelling, this enchanting film—presented here in its original nearly three-hour cut—is a reminder that Troell is one of European cinema’s finest and most sensitive illuminators of the human condition. Blu-ray Release date: July 14th, 2015

A Letter to Three Wives BD - Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed and wrote the screenplay (based on John Klempner’s novel) for the 1949 feature A Letter To Three Wives and would receive Academy Awards® for both efforts. The film was also nominated for Best Picture. As three women head off on a boating trip with a group of children, they receive a letter written by a woman claiming to have stolen one of their husbands. Which one? The letter doesn’t say. Faced with the prospect of a shattered life, each woman soul searches throughout the day: Deborah Bishop (Jeanne Crain) feels inadequate amidst her husband’s (Jeffrey Lynn) country club set. Everyone sees Lora Mae Hollingsway (Linda Darnell) as a gold digger, including her husband (Paul Douglas). And Rita Phipps (Ann Sothern) has a career that makes her husband (Kirk Douglas) feel neglected to the point of infidelity. All three endure the anguish of uncertainty until the boat trip ends—and the truth is revealed. Blu-ray Release Date: June 29th, 2015

Hiroshima Mon Amour BD - A cornerstone film of the French New Wave, Alain Resnais’ first feature is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering. Utilizing an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Award-nominated® screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Resnais delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish, in this moody masterwork. Blu-ray Release Date: July 14th, 2015

Harry in Your Pocket BD - In this engaging crime drama with an undercurrent of subtle humor, James Coburn stars as Harry, a "cannon" a top-flight pickpocket, who works in association with Casey Walter Pidgeon, an older career criminal with a fondness for cocaine. Ray Michael Sarrazin and Sandy Trish Van Devere are two aspiring thieves who meet when he tries to steal her watch; eventually, they both come under Harry's tutelage, as he teaches them both the finer points of lifting people's wallets. Harry in Your Pocket was the sole theatrical film for television director and producer Bruce Geller, who died in a plane crash five years after this film was released. Blu-ray Release date: June 23rd, 2015

Mississippi Mermaid BD - Working single-handedly to adapt William Irish's novel, Truffaut transposes the setting from 1830 New Orleans to the tiny island of Reunion (off the coast of Madagascar) in the 1960's. Pre-dating the days of Internet personals, wealthy tobacco magnate Louis Mahè (Jean-Paul Belmondo) marries a woman (Deneuve) that he met through personal ads and has corresponded with. Although her appearance doesn't match the picture she had sent, Mahè accepts her explanation that she lied from lack of confidence. After all, he had told similar “white lies” by claiming to be the company foreman instead of the owner to avoid suspicion that his unseen correspondent was out for his money. Blu-ray Release Date: June, 2015

The Thing With Two Heads BD - What a heck of a thing to happen to a guy. He's a black man, convicted of murder and unable to persuade anyone of his innocence. He's sentenced to the electric chair (apparently because the Supreme Court's jurisdiction doesn't include American-International Pictures). He's willing to do anything to get another chance at life, so he volunteers for a weird medical experiment. The next thing he knows, he has Ray Milland's head parked alongside his left ear. This leads us to a philosophical point: is it better to be alive with Ray Milland's head plugged into your neck, or to be dead? Blu-ray Release date: June 23rd, 2015

Sabotage BD - Celebrated for the macabre, tour-de-force plots and sublime twist endings that would come to define the very genre of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock is one of cinema's greatest auteurs, his career spanning six decades and over sixty films. Based on Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and starring Oscar Homolka and Sylvia Sidney, Sabotage is one of Hitchcock's most significant pre-war British films. Featured here in a High Definition transfer from original film elements, this classic early thriller has never looked better. Blu-ray Release date: June 1st, 2015

The Killers (Criterion) BD - Ernest Hemingway’s simple but gripping short tale “The Killers” is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style and launch the acting careers of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version, starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, and John Cassavetes, that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is poetic and shadowy, the second direct and harsh as daylight, but both get at the heart of Hemingway’s existential classic. Blu-ray Release Date: July 7th, 2015

The Incredible Shrinking Man BD - When Grant Williams is subjected to a radioactive mist while on holiday with his wife, he falls ill and then starts to shrink. It's a simple premise, but the result is a masterpiece of the science-fiction genre that plays to the human emotion of the situation rather than overwhelming the audience with special effects. First his wife begins to order him around, then, as he gets inexorably smaller, the household cat becomes a savage predator, a splash of water threatens to destroy him and he fights to the death against a spider before advancing to the next stage in his strange and lonely existence. Blu-ray Blu-ray Release Date: May 28th, 2015

Forty Guns BD - A strong example of style dominating substance. The film is genuinely entertaining if you don't peer too close and get overly picky about details - condemned in the US because of its incongruous narrative, but lauded in Europe for its eclipsing style. Fuller, always a masterful auteur, pulls no punches and fills this film with stylistic western conventions years before Leone would do similar. Bottom line: this is a fun western ripe for high testosterone and machismo genre fans. Purposely different than a Anthony Mann western, but Fuller has his own tricks that keep you intrigued. The 2.35 widescreen has huge appeal and the frame is used to great effect. A memorable film. Blu-ray Release Date: June 22nd, 2015

3-D Rarities BD - Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New York City; New Dimensions, the first domestic full color 3-D film originally shown at the World's Fair in 1940; Thrills for You, a promotional film for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Around is Around, a 3-D animated gem by Norman McLaren; Rocky Marciano vs. Jersey Joe Walcott, the only 3-D newsreel; Stardust in Your Eyes, a hilarious standup routine by Slick Slavin; trailer for The Maze, with fantastic production design by William Cameron Menzies; Doom Town, a controversial anti-atomic testing film mysteriously pulled from release; puppet cartoon The Adventures of Sam Space, presented in widescreen; I'll Sell My Shirt, a burlesque comedy unseen in 3-D for over 60 years; Boo Moon, an excellent example of color stereoscopic animation...and more! Blu-ray Release date: June 23rd, 2015

Tokyo Tribe BD - Just when you thought Sion Sono's (Why Don't You Play In Hell?) unique brand of subversive cinema couldn't get any more out there, he's back to explode expectations once again as he ventures even further into uncharted cinematic territory with an ingenious hybrid of Yakuza gang-action and hip-hop musical. Blu-ray Release date: June 15th, 2015

Wild Tales (AE added) BD - Vulnerable in the face of a reality that shifts and suddenly turns unpredictable, the characters of Wild Tales cross the thin line that divides civilization and barbarism. A lover's betrayal, a return to a repressed past and the violence woven into everyday encounters drive the characters to madness as they cede to the undeniable pleasure of losing control. Artificial Eye Blu-ray Release date: June 15th, 2015

The Happiness of the Katakuris BD - One of an amazing seven features directed in 2001 by Japan's prolific shock auteur Takashi Miike, The Happiness of the Katakuris is a gleefully morbid musical comedy about a family of oddballs who open an inn in the mountains. Unfortunately, through no fault of their own, none of their guests leave their rooms alive. In order to protect their business, the family resorts to burying the corpses in the backyard, but this only leads to a zombie problem. Meanwhile, the daughter falls in love with Richard, a mysterious British navy officer, who looks suspiciously Japanese but claims to be the nephew of Queen Elizabeth herself. Just when Richard bungles onto a clue that might lead him to uncover the string of disappearing guests, a nearby volcano begins rumbling to life. Blu-ray Release Date: June 16th, 2015

Spirited Away BD - From Hayao Miyazaki, one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the history of animated cinema, comes the Oscar(R)-winning triumph (2002, Best Animated Feature Film), filled with astonishing beauty and epic adventure, a dazzling masterpiece for the ages. SPIRITED AWAY is a wondrous fantasy about a young girl, Chihiro, trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call on the courage she never knew she had to free herself and return her family to the outside world. an unforgettable story, brimming with creativity, SPIRITED AWAY will take you on a journey beyond your imagination. It's a fantastic tale the whole family will want to experience over and over again... Blu-ray Release Date: June 15th, 2015

Milano Calibro 9 BD - Released after a three-year term in prison for a bungled robbery, Ugo Piazza plans to lead the straight life for a while. But no sooner is he back on the street than he s picked up by a bunch of hoodlums under the employ of his former boss, the Americano among them, the psychopathic Rocco who are convinced that Ugo has stolen $300,000 from them. The gang forces Ugo to resume working for them in the hope that he'll eventually lead them to their missing loot. Blu-ray Release Date: June 15th, 2015

Criminal Court - Elevating Criminal Court above the B-picture norm is the inventive direction by Robert Wise and the better-than-usual performances by all concerned. In a break from his heroic "Falcon" role, Tom Conway stars as Steve Barnes, a criminal attorney known for his unorthodox courtroom tactics. After accidentally killing a crooked nightclub owner, Barnes is stuck on the horns of a dilemma when his sweetheart, cabaret singer Georgia Gale Martha O'Driscoll, is arrested for the crime The problem: How can Barnes clear Georgia of the murder without implicating himself? As for the solution...well, best not to reveal that here. All that keeps Criminal Court from A-picture status is its 62 minute running time; on the other hand, the film's impact might have been blunted had it been any longer. DVD Release Date: June 9th, 2015

Johnny Angel - Who was the cold-blooded villain who hijacked $5 million in gold from the freighter Quincy, killed the captain and all the crew, then escaped in a small boat? This is the mystery that Johnny Angel (George Raft) intends to solve - for that ship's captain was his father! Angel's only lead is Paulette (Signe Hasso), a French refugee who was aboard the ship, hidden beneath a batch cover at the time of the appalling crime. Paulette claims to have seen the entire ghastly crime - except the murderer's face. With only this much to go on, Angel systematically hunts down the killer and ultimately must confront him, face-to-face. Forceful performances and a taut, spellbinding mystery make Johnny Angel a thrilling adventure. DVD Release Date: June 9th, 2015

Riffraff - One of the many felicities of Ted Tetzlaff's top-notch Riffraff, the cinematography of George Diskant can be best seen, unencumbered by dialogue, in the first few dazzling minutes. Torrential storms darken an airfield in Peru, where in the dead of night a cargo plane bearing two passengers departs for Panama; only one of them arrives. The opening previews Tetzlaff's pure-cinema approach; he lets the story unfold through images (and occasionally sounds) with a casual adroitness that remains striking more than half a century later. DVD Release Date: June 9th, 2015

Big In Japan - Things are looking bleak for the members of rock band Tennis Pro. They've been struggling to connect to an audience in the Seattle music scene, with a recent run of shows drawing sparse crowds and uninspiring day jobs that are quickly eclipsing their dreams. So when an opportunity arises to take their act on the road to Japan - where the allure of a second chance at recognition awaits them - they can t refuse. Embarking on their Tokyo musical odyssey, the guys experience all the thrills and setbacks of taking their music into unknown territory (at least to them) and in the process learn a thing or two about themselves. It s just possible they won't fade away. DVD Release Date: June 23rd, 2015

Night Has a Thousand Eyes - A man who dreams of seeing the future discovers the horrible burden that it can carry in this film noir suspense story. Suicidal Jean Courtland (Gail Russell) is prevented from killing herself by her fiancée Elliot Carson (John Lund). When they consult psychic John Triton (Edward G. Robinson), he confesses that he used his powers to bring on her death. Years ago, Triton was a phony mentalist in a vaudeville act, but he began seeing genuine visions of the future, most of which portended tragic results. After a premonition of the death of his wife Jenny (Virginia Bruce) in childbirth, a terrified Triton went into hiding for five years; upon his return, he discovered that his wife had married Whitney (Jerome Cowan) shortly after John was declared dead...and she died giving birth. DVD Release Date: May 14th, 2015

The Legacy - Season One - Following the death of progressive internationally-renowned artist Veronika Grønnegaard, The Legacy traces the story of Veronika's four adult children, whose distinctive upbringing has affected their lives in very different ways. The division of Veronika's estate marks the beginning of a journey into a complex set of secrets and lies for her four children. The series paints a portrait of a Danish family and their children, coming to terms with the challenges of change and the traces of violent upheaval from their past. DVD Release Date: February 9th, 2015

As Night Comes - Troubled seventeen-year-old Sean Holloway falls in with a group of teenage outcasts called "The Misfits," known around town for their petty crimes and vandalism. But things begin to spiral out of control on "Mischief Night" - when their pranks culminate into a night of violence and mayhem on the eve of Halloween - and Sean finds himself deeply in over his head. DVD Release Date: May 26th, 2015

Apparition - When his beautiful fiancée, Lori (Katrina Law), is killed in a car accident, Doug (Jody Quigley) retreats in solitude to the isolated farmhouse that should have been his new family s home. As he grieves and further isolates himself from his friends and society, he learns that he is not alone in this quaint home. Plagued with grief and tragic memories, supernatural events leave Doug fearing for his sanity until he s able to find solace and a brief respite in the company of his new neighbor Jamie (Lili Bordán). As the two grow closer, Doug pulls Jamie in with him deeper into the increasingly horrifying events that unleash a psychological terror in the old farmhouse. DVD Release Date: May 5th 2015
 

 Next 4 weeks on the Calendar

June 22nd, 2015

 

3-D Rarities [Blu-ray] - Flicker Alley (BEAVER REVIEW)

Bank Shot [Blu-ray] (Gower Champion, 1974) Kl Studio Classics

Blind [Blu-ray] (Eskil Vogt, 2014) RB UK Axiom Films

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

The Color Out of Space [Blu-ray] (Huan Vu, 2010) Brink

Cops and Robbers [Blu-ray] (Aram Avakian, 1973) Kl Studio Classics

Dog Soldiers [Blu-ray] (Neil Marshall, 2002) Shout! Factory

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

Fled [Blu-ray] (Kevin Hooks, 1996) Olive Films

The Forger [Blu-ray] (Philip Martin, 2014) Lions Gate

Forty Guns [Blu-ray] (Samuel Fuller, 1957) RB UK Masters of Cinema (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Happiness of the Katakuris [Blu-ray] (Takashi Miike, 2001) RB UK Arrow Video (BEAVER REVIEW)

Harry in Your Pocket [Blu-ray] (Bruce Geller, 1973) Kl Studio Classics (BEAVER REVIEW)

Inherent Vice [Blu-ray] (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014) Warner DE (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Island of Dr. Moreau [Blu-ray] (Don Taylor, 1977) Kl Studio Classics (BEAVER REVIEW)

Johnny Be Good [Blu-ray] (Bud Smith, 1988) Olive Films

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner [Blu-ray] (Tony Richardson, 1962) RB UK BFI (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Man with the Golden Arm [Blu-ray] (Otto Preminger, 1955) RB UK Network

The Mean Season [Blu-ray] (Phillip Borsos, 1985) Olive Films

Mr. Denning Drives North (Anthony Kimmins, 1952) R2 UK Network

Needful Things [Blu-ray] (Fraser Clarke Heston, 1993) Kl Studio Classics

Night Beat [Blu-ray] (Harold Huth, 1947) R2 UK Network

Pit Stop [Blu-ray] (Jack Hill, 1969) Arrow US (BEAVER REVIEW)

Ripper Street: Season Three [Blu-ray] - BBC Home Entertainment

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning [Blu-ray] (Karel Reisz, 1960) RB UK BFI (BEAVER REVIEW)

Stone Cold [Blu-ray] (Craig R. Baxley, 1991) Olive Films

Sugar Hill [Blu-ray] (Paul Maslansky, 1974) Kino Video

The Thing With Two Heads [Blu-ray] (Lee Frost, 1972) Olive Films (BEAVER REVIEW)

Timbuktu [Blu-ray] (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014) Cohen Media

X-Ray [Blu-ray] (Boaz Davidson, 1981) RB UK 88 Films

Zombie Holocaust [Blu-ray] (Marino Girolam, 1980) 88 Films US

 

June 29th, 2015

 

1990: The Bronx Warriors [Blu-ray] (Enzo G. Castellari, 1982) Blue Underground

Deadly Record (Lawrence Huntington, 1959) R2 UK Network

Escape from the Bronx [Blu-ray] (Enzo G. Castellari, 1983) Blue Underground

Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight [Blu-ray] (Orson Welles, 1965) RB UK Mr Bongo

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

Force Majeure [Blu-ray] (Ruben Östlund, 2014) RB UK Artificial Eye

Ghosthouse (Umberto Lenzi, 1988) / Witchery (Fabrizio Laurenti, 1988) [Blu-ray] Shout! Factory

The Gunman [Blu-ray] (Pierre Morel, 2015) Universal Studios

Halas & Batchelor Collection [Blu-ray] - RB UK Network

Hard to Be a God [Blu-ray] (Aleksey German, 2013) Kino

Hue and Cry [Blu-ray] (Charles Crichton, 1947) RB UK Studiocanal

The Immortal Story (Orson Welles, 1968) R2 UK Mr Bongo

It Follows [Blu-ray] (David Robert Mitchell, 2014) Icon Entertainment

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter [Blu-ray] (David Zellner, 2014) RB UK Soda Pictures

A Letter to Three Wives [Blu-ray] (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1949) RB UK Masters of Cinema (BEAVER REVIEW)

The New Barbarians [Blu-ray] (Enzo G. Castellari, 1983) Blue Underground

Pit Stop [Blu-ray] (Jack Hill, 1969) Scorpion

Story of My Death (Albert Serra, 2013) R2 UK Second Run

Tamahine (Philip Leacock, 1963) R2 UK Network

Too Much Johnson [Blu-ray] (Orson Welles, 1938) RB UK Mr Bongo

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

Vanilla Sky [Blu-ray] (Cameron Crowe, 2001) Paramount

While We're Young [Blu-ray] (Noah Baumbach, 2014) Lions Gate

 

July 6th, 2015

 

5 Flights Up [Blu-ray] (Richard Loncraine, 2014) Universal

Angels One Five [Blu-ray] (George More O'Ferrall, 1952) RB UK Studiocanal

The Cell [Blu-ray] (Tarsem Singh, 2000) New Line Home Video

Contamination [Blu-ray] (Luigi Cozzi, 1980) Arrow Video US

Contamination [Blu-ray] (Luigi Cozzi, 1980) RB UK Arrow

Criminal Law [Blu-ray] (Martin Campbell, 1988) Olive Films

The Crimson Cult (Vernon Sewell, 1968) Kino Lorber

Deli Man [Blu-ray] (Erik Anjou , 2014) Cohen Media

Deranged [Blu-ray] (Jeff Gillen, Alan Ormsby, 1974) Kino Lorber

Elimination Game [Blu-ray] (Jon Hewitt, 2014) Entertainment One

Fire Birds [Blu-ray] (David Green, 1990) Mill Creek

House of Cards: Season 3 [Blu-ray] - Sony

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst [Blu-ray] (Andrew Jarecki, 2015) HBO Studios

Kill Me Three Times [Blu-ray] (Kriv Stenders, 2014) Magnolia

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

Maggie [Blu-ray] (Henry Hobson, 2015) Lions Gate

Merchants of Doubt [Blu-ray] (Robert Kenner, 2014) Sony Pictures

Mona Lisa [Blu-ray] (Neil Jordan, 1986) RB UK Arrow

Mr. Arkadin [Blu-ray] (Orson Welles, 1955) RB FR Carlotta Films

Ned Kelly [Blu-ray] (Tony Richardson, 1970) Olive Films

No Good Deed [Blu-ray] (Bob Rafelson, 2002) Mill Creek

Report to the Commissioner [Blu-ray] (Milton Katselas, 1975) Kino Lorber

Return to Sender [Blu-ray] (Fouad Mikati, 2015) RB UK Arrow Films

The Road Within [Blu-ray] (Gren Wells, 2014) Well Go USA

Slow West [Blu-ray] (John Maclean, 2015) Lions Gate

Spasmo [Blu-ray] (Umberto Lenzi, 1974) Arrow US

Still Alice [Blu-ray] (Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland, 2014) RB UK Curzon Film World (BEAVER REVIEW)

Street Smart [Blu-ray] (Jerry Schatzberg, 1987) Olive Films

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe [Blu-ray] (Yves Robert, 1972) Film Movement

The Treatment [Blu-ray] (Hans Herbots, 2014) Artsploitation Films

Truck Turner [Blu-ray] (Jonathan Kaplan, 1974) Kino Lorber

Wild Thing [Blu-ray] (Max Reid, 1987) Olive Films

Woman in Gold [Blu-ray] (Simon Curtis, 2015) Anchor Bay

 

July 13th, 2015

 

3 Women [Blu-ray] (Robert Altman, 1977) RB UK Arrow

24 Days [Blu-ray] (Alexandre Arcady, 2014) Menemsha Films

Adventures of Captain Fabian [Blu-ray] (William Marshall, Robert Florey, 1951) Olive Films

All Quiet on the Western Front [Blu-ray] (Delbert Mann, 1979) Shout! Factory

The Andromeda Strain [Blu-ray] (Robert Wise, 1971) Universal Studios

The Black Stallion [Blu-ray] (Carroll Ballard, 1979) Criterion

Blown Away [Blu-ray] (Stephen Hopkins, 1994) Kino Lorber

Cellar Dwellar / Catacombs [Blu-ray] - Shout! Factory

The Dovekeepers [Blu-ray] (Yves Simoneau , 2015) Paramount

The Eternal Sea [Blu-ray] (John H. Auer, 1955) Olive Films

Ex Machina [Blu-ray] (Alex Garland, 2015) Lions Gate

The Game [Blu-ray] (David Fincher, 1997) Universal Studios

Gangs of Wasseypur [Blu-ray] (Anurag Kashyap, 2012) Cinelicious Pics

Hell's Five Hours [Blu-ray] (Jack L. Copeland, 1958) Olive Films

Here's Your Life [Blu-ray] (Jan Troell, 1966) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

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

It Follows [Blu-ray] (David Robert Mitchell, 2014) Anchor Bay

King of the Gypsies [Blu-ray] (Frank Pierson, 1978) Olive Films

The Legend of the Lone Ranger [Blu-ray] (William A. Fraker, 1981) Shout! Factory

The Longest Ride [Blu-ray] (George Tillman Jr., 2015) Fox

Man of Conquest [Blu-ray] (George Nichols Jr., 1939) Olive Films

The Outing / The Godsend [Blu-ray] - Shout! Factory

Payroll [Blu-ray] (Sidney Hayers, 1961) RB UK Studiocanal

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting Upon Existence [Blu-ray] (Roy Andersson, 2014) RB UK Artificial Eye

Real Men [Blu-ray] (Danny feldman, 1987) Kino Lorber

The Roy Andersson Collection [Blu-ray] (A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflection Upon Existtence, You the Living, Songs from the Second Floor, A Swedish Love Story) RB UK Artificial Eye

Rush [Blu-ray] (Lili Fini Zanuck, 1991) Kino Lorber

Sneakers [Blu-ray] (Phil Alden Robinson, 1992) Universal Studios

Some Call It Loving [Blu-ray] (James B. Harris, 1973) Etiquette Pictures

The Stray Cat Rock Collection [Blu-ray] Delinquent Girl Boss (1971) - Wild Jumbo (1970) - Sex Hunter (1970) - Machine Animal (1970) - Beat '71 (1971) - Arrow Video (BEAVER REVIEW)

X-Men: Days of Future Past the Rogue Cut [Blu-ray] - 20th Century Fox

   
   
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