DVDBeaver Newsletter - August 11th, 2014

Newsletter - FOR THE WEEK

OF August 11th, 2014

	This Week's Highlights

	Yaamagara! Some amazing Blu-rays this week with F. W. Murnau, Jules Dassin, Maurice Pialat, Kelly Reichardt, John Huston, Brian DePalma and more. Augusts' FEATURE Blu-ray and DVD are posted. We have a CONTEST posted with an amazing new, Blu-ray prize valued at $60!(see below) !- best of luck! FOLLOW US on TWITTER! (where we post important reviews, contests - prizes, calendar updates - plus much more...) FEATURE Blu-ray and DVD of the MONTH selected for AUGUST!
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LATEST ADDITIONS TO THE RELEASE CALENDAR:

The Killers [Blu-ray] (Robert Siodmak, 1946) RB FR Carlotta Films

Batman The Complete TV Series Limited Edition [Blu-ray] - Warner Home Video

Stanley Kubrick: The Masterpiece Collection Amazon Exclusive [Blu-ray] - Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Kubrick Remembered, Stanley Kubrick in Focus, Once Upon a Time … A Clockwork Orange - Warner

Gorky Park [Blu-ray] (Michael Apted, 1983) Kino Lorber

The Great Race [Blu-ray] (Blake Edwards, 1965) Warner Archive

Planet of the Vampires [Blu-ray] (Mario Bava, 1965) Kino Lorber

Duck You Sucker Aka a Fistful of Dynamite [Blu-ray] (Sergio Leone, 1971) - MGM

A Christmas Carol [Blu-ray] (Edwin L. Marin, 1938) MGM

Topkapi [Blu-ray] (Jules Dassin, 1964) Kino Lorber

Sidewalk Stories [Blu-ray] (Charles Lane, 1989) RB FR Carlotta Films

Desperately Seeking Susan [Blu-ray] (Susan Seidelman, 1985) Kino Lorber

Labor Day [Blu-ray] (Jason Reitman, 2013) Paramount

Fargo Season One [Blu-ray] - Fox

Married to the Mob [Blu-ray] (Jonathan Demme, 1988) Kino Lorber

Billion Dollar Brain [Blu-ray] (Ken Russell, 1967) Kino Lorber

Mulholland Falls [Blu-ray] (Lee Tamahori, 1996) Kino Lorber

True Confessions [Blu-ray] (Ulu Grosbard, 1981) Kino Lorber

Last Embrace [Blu-ray] (Jonathan Demme, 1979) Kino Lorber

The First Power [Blu-ray] (Robert Resnikoff, 1990) Kino Lorber

Jennifer [Blu-ray] (Brice Mack, 1978) Kino Lorber

To All a Goodnight [Blu-ray] (David Hess, 1980) Kino Lorber

The Naked Face [Blu-ray] (Bryan Forbes, 1984) Kino Lorber

Krull [Blu-ray] (Peter Yates, 1983) Mill Creek Entertainment

Out of the Past [Blu-ray] (Jacques Tourneur, 1947) Warner Archive

Hayao Miyazaki Box Set [Blu-ray] - Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979, Miyazaki's first work in theaters), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986), My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), Porco Rosso (1992), Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001), Howl's Moving Castle (2004), Ponyo (2008), The Wind Rises (2013) - RB UK Studio Canal

Two Days, One Night [Blu-ray] (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, 2014) RB UK Artificial Eye

The Day the Earth Caught Fire [Blu-ray] (Val Guest, 1961) RB UK BFI

X-Men: Days of Future Past [Blu-ray] (Bryan Singer, 2014) 20th Century Fox

Holiday Inn [Blu-ray] (Mark Sandrich, 1942) Universal Studios

Himizu [Blu-ray] (Shion Sono, 2011) Olive Films

Spirited Away [Blu-ray] (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) RB UK Studiocanal

The Congress [Blu-ray] (Ari Folman, 2013) RB UK Studiocanal

Ida [Blu-ray] (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2013) RB UK Artificial Eye

Guilty of Romance [Blu-ray] (Shion Sono, 2011) Olive Films

Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision [Blu-ray] (Edgar Reitz, 2013) RB UK Artificial Eye

Grand Central [Blu-ray] (Rebecca Zlotowski, 2013) RB UK Studiocanal

Finding Vivian Maier [Blu-ray] (John Maloof, Charlie Siskel, 2013) RB UK Soda Pictures

Dragonfly Squadron [Blu-ray] (Lesley Selander, 1954) Olive Films

Man Hunt [Blu-ray] (Fritz Lang, 1941) Twilight Time

The Jim Jarmusch Collection [Blu-ray] - Permanent Vacation, Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law, Mystery Train, Night on Earth, Dead Man - RB UK Soda Pictures

La dolce vita [Blu-ray] (Federico Fellini, 1960) Criterion Collection

My Darling Clementine [Blu-ray] (John Ford, 1946) Criterion Collection

The Vanishing [Blu-ray] (George Sluizer, 1988) Criterion Collection

The Complete Jacques Tati [Blu-ray] (Jour de fête, 1949 - Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, 1953 - Mon oncle, 1958 - PlayTime, 1967 - Trafic, 1971 - Parade, 1974) Criterion Collection

F for Fake [Blu-ray] (Orson Welles, 1975) Criterion Collection

ONE VOICE (not Ellsworth Monkton Toohey): While I was totally enamored with The Kelly Reichardt Collection on Blu-ray and fully endorse, I nudge Locke to the top spot this week. Both are very pure cinema - not to all tastes, but I felt so lucky they were part of my past week's viewing pleasure. Include in that Murnau's Faust in 1080P from The Masters of Cinema group. An absolute must-own. And yet another impressive film to Blu-ray is Jules Dassin's Night and the City looking notable in the higher resolution. What a Noir gem. I was in heaven. We have identified that the, out-of-print, Twilight Time Blu-ray transfer of Brian DePalma's Body Double has been virtually copied in Europe. Maurice Pialat's We Won't Grow Old Together is a brilliant film but the 1080P transfer yields most results. John Huston's The Unforgiven has so much going for it - although it didn't totally click with me. While I'm a fan of Charles Bronson - enjoying Hard Times, Death Wish, The Mechanic, Yukon and many others - I just wasn't quite as keen on Breakheart Pass or Mr. Majestyk but both are available Blu-ray. Eric covered the Second Run DVD of Independencia - the very highly lauded film out of The Philippines.. Relax and enjoy... Gary.


	THIS WEEK's REVIEWS / COMPARISONS
	The Kelly Reichardt Collection BD - This essential collection brings together for the first time on Blu-Ray the three films that helped establish Kelly Reichardt as one of the most important auteurs of American independent cinema: Old Joy (2006), Wendy and Lucy (2008) and Meek's Cutoff (2010). Also included as a Bonus Feature is her remarkable debut film, River of Grass (1994), never previously available in the UK. Other Bonus Features include audio of a masterclass given by Kelly Reichardt at Oxford University in 2014, the short stories by Jonathan Raymond upon which Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy are based, and a booklet written by long-time Reichardt collaborator Larry Fessenden. Blu-ray Release Date: August 25th, 2014 We Won't Grow Old Together BD - Maurice Pialat's powerful romantic drama examines the final period of a long and ultimately unhappy affair. Jean (Jean Yanne) is an unpleasant, domineering man. Though he still lives with his wife, their marriage has been over for a long time. For six years, Jean has had an affair with the much-younger Catherine (Marlene Jobert). The dynamic of their relationship is moving it toward disintegration also, but Catherine resists it. Scenes of alternating recriminations and reconciliations unveil the anatomy of their breakup. Blu-ray Release Date: August 12th, 2014 Faust BD - Murnau's last German film features astonishing photography, magnificent art direction, and special effects which retain the power to amaze. Freed from the constraints of psychological narrative, Murnau's mastery of cinematic technique places Faust at the pinnacle of the silent era, its barrage of visceral and apocryphal imagery contrasting with the simplicity and directness of its spiritual theme. In collaboration with the screenwriter Hans Kyser, Murnau fused Faust's script from German folk legend and the works of Goethe, Gounod, and Marlowe (particularly using the latter's tone). Blu-ray Release Date: August 18th, 2014 Breakheart Pass BD - Posing as a fugitive from justice, frontier undercover agent John Deakin Charles Bronson boards a train to go after a ruthless gang of outlaws. Ingredients essential to the action include an anti-military conspiracy involving gunrunners and Indians, a phony epidemic, and a down-and-dirty traintop fight between Deakin and Carlos boxer-turned-actor Archie Moore. Breakheart Pass was adapted for the screen by Alistair MacLean from his own novel. Blu-ray Release date: August 12th, 2014 Night and the City BD - Deep within the bowels of shadow-infested London, two-bit hustler Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) struggles to live a life of ease and plenty. Trailed by an inglorious history of go-nowhere schemes, Fabian stumbles upon a chance of a lifetime in the form of legendary wrestler Gregorius the Great (Stanislaus Zbyszko). But there is no easy money in this underworld of shifting alliances, bottomless graft, and sweaty, pummeled flesh and soon Fabian learns the horrible price of his overweening ambition. Night and the City is a crowning achievement of legendary director Jules Dassin and quintessential film noir. Blu-ray Release Date: November 22nd, 2013 The Unforgiven BD - One of Hollywood's most famous and acclaimed directors, John Huston guides this western with an unerring hand -- the cast of notable stars is no drawback either. Setting up the story with a series of suspenseful scenes, Huston has a mysterious stranger on horseback come into a small community in the Texas Panhandle and then proceed to cause a mini-war. The time is the mid-19th century and there is already antagonism between the white settlers in the community and the local Kiowa Indian nation. The Zachary family is at the crux of the trouble. Matilda (Lillian Gish) is the matriarch who holds a family secret -- her adopted daughter Rachel (Audrey Hepburn) is actually a Kiowa child. Kino Lorber Blu-ray release date August 12th, 2014 Body Double (Twilight Time added) BD - In Body Double, director Brian DePalma pays homage to the Alfred Hitchcock movies *Vertigo* and *Rear Window, adding a few grotesque touches all his own. Craig Wasson plays Jake, a struggling actor who keeps losing jobs because of his claustrophobia. To make matters worse, his girlfriend has walked out on him, so he has no place to sleep. His pal offers him the use of his apartment for the evening. The apartment happens to be equipped with a huge picture window and telescope, enabling him to spy on his beautiful neighbor Gloria (Deborah Shelton) while she undresses. He also bears witness to her brutal murder. And then he meets a porn star (Melanie Griffith), who has just taken a job posing as the late Gloria. Twilight Time Blu-ray Release Date: July, 2011* Locke BD - Hardy is Ivan, a construction worker (also unaccountably and a little distractingly Welsh), who leaves a building site the night before a huge project as a valued worker and beloved family man. He then locks himself in his car and drives through the night, during which time his career, wife and two sons will gradually slip away from him. Or rather he will gradually push them away as he unburdens his conscience over a series of phone calls and heads toward the biggest mistake of his life. Blu-ray Release date: August 12th, 2014 Mr. Majestyk BD - Charles Bronson, his eyes just about open, strides through this film as a paternalistic melon-grower in Colorado, anti-racist, tolerant of unions (well, you can tell, he gets the melon-picking union girl in the end; how does Cristal keep her hair so black and shiny after all that sweaty work?), who falls foul of local crooks and labour racketeers. But melon-grower beats ruthless psychopath, casting aspersions at the police force en route. Fleischer handles a heavy script and most of the acting like no one should handle a melon; but he really soars into competence at moments of tension, car chases, and general cinematic escapism. Kino Lorber Blu-ray Release Date: August 12th, 2014 Independencia - Fleeing the American invasion of the Philippines in the early 20th Century, a mother and son retreat into the jungle where they make a home. Time passes; a wounded woman is rescued; the mother dies; a child is born. The family survive isolated from the growing chaos engulfing their country, but a storm approaches that threatens their existence as American troops draw nearer. Ingeniously staged on studio sets that evoke the lost period of early and silent cinema, Independencia's mesmerising visual aesthetic creates a lush metaphor for the mythical history and identity of the Philippines. DVD Release Date: August 11th, 2014

Next 4 weeks on the Calendar

August 11th, 2014

2 By Ken Loach [Blu-ray] - Riff-Raff (1991), Raining Stones (1993) - Twilight Time

The 400 Blows [Blu-ray] (François Truffaut, 1959) RB UK Artificial Eye

Black Angel [Blu-ray] (Tinto Brass, 2002) Cult Epics

Breakheart Pass [Blu-ray] (Tom Gries, 1975) Kino Lorber (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Buddy Holly Story [Blu-ray] (Steve Rash, 1978) Twilight Time

The Children's Hour [Blu-ray] (William Wyler, 1961) Kino Lorber (BEAVER REVIEW)

Dancer in the Dark [Blu-ray] (Lars von Trier, 2000) RB DE Koch Media

Favourites of the Moon [Blu-ray] (Otar Iosseliani, 1984) Cohen

Follow That Dream [Blu-ray] (Gordon Douglas, 1962) Twilight Time

Independencia (Raya Martin, 2009) R2 UK Second Run (BEAVER REVIEW)

Locke [Blu-ray] (Steven Knight, 2013) Lions Gate (BEAVER REVIEW)

Love Streams [Blu-ray] (John Cassavetes, 1984) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

Mr. Majestyk [Blu-ray] (Richard Fleischer, 1974) Kino Lorber (BEAVER REVIEW)

Man Hunt [Blu-ray] (Fritz Lang, 1941) Twilight Time

Out of the Past [Blu-ray] (Jacques Tourneur, 1947) Warner Archive

Plenty [Blu-ray] (Fred Schepisi, 1985) RB UK Network

The Purple Plain [Blu-ray] (Robert Parrish, 1954) RB DE Pidax film media

The Railway Man [Blu-ray] (Jonathan Teplitzky, 2013) Starz / Anchor Bay

The Secret of Santa Vittoria [Blu-ray] (Stanley Kramer, 1969) Twilight Time

The Soft Skin [Blu-ray] (François Truffaut, 1964) RB UK Artificial Eye

Swelter [Blu-ray] (Keith Parmer, 2014) Well Go USA

Tinto Brass: Maestro Of Erotica Cinema [Blu-ray] (Cheeky!, Black Angel, Private, Monamour) Cult Epics (BEAVER REVIEW) (BEAVER REVIEW) (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Unforgiven [Blu-ray] (John Huston, 1960) Kino Lorber (BEAVER REVIEW)

We Won't Grow Old Together [Blu-ray] (Maurice Pialat, 1972) Kino Classics (BEAVER REVIEW)

August 18th, 2014

20 Million Miles To Earth / It Came From Beneath The Sea [Blu-ray] - Ray Harryhausen BD Double Feature - Mill Creek (BEAVER REVIEW) (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 [Blu-ray] (Marc Webb, 2014) Sony
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3-D [Blu-ray] (Marc Webb, 2014) Sony

Bound [Blu-ray] (Wachowski Brothers, 1996) RB UK Arrow

Chaplin's Mutual Comedies [Blu-ray] - Flicker Alley

Faust [Blu-ray] (F.W. Murnau, 1926) RB UK Masters of Cinema (BEAVER REVIEW)

Futureworld [Blu-ray] (Richard T. Heffron, 1976) RB UK 101 Films

Like Water for Chocolate [Blu-ray] (Alfonso Arau, 1992) Lions Gate

Magnificent Doll [Blu-ray] (Frank Borzage, 1946) Olive

The Mack Sennett Collection, Vol. One [Blu-ray] - Flicker Alley

Only Lovers Left Alive [Blu-ray] (Jim Jarmusch, 2013) Sony Pictures

Rosemary's Baby [Blu-ray] (2014 mini-series) Lions Gate

Sorceress [Blu-ray] (Jack Hill, 1982) Kino Lorber

That's My Man [Blu-ray] (Frank Borzage, 1947) Olive

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! [Blu-ray] (Pedro Almodóvar, 1990) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Toxic Avenger [Blu-ray] (Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman, 1984) RB UK 88 Films

Toy Story of Terror [Blu-ray] (Angus MacLane, 2013) Walt Disney

Y tu mamá también [Blu-ray] (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

August 25th, 2014

All That Jazz [Blu-ray] (Bob Fosse, 1979) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Benny Goodman Story [Blu-ray] (Valentine Davies, 1956) RB DE Splendid Film

Cast a Giant Shadow [Blu-ray] (Melville Shavelson, 1966) Kino Lorber

The Changes (2-Disc DVD Set) (1975 TV science-fiction series) R2 UK BFI

Destroy All Monsters [Blu-ray] (Ishirô Honda, 1968) Tokyo Shock

Domicile Conjugal [Blu-ray] (François Truffaut, 1970) RB UK Artificial Eye

Frau Im Mond [Woman In The Moon] [Blu-ray] (Fritz Lang, 1929) - RB UK Masters of Cinema (BEAVER REVIEW)

Heli [Blu-ray] (Amat Escalante, 2013) RB UK Network

High School Confidential! [Blu-ray] (Jack Arnold, 1958) Olive

The Informant [Blu-ray] (Julien Leclercq, 2013) RB UK Kaleidoscope

I've Always Loved You [Blu-ray] (Frank Borzage, 1946) Olive

The Jester's Tale (Karel Zeman, 1964) R2 UK Second Run

The Kelly Reichardt Collection [Blu-ray] RB UK Soda Pictures Ltd. (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Legend of Hell House [Blu-ray] (John Hough, 1973) Shout! Factory

On the Beach [Blu-ray] (Stanley Kramer, 1959) Kino Lorber

The Party [Blu-ray] (Blake Edwards, 1968) Kino Lorber

Queen Margot [Blu-ray] (Patrice Chereau, 1994) Cohen

Stolen Kisses [Blu-ray] (François Truffaut, 1968) RB UK Artificial Eye

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

Werner Herzog Collection (7-disc Blu-ray Box Set) 18-films including Aguirre, Wrath of God , The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Heart of Glass, Stroszek, Nosferatu, the Vampyre, Woyzeck, Fitzcarraldo and more - RB UK BFI

What's New Pussycat? [Blu-ray] (Clive Donner, Richard Talmadge, 1965) Kino Lorber

September 1st, 2014

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 [Blu-ray] (Marc Webb, 2014) RB UK Sony Pictures

The Big Heat Deluxe Edition with book [Blu-ray] (Fritz Lang, 1953) RB FR Warner

The Bride of Frankenstein [Blu-ray] (James Whale, 1935) Universal (BEAVER REVIEW)

Creature from the Black Lagoon [Blu-ray] (Jack Arnold, 1954) Universal (BEAVER REVIEW)

Dracula [Blu-ray] (Tod Browning, 1931) Universal (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Four Feathers [Blu-ray] (Zoltan Korda, 1939) RB UK Network

Frankenstein [Blu-ray] (James Whale, 1931) Universal (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Invisible Man [Blu-ray] (James Whale, 1933) Universal (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Mummy [Blu-ray] (Karl Freund, 1932) Universal (BEAVER REVIEW)

Night Moves [Blu-ray] (Kelly Reichardt, 2013) New Video Group

The People Under the Stairs [Blu-ray] (Wes Craven, 1991) Universal

Phantom of the Opera [Blu-ray] (Arthur Lubin, 1943) Universal (BEAVER REVIEW)

Ransom [Blu-ray] (Caspar Wrede, 1974) RB UK Network (BEAVER REVIEW)

Richard III [Blu-ray] (Laurence Olivier , 1955) RB UK Network

Sgt. Bilko - The Phil Silvers Show - Complete Collection (20 disc set) - R2 UK Mediumrare

White Noise [Blu-ray] (Geoffrey Sax , 2005) Universal Studios

The Wolf Man [Blu-ray] (George Waggner, 1941) Universal (BEAVER REVIEW)

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