DVDBeaver Newsletter - September 1st, 2014

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Newsletter - FOR THE WEEK

OF September 1st, 2014

	This Week's Highlights

	Ha, mawh tix! While I am pleased to report that our Server issues are temporarily resolved - it does look like we will need a new box sooner rather than later. I'm going to be selling a lot of Blu-rays and some DVDs on eBay to raise the funds - stay tuned!. There are a few Blu-ray reviews and a mass of *Release Calendar* Updates including films by Jules Dassin, Seijun Suzuki, Anthony Mann, Frank Capra, Robert Altman, Alfred Hitchcock, Federico Fellini, François Truffaut and more. September's' FEATURE Blu-ray and DVD are posted. We have a CONTEST posted with a fun Blu-ray prize!- 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 SEPTEMBER!
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LATEST ADDITIONS TO THE RELEASE CALENDAR:

The Naked City [Blu-ray] (Jules Dassin, 1948) RB UK Arrow Academy

Youth of the Beast [Blu-ray] (Seijun Suzuki, 1963) RB UK Masters of Cinema

Man of the West [Blu-ray] (Anthony Mann, 1958) Kino Lorber

Pocketful of Miracles [Blu-ray] (Frank Capra, 1961) Kino Lorber

The Long Goodbye [Blu-ray] (Robert Altman, 1973) Kino Lorber

Blacula - The Complete Collection [Blu-ray] - RB UK Eureka

Young and Innocent [Blu-ray] (Alfred Hitchcock, 1937) RB UK Network

I Clowns [Blu-ray] (Federico Fellini, 1970) RB UK Masters of Cinema

Thieves Like Us [Blu-ray] (Robert Altman, 1974) Kino Lorber

The Sopranos: The Complete Series [Blu-ray] HBO Studios

Coming Home [Blu-ray] (Hal Ashby, 1978) Kino Lorber

Withnail & I [Blu-ray] (Bruce Robinson, 1987) RB UK Arrow Video

Jersey Boys [Blu-ray] (Clint Eastwood, 2014) Warner

The Visitor [Blu-ray] (Giulio Paradisi, 1979) RB UK Arrow Video

The Woman Next Door [Blu-ray] (François Truffaut, 1981) RB UK Artificial Eye

Shogun Assassin [Blu-ray] (Robert Houston, 1980) Animego

Chinese Puzzle [Blu-ray] (Cédric Klapisch, 2013) Cohen

Fascination [Blu-ray] (Miles Mander, 1931) RB UK Network

The Sorcerers [Blu-ray] (Michael Reeves, 1967) RB UK Odeon Entertainment

More Dead Than Alive [Blu-ray] (Robert Sparr, 1969) Kino Lorber

Viva Maria! [Blu-ray] (Louis Malle, 1965) Kino Lorber

Sam Whiskey [Blu-ray] (Arnold Laven, 1969) Kino Lorber

Gator [Blu-ray] (Burt Reynolds, 1976) Kino Lorber

White Lightning [Blu-ray] (Joseph Sargent, 1973) Kino Lorber

L'Avventura [Blu-ray] (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960) Criterion Collection

The Shooting/Ride in the Whirlwind [Blu-ray] (Monte Hellman, 1966) Criterion Collection

Always for Pleasure [Blu-ray] (Les Blank, 1978) Criterion Collection

Tootsie [Blu-ray] (Sydney Pollack, 1982) Criterion Collection

It Happened One Night [Blu-ray] (Frank Capra, 1934) Criterion Collection

Fedora [Blu-ray] (Billy Wilder, 1978) Olive Films

Macbeth [Blu-ray] (Orson Welles, 1948) RB FR Carlotta Films

Walerian Borowczyk Short Films and Animation [Blu-ray] - RB UK Arrow Academy

Othello [Blu-ray] (Orson Welles, 1952) RB FR Carlotta Films

Macbeth & Othello [Blu-ray] - RB FR Carlotta Films


	ONE VOICE (not Ellsworth Monkton Toohey): No additional comments - Everything should be back to normal next week - enjoy 'Labor Day!'.


	THIS WEEK's REVIEWS / COMPARISONS
	Midnight Lace BD - Although its theatrical origins (Janet Green's Matilda Shouted Fire) aren't exactly disguised, this is a smoothly efficient variation on the 'frightened lady' thriller. Just married to English businessman Harrison, Day's the American in London progressively unraveling after threatening anonymous phone calls and voices in the fog. Perhaps surprisingly for an actress who always seemed to keep plenty in reserve, her hysteria's pretty full-on, and the taut screenplay keeps up the pressure with a string of worthy suspects (wheedling McDowall, scheming Marshall, disturbed war vet Gavin). Suavely effective, with extra fun spotting the joins between the authentic location work featuring Dotty's stand-in, and the star herself back in Burbank on the least convincing London street this side of The Spy Who Shagged Me. Blu-ray Release Date: February 22nd, 2013 Inferno BD - A tight and involving essay in suspense which works on the ingenious idea of leaving the audience alone in the desert with an unsympathetic and selfish character (all the more so considering that he's a millionaire), left to die with a broken leg by his wife and her lover. Baker then forces us to change our attitude of contempt to one of sympathy and admiration for his sheer will to survive. The suspense is well handled, especially a descent into a canyon with just one rope and a fall of hundreds of feet. The excellent Ryan plays the millionaire, Fleming his wife. Inferno was one of the best and last movies to be made in 3-D during the boom in the early '50s. Certainly its use of space emphasised the dramatic possibilities of 3-D and reveals, as more than one person has observed, that the device had largely been squandered in other films made at the time. Blu-ray Release date: August, 2014 A Foreign Affair BD - Shot amid the ruins of Berlin, Wilder's satire on the corruption among GIs fraternising with the locals did not go down too well with the Defence Department. Arthur plays a prim congresswoman investigating an army officer (Lund), and when she realises she really has fallen for her man, she has to win him away from the exotic charms of chanteuse Dietrich. This may not be Wilder at his best - the story develops along fairly predictable lines, with Arthur switching her starchy uniform for a glistening evening gown - but there are some precious set pieces, notably a seduction among a row of filing cabinets and Dietrich's club act, not to mention a crackling script. Blu-ray Release date: February 13th, 2014 The Soft Skin BD - Perhaps it's Truffaut's attention to detail that builds so much tangible emotion into his films, The camera seems to skim over surfaces, examine the unattractive angles of people's faces, read street signs. In the car, the camera is riding in the back seat, but as the car speeds up, it's pressed against the windshield. In The Soft Skin, Truffaut expresses a precise emotion with each sequence. Viewers of the film are so often nervous because of the way that Lechenay's gaze flits around, blurring up the scenery, frantically. Then, when Lechenay is with his lover, Nicole, the light is bright, the gaze is steady, the mood is triumphant. In the final scenes, as the cobblestones of Parisian boulevards whizz by chaotically, we are reminded of the suspenseful clues given in Hitchcock movies, and we know what is about to happen. At once beautiful and hilariously observant, Truffaut's expressive visuals make The Soft Skin an inarguable masterpiece. Blu-ray Release Date: August 25th, 2014

Next 4 weeks on the Calendar

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)

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

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

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

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

September 8th, 2014

A 1,000 Times Good Night [Blu-ray] (Erik Poppe, 2013) RB UK Arrow Films

Across 110th Street [Blu-ray] (Barry Shear, 1972) Kino

Blanche [Blu-ray] (Walerian Borowczyk, 1972) RB UK Arrow Academy

Cotton Comes to Harlem [Blu-ray] (Ossie Davis, 1970) Kino

Das Boot - (TV Mini-Series) [Blu-ray] - EuroVideo

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

Goto, Island of Love [Blu-ray] (Walerian Borowczyk, 1969) RB UK Arrow

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

Hangmen Also Die! [Blu-ray] (Fritz Lang, 1943) Cohen

The Hornet's Nest [Blu-ray] (David Salzberg, Christian Tureaud, 2014) High Road

Ida [Blu-ray] (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2013) Music Box Films

Immoral Tales [Blu-ray] (Walerian Borowczyk, 1974) RB UK Arrow

Juggernaut [Blu-ray] (Richard Lester, 1974) Kino

Lesson of the Evil [Blu-ray] (Takashi Miike, 2012) RB UK Third Window Films

Mr. and Mrs. Kabal's Theatre [Blu-ray] (Walerian Borowczyk, 1967) RB UK Arrow Academy

Nebraska [Blu-ray] (Alexander Payne, 2013) Paramount

Pumpkinhead [Blu-ray] (Stan Winston, 1988) Shout! Factory

Seizure [Blu-ray] (Oliver Stone, 1974) Scorpion Releasing

The Slave [Blu-ray] (Festa Campanile, 1969) Mondo Macabro

The Sopranos - Complete Collection [Blu-ray] [Region Free] - UK Warner

Walerian Borowczyk Short Films and Animation [Blu-ray] - RB UK Arrow Academy

Words and Pictures [Blu-ray] (Fred Schepisi, 2013) Lions Gate

September 15th, 2014

Avalanche [Blu-ray] (Corey Allen, 1978) Kino

The Battery [Blu-ray] (Jeremy Gardner, 2012) Shout! Factory

Bed and Board [Blu-ray] (François Truffaut, 1970) RB UK Artificial Eye

The Big Operator [Blu-ray] (Charles F. Haas, 1959) Olive Films

Brute Force [Blu-ray] (Jules Dassin, 1947) RB UK Arrow Academy

The 'Burbs [Blu-ray] (Joe Dante, 1989) RB UK Arrow
The 'Burbs [Blu-ray] Steelbook (Joe Dante, 1989) RB UK Arrow

Burt's Buzz [Blu-ray] (Jody Shapiro, 2013) Kino

Congo [Blu-ray] (Frank Marshall, 1995) Paramount

Dreamcatcher [Blu-ray] (Lawrence Kasdan, 2003) Warner

Eraserhead [Blu-ray] (David Lynch, 1977) Criterion

Faust [Blu-ray] (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2011) Kino

Fright Night [Blu-ray] (Tom Holland, 1985) RB DE Sony

The Gang's All Here [Blu-ray] (Busby Berkeley, 1943) RB UK Masters of Cinema

Ghostbusters (4K-Mastered) [Blu-ray] (Ivan Reitman, 1984) Sony

The Great Train Robbery [Blu-ray] (Michael Crichton, 1978) Kino

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

Le jour se lève [Blu-ray] (Marcel Carné, 1939) RB UK Studiocanal

Killer Klowns from Outer Space [Blu-ray] (Stephen Chiodo, 1988) RB UK Arrow

Killer Klowns from Outer Space Steelbook [Blu-ray] (Stephen Chiodo, 1988) RB UK Arrow

The Medusa Touch [Blu-ray] (Jack Gold, 1978) RB UK Network

Meteor [Blu-ray] (Ronald Neame, 1979) Kino

The Nutty Professor [Blu-ray] (Jerry Lewis, 1963) Paramount Pictures

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

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

Salvatore Giuliano [Blu-ray] (Francesco Rosi, 1962) RB UK Arrow

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [Blu-ray] (Tobe Hooper, 1974) Dark Sky Films

Tom at the Farm [Blu-ray] (Xavier Dolan, 2013) RB UK Network

A Touch of Sin [Blu-ray] (Zhangke Jia, 2013) RB UK 88 Films

The Two Faces of January [Blu-ray] (Hossein Amini, 2014) RB UK Studiocanal

September 22nd, 2014

A Farewell To Arms [Blu-ray] (Frank Borzage, 1932) RB UK BFI

Bloody Mama [Blu-ray] (Roger Corman, 1970) Kino

Distant Drums [Blu-ray] (Raoul Walsh, 1951) Olive Films

Elmer Gantry [Blu-ray] (Richard Brooks, 1960) Kino Lorber

Eyes Without a Face [Blu-ray] (Georges Franju, 1960) RB UK BFI

Flesh + Blood [Blu-ray] (Paul Verhoeven, 1985) Kino Lorber

Goldfinger Steelbook [Blu-ray] (Guy Hamilton, 1964) RB UK 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Halloween: The Complete Collection [Blu-ray] (Halloween, Halloween II, Halloween III: Season of the , Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Halloween H20, Halloween: Resurrection, Rob Zombie's Halloween and Halloween II) Anchor Bay

Halloween: The Complete Collection Limited Deluxe Edition [Blu-ray] (Halloween, Halloween II, Halloween III: Season of the , Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Halloween H20, Halloween: Resurrection, Rob Zombie's Halloween and Halloween II) Anchor Bay

The Innocents [Blu-ray] (Jack Clayton, 1961) Criterion

The Island of Dr. Moreau [Blu-ray] (Don Taylor, 1977) RB UK 101 Films

Invaders from Mars [Blu-ray] (Tobe Hooper, 1986) RB DE Koch Media

The Island of Dr. Moreau [Blu-ray] (Don Taylor, 1977) RB UK 101 Films

The Last of the Unjust [Blu-ray] (Claude Lanzmann, 2013) Cohen

Macbeth [Blu-ray] (Roman Polanski, 1971) Criterion

Madame DuBarry [Blu-ray] (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919) RB UK Masters of Cinema

Night of the Comet [Blu-ray] (Thom Eberhardt, 1984) RB UK Arrow Films

Red Shift (John Mackenzie, 1978) R2 UK BFI

Run Silent Run Deep [Blu-ray] (Robert Wise. 1958) Kino

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

The Shout [Blu-ray] (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978) RB UK Network