DVDBeaver Newsletter - October 6th, 2014

Newsletter - FOR THE WEEK

OF October 6th, 2014

	This Week's Highlights

	He' ha! We've covered a few Blu-rays of films by directors such as Jacques Tourneur, Claude Chabrol, Sam Peckinpah, Jules Dassin and others, plus new *Release Calendar* updates have Blu-rays including films by Lars von Trier, King Vidor, Raymond Bernard, D.W. Griffith, François Truffaut, Leslie Arliss, John Boulting, Blake Edwards, Ben Stiller, Michel Gondry and more October's' FEATURE Blu-ray and DVD are posted. We have a CONTEST posted with another Brand New Kino Lorber 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 OCTOBER!
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LATEST ADDITIONS TO THE RELEASE CALENDAR:

Nymphomaniac 1 & 2 (Extended Director's Cuts) [Blu-ray] (Lars von Trier, 2013, 2014) Magnolia

1000 Masterworks - 300 Minutes of Art [Blu-ray] - Arthaus

War and Peace [Blu-ray] (King Vidor, 1956) Paramount

Les Misérables [Blu-ray] (Raymond Bernard, 1934) RB UK Masters of Cinema

Intolerance [Blu-ray] (D.W. Griffith, 1916) RB UK Masters of Cinema

Finally, Sunday aka Confidentially Yours [Blu-ray] (François Truffaut, 1983) RB Uk Artificial Eye

Hot Enough for June aka Agent 8 3/4 [Blu-ray] (Ralph Thomas, 1964) RB UK Network

I'm All Right Jack [Blu-ray] (John Boulting , 1959) RB UK Studio Canal

A Man About the House [Blu-ray] (Leslie Arliss, 1947) RB UK Network

The Tamarind Seed [Blu-ray] (Blake Edwards, 1974) RB UK Network

Zoolander [Blu-ray] (Ben Stiller, 2001) Paramount

Maleficent [Blu-ray] (Robert Stromberg, 2014) Disney

Mood Indigo [Blu-ray] (Michel Gondry, 2013) Cinedigm

Deliver Us from Evil [Blu-ray] (Scott Derrickson, 2014) Sony

Tales From The Crypt / Vault Of Horror [Blu-ray] - Shout! Factory

Possessed [Blu-ray] (Curtis Bernhardt, 1947) Warner Archive

Christine [Blu-ray] (John Carpenter, 1983) Sony Pictures RB DE

The Quatermass Xperiment [Blu-ray] (Val Guest, 1955) Kino Lorber

Tesis [Blu-ray] (Alejandro Amenábar, 1996) Tanelorn

A Most Wanted Man [Blu-ray] (Anton Corbijn, 2014) Lionsgate

The Emerald Forest [Blu-ray] (John Boorman, 1985) Kino Lorber

Yankee Doodle Dandy [Blu-ray] (Michael Curtiz, 1942) Warner Archive

The Package [Blu-ray] (Andrew Davis, 1989) Kino Lorber

The Congress [Blu-ray] (Ari Folman, 2013) Drafthouse

The Vanishing [Blu-ray] (George Sluizer, 1993) Twilight Time

The Missouri Breaks [Blu-ray] (Arthur Penn, 1976) Kino Lorber

Audrey Rose [Blu-ray] (Robert Wise, 1977) Twilight Time

The Long Hair of Death [Blu-ray] (Antonio Margheriti, 1964) Raro Video USA

The Believers [Blu-ray] (John Schlesinger, 1987) Twilight Time

The Offence [Blu-ray] (Sidney Lumet, 1972) Kino Lorber

Hickey & Boggs [Blu-ray] (Robert Culp, 1972) Kino Lorber

Buffalo Bill and the Indians [Blu-ray] (Robert Altman, 1976) Kino Lorber

The Girl Hunters [Blu-ray] (Roy Rowland, 1963) Kino Lorber

Under Fire [Blu-ray] (Roger Spottiswoode, 1983) Twilight Time

Safe [Blu-ray] (Todd Haynes, 1995) Criterion Collection

The Night Porter [Blu-ray] (Liliana Cavani, 1974) Criterion Collection

The Conformist [Blu-ray] (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) Raro Video USA

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

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington [Blu-ray] (Frank Capra, 1939) Sony

Diary of a Lost Girl [Blu-ray] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929) RB UK Masters of Cinema

Spione [Blu-ray] (Fritz Lang, 1928) RB UK Masters of Cinema

The Thief of Bagdad [Blu-ray] (Raoul Walsh, 1924) RB UK Masters of Cinema

Witness to Murder [Blu-ray] (Roy Rowland, 1954) Kino Lorber

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (4K Restored) [Blu-ray] (Robert Wiene, 1920) Kino

Eclipse Series 41: Kinoshita and World War II - (Port of Flowers - 1943, The Living Magoroku - 1943, Jubilation Street - 1944, Army - 1944, Morning for the Osone Family - 1946) Criterion

Time Bandits [Blu-ray] (Terry Gilliam, 1981) Criterion Collection

Cinerama's Seven Wonders of the World [Blu-ray] - Flicker Alley

Cinerama's Search For Paradise [Blu-ray] - Flicker Alley

Slaughter Hotel [Blu-ray] (Fernando Di Leo, 1971) Raro Video USA

The Killer Elite [Blu-ray] (Sam Peckinpah, 1975) Twilight Time

Che! [Blu-ray] (Richard Fleischer, 1969) Twilight Time

The Dogs of War [Blu-ray] (John Irvin, 1980) Twilight Time

Salvador [Blu-ray] (Oliver Stone, 1986) Twilight Time

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

ONE VOICE (not Ellsworth Monkton Toohey): I was thrilled to see Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past on Blu-ray. One of the essential Noir gems looking sweet and film-like in 1080P - our top pick of the week. We should prominently mention Sony's Fright Night Blu-ray out of Germany - which is effectively marginalizing the current high-priced auctions of the Limited Edition Twilight Time. Holiday Inn with Bing and Astaire gives both the original black and white and colorized version in HD on the new Blu-ray. Peckinpah's The Killer Elite has much to offer from the director's fans - as does the new Blu-ray with substantial extras. Topkapi is a fun caper flic from Jules Dassin - now available on Blu-ray. Unfortunately, Chabrol's Nightcap (Merci pour le chocolat) seems to have video issues on Cohen's new Blu-ray. Eric covered 4 DVDs this week with You and the Night and Paris-Manhattan - two comedies out of France, 2012's intense, and lauded, drama Hero of the Day and a suggestively titles comedy Live Nude Girls. Take care - “If you have it, you don’t need anything else and if you don’t have it, it does not matter what else you have.”


	THIS WEEK's REVIEWS / COMPARISONS
	The Killer Elite BD - After a brilliantly cryptic opening, The Killer Elite settles into Peckinpah's most apparently straightforward action film since The Getaway. Built around the internal politics of a San Francisco company which sidelines in dirty work that even the CIA won't touch, it concentrates on the painful recovery of an agent (Caan), wounded in knee and elbow in a double-cross, and his search for revenge. During Caan's lengthy recuperation, Peckinpah contemplates the old themes of betrayal, trust and humiliation. And through the action of the second half, Caan (like other Peckinpah heroes) comes to some sort of understanding. The set pieces (a Chinatown shoot-out, a dockland siege, the superb ships' graveyard climax) are excellent, as are so many secondary scenes. Twilight Time Blu-ray Release Date: September 2014 Topkapi BD - After years of enduring movie lampoons of his 1955 crime-caper classic *Rififi, director Jules Dassin topped them all with his own spoof, Topkapi. It's a rather disreputable crew that teams for the elaborate jewel theft masterminded by Maximillian Schell. Sexy Melina Mercouri Mrs. Dassin is probably the best of the batch: the others are faffling Robert Morley, unreliable Gilles Segal and Jess Hahn. Bumbling Peter Ustinov who won an Oscar for his performance is duped into helping the thieves, and soon finds himself uneasily straddling both sides of the law. As in Rififi, the theft itself taking place in Istanbul's Topkapi Palace museum is played out in near-complete silence. We won't tell you how the crooks are foiled; just be advised that money flies out the door when something else flies in the window. Topkapi* was based on The Light of Day, a somewhat more somber novel by Eric Ambler. Blu-ray Release date: October 7th, 2014 Holiday Inn BD - The plot of Holiday Inn was merely an excuse on which to hang 14 Berlin songs. Crosby, Astaire, and Virginia Dale are a musical act, which breaks up when Crosby decides to retire to a farm. But Crosby quickly grows bored and decides to turn his farm into an inn and nightclub, which will be open only on national holidays. He then teams with a new partner, played by Marjorie Reynolds. Suddenly, Astaire, jilted by Dale, pays a visit, and the two men's musical and romantic rivalry starts up again. Blu-ray Release date: October 7th, 2014 Fright Night BD - Charley (Ragsdale) has seen a coffin being carried into the house next door and a corpse being dragged out, but no one will take him seriously. In desperation he enlists a TV vampire killer, who's initially charmed by neighbour-from-hell Jerry (Sarandon), before noticing the absence of his reflection in a mirror. A farrago of cartoonish exaggeration (mouthfuls of fangs, razor-sharp talons and eyes like burning coals), knowing humour and '80s camp, it shouldn't even begin to work, and yet, strangely, it does, sort of, thanks to the assured handling of writer/director Holland, and two performances in particular - Geoffreys as Charley's pal Evil, and McDowall as the timid vampire killer. The music helps, covering an ambitious range from piano-murdering suspense-raisers, through disco fodder, to a Sparks tune, 'Armies of the Night', by Ron and Russell Mael. Sony Blu-ray Release date: September 18th, 2014 Nightcap (Merci pour le chocolat) BD - Claude Chabrol's Merci Pour le Chocolat is a light confection with a tasty Isabelle Huppert performance at its center. Working from a 1948 recipe by a sometime scriptwriter for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Chabrol knocks off a witty psychological thriller—more gothic than noir. Set by the placid shores of Lake Lausanne, the movie opens with Swiss chocolate factory heiress Mika Muller (Huppert) marrying celebrated concert pianist André Polonski (Jacques Dutronc) for the second time, in a ceremony where family business blends with gossipy intrigue. Blu-ray Release Date: September 30th, 2014 Out of the Past BD - Out of the Past is so perfect a film noir that it is considered practically a textbook example of the genre. In his first starring role (it had previously been offered to John Garfield and Dick Powell), Robert Mitchum plays Jeff Bailey, the friendly but secretive proprietor of a mountain-village gas station. As Jeff's worshipful deaf-mute attendant (Dick Moore) looks on in curious fascination, an unsavory character named Joe (Paul Valentine) pulls up to the station, obviously looking for the owner. Jeff is all too aware of Joe's identity; he's been dreading this moment for quite some time, knowing full well that it will mean the end of his semi-idyllic existence, not to mention his engagement to local girl Ann (Virginia Huston). In a lengthy flashback, the audience is apprised of the reasons behind Jeff's discomfort - and thus begins a tale of treachery, betrayal and intrigue that extends into the present day and turns Jeff's life upside down. Out of the Past was remade in 1984 as *Against All Odds, with Jane Greer cast as the mother of her original character. Blu-ray Release Date: August 12th, 2014* Live Nude Girls - When Shane inherits a gentleman s club from his estranged uncle, he leaves his Midwestern home for party life of Los Angeles. Once he arrives, Shane finds the club run by a booze hound (Dave Foley), employing a horde of wild, sexy strippers and on the verge of bankruptcy. Now, he must save his inheritance, while possibly making strip club history in the process! DVD Release Date: August 19th, 2014 Hero of the Day - Allen, a documentary filmmaker, scores the story of his life when Mark Chambers, a former pro football star with a lot of financial baggage, agrees to be the subject of a movie; he unwittingly becomes an accomplice to Mark s efforts to turn his life around. As the film crew records Mark s daily activities from selling his championship ring and confronting drivers of suspiciously parked vehicles to riding a roller coaster and gambling at an underground fight club Allen discovers a whole new dimension to his childhood hero. However, when Mark s impulsive decisions begin to affect everyone s safety, Allen must figure a way to prevent his new friend from traveling down a dark path. DVD Release Date: September 23rd, 2014 Paris-Manhattan - Alice is a Parisian pharmacist who has a fixation on Woody Allen and his films. She has a huge portrait of him hanging in her bedroom, with which she tends to converse, seeking his wise counsel about life. She even hands out DVDs of his films to her customers as medicine for their ailments. Her parents have a sense of urgency for her to find a man, but none can match Woody Allen, not even the alarm specialist Victor who services the pharmacy. But there is one thing a man could do to impress her - introduce her to Woody Allen. DVD Release Date: September 23rd, 2014 You and the Night - YOU AND THE NIGHT features The Stud, The Teen, The Slut, and The Star as guests at a pansexual orgy thrown by the mysterious and sexy ménage-a-trois of Mathias, Ali, & Udo. Heir to the playful sex romps of early Francois Ozon, the dreamy color palette of Dario Argento, and Kenneth Anger's erotic occultism, YOU AND THE NIGHT is an erotic and wild take on THE BREAKFAST CLUB with each character baring their inner souls to the group to find acceptance and love. An original score by M83 sets the dreamy and transcendent tone for the eternal night. Also featuring a kinky cameo by the legendary Béatrice Dalle. DVD Release Date: October 14th, 2014

Next 4 weeks on the Calendar

October 6th, 2014

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

The Classic Monster Coffin Collection [Blu-ray] - Dracula (1931) , Frankenstein (1931) , The Mummy (1932) , The Invisible Man (1933) , The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) , The Wolf Man (1941) , The Phantom of the Opera (1943), The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) - Region FREE UK Universal

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

Edge of Tomorrow [Blu-ray] (Doug Liman, 2014) Warner Home Video

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

Gremlins [Blu-ray] (Joe Dante, 1984) Region FREE UK Warner Home Video

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

Iguana [Blu-ray] (Monte Hellman, 1988) Raro Video USA

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

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

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

The King and I [Blu-ray] (Walter Lang, 1956) 20th Century Fox

A Million Ways to Die in the West [Blu-ray] (Seth MacFarlane, 2014) Universal Studios

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

Oklahoma! [Blu-ray] (Fred Zinnemann, 1955) 20th Century Fox

Roger & Me [Blu-ray] (Michael Moore, 1989) Warner Home Video

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

Stray Cat Rock: The Collection [Blu-ray] (Delinquent Girl Boss, Wild Jumbo, Sex Hunter, Machine Animal, Beat 71) RB UK Arrow (BEAVER REVIEW)

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

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

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

October 13th, 2014

Audrey Rose [Blu-ray] (Robert Wise, 1977) Twilight Time

The Believers [Blu-ray] (John Schlesinger, 1987) Twilight Time

Cauldron of Blood [Blu-ray] (Santos Alcocer, 1970) Olive Films

The China Syndrome [Blu-ray] (James Bridges, 1979) Image Entertainment

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

Creature From the Black Lagoon (Limited Edition Steel Book) [Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray] (Jack Arnold,1954) - Region FREE UK Universal

Curse of the Crimson Altar [Blu-ray] (Vernon Sewell, 1968) RB UK Odeon Entertainment

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

The Death Kiss [Blu-ray] (Edwin L. Marin, 1932) Kino

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

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

Fargo Season One [Blu-ray] - Fox

Finally, Sunday aka Confidentially Yours [Blu-ray] (François Truffaut, 1983) RB Uk Artificial Eye

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

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

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

Kingpin [Blu-ray] (Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, 1996) Paramount

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

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

Mr. Peabody & Sherman [Blu-ray] (Rob Minkoff, 2014) 20th Century Fox

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

Rabid Dogs/Kidnapped [Blu-ray] (Mario Bava, 1974) RB UK Arrow Video

Red Shift (John Mackenzie, 1978) R2 UK BFI

Shivers [Steelbook] [Blu-ray] (David Cronenberg, 1975) RB UK Arrow Films
Shivers [Blu-ray] (David Cronenberg, 1975) RB UK Arrow Films

Sofia's Last Ambulance (Ilian Metev, 2012) R2 UK Second Run

Steven Spielberg Director's Collection [Blu-ray] (Duel, The Sugarland Express, Jaws, 1941 (Theatrical and Extended Versions), E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Always, Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park) Universal

Under Fire [Blu-ray] (Roger Spottiswoode, 1983) Twilight Time

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

The Vanishing [Blu-ray] (George Sluizer, 1993) Twilight Time

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

Zoolander [Blu-ray] (Ben Stiller, 2001) Paramount

October 20th, 2014

Animal Farm [Blu-ray] (Joy Batchelor, John Halas, 1954) RB UK Network

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

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

The Girl Hunters [Blu-ray] (Roy Rowland, 1963) Kino Lorber

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

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

Island of Terror [Blu-ray] (Terence Fisher, 1966) RB UK Odeon Entertainment

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

Kundo: Age of the Rampant [Blu-ray] (Jong-bin Yun, 2014) Well Go USA

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

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: The Complete Series [Blu-ray] - Shout! Factory

Play Dirty [Blu-ray] (André De Toth, 1969) 101 Films

The Squad [Blu-ray] (Jaime Osorio Marquez, 2011) Shout! Factory

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

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

The Vincent Price Collection II [Blu-ray] (House on Haunted Hill, The Return of the Fly, The Comedy of Terrors, The Raven, The Last Man on Earth, Tomb of Ligeia & Dr. Phibes Rises Again) - Shout! Factory

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

October 27th, 2014

1000 Masterworks - 300 Minutes of Art [Blu-ray] - Arthaus

The Anomaly [Blu-ray] (Noel Clarke, 2014) Region FREE UK Universal Pictures

Au hasard Balthazar [Blu-ray] (Robert Bresson, 1966) R2 UK Artificial Eye

Blacula - The Complete Collection [Blu-ray] - RB UK Eureka (BEAVER REVIEW)

Companeros [Blu-ray] (Sergio Corbucci, 1970) Blue Underground

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

Deliver Us from Evil [Blu-ray] (Scott Derrickson, 2014) Sony

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

Hide Your Smiling Faces [Blu-ray] (Daniel Patrick Carbone, 2013) RB UK Matchbox Films

The Lars von Trier Collection (5 Disc Blu-ray - Nymphomaniac Vol. I & Vol. II, Melancholia, Antichrist and Breaking the Waves) RB UK Artificial Eye

Lift To The Scaffold [Blu-ray] (Louis Malle, 1958) RB UK Artificial Eye

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

Nightbreed [Blu-ray] (Clive Barker, 1990) Shout! Factory

Out of the Unknown (7-disc DVD Set) (all 20 surviving episodes of the BBC2 anthology science fiction series broadcast between 1965 and 1971) R2 UK BFI

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

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

Squirm (Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray] (Jeff Lieberman, 1976) Shout! Factory

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

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

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