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Rolling Vengeance
BD - In rural Canada, six
brothers drinking and joyriding in a pickup truck cause an
accident that kills Joey Rosso's (Don Michael Paul) mother
(Susan Hogan) and sisters (Alyson Court, Marsha Moreau). As it
turns out, the brothers are the sons of an influential
entrepreneur named Tiny Doyle (Ned Beatty), and they all get off
scot-free. When Joey's father (Lawrence Dane) is murdered as
well, there's only one thing left for Joey to do: build a
massive truck to mow the entire Doyle family down.
Blu-ray Release date: October 17th,
2017
Le Gai Savoir
BD - This experimental
minimalist drama by Jean-Luc Godard is a totally plotless
exploration of film language. The setting is a darkened
soundstage with only a single light to illuminate two actors who
discuss philosophy. The philosophy reflects the director's most
radical thoughts about making films. When not discussing films,
the two play word-association games. Though named Le Gai
Savoir, this film is not based on the book of the same title
by Friedrich Nietzsche but, very loosely, on Jean Jacques
Rousseau's Emile. Blu-ray
Release date: October 10th, 2017
The Devil's Honey
BD - Horror legend Lucio
Fulci directed this outrageous erotic thriller about sexual
revenge. Jessica (Bianca Marsillach) loses her kinky boyfriend
Johnny when he dies on the operating table after a motorcycle
accident. She holds Dr. Wendell Simpson (Brett Halsey)
responsible and takes him captive at a beach-front house.
Simpson is a bit strange himself, painting prostitutes'
pantyhose red before he can get excited, but Jessica outdoes him
in every way. During the days of his captivity, Simpson must eat
dog food, submit to hot wax torture, and -- worst of all --
listen to Jessica reciting ridiculous poetry in the nude.
Blu-ray Release date: September
26th, 2017
Titanic (1943)
BD - Technically, this
Titanic is an excellent catastrophe film; its shots of the
ship sinking were later used by the 1958 British film without
credit. Somewhat true to the facts though peppered with
fictional good Germans both on and below deck the film ends with
a trial scene that acquits the White Star Line management,
followed by a final slide denouncing England s eternal quest for
profit. Blu-ray Release date:
October 17th, 2017
Amores Perros
BD - Three stories of life
along the margins in Mexico City converge in this inventive
thriller. Octavio is sharing an apartment with his brother,
which leads to a serious problem when he falls in love with
Susanna, his sister-in-law. Octavio and Susanna want to run away
together, but Octavio has no money. He does, however, know a man
who stages dog fights, and he volunteers his dog Cofi for the
next round of fights. Cofi bravely rises to the occasion, but
the dog's success in the ring leads to a violent altercation.
Elsewhere, Daniel, a successful publishing magnate, leaves his
family to take up with a beautiful model, Valeria.
Blu-ray Release Date: October 10th,
2017
Junior Bonner
BD - Sam Peckinpah eschews
his slow-motion bullet ballets for this quiet character study of
ex-rodeo cowboy turned drifter Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen),
who returns home to Arizona to reconcile with the family he
hasn't seen in years. Bonner is shocked to see that the solid
family he was hoping to come back to is breaking apart. His
parents, Ace (Robert Preston) and Elvira (Ida Lupino), have
separated, and his brother Curley (Joe Don Baker) has turned
into a heartless real estate tycoon, parceling off sections of
his parent's land for quick money. With nowhere to turn and
nowhere to run, Bonner has to face himself and try to find a way
to regain his self-respect. He is given that opportunity at the
town's Fourth of July Rodeo, where he is determined to mount and
ride and unrideable bull. Blu-ray
Release date: October 31st, 2017
Avanti!
BD - This enchanting yet
dark romantic comedy stars Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills as a
pair of mismatched lovers helplessly drawn into a series of
seemingly hopeless but humorous situations as in Lemmon's The
Out-of -Towners two years earlier. Lemmon is Wendell Armbruster
Jr., an overbearing American business tycoon forced to travel to
the beautiful Italian island of Ischia to claim the body of his
recently departed father. What begins with a rather elementary
premise evolves into a succession of somber twists and turns, as
Armbruster meets Pamela Piggott (Mills), the daughter of his
father's mistress, who, Lemmon is appalled to learn, died
alongside Armbruster Sr., while zipping through the Italian
countryside in his sportscar. Blu-ray
Release date: October 10th, 2017
La Chinoise
BD - Perhaps Godard's most
political film, "La Chinoise" is also Godard at his most
primitive in terms of filmmaking and his most extreme in terms
of mise-en-scene. On one side Godard openly displays his views
on America and their imperialism by a very aggressive and
beautiful mise-en-scene, but on the other side his approach
towards Maoism and Communism borders the naïve, here voiced thru
the students and their discussions, as it portraits a group of
young students of Sorbonne, who spend their summer vacation
discussing ideology and end it all with assassinating a Russian
cultural attaché, before returning to school.
Blu-ray Release Date: October 17th,
2017
Wages of Fear
BD - In a squalid South
American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide
mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a
treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo
to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage,
their friendship, and their nerves. The result is one of the
greatest thrillers ever committed to celluloid, a white-knuckle
ride from France’s legendary master of suspense, Henri-Georges
Clouzot. Blu-ray Release Date:
October 23rd, 2017
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
BD - This atypical 1970
offering from Italian horror maestro Mario Bava is meant as a
spoof of spaghetti westerns, but the wooden acting of pretty
boys Brett Halsey and Charles Southwood (Roy and Jack
respectively) adds an unintended layer of humor. The two
gunslingers are rivals seeking buried gold and the favors of a
fickle Indian prostitute (Marilu Tolo) who wants the loot for
herself. Teodoro Corra chews the sand dunes as “the Reverend,” a
dynamite-tossing Russian outlaw in priestly garb. Faces familiar
from Sergio Leone westerns abound in the supporting cast. The
pseudo-Morricone score by Piero Umiliani is a hoot.
Blu-ray Release Date: October 10th,
2017
Dimension 5
BD - Justin Power (Hunter),
agent for Espionage, Inc., returns from a mission in which he
used a time-travel belt to steal secret plans. He is told by his
supierior, Cane (Donald Woods), he is to be teamed with a
Chinese agent to combat an Asian crime ring, Dragon, headed by
crime lord Big Buddha (Sakata). A sister agency has discovered
Dragon plans to destroy Los Angeles if United States forces are
not withdrawn from east Asia. Blu-ray
Release date: September 26th, 2017
Portrait of Jennie
BD - Not a success upon its
release, "Portrait of Jennie" has grown in its appeal in
the years since - the ethereal story of an expansion of time, a
collapse of boundaries, or an overlapping of both. The chemistry
between Cotten and the luminous Jennifer Jones was never better.
The stunning cinematography by Oscar-nominated Joe August and
composer Dimitri Tiomkin's use of themes by Claude Debussy add
immeasurably to the dreamlike quality of the film.
Blu-ray Release Date: October 24th,
2017
Kill, Baby Kill
BD - This oppressive and
visually overwhelming exercise in the conjuring of atmosphere
allowed Mario Bava to crank the gothic stylistic tendencies of
Black Sunday into
overdrive, finally permitting him to churn out scene after scene
of hallucinatory intensity with only the barest threads of a
plot to hold it all together. The avenging demonic forces of his
past films have been distilled here into the single, chilling
image of a ghostly young girl, rolling a sinister pale ball down
hallways and street corners as she drives those around her to
certain death. Rarely has a more haunting or unforgettable
specter graced the horror cinema, and even had he never made
another film after this, Bava would have already proven himself
as a master filmmaker. Kino Blu-ray
Release Date: October 10th, 2017 |
