Newsletter - FOR THE WEEK

OF October 29th, 2018

  This Week's Highlights
 
 

Ekamowir omo!, Another week concentrating on Blu-ray reviews of Criterion's Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema 100th Anniversary 30 Blu-ray Boxset (reviewed, as a work in-progress, HERE) and three other Blu-ray titles by Warner Archive. Our Calendar has last week's extensive updates of films-to-Blu-ray, including January Criterions and films by Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Cristian Mungiu, Elaine May, Norman Jewison, Abbas Kiarostami, William Castle, Brian De Palma, Stuart Heisler, Joseph Pevney, Joel Schumacher, Richard Donner, Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Lester, Lotte Reiniger, Carlos Saura, Ridley Scott, Don Siegel, Chang-dong Lee, Wim Wenders, Karel Zeman, George Cukor, Sebastián Lelio, Tony Richardson, Wes Craven, Wei Lo and more. We have our Feature Blu-ray is posted for OCTOBER Enjoy!!

LISTING PAGES:

Ingmar Bergman's Cinema, HAGSPloitation, BLAXPloitation, OZPloitation, 'WOMEN IN PRISON' CINEMACREATURE-FEATURES (on Blu-ray!), PRE-CODE FILMs (on Blu-ray!), SILENT ERA FILMs (on Blu-ray!), HAMMER Studios (on Blu-ray!) The 100 BEST Neo-Noirs (on Blu-ray!), The GREATEST 100 Westerns (on Blu-ray!), Giallo on Blu-ray!, ESSENTIAL NOIR on Blu-ray!, Shopping Guide for Blu-rays at Amazon.FR (France), Shopping Guide for Blu-rays at Amazon.DE (Germany) and our LATEST ARTICLES: Movies From... the End of the World The Beauties of Star Trek (TOS)

Feature Blu-rays chosen for the Month of OCTOBER!

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LATEST ADDITIONS TO THE RELEASE CALENDAR:

 

The Thing from Another World [Blu-ray] (Howard Hawks, 1951) Warner Archive

Notorious [Blu-ray] (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946) Criterion

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days [Blu-ray] (Cristian Mungiu, 2007) Criterion

Mikey and Nicky [Blu-ray] (Elaine May, 1976) Criterion

In the Heat of the Night [Blu-ray] (Norman Jewison, 1967) Criterion

24 Frames [Blu-ray] (Abbas Kiarostami, 2017) Criterion

William Castle Box Set Volume Two [Blu-ray] (ZOTZ!, 13 FRIGHTENED GIRLS, THE OLD DARK HOUSE and STRAIT-JACKET) UK Indicator

Obsession [Blu-ray] (Brian De Palma, 1976) Shout! Factory

The Plague of the Zombies [Blu-ray] (John Gilling, 1966) Shout! Factory

The Glass Key [Blu-ray] (Stuart Heisler, 1942) Shout! Factory

Female on the Beach [Blu-ray] (Joseph Pevney, 1955) Kino

Foxfire [Blu-ray] (Joseph Pevney, 1955) Kino
El Paso [Blu-ray] (Lewis R. Foster, 1949) Kino
The Revolt of the Slaves [Blu-ray] (Nunzio Malasomma, 1960) Kino

The Atomic Cafe [Blu-ray] (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, 1982) Kino
Disney Classics Complete 55 Disk Movie Box Set 1937-2018 [
Blu-ray] - UK Walt Disney

Look Back in Anger [Blu-ray] (Tony Richardson, 1959) RB UK BFI

8MM [Blu-ray] (Joel Schumacher, 1999) Shout! Factory

Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic [Blu-ray] (Richard Donner, 1975) Shout! Factory

Sympathy for the Devil - 50th Anniversary Edition [Blu-ray(Jean-Luc Godard, 1968) ABKCO

Mad Doctor of Blood Island [Blu-ray] ( Gerardo de Leon , Eddie Romero, 1968) Severin

Brides of Blood [Blu-ray(Gerardo de Leon, Eddie Romero, 1968) Severin

Terror Is a Man [Blu-ray(Gerardo de Leon, Eddie Romero, 1959) Severin

School for Love (aka Futures Vedettes) [Blu-ray(Marc Allégret, 1955) Cinetrove International

Robin and Marian [Blu-ray(Richard Lester, 1976) Sony

The Morricone Duel [Blu-ray] - EuroArts Music International
The Adventures of Prince Achmed [Blu-ray] (Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch, 1926) Milestone Films
The 7th Day [Blu-ray] (Carlos Saura, 2004) Olive Films
Fleshpot On 42nd Street [Blu-ray] (1973) + Guru, The Mad Monk (1970) - AGFA (American Genre Film Archive)
Death Ship [Blu-ray] (Alvin Rakoff, 1980) Scorpion Releasing
Wild Women [Blu-ray] (Don Taylor, 1970) Kino

The Puppet Masters [Blu-ray] (Stuart Orme, 1994) Kino
The Plague Dogs [
Blu-ray] (Martin Rosen, 1982) Shout! Factory
Fiend [
Blu-ray] (Don Dohler, 1980) Massacre Video
Black Hawk Down
[4K UHD Blu-ray] (Ridley Scott, 2001) Sony Pictures
Screamers [
Blu-ray] (Christian Duguay, 1995) Shout! Factory
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl [
Blu-ray] (Masaaki Yuasa, 2017) Shout! Factory
The Secret of Dorian Gray [
Blu-ray] (Massimo Dallamano, 1970) Raro Video
The Black Windmill [
Blu-ray] (Don Siegel, 1974) Kino
The Beatles The White Album [
Blu-ray] (6 CD + 1 Blu-ray) Capitol
Burning [
Blu-ray] (Chang-dong Lee, 2018) Well Go USA

The American Friend [Blu-ray] (Wim Wenders, 1977) RB UK AX1 Films
To Kill with Intrigue [
Blu-ray] (Wei Lo, 1977) RB UK 88 Films
The Very Best Of Laurel & Hardy: 5-Film Collection [
Blu-ray] ( Block-Heads, Our Relations, Pardon Us, Sons of the Desert and Way Out West) R0 Uk Universal
An Invention for Destruction [
Blu-ray] (Karel Zeman, 1958) UK Second Run
Born Yesterday [
Blu-ray] (George Cukor, 1950) RB UK Arrow
King of Thieves [
Blu-ray] (James Marsh, 2018) RB UK Studiocanal
Disobedience [
Blu-ray] (Sebastián Lelio, 2017) RB UK Artificial Eye
The Entertainer [
Blu-ray] (Tony Richardson, 1960) RB UK BFI

Cold War [Blu-ray] (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2018) RB UK Artificial Eye
When A Stranger Calls / When A Stranger Calls Back: Limited Edition [
Blu-ray] - RB UK Second Sight
The Best of 80's Scream Queens [
Blu-ray] - RB UK 88 Films
Informer - TV Series [
Blu-ray] (Jonny Campbell, 2018) RB UK Spirit Entertainment
Sherlock Series 1 [4K UHD
Blu-ray] (2018) - BBC
McQueen [4K UHD
Blu-ray] (Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, 2018) RB UK Lionsgate

Swamp Thing [Blu-ray] (Wes Craven, 1982) RB UK 88 Films
Dragon Fist [
Blu-ray] (Wei Lo, 1979) RB UK 88 Films

Quatermass and the Pit [Blu-ray] (TV-series - Rudolph Cartier, 1958) RB UK BBC

Hallelujah the Hills [Blu-ray] (Adolfas Mekasan, 1963) Kino Lorber

Daisies [Blu-ray] (Vera Chytilová, 1966) UK Second Run

Brewster McCloud [Blu-ray] (Robert Altman, 1970) Warner Archives

L'Atalante & The Films Of Jean Vigo [Blu-ray] (Jean Vigo, Various) RB UK Curzon Artificial Eye

The Blood Island Collection [Blu-ray] (Brides of Blood, Mad Doctor of Blood island, Beast of Blood, Terro is a Man) - Severin Films

Khartoum [Blu-ray] (Basil Dearden, 1966) RB UK Eureka

Yanks [Blu-ray] (John Schlesinger, 1979) RB UK Eureka

Cabaret [Blu-ray] (Bob Fosse, 1972) Warner Archive

The Satanic Rites of Dracula [Blu-ray] (Alan Gibson, 1973) Warner Archive

Superman [4K UHD Blu-ray] [(Richard Donner, 1978) Warner UK

2001: A Space Odyssey [4K UHD Steelbook Blu-ray] (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) UK Warner Bros.

TKO Collection - 3 Films by Takeshi Kitano [Blu-ray] - Violent Cop, Boiling Point, Hana-Bi (Fireworks) - Film Movement Classics

Rollercoaster [Blu-ray] (James Goldstone, 1977) UK 101 Films (BEAVER REVIEW)

Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore) [Blu-ray] (Michele Soavi, 1994) RB UK Shameless

Two Evil Eyes [Blu-ray] (Dario Argento, George A. Romero, 1990) RB UK 88 Films

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark [Blu-ray] (James Signorelli, 1988) UK Arrow Video

Waterworld [Blu-ray] (Kevin Reynolds, 1995) UK Arrow Video

The Rider [Blu-ray] (Chloé Zhao, 2017) UK Altitude

Imagine: John Lennon & Gimme Some Truth [Blu-ray] (Andrew Solt, 1988) Eagle Vision

Bad Ronald [Blu-ray] (Buzz Kulik, 1974) Warner Archive

American Fright Fest [Blu-ray] (Ante Novakovic, 2018) Gravitas

The Evil Dead [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Sam Raimi, 1981) Lionsgate

Light Sleeper [Blu-ray] (Paul Schrader, 1992) Umbrella

ONE VOICE (not Ellsworth Monkton Toohey): Things will be back to normal soon - the Bergman set is almost completely reviewed. This week we did take a break to cover three Warner Archive Blu-rays; Raoul Walsh's The Naked and the Dead (1958), Richard Brooks's The Last Hunt (1956) and Vincente Minnelli's Home From the Hill (1960) The rest of our time was spent on Criterion's 30-Blu-ray set of Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema and completed reviews/comparisons of Saraband (2003), Faro Document 1979 (1979), The Serpent's Egg (1977), The Touch (1971), Faro Document (1970), All These Women (1964), The Devil's Eye (1960), Smiles of a Summer Night (1955),. Easily the set of the year. Still much more to go - stay tuned HERE.

"Perhaps we are the same person. Perhaps we have no limits; perhaps we flow into each other, stream through each other, boundlessly and magnificently. You bear terrible thoughts; it is almost painful to be near you. At the same time it is enticing. Do you know why?" - Ingmar Bergman, Fanny och Alexander

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Next 2 weeks on the Calendar

October 29th, 2018

 

 

2001: A Space Odyssey Re-Mastered [Blu-ray] (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) Warner Bros.

2001: A Space Odyssey [4k UHD Blu-ray] (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) Warner Bros.

2001: A Space Odyssey [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) UK Warner Bros.

2001: A Space Odyssey [4K UHD Steelbook Blu-ray] (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) UK Warner Bros.

Alt-Right: Age of Rage [Blu-ray(Adam Bhala Lough, 2018) Gravitas Ventures

An Actor Prepares [Blu-ray(Steve Clark, 2018) Gravitas Ventures

An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn [Blu-ray(Jim Hosking, 2018) RB UK Spirit Entertainment

American Exorcist [Blu-ray(Tony Trov, Johnny Zito, 2018) Gravitas Ventures

The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man [Blu-ray] (Tommy Avallone, 2018) Gravitas Ventures

Blood Harvest [Blu-ray(Bill Rebane, 1987) Vinegar Syndrome

Candyman [Blu-ray] (Bernard Rose, 1992) RB UK Arrow

Can't Hardly Wait [Blu-ray] (Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan, 1998) Mill Creek

The Changeling [Blu-ray] (Peter Medak, 1980) RB UK Second Sight (BEAVER REVIEW)

Custody [Blu-ray] (Xavier Legrand, 2017) Kino

The Darkest Minds [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Jennifer Yuh Nelson, 2018) 20th Century Fox

The Darkest Minds [Blu-ray] (Jennifer Yuh Nelson, 2018) 20th Century Fox

Death of a Nation [Blu-ray] (Dinesh D'Souza, 2018) Quality Flix

Def by Temptation [Blu-ray] (James Bond III, 1990) Vinegar Syndrom

The Devil's Doorway [Blu-ray] (Aislinn Clarke, 2018) Shout! Factory

D.O.A. [Blu-ray] (Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton, 1988) Kino

Dragnet [Blu-ray] (Tom Mankiewicz, 1987) Shout! Factory (Alt Blu-ray REVIEW)

The First Purge [Blu-ray] (Gerard McMurray, 2018) RB UK Universal

The First Purge [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Gerard McMurray, 2018) Region Free UK Universal

The Fog - Collector's Edition [4K UHD Blu-ray] (John Carpenter, 1980) Region Free UK Studiocanal

The Fog [Blu-ray] (John Carpenter, 1980) RB UK Studiocanal

Future World [Blu-ray(James Franco, Bruce Thierry Cheung, 2018) RB UK Spirit Entertainment

Great Balls of Fire! [Blu-ray] (Jim McBride, 1989) RB UK 4Digital Media

Hallelujah the Hills [Blu-ray] (Adolfas Mekasan, 1963) Kino Lorber

Heavy Metal [Blu-ray] (Gerald Potterton, etc., 1981) RB UK Mediumrare

The Incubus [Blu-ray(John Hough, 1982) Vinegar Syndrome

Jack the Giant Killer [Blu-ray] (Nathan Juran, 1962) RB UK 101 Films

Jackie Chan's PROJECT A & PROJECT A PART II [Blu-ray] - RB UK Eureka

The Killing Kind [Blu-ray(Curtis Harrington, 1973) Vinegar Syndrome

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen [Blu-ray] (Stephen Norrington, 2003) RB UK Fabulous

MacGyver: The Complete First Season [Blu-ray] (Lee David Zlotoff, 1985) Paramount

Matrix Revolutions [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Lana and Lilly Wachowski, 2003) Warner Bros.

Matrix Reloaded [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Lana and Lilly Wachowski, 2003) Warner Bros.

Nightmare Alley Limited Edition [Blu-ray] (Edmund Goulding, 1947) - Signal One Entertainment

Old Ironsides [Blu-ray] (James Cruze, 1926) Kino

Our House [Blu-ray] (Anthony Scott Burns, 2018) Shout! Factory

Out of Time [Blu-ray] (Carl Franklin, 2003) MVD Marquee Collection

Les Parents Terribles [Blu-ray] (Jean Cocteau, 1948) Sony

Planet Earth II and Blue Planet II: The Collection [4K UHD Blu-ray] (David Attenborough, 2006, 2016) BBC Studios

The Princess Bride [Blu-ray] (Rob Reiner, 1987) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

Rushmore [Blu-ray] (Wes Anderson, 1998) Criterion UK (BEAVER REVIEW)

Sicario: Day of the Soldado [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Stefano Sollima, 2018) Lionsgate

Sicario: Day of the Soldado - Steelbook [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Stefano Sollima, 2018) Region Free UK Lionsgate

Slender Man [Blu-ray] (Sylvain White, 2018) Sony

Then the Night Comes [Blu-ray] (Matt Spease, 2018) Dark Night Films

They Live – Collector’s Edition [4K UHD Blu-ray] (John Carpenter, 1988) Region Free UK Studiocanal

They Live [Blu-ray] (John Carpenter, 1988) RB UK Studiocanal

Torso [Blu-ray] (Sergio Martino, 1973) Arrow US

The Vicious Sweet [Blu-ray(Ron Bonk, 1997) SRS Cinema

The Wasp Woman [Blu-ray] (Roger Corman, 1959) Shout! Factory (Alt Blu-ray REVIEW)

Whitney [Blu-ray] (Kevin Macdonald, 2018) RB UK Altitude

 

November 5th, 2018

 

 

The 7th Day [Blu-ray] (Carlos Saura, 2004) Olive Films

Art School Confidential [Blu-ray] (Terry Zwigoff, 2006) MVD Marquee Collection

The Beatles The White Album [Blu-ray] (6 CD + 1 Blu-ray) Capitol

Beyond The Sky [Blu-ray] (Fulvio Sestito, 2018) Image Entertainment

Big Trouble [Blu-ray] (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2002) Kino

BlacKkKlansman [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Spike Lee, 2018) Universal

BlacKkKlansman [Blu-ray] (Spike Lee, 2018) Universal

The Boston Strangler [Blu-ray] (Richard Fleischer, 1968) RB UK Plan B Entertainment

The Cakemaker [Blu-ray] (Ofir Raul Graizer, 2017) Strand Releasing

Children of Men [Blu-ray] (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006) RB UK Arrow

Claire's Camera [Blu-ray] (Sang-soo Hong, 2017) Cinema Guild

Edie [Blu-ray] (Simon Hunter, 2017) RB UK Arrow Films

Faces Places [Blu-ray] (JR, Agnès Varda, 2017) RB UK Curzon Artificial Eye

Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti [Blu-ray] (Edouard Deluc, 2017) Cohen

The Glass House [Blu-ray] (Tom Gries, 1972) Scorpion Releasing

Hitler's Hollywood [Blu-ray] (Rüdiger Suchsland, 2017) RB UK Eureka Entertainment

I Am Bruce Lee [Blu-ray] (Pete McCormack, 2012) UK Network

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom [Blu-ray] (J.A. Bayona, 2018) Region Free UK Universal

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom [4K UHD Blu-ray] (J.A. Bayona, 2018) Region Free UK Universal

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom [3D Blu-ray] (J.A. Bayona, 2018) Region Free UK Universal

Law Abiding Citizen [4K UHD Blu-ray]  (F. Gary Gray, 2009) Lionsgate

Lisbon [Blu-ray(Ray Milland, 1956) Kino

Long Weekend [Blu-ray] (Colin Eggleston, 1978) RB UK Second Sight

A Man Alone [Blu-ray] (Ray Milland, 1955) Kino

Marvel Studios Collector's Edition Box Set - Phase 3 Part 1 (Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-man: Homecoming, Thor Ragnarok) [Blu-ray(Various, 2018) Region Free UK Walt Disney

Midaq Alley [Blu-ray] (Jorge Fons, 1995) Film Movement Classics

Papillon [Blu-ray] (Michael Noer, 2017) Universal

Phantasm - Remastered Steelbook [Blu-ray] (Don Coscarelli, 1979) Well Go USA

Quatermass and the Pit [Blu-ray] (Rudolph Cartier, 1958) RB UK BBC

Revenge of the Dead [Blu-ray(Pupi Avati, 1983) Code Red

Shampoo [Blu-ray] (Hal Ashby, 1975) RB UK Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

Sherlock: Season One [4k UHD Blu-ray] (Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, 2010) BBC Studios

Sleepwalkers [Blu-ray] (Mick Garris, 1992) Shout! Factory

A Story from Chikamatsu [Blu-ray] (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954) Criterion

Superman [4K UHD Blu-ray] [(Richard Donner, 1978) Warner UK

Sympathy for the Devil - 50th Anniversary Edition [Blu-ray(Jean-Luc Godard, 1968) ABKCO

The Time Tunnel Complete Collection [Blu-ray] - RB UK Revelation Films Ltd

The Thing - Steelbook [Blu-ray] (John Carpenter, 1982) Shout! Factory

Train to Busan - Steelbook [Blu-ray] (Sang-ho Yeon, 2016) Well Go USA

Transformers: The Ultimate Five Movie Collection (Transformers, Age of Extinction, Dark of the Moon, Revenge of the Fallen, The Last Knight) [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Various, 2007-2017) Paramount

Windtalkers - Theatrical Cut + Director's Cut [Blu-ray] (John Woo, 2002) MVD Marquee Collection

Wreck-It Ralph [4k UHD Blu-ray] (Rich Moore, 2012) Disney