DVDBeaver Newsletter - November 10th, 2014

Newsletter - FOR THE WEEK

OF November 10th, 2014

	This Week's Highlights

	Wunya ngulum! A modest week that includes Blu-rays by Criterion, Masters of Cinema, 2 important silent era films and content including directors Monte Hellman, Louis Malle, Val Guest, Raoul Walsh, Robert Weine and others. November's' FEATURE Blu-ray and DVD are posted. We have a CONTEST posted with another Brand New Kino Lorber Blu-ray prize!- Enjoy! 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 NOVEMBER!
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LATEST ADDITIONS TO THE RELEASE CALENDAR:

Songs From The Big Chair (Super Deluxe Edition) [4CD + 2DVD] - Island

Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean [Blu-ray] (Robert Altman, 1982) Olive Films

Criterion Designs Book - Criterion

River's Edge [Blu-ray] (Tim Hunter, 1986) Kino Lorber

The Falcon and the Snowman [Blu-ray] (John Schlesinger, 1985) Kino Lorber

Juno Steelbook [Blu-ray] (Jason Reitman, 2007) RB UK 20th Century Fox

Dark City [Blu-ray] (William Dieterle, 1950) Olive Films (BEAVER REVIEW)

Rope of Sand [Blu-ray] (William Dieterle, 1949) Olive Films (BEAVER REVIEW)

Union Station [Blu-ray] (Rudolph Maté, 1950) Olive Films (BEAVER REVIEW)

Appointment with Danger [Blu-ray] (Lewis Allen, 1951) Olive Films (BEAVER REVIEW)

Frank Darabont Collection [Blu-ray] (The Green Mile, The Majestic, Shawshank Redemption) Warner

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 40th Anniversary Restoration - 2 Disc Limited Edition Steelbook [Blu-ray] - RB UK Second Sight

The Ninth Configuration [Blu-ray] (William Peter Blatty, 1980) Henstooth Video

The Killers [Blu-ray] (Robert Siodmak, 1946) RB DE Koch (BEAVER REVIEW)

Foxes [Blu-ray] (Adrian Lyne, 1980) Kino Lorber

American Gigolo [Blu-ray] (Paul Schrader, 1980) Warner

At the Earth's Core [Blu-ray] (Kevin Connor, 1976) Kino Lorber

Supernova [Blu-ray] (Walter Hill, 2000) Shout! Factory

The One That Got Away [Blu-ray] (Roy Ward Baker, 1957) RB UK Network

Bunny Lake Is Missing [Blu-ray] (Otto Preminger, 1965) Twilight Time

Judgment at Nuremberg [Blu-ray] (Stanley Kramer, 1961) Twilight Time

The Twilight Samurai [Blu-ray] (Yôji Yamada, 2002) Twilight Time

Birdman of Alcatraz [Blu-ray] (John Frankenheimer, 1962) Twilight Time

Flaming Star [Blu-ray] (Don Siegel, 1960) Twilight Time

When the Wind Blows [Blu-ray] (Jimmy T. Murakami, 1986) Twilight Time

The Palm Beach Story [Blu-ray] (Preston Sturges, 1942) Criterion Collection

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant [Blu-ray] (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972) Criterion Collection

La Ciénaga [Blu-ray] (Lucrecia Martel, 2001) Criterion Collection

The Sword of Doom [Blu-ray] (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966) Criterion Collection

My Winnipeg [Blu-ray] (Guy Maddin, 2007) Criterion Collection

The Killers [Blu-ray] (Robert Siodmak, 1946) RB UK Arrow (BEAVER REVIEW)

Vincent Price in Six Gothic Tales [Blu-ray] (The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Tales of Terrors, The Raven, The Haunted Palace, The Tomb of Ligeia) RB UK Arrow Video

Henry V [Blu-ray] (Kenneth Branagh, 1989) Shout! Factory

The Giver [Blu-ray] (Phillip Noyce, 2014) Anchor Bay

The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears [Blu-ray] (Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, 2013) Strand Releasing

Banshee: Season 2 [Blu-ray] - HBO Studios

Charlie Wilson's War [Blu-ray] (Mike Nichols, 2007) Universal Studios

The Good Shepherd [Blu-ray] (Robert De Niro, 2006) Universal Studios

The Promised Land (Andrzej Wajda, 1975) R2 UK Second Run

Jean De Florette / Manon Of The Spring [Blu-ray] (Claude Berri, 1986) Shout! Factory

Blue Velvet [Blu-ray] Special Edition inc Lost Footage (David Lynch, 1986) - RB UK High Fliers Films

The Girl Who Knew Too Much [Blu-ray] (Mario Bava, 1963) RB UK Arrow Films

The François Truffaut Collection [Blu-ray] (Shoot the Pianist, Jules et Jim, The Soft Skin, Anne & Muriel, A Gorgeous Girl Like Me, The Last Metro, The Woman Next Door, Finally Sunday) RB UK Artificial Eye

Magic in the Moonlight [Blu-ray] (Woody Allen, 2014) Sony Pictures

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes [Blu-ray] (Matt Reeves, 2014) 20th Century Fox

The Simpsons: Season 17 [Blu-ray] - 20th Century Fox

On Golden Pond [Blu-ray] (Mark Rydell, 1981) Shout! Factory

Capricorn One [Blu-ray] (Peter Hyams, 1977) Shout! Factory

ONE VOICE (not Ellsworth Monkton Toohey): Criterion's Blu-ray package of 2 Monte Hellman westerns, The Shooting/Ride in the Whirlwind, gets top spot this week with audio commentaries on both films and many interviews. I also enjoyed the BFI Blu-ray of Val Guest's The Day the Earth Caught Fire - the new restoration has some significant differences to the SD. There were two Silent Era films put to Blu-ray; Raoul Walsh directs the 1924 The The Thief of Bagdad and we've compared new Masters of Cinema package and we've been privy to Kino's new The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Blu-ray - also compared. I noted the vastly improved transfer of the new Blu-ray of the western More Dead Than Alive with the hulking Clint Walker and Louise Malle's fun Viva Maria! with Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau. Those interested in the nostalgia of the 3-D craze may wish to invest in the sci-fi effort The Bubble 3-D on Blu-ray. Fans of Burt Reynolds' southern-tough guy character Gator McKlusky should indulge in White Lightning on Kino Blu-ray. On DVD this week, Eric covered Fog and Crimes - Season One - a highly regarded Italian, mystery, TV series.. See you next week!


	THIS WEEK's REVIEWS / COMPARISONS
	The Thief of Bagdad BD - This swashbuckling tale out of The Thousand and One Nights was Hollywood mega-star and producer Douglas Fairbanks' pet project, and coming on the heels of previous costume successes The Three Musketeers, The Mark of Zorro, and Robin Hood, cemented Fairbanks' standing as both the leading action-adventure star of his day and one of the industry's first "multi-hypenate" powerhouses. The actor stars as the impious thief Ahmed who has made a reputation as Baghdad's premiere plunderer. When he falls in love with a beautiful princess (Julanne Johnston) and the two determine to marry, her father the caliph intervenes, forbidding the union. Thus erupts a chain of circumstances involving a crystal ball, a magic apple, a pegasus, an invisibility cloak... and, of course, a flying carpet. Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Release Date: November 24th, 2014 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari BD - Undoubtedly one of the most exciting and inspired horror movies ever made. The story is a classic sampling of expressionist paranoia about a hypnotist who uses a somnambulist to do his murders, full of the gloom and fear that prevailed in Germany as it emerged from WWI. There are plenty of extremely boring sociological/critical accounts of the film; best to avoid them and enjoy the film's extraordinary use of painted light and Veidt's marvellous performance. Incidentally, the influence of Caligari on the cinema is much more problematic than some historians suppose. Thematically it has rarely been copied, and the style only really infiltrated in dream sequences and other odd devices. Kino Blu-ray Release Date: November 18th, 2014 More Dead Than Alive BD - Saddle up for a thrilling tale of heroes and villains in this "thought-provoking" western with "an ending that is truly different" (Film and Television Daily). Starring "tall, dark and handsome" (Hollywood Citizen-News) Clint Walker (Sam Whiskey) and the legendary Vincent Price (*The Last Man on Earth) in one of his most colorful roles, this action-packed drama aims high and hits its mark! After serving 18 years, "Killer" Cain (Walker) is released from prison, determined never to touch a gun again. But the only job he can get is with Dan Ruffalo's (Price) traveling sideshow as the sharp-shooting main attraction. As Cain works to build an honest future free of bullets and bloodshed, his enemies look to settle old scores. Now Cain must risk his new life to become the "Killer" once more…or be haunted by his past forever. Blu-ray Release Date: November 11th, 2014* Viva Maria! BD - Director Louis Malle and co-writer Jean-Claude Carriere satirizes everything from American westerns to revolutions, dictators, the Church, priesthood and even sex itself! When two women – both named Maria – unwittingly invent the striptease circa 1910, they become such a hit that enthusiastic audiences strip along with them! But when one of the Marias falls for a handsome revolutionary (George Hamilton), she finds that she has unwittingly embroiled the two of them in an armed peasant revolt! Blu-ray Release Date: November 4th, 2014 The Bubble 3-D BD - The eye-popping thrills and chills begin when a plane carrying pregnant Catherine (Deborah Walley) and her husband Mark (Michael Cole) is forced to land in a mysterious remote town. The townspeople are quite strange, indeed: they repeat certain phrases and movements ceaselessly and stagger through the streets like brain-dead automatons. Then there is an even more terrifying discovery - the zombie inhabitants live under an impenetrable dome, trapped like insects in a jar. Can Catherine, Mark and their newborn baby escape The Bubble, or will they become mindless drones trapped in a human zoo? Blu-ray Release date: November 18th, 2014 The Day the Earth Caught Fire BD - Val Guest writes and directs this sci-fi drama. After global nuclear testing knocks the world off its axis, temperatures begin to rise rapidly as the planet is sent careering towards the sun. In London the heat is causing the Thames to dry up as baffled Daily Express reporter Peter Stenning (Edward Judd), his colleague Bill Maguire (Leo McKern), and his girlfriend Jeanne Craig (Janet Munro), resolve to get to the bottom of the matter. After battling the Government for the truth, they are shocked to discover the fate of their planet and must search for a solution before it's too late. Blu-ray Release Date: November 17th, 2014 The Shooting/Ride in the Whirlwind BD - In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. Dreamlike and gritty by turns, the two films would prove their maker's adeptness at brilliantly deconstructing genre. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman, they feature overlapping casts and crews, including Jack Nicholson in two of his meatiest early roles. The films -The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by vigilantes for crimes they did not commit - are rigorous, artful, and wholly unconventional journeys into the American West. Blu-ray Release date: November 11th, 2014 White Lightning BD - "White lightning," of course, is another term for moonshine whiskey, the basis for this tale of backwoods intrigue and action. Reynolds is Gator, a bootlegger enlisted by the Treasury Department (or what Granny Clampett used to call "revenooers") to nab the corrupt (what else?) and bigoted Sheriff Connors, played by Ned Beatty, who had co-starred with Reynolds in Deliverance. Connors has his own moonshine business operating on the side. The lawman was also responsible for the death of Gator's brother, and that provides his real motive for working with the Feds. With the help of a souped-up car, another bootlegger (Bo Hopkins), and a sexy girlfriend (Jennifer Billingsley), Gator gets the goods on the sheriff. But not before engaging in the major delight and raison d'etre of movies of this type the uproarious antics of stunt drivers on dirt roads and through the swamps of the film's Arkansas location shoot. Blu-ray Release date: November 11th, 2014 Fog and Crimes - Season One - Inspired by the four famous novels by Valerio Varesi, each episode follows an investigation by Soneri, Ferrara Police Chief. He works with a faithful squad on a series of crimes, each hiding a disturbing mystery, with the startling and grotesque undertones of the apparently calm world of the wealthy countryside. DVD Release Date: October 27th, 2014

Next 4 weeks on the Calendar

November 10th, 2014

The Abominable Dr Phibes [Blu-ray] (Robert Fuest, 1971) RB UK Arrow Video (BEAVER REVIEW)

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

Batman The Complete TV Series Limited Edition [Blu-ray] - Region FREE Warner UK

Birdman of Alcatraz [Blu-ray] (John Frankenheimer, 1962) Twilight Time

Breaking the Waves [Blu-ray] (Lars von Trier, 1996) RB UK Artificial Eye

The Bruce Lee Premiere Collection [Blu-ray] (The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, The Way of the Dragon, Game of Death) Shout! Factory

Bunny Lake Is Missing [Blu-ray] (Otto Preminger, 1965) Twilight Time

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

Christmas in Connecticut [Blu-ray] (Peter Godfrey, 1945) Warner (BEAVER REVIEW)

Dolls [Blu-ray] (Stuart Gordon, 1987) Shout! Factory

Dr. Phibes Rises Again [Blu-ray] (Robert Fuest, 1972) RB UK Arrow Video (BEAVER REVIEW)

Drum [Blu-ray] (Steve Carver, Burt Kennedy, 1976) Kino Lorber

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

Flaming Star [Blu-ray] (Don Siegel, 1960) Twilight Time

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

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

Jour De Fete [Blu-ray] (Jacques Tati, 1949) RB UK Studiocanal

Judgment at Nuremberg [Blu-ray] (Stanley Kramer, 1961) Twilight Time

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

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

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

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

Portrait of Jason [Blu-ray] (Shirley Clarke, 1967) Milestone (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Promised Land (Andrzej Wajda, 1975) R2 UK Second Run

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

Sands of Iwo Jima [Blu-ray] (Allan Dwan, 1949) Olive Films

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

Songs From The Big Chair (Super Deluxe Edition) [4CD + 2DVD] - Island

The Twilight Samurai [Blu-ray] (Yôji Yamada, 2002) Twilight Time

Les Vacances De. M. Hulot [Blu-ray] (Jacques Tati, 1953) RB UK Studiocanal

When the Wind Blows [Blu-ray] (Jimmy T. Murakami, 1986) Twilight Time

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

November 17th, 2014

22 Jump Street [Blu-ray] (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, 2014) Sony

The Bubble 3-D [Blu-ray] (Arch Oboler, 1966) Kino Lorber (BEAVER REVIEW)

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

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

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

Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean [Blu-ray] (Robert Altman, 1982) Olive Films

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

The Dark Half [Blu-ray] (George A. Romero, 1993) Shout! Factory

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

The Girl Who Knew Too Much [Blu-ray] (Mario Bava, 1963) RB UK Arrow Films

Into the Storm [Blu-ray] (Steven Quale, 2014) Warner

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

Kiki's Delivery Service [Blu-ray] (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989) Walt Disney

The Killers [Blu-ray] (Robert Siodmak, 1946) RB UK Arrow (BEAVER REVIEW)

Mauvais Sang [Blu-ray] (Leos Carax, 1986) Carlotta Films

Monkey Shines [Blu-ray] (George A. Romero, 1988) Shout! Factory

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

Princess Mononoke [Blu-ray] (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997) Walt Disney

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For [Blu-ray] (Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, 2014) Anchor Bay

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 40th Anniversary Restoration - 2 Disc Limited Edition Steelbook [Blu-ray] - RB UK Second Sight

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

The Wind Rises [Blu-ray] (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013) Walt Disney

November 24th, 2014

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

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

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

Criterion Designs Book - Criterion

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

The Giver [Blu-ray] (Phillip Noyce, 2014) Anchor Bay

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

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

Mon Oncle [Blu-ray] (Jacques Tati, 1958) RB UK Studiocanal

Mood Indigo [Blu-ray] (Michel Gondry, 2013) RB UK Studiocanal

New Directors from Japan [Blu-ray] - 'My Baby', 'The Lust of Angels, 'And the Mud Ship Sails Away', 'Buy Bling, Get One Free' - RB UK Third Window Films

The November Man [Blu-ray] (Roger Donaldson, 2014) 20th Century Fox

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

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

Playtime [Blu-ray] (Jacques Tati, 1967) RB UK Studiocanal

Shock Waves [Blu-ray] (Ken Wiederhorn, 1977) Blue Underground

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

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

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

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

December 1st, 2014

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

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes [Blu-ray] (Matt Reeves, 2014) 20th Century Fox

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

Enter the Dragon - Limited Edition Steelbook [Blu-ray] (Robert Clouse, 1973) Warner

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

The Killers [Blu-ray] (Robert Siodmak, 1946) RB DE Koch (BEAVER REVIEW)

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

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

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

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

The Simpsons: Season 17 [Blu-ray] - 20th Century Fox

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

The Vampire Lovers [Blu-ray] (Roy Ward Baker, 1970) RB UK Final Cut Entertainment

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

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