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The Black Pirate
BD - In the first grand-scale epic shot
entirely in Technicolor, the sole survivor of a ship pillaged by
buccaneers poses as the mysterious Black Pirate and infiltrates
the nest of bandits. Michel (silver screen legend Douglas
Fairbanks) mounts an elaborate ploy to recover the brigands'
treasure, reclaim the ship and rescue the divine Princess
(Billie Dove) held captive there. This beautiful edition
available exclusively on Blu-ray has been remastered in High
Definition from the 35mm restoration negative.
Blu-ray
Release date: December 14th, 2010
Vampire Circus
BD - A little girl is brutally slain by a
vampire in a tiny 19th century Austrian village. Seeking
revenge, the townspeople invade the foreboding castle of Count Mitterhaus and kill him for the crime. As the Count dies, he
curses the villagers and vows that their children will all die
so that he may someday return to life. Fifteen years later, as
the village is ravaged by the plague, a traveling circus comes
to town and distracts the villagers from their current
hardships. Little do they know that their troubles are only
beginning! The circus is actually a troupe of shape-shifting
vampires and, as the local children start disappearing, they
realize the prophecy of the long dead Count is coming true.
Blu-ray Release date: December 14th, 2010
Moonfleet - Lang’s film begins with orphaned John Mohune
(Jon Whiteley) setting out to forge a relationship with his
fabulous but unseen relative/father figure Jeremy Fox (Stewart
Granger.) Unlike the lone antiheroes of other great Lang 50s
pictures – Glenn Ford in The Big Heat, Arthur Kennedy in Rancho
Notorious – Mohune isn’t seeking revenge, but rather the
affirmation of an idealized hero. In Lang’s Universe the reverse
of character is often the truth, and in the course of Mohune’s
two substantial scenes in the “underground” (the Pirate’s lair
and the Well) Granger is precipitously forced into an
ambivalently redemptive act of violence to save Mohune’s life. I
wholeheartedly recommend viewing and reviewing Bernard
Eisenschitz’s lucid and poetic short commentaries. Warner
Archive DVD DVD Release Date: October 12, 2010
Devil
BD - Trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, five
people discover that the Devil is among them – and no one can
escape their fate. This chilling, supernatural thriller from M.
Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs) will keep you on the
edge of your seat all the way to a heart-stopping ending with a
truly wicked twist. Blu-ray Release date: December 21st, 2010
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
BD - Gordon Gekko, fresh from
prison, re-emerges into a much harsher financial world than the
one he left. He now has to... play catch-up and redefine himself
in a different era. He has to become relevant again. But a
young, idealistic investment banker learns the hard way that
Gekko is still a major manipulator and if there's one place
where you can redefine yourself, one place where your relevance
is a deal away, it's Wall Street. Blu-ray Release date:
December 21st, 2010
The Films of Rita Hayworth - As a result of her sultry good
looks and talent displayed in every genre, including comedies,
dramas, musicals, thrillers, and even westerns, Rita Hayworth
became the unmatched Queen of the lot at Sunset and Gower, in
Hollywood, and one of Columbia's most important contract stars.
By 1940, a picture starring Rita Hayworth guaranteed the highest
level of production values and her films are some of the most
iconic of their era. Now Sony Pictures and The Film Foundation
have teamed again to bring five of her finest films to
DVD--three of them for the first time. DVD Release Date:
December 21st, 2010
The Black Klansman - In THE BLACK KLANSMAN, Richard Gilden plays
Jerry Ellsworth in light-skinned blackface, but his character
dawns whiteface to infiltrate the Klu Klux Klan after his
daughter is killed in a church bombing and a young man is
murdered for patronizing a white coffee shop after the passing
of the Civil Rights amendment. DVD Release Date: January
18th, 2011
True Grit
BD - The cantankerous Rooster is hired by a headstrong
young girl (Kim Darby) to find the man who murdered her father
and fled with the family savings. When Cogburn's employer
insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. And the
situation goes from troubled to disastrous when the
inexperienced but enthusiastic Texas Ranger (Glen Campbell)
joins the party. Laughter and tears punctuate the wild action in
this extraordinary Western which features performances by Robert
Duvall and Strother Martin. Blu-ray Release Date: December
14th, 2010
The System - After a frightened teenager is cut down by police
bullets during a botched heist, a reporter investigates. The
story leads him to prominent businessman John E. Merrick (Frank
Lovejoy), the secret boss of the gambling ring that had the
youth ensnared in a web of wrong-way bets. And now Merrick’s
carefully constructed world of family, upscale neighborhoods,
country clubs and community respect begins to crumble around
him. In this canny thriller, Lovejoy, the granite-jawed leading
man in such ’50s gems of paranoia as
The Hitch-Hiker and Shack
Out on 101, takes his tough-guy persona and gives it a gutsy
twist, creating an unusual and provocative crime-caper
protagonist: the crook with a conscience. DVD Release Date:
September 7, 2010
Ladies in Retirement - As the paid companion to wealthy Leonora Fiske, Ellen Creed (Ida Lupino) has become accustomed to her
employer’s good humor and generosity. When her deranged sisters
(played with great relish by Elsa Lanchester and Edith Barrett)
are evicted from their lodgings in London, Ellen invites them to
stay for a visit. As the visit turns into weeks, Leonora’s
patience is exhausted, and she orders the sisters, and Ellen, to
leave. Desperate to protect her sisters and give them a secure
place to live, Ellen takes drastic measures — then tells
everyone that Leonora is on a trip, leaving her in charge of the
house. But when the neighbors and Ellen’s roguish cousin (Louis
Hayward) become suspicious, she has more to worry about than
just her sisters’ welfare. This gothic suspense thriller boasts
great comic performances plus an excellent dramatic role for Ida
Lupino. Evelyn Keyes plays a supporting role as the love-struck
housemaid. DVD Release Date: November 23rd, 2010
Screaming Mimi - Anita Ekberg plays the gorgeous and tortured
dancer with the Great Dane named Devil, who, after being nearly
attacked by a man with a knife, is put into an asylum under the
obsessive care of psychiatrist Dr. Greenwood (Harry Townes).
When the girl begins to show signs of improvement, the
psychiatrist assumes her care on the outside so she can resume
her dancing career. The proprietor (Gypsy Rose Lee) of El
Madhouse, a tawdry nightclub, hires the girl but then a series
of murders by “The Ripper” attracts the attention of a newspaper
reporter (Phil Carey), and the doctor and reporter face off to
try to protect the girl. A sensual statue of a dancing girl
called “Screaming Mimi” seems to play a part in the bizarre
mystery. DVD Release Date: November 23rd, 2010
The Great Flamarion - Erich Von Stroheim portrays the title
character in this clever film noir directed by the then
up-and-coming Anthony Mann. The Great Flamarion, an egotistical
vaudeville performer specializing in a trick-gunshot act, at
first pays little attention to his beautiful assistant Connie,
played by Mary Beth Hughes. Connie is married to Al (Dan
Duryea), Flamarion's other assistant, but she has become bored
with her husband and begins to flirt with the boss, which leads
to the "accidental" death of her husband during a routine
performance. Not realizing that his pretty assistant has just
played him, Flamarion expects to be romantically compensated for
his "unfortunate aim" but the treacherous Connie has other
plans. DVD Release Date: Decmeber 5th, 2003
Hangmen Also Die - Because it's been little seen, and because
people tend to shrug off contemporaneous World War II films as
"propaganda," Hangmen Also Die has never received its due. It's
a brilliant, riveting movie, made in response to the atrocities
committed against the Czech people following the assassination
of Reichsprotektor Heydrich, Hitler's personal "hangman." Under
Fritz Lang's ferociously stylized direction, the duel of wits
between the Nazi occupiers and the Prague underground--"a ghost
army sworn to haunt them till their blood runs cold"--becomes
the stuff of legend: virtually another installment of Die Nibelungen, and a dynamic variation on the urban phantasmagoria
of the
Mabuse films and
Spione and
M. DVD Release Date: October
26th, 2006
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
BD - The television show began
famously with the discovery of high-school coed Laura Palmer's
(Sheryl Lee) plastic-wrapped body. Fire Walk with Me is the
story of how she got that way. It is a necessarily grim story as
the promiscuous and increasingly hysterical Laura juggles two
teenage boyfriends, bad boy Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook) and
sensitive James Hurley (James Marshall); S&M playmates Jacques
Renault (Walter Olkewicz) and Leo Johnson (Eric DaRe); and the
many men she picks up while hooking. That list doesn't include
"Bob" (Frank Silva), the man who she claims has been sneaking in
through her bedroom window since she was 12 to rape her, and who
she is beginning to suspect is actually her father, Leland (Ray
Wise). Blu-ray Release Date: November 3rd, 2010
In the Electric Mist
BD - New Iberia, Louisiana. Detective Dave Robicheaux (Tommy Lee Jones) is on the hunt for a serial killer
who preys on young women. Driving home from another gruesome
crime scene, Dave meets glamorous Hollywood star Elrod Sykes
(Peter Sarsgaard). Sykes is in town shooting his new movie, with
backing from local crime kingpin Baby Feet Balboni (John
Goodman). He tells Dave he saw a body lying in a swamp - the
decomposed corpse of a black man in chains. The discovery brings
memories hurtling out of Dave's past. He senses the two cases
are linked. But as Dave gets closer to the murderer, the
murderer gets closer to Dave and his family... DFW
Blu-ray Release Date: May 10th, 2010
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