• Brand new audio commentary by Travis Crawford
• Affair of the Heart: The Making of There s Always Vanilla brand new documentary featuring interviews with producers John Russo and Russell Streiner, stars Judith Streiner and Richard Ricci, and sound recordist Gary Streiner (29:43)
• Digging Up the Dead The Lost Films of George A. Romero archive interview with Romero discussing his early films There s Always Vanilla and Season of the Witch (15:55)
• Location Gallery with audio commentary by Romero historian Lawrence DeVincentz (11:29)
• Memorabilia Gallery
• Trailer (1:45)

Romero package comes with reversible sleeves for each film featuring original and newly-commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx and a limited Edition 60-page booklet featuring new writing on the films by Kat Ellinger, Kier-La Janisse and Heather Drain

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Description: Possibly the most obscure feature by independent horror specialist George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear) is this pungent little romantic comedy from 1972, also known as The Affair, about an antiestablishment type (Ray Laine) getting involved with a woman who acts in TV commercials (Judith Streiner). One of the few Romero films written by someone else (Rudolph J. Ricci), it has a good eye for the kind of unglamorous middle-class life seldom seen in American movies (occasionally it even recalls John Cassavetes's Faces, released four years earlier), and it's highly evocative of the early 70s. It may not be an unqualified success, but I prefer it to the subsequent Knightriders, another personal effort in which Romero stepped outside the horror genre. (Interestingly enough, the only scene here reflecting Romero's horror-movie orientation—as well as his Catholic background—involves the heroine's trip to an abortionist.)

 

This is the another Arrow Blu-ray release that is being simultaneously released in both region 'A' (US) and 'B' (UK). It is the exact same package.

NOTE: As Michael Brooke informed us on Facebook in regards to Day of Anger: 'As the producer of Arrow's release, I can confirm first hand that the UK and US discs are absolutely identical: we only paid for one master, so there's no doubt about this at all! Which means that no matter which package you buy, the discs will play in any Region A or B setup (or Region 1 or 2 for DVD - and in the latter case the video standard is NTSC, to maximise compatibility). The booklets are also identical, but there are minor cosmetic differences on the disc labels and sleeve to do with differing copyright info and barcodes, and the US release doesn't have BBFC logos.' There's Always Vanilla is the same situation.

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Another new audio commentary by Travis Crawford covering extensive details of the production, Romero's discomfort with the film, and much more. Affair of the Heart: The Making of There's Always Vanilla is a brand new 1/2 hour documentary featuring interviews with producers John Russo and Russell Streiner, stars Judith Streiner and Richard Ricci, and sound recordist Gary Streiner. Digging Up the Dead The Lost Films of George A. Romero is a 1/4 hour archival interview with Romero discussing his early films There's Always Vanilla and Season of the Witch. There is a dozen-minute Location Gallery with audio commentary by Romero historian Lawrence DeVincentz and a memorabilia gallery and trailer. The Romero package comes with reversible sleeves for each film featuring original and newly-commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx and a limited Edition 60-page booklet featuring new writing on the films by Kat Ellinger, Kier-La Janisse and Heather Drain.