THIS WEEK's RELEASES include highly desirable Milestone / Crawford - Marty exposes more world cinema gems, 60's Japan from Arrow, Andrew Niccol stellar sci-fi gets a 4K steelbook reissue, Richard Franklin nostalgia in 4K, more Doris Wishman, a third Ingmar box in the UK, hitmen partners visit Belgium in 4K, Tippi battles The Birds, part deux - Chaplin and Poitier Criterion in the UK - Grave spitting in UK 4K, Double feature George Pal 50's sci-fi, Melting Man homages in 4K, sexy Adrian Lyne in 4K, fatal dating for a nurse seeking love, John Ford in UK 4K, devastating late 70's Hal Holbrook, David Lean in UK, Jackie Chan get 4K in the UK, deafening Criterion in BD and 4K, and... Chupacabras.
 

THIS WEEK's CALENDAR UPDATES (repeated): Delightful Santo double bill, Classic 'The Bride, 'Mummy', 'Phantom' and a Black Lagoon dweller go 4K. Robert Mulligan masterpiece in 4K, John Ford + De Palma get 4K in the UK, Carl Dreyer essential, Tod Browning early vampire, exciting French Noir box, George C. Scott horror gets 4K treatment, David O. Selznick's big ape re-issued, a 'Melting Man', John Ford 4K, Roddy directs Ava, Spielberg 4K, 6 Noir solos from Indicator, Mamoulian Jekyll and Hyde, early 90's 'investigation into the supernatural', Bob Crane TV, new Sean Baker, Losey with Liz and Mitchum, Miss de Havilland institutionalized, human blood-sucking traveling circus. 30's Dracula, Frankenstein, Invisible Man and the Wolf Man get solo 4Ks, immortal Scottish swordsman Connery/Lambert gets 4K, Robert Wise reincarnation, Bob Clark X-mas gem gets 4K, more 50's 3-D from Kino, Kar-Wai Wong Criterion in UK, Siegel's Eastwood escapes in 4K, Mitchell Leisen teams Stanwyck and MacMurray, Clint with no name metes out justice in 4K, the best superhero comedy in 4K, Criterion does Pixar, another Dark Side boxset...
 

THIS WEEK'S REVIEWS: Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 4 probably gets my highest rating this week, but I kinda got a kick out of Vinegar Syndrome's 4K Cloak & Dagger and the schlocky pair of Birds II and The Incredible Melting Man (in 4K). While I adore When Worlds Collide - Paramount dropped the ball bigly. I liked Sound of Metal and The Chocolate War while the harsh Natural Enemies has solid performances, a fab commentary and director participation... it will make you think.
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RELEASES the WEEK of September 26th, 2022, (Recommended titles have "**")

Rick Rosenthal's "The Birds II: Land's End" Blu-ray - James Naughton / Tippi Hedren @VinegarSyndrome
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COMMENTS: Rick Rosenthal's The Birds II: Land's End is a standalone sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film The Birds, that was set in Bodega Bay, California. The plot is similar to the original and Tippi Hedren has a minor role as a different character from the 63' film. Director Rosenthal had himself credited by the pseudonym 'Alan Smithee' - an indication he wanted to disown The Birds II. I seem to recall it being out on LaserDisc back in the day. It's not as 'horrible' as reviews often describe, but, of course, it has little cinematic value compared to the original - despite the name, Tippi and the plot. I admit, I was still keen to see it as an animal attack feature, regardless of the poor reputation. Some may be keen because of Tippi's participation and its plot similarities although it lacks 'kitsch' or 'camp' desirability. Vinegar Syndrome do fabulous Blu-rays although often lost of forgotten films like this one. This includes a commentary and solid extras and the case has attractive artwork. If you enter with low expectations you may enjoy The Birds II: Land's End's positives more than you anticipate. Just, obviously, don't expect, or even compare it to, the original.
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Blood of the Chupacabras [Blu-ray] (Jonathan Mumm, 2005) Visual Vengeance
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COMMENTS: Double Feature Blu-ray includes the shot on video horrors Blood of the Chupacabras (2003) and it's sequel Revenge of the Chupacabras (2005). BLOOD: A group of local townsfolk are led by a treasure hunter into a nearby mine in search of gold but encounter a vampiric Chupacabras monster. REVENGE: A detective in search of a missing college student is lured by a madman into the lair of the fabled Chupacabras monster.
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**Sidney Poitier's "Buck and the Preacher"** Blu-ray - Sidney Poitier / Harry Belafonte @Criterion
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COMMENTS: Sidney Poitier's Buck and the Preacher has welcome moments of humor (Belafonte’s performance) along with some gravely serious topics. "This film broke Hollywood Western traditions by casting black actors as central characters and portraying both tension and solidarity between African Americans and Native Americans in the late 19th century." (h/t Wikipedia) Buck and the Preacher was shot in only 45-days and Poitier edited the film during the shooting of The Organization, the actor's third (and final) appearance as Lt Virgil Tibbs. Civil rights themes can be seen throughout Buck and the Preacher with frequent allegorical parallels drawn between the film's storyline and the important doctrine of the 60's Civil Rights Movement - as well as sharing portrayals in Blaxploitation films in regards to its depiction of white people - although Buck is a significantly different protagonist hero as found in, ex. Shaft or Coffy. The Criterion Blu-ray has impressive a/v and some important extras. Buck and the Preacher also has a lot of western genre appeal. Absolutely recommended.
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**Keith Gordon's "The Chocolate War"** Blu-ray - Ilan Mitchell-Smith
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COMMENTS: The Chocolate War was actor Keith Gordon's directorial debut and is based on the Robert Cormier novel of the same name. The film focuses on a secret society of students in a strict Roman Catholic boarding school. An alliance forms with cruel Brother Leon (John Glover of Jonathan Demme's Last Embrace among over 130 credits) to facilitate selling chocolates for a fundraiser. One student, Jerry Renault (Ilan Mitchell-Smith), refuses to participate and the intimidation and bullying starts or rather exacerbates - including a concluding boxing match with a slow-motion sequence right out of Scorsese's Raging Bull. So it carries themes of defiance, personal freedom and adolescent rebellion while diverging from the book for a more uplifting, Hollywood-esque, conclusion. It's really a very good film if a loser at the box office. The MVD Rewind Blu-ray is an expansion from the older DVD - in the higher resolution while repeating the valuable director commentary and extensive interview. If you haven't seen The Chocolate War - it is worth your time.
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**Richard Franklin's "Cloak & Dagger" 4K UHD** - Henry Thomas/ Dabney Coleman @VinegarSyndrome
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COMMENTS: Richard Franklin's Cloak & Dagger is 80's, father and son, nostalgia gold. It is a spy adventure based on a Cornell Woolrich short story, "The Boy Cried Murder". It had previously been filmed as Ted Tetzlaff's 1949 The Window with Bobby Driscoll in Henry Thomas' more modern role and in 1970's Sudden Terror with Mark Lester. Davey's world exists between the fiction of his Atari video game and imaginary representation of his father as heroic 'Jack Flack' and the stark reality of spies and stolen military secrets that he has stumbled into. Franklin has more echoes of Hitchcock - which is common for him. Cloak & Dagger is quite fun and memorable and Vinegar Syndrome's 4K UHD release offers plenty with superb a/v, a commentary and more supplements. Absolutely recommended.
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Evil Dead [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Fede Alvarez, 2013) Shout! Factory
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COMMENTS: A secluded cabin. An ancient curse. An unrelenting evil. The original producers of the Evil Dead reunite to present a genuinely terrifying re-imagining of their horror masterpiece. Five young friends have found the mysterious and fiercely powerful Book of the Dead. Unable to resist its temptation, they release a violent demon on a bloodthirsty quest to possess them all. Who will be left to fight for their survival and defeat this unearthly force of murderous carnage?
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**"The Films Of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years"** Blu-ray - Sharon Kent @filmarchive @VinegarSyndrome
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COMMENTS: Doris Wishman's films here in this package have aspects of BDSM, fetishism, assault, abuse, alcoholism, objectification, stolen innocence etc. and we can see the same actors, same sets (occasionally Doris Wishman's apartment), heavy eye-make-up and bulky lingerie throughout. They are easily categorized as sexploitation and soft-to-harder pornography of which Wishman is considered to be a pioneer. Antiobscenity laws prohibited the showing of many of her films for decades. So AGFA's The Films of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years triple Blu-ray set is a continuation of the first package; The Films of Doris Wishman: The Twilight Years on Blu-ray although these are earlier films - where she is often credit as "Louis Silverman". I imagine these being popular at bachelor stags at some point and they retain historical significance as a kind of genre time-capsule. They can engender a kitschy-ness and the set is recommended to a minute niche - who, like The Twilight Years set, probably already know who they are. I can't imagine anyone doing a more complete set - and these do have the commentaries as worthwhile supplements.
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**A Fugitive from the Past** [Blu-ray] (Tomu Uchida, 1965) Arrow
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COMMENTS: Considered the magnum opus of the five decades-long career of Tomu Uchida (Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji, The Mad Fox), the epic crime drama A Fugitive from the Past was voted third in the prestigious Kinema Junpo magazine’s 1999 poll of the Top Japanese Films of the 20th Century. In 1947, a freak typhoon sends a passenger ferry running between Hokkaido and mainland Japan plunging to the ocean depths, with hundreds of lives lost. During the chaos, three men are witnessed fleeing a burning pawnshop in the Hokkaido port town of Iwanai. The police suspect theft and arson, and when Detective Yumisaka (Junzaburo Ban) discovers the burned remains of a boat and the corpses of two men, he sets about tracking the shadowy third figure. Meanwhile, the mysterious Takichi Inukai (Rentaro Mikuni) takes shelter with a prostitute, Yae (Sachiko Hidari), a brief encounter that will come to define both of their lives. A decade later, long after the trail has gone cold, Yumisaka is called back by his successor Detective Ajimura (Ken Takakura) as two new dead bodies are found. Making its home video debut outside of Japan, this adaptation of Tsutomu Minakami’s 1700-page novel is a landmark in master director Uchida’s oeuvre. Its gritty monochrome photography has the immediacy of newsreel as Uchida uses the landscapes of postwar Japan to explore the massive social upheaval and unspoken legacies of the war, and create an unsettling karmic allegory of a man’s struggle to escape his past sins.
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**Gattaca [4K UHD Blu-ray]** Steelbook (Andrew Niccol, 1997) Sony
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COMMENTS: In this futuristic thriller, “designer people”-forged in test tubes-rule society, and carefully engineered genetics determine a person's life. Ethan Hawke stars as Vincent Freeman, a young man labeled an “In-Valid” because he was conceived not in the lab, but in love. Determined to achieve his goals, he buys an identity from a DNA broker, changing places with genetically perfect but paralyzed Jerome (Jude Law). Altering his appearance and hiding his imperfections, Vincent rises through the ranks of the Gattaca Corporation while he begins a love affair with beautiful co-worker Irene (Uma Thurman). He is on the verge of fulfilling his dream of interplanetary space exploration when the director of the space agency is murdered and the attendant investigation threatens to expose his counterfeit life.
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**The Great Dictator** [Blu-ray] (Charles Chaplin, 1940) Criterion UK
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COMMENTS: In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish “Tomainian” dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.’s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin’s famously impassioned speech.
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Hearts and Minds [Blu-ray] (Peter Davis, 1974) Criterion UK
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COMMENTS: A startling and courageous film, Peter Davis’s landmark 1974 documentary Hearts and Minds unflinchingly confronted the United States’ involvement in Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it. Using a wealth of sources—from interviews to newsreels to footage of the conflict and the upheaval it occasioned on the home front—Davis constructs a powerfully affecting picture of the disastrous effects of war. Explosive, persuasive, and wrenching, Hearts and Minds is an overwhelming emotional experience and the most important nonfiction film ever made about this devastating period in history.
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I Know What You Did Last Summer [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Jim Gillespie, 1997) Sony
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COMMENTS: Jennifer Love Hewitt (from TV's "Party of Five") and Sarah Michelle Gellar (Scream 2) star with Freddie Prinze, Jr., Ryan Phillippe and Johnny Galecki in this terrifying tale of a body that just won't stay dead. After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping theirvictim's body into the sea. But exactly one year later, the dead man returns from his watery grave,and he's looking for more than an apology. From the writer of SCREAM.
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I Spit on Your Grave [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Meir Zarchi, 1978) UK Kaleidoscope
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COMMENTS: I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, the infamous 1978 cult classic that changed the face of cinema forever, is back in stunning 4K ULTRA HD, restored and remastered in 2021. Re-experience the phenomenon that shocked and divided the world as Jennifer Hills enacts her horrific plans for revenge, culminating in some of the most gruesome scenes ever captured on film. This three-disc collection, packaged in a premium O-ring boxset with four exclusive artcards, includes feature-length documentary GROWING UP WITH I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE and exclusive, specially commissioned extras including: brand new audio commentary with the legendary Camille Keaton, and editor of Ultra Violent Magazine, Art Ettinger; exciting in-depth interview with film historian Chris Poggiali; and a new introduction from star of the show, Camille Keaton.
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**In Bruges [4K UHD Blu-ray]** (Martin McDonagh, 2008) Kino
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COMMENTS: From the visionary mind of Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh (Seven Psychopaths, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) comes this wildly entertaining mix of dark comedy and crime thriller. Colin Farrell (Miami Vice) and Brendan Gleeson (The General) give career-best performances as Irish hitmen Ray and Ken, who have been ordered to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges (it’s in Belgium) after finishing a big job. But since hitmen make the worst tourists, they soon find themselves in a life-and-death struggle of comic proportions against one very angry crime boss (a foul-mouthed Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel). Get ready for the outrageous and unpredictable fun you will have In Bruges—a trip chock-full of demented dialogue, spectacular shoot-outs and an explosive ending you won’t want to miss! The wonderful cast includes Clémence Poésy (Tenet), Thekla Reuten (The American), Ciarán Hinds (Munich) and Zeljko Ivanek (Hannibal).
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William Sachs' "The Incredible Melting Man" 4K UHD - Burr DeBenning @VinegarSyndrome
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COMMENTS: Vinegar Syndrome's 4K UHD release of William Sachs’ The Incredible Melting Man was commercially successful, despite heavily negative reviews. Baker's makeup effects were generally praised with the progressive melting of Steve West's body through radiation poisoning. There are several "atomic age" homages in "The Incredible Melting Man" to science fiction and horror films of the 1950s and 60's - a sub-genre that we love. It's even mentioned in Cult Science Fiction Films: From the Amazing Colossal Man to Yog : The Monster from Space written by Welch D. Everman. The title itself, The Incredible Melting Man, refers to Jack Arnold's inventive The Incredible Shrinking Man with Grant Williams battling a house spider. One of the melting man's victims is played by directed-of-note Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs.) Less notable but of interest, The Incredible Melting Man also has quasi-exploitation genre star Cheryl Smith (as Rainbeaux Smith), the model who would get her breasts exposed by the aggressive photographer. She would also star in Demme's Caged Heat and Melvin and Howard, as well as other appearances in Farewell, My Lovely, Phantom of the Paradise, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Massacre at Central High, Revenge of the Cheerleaders, Parasite etc. As a gimmick, candles were made and sold to advertise the film. It was Drive-In fodder with the exciting sci-fi horror title. It remains a nostalgic, cheesy, fun ride with some very creepy visuals. Vinegar Syndrome's 4K UHD is a large step-up in terms of video quality and it adds new extras - certainly recommended to the right crowd.
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Indecent Proposal [4K UHD Blu-ray] (Adrian Lyne, 1993) Kino
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COMMENTS: Demi Moore (Ghost) and Woody Harrelson (The People vs. Larry Flynt) are Diana and David Murphy, a financially strapped couple who are betting on a quick trip to Las Vegas to deal them a lucky hand. But the odds are suddenly even more attractive when billionaire John Gage (Robert Redford, Three Days of the Condor) ups the ante—complete financial freedom. The price? One night of passion with Diana. The payoff? A cool $1 million. But what seems to be a quick and simple solution to their money problems creates more friction than the couple bargained for as the high stakes of trust, love and attraction come into play as part of Gage’s compelling proposal. From Adrian Lyne, the acclaimed director of Flashdance, 9½ Weeks, Fatal Attraction, Jacob’s Ladder and Unfaithful, comes a film that examines a riveting morality game—one in which each player has a strategy, as well as a set of rules to play by. Featuring Seymour Cassel (Rushmore), Oliver Platt (The Ice Harvest), Billy Bob Thornton (A Simple Plan), Rip Taylor (Wayne’s World 2) and Billy Connelly (The Boondock Saints).
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**Ingmar Bergman Vol. 3** [Blu-ray] The Virgin Spring (1960), The Devil’s Eye (1960), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), The Silence (1963), Winter Light (1963), All These Women (1964), Persona (1966), The Rite (1969) - RB UK BFI
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COMMENTS: For more than 50 years, Ingmar Bergman produced groundbreaking works of cinema that established him as one of the world’s acclaimed, enduring and influential filmmakers. Firmly established as one of cinema’s most original and artistic talents by the 1960s, Bergman continued his explorations of the human psyche with a series of increasingly provocative and stylised productions. Including the Oscar-winning rape-and-revenge drama The Virgin Spring (1960), his assessment on the purpose and promise of religion in the Faith Trilogy Through a Glass Darkly, The Silence, Winter Light, and the landmark psychological drama Persona (1966), through these films Bergman challenged audiences to confront and consider topics seldom explored with such depth.
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Jason's Lyric [Blu-ray] (Doug McHenry, 1994) Kino
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COMMENTS: A sizzling, all-star cast—including Allen Payne (CB4), Jada Pinkett Smith (Collateral), Bookeem Woodbine (The Rock), Eddie Griffin (Undercover Brother) and Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)—deliver fiery, heartfelt performances in this inner-city Romeo and Juliet story from the producer of New Jack City. Jason and Joshua are two brothers left fatherless by a family fight that spun out of control. Trying to make good and get off the slick ghetto streets of Houston, Jason (Payne) finds a source of inspiration in a beautiful and sexy girl named Lyric (Pinkett Smith), whose dreams of fleeing the city together give him hope for a better life. But when Joshua (Woodbine) turns to a life of crime and drugs, Jason finds he’s torn between his love for Lyric and his obligation to family. And as the time comes for Jason to leave, he finds that Joshua will stop at nothing to see that he stays…even if the fight to keep him rivals the one that killed their father. Featuring an explosive soundtrack, Jason’s Lyric delivers an urgent sense of sexuality and passion that underscores the high stakes of its suspenseful, shocking conclusion. Produced and Directed by Doug McHenry (New Jack City, House Party 2) and co-starring Naughty by Nature’s Anthony “Treach” Criss.
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**Liza the Fox-Fairy** [Blu-ray] (Károly Ujj Mészáros, 2015) Cauldron Films
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COMMENTS: The Suitors Only Rival is Death. Liza is a lonely nurse whose only company is the ghost of a long-dead Japanese pop-star. Out of Jealousy, he turns her into a Fox Fairy and now everyone that is attracted to Liza dies a horrible death. In order to finally find true love, Liza must overcome the curse and defeat the jealousy of her suave, supernatural suitor. Imagine the candy-coated aesthetic of Amelie crossed with a darkly comic mean streak and you have Liza The Fox Fairy. Although it was released in 2015 and played the US festival circuit, Liza has been unavailable on Blu-ray worldwide... until now! Cauldron Films is here to bring you this utterly charming and playfully vicious gem in a brand new limited special edition!
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John Ford's "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" 4K UHD - James Stewart / John Wayne
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COMMENTS: Paramount's 4K UHD release of John Ford's "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" will be pleasing enough for many. The iconic western is largely told in an extensive flashback and the cast is a 'Who's Who' with Wayne, Stewart, wholesome Vera Miles, sadistic Lee Marvin, alcoholic Edmond O'Brien, comical Andy Devine, opportunistic John Carradine, loyal Woody Strode, Denver Pyle and henchmen Strother Martin and Lee Van Cleef. It has the oft-used conflicts of law and disorder that plagued the pioneering old west, minor romance, a gun debate, and the victory of democracy over tyranny. It's a masterpiece of the genre that always deserves repeat viewing. Despite my reservations on the image and a few glaring omissions (commentary track on the 4K disc and uncompressed mono) - it is the best to-date for fans of this pure western gem. Still recommended, Pilgrim!
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**Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 4** Blu-ray @Criterion
Two Girls on the Street (1939), Prisioneros de la tierra (1939), Kalpana (1948), Sambizanga (1972), Muna moto (1975) and Chess of the Wind (1976)
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COMMENTS: Established by Martin Scorsese in 2007, The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project has maintained a fierce commitment to preserving and presenting masterpieces from around the globe, with a growing roster of dozens of restorations that have introduced moviegoers to often overlooked areas of cinema history. This collector’s set gathers six important works, from Angola (Sambizanga), Argentina (Prisioneros de la tierra), Iran (Chess of the Wind), Cameroon (Muna moto), Hungary (Two Girls on the Street), and India (Kalpana). Each title is an essential contribution to the art form and a window onto a filmmaking tradition that international audiences previously had limited opportunities to experience.
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**Jeff Kanew's "Natural Enemies"** Blu-ray - Hal Holbrook @FunCityEdition
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COMMENTS: Jeff Kanew's Natural Enemies is a despondent skew of 'American Dream' values with an blunt annihilation of the traditional family. It carries themes of sexual dissatisfaction, inadequacy, nihilism and fatalism often evoking Peter Bogdonavich’s Targets. Permeated with depression, via a unique window of mental illness, Natural Enemies seem far ahead of its time and I agree with Bill Ackerman that it is well deserved of rediscovery. Thanks to Fun City Editions Blu-ray for probably my favorite release of theirs to date. Not only a new unmasking of this fascinating film, but a deeply analyzed commentary and supplements with significant participation of the director. It couldn't be any more different from Kanew's successful Revenge of the Nerds made a few years later. Wow. It certainly won't suit all tastes but is still very strongly recommended by this reviewer.
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On The Run [Blu-ray] (Alfred Cheung, 1988) RB UK 88 Films
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COMMENTS: Wrongly accused of killing his own wife, struggling police officer Hsiang Ming is forced to go into hiding. His only ally is the deadly female assassin Miss Pai. Together they form an unlikely alliance as they each try to avoid death or arrest. Directed by Alfred Cheung and starring Pat Ha and the legendary Biao Yuen (Game of Death, Spiritual Kung Fu, The Young Master), who brings his custom brand of acrobatic Kung Fu to the proceedings, On the Run (1988) ticks all the right boxes providing a highly engaging martial arts action thriller, a must for the discerning cult film collector.
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**A Passage to India** [Blu-ray] (David Lean, 1984) RB UK Final Cut
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COMMENTS: Enter a world where cultures clash so violently that an entire country could split at any moment. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards® and winner of two, A Passage to India is a wonderfully provocative tale, full of vivid characters, all played to near perfection. With a fabulous cast that include Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis, James Fox, Sir Alec Guinness, and Nigel Havers, this hauntingly beautiful film is a daring triumph. When liberal-minded English ladies Mrs. Moore (Ashcroft) and Adela Quested (Davis) arrive in India, they're shocked by the extreme racial prejudice that exists here. Fortunately, kind Dr. Aziz (Victor Banerjee) rises above the intolerance and guides the women on a splendid tour of the mysterious Marabar caves. But the outing turns tragic when Adela suddenly comes running from one of the caves-scratched, bleeding and terribly frightened. News of the incident quickly spreads across the whole of India...igniting a powder keg of tension just waiting to explode. A rich tapestry woven of the clash between cultures, A Passage to India is supreme entertainment, and a visual wonder that is truly spellbinding!
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**Police Story 3: Supercop** [Blu-ray] (Stanley Tong, 1992) RB UK Eureka Entertainment
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COMMENTS: Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh team up in this action masterpiece! Featuring some of the most dangerous stunts ever performed on camera, Police Story 3: Supercoprepresents the pinnacle of Jackie Chan’s unique style of Hong Kong action filmmaking. A dazzling blend of gritty action cop drama, impeccably choreographed martial-arts sequences, and bone-crunching stunt work. Action superstar Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) joins the series as Inspector Yang Chien-Hua, who teams up with Chan Ka-Kui to take down an international drug ring. With some of the most outrageous stunt sequences ever committed to film, Police Story 3: Supercop is an action masterpiece that must truly be seen to be believed.
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**Police Story Trilogy [4K UHD Blu-ray]** - UK Eureka Entertainment
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COMMENTS: The most action packed trilogy of all time comes to Ultra HD Blu-ray for the first time ever! Featuring some of the most dangerous stunts ever performed on camera, these three films represent the pinnacle of Jackie Chan’s unique style of Hong Kong action filmmaking. A dazzling blend of gritty action cop drama, impeccably choreographed martial-arts sequences, and bone-crunching stuntwork – this series of films revitalised the Hong Kong action genre and established Jackie Chan as a worldwide superstar. Police Story (dir. Jackie Chan, 1985) – considered by Jackie Chan himself to be his best film in terms of pure action, Police Story stars Chan as “super cop” Chan Ka-Kui, who goes up against a notorious crime lord in a series of escalating set-pieces that resulted in many of Jackie’s stunt team being hospitalised.Police Story 2 (dir. Jackie Chan, 1988) – Demoted to traffic cop after the events of the first film, Chan Ka-Kui is reinstated to the detective unit when a deadly gang of explosive experts blow up a building and threaten to blow up more if their demands are not met. Featuring yet more bravura stunt work, and even more injuries to its cast and crew, Police Story 2 is to this day considered one of the best action films ever made.Police Story 3: Supercop (dir. Stanley Tong, 1992) – Action superstar Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) joins the series as Inspector Yang Chien-Hua, who teams up with Chan Ka-Kui to take down an international drug ring. With some of the most outrageous stunt sequences ever committed to film, Police Story 3: Supercop is an action masterpiece that must truly be seen to be believed.All three films consistently appear on lists of the best action films ever made, and Eureka Classics is proud to present them all in their worldwide Ultra HD Blu-ray debuts from stunning 4K restorations!
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**Lewis Milestone's "Rain"** Blu-ray - Joan Crawford @vciclassicfilms
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COMMENTS: Lewis Milestone's Rain was a flop in its day - critically and financially - but has elevated its status significantly - notably because of its Pre-Code charms. It was from W. Somerset Maugham’s short story “Miss Thompson.” The film's themes are unbridled freedom and religious hypocrisy which may have been shockingly judgmental for the 30's audiences. Rain is highly interestingly shot with close-ups of the terrain and revealing body language of the 'preacher and prostitute' discussing personal philosophy's. Another film version of this story is 1953's, 3-D offered, Miss Sadie Thompson with Rita Hayworth in the titular role. Aside from the lossy audio black-mark, I am very happy to have seen this via VCI's Blu-ray in the 4K-restoration - Rain remains a highly fascinating critique of hypocrisy with appealing visual imagery. We absolutely recommend!
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Sator [Blu-ray] (Jordan Graham, 2019) Cauldron Films
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COMMENTS: After You Have Suffered, He Will Find You Secluded in a desolate forest, home to little more than the decaying remnants of the past, a broken family is further torn apart by a mysterious death. Adam (Gabriel Nicholson), guided by a pervasive sense of dread, hunts for answers only to learn that they are not alone; an insidious presence by the name of Sator has been observing his family, subtly influencing all of them for years in an attempt to claim them. Shot in the Santa Cruz mountains and drawing from his grandmother's real life belief in a protective spirit that spoke to her, Sator quietly unspools a story of isolation and dread that fits firmly into the recent wave of unsettling arthouse horror. Cauldron films is honored to release the world-wide Blu-ray debut of Sator, the film Paste magazine named "The best horror film of 2021".
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**Darius Marder's "Sound of Metal"** Blu-ray 4K UHD - Riz Ahmed @Criterion
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COMMENTS: Darius Marder's Sound of Metal deals with the subject of hearing impairment and initially accepting it as permanent disability. Evolving are support and new communication skills for drummer Ruben Stone to assist in re-establishing his life and values he can now see as important. It morphs to a vital maturation while accepting his condition without selfishness or his previous nihilistic perceptions. It's quite brilliantly realized with excellent acting, sound and cinematography. Riz Ahmed seems to get more convincing with each performance. The Criterion Blu-ray has stellar a/v and revealing supplements of a hopeful and life-affirming expose. Our highest recommendation.
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Rudolph Maté's "When Worlds Collide" Blu-ray part of Paramount's "War of the Worlds" 4K UHD package
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COMMENTS: Well, the cat is out of the bag and someone should address Paramount's lackluster products - recently their The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence 4K UHD, reviewed HERE. The colors on this When Worlds Collide Blu-ray are dull and brownish. This would be in direct opposition to their description; "Both are essential Technicolor masterpieces from the Golden Age of Hollywood, delivering eye-popping visual effects". This 1080P leans heavily brown and shows less information in the frame than the 2020 Imprint of the same title. It also appears softer and possibly horizontally stretched. Even the monochrome sequence is effected. Colors have far less depth on the bare-bones single-layered transfer. It is significantly inferior video "on the Blu-ray remastered from the original film elements". A visitor the other day and I tried to figure out what is going on. The original audio is lossless with a three lossy DUB and subtitle options. The only extras on this disc is trailer which has also lost any vibrancy. It appears as though this visual weaknesses have permeated the War of the Worlds 4K UHD. Not good, Paramount. Stick with the stacked Imprint Blu-ray for When Worlds Collide.
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**Keith Gordon's "The Chocolate War"** Blu-ray - Ilan Mitchell-Smith
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COMMENTS: The Chocolate War was actor Keith Gordon's directorial debut and is based on the Robert Cormier novel of the same name. The film focuses on a secret society of students in a strict Roman Catholic boarding school. An alliance forms with cruel Brother Leon (John Glover of Jonathan Demme's Last Embrace among over 130 credits) to facilitate selling chocolates for a fundraiser. One student, Jerry Renault (Ilan Mitchell-Smith), refuses to participate and the intimidation and bullying starts or rather exacerbates - including a concluding boxing match with a slow-motion sequence right out of Scorsese's Raging Bull. So it carries themes of defiance, personal freedom and adolescent rebellion while diverging from the book for a more uplifting, Hollywood-esque, conclusion. It's really a very good film if a loser at the box office. The MVD Rewind Blu-ray is an expansion from the older DVD - in the higher resolution while repeating the valuable director commentary and extensive interview. If you haven't seen The Chocolate War - it is worth your time.
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William Sachs' "The Incredible Melting Man" 4K UHD - Burr DeBenning @VinegarSyndrome
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COMMENTS: Vinegar Syndrome's 4K UHD release of William Sachs’ The Incredible Melting Man was commercially successful, despite heavily negative reviews. Baker's makeup effects were generally praised with the progressive melting of Steve West's body through radiation poisoning. There are several "atomic age" homages in "The Incredible Melting Man" to science fiction and horror films of the 1950s and 60's - a sub-genre that we love. It's even mentioned in Cult Science Fiction Films: From the Amazing Colossal Man to Yog : The Monster from Space written by Welch D. Everman. The title itself, The Incredible Melting Man, refers to Jack Arnold's inventive The Incredible Shrinking Man with Grant Williams battling a house spider. One of the melting man's victims is played by directed-of-note Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs.) Less notable but of interest, The Incredible Melting Man also has quasi-exploitation genre star Cheryl Smith (as Rainbeaux Smith), the model who would get her breasts exposed by the aggressive photographer. She would also star in Demme's Caged Heat and Melvin and Howard, as well as other appearances in Farewell, My Lovely, Phantom of the Paradise, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Massacre at Central High, Revenge of the Cheerleaders, Parasite etc. As a gimmick, candles were made and sold to advertise the film. It was Drive-In fodder with the exciting sci-fi horror title. It remains a nostalgic, cheesy, fun ride with some very creepy visuals. Vinegar Syndrome's 4K UHD is a large step-up in terms of video quality and it adds new extras - certainly recommended to the right crowd.
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**Richard Franklin's "Cloak & Dagger" 4K UHD** - Henry Thomas/ Dabney Coleman @VinegarSyndrome
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COMMENTS: Richard Franklin's Cloak & Dagger is 80's, father and son, nostalgia gold. It is a spy adventure based on a Cornell Woolrich short story, "The Boy Cried Murder". It had previously been filmed as Ted Tetzlaff's 1949 The Window with Bobby Driscoll in Henry Thomas' more modern role and in 1970's Sudden Terror with Mark Lester. Davey's world exists between the fiction of his Atari video game and imaginary representation of his father as heroic 'Jack Flack' and the stark reality of spies and stolen military secrets that he has stumbled into. Franklin has more echoes of Hitchcock - which is common for him. Cloak & Dagger is quite fun and memorable and Vinegar Syndrome's 4K UHD release offers plenty with superb a/v, a commentary and more supplements. Absolutely recommended.
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Rudolph Maté's "When Worlds Collide" Blu-ray part of Paramount's "War of the Worlds" 4K UHD package
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COMMENTS: Well, the cat is out of the bag and someone should address Paramount's lackluster products - recently their The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence 4K UHD, reviewed HERE. The colors on this When Worlds Collide Blu-ray are dull and brownish. This would be in direct opposition to their description; "Both are essential Technicolor masterpieces from the Golden Age of Hollywood, delivering eye-popping visual effects". This 1080P leans heavily brown and shows less information in the frame than the 2020 Imprint of the same title. It also appears softer and possibly horizontally stretched. Even the monochrome sequence is effected. Colors have far less depth on the bare-bones single-layered transfer. It is significantly inferior video "on the Blu-ray remastered from the original film elements". A visitor the other day and I tried to figure out what is going on. The original audio is lossless with a three lossy DUB and subtitle options. The only extras on this disc is trailer which has also lost any vibrancy. It appears as though this visual weaknesses have permeated the War of the Worlds 4K UHD. Not good, Paramount. Stick with the stacked Imprint Blu-ray for When Worlds Collide.
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**Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 4** Blu-ray @Criterion
Two Girls on the Street (1939), Prisioneros de la tierra (1939), Kalpana (1948), Sambizanga (1972), Muna moto (1975) and Chess of the Wind (1976)
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COMMENTS: Established by Martin Scorsese in 2007, The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project has maintained a fierce commitment to preserving and presenting masterpieces from around the globe, with a growing roster of dozens of restorations that have introduced moviegoers to often overlooked areas of cinema history. This collector’s set gathers six important works, from Angola (Sambizanga), Argentina (Prisioneros de la tierra), Iran (Chess of the Wind), Cameroon (Muna moto), Hungary (Two Girls on the Street), and India (Kalpana). Each title is an essential contribution to the art form and a window onto a filmmaking tradition that international audiences previously had limited opportunities to experience.
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**Jeff Kanew's "Natural Enemies"** Blu-ray - Hal Holbrook @FunCityEdition
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COMMENTS: Jeff Kanew's Natural Enemies is a despondent skew of 'American Dream' values with an blunt annihilation of the traditional family. It carries themes of sexual dissatisfaction, inadequacy, nihilism and fatalism often evoking Peter Bogdonavich’s Targets. Permeated with depression, via a unique window of mental illness, Natural Enemies seem far ahead of its time and I agree with Bill Ackerman that it is well deserved of rediscovery. Thanks to Fun City Editions Blu-ray for probably my favorite release of theirs to date. Not only a new unmasking of this fascinating film, but a deeply analyzed commentary and supplements with significant participation of the director. It couldn't be any more different from Kanew's successful Revenge of the Nerds made a few years later. Wow. It certainly won't suit all tastes but is still very strongly recommended by this reviewer.
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**Darius Marder's "Sound of Metal" Blu-ray 4K UHD** - Riz Ahmed @Criterion
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COMMENTS: Darius Marder's Sound of Metal deals with the subject of hearing impairment and initially accepting it as permanent disability. Evolving are support and new communication skills for drummer Ruben Stone to assist in re-establishing his life and values he can now see as important. It morphs to a vital maturation while accepting his condition without selfishness or his previous nihilistic perceptions. It's quite brilliantly realized with excellent acting, sound and cinematography. Riz Ahmed seems to get more convincing with each performance. The Criterion Blu-ray has stellar a/v and revealing supplements of a hopeful and life-affirming expose. Our highest recommendation.
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Rick Rosenthal's "The Birds II: Land's End" Blu-ray - James Naughton / Tippi Hedren @VinegarSyndrome
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COMMENTS: Rick Rosenthal's The Birds II: Land's End is a standalone sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film The Birds, that was set in Bodega Bay, California. The plot is similar to the original and Tippi Hedren has a minor role as a different character from the 63' film. Director Rosenthal had himself credited by the pseudonym 'Alan Smithee' - an indication he wanted to disown The Birds II. I seem to recall it being out on LaserDisc back in the day. It's not as 'horrible' as reviews often describe, but, of course, it has little cinematic value compared to the original - despite the name, Tippi and the plot. I admit, I was still keen to see it as an animal attack feature, regardless of the poor reputation. Some may be keen because of Tippi's participation and its plot similarities although it lacks 'kitsch' or 'camp' desirability. Vinegar Syndrome do fabulous Blu-rays although often lost of forgotten films like this one. This includes a commentary and solid extras and the case has attractive artwork. If you enter with low expectations you may enjoy The Birds II: Land's End's positives more than you anticipate. Just, obviously, don't expect, or even compare it to, the original.
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