Coming soon from Shout! Factory: The Bruce Lee Legacy Collection.
Extraordinary 11-Disc Blu-ray™+ DVD Box Set Presentation of Four Bruce Lee Classics on Blu-ray™ for the First Time – The Big Boss, Fist Of Fury, The Way Of The Dragon, Game Of Death.
Three Feature-Length Documentaries, Hours of Bonus Content.
ALL COLLECTED IN A DELUXE BOOK-STYLE PACKAGE WITH 68 PAGES OF RARE AND UNSEEN PHOTOS, MEMORABILIA, TIMELINE, NEW ESSAY ON BRUCE LEE’S AMAZING CAREER and MORE!
ARRIVES IN STORES EVERYWHERE OWN IT ON AUGUST 6, 2013 FROM SHOUT! FACTORY
Legendary cultural icon Bruce Lee continues to be an unstoppable force, unbeatable warrior and an unforgettable star. He is the very face of martial arts mastery, the inspiration for millions to walk an enlightened path and mentor to the greatest stars and fighters the world over. He became a hero to those who knew him in life and, following his death, a legend to all. Since his incredible rise to fame nearly five decades ago, audiences across the globe have been amazed by the supreme talents and undeniable charisma that make Lee such a beloved icon. As an actor, his impact on film was more palpable than a roundhouse kick. He remains the single greatest figure in martial arts cinema; the man responsible for bringing the genre into the mainstream. Lee was also a loving husband and father of two and an insightful philosopher who believed in the integration of the physical and spiritual to attain a balanced existence. In every aspect of his life, he was anything but ordinary. His life remains an enduring source of inspiration, and his amazing talents will continue to make a difference on all those that come in contact with his legacy.
Loyal fans, movie collectors, pop culture and martial arts enthusiasts will be treated to a whole new home entertainment experience to celebrate the life and brilliance of the late Bruce Lee when THE BRUCE LEE LEGACY COLLECTION 11-Disc Blu-ray™+ DVD box set presentation debuts in stores everywhere on August 6 from Shout! Factory.
Featuring four of the classic Bruce Lee films that would make him one of the most important martial artists ever to grace the screen, THE BRUCE LEE LEGACY COLLECTION contains the first-ever Blu-ray™ presentation of THE BIG BOSS, FIST OF FURY, WAY OF THE DRAGON and GAME OF DEATH; Three feature-length documentaries BRUCE LEE: THE LEGEND (and the original version BRUCE LEE: THE MAN, THE LEGEND), the critically acclaimed I AM BRUCE LEE and THE GRANDMASTER AND THE DRAGON: WILLIAM CHEUNG AND BRUCE LEE; a special bonus disc with hours of new bonus content exclusive to this set, and four DVDs of aforementioned action-packed classics. A fitting tribute and celebration in honor of the legend, these sumptuous offerings are collected in a deluxe book-style packaging, brimming with 68 pages of archival materials, rare and never-before-released photos, new essay on Lee’s amazing career, and much more! THE BRUCE LEE LEGACY COLLECTION is priced to own at $119.99 SRP. Pre-order is available now on Amazon.com and ShoutFactory.com.
THE BRUCE LEE LEGACY COLLECTION Extensive Bonus Content
• Newly translated English subtitles on THE BIG BOSS, FIST OF FURY and WAY OF THE DRAGON
• Original Mandarin audio on THE BIG BOSS and the original English dub track, never used in the U.S.
• Audio Commentaries on all four films by Hong Kong Film Expert Mike Leeder
• Return to Pak Chong: The Big Boss Revisited
• Bruce Lee: The Early Years featurette
• New interviews with Robert Chua, Gene LeBell, Jon Benn, Bob Wall and many more!
• Interviews with Sammo Hung, Simon Yam, Yuen Wah and Wong Jing
• Remembering Fist of Fury featurette
• Bruce Lee Martial Arts Master featurette
• Game of Death: Then & Now – Return to the locations of Game of Death
• Game of Death Memories featurette
• Extensive Still Galleries on all four films including rare stills, movie posters etc.
• Theatrical Trailers and TV spots
• Alternate title sequences
• GAME OF DEATH outtake montage
• GAME OF DEATH revisited
• And much more!
SPECIAL BLU-RAY™ MOVIE PRESENTATIONS OF FOUR BRUCE LEE CLASSICS
THE BIG BOSS
In his “first smash hit movie” (BBC), Bruce Lee stars as a young man who moves to Bangkok to take a job in an ice factory. But soon he finds that the factory is smuggling heroin…and that in order to restore justice to some missing coworkers, he must come face to face with the Big Boss for a climactic showdown!
FIST OF FURY
Bruce Lee is “powerful, humorous and charismatic” (Leonard Maltin) as a student who vows to uncover how his mentor was murdered. Though all signs point to the local Japanese Martial Arts School, the local police won’t do anything…so he decides to restore honor to his teacher by taking matters into his own hands!
THE WAY OF THE DRAGON
Tang Lung (Lee) flies to Rome to help his friend, who is being forced by local gangsters to sell her restaurant. When Tang proves to be a threat to the syndicate’s plans, they hire the best martial artists, including Colt (Chuck Norris). The two men battle in the ancient city’s majestic Colosseum in what is “regarded by many as the finest martial arts combat ever committed to celluloid” (BBC)!
GAME OF DEATH
Billy Lo is a young kung fu star with a promising career. Refusing to sign with the leader of a syndicate known for its exploitation of entertainers, Billy’s martial arts mastery is put to the test when he is brutally harassed by his men. In a stunning showdown, Billy must “go one on one with each of the villains in some of the most explosive fight scenes ever filmed” (Leonard Maltin).
THE BIG BOSS: 1971 – 100 mins. Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)
FIST OF FURY: 1972 – 106 mins. Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)
THE WAY OF THE DRAGON: 1972 – 99 mins. Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)
GAME OF DEATH: 1978 – 100 mins. Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)
FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATIONS
BRUCE LEE: THE LEGEND (and the original version BRUCE LEE: THE MAN, THE LEGEND)
Documentary Presentation (DVD)
The documentary highlighted Lee’s early childhood films and touched on a more personal side of the man. The film also offered a peek into his then Hong Kong home, his studio office and more glimpses from behind the scenes of Lee’s two films ENTER THE DRAGON and GAME OF DEATH.
Ten years later, Golden Harvest revamped the title and added more production value with new interviews, footage from Lee’s appearances in the Longstreet TV series and additional action segments, including outtakes from GAME OF DEATH. In the United States, BRUCE LEE: THE LEGEND premiered on syndicated television, along with the other Bruce Lee films. They were a ratings blockbuster.
I AM BRUCE LEE Documentary Presentation (DVD)
Produced by Derik Murray, Network Entertainment, Bruce Lee Enterprises and Leeway Media Group, and directed by Pete McCormack, I AM BRUCE LEE delves deeper into the compelling saga behind Bruce Lee than ever before and deftly unravels Lee’s fascinating life through his own words and visually stunning actions, as well as through the eyes of his family, close friends and luminaries from the world of sports and entertainment. The film also examines Lee’s connections to the modern field of Mixed Martial Arts.
Among the notable luminaries featured in this film are NBA superstar Kobe Bryant, renowned boxing champion Manny Pacquiao, Academy Award® nominated actor Mickey Rourke, Emmy Award winning actor Ed O’Neill, actress and MMA fighter Gina Carano, multiplatinum recording artist Taboo (Black Eyed Peas), UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones, and UFC President Dana White, who calls Lee the “Father of Mixed Martial Arts.” Other interviews featured in the film include celebrated writer and director Reginald Hudlin, boxer Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini, and MMA fighters Cung Le and Stephan Bonnar. The people who knew Lee best, his daughter Shannon Lee and wife Linda Lee Cadwell, as well as his friends and associates including legendary martial artists Dan Inosanto, Bob Wall and Gene LeBell, offer unprecedented insights into his private life and career.
Their candid perspectives, in combination with rarely seen videos, archival photos and footage from Lee’s groundbreaking martial arts action films, further establish I AM BRUCE LEE as the definitive look at a man whose legacy will endure forever.
Special Features on I AM BRUCE LEE:
• Backyard Training – Bruce Lee’s Personal Films
• Inspiration – Bruce Lee’s Global Impact
• Bruce Lee In Action
• Theatrical Trailer
• Bruce Lee’s Hollywood Audition
THE GRANDMASTER AND THE DRAGON: WILLIAM CHEUNG AND BRUCE LEE, featuring first-hand account by renowned grand master, William Cheung, and his friendship, training and teaching of the legendary Bruce Lee. Documentary Presentation (DVD).
GRINDHOUSE RELEASING: Back In Action!
Pioneering Cult Movie Studio Announces New Blu-ray, DVD, Theater Plans
Grindhouse Releasing has announced CORRUPTION and AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL as the first in a series of new Blu-ray, DVD and theatrical releases. Both movies will arrive on home video on September 10.
Founded by the late Sage Stallone (1976-2012) and Bob Murawski, Grindhouse Releasing has long been considered the Criterion of cult movie labels. In a span of seventeen years, the company has produced lavish restorations of such notorious titles as CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, Lucio Fulci’s THE BEYOND, I DRINK YOUR BLOOD, PIECES, and many more to worldwide acclaim from fans and critics.
“Sage and Bob were pioneers in catering to the niche audience, and blazed a trail for all to follow,” says Jay Douglas of CAV Distribution. “The anticipation for Grindhouse’s return to the home video marketplace is incredible.”
The release of AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL and CORRUPTION marks the company’s return to the video market after a hiatus of two years during which Academy Award-winning film editor Murawski was busy working on Sam Raimi’s OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL. It is also the company’s first release since the passing of company founder Sage Stallone.
“After two years in the yellow brick prison of OZ, I am back full-time at Grindhouse Releasing, proudly continuing the important work that Sage and I began back in 1996,” says Murawski. “We have an incredible slate of mind-blowing films that will be coming your way soon on Blu-ray and DVD. And on the big screen in a theater near you.”
Grindhouse Releasing has brought its films to theaters all over North America. In recent years, the company coordinated nationwide theatrical releases of such celebrated horror classics as Sam Raimi’s EVIL DEAD and William Lustig’s MANIAC (both remade in 2013). Grindhouse scored a hit on the midnight movie circuit in 2010 with its restoration of Duke Mitchell’s long-lost gangster epic GONE WITH THE POPE, and now aims to do the same with the psychedelic nightmare AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL.
“AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL is already drawing huge midnight movie crowds in Tel Aviv, where it’s become another ROCKY HORROR,” says company theatrical director David Szulkin. “We plan to do a full theatrical run of the film in the U.S. to promote the film’s release on Blu-ray and DVD.”
The rarely seen, shocking British feature CORRUPTION, starring Peter Cushing as a mad surgeon, will hit Blu-ray and DVD on September 10. The Grindhouse Releasing special edition of CORRUPTION coincides with the legendary Hammer Films star’s 100th birthday, and will be preceded by a series of theatrical playdates.
Four additional titles will follow in late 2013 and late 2014: Sergio Sollima’s THE BIG GUNDOWN, THE SWIMMER, starring Burt Lancaster, Duke Mitchell’s GONE WITH THE POPE and S.F. Brownrigg’s SCUM OF THE EARTH (a.k.a. POOR WHITE TRASH PART 2). According to Murawski, the company’s entire back catalog will also appear in new Blu-ray editions soon thereafter.
CORRUPTION
Coming soon on Blu-Ray! Grindhouse Releasing is proud to present the first ever U.S. home video release of the wildest, sickest and sleaziest swinging-sixties British horror thriller -CORRUPTION. The legendary Peter Cushing stars as a surgeon driven to murder and madness as he attempts to restore the beauty of his hideously disfigured fashion model wife. This special edition contains shocking scenes of gore and nudity previously deemed too strong for American audiences.
THE BIG GUNDOWN
Coming soon on Blu-Ray! Grindhouse Releasing is proud to present the first ever US homevideo release of the Lee Van Cleef / Sergio Sollima spaghetti western classic. with a stunning new HD remaster of the original uncensored 110 minute director’s cut and loads of extras
THE SWIMMER
Coming soon on Blu-Ray! Grindhouse Releasing is proud to present the Deluxe Edition of this late 60s Burt Lancaster classic, with a stunning new HD master created trom super-high resolution 4K scans of the original film elements, and loads of extras.
Coming Soon From BrinkVision.
THE EUROPEAN ROAD CULT COMEDY ROBERT MITCHUM IS DEAD RELEASES ON MAY 21ST ON VOD AND LIMITED EDITION DVD! ROBERT MITCHUM IS DEAD A WILD COMICAL ROAD MOVIE.
LIMITED EDITION
Official Selection of Festival De Cannes
BrinkVision will be releasing Robert Mitchum is Dead on May 21st 2013 on Limited Edition DVD, and VOD. Premiering at the Cannes International Film Festival, Robert Mitchum is Dead has gone on to screen at festivals worldwide, and has drawn a cult following in the process. Starring French actor Olivier Gourmet, and Pablo Nicomedes as the Z-list actor Franky. Robert Mitchum is Dead is a comedy road movie that is packed with references and influences from Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch, Jean-Luc Godard, zombie movies, rockabilly music, and the nature of filmmaking itself.
“Pastiche and Genuine Charm” – Hollywood Reporter
“A Shame to Miss” – Abus De Cine
Synopsis: This hilarious addition to the road-movie genre follows a desperate agent (Olivier Gourmet) and an insomniac actor of questionable talent as they make their way in a stolen car across Europe to a film festival in the Arctic Circle. Hoping to get the actor a meeting with a famous director, they encounter a series of bizarre encounters, and it’s uncertain whether their dreams of fame will come true.
Check out trailer here.
Check out music video here.
Special Features Include
Limited Edition
Making of Featurette
Music Video
Trailer
Language: French
Subtitles: English
Run Time: 91 minutes
Region: All Regions
DVD Release Date: May 21st, 2013
SRP: $19.95
Coming soon from Synapse Films and Impulse Pictures.
All the vomit and toilet waste in glorious high-def Blu-ray!
From Writer and Producer Roy Frumkes!
In the sleazy, foreboding world of winos, derelicts and drifters in lower Manhattan, two young runaways—eighteen-year-old Fred (Mike Lackey) and his younger brother, Kevin (Mark Sferrazza)—live in a tire hut in the back of an auto wrecking yard. Life is hard, but the most lethal threat to the boys is the mysterious case of Tenafly Viper wine in Ed’s liquor store window. The stuff is forty years old… and it’s gone bad. REAL bad! Anyone who drinks it melts in seconds—and it’s only a dollar a bottle!
The subversive cult classic/horror comedy STREET TRASH rode the last wave of super-gore films in the late ’80s before cinema entered the era of safe R-rated horror and unoriginal remakes. Beautifully re-mastered in high-definition, STREET TRASH will melt your eyes and ears with stunning picture and sound. Open up a bottle, and drink!
Special Features:
• High-Definition Transfer from the Original Camera Negative
• 5.1 Surround Remix Created Specifically for Home Theatre Environments
• Two Audio Commentaries Featuring Producer Roy Frumkes and Director James Muro
• THE MELTDOWN MEMOIRS – Feature Length Documentary on the History and Making of STREET TRASH
• The Original STREET TRASH 16mm Short Film That Inspired the Movie
• The Original STREET TRASH Promotional Teaser
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• ALL-NEW BLU-RAY EXCLUSIVES: Jane Arakawa Video Interview and Deleted Scenes
• Create Your Own Bottle of “Tenafly Viper” Wine with the Enclosed Label Sticker!
Disc Info:
Director: James Muro
Starring: James Lorinz, Mike Lackey, Mark Sferrazza, Bill Chepil
Run Time: 102 minutes
Release Date: July 9th, 2013
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen 1080p 1.85:1
Format: Blu-ray
Region: All Region ABC
UPC: 654930315095
SRP: $19.95
An infant girl watches in horror as her father, the infamous “Jack the Ripper”, brutally murders her mother. Years later, young Anna (Angharad Rees) is now under the care of a fake psychic and has been forced into prostitution. At the end of a séance one evening, a woman is mysteriously killed. Dr. John Pritchard (Eric Porter) suspects Anna is the murderer but cannot understand how she could do this unspeakable act. Using new Freudian psychoanalysis techniques, Pritchard experiments on Anna and discovers a shocking secret. The spirit of the “Ripper” is alive and well, and may be possessing his own daughter! Can this evil be stopped before it’s too late?
Completely restored in high-definition and released uncut for the first time on Blu-ray in the U.S., HANDS OF THE RIPPER is a film widely recognized as one of the most gruesome Hammer horror films ever made.
Run Time: 85 minutes
Release Date: July 9th, 2013
Language: English
Aspect Ratio: 1080p 1.66:1
Format: DVD/Blu-ray combo
Region: Region A
Price: $29.95
Features
THE DEVIL’S BLOODY PLAYTHING: POSSESSED BY HANDS OF THE RIPPER Featurette
SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENCE: THE EVOLUTION OF HAMMER GORE – Motion Still Gallery
U.S. Television Introduction
Original Theatrical Trailer and TV Spots
HANDS OF THE RIPPER – Motion Still Gallery
Isolated Music & Effects Audio Track
A woman named Chieko Kuwano (the beautiful Junko Asahina) is hired as an assistant manager at a large corporate office in Japan. She’s smart, sexy, and willing to do almost anything for her sex-starved new boss but, since he’s married, his deviant behavior makes her uncomfortable. Fed up with the boss and his perverted ways, the ladies in the building band together to enact their own special kind of revenge… that is, after they have a lesbian three-way slumber party, of course! HORNY WORKING GIRL: FROM 5 TO 9 will have your libido working overtime!
Features
Newly Translated Removable English Subtitles
Original Theatrical Trailer
Liner Notes from Japanese Film Scholar Jasper Sharp
Run Time: 66 minutes
Release Date: July 9th, 2013
Language: Japanese
Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1
Format: DVD
Region: Region 1
Price: $19.95
Ryoko (Etsuko Hara) leaves the chaos of her dorm for the peace and quiet of her own place because she wants to keep her relationship with a doctor at Murata Hospital a secret. Unfortunately, that privacy is short-lived as she discovers a “peeping tom” next door neighbor that spies on her all the time. When the doctor’s wife learns of the affair, poor Ryoko gets caught in a web of jilted lovers, frisky lesbians, slapstick sexual assault and embarrassing incidents with household appliances.
The first film in Nikkatsu’s three picture “Nurse Diary” series, NURSE DIARY: WICKED FINGER is a strange mix of comedy, nudity and sex with an oh-so-crazy plot that will have you shaking your head in disbelief!
Features
Newly Translated Removable English Subtitles
Original Theatrical Trailer
Liner Notes from Japanese Film Scholar Jasper Sharp
Run Time: 68 minutes
Release Date: July 9th, 2013
Language: Japanese
Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1
Format: DVD
Region: Region 1
Price: $19.95
‘Terracotta Film Club’ presents Wong Kar Wai’s DAYS OF BEING WILD at the Prince Charles Cinema on Wednesday, May 29th, 2013.
Terracotta Film Club will present DAYS OF BEING WILD for its May edition at the Prince Charles Cinema.
Terracotta organisers are proud to showcase one of the most acclaimed masterpieces of modern cinema from one of Hong Kong’s finest auteur directors, Wong Kar Wai.
DAYS OF BEING WILD features an outstanding ensemble cast including Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and more, involved in a roundabout of fleeting emotions and unrealised relationships.
It also marks the first in a long collaboration between Wong Kar Wai and acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle.
Wong Kar Wai’s second film relates the story of a vain, amoral young playboy (Leslie Cheung) drifting through a series of casual friendships and affairs.
Christopher Doyle’s exquisite cinematography and a lush, dreamy soundtrack, perfectly capture the mood of youth’s endless boredom over a long, hot summer in 1960′s Hong Kong.
This screening is part of the Terracotta Festival’s IN MEMORY OF: Leslie Cheung & Anita Mui section. It will take place on Wednesday 29 May, prior to the official launch of the festival on Thursday 06 June.
Link to event page:
Stills:
Trailer:
Wednesday 29 May at 8.45pm doors open / 9pm film starts
Ticket price: £ 8.00 (Prince Charles cinema members £ 5.50).
Original Cantonese title: 阿飛正傳
Cast: Leslie Cheung, Carina Lau, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Rebecca Pan, Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Director: Wong Kar Wai
Cinematographer: Christopher Doyle
Runtime: 94 mins / year 1990
Country: Hong Kong, Cantonese language with English subtitles.
Synopsis: An outstanding ensemble cast are involved in a roundabout of fleeting emotions and unrealised relationships.
In the sweltering heat of a 1960’s Hong Kong summer, a layabout playboy Yuddy (Leslie Cheung), exercises his pastime of drawing women close to him then callously drops them at the last minute, under the emotional shadow of not knowing who his real mother is.
The narrative moves from one character to the next; from one of Yuddy’s lovers (Maggie Cheung) to the new attention of her affections, a beat cop (Andy Lau) and back again to Yuddy and his latest squeeze. All the while, maintaining an incredibly visually detailed recreation of that era.
Exquisite cinematography by Christopher Doyle and a lush, dreamy soundtrack, perfectly captures the mood of youth’s endless boredom over a long, hot summer.
Courtesy of Palisades Tartan.
Coming soon from Blue Underground.
Five sexy and sleazy women-in-prison filth fests – totally uncut and uncensored
AMAZON JAIL:
Deep in the Amazon jungle, a group of nubile naifs are trapped in a primitive prison by whip-cracking white slavers who aren’t above sampling the merchandise themselves. But these hothouse flowers aren’t about to be plucked, and the girls go native – only to fall into the hands of a perverted priest whose followers just love a woman in war paint! Caught between brutal bounty hunters and the holy man’s horny henchmen, it’s a battle of wits, weapons, and feminine wiles as the desperate damsels trade it all to escape this poison paradise alive!
BARE BEHIND BARS:
In a women’s penitentiary where brutal beatings, steamy showers, and full cavity searches are the order of the day, the cons are turning into pros – and the cemetery is running out of room! To stay out of the torture chamber, the inmates can barter their bodies in the wicked warden’s white slave trade, or submit to the nympho nurse’s peculiar brand of medical malpractice. But when these lawless lovelies go on the lam to wreak vengeance on straight society, no one will be safe!
99 WOMEN:
For his epic shocker of caged women gone wild, legendary director Jess Franco (SUCCUBUS) brought together a once-in-a-lifetime cast of International beauties including Maria Schell (THE ODESSA FILE), Luciana Paluzzi (THUNDERBALL), Rosalba Neri (LADY FRANKENSTEIN) and Maria Rohm (VENUS IN FURS). Mercedes McCambridge (JOHNNY GUITAR) and Herbert Lom (MARK OF THE DEVIL) co-star as the sadistic wardens of an island prison where abused yet luscious young lovelies surrender to their own depraved desires. Behind bars…without men…experience the unchained passion of 99 WOMEN!
SADOMANIA:
In all the annals of exploitation cinema, there has never been anything quite like it: Take a luscious young bride (beautiful Playboy centerfold Ursula Fellner) thrust into a brutal prison camp run by a sadistic woman warden (the stunning transsexual adult film star Ajita Wilson). Add generous helpings of lesbian lust, bestial perversion and some very extreme violence. Then mix in a jaw-dropping performance by the film’s controversial director as a degenerate white slaver. Do you dare take a forbidden taste of the wildest women-in-prison movie ever made?
WOMEN BEHIND BARS:
When a brazen diamond heist on a Chinese junk ends in a bloody double-cross, the traitor escapes only to be mysteriously murdered by his mistress. The vicious vixen is locked away in a tropical prison where, to keep the hidden jewels for herself, she’ll have to resist the charms of the warden’s Sapphic spies; withstand whips, chains, and high-voltage electrodes in his dungeon; and, if she breaks free, she must pass through the gauntlet of greedy gangsters working on both sides of the law. Are her mind and body strong enough to survive the agonies and ecstasies of life in the big doll house?
Extras:
Theatrical Trailers
Specs:
Color
Dolby Digital Mono
English
Widescreen 1.66:1 & 2.35:1 / 16×9
460 Mins.
1969-1982
Not Rated
Region Code: 0
PRICE: $29.98
Release Date: July 30th, 2013
2-Disc DVD Limited Special
Coming soon from Arrow Video
Tinto Brass’s first major film since the notorious Caligula stars Frank Finlay as a man who is terrified of losing his voluptuous wife Teresa (Stefania Sandrelli) because he is unable to satisfy her sexually. He arranges for her to have an affair, by taking erotic photographs of her and asking her would-be lover to develop them. Meanwhile, he keeps abreast of her burgeoning relationship by reading her diary, in the full knowledge that she in turn is reading his…
One of Brass’s most critically acclaimed films, The Key is also one of his most elegant, with wintry Venetian locations, a beautiful Ennio Morricone score and a strong sense of period – it’s set in 1940, just before Mussolini’s Italy entered World War II.
However, it also unmistakably shows the path that Brass would eventually follow, with startlingly graphic sex scenes for a supposedly ‘respectable’ film cast with serious actors.
Special Features:
- High Definition Blu-ray and Standard Definition DVD Presentation of the film in widescreen for the first time!
- Optional English and Italian audio
- Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian audio
- Original Trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly illustrated artwork by The Red Dress
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Tinto Brass scholar Alexander Tuschinski, illustrated with rare production stills
Release Date: May 20th, 2013
Region B/2
Diana (Claudia Koll) and Paolo (Paolo Lanza) are happily married despite her much greater sexual appetite: he’s content to simply listen to the stories of her various adventures. But when she has an affair that’s much too close to home, he throws her out, and she moves into a Venetian flat to embark upon an erotic voyage of discovery, while at the same time trying to win him back.
Loosely inspired by the Mozart opera Così fan tutte (the title is a direct translation), the film tackles a crucial question: why shouldn’t women enjoy the same sexual freedom that they’ve long had to tolerate in their men? Especially when they have such shapely and inviting rears?
Once again, Tinto Brass proves his unmatched skill at balancing eroticism and humour in this lively and beautifully photographed comedy, both wittier and more sexually explicit than the average softcore romp.
Special Features:
- High Definition Blu-ray and Standard Definition DVD Presentation of the film in widescreen for the first time!
- Optional English and Italian audio
- Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian audio
- Featurette on the film with director Tinto Brass
- Original Trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly illustrated artwork by The Red Dress
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic David Flint, illustrated with rare production stills
Release Date: May 20th, 2013
Region B/2
Overview: One of Brian De Palma’s most acclaimed films, this brilliant fusion of the obsessive sleuthing of Blow-up and The Conversation with themes drawn from real-life political scandals (the JFK assassination, Chappaquiddick, Watergate) starts with sound technician Jack Terry (John Travolta) accidentally recording what might be explosive evidence of a deadly conspiracy.
Brilliantly shot by the then recent Oscar-winner Vilmos Zsigmond, this terrifically stylish thriller co-stars Nancy Allen as the eyewitness who becomes the unwitting target of John Lithgow’s serial killer as he ruthlessly attempts to bury all the evidence.
It’s also a film about the filmmaking process: Terry is originally hired to work on the low-budget slasher film Coed Frenzy, and later turns his technical skills to much more serious use as he tries to reconstruct a political assassination on film in a way that will stand up in court.
Special Features:
- Limited Edition SteelBook packaging
- New, restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Brian De Palma
- Original Dolby 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Black and White in Colour: An Interview with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond
- Rag Doll Memories: Nancy Allen on Blow Out
- Return to Philadelphia: An interview with Producer George Litto
- A gallery of on-set photos by photographer Louis Goldman
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Michael Atkinson, a conversation between Quentin Tarantino and Brian De Palma and more to be confirmed!
Release Date: May 27th, 2013
Region B/2
The credits dub this “the maddest story ever told”, a promise that’s well on the way to being fulfilled in the opening scene alone, when Virginia traps and kills a hapless deliveryman in her makeshift web. She’s one of three siblings who suffer from a unique genetic disorder that causes them to regress back to childhood, while retaining the physical strength and sexual maturity of adults.
Lon Chaney Jr gave one of his most memorable late performances as Bruno, their guardian and protector, who has managed to cover up their crimes until two distant relatives lay claim to their house. When they insist on moving in, Bruno has to cross his fingers and hope that the ‘children’ behave towards their new guests…
This was the first solo feature by Jack Hill, whom Quentin Tarantino dubbed “the Howard Hawks of exploitation filmmaking”, and it remains one of his wildest and weirdest.
Special Features:
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the main feature, available in the UK for the first time
- High Definition transfer of the feature approved by director Jack Hill
- Isolated Music and Effects track
- English SDH subtitles for deaf and hearing impaired
- Audio commentary featuring Jack Hill and star Sid Haig
- The Hatching of Spider Baby – Interviews with Jack Hill, Sid Haig, star Mary Mitchel, fan Joe Dante and more on the making of the film
- Spider Stravinsky: The Cinema Sounds of Ronald Stein – The composer of ‘The Terror’ and ‘Attack of the 50 Foot Woman’ among others is remembered by Harlene Stein, Jack Hill, American Cinematheque’s Chris D. and others
- The Merrye House Revisited – Jack Hill revisits the original house that was used as the main location in the film
- Alternate opening title sequence
- Extended scene
- Gallery of behind-the-scenes images
- The Host (1960) – Jack Hill’s early short film featuring Sid Haig in his first starring role [30 mins]
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humpreys
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by artist and writer Stephen R. Bissette, and more to be confirmed!
Release Date: June 24th, 2013
Region B/2
When Foxy Brown’s undercover-agent boyfriend is gunned down on the orders of evil drug kingpins, she stops at nothing to exact a thrillingly brutal revenge. This is one of the all-time great blaxploitation films, pulling out all the stops at a time long before anyone thought of inventing political correctness.
Pam Grier was given the role of a lifetime as the street-smart yet intensely sexy Foxy, modelling a stupendously varied range of Seventies threads while righteously kicking villainous white butt at every opportunity. She’s also given sterling support from Antonio ‘Huggy Bear’ Fargas as her no-good younger brother and a memorably funky soundtrack.
It’s clear that Quentin Tarantino is a huge fan: he cast Grier in the title role of his direct homage Jackie Brown, while the one-woman revenge scenario that fuelled the Kill Bill films didn’t just come from the Far East.
Special Features:
- Restored High Definition Blu-ray presentation (1080p)
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Audio commentary with director Jack Hill
- From Black and White to Blaxploitation – Actor Sid Haig speaks about his long and influential friendship with Jack Hill
- A Not So Minor Influence – An Interview with Bob Minor, the first African-American member of the Stuntman’s Association, and co-star of Foxy Brown
- Back to Black – Legendary actors Fred “The Hammer” Williamson (Black Caesar) and Austin Stoker (Sheba Baby, Assault on Precinct 13), alongside Rosanne Katon (Ebony, Ivory, and Jade) and film scholar Howard S. Berger speak about the enduring popularity of the Blaxploitation film
- Photo gallery of behind-the-scenes and publicity images
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Trailer Reel – Trailers for all the major works by Jack Hill including Foxy Brown, Coffy and Switchblade Sisters
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by The Red Dress
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Josiah Howard, author of Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide, a new interview with Pam Grier by Jack Hill biographer Calum Waddell, illustrated with original archive stills and posters
Release Date: June 24th, 2013
Region B/2
THERE’S NOWHERE TO RUN, NOWHERE TO HIDE, NO WAY TO STOP… THE CAR
Made when Jaws was still the most successful film of all time, The Car has almost exactly the same premise, but replaces the ocean with the Utah desert, and the shark with a Lincoln Continental Mark III of possibly supernatural origin.
When two teenage cyclists and a hitch-hiking musician are killed in apparently deliberate hit-and-runs, the police department of Santa Ynez investigates, whereupon the seemingly driverless vehicle turns on its hapless officers as well. And when the car strikes rather too close to the home of Captain Wade Parent (James Brolin), he vows to stop at nothing to defeat it.
Director Elliot Silverstein (Cat Ballou, A Man Called Horse) keeps everything as slick and streamlined as the car itself, turning the desert landscape into a powerfully mythic backdrop for a potent clash between the forces of good and those of inexplicable but clearly implacable evil.
Special Features:
- High Definition presentation (1080p), on Blu-ray for the first time in the world!
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Audio commentary with director Elliot Silverstein moderated by Calum Waddell
- Making a Mechanical Monster: Special Effects Artist William Alridge Remembers The Car
- Hitchhike the Hell: Actor John Rubinstein recalls becoming a victim of The Car
- Original Trailer
- Easter Egg
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Joe Wilson
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Cullen Gallagher as well as a brand new interview with co-writer Michael Butler conducted by Calum Waddell, illustrated with original archive stills and artwork
Release date: July 15th, 2013
Region B/2
DESPERATE AND DETERMINED TO SURVIVE
Two convicts break out of Stonehaven Prison in the dead of winter, boarding a freight train with the intention of getting as far away as possible before their notoriously sadistic warden finds out. But the brakes fail and the driver has a heart attack, sending hundreds of tons of metal hurtling through the snowy Alaskan wastes at terrifying and unstoppable speed.
Based on a script by Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai), with hardboiled prison slang added by real-life ex-con Edward Bunker (Mr Blue in Reservoir Dogs), this riveting thriller also boasts Oscar-nominated performances from Jon Voight and Eric Roberts – with Voight playing spectacularly against type as a criminal so vicious that he served much of his sentence welded into his cell.
Combining electrifying action with constant psychological tension (the only surviving member of the train crew is a young, inexperienced woman), Runaway Train is one of cinema’s great thrill-rides.
Special Features:
- High Definition transfer of the film prepared by MGM for the Cannes Film Festival premiere
- High Definition Blu-ray and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the film
- Optional English SDH Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- From Thespian to Fugitive – Star Jon Voight shares his memories of his Academy Award-nominated role
- Running on Empty – An Interview with director Andrei Konchalovsky
- The Calm Before the Chaos – Co-star Kyle T. Heffner remembers Runaway Train
- Booklet featuring new writing on the film and a new interview with Runaway Train’s Production Designer Stephen Marsh conducted by Calum Waddell, illustrated with rare behind-the-scenes production images
Release Date: July 22nd, 2013
Region B/2
THE LATEST FASHION IN MURDER
After sexually frustrated housewife Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson) has a session with her psychiatrist Dr Elliott (Michael Caine), she silently seduces a man in an art gallery, an assignation that ends in murder and the only witness, high-class prostitute Liz Blake (Nancy Allen) being stalked by the killer in turn.
One of Brian De Palma’s darkest and most controversial suspense thrillers, Dressed to Kill was as acclaimed for its stylish set-pieces and lush Pino Donaggio score as it was condemned for its sexual explicitness and blatant borrowings from Alfred Hitchcock in general and Psycho in particular.
But the glee with which De Palma turns this material inside out is completely infectious, as he delves deep inside the troubled psyches of his characters (critic Pauline Kael said that the film was “permeated with the distilled essence of impure thoughts”) in order to undermine expectations at every turn.
Special Features:
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the feature
- Optional original uncompressed Mono 2.0 Audio and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Surround Sound
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Symphony of Fear: Producer George Litto discusses his working relationship with Brian De Palma
- Dressed in White: Star Angie Dickinson on her role in the film
- Dressed in Purple: Star Nancy Allen discusses her role in the film
- Lessons in Filmmaking: Actor Keith Gordon discusses Dressed to Kill
- The Making of a Thriller – A documentary on the making of Dressed to Kill featuring writer-director Brian De Palma, George Litto, stars Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Dennis Franz and more!
- Unrated, R-Rated, and TV-Rated Comparison Featurette
- Slashing Dressed to Kill – Brian De Palma and stars Nancy Allen and Keith Gordon discuss the changes that had to be made to avoid an X-rating
- Original Theatrical Gallery
- Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Nathanel Marsh
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic and author Maitland McDonagh, illustrated with original archive stills and promotional material
Release date: July 29th, 2013
Region B/2
Real-life Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein inspired many distinguished films, including Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but none is quite as disturbing as Deranged.
Roberts Blossom gives an alarmingly convincing performance as rural eccentric Ezra Cobb, whose mother’s death unhinges him to the point where he not only lovingly preserves her corpse in the living room but also goes out to find ‘friends’ to keep her company – not all of whom are dead when he finds them! Perversely, Ezra’s more worried about what mother would say about his various activities than he is about the prospect of being found out. Indeed, like Gein, he’s cheerfully open about his activities when visiting friends, but no-one believes him.
Like Carnival of Souls and The Honeymoon Killers, this is one of American horror cinema’s great one-offs, an eerie, genuinely unsettling but also darkly comic experience.
Special Features:
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the unrated version, featuring the infamous ‘brain-scooping scene’, available uncut in the UK for the first time!
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Audio commentary with special effects artist Tom Savini
- Introduction to the film by Savini
- A Blossoming Brilliance: Scott Spiegel (Intruder, Evil Dead II) speaks about Deranged star Roberts Blossom and the lasting legacy of this gore-soaked gem
- Ed Gein: From Murder to Movies – Laurence R. Harvey (The Human Centipide II) discusses the lurid legacy of the Wisconsin serial killer and the secrets of portraying a cinematic psychopath
- Original Trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Nat Marsh
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Stephen Thrower, author of Nightmare USA, and an archive interview with producer Bob Clark by Calum Waddell, illustrated with original archive stills and posters
- And more to be announced!
Release Date: August 12th, 2013
Region B/2
Time Bandits is the film that established Terry Gilliam as more than just Monty Python’s resident animator. This delightfully inventive children’s fantasy is about young Kevin (Craig Warnock) who finds himself travelling through holes in the space-time continuum in the company of half a dozen fractious dwarfs.
Along the way, he encounters Agamemnon (Sean Connery), Robin Hood (John Cleese), Napoleon (Ian Holm) and winds up as a passenger on the Titanic, although not necessarily in that order. But is this just random entertainment laid on for history fan Kevin’s benefit, or part of a wider struggle between the forces of good (Ralph Richardson) and evil (David Warner)?
At the time, this was a rare example of a small-budget British film successfully taking on American blockbusters. Now, it’s a much-loved fantasy classic bursting with inspired images and ideas: Gilliam and co-writer Michael Palin (who also appears) are clearly enjoying themselves as much as their audience.
Special Features:
- Brand new 2k-resolution restoration of the film from the original camera negative, approved by director and co-writer Terry Gilliam
- Original uncompressed PCM Stereo 2.0 and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio options
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Chasing Time Bandits: A new interview with Terry Gilliam
- Writing the Film that Dares Not Speak its Name: A new interview in which Michael Palin discusses co-writing and acting in Time Bandits
- The Effects of Time Bandits: A new interview in which Kent Houston, founder of the Peerless Camera Company, discusses Time Bandits’ optical effects
- Playing Evil: A new featurette in which actor David Warner remembers producer George Harrison and playing Evil in Time Bandits
- The Costumes of Time Bandits: A new interview with costume designer James Acheson
- The Look of Time Bandits: A new interview with production designer Milly Burns
- From Script to Screen – A new animated featurette in which Milly Burns takes us through her production notebooks, locations photographs and storyboards revealing how twentieth century Morocco was transformed into Ancient Greece
- Original Trailer
- Restoration Demonstration
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic James Oliver
When exploitation maestro Roger Corman decided to raise his game by hiring Vincent Price to star in an adaptation of a classic tale by Edgar Allan Poe, he set in train a series of Poe adaptations that would redefine American horror cinema.
When Philip Winthrop (Mark Damon) visits his fiancée Madeleine Usher (Myrna Fahey) in her crumbling family mansion, her brother Roderick (Price) tries to talk him out of the wedding, explaining that the Usher family is cursed and that extending its bloodline will only prolong the agony. Madeleine wants to elope with Philip, but neither of them can predict what ruthless lengths Roderick will go to in order to keep them apart.
Richard Matheson’s intelligent, literate script is enhanced by Floyd Crosby’s stylish widescreen cinematography, but it’s Vincent Price’s anguished conviction in one of his signature roles that makes the film so chillingly memorable over half a century on.
Special Features:
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Audio commentary with director and producer Roger Corman
- Legend to Legend: Director and former Corman apprentice Joe Dante reflects on the iconic Poe cycle
- Through the Pale Door: A Specially-commissioned video essay by critic and filmmaker David Cairns examining Corman’s film in relation to Poe’s story
- Archival interview with Vincent Price
- Original Trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by author and critic Tim Lucas and an extract from Vincent Price’s long out of print autobiography, illustrated with original archive stills and posters
- More to be announced!
Release Date: August 26th, 2013
Region B/2
One of the most original and entertaining of the revenge-of-nature films that characterised mid-1970s American horror, Squirm begins with a pylon being downed by a thunderstorm, sending millions of volts into the wet, conductive mud, which naturally gives hundreds of thousands of its wriggly inhabitants an insatiable hunger for human flesh.
And since the accident has also inconveniently cut off the electricity to Fly Creek, Georgia, its population could hardly be more vulnerable when the sun goes down. Houses can be barricaded against most intruders, but what happens when they’re small enough to get into the water supply?
Writer-director Jeff Lieberman (who also made the cult classics Blue Sunshine and Just Before Dawn) achieves a near-perfect blend of knowing wit and good old-fashioned scares, with make-up genius Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London) on hand for some of the memorably disgusting special effects.
Special Features:
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD uncut presentation, available in the UK for the first time!
- Original Uncompressed Mono Audio
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Audio commentary with director Jeff Lieberman
- Filmed Live Q&A session with Lieberman and star Don Scardino from New York’s Anthology Film Archives (2011)
- Interview with Kim Newman
- Original Trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Lee Gambin, author of Massacred by Mother Nature and an interview with Jeff Lieberman by Calum Waddell, illustrated with original archive stills and posters
- More to be announced!
Release Date: September 16th, 2013
Region B/2
THE COMEDY THAT PUTS ZIP INTO BEING A TEEN…
Gary, Rick and David are American teens with one thing on their mind. They move from party to party, trying out their latest chat-up lines, which usually ends in miserable failure for Gary, as he’s more interested in finding true romance than a quick fumble in someone’s parents’ bedroom. So when Karen arrives at their school, Gary falls head over heels in love, but Rick’s baser intentions towards her threaten to break up their friendship for good.
Championed by Eli Roth (Hostel) as one of the most underrated films of its era, The Last American Virgin is a raucous but also surprisingly intelligent and sobering look at the hideousness of growing up, peer pressures, misplaced expectations and unforeseen consequences.
It’s also a superb snapshot of the early Eighties music scene, with the soundtrack featuring Blondie, Devo, The Human League, KC and the Sunshine Band, The Police, U2 and many others.
Special Features:
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the film, available in the UK for the first time!
- Original uncompressed PCM Stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Optional Isolated Music & Effects track
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Brand new interview with director Boaz Davidson
- Brand new interviews with stars Lawrence Monoson and Diane Franklin
- Brand new interview with cinematographer Adam Greenberg
- Original Trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by The Red Dress
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic and publisher Robin Bougie and an interview with The Last American Virgin super fan Eli Roth conducted by Calum Waddell, illustrated with original archive stills and posters
Release date: September 23rd, 2013
Region B/2
IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, THE TERROR BEGINS.
When a space shuttle crew finds a mysterious spacecraft containing three human-looking creatures in a state of suspended animation, they bring them back to Earth for further investigation.
It’s only then that scientists discover that they are in fact a race of space vampires that feed off people’s life-force rather than their blood. So when they escape and run amok in London, the consequences are apocalyptic – and the shuttle crew’s only survivor (Steve Railsback) seems to be the only man who can stop them.
Based on Colin Wilson’s novel ‘The Space Vampires’, co-written by Dan O’Bannon (Alien, Return of the Living Dead) and directed by Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Poltergeist), this lively sci-fi horror romp has a stellar cast including Peter Firth, Frank Finlay and Patrick Stewart – although it’s Mathilda May’s appearance as a naked female alien that attracts most attention to this day.
2-Disc Blu-ray Special Edition Special Features:
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of both the Theatrical and Director’s Cuts
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- New audio commentary with director Tobe Hooper
- New audio commentary with make-up effects artist Nick Maley
- Cannon Fodder: The Making of Lifeforce – An epic UK-exclusive look at the genesis, production and release of Lifeforce featuring interviews with Hooper, producer Michael J. Kagan, editor John Grover, actors Aubrey Morris and Nicholas Ball, makeup artist Sandra Exelby, screenwriter Michael Armstrong, sound designer Vernon Messenger, artistic designers Tom Adams and Douglas Smith and effects artist John Schoonraad.
- New Cast & Crew Retrospective with star Steve Railsback, Hooper, Mathilda May and more!
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- TV Spot
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film, a new interview with Oscar-winning visual effects artist John Dykstra by Calum Waddell, illustrated with original archive stills and posters
- More to be announced
Release date: September 30th, 2013
Region B/2
Coming soon from Raro Video USA.
“I am a huge fan of gangster movies, I’ve seen them all and Fernando Di Leo is without a doubt, the master of this genre.” Quentin Tarantino
Hailed by cinephiles for expertly restoring rare films by influential filmmakers and publishing them with compelling extras, Italian film label Raro Video announces the company will begin distributing its acclaimed DVDs and Blu-rays in the U.S. through Kino/Lorber for the first time ever on May 28, 2013. To launch the partnership in the U.S., the company will spotlight a powerhouse director of Italian cinema with Fernando Di Leo’s lost crime masterpiece SHOOT FIRST, DIE LATER.
Raro Video’s version of Di Leo’s SHOOT FIRST, DIE LATER has been restored using the original 35MM negative. The extra features include: original trailers, a 20-page fully illustrated booklet on the genesis of the film and two separate documentaries produced specifically for this release by NOCTURNO CINEMA magazine, one of Europe’s most influential film genre publications.
Master of bold, intricately plotted, ultra-violent stories about pimps and petty gangsters, director and writer Fernando Di Leo perfected the genre with an uncanny accuracy that prefigured the works of Quentin Tarantino and John Woo.
Following the release of SHOOT FIRST, DIE LATER Raro Video collects some of his finest work in, Fernando Di Leo – THE ITALIAN CRIME COLLECTION VOL. 2 a three-DVD set that includes SHOOT FIRST, DIE LATER, KIDNAP SYNDICATE and NAKED VIOLENCE. The set’s impressive list of extras will be announced shortly. Fernando Di Leo – THE ITALIAN CRIME COLLECTION VOL. 2 will arrive on DVD and Blu-ray June 25.
SHOOT FIRST, DIE LATER
Price: $24.95 (Blu-ray)$19.95 (DVD)
Street Date: May 28, 2013
Running time: 95 minutes
Distributor: KINO/LORBER
Language: Italian and English with optional English subtitles
Rating: NR
SHOOT FIRST, DIE LATER – SYNOPSIS
One of the most impressive Italian crime/police movies ever made, desperately sought after and never before released worldwide, Raro Video is proud to be releasing the tough, exciting, dramatically potent, action packed film: SHOOT FIRST, DIE LATER. Luc Merenda gives the performance of his career as a highly regarded police detective who is taking syndicate money in exchange for departmental favors. His father, a simple man, also works for the department but at a lower level; he isn’t jealous of his son, but rather proud of him, little knowing that he’s a crooked cop. A series of events leads the young detective to ask his father for a favor (he wants a certain police report that is desired by the syndicate) and it doesn’t take long for the detective’s father to realize his son is on the take, which leads to numerous complications.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
-New HD master from original 35 MM print
-Digitally restored / Original Italian and English trailer
-New and improved English subtitle translation
-A 20 page fully illustrated booklet on the genesis of the film
-Documentary The Master of the Game
-Documentary The Second Round of the Game
Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection Volume 2
Shoot first die later: Desperately sought after and never before released worldwide Rarovideo is proud to be releasing the tough, exciting, dramatically potent, well acted and action packed film, Shoot first, Die Later which is known as one of the most impressive Italian crime/police movies ever made. Luc Merenda gives the performance of his career as a highly regarded police detective who is taking syndicate money in exchange for departmental favors. His father, a simple man, also works for the department but on a lower rung; he isn’t jealous of his son, but rather proud of him, little knowing that he’s a crooked cop. A series of events leads the young detective to ask his father for a favor (he wants a certain police report that is desired by the syndicate) and it doesn’t take long for the detective’s father to realize his son is on the take… which leads to numerous complications..
Kidnap syndicate: Colella is a hard working but struggling mechanic who raises his son Fabrizio after his wife passed away. Fabrizio is friends with Antonio, son of the extremely rich but incredibly repugnant businessman Filippini. When criminals kidnap Antonio in front of school, the brave Fabrizio tries to prevent this and the nervous kidnappers pull him into the car as well. They demand a huge ransom for the boys, but the pigheaded Filippini refuses to give in to criminals and put the lives of the boys at stake, whilst Colella and even the police commissioner can’t do anything. Colella goes after them, but soon stumbles upon a very complex and well-protected network.
Naked Violence A devastating, brutal, raw example of Di Leo’s early works, Naked violence is about how a teacher of an evening school for youngsters with social problems is brutally raped and murdered right in her classroom. The only suspects are the kids and the police are surprised to find them all quietly in their homes instead of having escaped. There is a reason. Each kid declares that he did not participate in the brutality but was forced to watch. The police officer Lamberti has reasons to believe that someone, an adult, has orchestrated the kids whose name they are too afraid to mention.
Special Features
New HD Transfer from original 35 mm negative print/Digitally restored / Original trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation
A fully illustrated booklet
SHOOT FIRST DIE LATER, 1974
(Il Poliziotto e’ Marcio)
Running time: 95 min Extras running time: 48 min
Documentary/The Master of the Game(Il Padrone del Gioco)
Documentary/The Second Round of the Game(La seconda mano del gioco)
-Original trailer
NAKED VIOLENCE, 1969
(I Ragazzi del Massacro)
Running time: 99 min Extras running time: 34 min
Documentary/Goodfellas(Quei Bravi Ragazzi)
Documentary/Fernando di Leo at the Cinematheque Francaise (Fernando di Leo alla Cinematheque Francaise)
KIDNAP SYNDICATE, 1975
(La Citta’ Sconvolta Caccia Spietata ai Rapitori)
Running time: 98 min Extras running time: 29 min
Documentary/Violent cities: the other Fernando di Leo’s trilogy (Città violente: l’altra trilogia di Fernando di Leo)
Production: Italy – 1969, 1974, 1975
Total running time (3 discs) with extras: 403 minutes, color
Language: Italian and English
Subtitles: Optional English
Audio: Dolby digital 2.0 Mono
Release Date: June 25th, 2013
SRP – Blu-Ray: $49.98
SRP – DVD: $39.98
Coming soon from Severin Films.
It has been hailed as “amazingly disturbing(Dread Central), extreme and uncompromised (Roger Ebert) and one of the best true crime films ever made (DVD Talk). Now from the punishing mind of writer/producer/director Jim Van Bebber comes his epic of hallucinatory horror like you’ve never seen it before: This is the ultimate account of Charles Manson and his followers, a blood-soaked saga that takes you from their drug-fueled orgies, to their grisly massacres, and into the legacy of depravity that survives today. It is a singular vision of nihilistic evil that remains alarmingly original, unapologetically graphic and shockingly real. These are the most infamous crimes of our time as depicted by one of the most dangerous underground filmmakers of all time. This is THE MANSON FAMILY.
Bonus Features:
Audio Commentary with Director Jim VanBebber
Gator Green – Exclusive First Release of VanBebber’s latest short
Exclusive New Interview With Phil Anselmo
The VanBebber Family – Uncut Version of ‘Making Of’ Documentary Featuring Interviews with Cast and Crew
In The Belly of The Beast – Documentary On the 1997 Fantasia Film Festival
Interview With Charles Manson
Deleted Scenes
Theatrical Trailers
BLU-RAY
SRP: 24.95
BLU-RAY + DVD Combo
SRP: 29.95
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Language: English
Full Screen 1.33:1
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
Region: ALL
STREET DATE: June 11th, 2013
Banned in Britain for thirty years, The House On Straw Hill is a shockingly violent and erotic tale of seduction, brutality and revenge. Cult movie icon Udo Kier (Mark Of The Devil, The Theatre Bizarre) stars as a successful novelist suffering from writer’s block, who rents a country cottage in the hope of finding inspiration. But the arrival of a sensual secretary, played by Linda Hayden (Blood on Satan’s Claw, Taste the Blood Of Dracula) sets in motion of chain of events that culminate in an unrestrained explosion of sex and savagery.
Also known as Exposé and condemned as a Video Nasty in the UK, this sleazy classic from Brian Smedley-Aston (Vampyres) and co-starring the notorious Fiona Richmond – Britain’s No.1 sex symbol – is now fully restored from the only uncut elements and is available for the first time in the US with brand new extras!
• Audio Commentary with director James Kenelm Clarke and producer Brian Smedley-Aston
• All-new interviews with director James Kenelm Clarke and star Linda Hayden
• Theatrical Trailer
SRP: $29.95
STREET DATE: June 11th, 2013
Eight graves! Seven bodies! – screamed the ads, One killer… and he’s already dead! Hollywood legends John Ireland (RED RIVER, SATAN’S CHEERLEADERS), John Carradine (THE GRAPES OF WRATH, VAMPIRE HOOKERS) and Howard Hughes paramour Faith Domergue (CULT OF THE COBRA, THIS ISLAND EARTH) star this much-loved 70s shocker about a film crew shooting an occult drama in a sinister manor actually the former Utah Governor’s Mansion with its own grisly history of family bloodshed. From its notoriously gruesome opening to the creepy zombie-attack climax, revisit the old-school favorite that Bloody Disgusting hails as a classic Saturday afternoon Creature Feature scare – as you’ve never seen it before, now transferred in HD from original vault materials and featuring an exclusive archive interview with the legendary horror icon John Carradine and a revealing new audio commentary.
• Exclusive Interview With Star John Carradine
• Audio Commentary With Associate Producer Gary Kent, Moderated By The Alamo Drafthouse’s Lars Nilsen
• Theatrical Trailer
SRP: $29.95
STREET DATE: June 11th, 2013
Coming soon from Blue Underground.
DJANGO:
Franco Nero (CAMELOT) stars as the lone stranger who roams the West dragging a coffin filled with chaos towards a destiny ruled by vengeance. Co-writer/director Sergio Corbucci (THE GREAT SILENCE) packs his landmark classic with indelible images, unforgettable performances and some of the most shocking brutality of any ‘Spaghetti Western’ ever made. This is the still-controversial epic that defined a genre, launched a phenomenon and inspired over 50 unofficial sequels. This is the one and only DJANGO!
DJANGO KILL… IF YOU LIVE, SHOOT!:
Tomas Milian (TRAFFIC) stars as a half-breed bandit double-crossed and left for dead who rises from the grave to seek his revenge. But when his quest leads to a bizarre town called ‘The Unhappy Place,’ he is plunged into an odyssey of gruesome torture, graphic violence and relentless sexual depravity. This is the landmark movie that fans and critics still consider to be the strangest – and most controversial – ‘Spaghetti Western’ ever made. This is DJANGO KILL!
KEOMA:
Franco Nero (DIE HARD 2) is KEOMA, a half-breed gunfighter weary of killing as a way of life. But when he returns to his troubled childhood home, Keoma is caught in a savage battle between innocent settlers, sadistic bandits and his vengeful half-brothers. In a wasteland gone mad with rage and pain, can one man massacre his way to redemption?
TEXAS, ADIOS:
Franco Nero (STREET LAW) stars as Burt Sullivan, a tough Texas sheriff who heads deep into Mexico with his younger brother to arrest the man who murdered their father years earlier. But when they uncover a shocking family secret, the brothers find themselves trapped in a lawless land where violence is a pastime, vengeance is a birthright and sudden death is a way of life.
DJANGO Extras:
• Django: The One And Only – Interviews with Star Franco Nero and Assistant Director Ruggero Deodato
• Theatrical Trailer
• Poster & Still Gallery
• Talent Bios
DJANGO KILL Extras:
• Django, Tell! – Interviews with Co-Writer/Director Giulio Questi and Stars Tomas Milian & Ray Lovelock
• Theatrical Trailer
• Poster & Still Gallery
KEOMA Extras:
• Audio Commentary with Director Enzo G. Castellari and Journalist Waylon Wahl
• Keoma: Legends Never Die – Interview with Star Franco Nero
• Theatrical Trailer
• Talent Bios
TEXAS, ADIOS Extras:
• Back In The Saddle – Interview with Star Franco Nero
• Theatrical Trailer
• Franco Nero Bio
Suggested Retail Price: $29.98
Street Date: May 21st, 2013
