'Marvericks' 3-movie box sets in August
You see them everywhere, box set comilations of previous releases, and even ones you want you don't get because you've already got one of them or there are better editions of the films available now. This hasn't stopped Metrodome from having a go with four upcoming box sets under the general 'Mavericks' banner. There are some good films in here, and they are not bare bones discs either, retaining many of the extra features that accompanie dthe original releases. Details are as follows.
Mavericks - Driven by a Vision
Donnie Darko - the Director's Cut
If you don't know this one by now, what are you doing here? For my money the director's cut buggers up a perfectly formed original.
Extras: Audio commentary with director Richard Kelly and Kevin Smith.
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
So-so film realisation of Peter Biskind's superb and exhaustive exploration of the young movie mavericks of the 1970s.
Extras: 90 Minutes of Deleted and Extra Footage.
Overnight
A fascinating documentary following the fortunes of barman turned filmmaker Troy Duffy, who sucured a deal with Mirimax to direct a $15 million project from his own script, only to go into nosedize when Mirimax unexpectedly pull out.
Extras: Director’s Interview on ‘Backstage With Barry Nolan’, Deleted Scenes, Alternative Ending.
Mavericks - Fight the Power
The Assasination of Richard Nixon
Not bad modern thriller in the 1970s mould.
Extras: Director’s Commentary, Deleted Scenes (With Optional Commentary), Behind The Scenes Featurette, Sean Penn Press Conference and The Real Sam Bicke Profile.
The Corporation
Superb, exhaustive documentary examining the rise of the multinational corporation and the threat they represent to national democracies.
Extras: Directors' Commentary, Writer’s Commentary, Deleted Scenes, 'Majority Report' by Joel Bakan and Katherine Dodds on Grassroots Marketing.
Manic
Dogme-style drama starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Adrienne Rollo.
Extras: Making-of featurette.
European Mavericks - Heart of Darkness
Das Experiment
Before Downfall, Oliver Hirsschbiegel, disturbing, frightening thriller
inspired by the 1971 Stanford prison experiment.
Extras: Theatrical Trailer.
Evil
Powerful, Oscar nominated psychological drama set in a Swedish boarding school.
Extras: Author’s Interview, The Truth Behind Evil and Deleted Scenes.
Pusher
Fab Danish crime drama, the first of a trilogy from Nicholas Winding Refn.
Extras: Director’s Commentary and 'Making Of..' Documentary.
European Mavericks - Love Gone Wrong
Together
Terrific second feature from Show Me Love director Lukas Moodysson.
Extras: Theatrical Trailer, Text Interview With Lukas Moodysson.
Dear Wendy
Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg team their talents to attack gun culture.
Extras: Director’s / Cinematographer’s Commentary, Selected Scene Commentary With Cast and Crew, ‘Letters To Dear Wendy’ Making Of Documentary, Deleted Scenes and Interview with Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg.
Vodka Lemon
Engaging drama set in an isolated village in post Soviet Armenia.
Extras: 'Vodka On Ice' – The Making of Vodka Lemon and Trailer.
All four sets are due for a 21st August 2006 release on UK region 2, at the RRP of £19.99 each.
Added
21st July 2006
Quadrophenia
Special Edition in August
A
great album (by The Who - did I really need to tell
you that?) became THE film story of alienated youth,
and a defining movie not just for those who lived
the events it depicted, but for the punk generation
that followed. The tale of mods, rockers, drugs,
Brighton and the pain of growing up, the film was
a springboard for a whole number of careers, including
Phil Daniels, Mark Wingett, Phil Davis and Leslie
Ash, as well as providing early acting gigs for
the likes of Sting and Toyah Wilcox, and a supporting
role for one of our favourites, Ray Winstone. The
original release has been in the bargain bucket
for some time, but it can stay there now, as Universal
are soon to release a 2-disc Special Edition featuring
a 1.85:1 anamorphic picture and Dolby 2.0 surround
track, plus the following features:
- Audio
commentary from director Franc Roddam with cast
members Phil Daniels and Leslie Ash;
- A
Way of Life: Making Quadrophenia - a restrospective
documentary looking back 25 years to the making
of one of the most significant 'youth' films to
emerge in the UK;
- On
Location with Franc - Franc Roddam revisits
several locations used in the film.
Release
date is 7th August 2006 at the RRP of £17.99.
Added
19th July 2006
Time
Bandits 25th Anniversary Edition in August
One
of two 25th Anniversary releases of much loved British
films announced this eek by Anchor Bay (see also
below), Terry Gilliam's delicious 1981 fantasy Time
Bandits is set for an August release on
UK region 2 DVD. The stroy of a young boy who falls
in with a group of time-hopping dwarves who have
borrowed a map from The Supreme Being in order to
plunder rches from the great men of history, the
film is a visual delight, often uproariously funny,
and features a stella supporting cast that includes
Ian Holm as Napoleon, Sean Connery as Agamemnon
(oh, and a fireman), John Cleese as Robin Hood,
Ralph Richardson as The Supreme Being and David
Warner as a particularly spiteful Evil One.
The
25th Anniversary edition will feature the following
extras:
- Audio
commentary with Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and
John Cleese;
- Interview
with Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin;
- Archival
interview (July 1981) with Terry Gilliam and Michael
Palin from Chris Kelly's Clapperboard;
- Film
notes;
- "Dream
Facts";
- Production
photo gallery;
- Storyboards
of missing scene and other storyboard extracts;
- Biographies
(Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, David Rappaport,
Sean Connery);
- Scrapbook;
- Trailer;
- Optional
5.1 Surround Sound.
Release
date is set for 14th August at the RRP of £15.99.
Added
18th July 2006
The
Long Good Friday 25th Anniversary Edition in September
Forget
all that Guy Ritchie mockney gangster bollocks,
if you want authentic British gangster movie classics
there are two titles that tower above all the rest:
Mike Hodges' 1971 Get Carter and
John Mackenzie's 1980 The Long Good Friday.
A year late, perhaps, but Anchor Bay UK have announced
a 2-disc 25th Anniversary Edition of the film for
a September region 2 DVD release. Although already
available with a Mackenzie commentary, the new edition
is set to expand on the extra features a little.
Enough for an upgrade? You decide. The announced
features are:
- Audio
Commentary with Director John Mackenzie;
- Bloody
Business: Making The Long Good Friday;
- Interview
with Director John Mackenzie & Actor Bob Hoskins;
- U.K
and U.S Theatrical Trailers;
- Cockney
Slang Glossary
- Poster
& Still Gallery;
- Biographies;
- Film
Notes;
- Screenplay
on DVD-ROM.
Release
date is set for 18th September at the RRP of £15.99.
Added
16th July 2006
Twin
Falls Idaho and Norfork in August
Back
in 2000 a remarkable little film dis the rounds
at art cinemas in the UK and built up a very small
but appreciative fan base. Twin Falls Idaho
was the first feature by twin brothers Mark and
Michael Polish, who also starred in the dual lead
role of cajoined twins Blake and Francis Falls.
The pair live a secluded life in a quiet hotel room,
and appear to have an almost spiritual as well as
physical connection. Then one day they meet prostitute
Penny, who rethinks her initial rejection of the
pair and slowly becomes drawn ito their very private
world.
The
film has been available in region 1 DVD for an astonishing
6 years now, but finally the film is to release
a long-awaited and welcome UK release, courtesy
of Metrodome, either as a stand-alone release or
in a 2-disc pack with the Polish brothers' second
feature, Northfok. The only extra
feature listed at present is a commentary by Mark
and Michael Polish (on Twin Falls Idaho
only), which would suggest a port from the US Sony
release. Hopefully, unlike the Sony disc, the transfer
will be anamorphic.
Twin
Falls Idaho
will retail at £15.99, which the twin
Falls / Northfork 2-disc
set will be £19.99. Both are set for a 7th
August 2006 release.
Added
4th July 2006
Jigoku
from Criterion in September
If
you though the J-horror cycle began with Hideo Nakata's
Ringu then think again. Back in
1960, Nobuo Nakagawa (who had made his name with
more restrianed period ghost stories) made what
is now regarded of the grandaddy of modern Japanese
horror movies in the shape of Jigoku,
which translates as 'Hell'. The story of a young
theology student who flees the scene of a hit-and-run
accident, only to be haunted by his own conscience
and a mysterious doppleganger. But this is nothing.
The final third, in which the choice of title becomes
all too apparent, has passed into cult history,
an extraordinary explosion of gruesome and sadistic
violence whose nightmare imagery remains startling
46 years on.
Criterion
are to release the film on DVD with their usual
makeover, restoring the film to its former gory...I'm
sorry, glory. The disc includes:
- New,
restored high-definition anamorphic 2.35:1 digital
transfer;
- Building
the Inferno, a new documentary on director
Nobuo
Nakagawa and the making of the film, featuring
exclusive
interviews with the late actor Yoichi Numata,
screenwriter
Ichiro Miyagawa, Nakagawa collaborators Chiho
Katsura and
Kensuke Suzuki, and Cure and Doppelganger director
Kiyoshi
Kurosawa;
- Theatrical
trailer;
- Galleries
of posters from selected Nakagawa and Shintoho
studio films;
- New
and improved English subtitle translation;
- A
new essay by noted Asian-cinema critic Chuck
Stephens.
The
disc will be release on 19th September 2006 at the
SRP of $29.95.
Added 26th June 2006
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