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NEW UK TITLE: The Hunt (Blu-ray and DVD releases) A sublimely orchestrated exercise in tension which features a tour-de-force central performance from Mads Mikkelsen Pre-order your copy on Blu-ray via Arrow: http://bit.ly/2riJez1 Pre-order on DVD via Arrow: http://bit.ly/2riMLgU Pre-order on Blu-ray via Amazon: http://amzn.to/2riMv1q Pre-orderon DVD via Amazon: http://amzn.to/2riz7tZ Release date: 7th August THE LIE IS SPREADING Alongside Lars Von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg (Festen, Far From the Madding Crowd) is one of Danish cinema’s finest modern exports. Perhaps his greatest film, The Hunt, is a sublimely orchestrated exercise in tension which features a tour-de-force central performance from Mads Mikkelsen (Rogue One, Casino Royale), who was awarded Best Actor at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival for his performance. Mikkelsen is Lukas, a recently-divorced primary school teacher locked in an acrimonious custody battle over his teenage son but just as his fortunes begin to change with the arrival of a new love his world is torn apart by an innocent lie. Persecuted by his local community, accusations escalate and Lukas soon faces unanimous condemnation from everyone around him, including his closest friends. Featuring a stellar supporting cast from Danish Film and TV’s finest including Thomas Bo Larsen (Pusher), Anne Louise Hassing (The Idiots) and Susse Wold (Unit 1), The Hunt, eschews the rules of Vinterberg and his colleagues’ filmmaking manifesto Dogme95 for one of the most beautifully photographed and perfectly scripted films in recent years. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: • High Definition digital transfer • Original 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and 2.0 stereo options • Optional English subtitles • The Making of ‘The Hunt’ - featuring director Thomas Vinterberg and star Mads Mikkelsen • Deleted and extended scenes • Alternate ending • Outtakes • Original trailer • Reversible sleeve featuring two original artwork options FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Booklet featuring new writing on the film and a contemporary interview with Thomas Vinterberg, illustrated with original production stills. DVD SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: • High Definition digital transfer • Original 5.1 surround sound audio and 2.0 stereo options • Optional English subtitles • The Making of ‘The Hunt’ - featuring director Thomas Vinterberg and star Mads Mikkelsen • Deleted and extended scenes • Alternate ending • Outtakes • Original trailer • Reversible sleeve featuring two original artwork options keirarts and bleakshaun like this.  |
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NEW UK TITLE: The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Dual Format Blu-ray & DVD) An epic portrait of peasant life in late nineteenth century Italy. Pre-order your copy via Arrow: http://bit.ly/2rivWm5 Pre-order via Amazon: http://amzn.to/2riHeqq Release date: 7th August Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, Ermanno Olmi’s The Tree of the Wooden Clogs is an epic portrait of peasant life in late nineteenth century Italy. Focussing on four families working and living on the farm of a landowner in the Bergamo region of northern Italy, Olmi presents a year in their lives, charting their daily activities and the natural flow of existence: birth, marriage, death, and the trials and tribulations in between. Shot on an abandoned farmhouse in Bergamo, The Tree of Wooden Clogs utilised locals of the region to its characters and had them speak in their Bergamasque dialect. The end results are truly remarkable, the apotheosis of Italian cinema’s neo-realism movement. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS • Brand-new 4K restoration by The Film Foundation • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition presentations • Original Bergamasque and Italian mono soundtracks (uncompressed LPCM on the Blu-ray) • Optional English subtitles • Introduction by director Ermanno Olmi • Two interviews with Olmi from the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, recorded either side of its Palme d’Or win • Interview with Olmi from Italian film programme Appuntamenti con il cinema • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matt Griffin FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by David Jenkins bleakshaun likes this. |
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15th May 2017, 03:08 PM
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NEW UK/US TITLE: The Love of a Woman (Dual Format Blu-ray & DVD) A sad, beautiful, romantic masterpiece and the final feature of the great French filmmaker Jean Grémillon. Pre-order in the UK via Arrow: http://bit.ly/2riErOd Pre-order in the UK via Amazon: http://amzn.to/2riFFJf Pre-order in the US via Amazon: http://amzn.to/2riCelB Release dates: 21/22 August The Love of a Woman (L’amour d’une femme) was the final feature of the great French filmmaker Jean Grémillon, concluding a string of classics that included such greats as Remorques, Lumière d'été and Pattes blanches. Marie, a young doctor, arrives on the island of Ushant to replace its retiring physician. She experiences prejudice from the mostly male population, but also love in the form of engineer André. Starring Micheline Presle, whose impressive career has encompassed French, Italian and Hollywood cinema, and Massimo Girotti, best-known for his performance in Luchino Visconti’s Ossessione, The Love of a Woman is a sad, beautiful, romantic masterpiece. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition presentations of the feature, from materials supplied by Gaumont • Original French mono audio (uncompressed LPCM on the Blu-ray) • Optional English subtitles • In Search of Jean Grémillon, a feature-length documentary on the filmmaker from 1969, containing interviews with director René Clair, archivist Henri Langlois, actors Micheline Presle and Pierre Brasseur, and others • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jennifer Dionisio FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic Ginette Vincendeau keirarts and bleakshaun like this. |
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15th May 2017, 03:09 PM
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NEW UK/US TITLE: The Big Knife (Blu-ray) Robert Aldrich brought a noir flavour to Hollywood with his classic adaptation of Clifford Odets’ stage play, The Big Knife. Pre-order in the UK via Arrow: http://bit.ly/2riBlts Pre-order in the UK via Amazon: http://amzn.to/2riKW3m Pre-order in the US via Amazon: http://amzn.to/2riccPD Release dates: 28/29 August Mere months after delivering one of the definitive examples of film noir with Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich brought a noir flavour to Hollywood with his classic adaptation of Clifford Odets’ stage play, The Big Knife. Charles Castle, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, looks like he has it all. But his marriage is falling apart and his wife is threatening to leave him if he renews his contract. Studio boss Stanley Shriner Hoff isn’t taking the news too well, and he’ll do anything he can to get his man to sign on the dotted line – even if means exposing dark secrets… Winner of the Silver Lion at the 1955 Venice Film Festival, The Big Knife also boasts a remarkable cast list including Jack Palance (Shane) as Castle and Rod Steiger (On the Waterfront) as Hoff, plus Shelley Winters (The Night of the Hunter), Ida Lupino (On Dangerous Ground), Jean Hagen (Singin’ in the Rain) and Everett Sloane (Citizen Kane). SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS • Brand-new 2K restoration from original film elements produced by Arrow Films exclusively for this release • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation • Original English mono audio (uncompressed LPCM on the Blu-ray) • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing • Commentary by film critics Glenn Kenny and Nick Pinkerton, recorded exclusively for this release • Bass on Titles – Saul Bass, responsible for The Big Knife’s credit sequence, discusses some of his classic work in this self-directed documentary from 1972 • Theatrical trailer • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sean Phillips FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Nathalie Morris |
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| The Hunt has bee out for several years now and is actually in HMV's 5 for £30 deal at the moment, so a bit of a strange announcement from Arrow... all they're doing is shifting it from their Arrow Films imprint to Arrow Academy - and charging you £15.99 for the privilege.
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