The Arrow Thread

[Nordicdusk]

No interest in the uk only titles for me.

[tele1962]

NEW UK ONLY TITLE: Three Brothers [Tre fratelli] (Arrow Academy) Dual Format Blu-ray & DVD

Brand new 2k restoration of the Oscar nominated classic which has never previously been released on any video format in the UK.

Pre-order your copy here: Three Brothers [Tre fratelli] Dual Format Blu-ray & DVD
Release Date: 4th March
Region: B/2

"A wonderful film that moves on waves of feeling. Francesco Rosi, who has one of the greatest compositional senses in the history of movies, keeps you in a state of emotional exaltation. A simple image has the kind of resonance that most directors never achieve." (Pauline Kael, New Yorker)

Francesco Rosi established himself as one of the greatest chroniclers of Italy's stormy postwar history with such riveting classics as Salvatore Giuliano, The Mattei Affair and Illustrious Corpses. Three Brothers (Tre fratelli) explores similarly knotty social and political territory through the seemingly straightforward story of three siblings returning to their native southern Italy to pay homage to their late mother. However, their various professions – a judge in Rome (Philippe Noiret), a spiritual counsellor in Naples (Vittorio Mezzogiorno), a factory worker in Turin (Michele Placido) – have a profound effect on their response to this reunion.

Although Oscar-nominated at the time, Three Brothers has never previously been released on any video format in the UK. Arrow Academy is proud to present it here in a brand new 2K restoration.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
•Brand new 2K restoration from original film materials
•High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray and Standard Definition DVD presentations
•Original mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
•Optional newly translated English subtitles
•Archival interview with Francesco Rosi
•Original theatrical trailer
•Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matthew Griffin
•Booklet featuring an essay by Millicent Marcus, a 1981 interview with Rosi and a selection of contemporary reviews (first printing only

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

I think this is possibly why they decided to combine the announcements into one day after last month's lacklustre UK only announcements (and resultant FB backlash) and now this month's far from inspiring UK line-up too.

[tele1962]

NEW UK ONLY TITLE: The Marriage of Maria Braun (Arrow Academy) Blu-ray

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s penultimate film of the seventies

Pre-order your copy here: Product not found!
Release Date: 4th April
Region: B

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s penultimate film of the seventies was also his most successful. Popular with audiences and critics alike, among them Roger Ebert and François Truffaut, The Marriage of Maria Braun finally provided its director with the international breakthrough he had craved for so long.

Maria Braun marries a young soldier amid the Allied bombing raids of World World II the day before he must return to the Russian front. Awaiting his return in 1945, she is informed of his death and must endure and navigate the post-war years alone. Mirroring the German Wirtschaftswunder (‘economic miracle’), she determinedly rises to prosperity as a self-made woman.

Centred on an astonishing performance from Fassbinder regular Hanna Schygulla in the lead role, The Marriage of Maria Braun took over four million Deutschmarks in its home country and made over a million dollars in the US. Such success proved influential too – without it we would likely never have seen Helma Sanders-Brahms’s Germany, Pale Mother or Edgar Reitz’s epic Heimat.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
• Brand new 4K restoration from original camera negatives
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
• Original uncompressed PCM mono audio
• Optional English subtitles
• Life, Love & Celluloid, a 1998 feature-length documentary on Fassbinder, written and directed by his regular editor, Juliane Lorenz
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977, a candid 30-minute interview with the director
• The Fassbinder Family, an all-new featurette detailing the actors who worked with Fassbinder time and again throughout his career

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

I think this is possibly why they decided to combine the announcements into one day after last month's lacklustre UK only announcements (and resultant FB backlash) and now this month's far from inspiring UK line-up too.

My thoughts exactly, plus doing them over a couple of days just annoys me. It's not big & it's not clever.

[J Harker]

Thought there were meant to be announcements at 2pm??

[J Harker]

Wouldn't be so bad if they'd just release it all in one big 25 disc set and be done with it.
The Artyfarty Bollocks Collection. Limited to 30 units.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

This is putting it very kindly, and being as enthusiastic as possible:

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

Wouldn't be so bad if they'd just release it all in one big 25 disc set and be done with it.
The Artyfarty Bollocks Collection. Limited to 30 units.

[trebor8273]

What a huge disappointment, as others have said they really are a shadow of there former self. On the plus said it saves money and plenty of other labels bring out stuff I want.

A golden rule for business is never turn your back on your core audience, but sadly this is what arrow seem to be doing especially in the UK. With any luck this might just be a" dry spell" and we will see more too our liking