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November 19:
My Dinner with Hervé: Inspired by real events, the HBO Film explores the unlikely friendship between struggling journalist Danny Tate (Jamie Dornan) and Hervé Villechaize (Peter Dinklage), the world’s most famous French dwarf actor. (Digital only)
November 20:
The Happytime Murders: A raunchy comedy set in the underbelly of Los Angeles where puppets and humans coexist. Two clashing detectives with a shared secret, one human (Melissa McCarthy) and one puppet, are forced to work together again to solve the brutal murders of the former cast of a beloved classic puppet television show. (DVD, Blu-ray release: December 4)
Life in the Doghouse: Documentary look at the incredible life stories of Ron Danta and Danny Robertshaw, a couple who for the past 10 years have rescued and found homes for over 10,000 abandoned and abused dogs by turning their own home into a rescue. (Digital only)
Mission: Impossible -- Fallout: On a dangerous assignment to recover stolen plutonium, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) chooses to save his friends over the mission, allowing it to fall into the hands of a deadly network of highly skilled operatives intent on destroying civilization. Now, with the world at risk, Ethan and his IMF team are forced to work with a hard-hitting CIA agent as they race against time to stop the nuclear threat. (DVD, Blu-ray release: December 4)
Number 37: In a gritty homage to perennial Alfred Hitchcock favorite Rear Window, South African director Nospiho Dumia’s film focuses on the residents of a block of apartments in the down-and-out Cape Flats neighborhood which, with its petty thugs, crooked cops, violent loan sharks, and troubled pastors, soon reveals itself to be a very different place from Rear Window’s Greenwich Village of 1954. (VOD only)
The Nun: A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun. (DVD, Blu-ray release: December 4)
Operation Finale: Follows the gripping true story of the 1960 covert mission of legendary Israeli intelligence agent Peter Malkin as his secret mission leads him to infiltrate Argentina and capture Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer who masterminded the plans that sent millions of Jews to their deaths in concentration camps during World War II. (DVD, Blu-ray release: December 4)
Peppermint: Young mother Riley North (Jennifer Garner) awakens from a coma after her husband and daughter are killed in a brutal attack on the family. When the system frustratingly shields the murderers from justice, Riley sets out to transform herself from citizen to urban guerilla. (DVD, Blu-ray release: December 11)
Puppy Star Christmas: A song-filled new Air Bud ‘Pup Star’ movie that introduces four new pups to the family, who stow away on Santa’s sleigh and find themselves trapped at the North Pole, trying to save the world’s Christmas spirit. (Digital only)
The Rebound: Wheelchair athletes push their team towards the title while responding to adversity on and off the court in new documentary about the Miami Heat Wheels and their quest for their first-ever NWBA Championship. (Digital only)
Science Fair: National Geographic Documentary Films’ "Science Fair" follows nine high school students from around the globe as they navigate rivalries, setbacks and, of course, hormones, on their journey to compete at The International Science and Engineering Fair. (Digital only)
November 23:
Ugly Sweater Party: An ugly sweater party turns into a bloodbath when an evil Christmas sweater possesses one of the partygoers. (VOD only)
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (Limited Edition Steelbook)
(1991) Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves. In this sequel, the titular time travelers aren’t making history -- they are history. When an evil doer from the future sends eviler robot twins of Bill & Ted to assassinate and replace good, non-robot Bill & Ted, the guys wind up face to face with the Grim Reaper (William Sadler) Can the now-dead duo escape, defeat their evil doppelgangers, and win their Battle of the Bands contest? Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: "Bill & Ted Go to Hell – Revisiting a Bogus Journey" featurette, commentaries. (Shout! Factory).
Candyman Collector’s Edition
(1992) Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmon. This gut-wrenching thriller follows a graduate student whose research summons the spirit of the dead. When Helen Lyle hears about Candyman, a slave spirit with a hook hand who is said to haunt a notorious housing project, she thinks she has a new twist for her thesis. Braving the gang-ridden territory to visit the site, Helen arrogantly assumes Candyman can't really exist ... until he appears, igniting a string of terrifying, grisly slayings. Two-disc set with theatrical and unrated cuts. 2K restoration from a new 4K scan of the original negative, supervised and approve by writer-director Bernard Rose and director of photography Anthony B. Richmond. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Featurettes, commentaries, interviews, more. (Scream Factory).
Clouzot: The Early Works
Before directing his first feature, Henri-Georges Clouzot ("The Wages of Fear," "Diabolique") spent 10 years learning the ropes. During this prolific period as a screenwriter he learned cinematic grammar and began to forge his style. To better know and understand Henri-Georges Clouzot, one has to discover these rare films, of which he was one of the principal architects: six varied features he worked on from 1931-1933: frothy comedies, boxing dramas, musicals and melodramas. The set includes his directorial debut -- the short film The Terror of Batignolles (1931), which anticipates his canonical thrillers to come. Two-disc set.Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. Extras: Booklet essay by film critic Peter Tonguette. (Kino Classics).
Crazy Rich Asians
(2018) Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding, Gemma Chan, Awkwafina, Ken
Fireworks
(2017 -- Japan) Producer Genki Kawamura follows up his animated mega-hit "Your Name" with another tale of star-crossed teenage lovers with a sci-fi fantasy twist. Shy Norimichi and fast-talking Yusuke are both enraptured by the same elusive classmate, Nazuna. But Nazuna, unhappy over her mother’s decision to remarry and leave their countryside town, plans to run away and has secretly chosen Norimichi to accompany her. When things don’t go as planned, Norimichi discovers that a glowing multi-colored ball found in the sea has the power to reset the clock and give them a second chance to be together. But each reset adds new complications and takes them farther and farther away from the real world -- until they risk losing sight of reality altogether. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. (GKIDS/Shout! Factory).
Heavy Trip
(2018 -- Finland) Johannes Holopainen, Minka Kuustonen, Ville Tilhonen (Hilska), Max Ovaska, Smuli Jaskio, Antii Heikkinen, Chike Ohanwe. Rock mockumentary. Turo (Holopainen) is stuck in a small village in the Finnish countryside where his greatest passion is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem is that he and his fellow headbangers have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. But that’s all about to change when the guys meet the promoter of a huge heavy metal music festival in Norway and decide it’s now or never. Hitting the road in a stolen van with a corpse, a coffin, and a new drummer from a local mental hospital in tow, Impaled Rektum travels across Scandinavia to make their dreams a reality.
Formats: DVD. Extras: Blooper reel; behind-the-scenes featurette; seven mockumentaries from SXSW screenings; real bands discuss "Impaled Rektum" featurette; karaoke video.
(Blood Disgusting/Doppelgänger Releasing).
The Ladybug
(2018) Voices of Lisa “Lisbug” Schwartz, Jon Heder, Haylie Duff, Norm MacDonald . In this animated family adventure, YouTube star Schwartz plays a plucky ladybug named Ruby. Longing for the beauty and freedom of Golden Canyon, she escapes her laboratory cage and joins forces with Master Dan, a crafty dragonfly. With help from a hungry frog king, an artistic earwig, and a stinky dung beetle, they make their way to this magical land. Recipient of the Dove Seal of Approval for all ages.
Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. Extras: “Giving the Characters a Voice: At the Recording Studio" featurette.
(Lionsgate).
Little Italy
(2018) Emma Roberts, Hayden Christensen, Alyssa Milano, Danny Aiello, Jane Seymour. Former childhood pals Nikki (Roberts) and Leo (Christensen) are attracted to each other as adults -- but will their feuding parents’ rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. Extras: Behind-the-scenes featurette with cast and crew interviews.
(Lionsgate).
Longmire: The Sixth and Final Season
(2017) Two-disc set with all 10 episodes. Season Six of Longmire finds Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor), his deputies Vic Moretti (Katee Sackhoff) and The Ferg (Adam Bartley), his best friend Henry Standing Bear (Lou Diamond Phillips), and daughter Cady (Cassidy Freeman) facing the biggest personal and professional crises of their lives. Walt’s job and home are under threat by a powerful, unscrupulous lawyer. Vic must decide what to do about her secret pregnancy. Ferg struggles to balance a new relationship with his commitment to his job. Cady is torn between her loyalties to her father and Jacob Nighthorse (A Martinez). Henry’s life is in danger with an old nemesis bent on revenge. With their world in turmoil, Walt and everyone he cares about must ultimately face the most difficult decision of their lives: Is it time to pack it in? Or will they fight to the end? Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, Digital.
(Warner).
Longmire: The Complete Series
(2012-17) Fifteen-disc set, $99.99.
Formats: DVD. (Warner).
Luciferina
(2018) Natalia is a 19-year-old novice who reluctantly returns home to say goodbye to her dying father. But when she meets up with her sister and her friends, she decides instead to travel the jungle in search of a mystical plant. Instead of pleasure, they find a world of Black Masses, strange pregnancies, bloody deaths and perhaps, a sexually violent clash with the Devil himself.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital.
(Artsploitation Films).
No Offence, Series 2
(2017) Two-disc set with seven episodes of the female-driven police procedural that follows an unorthodox team of cops in Manchester, England. In Series 2, vivacious DI Vivienne Deering (Joanna Scanlan) returns to work from bereavement leave after her husband’s death, but only Viv’s impulsive subordinate, DC Dinah Kowalska (Elaine Cassidy), knows the brutal truth of what really happened to him. Then in her first week back, a bomb blast at a funeral plunges Deering and her team headfirst into a gang war inflamed by a crime family matriarch (Rakie Ayola) who is just as ferocious as Deering herself. Formats: DVD. (Acorn Media).
Skate Kitchen
(2018) Rachelle Vinberg, The Skate Kitchen, Jaden Smith. In the first narrative feature from "The Wolfpack" director Crystal Moselle, Camille, an introverted teenage skateboarder (newcomer Vinberg) from Long Island, meets and befriends an all-girl, New York City-based skateboarding crew called Skate Kitchen. She falls in with the in-crowd, has a falling-out with her mother, and falls for a mysterious skateboarder guy (Smith), but a relationship with him proves to be trickier to navigate than a kickflip. The film precisely captures the experience of women in male-dominated spaces and tells a story of a girl who learns the importance of camaraderie and self-discovery.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. Extras: "Behind the Scenes: Chinatown Skate Shoot," "Behind the Scenes: Skate Park Shoot," "Skate Kitchen" photo gallery, deleted scenes.
(Magnolia Home Entertainment).
Streets of Fire (35th Anniversary Edition Steelbook)
(1984) Amid a brooding rock & roll landscape, the Bombers motorcycle gang, led by the vicious Raven Shaddock (Willem Dafoe), kidnap diva Ellen Aim (Diane Lane). Her hope for rescue lies with unlikely heroes: soldier of fortune Tom Cody (Michael Paré) and his sidekick, the two-fisted beer-guzzling McCoy (Amy Madigan). Joined by Ellen's manager, Billy Fish (Rick Moranis), the trio plunges headfirst into a world of rain-splattered streets, hot cars, and deadly assassins in this cult favorite. Original songs written by Jim Steinman, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and Ry Cooder and performed by The Blasters and The Fixx. Directed by cult filmmaker Walter Hill. 2K scan of the interpositive with a new DTS-HD Master Audio 4.1 created from the 70mm six-track magnetic audio. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: "Shotguns & Six Strings: Making of a Rock N Roll Fable" featurette with Hill, Paré and others; "Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited" feature-length documentary, music videos, theatrical trailer, on air promos, still gallery. (Shout! Factory).
Time Regained
(1999 -- France) Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, Marcello Mozzarella, Chiara Mastroianni. Raúl Ruiz’s most ambitious literary adaptation and considered his greatest cinematic achievement. Ruiz’s "Time Regained" distills all of Marcel Proust’s iconic "In Search of Lost Time" into a single epic feature. The film opens in 1922, as Proust is on his deathbed pouring through old photographs that summon the events of his life. Gradually, we watch as his own experiences merge with his own literary creations. Idyllic memories of youth alternate with rich recollections of 19th century Parisian society where the drama of the Great War and the anxieties of the emerging modern era are skewered in the spectacular staged soirees and lush grand parties. In Ruiz’s deft cinematic hands the film becomes a phantasmagorical comedy of manners as well as a powerful reflection on cinema’s ability to seize and preserve moments of time. The result is a montage of moving snapshots and feverish dreams that makes the film the ultimate in Proustian cinema. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. (Icarus Films).
To Dream
(2016) Adam Deacon, Diana Vickers, Ed Hayter, Freddie Thorp. Two self-destructive teenagers in London won't let anything come between their friendship and their ultimate plan, but when dysfunctional family life becomes intolerable, loyalty leads one to make a choice that will change their lives forever. Formats: DVD, Digital. (Random Media).
Urban Legend Collector’s Edition
(1998) Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Joshua Jackson, Loretta Devine, Tara Reid, Michael Rosenbaum, Robert Englund. When New England college student Natalie (Witt) finds herself at the center of a series of sadistic murders seemingly inspired by urban legends, she resolves to find the truth about her school's own legend: a 25-year-old story of a student massacre at the hands of an abnormal Psych professor. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: New "Urban Legacy" eight-part documentary on the making of the film; Behind-the-Scenes footage; new extended interviews from the eight-part documentary; archival making-of featurette; gag reel; deleted scene; TV spots; commentary. (Scream Factory).
Urban Legends: Final Cut
(2000) Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Davis, Hart Bochner, Joseph Lawrence, Anthony Anderson, Loretta Devine. At Alpine University, someone is determined to win the best film award at any cost -- even if it means eliminating the competition. No one is safe and everyone is a suspect. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: New "The Legend Continues: Urban Legends: Final Cut" featurette; commentaries; vintage making-of featurette; gag reel; theatrical trailer. (Scream Factory).
Crazy Rich Asians
The story follows New Yorker Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) as she accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young (Henry Golding), to his best friend's wedding in Singapore. Excited about visiting Asia for the first time but nervous about meeting Nick's family, Rachel is unprepared to learn that Nick has neglected to mention a few key details about his life. Not only is he the scion of one of the country's wealthiest families, but also one of its most sought-after bachelors. Being on Nick's arm puts a target on Rachel's back, with jealous socialites and, worse, Nick's own disapproving mother (Michelle Yeoh) taking aim. It soon becomes clear that the only thing crazier than love is family, in this funny and romantic story sure to ring true for audiences everywhere. Based on the best-selling book.
Vitals: Director: Jon M. Chu. Stars: Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding, Gemma Chan, Awkwafina, Ken Jeong, Jimmy O. Yang, Chris Pang, Sonoya Mizuno, Jing Lusi, Ronny Chieng, Pierre Png.
2018, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 120 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $171,421 million, Warner.
Extras: Commentary by director Jon M. Chu and novelist Kevin Kwan.
Blindspotting
Collin (Daveed Diggs) must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles (Rafael Casal), work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men's friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.
Vitals: Director: Carlos Lopez Estrada. Stars: Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Ethan Embry, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Kevin Carroll.
2018, CC, MPAA rating: R, 95 min., Comedy-Drama, Box office gross: $4.333
million, Lionsgate.
Extras: Deleted Scenes, "Straight From the Town: Making Blindspotting" featurette, "Carlos López Estrada: A Director's Featurette," audio commentary with director Carlos López Estrada, audio commentary with writers/actors Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal.
Kin
Recently released from prison, Jimmy (Jack Reynor) hopes to reconnect with his younger adopted brother, Eli (Myles Truitt), and estranged father (Dennis Quaid). But after a run-in with a vengeful criminal (James Franco), Jimmy and Eli become fugitives with one hope for survival: a metallic box from another dimension that transforms into a superpowered weapon and leads Eli to discover his true identity -- a hero destined for greatness.
Vitals: Director: Jonathan and Josh Baker. Stars: Jack Reynor, Zoë Kravitz, Dennis Quaid, James Franco, Myles Truitt.
2018, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 102 min., Science Fiction, Box office gross: $5.718 million, Lionsgate.
Extras: Audio commentary with co-directors Jonathan and Josh Baker and screenwriter Daniel Casey; "Thicker Than Water: The Making of Kin" 8-Part documentary; "Enhanced Visual FX Breakdown" featurette; "Bag Man: Original Short" with optional audio commentary by co-directors Jonathan and Josh Baker; 10 Deleted scenes; "Learned Behavoir: Special Features at Work" hour-long round table discussion between Jonathan and Josh Baker and "10 Cloverfield Lane" director Dan Trachtenberg, "Swiss Army Man" directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, legendary special features producer Laurent Bouzereau ("Jaws," "Back to the Future," "Ready Player One") and special features godfather Kevin Smith.
Blindspotting
(2018) Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Ethan Embry, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Kevin Carroll. A raw glimpse into three days in the life of a parolee and the struggles of race, class, and police brutality in Oakland, California. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, VOD, Digital. Extras: Deleted Scenes, “Straight From the Town: Making Blindspotting” featurette, “Carlos López Estrada: A Director’s Featurette," audio commentary with director Carlos López Estrada, audio commentary with writers/actors Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal.
(Lionsgate).
Jeong, Jimmy O. Yang, Chris Pang, Sonoya Mizuno, Jing Lusi, Ronny Chieng, Pierre Png. This contemporary romantic comedy, based on a global bestseller, follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, VOD, Digital. Extras: Commentary by director Jon M. Chu and novelist Kevin Kwan.
(Warner).
High Voltage
(2018) David Arquette, Allie Gonino, Perrey Reeves, Luke Wilson. A struggling rock band, led by washed-out rock star Jimmy Kleen (Arquette), strikes a deal with cynical record executive Rick (Wilson). Things take a sinister turn when the band's lead singer, Rachel (Gonino), and her controlling stage mother, Barb (Reeves) both get struck by lightning and killed. Rachel is brought back to life, but she is different than before: confident, sexy, with an irresistible stage presence. Lightning courses through her veins and she uses her new supernatural electrical powers to drain the life from men and turn it into electrifying stage performances. Her bandmates discover her dark secret and have to decide just how far they are willing to succeed. A mashup combining horror, thriller, musical, and noir into a bloody rock 'n' roll fantasy. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo. (SP Releasing).
dreams, and the agonies and ecstasies of human relationships -- Bergman explored these subjects in films ranging from comedies whose lightness and complexity belie their brooding hearts to groundbreaking formal experiments and excruciatingly intimate explorations of family life. Arranged as a film festival with opening and closing nights bookending double features and centerpieces, this selection spans six decades and 39 films -- including such celebrated classics as "The Seventh Seal," "Persona," and "Fanny and Alexander" alongside previously unavailable works like "Dreams," "The Rite," and "Brink of Life." Accompanied by a 248-page book with essays on each program, as well as by more than 30 hours of supplemental features, "Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema" traces themes and images across Bergman’s career, blazing trails through the master’s unequaled body of work for longtime fans and newcomers alike. Thirty-nine films, including 18 never before released by Criterion. Digital restorations of the films, including a new 4K restoration of "The Seventh Seal" and new 2K restorations of "Crisis," "Persona," Fanny and Alexander, and many others, with uncompressed monaural and stereo soundtracks.
Formats:Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Eleven introductions by director Ingmar Bergman; six audio commentaries; over five hours of interviews with Bergman; interviews with Bergman’s collaborators, including actors Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Bergman, Erland Josephson, Gunnel Lindblom, Liv Ullmann, and Max von Sydow and cinematographer Sven Nykvist; "Daniel" and "Karin’s Face," two rarely seen documentary shorts by Bergman; documentaries about the making of "Autumn Sonata," "Fanny and Alexander," "The Magic Flute," "The Serpent’s Egg," "The Touch," and "Winter Light"; extensive programs about Bergman’s life and work, including "Bergman Island," "... But Film Is My Mistress," "Laterna Magica," "Liv & Ingmar," and others; behind-the-scenes footage, video essays, trailers, stills galleries, and more; a lavishly illustrated 248-page book, featuring essays on the films by critics, scholars, and authors including Cowie, Alexander Chee, Molly Haskell, Karan Mahajan, Fernanda Solórzano, and many others, along with selections from remarks and texts by Bergman himself. (The Criterion Collection).
Kin
(2018) Jack Reynor, Zoë Kravitz, Dennis Quaid, James Franco, Myles Truitt. A sci-fi actioner about a recently released ex-con and his adopted teenage brother who find themselves on the run from a vengeful criminal, the feds, and a group of relentless soliders, with only a mysterious and powerful weapon at their side. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital. Extras: Audio commentary with co-directors Jonathan and Josh Baker and screenwriter Daniel Casey; “Thicker Than Water: The Making of Kin” 8-Part documentary; “Enhanced Visual FX Breakdown” featurette; “Bag Man: Original Short” with optional audio commentary by co-directors Jonathan and Josh Baker; 10 Deleted scenes; “Learned Behavoir: Special Features at Work” hour-long round table discussion between Jonathan and Josh Baker and "10 Cloverfield Lane" director Dan Trachtenberg, "Swiss Army Man" directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, legendary special features producer Laurent Bouzereau ("Jaws," "Back to the Future," "Ready Player One") and special features godfather Kevin Smith. (Lionsgate).
Orgies of Edo
(1969 -- Japan) Legendary Toei director Teruo Ishii tells three stories of moral sickness set during Japan's prosperous Genroku era in this bloody follow-up to his sexploitation classic "Shogun's Joy of Torture," and the fourth entry in Toei's "abnormal love" film series. Ishii's politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture. Told in anthology style by an impassive physician (Teruo Yoshida), the first story follows Oito (Masumi Tachibana), an innocent young girl deceived by a handsome yakuza and sold into prostitution who finds herself in a doomed love affair with the man who brought her to ruin. The tale of Ochise (Mitsuko Aoi) is about the daughter of a rich merchant whose insatiable appetite for filth and perversion draws her deeper into violence, darkness and betrayal. Finally, the story of Omitsu (Miki Obana) follows a sadistic lord (Asao Koike) whose eye is caught one day by a beautiful member of his harem who shares his strange taste for pain and blood, but who holds a secret of her own that will destroy his entire household. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: "The Orgies of Ishii" exclusive, newly filmed interview with author Patrick Maccias, theatrical trailer, 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 author Tom Mes. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment).
Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers
In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued its development: slapstick queen Mabel Normand (who taught Charlie Chaplin the craft of directing), action star Grace Cunard, and LGBTQ icon Alla Nazimova. Unafraid of controversy, filmmakers such as Lois Weber and Dorothy Davenport Reid tackled explosive issues such as birth control, abortion, and prostitution. This crucial chapter of film history comes alive through this six-disc presentation of a wide assortment of films, carefully curated, meticulously restored in 2K and 4K from archival sources, and presented with new musical scores. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. Extras: 80-page booklet with essays and photos, interviews with historians and archivists, audio commentaries for select films. (Kino Classics).
Some Like It Hot
(1959) One of the most beloved films of all time, this sizzling masterpiece by Billy Wilder set a new standard for Hollywood comedy. After witnessing a mob hit, Chicago musicians Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, in landmark performances) skip town by donning drag and joining an all-female band en route to Miami. The charm of the group's singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe, at the height of her bombshell powers) leads them ever further into extravagant lies, as Joe assumes the persona of a millionaire to woo her and Jerry's female alter ego winds up engaged to a tycoon. With a whip-smart script by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and sparking chemistry among its finely tuned cast, "Some Like It Hot" is as deliriously funny and fresh today as if it had just been made.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc with new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray. Extras: Audio commentary from 1989 featuring film scholar Howard Suber; new program on Orry-Kelly's costumes for the film, featuring costume designer and historian Deborah Nadoolman Landis and costume historian and archivist Larry McQueen; three making-of documentaries; appearance from 1982 by director Billy Wilder on "The Dick Cavett Show"; conversation from 2001 between actor Tony Curtis and film critic Leonard Maltin; French television interview from 1988 with actor Jack Lemmon; trailer; an essay by author Sam Wasson. (The Criterion Collection).
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