November releases. Wat een maand!!
The Night of the Hunter
SYNOPSIS:
The Night of the Hunter—incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a standalone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters are uncovered by her terrified young children. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic—also featuring the contributions of actress Lillian Gish and writer James Agee—is cinema’s quirkiest rendering of the battle between good and evil.
Disc Features
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* Audio commentary featuring assistant director Terry Sanders, film critic F. X. Feeney, archivist Robert Gitt, and author Preston Neal Jones
* Charles Laughton Directs “The Night of the Hunter,” a two-and-a-half-hour archival treasure trove of outtakes from the film
* New documentary featuring interviews with producer Paul Gregory, Sanders, Jones, and author Jeffrey Couchman
* New video interview with Simon Callow, author of Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor
* Clip from the The Ed Sullivan Show, in which cast members perform live a scene that was deleted from the film
* Fifteen-minute episode of the BBC show Moving Pictures about the film
* Archival interview with cinematographer Stanley Cortez
* Gallery of sketches by author Davis Grubb
* New video conversation between Gitt and film critic Leonard Maltin about Charles Laughton Directs “The Night of the Hunter”
* Original theatrical trailer
* PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Michael Sragow
Antichrist
SYNOPSIS:
Lars von Trier shook up the film world when he premiered Antichrist at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In this graphic psychodrama, a grief-stricken man and woman—a searing Willem Dafoe and Cannes best actress Charlotte Gainsbourg—retreat to a cabin deep in the woods after the accidental death of their infant son, only to find terror and violence at the hands of nature and, ultimately, each other. But this most confrontational work yet from one of contemporary cinema’s most controversial artists is no mere provocation. It is a visually sublime, emotionally ravaging journey to the darkest corners of the possessed human mind; a disturbing battle of the sexes that pits rational psychology against age-old superstition; and a profoundly effective horror film.
Disc Features
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Lars von Trier and supervised by director of photography Anthony Dod Mantle (with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* Audio commentary by von Trier and professor Murray Smith
* Video interviews with von Trier and actors Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg
* A collection of video pieces delving into the production of Antichrist, including interviews with von Trier and key members of his filmmaking team as well as behind-the-scenes footage
* Chaos Reigns at the Cannes Film Festival 2009, a documentary on the film’s world premiere, plus press interviews with Dafoe and Gainsbourg
* Three theatrical trailers
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ian Christie
Modern Times
SYNOPSIS:
Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin’s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). With its barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary on class struggle during the Great Depression, Modern Times—though made almost a decade into the talkie era and containing moments of sound (even song!)—is a timeless showcase of Chaplin’s untouchable genius as a director of silent comedy.
Disc Features
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
* New audio commentary by Chaplin biographer David Robinson
* Two new visual essays, by Chaplin historians John Bengtson and Jeffrey Vance
* New program on the film’s visual and sound effects, with experts Craig Barron and Ben Burtt
* Interview from 1992 with Modern Times music arranger David Raksin
* Chaplin Today: “Modern Times” (2004), a half-hour program with filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
* Two segments removed from the film
* Three theatrical trailers
* All at Sea (1933), a home movie by Alistair Cooke featuring Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, and Cooke, plus a new score by Donald Sosin and a new interview with Cooke’s daughter, Susan Cooke Kittredge
* The Rink (1916), a Chaplin two-reeler highlighting his skill on wheels
* For the First Time (1967), a Cuban documentary short about a projectionist who shows Modern Times to first-time moviegoers
* More!
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Saul Austerlitz and a piece by film scholar Lisa Stein that includes excerpts from Chaplin’s writing about his travels in 1931 and 1932
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
SYNOPSIS:
Like the rest of America, Hollywood was ripe for revolution in the late sixties. Cinema attendance was down; what had once worked seemed broken. Enter Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner, who knew that what Hollywood needed was new audiences—namely, young people—and that meant cultivating new talent and new ideas. Fueled by money made from their invention of the superstar TV pop group the Monkees, they set off on a film-industry journey that would lead them to form BBS Productions, a company that was also a community. The innovative films produced by this team between 1968 and 1972 are collected in this box set—works created within the studio system but lifted right out of the countercultural id, and that now range from the iconic (Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Picture Show) to the acclaimed (The King of Marvin Gardens) to the obscure (Head; Drive, He Said; A Safe Place).
Disc Features
Head
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-ray edition)
* Audio commentary featuring Monkees Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork
* New video interview with director Bob Rafelson
* New documentary about BBS, featuring critic David Thomson and historian Douglas Brinkley
* More!
Easy Rider
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* Audio commentary featuring director Dennis Hopper
* Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage, a 1999 documentary featuring behind-the-scenes footage
* Footage of Hopper and star Peter Fonda at Cannes in 1969
* New video interview with BBS’s Steve Blauner
* More!
Five Easy Pieces
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* Audio commentary featuring director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson
* Soul Searching in Five Easy Pieces, a 2009 video piece in which Rafelson discusses the film
* BBStory, a 2009 documentary
* Excerpts from an audio recording of Rafelson at the American Film Institute in 1976
Drive, He Said
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom, a 2009 video piece in which director Jack Nicholson discusses the experience of making this film
* Theatrical trailer
* More!
A Safe Place
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* Audio commentary featuring director Henry Jaglom
* Henry Jaglom Finds “A Safe Place,” a 2009 video piece in which the director discusses the film
* Notes on the New York Film Festival, a 1971 video piece featuring an interview conducted by critic Molly Haskell with directors Peter Bogdanovich and Jaglom about their films The Last Picture Show and A Safe Place
* Deleted scene and screen tests
* Theatrical trailer
The Last Picture Show
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* Two audio commentaries, one featuring director Peter Bogdanovich and the other featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall
* Picture This, a 1990 documentary by George Hickenlooper
* “The Last Picture Show”: A Look Back, an hour-long 1999 documentary
* 2009 interview with Bogdanovich
* Screen tests and location footage
* Theatrical trailers and more!
The King of Marvin Gardens
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* Selected-scene audio commentary featuring director Bob Rafelson
* Reflections of a Philosopher King, a 2009 documentary about the making of the film
* Afterthoughts, a short 2002 documentary about the film, produced by Rafelson
* Theatrical trailer
Dat wordt weer een gigantsich dure maand
