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British distributors Eureka Entertainment have detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend (1945), starring Ray Milland, Jane Wyman and Phillip Terry. The film will be released in the UK as part of The Masters of Cinema Series on Blu-ray (Standard and SteelBook editions) on June 25th.

Special Features:
New high-definition master, officially licensed from Universal Pictures
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
Exclusive new video introduction by director Alex Cox
The three-part 1992 BBC Arena programme Billy, How Did You Do It? directed by Gisela Grischow and Volker Schlöndorff, featuring Schlöndorff in conversation with Billy Wilder
The 1946 Screen Guild Theater radio adaptation of The Lost Weekend – starring Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, and Frankie Faylen
The original theatrical trailer
PLUS: A 36-page booklet featuring rare archival imagery, and more!

Directed by Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot), this gut-wrenching adaptation of Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend horrified its studio, was rejected by test audiences, and was lobbied by temperance groups, yet went on to huge success and became the awards sensation of its year.

Ray Milland stars as Don Birnam, a New York author struggling with years of alcoholism and writer's block. Trying to keep him on the path to rehabilitation are his straight-laced brother Wick (Philip Terry) and devoted long-time girlfriend Helen (Jane Wyman). When Don absconds from a country excursion, he embarks on a four-day binge, spiralling towards rock bottom.

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British distributors Eureka Entertainment have detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944), starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson. The film will be released in the UK as part of The Masters of Cinema Series on Blu-ray (Standard and SteelBook editions) on June 25th.

Special Features:
Exclusive new high-definition restoration, officially licensed from Universal Pictures
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired
Shadows of Suspense — a 2006 documentary featuring film historians, directors, and authors discussing the making of Double Indemnity
1945 Screen Guild Theater radio adaptation of Double Indemnity, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray
The original theatrical trailer
36-PAGE BOOKLET featuring a 1976 interview by John Allyn with Billy Wilder; an extract from a 1976 interview with James M. Cain comparing his original serial with Wilder's film adaptation; documentation of novelist and Double Indemnity co-screenwriter Raymond Chandler's attitude toward working within the Hollywood studio system; an extract from the original screenplay depicting the excised "death chamber" ending; a note on the restoration; and rare archival imagery

Double Indemnity is the quintessential film noir whose enormous popular success and seven Oscar nominations catapulted Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot, Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment) into the very top tier of Hollywood's writer-directors. Adapted from a novella by James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice), co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye), Double Indemnity remains the hardest-boiled of delectations.

Insurance hawker Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) gets seduced by some other man's wife: a bored, sex-starved Barbara Stanwyck done up in lorry-grille wig and a pair of lips like wine grapes smashed in candle-wax. She wants to off her better half and collect on his policy, but spitfire claims-adjuster Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) smells a rat – or at least the cheap perfume all over that Dietrichson file.

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British distributors Eureka Entertainment have officially announced and detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of director Douglas Sirk's A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958), starring John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, and Jock Mahoney. The release will be available for purchase online and in shops across the United Kingdom on September 23rd.

Douglas Sirk — the master of the Hollywood melodrama — turns back to his native Germany at the time of the Second World War for the film that would stand as his penultimate American feature: A Time to Love and a Time to Die. A CinemaScope production staged on a grand scale, Sirk's picture nevertheless pulsates with an intimacy that has known longing for too long, and seethes with the repression of emotions poised to explode like bombs.

John Gavin plays Ernst Gräber, a soldier on the Russian-German Front in 1944 venturing home to Hamburg on a rare furlough. Upon arrival, he discovers a city that bears little resemblance to the one he left behind — and so, through the rubble of the air-raids, he searches desperately for fragments of his family's shattered lives. But amid the shards, he falls in love with Elisabeth (Pulver), the charming daughter of his parents' doctor, and thus activates a magnetism that compels both individuals toward one another in love, even as it hurtles them headlong into epochal death.

Adapted from the novel by Erich Maria Remarque (the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, who also makes a cameo appearance in Sirk's picture), A Time to Love and a Time to Die takes its literary source and sculpts it anew out of matter made from color, decor, and performance — and arguably bests the novel on all aesthetic levels. Yet perhaps nothing can better summarise the power of Sirk's film — or of his entire body of work — than these words from the movie's trailer: "Their pounding hearts drowned out the sound of chaos thundering around them."

Special Features:
Gorgeous 1080p presentation of the film in its original 2:35:1 CinemaScope aspect ratio
English SDH subtitles for the hearing impaired
Optional isolated music & effects track
OF TEARS AND SPEED: ACCORDING TO JEAN-LUC GODARD — a 12-minute, visually annotated recitation of Jean-Luc Godard's seminal essay on Sirk's film.
19-minute video interview with Wesley Strick, screenwriter of Scorsese's Cape Fear and author of the novel Out There in the Dark, a roman-à-clef based upon Sirk's life in Hollywood and his relationship with the estranged son who took a starring role in Hitler Youth propaganda.
IMITATION OF LIFE [MIRAGE OF LIFE]: A PORTRAIT OF DOUGLAS SIRK — a 49-minute film portrait from 1984, directed by Daniel Schmid and photographed by Renato Berta, of Douglas Sirk and his wife Hilda in conversation, and reflecting, from their apartment in Germany, back upon their lives in Hollywood.
The original trailer for the film, from the time it retained the provisional title of simply "A TIME TO LOVE".
36-page booklet containing the complete text of Jean-Luc Godard's essay on the film, writings from critic Tag Gallagher on the film and Sirk's career in general, and an assemblage of notes that includes excerpts from Sirk's reflections upon the film, remarks upon visual motifs inside the movie, the CinemaScope process used to photograph the picture, and more.

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Independent British distributors Eureka Entertainment have officially announced that they will release on Blu-ray director Franklin J. Schaffner's The War Lord (1965)m, starring Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth, and Guy Stockwell. The release will be available for purchase on April 14th.

One of the finest historical adventure films ever made, The War Lord dramatises with uncommon intelligence and integrity the brutality, difficulties and injustices of the Middle Ages. Charlton Heston stars as Chrysagon, an honoured knight who takes over a castle tower in the swampland of Normandy to strengthen his duke's authority. But his struggles to maintain power in the face of Pagan villagers, barbarian attackers and his brother's jealous counsel are shaken by his growing weariness with bloodshed in a cruel world.

Never before released in high definition anywhere in the world, this collaboration between director Franklin Schaffner (Patton) and the legendary Charlton Heston, three years before their iconic reunion on Planet of the Apes, is a gripping saga of ferocious battles, heartfelt emotion and powerful storytelling.

Special Features:
•Gorgeous 1080p transfer the film in its original aspect ratio
•Optional English SDH
•Isolated music & effects track
•Original theatrical trailer
•More on disc extras to be announced close to release
•Booklet with a new essay, and rare archival imagery

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British distributors Eureka Entertainment have announced that they will release on Blu-ray Fritz Lang's silent masterpiece Frau im Mond a.k.a. Woman in the Moon (1929). The release will be available for purchase on August 25th.

Frau im Mond. [Woman in the Moon.] is: (a) The first feature-length film to portray space-exploration in a serious manner, paying close attention to the science involved in launching a vessel from the surface of the earth to the valleys of the moon. (b) A tri-polar potboiler of a picture that manages to combine espionage tale, serial melodrama, and comic-book sci-fi into a storyline that is by turns delirious, hushed, and deranged. (c) A movie so rife with narrative contradiction and visual ingenuity that it could only be the work of one filmmaker: Fritz Lang.

In this, Lang's final silent epic, the legendary filmmaker spins a tale involving a wicked cartel of spies who co-opt an experimental mission to the moon in the hope of plundering the satellite's vast (and highly theoretical) stores of gold. When the crew, helmed by Willy Fritsch and Gerda Maurus (both of whom had previously starred in Lang's Spione), finally reach their impossible destination, they find themselves stranded in a lunar labyrinth without walls — where emotions run scattershot, and the new goal becomes survival.

A modern Daedalus tale which uncannily foretold Germany's wartime push into rocket-science, Frau im Mond. is as much a warning-sign against human hubris as it is a hopeful depiction of mankind's potential. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present in a Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) special edition the culmination of Fritz Lang's silent cinema, restored to its near-original length.

Special Features:
Gorgeous 1080p transfer on the Blu-ray of the F. W. Murnau-Stiftung restoration
Original German intertitles with newly-translated optional English subtitles
The First Scientific Science-Fiction Film – a German documentary about Frau im Mond. made by Gabriele Jacobi [15:00]
36-page booklet which includes a newly revised analysis by Michael E. Grost on the film, and on Fritz Lang's body of work as a whole — and more!

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British distributors Eureka Entertainment have announced that they will add a number of titles to their Blu-ray catalog between September and December. Amongst them are Sijun Suzuki's Youth of the Beast, D.W. Griffith's Intolerance, Raymond Bernard's Les Misérables, and Fritz Lang's Spione.

On 20 October 2014, joining existing Fellini films Roma, Il Bidone and City of Women on the label, Eureka will be releasing a new digitally restored version of The Clowns on Blu-ray in a Dual Format (Blu-ray and DVD) edition. The film reflects Fellini's childhood obsession with clowns, exploring deeper human conditions that resonate through various clowns who vary from a local sex-crazed hobo, a midget nun, to a mutilated Mussolini disciple.

A week later on 27 October 2014, Youth of the Beast shall be unleashed in a Dual Format (Blu-ray and DVD) edition. Jo Shisido's raw performance and Seijun Suzuki's stylish cinematic artistry complement one another perfectly. Out of the mass-produced array of Japanese action films, this movie stands out like a radiant gem. Based on the hard-boiled Japanese novel "Man Hunt" written by Haruhiko Oyabu, Suzuki's visceral depiction transports the viewer into a merciless world of crime.

The final Monday of the month will also see the release in a Dual Format (Blu-ray and DVD) edition of Blacula – The Complete Collection starring Pam Grier, the 1972 American Blaxploitation horror film (Blacula) produced for American International Pictures which became one of the top grossing films of the year, inspiring a sequel (Scream Blacula Scream) and a small wave of Blaxploitation themed horror films. The eternally cool William Marshall puts a fresh spin on the age-old legend of the vampire, condemned to wander the earth with an insatiable lust for blood.

Expected later in the quarter, Fritz Lang's penultimate silent film, Spione [Spies] will receive its worldwide premiere on Blu-ray in a Dual Format (Blu-ray and DVD) edition as part of the Masters of Cinema Series. Spione is a flawlessly constructed labyrinthine spy thriller. Hugely influential, Lang's famous passion for meticulous detail combines with masterful storytelling and editing skills to form a relentless story of intrigue, espionage, and blackmail.

Diary of a Lost Girl [Tagebuch einer Verlorenen] traces the journey of a young woman from the pit of despair to the moment of personal awakening. Directed with virtuoso flair by the great G. W. Pabst, Diary of a Lost Girl represents the final pairing of the filmmaker with screen icon Louise Brooks, mere months after their first collaboration in the now-legendary Pandora's Box [Die Büchse der Pandora]. Diary of a Lost Girl will be released for the very first time anywhere in the world on Blu-ray in a Dual Format (Blu-ray and DVD) edition as part of the Masters of Cinema Series.

The Thief of Bagdad, one of the most imaginative of all silent movies, is a glittering Arabian Nights adventure fantasy set in the city of Bagdad. Douglas Fairbanks plays a handsome rogue of a thief whose heart is stolen by the beautiful daughter of the Caliph. The Thief of Bagdad will be released for the first time in the UK on Blu-ray as part of the Masters of Cinema Series in a stunning 2K restoration, featuring a magnificent score from maestro Carl Davis conducting the Phiharmonia Orchestra.

From one of the greatest little-known directors of all time, Raymond Bernard's nearly five hour tour de force that is Les Misérables is widely considered to be the greatest adaptation of the story. With unforgettable performances and stunning art direction, Les Misérables will be released on Blu-ray in a Dual Format edition as part of the Masters of Cinema Series.

Last, but not least, from Ancient Babylon and Biblical Judea to Medieval Paris and Modern America, four stories of intolerance and inhumanity interweave to form an amazing spectacle that gains momentum as it moves towards a powerful and memorable climax. D.W. Griffith's masterpiece Intolerance restored in HD will be available on Blu-ray in a stunning 2K restoration for the first time in the UK as part of the Masters of Cinema Series.

Managing Director of Eureka Entertainment, Ron Benson stated "New restorations and home viewing and Blu-ray premières abound - we continue our quest to release the very finest in world cinema, using the very best available materials, all with a meticulous attention to detail."

Further details for the November and December releases will be announced later in the year.

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British distributors Eureka Entertainment have announced that they will release on Blu-ray Peter Bogdanovich's film Paper Moon (1973), starring Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman, and Noble Willingham. The release will be available for purchase on May 18.

Continuing a run of Seventies smash-hits for director Peter Bogdanovich after the enormous success of his The Last Picture Show and What's Up, Doc?, Paper Moon saw the filmmaker sustaining his collaboration with actor Ryan O'Neal, and introduced the world to the precocious talent of the future Barry Lyndon star's daughter Tatum, then 10, who for her performance was the youngest-ever actress to be awarded an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

After meeting a newly orphaned girl named Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal), con man Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal), who may or may not be Addie's father, is enlisted to deliver the newly orphaned Addie to her aunt in Missouri. Shortly after however, the two realise that together they make an efficient scam-artist duo. Adventure ensues as the pair blaze through the American Midwest, stealing, swindling, and selling the moon…

With its stunning black-and-white cinematography shot by the great László Kovács and its superb evocation of Depression-era locales, Paper Moon endures as one of the key American comedies of the 1970s. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the film in its UK home viewing premiere in a new Dual-Format edition.

Special Features:
Glorious new 1080p transfer of the film
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Full-length audio commentary with director Peter Bogdanovich
A group of documentaries about the making of the film
36-PAGE BOOKLET featuring a new essay on the film by Mike Sutton, rare production stills, and more!

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British label Eureka Entertainment has announced that it will add a number of new titles to its Blu-ray catalog. Amongst them are Rupert Wainwright's Stigmata, Robert Aldrich's Twilight's Last Gleaming, and Tobias Nölle's Alloys.

Twilight's Last Gleaming

High among idiosyncratic auteur Robert Aldrich's most powerful and intense dramas, Twilight's Last Gleaming is a thunderous political thriller and race-against-time doomsday classic.

Burt Lancaster stars as the Air Force general Lawrence Dell who seizes control of a stockpile of nuclear missiles to force the US President (Charles Durning) to tell the truth about the Vietnam war. As negotiations get ever more desperate, General MacKenzie (Richard Widmark) leads an elite fighting team into the complex to disable Dell and his team directly.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
High-definition digital restoration
Uncompressed PCM audio on the Blu-ray
English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired
"Aldrich Over Munich - The Making of Twilight's Last Gleaming" documentary
PLUS: A booklet featuring new writing and archival images
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 17.

Aloys

Aloys Adorn is a middle-aged private detective who lives and works with his father. He experiences life from a safe distance, through a video camera he keeps recording 24 hours a day, and the massive collection of surveillance tapes he organises and obsessively watches at home. But when his father dies, Aloys is left on his own and his sheltered existence begins to fall apart. After a night of heavy drinking, Aloys wakes up on a public bus to find that his camera and precious observation tapes have been stolen. Soon after, a mysterious woman calls to blackmail him. She offers to return the tapes if Aloys will try an obscure Japanese invention called 'telephone walking' with her, using his imagination as their only connection. As he is drawn deeper and deeper, falling in love with the voice on the other end of the phone, the woman opens up a new universe that may allow Aloys to break out of his isolation and into the real world.

Making its premiere at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival in 2016, Tobias Nölle's film has been compared to the works of the like of Charlie Kaufmann. Beautifully lensed and scored Aloys is a feast for the senses, Eureka entertainment are proud to present this film for the first time in the world on Blu-ray and DVD.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
1080p High Definition transfer
5.1 and stereo soundtrack options
Optional English subtitles
Original Theatrical Trailer (UK & Ireland)
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 24.

Jinnah

An epic biopic about the life of Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Christopher Lee), the man who created the Muslim nation of Pakistan in the wake of Great Britain's relinquishment of control over India. After his death in 1948, Jinnah awaits final judgement in the afterlife and must tell the story of his life, before celestial bureaucrats decide his fate. Covering the political strife and bloody events that led to the formation of Pakistan, Jinnah is an intelligent and moving piece of cinema, with a performance by Sir Christopher Lee that he personally believed to be the finest of his career.

STREET DATE: OCTOBER 10.

Wolf Creek: The Complete First Series

Murderous psychopath Mick Taylor (John Jarratt) returns in Wolf Creek, an epic 6-part continuation of the international horror film sensation of the same name. Mick stills prowls the Australian Outback, brutally murdering any tourists unfortunate enough to cross his path, and having a ripper of a time doing it.

It's business as usual for Mick when he comes across the Thorogood family, on holiday to experience the outdoors, enjoy the open road, and help their 19-year-old daughter Eve (Lucy Fry) overcome her addiction to painkillers. Mick targets the family and a bloody massacre ensues, but this time things are different. Eve survives (barely) and manages to escape. After recovering from her injuries, Eve sets out on a cross country mission of vengeance, determined to hunt down Mick Taylor and end his killing spree once and for all. The hunter has become the hunted.

Highly cinematic in style and filled with all the bloody violence and dark humour that made the original film a sensation, Wolf Creek is a horror series like no other, and is not to be missed. First shown on Fox UK in August / September 2016, the 6-part mini-series will be available to purchase on Blu-ray and DVD as a 2-disc Blu-ray set and a 2-disc DVD set, two days after the series finale has aired on Fox UK.

STREET DATE: OCTOBER 6.

Stigmata

When Frankie Paige (Academy Award winner Patricia Arquette, True Romance, Boyhood), a young hairdresser from Pittsburgh, begins to suffer the stigmata – a physical manifestation of Jesus Christ's crucifixion wounds – the Vatican's top investigator, Father Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne, Miller's Crossing, The Usual Suspects) is sceptical of their authenticity. However, as the severity of the wounds increases, Kiernan realises Frankie has become the vessel for an extraordinary and provocative message that threatens the very foundations of the Catholic Church, and now the stigmata is not the only thing threatening her life.

Also starring Jonathan Pryce in a supporting role and featuring a fantastic cutting-edge score by The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan and Elia Cmíral, Stigmata is a visually stunning, intelligent supernatural horror.

Special Features and Specs:
1080p High Definition transfer
5.1 and uncompressed stereo soundtrack options
Isolated music & effects track
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Feature-length audio commentary with director Rupert Wainwright
Divine Rights: The Story of Stigmata
Deleted scenes
Alternate ending
Music Video – "Identify" By Natalie Imbruglia
Original theatrical trailer
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 17.

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The label has also announced that it has acquired the rights to Spanish dierctor Icíar Bollaín's new film The Olive Tree (2016), starring Anna Castillo, Javier Gutiérrez, and Pep Ambròs.

Alma, 20, works in a chicken farm by the village of Canet, in the province of Castellon, on the East coast of Spain. She has a profound connection with her dearly beloved Grandfather despite the fact he has stopped talking years ago. But when he begins to refuse food too Alma becomes obsessed with an idea: the only way to save her Grandfather is to recover the two thousand year olive tree that the family uprooted and sold 12 years ago against his will.

Lying through her teeth, without a plan and even less money, Alma engages her wayward Uncle "Artichoke", 45, ruined by the crisis, her colleague Rafa, 30, her friends Wiki (Wikipedia) and Adele and a big part of the small community of Canet in an outrageous endeavour; to find and return the olive tree, lost somewhere in Europe, to its rightful spot in the family grove where it has been tended, and in turn, given life, for over 2 millennium.

The Olive Tree is set to screen at UK festivals towards the end of 2016, and is expected to receive a theatrical release (UK & Ireland) in 2017.

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British label Eureka Entertainment will add three new titles to its Blu-ray catalog: Lubitsch in Berlin (1918-1921), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), and Suntan (2016).

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Synopsis: James Mason plays Professor Oliver Lindenbrook, a scientist hoping to find the world's core in this 1959 adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, Journey to the Centre of the Earth. He leads his unusual party on an expedition to the centre of the earth, by way of a volcano in Iceland. On the way, they encounter enormous mushrooms and giant prehistoric monsters. Produced by Michael Todd with then-spectacular special effects, the story was modernised to 1950s sensibilities. Mason gives this class, while Arlene Dahl and Diane Baker are the romantic interests. And Pat Boone is more palatable than you might expect as a secondary lead. You can watch this with your children and not be bored, and they will surely love it.

Special Features and Specs:
4K Restoration of the film
Optional stereo PCM soundtrack and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio options
Isolated music and effects track
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Audio Commentary with Actress Diane Baker and Film Historians Steven C. Smith & Nick Redman
New video interview with critic and author Kim Newman
Featurette on the film's restoration
Original theatrical trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an original review of the film from 1959; a poster gallery; and a selection of rare archival imagery
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 11.

Lubitsch in Berlin

Synopsis: Before he arrived in Hollywood to leave his indelible (and inimitable) mark on timeless comedies like Trouble in Paradise and The Shop Around the Corner, Ernst Lubitsch created an expansive body of work in Germany that proved to be as varied in its tone as it was sophisticated in its measure of man and woman. This set collects six recently restored works from the silent phase of Lubitsch's career, and casts new light on the director both as a fully-formed comic master, and as a virtuoso of cinematographic technique.

Featuring : Ich möchte kein Mann sein [I Don't Want to Be a Man] (1918), Die Puppe [The Doll] (1919), Die Austernprinzessin [The Oyster Princess] (1919), Sumurun (1920), Anna Boleyn (1920) and Die Bergkatze [The Mountain Cat] (1921).

Special Features and Specs:
High-definition restored transfers of all six films
Original German intertitles with optional English subtitles
Robert Fischer's 2006 feature-length documentary Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: From Schönhauser Allee to Hollywood
Exclusive concertina score for Die Puppe, by Bernard Wrigley
PLUS: A booklet containing liner notes for all six features by film-writers David Cairns, Anna Thorngate, and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 18.

Suntan

Synopsis: A middle-aged doctor becomes obsessed with a young tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hard partying friends. on a hedonistic Greek Island, a middle-aged doctor becomes obsessed with a young tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hard partying friends.

*Suntan will appear under Eureka Entertainment's recently revealed new world cinema sub-label Montage Pictures.

Special Features and Specs:
5.1 Surround and Stereo soundtrack options
Optional English subtitles
An interview with director Argyris Papadimitropoulos filmed exclusively for this release
A behind the scenes documentary chronicling the films production
Deleted scenes
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 4.

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They've ported the Twilight Time commentary which was a real dud. Diane Baker really had little to say about the film and they turned it more into sidebars about her career which then veered off into tangents totally unconnected with the film like rehashing Herrmann's feud with Hitchcock, a subject that doesn't belong in a commentary track about Journey To The Center Of The Earth.

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Eureka Entertainment has announced that it will add three new titles to its Blu-ray catalog: The African Queen (1951), Der Golem (1920), and A Fistful of Dynamite (1971).

A Fistful of Dynamite

Synopsis: From Sergio Leone, the acclaimed director of A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West comes his final Western, A Fistful of Dynamite (aka Duck, You Sucker! and released in some territories as Once Upon A Time... the Revolution).

Starring acting giants Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night) as Juan Miranda, an amoral peasant-turned-outlaw, and James Coburn (Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) as John Mallory, a dynamite-tossing Irish revolutionary who has fled to Mexico after becoming a fugitive in his own country. Together, they're a devilishly volatile mix of anti-establishment philosophies and violent tendencies as they attempt to liberate political prisoners, defend their compatriots against a well-equipped militia, and risk their lives on a train filled with explosives.

Featuring a haunting and rousing score by iconic composer Ennio Morricone, A Fistful of Dynamite has risen in stature over the years and is now recognised alongside The Dollars Trilogy and Once Upon A Time in the West as a true masterpiece.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
Two versions of the film presented in 1080p across two Blu-ray disc, including a transfer from the 2K restoration completed by Cineteca di Bologna in 2009.
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Original Mono Audio available on both versions
Audio Commentary by filmmaker Alex Cox
Audio Commentary by film historian Sir. Christopher Frayling
A brand new and exclusive interview with film critic and writer Kim Newman
A brand new and exclusive interview with Austin Fisher, author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema
The Myth of Revolution: Sir Christopher Frayling on Duck, You Sucker! [22 mins]
Sergio Donati Remembers Duck, You Sucker! [7 mins]
Sorting Out The Versions: An Analysis of Duck, You Sucker! [12 mins]
Once Upon A Time... in Italy [6 mins] featurette
Restoration, Italian Style [6 mins]
Location Comparisons [9 mins]
Radio Spots
Trailer
Hardbound Slipcase
PLUS: A LIMITED EDITION 60-PAGE Perfect Bound Collector s book featuring new and archival writing on the film
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 25.

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Der Golem

Synopsis: An iconic early horror masterpiece, Der Golem was Paul Wegener s third attempt at adapting the Golem character for the big screen. Starring and co-directing with Carl Boese, Wegener crafted one of silent cinema s most enduring masterpieces.

In the Jewish ghetto in 16th century Prague, Rabbi Low (Albert Streinruck, Asphalt) creates a forbidding clay Golem (played by director Paul Wegener) to protect his people from the tyrannical Emperor Luhois (Otto Gebuhr). Brought to life with a demon spirit and an amulet placed in the centre of the creature s chest, the Golem is a seemingly indestructible juggernaut, performing acts of great heroism. But when the Rabbi s assistant attempts to control the Golem for selfish gain, it becomes a terrifying force of destruction, rampaging through the ghetto leaving fire and death in its wake.

A landmark film in the horror canon, influencing most notably James Whale s 1931 adaptation of Frankenstein, Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam is also a pre-eminent example of German Expressionism, and an important contribution to the golden age of Weimar Cinema.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 4K RESTORATION of the original film negatives, completed by FWMS in 2017.
Original German intertitles with optional English subtitles
Option of THREE fantastic and unique scores, by composer Stephen Horne; acclaimed electronic music producer Wudec; and musician and film-score composer Admir Shkurtaj
Brand new and exclusive audio commentary by Scott Harrison
Brand new and exclusive video essay by critic David Cairns
Brand new and exclusive video essay by filmmaker Jon Spira (Elstree 1976)
The Golem [60 mins] The US version of the film, also fully restored, and featuring a score by Cordula Heth
A video piece highlighting the differences between the domestic and export negatives of the film [22 mins]
PLUS: A collector s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Scott Harrison; and reprints of illustrations from the original 1915 novel
Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase (First 2000 copies)
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 18.

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The African Queen

Synopsis: Three movie giants come together in the cinematic classic The African Queen, combining the masterful direction of John Huston with the fabulous chemistry of Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in their only onscreen pairing. Adapted from a novel by C.S. Forester, this wartime romantic adventure sees the pair forced to travel together down a hazardous East African river after the outbreak of World War I.

Katharine Hepburn plays Rose Sayer, the maiden-lady sister of a prim British missionary (Robert Morley) . When invading Germans kill her brother and level the village, Charlie Allnut (Bogart in the role which won him his only Oscar), the slovenly, gin-swilling captain of a tramp steamer called the African Queen, offers to take Rose back to civilisation. She can't tolerate his drinking or bad manners; he isn't crazy about her imperious, judgmental attitude. However, it does not take long before their passionate dislike turns to love. Together the disparate duo work to ensure their survival on the treacherous waters and devise an ingenious way to destroy a German gunboat.

The African Queen is one of the most beloved films in the history of cinema, and may well be the perfect adventure film. With a roller-coaster storyline complemented by the chemistry between its stars, and masterful direction from John Huston, The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present The African Queen on Blu-ray in a special Limited Edition.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
4K RESTORATION COMPLETED BY PARAMOUNT
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Uncompressed LPCM audio (original mono)
Isolated Music & Effects track
Audio Commentary by cinematographer Jack Cardiff
A brand new and exclusive interview with film critic and writer Kim Newman
Newly filmed interview with film historian Neil Sinyard
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen [59 mins] a comprehensive documentary about the making of the film
Trailer
Hardbound Slipcase
PLUS: A LIMITED EDITION 60-PAGE Perfect Bound Collector s book featuring new and archival writing on the film
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 18.

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Re: Eureka New Releases.

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Eureka Entertainment has provided final technical details and exclusive new trailers for its upcoming Blu-ray releases of Fritz Lang's Cloak and Dagger (1946) and Clive Donner's What's New Pussycat? (1965).

What's New Pussycat?

Synopsis: It's tough being the cat's meow! A zany blend of slapstick gags and madcap comedy, WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT?, starring Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole and Woody Allen in his acting and screenwriting debut, is the wildest, wackiest film to emerge from the swinging '60s.

Michael (O'Toole) is a mademoiselle magnet. His demented psychiatrist (Sellers) and sex-starved friend (Allen) would kill for this problem, but his would-be fiancé (Romy Schneider) might just kill him. Undergoing therapy, Michael tries to reform, but it won't be easy with sex kittens like Ursula Andress, Paula Prentiss and Capucine on his tail!

Wonderfully directed by Clive Donner (THE CARETAKER) and featuring the hit title song written by Burt Bacharach and performed by Tom Jones, Eureka Classics presents WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT? on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
High-definition digital restoration
BRAND NEW and exclusive audio commentary by film critics Emma Westwood and Sally Christie
Original theatrical trailer
A collector's booklet featuring a new essay by Simon Ward
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Uncompressed LPCM 2.0 audio
STREET DATE: DECEMBER 2.

Cloak and Dagger

Synopsis: A virtuoso World War II espionage thriller directed by Fritz Lang as his follow-up to the noir classic Scarlet Street (and not long after the war itself had ended), Cloak and Dagger is an underrated entry in Lang's oeuvre, a crackerjack spy saga with a commanding Gary Cooper performance and a wealth of masterful Langian suspense sequences (as well as some genuinely hard-hitting action set pieces).

Nuclear physicist Alvah Jesper (Cooper) is recruited by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services to become a reluctant undercover agent, traveling to Switzerland to meet with a fellow scientist regarding information on Germany's plans to construct an atomic bomb. After this colleague is assassinated, Jesper must sneak into Italy via the underground resistance, to contact another scientist. While there, Jesper falls in love with resistance fighter Gina (Lilli Palmer, in her first Hollywood role), and the two must battle shootouts, double crosses, and narrow escapes to smuggle the scientist out of Italy.

A more perfectly titled film would be difficult to imagine, as Cloak and Dagger is a consummate wartime espionage suspense picture, and an intriguing mixture of genres for Lang: part spy thriller, part romantic melodrama, and part patriotic war movie, Cloak and Dagger is another triumph among Lang's U.S. features, and an expert exercise in genre fusion that's ripe for rediscovery.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
Presented in 1080p from a high-definition digital transfer
BRAND NEW audio commentary by film critic and writer Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
BRAND NEW video essay by David Cairns
Cloak and Dagger: Lux Radio Theater [57 mins] Radio adaptation from 1946 starring Lilli Palmer and Ronald Reagan
Cloak and Dagger: The Radio Series [approx 660 mins]
A collector's booklet featuring a new essay by Samm Deighan
Uncompressed LPCM 2.0 audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
STREET DATE: JANUARY 27.

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Re: Eureka New Releases.

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Eureka Entertainment has announced that it will add three new titles to its Blu-ray catalog in April. They are: Rio Grande (1950), Kwaidan (1964), and Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983).

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Rio Grande

Synopsis: Perhaps one of the most underrated of the collaborations between director John Ford and star John Wayne, Rio Grande manages to be both a conclusion and a new beginning for this most iconic of actor-filmmaker collaborators. The film is the final entry in Ford and Wayne's "Cavalry Trilogy, " following their hits Fort Apache (1948) and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949). Yet it also marks the first of five appearances Wayne made with actress Maureen O'Hara, three of which were directed by Ford.

Wayne is Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke, attached to the Texas frontier in 1879 to protect settlers from attacks by Apaches. When Yorke's son a West Point flunkee turned Army private is assigned to his father's regiment, tensions flare upon the arrival of Yorke's estranged wife Kathleen (O'Hara), who wants their teenaged son out of Yorke's unit. After Apaches attack, the stakes of Yorke's mission escalate, and he must journey to Mexico where the Apaches are hiding out. With his son and two old recruits (Ford/Wayne regulars Ben Johnson and Harry Carey Jr.) as accompaniment, Yorke faces his toughest battle.

The Quiet Man (1952) may be the most fondly remembered collaboration between Ford, Wayne, and O'Hara, but ironically, that classic wouldn't even exist if not for Rio Grande, as studio Republic was so (incorrectly!) certain that the later film would lose money, that they only agreed to its production on the condition that Ford and his collaborators make another western first to cover the costs. But Rio Grande stands on its own as yet another outstanding meeting of these remarkable talents.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW REMASTER OF THE FILM completed by Paramount's preservation department in 2019
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Brand new and exclusive feature-length audio commentary by western authority Stephen Prince
Scene specific audio commentary with Maureen O'Hara
A video essay on the film by John Ford expert and scholar Tag Gallagher
The Making of Rio Grande archival featurette
Theatrical trailer
PLUS: a collector s booklet featuring a new essay by western expert Howard Hughes; a new essay by film writer Phil Hoad; transcript of an interview with John Ford; excerpts from a conversation with Harry Carey, Jr.
First print only: Limited Edition O-Card
STREET DATE: APRIL 6.

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Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain

Synopsis: One of the most important cinematic achievements in Hong Kong cinema, Tsui Hark s Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain birthed the modern-day special effects industry in Hong Kong, and influenced filmmakers around the world, including John Carpenter (who credited the film as the inspiration for Big Trouble in Little China).

Featuring an all-star cast led by Yuen Biao (Wheels on Meals, Project A) as young soldier Dik Ming-kei, currently caught in a war between two rival armies during Tang Dynasty. Taking sanctuary in a cave within the ominous Zu Mountain, he becomes entangled in a battle with supernatural forces beyond his comprehension.

Featuring breath-taking art design, stunning cinematography, and ground-breaking special effects, Eureka Classics is extremely proud to present Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain from a brand new 2K restoration making its worldwide debut on Blu-ray.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW 2K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
Cantonese, Mandarin, and English soundtrack options, original monaural presentations
Newly translated English subtitles
Brand new and exclusive feature length audio commentary by critic and Asian cinema expert Tony Rayns
Brand new and exclusive interview with Tsui Hark a lengthy and in-depth interview with director Tsui Hark filmed in 2020 exclusively for this release
Zu: Time Warrior [93 mins] the export cut of the film produced for European theaters, featuring a wraparound segment with Yuen Biao as a modern-day college student who is transported, Wizard of Oz style, to 10th Century China
Tsui Hark episode of Son of the Incredibly Strange Film Show originally aired on British television in 1989
Alternate opening credits, restored to their original Western presentation
Archival Interview with Yien Biao [12 mins]
Archival Interview with Mang Hoi [20 mins]
Archival interview with Moon Lee [20 mins]
Deleted Scenes
Trailers
Limited Edition O-CARD with new artwork by Darren Wheeling [2000 units]
PLUS: A collector s booklet featuring new writing on the film [2000 units]
STREET DATE: APRIL 20.

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Kwaidan

Synopsis: Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales adapted from Lafcadio Hearn s classic Japanese ghost stories about mortals caught up in forces beyond their comprehension when the supernatural world intervenes in their lives: "The Black Hair", "The Woman of the Snow", "Hoichi the Earless", and "In a Cup of Tea". Breathtakingly photographed entirely on hand-painted sets, the film is an abstract wash of luminescent colours from another world. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the complete 183-minute original Japanese cut of Masaki Kobayashi s masterpiece on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.

Special Features and Technical Specs:
1080p presentation on Blu-ray from Criterion's 2K digital restoration of Kobayashi's original director's cut
Original monaural Japanese soundtrack
Optional English subtitles
Kim Newman on "Kwaidan" a new interview with the film critic and writer
Shadowings [35 mins] a new video essay by David Cairns and Fiona Watson
Original trailers
PLUS: A 100-PAGE Perfect Bound Illustrated Collector s book featuring reprints of Lafcadio Hearn s original ghost stories; a survey of the life and career of Masaki Kobayashi by Linda Hoaglund; and a wide-ranging interview with the film maker the last he d ever give
Hardbound Slipcase
STREET DATE: APRIL 27.

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Re: Eureka New Releases.

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Took advantage of the Eureka Western Sale. ordered Rio Grande.

https://eurekavideo.co.uk/promotions/western-sale/
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