The Cult-Films (Nouveaux / Argent ) Label thread

[peter alex]

the three spaghetti westerns that they said they are releasing do they have the rights to them because its been years since they said that they where releasing them

[Susan Foreman]

Antonioni’s's 'Identification Of A Woman' (1982) - Blu-ray pre-order available from Cult Films Direct - £17:50

Release date: September 12

"Michelangelo Antonioni’s rarely seen and underrated masterwork – perhaps due to its renowned sexual explicitness. IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN is the maverick director’s own bookend to his lifelong exploration of the imprecise nature of human relationships, incommunicability and alienation.

After his wife leaves him, a film director (ostensibly Antonioni’s alter-ego, played by Tomas Milian) enters into a passionate affair with a striking young aristocratic woman (Daniela Silverio). Soon a stranger warns him, with threats, to stop seeing her and some weeks later, after a lover’s row, she vanishes… Whilst searching for her, he meets a beautiful young actress (Christine Boisson), whose curiosity is piqued to find the missing woman…

Each frame, rigorously conceived by Antonioni and painted by Carlo Di Palma’s rich, beautifully modulated cinematography, is an essential – at times subliminal – part of the storytelling itself; culminating in the legendary filmic tour-de-force that is the fogbound highway scene. This release benefits from the most recent 2K restoration finally doing justice to the original vision of the artist’s painterly yet unsettling masterpiece.

Tellingly prescient, it also depicts a modernising world beset by fear: with gun-toting neighbour, alarmed-home, speeding blindly in fog, threats and disappearance… This spellbinding anti-romance is a quiet yet resounding masterpiece which became Antonioni’s last full film, cementing his legacy – as hailed by Martin Scorsese – as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century."

Special Features

• Interview with Erica Antonioni – “Identification of a Director”
• An intimate video-diary of Michelangelo Antonioni – “With Michelangelo”
• Interview with Scholar Pasquale Iannone – “Antonioni’s Final Masterpiece”
• New subtitles and Hard-of-Hearing Closed Captions

Specs

• Certificate: 18
• Running time: 130 mins
• Cat No: CULT319
• Barcode: 5060485803195
• Language: Italian with English subtitles & HOH Close Captions

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

That sounds genuinely fascinating ^

[peter alex]

we are still waiting for the three spaghetti westerns that they supposed to have the rights too and that was nearly three years ago

[Dave]

Originally Posted by peter alex

we are still waiting for the three spaghetti westerns that they supposed to have the rights too and that was nearly three years ago

'Django' and 'Keoma' are both available from Arrow and 'A Bullet for the General' from Blue Underground in the US.

[Susan Foreman]

NEW CULTFILMS ANNOUCEMENT: DJANGO 4K-UHD

RELEASE DATE: December 11th, 2023

"Sergio Corbucci’s ground-breaking DJANGO is one of the greatest and most influential Westerns ever. Seminal, yet banned for decades, its aesthetics of visual cruelty transcended the genre and shaped today’s film-making language. Its major influence is declared by Quentin Tarantino - among many Hollywood directors - and seen in all his films.

Django, played by the legendary Franco Nero, is the mysterious lone gunslinger who, dragging a coffin behind him, arrives in a bleak, mud-drenched town where he’ll face two ruthless gangs of sadistic killers.

Presented uncut, from new 4K-restored elements, this definitive version is pristinely faithful to the original filmmakers’ vision; as attested by Ruggero Deodato (of ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ fame) who shot several scenes of ‘DJANGO’ as the then-Assistant to Corbucci"

SPECIAL FEATURES

• On-Disc INTERVIEWS with:
  Franco Nero on being Django
  Ruggero Deodato (of ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ fame) on being Sergio Corbucci’s assistant
  Alex Cox (Creator of BBC’ Moviedrome & cult-Director of RepoMan) defines DJANGO
• New reworked English subtitles & additional SDH
• + BOOK: Perfect-Bound 64 pages booklet with foreword by Franco Nero: “Django The Western Cranked-up!” by Kevin Grant. FAB Press
• + ArtCard with original posters

[Nuno_Miranda]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

NEW CULTFILMS ANNOUCEMENT: DJANGO 4K-UHD

I watched Django for the first time a couple of weeks ago and absolutely loved it. Its reputation is well deserved.

[peter alex]

been waiting for years for a UK release and now its coming out I cant be bothered with it cause it just not worth it rather do without than buy it I will just keep the original UK release from when they were called Argent nothing they release are going to be better than arrow or 88films and this is not even that good where is the rest of the special features from the arrows release even the packaging looks bad why did they bother.