And now over to our three US only releases…

NEW US TITLE: Kiju Yoshida: Love + Anarchism (Dual Format Blu-ray & DVD)

This collection brings together three works from the late sixties and early seventies.

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Release Date: April 11th 2017

The work of Kiju Yoshida is one of Japanese cinema’s obscure pleasures. A contemporary of Nagisa Oshima (Death by Hanging, In the Realm of the Senses) and Masahiro Shinoda (Pale Flower, Assassination), Yoshida started out as an assistant to Keisuke Kinoshita before making his directorial debut at age 27. In the decades that followed he produced more than 20 features and documentaries, yet each and every one has proven difficult to see in the English-speaking world.

This collection brings together three works from the late sixties and early seventies, a loose trilogy united by their radical politics and an even more radical shooting style. Eros + Massacre, presented here in both its 169-minute theatrical version and the full-length 220-minute director’s cut, tells the parallel stories of early 20th-century anarchist (and free love advocate) Sakae Osugi and a pair of student activists. Their stories interact and intertwine, resulting in a complex, rewarding work that is arguably Yoshida’s masterpiece.

Heroic Purgatory pushes the dazzling cinematic language of Eros + Massacre even further, presenting a bleak but dreamlike investigation into the political discourses taking place in early seventies Japan. Coup d’état returns to the past for a biopic of Ikki Kita, the right-wing extremist who sought to overthrow the government in 1936. Yoshida considered the film to be the culmination of his work, promptly retiring from feature filmmaking following its completion.

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
•Limited Edition Blu-ray collection (3,000 copies)
•High definition digital transfers supervised by Kiju Yoshida
•High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations for all films
•Uncompressed Mono 1.0 PCM Audio on all films
•New translated English subtitles on all films
•Yoshida …or: The Explosion of the Story – a 30-minute documentary on Eros + Massacre with contributions from Yoshida and film critics Mathieu Capel and Jean Douchet
•Introductions to Heroic Purgatory and Coup d’etat by Yoshida
•Newly-filmed discussions of Eros + Massacre, Heroic Purgatory and Coup d’etat by David Desser, author of Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave, recorded exclusively for this release
•Scene-select commentaries by David Desser on all three films
•Heroic Purgatory theatrical trailer
•Coup d’etat theatrical trailer

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NEW US TITLE: The Assassin [L’Assassino] (Dual Format Blu-ray & DVD)

Elio Petri’s dazzling first feature stars Marcello Mastroianni in a gorgeous high-definition restoration created by the Cineteca di Bologna.

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Release Date: April 11th 2017

THE LADYKILLER OF ROME

Released within months of Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Antonioni’s La Notte, Elio Petri’s dazzling first feature The Assassin (L’Assassino) also stars Marcello Mastroianni, this time as dandyish thirtysomething antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli, arrested on suspicion of murdering his older, far wealthier lover Adalgisa (Micheline Presle). But as the increasingly Kafkaesque police investigation proceeds, it becomes less and less important whether Martelli actually committed the crime as his entire lifestyle is effectively put on trial.

Best known for Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and The Tenth Victim, Petri was one of the finest and yet most underrated Italian directors of the 1960s and 70s. Highly acclaimed on its original release but unjustly neglected since, The Assassin is a remarkably assured debut from one of the cinema’s sharpest chroniclers of Italian social and political realities. Petri said that he wanted to reflect the changes wrought by the early sixties, and to examine “a new generation of upstarts who lacked any kind of moral scruple”.

Arrow Academy is proud to present The Assassin in a gorgeous high-definition restoration created by the Cineteca di Bologna.

SPECIAL FEATURES:
•2K digital restoration from the Cineteca di Bologna
•Uncompressed Mono 2.0 PCM Audio
•Elio Petri and L’Assassino, an introduction by Italian cinema expert Pasquale Iannone
•Tonino Guerra: A Poet in the Movies: Nicola Tranquillino’s documentary about the great Italian screenwriter
•Theatrical Trailer
•Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jay Shaw

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Booklet featuring writing on the film by Petri expert Camilla Zamboni, Petri’s own critical analysis of 1950s Italian cinema, plus a selection of contemporary reviews

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NEW US TITLE: Three Brothers (Dual Format Blu-ray & DVD)

Francesco Rosi’s Oscar-nominated film restored in 2K.

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Release Date: April 25th 2017

“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.

Arrow Academy is proud to present this powerful, Oscar-nominated film in a brand new 2K restoration.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
•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

FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Booklet featuring an essay by Professor Millicent Marcus, a 1981 interview with Rosi and a selection of contemporary reviews (first printing only)

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See, Michal was close with his Three Mothers guess. :nod:

Am I the only one that has zero interest in the Woody Allen stuff?

Nope.

Absolutely not Mr Harker. Boring, tedious, unfunny, suicide inducing, self important lube wanking in a mirror waste of celluloid. But, hey, some people love his stuff and hate the low brow, sexist, misogynistic, violent toothbrush anal probing crap that I love!

You say pedophile I say paedophile, given the choice between watching any of the kiddie fiddler Woody Allen's films or watching CBeebies...CBeebies would win every time!

Barring Sleeper, I'm not a huge fan of Allen, in fact I find him quite annoying.

Snap. After Sleeper, he's a non-entity in my book.

Glad that's cleared up. [emoji23]

I'll sixth that.:nod:
More effective than the strongest Co-Codamol for a sleep.

Love and Death is really good.

No as I said elsewhere in this topic never understood the love for his films the few I watched bored me to tears.very over rated, just seems one of those that the critics wank themselves silly over for no apparent reason.

Actually don't know one person who likes him over his boring self indulgent movies.

Woody would probably watch it with you.

I think many people judge Woody Allen by what they read in the tabloids,as a film maker he is just as important as say Martin Scorsese or Stanley Kubrick,but we are entitled to our opinion's,so just to balance things out that I think The Church and The Sect are shite ( I think that's the right word,yes it is).

I really like Broadway Danny Rose.

No. I have most, if not all, of them on DVD and have a zero interest in paying a lot of money to upgrade to Blu-ray. The ones I do have in HD are my favourites (Manhattan and Annie Hall).

Ive seen a couple of woody Allen films. Not my bag. Don't think he's especially bad but (controversial opinion alert) I think Larry David took his schtick and improved on it a lot. For me the choice between a curb your enthusiasm boxset or a woody Allen set is no choice at all

I've never watched a whole Woody Allen film. And I've not read anything about him in tabloids. I know nothing about the guy other than he's quite irritating and what little I've seen of his work is largely boring. The sheep scene with Gene Wilder in Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex is priceless but when I tried watching the film as a whole I was bored very quick.

Best left back in the league!

I really like Sleeper, Bananas, Take the money and run, Love and death, Play it again Sam, Everything you always wanted to know about sex and Annie Hall.
So basically most of Woodys early stuff,after that i lost interest.:pop2:

t think that the last Woody Allen film I saw was 'Manhattan Murder Mystery' which I saw at the cinema when it was first released

Same here. I like the earlier, sillier slapstick films rather than the later, intelligent, cerebral films

HMV have phantasm boxset up for a more friendly wallet pleasing price of £69.99

Phantasm Collection 1-5 Limited Edition : Blu-ray | HMV Store

will also keep my amazon preorder on the off chance it drops lower than this but i highly doubt it

So does that mean it will arrive in a month or have they improved their delivery's?

Had £38 in Arrow points so split them between the HOUSE set and this.:nod:

:lol:

Let's see if they arrive by Saturday.
They have 3 days....

PROVED WRONG!

TURNED UP TODAY!!!:faint::yield:

We are pleased to unleash the fantastic International art for one of our upcoming titles 'Hounds of Love'

'Hounds of Love' will have its UK Premiere at Horror Channel FrightFest Glasgow next month and will be coming to UK cinemas this Summer.

"In the summer of 1987, seventeen year old Vicki Maloney is abducted by serial killer couple John and Evelyn White, with escape seeming impossible, she begins to observe the dynamic between her captors and quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive."

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Mine arrived today, and it looks awesome. Now all I need is a spare 10 hours to watch the extended Man Of Iron on the bonus disc!

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Amazon have lowered their price to 69.99. With yesterday's BIGTHANKS 10 pound off code and the sale of my Phantasm Remastered US blu-ray, this set will currently cost me 50.99. Much more reasonable.

Amazon have lowered house box to £35 to match hmv, and pieces is £20.

Still £59.99 for the jigsaw/LP record version!

Only 289 copies remaining folks!

Damn missed the code, but at the end of the day I would rather see HMV get my money than Amazon.

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The Thing is coming to Arrow Video!

That's right folks, John Carpenter's 80's classic will be joining the Arrow Video line later this year! We are still in the early stages of this release so can't share any specific info in relation to extras just yet but do make sure to tuned as we have some exciting things planned!

We also want to take this opportunity to say a HUGE thanks to every single one of you for supporting Arrow Video and helping us reach 50k likes today - we really couldn't have done it without all of you.

Thanks for being awesome!

Team Arrow.

Well there goes another limited edition box.:rolleyes:

They'll have to do something pretty special because I'm perfectly happy with the current blu.

I have the UK Blu and I'm more than happy with it, so like J says, it'll have to be something special

Ditto and i think most people will feel the same, unless its something extra special i can't see it selling well

I dunno, there's plenty of people who'd buy the Complete Teletubbies Collection if Arrow released it :lol: