The Arrow Thread

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Just got an e-mail from Arrow to say that Sisters has shipped!

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Just got an e-mail from Arrow to say that Sisters has shipped!

Snap! Saw yesterday on the Arrow site that it was in stock, so knew it would ship soon. Hoping we might see The Delta Force & Theatre of Blood in the next week or two.

[Susan Foreman]

Sisters Blu-ray - Margot Kidder - DVDBeaver

[Paul@TheOverlook]

Originally Posted by Stephen@Cult Labs

Snap! Saw yesterday on the Arrow site that it was in stock, so knew it would ship soon. Hoping we might see The Delta Force & Theatre of Blood in the next week or two.

Mine too

[Michael Brooke]

Full specs have been announced for Camera Obscura: The Walerian Borowczyk Collection:

CAMERA OBSCURA: THE WALERIAN BOROWCZYK COLLECTION

LIMITED EDITION BOX SET SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:

- Brand new 2K restorations of Borowczyk’s films.
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the films and extras.
- Newly translated English subtitles.

THE SHORT FILMS & THEATRE OF MR AND MRS KABAL

The short films:

- The Astronauts (Les Astronautes, 1959)
- The Concert (Le Concert de M. et Mme Kabal, 1962)
- Grandmother's Encyclopaedia (L'Encyclopédie de grand'maman, 1963)
- Renaissance (1963)
- Angels' Games (Les Jeux des anges, 1964)
- Joachim's Dictionary (Le Dictionnaire de Joachim, 1965)
- Rosalie (1966)
- Gavotte (1967)
- Diptych (Diptyque, 1967)
- The Phonograph (Le Phonographe, 1969)
- The Greatest Love of All Time (L'Amour "monstre" de tous les temps, 1978)
- Scherzo Infernal (1984)

plus:

- Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam.
- Film is not a Sausage: Borowczyk’s Short Films – A new interview programme featuring Borowczyk, producer Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin, assistant André Heinrich and composer Bernard Parmegiani.
- Blow Ups – A new visual essay by Daniel Bird concerning Borowczyk’s works on paper.
- Borowczyk's commercials.

GOTO, ISLE OF LOVE

- Introduction by artist and Turner Prize nominee Craigie Horsfield.
- The Concentration Universe: Goto, Isle of Love - A new interview programme featuring actor Jean-Pierre Andréani, co-writer Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin, cameraman Noël Véry and camera assistant Jean-Pierre Platel.
- The Profligate Door - A new documentary about Borowczyk’s sound sculptures featuring curator Maurice Corbet.

BLANCHE

- Introduction by director Leslie Megahey (Schalcken the Painter).
- Ballad of Imprisonment: Blanche - A new interview programme featuring producer Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin, assistant director André Heinrich, camera operator Noël Véry and assistant Patrice Leconte.
- Obscure Pleasures: A Portrait of Walerian Borowczyk - A newly edited archival interview in which Borowczyk discusses painting, cinema and sex.
- Gun Point - A documentary short by Peter Graham produced and edited by Borowczyk.

IMMORAL TALES

- Introduction by Borowczyk expert Daniel Bird.
- Immoral Tales: L'Age d'Or Cut - featuring a fifth episode, The True Story of the Beast of Gévaudan.
- Love Reveals Itself: Immoral Tales - A new interview programme featuring production manager Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin and cinematographer Noël Véry.
- Boro Brunch: A reunion meal recorded in February 2014 re-uniting members of Borowczyk's crew, featuring Philippe D’Argila, Florence Dauman, Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin, Dominique Ruspoli, Noël Véry and Zoe Zurstrassen.
- A Private Collection (1973 short film).
- A Private Collection: Oberhausen Cut (the more explicit cut that scandalised festival audiences).

THE BEAST

- Introduction by critic Peter Bradshaw.
- The Making of The Beast: Camera operator Noël Véry provides a commentary on footage shot during the making of The Beast.
- Frenzy of Ecstasy – A new visual essay on the evolution of Borowczyk’s beast and the sequel that never was, Motherhood.
- Venus on the Half Shell (1975 short film).

CAMERA OBSCURA [LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE]

- A generously illustrated book edited by Daniel Bird and Michael Brooke featuring new essays, landmark articles by Raymond Durgnat, Philip Strick, Patrice Leconte, David Thompson and Chris Newby, Boro's Dictionary, an account of the restoration of Borowczyk films and Anatomy of the Devil, a collection of Borowczyk’s short stories translated from the original French by the filmmaker’s assistant, Michael Levy.

LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I like it. His fans should lap it up. A fantastic package, i'm pleased those who contributed to it's financing have got a great product.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Absolutely fantastic!

I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on my copy.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Absolutely fantastic!

I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on my copy.

My sentiments exactly. I'm glad I was able to contribute to the restoration.

[Michael Brooke]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

My sentiments exactly. I'm glad I was able to contribute to the restoration.

...which apparently looks stunning.

I haven't seen it myself yet, but it seems that the finegrain 35mm print held by the Cinémathêque Française was more than adequate to fuel at least 80% of the restoration, with other sequences patched in from 35mm materials supplied by Argos Films - including, most crucially, 35mm materials for the colour sequences (the Cinémathêque's print was entirely black and white, presumably because it was struck straight from the now-lost original camera negative).

Which is why it went so smoothly and why we found we had more money to play with at the end - which in turn is why we were not only able to make 2K scans of the five Argos shorts that we mentioned in the Kickstarter campaign but additional 2K scans of two further shorts that we didn't mention - the longer cut of A Private Collection and the short film that ultimately ended up as the dream sequence in The Beast, but which was originally conceived as one of the episodes of Immoral Tales.

And because of that, we could create an alternative five-episode cut of that film - it's been done before by the German distributor Bildstörung (in their three-disc edition of Immoral Tales), but only in SD up to now.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Stephen@Cult Labs

Snap! Saw yesterday on the Arrow site that it was in stock, so knew it would ship soon. Hoping we might see The Delta Force & Theatre of Blood in the next week or two.

Delta and Theatre have been put back to 5th May mate.