The Eureka & Masters of Cinema Thread

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

A couple of great May releases.

Revolver.



SPECIAL FEATURES

Limited Edition O-Card slipcase [2000 copies]

1080p presentation on Blu-ray from a 4K restoration

English and Italian audio options

Optional English Subtitles, newly translated for this release

Brand new audio commentary by author / critic Kim Newman

Brand new interview with film scholar Stephen Thrower, author of Nightmare USA

Archival interview with actor Fabio Testi

Original Trailers and Radio Adverts

A Limited Edition collector’s booklet featuring two new essays by author Howard Hughes; one covering the background to the making of Revolver, and an extensive piece on Ennio Morricone’s “Eurocrime” soundtracks
[2000 copies]

Vampyr



SPECIAL FEATURES

Limited Edition Hardbound Slipcase [3000 copies]

All-new 2K digital restoration of the German version by the Danish Film Institute, completed in 2020 after an extensive decade-long restoration process, with uncompressed mono soundtrack

Optional unrestored audio track

Two audio commentaries: one by critic and programmer Tony Rayns; the second by filmmaker and Vampyr fan Guillermo del Toro

Visual essay by scholar Casper Tybjerg on Dreyer’s Vampyr influences

New video interview with author and critic Kim Newman on Vampyr's unique place within vampire cinema

Two new video interviews with music and cultural historian David Huckvale on the film's score and its adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu

Carl Th. Dreyer (1966) – a documentary by Jörgen Roos

Two deleted scenes, removed by the German censor in 1932

The Baron – a short MoC documentary about Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg
Optional English subtitles

A 100-PAGE BOOK - featuring rare production stills, location photography, posters, the 1932 Danish film programme, a 1964 interview with Baron Nicolas de Gunzberg (producer and actor "Allan Gray"), an essay by Dreyer on film style, and writing by Tom Milne, Jean and Dale Drum, and film restorer Martin Koerber

[3000 copies]

That's more like it!

[Susan Foreman]

'Execution In Autumn' (1972) - Blu-ray pre-order available at Eureka direct - £17.99

Release date: June 20

"Referred to as “the godfather of Taiwanese cinema”, the films of director Lee Hsing (who passed away in 2021 at the age of 91) combined Western realism with the neo-Confucian ideals advocated by the nationalist government in Taiwan. Director of a number of masterpieces, presented here is the film he considered his personal favourite of all his films—and certainly his most successful—Execution in Autumn.

Since his childhood, Pei Gang (Ou Wei) has been spoiled by his rich grandmother who raised him after the death of his parents. Unable to control himself, in a fit of rage, Gang kills a pregnant woman – who indicated him as the father of her unborn child – and her cousins; for this he is sentenced to death, and will be beheaded in autumn, the traditional season for executions. His grandmother tries to save him, but this proves to be a task beyond her means. So she makes him marry the young Lian (Tang Pao-yun), an orphan raised within the family, in prison, so that the Pei line does not die out.

Featuring a screenplay by Chang Yung-hsiang (who also wrote another Lee Hsing masterwork, Beautiful Duckling), Execution in Autumn comes to Blu-ray for the first time ever as part of the Masters of Cinema series, in time for its 50th anniversary.

Presented from a 2K Restoration"

Special features:

• Limited Edition O-Card slipcase [2000 copies]
• 1080p presentation on Blu-ray from a stunning 2K restoration of the original film elements undertaken by the Taiwan Film Institute
• Original Mandarin audio (uncompressed LPCM)
• Optional English subtitles, newly revised for this release
• New video piece by film critic Tony Rayns
• A collector’s booklet featuring new and archival writing

[Susan Foreman]

'The Shaolin Plat' (1977) - Blu-ray pre-order available at Eureka direct - £17.99

Release date: June 20

"After his work directing the action sequences for King Hu’s Palme D’or winning A Touch of Zen, Sammo Hung worked with director Huang Feng (Lady Whirlwind, Hapkido) on a series of martial arts masterpieces which continuously broke new ground for action cinema, the culmination of which was The Shaolin Plot. After the release of this film, Sammo (who also has one of his first major acting roles here, playing a deadly monk with an unusual choice of weaponry) began his own career as a director and would play a huge role in the “Golden Age” of Hong Kong cinema – an era which revolutionised action filmmaking around the world.

Hong Kong movie veteran Chen Hsing (The Iron-Fisted Monk) plays a tyrannical ruler with the aim of collecting all existing Chinese martial arts manuals in order to obtain ultimate power. After obtaining the Wu Tang manual, he sets his sights on the Shaolin Temple and the secrets of their fighting style. Two Shaolin Monks (Casanova Wong and Yeong-moon Kwon) must team up with a Wu Tang fighter (James Tien) to defeat the villainous despot.

On home video for the first time in the UK from a new 2K restoration, Eureka Classics is proud to present a towering classic that deserves to be recognised as one of the best and most important works of martial arts cinema."

Special features:

• Limited Edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Darren Wheeling [2000 copies]
• Original Mandarin mono audio
• Optional English dubbed audio
• Optional English Subtitles, newly translated for this release
• New feature length audio commentary by Asian film experts Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival) & Michael Worth
• New feature length audio commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder & Arne Venema
• Original Hong Kong theatrical trailer
• Original export trailer
• A Limited Edition collector’s booklet featuring new writing by James Oliver [2000 copies]

[Susan Foreman]

'Outside The Law' (1920) - Blu-ray pre-order available at Eureka direct - £16.99

Release date: June 13

"While under contract at Universal Studios, Tod Browning crafted a series of melodramas with strong female protagonists, women on the wrong side of the law, who stood defiantly against the men who tried to control them. No actress better personified this tough, glamorous anti-hero than Priscilla Dean (Drifting, White Tiger).

In Outside the Law, Dean plays hard-boiled jewel thief Molly Madden. When her father is framed for murder by Black Mike Sylva (Lon Chaney), Molly partners with safecracker Dapper Bill (Wheeler Oakman) to stage a double-cross of their own.

Outside the Law was Browning’s second film with actor Lon Chaney, whose gifts for elaborate makeup and ruthless villainy would flower under Browning’s direction, setting the stage for a series of monstrous characterisations that would revolutionise the melodrama and lay the foundations of the American horror film.

The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Outside the Law from a 4K restoration for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK."

Special features:

• 1080p presentation on Blu-ray from a 4K restoration conducted by Universal Pictures
• Musical score by Anton Sanko
• New video interview with author / critic Kim Newman
• Alternate ending from a 16mm print of the film, created in 1926 for a re-release of Outside the Law
• A collector’s booklet featuring an essay by Richard Combs

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Nothing for me there. Which is nice.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

**** spoke too soon.

[Susan Foreman]

"A 2 for £35 OFFER has just gone live at Eureka Entertainment. LIMITED OFFER until Mon 18 April 2022.

Get any two titles for £35. Mix and Match and pick as many as you wish. Discount will only be applied for every two that you purchase (while stocks last)."

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Haha! That really has just gone live. It certainly wasn't there when i ordered the Nosferatu Blu yesterday for £10.99.

Pity there's only The Inner Sanctum Mysteries of interest.

[Justin101]

Universal Terror (Blu-ray)
Stars: Boris Karloff
£24.99
Release Date: 18th July 2022

A trio of horror tales from the vaults of Universal Pictures, all starring the iconic Boris Karloff.

In the pulse-pounding crime thriller Night Key (dir. Lloyd Corrigan, 1937), Karloff plays the eccentric inventor of a high-tech security system who is kidnapped by a gang of burglars and forced to help them commit a series of robberies. Then, in the lavishly produced The Climax (dir. George Waggner, 1944), Karloff plays the house physician at an Opera house whose insane jealousy drives him to murder. And finally, Karloff stars as a doctor who risks his own life to save the captives of a mad count in The Black Castle (dir. Nathan H. Juran, 1952).

Night Key and The Climax are available on home video for the first time in the UK.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Limited Edition slipcase [2000 copies]
• 1080p presentation of all three films across two Blu-ray discs
• Night Key and The Black Castle presented from 2K scans of fine grain film elements
• The Climax presented from a 2K scan of the interpositive
• Optional English SDH
• Brand new audio commentary tracks on Night Key and The Climax with Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby
• Brand new audio commentary track on The Black Castle with author Stephen Jones and author / critic Kim Newman
• Stills Galleries
• Trailers
• A limited edition collector’s booklet featuring new writing by Karloff expert Stephen Jacobs (author of Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster) [2000 copies]

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Look forward to that set. Love The Black Castle. It was always going to be one to upgrade. Night Key is a very good crime film.

Love the cover art as well.