Mad Max – Cine Edition

release date: 21st August 2023 

 

Mel Gibson proved he was a name to be reckoned with in the revved-up, trendsetting Mad Max with filmmaker George Miller. Gibson portrays Max Rockatansky, the fearless, leather-suited cop waging war with kill-crazy bikers who targeted his family. It’s a war that must be seen to be believed, a road-scorching, neo-punk, take-no-prisoners combat set in a postapocalyptic Australia. In the end, a lone man travels a ribbon of highway now free of the unroadworthy.

 

• Film on 4K UHD and BLU-RAY

• Rigid Slipcase with Theatrical Key Art

• Double-Sided A3 Poster Reproduction

• 4x Double Sided Art Cards

• Road War: The Making of The Road Warrior (On 4K Disc Only)

• Commentary by Director George Miller and Cinematographer Dean Semler

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It Follows – Limited Edition

release date: 28th August 2023 

 

A young woman is followed by a terrifying supernatural force after a sexual encounter with her new boyfriend.

 

• Dual format edition including both UHD and Blu-ray with main feature and bonus features on both discs

• Second Sight Films 4K master produced in conjunction with the original post production facility

• Approved by Director David Robert Mitchell

• New audio commentary by Joshua Grimm

• Chasing Ghosts: a new interview with Actor Keir Gilchrist

• A Girl’s World: an interview with Production Designer Michael Perry

• Rigid slipcase with new artwork by ThinhDinh

• 150 page book with new essays by Anne Billson, Martyn Conterio, Kat Ellinger, Eugenio Ercolani, Matt Glasby, Kat Hughes,  Jennie Kermode and Katie Rife 

• 6 collectors’ art cards 

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Four Film Noir Classics: Volume 3 Limited Edition

release date: 7th August 2023 

 

Vengeful army vets, ruthless organised criminals, and desperate parent-child psychodramas await you in these four classics from noir streets less travelled. This collection of noir’s neglected treasures doesn’t stick to the city streets: from smuggling contraband in the skies over Asia to drowning beneath the torrent of a Hollywood waterfall, the genre’s darkness lurks everywhere.

 

• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of four films: Calcutta, Ride the Pink Horse, Outside the Law and The Female Animal

• Audio commentaries by leading scholars and critics Nick Pinkerton (Calcutta), Josh Nelson (Ride the Pink Horse), Richard Harland Smith (Outside the Law) and David Del Valle (The Female Animal)

• Brand new visual essays on Ride the Pink Horse and The Female Animal by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

• Brand new visual essay on Outside the Law by author and producer Kat Ellinger

• Vintage radio play version of Ride the Pink Horse, starring Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix and Thomas Gomez

• Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Scott Saslow

• Double-sided fold-out posters for each film featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Scott Saslow

• Limited edition hardback collector’s book featuring new writing on the films by film critics Andrew Graves, Jon Towlson, Barry Forshaw and Nora MacIntyre

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Ruben Ostlund: A Curzon Collection Limited Edition

release date: 14th August 2023 

 

For the first time ever, this comprehensive collection of the works of the acclaimed, maverick filmmaker Ruben Östlund boasts his complete feature filmography to date. Along with his two Palme d’Or-winning films The Square and Triangle of Sadness, the collection also includes three of his earlier short films, six bespoke invitation cards and an exclusive, specially-created card game endorsed by the filmmaker himself.

 

• Hard cover box set in a canvas slipcase

• 6 Feature Films: Gitarrmongot, Involuntary, Play, Force Majeure, The Square, Triangle of Sadness

• 3 Short Films: Family Again, Autobiographical No. 6882, Incident by a Bank

• New masterclass and interviews with Ruben Östlund.

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Crimes of the Future – Limited Edition

release date: 28th August 2023 

 

In the near future, a couple of performance artists push the boundaries of taste and decency with daring shows of mutilation and organ mutation. All the while a shadowy government agency is closing in on a terrorist group that are pushing for the next evolution in the human experience.

 

• Dual format edition including both UHD and Blu-ray with main feature and bonus features on both discs

• Undeniably a Love Story: an interview with Director David Cronenberg

• Things Change: an interview with Actor Viggo Mortensen

• The Chaos Inside: an interview with Actor Léa Seydoux

• New Flesh, Future Crimes: The Body and David Cronenberg – a video essay by Leigh Singer

• The Making of Crimes of the Future

• Short film: The Death of David Cronenberg

• Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Marko Manev

• 120 page  book with new essays by Reyna Cervantes, Tim Coleman, Joel Hartley, Rich Johnson, Mikel Koven, Phil Nobile Jr, Ian Schultz and Hannah Strong

• 6 collectors’ art cards 

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Weird Science – Limited Edition

release date: 21st August 2023 

 

If you can’t get a date… make one! After proving himself the king of heartfelt teen flicks with Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, writer-director John Hughes infused the genre with a hefty dose of wacked-out sci-fi comedy in Weird Science, a film where every teenage boy’s wildest fantasies come to life. 

Perennially picked-on high school nerds Gary (Anthony Michael Hall, Sixteen Candles) and Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) are sick of their status at the bottom of the social food chain. Using Wyatt’s computer, the two hatch a plan to create their dream woman – and following a massive power surge, that woman unexpectedly appears in the form of Lisa (Kelly LeBrock). Gorgeous, intelligent, and blessed with limitless magic powers, Lisa makes the boys’ dreams come true… but what about Wyatt’s gun-toting psycho older brother Chet (Bill Paxton), and the two bullies (Robert Downey Jr and Vamp’s Robert Rusler) determined to put them back in their place?

Inspired by EC Comics and boosted by a killer soundtrack (including the classic title theme by Oingo Boingo), Weird Science has never looked better than in this new 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray edition, including an extended version of the film and hours of bonus content.

 

• New restoration by Arrow Films from a 4K scan of the original negative 

• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) of the original Theatrical Version of the film (94 mins), plus seamlessly-branched exclusive Extended Version (97 mins), featuring two additional scenes

• Casting ‘Weird Science’, an interview with casting director Jackie Burch 

• Dino The Greek, an interview with supporting actor John Kapelos 

• Chet Happens, an interview with special makeup creator Craig Reardon 

 

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Bloodsport – Limited Edition Mediabook

release date: 21st August 2023 

 

In his youth, American Frank Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) was taught the art of ninjutsu by Japanese martial arts master Senzo Tanaka. When he finds out Tanaka is dying, Dux travels to Hong Kong in his honor to participate in the Kumite – a secret full-contact competition in which fighters from all over the world put their lives on the line. He has only one goal in mind; to leave the arena as the winner. This martial arts classic is released as a 2-disc Limited Collector’s Edition with film in 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Vision for the first time in the UK

 

• An Uppercut Into the Action Movie A-List – A Knock out Interview with Jean-Claude Van Damme

• Blood Writes – Writing a Cannon Classic with Sheldon Lettich

• Wham! Bam! Thank You, Van Damme! – Back in The Ring with Director of Photography David Worth

• A Sporting Chance – Blood, Sweat, and Stunts with Paulo Tocha

• Tunes to Tap Out to – The Music of Paul Hertzog

• Audio Commentary with Sheldon Lettich, Paulo Tocha and James Bennett

• Theatrical Trailer

• 24-page Booklet

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Time Bandits – Limited Edition

release date: 28th August 2023 

 

The film that established Terry Gilliam as more than just Monty Python’s resident animator, this delightfully inventive children’s fantasy is about young Kevin (Craig Warnock) who finds himself travelling through holes in the space-time continuum in the company of half a dozen fractious dwarfs. Along the way, he encounters Agamemnon (Sean Connery), Robin Hood (John Cleese), Napoleon (Ian Holm) and winds up as a passenger on the Titanic, although not necessarily in that order. But is this just random entertainment laid on for history fan Kevin’s benefit, or part of a wider struggle between the forces of Good (Ralph Richardson) and Evil (David Warner)?

This is a rare example of an independent British film taking on American blockbusters. Now, it’s a much-loved fantasy classic bursting with inspired images and ideas: Gilliam and co-writer Michael Palin (who also appears) are clearly enjoying themselves as much as their audience.

 

• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) 

• Chasing Time Bandits – an interview with Terry Gilliam 

• Writing the Film that Dares Not Speak Its Name – an interview in which Michael Palin discusses co-writing and acting in Time Bandits 

• The Effects of Time Bandits – an interview in which Kent Houston, founder of the Peerless Camera Company, discusses Time Bandits’ optical effects 

• Playing Evil – an interview in which actor David Warner remembers producer George Harrison and playing Evil in Time Bandits 

• Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original theatrical artwork and a recreation of the map seen in the film 

• Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring writing on the film by critic James Oliver

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Twin Dragons – Deluxe Collector’s Edition

release date: 21st August 2023 

 

On holidays in Hong Kong, Mrs Ma gives birth to identical twins. A criminal in the same hospital attempts to escape, taking one of the twins hostage. The child is lost during the confusion, and Mr and Mrs Ma return to New York with one child. Years later, John Ma is a famous conductor and pianist, unaware that his twin brother “Boomer” is a mechanic/race car driver/bodyguard in Hong Kong. When John travels to Hong Kong to give a concert, the twins get caught up in each other’s business, about which they are anything but experts.

 

• Limited Edition Rigid Slipcase with New Artwork by Sean Longmore

• Double-sided foldout poster with New Artwork and Original Poster Art

• 80 Page Perfect Bound Book with new writing on the film by Paul Bramhall and Thorsten Boose

• 4x Artcards

• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray™ presentation in 2.39:1 Aspect Ratio

• Original Hong Kong Theatrical Cut (104 mins approx)

• Interview with Actors Tung Wei and James Ha


• Japanese Version Exclusive Scene

• Taiwanese Deleted Scenes

• Archive Jackie Chan Interview

• Archive Behind the Scenes Footage

• Japanese Trailer

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Fight Back to School Trilogy – Deluxe Collector’s Edition

release date: 21st August 2023 

 

Before he wowed the world with Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle, Stephen Chow was Hong Kong’s best kept – and funniest – secret, and the Fight Back to School trilogy sees him at his hilarious best.

Here he’s Star Chow, the toughest cop on the force… until some over-zealous police-work takes his career in a different direction: he’s sent under-cover at a school. There he finds there are worse things than battling triads, like homework, maths tests and falling in love with your teacher.

And once he’s solved that case, he’s back undercover in the sequels, demonstrating that he should have paid more attention in his lessons. This is the first time all three films have been released together on blu-ray, and 88 Films are thrilled to present the world premier of this classic trilogy of Cantonese comedy.

 

• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray™ presentation in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio

• Lossless 2.0 Cantonese Mono

• Cantonese DTS-HD MA 5.1

• Newly Translated English Subtitles

• Audio Commentary by Hong Kong Film Experts Frank Djeng and F.J. DeSanto

• Theatrical Trailer

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