The Silence of the Lambs

 

release date: 26th august 2024

 

Following an early career directing low-budget exploitation movies for producer Roger Corman, by the 1990s, Jonathan Demme was known best for making quirky comedies (Something Wild, Married to the Mob) and music documentaries (Stop Making Sense) – that is, until he signed on to adapt Thomas Harris’ best-selling thriller The Silence of the Lambs. The resulting film – a sombre, enthralling nightmare vision of psychopathology – became a five-time Academy Award® winner and made cannibal mastermind Hannibal Lecter a household name.

 

• High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation

• Newly restored original lossless 2.0 stereo soundtrack

• Optional lossless 5.1 soundtrack

• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Brand new audio commentary by critics Elizabeth Purchell & Caden Mark Gardner

• Anthony Hopkins phone message

• Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeve featuring two original choices of artwork

• Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Alexandra West, Josh Nelson, Sam Moore and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

• Double-sided fold-out poster, featuring two original choices of artwork

• Six double-sided, postcard-sized lobby card reproduction artcards

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Incendies

 

release date: 26th august 2024

 

101 Films presents acclaimed drama Incendies (2010), the breakthrough film from director Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049, Dune), released on 4K UHD for the first time. Before he emerged as one of Hollywood’s biggest names, Villeneuve adapted this harrowing story of Canadian twins who travel to an unnamed country in the Middle East with a history of religious conflict. Villeneuve’s powerful and heartbreaking tale is presented here from a new 4K master, supervisedand approved by the director himself. A mother’s dying wish creates a painful puzzle her children are forced to solve. At the reading of their mother’s will, twins Jeanne and Simon are given instructions to locate the father they believed was dead and the brother neither knew existed. They travel to the Middle East to piece together the story of the woman who brought them into the world, only to make a shocking discovery.

 

• Remembering the Ashes: Incendies Through Their Eyes 

• Commentary withDenis Villeneuve 

• Interview withDenis Villeneuve 

• Q & A with Denis Villeneuve 

• Limited edition booklet: includes ‘The Empathy and Alchemy of Denis Villeneuve’ by Rich Johnson, ‘Symphony for the Devil: Finding the Darkness of Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies’ by James Mottram and Q&A with Director Denis Villeneuve from Venice 2010

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Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza

 

release date: 26th august 2024

 

Weary of the rigid codes of the underworld, gambler Tokijiro (Kinnosuke Nakamura, Goyokin) wanders Japan in search of freedom. But escape proves to be impossible when an obligation to a gang boss leaves him with no choice but to kill a man. To atone for his crime, he vows to take care of his victim’s widow and young son. But the gang won’t rest until they’ve killed the entire family – including the man who stands in their way. With this breathtakingly stylised film, Tai Kato broke all the conventions of the yakuza genre, fusing blood-spurting action with melodrama worthy of Japanese cinema’s greatest masters.

 

• High-Definition digital transfer

• Uncompressed mono PCM audio

• Interview with film critic Koushi Ueno about the film’s place in genre cinema history (2024)

• A visual essay on star Kinnosuke Nakamura by Japanese cinema expert Robin Gatto (2024)

• New and improved English subtitle translation

• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow

• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by scholar Ivo Smits and a newly translated archival review 

• Limited Edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

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Crumb

 

release date: 5th august 2024

 

Terry Zwigoff’s landmark 1995 film is an intimate documentary portrait of the underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art. Zwigoff candidly and colorfully delves into the details of Crumb’s incredible career and life, including his family of reclusive eccentrics, some of the most remarkable people you’ll ever see on-screen. At once a profound biographical portrait, a riotous examination of a man’s controversial art, and a devastating look at a troubled family, Crumb is a genuine American original.

 

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Terry Zwigoff, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray

• Two audio commentaries, one featuring Zwigoff from 2010, and one with Zwigoff and critic Roger Ebert from 2006

• More than fifty minutes of unused footage

• Stills gallery

• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• PLUS: A new essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum and artwork by Charles, Jesse, Maxon, and Robert Crumb

• Cover illustration by R. Crumb

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Viva la Muerte!

 

release date: 26th august 2024

 

As the Spanish Civil War draws to a close, Fando, a young boy, is tormented by violently conflicting feelings towards his mother, who he suspects may have had a role in his father’s capture by fascists; feelings that manifest themselves as a nightmare onslaught of terrifying and bizarre imagery. Based on Fernando Arrabal’s own brutal experiences during the Civil War, Viva la muerte is a shockingly provocative work of surrealist cinema from the artist and filmmaker, who co-founded the ‘Panic Movement’ collective alongside Alejandro Jodorowsky. Acclaimed on release by critics and scorned by censors, Viva la Muerte would later achieve notoriety as a midnight movie, and was a favourite film of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

 

• New 4K restoration of the original 35mm negative by the Cinémathèque Toulouse in collaboration with Fernando Arrabal

• Audio discussion from the Project Booth podcast featuring Mike White, Heather Drain and Jess Byard (66 mins)

• Sur les traces de Baal – a short documentary by Abdellatif Ben Ammar in which the filmmaker followed Arrabal’s film and captured him at work on Viva la Muerte! (1970, 20 mins) 

• VIDARRABAL – a feature-length documentary on Arrabal by Xavier Pasturel Barron capturing the life and work of this singular filmmaker, playwright, painter and essayist, featuring interviews with admirers, friends and family, including members of the Panic Movement he founded (2011, 98 mins)

• Booklet featuring new writing by Sabina Stent and archival interview with Fernando Arrabal

• Limited Edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

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Night on Earth

 

release date: 19th august 2024

 

Five cities. Five taxicabs. A multitude of strangers in the night. Jim Jarmusch assembled an extraordinary international cast of actors (including Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Béatrice Dalle, and Roberto Benigni) for this quintet of transitory tales of urban displacement and existential angst, all staged as encounters between cabbies and their fares. Spanning time zones, continents, and languages, Night on Earth winds its course through scenes of uproarious comedy, nocturnal poetry, and somber fatalism, set to a moody soundtrack by Tom Waits. Jarmusch’s lovingly askew view of humanity from the passenger seat makes for one of his most charming and beloved films, a freewheeling showcase for the cosmopolitan range of his imagination.

 

• High-definition digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

• Selected-scene commentary from 2007 featuring director of photography Frederick Elmes and location sound mixer Drew Kunin

• Q&A with Jarmusch from 2007, in which he responds to questions sent in by fans

• Belgian television interview with Jarmusch from 1992

• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• PLUS: Essays by filmmakers, authors, and critics Thom Andersen, Paul Auster, Bernard Eisenschitz, Goffredo Fofi, and Peter von Bagh, and the lyrics to Tom Waits’s original songs from the film

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The Mexico Trilogy

 

release date: 26th august 2024

 

A Tex-Mex tornado of fire and fury, writer-director Robert Rodriguez’s astonishing ‘Mexico Trilogy’ broke fresh new ground in American independent and action cinema, catapulting the filmmaker and his largely Hispanic cast and crew into the Hollywood stratosphere.

Rodriguez’s ingenious 1993 debut El Mariachi (infamously filmed for only $7000) sees a naive young musician entering a godforsaken border town and finding himself in the middle of a deadly case of mistaken identity. The major studio follow-up Desperado sees Antonio Banderas take up the mantle of the mysterious Mariachi, stalking the Mexican underworld with enough bullets up his sleeves for every bandito in his path. Finally, 2003’s Once Upon a Time in Mexico sees Rodriguez use every cutting-edge technological innovation in his arsenal to bring the trilogy’s explosive conclusion to the screen, as the Mariachi finds himself in the center of a bloody war for the soul of Mexico itself.

Fun, fast and full of invention and inspiration, this deadly trio cemented Robert Rodriguez’s reputation as an action auteur worth following, and are accompanied here by insightful new interviews with the director and his crew of collaborators.

 

• high definition (1080p) blu-ray presentations of all three films

• 4k (2160p) ultra hd blu-ray presentation in dolby vision (hdr10 compatible) of desperado

• illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing by carlos aguilar and nicholas clement

• reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by paul shipper

• double-sided posters featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by paul shipper

• collectable poster featuring robert rodriguez’s original poster concept for el mariachi

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World Noir Vol. 2

 

release date: 26th august 2024

 

As the 1960s got underway, the golden age of film noir in Hollywood came to an end, with a new wave of filmmaking emerging that would define itself against the studio system. But while the classic noir fell out of favour with American audiences and producers, filmmakers from across the world – particularly in countries that continued to grapple with the devastating fall out of the Second World War – continued to produce first-rate examples of the genre, with three such examples collected here, in our second volume of titles showcasing the best of World Noir.

 

• 4K restoration of Symphony for a Massacre by Pathé, presented on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK

• 2K restoration of Black Gravel by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, presented on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK

• High-Definition digital transfer of Cruel Gun Story, presented on Blu-ray for the first time in the world

• Original uncompressed mono PCM audio for all films

• Newly designed artwork based on original posters

• Limited edition 80-page perfect bound book by critics and experts including Carmen Gray on post-war German politics and film, Elena Lazic on Jose Giovanni, David Hering on noir’s evolution in the 1960s, and Jake Cole on the filmography of Joe Shishido

• Limited Edition of 3,000 copies presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases for each film and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

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The Complete Confessions

 

release date: 26th august 2024

 

Robin Askwith (Britannia Hospital) stars in THE COMPLETE CONFESSIONS, 1974–1977, the definitive collection of the celebrated British sex-comedy series. Based on the pseudonymous Timothy Lea novels by screenwriter Christopher Wood (The Spy Who Loved Me), each instalment follows the fortunes of the feckless and accident-prone – yet seemingly irresistible – Timmy (Askwith) as he gets embroiled in the money-making schemes of his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett (Anthony Booth, Corruption).

 

• High Definition presentations of Confessions of a Window Cleaner, Confessions of a Pop Performer, Confessions of a Driving Instructor, and Confessions from a Holiday Camp

• Standard Definition presentation of Rosie Dixon – Night Nurse

• All-new audio commentaries on all four Confessions film by the much-loved star of the series, Robin Askwith (2024)

• Confessions of a Film Composer (2024): interview with prolific film and TV composer Ed Welch, the man responsible for scoring three Confessions movies, and Rosie Dixon – Night Nurse

• Limited edition exclusive 120-page book with a new essay by Simon Sheridan, archival interviews and articles, and film credits

• World premieres on Blu-ray

• Limited edition box set of 5,000 individually numbered units for the UK

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Three Men in a Boat

 

release date: 26th august 2024

 

Directed by Ken Annakin (Monte Carlo or Bust, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines), Three Men In A Boat stars Laurence Harvey (Women of Twilight, Room at The Top), David Tomlinson (Mary Poppins, The Love Bug) and Jimmy Edwards (The Bed Sitting Room, Innocents in Paris) as three Edwardian men-about-town want to get away from it all and decide to take a boat ride on the Thames. 

Harris (Jimmy Edwards), J (David Tomlinson), and George (Laurence Harvey) decide to take a holiday boating up the Thames to Oxford. George is happy to spend time away from his desk at the bank, Harris is glad to get away from Mrs. Willis (Martita Hunt) who is pressing him to marry her daughter Clara (Adrienne Corri) and ‘J’ is simply keen to take a break from his wife, Etherbertha (Noelle Middleton). Quickly finding themselves in all manner of complications thanks to the Hampton Court maze, tents, rain, locks and Henley Regatta, the accident-prone threesome feel their luck is changing upon meeting three girls; Sophie (Shirley Eaton) and sisters Bluebell (Jill Ireland) and Primrose (Lisa Gastoni), who are also taking a ride up the river. However, things again take a turn for the worse with the surprise appearance of Mrs. Willis, her daughter and Ethelbertha…

 

 

• tracing the source: an interview with jeremy nicholas

• messing around on the river: an interview with matthew sweet

• b&w stills gallery

• scanned and restored original camera negative in 4k to produce a brand new hd master

• original trailer

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