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Fopp’s Picks
November 2024
with collector’s edition releases for gummo, seven samurai and more, november is shaping up to be a great month for film collectors. here’s our picks for november.
gummo – The Criterion Collection
release date: 4th november 2024
Harmony Korine’s debut feature is an audacious, lyrical evocation of America’s rural underbelly, and an elegy in the southern-gothic tradition of William Faulkner and William Eggleston. Shot in Korine’s native Nashville—standing in for the tornado-ravaged Xenia, Ohio—the rough-hewn film follows two young friends, Tummler and Solomon, as they ride around town, huffing glue and hunting stray cats, their every local encounter charged with vaudevillian anarchy as well as deep pathos. At once transgressive and empathetic, disturbing and undeniably beautiful, Gummo is a one-of-a-kind portrait of angelic and devilish souls caught in a cultural void, circumscribed by poverty and the depleted, alienated spiritual life of late-twentieth-century America.
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New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Harmony Korine
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2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
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One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR
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One Blu-ray with the film and special features
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New interview with Harmony Korine
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Conversation from 1997 between Korine and filmmaker Werner Herzog
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Split Screen: Projections episode from 2000 featuring Korine in conversation with host John Pierson
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Trailer
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English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
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New illustration by Joao Rosa
Seven Samurai Limited Edition
release date: 18th november 2024
One of the greatest films of all time, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai has influenced the work of directors from George Lucas to Steven Spielberg, and spawned remakes, most notably John Sturges’ acclaimed The Magnificent Seven. When 16th-century farmers whose village is repeatedly attacked by merciless bandits ask an elderly, masterless samurai (Takashi Shimura) for help, offering nothing but food in return, he hesitantly agrees and assembles a band of warriors to defend and train the villagers. Boasting terrific performances (with Shimura and Toshiro Mifune – as a peasant masquerading as a samurai – particularly memorable), superb camerawork, and expertly mounted battle sequences, Seven Samurai is undoubtedly one of the greatest action movies ever made. Newly restored by Toho in 4K, the BFI is delighted to release this all-time classic on UHD for the first time. Available as a limited edition 2-disc set with a book, a set of four postcards and a double-sided poster.
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4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
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Double-sided poster featuring artwork by Matt Needle and the BFI’s poster designed for the film’s rerelease
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A set of four postcards featuring iconic scenes from the film
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Perfect-bound book featuring new and archival writing on the film
release date: 11th november 2024
Three film students head into the woodlands of Maryland in search of the Blair Witch, a local legend that has haunted the town of Burkittsville for centuries, as part of a documentary project. They were never seen again. This footage is all that remains of that fateful excursion.
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A new Second Sight Films restoration from the original Hi-8 videotapes and 16mm film elements, supervised and approved by the Producers and Directors
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2-disc edition Includes restored and remastered Original Theatrical Cut and Festival Cut plus original-release version
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Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Timothy Pittides
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184-page hardback book with archive production materials and new essays by Stacey Abbott, Becky Darke, Adam Hart, Craig Ian Mann, Mary Beth McAndrews, Dr. Cecilia Sayad, Pete Turner and Heather Wixson
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Heather’s Journal
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3 collectors’ art cards
release date: 25th november 2024
Richard Adams’ timeless novel is brought brilliantly to life as Hazel,Fiver and Bigwig tackle the brutal realities of the rural world – and mankind’s devastating impact on it – as they lead their colony to the utopian Watership Down. Newly restored in 4K by the BFI and Silver Salt Restoration, using the original 35mm negative and stereo audio tracks, this landmark animation is presented in Ultra High Definition for the very first time.
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4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
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Double-sided poster featuring the original UK quad and the 2024 rerelease artwork
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A set of four postcards featuring iconic scenes from the film
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Perfect-bound book featuring writing by Jez Stewart, Catherine Lester, Nigel and Klive Humberstone, Angela Morley, Charlie Brigden, Lillian Crawford, Vic Pratt, Tim Coleman, Caroline Millar Tony Dykes and Michael Brooke
release date: 11th november 2024
Campy, quirky and stuffed to the brim with more double entendres than your average Carry On movie, 1988’s Elvira: Mistress of the Dark helped solidify the horror hostess (played by Cassandra Peterson) as a major pop culture icon, here owning every inch of the screen with her quick wit, sass, and of course, cleaving-enhancing gown!
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Brand new 4K restoration by Arrow Films
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4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
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Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sara Deck
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Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring writing on the film by Sam Irving, Kat Ellinger and Patterson Lundquist
release date: 25th november 2024
Before Hong Kong’s mightiest film studio mastered the art of the kung fu film, Shaw Brothers hit box office gold with a very different kind of martial arts cinema, one that channelled the blood-soaked widescreen violence of Japanese samurai epics and Italian spaghetti westerns into a uniquely Chinese form: the wuxia pian. With their enthralling tales drawn from historical myth and legend of sword-wielding (and often gravity-defying) noble heroes, the wuxia films housed in this next instalment of Arrow Video’s best-selling Shawscope series demonstrate the sweeping stylistic evolution of the genre.
release date: 11th november 2024
Since its first publication in 1955, Jack Finney’s classic sci-fi/horror novel The Body Snatchers has inspired numerous adaptations and created a whole subgenre of era-defining alien doppelgangers in books, film, and TV. 2007’s The Invasion was ahead of the curve, its eerily predictive shift toward a virus-like contagion more frighteningly resonant in a post-pandemic world.
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4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
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Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing by film critics William Bibbiani and Sally Christie
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Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket
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Double-sided fold out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket
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Brand new audio commentary by film critics Andrea Subisati and Alexandra West, co-hosts of The Faculty of Horror podcast
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Body Snatchers and Beyond, a new visual essay by film scholar Alexandra Heller Nicholas
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That Bug That’s Going Around, a new visual essay exploring The Invasion as pandemic prophecy by film scholar Josh Nelson
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We’ve Been Snatched Before, an archival featurette from 2007
release date: 18th november 2024
Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder were two of American cinema’s best-loved comic actors, and this box set collects three of their classic collaborations. In Stir Crazy, Skip (Wilder) and Harry (Pryor) are sentenced to 125 years for a bank robbery they didn’t commit and must rely on each other to survive in a maximum-security prison. In See No Evil, Hear No Evil, blind Wally (Pryor) and deaf Dave (Wilder) team up to foil a murderous gang of thieves. Finally, in Another You, compulsive liar George (Wilder) is mistaken for the heir to a fortune, to the delight of conman Eddie (Pryor).
This essential three-disc collection features newly remastered versions of all three films, accompanied by an array of fascinating contextualising extras, including newly recorded commentaries, interviews, and critical appreciations, as well as a 100-page book containing new and archival writings. Strictly limited to 6,000 individually numbered units.
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High Definition remasters of Stir Crazy, See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Another You
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Limited edition exclusive 100-page book with new essay by Jeff Billington, extracts from archival interviews with Pryor and Wilder, archival production reports on Stir Crazy, extracts from the films’ pressbooks, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and full film credits
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UK premiere on Blu-ray
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Limited edition of 6,000 individually numbered units for the UK
release date: 18th november 2024
Tomie is a creepy supernatural chiller directed by Ataru Oikawa (screenwriter of the pioneering Japanese horror Door) and featuring a chilling turn by the sensational Miho Kanno (Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness, Dolls). Arrow Video is proud to present this key title from the J-Horror boom of the late 1990s, which spawned a string of sequels, for the first time on Blu-ray outside of Japan, with a host of newly produced extras.
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High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
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Original lossless 5.1 and 2.0 stereo audio
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Brand new audio commentary by critic and Japanese cinema expert Amber T.
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It’s a Girl’s World, a brand new interview with director Ataru Oikawa
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Scream Queen, a brand new interview with actress Mami Nakamura
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From Manga to Screen, a brand new interview with producer Mikihiko Hirata
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Image gallery
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Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing by Zack Davisson and Eugene Thacker
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Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sara Deck
Godzilla – The Criterion Collection
Godzilla – The Criterion Collection
release date: 11th november 2024
Godzilla (a.k.a. Gojira) is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning more than thirty sequels. A thrilling, tactile spectacle that continues to be a cult phenomenon, the original 1954 Japanese version is presented here, along with Godzilla, King of the Monsters, the 1956 “Americanised” version.
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New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
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One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
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High-definition digital restoration of Godzilla, King of the Monsters, Terry Morse’s 1956 reworking of the original, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
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Audio commentary for both movies by film historian David Kalat
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Interview with Japanese-film critic Tadao Sato
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The Unluckiest Dragon, an illustrated audio essay featuring historian Greg Pflugfelder describing the tragic fate of the fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryu Maru, a real-life event that inspired Godzilla
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Trailers
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PLUS: An essay by critic J. Hoberman
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Cover by Bill Sienkiewicz