Drive

 

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Oscar Isaac, Christina Hendricks and Ron Perlman

 

A laconic best in the business getaway driver with a strict professional code has his life loner lifestyle turned upside down when he falls for his neighbour Irene. With her ex-con husband owing protection money she’s drawn into a dangerous underworld and only the driver can save her.

 

• A Special Edition release presented by Second Sight Films and Director Nicolas Winding Refn

• Dolby Atmos and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 audio

• New exclusive audio commentary by Nicolas Winding Refn and The Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw

• Drive: a 70 minutes conversation with Nicolas Winding Refn, Editor Mat Newman and Composer Cliff Martinez 

• Cutting a Getaway – a new interview with Mat Newman

• 3 Point Turns – a new video essay by Leigh Singer

• Optional English subtitles for the hearing impaired

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In Bruges

 

Director: Martin McDonagh

Starring: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds

 

Violent crime comedy directed by Martin McDonagh, starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes. When hitmen Ray and Ken (Farrell and Gleeson) are ordered to murder a priest in London, and the job goes wrong, they are told by their boss Harry (Fiennes) to lay low for a couple of weeks in the quaint city of Bruges, Belgium. However, Ray finds himself very much outside his comfort zone and his contrary ways lead him into increasingly dangerous situations with locals, tourists and a film crew.

 

• Six Shooter: Martin McDonagh’s Oscar Winning Short Film in HD

• Shoot First, Sightsee Later: A New Interview With Director of Photography Eigil Bryld

• Finding the Rhythm: A New Interview With Editor Jon Gregory

• Finding Bruges: A New Interview With Production Designer Michael Carlin

• The Alcove Guy: A New Interview With Actor Eric Godon

• When in Bruges – interviews with cast and crew and on-set footage

• Strange Bruges – interviews with cast and crew and on-set footage

• Deleted Scenes

• Boat Trip Around Bruges

• Gag Reel

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The Babadook

 

Director: Jennifer Kent

Starring: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman and Hayley McElhinney

 

Widowed mother Amelia is struggling following the violent death of her husband and her son Samuel’s fears that a monster is coming for them. When a storybook featuring the sinister Mister Babadook appears in their home, Samuel is convinced he is the monstrous creature and Amelia slowly begins to sense a very real ominous presence.

 

• A new audio commentary by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson

• This is my House: a new interview with Actor Essie Davis

• The Sister: a new interview with Actor Hayley McElhinney

• Don’t Let It In: a new interview with Producer Kristina Ceyton

• Conjuring Nightmares: a new interview Producer Kristian Moliere
  

• Shaping Darkness: a new interview with Editor Simon Njoo
  

• If It’s in a Name or in a Look: a new interview with Production Designer Alex Holmes

• The Bookmaker: a new interview with the book designer Alexander Juhasz

• Monster: Jennifer Kent’s original short film

• They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making Of

• There’s No Place Like Home: Creating The House

• Special Effects: Stabbing Scene

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Raw

 

Director: Julia Ducournau

Starring: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella

 

Strict vegetarian Justine faces a merciless onslaught of hazing rituals during her first week at veterinary school. One of these is the eating of raw meat and desperate to fit in she can’t refuse. This taste of flesh not only compromises her principles but awakens an uncontrollable craving with horrific consequences.

 

• The Girl Can’t Help It: a new interview with Actor Garance Marillier

• Making Ends Meat: a new interview with Producer Jean des Forets

• New audio commentary by film critic Alexandra West

• Audio Commentary with Julia Ducournau and film critic Emma Westwood

• In the Name of Raw: an interview with Director Julia Ducournau

• A Family Affair: a new video essay by film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

• Raw À Votre Goût –featurette with Julia Ducournau & film critic Emma Westwood

• Quick Bites with Julia Ducournau & film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

• Genre Matters Panel Discussion

• Alternative opening, deleted scenes, trailers

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The Witch

 

Director: Robert Eggers

Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie and Harvey Scrimshaw

 

New England, 1630. Upon threat of banishment by the church, an English farmer leaves his colonial plantation and relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of an ominous forest—within which lurks an unknown evil. Strange and unsettling things begin to happen —animals turn malevolent, crops fail, one child disappears and another seems to become possessed by an evil spirit. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, daughter Thomasin is accused of witchcraft.

 

• Archive audio commentary by Director Robert Eggers

• New audio commentary by film writer and broadcaster Anna Bogutskaya

• A Puritan Nightmare: a new interview with Robert Eggers

• Embracing Darkness: a new interview with Anya Taylor-Joy

• Love Thy Father: a new interview Ralph Ineson

• A Pious Wife: a new interview with Actor Kate Dickie

• Caleb’s Lament: a new interview with Actor Harvey Scrimshaw

• A Primal Folktale: features interviews with Robert Eggers and cast

• BFI London Film Festival Q&A with Robert Eggers, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson and Producer Jay Van Hoy

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World on a Wire

 

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Starring: Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben

 

Simulacron 1 is a highly advanced project, designed to elevate conventional computer technology to a new level by creating a virtual reality inhabited by computer-generated people or ‘identity units’. When the head of the project dies mysteriously after showing signs of mental disturbance, Dr Stiller becomes his successor. As he begins to probe deeper into Simulacron, the line between the real and virtual world becomes increasingly blurred and his own existence is questioned.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s acclaimed science fiction classic has been hugely influential, with themes that would later be explored in films such as The Matrix.

 

• No Strings Attached – an interview with assistant director Renate Leiffer

• Observing Fassbinder – a tribute to photographer Peter Gauhe

• Looking Ahead to Today documentary

• On-set featurette

• Original Broadcast Recap

• The Simulation Argument – an interview with Professor Nick Bostrom

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Dog Soldiers

 

Director: Neil Marshall

Starring: Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby and Liam Cunningham

 

On a routine training mission in the Scottish Highlands, a small squad of British soldiers come across the bloody remains of a Special Forces team with a sole survivor. They soon discover the savage attackers are werewolves, and as the full moon rises they face a long night ahead and a fight for their lives.

 

• A new restoration from the Original Camera Negative approved by Director Neil Marshall and Director of Photography Sam McCurdy

• Archive audio commentary by Director Neil Marshall

• Archive audio commentary by Archive audio commentary by Producers David E. Allen and Brian O’Toole

• New audio commentary by writer and Associate Professor of Film Alison Peirse

• Werewolves, Crawlers, Cannibals and More: a new 40-minute interview with Neil Marshall

• A History of Lycanthropy: author Gavin Baddeley on Werewolf Cinema

• Werewolves, Folklore and Cinema: a video essay by author Mikel J. Koven

• Werewolves vs Soldiers: The Making of Dog Soldiers with Neil Marshall, Producers Christopher Figg and Keith Bell, Actors Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Darren Morfitt, Leslie Simpson and Emma Cleasby, Special Effects Artist Bob Keen and more!

• A Cottage in the Woods: an interview with Production Designer Simon Bowles

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Absolute Beginners

 

Director: Julien Temple

Starring: Patsy Kensit, Eddie O’Connell, David Bowie

 

Musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes’ novel about teenage life in 1950s London. Set in 1958, young photographer Colin (Eddie O’Connell) falls in love with aspring model Crepe Suzette (Patsy Kensit), but her interests lie more in her budding career than in the affections of a man. When Crepe leaves town to pursue her dreams, Colin is taken under the wing of advertising executive Vendice Partners (David Bowie) who helps him realise that he can have his own career. The soundtrack includes songs by Sade, Tenpole Tudor and The Style Council as well as the title track by David Bowie.

 

• First time release for a brand new 2k restoration of the film

• Absolute Ambition: A newly produced 53 minute documentary featuring interviews with Julien Temple, Stephen Woolley, Nik Powell, Oliver Stapleton, John Beard, Ted Tudor Pole and Eddie O’Connell

• English Subtitles for the Hard of Hearing

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Asylum

 

Director: Roy Ward Baker

Starring: Peter Cushing, Robert Powell, Herbert Lom, Britt Ekland

 

When Doctor Martin arrives for a job interview at a secluded asylum for the incurably insane, he must prove himself by listening to the macabre tales of four inmates and deducing which is the former head of the facility who suffered a breakdown. A chilling anthology of terror from Amicus Productions.

 

• Audio commentary with Director Roy Ward Baker, Camera Operator Neil Binney and film historian Marcus Hearn

• Two’s a Company: 1972 On-set BBC report featuring interviews with Producer Milton Subotsky, Director Roy Ward Baker,

• Actors Charlotte Rampling, James Villiers, Megs Jenkins, Art Director Tony Curtis and Production Manager Teresa Bolland

• Screenwriter David J. Schow on Writer Robert Bloch

• Fiona Subotsky Remembers Milton Subotsky

• Inside The Fear Factory: Featurette with Directors Roy Ward Baker, Freddie Francis and Producer Max J. Rosenberg

• Theatrical Trailer

• Reversible sleeve featuring new artwork by Graham Humphreys and original artwork

• Optional English Subtitles for the hard of hearing

 

 

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