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july 2025

A treasure trove for cinephiles awaits in this month’s collector’s editions, boasting deluxe packaging, new restorations, and rare discoveries.

 

 

a hard day’s night

release: 7th july 2025
available on 4k uhd / blu-ray 

 

Meet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the U.S. scene with their Ed Sullivan Show appearance, John, Paul, George, and Ringo began working on a project that would bring their revolutionary talent to the big screen. This film, in which the bandmates play slapstick versions of themselves, captured the astonishing moment when they officially became the singular, irreverent idols of their generation and changed music forever. Directed with raucous, anything-goes verve by Richard Lester (The Knack . . . and How to Get It) and featuring a slew of iconic pop anthems – including the title track, “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “I Should Have Known Better,” and “If I Fell” – A Hard Day’s Night, which reconceived the movie musical and exerted an incalculable influence on the music video, is one of the most deliriously entertaining movies of all time.

 

  • Documentaries: In Their Own Voices, Things They Said Today, Picturewise, Anatomy of a Style
  • Interviews: Mark Lewisohn (Beatles biographer)
  • Additional Features: Making-of Documentary, Essay by Howard Hampton (critic), Cover by Rodrigo Corral, Short film by Richard Lester: The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1960)

human traffic

release: 21st july 2025
available on 4k uhd / blu-ray 

 

Looking for an escape from boring 9-5 jobs, bad relationships, and dysfunctional families, five Cardiff friends plan a night out to remember, where all that exists is clubs, drugs, pubs and parties. Journey with them through the highs and lows of the weekend, substance-induced and otherwise, for wild escapades and unexpected epiphanies. Hailed as ‘the last great film of the nineties’ by The Guardian this cult classic of the ‘Cool Cymru’ era has been newly restored in 4K. Boasting Danny Dyer in a full-on feature debut, Human Traffic is an unapologetic celebration of 90s club culture and youthful hedonism with an unparallelled soundtrack, featuring Matthew Herbert, Fatboy Slim, Brainbug and Orbital. The weekend has landed.

 

  • Documentaries: Nice One Bruvva (2025), Rave (1997)
  • Interviews: Renata S. Aly (executive producer), Danny Dyer (actor)
  • Additional Features: Booklet, Bonus Footage, Commentary by Mark Searby (critic), Deleted Scenes, Human Traffic pop promo, Trailers

quatermass 2

release: 14th july 2025
available on 4k uhd 

 

Brian Donlevy returns as Professor Quatermass in this hit sequel from Hammer Films – a film which, if anything, is more eerily prescient and gruesomely shocking than its predecessor. Quatermass and his colleague Marsh investigate the remote Winnerden Flats for traces of a swarm of hollow, symmetrical meteorites. But when one explodes and Marsh is injured, Quatermass is beaten and Marsh is forcibly taken into custody by a group of zombified paramilitary thugs.

 

  • Documentaries: Reviving Quatermass 2, A Question of Character, The Legend of Nigel Kneale: Enemy from Space, Doubling Down: Uncovering Quatermass 2, Man of Action, Quatermass Crew
  • Interviews: Val Guest (director)
  • Additional Features: Booklet, Bonus Footage, Commentary by Toby Hadoke (actor/comedian), Andy Murray (Nigel Kneale’s biographer), Stephen R. Bissette (artist/film historian), Brontë Schiltz (writer/academic), Jon Dear (author/producer), Val Guest, Nigel Kneale (writer), Marcus Hearn (Hammer expert), Ted Newsom (documentarian/Hammer expert), Constantine Nasr (film-maker/Hammer expert), and Dr. Steve Haberman (writer/producer); Image Gallery, Double-sided poster of original one-sheets, Eight art cards featuring facsimiles of original US cinema lobby cards, 60-page comic reprinting the strip from The House of Hammer, Foreign titles, Super 8 cut-down version, Original BBFC censor cards for Quatermass 2, Quatermass II: All six episodes of the 1955 BBC serial

narc

release: 7th july 2025
available on 4k uhd / blu-ray

 

A natural successor to the violent thrillers of the 70s, director Joe Carnahan’s breakthrough Narc brings the genre screaming into a new era, setting the standard for the modern cop drama with its gritty, unrelenting tone and style. In wintry Detroit, narcotics cop Nick Tellis (Jason Patric, The Lost Boys) is recovering from an undercover operation gone wrong. In the hopes of being assigned a quiet desk job, he agrees to return to active duty and partner up with Detective Henry Oak (Ray Liotta, Goodfellas) to investigate the apparent murder of Oak’s former partner. As both men become lost in the depths of the case, boundaries become blurred, and their relationship begins to vacillate between intensely personal and unsettlingly suspicious.

 

  • Additional Features: Booklet, Bonus Footage, Commentary by Joe Carnahan and John Gilroy (editor), Image Gallery, Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Nathanael Marsh, Double-sided poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Nathanael Marsh, Introduction from John Carnahan, Trailers
  • Documentaries: Shooting Narc, Making the Deal, The Visual Trip, The Friedkin Connection, Shooting Up
  • Interviews: Joe Carnahan (writer/director), Krista Bridges (actor), Gersha Phillips (costume designer), Vintage EPK interviews with Joe Carnahan, Ray Liotta (actor), Jason Patric (actor), Diane Nabatoff (producer), Alex Nepomniaschy (cinematographer), William Friedkin (director)

tourist trap

release: 7th july 2025
available on blu-ray

 

A group of unsuspecting young travellers stumbles upon “Slausen’s Lost Oasis,” an eerie, long-abandoned wax museum hidden deep in the countryside. What begins as an innocent detour soon turns into a nightmarish trap, as they discover the sinister secrets lurking within its crumbling walls. Presiding over this grotesque sideshow is the enigmatic Mr. Slausen, a seemingly harmless caretaker harbouring a terrifying obsession. As the night unfolds, the travellers are plunged into macabre and sordid chambers of horror where wax figures come to life, and escape is nothing more than an illusion.

 

  • Additional Features: Booklet, Bonus Footage,
  • Commentary by David Schmoeller, Trailers
  • Interviews: Charles Band (Full Moon founder), Ted Nicolaou (editor), Jocelyn Jones (actor), Chris Alexander (film critic), David Schmoeller (director)

women in love

release: 14th july 2025
available on 4k uhd

 

Ken Russell’s lauded D H Lawrence adaptation is a sophisticated meditation on the complexities of human relationships and the shifting social mores of a country shell-shocked by World War One. Women in Love was hailed upon its release, earning four Academy Award nominations, and the Best Actress Oscar for Glenda Jackson. Audiences flocked to see its famous, erotically charged naked wrestling scene, and critics celebrated the film’s opulent design, handsome cinematography and the compelling ensemble performances of Alan Bates, Jennie Linden, Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson. Often regarded as Russell’s masterpiece, Women in Love endures as one of British cinema’s finest achievements.

 

  • Additional Features: Booklet, Bonus Footage, Commentary by Ken Russell (director) and Larry Kramer, Image Gallery, Short film starring Alan Bates: Second Best (1972), Trailers
  • Documentaries: A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible (1989), The Pacemakers: Glenda Jackson (1971)
  • Interviews: Alexander Verney-Elliott (Ken Russell’s son), Larry Kramer (writer/producer), Alan Bates (actor), Jennie Linden (actor), Billy Williams (cinematographer), Glenda Jackson (actor, audio only)

seven deaths in the cat’s eye

release: 28th july 2025
available on blu-ray

 

The vampire genre gets an injection of 70s giallo glamour thanks to a cast which includes Jane Birkin, Hiram Keller and Anton Diffring in Antonio Margheriti’s Seven Deaths In The Cat’s Eye. This compelling chiller is set in Scotland where, in a crumbling old castle, its inhabitants are being bumped off one-by-one. Could the legend of a vampire haunting with in its cold walls be true and is it the cause of these mysterious deaths? Gothic with an infusion of erotic charm, the film also contains an undercurrent of social commentary. Look out for Birkin’s singer/songwriter friend Serge Gainsbourg in a cameo as a police Inspector.

 

  • Special Edition Features: Limited edition rigid slipcase with artwork by Graham Humphreys, 40-page perfect bound book featuring new writing on the film by Francesco Massaccesi & Tim Murray, Art card
  • Technical Specifications: Newly color-graded and restored by 88 Films from a studio-supplied master, High Definition Blu-ray presentation in 2.35:1 aspect ratio, English Mono 2.0 audio, Italian Mono 2.0 audio with new English subtitles
  • Audio Commentary: Troy Howarth (Italian cinema expert), Nathaniel Thompson and Eugenio Ercolani (Italian cinema experts)
  • Documentaries & Visual Essays: A Man For All Seasons – Interview with Alessandro Perrella, The More You Hear, The More You Love – Interview with Enrico Ortolani Sternini, Serge & Jane on the Parnassus, Seven Deaths in a Son’s Eye – Interview with Edoardo Margheriti, Mr. Margheriti Against Normality – Visual essay by Mike Foster, Dawson’s Eyes – Visual essay by Pier Maria Bocchi

what have they done to your daughters?

release: 7th july 2025
available on blu-ray

 

Massimo Dallamano’s razor-sharp thriller WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS? masterfully fuses the stylized violence of giallo with the gritty realism of poliziotteschi in a thematic follow-up to his acclaimed ‘What Have You Done to Solange?’. Transforming genre conventions into vehicles for societal commentary, this film dares to expose the organized grooming and sexual exploitation of young women – and the institutional corruption behind it. When a teenage girl’s body is discovered hanging in an attic, it is District Attorney Vittoria Stori who leads the investigation. Toppling genre and period conventions, we see the captivatingly beautiful Giovanna Ralli portraying the DA with striking gravitas. She brings both steely determination and sensitivity to the ground-breaking role of a woman heading a team of hardened police detectives. As her team – including the famed Mario Adorf (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) – uncovers a web of high-level depravity and secrecy, a mysterious black-clad motorcyclist armed with a butcher’s cleaver begins eliminating witnesses and detectives alike. With their lives at stake, the officers race to uncover the truth before becoming the killer’s next victims.

 

  • Additional Features: O-card featuring newly commissioned artwork, Collectors reversible sleeve with original cinema poster
  • Commentary: Rachael Nisbet (genre expert), 
  • Documentaries: The Unused Hardcore Footage Enigma

midnight

release: 14th july 2025
available on blu-ray

 

Screwball comedy doesn’t get any more effortlessly elegant and gleefully irreverent than this roulette wheel of romantic deception, gleaming with cunning wit and Continental élan. A couture-clad Claudette Colbert is divine as a penniless American chorus girl who crashes Parisian high society by posing as a wealthy Hungarian baroness – but both a scheming nobleman (John Barrymore) and a smitten taxi driver (Don Ameche) are soon on to her game. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett’s sophisticated script – a typically subversive blend of fairy-tale escapism and caustic social observation – and the pitch-perfect direction of master craftsman Mitchell Leisen yield a topsy-turvy Cinderella story with a cynical bite.

 

  • Bonus Footage
  • Commentary: Michael Koresky (author/film critic)
  • Program: Audio excerpts from a 1969 interview with director Mitchell Leisen
  • Radio Adaptation: Lux Radio Theatre version of the film (1940)
  • Essay: By David Cairns (film critic)
  • Cover Art: New cover by Abigail Giuseppe

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