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fopp’s picks

august 2026

Pulled from vault negatives, pressed to high-capacity disc, and dressed in luxury packaging. This is how movie history lives on. here are augusts pick’s:

troy

release: 17th august 2026
available on 4k uhd / blu-ray

 

From director-producer Wolfgang Petersen (Poseidon, Das Boot) comes Troy, an epic tale of love, war and devastation. Adapted from Homer’s classic poem The Iliad, Troy demonstrates the undeniable gravitas and inevitability of Homer’s narrative even after millennia.
When Helen of Sparta (Diane Kruger), though married, elopes with the Trojan prince Paris (Orlando Bloom) and flees to Troy, they’re followed by war of unimaginable proportions. Helen’s husband Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson) summons a united army of Greece led by the arrogant Agamemnon (Brian Cox) and driven forward by the bold and courageous Achilles (Brad Pitt). As the armies of Greece and Troy clash, so too do their greatest champions – Achilles and Hector (Eric Bana) in a conflict that brings devastation to both kingdoms. In this colossal epic, witness huge battlescapes, one-on-one duels worthy of a Colosseum and the fall of a once-great nation.

 

  • Video & Presentation: Brand new 4K remasters of both the Director’s Cut and Theatrical Cut from the original 35mm camera negative by Arrow Films, 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible), Original lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio plus stereo audio, Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Archival & Extras: Troy Revisited – An archival introduction by director Wolfgang Petersen, In Movie Experience – An archive picture-in-picture commentary of the film, Troy in Focus – A series of archival behind-the-scenes featurettes, In the Thick of Battle – An archival behind-the-scenes featurette, From Ruins to Reality – An archival behind-the-scenes featurette, Troy: An Effects Odyssey – An archival behind-the-scenes featurette, Attacking Troy – An archival behind-the-scenes featurette
  • Packaging & Collectibles: Limited Edition 3-Disc Set (2x 4K UHD Discs + 1x Blu-ray Disc), Collectors’ booklet featuring new writing on the film by Priscilla Page and Laurie Maguire and an excerpt from the original production notes, Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork

paris is burning

release: 17th august 2026
available on blu-ray

 

Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, Paris Is Burning offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses,” from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women – including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza – Paris Is Burning brings it, celebrating the joy of movement, the force of eloquence, and the draw of community.

 

  • Archival & Extras: Audio commentary with director Jennie Livingston, ball community members Freddie Pendavis and Willi Ninja, and film editor Jonathan Oppenheim, Interview with LGBT film historian Jenni Olson, New conversation between Jennie Livingston, ball community member Sol Pendavis, Freddie Pendavis, and filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris, 1991 episode of ‘The Joan Rivers Show’ featuring Jennie Livingston alongside ball community members Dorian Corey, Pepper LaBeija, Freddie Pendavis, and Willi Ninja, Outtakes, Trailers
  • Packaging & Collectibles: Booklet featuring an essay by filmmaker Michelle Parkerson and a 1991 review by poet Essex Hemphill, New cover artwork by Eric Skillman

armour of god

release: 10th august 2026
available on 4k uhd

 

Move over Indiana Jones! The very great Jackie Chan stars as ‘the Asian Hawk’, an adventurous archaeologist who’s about to face his greatest challenge: an evil cult is on the trail of some priceless artefacts and heaven help us if they get hold of them. If Hawk can’t stop them then the whole world is in danger!
Chock full of the trademark Chan action and death-defying stunts (including one that damn near killed him for real), Armour of God sees Jackie at the very height of his powers, building to a truly explosive climax. 88 Films are delighted to present on of his greatest adventures for the first time, in the highest quality on ravishing 4K.

 

  • Video & Presentation: Brand-new 4K restorations in 1.85:1 aspect ratio from the original 35mm camera negatives, Presented in Dolby Vision High Dynamic Range (HDR10 compatible), 4K (2160p) UHD and High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations across the Hong Kong Cut (98 mins), International Cut (88 mins), and Japanese Cut (98 mins), Multiple audio options including original theatrical 2.0 Cantonese mono, home video mix Cantonese mono, classic English dub, hybrid Cantonese/English, 5.1 English DTS-HD MA, and optional credit music tracks (‘Lorelei’ or ‘Flight of the Dragon’), Newly-translated English subtitles and optional English subtitles
  • Archival & Extras: Audio commentary with East Asian film experts Frank Djeng and F.J. DeSanto (HK Cut), Solo audio commentary with Frank Djeng (HK Cut), Audio commentary with Kenneth Brorsson and Phil Gillon (HK Cut), Playing with Dynamite – Featurette with assistant directors Stanley Kwan and Alexander Chan, The Art of Action with Scott Adkins & Matt Routledge, Jackie Chan on VHS – The VPD Years with Steve Lawson
  • Packaging & Collectibles: Limited Edition 4K UHD & Blu-ray set, O-Ring and Rigid Slipcase featuring artwork by Sean Longmore, 80-page perfect-bound book, Double-sided fold-out poster

the abominable snowman

release: 31st august 2026
available on 4k uhd

 

Hammer icon Peter Cushing and Hollywood hard-man Forrest Tucker give powerful performances as a well-meaning scientist and an arrogant entrepreneur, both intent on trapping the fabled Yeti, in Hammer’s The Abominable Snowman. Re-teaming Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale and BAFTA-winning director Val Guest, this thrilling fantasy horror has been painstakingly restored by Hammer in 4K from the original film negatives.
Dr Rollason and his team, on a scientific expedition in the Himalayas, are guests at an isolated monastery. Then a second expedition turns up – intent on trapping the legendary Yeti in a money-making venture.

 

  • Video & Presentation: Two iterations of the film including the widescreen 2.35:1 UK Theatrical Version (The Abominable Snowman) and the widescreen 2.35:1 US Theatrical Version (The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas), Brand-new 5.1 mix for both versions alongside the original mono soundtrack, Optional English, French, Italian, Spanish, and German subtitles
  • Archival & Extras: New audio commentary on The Abominable Snowman with actor and comedian Toby Hadoke and Nigel Kneale’s biographer Andy Murray, New audio commentary on The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas with cult movie expert Toby Roan and Cereal at Midnight podcaster Heath Holland, Archive 1999 audio commentary featuring writer Nigel Kneale, director Val Guest, and Hammer expert Marcus Hearn
  • Packaging & Collectibles: Leather-feel slipcase with debossed foil titling, Rigid inner box featuring new artwork by Joe Avery, Double-sided poster of original one-sheets, 8 art cards featuring facsimiles of original cinema lobby cards, 120-page book featuring new articles by Bruce Hallenbeck, Andrew Pixley, Wayne Kinsey, Andy Murray, Sarah Morgan, Neil Sinyard, and Barry Forshaw

django shoots first

release: 24th august 2026
available on 4k uhd / blu-ray

 

When sharpshooting drifter Glenn Garvin (Glenn Saxson)—better known across the border as Django—stumbles upon a ruthless bounty hunter hauling his father’s corpse, he guns the killer down and heads to the boomtown of Silver Creek to claim the reward himself. Upon arrival, Django uncovers a web of deceit: his late father co-owned the town’s lucrative bank and saloon alongside Ken Kluster (Nando Gazzolo), a ruthless tyrant who framed and orchestrated his partner’s murder.
Determined to claim his rightful inheritance, Django plunges into a deadly conflict of ambushes and double-crosses. To take down Kluster’s empire, he must navigate an uneasy alliance with a cane-wielding stranger (Alberto Lupo) and dodge the lethal charms of Kluster’s scheming wife (Evelyn Stewart). Directed with kinetic flair by Alberto De Martino and scored by Bruno Nicolai, Django Shoots First (1966) is a essential Spaghetti Western packed with acrobatic brawls, noir twists, and razor-sharp gunplay.

 

  • Archival & Extras: Audio commentary with filmmaker and author Alex Cox, ‘Dust and Gunfire’ documentary, Interview with actor Erika Blanc, Interview with actor Evelyn Stewart
  • Packaging & Collectibles: Booklet, Interactive disc menu

bill and ted’s bogus journey

release: 17th august 2026
available on 4k uhd

 

In 1991, director Peter Hewitt kicked things into a whole new dimension with Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, a sequel that trades time-travel hijinks for a wildly inventive trip through the afterlife. Reuniting Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as the dim-but-destined heroes, this bodacious blockbuster pushes the series into darker, weirder and even more excellent territory.
When evil robot doubles of Bill and Ted are sent back to ruin their future, the real dudes find themselves facingan untimely demise. Cast into the beyond, they must outwit Death himself, navigate Heaven, Hell and everything inbetween, and find a way back to save their babes and get back in time for the Battle of the Bands.

 

  • Video & Presentation: 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible), Original lossless stereo audio, Optional remixed DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio, Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Archival & Extras: Audio commentary by actor Alex Winter and producer Scoot Kroopf, Audio commentary by co-writers/co-producers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, Bill and Ted Go to Hell – A 2016 retrospective documentary featuring interviews with Reeves, Winter, Kroopf, Matheson, production designer David L. Snyder, production illustrator Simon Murton, and actors William Sadler, Amy Stock-Poynton, and Hal Landon Jr.
  • Packaging & Collectibles: Reversible sleeve featuring two original artwork options, Collectors’ booklet featuring original production notes and a Bill & Ted Speak glossary

billy liar

release: 3rd august 2026
available on 4k uhd

 

Tom Courtenay delivers a star-making turn as William Terrence Fisher (Billy Liar) in one of the most memorable and universally acclaimed films of the 60s. Running from an unsympathetic working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancées and an insecure job at an undertakers, Billy escapes, Walter Mitty-like, into a world of fantasy where he can realize his dream ambitions. As work and family pressures build to new intolerable levels, Liz (an early, charismatic turn from Julie Christie), enters his drab life and offers Billy the one real chance he’ll ever get to leave the past behind. Scripted by Keith Waterhouse from his own novel, and sensitively directed by John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy), Billy Liar is one of the few comedies of the British ‘New Wave’, marrying visual and verbal wit with a rather poignant rumination on the futility of dreams.

 

  • Archival & Extras: NEW – Billy Liar: Alice Lowe and Danny Leigh in Conversation, NEW – The Women of Billy Liar by Samira Ahmed, Audio commentary with John Schlesinger, Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie, Audio commentary by Kat Ellinger, Remembering Billy Liar with Tom Courtenay and Helen Fraser, Interview with Richard Ayode, A look through the Keith Waterhouse Archive with British Library Curator Zoe Wilcox, Interview with Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley
  • Packaging & Collectibles: 64-page booklet, poster, calendar

the card player

release: 10th august 2026
available on 4k uhd / blu-ray

 

In The Card Player, Dario Argento, the undisputed Master of Horror, reinvents the giallo for the digital age, channelling the anxieties of a newly networked world into the taut framework of a macabre police procedural. Argento’s career-long obsession with sight, surveillance, and the camera as an instrument of violation finds a startling new form: the webcam as a murder weapon and the screen as a crime scene. It is an unflinching reckoning with horror in an age where anyone can watch anything – and anyone can be watched. When a sadistic, faceless killer begins abducting young women across Rome, he issues a monstrous challenge to the police: play high-stakes poker online via webcam. Win, and the victim is released. Lose, and her execution is streamed in real-time. Inspector Anna (Stefania Rocca – Nirvana, One Way) and Irish Interpol Agent John Brennan (Liam Cunningham – Game of Thrones) must hunt a “ghost in the machine” predator who treats murder like a spectator sport. Part of the “Evolutionary Argentos” – a quartet of fiercely inventive films straddling the millennium – this overlooked relentlessly tense horrific thriller reveals the Master at his most contemporary, confronting our rapidly changing world.

 

  • Video & Presentation: Screen ratio 1.85:1, 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
  • Archival & Extras: Audio commentary with Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson, ‘On the Set of ‘The Card Player” documentary, Interview with writer/director/producer Dario Argento, Interview with actor Stefania Rocca, Interview with actor Fiore Argento, Interview with editor Walter Fasano, Interview with writer Franco Ferrini, Interview with art director/production designer Antonello Geleng, Interview with actor Elisabetta Rocchetti
  • Packaging & Collectibles: Booklet, Two-sided artcard, Original poster

ten women in black

release: 17th august 2026
available on blu-ray

 

A television executive’s nine mistresses conspire with his wife to have him killed. When Miwako, one of the mistresses, tells him of the plot, he decides to fake his own death in front of them all. The women panic and deny that they were ever serious about the murder, while Miwako even takes her own life in remorse. But when they find out the man is still alive, they put their original plan back into action. Given complete creative freedom, Kon Ichikawa made this dark satire, one of the undiscovered gems of Japan’s cinematic Golden Age. Featuring a stunning cast of Daiei studio divas and striking monochrome photography by Setsuo Kobayashi (Blind Beast), this is a merciless dissection of social relations and gender roles in affluent post-war Japan.

 

  • Video & Presentation: 4K restoration by Kadokawa Pictures, Original uncompressed mono audio, New and improved English subtitle translation
  • Archival & Extras: The Kon Ichikawa Story – A feature-length documentary directed by Shunji Iwai featuring Ichikawa and his wife and screenwriter Natto Wada (2006), Trailer, More to be confirmed
  • Packaging & Collectibles: Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters, Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Yuka Kimbara, Limited edition of 3000 copies presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

break in the circle

release: 10th august 2026
available on 4k uhd

 

Skip Morgan, self-styled nautical adventurer, is hired by Baron Keller to smuggle an old friend out of Eastern Europe. But things are not what they seem: kidnapped, beaten and hunted from all sides, Morgan must use all his cunning just to survive.

 

  • Video & Presentation: Three versions of Break in the Circle including the As-filmed version, UK cinema widescreen version, and Black-and-white re-edited US cinema version, Subtitles in English, French, Italian, Spanish and German across every version of the film
  • Archival & Extras: Eurocrime – A new feature exploring Hammer’s unique contribution to European crime thrillers with Sergio Angelini, Laura Mayne and Barry Forshaw, Hammer in Hamburg – Then-and-now comparison of the film’s German locations, Hammer in Cornwall – Then-and-now comparison of the film’s UK locations, Brand-new commentary with film historian Richard Holliss and author/screenwriter Gavin Collinson, Brand-new commentary with film critic Adrian Martin, Gallery of stills and publicity material accompanied by selections from Doreen Carwithen’s score, Archive interview with director Val Guest
  • Packaging & Collectibles: Collector’s Booklet featuring new writing and archival material including Wayne Kinsey on the making of this fast-paced thriller, Miriam Balanescu on Forrest Tucker’s small-but-significant British film output, Wayne Kinsey on the use of Oakley Court in Hammer productions, Neil Sinyard comparing the original novel with the finished film, and Sarah Morgan profiling Eva Bartok

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