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Fopp’s picks
June 2025
New restorations, deluxe packaging, and long-lost gems – this month’s collector’s editions are a feast for cinephiles.
road house
road houserelease date: 2nd june 2025
available on 4k uhd & blu-ray
Patrick Swayze stars in one of the defining films of the 1980s: Road House, a neon-lit action extravaganza with riveting fight scenes and possibly the coolest protagonist in American cinema. In Jasper, Missouri, the Double Deuce might be the roughest bar around, where fights break out every night, drugs are dealt under tables and the staff skim off the top. But there’s a new sheriff in town: professional cooler and martial artist James Dalton has just been recruited as head of security and begins to class up the joint by roundhouse kicking ruffians and firing bartenders with sticky fingers. Soon the Double Deuce is turned around into the hottest club in Jasper – but Dalton’s exploits provoke the ire of Brad Wesley, the local crime-lord who maintains a vice-like grip on the town. Featuring a star-studded supporting cast including Sam Elliott, Kelly Lynch and Ben Gazzara as the nefarious Wesley, Road House remains the undisputed champion of 80s ass-kicking action!
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Booklet
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Bonus Footage
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Commentary:
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Rowdy Herrington
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Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier (‘Road House’ fans)
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Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Mark Bell
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Double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Mark Bell
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Double Deuce coaster
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Selected interview soundbites
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
release date: 9th june 2025
available on 4k uhd
The angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. She plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a handsome garage mechanic, played by Nino Castelnuovo. When the boy is shipped off to fight in Algeria, the two lovers must grow up quickly. Exquisitely designed in a kaleidoscope of colors, and told entirely through lilting songs by the great compo-ser Michel Legrand, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is one of the most revered and unorthodox movie musicals of all time.
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New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by Ciné-Tamaris and approved by Mathieu Demy, director Jacques Demy’s son, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
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Alternate 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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Once Upon a Time . . . “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” a 2008 documentary
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Interview with film scholar Rodney Hill
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French television interview from 1964 featuring Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand discussing the film
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Archival audio interviews with Legrand and actor Catherine Deneuve at the National Film Theatre in London
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Demonstration of the 2013 restoration
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Trailer
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PLUS: An essay by critic Jim Ridley
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palindromes
release date: 23rd june 2025
available on 4k uhd & blu-ray
Ever since she was small, Aviva has desperately wanted a baby. Now a teenager – with thoughts and feelings her well-meaning parents Joyce (Ellen Barkin, Drop Dead Gorgeous) and Steve (Richard Masur, The Thing) don’t quite know how to handle – she’ll stop at nothing to make that dream a reality. Played by a cast of rotating actors, including Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight) and Sharon Wilkins, Aviva’s journey towards motherhood never would run smooth. Bringing his trademark dry wit to another series of taboos, Todd Solondz’s portrait of middle-American girlhood interrogates the naivety and hypocrisy of the post-9/11 psyche that continues to shape US public life and policy.
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4K restoration from the original negative by the Museum of Modern Art approved by writer-director Todd Solondz
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4K UHD with Dolby Vision HDR and Blu-ray presentation of the feature
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Uncompressed stereo PCM audio
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New interview with Todd Solondz (2025)
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Todd Solondz and His Cinema of Cruelty, a new video essay by critic Lillian Crawford (2025)
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Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
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Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
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Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Bence Bardos, extracts from the original press book, plus archival interviews with Solondz and composer Nathan Larson
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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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species
release date: 23rd june 2025
available on 4k uhd & blu-ray
With a creature designed by H. R. Giger and cast which includes Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, and Natasha Henstridge in her feature debut, Species is the perfect mix of shocking sci-fi with the added bonus of a very sexy, and seductive alien. Sil (Henstridge) is creation of alien DNA which has been spliced with that of a human. She grows and develops incredibly quickly into a creature capable of killing all in her path with only one thing on her mind, to successfully reproduce and continue her extermination of the whole human race. Visually stunning with a knowing nod to the classic B-movies of the 50s, this big budget fantasy manages to balance gruesome effects with cinema’s most beautiful monster.
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New 4K remaster from the Original Negatives presented in Ultra High Definition (2160p) in 2.35:1 Aspect Ratio
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Striking a Chord – Christopher Young on Species
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Muscle Man – Jordan Lund on Species
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Audio Commentary with Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen and Director Roger Donaldson
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Audio Commentary with Director Roger Donaldson, Make-Up Effects Creator Steve Johnson, Visual Effects Supervisor Richard Edlund and Producer Frank Mancuso Jr.
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Audio Commentary with Critics Kim Newman and Film-maker Sean Hogan
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After Birth: The Evolution of Species
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The Making of Species: The Origin, The Concept, The Discovery
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Designing a Hybrid
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Reversible sleeve featuring original art
The Quatermass Xperiment
release date: 9th june 2025
available on 4k uhd
The definitive science-horror story and the film that catapulted Hammer from a B-picture studio into the majors, The Quatermass Xperiment still retains its power to shock seven decades after its initial release. Brian Donlevy stars as the legendary Professor Quatermass, alongside Jack Warner, Margia Dean and Richard Wordsworth in this brand-new 4K restoration from original film elements, presented in both its original as-filmed fullscreen and as-exhibited widescreen aspect ratios. When the British-American Rocket Group sends an experimental manned spacecraft into outer space they soon lose contact and it crash-lands over two days later. But, as the scientists force entry to rescue the three-man crew, they find to their horror only one astronaut and two empty space-suits…
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Five discs in a stylish digipak, including two UHD and three Blu-ray, with the Hammer content duplicated across both formats. English, French, Italian, Spanish, German subtitles on all versions of the film.
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Three iterations of The Quatermass Xperiment: the widescreen 1.66:1 UK Theatrical Version, the fullscreen 1.37:1 As-Filmed Version and the widescreen 1.85:1 US Theatrical Version re-titled The Creeping Unknown.
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Brand-new 5.1 mix for 1.37:1 and 1.66:1 versions alongside the original mono film soundtrack.
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A rigid inner box featuring new artwork by cult favourite artist Graham Humphreys.
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Eight act cards featuring facsimiles of the original UK cinema lobby cards.
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180 page booklet featuring new and reprint articles and reproductions of original publicity.
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56-page comic featuring a reprint of the comic strip from legendary 1970s magazine The House of Hammer.
dark city
release date: 23rd june 2025
available on 4k uhd & blu-ray
From Alex Proyas, visionary director of The Crow, comes Dark City, a mind-bending science fiction thriller set in a shadowy world where the sun never rises and nothing is quite what it seems. John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) wakes in a hotel bathtub with no memory of who he is or how he got there, but there’s a body on the floor with bloody spirals carved into the flesh and a voice on the phone that tells him to flee. Soon Murdoch is on the run, wanted by the police, a woman who claims to be his wife and a group of mysterious pale men who seem to control everyone and everything in the city… except him. With a cast that includes Kiefer Sutherland (The Lost Boys), William Hurt (A History of Violence), Jennifer Connelly (Phenomena) and Richard O’Brien (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), and a script by Proyas, Lem Dobbs (Kafka) and David S. Goyer (Batman Begins), Dark City is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, filmed through a lens of film noir and German expressionism… an extraordinary feast for the cinematic senses.
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Limited edition packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Doug John Miller
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Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Doug John Miller
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Three postcard-sized reproduction art cards
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Postcard from Shell Beach
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Dr Schreber business card
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Director’s Cut: Introduction by Alex Proyas
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Design and Storyboards
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Trailers
twentyfourseven
release date: 23rd june 2025
available on blu-ray
In a 1990s east Midlands town, youth from local housing estates are struggling to find purpose. Recently returned to his hometown, Alan Darcy (Bob Hoskins) interrupts their lives by reviving the boxing club of his youth. Directed by cult favourite Shane Meadows (This is England), TwentyFourSeven charts the story of working-class youngsters finding friendship, self-respect and meaning in post-industrial England. Shot in black and white, and featuring music by Tim Buckley, The Charlatans, Van Morrison and Paul Weller, this alternately heartwarming and confronting film is threaded with a sense of undeniable hope.
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Newly remastered by the BFI and presented in High Definition
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Newly recorded audio commentary by Andrew Graves
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The Guardian Interview: Shane Meadows and Bob Hoskins (1997/2025, 79 mins)
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Ritchie, The World’s Light-Weight Boxing Champion (1914, 1 min): newsreel capturing Willie Ritchie’s victory over the incumbent light-weight champion Freddie Welsh
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Twelve Hours Punching (1924, 2 mins): amateur fighters trade blows at a variety of weights during a boxing tournament at London’s Alexandra Palace
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Trailers (1997, 4 mins)
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**FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet featuring new essays by Andrew Graves, Caj Sohal and Tim Coleman
the wind will carry us
release date: 2nd june 2025
available on blu-ray
The mysteries of everyday life come into astonishing focus in one of Abbas Kiarostami’s greatest cinematic achievements. A slyly self-reflexive commentary on the director’s own artistic practice, The Wind Will Carry Us unfolds with unhurried majesty as it follows an undercover documentarian (Behzad Dorani) whose assignment to cover a small village’s funeral rites is continually frustrated by an elderly woman’s refusal to die. Along the way, though, he forges surprising, unsettling, and enlightening connections with those he meets. Suffused with Kiarostami’s love for people, poetry, and the arid beauty of rural Iran, this meditative masterpiece reflects upon the boundaries between intimacy and alienation, tradition and modernity, with the utmost grace.
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Language(s): Persian
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Subtitles: English
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Interactive Menu
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Screen ratio 1 – 1.85:1
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Mono
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Bonus Footage
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Documentaries: ‘A Week With Kiarostami’ (1999)
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Interviews: Abbas Kiarostami (writer/director)
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Video essay presenting Kiarostami’s poetry narrated by Massoumeh Lahiji
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Essay by Kaveh Akbar (poet/novelist)
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New cover by Eric Skillman
the black torment
release date: 23rd june 2025
available on blu-ray
Returning home to introduce his new bride to his father, Sir Richard Fordyke (John Turner: The Giant Behemoth) is horrified when he’s blamed for an unspeakable murder. But he will soon face even worse, as dark secrets emerge and the ghosts of his past rise against him.
From legendary producer Tony Tenser (Witchfinder General, The Blood on Satan’s Claw) and director Robert Hartford-Davis (Corruption), The Black Torment is a richly atmospheric gothic shocker from the glory days of British horror. 88 Films are proud to present this underrated gem, finally restored to its full spine-tingling splendour.
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First pressing slipcase
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First pressing booklet by Barry Forshaw
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High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation in original 1.66:1 aspect ratio
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Original English mono soundtrack
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Optional English SDH subtitles
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Audio commentary by film historian Troy Howarth
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Audio commentary by Kim Newman and Stephen Jones
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Annette Whiteley and Roger Croucher on The Black Torment
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Peter Dansie Remembers The Black Torment
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Image gallery
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Reversible sleeve featuring new artwork by Sean Longmore & original poster art
Chantal Akerman Collection: Volume 2 – 1982-2015
release date: 23rd june 2025
available on blu-ray
Born in Brussels in 1950 to parents who had survived the Holocaust, Chantal Akerman directed more than 40 films (short, medium and feature-length) over almost 50 years, spanning fiction, documentary, musical comedy and literary adaptation. Today, she is regarded as one of the most important and influential directors of her generation. Akerman’s personal, non-conformist body of work has resonated with cinephiles globally and become increasingly relevant since her death in 2015, with filmmakers including Joanna Hogg (The Eternal Daughter), Céline Sciamma (Petite Maman), Alice Diop (Saint Omer) and Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez), among others, citing her radical and experimental approach to cinema as a direct inspiration.
Although best known for her landmark second narrative feature, Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), which topped the Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time Poll in 2022 (becoming the first female-directed film to take the number one spot since the poll’s inception in 1952), Akerman never stopped rebelling, continuously experimenting throughout her career to challenge the formal and narrative boundaries of film.
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Five Blu-ray set featuring 12 landmark films by Chantal Akerman
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No Home But Cinema: The Spaces of Chantal Akerman (2025): video essay by writer and critic Jessica McGoff
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72-page perfect bound book featuring new essays by Erin Nunoda, Daniella Shreir, Rachel Pronger, Ivone Margulies, Elena Gorfinkel, Blair McClendon, Catherine Wheatley, Iván Ramos, Adam Roberts, Marion Schmid, Alisa Lebow and Cristina Álvarez López
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Limited edition of 2,000 copies