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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
four mothers
release date: 16th june 2025
available on blu-ray
Edward (James McArdle), a novelist saddled with caring for his elderly mother, now finds himself on the brink of literary success. With pressure to go on a US book tour mounting, the last thing Edward needs is his friends jetting off to Spain for an impromptu Pride holiday, leaving their mothers on his doorstep! Over a chaotic weekend, he has to juggle his burgeoning career with the care of four eccentric, combative, and wildly different ladies.
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Presented in High Definition
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Audio commentary with director Darren Thornton and writer Colin Thornton
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The Absurdity in These Moments: An Interview With James McArdle (2025, 25 mins): the actor discusses his upbringing, training and collaboration on Four Mothers
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Frankie (2007, 12 mins): a 15 year-oldschoolboy prepares to become a father in this short film written and directed by Darren Thornton
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Two Hearts (2011, 17 mins): short film written by Colin Thornton and directed by Darren Thornton. A man from Lorna’s past is released from prison, spiralling her out of control
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Four Mothers: Making Of(2023, 5 mins): a selection of behind-the-scenes clips and interviews with the cast and director
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Trailer
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**FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet with new writing on the film by Simon McCallum and director Darren Thornton, writing on Frankie and Two Hearts by Rachel Pronger and original review by Nick Davis
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 good, the bad and the ugly
release date: 23rd june 2025
available on 4k uhd & blu-ray
With the two preceding films in his “Dollars” trilogy having unleashed a boom in Euro Western productions, Sergio Leone knew that his concluding chapter would have to top them all. Armed with his largest budget yet, Leone created what is, for many, the final word on the subject – a violent, picaresque epic presented with operatic scope and intensity, with Clint Eastwood donning the iconic hat and poncho one last time. Mythic, cynical and endlessly entertaining, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly brings Leone’s grand sense of dramatic scale to its apotheosis. Arrow Films is proud to present this landmark Western in the most comprehensive edition ever assembled, featuring both cuts of the film meticulously restored in glorious 4K, and a wealth of new and archival bonus materials.
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New 4K restoration of the 162-minute International Cut using the original 2-perf Techniscope negative
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High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
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Newly restored original lossless English mono audio
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Optional newly remixed lossless English DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio
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Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
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Audio commentary by film critic and historian Tim Lucas
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Theatrical trailers, TV spots and radio spots
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Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
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Perfect bound collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Abbey Bender, Anton Bitel, Howard Hughes and Tambay Obenson
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Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
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
murder rock
release date: 23rd june 2025
available on 4k uhd & blu-ray
One of Lucio Fulci’s most over-looked movies, Murder Rock is a gem of giallo which has been polished and finally given the respectful release it deserves. The plot is pretty straight forward; a male model and the head of an acclaimed Dance Academy team up to try and solve the bloody murders of dancers, but both (as you may have expected) hide dark secrets. By relying on suspense rather than blood-splattered set-pieces, Murder Rock allows the viewer to be a voyeur on the deranged behaviour of a damaged mind. New released fort he first time in a brand new 4K Dolby Vision master by those psycho’s at 88 Films…
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Brand New 4K Remaster from the Original Negatives presented in High
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English 2.0 LPCM Stereo with Optional SDH Subtitles
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Italian 2.0 LPCM Mono with newly translated English subtitles
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Audio Commentary by Italian Cinema Experts Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
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The Girl Who Knew Too Much – An Interview with Silvia Collatina
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The Mask of Lucio – An Interview with Al Cliver
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The Man, The Myth, The Father – An Interview with Antonella Fulci
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Rockin’ For a Murder – An Interview with Eugenio Ercolani and Augusto Caminito
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An Interview with Geretta Geretta
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Italian Opening and Closing Titlesrs
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Reverse sleeve featuring new art by Sean Longmore and original Italian Poster