Cannibal Holocaust

release date: 12th december 2022

 

Condemned, banned, prosecuted… Cannibal Holocaust is just about the most infamous film ever made, going further into horror and cruelty than just about any other movie as an American film crew makes contact with a tribe of primitive cannibals – and swiftly wishes they hadn’t. It’s the sort of film for which the phrase ‘stomach churning’ might have been invented but there’s more to Cannibal Holocaust than simply inducing nausea: it’s one of the most important films-about-filmmaking there is, and a powerful study of violence too. Director Ruggero Deodato’s (Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man) savage masterpiece has never looked better than on this gorgeous 4K restoration. 88 Films are proud to present the definitive edition of this horrible, essential classic.

 

• Limited Edition Slipcase

• A3 Double Sided fold-out poster with artwork by Graham Humphreys and Original Italian Poster Artwork

• Booklet notes with new writing on the film by Sarah Appleton, Sean Hogan & Martin Beine

• The Flesh of the Controversy – BRAND NEW Interview with Director Ruggero Deodato

• Biting Reality – An Interview with Ruggero Deodato

• The Last Cannibal Kings – Deodato vs Lenzi

• Different Holocaust – Archive Interview with Ruggero Deodato

• Jungle Stories – An Interview with Production Designer Massimo Antonello Geleng

• Italian Horrors – An Interview with Expert and Film Director Marcello Avallone

• Professionals in Peril – An Interview with Director of Photography Sergio D’Offizi

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Silent Running

release date: 12th december 2022

 

In 1968, visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull (The Andromeda Strain, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) contributed to the ground-breaking special photographic effects of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Four years later, he stamped his own indelible mark on the science fiction genre with his mesmerising directorial debut – Silent Running. In the not-so-distant future, Earth is barren of all flora and fauna, with what remains of the planet’s former ecosystems preserved aboard a fleet of greenhouses orbiting in space. When the crews are ordered to destroy the remaining specimens, one botanist, Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern, The ’Burbs), rebels and flees towards Saturn in a desperate bid to preserve his own little piece of Earth that was, accompanied only by the ship’s three service robots. Featuring a captivating central performance by Dern, visual effects that rival anything in 2001 and a powerful ecological message, Silent Running is a haunting and prescient sci-fi classic that resonates even more strongly today than it did at the time of its original release.

 

• Brand new 4K restoration by Arrow Films from the original camera negative

• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray™ presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)

• The Making of Silent Running – an archival 1972 on-set documentary 

• Silent Running by Douglas Trumbull and Douglas Trumbull: Then and Now – two archival interviews with the film’s director 

• Original audio commentary by Douglas Trumbull and actor Bruce Dern 

• First Run – a visual essay by writer and filmmaker Jon Spira exploring the evolution of Silent Running’s screenplay 

• A Conversation with Bruce Dern – an archival interview with the film’s lead actor 

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The Warriors

release date: 12th december 2022

 

From Director WALTER HILL comes a battle of gigantic proportions looming in the neon underground of New York City. The armies of the night number 100,000; they outnumber the police 5 to 1; and tonight they’re after the Warriors – a street gang blamed unfairly for a rival gang leader’s death. Members of the Warriors fight for their lives, seek to survive in the urban jungle and learn the meaning of loyalty.

 

• Introduction by Director Walter Hill

• The Warriors 4 Featurettes: The Beginning – Battleground -The Way Home – The Phenomenon

• Original Theatrical Trailer HD

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The Iceman Cometh

release date: 19th december 2022

 

From Golden Harvest, the legendary Hong Kong studio which had previously delivered classic Bruce Lee flicks The Big Boss, Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon comes the fast-paced martial arts fantasy The Iceman Cometh. When 16th-century Ming guard Fong Sau-ching (Yuen Baio) sets out to capture vicious rapist Feng San (Yuen Wah) both men end up falling into a glacier to be frozen in time. Thawed out by scientists over 300 years later, the confused guard must learn to cope with the modern world and continue in his quest to vanquish his opponent. Fast, furious and fabulously entertaining, The Iceman Cometh rocks with time travelling Kung Fu vibes.

 

• Hardcase featuring new artwork by Sean Longmore

• Double-Sided Foldout Poster featuring new artwork and original HK poster

• 6 Replica HK Lobby Cards

• 72-page perfect-bound book with new writing by Matthew Edwards, plus rare archive stills and posters

• Kenneth Brorsson and Phil Gillon of the Podcast on Fire Network

• Audio Commentary with Hong Kong Cinema Expert Frank Djeng

• On Thin Ice – Interview with Director Clarence Fok

• The Icing on the Cake – Tony Rayns on The Iceman Cometh

• Cold as Ice – David West on The Iceman Cometh

• “Warrior Prince” – an interview with actor Yuen Biao

• “Nemesis” – an interview with actor Yuen Wah

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Croupier

release date: 5th december 2022

 

In 1998, Mike Hodges, director of the iconic Get Carter, returned to the genre that made his name with Croupier, an unforgettable thriller that put leading man Clive Owen firmly on the map and established itself as a classic of British crime cinema. Jack Manfred (Clive Owen) is an aspiring writer going nowhere fast. Taking a job as a casino croupier just to make ends meet, he finds himself seduced by the high stakes world of luck and chance.  As the job takes over his life and his relationship to girlfriend Marion (Gina McKee) begins to crumble, Jack’s attention is caught by down-on-her-luck gambler Jani (Alex Kingston). Under pressure from her creditors, she asks Jack to be the inside man for a planned heist at the casino. It all sounds so easy. But even a pro can’t predict the cards he will be dealt.  With a screenplay by Paul Mayersberg (The Man Who Fell to Earth, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence) Hodges first theatrical feature in almost a decade proved that he’d lost none of his edge. Cooly confident, mercilessly gripping and tautly directed, Croupier arrives on Arrow Video looking better than ever, newly restored from the original 35mm camera negative with a wealth of special features.

 

• Brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative by Arrow Films, approved by director Mike Hodges

• Bonus disc containing brand new feature-length documentary Mike Hodges: A Film-Maker’s Life

• Fully illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by film critics Barry Forshaw and Philip Kemp, plus select archival material

•  Fold-out double-sided poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sam Hadley

• Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sam Hadley

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The Velvet Underground

release date: 26th december 2022

 

Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York’s 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, TODD HAYNES (Velvet Goldmine) vividly evokes the band’s incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries LOU REED and JOHN CALE, ANDY WARHOL’s fabled Factory, and the explosive tension between pop and the avant-garde that propelled the group and ultimately consumed it. Never-before-seen performances, interviews, rare recordings, and mind-blowing transmissions from the era’s avant-garde cinema scene come together in an ecstatic swirl of sound and image that is to the traditional music documentary what the Velvets were to rock: utterly revolutionary.

 

• New 4K digital master, approved by director Todd Haynes and cinematographer Ed Lachman, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack

• Audio commentary featuring Haynes and editors Affonso Gonçalves and Adam Kurnitz

• Outtakes of interviews shot for the film with musicians Jonathan Richman, filmmaker Jonas Mekas and actor Mary Woronov

• Haynes and musicians John Cale and Maureen Tucker in conversation with writer Jenn Pelly in 2021.

• Complete versions of some of the avant-garde films excerpted in the movie

• Teaser

• PLUS: A 2021 essay by critic Greil Marcus

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Ju-on – The Grudge Collection

release date: 19th december 2022

 

“Ju-On”: the name given to a deadly curse spawned when someone dies in the grip of a violent rage. All who come into contact with it are doomed… Collected together for the first time, writer-director Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-On: The Grudge series represents the flesh-crawling pinnacle of Japanese chillers that swept the globe at the turn of the millennium. The films introduce the anonymous family house in the suburbs of Tokyo where an unspeakable evil lingers alongside its residents, the ghastly mother-son pairing of Kayoko and Toshio Saeki. Shimizu’s disconcerting approach to plotting, unnerving eye for the uncanny details in the dark corners of the frame and an innate talent for effective jump scares so impressed Evil Dead director Sam Raimi that he invited the director to helm two Hollywood remakes. The quintessential J-horror series make its Blu-ray debut with a brand new 4K restoration of Ju-On: The Grudge and a wealth of new and archival extras, including Shimizu’s two The Curse straight-to-video precursors (previously unreleased outside Japan) and the White Ghost/Black Ghost diptych of tales unfolding within the same terrifying universe.

 

• Haunting in Monochrome, a new interview with Takashi Shimizu on the Ju-On films

• Being Kayako, a new interview with Takako Fuji on her role as Kayako

• The Evolution of Ju-On, a brand new featurette with authors and Japan specialists Tom Mes and Zack Davisson discussing the cultural forces that shaped the series

• Through a Glass Darkly, an archive interview with Takashi Shimizu

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Wim Wenders: A Curzon Collection Limited Edition

release date: 12th december 2022

 

This authoritative 22-disc collection encompasses the 50-year career of award-winning filmmaker Wim Wenders. Alongside his masterpieces Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire, the collection features his electrifying debut The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty, his classic road movie trilogy (Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move and Kings of the Road), the director’s cut of Until the End of the World and the acclaimed documentaries Buena Vista Social Club, Pina and The Salt of the Earth. The collection also features a wealth of extras, an illustrated booklet, film posters and four Polaroid images shot by the filmmaker.

• New 4K digital restorations of Wings of Desire, Kings of the Road, The American Friend, The State of Things, Tokyo-Ga, Notebook on Cities and Clothes, Until the End of the World, Lisbon Story, The Million Dollar Hotel, Wrong Move and The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty approved by director Wim Wenders.

• 7 short films by Wim Wenders: Same Player Shoots Again, Silver City Revisited, From the Family of Reptiles, The Island, Room 666, Reverse Angle, Arisha, the Bear and the Stone Ring

• Over 50 Special Features including exclusive interviews, deleted scenes, commentaries, behind-the-scenes footage, music videos, original and restored theatrical trailers.

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Goodfellas

release date: 12th december 2022

 

Gangsters never refer to themselves as gangsters. They are made-men, wiseguys or Goodfellas. Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese exposes the fascinating, mysterious and violent underworld of New York’s Mafia families through the life of insider Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) as he rises from smalltime thug to mobster under the guidance of Jimmy Conway (Academy Award winner Robert De Niro) in this searing, epic crime drama based on the chilling true-life best seller Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi.

 

• NEW KEY ART by Matt Ferguson & Florey from Vice Press

• ACETATE O-RING, removes for type-free display of your key art

• Unique, individually numbered CRYSTAL DISPLAY PLAQUE

• Rigid clamshell box with MAGNETIC CLOSURE

• 8 collectible ART CARDS, with film quotes

• Double-sided reproduction A3 FILM POSTER

• Feature film on both 4K UHD and BLU-RAY, plus Special Features

• 2 COMMENTARIES: Cast and Crew, Cop and Crook 

• 3 DOCUMENTARIES: Getting Made, Made Men: The Goodfellas Legacy, The Workaday

• Gangster PAPER IS CHEAPER THAN FILM: Storyboard-to-screen Comparison

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Nil by mouth

release date: 12th december 2022

 

Gary Oldman revealed himself as a filmmaker of uncompromising talent with Nil by Mouth, his debut and so far only directorial feature. Set on a council estate in New Cross, south east London (the area where Oldman himself grew up), a dysfunctional family encounters domestic violence, drunkenness, drug addiction and petty crime. Featuring career-best performances from Kathy Burke (winner of Best Actress at Cannes), Ray Winstone and Charlie Creed-Miles, all superbly supported by Laila Morse and Jamie Foreman, Nil by Mouth was awarded Best British Film and Best Original Screenplay at the 1998 Bafta awards.  This intensely powerful and emotional landmark of British cinema has been remastered in 4K for its 25th anniversary by the BFI National Archive, and this release is the first time on Blu-ray anywhere in the world. 

 

• Interview with Gary Oldman (2022): the acclaimed actor in conversation with film Geoff Andrew

• Interview with Ray Winstone (2022): the actor discusses his role in the film with Geoff Andrew

• Interview with Douglas Urbanski (2022): Gary Oldman’s long-time friend and collaborator, and the producer of Nil by Mouth discusses how the film came to be made

• Fearing the Worst: Charlie Creed-Miles on Nil by Mouth (2022, 28 mins): the actor recalls the making of Nil by Mouth

• People Were Queuing For Any Role: Sue Jones on Nil by Mouth (2022, 16 mins): the film’s casting director recalls her work on the film

• I Missed The War (Gary Oldman, 1994): the only surviving footage recorded for an unrealised documentary about his mother’s life and experiences

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