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December 2024

with collector’s edition releases for funny girl, the stone tape and more, december is shaping up to be a great month for film collectors. here’s our picks for december.

The Stone Tape

 

release date: 9th december 2024

101 Films presents Nigel Kneale’s The Stone Tape (1972), released on Blu-ray for the first time. Broadcast by the BBC on Christmas Day 1972 to critical acclaim, The Stone Tape sees Kneale employing his trademark fusion of science fiction and supernatural horror to terrifying effect and ranks among the legendary screenwriter’s best work.
Brand new extras: ‘Children of The Stone Tape’ Documentary on the lasting legacy of The Stone Tape •‘Out of Darkness: A Visionary Manxman’ Short film on Writer Nigel Kneale • Commentary with filmmakers Jon Dear and Sean Hogan • Limited edition rigid box packaging • Set of art cards • Script booklet • Booklet including ‘Placememory’ by Andy Murray and ‘Weird Science: The Stone Tape at Fifty’ by John Doran

Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies from Luis Bunuel

 

release date: 16th december 2024

From 1946 to 1965, Luis Bunuel directed 21 films in Mexico, the country that became his naturalised home. Towards the end of this period, the great master of surrealism would meet two of his most important collaborators – the husband-and-wife duo of producer Gustavo Alatriste and actress Silvia Pinal – and together they would create three of his most provocative and enduring works: Viridiana (1961), The Exterminating Angel (1962) and Simon of the Desert (1965). Presented here in new restorations, all three films are frequently hailed as some of the greatest of all time.

 

  • Documentaries: The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel (1983), A Mexican Buñuel (1995), Buñuel: A Surrealist Filmmaker (2021), Dinner and Other Rituals, The Other Trinity: Alatriste, Buñuel and Pinal
  • Image Gallery
  • Interviews: Luis Buñuel (director)
  • Newly Filmed Appreciations for each film and Buñuel by filmmakers Richard Ayoade, Alex Cox, Guillermo del Toro, and Lulu Wang
  • Reversible Sleeves
  • Featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sister Hyde
  • Trailers

Funny Girl

 

release date: 9th december 2024

Witness the birth of a movie star as Barbra Streisand makes a screen debut for the ages in this musical spectacular. From humor to pathos, she hits every note as popular 1920s singer-comedian Fanny Brice, a young Jewish New Yorker whose spirit and supernova talent propel her to fame in the Ziegfeld Follies, but whose devotion to an unreliable gambler (a charismatic Omar Sharif) brings drama and heartbreak into her life. Adapted from a hit Broadway show and directed by Hollywood master William Wyler, Funny Girl hits emotional highs in unforgettable performances of songs like “People” and “Don’t Rain on My Parade”—moments that won Streisand one of the most richly deserved Best Actress awards in Oscar history.

 

  • 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • New audio interview with star Barbra Streisand
  • Deleted scene featuring Streisand and Sharif
  • Featurettes from the original theatrical release
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by author and film critic Michael Koresky
  • Cover based on an original theatrical poster

Yokohama Blues

 

release date: 16th december 2024

When his police detective best friend is killed, down-at-heel private eye and part-time blues singer BJ (Yusaku Matsuda, The Game Trilogy) gets the blame. He must start his own investigation to clear his name, but what he uncovers is a tangled web involving crooked cops, drug-dealing gangsters, the city’s underground gay and biker scenes, and even his own past. A loose remake of Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye that also draws from Visconti’s Death in Venice, this was Matsuda’s break with his action hero image. Samurai movie veteran Eiichi Kudo (The Fort of Death) relishes his chance at directing a neo-noir that captures urban Japan at the height of 1980s decadence.

 

  • Booklet
  • Bonus Footage
  • Interviews:
  • Mari Hemmi (actor)
  • Shoichi Maruyama (screenwriter)
  • Toru Sano (writer/Yokohama expert)
  • Reversible Sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
  • Trailers

Satan’ Blood

 

release date: 30th december 2024

Andrés and Ana, an urban couple who live in Madrid, leave their apartment to spend a day of pleasure in the city with their dog. They end up accepting the invitation of two strangers, Bruno and Berta, to go to eat at their country house. A storm surprises them and they have to stay overnight together. The two couples start a session with a Ouija board. Conflictive past situations arise, such as the affair that Ana had with Andrés’ brother or a suicide attempt by Bruno, who receives criticism from Berta. This will be the beginning of the horrors that will take place in the haunted house.

 

4K scan and restoration from the 35mm original camera negative, includes original Spanish language and English dub soundtracks, NEW audio commentary with Jonathan Rigby and Kevin Lyons, Satan’s Blood: Recuerdos de Escalofrio: 45-minute Spanish documentary on the making of Satan’s Blood, NEW House of Diabolism: Stephen Thrower on Escalofrio: new in-depth appreciation by the film writer, NEW Rated ‘S’ for Simón: new video essay with author Kim Newman on the films of Juan Piquer Simón.

Creep

 

release date: 9th december 2024

A videographer answers an online ad for a one-day job in a remote town to record the last messages of a dying man to his unborn child. As the day progresses the man’s requests and behaviour become increasingly more bizarre.

 

  • New audio commentary with Director Patrick Brice, Editor Christopher Donlon and Actor Mark Duplass
  • Archive audio commentary with Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass
  • Peachfuzz: an interview with Patrick Brice
  • Into Darker Territory: an interview with Mark Duplass
  • Expand the Universe: an interview with Christopher Donlon
  • 10 Years of Creep: a live Q&A with Cast and Crew
  • Deleted Scene: Cold Opening
  • Alternative Scene: Message to Aaron
  • Alternative Endings

From Beyond

 

release date: 9th december 2024

The team behind Re-Animator turn up the H.P. Lovecraft dial to 11 to bring you a true tour-de-force of the horror genre, From Beyond. Directed by Stuart Gordon we follow a group of scientists who have created The Resonator, a machine which allows humans to view things outside of perceptible reality. But what they see is way outside their wildest nightmares and soon creep into their reality. With copious amounts of latex and bare flesh, From Beyond adds a raw, contemporary touch to the original story as well as barnstorming performances from Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton.

 

  • silver wrap rigid slip case with 2 new artworks by ilanimation studios
  • 4 collectable art-cards
  • double-sided fold-out poster
  • Audio Commentary by Stuart Gordon, Bryan Yuzna, Barbara Crampton & Jeffrey Combs
  • Optional English SDH
  • Don’t Bite the Pineal Gland – Jeffrey Combs on From Beyond
  • All Aboard the Love Machine – Barbara Crampton on From Beyond
  • Back From Outer Space – Ken Foree on From Beyond
  • Monster Unleashed – Brian Yuzna on From Beyond
  • Reflections with Stuart Gordon “ A Director’s Perspective”
  • Lost and Found
  • Interview with Composer Richard Band

The Good, the bad, the weird

 

release date: 9th december 2024

Genre maestro Kim Jee-woon (A Tale of Two Sisters) set his sights on new frontiers and spiced them up with his rollicking kimchi western The Good, the Bad, the Weird. Wrangling three of Korea’s biggest stars, he orchestrated an audacious action epic sweeping across the dusty Manchurian plains. 

In the 1930s, three gun-toting Koreans converge on a train with different objectives but after an explosive altercation they leave it with the same goal: track down a map leading to an unfathomable treasure. The ‘Good’ is bounty hunter Park Do-won (Jung Woo-sung, 12.12: The Day), who is chasing down the ‘Bad’, the ruthless bandit Park Chang-yi (Lee Byung-hun, A Bittersweet Life), rumoured to be the notorious ‘Finger Cutter’. Meanwhile, wily thief Yoon Tae-goo (Song Kang-ho, Parasite), the ‘Weird’, is on the hunt for anything he can get his hands on. Backs are stabbed, fingers are cut, and many bullets fly as this dangerous trio blast their way through the desert in search of untold riches. 

 

  • limited edition packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by nathanael marsh
  • 40-page perfect bound collector’s book featuring new writing by darcy paquet, kyu hyun kim, cho jae-whee, and ariel schudson
  • double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by nathanael marsh
  • three postcard-sized artcards
  • reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by nathanael marsh

Requiem for a Vampire

 

release date: 9th december 2024

Jean Rollin continues his unique exploration of the vampire genre with Requiem for a Vampire (Requiem pour un vampire), featuring a cast of Rollin regulars including Marie-Pierre Castel (The Shiver of the Vampires), Mirelle Dargent (Lips of Blood), and Louise Dhour (The Escapees).

When Marie (Castel) and Michelle (Dargent), two enigmatic women travelling through the countryside in clown costumes, stumble across a mysterious château, they uncover a sadistic vampire sect, the leader of which offers them eternal life to continue his bloodline.

Also released as Virgins and Vampires and Caged Vampires, Rollin’s pulp-inspired fourth feature boasts an abundance of surreal and erotic imagery, and is accompanied by an eccentric free-rock score by composer Pierre Raph (The Iron Rose, The Demoniacs).

 

  • Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Maria J Pérez Cuervo, archival writing by Jean Rollin on the making of the film, an archival interview with the director by Peter Blumenstock, an extract from the film’s pressbook, an English translation of Rollin’s story ‘The Last Book’, and full film credits
  • World premiere on 4K UHD
  • Limited edition of 10,000 individually numbered units (6,000 4K UHDs and 4,000 Blu-rays) for the UK and US
  • New 4K HDR restoration from the original negative by Powerhouse Films
  • 4K (2160p) UHD presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
  • Two presentations of the film: Requiem pour un vampire, Jean Rollin’s original French-language version; and Requiem for a Vampire, the English-language version

Critters: A Four Course Feast!

 

release date: 2nd december 2024

A smart homage to 1950’s B-movies, Critters sees a group of small but toothy extra terrestrials escape from an alien prison and land in small-town America with two shape-shifting bounty hunters in hot pursuit. Directed by Stephen Herek (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure) and starring genre stalwarts Dee Wallace (The Howling) and M. Emmet Walsh (Blood Simple), the film was a smash-hit on home video, launching a franchise for the ravenous furry fiends. Two years later, Critters 2: The Main Course sees the Krites come back for seconds as leftover eggs hatch and attack the rural town of Grover’s Bend. Directed by Mick Garris (Sleepwalkers) with a script co-written by David Twohy (Pitch Black), Critters 2 is one big ball of toothy delight.

 

  • high definition (1080p) blu-ray presentations of all four films
  • original xxx audio
  • optional english subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • 60-page hardbound collector’s book featuring new writing on the films by screenwriter shane bitterling and film critics meagan navarro, stacie ponder, and heather wixson
  • double-sided fold-out posters for all four films
  • limited edition packaging with newly commissioned artwork by pye parr
  • reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by pye parr

 


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