susperia

blu-ray

 

Dario Argento personally introduces this CultFilms 4K restoration of Suspiria by saying ‘I hope that you are ready’… We are ready. This 4K restored 40th Anniversary edition has reinstated the crucially distinct colour palette for the first time in accordance with Argento’s original ‘Technicolor Dye Transfer’ specifications, finally doing justice to the director’s original expressionist vision and now truly unleashing his hyper ’assault on the senses’ as you’ve never ever experienced it before!

Suzy Bannion is an American student who enrols at a prestigious Dance Academy in Germany where people either disappear or turn up dead, gored and mangled. And everyone behaves very strangely: there’s a demented killer on the loose and Suzy fears she is next. We know she is..!

two women

blu-ray

 

TWO WOMEN finally gets the release it deserves, pristinely restored and re-mastered in HD, doing justice to this neo-realist masterpiece which won Sophia Loren an Oscar® for ‘Best Actress’ — the first ever in a foreign-language film. Uniquely, this release is presented in two versions: one in Italian and one in English, dubbed by Loren herself. The film tells the story of a young widow, Cesira (Sophia Loren), and her 12-year-old daughter who flee war-ravaged Rome to Cesira’s native village in Ciociaria. As the allied forces push back the German occupation, the two women fall victim to a devastatingly brutal act at the very hand of the country’s liberators. Directed by Vittorio De Sica (Umberto D., Marriage Italian Style), TWO WOMEN is a magnificent and compassionate depiction of a country at war, featuring powerful performances from Sophia Loren (A Special Day, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow) and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

flavia the heretic

blu-ray

 

Director Gianfranco Mingozzi brings us FLAVIA THE HERETIC, one of the most graphically violent of all ‘nunsploitation’ films ever. It is so uncompromising and harsh that it courts the ranks of video nasties! It is also, however, an undeniably potent and thought-provoking film, that reflects on religiously condoned violence as well as misogyny. 

Set in the middle ages, FLAVIA THE HERETIC tells the story of Flavia whose tyrannical father forces her to become a nun. After the visit of the strange sexual Tarantula cult, to the nunnery, everything changes for Flavia. As an act of rebellion, she joins forces with an army of invading Muslims and becomes a heretic. Along with them, she aims to destroy the convent and kill everyone who wronged her. Based on true events from Medieval Italy; this is an incredible story filled with murder, rape, torture and worse. Nun, Warrior and Avenger, Flavia’s will is unshakeable even when she’s eventually caught and tortured, she will stop at nothing. 

Beautifully filmed by Alfio Contini (The Night Porter) with flashes of  ‘Jodorowsky-esque’ surrealism and boasting a score by Oscar®-winning Nicola Piovani (Life is Beautiful) FLAVIA THE HERETIC is without a doubt a rare and captivating gem. Released for the first time in HD on Blu-ray, uncut, finally doing justice to the searing vision of its filmmakers.

 

• Exclusive new interview with Florinda Bolkan

• Kat Ellinger audio commentary

• Improved visuals

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marriage italian style

blu-ray

 

Based on one of the most successful Italian plays ever, “Filumena Marturano” by playwright and philosopher Eduardo De Filippo, MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE is an exhilarating comedy (nominated for two Oscars® — Best Foreign Picture and Best Actress) starring a combative Sophia Loren as a woman who’ll stop at nothing to keep her lover. Both Loren and co-star Marcello Mastroianni (La Dolce Vita, 8½) are more irrepressible than ever, their talent, exquisite timing, and sheer chemistry — emphasised by the direction of award-winning Vittorio De Sica (Umberto D., Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow) — exploding onto the screen.

Filumena is the lifetime mistress of a wealthy playboy who is planning to leave her and marry another woman. She will do anything in her power to stop this and marry him instead, including revealing that she has had three children she kept hidden from him, one of whom is his — but which one? A powerful balance of comedy and drama, with extraordinary performances from Mastroianni and Loren at their best, the film is presented for the first time on video both in subtitled Italian and spoken English, enabling a new appreciation of this quintessential play, first brought to the UK by Franco Zeffirelli and later showcased by Peter Hall with Dame Judi Dench. A timeless comedy of our all-too-human foibles.

 

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the slave of the cannibal god

blu-ray

 

Also known as ‘The Mountain Of The Cannibal God’. Sergio Martino (the director of All The Colours Of The Dark, The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh, Torso) invites you on the trip of a lifetime to The Mountain of The Cannibal God – for tropical sun, wildlife and… flesh munching natives!

Ursula Andress (voted the Top Bond Girl of all time in Dr No – The Nurse) here stars as ‘THE SLAVE OF THE CANNIBAL GOD’. The film follows her as she travels to the New Guinea jungle in search of her scientist husband who’s vanished in the untamed Green Inferno.
Soon, giant spiders, killer crocodiles and deadly giant snakes bare their teeth as her expedition, lead by cult-favourite Stacy Keach, journeys towards the sacred mountain of the Cannibal God! There a flesh-eating tribe will enslave her in an eruption of frenzied orgiastic climax…

 

• 2K Restored and Regraded

• Interviews: Sergio Martino on Making of Slave of the Cannibal Go

• Theatrical Trailer

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the battle of algiers

blu-ray

 

Widely regarded as one of cinema’s most powerful and politically charged masterpieces, Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers is newly remastered from 4K-restored original negative and presented in its most complete and authentic form to date. Recreating the Algerian struggle for independence from French occupation and depicting the brutal acts committed by both sides, it is a gripping, thought-provoking chronicle of resistance, repression – now more relevant today than ever..!

Among the wealth of exclusive extras are in-depth interviews with Gillo Pontecorvo; Saadi Yacef, the producer, actor, and former FLN leader whose own experiences inspired the story. A featurette with Marco Pontecorvo, filmmaker and son of the director, shows his supervision of the meticulous 4K restoration – ensuring that every frame preserves the raw, grain-rich documentary style originally envisioned by his father Gillo Pontecorvo’s monumental work.

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Almost Human

blu-ray

 

Maestro of mayhem Umberto Lenzi (CANNIBAL FEROX, OASIS OF FEAR) takes you on a tour of Italy’s mean streets in this hyper-violent, white-knuckle 1970s crime classic. For the first time ever on Blu-ray, Shameless proudly presents Almost Human…restored, uncut and unhinged! 

Tomas Milian stars as Giulio Sacchi, a sadistic petty crook who aspires to criminal greatness. With his gang of impressionable weirdos in tow, Sacchi kidnaps the pretty young daughter of a wealthy businessman but hardboiled cop Grandi (the one-and-only Henry Silva – ESCAPE FROM THE BRONX) is in hot pursuit. The dogged detective is all that stands between Sacchi’s gang and the ransom money, and he’s the only hope their teenage hostage has got…

Almost Human is a notoriously nasty crime thriller, a cult serving for cognoscenti, with a stand-out score from Ennio Morricone, presented for the first time ever in glorious HD and restored from original vault materials. If you like your cops proper badass, and your villains ever badder psychos, this is the one high-octane, edge-of-the-seat experience you cannot miss!

 

• Brand new Umberto Lenzi Shameless interview

• “Milian Unleashed” interview with Tomas Milian

• Period interview with Umberto Lenzi, star Ray Lovelock, and writer Ernesto Gastaldi

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django

blu-ray

 

Sergio Corbucci’s ground-breaking DJANGO is one of the greatest and most influential Westerns ever. Seminal, yet banned for decades, its aesthetics of visual cruelty transcended the genre and shaped today’s film-making language. Its major influence is declared by Quentin Tarantino – among many Hollywood directors – and seen in all his films.

The modern action hero also began here, with the legendary Franco Nero playing the eponymous Django, the mysterious gunslinger who arrives in a bleak, mud-drenched town – dragging a coffin behind him – to face a group of sadistic marauding bandits and an army of hooded Ku Klux Klan-like psychopaths. Presented uncut, from new 4K-restored elements, this definitive version is pristinely faithful to the original filmmakers’ vision; as attested by Ruggero Deodato (of ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ fame) who shot several scenes of ‘DJANGO’ when, early in his career, he was Assistant to Sergio Corbucci.

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Baba Yaga

blu-ray

 

Director Corrado Farina re-edited his film as an exclusive 1st for Shameless in order to show his vision of his film as he intended it to be before his producers hacked it to bits behind his back the day before the film opened in cinemas. Director Corrado Farina re-inserted the footage cut by the producers and took that opportunity to also reinsert prior censors cut. This is Director Corrado Farina’s avowed “own BABA YAGA”, which he had re-edited for Shameless, now this extended “redux” version is presented for the 1st time on blu-ray, finally doing justice to the filmmaker’s unique original vision.

Perverted dreams and fevered reality are blurred when beautiful witch Baba Yaga (Carroll Baker) gets her sapphic claws into a beautiful young photographer in this rampant adaptation of the classic Guido Crepax comic-book.

 

• Director’s own re-edit of film, now with improved visuals

• Corrado Farina Interview and Introduction

• Audio Commentary by author, editor & critic Kat Ellinger

• Fact Track by The Wilson Bros

• Two Guido Crepax documentaries by Corrado Farina: COMIC-STRIP FREUD,  COMIC-STRIP PHOBIA

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the night porter

blu-ray

 

Max (Dirk Bogarde) is a night porter in a Vienna hotel in the 1950’s. When beautiful Lucia (Charlotte Rampling) checks in, they recognise each other. Max was an SS officer in a Nazi concentration camp who had abused and tortured the then-teenage Lucia, a prisoner. But when her husband, an orchestra conductor, needs to leave to continue his tour,  Lucia makes excuses and stays behind – as she and Max find themselves compelled to reignite what had in fact been their former intense sadomasochistic relationship.

Max is a reluctant member of a group of former SS officers who are ruthlessly covering up their pasts. Thinking that she will denounce them, they soon consider Lucia a threat and urge Max to hand her over to them. He refuses and hides out with Lucia, while his former comrades exert their threats…

This is the story of an ‘amour-fou’, an obsessive passion, which compels two lovers to be together despite their being lucidly aware of contravening all morality, even their own; and despite the certainty of their oncoming tragic destiny.

 

• Interview with Liliana Cavani

• Interview with Charlotte Rampling

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Four Flies on Grey Velvet

blu-ray

 

Dario Argento describes FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET as a deeply personal exploration of his inner turmoil: “I decided to let loose, go crazy, and unleash all my creativity and personal nightmares. Psychoanalysis plays a major role in the film because it’s partly autobiographical – rather Freudian, in fact.”

Both Argento and lead actor Michael Brandon, in exclusive interviews for this edition, reveal how the director found his alter ego in Brandon, channelling his own paranoia to create an unsettling psychological thriller. The result is a shocking, knife-edge whodunit with a stunning twist. Introspection becomes art in Argento’s hands, making FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET essential viewing for anyone seeking a glimpse into the director’s psyche. It concludes Argento’s iconic ‘Animal’ trilogy, paving the way for ‘Suspiria’ and his later expressionistic masterpieces that earned him the title ‘Master of Horror.’

Celebrated rock musician Roberto Tobias (Michael Brandon) is thrust into a nightmare. Framed for a brutal stabbing, he soon finds himself ensnared in a web of senseless murders. The only clue to the deranged killer lies in a cryptic image captured on a victim’s retina. Roberto’s desperate search for truth will push him to the brink of madness, culminating in a shocking climax.

 

• New Exclusive Interview with Dario Argento

• New Exclusive Interview with star Michael Brandon

• Interview with Writer & Assistant Dir. Luigi CozziNew English Subtitles & SDH

• Inside a Serialised Limited Collector’s O-Card Edition

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yesterday, today & tomorrow

blu-ray

 

This delightful film is considered one of the true gems of Italian cinema, featuring three short stories, each starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, and directed by master filmmaker Vittorio De Sica. In this Oscar-winning film of comic tales of love and sex set across three cities, De Sica delivers his irrepressible touch: in Naples, Adelina sells cigarettes on the black market while avoiding prison thanks to a long string of pregnancies; in Milan, wealthy Anna tries to escape boredom through escapades with a struggling journalist—until he prangs her Rolls; and in Rome, “tart with a heart” Mara contends with a young priest’s infatuation with hilarious consequences.

Three completely disparate sets of characters allow Loren and Mastroianni to once again demonstrate why they are the greatest screen couple of all time, crowned with an Oscar® for Best Foreign Picture and, of course, featuring the epoch-making Loren strip-tease that seduced generations. This is timeless, perfect cinema.

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The Nurse

blu-ray

 

From the producers of ‘Doctor Zhivago’ comes a film that finally reveals URSULA ANDRESS in all her glory! Voted the TOP BOND GIRL of all time, Ursula Andress made cinematic history when she emerged from the sea in that bikini. Not only was this iconic scene crowned “No1 of the 100 Greatest Sexy Screen-Moments” and earned Andress a Golden Globe, but it heralded a new generation of women who wanted and expected more: the ‘sexual revolution’ had started. Ever wondered what she looks like without that bikini? Well, wonder no more and reach for The Nurse! Andress stars as The Sensuous Nurse, spending most of this romp-com undressed.

Screen legend Jack Palance (City Slickers) plays an American tycoon aiming to buy a vineyard in the beautiful Italian Veneto. But the hitch is that the aging owner won’t sign, despite his madcap family’s eagerness to sell and get rich. The old man, recovering from a bonk-induced heart attack, is a randy lecher. So, the family’s outrageous stratagem is to hire Nurse Andress, not to cure the old boy, but for her to… ahem… undress and, hopefully, induce another – this time fatal – cardiac arrest.

It’s all barmy, fizzy fun, and the clincher? A SECOND Bond Girl! Luciana Paluzzi, the one in skin-tight black leathers on the rocket-launching motorbike in ‘Thunderball’. Here without leathers. Or anything.

 

• Complete and Uncut, restored from 2K scan

• Interview with Director Nello Rossati and Set & Costume Designer on working with Bond lovelies

• New English subtitles on the alternative Italian track

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the ape woman

blu-ray

 

THE APE WOMAN is the highest-praised film by Marco Ferreri, the over-the-top iconoclastic director known for ‘La Grande Bouffe’. His signature edgy exploration of the grotesque was revered by the Cannes Festival who awarded many of his works.

Famously irreverent, Ferreri was so off-beat and scathing as an author implacably dissecting our societal mores in all his masterful films, that he was labelled ‘dangerous’! The film is inspired by a true story of the nihilistically cruel exploitation of a young carnival performer, Julia Pastrana, whose body was completely covered in hair.

She is brought to life here by an extraordinary Annie Girardot – France’s highest-paid actress of the time – in a natural measured and elegant performance from which emanates the ambiguous emotion of being alluring yet devastatingly poignant as ‘the ape woman’.

 

• New 4K-Restored Version

• Two separate film endings: Director’s and Producer’s versions

• Exclusive 90 min documentary on Marco Ferreri with Gerard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Cristophe Lambert, Ornella Muti

• New subtitles and Hard-of-Hearing Closed Captions

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The Sect

blu-ray

 

Satanic sacrifice, face-ripping gore and a channel-hopping bunny! Directed by Michele Soavi (THE CHURCH, CEMETERY MAN) and co-scripted and produced by Dario Argento: We know their names, let’s experience the nature of their games! 

Watch with glee while schoolteacher (Kelly Curtis) becomes the target of a devil-worshipping sect… Soon her friends either disappear, become crazed zombie-like murderers or… get their heart ripped out. Still beating. Some even jerk back to life in an undead bloodletting frenzy! Is Jamie-Lee Curtis’ pretty sister loosing her mind or has the devil come into her? Shameless is pleased to introduce the first ever 2K HD restored and longest ever version of THE SECT, entirely faithful to Soavi’s original vision of occult and zoogenic mayhem. Adding 666 degrees of terror to a Rosemary’s Baby scenario, Soavi blowtorches a diabolic opus that will get you to claw your own face off with fear!

 

• An exclusive interview with Michele Soavi

• 2K pristine restored and remastered

• English Audio

• Optional Italian Audio with Optional English Subtitles

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story of a love affair

blu-ray

 

Antonioni is one of the most influential filmmakers of all times, indeed critics revere him as the ‘creator’ of Modern Cinema. His STORY OF A LOVE AFFAIR, aka Cronaca di un Amore, is his first feature film, a Noir thriller with sensual themes of yearning and jealousy. It is considered a masterpiece by Scorsese among others.

Paola (Lucia Bosè) is a strikingly beautiful young woman married to a rich older industrialist who decides to have her past investigated. The detective’s enquiry reaches Paola’s former lover, Guido, prompting him to seek her after seven years, and they reignite their passion. Antonioni, who defined cool modernism on screen, chronicles the love affair, observing without judgement. His ground-breaking techniques – such as the long one-take sequence, later adopted by cinema greats – and scintillating B&W photography are presented here in HD for the 1st time, from a painstaking 2K restoration, finally doing justice to the director’s masterpiece.

 

• • Premiere cinema screening presentation of the Restored Film, with Director Antonioni, Star, Lucia Bosè attending + filmworld VIPs, Giuseppe Tornatore, Dario Argento et..

  • Interview with the principal Italian Critic and friend of Fellini, Tullio Kezich “When a 1st Work Is already a Masterpiece”

  • The genesis of the film by Assistant Director and co-writer Francesco Maselli

  • The making-of with Francesco Maselli plus interviews

  • Restoring a masterpiece by Giuseppe Rotunno, Fellini’s cinematographer (also THE LEOPARD, ALL THAT JAZZ, Gillian’s BARON MUNCHAUSE…)

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Footprints on the Moon

blu-ray

 

Director Luigi Bazzoni’s unique vision of ‘FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON‘ is brought to life by the striking cinematography of Vittorio Storaro (three-time Oscar® winner  including ‘Apocalypse Now’). Florinda Bolkan (‘Flavia The Heretic‘) delivers a masterful, nuanced performance bringing captivating depth to the character of Alice – a young translator grappling with memory loss.

Tormented by nightmare visions of a sinister scientist (Klaus Kinski) deliberately abandoning astronauts to die on the Moon, Alice is struggling to recall three missing days. A mysterious postcard beckons her to the enigmatic island of Garma. Once there, an unsettling revelation unfolds: the inhabitants recognise her presence during the unaccounted-for days, not as Alice, but as another person named Nicole. Confronting uncomfortable truths, Alice embarks on a quest to unravel the mystery shrouding her identity and the events of those missing days – a quest which culminates in murder and an extraordinarily surreal finale.

Touching on mental health issues as well as on climate change, it resonates with today’s challenges while immersing viewers in an emotionally charged experience that transcends the ordinary.

 

• ‘Remembering the Moon’ introduction by star Florinda Bolkan

• ‘Master of Light’ interview with Vittorio Storaro

• ‘To the Moon’ interview with Ida Galli aka Evelyn Stewart

• Audio commentary by Film-Critic Genre-Expert Rachael Nisbet

• New English Subtitles over the Optional Original Italian + switchable SDH over the English language version

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one deadly summer

blu-ray

 

Isabelle Adjani, who is celebrated for her multi-Awarded acting and her beauty, plays ‘Elle’, a provocative 19-year-old whose arrival, with her mother and sick father, in a sleepy Provence village sets the locals afire with lust and gossip. She soon finds a suitor in gentle Pin-Pon (Alain Souchon), the local mechanic, and they marry shortly after. Then the tone shifts, when a dark secret emerges from her past, the film becomes more complex and Adjani’s character reveals a disturbing side as she manipulates events and men in order to seek revenge for an outrage inflicted in her childhood…

With more César Awards than any other French actor and a host of Oscar® Nominations, Isabelle Adjani (Possession, Queen Margot, Camille Claudel, Adele H) is one of the most celebrated French star of all time. Her acting talent and staggering sensual beauty both reaching a career-defining high in Becker’s ONE DEADLY SUMMER (L’ETE MEURTRIER), which became the highest grossing French film of the time – and the prototype mould engendering the erotic thrillers which Hollywood made in its wake.

 

• Language(s): French

• Subtitles: English

• Interactive Menu

• Screen Ratio: 1 – 1.66:1

• Documentaries: Portrait of Screenwriter Japrisot

• Interviews: Jean Becker (Director)

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the frightened woman

blu-ray

 

The director of THE FRIGHTENED WOMAN, Piero Schivazappa, praised the version released by Shameless – saying: “..this is the version which you should watch” – when Shameless initially reconstructed and released this version, revealing the film as he’d originally intended. This is the version which is now presented on Blu-ray – pristinely restored from a 4K scan – finally doing justice to the exuberant 60s pop-art images and set design.

This definitive edition is further enhanced by a unique new interview with the iconic Dagmar Lassander where she relates the groundbreaking and provocative nature of the film.

 

• Dagmar Lassander World-Exclusive Interview

• Piero Schivazappa Interview

• New 4K-Restored Version

• English Language + separate original Italian

• New Eng. Subtitles & additional SDH

• Bonus Footage

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boccaccio 70′

blu-ray

 

Boccaccio ’70 brings together the major directors and brightest stars of the 1960s in a film that boldly takes on moralism and respectability. This collection features four iconic and delightful short films with stunning performances: The Temptations of Dr Antonio, directed by Federico Fellini and starring Anita Ekberg and Peppino De Filippo; The Job, directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Romy Schneider and Tomas Milian; The Raffle, directed by Vittorio De Sica and starring Sophia Loren; and Renzo e Luciana, directed by Mario Monicelli. Fellini, Visconti, De Sica, and Monicelli join forces with show-stoppers Loren, Ekberg, and Schneider in a social satire that lampoons Italian society of the 1960s.

A sensuous pin-up on a gigantic poster comes to life to haunt a puritan, a married woman navigates her husband’s gambling and infidelities, a sacristan wins a night with a fairground beauty in a village lottery, and a married couple’s mishap enables them to buy their own home. These four arresting tales explore women’s empowerment and the sexual revolution during Italy’s 1960s boom years. This light-hearted hymn to life is presented for the first time in both English and original Italian, with improved subtitles, and shown in the filmmakers’ original widescreen format, now fully restored in HD.

 

• Language(s): German, Italian

• Subtitles: English

• Interactive Menu

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killer nun

blu-ray

 

• Unique Interview with Fellini’s Muse and iconic silver-screen Sex-Symbol, Anita Ekberg

• Interview with director Giulio Berruti ”God is the Drug”

• Audio commentary by UK Film-Critic and Genre-Expert Rachael Nisbet

• English + separate alternative Original Audio version.
   New Full 1080P 1.85:1 Widescreen Blu-ray Encode

• The Director of Public Prosecution’s Video Nasty is now fully uncut and pristinely restored from 2K scanned original negative

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a special day

blu-ray

 

Italian cinema’s most iconic screen couple, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni – here cast against glamorous type – deliver the finest and most nuanced performances of their career in this rarely seen masterpiece finally presented, restored and remastered in 4K – with striking desaturated colours – as originally created by its multi-awarded director Ettore Scola. A very delicate, funny and moving story of the encounter between two people who are poles apart. Beautifully directed by Ettore Scola, it won the Golden Globe for best foreign film.  Set in 1938 during Adolf Hitler visit to Mussolini, it tells the story of Antonietta (Sophia Loren) a working class housewife, left alone by her family who like most people in Rome went to the parade, meets the only other person left in their block, Gabriele (Marcello Mastroianni) a persecuted homosexual radio announcer.  They strike an unexpectedly close friendship that will change their perceptions of love, politics and life itself.

 

• Language(s): Italian

• Subtitles: English

• interactive menu

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The Strange Vice Of Mrs Wardh

blu-ray

 

• All-new interview with director Sergio Martino

• Sergio Martino introduction

• Fact track by Justin Harries

• Edwige Fenech bio presentation

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indentification of a woman

blu-ray

 

Michelangelo Antonioni’s rarely seen and underrated masterwork – perhaps due to its renowned sexual explicitness. IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN is the maverick director’s own bookend to his lifelong exploration of the imprecise nature of human relationships, incommunicability and alienation.

After his wife leaves him, a film director (ostensibly Antonioni’s alter-ego, played by Tomas Milian) enters into a passionate affair with a striking young aristocratic woman (Daniela Silverio). Soon a stranger warns him, with threats, to stop seeing her and some weeks later, after a lover’s row, she vanishes… Whilst searching for her, he meets a beautiful young actress (Christine Boisson), whose curiosity is piqued to find the missing woman…

 

• Interview with Erica Antonioni – “Identification of a Director”

• An intimate video-diary of Michelangelo Antonioni – “With Michelangelo”

• Interview with Scholar Pasquale Iannone – “Antonioni’s Final Masterpiece”

• New subtitles and Hard-of-Hearing Closed Captions

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Strip Nude for your Killer

blu-ray

 

• 2K Restored from original negative. Full HD 1080P

• Seamless options: Uniquely this release presents a choice of both ‘Tinted’ or regular ‘Untinted’ Opening scene Versions

• Interview with Star Nino Castelnuovo ’The Sweetest Memory’

• Interview with Star Erna Schürer ‘Emma’

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il postino

dual format blu-ray & dvd

 

One of the most moving and poetic films ever made, Michael Radford’s epoch-making IL POSTINO (aka The Postman) is now presented in a stunning restored version. Telling the fictional story of the real-life Nobel laureate poet Pablo Neruda’s exile to a tiny island off Italy where, being a high-profile figure, he receives such huge quantities of mail that the local post office must hire an extra postman: Il Postino. Though shy and poorly educated, our postman (Massimo Troisi) is so intrigued by Neruda (Philippe Noiret ‘Cinema Paradiso’) that he devises ploys to engage the attention of the great poet. The unlikely duo become friends as Neruda is charmed by the fresh simplicity of the postman whose love for poetry he then applies to woo local beauty, Beatrice (Maria Grazia Cucinotta ‘The World is Not Enough’).

Framed by an unforgettable Oscar®-winning score by Luis Bacalov, the duo’s on-screen charm, coupled with Radford’s unobtrusive yet inspired direction, make this an undisputed masterpiece – which, like all great art, speaks to our subconscious, here with warm loving humanity… yet also light-hearted fun

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Torso

blu-ray

 

•  “Dismembering Torso”  an exclusive interview with director Sergio Martino.

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keoma

 

• Interview with Director Enzo G. Castellari on the making of ‘Keoma’

• Interview with Editor Gianfranco Amicucci

• Alex Cox (legendary cult director of ‘Repo Man, Syd & Nancy‘ and curator of BBC’s Moviedrome) presents ‘Keoma‘

• 2^nd Interview with Director Enzo G. Castellari, in a candid chat on his career

• Full 1080P encode from 2K restored vault materials

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Viva

 

• Anna Biller’s behind the scene featurette

• Audio commentary by critic Heather Drain

• Anna’s photos from the set

• Theatrical Trailer

 

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