French label Pathe will add six new titles to its Blu-ray catalog in February: Georges Lautner's
The Black Monocle (1961),
The Eye of the Monocle (1962),
The Seventh Juror (1962), and
The Twisted Detective (1977), and Jean-Jacques Annaud's
The Bear (1988) and
The Lover (1992).
The Lover
Based on Marguerite Duras' best-selling novel. Jane March is mesmerizing in the role of a poor French teenager who engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir (Tony Leung) in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters. But though the lovers are able to transcend their differences in age, race and class... theirs is a future that French colonial Vietnamese society will never allow. Newly restored in 4K. STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 4.
The Bear
Few films have captured the raw essence of the wild like director Jean-Jacques Annaud's
The Bear. With jaw-dropping animal performances, spectacular mountain vistas and timeless lessons of nature, the DVD release of this beloved tale is sure to thrill old and new fans alike.
Set in the majestic mountains of British Columbia in 1885,
The Bear centers on a precocious bear cub and an old grizzled Grizzly as they struggle to endure the harsh wilderness and survive their deadliest foe - man. An unrelenting battle of strength, wits, and ultimately, character is at hand, and there is no predicting the outcome when two of nature's greatest killers face off. Newly restored in 4K. STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 4.
The Twisted Detective
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means...Newly restored in 2K. STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 4.
The Black Monocle
- New 2K restoration of the film
- Archival interviews with Paul Meurisse, Georges Lautner, Bertand Blier, Philippe Lombard
The Eye of the Monocle
- New 2K restoration of the film
- Original trailer
The Seventh Juror
- New 2K restoration of the film
- Retrospective documentary with Yves Rodallec, Bernard Blier, Georges Lautner, Bertand Blier, Jean-Philippe Guerand, and Philippe Lombard.