Independent British distributors Signal One Entertainment have announcd that they will add a number of new titles to their Blu-ray catalog in early 2016. Amongst them are Roger Corman's
The Trip (1968), Bob Rafelson's
Black Widow (1987), and Richard Fleischer's
Compulsion (1959).
The Trip
Hedonism isn't just for breakfast anymore. Or so learns TV commercial director Paul (Peter Fonda) on his first LSD trip — a mind-blowing passage through surreal images and stroboscopic light shows. Written by Jack Nicholson and directed by Roger Corman,
The Trip takes you to a whole new world of extreme beauty and sheer terror — on a passport the size of a stamp!
Special Features:
- Audio commentary with director Roger Corman
- Deleted prologue (with optional director commentary)
- Alternative ending (with optional director commentary)
- Tune In, Trip Out (2003): documentary featuring interviews with the cast and crew of The Trip
- Allen Daviau, ASC on Psychedelic Film Effects (2003): interview with the celebrated
cinematographer
- Psychedelic Light Box (Film effects montage)
- Poster and stills gallery
- Original theatrical trailer
STREET DATE: JANUARY 4.
Gas-s-s-s
When the US military accidentally release a noxious substance that causes 'death from instant old age', everyone over twenty-five dies and the youth of America are left to their own devices to invent a new world order. Fresh from bringing the late-60s counter-cultural explosion to the screen in The Trip, Roger Corman delivers his most ambitious and anarchic take on the 'Love Generation' yet - a free-wheeling blend of acid rock, far-out humour and psychedelic excess that faithfully captures the revolutionary spirit of its time.
Special Features:
- The Guardian Interview with director Roger Corman (1970): archival interview conducted the day after work was completed on Gas-s-s-s
- The Guardian Interview with director Roger Corman (1991): the legendary director returns to the NFT to discuss his career
- Counter-Culture Corman (2015): newly-produced documentary featuring interviews with Roger Corman, Ted Newsom and Chris Poggiali
- Lobby cards, press book and stills
STREET DATE: JANUARY 3.
Mr. Majestyk
Mr Majestyk (Bronson) is an ex-con and Vietnam vet whose efforts to run a normal life as a farmer are thwarted by narrow-minded locals and corrupts cops. When a Mafia hitman destroys Majestyk s crop, the farmer snaps. Taking his rifle in hand, he goes after the syndicate assassin, refusing to stop until his work is done. Written for the screen by Elmore Leonard (Out of Sight, Get Shorty), directed by Richard Fleischer (10 Rillington Place, Soylent Green) and starring cinema tough guy Charles Bronson (The Dirty Dozen, Death Wish), Mr Majestyk is a gritty action film full of car chases, shoot-outs and bare-knuckle brawls.
Special Features:
- Colorado Chic (2015): newly-filmed interview with actress Lee Purcell
- Colorado Cool (2015): newly-filmed interview with cinematographer Richard H. Kline
- Audio commentary with Bronson and Fleischer expert Paul Talbot, author of Bronson's Loose!: The Making of the Death Wish Films
- Lobby cards, posters and stills
STREET DATE: JANUARY 3.
'Doc'
In 1881, Doc Holliday enters the 'No Name Saloon' and challenges a man to a game of poker. He bets his horse for the opponent's wife, the whore Katie Elder, and wins. From then on, Elder goes wherever Doc goes. When they arrive in Tombstone, Sheriff Wyatt Earp is standing as a candidate in the local election, but hostilities erupt and the Clanton family, a gang of outlaw cowboys, make their opposition felt. Doc soon joins forces with Earp and his brothers to take on the Clanton gang. This gritty, revisionist take on the true story of the legendary gunfight at the OK Corral stars Stacy Keach as Doc Holliday and Faye Dunaway as Kate Elder, and features music by the legendary songwriter Jimmy Webb ( Wichita Lineman ).
Special Features:
- Archival interview with Faye Dunaway in conversation with critic Alexander Walker
- Original theatrical trailer
- And More...
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 8.
Compulsion
In this riveting true story about the notorious 1924 Leopold/Loeb murder case, Orson Wells stars as the brilliant Clarence Darrow whose history-making defense against capitol punishment saved two Chicago teenagers from a death sentence. Though names have changed, this factual, fascinating character study based on news reporter Meyer Levin's bestseller focuses on the two boys - one bossy and intimidating (Bradford Dillman), the other sensitive and introverted (Dean Stockwell) - who thought their superior intellect would enable them to pull off "the perfect crime." E.G. Marshall, Martin Milner and Diane Varsi co-star in this "tense, intelligent" (Time) re-enactment of what was seen as the crime of the century.
Special Features:
- Richard Fleischer Guardian Interview (1981, 93 mins, audio only): the great director discusses his career after a
screening of Compulsion
- Richard Fleischer Guardian Interview (1994, 77 mins): Fleischer returns to the NFT for this filmed interview
- Orson Welles in the Courtroom Scene from Compulsion (1959): reproduction of the original 7" vinyl recording
- Original theatrical trailer
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 8.
Black Widow
Bob Rafelson directs this dark psychological thriller about the seductive interplay between two intriguing women, Catharine (Theresa Russell) is a sultry beauty who meticulously sets her traps. Alex (Debra Winger) is a federal sleuth who just as meticulously uncovers what no one else suspects - that this femme fatale tricks wealthy men into marrying her, then kills them to inherit their fortunes. Soon Alex's obsession with the mysterious Catharine draws her deeper and deeper into danger.
Special Features:
TBA.
STREET DATE: MARCH 7.
The Seven-Ups
From the producer of Bullet and The French Connection comes the final film in a triumvirate of heart-racing and vividly real police action thrillers, an adventure relentlessly compelling and delivered "hammer hard...with dogged intensity!" (Time). Two-time Academy Award nominee Roy Scheider leads a rogue squad of New York City cops, who name themselves after the minimum sentence of their targeted street hoods. Often as violent as the vicious thugs they pursue, these cops will stop at nothing to get justice in the courts - but more often - in the streets! Careening with action from beginning to end, The Seven-Ups is a spellbinding tale that culminates in a "harrowing chase sequence" (Newsweek), which both Boxoffice magazine and Leonard Maltin rave is one of "the best yet filmed!"
SPECIAL FEATURES: TBA.
STREET DATE: MARCH 7.