Eureka Entertainment: Two Upcoming Blu-ray Releases Detailed
HomeEureka Entertainment: Two Upcoming Blu-ray Releases Detailed
Posted March 30, 2017 03:46 PM by Webmaster
British label Eureka Entertainment has detailed two upcoming Blu-ray releases: Walter Hill's Hard Times and Luis Buñuel's Death in the Garden.
Hard Times
Synopsis: The American action auteur Walter Hill made a magnificent debut with this pulp triumph, featuring evocative period atmosphere and sterling performances from Charles Bronson and James Coburn.
Bronson plays a drifter suddenly caught up in the fight game during the Great Depression. Chaney, a down-on-his-luck loner, hops a freight train to New Orleans where, on the seedier side of town, he tries to make some quick money the only way he knows how - with his fists. Chaney approaches a hustler named Speed (James Coburn) and convinces him that he can win big money for them both.
Death in the Garden
Synopsis: Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives-a roguish adventurer (Georges Marchal), a local hooker (Simone Signoret), a priest (Michel Piccoli), an aging diamond miner (Charles Vanel) and his def-mute daughter-are to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another.
Shot in brilliant Eastmancolor and featuring a star-studded cast, Death in the Garden is a pulsating adventure film, alive with Surrealist gestures, making it classic Luis Bunuel. Special Features:
Hard Times
Synopsis: The American action auteur Walter Hill made a magnificent debut with this pulp triumph, featuring evocative period atmosphere and sterling performances from Charles Bronson and James Coburn.
Bronson plays a drifter suddenly caught up in the fight game during the Great Depression. Chaney, a down-on-his-luck loner, hops a freight train to New Orleans where, on the seedier side of town, he tries to make some quick money the only way he knows how - with his fists. Chaney approaches a hustler named Speed (James Coburn) and convinces him that he can win big money for them both.
- NEW 4K digital restoration
- Uncompressed PCM and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired
- A new interview with co-writer/director Walter Hill
- A new interview with producer Lawrence Gordon
- A new interview with composer Barry DeVorzon
- Excerpts from a 1984 interview with Walter Hill at the National Film Theatre, London
- Original theatrical trailer
- A 20-PAGE BOOKLET featuring Pauline Kael's original 1975 New Yorker review of the film, and archival imagery.
Death in the Garden
Synopsis: Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives-a roguish adventurer (Georges Marchal), a local hooker (Simone Signoret), a priest (Michel Piccoli), an aging diamond miner (Charles Vanel) and his def-mute daughter-are to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another.
Shot in brilliant Eastmancolor and featuring a star-studded cast, Death in the Garden is a pulsating adventure film, alive with Surrealist gestures, making it classic Luis Bunuel. Special Features:
- Uncompressed PCM soundtrack (on the Blu-ray)
- Optional English subtitles
- A new interview with Tony Rayns
- An interview with actor Michel Piccoli
- An interview with film scholar Victor Fuentes
- Masters of Cinema exclusive trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by Philip Kemp, and archival imagery
