Breathless (1983) Blu-ray
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Posted November 17, 2017 02:32 PM by Webmaster
British label Second Sight will add to its Blu-ray catalog director Jim McBride's film Breathless (1983), starring Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky, Art Metrano, John P. Ryan, and William Tepper. The release will be available for purchase on March 26.
Synopsis: On the run after killing a cop, small-time crook Jesse Lujack teams up with French student Monica and seduces her into taking a trip to Mexico with him. It isn't long before his criminal activities catch up with them both and Monica is forced to decide her fate. A remake of Jean-Luc Godard's Ŕ bout de souffle, director Jim McBride's stylish re-imagining has won a legion of fans including Quentin Tarantino.
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ADDITIONAL UPDATES FROM THE LABEL:
Second Sight has also revealed new street dates and final cover art and specs for its upcoming Blu-ray releases of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz and Edgar Reitz's Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Synopsis: TV drama series directed by renowned German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, adapted from an Alfred Döblin novel. The series was basically a 15 hour narrative by one man - Franz Bierkopf. Bierkopf is a compelling character - good natured, soft, tender and equally hard, violent and brutal when required. Fresh out of prison in 1920s Germany after a four stretch for doing away with his girlfriend, he's working at making a new start and going straight. He meets Reinhold, a magnetic yet dangerous and halfwitted low-rent burglar and falls under his spell. Very soon any hope Bierkopf had of going straight, goes straight out of the window. Starring Volker Spengler, Hanna Schygulla, Brigitte Mira, Roger Fritz, and Gottfried John.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany
Synopsis: Five years in the making, Heimat is one of the most compelling and highly praised dramas in television history. This epic tale of a family and their rural life in a small German village is told against the changing backdrop of a country's turbulent history from 1919 to 1982. From the aftermath of the First World War, economic hardship, the rise and fall of Nazism, the Second World War and the decades that followed, life in the village goes on and the values and aspirations of the people at its heart are wonderfully brought to life in this gripping saga of an ordinary family living through extraordinary times. Edgar Reitz's astonishing 15-hour masterpiece appeared in 6th place when BBC2 ran a 40th birthday poll celebrating the station's greatest programmes and was 10th in Channel 4's 50 Greatest TV Dramas. It has captivated audiences all over the world and will continue to be hailed as one of television's most rewarding and unforgettable experiences.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Synopsis: On the run after killing a cop, small-time crook Jesse Lujack teams up with French student Monica and seduces her into taking a trip to Mexico with him. It isn't long before his criminal activities catch up with them both and Monica is forced to decide her fate. A remake of Jean-Luc Godard's Ŕ bout de souffle, director Jim McBride's stylish re-imagining has won a legion of fans including Quentin Tarantino.
Special Features:
- NEW video interview with STAR Valerie Kaprisky
- Original trailer
- And MORE...
ADDITIONAL UPDATES FROM THE LABEL:
Second Sight has also revealed new street dates and final cover art and specs for its upcoming Blu-ray releases of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz and Edgar Reitz's Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Synopsis: TV drama series directed by renowned German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, adapted from an Alfred Döblin novel. The series was basically a 15 hour narrative by one man - Franz Bierkopf. Bierkopf is a compelling character - good natured, soft, tender and equally hard, violent and brutal when required. Fresh out of prison in 1920s Germany after a four stretch for doing away with his girlfriend, he's working at making a new start and going straight. He meets Reinhold, a magnetic yet dangerous and halfwitted low-rent burglar and falls under his spell. Very soon any hope Bierkopf had of going straight, goes straight out of the window. Starring Volker Spengler, Hanna Schygulla, Brigitte Mira, Roger Fritz, and Gottfried John.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 'Fassbinder: Love Without Demands' - The acclaimed 2015 feature length documentary by Christian Braad Thomsen
- An appreciation by writer and critic Tony Rayns
- Berlin Alexanderplatz - A Visual Essay by Daniel Bird
- A Mega Movie and it's Story' documentary by Juliane Lorenz
- 'The Restoration' documentary including 'before and after'
- The Original Recaps
- Stills and Production Photos
- Berlinale 2007 trailer
- 50-page perfect bound booklet featuring:
- New essay by Cahiers Du Cinema's Stephane du Mesnildot
- 'Christ, Rainer' by Wim Wenders
- Essay by Thomas Elsasser (excerpted from his book Fassbinder's Germany: History, Identity, Subject)
- Excerpt from Christian Braad Thomsen's 'Fassbinder'
- Michael Hofmann's Times Literary Supplement review of Berlin Alexanderplatz
Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany
Synopsis: Five years in the making, Heimat is one of the most compelling and highly praised dramas in television history. This epic tale of a family and their rural life in a small German village is told against the changing backdrop of a country's turbulent history from 1919 to 1982. From the aftermath of the First World War, economic hardship, the rise and fall of Nazism, the Second World War and the decades that followed, life in the village goes on and the values and aspirations of the people at its heart are wonderfully brought to life in this gripping saga of an ordinary family living through extraordinary times. Edgar Reitz's astonishing 15-hour masterpiece appeared in 6th place when BBC2 ran a 40th birthday poll celebrating the station's greatest programmes and was 10th in Channel 4's 50 Greatest TV Dramas. It has captivated audiences all over the world and will continue to be hailed as one of television's most rewarding and unforgettable experiences.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Restored from the original negative by The Edgar Reitz Film Foundation
- 'Heimat – The Hunsruek Villages: Stories from the film locations; Edgar Reitz's 2-hour documentary 'prologue' to Heimat
- NEW interview with Edgar Reitz on the making of Heimat
- NEW interview with Christian Reitz on the restoration of Heimat
- NEW interview with Marita Breuer on acting in Heimat
- NEW introduction by Jan Harlan on the significance of Heimat for Stanley Kubrick
- Visual Essay by Daniel Bird
- 50 page limited edition soft cover book featuring liner notes by Carmen Gray, 'The Collaboration with Gernot Roll' by Edgar Reitz and 'Germany as Memory' by Anton Kaes