Eureka Entertainment Announces July Releases
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Posted May 2, 2019 05:56 PM by Webmaster
Eureka Entertainment has officially announced its July slate of Blu-ray titles. They are: The Cockleshell Heroes (1955), Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), and Coming Home (1978).
The Cockleshell Heroes
Synopsis: At the height of the Second World War, a battalion of German ships are safely docked at the "unassailable" port of Bordeaux. Newly promoted Major Stringer (José Ferrer, also behind the camera as director) has a unique idea – send a team of commandos out in collapsible canoes, have them paddle seventy miles upriver in arduous conditions and blow up the German ships with limpet mines.
Also starring Trevor Howard and Christopher Lee, THE COCKLESHELL HEROES is the true story of one of the most daring raids in British military history, and Eureka Classics is proud to present the film in its worldwide debut on Blu-ray.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Synopsis: COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN is one of the wonderful highlights of an under-appreciated chapter of director Robert Altman's career. Between the box office disappointment of POPEYE (1980) and the explosive comeback of THE PLAYER (1992), Altman returned to lower-budgeted, independent filmmaking, often boldly experimenting with how theatre work could be inventively adapted for cinema and television. This period of Altman's oeuvre also includes such masterworks as STREAMERS (1983), SECRET HONOR (1984), and TANNER '88 (1988), but was initiated by COME BACK, and this funny, touching film of the play by Ed Graczyk (who adapted it for the screen) is a triumph.
Altman's film also jump-started the serious acting career of Cher, nominated for a Golden Globe for her role as Sissy, one of the "Disciples of James Dean," an all-women fan club devoted to the late actor, meeting for a reunion at a crumbling Woolworth's in a small Texas town in 1975. Joined by group leader Mona (Sandy Dennis) and the glamorous, initially mysterious Joanne (Karen Black), the women recall their love for Dean, and the club that began twenty years earlier when the actor was in a nearby town filming Giant, and the fatal car accident that followed. Soon, as more memories of 1955 are recalled, secrets are revealed and old friendships are put to the test.
Reuniting Altman with his previous stars Dennis (THAT COLD DAY IN THE PARK) and Black (NASHVILLE), and providing Kathy Bates with an early feature role, COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN is a study of nostalgia's ability to distort the past, and another of the director's fascinating portraits of the friendships between women. It's also one of Altman's warmest and most entertaining movies. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Robert Altman's COME BACK TO THE 5 & DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN for the first time ever in the UK in a Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD) edition.
Special Features:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Synopsis: Director Elia Kazan's first film, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN shows that the filmmaker's great empathy for his characters was already quite evident at this early juncture, and this endures as one of the most moving Hollywood dramas of the 1940s. Based on Betty Smith's novel – a bestseller in the U.S. but also one of the most popular books among American soldiers overseas in WWII – Kazan's debut is a sensitive, masterful adaptation.
Set among Brooklyn tenements circa 1912, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a portrait of the Nolans, an Irish-American family living in financially challenging circumstances, often made worse by father Johnny's drinking and employment problems. But matriarch Katie keeps the family together during all of the obstacles, caring for son Neeley and daughter Francie, as well as Katie's outspoken, oft-married sister Sissy. But just as Francie's gift for writing opens up new avenues, more tragic developments test the family's resolve.
Winning Academy Awards for actors James Dunn (as Johnny) and Peggy Ann Garner (as Francie), and featuring splendid work by Dorothy McGuire and Joan Blondell, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a heartfelt testament to the strength of family, and offers an early indication of Kazan's unrivalled proficiency with actors.
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Coming Home
Synopsis: Perhaps the most compelling picture ever made about the shattering aftermath of the Vietnam War. COMING HOME earned eight Academy Award nominations and won three for Best Actress (Jane Fonda), Actor (Jon Voight), and Original Screenplay. COMING HOME is an uncompromising, extraordinarily moving film directed by the great Hal Ashby (HAROLD & MAUDE).
When Marine Captain Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern) leaves for Vietnam, his wife Sally (Fonda) volunteers at a local hospital. There she meets Luke Martin (Voight), a former sergeant whose war injury has left him a paraplegic. Embittered with rage and filled with frustration, Luke finds new hope and confidence through his growing intimacy with Sally. The relationship transforms Sally's feelings about life, love and the horrors of war. And when, wounded and disillusioned, Sally's husband returns home, all three must grapple with the full impact of a brutal, distant war that has changed their lives forever.
One of director Hal Ashby's biggest hits (second only to SHAMPOO), The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present COMING HOME for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
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The label has also confirmed that a new 4K restoration of The Golem (1920) will be released on Blu-ray later this year.
Description: A new 4K restoration of Paul Wegener's 1920 classic of German Cinema, DER GOLEM, which premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival, will be released on Blu-ray as part of the Masters of Cinema Series later in the year. Supervised by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung and Cinematek, the film has been restored in 4K by L'Immagine ritrovata from the film's original negative that was thought to have been lost.
Set in the Jewish ghetto of medieval Prague, the film opens with the Jewish community being threatened with removal from the city. Responding to this crisis, Rabbi Loew, the head of the city's Jewish community, begins to construct a monstrous figure out of clay – the mythical golem of the title. Calling upon ancient, mystical powers, the Rabbi brings this creature to life, hoping to protect his people.
With its foreshadowing of the Jewish persecution that was to come in Europe, DER GOLEM is a powerful and poignant piece of film-making - capped by inventive special effects, and exhilarating lighting and cinematography from the film's photographer Karl Freund. Wegener himself stars as the titular creature, and he cuts an imposing and impressive figure in his tactile, clay like costume and make-up - an extraordinary bit of physical special effects.The film is also one of the earliest examples of the horror movie, and a clear precursor to the classic monster movies produced by Universal in the 1930s - Freund went on to work in Hollywood on classic horrors such as DRACULA (1931) and THE MUMMY (1932).
Full details of the release are yet to be finalised, but we can confirm that the home video release will feature original scores from Admir Shkurtaj, Stephen Horne and Wudec (Lukasz Poleszak).
The Cockleshell Heroes
Synopsis: At the height of the Second World War, a battalion of German ships are safely docked at the "unassailable" port of Bordeaux. Newly promoted Major Stringer (José Ferrer, also behind the camera as director) has a unique idea – send a team of commandos out in collapsible canoes, have them paddle seventy miles upriver in arduous conditions and blow up the German ships with limpet mines.
Also starring Trevor Howard and Christopher Lee, THE COCKLESHELL HEROES is the true story of one of the most daring raids in British military history, and Eureka Classics is proud to present the film in its worldwide debut on Blu-ray.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
- Uncompressed LPCM 2.0 audio
- Optional English SDH subtitles
- Brand New and Exclusive interview with film historian Sheldon Hall
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Synopsis: COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN is one of the wonderful highlights of an under-appreciated chapter of director Robert Altman's career. Between the box office disappointment of POPEYE (1980) and the explosive comeback of THE PLAYER (1992), Altman returned to lower-budgeted, independent filmmaking, often boldly experimenting with how theatre work could be inventively adapted for cinema and television. This period of Altman's oeuvre also includes such masterworks as STREAMERS (1983), SECRET HONOR (1984), and TANNER '88 (1988), but was initiated by COME BACK, and this funny, touching film of the play by Ed Graczyk (who adapted it for the screen) is a triumph.
Altman's film also jump-started the serious acting career of Cher, nominated for a Golden Globe for her role as Sissy, one of the "Disciples of James Dean," an all-women fan club devoted to the late actor, meeting for a reunion at a crumbling Woolworth's in a small Texas town in 1975. Joined by group leader Mona (Sandy Dennis) and the glamorous, initially mysterious Joanne (Karen Black), the women recall their love for Dean, and the club that began twenty years earlier when the actor was in a nearby town filming Giant, and the fatal car accident that followed. Soon, as more memories of 1955 are recalled, secrets are revealed and old friendships are put to the test.
Reuniting Altman with his previous stars Dennis (THAT COLD DAY IN THE PARK) and Black (NASHVILLE), and providing Kathy Bates with an early feature role, COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN is a study of nostalgia's ability to distort the past, and another of the director's fascinating portraits of the friendships between women. It's also one of Altman's warmest and most entertaining movies. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Robert Altman's COME BACK TO THE 5 & DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN for the first time ever in the UK in a Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD) edition.
Special Features:
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation from a newly updated version of the 2012 TFF funded restoration
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- New and exclusive feature-length audio commentary by Lee Gambin
- CUTTING JIMMY DEAN [25 mins] – New and exclusive interview with film editor Jason Rosenfield
- DESIGNING JIMMY DEAN [11 mins] – New and exclusive interview with art director David Gropman
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- PLUS: a collector's booklet featuring a new essay by film critic and writer Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Synopsis: Director Elia Kazan's first film, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN shows that the filmmaker's great empathy for his characters was already quite evident at this early juncture, and this endures as one of the most moving Hollywood dramas of the 1940s. Based on Betty Smith's novel – a bestseller in the U.S. but also one of the most popular books among American soldiers overseas in WWII – Kazan's debut is a sensitive, masterful adaptation.
Set among Brooklyn tenements circa 1912, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a portrait of the Nolans, an Irish-American family living in financially challenging circumstances, often made worse by father Johnny's drinking and employment problems. But matriarch Katie keeps the family together during all of the obstacles, caring for son Neeley and daughter Francie, as well as Katie's outspoken, oft-married sister Sissy. But just as Francie's gift for writing opens up new avenues, more tragic developments test the family's resolve.
Winning Academy Awards for actors James Dunn (as Johnny) and Peggy Ann Garner (as Francie), and featuring splendid work by Dorothy McGuire and Joan Blondell, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a heartfelt testament to the strength of family, and offers an early indication of Kazan's unrivalled proficiency with actors.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p transfer of the film on Blu-ray from a 2K restoration completed from a 4K scan of the original film elements
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Feature-length commentary by Richard Schickel with Elia Kazan, Ted Donaldson, and Normal Lloyd
- The Making of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- AN APPRECIATION OF DOROTHY MCGUIRE | A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN – HOLLYWOOD STAR TIME: Original radio broadcast version of A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN from 1946, starring Peggy Ann Garner, James Dunn and Joseph Kearns
- PLUS: a collector's booklet featuring new essays by Kat Ellinger, Phil Hoad, and Philip Kemp, alongside rare archival imagery
Coming Home
Synopsis: Perhaps the most compelling picture ever made about the shattering aftermath of the Vietnam War. COMING HOME earned eight Academy Award nominations and won three for Best Actress (Jane Fonda), Actor (Jon Voight), and Original Screenplay. COMING HOME is an uncompromising, extraordinarily moving film directed by the great Hal Ashby (HAROLD & MAUDE).
When Marine Captain Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern) leaves for Vietnam, his wife Sally (Fonda) volunteers at a local hospital. There she meets Luke Martin (Voight), a former sergeant whose war injury has left him a paraplegic. Embittered with rage and filled with frustration, Luke finds new hope and confidence through his growing intimacy with Sally. The relationship transforms Sally's feelings about life, love and the horrors of war. And when, wounded and disillusioned, Sally's husband returns home, all three must grapple with the full impact of a brutal, distant war that has changed their lives forever.
One of director Hal Ashby's biggest hits (second only to SHAMPOO), The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present COMING HOME for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p transfer of the film on Blu-ray
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Brand new and exclusive audio commentary by author Scott Harrison
- Feature-length commentary with actors Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, and cinematographer Haskell Wexler
- COMING BACK HOME [25 mins] – archival featurette | MAN OUT OF TIME [15 mins] – archival featurette
- PLUS: a collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by author Scott Harrison and critic Glenn Kenny
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The label has also confirmed that a new 4K restoration of The Golem (1920) will be released on Blu-ray later this year.
Description: A new 4K restoration of Paul Wegener's 1920 classic of German Cinema, DER GOLEM, which premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival, will be released on Blu-ray as part of the Masters of Cinema Series later in the year. Supervised by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung and Cinematek, the film has been restored in 4K by L'Immagine ritrovata from the film's original negative that was thought to have been lost.
Set in the Jewish ghetto of medieval Prague, the film opens with the Jewish community being threatened with removal from the city. Responding to this crisis, Rabbi Loew, the head of the city's Jewish community, begins to construct a monstrous figure out of clay – the mythical golem of the title. Calling upon ancient, mystical powers, the Rabbi brings this creature to life, hoping to protect his people.
With its foreshadowing of the Jewish persecution that was to come in Europe, DER GOLEM is a powerful and poignant piece of film-making - capped by inventive special effects, and exhilarating lighting and cinematography from the film's photographer Karl Freund. Wegener himself stars as the titular creature, and he cuts an imposing and impressive figure in his tactile, clay like costume and make-up - an extraordinary bit of physical special effects.The film is also one of the earliest examples of the horror movie, and a clear precursor to the classic monster movies produced by Universal in the 1930s - Freund went on to work in Hollywood on classic horrors such as DRACULA (1931) and THE MUMMY (1932).
Full details of the release are yet to be finalised, but we can confirm that the home video release will feature original scores from Admir Shkurtaj, Stephen Horne and Wudec (Lukasz Poleszak).