Upcoming Arrow Academy Blu-ray Releases
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Posted May 22, 2020 03:30 PM by Webmaster
Arrow Academy has announced that it will add two new titles to its Blu-ray catalog: Jaco Van Dormael's Toto the Hero (1991) and Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948). The two releases will be available for purchase in August.
Toto the Hero
Synopsis: The acclaimed debut film from Jaco Van Dormael (Mr Nobody) is a funny and magical journey in the spirit of Cinema Paradiso and My Life as a Dog.
Thomas is obsessed with the idea he was swapped at birth with his neighbor Alfred during a hospital fire. Believing the wealthy and privileged Alfred has lived the life he should have had Thomas is heart broken by the loss of his sister and plots his revenge, imagining himself to be the secret agent, Toto the Hero.
Cutting between past and present, comedy and tragedy Van Dormael's multi-award-winning film is presented on Blu-ray for the first time.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
UK STREET DATE: AUGUST 3.
Bicycle Thieves
Synopsis: Heralded as the greatest film ever made on release, winning an Oscar in 1949 and topping the Sight & Sound film poll in 1952, De Sica's seminal work of Italian neorealism has had an impact on cinema worldwide from release to the present day, with filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray and Ken Loach claiming the film as a direct influence on their own.
Bicycle Thieves tells the story of Antonio, a long unemployed man who finally finds employment putting up cinema posters for which he needs a bicycle. His wife pawns all the family linen to redeem the already pawned bicycle and for Antonio salvation has come, until the bicycle is stolen. Antonio and his son take to the streets in a desperate search to find the bicycle. Bicycle Thieves is as much about the position of Italians in post-War, post-Fascist Italy as the relationship between father and son, told through the labyrinth of the cinematic city with De Sica's arresting visual poetry.
Defining neorealism, a small period of filmmaking that focused on simple, humanist stories, Bicycle Thieves was one of the most captivating and moving. Now presented in a new 4K restoration from the original camera negative.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Toto the Hero
Synopsis: The acclaimed debut film from Jaco Van Dormael (Mr Nobody) is a funny and magical journey in the spirit of Cinema Paradiso and My Life as a Dog.
Thomas is obsessed with the idea he was swapped at birth with his neighbor Alfred during a hospital fire. Believing the wealthy and privileged Alfred has lived the life he should have had Thomas is heart broken by the loss of his sister and plots his revenge, imagining himself to be the secret agent, Toto the Hero.
Cutting between past and present, comedy and tragedy Van Dormael's multi-award-winning film is presented on Blu-ray for the first time.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- High definition digital transfer
- Original Uncompressed mono audio
- Newly translated optional English subtitles
- Memories of Hero – an extensive documentary on the making of Toto featuring members of the cast and crew
- Francois Schuiten – Architect of an Unfinished Dream – the comic book artist and concept artist for Toto discusses his involvement in the film and working with Van Dormael
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Scott Saslow
- First pressing only: Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Jon Towlson
UK STREET DATE: AUGUST 3.
Bicycle Thieves
Synopsis: Heralded as the greatest film ever made on release, winning an Oscar in 1949 and topping the Sight & Sound film poll in 1952, De Sica's seminal work of Italian neorealism has had an impact on cinema worldwide from release to the present day, with filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray and Ken Loach claiming the film as a direct influence on their own.
Bicycle Thieves tells the story of Antonio, a long unemployed man who finally finds employment putting up cinema posters for which he needs a bicycle. His wife pawns all the family linen to redeem the already pawned bicycle and for Antonio salvation has come, until the bicycle is stolen. Antonio and his son take to the streets in a desperate search to find the bicycle. Bicycle Thieves is as much about the position of Italians in post-War, post-Fascist Italy as the relationship between father and son, told through the labyrinth of the cinematic city with De Sica's arresting visual poetry.
Defining neorealism, a small period of filmmaking that focused on simple, humanist stories, Bicycle Thieves was one of the most captivating and moving. Now presented in a new 4K restoration from the original camera negative.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- BRAND NEW 4K restoration from the original camera negative
- Original mono Audio
- Feature length audio commentary by Italian Cinema expert Robert Gordon, author of BFI Modern Classics Bicycle Thieves
- Money Has Been My Ruin – a brand new video essay by critic and filmmaker David Cairns on Vittorio De Sica's career and filmmaking
- Indiscretion of an American Film Producer – a brand new video essay by film historian Kat Ellinger on De Sica's relationship with Hollywood producers David O. Selznick and Joseph H. Levine and the version that never was
- Original trailer advertising De Sica's films, featuring Bicycle Thieves star Lamberto Maggiorani and Francesco Golisano presenting Miracle in Milan
- Optional English subtitles
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Vince McIndoe