Optimum Unleashes Blu-ray Deluge

Optimum Home Entertainment has added nearly forty catalog titles to its Blu-ray schedule, for release between July and September 2009. Titles run the gamut of genres, from Hong Kong martial arts to European arthouse classics, and more Luc Besson than you can shake a stick at. No information on region coding is available, but Optimum often locks its titles to region B.

Here is the schedule of catalog releases from Optimum for July-September.

July 6:

• 'Highlander: Immortal Edition' (Russell Mulcahy, 1986)

July 20:

• '9 Songs' (Michael Winterbottom, 2004)
• 'Brick' (Rian Johnson, 2005)
• 'Captivity' (Roland Joffé, 2007)
• 'The Dam Busters' (Michael Anderson, 1955)
• 'Elephant' (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
• 'The Grifters' (Stephen Frears, 1990)
• 'The Pianist' (Roman Polanski, 2002)
• 'Redacted' (Brian De Palma, 2007)
• 'Switchblade Romance [Haute Tension]' (Alexandre Aja, 2003)

August 17:

• 'Angel Heart' (Alan Parker, 1987)
• 'Austin Powers - International Man Of Mystery' (Jay Roach, 1997)
• 'Feast' (John Gulager, 2005)
• 'La Haine' (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)
• 'Near Dark' (Kathryn Bigelow, 1987)
• 'The Score' (Frank Oz, 2001)
• 'Unknown' (Simon Brand, 2006)

September 7:

• 'This Is Spinal Tap' (Rob Reiner, 1984)

September 14:

• 'Angel-A' (Luc Besson, 2005)
• 'Atlantis' (Luc Besson, 1991)
• 'The Big Blue [Le grand bleu]' (Luc Besson, 1988)
• 'Le dernier combat' (Luc Besson, 1983)
• 'La Femme Nikita [Nikita]' (Luc Besson, 1990)
• 'Léon' (Luc Besson, 1994)
• 'Subway' (Luc Besson, 1985)

September 21:

• 'Cry Wolf' (Jeff Wadlow, 2005)
• 'Honeymoon in Vegas' (Andrew Bergman, 1992)
• 'Shaolin Soccer [Siu lam juk kau]' (Stephen Chow, 2001)
• 'Universal Soldier' (Roland Emmerich, 1991)

September 28:

• 'Belle de jour' (Luis Buñuel, 1967)
• 'Contempt [Le mépris]' (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
• 'The Deer Hunter' (Michael Cimino, 1978)
• 'The Elephant Man' (David Lynch, 1980)
• 'The Go-Between' (Joseph Losey, 1970)
• 'The Ladykillers' (Alexander Mackendrick, 1955)
• 'Last Year In Marienbad [L'année dernière à Marienbad]' (Alain Resnais, 1961)
• 'The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum [Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann]' (Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta, 1975)
• 'Ran' (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)