Umbrella Entertainment Announces August Releases
HomeUmbrella Entertainment Announces August Releases
Posted July 8, 2021 05:44 PM by Webmaster
Australian label Umbrella Entertainment has announced its August slate of Blu-ray releases. They are: Malcolm (1986), Nightmares (1980), The Sniper (1952), Relic (2019), Alphaville (1965), Just a Gigolo (1978), and Tarantula/The Incredible Shrinking Man (1955-1957).
Malcolm
Description: Nadia Tass's Malcolm was originally released in 1986 and struck a national chord with the Australian public as a genuine expression of offbeat Australian humor.
This charming comedy is the story of slow-witted Malcolm (Colin Friels, Dingo) a young man with a genius for mechanical devices. When Malcolm loses his job as a conductor - for building his own tram - he meets Frank (John Hargreaves, Long Weekend) a man with a shady past who moves in to help Malcolm pay the bills. Sue Malcolm's unusual entry into a life of crime. Assisted by Frank, and the remote control tinker toys he once used to pick up milk from the corner shop, Malcolm lays his plans to pull off the heist of the century.
Accompanied by an infectious music score, you can again witness the magical combination of invention and true originality that saw Malcolm win 8 AFI Awards, including Best Film, in 1986.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Nightmares
Description; Screams of terror, silenced only by the splintering of glass! In this textbook example of 80s slash trash, an aspiring actress (Jenny Neumann, Hell Night), haunted by the childhood memory of her mother being thrown through a car window, finds herself trapped at the centre of a brutal killing spree as one by one her fellow thespians are butchered by a psychopath with a sliver of glass. Adding non-stop bloodshed to his successful cinematic recipe of softcore sex and ample naked flesh, Ozploitation auteur John D. Lamond (Felicity) takes on the stalk 'n slash genre with a vengeance in this infamous home-grown Halloweenclone. Proudly high on body count (including a notoriously graphic full-frontal thrill kill scene) and thankfully low on subtext, Nightmares offers the rare opportunity to see a host of famous Aussie faces (Gary Sweet, Briony Behets, John Michael Howson and others) dispatched in the most gruesome ways imaginable!
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Alphaville
Description: Government agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine, The Long Good Friday) is dispatched on a secret mission to Alphaville, a dystopian metropolis in a distant corner of the galaxy. Caution is hot on the trail of rogue agent Henri Dickson (Akim Tamiroff, Touch of Evil) and a scientist named Von Braun, the creator of Alpha 60, a computer that uses mind control to rule over residents of Alphaville. Caution is aided in his quest to destroy the despotic computer ruler by Von Braun's own daughter, Natacha (Anna Karina, The Truth About Charlie).
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Just a Gigolo
Description: Berlin, the 1920s. A time of change, a time of upheaval. Paul von Pryzgodski (David Bowie, Labyrinth) was a young man whose life had led him to expect heroism, but instead, he found failure - failure in the Great War, failure at trying to find a career, failure at nearly every relationship that comes his way until he meets the Baroness and discovers there is one profession at which he can excel.
This offbeat German melodrama directed by David Hemmings stars David Bowie as Paul, a young Prussian War veteran who returns home to Berlin after World War I. After drifting from job to job, Paul eventually finds his niche renting himself out as a dancer for war widows who long to forget their sadness. Kim Novak (Vertigo) sizzles as a sad widow, with German bombshell Maria Schell as Paul's mother and Sydne Rome as his old sweetheart-turned-cabaret singer. Marlene Dietrich makes a poignant cameo (it was her last film role) as an aging baroness, singing the title song, aka Schoner Gigolo, armer Gigolo.
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The Sniper
Description: In San Francisco, Eddie Miller (Arthur Franz, The Caine Mutiny) is a severely disturbed professional driver who fantasizes about killing beautiful women. He sends out several warning signs about his deteriorating mental state, but they're ignored by those around him. When he begins killing beautiful women and leaving clues for the authorities, the hardened Lt. Kafka (Adolphe Menjou, A Star Is Born) and police psychiatrist Dr. James G. Kent (Richard Kiley, Jurassic Park) must help track him down.
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Relic
Description: When family matriarch Edna (Robyn Nevin, The Matrix Revolutions) goes missing, her daughter, (Emily Mortimer, The Newsroom) and granddaughter (Bella Heathcote, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) return home to find her. They discover a haunting presence hanging over the home, which is taking over Edna's mind.
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The Wild One
Description: Johnny (Marlon Brando, Apocalypse Now) and his motorcycle gang roll into Carbonville for a biker competition and raise enough hell to get kicked out of town. They repair to nearby Wrightsville and continue their reign of terror. The local sheriff (Robert Keith, Guys and Dolls) is helpless to stop them, but when a rival gang arrives, he manages to arrest their leader, Chino (Lee Marvin, The Dirty Dozen). Meanwhile, Johnny finds himself attracted to the sheriff's daughter, Kathie (Mary Murphy, The Desperate Hours) and decides to stick around.
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Retro Sci-Fi Double Feature: Tarantula / The Incredible Shrinking Man
Description: TARANTULAAmbitious Professor Gerald Deemer (Leo G. Carroll, North By Northwest) has developed an astonishing new project: a special growth formula. Testing the formula on his innocent lab tarantula in Arizona he expects nothing more than it to double in size. But when it somehow escapes into the desert, it grows to gargantuan size and threatens to destroy everything and everyone in its path. Also featuring John Agar (Star in the Dust) and Mara Corday (Man Without a Star) TARANTULA is a cracking example of 50s sci-fi horror paranoia in the glorious tradition of The Blob and THEM!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Malcolm
Description: Nadia Tass's Malcolm was originally released in 1986 and struck a national chord with the Australian public as a genuine expression of offbeat Australian humor.
This charming comedy is the story of slow-witted Malcolm (Colin Friels, Dingo) a young man with a genius for mechanical devices. When Malcolm loses his job as a conductor - for building his own tram - he meets Frank (John Hargreaves, Long Weekend) a man with a shady past who moves in to help Malcolm pay the bills. Sue Malcolm's unusual entry into a life of crime. Assisted by Frank, and the remote control tinker toys he once used to pick up milk from the corner shop, Malcolm lays his plans to pull off the heist of the century.
Accompanied by an infectious music score, you can again witness the magical combination of invention and true originality that saw Malcolm win 8 AFI Awards, including Best Film, in 1986.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- EXCLUSIVE NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
- NEW – "A Quieter Time" interview featurette with David Parker
- NEW NFSA Malcolm Car featurette
- NEW "Where Was It Filmed?" Featurette
- Audio commentary with Nadia Tass and David Parker
- MALCOLM at the AFI Awards
- "Where Was It Filmed?" Featurette
- Popcorn Taxi Q&A with Nadia Tass and David Parker
- Interview with Colin Friels
- SBS Movie Show Interview With Lindy Davies
- David Parker and Nadia Tass archival NFSA interview
- More Malcolm Gizmos
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-FREE
Nightmares
Description; Screams of terror, silenced only by the splintering of glass! In this textbook example of 80s slash trash, an aspiring actress (Jenny Neumann, Hell Night), haunted by the childhood memory of her mother being thrown through a car window, finds herself trapped at the centre of a brutal killing spree as one by one her fellow thespians are butchered by a psychopath with a sliver of glass. Adding non-stop bloodshed to his successful cinematic recipe of softcore sex and ample naked flesh, Ozploitation auteur John D. Lamond (Felicity) takes on the stalk 'n slash genre with a vengeance in this infamous home-grown Halloweenclone. Proudly high on body count (including a notoriously graphic full-frontal thrill kill scene) and thankfully low on subtext, Nightmares offers the rare opportunity to see a host of famous Aussie faces (Gary Sweet, Briony Behets, John Michael Howson and others) dispatched in the most gruesome ways imaginable!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- EXCLUSIVE NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
- NEW NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD extended interviews with director John D. Lamond and actress Nina Landis
- Audio commentary with director John D. Lamond and filmmaker Mark Hartley
- Deleted scenes
- Confessions of an R-Rated Filmmaker featurette
- John D. Lamond trailer reel
- Stills and poster gallery
- Theatrical trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-FREE
Alphaville
Description: Government agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine, The Long Good Friday) is dispatched on a secret mission to Alphaville, a dystopian metropolis in a distant corner of the galaxy. Caution is hot on the trail of rogue agent Henri Dickson (Akim Tamiroff, Touch of Evil) and a scientist named Von Braun, the creator of Alpha 60, a computer that uses mind control to rule over residents of Alphaville. Caution is aided in his quest to destroy the despotic computer ruler by Von Braun's own daughter, Natacha (Anna Karina, The Truth About Charlie).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Anna Karina Interview
- Trailer
- In French, with English subtitles
- REGION-B "LOCKED"
Just a Gigolo
Description: Berlin, the 1920s. A time of change, a time of upheaval. Paul von Pryzgodski (David Bowie, Labyrinth) was a young man whose life had led him to expect heroism, but instead, he found failure - failure in the Great War, failure at trying to find a career, failure at nearly every relationship that comes his way until he meets the Baroness and discovers there is one profession at which he can excel.
This offbeat German melodrama directed by David Hemmings stars David Bowie as Paul, a young Prussian War veteran who returns home to Berlin after World War I. After drifting from job to job, Paul eventually finds his niche renting himself out as a dancer for war widows who long to forget their sadness. Kim Novak (Vertigo) sizzles as a sad widow, with German bombshell Maria Schell as Paul's mother and Sydne Rome as his old sweetheart-turned-cabaret singer. Marlene Dietrich makes a poignant cameo (it was her last film role) as an aging baroness, singing the title song, aka Schoner Gigolo, armer Gigolo.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- The Making Of Gigolo With Writer/Producer Joshua Sinclair And Assistant To The Director Rory Maclean
- Audio Commentary With Rory Maclean
- Original trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-B "LOCKED"
The Sniper
Description: In San Francisco, Eddie Miller (Arthur Franz, The Caine Mutiny) is a severely disturbed professional driver who fantasizes about killing beautiful women. He sends out several warning signs about his deteriorating mental state, but they're ignored by those around him. When he begins killing beautiful women and leaving clues for the authorities, the hardened Lt. Kafka (Adolphe Menjou, A Star Is Born) and police psychiatrist Dr. James G. Kent (Richard Kiley, Jurassic Park) must help track him down.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Introduction by Martin Scorsese
- Audio commentary by author Eddie Muller
- Film Noir trailer collection
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-B "LOCKED"
Relic
Description: When family matriarch Edna (Robyn Nevin, The Matrix Revolutions) goes missing, her daughter, (Emily Mortimer, The Newsroom) and granddaughter (Bella Heathcote, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) return home to find her. They discover a haunting presence hanging over the home, which is taking over Edna's mind.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Interviews with Bella Heathcote, Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin, Director Natalie Erika James, Cinematographer Charlie Sarroff and Production Designer Steven Jones
- Evans Creswick: A short film by Natalie Erika James
- Relic shoot timelapse
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-B "LOCKED"
The Wild One
Description: Johnny (Marlon Brando, Apocalypse Now) and his motorcycle gang roll into Carbonville for a biker competition and raise enough hell to get kicked out of town. They repair to nearby Wrightsville and continue their reign of terror. The local sheriff (Robert Keith, Guys and Dolls) is helpless to stop them, but when a rival gang arrives, he manages to arrest their leader, Chino (Lee Marvin, The Dirty Dozen). Meanwhile, Johnny finds himself attracted to the sheriff's daughter, Kathie (Mary Murphy, The Desperate Hours) and decides to stick around.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Introduction to the film by Karen Kramer
- Hollister California: Bikers, Booze and the Big Picture featurette
- Brando: An Icon is Born featurette Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth featurette
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-B "LOCKED"
Retro Sci-Fi Double Feature: Tarantula / The Incredible Shrinking Man
Description: TARANTULAAmbitious Professor Gerald Deemer (Leo G. Carroll, North By Northwest) has developed an astonishing new project: a special growth formula. Testing the formula on his innocent lab tarantula in Arizona he expects nothing more than it to double in size. But when it somehow escapes into the desert, it grows to gargantuan size and threatens to destroy everything and everyone in its path. Also featuring John Agar (Star in the Dust) and Mara Corday (Man Without a Star) TARANTULA is a cracking example of 50s sci-fi horror paranoia in the glorious tradition of The Blob and THEM!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Do The Stomp Trailer Reel
- Tarantula! Trailer
- The Incredible Shrinking man Trailer
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- REGION-B "LOCKED"
