Eureka Entertainment Announces November Releases
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Posted August 26, 2021 06:14 PM by Webmaster
British label Eureka Entertainment will add four new titles to its Blu-ray catalog this November. They are: The Great Silence (1968), Cinematic Vengeance: 8 Kung Fu Classics from Director Joseph Kuo (1974-1982), I Never Cry (2020), and Mothra (1961).
The Great Silence
Description: On an unforgiving, snow-swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski) prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. Only a mute gunslinger named Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant) stands between the innocent refugees and the corrupt killers. But, in this harsh, brutal world, the lines between right and wrong are not always clear, and good does not always triumph.
Featuring superb photography and a haunting score from maestro Ennio Morricone, director Sergio Corbucci's bleak, brilliant and violent vision of an immoral, honour-less West, is widely considered to be among the best and most influential Westerns ever made.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Cinematic Vengeance: 8 Kung Fu Classics from Director Joseph Kuo
Description: Although his name may not be as instantly recognisable as some of his contemporaries, Joseph Kuo was an incredibly successful filmmaker who consistently produced crowd-pleasing spectacles always in line with what audiences at the time wanted to see.
Often handling writing, directing, and producing duties, the success of this multi-hyphenate filmmaker is even more remarkable considering that the majority of his films were produced independently, at a time when the kung-fu genre was dominated by the big Hong Kong studios. Cinematic Vengeance! collects eight of these independent productions, all fully restored and making their worldwide debuts on Blu-ray.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
I Never Cry
Description: Ola (Zofia Stafiej), a rebellious teenager from a small city, sets off to a foreign country on her own. It will turn out to be the trip of her lifetime, a trip into the unknown, on which she will try to reconnect with her estranged father. In Ireland, she will come to know a different world and meet people who will change her approach to life.
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Mothra
Synopsis: One of the most iconic Japanese kaiju (films featuring giant monsters), Mothra has appeared in over a dozen feature films. Presented here is her debut, a gloriously vibrant piece of filmmaking that forever changed how kaiju eiga would be produced in Japan.
Following reports of human life on Infant Island, the supposedly deserted site of atomic bomb tests, an international expedition to the heavily-radiated island discovers a native tribe and tiny twin female fairies called "Shobijin" who guard a sacred egg. The overzealous expedition leader kidnaps the Shobijin to exhibit in a Tokyo stage show but soon they summon their protector, hatching the egg and releasing a giant caterpillar. When Mothra arrives in Japan and transforms into her final form, the nation and its people face their destruction.
Psychedelically colourful, with an intelligent, benevolent protector as its lead kaiju, Mothra was radically different to every other monster movie that had come before it, and it remains a classic of the genre to this day. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Ishirō Honda's Mothra on Blu-ray for the first time on home video in the UK.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The Great Silence
Description: On an unforgiving, snow-swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski) prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. Only a mute gunslinger named Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant) stands between the innocent refugees and the corrupt killers. But, in this harsh, brutal world, the lines between right and wrong are not always clear, and good does not always triumph.
Featuring superb photography and a haunting score from maestro Ennio Morricone, director Sergio Corbucci's bleak, brilliant and violent vision of an immoral, honour-less West, is widely considered to be among the best and most influential Westerns ever made.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 4K RESTORATION undertaken and completed for the 50th anniversary of the film's original release
- NEW audio commentary by Western expert Howard Hughes
- NEW audio commentary by filmmaker Mike Siegel
- NEW interview with Austin Fisher, author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema
- Cox on Corbucci – filmmaker Alex Cox talks about Sergio Corbucci [15 mins]
- Audio commentary by director and Spaghetti Western aficionado Alex Cox, recorded live at the Hollywood Theatre, Portland in 2021
- Western, Italian Style – 1968 documentary [38 mins]
- Two Alternate Endings (both fully restored in 4K), with optional audio commentaries
- Trailers
- Stills Galleries
- Audio:
- English and Italian audio options
- Optional English Subtitles
- A collector's booklet featuring new writing by Western expert Howard Hughes
- Limited Edition O-Card slipcase
- Limited Edition reversible poster featuring the film's original artwork
- Limited Edition set of 4 facsimile lobby cards
Cinematic Vengeance: 8 Kung Fu Classics from Director Joseph Kuo
Description: Although his name may not be as instantly recognisable as some of his contemporaries, Joseph Kuo was an incredibly successful filmmaker who consistently produced crowd-pleasing spectacles always in line with what audiences at the time wanted to see.
Often handling writing, directing, and producing duties, the success of this multi-hyphenate filmmaker is even more remarkable considering that the majority of his films were produced independently, at a time when the kung-fu genre was dominated by the big Hong Kong studios. Cinematic Vengeance! collects eight of these independent productions, all fully restored and making their worldwide debuts on Blu-ray.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 8 Films across four Blu-ray discs, all fully restored
- Limited Edition Hardbound Case featuring newly commissioned artwork by Darren Wheeling
- Limited Edition 60 page booklet featuring new writing on the films included in the set by James Oliver, illustrated with archival imagery and materials
- Limited Edition set of 8 facsimile lobby cards
- Disc 1 & 2 - Includes The 7 Grandmasters, The 36 Deadly Styles, The World of Drunken Master, and The Old Master
- Disc 1 & 2 - Original Mandarin Soundtracks
- Disc 1 & 2 - Optional English dubbed audio tracks
- Disc 1 & 2 - Optional English subtitles
- Disc 1 & 2 - Brand new Audio commentary tracks from a variety of Hong Kong cinema experts
- Disc 1 & 2 - Trailers
- Discs 3 & 4 - Includes Shaolin Kung Fu, The Shaolin Kids, 18 Bronzemen, and Return of the 18 Bronzemen
- Discs 3 & 4 - Original Mandarin Soundtracks
- Discs 3 & 4 - Optional English dubbed audio tracks
- Discs 3 & 4 - Optional English subtitles
- Discs 3 & 4 - Brand new Audio commentary tracks from a variety of Hong Kong cinema experts
- Discs 3 & 4 - Trailers
I Never Cry
Description: Ola (Zofia Stafiej), a rebellious teenager from a small city, sets off to a foreign country on her own. It will turn out to be the trip of her lifetime, a trip into the unknown, on which she will try to reconnect with her estranged father. In Ireland, she will come to know a different world and meet people who will change her approach to life.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- 1080p presentation on Blu-ray
- Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 audio
- Optional English subtitles
- A Limited collector's booklet featuring an essay on the film by film critic Anna Smith [Initial Print Run]
Mothra
Synopsis: One of the most iconic Japanese kaiju (films featuring giant monsters), Mothra has appeared in over a dozen feature films. Presented here is her debut, a gloriously vibrant piece of filmmaking that forever changed how kaiju eiga would be produced in Japan.
Following reports of human life on Infant Island, the supposedly deserted site of atomic bomb tests, an international expedition to the heavily-radiated island discovers a native tribe and tiny twin female fairies called "Shobijin" who guard a sacred egg. The overzealous expedition leader kidnaps the Shobijin to exhibit in a Tokyo stage show but soon they summon their protector, hatching the egg and releasing a giant caterpillar. When Mothra arrives in Japan and transforms into her final form, the nation and its people face their destruction.
Psychedelically colourful, with an intelligent, benevolent protector as its lead kaiju, Mothra was radically different to every other monster movie that had come before it, and it remains a classic of the genre to this day. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Ishirō Honda's Mothra on Blu-ray for the first time on home video in the UK.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- INCLUDES JAPANESE AND ENGLISH VERSIONS OF EACH FILM (101 mins & 90 mins respectively)
- Original mono audio presentations (LPCM)
- English subtitles (Japanese version) and English SDH (English version)
- Brand new audio commentary with film historian and writer David Kalat
- Audio commentary with authors and Japanese sci-fi historians Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski
- Kim Newman on 'Mothra' – an interview with film critic and author Kim Newman on the history and legacy of Mothra
- Mothra: 1974 Champion Festival Version [61 mins] – a special version of the film edited by Ishirō Honda for the 1974 Toho Champion Festival (INCLUSION TBC)
- Stills Galleries featuring rare archival stills and ephemera
- PLUS: A collector's booklet featuring an essay by Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp (Midnight Eye) and an extract from Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski's Ishirō Honda biography
