Posted January 30, 2023 12:04 AM by Sean Greenwood
For the week of January 23rd, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and MGM will release a Blu-ray for Luca Guadagnino's Bones and All. starring Timothée Chalamet, Chloë Sevigny, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark Rylance and Taylor Russell.
Description: Bones and All is a story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter; a liberating road odyssey of two young people coming into their own, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a perilous world that cannot abide who they are.
Warner Bros. Blu-ray of Bones and All contains the film's Dolby Atmos audio and five short featurettes as extras: A Look Inside, Luca Guadagnino: The Vision of Bones and All, Meet Lee, Meet Maren and Outsiders in Love.
New on Blu-ray this week from the Criterion Collection is Mia Hansen-Løve's Bergman Island, starring Mia Wasikowska, Vicky Krieps, Anders Danielsen Lie, Joel Spira, Teodor Abreu and Oscar Reis.
Description: Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve embarks on a luminous summertime odyssey to the home of Ingmar Bergman for her seventh feature, a graceful, shape-shifting tale about the interplay of life and art and the ways in which stories are born. In search of inspiration for their current filmmaking projects, Chris (Vicky Krieps) and her partner (Tim Roth) travel to the remote island of Fårö, Sweden, where Bergman lived and worked for decades. There, the spirit of the cinema master looms as Chris confronts her complicated relationships to work, men, motherhood, and her artistic influences. Also featuring radiant performances from Mia Wasikowska and Anders Danielsen Lie, Bergman Island is a rich deconstruction of the mysteries of the creative process and the journey that every film takes from thought to page to screen.
Criterion's Blu-ray of Bergman Island contains interviews with Mia Hansen-Løve and Vicky Krieps, actor Gabe Klinger's short film Bergman's Ghosts (2021) and an essay by film critic Devika Girish.
New this week from Paramount Home Media Distribution are separate Blu-ray releases for The Great: Season One (2020) and The Great: Season Two (2021). Season One includes a gag reel and the featurettes Bold and the Brash: Inside The Great and Palatial Panache: The Style of The Great, while Season Two includes bloopers and deleted scenes.
Also coming from Paramount is a Blu-ray Peter Weir's Gallipoli (1981), starring Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins and Robert Grubb. Paramount brings Gallipoli to Blu-ray with a Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio track and the six documentaries which comprise Entrenched: The Making of Gallipoli.
Then from Paramount comes a Limited Edition Blu-ray SteelBook for Barry Levinson's Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), starring Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins and Susan Fleetwood.
Description: A teenage Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) meets and befriends his future sidekick, the bemused and bespectacled John Watson (Alan Cox). During their first semester of boarding school, a series of deaths occur on campus. Intrigued by the crime, Holmes looks into it and soon comes to suspect a poisonous hallucinogen. And then, in the midst of their investigation, Holmes and Watson stumble on a bizarre cult with a penchant for human sacrifice -- after which they must struggle to escape.
Also from Paramount is a Blu-ray for Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott's Big Night (1996), starring Minnie Driver, Ian Holm, Isabella Rossellini, Tony Shalhoub and Stanley Tucci.
Description: Chef Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and businessman Secondo (Stanley Tucci) are immigrant brothers from Italy who open their dream restaurant, Paradise, in New Jersey. However, Primo's authentic food is too unfamiliar for the local tastes, and the restaurant is struggling. When famous Italian-American bandleader Louis Prima is scheduled to appear at Paradise, the two brothers put all of their efforts into the important meal, which will likely decide the fate of their restaurant.
Finally from Paramount is a Blu-ray for Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), starring Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny and Patrick Chesnais.
Description: Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.
Finally for new releases this week, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has a Blu-ray for Warren Pereira's documentary Tiger 24.
Description: When a wild tiger kills men who enter his territory in the jungles of India, he is declared a man-eater and locked up in a zoo. This galvanizes massive social uproar as millions of activists take their cause to the streets, online and all the way to the Supreme Court.
Turning to catalog titles, Kino Lorber has a new Special Edition Blu-ray for Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai (1947), starring Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, and Ted de Corsia. Extras on the disc include two new audio commentaries by film critic Imogen Sara Smith and novelist and critic Tim Lucas, respectively, in addition to archival audio commentary by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich. Other extras include a 2002 interview with Bogdanovich, three comments by film noir historian Eddie Muller and a theatrical trailer. Limited edition packaging includes a slipcover.
Then from Kino is a four-disc Blu-ray for Maigret: Season 2 (1961-1962), starring Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Helen Shingler and Neville Jason.
Description: Long-awaited and unseen anywhere for decades, Maigret (1960-1963) is the definitive adaptation of Georges Simenon's world famous novels. This BBC television production stars Rupert Davies as Commissaire Jules Maigret, the dogged French detective. Though Simenon's books have been adapted many times, Davies's celebrated, BAFTA-winning portrayal won the approval of Simenon himself, who stated: "At last, I have found the perfect Maigret!" This three disc-set includes all 13 episodes of Season 2, in which Maigret reckons with the "Death of a Butcher," "The Lost Sailor," and various other vexing cases that only the moody Maigret can solve. Maigret has been remastered in High Definition from original film elements and is featured here in its original fullscreen TV format.
Kino's Blu-ray of Maigret: Season 2 features a new remaster by Network Distributing in the UK. Extras include Canadian Christmas intros and a trailer, while limited edition packaging includes a slipcover. Note that Season 1 is already available, while Season 3 and Season 4 can also be pre-ordered now for release in February and March, respectively.
Then from Kino comes a 4K UHD upgrade for Peter Collinson's The Italian Job (1969), starring Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone and Tony Beckley. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative by Paramount Pictures, Kino presents The Italian Job with DTS-HD MA 5.1 and 2.0 Mono audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Legacy extras include two audio commentaries and on the Blu-ray. the feature-length documentary The Self Preservation Society, as well as shorter featurettes and a deleted scene, amongst others. For a full release breakdown, read Svet Atanasov's 4K UHD review.
Finally from Kino comes a Special Edition Blu-ray for Peter Newbrook's The Asphyx (1972), starring Robert Powell, Robert Stephens, Jane Lapotaire, Alex Scott, Ralph Arliss Fiona Walker. Previously released in 2012, this Special Edition boasts a new audio commentary by novelist/critic Kim Newman and writer/editor Stephen Jones. Both the US and UK cuts are included, along with a theatrical trailer.
Coming this week from Shout Factory are two Blu-ray double features that are exclusive to the label's website. First is Escape to Athena/March or Die (1977-1979) which features several cast and crew interviews for Escape to Athena as well as theatrical trailers for both films. Also available will be Dance with Death/Dance of the Damned (1989-1992) which boasts new 4K and 2K scans, respectively, as well as trailers for both films.
Then from Shout is a 4K UHD upgrade for Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead (2004), starring Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell and Michael Kelly. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative (with the Unrated footage sourced from a 2K DI), Shout presents the Unrated cut of the film on 4K UHD with DTS-HD MA 5.1 and 2.0 audio tracks, as well as Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. A second Blu-ray contains the theatrical cut of the film. Extras duplicate Shout's 2017 Collector's Edition Blu-ray and include audio commentary on the Unrated cut, interviews with writer James Gunn and actors Ty Burrell and Jake Weber, and other legacy extras.
Finally this week, Decal Releasing has a 4K UHD upgrade for David Cronenberg's film Crimes of the Future (2022), starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman and Yorgos Pirpassopoulos. Decal released the film on Blu-ray in August 2022 with a short making of featurette, along with a teaser and trailer, but the 4K UHD disc will include substantially more extras, including Cronenberg's short film Crimes of the Future (1970), The Death of David Cronenberg (2021), David Cronenberg on Making Crimes of the Future, behind the scenes footage, cast interviews and more.