Eureka Entertainment has announced its September batch of 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray releases. They are: Touch of Evil (1958), Valley Girl (1983), and She Shoots Straight (1990).
Description: Touch of Evil begins with one of the most brilliant sequences in the history of cinema; and ends with one of the most brilliant final scenes ever committed to celluloid. In between unfurls a picture whose moral, sexual, racial, and aesthetic attitudes remain so radical as to cross borders established not only in 1958, but in the present age also.
Charlton Heston portrays Mike Vargas, the Mexican chief of narcotics who sets out to uncover the facts surrounding a car bomb that has killed a wealthy American businessman on the US side of the border. As Vargas investigates, his newly-wed wife Susie (Janet Leigh, two years before Hitchcock's Psycho) is kidnapped by a gang out to exact vengeance for the prosecution of the brother of their leader (Akim Tamiroff). Meanwhile, Vargas' inquiries become progressively more obfuscated by the American cop Hank Quinlan (played by Welles himself, in one of the most imposing and unforgettable screen performances of his career), a besotted incarnation of corruption who alternately conspires with Susie's captors and seeks solace in the brothel of the Gypsy madame (Marlene Dietrich) who comforted him in bygone times.
Welles' final studio-system picture has at last become secure in its status as one of the greatest films ever made. It remains a testament to the genius of Welles –– a film of Shakespearean richness, inexhaustible. The Masters of Cinema Series is extremely proud to present Touch of Evil in its UK debut on 4K Blu-ray.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
TWO-DISC 4K BLU-RAY SET
4K RESTORATIONS OF THREE VERSIONS OF THE FILM:
Theatrical version (95 mins)
Preview version (109 mins)
1998 Reconstruction (110 mins)
DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATIONS OF THE THREE VERSIONS OF THE FILM
NEW video interview with critic, broadcaster and cultural historian Matthew Sweet
NEW video interview with critic Tim Robey
NEW video interview with author and critic Kim Newman
NEW video essay on the different versions of the film
Four audio commentaries, featuring: restoration producer Rick Schmidlin (reconstructed version); actors Charlton Heston & Janet Leigh, with Schmidlin (reconstructed version); critic F. X. Feeney (theatrical version); and Welles scholars James Naremore & Jonathan Rosenbaum (preview version)
Bringing Evil to Life + Evil Lost and Found – two video pieces, featuring interviews with cast and crew, as well as critics and admirers
Original theatrical trailer
A LIMITED EDITION 100-PAGE BOOK featuring writings by Orson Welles, François Truffaut, André Bazin, and Terry Comito; interview excerpts with Welles; a timeline of the film's history; two new essays by critic Richard Combs; and rare stills and imagery
Limited Edition Box Set - 3000 Copies
Limited Edition hardcase featuring artwork by Tony Stella
Description: Martha Coolidge's totally awesome cult comedy makes its UK home video debut in time for its 40th anniversary!
Randy (Nicolas Cage in his first major role) and Julie (Deborah Foreman) make an unlikely couple, he's a Hollywood punk, she's a preppy rich girl from the San Fernando Valley. Although all her friends think Randy is totally "grody", Juli's in love and has to choose between her vapid "valley girl" lifestyle and her new boyfriend.
Featuring a hit-packed New Wave soundtrack, Eureka Classics is proud to present Valley Girl from a stunning 4K restoration.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
NEW audio commentary with Maya Montañez Smukler (author of Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema) and Maria San Filippo
NEW interview with Deborah Foreman
NEW interview with Colleen Camp
Audio commentary with director Martha Coolidge
Valley Girl in Conversation – 2018 interview with director Martha Coolidge and actresses E. G. Daily and Heidi Holicker
Martha Coolidge and Nicolas Cage on Valley Girl
A huge selection of archival interviews with cast and crew totaling over 3 hours
20 Totally Tubular Years Later – 2003 featurette
The Music of Valley Girl - featurette
Music Videos
Storyboard Comparisons
Original theatrical trailer
A Limited Edition collector's booklet featuring new writing by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Craig Ian Mann
Limited Edition Box Set - 3000 Copies
Limited Edition hardbound slipcase featuring new artwork by Sam Gilbey
Description:
Joyce Godenzi stars in this violent action classic about a newlywed police officer who battles a Vietnamese gang whilst also trying to impress her new in-laws!
Inspector Mina is a career-focused officer who has just married her supervisor (Tony Leung Ka-fai), who himself comes from a family of dedicated police officers. Her new sisters-in-law (including Carina Lau – Ashes of Time, Days of Being Wild) are a little jealous that Mina outranks them, but when a gang of violent Vietnamese criminals (led by the always excellent Yuen Wah – Eastern Condors, Kung Fu Hustle) target the family, the sisters unite into a lethal force of vengeance.
Also starring Sammo Hung and directed by Corey Yuen (Yes, Madam), She Shoots Straight is another slice of top-tier Hong Kong action, newly restored in 2K and making its debut on Blu-ray!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 2K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
NEW feature length audio commentary by Asian film expert Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival)
NEW feature length audio commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder & Arne Venema
English opening and closing credits
Trailers
Reversible sleeve design
Audio/subtitles:
Original Cantonese mono audio
Optional English dubbed audio
Optional English Subtitles, newly translated for this release
A Limited Edition collector's booklet featuring new writing by James Oliver [2000 copies]
Limited Edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Darren Wheeling [2000 copies]