Posted February 10, 2025 01:48 AM by Sean Greenwood
For the week of February 10th, Altered Innocence will release Kaveh Daneshmand's Endless Summer Syndrome (Le Syndrome de l'Eté Sans Fin), starring Sophie Colon, Mathéo Capelli, Gem Deger and Frédérika Milano.
Synopsis: A lazy late-summer weekend is disrupted by a shocking allegation when Delphine gets an anonymous call from her husband's colleague about an alleged affair with one of their adopted children. Before leaping to conclusions she decides to quietly observe her family for a shred of evidence; anything to subside her fear and erase doubt. After the truth presents itself in an unexpected, shocking manner, Delphine choses to look past the blame for a permanent solution. This boundary pushing debut feature by Kaveh Daneshmand paints an intimate portrait of an upper-class French family with sly black humor and sensuality aplenty.
Altered Innocence's Blu-ray of Endless Summer Syndrome contains cast and crew interviews and US and international trailers for the film. For a full disc breakdown, read Brian Orndorf's Blu-ray review.
New on Blu-ray from Music Box Films is Alessandra Lacorazza's In the Summers, starring Sasha Calle, Lio Mehiel, Leslie Grace, Gabriella Surodjawan, Emma Ramos and Residente.
Description: Every summer, siblings Violeta and Eva travel to New Mexico to spend time with their loving but unpredictable father (René "Residente" Pérez Joglar). Over the course of four formative summers that span adolescence to early adulthood, Violeta and Eva learn to accept their father in this powerful and deeply personal directorial debut from Alessandra Lacorazza.
Music Box Films' Blu-ray of In the Summers contains a Q&A with Residente and Alessandra Lacorazza from the premiere in New York City, a cast interview and Sundance Meet the Artist from the Sundance Film Festival, Lacorazza's short film Mami (2019), an interview with Residente and Lacorazza from the More Than a Movie podcast, deleted scenes, outtakes / bloopers and an image gallery.
New on Blu-ray from Cinema Guild is Anthony Banua-Simon's documentary Cane Fire.
Description: The Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyper-exploitation of workers and destructive environmental extraction that have actually shaped life on the island for the last 250 years. Cane Fire critically examines the island's history — and the various strategies by which Hollywood has represented it—through four generations of director Anthony Banua-Simon's family, who first immigrated to Kauaʻi from the Philippines to work on the sugar plantations.
Assembled from a diverse array of sources—from Banua-Simon's observational footage, to amateur YouTube travelogues, to epic Hollywood dance sequences — Cane Fire offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the economic and cultural forces that have cast Indigenous and working-class residents as "extras" in their own story.
Cinema Guild's Blu-ray of Cane Fire contains audio commentary with Anthony Banua-Simon and producer Mike Vass, a theatrical trailer and a booklet with an essay by writer and programmer Emerson Goo.
Turning to catalog titles, Kino Lorber has a number of Blu-rays coming this week. They are:
The box set Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXIII (1949-1958), a three-disc set containing newly remastered editions of William Dieterle's Rope of Sand (1949) and Gordon Douglas' Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950), as well as the Blu-ray premiere of Robert Stevens' Never Love a Stranger (1958). All three films are sourced from new 4K scans done by Paramount Pictures in 2021, 2019 and 2022. Extras include audio commentary by film historian / screenwriter Gary Gerani (on Rope of Sand), author / film Historian Alan K. Rode (on Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye) and film historian / writer Julie Kirgo and writer / filmmaker Peter Hankoff (on Never Love a Stranger). Theatrical trailers are also included for Rope of Sand and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye.
Herbert Ross' Play It Again, Sam (1972), starring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Jennifer Salt, Joy Bang and Susan Anspach. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Kino presents Play It Again, Sam with a new audio commentary by screenwriter / producer Alan Spencer and author / film historian Justin Humphreys, as well as the film's theatrical trailer.
And finally from Kino comes a Blu-ray for Steven Lisberger's Hot Pursuit (1987), starring John Cusack, Robert Loggia, Jerry Stiller, Wendy Gazelle, Monte Markham and Shelley Fabares. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Kino presents Hot Pursuit with a new audio commentary by film historian Joe Ramoni, as well as the film's theatrical trailer.
New on Blu-ray from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment's Warner Archive Collection is Tom and Jerry: The Complete CinemaScope Collection (1954-1958), featuring 23 theatrical Tom and Jerry cartoons presented in their original widescreen (approximately 2.39:1) format, with original DTS-HD MA 2.0 Stereo (where applicable) or Mono audio tracks. Extras include the bonus short Good Will to Men (1955) and the two Spike and Tyke shorts Give and Tyke and Scat Cats (both 1957) all in their original CinemaScope format. For a full release breakdown (including the complete list of included shorts), read Randy Miller's Blu-ray review.
Also coming from Warner is a 4K UHD upgrade for Shane Black's The Nice Guys (2016), starring Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer, Margaret Qualley and Yaya DaCosta. Warner presents The Nice Guys with Dolby Vision HDR and its original DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio track. Extras include the featurettes Always Bet on Black and Worst. Detectives. Ever. Making The Nice Guys. For a full release breakdown, read Randy Miller's 4K UHD review.
Coming to Blu-ray from Arrow Video is a double feature of two films by Kazuo Mori: A Certain Killer / A Killer's Key (ある殺し屋 / ある殺し屋の鍵) (both 1967), starring (across both films) Raizô Ichikawa, Saburô Date, Mikio Narita, Ichirô Nakatani, Yumiko Nogawa and Kô Nishimura. Sourced from HD masters, Arrow presents A Certain Killer and A Killer's Key with their original Japanese: LPCM Mono audio tracks and optional, newly-translated English subtitles. Extras include new audio commentary for both films by critic and Asian cinema expert Tony Rayns, a new 30-minute introduction to both films by Japanese film scholar Mark Roberts, theatrical trailers for both films and an image gallery. Also included is an "illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the films by Jasper Sharp and Earl Jackson". For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.
Also coming from Arrow this week is a 4K UHD upgrade for Alfred Sole's Alice, Sweet Alice (1976), starring Linda Miller, Mildred Clinton, Paula E. Sheppard, Niles McMaster, Jane Lowry and Rudolph Willrich. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Arrow presents Alice, Sweet Alice with Dolby Vision HDR and LPCM Mono audio. Extras include a choice of three versions via seamless branching: the original version (Communion), the theatrical version (Alice, Sweet Alice) and the re-release version (Holy Terror), while extras mirror Arrow's 2019 Blu-ray edition, with two audio commentaries: one by Richard Harland Smith and another by Alfred Sole and editor M. Edward Salier, interviews with Alfred Sole, Niles McMaster, composer Stephen Lawrence and filmmaker Dante Tomaselli (cousin of Alfred Sole), a locations featurette, deleted scenes, a split-screen versions comparison, an original trailer and UK TV spot and an image gallery (including the original screenplay). Also included is an "illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the films by by Michael Blyth". In addition to standard packaging, an Arrow Store Exclusive with Original Artwork will also be available. For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's 4K UHD review.
Also coming this week are four 4K UHD upgrades from Shout Factory. They are:
Bruce D. Clark's Galaxy of Terror (1981), starring Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston, Grace Zabriskie, Robert Englund and Sid Haig. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the 35mm interpositive, Shout presents Galaxy of Terror with a DTS-HD MA Mono audio track and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include audio commentary by the cast and cew the making of documentary Tales from the Lumber Yard, trailers, TV spots and photo galleries.
John Carpenter's Vampires (1998), starring James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, Maximilian Schell and Tim Guinee. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Shout presents John Carpenter's Vampires with a choice of DTS-HD MA 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras match Shout's 2019 Collector's Edition Blu-ray and include archival audio commentary by John Carpenter, interviews from 2019 with Carpenter, Woods, Griffith, Guinee and others, vintage making of featurettes, a theatrical trailer, TV spots and a still gallery.
John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (1998), starring James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, Maximilian Schell and Tim Guinee. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Shout presents Ghosts of Mars with a choice of DTS-HD MA 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include a new interview with film music historian Daniel Schweiger, archival audio commentary by John Carpenter and Natasha Henstridge, three vintage featurettes and a theatrical trailer.
And finally, André Øvredal's The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023), starring Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian, Chris Walley and Jon Jon Briones. Sourced from a 4K master, Shout presents The Last Voyage of the Demeter with a choice of original Dolby Atmos audio or DTS-HD MA 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include two new audio commentaries: one by film critic Meagan Navarro and another by David Dastmalchian, as well as a new interview with folklorist & author Dr. Karen Stollznow. Also included is an audio commentary by André Øvredal, deleted scenes, an alternate opening and three featurettes.
Coming to 4K UHD from Paramount Home Media Distribution is Howard Deutch's Pretty in Pink (1986), starring Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts, James Spader and Andrew McCarthy. Sourced from a 4K master, Paramount presents Pretty in Pink with DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Also included is Blu-ray copy of the film with a Filmmaker Focus featurette with Howard Deutch, a featurette on the original ending and a theatrical trailer.
Finally this week, coming to Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection is Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear (1987), starring Woody Allen, Leos Carax, Julie Delpy, Jean-Luc Godard, Norman Mailer and Burgess Meredith. Sourced from a new 2K master, Criterion presents King Lear with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Surround audio. Extras include new interviews with author Richard Brody (Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard), actors Molly Ringwald and Peter Sellars, as well as an audio recording from the 1987 Cannes Film Festival press conference with Godard. Also included is a booklet with an essay by Brody. For a full release breakdown, read Kenneth Brown's Blu-ray review.