Eureka Entertainment have revealed that they are getting ready to release a number of classic and cult films on Blu-ray: Jean-Pierre Melville's
Le Silence de la Mer (1949), Pier Paolo Pasolini's
Accattone (1961) and
The Gospel According to Matthew (1964), Shohei Imamura's
The Insect Woman (1963), Peter Watkins'
Punishment Park (1971), Monte Hellman's
Two-Lane Blacktop(1971), and Alex Cox's
Repo Man (1984).
Release dates, technical specs and special features for these upcoming releases are yet to be officially announced.
Updates:
Street date for
Two-Lane Blacktop,
Le Silence de la Mer, and
Punishment Park is January 23.
Street date for
Repo Man and
The Insect Woman/ Nishi-Ginza Station is February 20th.
Street date for
Accattone and
The Gospel According To Matthew is March 26th.
Ruggles of Red Gap will be out later in 2012.
Repo Man
- SPECIAL DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY
- New high-definition master in the original aspect ratio 1.85:1
- Original mono soundtrack and 5.1 remix, both in DTS-HD Master Audio
- English SDH subtitles on the main feature
- Isolated music and effects track
- Audio commentary with Cox and executive producer Michael Nesmith, casting director Victoria Thomas, and actors Sy Richardson, Zander Schloss, and Del Zamora
- All-new 2012 video piece by Cox offering further thoughts on the film
- Repo Man (entire TV version) this legendary variant, prepared by Cox for network television, incorporates deleted material and surreal overdubs in place of profanity
- Repossessed a retrospective video piece on the making of the film, featuring Cox, producers Peter McCarthy and Jonathan Wacks, and actors Del Zamora, Sy Richardson, and Dick Rude
- The Missing Scenes a roundtable viewing of deleted scenes from the film with Cox, executive producer Michael Nesmith, real-life neutron bomb inventor Sam Cohen, and character "J. Frank Parnell"
- Harry Zen Stanton an extended interview with the legendary actor Harry Dean Stanton
- Original theatrical trailer
- A 44-page full colour booklet specially created by Cox, entitled The Repo Code and incorporating all manner of Repo ephemera
Two-Lane Blacktop
- SPECIAL DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY
- New restored high-definition master, supervised and approved by Monte Hellman
- Original mono soundtrack and optional newly remastered 5.1 mix
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired
- Audio commentary by Monte Hellman and associate producer Gary Kurtz
- On The Road Again: Two-Lane Blacktop Revisited, a 43-minute video piece in which Monte Hellman revisits the film's locations directed by Monte Hellman, Gabriel Cowan, Brett Mann, and John Suits
- Somewhere Near Salinas, a 28-minute interview by Monte Hellman with singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson directed by Monte Hellman
- Sure Did Talk to You, a 24-minute video piece featuring interviews with producer Michael Laughlin, production manager Walter Coblenz, and the director's son Jared Hellman directed by Monte Hellman
- Rare archival screen-test footage of James Taylor and Laurie Bird
- Original theatrical trailer
- Optional music and effects track
- A lavish 36-page booklet featuring rare production imagery, the words of Monte Hellman, and more!
The Insect Woman/Nishi-Ginza Station
- DUAL FORMAT RELEASE INCLUDING BLU-RAY AND DVD VERSIONS OF BOTH FILMS
- Newly restored high-definition master of The Insect Woman
- New progressive transfer of Nishi-Ginza Station, a 1958 feature by Imamura
- Newly translated optional English subtitles for both films
- A video conversation about The Insect Woman between Imamura and critic Tadao Satτ
- A lavish booklet featuring essays by film scholar Tony Rayns on both films, rare archival imagery, and more!
Accattone
- New high-definition transfer of Accattone in the film's original aspect ratio
- Pasolini's 1965 feature-length documentary Comizi d'amore [Love Meetings], on the complementary theme of Italian attitudes towards sex, presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1
- Original Italian theatrical trailers for both films
- Newly translated optional English subtitles for both films
- More extras to be announced nearer to release date
- Booklet featuring rare archival imagery, the words of Pasolini, and more!
The Gospel According To Matthew
- New high-definition transfer in the film's original aspect ratio
- Original Italian theatrical trailer
- Newly translated optional English subtitles
- More extras to be announced nearer to release date
- Sumptuous booklet featuring rare archival imagery, the words of Pasolini, and more!
Punishment Park
- DUAL FORMAT RELEASE INCLUDING BLU-RAY AND DVD VERSIONS OF THE FILM
- Newly restored high-definition transfer (shot on 16mm, Punishment Park has been remastered from a new 35mm print struck from the restored 35mm blow-up negative held in Paris)
- 30-minute video introduction by Peter Watkins
- Full-length audio commentary by Dr. Joseph A. Gomez (author of the 1979 book Peter Watkins)
- 40-page booklet with two essays and reprints