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Arguably
the defining cult film of the Reagan era, the feature debut of Alex Cox
(Sid & Nancy, Walker,
Straight to Hell) is a genre-busting mash-up
of atomic-age science fiction, post-punk anarchism, and conspiracy
paranoia, all shot through with heavy doses of deadpan humour and
offbeat philosophy.
After quitting his dead-end supermarket job, young punk Otto (Emilio Estevez) is initiated as a “repo man” after a chance encounter with automobile repossessor Bud (Harry Dean Stanton). An illicit, high-voltage life follows, including an adrenalised search for a mysterious ‘64 Chevy Malibu loaded with radioactive – and extragalactic – cargo… With an iconic soundtrack (Iggy Pop, Black Flag, Suicidal Tendencies), stunning Robby Müller cinematography, and iconoclastic direction, Repo Man remains one of the great debuts of the 1980s. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present a definitive, director-approved Blu-ray. |
The debut feature
of Italian filmmaker-novelist-poet-provocateur Pier Paolo
Pasolini (Salò,
or: The 120 Days of Sodom; The Gospel
According to Matthew; The Decameron), Accattone rocked the
cinema world with its depictions, at once raw and elegant, of the
underside of Roman street life – and, in the process, seemed to
announce a new direction for Italian films: a neo-neorealism.
On the mean streets of Rome, Accattone’s eponymous pimp (played by Franco Citti, one of a remarkable cast of local non-professionals) leads a hand-to-mouth existence on the very margins of society: prostituting, scrounging, exploiting. When his prize prostitute Maddalena is arrested and jailed, the pimp’s fortunes dwindle, and he is forced to confront his own existence. The work of one of Italy’s foremost auteurs, Accattone combines a fascination with poverty, sexual mores, and the entrapments of society, with a sense of humanity and sanctity rarely seen in cinema. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Pasolini’s debut alongside his feature-length 1965 documentary Comizi d’amore [Love Meetings] in a special Dual Format Blu-ray + DVD edition. |
Legendary director (and avowed
atheist) Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to Matthew [Il vangelo secondo Matteo] is one of the great
retellings of the story of Christ – a cinematic rendering (filmed by
invitation from the Pope, no less) at once both passionate and poetic.
With stunning black-and-white photography, an eclectic soundtrack (Odetta, Bach, a Congolese mass, etc), and using a cast of non-professionals who voice dialogue drawn directly from scripture, The Gospel According to Matthew depicts the key events in the life of Christ, from immaculate conception to death on the cross. Vaunted by the Vatican as one of its select few recommended films, acclaimed by the Archbishop of Canterbury as a “great film”, and revered by critics and audiences alike, Pasolini’s Oscar-, Golden Lion-, and BAFTA-nominated film remains a magnificent, awe-inspiring experience. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present The Gospel According to Matthew alongside Pasolini’s 1963 feature on the making of the film, Sopralluoghi in Palestina [Scouting in Palestine], in a special Dual Format edition. |
The critically-acclaimed,
award-winning director of The Chaser — Na Hong-jin— brings us his
latest brilliant crime drama, the enthralling, action packed thriller The Yellow Sea.
Gu-nam is a desperate gambler and debt-ridden taxi driver living in Yanji City — a region that has adjoining borders to North Korea, China and Russia. His wife fled to South Korea six months ago and he hasn’t heard from her since. In order to repay his debts and attempt to find his wife this mild, unassuming man accepts a contract killing from local gangster Myun-ga. Crossing the dangerous Yellow Sea to Seoul he seeks out both his target and wife, but soon finds himself in the middle of a deadly conspiracy of lies, deceit and betrayal. Before he can fulfill the contract he witnesses others murder his target. Fleeing the scene, he is not only being pursued by the police, but those responsible. One of the most electrifying, edge-of-the-seat crime dramas of present years The Yellow Sea is also the first Korean film to ever receive investment from a major Hollywood studio (Fox International Productions). Directed the hottest young director to come out of Korea in the last 50 years, The Yellow Sea is the film action fans have been craving for years. Na’s director’s cut of the film is proudly presented here for the first time in the west, along with a host of enthralling extras. |
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LIMITED EDITION STEELBOOK With the melancholy open-road epic Two-Lane Blacktop, American auteur Monte Hellman (The Shooting, Cockfighter, and the recent Road to Nowhere) poeticised the beautiful, terrible rootlessness of his nation in the era of Vietnam. Funded by Universal in a bid to recreate the success of Easy Rider – by giving a number of filmmakers $1m and final cut – Hellman's effort is now regarded as one of the key films of the New Hollywood renaissance of the early 1970s. While driving eastward on Route 66, two rival car owners – The Driver (singer-songwriter James Taylor) and The Mechanic (Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys) in a souped-up, drag-racing '55 Chevy, and a middle-aged braggart (Warren Oates) in a gleaming GTO – begin to race for each other's "pink slips" and the affections of the listless female hitchhiker (Laurie Bird) who joins them on the road. Scripted by esteemed novelist Rudy Wurlitzer, and featuring the only screen performances of Taylor and Wilson, Two-Lane Blacktop remains a timeless, existential portrait of lives in transit and of a country questioning its identity. Two-Lane Blacktop is one of the most popular car-fetishist/petrolhead movies ever made and listed as one of the 50 greatest independent films of all time by Empire Magazine. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Hellman's iconic film on blu-ray and ltd Edition Blu-ray Steelbook for the first time ever anywhere in the world on its 40th birthday, |
LIMITED
EDITION STEELBOOK Arguably the defining cult film of the Reagan era, the feature debut of Alex Cox (Sid & Nancy, Walker, Straight to Hell) is a genre-busting mash-up of atomic-age science fiction, post-punk anarchism, and conspiracy paranoia, all shot through with heavy doses of deadpan humour and offbeat philosophy. After quitting his dead-end supermarket job, young punk Otto (Emilio Estevez) is initiated as a “repo man” after a chance encounter with automobile repossessor Bud (Harry Dean Stanton). An illicit, high-voltage life follows, including an adrenalised search for a mysterious ‘64 Chevy Malibu loaded with radioactive – and extragalactic – cargo… With an iconic soundtrack (Iggy Pop, Black Flag, Suicidal Tendencies), stunning Robby Müller cinematography, and iconoclastic direction, Repo Man remains one of the great debuts of the 1980s. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present a definitive, director-approved Blu-ray. |
Both
controversial and relentless in its depiction of suppression and
brutality, Punishment Park was heavily attacked by the mainstream press
and permitted only the barest of releases in 1971. However, like
Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool (1969) and Robert Kramer’s Ice (1969),
Peter Watkins’ film has established itself as one of the key, yet
rarely seen, radical films of the late 1960s/early 1970s. Giving voice
to the disaffected youth of America that had lived through the campus
riots at Berkeley, the trial of the Chicago Seven and who were
witnessing the escalation of the Vietnam War, Punishment Park was named
by Rolling Stone as one of their top ten films of 1971 and has earned
many admirers in the four decades since its release. Set in a detention camp in an America of the near-future, Punishment Park’s pseudo-documentary style (continuing Watkins’ subversive innovations with Culloden and The War Game) places a British film crew amongst a group of young students and minor dissidents who have opted to spend three days in ‘Bear Mountain Punishment Park’. The detainees, rather than accept lengthy jail sentences for their ‘crimes’, gamble their freedom on an attempt to reach an American flag — on foot and without water — through the searing heat of the desert. The pursuit of Group 637 — a lethal, one-sided game of cat-and-mouse with a squad of heavily armed police and National Guardsmen — is contrasted with the corrupt trial of Group 638 by a quasi-judicial tribunal. Unlike Easy Rider’s mythologising of American counter-culture, Punishment Park’s uncompromising stance, and its uneasy parallels with Guantanamo Bay, retain a powerful and prescient message in the post-9/11 present. Rarely seen in the UK, The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to celebrate Punishment Park’s 40th anniversary with its first ever release on Blu-ray. |
“My
heroines are true to life – just look around you at Japanese women.
They are strong, and they outlive men,” director Shôhei Imamura once
observed. And so an audacious, anthropological approach to filmmaking
came into full maturity with the director’s vast 1963 chronicle of pre-
and post-war Japan, The Insect Woman [Nippon-konchûki, or An Account of
Japanese Insects]. Comparing his heroine, Tome Matsuki (played by Sachiko Hidari, who won the “Best Actress” award at the 1964 Berlin Film Festival for the role) to the restlessness and survival instincts of worker insects, the film is an unsparing study of working-class female life. Beginning with Tome’s birth in 1918, it follows her through five decades of social change, several improvised careers, and male-inflicted cruelty. Elliptically plotted, brimming over with black humour and taboo material, and immaculately staged in crystalline NikkatsuScope, The Insect Woman is arguably Imamura’s most radical and emphatic testament to female resilience. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present The Insect Woman alongside Imamura’s rarely seen 1958 feature Nishi-Ginza Station in a special Dual Format edition. |
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Three years after helping to
achieve some of the most amazing imagery in cinema history with 2001: A Space Odyssey,
special effects maestro Douglas Trumbull made an auspicious directorial
debut at age 29 with the environmentally themed science fiction classic
Silent
Running. In the distant future, plant life on our planet is extinct. Remaining specimens are cultivated in vast greenhouse-like domes orbiting in space. Bruce Dern (Marnie, Coming Home, The 'burbs, Monster) stars as Freeman Lowell, dedicated botanist aboard the 'Valley Forge', awaiting the call to refoliate Earth despite the scorn of his crewmates. When an order comes to instead destroy the domes and return home, Lowell takes matters into his own hands, beginning a long and lonely voyage into the unknown. With its remarkable special effects (especially the robot drones Huey, Dewey, and Louie); glorious score (including songs performed by Joan Baez); memorable sound effects (created by Joseph Byrd from the cult band The United States of America); a screenplay co-written by Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter) and Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues), and an impassioned central performance from Dern, Silent Running remains a uniquely contemplative and haunting adventure that continues to make hippies of young children, even today. EXTENSIVE SPECIAL BLU-RAY EDITION FEATURES, ALL NEW TO THE UK
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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. Yet, Touch
of Evil has taken
many forms. The film as released in 1958 was
certainly compromised from Orson Welles'
vision, but a brilliant and lengthy memo written by Welles to studio
heads in 1957 - taking issue with a studio rough-cut had some influence
on a subsequent preview version shown to test
audiences (and
rediscovered in the mid-1970s) as well as the 1958 theatrical
version. Forty years later, in 1998, Universal
produced a reconstructed
version of the film that takes into meticulous account the totality of
Welles' memo, and ostensibly represents the version of the film that
most closely adheres to his original wishes. 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' enquiries 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. SPECIAL TWO-DISC BLU-RAY ONLY EDITION INCLUDING:
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Le Silence de la mer
– Jean-Pierre Melville’s debut film – is an adaptation of the novella
of the same title by celebrated French Resistance author Vercors (the
pen name of Jean Bruller). Clandestinely written in 1942 during the
Nazi occupation of France and furtively distributed, it captured the
spirit of the moment, and quickly became a staple of the Resistance. Melville’s cinematic adaptation – partly shot in Vercors’ own house – tells the story of a German officer, Werner von Ebrennac (Howard Vernon), who is billeted to the house of an elderly man (Jean-Marie Robain) and his niece (Nicole Stéphane) in occupied France. One of the most important French films to deal with World War II, and a landmark in Melville’s distinguished œuvre, Le Silence de la mer is a lyrical, timeless depiction of the experiences and struggles of occupation and resistance. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Melville’s debut film for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK. |
With the melancholy open-road
epic Two-Lane
Blacktop, American auteur Monte Hellman (The Shooting, Cockfighter, and
the recent Road to Nowhere) poeticised the beautiful, terrible
rootlessness of his nation in the era of Vietnam. Funded by Universal
in a bid to recreate the success of Easy Rider – by giving a number of
filmmakers $1m and final cut – Hellman's effort is now regarded as one
of the key films of the New Hollywood renaissance of the early 1970s. While driving eastward on Route 66, two rival car owners – The Driver (singer-songwriter James Taylor) and The Mechanic (Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys) in a souped-up, drag-racing '55 Chevy, and a middle-aged braggart (Warren Oates) in a gleaming GTO – begin to race for each other's "pink slips" and the affections of the listless female hitchhiker (Laurie Bird) who joins them on the road. Scripted by esteemed novelist Rudy Wurlitzer, and featuring the only screen performances of Taylor and Wilson, Two-Lane Blacktop remains a timeless, existential portrait of lives in transit and of a country questioning its identity. Two-Lane Blacktop is one of the most popular car-fetishist/petrolhead movies ever made and listed as one of the 50 greatest independent films of all time by Empire Magazine. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Hellman's iconic film on blu-ray and ltd Edition Blu-ray Steelbook for the first time ever anywhere in the world on its 40th birthday, |
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