Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales adapted from Lafcadio Hearn's classic Japanese ghost stories about mortals caught up in forces beyond their comprehension when the supernatural world intervenes in their lives: The Black Hair, The Woman of the Snow, Hoichi the Earless, and In a Cup of Tea. Breathtakingly photographed entirely on hand-painted sets, the film is an abstract wash of luminescent colours from another world. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the complete 183-minute original Japanese cut of Masaki Kobayashi's masterpiece on Blu-ray. Special Features: 1080p presentation on Blu-ray from Criterion's 2K digital restoration of Kobayashi's original director's cut Original monaural Japanese soundtrack Optional English subtitles Kim Newman on Kwaidan a new interview with the film critic and writer Shadowings [35 mins] a new video essay by David Cairns and Fiona Watson Original trailers PLUS: A collector's booklet featuring reprints of Lafcadio Hearn's original ghost stories; a survey of the life and career of Masaki Kobayashi by Linda Hoaglund ; and a wide ranging interview with the filmmaker, the last he'd ever give
Jack Ryan as a young covert CIA analyst uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
Who is the man who hides his scarred face behind a mask? Hero or madman? Liberator or oppressor? Who is V and who will join him in his daring plot to destroy the totalitarian regime that dominates his nation? From the creators of The Matrix trilogy comes V for Vendetta, an arresting and uncompromising vision of the future based on the powerfully subversive graphic novel. This 4K restoration contains two new pieces of extra content on the 4K disc (not 4K resolution). Special Features: NEW: Natalie Portman's Screen Test NEW: V for Vendetta Unmasked: Making-of with filmmakers and cast James McTeigue & Lana Wachowski in Conversation : Looking back on V for Vendetta Director's Notebook: Reimagining a Cult Classic for the 21st Century: Director James McTeigue (Joined by Stars Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving and Other Creative Team Members) Traces in Detail the V Saga from Graphic Novel Origin Through the Movie's Execution. Designing the Near Future Remember, Remember: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot England Prevails: V For Vendetta and the New Wave in Comics Freedom! Forever!: Making V For Vendetta Saturday Night Live Digital Short Cat Power Montage Theatrical Trailer
Rachel, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasising about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds. The Girl On The Train is a darkly addictive thriller based on the international publishing phenomenon.
Film noir hits the mean streets of 1990s Los Angeles in this stylish and subversive underworld odyssey from veteran actor-director BILL DUKE (The Killing Floor). LAURENCE FISHBURNE (The Matrix) stars as Russell Stevens/John Hull, a police officer who goes undercover as the partner of a dangerously ambitious cocaine trafficker (The Fly's JEFF GOLDBLUM) in order to infiltrate and bring down a powerful Latin American drug ring operating in LA. But the further Stevens descends into this ruthless world of money, violence, and power, the more disillusioned he becomesand the harder to make out the line between right and wrong, crime and justice. Steeped in shadowy, neon-soaked atmosphere and featuring DR. DRE's debut solo single, this unsung gem of the nineties' Black cinema explosion delivers a riveting character study and sleek action thrills alongside a furious moral indictment of America and the devastating failures of the war on drugs. Special Features: New 4K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack New interview with director Bill Duke New conversation between film scholars Racquel J. Gates and Michael B. Gillespie about Deep Cover's place within both the Black film boom of the early 1990s and the noir genre New conversation between scholar Claudrena N. Harold and professor, DJ, and podcaster Oliver Wang about the film's title track and its importance to the history of hip-hop Panel discussion from 2018 featuring Duke and Fishburne and moderated by film critic Elvis Mitchell Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by Gillespie
If they hear you, they hunt you! Silence is survival in these 3 terrifyingly suspenseful thrillers. Follow the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) as they face the terror of mysterious creatures that hunt by sound. Plus experience the day the world went quiet in A Quiet Place: Day One (Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn, Djimon Hounsou, Alex Wolff). A Quiet Place In this MIND-BLOWINGLY TENSE* thriller, a family must navigate their lives in silence to avoid mysterious creatures that hunt by sound. Knowing that even the slightest whisper or footstep can bring death, Evelyn (EMILY BLUNT) and Lee (JOHN KRASINSKI) are determined to find a way to protect their children at all costs while they desperately search for a way to fight back. A Quiet Place Part IIFollowing the deadly events at home, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path in this terrifyingly suspenseful thriller written and directed by John Krasinski. A Quiet Place: Day OneExperience the day the world went quiet.
5 UNFORGETTABLE FILMS FROM THE MASTER OF SUSPENSE: The legendary Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, directed some of the most thrilling and and memorable works in movie history. The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection features five films from the iconic directors career including Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Torn Curtain, Topaz and Frenzy in stunning 4K resolution. Starring Hollywood favorites such as James Stewart, Doris Day, Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Frederick Stafford, John Forsythe, John Finch and Barry Foster, this collection includes hours of bonus features and captures the unique vision of one of cinemas most innovative directors.
WI T N E S S T H E B I R T H O F A C I N E M A T I C L E G E N D For the first time on Blu-ray, featuring new restorations and scores, experience 10 of Alfred Hitchcock's early works. From the silent film era to the first talkies, this 11-disc set also contains a newly commissioned, full-length documentary, Becoming Hitchcock, exploring the director's first sound picture, Blackmail. In 1929, Hitchcock directed Blackmail, the first British sound feature, hailed as a film which used sound and dialogue with more flair and imagination than any Hollywood or European film of the time. Hitchcock's inventive and expressionist use of sound demonstrated that the new technology opened a new realm of possibilities. The Ring (1927) The Farmer's Wife (1928)Champagne (1928) The Manxman (1929) (NEW SCORE) Blackmail (1929) - SILENT VERSION (new 4K restoration and NEW SCORE ) Blackmail (1929) - TALKIE VERSION (new 4K restoration) Juno and the Paycock (1930) Murder! (1930) The Skin Game 1931) - REMASTERED FOR 2024 Rich and Strange (1931) Number Seventeen (1932) (new 4K restoration) BRAND-NEW DOCUMENTARY - BECOMING HITCHCOCK THE LEGACY OF BLACKMAIL (2024) Directed by Laurent Bouzereau, Narrated by Elvis Mitchell, Produced by Studiocanal in association with Nedland Films, 72min.BECOMING HITCHCOCK THE LEGACY OF BLACKMAIL, a brand new 72-minute documentary from award-winning filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau (Faye, Music by John Williams, Five Came Back) and narrated by historian, critic and filmmaker Elvis Mitchell, reflects the development of Alfred Hitchcock's signature style, through the making of one of his benchmark films, Blackmail (1929). The documentary highlights the birth of the Hitchcock Touch at a period when talking pictures first emerged and explores his trademark themes, such as murder, suspense and cool blondes. While focusing on Blackmail, the documentary reveals how this film also foreshadows the director's later masterpieces, from Psycho to North by Northwest and from The Birds to Frenzy. / runtime: 70 mins
Guy Ritchie directs this action comedy starring Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Hugh Grant and Colin Farrell. When American businessman Mickey Pearson (McConaughey) decides to sell his booming marijuana business in London to fund his retirement, he sparks a deadly battle for control of his empire. His preferred buyer is Oklahoma billionaire Matthew Berger (Jeremy Strong) but East End gangsters, Chinese rival Dry Eye (Henry Golding) and scheming private investigator Fletcher (Grant) want their own cut of the deal.
In the early 1980s, Dario Argento (Deep Red, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), Italy's legendary master of horror, returned to the giallo thriller genre in which he originally made his name for his most blood-drenched and self-reflexive offering to date: Tenebrae. A razor-wielding psychopath is stalking the thriller writer Peter Neal (Anthony Franciosa, Death Wish II), in Rome to promote his latest work, Tenebrae. But the author isn't the obsessive killer's only target: the beautiful women who surround him are doomed as, one by one, they fall victim to the murderer's slashing blade. Co-starring Daria Nicolodi (Phenomena) and John Saxon (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and featuring stark, modernist photography by Luciano Tovoli (Suspiria), this one-time Video Nasty updates the classic giallo blueprint for a new decade fully restored in 4K alongside a plethora of extras old and new. Product Features 4K restoration from the original camera negative by Arrow Films 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) Original Italian and English front and end titles and insert shots Restored original lossless mono Italian and English soundtracks English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack Audio commentary by authors and critics Alan Jones and Kim Newman Audio commentary by Argento expert Thomas Rostock Audio commentary by Maitland McDonagh, author of Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo, a feature-length documentary charting the genre from its beginnings to its influence on the modern slasher film, featuring interviews with Dario Argento, Umberto Lenzi, Luigi Cozzi and more Being the Villain, a newly edited archival interview with actor John Steiner Out of the Shadows, an archival interview with Maitland McDonagh Voices of the Unsane, an archival featurette containing interviews with writer/director Dario Argento, actresses Daria Nicolodi and Eva Robins, cinematographer Luciano Tovoli, composer Claudio Simonetti and assistant director Lamberto Bava Screaming Queen, an archival interview with Daria Nicolodi The Unsane World of Tenebrae, an archival interview with Dario Argento A Composition for Carnage, an archival interview with Claudio Simonetti Archival introduction by Daria Nicolodi International theatrical trailer Japanese Shadow theatrical trailer Alternate opening credits sequence Unsane end credits sequence Image galleries Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Obviously Creative
TriStar Pictures and Spyglass Media Group will serve up Thanksgiving, a full-length horror film inspired by the fictitious trailer featured in the 2007 film, Grindhouse.
Waking up from a car accident, a young woman finds herself in the basement of a man who says he's saved her life from a chemical attack that has turned all females over the age of 36 into a soft vaporous liquid, which can be utilized as a disinfectant. Click Images to Enlarge
Robert Hoffmann (A Black Veil for Lisa), Nieves Navarro aka Susan Scott (The Big Gundown), and George MartÃn (A Pistol for Ringo) star in Death Carries a Cane, a stylish giallo mystery from director Maurizio Pradeaux (Churchill's Leopards).Tourist Kitty (Navarro) stumbles upon a murder whilst looking through coin-operated binoculars. When witnesses start being gruesomely bumped off, Kitty teams up with boyfriend Alberto (Hoffmann) to try and find the black-clad killer... if he doesn't find her first!With supporting performances from Rosita Torosh (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) and Simón Andreu (The Blood Spattered Bride), Death Carries a Cane is a bloody and shocking classic of Italian genre cinema.INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURESNew 4K restoration from the original negative by Powerhouse FilmsTwo presentations of the film: Passi di danza su una lama di rasoio, the Italian-language version; and Death Carries a Cane, the English-language versionOriginal mono audioAudio commentary with film historians Eugenio Ercolani, Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson (2024)A Life in the Suite (2024): editor Eugenio Alabiso remembers his time working on the film Eugenio Ercolani on Maurizio Pradeaux (2025): the filmmaker and film historian discusses the director's careerPierpaolo De Sanctis on Roberto Pregadio (2025): the founder of Four Flies Records explores Death Carries a Cane's score and the work of its composerOriginal German theatrical trailerImage gallery: promotional and publicity materialNew and improved English translation subtitles for the Italian soundtrackNew and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English-language soundtrackLimited edition exclusive 80-page book with new essay by Roberto Curti, archival interviews with Nieves Navarro, Robert Hoffmann, and George MartÃn, and full film creditsLimited edition of 5,000 individually numbered units (4,000 4K UHDs and 1,000 Blu-rays) for the UKAll features subject to change
An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.
The Debt Collector is a dark contemporary thriller set in Edinburgh.
When an American single mother returns to Latvia for the first time in 25 years to say goodbye to her dying father, she is soon afflicted with visions and wounds that appear to be signs of the gift of Holy Stigmata. But after she is transported to an isolated island convent to seek the help of a mysterious religious order, Medeline discovers here affliction may not be a gift from God but something far more sinister.
Three more gems from the Golden Age of Noir In Not Guilty, a sadistic yet brilliant doctor (Michel Simon, The Train) spins a web of lies and causes havoc in a small town. Peter Lorre (M) directs and stars as a troubled man navigating post-war Germany while haunted by a terrible secret in The Lost One. Considered one of the great films of Swedish cinema, Hasse Ekman's Girl with Hyacinths twisty thriller explores the fallout from a mysterious suicide. BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES: 4K restoration of Not Guilty by Tf1 presented on Blu-ray for the first time with English subtitles High-Definition digital transfer of The Lost One, presented on Blu-ray for the first time with English subtitles 2K restoration of Girl with Hyacinths, presented on Blu-ray for the first time outside of Sweden Original uncompressed mono PCM audio for all films Optional English subtitles for all films Newly designed artwork based on original posters Limited edition 80-page perfect bound book featuring archival pieces and new writing by critics and experts including Farran Nehme, Martyn Waites, Elena Lazic, Jourdain Searles, and more Limited Edition of 3,000 copies presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases for each film and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings NOT GUILTY New interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith on Not Guilty (2025) Archival Michael Simon radio interview (1947) Archival behind the scenes radio documentary (1947) Alternate ending Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork THE LOST ONE Commentary by film noir expert Alan Rode and Peter Lorre biography Stephen D Youngkin (2025) Interview with critic and historian Pamela Hutchinson on Peter Lorre and The Lost One (2025) Interview with programmer and historian Margaret Deriaz on post-war German cinema (2025) Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork GIRL WITH HYACINTHS Audio commentary by Peter Jilmstad (2025) Interview with Hasse Ekman (1993, 63 mins) Visual essay by Julia Armfield (2025) Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork
Harry, a drifter (Don Johnson, Miami Vice) rolls into town and talks his way into a job at a car dealership where he becomes caught between two beautiful women, the bosss conniving wife Dolly (Virginia Madsen, Candyman) and Gloria (Jennifer Connelly, Requiem for a Dream) a naive young accountant whose life is complicated by blackmail. When Harry plans to rob the local bank, he becomes enmeshed in a lethal web of lust, greed and extortion, whose only escape is murder. Adapted from Hell Hath No Fury by Charles Williams, The Hot Spot is a dusty, sweaty modern noir that updates the pulp formula of twists and turns with an intensity to match director Dennis Hoppers earlier film roles. Directed by Hopper (Easy Rider, Out of the Blue) with verve, the stellar cast are supported by William Sadler (The Shawshank Redemption), Charles Martin Smith (The Untouchables) and Jack Nance (Eraserhead) accompanied by a brilliant soundtrack featuring Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker, Taj Mahal and original music by Jack Nitzsche. Product Features Coming Soon
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