Kino Lorber announced its
Sept. Blu-ray and DVD product line-up this past week. We can report that there is something on the
calendar for everyone (all four street-date Tuesdays during the month are
booked).
Of particular interest is
the Sept. 10 DVD and Blu-ray release of Kevin Smith’s experimental comedy film
production, Drawing Flies: Anniversary Edition, as helmed by the filmmaking
team of Malcolm Ingram and Matt Gissing.
As legend has it, during
the filming of Mallrats Smith hooked up with Ingram and Gissing and they
decided to do an indie film — as if Mallrats wasn’t indie enough at the
time.
What they came up with
was Drawing
Flies, a stoner/slacker adventure film, starring Jason Lee (Mallrats,
Chasing
Amy, Almost Famous, etc.) as Donner, the ultimate slacker who
finally is cutoff from welfare and hauls his friends (Mallrats alumni —Jason
Mewes and Renee Humphrey, plus Carmen Llywellyn and Martin Brooks) out into the
wilds of British Columbia to live at his grandfather’s cabin (or so he says).
With little planning they
eventually get hopelessly lost in the woods and it is about that time that
Donner reveals his true mission … the search for Big Foot!
Newly transferred from
the original film elements, bonus goodies on Drawing Flies: Anniversary
Edition include vintage commentary from Malcolm Ingram, Matt Gissing,
Kevin Smith, Scott Mosier, Jason Lee, Jason Mewes, Renee Humphrey, and Carmen
Lee, plus a blooper reel, deleted scenes, a photo gallery and a newly prepared
interview with Jason Mewes and a featurette with co-director Matt Gissing.
Getting both Blu-ray and
DVD SKUs on Sept. 3 are two vintage Mario Bava films, 5 Dolls For an August Moon:
Remastered Edition (English-dubbed) and A Bay of Blood: Remastered
Edition (English dubbed theatrical version and an alternate
Italian-language presentation). Tim
Lucas provides commentary on A Bay of Blood (which is also know
as Twitch
of the Death Nerve).
On the classic horror
release front, Sept. 17 will be the street date for Blu-ray and DVD editions of
1942 Bela Lugosi gem, The Devil Bat: Remastered Edition. Film historian Richard Harland Smith provides
commentary.
On the DVD release front,
Sept. 3 is the street date for Chilean filmmaker Andrés Wood’s Sundance Film
Festival winner (2012), Violeta Went to Heaven, a dramatic
biopic about the life and times of composer and singer Violeta Parra (played by
Francisca Gavilán).
The ARR is 158 days and
the limited arthouse run generated ticket sales of $21,289).
Not to be overlooked on
Sept. 24 is the DVD debut of director Michael Urie’s cinéma vérité comedy, He’s Way More Famous Than You,
starring Halley Feiffer as Halley Feiffer, a struggling actress who has a
career crisis.
Her solution is to make
her own movie and load it up with as many “stars” as she can coerce, cajole or
ambush into being into her film … things, obviously, don’t work out exactly as
planned in her bid for stardom!
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complete edition of the DVD and Blu-ray Release Report: DVD & Blu-ray Release Report
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