For the period ending September 21, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

DVD New Additions:

 

40L (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Syllables Spell Success

Acorn Media

09/18/18 — Released Murdoch Mysteries: Home For The Holidays

Adult Source Media

09/18/18 — Released Doctor Strange: The Quest for the Silver Rainbow

Aracadia Films (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Kindness for Weakness

Bayview Entertainment

09/18/18 — Released 666: Seance Hour, Educating Kelley, Erotic Exercises with Lori, H. H. Holmes: Original Evil and Latin Lust

Border2Border Entertainment (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Paternity Leave and What's the Matter with Gerald?

Breaking Glass Pictures

09/18/18 — Released Lost Child

C Vision Productions (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released EMDs SD60, Volume 1 and EMDs SD60, Volume 2

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Amazing Race: Season 28 (3 disc set) and Amazing Race: Season 29 (3 disc set)

Cardinal XD (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Red Butterfly

Catenary Video Productions

09/18/18 — Released Southern Pacific, Volume 5: San Francisco Peninsula Route – 1954

Championship Productions

09/18/18 — Released Building a Culture of Mental Toughness: The Pyramid Mode

Cinedigm Entertainment

09/18/18 — Released Silencer

Cinema Libre

11/06/18 — Sets Nelly (French) (ARR of 60 days; box office: $3,751)

Cleopatra Music & Films

11/13/18 — Sets Four Hands (German)

Criterion Collection

12/11/18 — Sets Dry White Season and Forty Guns

12/18/18 — Sets Panique (French) and Sawdust and Tinsel (Swedish)

Daywind Music Group

09/18/18 — Released Heaven's Jubilee! Live at First Baptist Indian Trail

Discovery Channel

09/18/18 — Released American Murder Mystery: The Staircase (3 disc set)

DreamScape Media, LLC

09/18/18 — Released Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos

Dynamic

09/18/18 — Released Vivaldi: Orlando Furioso

Echo Bridge Home Ent. (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Blitz and Meg-A-Shark 8-Movie Collection (8 film set: Shark in Venice, Toxic Shark, Shark Attack, Shark Attack 2, Shark Attack 3: Megalodon, Malibu Shark Attack, Shark Man, Shark Zone) (2 disc set)

Equilibrium Media (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Genderf*kation: A Gender Emancipation

First Run Features

09/18/18 — Released Nana (ARR of 158 days; box office: $2,784)

FIXT

09/18/18 — Released Circle of Dust: Full Circle - The Birth, Death & Rebirth of Circle of Dust (2 disc set)

Gilad James (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Artificial Intelligence Level 1: Cogito, Artificial Intelligence Level 2: Rise of the Machines, Capitalism Level 1: Become Rich with Capitalism, Capitalism Level 2: Money, Money, Money, Criminology: The Study of Doughnuts, Hermetic Extraterrestrial Philosophy, How to Astral Project, How to Become Clairvoyant and Reach God-Consciousness, How to Become Extremely Smart, How to Become Psychic by Activating Your 12 DNA Strands, How to Contact Your Spirit Guides and Angels, How to Overcome Fears, Introducing Our Enemy: The Dark Side,  Introduction to the Spirit World, Kabbalah Level 1: Step on the Ladder, Kabbalah Level 2: Cycle of Reality, Occultism Level 1: Explore Hidden Knowledge, Occultism Level 2: Science of the Paranormal, Occultism Level 3: Mediumship and Spiritism, Occultism Level 4: The Zodiac, Occultism Level 5: The Soul, Perform Soul Healing Miracles, Politics Level 1: Rise to Power, Politics Level 2: How to Control the Masses, Predictions for the New Age, Stock Investing Level 1: Become a Wealthy Douchebag, Stock Investing Level 2: Swimming In Cash, Taoism Level 1: A Path to a Higher Dimension, Taoism Level 2: Raise in Vibration, Theosophy Level 1: Life's Mysteries Revealed, Theosophy Level 2: The Power of Thought, Traversable Wormholes: Enter the Wormhole, Warp Drive Physics: Prepare for Warp Speed,  What Happens to you After you Die?, Wicca Level 1: Witchcraft for Beginners, Wicca Level 2: How to Perform Magick and Wicca Level 3: So Mote it Be

Grasshopper Fims

09/18/18 — Released Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? (ARR of 200 days; box office: $20,765)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Broken Star, Gardener (ARR of 172 days; box office: $62,734), Haunted Transylvania 2, Middle of X, Monsoon and Winter Ridge

HBO Home Entertainment

09/18/18 — Released Fahrenheit 451 (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Hallmark Channel

09/18/18 — Released Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

Hollywood Scrapheap (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Devil's Canyon

I-Cine

09/18/18 — Released Ben Nhau Mai Mai, Part 1 (14 disc set), Ben Nhau Mai Mai, Part 2 (14 disc set), Doc Bo Thien Ha (17 disc set) and Song Xo Le Phai (14 disc set)

Icarus Films

11/13/18 — Sets Good Manners (Portuguese) and Owl's Legacy (2 disc set)

Image Entertainment

09/18/18 — Released Trolled

Indican Pictures

09/18/18 — Released Trouble with Terkle (ARR of 613 days; box office: $161,457)

Indie Rights, Inc. (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Legacy of Whining

Kino Lorber

09/18/18 — Released Cabin Boy, Gold, Impulse, Modus: Season Two (2 disc set), Pink Panther Cartoon Collection, Volume 3 and Source

Leomark Studios (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Chopping Block, Lightest Darkness (Russian), Los Muertos Desperados (aka: Desperate Ghosts) and Pharmacist

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

09/18/18 — Released Damsel (ARR of 88 days; box office: $304,113), Saving Faith and Siberia

10/30/18 — Sets Spy Who Dumped Me (ARR of 88 days; box office: $33,453,691)

Maiden Japan

09/18/18 — Released Gunparade March: Complete Collection (2 disc set)

Martial Arts History Museum (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Biography: Art Camacho

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Bad Hombres: A Baja Adventure, Darkness Comes (aka: Dying Light), Demon Protocol, MRG Collective: Comedy, Volume 1 (8 short films: A Date in 2025, The Funeral Director, Haunt Me, Mark Gets Coffee, Slay Me, Holy F__k, The Psychologist, The Real Truth Behind The Real True Story; Donnie Miller), MRG Collective: Drama, Volume 1 (8 short films: 11 Minutes, Birthday Girl, A Girl and Her Gun, Blindside, Dark West, The Firefly Girls, Yellow, Goodnight and Goodbye), MRG Collective: Horror, Volume 1 (7 short films: I'm Sorry Mommy, Lost Girl, Séance, o negative, Something Within, Surrounded by Death, The Silent, Those Who Dwell Within) and MRG Collective: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Volume 1 (7 short films: A Shadow of Dara, Cell, Boy in the Dark, Gotcha, Grin, It Grows Dark, The Survivor, So Many Things)

Mirage Entertainment, Ltd (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Max Dolan's 2222

Mua Hong Music Productions

09/18/18 — Released Buoc Chan Hai The He 20: Nhac Tinh Nhung Nho Trong Toi (2 disc set)

MultiCom Entertainment Group (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Climate Refugees and Whole Wide World

Nandar Home Entertainment (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Sinking Sand

Naxos

09/18/18 — Released Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: The Mumbai Concerts (2 disc set) and Through The Eyes of Yuja

New Kingdom Pictures

09/18/18 — Released Emily (ARR of 599 days; box office: $3,982)

On Mark Productions (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Heaven Help Me, I'm In Love, Ill Times and Powerful Play

PBS Direct

09/18/18 — Released Anne of Green Gables: Fire And Dew, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Family Fun Collection, Miniaturist and NOVA: Rise of the Superstorms

PCN Productions (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released PA Books: Idlewild

Paramount Home Media

12/04/18 — Sets Yellowstone (2 disc set)

12/11/18 — Sets Instinct: Season One (3 disc set)

Pentrex

09/18/18 — Released Battle Up Sherman Hill

Railway Productions

09/18/18 — Released White Pass & Yukon Route: Gateway to the Yukon

Railway Video Productions (MOD)

09/11/18 — Released Reading Company: 1975-1985, Black to Blue

Random Media (MOD)

09/11/18 — Released Across the River and Blood Child

09/18/18 — Released Diane

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released An Jedem Finger Zehn (German), Der Geigenmacher von Mittenwald (German), Der Hauptman und Sein Held (German), Der Priester und das Madchen (German), Der Prinz von Arkadien: Updated (German), Die Fledermaus (German), Italian Straw Hat (French) and Punktchen und Anton (German)

Revelation Video, Inc. (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Railroad Video Quarterly #104: Summer 2018

Sagacity Productions (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Act of Dog

Screenbound International

09/18/18 — Released Melanie: Live at the Meltdown Festival 2007

Serpent Films (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released 2 Classic Drama Movies (2 film set: Guest in the House, Kept Husbands) and 2 Classic Drama Movies (2 film set: Oliver Twist, Rebellious Daughters)

Shemaroo Entertainment

09/18/18 — Released Kuldip Patwal (Hindi)

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

10/30/18 — Sets Slender Man (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) (ARR of 81 days; box office: $30,238,667)

The Gioi Sao Online

09/18/18 — Released Gao Nep Gao Te, Part 1 (5 disc set), Gao Nep Gao Te, Part 2 (5 disc set), Khu Huy Vu: Sen Nhay #5 and #6 - Doi Toi La Cua Toi and Tuyet Dinh Song Ca Cap Doi Vang (2 disc set)

The Orchard (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released 40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie

Time Life Video

09/18/18 — Released Carol Burnett Show: 50th Anniversary Special and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Concert: Encore (4 disc set)

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

09/18/18 — Released American Horror Story: Cult (3 disc set)

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent. (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released You're The Worst: The Complete Fourth Season (2 disc set)

Uni Music – Gaither Music Group

09/18/18 — Released Joey + Rory: The Singer and the Song - The Best of Joey + Rory

Uni Music – Hillsong

09/18/18 — Released Hillsong Kids: Can You Believe It?

VCI Entertainment

12/11/18 — Sets Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery (12 chapter serial) (2 disc set)

Vertical Entertainment (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Billionaire Boy’s Club (ARR of 63 days; box office: $618)

WWE

09/18/18 — Released WWE: Summerslam 2018 (2 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

09/18/18 — Released Ben 10: Season 1, Volume 2 - Omni-Tricked, Looming Tower: The Complete First Season (2 disc set) and Supergirl: The Complete Third Season (5 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

10/16/18 — Sets Agatha Christie Collection Featuring Helen Hayes in Her Classic Role as Miss Marple (3 film set: A Caribbean Mystery, Murder is Easy, Murder With Mirrors) (3 disc set) and Agatha Christie Collection Featuring Peter Ustinov in His Classic Role as Hercule Poirot (3 film set: Dead Man's Folly, Murder in Three Acts, Thirteen at Dinner) (3 disc set)

10/30/18 — Sets Gold Fever and Last Ride

WOWnow Entertainment

09/18/18 — Released Demon (aka: Devil Town)

Zombie Media (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Benham Theater: Specters of the Stage

Blu-ray New Additions:

Acorn Media

09/18/18 — Released Murdoch Mysteries: Home For The Holidays

C Vision Productions (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released EMDs SD60, Volume 1 and EMDs SD60, Volume 2

Cardinal XD (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Red Butterfly

Cinedigm Entertainment

09/18/18 — Released Silencer

Cinema Libre

11/06/18 — Sets Nelly (French)

Code Red

09/18/18 — Released Slave of the Cannibal God

Criterion Collection

12/11/18 — Sets Dry White Season and Forty Guns

12/18/18 — Sets Panique (French) and Sawdust and Tinsel (Swedish)

Dynamic

09/18/18 — Released Vivaldi: Orlando Furioso

FUNimation

09/18/18 — Released Alderamin on the Sky: The Complete Series (2 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy), Saga of Tanya the Evil (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack), Servamp: Season 1 (2 disc set) (with Ultra Violet Digital Copy) and Twin Star Exorcists, Part 2 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Broken Star, Gardener, Haunted Transylvania 2, Middle of X, Monsoon and Winter Ridge

HBO Home Entertainment

09/18/18 — Released Fahrenheit 451 (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Kino Lorber

09/18/18 — Released Bat 21, Cabin Boy, Gold, Impulse, Modus: Season Two (2 disc set), Pink Panther Cartoon Collection, Volume 3 and Retroactive

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

09/18/18 — Released Siberia (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

MVD Entertainment Group

11/27/18 — Sets Memories of Me

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released Bad Hombres: A Baja Adventure, Darkness Comes (aka: Dying Light) and Demon Protocol

Naxos

09/18/18 — Released Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: The Mumbai Concerts and Through The Eyes of Yuja

PBS Direct

09/18/18 — Released Miniaturist

PCN Productions (MOD)

09/18/18 — Released PA Books: Idlewild

Paramount Home Media

12/04/18 — Sets Yellowstone (2 disc set)

Railway Video Productions (MOD)

09/11/18 — Released Reading Company: 1975-1985, Black to Blue

Scorpion Releasing

09/18/18 — Released Grizzly

Sentai FilmWorks

09/18/18 — Released Negima: Complete Collection (4 disc set)

Shout! Factory

09/18/18 — Released The Evil and Scream For Help

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

10/30/18 — Sets Slender Man (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Time-Life Video

09/18/18 — Released Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Concert: Encore (2 disc set)

Twilight Time

09/18/18 — Released Bravados, In My Country, Last Hurrah and Other Side of Midnight

VCI Entertainment

12/11/18 — Sets Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery (12 chapter serial) (2 disc set)

Vinegar Syndrome

10/30/18 — Sets Blood Harvest (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Def by Temptation (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Incubus (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Killing Kind (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Well Go U.S.A.

09/18/18 — Released Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead and Phantasm IV: Oblivion

 

Icarus Films Sets Nov. 13 For The DVD Debut Of Good Manners

Icarus Films and France’s Distrib Films will be teaming up on Nov. 13 for the domestic DVD debut of the Brazilian filmmaking team of Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas’ werewolf tale, Good Manners.

You read that right Distrib Films, the premiere source for French-language feature films in the domestic market through its exclusive home entertainment distribution agreement with Icarus Films, is expanding it’s reach to other corners of the world!

The first of these acquisitions is a monster — a monster in more ways than one!  Good Manners has been working the international film festival circuit since its debut at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland in August of last year and the results have been impressive.   The reviews and critical buzz were equally impressive.

The film has taken in a “monster” haul of awards, including Best Picture laurels in its native country when it stole the show at the 2017 Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival with six wins, including Best Picture.   In neighboring Argentina, at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, Good Manners was also Best Picture.   It’s a long list.

The film had a limited arthouse run in late July (just four major metro screens), which yields an ARR of 109 days.

Which brings us to the other “monster” aspect of the film as the storyline plays out as both a traditional werewolf film and as a metaphor on income, class and privilege in contemporary Brazilian society.

In São Paulo we are introduced to Ana (Marjorie Estiano — Under Pressure, The Life We Lead), a young woman of means who is very much pregnant.   And therein lies the problem, her well-off family is not pleased with either her condition or how it came about and has banished her to the city.   

We also meet Clara (Isabél Zuaa — Joaquim), a Portuguese-speaking woman of color (likely of Angolan origins), who has come to Ana’s apartment to interview for a job.   Despite a serious lack of pre-natal care credentials, Ana takes a liking to her and Clara is hired.   It is good news for her as she is behind in her rent and one step away from living on the streets.

Clara is also wise to Ana, and suspects that she sees in her more than just that of a care-giver, but a “domestic” as well.   Despite her initial pushback against such activities as cleaning, shopping and cooking, Clara eventually comes around and becomes more than Ana’s caregiver.

Indeed, they strike up more than a friendship and become intimate.  Perhaps it was Clara’s exotic nature that attracted Ana to her, rather than her skill-set.  That aspect will have to forever remain a mystery as filmmakers Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas switch gears about mid-point in the proceedings and we quickly learn the source of Ana’s condition, her lust for meat, her strange behavior (and seemingly possessed behavior … this is a tough pregnancy, indeed) and suddenly that’s it for Ana.

The beast is born and eviscerates Ana in the process, with Clara left to deal with the “bundle of joy.”   Horrified, but still with feelings for Ana, she puts aside her initial desire to dispose of the creature and reluctantly takes on the role of its mother and protector.

Jump ahead seven years and Clara and little Joel (played by newcomer Miguel Lobo … we think that the child actor playing the part of Joel has been given a stage name as “Mike Wolf” just seems too convenient) are doing just fine.   Except, that is, during the cycle of the full moon, when the little guy has to set aside schoolwork and playtime to be chained up for his own good … and that of the neighbors!!

Good Manners is a well-made and well-structured film that comes full circle with a nice closing twist!   Little Joel has been carefully raised by Clara as a vegetarian, who attends to his dietary needs and monthly cycles of “unrest.”   But the outside world has a way of intruding, even with the best of intentions, to upset the apple cart.   Metaphorically-speaking that is!!

Good Manners is presented in Portuguese with English subtitles.

Also on the new-to-DVD release calendar from Icarus films on Nov. 13 is a fully-restored, double-disc presentation of iconic French filmmaker Chris Marker’s 13-part intellectual series titled The Owl’s Legacy.

Thirteen words from the Greek language — most of which we take for granted and have little regard for their root origin — are discussed, over wine, as both their source meaning and contemporary understanding.   Examples being: “Music,” “Philosophy,” “Mathematics” and “Tragedy” … all Greek in origin.

This 1990 series has been newly restored by the Cinémathèque Française and is being made available for the first time on DVD in the United States by Icarus Film.   The Owl’s Legacy is presented in French, German and English, with English subtitles when necessary.