For the period ending November 15, 2019 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

 

DVD New Additions

 

1091 Media (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Leonard Soloway's Broadway

AMC Networks, Inc. - Shutter (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Small Town Killers (Danish)

Alfra (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Bikini Body Bible with Emma Louise Burrows, Danielle Collins: 10 Minute Natural Facelift, Leg Training Series with Jamie Alderton,  Ryan Terry: How to be a Cover Model and Train Through The Pain with James Alexander Ellis

Alpha Video (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Clutch Cargo, Volume 10, Golem: The Legend of Prague (French), Grandma's Boy (silent-1922), Joyless Street (silent-1925), Mambo, Mondo Collecto, Movie Man's Matinee, Volume 4 (7 silent short films: Ye Olden Grafter (1915), A Lucky Leap (1915), A Human Hound's Triumph (1915), A Millionaire for a Minute (1915), Eats for Two (1927), Nifty Numbers (1928), Sappy Service (1929)), Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia: The Wasp Woman, Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, Raven (silent-1915)/Avenging Conscience (silent-1914), Sparrows (silent-1926) and WWII Documentary Double Feature (2 film set: The Battle of Midway, Tunisian Victory)

BBC Entertainment

11/12/19 — Released Doctor Who: The Mecra Terror (2 disc set)

Bayview Entertainment

12/24/19 — Sets Book of Life (Italian), Cripta (Italian) and Lord Doesn't Hate You (Italian)

Blue Forge Films (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Epic Washington (2 disc set) and My Wyvern Heart

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Story of Santa Claus

CM Films (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Flintown Kids and Where's the Soul?

CMI Education/PESI Publishing

11/05/19 — Released Kids in the Crossfire of Divorced and Blended Families: Interventions for Anxious, Depressed and Oppositional Children, Legal Risks For Nurses: Protect Yourself from the Courtroom!, Play & Language: The Roots of Literacy, Sleep and Mental Health: Non-Medication Interventions to Restore Sleep Quality and Improve Clinical Outcomes and Suicide: Identification, Intervention and Prevention Skills Every Clinician Needs

Championship Productions

11/12/19 — Released Best of Club Swimming: Technical Progressions for Successful Backstroke, Five Man Puck Recovery, Front Row/Back Row Defense and Teaching Serve Receive Techniques and Patterns

Cinedigm

11/12/19 — Released D-Day: Battle of Omaha Beach

Cinedigm – Sonar (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Double Feature: Adventures in Dinotopia, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Double Feature: Flood, Flood: A River's Rampage and Double Feature: Meteor, Pandemic

ClassicFlix

11/12/19 — Released Complete PRC Michael Shayne Mystery Collection (5 film set: Murder is My Business, Larcery in Her Heart, Blonde for a Day, Three on a Ticket, Too Many Winners) (2 disc set)

Criterion Collection

02/11/20 — Sets Roma (Spanish) (2 disc set)

02/18/20 — Sets Antonio Gaudi (Japanese) (2 disc set) and Teorema (Italian)

02/25/20 — Sets Paris is Burning (2 disc set) and Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman (3 film set: Journey to the Beginning of Time, Invention for Destruction, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen) (Czech)

DreamScape Media, LLC

11/12/19 — Released Highlights: Manners, Please!

Dynamic

11/12/19 — Released Offenbach: Un Mari a la Porte

EWTN

11/12/19 — Released EWTN Live: Jim Akin - Author and Apologist, Journey Home: Arthur Lohsen - Former Lutheran, Author of "Rebuild My House," Life on the Rock: Father Matt Lowery - 2019 Seek Conference, Sunday Best: Can We Pray With Those of Other Faiths?, Women of Grace: Living Life in the Holy Spirit and World Over with Raymond Navarro: Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner / Most Rev. Joseph Strickland

11/19/19 — Sets EWTN Live: Irini de Sernin - Bollandist Society, Journey Home: Father Daniel Bowen - Former Jehovah's Witness and Life on the Rock: Sam Guzman - The Case for Courtesy, Courage Valor and Living in Authentic Manhood

11/26/19 — Sets Life on the Rock: Father Boniface Hicks - Spirituality of Silence

Eagle Rock Entertainment

11/12/19 — Released Hymn: Sarah Brightman in Concert (DVD/CD Combo Pack) and Toto: 40 Tours Around the Sun

Film Movement

12/10/19 — Sets Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives

Get Digital World (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Google Adsense Made Easy, Instant Cash Magnet, Niche Business Jumpstart, Optimize Your Website For Mobile Devices, Sure-Fire Tips for Successful Adsense Campaigns, With These YouTube Ad Techniques, You'll See Results In Just Hours and YouTube Live Cash Crasher

Giant Interactive (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Love, Antosha (ARR of 102 days; box office: $50,168)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released 5th Dementia, Bit x Bit: In Bitcoin We Trust, Bygone, Philophobia: Or the Fear of Falling in Love, Saving Atlantis and Shooting in Vain

High Octane Pictures, LLC (MOD)

11/05/19 — Released Blood Myth, Devil’s Acid, Ellipse and Maria

I-Cine

11/12/19 — Released Phu Khai Phong (18 disc set) and Tieng Set Trong Mua (18 disc set)

Indiepix

11/12/19 — Released Yesterday was a Lie

Josh Way (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Fun With Shorts, Volume 27

Kaczmarek Digital Media Group, Inc. (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released How to Boil a Frog, Karate Christmas Miracle, Moving Stories and Sensei

Kino Lorber

11/12/19 — Released Buffet Froid (French), Charley Varrick, Gone Fishin', Gun Runners, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (French), Return to Macon County, Street People and Winter Kills

01/14/20 — Released Price of Everything (ARR of 452 days; box office: $85,277)

Leomark Studios, LLC (MOD)

11/05/19 — Released American Super Woman (2 disc set)

11/12/19 — Released Crowd-Funding: A New Deathstar, Fauxcumentary: Archeaology of Comedy, Flatulence Pants and Safety Geeks: SVI

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

11/12/19 — Released Weekend

MPI Home Video

11/12/19 — Released Bliss

Martial Arts History Museum (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Your First Book: Everything You Need to Know Before You Begin

Monarch Video

11/12/19 — Released Snow White Christmas

Nandar Home Entertainment

11/12/19 — Released Red Resurrection

Naturally Supernatural Media House (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Naturally Supernatural: Biblical Foundations for a Supernatural Lifestyle (4 disc set)

Naxos

11/12/19 — Released Kurt Weill: Street Scene, Mahler: Symphony No 1 & No. 4, Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail - Teatro a la Scala (2 disc set), Verdi: La Traviata - Royal Opera House and Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Teatro Opera of Rome (3 disc set)

PBS Direct

11/05/19 — Released Odyssey: The Chamber Music Society in Greece

11/12/19 — Released Poldark: The Complete Fifth Season (3 disc set)

PCN Productions (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released 2019 PIAA Boys 1A Soccer Championship, 2019 PIAA Boys 2A Soccer Championship, 2019 PIAA Boys 3A Soccer Championship, 2019 PIAA Boys 4A Soccer Championship, 2019 PIAA Girls 1A Soccer Championship, 2019 PIAA Girls 2A Soccer Championship, 2019 PIAA Girls 3A Soccer Championship and 2019 PIAA Girls 4A Soccer Championship

Saina Video Vision

11/12/19 — Released Sachin (Malayalam)

Seventh Art Productions

11/12/19 — Released Exhibition on Screen: Van Gogh & Japan

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Game Changer Wrestling Pro: 2 Cups Stuff - Hoffman Estates, IL, Intergender Bonanza: The Stan Styles Intergender Bonanza 4 - Williamstown, NJ and IWA Mid-South: The Show Must Go On - Jeffersonville, IN

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

11/12/19 — Released Cross: Rise of the Villains

Splash Entertainment (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Chloe's Closet: Season 2, Volume 1 (3 disc set) and Chloe's Closet: Season 2, Volume 2 (3 disc set)

Summer Hill Films

11/12/19 — Released Silent and Forgotten

TWM Media Group (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Art of Common Sense and Critical Thinking - Employee Training & Awareness, Bullying Epidemic, Career Opportunities for Young People: Jobs in the Media, Chance of Being Positive, Coping with Loss: The Process of Mourning, How to Find Contentment, Inspiration to Exercise, Lee Harvey Oswald: Conspiracy, Lee Harvey Oswald: Proof, Life is Like a Journey on a Train: How to Find Connection & Purpose, So Much to Live For Today: How to Cope with Depression and Wonders of a Positive Self Image

Vertical Entertainment

11/12/19 — Released Polaroid

The Video Beat (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Sounds of the Seventies, Volume 1, Sounds of the Seventies, Volume 2 and Sounds of the Seventies, Volume 3

Thuy NGA, Inc.

11/05/19 — Released Paris by Night 129: Dynasty (3 disc set)

Tucson, Pearl of Sonora (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Tucson, Pearl of Sonora, Volume 127: Ruth's Utah

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

11/05/19 — Released Holiday Hell

11/12/19 — Released Once Upon a Time in Deadwood

Uni Music - Deutsche

11/12/19 — Released André Rieu: Christmas Down Under

Vision Films (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Christmas Cupcakes and Teslafy Me

WWE

11/12/19 — Released WWE: Hell in a Cell, 2019 (2 disc set)

World Wide Multi Media

11/12/19 — Released Conspiracy Theories: Big Brother's Sinister Plot to Dominate Mankind and King Arthur: The Legend of the Holy Grail

Blu-ray New Additions

AGFA

11/12/19 — Released Wicked World

Cohen Media Group

11/12/19 — Released Tel Aviv on Fire (Arabic)

Cri-One (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released De Junglist

Criterion Collection

02/11/20 — Sets Roma (Spanish)

02/18/20 — Sets Antonio Gaudi (Japanese) and Teorema (Italian)

02/25/20 — Sets Paris is Burning and Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman (3 film set: Journey to the Beginning of Time, Invention for Destruction, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen) (Czech)

Dark Entity Music, LLC

11/12/19 — Released Listing

Dynamic

11/12/19 — Released Offenbach: Un Mari a la Porte

Eagle Rock Entertainment

11/12/19 — Released Hymn: Sarah Brightman in Concert (Blu-ray/CD Combo Pack) and Toto: 40 Tours Around the Sun

FUNimation

11/12/19 — Released Bungo Stray Dogs: Seasons One & Two (4 disc set), Izetta: The Last Witch (2 disc set), Radiant, Season 1, Part 1 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Shomin Sample (2 disc set)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released 5th Dementia, Bit x Bit: In Bitcoin We Trust, Bygone, Philophobia: Or the Fear of Falling in Love, Saving Atlantis and Shooting in Vain

Indiepix (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Yesterday was a Lie

Kaczmarek Digital Media Group, Inc. (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Karate Christmas Miracle, Moving Stories and Sensei

Kino Lorber

11/12/19 — Released Buffet Froid (French), Charley Varrick, Gone Fishin', Gun Runners, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (French), Madigan, Return to Macon County, Street People, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot and Winter Kills

MPI Home Video

11/12/19 — Released Bliss

Maiden Japan

11/12/19 — Released Natsu No Arashi (2 disc set)

Mondo Macabro

11/12/19 — Released Emanuelle in America (Italian)

Naxos

11/12/19 — Released Kurt Weill: Street Scene, Mahler: Symphony No 1 & No. 4, Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail - Teatro a la Scala and Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Teatro Opera of Rome

PBS Direct

11/12/19 — Released Poldark: The Complete Fifth Season (3 disc set)

Shady Dawn Pictures, LLC (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released One Winter Night

Shout! Factory

11/12/19 — Released Bunuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (Spanish) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Nutty Professor Collection (2 film set: The Nutty Professor, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps) (2 disc set), Road Games: Collector's Edition and Spirited Away: Collector's Edition (Japanese) (with bonus CD)

Sterling Pictures (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Lava

Synergetic (MOD)

11/12/19 — Released Bait

Troma

11/12/19 — Released Return to Return to Nuke'em High Aka Volume 2 (2 disc set)

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

11/12/19 — Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made

VCI Entertainment

12/17/19 — Sets La Barraca (Spanish) and Una Familia De Tantas (Spanish)

01/21/20 — Sets Gordon of Ghost City (12 chapter serial)

 

MVD Entertainment Group Selects Feb. 11 For The Blu-ray Release Of A New 2K Restoration Of Director Fred Wolf's The Point

Word arrived this past week that MVD Entertainment Group has a new 2K film restoration of director Fred Wolf’s 1971 animated classic, The Point, featuring the music of Harry Nilsson (who also co-wrote and produced) — with narration by Ringo Starr — ready for a Blu-ray release under the company’s popular “Rewind Collection” promotional banner.   

The street date set for this “Rewind Collection” special edition Blu-ray presentation of The Point will be Feb. 11.

In a mythical land, without a name, everyone who lives there has a pointy-head, except a little boy by the name of Oblio (voiced by Mike Lookinland … best known as Bobby Brady of The Brady Bunch), who was born with a round head.  This puts everyone on edge, which mutates into a frenzy of contempt when Oblio beats the Count’s son (voiced by Buddy Foster — as Mike in the Mayberry R.F.D. television series) in a game of toss (with triangles of course).   As a result of this transgression, Oblio is banished to the Pointless Forest — with his dog Arrow.

Thus begins a journey of discovery, where Oblio learns that there is a “point” to his and everyone else’s existence.

Bonus features for the release of The Point on Blu-ray include a newly prepared video session with Mike Lookinland (titled, “The Kid’s Got a Point”), a second with screenwriter Norm Lenzer (titled, “That Old Guy Wrote the Point”) and a third featuring Kiefo Nilsson and Bobby Halvorson (titled, “Everybody’s Got a Point”) and a quartet of featurettes — “Who is Harry Nilsson?,” “Pitching The Point,” “Making The Point” and “Legacy of The Point.”

Bayview Entertainment Prepares Three Italian FIlms For Release On DVD On Dec. 24

It was the night before Christmas and not a creature was stirring … except the happy elves at Bayview Entertainment who have loaded up Santa’s sleigh with a trio of new films from the world of contemporary Italian Cinema that will be making their domestic DVD debuts — for cinepiles to enjoy — on Dec. 24.

Sure, there are several great sources for Italian-language films from years past (think: Fellini, Rossellini, Bava, Argento), but in sort of a head-scratching way, contemporary films are hard to come by.   

Icarus Films, as an example, has a domestic distribution with France’s premiere film production and distribution company, Distrib Films, so there’s a steady flow of French-language films of recent vintage.   Well Go U.S.A. seems to have a pipeline into China and South Korea, so no problem with Mandarin, Cantonese and Korean films … but Italian, that’s a different story.

Come Dec. 24, a window opens up for the domestic DVD release of a trio recent Italian film productions.   Perhaps Bayview Entertainment is on to something here!

Counted among the selections is director Fabrizio La Monica’s Bergmanesque release of The Lord Doesn’t Hate You.   Here, we find a father (played by Roberto Romano), who is banished from the local village because his daughter (Emilia Passalacqua) has contracted a mysterious disease that will soon become infectious and spread to all.

They begin a quest to find a mysterious “hermit,” who leaves deep in a seemingly endless forest, for a cure.   But there is more at play than the search for a “cure.”  

 

The Lord Doesn’t Hate You is presented in Italian, with English subtitles, plus there are two viewing options.   In color, or as filmmaker Fabrizio La Monica prefers, in glorious black and white.

Next up is The Book of Life from writer/director Marco Lui, who is perhaps better known in Italy as a mime and stand-up comedian … he uses those talents marvelously well as the star of his own film.  

In heaven, or something akin to a pre-mortal existence, Lui falls in love with a beautiful young woman named Chiara (Sarah Colombini), who plays the piano, but never smiles.   He brings her a daisy each day and does his best to get her to smile … and then the day arrives where he will assume a mortal form (with a bit of sad note thrown in that his time on earth will be short).

Now on earth, Lui is a teacher and guess what, Chiara is a music teacher at the same school.   Same process — hysterically so, as Lui puts his mime and physical comic talents to good use (even if you don’t speak Italian, the sight-gags are terrific) — as he tries again and again to get Chiara to crack a smile.  

Alas he goes too far with his goofy antics.   Her niece, played by Italian child singing sensation Alice Risolino, is absolutely infectious in her performance as his muse, who does her best to reel him in with her savvy advice.

The Book of Life is filled with allegorical references and Marco Lui does an excellent job in both the pacing of the film and his use of comedy to impart life lessons.   Although it seems straight forward, somethings are not what they seem, which give the film a nice twist.   Presented in Italian with English subtitles.

Marco Lui returns with his gamer-like tale, Cripta, where he plays the duel role of an elderly professor and a video game personality who gives hints and direction (in his best mime and comedian manner) to the six online players — all archeology students — who are tasked with solving a puzzle.

During their “gaming” experience (think along the lines of Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code”), their computer system is infected with a nasty virus that will set up a very dangerous twist in their collective research that could prove life-threatening, not only for them, but for the entire planet.

Cripta is also presented in Italian with English subtitles.

Arrow Video Restores Director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Manon For Blu-ray Release On Feb. 25

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, looks to Feb. 25 for the Blu-ray debut of French filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1949 film adaptation (loosely so) of Abbé Prévost’s 1731 novel “Manon Lescaut,” which arrived theatrically as simply Manon.   1950 for the domestic theatrical release, which arrived with some controversy.

During World War II, Clouzot continued to work in occupied France as a filmmaker and ran afoul of both the Vichy government and the Resistance over the release of Le Corbeau (it is a long story not to be rehashed here), which lead to him being banned for life from making any new films.    The banned was later reduced to two years.

Manon is one two films that Clouzot completed in 1947 following the lifting of the ban.   The New Wave and film noir were the trends in French filmmaking following the war, which always made Clouzot something of an oddity.   Manon is an excellent production, but it doesn’t really fit within either movement.   

He would later deliver The Wages of Fear (1953) and Diabolique (1955), which established him, historically-speaking, as a major post-war French filmmaker (the New Wave aside).  

Manon is the tale of an unredeemable and totally immoral woman by the name of Manon (played by Cécile Aubry), who is about to be executed for collaborating with the Nazis, when she is rescued by Robert Desgrieux (Michel Auclair), who, during the course of the movie, will come to regret ever laying eyes on her!!   

The film came before his masterpieces, but in many ways Manon is right there with them … and certainly worth a look if it has escaped your notice thus far.

Bonus features include the documentary titled Bibliothèque de Poche: H.G. Clouzot and a newly minted featurette titled “Woman in the Dunes.”