For the period ending July 17, 2020 ... New DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database

 

 

DVD New Additions

7ideas Productions (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Portland and Westerns Toledo Branch, Part 1: Toledo to Summit

Bayview Entertainment

09/22/20 — Sets AC/DC: Back in Black, Beatles In America, Coldplay: Phenomenon, David Bowie: Inside 1969-72, Guns N Roses: Rock Case Studies, Lynyrd Skynyrd: Rock Case Studies, Madonna: Music in Review, Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon, T Rex: Up Close and Personal and Who: The Moon Years

Championship Productions

07/14/20 — Released 20+ Ball Control Drills for Better Movement, Communication & Conditioning

DreamScape Media

07/14/20 — Released Captivated: Finding Freedom in a Media Captivated Culture and Choo-Choo School

Film Movement (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released L'Innocente (Italian)

Grapevine Videos (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Chronicle of the Grey House (silent-1925), On Dangerous Ground (silent-1917) and This is Your Life (4 episodes: Mack Sennett, Victor McLagen, Boris Karloff, Joe E. Brown)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Animation Outlaws, Book Week, Castle in the Ground, In Bright Axiom, Suburban Wildlife and Takeout

Gunpowder & Sky (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Lost in Florence and Third Star

Hallmark Channel (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Nearlyweds

I-Cine

07/14/20 — Released Doi Dau (10 disc set), Manh Phi Gia Dao (12 disc set) and Than Y Hoang Phu (13 disc set)

Icarus Films

09/01/20 — Sets Santiago, Italia (Spanish/Italian)

09/15/20 — Sets Earth

Jinja Films, Ltd.

07/14/20 — Released Unborn

07/28/20 — Sets Nazi Undead

Juno Films

07/14/20 — Released Don't Be Nice and Supa Modo

Kino Lorber

07/14/20 — Released Bacurau (Portuguese) (ARR of 130 days; box office: $58,115), Mädchen in Uniform (German) and Straight Shooting (silent-1917)

Level 33 Entertainment (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Ovid and the Art of Love

MVD Entertainment Group

10/13/20 — Sets Bram Stoker's Shadowbuilder: Special Edition

Metrograph Pictures

07/28/20 — Sets Bigger Splash

Midnight Releasing (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Agramon's Gate

07/21/20 — Sets Definition of Fear

Movie Detective (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Comicos (Spanish), Cure for Love (Polish), Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (Estonian), Desperate Outcast (Japanese), L'assassino e Costretto ad Uccidere Ancora (Italian), La Cuccagna (Italian), La Tour de Nesle (French), Le Noche de los Lapices (Spanish), People on a Summer Night (Finnish), Silence and Cry (Hungarian), Splendid Days (Russian), Tre Fratelli (Italian) and Woman's Place (Japanese)

Ocean Avenue Entertainment

07/14/20 — Released Seven Days in Utopia and To End All Wars: Director's Cut

Oscilloscope Laboratories

08/11/20 — Sets Cane River

PCN Productions (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released 2020 Sports Classics: 2008 PIAA 2A Football Championship, It's History: Winters Heritage House Museum, PCN Profiles: Carol Stoudt and Pennsylvania Country Roads: Yoder's Country Market and Ro-No Ranch

07/14/20 — Released 2020 PCN Profiles: John Moeller and Pennsylvania Country Roads: Lake Erie & Quilting Blocks

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

07/07/20 — Released Assa (Russian), Ja, Ja, Die Liebe in Tirol (German), Neunzig Minuten Aufenthalt (German), Oberwachtmeister Schwenke (German) and Turksib (silent-1929)

07/14/20 — Released Demanty Noci (Czech), Libidomania (German), Meine Tante, Deine Tante (German), Ober Zahlen (German), Rocco and His Brothers (Italian), Scarlet Sails (German) and Schuss um Mittertnacht (German)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Best of the Indies: Matthew Justice (3 disc set), F1rst Wrestling: Wrestlepalooza 16 - Minneapolis, MN, F1rst Wrestling: Wrestlepalooza 17 - Minneapolis, MN, Game Changer Wrestling: Backyard Wrestling 2 - Parts Unknown and Game Changer Wrestling: The WRLD on GWC - Philadelpha, PA

Sundance Now (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Red Sparrows (2 disc set)

08/04/20 — Sets Idiomatic: Season 1 (2 disc set)

TMC Media Group (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Returning to the Workplace: The Top Ways to Protect Your Workplace from COVID-19

Terror Films, LLC

07/14/20 — Released End Trip, Film School Africa, No Blood of Mine and Taking of Deborah Logan

The Teaching Company

07/14/20 — Released Exploring the Mayan World (2 disc set), Fundamentals of DSLR Filmmaking (4 disc set), How to Sing (4 disc set) and Shocking Psychological Studies and the Lessons They Teach

TomCat Releasing

06/30/20 — Released Carlo the Movie

07/14/20 — Released Pit Stop

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Coven and The Runners

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

08/11/20 — Sets Emperor

Vision Films

07/14/20 — Released Hidden Orchard Mysteries: The Case of the Air B & B Robbery and Root of the Problem

Vision Films (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Magical Reef: The Islands of the Four Kings

Vue Multimedia (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Stripes

WOWnow Entertainment

07/14/20 — Released Cannabis and Spaced Cats

Blu-ray New Additions

7ideas Productions (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Portland and Westerns Toledo Branch, Part 1: Toledo to Summit

Altered Innocence

07/14/20 — Released Starfish (with bonus CD)

Aniplex of America

07/14/20 — Released Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works - Complete Collection (8 disc set)

Code Red

07/14/20 — Released Jungle Holocaust

Criterion Collection

10/06/20 — Sets Pierre le Fou (French)

10/13/20 — Sets Claudine

10/20/20 — Sets Gunfighter and Hit

10/27/20 — Sets Parasite (2 disc set) (Korean)

Dynamic

07/14/20 — Released Puccini: Il Tabarro

Film Movement

07/14/20 — Released L'Innocente (Italian)

FUNimation

07/14/20 — Released Fafner: Complete Series and Movie Essentials (5 disc set), Kochoki: The Complete Series (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Ones Within: The Complete Collection (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Strike Witches: The Complete First Season (2 disc set), Strike Witches: The Complete Second Season (2 disc set) and Teasing Master Takagi-san (2 disc set)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Animation Outlaws, Book Week, Castle in the Ground, In Bright Axiom and Suburban Wildlife

Gunpowder & Sky (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Lost in Florence

Jinja Films, Ltd.

07/14/20 — Released Unborn

07/28/20 — Sets Nazi Undead

Kino Lorber

07/14/20 — Released Bacurau (Portuguese), Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema IV (3 film set: Calcutta, An Act of Murder, Six Bridges to Cross) (3 disc set), Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, Mädchen in Uniform (German), Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, Paleface and Straight Shooting (silent-1917)

Kitty Media

07/14/20 — Released Pure Mellow Love Collection

La La Land Entertainment

07/14/20 — Released Specials

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

07/14/20 — Released Swing of Things (with Digital Copy)

Massacre Video

07/14/20 — Released Mr. No Legs

Metrograph Pictures

07/28/20 — Sets Bigger Splash

Mill Creek Entertainment

10/13/20 — Sets Ultraman R/B: The Movie - The Crystal of Bond! (Japanese) (with  Digital Copy) and Ultraman R/B: The Movie/The Series (6 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

NYEH Entertainment (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released All God's Creatures

Oscilloscope Laboratories

08/11/20 — Sets Cane River

PCN Productions (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released 2020 PCN Profiles: John Moeller and Pennsylvania Country Roads: Lake Erie & Quilting Blocks

Paramount Home Media

08/18/20 — Sets Thrills & Chills (4 film set: Pet Sematary, A Quiet Place, Crawl, Overlord) (4 disc set)

09/15/20 — Sets Roman Holiday

Retrospoitation Direct (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released 5G Zombies

Sentai FilmWorks

07/14/20 — Released Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya Primsa*Phantasm OVA and Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya: Vow in the Snow

Shout! Factory

07/14/20 — Released Kiss of the Vampire: Collector's Edition and Missing

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released F1rst Wrestling: Wrestlepalooza 16 - Minneapolis, MN, F1rst Wrestling: Wrestlepalooza 17 - Minneapolis, MN, Game Changer Wrestling: Backyard Wrestling 2 - Parts Unknown and Game Changer Wrestling: The WRLD on GWC - Philadelpha, PA

Starry Night Publishing, LLC (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Gorgeous (Cantonese), Prisoner (Cantonese) and Touch of Zen (Cantonese)

Sundance Now (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Red Sparrows (2 disc set)

Terror Films, LLC

07/14/20 — Released Taking of Deborah Logan

Toho

07/14/20 — Released Kaiji: Final Game (Japanese)

Tokyo Shock

07/14/20 — Released Tokyo Gore Police: Lethal Force Edition (Japanese)

Unearthed Films

10/13/20 — Sets The Untold Story (Cantonese)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

07/14/20 — Released Magicians: Season Five (3 disc set)

VIZ Media

07/14/20 — Released Boruto Naruto: Next Generations, Volume 6 (2 disc set) and Inu Yasha: Set One (4 disc set)

Vue Multimedia (MOD)

07/14/20 — Released Stripes

4K Ultra HD New Additions

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

09/15/20 — Sets 21 Jump Street (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and 22 Jump Street (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

09/01/20 — Sets Beetlejuice (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Goonies (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Sherlock Holmes (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Icarus Films To Release On DVD On Sept. 15 Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter's Earth • Filmmaker Nanni Moretti's Santiago, Italia on Sept. 01

Icarus Films will be teaming up with the KimStim Collection on Sept. 15 for the DVD debut for globetrotting documentary filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s latest connect-the-dots discussion, Earth.

In the academic world there is a current debate over the arrival, or even the existence of, the “Anthropocene Age.”   Filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter is of the opinion that such an epoch has now emerge, which argues that for roughly the last 10,000 years man has slowly, inexorably replaced nature as the primary influence on the planet.  

Whether through population, agriculture, building or even the arrival of the Atomic Age, Anthropocene advocates argue that man is now in charge of the planet … for better, or for worse.

Geyrhalter’s latest film, Earth, acts as sort of a metaphor for his observations of how humans move billions of tons of “earth” each year globally.   He took his crew to various places on the planet to observe the fantastic machines, the construction, the mines and quarries and massive explosions used to re-shape the planet … he divides his observations into seven chapters.

From the San Fernando Valley in Southern California to Gyöngyös in Hungary, from Carrara in Italy to Minas de Riotinto in Spain … with stops in Germany, Canada and Austria, Geyrhalter visits projects where monster machines and armies of workers go about their business in a sort of mind-boggling ballet. 

This award-winning documentary is certainly worthy of discussion come Sept. 15 when it arrives on DVD from Icarus Films.   Earth is presented in English, German, Hungarian, Italian and Spanish, with English subtitles where needed.

Another major distribution partner with Icarus Films is France’s premiere film production and distribution company, Distrib Films.  They will teaming up with Icarus to bring to the domestic marketplace on Sept. 1 the DVD release of documentary filmmaker Nanni Moretti’s Santiago, Italia. 

Opening at the Torino Film Festival at the end of November in 2018 (and playing the festival circuit for well over a year), Moretti’s Santiago, Italia is an intimate look at the 1973 military coup in Chile, with a special focus on a group of exiles who ended up with safe haven in Italy after fleeing to the Italian Embassy in Santiago.   He uses their experiences, some fifty-years on as a counterpoint to current events in Chile (pre-pandemic, that is). 

Many were tortured, but survived to tell of their experiences during those turbulent times.

Moretti doesn’t leave the story there, but actually manages to locate and interview Raul Iturriaga, one of the torturers, who is now in prison for his crimes … the interview certainly has its moments!!!

Santiago, Italia is a fascinating look at history … a defining event in South America from a POV that is not often achieved in filmmaking.   Presented in Italian and Spanish, with English subtitles. 

Oscilloscope Laboratories Tabs Aug. 11 For The Home Entertainment Launch Of Director Horace B. Jenkins' Lost Film • Cane River

There is a line from director John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance that gets right to the heart of the amazing story about a lost film, the man who made it and how it finally came to light.   The quote, “When the legend becomes fact … print the legend.”

The film, the legend, is Cane River and it will be available from Oscilloscope Laboratories on Aug. 11 as both DVD and Blu-ray product offerings.

On a Friday afternoon, the third of December in 1982 to be exact, a 42-year old man dropped dead of a heart attack on the streets of Manhattan.   His first feature-length film, Cane River, was being scheduled for a New York City premiere after the first of the year.  With his death, it never happened.   That was 1982.

The filmmaker in question was Horace B. Jenkins, who had won Emmy Awards for his segment work on Roger Fisher’s PBS series, The Advocates as well as Sesame Street, he was also a producer of the PBS series, Black Journal, plus he did the 1978 documentary titled Sudan Pyramids: A Zandi's Dream.

In 1982, he did something unusual, with the financial backing of an influential black family, he assembled an all-black crew and cast … and filmed Cane River on location in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.   It was his first stab at writing and directing a dramatic narrative, which is perhaps best described as something of a “Romeo and Juliet” tale that goes to the heart of black culture and class distinctions.  

To the outsider, Peter Metoyer’s (played by newcomer Richard Romain) relationship with Maria Mathis (Tommye Myrick, also in her film debut), is just that, an attractive young black couple in love.   But to their respective families, their love is as toxic as the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets.

To this point, Rhea Combs, the curator of film and photography at the National Museum of African American History, noted that this is not the type of film that Hollywood would make … (which have) “been riddled with stereotypes and some pejorative images.”

Indeed, put Jenkins’ film in context of its time.   Hollywood had spent almost the entirety of the 1970s churning out Blaxploitation films — Shaft, Across 110th Street, Hammer, Cleopatra Jones, Coffy, Dolemite, Disco Godfather — action, violence, sex, drugs … subtlety was not an attribute.   Jenkins even had a gig as a script and continuity technician on the 1973 film production of Shaft in Africa, so he knew all about Blaxploitation … Cane River would not be one of those.

 

Once the film was completed it had an audience screening and then, upon Jenkins’ death, Cane River dropped out of sight.    Skip ahead to 2013 and shuttering of the DuArt laboratory, where producer Sandra Schulberg and her IndieCollect organization suddenly found itself in possession of nearly 4,000 negatives.   Yes, Cane River was one of these.

Teaming up with the Academy Film Archive, the DuArt find was put in safe keeping … and once there, curator Ed Carter took a look at the film and with some detective work, a little help here and there, he was able to identify the filmmaker and subsequently made contact with the film’s editor, Debra Moore (her first film … subsequent film editing work included assignments on Jake and the Fatman, Diagnosis Murder and more).

From the DuArt rescued materials they had the original 16mm A & B roll film negatives, plus two sets of 35mm negatives, which didn’t match.   Once assembled into the “best cut” possible, a 4K digital scan was completed and the film finally was screened again for selected audiences in 2018, including at the Oprah Winfrey Theatre of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.   

Oscilloscope Laboratories picked it up for theatrical exhibition and home media.   The film made its official theatrical debut on Feb. 7 of this year, 37 years after Jenkins’ death.   Legend, fact, legend, fact … “When the legend becomes fact … print the legend.”  

What an amazing journey.   Finally, Aug. 11, audiences, film buffs, consumers, the curious, you name it, will be able to see Cane River … for virtually all of them, this viewing opportunity will be for the first time, ever.

Bonus features include an archival television interview with writer/director Horace B. Jenkins (circa 1981), a newly-minted video session with actors Richard Romain and Tommye Myrick, a second newly-prepared video session with Sacha Jenkins, the son of Horace B. Jenkins, and the Ebertfest (2019) post-screening Q&A session.

Mill Creek Entertainment Celebrates The First Anniversary Of Its Ultraman Franchise With The Oct. 13 Blu-ray Collection Of Ultraman R/B

One year ago — July of 2019 — Mill Creek Entertainment announced that they has acquired the domestic distribution rights to the entire Tsuburaya Productions Co., Ltd Ultraman library.   This distribution coup included 50 years-worth of productions, which encompassed 20 feature films and over 1,100 series episodes.   

The first wave hit in October of last year with the debut of both Ultra Q: Complete Series 01 and Ultraman: Complete Series 02 as Blu-ray collections … Ultraman Orb: Series + Movie, Ultraman Geed: Series + Movie, Return of Ultraman: The Complete Series, Ultraman X: The Movie and more, much more followed. 

To celebrate one full year since the launch of this iconic franchise on Blu-ray, Mill Creek Entertainment has tabbed Oct. 13 as the street date for the next editions for fans to enjoy.   This series this go-around will be the 25-episode collection of Ultraman R/B (which debuted on Japanese television in July of 2018 as Ultraman Rûbu). 

The action unfolds in the “Jōkamachi” (feudal style developed in the 15^th and 16^th Centuries) city of Ayaka, which is run by Aizentech.  On the one side are the orphan brothers Katsumi (Yuya Hirata) and Isami (Ryosuke Koike), who can transform into Ultraman Rosso and Ultraman Blu.   On the other side is the Minato clan, which are dominated by the alien Chereza … it is a battle to the death!!!

Included in the Ultraman R/B collection is the feature-length movie, Ultraman R/B the Movie: Select! The Crystal of Bond, which was released theatrically in Japan in March of 2019.   It is one year later and the peace that Ultraman Rosso and Ultraman Blu brought to Ayaka is now suddenly in danger as Tregear spirits Katsumi away, leaving Isami to battle the menace of the Snake Darkness on his own (will help arrive in time).

The movie, Ultraman R/B the Movie: Select! The Crystal of Bond, can be purchased as a stand-alone Blu-ray on the same Oct. 13 date.   Both the six-disc Blu-ray collection and feature film include Digital Copy.

The Ultraman R/B collection and Ultraman R/B the Movie: Select! The Crystal of Bond are presented in Japanese with English subtitles.