Monday, June 14, 2021

New DVD • Blu-ray • 4K Ultra HD Activity For The Period Ending June 11, 2021

 



 

New DVD Additions

 

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey

Alpha Video
(MOD)

06/08/21 — Released Astral Factor, Boston Blackie, Volume 8, Curse of Bigfoot, Front Page Detective, Volume 3 (4 episodes), Gentleman from Louisiana, Miracle of Monte Cassino (Italian), Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia: The Brain That Wouldn't Die, Pony Express (silent-1925) and Star Odyssey

 

BBC Home Entertainment (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released Doctor Who: Kinda (episode 119), Doctor Who: Logopolis (episode 116), Doctor Who: The Black Guardian Trilogy (3 episodes: Mawdryn Undead (episode 126), Terminus (episode 127), Enlightenment (episode 128) (4 disc set), Doctor Who: The King's Demon (episode 129), Doctor Who: The Visitation (eps. 120) and Doctor Who: Tomb of the Cybermen

 

Bayview Entertainment

08/10/21 — Sets Borderland, Charming Men: Part 1 - Julie (Norwegian), Last Ones (Finnish), Tomorrow I Quit and Vortex: The Dawn of Sovereignty (French)

 

Breaking Glass Pictures

06/08/21 — Released Six Characters in Search of a Play

 

Bridgestone Multimedia (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released Diamond in the Rough, Discarded Things and Found

 

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released Our Cartoon President: Season 3 (3 disc set)

 

CMI Education/PESI Publishing

06/01/21 — Released Psychopharmacology: Essential Information for Mental Health Professionals (2 disc set)

06/08/21 — Released 2-Day: Chronic Anxiety: A 6-Step Treatment Blueprint to Break the Anxiety Cycle (4 disc set), Extended Adolescence - When 25 Looks More Like 18: Clinical Strategies for Clients Struggling to Meet the Demands of Adulthood (2 disc set) and Polyvagal Essentials for Every Clinician: Practical Applications for Safety, Attachment, Trauma and Anxiety (2 disc set)

 

Championship Productions

06/01/21 — Released Optimized Middle Distance & Distance Training for High School Athletes

06/08/21 — Released 25 Drills to Develop Your Hitters' Balance, Timing & Vision, Airtight Defense: Building a Great Infield, Becoming a Triple Threat Slapper: Tools to Maximize Slapping Success, Building Confidence on Your Cross-Country Team with a Strong Team Culture, Coaching Cross Country: Annual Training Plans, Craig Skinner: High Energy, Competitive Team Practice, Game-Like Scenarios + Digging, Serving & Defense, Dan Fisher: 'Next Ball' Mentality - Drills to Establish Streaks in Momentum/Scoring, Break Out Skill Sessions + Game-Speed Drill, Developing Elite Level Pitching: Drills, Philosophies & Strategy, Elite Pitching: Increasing Speed & Improving Accuracy, Hitting Dailies: Body Movement Drills for Hitters of All Ages, Hitting with Constraints: Training Better Hitters, Innovative Pitching Drills that Simulate Game Conditions, Michelle Collier: Player-Initiated Warm-Ups, Team-Oriented Wash Games + Base/Defense Communications & Setter Hitting/Timing, Mike Lingenfelter: Multiple Drills, Fast-Paced Drills & More Drills + Relentless Defense, Tough Serving & Scoring in Transition, Modified Princeton Offense: Point Series, Modified Princeton Offense: Skills & Drills, No Fly Zone: Essential Skills & Drills for Building a Great Outfield, Optimizing Your Pitching Staff: Comprehensive Workout for Improved Pitcher Performance, Slapping Mechanics, Fundamentals & Drills, Using Analytics to Win More Games and Winning Between the Ears: Mental Approach to Hitting

 

Cheezy Flicks

06/08/21 — Released Jailhouse Wardress (aka Barbed Wire Dolls) and Reptilicus

 

Creature Feature Videos (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released Ghoul

 

Dark Side Releasing

06/08/21 — Released Jumbo (French) and Mask of Thorn

 

EWTN

06/08/21 — Released @ Home with Jim & Joy: Jim and Joy Pinto Answer Viewer Calls, Questions, And E-Mails Live From the Pinto House, @ Home with Jim & Joy: Rhonda Miller - the Project Rachel work in the Diocese of Colorado Springs, Called to Communion, EWTN Live: Dr. Ray Guarendi / Jesus as the Master psychologist, Journey Home: Nick De La Torre / Catholic Revert and Former Unitarian, Women of Grace: Fr. Thomas Morrow -  How to Overcome Sinful Thoughts and Defeat Harmful Ideas,  Women of Grace: Matthew Bunson - St. Pope Paul VI: Prophet for Our Day and World Over with Raymond Navarro:

 

Elvis DVD Collector/Movie Store (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released Bitches of Westwood, Blonde Velvet, Easy, Fifteen Scaffolds for the Killer, Gentlemen of the Night (Italian), Hot Nights on the Campus, Intimate Encounters, Night of the Spanish Fly and Sorority Sweethearts

 

Epic Pictures Group, Inc.

06/08/21 — Released Winter Lake

 

Film Movement

06/08/21 — Released Center Stage (Mandarin), Salvador Dali: In Search of Immortality (Spanish), Sin (Italian) and True Mothers (Japanese)

 

Full Moon Entertainment

06/08/21 — Released Lover of the Monster (Italian)

 

Giant Interactive (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released 2040

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released Altitude Not Attitude, Escape From Extinction, Marietta, My True Fairytale and No Knock List

 

Hallmark Channel

06/08/21 — Released Roux the Day: A Gourmet Detective Mystery

 

Hope of the World (MOD)

06/01/21 — Released Daybreak

06/08/21 — Released Wise Men and Fools

 

Image Entertainment

08/17/21 — Sets Water Man (ARR of 102 days; box office: $290,286)

 

IndiePix

06/08/21 — Released Last Request and Tina Barney Social Studies

 

Jinga Films, Ltd.

06/08/21 — Released Face of the Devil (Spanish)

 

KimStim

06/08/21 — Released To the Ends of the Earth (Japanese)

 

Kino Lorber

06/08/21 — Released Cartouche (French), Land of Azaba (Spanish), Le Magnifique (French) and Under the Sand (French)

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

06/08/21 — Released City of Lies (ARR of 81 days; box office: $566,630), Flashback, MacGyver: Season 4 (2 disc set) and Power Book II: Ghost: The Complete First Season (2 disc set)

 

Media Blasters

06/08/21 — Released Aki Harbara Deep (Japanese) and Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

 

Mill Creek Entertainment

06/08/21 — Released Bruce Willis 8 Movie Collection (8 film set: Sunset, Hudson Hawk, The Whole Nine Yards, Mortal Thoughts, Perfect Stranger, The Jackal, Mercury Rising, Alpha Dog) (3 disc set) and Jean-Claude Van Damme 8 Movie Collection (8 film set: Universal Soldier: The Return, The Hard Corps, Second in Command, Maximum Risk, Knock Off, Double Team, Street Fighter, The Quest) (3 disc set)

 

Movie Detective (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released Acto da Primavera (Portuguese), Crowded Streetcar (Japanese), Curlew's Cry (Arabic), Death is My Trade (German), Ferdinand the 1st King of Naples (Italian), La Mazzetta (Italian) and Poet (Russian)

 

Omerta Art Science

06/08/21 — Released Omerta: The Act of Silence

 

PBS Direct

06/08/21 — Released American Oz and Life at the Waterhole

 

PCN Productions (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released 2021 PIAA Boys 2A Lacrosse Championship, 2021 PIAA Boys 2A Volleyball Championship, 2021 PIAA Boys 3A Lacrosse Championship, 2021 PIAA Boys 3A Volleyball Championship, 2021 PIAA Girls 2A Lacrosse Championship and 2021 PIAA Girls 3A Lacrosse Championship

 

Paramount Home Entertainment

07/20/21 — Sets Gully (with Digital Copy)

08/03/21 — Sets Under the Stadium Lights (with Digital Copy)

 

Passion River

06/08/21 — Released Punk the Capital: Building A Sound Movement

 

Random Media (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released That Is All

 

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released Army (Japanese), Assassination of Trotsky, Dorothea Angermann (German), Early to Bed, East of Sudan and  Tchaikovsky (Russian)

 

Reality Entertainment

06/08/21 — Released All the Presidents Aliens

 

SRS Cinema

06/08/21 — Released Dead Life: Wormwood's End, Deadly Delivery (Italian), Grand Guignol Madness and Snuff Kill (aka: Screen Kill)

 

Samuel Goldwyn Films

06/08/21 — Released Good Traitor (Danish)

 

Shout! Factory

06/08/21 — Released Sesame Street: Cool Counting Collection and Unhealer

 

Synergetic Distribution (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released Republic Z (Russian)

 

TMW Media Group (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released Am I A Boy of Girl Featuring Gayle Roberts - Transition from Male to Female, Am I A Boy of Girl Featuring Stefonknee Wolscht - Transition from Man to a Woman, Am I A Boy or Girl Featuring Evan Kelemen - Coping with Psychiatric Abuse, Am I A Boy or Girl Featuring James Gardner - Making a Public Transition, Am I A Boy or Girl Featuring Pina Newman - True Self Suppression, Am I A Boy or Girl Featuring Sandy Leo Laframboise - First Nations Transgender, Am I A Boy or Girl Featuring Trey McGowan - Drag King & Female Performer and Am I A Boy or Girl Featuring Xavier Raddysh - Role Model for Trans People

 

The High School Sports Network (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released 2021 CIAC Boys Volleyball Class L Championship, 2021 CIF Central Coast Section Div. 2 Boys Volleyball Final, 2021 CIF Central Section Div. I Girls Basketball Final, 2021 CIF Central Section Div. IV Girls Basketball Final, 2021 CIF Central Section Div. IV Girls Basketball Final, 2021 CIF Central Section Div. V Boys Basketball Final, 2021 CIF Central Section Open Div. Boys Basketball Final, 2021 CIF San Diego Section Div. I Boys Lacrosse Final, 2021 CIF San Diego Section Div. I Girls Lacrosse Final, 2021 CIF San Diego Section Div. II Boys Basketball Final, 2021 CIF San Diego Section Div. II Boys Lacrosse Final, 2021 CIF San Diego Section Div. II Boys Volleyball Final, 2021 CIF San Diego Section Div. II Girls Lacrosse Final, 2021 CIF San Diego Section Div. III Girls Basketball Final, 2021 CIF San Diego Section Div. IV Boys Basketball Final, 2021 CIF San Diego Section Div. IV Boys Volleyball Final, 2021 CIF San Diego Section Div. IV Girls Basketball Final, 2021 CIF San Diego Section Div. V Boys Basketball Final, 2021 CIF San Diego Section Div. V Girls Basketball Final, 2021 CIF San Diego Section Open Div. Boys Lacrosse Final, 2021 CIF San Diego Section Open Div. Boys Volleyball Final, 2021 CIF San Diego Section Open Div. Girls Lacrosse Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 1 Boys Lacrosse Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 1 Girls Lacrosse Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 1 Girls Lacrosse Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 2 Boys Lacrosse Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 2 Girls Lacrosse Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 2A Boys Basketball Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 2A Girls Basketball Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 2AA Girls Basketball Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 3 Boys Lacrosse Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 3 Boys Volleyball Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 3 Girls Lacrosse Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 3A Boys Basketball Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 3A Girls Basketball Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 3AA Boys Basketball Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 3AA Girls Basketball Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 4 Boys Volleyball Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 4A Boys Basketball Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 4AA Boys Basketball Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 4AA Girls Basketball Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 5 Boys Volleyball Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 5A Boys Basketball Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 5A Boys Basketball Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 5A Girls Basketball Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 5AA Girls Basketball Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Div. 6 Boys Volleyball Final, 2021 CIF Southern Section Track And Field Prelims, 2021 CIF Southern Section Track And Field Prelims, 2021 CIF Southern Section Track And Field Prelims, 2021 CIF Southern Section Track And Field Prelims, 2021 CIF-CCS Open Div. Boys Basketball Semifinal, 2021 CIF-CCS Open Div. Boys Basketball Semifinal, 2021 CIF-CCS Open Div. Girls Basketball Semifinal, 2021 CIF-CCS Open Division Boys Basketball Final, 2021 CIF-CCS Open Division Girls Basketball Final, 2021 DCSAA Softball Championship, 2021 MHSAA Class 4A Baseball Championship Game 2, 2021 MHSAA Class 6A Baseball Championship Game 2, 2021 NHIAA Girls Lacrosse Division 2 Championship, 2021 OHSAA Div I Softball Championship, 2021 OHSAA Div II Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 OHSAA Div II Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 OHSAA Div II Softball Championship, 2021 OHSAA Div II Softball Semifinals #1, 2021 OHSAA Div II Softball Semifinals #2, 2021 OHSAA Div III Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 OHSAA Div III Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 OHSAA Div III Softball Championship, 2021 OHSAA Div III Softball Semifinals #1, 2021 OHSAA Div III Softball Semifinals #2 , 2021 OHSAA Div IV Softball Championship, 2021 UIL 1A Baseball Championship, 2021 UIL 1A Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 UIL 1A Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 UIL 2A Baseball Championship, 2021 UIL 2A Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 UIL 2A Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 UIL 3A Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 UIL 3A Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 UIL 4A Baseball Championship, 2021 UIL 4A Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 UIL 4A Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 UIL 5A Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 UIL 5A Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 UIL 6A Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 UIL 6A Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 UIL Class 4A Softball Championship, 2021 UIL Class 5A Softball Championship and 2021 UIL Class 6A Softball Championship

 

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released 2050: Customized Your Lover, America has Fallen, Antrum, Avenged, Cucuy, Dinner Party, Doomed!, Driven, Hunting Grounds (aka: Valley of the Sasquatch), Ice Guardians, Killer Sofa, Love is Blind, Runners and Witch in the Window

 

Vermont Movie Store (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released Hotel: The Pilot and Mayerling

 

Vertical Entertainment

06/08/21 — Released Devil's Child

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

06/08/21 — Released Fuller House: The Fifth and Final Season (2 disc set)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes

 

Well Go U.S.A.

06/08/21 — Released Undercover Punch & Gun (Cantonese)

 

World Wide Multi Media

06/08/21 — Released Bad Ass Babes 3: Zombie Killers (3 film set: Bad Ass Babes, MILFs Vs. Zombies, Alien Swamp Thing) (2 disc set) and Sci Fi Babes Vol. 3: The Paranormal (2 film set: Exorcist Chronicles, Ancient Demon Succubi) (2 disc set)

 

WOWNow Entertainment

06/08/21 — Released Conch Bay, Darla's Book Club: Discussing the Lord of the Rings, Finding Jesus 2, Kung Fu Masters of the Zodiac Season 1 and Little Alice's Storytime:Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Part 3

 

Yellow Ape Productions

06/08/21 — Released Is This A Joke?

 

Zeus Video (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released Adventures of Captain Marvel (12-chapter serial), Avenging Angel, Awful Truth, Beauty and the Beast, Beg, Borrow or Steal, Beloved Infidel, Ben Casey, Billy Liar, Billy the Kid, Blue Denim, Boys Town, Broadway Babies, Captains Courageous, Cover Girl, David Sharkey's Elizabeth - The Acclaimed Saga of England's Virgin Queen, Dersu Uzala (Russian), Disraeli, Easter Parade, Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (German), El Dorado, En Rade (silent-1927), Escape from Crime, Footsteps in the Fog, Goke, Bodysnatcher from Hell (Japanese), Gone with the Wind, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Head Over Heels, Jackpot, Last Safari, Mademoiselle Fifi,  Magic Town, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, No Down Payment, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Song of Bernadette, Thief of Baghdad, Top Hat and Untamed

 

 

 

 New Blu-ray Additions

 

 

 

Arbelos Films

06/08/21 — Released Son of the White Mare (Fehérlófia) (Hungarian)

 

Arrow Video

08/31/21 — Sets Brotherhood of Satan

 

Bill Zebub Productions

06/08/21 — Released Sicko the Bloodclown

 

Creature Feature Videos (MOD)

06/01/21 — Released King Kong Escapes (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (Japanese) and Mysterious Star Gorath (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (Japanese)

 

Criterion Collection

06/08/21 — Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Italian) and Y Tu Mamá También (Spanish)

 

Film Movement

06/08/21 — Released Center Stage (Mandarin)

 

FUNimation

06/08/21 — Released Fruits Basket: Season 1 Complete (4 disc set), Number24: The Complete Series (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and Wave, Listen to Me!: The Complete Season (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released Altitude Not Attitude, Escape From Extinction, Marietta, My True Fairytale and No Knock List

 

Kino Lorber

06/08/21 — Released Cartouche (French), Le Magnifique (French), Under the Sand (French) and Woman One Longs For (aka Three Loves) (silent-1929)

 

Kitty Media

06/08/21 — Released Kitty's Twin Treats, Volume One and Oh, My Sex Goddess

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

06/08/21 — Released City of Lies (with Digital Copy) and Flashback (with Digital Copy)

 

MVD Entertainment Group

08/06/21 — Sets Don't Go Gentle: A Film About IDLES

08/10/21 — Sets Superstars: The Documentary - Extended Version

 

Mbur Indie Film Distribution (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released Darkest Sorrows and Home Team

 

Media Blasters

06/08/21 — Released Aki Harbara Deep (Japanese), Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, Flesh for the Beast: Tsukiko's Curse and Nana: Seven of Seven: The Complete Collection (4 disc set)

 

Mondo Macabro

06/08/21 — Released Howl of the Devil (Spanish) and Hunting Ground (aka Code of Hunting) (Spanish)

 

Monsterland Media (MOD)

05/25/21 — Released 101 Dalmatians, 101 Dalmatians: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Disney's Dinosaurs: The Complete Series (4 disc set), Flintstones: On the Rocks (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Teknoman: Tekkaman Blade I & II (4 disc set)

06/01/21 — Released Brian Jacques Redwall: The Complete Series (3 disc set), Clarence: The Complete Series (4 disc set) and Ultraman Zearth, Parts 1 & 2 (Japanese)

 

PBS Direct

06/08/21 — Released Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns (11 disc set)

 

PCN Productions (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released 2021 PIAA Boys 2A Lacrosse Championship, 2021 PIAA Boys 2A Volleyball Championship, 2021 PIAA Boys 3A Lacrosse Championship, 2021 PIAA Boys 3A Volleyball Championship, 2021 PIAA Girls 2A Lacrosse Championship and 2021 PIAA Girls 3A Lacrosse Championship

 

Paramount Home Entertainment

06/08/21 — Released Raiders of the Lost Ark (with Digital Copy)

07/27/21 — Sets 40 Days and 40 Nights (with Digital Copy), 54: The Director's Cut (with Digital Copy), Albino Alligator (with Digital Copy), Chocolat (French) (with Digital Copy), Cider House Rules (with Digital Copy), City of God (Portuguese) (with Digital Copy), Clerks (with Digital Copy, Cold Mountain (with Digital Copy), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (with Digital Copy), Equilibrium (with Digital Copy), Grifters (with Digital Copy), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (with Digital Copy), Madonna: Truth or Dare (with Digital Copy), Marvin's Room (with Digital Copy), Mimic: Director's Cut (with Digital Copy), Reindeer Games: The Director's Game (with Digital Copy), Strictly Ballroom (with Digital Copy) and Venom (with Digital Copy)

08/10/21 — Sets Nashville and A Place in the Sun

 

Paramount Home Entertainment (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released Assault on VA-33 (with Digital Copy)

 

Scorpion Releasing

06/08/21 — Released Fool for Love

 

Sentai Filmworks

06/08/21 — Released World Trigger: The Complete Collection (16 disc set)

 

Shout! Factory

06/08/21 — Released Unhealer

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent. (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released Like Father, Like Son

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent. (MOD)

06/08/21 — Released 21 Bridges, Dragonheart: Vengeance, Jurassic World (with Digital Copy) and Killer Elite

 

 

 

 

 

 New 4K Ultra HD Additions

 

 

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

06/08/21 — Released Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (Japanese) (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

08/17/21 — Sets Labyrinth: 35th Anniversary Edition (4K/BD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paramount Home Entertainment Announces Two New "Paramount Presents" Blu-ray Releases For Delivery On Aug. 10 • Nashville And A Place In The Sun

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey

Grab something to hang on to as Paramount Home Entertainment had a wild, wild week of film fan new release announcements, including two new “Paramount Presents” films arriving on Blu-ray on Aug. 10 and 14 new Blu-ray selections from the Miramax library, which was acquired by the studio in April of last year.

So, let’s get to it with the news about auteur filmmaker Robert Altman’s 1975 Best Picture nominee, Nashville, which is getting a new 4K film restoration and will be joining the studio’s popular “Paramount Presents” line of Blu-ray products on Aug. 10.

What an undertaking, 24 major characters crossing paths during a week in “Music City,” which, of course is Nashville, Tennessee.   Altman teamed up once again with screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury, who had worked with him on Thieves Like Us, and she came up with a script that pleased him.   He added to it with even more characters (she started with 17 or 18, depending on how you count them) and then took it to United Artists, where he had done his last two pictures, Thieves Like Us and The Long Goodbye.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey

They didn’t understand it, too complicated.  Pass.  More studios passed on it.  Too many moving parts; too many characters; too many storylines to keep track of.   You name an excuse, studios executives found it.

Enter Jerry Weintraub, a producer of television music “events” at the time, mainly with John Denver (twice nominated for Emmy Awards, winning for the broadcast of An Evening with John Denver), who arranged financing.  Paramount would handle the distribution.

With Altman’s vast episodic television background (long before he became a legendary film director, he cut his teeth on episodic television series during the 1950s and 60s), coupled with his cadre of regular actors, he was able to fill out the cast list, which included Keith Carradine from Thieves Like Us, Shelley Duvall, who had her film debut in Altman’s Brewster McCloud and followed it up with the role of Ida Coyle in McCabe & Mrs. Miller and then teamed with Carradine in Thieves Like Us (Nashville would be her fourth feature film, all under the direction of Robert Altman) and Jeff Goldblum, who had just finished Altman’s California Split.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey

He also recruited Laugh-In regulars Henry Gibson (who also worked with Altman on The Long Goodbye) and Lily Tomlin (her film debut … which earned her only Oscar nomination, Best Supporting Actress), the incredible Karen Black (who apparently sent her songs to Altman … he said come on and sing, she did), plus Geraldine Chaplin (who, it is rumored, was willing to work for nothing just to be in Altman’s film), Scott Glenn, Barbara Harris, Ronee Blakley (who was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress, which put her head-to-head with Lily Tomlin) … and on and on. 

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey

Actors in the movie wrote their own songs, improvised dialog and Altman used sound and camera tricks that brought together his complicated story … and somehow it all works.   For his efforts, he was nominated for Best Director!

As to bonus features, there is a vintage commentary option featuring Robert Altman and the newly prepared featurette titled “24 Tracks: Robert Altman’s Nashville.”

Also joining the “Paramount Presents” line of Blu-ray releases on Aug. 10 is director George Stevens’ 1951 film adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s 1925 true-crime novel “An American Tragedy,” which was re-titled for its theatrical release as A Place in Sun. 

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey

For his efforts, George Stevens would win the Oscar for Best Director and the film would be nominated for Best Picture as well, but this almost didn’t happen.   It seems that the studio had previously adapted the novel way back in 1931 with Josef Von Sternberg directing and Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney and Frances Dee in the key roles.   That was 1931, it bombed at the box office, the author who alive at the time disowned it and the studio had a long memory … eventually Stevens prevailed, especially with a cast featuring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters.

This turned out to be a labor of love for George Stevens as he spent nearly a full year in post-production working on the film.  The results were near perfection, but the great irony was that the film ended competing head-to-head with A Streetcar Named Desire … and with An American in Paris also in the running for Best Picture, the vote-splitting between the two heavyweight dramas likely cost A Place in the Sun the Best Picture honors.

The same could be said for Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando, who faced off in the Best Actor category and that gave Humphrey Bogart the edge he needed to win for The African Queen.   A very tough year indeed.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey

As to bonus goodies, we have a vintage commentary track with George Stevens, Jr. and Ivan Moffat (Oscar nominated for his script for George Stevens’ Giant), archival cast and crew interviews, the featurette titled “George Stevens: Filmmakers Who Knew Him” and the newly prepared featurette titled “Filmmaker Focus: Leonard Maltin on A Place in the Sun.”

And, as mentioned, Paramount Home Entertainment will releasing 14 Miramax films on Blu-ray this coming July 27 … these are: 40 Days and 40 Nights, Albino Alligator, Chocolat, Cider House Rules, City of God, Cold Mountain, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Equilibrium, Grifters, Madonna: Truth or Dare, Marvin's Room, Mimic: Director's Cut, Reindeer Games: The Director's Cut and Strictly Ballroom.

 


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey

 

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey