Here are the new Blu-ray Disc releases for Tuesday, October 20, 2009:
Blood: The Last Vampire
The Crew
The Music of Ray Charles
The Secret of the Nutcracker
Toto: Falling In Between Live
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
UFC 100: Lesnar vs. Mir
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead
Release date: January 12, 2010
Release date: January 19, 2010
Release date: January 26, 2010
German New Wave pioneer Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard. Paris, Texas follows the efforts of the mysterious, nearly mute drifter Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) to reconnect with his young son, living with his brother (Dean Stockwell) in Los Angeles, and his missing wife (Nastassja Kinski). From this simple setup, Wenders and Shepard produce a powerful statement on codes of masculinity and the myth of the American family, as well as an exquisite visual exploration of a vast, crumbling world of canyons and neon. Available on Blu-ray Disc January 26, 2010.
1984 • 145 minutes • Color • Surround • English • 1.78:1 aspect ratio
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Wim Wenders, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary featuring Wenders
• Interview with Wenders by German journalist Roger Willemsen
• Excerpts from the 1990 film Motion and Emotion, featuring interviews with Wenders, actor Harry Dean Stanton, composer Ry Cooder, cinematographer Robby Müller, Samuel Fuller, Dennis Hopper, and Peter Falk
• New interviews with filmmakers Allison Anders and Claire Denis
• Cinéma cinémas: “Wim Wenders Hollywood April ’84,†with Wenders and Cooder working on the score
• Deleted scenes and Super 8 home movies
• Gallery of Wenders’s location-scouting photos, from his book Written in the West
• Behind-the-scenes photos by Robin Holland
• Theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Nick Roddick and interviews with Stanton, writer Sam Shepard, and actors Nastassja Kinski and Dean Stockwell
Far from a conventional biopic, Steven Soderbergh’s film about Che Guevara is a fascinating exploration of the revolutionary as icon. Daring in its refusal to make the socialist leader into an easy martyr or hero, Che paints a vivid, naturalistic portrait of the man himself (with a stunning, Cannes-award-winning performance by Benicio del Toro), from his overthrow of the Batista dictatorship to his 1964 United Nations trip to the end of his short life. Originally released in two parts, the first a kaleido-scopic view of the Cuban revolution and the second an all-action dramatization of Che’s failed campaign in Bolivia, Che is presented here in its complete form. Available on Blu-ray Disc January 19, 2010.
2008 • 261 minutes • Black & White/Color • Surround • Spanish • 2.35:1/1.78:1 aspect ratio
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
• High-definition digital transfers of Che: Part One and Che: Part Two, supervised and approved by director Steven Soderbergh, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentaries on both films, featuring Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
• Making “Che,†a new documentary about the film’s production, featuring interviews with Soderbergh, producer Laura Bickford, actor-producer Benicio del Toro, and writers Peter Buchman and Ben van der Veen
• New interviews with Cuban historians as well as participants in the 1958 Cuban Revolution and Che’s 1967 Bolivian campaign
• Deleted scenes
• Theatrical trailers
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Amy Taubin
• More!
Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ (Otto e mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for 8½ was The Beautiful Confusion, and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act. Available on Blu-ray Disc January 12, 2010.
1963 • 138 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • Italian • 1.85:1 aspect ratio
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
• High-definition digital transfer of restored film elements, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam
• Audio commentary featuring film critic and Fellini friend Gideon Bachmann and NYU film professor Antonio Monda
• High-definition digital transfer of a new restoration of Fellini: A Director’s Notebook, a 52-minute film by Federico Fellini
• The Last Sequence, a new 52-minute documentary on Fellini’s lost alternate ending for 8½
• Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert, a compelling 48-minute documentary about Fellini’s longtime composer
• Interviews with actress Sandra Milo, director Lina Wertmüller, and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro
• Rare photographs from Bachmann’s collection
• Gallery of behind-the-scenes and production photos
• U.S. theatrical trailer
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring writings by Fellini and essays by critics Tullio Kezich and Alexander Sesonske
Release date: December 8, 2009
Release date: December 15, 2009
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment presents the critically acclaimed (500) Days of Summer on Blu-ray Disc and DVD December 22. Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star in this quirky romantic comedy about love and fate, as a young greeting card writer who is hopelessly, helplessly searching for the girl of his dreams… and his new co-worker, Summer Finn, may just be “the one.â€
The (500) Days of Summer two-disc Blu-ray Disc with Digital Copy includes:
â— Feature commentary with Director Marc Webb, Writer Michael Weber, Co-Writer Scott Neustadter and Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
â— Lost Days of Summer: Deleted and Extended Scenes With Optional Commentary by Director Marc Webb, Writer Michael Weber, Co-Writer Scott Neustadter and Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
◠Not A Love Story – Making (500) Days of Summer
â— Summer At Sundance
â— Two Audition Tapes With Optional Commentary By Director Marc Webb
â— Summer Storyboards
â— Bank Dance Directed By Marc Webb
â— Mean’s Cinemash: “Sid and Nancy/(500) Days of Summerâ€
◠Music Video: “Sweet Disposition†By Temper Trap
â— Six Conversations With Zooey and Joseph
â— Filmmaking Specials
â— Digital Copy of (500) Days of Summer
Click here to view the 500 Days of Summer cover art.
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