Arrow Films

[djvaso]

Battle Royale - The Limited Edition Packaging

[cdnchris]

Spirits of the Dead Blu-ray.

[perkizitore]

I am wondering if Arrow will improve on BU's Bird With The crystal Plumage blu-ray. I am counting on different extras and the inclusion of the Italian mono soundtrack.

[TonyleStephanois]

Win any 3 of our releases by telling us your favourite film poster and why on our Facebook wall. Enter here.

[Finch]

Specs for Arrow's upcoming Blus of Profundo Rosso and Bay of Blood (also, Battle Royale has been delayed until 13 December)

UK's Arrow Video has announced A Bay of Blood (Reazione a catena; Mario Bava, 1971) and Deep Red (Profondo rosso; Dario Argento, 1975) for Blu-ray release on December 6 and 13, respectively. The studio has also announced that the highly anticipated limited edition of Battle Royale has been delayed two weeks and will now be released on December 13.

A Bay of Blood (also known as Carnage and Twitch of the Death Nerve) will be packaged in a reversible sleeve with original and newly-commissioned art work, and will be bundled with a double-sided fold-out poster, and a collector's booklet by Jay Slater, critic and author of Eaten Alive!.

Special features include:

* Argento! Bava! Fulci! The Giallo Gems of Dardano Sacchetti (in HD)
* Joe Dante on Mario Bava (in HD)
* Shooting a Spaghetti Splatter Classic: Cameraman Gianlorenzo Battaglia on A Bay of Blood (in HD)
* Audio discussion with Tim Lucas, author of Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark
* Trailers: "Carnage" and "Twitch of the Death Nerve" with commentary by filmmaker Edgar Wright
* Twitch of the Death Nerve Radio Spots

Deep Red will feature two versions of the film (the director's cut and the international theatrical cut), with optional Dolby 5.1/Stereo Italian Audio and Mono/Stereo English Audio. It will be packaged in a reversible sleeve with original and newly-commissioned art work, and will be bundled with a two-sided fold-out poster with new art work, and a exclusive collector's booklet featuring brand new writing on Deep Red by Alan Jones, author of Profondo Argento.

Special features include:

* Introduction by composer Claudio Simonetti (in HD)
* Audio commentary with Argento expert Thomas Rostock, Rosso Recollections – Dario's Deep Genius
* Lady in Red: Daria Nicolodi remembers Profondo Rosso (in HD)
* Music to Murder For! Claudio Simonetti on Deep Red (in HD)
* Original Italian trailer (to be confirmed)
* Original Trailer (to be confirmed)
* A Tour of the Profondo Rosso shop in Rome with long time Argento collaborator Luigi Cozzi (in HD)

[TonyleStephanois]

Many DVDs £2.99

[perkizitore]

Does the PQ of the special edition of 'Johnny Got his Gun' improve upon the 2004 DVD?
Although i'd love to watch the Trambo doc, i don't care that much for the extras to justify paying a tenner more for them.

[TonyleStephanois]

Does the PQ of the special edition of 'Johnny Got his Gun' improve upon the 2004 DVD?
Although i'd love to watch the Trambo doc, i don't care that much for the extras to justify paying a tenner more for them.

We used the same transfer, with this you are only losing out on the special features; the feature length Trumbo doc, Metallica 'One' Video, Alternate Scene, Trailer and a booklet including an interview with Trumbo.

[djvaso]

Titles in new Arrow sub-label 'Arrow Academy', planned on 28th of March 2011:

The Bicycle Thieves [Blu-ray] pre-order

Les Diaboliques [Blu-ray] pre-order

Ashes and Diamonds [Blu-ray] pre-order

[RossyG]

Sounds great. Put me down for those!

What are the aims of Arrow Academy? What type of material will they be releasing?

[TonyleStephanois]

Sounds great. Put me down for those!

What are the aims of Arrow Academy? What type of material will they be releasing?

For some reason Amazon have the dates on those wrong but Bicycle Thieves Blu-ray will be March 28th hopefully - still putting things together.

We hoped to release information this side of Christmas but we've been very busy with Arrow Video and things tend to get lost in the festive season so expect a bountiful press release with lots of info come the new year. With regards to the aims it [ the label] will share some similarites with Arrow Video but be a very different label. We aim to improve on releases from Arrow Films by using new or our own restorations and release films not released in the UK/Arrow Films before or improve on existing releases, so there will be quite a variety. We're quite Blu-ray focused as we want top quality releases and of the batch of launch titles (to be spread over a few months) a large chunk is HD. More info soon when we're in a position to confirm.

[carax09]

Any plans to release Les Amants du Pont-Neuf on blu?

[TonyleStephanois]

Any plans to release Les Amants du Pont-Neuf on blu?

It's not on the schedule right now.

[RossyG]

We aim to improve on releases from Arrow Films by using new or our own restorations and release films not released in the UK/Arrow Films before or improve on existing releases, so there will be quite a variety. We're quite Blu-ray focused as we want top quality releases and of the batch of launch titles (to be spread over a few months) a large chunk is HD.

Excellent news.

[Cash Flagg]

DVD Beaver on Bay of Blood

[antnield]

What is Arrow Video? (NSFW)

[RossyG]

Great trailer! Someone obviously put a lot of effort into it.

I'll give it a week before YouTube bans it.

[Der Spieler]

What's up with the lack of reviews for Deep Red blu?

[broadwayrock]

Its been delayed until the 3rd of January according to amazon.co.uk and play.com

[Der Spieler]

Oh, shit. Thank you.

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

What is Arrow Video? (NSFW)

Wow, get that man a commission! What an excellent trailer. Now I have the sudden urge to watch Day of the Dead.

[knives]

It is Romero's second best film.

[fiddlesticks]

Is this the same Arrow Films that produced the two Claude Chabrol Collection boxsets? Seems like they've taken a new path since then.

[zombeaner]

Is this the same Arrow Films that produced the two Claude Chabrol Collection boxsets? Seems like they've taken a new path since then.

Arrow Video is a sub-label. Arrow Films is still kicking, they have Bicycle Thieves coming on Blu in the next couple of months.

[MichaelB]

What's up with the lack of reviews for Deep Red blu?

I wasn't sent a Blu-ray checkdisc, but I can certainly vouch for the DVD - it's a superb package.