Arrow Films

[domino harvey]

I'm still holding out for Sister Sister, and it's certainly a title that seems right up Arrow's alley

[Cronenfly]

Absolutely! How have I never heard of this one...And from Bill Condon, no less.

[ianungstad]

There's plenty of fuel left in the Lakeshore/New World library. Just off the top of my head:

Re-Animator
House/House 2
PIN
Elvira Mistress of the Dark
Dead Heat
Lust in the Dust
Heathers
Crime Story
Mountaintop Motel Massacre
Children of the Corn I-III

[dwk]

Re-Animator isn't a Lakeshore/New World title. The rights are with Brian Yuzna, who has a relationship with Arrow, but I imagine that Image's license has a number of years left on it (although, if the Lakeshore titles are sublicensed by Image to Arrow, then it is possible that they could/would do the same with Re-Animator.)

[What A Disgrace]

Knowing now that booklets are being excluded from future printings of older Arrow titles, I purchased ten of them during the sale with hopes of catching them before the booklets disappeared (Nightmare City, Eaten Alive, Night of the Comet, Deranged, Contamination, The Car, The Stuff, Deadly Blessing, The People Under the Stairs, Zardoz). Only The People... came without the booklet.

[chatterjees]

Only The People... came without the booklet.

This could be a packaging problem. You should contact Arrow to get a copy of the booklet. I am just having hard time to imagine that the first print of The People under the Stairs got sold out, and currently the title is on a second print.

[Ribs]

They reprint the cover to not mention the booklet as well, so you can just check that too.

[What A Disgrace]

The booklet is not listed on the back of the case (nor on Arrow's site), so I assume its simply one of the titles that is no longer being released with a booklet. It is the highest profile title I bought, so I am not surprised its the one without. I was very pleased about the others, though - many were listed without their respective booklets on Arrow's site, but they do indeed include them, and they are mentioned on their respective package.

[rapta]

Yeah, generally the more recent the title the more likely you'll get a booklet, but some releases from a few years ago still will have booklets because the print-run was higher. Things like The People Under the Stairs - as well as The Beyond, Phenomena, City of the Living Dead - generally aren't going to have booklets since they're probably on their last print-run (they've even got rid of discs on some of them). You'd have to cross your fingers or locate a copy in-store to secure a booklet for those titles, unfortunately.

I had my own experience of having to locate a booklet for Hard to Be a God. I was lucky I found one because apparently the stock available online via Arrow, HMV and Amazon are all the new print-run (so no booklet). I also panic-bought Inferno on eBay a few months ago to make sure I had a booklet since I wasn't sure the current stock definitely included it or not.

[domino harvey]

I don't think the booklets in older releases are limited though?

[Dr Amicus]

I got Zombie Flesh Eaters in the last but one sale - and that is now booklet-less.

[Cronenfly]

January releases to be announced this Friday, per Facebook. Warning was given that this will be a light month, and from the looks of the picture they posted (a person's back full of yakuza-looking tattoos) it seems fair to expect a Miike release of some kind (my money is on the Dead or Alive trilogy, based on the picture plus past speculation by dwk in this thread in July).

[MichaelB]

January has always been a light month, so this isn't any kind of break with tradition.

[Cronenfly]

It's quite a full/ambitious December slate now, too, especially with Hellraiser in the mix. I always assume that December will be a lower-key/"holiday" month for most labels (as has traditionally been the case for Criterion, say), but January makes sense too.

[rapta]

I'm not complaining - got plenty to catch up on this year (including at least two Academy box sets)!

[dwk]

Looks like the Miike release is going to be The Black Society Trilogy

[Ribs]

Latest update:

[MichaelB]

I'm pleasantly surprised about the Taviani sales given the near-total lack of reviews. Aside from Sight & Sound's double-page rave, have there been many other reviews of the discs, as opposed to just the films?

[rapta]

I'd love to get the Taviani set, and do plan on getting it after The Human Condition and Dekalog (and will unfortunately have to miss out on Yoshida and Rivette by the looks of things).

Talking of the Kieslowski set, I wonder why it's not on the LE update...too soon to tell? I guess it's not actually released until Monday.

[domino harvey]

I don't think it is limited

[Ribs]

No, it is; the initial announcement and detailed specs breakdown mentioned it. Same with the Allen sets. I just don't think they're moving at great speed that they expect it to be worth reporting it until well after release.

[domino harvey]

Two weak months in a row for Arrow. Only in for the final Allen set. Good for my wallet, but not a promising start to the year

[What A Disgrace]

Its odd how the usually weak January slate seems both bigger and more exciting than the February slate, where they promised to kick things back up to full speed. I guess they were talking about the third Woody Allen set, but even there, the excitement I have for it is excitement for something that was confirmed nearly half a year ago. Pulse is fresher on my mind than this! Definitely getting it, of course, plus Tower of London and Woody Allen volume 3. Might get Willie Dynamite and We Are the Flesh during a sale later on.

[swo17]

Yeah, not terribly exciting, but not good for my wallet either.

[tenia]

Yeah, my wallet's quite happy too. Between a release which actually just is a delayed one, a standard release and a BFI US port, it will be quite a light one.

not a promising start to the year

I wouldn't be that harsh with them though. The Miike set is quite thrilling, and I will definitely pick up Raising Cain and Alfredo Garcia. But as a whole, yeah, that's like only 30% of the current previsional slate.