Re: Arrow Films
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 7:01 pm
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)
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.perkizitore wrote: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.
For some reason Amazon have the dates on those wrong but Bicycle Thieves Blu-ray will be March 28th hopefully - still putting things together.RossyG wrote:Sounds great. Put me down for those!
What are the aims of Arrow Academy? What type of material will they be releasing?
It's not on the schedule right now.carax09 wrote:Any plans to release Les Amants du Pont-Neuf on blu?
Excellent news.TonyleStephanois wrote: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.
Wow, get that man a commission! What an excellent trailer. Now I have the sudden urge to watch Day of the Dead.antnield wrote:What is Arrow Video? (NSFW)
Arrow Video is a sub-label. Arrow Films is still kicking, they have Bicycle Thieves coming on Blu in the next couple of months.fiddlesticks wrote:Is this the same Arrow Films that produced the two Claude Chabrol Collection boxsets? Seems like they've taken a new path since then.
I wasn't sent a Blu-ray checkdisc, but I can certainly vouch for the DVD - it's a superb package.Der Spieler wrote:What's up with the lack of reviews for Deep Red blu?