Tuesday Releases: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald, Green Book, & Mortal Engines

Official Synopsis: From the imagination of Wizarding World creator J.K. Rowling comes the Fantastic Beasts film series, magical adventures set before the time of Harry Potter. At the end of the first film, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), with the help of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne). But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escaped custody and has set about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings. In an effort to thwart Grindelwald’s plans, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.

• Unlocking Scene Secrets: Le Ministére des Affaires Magiques: The French Ministry
• J.K Rowling: A World Revealed
• Wizards on Screen, Fans in Real Life
• Distinctly Dumbledore
• Unlocking Scene Secrets: The Return to Hogwarts
• Unlocking Scene Secrets: Newt’s Menagerie
• Unlocking Scene Secrets: Credence, Nagini and the Circus Arcanus
• Unlocking Scene Secrets: Paris and Place Cachée
• Deleted Scenes

Official Synopsis: Silent-comedy legend Harold Lloyd goes west in this irresistible blend of action, romance, and slapstick invention. The bespec­tacled everyman is at his inimitable best as Harold Hickory, the gentle son of a prominent lawman who lives in the shadow of his rough-and-tumble brothers. When a traveling medicine show rolls into town, it brings with it excitement, the possibility of love, and a chance for Harold to prove his mettle. Deftly balancing Lloyd’s brilliant sight gags and thrilling set pieces—including an epic, knock-down, drag-out fight aboard an abandoned ship—with one of the actor-filmmaker’s most fully realized, root-for-the-underdog narratives, The Kid Brother is a hilarious and heartwarming high-water mark of early screen comedy.

• New 4K digital restoration
• Orchestral score by composer Carl Davis from 1989
• Alternate archival organ score performed by Gaylord Carter
• Audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker and Harold Lloyd archivist Richard Correll, film historian Annette D’Agostino Lloyd, and Harold Lloyd’s granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd
• Harold’s Leading Ladies, a new conversation between author Cari Beauchamp and Suzanne Lloyd
• Anatomy of a Gag: Monkeyshoes, a new video essay by critic and filmmaker David Cairns
• Behind-the-scenes stills gallery curated by Harold Lloyd archivist Richard Simonton Jr.
• Close to Home, a new video essay on the film’s shooting locations by author John Bengtson
• Dutch television interview with Lloyd from 1962
• Featurette from 2005 about Greenacres, Lloyd’s estate, hosted by Suzanne Lloyd
• Two restored rare early Lloyd shorts: Over the Fence (1917) and That’s Him (1918), with new Wurlitzer theater pipe organ scores and a discussion of their early film formats by archivist Dino Everett
• New tour of the Wurlitzer organ with composer Nathan Barr and organist Mark Herman
• PLUS: An essay by critic Carrie Rickey

New cover by F. Ron Miller

Official Synopsis: This scintillating screen version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s beloved opera showcases Ingmar Bergman’s deep knowledge of music and gift for expressing it cinematically. Casting some of Europe’s finest soloists—Josef Köstlinger, Ulrik Cold, Håkan Hagegård, and Birgit Nordin among them—the director lovingly recreated the baroque theater of Sweden’s Drottningholm Palace to stage the story of the prince Tamino and his zestful sidekick Papageno, who are sent on a mission to save a beautiful princess from the clutches of evil. A celebration of love and forgiveness that exhibits a profound appreciation for the artifice and spectacle of the theater, The Magic Flute is among the most exquisite opera films ever made.

• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Interview with director Ingmar Bergman recorded in 1974 for Swedish television
• New interview with film scholar Peter Cowie
• Tystnad! Tagning! Trollflöjten! (1975), a feature-length documentary produced for Swedish television about the making of the film
• PLUS: An essay by author Alexander Chee

New cover by Anna and Elena Balbusso

Official Synopsis: Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen and Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali star in Green Book, a film inspired by a true friendship that transcended race, class, and the 1962 Mason-Dixon line. When Tony Lip (Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on “The Green Book” to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger as well as unexpected humanity and humor—they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime.

• Virtuoso Performances
• An Unforgettable Friendship
• Going Beyond the Green Book

Official Synopsis: A manipulative woman named Nicola Six (Amber Heard) believes her own murder will take place on her upcoming birthday. She attempts to control her fate by beginning romantic relationships with three very different but potentially violent men: a criminal (Jim Sturgess), a controlling, uptight millionaire (Theo James), and an American novelist seeking inspiration to overcome his writer’s block (Billy Bob Thornton). Gemma Chan, Cara Delevingne, Jaimie Alexander and Jason Isaacs co-star. Directed by Matthew Cullen. Based on the novel by Martin Amis.

Official Synopsis: Based on the celebrated novel by Emily M. Danforth, THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST follows the titular character (Chloë Grace Moretz, Kick-Ass) as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night. Run by the strict and severe Dr. Lydia Marsh (Jennifer Ehle, Zero Dark Thirty) and her brother, Reverend Rick (John Gallagher Jr., 10 Cloverfield Lane) — himself an example of how those in the program can be ‘cured’ — the center is built upon repenting for ‘same-sex attraction. ‘ In the face of intolerance and denial, Cameron meets a group of fellow ‘sinners, ‘ including the amputee stoner Jane (Sasha Lane, Hellboy) and her friend, the Lakota Two-Spirit Adam (Forrest Goodluck, The Revenant). Together, this group of teenagers forms an unlikely family as they fight to survive.

• Audio Commentary Track with Director/Co-writer Desiree Akhavan & Producer/Co-writer Cecilia Frugiuele
• Behind the Scenes
• Photo Gallery
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• Accolades Trailer

Official Synopsis: Visionary filmmaker Peter Jackson presents a startling new adventure unlike any you’ve seen before. Hundreds of years after our civilization was destroyed, a new world has emerged. A mysterious young woman named Hester Shaw leads a band of outcasts in the fight to stop London – now a giant predator city on wheels – from devouring everything in its path.

• Welcome to London
• Feature Commentary with Director Christian Rivers
• End of the Ancients
• Character Series
• In the Air
• Film New Zealand