Tuesday Releases: The French Dispatch

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Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in the fictional 20th-century French city of Ennui-sur-Blasé. With an all-star cast that includes Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Stephen Park, Bill Murray and Owen Wilson, this vibrant film is a funny, moving celebration of journalism.

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Long ago, there existed an evil spirit that waged a war to conquer the human world. Defeat drove him back to the realm of darkness, but not before vowing to return and exact his revenge. A thousand years later, the world has all but forgotten the name of Arago, Emperor of Doom. When black clouds smother the bright city lights of Shinjuku the people of the world plunge into terror, unprepared for the evil spirit’s return! Five young men emerge, wearing mystical armor said to grant strength enough to defeat Arago once and for all! But despite the might of their armor, Ryo of the Wildfire, Toma of the Heavens, Shu of the Stone, Shin of the Torrent, and Seiji of the Nimbus will have to join together and learn to work as a team if they are to have any chance of defeating the armies of the Empire of Doom.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Opening and Ending Collection
• TV Promos
• Trailers
• DVD vs Blu-ray Comparisons
• Japanese and English Audio tracks, with English subtitles
• REGION-A “LOCKED”

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Becky Something is a ’90s punk rock superstar who once filled arenas with her grungy all-female trio Something She. Now she plays smaller venues while grappling with motherhood, exhausted bandmates, nervous record company executives, and a new generation of rising talent eager to usurp her stardom. When Becky’s chaos and excesses derail a recording session and national tour, she finds herself shunned, isolated and alone. Forced to get sober, temper her demons, and reckon with the past, she retreats from the spotlight and tries to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• New Audio Commentary with Director Alex Ross Perry and Actress Elisabeth Moss Recorded in 2021
• Audio Commentary with Director Alex Ross Perry
• New Conversation with Director Alex Ross Perry and Cinematographer Sean Price Williams Recorded in 2021
• New Conversation with Director Alex Ross Perry, Composer Keegan DeWitt, Sound Designer Ryan Price and Editor Robert Greene Recorded in 2021
• Never Before Seen Original Behind the Scenes Hi8 Footage Shot by Director Alex Ross Perry
• A Conversation Between Actress Elisabeth Moss and Musician Brandi Carlile Recorded at SXSW 2019
• Akergirls “Can’t Wait” Music Video
• Something She “Breathe” Music Video
• Gallery of Album Covers Created for the Film
• Gallery of Behind the Scenes Photos Taken By Director Alex Ross Perry
• Theatrical Trailer
• 12-page booklet
• English SDH subtitles
• REGION-A “LOCKED”

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After suffering a traumatic incident, Molly (Cecilia Milocco) moves into a new apartment to begin her path to recovery, but it’s not long after her arrival that a series of persistent knocks and screams begin to wake her up at night. Molly’s new life begins to unravel as the screams intensify and no one else in the building believes or is willing to help her.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Introduction by Frida Kempff
• Q&A from Sundance
• Short Film: Bathing Micky
• Short Film: Dear Kid
• Theatrical Trailer
• Teaser Trailer
• 12-page booklet with essay by writer/critic Anya Stanley
• Reversible cover artwork
• English subtitles
• REGION-A “LOCKED”

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Ana is transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins an army of girls engaged in a never-ending war along a rugged coast. Though she finds strength in this exhilarating world, she comes to realize that she’s not the killer they want her to be.

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The 24th feature from Hong Sangsoo, THE WOMAN WHO RAN follows Gamhee (Kim Minhee), who has three separate encounters with friends while her husband is on a business trip. Youngsoon (Seo Youngwha) is divorced, has given up meat and likes to garden in her backyard. Suyoung (Song Seonmi) has a crush on her architect neighbor and is being hounded by a young poet she met at the bar. Woojin (Kim Saebyuk) works for a movie theater. Their meeting is polite, but strained. Before long, their shared history bubbles to the surface.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Press Conference from Berlinale 2020 featuring director and cast
• Berlinale Award Ceremony – Silver Bear for Best Director
• Theatrical Trailer
• Audio:
  • Korean: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
  • Korean: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
• Booklet featuring an essay by Andréa Picard
• Reversible Cover Art

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Crawling across a desiccated landscape, Robot Carnival comes barreling its way onto 4K Ultra HD for the first time! A visual treat for the eyes as well as the mind, Robot Carnival is an anthology collection of nine short films, many directed by Japan’s top animators before they were famous. From funny to dramatic, artistic to entertaining, each story reaches towards the furthest corners of time and space to bring you a tale of robots and the people who make them. Whether you have a love for great hand-drawn animation, an appreciation for fine storytelling, or just like robots, this anthology is a must!

SPECIAL FEATURES

• NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVES
• TWO PRESENTATIONS: in 4:3 and 16:9
• New Documentary: The Memory of Robot Carnival
• Trailers
• Storyboard to Screen Sequences
• Japanese and English Audio tracks, with English subtitles
• REGION-A “LOCKED”

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After decades of neglect, Castle Heights Hospital, this symbol of the city’s segregated past has been packed with dynamite and is ready to be demolished. No one knows that a gang leader, now in prison, hid the 3 million dollars in cash he stole from his rivals inside the abandoned building. Now, three desperate parties want the money – a blue collared ex-fighter (Adkins) who finds it while working as part of the demolition crew, a prison guard (Lundgren) willing to do anything to pay for his daughter’s cancer treatment and a ruthless gang who claim to be the rightful owners. The demolition charges are set, everyone clears out and the Castle is set to fall in 90 minutes. The clock is ticking. Who will find the cash and: will they get out alive?

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He’s got ice in his veins and he’s giving cold-blooded a whole new meaning… his name is JACK FROST. After five years of terror and 38 bodies in five states, serial killer Jack is on his way to execution. But a freak accident with a truckload of genetic material in the middle of a snowstorm mutates Jack into a killer snowman. Now only an army can stop the slayride of terror from this frosty monster with icicle fangs. Hell has just frozen over… he’s the abominable Jack Frost!

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• PREVIOUSLY RESTORED IN 2K BY VINEGAR SYNDROME
• NEW Audio Commentary with Tony Piluso, Newt Wallen and Crystal Quin of Hack The Movies
• NEW Full Empire Promotions’ Dominic Mancini Interview with Scott MacDonald: Part 1 (42:09, HD)
• Introduction with Director Michael Cooney (:37 HD)
• Audio Commentary with Director Michael Cooney
• Interview with Actor Scott MacDonald (16:01 HD)
• Interview with Director of Photography Dean Lent (6:01, HD)
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Cover Art Featuring Original and Newly Commissioned artwork by Alí Hdz / Brutal Child
• Collectible Mini-Poster
• Optional English subtitles for the main feature
• Limited Edition Slipcover (FIRST PRESSING ONLY)

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Jack Frost (Scott MacDonald), the chiller killer is back and he’s mad as hell. An accidental lab experiment resurrected the evil snowman, but this time, the crystal killer can’t be stopped by fire, bullets or even his worst enemy, chemical anti-freeze. With revenge on his mind, Jack sets out to finish off his nemesis, Sheriff Sam (Christopher Allport), who is vacationing on a Caribbean island. Sam’s balmy paradise turns into a Winter Terrorland when Jack freezes the island and quickly ices everyone around him. No one can stop the chilling killing spree when Jack can travel as lethal liquid or fatal, frosty flakes. Just when you thawed it was safe to go back in the fridge!

SPECIAL FEATURES

• High Definition (1080p) presentation of the main feature in 1.78:1 aspect ratio.
• NEW Audio Commentary with Tony Piluso, Newt Wallen and Crystal Quin of Hack The Movies
• NEW Full Empire Promotions’ Dominic Mancini Interview with Scott MacDonald: Part 2 (30:56, HD)
• Audio Commentary with Director Michael Cooney
• Interview with Director Michael Cooney (4:58, SD)
• Behind the Scenes Featurettes (9:19, SD)
• Music Video Spoof
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Cover Art Featuring Original and Newly Commissioned artwork by Alí Hdz / Brutal Child
• Collectible Mini-Poster
• Optional English and Spanish subtitles for the main feature
• Limited Edition Slipcover (FIRST PRESSING ONLY)

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After an undisputed reign at the peak of Hong Kong’s film industry in the 1960s, Shaw Brothers (the studio founded by real-life brothers Run Run and Runme Shaw) found their dominance challenged by up-and-coming rivals in the early 1970s. They swiftly responded by producing hundreds of the most iconic action films ever made, revolutionizing the genre through the hard work of top-shelf talent on both sides of the camera as well as unbeatable widescreen production value, much of it shot at ‘Movietown’, their huge, privately-owned studio on the outskirts of Hong Kong.

This inaugural collection by Arrow Video presents twelve jewels from the Shaw crown, all released within the 1970s, kicking off in 1972 with Korean director Jeong Chang-hwa’s King Boxer, the film that established kung fu cinema as an international box office powerhouse when it hit Stateside cinemas under the title Five Fingers of Death. From there we see Chang Cheh (arguably Shaw’s most prolific director) helm the blood-soaked brutality of The Boxer from Shantung and two self-produced films in his ‘Shaolin Cycle’ series, Five Shaolin Masters and its prequel Shaolin Temple, before taking a detour into Ho Meng Hua’s King Kong-inspired Mighty Peking Man, one of the most unmissably insane giant monster films ever made. Chang’s action choreographer Lau Kar-leung then becomes a director in his own right, propelling his adoptive brother Gordon Liu to stardom in Challenge of the Masters and Executioners from Shaolin. Not to be outdone, Chang introduces some of Shaw’s most famous faces to the screen, including Alexander Fu Sheng fighting on the streets of San Francisco in Chinatown Kid and, of course, the mighty Venom Mob in The Five Venoms and Crippled Avengers. Finally, Lau and Liu successfully meld high kicks with humor in two of their masterworks, Heroes of the East and Dirty Ho, both co-starring fan favorite Hsiao Hou.

From kickass kung fu killers to crazy kaiju knockoffs to culture clash comedies, this carefully curated and gorgeously presented selection of all-time Shaw Brothers classics merely represents the tip of the iceberg of the studio’s rich output, making it both an ideal starting point for newcomers and a treat for hardcore fans alike.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of King Boxer, The Boxer from Shantung, Five Shaolin Masters, Shaolin Temple, Mighty Peking Man, Challenge of the Masters, Executioners from Shaolin, Chinatown Kid, The Five Venoms, Crippled Avengers, Heroes of the East and Dirty Ho
• Brand new 2K restorations by Arrow Films from the original camera negatives of King Boxer, The Boxer from Shantung, Challenge of the Masters, The Five Venoms, Crippled Avengers and Dirty Ho
• Brand new 2K master of the longer international cut of Chinatown Kid from original film elements
• Original lossless mono Mandarin, Cantonese (where applicable) and English audio
• Newly translated English subtitles for each film
• Hours of bonus features including brand new commentaries and critic appreciations on selected films, new and archive interviews with cast and crew, alternate credit sequences, trailer and image galleries for each film and more to be announced!
• 60-page book featuring new writing by David Desser, Simon Abrams and Terrence J. Brady, with cast and crew info for each film plus trivia and soundtrack info
• New artwork for each film by artists including Matthew Griffin, Chris Malbon, Jacob Phillips, Ilan Sheady, Tony Stella, Darren Wheeling and Jolyon Yates