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The HOLDOVERS

Universal Studios | 2023 | 133 min | Rated R
Directed by Alexander Payne

From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, THE HOLDOVERS follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Alternate Ending – “Mary Continues On”
• Deleted Scenes
  • Introduction by Alexander Payne
  • New Room
  • Making a Scene
  • The Road Back to Barton
  • Ancient History
• The Cast of THE HOLDOVERS – Sit down with the cast of THE HOLDOVERS, including Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and newcomer Dominic Sessa, while they discuss getting into the minds of their characters. Meet the boys of Barton and learn more about director Alexander Payne’s casting process.
• Working with Alexander – Hear the cast and crew about their on-set experience working with acclaimed director Alexander Payne.
• Optional English SDH, French Canadian, and Latin American Spanish subtitles for the main feature

4K ULTRA HD + BLU-RAY DIGIPACK: $99.96
BLU-RAY DIGIPACK: $79.96
3-DISC DVD: $79.96

The Apu Trilogy (#782)

Criterion | 1955-1959 | 3 Movies | 342 min | Not Rated
Directed by Satyajit Ray

A breathtaking milestone that brought India into the golden age of international art-house film, Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy follows one indelible character, a free-spirited child in rural Bengal who matures into an adolescent urban student and, finally, a sensitive man of the world. Ray’s delicate masterworks—Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road), Aparajito (The Unvanquished), and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu)—based on two books by Bibhutibhusan Banerjee, were shot over the course of five years, and each stands on its own as a tender, visually radiant journey. These films—which have risen from the ashes in meticulously reconstructed restorations, after the original negatives were burned in a fire—are among the most achingly beautiful, richly humane movies ever made.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• 4K digital restorations of all three films, undertaken in collaboration with the Academy Film Archive at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and L’Immagine Ritrovata, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the 4K UHD and Blu-ray editions
• In the 4K UHD edition: Three 4K UHD discs of the films and three Blu-rays with the films and special features
• Audio recordings from 1958 of director Satyajit Ray reading his essay “A Long Time on the Little Road” and in conversation with film historian Gideon Bachmann
• Interviews with actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Shampa Srivastava, and Sharmila Tagore; camera assistant Soumendu Roy; and film writer Ujjal Chakraborty
• Making “The Apu Trilogy”: Satyajit Ray’s Epic Debut, a video essay by Ray biographer Andrew Robinson
• “The Apu Trilogy”: A Closer Look, a program featuring filmmaker, producer, and teacher Mamoun Hassan
• Excerpts from the 2003 documentary The Song of the Little Road, featuring composer Ravi Shankar
• The Creative Person: “Satyajit Ray,” a 1967 documentary short by James Beveridge, featuring interviews with Ray, several of his actors, members of his creative team, and film critic Chidananda Das Gupta
• Footage of Ray receiving an honorary Oscar in 1992
• Programs on the restorations by filmmaker Kogonada
• PLUS: Essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Girish Shambu, as well as a selection of Ray’s storyboards for Pather Panchali
  
  Cover by F. Ron Miller

BLU-RAY + DVD + DIGITAL: $16.99

The Marsh King’s Daughter

Lionsgate Films | 2023 | 108 min | Rated R
Directed by Neil Burger

In the tense thriller The Marsh King’s Daughter, a woman with a secret past will venture into the wilderness she left behind to confront the most dangerous man she’s ever met: her father. In the film, Helena’s (Daisy Ridley) seemingly ordinary life hides a dark and dangerous truth: her estranged father is the infamous Marsh King (Ben Mendelsohn), the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. When her father escapes from prison, Helena will need to confront her past. Knowing that he will hunt for her and her family, Helena must find the strength to face her demons and outmaneuver the man who taught her everything she knows about surviving in the wild.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Audio Commentary with Director Neil Burger
• The Art of Survival: Making THE MARSH KING’S DAUGHTER
• Theatrical Trailer
• Optional English SDH and French subtitles for the main feature

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY: $26.98

The Facts Of Murder

Radiance Films | 1959 | 114 min | Not Rated
Directed by Pietro Germi

Inspector Ingravallo has been called to a Roman apartment building to investigate a robbery. Once there he questions the tenants but soon realizes something is amiss. As the investigation progresses a simple robbery leads to a murder case… Directed by and starring Petro Germi (The Railroad Man) as the growling Inspector, The Facts of Murder was loosely adapted from celebrated author Carlo Emilio Gadda’s novel and is shot with inky shadows reminiscent of film noir, while the mystery element prefigures the giallo. Featuring a cast of wonderful supporting actors including Claudia Cardinale (The Day of the Owl) and Claudio Gora (Il sorpasso), the film won multiple awards at Italian institutions including the Golden Globe for Best Film.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• New 4K restoration of the film by L’Immagine Ritrovata at the Cineteca di Bologna, world premiere on High Definition Blu-ray (1080p)
• Uncompressed mono PCM audio
• New interview with Pietro Germi expert Mario Sesti (2023)
• The Man With the Cigar in His Mouth – a documentary about Pietro Germi featuring interviews with his colleagues and collaborators including Mario Monicelli, Claudia Cardinale, Stefania Sandrelli, Giuseppe Tornatore among others (Mario Sesti, 1997, 41 mins)
• What’s Black and Yellow All Over? All Shades of Italian Film Noir – visual essay by Paul A. J. Lewis on the presence of noir trends in Italian cinema and the evolution of the genre (2023)

BLU-RAY: $27.99

Forced Vengeance

Shout Factory | 1982 | 90 min | Rated R
Directed by James Fargo

Lady Luck has fled Hong Kong’s Lucky Dragon Casino. Its manager has squandered the profits and the owner has been killed by the mob. The heir to the casino is in hiding. But Lucky Dragon still holds one last ace: security expert Josh Randall (Chuck Norris). Determined to find the underworld boss behind the death of his friend and boss, Randall goes on the hunt. Trouble will soon follow.

Local mobsters should cash in their chips when Norris is on the case in this alive-and-kicking action fest directed by James Fargo (who directed Clint Eastwood in The Enforcer and Every Which Way But Loose).

SPECIAL FEATURES

• NEW 2023 Scan From The Interpositive 
• Theatrical Trailer

BLU-RAY: $21.98

Please, Not Now!

Kino Lorber | 1961 | 85 min | Not Rated
Directed by Roger Vadim

Brigitte Bardot, playful sex kitten of the 1960s French cinema, stars in this madcap romantic comedy, seen through the fetishizing lens of Roger Vadim (Barbarella, …And God Created Woman). When Sophie, a photographer’s model (Bardot), is jilted by her boyfriend (Jacques Riberolles), she becomes convinced she is the victim of a family curse, and takes shotgun in hand to eliminate her romantic rival (Joséphine James). Meanwhile, a young bachelor (Michel Subor) attempts to defuse Sophie’s rage, and win the slightly demented blonde for himself. Borrowing from the commedia all’italiana and nouvelle vague, Please, Not Now! (La bride sur le cou) is a cinematic delight, flavored with clever sight gags, exotic locations, and laced with sexual innuendo.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Audio commentary by film historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
• U.S. theatrical trailer