Arrow
Video US to release Pit Stop on June 30th,
plus La
Grande Bouffe and Blood
Rage in
August
all
via MVD Entertainment Group
MVD Entertainment Group furthers the distribution of Arrow Video in
the US with a strong schedule of new titles...
Pit Stop -
Dual Format DVD & Blu-ray - ORDER HERE
RAW
GUTS FOR GLORY! FLESH AGAINST STEEL!
The
most dangerous game ever devised, to pit man against man, flesh against steel -
the figure-8 race! Jack Hill (Coffy, Foxy Brown) follows up Spider Baby, once
again teaming up with Sid Haig (House of 1000 Corpses) in one of his greatest
roles for this action-spectacular crash-o-rama!
Richard
Davalos (East of Eden) stars as Rick Bowman, a street punk who winds up in jail
after a street race goes wrong. Bailed out by race promoter Grant Willard,
Davalos is put in the deadly track where he comes up against Haig's maniacal
winner Hawk Sidney. Featuring an outstanding supporting cast including Brian
Donlevy (The Quatermass Xperiment) in his last film appearance, Ellen Burstyn,
billed as Ellen McRae (The Exorcist), and Beverly Washburn (Spider Baby), Pit
Stop is one of Hill's lesser known films but arguably his greatest.
Filmed
on a real figure-8 track, Hill and his crew were able to capture gripping
real-life car wreck scenes lending the film a brilliant sense of realism.
You've never seen a motion picture like this before - can you take it?
DIRECTOR-APPROVED
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
*
New High Definition digital transfer supervised and approved by director Jack
Hill
*
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation
*
Original Mono 1.0 audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
*
New UK exclusive audio commentary with director Jack Hill moderated by his
biographer Calum Waddell
*
Crash and Burn! - Jack Hill on the making of Pit Stop
*
Drive Hard - Actor Sid Haig speaks about his experience of acting in Pit Stop
*
Life in the Fast Lane - producer Roger Corman on the genesis of Pit Stop
*
Restoring Pit Stop - Restoration demonstration with Technical Supervisor James
White
*
Original Trailer
*
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jay Shaw
*
Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic Glenn Kenny and
musicologist and writer Gray Newell on the film's soundtrack, illustrated with
original stills and artwork
Release
Date: June 30, 2015
Duration:
91 mins
Language:
English
Subtitles:
English SDH
Aspect
Ratio: 1.78:1
Audio:
Mono
Discs:
2
SRP:
$39.95
Barcode: 760137764298
Cat Number: AV016
La Grande Bouffe - Dual Format DVD & Blu-ray - ORDER HERE
The
most famous film by Italian provocateur Marco Ferreri (Dillinger is Dead), La
Grande bouffe was reviled on release for its perversity, decadence and attack
on the bourgeoisie yet won the prestigious FIPRESCI prize after its
controversial screening at the Cannes Film Festival.
Four
friends, played by international superstars Marcello Mastroianni (Fellini's
8½), Michel Piccoli (Belle de jour), Ugo Tognazzi (Barbarella) and Philippe
Noiret (Zazie dans le métro) retreat to a country mansion where they determine
to eat themselves to death whilst engaging in group sex with prostitutes and a
local school teacher (Andréa Ferréol, The Tin Drum), who seems to be up for
anything...
At
once jovial and sinister, the film's jet-black humour has a further twist as
the reputed actors (whose characters use their own names) buck their
respectable trend for a descent into fart-filled chaos that delivers a feast
for the eyes and mind.
SPECIAL
EDITION CONTENTS:
*
Brand new 2K restoration of the original camera negative
*
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation
*
Original French audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
*
Newly translated English subtitles
*
The Farcical Movie - A French television profile of Marco Ferreri from 1975 in
which the director discusses, among other things, the influence of Tex Avery,
Luis Buñuel and Tod Browning's Freaks
*
Behind-the-scenes footage of the making of La Grande bouffe, containing
interviews with Ferrari and actors Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Ugo
Tognazzi and Philippe Noiret
*
Extracts from the television series Couleurs autour d'un festival featuring
interviews with the cast and crew recorded during the Cannes Film Festival
*
A visual essay on the film with by Italian film scholar Pasquale Iannone
*
Select scene audio commentary by Iannone
*
News report from the Cannes Film Festival where La Grande bouffe caused a
controversial stir, including Ferreri at the press conference
*
Original Trailer
*
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gilles
Vranckx
*
Booklet featuring new writing on the film by Johnny Mains, illustrated with
original archive stills and posters
Release
Date: August 18, 2015
Rating:
TBC
Duration:
130 mins
Language:
French
Subtitles:
English
Discs:
2
SRP:
$39.95
Barcode: 760137764397
Cat Number: AV017
Blood Rage -
Dual Format DVD & Blu-ray - ORDER HERE
IT'S
NOT CRANBERRY SAUCE!
What
do you get if you combine Thanksgiving, American TV star Louise Lasser (Mary
Hartman, Mary Hartman), killer 80s synths and some of the most gruesome special
effects in all of slasher history courtesy of Ed (Terminator 2) French. Why,
it's Blood Rage of course!
Todd
and Terry seem like sweet kids - that is, until one of them takes an axe to
face of a fellow patron at the local drive-in. Todd is blamed for the bloody
crime and institutionalised, whilst twin brother Terry goes free. Ten years
later and, as the family gathers around the table for a Thanksgiving meal, the
news comes in that Todd has escaped - and he's heading their way. But has the
killer twin in fact been in their midst all along? One thing's for sure, there
WILL be blood...
Filmed
in 1983 at the tail-end of the slasher golden era but not released until 1987,
Blood Rage (also re-cut and released to theatres as Nightmare at Shadow Woods)
has been lovingly restored from the original vault materials for its first ever
appearance on Blu-ray and DVD. Happy Thankskilling!
SPECIAL
EDITION CONTENTS:
*
Brand new 2K restoration from original vault materials of three versions of the
film: Blood Rage, the original "hard" version, completely uncut and
uncensored in a Blu-ray/DVD world premiere; the R-rated Nightmare at Shadow
Woods 1987 re-cut, and a third "composite" cut combining all the
footage from both Blood Rage and Nightmare at Shadow Woods
*
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
*
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
*
Brand new extensive making-of documentary featuring interviews with various
cast and crew
*
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly-commissioned artwork from Marc
Schoenbach, to be revealed
*
Fully-illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film
*
PLUS MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED!
Release
Date: August 25, 2015
Duration:
84 minutes
Language:
English
Subtitles:
English SDH
Discs:
2
SRP:
$39.95
Barcode: 760137764496
Cat
Number: AV018
Arrow's global reputation as one of the finest labels in the world has
come about through consistent high quality product and a focus on fan-based
products always at its core. This includes a major investment on restoring
original material through modern techniques as well as pioneering packaging
solutions and newly commissioned artwork for each release.
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