Sony Benelux is very proud to announce the release of the Academy winning House Of cards on both DVD and Blu-ray. The release is set on 23rd July. The second season will be available from 6th August on..
The cast consists of Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright as political icons.
Stars:Kevin Spacey, Michael Gill, Robin Wright
Synopsis:
Majority House Whip Francis Underwood takes you on a long journey as he exacts his vengeance on those he feels wronged him - that is, his own cabinet members including the President of the United States himself. Dashing, cunning, methodical and vicious, Frank Underwood along with his equally manipulative yet ambiguous wife, Claire take Washington by storm through climbing the hierarchical ladder to power in this Americanized recreation of the BBC series of the same name.
Details :
Season 1: 647 minutes (DVD)/674 minuten (Blu-Ray™). 13 episodes. 4 discs.
Season 2: 636 minuten (DVD)/662 minuten (Blu-Ray™). 13 episodes. 4 discs.
One year after the highly acclaimed album "Schwanengesang" xotox presents an exclusive add-on called > redux as a 12" vinyl and demonstrates once again his remarkable instinct for choosing colleagues and artists who have turned the hits of the album into their very own style.
A release can´t be more various: Harsh Electro by Suicide Commando, pure electro terror of Ambassador21, complex
darkstep by aehm, melodic synthpop by Mondträume, rhythm- industrial by Monolith, sick beats from KiEw and electronica from Sci-Fi Industries, the previously unreleased rhythm noise-smasher "ritmo diabolico" and the hypnotic and searched-for "guardian angel". > redux < is limited to 300 pieces worldwide, 100 of them in red vinyl.
A must-have for collector
Tracklist :
side a
01. slå tillbaka (remix by suicide commando)
02. revolution doesn't happen in the weekend (remix by ambassador21)
03. notwehr (remix by aehm)
04. slÃ¥ tillbaka (remix by mondträume)
05 ritmo diabolico
side b
01. notwehr (remix by monolith)
02. slå tillbaka (remix by KiEw)
03. muito fragil (remix by sci-fi industries)
04. guardian angel
xotox - redux LP / Vinyl - Ltd. 300 copies
Release Date : 06.06.14 - ProNoize / Dark Dimensions Label Group
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With just over a month until the release of their new album, Lust For Youth have unveiled a Silent Servant remix of their album-title track ‘International’. The forthcoming LP is set for release on June 10th via Sacred Bones Records.
This particular remix showcases that dark & unsettling vibe that immediately grabs you the way that any track from Juan Mendez a.k.a. Silent Servant would while still containing the raw emotion of the original piece.
‘International (Silent Servant Remix)’ will be featured on the ‘International’ Remixes EP, which is available as a download when you buy an LP copy of the album or the deluxe digital version of the album. There will be a cassette version available with purchase of the limited edition version of the LP directly from Sacred Bones.
To put it bluntly, Lust For Youth’s International is unrecognizable as a Lust For Youth record on first listen. Frontman Hannes Norrvide’s previous solo albums under the Lust for Youth moniker have been described as “dark, cold, atonal, tormented, lonely, and lower than lo-fi.” The approach on‘International’ has shifted dramatically. Writing as a three-piece now, withlongtime live collaborator Loke Rahbek and new band member Malthe Fischer, who produces and plays guitar, LFY have entered a completely new territory. The result is stunning. International is a buoyant synth masterpiece in the vein of early Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys and New Order. Norrvide’s work has always had pop sensibilities buried deep in the reverb, but the hooks are front and center on International, and there is nothing lo-fi about it.
That is not to say the record is without substance. There are still some deeply introspective moments as well, notably the instrumental passages ‘Ultras’ and ‘Basorexia’, which evoke the morning-after loneliness that a lot of earlier LFY work has explored. According to Rahbek, “the record sort of happened by chance. Hannes and I had talked about recording some stuff together for the fun of it, and Malthe offered to help us record. Initially, we were just going to do a song or two for the fun of it, but within a few weeks it was obvious that it was a combination that worked. Malthe went from recording to joining within the first few days and we made the whole thing over the last half-year, drinking gin and tonics everyday in the studio. The period was strange, terrible things happened in everyone’s life outside of the studio, so as a result many hours were spent in the studio, like a safe zone.”
“As the title indicates,” Rahbek adds, “the record deals with the rootless, sometimes almost inhuman, nature of traveling and touring. Hotel rooms and strangers' beds, drugs and clubs, and the impossibility of living a regular life.” It may be an irregular life, but nothing could suit them better; International is Norrvide’s magnum opus, and with Fischer’s production and Rahbek’s co-writing skills, the potential this band has always shown has been gloriously realized.
The deluxe edition of International, exclusively available through Sacred Bones mail order will ship with a bonus cassette featuring remixes by Silent Servant, Total Control, Helm, Cult of Youth, Marshstepper & more. This bonus remix EP will also be available as a deluxe edition of the album available from digital retailers.
After Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Tati and Martin Scorsese Film Fest Gent presents another event that no one may miss. From 17th October till 25th January 2015 you can visit at the Caermersklooster in Ghent an exclusive exhibition about Italy’s greatest film director: Federico Fellini.
Location:
Provinciaal Cultuurcentrum Caermersklooster
Vrouwebroersstraat 6, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Tel.: +32 (0)9 269 29 10.
Opening hours: 10 from 17hrs (entrance till 16hr30), except on Monday.
Closed on 25th December and 1st January.
Arrow Video is thrilled to announce the UK Blu-ray and Blu-ray Steelbook release of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum, the 1961 follow-up to The Fall of the House of Usher, once again directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price alongside Barbara Steele and Luana Anders.
On release, the film became an instant hit with both critics and audiences alike. The plaudits ranged from “a physically stylish, imaginatively photographed horror film” (Variety) to “a thoroughly creepy sequence of horrors” (New Yorker) and – perhaps most tellingly – “a class suspense-horror film of the calibre of the excellent ones done by Hammer” (Hollywood Reporter).
Certainly Corman succeeded in crafting one of the most arresting openings in any Gothic horror film, balancing it at the end with a wildly extravagant finale and bolstering the body of the picture with eerily tinted flashbacks and a creepily effective tomb-rising for Steele. Introducing the action, rivulets of luridly coloured paints bleed into each other to the accompaniment of composer Les Baxter’s sombre atonalities, suggesting nothing so much as the interbreeding blood vessels of the mind.
In the words of screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi, The Pit and the Pendulum had a big influence on Italian horror films. Everybody borrowed from it.” To take just three examples, two of them scripted by Gastaldi – the conspicuously diseased family dynamic of Riccardo Freda’s L’orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock [The Horrible Dr. Hitchcock] (1962), Christopher Lee thundering on horseback through sunset-dappled surf at the beginning of Mario Bava’s La frusta e il corpo [The Whip and the Body] (1963) and the protracted, candlelit corridor wanderings featured in Antonio Margheriti’s Danza macabre [Castle of Blood] (1964).
Featuring a bumper crop of bonus features such as two audio commentaries with director-producer Roger Corman and critic Tim Lucas. The disc will also feature the new documentary ‘Behind the Swinging Blade’ which focuses on the making of The Pit and the Pendulum featuring Roger Corman, star Barbara Steele, Vincent Price’s daughter Victoria Price and more.
Alongside this new documentary, the special features will also include ‘An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe with Vincent Price’ in which Price reads a selection of Poe’s classic stories before a live audience, including The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado and The Pit and the Pendulum.
Other extra features include an added TV Sequence which was shot in 1968 to pad out the film for the longer TV time slot, this scene features star Luana Anders, who was the only available cast member at the time.
The releases feature a collector’s booklet including new writing on the film by Gothic Horror author Jonathan Rigby, illustrated with original archive stills and posters
Synopsis
A horse-drawn carriage pulls up on a deserted beach. A sombre figure dismounts and gazes up towards his destination – a foreboding cliff-top castle perched high above the crashing waves. Thus the perfect Gothic scene is set for The Pit and the Pendulum, the second of Roger Corman’s celebrated Edgar Allan Poe adaptations once again starring the ever-reliable Vincent Price (The Fall of the House of Usher, Theatre of Blood) alongside the bewitching Barbara Steele (Black Sunday).
Having learned of the sudden death of his sister Elizabeth (Steele), Francis Barnard (John Kerr) sets out to the castle of his brother-in-law, Nicholas Medina (Price), to uncover the cause of her untimely demise. A distraught, grief-stricken Nicholas can offer only the vaguest explanations as to Elizabeth’s death – at first citing “something in her blood”, but later asserting that she quite literally “died of fright”. What sort of unspeakable horrors are buried within the walls of this castle that could cause one’s heart to stop so? With Francis determined to get to the bottom of this mystery, the terrible truth will not stay buried for long.
Right from its brooding kaleidoscopic opening titles, The Pit and Pendulum draws you into its world of cobwebs, secret passageways and dusty suits of armour. All the necessary elements are present and correct and, along with one of Vincent Price’s most tortured performances, make The Pit and the Pendulum every inch the Gothic masterpiece.
Special Features
·Limited Edition SteelBook packaging featuring original artwork [SteelBook only]
·High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the feature, transferred from original film elements by MGM
·Original uncompressed Mono PCM Audio
·Optional Isolated Music and Effects Track
·Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
·Audio commentary with director and producer Roger Corman
·Audio commentary by critic Tim Lucas
·Behind the Swinging Blade – A new documentary on the making of The Pit and the Pendulum featuring Roger Corman, star Barbara Steele, Vincent Price’s daughter Victoria Price and more!
·Added TV Sequence – Shot in 1968 to pad out the film for the longer TV time slot, this scene features star Luana Anders
·An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe with Vincent Price [52 mins] – Price reads a selection of Poe’s classic stories before a live audience, including The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado and The Pit and the Pendulum (with optional English SDH)
·Original Trailer
·Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx [Amaray release only]
·Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Gothic Horror author Jonathan Rigby, illustrated with original archive stills and posters
