Arrow Video is delighted to announce the latest addition to its roster of Jack Hill movies with the muscular stock car racing melodrama, Pit Stop. Following the release of blaxploitation classic Foxy Brown and the truly one-of-a-kind Spider Baby, Pit Stop has been treated to an all-new restoration (overseen by technical supervisor James White, previously responsible for Arrow Video’s acclaimed Blu-rays of Zombie Flesh Eaters, Time Bandits, and The Fury) that hopes to bring fresh interest to one of Hill’s lesser-known but arguably greatest works.
Reuniting Hill with the stars of Spider Baby, Sid Haig and Beverly Washburn, Pit Stop also features Oscar-nominee Brian Donlevy in his final big screen appearance, Ellen Burstyn in only her third film role and Richard ‘Dick’ Davalos, future cover star for The Smiths (he graces their final LP, Strangeways Here We Come) and former co-star to James Dean (East of Eden) and Paul Newman (Cool Hand Luke).
Complementing this dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition are a host of all-new extras, including an audio commentary with Hill, interviews with Hill, Haig and producer Roger Corman, and a demonstration of the extensive restoration work by James White. The accompanying collector’s booklet includes new essays by US critic Glenn Kenny and the musicologist Gray Newell, who relates the history of forgotten Seattle psych band The Daily Flash and their soundtrack to Pit Stop.
Synopsis:
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 (The Exorcist), billed as Ellen McRae, 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 audio commentary with 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 by Technical Supervisor James White
· Theatrical 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.
MultiColor was created by Russian musician Anton Guskov to represent the multitude of influences that ultimately shaped his sounds and ideas and as a result the first EP ‘Cyclicity‘ was complete, representing a thoughtful projection of Anton’s inner world.
With ‘Cyclicity‘, MultiColor‘s deliberate placement of sounds open an auditory field that not only creates an impression of space, but contracts and expands with a blend of glitch and guitar motifs over deep rhythms and warm undertones. A truly three-dimensional sound that brings to mind a radio broadcast from a sinking submarine. Bubbles rise up though the murky water and break at the surface, as the craft disappears into the deep. Once or twice, the sounds threaten of something more sinister, but never takes you there. The effect is to draw you further in… and lead you into the untapped regions of your subconscious, all the while maintaining an addictive underlying beat that never fails you.
Lumière informs us that they will publish the second season from Den Fördömde, the sequel from the succesful series with Rolf Lassgård as Sebastian Bergman.
The box will be released on 25th March 2014.
Synopsis:
Bergman is an experienced psychologist who, at the start of the series, has effectively retired from police work. With a reputation as a womaniser, he has for some years been recovering from the loss of his wife and child in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.[2] A chance encounter with a former police colleague, Torkel Höglund (Tomas Laustiola), results in his being taken on as a consultant to assist in a murder case. Bergman at first gets on badly with the young female detective Vanya (Moa Silén) with whom he has to work, and is subsequently shocked to discover that she is his illegitimate daughter from a relationship he has almost forgotten. Seeing this as an opportunity to make up for the death of his daughter (for which he blames himself), he slowly begins to rebuild his career.
Technical specifications: 2 DVD-box.
Sweden, 2013
Length: 2 x 90 minuten
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: Dutch
Format : 16/9
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0
Maturity and depth: with his second album, Mobthrow refines his very original mixture of beat-driven breaks and highly evocative atmospheres, enriching them with a subtle newfound palette. A very original work at the meeting point of the club and the sonic daydream, "Unfolded" sharpens Mobthrow's vision and brings a modern twist on his impressive sound-design. This seductive and personal album is not only the confirmation that Mobthrow is a talented musician to be reckoned with, but also an author whose albums carry their own strong narrative. There are many side to "Unfolded", and they all fit firmly and harmoniously together.
Insane Music, the label set up by Alain Neffe (Pseudo Code, BeNe GeSSeRiT) in the early 80's, now comes with two new tapes. First is by BeNe GeSSeRiT called BeNeFiT, it's to raise money to buy new recording equipment... 200 copies and here's the tracklist:
Stinking Ülrich
Houdi Youkkoutaï!
Deborah, Romina, Martha, Sabrina, Tatiana, Barbara
Happy Like An African In Belgium
Personne
Simbayo-Sin
Bon, Bon
The Gnashing Gnome
It's Friday
Après Quelque Temps
Les Aliens
The other tape is volume 26 in the "Insane Music for Insane People" series. Again, the tracklist:
A1 – Bene Gesserit - Tither And Thiter
A2 – M.A.L. - All By Myself
A3 – Human Flesh - Beautiful Friend
A4 – Chopstick Sisters, The - Incidental Cow...
A5 – Bene Gesserit - Vieux Crapaud Lubrique
A6 – Pseudo Code - Baby Burn-Out (4th Version)
A7 – Cortex - Cortex Aa (Unreleased Version)
A8 – Subject - Intifada
B1 – Kosmose The First Untitled Track
B2 – Niala Effen - Teiuq Tub Deirrow
B3 – Chopstick Sisters, The - Yaaaa
More info here.
