Out on 8th October on DVD and Blu-ray: GRACE OF MONACO

The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.

Director: Olivier Dahan

Stars: Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, André Penvern

DUTCH VERSION

Grace Of Monaco vertelt het wereldberoemde verhaal van Hollywoodactrice Grace Kelly, gespeeld door Oscarwinnares Nicole Kidman, die door haar huwelijk met Prins Reinier de derde (Tim Roth) Prinses van Monaco werd. Een prachtige film, geregisseerd door Olivier Dahan (La Vie En Rose), die de glamour en de keerzijde daarvan toont in het leven van Prinses Grace. De film is tevens de openingsfilm van het Filmfestival van Cannes 2014.

De veelbesproken openingsfilm van het Cannes Filmfestival 2014 vertelt het ongelofelijke levensverhaal van Grace Kelly, de Hollywoodactrice die prinses van Monaco werd.

Regie: Olivier Dahan

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth

Speelduur: 103 minuten

Kijkwijzer: 6

Releasedatum dvd en Blu-ray: 8 oktober 2014

From 24th September on in all theatres.

A man believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and has dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by - he has to help her.

DUTCH VERSION

24 september in de bioscoop

Denzel Washington schittert in de actie-thriller The Equalizer zoals je hem het liefste ziet! Hij speelt de anti-held McCall, een voormalig geheim agent die rechtvaardigheid hoog in het vaandel heeft staan. Probeer hem dan ook vooral niet in weg te lopen, want dat kan weleens verkeerd aflopen voor je. Vanaf 24 september draait The Equalizer in de Belgische bioscopen. Naast Denzel Washington zijn ook rising star Chloë Grace Moretz, Marton Csokas, Bill Pullman en Melissa Leo te zien. De regie is in handen van Antoine Fuqua, de regisseur van Training Day.

Bekijk nu de trailer en een speciale achter-de-schermen video van The Equalizer, waarin cast en crew spreken over de ‘speciale vaardigheden’ van de Equalizer.

Life is a constant walk on a tightrope. No one is more aware of this than L'ÂME IMMORTELLE, the often imitated forerunners in the field of electronic Gothic. A band that has been through more ups and downs than most others, that highly influenced a whole genre, created countless epigones, a band that has been carried high up into the mainstream with sincere art and that has gone back to where it all started by their own choice: Into the Gothic scene. Into the realms of dark, sinfonic, tragic Electro. By their own choice? Or was it fate all over again meddling in their affairs? Fate is also dominating the all-new L'ÂME IMMORTELLE record.

On „Drahtseilakt“, all that this band ever stood for comes together to form an opus whose dramatic density, whose all-engrossing tragic and masterful dramaturgy can only be compared with a Greek tragedy. After years of absence from the stages, after a long silence and the unspoken fears concerning the end of this project follows this liberating coup of monumental electronic art, a record that entirely rules out coincidence. It was fate that brought Thomas Rainer and Sonja Kraushofer back together. It was fate that made „Drahtseilakt“ an Electro opus as creative and influential as their immortal „In einer Zukunft aus Tränen und Stahl“.

 Behind the strongly symbolic title („Drahtseilakt“ meaning „a walk on the tightrope“), L'ÂI tell stories of sorrow and solitude, but also of power and courage, framed by the Moirai, the Greek goddesses of fate. Hidden from the eyes of the world they weave fate into our world and determine every single way of life. And in terms of L'ÂME IMMORTELLE, they did an excellent job: „Drahtseilakt“ is the unquestionable peak of a career spanning almost 20 years, and the final proof that letting loose may be the best option at times. Epic, electronic, eternal – never was this band better.

"Music is like sculpture. It's like trying to capture a moment of ultimate momentum, and distill it forever".

- Clark, August 2014

This is where the sounds of the machine meet the sounds of the world. A protracted club experience distilled into a cinematic, immersive whole. Clark’s chiseled vision of techno contextualized for a post-rave environment - the clean, cold edges of technology eroded over time to produce raw, fascinating new textures.

These textures lay the foundations for a hugely kaleidoscopic listening experience filled with warmth. Memorable songwriting packed with melody and subtle, unpredictable shifts in mood; a finely balanced mix of electronic composition, heads down techno, human nature and the environment it was created in.

'Clark', boldly eponymous, crescendos a narrative that commenced with 'Clarence Park', the first “Clark” attributed album 'Body Riddle', through the Yin and Yang of 'Turning Dragon' and 'Iradelphic', and finely honed through this year's 'Superscope' EP and visually intense Phosphor live show.

"I wanted to let the weather in with this album", Clark explains. "It’s outward looking, it’s drenched in sounds of the outside world, sounds free from human intervention: branches crackling in the wind, storms brewing, the stillness of settling snow. It’s all in there, amongst the moreish crunch of industrial machinery”.

These real world elements offer a sense of a meditation that beckons the listener to leave human desires behind. A detailed field recording of boots in snow creeps into an echo of piano house on ‘Strength Through Fragility’, swallowing up the melancholy of the melody rather ruthlessly, teasing these things out of the listener as the track progresses. The essence of the new being carved from an unheard ancientness appears throughout 'Clark', a tactile interaction between alien elements creating something that would not have otherwise existed.

The machines hold their own against nature: ‘Banjo’ is a straight up MPC/synth funk jam played over three notes, the hypnotic arpeggios of ‘Unfurla’ are underpinned by a solid 4/4 kick drum, peak-rave euphoria is captured in ‘There’s a Distance In You’. At its essence 'Grit In The Pearl' is more Berghain than Guggenheim - a club banger, albeit in a parallel dimension filtered through the 'Clark' lens, lending new context to its spiralling rave chords.

The theme of reduction, a sculpture of sound, wins out in the end. Closing beatless piece 'Everlane' is a cathartic conclusion to ‘Clark’, the elements ultimately refined into timeless, ethereal melodies echoing into the ages:

"It straddles this fine line of being ultimate bliss and sadness at the same time. I find this emotional terrain compelling and keep on coming back to it. I need that epic sense of closure".

'Clark' will be released by Warp Records on 3rd November 2014.

Arrow Video is delighted to announce a limited theatrical run of the upcoming Blu-ray & DVD release Salvatore Giuliano, one of the undisputed classics of Italian 1960s cinema. The film will open in select cinemas across the UK on 26th September before being released in a new digital transfer on Blu-ray and DVD on 29th September 2014.

This new re-release, featuring a truly astonishing restoration, which was completed in December 2013, will mark the Blu-ray world premiere for Salvatore Giuliano. Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association funded a full-scale 4K makeover involving director Francesco Rosi himself, making this one of the strongest and most impressive restorations of a classic black-and-white Italian film that Arrow Video have released to date.

The disc will also include the 55-minute documentary ‘The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth’ alongside three shorter interviews which are all exclusive to Arrow Video and were shot in July and August of this year. Each interview looks at Salvatore Giuliano from three contrasting but complementary perspectives: the film’s director Francesco Rosi discusses the film itself, the real-life Salvatore Giuliano’s nephew Giuseppe talks about the man in the context of Sicilian politics, and journalist and Sicilian Mafia specialist Attilio Bolzoni looks at the links between Giuliano and the Mafia. This supplementary material should allow viewers to not just learn about Rosi’s films but also the historical backdrop to the film (which is further explored in the booklet).

Synopsis: 

5 July 1950. Salvatore Giuliano, Italy’s most wanted criminal, is found shot dead in a dusty courtyard. Who killed him, and why? And who was he?

The film that made Francesco Rosi’s international reputation, this Citizen Kane-style investigative portrait was originally called Sicily 1943-60, as Rosi sought not so much to depict Giuliano himself as the society from which he sprang, in which the police, the carabinieri and the Mafia all have strong vested interests. Filming in the exact locations and utilising court reports as primary source material, Rosi mainly cast local Sicilians, some of whom knew Giuliano personally. The only professional actors were Frank Wolff (Once Upon a Time in the West) and Salvo Randone (L’Assassino).

Stunningly shot by Gianni di Venanzo (Fellini’s 8½), the film was immediately hailed as a masterpiece, with Sight & Sound calling it “one of the most courageous things the Italian cinema has ever attempted”. More recently, Martin Scorsese cited it as one of his twelve favourite films, and his Film Foundation sponsored this sparkling new 4K restoration by the Cineteca di Bologna.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:

· New 4K digital restoration from the Cineteca di Bologna

· High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the film

· Uncompressed Mono 1.0 PCM Audio

· The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth, Roberto Andò’s documentary study of Francesco Rosi’s career featuring the filmmaker himself, Martin Scorsese and Giuseppe Tornatore among others

· Francesco Rosi on Salvatore Giuliano, a new and exclusive interview with the great Italian director

· The Sicilian Robin Hood, an interview with Salvatore Giuliano’s nephew Giuseppe

· Salvatore Giuliano and the Mafia, an interview with journalist and Sicilian Mafia expert Attilio Bolzoni

· Theatrical Trailer

· Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jay Shaw

· Booklet featuring new writing on the film by Pasquale Iannone, an annotated synopsis by Ben Lawton, plus a selection of contemporary reviews