Out in Belgian theatres on 2nd September: CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Stars: Banlop Lomnoi, Jenjira Pongpas, Jarinpattra Rueangram

Soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. The memory-filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira, as she watches over Itt, a handsome soldier with no family visitors. Jen befriends young medium Keng who uses her psychic powers to help loved ones communicate with the comatose men. Doctors explore ways, including colored light therapy, to ease the mens' troubled dreams. Jen discovers Itt's cryptic notebook of strange writings and blueprint sketches. There may be a connection between the soldiers' enigmatic syndrome and the mythic ancient site that lies beneath the clinic. Magic, healing, romance and dreams are all part of Jen's tender path to a deeper awareness of herself and the world around her.

Cemetery of Splendour

Trailblazing psychiatrist R.D. Laing changed the way mental illness was treated with his unique approach to therapy and in the early 1970s he allowed a film crew access to a group of his patients in one of the most incredible fly-on-the-wall documentaries ever made, Asylum. Now this fascinating film makes its UK DVD debut courtesy of OEG Classic Movies.

With David Tennant on board to play the renowned Glasgow-born analyst Ronald David Laing in a major new biopic, this timely release gives an insight into mental illness as filmmaker Peter Robinson and his crew enter the world of the schizophrenic residents of a hospital in Archway, London.

Filmed over a seven-week period the film takes us behind the doors and into the lives of mentally ill patients and Laing’s controversial approach to healing them through compassion and freedom.

Originally released in 1972 this groundbreaking film comes to UK DVD for the first time on 10 August 2015 complete with a slew of fascinating special features.

The 2nd Chapter:

2034: The Year We Make Contact.

A strange device has been discovered from deep beneath the surface of our planet.

Its origins: unknown. Its age: older than life, and its purpose: to change mankind.

With their soundtrack and in their unique inconceivable way, the two architects of sound

Artaud Seth (Merciful Nuns) and Ashley Dayour (Whispers in the Shadow, The Devil & The Universe)

manage to unreel an imaginary movie in the listener’s mind. 

This film does not require a movie theatre. It requires your intellect. 

NEAR EARTH ORBIT delivers a complex blockbuster masterpiece

with a perfect mixture of post-apocalypse, paranoia and fiction. 

Following a string of US shows this summer inc. dates with Total Control and Lust For Youth, San Francisco's Flesh World will finally be hitting the UK in September, playing an extensive tour including two shows in London at Oval Space on the 5th and New River Studios on the 12th...

4th September - Brighton - Hope & Ruin

5th September - London - Oval Space

6th September - Manchester - Gullivers 

7th September - Glasgow - The Flying Duck 

8th September - Nottingham - The Chameleon

9th September - Sheffield - Lughole

10th September - Norwich - Rumsey Wells 

11th September - Leeds - Temple of Boom

12th September - London - New River Studios

Check out Flesh World's newest video 'Just To Tear Me Down' which just debuted over at Noisey, taken from their debut full-length that's out now on Iron Lung Records. 

Flesh World began with Scott Moore (Limp Wrist) and Jess Scott (Brilliant Colors), in a microscopic lofted-bedroom in San Francisco's Panhandle district. Scott and Jess merged their respective musical histories of hardcore and pop, almost by accident. 

Without any mention of their previous bands, they bonded over the films of Kenneth Anger, the guitar work of Lou Reed and William Reid, the writing of Jean Genet, and the shirtless figures of David Hockney paintings. The pair slowly built songs in between hanging out at drag bars and punk shows, watching SF decay into some sort of inverted Detroit, isolated wealth which sent a lot of young artists running in the last couple of years. 

Flesh World is sort of what's left of that, where the only places to have fun are still leather bars, house music clubs, basement punk shows. After the music and vision of Scott and Jess began to coagulate they brought in Diane Anastasio also of Brilliant Colors to complete their basic and primitive sound. 

Arrow Video is thrilled to announce the UK Blu-ray premiere release of iconic Wyatt Earp epic My Darling Clementine, director John Ford’s celebrated return to the Western genre following his equally acclaimed and iconic Stagecoach. Starring Henry Fonda as the legendary lawman in arguably the most famous of his on-screen portrayals.

This 1946 classic comes in a glorious new 4k digital transfer, alongside two different cuts of the film, the original version that premiered in December 1946 and the longer ‘pre-release’ cut that had played to preview audiences. Both versions, along with a host of extras which are detailed below, come packaged together as an exclusive slipbox edition, limited to 3,000 copies.

Alongside both cuts of the film, this new version will also include another Wyatt Earp tale Frontier Marshal, Allan Dwan’s 1939 film starring staring Randolph Scott and Cesar Romero. These restored western masterpieces will be available on Blu-ray from 17th August 2015.

Synopsis

Wyatt Earp has long fascinated filmmakers. Actors from Burt Lancaster and James Stewart to Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner have played the legendary gunfighter, but no portrayal is more definitive that Henry Fonda’s in My Darling Clementine.

John Ford’s first Western since his seminal Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine ranks among the director’s finest. Telling the story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and the friendship between Earp and Doc Holliday, Ford renders this famous tale into a lyrical masterpiece, filmed in his beloved Monument Valley and full of iconic moments.

This limited edition contains two versions of the Western classic – the version that premiered in cinemas in December 1946 and the longer ‘pre-release’ cut that had played to preview audiences earlier that year – as well as another Wyatt Earp movie from 20th Century Fox, Allan Dwan’s Frontier Marshal starring Randolph Scott and Cesar Romero.

Special Features

· High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of My Darling Clementine’s theatrical and ‘pre-release’ versions and Frontier Marshal

· Original uncompressed PCM mono 1.0 sound

· Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

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

BLU-RAY DISC 1: MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (THEATRICAL VERSION):

· 4K digital film restoration

· Commentary on the theatrical version by author Scott Eyman and Earp’s grandson, Wyatt Earp III

· John Ford and Monument Valley – a 2013 documentary on the director’s lifelong association with Utah’s Monument Valley containing interviews with Peter Cowie (author of John Ford and the American West), John Ford, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, James Stewart and Martin Scorsese

· Movie Masterclass – a 1988 episode of the Channel 4 series, devoted to My Darling Clementine and presented by Lindsay Anderson

· Lost and Gone Forever – a visual essay by Tag Gallagher on the themes that run through My Darling Clementine and the film’s relationship with John Ford’s other works

· Stills gallery

· Theatrical Trailer

BLU-RAY DISC 2: MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (‘PRE-RELEASE’ VERSION), FRONTIER MARSHAL AND OTHER WYATT EARP TALES [LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE]:

· 2K digital film restoration of the ‘pre-release’ version of My Darling Clementine

· What is the Pre-Release Version? – a documentary by Robert Gitt, Senior Film Preservation Officer at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, comparing the two versions of My Darling Clementine

· High Definition digital film transfer of Frontier Marshal, Allan Dwan’s 1939 Wyatt Earp film starring Randolph Scott

· Two radio plays inspired by Wyatt Earp – a 1947 adaptation of My Darling Clementine starring Henry Fonda as Earp and Richard Conte as Doc Holliday, and a 1949 Hallmark Playhouse production in which Conte played the role of Earp

· Frontier Marshall Theatrical Trailer

40-PAGE BOOKLET [LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE]

· Booklet containing new writing on My Darling Clementine by Kim Newman (author of Wild West Movies) and on Frontier Marshal by Glenn Kenny, plus an extensive archive interview with screenwriter Winston Miller, illustrated with original archive stills and posters