We do it every month, so you know what you can find in the shops, here are the upcoming releases from Dutch Filmworks in June 2014.
DE BEHANDELING
Out on 06/06/2014 on both DVD and Blu-ray
Director:Hans Herbots
Starring Geert Van Rampelberg, Ina Geerts, Johan Van Assche, Laura Verlinden, Roel Swanenberg, Ingrid De Vos, Tibo Vandenborre, Dominique Van Malder, Michael Vergauwen, Brit Van Hoof, Circé Lethem and Kyan Steverlinck.
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28/06/1914 FRANZ FERDINAND: DER ANGRIFF
Out on 06/06/2014 on both DVD and Blu-ray
Starring Florian Teichtmeister, Jürgen Maurer, Melika Foroutan en Heino Ferch.
VAMPIRE ACADEMY
Out on 20/06/2014 on both DVD and Blu-ray
Director:Mark Waters
Stars:Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry, Danila Kozlovsky Synopsis:
Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, half human-half vampire, a guardian of the Moroi, peaceful, mortal vampires living discreetly within our world. Her calling is to protect the Moroi from bloodthirsty, immortal Vampires, the Strigoi.
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OUT OF THE FURNACE
Out on 27/06/2014 on both DVD and Blu-ray
Director:Scott Cooper
Stars:Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana | See full cast and crew »
Synopsis:
When Rodney Baze mysteriously disappears and law enforcement doesn't follow through fast enough, his older brother, Russell, takes matters into his own hands to find justice.
A HARD DAY’S NIGHT
Out on 27/06/2014 on both DVD and Blu-ray
Director:Richard Lester
Stars:John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison Synopsis:
A 'typical' day in the life of the Beatles, including many of their famous songs.
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DER TURM
Out on 30/05/2014 on both DVD and Blu-ray.
Director:Christian Schwochow
Stars:Hans-Uwe Bauer, Klaus Bieligk, Martin Bruchmann
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Midnight Masses, the band of Autry Fulbright (accompanied by Jason Reece) from …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, are pleased to announce their debut album Departures will be released on July 21 in Europe and July 22 in the US.
The album features contributions from some very notable guests, including Haley Dekle (Dirty Projectors), Isaiah “Ikey” Owens (The Mars Volta), Peter Hale (Here We Go Magic), Ian Longwell (Santigold), Jaleel Bunton (TV On The Radio), Mauro Refosco (Atoms For Peace) & Jamie Miller (…Trail of Dead).
Autry comments: “Midnight Masses is my longest standing creative project and I'm privileged to have my bandmates in...Trail of Dead occasionally join in as well as have so many other friends contribute. What started off as a therapeutic way for me to reflect and document the death of several family members and friends has turned into a musical endeavour that draws not just from grief, but the recognition of life. I've been heavily influenced by many musicians and visual artists along the way, and intend to convey the story of loss, self-discovery, and hope that permeates throughout.”
Midnight Masses started in the spring of 2008 by Autry Fulbright and Jason Reece shortly after the death of Autry’s father. The sudden loss compelled him to seek solace through music and travel with his friends. One of his friends was Gerard Smith of TV on the Radio who had recently begun documenting various Brooklyn musicians in his home studio. Midnight Masses quickly grew from a bedroom project to a multi-media collective with a revolving cast of musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists with Jason Reece contributing when not occupied with...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead.
Three Legged Race (Robert Beatty of Hair Police) streams new EP in it's entirety
The scope of Robert Beatty's hydra-headed art practice has grown into an extreme articulation of unconfined creativity across multiple disciplines. A founding member of 2000's noise outfit Hair Police, as well as visionary illustrator and album-art designer for many of this era's most celebrated underground artists, Robert Beatty records his solo work under the name Three Legged Race. Come May 27th, 2014, Three Legged Race will release the first volume of Rope Commercial, a planned series of EPs premiering through the label Underwater Peoples.
Rope Commercial Vol. 1 will be the first Three Legged Race record since 2012's acclaimed Persuasive Barrier (Spectrum Spools / Editions Mego) and Beatty's follow up to last year's video score collection, Soundtracks for Takeshi Murata (Glistening Examples, 2013). Where those records take charge in a paradigm of collaged synth melodies, fragmented samples and twitching textures, Rope Commercial is more unsettling. Rope Commercial Vol. 1 delivers claustrophobic geometries, intensely disfigured narratives, and genre-free experimentation.
Beatty's recent celebrated performances as Three Legged Race abandoned prior synthesizer-dependent set-ups in favor of an intentionally dematerialized approach, employing just a sequencer program in an iPhone, and a lone tape machine. Conceptually, Beatty was defiantly shrugging off the fetishized hardware-oriented model so rampant in current electronic music discourse, and this became the inspiration to create Rope Commercial. Beatty stepped even further in recording Rope Commercial Vol. 1 however, adding acoustic instruments, (dulcimer and piano), and thoroughly processing sampled elements to warp the whole into un-recognizable dimensions.
Importantly, Rope Commercial Vol. 1 will be outfitted in a picture-disc of a classic Beatty vision. In a creamy neon-green urban landscape, the face of a humanoid figure is merged with a screen of a smartphone, its consciousness fused to the glass. Dangling from the phone is one leg outfitted in a woman's heel, presumably its sole means of transport. These kind of pathetic cyborg figures in states of physical flux frequently appear in Beatty's art. They function neatly as windows into Beatty's music as well, with its electronically marred voices and barren sonic spaces. These figures are Beatty's torpid avatars, in his music and art both, their humanism is strained by a confounding digital synergy.
Aptly, the picture-disc is a perfect setting for Beatty's airbrush work, his favored rendering tool, and the general modus operandi of Beatty's electronic music as Three Legged Race. In all, Beatty renews obsolete materials discarded from a voracious commercial culture, and employs them in strangely poignant contexts. In Rope Commercial Vol. 1, such found samples are diced and strewn into uneasy chapters. There is the dizzying, terse "All Ajax Dial", the interplanetary gale of "Aside From Each Other and Together Overnight", the faintly whirring "New Government", the white noise of "The Humidity Mascot" and perhaps Beatty's motif-to-be "Rope Commercial." In this title track alone, something of the whole EP is condensed: intentionally un-heroic melodies plod out over a darkly redundant groove and voices are haltered in the instance of utterance. Its electronic music most overtly, but defrocked of its sheen, with any conceivable hallmark of commercialism littered on the gravel.
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Nah, you don't need to be afraid. Peek-A-Boo won't talk about boring politics! But Sony has a good alternative for us, why not vote on House Of Cards, the highly acclaimed series with Academy Winner Kevin Spacey?
If you want to know if you would put your trust in his hands, watch the series. The first season is available from 23rd July on both DVD and Blu-ray, the second season will follow in August.
Click here for the trailer from the first season, and here for the second!
Arrow Video is thrilled to announce the UK Blu-ray and Blu-ray Steelbook release of Bob Clark’s iconic teen-sex comedy, Porky’s. Arriving on 16th June, this will mark the first time that Porky’s will be made available on the Blu-ray format in the UK.
Long before American Pie, an age ahead of Superbad, there came Porky’s, a seminal ’80s comedy high school sex-romp which defined the VHS generation and arguably went on to become more than just a full-frontal pioneer of the adolescent sex farce. A national embarrassment, a rite of passage, a rebuke of racial discrimination and a crudely accurate portrayal of high school life—director Bob Clark’s 1982 classic is all this and more.
Porky’s owes at least part of its legendary status to the timing of its release. Though a hit on theatrical circuit (it still remains Canada’s most successful film of all time when adjusted for inflation), Porky’s arrival on home video at the dawning of the VHS era meant that enterprising youngsters could effectively bypass the theatrical ratings system and indulge in Clark’s forbidden fruit. With naked limbs and a leering eyeball against a clean white tile background, Porky’s iconic VHS box art let kids know exactly what the film featured. For years, underage kids lucky enough to see the film circulated stories on school playgrounds about its most notorious and possibly funniest scene—the shower spyhole, “Paulie the Penis” and women’s coach Ms. Balbricker’s (Nancy Parsons) subsequent rant about the offending “tallywhacker”. Clark has admitted Porky’s was primarily aimed at teenage viewers, even though in many parts of the world they weren’t even allowed in the theatre. And while the promise of illicit nudity initially lured many of these viewers to check out the film from alternative sources, the warts-and-all story of Pee-Wee and his pals kept them coming back for more, helping the film grow in popularity and reputation.
Featuring a bumper crop of bonus features including an audio commentary with the late director Bob Clark and an interview, Porky’s Through the Peephole, which sees the director looking back at his cult classic, this deluxe edition will also include a newly commissioned featurette Skin Classic! In which Mr Skin celebrates Porky’s and the heyday of the 80s teen sex comedy. The Blu-ray will also feature new writing on the film by Paul Corupe, creator of the Canuxploitation website, and a previously unpublished interview with director Bob Clark conducted by Calum Waddell, illustrated with archive stills.
Synopsis
Long before American Pie and Superbad came the original and best sex comedy. A firm favourite of teen movie fans, Porky’s introduced audiences to Kim Cattrall (Police Academy, Big Trouble in Little China) and made an absolute killing at the box-office.
It’s 1954 and the sex-obsessed boys of Angel Beach High School are looking to get laid. Porky’s is their destination, local nightclub and whorehouse. Only its redneck owner has other plans, as does his sheriff brother. Will Meat, Mickey, Tommy and the other guys in the gang get their own back? And will the barely-endowed Pee Wee finally lose his virginity?
Having established his credentials as one of Canada’s top horror filmmakers with the likes of Black Christmas and Dead of Night, Bob Clark took an unexpected turn into the world of the teenage sex comedy and inadvertently made the most successful Canadian motion picture of all time, an honour it still holds today.
Special Features
·Limited Edition SteelBook packaging
·High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the film from a digital transfer prepared by Twentieth Century Fox
·Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
·Audio commentary by writer/director Bob Clark
·Porky’s Through the Peephole – Bob Clark looks back at his box-office sensation
·Skin Classic! – Mr Skin celebrates Porky’s and the heyday of the 80s teen sex comedy
·Porky’s trailer reel
