Release date: May 12, 2009
Month: February 2009 (Page 2 of 6)
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa’s late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power. Ran stars Tatsuya Nakadai with music by Toru Takemitsu. Ran will be available on May 12, 2009.
Blu-ray Special Edition Features:
– Restored high-definition digital transfer, with an uncompressed stereo soundtrack
– Audio commentary featuring film scholar Stephen Prince
– An appreciation of the film by director Sidney Lumet
– A.K., a 74-minute film by director Chris Marker
– A 30-minute documentary on the making of Ran, from the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
– Video interview with actor Tatsuya Nakadai
– Theatrical trailers
– PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Wilmington and an interview with Kurosawa
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced today that Stanley Kubrick’s satirical comedy “Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” will make its Blu-ray debut June 16, 2009. The 45th Anniversary release will feature a 32-page booklet included in a deluxe Blu-ray book package.
Peter Sellers stars in this dark comedy as British Exchange Officer, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley, and Dr. Strangelove, the wheelchair-bound ex-Nazi nuclear war expert. The story follows paranoid U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper who sends bombers to destroy the U.S.S.R. which will unleash a cataclysmic series of events ultimately leading to total nuclear Armageddon.
Blu-ray special features include:
– The Cold War: Picture-in-Picture and Pop-Up Trivia Track
– Four Documentaries
– Best Sellers Or: Peter Sellers and Dr. Strangelove Remembered
– Interviews with Peter Sellers and George C. Scott
– And Much more
Release date: April 28, 2009
Release date: May 12, 2009
Release date: May 12, 2009
Here are this week’s new Blu-ray Disc releases:
Body of Lies
Capote / In Cold Blood
Changeling
Gandhi
High School Musical
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Kramer Vs. Kramer
The Midnight Meat Train
One Long Night
The Passion of The Christ
Quarantine
Via VideoETA
To celebrate the upcoming 25th anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Warner Bros. is prepping a four disc Blu-ray box for August 4. The set will inclide all four films, including the live-action “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Turtles in Time,” and the computer animated “TMNT.”
Party on with the excellent announcement by Paramount, announcing the upcoming May 12 release of the classic comedies Wayne’s World and Wayne’s World 2. Starring Mike “Used to be funny” Myers and Dana “Whatever happened to him?” Carvey, the Wayne’s World series raked in over $300MM in ticket sales worldwide. Specs and bonus features haven’t been revealed yet, but you can expect any and all content found on the DVD versions. Don’t hold your breath for new, high-def bonus features.
