![]() With a career spanning half a century, the prolific Suzuki was famous for his wildly entertaining, offbeat and innovative Japanese crime dramas. The late great Japanese director Seijun Suzuki is celebrated with the release of Seijun Suzuki: The Early Years. This was Buscemi’s second stint in the director’s chair and sees him marshalling a formidable ensemble cast, for a powerful and sincere account of the men caught up in the penal system. More ‘men stuck together’ this November in the shape of Animal Factory, a searing look at life inside a maximum-security prison, directed by Steve Buscemi and starring Willem Dafoe and Edward Furlong. This release is packed with extras, including an all-new documentary on the film, and features a stunning 4K transfer supervised by Carpenter and director of photography Dean Cundey. More sci-fi horror this month, with the Standard Edition Blu-ray release of John Carpenter’s creature feature The Thing from 1982, that mixes wintry chills with mind-blowing special effects, quotable dialogue and a career best performance from Kurt Russell as part of an all-male research crew in Antartica, besieged by a terrifying, shape-shifting creature. The release includes a documentary on director Arnold (It Came From Outer Space), and an interview with the son of I Am Legend scribe Matheson. Next up, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Jack Arnold’s superlative adaptation of Richard Matheson’s sci-fi novel, about a man, who, whilst on a holiday cruise with his wife, finds himself enveloped by a luminous mist – which causes him to start shrinking at an alarming rate. Ballard) features a brand new, and long overdue, 2K restoration from original film elements, supervised and approved by the director of photography Ousama Rawi, produced by Arrow Films exclusively for this release. ![]() ![]() In November, Michael Caine and Mike Hodges, the star and director of British classic Get Carter, reunite for 1972’s Pulp, a crime comedy about a paperback writer inadvertently drawn into the world he writes about.The DVD and Blu-ray release of this neglected gem (a favourite of author J.G. Exploding onto the screen in a kinetic flurry of hyper-stylised action, this is a stunning vengeance film that draws its inspiration from western classics including Nikita and Kill Bill. Plenty to keep the cold from the door for film fans!įirst up, the end of October sees the Blu-ray premiere of The Villainess, an extraordinary Korean actioner about a former assassin (Thirst’s Ok-bin Kim) whose past comes back to haunt her. Winter chills mean just that this November, as Arrow Video release a snowy horror sci-fi, a contemporary thriller, a Fifties sci-fi frightener, as well as a jailhouse classic, a cult Brit crime comedy, and a limited edition collection of a Japanese auteur’s early works. ![]()
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