Overpar

More import listings at Amazon.com...

Exiled
http://www.amazon.com/Exiled-Blu-Ray...9335832&sr=8-1

Tae Guk Gi-Brotherhood of War
http://www.amazon.com/TAE-GI-BROTHER...d=HO67D46DZ1IS

An Empress of the Warriors
http://www.amazon.com/Empress-Warrri...d=HO67D46DZ1IS

I have Exiled, which is a great film. I am seriously considering Brotherhood of War. I haven't seen it yet, but the trailers look good. I love war movies!

Keep the imports coming Amazon!

pro-bassoonist

Gaumont are set to release Luc Besson's Le Grand Bleu a.k.a The Big Blue (1988) on November 26th (French territories only).

Variety:
Pro-B

bunkaroo

^^^

Hmm haven't seen this one in a long time - I may get it.

I just remember the DVD having the "cigarette burns" in the top corner. Hopefully that's been eliminated here.

bunkaroo

Wow I love this trend of Amazon getting imports, especially since I have Prime.

One FYI - Taegukgi is 1080i. It still looks great, but it's worth noting all the same.

pro-bassoonist

Set to be released in France on November 18th. Courtesy of Aventi.

Ciao,
Pro-B

MBoyd

I saw Empress Of The Warriors during my March trip to China. I can't recommend this one. Pretty much a snoozer and it looked kind of cheap too. Plastic and rubber looking helmets and swords were easily seen on the big screen.

They are probably listed somewhere in this thread already but if you can catch Assembly on Blu Ray it's a top notch Chinese film and comparable to anything Hollywood puts out. The beginning reminded me a lot of Saving Private Ryan. Warlords looked pretty cool too unfortunately I didnt see it with English subs.

A few weeks ago in Hong Kong, I saw the new John Woo, Red Cliff. Liked it as well but felt ripped off when it said "to be continued" at the end. Didn't say Part 1 in English on the advertisements! If I am not in China to see Part 2 I will be grabbing that import if possible to at least see what happens. Supposedly it will be cut into one film in the U.S.

dizzlle01

Anyone have a list of all the import Amazon have listed. Is there a way to search for it? I also notice they have CJ7 listed.

pro-bassoonist

update:

Fellini's Casanova will offer three separate tracks: French, Italian, and English 2.0. As to the actual disc it appears that Carlotta have licensed a formidable set of supplements:

1. AUTOUR DE CASANOVA : PISTE INFORMATIVE - a picture in picture elaborate exploration of the history of Casanova.

2. ET FELLINI CRÉA LE CASANOVA (28mn - with Gianfranco Angelucci) - discussing the shooting process and history of the film.

3. POLY-GAMMIES" EN LA MINEUR (21mn - composer Alexandre Desplat analyzing the legendary score by Nino Rota)

4. LES MÉMOIRES D'UN CASANOVISTE (22 mn - Film historian Alain Jaubert on Casanova).

Plus: gallery of stills, trailers, cast/crew info, a 73 min retake on Fellini's project by the initial cast, and more.

Ciao,
Pro-B

dkny75

I haven't found an easy way to look for all imports since some have them listed as imports and others don't. As for CJ7, there is a U.S. Sony release that has special features as opposed to the bare bones Hong Kong release.

HumanMedia

There is a short list of existing imports, I dont know how complete, at the very bottom of:

http://www.releaselists.com/BLURAYUSA-0.html


And as mentioned CJ7 was a legit USA release.

Tutut

One+One / Sympathy for The Devil, the real cover:

Giles

DVDbeaver has the preorder links up for

Hidden [Blu-ray] (Michael Haneke, 2005) RB UK Artificial Eye
Zatoichi [Blu-ray] (Takeshi Kitano, 2003) RB UK Artificial Eye

pro-bassoonist

update:

I just received the disc for Amelie and despite the fact that the press-sheet indicates English subs such are NOT found on the disc. Very strange, as they also appear on the company's official site.
http://www.dvdtvafilms.com/movie_detail.php?movie_id=29

In any event, on my disc English subs are not available.

(On a side note on the C.R.A.Z.Y release, as indicated on the press-sheet English subs ARE available).

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bunkaroo

Thanks for the timely update - I was able to cancel my pre-order.

Very disappointing. Hopefully it's an error and they will re-press.

Walker Boh

Damn.
Thanks for letting us know.

Overpar

Sophie Scholl UK Blu-ray Region-free plus NTSC extras!

Drakes Avenue Pictures have announced the UK Blu-ray Disc release of Sophie Scholl on 27th October 2008 priced at £24.99 RRP. Echoing Downfall’s contemplation of the darkest period of Germany’s history, the award winning Sophie Scholl is a heartbreaking drama, based on real life events and the activities of the White Rose resistance group.

The All Region Blu-ray Disc presents the film in 1080P and offers two and half hours of extras (in SD NTSC format so they’re compatible with all players), which is actually quite impressive given how barebones (and non-anamorphic) the DVD release was back in April '06. Using a dual-layer BD50, features include:

* 1080/24p 1.85:1 Widescreen
* German PCM Stereo
* Optional English subtitles
* Behind-the-Scenes of the Production – ‘Making of Sophie Scholl’ Multi-part documentary (55mins)
* 12 Deleted and Alternate Scenes (36mins)
* Historical Interviews:
o Franz Muller (White Rose Member) & Walter Gebel (nephew of Sophie Scholl’s cellmate Else Gebel) (19mins)
o Will Mohr (son of Inspector Mohr) (7mins)
o Elisabeth Hartnagel (Sister of Sophie and Hans Scholl with archive trial footage) (30mins)
* Trailer



More about the film…

Munich, 1943. 21 year old Sophie Scholl and a group of young men put leaflets denouncing Hitler into envelopes. When Sophie’s brother Hans offers to distribute more at the university the next day, Sophie also volunteers to help. They seem to have achieved their task safely until Sophie showers leaflets over the atrium as the bell for recess rings. As Sophie and Hans try to escape, the caretaker denounces them.

At Gestapo headquarters Sophie is interrogated by Robert Mohr, a one-time country policeman elevated by Hitler’s regime. An intense psychological duel ensures in the interrogation room between Sophie and Mohr; she lies and denies then schemes and challenges. Ultimately crushing evidence is presented and, though forced to confess, Scholl fights to save the lives of her brother and friends.

Based on transcripts of the interrogation and witness interviews, Marc Rothemund’s Sophie Scholl is a tense and illuminating account of an extremely courageous stance taken against overwhelming odds. Featuring a startling, Silver Bear Berlin winning performance from Julia Jentsch (Downfall, The Edukators) in the title role, the film also won a Silver Bear for its director as well as numerous other European film awards.

pro-bassoonist

A lot of the UK companies will be doing similar packages (with some notable ones having standard-def extras entirely on a second disc).

Pro-B

Tutut

In France, from Bac editions on December 9 :

Dead Man de Jim Jarmusch
Sailor & Lula de David Lynch
Hoodwinked! de Todd Edwards et Tony Leech
Miss Potter de Chris Noornan
Scary movie 2 de Keenen Ivory Wayans
Scorpion de Julien Seri
The Barber des Frères Coen
Dragon Hunters de Guillaume Ivernel et Arthur Qwak
Un conte de Noël d’Arnaud Desplechin

Josh Z

"Sailor & Lula" being the international title for Wild at Heart, in case that needs clarifying.

It's one of my least favorite of Lynch's films, but it should be interesting to watch in HD. And, frankly, even the worst of his older movies look like masterpieces after Inland Empire.

MBoyd

I'd pick up Dead Man for sure.

Giles

but is it the uncensored print, with the decaptation scene unfogged?

Josh Z

Lynch added the digital smoke effect himself, and frankly it looks better that way. Without the smoke, the gore looks really fake.

Traditionally, European editions of the movie have not had the smoke there.

HumanMedia

I for one, prefer the uncensored version. It happens so fast you dont really get time to study it for defects, it just hits you and leaves an impression. The 'smoke' added just make it seem like something is being covered up.

Josh Z

Conversely, the smoke over that image ties in with the many images of smoking in the movie, and also with the many references to The Wizard of Oz.

Tutut

I'm not sure about that, the french distributor Wild Side released a collector edition of this film with the smoke effect.

About Wild Side, Manuel Chiche, their boss, said in an interview:
Pour le Blu-ray de La nuit nous appartient, c'est correct, mais le démarrage n'est pas exceptionnel sur ce support.
Et surtout, il y a encore trop d'éditions merdiques : comment convaincre les gens avec si peu de rigueur ?

"About our We Own The Night Blu-Ray edition, it's correct, but the start is not great on this support.
And especially, there still are too many shitty editions: how to persuade people with so little seriousness?"


He said they actually have nothing planned for classics on Blu-Ray, they thought about some Shaw Brothers movies,
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin or One Armed Swordsman trilogies or some old classics as they are remastering
in HD Macbeth, Letter from an Unknown Woman and Secret beyond the door... then in the end he said it could be Suspiria first.