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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Classic Films on Blu-ray: BILL AND TED, HIGHLANDER, DEKALOG, VALLEY OF THE DOLLS and More

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Here are the classic films newly released on Blu-ray on September 27, 2016:

  • BILL AND TED'S MOST EXCELLENT COLLECTION (1989, 1991)
  • HIGHLANDER: 30TH ANNIVERSARY (1986)
  • DEKALOG (1988)
  • VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1967)
  • CABO BLANCO (1980)
  • CHOPPING MALL (1986)
  • SLUGS (1988)
  • LADY IN WHITE (1988)

Find out more about each Blu-ray release after the jump.



BILL AND TED'S MOST EXCELLENT COLLECTION (1989, 1991)


Product Description: Wyld Stallyns couldn’t drag you away from this MOST EXCELLENT COLLECTION!

From the past to the future, and to Hell and back… witness the triumphant travels of history’s most significant slackers Bill & Ted, in a bodacious, two-film Blu-ray set that’ll have you tuning up your air guitar for a stellar solo!

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure finds our non-heinous heroes (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) in danger of flunking History: a most odious proposition! But when the righteous Rufus (George Carlin) arrives in a time-traveling phone booth, the dense dudes discover their destiny… and call on the past’s biggest names for help!

In Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, the titular time travelers aren’t making history: they are history! When an evil-doer from the future sends eviller robot twins of Bill & Ted to assassinate and replace good, non-robot Bill & Ted, the guys wind up face to face with the Grim Reaper (William Sadler)! Can the now-dead duo escape, defeat their evil doppelgangers, and win their Battle of the Bands contest?

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, William Sadler

Director: Stephen Herek, Peter Hewitt

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Running Time: 93 min

Special Features:
  • Audio Commentary for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure with Star Alex Winter and Producer Scott Kroopf
  • Audio Commentary for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure with Writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon
  • Audio Commentary for Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey with Star Alex Winter and Producer Scott Kroopf
  • Audio Commentary for Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey with Writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon
  • Time Flies When You Are Having Fun! - A Brand-New Extensive Documentary Looking Back at a Most “Excellent Adventure," featuring Stars Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, and several other members of the cast and crew
  • Bill & Ted Go To Hell – A Brand-New Extensive Documentary Revisiting a “Bogus Journey,” featuring Stars Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, and several other members of the cast and crew
  • The Most Triumphant Making-Of
  • The Original Bill & Ted: In Conversation with Chris & Ed
  • The Hysterical Personages of Bill & Ted
  • Score! An Interview with Guitarist Steve Vai
  • Air Guitar Tutorial With Bjorn Turoque & The Rockness Monster
  • Vintage EPK
  • The Linguistic Stylings of Bill and Ted
  • Theatrical Trailers
  • 2 Bill And Ted Stickers
  • Wyld Stallyns Guitar Pick





HIGHLANDER: 30TH ANNIVERSARY (1986)


Product Description: Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the original cult classic that inspired movie and TV franchises! An immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his immortal opponents, a murderously brutal barbarian who lusts for the fabled “Prize.”

Starring: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart

Director: Russell Mulcahy

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Running Time: 116 min

Special Features:
  • The Making of Highlander
  • Interviews with Director Russell Mulcahy and Actor Christopher Lambert
  • Archival Interview with Actor Christopher Lambert
  • Audio Commentary by Director Russell Mulcahy
  • Deleted Scenes






DEKALOG (1988)


Product Description: This masterwork by Krzysztof Kieslowski is one of the twentieth century’s greatest achievements in visual storytelling. Originally made for Polish television, Dekalog focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Using the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, Dekalog’s ten hour-long films deftly grapple with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time. Shot by nine different cinematographers, with stirring music by Zbigniew Preisner and compelling performances from established and unknown actors alike, Dekalog arrestingly explores the unknowable forces that shape our lives. Also presented are the longer theatrical versions of Dekalog’s fifth and sixth films: A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love.

Starring: Artur Barcis, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Olaf Lubaszenko, Piotr Machalica, Krystyna Janda

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski

Genre: Drama

Running Time: 561 min

Special Features:
  • New high-definition digital restorations of A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays
  • Selection of archival interviews with director Krzysztof Kieslowski, culled from footage from the 1987 production of Dekalog: Two, excerpts from the 1995 documentary A Short Film About “Dekalog,” and a 1990 audio recording from the National Film Theatre in London
  • New program on the visual rhyming of Dekalog by film studies professor Annette Insdorf
  • New and archival interviews with Dekalog cast and crew, including cowriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz, thirteen actors, three cinematographers, editor Ewa Smal, and Kieslowski’s confidante Hanna Krall
  • Trailers
  • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay and film analyses by film scholar Paul Coates and excerpted reprints from Kieslowski on Kieslowski





VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1967)


Product Description: Cutthroat careerism, wild sex, and fierce female protagonists are all on offer in this adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's sensational and wildly popular novel. Patty Duke, Barbara Parkins, and Sharon Tate star as three friends attempting to navigate the glamorous, pressurized world of big-time show business—the “valley” is not a place but a narcotized state of mind, and the “dolls” are the pills that rouse them in the morning and knock them out at night. Blending old-fashioned gloss with Madison Avenue grooviness, director Mark Robson’s slick look at the early days of sexual liberation and an entertainment industry coming apart was a giant box-office hit, and has become an unforgettably campy time capsule of the 1960s.

Starring: Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Sharon Tate, Paul Burke

Director: Mark Robson

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Running Time: 123 min

Special Features:
  • Audio commentary from 2006 featuring actor Barbara Parkins and journalist Ted Casablanca
  • New interview with author Amy Fine Collins about author Jacqueline Susann and the film
  • New video essay by critic Kim Morgan
  • Footage of Marc Huestis Presents Sparkle Patty Sparkle!, a 2009 gala tribute to actor Patty Duke at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco
  • A World Premiere Voyage and Jacqueline Susann and “Valley of the Dolls,” two promotional films from 1967
  • Archival interviews
  • Trailers and TV spots
  • PLUS: An essay by film critic Glenn Kenny





CABO BLANCO (1980)


Product Description: Newly Restored in HD! The stakes of the game are high, the rules hard, and each man and woman must play to win! Out of the sun-bleached woodwork, the players emerge. Cliff Hoyt (Charles Bronson, The White Buffalo), the ex-patriot American trying to forget. Gunther Beckdorff (Jason Robards, The Day After), the ex-Nazi seeking oblivion. And Marie Claire Allesandri (Dominique Sanda, The Conformist), the beautiful French woman in search of her missing lover. Against an explosive background, heightened by all the hopes, fears, greed and confusion of the post-war years, the three are thrown into an unforgettable tale of romance, adventure and intrigue. Wonderfully Directed by the great J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear) and featuring a stellar cast that includes Fernando Rey (The French Connection I & II), Simon MacCorkindale (Death on the Nile), Camilla Sparv (Downhill Racer), Gilbert Roland (Barbarosa), Clifton James (Juggernaut), James Booth (Avenging Force), Martin LaSalle (Pickpocket) and Aldo Sambrell (Navajo Joe).

Starring: Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Dominique Sanda, Fernando Rey

Director: J. Lee Thompson

Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime

Running Time: 92 min

Special Features:
  • The Making of Cabo Blanco Featurette
  • Audio Commentary by Paul Talbot, author of Bronson's Loose and Bronson's Loose Again
  • Video Interview with Producer Lance Hool
  • Original Trailers





CHOPPING MALL (1986)


Product Description: Vestron Video has been a leader in providing the most unique and wide-ranging selection of films. We honor the spirit of Vestron Video by presenting the Vestron Video Collectors Series - a line of classic genre films newly remastered and with a wealth of supplementary features. --Lionsgate

Some people will kill for a bargain and at the Park Plaza Mall they do! Here, you can shop till you drop...dead!

High tech robots equipped with state-of-the-art security devices have been recruited as the new mechanical night watchmen for the Park Plaza Mall. When a jolting bolt of lightning short circuits the main computer control, the robots turn into killbots...on the loose after unsuspecting shoppers! Four couples are trying to make it after-house in a mattress store. They make it all right...in the morgue! --Lionsgate

Starring: Kelli Maroney, Tony O'Dell, Russell Todd, Barbara Crampton

Director: Jim Wynorski

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Running Time: 77 min

Special Features:
  • Audio Commentary with Director/Co-Writer Jim Wynorski, Actress Kelli Maroney, and Co-Writer/2nd Unit Director Steve Mitchell
  • Audio Commentary with Historians/Authors Nathaniel Thompson (Mondo Video) and Ryan Turek (Shock Till You Drop)
  • Audio Commentary with Director/Co-Writer Jim Wynorski and Co-Writer/2nd Unit Director Steve Mitchell
  • Back to the Mall
  • Chopping 'Chopping Mall'
  • The Killbots
  • Scoring 'Chopping Mall'
  • The Robot Speaks
  • The Lost Scene
  • Army of One
  • Chopping Mall: Creating the Killbots
  • Isolated Score Track by Chuck Cirino
  • Trailer





SLUGS (1988)


Product Description: From celebrated Spanish director Juan Piquer Simón, the man behind the truly demented slasher flick Pieces (1982), comes a terrifying tale of mutant slugs on the rampage in small-town America.

The townsfolk of a rural community are dying in strange and gruesome circumstances. Following the trail of horrifically mutilated cadavers, resident health inspector Mike Brady is on the case to piece together the mystery. He soon comes to a terrifying conclusion giant slugs are breeding in the sewers beneath the town, and they re making a meal of the locals!

Based on the novel by acclaimed British horror author Shaun Hutson, Slugs outdoes its creature feature peers by adding an extra dose of gross-out gore into the equation, culminating in one of the most squirm-inducing animal attack movies ever to slither its way across screens.

Starring: Michael Garfield, Kim Terry, Philip MacHale, Alicia Moro

Director: Juan Piquer Simón

Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi

Running Time: 92 min

Special Features:
  • Audio commentary by writer and filmmaker Chris Alexander
  • Here's Slugs In Your Eye an interview with actor Emilio Linder
  • They Slime, They Ooze, They Kill: The Effects of Slugs
  • Invasion USA
  • The Lyons Den
  • 1988 Goya Awards promo reel
  • Original Theatrical Trailer
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Wes Benscoter
  • Fully-illustrated collector s booklet featuring new writing by writer Michael Gingold




LADY IN WHITE (1988)


Product Description: The ghosts of the dead can’t rest without the help of the living in this terrifying horror film that's "one of the most intelligent and riveting ghost stories since Poltergeist", (LA Weekly). Starring Lukas Haas (Inception, Transcendence), Len Cariou (Blue Bloods), Alex Rocco (The Godfather) and Katherine Helmond (Soap, Who’s the Boss), Lady In White is presented here in both its director’s cut and the never-before-released extended director’s cut.

Frankie Scarlatti (Haas) lives in a small town with a deadly secret. For a decade, a serial child killer has eluded police, and the death toll continues to rise. Then, one night Frankie gets locked in his school and witnesses the ghost of the first victim being murdered. Now, aided by the girl’s restless spirit, Frankie takes it upon himself to bring her assailant to justice. But in a town with no strangers, the killer may be closer than he knows.

Starring: Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Katherine Helmond

Director: Frank LaLoggia

Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Running Time: 113 min

Special Features:
  • EXTENDED Behind the Scenes Footage – production and post production
  • Introduction by Frank LaLoggia
  • Audio Commentary with Frank LaLoggia
  • Behind the Scenes Footage with introduction by Frank LaLoggia
  • Deleted Scenes with introduction by Frank LaLoggia
  • Promotional Short Film
  • Theatrical & Alternate Trailer
  • TV & Radio Spots
  • Behind the Scenes Photo Montage
  • Extended Photo Gallery









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