The Brave
 

Depp's The Brave is also available on Italian R2.

Sleeping With The Enemy extended cut
 

Just FYI, I got the Australian R4 DVD of <b>Sleeping With The Enemy</b> and it's actually an extended version of the theatrical U.S. release. The first love scene between Martin & Laura is extended by about a minute at least. It's not noted anywhere on the packaging, but I did compare it with my laserdisc (just in case I was forgetting, since It's been a while since I've seen the movie) and there's definitely new stuff there!

Julio Medem
 

LA ARDILLA ROJA on Spain R2, coming soon on UK r2.
Sex and Lucia coming soon on Spain r2.

Hou Hsiao Hsien
 

Four Hou Hsiao-Hsien 80's films will be released in Taiwan in May.
The dvds will be supervised by Hou.
I'll post the update info.
The titles are:
Time to Live and time to Die
Boys from fengkuei
Summer at Grandpa
Dust in the Wind

recent UK releases:

Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky) 2DVD R2 PAL
L`Appartement (Gilles Mimouni) R2 PAL
Eureka (Shinji Aoyama) R2 PAL

coming soon to the UK

27 May 2002
Dekalog - The Ten Commandments - Parts 1-5
Dekalog - The Ten Commandments - Parts 6-10
(OOP in the US)

17 Jun 2002
Dead or Alive (Takashi Miike)

Re: Hou Hsiao Hsien
 

Cool beans! Do you have any idea if these will have Eng subs?

Hou Hsiao Hsien
 

Don't know about the eng subs yet. The first pressing would be limited boxset edition (2000 copies only!). A dvd-9 pressing with bonus materials.

...received these two DVDs from Italy yesterday:

° Valerio Zurlini's 1976 Il Deserto dei Tartari

- released by Istituto Luce / Region2/PAL / DVD-9 SS-DL RSDL / 141 minutes / anamorphic 1.85:1 / Italian DD 2.0 Stereo / Italian DD 5.1 Remastered / Spanish DD 1.0 Mono / optional Italian and English subtitles / extras: Interview with Giuliano Gemma (Italian only) / original trailer

- my rating: Movie: ***/**** - DVD: excellent

http://onfilm.chireader.com/MovieCaps/D/DE/20218_DE SERT_OF_THE_TARTARS.html

° Nanni Moretti's 2001 Cannes 'Golden Palm' winner La Stanza del Figlio

- released by WB / Region2/PAL / DVD-9 SS-DL RSDL / 95 minutes / non-anamorphic 1.66:1 letterbox / Italian DD 2.0 Stereo / optional English and French subs, Italian captions for the HoH / extras: interview with Nanni Moretti / short film Il giorno della prima di Close Up / original trailer, plus trailers for six other Nanni Moretti movies / filmographies

...haven't watched that disc yet (noticed, just in time, that I'd run out of Kleenex - which, from all reports, you need a lot of when watching this movie ;) ...

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I just wanted to say that the reg 2 Andromedia is anamorphic.

That looks interesting. What’s the movie like?

I just watched this today and have to say it's pretty bizarre. I don't really know what to think of it. On one hand it's like a cheesey made for Sci Fi channel movie, but on the other it's still pretty good. I don't know if you know much about the movie, but it stars a girl pop group called Speed and some boy band who's name escapes me right now. The boy band evne break out in to a song and dance at one point after escaping from some evildoer's. The story is about a girl who dies and is brought back by her father as computer program with her memories and appearance. From there her boyfriend and friends try to keep her safe from the villian(Christopher Doyle Wong Kar Wai's usual Cinematographer) and his lackey's. There is some pretty silly stuff, such as Doyle some how taking control of a VW Bug by remote control. I don't know if I can recomend it for the price, but I think it's worth checking out.

Scottish Historical Films
 

There are a few Scottish historical films available from UK sources that are not available on DVD in the US. Cromwell Films, the production company, specializes in documentaries on military strategy using re-enactment groups for extras. The films listed mix dramatic scenes with established actors (Oliver Reed, Brian Blessed) with battle scenes using reenacters (the same strategy Ted Turner used on a larger scale in GETTYSBURG).

1746--THE LAST HIGHLAND CHARGE (CHASING THE DEER)
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0109405

THE BRUCE
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0115766

Having seen VHS copies (that were avaialble in the US) I can say that CHASING THE DEER is quite good and THE BRUCE is good but confusing if you are unfamiliar with scottish history.

For background information on the battles in question, Cromwell has compiled 3 of its strategic documentaries (BANNOCBURN, CULLODEN and STIRLING BRIDGE) that cover the historical incidents on a DVD called SCOTTISH BATTLES.

NB. I ordered these 3 titles from Amazon.UK. While THE BRUCE played fine in my Malata N-966, I had problems with CHASING THE DEER and SCOTTISH BATTLES: CTD will play the supplemental features but freezes when you try to play the movie; SB loads fine but freezes when you try to select one of the battles to play. I am returning these discs for repalcements and will post if the new versions paly without problems.

PRIVATES ON PARADE (region 2 denmark,john cleese)FIRE & ICE(region 4 austraila,director ralph bakshi)KICKBOXER 2 (region 4 austraila,sascha mitchell)

I just got the Delta Force from Bensons World, Region 2 UK. The burned-in English subtitles are there. Also, the disc is anamorphic. I finally have a copy of my favorite cheesy terrorist action picture of the 80s the way it's supposed to be. :)

The Region 2 UK versions of Moonstruck and Anatomy of a Murder are also anamorphic.

RKO Tarzans / THE FACE OF FU MANCHU
 

There are two budget priced TARZAN collections available from Australia (I got mine from EZYDVD). Each DVD has three RKO Tarzan features. The quality of the prints used are fair to good, and they were transferred to DVD well. Vol. 1 has TARZAN AND THE MERMAIDS, TARZAN AND THE LEOPARD WOMEN, and TARZAN AND THE AMAZONS. Vol. 2 has TARZAN TRIUMPHS, TARZAN'S DESERT MYSTERY, and TARZAN AND THE HUNTRESS.

I hadn't seen any of these movies since seeing them as a kid on television, so I was pleased to watch pretty good presentations at a cheap price.

Another childhood favorite, THE FACE OF FU MANCHU (or LE MASQUE DE FU-MANCHU) is available on DVD from France. French subtitles are optional. Good, anamorphic presentation of the movie, and extras include: short videotape interview with Christopher Lee discussing the film, short discussion of the film - in French - by some enthusiast of the film, trailers, stills, and promotional materials.

Feel The Motion is only released in Germany
but does have english language available.
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Geld Oder Leber
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Falco - Everything
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Only Fools And Horses - Dates (UK R2) needs to be added :)

r2 scandanavia has ordinary decent criminal, starring kevin spacey and linda fiorentino.

info <a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0160611">here</a>.

r2 scandanavia also has the old Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis and everyone else famous flop <a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110687">North</a>. I'm looking over at http://dvdoo.dk and finding these.

Just wanted to add a title:

Visconti's The Damned (Caduta degli dei, La) (1969) is available in region 2 Italy on 5/19 with English subtitles.

Cynthia: You can remove "Taboo" ("Gohatto") from the Canadian exclusive list as it is being released in the U.S. by York Entertainment on August 13th, 2002.

Blood Oath, a great film about Australian POWs under Japanese control, and their story of surviving and dying under the brutalities of war, is available in Australia. For those Russell Crowe completists, this is a great one.

Any chance the first season of "Boston Public" will be coming to dvd in any region sometime in the near future?

Could someone confirm if "The Piano Teacher" DVD set for release on 6/25 is exclusive to Canada? I've only found listings at 2 Canadian sites, and a search on DVDPriceSearch and BargainFlix shows no such listing. Thank you!

Here are a couple of new British releases:

Croupier: This is an enormous improvement over the Canadian version if you can play region 2 PAL. It features a commentary by director Mike Hodges and is anamorphic widescreen.

Kagemusha: Kurosawa's 2nd to last samarai movie. This new DVD has no extras.