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Tips for Tuesday: New to DVD on 9/5
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Recent TheatricalsDead Man's Shoes (Magnolia) -- A fantastic revenge thriller from British director Shane Meadows. (audio commentary, featurette, deleted scene, alternate ending)
District B13 (Magnolia) -- One of the craziest action flicks in years, and a whole lot of fun. (mini-doco, extended fight scene, blooper reel)
Kinky Boots (Miramax) -- Yet another drag queen shoe store musical comedy from the UK. (audio commentary, two deleted scenes, two featurettes)
United 93 (Universal) -- A fine film (with an inevitably harrowing finalé), but not one that screams out for repeat viewings. (director's commentary, featurette, memorial pages)
Unknown White Male (Wellspring) -- The validity of this documentary has been questioned, but either way it's a fascinating look at the horrors of amnesia. (six featurettes)
Catalog Titles
Blade Runner (Warner Bros.) -- Be aware: This is the same DVD as the current BR release, only with a new anamorphic transfer. The mega-swanky Special Editions arrive next year!
Brazil (Criterion) -- A one-disc (and now-anamorphic) version of Criterion's superlative three-disc set. (director's commentary)
Frankenstein Unbound (Fox) -- From director Roger Corman, starring John Hurt, Bridget Fonda, Raul Julia and Jason Patric. Yep, it's a weird one. (no extras)
Gojira (Sony) -- Includes the U.S. version and (for the first time) the original uncut Japanese version of the classic monster movie. (audio commentaries, documentaries, featurettes, etc.)
Seven Samurai (Criterion) -- 'Nuff said. (two audio commentaries, three documentaries, featurettes, etc.)
Direct-to-Video
Broken Trail (Sony) -- Technically this Robert Duvall oater was made for cable, but I think it's one of the best Westerns in years. (featurette)
Dorm Daze 2 (Lionsgate) -- If there's anything better than a National Lampoon "comedy," it's the sequel. (extras tbd)
The Plague (Sony) -- Earth's children fall into a coma, only to awaken years later with unpleasant things on their collective mind. (audio commentary, eight deleted scenes)
Population 436 (Sony) -- How does a town maintain the exact same population for 100 years? (alternate ending)
Godzilla Slouches Toward Tokyo To Be Reborn
Filed under: Horror », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », New Releases », New on DVD »
Imagine you're a film executive. You've just been handed a powerful cautionary tale about nuclear power produced in the only nation on earth to ever be on the receiving end of atomic weapons. It seems to be missing something, though. Suddenly it dawns on you. It needs ... Perry Mason!September 5 marks the first official U.S. release of Ishirô Honda's Gojira in any video format. The 1954 film was re-edited and released to U.S. theatres as Godzilla: King of the Monsters, excising forty minutes of the original with new footage featuring Raymond Burr (who, to be honest, would not play Perry Mason until 1957) as American reporter Steve Martin-- edited into the film. Gojira, of course, tells the tale of a monstrous dinosaur-like creature spawned by nuclear tests in the South Pacific who comes ashore in Japan to perform spontaneous urban renewal.
According to an item on USA Today's website, Classic Media is releasing a two-disk set that will include both versions of the film. Additional features will include an audio commentary from Steve Ryfle, author of Japan's Favorite Mon-star (The Unauthorized Biography of Godzilla) and publisher Ed Godiziszewski, an original movie poster slide show, a featurette on the making of the Godzilla suit, and a 16-page booklet.
Gojira, of course, spawned countless sequels and imitators, even though Gojira itself was made to cash in on the success of the 1953 film The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. 2004's Godzilla: Final Wars, was promoted as the Big G's final appearance, but.then so was Godzilla Vs. Destroyah (1995), so Godzilla will no doubt be squashing pedestrians between his toes again one day soon.
Godzilla composer dead
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Akira Ifukube, the man who composed the main theme to the
original Gojira (Godzilla) movie in 1954 passed away on Wednesday of multiple organ failure. Ifukube's composition was
used in some of the subsequent Godzilla releases as well. Besides scoring for Godzilla, he also produced over 300
pieces of music throughout his career, which began in the late 1930s and eventually brought him to what is now called
the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1946. I pride myself on being able to recognize the Godzilla
theme, something that surely earns me at least a few geek points.
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