July 11th is chock-full of some stellar cult classic releases on Blu-ray and DVD, so hopefully you guys have been saving your pennies. Scream Factory is keeping busy with a trio of titles, including The Man From Planet X, a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray for Species, and Sex Doll. Arrow Video has put together a stunning special edition set for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse that you’ll definitely want to add to your home media collections, and both The Fifth Element and Peter Jackson’s King Kong are getting a 4K release, too.
Other notable titles for July 11th include Star Crystal, Vampire Cop, The Blessed Ones, Devil’s Domain, The Magicians: Season Two and a Don’t Look in the Basement/Don’t Look in the Basement 2 double feature.
The Man From Planet X (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)
From the farthest reaches of space it came … is it friend or foe?...
Other notable titles for July 11th include Star Crystal, Vampire Cop, The Blessed Ones, Devil’s Domain, The Magicians: Season Two and a Don’t Look in the Basement/Don’t Look in the Basement 2 double feature.
The Man From Planet X (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)
From the farthest reaches of space it came … is it friend or foe?...
- 7/11/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Scream Factory sets their sights on the stars to bring a visitor from deep space onto Blu-ray with their July 11th home media release of The Man from Planet X, and we've been provided with three Blu-ray copies of the 1951 sci-fi film to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers.
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Prize Details: (3) Winners will receive (1) Blu-ray copy of The Man from Planet X.
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Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on July 17th.
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Prize Details: (3) Winners will receive (1) Blu-ray copy of The Man from Planet X.
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- 7/10/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The first visitor from outer space in the ’50s sci-fi boom is one very curious guy, dropping to Earth in a ship like a diving bell and scaring the bejesus out of Sally Field’s mother. Micro-budgeted space invasion fantasy gets off to a great start, thanks to the filmmaking genius of our old pal Edgar G. Ulmer.
The Man from Planet X
Blu-ray
Scream Factory / Shout! Factory
1951 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 71 min. / Street Date July 11, 2017 / 27.99
Starring: Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond, William Schallert, Roy Engel, David Ormont.
Cinematography: John L. Russell
Film Editor: Fred R. Feitshans, Jr.
Original Music: Charles Koff
Written and Produced by Aubrey Wisberg, Jack Pollexfen
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
One of the first features of the 1950s Sci-Fi boom, 1951’s The Man from Planet X set a lot of precedents, cementing the public impression of ‘little green men from Mars’ and...
The Man from Planet X
Blu-ray
Scream Factory / Shout! Factory
1951 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 71 min. / Street Date July 11, 2017 / 27.99
Starring: Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond, William Schallert, Roy Engel, David Ormont.
Cinematography: John L. Russell
Film Editor: Fred R. Feitshans, Jr.
Original Music: Charles Koff
Written and Produced by Aubrey Wisberg, Jack Pollexfen
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
One of the first features of the 1950s Sci-Fi boom, 1951’s The Man from Planet X set a lot of precedents, cementing the public impression of ‘little green men from Mars’ and...
- 6/16/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Have you ever had a roommate who just wouldn't pay their share of the rent? Three friends face this dilemma in Matthew John Lawrence's short film Larry Gone Demon, but the only problem is that their fellow housemate is seemingly straight out of hell. You can watch their blood-splattered struggle in its entirety right here on Daily Dead, and we also have an exclusive clip from Last Girl Standing, as well as a new Vr video from #Room301.
Watch the Short Film Larry Gone Demon: "A frenetic, punk-rock nightmare centering on one asshole of a roommate.
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- 11/1/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
'127 Hours' movie with James Franco '127 Hours' Review: James Franco stars in harrowing real life-based story 127 Hours. When I initially heard that Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar-winning team behind Slumdog Millionaire, were adapting the real life story of Aron Ralston for the big screen, I got excited. A movie seemed an inevitability when the story broke in the news – and Ralston wrote a book about it – but I couldn't have imagined such a great filmmaking team actually working on it. When James Franco was cast as Ralston, my hopes hit a high. Franco is an underrated and remarkably talented actor unfortunately snubbed by most for his wonderful work in 2008's Milk and Pineapple Express. Danny Boyle also happens to be a very skilled director, one whose style tends to be hyperkinetic. Though it worked beautifully in Slumdog Millionaire and Trainspotting, Boyle's touch actually hinders, rather than enhances,...
- 5/7/2015
- by Nathan Donarum
- Alt Film Guide
Nancy Pelosi is having something of a regime change. Nadeam Elshami is the new Pelosi chief of staff, while John Lawrence, who held that position for eight years, has announced he's stepping down.
"On behalf of my colleagues, I want to thank John Lawrence for his 38 years of service to the House of Representatives," Pelosi says in a statement. "Few staff members have ever had the impact that John has had on so many laws that have been enacted in his years in my office as speaker and as democratic leader, and with Chairman George Miller. I wish John and Deborah well and will always value their friendship."
Elshami had been acting as Pelosi's communications director, but will take over as the House Minority Leader's chief of staff on Feb. 1. During his 21-year career, Elshami worked in both the House of Representatives and the Senate and under government officials like...
"On behalf of my colleagues, I want to thank John Lawrence for his 38 years of service to the House of Representatives," Pelosi says in a statement. "Few staff members have ever had the impact that John has had on so many laws that have been enacted in his years in my office as speaker and as democratic leader, and with Chairman George Miller. I wish John and Deborah well and will always value their friendship."
Elshami had been acting as Pelosi's communications director, but will take over as the House Minority Leader's chief of staff on Feb. 1. During his 21-year career, Elshami worked in both the House of Representatives and the Senate and under government officials like...
- 1/17/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
For a film adapted from a semi-autobiographical novel by a writer who lived an incredibly storied life - and adapted by a near thirty-year veteran director, at that - Nagisa Oshima's famous Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence doesn't seem to reflect much of their collective wisdom. Set in a World War II prison camp for the Allied forces who surrendered to the Japanese after the invasion of Java, Merry Christmas is the story of Jack Celliers (David Bowie), a British commando (and stand-in for the novelist Laurens van der Post). Once Celliers is transferred to the camp John Lawrence (Tom Conti), an interpreter, realises the other man's arrival threatens to disrupt the fragile peace he's trying to maintain between the prisoners and their Japanese overseers. But...
- 10/29/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Written and directed by Nagisa Ôshima, the UK Blu-Ray Premiere of Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is available in a Double Play disc set on 17th October. We have three copies of the Blu-ray to give away.
Based on The Seed and The Sower by Laurens Van Der Post, in 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers (David Bowie) comes to a Japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi (Ryûichi Sakamoto), who has a firm belief in discipline, honour and glory. In Yonoi’s view, the allied prisoners are all cowards after choosing to surrender in the war instead of committing suicide. When one of the prisoners, interpreter John Lawrence (Tom Conti), tries to explain the Japanese way of thinking, he is considered a traitor.
Blu-Ray Extras:
- The Oshima Gang – Making of Featurette
- An Interview with Jeremy Thomas
- An Interview Ryûichi Sakamoto
-Theatrical Trailer
All you need to...
Based on The Seed and The Sower by Laurens Van Der Post, in 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers (David Bowie) comes to a Japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi (Ryûichi Sakamoto), who has a firm belief in discipline, honour and glory. In Yonoi’s view, the allied prisoners are all cowards after choosing to surrender in the war instead of committing suicide. When one of the prisoners, interpreter John Lawrence (Tom Conti), tries to explain the Japanese way of thinking, he is considered a traitor.
Blu-Ray Extras:
- The Oshima Gang – Making of Featurette
- An Interview with Jeremy Thomas
- An Interview Ryûichi Sakamoto
-Theatrical Trailer
All you need to...
- 10/12/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
To mark the release of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (1983), In the Realm of the Senses (1976) and Empire of Passion (1978) all from Writer / Director Nagisa Oshima and all of which are all making their way to Blu-ray on 17th October, Studio Canal have given us 5 copies of each movie to give away!
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Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (1983)
Written by Nagisa Ôshima Starring: David Bowie, Tom Conti and Ryûichi Sakamoto Available in Double Play disc set
In 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers (David Bowie) comes to a Japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi (Ryûichi Sakamoto), who has a firm belief in discipline, honour and glory. In Yonoi’s view, the allied prisoners are all cowards after choosing to surrender in the war instead of committing suicide. When one of the prisoners, interpreter John Lawrence (Tom Conti), tries to explain the Japanese way of thinking,...
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Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (1983)
Written by Nagisa Ôshima Starring: David Bowie, Tom Conti and Ryûichi Sakamoto Available in Double Play disc set
In 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers (David Bowie) comes to a Japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi (Ryûichi Sakamoto), who has a firm belief in discipline, honour and glory. In Yonoi’s view, the allied prisoners are all cowards after choosing to surrender in the war instead of committing suicide. When one of the prisoners, interpreter John Lawrence (Tom Conti), tries to explain the Japanese way of thinking,...
- 10/12/2011
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Directed by Nagisa Ôshima
United Kingdom/Japan, 1983
David Bowie’s golden hair stands out on the burnt island of Rarotonga. He doesn’t fit into the landscape. He doesn’t fit with his Japanese captors. He certainly doesn’t fit with his fellow imprisoned British soldiers. Like Terence Stamp in Pasolini’s Teorema, Bowie’s Jack Celliers lands square in the midst of foreign territory and sends everything and everyone into a rebellious and subtly sexual upheaval.
Jack Celliers (aka ‘Strafer’ Jack) is tossed into a WWII prison camp run by the charismatic, unbalanced, and frequently violent Gengo Hara (a young, pre-scar Takeshi Kitano). Hara already has an uneasy relationship with another British prisoner John Lawrence (Tom Conti), which oscillates from friendly to cruel. Captain Yonoi (Japanese rock star Ryûichi Sakamoto, who also composed the film’s iconic score) first meets Celliers when the latter is...
Directed by Nagisa Ôshima
United Kingdom/Japan, 1983
David Bowie’s golden hair stands out on the burnt island of Rarotonga. He doesn’t fit into the landscape. He doesn’t fit with his Japanese captors. He certainly doesn’t fit with his fellow imprisoned British soldiers. Like Terence Stamp in Pasolini’s Teorema, Bowie’s Jack Celliers lands square in the midst of foreign territory and sends everything and everyone into a rebellious and subtly sexual upheaval.
Jack Celliers (aka ‘Strafer’ Jack) is tossed into a WWII prison camp run by the charismatic, unbalanced, and frequently violent Gengo Hara (a young, pre-scar Takeshi Kitano). Hara already has an uneasy relationship with another British prisoner John Lawrence (Tom Conti), which oscillates from friendly to cruel. Captain Yonoi (Japanese rock star Ryûichi Sakamoto, who also composed the film’s iconic score) first meets Celliers when the latter is...
- 7/11/2011
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
James Franco is stuck between a rock and a hard place in this harrowing true story of survival and determination.
The Set Up:
Mountain climber Aron Ralston (James Franco) has a history for being a loner. So when he ventures off into the Utah wilderness on his lonesome, his family thinks nothing of it. But when he gets his arm stuck under a rock, Ralston must comes to terms with the path he has taken through life as he does anything, and Everything, to survive.
Cast: James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Sean Bott, and John Lawrence
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Written by: Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy (Based on the book Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston)
What is it nominated for?
Best Picture, Best Actor (James Franco), Best Adapted Screenplay (Danny Boyle, Simon Beufoy), Best Song (A.R Rahman, Roland "Rollo" Armstrong Dido), Best Original Score (A.
The Set Up:
Mountain climber Aron Ralston (James Franco) has a history for being a loner. So when he ventures off into the Utah wilderness on his lonesome, his family thinks nothing of it. But when he gets his arm stuck under a rock, Ralston must comes to terms with the path he has taken through life as he does anything, and Everything, to survive.
Cast: James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Sean Bott, and John Lawrence
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Written by: Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy (Based on the book Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston)
What is it nominated for?
Best Picture, Best Actor (James Franco), Best Adapted Screenplay (Danny Boyle, Simon Beufoy), Best Song (A.R Rahman, Roland "Rollo" Armstrong Dido), Best Original Score (A.
- 2/21/2011
- Cinelinx
Chicago – The film recently hit theaters, but we’re excited to present 25 admit-two run-of-engagement tickets so you can see one of HollywoodChicago.com’s most-raved films of 2010: “127 Hours” from Danny Boyle (the Oscar-winning director of “Slumdog Millionaire”)! And in this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, you can even see the incredible true story of Aron Ralston (as portrayed by James Franco) for free at the convenient time of your choosing!
“127 Hours” also stars Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Sean Bott, Koleman Stinger, Treat Williams, John Lawrence, Kate Burton, Bailee Michelle Johnson, Rebecca C. Olson, Parker Hadley, Clémence Poésy, Fenton Quinn and Lizzy Caplan from director Danny Boyle and writers Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy. The film opened in Chicago on Nov. 12, 2010. Read our interview with “127 Hours” director Danny Boyle here and our rave review of “127 Hours” here.
These passes are valid at Landmark Century Centre Cinema in Chicago at the time...
“127 Hours” also stars Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Sean Bott, Koleman Stinger, Treat Williams, John Lawrence, Kate Burton, Bailee Michelle Johnson, Rebecca C. Olson, Parker Hadley, Clémence Poésy, Fenton Quinn and Lizzy Caplan from director Danny Boyle and writers Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy. The film opened in Chicago on Nov. 12, 2010. Read our interview with “127 Hours” director Danny Boyle here and our rave review of “127 Hours” here.
These passes are valid at Landmark Century Centre Cinema in Chicago at the time...
- 11/18/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – The power of Danny Boyle is his every film doesn’t look like the last. From “Trainspotting” to “28 Days Later…” to “Sunshine,” his career so far has culminated in the triumphant “Slumdog Millionaire,” which won best picture at the 2009 Oscars.
While Boyle’s directorial range is wide, he says each project holds one central tenant near and dear: life-affirming themes. But what you’ve never seen Boyle do is a true story – that is, until now with the highly anticipated Friday release of the non-superhero, true-story film “127 Hours”.
“127 Hours” director Danny Boyle.
Photo credit: Fox Searchlight
Boyle almost signed onto a different true-story film earlier in his career, he says in his Chicago interview with HollywoodChicago.com, but it didn’t come together. And “127 Hours,” which is based on the 2004 true-story book “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” by Aron Ralston, also almost didn’t come to fruition.
While Boyle’s directorial range is wide, he says each project holds one central tenant near and dear: life-affirming themes. But what you’ve never seen Boyle do is a true story – that is, until now with the highly anticipated Friday release of the non-superhero, true-story film “127 Hours”.
“127 Hours” director Danny Boyle.
Photo credit: Fox Searchlight
Boyle almost signed onto a different true-story film earlier in his career, he says in his Chicago interview with HollywoodChicago.com, but it didn’t come together. And “127 Hours,” which is based on the 2004 true-story book “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” by Aron Ralston, also almost didn’t come to fruition.
- 11/12/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
It’s your gods. It’s your bloody, awful, stinking gods. They made you what you are. May they rot away in the filthy hell they came from!
A film dealing with cultural and identity conflicts between POWs in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, when done well, would be a worthy addition to any director’s career. But with Nagisa Oshima’s career already being an amazing array of risks (and always proud to take them), his 1983 film Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is just one more notch on the belt of a varied film maker.
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, an adaptation of Laurens van der Post’s two books dealing with his experiences in World War II as a prisoner of war (The Seed and the Flower and The Night of the Moon) tells the story of the relationships between four men in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
A film dealing with cultural and identity conflicts between POWs in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, when done well, would be a worthy addition to any director’s career. But with Nagisa Oshima’s career already being an amazing array of risks (and always proud to take them), his 1983 film Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is just one more notch on the belt of a varied film maker.
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, an adaptation of Laurens van der Post’s two books dealing with his experiences in World War II as a prisoner of war (The Seed and the Flower and The Night of the Moon) tells the story of the relationships between four men in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
- 10/1/2010
- by James McCormick
- CriterionCast
He is Harry Potter no more. So what's he lining up next? Deadline / Variety confirm that Daniel Radcliffe will be starring in Hammer Films' new gothic thriller The Woman In Black. This is based on the "modern classic novel" The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story written by Susan Hill and illustrated by John Lawrence. Kick-Ass / Stardust writer Jane Goldman is adapting the script for James Watkins, of Eden Lake, to direct. Radcliffe will play young lawyer Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote pocket of Blighty to tend to a deceased client's papers. Kipps soon begins to uncover the ghostly secrets of the house and local village. Hammer Films, a classic company behind a lot of the Christopher Lee horror flicks in the 70's, is preparing quite a comeback over the next few years, with other films like The Way Back and The Resident in...
- 7/19/2010
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
With the new Eclipse box set, Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties, hitting store shelves today, it appears as though Criterion is set to release yet another film from the legendary director, Nagisa Oshima.
Best known as the man behind the controversial film, In The Realm of The Senses, the new box set includes films like Pleasures of the Flesh, Violence At Noon, Sing a Song Of Sex, Japanese Summer: Double Suicide and Three Resurrected Drunkards, Criterion has now announced, kind of, that they will be bringing Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence to the collection.
In a tweet this morning, the collection announced that the film would see a release “this year…” which albeit a cryptic piece of news, is quite interesting. This would be Nagisa’s third film in the collection, with Senses and Empire of Passion, and follows a British soldier Jack Celliers who comes to a Japanese prison camp,...
Best known as the man behind the controversial film, In The Realm of The Senses, the new box set includes films like Pleasures of the Flesh, Violence At Noon, Sing a Song Of Sex, Japanese Summer: Double Suicide and Three Resurrected Drunkards, Criterion has now announced, kind of, that they will be bringing Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence to the collection.
In a tweet this morning, the collection announced that the film would see a release “this year…” which albeit a cryptic piece of news, is quite interesting. This would be Nagisa’s third film in the collection, with Senses and Empire of Passion, and follows a British soldier Jack Celliers who comes to a Japanese prison camp,...
- 5/19/2010
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
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