![]() This limited edition set is already backordered on Amazon if you didn’t pre-order you might have a hard time returning to the video store. An early script by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, who at the time were specializing in high concept/low budget favorites for Band like “Trancers,” it has a really fun vibe and complements the other titles (including Stuart Gordon’s “Robot Jox” and monster movie “Cellar Dweller”) well. The five movies here are all winners but the big coup is “Arena,” which wasn’t even released on Blu-ray when Band put out his extensive, 16-title “Empire Pictures Collection” a few years ago (it was relegated to DVD). Serving as a celebration of producer Richard Band and his Empire Pictures, it looks to capture the sensation of wandering into your local video store on a sleepy Friday night and picking out something based on the outrageousness alone. This might be the most anticipated release of the month, even though a number of titles in this box set have already been released on Blu-ray (with most being long out-of-print). One of the month’s biggest must-owns.Įnter the Video Store: Empire of Screams (June 27) If you’ve never seen “The Servant,” a movie the Los Angeles Times said was the coldest movie ever made, it’s a diabolical and satirical look at class and sex, with one of the all-time great performances by Bogarde (who stepped in to help an ailing Losey with direction during production). Among the supplemental offerings: a dissection of director Joseph Losey’s filmmaking style (at the time he made “The Servant” he was living overseas after having been blacklisted in Hollywood) several audio excerpts from Losey around the time of “The Servant’s” release plus a look at screenwriter Harold Pinter and archival bits about the other actors in the movie. This Criterion disc features the movie – about a society man (James Fox) who gets more than he bargained for when he hires a manservant (Dirk Bogarde) – taken from a new 4K transfer, plus a whole host of special features. “The Servant” celebrates its 60th anniversary this year and finally gets the home video release it deserves. And the extras are absurd – everything from a commentary track (recorded by Criterion back in 1997) to an 80-minute conversation between Gilliam and scholar Peter von Bagh to archival footage of Shelley Duvall talking about the film. If for some reason you never got the earlier Criterion release or are looking for the best quality version of this movie, then this is for you. And this new 4K transfer makes his tactile worlds seem even more tangible. Made with Gilliam’s usual sense of imagination and wonder but aimed at slightly younger audiences, “Time Bandits” broadened the filmmaker’s appeal without diluting it at all. If you’ve never seen the movie, it follows a young boy who goes on an adventure with a bunch of rascals who travel through time stealing stuff. They included stories about Weird Al, women warriors in 19th-century Africa, the #MeToo movement, and Elvis Presley-that one’s Elvis, obviously.The Terry Gilliam 4K train keeps on chugging! The latest in this string of exemplary releases is a new version of “Time Bandits,” his daffy, delightful time travel romp co-written by Michael Palin and financed by George Harrison’s HandMade Films (Harrison also provided the songs for the movie). (By the way, if you want to explore even more films, take a look at the 2022 list of movies based on true stories. So, if you’re a fan of movies that will immediately send you down a Wikipedia hole for more info after you’re done viewing them, check out the list below. (Naturally, those movies are titled Flamin’ Hot and Cocaine Bear.) There are also films about more unlikely subjects, such as the man who claims he created Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and a bear that ate a bunch of cocaine in the 1980s. Some of the biopics out this year are about French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, and long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad. This year’s slate includes movies based on historical figures, on outrageous news stories, on true crimes of the past, and on the lives of iconic writers, musicians, and more. movies for under 10 on dvd online or even cheaper in charity stores. Just look to every biopic, every movie based on a nonfiction book or article, and every movie a director makes that’s inspired by their own life. Shirley Temple at her best comedy musical, Walk the Line (2005) The story of American. Of course, films being based on or inspired by real-life events are a very common occurrence. Does art imitate life or does life imitate art? Don’t think too hard about that age-old question right now, because we’re just going to go with the first option when it comes to this year’s movies that are based on true stories.
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