Nico Mastorakis Limited Edition Blu-ray Collection

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Nico Mastorakis Limited Edition Blu-ray Collection

#1 Post by Finch » Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:46 pm

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The Time Traveller / Sky High / Terminal Exposure / Glitch / Ninja Academy / The Naked Truth

SNYOPSIS:

He’s back! One of the most infamous B-movie maestros to have ever sat in a director’s chair, Nico Mastorakis returns to Arrow Video with a collection of sci-fi shenanigans and screwball comedies that will take you out of this world! First up, Nico then shows a more thoughtful side in The Time Traveller, where the widow (Adrienne Barbeau, The Fog) of an astronaut and her young son come across a mysterious man (Keir Dullea, 2001: A Space Odyssey) with uncanny powers on a beach in Greece. The wacky Sky High sees three American jocks on holiday in Greece being handed a tape by a mysterious figure, who begs them to not let it fall into the wrong hands before being shot by an unseen assassin. Featuring an early score from the great Hans Zimmer, Terminal Exposure focuses on two carefree beach photographers, who accidentally photograph a murder and immediately set after the assassin: a tall, gorgeous blonde with a rose tattoo on her behind. Glitch! sees two bumbling burglars whose attempt to throw the house party of the century in the luxury home of a Hollywood producer is foiled by a group of mobsters determined to collect what the producer owes them – no matter what. Take a martial arts school, throw in a snotty rich kid, a clumsy geek, a paranoid survivalist, two beach joggers, a cool secret agent and a mime, and you get Ninja Academy, a madcap karate comedy like no other starring Gerald Okamura (Big Trouble in Little China). Finally, in The Naked Truth, Mastorakis pays homage to a certain Billy Wilder film when two friends decide to pass as women and pose as makeup artists for a local beauty pageant to elude a vicious mafia boss. It seems like the perfect cover, until the mafioso gets the hots for one of them! Zany, shocking and unhinged, Nico Mastorakis offers a satirical and sardonic skewering of American cinema with a chutzpah that must be seen to be believed!

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations
Original stereo and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio sound
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Nico’s Self Interviews, six brand new interviews with writer, director and producer Nico Mastorakis where he looks back on how the films in this collection came to be, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and cast and crew interviews
Dan Hirsch: A Revealing Self-Interview, a brand new interview with the star of Sky High Dan Hirsch looking back on his role in the film
Gerald Okamura, Ninja Academy’s “Chiba” Remembers, a brand new interview with Gerald Okamura, looking back on his role as Chiba in Ninja Academy, and his career as an actor and martial artist
Original trailers for each film - Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the career Nico Mastorakis by critic Barry Forshaw
Limited Edition Deluxe packaging with reversible sleeves featuring newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch

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Re: Nico Mastorakis Limited Edition Blu-ray Collection

#2 Post by zedz » Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:31 pm

oh yay

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Re: Nico Mastorakis Limited Edition Blu-ray Collection

#3 Post by yoloswegmaster » Thu May 30, 2024 10:06 am

Final artwork for the boxset, though I doubt anyone here really gives a shit about this release:

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Re: Nico Mastorakis Limited Edition Blu-ray Collection

#4 Post by zedz » Tue Nov 05, 2024 2:52 pm

I realize that Arrow have just surrendered the extras for his films to Mastorakis himself, but his 'featurette' for The Time Traveller is astounding in its worthlessness.

Mastorakis talks for a few minutes about the film (casting shade on Adrienne Barbeau for claiming she only made it to get a trip to Greece; accusing John Caropenter of ripping him off) before saying "here are some of my favourite scenes from the film" and seguing into six extracts from the film we've already watched adding up to about twenty minutes - no commentary or explanation why he likes them - before he pops up again for a sayonara.

Mastorakis' self-made fan edit of his own movie is probably a better use of your time than slogging through the entire thing, but what the fuck?

I wonder if Arrow are having buyer's remorse about their "everything I ever did and me too" Mastorakis deal yet?

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Re: Nico Mastorakis Limited Edition Blu-ray Collection

#5 Post by black&huge » Tue Nov 05, 2024 4:23 pm

zedz wrote:
Tue Nov 05, 2024 2:52 pm
I wonder if Arrow are having buyer's remorse about their "everything I ever did and me too" Mastorakis deal yet?
cue Jason Robards' regret speech from Magnolia

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Re: Nico Mastorakis Limited Edition Blu-ray Collection

#6 Post by colinr0380 » Tue Nov 05, 2024 7:13 pm

zedz wrote:
Tue Nov 05, 2024 2:52 pm
(casting shade on Adrienne Barbeau for claiming she only made it to get a trip to Greece)
That does not seem like too bad a reason to accept a role! According to imdb, Barbeau later on in the mid 1990s took the title role in Corman-produced Russian adaptation of a Bram Stoker short story, Burial of the Rats, simply for the chance to visit Russia! Whilst that film is not particularly great, it is perhaps most notable for featuring a score from Eduard Artemeyev, who of course had scored Tarkovsky's Solaris, Mirror and Stalker.

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