New Australian DVD and BD Releases

[Adam X]

New Wave Video just announced that they’ll be putting up pre-orders for Visitor Q in Late April!

Great news, but I dearly wish they’d use more than FB for their PR. That place is about as useful as shouting out an open window these days, when you’ve not got an account.

Otherwise, New Wave are doing some wonderful work!

NW are also looking into a small repress of Rubber’s Lover, if anyone missed out.

[Adam X]

I couldn’t find a more appropriate thread for this, so putting it here.

I’d forgotten all about this but the window for making submissions to the review of classification standards in Australia is closing on 18th May, in case any Aussie’s on the forum feel inspired.

Seems especially relevant in light of our ridiculously renamed Border Force pouncing on a well-meaning pervert’s Vinegar Syndrome package earlier this year & sending a good share of the discs off to be classified.

[domino harvey]

Umbrella’s release of Exit 8 will utilize gacha mechanics wherein you receive either a common slipcover or one of four rarer ones (“anomalies”) with stated odds (60%/20%/10%/5%/5%). If at all possible, please do not support this release. It’s bad enough how these boutique labels gouge fans and institute FOMO to drive sales, now they’re literally releasing loot boxes?

[Captain Paranoia]

New Extremity Collection Volume 3 set for 23 September 2026 from Umbrella.

Desire, violence, and the human condition collide in their most uncompromising form with NEW EXTREMITY COLLECTION: VOLUME 3 a fearless quartet of boundary-pushing cinema that confronts the darkest corners of human impulse.

Gaspar Noé’s IRREVERSIBLE delivers a brutal exploration of time, trauma, and vengeance, unfolding in reverse chronology with visceral intensity. Claire Denis’s TROUBLE EVERY DAY blends eroticism with primal hunger in a sensual yet unsettling descent into obsession and cannibalistic desire.

In CAGED, director Yann Gozlan thrusts viewers into a nightmarish underworld where captivity and desperation strip humanity to its rawest instincts. Rounding out the set is Julia Ducournau’s explosive debut RAW, a coming-of-age nightmare that marks a bold new voice in genre cinema.

Together, these four films form a daring showcase of cinema that challenges, provokes, and dares viewers to confront the unflinching realities of flesh and emotion. Viewer discretion is not just advised it’s inevitable.

Directed by Claire Denis; Gaspar Noé; Yann Gozlan; Julia Ducournau
Starring Garance Marillier; Monica Bellucci; Vincent Cassel; Vincent Gallo; Zoe Felix

EXTRAS:
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Only available from the Umbrella webstore, the NEW EXTREMITY COLLECTION VOLUME 3 Collector's Edition includes:
All movies completely uncut and uncensored
100-page book with essays by Jack Sargeant, Tom Augustine, Imran Khan and Kat Ellinger, plus more
Custom artwork by Chris Malbon AKA Melbs 8 art cards
2 x A3 reversible poster
Limited edition numbered release
TROUBLE EVERY DAY:

NEW! Sound Design in Claire Denis’ Trouble Every Day
NEW! I Could Eat You: Critics Emma Westwood and Stephen A Russell discuss Trouble Every Day
NEW! Till Death Do Us Part: Nadine Whitney on Devotion to the Diseased in Trouble Every Day
Trailer
IRREVERSIBLE:

Audio Commentary with Gaspar Noè
NEW! Audio Commentary with Author Stephen Thrower
NEW! Power Trip: Kat Ellinger on Irreversible and Male Violence
Irreversible Straight Cut
Deleted Scene
The Irreversible Odyssey 2019 Documentary
SFX 2003 Interview with Rudolphe Chabrier
Stress and Outrage: Music Videos by Thomas Bangalter
Trailers
CAGED:

NEW! It Takes a Lot of Guts: Lee Zachariah on Captifs
NEW! BIFFF Q&A with Director Yann Gozlan and Actor Zoé Félix 2011
Trailer
RAW:

Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Julia Ducournau and Film Critic Emma Westwood
NEW! Audio Commentary with Critic and Author Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Alternate Opening
Quick Bites with Julia Ducournau and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Genre Matters: 2016 Women Genre Filmmakers Panel with Julia Ducournau, Briony Kidd, Mattie Do, Marisa Brown, Heidi Lee Douglas, Donna McRae, and Isabel Peppard
Australian Premiere Introduction with Monster Fest Director Kier-La Janisse and filmmaker Julia Ducournau
Australian Premiere Q&A with Writer/Director Julia Ducournau and Monster Fest Director Kier-La Janisse
Have You Seen the Cannibal Girl: Publicity Stunt
Raw À Votre Goût: 2017 discussion with Writer/Director Julia Ducournau and Film Critic Emma Westwood
Audience Vox Pops
Trailer

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[therewillbeblus]

Lonesome Dove coming back in print from Via Vision, pretty cheap up on Orbit right now

[swo17]

Umbrella has announced a complete Jodorowsky set (only ships to Australia/New Zealand) and Takashi Miike's MPD Psycho!

[Zot!]

Umbrella has announced a complete Jodorowsky set (only ships to Australia/New Zealand)

Thanks, I bought this for $270 USD including shipping from DeadEndDVD if anybody is looking. So much for limiting sales to Oz. But whoops, there goes my Kubrick budget, but that is okay. The selling point for the Jodorowsky box is that its pretty darn complete and it has the 4 important pictures in UHD and encoded by FiM. Also I am old enough where I had to personally bootleg El Topo and Holy Mountain from a censored oop Japansese laserdisc to videotape, so this is something somewhat unbelievable from that historical viewpoint.

[Finch]

Mark from Orbit said on his livestream that they can't import the Jodorowsky set so that's one option off the table already for interested folks in the US. I doubt Diabolik and Atomic will be different.

[domino harvey]

Orbit hosts a livestream?

[Finch]

Yes, it's usually on a Thursday. Facebook, I think.

[dwk]

It is on YouTube too.

[beamish14]

Umbrella has announced a complete Jodorowsky set (only ships to Australia/New Zealand) and Takashi Miike's MPD Psycho!

MPD Psycho is an instant buy. One of the best manga adaptations I have ever seen. Among Miike’s funniest works as well

[pzadvance]

Yeah that's the one I'm most excited about, though from what I understand it won't really benefit much from the blu-ray format?

[denti alligator]

Umbrella has announced a complete Jodorowsky set (only ships to Australia/New Zealand)

Thanks, I bought this for $270 USD including shipping from DeadEndDVD if anybody is looking. So much for limiting sales to Oz.

Now available for $249.99 from Orbit. I couldn't resist.

[Zot!]

Umbrella has announced a complete Jodorowsky set (only ships to Australia/New Zealand)

Thanks, I bought this for $270 USD including shipping from DeadEndDVD if anybody is looking. So much for limiting sales to Oz.

Now available for $249.99 from Orbit. I couldn't resist.

Glad they found a way, I guess the usual US shops all have it ready for preorder now.

[Peacock]

New Wave have teased online that they will be releasing Love & Pop.

Wonder how it’ll compare to the GKIDS?

[Zot!]

Umbrella has announced a complete Jodorowsky set (only ships to Australia/New Zealand)

Thanks, I bought this for $270 USD including shipping from DeadEndDVD if anybody is looking. So much for limiting sales to Oz. But whoops, there goes my Kubrick budget, but that is okay. The selling point for the Jodorowsky box is that its pretty darn complete and it has the 4 important pictures in UHD and encoded by FiM. Also I am old enough where I had to personally bootleg El Topo and Holy Mountain from a censored oop Japansese laserdisc to videotape, so this is something somewhat unbelievable from that historical viewpoint.

To walk back my "complete"-ness point a bit, apparently Fando and Lis, El Topo, and Holy Mountain will be missing the director commentaries and some deleted scenes that were on earlier Abkco discs. Seems like Umbrella added lots of new stuff in lieu, but those are my favorite kind of extras, so for the obsessives, hold on to your old discs. Furthermore, the biggest oversight is that the original 1.33:1 theatrical aspect ratio of El Topo does not appear in this set. This definitely sours things a bit.

[TechnicolorAcid]

When yakuza enforcer Minami is ordered to dispose of his increasingly unstable mentor, Ozaki, a mysterious disappearance sends him on a journey into a bizarre rural town where reality begins to dissolve. As his search descends into a surreal nightmare filled with eccentric strangers, grotesque visions, and impossible encounters, Minami finds himself trapped in one of cinema's most unforgettable fever dreams. Directed by Takashi Miike, GOZU is a wildly imaginative blend of psychological horror, pitch-black comedy, and Lynchian surrealism that stands as one of the director's most daring and acclaimed works.

New Wave Video is proud to present this special edition of one of the most surreal films ever made, meticulously restored by New Wave Video from the only surviving film elements.

Director Approved Special Edition

NEW 4K restoration from the only surviving 35mm Cannes print by New Wave Video, presented in 2160p Ultra HD with Dolby Vision / HDR10
Feature presented on both 4K UHD and Blu-ray (1080p) discs
NEW Restored 5.1 Audio Soundtrack
NEW Audio commentary by film historian and author Samm Deighan
NEW Interview with director Takashi Miike
NEW Interview with screenwriter and actor Sakichi Sato
NEW Cowhead – video essay by Japanese cinema expert James Balmont
NEW Boys Be Ambiguous: The Mythology of Gozu – video essay by critic Ron Pettersson
NEW Yakuza Horror Theatre: The Transgressive Cinema of Takashi Miike and the Surrealist Nightmares of Gozu - Video essay by critic and film Historian David Michael Brown
Legacy 30-minute making-of documentary
2 hours of raw behind-the-scenes footage
Theatrical trailer
Deluxe Box Set Contents

Rigid hardbox featuring NEW artwork by Justin Coffee w UV/ Spot Gloss
New internal sleeve artwork by Justin Coffee w/ reversible original theatrical Art
Premium envelope housing:
Six collectible postcards, including NEW artwork by Janie O'Brien
Poster featuring NEW artwork by Justin Coffee and the original theatrical artwork
Hardcover book featuring NEW essays by Amber T., Joe Hickinbottom, and Stanley Luk

[Finch]

My goodness that's a stacked release. But Radiance are likely to match it, though with different extras.

[49CHOMPS]

That's a very impressive scale-up from New Wave, a tiny label from Australia.
I see they've already added a title under a sub-label too.

Hopefully it won't be for a long while, but if Third Window ever stops, New Wave will still be around to fill that gap.

[Peacock]

Hopefully Radiance announce theirs soon so we don't miss out on preordering the better set!

[beamish14]

Was the Cannes print what played at arthouses in America? I saw it at the Landmark Nuart, where it had a weeklong run. What a tragedy if it has no interpositives or negative