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I have the Blu Ray from 2014 but will probably upgrade to this or the Umbrella release.

Some more tiles revealed at the Severin Super Shock Pop-UP Film Festival
The Ark Of The Sun God (1984)
Delicatessen (1991)
Terror-Creatures From The Grave (1965)
Glass Ceiling (1971)

dwk wrote: Sun Aug 25, 2024 2:47 pm Some more tiles revealed at the Severin Super Shock Pop-UP Film Festival
The Ark Of The Sun God (1984)
Delicatessen (1991)
Terror-Creatures From The Grave (1965)
Glass Ceiling (1971)

Would love to finally get Jeunet and Caro shorts in HD

Supervixens is an interesting one - does this mean that the Russ Meyer estate's iron grip on his rights and 35mm pre-print materials has finally been broken?

It sounds tenaciously like it. Or at least Severin figured out the cheat code to butter them up as Criterion did Eustache.

Is Faster Pussycat Kill Kill? still with Fox or is that with the estate too?

It never was with Fox. Meyer's estate released it on Blu-ray a few years ago, but that appears to have been a one-off testing-the-water experiment.

Fox's two titles were Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and The Seven Minutes, the latter of which we were sadly unable to upgrade to HD, although God knows we tried, including going via personal contacts with the company. But given what subsequently happened to the Fox catalogue I have no regrets whatsoever about biting the bullet and releasing The Seven Minutes on DVD only.

I posted this in the Russ Meyer thread, so I'll do it here too. Severin's Andrew Furtado tweeted

This is a secret I've had to keep for 5 damn years as we have been working to be the company to access the RM Films vault. Lots of ups and downs... But that's what you want from a Russ Meyer film, right?!

Hopefully, this is just the tit of the iceberg.

I placed a first-time order during the last sale two months ago, and still no sign of it. From reading the thread in the other place I'm impressed by how Severin operates this way consistently, a really impressive show of force against their customers. Criterion could learn a thing or two.

Black Hat wrote: Fri Sep 06, 2024 11:26 pm I placed a first-time order during the last sale two months ago, and still no sign of it. From reading the thread in the other place I'm impressed by how Severin operates this way consistently, a really impressive show of force against their customers. Criterion could learn a thing or two.

Criterion could indeed learn a thing or two; they could put a clear sale delivery time section on their website for customers to refer to like Severin did. We are still very much within that period. I ordered within the first few days of the sale (6 weeks ago or so) and my order is only being delivered Monday.

When I hit submit I thought my post was a solid double in the gap but, now it has soared over the wall.

HARD WOOD THREE DISC SET
INCLUDES THREE ED WOOD ‘70s ADULT FILMS
PLUS A WOOD-SCRIPTED BONUS MOVIE
AND 7+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES

Near the end of his career, angora-loving auteur Edward D. Wood, Jr. earned his booze funds by writing and directing these lurid adult features, now restored uncut from the ultimate source elements for the first time ever: NECROMANIA – in both hard and soft versions – stars Rene Bond and The Amazing Criswell’s coffin in a tale of weird love shot in two days by Ed while wearing a pink babydoll outfit. Uschi Digard stars in THE ONLY HOUSE IN TOWN, a softcore saga of nonsensical dialog and orgiastic depravity. Wood’s bizarre final film, the thought lost THE YOUNG MARRIEDS, is presented in hard and its never-before-seen soft versions. As a Bonus, J. Pat O’Malley and William Schallert star in the Wood-penned hicksploitation rarity SHOTGUN WEDDING, plus over 7 hours of Special Features that include a conversation with Bobcat Goldthwait and Dana Gould produced exclusively for this collection, the North American disc debut of The Incredibly Strange Film Show – Ed Wood Jr., 9 vintage sex loops and much more.

DISC 1: BLU-RAY (NECROMANIA)
Audio Commentary With Ed Wood Summit Host Greg Javer And Author Paul Apel (Softcore Version Only)
THE ONLY HOUSE IN TOWN
Audio Commentary With Ed Wood Summit Host Greg Javer And Spicy Goldman Of Capri Show World
Trailer

DISC 2: BLU-RAY (THE YOUNG MARRIEDS)
Audio Commentary With Ed Wood Summit Host Greg Javer And Porn Archeologist/Collector Dimitri Otis
Sex Loops With Subtitles By Ed Wood

DISC 3: BLU-RAY (SHOTGUN WEDDING)
The Incredibly Strange Film Show Season 2, Episode 4: Ed Wood Jr.
Dana Gould And Bobcat Goldthwait Talk Ed Wood's Twilight Era
The Mad Genius Of Ed Wood – Interview With Carl Abrahamsson, Author Of Inbetween The Lines – Essays On Occulture, Magic, And Seductive Zombie Strippers
A Brief Encounter With Ed – Interview With Filmmaker Fred Olen Ray On His Ill-Fated Wood Collaboration, BEACH BLANKET BLOODBATH

Disc Specs:
Runtime: 239 mins
Audio: English Mono
NECROMANIA, THE ONLY HOUSE IN TOWN, THE YOUNG MARRIEDS: English Subtitles
SHOTGUN WEDDING: Closed Captions
Region Free
Aspect Ratio: NECROMANIA, THE ONLY HOUSE IN TOWN, THE YOUNG MARRIEDS: 1.33:1
SHOTGUN WEDDING: 1.85:1

SCALA THREE-DISC COLLECTION 
WITH 13 HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES

Between the politically volatile years of 1978 to 1993, London’s most infamous repertory movie theater/pleasure dome screened over 4000 mind-warping films that influenced a generation of remarkable writers, musicians, filmmakers, actors, artists and activists. Co-directors Jane Giles and Ali Catterall now reveal the incredible true story of the Scala Cinema featuring rare archival footage, dozens of film clips from Scala favorites and interviews with former Scala audience members, guests and staff that include John Waters, Ben Wheatley, Jah Wobble, Cathi Unsworth, Mary Harron, Kim Newman, Nick Kent, Isaac Julien, Matt Johnson and more, with 13 hours of Bonus Materials such as the new documentary SPLATTERFEST EXHUMED directed by Jasper Sharp (THE CREEPING GARDEN) about the infamous 1990 all-night horror festival featuring interviews with attendees John McNaughton, Brian Yuzna, Scott Spiegel and more, plus 12 specially curated Scala-screened short films and hours of additional material.

DISC 1: BLU-RAY
Audio Commentary With Co-Directors Jane Giles And Ali Catterall
Introduction From The UK Premiere At The 2023 BFI London Film Festival
Introduction To SCALA By Director Michael Clifford
SCALA (Michael Clifford, 1990)
SCALA CINEMA (Ali Peck/Victor de Jesus, 1992)
Director Commentary For SCALA CINEMA
Scala Programs 1978–1993
Cabinet Of Curiosities – Inside The Scala Archive
Extended Interviews
Mary Harron Outtakes
Nick Kent Outtakes
Thurston Moore Outtakes
John Waters Outtakes
Cartoons By Davey Jones
Osbert Parker's SCALA!!! Animation Experiments And Outtakes
Primatarium Animation
Scala Programs Animation
Tentacles Animation
Trailer

DISC 2: BLU-RAY
DIVIDE AND RULE – NEVER! (Newsreel Collective, 1978)
DEAD CAT (David Lewis, 1989)
David Lewis Remembers DEAD CAT
THE MARK OF LILITH (Bruna Fionda/Polly Gladwin/Zachary Nataf, 1986)
RELAX (Chris Newby, 1991)
BOOBS A LOT (Aggy Read, 1968)
KAMA SUTRA RIDES AGAIN (Bob Godfrey, 1971)
COPING WITH CUPID (Viv Albertine, 1991)
ON GUARD (Susan Lambert, 1984)

DISC 3: BLU-RAY
THE ART OF THE CALENDAR (Kier-La Janisse, 2024)
SPLATTERFEST EXHUMED (Jasper Sharp, 2024)
MANIAC 2: MR. ROBBIE (Buddy Giovinazzo, 1986)
Audio Commentary For MANIAC 2: MR. ROBBIE With Buddy Giovinazzo
HORRORSHOW (Paul Hart-Wilden, 1990)
Audio Commentary For HORRORSHOW With Director Paul Hart-Wilden
CLEVELAND SMITH: BOUNTY HUNTER (Josh Becker, 1982) – Original Cut
CLEVELAND SMITH: BOUNTY HUNTER (Josh Becker, 1982) – Producer's Cut
Audio Commentary For The Producer's Cut Of CLEVELAND SMITH: BOUNTY HUNTER With Producer Scott Spiegel
MONGOLITOS (Stéphane Ambiel, 1988)
Audio Commentary For MONGOLITOS With Director Stéphane Ambiel
The Legendary H.G. Lewis Speaks – 1989 Scala Appearance By The Godfather Of Gore

Disc Specs:
Runtime: 96 mins
Audio: English 5.1, English Stereo
Closed Captions

Discs 1&2: Region A | Disc 3: Region Free
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1

Packaged in a firm side-loading slipcase complete with calendar insert and membership card.

Dead Cat is great! It's also in one of BFI's Jarman sets

This might be worth purchasing just for the Bob Godfrey and Viv Albertone films

“Incredible” news about the Ed Woods (although a shame Panty Girls wasn’t included to complete his hardcore period!). Can’t wait to check out Wood’s absolute nadir.

Supposedly the Russ Meyers "Vixen" trilogy was going to come out in December. Wonder if the package has been pushed back; or if it will now be a Black Friday announcement.

These are the "Sex Loops With Subtitles By Ed Wood" found on the 2nd disc:
15" Commercial
Devil Cult
Doc's House Call
Girl On A Bike
Notorious Landlady
The Two Faces Of Kim
Virgin Next Door – Part One
Virgin Next Door – Part Two
Western Lust

Splatterfest Exhumed on disc three of their Scala package runs 80 minutes. I'm admittedly biased (a) because I was at the event that's being exhumed (the all-day all-night Splatterfest event from 1990), so there's a built-in nostalgia factor there from the start, and (b) as a result, I'm one of the talking heads, but I absolutely loved this - I had no idea at the time of filming that they'd be going into such forensic behind-the-scenes detail about the logistical challenges of setting an event like this up in the first place and what to do when things go wrong (especially on the night). And I knew next to nothing of this at the time because I was merely a paying customer.

And it was a particularly interesting experience to be on the other side of the camera in someone else's film, because coherently recalling events from nearly three and a half decades ago is hard! And 1990 is recent compared with the age of the memories that my colleagues and I usually try to tease out of people.

Discussion of replacement discs, color space and framing issues on the UHD Opera:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.ph ... 49&page=73

Russ Meyer's titles are up for pre-order
Russ Meyer's Vixen.
“THE QUINTESSENTIAL RUSS MEYER FILM.”
Roger Ebert

THE WORLDWIDE UHD/BLU-RAY PREMIERE
AVAILABLE IN 4K AND HD FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER
RESTORED UNCUT WITH 3+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES

Amid the cultural chaos of 1968 and armed with a budget of only $70,000, producer/director/cinematographer Russ Meyer transcended sexploitation by crafting this “bosomacious melodrama” (Time Magazine) about racism, communism, bush pilots, draft dodgers and a ferociously free-spirited wife named Vixen (the incredible Erica Gavin of BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS and CAGED HEAT). Despite attempts at censorship that included one of the first-ever X ratings and 23 separate U.S. prosecutions for obscenity, it became one of the year’s top-grossing movies, forever transformed independent film and remains the creative template for Meyer’s unapologetic vision of American cinema. VIXEN is now scanned in 4K from the original negative restored by The Museum of Modern Art with over 3 hours of new and archival Special Features curated by Severin Films in conjunction with The Russ Meyer Trust.

Disc 1: 4K UHD
Archival Audio Commentary With Co-Writer/Producer/Cinematographer/Co-Editor/Director Russ Meyer
Audio Commentary With Actress Erica Gavin
Trailer

Disc 2: Blu-ray
1981 Censor Prologue (Theatrical Re-Release)
Archival Audio Commentary With Co-Writer/Producer/Cinematographer/Co-Editor/Director Russ Meyer
Audio Commentary With Actress Erica Gavin
Woman... Or Animal? – Interviews With Actors Erica Gavin And Harrison Page
David Del Valle's The Sinister Image With Guests Russ Meyer And Yvette Vickers
Entertainment... Or Obscenity? – Marc Edward Heuck On The Film's Historic Cincinnati Censorship Battles
Trailer

Disc Specs:
Runtime: 71 mins
Audio: English Mono
4K Video: HDR10
Closed Captions
Region Free
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

Russ Meyer's Supervixens
“RUSS MEYER AT HIS OUTRAGEOUS BEST.”
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner

THE WORLDWIDE UHD/BLU-RAY PREMIERE
AVAILABLE IN 4K AND HD FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER
RESTORED UNCUT WITH 3+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES

Following the ‘serious’ features THE SEVEN MINUTES and BLACK SNAKE, this 1975 return to form written, photographed, edited, produced and directed by Russ Meyer remains perhaps his most over-the-top and savagely entertaining epic of all: When a hot-blooded wife (Shari Eubank) and a psychotic cop (a startling performance by Charles Napier of THE BLUES BROTHERS fame) come together, it will ignite a cross-country odyssey of violence, vengeance and relentless coitus. John Lazar (BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS), Uschi Digard (BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRAVIXENS) and Haji (FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!) co-star in Russ’ “super-sexy live-action Road Runner cartoon” (Empire), now restored by Severin Films in conjunction with The Russ Meyer Trust and scanned in 4K from the original negative stored at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

Disc 1: 4K UHD
Archival Audio Commentary With Writer/Cinematographer/Editor/Producer/Director Russ Meyer
Trailer

Disc 2: Blu-ray
Archival Audio Commentary With Writer/Cinematographer/Editor/Producer/Director Russ Meyer
Russ Meyer Versus The Porn-Busters – Mike Carroll Interview With Russ Meyer
The Return Of Harry Sledge – Interview With Actor Charles Napier
The Incredibly Strange Film Show Season 1, Episode 5: Russ Meyer
Trailer
TV Spot

Disc Specs:
Runtime: 106 mins
Audio: English Mono
4K Video: HDR10
Closed Captions
Region Free
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Russ Meyer's Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens
“HIGHLY RECOMMENDED…
Everything in this film has been kicked into overdrive –
the dialogue, the narration, the sex, the whole look,
all come blasting down on you with both barrels.”
Rock! Shock! Pop!

THE WORLDWIDE UHD/BLU-RAY PREMIERE
AVAILABLE IN 4K AND HD FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER
RESTORED UNCUT WITH 2+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES

The final feature produced, photographed, edited and directed by Russ Meyer is a wicked take on Our Town, co-written by Meyer and Pulitzer Prize winner Roger Ebert (BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS). Russ’ latter-day muse Francesca ‘Kitten’ Natividad stars – along with Uschi Digard, Ann Marie, June Mack, Candy Samples and Russ himself – in this unwashed look at Small Town, U.S.A., complete with faith healers, war criminals, bosom buddies and the loin-girding quest for sexual salvation. Because the original elements for BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRAVIXENS had been stored in less-than-optimal conditions, Severin Films devoted months to the painstaking restoration of its weather-damaged negative before scanning it in 4K and compiling over 2 hours of new and archival footage, all with the blessing and cooperation of The Russ Meyer Trust.

Disc 1: 4K UHD
Archival Audio Commentary With Co-Writer/Producer/Cinematographer/Editor/Director Russ Meyer
Trailer

Disc 2: Blu-ray
Archival Audio Commentary With Co-Writer/Producer/Cinematographer/Editor/Director Russ Meyer
The Latin Brünhilde – Interview With Actress Kitten Natividad
Talk It Over – Ellen Adelstein Interviews Russ Meyer For Her Tucson Talk Show In 1979
Still Talking It Over – New Interview With Ellen Adelstein
Trailer

Disc Specs:
Runtime: 93 mins
Audio: English Mono
4K Video: HDR10
Closed Captions
Region Free
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Too bad there isn't a bundle that's not the ultra-deluxe merch bundle. I'm definitely going to be waiting for a sale on these (though ironically I believe they're much cheaper than the official laserdisc editions from two decades ago).

The Russ Meyer films are also available on Severin's UK site.

Identical to the US release.

Severin has started to announce their upcoming Black Friday slate. First title: Delicatessen (1991)

***SEVERIN BLACK FRIDAY TITLE REVEAL #1***
DELICATESSEN
THE NORTH AMERICAN UHD PREMIERE 3 DISC COLLECTION WITH 6 HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES
It’s been called “murderously funny” (The Los Angeles Times), “subversively stylish” (The New York Times) and “a visually stunning achievement” (DVD Talk). Now experience “the most charming post-apocalyptic cannibal comedy ever made” (Starburst) in UHD for the first time ever: From co-writers/directors Jean-Pierre Jeunet (AMÉLIE) & Marc Caro (THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN) and producer Claudie Ossard (BETTY BLUE) comes the “darkly moving and strangely uplifting” (Salon) dystopian fable – nominated for 10 César Awards – about odd jobs and strange neighbors, circus stars and troglodytes, fresh meat and true love. Dominique Pinon (DIVA), Jean-Claude Dreyfus (A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT) and Howard Vernon
(THE AWFUL DR. ORLOFF) star in “a classic from beginning to end” (Little White Lies), now restored in 4K from the original camera negative by StudioCanal under the supervision of Jeunet, with an incredible 6 hours of new and archival Special Features curated exclusively for this edition.
Special Features for DELICATESSEN:
UHD:
• Audio Commentary With Co-Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Trailer

BLU-RAY Disc 1:
• Audio Commentary With Co-Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Interview With Co-Directors Jean-Pierre Jeunet And Marc Caro
• Fine Cooked Meats – The Making Of DELICATESSEN
• Copains Comme Cochons – Interview With Co-Director Marc Caro
• The Tale Of 'Terry Gilliam Presents DELICATESSEN' – Interview With Terry Gilliam
• Trailer

BLU-RAY Disc 2:
• Main Course Pieces – A Retrospective
• Take Your Pig – Interview With Actor Jean-Claude Dreyfus
• Archival Interviews With Cast, Crew And Critics
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet Archives
• LE BUNKER DE LA DERNIÈRE RAFALE – Short Film By Jean-Pierre Jeunet And Marc Caro
*Exclusive Booklet By Claire Donner Of The Miskatonic Institute Of Horror Studies

Feature Specs for DELICATESSEN:
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Runtime: 100 mins
• Audio: French 5.1, French Stereo
• Subtitles: English
• Region: UHD: A/B/C, Blu-ray Disc 1: A, Blu-ray Disc 2: A/B/C