The Rise of the New Releases for December 13
It’s a good week for pandas, apes, vampires, and Blu-rays (Note: Many of the new high-def discs would make excellent gifts). Here’s the list:
BLU = Also available for rent on Blu-ray
@ = Available for sale in our store
SALE = Also available from our online mercantile
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES—All those times in the theater when I rolled my eyes and snickered during the trailer? I take them back. Andy Serkis is nominated for a Critics Choice Award for this and he absolutely deserves it. BLU @ SALE
KUNG FU PANDA 2—If you ask, “I need a great movie our entire family can watch and enjoy,” I will hand you this without hesitation. BLU @ SALE
FRIGHT NIGHT—Hurrah! An actually good horror remake, made all the more enjoyable by its cast: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, David Tennant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Toni Collette, and Colin Farrell. BLU @
DADDY LONGLEGS—A heartfelt, realistic fairy tale about parenting from brothers Josh and Benny Safdie. @
THE LOVE WE MAKE—Albert Maysles and Bradley Kaplan follow Paul McCartney through New York in the aftermath of 9/11.
DETECTIVE DEE & THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME—Tsui Hark and action director Sammo Hung present this murder mystery/fantasy starring Carina Lau, Andy Lau, and Tony Leung. BLU @ SALE
LEGEND IS BORN: IP MAN—A prequel to the two films about the martial arts master who became Bruce Lee’s mentor. BLU @
TOKYO DRIFTER—“Director Seijun Suzuki’s onslaught of stylized violence and trippy colors is equal parts Russ Meyer, Samuel Fuller, and Nagisa Oshima—an anything-goes, in-your-face rampage.” It’s now available from The Criterion Collection. BLU @ SALE (Use coupon code 2OFF at checkout to get $2 OFF this or ANY Criterion title).
BRANDED TO KILL— Another Seijun Suzuki classic from The Criterion Collection. “This is Suzuki at his most extreme—the flabbergasting pinnacle of his sixties pop-art aesthetic." BLU @ SALE (Use coupon code 2OFF at checkout to get $2 OFF this or ANY Criterion title).
99 AND 44/100% DEAD!—We've been waiting for this to come out on DVD for a long, long time. Richard Harris and 1970s Seattle star in this gangster film from director John Frankenheimer. Read our colleague’s Mark's review in the Scarecrow in Seattle Movie Review archive from the Seattle Office of Film + Music. See if you can spot the UDistrict neighborhood landmark exploding in the trailer. @
ONE NEW VIDEO GAME
Fortune Street (Wii)
ANIME NEW RELEASES
Bleach: Set 11, Episodes 168-179
Kekkaishi: Set Three
Sekirei: Episodes 1-12
Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie & Eizou Hakusho
FAMILY NEW RELEASES
Jim’s Gift
Skeleton Warriors: Complete Series
NEW BLU-RAY
Cape Fear (1961)
City of God @
City of Life and Death—Special Edition
The Expendables—Extended Director’s Cut
Fright Night (1985)
Heavenly Creatures (Uncut) @
Intruder (1989)—Uncensored Director’s Cut @
Loups=Garous
Meet Me in St. Louis @ SALE
Rapture (1965)
The Rocketeer—20th Anniversary Edition
Sherlock Holmes (1922)—starring John Barrymore
Silent World (1956)—directed by Louis Malle
Velvet Goldmine @
NEW TV ON DVD
Family Guy: Volume 9—Uncensored @
Fish: Season 1
Life & Time of Tim: Season 2 @
Once a Thief: Complete Series
Switched at Birth: Volume 1
Todd & The Book of Pure Evil: Season 1
NEW IMPORTS & FOREIGN FILMS
April in Love (2006)—France
Balcony on the Sea (2009)—France
Beautiful Life (2011)—China
Blind (2011)(Code 3)—Korea
Blood Ties (2011)—Singapore
Champions (2008)—Hong Kong
Children of the Revolution (2011)(PAL Code 2)—UK
Circumstance (2011)—Iran
Crossing Hennessy (2010)(Code 3)—Hong Kong
Crime & Punishment (2002)(PAL)—UK
Darkroom: Complete Series (1981)(PAL Code 4)—US
The Drunkard (2010)—Hong Kong
Frontline (2011)(Code 3)—Korea
If You Are The One: Love and Marriage (2008)—China
In Their Sleep (2010)—France
Lilacs in the Spring (1954)—UK
Love For Life (2011)(Code 3)—China
Matter of Size (2011)—Israel
Moby Dick (2011)(Code 3)—Korea
Murder Obsession (1981)—Italy, a Giallo aka Italian horror film @
My Kingdom (2011)(Code 3)—Hong Kong, directed by Sammo Hung
Overheard 2 (2011)—Hong Kong
Phone Shop: Series 1 (2011)(PAL Code 2)—UK
Poongsan (2010)(Code 3)—Korea
Poupoupidou (2011)—France
The Reflecting Skin (1991)—UK
Silent Wagner (1913)—Germany
Sorcerer and The White Snake (2011)(Code 3)—China, directed by Ching Siu-Tung
Toronto Stories (2009)—Canada
The Unjust (2011)—Korea
Vanina Vanini (1961)—Italy, directed by Roberto Rossellini
Woman Knight of Mirror Lake (2011)—China
NEW MGM LIMITED
Bed Sitting Room (1969)
Doctor Blood’s Coffin (1961)
First Time (1969)
Gog (1954)
Halls of Anger (1970)
Hannibal Brooks (1969)
Hostile Witness (1968)
Impasse (1969)
1000 Plane Raid (1969)
Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975)
Pussycat, Pussycat I Love You (1970)
Three Came to Kill (1960)
What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? (1970)
Zone Troopers (1985)
NEW DOCUMENTARIES, MUSIC, & OTHER NON-FICTION FARE
Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 @
Country School: One Room, One Nation
Elusive Justice: The Search for Nazi War Criminals
Frontline: The Anthrax Files
Full Monteverdi
How Beer Saved The World
Hunt for the Lost Squadron
Inside Hana’s Suitcase
Steve Jobs: One Last Thing @
Monica & David
Moses and Aaron (Straub & Huillet) @
Bill Moyers: World of Ideas-The Islamic Mind
Talking Heads: Chronology
2011 World Series Champions: St. Louis
Welsh Revivals: 1859-1904
X: The Unheard Music—Silver Edition
Worst in Show
MORE MOVIES
Astron-6
555 (1988)
Harder They Fall (1956), directed by Nicholas Ray
Knock On Any Door (1949)
Little Deaths (2011)—An unrated horror anthology
Love Affair (1932)
Penitent Man
Seven Chances (1925) BLU @
Sirocco (1951)
Smell of Success (2009)
Stars and Stripes Forever (1952) BLU @
Tanner Hall
Tokyo Joe (1949)
Tuff Tuff/Under the Boardwalk
War Eagle Arkansas
Tune in next week for the holiday week releases of A DOLPHIN TALE, FUTURAMA: VOLUME 6, and Woody Allen's MIDNIGHT IN PARIS.
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