New Cult Releases February 1st - February 15th

Here are all the releases that have come out between February 1st - February 15th

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Shout! Factory Releases

When events shatter the quiet of his small town, Wade Whitehouse (Nolte), with the aid of his new girlfriend (Spacek), is forced to confront his past and reexamine his life. Determined to fill the emptiness, he must either stand tall against his childhood demons or fall victim to his father's abusive ways.

Dai Miyamoto's life changes when he discovers jazz. He picks up a tenor saxophone and practices every day. After leaving his hometown, Sendai, he pursues a music career in Tokyo with help from his friend Shunji. One day, Dai plays passionately from the heart and convinces talented pianist Yukinori to start a band together. Along with Shunji, a beginner drummer, they form the three-piece band, JASS. With each live performance, they get closer and closer to their dream of playing at So Blue, the most famous jazz club in Japan, in hopes of forever changing the world of jazz.

Enter the darkest corners of the Hundred Acre Wood. Five years ago, Christopher Robin abandoned his childhood companions, Winnie-The-Pooh and Piglet, and the woods in which they all played. Now an adult, Christopher has returned, with his fiancée Maria in tow, for a reunion with his old friends ... only to find that in his absence, Pooh and Piglet have turned feral, silent ... and murderous.

"DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!"
The family Robinson is in hiber-sleep, soaring into deep space. Their mission: establish a colony that will become home for a dying Earth's inhabitants. But sabotage jolts the Robinsons awake, sending them — and an often troublesome robot — off course and into amazing adventures where the question is not just where they are, but also when.

Bonus Features for Blu-ray

  • Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

  • Audio Commentary With Stephen Hopkins And Akiva Goldsman

  • Audio Commentary With Visual Effects Supervisors Angus Bickerton And Lauren Ritchie, Director Of Photography Peter Levy, Editor Ray Lovejoy, And Producer Carla Fry

  • NEW Interviews With Director/Producer Stephen Hopkins And Writer/Producer Akiva Goldsman

  • Deleted Scenes

  • Additional Scenes

  • “Building The Special Effects” Featurette

  • “The Future Of Space Travel” Featurette

  • Q&A With The Original Cast – TV Years

When Major Charles Rane (William Devane, Marathon Man, Interstellar) returns home to San Antonio, Texas, he is given a hero's welcome. He and his friend John Vohden (Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive) had endured eight years of physical and mental torture in a POW camp. Adjusting to his old life isn't going to be easy for Rane. His wife Janet has fallen in love with another man, and his son doesn't remember him. The publicity he receives as a returning hero has attracted the attention of a group of hoodlums. When the group kills Rane's wife and son and leaves him for dead, he and Vohden team up to hunt them down.

Former boxer and cop Matt Sorenson (Dolph Lundgren, Rocky IV, Showdown At The Grand) now makes a living collecting debts for small businesses ... but the brutal death of his high-powered younger brother throws his life into turmoil. Intent on finding his brother's killer, Sorenson infiltrates a twisted underworld of politics, intrigue, and sex. Rejecting the police and media theory that the murder is the work of a female prostitute, Sorensen's focus falls on the corrupt big city businessman, Jim Conway. As a series of other men are found murdered in a similar fashion to his brother, Sorenson's obsession to discover the killer's identity mounts and his own sense of right and wrong becomes blurred, drawing him deeper and deeper into a darkness from which he may never return.

Criterion Collection Releases

-Emitaï (1971)

With revolutionary outrage, Ousmane Sembène chronicles a period during World War II when French colonial forces in Senegal conscripted young men of the Diola people and attempted to seize rice stores for soldiers back in Europe. As the tribe’s patriarchal leaders pray and make sacrifices to their gods, the women in the community refuse to yield their harvests, incurring the French army’s wrath. With a deep understanding of the oppressive forces that have shaped Senegalese history, Emitaï explores the strains that colonialism places upon cultural traditions and, in the process, discovers a people’s hidden reserves of rebellion and dignity.

-Xala (1975)

An adaptation of Ousmane Sembène’s own 1973 novel, Xala is a hilarious, caustic satire of political corruption under an inept patriarchy. On the night of his wedding to his third bride, government official El Hadji (Thierno Leye) is rendered impotent and begins to suspect that one of his other wives has placed a curse on him. After seeking a cure from a local marabout, El Hadji must face the possibility that he deserves the infliction for his part in embezzling public funds and for helping to keep Senegal under French control. Adeptly combining elements of African folklore and popular cinema, Sembène indicts the hubris, entitlement, and opportunism of male authority figures.

-Ceddo (1977)

In precolonial Senegal, members of the Ceddo (or “outsiders”) kidnap Princess Dior Yacine (Tabata Ndiaye) after her father, the king, pledges loyalty to an ascendant Islamic faction that plans to convert the entire clan to its faith. Attempts to recapture her fail, provoking further division and eventual war between the animistic Ceddo and the fundamentalist Muslims, with Christian missionaries and slave traders from Europe also playing a role in the conflict. Banned in Senegal upon its release, Ceddo is an ambitious, multilayered epic that explores the combustible tensions among ancient tradition, religious colonization, political expediency, and individual freedom.

THREE-DISC SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 4K digital restorations of all three films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks

  • New conversation between Mahen Bonetti, founder and executive director of the African Film Festival, and film writer Amy Sall

  • The Making of “Ceddo,” a 1981 documentary by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra

  • New English subtitle translations

  • PLUS: An essay by film scholar Yasmina Price

A woman is suspected of murder after her husband's death, and their visually challenged son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • 2K digital master, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

  • New interview with director Justine Triet

  • Deleted and alternate scenes with commentary by Triet

  • Audition footage of actors Milo Machado Graner and Antoine Reinartz and rehearsal footage of Machado Graner and actor Sandra Hüller

  • PLUS: An essay by critic Alexandra Schwartz

Bullied by her father at home and feeling adrift at school, Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez) finds refuge in an unexpected pocket of her native Brooklyn—a timeworn boxing gym, where she learns to channel her strength, discovers a sense of community, and falls for a rival fighter.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Karyn Kusama and director of photography Patrick Cady, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

  • Audio commentary featuring Kusama

  • New interviews with Kusama, editor Plummy Tucker, and composer Theodore Shapiro

  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

  • PLUS: An essay by author Carmen Maria Machado

-A Story Of Floating Weeds (1934)

Rich in backstage atmosphere and class-conscious insight, A Story of Floating Weeds was one of Yasujiro Ozu’s final silent films, and it displays his complete mastery of the form. With a vivid sense of character and the world of rural Japan, he sketches a poignant tale of family secrets, jealousy, and creative community, buoyed by grace notes of humanist observation and by luminous black-and-white cinematography that shows his spare yet lyrical visuals at their most soulful.

-Floating Weeds (1959)

One of six sublime color masterworks that Yasujiro Ozu produced late in his career, the director’s second filming of his own 1934 silent triumph A Story of Floating Weeds represents the mature flowering of his style. Harnessing the full expressive potential of color, sound, music, and his exquisite compositional sense, he brings new depths of bittersweet feeling—tinged with an aging artist’s melancholic nostalgia—as well as a new air of expansiveness, to a story with enduring resonance.

SPECIAL FEATURES

  • 4K digital master of Floating Weeds, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack (Blu-ray); high-definition digital transfer of Floating Weeds (DVD)

  • High-definition digital master of A Story of Floating Weeds, featuring a score by composer Donald Sosin, presented in 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray

  • Audio commentary for A Story of Floating Weeds by Japanese-film historian Donald Richie and for Floating Weeds by film critic Roger Ebert

  • English subtitle translation by Richie for Floating Weeds

  • PLUS: An essay by Richie

Michael Powell took a dark detour into obsession, voyeurism, and violence with this groundbreaking metacinematic investigation into the mechanics of fear. Armed with his killer camera, photographer and filmmaker Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) unleashes the traumas of his childhood by murdering women and recording their deaths—until he falls for his downstairs neighbor, and finds himself struggling against his dark compulsions.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features

  • Two audio commentaries, one featuring film scholar Laura Mulvey and one featuring film historian Ian Christie

  • Introduction by filmmaker Martin Scorsese

  • Interview with editor Thelma Schoonmaker

  • Documentary about the film’s history, featuring interviews with Schoonmaker, Scorsese, and actor Carl Boehm

  • Documentary about screenwriter Leo Marks

  • Program on the film’s restoration

  • PLUS: An essay by author Megan Abbott

Severin Releases

A deranged stablehand kidnaps the wife of a ranch owner to avenge the rape of his sister.

Special Features:

  • Audio Commentary With Vinegar Syndrome's Joe Rubin, Severin Films' Andrew Furtado And Bob Cresse Friend/Former Something Weird General Manager Tim Lewis

  • Recently Discovered Audio Discussion On Frost/Cresse By David F. Friedman And Something Weird Founder Mike Vraney

  • HOLLYWOOD'S WORLD OF FLESH – Early Frost/Cresse Feature (64 mins)

  • THE CASTING DIRECTOR – Rare Short Starring Bob Cresse, Directed By David F. Friedman

1940, Thom and Mars have built a machine, LOLA, that can intercept radio and TV broadcasts from the future. Unknown to them sharing these broadcasts the devastating changes it will have on the future of world but to them also.

Special Features:

  • Audio Commentary With Co-Writer/Director Andrew Legge And Producer Alan Maher

  • The Making Of LOLA

  • Outtake – Remember Tomorrow

  • Trailer

  • Short Films By Andrew Legge

  • THE GIRL WITH THE MECHANICAL MAIDEN (2012)

  • THE UNUSUAL INVENTIONS OF HENRY CAVENDISH (2005)

Renegade Confederate soldiers take over a frontier town, but after they molest a young black woman, a group of ex-slaves arm themselves and counter-attack.

Special Features:

  • Audio Commentary With Vinegar Syndrome's Joe Rubin, Severin Films' Andrew Furtado And Temple Of Schlock's Chris Poggiali (Unrated Version Only)

  • Theatrical Trailer

  • Theatrical Trailer (Hot Version)

  • Our Family Album – Promotional Program Replica

Professor Alan Whitmore, who is scared of spiders, encounters his worst fears when he finds out that his colleague Leo Roth's death is linked to a religious system involving spiders.

Special Features:

  • Audio Commentary With Dr. Will Dodson, Professor Of Rhetoric And Media Studies, And Ryan Verrill, Host Of The Disc Connected

  • Caught In A Web – Interview With Director Gianfranco Giagni

  • Arachne – Interview With Screenwriter Gianfranco Manfredi

  • All The Colors Of A Spider – Interview With Cinematographer Nino Celeste

  • Smile Of The Spider Woman – Interview With Actress Paola Rinaldi

  • Death In Stop Motion – Interview With Special FX Artist Sergio Stivaletti

  • Web Of The Weird – Placing SPIDER LABYRINTH In The Weird Genre With Dr. Will Dodson, Ryan Verrill And Erica Shultz, Author Of The Sweetest Taboo: An Unapologetic Guide To Child Kills In Film

  • Trailer

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