Summer will be bidding us farewell but Arrow Video and Arrow Academy keep things sizzling in September, with the release of the greatest work and autobiography of a French cinema pioneer, a glorious 4K ULTRA HD debut of a beloved Oscar-winning masterpiece about the beauty of cinema, and a pair of blood-splattered Yakuza classics. This outstanding selection of films include pristine restorations, hours of rare bonus features, brand new commentaries, unseen cuts of the films, as well as collector's booklets with incisive writing on the filmmakers, and limited edition deluxe packaging and striking new artwork.
In September, Arrow Academy proudly presents an exclusive, limited edition Blu-ray package, George Méliès' “A Trip to the Moon & Autobiography.” Méliès, a pioneer of early cinema, as well as an illustrator, magician, filmmaker, and inventor, paved the way for animation and multi-media filmmaking. The release includes his boldest and best known film, A Trip To The Moon, supplemented by the phenomenal documentary, An Extraordinary Voyage, along with a beautiful hardback edition of Méliès' unpublished autobiography.
Also in September from Arrow Academy, “Cinema Paradiso,” Giuseppe Tornatore's loving homage to the cinema, and winner of awards across the world including Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, 5 BAFTA Awards, the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival and many more. The original award-winning theatrical version of Tornatore's classic is presented here for the first time on 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray. This edition and the Blu-ray release also include the expanded Director's Cut.
At the start of September, Arrow Video release “Graveyards of Honor,” with two peerless masters of Japanese cinema – Kinji Fukasaku (“Battles without Honor and Humanity“) and Takashi Miike (“Audition“) – presenting their own distinctive adaptations of yakuza expert Goro Fujita's gangster novel Graveyard of Honor, each tapping into the zeitgeist of a distinct period of Japanese history. Fukasaku's original 1975 film is shot through with the same stark realism and quasi-documentarian approach as Fukasaku's earlier “Battles Without Honor and Humanity.” Miike's film captures both the hedonism and nihilism of the modern Japanese crime scene in deliriously stylish fashion. Both films make their High Definition debut in a sumptuous limited edition packed with new and archival bonus content.
Arrow Academy September 2020 New Releases
George Méliès' A Trip to the Moon & Autobiography
On Limited Edition Blu-ray, 21st September 2020
Loosely based on the writings of Jules Verne, this follows a group of travellers who jet off to the moon from earth on an exploration mission only to end up in peril and captured by the local inhabitants, the Selenites. Featuring a who's who of theatrical cast from the era, with Méliès himself taking a lead role, this is one of the very first forays into sci-fi cinema, and spawned one of the most iconic images of cinema – the man in the moon with a rocket in his eye.
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Cinema Paradiso
On UHD 4K and Blu-ray and DVD, 28th September 2020
Giuseppe Tornatore's loving homage to cinema tells the story of Salvatore, a successful film director, returning home for the funeral of Alfredo, his old friend who was the projectionist at the local cinema throughout his childhood. Soon memories of his first love affair with the beautiful Elena and all the highs and lows that shaped his life come flooding back, as Salvatore reconnects with the community he left 30 years earlier.
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Arrow Video – September 2020 – New Releases
Graveyards of Honor
On Blu-ray, 7th September 2020
Set during the turbulent post-war years, Kinji Fukasaku's original 1975 film charts the rise and fall of real-life gangster Rikio Ishikawa (Tetsuya Watari) a man utterly without honor or ethics, surviving by any means necessary in a world of brutal criminality. Takishi Miike's 2002 retelling transplants the story to Tokyo at the turn of the millennium.
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