Some Eureka Entertainment dvd releases for later this year

ACE IN THE HOLE [1951] [Dual Format edition] Released on 28 April 2014.

Billy Wilder’s classic finds Kirk Douglas as a newspaper reporter who stumbles upon a potentially career-making story in Albuquerque, New Mexico (nearly sixty years later, the setting for Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad). When Tatum begins to influence the story’s outcome, a descent beings that finds more than one man caught between a rock and a hard place.

BOOMERANG! [1947] [Dual Format edition] Released on 19 May 2014. One of the early films by Method Actor’s director Elia Kazan (A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront), Boomerang! also marked one of the early American Hollywood entries into the Cannes Film Festival in 1947. Kazan’s impactful noir drama stars a cast of stalwarts of the ’40s and ’50s hard-boiled streak and his own oeuvre, including Dana Andrews, Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, Arthur Kennedy, and Karl Malden.

HAROLD AND MAUDE [1971] [Blu-ray edition] Released on 23 June 2014. The counter-culture classic about the relationship between a 20-year-old and an 80-year-old, taken to hilarious and wonderfully touching heights by director Hal Ashby.

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IF…. [1968] [Blu-ray edition] Released on 21 April 2014 One of cinema’s quintessential tales of rebellion, and a radical snapshot of late ’60s change courtesy of the great British director Lindsay Anderson, starring Malcolm McDowell as the leader of a group of boys-school students who strike back against their oppressive prefects.

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JOHN DIES AT THE END (18) 2012 £9.99 Two college dropouts find themselves as humanity’s last hope in this indie comedy horror from director Don Coscarelli.

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KISS OF THE DAMNED (18) 2012 CASSAVETES, XAN £9.99 Psychosexual vampire thriller. When aspiring screenwriter Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia) meets the mysterious and beautiful Djuna (Joséphine de La Baume), he quickly becomes enamoured with her and the pair begin a passionate affair. But just as their passion is coming to a head, Djuna demands that Paolo leave before they can consummate their relationship, leaving him puzzled and yearning for more.

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NASHVILLE [1975] [Dual Format edition] Released on 26 May 2014

A milestone in American cinema and one of the key films of the 1970s, Robert Altman’s Nashville is one of the most influential and dazzling films ever made, weaving together the stories and interactions of twenty-four major characters with astonishing fluidity in an epic vision of America.

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THE ROCKET [2013] [Blu-ray Edition] [DVD Edition] Released on June 2014.      Australia’s official selection for the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 86th Academy Awards, and debut feature from director Kim Mordaunt about a ‘cursed’ twin who guides his family to a new life in Laos.

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ROMA (15) 1972 ITALY [Dual Format edition] Released on 17 February 2014 Returning to Rome, the city of his youth, to film a documentary, Federico Fellini finds himself stuck in a huge traffic jam. He recalls the city as it was in the 1920s, and as fantasy and reality proceed to merge, he observes an ecclesiastical fashion show (complete with nuns on roller skates) and discovers ancient murals in a Roman villa.

TOO LATE BLUES [1961] [Dual Format edition] Released on 30 June 2014. The legendary American maverick John Cassavetes followed-up his earth-shaking debut Shadows with this story of the leader of a jazz band (the singer Bobby Darin) who crosses paths with a siren before a violent brawl shatters his world.

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VIOLENT SATURDAY [1955] [Dual Format edition] Released on 19 May 2014. A coolly riveting crime saga from director Richard Fleischer (The Boston Strangler, Soylent Green), Violent Saturday tells a brutal noir tale against blazing, sun-drenched Arizona landscapes.

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THE WAR LORD. One of the finest historical adventure films ever made, The War Lord dramatises with uncommon intelligence and integrity the brutality, difficulties and injustices of the Middle Ages.

WHITE DOG (18) [1955] [Dual Format edition] Released on 23 March 2014. Directed by iconic director Samuel Fuller (The Big Red One, Shock Corridor, Pickup on South Street) and featuring Kristy McNichol, Burl Ives, Paul Winfield, and cameos from Dick Miller, Paul Bartel, Marshall Thompson and Samuel Fuller himself. One of the most controversial films of its era – released briefly in the UK at cinemas and on VHS in the 1980s and rarely seen since, White Dog is a tragic portrait of the evil done by that most corruptible of all animals: the human being! White Dog will be released in a Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD) edition as part of Eureka! Entertainment’s award-winning The Masters of Cinema Series on 24 March 2014.

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