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  Arrow Films is a UK-based distributor of classic, horror and cult films on Blu-ray and DVD. What makes them special - and why I feel they deserve their own thread - is their Criterion-esque approach to high quality, supplement-rich releases. They invest loads of time and money into the restoration and presentation of their films, and with few exceptions you can be sure their release of a movie is the definitive one. Their focus on horror and lesser known cult titles really makes them stand out. Arrow Video This is Arrow's horror- and cult-focused label. They often create original retro style artwork for these releases, and their versions are always uncut. If there are alternate versions of a film (directors cuts, alternate language, etc.), they tend to throw those in too.  Arrow Academy Arrow Academy "brings cinephiles prestige editions of new and classic films from the greatest filmmakers across the globe." This is where you may see some overlap with Criterion, but Arrow does a great job of including unique supplements.  The Region B dilemma Arrow is a UK company, which means most of their releases are Region B locked and will not play in most North American Blu-ray players. A few years back they created their Arrow Video USA sub-label and began releasing many of their films in North America. However, not every release gets a North American version. If this affects you, you really owe it to yourself to get a region-free player. This applies not just for Arrow but for Blu-ray collecting in general. They can be had for pretty cheap these days. Check out Amazon, and be sure to consider refurbished options. Spatulater bro! fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Jan 19, 2017 |
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Recently announced April releases: Caltiki the Immortal Monster  The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave  The Red Queen Kills Seven Times  Donnie Darko  Wolf Guy  Catfight  Django, Prepare a Coffin  City of the Dead  Phantasm 1-5: Limited Edition
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I've wanted to check out Arrow Films releases for a while. Now that they're releasing stuff in the US, I'm curious to see if they'll handle something or it'll come from Criterion or Shout! Factory. The Long Good Friday, The 'burbs, and City of the Dead are high on my want list, though.
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Egbert Souse posted:I've wanted to check out Arrow Films releases for a while. Now that they're releasing stuff in the US, I'm curious to see if they'll handle something or it'll come from Criterion or Shout! Factory. It's a really great time to be a collector of physical media. Blu-rays seem to be becoming more of a collector's niche. Now that distributors have to compete with the streaming services they realize they have to go the extra mile. More attention to quality transfers and features is being paid. And each label understands that they need to outdo the other ones to stay ahead.
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Egbert Souse posted:I've wanted to check out Arrow Films releases for a while. Now that they're releasing stuff in the US, I'm curious to see if they'll handle something or it'll come from Criterion or Shout! Factory. Their edition of The 'burbs is pretty great and well worth seeking out. I wish it had a Dante commentary, but it's really a minor complaint about a fantastic release.
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This seems like the thread to ask about it in. I'm interested in Arrow's release of Terror at the Opera/Opera because it includes the Italian audio track. On their site, it says the DVD is region 0, but when I find it for sale on other sites (it's not in Arrow's online store), it's listed as region 2. Which is it?
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SilentChaz posted:This seems like the thread to ask about it in. DVD Beaver lists it as region 0 PAL. My best guess for why retailers list it as R2 is for simplicity. With it being PAL you'll need a special player regardless.
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Sam Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Limited Edition Blu-ray came out today. I'v never seen the film but by all accounts it's great. I might consider a blind buy. Love the art. LIMITED TWO-DISC EDITION CONTENTS: Brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative produced by Arrow Films exclusively for this release Original 1.0 mono audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Brand new audio commentary by Stephen Prince, author of Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies, recorded exclusively for this release Audio commentary by Sam Peckinpah scholars Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle, moderated by Nick Redman Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron, Paul Joyce’s feature-length 1993 documentary featuring interviews with James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Monte Hellman, Ali MacGraw, James Robards and others, available on home video in the UK for the first time ever The John Player Lecture: Sam Peckinpah, audio recording of the director’s on-stage appearance at the National Film Theatre Theatrical trailer Bonus Blu-ray: Featuring never-before-seen interviews with Peckinpah colleagues and contemporaries including Kris Kristofferson, Monte Hellman, L.Q. Jones, Alan Sharp and more (TBC) [Limited Edition exclusive] Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain Extensive collector’s booklet containing new writing by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and numerous reprints including interviews and more [Limited Edition exclusive]
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Jan 23, 2017 18:32
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Surprise announcement:Arrow posted:The Thing is coming to Arrow Video!
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Seems a little redundant to put that out so soon after the Shout Factory release, I can't imagine it'll have any interesting extras that the Shout Factory one doesn't.
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It may be redundant, but Shout! only has North American rights. Arrow is expanding a bit to the US, but so far they've only been able to license minor stuff other than a few titles from MGM.
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It's a bit like how a few Eureka/Masters of Cinema releases are completely identical to ones from the Criterion Collection because they are working with the same material but one company only has rights to publish in Europe and the other only in America. The only one that springs to mind is Repo Man but I'm fairly certain there are a couple of other films released by both companies from the same remaster with the exact same extras.
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Spatulater bro! posted:DVD Beaver lists it as region 0 PAL. Cool, thanks. I'll keep that in mind when I order a copy.
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FreudianSlippers posted:It's a bit like how a few Eureka/Masters of Cinema releases are completely identical to ones from the Criterion Collection because they are working with the same material but one company only has rights to publish in Europe and the other only in America. The only one that springs to mind is Repo Man but I'm fairly certain there are a couple of other films released by both companies from the same remaster with the exact same extras. Another one that springs to mind is Robert Altman's "3 Women", which is on Criterion in the US and Arrow in Europe. Criterion is pretty barebones with an old transfer, while the Arrow has a lot of special features along with a new 4K restoration by 20th Century Fox (it looks way better but people have complained about how it doesn't look how it did in theaters though that is completely debatable).
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Spatulater bro! posted:I'v never seen the film but by all accounts it's great. I might consider a blind buy. As a rule: if you're considering blind-buying a movie and note that it has Warren Oates in it, it's a safe blind-buy. 
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InfiniteZero posted:As a rule: if you're considering blind-buying a movie and note that it has Warren Oates in it, it's a safe blind-buy. Hell yeah. I remember when I first saw Two Lane Blacktop and as soon as Warren Oates showed up, I knew I was in for a good time.
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Arrow posted:***HELLRAISER: THE SCARLET BOX US STOCK UPDATE***  They also posted this stock update a little while ago: 
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just watched my first Arrow blu ray, What Have You Done to Solange? Amazing transfer.
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Every Arrow Blu I've watched so far has been gorgeous. I was really wary about getting back into the disc collecting game but Shout, Criterion, and Arrow have all eased my worries. When Arrow runs out of stock do they order more or is everything a limited run? That Feast collection is speaking to me.
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MacheteZombie posted:Every Arrow Blu I've watched so far has been gorgeous. When they show these stock updates they're referring to the limited editions with finite stock. Most of their releases are not limited.
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Spatulater bro! posted:When they show these stock updates they're referring to the limited editions with finite stock. Most of their releases are not limited. Oh, okay that makes sense
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MacheteZombie posted:Every Arrow Blu I've watched so far has been gorgeous. Yeah, some of these smaller companies are doing some great hard to find gems, and it's pretty refreshing seeing Arrow and Severin films ending up for sale on sites like Amazon and DeepDiscount too. Besides Arrow, what other sites are you guys checking? These are the ones I've been perusing. Vinegar Syndrome - https://vinegarsyndrome.com/ Blue Underground - http://www.blue-underground.com/ Synapse - http://synapse-films.com/ Severin - https://severin-films.com Twilight Time - http://www.twilighttimemovies.com/ Salvation Films - http://salvation-films.com Raro Video - http://www.rarovideousa.com/
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88 Films releases some really interesting stuff. https://88-films.myshopify.com/index.html
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ruddiger posted:Besides Arrow, what other sites are you guys checking? These are the ones I've been perusing. I bought the Vinegar Syndrome release of The Undertaker and it was a really good transfer minus the 6 minutes of VHS only footage they had to use. The Maniac Cop blu from Synapse was really good too.
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Indicator (Powerhouse Films) is a relatively new UK distributer (region free!) that seems to to be re-releasing OOP Twilight Time films with additional supplements.
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ruddiger posted:Yeah, some of these smaller companies are doing some great hard to find gems, and it's pretty refreshing seeing Arrow and Severin films ending up for sale on sites like Amazon and DeepDiscount too. Masters of Cinema (UK) - https://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc BFI (UK) - http://shop.bfi.org.uk/dvd-blu-ray.html?format=4 Flicker Alley (US) - http://www.flickeralley.com MoC is great because they'll ship international. Flicker Alley's releases are a little pricey, but they ship quickly and early if it's a pre-order.
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An Arrow employee mentioned on Facebook that they're currently "working on a new restoration of a popular Dario Argento film", but he couldn't divulge which one. Hmm.
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Spatulater bro! posted:An Arrow employee mentioned on Facebook that they're currently "working on a new restoration of a popular Dario Argento film", but he couldn't divulge which one. Hmm. Oh poo poo, I wonder what that could be. Not sure what their definition of "popular" is, but to me that means either Suspiria(very unlikely because I thought another company was already doing that), Deep Red(unnecessary because the current transfer is fantastic), Inferno(also unnecessary for the same reason), Opera or Tenebre. Possibly The Bird With the Crystal Plumage? I'm thinking Opera or Tenebre are the likeliest.
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Basebf555 posted:Oh poo poo, I wonder what that could be. Not sure what their definition of "popular" is, but to me that means either Suspiria(very unlikely because I thought another company was already doing that), Deep Red(unnecessary because the current transfer is fantastic), Inferno(also unnecessary for the same reason), Opera or Tenebre. Possibly The Bird With the Crystal Plumage? Arrow already has a Tenebrae release
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Basebf555 posted:Then Opera is my final answer. I'm leaning Bird, which bums me out because I bought a copy back in 2015.
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Basebf555 posted:Oh poo poo, I wonder what that could be. Not sure what their definition of "popular" is, but to me that means either Suspiria(very unlikely because I thought another company was already doing that), Deep Red(unnecessary because the current transfer is fantastic), Inferno(also unnecessary for the same reason), Opera or Tenebre. Possibly The Bird With the Crystal Plumage? Actually some people are speculating Inferno because the current transfer, apparently, has too much noise reduction. Sucks because I just bought it. I'm hoping Tenebre because I don't own it on any format yet.
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Spatulater bro! posted:Actually some people are speculating Inferno because the current transfer, apparently, has too much noise reduction. Sucks because I just bought it. I'm hoping Tenebre because I don't own it on any format yet. Kinda lame because I find that transfer to be just fine and I don't think too much noise reduction is something I'd ever really notice.
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Spatulater bro! posted:An Arrow employee mentioned on Facebook that they're currently "working on a new restoration of a popular Dario Argento film", but he couldn't divulge which one. Hmm. I'm thinking Mother of Tears special edition that comes with a magical witch shirt replica.
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Basebf555 posted:Kinda lame because I find that transfer to be just fine and I don't think too much noise reduction is something I'd ever really notice. I only notice it when it's extreme and everyone looks like a wax figure, like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
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Synapse is releasing a 4K restoration of Suspiria and says they're close to being finished. I still assume it will be delayed by years like every single Synapse release ever (but it will be worth it).
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caligulamprey posted:Synapse is releasing a 4K restoration of Suspiria and says they're close to being finished. I still assume it will be delayed by years like every single Synapse release ever (but it will be worth it). I believe that the Suspiria remake is supposed to be released later this year so it would probably be helpful to release around then (I don't think it's getting a theatrical release in NA though, so maybe there won't be any hype for it and also maybe Don doesn't give a poo poo about the remake but still it couldn't hurt).
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InfiniteZero posted:(I don't think it's getting a theatrical release in NA though) Wait, really? It has a pretty stacked cast to not get a theatrical release, and the last thing Amazon Studios did off the top of my head was Neon Demon, which I saw in a theater.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Wait, really? It has a pretty stacked cast to not get a theatrical release, and the last thing Amazon Studios did off the top of my head was Neon Demon, which I saw in a theater. Last I heard it only had European distribution.
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