Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini and Sacha Guitry join the Masters of Cinema Series as Eureka Entertainment announce their release schedule for January and February 2013.
Eureka
Entertainment
announced today via their twitter feeds (@eurekavideo &
@mastersofcinema) the forthcoming releases in The Masters of
Cinema series for the months of January and February 2013.
Following
a spate of epic releases for the last quarter of 2012 which included Fritz
Lang's Die Nibelungen and Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of
Arc, The Masters of Cinema Series returns in 2013 with the nearly-impossible-to-see
debut feature film by Stanley Kubrick, a long-awaited Blu-ray and DVD Dual
Format release of Josef von Sternberg's classic first-collaboration with
Marlene Dietrich, new restorations of films by the European giants Fellini and
Guitry, and a Blu-ray upgrade of Kaneto Shindô's cult horror confection Onibaba.
Producer
of the Masters of Cinema Series, Craig Keller stated “January sees the release of Stanley Kubrick's
1953 debut feature Fear and Desire, newly restored by The
Library of Congress — a war-film psychodrama that exhibits many of the thematic
obsessions and visual motifs that would course throughout all of Kubrick's
films over the next four decades — needless to say, ravishingly photographed,
even this early on in his career. We are extremely excited that UK audiences
will at last be able to see where that body of work called "Kubrick"
all began. Also this month: we've got the HD debut of Josef von Sternberg's
immortal The Blue Angel, in both its German and English-language
versions (shot by Sternberg simultaneously) featuring Marlene Dietrich as the
impossibly erotic cabaret singer who bewitches Emil Jannings — and consigns him
to perdition.
In
February we present three titles, two of which capitalise on sumptuous HD
restorations carried out by Gaumont. The first of these is Federico Fellini's
unhinged 1980 post-punk epic, City of Women [La città
delle donne / La cité des femmes], starring the great Marcello
Mastroianni in a kind of reprise of his role from Fellini's 8-1/2. The
second new HD restoration is the initial entry into The Masters of Cinema
Series by the French comic genius Sacha Guitry — La Poison [Poison]
— starring the equally brilliant Michel Simon (of Renoir's La Chienne and
Boudu sauvé des eaux, and Vigo's L'Atalante). We're so proud to
introduce this venomously witty murder-comedy to UK audiences — it's a perfect
example of why Guitry was revered as a kind of god both by the French public at
large and by the critics and filmmakers that went on to form the New Wave. Our
last release of the month is a new Blu-ray upgrade of the recently deceased
Kaneto Shindô's Onibaba — one of our most popular films — an
unsettling, atmospheric erotic horror film whose Scope frames veer between
sunlit existential dread and moonlit mystery/suspense.
No Exact dates have been confirmed yet however we’ll update you when we get the details and fingers crossed we’ll have the reviews of the films when they arrive as well as the remaining 2012 Masters Of Cinema releases.
