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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (Blu-Ray) in February
20th Century Fox has announced a February 4th release date for The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (Blu-Ray).
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OLIVE: The Bells of St. Mary's - DVD & Blu in November
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The Bells of St. Mary's November 19th Olive Films Retail: $19.95, Our: $14.99 |
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The Bells of St. Mary's (Blu-Ray) November 19th Olive Films Retail: $29.95, Our: $21.99 |
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Previously released by Republic on DVD, Olive Films has announced the DVD and Blu-Ray release of The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) with a scheduled street date of November 19th.
Unlike many of Olive's offerings, Bells includes a bonus feature: The Look of Love: An Essay by Film Critic R. Emmet Sweeney.
Witty, heartwarming and one of the most beloved classics of all time, The Bells of St. Mary's delivers all the entertainment of its predecessor, the award winning Going My Way. Bing Crosby recreates his Oscar-winning (Best Actor) role as parish priest Father O’Malley.
The easy-going O’Malley is sent to revive a financially ailing parochial school and immediately finds himself at odds with no-nonsense Sister Benedict (Ingrid Bergman) on how to educate the children. Beyond their delightful battle of wits lies a bigger problem--the skinflint businessman next door (Henry Travers) wants St. Mary’s condemned, so he can build a parking lot for his employees.
Only a miracle can save St. Mary’s now … how a devilish situation finds a heavenly solution remains to be seen in this captivating family classic that was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress. Directed by Leo McCarey (Going My Way).
BONUS FEATURE:
- The Look of Love: An Essay by Film Critic R. Emmet Sweeney
CRITERION: 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman
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3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman September 24th Criterion Retail $79.95, Our: $64.99 Stromboli (1950), Europe '51 (1952), Journey to Italy (1954) |
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3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman (Blu) September 24th Criterion Retail $79.95, Our: $64.99 Stromboli (1950), Europe '51 (1952), Journey to Italy (1954) |
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Criterion has announced 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman for release on DVD and Blu-Ray this September 24th.
The sets are listed as four and five discs respectively, and will have numerous bonus features as well as a booklet. Details below.
In the late 1940s, the incandescent Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman found herself so moved by the revolutionary neorealist films of Roberto Rossellini that she sent the director a letter, introducing herself and offering her talents.
The resulting collaboration produced a series of films that are works of both sociopolitical concern and metaphysical melodrama, each starring Bergman as a woman experiencing physical dislocation and psychic torment in postwar Italy. It also famously led to a scandalous affair and eventual marriage between filmmaker and star, and the focus on their personal lives in the press unfortunately overshadowed the extraordinary films they made together.
Stromboli, Europe ’51, and Journey to Italy are intensely personal portraits that reveal the director at his most emotional and the glamorous actor at her most anguished, and that capture them and the world around them in transition.
Stromboli (1950, 106 min.)
The first collaboration between Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman is a devastating portrait of a woman’s existential crisis, set against the beautiful and forbidding backdrop of a volcanic island. After World War II, a Lithuanian refugee (Bergman) marries a simple Italian fisherman (Mario Vitale) she meets in a prisoner of war camp and accompanies him back to his isolated village on an island off the coast of Sicily.
Cut off from the world, she finds herself crumbling emotionally, but she is destined for a dramatic epiphany. Balancing the director’s trademark neorealism (exemplified here in a remarkable depiction of the fishermen’s lives and work) with deeply felt melodrama, Stromboli is a revelation.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Archival television introduction by director Roberto Rossellini
- New interview with film critic Adriano Aprà
- Rossellini Under the Volcano, a 1998 documentary that returns to the island of Stromboli fifty years after the making of Stromboli
Ingrid Bergman plays a wealthy, self-absorbed socialite in Rome racked by guilt over the shocking death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity.
The intense, often unfairly overlooked Europe ’51 was, according to Rossellini, a retelling of his own The Flowers of St. Francis from a female perspective. This unabashedly political, but sensitively conducted investigation of modern sainthood was the director’s favorite of his films.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Archival television introduction by director Roberto Rossellini
- New interview with critic Adriano Aprà
- New interview with film historian Elena Dagrada about the different versions of Europe ’51
- New interviews with Isabella Rossellini and Ingrid Rossellini, daughters of Roberto Rossellini and Bergman
- My Dad Is 100 Years Old, a 2005 short film, directed by Guy Maddin and starring Isabella Rossellini
- New interview with Fiorella Mariani, Rossellini’s niece, featuring home movies shot by Bergman
- The Chicken, a 1952 short film by Roberto Rossellini, starring Bergman
Among the most influential dramatic works of the postwar era, Roberto Rossellini’s Journey to Italy charts the declining marriage of a couple (Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders) from England while on a trip in the countryside near Naples.
More than just an anatomy of a relationship, Rossellini’s masterpiece is a heartrending work of emotion and spirituality. Considered a predecessor to the existentialist films of Michelangelo Antonioni; hailed as a groundbreaking modernist work by the legendary film journal Cahiers du cinéma; and named by director Martin Scorsese as one of his favorite films, Journey to Italy is a breathtaking cinematic benchmark.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Archival television introduction by director Roberto Rossellini
- Audio commentary featuring film scholar Laura Mulvey
- New visual essays about Rossellini by scholars Tag Gallagher and James Quandt
- New interview with critic Adriano Aprà
- Ingrid Bergman Remembered, a 1996 documentary on the actor’s life, narrated by her daughter Pia Lindstrom
- A Short Visit with the Rossellini Family, a six-minute film shot on Capri while the family was there during the production of Journey to Italy
- New interviews with Isabella Rossellini and Ingrid Rossellini, daughters of Roberto Rossellini and Bergman
- Rossellini Through His Own Eyes, a 1992 documentary on the filmmaker’s approach to cinema, featuring archival interviews with Rossellini and actor Ingrid Bergman
- New interview with Fiorella Mariani, Rossellini’s niece, featuring home movies shot by Bergman
- My Dad Is 100 Years Old, a 2005 short film, directed by Guy Maddin and starring Isabella Rossellini
- The Chicken, a 1952 short film by Roberto Rossellini, starring Bergman
OLIVE: Indiscreet, It's in the Bag! Standard & Blu in January
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It's in the Bag! January 22nd Olive Films Retail: $24.95, Our: $17.99 |
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It's in the Bag! (Blu-Ray) January 22nd Olive Films Retail: $29.95, Our: $21.99 |
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Indiscreet October 16th Olive Films Retail: $24.95, Our: $17.99 |
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Indiscreet (Blu-Ray) January 22nd Olive Films Retail: $29.95, Our: $21.99 |
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More from Olive Films as two completely different titles are coming out on January 22nd on standard DVD & Blu-Ray.
First up we have the playful romance Indiscreet (1958) with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman which makes its Blu debut (having been released by Republic on DVD in 2001).
Then we have Fred Allen, in his only starring vehicle, in It's in the Bag! The thinly plotted comedy has an all-star cast of Jerry Colonna, Sidney Toler, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Victor Moore and Rudy Vallee and is making its DVD & Blu debut.
Casablanca (Blu-Ray) - 70th Anniversary Limited Edition in March
Casablanca's 70th anniversary will be commemorated with Warner's upcoming release of Casablanca - 70th Anniversary Limited Edition (Blu-Ray) on March 27th. Previously released in hi-def, this new set will be a Blu-Ray/DVD combo and have two new documentaries exclusive to this limited edition set (50,000). It also appears that all bonus features, which are numerous, will carry over from 2008's out of print Ultimate Collector's Edition. Premiums for this set are:
Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if your name is on the Nazi's most-wanted list. Atop that list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henried), whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one... especially Victor's wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), the ex-lover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's safe transport out of the country, the bitter Rick must decide what's more important - his own happiness or the countless lives that hang in the balance.
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BLU HITCHCOCK: Rebecca, Notorious, Spellbound This Month
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Rebecca (Blu-Ray) January 24th MGM Retail: 24.99, Our: $19.99 | |
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Notorious (Blu-Ray) January 24th MGM Retail: 24.99, Our: $19.99 | |
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Spellbound (Blu-Ray) January 24th MGM Retail: 24.99, Our: $19.99 | |
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | The Apartment (Blu-Ray) January 24th MGM Retail: 24.99, Our: $19.99 | |
More Hitchcock on Blu-Ray has been announced by MGM as Rebecca (1940), Notorious (1946) and Spellbound (1945) are all due on January 24th.
Also out is on the same day is Billy Wilder's The Apartment (Blu-Ray). Bonus features, which are many, will carry over for all four standard versions.
Ingrid Bergman - Swedish Film Collection in April
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: TITLES | Ingrid Bergman - Swedish Film Collection April 19th Kino Retail $39.95, Our: $29.99 Intermezzo (1936), A Woman's Face (1938), June Night (1940) | |
Kino has announced an April 19th street date for Ingrid Bergman - Swedish Film Collection. The three-disc set features three early Bergman films in her native Sweden.
It will retail for $39.95, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $29.99. Bonus features are not expected and titles will not be available as singles.
SYNOPSIS:
Today, Ingrid Bergman’s name is synonymous with Hollywood ’s golden age as a three-time Oscar winner and the star of such classics as Casablanca , Gaslight and Notorious. However, before she became a Hollywood legend, Bergman was the star of a series of Swedish films in the 1930s which are being rediscovered as a vital, if long-overlooked period in her singular career.
Intermezzo (1936)
In Intermezzo, Ingrid Bergman plays Anita Hoffman, an aspiring classical pianist who falls in love with a famed – but married – concert violinist. Their passionate affair has deep and unanticipated consequences for them both, and for Anita, it also stirs a crisis of conscience. Intermezzo brought the actress to the attention of producer David O. Selznick, who remade it in Hollywood , again starring Bergman.
A Woman's Face (1938)
In one of the most challenging roles of her early career in Sweden, Bergman plays Anna Holm, whose bitterness over a facial disfigurement leads her to become a blackmailer. However, when one of her victims turns out to be married to a renowned plastic surgeon, Anna is given the opportunity to change her life. A Woman’s Face is a daring and frequently shocking psychological drama.
June Night (1940)
Her last film before moving to Hollywood , June Night features Bergman playing a small-town woman at the center of a sensational crime. When Kerstin Norback (Bergman) is shot and gravely wounded by her lover, the trial causes a public scandal, forcing her to move to Stockholm under an assumed name. There she befriends a group of women and attempts to rebuild her life. In June Night, Bergman gives a bravura performance, prompting one critic to praise that she “establishes herself as an actress belonging to the world elite.”
Casablanca (Blu-Ray) - Single Disc Version in September
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Casablanca (Blu-Ray) September 15th Warner Retail: $28.99, Our: $23.99 |  |
To the well again goes Warner, this time for a single disc release of Casablanca (Blu-Ray). Released in December as an Ultimate Collector's Edition, it will presumably have the same features (below) that were on disc one of the U.C.E.
It will retail for $28.99, but is available at ClassicFlix.com for only $23.99.
NOTE: This release will retire the U.C.E. as a rental and replace it with this release.
Casablanca (Blu-Ray)
Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if your name is on the Nazi's most-wanted list. Atop that list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henried), whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one... especially Victor's wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), the ex-lover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's safe transport out of the country, the bitter Rick must decide what's more important - his own happiness or the countless lives that hang in the balance.
BONUS FEATURES:
- 2 Feature-Length Audio Commentaries: One by Film Critic Robert Ebert, the other by Film Historian Rudy Behlmer
- Introduction by Lauren Bacall
- Additional Scenes and Outtakes
- Lauren Bacall Hosts the Retrospective You Must Remember This: A Tribute to Casablanca
- Bacall on Bogart Documentary
- As Time Goes By: The Children Remember Featurette with Pia Lindstrom and Stephen Bogart
- Newly Discovered Additional Scenes and Outtakes
- Homage Cartoon Carrotblanca Starring Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes Gang
- Premiere Episode Who Holds Tomorrow? from the 1955 TV Series Adaptation of Casablanca
- Screen Guild Players Radio Broadcast of Casablanca Featuring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid
- Scoring Session Gallery
- Production History Gallery Includes Photos, Press Materials, Studio Correspondence, Memorabilia and More
- Original and Reissue Theatrical Trailers
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