{"id":12910,"date":"2011-09-12T05:59:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T04:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=12910"},"modified":"2011-09-12T05:59:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T04:59:06","slug":"uk-dvd-blu-ray-releases-monday-12th-september-2011-star-wars-sunrise-renoir-point-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/09\/12\/uk-dvd-blu-ray-releases-monday-12th-september-2011-star-wars-sunrise-renoir-point-break\/","title":{"rendered":"UK DVD & Blu-ray Releases: Monday 12th September 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DVD & BLU-RAY PICKS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Star Wars Trilogy: Episodes I, II and III<\/a><\/strong> (20th Century Fox Home Ent.): All six Star Wars films are being released today on Blu-ray with both\u00a0trilogies\u00a0are being made available as individual box sets (around \u00a333 each) as well as the Complete Saga<\/a> (around \u00a360). Despite the controversy<\/a> over some alterations which George Lucas has made<\/a> to the films, I would recommend getting the first trilogy, which is still a landmark in sci-fi filmmaking. [Buy it on Blu-ray<\/a>] [More details here<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Sunrise<\/a><\/strong> (Eureka Entertainment): A re-release of tis F.W. Murnau’s landmark 1927 silent classic, features contains two versions of the film. The previously released Movietone version and an alternate version of the film, mastered from a high quality print found in the Czech Republic. The tale of tale of a married peasant couple (George O Brien and Janet Gaynor) threatened by a seductress from the city (Margaret Livingston) was an important milestone of film expressionism and quickly became a classic. [Buy it on Blu-ray<\/a> or DVD<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Renoir Collection<\/a><\/strong> (Studio Canal): A DVD set featuring six of the French director’s greatest films which includes: La Grande Illusion<\/a> (1937),\u00a0La Bete Humaine<\/a> (1938),\u00a0La Marsellaise<\/a> (1938),\u00a0Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier<\/a> (1959),\u00a0Dejeuner Sur Herbe<\/a> (1959) and\u00a0Le Caporal Epingle<\/a> (1962).\u00a0One of the pioneering directors in world cinema, his intricate mastery of the form led to him influencing a generation of directors including Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Orson Welles, Luchino Visconti and Satyajit Ray. [Buy the DVD<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Point Break<\/a><\/strong> (Warner Home Video): Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 action-thriller still holds up well, with the adrenaline-fuelled old school action seeming fresh in the current era of CGI overkill. When an FBI agent (Keanu Reeves) tries to infiltrate a group of surfers in order to solve a string of bank robberies, he’s drawn deep into the world of their charismatic leader (Patrick Swayze). [Buy it on Blu-ray<\/a> \/ Buy the DVD<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Bobby Fischer Against the World<\/a><\/strong> (Dogwoof): Documentary about the rise and fall of the legendary American chess player and his 1972 match with Boris Spassky. Directed by Liz Garbus it explores Fischer\u2019s rapid rise to national fame and the political significance of his clash with the Russian which attracted global media coverage as a proxy battle in the Cold War era. [Buy the DVD<\/a>] [Interview with Liz Garbus<\/a>]<\/p>\n

N.B. Studio Canal are re-releasing a stream of Miramax titles but I’ll get into them in a separate post soon.<\/p>\n

ALSO OUT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Breakfast at Tiffany’s<\/strong> (Paramount Home Entertainment) [Blu-ray]
\nCity of God<\/strong> (Miramax) [Blu-ray]
\nEmma<\/strong> (Miramax) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nEntourage: Season 7<\/strong> (Warner Home Video\/HBO) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nGone Baby Gone<\/strong> (Miramax) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nHeavenly Creatures<\/strong> (Peccadillo Pictures) [Blu-ray \/ Remastered]
\nHow I Ended This Summer<\/strong> (New Wave Films) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nIncendies<\/strong> (Trinity) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nInsidious<\/strong> (Momentum Pictures) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nJulia’s Eyes<\/strong> (Optimum Home Entertainment) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nMr. Nobody<\/strong> (Optimum Home Entertainment) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nPirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides<\/strong> (Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nShaolin<\/strong> (Cine-Asia) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nStar Wars: The Complete Saga<\/strong> (20th Century Fox Home Ent.) [Blu-ray \/ Box Set]
\nTake Me Home Tonight<\/strong> (Universal Pictures) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nThe Aviator<\/strong> (Miramax) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nThe English Patient<\/strong> (Miramax) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nThe Others<\/strong> (Miramax) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nThe Quiet American<\/strong> (Miramax) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nThe Roommate<\/strong> (Sony Pictures Home Ent.) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nThe Talented Mr Ripley<\/strong> (Miramax) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nTrue Grit<\/strong> (Paramount Home Entertainment) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nVidal Sassoon – The Movie<\/strong> (Verve Pictures) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]<\/p>\n

>\u00a0UK Cinema Releases for Friday 9th September 2011<\/a>
\n>\u00a0The Best DVD & Blu-ray releases of 2010<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Including Star Wars, Sunrise, Jean Renoir Collection, Point Break and Bobby Fischer Against the World <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2108,2220,2221,115,2219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}