{"id":8913,"date":"2010-08-23T05:42:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T04:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=8913"},"modified":"2010-08-23T05:43:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T04:43:52","slug":"uk-dvd-blu-ray-releases-monday-23rd-august-2010-the-gold-rush-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/08\/23\/uk-dvd-blu-ray-releases-monday-23rd-august-2010-the-gold-rush-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"UK DVD &#038; Blu-ray Releases: Monday 23rd August 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8915\" title=\"UK DVD and Blu-ray Picks - The Gold Rush and Lebanon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/UK-DVD-and-Blu-ray-Picks-The-Gold-Rush-and-Lebanon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[ad]<\/p>\n<p><strong>DVD &amp; BLU-RAY PICKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0015864\/\">The Gold Rush<\/a><\/strong> (Park Circus): <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charlie_Chaplin\">Charles Chaplin<\/a>&#8216;s classic 1925 silent film combined humour and pathos in depicting the tale of a prospector struggling to strike gold in Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring some memorable sight gags, such as the eating of a boot, it was Chaplin&#8217;s first hit for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Artists\">United Artists<\/a> (the studio he co-founded), reaffirming his status as a\u00a0film maker\u00a0and Hollywood icon.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"445\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XDGB6iUCSMg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XDGB6iUCSMg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This dual format edition (Blu-ray and DVD combined in one package) includes both versions of The Gold Rush: the 1925 silent original restored by Kevin Brownlow and the digitally restored 1942 film, which saw Chaplin re-edit the 1925 original with a new musical score and narration.<\/p>\n<p>Other extras include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction by David Robinson<\/li>\n<li>Chaplin Today: Gold Rush<\/li>\n<li>Chaplin Trailer Reel<\/li>\n<li>Photo Gallery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B003NEQ7NE?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B003NEQ7NE\">Buy The Gold Rush from Amazon UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[ad]<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1483831\/\">Lebanon<\/a><\/strong> (Metrodome): One of a batch of recent films exploring the legacy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1982_Lebanon_War\">first Lebanon war<\/a> was this striking drama set almost entirely inside an Israeli tank.<\/p>\n<p>Written and directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samuel_Maoz\">Samuel Maoz<\/a>, it is set in June 1982 as Israel invades Lebanon and focuses on the four men inside the claustrophobic world of a tank &#8211; Assi (Itay Tiran), Shmulik (Yoav Donat), Hertzel (Oshri Cohen) and Yigal (Michael Moshonov).<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7BUu8_BzU3w?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7BUu8_BzU3w?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>As the mission progresses, they can only see each other and what appears through the tank&#8217;s tiny sight window as they gradually encounter fellow Israeli soldiers, a bombed out town and a band of Syrian resistance fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Startling in its sparse depiction of the conflict, the central concept is a little played out by the end, but it remains a worthy addition to recent films exploring Israeli troops in Lebanon (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0758732\/\">Beaufort<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1185616\/\">Waltz With Bashir<\/a>) and won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival last year.<\/p>\n<p>Extras include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Commentary from director Samuel Maoz upon whose real life experiences the film is based<\/li>\n<li>History of the first Lebanon War (text document)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018LEBANON\u2019: the background story to the film (text document)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B003UU8M6G?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B003UU8M6G\">Buy Lebanon on Blu-ray<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B003L14TB6?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B003L14TB6\">DVD<\/a> from Amazon UK<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO OUT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Zed and Two Noughts<\/strong> (BFI)<br \/>\n<strong> Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves<\/strong> (Eureka)<br \/>\n<strong> Basement<\/strong> (Revolver Entertainment)<br \/>\n<strong>Modern Times<\/strong> (Park Circus)<br \/>\n<strong>Charlie&#8217;s Angels<\/strong> (Sony Pictures Home Ent.)<br \/>\n<strong> Dead Fish<\/strong> (Boulevard Entertainment Ltd)<br \/>\n<strong> Dear John<\/strong> (Momentum Pictures)<br \/>\n<strong> Flash Gordon<\/strong> (Optimum Home Entertainment)<br \/>\n<strong>Going Postal<\/strong> (20th Century Fox Home Ent.)<br \/>\n<strong>Little Dorrit<\/strong> (2 Entertain)<br \/>\n<strong> Lock Up<\/strong> (Optimum Home Entertainment)<br \/>\n<strong> Loving Memory<\/strong> (BFI)<br \/>\n<strong> Repo Men<\/strong> (Universal Pictures)<br \/>\n<strong> The Burmese Harp<\/strong> (Eureka)<br \/>\n<strong> The Edge of the World<\/strong> (BFI)<br \/>\n<strong> The Innocents<\/strong> (BFI)<br \/>\n<strong> The Pixies: Acoustic and Electric Live<\/strong> (Eagle Rock Entertainment)<br \/>\n<strong> The Vampire Diaries: The Complete First Season<\/strong> (Warner Home Video)<br \/>\n<strong> The World<\/strong> (Eureka)<\/p>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2009\/12\/14\/the-best-dvd-blu-ray-releases-of-2009\/\">The Best DVD and Blu-ray releases of 2009<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2010\/08\/20\/uk-cinema-releases-friday-20th-august-2010-salt-the-expendables-marmaduke-piranha-3d-the-illusionist\/\">UK cinema releases for Friday 20th August 2010 including Salt and The Expendables<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Including The Gold Rush and Lebanon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1515,1121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8913"}],"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=8913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}