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Feb 10, 2017 - 4:21 PM
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johnjohnson
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Warner Archive announced today that it will add four new titles to its Blu-ray catalog: Blake Edwards' S.O.B. (1981), Edward Bernds' World Without End (1956), Donald Cammell's Demon Seed (1977), and Francis Ford Coppola's Finian's Rainbow (1977). The four releases will be available for purchase later this year.
S.O.B.
Synopsis: Felix Farmer's (Richard Mulligan) latest movie flops – and lots of Hollywood types spring into action. Agents are called. Lawyers are retained. Statements are issued. It's what master comedy director Blake Edwards calls "Standard Operating Bull," the subject of his gleefully satiric S.O.B.
Julie Andrews is a wholesome superstar about to alter her image…radically. Aiding and abetting the madness are William Holden, Robert Preston, Robert Vaughn, Shelley Winters, Loretta Swit and more. Dialogue crackles like fat in a fire, gags range from dead-on deadpan to comedic broadsides, insights bristle and sting. Nothing standard here: S.O.B. is extraordinary.
Special Features:
NEW Remaster
Original Theatrical Trailer
Optional English SDH subtitles
World Without End
Synopsis: "CinemaScope's first science-fiction thriller" sees four intrepid astronauts (Hugh Marlowe, Nelson Leigh, Rod Taylor and Christopher Dark) successfully complete mankind's first Mars mission, only to run afoul of a warp in space. Tossed centuries into the future, they discover an Earth devastated by nuclear war, where mutant beast-men rule the surface. Underground is a society marked by listless males and lustful ladies (future- wear designed by Vargas!). Trapped in a tomorrow they never made, the four astronauts take on the mutant and the malicious while fighting to bring humanity back to the surface.
Special Features:
NEW Remaster
Optional English SDH subtitles
Demon Seed
Synopsis: Susan Harris is alone in the house when, suddenly, doors lock, windows slam shut and the phone stops working. Susan is trapped by an intruder…but this is no ordinary thug. Instead, the intruder is a computer named Proteus, an artificial brain that has learned to reason. And to terrorize. In "one of her finest, most vulnerable performances" (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic), Julie Christie plays Susan in this taut techno-thriller based on the Dean Koontz novel. Packed with suspense, surprise and special effects, Demon Seed follows Susan's desperate attempts to outmaneuver and outthink her captor. Then Susan learns what Proteus wants: its own child, conceived in her womb and destined for domination.
Special Features:
NEW Remaster
Original Theatrical Trailer
Optional English SDH subtitles
Finian's Rainbow
Synopsis: He wears a ratty old cardigan instead of tails, a battered felt hat in place of a topper – but one glimpse of those agile feet and you know he's Fred Astaire. The great entertainer sang and danced his last musical lead in Finian's Rainbow, director Francis Ford Coppola's exuberant movie of the 1947 Broadway hit.
Astaire plays an Irish rogue who plants a stolen crock of leprechaun gold in the soil near Fort Knox to reap what he thinks will be a rich harvest. In tow are his spirited daughter (Petula Clark), a love-struck leprechaun (Tommy Steele) and a bigoted Southern senator (Keenan Wynn) transformed by misbegotten magic. The treasurable Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg score includes "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?," "Look to the Rainbow," "If This Isn't Love" and "Old Devil Moon." Watching it, you'll be in clover. Four-leaf all the way.
Special Features:
NEW Remaster
ORIGINAL ROADSHOW VERSION with Overture, Entr'acte/Intermission & Exit Music
Watch Finian's Rainbow With Francis Ford Coppola: Introduction and Commentary by the Director
Featurette: The World Premiere of Finian's Rainbow
Original Theatrical Trailer (HD)
Optional English SDH subtitles
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=20757
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S.O.B.! Great news!
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S.O.B.! Great news!
I happened to see it a few months ago and didn't care for it, personally. Various things about the film irritated me, in various ways. It wasn't my thing. I like "10" a lot better, and even that isn't half as good as say, Victor/Victoria. In my opinion.
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I saw SOB for the first time about a year ago and didn't like it.
I saw 10 many years ago and thought it was pretty good. I saw it again last year and didn't like it.
Blake Edwards, after his many battles with Hollywood studios, was pretty cynical and it showed in his later movies.
I'd have to agree with that. And there's something about S.O.B. and 10 that seems period-locked and dated now, more than they should be. They still deserve to be seen, but more as historical artifacts than as a source of relevant social commentary.
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I am very tempted to buy Demon Seed, but (and comes the heresy) I would have loved a 5.1 mix featuring the music of Jerry Fielding. That would be a crazy soundscape.
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