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Pre-order The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner on DVD

The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner on DVD will be released on January 19, 2015. You can pre-order it on Amazon via this link.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
A film by Tony Richardson

Colin (Tom Courtenay) is a defiant teenager who rebels against the system, refusing to follow his dying father into a factory job, railing against the capitalist bosses and preferring to make a living from petty thieving.

Sent to borstal, Colin discovers his talent for cross-country running. The borstal governor (Michael Redgrave) offers him the chance to redeem himself in a race against a local public school, and tensions build as the day approaches...

Following the huge success of Karel Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe here adapted another of his own novels for the screen. Newcomer Tom Courtney is totally compelling as the sullen, disillusioned delinquent in this British New Wave classic, a passionate, explosive tale of rebellion

Special features

• Commentary with lead actor Tom Courtenay and writer Alan Sillitoe, moderated by film historian Robert Murphy
• Video essay by cinematographer Walter Lassally
• Momma Don't Allow (1956), Tony Richardson's Free Cinema documentary shot by Walter Lassally

UK | 1962 | 99 minutes | DVD

Star Wars ice cubes!

We have all been waiting but now the wait is over. Now you can get a Star Wars silicone rubber ice tray that makes one large and four small droid shaped ice cubes. How cold is that?

Head on over to ThinkGeek for more info

via RetroToGo

Pre-order The Big Lebowski on region free Blu-ray

The Big Lebowski will be released on August 22, 2011 in a region free Blu-ray edition.

Pre-order your copy via this link: The Big Lebowski [Blu-ray][Region Free]

Special Features:
The Dude's Life, The Dude Abides: The Big Lebowski Ten Years Later, Flying Carpets and Bowling Pin Dreams: The Dream Sequences of the Dude, Interactive Map, Jeff Bridges Photo Book, An Exclusive Introduction, Making of the Big Lebowski, The Lebowski Fest: An Achiever's Story, Photo Gallery, Scene Companion PIP, U-Control: The Music Of The Big Lebowski, Mark It, Dude PIP, Worthy Adversaries: Whats My Line Trivia

Tura Satana RIP

Cult movie actress Tura Satana, born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi in Hokkaidō, Japan, has passed away.

Satana’s most noted screen role was as “Varla” in the 1965 film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!–a very aggressive and sexual female character for which she did all of her own stunts and fight scenes.

 

 

Deuce of Spades movie

"When a modern day hot rod girl finds a mysterious letter dating back to the fifties hidden in her roadster, she is left with nothing but questions… Who is Johnny Callaway? She sets out to find the answers and retrace her deuce’s troubled past. Fast hot rods, cool cats, gravity defying swing dancing and rockin’ retro music all serve as a colorful backdrop to this heartfelt, inspiring story. Discover an underground scene where counter culture is in, old school is cool and nostalgia forever reigns."

Sounds like a DVD you'd like to watch? Get your copy from Sivletto.

 

 

 

Bettie Page Varietease on DVD

THE HOLY GRAIL OF BURLESQUE MOVIES! The legendary Queen of the Curve, Bettie Page, America s greatest pinup model, stars in Varietease, a unique peek of the wonderful world of burlesque complete with singers, slickers and saucy strippers! Flashing her sexy smile and gyrating in a harem girl costume, Bettie Page does her Dance of the Four Veils and easily steals the show. Another legend, the sophisticated and sparkling Lili St. Cyr, shows us just how elegant a striptease can be. Aiding and abetting are jokester Bobby Shields, bikini-clad Chris La Chris, Warblers Cass Franklin & Monica Lane, exuberant contortionist Twinnie Wallen, and fame female impersonator Vickie Lynn. First released in 1954. Produced and directed by girly-pix impresario Irving Klaw (the man who photographed Bettie in bondage).

Find out more about Varietease [DVD] at Amazon

Cadillac Records out on DVD and Blu-ray

Cadillac Records is Hollywood's take on the Chess label, created just after the Second World War in Chicago by Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody), the son of Polish immigrants, to promote young black performers, primarily from the South of the US. That means a host of blues and soul icons being taken off by modern-day actors and performers - including Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Howlin' Wolf (Eamonn Walker), Chuck Berry (Mos Def) and Etta James (Beyoncé Knowles).

More about Cadillac Records [DVD] at Amazon

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Rockers movie 30 years - now on Blu-ray

Wienerworld proudly presents the Blu Ray edition of the classic reggae film Rockers, to coincide with the film's 30th anniversary since its release.

A riotous burst of energy and colour, almost documentary in style, Rockers is a cameo-packed gutsy thriller of the dread-locked, ganja-smoking drummer Leroy Horsemouth Wallace's attempts to succeed in the cut throat Jamaican music biz which provides much insight, amusement and education.

The film captures reggae at its musical apex with a vibrant and magnificent reggae soundtrack now digitally re-mastered from the original 35mm film made in 1978. Release date 15 June 2009.

Teenage Gang Debs (1966) trailer

Almost every B-movie has a little something. Teenage Gang Debs from 1966 features the top tune Don't Make Me Mad by Lee Dowell. Which does exist as a 45 but very few copies are known. Anyway, here's the trailer for Teenage Gang Debs. "The Go Go girls who go... too far".

One Sinatra movie, coming up!

Ever since Universal Pictures and Manadaly Pictures secured the rights to Frank Sinatra's music and life story, they have been looking for a suitable director. Now it has been announced that Martin Scorsese will direct the biopic.

No news yet on who will play the role of Frank Sinatra.

Via Electric Roulette