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DAVID KALAT'S FREELANCE WORK

In addition to publishing titles directly under the All Day Entertainment banner, David Kalat has also consulted with various media companies to bring important films to market in the best possible editions.

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LAUREL AND HARDY: THE SILENT YEARS (1927)

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are two of the most beloved comedians in the history of moving pictures. Having acted alongside each other for the first time in 1921, they officially teamed up later in the decade in a series of shorts made for producer Hal Roach – launching a wildly successful partnership that would survive into the sound era and last for another quarter of a century.

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This collection captures the duo’s earliest (mis)adventures on screen,  from their first films together to the dawn of their official partnership in thirteen shorts released throughout 1927.

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INCLUDES:

  • New audio commentaries on Lucky Dog, 45 Minutes From Hollywood, Duck Soup, Slipping Wives and Love ‘em and Weep by film historian and writer David Kalat

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LAUREL & HARDY: THE SILENT YEARS (1928)

The most celebrated comedy duo in cinema history, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy formed their decades-long partnership in the late 1920s in a series of silent shorts produced at the Hal Roach Studios.

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This collection brings together the silent Laurel & Hardy shorts produced during 1928, as their partnership began to gather steam.

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INCLUDES:

  • New audio commentaries on Leave ’em Laughing and From Soup to Nuts by film historian and writer David Kalat

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In 1920, Buster Keaton had earned the opportunity to headline his own series of two-reel comedies. The very moment at which he emerged as a star of his own shorts, Keaton was recruited to appear in his first feature film, The Saphead, based on a popular stage play.

 

The Saphead became hugely important in shaping his on-screen persona: the lonely, stone-faced man thwarted by circumstance, inept at the art of romance, yet undaunted in his struggle for love within a chaotic world. The Masters of Cinema is proud to present yet another Keaton masterpiece in its UK debut on Blu-ray, from a stunning restoration completed in 2020 by the Cohen Film Collection. 

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Audio commentary by David Kalat

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the three ages

The first feature that Buster Keaton wrote, directed, and starred in, Three Ages spoofs D.W. Griffith’s historical epic Intolerance. Like that film, Three Ages follows multiple narratives across different historical eras, which Keaton packs to the brim with incredible stunts and hilarious visual gags.

Across three eras – the Stone Age, Ancient Rome, and “modern times” – Keaton competes for the love of a woman (Margaret Leahy) whilst having to defend himself from a nasty bully (Wallace Beery).

The Masters of Cinema is proud to present yet another Keaton masterpiece in its UK debut on Blu-ray, from a stunning restoration completed in 2022 by the Cohen Film Collection.

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Audio commentary by David Kalat

Buster keaton:

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the general

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Between 1920 and 1929, Buster Keaton created a peerless run of feature films that established him as “arguably the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies”. Collected here are three key films from that era; Sherlock Jr., The General and Steamboat Bill, Jr. Together they represent a true master at his peak, and The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present all three films here on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, from stunning new 4K restorations.

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This deluxe box set includes an audio commentary by David Kalat on Sherlock Jr.

SHERLOCK JR.

Perhaps no other film offers as exciting a rollercoaster ride through the golden age of comedy than Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr.  A meek theater projectionist dreams himself a legendary sleuth, unleashing some of Keaton's most outlandish stunts and visual comedy -- such as the sequence in which Buster leaps through the silver screen and lands in the midst of the action. 

Now out of print, this Blu-Ray from Kino Lorber featured an audio commentary by David Kalat.

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early universal vol. 1

The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present three early silent features from Universal Pictures, all fully restored as part of the studio’s ongoing restoration program

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Includes an audio commentary by David Kalat on --

Skinner’s Dress Suit (dir. William A. Seiter, 1926) – Reginald Denny stars as a shy clerk who asks his boss for a raise at the urging of his wife. His request is rejected, but he lies to his wife, who immediately goes out and buys an expensive suit, an act that upends his once-ordered life

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Early Universal vol. 2

The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present three early silent features from Universal Pictures, all fully restored as part of the studio’s ongoing restoration program.

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David Kalat provides an audio commentary on:

What Happened to Jones? (dir. William A. Seiter, 1926) – Reginald Denny plays a wealthy young bachelor on the night before his wedding. He is convinced to attend a poker party which is promptly raided, sending him on the run in a series of increasingly hilarious disguises.

HARRY LANGDON:

THREE'S A CROWD

THE CHASE

With his quizzical expression and childlike demeanor, Harry Langdon was one of the slapstick cinema's brightest stars.

In 1927, Langdon steered his trademark character even further from the conventionalized slapstick of his Mack Sennett background. His directorial debut, Three's a Crowd, didn't just dabble in pathos, it plunged its hapless hero into a netherworld of loneliness worthy of Samuel Beckett (a self-avowed Langdon fan).

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Langdon's second film as director, The Chaser (1928) is a dark, slightly kinky comedy in which carousing Harry is ordered by a judge to swap domestic duties (and clothing) with his wife. 

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Available on DVD from Kino Lorber with an audio commentary on Three's a Crowd by David Kalat

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TWISTING THE KNIFE: FOUR FILMS BY CLAUDE CHABROL

For five decades Claude Chabrol navigated the unpredictable waters of Cinema, leaving in his wake more than fifty feature films that remain among the most quietly devastating genre movies ever made. Sardonic, provocative, unsettling, Chabrol’s films cut to the quick with a clarity and honesty honed to razor sharpness.

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This deluxe boxed set includes:

The Swindle (Rien Ne Va Plus) 

The Color Of Lies (Au Coeur Du Mensonge)

Nightcap (Merci Pour Le Chocolat)

The Flower Of Evil (La Fleur Du Mal)

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David Kalat's video essay "What's Eating Claude Chabrol" is one of thbe many bonus features included in this collection

TO BE OR

NOT TO BE

As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch stars Jack Benny and Carole Lombard as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous spy plot. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.

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From the Criterion Collection in Blu-Ray and DVD, with an audio commentary by David Kalat

THINGS TO COME

A landmark collaboration between writer H. G. Wells, producer Alexander Korda, and designer and director William Cameron Menzies, Things to Come is a science fiction film like no other, a prescient political work that predicts a century of turmoil and progress.

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From the Criterion Collection in Blu-Ray and DVD, with an audio commentary by David Kalat and unused special effects footage by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (footage identified by David Kalat).

EYES WITHOUT A FACE

At his secluded chateau in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor (Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured countenance—at a horrifying price. Eyes Without a Face,directed by the supremely talented Georges Franju, is rare in horror cinema for its odd mixture of the ghastly and the lyrical, and it has been a major influence on the genre in the decades since its release.

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Available on DVD and Blu-Ray from Criterion Collection, with liner notes by David Kalat

FANTOMAS

Based on the phenomenally popular French pulp novellas, Louis Feuillade's outrageous, ambitious FANTÔMAS series became the gold standard of espionage serials in pre-WWI Europe, and laid the foundation for such immortal works as Feuillade's own Les Vampires and Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse films.

René Navarre stars as the criminal lord of Paris, the master of disguise, the creeping assassin in black: Fantômas. Over the course of five feature films (which combined to form a 5 1/2-hour epic), Fantômas, along with his accomplices and mistresses, are pursued by the equally resourceful Inspector Juve (Edmund Bréon) and his friend, journalist Jerôme Fandor (Georges Melchior).

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Available on Blu-Ray and DVD from Kino Lorber with an audio commentary by David Kalat

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LOUIS FEUILLADE: THE COMPLETE CRIME SERIALS (1913-1918)

An early cinematic pioneer with an undeniably pervasive influence, Louis Feuillade is best remembered for his landmark serials Fantômas, Les Vampires, Judex and Tih Minh, four crime epics that have had an immeasurable impact on popular culture around the globe. The Masters of Cinema series is honoured to present these silent masterworks on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK from  astonishing 4K restorations.

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  • Fantômas – Audio commentaries on In the Shadow of the Guillotine and Juve vs Fantômas by film historian and author David Kalat

  • Les Vampires – Brand new audio commentaries on The Red Cipher and The Spectre by film historian and author David Kalat

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dr. mabuse the gambler

One of the legendary epics of the silent cinema — and the first part of a trilogy that Fritz Lang developed up to the very end of his career — Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler. [Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler.] is a masterpiece of conspiracy that, even as it precedes the mind-blowing Spione from the close of Lang’s silent cycle, constructs its own dark labyrinth from the base materials of human fear and paranoia.

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A bridge between Feuillade’s somnambulistic serial-films and modern media-narratives of elusive robber-barons, Lang’s two-part classic set the template for the director’s greatest works: social commentary as superpsychology, poised at the brink of combustion. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Lang’s early masterpiece in its fully-restored version on Blu-ray in 1080p for the first time ever.

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  • Exclusive feature-length audio commentary by film-scholar and Lang expert David Kalat

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the testament of dr. mabuse

With the etching onto glass of a single word – “MABUSE” – Berlin reawakens into a nightmare. Fritz Lang’s electrifying Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse [The Testament of Dr. Mabuse] is the astonishing second instalment in the German master’s legendary Mabuse series, a film that puts image and sound into an hypnotic arrangement unlike anything seen or heard in the cinema before – or since.

 

Not only a follow-up to Lang’s earlier Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler. [Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler.], but also, with the presence of Otto Wernicke’s Police Commissioner Lohmann, a semi-sequel to Lang’s immortal masterpiece M, Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse is itself considered by many to be Lang’s greatest achievement – a work of terrible and practically supernatural power that seems to have prophesied the implications of the Nazi scourge. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse for the very first time on Blu-ray.

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  • Feature-length audio commentary by film scholar and Fritz Lang expert David Kalat

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the 1000 eyes of dr. mabuse

After enjoying fantastic success with Fritz Lang’s two-part “Indian Epic” in 1959, German producer Artur Brauner signed the great director to direct one more film. The result would be the picture that, in closing the saga he began nearly forty years earlier, brought Lang’s career full-circle, and would come to represent his final celluloid testament—by extension: his final film masterpiece.

 

One of the great and cherished “last films” in the history of cinema, Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse provides a stylistic glimpse into the 1960s works on such subjects as sex-crime, youth-culture, and LSD that Lang would unfortunately never come to realise. Nonetheless, Lang’s final film remains an explosive, and definitive, closing statement. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Fritz Lang’s final film on Blu-ray.

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  • Feature-length audio commentary by film-scholar and Lang expert David Kalat

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mabuse lives!

Features Include : The Thousand Eyes of Dr Mabuse, The Return of Dr Mabuse, The Invisible Dr Mabuse, The Testament of Dr Mabuse (1962 – Werner Klingler), Scotland Yard Hunts Dr Mabuse, The Death Ray of Dr Mabuse.

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Directed by Fritz Lang, Harald Reinl (Face of the Frog), Werner Klingler (Police Raid), Paul May (Duel with Death) and Hugo Fregonese (Black Tuesday), the CCC Mabuse series continues Fritz Lang’s legacy while playing into a popular market taste in Germany for adaptations of literary krimis – or crime thrillers – that can also be seen in the enormous popularity of films based upon Edgar Wallace’s novels throughout the 1960s. The Masters of Cinema series is honoured to collect all six of the 1960s Mabuse films together in this set, presented in high definition from 2K restorations.

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  • Archival audio commentary on The Thousand Eyes of Dr Mabuse by film historian and author David Kalat

  • New audio commentaries on the other five films by film historian and author David Kalat

DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER

Fritz Lang's 1922 epic two-part silent thriller about criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse first came to DVD in 1999 from David Shepard.  David Kalat contributed an audio commentary to this two-disc edition.  This set is now out-of-print and has been surpassed and superseded by subsequent restorations.

THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE

A sequel to his enormously successful silent film Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler, Fritz Lang’s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse reunites the director with the character that had effectively launched his career. Lang put slogans and ideas expounded by the Nazis into the mouth of a madman, warning his audience of an imminent menace, which was soon to become a reality. A landmark of mystery and suspense for countless espionage and noir thrillers to come, this is the complete, uncut original director’s version in a stunning new transfer.

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From Criterion Collection, with an audio commentary and video essay by David Kalat

Also includes complete French language alternate version shot by Lang with a different cast

FRITZ LANG'S DR. MABUSE TRILOGY

All three of Fritz Lang's Mabuse films, spanning his entire career, have been collected for one package, in their complete and restored forms.

1: Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler. [Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler.] (1922) Lang's two-part, nearly 5-hour silent epic detailing the rise and fall of Dr. Mabuse in Weimar-era Berlin.

2: Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse [The Testament of Dr. Mabuse] (1933) a tour-de-force thriller rife with supernatural elements, all converging around an attempt by the now-institutionalised Mabuse (or someone acting under his name... and possibly his will) to organise an 'Empire of Crime'.

3: Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse [The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse] (1960) Fritz Lang's final film, in which hypnosis, clairvoyance, surveillance, and machine-guns come together for a whiplash climax that answers the question: Who's channelling Mabuse's methods in the Cold War era?

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From Eureka! Masters of Cinema on DVD with audio commentaries on all three films by David Kalat

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SCARLET STREET

A box-office hit (despite being banned in three states), Scarlet Street is one of legendary director Fritz Lang’s finest American films.  

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When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson) rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty (Joan Bennett), he plunges into a whirlpool of lust, larceny and revenge. As Chris’ obsession with the irresistibly vulgar Kitty grows, the meek cashier is seduced, corrupted, humiliated and transformed before implacable fate and perverse justice triumph in the most satisfyingly downbeat denouement in the history of American film. Packed with hairpin plot twists, SCARLET STREET is a dark gem of film noir.

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Available on Blu-Ray from Kino Lorber with an audio commentary by David Kalat

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THE GRAND DUKE'S FINANCES

Die Finanzen des Großherzogs sees Murnau exploiting the Mediterranean clime to film the tale of a rakish duke whose lifestyle has dried up his noble coffers. When word arrives about the existence of valuable sulphur deposits on his tiny duchy of Abacco, a comic adventure of high-seas intrigue, “animal impersonators”, and the Crown Princess of Russia unreels at a sprightly pace.

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David Kalat's audio commentary is available on Blu-Ray from Kino Lorber or for European film fans from Eureka! Masters of Cinema.

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(This version was also available as part of Kino Lorber's 6-DVD Murnau Collection but that is now out of print)

CITY GIRL

After the visual fireworks of Sunrise and the now-lost splendour of 4 Devils, F.W. Murnau turned his attention to this vivid, painterly study of an impulsive and fragile marriage among the wheatfields of Minnesota.

An innocent farmer’s son falls for a hard-bitten but lonely waitress. Upon bringing her home at the start of harvest time, the honeymoon turns into a claustrophobic struggle.

City Girl is one of cinema’s great pastorals, featuring some of the most delicate performances Murnau ever filmed and influencing directors such as Terrence Malick and Jean Vigo. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Murnau’s penultimate film in a glorious high-definition transfer.

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Available on Blu-Ray, and playable worldwide.  Includes audio commentary by David Kalat

Tiger of eschnapur / the indian tomb

Fritz Lang returned to Germany on the eve of the 1960s to direct this enchanted penultimate work--effectively, a single 3-hour-plus film split in two, the work that has come to be referred to in modern times as “the Indian epic” (consisting of Der Tiger von Eschnapur and Das indische Grabmal) proved to be one of the legendary director’s most adventurous achievements. It was also one of the most popular successes Lang was to experience in his native land.

A German architect (Paul Hubschmid) is commissioned by an Indian maharaja (Walter Reyer) to construct a temple on his palatial grounds. After saving the life of a bewitching dancer (Debra Paget), the hero is pulled ever deeper into a hazardous maze of traps.

 

The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Lang’s films on DVD in the UK for the first time with an audio commentary by David Kalat

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TIGER OF ESCHNAPUR/

THE INDIAN TOMB

In 2019 I was asked to provide an audio commentary for the US Blu-Ray debut of Fritz Lang's 1959 Indian Epic. As it happened, the original audio file I recorded for the Eureka! Masters of Cinema disc didn't quite fit the new upgraded master, so I recorded a new audio track based on the prior one but with some new perspectives.

NOSFERATU

One of the most famous films of the silent era, one of the first horror films, and one of the greatest movies of all time and in any genre--F.W. Murnau's 1921 masterpiece is presented here in a definitive edition from Eureka! Masters of Cinema in Blu-Ray and DVD.  This edition is coded for playback in the UK only. 

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Includes audio commentary by David Kalat.

NOSFERATU

One of the most famous films of the silent era, one of the first horror films, and one of the greatest movies of all time and in any genre--F.W. Murnau's 1921 masterpiece is presented here in an alternate, competing definitive edition from BFI in Blu-Ray.  This edition is coded for playback in the UK only.  

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Includes liner notes by David Kalat.

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THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI

One of the most iconic masterpieces in cinema history, Robert Wiene’s Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari shook filmgoers worldwide and changed the direction of the art form. Now presented in a definitive UHD edition, the film’s chilling, radically expressionist vision is set to grip viewers again.

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  • Audio commentary by film historian David Kalat

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METROPOLIS

In 2010, Fritz Lang's fabled masterpiece was restored to close to its original length with the reinclusion of additional footage recovered in Argentina.  Eureka! Masters of Cinema has presented this gorgeous new version in several Blu-Ray and DVD editions, coded for playback in the UK only.

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Includes audio commentary by David Kalat and Jonathan Rosenbaum

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The snake girl and the silver haired witch

What do you get when Noriaki Yuasa, director of Daiei Studios’ much-beloved Gamera series, makes a monochrome film adaptation of the works of horror manga pioneer Kazuo Umezu (The Drifting Classroom)? The answer is 1968’s The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch, a fantastically phantasmagorical slice of twisted tokusatsu terror ostensibly made for children that will irreparably traumatise any child that sees it!

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Making its worldwide Blu-ray debut and its home video premiere outside Japan, this rarely-screened, nightmarishly disorienting creepshow arguably anticipates many of the trends seen in J-horror decades later.

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Audio commentary by David Kalat

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MOTHRA

One of the most iconic Japanese kaiju, Mothra has appeared in over a dozen feature films. Presented here is her debut, a gloriously vibrant piece of filmmaking that forever changed how kaiju eiga would be produced in Japan.

 

Psychedelically colourful, with an intelligent, benevolent protector as its lead kaiju, Mothra was radically different to every other monster movie that had come before it, and it remains a classic of the genre to this day.

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Deluxe Collector's Edition Includes audio commentary by David Kalat

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The h-man 

In Tokyo, a mysterious radioactive liquid is dissolving people into slimy, sentient, seemingly indestructible, blobs of destruction! Part-Japanese gangster noir, part-gooey body melting horror, The H-Man (Bijo to Ekitai-ningen – ‘Beauty and the Liquid People’) is one of the most unique sci-fi films of the 1950s.

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Includes an audio commentary by David Kalat

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battle in outer space

A series of mysterious catastrophes sweep the globe, causing the world’s scientists to conclude that beings from another planet are attacking Earth, and the world must unite to defend itself in a gigantic battle in outer space! With wonderful special effects sequences by Eiji Tsuburaya (Godzilla, Ultraman), and a rousing score by Akira Ifukube (Godzilla), Battle in Outer Space is a glorious sci-fi extravaganza.

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Includes an audio commentary by David Kalat 

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For the first time ever worldwide, all twelve Gamera movies are collected together in one deluxe Blu-ray boxset. This limited edition collectors’ set traces the decades-long evolution of Gamera, from the “friend of all children” in his more light-hearted earlier films, to the Guardian of the Universe in the groundbreaking 1990s reboot series, often hailed as three of the best kaiju films ever made.

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Audio commentary by David Kalat on Gamera vs. Guiron.

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GODZILLA

THE SHOWA ERA

Collected here for the first time are all fifteen Godzilla films of Japan’s Showa era, in a landmark set showcasing the technical wizardry, fantastical storytelling, and indomitable international appeal that established the most iconic giant monster the cinema has ever seen.

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This massive 8-disc deluxe Blu-Ray box set includes David Kalat's audio commentaries on both the Japanese and US versions of Godzilla.

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GODZILLA

Here it is, folks--the original 1954 Japanese version of Godzilla and its alternate 1956 reworking for the US market, in a breathtaking Blu-Ray (or DVD) edition from the Criterion Collection.

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Includes an audio commentary by David Kalat on each version of the film

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GHIDORAH
THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER

A prophetess from Venus warns Japan that Ghidorah, the dreaded three-headed space dragon is on his way--perhaps Godzilla, Rodan, and Mothra can help save the Earth--assuming they can be persuaded to fight on the same team.

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This DVD from Classic Media features both the original Japanese version and the re-edited US version, with an audio commentary by David Kalat

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RING

COLLECTION

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Ring, Hideo Nakata’s globally acclaimed Japanese horror film, Arrow are releasing a limited-edition Region B Blu-Ray collection featuring four films from the Ring franchise: Ring, Ring 2, Ring 0 and Spiral.

Ring is based on Koji Suzuki’s terrifying tale of a video tape in which the contents of which causes anyone who views it to die within a week – unless they can persuade someone else to watch it and in doing so, pass on the curse.

This collection includes video essays, interviews, theatrical trailers, deleted scenes and an audio commentary on The Ring from David Kalat.

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DARK WATER

After terrifying audiences worldwide with the blockbuster J-Horror classic Ring and its sequel, director Hideo Nakata returned to the genre for Dark Water, another highly atmospheric tale of a “dead wet girl.” Based upon on a short story by Ring author Koji Suzuki, Dark Water follows Yoshimi, a single mother struggling to win sole custody of her only child, Ikuko. When they move into a new home within a dilapidated apartment complex, Yoshimi begins to experience startling visions, calling her mental well-being into question, and endangering not only her custody of Ikuko, but perhaps their lives as well.Available on Blu-Ray and DVD from Arrow Video in the UK, with liner notes by David Kalat

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ju-on: the grudge collection

"Ju-On": the name given to a deadly curse spawned when someone dies in the grip of a violent rage. All who come into contact with it are doomed... Writer-director Takashi Shimizu's Ju-On: The Grudge series represents the flesh-crawling pinnacle of Japanese chillers that swept the globe at the turn of the millennium.

The films introduce the anonymous family house in the suburbs of Tokyo where an unspeakable evil lingers alongside its residents, the ghastly mother-son pairing of Kayako and Toshio Saeki. Shimizu's disconcerting approach to plotting, unnerving eye for the uncanny details in the dark corners of the frame and an innate talent for effective jump scares so impressed Evil Dead director Sam Raimi that he invited the director to helm two Hollywood remakes.

The quintessential J-horror series arrives on Blu-ray with a 4K restoration of Ju-On: The Grudge and a wealth of extras, including an audio commentary by David Kalat

COLUMBIA PICTURES

FILM NOIR CLASSICS iii

This DVD Collection features these five hard-boiled thrillers:

 

My Name is Julia Ross (1945)
Nina Foch plays an unemployed secretary lured to an isolated mansion by insidious characters.

The Mob(1951)
In one of his most dynamic roles, Broderick Crawford plays a police detective who goes undercover as a dock worker in New Orleans to expose The Mob.

Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
Mickey Rooney gives a fine, underrated performance as a race car enthusiast blackmailed into driving the getaway car at a bank robbery.

Tight Spot (1955)
Ginger Rogers, cast against type, is a tough, uncooperative witness in a criminal case threatened by her association with gangsters in Tight Spot.

The Burglar (1957)
Dan Duryea stars as a cunning jewel thief who recruits Jayne Mansfield, Mickey Shaughnessy and Peter Capell for one final heist before retiring.

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From TCM's Vault Collection and Columbia Pictures, with liner notes by David Kalat

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From classic to foreign to independent to cult films, All Day is committed to giving the red carpet treatment to movies that fell through the cracks. 

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Many of these films have never been available on home video before. Some have never been released in the United States in any way at all. All are presented here in exclusive DVD editions, lovingly mastered from the highest quality sources available, with unique supplemental bonus features.

 

For the unloved and the obscure, the lost and forgotten, All Day Entertainment is dedicated to the very best movies you’ve never heard of. Every one of these discs is a treasure, and I personally recommend them all.

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