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Risky Business [Blu-ray] (Paul Brickman, 1983) Warner, Don Quixote (Orson Welles, Jesús Franco, 1992) Image Entertainment, The Adventures of Robin Hood [Blu-ray] (Micheal Curtiz, 1938) Warner Home Video, The Godfather Collection - Four-Disc Coppola Restoration [Blu-ray] (The Godfather / The Godfather Part II / The Godfather Part III) - Paramount, Kill Bill - Volume 1 [Blu-ray] (Quentin Tarantino, 2003) Disney, Kill Bill - Volume 2 [Blu-ray] (Quentin Tarantino, 2004) Disney, Kill Bill - Volumes 1 & 2 [Blu-ray] (Quentin Tarantino, 2003-2004) Disney, The Sixth Sense [Blu-ray] (M. Night Shyamalan, 1999) - Disney, The Final Countdown [Blu-ray] (Don Taylor, 1980) - Blue Underground, Sweeney Todd [Blu-ray] (Tim Burton, 2007) - Dreamworks Video,

Andrzej Zulawski's La Femme Publique (The Public Woman, 1984) Special UNCUT Edition - Mondo Vision, Andrzej Zulawski's La Femme Publique (The Public Woman, 1984) Premium UNCUT Edition - Mondo Vision, The Bill Douglas Trilogy (1972) - Facets, The Man On The Eiffel Tower (Burgess Meredith, 1949) Kino, Day Watch [Blu-ray] (Timur Bekmambetov, 2006) - 20th Century Fox, Night Watch [Blu-ray] (Timur Bekmambetov, 2004) - 20th Century Fox, Taxi To the Dark Side (Alex Gibney, 2007) - Velocity / Thinkfilm, Kiss of the Spider Woman (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) (Hector Babenco, 1985) - City Lights Pictures, Kiss of the Spider Woman [Blu-ray] (Collector's Edition) (Hector Babenco, 1985) - City Lights Pictures, Satantango (Béla Tarr, 1994) Facets, Europa Europa (Agnieszka Holland, 1990) R2 UK Arrow films, Kings of the Road (In the Course of Time) (Wim Wenders, 1975) R2 UK Axiom Films

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Latest Comparisons - Trafic, Batman - Gotham Knight (BR), High and Low, Batman Begins (BR), Eyes Wide Shut (BR), Picnic at Hanging Rock, Great Expectations (BR), The Girl on the Bridge, Werewolf Shadow, Curse of the Devil, The Boys From Brazil (BR), Black Narcissus (BR), 2001: A Space Odyssey (BR), The Seventh Seal (BR), Hoosiers (BR), Desperate, Batman: the Movie (BR), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, The Searchers (BR), Monty Python's Life of Brian (BR), Ballad of Narayama, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, Cluny Brown, I Don't Want To Sleep Alone, The Wayward Cloud, Four Times That Night, Lips of Blood, Five Dolls For An August Moon, The Living Dead Girl, Alphaville, High Noon, Diva, The Nude Vampire, The Red Violin, Lisa and the Devil, Phenomena, Tenebre Baron Blood, Bay of Blood, Hour of the Wolf, The Naked Kiss, La Chinoise, Destry Rides Again, Rare Breed, Winchester 73, Bend of the River, The Far Country, The Whip and the Body, Man of the West, Honey and Clover, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, A Man Escaped, The Lovers, The Fire Within, Frivolous Lola, Lancelot Du Lac, Ugetsu Monogatari / Oyu-Sama, Trasgredire (Cheeky), This Island Earth, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Bamako, Irma Vep, Night Train Murders, Les Vampires, The Watchmaker of St. Paul, La Notte

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Week of June 30th, 2008

 

Batman: The Movie (Leslie H. Martinson, 1966) 20th Century Fox
Batman: The Movie [
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City of Men (Paulo Morelli, 2007) Miramax

Gangs of New York [Blu-ray] (Martin Scorsese, 2002) - Miramax

Girl on the Bridge (Patrice Leconte, 1999) Legend Films

Identification Of A Woman (Michelangelo Antonioni,1982) R2 UK Mr Bongo Films

In the Line of Fire [Blu-ray] (Wolfgang Petersen, 1993) - Sony

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985) Criterion

My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-Wai, 2007) - LionsGate

Odette (Herbert Wilcox, 1950) R2 UK Optimum

Only the Valiant (Gordon Douglas, 1951) Lions Gate

Patriotism (Yukio Mishima + Domoto Masaki, 1966) Criterion

Picnic At Hanging Rock 3-disc Deluxe Edition (Peter Weir, 1975) R2 UK Second Sight

The Pied Piper (Jacques Demy, 1972) Legend Films

Point Break [Blu-ray] (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991) 20th Century Fox

Sunflower (Yang Zhang, 2005) New Yorker

Vantage Point (Pete Travis, 2008) - Sony Pictures

Vantage Point [Blu-ray] (Pete Travis, 2008) - Sony Pictures

 

 

Week of July 7th, 2008

 

Batman Begins [Blu-ray] Christopher Nolan, 2005) Warner Home Video

Batman Begins [Blu-ray] (Limited Edition Gift Set) (Christopher Nolan, 2005) Warner Home Video

Batman - Gotham Knight