Let’s take a quick look to see what’s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound.
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A group of bourgeois cosmopolitans are invited to a mansion for dinner and inexplicably find themselves unable to leave, in Luis Buñuel’s daring masterpiece The Exterminating Angel. Made just one year after his international sensation Viridiana, this is a furthering of Buñuel’s wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes, full of eerie and hilarious absurdity.
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel, a 2008 documentary featuring Jean-Claude Carrière and Jean Luis Buñuel
New interviews with filmmaker Arturo Ripstein and actress Silvia Pinal
Theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Marsha Kinder and a reprinted interview with Buñuel
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Simon of the Desert is Luis Buñuel’s wicked and wild take on the life of devoted ascetic Saint Simeon Stylites, who waited atop a pillar surrounded by a barren landscape for six years, six months, and six days, in order to prove his devotion to God. Yet the devil, in the figure of the beautiful Silvia Pinal, huddles below, trying to tempt him down. A skeptic s vision of human conviction, Buñuel’s short and sweet satire is one of the master filmmaker’s most renowned works of surrealism.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
[list]New, restored high-definition digital transfer
A Mexican Buñuel (1995), 50-minute documentary by Emilio Maillé
New interview with actress Silvia Pinal
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Michael Wood and a reprinted interview with Buñuel
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The Academy Award® nominated film (Best Supporting Actress Diane Scarwid, TV’s Pushing Daisies) Inside Moves makes its long-awaited DVD debut this February from Lionsgate. Directed by Richard Donner (Superman), the film was based on the Todd Walton novel of the same name. Praised by the New York Times as "a well-acted movie…parts of it are so effectively offbeat, that it rises above…just as surely as its characters triumph over their troubles,"
Inside Moves follows Roary (John Savage, The Deer Hunter), a young man who has been partially crippled after a failed suicide attempt. Depressed, Roary begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender (David Morse, Emmy® nominee HBO’s John Adams) suddenly finds himself playing basketball for the Golden State Warriors, Roary and the rest of the bar regulars hope his success will provide a lift to their sagging spirits.
The Inside Moves DVD contains special features that include audio commentary with Donner and writer Brian Helgeland, a making-of featurette, interviews with Walton, Donner and screenwriter Barry Levinson and a stills gallery of Donner’s original shooting script.