Arrow Announcements, Speculation & Wild, Irresponsible Conjecture
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- rapta
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These reissues are all already available in your local HMV/Fopp stores, and are BOGOF until July 14th (same deal as Arrow will have on their own site next week). I bought Phantasm the other day, since I don't care about the sequels that much. Might go and grab City of the Living Dead at some point too, and maybe Candyman. Lifeforce is a higher price (£24.99) as it's actually a newly encoded release with brand new restorations (hence the slightly different artwork). There were plenty of copies of the 2-disc edition of The Endless in my local store too (still with slipcover). Slightly annoyed about the Ring Collection reissue as I wouldn't have bought the Ring steelbook if I'd known they'd do that.
- reaky
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So Lifeforce is in-store but not part of the deal?
- EddieLarkin
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All Arrow Video releases are part of the deal, including Lifeforce. Even the later June releases will be, including AHP2. This is the case in HMV, Fopp and eventually the Arrow web store.
- reaky
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I’ve just been in, and can clarify that all Arrow Video releases are in the offer, but not Arrow Academy. There are also different price points for pairing - 2 for £15, 2 for £25 and 2 for £45. If you combine 2 of different prices, you’ll pay for the higher-priced of the pair.
- Luke M
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It was £10 during their sale a couple months ago.DeprongMori wrote:The Amazon UK price seems to toggle between £15 and £30. I’ll make a point of snapping it up the next time it drops. I saw Gabbeh at SFIFF ages ago, but haven’t yet seen any of his other work.Glowingwabbit wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2019 3:28 pmWhen asked about Moment of Innocence:
This is sad to hear. Although The Poetic Trilogy is still an odd choice to gauge enthusiasm for his work (or even Iranian cinema) as even just within his filmography there are far stronger films not to mention better known titles.Would be lovely, if only there were greater enthusiasm for Iranian films! Would love to do more Makhmalbaf but more people need to buy The Poetic Trilogy first!
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It feels like a mistake for Arrow to have released The Poetic Trilogy over A Moment of Innocence, if that was also an option. It's much easier for folks to blind buy an individual release than a box set, especially if that individual release is of a film that has been more praised and discussed over the years. Now it may be the case that The Poetic Trilogy has been available at reduced price, but presumably Arrow only really take into account full or near full price sales made when it comes to planning future releases.
What has surprised me is that there hasn't been a sniff of Vol. 2 sets for Rivette or Yoshida, despite both selling out years ago.
What has surprised me is that there hasn't been a sniff of Vol. 2 sets for Rivette or Yoshida, despite both selling out years ago.
- swo17
- Bloodthirsty Butcher
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Poetic Trilogy isn't even a boxset--it looks like any other single release and can be bought for about the same price so it's worth buying even if you only end up liking one of the films.
- dda1996a
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I don't know how easy it is to get the rest of Rivette's films (and plenty have been released by other companies), but I'd love another Yoshida set.
The main reason I haven't bought the Poetic Trilogy yet is because of it's lack of extras, and I have such a large keyvip as is
The main reason I haven't bought the Poetic Trilogy yet is because of it's lack of extras, and I have such a large keyvip as is
- tenia
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Re: Arrow Announcements, Speculation & Irresponsible Conjecture
There's nothing surprising about Yoshida : it took several years (3, IIRC)for the set to sell out, most likely sending to Arrow the signal that not that many people are interested in its cinema. It's about the same for Rivette.
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For some reason I thought they sold more quickly than that, maybe because they seemed to sell quite briskly initially - I can see Yoshida was 80% sold out only 2 months after release.
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Yeah the Poetic trilogy isn pt priced like other box sets so I don’t think price a prohibitive blind buy price really came that much into play.
- FrauBlucher
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Academy announcements coming Friday with this clue...
- JSC
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Any titles with 'scales' in them?
- Dr Amicus
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I'm really rusty on my keys, but I think the first is a minor scale and the others are majors.
- swo17
- Bloodthirsty Butcher
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It's probably just a movie that has a score
- JSC
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An Arrow special edition of Shaft's Big Score!It's probably just a movie that has a score
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Then how are we to know which Kiarostami this is hinting at?
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- Dr Amicus
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Well my first thought was The Major and the Minor, but that would be too literal a clue for Arrow...
Edit for bad memory...
Edit for bad memory...
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- swo17
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- NABOB OF NOWHERE
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It's obviously Ritorno della Arpeggio with Lee Van Clef
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- swo17
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It's an okay film by an established auteur so I'm sure they're all over it
- JSC
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Joke.It's probably just a movie that has a score
An Arrow special edition of Shaft's Big Score!
I didn't mean having the word "score" in the title
- Finch
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One of the Facebook comments was hoping/pleading for Lisztomania. Isn't that with the BFI?
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Lisztomania is, as far as I can make out, with Warner Bros., but it has been released in the UK by an outfit called Digital Classics and more recently (last July) by RRaW - Rick Wakeman's own distribution label.