DVD Reviews

<jats:p> <jats:bold>The Complete Lone Wolf and Cub Box Set <jats:italic>Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance/Kozure Okami: Kowokashi udekashi tsukamatsuru</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (1972) Japan <jats:bold>Director</jats:bold> Kenji Misumi <jats:bold>Screenplay</jats:bold> Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima <jats:bold>Original Story by</jats:bold> Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima <jats:bold>Producer</jats:bold> Shintaro Katsu <jats:bold>Director of Photography</jats:bold> Chishi Makiura <jats:bold>With</jats:bold> Tomisaburo Wakayama (Ogami Itto), Akihiro Tomikawa (Daigoro), Fumio Watanabe (Sugito), Tomoko Mayama (Osen), Tomoo Uchida (Goto) <jats:bold>Runtime</jats:bold> 84 minutes</jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:bold> <jats:italic>Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx/Kozure Okami: Sanzu no kawa no ugaguruma</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (1972) Japan <jats:bold>Director</jats:bold> Kenji Misumi <jats:bold>Screenplay</jats:bold> Kazuo Koike <jats:bold>Original Story by</jats:bold> Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima <jats:bold>Producer</jats:bold> Shintaro Katsu, Hisaharu Matsubara <jats:bold>Director of Photography</jats:bold> Chishi Makiura <jats:bold>With</jats:bold> Tomisaburo Wakayama (Ogami Itto), Akihiro Tomikawa (Daigoro), Kayo Matsuo (Yagyu Sayaka), Izumi Ayukawa (Ozuno) <jats:bold>Runtime</jats:bold> 82 minutes</jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:bold> <jats:italic>Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades/Kozure Okami: Shinikazeni mukau ubaguruma</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (1972) Japan <jats:bold>Director</jats:bold> Kenji Misumi <jats:bold>Screenplay</jats:bold> Kazuo Koike <jats:bold>Original Story by</jats:bold> Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima <jats:bold>Producer</jats:bold> Shintaro Katsu, Hisaharu Matsubara <jats:bold>Director of Photography</jats:bold> Chishi Makiura <jats:bold>With</jats:bold> Tomisaburo Wakayama (Ogami Itto), Akihiro Tomikawa (Daigoro), Go Kato (Magomura Kanbei), Yuko Hamada (Torizo), Isao Yamagata (Endo Genba) <jats:bold>Runtime</jats:bold> 89 minutes</jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:bold> <jats:italic>Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril/Kozure Okami: Oya no kokoro ko no kokoro</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (1972) Japan <jats:bold>Director</jats:bold> Buichi Saito <jats:bold>Screenplay</jats:bold> Kazuo Koike <jats:bold>Original Story by</jats:bold> Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima <jats:bold>Producer</jats:bold> Tomisaburo Wakayama, Hisaharu Matsubara <jats:bold>Director of Photography</jats:bold> Kazuo Miyagawa <jats:bold>With</jats:bold> Tomisaburo Wakayama (Ogami Itto), Akihiro Tomikawa (Daigoro), Yoichi Hayashi (Yagyu Gunbei), Tatsuo Endo (Yagyu Retsudo) <jats:bold>Runtime</jats:bold> 81 minutes</jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:bold> <jats:italic>Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons/Kozure Okami: Meifumando</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (1973) Japan <jats:bold>Director</jats:bold> Kenji Misumi <jats:bold>Screenplay</jats:bold> Kazuo Koike, Tsutomo Nakamura <jats:bold>Producer</jats:bold> Tomisaburo Wakayama, Masanori Sanada <jats:bold>Director of Photography</jats:bold> Fujio Morita <jats:bold>With</jats:bold> Tomisaburo Wakayama (Ogami Itto), Akihiro Tomikawa (Daigoro), Minoru Oki (Yagyu Retsudo), Michiko Ookusu (Shiranui), Shingo Yamashiro (Lord Kurdoa Naritaka) <jats:bold>Runtime</jats:bold> 90 minutes</jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:bold> <jats:italic>Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven/Kozure Okami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigoro</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (1974) Japan <jats:bold>Director</jats:bold> Yoshiyuki Kuroda <jats:bold>Screenplay</jats:bold> Tsutomo Nakamura <jats:bold>Original Story by</jats:bold> Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima <jats:bold>Producer</jats:bold> Tomisaburo Wakayama, Masanori Sanada <jats:bold>Director of Photography</jats:bold> Chishi Makiura <jats:bold>With</jats:bold> Tomisaburo Wakayama (Ogami Itto), Akihiro Tomikawa (Daigoro), Junko Hitomi (Yagyu Kaori), Goro Mutsumi (Ozuno) <jats:bold>Runtime</jats:bold> 84 minutes</jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:bold> <jats:italic>Shogun Assassin</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (1980) USA <jats:bold>Director</jats:bold> Robert Houston <jats:bold>Screenplay</jats:bold> Kazuo Koike <jats:bold>Original Story by</jats:bold> Kazuo Koike <jats:bold>Producer</jats:bold> Robert Houston, Shintaro Katsu, Hisaharu Matsubara, David Weisman <jats:bold>Director of Photography</jats:bold> Chishi Makiura <jats:bold>With</jats:bold> Tomisaburo Wakayama (Ogami Itto), Akihiro Tomikawa (Daigoro), Kayo Matsuo (Supreme Ninja), Sandra Bernhard (Voice) <jats:bold>Runtime</jats:bold> 86 minutes</jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:bold>All DVDs</jats:bold> UK, 2009 <jats:bold>Produced and Distributed by</jats:bold> Eureka Entertainment (region 2) <jats:bold>Aspect Ratio</jats:bold> 2.35:1 <jats:bold>Sound Mix</jats:bold> Stereo 2.0 <jats:bold>Extras</jats:bold> New, restored anamorphic transfer. Newly translated English subtitles. Liner notes by Tom Mes. Theatrical trailers for all films. Packaging based on original Japanese poster design.</jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:bold> <jats:italic>Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (1927) USA <jats:bold>Director</jats:bold> F.W. Murnau <jats:bold>Screenplay</jats:bold> Carl Mayer <jats:bold>Original Story by</jats:bold> Hermann Sudermann <jats:bold>Producer</jats:bold> William Fox <jats:bold>Director of Photography</jats:bold> Charles Rosher, Karl Struss <jats:bold>Art Director</jats:bold> Rochus Gliese <jats:bold>With</jats:bold> George O'Brien (the Man), Janet Gaynor (the Wife), Margaret Livingston (the Woman from the City), Bodil Rosing (the Maid), J. Farrell MacDonald (the Photographer), Ralph Sipperly (the Barber) <jats:bold>Runtime</jats:bold> 93 minutes (Movietone version); 79 minutes (Czech version) <jats:bold>DVD</jats:bold> UK, 2009 <jats:bold>Produced and Distributed by</jats:bold> Eureka Entertainment (region 2) <jats:bold>Aspect Ratio</jats:bold> 1.20:1 <jats:bold>Sound Mix</jats:bold> Monaural <jats:bold>Extras</jats:bold> Restored high-definition transfers of two different versions: the American Movietone version; and the silent Czech version. Original English intertitles on the Movietone version, and optional English subtitles on the silent Czech version. Original Movietone score (mono) and alternative Olympic Chamber Orchestra score (stereo). Full-length audio commentary by ASC cinematographer John Bailey on the Movietone version. Outtakes with either John Bailey commentary or intertitles. <jats:italic>Murnau's 4 Devils: Traces of a Lost Film</jats:italic> Janet Bergstrom's updated 40-minute documentary about the lost Murnau film. Original theatrical trailer. Original photoplay script by Carl Mayer with Murnau's handwritten annotations (150 pages in PDF format). Twenty-page illustrated booklet with film restoration and DVD/Bluray transfer information, along with a comparison between the two versions.</jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:bold> <jats:italic>Bad Boy Bubby</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (1993) Australia <jats:bold>Writer/Director</jats:bold> Rolf de Heer <jats:bold>Producers</jats:bold> Domenico Procacci and Giorgio Draskovic <jats:bold>Supervising Director of Photography</jats:bold> Ian Jones <jats:bold>Sound Designer</jats:bold> James Currie <jats:bold>Film Editor</jats:bold> Suresh Ayyar <jats:bold>With</jats:bold> Nicholas Hope (Bubby), Claire Benito (Mam), Ralph Cotterill (Pop), Carmel Johnson (Angel) <jats:bold>Runtime</jats:bold> 114 minutes <jats:bold>DVD</jats:bold> UK, 2009 <jats:bold>Produced and Distributed by</jats:bold> Eureka Entertainment (Blue Ray, DVD and digital copy, no region) <jats:bold>Format</jats:bold> 35mm, 2.35:1 OAR, Colour <jats:bold>Audio Options</jats:bold> 5.1 and 2.0 Dolby, 2.0 DTS, binaural headphone track <jats:bold>Extras</jats:bold> High-definition transfer supervised by the director. Director and actor commentary track. Interview with director. Theatrical trailer. Twenty-page booklet.</jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:bold> <jats:italic>Kurt Kren: Structural Films</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (2004) <jats:bold>Producer</jats:bold> sixpackfilm <jats:bold>Runtime</jats:bold> <jats:italic>c</jats:italic>.65 minutes Includes 16 structuralist films by Kurt Kren from 1957 to 1995.</jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:bold> <jats:italic>Valie Export: 3 Experimental Shorts</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (2004) <jats:bold>Producer</jats:bold> sixpackfilm <jats:bold>Runtime</jats:bold> 36 minutes <jats:bold>Language</jats:bold> German/English <jats:italic>Mann &amp; Frau &amp; Animal</jats:italic> (197079), <jats:italic>RemoteRemote</jats:italic> (1973), <jats:italic>Syntagma</jats:italic> (1984)</jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:bold> <jats:italic>Dietmar Brehm: Black Garden</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (2006) <jats:bold>Producer</jats:bold> sixpackfilm <jats:bold>Runtime</jats:bold> 107 minutes <jats:bold>Language</jats:bold> German/English <jats:italic>The Murder Mystery</jats:italic> (198792), <jats:italic>Blicklust</jats:italic> (1992), <jats:italic>Party</jats:italic> (1995), <jats:italic>Macumba</jats:italic> (1995), <jats:italic>Korridor</jats:italic> (1997), <jats:italic>Organics</jats:italic> (199899). Bonus-track: <jats:italic>Interview with Dietmar Brehm</jats:italic> (2000)</jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:bold> <jats:italic>Lisl Ponger: Travelling Light</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (2004) <jats:bold>Producer</jats:bold> sixpackfilm <jats:bold>Runtime</jats:bold> 60 minutes <jats:bold>Language</jats:bold> German/English <jats:italic>Passagen</jats:italic> (1996), <jats:italic>Dja Vu</jats:italic> (1999), <jats:italic>Phantom Fremdes Wien</jats:italic> (2004)</jats:p>