Jess Franco Blu-ray

[BW Haggar]

Thus far, I've only managed to see 'Lucky' via a terrible, pixelated bootleg. Viewed in that condition, it seemed like a total mess, but I recall the masque ball sequence was very impressive (Franco getting his Welles/von Sternberg on, I suppose), and that clip definitely makes me want to check it out again in more watchable form. Fingers crossed an easy way to do so with subtitles emerges sooner or later.

[Dom D]

I never bothered with Franco's comedies- well I bothered with a couple and then figured I wouldn't bother with anymore- so I've never seen Lucky. That's a hugely competent scene for Franco though. Some of his best work.

[SuperDevilDoctor]

You forgot Beba Loncar! Her scenes are the high point of the film, holy cow she looks incredibly sexy, and the bit where Ray Danton and pal chase her around the rooftops accompanied by Bruno Nicolai's "Spy Chase" theme is a full-on slice of Euro-cult nirvana. I can watch that scene anytime and feel better.

[mjeon]

"You forgot Beba Loncar! ... holy cow she looks incredibly sexy" I honestly had never heard of her before and in reading the credits did not realize Beba Loncar was a woman. I have watched "Some Girls Do" so I must have seen her. I have the German DVD too, so I'll check her out this weekend.

[Andrew Monroe]

Artus Films in France is issuing Lucky, the Inscrutable (as Opération Re Mida) on DVD. No English at all. Apparently the earlier German release (Lucky M. fí¼llt alle Sí¤rge) has an English soundtrack. The cast includes Rosalba Neri, Teresa Gimpera and Patty Shephard

You forgot Beba Loncar! Her scenes are the high point of the film, holy cow she looks incredibly sexy, and the bit where Ray Danton and pal chase her around the rooftops accompanied by Bruno Nicolai's "Spy Chase" theme is a full-on slice of Euro-cult nirvana. I can watch that scene anytime and feel better. I have the earlier German DVD and it does have an English option. Wish this film would get a BD release.

[mjeon]

Artus Films in France is issuing Lucky, the Inscrutable (as Opération Re Mida) on DVD. No English at all. Apparently the earlier German release (Lucky M. fí¼llt alle Sí¤rge) has an English soundtrack. The cast includes Rosalba Neri, Teresa Gimpera and Patty Shephard.

https://www.artusfilms.com/euro-spy/...on-re-mida-325

[Nabonga]

Oh, please be Succubus or Venus In Furs!!!

[Ian Jane]

They didn't mention the title yet on on the MM FB group Jared did note that they have "a long awaited Jess Franco classic" in the works for 2021.

[Ian Jane]

Looks like the Full Moon release of Night Of The Eagles is coming in March.

"From the studio that brought you ZOMBIE LAKE and PANTHER SQUAD and the director of FEMALE VAMPIRE and BARBED WIRE DOLLS, comes Jess Franco's NIGHT OF THE EAGLES, a stark WWII drama starring iconic genre actors Christopher Lee (HORROR OF DRACULA, THE BLOODY JUDGE) and Mark Hamill (STAR WARS). Lee plays Strauss, a wealthy German businessman whose comely, loving daughter Lillian (Alexandra Ehrlich) is torn between two lovers, Peter (Hamill) and Karl (Ramon Estevez, brother of Charlie Sheen). Unable to choose between her paramours, Lillian's life changes forever when her beaus are shipped off to fight on the frontlines and she is forced to take a job as dancehall singer in a sordid niteclub. With her country and its people torn to pieces by the ravages of war and her once prosperous father relegated to poverty and despair, Lillian must make unthinkable choices in the name of survival. A sober, sophisticated and far less exploitative latter-day offering from Franco, NIGHT OF THE EAGLES (also released as FALL OF THE EAGLES and WAR SONG) is one of Eurocine's most ambitious pictures, made shortly after the studio's perverse 1988 Franco masterpiece FACELESS, and boasts handsome production design, authentic costumes, bloody battles and a magnetic supporting performance by Lee as a man who helplessly watches as his dreams unravel. Full Moon is proud to present this underrated, unique Franco film on Blu-ray for the first time in America, totally uncut and remastered from the original 35mm camera negative."

[Paul L]

Been toying with pitching an article about witchhunting films to a few places lately. It might fly.

Dun this fing: http://www.rockshockpop.com/forums/s...evils-and-more

Gave me the chance to write something about THE BLOODY JUDGE and LES DEMONS, which I've been itching to do for possibly the best part of the last 15 years. LES DEMONS keeps going up in my estimation. Whilst I still like it, THE BLOODY JUDGE seems a bit turgid in comparison - neither fish nor fowl, though with some wonderful elements that work in isolation but never quite mesh (eg, Lee's performance, Nicolai's score, the vivid torture scenes).

[Ian Jane]

Indicator Fu Manchu Cycle pushed back to 11/2.

[Ian Jane]

Fu Manchu set looks like a good one.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film9/blu-r...le_blu-ray.htm

[fatboyslim142]

France version (118 min) in High Definition in German and France with German and English subtitles
Exportversion (88 min)in High Definition in German and English with German and English subtitles
German theatrical version in HD / Re-Cut (85 min) in German
Director's Cut in SD (101 Min.) in German

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I assume this release will be using the UNCUT Nucleus transfer?

[mjeon]

There's a movie to be made about that "large shadow man."

[Paul L]

It had never occurred to me that Witch Torture movies constituted a genre, but I guess they do. If you decide to write the article (or, better yet, book!), you'd have a reason to rewatch some pretty wild movies.

More of a subgenre than a genre, I guess, but that would be splitting hairs But certainly, some interesting films to revisit.

I visited Dirleton Castle last year, which you may know was the site of some rather lucid accounts of witchcraft and a subsequent witch-hunt, and popped into the witch's prison there. Quite an eerie place. The site where the grisly executions took place is now a green common with a children's playground just off it.

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/best...thian-18460672
http://haunted-scotland.co.uk/spirits-dirleton-castle/
https://blog.historicenvironment.sco...n-witch-hunts/
https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-an...prison-2523247