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“Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time” (Greenwich/Kino Lorber) suggests life during the pandemic, but this haunting love story Hungary’s Oscar entry follows a surgeon who leaves the United States and returns to Bucharest, where she plans to reunite with a physician she met and fell in love with during a medical conference. That he claims not to remember her when she shows up in Hungary is but the first twist in this riveting tale from director Lili Horvát.
Also available: The acclaimed
“Acasa, My Home” (Zeitgiest/Kino Lorber) follows a Romanian family forced into city life after generations spent living off the land; that’s no typo:
Vinegar Syndrome Brings Devilish Deeds to Blu-ray
We take a look at four new offerings from the fine folks at Vinegar Syndrome!
Vinegar Syndrome
Cthulhu Mansion (1992),
Satan’s Blood (1978). Keep reading for our look at all four titles.
Satan’s Blood (1978)
Andres and Ana are a young couple hoping to take a break from the city who head out on a drive with no real destination in mind. They’re stopped by a couple in a passing car who claim to know them, and soon the foursome are heading to a remote estate in the country to reconnect. On the downside, Andres and Ana are fairly certain they’ve never met this couple before. But on the upside? All kinds of sexual antics and shenanigans!
Walt Disney By Callum Nelmes on
Around August this year, rumours emerged that Disney planned to stop releasing live-action titles in 4K Ultra HD and even Blu-ray disc formats and titles of the recently purchased 20th Century Fox.
Though well-known industry insider Bill Hunt corroborated this rumour over at The Digital Bits website,Disney later released a statement formally denying this, stating that “there are no plans to discontinue releases in a particular format”. The source from Disney elaborated upon the company’s goals: “We evaluate each release on a case by case basis and pursue the best strategy to bring our content into consumer homes across platforms that meet a variety of demands.”
Fade to Black has long been one of my favorite movies about the movies. I was lucky enough to see it new in 1980, a number of times, thanks to having just started work at the downtown grindhouse movie theaters on Horton Plaza and along Fourth and Fifth Avenues. It’s a film I love so much that, on hearing that Vinegar Syndrome was releasing a loaded Blu-ray edition last month, I finally broke down and bought my first Blu-ray player. Just for
Fade to Black. (Warning, a minefield of spoilers lie ahead – though uncommon, this flick’s been out for 40 years, so let’s not pretend nobody’s seen it yet)