PELLE THE CONQUEROR (1987) - DVD & Blu-ray Release of Bille August's Oscar-Winning Drama Starring Max von Sydow

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Product Description: Lasse, an elderly and widowed farmer, and his young son Pelle, join a boat-load of immigrants to escape from impoverished rural Sweden to Denmark's Baltic island of Bornholm. They are employed at a large farm in Denmark, where they are treated as the lowest of the low. It is ultimately their loving relationship which sustains them through a difficult year.

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New on Blu-ray: THE SOLDIER'S TALE (1984) - Animation

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Product Description: The Soldier's Tale is an animated classic by the renowned New Yorker illustrator R.O. Blechman, based on Igor Stravinsky’s 1918 composition. This poetic tale revolves around a young soldier’s return home, where he strikes a deal with the devil, trading his beloved violin for boundless wealth. Haunted by regret, the soldier sets out on a journey to reclaim his soul and rediscovers the life he left behind. As the soldier ventures into these alternate realities, Blechman’s simple pen-and-ink drawings explode into colorful fantasies. The film was a milestone in the marriage of animation and music (Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” was used to score one of the most memorable sequences of Walt Disney’s Fantasia). This 2K restoration of The Soldier’s Tale (from the filmmaker’s personal 35mm print) is accompanied by Blechman’s Christmas-themed short film No Room at the Inn.

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New on Blu-ray & 4K: Stephen King's NEEDFUL THINGS (1993)

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Product Description: Welcome to Castle Rock, Maine, a lovely place to live…if you don’t mind selling your soul! Acting greats Ed Harris (The Abyss) and Max von Sydow (3 Days of the Condor) head an exceptional cast—including Bonnie Bedelia (Die Hard), J.T. Walsh (A Few Good Men) and Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction)—in this supernatural thriller that’s dark, haunting and a hell of a good scare! Sheriff Alan Pangborn (Harris) has a devil of a problem: Suddenly all the residents of his sleepy little town are dying…to kill each other. But at least business is still booming, especially at a new antique store. The shop’s mysterious owner, Leland Gaunt (the nerve-shattering von Sydow), has something for everyone, and his prices are always reasonable: just one small favor…oh, and, of course, eternal damnation! Needful Things comes stylishly directed by Fraser C. Heston (The Crucifer of Blood) and scripted by W.D. Richter (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) from the #1 bestselling novel by the crowned king of horror, Stephen King (The Dead Zone, Cujo, Misery). This special edition also includes an HD Up-res of the 191-minute TV cut of the film.

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New on Blu-ray: DUET FOR ONE (1986) Starring Julie Andrews, Alan Bates & Max von Sydow

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Product Description: The iconic Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Thoroughly Modern Millie) takes on the most challenging role of her career as Stephanie Anderson, a world-famous violinist suddenly afflicted with multiple sclerosis. Forced to watch helplessly while her talent ebbs away, Stephanie discovers that her marriage is crumbling too, when her composer-conductor husband (Alan Bates, Women in Love) escapes into an affair with his secretary. Convinced that her life is now worthless, Stephanie drifts into a world of bitterness and isolation, ignoring the advice of her psychiatrist (Max von Sydow, Needful Things) and continuing on her self-destructive course. Alone and desperate, she finally has no choice but to confront and conquer her despair—or die trying. Finely directed by Andrei Konchalovsky (Maria’s Lovers, Runaway Train), Duet for One reveals new dimensions of Julie Andrews’ breathtaking brilliance in a rare and touching drama. The all-star cast also includes Rupert Everett (My Best Friend’s Wedding) and Liam Neeson (Schindler’s List).

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New on Blu-ray: THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975) Starring Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway

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Product Description: In one of the most critically acclaimed suspense-thrillers of all time, Robert Redford stars as CIA Agent Joe Turner—code name: CONDOR. After his entire office is massacred, Turner goes on the run from his enemies, and his so-called allies. With an assassin on his tail, he turns to a photographer (Faye Dunaway) for help to uncover the answers. Every twist leads him to the end of his nerves… and will take you to the edge of your seat.

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New on Blu-ray: THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY / LE SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON (2007) - Reissue

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Product Description: From director Julian Schnabel (BEFORE NIGHT FALLS) comes a remarkable and inspiring true story about the awesome power of imagination. Nominated for four Oscars, and showered with critical acclaim, it’s the triumphant tale of renowned editor Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric, QUANTUM OF SOLACE)—a man whose love of life and soaring vision shaped his will to achieve a life without boundaries.

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New on Blu-ray: HAWAII (1966) Starring Julie Andrews, Max Von Sydow and Richard Harris

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Product Description: Hawaii is director George Roy Hill’s (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting) big screen adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener’s novel of the same name, an epic tale of passion and peril set in a tropical paradise. Max Von Sydow (The Exorcist) and Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) are the Reverend Abner Hale and his wife Jerusha, missionaries who travel to Hawaii to convert the natives to Christianity, only to find that they’ve instead brought destruction.

Hawaii was nominated for seven Academy Awards® including Actress in a Supporting Role, Cinematography (Color), Costume Design (Color), Special Visual Effects, Music (Original Musical Score), Music (Song) and Sound. Richard Harris (Camelot), Gene Hackman (Bonnie and Clyde) and Carroll O’Connor (TV’s All in the Family) appear in supporting roles.

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Blu-ray & 4K Ultra HD: DUNE (1984) - Limited Edition

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Product Description: Following a notorious aborted attempt by Alejandro Jodorowsky in the 1970s, Frank Herbert’s bestselling sci-fi epic Dune finally made it to the big screen as the third film by emerging surrealist wunderkind David Lynch, featuring an all-star cast that includes several of Lynch’s regular collaborators. The year is 10,191, and four planets are embroiled in a secret plot to wrest control of the Spice Melange, the most precious substance in the universe and found only on the planet Arrakis. A feud between two powerful dynasties, House Atreides and House Harkonnen, is manipulated from afar by ruling powers that conspire to keep their grip on the spice. As the two families clash on Arrakis, Duke Atreides’ son Paul (Kyle MacLachlan, in his screen debut) finds himself at the center of an intergalactic war and an ancient prophecy that could change the galaxy forever. Though its initial reception ensured that Lynch largely eschewed mainstream filmmaking for the rest of his career, Dune has since been rightly re-evaluated as one of the most startlingly original and visionary science fiction films of the 1980s. Its astonishing production design and visual effects can now be appreciated anew in this spellbinding 4K restoration, accompanied by hours of comprehensive bonus features.

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New on Blu-ray: Dario Argento's SLEEPLESS (2001) Starring Max Von Sydow, Stefano Dionisi and Chiara Caselli

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Product Description: Dario Argento (Suspiria, Deep Red) brings us a chilling giallo film like only the true master can. A series of grisly murders in the city match the work of a serial killer who appears to have escaped the authorities and disappeared without a trace seventeen years earlier. A retired police detective (Max von Sydow, The Exorcist, The Three Days of the Condor) who is familiar with the case comes out of retirement to catch the killer. Beautifully shot by Ronnie Taylor (Sea of Love) with a wonderful score by Goblin (The Church). The stellar cast includes Chiara Caselli (My Own Private Idaho) and Rossella Falk (Modesty Blaise).

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New on Blu-ray and 4K UHD: FLASH GORDON (1980) - 40th Anniversary Restored Edition

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Product Description: Super producer Dino De Laurentiis (Dune, Barbarella) brought Alex Raymond s beloved cartoon strip and the long running movie serial to the big screen with celebrated director Mike Hodges (Get Carter, Black Rainbow) at the helm, in a delirious space opera, where Flash is King of the Impossible!

Merciless Emperor Ming (Max von Sydow) decides to wreak havoc on Earth in a moment of cruel boredom. Boarding a rocket as a means of escape, star quarterback Flash Gordon (Sam J. Jones), Dale Arden (Melody Anderson) and Dr. Hans Zarkov (Topol) find themselves on Mongo. Taken prisoner Flash must save Dale from becoming Ming s concubine, avoid the amorous intentions of Ming s wicked daughter Aura (Ornella Muti) and unite the warring Kingdoms of Mongo.

With endlessly repeatable dialogue, inimitable camp style, the sonic stylings of Queen and a delightful band of characters and actors playing them it s no wonder Flash Gordon has become one of the most beloved sci-fi spectacles of its era with directors such as Edgar Wright, Taika Waititi and Seth MacFarlane paying tribute to it in their work.

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New on Blu-ray: VICTORY (1981) Starring Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone

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Product Description: This is no ordinary soccer match. This is war! The battlefield: a stadium in occupied Paris. The armies: German all-stars vs. ragtag Allied POWs. The objective: demonstrate another proof of Aryan superiority. Guess who wins. Better yet, guess who cleverly uses the match as a means of escape. Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine and Max von Sydow star in this rouser directed by the legendary John Huston. The climactic match is a heart-in-the-throat, hat-in-the-air exhibition of brute force and balletic grace featuring soccer legends Pelé, Bobby Moore, Osvaldo Ardiles, Co Prins, Mike Summerbee and more. Score a splendid entertainment goal for Victory!

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DVD & Blu-ray: UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (1991) Starring William Hurt

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Product Description: Conceived as the ultimate road movie, this decades-in-the-making science-fiction epic from Wim Wenders follows the restless Claire Tourneur (Solveig Dommartin) across continents as she pursues a mysterious stranger (William Hurt) in possession of a device that can make the blind see and bring dream images to waking life. With an eclectic soundtrack that gathers a host of the director’s favorite musicians, along with gorgeous cinematography by Robby Müller, this breathless adventure in the shadow of Armageddon takes its heroes to the ends of the earth and into the oneiric depths of their own souls. Presented here in its triumphant 287-minute director’s cut, Until the End of the World assumes its rightful place as Wenders' magnum opus, a cosmic ode to the pleasures and perils of the image and a prescient meditation on cinema’s digital future.

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New on Blu-ray: SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS (1999) - Collector's Edition

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Product Description: A murder trial has upset the quiet community of San Piedro, and now this tranquil village has become the center of controversy. For Ishmael Chambers (Academy Award-nominee* Ethan Hawke, Dead Poets Society), a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep emotional chord when he finds his ex-lover is linked to the case. As he investigates the killing, he uncovers some startling clues that lead him to a shocking discovery. Co-starring James Cromwell, Richard Jenkins, Sam Shepard, and Max von Sydow

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DVD & Blu-ray: THE COMMAND (2018) Starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Colin Firth and Lea Seydoux

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Product Description: The film follows the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster and the governmental negligence that followed. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.

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THE COMMAND (KURSK) Trailers, Clip, Featurettes, Images and Posters

The submarine disaster drama "Kursk", also known as "The Command" in the U.S., is based on the true story of the Kursk submarine tragedy that happened in 2000, at the beginning of Putin's first presidential term. The film is directed by Thomas Vinterberg ("The Hunt") from a script by Robert Rodat ("Saving Private Ryan") based on Robert Moore's non-fiction book "A Time to Die". The cast includes Matthias Schoenaerts, Colin Firth, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek, Max von Sydow, Matthias Schweighöfer and Michael Nyqvist.

"Kursk" ("The Command") opened on November 7, 2018 in France and on June 21, 2019 in select theaters in the U.S.

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New on Blu-ray: EXORCIST II - THE HERETIC (1977) - Collector's Edition

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Product Description: Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator (Richard Burton) and a research specialist (Louise Fletcher) free her from its grasp? Employing production design and special effects that are dizzily exhilarating and a supporting cast (Max von Sydow, Paul Henreid, James Earl Jones) of compelling distinction, director John Boorman draws us into the tangible experience of evil. We fly with the demon, feel the African landscape vibrate and get engulfed in the terror of swarming locusts as Exorcist II: The Heretic weaves its fascinating, frightful spell.

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DVD & Blu-Ray: THE EMIGRANTS / THE NEW LAND Criterion Collection (1971 - 1972)

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Product Description: This monumental mid-nineteenth-century epic from Jan Troell (Here Is Your Life) charts, over the course of two films, a poor Swedish farming family’s voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world. Movie legends Max Von Sydow (The Seventh Seal) and Liv Ullmann (Persona) give remarkably authentic performances as Karl-Oskar and Kristina, a couple who meet with one physical and emotional trial after another on their arduous journey. The precise, minute detail with which Troell depicts the couple’s story—which is also the story of countless other people who sought better lives across the Atlantic—is a wonder to behold. Engrossing every step of the way, the duo of The Emigrants and The New Land makes for perhaps the greatest screen drama about the settling of America.

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THE LETTERS Trailer, Clip, Image and Poster

Today we have the official trailer, a clip, image and poster for the biopic "The Letters" which is now in theaters. The film chronicles the life of Mother Teresa (Juliet Stevenson) through the letters she wrote to her longtime friend and spiritual advisor, Father Celeste van Exem (Max von Sydow) over a period of 50 years.

Written and directed by William Riead, the film also stars Rutger Hauer, Priya Darshini and Tillotama Shome.

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New on Blu-Ray: NEEDFUL THINGS (1993)

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Product Description: The elderly owner of a New England curio shop proves to be more than he appears when his seemingly innocent transactions with his clients begin to lead to deadly, Satanic mayhem. This supernatural chiller was based upon a novel by the ever-prolific Stephen King.

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STAR WARS: EPISODE VII Cast Announced

A few days ago, the cast of J.J. Abrams' "Star Wars: Episode VII" was officially announced on StarWars.com. The announcement also came with a nice group photo (above) featuring all the actors and director Abrams sitting down and discussing their parts. Months of speculation have finally been concluded with both expected and surprising results. The cast of the sequel will feature John Boyega ("Attack the Block"), Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver ("Girls"), Oscar Isaac ("Inside Llewyn Davis"), Andy Serkis ("Rise of the Planet of the Apes"), Domhnall Gleeson ("About Time") and Max von Sydow ("The Exorcist"). They will be joined by the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew and Kenny Baker. The less known cast member here is Daisy Ridley, who is going to make her feature film debut with "Star Wars" after appearing in some TV series episodes and shorts.

"Star Wars: Episode VII" will open in theaters on December 18, 2015.

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