New on Blu-ray: EL NINO Y LA NIEBLA / THE BOY AND THE FOG (1951) - 4K Restoration

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Product Description: Span: Con un hermano que murió de esquizofrenia y una madre cuyo residencia permanente es un centro de salud mental, Marta teme que la enfermedad mental en su familia pueda ser innata en su descendencia. Obsesionada y atormentada por este miedo, oculta su perturbador secreto familiar a su nuevo esposo. A medida que pasan los años, su comportamiento obsesivo y neurótico causa problemas en su matrimonio. Y cuando su único hijo comienza a sonámbular y sufrir terrores nocturnos, ella teme que esto sea una señal de que ha heredado la enfermedad familiar. Poco sabe ella que son sus propias "ilusiones" las que están causando todo el tumulto y los problemas dentro de su círculo familiar.

English: With a brother who died of schizophrenia and a mother whose forever residence is a mental health facility, Marta fears the mental illness in her family could be innate in her offspring. Obsessed and tormented by this fear, she keeps her disturbing family secret from her new husband. As the years go by, her obsessive, neurotic behavior causes problems in her marriage. And when her only son begins to sleepwalk and suffer night terrors, she fears this is a sign he has inherited the family illness. Little does she know that it is her own "delusions" that are what is causing all the turmoil & problems within her family circle.

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DVD & Blu-ray: SOLEDAD'S SHAWL / EL REBOZO DE SOLEDAD (1952) Starring Arturo de Cordova, Pedro Armendariz & Stella Inda

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Product Description: Though a successful and highly respected physician in his humble rural community, Dr. Alberto Robles, still battles with anguish over not fulfilling any of the personal dreams he'd had before medical school and beginning his practice. Also, his idealistic and enterprising attitudes concerning medicine earned him some enemies. Along with this, there is a long going battle with local Chief, David Acosta, over unfair dealings with landowners. When a peasant woman named Soledad goes to him seeking help for her brother, Dr. Robles, is hesitant at first but relents and ends up saving the boy. At some point, Dr. Robles falls in love with Soledad, who out of gratitude has offered to help in his office. Ultimately, the ongoing battle, riddled with all the tensions, prejudices, and the feuds over land in the impoverished rural community, leads to tragedy.

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New on Blu-ray: UNTOUCHED / SOMBRA VERDE (1954) Starring Ricardo Montalban and Ariadne Welter

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Product Description: Ricardo Montalbán (Sweet Charity,Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), Ariadne Welter (The Panther Women), and Jorge Martínez de Hoyos (The Magnificent Seven) star in Untouched (Sombra verde), a strange and exotic romantic adventure set at the edge of civilisation.

Scientist Federico (Montalbán) is tasked with taking a journey into the jungle to search for a rare medicinal root. When he becomes desperately lost, he is rescued by a farmer, and soon begins a torrid affair with the farmer's beautiful daughter, Yáscara (Welter).

Directed by Roberto Gavaldón (Macario), co-written by Luis Buñuel’s regular screenwriter Luis Alcoriza (Los olvidados, The Exterminating Angel), and shot almost entirely on location, Untouched is finally available – fully uncut and uncensored – on Blu-ray for the first time anywhere in the world.

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DVD & Blu-ray: LA BARRACA (1945) Starring Domingo Soler and Anita Blanch

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Product Description: First time on Blu-ray produced from a new 4K restoration. This classic is recognized as one of Mexico's Top 25 movies of all time! In rural Spain, a new family arrives in town to work a parcel (barraca), the townsfolk are very hostile to the idea of ''another'' working the land that once belonged to one of them.

After serving his apprenticeship as a screenwriter and assistant director, Gavaldón took on his first fully realized project as a director with this adaptation of an 1895 novel by the popular Spanish writer Vicente Blasco Ibánez (Blood and Sand). Though set in Spain, this story of an immigrant family's struggles to establish their own small farm was close enough to the concerns of Mexico's tradition of rural melodramas to become an immediate popular and critical success.

In recent years, as part of a collaborative project, the Film Library of the UNAM and the AMACC (Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences) have joined efforts to restore and preserve Mexico´s national film collection. La Barraca is one of five films that have been restored so far.

Winner of 9 Silver Ariel Awards and 1 Gold Ariel Award, including Best Director, Male Actor, Female Actor, Screenplay and Cinematography! (The Ariel is the Mexican equivalent of the Oscar!)

The movie was adapted from the 1895 novel by the popular Spanish writer Vicente Blasco Ibánez (Blood and Sand)

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