Liam Neeson’s third big screen outing as former covert operative Bryan Mills comes home with Taken 3 while, in a similar vein, Salma Hayek fights her way out of an apartment building in Joe Lynch’s stylish revenge thriller Everly. Other recent theatrical releases include director Daniel Barnz’s Cake, which earned leading actress Jennifer Aniston a Golden Globe nomination, and Ana Lily Amirpour’s clever vampire tale, A Girl Walks Home At Night.
Scream Factory, then, debuts their Collector’s Edition of John Carpenter’s Escape From New York, which boasts quite a few brand new features, and also offers up a Ghoulies Double Feature, featuring the first two films in the comedic horror franchise.
The Criterion Collection this week upgrades Jean Renoir’s 1951 romantic drama The River to Blu-ray and delivers even more early Yasujiro Ozu works with the Eclipse set Silent Ozu: Three Crime Dramas (including Walk Cheerfully, That Night’s Wife and Dragnet Girl).
The Three Stooges finally land on Blu-ray with two Triple Feature discs. Volume One includes Time Out for Rhythm, Rockin’ in the Rockies and Have Rocket, Will Travel, while Volume Two offers The Three Stooges Meet Hercules, Three Stooges Go Around The World In A Daze and The Outlaws Is Coming.
You can check out all the cover art in the gallery viewer below alongside a listing of each release’s special features (where applicable):
This Week on Blu-ray and DVD: April 21, 2015
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Taken 3
- The Unrated Cut
- Deleted Scene – "Flashback Malankov"
- Sam's Bunker A.K.A. The Rabbit Hole
- Taken to L.A.
- A Taken Legacy
- Gallery -
Cake
- The Many Layers of Cake: Learning to Live Again
- The Icing on the Cake: Meet the Cast
- Theatrical Trailer -
A Girl Walks Home At Night
- 70-page Booklet with the First Issue of the Graphic Novel and Essay by Eric Kohn
- Behind-the-scenes Documentary
- Deleted Scenes
- Interview with Ana Lily Amirpour
- Location Scouting
- Makeup Tests
- Stills Gallery
- Trailer -
Everly
- Creative Feature Commentary with Director Joe Lynch
- Co-Producer Brett Hedblom and Editor Evan Schiff
- Technical Feature Commentary with Director Joe Lynch and Cinematographer Steve Gainer
- "Silent Night" music video by Raya Yarbrough & Bear McCreary, directed by Joe Lynch -
Escape From New York
- New 2K High Definition scan of the inter-positive, struck from the original negative
- New Audio Commentary with actress Adrienne Barbeau and directory of photography Dean Cundey
- Audio Commentary with director John Carpenter and actor Kurt Russell
- Audio Commentary by producer Debra Hill and production designer Joe Alves
- New Big Challenges in Little Manhattan: The Visual Effects of Escape From New York
- New Scoring the Escape: A Discussion with composer Alan Howarth
- New On Set with John Carpenter: The Images of Escape From New York with photographer Kim Gottlieb-Walker
- New I Am Taylor – an interview with actor Joe Unger
- New My Night on the Set – an interview with filmmaker David DeCoteau
- Deleted Scene: The Original Opening Bank Robbery Sequence
- Return to Escape from New York Featurette
- Theatrical Trailers
- Photo Galleries – Behind-the-Scenes, Posters and Lobby Cards -
Ghoulies and Ghoulies II
GHOULIES
- Audio Commentary With Director/Co-writer Luca Bercovici
- New Interviews With Executive Producer Charles Band, Composer Richard Band, Actor Michael Des Barres and Special Effects Makeup Artist John Vulich
- Original Theatrical TrailerGHOULIES II
- New Interviews With Executive Producer Charles Band, Actors Kerry Remsen and Donnie Jeffcoat, and Special Effects Artist Gino Crognale
- Rare Deleted Scenes
- Original Theatrical Trailer -
The Three Stooges Triple Feature - Volume One
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The Three Stooges Triple Feature - Volume Two
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The River
- High-definition digital transfer from the 2004 restoration by the Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Introduction to the film from 1962 by director Jean Renoir
- Around the River, a 2008 documentary by Arnaud Mandagaran about the making of the film
- Interview with filmmaker Martin Scorsese from 2004
- Audio interview with producer Ken McEldowney from 2000
- Jean Renoir: A Passage Through India, a new video essay by film writer Paul Ryan
- Trailer
- An essay by film scholar Ian Christie and notes on the film by Renoir -
Silent Ozu
