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Titles arriving November 17 include The Collected Works of Hayao Miyazaki, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and more!
Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s look at all the top entertainment titles arriving this week on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD. Check out the gallery viewer below for a look at the major new releases, catalogue titles and television collections hitting shelves and/or VOD beginning Tuesday, November 17, 2015.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment delivers two big titles this week with both the Blu-ray debut of The Man from UNCLE, a Guy Ritchie-helmed adaptation of the classic ’60s spy series, as well as the extended edition of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Jackson previously hinted, however, that there may still be one more “ultimate” edition of his entire Middle-earth oeuvre, for which he has saved the title There and Back Again.
An Amazon exclusive, November 17 also brings The Collected Works of Hayao Miyazaki, a massive box set of every single film from the animation master, housed in a deluxe set that also includes bonus features available nowhere else. Also available only on Amazon starting November 17 is Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s impressive 1995 fantasy tale, The City of Lost Children.
Other recent big screen releases include Faults, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Leland Orser, and Trash, starring Rooney Mara and Martin Sheen. Then, arriving on DVD only, are the Zac Efron music drama We Are Your Friends and the true thriller The Stanford Prison Experiment.
Shout! Factory this week delivers a double feature of Troll and Troll 2 with, while supplies last, an extra disc featuring the hilarious Troll 2 documentary Best Worst Movie. They’ve also got a new special edition of Donald Cammell’s 1987 thriller White of the Eye.
Catalogue titles arriving November 17 include, for the first time on Blu-ray, the 1993 animated family film We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story and, for the first time on any home format, Patrick McGoohan’s (“The Prisoner”) sole directorial feature, a rock opera take on Othello called Catch My Soul.
The Criterion Collection has some exciting additions November 17 with the debut of Richard Brooks’ 1967 Truman Capote adaptation In Cold Blood and the long-awaited Apu Trilogy, featuring the three debut from legendary Indian director Satyajit Ray.
November 17 also brings, from Flicker Alley, Chaplin’ Essanay Comedies, the third and final installment Lobster Films and Cineteca di Bologna‘s Chaplin Project, collecting 15 newly restored early works from Charlie Chaplin.
Kino Lorber delivers a number of interesting catalogue titles November 17, including F.W. Murnau’s 1926 Faust, André De Toth’s 1948 Pitfall, Lewis Allen’s 1955 A Bullet For Joey and Peter Yates’ 1988 The House on Carroll Street.
It’s a quiet week for small screen releases as the only major television title arriving November 17 is a complete series box set of the 1960s sitcom McHale’s Navy.
The week is rounded out with a trio of Digital HD releases of recent big screen releases Ant-Man, Fantastic Four and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.
You can check out cover art for all the November 17 releases in the gallery viewer below alongside a listing of each release’s special features (where applicable):
This Week on Blu-ray and DVD: November 17, 2015
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The Collected Works of Hayao Miyazaki
- Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
- Castle in the Sky (1986)
- My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
- Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
- Porco Rosso (1992)
- Princess Mononoke (1997)
- Spirited Away (2001)
- Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
- Ponyo (2008/2009)
- The Wind Rises (2013)
- Yuki no Taiyo ( Yuki's Sun) - A 1972 TV pilot based on an original manga by - Tetsuya Chiba, directed by Hayao Miyazaki who was also in charge of storyboards and key animation.
- Akado Suzunosuke ( Little Samurai) - Three episodes (Episode 26, 27 & 41) of the hit 1972 anime series with storyboarding and more by Hayao Miyazaki.
- Director Hayao Miyazaki Retirement Press Conference, Uncut Version -
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Extended Edition
- Commentary with director/producer/writer Peter Jackson and co-producer/writer Philippa Boyens
- The Appendices – The Appendices Parts XI and XII showcase a chronological history of the filming of The Battle of the Five Armies, documenting the work done on set chronologically through the three shooting blocks and in the world of its digital effects.
- New Zealand: Home of Middle-earth – Part 3 -
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
- Spy Vision: Recreating '60s Cool
- A Higher Class Of Hero
- Metisse Motorcycles: Proper-And Very British
- The Guys from U.N.C.L.E.
- A Man of Extraordinary Talents
- U.N.C.L.E: On-Set Spy -
Faults
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The Stanford Prison Experiment
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Trash
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We Are Your Friends
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Troll / Troll 2
- NEW "The Making of TROLL" featurette featuring interviews with director John Carl Buechler, producer Charles Band, writer Ed Naha, composer Richard Band, special effects artists John Vulich and Gino Crognale, visual effects artists Jim Aupperle, James Belhovek, Linda Drake and Kevin Kutchaver.
- Theatrical Trailer
- Behind the Scenes Still Gallery
- NEW audio commentary with actors George Hardy and Deborah Reed
Theatrical Trailer
- Also included for the first 5,000 pressed copies is the film BEST WORST MOVIE (DVD only), a fun tribute to TROLL 2 and the people responsible for unleashing it upon the world. -
Faust
- Piano score by Perez de Azpeitia, adapted from the original 1926 orchestral arrangement
- Orchestral score by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
- Orchestral score by Timothy Brock, performed by the Olympia Chamber Orchestra (U.S. Release version)
- "The Language of Shadows: Faust" - A 53-minute documentary on the making of the film and its subsequent restoration
- Screen test footage of Ernst Lubitsch's abandoned 1923 production Marguerite and Faust -
The Apu Trilogy
- New 4K digital restorations of all three films, undertaken in collaboration with the Academy Film Archive at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and L’Immagine Ritrovata, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays
- Audio recordings from 1958 of director Satyajit Ray reading his essay “A Long Time on the Little Road” and in conversation with film historian Gideon Bachmann
- New interviews with actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Shampa Srivastava, and Sharmila Tagore; camera assistant Soumendu Roy; and film writer Ujjal Chakraborty
- Making “The Apu Trilogy”: Satyajit Ray’s Epic Debut, a new video essay by Ray biographer Andrew Robinson
- “The Apu Trilogy”: A Closer Look, a new program featuring filmmaker, producer, and teacher Mamoun Hassan
- Excerpts from the 2003 documentary The Song of the Little Road, featuring composer Ravi Shankar
- The Creative Person: “Satyajit Ray,” a 1967 half-hour documentary by James Beveridge, featuring interviews with Ray, several of his actors, members of his creative team, and film critic Chidananda Das Gupta
- Footage of Ray receiving an honorary Oscar in 1992
- New programs on the restorations by filmmaker :: kogonada
- New English subtitle translations
- A booklet featuring essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Girish Shambu, as well as a selection of Ray’s storyboards for Pather Panchali -
Catch My Soul
- Scanned & Restored in 2K from 35mm Camera Negative
- "Drink the Wine, Eat the Bread" - Making-of Featurette
- "The Deacon Speaks" - Interview with actor Tony Joe White
- "True Soul" - Featurette on Conrad L. Hall
- Theatrical Trailer
- TV Spot
- Promotional Still Gallery
- Extensive Booklet Essay by Tom Mayer
- Reversible Cover Artwork
- Optional English SDH Subtitles -
Chaplin's Essanay Comedies
- Triple Trouble (1918), an unofficial Chaplin film, edited together from outtakes and footage shot by the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company without Chaplin’s approval
- The Blu-ray/DVD premiere of the newly restored Charlie Butts In, a one-reel film widely distributed in the 1920s assembled from alternate takes of the standard, two-reel version of A Night Out
- The two-reel edits of A Night Out and Charlie Chaplin's Burlesque on Carmen, restored and conforming as nearly as possible to Chaplin’s original intentions for release
- A never-before-seen restoration of Police, including a newly improved final shot
- A 28-page booklet with rare, behind-the-scenes images, and an extensive essay by film historian and author Jeffrey Vance (Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema) -
The City of Lost Children
- Audio Commentary with Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Actor Ron Perlman
- The Making of The City of Lost Children
- Archives of Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Interview with Jean-Paul Gaultier
- Original Theatrical Trailers -
The House on Carroll Street
- Original Theatrical Trailer
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A Bullet For Joey
- Original Theatrical Trailer
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In Cold Blood
- New 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with cinematographer John Bailey about director of photography Conrad Hall’s work in the film
- New interview with film historian Bobbie O’Steen on the film’s editing
- New interview with film critic and jazz historian Gary Giddins about Quincy Jones’s music for the film
- New interview with writer Douglass K. Daniel on director Richard Brooks
- Interview with Brooks from a 1988 episode of the French television series Cinéma cinemas
- With Love from Truman, a short 1966 documentary featuring novelist Truman Capote, directed by Albert and David Maysles
- Two archival NBC interviews with Capote: one following the author on a 1966 visit to Holcomb, Kansas, and the other conducted by Barbara Walters in 1967
- Trailer
- An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara -
Pitfall
- Audio Commentary with Film Historian Eddie Muller
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We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
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White of the Eye
- Gag Reel
- Behind the Scenes (Bloodsucking Bastards on Set)
- Audio Commentary with Dr. God comedy troupe including Director Brian James O'Connell, Producer/Actor Justin Ware,, Writer/Actor Sean Cowhig, Actor Neil W. Garguilo and Actor David F. Park -
McHale's Navy: The Complete Series
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Ant Man
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Fantastic Four
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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation