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COLUMBIA CLASSICS 4K ULTRA HD COLLECTION VOLUME 2 Now Available – ANATOMY OF A MURDER ~ OLIVER! ~ TAXI DRIVER ~ STRIPES ~ SENSE AND SENSIBILITY ~ THE SOCIAL NETWORK

“Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There’s no escape. I’m God’s lonely man.”

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The Second Volume of the Award-Winning 4K Ultra HD™ Collection From Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. OLUMBIA CLASSICS 4K ULTRA HD COLLECTION VOLUME 2 – Six Iconic Films from the Acclaimed Columbia Pictures Library Debuts on 4K Ultra HD For the First Time. ANATOMY OF A MURDER ~ OLIVER! ~ TAXI DRIVER ~ STRIPES ~ SENSE AND SENSIBILITY ~ THE SOCIAL NETWORK. Exclusively Available on 4K Disc in this Limited Edition Set,
Includes an 80-Page Hardbound Book on the History & Impact of the Films and Over 30 Hours of New and Archival Special Features

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Following the overwhelming response to last year’s award-winning Volume 1 collection, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is proud to debut six more acclaimed and beloved films from its library on 4K Ultra HD disc for the first time ever, exclusively within the COLUMBIA CLASSICS 4K ULTRA HD COLLECTION VOLUME 2, available September 28. This must-own set includes cherished star-studded favorites from six iconic and distinctive filmmakers: ANATOMY OF A MURDER, OLIVER!, TAXI DRIVER, STRIPES, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY and THE SOCIAL NETWORK. Each film is presented in 4K resolution with High Dynamic Range.

The six films in the COLUMBIA CLASSICS 4K ULTRA HD COLLECTION VOLUME 2 are only available on 4K Ultra HD disc within this special limited edition collector’s set. Included with the collection is a gorgeous hardbound 80-page book, featuring in-depth sections about the making of each film within the set via six all-new incisive essays from renowned writers Julie Kirgo, John Kenrick, Glenn Kenny, Michael G. McDunnah, Kayti Burt and Nev Pierce.

Gemma Jones, Elizabeth Spriggs, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, James Fleet, Greg Wise

In addition, the set also includes an exclusive Blu-ray™ bonus disc featuring 20 short films from the Columbia Pictures library, all presented in high definition. These shorts, curated from over 80 years of the studio’s history, showcase a wide scope of creative output across the worlds of both live-action and animation. From The Three Stooges to award-winning mid-century cartoons to modern favorites from Sony Pictures Animation—along with some surprise rarities—this bonus disc is the perfect complement to this essential classics collection.

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ANATOMY OF A MURDER 
Synopsis: 
A riveting courtroom drama is brought to life with an all-star cast in the suspenseful and highly acclaimed ANATOMY OF A MURDER. Nominated for seven Academy Awards® including Best Picture (1959), the film pits a humble small-town lawyer (James Stewart) against a hard-headed big-city prosecutor (George C. Scott). Emotions flare as a jealous army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara) pleads innocent to murdering the rapist of his seductive, beautiful wife (Lee Remick). Produced and directed by the renowned Otto Preminger, the film features a brilliant score by Duke Ellington. Packed with drama, passion and intrigue, ANATOMY OF A MURDER is a cinematic masterpiece that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
ANATOMY OF A MURDER Disc Breakdown

  • 4K Ultra HD Includes:
    • Feature presented in 4K resolution with HDR10, restored from the original camera negative
    • Dolby Atmos English audio
    • 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
    • Mono DTS-HD Master Audio
  • Blu-ray Includes:
    • Feature presented in high definition, sourced from the 4K master
    • 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
    • Mono DTS-HD Master Audio
    • Special Features:
  • NEW: Commentary with Film Historian Foster Hirsch
  • Gary Giddins Interview
  • Pat Kirkham Interview
  • Foster Hirsch Interview
  • Excerpt from Firing Line Featuring Otto Preminger
  • Theatrical Trailer

ANATOMY OF A MURDER has a run time of approximately 161 minutes and is not rated.

OLIVER!

Synopsis: 
Winner of six 1968 Academy Awards® including Best Picture, it’s OLIVER!, the beloved musical version of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. A magnificent screen adaptation of Lionel Bart’s sensational stage musical, OLIVER!, directed by Carol Reed, is the timeless story of a plucky young orphan and his quest for love and happiness in a world populated by rascals, rogues, and thieves. A wondrous blend of drama, comedy, adventure and song, OLIVER! is grand and glorious entertainment the whole family will enjoy.

OLIVER! Disc Breakdown

  • 4K Ultra HD Includes:
    • Feature presented in 4K resolution with HDR10, restored from the original camera negative
    • Dolby Atmos English audio
    • 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
    • 2-Channel Surround DTS-HD Master Audio
  • Feature Blu-ray Includes:
    • Feature presented in high definition, sourced from the 4K master
    • 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
    • 2-Channel Surround DTS-HD Master Audio
    • Special Features:
  • NEW: Commentary with Film Historian Steven C. Smith
  • NEW: Jack Wild Screen Test
  • Behind-the-Scenes Featurette
  • Meeting Oliver!
  • Meeting Fagin!
  • The Locations of Oliver!
  • Sing-Alongs
  • Dance-Alongs
  • Theatrical Trailers

OLIVER! has a run time of approximately 153 minutes and is rated G.

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TAXI DRIVER

Synopsis
Winner of the prestigious Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival (1976) and nominated for 4 Academy Awards® including Best Picture (1976), TAXI DRIVER stars Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s classic film of a psychotic New York cabbie driven to violence by loneliness and desperation. Co-starring Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle and Cybill Shepherd.

TAXI DRIVER Disc Breakdown

  • 4K Ultra HD Includes:
    • Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision, restored from the original camera negative
    • 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
    • Mono DTS-HD Master Audio
    • Special Features:
  • NEW: 20th Anniversary Re-Release Trailer
  • Making Taxi Driver Documentary
  • Storyboard to Film Comparisons with Martin Scorsese Introduction
  • Animated Photo Galleries
  • Blu-ray Includes:
    • Feature presented in high definition, sourced from the 4K master
    • 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
    • Special Features:
    • 40-Minute Taxi Driver Q&A featuring Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster and Many More Recorded Live at the Beacon Theatre in New York City at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival
    • Commentary with Director Martin Scorsese and Writer Paul Schrader Recorded by the Criterion Collection
    • Commentaries by Writer Paul Schrader and by Professor Robert Kolker
    • Martin Scorsese on Taxi Driver
    • Influence and Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
    • Producing Taxi Driver
    • God’s Lonely Man
    • Taxi Driver Stories
    • Travis’ New York
    • Travis’ New York Locations
    • Theatrical Trailer

TAXI DRIVER has a run time of approximately 114 minutes and is rated R.

STRIPES 

Synopsis:
When quick-witted slacker John Winger (Bill Murray) loses his apartment, girlfriend and job all in one day, he does what any red-blooded American would do: he joins the army and nearly starts WWIII. Directed by Ivan Reitman and also starring Harold Ramis, John Candy and John Larroquette, STRIPES has become one of the most beloved comedies of all time. And that’s the fact, Jack!

STRIPES Disc Breakdown

  • 4K Ultra HD Includes:
    • Both Theatrical & Extended versions presented in 4K resolution with HDR10, restored from the original camera negative
    • Dolby Atmos English audio (for both versions)
    • 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio (for both versions)
    • Mono DTS-HD Master Audio (Theatrical version only)
    • Special Features:
  • NEW: 40 Years of Stripes With Bill & Ivan – a two-part on-camera reunion between star Bill Murray and director Ivan Reitman, discussing their careers, memories from set, a tribute to the cast, as well as a special guest appearance from cinematographer Bill Butler
  • NEW: Theatrical Trailer
  • Feature Blu-ray Includes:
    • Both Theatrical & Extended versions presented in high definition, sourced from the 4K masters
    • 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio (for both versions)
    • Mono DTS-HD Master Audio (Theatrical version only)
  • Special Features:
    • Commentary with Ivan Reitman and Dan Goldberg (Extended version only)
    • NEW: 11 Additional Deleted & Extended Scenes
    • NEW: 1983 TV Version of the film (in standard definition)
    • Deleted & Extended Scenes from the Extended version of the film
    • Stars and Stripes Documentary

STRIPES has a run time of approximately 106 minutes and is rated R. STRIPES: EXTENDED EDITION has a run time of approximately 123 minutes and is rated R for sexuality/nudity, language and some drug use.

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY 

Synopsis:
Nominated for 7 Academy Awards®, including Best Picture (1995), and directed by Ang Lee. Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant star in this captivating romantic comedy that swept the Ten Best Lists and was named Best Film at the 1996 BAFTA Awards. Based on Jane Austen’s classic novel, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY tells of the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor (Thompson) and passionate Marianne (Winslet), whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family’s sudden loss of fortune. Rickman, Grant and Greg Wise co-star as the well-intentioned suitors who are trapped by the strict rules of society and the conflicting laws of desire.

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Disc Breakdown

  • 4K Ultra HD Includes:
    • Feature presented in 4K resolution with HDR10, restored from the original camera negative
    • Dolby Atmos English audio
    • 5.0 DTS-HD Master Audio
  • Feature Blu-ray Includes:
    • Feature presented in high definition, sourced from the 4K master
    • 5.0 DTS-HD Master Audio
    • Special Features:
  • NEW: 25th Anniversary Reunion: Back to Barton Cottage – an expansive on-camera reunion featuring Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Greg Wise, Imelda Staunton, Imogen Stubbs, Myriam Francois, producer Lindsay Doran, and director Ang Lee
  • Emma Thompson & Producer Lindsay Doran’s Audio Commentary
  • Director Ang Lee & Co-Producer James Schamus’s Audio Commentary
  • Adapting Austen Featurette
  • A Sense of Character Featurette
  • A Very Quiet Man Featurette
  • Locating the World of Sense and Sensibility Featurette
  • Elegance & Simplicity: The Wardrobe of Sense and Sensibility Featurette
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Theatrical & International Trailers

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY has a run time of approximately 136 minutes and is rated PG for mild thematic elements.

THE SOCIAL NETWORK 

Synopsis:
THE SOCIAL NETWORK, directed by David Fincher, is the stunning tale of a new breed of cultural insurgent: a punk genius who sparked a revolution and changed the face of human interaction for a generation, and perhaps forever. Shot through with emotional brutality and unexpected humor, this superbly crafted film chronicles the formation of Facebook and the battles over ownership that followed upon the website’s unfathomable success. With a complex, incisive screenplay by Aaron Sorkin and a brilliant cast including Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake, THE SOCIAL NETWORK bears witness to the birth of an idea that rewove the fabric of society even as it unraveled the friendship of its creators. Nominated for 8 Academy Awards®, including Best Picture (2010).

THE SOCIAL NETWORK Disc Breakdown

  • 4K Ultra HD Includes:
    • Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision
    • Unrated Dolby Atmos English audio
    • Unrated 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
    • Theatrical 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
    • Special Feature:
  • NEW: Theatrical Trailers
  • Feature Blu-ray Includes:
    • Feature presented in high definition
    • Theatrical 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
    • Special Features:
  • Audio Commentary with David Fincher
  • Audio Commentary with Aaron Sorkin & Cast
  • Special Feature Blu-ray Includes:
  • How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
  • David Fincher and Jeff Cronenweth on the Visuals
  • Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter and Ren Klyce on Post
  • Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and David Fincher on the Score
  • Ruby Skye VIP Room: Multi-Angle Scene Breakdown
  • In the Hall of the Mountain King: Reznor’s First Draft
  • Swarmatron

THE SOCIAL NETWORK has a run time of approximately 120 minutes and is both rated PG-13 for sexual content, drug and alcohol use and language and Unrated.

EXCLUSIVE BONUS DISC INCLUDES

  • 20 short films from the Columbia Pictures library, presented in high definition:
    • Umpa
    • The Three Stooges: Disorder In The Court
    • Charley Chase: Man Bites Lovebug
    • Color Rhapsodies: The Little Match Girl (Academy Award® nominee, 1937, Best Short Subject, Cartoons)
    • Charley Chase: The Sap Takes A Wrap
    • Color Rhapsodies: Dog, Cat and Canary (Academy Award® nominee, 1944, Best Short Subject, Cartoons)
    • The Ragtime Bear
    • The Wonder Gloves
    • Georgie and the Dragon
    • Madeline (Academy Award® nominee, 1952, Best Short Subject, Cartoons)
    • Pete Hothead
    • The Tell-Tale Heart (Academy Award® nominee, 1953, Best Short Subject, Cartoons)
    • When Magoo Flew (Academy Award® winner, 1954, Best Short Subject, Cartoons)
    • The Man on the Flying Trapeze
    • Christopher Crumpet’s Playmate
    • Stage Door Magoo
    • April in Portugal
    • The Chubbchubbs! (Academy Award® winner, 2002, Best Short Film, Animated)
    • The Early Hatchling Gets The Worm
    • Puppy!: A Hotel Transylvania Short

WAMG Giveaway – Win the TAXI DRIVER 40th Anniversary Blu-ray

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“How’s everything in the pimp business?”

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TAXI DRIVER returns to Blu-ray as a two-disc set, presented in high-definition stemming from the film’s 4K restoration, which was supervised by Director Martin Scorsese and Cinematographer Michael Chapman.

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You can win the new 2-disc TAXI DRIVER Blu-ray. We Are Movie Geeks has a copy to give away. All you have to do is answer this one TAXI DRIVER trivia question: What are the first and last names of the parents of the character played by Jodie Foster. Leave a comment in the comments section with the answer. It’s so easy!

We’ll pick the winner next week. 

OFFICIAL RULES:

1. YOU MUST BE A US RESIDENT. PRIZE WILL ONLY BE SHIPPED TO US ADDRESSES.  NO P.O. BOXES.  NO DUPLICATE ADDRESSES.

2. WINNERS WILL BE CHOSEN FROM ALL QUALIFYING ENTRIES.

No purchase necessary
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Special Features:

DISC ONE

  • ALL-NEW: 40-Minute TAXI DRIVER Q&A – Featuring Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster and many more. Recorded live at the Beacon Theatre in New York City at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival
  • Interactive Script to Screen
  • Original 1986 Commentary with Director Martin Scorsese and Writer Paul Schrader recorded by The Criterion Collection
  • Commentaries by Writer Paul Schrader and by Professor Robert Kolker
  • Martin Scorsese on TAXI DRIVER
  • Producing TAXI DRIVER
  • God’s Lonely Man
  • TAXI DRIVER Stories
  • Travis’ New York
  • Travis’ New York Locations
  • Theatrical Trailer

DISC TWO

  • Making of Documentary
  • Storyboard to Film Comparisons with Martin Scorsese Introduction
  • Animated Photo Galleries

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40th Anniversary – TAXI DRIVER Plays at The Hi-Pointe Beginning Friday

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“All the animals come out at night – whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.”

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TAXI DRIVER will be showing for one week beginning Friday, April 29th at the Hi-Pointe Theater

Before I saw TAXI DRIVER in 1976 at age 15, I only watched horror films and comedies. Martin Scorsese’s 1976 masterpiece made me realize there were other types of movies out there and I became completely obsessed with the film. I saw TAXI DRIVER at theaters at least a dozen times in its initial run and remember riding my bike to see it at the Kirkwood Cinema five nights in row. I had the poster on my wall and would play the soundtrack LP over and over, memorizing the (cleaned-up) dialog. I actually went to High School dressed like Travis Bickle in a green army jacket and while the other kids were drawing Led Zeppelin logos on their notebooks, I was sketching pictures of Travis. My parents worried about me and I remember my dad calling me at college freaked out a few years later when he learned that John Hinckley Jr., who had shot President Ronald Reagan, claimed he was inspired by his own obsession with TAXI DRIVER. I assured him that my preoccupation with the film had waned, then mailed off my latest love letter to Jodie Foster.

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Widely considered the crown jewel of Scorsese’s prodigious career, TAXI DRIVER centers around the alienated and quiet loner of the title, Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro, in one of the greatest screen performances of all time), a cabbie who works the night shift in Manhattan. After failing to land a date with Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a beautiful campaign aide for presidential candidate Palentine (Leonard Harris), an encounter with a twelve-year old prostitute, Iris (Jodie Foster), and her pimp, Sport (Harvey Keitel), convinces Travis that the world is a rotten place. And as his frustration mounts, he assembles a cache of guns and learns how to use them…with deadly accuracy.
The 1976 film was nominated for four Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Robert De Niro; and two Golden Globes. One of TIME Magazines ‘all-TIME 100 Movies,TAXI DRIVER was called ‘a brilliant nightmare,’ by the Chicago Sun-Times and praised by the Village Voice as ‘a phenomenon from another day and age.’ Sony Pictures digitally restored and remastered TAXI DRIVER to 4K from the original negative.

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It’s been 40 years, but now it’s time to see TAXI DRIVER on the big screen again. St. Louis’ fabulous Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Avenue) will showing the film for one week beginning Friday, April 29th.

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Showtimes are:

Friday – Saturday: (5:00), 7:30, 9:45 

Sunday: (5:00), 7:30

Monday – Thursday: (5:00), 7:30

The Hi-Pointe’s site can be found HERE

http://hi-pointetheatre.com/

 

UPDATED: Scorsese, De Niro, and Von Trier on a TAXI DRIVER Remake? What?

Update: According to ScreenDaily, von Trier’s business partner, Peter Aalbaek Jensen has completely denied this report claiming “I have seen it [the story] in the Danish film magazine and what is written there is not true.” Jensen says the directors met at the Berlin Film Festival, but any idea of them remaking TAXI DRIVER together is complete “rubbish.”

To be perfectly honest, this news doesn’t shock and awe me like it might some.  In fact, after Werner Herzog announced all the way back in May of 2008 that he would be doing a pseudo-remake of BAD LIEUTENANT starring Nicolas Cage…well, let’s just say my proclivity for being shocked by any movie-related news has fallen a few levels since then.

So, when the rumors begin (and, make no mistake, these are absolutely and justly deemed as RUMORS) that Martin Scorsese and Lars von Trier will be teaming up to remake TAXI DRIVER, I meet them with a shrug and a nod, wondering if and when the project will actually see the light of day.  Saying Robert De Niro would be reprising his role as Travis Bickle doesn’t add any amount of shock to it, either.

It’s hard to track back to the original source of the rumor, but, as far as I can tell, a Copenhagen film magazine, Ekko, is the initial source, and other sites like Earthtimes.org and Hollywood Elsewhere have passed the information on.  The report, evidently, originates from the Berlin Film Festival, where SHUTTER ISLAND is making its premiere.

Initial reactions from von Trier’s producing partner, Peter Aalbek, is “neither confirm nor deny” material.  However, an official announcement is to be made soon.

It’s a wild rumor, and whether all, any, or none of it is true would not surprise me one bit.  This could be a reporter overhearing something that he or she thinks is one thing that turns out to be another.  This could be Scorsese and von Trier spitballing ideas.  It could be 100% accurate.  If there is anything I have learned in my 30 years of following this business, it is that you cannot predict anything.  When an official announcement comes, we will let you know.  In the meantime, let us know your thoughts on this rumor in the comments section below.