New "premium Label" for Australia.

The USA and UK are pretty fortunate to have a few labels that do special releases for some films.  Criterion, Arrow Video, Indicator Powerhouse and Eureka are just a few and those who collect a few movies would have no doubt kep their eye on their fuiture releases just in case there was something that ticked their fancy.  Why are these titles so special?  Often they come with booklets, generous extras and a great transfer from film to digital.  A few examples would be 1958's "Touch of Evil" a classic film noir starring Orson Wells (and directed by him), Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh, this Eureka "Masters of Cinema" release contains five variants of the movie, 4 audio commentaries and few featurettes and a 56 page booklet.  Another example is Criterion's release of 1963's "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" which contains the theatrical release of teh film plus a reconstructed version of the film that comes much close to the original pre-cut running time (197 min for this cut vs the "released" version of about 154 min) however as some film negatives are missing they have peiced it together as much as possible from various sources.  The list could go on with 1995's Waterworld with three versions of the film and so on.  Not all releases have additional cuts but its just the attention to detail that these companies do that make the release worthwhile, should it be a film of your liking.

After years of waiting Australia is finally getting its own Premium Label, Imprint Films (https://viavision.com.au/imprint-films/), which is a division of Via Vision which often bring out good releases.

Their first run of five movies are:

- I married a Monster From Outer Space (1958), A classic sci-fi of about alien invasion.  Yes the title sounds silly but its actually quite a decent film. World first release on Bluray.

- Sorry, Wrong Number (1948), A great film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster.  Again a worldd first on Bluray.

- The Duellists (1977), a film from Ridley Scott about two officers in Napoleon's army.

- Waterloo (1970), an epic film starring Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles and Jack Hawkins.  A world first on Bluray.

- The War of the Worlds (1953), the original film based of H.G. Wells novel of the same name.  A world first on Bluray (though Criterion USA have recently announced it for release on 7th July 2020 but extras content differ a little).

Check out the full details including extras at https://viavision.com.au/imprint-films/