The shop received one of its largest hauls ever today! The tally came to 24 titles in all, from Britain, Italy, Australia, and Germany. Six of today’s arrivals were debuts, with customer-requested copies of the Italian Blu-ray for Michele Soavi’s “Dellamorte Dellamore” joining five new additions to the shop’s inventory: Bill Forsyth’s “That Sinking Feeling,” Ivan Reitman’s “Twins,” Stanley Donen’s “Arabesque,” Ulrich Seidl’s “Paradise: Hope,” and “David Cronenberg’s Early Works” by Arrow Video, which compiles “Transfer,” “From the Drain,” “Stereo,” and “Crimes of the Future” in one set and throws in a Kim Newman featurette to boot.
As for the 18 restocks that came in, they broke down as follows — from the UK: David Cronenberg’s “Shivers,” Disney’s “Frozen” (the 3D version), and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Theorem”; from Australia: George Butler and Robert Fiore’s “Pumping Iron” plus Sidney Lumet’s “Fail-Safe”; lastly, from Germany: Michael Crichton’s “Runaway,” Jack Arnold’s “The Incredible Shrinking Man,” Douglas Sirk’s “Captain Lightfoot,” Nicholas Ray’s “55 Days at Peking,” Anthony Mann’s “The Fall of the Roman Empire,” Jacques Tourneur’s “Canyon Passage,” George Marshall’s “Destry Rides Again,” King Vidor’s “Man Without a Star,” Kathryn Bigelow’s “Blue Steel” and “Strange Days,” Don Siegel’s “Charley Varrick,” Lars von Trier’s “Dancer in the Dark,” and Ulrich Seidl’s “Paradise: Love.”