Les Blu-ray Severin Films

[Torrente]

Vous savez s'ils font des promos régulières chez Severin ?

2 fois par an, il me semble.
Vers Mai à peu près et au Black Friday.

[zemat]

Vous savez s'ils font des promos régulières chez Severin ?

2 fois par an, il me semble.
Vers Mai à peu près et au Black Friday.

OK, merci !

[higa]

Comme pour le coffret Zatoichi acheté en janvier 2014, dont je n'ai visionné que 10 sur 25 films en 8 ans...

J'en ai vu que cinq mais j'ai payé le coffret 25€, sinon je pense que j'aurai fait plus d'efforts.
Je vois régulièrement des trucs intéressants chez Severin/VS et autres, sans parler de Kino. Dommage que ça soit si cher a importer...

[Bens1912]

Ceux qui ont acheté Traitement de choc, est-ce que vous pouvez me dire si les ST anglais sont amovibles ou non svp ? Merci

[halford66]

Pour l'UHD des cinq jours de Milan+le double bluray incluant le téléfilm de Mario Bava"la Vénus d'Ille",l'éditeur demande 42$ (!)de frais de port,à ce tarif là les taxes sont incluses j'espère.

Je n'achète quasi jamais de titres sans STF mais vu la rareté de ces 2 films,je pense franchir le pas,je vais attendre une dispo sur Amazon US ou peut-être Metaluna.

[Topolino]

Pour l'UHD des cinq jours de Milan+le double bluray incluant le téléfilm de Mario Bava"la Vénus d'Ille",l'éditeur demande 42$ (!)de frais de port,à ce tarif là les taxes sont incluses j'espère.

Je n'achète quasi jamais de titres sans STF mais vu la rareté de ces 2 films,je pense franchir le pas,je vais attendre une dispo sur Amazon US ou peut-être Metaluna.

Non malheureusement les taxes ne sont pas à priori incluses. Mais à priori Severin donne toujours comme valeur un prix "fictif" du genre 50 dollars (même si on a acheté pour beaucoup plus) et je me suis à priori tiré avec 11 à 13 euros de taxes (par exemple sur leurs gros coffrets). Et effectivement à priori pour l'instant la sortie des Cinque Giornate di Milano de Dario Argento et des téléfilms de la Rai (dont la Venere d'Ille avec Daria Nicolodi et Marc Porel) sont des exclusivités mondiales...

[halford66]

Je n'avais pas compris qu'ils étaient en vente sur leur site uniquement pendant le Black friday dans un 1er temps,tant pis j'attendrai la sortie nationale.

[Robert Brisseau]

Concernant leur sortie de téléfilms de la Rai, il est intéressant de noter que seul le Bava est clairement mentionné. QU'il soit mis en avant c'est normal, mais
il doit y avoir plus de 1000 caractères sur ce descriptif: https://severinfilms.com/collections/ne ... s-game-blu
et aucune mention des autres titres (brève mention de quelques réalisateurs et acteurs)

[Harry Reems]

Traitement de choc ne devait pas sortir en France ? j'avais mis de coté le Severin.

[odelay]

Il me semble qu’il est prévu dans la collection 70s de Studio canal. A moins d’avoir rêvé…

[Jeremy Fox]

Il me semble qu’il est prévu dans la collection 70s de Studio canal. A moins d’avoir rêvé…

Si il était même annoncé pour janvier

[Jeremy Fox]

Il me semble qu’il est prévu dans la collection 70s de Studio canal. A moins d’avoir rêvé…

Si il était même annoncé pour janvier

Il fera donc partie de la fournée de mars chez Studiocanal

[Harry Reems]

Ok merci, en espérant qu'ils reprennent les bonus du Severin.

[Topolino]

Concernant leur sortie de téléfilms de la Rai, il est intéressant de noter que seul le Bava est clairement mentionné. QU'il soit mis en avant c'est normal, mais
il doit y avoir plus de 1000 caractères sur ce descriptif: https://severinfilms.com/collections/ne ... s-game-blu
et aucune mention des autres titres (brève mention de quelques réalisateurs et acteurs)

Bonjour

J'ai acheté ce double blu-ray. Chaque blu-ray contient 3 films qui correspondent aux 6 épisodes de la série télévisuelle produite par la RAI et diffusée en 1981 sur la chaîne italienne Rai Uno et portant le titre I giochi del diavolo (traduit en anglais The Devil's Game).

Les épisodes sont présentées dans leur ordre de diffusion :

L'uomo della sabbia par Giulio Questi d'après la nouvelle de Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

La Venere d'Ille par Mario et Lamberto Bava d'après Prosper Mérimée

La presenza perfetta par Piero Nelli d'après la nouvelle Sir Edmund Orme de Henry James

La mano indemoniata par Marcello Aliprandi d'après Gérard de Nerval

Il diavolo nella bottiglia par Tomaso Sherman d'après la nouvelle de Robert Louis Stevenson

et enfin Il sogno dell'altro par Giovanna Gagliardo d'après George Wells

Chaque épisode qui dure approximativement 60 minutes est inspiré d'un roman ou d'une nouvelle d'un auteur du 19e siècle comme le voulait ce projet télevisuel.

Chaque épisode est en version originale italienne avec sous-titre anglais optionnel.

Les masters sont tirés des seuls éléments encore existants, il ne faut donc pas s'attendre à un visuel lissé 4K... Mais cela est bien précisé en incise de chaque disque. Les seuls suppléments sont consacrés à La Venus d'Ille de Bava (mais si certains intervenants parlent du contexte de la série et d'autres épisodes). Il s'agit interviews en italien également sous-titré en anglais. L'épisode de Bava bénéficie également d'un commentaire audio (en anglais) par Tim Lucas.
C'est le segment de Bava qui a fait l'objet d'une restauration plus approfondie.

En résumé il s'agit d'une sortie (au-delà des réserves techniques) événementielle, car ces épisodes télévisuels sont restés inédits (même en Italie) et n'ont jamais fait l'objet d'une diffusion en dehors de leur passage à la RAI (à ma connaissance). Les disques ne sont pas zonés.

PS : j'ai acheté (pré-commandé) ce blu-ray lors de lors Black Friday et je l'ai reçu la première semaine de janvier mais il est également désormais de nouveau en vente sur le site de Severin.

A noter que Severin continue sur sa tournée italienne, car leur nouveauté de janvier est un coffret consacré aux films policiers de Lenzi avec Thomas Milian (dont certains films disponibles ici) avec également les bandes-sons le cas échéant en cd.

Italian director Umberto Lenzi had recently completed a landmark string of kinky gialli with Hollywood outcast Carroll Baker. Cuban-born/Actor’s Studio-trained Tomas Milian had become one of Spaghetti Westerns’ most popular stars. But when these two notoriously mercurial talents came together for a series of shocking Poliziotteschi –reactionary crime films that reflected the political and sociocultural violence of 1970s Italy – they grabbed audiences by the throat, gunned down the conventions of the genre and changed the emotional velocity of action cinema forever. This collection presents Lenzi & Milian’s five greatest collaborations, now restored uncut and uncensored from the original negatives for the first time ever. 

Disc 1: ALMOST HUMAN (1974)

Released in Italy under the title MILANO ODIA: LA POLIZIA NON-PUÒ SPARARE (MILAN HATES: THE POLICE CAN’T SHOOT), this first collaboration between director Umberto Lenzi and star Tomas Milian remains both “a degenerate treat” (Mondo Digital) and “definitive Eurocrime” (DVD Talk): When a small-time criminal (a fearless performance by Milian) kidnaps a wealthy industrialist’s daughter, he’ll trigger a depraved spree of class warfare, sexual violence, mass murder and the rage of a police commissioner (Henry Silva) determined to end the carnage. Anita Strindberg (YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED ROOM…) and Ray Lovelock (LIVE LIKE A COP, DIE LIKE A MAN) co-star in “one of the peaks of the genre” (Indiewire) written by Ernesto Gastaldi (ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK) with a classic score by Ennio Morricone, now scanned uncut from the original negative.

Special Features:

Audio Commentary With Screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi
Audio Commentary With Mondo Digital's Nathaniel Thompson And Troy Howarth, Author Of Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi
Violent Milan – Interview With Director Umberto Lenzi
Milian Unleashed – Interview With Actor Tomas Milian
A History Of Violence – Interview With Ernesto Gastaldi
Italian American Gangster – Interview With Actor Henry Silva
Trailer

Disc Specs:

Aspect ratio: 2.35.1
Audio: English Mono / Italian Mono
Closed Captions / English Subtitles
Region A
Run time: 99 mins

Disc 2: ALMOST HUMAN CD Soundtrack

Disc 3: SYNDICATE SADISTS (1975)

In their second collaboration – released in Italy as IL GIUSTIZIERE SFIDA LA CITTÀ (THE VIGILANTE CHALLENGES THE CITY) – Tomas Milian stars as a biker named Rambo (the actor borrowed the name from David Morrell’s 1972 novel First Blood) who avenges a friend’s murder by orchestrating a war between rival crime families. Director Umberto Lenzi and screenwriter Vincenzo Mannino (HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK) pack the running time with a barrage of beatings, shootings, kidnappings and chases that raised the bar for ‘70s EuroCrime and “put modern action flicks to shame” (DVD Drive-In). Luciano Catenacci (KILL, BABY… KILL!), Femi Benussi (BLOODY PIT OF HORROR) and Joseph Cotten (CITIZEN KANE) co-star in this “non-stop exciting thriller” (European Trash Cinema) – also released as ONE JUST MAN and RAMBO’S REVENGE – now scanned uncut from the original negative.

Special Features:

First Blood – Interview With Director Umberto Lenzi
Family Affair – Interview With Actress Ida Galli
Kidnapped – Interview With Actor Alessandro Cocco
Interview With The Fascist – Interview With Actor Bruno Di Luia
Trailer

Disc Specs:

Aspect ratio: 2.35.1
Audio: English Mono / Italian Mono
Closed Captions / English Subtitles
Region Free
Run time: 93 mins

Disc 4: SYNDICATE SADISTS/BROTHERS TILL WE DIE CD Soundtrack

Disc 5: FREE HAND FOR A TOUGH COP (1976)

Following THE TOUGH ONES, this fourth collaboration between director Umberto Lenzi and star Tomas Milian – released as IL TRUCIDO E LO SPIRRO (THE CROOK AND THE COP) – introduced Milian’s iconic character of ‘Monnezza’ and served as the unacknowledged template for 48 HOURS: When a scheming convict (Milian) is sprung from prison by a hard-nosed cop (Claudio Cassinelli of WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS?), they’ll team up to hunt down Monnezza’s former crime partner (Henry Silva) who’s kidnapped a critically ill child. Robert Hundar (CUT-THROATS NINE), Nicoletta Machiavelli (NO WAY OUT) and a murderer’s row of EuroCrime’s most recognizable character actors co-star in this “classic politziottesco packed full of fun action” (Starburst) co-written by Lenzi and Dardano Sacchetti (THE BEYOND), now scanned in 2K from the original negative. 

Special Features:

In The Asphalt Jungle – Interview With Director Umberto Lenzi
Tough Guy Corrado – A Look At The Career of Corrado Solari
The Father Of Monnezza – Interview With Screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti
Hand-Held Camera For A Tough Cinematographer – Interview With Cinematographer Nino Celeste
Making Movies – Interview With Producer Ugo Tucci
Extended Bank Robbery Scene Sourced From The Original Negative
Trailer

Disc Specs:

Aspect ratio: 2.35.1
Audio: English Mono / Italian Mono
Closed Captions / English Subtitles
Region A
Run time: 92 mins

 

Disc 6: THE CYNIC, THE RAT AND THE FIST (1977)

For their penultimate collaboration, Umberto Lenzi and producer Luciano Martino (EATEN ALIVE!) brought together Tomas Milian as a cold-blooded crime boss known as ‘The Chinaman,’ John Saxon as a sadistic American mobster looking for his own piece of the action and Maurizio Merli as hot-headed rogue cop Leo Tanzi – first introduced in Lenzi’s THE TOUGH ONES – gunning for them both. Renzo Palmer (STREET LAW) and Gabriella Lepori (5 WOMEN FOR THE KILLER) co-star in this “fantastic piece of Italian genre cinema and a definitive statement to the craftsmanship of Lenzi” (Cinezilla) co-written by Lenzi, Dardano Sacchetti (THE NEW YORK RIPPER) and Ernesto Gastaldi (ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK) featuring an oft-sampled score by Franco Micalizzi (DEATH PROOF, DJANGO UNCHAINED), now scanned uncut in 2K from the original negative.

Special Features:

Merli vs. Milian – Interview With Director Umberto Lenzi
A Man Of Action – Interview With Umberto Lenzi
Me, Milian And Merli – Interview With Umberto Lenzi on His Iconic Characters
The Writer, The Director And The Actor – Interview With Screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti
Here Comes The Fist – Interview With Actor John Saxon
Trailer

Disc Specs:

Aspect ratio: 2.35.1
Audio: English Mono / Italian Mono
Closed Captions / English Subtitles
Region Free
Run time: 99 mins

Disc 7: THE CYNIC, THE RAT AND THE FIST CD Soundtrack

Disc 8: BROTHERS TILL WE DIE (1978)

For their final collaboration, Umberto Lenzi directs his own razor-sharp screenplay while Tomas Milian delivers a brilliant dual performance reprising the roles of scheming lowlife Sergio ‘Er Monnezza’ Marazzi from FREE HAND FOR A TOUGH COP as well as his twin brother, hunchbacked sociopath Vincenzo ‘Il Gobbo’ Marazzi from THE TOUGH ONES. With Milian providing his own characters’ dialogue, it’s a potent odyssey of trans prostitutes, armed robberies, double crosses, randy Albanians, angry cops, insane asylums and some of the most startling pathos and politics in the history of the genre. Isa Danieli (SWEPT AWAY), Guido Leontini (EMERGENCY SQUAD) and Solvi Stubing (STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER) co-star in the long-unseen Lenzi/Milian swansong, now scanned uncut in 2K from the original negative. 

Special Features:

Tomas And Tomas – Interview With Director Umberto Lenzi
He Called Me 'The Tamer' – Interview With Editor Eugenio Alabiso
Music And Bullets – Interview With Composer Franco Micalizzi
Heart Of Rome – Interview With Composer Antonello Venditti
Trailer

Disc Specs:

Aspect ratio: 2.35.1
Audio: English Mono / Italian Mono
Closed Captions / English Subtitles
Region Free
Run time: 99 mins


Italian director Umberto Lenzi had recently completed a landmark string of kinky gialli with Hollywood outcast Carroll Baker. Cuban-born/Actor’s Studio-trained Tomas Milian had become one of Spaghetti Westerns’ most popular stars. But when these two notoriously mercurial talents came together for a series of shocking Poliziotteschi –reactionary crime films that reflected the political and sociocultural violence of 1970s Italy – they grabbed audiences by the throat, gunned down the conventions of the genre and changed the emotional velocity of action cinema forever. This collection presents Lenzi & Milian’s five greatest collaborations, now restored uncut and uncensored from the original negatives for the first time ever. 

Disc 1: ALMOST HUMAN (1974)

Released in Italy under the title MILANO ODIA: LA POLIZIA NON-PUÒ SPARARE (MILAN HATES: THE POLICE CAN’T SHOOT), this first collaboration between director Umberto Lenzi and star Tomas Milian remains both “a degenerate treat” (Mondo Digital) and “definitive Eurocrime” (DVD Talk): When a small-time criminal (a fearless performance by Milian) kidnaps a wealthy industrialist’s daughter, he’ll trigger a depraved spree of class warfare, sexual violence, mass murder and the rage of a police commissioner (Henry Silva) determined to end the carnage. Anita Strindberg (YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED ROOM…) and Ray Lovelock (LIVE LIKE A COP, DIE LIKE A MAN) co-star in “one of the peaks of the genre” (Indiewire) written by Ernesto Gastaldi (ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK) with a classic score by Ennio Morricone, now scanned uncut from the original negative.

Special Features:

Audio Commentary With Screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi
Audio Commentary With Mondo Digital's Nathaniel Thompson And Troy Howarth, Author Of Make Them Die Slowly: The Kinetic Cinema of Umberto Lenzi
Violent Milan – Interview With Director Umberto Lenzi
Milian Unleashed – Interview With Actor Tomas Milian
A History Of Violence – Interview With Ernesto Gastaldi
Italian American Gangster – Interview With Actor Henry Silva
Trailer

Disc Specs:

Aspect ratio: 2.35.1
Audio: English Mono / Italian Mono
Closed Captions / English Subtitles
Region A
Run time: 99 mins

Disc 2: ALMOST HUMAN CD Soundtrack

Disc 3: SYNDICATE SADISTS (1975)

In their second collaboration – released in Italy as IL GIUSTIZIERE SFIDA LA CITTÀ (THE VIGILANTE CHALLENGES THE CITY) – Tomas Milian stars as a biker named Rambo (the actor borrowed the name from David Morrell’s 1972 novel First Blood) who avenges a friend’s murder by orchestrating a war between rival crime families. Director Umberto Lenzi and screenwriter Vincenzo Mannino (HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK) pack the running time with a barrage of beatings, shootings, kidnappings and chases that raised the bar for ‘70s EuroCrime and “put modern action flicks to shame” (DVD Drive-In). Luciano Catenacci (KILL, BABY… KILL!), Femi Benussi (BLOODY PIT OF HORROR) and Joseph Cotten (CITIZEN KANE) co-star in this “non-stop exciting thriller” (European Trash Cinema) – also released as ONE JUST MAN and RAMBO’S REVENGE – now scanned uncut from the original negative.

Special Features:

First Blood – Interview With Director Umberto Lenzi
Family Affair – Interview With Actress Ida Galli
Kidnapped – Interview With Actor Alessandro Cocco
Interview With The Fascist – Interview With Actor Bruno Di Luia
Trailer

Disc Specs:

Aspect ratio: 2.35.1
Audio: English Mono / Italian Mono
Closed Captions / English Subtitles
Region Free
Run time: 93 mins

Disc 4: SYNDICATE SADISTS/BROTHERS TILL WE DIE CD Soundtrack

Disc 5: FREE HAND FOR A TOUGH COP (1976)

Following THE TOUGH ONES, this fourth collaboration between director Umberto Lenzi and star Tomas Milian – released as IL TRUCIDO E LO SPIRRO (THE CROOK AND THE COP) – introduced Milian’s iconic character of ‘Monnezza’ and served as the unacknowledged template for 48 HOURS: When a scheming convict (Milian) is sprung from prison by a hard-nosed cop (Claudio Cassinelli of WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS?), they’ll team up to hunt down Monnezza’s former crime partner (Henry Silva) who’s kidnapped a critically ill child. Robert Hundar (CUT-THROATS NINE), Nicoletta Machiavelli (NO WAY OUT) and a murderer’s row of EuroCrime’s most recognizable character actors co-star in this “classic politziottesco packed full of fun action” (Starburst) co-written by Lenzi and Dardano Sacchetti (THE BEYOND), now scanned in 2K from the original negative. 

Special Features:

In The Asphalt Jungle – Interview With Director Umberto Lenzi
Tough Guy Corrado – A Look At The Career of Corrado Solari
The Father Of Monnezza – Interview With Screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti
Hand-Held Camera For A Tough Cinematographer – Interview With Cinematographer Nino Celeste
Making Movies – Interview With Producer Ugo Tucci
Extended Bank Robbery Scene Sourced From The Original Negative
Trailer

Disc Specs:

Aspect ratio: 2.35.1
Audio: English Mono / Italian Mono
Closed Captions / English Subtitles
Region A
Run time: 92 mins

 

Disc 6: THE CYNIC, THE RAT AND THE FIST (1977)

For their penultimate collaboration, Umberto Lenzi and producer Luciano Martino (EATEN ALIVE!) brought together Tomas Milian as a cold-blooded crime boss known as ‘The Chinaman,’ John Saxon as a sadistic American mobster looking for his own piece of the action and Maurizio Merli as hot-headed rogue cop Leo Tanzi – first introduced in Lenzi’s THE TOUGH ONES – gunning for them both. Renzo Palmer (STREET LAW) and Gabriella Lepori (5 WOMEN FOR THE KILLER) co-star in this “fantastic piece of Italian genre cinema and a definitive statement to the craftsmanship of Lenzi” (Cinezilla) co-written by Lenzi, Dardano Sacchetti (THE NEW YORK RIPPER) and Ernesto Gastaldi (ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK) featuring an oft-sampled score by Franco Micalizzi (DEATH PROOF, DJANGO UNCHAINED), now scanned uncut in 2K from the original negative.

Special Features:

Merli vs. Milian – Interview With Director Umberto Lenzi
A Man Of Action – Interview With Umberto Lenzi
Me, Milian And Merli – Interview With Umberto Lenzi on His Iconic Characters
The Writer, The Director And The Actor – Interview With Screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti
Here Comes The Fist – Interview With Actor John Saxon
Trailer

Disc Specs:

Aspect ratio: 2.35.1
Audio: English Mono / Italian Mono
Closed Captions / English Subtitles
Region Free
Run time: 99 mins

Disc 7: THE CYNIC, THE RAT AND THE FIST CD Soundtrack

Disc 8: BROTHERS TILL WE DIE (1978)

For their final collaboration, Umberto Lenzi directs his own razor-sharp screenplay while Tomas Milian delivers a brilliant dual performance reprising the roles of scheming lowlife Sergio ‘Er Monnezza’ Marazzi from FREE HAND FOR A TOUGH COP as well as his twin brother, hunchbacked sociopath Vincenzo ‘Il Gobbo’ Marazzi from THE TOUGH ONES. With Milian providing his own characters’ dialogue, it’s a potent odyssey of trans prostitutes, armed robberies, double crosses, randy Albanians, angry cops, insane asylums and some of the most startling pathos and politics in the history of the genre. Isa Danieli (SWEPT AWAY), Guido Leontini (EMERGENCY SQUAD) and Solvi Stubing (STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER) co-star in the long-unseen Lenzi/Milian swansong, now scanned uncut in 2K from the original negative. 

Special Features:

Tomas And Tomas – Interview With Director Umberto Lenzi
He Called Me 'The Tamer' – Interview With Editor Eugenio Alabiso
Music And Bullets – Interview With Composer Franco Micalizzi
Heart Of Rome – Interview With Composer Antonello Venditti
Trailer

Disc Specs:

Aspect ratio: 2.35.1
Audio: English Mono / Italian Mono
Closed Captions / English Subtitles
Region Free
Run time: 99 mins

[halford66]

Pour Five days 4K+the devil's game 42$(!) de port et dispos que chez eux,je vais attendre un peu pour voir une diffusion plus large.