STACK #209 Mar 2022

4K UHD HIGHLIGHTS

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THE GODFATHER TRILOGY A s Francis Ford Coppola’s watershed mob flick The DISCS OF THE MONTH

is represented by both 1990’s The Godfather: Part III (the theatrical and 1991 cuts) and Mario Puzo’s The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone , which is Coppola’s preferred version. The three movies will be joined in the set by a raft of both new and legacy special features, with new content including an ‘Introduction to The Godfather ’ by Coppola, plus several featurettes covering

Godfather celebrates its 50th year, we all get to join in the celebrations as it – and its two sequels – come to 4K Ultra HD. Being billed as “the essential, definitive saga of the Corleone family”, the films have undergone a painstaking restoration and remastering process, overseen by Coppola, that took thousands

1 No Time to Die 2 Eternals 3 Halloween Kills 4 Encanto 5 The Suicide Squad (2021) 6 Venom: Let There Be Carnage 7 The Last Duel 8 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 9 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy 10 Citizen Kane

everything from the painstaking restoration process to home movies captured during the filming of the original movie. Said Coppola of this new re- release: “I am very proud of The Godfather , which certainly defined the first third of my creative life.” Two versions will be released, a standard collection housing all three films, and a special deluxe limited-edition set also featuring a coffee table book and three high-quality art prints. An offer you can’t refuse?

of hours. The result is the trilogy in native 4K, complete with Dolby Vision HDR enhancement and 5.1 audio. What will be of interest to many is that while the set features The Godfather and The Godfather Part II , the third entry in the trilogy

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Recent back catalogue highlights on 4K Ultra HD include Who Framed Roger Rabbit , Mulholland Drive , The Outsiders and Orson Welles’s legendary

ESCAPE FROM L.A. Snake Plissken returns to do to Los Angeles what he did to New York, in this cool futuristic (well, it was upon release in 1996) sequel – surf scene and all! The gang of John Carpenter, Debra Hill and star Kurt Russell are back together, with Snake setting about retrieving a doomsday

YOUR NAME Director Makoto Shinkai’s award-winning 2016 tale is the third highest grossing anime movie ever, and those who’ve seen it will understand why. It’s the story of two teens – one girl, one guy – who forge an incredible, ever-closer connection via

Citizen Kane . Some top-notch collections are also out and about, including Universal Classic Monsters , The Karate Kid trilogy and all five Pirates

of the Caribbean movies in one neat set. More recent cinema hits now on 4K include Candyman , Halloween Kills , No Time to Die , Marvel’s Eternals and Venom: Let There Be Carnage , plus Encanto and Ron’s Gone Wrong for animation fans.

a sudden body swap. Naturally, however, the fun doesn’t last… This beautifully presented collector’s edition comes in a hard case packing a 28-page booklet and four art cards. The vision is HDR enhanced, with both Japanese and English 5.1 soundtracks. Out Mar 9

device after a 9.6 magnitude quake turns L.A. into a pancake. Expect a native 4K transfer that’ll come with Dolby Vision enhancement, accompanied by DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 in the sound department. Out Mar 16

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