Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954-1975 will be released on October 29 via The Criterion Collection, carrying spine #1000. The Blu-ray box set collects all 15 Godzilla films from Japan’s Showa era across eight discs.
It features: Godzilla (1954), Godzilla Raids Again (1955), King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963), Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964), Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964), Invasion of the Astro-Monster (1965), Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966), Son of Godzilla (1967), Destroy All Monsters (1968), All Monsters Attack (1969), Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971), Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972), Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973), Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974), and Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975).
Godzilla, King of the Monsters - the 1956 American version of Godzilla - is also included, along with both the Japanese and English cuts of King Kong vs. Godzilla.
All 15 films has been digitally transferred in high definition with uncompressed Japanese monaural soundtracks and newly-translated English subtitles. English-dubbed audio is available on Invasion of Astro-Monster, Son of Godzilla, Destroy All Monsters, Godzilla vs. Megalon, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, and Terror of Mechagodzilla.
The set comes with a deluxe, hardcover book featuring an essay by cinema
historian Steve Ryfle, notes on each film by cinema historian Ed
Godziszewski, and new illustrations for each film.
Special features are listed below, where you can also get a look inside the set.
This group of statues of ancient Egyptian pike men was found in the tomb of
Mesehti, a local governor of
Asyut
at the end of the First Intermediate Period and the beginning of the Middle Kingdom.
The group consists of forty soldiers arranged in ten lines. They are colored reddish brown, their strong tan indicating their continuous and elaborate open-air training. They have a tidy hair cut which covers their ears and a very short kilt to facilitate movement, and they carry lances and shields. The artist varied the decorations on the shields to add interest and break up the monotony of the group, and also portrayed them with different facial features and heights to create liveliness. This further accentuated by the eyes which show their alertness and strength. while their representation in parallel lines and advancing their left legs creates a rhythm that imbues the group with still more animation.
Middle Kingdom, 11th Dynasty, around 2000 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
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SRS Cinema will start taking preorders for Reigo: King of the Sea Monsters and Raiga: God of the Monsters on Blu-ray and VHS (!!!) starting tonight (7/25) at 7 PM EST. The whole thing is extremely odd, so I’m just going to post their full announcement:
Two giant new Kaiju are setting their sights on North America via SRS
Cinema – Reigo: Kind of the Sea Monsters; and Raiga: God of the
Monsters. Both will be available on limited edition Bluray and VHS
exclusively at SRS Cinema, with wide release DVD’s coming in Nov. and
(tentatively) Feb via MVD/SRS.
Limited Editions for both titles will be rolled out for presales
starting Thurs, 7/25/19 at 7pm EST (they will show as sold out until
then). They will be limited to 200 Blurays (but see more on that below)
and 50 VHS. The movies will go to replication/duplication around 8/25
with copies expected to ship around Mid-Sept. Each physical media format
– Bluray, DVD and VHS – will have artwork exclusive to that format
only.
On the Blurays, please note these are professionally run BD-R’s via
Discmakers. We have done over 70 limited editions BD-R’s over the past 3
years and they play as good and are as durable as pressed Blurays
(studies show they last as long too). Our Bluray releases have rave
reviews and 1000s of enthusiastic and vocal fans. However, we know some
fans prefer pressed media, so we are proposing this – if the titles can
sell out – ie all 200 units – before we go to replication, we will run
fully pressed Blurays (the limited editions will then expand to 1000
units on Bluray, and that will be the max limit on these, so still very
rare!). So please, pre-order/reserve your copies early and spread the
word to help us achieve these goals!
Anybody know if these will be available through Amazon, or am I going to have to go through these guys’ website? ‘Cause no way I’m passing THIS up.
No, we lived in the blessed timeline, because the creator of a harmless webcomic character that got turned into a meme sued the shit out of neo-nazis for stealing his art and using it to recruit kids to their fucked up ideology.
He also sued to keep a far-right recruitment book for children from being published that tried to use Pepe. If he was ignoring or embracing this use of his characters and letting it happen, then it would be cursed. But instead he’s suing these Nazis and getting their money. Good for him.
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