Collector’s box on the horizon: Severin assembles hours of video extras and text illumination for another group of films featuring favorite actor Christopher Lee. The roundup of titles bookends his career as a screen vampire, with one of Lee’s earliest vampire roles and also his last turn as Count Dracula. Looming large on the academic side of Severin’s research are experts and biographers Kat Ellinger, Barry Forshaw, Troy Howarth, Kim Newman, Nathaniel Thompson and Jonathan Rigby, who also contributes a hundred-page book.
The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection 2
Blu-ray
Uncle Was a Vampire, The Secret of the Red Orchid, Dark Places, Dracula and Son, Murder Story
Severin Films
1959-1989 / Color / 2:39 widescreen, 1:66 widescreen, 1:85 widescreen
Street Date July 26, 2022
Available from Severin Films / 134.95
Starring alphabetically: Marie Hélène Breillat, Catherine Breillat, Joan Collins, Robert Hardy, Adrian Hoven, Klaus Kinski, Sylva Koscina, Herbert Lom, Susanne Loret, Jean Marsh, Marisa Mell,...
The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection 2
Blu-ray
Uncle Was a Vampire, The Secret of the Red Orchid, Dark Places, Dracula and Son, Murder Story
Severin Films
1959-1989 / Color / 2:39 widescreen, 1:66 widescreen, 1:85 widescreen
Street Date July 26, 2022
Available from Severin Films / 134.95
Starring alphabetically: Marie Hélène Breillat, Catherine Breillat, Joan Collins, Robert Hardy, Adrian Hoven, Klaus Kinski, Sylva Koscina, Herbert Lom, Susanne Loret, Jean Marsh, Marisa Mell,...
- 7/16/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
May 31st sees the release of The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection 2 from Severin Films, bringing more cult classic Christopher Lee films to Blu-ray, including Uncle Was a Vampire and Dracula and Son! We have all the details below, along with a trailer, and a look at the box set artwork:
The Eurocrypt Of Christopher Lee Collection 2
To celebrate the centennial of the legendary actor, Eurocrypt Collection 2 presents five of the most unexpected, underrated and underseen films of the iconic actor’s European career. Immediately following Horror Of Dracula, Lee reprised the role in the quirky 1959 Italian comedy Uncle Was A Vampire. Lee speaks fluent German opposite Klaus Kinski for the crazed 1962 krimi Secret Of The Red Orchid. In the 1974 UK psycho-thriller Dark Places, Lee toplines a cast that includes Joan Collins, Herbert Lom and Jane Birkin. Lee’s final performance as The Count in the 1976 French comedy Dracula And Son...
The Eurocrypt Of Christopher Lee Collection 2
To celebrate the centennial of the legendary actor, Eurocrypt Collection 2 presents five of the most unexpected, underrated and underseen films of the iconic actor’s European career. Immediately following Horror Of Dracula, Lee reprised the role in the quirky 1959 Italian comedy Uncle Was A Vampire. Lee speaks fluent German opposite Klaus Kinski for the crazed 1962 krimi Secret Of The Red Orchid. In the 1974 UK psycho-thriller Dark Places, Lee toplines a cast that includes Joan Collins, Herbert Lom and Jane Birkin. Lee’s final performance as The Count in the 1976 French comedy Dracula And Son...
- 3/31/2022
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Italian writer, poet and film-maker who adapted and directed his own novels for the screen
The distinguished Italian novelist, poet and film-maker Alberto Bevilacqua has died aged 79. Bevilacqua was one of the most respected new Italian writers of the 1960s and won fame with two novels, both of which he adapted and directed successfully for the screen: La Califfa (The Lady Caliph), published in 1964 and filmed in 1970, and Questa Specie d'Amore (This Kind of Love), published in 1966 and filmed in 1972.
Bevilacqua was born in Parma and raised in a poor family. In his youth he wrote the novel Una Città in Amore (City of Love), which was reworked and published much later, about his adolescence in Parma and how he and his family took part in the Resistance movement. In 1955 he wrote a book of stories about local life in Parma, La Polvere sull'Erba (Dust in the grass), which was...
The distinguished Italian novelist, poet and film-maker Alberto Bevilacqua has died aged 79. Bevilacqua was one of the most respected new Italian writers of the 1960s and won fame with two novels, both of which he adapted and directed successfully for the screen: La Califfa (The Lady Caliph), published in 1964 and filmed in 1970, and Questa Specie d'Amore (This Kind of Love), published in 1966 and filmed in 1972.
Bevilacqua was born in Parma and raised in a poor family. In his youth he wrote the novel Una Città in Amore (City of Love), which was reworked and published much later, about his adolescence in Parma and how he and his family took part in the Resistance movement. In 1955 he wrote a book of stories about local life in Parma, La Polvere sull'Erba (Dust in the grass), which was...
- 9/15/2013
- by John Francis Lane
- The Guardian - Film News
Rome – Italian producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori, whose productions include three Oscar winners, was sentenced to six years behind bars and ordered to pay €11.5 million ($15.6 million) in damages Friday in connection with the with the bankruptcy of his Safin Cinematografica, his production firm. Cecchi Gori, 70, the son of late Italian production legend Mario Cecchi Gori, has produced nearly 200 films on his own or together with his father. His credits include three Oscar winners: Gabriele Salvatores’ Meditrraneo from 1991, Michael Radford’s Il Postino (The Postman) from 1994, and Roberto Benigni’s La Vita e’ Bella (Life
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- 2/1/2013
- by Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Massimo Troisi collapsed due to a serious heart condition three days into filming Il Postino. It came down to me whether he should continue
It is almost 17 years since the death of Massimo Troisi, the star of my film Il Postino, yet he is as present in my life as he was when he lived. There was nothing overtly Neapolitan about him, except for his accent, which was so thick it took me months to understand. That amused him a lot.
Practically his entire life was marked by illness. He'd contracted rheumatic fever, the illness of the poor, when he was young, and it had damaged his heart. After a quadruple bypass when he was 19, he knew that sooner or later he was going to need a heart transplant. He bore it without complaint. But it gave him a profundity at a young age that gave his humour a real meaning.
It is almost 17 years since the death of Massimo Troisi, the star of my film Il Postino, yet he is as present in my life as he was when he lived. There was nothing overtly Neapolitan about him, except for his accent, which was so thick it took me months to understand. That amused him a lot.
Practically his entire life was marked by illness. He'd contracted rheumatic fever, the illness of the poor, when he was young, and it had damaged his heart. After a quadruple bypass when he was 19, he knew that sooner or later he was going to need a heart transplant. He bore it without complaint. But it gave him a profundity at a young age that gave his humour a real meaning.
- 3/31/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Rome -- Beleaguered Italian move producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori, still searching for his first hit film since the start of the decade, said Thursday his next film will be about hunting.
Cecchi Gori, who produced Oscar winners "Mediterraneo," "Il Postino," and "La Vita e Bella," has been hounded by a host of financial and legal problems for several years. He has slowed from making an average of 10 films a year during his heyday in the 1990s to a total of just two since the end of 2005.
But the son of famed producer Mario Cecchi Gori said he is eyeing a comeback this year. He is a co-producer on Kirk Jones just-completed adventure comedy "Everybody's Fine" (which stars Robert De Niro and Drew Barrymore), while "El baile de la Victoria," a Spanish-language dance drama from Fernando Trueda, is in post-production.
He said his next film will be "La Dea della Caccia...
Cecchi Gori, who produced Oscar winners "Mediterraneo," "Il Postino," and "La Vita e Bella," has been hounded by a host of financial and legal problems for several years. He has slowed from making an average of 10 films a year during his heyday in the 1990s to a total of just two since the end of 2005.
But the son of famed producer Mario Cecchi Gori said he is eyeing a comeback this year. He is a co-producer on Kirk Jones just-completed adventure comedy "Everybody's Fine" (which stars Robert De Niro and Drew Barrymore), while "El baile de la Victoria," a Spanish-language dance drama from Fernando Trueda, is in post-production.
He said his next film will be "La Dea della Caccia...
- 5/21/2009
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rome -- Oscar-winning Italian film producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori, who was released from legal custody Tuesday, on Friday proclaimed his innocence and attacked his critics and the Italian justice system as biased against him.
In a scathing 40-minute diatribe in his private cinema in Rome's Renaissance-era Palazzo Borghese, Cecchi Gori, 68, blasted the investigators making the legal case against him, lawyers, the media, and the criminal justice system.
"In Italy, it takes five minutes to be accused and five years to be proved innocent," he told a packed crowd of journalists.
Flanked by four of his attorneys and, briefly, by his off-again-on-again girlfriend, 41-year-old showgirl Valeria Marini, Cecchi Gori said he was more appreciated in the U.S. than in Italy, and said he is demonized in Italy because few in the country understand the creative process.
"Everyone on the street thinks they can make movies, and so they think people...
In a scathing 40-minute diatribe in his private cinema in Rome's Renaissance-era Palazzo Borghese, Cecchi Gori, 68, blasted the investigators making the legal case against him, lawyers, the media, and the criminal justice system.
"In Italy, it takes five minutes to be accused and five years to be proved innocent," he told a packed crowd of journalists.
Flanked by four of his attorneys and, briefly, by his off-again-on-again girlfriend, 41-year-old showgirl Valeria Marini, Cecchi Gori said he was more appreciated in the U.S. than in Italy, and said he is demonized in Italy because few in the country understand the creative process.
"Everyone on the street thinks they can make movies, and so they think people...
- 10/11/2008
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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