When COVID-19 was closing everything in 2020, Imprint Films, a premium sub-label of Via Vision Entertainment, emerged and physical media in Australia has since been all the better for it.
I think it’s fair to say at say that Imprint Films have not only shored up Australia’s disc-based market but are greatly educating collectors and film aficionados alike with their strong emphasis on cinema history, which has taken on epic physical form with Directed by… Sidney J Furie – a five-film collection each with prominent […]
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If you were a teenage moviegoer in the early 2000s you’ll no doubt remember Monica Bellucci trying to make out with everyone in the Matrix sequels, as the A.I. programmed, Persephone, who was conveniently trying to experience human emotion. Prior to her appearance in the science-fiction mediocrity, the Italian star starred in the erotic drama
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It’s the dead of winter, but Imprint Films have chosen to warm our hearts and minds with the slice-of-life drama My Summer of Love; released last week on Blu-ray at the end of Pride Month. Spine number 229 for those keeping count. Yearning to escape her working classic life, Mona (Natalie Press), finds a kindred
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Twenty years before Spike Lee gave us his unique and colourful take on racial politics in Do the Right Thing, the social drama, Uptight, paved the way for how the plight of minorities can be represented through provocative cinema. Available now on Blu-ray for the first time in over ten years, Imprint Films in Australia
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We’re almost at the three-year-anniversary of Imprint Films, which is 2020, reinvigorated the physical media market in Australia. Earlier this month they raised the bar with their release of The Haunting of Julia (aka Full Circle); a sought-after supernatural horror story starring Mia Farrow. After the tragic death of her daughter, an American woman living
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Possibly one of the most spoiled movies next to The Sixth Sense and The Crying Game; the psychological horror film, Jacob’s Ladder has been dropped onto Blu-ray by Imprint Films, taking fans and physical media collectors alike on a trip like no other. Tim Robbins, the tallest actor to win an Oscar, stars as Vietnam
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Adapted from K.B. Gilden’s novel, Hurry Sundown is a racial pressure cooker set in rural Georgia and with Hollywood heavyweight, Otto Preminger at the helm as director, this epic drama of lust, greed and prejudice, comes to Blu-ray in Australia thanks to Imprint Films, spine number 202. Michael Caine and Jane Fonda star as a
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I don’t know if there was ever a race to give A Rage to Live its first Blu-ray release but Imprint Films has beaten other labels to the punch, as they have numerous times in the past, with a debut that will no doubt inspire forthcoming editions. Suzanne Pleshette stars in this dated social drama
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Before the equally appetising title, Hamburger Hill, there was Pork Chop Hill; a major studio feature that strayed from the tradition of glorifying America’s heroism in World War II in favour of a brief chapter on the Korean War. Imprint Films brought this lesser-known classic to Blu-ray this past December, which details the literal uphill
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With the triumphant return of the Encino Man himself, Brendan Fraser, which the internet is calling the “Brenaissance”, his second future, School Ties has graduated to Blu-ray thanks to Imprint Films and the timing could not have been more perfect. Set in the good old days back in 1959, Fraser plays 17-year-old David Green, a
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