The Big Region 2 Update for the UK

And now I present you with the UK DVD/Blu-ray update. I would also like to refer you to my previous two posts about UK discs this year (here and here) as I tried not to repeat any of those. The code is as follows: Not available or announced for the US as of today. Also available on Blu-ray. All are subject to delays or cancellations, and the Blu-ray only releases are at the bottom. Now onto better things...

* Entranced Earth [Terra em Transe] - d. Glauber Rocha - 23 February - Mr. Bongo Films
* Das Experiment [The Experiment] - d. Oliver Hirschbiegel - 4 May - in2film - w. Mortiz Bleibtreu
* Año uña [Year of the Nail] - d. Jónas Cuarón - 11 May - Unanimous Pictures
* A Letter to True - d. Bruce Weber - 11 May - Metrodome - w. Weber, Julie Christie, Marianne Faithfull
* Broken Noses - d. Bruce Weber - 11 May - Metrodome
* Chicken Ranch - d. Nick Broomfield - 18 May - in2film
* How to Be - d. Oliver Irving - 18 May - Network - w. Robert Pattinson,
* Central Bazaar - d. Stephen Dwoskin - 25 May - BFI

* The Last of the Crazy People [Le dernier des fous] - d. Laurent Achard - 25 May - Peccadillo Pictures
* High Hopes - d. Mike Leigh - 25 May - in2film
* Evergreen - d. Victor Saville - 25 May - Network
* There Goes the Bride - d. Albert de Courville - 25 May - Network
* The State of Things [Der Stand der Dinge] - d. Wim Wenders - 25 May - Axiom - w. Patrick Bauchau, Viva, Samuel Fuller, Roger Corman
* Tokyo! - d. Leos Carax, Bong Joon-ho, Michel Gondry - 25 May - Optimum Releasing - w. Denis Lavant, Sohee Park
* Martyrs - d. Pascal Laugier - 25 May - Optimum Releasing - w. Mylène Jampanï, Morgane Alaoui, Catherine Bégin - also on Blu-ray
* Boccaccio '70 - d. Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Luchino Visconti - 1 June - Mr. Bongo Films - w. Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider

* Marriage Italian Style [Matrimonio all'italiana] - d. Vittorio De Sica - 1 June - Mr. Bongo Films - w. Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
* Goto, l'île d'amour - d. Walerian Borowczyk - 1 June - Nouveaux Pictures
* Nightwatch [Nattevagten] - d. Ole Bornedal - 8 June - in2film - w. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
* The List of Adrian Messenger - d. John Huston - 8 June - in2film - w. Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas, George C. Scott
* Last House on the Left - d. Wes Craven - 8 June - in2film
* 800 Bullets [800 balas] - d. Álex de la Iglesia - 8 June - in2film - w. Carmen Maura, Eusebio Poncela
* Drifting Flowers - d. Zero Chou - 8 June - TLA Releasing
* Dead Girl - d. Marcel Sarmiento, Gadi Harel - 8 June - Metrodome

* James' Journey [James' Journey to Jerusalem] - d. Ra'anan Alexandrowicz - 8 June - HB Films
* Viy [Spirit of Evil] - d. Georgi Kropachyov, Aleksandr Ptushko, Konstantin Yershov - 8 June - HB Films
* Être et avoir [To Be and to Have] - d. Nicolas Phillibert - 8 June - Artificial Eye
* Freefall - d. Dominic Savage - 8 June - BBC Films - w. Aidan Gillen
* Aria - d. Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, Bill Bryden, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Charles Sturridge, Julien Temple - 15 June - Second Sight - w. Elizabeth Hurley, Theresa Russell, Bridget Fonda, Beverly D'Angelo, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt
* Anvil! The Story of Anvil - d. Sacha Gervasi - 15 June - Universal - also on Blu-ray
* In the City of Sylvia [Dans la ville de Sylvia / En la ciudad de Sylvia] - d. José Luis Guerín - 22 June - Axiom - w. Pilar López de Ayala
* This Filthy Earth - d. Andrew Kotting - 22 June - BFI

* Brief Encounter - d. Alan Bridges - 22 June - Network - w. Richard Burton, Sophia Loren
* Anchoress - d. Chris Newby - 22 June - BFI
* Franklyn - d. Gerald McMorrow - 22 June - Contender - w. Eva Green, Sam Riley, Ryan Phillippe
* Nine Men - d. Harry Watt - 22 June - Optimum Releasing
* A Hill in Korea [Hell in Korea] - d. Julian Amyes - 22 June - Optimum Releasing
* Love and Honour - d. Yôji Yamada - 22 June - ICA Projects
* Campbell's Kingdom - d. Ralph Thomas - 22 June - Network - w. Dirk Bogarde
* Wonderful Town - d. Aditya Assarat - 29 June - Soda Pictures

* The Red Shoes - d. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger - 29 June - ITV - also on Blu-ray
* Thief - d. Michael Mann - 29 June - Optimum Releasing - w. James Caan, Tuesday Weld
* Rachel Getting Married - d. Jonathan Demme - 29 June - Sony - w. Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt - also on Blu-ray
* Flame & Citron [Flammen & Citronen] - d. Ole Christian Madsen - 29 June - Metrodome - w. Mads Mikkelsen
* The Coffin Joe Trilogy [At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul / This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse / Awakening of the Beast] - d. José Mojica Marins - 6 July - Anchor Bay
* Lisbon Story - d. Wim Wenders - 6 July - Axiom - w. Rüdiger Volger, Patrick Bauchau
* The Scarlet Tunic - d. Stuart St. Paul - 6 July - Bluebell Films - w. Simon Callow, Jean-Marc Barr
* The Innocent Sleep - d. Scott Michell - 6 July - Bluebell Films - w. Annabella Sciorra, Michael Gambon, Rupert Graves, John Hannah

* Blind Loves [Slepe lásky] - d. Juraj Lehotsky - 6 July - ICA Projects
* Meatball Machine - d. Yudai Yamaguchi, Jun'ichi Yamamoto - 6 July - 4Digital Asia
* Bronson - d. Nicolas Winding Refn - 6 July - Vertigo Films - w. Tom Hardy - also on Blu-ray
* Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts - d. Scott Hicks - 6 July - Drakes Avenue
* Little Ashes - d. Paul Morrison - 6 July - Spirit Entertainment - w. Robert Pattinson
* Dream Boy - d. James Bolton - 6 July - Peccadillo Pictures
* Three Monkeys [Üç maymun] - d. Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 6 July - Drakes Avenue
* The Young Victoria - d. Jean-Marc Vallée - 13 July - Momentum - w. Emily Blunt, Jim Broadbent, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Friend - also on Blu-ray

* Brute Force - d. Jules Dassin - 13 July - Arrow Films - w. Burt Lancaster
* Separation - d. Jack Bond - 13 July - BFI - w. Jane Arden - also on Blu-ray
* The Other Side of Underneath - d. Jane Arden - 13 July - BFI - also on Blu-ray
* Anti-Clock - d. Jane Arden, Jack Bond - 13 July - BFI - also on Blu-ray
* High Art - d. Lisa Cholodenko - 13 July - TLA Releasing - w. Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, Patricia Clarkson
* Diminished Capacity - d. Terry Kinney - 20 July - Paramount - w. Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen, Alan Alda
* Pedro - d. Nick Oceano - 20 July - Metrodome
* Diary for My Children [Napló gyermekeimnek] - d. Márta Mészáros - 20 July - Second Run

* Manolete - d. Menno Meyjes - 20 July - Metrodome - w. Adrien Brody, Penélope Cruz
* Robert Mitchum Collection [El Dorado / Track of the Cat / Five Card Stud] - d. Howard Hawks / William A. Wellman / Henry Hathaway - Paramount
* The Hal Hartley Collection [Trust / Henry Fool / The Girl from Monday] - d. Hal Hartley - 27 July - Artificial Eye - w. Martin Donovan, Adrienne Shelley, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey, Thomas Jay Ryan - available individually or as a set
* Hear My Song - d. Peter Chelsom - 27 July - Film4
* Modern Life [Profils paysans: La vie moderne] - d. Raymond Depardon - 27 July - Soda Pictures
* Il divo - d. Paolo Sorrentino - 27 July - Artificial Eye - w. Toni Servillo
* Gerry - d. Gus Van Sant - 27 July - Film4 - w. Matt Damon, Casey Affleck
* Close My Eyes - d. Stephen Poliakoff - 27 July - Film4 - w. Alan Rickman, Clive Owen, Saskia Reeves

* Comrades - d. Bill Douglas - 27 July - BFI - w. Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, Keith Allen, Imelda Staunton - also on Blu-ray
* Penny Points to Paradise / Let's Go Crazy - d. Anthony Young / Alan Cullimore - 27 July - BFI - w. Peter Sellers - also on Blu-ray
* Let the Right One In [Låt den rätte komma in] - d. Tomas Alfredson - 3 August - Momentum
* The Damned United - d. Tom Hooper - 3 August - Sony - also on Blu-ray
* O' Horten - d. Bent Hamer - 10 August - Artificial Eye
* Streets of Blood - d. Charles Winkler - 10 August - Momentum - w. Sharon Stone, 50 Cent, Val Kilmer
* Hannie Caulder - d. Burt Kennedy - 24 August - Odeon - w. Raquel Welch, Ernest Borgnine, Christopher Lee

* Shifty - d. Eran Creevy - 24 August - Metrodome
* Gimme Shelter - d. Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin - 1 September - Warner
* Fifty Dead Men Walking - d. Kari Skogland - 7 September - Metrodome - w. Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, Natalie Press, Rose McGowan
* Presque rien [Come Undone / Almost Nothing] - d. Sébastien Lifshitz - 28 September - Peccadillo Pictures - w. Jérémie Elkaïm, Stéphane Rideau, Dominique Reymond
* Not Forgotten - d. Dror Soref - 28 September - Anchor Bay - w. Paz Vega, Simon Baker - also on Blu-ray
* Ip Man - d. Wilson Yip - 26 October - Shadowbox - w. Donnie Yen, Simon Yam - also on Blu-ray
* Greek Pete - d. Andrew Haigh - 26 October - Peccadillo Pictures

Blu-ray only releases

* The Italian Job - d. Peter Collinson - 15 June - Paramount - w. Michael Caine
* Withnail and I - d. Bruce Robinson - 15 June - Anchor Bay - w. Richard E. Grant
* The Motorcycle Diaries [Diarios de motocicleta] - d. Walter Salles - June 15 - Film4 - w. Gael García Bernal
* East Is East - d. Damien O'Donnell - 15 June - Film4
* The Long Good Friday - d. John Mackenzie - 15 June - Anchor Bay - w. Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren
* In the Shadow of the Moon - d. David Sington - 15 June - Film4

* Hellraiser - d. Clive Barker - 15 June - Anchor Bay
* Junebug - d. Phil Morrison - 22 June - Eureka - w. Embeth Davidtz, Amy Adams, Alessandra Nivola
* Bill Douglas Trilogy - d. Bill Douglas - 27 July - BFI
* Gangster No. 1 - d. Paul McGuigan - 27 July - Film4 - w. Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany, Saffron Burrows
* Blue Thunder - d. John Badham - 3 August - Sony - w. Roy Scheider
* Wolf - d. Mike Nichols - 19 October - Sony - w. Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader