Tuesday, 5 May 2015

JFK (1991)

Directed by Oliver Stone and starring Kevin Costner, Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones, 
Gary Oldman, Joe Pesci, Michael Rooker, Sissy Spacek, Laurie Metcalf, Jack Lemmon, 
Walter Matthau, John Candy and Donald Sutherland.


2-disc Director's Cut DVD bought in 2003

Director's Cut Steelbook Blu-ray bought in 2013
205m 48s






 DVD







Blu-ray extras - 

Audio commentary by director/writer/producer Oliver Stone
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy (90mins)
Deleted / extended scenes (55mins)
Alternate ending
Multimedia essays
Theatrical trailer

Backdraft (1991)

Directed by Ron Howard and starring Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay and Donald Sutherland.


2-disc Special Edition DVD bought in 2006

Blu-ray bought in 2012
137m17s





 DVD






Blu-ray extras -

Ron Howard Introduction
Deleted Scenes (43mins)
Igniting the Story (15mins)
Bringing Together the Team (19mins)
The Explosive Stunts (15mins)
Creating the Villain: The Fire (13mins)
Real Life Firemen, Real Life Stories (9mins)

Cape Fear (1991)

Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, 
Joe Don Baker, Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck.


2-disc Special Edition DVD bought in 2008

Blu-ray bought in 2014
127m 45s





 DVD





Blu-ray extras - 

The Making of Cape Fear (80mins)
Behind the Scenes of the July 4th Parade
On the Set of the Houseboat
Photograph Montage
Deleted Scenes
Mattte Paintings
Opening Credits
Theatrical Trailer

Bugsy (1991)

Directed by Barry Levinson and starring Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, 
Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould and Joe Mantegna.


2-disc Special Edition DVD bought in 2009
143m 12s







The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel (90mins)
Bugsy Siegel's Screen Test with Warren Beatty
Deleted Scenes

Billy Bathgate (1991)

Directed by Robert Benton and starring Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis, Steven Hill and Stanley Tucci.


DVD bought in 2005
106m 33s






No extras

Sunday, 3 May 2015

Goodfellas (1990)

Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco 
and Paul Sorvino.



2-disc Special Edition DVD bought in 2004
Blu-ray bought in 2011
2-disc 4k Remastered Blu-ray bought in 2015
145m 27s






Blu-ray




 DVD






2-disc Blu-ray extras - 

Audio Commentary with Martin Scorsese, Ray Liotta, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, and Frank Vincent, co-screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, producers Irwin Winkler and Barbara De Fina, cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, and editor Thelma Schoomaker
Audio Commentary with former mobster Henry Hill and former FBI agent Edward McDonald
Scorsese's Goodfellas (30mins)
Getting Made (30mins)
The Workaday Gangster (8mins)
Made Me: The GoodFellas Legacy (14mins)
Paper Is Cheaper Than Film
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (106mins)
Animated Shorts -
- I Like Mountain Music
- She Was an Acrobat's Daughter
- Racketeer Rabbit
- Bugs and Thugs
Theatrical Trailer
36 Page Collector's Book

The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Directed by John McTiernan and starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Richard Jordan, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill, Tim Curry and Joss Ackland.


Blu-ray bought in 2013
135m 08s






Audio commentary by director John McTiernan
Beneath the Surface (29mins)
Theatrical trailer