Sleeping Dogs and Smash Palace now on DVD

The two early New Zealand films of director Roger Donaldson, SLEEPING
DOGS and SMASH PALACE are now available on DVD. Anchor Bay
Entertainment has released a two disc set containing these two films
with restored widescreen, enhanced for 16x9, image and restored Dolby
digital 5.1 surround sound. Additional extras include a 65 minute
documentary "The Making of Sleeping Dogs" and audio commentary with
Roger Donaldson, Sam Neill and Ian Mune; a 51 minute documentary "The
Making of Smash Palace", and audio commentary with Roger Donaldson and
Steve Millen. Bios, poster and still galleries as well as production
"behind-the-scenes" stills and advertising art are included. These
titles are no currently available separately on DVD.

This a an NTSC R1 release and is currently selling for $20 - $30us
from various North American retailers. When searching for it, be sure
to ask for: ROGER DONALDSON COLLECTION for the title search. You
probably won't find it if you search for the film titles. Reviews of
the added material will come at a later date.

Charles
nzvideos.org

 

Finally. Now I will get rid of my Video and laserdisc of these two movies.

Mike
Coming soon! The Summer of 3D (oh well, you will just have to wait and see)

http://hometown.aol.com/kingbman/myhomepage/intro.html

 

Good stuff. I see Goodbye Pork Pie is available in the UK, abeit in 4:3
fullscreen.

I'd like to get that, plus The Scarecrow, Ruby & Rata and User Friendly if
and when they ever get released.

 

All three of those films are available, but so far only on PAL/VHS
(except for Scarecrow which can be found on used NTSC/VHS as well).
New PAL/VHS copies can be purchased from:
http://www.avovideo.co.nz/

Charles

 

Thanks, pity I don't have a VCR any more then, which is why I'm waiting for
DVDs which may never eventuate.

BTW that website wouldn't come up.

 

I'm guessing it should be http://www.arovideo.co.nz/

 

Cheers

 

Yes, my stupid finger hit the v instead of r. That's my excuse and I'm
sticking to it.

Charles