The Zone of Interest (2023)

You can be forgiven for the grammatical lapse. Just get it right the next time.

It's actually going to come out in about a month, and it's available exclusively from the A24 website.

So I see. A24 seems to think that I also need a bunch of accessories from The Lighthouse including "Seaman's Soap" and Wickie Oil, whatever the heck THAT is.

OK...latest chapter in this drama. I just checked, this moment, on Amazon and the movie is there in a DVD and Blue Ray version, however, "This will not play on most Blu-ray players sold in North America, Central America, South America, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia."

That proviso covers and awful lot of potential purchasers. I'd love to know what the narrative is on this. It IS streamable on Amazon Prime with a 6$ rent or a 20$ "Buy". The accompanying "Customers Also Watched" has its first three movies as movies about nazis, including Hitler's Children, interviews with kids of well known nazis.

What the heck is going on here.

It's not very hard (or expensive) to get a player that can handle all regions.

I'll probably just wait a while. Sooner or later, whatever is going on here will probably resolve. It is a strange story and I'm as interested in the machinations as I am in the movie.

What's to resolve? It's gonna be an A24 exclusive here in the US, and it is also available from other countries but those are region-locked.

Once A24 makes a movie available on disc exclusively through their website, it isn't going to get any other release, at least domestically.

Here's the Variety scuttlebutt; it seems as though political statements, right or wrong, have a way of blowing back in the face of the person making the statement. You're probably safer at just thanking the Academy, especially since rich producers, directors and actors identifying with the oppressed in front of an audience of similarly well-dressed celebrities does come off as cringeworthy, self-inflating and opportunistic, a "let them eat cake" kind of statement - https://variety.com/2024/film/news/j...er-1235944880/

I had already read about that, I just don't see any evidence that conclusively proves that's got to do anything with the home video release. A24 has released a lot of its movies exclusively through their website, it's not like this is anything new.

You need a multi-region dvd player. Not expensive at all.

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I don't think I'm going to buy a new player to see one movie. My guess is that A 24 will have to decide whether they want people to see their movies. Telling them that they need a new player is probably not the best way to do that. At some point I will probably stream it, but right at this moment, having known a couple people who were actually there and with nobody in my house who wants to see it, a Holocaust movie is low on my list.

I don't get the whole A 24 thing if that's what it is. I do have a regular copy of The Lighthouse and it works fine. It also seems as though there's some seriously acrimonious conflict between Glazer and some Hollywood insiders due to his Oscar comments. I have no idea how all that will play out.

I’m going to see if my local movie rental has a copy. I can’t see how it won’t get a physical release for region A, no matter the controversy.

Why do y'all keep on going as though the movie isn't getting released in the US? Already posted that it's coming out next month

Settle down, that’s not what is happening here

The special feature interview with Aleksandra on the DVD has more emotion and meaning than the actual feature film does in my opinion...

Finally. A movie from the 2020s that sounds worth watching!

If you're seeing a "Playback Region B/2 : This will not play on most Blu-ray players sold in North America" message on the page on Amazon, that means it's an import from another country and it's not the disc A24 is putting out in the US (put out? I don't recall ever seeing the US one for sale and it's listed as Sold Out on their site). It's not uncommon for vendors to buy blu-rays from overseas and then sell them on Amazon's US site. Or sometimes overseas vendors actually list them on the US site.
I think the one I'm seeing on Amazon is a disc that came out of Australia(?), based on the image/studio listed.
Zone of Interest - Madman

I am however, unfamiliar with A24 exclusively putting a disc out to a degree that other shopping sites don't sell it, and never recall seeing the US disc being listed as being for sale. But maybe there are examples I don't remember.

It was a bit dull and drab.

Wow, this is brilliant.
I've not watched Poorer Things yet, but I'd be very surprised if this is not film of the decade to date.

I ended up giving it like an 8.5-8.75.
I loved the idea of eco-friendly nazis from middle class suburbia early on in the movie.
I enjoyed it less as it became more of a horror and less of an oddity.
I also felt that the character of the male actually changed (rather than seeing him in a different light with the different fact of his life), which was kind of cheating a bit.
A very interesting idea though, and an insight into how crazy they went and the horrors of what they did.
Although it obviously wasn't the intention, I thought it was very close to being on the border of black comedy at points, which would obviously be grossly inappropriate.
I loved the infra red shots which was stunning and something I'd not seen before in a movie, albeit I couldn't work out who the person was in them or what she was doing.
I'm undecided on the overall Netflix 'look'. The pictures are great, but there's just something 'is this a movie or is it a Netflix series' about it.
An interesting film that was very effective to an extent.