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Night of the Cobra Woman
BD - From legendary producer
Roger Corman comes a drive-in horror classic! After being bitten
by a very unusual cobra, a beautiful nurse (Marlene Clark) can
turn herself into a snake and remain eternally young. However,
to keep her youthful exterior, the cursed priestess requires a
steady supply of venom -- and lusty young men at her beck and
call to steal their youth! But trouble occurs when she falls for
the boyfriend of a beautiful snake expert (Joy Bang), and he
brings along a pet eagle. Can she make a choice between a mortal
male and her cobra god Movini? Now watch this long-unavailable
cult classic from a brand new HD master from the original vault
elements! Blu-ray Release Date:
January, 2018
The Hot Rock
BD - The Hot Rock
(1972) is a clever caper film with multiple capers, but all
focused on a single, elusive object: the Sahara Stone, long a
hot potato between two African countries, now about to be
snagged out of its spot at the Brooklyn Museum by a quartet of
capable but luckless thieves. The extraordinary cast is led by
Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, and Paul Sand,
supported by the dazzling likes of Moses Gunn and Zero Mostel.
Adapted from one of Donald Westlake’s delightful John Dortmunder
novels by the singular William Goldman, the film is directed
with panache by the great Peter Yates, and features a
sensational Quincy Jones score. Blu-ray
Release Date: August, 2018
Silent Scream
BD - Too late to register
for on-campus housing, Scotty (Rebecca Balding) must seek
housing off-campus. After the montage of substandard rooms and
eccentric landlords, Scotty ends up at the seaside Victorian
mansion of Mrs. Engels (Yvonne De Carlo) and her tightly-wound
son Mason (Brad Reardon) along with three other college
students. No sooner are they settled in then one of their number
(the drunk, playboy jerk) is savagely murdered on the nearby
beach by a butcher knife-wielding killer. The police turn up no
leads but the truth may be lurking between the walls of the old
mansion watching the coeds through the vents.
Blu-ray Release Date: September,
2017
The Hired Hand
BD - The film opens with
three drifters greeting the morning by cavorting in a
sun-dabbled mountain river. Harry Collings (Fonda) catches a
fish and gives it to Arch Harris (Warren Oates) who grills it
over a low fire, while Dan (Robert Pratt) -- the youngest of the
three -- bathes in the swift moving current. Later, as they head
into Del Norte, a small town in the middle of nowhere, Dan talks
breathlessly about going to California while Collings suddenly
decides to return home after a seven-year absence. After Dan
runs afoul of a group of unsavory characters lead by McVey
(Severn Darden), Collings vows vengeance for the lad's death and
blows off McVey's feet. Collings and Harris bury Dan and flee
from the town riding hundreds of miles to Collings' homestead.
Blu-ray Release Date: September
18th, 2018
Aloha Bobby and Rose
BD - Bobby has a new '68
Camaro and a dead-end job. Rose has a young son and a nowhere
life. One night, they meet, fall in love and share a dream of
leaving the seedy side of Hollywood for the easy life of Hawaii.
But when an innocent prank goes tragically wrong, Bobby and Rose
are on the run from the law and for their lives. As they take to
the highway, they find that paradise is just out of reach...and
that aloha can also mean goodbye.
Blu-ray Release Date: April 17th, 2017
Go Tell the Spartans
BD - Go Tell the Spartans is
set in Vietnam during that period in which American troops were
euphemistically termed "advisors." Reluctantly dispensing much
of that advice is veteran American major Asa Barker (Burt
Lancaster). Though he knows what works and what doesn't on the
battlefield, Barker is obliged to carry out the go-nowhere
policies of the American military brass. His current objective
is a woebegone, barely crucial outpost, which he must defend
with a handful of green soldiers and end-of-tether Vietnamese
militiamen. Blu-ray Release
Date: December 5th, 2017
Miss Leslie's Dolls
BD - A rare specimen from
the more deranged end of the Grindhouse spectrum, Miss Leslie's
Dolls is a memorably demented tale of possession and
transvestitism from director Joseph G. Prieto (who, if rumour is
to be believed, under the name Joseph P. Mawra directed the
outrageous 1965 lesbian sexploitation "documentary" Chained
Girls). Believed lost for decades...
Blu-ray Release Date: September 3rd, 2018
Scenes From a Marriage
BD - Scenes from a Marriage
chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne
and Johan, tracking their relationship through matrimony,
infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partnerships. Originally
conceived by director Ingmar Bergman as a five-hour, six-part
television miniseries, the film is also presented in its
three-hour theatrical cut. Shot largely in intense, intimate
close-ups by cinematographer Sven Nykvist and featuring flawless
performances by Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson, Bergman’s
emotional X-ray reveals the deep joys and pains of a complex
bond. Blu-ray Release Date:
September 4th, 2018
A Man Escaped
BD - With the simplest of
concepts and sparest of techniques, Robert Bresson (Au
hasard Balthazar) made one of the most
suspenseful jailbreak films of all time in A Man Escaped.
Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader,
this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the
fictional Fontaine’s single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing
the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping
precision. But Bresson’s film is not merely process-minded—it’s
a work of intense spirituality and humanity. Artificial Eye
Blu-ray Release Date: September
3rd, 2018
Edward II
BD - Two years before
director Derek Jarman died of AIDS, he directed this extremely
ambitious variation on Christopher Marlowe's 16th-century play.
While Marlowe is the root of this film, Jarman has taken a great
deal of leeway with the manner of presentation. The story
revolves around King Edward's open homosexuality, which
eventually led to his murder and succession. Instead of lush
historical settings, the film uses bare walls and dirt floors
and puts the cast into smart suits. This "staginess" works to
the advantage of Jarman's design, and he takes every opportunity
to anachronize. (For example, Annie Lennox shows up to provide a
lovely rendition of Cole Porter's "Every Time We Say Goodbye.")
A striking film, and a high point of Jarman's career.
Blu-ray Release Date: June 12th,
2018
Zama
BD - Lucrecia Martel's first film in 10 years
premiered in Venice 2017 to huge acclaim. Zama, an officer of
the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from
the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is,
to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure
that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept
submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors
who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the
letter from the King never arrives. When Zama notices everything
is lost, he joins a party of soldiers that go after a dangerous
bandit. It is adapted from Antonio di Benedetto's 1956 classic
of Argentinean literature, recently translated into English.
Blu-ray Release Date: August 7th,
2018
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
BD - Praised by Japanese
film critics and much admired by his contemporaries Akira
Kurosawa and Yasujirô Ozu, Tomu Uchida nonetheless remains a
little-known in the west. His 1955 masterpiece Bloody Spear
at Mount Fuji is an excellent entry point for the newcomer.
Set during the Edo period, Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji is a
tragicomic road movie of sorts, following a samurai, his two
servants including spear-carrier Genpachi (Chiezô Kataoka) and
the various people they meet on their journey, including a
policeman in pursuit of a thief, a young child and a woman who
is to be sold into prostitution.
Blu-ray Release Date: September 3rd-4th, 2018
A Raisin in the Sun
BD - Lorraine Hansberry’s
immortal A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a
black woman to be performed on Broadway. Two years later, the
production came to the screen, directed by Daniel Petrie. The
original stars—including Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee—reprise
their roles as members of an African American family living in a
cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of
dreams deferred. The Youngers await a life-insurance check they
hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over
how to use the money. Vividly rendering Hansberry’s sharp
observations on generational conflict and housing
discrimination, Petrie’s film captures the high stakes, shifting
currents, and varieties of experience within black life in
midcentury America. Blu-ray
Release Date: September 25th, 2018
Surf Nazis Must Die
BD - Troma Entertainment,
the company behind such classics as THE TOXIC AVENGER,
really outdid themselves with the 1987 cult classic SURF
NAZIS MUST DIE. Set in a futuristic California hell-hole, in
which an apocalyptic natural disaster has left the iconic
Baywatch-perfect beaches of Malibu and Venice as gang-lands,
various parties battle one another in an attempt to control the
sand and sea of this former West Coast paradise. This is sex,
surf and splatter in a sordid sci-fi setting and thirty years
after it first gained the attention of video shop loyalists and
marginal movie followers, SURF NAZIS MUST DIE is back to
brutalize a new generation of fright-fans!
Blu-ray Release Date: August 27th,
2018
Suffering of Ninko - Ninko,
a diligent young Buddhist monk, has a serious problem: women
(and some men) find him sexually irresistible. After a troubling
encounter with a naked masked woman, he sets out on a journey to
purify himself of these sexual advances and haunting fantasies.
One day, he arrives in a village decimated by a rapacious
mountain Goddess, Yama-Onna, who seduces and kills all the men
of the valley... whereby Ninko has met his match. This erotic
fantasy set in Japan's Edo period blends sumptuous live action
and comical folktale-esque storytelling with ukiyo-e (Japanese
woodblock printing) and mandala-style animated sequences. DVD
Release Date: August 14th, 2018
Lou Andreas-Salome, The Audacity To Be
Free - Lou Andreas-Salomé, the woman who
enraptured 19thcentury Europe s greatest minds, recounts her
life to a young admirer.In her youth, she scandalized society by
pursuing an education and living a life free from convention.
She befriended philosophers Paul Rée and Friedrich Nietzsche,
denying them both an intimate relationship so as to remain their
equal. As a published author and lecturer, she met the poet
Rainer Maria Rilke who became one of her lovers, while she
maintained a platonic marriage with another man. In her
maturity, she gained another admirer in Sigmund Freud and, with
him, helped to develop psychoanalysis becoming its first female
practitioner. DVD Release Date: July 31st, 2018
My Life With James Dean -
Invited to present his first feature film My Life With James
Dean in Normandy, the young director Géraud Champreux has no
idea this film tour is about to change his life. From wild
stampedes to woeful screenings, from trawler trips to drunken
evenings, Géraud ends up finding inspiration in an unlikely town
at the end of the Earth. DVD Release Date: August 28th, 2018
The Workshop - La Ciotat,
the South of France. Antoine attends a summer writing workshop
in which a few young people have been selected to write a crime
thriller with the help of Olivia, a famous novelist. The
creative process will recall the town's industrial past, a form
of nostalgia to which Antoine feels indifferent. More concerned
with the fears of the modern world, the young man soon clashes
with the group and Olivia, who seems at the same time alarmed
and captivated by Antoine's violence. DVD Release Date: June
19th, 2018
In Syria - Trapped inside
her house in a city under siege, Oum Yazan (Hiam Abbass, The
Visitor, Blade Runner 20149), mother of three, turned her flat
into a safe harbor for her family and neighbors, trying to
protect them from the war outside. When bombs threaten to
destroy the building, when snipers turn the courtyards into
deadly zones, and burglars break in to claim their dreadful
bounties, maintaining the thin balance of routine inside the
walls becomes a matter of life and death. DVD Release Date:
June 12th, 2018
Allure - Plagued by the
abuse of her past and the turmoil of failed intimate encounters,
Laura (Evan Rachel Wood) struggles to find a sense of normalcy.
Her beacon of hope comes in sixteen-year-old Eva ( Julia Sarah
Stone), a talented pianist disillusioned by the life her mother
imposes upon her. An unlikely relationship is formed between the
two and Eva becomes an obsession to Laura. Manipulation, denial
and co-dependency fuel what ultimately becomes a fractured
dynamic that can only sustain itself for so long. Eureka DVD
Release Date: July 9th, 2018
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