Feature Films

Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story begging her to fly to Norway and collect her alcoholic dad whom she hasn’t seen in years. The impatient Kaisa reluctantly agrees. The story is a ruse: mom is dying and wants her ex and her daughter together again. The trip gets complicated (dad is too drunk to fly and the hot-tempered Kaisa gets them banned from the airline): they go by ferry then car, needing a great deal of help along the way from a sweet lorry driver named Clive. Will they reach Aberdeen before mom’s death, and will Kaisa find any stability within herself or in others?
 

AWARDS

WINNER! SILVER IRIS AWARD BEST ACTRESS Lena Headey
WINNER! YOUNG EUROPEAN JURY AWARD Stellan Skarsgard
Brussels European Film Festival
WINNER! GOLDEN AWARD Hans Peter Molland
Damascus Film Festival
NOMINEE, BEST FILM
Amanda Awards, Norway
WINNER! BRONZE FROG AWARD  Phillip Ogaard
CameraImage
WINNER!  AUDIENCE AWARD BEST DRAMATIC FEATURE Hans Peter Molland
Hamptons International Film Festival
WINNER!  BEST ACTOR Ian Hart
NOMINEE, CRYSTAL GLOBE Hans Peter Molland
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
WINNER! NDR PROMOTION PRIZE Hans Peter Molland
Lübeck Nordic Film Days 
WINNER!  BEST ACTOR Hans Peter Molland
Rouen Nordic Film Festival
NOMINEE, BEST ACTOR Lena Headey
NOMINEE, BEST ACTRESS Stellan Skarsgard
Chlotrudis Awards
NOMINEE, BEST ACTOR Stellan Skarsgard
European Film Awards
 

SELECTED REVIEWS
"Ravishing... harsh but strangely lyrical. The near-perfect cast has talent to burn."  —  Village Voice

A breakout performance by the ravishing Lena Headey!" — New York Post "Beautifully acted, ferociously observant!" — New York Times

DVD BONUS MATERIALS

• Interview with director Hans Petter Moland

FILM SPECIFICATIONS
Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Stellan Skarsgard, Jean Anderson (II), Lena Headey, Louise Goodall
Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: Unrated
Studio: First Run Features
DVD Release Date: April 23, 2002
Run Time: 103 minutes

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Read about Aberdeen on Internet Movie Databse.

A POEM FROM FELICE TO LILLY, CHRISTMAS, 1943

That there was a time before you - I can’t believe!
To me, we’ve forever been this way,
Together, side by side in life and in dreams,
Surrounded both by darkness and the light of day.

You belong to me! Since you arrived,
And slowly at first, then full of trust,
Placed your heart in my hands, I have strived
For the strength to build a life for us.

So I have hope for days yet to come,
As this year nods and slips into air,
Because before me, like some emblem,
I carry the copper gleam of your hair

A half-century later, Lilly Wust told her incredible story to writer Erica Fischer, and the book, Aimée & Jaguar, first published in 1994 immediately became a bestseller and has since been translated into eleven languages. Max Färberböck's debut film, based on Fischer's book, is the true story of this extraordinary relationship. The film was nominated for a 1999 Golden Globe Award and was Germany's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Both actresses received Silver Bears at the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival for their portrayals of Aimée and Jaguar.
 

FILM AWARDS

BAVARIAN FILM AWARD1999
WINNER!  BAVARIAN FILM AWARD
Best Direction, Max Färberböck
Best Actress  Juliane Köhler and Maria Schrader
BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 1999
WINNER! SILVER BERLIN BEAR
Best Actress Juliane Köhler and Maria Schrader
NOMINEE, Golden Berlin Bear, Max Färberböck
GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS 2001
NOMINEE,  OUTSTANDING FILM
GERMAN FILM AWARDS 1999
WINNER!  FILM AWARD IN GOLD 
Outstanding Individual Achievement: Actress Maria Schrader, and acress Juliane Kohler
NOMINEE, FILM AWARD IN GOLD, Outstanding Feature Film
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS, USA, 2000
NOMINEE, GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD, Best Foreign Language Film Germany
GUILD OF GERMAN ART HOUSE CINEMAS 1999
WINNER, GUILD FILM AWARD - SILVER, German Film
Max Färberböck
MILAN INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY FILM FESTIVAL 2000
WINNER!  SPECIAL MENTION
Best Film, Max Färberböck
 

SELECTED REVIEWS

“Fascinating!” — The Village Voice

“Devastating, intense, erotic, and incredibly true! If you only go to one movie this year make sure it’s Aimee and Jaguar! Schrader is phenomenal.” — Frontiers

“Endlessly fascinating!...a sense of power and ecstasy...The beautiful, self-contained Schrader has a commanding presence as Jaguar, Kohler is bold."  
— Hollywood Reporter

“A sensuous portrayal of Berlin women coping with the chaos of wartime...Kohler and Schrader give remarkable portrayals in roles rich in depth and complexity.”— Los Angeles Times

“Brings a lesbian romance - a subject usually restricted to low-budget indies - into a mainstream historical epic.”
— San Fransisco Chronicle

DVD BONUS MATERIALS

• A mini-documentary on the making of Aimee and Jaguar
• Behind-the-Scenes Footage
• Cast and Crew Interviews
• An interview with Lilly Wust
• American and German Theatrical Trailers
• Optional English subtitles
• An exclusive photo gallery featuring more than 60 photos of Lilly Wust and Felice Schragenheim--the real-life Aimée and Jaguar including personal family photos, their love letters and other fascinating documents. Includes many photos not published in the Aimée & Jaguar book.
• A brief history of what happened to Lilly and Felice after the events depicted in the film

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Director:  Max Färberböck
Actors:  Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler, Johanna Wokalek, Heike Makatsch, Elisabeth Degen
Writers:  Max Färberböck, Erica Fischer, Rona Munro
Format:  Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language:  German (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Subtitles:  English
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio:  1.85:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  NC-17
Studio:  Zeitgeist Films
DVD Release Date:  October 30, 2001
Run Time:  125 minutes

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Read about Aimee and Jaguar on Internet Movie Database.

When a Bedouin extortionist is gunned down in self defense, a teenager is mistakenly killed in retribution, and an entire Arab family faces extinction. Under the same roof, a young Palestinian risks his life and freedom to pay for treatment that would save his dying mother. Out on the streets, a Jewish cop preys on the local drug trade by night while searching for his missing brother by day. Enemy, neighbor, or both, everyone in Ajami runs the same risk of death, arrest and heartbreak.

Working with a cast of non-actors in the real streets, back alleys, nightclubs and rooftops of Ajami itself, co-directors Yaron Shani and Scandar Copti have crafted a "stunning" (New York Magazine) film that deftly meshes characters and conflicts with unsentimental compassion, uncompromising realism, and harrowing violence.

SELECTED AWARDS

ACADEMY AWARDS, USA 2010
NOMINEE, Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
ISRAELI FILM ACADEMY AWARDS 2009
WINNER!  BEST FILM
WINNER!  BEST DIRECTOR,  Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2009
WINNER!  GOLDEN CAMERA - SPECIAL MENTION
Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
EUROPEAN DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR
NOMINEE, Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
GHENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2010
WINNER!  YOUTH JURY AWARD, Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
ISTANBUL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2010
WINNER!  FACE AWARD Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
JERUSALEM FILM FESTIVAL 2009
WINNER!  WOLGIN AWARD, BEST FULL LENGTH FEATURE
Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani, Moshe Danon, Thanassis Karathanos
TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL 2009
WINNER! GRAND PRIZE, BEST FILM
Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
THESSALONIKI FILM FESTIVAL 2009
WINNER!  GOLDEN ALEXANDER
WINNER!  BEST SCREENPLAY
MEDAL OF HONOR (Tied with Tudor Voican)
WINNER!  AUDIENCE AWARD

SELECTED REVIEWS

"Emotionally mesmerizing. Grade 'A'"
— Entertainment Weekly

"One of the year's true stand-outs...A rich and absorbing drama …Just plain gripping… The right locale and the right subject, undertaken by the right directors." — Chicago Tribune

"Gripping drama...vivid...combustible...deeply humane..." — Time Out New York

"Ajami keeps its head close to the ground of families and communities eroded by unrelenting stress and danger - among the casualties of war also lie the ashes of intimacy and trust." — The Village Voice

"Rarely has the tinderbox nature of the Middle East been so accurately lensed, on such an intimate scale...staring with a revenge killing and then show the repercussions furiously fanning out, to tragic results." — Variety

FILM SPECIFICATIONS
Directors:  Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Actors:  Shahir Kabaha, Fouad Habash, Youssef Sahwani, Ranin Karim, Scandar Copti
Format:  Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language:  Arabic
Subtitles:  English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio:  1.85:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Distributor:  Kino International
DVD Release Date:  August 24, 2010
Run Time:  120 minutes

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Read about Ajami on Internet Movie Database.

LIFE IS A BED OF ROSES (LA VIE EST UN ROMAN)
Alain Resnais pays tribute to three influential French filmmakers Georges Melies, Marcel L Herbier and Eric Rohmer with this lighthearted film about happiness and the power of the imagination. Life Is a Bed of Roses is divided into three parallel narratives.  Starring Vittorio Bassman, Ruggeri Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin, Fanny Ardant, Sabine Azema.  1983/France/110 minutes.

LOVE UNTO DEATH (L AMOUR A MORT)
Resnais' follow-up to the highly successful Life Is a Bed of Roses. Made during Resnais s mid-career renaissance in the 1980 , Love Unto Death is a tightly constructed meditation on the nature of love and death. Starring Sabine Azema, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, Andre Dussolier, Jean Daste. 1984/France/92 minutes.

MELO
An offbeat entry into Resnais' stunning oeuvre, Melo is a loose adaptation of Henri Bernstein s celebrated 1929 play. Resnais' first solo credit for screenplay in almost 40 years, Melo tells the story of Marcel (Andre Dussollier) and Pierre (Pierre Arditi), two lifelong friends who are also concert violinists. Azema won the Cesar (France s Academy Award) as Best Actress.  Starring Sabine Azema, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, Andrew Dussollier, Jacques Dacqmine, and Catherine Arditi. 1986/France/112 minutes.

I WANT TO GO HOME (JE VEUX RENTRER A LA MAISON)
A collaboration with American writer/cartoonist Jules Feiffer (Carnal Knowledge), I Want To Go Home is a raucous satire of French and American culture. Starring Gerard Depardieu, Adolph Green, Linda Lavin, Laura Benson, Geraldine Chaplin and Ludivine Sagnier.  1989/France/101 minutes.

FILM SPECIFICATIONS
Director: Alain Resnais
Actors: See individual film descriptions above
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC, French with English subtitles, Widescreen 16 x 9 Enhanced
Language: French
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 and  2.35:1
Number of discs: 4
Rated: Unrated
Studio: KINO VIDEO
DVD Release Date: April 28, 2009
Run Time: 414 minutes

DVD BONUS FEATURES
Original Theatrical Trailer
Interview with Producer Marin Karmitz on the making of the films, and on working with director Resnais.

FOR MORE INFORMATION 
Read about Life Is a Bed of Roses on Internet Movie Database
Read about Love Unto Death  on Internet Movie Database
Read about Melo  on Internet Movie Database
Read about I Want to Go Home on Internet Movie Database

In 1971 China, in the lingering grip of the cultural revolution, two university students, Luo and Ma, are sent to a mountain mining village as part of their reeducation duty to purge them of their classical western oriented education. Amid the backbreaking work and stifling ignorance of the community, the two boys find that music, and the presence of the beautiful local young women are the only pleasant things in their miserable life.

However, none compare to the young seamstress granddaughter of the local tailor. Stealing a departing student's secret cache of forbidden books of classic western literature such as the works of Honore de Balzac, they set about to woo her and teach her things she had never imagined. In doing so, they start a journey that would profoundly change her perspective on her world and teach the boys about the power of literature and their own ability to change their world in truly revolutionary ways.

SELECTED AWARDS

GHENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2002
NOMINEE, GRAND PRIX, Sijie Dai
Golden Globes, USA
HONG KONG FILM AWARDS 2004
NOMINEE, HONG KONG FILM AWARD
Best Asian Film, China
ISTANBUL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2003
NOMINATED, GOLDEN TULIP, Sijie Dai
MARRAKESH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2002
NOMINEE, GOLDEN STAR

SELECTED REVIEWS

"Breath-taking, funny, erotic and altogether bewitching!"  — Elle Magazine

"A jewel of a movie!" — Washington Post

"Sweet, funny, sad and profound!"  — San Fransisco Chronicle

"Exquisite! A love song to great literature."  — Los Angeles Times

DVD BONUS MATERIALS

• Director’s Bio
• Photo Gallery
• Trailers

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Directors:  Sijie Dai
Actors:  Xun Zhou, Kun Chen, Ye Liu, Shuangbao Wang, Zhijun Cong
Writers:  Sijie Dai, Nadine Perront
Producers:  Bernard Lorain, Lise Fayolle, Pujian Wang, Wang Zhebin
Format:  Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Language:  Cantonese, French
Subtitles:  English
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio:  1.33:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Distributor:  First Run Features
DVD Release Date:  November 29, 2005
Run Time:  110 minutes 

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Read about Balzac and the LIttle Chinese Princess on Internet Movie Database.

For eight decades, Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece has remained the most influential silent film of all time. Yet each successive generation has seen Battleship Potemkin subjected to censorship and recutting, its unforgettable power diluted in unauthorized public domain editions from dubious sources.

Until now. Kino is proud to join the Deutsche Kinematek in association with Russia's Goskinofilm, the British Film Institute, Bundesfilm Archive Berlin, and the Munich Film Museum in presenting this all new restoration of Battleship Potemkin. Dozens of missing shots have been replaced, and all 146 title cards restored to Eisenstein's specifications. Edmund Meisel's definitive 1926 score, magnificently rendered by the 55-piece Deutches Filmorchestra in 5.1 Stereo Surround, returns Eisenstein's masterwork to a form as close to its creator's bold vision as has been seen since the film's triumphant 1925 Moscow premiere.

SELECTED REVIEWS

"To see Potemkin in its restored glory, complete with Edmund Meisel's pulse-pounding score recorded by a 55-piece orchestra, is to be astonished anew at what a dazzling piece of virtuoso filmmaking this is. Packed with movement, incident and beauty, this is no fusty museum piece but a thrilling jolt of pure cinematic adrenaline." — Los Angeles Times

"...both a breathtaking technical exercise and a wrenching glimpse of human suffering set against the cruelty of history."  — Salon

"For visual and aural quality, the Kino [restoration] is now the one to beat." — The New York Times

DVD BONUS MATERIALS

• 2-DVD Set
• Tracing Battleship Potemkin, a 42-minute documentary on the making and restoration of the film
• The restored film with newly-translated English intertitles
• The restored film with original Russian inter-titles (and optional English subtitles)
• The original 1926 Edmund Meisel score, performed by the Deutsches Filmorchestra, presented in 5.1 Stereo Surround
• Photo gallery

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Director:  Sergei M. Eisenstein
Actors:  Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov
Format:  NTSC
Language:  Russian
Subtitles:  English
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio:  1.33:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  NR (Not Rated)
Distributor:  Kino International
DVD Release Date:  April 20, 2010
Run Time:  75 minutes
Licensed by:  Transit Film
Copyright 2007 Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Read about Battleship Potemkin on Internet Movie Database (IMDB).

Amid redoubled shelling from Hezbollah, the fort's brash, impossibly young commander Liraz (Oshri Cohen) struggles to keep himself and his men safe from a faceless enemy that would turn withdrawal into massacre, and transform a just cause into a lost cause.  An unusually dexterous ensemble cast and director Joseph Cedar's (Time of Favor) visionary combination of gritty objectivity, lucid sudden violence, and keen sensitivity to the tangle of terror, duty, and sacrifice common to soldiers of any era, results in "consistently gripping filmmaking" that "perfectly encapsulates ... the futility of war." 

AWARDS

BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL
WINNER! SILVER BERLIN BEAR, Best Director
NOMINEE, GOLDEN BERLIN BEAR
ISRAELI FILM ACADEMY 2007
NOMINEE, Best Film
BANGKOK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2007
NOMINEE, GOLDEN KINNAREE AWARD, Best Film

SELECTED REVIEWS

"A Movie of tremendous power.."'A' Rating."  — Entertainment Weekly

"Realistic...Instense...Vergest on the surreal... One of the strongest examples yet of the fearless new wave that has made Israel's cinema a force on the international scene."  — L.A. Times

"A harrowing Israeli war drama... Short on bombast and glory, long on fear and doubt."  — Washington Post

DVD BONUS MATERIALS

• Beaufort: Behind the Scenes
• Nine deleted Scenes
• Trailers
• Presented in 5.1 Stereo Surround
• Optional English subtitles

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors:  Alon Aboutboul, Ohad Knoller, Itay Turgeman, Eli Eltonyo, Oshri Cohen
Director:  Joseph Cedar
Format:  AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language:  Hebrew
Subtitles:  English
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio:  1.85:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Distributor:  Kino International
DVD Release Date:  September 30, 2008
Run Time:  126 minutes

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Read about Beaufort at Internet Movie Database.

When the circus leaves town, Zygmunt Sawicki and his wife Marysia unwittingly adopt a camel into their family. The couple quickly forms a close bond with the nameless camel. At first the townspeople, too, are enthralled with the giant animal, since it is a welcome distraction from their everyday routine. As the bond between the couple and their camel grows stronger, the town-people suddenly begin to ostracize them...

Renowned filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski (The Decalogue, Three Colors Trilogy) wrote the screenplay (based on the novel, Wielblad, by Kazimierz Orlos) in the 1970s, at the height of political oppression and social upheaval during the Communist era. This hothouse environment cultivated Poland's Cinema of Moral Anxiety and subversive criticism through the arts when it was difficult to speak openly. Mr. Kieslowki's friend Elzbieta Scotti safeguarded the script of The Big Animal.  After his death, he returned it to his widow.

AWARDS

CHLOTRUDIS AWARDS 2005
NOMINEE, CHLOTURDIS AWWARD
Best Adapted ScreenplayAFI Fest
KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2000
WINNER!  SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE JURY
WINNER!  AWARD OF ECUMENICAL JURY
NOMINATED, CRYSTAL GLOBE
POLISH FILM FESTIVAL 2000
WINNER!  BEST SCORE
WIESBADEN GOEAST 2001
WINNER!  GOLDEN LILY

SELECTED REVIEWS

"Mr. Stuhr, an actor who worked frequently with Kieslowski and who plays the main character in this film, honors his old friend's memory, producing a minor but nonetheless charming footnote to his oeuvre."   — The New York Times

"The Big Animal is also a gift from the great beyond:  working from a recently-discovered, unfinished 1973 screenplay by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, vet Polish actor-helmer Jerzy Stuhr...has made a rueful yet gentle fable about the price of individuality and the value of dignity... and will appeal to anyone old enough to read the subtitles." — Variety

"An actor-turned-director, Stuhr appeared in many of Kieslowski's films and their partnership and friendship produced some stunning work. The Big Animal memorializes a complex man and his deceptively simple work, by a friend and colleague in a fitting tribute."  —  Chicago Tribune 

"Gathers a sort of darkness as it comes to its oblique conclusion."  — Boston Globe

"It is whimsical, bittersweet, wise in a minor key."  — Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times

"This black-and-white movie features an enduring image: an ordinary couple at the dinner table with the giant, Dr. Seuss-like head of the camel ­filling their window ominously, ridiculously, like another dinner guest -- or like the proverbial elephant in the room that no one will address."  — New York Daily News 

"The tale's faux-fable simplicity is cunningly eloquent."  — Village Voice

DVD BONUS FEATURES

• Trailer
• Theatrical press kit
• Controlled Testimonies - 2002 interview with Jerzy Stuhr
• Film Chronicle: The Making of The Big Animal (11:00 minutes)

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Director: Jerzy Stuhr
Writeer:  Krzysztof Kieslowski
Actors:  Jerzy Stuhr, Anna Dymna, Rubio the camel
Format:  Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Language:  Polish (Unknown)
Subtitles:  English
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Studio:  Oscilloscope Laboratories/Milestone Films
DVD Release Date:  September 26, 2006
Run Time:  72 minutes

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Read about Big Animal on Internet Movie Database.

Backed by a new recording of Gottfried Huppertz’s 1927 score, the film’s dazzling visual design and special effects are more striking than ever. And the integration of scenes and subplots long considered lost endows Metropolis with even greater tension and emotional resonance, as it dramatizes the conflict between wealthy über-capitalists and rebellious subterranean laborers — orchestrated by a diabolical scientist capable of destroying them both.

AWARDS

ACADEMY OF SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY AND HORROR FILMS, USA 2011
NOMINEE, SATURN AWARD, Best International Film
AVIGNON NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 2000
WINNER!  HONORARY ROGER, Musical Score 
RAZZIE AWARDS 1985
NOMINEE, RAZZIE AWARD
Worst Original Song and Score

SELECTED REVIEWS

"The greatest of all pulp fantasies! Lang’s profligate hallucination of a future city is a movie whose every detail is subsumed to the overall effect."  — Village Voice

"The plutonium template for sci-fi moviemaking... Remains one of the most inspirational and influential movies of any genre."  — Newsday

"A masterpiece of visionary silent cinema.  One of the strangest, most fascinating films ever made, a futuristic nightmare that is both sublime in its grandeur and remarkably intimate in its emotions. Just about every science-fiction movie you can think of pays tribute to its influence, but to date none has matched its strangeness or its prophetic power."  — The New York Times

"A super-spectacle... essential."  — Time Out New York

"Lang’s pop-visionary epic has always been a milestone of precision craftsmanship on a gargantuan scale. A proto-noir suspense film... a mad-scientist extravaganza and all-out disaster flick!"  — The New Yorker

"One of the handsomest, visually most inventive films of the twentieth century, and certainly one of the all-time great sci-fi films... a powerful parable."  — New York Press

DVD BONUS MATERIALS

• 2-DVD Set
• Original 1927 score by Gottfried Huppertz, performed by the Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, conducted by Frank Strobel, in 5.1 Stereo Surround
• Voyage to Metropolis, a 50-minute documentary on the making and restoration of the film
• Interview with Paula Felix-Didier, curator of the Museo del Cine, Buenos Aires, where the missing footage was discovered
• 2010 re-release trailer

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors:  Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Frohlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Directors:  Fritz Lang
Format:  AC-3, Black & White, Dolby, DVD, Limited Edition, NTSC, Special Edition
Language:  English
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio:  1.33:1
Number of discs:  2
Rated:  NR (Not Rated)
Distributor:  Kino International
DVD Release Date:  November 16, 2010
Run Time:  147 minutes

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Read about Metropolis at Internet Movie Database.

Using this simple tale, the film brings to life the changing values, conflicts and struggles that confront every family as they leave their homeland for the promise of a new and better future.

In addition to this emotionally charged epic drama, Daughters Of The Dust explores the unique culture of the Gullah people, descendants of slaves who lived in relative isolation on the Sea Islands off the Georgia coast. As the generations struggle with the decision to leave, their rich Gullah heritage and African roots rise to the surface.

Amongst a score of extraordinary performances are Cora Lee Day as Nana, the matriarch of the Peazant clan, Alva Rogers as Eula, who has been raped by a white landowner, and Barbara-O as Yellow Mary, a woman of the world who has come home "ruint" from Cuba.

Daughters Of The Dust is an African-American treasure; a vitally important work by a major directing talent.

AWARDS

WINNER! NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY
National Film Preservation Board USA 2004
NOMINATED, GRAND JURY PRIZE
Sundance Film Festival 1991

SELECTED REVIEWS

"Two Thumbs Up! A haunting film rich in visual beauty. A mystical examination of what it means to honor and cherish family."  — Siskel and Ebert, At the Movies

"Spellbinding! Exuberantly African-American and altogether extraordinary." —  New York Newsday

DVD BONUS MATERIALS

• Letterboxed (1.85) digital transfer
• Audio commentary by writer/director Julie Dash
• Touching Our Own Spirit: The Making of Daughters Of The Dust, a new documentary featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage
• Never-before-seen footage from the preliminary version of the film
• Isolated musical score by John Barnes
• Excerpt of Spencer Williams' The Blood of Jesus (1941)
• An interview with historian Robert Farris Thompson
• Deleted scenes
• Cast and Filmmaker Bios & Filmographies

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Director:  Julie Dash
Actors:  Adisa Anderson, Cheryl Lynn Bruce
Format:  Color, NTSC
Language:  English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio:  1.85:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Distributor:  Kino Video
DVD Release Date:  June 27, 2000
Run Time:  112 minutes

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Read about Daughters of the Dust at Internet Movie Database.

A CURTAIN RAISER
Bruno and his friend Pierre are waiting for Rosette in Bruno’s Parisian bachelor flat. She is late again, but this time, Bruno’s mind is made up: If Rosette makes them wait for more than 45 minutes, it will be over between them. Featuring Mathieu Amalric, Louis Garrel and Vahina Giocante.
2006 / 30 minutes

X2000 
Three naked couples sleep, make love, and awaken in an empty skyscraper littered with millennium party debris. The world is silent and pregnant with new possibilities.
1998 / 5 minutes

BED SCENES 
A series of liberated comic sketches on sexual etiquette, unbridled passion, and post-coital after tastes.
1997 / 26 minutes

LITTLE DEATH 
Paul, a young photographer, is estranged from his family. When his sister persuades him to visit his dying father in the hospital, Paul discovers that he can never escape his origins.  
1995 / 26 minutes

TRUTH OR DARE 
Four teens discover the pain and excitement of emerging sexuality while playing a harmless children’s game.  
1994 / 4 minutes

A ROSE BETWEEN US 
An eccentric British woman picks up a young apprentice hairdresser on a wild night in Paris. 
1994 / 27 minutes

VICTOR
Victor, a young man of good breeding, keeps his dead parents in the bedroom of their sumptuous family cottage. Then begins a rebirth full of discoveries. 
1993 / 14 minutes

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Directors:  Francois Ozon
Actors:  Louis Garrel
Format:  Color, DVD, NTSC
Language:  French
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Studio:  Kimstim
DVD Release Date:  September 4, 2007
Run Time:  30 minutes

FOR MORE INFORMATION

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In this epic story of love and treason, screen legend Max von Sydow (The Exorcist, Minority Report, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Seventh Seal, Three Days of the Condor, Zentropa, Pelle the Conqueror) gives a career-crowning performance as Knut Hamsun, Norway’s controversial Nobel Laureate.

Hamsun is his country’s most beloved writer. But with the shadow of Nazism quickly darkening Europe, Hamsun and his wife Marie (Ghita Nørby) embrace Hitler – who sees Hamsun’s support as the surest way to win over the Norwegian people.  Before long Hamsun and Marie are engulfed not only in Hitler’s war, but also in their own turbulent relationship, and must face the angry wrath of a betrayed nation. 

AWARDS

MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL 1996
WINNER! PRIZE OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY, Jan Troell
ROUEN NORDIC FILM FESTIVAL 1997
WINNER!  GRAND JURY PRIZE Jan Troell
VALLADOLID INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 1996
WINNER!  BEST ACTOR, Max von Sydow
NOMINEE, GOLDEN SPIKE, Jan Troell
 

SELECTED REVIEWS

"Easily one of the year's finest films!" 
— Los Angeles Times

"An absolutely monumental performance by Max von Sydow!"  — New York Newsday

"Arguably von Sydow's greatest portrayal!"  
— Detroit News

"Best actor of the year!"  —The Atlantic

DVD BONUS FEATURES

• Photo Gallery
• Cast/Crew Biographies
• Knut Hamsun Biography
• WWII Film Collection Preview

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Director:   Jan Troell 
Actors:  Max von Sydow, Ghita Nørby, Anette Hoff, Gard B. Eidsvold, Eindride Eidsvold
Format:  Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language:  Swedish, Danish 
Subtitles:  English
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio:  1.66:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Distributor:  First Run Features
DVD Release Date:  May 23, 2006
Run Time:  154 minutes

FOR MORE INFORMATION

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The plot - or rather the plots - feverishly explore the seductive, decadent (and marvelously photogenic) world of Batista’s Cuba — deliriously juxtaposing images of rich Americans and bikini-clad beauties sipping cocktails poolside with scenes of ramshackle slums filled with hungry children and gaunt old people. Using wide-angle lenses that distort and magnify,  and filters that transform palm trees into giant white feathers, Urusevsky’s acrobatic camera achieves wild gravity-defying angles as it glides effortlessly through long continuous shots.

But I Am Cuba is not just a catalog of bravura technique — it also succeeds in exploring the innermost feelings of the characters and their often desperate situations. Shown unsubtitled at the San Francisco International Film Festival, I Am Cuba received two standing ovations — during the screening. The first movie ever jointly presented by master filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, I Am Cuba is one of the great discoveries in cinema.  It will change your view of cinema forever.

AWARDS

INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS 1996
NOMINEE, INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD
Best Foreign Film
SOCIETY OF CAMERA OPERATORS 2007
WINNER!  HISTORICAL SHOT

SELECTED REVIEWS

"One of the most deliriously beautiful films ever made." — L.A. Weekly

"A sensously beautiful movie...A hymn to the liberation of appetite. Irresistable!" — New York Magazine

"I Am Cuba is a delirious hybrid:  an overheated, agitprop salute to the Cuban revolution and a mad, unbridled exercise in film technique...a cinematic poem to the cure-all of Communism - I Am Cuba may be one of the most stylistically vigorous films of all time." 
— San Francisco Chronicle

"Although this landmark, politically charged film (which wasn't released in the U.S. until 1995) hammers home a one-sided sentiment, it's masterful filmmaking nonetheless."  — T.V. Guide 

"A Soviet-Cuban celluloid love letter to the Castro revolution, filmed in beautiful, pellucid monochrome...lyrical and passionate...For its sheer dazzling technique, and the glorious beauty of its cinematography, it deserves impregnable classic status."  — The Gaurdian

DVD BONUS MATERIALS "THE ULTIMATE EDITION"

• Brand-new HD master
• Both Spanish and Russian Soundtracks
• Full-length doc, The Siberian Mammoth
• Full-length documentary film about director Mikhail Kalatozov 
• Lengthy Interview with Martin Scorsese
• Interview with co-author Yevgeney Yevtushenko
• Original American trailer
• Full-length booklet
• and more!
  

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors:  Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García, Luz María Collazo
Director:  Mikhail Kalatozov
Writers:  Enrique Pineda Barnet, Yevgeni Yevtushenko
Format:  Black & White, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Language:  Russian (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Subtitles:  English
Region:  All Regions
Aspect Ratio:  1.33:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Studio:  Image Entertainment
DVD Release Date:  January 18, 2000
Run Time:  141 minutes

FOR MORE INFORMATION

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Gilbert Valence (Michel Piccoli) is a successful theater actor appearing in Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King, when he learns that his wife, daughter and son-in-law have been killed in a car accident. Over time, Valence's life regains a semblance of normalcy - he takes care of his orphaned grandson, strolls the streets of Paris, frequents his favorite cafe and returns to the theater as Prospero in The Tempest.

But when an American film director (John Malkovich) offers him a role in an English-language production of James Joyce's Ulysses, Valence struggles to master the dialogue and the rigors of playing a younger man. On the set, suddenly aware of his age and overwhelmed by grief, he quietly says "I'm going home." Michel Piccoli is majestic in the role of Valence - he is proud, self-assured, and amused by the world, while still vulnerable to life's tragedies.

AWARDS

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2001
NOMINEE, PALME D'OR
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2001
NOMINEE, EUROPEAN FILM AWARD
GOLDEN GLOBES, PORTUGAL 2001
WINNER! GOLDEN GLOBE
HAIFA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2001
WINNER! GOLDEN ANCHOR AWARD
SAO PAULO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2001
WINNER! CRITICS AWARD

REVIEWS

"Old age doesn't automatically confer wisdom and artistic profundity. But when it does...what can emerge is a remarkable mixture of appreciation and sadness, colored with an implacable, clear-eyed awareness of looming extinction...   — New York Times

"One of the Ten Best Films of the Year."  — L.A. Weekly

"Bringing the lightest touches of humor to a contemporary tale set in Paris, Portuguese master and perennial Cannes favorite Manoel de Oliveira serves a thoroughly tasty morsel to the refined palates of cinephiles..." — Variety

"A precious and finely cut diamond, magnificent to behold in its sparkling beauty yet in reality it's one tough rock.."  — Hollywood Reporter

DVD BONUS FEATURES

• Commentary by Richard Peña, Program Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center
• A filmed interview with director Manoel de Oliveira
• Theatrical Trailer
  

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors:  Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Antoine Chappey, Leonor Baldaque
Director:  Manoel de Oliveira
Writers:  Manoel de Oliveiraare
Producers:  Paulo Branco
Format:  Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Language:  French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
Subtitles:  English
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio:  1.66:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Studio:  Image Entertainment
DVD Release Date:  August 19, 2003
Run Time:  90 minutes

FOR MORE INFORMATION

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Unable to speak a word of French and clad in a head-to-toe rubber catsuit, Cheung finds herself adrift among the disorganized crew—including an increasingly erratic Vidal, a lovesick bi-sexual costumer (Nathalie Richard) and a gossipy executive’s wife (Bulle Ogier). With freewheeling cinematography choreographed to the strains of Sonic Youth and Luna, Irma Vep immerses the viewer into the heady desperation and l’amour fou of modern movie-making. Zeitgeist Films celebrates our 20th Anniversary with a sparkling new DVD release of this supercool comic gem.

SELECTED REVIEWS

“A flash of cinematic brilliance... one of the most playful French movies in years.” — New York Post

“Fresh and hilarious... a delirious comedy of boisterous French manners.” — Atlantic Monthly

DVD BONUS MATERIALS

• 16:9 anamorphic transfer, available for the first time in North America
• Audio commentary: a discussion with director Olivier Assayas and critic Jean-Michel Frodon
• 30 minutes of exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, plus an additional audio essay by Assayas and Frodon
• Man Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung (1997), a short film by Assayas
• Black and white rushes
• Original French theatrical trailer
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
• Twenty page booklet with essays on Maggie Cheung and Les Vampires director Louis Feuillade by Assayas, and an appreciation by critic Kent Jones
   

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Directors:  Olivier Assayas
Actors:  Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Antoine Basler, Nathalie Boutefeu
Writers:  Olivier Assayas
Producers:  Françoise Guglielmi, Georges Benayoun
Format:  Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Language:  French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
Subtitles:  English
Region:  All Regions
Aspect Ratio:  1.66:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated: NR ( Not Rated)
Distributor:  Zeitgeist Films
DVD Release Date:  March 31, 1998
Run Time:  99 minutes

FOR MORE INFORMATION 
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Charles Burnett’s films focus on everyday life in black communities in a manner unseen in American cinema, combining incredibly lyrical elements with a starkly neo-realist, documentary-style approach that chronicles the unfolding story with depth and riveting simplicity.

Milestone Films, Steven Soderbergh and Turner Classic Movies present one of the most famous and acclaimed films by an African-American filmmaker, Killer of Sheep was one of the first fifty films to be selected for the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry and was chosen by the National Society of Film Critics as one of the 100 Essential Films. But, due to music licensing problems, the film has rarely been screened, and then only in ragged 16mm prints. On its thirtieth anniversary, Milestone Films has cleared all the rights and will present UCLA Film & Television Archives dazzling 35mm restoration of this landmark film. 

The Charles Burnett Project was completed with the support of International Film Circuit, Incorporated, Steven Soderbergh, and Turner Classic Movies.  Shot in 16 millimeter film, restored to 35 millimeter film by University of Southern California - Los Angeles Film and Television Archive. Sound restoration by Audio Mechanics. ©1977 Charles Burnett.

REVIEWS

"Way ahead of its time thirty years ago, and just as stunning today, Killer of Sheep is one of those marvels of original moviemaking that keeps hope of artistic independence alive..."  — Entertainment Weekly

"In its crystalline restoration by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, Killer of Sheep can be seen...as the greatest cinematic tone poem of American urban life...Killer of Sheep is indelible."
— New York Magazoine

"Six Stars! Perfect!  "It’s hard not to hope that Killer of Sheep will influence a new generation of artists — of any color."   — Time Out Magazine

"Stunning…humane in spirit, tentatively hopeful at the end, but rock-hard and pitiless in its honesty...you're seeing the world as it really is for these characters…They have the grandeur of unchallengeable fact.  I feel safe in calling it one of the best new films of 2007."  — The Nation

"Affectingly beautiful...the movie itself has the bedraggled eloquence of an old blues record."  
— The New Yorker

"As fresh and observational as it was thirty years ago, Killer of Sheep seems even more universal now...an urban pastoral... sweet, sardonic, deeply sad and very funny."  — The Village Voice

DVD BONUS FEATURES

• Charles Burnett’s acclaimed short films, Several Friends (1969), The Horse (1973) and When It Rains (1995).
• Burnett’s latest short film, Quiet as Kept (2007) about a family displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
• Killer of Sheep commentary track with Charles Burnett and Richard Peña, Program Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
• Both versions of My Brother’s Wedding.
• Killer of Sheep cast reunion video by Ross Lipman.
• Liner notes by Armond White.
• Killer of Sheep trailer

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors:  Henry Gayle Sanders, Kaycee Moore
Director:  Charles Burnett
Format:  Black & White, NTSC, Full Screen
Language:  English
Region:  All Regions
Aspect Ratio:  1.33:1
Number of discs:  2
Rated:  NR (Not Rated)
Studio:  New Yorker Video/Milestone Cinematheque
DVD Release Date:  November 20, 2007
Run Time:  80 minutes

FOR MORE INFORMATION

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Here's an excerpt of the rave review Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times: "The calculating monster who pulls the strings in Dariush Mehrjui's heartbreaking film, Leila is an imperious mother-in-law (Jamileh Sheikhi) whose selfishness and pride put her in the same elite league with some of Hollywood's most formidable gorgons. On learning that her daughter-in-law is infertile, this termagant who is obsessed with having a male grandchild to carry on the family line systematically undermines the marriage of her only son, Reza (Ali Mosaffa). For the Iranian filmmaker, the situation illustrates the brutal clash between modernity and Islamic tradition in contemporary Iran. The movie is one of the most gripping and beautifully acted selections in this year's New Directors/New Films series."

AWARDS

FAJR FILM FESTIVAL 1997
WINNER!  DIPLOMA OF HONOR,
Best Actress, Leila Hatami
WINNER! CRYSTAL simorgh
Best Supporting Actress, Jamileh Sheikhi

SELECTED REVIEWS

"One of the top ten films of the year! Provocative, wise and brilliant!"  —Village Voice

"Beautifully shot, expertly acted and directed by an astute social critic and an ingeniously distinctive stylist."  — The New York Press

DVD BONUS MATERIALS

• Scene Access
• Interactive Menus

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Director:  Dariush Mehrjui
Actors:   Leila Hatami, Ali Mosaffa, Jamileh Sheikhi, Mohamad Reza Sharifinia, Turan Mehrzad
Format:  Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio:  1.33:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Distributor: First Run Features
DVD Release Date:  June 13, 2000
Run Time:  129 minutes

FOR MORE INFORMATION

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Buoyed by a profound and unfaltering motherly love – both in his memory and in the arms of his adoptive mother – he ultimately finds an identity and a happiness all his own.

SELECTED AWARDS

BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2005
WINNER!  PRIZE OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY, PANORAMA
Radu Mihaileanu
WINNER!  LABEL EUROPA CINEMAS, Radu Mihaileanu
WINNER!  PANORAMA AUDIENCE AWARD, Radu Mihaileanu
COPENHAGEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2005
WINNER!  GOLDEN SWAN, BEST SCRIPT, Radu 
WINNER!  GOLDEN SWAN, BEST FILM, Radu  Mihaileanu
CESAR AWARDS, FRANCE 2006
WINNER!  CESAR
AWARDS OF THE ISRAELI FILM ACADEMY
NOMINEE, AWARD OF THE ISRAELI FILM ACADEMY

SELECTED REVIEWS

"Exerts a tidal pull.  It makes you feel the weight of history, of populations on the move in a restless, multicultural world. It makes you reconsider cultural assimilation... — New York Times

"...its subtle motifs and loud silences, as well as the enormity of its subject matter, keep us absorbed until the devastating end."   — The Village Voice

"The 1984 exodus, in which Israel and the US supervised the Israeli patriation of the Ethiopian Jewish population, is the setting for this story about motherhood and personal and ethnic identity."  — The Guardian

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors:  Yael Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Sirak M. Sabahat
Director:  Radu Mihaileanu
Writers: Radu Mihaileanu, Alain-Michel Blanc
Producers: Denis Carot, Marie Masmonteil, Radu Mihaileanu
Format:  Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language:  French, Hebrew
Subtitles:  English
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio:  2.35:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Distributor:  Menemsha Films
DVD Release Date:  April 7, 2009
Run Time:  140 minutes
Country of Origin: France, Belgium, Italy, Israel

FOR MORE INFORMATION

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Called "the politico of the bush" by journalists of the day, he became a lightning rod of Cold War politics as his vision of a united Africa gained him powerful enemies in Belgium and the U.S. Lumumba would last just months in office before being brutally assassinated. Strikingly photographed in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Belgium as civil war once again raged in the Congo, the film vividly re-creates the shocking events behind the birth of the country that became Zaire during the reign of Lumumba's former friend and eventual nemesis, Joseph Mobutu.

AWARDS

ACAPULCO BLACK FILM FESTIVAL 2001
WINNER!  LINCOLN FILMMAKERS TROPHY, Best Feature Film
BLACK REEL AWARDS 2002
NOMINEE, BLACK REEL AWARD
Best Independent Film
Best Independent Actor
MILAN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL 2001
SECOND PLACE, BEST FILM
OUAGADOUGOU PANAFRICAN FILM AND TV FESTIVAL
WINNER!  PAUL ROBESON AWARD
POLITICAL FILM SOCIETY USA 2002
WINNER!  PFS AWARD, Peace
NOMINEE, PFS AWARD, Democracy
NOMINEE, PFS AWARD, Expose
NOMINEE, PFS AWARD, Human Rights

SELECTED REVIEWS

"Eriq Ebouaney is extraordinary in the lead role, the production feels emotionally true, and the speeches generate spontaneous applause."   — The New Yorker

"The film refuses to lay out Lumumba's life in traditional, corny terms by presenting a lengthy and unwieldy history lesson and then groveling for audience sympathy. Instead ''Lumumba'' vaults through his radicalization and the track that led this former civil servant and beer salesman to leave his angry stamp on the world."    — The New York Times

"Made with a classically restrained clarity that acquires great power as it rolls along to that glade of trees in Katanga province and the lethal bark of rifles in the night."   — Washington Post
 

DVD BONUS FEATURES

• Excerpts from director Raoul Peck's 1991 documentary Lumumba:  Death of a Prophet
• Historical timeline and background on the Congo
• Story and production notes
• Bio-filmographies on the filmmakers and stars

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors:  Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto, Dieudonné Kabongo
Director:  Raoul Peck
Format:  Color, Dubbed, DVD, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language:  French
Subtitles:  English, Spanish
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio:  1.85:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Distributor:  Zeitgeist Films
DVD Release Date:  November 5, 2002
Run Time: 115 minutes

FOR MORE INFORMATION

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The turbulent days of 1973, in which Augusto Pinochet seized power over Chile before embarking on two decades of brutal oppression, are seen through the eyes of two young boys from opposite ends of Santiago society in Machuca. Chilean director Andrés Wood's evocative rites-of-passage drama tells the story of friends Gonzalo and Pedro and uses the boys' changing relationship as a metaphor for the social tensions that helped destroy a nation.

All the ingredients of a political South American film are here - the characteristic colours of revolution, images of deprivation and corruption - but in the foreground are the characters.  The bright but shy Gonzalo and the fearless Pedro, together with Pedro's flirty cousin Silvana, share many of the film's sweetest and most engaging moments -enjoying the excitement of adolescence despite the turmoil surrounding them. Ultimately, the kids' relationships are as doomed as those of their more politically entrenched parents, and the outbreak of violence signals a disturbing end to their innocent friendships. Machuca is an eloquent and moving take on the tragedy of a society that attacks its own and successfully humanises difficult ideas of political and class loyalty.

AWARDS
ARIEL AWARDS, MEXICO 2005
NOMINATED, SILVER ARIEL, Best Latin-American Film
BOGOTA FILM FESTIVAL 2004
WINNER!  GOLDEN PRECOLUMBIAN CIRCLE, Best Film
GHENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2004
WINNER!  GEORGES DELERUE PRIZE
NOMINEE, GRAND PRIX
GOYA AWARDS 2004
NOMINEE, GOYA AWARD
Best Spanish Language Foreign Film
HAVANA FILM FESTIVAL 2005
WINNER!  CORAL AWARD, Best Cinematography
LIMA LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL 2004
WINNER!  ELCINE FIRST PRIZE
MEXICO CITY INT'L CONTEMPORARY FILM FESTIVAL 2005
WINNER!  SPECIAL AWARD, Best LATIN AMERICAN NARRATIVE FEATURE
PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL 2005
WINNER!  AUDIENCE AWARD, Best Feature Film
VALDIVIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2004
WINNER, BEST FILM
VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2004
WINNER!  MOST POPULAR FILM

SELECTED REVIEWS

"...a sensitively wrought work that reveals a time in Chile when class differences were both ignored and emphasized, depending on your perspective."  —San Fransisco Chronicle

"Eloquent and moving." BBC

"Both sweet and stringent, attuned to the wonders of childhood as well as its cruelty and terror...Machuca has a tough, heavy clarity. Its point is not to settle scores or reopen old wounds, but rather to explore, after a long period of repression, the possibility of grief."  New York Times

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors: Matias Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli, Aline Kuppenheim
Director: Andres Wood
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: Unrated
Studio: Passion River
DVD Release Date: March 13, 2007
Run Time: 115 minutes

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Read about Machuca at Internet Movie Database.

Their flirtation slowly builds over lingering glances and an impromptu violin solo in Chambon's apartment. Like the classical music they swoon over, their relationship builds through subtle movements: the tilt of a head, or an inadvertent brush of the cheek fills their hearts with longing. Jean soon comes to a crossroads, having to choose between the intensity of his bond with Chambon or the responsibility and care he feels for his wife and child.

A "beautifully observed" (New York Magazine) evocation of what it feels like to fall dizzyingly in love, Mademoiselle Chambon won the Cesar for Best Adapted Screenplay, and is an unqualified triumph for director Stéphane Brizé.

AWARDS

CESAR AWARDS, FRANCE (FRENCH OSCAR) 2010
NOMINEE, Best Actress
NOMINEE, Best Supporting Actress
INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS USA 2011
NOMINEE, INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD
Best Foreign Film
ISTANBUL INT'L FILM FESTIVAL 2010
WINNER!  SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE JURY
International Competition
WINNER!   FIPRESCI PRIZE

SELECTED REVIEWS

"An exquisite chamber piece.  Deeply moving...made with the kind of sensitivity and nuance that's become almost a lost art. "  — L.A. Times

"Nearly Perfect."  — The New York Times (Critic¹s Pick)

"Passionate."  — New York Magazine

"Thoughtful and endearing."  — Variety

"An emotionally incandescent love story."  
— New York Post

DVD BONUS MATERIALS

• Interview with Director Stéphane Brizé
• Deleted Scenes, with introduction by film critic Stéphane Goudet
• Trailers
• Stills Gallery
• Presented in 5.1 Surround Sound

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors:  Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Aure Atika
Directors:  Stephane Brize
Format:  Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Language:  French
Subtitles:  English
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio:  1.33:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Distributor:  Lorber Films
DVD Release Date:  December 7, 2010
Run Time:  101 minutes

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Read about Mademoiselle Chambon at Internet Movie Database.

Mika inherits a gloomy mansion near Lausanne after marrying André, a concert pianist and recent widower with a son, Guillaume. Then Jeanne, a young beauty, turns up on their doorstep with a story that Guillaume and she may have been given to the wrong families following a hospital confusion at birth.  She is a talented pianist and soon André is tutoring her as a protegée.

After Jeanne discovers that some hot chocolate prepared by Mika for Guillaume has been heavily spiked with a sleeping drug, there is a suspicion that André's wife may have died following a similar concoction prepared by Mika. As in Hitchcock's Suspicion we are led to suspect that the central character is not what she seems. Chabrol cleverly leads us in one direction after another, closing the way just when revelations are expected. 

AWARDS

ITALIAN NATIONAL SYNDICATE OF FILM JOURNALISTS 2001
NOMINEE, SILVER RIBBON, Best Director - Foreign Film 
LUMIERE AWARDS, FRANCE 2001
WINNER!  LUMIERE AWARD, Best Actress
MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL 2000
WINNER!  Best Actress
NOMINEE, GRAND PRIX DES AMERIQUES
PRIX LOUIS DELLUC 2000
WINNER!  PRIX LOUIS DELLUC

SELECTED REVIEWS

"Mr. Chabrol thickens [Merci Pour Le Chocolat] with an almost insane boil of plot complications, using the gossipy chatter for scenes that play like subdued drawing-room comedy.  — New York Times

"A tasty french thriller with Hitchcock on its mind!"  — New York Daily News

"!"  —  Chicago Tribune

"Crackles with wit and elegance, humor and pathos!"  — Los Angeles Times

"Serious fun! A witty, psychological thriller."  — Village Voice

"A treat! A delicious blend of perversity, playfulness and deadly passion!"   — Variety

DVD BONUS MATERIALS

• Photo gallery
• Original French trailer
• Director & cast profiles
• Introduction by Chabrol
• 1.66:1 letterbox presentation
• Chapters
• Interactive menus

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors:  Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis, Rodolphe Pauly, Brigitte Catillon
Director:  Claude Chabrol
Format:  Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language:  French
Subtitles:  English
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio:  1.66:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Distributor:  First Run Features
DVD Release Date:  April 22, 2003
Run Time:  99 minutes
 

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Attorney Walter is resigned to working the farm as a caretaker.  Pampered Jettel resists adjustment at every turn. While the shy yet curious Regina immediately embraces the country, learning the local language and customs, and finding a friend in Owuor, the farm's cook.  

As the war rages on the other side of the world, the trio's relationships to their strange environment become increasingly complicated.  Jettel grows more self-assured and Walter more haunted by the life they left behind.  As they eventually learn to cherish their life in Africa, they also endeavor to find a way back to each other.

AWARDS

GERMAN FILM AWARDS 2002
WINNER!  FILM AWARD IN GOLD
Outstanding Feature Film
BAVARIAN FILM AWARDS 2003
WINNER!  BAVARIAN FILM AWARD, Best Production
BORDEAUX INT'L FESTIVAL OF WOMEN IN CINEMA 2002
WINNER!  GOLDEN WAVE, Best Film 
CAMERIMAGE 2002
NOMINEE, GOLD FROG
EUREGIO FILMBALL 2003
WINNER!  EUREGIO FILM AWARD
Most Promising Young Talent
NOMINEE, EUREGIO FILM AWARD
Best German Film
GUILD OF GERMAN ART HOUSE CINEMAS 2002
WINNER!  GUILD FILM AWARD - SILVER
HAMPTONS INT'L FILM FESTIVAL 2002
WINNER!  AUDIENCE AWARD
Best Fiction Feature Film/Video
HIGH FALLS FILM FESTIVAL 2002
WINNER!  AUDIENCE AWARD, Best Feature
KARLOVY VARY INT'L FILM FESTIVAL 2002
WINNER!  SPECIAL PRI
WINNER!  FIPRESCI PRIZE
For unusual narrative and historical perspectives on
the international reverberations of World War II
NOMINATED, CRYSTAL GLOBE
SAINT LOUIS INT'L FILM FESTIVAL 2002
HONORABLE MENTION
WINNER!  INTERFAITH AWARD
VALLADOLID INT'L FILM FESTIVAL 2002
NOMINEE, GOLDEN SPIKE AWARD
 

SELECTED REVIEWS

"A handsome film that lends both the landscape and the colonial life the elegance of a coffee-table picture book. Niki Reiser's African-flavored symphonic music underlines the visual sweep.   — New York Times 

“Exhilerating! Laced with poignancy and conflict, urgency and compassion.” — Los Angeles Tmes

"Stunning!  Deeply affecting... Aims unabashedly for the heart - and hits it!”  — Chicago Tribune

DVD BONUS FEATURES

• Filmmaker's Commentary
• Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary
• Making-Of Featurette
• Cast and Crew Interviews
• Storyboard Comparison
• Score Selections
• Photo Montage
• Theatrical Trailer

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors:  Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Sidede Onyulo, Matthias Habich, Lea Kurka
Director:  Caroline Link
Format:  Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language:  German (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles:  English
Region:  Region 1 encoding* (US and Canada only) 
Aspect Ratio:  1.85:1
Number of discs:  2
Distributor:  Sony Motion Picture Classics
Rated:  R (Restricted)
Studio:  Sony Pictures
DVD Release Date:  September 30, 2003
Run Time:  141 minutes

*PLEASE NOTE: Some Region 1 DVDs may contain Regional Coding Enhancement (RCE). Some, but not all, of our international customers have had problems playing these enhanced discs on what are called "region-free" DVD players.

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Lonely and alienated in her forties, Erika lives with her controlling mother, finding solace only by visiting porn shops and vicariously experiencing her sado-masochistic fantasies. Without a trace of sentimentality or prurience, director Michael Haneke (Funny Games, Code Unknown) delivers a brilliant psychological portrait. The film features one encounter that The New Yorker considered "may be the strongest sex scene in the history of the movies."

SELECTED AWARDS

BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS
(BAFTA) AWARDS 2002
NOMINEE, BAFTA FILM AWARD
CAMERAIMAGE 2001
NOMINEE, GOLDEN FROG
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2001
WINNER!  GRAND PRIZE OF THE JURY
WINNER!  BEST ACTRESS
WINNER!  BEST ACTOR
WINNER!  PALM D'OR
CHLOTRUDIS AWARDS 2003
WINNER!  CHLOTRUDIS AWARD
CESAR AWARDS, FRANCE 2002
WINNER!  CESAR AWARD
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2001
WINNER!  EUROPEAN FILM AWARD
GERMAN FILM AWARDS 2002
WINNER!  BEST FOREIGN FILM
INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD 2003
NOMINEE, INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD
Best Foreign Film
RUSSIAN GUILD OF FILM CRITICS 2001
WINNER!  GOLDEN ARIES
Best Foreign Film
SAN FRANCISCO FILM CRITICS CIRCLE 2001
WINNER!  SFFCC AWARD
SEATTLE INT'L FILM FESTIVAL 2002
WINNER!  GOLDEN SPACE NEEDLE AWARD

SELECTED REVIEWS

"A seriously scandalous work, beautifully made...[Isabelle Huppert is]...an actress who can draw fury out of extreme elegance and self-containment."  — The New Yorker

"The most controversial European art movie of the season...a tour de force role for Isabelle Huppert!"  — The Village Voice 

In the tradition of Repulsion, Belle de Jour and Looking for Mr. Goodbar, The Piano Teacher creates a hermetic, frightening world, and Huppert delivers a courageous performance as the woman around whom it ultimately falls apart.  — Washington Post

"Not since Salò have we had a shocker like this. "  — Film Comment

"A striking, brilliant film with extraordinary performances - and Huppert's acting is heartrending."  — Chicago Tribune

DVD BONUS MATERIALS

• Exclusive interview with Isabelle Huppert
• Original theatrical trailer

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors:  Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel
Director:  Michael Haneke
Writers:  Michael Haneke, Elfriede Jelinek
Producers:  Christine Gozlan, Michael Katz, Veit Heiduschka, Yvon Crenn
Format:  Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language:  French
Subtitles:  English
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio:  1.85:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Studio:  Kino International
DVD Release Date:  November 5, 2002
Run Time:  131 minutes

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With the help of her disillusioned lover Emad (Saleh Bakri) and his filmmaker pal Marwan (Riyad Ideis), they plan on one big heist to settle the historical debt.  Driving through the countryside like a Palestinian pacifist Bonnie and Clyde, Soraya and Emad discover their roots while rejecting their status as exiles.  Hammad and Bakri attack their roles with feral intensity, electrifying the screen. The first fiction feature of Palestinian-American director Annemarie Jacir, and the first feature film from Palestine by a female director, it is an intimate, urgent and rousing piece of political filmmaking.

SELECTED AWARDS

CARTHAGE FILM FESTIVAL 2008
WINNER!  Randa Chahal Prize
CINEFAN FESTIVAL OF ASIAN AND ARAB CINEMA 2008
WINNER!  Asian andArab Competition
WINNER!  FIPRESCI Prize
SAN SEBASTIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2007
WINNER!  Cinema in Motion Award

SELECTED REVIEWS

"...Jacir possesses an impressive capacity for personal, deeply affecting filmmaking." — NPR

 "A sad and engrossing look at a haunted landscape."   —  New York Times

"Journeying from Brooklyn to Palestine, a young Arab-American woman named Soraya (Hammad) mounts a personal fight against political injustice in this impassioned...diaspora drama."   — Time Out New York

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors:  Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis
Director:  Annemarie Jacir
Format:  Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Language:  English
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Studio:  Lorber Films
DVD Release Date:  June 7, 2011
Run Time:  105 minutes

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A brilliant historical satire teeming with inventive flourishes, Three Ages is a silent comedy of truly epic proportions. This clever parody of D. W. Griffith's Intolerance follows Buster's hard-luck romantic adventures throughout world history: form the dawn of man in the Stone Age, through the gladiatorial arenas of Ancient Rome, to the city streets of the American Jazz Era.

The films in this collection have been mastered in HD from archival 35mm elements, authorized by the Buster Keaton Estate.

REVIEWS

"Buster Keaton's comic masterpiece Sherlock Junior is not only one of the funniest movies of all time, filled with staggering stunts, amazing sight gags, and mind-boggling cinematic tricks, but it's also a brilliant meditation on the nature of the film medium itself, perhaps the best ever made."  — TV Guide

"Sherlock Junior, Keaton's third feature under his own steam is an incredible technical accomplishment, but also an almost Pirandellian exploration of the nature of cinematic reality."  — Time Out London

DVD BONUS FEATURES

Sherlock Junior

• Music by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra in 2.0 stereo & 5.1 surround
• Music by the Club Foot Orchestra (2.0)
• Vintage jazz score compiled by Jay Ward
• Audio commentary by film historian David Kalat
• Documentary short on the making of the film, written by film historian David B. Pearson
• Visual essay on the film’s locations by Silent Echoes author John Bengtson

Three Ages

• Music arranged and directed by Robert Israel in 2.0 stereo
• Organ score by Lee Erwin
• Piano score
• Man’s Genesis (1912): a nine-minute excerpt of the D.W. Griffith prehistoric romance that inspired Keaton’s parody
• Visual essay on the film’s locations by Silent Echoes author John Bengtson
• Three Ages re-cut as a trio of stand-alone short films.
• Director: Buster Keaton

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Ward Crane, Wallace Beery, Margaret Leahy
Directors: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Silent, Special Edition, Surround Sound
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 2
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Distributor: Kino International
DVD Release Date: November 16, 2010
Run Time: 140 minutes

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In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich.  Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose.  One of its few female members, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans.  Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to the White Rose, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless.

Armed with long-buried historical records of her incarceration, director Marc Rothemund expertly re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl’s life:  a heart-stopping journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence.

SELECTED AWARDS

BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2005
WINNER!  SILVER BERLIN BEAR,
Best Director and Best Actress
WINNER!  PRIZE OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY COMPETITION
NOMINEE, GOLDEN BERLIN BEAR
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2005
WINNER!  EUROPEAN FILM AWARD
Best Actress, Best Director, Audience Award
NOMINEE, EUROPEAN FILM AWARD
Best Film and European Film Award
GERMAN FILM AWARDS 2005
WINNER!  FILM AWARD IN SILVER
Outstanding Feature Film
GERMAN FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS 2006
WINNER!  GERMAN FILM CRITICS AWARD, Best Actress
MUNIC FILM FESTIVAL 2005
WINNER!  BERHARD WICKI FILM AWARD

SELECTED REVIEWS

“Powerful! Jentsch is a mesmerizing presence!”  — New York Daily news

“As befits a film about a woman who took much of her strength from religious conviction, Jentsch’s performance seems to be lit from within. This role has so taken hold of the actress that we feel we're seeing Scholl’s spirit come to life again.”  — Los Angeles Times

“Challenges you to gauge your own courage!"  — New York Times

“Gripping, moving!...Julia Jentsch gives a brilliantly nuanced performance as Sophie...a rare beacon of conscience in totalitarianism’s dark night.”  — Village Voice

“A shattering experience fueled by Jentsch’s electrifying performance! She captures the uncommon bravery as well as the very human fears of an ‘ordinary’ German girl who continued to hold out hope for her nation's soul throughout the Nazi nightmare.”  — T.V. Guide 

“A heartbreaking yet stirring reminder of the perils, and glory, of courage. A magnetic lead performance... Riveting!”  — Vogue

“Chilling authenticity! Grippingly portrayed!  Julia Jentsch is terrific. An ace performance.”  — Variety

DVD SPECIAL FEATURES

• U.S. theatrical trailer
• The Making of Sophie Scholl”: One hour of behind-the-scenes production footage and on-location interviews
• Thirteen deleted and alternate scenes
• Historical interviews about the real Sophie Scholl and The White Rose, including archival trial footage
• Optional English subtitles

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors:  Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Gerald Alexander Held, Johanna Gastdorf, André Hennicke
Director:  Marc Rothemund
Writer:  Fred Breinersdorfer
Producers:  Andreas Schreitmüller, Bettina Reitz, Christoph Müller, Fred Breinersdorfer, Hubert von Spreti
Format:  Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language:  German 
Subtitles:  English
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio:  1.85:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Distributor:  Zeitgeist Films
DVD Release Date:  November 14, 2006
Run Time:  120 minutes 

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Their ultimatum, delivered in Mandarin, is as simple as it is virtually impossible to fulfill: “You give us $800 tonight, or your debt is doubled.” With the family he supports half a world away, Ming has a single rain-soaked shift at his job -- anonymously and almost wordlessly delivering Chinese food on Manhattan’s Upper West Side -- in which to pay off his thuggish creditors.

Deftly combining a “terrific cast” (The New Yorker) of professionals and non-actors with uncompromisingly ingenious DV photography that is “beautiful in unexpected ways under rough-and-ready conditions” (Variety), Take Out intelligently illuminates an immigrant underdog and his small community of harried co-workers with the same in-the-moment, pragmatic honesty with which Ming endures the constant deprivations of life on the American margin. “This,” raved the Village Voice, “is as exceptional as micro-budget cinema gets.”

AWARDS

NASHVILLE FILM FESTIVAL 2004
WINNER!  DREAMMAKER AWARD, Narrative Competition
HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2004
NOMINEE, BEST FEATURE FILM 

SELECTED REVIEWS

“Exceptional... Some of the most authentic neo-realism this side of De Sica.”  — Village Voice

“A remarkable film... Baker and Tsou’s simple narrative feels like a richly authentic documentary.”  
— The New Yorker

“Keeps you on the edge of your seat... city guerilla filmmaking at its finest.”   — Film Journal International

DVD BONUS MATERIALS

• Audio Commentary with Directors Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou and Actor Charles Jang
• Cast and Crew Interviews
• Two Deleted Scenes
• Charles Jang’s Audition for Ming Ding
• Theatrical Trailer
• Stills Gallery
• Optional Chinese subtitles
• Optional English subtitles
• Enhanced for 16 x 9 television

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors:  Charles Jang
Directors:  Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou
Format:  Color, Dubbed, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language:  Mandarin
Subtitles:  English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio:  1.85:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Distributor:  Kino Video
DVD Release Date:  September 1, 2009
Run Time:  87 minutes

FOR MORE INFORMATION

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Unknown to them both, Carmen has become a porn star in the Northern countries, and a Danish crew flies in to help Alfredo make an Ingmar Bergman inspired feature film called Torremolinos 73. Instead of a career in show business, Carmen is eager to have a baby, and the tension between the artist and his muse grows.

SELECTED AWARDS

BUTACA AWARDS 2003
WINNER!  BUTACA
Best Catalan Film Actress
CINEMA WRITERS CIRCLE AWARDS, SPAIN 2004
NOMINEE, CEC Award
FOTOGRAMAS DE PLATA 2004
NOMINEE, Fotogramas de Plata
GOYA AWARDS 2004
NOMINEE, Goya
MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL 2004
WINNER!  Best Actress
MALAGA SPANISH FILM FESTIVAL 2003
WINNER!  Golden Biznaga
WINNER!  Silver Biznaga
ONDAS AWARDS 2003
WINNER!   Best Actor
PALM SPRINGS INT'L FILM FESTIVAL 2004
WINNER!  NEW VOICES/NEW VISIONS
Grand Jury Prize
SANT JORDI AWARDS 2004
WINNER!  Sant Jordi
SPANISH ACTORS UNION 2004
NOMINEE, AWARD OF THE SPANISH ACTORS UNION
TOULOUSE CINESPANA 2003
WINNER!  Violetta d'Or

SELECTED REVIEWS

"An absolute riot!" — Time Out Film Guide

"A smart, unpretentious comedy about passion, movies and love!" — Washington Post

"Fun, kinky comedy!" — TV Guide

"Positively groovy! The excellent Javier Camera could become another Peter Sellers!"
— New York Post

"Bawdy, charming adult comedy!"  — Los Angeles Times

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors:  Javier Camara, Candela Peña, Juan Diego, Fernando Tejero, Mads Mikkelsen
Format:  Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: Spanish 
Subtitles:  English
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio:  1.85:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Distributor:  First Run Features
DVD Release Date:  February 21, 2006
Run Time:  91 minutes

DVD BONUS MATERIALS

• Director's introduction
• Cast & director biographies
• Photo gallery
• Sexy trailers from the 1960s and 1970s

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Meanwhile, the young boy has his own awakening to mortality as he attempts to nurse a bird he thoughtlessly injured with a stone. Yong-Kyun BaeThe title of the film is a Zen koan— a paradox meant to aid meditation—that provokes the question of the distinction between leaving and arriving. This magnificent film, quietly powerful and astonishingly rich in formal beauty, is not only a cinematic gem, but an evocative meditation on the cyclical nature of existence. Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? does not seek to explain the tenets of Zen Buddhism so much as illuminate the mysteries of life that lie behind them. This definitive version of the film, with never before seen footage, is remastered and painstakingly re-cut by the visionary director Bae Yong-kyun himself.

SELECTED REVIEWS

"...a combination of a modern art class, theology lecture, and philosophy discussion, but with few actions and even fewer words."  — FilmCritic.com 

"...challenging, meditative and exquisitely photographed film."  — NYMag.com

"...the visuals effortlessly evoke the enigmatic nature of being that Zen Buddhism attempts to understand and teach..."  — Independent Film Quarterly

DVD BONUS FEATURES - DIRECTOR'S DELUXE EDITION

• Brand-new master cut with definitive director's cut including new footage (running time 145 minutes)
• Enhanced for widescreen TV
• Dolby digital 5.1 DTS, Dolby digital 2.0 stereo
• Improved English subtitles
• Subtitles in English and Korean
• and more!

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors:  Hae-Jin Huang, Pan-Yong Yi, Su-Myong Ko, Won-Sop Sin
Director:  Bae Yong-Kyun
Format:  Color, Widescreen, NTSC, Surround Sound
Language:  Korean
Subtitles:  English
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio:  1.66:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Studio:  New Yorker Video/Milestone Cinematheque
DVD Release Date:  September 15, 2009
Run Time:  145 minutes

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Meanwhile, Tomoyo's slain husband, Wakiya (Yoshio Harada), returns from the dead to torment his murderer, the jealous Onimatsu (Kazuhiko Hasegawa), who hopes to put the ghost to rest for good.

AWARDS

AWARDS OF THE JAPANESE ACADEMY 1992
NOMINEE, Best Sound
YOKOHAMA FILM FESTIVAL 1992
WINNER!  FESTIVAL PRIZE Best Supporting Actress
WINNER!  FESTIVAL PRIZE Best Art Direction

DVD BONUS MATERIALS

• Suzuki Bio/Filmography
• Original theatrical trailer
• Original key art/press images
• Print essay on Suzuki and the Taisho Trilogy 

FILM SPECIFICATIONS

Actors:  Kenji Sawada, Tomoko Mariya, Masumi Miyazaki, Tamasaburo Bando, Yoshio Harada
Director:  Seijun Suzuki
Writer:  Yôzô Tanaka
Producer:  Genjiro Arato
Format:  Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language:  Japanese 
Subtitles:  English
Region:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio:  1.66:1
Number of discs:  1
Rated:  Unrated
Studio:  Kimstim
DVD Release Date:  March 7, 2006
Run Time:  128 minutes

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