Random DVD and Blu-ray announcements

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If I played videogames I'd be playing this:


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September 29, 2017

Doug Pray's documentary Hype! (1996) on blu-ray from Shout Factory



Drop into the Pacific Northwest in the early '90s and watch a vibrant underground music scene explode into a global "grunge" media frenzy. Hype! follows the music from local bands playing for their friends, to Sub Pop Record's brilliant exploitation of "the Seattle Sound," to Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" hitting #1 on the charts. Questions of money, authenticity, and fame arise as "grunge fashion" hits the runways and a mass migration of wanna-be Seattle bands saturates the city. The Northwest experience is one of humor, loss, and epic irony. With intense live performances by Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Pearl Jam, and many more, Hype! rocks the definitive story of the world's last great local music scene.



wilder

Quote from: wilder on April 18, 2017, 06:43:10 PM
August 22, 2017

Dusty Nelson's Effects (1980) on blu-ray from AGFA and Something Weird Video, restored in 4K from the only 35mm print in existence by The American Genre Film Archive (AGFA)



Cobbled together with loose change by George Romero's friends, Effects is a mesmerizing D.I.Y. frightmare that no one talks about, but everyone should. A group of coked-up filmmakers -- including Tom Dawn of the Dead Savini, Joe Day of the Dead Pilato, and John Tales from the Darkside: The Movie Harrison -- gather in Pittsburgh to make a slasher. As filming begins and accidents happen, it's clear that something isn't right. And no one can be trusted. Landing somewhere between Snuff and a student film by John Carpenter, Effects is a meta-enhanced takedown on the philosophy of horror that doubles as a sleazy and terrifying movie on its own.

Effects (1980) - Amazon





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Fall 2017 TBD

Edgar Reitz's Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (1984-2004) on blu-ray from Second Sight (UK). Betting Criterion will also put it out eventually. Stanley Kubrick was a huge fan.

Quote from: Jan Harlan"Stanley was completely taken by Heimat. The idea of telling such an 'impossible to tell story' through the eyes of a bunch of simple villagers he considered completely new and brilliant. To show 'heaven' convincingly and without special effects on the top floor of a country inn and have the dead people observe 'us' – he was deeply moved. There are a number of other scenes like that. He was so taken by it that he hired the art director and costume designer for preparation of Wartime Lies (Aryan Papers). There are some specific scenes we saw together again and again (having videotaped the BBC2 broadcast) and I remember it all very well."



Several series of films in 32 episodes written and directed by Edgar Reitz which view life in Germany between 1919 and 2000 through the eyes of a family from the Hunsrück area of the Rhineland. Personal and domestic life is set against glimpses of wider social and political events. The combined length of the 32 films is 53 hours and 25 minutes, making it one of the longest series of feature-length films in cinema history.

The title Heimat is a German word meaning "homeland" or "home place." Usage has come to include that of an ironic reference to the film genre known as Heimatfilm which was popular in Germany in the 1950s. Heimat films were characterized by rural settings, sentimental tone and simplistic morality.

Aesthetically, all three series are notable for their frequent switching between color and black-and-white film to convey different emotional states.






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Release date: out across the sea, probably headed to Criterion

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QuoteFor the discerning science fiction fan, this is the best of the Eastern-bloc Cold War Sci-fi epics, a genuinely brilliant and warmly human 'Voyage to the End of the Universe' restored in 4k resolution. It's from before 2001: A Space Odyssey and has an equally wondrous but totally different vision of the future. Hopefully this will soon be readily available here; buying it required some clever footwork by Foreign Exchange of Culver City. Starring my favorite Czech personalities Radovan Lukavský, Zdenek Stepánek, Frantisek Smolík, Irena Kacírková and Dana Medrická. Please Marek, forgive my incompetent diacritical marks! On Blu-ray from NFA (Czech).

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QuoteJanus is now the official North American partner for the NFA. From the titles they mention (in addition to the already in-print Marketa Lazarová) we could expect The Cremator, All My Good Countrymen, Three Wishes for Cinderella, and Ikarie XB1, among others.






Release date: August 22, 2017

MoC trailer:



QuoteI can't think of a better movie to demonstrate how a good silent picture communicates, as opposed to a talking picture that just relies on dialogue. Varieté has few scenes and few dialogue inter-titles; most everything is communicated through the stylized acting and the psychologically 'active' camera. Emil Jannings' performance is 90% externalization of feelings — there's no information being given, just emotions. Boss reacts to his wife, and then he reacts to his baby. We see what a gentle and caring soul he is, and he also makes a human connection with us. Then Bertha-Marie nails Boss Huller's attention with her large, dark eyes, and he is lost. We see him resist but the attraction is too great. The basic emotions flowing across Janning's face show a lot of nuance, and they cross all language barriers. Everyone understands Boss Huller's situation as a prisoner, when his whole body seems to sag in shame. Everybody can follow Boss's thoughts when he covets the desirable Bertha-Marie. Emil Jannings isn't a handsome man, but his acting makes us identify strongly with him. If this guy can desert the baby he loves so much, he's clearly acting under an irresistible compulsion.

basically this entire review Glenn Erickson is trying to explain how good this movie is.

wilder

2017 TBD

Arthur Penn's Night Moves (1975) on blu-ray form Warner Archive, from a new 4K remaster



L.A. detective Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) has problems. Missing persons and bedroom stakeouts are no match for his glory days as a pro football player. His wife is having a not-so-secret affair. And while sorting things out, he takes on the case of a runaway teenager that may be a lot more than he can handle.





September 5, 2017

Carl Reiner's Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) on blu-ray from Universal



Parodies of the '40s hard boiled detective genre, with a very clever conceit: weaving the plot and production design around memorable movie clips (The Killers, The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, White Heat, This Gun for Hire, Sorry, Wrong Number, Notorious). Cool Rigby Reardon tries solving an incomprehensible mystery with the assistance of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Burt Lancaster, Fred MacMurray, Ingrid Bergman, and Ray Milland, among others.





October 9, 2017

Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir (1952) on blu-ray from Arrow Academy (UK)



The French writer Guy de Maupassant has inspired many great filmmakers. Among those to adapt his short stories and novels were Jean-Luc Godard, Kenji Mizoguchi, Walerian Borowczyk, Harry Kümel, Luis Buñuel and Christian-Jacque. But it was arguably Max Ophuls, with his 1952 feature, Le Plaisir, who proved to be the most adept.

Le Plaisir takes three of de Maupassant's stories as its source: in Le Masque, a masked dandy conceals a secret; in La Maison Tellier, the girls of a small-town brothel are taken on an outing to attend the communion of the madam's niece; and in La Modèle, a painter falls in love with his model, but the course of love isn't as smooth as either expected.

To tell these tales, Ophuls assembled a remarkable cast of French talent, including Jean Gabin (Pépé le Moko, La Grande illusion), Pierre Brasseur (Eyes Without a Face, Spotlight on a Murderer), Danielle Darrieux (Madame de..., Les Demoiselles de Rochefort), Claude Dauphin (Casque d'Or, Barbarella), Simone Simon (Cat People, La Ronde) and many more besides.






October 16/17, 2017

Federico Fellini's The Voice of the Moon (1990) on blu-ray from Arrow Academy (UK) and Arrow US, from a new 2K restoration of the original film elements



The swansong of the great Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini (La dolce vita, 8½), The Voice of the Moon emerged without fanfare: it played the Cannes Film Festival out of competition after its Italian premiere and failed to secure distribution in North America and the UK. This new restoration from the original negative seeks to right that wrong and provide the film with a second chance...

Adapted from a novel by Ermano Cavazzoni, The Voice of the Moon concerns itself with Ivo Salvini (Roberto Benigni, Life Is Beautiful), recently released from a mental hospital and in love with Aldini (Nadia Ottaviani). As he attempts to win her heart, he wanders a strange, dreamlike landscape and encounters various oddball characters, including Gonnella (Paolo Villagio, Fantozzi), a paranoid old man prone to conspiracy theories.

Concluding a career that had stretched back more than fifty years, The Voice of the Moon combines the nostalgia of Amarcord (the film is set in Emilia-Romagna countryside of the director's youth), the surreal satire of City of Women and the naïf-adrift-in-a-brutal-world structure of La strada. Plenty for Fellini fans to get their teeth into.

jenkins

Quote from: jenkins on July 20, 2017, 11:08:02 AM
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QuoteJanus is now the official North American partner for the NFA. From the titles they mention (in addition to the already in-print Marketa Lazarová) we could expect The Cremator, All My Good Countrymen, Three Wishes for Cinderella, and Ikarie XB1, among others.

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The Cremator (1969)

QuoteSet in World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.



All My Good Countrymen(1969)



QuoteVarious scenes in the life of a tight-knit community in Czechoslovakia exploring the human spirit in the backdrop of the political changes that they experience.

no trailer but two wildly different scenes





Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)

QuoteLife changes dramatically for a Czech housemaid when the house driver gives her three magical hazel nuts.



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QuoteOne of the most beloved films in all Eastern European cinema, Václav Vorlíček's reworking of the classic Cinderella tale is both delightful and unconventional. Deviating from the original story, yet retaining an air of real magic and beauty, Three Wishes for Cinderella takes the familiar fairy tale and invests it with a feisty and rebellious Cinderella who - far from being some passive beauty - rides a horse, knows how to hunt and actively pursues her handsome Prince.

Shot on location in around the famous Švihov castle and the surrounding forests of Bohemia, the film grounds the familiar fairy tale in a realistic setting with down-to-earth characters, and a remarkable central performance by the young Libuše Šafránková.

Three Wishes for Cinderella became a treasured Christmas holiday classic in various European countries, and one which continues to charm and attract new audiences.

wilder

Quote from: jenkins on July 20, 2017, 11:08:02 AM





QuoteFor the discerning science fiction fan, this is the best of the Eastern-bloc Cold War Sci-fi epics, a genuinely brilliant and warmly human 'Voyage to the End of the Universe' restored in 4k resolution. It's from before 2001: A Space Odyssey and has an equally wondrous but totally different vision of the future. Hopefully this will soon be readily available here; buying it required some clever footwork by Foreign Exchange of Culver City. Starring my favorite Czech personalities Radovan Lukavský, Zdenek Stepánek, Frantisek Smolík, Irena Kacírková and Dana Medrická. Please Marek, forgive my incompetent diacritical marks! On Blu-ray from NFA (Czech).

That's what I'm talking about. Some restored footage:




Again, I'm reminded of the thing Matt said in the Ghost Story thread, which is beginning to feel like a manifesto for filmmaking in the 21st century:

Quote from: matt35mm on January 27, 2017, 05:35:25 PM
One thing I'll say is that I've recently been thinking about how we've reached the limit of how deep a literal/realistic approach to storytelling in film can go. At least for me as a viewer. There've been a bunch of recent movies that have done a great job of being observant and understated and demonstrating all these things that are true about how people behave and how things happen and so on, but... I find that I can't give that much of a shit about it anymore. Meanwhile, movies that engage with symbolism and theme are striking me as able to probe much deeper into its ideas, because of the distillation of its ideas into images and moments. There is so much more feeling in it. I would never say "cinema is dead" but I agree with Scorsese that "images don't mean anything anymore" in the great majority of contemporary cinema, especially when compared to older cinema. Most filmmakers aren't even trying to create new and striking and meaningful images.

My favorite movies of the past few years are incredibly playful with the filmmaking, even when the themes are serious. There is a joy in it. An engagement with the form, and the possibilities. Even though the word "playful" sounds unserious, it's really the only way to be serious.

THE SEVENTH SEAL is playful. PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE is playful. ERASERHEAD is playful. CITIZEN KANE is playful. POINT BLANK is playful. THE LOVE WITCH is playful. THE RED SHOES is playful. A GHOST STORY is playful.


So many of these older Russian and Czech movies are great examples of this storytelling style. Most of them are fairly difficult to find in official home video releases, at least English-friendly ones.


Quote from: jenkins on July 20, 2017, 05:10:31 PM
The Cremator (1969)



QuoteSet in World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.


Hell yeah. My boy Juraj. He also made a super cool adaptation of Beauty and the Beast.

Quote from: Senses of CinemaThe 1978 adaptation by the Czechoslovak film-maker Juraj Herz is both a vital addition to – and a radical departure from – the tradition of fairy tales on film. Its title, Panna a netvor, has been translated with equal validity as The Beauty and the Beast or The Virgin and the Monster. As this alternate title implies, the dimension of horror (not to mention outright revulsion) is far stronger in this version than in any of its more mainstream rivals. The Graeco-Roman myth of Cupid and Psyche confronts its heroine with the very real fear that "the husband who comes secretly gliding into your bed at night is an enormous snake, with widely gaping jaws, a body that could coil around you a dozen times and a neck swollen with deadly poison."1 Not one of the better-known film versions conveys anything like this degree of terror.







Beauty and the Beast (1978) trailer on Vimeo


Quote from: jenkins on July 20, 2017, 05:10:31 PM
Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)



QuoteLife changes dramatically for a Czech housemaid when the house driver gives her three magical hazel nuts.

QuoteOne of the most beloved films in all Eastern European cinema, Václav Vorlíček's reworking of the classic Cinderella tale is both delightful and unconventional. Deviating from the original story, yet retaining an air of real magic and beauty, Three Wishes for Cinderella takes the familiar fairy tale and invests it with a feisty and rebellious Cinderella who - far from being some passive beauty - rides a horse, knows how to hunt and actively pursues her handsome Prince.

Shot on location in around the famous Švihov castle and the surrounding forests of Bohemia, the film grounds the familiar fairy tale in a realistic setting with down-to-earth characters, and a remarkable central performance by the young Libuše Šafránková.

Three Wishes for Cinderella became a treasured Christmas holiday classic in various European countries, and one which continues to charm and attract new audiences.


Never heard of this. Looks really interesting.

wilder

September 15, 2017

David Cronenberg's eXistenZ (1999) on limited edition blu-ray from Ledick Filmhandel GmbH (Germany). Unfortunately it's being sourced from the same lackluster transfer as every other eXistenZ blu-ray release thus far, with minor brightness adjustments. However, this German release will include all of the extra features that were absent from the Region A barebones Echo Bridge disc, including three audio commentaries.



Video game designer Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) has created a virtual reality game called eXistenZ. After a crazed fan attempts to kill her, Allegra goes on the run with Ted (Jude Law), a young businessman who falls into the role of bodyguard. In an attempt to save her game, Allegra implants into Ted's body the video game pod that carries a damaged copy of eXistenZ. Allegra and Ted engage in a series of experiences that blur the lines between fantasy and reality.

eXistenZ (1999) - Amazon Germany

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September 26, 2017

Walter Hill's The Long Riders (1979) on blu-ray from Kino, from a new 4K restoration



Jesse James and his gang of outlaws ride again in this "extraordinary" Western that pulsates with hard-driving action and electrifying drama. Four sets of acclaimed actor brothers - Dennis and Randy Quaid, Stacy and James Keach, Christopher and Nicholas Guest and Keith, Robert and David Carradine -- each depict real-life siblings in emotionally charged portrayals of the Old West's legendary bandits.

The notorious James-Younger gang is the most famous group of outlaws in the country, robbing banks, trains and stagecoaches with a sense of daring that makes them folk heroes throughout the land. But when the mighty Pinkerton detective agency swears to track them down, these criminals must face an awesome enemy that will stop at nothing to see them behind bars. ..or dead! Only through the strength of their loyalty and blood ties can the outlaws hope to survive the brutal pursuits, unexpected betrayals and blistering showdowns that mark the end of their dangerous ride.


The Long Riders (1979) - Amazon






November 7, 2017

John Landis' Into the Night (1985) on blu-ray from Shout Factory



Ed Orkin (Jeff Goldblum) is an insomniac with a cheating wife and a dull job. His chances for excitement look hopeless until a mysterious blond named Diana (Michelle Pfeiffer) drops onto the hood of his car. Now it's Ed's turn for some adventure and romance as Diana leads him on a merry and murderous chase where the payoff could be dollars or death.





February 13, 2018

Martn Rosen's The Plague Dogs (1982) on blu-ray from Shout Factory. From the director of Watership Down.



Two dogs escape the research facility where they've been subjected to cruel experiments, and are subsequently hunted by the government because they may carry the plague.






2017 TBD

Kinji Fukasaku's The Green Slime (1968) on blu-ray from Warner Archive



After a perilous mission to a huge asteroid, a crew returns to its space station, unaware a bit of ooze from the asteroid clings to a crewman's uniform. The green goop grows - into murderous, tentacled monsters. And as station members fight to live, gunk from the monsters' wounds turns into more monsters!






2017 TBD

John Landis' Innocent Blood (1992) on blu-ray from Warner Archive



Anne Parillaud stars as sexy vampire Marie who accidentally neglects to finish off the mob boss (Robert Loggia), her latest snack. When he awakens to find he's a member of a new underworld family, he wastes no time in turning his mob goons into vampires. Also starring Anthony LaPaglia, Don Rickles, and Chazz Palminteri.






2017 TBD

The Hidden (1987) on blu-ray from Warner Archive



A series of bizarre, inexplicable robberies and murders have L.A. police detective Tom Beck (Nouri) totally baffled. And it doesn't help when mysterious FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher (MacLachlan) tells him that a demonic extraterrestrial creature is invading the bodies of innocent victims - and transforming them into inhuman killers with an unearthly fondness for heavy-metal music, red Ferraris and unspeakable violence. The Hidden a spine-chilling, high-velocity sci-fi thriller






October 2017 TBD

Jean-Luc Godard's La Chinoise (1967) and Le Gai Savior (1969) on blu-ray from Kino. Also coming from Arrow Academy in the UK later in the year.



1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth of communism in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their own revolution. Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire.




While alone in an abandoned television studio, two militants, Emile Rousseau (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and Patricia Lumumba (Juliet Berto), have a discourse on language. Referring to spoken word as "the enemy"--the weapon used by the establishment to confuse liberation movements--the two deconstruct the meanings of sounds and images in an attempt to "return to zero" and truly experience the joy of learning.



jenkins

wilder, to whom i like to tell my movie collecting stories, since we're the same person like that,

i did indeed end up buying Fellini's Roma, but this morning i spent my remaining criterion money on this Kino Lorber Studio Classics sale

QuoteTo celebrate the launch of the new Kino Lorber Studio Classics website we're having our biggest sale ever! 401 titles! DVDs as low as $5.98! Blu-rays from $7.98!

Free USA Shipping - Orders of $50 or more
Free Canada Shipping - Orders of $100 or more

Sale starts today and ends Sunday, August 6th!

John Ford's The Hurricane is going out of print on July 31st - DVD $7.98 | BD $9.98 (while quantities last)

dude The Hurricane was (is?) on netflix forever but i never got around to watching it, but they said that thing about the blu-ray going oop and i ended up buying it. okay they duped me. because sometimes i'm a sucker. to get my free shipping i needed over $50, so i also got Freeway, which you had mentioned as a good idea. i bought Welcome to L.A. because i read a thing that compared it to Nashville, you know. really i shouldn't read things about things. then i bought Hester Street because it was listed in that National Archives Registry section. so i needed one over $10, The Wanderers was out of stock and i decided i know well the story of rock and roll, most genre movies are feelings i know well, and i ended up buying this one because of things like this poster



what my reactions to these movies will be i'm not sure

jenkins

spoiler: i'll think it's a good idea you told me about the movie and thanks as always xx.

the list of movies i don't like is far, far shorter than the list of movies i like. i like movies. in the past four years i've only regretted buying The Arrival. my regrets lean toward what i don't buy, this time being Ken Russell's Billion Dollar Brain, Paul Verhoeven's Flesh + Blood, Allan Dwan's Zaza, John Ford's 3 Bad Men, Henry Hathaway's 23 Paces to Baker Street , and finally J.Lee Thomson's White Buffalo (when will i finally see this??), i already mentioned The Wanderers, and what already drives me crazy is Deluge.

QuoteDeluge is a 1933 American Pre-Code apocalyptic, science fiction film released by RKO Radio Pictures, and directed by Felix E. Feist. The film depicts a group of worldwide natural disasters which lead to the destruction of the earth.

Deluge was out of stock and that broke my heart since i'm impatient. here is NYC being destroyed in Deluge--


wilder

August 1, 2017

Frank Capra's The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932) on MOD blu-ray from SBE



A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love.

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932) - Amazon






September 19, 2017

Takeshi Kitano's Hana-Bi aka Fireworks (1997) on blu-ray from Film Movement



Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.

Fireworks (1997) - Amazon



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Just learned about this German DVD & Blu-ray label Bildstörung. The owners, Alexander Beneke and Carsten Baiersdörfer, have really interesting taste. The label specializes in foreign arthouse and exploitation films, and what could generally be described as 'wide angle oddities'.

To give you an idea, some of the titles in their catalog already available in the US from other labels include:

-Aleksei German's Hard to Be A God (2013)
-Lodge Kerrigan's Clean, Shaven (1993)
-Andrzej Zulawski's Possession (1981)
-Stuart Cooper's Overlord (1975)
-Walerian Borowczyk's La Bete (1975)
-Jaromil Jireš' Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
-František Vláčil's Marketa Lazarová (1967)

Below are some of their titles that are unreleased or OOP in the US.


The restoration work they did on Robert Sigl's Laurin (1989) is unbelievable:



Strange goings on in an idyllic harbour town at the turn of the last century. Children disappear without trace. Death in the form of man dressed in black seems to plague the area. The nine-year-old girl Laurin is haunted by creepy dreams and hallucinations of a man heaving a sack and children drumming in fear against closed windows. Step by step Laurin tries to unravel this terrifying mosaic and eventually puts her own life at risk.

Laurin (1989) - Restoration comparison on Vimeo



Zbynek Brynych's The Bitches aka Die Weibchan (1970) - Blu-ray



Outrageous sleaze joins an exclusive health spa only to discover it's run by feminist cannibals.





Nikos Nikolaidis' Singapore Sling (1990) - Blu-ray with English subtitles



A man on a mission to find his missing lover meets a mother and daughter with their own grisly agenda.

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Jean-Claude Brisseau's Sound and Fury (1988) - DVD



This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a phantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he befriends the violent Jean-Roger, who's from a severely disturbed family, where nobody cares what he's doing. In school Jean-Roger drives their teacher into despair just for fun. To separate the two boys, she starts to stimulate Bruno's interests by giving him extra lessons. When Jean-Roger fears loosing his one and only friend, he becomes even more aggressive.

Quote from: IMDB user Guillaume DésiletsThis movie is like CLOCKWORK ORANGE without the science fiction. Brisseau could direct scenes as unforgettable as the Russian roulette scenes in DEER HUNTER ; He's got the same dark, ultra-realistic way of filming things that are beautiful or horrible.







Iván Zulueta's Arrebato aka Rapture (1979) - DVD



A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.





Rolf de Heer's Bad Boy Bubby (1993) - DVD



Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him that the air outside is poisonous. After a visit from his estranged father, circumstances force Bubby into the waiting world, a place which is just as unusual to him as he is to the world.

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Henri Xhonneux's Marquis (1989) - DVD



In pre-French Revolution Bastille, the Marquis is held being unjustly accused of working to overthrow the king. While his talking penis, Colin, longs for action, Marquis himself only desires to write his deviant stories in peace.





wilder

November 28, 2017

Rob Reiner's Misery (1990) on blu-ray from Shout Factory, from a new 4K transfer



Novelist Paul Sheldon (Cann) doesn't remember the blinding blizzard that sent his car spinning off the road. Nor does he remember being nursed back from unconsciousness. All he remembers is waking up in the home of Annie Wilkes (Bates) - a maniacal fan who is bent on keeping her favorite writer as her personal prisoner...for the rest of his 'cock-a-doodie' life!