DVD press release
NOW ON DVD & BLU-RAY
LE QUATTRO VOLTE
A FILM BY MICHELANGELO FRAMMERTINO
An idyllic village in Italy's mountainous region of Calabria is the setting for LE QUATTRO VOLTE, an exquisitely filmed take on the cycles of life. Structured in four parts, per its title ("four times"), it opens with a shepherd tending his herd of goats, then shifts focus to one animal in particular, the tree under which he seeks shelter, and the industrialized fate of that plant.
DVD price: $22.50 plus tax
Blu-ray price: $26.00 plus tax
Click here to order the DVD
Click here to order the Blu-ray
Expected delivery time: approximately 2 weeks from date of order.
All orders shipped by UPS Ground
Your credit card will not be charged until your order is shipped.
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NOW ON DVD & BLU-RAY
LE QUATTRO VOLTE
A FILM BY MICHELANGELO FRAMMERTINO
An idyllic village in Italy's mountainous region of Calabria is the setting for LE QUATTRO VOLTE, an exquisitely filmed take on the cycles of life. Structured in four parts, per its title ("four times"), it opens with a shepherd tending his herd of goats, then shifts focus to one animal in particular, the tree under which he seeks shelter, and the industrialized fate of that plant.
DVD price: $22.50 plus tax
Blu-ray price: $26.00 plus tax
Click here to order the DVD
Click here to order the Blu-ray
Expected delivery time: approximately 2 weeks from date of order.
All orders shipped by UPS Ground
Your credit card will not be charged until your order is shipped.
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The Criterion Collection - DVD UPDATE
New on Blu: 3 Women and My Life as a Dog
Criterion has upgraded two of its most beloved titles to Blu-ray: Robert Altman’s bewitching character study 3 Women and Lasse Hallström’s moving, Oscar-nominated evocation of childhood, My Life as a Dog.
Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek both won major awards for their electrifying, oddball work in Altman’s film (Duvall at Cannes, Spacek from the New York Film Critics Circle), a dreamlike tale of two roommates in a dusty California resort town
who seem to switch personalities.
Though often compared to the earlier Persona and the later Mullholland Drive, 3 Women is unlike anything you’ve seen, and according to a review at Home Theater Forum, it “comes to Blu-ray looking the best it has ever looked on home video.”
My Life as a Dog is a warmer, sweeter experience, but just as clearly the result of a strong directorial vision. A DVD File review calls this Swedish story of a twelve-year-old sent away to his uncle’s small village after his mother falls ill a “fully formed little gem that continues to resonate with audiences today.”
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New on Blu: 3 Women and My Life as a Dog
Criterion has upgraded two of its most beloved titles to Blu-ray: Robert Altman’s bewitching character study 3 Women and Lasse Hallström’s moving, Oscar-nominated evocation of childhood, My Life as a Dog.
Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek both won major awards for their electrifying, oddball work in Altman’s film (Duvall at Cannes, Spacek from the New York Film Critics Circle), a dreamlike tale of two roommates in a dusty California resort town
who seem to switch personalities.
Though often compared to the earlier Persona and the later Mullholland Drive, 3 Women is unlike anything you’ve seen, and according to a review at Home Theater Forum, it “comes to Blu-ray looking the best it has ever looked on home video.”
My Life as a Dog is a warmer, sweeter experience, but just as clearly the result of a strong directorial vision. A DVD File review calls this Swedish story of a twelve-year-old sent away to his uncle’s small village after his mother falls ill a “fully formed little gem that continues to resonate with audiences today.”
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Press release
Milestone Films wanted to let you know FIRST about the chance to buy DVDs of several titles that are on the verge of going out of print. The inventory for each of these is 50 or fewer DVDs.
THESE DVDS ARE OFFERED FOR $49.95 ON A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED BASIS. WHEN THEY ARE GONE, THEY ARE MOST LIKELY (alas) GONE FOR GOOD.
At some time in the future Milestone may someday be able to reprint one or two of these titles, but there are no current plans.
To purchase, please order on our Website or call 800-603-1104 to speak to us directly. First come, first served!
Evangeline
Director: Edwin Carewe. USA. 1929. 87 minutes. Black & White/Tinted. Cast: Dolores del Rio and Donald Reed.
A story of lost love deeply ingrained in American mythology, Evangeline vividly brings to life the human consequences of historical tragedy. This is the best and most renowned film version of the classic story by one of America’s greatest poets, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Dolores del Rio, the legendary Mexican actress and one of film’s great beauties, is at her best and most stunning in this tragic tale of long-lost love. The film’s dazzling cinematography includes some of the most arresting images in all of silent cinema.
Link here to order Evangeline
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Director: Alfred Green and Jack Pickford USA. 1921. 112 minutes. Tinted. [SILENT]
Cast: Mary Pickford, Claude Gillingwater, Joseph Dowling, James Marcus and Kate Price.
Young Cedric and his widowed mother, “Dearest,” live in the slums of 1880s New York. Although small in stature, Cedric is a local legend for his fierce battles against neighborhood bullies. The poor-but-respectable family’s fortunes change when the elderly Earl of Dorincourt commissions a solicitor to bring his rightful heir, Cedric, back to England. The Earl welcomes Cedric, but exiles Dearest to a cottage, unjustly accusing her of marrying his son for money. Cedric must conquer the Earl’s hardened heart. Playing both Cedric and his gentle mother, Pickford exhibits her remarkable range as an actress.
Link here to order Little Lord Fauntleroy
Mad Love
Director: Evgeni Bauer. Russia. 1913-1916. 145 minutes. Black & White /Tinted [SILENT].
Cast: Vera Karall, Vitold Polonskii, Vera Dubovskaia.
Russian film poet Evgeni Bauer is perhaps the greatest film director you have never heard of. During his brief four-year career, Bauer created macabre masterpieces — dramas darkly obsessed with doomed love and death, astonishing for their graceful camera movements, risqué themes, opulent sets and chiaroscuro lighting. For many decades, Bauer’s films were buried in the archives — declared too "cosmopolitan" and bizarre for the puritanical Soviet regime. Restored by Gosfilmofond and featuring brilliant new scores Mad Love is a must-have collection for all lovers of cinema. Watching these extraordinary films is like peering into one of the Tsar’s magnificent Fabergé Eggs.
Link here to order Mad Love
Millay at Steepletop
Director: Kevin Brownlow. USA/England. 1968. 37 minutes. Black & White /Tinted [Documentary].
Cast: Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis.
Millay at Steepletop is Oscar®-winner Kevin Brownlow’s loving tribute to the great American poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, filmed entirely at her upstate New York farm. Combining images of the poet’s home with readings of her poems, exclusive archival footage, and interviews, the film captures the brilliance and passion of Millay’s life and art. The first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Millay was beautiful, vivacious, sexually liberated and supremely talented—the feminine ideal of the jazz age. Her quatrain, “My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light!” became the joyful hymn of her generation. The DVD comes with Brownlow’s first film The Last Tram.
Link here to order Millay at Steepletop
Night Tide
Director: Curtis Harrington. USA. 1963. 84 minutes. Black & White.
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, Gavin Muir, Luana Anders, Marjorie Cameron and Chaino.
Johnny Drake, a young sailor on leave meets a dark-haired girl at a ramshackle amusement pier. The ethereal young woman turns out to be one of the park’s prize exhibits — a living mermaid! Naturally, Johnny doesn''t buy this fish tale, but disturbing and tantalizing clues hint at a supernatural explanation for her otherworldly behavior. Will Johnny find out the answers before it’s too late or will the siren song of an ancient race lure him into the night tide of a watery death? Curtis Harrington combined his background as an avant-garde filmmaker with a love for the horror/mystery genre to create this cult classic. The late Dennis Hopper in his first (and favorite) starring role infused his performance with an edgy sense of danger.
Link here to order Night Tide
Tabu
Director: F.W. Murnau. Tahiti. 1931. 82 minutes. Black & White. Cast: Matahi and Reri (Anna Chevalier).
Filmed entirely in Tahiti, F.W. Murnau’s last film tells the story of lovers doomed by a tribal edict decreeing the girl “tabu” to all men. Tabu capture the beauty of the tropical sunlight sparkling on the ocean and glistening on the beautiful young bodies of the native men and women. This cinematic landmark is one of the most gorgeous black-and-white films ever made, and was the 1931 Academy Award® winner for Best Cinematography. Tragically, Murnau died in an auto accident weeks before the film’s premiere.
Link here to order Tabu
La Terre
Director: André Antoine. France. 1921. 97 minutes. Black & White [SILENT].
In this powerful adaptation of Emile Zola’s novel of family greed and deceit, patriarch Pére Fouan divides his land between his two scheming sons — but his generosity is rewarded with treachery. When beautiful neighbor Françoise (Germaine Rouer) discovers the sons’ plot, she falls victim to their brutal revenge. The final scene of the family’s tragic fate is one of cinema’s most haunting achievements. André Antoine’s visual compositions were shot on location and are expressive of the relationship between the farmer and the land and the battle of good against evil.
Link here to order La Terre
Tonight or Never
Director: Mervyn LeRoy. USA. 1931. 80 minutes. Black & White. Cast: Gloria Swanson and Melvyn Douglas.
Opera singer Nella Vago (Gloria Swanson) thrills audiences, but her teacher tells her that she will never have the soul of a true artist until she experiences real passion. The mysterious admirer (Melvyn Douglas in his first feature) who paces the courtyard outside Nella’s window each night may be a gigolo, but when he insists that it is “tonight or never,” the diva’s next performance is sublime. This witty comedy features subtle and not-so-subtle sexual innuendo — a staple of pre-Code Hollywood’s Golden Age.
Link here to order Tonight or Never
With Byrd at the South Pole
Director: Joseph Rucker, Willard van der Veer. Antarctica. 1930. 82 minutes. B&W [Documentary].
Admiral Richard Byrd was one of the most popular heroes of the age of exploration. His 1929 South Pole flight could well called the first media expedition and included such PR stunts as a nationwide contest to find a Boy Scout to join the Byrd party. A reporter for the New York Times traveled along with the Admiral to Antarctica and won a Pulitzer Prize for his daily coverage — which appeared on front pages across the country. Also on hand were two Paramount Newsreel cameramen who captured the entire journey on film and won an Academy Award® for With Byrd at the South Pole.
Link here to order With Byrd at the South Pole
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Milestone Films wanted to let you know FIRST about the chance to buy DVDs of several titles that are on the verge of going out of print. The inventory for each of these is 50 or fewer DVDs.
THESE DVDS ARE OFFERED FOR $49.95 ON A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED BASIS. WHEN THEY ARE GONE, THEY ARE MOST LIKELY (alas) GONE FOR GOOD.
At some time in the future Milestone may someday be able to reprint one or two of these titles, but there are no current plans.
To purchase, please order on our Website or call 800-603-1104 to speak to us directly. First come, first served!
Evangeline
Director: Edwin Carewe. USA. 1929. 87 minutes. Black & White/Tinted. Cast: Dolores del Rio and Donald Reed.
A story of lost love deeply ingrained in American mythology, Evangeline vividly brings to life the human consequences of historical tragedy. This is the best and most renowned film version of the classic story by one of America’s greatest poets, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Dolores del Rio, the legendary Mexican actress and one of film’s great beauties, is at her best and most stunning in this tragic tale of long-lost love. The film’s dazzling cinematography includes some of the most arresting images in all of silent cinema.
Link here to order Evangeline
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Director: Alfred Green and Jack Pickford USA. 1921. 112 minutes. Tinted. [SILENT]
Cast: Mary Pickford, Claude Gillingwater, Joseph Dowling, James Marcus and Kate Price.
Young Cedric and his widowed mother, “Dearest,” live in the slums of 1880s New York. Although small in stature, Cedric is a local legend for his fierce battles against neighborhood bullies. The poor-but-respectable family’s fortunes change when the elderly Earl of Dorincourt commissions a solicitor to bring his rightful heir, Cedric, back to England. The Earl welcomes Cedric, but exiles Dearest to a cottage, unjustly accusing her of marrying his son for money. Cedric must conquer the Earl’s hardened heart. Playing both Cedric and his gentle mother, Pickford exhibits her remarkable range as an actress.
Link here to order Little Lord Fauntleroy
Mad Love
Director: Evgeni Bauer. Russia. 1913-1916. 145 minutes. Black & White /Tinted [SILENT].
Cast: Vera Karall, Vitold Polonskii, Vera Dubovskaia.
Russian film poet Evgeni Bauer is perhaps the greatest film director you have never heard of. During his brief four-year career, Bauer created macabre masterpieces — dramas darkly obsessed with doomed love and death, astonishing for their graceful camera movements, risqué themes, opulent sets and chiaroscuro lighting. For many decades, Bauer’s films were buried in the archives — declared too "cosmopolitan" and bizarre for the puritanical Soviet regime. Restored by Gosfilmofond and featuring brilliant new scores Mad Love is a must-have collection for all lovers of cinema. Watching these extraordinary films is like peering into one of the Tsar’s magnificent Fabergé Eggs.
Link here to order Mad Love
Millay at Steepletop
Director: Kevin Brownlow. USA/England. 1968. 37 minutes. Black & White /Tinted [Documentary].
Cast: Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis.
Millay at Steepletop is Oscar®-winner Kevin Brownlow’s loving tribute to the great American poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, filmed entirely at her upstate New York farm. Combining images of the poet’s home with readings of her poems, exclusive archival footage, and interviews, the film captures the brilliance and passion of Millay’s life and art. The first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Millay was beautiful, vivacious, sexually liberated and supremely talented—the feminine ideal of the jazz age. Her quatrain, “My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light!” became the joyful hymn of her generation. The DVD comes with Brownlow’s first film The Last Tram.
Link here to order Millay at Steepletop
Night Tide
Director: Curtis Harrington. USA. 1963. 84 minutes. Black & White.
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, Gavin Muir, Luana Anders, Marjorie Cameron and Chaino.
Johnny Drake, a young sailor on leave meets a dark-haired girl at a ramshackle amusement pier. The ethereal young woman turns out to be one of the park’s prize exhibits — a living mermaid! Naturally, Johnny doesn''t buy this fish tale, but disturbing and tantalizing clues hint at a supernatural explanation for her otherworldly behavior. Will Johnny find out the answers before it’s too late or will the siren song of an ancient race lure him into the night tide of a watery death? Curtis Harrington combined his background as an avant-garde filmmaker with a love for the horror/mystery genre to create this cult classic. The late Dennis Hopper in his first (and favorite) starring role infused his performance with an edgy sense of danger.
Link here to order Night Tide
Tabu
Director: F.W. Murnau. Tahiti. 1931. 82 minutes. Black & White. Cast: Matahi and Reri (Anna Chevalier).
Filmed entirely in Tahiti, F.W. Murnau’s last film tells the story of lovers doomed by a tribal edict decreeing the girl “tabu” to all men. Tabu capture the beauty of the tropical sunlight sparkling on the ocean and glistening on the beautiful young bodies of the native men and women. This cinematic landmark is one of the most gorgeous black-and-white films ever made, and was the 1931 Academy Award® winner for Best Cinematography. Tragically, Murnau died in an auto accident weeks before the film’s premiere.
Link here to order Tabu
La Terre
Director: André Antoine. France. 1921. 97 minutes. Black & White [SILENT].
In this powerful adaptation of Emile Zola’s novel of family greed and deceit, patriarch Pére Fouan divides his land between his two scheming sons — but his generosity is rewarded with treachery. When beautiful neighbor Françoise (Germaine Rouer) discovers the sons’ plot, she falls victim to their brutal revenge. The final scene of the family’s tragic fate is one of cinema’s most haunting achievements. André Antoine’s visual compositions were shot on location and are expressive of the relationship between the farmer and the land and the battle of good against evil.
Link here to order La Terre
Tonight or Never
Director: Mervyn LeRoy. USA. 1931. 80 minutes. Black & White. Cast: Gloria Swanson and Melvyn Douglas.
Opera singer Nella Vago (Gloria Swanson) thrills audiences, but her teacher tells her that she will never have the soul of a true artist until she experiences real passion. The mysterious admirer (Melvyn Douglas in his first feature) who paces the courtyard outside Nella’s window each night may be a gigolo, but when he insists that it is “tonight or never,” the diva’s next performance is sublime. This witty comedy features subtle and not-so-subtle sexual innuendo — a staple of pre-Code Hollywood’s Golden Age.
Link here to order Tonight or Never
With Byrd at the South Pole
Director: Joseph Rucker, Willard van der Veer. Antarctica. 1930. 82 minutes. B&W [Documentary].
Admiral Richard Byrd was one of the most popular heroes of the age of exploration. His 1929 South Pole flight could well called the first media expedition and included such PR stunts as a nationwide contest to find a Boy Scout to join the Byrd party. A reporter for the New York Times traveled along with the Admiral to Antarctica and won a Pulitzer Prize for his daily coverage — which appeared on front pages across the country. Also on hand were two Paramount Newsreel cameramen who captured the entire journey on film and won an Academy Award® for With Byrd at the South Pole.
Link here to order With Byrd at the South Pole
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Press release - DVD
Lorber Films is proud to announce
the Blu-ray and DVD release of
The Scent of Green Papaya(1993)
on April 26, 2011
a film by Tran Anh Hung
New York, NY - April 14, 2011 - Lorber Films is proud to announce the Blu-ray and DVD release of The Scent of Green Papaya (1993), a film by Tran Anh Hung.
The film comes to Blu-ray and DVD, newly mastered in HD, with special features that include a behind-the-scenes featurette, theatrical trailer and stills gallery. The Blu-ray is priced at $29.95, and the DVD at $24.95. Both are available for the street date April 26, 2011.
An Academy Award® nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Tran Anh Hung's "luxuriant, visually seductive debut" (New York Times) recreates antebellum Vietnam through both the wide eyes of childhood and the deep blush of first love. In 1951 Saigon, 10 year old Mui (Lu Man San) enters household service for an affluent but troubled Vietnamese family.
Despite her servile role, Mui discovers beauty and epiphany in the lush physical details that envelope her, while earning the fragile affection of the household's grieving matriarch. As she comes of age, the now grown Mui (Tran Nu Yen-Khe) finds her relationship with a handsome pianist she has admired since childhood growing in depth and complexity.
Though steeped in writer-director Tran Anh Hung's southeast Asia heritage, The Scent of Green Papaya was realized entirely within a Parisian soundstage. The film's heady, scrupulously detailed and wholly authentic depiction of a society in decline, a family in quiet turmoil, and lovers on the threshold of romance earned the Camera D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. A timeless evocation of life's universal enchantment and a powerful portrait of a vanished world, The Scent of Green Papaya is "a film to cherish" (Roger Ebert).
The Scent of Green Papaya
Director: Tran Anh Hung
Vietnam - France / 1993 / 104 min. / Color / Anamorphic (1.66:1) /
In Vietnamese w/ optional English subtitles
About Kino Lorber
Kino Lorber is the newly formed company that combines the resources, staffs and libraries of Lorber Films, Alive Mind and Kino International, bringing together industry pioneers Richard Lorber and Donald Krim to create a new leader in independent film distribution.
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Lorber Films is proud to announce
the Blu-ray and DVD release of
The Scent of Green Papaya(1993)
on April 26, 2011
a film by Tran Anh Hung
New York, NY - April 14, 2011 - Lorber Films is proud to announce the Blu-ray and DVD release of The Scent of Green Papaya (1993), a film by Tran Anh Hung.
The film comes to Blu-ray and DVD, newly mastered in HD, with special features that include a behind-the-scenes featurette, theatrical trailer and stills gallery. The Blu-ray is priced at $29.95, and the DVD at $24.95. Both are available for the street date April 26, 2011.
An Academy Award® nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Tran Anh Hung's "luxuriant, visually seductive debut" (New York Times) recreates antebellum Vietnam through both the wide eyes of childhood and the deep blush of first love. In 1951 Saigon, 10 year old Mui (Lu Man San) enters household service for an affluent but troubled Vietnamese family.
Despite her servile role, Mui discovers beauty and epiphany in the lush physical details that envelope her, while earning the fragile affection of the household's grieving matriarch. As she comes of age, the now grown Mui (Tran Nu Yen-Khe) finds her relationship with a handsome pianist she has admired since childhood growing in depth and complexity.
Though steeped in writer-director Tran Anh Hung's southeast Asia heritage, The Scent of Green Papaya was realized entirely within a Parisian soundstage. The film's heady, scrupulously detailed and wholly authentic depiction of a society in decline, a family in quiet turmoil, and lovers on the threshold of romance earned the Camera D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. A timeless evocation of life's universal enchantment and a powerful portrait of a vanished world, The Scent of Green Papaya is "a film to cherish" (Roger Ebert).
The Scent of Green Papaya
Director: Tran Anh Hung
Vietnam - France / 1993 / 104 min. / Color / Anamorphic (1.66:1) /
In Vietnamese w/ optional English subtitles
About Kino Lorber
Kino Lorber is the newly formed company that combines the resources, staffs and libraries of Lorber Films, Alive Mind and Kino International, bringing together industry pioneers Richard Lorber and Donald Krim to create a new leader in independent film distribution.
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DVD press release
ARAYA on DVD now!
a film by Margot Benacerraf
World DVD Premiere - See the trailer at www.arayafilm.com
April 15, 2011-MILESTONE is proud to present one of the finest cinematic discoveries in recent years. In 1959, ARAYA shared the prestigious International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival with Alain Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour.
But it was soon overlooked and forgotten until Milestone restored ARAYA from the original 35mm internegative and released it in theaters in 2009. Critics and audiences were stunned by the glowing cinematography, powerful story and passionate love for the culture that director Margot Benacerraf had captured so many decades before. Her meticulously planned tone poem's imagery, music, sound and language create a moving and magical exploration of a desolate place and the remarkable people who lived there.
Benacerraf's tour de force explores a day in the lives of three families living in Araya, an arid peninsula in northeastern Venezuela. For centuries, since its discovery by the Spanish, the region's salt was collected and stacked into radiant white pyramids. Benacerraf captured breathtaking and unforgettable images - from the saliñeros toiling to build the mountains of salt, to fishermen hauling in huge teeming nets, to a young girl and her grandmother laying “flowers” of shells on windswept graves.
Milestone's deluxe DVD edition is derived from a stunning 2K scan off of the director's original 35mm interpositive. With three added documentaries on Benacerraf, two commentary tracks with the director, and her first film REVERON on the famed Venezuelan painter, ARAYA is guaranteed to be one of the best releases of the year!
Available everywhere! The DVD is available for purchase direct from www.arayafilm.com or calling Milestone's toll-free number (800) 603-1104
A FILM BY THE MARGOT BENACERRAF PRESERVATION FUNDED BY MILESTONE FILM & VIDEO RESTORED BY SCOTT MacQUEEN and DENNIS DOROS WITH FOTOKEM, MODERN VIDEOFILM AND AUDIO MECHANICS DVD PRODUCED BY D. ADRIAN ROTHSCHILD
Featured at 2009 Berlin International Film Festival and screened in over 75 US cities.
VENEZUELA/FRANCE
SPECIAL BONUS FEATURES
1) ARAYA (82 mins. B&W. 16x9.) New 2K scan from the original 35mm interpositive.
2) Restored Spanish soundtrack with new English subtitles. French language soundtrack.
3) REVERON, the first film by Margot Benacerraf. 1953. B&W. 23 minutes.
4) THE FILM OF HER LIFE: ARAYA. Documentary by Antoine Mora.
5) Two extensive television interviews with Margot Benacerraf.
6) Two Audio Commentaries: Interviews with Margot Benacerraf on ARAYA and REVERON.
7) ARAYA American trailer.
8) ARAYA Press kit (PDF file for DVD-Rom download)
9) From the Files of Margot Benacerraf (PDF file for digital download)
Street 04/05/11 UPC 784148011448 SRP $29.95 ISBN 978-1-933920-22-1 Item # MILE00114
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ARAYA on DVD now!
a film by Margot Benacerraf
World DVD Premiere - See the trailer at www.arayafilm.com
April 15, 2011-MILESTONE is proud to present one of the finest cinematic discoveries in recent years. In 1959, ARAYA shared the prestigious International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival with Alain Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour.
But it was soon overlooked and forgotten until Milestone restored ARAYA from the original 35mm internegative and released it in theaters in 2009. Critics and audiences were stunned by the glowing cinematography, powerful story and passionate love for the culture that director Margot Benacerraf had captured so many decades before. Her meticulously planned tone poem's imagery, music, sound and language create a moving and magical exploration of a desolate place and the remarkable people who lived there.
Benacerraf's tour de force explores a day in the lives of three families living in Araya, an arid peninsula in northeastern Venezuela. For centuries, since its discovery by the Spanish, the region's salt was collected and stacked into radiant white pyramids. Benacerraf captured breathtaking and unforgettable images - from the saliñeros toiling to build the mountains of salt, to fishermen hauling in huge teeming nets, to a young girl and her grandmother laying “flowers” of shells on windswept graves.
Milestone's deluxe DVD edition is derived from a stunning 2K scan off of the director's original 35mm interpositive. With three added documentaries on Benacerraf, two commentary tracks with the director, and her first film REVERON on the famed Venezuelan painter, ARAYA is guaranteed to be one of the best releases of the year!
Available everywhere! The DVD is available for purchase direct from www.arayafilm.com or calling Milestone's toll-free number (800) 603-1104
A FILM BY THE MARGOT BENACERRAF PRESERVATION FUNDED BY MILESTONE FILM & VIDEO RESTORED BY SCOTT MacQUEEN and DENNIS DOROS WITH FOTOKEM, MODERN VIDEOFILM AND AUDIO MECHANICS DVD PRODUCED BY D. ADRIAN ROTHSCHILD
Featured at 2009 Berlin International Film Festival and screened in over 75 US cities.
VENEZUELA/FRANCE
SPECIAL BONUS FEATURES
1) ARAYA (82 mins. B&W. 16x9.) New 2K scan from the original 35mm interpositive.
2) Restored Spanish soundtrack with new English subtitles. French language soundtrack.
3) REVERON, the first film by Margot Benacerraf. 1953. B&W. 23 minutes.
4) THE FILM OF HER LIFE: ARAYA. Documentary by Antoine Mora.
5) Two extensive television interviews with Margot Benacerraf.
6) Two Audio Commentaries: Interviews with Margot Benacerraf on ARAYA and REVERON.
7) ARAYA American trailer.
8) ARAYA Press kit (PDF file for DVD-Rom download)
9) From the Files of Margot Benacerraf (PDF file for digital download)
Street 04/05/11 UPC 784148011448 SRP $29.95 ISBN 978-1-933920-22-1 Item # MILE00114
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DVD Info from Criterion
New on Bluray:
Au revoir les enfants and Yi Yi
Two outstanding movies that touch on universal themes of childhood will be available in new Blu-ray special editions from the Criterion Collection.
Louis Malle’s heartrending 1987 Au revoir les enfants, the director’s intensely personal, semiautobiographical depiction of the friendship that develops between two boarding-school students in Nazi-occupied France, one Catholic and one Jewish and in hiding. It’s a raw and engrossing portrait of goodness in the midst of evil.
We’re also proud to present a Blu-ray edition of Yi Yi, the gentle, visually lovely domestic epic from 2000 directed by the late Edward Yang, who helped bring Taiwanese cinema to an international audience. Presenting a year in the life of an urban family, Yi Yi is one of the most exquisitely wrought dramas we can recall, and it features an unforgettable performance by young Jonathan Chang as the precocious photographer Yang-Yang.
Did You Know . . .
That if you register for an account at criterion.com, we’ll send you a $50 gift certificate for every $500 you spend? Once you’ve registered, it’s automatic! Click here to create an account and get started saving!
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New on Bluray:
Au revoir les enfants and Yi Yi
Two outstanding movies that touch on universal themes of childhood will be available in new Blu-ray special editions from the Criterion Collection.
Louis Malle’s heartrending 1987 Au revoir les enfants, the director’s intensely personal, semiautobiographical depiction of the friendship that develops between two boarding-school students in Nazi-occupied France, one Catholic and one Jewish and in hiding. It’s a raw and engrossing portrait of goodness in the midst of evil.
We’re also proud to present a Blu-ray edition of Yi Yi, the gentle, visually lovely domestic epic from 2000 directed by the late Edward Yang, who helped bring Taiwanese cinema to an international audience. Presenting a year in the life of an urban family, Yi Yi is one of the most exquisitely wrought dramas we can recall, and it features an unforgettable performance by young Jonathan Chang as the precocious photographer Yang-Yang.
Did You Know . . .
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DVD release info
DOGTOOTH
NOMINATED IN THE BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM CATEGORY FOR THE 83RD ACADEMY AWARDS®
NOW AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY
New York, NY - March 21, 2011 - Kino International is proud to announce the Blu-ray release of Yorgos Lanthimos' DOGTOOTH. Recently nominated by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in the Foreign Language Film category for the 83rd Academy Awards®, DOGTOOTH is set to street on March 29, 2011, with a SRP of $34.95.
Already available on DVD, iTunes, Amazon, Netflix and several on demand channels, Yorgos Lanthimos' DOGTOOTH is a hyper-stylized mixture of physical violence and verbal comedy.
The story is focused on three teenagers who are confined to their parents' isolated country estate and kept under strict rule and regimen. Terrorized into submission by their father, the children spend their days devising their own games and learning an invented vocabulary (a salt shaker is a "telephone," an armchair is "the sea"). However, their routine changes when a trusted outsider, brought in to satisfy the son's libidinal urges, offers forbidden VHS tapes in return for sexual favors - unleashing an unexpected chain of events.
Born in Athens in 1973, director Yorgos Lanthimos studied film and television direction at Stavrakos Film School. Since 1995, he has directed numerous short films (including 2001's Uranisco Disco), experimental theater, music videos and commercials; his first feature film was 2005's internationally-acclaimed Kinetta
This is only the 5th time that a Greek film has been nominated for an Academy Award®. The last nomination was in 1977, for Michael Caycoyannis' Iphigenia.
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FESTIVAL/AWARD HIGHLIGHTS
Best Film, Best Director, Best Script, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Film Editing. - Greek Film Academy Awards
Prize Un Certain Regard. - Cannes International Film Festival
Special Jury Award. - Sarajevo Film Festival Best Film Award. - Stockholm International Film Festival
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DOGTOOTH
NOMINATED IN THE BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM CATEGORY FOR THE 83RD ACADEMY AWARDS®
NOW AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY
New York, NY - March 21, 2011 - Kino International is proud to announce the Blu-ray release of Yorgos Lanthimos' DOGTOOTH. Recently nominated by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in the Foreign Language Film category for the 83rd Academy Awards®, DOGTOOTH is set to street on March 29, 2011, with a SRP of $34.95.
Already available on DVD, iTunes, Amazon, Netflix and several on demand channels, Yorgos Lanthimos' DOGTOOTH is a hyper-stylized mixture of physical violence and verbal comedy.
The story is focused on three teenagers who are confined to their parents' isolated country estate and kept under strict rule and regimen. Terrorized into submission by their father, the children spend their days devising their own games and learning an invented vocabulary (a salt shaker is a "telephone," an armchair is "the sea"). However, their routine changes when a trusted outsider, brought in to satisfy the son's libidinal urges, offers forbidden VHS tapes in return for sexual favors - unleashing an unexpected chain of events.
Born in Athens in 1973, director Yorgos Lanthimos studied film and television direction at Stavrakos Film School. Since 1995, he has directed numerous short films (including 2001's Uranisco Disco), experimental theater, music videos and commercials; his first feature film was 2005's internationally-acclaimed Kinetta
This is only the 5th time that a Greek film has been nominated for an Academy Award®. The last nomination was in 1977, for Michael Caycoyannis' Iphigenia.
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FESTIVAL/AWARD HIGHLIGHTS
Best Film, Best Director, Best Script, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Film Editing. - Greek Film Academy Awards
Prize Un Certain Regard. - Cannes International Film Festival
Special Jury Award. - Sarajevo Film Festival Best Film Award. - Stockholm International Film Festival
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New on BluRay:
Amarcord and The Double Life of Véronique
Two visual tours de force from the Criterion Collection are now available in new Blu-ray special editions. The release of Amarcord, Federico Fellini’s beloved journey into his own past, marks our first high-definition upgrade of a color film by the Italian maestro. It’s a sumptuous work, featuring a rich palette of reds and blues, a tapestry of colorful characters, and fanciful dream sequences—not to mention that pretty, prancing peacock.
Meanwhile, Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Véronique, one of contemporary cinema’s most extraordinary enigmas, returns as well. This indescribably gorgeous international breakthrough from the director of the Three Colors trilogy concerns the parallel paths of two women (both played by the enchanting Irène Jacob) from different countries who’ve never met but whose lives are connected in a way both strange and spiritual.
Art Print Sale
In honor of Fellini’s classic coming to Blu-ray, we’re offering a special deal on our Amarcord limited-edition fine art prints. Signed by painter Caitlin Kuhwald, these are printed on archival-quality acid-free paper with inks designed to last up to two hundred years without losing any detail or vibrancy.
Use the promo code RIMINI through the end of the month of Feb. 2011 to save fifty dollars on this gorgeous print. Note: quantities are limited.
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Amarcord and The Double Life of Véronique
Two visual tours de force from the Criterion Collection are now available in new Blu-ray special editions. The release of Amarcord, Federico Fellini’s beloved journey into his own past, marks our first high-definition upgrade of a color film by the Italian maestro. It’s a sumptuous work, featuring a rich palette of reds and blues, a tapestry of colorful characters, and fanciful dream sequences—not to mention that pretty, prancing peacock.
Meanwhile, Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Véronique, one of contemporary cinema’s most extraordinary enigmas, returns as well. This indescribably gorgeous international breakthrough from the director of the Three Colors trilogy concerns the parallel paths of two women (both played by the enchanting Irène Jacob) from different countries who’ve never met but whose lives are connected in a way both strange and spiritual.
Art Print Sale
In honor of Fellini’s classic coming to Blu-ray, we’re offering a special deal on our Amarcord limited-edition fine art prints. Signed by painter Caitlin Kuhwald, these are printed on archival-quality acid-free paper with inks designed to last up to two hundred years without losing any detail or vibrancy.
Use the promo code RIMINI through the end of the month of Feb. 2011 to save fifty dollars on this gorgeous print. Note: quantities are limited.
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Box Set promo info (discount codes at bottom of post)
America Lost and Found:
The BBS Story
In the late sixties and early seventies, following years of bloated epics and low theater attendance, American cinema went through an astonishing renaissance. Spearheading this revolution were the men who began BBS Productions:
Bob Rafelson
Bert Schneider
Steve Blauner
They brought a little counterculture into the studio system, creating one uncompromised, radical vision after another, from the Monkees’ psychedelic trip Head to the earthshaking highway run Easy Rider to the quintessential dead-end-town drama The Last Picture Show.
These were the films that launched stars like Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Cybil Shepherd, Ellen Burstyn, and more, and you can see them all in the new seven-film box set America Lost and Found: The BBS Story, available now on Blu-ray (the DVD version comes out on December 14).
America Lost and Found:
The BBS Story
In the late sixties and early seventies, following years of bloated epics and low theater attendance, American cinema went through an astonishing renaissance. Spearheading this revolution were the men who began BBS Productions:
Bob Rafelson
Bert Schneider
Steve Blauner
They brought a little counterculture into the studio system, creating one uncompromised, radical vision after another, from the Monkees’ psychedelic trip Head to the earthshaking highway run Easy Rider to the quintessential dead-end-town drama The Last Picture Show.
These were the films that launched stars like Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Cybil Shepherd, Ellen Burstyn, and more, and you can see them all in the new seven-film box set America Lost and Found: The BBS Story, available now on Blu-ray (the DVD version comes out on December 14).
Publicity from Criterion
ALL HAIL KING
Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King
Our release of The Actuality Dramas of Allan King this month epitomizes the goal of the Eclipse line: to introduce viewers to filmmakers they may not have heard of or whose work has been overshadowed. And we couldn’t be more excited to spread the word about Allan King.
A Canadian documentary artist whose feature filmmaking career stretched from the late sixties to his death in 2009, he made cinema-verité-style films that plumb the depths of such universal topics as childhood, adolescence, marriage, aging, and dying.
Taken together, the five astonishingly intimate and artful works in this set form nothing less than a life cycle. Films like A Married Couple, an outrageous, pre–Grey Gardens peek into the home of an eccentric twosome chafing at their domestic bonds, and Dying at Grace, an uncompromising visitation with a handful of terminally ill patients in their final days, are not soon forgotten.
Take it from the great Jean Renoir, who, upon seeing King’s debut, the Cannes prizewinner Warrendale, exclaimed, “Allan King is a great artist.”
FIVE-DVD BOX SET INCLUDES:
WARRENDALE
King takes viewers into an experimental home for troubled youths in this unsettling, cleansing work, full of pure emotion and one of the benchmarks of Direct Cinema.
A MARRIED COUPLE
The institution of marriage gets a major workout in this alternately amusing and disturbing peek at the domestic lives of Billy and Antoinette Edwards, who, like the viewers of A Married Couple, are too close for comfort.
COME ON CHILDREN
Having invited a group of disaffected teenagers to live on a farm, without supervision, for ten weeks, King captures an oddly beautiful portrait of early 1970s alienation.
DYING AT GRACE
King’s late-career masterpiece is one of the most emotionally affecting works of nonfiction in cinema history. A description of it—a document of the final days of five terminally ill patients—can barely prepare you for the power and elegance of Dying at Grace.
MEMORY FOR MAX, CLAIRE, IDA AND COMPANY
In filming a group of nursing home residents with different forms of dementia, King created a touching, immensely humane portrait of the precariousness of memory.
Available now!
Retails for: $69.95
Criterion Store price: $55.96
READ Michael Koresky’s essays on the films READfilmmaker Sami Khan’s reminiscences about working with Allan King
http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/752-eclipse-series-24-the-actuality-dramas-of-allan-king?utm_medium=email&utm_source=CampaignMonitor&utm_content=217999750&utm_campaign=eclipse-24-allan-king&utm_term=BUYthe5-DVDset
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ALL HAIL KING
Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King
Our release of The Actuality Dramas of Allan King this month epitomizes the goal of the Eclipse line: to introduce viewers to filmmakers they may not have heard of or whose work has been overshadowed. And we couldn’t be more excited to spread the word about Allan King.
A Canadian documentary artist whose feature filmmaking career stretched from the late sixties to his death in 2009, he made cinema-verité-style films that plumb the depths of such universal topics as childhood, adolescence, marriage, aging, and dying.
Taken together, the five astonishingly intimate and artful works in this set form nothing less than a life cycle. Films like A Married Couple, an outrageous, pre–Grey Gardens peek into the home of an eccentric twosome chafing at their domestic bonds, and Dying at Grace, an uncompromising visitation with a handful of terminally ill patients in their final days, are not soon forgotten.
Take it from the great Jean Renoir, who, upon seeing King’s debut, the Cannes prizewinner Warrendale, exclaimed, “Allan King is a great artist.”
FIVE-DVD BOX SET INCLUDES:
WARRENDALE
King takes viewers into an experimental home for troubled youths in this unsettling, cleansing work, full of pure emotion and one of the benchmarks of Direct Cinema.
A MARRIED COUPLE
The institution of marriage gets a major workout in this alternately amusing and disturbing peek at the domestic lives of Billy and Antoinette Edwards, who, like the viewers of A Married Couple, are too close for comfort.
COME ON CHILDREN
Having invited a group of disaffected teenagers to live on a farm, without supervision, for ten weeks, King captures an oddly beautiful portrait of early 1970s alienation.
DYING AT GRACE
King’s late-career masterpiece is one of the most emotionally affecting works of nonfiction in cinema history. A description of it—a document of the final days of five terminally ill patients—can barely prepare you for the power and elegance of Dying at Grace.
MEMORY FOR MAX, CLAIRE, IDA AND COMPANY
In filming a group of nursing home residents with different forms of dementia, King created a touching, immensely humane portrait of the precariousness of memory.
Available now!
Retails for: $69.95
Criterion Store price: $55.96
READ Michael Koresky’s essays on the films READfilmmaker Sami Khan’s reminiscences about working with Allan King
http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/752-eclipse-series-24-the-actuality-dramas-of-allan-king?utm_medium=email&utm_source=CampaignMonitor&utm_content=217999750&utm_campaign=eclipse-24-allan-king&utm_term=BUYthe5-DVDset
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Publicity for 3-film DVD set
COLOSSAL COSTA
We’re always excited to introduce a new filmmaker into the Criterion Collection. Already this year, we’ve added such pantheon-confirmed auteurs as Leo McCarey, Sidney Lumet, and Nicholas Ray, as well as the phenomenally talented contemporary directors Steve McQueen and Götz Spielmann.
Now we present Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa.
Though the Portuguese director may not be a household name, he is one of the most important artists working in international cinema, a true poet who sees beauty in even the most abject of places—specifically, in the Lisbon slums populated by immigrant lives where he set this stunning trilogy, which includes:
Ossos (1997)
In Vanda’s Room (2000)
Colossal Youth (2006)
These are tough, challenging works, mixing fiction and documentary and featuring painterly, shadowy cinematography. Critical acclaim has been universal, and in a recent Film Comment poll of more than one hundred international reviewers, filmmakers, and programmers, In Vanda’s Room and Colossal Youth were named two of the fifty best films of the previous decade.
The evocative, nearly operatic imagery in this Colossal Youth trailer is a perfect first taste of the amazing art of Pedro Costa.
BUY the DVD box set
WATCH Pedro Costa and J. P. Gorin talk about Fontainhas
READ Cyril Neyrat’s essay
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COLOSSAL COSTA
We’re always excited to introduce a new filmmaker into the Criterion Collection. Already this year, we’ve added such pantheon-confirmed auteurs as Leo McCarey, Sidney Lumet, and Nicholas Ray, as well as the phenomenally talented contemporary directors Steve McQueen and Götz Spielmann.
Now we present Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa.
Though the Portuguese director may not be a household name, he is one of the most important artists working in international cinema, a true poet who sees beauty in even the most abject of places—specifically, in the Lisbon slums populated by immigrant lives where he set this stunning trilogy, which includes:
Ossos (1997)
In Vanda’s Room (2000)
Colossal Youth (2006)
These are tough, challenging works, mixing fiction and documentary and featuring painterly, shadowy cinematography. Critical acclaim has been universal, and in a recent Film Comment poll of more than one hundred international reviewers, filmmakers, and programmers, In Vanda’s Room and Colossal Youth were named two of the fifty best films of the previous decade.
The evocative, nearly operatic imagery in this Colossal Youth trailer is a perfect first taste of the amazing art of Pedro Costa.
BUY the DVD box set
WATCH Pedro Costa and J. P. Gorin talk about Fontainhas
READ Cyril Neyrat’s essay
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DVD BOX SET from Criterion: Eclipse series Chantal Akerman in the Seventies
Publicity release
AKERMANIA!
Many Criterion viewers discovered Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman with our release of the singular Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles last year. Luckily, there’s a lot more of her work out there to savor.
In the new Eclipse series Chantal Akerman in the Seventies, we present five visually transfixing and deeply personal movies made in the same decade as that epochal character study. From the raw, sexually audacious portrait of emotional isolation Je tu il elle to the stirring document of 1970s Manhattan News from Home, these are unique works of art, one and all.
And Akerman has been popping up to talk about them, in a new interview with Melissa Anderson for Moving Image Source (in which she reveals why she should have played Anna herself in Les rendez-vous d’Anna) and on a GreenCine Daily podcast, most memorably featuring her thoughts on her choice of horizontal, ground-level shots of New York in News from Home (au revoir, phallic skyscrapers). These are just two ways to get further acquainted with the artist the Village Voice’s J. Hoberman has called “arguably the most important European filmmaker of her generation.”
BUY the 3-DVD set
READ Michael Koresky’s essays on the films
READ Melissa Anderson’s interview with Akerman for Moving Image Source
THREE-DVD BOX SET INCLUDES: THE NEW YORK FILMS
La chambre
In Chantal Akerman’s early short film La chambre, we see the furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back at us. This breakthrough formal experiment is the first film the director made in New York.
Hotel Monterey
Under Chantal Akerman’s watchful eye, a cheap Manhattan hotel glows with mystery and unexpected beauty, its corridors, elevators, rooms, windows, and occasional occupants framed like Edward Hopper tableaux.
News from Home
Akerman’s unforgettable time capsule of New York City in the 1970s is also a gorgeous meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection.
JE TU IL ELLE
In her provocative first feature, Chantal Akerman stars as an aimless young woman who leaves self-imposed isolation to embark on a road trip that leads to lonely love affairs with a male truck driver and a former girlfriend.
LES RENDEZ-VOUS D’ANNA
In one of Akerman’s most penetrating character studies, Anna, an accomplished filmmaker (played by Aurore Clément), makes her way through a series of European cities to promote her latest movie.
Available now!
$44.95
AKERMANIA!
Many Criterion viewers discovered Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman with our release of the singular Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles last year. Luckily, there’s a lot more of her work out there to savor.
In the new Eclipse series Chantal Akerman in the Seventies, we present five visually transfixing and deeply personal movies made in the same decade as that epochal character study. From the raw, sexually audacious portrait of emotional isolation Je tu il elle to the stirring document of 1970s Manhattan News from Home, these are unique works of art, one and all.
And Akerman has been popping up to talk about them, in a new interview with Melissa Anderson for Moving Image Source (in which she reveals why she should have played Anna herself in Les rendez-vous d’Anna) and on a GreenCine Daily podcast, most memorably featuring her thoughts on her choice of horizontal, ground-level shots of New York in News from Home (au revoir, phallic skyscrapers). These are just two ways to get further acquainted with the artist the Village Voice’s J. Hoberman has called “arguably the most important European filmmaker of her generation.”
BUY the 3-DVD set
READ Michael Koresky’s essays on the films
READ Melissa Anderson’s interview with Akerman for Moving Image Source
THREE-DVD BOX SET INCLUDES: THE NEW YORK FILMS
La chambre
In Chantal Akerman’s early short film La chambre, we see the furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back at us. This breakthrough formal experiment is the first film the director made in New York.
Hotel Monterey
Under Chantal Akerman’s watchful eye, a cheap Manhattan hotel glows with mystery and unexpected beauty, its corridors, elevators, rooms, windows, and occasional occupants framed like Edward Hopper tableaux.
News from Home
Akerman’s unforgettable time capsule of New York City in the 1970s is also a gorgeous meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection.
JE TU IL ELLE
In her provocative first feature, Chantal Akerman stars as an aimless young woman who leaves self-imposed isolation to embark on a road trip that leads to lonely love affairs with a male truck driver and a former girlfriend.
LES RENDEZ-VOUS D’ANNA
In one of Akerman’s most penetrating character studies, Anna, an accomplished filmmaker (played by Aurore Clément), makes her way through a series of European cities to promote her latest movie.
Available now!
$44.95
As It Is In Heaven is set to be available to the general public on February 2, 2010!!!
Lorber Films Releases
Academy Award Nominee Feature
As It Is In Heaven
on DVD!
New York, NY - January 7, 2010 - Lorber Films, a division of the recently formed Kino Lorber, is proud to release on DVD the Academy Award Nominee feature (Best Foreign Language film) As It Is In Heaven. The film stars Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist, of the upcoming Millennium film franchise, based on the books by Stieg Larsson.
As It Is In Heaven is set to be available to the general public on February 2nd.
Directed by Kay Pollak, As It Is In Heaven is the story of Daniel Dareus (played by Michael Nyqvist), an internationally renowned music conductor who suffers a heart attack after one of his concerts - and just as suddenly, decides to interrupt his career and return to his childhood village in the far north of Sweden.
Soon after his arrival, members of a local church choir who practice in the parish hall, ask him to listen to a section of their work. And as he gets involved with the choir, and therefore, with the members of his childhood community, Daniel makes new friends - as well as enemies - and unleashes a series of events that forever changes both himself and the ones he once left behind.
A beautiful and engaging film, As It Is In Heaven is a wonderful story about life and love that is bound to appeal to music lovers and anyone interested in heart-wrenching dramas.
Watch an Interview with Director Kay Pollack conducted by The Movie Show Online -
2005
Swedish with English subtitles
132 minutes
16:9 Widescreen
A film by KAY POLLAK
AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
MICHAEL NYQVIST FRIDA HALLGREN LENNART JÄHKEL HELEN SJÖHOLM NIKLAS FALK INGELA OLSSON PER MORBERG AXELLE AXELL LASSE PETTERSON BARBRO KOLLBERG YLVA LÖÖF ULLA BRITT NORRMAN MIKAEL RAHM ANDRÉ SJÖBERG
Scriptwriter & director KAY POLLAK
Director of photography HARALD GUNNAR PAALGARD
Editing THOMAS TÄNG
Composer STEFAN NILSSON
Producers ANDERS BIRKELAND & GÖRAN LINDSTRÖM
Lorber Films
Academy Award Nominee Feature
As It Is In Heaven
on DVD!
New York, NY - January 7, 2010 - Lorber Films, a division of the recently formed Kino Lorber, is proud to release on DVD the Academy Award Nominee feature (Best Foreign Language film) As It Is In Heaven. The film stars Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist, of the upcoming Millennium film franchise, based on the books by Stieg Larsson.
As It Is In Heaven is set to be available to the general public on February 2nd.
Directed by Kay Pollak, As It Is In Heaven is the story of Daniel Dareus (played by Michael Nyqvist), an internationally renowned music conductor who suffers a heart attack after one of his concerts - and just as suddenly, decides to interrupt his career and return to his childhood village in the far north of Sweden.
Soon after his arrival, members of a local church choir who practice in the parish hall, ask him to listen to a section of their work. And as he gets involved with the choir, and therefore, with the members of his childhood community, Daniel makes new friends - as well as enemies - and unleashes a series of events that forever changes both himself and the ones he once left behind.
A beautiful and engaging film, As It Is In Heaven is a wonderful story about life and love that is bound to appeal to music lovers and anyone interested in heart-wrenching dramas.
Watch an Interview with Director Kay Pollack conducted by The Movie Show Online -
2005
Swedish with English subtitles
132 minutes
16:9 Widescreen
A film by KAY POLLAK
AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
MICHAEL NYQVIST FRIDA HALLGREN LENNART JÄHKEL HELEN SJÖHOLM NIKLAS FALK INGELA OLSSON PER MORBERG AXELLE AXELL LASSE PETTERSON BARBRO KOLLBERG YLVA LÖÖF ULLA BRITT NORRMAN MIKAEL RAHM ANDRÉ SJÖBERG
Scriptwriter & director KAY POLLAK
Director of photography HARALD GUNNAR PAALGARD
Editing THOMAS TÄNG
Composer STEFAN NILSSON
Producers ANDERS BIRKELAND & GÖRAN LINDSTRÖM
Lorber Films
Merchant-Ivory's HOWARD'S END comes home to Blu-ray!
HOWARDS END IN HIGH-DEFINITION
Throughout their long and distinguished career, James Ivory and the late Ismail Merchant collaborated on numerous exquisitely wrought, provocative dramas about class and love in England. And none are more exquisite or provocative than the E. M. Forster adaptation Howards End, their triple Oscar winner from 1992, which officially enters the Criterion Collection this week in a special Blu-ray edition.
As extraordinarily expressive as the filmmaking itself, Emma Thompson stars, in a breakthrough role for which she won the Academy Award for best actress, as unlikely hero Margaret Schlegel, who finds herself at the center of an escalating interfamily feud when she marries the upper-crust patriarch Henry Wilcox (played by Anthony Hopkins, fresh from donning Hannibal Lecter’s mask).
Watch the original trailer to grasp the breadth of E. M. Forster’s storytelling and
the rich elegance of Merchant and Ivory’s filmmaking.
BUY the DVD or Blu-ray edition
READ Kenneth Turan’s essay on the film
Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire arrives in Criterion DVD and Blu-ray special editions
ANGELS AMONG US
The least sentimental and most beautiful movie about angels ever made, Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire arrives in Criterion DVD and Blu-ray special editions just in time for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Filmed in a shimmering yet realistic cold-war Berlin only a few years before that momentous event, Wenders’s ode to a troubled city takes a fanciful look at the afterlife, narrated by a gloomy guardian angel: Bruno Ganz’s Damiel, who must choose whether to give up his immortality when he falls in love with a very human trapeze artist.
With its wistful, collagelike impressions of urban life and its pristine, ethereal cinematography (plus Peter Falk!), Wings of Desire is an unforgettable experience.
This stunning original trailer for Wings of Desire lets you glide over Wenders’s images,
from black and white to color and back again.
BUY the DVD or Blu-ray edition
READ Michael Atkinson’s essay on the film
READ Wim Wenders’s original treatment for the film
The least sentimental and most beautiful movie about angels ever made, Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire arrives in Criterion DVD and Blu-ray special editions just in time for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Filmed in a shimmering yet realistic cold-war Berlin only a few years before that momentous event, Wenders’s ode to a troubled city takes a fanciful look at the afterlife, narrated by a gloomy guardian angel: Bruno Ganz’s Damiel, who must choose whether to give up his immortality when he falls in love with a very human trapeze artist.
With its wistful, collagelike impressions of urban life and its pristine, ethereal cinematography (plus Peter Falk!), Wings of Desire is an unforgettable experience.
This stunning original trailer for Wings of Desire lets you glide over Wenders’s images,
from black and white to color and back again.
BUY the DVD or Blu-ray edition
READ Michael Atkinson’s essay on the film
READ Wim Wenders’s original treatment for the film
Facets.com Arthouse Preorder Sale, New DVD Releases & More
ARTHOUSE PREORDER SALE: VIEW ALL
ANIMATION OF ALEXEIEFF
Regular Price: $39.95--Sale Price: $27.96, 11/24/2009
This collection showcases the experimental animations of Russian-born artist/filmmaker Alexander Alexeieff.
BUDDENBROOKS
Regular Price: $39.98--Sale Price: $27.98
Martin Benrath and Ruth Levwerik star in this enthralling German television adaptation of Thomas Mann's Die Buddenbrooks.
GOMORRAH
Regular Price: $39.95--Sale Price: $27.96, 11/24/2009
Winner of the Grand Prize at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, this Italian gangster film is based on Roberto Saviano's account of life in Naples' crime underworld.
PARIS, TEXAS
Regular Price: $39.95--Sale Price: $27.96
A film by Wim Wenders, written by Sam Shepard, photography by Robby Muller, music by Ry Cooder, and starring Harry Dean Stanton and Nastassia Kinski!
DVDS COMING SOON: VIEW RELEASE DATES
AMREEKA
Virgil, $24.99, 1/12/2010
This debut feature from Cherien Dabis is an immigrant drama about a divorced Palestinian mother (Nisreen Faour) who lucks into a Green card.
MY EFFORTLESS BRILLIANCE
MPI, $24.98, 11/17/09
Before directing Humpday, Lynn Shelton earned an Independent Spirit Award for this this low-budget, talky feature.
REMBETIKO
Facets, $29.95, 1/26/2010
In 1984, Costas Ferris' evocative film sparked a rediscovery of rembetika music, a form of urban Greek expression akin to American blues.
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Publicity release: Michael Ritchie’s Downhill Racer gets the Criterion treatment!
TO BE THE BEST
With its thrilling cinematography, kinetic editing, and charismatic star performance from Robert Redford, Michael Ritchie’s Downhill Racer is one of cinema's most critically acclaimed examinations of the life of an athlete.
Not that audiences noticed at the time: this masterly look at competitive skiing was perhaps too uncompromising in its depiction of the lengths to which an athlete must go to be the best, and too artful in its sensibility, to connect at the box office in 1969.
But now this buried treasure is available for the first time on DVD, in a Criterion special edition, and you can see for yourself the state-of-the-art ski photography that has influencedthe way we’ve viewed the sport ever since.
The release features, among other supplements, an exclusive new interview with Redford, a skiing enthusiastfor whom this film was a labor of love.
“How fast must a man go to get from where he’s at?”
BUY the DVD
READ Todd McCarthy’s essay
WATCH Robert Redford talk about Downhill’s uphill battle
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With its thrilling cinematography, kinetic editing, and charismatic star performance from Robert Redford, Michael Ritchie’s Downhill Racer is one of cinema's most critically acclaimed examinations of the life of an athlete.
Not that audiences noticed at the time: this masterly look at competitive skiing was perhaps too uncompromising in its depiction of the lengths to which an athlete must go to be the best, and too artful in its sensibility, to connect at the box office in 1969.
But now this buried treasure is available for the first time on DVD, in a Criterion special edition, and you can see for yourself the state-of-the-art ski photography that has influencedthe way we’ve viewed the sport ever since.
The release features, among other supplements, an exclusive new interview with Redford, a skiing enthusiastfor whom this film was a labor of love.
“How fast must a man go to get from where he’s at?”
BUY the DVD
READ Todd McCarthy’s essay
WATCH Robert Redford talk about Downhill’s uphill battle
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
