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Home- July 31, 2020
The Young Girls Turn 25 Blu-ray Movie
Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans
Criterion | 1993 | 64 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Twenty-five years after the release of "The Young Girls of Rochefort", Agnès Varda returned to Rochefort to convene a one-of-a-kind reunion: Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Perrin, composer Michel Legrand, and then-publicist Bertrand Tavernier revisit the streets that they imbued with a dreamy second life.
Documentary / Music / Foreign
The World of Jacques Demy Blu-ray Movie
L'univers de Jacques Demy
Criterion | 1995 | 90 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Interweaving clips from Jacques Demy's films with insightful interviews with his collaborators and fans, Agnès Varda offers an illuminating overview of her partner's life and career.
Documentary / Foreign
One Hundred and One Nights Blu-ray Movie
Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma
Criterion | 1995 | 104 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
100-year old Simon Cinéma lives in a magnificent house filled with movie memorabilia. To help him remember the important details of his career he hires Camille, a film student to write down his remembrances and experiences which have involved all areas of movie-making. Camille comes once a day for 101 days. Film clips, photographs, and actual visitors highlight his stories.
Comedy / History / Romance / Foreign
The Gleaners and I Blu-ray Movie
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
Criterion | 2000 | 82 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life, as lived by the country's poor and its provident, as well as by the film's own director, Agnès Varda. The aesthetic, political, and finally moral point of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd potato, the leftover turnip, and in previous generations were immortalized by the likes of Millet and Van Gogh.
Documentary / Foreign
The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later Blu-ray Movie
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse... deux ans après
Criterion | 2002 | 63 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Agnès Varda returns to the people she met in her 2000 documentary on gleaning and meets some new people who were inspired by her first film.
Documentary / Foreign
Faces Places Blu-ray Movie
Visages villages
Criterion | 2017 | 93 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Director Agnès Varda and photographer and muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
Documentary / Foreign
Salut les cubains Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1964 | 30 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Filmmaker Agnès Varda presents a photographic exploration of Cuba, set in 1963.
Documentary / Short / Foreign
Ulysse Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1982 | 22 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Agnès Varda interviews two subjects from a photograph she took 30 years earlier.
Documentary / Short / Foreign
Ydessa, les ours et etc. Blu-ray Movie
Ydessa, the Bears and etc.
Criterion | 2004 | 44 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Filmmaker Agnes Varda documents curator Ydessa Hendeles' exhibit "Partners."
Documentary / Short / Foreign
Agnès de ci de là Varda Blu-ray Movie
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Criterion | 2011 | 235 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Agnès Varda travels around the globe for a freewheeling assemblage of people, places, art, and happenings.
Documentary / Foreign
The Beaches of Agnès Blu-ray Movie
Les plages d'Agnès
Criterion | 2008 | 112 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Agnès Varda uses film clips, old photos, and gorgeous reenactments to revisit her Belgian youth, association with the French New Wave, marriage to director Jacques Demy, and the making of her movies.
Biography / Documentary / Foreign
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12 Monkeys: Season Three Blu-ray Movie
Via Vision Entertainment | 2017 | 436 min | Rated ACB: MA15+ | May 23, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Follows the journey of a time traveler from the post-apocalyptic future who appears in present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will nearly destroy the human race.
Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
The Magicians: Season Five Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 2020 | 576 min | Rated TV-MA | Jul 14, 2020 | Martin Liebman
After being recruited to a secretive academy, a group of students discover that the magic they read about as children is very real-and more dangerous than they ever imagined.
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Teen / Supernatural
P.O.W. the Escape Blu-ray Movie
Behind Enemy Lines
Scorpion Releasing | 1986 | 89 min | Rated R | Jul 08, 2020 | Brian Orndorf
Col. Cooper leads a group of American P.O.W.s, battling their way to freedom as Saigon falls to the Viet Cong.
Action / Adventure / Drama
The Phantom of the Opera Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition
Shout Factory | 1962 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 98 min | Not rated | Aug 11, 2020 | Brian Orndorf
The corrupt Lord Ambrose D'Arcy steals the life's work of the poor musical Professor Petry. In an attempt to stop the printing of music with D'Arcy's name on it, Petry breaks into the printing office and accidentally starts a fire, leaving him severely disfigured. Years later, Petry returns to terrorize a London opera house that is about to perform one of his stolen operas...
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Skyman Blu-ray Movie
Gravitas Ventures | 2020 | 93 min | Not rated | Jul 07, 2020 | Martin Liebman
The story of Carl Merryweather who believes he experienced an alien encounter at 10-years-old and is now trying to reconnect with the UFO as the same location.
Sci-Fi
- July 29, 2020
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Blu-ray Movie
Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
Criterion | 1975 | 106 min | Not rated | Aug 04, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
When a young woman spends the night with an alleged terrorist, her quiet, ordered life falls into ruins. Katharina, though apparently innocent, suddenly becomes a suspect, falling prey to a vicious smear campaign by the police and a ruthless tabloid journalist that tests the limits of her dignity and her sanity.
Crime / Drama / Foreign
Wonder Woman 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2017 | 141 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 28, 2020 | Martin Liebman
The Amazonian Warrior Princess Diana left her lush tropical island to dwell in our urban cityscapes of glass and steel. Tutored in the ways of the Greek warriors, and outfitted with incredible gifts the Goddess bestowed upon her people, she becomes Paradise Island's emissary to civilization.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book / Period
The Reluctant Astronaut Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 1967 | 102 min | Not rated | Oct 09, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Don Knotts is Roy Fleming, a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a lay person into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.
Comedy / Family / Sci-Fi
The Sin of Nora Moran Blu-ray Movie
The Film Detective | 1933 | 65 min | Not rated | Jul 29, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit.
Crime / Drama