Kino Lorber: Two Azazel Jacobs Films Heading to Blu-ray
HomeKino Lorber: Two Azazel Jacobs Films Heading to Blu-ray
Posted July 8, 2020 06:25 PM by Webmaster
Kino Lorber have announced that they will release two films directed by Azazel Jacobs: The GoodTimesKid (2005) and Momma's Man (2008). The two releases will be available for purchase on September 29.
The GoodTimesKid
Synopsis: A story about stolen love and stolen identities, literally shot on stolen film...Momma's Man writer-director Azazel Jacobs' second feature is an absurdist comedy of errors, a punk-rock slice of DIY rebellion, and a warmhearted frolic that captures the "amour fou' spirit of the early French New Wave" (The Village Voice).
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Synopsis: Bumped from a flight back to Los Angeles and the life, wife, and infant daughter that await him there, Mikey (Matt Boren, How I Met Your Mother) returns to his childhood home, a cluttered, cocoon-like Manhattan loft presided over by his bohemian parents. "You can stay here as long as you want," Mikey's mother tells him.
But in Momma's Man, what begins as a respite from adult responsibility becomes a premature midlife crisis. Re-installed in a household saturated with two generations of bric-a-brac evoking days gone by, Mikey starts to regress and drift back to an awkward youth he never outgrew.
To realize this "modestly scaled movie with a heart the size of The Ritz" (The New York Times), writer-director Azazel Jacobs (The Lovers, Terri) cast his real-life parents, artist Flo Jacobs and underground film legend Ken Jacobs (Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son), as Mikey's benevolent mother and father, and the Jacobs' family apartment as an archive of the unconscious where free-floating anxiety renders Mikey a prisoner of his own nostalgia. Deftly balancing "melancholy emotional realities with unexpected moments of Chaplinesque comedy" (Variety), Momma's Man is a funny, touching, and bracingly honest look at the pleasures and perils of yearning for the imperfect past.
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On September 1, the distributors will also release on Blu-ray Paul Flaherty's film Black Gravel (1961), starring Helmut Wildt, Robert Neidhardt, and Ingmar Zeisberg.
Synopsis: In this gripping Cold War noir, tensions simmer between residents of a small German village and the soldiers of a U.S. military base. Postwar economic hardship has turned the town of Sohnen into a vice district. The women serve as entertainment for the GIs, while the men struggle for survival in the black market. Helmed by Helmut Käutner (Port of Freedom), Black Gravel is hardboiled cinema at its most cynical, recalling such white-knuckle thrillers as Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear and Jules Dassin and A.I. Bezzerides's Thieves' Highway. Upon its initial release, Black Gravel was criticized for its honest depiction of lingering antisemitism—and the film was re-edited for general release. This Kino Classics edition presents both the uncensored "Premiere" cut and the revised "Distribution" version, both meticulously restored by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.
Special Features:
The GoodTimesKid
Synopsis: A story about stolen love and stolen identities, literally shot on stolen film...Momma's Man writer-director Azazel Jacobs' second feature is an absurdist comedy of errors, a punk-rock slice of DIY rebellion, and a warmhearted frolic that captures the "amour fou' spirit of the early French New Wave" (The Village Voice).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 2K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL 35MM CAMERA NEGATIVE
- NEW audio commentary by director Azazel Jacobs
- Production stills and Scrapbook gallery
- Extended Takes
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Synopsis: Bumped from a flight back to Los Angeles and the life, wife, and infant daughter that await him there, Mikey (Matt Boren, How I Met Your Mother) returns to his childhood home, a cluttered, cocoon-like Manhattan loft presided over by his bohemian parents. "You can stay here as long as you want," Mikey's mother tells him.
But in Momma's Man, what begins as a respite from adult responsibility becomes a premature midlife crisis. Re-installed in a household saturated with two generations of bric-a-brac evoking days gone by, Mikey starts to regress and drift back to an awkward youth he never outgrew.
To realize this "modestly scaled movie with a heart the size of The Ritz" (The New York Times), writer-director Azazel Jacobs (The Lovers, Terri) cast his real-life parents, artist Flo Jacobs and underground film legend Ken Jacobs (Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son), as Mikey's benevolent mother and father, and the Jacobs' family apartment as an archive of the unconscious where free-floating anxiety renders Mikey a prisoner of his own nostalgia. Deftly balancing "melancholy emotional realities with unexpected moments of Chaplinesque comedy" (Variety), Momma's Man is a funny, touching, and bracingly honest look at the pleasures and perils of yearning for the imperfect past.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW audio commentary by director Azazel
- "Momma's Family", behind-the-scenes documentary
- "Rain Building Music" (1991, the first film by Azazel Jacobs)
- Audio conversation with Azazel Jacobs and his parents
- Deleted scenes
- Production stills gallery
- Trailer
On September 1, the distributors will also release on Blu-ray Paul Flaherty's film Black Gravel (1961), starring Helmut Wildt, Robert Neidhardt, and Ingmar Zeisberg.
Synopsis: In this gripping Cold War noir, tensions simmer between residents of a small German village and the soldiers of a U.S. military base. Postwar economic hardship has turned the town of Sohnen into a vice district. The women serve as entertainment for the GIs, while the men struggle for survival in the black market. Helmed by Helmut Käutner (Port of Freedom), Black Gravel is hardboiled cinema at its most cynical, recalling such white-knuckle thrillers as Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear and Jules Dassin and A.I. Bezzerides's Thieves' Highway. Upon its initial release, Black Gravel was criticized for its honest depiction of lingering antisemitism—and the film was re-edited for general release. This Kino Classics edition presents both the uncensored "Premiere" cut and the revised "Distribution" version, both meticulously restored by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.
Special Features:
- TWO VERSIONS OF THE FILM: the uncensored "Premiere" version and the re-edited "Distribution" version
- Audio commentary by film historian Olaf Möller