Vinegar Syndrome Reveals New Partner Label Releases
Posted September 2, 2021 02:05 AM by Webmaster
Vinegar Syndrome has announced and detailed five new partner label releases that will be available for purchase later this month. They are: Primetime Panic (1981-1983), Duck! the Carbine High Massacre (1999), For Madmen Only (2020), Kid Candidate (2021), WNUF Halloween Special (2013), What Really Happened to Baby Jane? (1962-1972), and Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006). All releases will be available for purchase on September 28.
Description: The prolific production duo of Leonard Hill and Philip Mandelker produced nearly twenty popular made-for-television films within their three-year partnership. It was a highly successful run, which was only shortened by the premature death of Mandelker in 1984. This was a golden age for TV movies and we are proud to present, in this collection, three of their most acclaimed productions: Freedom, Dreams Don't Die and Death Ride to Osaka (aka Girls of the White Orchid). Each film has been restored in 4K from its original 35mm camera negative and is presented in both 4:3 and widescreen aspect ratios. As these films were produced for and originally shown on television in the early 1980s, they have never looked better than they do here.
In the poignant character-driven drama Freedom, free-spirited teen musician Mare Winningham wins emancipation from her mother (Jennifer Warren) and joins up with a traveling carnival. Written by Barbara Turner (Georgia) and directed by Joseph Sargent (The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3).
New York City graffiti writer Ike Eisenmann and his girlfriend Trini Alvarado struggle to escape their working class world, while being pressured by a drug dealer (Israel Juarbe) and a police officer (Paul Winfield) in the coming-of-age crime drama Dreams Don't Die. Featuring the art of graffiti legend DONDI, Dreams has become a cult classic in the graffiti world. Written by Garry Michael White (Scarecrow) and directed by Roger Young (Magnum P.I.).
Jennifer Jason Leigh stars as an aspiring young singer who becomes a prisoner of a Yakuza-controlled prostitution ring in the neon underworld of Tokyo. Directed by Jonathan Kaplan (Over the Edge), this fact-based, tawdry thriller was a ratings sensation and offered Leigh one of the juiciest roles of her early career.
Directed by: Joseph Sargent, Roger Young, Jonathan Kaplan
Starring: Mare Winningham, Jennifer Warren, Ike Eisenmann, Trini Alvarado, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mako.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
THREE-DISC SET
ALL THREE FILMS RESTORED IN 4K FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVES
DEATH RIDE TO OSAKA:
Video interview with director Jonathan Kaplan
Audio commentary with Lars Nilsen
Video essay by Chris O'Neill
DREAMS DON'T DIE:
Audio commentary with Dino Proserpio and Jonathan Hertzberg
Booklet essay by Justin LaLiberty
FREEDOM:
Video interview with Andrea Adams
Audio commentary with Amanda Reyes
Booklet essay by Cristina Cacioppo
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Description: Starting his career with Nichols and May, training most of the original cast of SNL and forming Second City, and being the inspiration for the ever popular Upright Citizens Brigade theater (UCB), there isn't a comic working today who wasn't fostered or mentored in some way by Del Close. Directed by Heather Ross, and starring James Urbaniak, Matt Walsh, Bob Odenkirk, Patton Oswalt, Lauren Lapkus, Tim Meadows, Jason Mantzoukas, Lennon Parham, Jason Sudekis, Diona Reasonover, Paul Scheer, and Michaela Watkins.
Description: Before Elephant and We Need to Talk About Kevin…there was Duck! The Carbine High Massacre. The first feature of its kind to satirically chronicle the torment and isolation of two despondent teenagers and the events that led them to open fire on their fellow students and teachers. Trench coat sporting misfits Derick and Derwin spend their days surfing the internet, stockpiling an arsenal of weapons, and raising the ire of the vapid jocks, rich kids, and Bible-study girls at their high school; not to mention their self-absorbed and abusive parents. The boys are pushed over the edge after Derwin is savagely beaten and degraded by his imperious classmates. After briefly contemplating suicide, they instead return to school fully armed to enact a bloody and barbaric revenge on their victimizers as well as anyone else who has the misfortune of inadvertently crossing their paths.
Written, directed, and starring New Jersey based filmmakers William Hellfire (Upsidedown Cross) and Joey Smack, Duck! The Carbine High Massacre would quickly become one of the most controversial films of the 1990s, leading to a nationwide mainstream media frenzy and the eventual arrest and incarceration of its creators. Featuring Misty Mundae (SpiderBabe), Lily Tiger (Infamous Bondage Murders), Pamela Sutch (Psycho Sisters), and a live performance by Nashville noise-rock legends Today Is The Day, Duck! transcended it's regional SOV roots, emerging as the precursory feature to examine the hot button phenomenon of school shootings; a subject that is still as topical today as it was upon the films release over 20 years ago.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
A collection of short 16mm films from co-director Joey Smack.
New Commentary with producer Pete Jacelone and Director William Hellfire
Deleted scenes from the original 1999 VHS release
New Documentary AFTER SHOCK including Archive footage of news broadcasts (court tv, ch.12 and Extra.)
Behind the scenes court TV interview at CBGBs theatrical screening
Original William Hellfire interview 2004
Extended Today is the Day live footage
Isolated soundtrack featuring: Bob Bert (Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore), Hide (Ultra Bide) and Today is The Day
Description: In a time when young Americans increasingly feel cut off from politics and traditional institutions, Hayden Pedigo, a 24 year-old artist and musician in Amarillo, TX makes an unorthodox run for city council. Directed by Jasmine Stodel and starring Hayden Pedigo.
Description: For decades, obscure film collectors and lovers of esoteric cinema have sought it and now the search is over. Originally broadcast live on October 31, 1987, the ''WNUF Halloween Special'' is a stunning exposé of terrifying supernatural activity that unfolded at the infamous Webber House, the site of ghastly murders. Local television personality Frank Stewart leads a group of paranormal investigators including a Catholic exorcist, Father Joseph Matheson, and the prolific husband-and-wife team Louis and Claire Berger. Together, the experts explore the darkest corners of the supposedly haunted Webber House, trying to prove the existence of the demonic entities within. Did they find the horrific truth or simply put superstitious rumors to rest? Compiled from the highest-quality source material available, this blu-ray features the full program, including the original commercials that ran during the notorious broadcast.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Original Audio Commentary with Director Chris LaMartina
All New 2021 Group Commentary with Cast & Crew
Cutting Room Commercials
Outtakes and Bloopers
Rewinding the Fast Forward Segments
Shitty on Purpose: How We Aged WNUF
Original Trailer
WNUF Christmas Special
Long Lost WNUF Commercials Rediscovered for 2021 Release
Description: Spearheaded by filmmaker Ray Harrison, the Gay Girls Riding Club (GGRC) took California's 1960s underground gay scene by storm with drag spoofs of classic Hollywood films. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? AND THE FILMS OF THE GAY GIRLS RIDING CLUB collects the joyous, ambitious, and wig-filled GGRC films on home video for the first time ever. From WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?, shot only a few months after the release of WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?, to ALL ABOUT ALICE, the GGRC's feature-length roast of ALL ABOUT EVE, these pioneering DIY movies are essential snapshots of mid-century drag culture that would feel right at home with the dreamy work of Mike and George Kuchar. AGFA, in partnership with the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project, is thrilled to present these overlooked chapters of queer cinema -- preserved from the only known 16mm film elements in existence.
Films included: ALWAYS ON SUNDAY (1962, 8 mins), WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1963, 31 mins), THE ROMAN SPRINGS ON MRS. STONE (1963, 19 mins), SPY ON THE FLY (1967, 43 mins), ALL ABOUT ALICE (1972, 75 mins).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
2K preservations from the only known 16mm prints in existence
2K restoration of ALL ABOUT ALICE from the 16mm camera reversal
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?: Commentary withqueer film historian Evan Purchell and AGFA's Bret Berg
ALL ABOUT ALICE outtakes
Reversible cover with archival GGRC promotional material
Description: 14 year-old Logan is in the middle of middle school, crushing on a boy, daydreaming of another self, and waiting to see a mountain lion. An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and Executive Produced by Gus Van Sant, Altered Innocence proudly presents a brand new version of Cam Archer's angst-fueled experimental classic Coming-of-Age film Wild Tigers I Have Known. The Deluxe Blu-ray Edition features over 2 hours of bonus features including new HD restorations of much of Cam Archer's early body of work.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
A New 2021 Cut + Mix of the Feature
Pull-out Poster by Michael Gillette
Deleted Scenes
A 2021 Interview with Lou Stumpf (who played Logan)
Audition Tapes: Logan + Joey
Unused Title Credits Animation by Martha Colburn
A 2004 Interview with Cam Archer and Aaron Platt
2 Unfinished Projects in HD: Lonely Boy Hart + Animal Boy
Short Film: Bobbycrush (New HD Restoration)
13 Music Videos by Cam Archer (New HD Restorations)