Description: Vanessa Paradis (Knife+Heart) stars as the alienated and angry Marie, living as a smart aleck teenage street hustler, burdened by the rage brought upon by the suicide of her emotionally fragile mother (the titular Élisa as played by Florence Thomassin). Marie's fury inspires her to track down and kill the man who abandoned her and her mother in the first place – her father Jacques, played by iconic French superstar Gérard Depardieu. What unfolds is a poignant and desperate plea for tolerance and acceptance, where tragedy and angst can unwind and be replaced by forgiveness and love.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
"The Body Isn't the Soul: Isolation, Identity, and Love in Jean Becker's Élisa" A Video Essay by Sally Christie
Description: Mahmut is a relatively successful commercial photographer who has been struggling to come to terms with the growing gap between his artistic ideals and his professional obligations. His tedious workload, coupled with the lingering loss he still feels for his ex-wife (newly married and on the verge of leaving Istanbul for Canada), leaves Mahmut clinging to the melancholic and obsessive routines of his solitary life.
Without warning, Mahmut's distant relative Yusuf arrives in Istanbul determined to find a job aboard a ship so that he may fulfill his dream of traveling around the world. In need of a place to stay as he searches for work, Yusuf imposes himself on Mahmut, who resents the sudden intrusion, but nonetheless feels obliged to help his family. It doesn't take long for Yusuf to discover that the work he is looking for isn't available, but he manages to prolong his stay with Mahmut by formulating stories that would suggest otherwise. His hope waning, Yusuf resorts to spending his days drifting through the streets of Istanbul, slowly coming to the realization that without work he may soon need to return home. Mahmut tries to help by offering him a job as his assistant during a photography shoot, but the fix is temporary. As the two men struggle to make a connection, communication is slowly reduced to the bare minimum; and their time together must come to an end.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
"Making of…" scenes
Film's reception at Cannes coverage
Video essay
English subtitles
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FROM PARTNER LABEL AMERICAN GENRE FILM ARCHIVE (AGFA):
Description: No one will ever make movies like Doris Wishman made movies. One of the most prolific women filmmakers in the history of American cinema, writer-director-editor Wishman created collisions between surrealism and exploitation that feel like they materialized from an alternate universe. THE FILMS OF DORIS WISHMAN: THE DAYLIGHT YEARS surveys the early, sun-soaked nudist era of Wishman's career. From NUDE ON THE MOON (Wishman's dreamlike sci-fi triumph) to HIDEOUT IN THE SUN (a crackpot nudie-noir) AGFA + Something Weird are honored to present these effervescent DIY treasures in gorgeous new restorations.
CONTENT:
Disc 1: NUDE ON THE MOON (1961) and BLAZE STARR GOES NUDIST (1962)
Restorations from the original 35mm camera negatives
NUDE ON THE MOON: Commentary with director Frank Henenlotter and filmmaker Anthony Snead
BLAZE STARR GOES NUDIST: Commentary with Wishman biographer Michael Bowen
Theatrical trailers
"Daylight Years" photo gallery
Booklet with writing from Something Weird's Lisa Petrucci and a vintage Doris Wishman interview
Disc 2: HIDEOUT IN THE SUN (1960) and GENTLEMEN PREFER NATURE GIRLS (1963)
HIDEOUT IN THE SUN: Preservation from Doris Wishman's personal 16mm print
HIDEOUT IN THE SUN: Commentary with Wishman biographer Michael Bowen
GENTLEMEN PREFER NATURE GIRLS: Restoration from the original 35mm camera negative
Unseen Doris Wishman interview from 1974
Theatrical trailers
Disc 3: DIARY OF A NUDIST (1961) and THE PRINCE AND THE NATURE GIRL (1965)
DIARY OF A NUDIST: Restoration from the original 35mm camera negative
DIARY OF A NUDIST: Commentary with queer film historian Elizabeth Purchell
THE PRINCE AND THE NATURE GIRL: Preservation from the only existing 35mm film elements - in German with English subtitles
Description: In the near future, the world's population is forced to stay confined in their homes at all times. Due to the depleting ozone layer, those that venture outdoors quickly devolve into zombie-like, mutant "outsiders". The GVC agency provides all complying citizens with their communication and entertainment needs through its government regulated internet. Joseph Cyrus is a door to door PC repairman, forced to brave the perils of the outside world in order to keep his GVC clients fully "connected". During his travels, Joseph soon begins seeing visions of a God-like being that urges him to destroy the Internet using a homemade virus. Is Joseph losing his sanity, serving the whims of a higher power, or being tricked by the world's greatest trickster?
The SOV feature debut from Drop Dead Films, a New Jersey based film collective formed by the innovative duo of writer / author Barry Gerdsen (The Between Time) and 3 time Emmy Award winning director / editor Matthew Giaquinto (Spider-Man, The Daily Show), The Good Book remains one of the most prophetic and imaginative, techno-horror epics to arise from the '90s micro-budget underground. Featuring an appearance by Bob Dorian (Evil Dead), special makeup FX by Fred Kraemer (John Wick 3, Vanilla Sky) and an energetic soundtrack featuring Saigon Kick and American Standard, The Good Book is an awe-inspiring mashup of inventive plot twists, practical splatter FX, and genuine atmospheric scares.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Brand new transfer from the original master tapes
Audio commentary with writer / director Matthew Giaquinto & writer / producer Barry Gerdsen
"The Making of Drop Dead Films" - a feature length documentary chronicling the complete history of The Good Book and Drop Dead Films featuring director Matthew Giaquinto, writer Barry Gerdsen, special FX artists Paul J. Mason & Fred Kraemer, actors Brian Campbell, Chris Paine Alan Ambron, & more
Isolated music cues featuring an introduction by actor / composer Chris Paine
"Vampire Girlfriend Roommates Part 5" - full original excerpt
Drop Dead Films trailer vault
Behind the scenes production stills gallery
"The Between Time" - a CGI animated trailer for writer Barry Gerdsen's debut novel with an introduction by Barry Gerdsen and animator Mike Cuales
"The Day I Met My Mother" -a short film by Matthew Giaquinto (1995) with optional director's commentary
"Finding Destiny" - a short film by Matthew Giaquinto (2002)
"Bad Feelings" - a short film by Matthew Giaquinto (2002)
Description: This feature documentary is an intimate portrait of two people who are deeply in love with the 80's pop singer Tiffany.
Jeff Turner is a 50-year-old man from Santa Cruz, California with Asperger's Syndrome. He has a very friendly and childlike spirit and can talk to anybody for hours on end but finds it difficult to maintain relationships and has never had a girlfriend. He has been attending Tiffany concerts since 1988 and describes her as his "best friend, mentor and protector."
Kelly McCormick is a 35-year-old intersex person from Denver, Colorado who identifies as a lesbian. She loves running, watching action movies and doing impressions. She has also never been in a romantic relationship but says that she loves Tiffany "down to her bone marrow."
Both Jeff and Kelly have been called "stalkers" by the media and other Tiffany fans but this film allows them to share their side of the story. Filmed over the course of six years, I Think We're Alone Now takes you deep into their lives, and shows the power of having something to believe in.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Jeff Turner Commentary track
Kelly McCormick Commentary track
Director's Commentary track
Kelly update short doc
Jeff update short doc
Jeff on Natalie Wood
Jeff's Alyssa Milano update
How the movie came to be (short animation)
The Mysterious Tiffany Letters
Jeffisms
Arlon's Angelic Visit
Marshall Weeks and Rhythmic Gymnastics
Kelly's poetry
Kelly's impressions
Preston B. Nichols short doc
Dan Wholey "Snakes" music video featuring Preston B. Nichols
Description: The Icarus Line Must Die is a dramatic narrative feature set against the backdrop of the current LA underground music scene. The film tracks Joe Cardamone, front man of notorious punk bad boys The Icarus Line as he navigates his way through the ups and downs of the modern music landscape. With a new record completed and a major label deal within sight, Joe fights to keep his band, his relationship and his life from completely falling apart.
Ariel Pink, Keith Morris (Black Flag/Circle Jerks), Pearl Charles, Melissa Brooks (The Aquadolls), Justin Pearson, Rafael Reyes (Prayers) and Jerry Stahl (Permanent Midnight) are featured along with performances by Pink Mountaintops, Together Pangea, The Icarus Line, Retox, Obliterations and Annie Hardy of Giant Drag.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Audio Commentary from Michael Grodner & Joe Cardamone
Audio Commentary from Annie Hardy & Joe Cardamone
Unreleased Scene with Annie Hardy & Joe Cardamone
Unreleased Concert footage of the Icarus Line from the Echoplex (Two Songs)
Essay from critic A.S. Hamrah
Tour Photographs of the early days of the Icarus Line
Description: Charlotte Gainsbourg looks at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, overcoming a sense of reserve. Using a camera lens, they expose themselves to each other, begin to step back, leaving space for a mother-daughter relationship.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Q&A with Jim Jarmusch and Charlotte Gainsbourg from Quad Cinema
Q&A with Charlotte Gainsbourg from New York Film Festival
Description: All Brenda wants is a normal life with a normal boyfriend, but she soon finds that her boyfriend is anything but normal -- he's part of a Satanic cult that makes human sacrifices! A police-interrupted ritual at the cult's demonic temple lands Brenda in jail. Upon release, she has to pick up the pieces of her shattered life with the help of a protective lawyer, a hardened detective, and her old cellmate. But the cult hasn't forgotten Brenda, and they will stop at nothing to silence her... forever!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Full-length commentary with Director Rick Sloane
Archival interview with Director Rick Sloane
Archival interview with Actress Ginger Lynn Allen
New interview with Art Director Mark A. Richardson
Remastered original trailer
English SDH subtitles
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FROM PARTNER LABEL CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL PICTURES:
In the long shadow of an experimental CIA mind control program, Sergeant Kellen O'Reilly (Total Recall's Michael Ironside) begins experiencing violent flashbacks of his "treatments" at the hands of the sinister Dr. Satorius (The Silent Partner's Christopher Plummer). When the body count on his latest case inexplicably begins pointing toward his own fragmented past, a romance with Satorius' criminal prosecutor (Class of 1984's Lisa Langlois) raises the stakes. O'Reilly must forge a path forward through a hall-of-mirrors conspiracy stretching from the Mafia to the highest levels of the CIA, culminating in a shocking, stadium-sized confrontation.
Made by a supergroup of Canadian genre filmmakers, including George Mihalka (My Bloody Valentine) and Tom Berry (The Amityville Curse) – who joined forces to develop the script with novelist William Deverell – Mindfield was eventually brought to the screen by Canuxploitation master Jean-Claude Lord (The Vindicator). The result is a uniquely ambitious experiment in genre filmmaking that's part explosive action movie, part MK-ULTRA-inspired conspiracy thriller, and part sleazy underworld crime saga. Reuniting Lord with his Visiting Hours leading man, Mindfield emerges as one of Michael Ironside's standout star vehicles.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 2K RESTORATION from the 35mm interpositive by Éléphant - mémoire du cinéma québécois with sound transferred and restored from the original 35mm magnetic final mix
Audio commentary featuring Paul Corupe of Canuxploitation.com and film historian Jason Pichonsky
Mind Meld (2022, 12 min.) - An interview with original director George Mihalka
Open Mind (2022, 12 min.) - An interview with producer Tom Berry
Mind Games (2022, 10 min.) - An interview with actress Lisa Langlois
Description: Fony Corporation has just promoted doe-eyed Eric Tan (Peter Davis) to Head of Product Design and he's already invented a revolutionary 8-in-1 soy bean machine! Taste the silken tofu, the creamy soy milk, the crispy bean curd! It just has one reprehensible flaw: no flaws! The lack of a built-in-breakdown mechanism appalls the conglomerate's two-man executive branch who resorts to a budget exorcism to solve their problem named Eric. Also under the axe is Fony TV 11's ruthless host Rafflesia Pong (Jerrica Lai), whose speciality arts programme is overshadowed by an increasingly popular art form: reality TV. Determined to claw her way back to the top, she lands on a morbid concept that finds an ally in the divided product designer.
Yeo Joon Han's long unavailable musical SELL OUT! is presented here in both its Venice and Director's Cut alongside the original soundtrack of ear-worm musical numbers. In contrast to the realist New Wave films of his contemporaries, Yeo presents a wildly funny, fantastical satire of cosmopolitan Kuala Lumpur. Feeding off the city's inherent frictions — its languages; its dramatic wealth gap; its capitalist malaise – SELL OUT! takes equal aim at corporate monopolies; the film festival ecosystem; pan-Asian fetishisation; consumerism, and money itself: skewering the media landscape and its enablers over a fiery and joyful flame.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
TWO CUTS OF THE FILM: Director's Cut (111 min) and Venice Cut (107 min)
Archival Interview with Director (Venice 2008, 18 min)
Archival Interview with Director (Locarno 2020, 31 min)
Interview with Actor Peter David (2022, 13 min)
Interview with Jerrica Lai (13 min)
Interview with Actor Wong Wai Hoong (2022, 6 min)
Interview with actors Lim Teik Leong and Kee Thuan Chye (2022, 10 min)
Description: Suzanne, a successful realtor living in the suburbs of Washington D.C. with her weatherman husband, Jeff, is on top of the world as she prepares for Christmas, her favorite time of year. Things take a turn, however, when she comes home one day to find her husband brutally murdered. To cope with her overwhelming grief, Suzanne takes off from work at the suggestion of her colleagues. In the ensuing days, she tracks down a young stripper named Fantasia with whom Jeff had a long-term relationship, and the two begin to bond over their mutual loss. Through her relationship with Fantasia, Suzanne begins to cut loose, joining the stripper on escapades of drugs, clubbing and shoplifting.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Cast and crew commentary
Deleted Scenes
Endless Fireplace
Short film: Practical Uses for Major Works of Modern Cinema
Original uncensored trailer
Booklet with essays by Zach Clark, Brandon Harris and Caroline Golum