After being sent to rural Quebec to perform at a seedy motel, exotic dancer Gina (The Silent Partner's Céline Lomez) establishes a friendship with a group of visiting documentary filmmakers and becomes aware of a lecherous Ski-Doo gang hiding out on an abandoned ship. Keenly aware of one another's presence, Gina and the gang develop an antagonistic relationship that eventually leads to a horrific assault. But what these ski-masked snow deviants don't realize is that Gina works for some of Montreal's most dangerous criminals, and they're on their way to enact an ugly revenge.
Three decades before winning the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for The Barbarian Invasions, Denys Arcand started his fiction filmmaking career with an informal trilogy (Dirty Money, Réjeanne Padovani, and Gina) that remains the high-water mark for Canadian crime cinema. Improbably fusing labor politics with an explosive exploitation narrative, Gina has a conviction and assurance that resists easy categorization. Part frigid hangout movie, part vicious revenge saga, this is a one-of-a-kind powerhouse that builds to a gruesome climax and the greatest snowmobile chase in movie history.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 2K RESTORATION from a 35mm print by Éléphant - mémoire du cinéma québécois
Audio commentary featuring author/film historian Kier-La Janisse and writer/film programmer Justine Smith
The Exploitation of Gina (2022, 11 min.) – Video essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Directing Gina (2022, 21 min.) – New interview with director Denys Arcand
New audio interviews with cast members Gabriel Arcand (13 min.), Paule Baillargeon (8 min.), Dorothée Berryman (15 min.), and Marcel Sabourin (13 min.)
Trailers for Arcand's Dirty Money (1972), Réjeanne Padovani (1973), and Gina (1975)
Booklet featuring a new essay by professor/author Jim Leach (The Films of Denys Arcand)
Description: Marc, a traveling entertainer, is on his way home for Christmas when his van breaks down in the middle of a village, where he quickly falls victim to a dangerously unhinged innkeeper determined to keep him captive. For the first time in the US, CALVAIRE will be available in high definition. The HD Remaster was created from the original print with new color grading supervised by original cinematographer Benoit Debbie and director Fabrice du Welz. This high water mark from the New French Extremity movement premiered at the Cannes Film Festival followed by TiFFF Midnight Madness.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW REMASTER created from original print with new color grading supervised by cinematographer Benoit Debbie and director Fabrice du Welz
Introduction from director Fabrice du Welz
Commentary with Fabrice du Welz and Manu de Meulemeester (Production Designer)
Calvaire's Casting Tapes
Interview with director Fabrice du Welz
New transfer of Fabrice du Welz's short film: A Wonderful Love (From original 35mm)
Behind the Scenes SlideshoW
Calvaire's Production Bible from Manu de Meulemeester
Description: Richard Gere (American Gigolo and Days of Heaven) is electrifying as Jesse Lujack, a small-time criminal obsessed with Jerry Lee Lewis, the Silver Surfer and Monica (Valérie Kaprisky, Andrzej Żuławski's La Femme Publique), the beautiful French exchange student he spent a passionate couple of nights with in Vegas. High-tailing it to Los Angeles to rendezvous again with Monica, Jesse steals a fast car and accidentally shoots and kills a highway patrolman. Now the most wanted fugitive in L.A., Jesse should get across the border to Mexico as soon as possible, but Monica leaves him breathless…
Co-writer and director Jim McBride (David Holzman's Diary and Great Balls of Fire) and co-writer L.M. Kit Carson (Paris, Texas and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2) boldly set out to create an American version of Jean-Luc Godard's groundbreaking debut Breathless and the result is a wildly energetic and imaginative neo-noir romance that has become a cult classic. The spirited supporting cast includes memorable character players John P. Ryan, Garry Goodrow, Art Metrano, James Hong, Miguel Pinero, William Tepper and Lisa Jane Persky. With its rockin' and atmospheric soundtrack, candy-colored cinematography by Richard H. Kline (Body Heat) and production design by Richard Sylbert (Chinatown), as well as the uncommonly strong sexual chemistry of its leads, Breathless is truly a cinematic feast for the senses. Ahead of its time when released, viewers have finally caught up to Breathless and now it's been restored in 2K from its 35mm interpositive and presented with an alternate ending that's been unseen for decades!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW 2K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM AN INTERPOSITIVE
NEW "Making Breathless," a newly-filmed video interview with director Jim McBride
NEW Audio commentary by critic Glenn Kenny
Video introduction by director Jim McBride
Theatrical trailer
Alternate ending with director commentary
Deleted scenes with director commentary
Image gallery
Isolated music track
Booklet with new essays by Margaret Barton-Fumo and Cristina Cacioppo
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
Description: From Karen Shakhnazarov, director of ZEROGRAD, ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR is a mysterious and labyrinthine psychological drama in which the tormented chambers of a patient's mind come to warp everything around him, even the folds of history itself. In one of his finest latter-day performances, the great Malcolm McDowell (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, TIME AFTER TIME) stars as Timofeyev, a severe schizophrenic in a dreary Soviet mental hospital who is convinced that, impossibly, he's the killer of two Tsars: Alexander II in 1881 and Nicholas II in 1918. The thoughtful new head of the hospital, Dr. Smirnov (Oleg Yankovskiy) is determined to cure Timofeyev of his madness – but instead finds himself literally pulled back through time, inhabiting the ghosts of the past as they march towards their tragic destiny.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW RESTORATION from original 35mm elements by Mosfilm
New commentary track by film writer and historian Samm Deighan
New essay by film critic and historian Walter Chaw
New interview with star Malcolm McDowell
New interview with director Karen Shakhnazarov
Russian language version of film with different edit and score
Blu-ray mastering and authoring by David Mackenzie/Fidelity in Motion
Description: The Upsetter tells the wild, weed-fueled story of Lee Scratch Perry — a visionary Jamaican musician, artist and all around madman — who burst upon the Kingston scene in the '50s with a brand new sound, inventing a genre of music that would come to be called Reggae. He went on to discover a young Bob Marley and gained international recognition as a solo artist and record producer, working with pioneering artists like the Heptones and the Congos. Soon he was being called upon by artists as diverse as The Clash and Paul McCartney to provide his unique sound. Narrated by Benicio del Toro, the film captures the essence of a complex, enigmatic figure who was at once a mad genius and a mystic.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
2022 Directors' commentary by Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough
Deleted Scenes
Booklet includes an essay by Brandon Harris, Jay Burger, Matt Diehl, Adam Bhala Lough and a the original documentary pitch letter to Perry
Description: Screams of terror, silenced only by the splintering of glass! In this textbook example of 80s slash trash, an aspiring actress (Jenny Neumann from Hell Night), haunted by the childhood memory of her mother being thrown through a car window, finds herself trapped at the centre of a brutal killing spree as one by one her fellow thespians are butchered by a psychopath with a sliver of glass.Adding non-stop bloodshed to his successful cinematic recipe of softcore sex and ample naked flesh, Ozploitation auteur John D. Lamond (Felicity) takes on the stalk 'n slash genre with a vengeance in this infamous home-grown Halloweenclone. Proudly high on body count (including a notoriously graphic full-frontal thrill kill scene) and thankfully low on subtext, Nightmares offers the rare opportunity to see a host of famous Aussie faces (Gary Sweet, Briony Behets, John Michael Howson and others) dispatched in the most gruesome ways imaginable!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
PREVIOUSLY REMASTERED
NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD extended interviews with director John D. Lamond and actress Nina Landis
Audio commentary with director John D. Lamond and filmmaker Mark Hartley
Description: How to Build a Time Machine follows two men as they set out on a journey to build their own time machines. Rob Niosi is a stop motion animator who has spent the last 13 years obsessively constructing a full-scale replica of the time machine prop from the 1960 adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine." It's his attempt to recapture the memory of seeing the film in theaters with his father. Dr.Ron Mallett is a theoretical physicist whose story begins with a tragedy. He was only 10 years old when his father died suddenly of a heart attack. Distraught, he sought solace in science-fiction. After reading "The Time Machine," Ron dedicated his life to studying physics. He has since become a professor at the University of Connecticut and is now working on building a real time machine in the hopes that he might go back in time to save his father's life.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Jay Cheel Director Commentary
Deleted Scene - Bob Burns
Deleted Scene - Morlock
Deleted Scene - Rob and Ron
Deleted Scene - Ron and Bob
Outtake from student film Obsessed & Scientific - Robs Chair
Description: Will is a young Hispanic artist with a loving boyfriend and a good life, but when his mentally ill mother re-emerges after a 10 year absence, it erodes the foundation of the world he has created and exposes a dark past of violence he was desperate to keep hidden. Afraid of becoming like his mom, Will spirals into obsession, despair and madness, tormented by a manifestation of his childhood trauma.
Description: Silvia and RoseMarie are two beautiful women with a lot in common. Both are residing in the same luxurious New York apartment complex…and both are trapped within the web of a terrifying nightmare! On the first floor there's Silvia (Alexandra Paulhiac) who has three admirers: an abusive boyfriend, an obscene phone caller, and a police detective with a disturbingly "hands on" approach. Could one of them possibly be the notorious sex killer that's prowling the city streets? On the second floor there's RoseMarie (Sasha Graham), a young ingenue who's attending an unorthodox method acting class in order to prepare for a challenging, upcoming role. A trail of blood and bodies begin to follow RoseMarie when her mysterious friend Monica from back home begins demanding an unwelcomed reunion. As the insanity of her reality and performance start to intertwine, the curtain raises on a blood-soaked denouement of grandiose proportions.
In the tradition of Two Evil Eyes, Guilty Pleasures is a two part, SOV horror anthology conceived by New York based filmmakers Joseph F. Parda & Joe Zaso (5 Dead on the Crimson Canvas, Evil Streets). Featuring acting turns by co-director Zaso (The Wolf of Wall Street), Ruby Honeycat (Caress of the Vampire 2), & Joseph Marzano (Venus in Furs); plus an awe-inspiring, tour de force performance by the inimitable indie legend Sasha Graham (The Vicious Sweet), Guilty Pleasures offers an astounding exhibition of head-splitting gore, salacious sleaze, and nostalgic '90s era NYC street locales. Gleefully inspired by the works of Dario Argento & Sergio Martino, Guilty Pleasures also remains one of the few SOV productions to revel in the stylized, black-gloved aesthetics of '70s Italian giallo cinema.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Audio commentary with actor & co-director Joe Zaso
"A Dangerous Method" -an all new retrospective featurette featuring interviews with co-director / star Joe Zaso and actress Sasha Graham
"Duly Impressed" -an interview with actor Carl Marchese
Description: Iceland's official submission to the Academy Awards® for Best International Feature Film! Addi, a boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. Left to their own devices, the boys explore aggression and violence but also learn about loyalty and love. As the group's behavior escalates towards life-threatening situations, Addi begins to experience a series of dreamlike visions. Can his newfound intuition guide him and his friends back to a safer path, or will they dive irrevocably into further violence? Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson follows up his acclaimed film Heartstone with an intimate and bold vision that "shakes you up before it melts your heart" (Eye For Film).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Short Film: Whale Valley by Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
Description: Detective Darleen Paxton has a sweet but naive sister who wants to become an actress. The sister serves booze in skimpy clothes at a sleazy bar, hoping for that big break. But this bar is frequented by devious predators of young flesh. Soon, Darleen and her partner, Mac, are scouring the city to track down her missing sister. What they find is a savage and sinister sex trafficking ring running right in downtown Hollywood!
The Flesh Merchant is one of the best examples of 90's shot-on-video exploitation moviemaking. Director Mike Tristano (Feast, The Summoned) culled all of his talented friends and associates to make this banger of a thriller. Neil Delama, Joe Estevez, James Adam Tucker, and Michelle Bauer return from Tristano's The Summoned, and are joined by Don Stroud (The Amityville Horror, License to Kill) and screenwriter C. Courtney Joyner (Puppet Master III, Lurking Fear) in a memorable screen performance.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Feature-length commentary by Director Mike Tristano
New interview with Director Mike Tristano, Producer Joe Haggerty, and Actor Neil Delama
New interview with Producer and Actor James Adam Tucker
Description: An immersive archival journey through the explosive New York music scene of the early 2000s. Meet Me in the Bathroom, tells the story of the last great romantic age of Rock'n'Roll through the prism of a handful of era defining bands; THE STROKES, LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, YEAH YEAH YEAHs, INTERPOL.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Feature commentary with directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, author Lizzy Goodman & co-director Vivienne Perry
NYC Premiere at Webster Hall - Q&A with moderator Jim Jarmusch
LA Premiere at The Fonda Theatre - Q&A with moderator Tim Heidecker
Adam Green at Webster Hall - Unplugged
Booklet featuring an essay by Alex Ross Perry and a Rolling Stone interview with Lizzy Goodman by Rob Sheffield
English SDH subtitles
REGION-A "LOCKED"
FROM PARTNER LABEL AMERICAN GENRE FILM ARCHIVE (AGFA):
Description: A gonzo martial arts double feature from the vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA)!
SHAOLIN INVINCIBLES
Wizards! Gorillas! Bloodsplurts! You've never seen a Taiwanese martial arts movie like this one. Two sword-wielding sisters seek revenge against the villains who murdered their family. But these are no ordinary villains—they're wizards with giant, elasticized tongues who use black magic to control . . . kung fu gorillas! Starring the magnificent Judy Lee (QUEEN BOXER) and the fierce Carter Wong (BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA), this supreme basher combines the electricity of a Super Nintendo game with exceptional fight choreography to deliver an otherworldly experience.
SEVEN TO ONE
An earlier film from the director of SHAOLIN INVINCIBLES, SEVEN TO ONE finds Ting (martial arts whirlwind Polly Shang Kwan) on a revenge-fueled rampage following the murder of her father. Assisted by her rock star samurai boyfriend, Ting rages against all manner of street gangs and malcontents. This gonzo Taiwanese battle-epic is filled with non-stop fights, bootleg soundtrack cues, and incredible stunt work from the effervescent Kwan.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
SHAOLIN INVINCIBLES: Preserved from the only known 35mm print in existence, featuring Mandarin language with burned-in English subtitles
SEVEN TO ONE: Preserved from the only known 35mm print in existence, featuring an English language dub
Explosive martial arts trailer reel from the AGFA vaults (27 mins)