Acclaimed filmmaker Gaspar Noé's unflinching exploration of human savagery and the uncompromising nature of time, Irreversible was met with a groundswell of acclaim and uproar upon its premiere at the opening night of Cannes in 2002. Stylish, sexually frank, and brutal, the film's conceit of exploring the events of one terrible night on the streets of Paris in reverse chronological order was celebrated and derided in equal measure, helping to further cement Noé's legacy as a cinematic enfant terrible.
Nearly 20 years later, Noé brought Irreversible back, presenting the "Straight Cut" to the Venice Film Festival. This reconfigured vision allowed audiences to see the events of the film unfold in the order in which they occur, providing new context for pivotal scenes of brutality and the subsequent quest for revenge. Now available are both cuts of the film, providing the viewer the opportunity to see Noé's potent account of humanity at its worst from multiple angles, and the unshakable understanding that time, indeed, reveals all things.
Not for the faint of heart, easily offended, or anyone with photosensitivity, this is Noé's dark masterpiece.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
TWO-DISC SET
2K RESTORATIONS OF TWO CUTS OF THE FILM
The Irreversible Odyssey: A new 42 minute featurette re-visiting the film 20 years later and featuring interviews with Gaspar Noé, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel and others
Time Destroys All Things - A video essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
SFX Featurette: Go behind the scenes of Irreversible's special effects
Two Music Videos by Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter directed by Gaspar Noé
Based on a famous fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin, THE TALE OF TSAR SALTAN is one of director Aleksandr Ptushko's most sublime creations: a ravishingly beautiful fantasy about love, magic, betrayal and abandoned family. Driven from the Russian court by her sisters' scheming, the young Tsarina (Larisa Golubkina) is thrown into the sea in a cask with her infant son. Surviving the storm-tossed voyage, the mother and her now magically-adult son (Oleg Vidov) land on a remote island where he falls in love with a Swan Princess in human form (Kseniya Ryabinkina), and longs for reunion with his estranged father, Tsar Saltan (Vladimir Andreyev). Like his earlier masterpieces SAMPO and ILYA MUROMETS (also released by Deaf Crocodile), TSAR SALTAN is filled with breathtaking imagery: carved wooden lions who shed tears; peasants in pagan ritual masks, dancing in the snow; the treacherous faces of conspirators bathed in red candle glow like the witches in Macbeth. Ptushko's second-to-last feature, TSAR SALTAN has been gorgeously restored by Mosfilm and Deaf Crocodile for its first-ever Blu-ray release in the U.S., co-presented with Seagull Films.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
BRAND NEW RESTORATION OF THE FILM
New hour-long video interview with legendary visual effects artist and film historian Robert Skotak (Academy Award-winner, Best Visual Effects for ALIENS and TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY) on Aleksandr Ptushko and the history of Soviet fantastika filmmaking, moderated by Dennis Bartok of Deaf Crocodile Films
New commentary track by comics artist (Swamp Thing), film historian, and author Stephen R. Bissette
New essay by film historian and professor Peter Rollberg (Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema)
Blu-ray authoring by David Mackenzie of Fidelity In Motion
American newlyweds Dr. Shane and June Brown (Vincent Gallo and Tricia Vessey) travel to Paris for their honeymoon. Once there, Shane begins a search for his former medical collegaue Leo (Alex Descas), who may have information or a cure for the tropical virus that has transformed Leo's wife (Béatrice Dalle) into a murderous sexual carnivore, and may soon do the same to Shane.
Set during the Napoleonic wars, the film follows the exploits of Alfons von Worden, an officer traveling through the sierra Mountains and with each passing traveler, the interweaving stories grow stranger.
One of Wojciech Has' most acclaimed films, this surrealist cult epic has attracted support from Luis Buñuel, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and even Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Introduction's Notes on The Saragossa Manuscript by Annette Insdorf, Film Professor at Columbia University, and author of books including "Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has"
Post Screening's Notes on The Saragossa Manuscript by Annette Insdorf
Discussion on The Saragossa Manuscript with Sebastian Smoliński, Film Critic
Lauren and her friends just wanted to have a little fun with a Ouija board, but they accidentally resurrect a centuries-old, voluptuous witch named Carmilla. Before you know it, Carmilla is killing all of Lauren's friends and turning them into bloodthirsty demons! Thankfully, there is a local TV show hostess named Debbie who is an expert in all things occult... but can Debbie really put a stop to the devious and deadly Carmilla?
Donald Farmer's latest horror feature goes deep into his career-long obsessions, crafting a colorful film that feels as much like a modern horror film as it feels like an 80's shot-on-video excursion. Debbie Does Demons stars the increasingly popular new scream queen, Jessa Flux, alongside other low-budget horror stars Roni Jonah (Cannibal Hookers, Thrust!), Angel Bradford, and Morrigan Thompson.
An offbeat and bittersweet documentary featuring Bill Hader, John Waters, Lance Bangs, Nicole Holofcener, Charles Mudede, Gus Van Sant, Thelma Schoonmaker, and an entire community of lovable weirdos. Structured around original video store-inspired songs, it is a loving ode to the dying art of connection and curation.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Set against an overwhelming desert landscape, Felix (Michael Lake, Sweetie) and Betty Crabtree (Rhys Davis, Dead End Drive-In) are eccentric siblings living together in an isolated homestead in a post-apocalyptic era. Modern technology is absent, with wheels and gears operating a variety of broken devices to assist their struggle to survive. When they encounter a wandering stranger named Smith (Norman Boyd), their simple lives become tumultuous as the wheelchair-bound Felix dreams of flying and Betty believes their new arrival to be a demonic presence - the characters all yearning for escape but seemingly do not know how. The debut feature from Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City) Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds is presented here in its original 4:3 ratio from a 2K scan of the original 16mm negatives. This audio and visual feast has been resurrected from cinematic obscurity to coincide with its 30th anniversary of production.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Audio Commentary with Director Alex Proyas
Audio Commentary with Composer Peter Miller and Editor Craig Wood
Interview with cast member Michael Lake
Interview with cast member Rhys Davis
SPIRITS: Making a Post-Apocalypse Western featurette
An unemployed and drug addled loner is sentenced to death for robbing and drowning an innocent girl in 1974. During his execution, he vows revenge on the judge, jury, and prosecutor who convicted him. 20 years later, two actresses are hired by a mysterious benefactor to charter a yacht full of strangers and travel to a remote island locale for a murder mystery weekend. The guests soon realize that the murders are no performance, as a mysterious killer begins dispatching each patron on the island one by one using a variety of gory and gruesome methods.
Undoubtedly the most elaborate, SOV passion project from director Gary Whitson and his New Jersey based company W.A.V.E. Productions, Hung Jury is a mind melting, 1994 island set whodunnit slasher epic of mammoth proportions boasting a huge (mostly non-thespian) principal cast, underwater videography, and exotic yacht and beachfront locations. Featuring performances by Tina Krause (Limbo), Dave Castiglione (Backwoods Marcy), Clancy McCauley (Dead North), and Michelle Caporaletti (Bloody Creek), Hung Jury weaves a perplexing revenge slasher plot together with some of the most over the top kills in W.A.V.E. history; including barn door crucifixion, bludgeoning by dismembered arm, and the most astonishing post-coital weightlifting axe massacre in cinema history!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
New transfer from the SVHS master tape
Audio commentary with director Gary Whitson moderated by Ross Snyder, co-director of Mail Order Murder: The Story of W.A.V.E. Productions
Alternate extended cut (119 min.)
Audio commentary with Richard Mogg, Author of Analog Nightmares: The Shot on Video Horror Films of 1982-1995
BONUS MOVIE: THE PERILS OF PENELOPE (84 min.) -W.A.V.E.'s infamous 1992 ode to the old time, episodic serial cliffhangers starring Hung Jury star Michelle Caporaletti
"The Perils of Penelope: The Hypnotic Gem" -Sequel short from 2008 starring Elizabeth Raven (20 min.)
Reversible cover art
English SDH subtitles
"Hung Jury: Fit to Be Tied": a 28 page booklet featuring rare behind the scenes photos plus writings by Grace Lovera (Horror Fashion Review), Taylor Heider (Mondo Videos), filmmaker / artist Caroline Kopko (Cannibal Hookers, Cinderella's Tolerance), plus a foreword by director Gary Whitson
Suze (Andrea Riseborough) and Arthur (Harry Melling) are an outwardly traditional bohemian couple living on the Lower East side. After encountering a gang of violent leather-clad greasers known as The Young Gents, the pair discover previously unexplored desires and begin to question the confines of gender, monogamy, and the sexual status quo. Colorful, musical and witty, filmmaker Amanda Kramer's visionary riff on 1950s masculinity plays like a high camp emission from your wildest dreams.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
New Feature Audio Commentary by director Amanda Kramer and actors Alisa Torres and Matt D'Elia
Cast & Crew Q&A from the LA Premiere
Deleted Scenes and Outtakes
Short Films by Amanda Kramer
New Video Essay by Chris O'Neill
Alamo Drafthouse No Talking PSA
Original Moodboards
Isolated Score and Sound Design
Theatrical Trailer and Character Teasers
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Qiu Fu, the most renowned clown of Sichuan opera, has reached the netherworld. Welcomed by Ox-Head and Horse-Face, shepherds of the dead, he recounts his life with the "New-New" opera troupe before his turn at the Bridge of Forgetfulness. Starting in the 1920s, Qiu's tale melds with China's tumultuous century into the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Great Leap Forward, and other socio-political revolutions.
Inspired by his own grandfather's life, Qiu Jiongjiong's A New Old Play is a sumptuous intermingling of personal and national history. It transforms China's many pivots into a vaudevillian theater of its own, culminating in a spiritual rumination on the passage of time and the role of the artist forced to weather the storm of history. Drawing from his background as a visual artist, Qiu arrives at a masterful, painterly style: flowing tableaux, carefully art-directed sets and ingenious hand-made miniatures bringing the act of remembrance into a delightful, phantasmagorical realm.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Short Film "Ode to Joy" (2008, 31 min)
Making of (2021, 19 min)
Booklet Including Behind-the-Scene Photos, Storyboards, and Interview with Director
The year is 1994 - For centuries, a demonic cult has been plotting the destruction of mankind. When a small Colorado town is overrun by a legion of mutating demons, three non-demon hunter friends must use every skill their minds can fathom to stave off the demon apocalypse.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Audio Commentary from Director Eric Power and Writer Andreas Petersen
Audio Commentary from EIC of Dread Central MaryBeth McAndews and EIC of Gayly Dreadful Terry Mesnard
Comedy Audio Commentary from ScoffTracks' Lucas Taughn
Demons For Years - The Making of Attack of the Demons
Movie-Tron KTUTV Commercials with Director Introduction
Teek "Sleeping Trees" Music Video
Proof of Concept Trailer
Final Trailer
English SDH subtitles
REIGON-A "LOCKED"
FROM PARTNER LABEL AMERICAN GENRE FILM ARCHIVE (AGFA):
Escaping from the brain-baked wasteland of Texas and the wasteland-brain of wildman producer Whit Boyd, DRACULA (THE DIRTY OLD MAN) is the movie that Bram Stoker's estate doesn't want you to see. The deranged story follows Dracula and his faithful werewolf servant Irving Jackalman as they unleash a reign of psychosexual terror upon humankind. But that's only half the story. The movie's original soundtrack was discarded and replaced with voices and narration that were clearly improvised. The result is what might have happened if an episode of DARK SHADOWS was hijacked by Russ Meyer, then dubbed by a Borscht Belt comedian from Mars. AGFA + Something Weird have assembled a fangtastic tribute to this outsider spectacle, complete with two versions of the film and extras that are a bite for sore eyes.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Preserved from the only known 35mm print in existence
Commentary by Texploitation film historians Melinda Belles & Dennis Campa
Alternate version (SD preservation, 69 mins)
Bonus movie: TALES OF A SALESMAN (1965, 53 mins), preserved from the only known 35mm Technicolor print in existence
Two young brothers drift aimlessly through their summer until involved in an accidental death of a young woman. With few options, the duo flees arrest across state lines in search of refuge. With a tendency to exacerbate even the calmest of situations, the eldest brother gets them booted from each and every hideout, resigning the youngest to follow him into car chases, knife fights with French Chefs, and finally a Vietnam War re-enactment with their estranged father. At turns poetic, funny, and poignant, Andrew T. Betzer's feature debut is the epitome of an American Primitivist film. Shot on lush 16mm, this quietly mesmerizing story sees the brothers transition from boys to men, though not through responsibility, but rather an absorption of the world (good and bad) around them.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Directors Commentary with Andrew T Betzer
Deleted and Extended Scenes
Five Short Films: - John Wayne Hated Horses, Small Apartment, Ivan Runs Some Errands, Runs Amok, I Turn To Jello and Important Police Shit
Trailer
32-page booklet including interviews and essays by Sean Price Williams, Nicholas Elliott and Amber Wilkinson