Australian label Imprint Films has announced its March batch of Blu-ray releases. They are:
Man Bites Dog (1992),
The Weight of Water (2000),
Factory Girl (2006),
Shattered Glass (2003),
Savior (1998), and
In the Bedroom (2001).
MAN BITES DOG - UNCUT VERSION (1992)
This cult classic Belgian crime mockumentary blends comedy and gritty, graphic realism, and is regarded as the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's Natural Born Killers.
A film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routine. But complications set in when the film crew lose their objectivity and begin lending a hand.
This controversial film was written, produced and directed by student filmmakers Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde, and shot on Black & White 16mm film on a shoestring budget. They received acclaim from several film festivals including Cannes and Toronto, leaving a lasting legacy among critics and fans.
SAVIOR (1998)
Dennis Quaid stars in this gripping drama from legendary producer Oliver Stone (Born on the Fourth of July, JFK), also starring Stellan Skarsgĺrd (Good Will Hunting) and Nastassja Kinski (Paris, Texas)
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
SHATTERED GLASS (2003)
The real life story of journalist Stephen Glass and the shocking scandal that rocked U.S. publication The New Republic is brought to life by writer and director Billy Ray, the screenwriter behind Captain Phillips.
Featuring an all star cast including Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloë Sevigny, Rosario Dawson, Melanie Lynskey, Hank Azaria and Steve Zahn, Shattered Glass was critically acclaimed on release, nominated for a Golden Globe Award and four Independent Spirit Awards.
A young journalist falls from grace when it's discovered he has fabricated over half the articles he has written for the publication The New Republic magazine.
Adapted from a 1998 Vanity Fair article of the same name by H. G. Bissinger.
IN THE BEDROOM (2001)
Award-winning auteur director Todd Field (Tár) made his feature film debut with box office smash In The Bedroom, a devastating drama starring Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, Nick Stahl and Marisa Tomei.
A New England couple's college-aged son dates an older woman who has two small children and an unwelcome ex-husband.
Based on the 1979 short story "Killings" by Andre Dubus, the film was nominated for five Academy Awards and three Golden Globes.
Described as "one of the best-directed films of the year" by Roger Ebert, and a "masterpiece" that is "the most evocative, the most mysterious, the most inconsolably devastating" film by David Edelstein of Slate Magazine.
THE WEIGHT OF WATER (2000)
Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow brings the true story of the 1873 Smuttynose Island murders onto the big screen in this thrilling crime drama starring Catherine McCormack, Elizabeth Hurley, Sean Penn, and Sarah Polley.
A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal.
Based on Anita Shreve's 1997 novel of the same name.
FACTORY GIRL (2006)
This tragic biographical drama comes from the award-winning director behind the documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, George Hickenlooper.
Sienna Miller stars as "It Girl" Edie Sedgwick, Guy Pearce stars as Andy Warhol, and the stunning supporting cast features Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon, Mena Suvari, Mary-Kate Olsen and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Edie hailed from a wealthy, aristocratic American family. When she met Andy Warhol, it became a mad rush for fame and fabulousness that was destined to spin out of control.