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Release: March 24, 2026

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* In 1937 after The Second Sino-Japanese War breaks out a soldier and a young woman have an awkward meet cute in darkness under a bridge as they seek refuge during a bomb raid. Although they can’t see each other’s faces they promise to meet again after the dust settles. Ten years later the soldier, now a burgeoning songwriter and tuba-player in a marching band, is back in town desperately searching for his would-be soulmate. As fate would have it they end up living in the same building unbeknownst to each other. Through a series of mishaps he mistakes her new ingénue roommate for his love interest and wacky love triangle hijinks ensue. Consummate auteur Tsui Hark almost singlehandedly reinvented Hong Kong cinema in the 80’s and 90’s with uber-kinetic genre opuses, amping up cinematic spectacle whether with special effects or sheer unbridled energy. This Hong Kong styled homage to the screwball comedies of yesteryear features black belt level slapstick and delightfully droll romcom shenanigans. With striking mise en scene and inspired production design SHANGHAI BLUES is “…luscious, loving and a lot of fun…one of Tsui Hark’s most enjoyable works," (Richard James Havis, South China Morning Post). The 4K restoration of SHANGHAI BLUES was supervised from the original negative by Tsui Hark with L’Immagine Ritrovata and the soundtrack remixed by One Cool Sound. Bonus Features: 1. Interviews with director/producer Tsui Hark and film coordinator O Sing Pui 2. Commentary by Hong Kong film expert Frank Djeng 3. 16-page booklet with essay by film writer John Charles

Release: March 24, 2026

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* In 1937 after The Second Sino-Japanese War breaks out a soldier and a young woman have an awkward meet cute in darkness under a bridge as they seek refuge during a bomb raid. Although they can’t see each other’s faces they promise to meet again after the dust settles. Ten years later the soldier, now a burgeoning songwriter and tuba-player in a marching band, is back in town desperately searching for his would-be soulmate. As fate would have it they end up living in the same building unbeknownst to each other. Through a series of mishaps he mistakes her new ingénue roommate for his love interest and wacky love triangle hijinks ensue. Consummate auteur Tsui Hark almost singlehandedly reinvented Hong Kong cinema in the 80’s and 90’s with uber-kinetic genre opuses, amping up cinematic spectacle whether with special effects or sheer unbridled energy. This Hong Kong styled homage to the screwball comedies of yesteryear features black belt level slapstick and delightfully droll romcom shenanigans. With striking mise en scene and inspired production design SHANGHAI BLUES is “…luscious, loving and a lot of fun…one of Tsui Hark’s most enjoyable works," (Richard James Havis, South China Morning Post). The 4K restoration of SHANGHAI BLUES was supervised from the original negative by Tsui Hark with L’Immagine Ritrovata and the soundtrack remixed by One Cool Sound. Bonus Features: 1. Interviews with director/producer Tsui Hark and film coordinator O Sing Pui 2. Commentary by Hong Kong film expert Frank Djeng 3. 16-page booklet with essay by film writer John Charles

Release: July 30, 2024

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee SHANGHAI TRIAD is a thrilling and sumptuously stylized potboiler about the Chinese criminal underworld of the 1930's from legendary director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, House of Flying Daggers). Hired to be a servant to pampered nightclub singer and mob moll Xiao Jinbao (Gong Li, Ju Dou, Farewell My Concubine), naive teenager Shuisheng (Wang Xiaoxiao) is thrust into the glamorous and deadly demimonde of Shanghai’s crime syndicates. Over the course of seven days, Shuisheng observes mounting tensions as triad boss Tang begins to suspect traitors amongst his ranks and rivals for Xiao Jinbao’s affections. Zhang’s inventive take on the gangster film is “assured and attention-grabbing” (Variety) and Gong’s central performance, “a portrait of a capricious and indulgent woman who gains depth as we watch her -- is one of her finest” (Chicago Tribune). Bonus Features: 1. Trouble in Shanghai video essay by author Grady Hendrix 2. Booklet with new essay by film critic and lecturer John Berra

Release: July 29, 2025

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* Austria, late 19th century. Countess Irma Sztáray (Sandra Hüller) leaves her home in Hungary to become the lady-in-waiting for Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Susanne Wolff), known to those close to her as Sisi. Irma falls under the spell of the rebellious Empress Sisi, and the two form a strong bond during a summer retreat in Greece. However, once home in Vienna, their lives take dramatic and irrevocable turns. “Lush, irreverent” (Variety) and “vividly shot” (AWFJ.org), SISI & I features Academy Award-nominated Sandra Hüller and Susanne Wolff in a “thought-provoking and entertaining glance at the famous empress” (Cineuropa). Bonus Features: 1. Video essay by filmmaker Hunter Whaley 2. Introduction from director Frauke Finsterwalder

Release: October 31, 2017

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Five disc Blu-ray set. Follow the charming 19th-century exploits of Elisabeth of Bavaria, aka Sissi (Romy Schneider), in this beloved trilogy of Austrian historical romances. First, "Sissi" (1955) concerns the young arrival at court at the side of her sister, who is to be engaged to Emperor Franz Joseph (Karlheinz Böhm). The ruler, however, falls in love with Sissi instead! Uta Franz, Gustav Knuth co-star. "Sissi: The Young Empress" (1956) finds the new empress (Schneider) clashing with her mother-in-law (Vilma Degischer). Böhm, Knuth co-star. Finally, "Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress" (1957) chronicles the Hungarian voyage taken by the beauteous Sissi (Schneider) and her battle against a crippling illness. Böhm, Degischer co-star. Five-disc set also includes "Forever My Love" (1962), an English-dubbed, condensed version of the three films, and "Victoria in Dover" (1954), starring Schneider in a romantic account of Queen Victoria's reign. 9 1/2 hrs. Total. Standard; Soundtrack: German and English Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English; featurette; theatrical trailers. In German with English subtitles/Dubbed in English.

Release: October 31, 2017

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Five disc Blu-ray set. Follow the charming 19th-century exploits of Elisabeth of Bavaria, aka Sissi (Romy Schneider), in this beloved trilogy of Austrian historical romances. First, "Sissi" (1955) concerns the young arrival at court at the side of her sister, who is to be engaged to Emperor Franz Joseph (Karlheinz Böhm). The ruler, however, falls in love with Sissi instead! Uta Franz, Gustav Knuth co-star. "Sissi: The Young Empress" (1956) finds the new empress (Schneider) clashing with her mother-in-law (Vilma Degischer). Böhm, Knuth co-star. Finally, "Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress" (1957) chronicles the Hungarian voyage taken by the beauteous Sissi (Schneider) and her battle against a crippling illness. Böhm, Degischer co-star. Five-disc set also includes "Forever My Love" (1962), an English-dubbed, condensed version of the three films, and "Victoria in Dover" (1954), starring Schneider in a romantic account of Queen Victoria's reign. 9 1/2 hrs. Total. Standard; Soundtrack: German and English Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English; featurette; theatrical trailers. In German with English subtitles/Dubbed in English.

Release: October 31, 2017

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Five disc Blu-ray set. Follow the charming 19th-century exploits of Elisabeth of Bavaria, aka Sissi (Romy Schneider), in this beloved trilogy of Austrian historical romances. First, "Sissi" (1955) concerns the young arrival at court at the side of her sister, who is to be engaged to Emperor Franz Joseph (Karlheinz Böhm). The ruler, however, falls in love with Sissi instead! Uta Franz, Gustav Knuth co-star. "Sissi: The Young Empress" (1956) finds the new empress (Schneider) clashing with her mother-in-law (Vilma Degischer). Böhm, Knuth co-star. Finally, "Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress" (1957) chronicles the Hungarian voyage taken by the beauteous Sissi (Schneider) and her battle against a crippling illness. Böhm, Degischer co-star. Five-disc set also includes "Forever My Love" (1962), an English-dubbed, condensed version of the three films, and "Victoria in Dover" (1954), starring Schneider in a romantic account of Queen Victoria's reign. 9 1/2 hrs. Total. Standard; Soundtrack: German and English Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English; featurette; theatrical trailers. In German with English subtitles/Dubbed in English.

Release: October 31, 2017

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Five disc Blu-ray set. Follow the charming 19th-century exploits of Elisabeth of Bavaria, aka Sissi (Romy Schneider), in this beloved trilogy of Austrian historical romances. First, "Sissi" (1955) concerns the young arrival at court at the side of her sister, who is to be engaged to Emperor Franz Joseph (Karlheinz Böhm). The ruler, however, falls in love with Sissi instead! Uta Franz, Gustav Knuth co-star. "Sissi: The Young Empress" (1956) finds the new empress (Schneider) clashing with her mother-in-law (Vilma Degischer). Böhm, Knuth co-star. Finally, "Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress" (1957) chronicles the Hungarian voyage taken by the beauteous Sissi (Schneider) and her battle against a crippling illness. Böhm, Degischer co-star. Five-disc set also includes "Forever My Love" (1962), an English-dubbed, condensed version of the three films, and "Victoria in Dover" (1954), starring Schneider in a romantic account of Queen Victoria's reign. 9 1/2 hrs. Total. Standard; Soundtrack: German and English Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English; featurette; theatrical trailers. In German with English subtitles/Dubbed in English.

Release: March 24, 2026

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* An American expat joins a team of experts searching an abandoned Austrian farmhouse for historical Nazi documents that may be hidden within it. However, when they discover a secret buried deep in the home's bowels, the team is forced to confront an ancient, insatiable evil intent on consuming them and everything they hold dear. Directed by boundary-pushing filmmaker and actor Johannes Grenzfurthner (MASKING THRESHOLD), SOLVENT is a "horror odyssey that takes us down a path of madness and refuses to let us go" (Alejandro Turdó, Hoy Sale Cine). Bonus Features: 1. Solvent locations featurette 2. 16-page booklet with essay by filmmaker, critic, academic, podcaster and editor Mary Beth McAndrews Top Similar From the Brand Reviews Solvent

Release: July 28, 2026

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* In the seedy underbelly of Manilla, teenage runaway Zion links up with a group of queer street hustlers who lead him on a heated journey of self-discovery in the tempting and dangerous nocturnal city. Petersen Vargas’s propulsive, erotic drama, SOME NIGHTS I FEEL LIKE WALKING, artfully utilizes a roadtrip structure to disguise what becomes “a beautiful rumination on the significance of chosen family in the queer community, and the lengths we sometimes have to go to to achieve it.” (Frameline) Bonus Features: 1. Commentary with director Petersen Vargas, star Miguel Odron and producer Jade Castro 2. Q&A with cast and crew 3. Screen tests 4. Deleted scene

Release: April 28, 2026

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* After making a misjudged advance towards her mother's boyfriend, 16-year-old Heidi (Abbie Cornish) flees her home for the small Australian ski town of Jindabyne. Entranced by the startling beauty of the wintry landscapes and falling snow, she begins to create a new life for herself. With little money or practical experience, she accepts a job at a petrol station and finds lodging with Irene (Lynette Curran). When she falls for Joe (Sam Worthington), the son of a wealthy local farmer, her self-destructive tendencies re-surface, and her fragile new world threatens to come tumbling down. An erotic, lyrical depiction of a young girl’s sexual awakening, SOMERSAULT is a breakthrough debut for both its director and its star. Bonus Features: 1. Commentary with director Cate Shortland, producer Antony Anderson and production designer Melinda Doring 2. Short film Flowergirl 3. Making of 4. Cinematographer featurette 5. Deleted scenes with commentary

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During the final days of World War II, Japanese crewmen aboard a submarine face impossible choices and looming defeat.

Release: July 7, 2015

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French spies make a concert violinist their pawn; he has no idea what's going on. Directed by Yves Robert. Review Screened at Cannes Classics during 2015 Cannes Film Festival WINNER - Silver Bear - Berlin International Film Festival WINNER - Top Foreign Film Award (1973) - National Board of Review --- Pierre Richard, a talented physical comic, stars in this spy farce directed by Yves Robert, which amounts to a 90-minute testimony to the French love for Jerry Lewis. --- Dave Kehr, The Chicago Reader

Release: May 17, 2016

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Arabia, 1916. A young Bedouin boy named Theeb ("Wolf") ventures on a treacherous journey across the desert, encountering mercenaries, revolutionaries and raiders as he tries to survive and live up to the name his father gave him.

Release: April 19, 2016

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THEORY OF OBSCURITY tells the story of the iconic renegade cult band The Residents. From the group's formation in Shreveport to their success in the burgeoning San Francisco avant-garde music scene of the 60s and 70s, The Residents redefined what a rock band could be. With the advent of music videos in the 1980s, these masked musicians gained global fame as MTV darlings and serious art world figures.

Release: June 24, 2025

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* Fresh from serving eighteen years in jail for shooting a man in self-defense, Juan Sayago (Jorge Martinez de Hoyos, The Magnificent Seven) comes back to his hometown to start life anew and reunite with old flame Mariana (Marga Lopez, Bunuel's Nazarin). But the two sons of the man he killed, consumed by an overwhelming thirst for revenge, have been anxiously awaiting his return. From an original story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude), and featuring dialogue by Mexican novelist/essayist Carlos Fuentes (The Death of Artemio Cruz, The Old Gringo), this stunning directorial debut by a then-21-year-old Arturo Ripstein provides insight into the genius who would go on to create Deep Crimson and Hell Without Limits. Bonus Features: 1. Video introduction by director Alex Cox (Repo Man) 2. Commentary by director Arturo Ripstein and actor Enrique Rocha 3. Essays by Carlos A. Gutierrez, co-founder of Cinema Tropical and film critic Erica Shultz Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews Time to Die [Blu-ray]

Release: November 1, 2016

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In a Roman shantytown, a selfish patriarch and his sprawling family claw for money, survival, and dignity in Ettore Scola’s savage black comedy.

Release: July 28, 2026

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* Before Dirk Diggler, there was John C. Holmes, the legendary adult actor who turned “Johnny Wadd” into a franchise and himself into a myth. WADD: THE LIFE & TIMES OF JOHN C. HOLMES plunges into the heady 1970s and 1980s LA porn scene—the non-stop sex, the coke-fueled nights, the seedy characters, and the fatal orbit of club kingpin Eddie Nash that culminated in the Wonderland murders. Narrated by Mike Sager, whose Rolling Stone investigation inspired the movies Boogie Nights and Wonderland, the documentary pairs rare film clips and never-before-aired crime-scene footage, with candid testimony from the people who knew him best. Featuring rare interviews with his wives and mistress, adult industry titans Larry Flynt and Ron Jeremy, and filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, WADD is essential viewing for audiences captivated by the rise and fall of one of porn's most legendary figures. Bonus Features: 1. The Devil and Mike Sager behind-the-scenes featurette 2. Commentary with adult film historian Casey Scott 3. 16-page essay by author Dan Erdman Wadd [Blu-ray] Wadd Similar From the Brand Questions Reviews

Release: January 11, 2022

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Product Description "An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction, and a chance encounter with the past. Propelled by coincidence and imagination, and guided by love's gentle current, acclaimed director Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Happy Hour, Asako I & II) returns with an enchanting triptych that spins mundane encounters into a world of infinite possibilities. Review "A playful triptych of self-contained vignettes... wonderfully beguiling.... " David Ehrlich, IndieWire "It is a stunning production, from the precision of Hamaguchi’s script and direction, the fine performances, and Yukiko Iioka’s gorgeous camerawork, to Fuminori Usui’s everyday costuming, the bright colors and natural light, and the gently lilting score. It’s an overwhelming film, amongst the best of the year, and a beautiful reminder of all the lives being lived in spite of our oddly lifeless time." Rory O'Connor, The Film Stage "The geometry of desire is elegantly plotted in “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy,” a wistful, moving, outwardly unassuming movie. [It] is a perfect entry point into Hamaguchi’s work. [B]oth times I watched this movie, I found something to admire, consider, argue with and weep over. Critic's Pick!" Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

Release: March 10, 2020

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Product Description Whiskey Galore!It is 1943 and the tiny remote Hebridean island of Todday is plunged into the depths of despair. Everyone is affected. Spirits are at zero - for Todday is without whisky. Then a ship founders on the rocks, and the islanders guide the crew to safety. The ship's captain and mate reveal that they had on board a cargo of 50,000 cases of whisky bound for America. Held up for a day because it is the Sabbath, the islanders eventually succeed in removing a considerable amount of the cargo and the dawn breaks with a rosy glow on a brighter, happier island. But the whisky does not last forever... Inspired by a true story. The Maggie"Maggie" is one of the fifty-odd puffer boats which chug among the Western Isles of Scotland. Squat, unprepossessing, and badly in need of paint, she is destined for the scrap yard unless her skipper can get her repaired. This seems a forlorn hope - until Mr. Pusey makes his mistake. Mr. Pusey works for the high-pressure American businessman, Calvin B. Marshall, who has a valuable cargo to be shipped to one of the isles. And Mr. Pusey's disastrous error is in allowing, through a misunderstanding, the cargo to be entrusted to the humble 'Maggie' with her crew of four. Originally released in the US as High and Dry. Review As usual for Ealing, the picture is brimming with delightful character portraits, from a dying man's (James Anderson) resurrection with the arrival of the stolen liquor, to mama's boy George's (Gordon Jackson) hilarious defiance of his stern, religious mother (Jean Cadell) after finding courage in several glasses of the newly-opened whiskey. Though a comedy, the film has exceptionally dramatic monochrome photography by Gerald Gibbs, images so good as to evoke memories of another classic of British cinema, Michael Powell's The Edge of the World (1937). The mostly Scottish cast includes perennial favorites like James Robertson Justice, Gordon Jackson, and Duncan Macrae (Finlay Currie narrates), but also eccentrically sexy Joan Greenwood. - Stuart Galbraith IV, DVD Talk Together with Robert Hamer's Kind Hearts and Coronets and Henry Cornelius' Passport to Pimlico, Whisky Galore! established the Ealing Studios' reputation for producing high quality British comedies. - Svet Atanasov, Blu-ray.com [A] convivial little classic. --Pauline Kael, The New Yorker The result is the sweetest, smartest and most joyous of all the Ealing comedies. - Tom Huddleston, Time Out Another happy demonstration of that peculiar knack British movie makers have for striking a rich and universally appealing comic vein in the most unexpected and seemingly insular situations. - Thomas Pryor, The New York Times Out of this excellent idea, which less skilled hands might have reduced to farce, the British moviemakers have spun a tight little comedy of pure gold. --Time Magazine One of three Ealing comedies released in 1949 (the others were Passport to Pimlico and Kind Hearts and Coronets), and remains by far the sharpest, freshest and most resonant. - Marc Lee, The Daily Telegraph Blessed be Mr. Mackendrick and the canniness of the Scots. Blessed be Michael Balcon and his Ealing Studios. For the smooth combination of all these factors that is represented in this film has resulted in a jolly entertainment that is as bracing as the Hebridean air. Mr. Mackendrick has stuck to the real outdoors for the better part of his picture, and you can feel it, all the way through. It is downright intoxicating. And High and Dry is a hearty, wholesome film. - Bosley Crowther, The New York Times Alexander Mackendrick always managed to bring an undertone of social reality to the comic fantasies he directed for Britain's Ealing Studios, and for that reason they remain in the mind much longer than those of his colleagues. This 1954 effort stars the Hollywood actor Paul Douglas as an American millionaire who has hired an ancient cargo boat to haul a mountain of expensive furniture to his new vacation home on a Scottish island; Mackendrick satirizes the American's bluster and the willful inefficiency of the cranky Scottish crew without compromising the warmth of the utopian dream the quest for a safe harbor from the franticness of modern life that motivates the action. --Dave Kehr, The Chicago Reader Top About this item From the Brand Reviews Whisky Galore! & The Maggie: Two Films by Alexander Mackendrick