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Release: August 7, 2023

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Product Description Arbelos Films presents CHAMELEON STREET - "One of the greatest independent films of the twentieth century." - The New Yorker Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival, yet criminally underseen for over three decades, CHAMELEON STREET recounts the improbable but true story of Michigan con man William Douglas Street Jr., the titular "chameleon" who successfully impersonated his way up the socioeconomic ladder by posing as a magazine reporter, an Ivy League student, a respected surgeon, and a corporate lawyer. Elevated by a dexterous performance and daring direction from multi-hyphenate actor-writer-director Wendell B. Harris Jr., the film pins a lens on race, class and performance in American identity which has lost none of its relevance. At once piercingly funny and aesthetically mischievous, CHAMELEON STREET is a lost masterpiece finally securing its rightful place in the independent film canon. Specs: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1. DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono. Region code: A. Special Features: New 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative . New audio commentary featuring Wendell B. Harris Jr. and Ashley Clark. New audio commentary featuring cast and crew . Marriage Counseling - The evolution of a scene . Being Independent is Glorious - An archival conversation featuring Harris and Mike Plante. Archival video interview with William Douglas Street Jr. The Process - Archival documentary on the making of CHAMELEON STREET. So, You Say You Know Leadbelly… - Archival footage from CHAMELEON STREET pre-production character explorations. Original theatrical trailer. 2021 U.S theatrical trailer. Review A triple-threat filmmaker of orginal and eccentric talent. --New York Times Chameleon Street is a gloriously strange one-off that deserves to be appreciated by a new generation…a lost masterpiece of black American cinema. --Bfi The film addresses issues of race, economics, sex, anger and pride in ways that are both savagely funny and poignant. --Rolling Stone

Release: December 14, 2021

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Product Description "A mid-career masterwork by legendary Hungarian art house auteur Be´la Tarr and the first of his internationally acclaimed trilogy of films written in collaboration with author La´szlo´ Krasznahorkai (including the legendary SA´TA´NTANGO´). DAMNATION (Ka´rhozat) chronicles the doomed affair between Bar Titanik regular Karrer (SA´TA´NTANGO´'s Miklo´s B. Sze´kely) and the cabaret singer (Vali Kerekes) he pines for while scheming to displace her brutish husband (Gyo¨rgy Cserhalmi). A poignant Communism allegory that solidified Tarr's unique aesthetic, DAMNATION is photographed in an exquisitely black & white palette underscored by the mesmerizing long takes that would come to be his trademark. Review Remarkable. --The Guardian Some of the most magnificent black-&-white images shot anywhere in the world. --The Village Voice (Béla Tarr is) one of cinema's most adventurous artists. --Martin Scorsese

Release: September 10, 2019

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Product Description Arbelos Films Presents THE JUNIPER TREE - Starring BJÖRK, with a new 4K restoration! An unsung talent in her lifetime, director, professor and Fulbright scholar Nietzchka Keene's stark, stunning debut feature THE JUNIPER TREE is loosely based on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same name, and stars Björk in her first on-screen performance. The film premiered to glowing reviews at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991 and led Keene to further direct HEROINE OF HELL (1996) starring Catherine Keener and BAREFOOT TO JERUSALEM (2008), the latter completed after her tragically early death in 2004. Set in medieval Iceland, THE JUNIPER TREE follows Margit (Björk in a riveting performance) and her older sister Katla (Bryndis Petra Bragadottir) as they flee for safety after their mother is burned to death for witchcraft. Finding shelter and protection with Johan (Valdimar Orn Fygenring), and his resentful young son, Jonas (Geirlaug Sunna Pormar), the sisters help form an impromptu family unit that's soon strained by Katla's burgeoning sorcery. Photographed entirely on location in the stunning landscapes of Iceland in spectacular black-and-white by Randy Sellars, THE JUNIPER TREE is a deeply atmospheric film, evocative of Carl Theodor Dreyer's DAY OF WRATH and Ingmar Bergman's THE VIRGIN SPRING, and filled with indelible waking dream sequences (courtesy of legendary experimental filmmaker Pat O'Neill). A potent allegory for misogyny and its attendant tragedies, THE JUNIPER TREE is a major rediscovery for art house audiences. New restoration by the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation. SPECIAL FEATURES: New 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative by the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by The George Lucas Family Foundation. 3 newly remastered short films by Nietzchka Keene. New video interview with cinematographer Randy Sellars. Archival video interview with Nietzchka Keene. Never before seen outtakes. U.S. Theatrical Trailer. New essays by Amy Sloper, Angeline Gragasin, and Patrick Moyroud. Review Björk's presence is immediately spellbinding, fueled by a cherubic yet witchy energy. --Pitchfork THE JUNIPER TREE… has a voice all its own. --The New York Times A major rediscovery. --The New Yorker

Release: November 13, 2018

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Product Description Arbelos Films Presents The Last Movie - Dennis Hopper's radical, much-mythologized lost masterpiece - never before released on Blu-ray or DVD! New 4K restoration. Dennis Hopper's radical, much-mythologized lost masterpiece - widely unseen for nearly 50 years until now! Consciously self-reflexive and co-written by Hopper and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE screenwriter Stewart Stern, THE LAST MOVIE follows a Hollywood movie crew in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. When production wraps, Hopper, as the baleful stuntman Kansas, remains, attempting to find redemption in the isolation of Peru and the arms of a former prostitute. Meanwhile, the local Indians have taken over the abandoned set and begun to stage a ritualistic re-enactment of the production - with Kansas as their sacrificial lamb. Among the most storied productions of the New Hollywood Era, Hopper was given carte blanche by Universal for his next directorial feature after the tremendous commercial success of EASY RIDER, and writer-director-star took the money and ran - literally - staging THE LAST MOVIE in Peru at farthest remove from the Hollywood machine, with an on-screen entourage in tow that included Kris Kristofferson, Julie Adams, Stella Garcia, Peter Fonda, Dean Stockwell, Toni Basil, Russ Tamblyn, Michelle Phillips and director Samuel Fuller. Although it won a special award at the Venice Film Festival, THE LAST MOVIE would effectively end Hopper's career for many years - the Hollywood establishment gleefully writing him off as a self-indulgent madman. Yet the movie remains thrillingly innovative and remarkably contemporary - influenced greatly by the work of Bruce Conner and the French New Wave, as well as the Pop and Abstract artists Hopper revered. SPECIAL FEATURES: New 4K restoration from the original camera negative. Scene Missing (2018), a sixty-minute documentary directed by Alex Cox on the making of THE LAST MOVIE. Some Kind of Genius (1987), a thirty-minute documentary portrait of Dennis Hopper directed by Paul Joyce. Postcard from Peru (2018), a new series of video interviews with members of the Peruvian crew filmed by Daniel García and Aurelio Medina. The Dick Cavett Show 1971 interview with Hopper. 2007 video introduction by Dennis Hopper. 2018 U.S. Theatrical Trailer. 1971 Theatrical Trailer. 1971 Product Reel. Restoration Demo. New essays by Julie Adams, Jessica Hundley and Mike Plante plus a 1971 Evergreen Review report from the set of the film by L.M. Kit Carson. Review Dennis Hopper's THE LAST MOVIE is as essential as cinema gets. --Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice A film of marked originality and frequent brilliance. --Thomas Curtiss, The New York Times Rightfully commands more attention and respect than it has received. --Foster Hirsch, The New York Times

Release: December 19, 2023

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Product Description Arbelos Films presents LIFE IS CHEAP … BUT TOILET PAPER IS EXPENSIVE - New digital restoration of Director Wayne Wang's definitive cut of this much-loved independent film. Exploding a seemingly simple premise - a nameless "cowboy" courier (Spencer Nakasako) arrives in pre-Handover Hong Kong to deliver a mysterious briefcase to a mercurial Mob boss whilst becoming entangled with his femme fatale mistress (Cora Miao) - independent filmmaking legend Wayne Wang's LIFE IS CHEAP … BUT TOILET PAPER IS EXPENSIVE barrels through inspired genre deconstruction, guerrilla docu-fiction and fierce political jeremiad, all with a keen sense of humor and deeply rich visual palette. Tracking the Man-with-no-name's increasingly byzantine mission across every level of the city's social strata, we're introduced to fortune families, cabdrivers, hustlers, butchers and more, each punctuating the high-octane Neo-noir narrative with instantly memorable monologues that capture a now-distant era in Hong Kong history. Multifaceted but never incoherent LIFE IS CHEAP … BUT TOILET PAPER IS EXPENSIVE is among Wang's most unique and bracing contributions to the independent film cannon. Much-loved on the international film festival circuit but unjustly overlooked in North America, this is a maverick tour de force ripe for rediscovery. Specs: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.66:1. DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono. Region code: A. Special Features: New 4K restoration of Wayne Wang's final cut by Lightbox Film Center at University of the Arts in collaboration with University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. New video interview with Wayne Wang. New video interview with Wayne Wang and co-writer/co-director Spencer Nakasako. Original chase sequence. U.S. Theatrical Trailer. New essay by Aliza Ma. Review Director Wayne Wang's versatility has never failed to impress. --Matt Zoller Seitz, Rogerebert.com (I)ncredibly unique ― and a reminder of how gloriously unhinged late 20th-century independent cinema could be. --Lee Jutton, Film Inquiry Wayne Wang's Hong Kong Noir Dazzles In New Director's Cut & Restoration. --Kyle Turner, Playlist Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews Life is Cheap But Toilet Paper is Expensive

Release: January 12, 2021

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Product Description One of the greatest achievements in recent art-house cinema and a seminal work of "slow cinema," SÁTÁNTANGÓ, based on the novel by László Krasznahorkai, follows the members of a humble agricultural community living in a bleak and punishing backwater after the fall of Communism. As a few of the villagers secretly conspire to take off with all of the community's annual earnings for themselves, a mysterious messiah, long thought dead, returns to the village and alters the course of everyone's lives forever. Shot in stunning black-and-white by Gábor Medvigy and filled with exquisitely composed long takes, SÁTÁNTANGÓ unfolds in twelve distinct movements, alternating forwards and backward in time, echoing the structure of tango dance. Béla Tarr's vision, aided by long-time partner and collaborator Ágnes Hranitzky, is enthralling and his portrayal of rural Hungary beset by drunken revelry, treachery, and near-perpetual rainfall is both transfixing and uncompromising. SÁTÁNTANGÓ has been justly lauded by critics and audiences as a masterpiece and has been restored on the occasion of it's 25th anniversary. Review [Béla Tarr is] one of cinema's most adventurous artists, and his films, like SÁTÁNTANGÓ and THE TURIN HORSE are truly experiences that you absorb, and that keep developing in the mind. --Martin Scorsese Never less than mesmerizing --New York Times His magnum opus… Tarr's imaginative universe is entirely his own. --The Guardian

Release: June 8, 2021

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Product Description SON OF THE WHITE MARE - Marcell Jankovics' masterpiece of psychedelic animation never-before released in North America! Legendary Hungarian animator Marcell Jankovics created a definitive masterpiece of world cinema with this psychedelic adaptation of Hungarian fairy tales. Traversing an otherworldly canvas, SON OF THE WHITE MARE follows mythic folk heroes Treeshaker, Stonecrumbler and Irontemperer as they descend into the perilous Underworld on an epic quest to battle the forces of ancient evil and save the cosmos. By turns astonishing and meditative, this kaleidoscopic medley of path-breaking animation styles is given its first-ever U.S. release here in a new 4K director approved restoration. Rounding out this collection is a comprehensive survey of Marcell Jankovics' famed early work including a new restoration of JÁNOS VITÉZ, the first Hungarian animated feature film, and three landmark short films. SPECS: High Definition 1080p 1.37:1 DTS-HD MA 1.0 Mono Region code: A Special Features: New 4K restoration from by original camera negative by the Hungarian National Film Institute - Film Archive in collaboration with Arbelos. New 4K restoration of JÁNOS VITÉZ (1973) by the Hungarian National Film Institute - Film Archive. 3 newly remastered short films by Marcell Jankovics. Brighter Colors - a new video interview with Marcell Jankovics. The Making of JÁNOS VITÉZ - archival short. U.S. Theatrical Trailer. New essays by Eleanor Cowen and Charles Soloman. Review The Greatest Psychedelic Animated Movie Ever Made. --IndieWire This should-be classic, with its kaleidoscopic animation and vibrant mythos, is a unique contribution to the animated canon. --New York Times For years it has lurked underground, in the form of ripped discs and fuzzy YouTube uploads, sans subtitles. But at long last, ye patient seekers, a 4K restoration has risen. May your psyches never recover. --Wired Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews Son of the White Mare [Blu-ray]

Release: February 13, 2024

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Product Description Arbelos Films presents TWLIGHT - Directed by longtime Béla Tarr collaborator György Fehér - never before available on DVD or Blu-ray in North America. After discovering the murdered body of a young girl deep in a mountainous forest, a hardened homicide detective pushes himself to increasingly obsessive ends in his quest to catch the serial killer - known only as "The Giant" - responsible for the crime. A much admired but long unavailable masterpiece by influential Hungarian auteur and regular Béla Tarr collaborator György Fehér, TWILIGHT (SZÜRKÜLET) is at once an existential murder mystery and an expansive meditation on time and space. Stunningly lensed in rich blacks and cascading grays by DP Miklós Gurbán (WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES), Arbelos is proud to present TWILIGHT for its first-ever U.S. release in a brand new 4K restoration by the National Film Institute - Hungarian Film Archive and FilmLab, supervised by Gurbán. Specs: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.66:1. DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono. Region code: ALL. Special Features: New 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative by the National Film Institute - Hungarian Film Archive and FilmLab, supervised by Miklós Gurbá. New video interview with cinematographer Miklós Gurbán. New video interview with editor Mária Czeilik. György Fehér's first two short films: Öregek (1969) and Tomikám (1970). U.S. Theatrical Trailer. 12-page booklet with new essay by Andrea Virginás (Film Genres in Hungarian and Romanian Cinema: History, Theory, Reception). Review Call it Twin Peaks without the jokes… The mood it builds is soul-shaking. --Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter Fehér has created a masterpiece that continues the reputation of Hungary's 80s and 90s cinema as a goldmine. --Soham Gadre, Film Inquiry It's a style so minimalist, it approaches maximalism - and this combination of pulp and precision creates an arresting and unique work of film noir. --Teo Bugbee, The New York Times Top