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Release: May 28, 2019

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Product Description Radically combining collaborative documentary, western, and musical elements, the new film by Robert Greene (KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE) follows several members of a close-knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town s darkest hour. In 1917, nearly two-thousand immigrant miners, on strike for better wages and safer working conditions, were violently rounded up by their armed neighbors, herded onto cattle cars, shipped to the middle of the New Mexican desert, and left there to die. This long-buried and largely forgotten event came to be known as the Bisbee Deportation. BISBEE 17 documents locals as they play characters and stage dramatic scenes from the controversial story, culminating in a large scale recreation of the deportation itself on the exact day of its 100th anniversary. These dramatized scenes are based on subjective versions of the story and offer conflicting views of the event, underscoring the difficulty of collective memory, while confronting the current political predicaments of immigration, unionization, environmental damage, and corporate corruption with direct, haunting messages about solidarity and struggle. Audio Commentary by Director Robert Greene Bisbee 17 Shorts (36 minutes) Ghost Towns of Arizona, a short film by Robert Greene (2006, 7 minutes) Deleted and Extended Scenes (37 minutes) Theatrical Trailer Booklet featuring an Oral and Visual History of the Making of Bisbee 17 Review The best film of the year. --A.O. Scott, The New York Times "A riveting, emotionally galvanizing achievement." --Justin Chang, The LA Times "An American riff on THE ACT OF KILLING; a fascinating and dream-like mosaic about a forgotten American tragedy." --David Ehrlich, Indiewire

Release: November 14, 2017

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Product Description In only his second feature, Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa (HORSE MONEY, IN VANDA'S ROOM) brilliantly reworked Jacques Tourneur's classic I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE into a reflection on his country s colonial legacy. A nurse, Mariana (Inês Medeiros), accompanies Leão (Isaach De Bankole) to his home on the volcanic islands of Cape Verde after an accident sends him into a coma. Yet he goes unrecognized by fellow denizens, leaving Mariana trapped with and eventually entranced by a mysterious community. Never before released in the U.S. and now beautifully restored, CASA DE LAVA foreshadows the masterful films that would follow, yet is an extraordinary, ravishing work in its own right. SPECIAL FEATURES: Casa de Lava scrapbook (2012, 24 minutes), pages from Pedro Costa s notebook, featuring images and texts gathered during production, and set to original music Interview with cinematographer Emmanuel Machuel Theatrical Trailer Plus, a booklet featuring essays by film scholars Darlene J. Sadlier and Jonathan Rosenbaum Review "New enigmas reveal themselves with each new viewing." --Jacques Rivette

Release: February 19, 2019

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Product Description Using letters Anna Magdalena Bach wrote to her husband, seminal composer Johann Sebastian, filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet created one of the most precise, rewarding biopics ever put to screen. CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH's intense emotional pull can be understood by its status as a musical film in the most thorough sense: its performances staged as extended sequences set within the very spaces once occupied by Bach himself, with trained performers both donning and playing items accurate to the period are immense, bringing us closer to the sound than was ever thought possible. Immaculately restored on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, this extraordinary film invites viewers to experience a bygone age. SPECIAL FEATURES - New digital restoration - Jean-Marie Straub introduces "Chronicle" at the Swiss Film Archive (2013, 34 minutes) - Interview with actress Christiane Lang Drewanz (2012, 30 minutes) - The Cinema of Straub & Huillet, an introduction by author Alicia Malone for FilmStruck (5 minutes) - "The Bridegroom, The Actress, and The Pimp" (1968, 23 minutes), a short film by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet featuring Rainer Werner Fassbinder - "The Mother" (2011, 20 minutes), a short film by Jean-Marie Straub - Theatrical Trailer Review "Straub and Huillet revolutionized the musical biography." --Dave Kehr, The New York Times "The net effect is not having seen a film but having lived a real moment, in the presence of monumental music." --Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice "The experience is both transcendent and material... A recording of magnificent music... At once austere and rhapsodic, it evokes the 18th century while feeling as present as a live concert. An excellent new digital restoration." --J. Hoberman, The New York Times

Release: April 6, 2021

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Product Description A tale of an obsessive love affair, Manoel de Oliveira's Francisca is based on a novel by Agustina Bessa-Luís, whose work he'd later adapt twice more. The book's re-telling of a troubled passage in real-life author Camilo Castelo Branco life (his friend José Augusto embarked on a perverse game of marital cat and mouse with Francisca, the woman the novelist loved) led Oliveira to new levels of stylistic and formal imagination. (It helped that his wife, a distant relative of the historical Francisca, gave him access to a cache of the woman's letters.) With its elaborate title cards, its abundance of shots in which the action is oriented directly toward the camera, its gloomy interiors, and its show-stopping gala set-pieces, Francisca is an exacting, sumptuous and utterly inimitable cinematic experience, and one of Oliveira's crowning achievements. Review A two-hour-and-45-minute tour de force. A drolly funny, ravishingly beautiful and daringly stylized feast of a movie. Reemerging in a year many of us would love to forget, it's a work of art to remember. --Justin Chang, LA Times Francisca is both classical and postmodern, a cross between a lush Visconti period piece and the stylized expressionism of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. One of cinema titan Manoel de Oliveira's greatest films. --J. Hoberman, The New York Times A masterpiece of modern cinema. A story of great subtlety, density, and emotional impact. It is as if Jean-Marie Straub has collaborated with Max Ophüls. --Dave Kehr, When Movies Mattered

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Kaili Blues is a feature film presented on Blu-ray, following the central characters through dramatic events and conflicts that drive the story forward.

Release: April 3, 2023

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Product Description William Keane (Damian Lewis) is barely able to cope. It has been six months since his six-year-old daughter was abducted from New York City’s Port Authority Bus Terminal while traveling with him. Repeatedly drawn to the site of the abduction, Keane wanders the bus station, compulsively replaying the events of that fateful day, as if hoping to change the outcome. One day he meets a financially strapped woman, Lynn Bedik (Amy Ryan), and her seven-year-old daughter, Kira (Abigail Breslin), at a transient hotel. Keane becomes increasingly attached to Kira and, in a harrowing climax, uses her in an attempt to fill the void left by his daughter’s disappearance. Presented in a new 4K restoration. Special Features: -New 4K digital restoration -Steven Soderbergh alternate cut of Keane -Theatrical trailer Review "A masterfully harrowing psychodrama. It was with KEANE, his third feature (and first co-produced by Steven Soderbergh), that Kerrigan secured his reputation as a singular, celebrated voice of the modern American independent cinema." --Isaac Feldberg, RogerEbert.com “A very fine film with an unexpected jolt of deep feeling. Mr. Kerrigan pulls off an extremely deft narrative sleight of hand.” --Manohla Dargis, The New York Times "Astonishing. Visceral and flooring." --Wesley Morris, The Boston Globe See more

Release: January 30, 2018

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An opera-film adaptation of Arnold Schoenberg’s work, exploring faith, leadership, and language.

Release: March 16, 2021

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Product Description Pietro Marcello's hauntingly beautiful debut feature The Mouth of the Wolf interweaves two love stories: the 20-year romance between a Sicilian tough guy and a transsexual former junkie whom he met in prison, and a poetic reverie of the Italian port town of Genoa, depicted in all its mysterious, fading glory. In Lost and Beautiful, a humble shepherd, Tommaso, takes it upon himself to look after the abandoned Bourbon palace of Carditello, deep in the heart of the "Land of Fires." One day, Tommaso is seized by a heart attack and dies; but not before making a final wish. He summons a masked character named Pulcinella to rescue a buffalo calf called Sarchiopone from the forsaken palace. Together, man and beast, embark on a long journey through a lost and beautiful Italy, searching for something which may no longer exist. Review Critic's Pick. Impressionistic, extravagantly poetic. Mysteriously beautiful. A melancholy rumination on time, love and decay. The Mouth of the Wolf will haunt you. --Stephen Holden, The New York Times Critic's Pick! Mr. Marcello tells a simple, touching tale that seems to contain a whole cosmos of meaning. --A.O. Scott, The New York Times Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews Two Films by Pietro Marcello: The Mouth of the Wolf and Lost and Beautiful [Blu-ray]

Release: February 27, 2018

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Product Description The new film by Bertrand Bonello (SAINT LAURENT, HOUSE OF PLEASURES) is a terrorism thriller like no other, recalling Robert Bresson s THE DEVIL, PROBABLY as much as it does George A. Romero s DAWN OF THE DEAD. We first follow a group of tense, shifty adolescents as they prowl the streets and subways of Paris, learning through carefully delineated sequences that they re already well underway with a bombing plot. And then it becomes something familiar, yet altogether different, as these subversives tuck away inside a shopping mall and lose themselves in consumer culture clothes, televisions, toys, and a stirring soundtrack that includes Blondie, Chief Keef, Shirley Bassey, Bonello s menacing electronic score, and Willow Smith. Will they survive the unseen, encroaching authorities? Or, as the walls close in, will they even survive each other? NOCTURAMA forgoes easy answers, making way for one of the 21st century s most stunning cinematic experiences. Special Features: Two Short Films by Bertrand Bonello Sarah Winchester: Ghost Opera (2016, 24 min.) Cindy: The Doll is Mine, starring Asia Argento (2005, 15 min.) Interview with Bertrand Bonello (20 minutes) Theatrical Trailer Booklet featuring a director s statement and an essay by critic/programmer Dennis Lim Review "Mesmerizing. A haunting vision of the world gone beautifully mad." --LA Times "One of the ten best films of the year." --John Waters, director "As exquisite and symphonic a display of pure genre pleasure as any movie this year." --Sight & Sound

Release: July 10, 2023

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Pacifiction - On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government official De Roller (Benoît Magimel) is a calculating man with flawless manners. His somewhat broad perception of his role brings him to navigate the high end ’establishment’ as well as shady venues where he mingles with the locals. Especially since a persistent rumor has been going around: the sighting of a submarine whose ghostly presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing. DIRECTOR: Albert Serra YEAR: 2022 RUN TIME: 162 minutes COUNTRY: France PACIFICTION

Release: August 13, 2024

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Brazil's official selection for the 2024 Academy Awards, PICTURES OF GHOSTS, from acclaimed director Kleber Mendonça Filho (BACURAU, AQUARIUS and NEIGHBORING SOUNDS), is a multidimensional journey through time, sound, architecture and filmmaking, set in the urban landscape of Recife, Brazilian coastal capital of Pernambuco: a historical and human territory, examined through the great movie theatres that served as spaces of conviviality during the 20th century. Having hosted dreams and progress, these places have also embodied a major transformation on social practices. Combining archive documentary, mystery, film clips and personal memories, PICTURES OF GHOSTS is a map of a city through the lens of cinema. Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews Pictures of Ghosts [Blu-ray]

Release: March 3, 2020

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Product Description As the deadliest natural disaster in US history strikes Galveston, Texas, taking between 6,000 and 12,000 lives, a mysterious televisual device projects images of unknown origin. Blake Williams experimental 3-D film immerses us in the storm's aftermath, at every minute represented by remarkable and mysterious sights of one world nearing destruction as another emerges. A consideration of technology, cinema, and the medium s future, PROTOTYPE is equal parts dense and fleet an unprecedented experience with no clear ancestor or likely successor. Review "The most significant 3-D film since Goodbye to Language." --Calum Marsh, The Village Voice "Critic's Pick! A puzzle of strange pleasures, a nerve-racking way of recalibrating how to look at the screen and the world outside the screen." --Glenn Kenny, The New York Times "A 60-minute avant-garde film has managed to easily outmatch any hundred-million-dollar production in its use of 3D." --Dan Schindel, Hyperallergic