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AHED’S KNEE (2022)

A celebrated Israeli filmmaker named Y arrives in a remote desert village to present one of his films at a local library. Struggling to cope with the recent news of his mother’s terminal illness, he is pushed into a spiral of rage when the host of the screening, a government employee, asks him to sign a form placing restrictions on what he can say at the film’s Q&A. Told over the course of one day, the film depicts Y as he battles against the loss of freedom in his country and the fear of losing his mother. Nadav Lapid (Synonyms, The Kindergarten Teacher) wrote Ahed’s Knee soon after the death of his own mother, who worked as an editor on many of his works. It offers a sharp critique of the censorship, hypocrisy, and violence instigated by Israel and repressive governments everywhere. The fact that it was produced, largely funded, and highly acclaimed in its home country highlights the complexities of a national cinema that refuses to be muzzled, born of the divisions of society itself. Winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, this boldly shot and conceived work feels as though it has welled up from the depths of its maker’s soul. (DVD)

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE-PLAGUE AT THE GOLDEN GATE (2022)

Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off fear and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco. (DVD)

ARTIST’S WIFE (2019)

Claire (Academy Award Nominee Lena Olin) lives a quiet domestic life in the Hamptons as the wife of celebrated artist Richard Smythson (Academy Award ™ Nominee Bruce Dern). Once a promising painter herself, Claire now lives in the shadow of her husband’s illustrious career. While preparing work for his final show, Richard’s moods become increasingly erratic, and he is diagnosed with dementia. As his memory and behavior deteriorate, she shields his condition from the art community while trying to reconnect him with his estranged daughter and grandson from a previous marriage. Challenged by the loss of her world as she knew it, Claire must now decide whether to stand with Richard on the sidelines or step into the spotlight herself. (BLU-RAY)

AVIARY, THE (2022)

BOOMERANG (1992)

Eddie Murphy’s iconic advertising executive Marcus Graham made BOOMERANG a sexy comedy hit, still beloved today. Graham may be a success in his industry, but he’s also an insatiable womanizer. He’s also impossibly prepared for his new boss, Jacqueline (Robin Givens)—nothing more or less than a female version of Marcus in terms of all things romantic. (BLU-RAY)

BUSTER KEATON RIDES AGAIN / HELICOPTER CANADA

Two unforgettably cinematic journeys through ’60s Canada!

• BUSTER KEATON RIDES AGAIN – In the fall of 1964, just over a year before his death, Buster Keaton traveled to Canada to make The Railrodder, a silent short that would turn out to be one of his final films. Documenting this mobile production in fascinating and unexpected detail, Buster Keaton Rides Again offers a rare glimpse of the comedy legend’s temperament, philosophies, hobbies, marriage (his third), and occasionally combative creative process. Canadian International Pictures fondly presents this intimate look at one of cinema’s most enduring legends. In addition, this disc includes The Railrodder and six other shorts by director – and Buster Keaton Rides Again co-star – Gerald Potterton (The Rainbow Boys, Heavy Metal).
• HELICOPTER CANADA – Made in celebration of the Canadian centennial, this Oscar-nominated documentary offers a stunning aerial exploration of the country’s vast and varied landscape. Featuring impressive widescreen cinematography by director Eugene Boyko, amusingly irreverent commentary, and even a cameo by The Beatles, this enchantingly oddball time capsule brings Canadiana to new heights. In honor of the film’s debt to the sprawling Cinerama travelogues of the ’50s, this disc also includes a presentation of Helicopter Canada in the Smilebox format, simulating the effect of a curved screen. (BLU-RAY)

CHARLOTTE (2021)

Charlotte is an animated drama that tells the true story of Charlotte Salomon (Keira Knightley, Pirates of the Caribbean), a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. But the world around her is changing quickly and dangerously, limiting her options and derailing her dream. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she leaves Berlin for the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only the extraordinary will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story. (BLU-RAY)

COCA-COLA KID (1985)

When a small-town Australian soda maker refuses to convert his factory to Coca-Cola production, the parent company sends in its whiz kid “troubleshooter” Becker (Eric Roberts, The Pope of Greenwich Village and Star 80) to resolve the issue. The previously unflappable Becker, however, finds his own resolve challenged by Australia’s unique character and characters―namely Terri (Greta Scacci, The Player and White Mischief), his beautiful and very eccentric secretary, and McDowell (Bill Kerr, Gallipoli and Razorback), the stubbornly independent soft drink entrepreneur. Serbian auteur Dušan Makavejev (Montenegro and W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism) brings his celebrated off-kilter and boundary-pushing sensibilities to this classic screwball comic set-up, so that the narrative remains refreshingly unpredictable, unconventional and subversive throughout. (BLU-RAY)

CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS/DEATH BRINGS ROSES (1975)

Perhaps the most bizarre film by New Orleans writer/producer/director Jack Weis (MARDI GRAS MASSACRE), CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS is “71 minutes of supernatural sleaze” (Every ’70s Movie) featuring voodoo vengeance, a possessed swamp stripper, and multiple feats of knuckleheaded folk horror, newly mastered from the original negative. Thought lost for more than 30 years, DEATH BRINGS ROSES is the Big Easy auteur’s epic of pimps, hookers, mob bosses, double-crosses, a stupefying parade of performances by non-professional locals, and Henny Youngman. Real-life Hollywood tough guy Scott Brady (JOHNNY GUITAR), Oscar® winner Broderick Crawford (ALL THE KING’S MEN) and Hermione Gingold (GIGI) co-star in this French Quarter crime saga that “walks a fine line between utter hilarity and bubbling sleaze” (Bleeding Skull), now scanned in 2K from Weis’ personal 35mm print. (BLU-RAY)

DOCTOR WHO: EVE OF THE DALEKS & LEGEND OF THE SEA DEVILS (2022)

FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE (2022)

Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts Magizoologist Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team of wizards, witches and one brave Muggle baker on a dangerous mission, where they encounter old and new beasts and clash with Grindelwald’s growing legion of followers. But with the stakes so high, how long can Dumbledore remain on the sidelines? (DVD, BLU-RAY + 4KULTRAHD)

FIRESTARTER (2022)

A young girl tries to understand how she mysteriously gained the power to set things on fire with her mind. (BLU-RAY and DVD)

THE FILMS OF DORIS WISHMAN: THE TWILIGHT YEARS

No one will ever make movies like Doris Wishman made movies. One of the most prolific women filmmakers in the history of American cinema, writer-director-editor Wishman created collisions between surrealism and exploitation that feel like they materialized from an alternate universe. THE FILMS OF DORIS WISHMAN: THE TWILIGHT YEARS surveys the last major era of Wishman’s career. From DEADLY WEAPONS and DOUBLE AGENT 73 (crime epics starring the iconic Chesty Morgan) to LET ME DIE A WOMAN (a semi-documentary about transgender people), AGFA + Something Weird are honored to present these triumphant DIY treasures in dazzling new restorations. (BLU-RAY)

FIRST WIVES CLUB (1996)

Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton are in top form in this beloved good-time battle-of-the-sexes. Sparked by snappy one-liners, great physical gags, and a healthy sense of satire, it’s the story of three Manhattanites with more than a longtime friendship in common—each has been dumped by their husbands for a newer, curvier model. Determined to turn their pain into gain, justice isn’t about getting mad, it’s about getting everything. (BLU-RAY)

GAME OF SURVIVAL (1989)

Seven criminals, prisoners, and slaves are sent down to Earth to hunt for “the ball,” and hunt each other for it! The all-powerful creatures who rule the galaxy watch these Games of Survival for sport. The winner of the games will be granted their freedom. Which of these seven deadly men will secure the ball and survive until noon? (BLU-RAY)

HARLEM NIGHTS (1989)

HEY, STOP STABBING ME! (2003)

Long before they became big-time Hollywood players with DORM DAZE, GOLAN THE INSATIABLE and the SONIC THE HEDGEHOG movies, 20-year-old producer/co-writer/director Josh Miller and producer/co-writer/star Pat Casey spent the summer of 2000 with $500, a MiniDV cam and a group of friends in Bloomington, MN creating what remains the most insanely accomplished – and long-out-of-print – comedy/horror hit of the SOV era. It’s a deranged suburban saga of hole diggers, serial killers, nympho girlfriends, clothes-stealing monsters and lawn mower murders that Film Threat calls “goofy and funny with charm to spare, filled with ideas both creative and bizarre.” Intervision is proud to present this justifiable cult favorite now lovingly remastered in HD with all-new reunion featurettes, audio commentaries, short films and much more. (BLU-RAY)

HOLLINGTON DRIVE: SERIES 1 (2021)

HORROR NOIRE (2021)

ILYA MUROMETS (1956)

Legendary Russian fantasy filmmaker Aleksandr Ptushko’s sweeping, visual F/X- filled epic ILYA MUROMETS (THE SWORD & THE DRAGON) is one of his most enchanting achievements: a stunning Cinemascope ballad of heroic medieval knights, ruthless Tugar invaders, wind demons and three-headed fire-breathing dragons, all set against a mythic landscape of pastoral, unspoiled Russia. Based on one of the most famous byliny (oral epics) in Old Russian culture, the film stars Boris Andreyev as the bogatyr (knight) Ilya, waging a decades-long battle against the Tugars who threaten his homeland, kidnap his wife and raise his own son to fight against him. (BLU-RAY)

INSPECTOR IKE (2020)

Inspector Ike, New York City’s greatest police detective, finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse after the conniving understudy of an avant-garde theater group knocks off the star actor. A “lost TV movie” from the 1970’s, INSPECTOR IKE mixes visual gags, slapstick, gross food, and heartfelt emotion. Think COLUMBO meets THE NAKED GUN, featuring a rogue’s gallery of NYC’s best comedians. (BLU-RAY)

KILLER’S KISS (1955) 

Like a one-man studio, the legendary Stanley Kubrick (The Killing, The Shining) co-wrote, co-produced, shot, edited and directed his second feature, the dazzling film noir Killer’s Kiss. Down-and-out New York City boxer Davey Gordon (Jamie Smith) strikes up a romance with nightclub dancer Gloria Price (Irene Kane). Their budding relationship is violently interrupted by Gloria’s boss, Vincent Rapallo (Frank Silvera), who has eyes for his employee. When Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows. Killer’s Kiss provides a fascinating look into the early work of a man who would soon become one of the world’s most important and influential filmmakers, and it’s a remarkable achievement in its own right: the boxing match may be the most vicious this side of Raging Bull, and the famed final battle remains an action tour-de-force. (4K  ULTRAHD)

KING CAR (2021)

A young man’s ability to surreally “be one” with and speak to cars sparks a revolution that could save his community. When his invention inadvertently accelerates the underlying problems of the community, our hero’s quest must grow bigger than his own personal ambitions and a fight for survival ensues with the zombies of capitalism. (BLU-RAY)

LAST OF THE DOGMEN (1995)

Tom Berenger (Shoot to Kill, Shattered) is Lewis Gates, a bounty hunter haunted by the past, hired to track down three escaped convicts in the Oxbow region of the Rockies. Their trail leads him to a secluded spot and signs of a struggle, but no bodies—only a strange arrow shaft remains. Gates takes the arrow to an expert in Native American culture, Lillian Sloan (Barbara Hershey, Hoosiers, The Public Eye), and together they set off in search of an impossible mystery—a tribe they believe cannot exist, massacred over 100 years ago. What they discover deep in the Oxbow may prove an answer to both Lillian’s dreams and Lewis’s nightmares. But for now, it’s a desperate race against time if they are to save the last of the Dogmen from the destructive forces of the modern world. Tab Murphy (Gorillas in the Mist, Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Tarzan) wrote and made his directorial debut with this beautifully photographed modern-day western filled with romance, adventure and Native American folklore. Co-starring Kurtwood Smith (RoboCop) and Steve Reevis (Dances with Wolves). (BLU-RAY)

THE LITTLE HOURS (2017)

Medieval nuns Alessandra (Alison Brie), Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza), and Ginevra (Kate Micucci) lead a simple life in their convent. Their days are spent chafing at monastic routine, spying on one another, and berating the estate’s day laborer. After a particularly vicious insult session drives the peasant away, Father Tommasso (John C. Reilly) brings on new hired hand Massetto (Dave Franco), a virile young servant forced into hiding by his angry lord. Introduced to the sisters as a deaf-mute to discourage temptation, Massetto struggles to maintain his cover as the repressed nunnery erupts in a whirlwind of pansexual horniness, substance abuse, and wicked revelry. Loaded with comedic talent and written with an off-kilter, yet knowing touch, The Little Hours is an immensely charming romp. (BLU-RAY)

MOTHERING SUNDAY (2021)

NO RESISTANCE (1994)

Houston, Texas. Sometime in the near future. In the aftermath of the catastrophic collapse of America’s governmental and financial infrastructures, Dij is a pink-haired, crank-snorting, cyber-alchemist performing high priced hacks for hire from his fully mobile, holstered laptop. Dij navigates through a dystopian urban jungle, evading the ire of rival “government” street gangs and wielding his itinerant PC like a futuristic gunslinger, erasing phone bills and shutting down life support systems for a bounty of drugs, floppy discs, and cash. When Dij is hired by would-be terrorists to obtain a high-risk, weaponized computer virus, he instead finds himself involuntarily becoming the carrier of a far more insidious cargo – the fallout from which may lead to war, or even the end of all humanity as we know it. (BLU-RAY)

OUT OF SIGHT (1998) 

George Clooney (Ocean’s Eleven) and Jennifer Lopez (Hustlers) ignite the screen in this criminally cool crime caper from director Steven Soderbergh (The Limey). Meet Jack Foley, the most successful bank robber in the country. On the day he busts out of jail, he finds himself stealing something far more precious than money… Karen Sisco’s heart. She’s smart. She’s sexy. And unfortunately for Jack, she’s a Federal Marshal. Now, they’re willing to risk it all to find out if there’s more between them than just the law. Screenwriter Scott Frank (Get Shorty) earned an Oscar nomination for his slick, snappy script based on the novel by Elmore Leonard (Jackie Brown). The stacked cast includes Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction), Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda), Dennis Farina (Manhunter), Albert Brooks (Lost in America), Nancy Allen (Blow Out), Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich), Isaiah Washington (True Crime), Steve Zahn (Rescue Dawn), Paul Calderon (King of New York), Luis Guzmán (Boogie Nights), Viola Davis (Fences), Wendell B. Harris Jr. (Road Trip) and uncredited cameos by Michael Keaton (Batman) and Samuel L. Jackson (The Hateful Eight). (BLU-RAY + 4KULTRAHD)

PASSING STRANGERS & FORBIDDEN LETTERS: TWO FILMS BY ARTHUR BRESSAN JR.

No other filmmaker better embodied the spirit of the gay liberation movement than Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. (Buddies, Gay USA). A true pioneer of queer cinema, his films fearlessly blurred the boundaries between the artistic, the erotic, and the cinematic — and never so clearly as with his first two narrative films, the critically-acclaimed Passing Strangers and Forbidden Letters. Altered Innocence and the Bressan Project are proud to present these two landmarks of early queer cinema, newly restored in 2K from their original film elements and with a host of new bonus features. (BLU-RAY)

PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) (CRITERION)

SEE FOR ME (2021)

SO LATE SO SOON (2020)

A half-century into their marriage, two Chicago artists look back at their life together as they contend with the deterioration of their bodies and beloved home. (DVD)

TRUE ROMANCE (1993) (ARROW LIMITED EDITION)

In 1993, action movie supremo Tony Scott teamed up with a hot new screenwriter named Quentin Tarantino to bring True Romance to the screen, one of the most beloved and widely-quoted films of the decade.

Elvis-worshipping comic book store employee Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) is minding his own business at a Sonny Chiba triple bill when Alabama Whitman (Patricia Arquette) walks into his life – and from then on, the two are inseparable. Within 24 hours, they’re married and on the run after Clarence is forced to kill Alabama’s possessive, psychopathic pimp. Driving a Cadillac across the country from Detroit to Hollywood, the newlyweds plan to sell off a suitcase full of stolen drugs to fund a new life for themselves… but little do they suspect that the cops and the Mafia are closing in on them. Will they escape and make their dream of a happy ending come true? (BLU-RAY)

VIDEOPHOBIA (2020)

Ai (a superbly laconic Tomona Hirota) haunts the streets of Osaka dressed as a mascot. After going home with a stranger, she wakes up to find footage of their intimate encounter uploaded to a porn site. As all systems of recourse and remedy fail her, her sense of dislocation and alienation intensifies and Ai resorts to a strange solution.

Following the rap-inflected drama YAMATO (CALIFORNIA) and the globe-trotting TOURISM, Daisuke Miyazaki unveils another potent subversion of the so-called monolith of Japanese culture. VIDEPHOBIA unfolds as paranoid techno-thriller about identity, set on the backstreets of an industrial and multicultural Osaka captured here in beautiful, stark black-and-white. Concerns with obsessive image-making and issues of surveillance and consent in the digital age are embodied in the plight of a young woman from the city’s Koreatown; in an eerie film about the self – watching us as much as we watch it. (BLU-RAY)

VOYAGE OF THE ROCK ALIENS (1984)

Aliens land in the town of “Speelburgh” searching for the source of rock & roll. They find trouble with Dee Dee, Frankie and the pack. (BLU-RAY)

WAKEFIELD (2021) 

Gifted psychiatric nurse Nik Katira is the most stable person at Wakefield mental health unit in the Blue Mountains of Australia. As his own sanity suddenly starts to slip, he finds himself questioning the line between reality and madness. (DVD)

WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (2021) (CRITERION)

 

LATE ADDITIONS from 6/21

RED FISTS (1991)

Police officers chase counterfeiters from Hong Kong to China. (DVD)

BROTHERHOOD, THE (1968)

The son of a powerful Mafia don comes home from his army service in Vietnam and wants to lead his own life, but family tradition, intrigues and powerplays involving his older brother dictate otherwise, and he finds himself being slowly drawn back into that world. (BLU-RAY)

EXPECT NO MERCY (1995)

GIFT, THE (2000)

Directed by Sam Raimi and co-written by Billy Bob Thornton, this chiller stars Cate Blanchett as Annie Wilson, a poor psychic who tells fortunes to get by in a backwoods Georgia town. When the local town trollop goes missing, lawmen desperate for clues recruit Annie for help, but her involvement then targets her as a prime suspect in a deadly crime. (BLU-RAY)

HAUNTED (1995)

After the accidental death of his twin sister, David and his family move back to the United States. In 1928, David returns to England to teach at Cambridge. Besides teaching, David is an author who exposes false mediums and spiritualist. While he has never found a person who can communicate with the ‘dearly departed’, his continues to accept challenges. For this reason, and the desperate letter he receives from Miss Webb, he heads to Edbrook to investigate her claims of spirits who torment her. At Edbrook Hall, David meets beautiful Christina and her two brothers who live in the house with Nanny Tess. (BLU-RAY)

HESTER STREET (1975)

HOUSE OF CARDS (1968)

In 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to create a new world order. Directed by John Guillermin, starring George Peppard, Inger Stevens, and Orson Welles. Rarely seen since it’s original theatrical run, it marked the second time that Peppard and Guillermin worked together (they had previously collaborated on the 1966 film The Blue Max). (BLU-RAY)

JIGSAW (1962)  

After discovering a woman’s body in a lonely beach house, a pair of Brighton detectives painstakingly assemble a jigsaw puzzle of clues as they attempt to track down her murderer. (BLU-RAY)

OUTRAGE (1950)

A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is assaulted while on her way home from work. (BLU-RAY)

PERDITA DURANGO (1998)

An amoral couple (Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem) practice voodoo and commit a series of violent, bloody crimes on their way to Las Vegas. (BLU-RAY+ 4KULTRAHD)

POSSESSION OF JOEL DELANEY (1972)

If you believe, no explanation is necessary. If you don’t believe, no explanation is possible. Before The Exorcist, there was The Possession of Joel Delaney. Shirley MacLaine stars as Norah Benson, a New Yorker who puzzles over sudden changes in her brother’s behaviour. Joel (Perry King) has begun speaking Spanish and practicing strange rituals. In order to protect her family and save her brother, Norah must delve deep into the mysterious world of Santeria, where she begins to suspect that the spirit of a serial killer may be the reason for Joel’s behaviour. (BLU-RAY)

RED SURF (1989)

When a drug deal goes wrong, Remar and Attila go on the run from a drug lord seeking revenge. Stars a young George Clooney. Those eyes, so dreamy! (BLU-RAY)

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (1951)

Based on the novel by Sydney Boehm, producer George Pal’s science fiction classic paved the way for many of today’s space spectaculars. As the star Bellus and it’s orbiting planet Zyra hurdle towards a defenseless Earth, a determined scientist must race against time to build an escape ship in the hopes that a lucky few can survive the impending collision. (BLU-RAY)

EEGA (2012) 

Nani loves Bindu but is killed by a jealous Sudeep, who lusts after Bindu. Nani is reincarnated as a fly and decides to avenge his death. He teams up with Bindu to make Sudeep’s life a living hell. From S. S. Rajamouli, who also directed Baahubali and RRR. (BLU-RAY and DVD)

SECRET, THE (1979) 

A real murder case which was complicated by the ménage à trois relationship the victim had with the main suspects. As different witnesses narrated their conflicting stories, the case seemed set to lead to nowhere; especially when the real identity of the dead person was finally discovered. (BLU-RAY)

STORY OF WOO VIET (1981)

Wu Viet is a Vietnamese refugee who wants to leave his country behind and start over in the United States. First, he must make his way to Hong Kong, but as he passes through Thailand, he meets a beautiful woman who travels with him. Wu and his new love end up in a refugee camp in Thailand, where they discover many of their countrymen are disappearing under mysterious circumstances. As Wu tries to learn the truth about what’s happening, he discovers his life is in danger, and he must flee to the Philippines for safety.  (BLU-RAY)