New Releases Index of Titles
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When Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), a dealer in regional, “outsider” art, travels from Chicago to North Carolina to pursue a local painter for her gallery, she and her brand-new, younger husband George (Alessandro Nivola) extend the trip to include an introduction to his family: his prickly mother Peg (Celia Weston); his taciturn father Eugene (Scott Wilson); his angry younger brother Johnny (Benjamin McKenzie), who has always suffered in the shadow of his over-achieving brother; and Johnny’s very pregnant and innocently garrulous wife Ashley (Amy Adams). Although Ashley immediately takes to the sophisticated Madeleine and embraces her as a sister, the other … More Information
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A cinematic “cry” from one of the most revered of all auteurs, Italian maestro Michelangelo Antonioni (L’avventura, La notte, Il deserto rosso) depicts a world of heartbreaking alienation, with characters riven by trauma, cast against the stunning backdrop of northern Italy’s Po Valley – where the director spent his childhood. When sugar refinery worker Aldo (American actor Steve Cochran in a career-best performance) is jilted by his mistress, Irma (Alida Valli, famed for her role in The Third Man), he takes to the road. With daughter in tow, Aldo wanders the Po River delta, seeking temporary – but always illusory … More Information
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Frank Sinatra shines as a gifted, but quick tempered, up and coming lounge singer Danny Wilson who makes a meagre living singing in dive bars and hustling pool with best friend Mike Ryan (Alex Nicol). Even with a set of golden tonsils, “Easy Street” isn’t so easy for Danny to find. One night, by chance, they meet entertainer Joy Carroll (Shelley Winters), who gets them a job at gangster Nick Driscoll’s well-to-do nightclub. But Nick (Raymond Burr), seeing the future potential in Danny’s career, wants a high price – 50% of all Danny’s future earnings! Soon Danny’s career takes off, … More Information
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Few filmmakers could rival Maurice Pialat’s facility for transforming autobiographical material into the stuff of Art, and his third feature-film, La Gueule ouverte [The Mouth Agape / The Slack-Jawed Mug], stands as one of the director’s most intensely personal — and most lacerating — works. It is a film about illness: a condition of the body, and a name for the capacity to injure the ones who love us most. Monique Mélinand (a star of several of Raúl Ruíz’s ‘90s works, and of Jacques Rivette’s Jeanne la pucelle) portrays a woman in the late stages of terminal illness. She — … More Information
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Long out-of-circulation and unavailable on home video, Jean-Luc Godard’s 1964 masterpiece Une femme mariée, fragments d’un film tourné en 1964 en noir et blanc [A Married Woman: Fragments of a Film Shot in 1964 in Black and White] has, until now, represented the ostensibly ‘missing’ key work from the first, zeitgeist-defining phase of JLG’s filmography. The feature which bridges the gap between Bande à part and Alphaville, Une femme mariée is, nevertheless, a galaxy, or gallery, unto itself — a lucid, complex, profoundly funny series of portraits, etched with Godardian acids, of the wife that represents either a singular case, … More Information
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Love samurai films? Wish they were… dirtier? Welcome to Hanzo the Razor’s deranged world of crazy swordplay and sexploitation set to a 1970s funk soundtrack. Uncut for the first time ever in the UK, this cult 1970s Japanese pinku trilogy was seemingly influenced by Dirty Harry and Shaft, but there’s no doubt who has the ‘longer arm of the law’! Shintarô Katsu (best known as the blind swordsman in the original Zatôichi) stars as Hanzo – a rebellious yet obsessively moral samurai police officer who slashes his way through the backbone of crime, uncovers corruption at higher levels, and tortures … More Information
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Beauty brought to its shattered, bleeding knees. Beware the clitoral sting of the latchkey slut! A feast of feral sex, ultra-violence, impulsive lesbian orgies, and mock crucifixions that goes by the name of the FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION TRILOGY. The first three Shunya Ito directed instalments in this extraordinarily influential series are all included here and all feature Meiko Kaji (femme fatale extraordinaire of the Stray Cat Rock and Lady Snowblood series). Three disc set includes Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 & Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion: Beast Stable Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion is Jailhouse Rock for the … More Information
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Douglas Sirk — the master of the Hollywood melodrama — turns back to his native Germany at the time of the Second World War for the film that would stand as his penultimate American feature: A Time to Love and a Time to Die. A CinemaScope production staged on a grand scale, Sirk’s picture nevertheless pulsates with an intimacy that has known longing for too long, and seethes with the repression of emotions poised to explode like bombs. John Gavin plays Ernst Gräber, a soldier on the Russian-German Front in 1944 venturing home to Hamburg on a rare furlough. Upon … More Information
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If cinema has its equivalents to the master modernists of music, painting, or literature, then one of the tradition’s foremost practitioners is undoubtedly Alain Resnais — and Muriel, ou le Temps d’un retour (Muriel, or: The Time of a Return) represents one of his earliest, and greatest, triumphs. In Resnais’ two preceding features (the legendary Hiroshima mon amour and Last Year in Marienbad), the master filmmaker pioneered new ways of representing inner reality and emotion; but with Muriel, he merged the vicissitudes of his characters’ personal pasts, and married them to the traumas of the political present — namely, the … More Information
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Flesh and Fury stars OSCAR® nominated Tony Curtis (Some Like it Hot, The Black Shield of Falworth) in one of his first leading roles alongside Golden Globe winner Jan Sterling (The High and the Mighty, Ace in the Hole) and Wallace Ford (Harvey, Spellbound). Director Joseph Pevney (Man of a Thousand Faces) tells the story of deaf mute boxer Paul Callan (Curtis) who starts boxing for $25 purses when he catches the eye of Sonya Bartow (Sterling) a bloodthirsty, money-sucking blonde bombshell. With Sonya keen to push his career (and his winnings!) and with the help of retired fight manager … More Information
Coming Soon
Eureka! Classics
- Bad Boy Bubby (Blu-ray) August 2009
Eureka! TV
- Heroes of Aviation July 2009
Masters of Cinema
- Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble October 2009
- The Burmese Harp September 2009
- Passe ton Bac d’abord August 2009
Theatrical
- Soul Power July 2009