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![Second Run Love (Szerelem)]()
Second Run Love (Szerelem)
56.98 AUD
Károly Makk's beloved film, based on the autobiographical writings of Tibor Déry, is a meditation on time, memory, love and loss.Two women await the return of political prisoner Janos. His elderly mother believes him to be working abroad; his devoted wife knows the painful truth of his absence... and fears she may never see him alive again.Beautifully played by two giants of Hungarian cinema, Lili Darvas and Mari Törõcsik, the film is a subtle yet powerful exploration of the consequences of life under totalitarian rule. Perfectly realised, Makk's tender masterpiece is a landmark of international cinema.Love (Szerelem) comes to Blu-ray for the first time anywhere in a gorgeous new 4K restoration.Love (Szerelem, 1971) presented from a new 4K restoration created by the National Film Institute - Film Archive, Hungary.Károly Makk on Love (2005): the renowned filmmaker discusses the film.Audio commentary with Károly Makk and professor Gábor Gelencsér.'Love' returns to Cannes (2016): a film on the history and restoration of Love.Archival newsreel footage of Hungarian film week in Sorrento, 1971.Trailers.20-page booklet with writing on the film by Graeme Hobbs and Agnes Sajti.New and improved English subtitle translation.World premiere on Blu-ray.Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C).
![Second Run Desire / All My Good Countrymen]()
Second Run Desire / All My Good Countrymen
77.98 AUD
Second Run present two films by Vojtech Jasny, one of Czechoslovak cinema's most renowned and influential film artists. Jasný is the spiritual father of the Czech New Wave Milos FormanDESIREJasny#39;s acclaimed and influential debut feature, Desire (Touha, 1958), poetically intertwines four stories of Czech rural life. A key film in the evolution of Czechoslovak cinema, Second Run present Desire for the first time anywhere on Blu-ray.1959 Cannes Film Festival / Winner: Special prize, Prix de la meilleure sélection After long years of deliberate stifling of form, Desire resurrected in Czech cinema the film poetry once upon a time introduced to it by Rovenský, Fric, Vancura, and Vávra ALL MY GOOD COUNTRYMENJasný#39;s autobiographical All My Good Countrymen (Vsichni dobrí rodáci, 1968) is one of the wonders of the Czech New Wave. Its deceptively simple narrative weaves a complex tapestry around the interwoven lives of a group of villagers immediately following the #39;socialization#39; of Czechoslovakia in 1948. The film remains a potent reminder of lives, friendships and idealism lost under totalitarian rule.Presented from a glorious new 4K restoration, All My Good Countrymen makes its world premiere on Blu-ray.1969 Cannes Film Festival / Winner: Best Director; Winner: Jury Prize An historic film for both its extraordinary poetic and social qualities and its position as the masterpiece of Vojtech Jasny New York Times/p>Special Edition Contents:Two-Disc Blu-ray Special Edition. Desire presented from a new HD transfer by the Czech National Film Archive.All My Good Countrymen presented from an HD transfer of the new 4K restoration by the Czech National Film Archive.Vojtech Jasny introduces All My Good Countrymen (2015).It's Not Always Cloudy (Není stále zamraceno, 1949): Jasny#39;s rediscovered feature-length semi-documentary graduation film, co-directed by Karel Kachyna.Bohemian Rhapsody (Ceská rapsodie, 1969): Jasny#39;s acclaimed short film.Interview with Vojtech Jasny (1988): an archival interview with the celebrated filmmaker made for the Channel 4 television series The Other Europe.An interview with actress Drahomíra Hofmanová (2015).Peter Hames on Vojtech Jasny (2015).A Projection Booth audio commentary on All My Good Countrymen with Mike White, Spencer Parsons and Chris Stachiw.Booklet featuring an expansive essay on Jasny by author Peter Hames. New and improved English subtitle translations.Reversible sleeve.World premieres on Blu-ray. Region Free (A/B/C) Blu-rays.
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Second Run Neon Bull
52.98 AUD
Gabriel Mascaro's sensual, subversive Neon Bull unfolds within the macho world of the vaquejada, a traditional Brazilian form of rodeo. Iremar is a bull wrangler, who aspires to being a fashion designer, and the film follows him and his friends as they travel from rodeo to rodeo dreaming of better days ahead.Balancing a provocative realism with improvisational drama, Neon Bull is a celebration of its characters and their everyday lives as well as their obstinate capacity to dream. It explores the lives of its protagonists in evocative tableaux of fierce, funny, sweaty intimacy which lyrically subverts its macho domain.SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTSNeon Bull (2015) - presented complete and uncut from a brand new transfer of the filmInterview with director Gabriel MascaraoExtended 'Making of' featuretteBooklet featuring writing on the film by Brazilian composer Caetano Veloso and Little White Lies editor-in-chief David JenkinsOriginal Portuguese soundtrack in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 stereoNew and improved English subtitle translation.
![Second Run The Fabulous Baron Munchausen]()
Second Run The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
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Often described as the Czech Méliès , visionary filmmaker Karel Zeman has been a profound influence on whole generations of film artists from Jan vankmajer to Tim Burton, the Quay Brothers to Terry Gilliam, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Wes Anderson. His ground-breaking innovations in the use of live-action and animation mark him as one of the great masters of 20th Century fantasy cinema, ranking alongside his more celebrated Western counterparts Willis O Brien and Ray Harryhausen. The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Baron Prá il) is perhaps Zeman s most beloved achievement.Still regarded as the finest film adaptation of Gottfried August Bürger s outlandish tales of Baron Munchausen (made famous in his 1786 book), Zeman s wildly inventive and outrageously fun take on the incredible adventures of the bragging Baron come to life in a film celebrating the courage and imagination of dreamers and poets. With its mind-bending melding of live-action, animation and extraordinary matte work, Zeman has crafted a timeless work that continues to astonish.SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTSThe Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1961) Presented from a new 4K restoration from original materials by the Karel Zeman Museum and the Czech National Film ArchiveNew and exclusive filmed appreciation by writer, editor and film historian Michael Brooke.Karel Zeman and the World featuretteThe Birth of a Film Legend featuretteWhy Zeman Made the Film featuretteThe CastZeman's Special Effects TechniquesKarel Zeman: The Legend Continues featuretteBooklet featuring a new essay on the film by journalist and critic Graham WilliamsonNew and improved English subtitle translation.Original Czech soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio
![Second Run The Silence Before Bach / Mudanza]()
Second Run The Silence Before Bach / Mudanza
52.98 AUD
In these two works by the radical Catalan filmmaker Pere Portabella, music, art and architecture take a pivotal role in fragmenting and unravelling the substance of history to comment on our modern world.The acclaimed, surreal documentary The Silence Before Bach (Die Stille vor Bach) comprises a series of filmed vignettes, united by the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Portabella's opulent reverie leads us through the centuries, investigating the profound, complex relationship between image and music.Mudanza quietly records the removal of furniture and objects from the home of poet Federico García Lorca, allowing visitors – and viewers - to move freely amongst its empty spaces, and to contemplate what is lost.2007 Barcelona Film Awards/ Winner: Audiovisual Prize2007 Gijón International Film Festival / Winner: Special Jury AwardSpecial Features:New High Definition, director-approved presentations of the of the films.An in-depth 2010 interview with Pere Portabella from the Spanish tv arts show #39;Sala 33#39; discussing The Silence Before Bach and Mudanza.Booklet featuring new writing on the films.DTS HD 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo audio.Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C).
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Second Run The Lighthouse
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This elegiac, semi-autobiographical drama unfolds against the backdrop and legacy of the Caucasus wars of the early 1990s. Told with a dream-like intensity, a young woman returns to her home in a remote, war-ravaged Armenian village to persuade her grandparents to leave with her for safety in Moscow.Beautifully photographed and composed, and set to a hypnotic soundtrack, this poetic and moving film is in the great visual tradition of Tarkovsky and Paradjanov. An outstanding directorial debut by an immensely talented young filmmaker tragically taken too soon.
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Second Run The Films of Kevin Jerome Everson
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The American artist Kevin Jerome Everson has created a remarkable body of moving image work that co-exists within film and art exhibition contexts. With a sense of place and history, his films, shot primarily on 16mm, combine scripted and documentary moments with touches of formalism. The focus is on craft and duration, and the gestures and tasks caused by certain physical and socio-economic conditions in the lives, labour and leisure of working-class Black Americans and people of African descent. They suggest not only the relentlessness of everyday life but also reveal its inherent beauty.This selection of four features and 17 short films, together with an 'image booklet' of photographs, has been specifically curated by the artist. Second Run are proud to present the first comprehensive collection to be released on Blu-ray of Everson's award-winning and critically acclaimed films.This Special Edition 2-disc Blu-ray Set includes the following films:Disc 1Features:Spicebush (2005)The Island of St. Matthews (2013)Tonsler Park (2017)Shorts:Fe26 (2014)Sound That (2014)Ears, Nose and Throat (2016)Disc 2Feature:Erie (2010)Shorts:Old Cat (2009)Company Line (2009)BZV (2010)Ten Five in the Grass (2012)Grand Finale (2015)Three Quarters (2015)Eason (2016)IFO (2017)Rams 23 Blue Bears 21 (2017)Polly One (2018)Round Seven (2018)Union (2019)Sanfield, (2020)Brown Thrasher (2020)BLU-RAY 2-DISC SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTSPresented from new digital transfers from original materials, approved by the director.BookletOriginal soundtracks in stereo 24-bit LPCM audioWorld Premiere on Blu-ray
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Second Run Hungarian Masters
108.98 AUD
Second Run presents a selection of essential works by Hungarian cinema's most renowned filmmakers. This special edition box set contains these celebrated films presented from stunning new 4K restorations and released for the first time ever on Blu-ray.The set includes Zoltán Fábri's Merry-Go-Round (Körhinta, 1955); István Gaál's Current (Sodrásban, 1963) and Miklós Jancsó's Agnus Dei (Égi bárány, 1970)Zoltán Fábri's beloved film is considered one of the finest in all of Hungarian cinema. A love story set against the rural backdrop of communist farming collectives, a young girl (the great Mari Törocsik in her film debut) falls for farm worker Máté, but is betrothed by her domineering father to another man. This pastoral take on Romeo and Juliet is a rich and achingly beautiful work, framed by the turbulent changes in society taking place at that time.Voted by international critics as one of the '10 Best Hungarian Films of All Time' The heroine of Zoltán Fábri's marvellous film should have the prize for the Best Actress... This is the big prize winner. This is my Palme d'Or. François Truffaut, Cannes 1956 It resounds with love Jean Cocteau Merry-Go-Round is the pinnacle of Hungarian cinema István SzáboCurrent (Sodrásban) A film by István GaálA group of young friends on the cusp of adulthood decide to spend one last idyllic day together by the river before they depart for jobs and university. When one of them goes missing, a frantic search begins - and recriminations ensue.Often cited as the first film of the Hungarian New Wave, István Gaál's haunting existential drama contemplates the transience of youth and the impermanence of memory. Echoing Antonioni's L'Avventura and Kurosawa's Rashomon, Current is a powerful and lyrical work that serves as a lament for a generation.Voted by international critics as one of the '10 Best Hungarian Films of All Time'1964 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival / Winner: Best Film1965 Hungarian Film Critics' Awards / Winner: Best Director, Best Cinematography A film of freshness and poetry in an unmistakably modern tone Pier Paolo PasoliniMiklós Jancsó's symbolic re-enactment of Hungary's 1919 revolution and counter-revolution is another virtuoso display of cinematic skill and artistry, turning history into theatre. The film explores political upheaval, oppression and the complicity of the Church, in this refined, complex allegory of the rise of fascism in Hungary. The dazzling Agnus Dei marks a transition from Jancsó's more traditional narrative films of the 1960s, to the more experimental and provocative works of the 1970s. Jancsó's most enigmatic film... a deeply mysterious and symbolic drama [Jancsó] has shown himself in the very forefront of international cinema... photographed by probably the most choreographic camera now at work anywhere: loving, stylized sweeps, caressing pans, circling movements around the actors, astonishing compositions Village VoiceMerry-Go-Round (Körhinta), Current (Sodrásban),...
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Second Run Dawson City: Frozen Time
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Named as one of the best films of 2017 by more than 100 critics worldwide, Dawson City: Frozen Time pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of over 500 nitrate film prints dating from the early 1900s. Discovered buried deep in the permafrost beneath Dawson City, a former Klondike gold rush town, the story they reveal and Morrison's haunting found-footage documentary links that gold rush town to the dawn of cinema and the rise of the modern age.Bill Morrison's incredible film conjures the birth of the modern age through these unearthed newsreels, old silent movies (in some cases, the only copies in existence of films by D.W. Griffith and Tod Browning, among others) and documentary images of the town to create a unique kaleidoscope of cinema and history.SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:Dawson City Frozen Time presented from a new 4K masterNew and exclusive interview with filmmaker Bill MorrisonDawson City: PostscriptShort film The LetterSelections from the Dawson Film Find:British Canadian Pathé News 1919 (includes 1919 World Series),International News Vol. 1, Issue 52, 1919The Montreal Herald Screen Magazine 1919Pathé's Weekly #17, 1914The Butler and the Maid, Thomas A. Edison Inc., 1912Brutality, D.W. Griffith, Biograph Company, 1912The Exquisite Thief, r.2, director, Tod Browning, 1919The Girl of the Northern Woods, Thanhouser, 1910Booklet featuring a new essay on the film.TrailerEnglish subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.Region Free Blu-ray (A/B/C)DTS-HD 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Stereo 24-bit LPCM audio options.
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Second Run Silence And Cry
52.98 AUD
Silence And CryAn elliptical, claustrophobic drama shot in the brilliant, breathtaking long takes that are Jancsó s trademark, Silence and Cry is set after the fall of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919. A young Red soldier, fleeing the anti-Communist manhunt, takes refuge at the isolated farm of a peasant family, who are already under police scrutiny for being politically suspect... Working on a more intimate canvas, following the epic The Round-Up and The Red and the White (of which this film forms the final part of an unofficial trilogy ) Hungarian master Jancsó's film is still very much concerned with the terrible, tyrannical impact of power, politics and history.Features:Silence and Cry (1968) presented from a brand new 2K restoration of the film by theHungarian Digital Archive and Film Institute, supervised by the film's cinematographerJános Kende.Original Hungarian soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audioBooklet featuring a new essay on the film by critic and film historian Tony RaynsNew and improved English subtitle translation.World premiere on Blu-ray
![Second Run The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On]()
Second Run The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
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Conceived by Shôhei Imamura, Kazuo Hara's audacious, deeply unsettling documentary feature follows Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old WW2 veteran who has fought tirelessly and often violently on a one-man mission to bring to justice Japan's Emperor Hirohito and the Army Commanders who he holds responsible for the countless deaths and other atrocities involving Japanese soldiers at the end of the war in the Pacific.Harrowing, unflinching and extraordinarily powerful, Hara's film pushes against the proprieties of Japanese society (the film remains unreleased in its home country), and forces us to question the relationship between documentary filmmaker, protagonist and spectator.I first saw The Emperor s Naked Army Marches On at the San Francisco Film Festival. Werner Herzog and I were sitting together. We couldn t believe it. Here was one of the weirdest, most dramatic stories ever. And the movie itself? What can I say? It s on my list of the 10 best movies ever Errol MorrisIt was like I had this soul brother in Japan... I was inspired, I was exhilarated. I had never seen anything like this. I had truly never seen anything like this. Michael MooreBlu-Ray Special Edition Contents:The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Yuki Yukite Shingun, 1987) from a new HD re-master and transfer from original materialsA new filmed interview with director Kazuo HaraBooklet featuring new writing on the filmNew and improved English subtitle translationRegion free Blu-ray (A/B/C)Original soundtrack in 2.0 Dual Mono 16-bit LPCM audioWorld premiere on Blu-ray
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Second Run Adoption
56.98 AUD
Márta Mészáros is without doubt one of the most significant female directors from Central Europe, with the majority of her outspoken work dealing frankly with issues of gender, politics and society.Adoption, one of her best-known works, is a story about the hushed rebellion of two strong women, one in her forties and one in her teens.43-year-old Kata longs to have a child of her own. Rejected by her married lover, Kata looks into adoption, and befriends orphaned teenager Anna, herself determined to start a new life for herself.Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear at the 1975 Berlin Film Festival, Márta Mészáros became the first woman filmmaker ever to receive the award. Seen today, Adoption, which features a single woman who constantly defies expectations, is powerful not just as a refreshing counterpoint to Europe's rising conservatism but, even more importantly, in the context of bold feminist cinema. Ela Bittencourt, Sight & Sound Adoption rings with a relevant message of self-empowerment and decisively taking control of one's fate in the face of a dour and uncaring society. Julia Ray, Cinema RediscoveredSpecial Features:Adoption (Örökbefogadás, 1975) presented from an HD transfer of the new restoration by the Hungarian National Digital Archive and Film InstituteA Conversation with Márta Mészáros (2009): an archival filmed interview with the directorTrailerBooklet with new writing on the film by Carmen GrayNew and improved English subtitle translationWorld premiere on Blu-rayRegion free Blu-ray (A/B/C)
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Second Run The Party and the Guests
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A group of friends on an afternoon picnic are accosted by mysterious authority figures and compelled to join a lavish banquet in the woods. Jan Nemec's surreal and sinister fable is a barbed satire of authoritarianism and conformity, as each of the 'guests' find their place among the revellers, succumbing to the will of their menacing hosts.Distinguished by being 'banned forever' by Czech authorities, Nemec's disquieting film was considered the most politically dangerous film made during the short flowering of Czechoslovak cinema in the 1960's.Our edition of The Party and the Guests also contains Jirí Trnka's renowned animated short film The Hand (1965), another surreal and savage indictment of totalitarianism (again banned by Czech authorities), making its world premiere on Blu-ray.Bonus Features:The Party and the Guests (O slavnosti a hostech, 1966) presented from an HD transfer of the new 4K restoration by the Czech National Film Archive.The Hand (Ruka, 1965): Jirí Trnka's renowned animated film presented from a new HD restoration and for the first time ever on Blu-ray.Audio commentary by author Jonathan Owen.Projection Booth audio commentary with film historians Mike White, Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger.A filmed appreciation by Peter Hames24-page booklet featuring Michael Brooke's substantial essay on the film.New and improved English subtitle translation.World premiere on Blu-ray.
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Second Run Tenderness
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Slovak filmmaker Martin ulík s striking debut feature is a rich and complex coming-of-age story set against a background of political upheaval and a country in the throws of transformation and revolution.Simon, a young student, is drawn into a relationship with an older couple, Maria and Viktor, the dynamics of which veer between passion and cruelty. Simon finds himself caught in a love/hate triangle he does not fully comprehend, the key to which is linked to the dark secrets of their past.Analysing human relations in the early years of post-communism, Tenderness presents a world still profoundly affected by the moral corruption characteristic of the years of following the Soviet invasion of 1968.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTSTenderness (Neha) (1990) presented from the new 2K restoration of the film from original materials supervised by the Slovak Film Institute and approved by the director.On Tenderness (2020) - a new documentary on the film and its legacy.Hurá (1989) - Martin ulík s acclaimed short film.Booklet featuring new writing on the film by author Peter Hames.Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C)1.0 Mono LPCM audio (48k/24-bit)World premiere on Blu-ray
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Second Run Czechmate
52.98 AUD
Epic, expansive, affectionate and deeply passionate, CzechMate In Search of Jiri Menzel is the definitive work on the Czechoslovak New Wave. This extraordinary documentary film, a labour of love by archivist and filmmaker Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, has a depth and scale unparalleled in the study of the Czechoslovak cinema.Jiri Menzel s debut film Closely Observed Trains (Ost e sledované vlaky, 1966) made a profound impression on young film student Dungarpur. Years later, he invited Menzel to meet him in a Prague café - and so began a conversation and a friendship that has culminated in this epic, seven-hour film that not only explores the deceptively whimsical comic films of Jiri Menzel, but all of the artists who strove to make films that whispered subversion and rebellion often at the risk of their livelihood, or even their lives.Filmed over a period of seven years, Dungarpur and his team interviewed filmmakers, actors, crew members, writers, historians and critics who had been touched by the New Wave - including V ra Chytilová, Milo Forman, Vojt ch Jasný, Ivan Passer, Ken Loach, Juraj Jakubisko, Jaromír ofr, Andrzej Wajda, Du an Hanák, tefan Uher, Jan N mec, and Miroslav Ond í ek among them.CzechMate In Search of Ji í Menzel reminds us of the genius, originality and bravery of the artists of the Czech Miracle , one of the most important and influential movements in the history of cinema.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTSCzechMate In Search of Jiri Menzel (2018) presented from a director-approved HD transferJiri Menzel short films:Prefabricated Houses (Domy z panel , 1960)Our Mr. Foerster Died (Um el nám pan Foerster, 1962)Image galleryBooklet featuring extracts from the diaries of filmmaker Shivendra Singh DungarpurRegion free Blu-ray (A/B/C)5.1 DTS-HD Master AudioWorld premiere on Blu-ray
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Second Run Beauty and the Beast
56.98 AUD
From Juraj Herz, director of The Cremator and Morgiana, come this singular adaption of the classic tale - an altogether darker interpretation than we're used to. Light years from Disney, Herz's Beauty and the Beast (also known more provocatively as The Virgin and the Monster) follows the familiar story - innocent girl presents herself as sacrifice to a cursed man-beast hiding in exile, and learns to live with, and eventually love her captor - but is transformed into something entirely more twisted and terrifying in Herz's macabre re-imagining.Aided by wonderful set and costume design, superb cinematography and evocative score, this is a fairy-tale-turned-horror story from Czechoslovak cinema's most wryly subversive artist. Herz's richly crafted retelling [...] is definitely no children's movie - but it is, with its arresting lyricism and striking style, an eminently worthy rival to the classic 1946 version by Jean Cocteau. Nick Pinkerton, Metrograph Perhaps the most beauteous film ever that's drawn from fairy-tale material... this is a very dark film that is also warm, sensuous and mysterious. Dennis GrunesAwards: 1978 Sitges Film Festival / Winner: Best Director 1978 Fantasporto Festival / Winner: Jury PrizeSpecial Features: Beauty and the Beast (Panna a netvor, 1978) presented complete and uncut from a new HD transfer from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive A newly-recorded Projection Booth audio commentary with Mike White, Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger František Hrubín (1964): a short film on the Czech writer and poet, and co-screenwriter of Beauty and the Beast 20-page booklet with new writing on the film by author Jonathan Owen New and improved English subtitle translation Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C)
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Second Run Before Tonight Is Over
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Two female clerks using up their savings to enjoy a few days of carefree life, two plumbers looking for an erotic adventure, a building contractor determined to drink away all wages of his workers and a former major who became an alcoholic due to political persecution - these people meet in a ski resort bar somewhere in the High Tatras. During one night they gradually reveal their unfulfilled dreams, illusions and disappointments of average people of those times.
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Second Run The Fifth Horseman is Fear
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Set in Prague, this powerful tale is informed as much by Czech resistance to Soviet impositions as it is by the torments of the Nazi era.A Jewish former doctor is compelled to work cataloguing the confiscated homes and possessions of fellow Jews. When asked to secretly treat a wounded resistance fighter he is plunged into a moral dilemma, and begins a nightmarish odyssey to save the man.Focussing on the intense anxiety, paranoia and terror prevalent in any totalitarian system, Zbynek Brynych’s The Fifth Horseman is Fear subverts its historical context, creating a frighteningly relevant portrait of a society ruled by fear.
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Second Run Dragon’s Return
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Set at an unspecified past time in a world ruled by superstition, a reclusive potter nicknamed 'Dragon', is exiled from his isolated homestead. He returns years later, aiming to win back the trust of the villagers - but faces suspicion, guilt, and simmering violence.A key film from Slovak cinema's golden era, Eduard Grečner's film is a radical fusion of ancient folklore and experimental modernism. Shot in luminous monochrome and boasting an extraordinary score by Ilja Zeljenka, it is an elemental vision of a world lostin time. A jaw-dropping masterpiece, an exercise in pure cinematic storytelling that captivates, enchants and terrifies in each scene Graham Williamson, The Geek Show. An intersection between modern art and folk culture... an eternal ballad about the essence of life Peter Hames, Czech and Slovak Cinema.Dragon's Return (Drak sa vracia, 1967) presented from an HD transfer of the new 2K restoration supervised by the Slovak Film Institute.On 'Dragon's Return' (2022): a new and exclusive documentary on the film, with the special participation of director Eduard Grečner.A newly filmed introduction by Rastislav Steranka of the Slovak Film Institute.An exclusive, archival filmed appreciation of the film by Czech and Slovak cinema expert Peter Hames (2015).20-page booklet featuring an essay on the film and an interview with Eduard Grečner by author Jonathan Owen.New and improved English subtitle translations.World premiere on Blu-ray.Region Free (A/B/C) Blu-ray.
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Second Run Liberté
52.98 AUD
France 1774. Expelled from the puritanical court of Louis XVI, a group of aristocratic libertines pursue an ideal of enlightenment through the rejection of conventional morality. At a time when hypocrisy and false virtue reign, they seek a place to indulge their quest for pleasure, inhabiting a libidinous twilight world dedicated to realising unfulfilled desires. Albert Serras explicit and opulent exploration of the limits of the erotic imagination is one of the most radical and subversive works of recent times, making Liberté a singular cinematic experience.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS High Definition director-approved presentation of the complete uncut and uncensored version of the film. Introduction to the film by its director Albert Serra. An exclusive, newly-filmed interview with Albert Serra. Original theatrical trailer. 24-page booklet featuring a new essay by curator and author Jason Wood, and an interview with Albert Serra by film critic Manu Yáñez-Murillo. Original soundtrack 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and 2.0 Stereo LPCM (24-bit). World premiere on Blu-ray.
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Second Run Witchhammer
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Otakar Vávra's Witchhammer, co-written by Ester Krumbachová (Daisies, Fruit of Paradise) from Václav Kaplický s 1963 novel, chronicles the series of notorious 17th Century Czech witch trials, undertaken using the infamous Malleus Maleficarum (the Witchhammer of the title), the Catholic treatise on witchcraft which endorses the extermination of witches and developed a detailed legal and theological theory for this purpose. Using genuine court transcripts from the forced confessions of those accused of sorcery and collusion with the Devil, it is a powerful and often shocking allegory of life under totalitarian rule.With echoes of Bergman and Franti ek Vlá il, and with literary antecedents in Arthur s Miller s The Crucible and Aldous Huxley s The Devils of Loudon, it is a disturbing political fable; and like Ken Russell's controversial, expressionistic adaptation of Huxley s text, The Devils (1971) and other films of the period such as Michael Reeves' Witchfinder General (1968) and Michael Armstrong's Mark of the Devil (1970), it serves as both grim genre film and compelling historical drama.
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Second Run Luminous Procuress
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The only feature film by artist, mystic and polymath Steven Arnold, Luminous Procuress is a bold, experimental, mind-and-gender-bending odyssey of unabashed hedonism. A celebration of otherness, of pan-sexuality, and of the exotic, Luminous Procuress is a truly unique work of Art.Often compared to the works of Fellini and Kenneth Anger, and featuring the outrageous talents of San Francisco's avant garde drag troupe The Cockettes, as well as artist ruth weiss, the film was an underground sensation upon release, but disappeared from circulation for many years. Now fully restored in all its sensuous glory, Luminous Procuress is ready to be discovered anew.Luminous Procuress is presented from a glorious new 2K restoration and makes its world premiere on Blu-ray. An extraordinary, fantastic film Salvador Dalí A head trip... a West Coast Satyricon Molly Haskell, Village Voice A lush, richly textured Bosch-like collage of languid sensuality... resembles Fellini Satyricon and those two underground classics, Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures and Kenneth Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome Los Angeles TimesLuminous Procuress presented from an HD transfer of the complete and uncut version of the film from the new 2K restoration by the Pacific Film Archive and the Cinema Preservation Alliance.Producer Harry Tsvi Strauch on Steven Arnold and Luminous Procuress.Curator Steve Seid on the history and early restoration of Luminous Procuress.Booklet featuring new writing by film scholar and critic Elena Gorfinkel, and an essay by Steve Seid.World premiere on Blu-ray.
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Second Run Diamonds Of The Night
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Presented from the new 4K restoration of the film which premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Second Run are delighted to present a new Blu-ray Special Edition of Jan N mec's masterful and harrowing Diamonds of the Night.N mec s debut feature is considered one of the most thrilling and startlingly original works of cinema. Told almost without dialogue, it chronicles the tense and desperate journey of two teenage boys who escape from a German train bound for a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.With its virtuoso cinematography, inspired editing and brilliantly utilised soundtrack, the film is a landmark of the Czechoslovak New Wave. Its themes of man s perpetual struggle to preserve human dignity in the face of unimaginable horrors remain fearsomely relevant today.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:Diamonds of the Night (Démanty noci, 196) presented from a new 4K restoration from original materials by the Czech National Film ArchiveJan N mec s debut short film A Loaf of Bread (Sousto, 1960)All-new audio commentary by film historian Michael Brooke.New filmed interview with Eva Lustigova, daughter of author Arno t Lustig.A filmed appreciation by Peter HamesBooklet featuring Michael Brooke's substantial essay on the film.Trailer (2018)New and improved English subtitle translation.World premiere on Blu-ray.Region Free Blu-ray (A/B/C)Original soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio.
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Second Run Electra, My Love
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A parable for the idea that revolutionaries must continually renew themselves Miklós JancsóRevolutionary in form as well as content, Electra, My Love is one of the great Miklós Jancsó's finest works. Set amidst the open plains and grasslands of Hungary, and shot in twelve long, beautiful, intricately choreographed takes by cinematographer János Kende, it is a provocative call to arms against any system that rules without justice.An expert in the symbolic expression of forbidden political ideas, Jancsó here radically reworks the ancient Greek myth as a philosophical reflection on the dialectics of power and oppression. Electra (seeking revenge for the murder of her father, the former king) attempts to rouse a cowardly and apathetic population against the rule of usurper tyrant Aegisthus. Jancsó's film examines issues of law, justice and power; the deliberate distortion of myth and reality reflecting the real horrors that Hungary had endured - and was at that time still enduring. It's relevance for contemporary society is still potent and clear today.
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Second Run Goodbye, Dragon Inn
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In Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. A meagre audience, the remaining few staff, and perhaps even a ghost or two, watch King Hu's wuxia classic Dragon Inn - each haunted by memories and desires evoked by cinema itself.An exquisite, wryly funny and tender tribute to the experience of movie-going, Tsai Ming-Liang's poignant love letter to cinema is one of the most beguiling and beloved dramas of modern times and is now widely regarded as a classic. Presented here in a new 4K restoration, the film is more ravishing and hypnotic than ever.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTSGoodbye, Dragon Inn (Bú sàn, 2003) presented from a brand new 4K restoration of the film.A new and exclusive filmed interview with director Tsai Ming-Liang.Madam Butterfly (2009, 36 mins): world home-video premiere of Tsai s remarkable modern-day interpretation of the classic story.Booklet featuring new essays by curator and critic Tony Rayns, plus a personal appreciation by filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.New and improved English subtitle translation.Original soundtrack in 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and 2.0 Stereo LPCM (24-bit)World premiere on Blu-ray.Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C)
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Second Run The Ear
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In Karel Kachyna's remarkable The Ear, a Communist Party official and his wife find their home under surveillance and riddled with listening devices planted by his own bureau, and a harrowing night of dread and paranoia ensuesOne of the most courageous and innovative films of its time, fearlessly referring to many taboo subjects of the Stalinist era, The Ear was banned by the Czech authorities, and remained unseen for twenty years. This landmark film is an extraordinary mix of one of the most direct indictments of life under an oppressive totalitarian system and a not-so-private examination of a disintegrating marital relationship
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Second Run Daisies
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Presented from newly remastered materials, Second Run are delighted to present a new Blu-ray Special Edition of one of our most popular tiles - the glorious Daisies.V ra Chytilová s classic of surrealist cinema is perhaps also the most adventurous and anarchic Czech movie of the 1960s.A satirical, wild and irreverent story of rebellion. Two young women revolt against a degenerate, decayed and oppressive society, attacking symbols of wealth and bourgeois culture.Defiant feminist statement? Nihilistic, avant-garde comedy? A riotous, punk-rock poem of a film that is both hilarious and mind-warpingly innovative, Daisies remains a cinematic enigma. Refreshingly uncompromising, it continues to provoke, stimulate and entertain audiences and its influence is still felt today.Features:Daisies (Sedmikrásky, 1966) presented from a new HD transfer from originalmaterials by the Czech National Film ArchiveAudio Commentary by Daughters of Darkness Samm Deighan and Kat EllingerAudio Commentary by film historians Daniel Bird and Peter HamesJourney (Cesta, 2004): Jasmina Bla evi s acclaimed documentary film portrait of director V ra ChytilováTrailerBooklet with writing on the film by author and film programmer Peter HamesNew and improved English subtitle translationRegion Free Blu-ray (A/B/C)Original soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio
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Second Run Ghost Hunting
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Raed Andoni's highly original and harrowing documentary feature won the Silver Bear for 'Best Documentary' at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival.Recreating the infamous Al-Moskobiya prison, Israel s main interrogation centre, where he was himself jailed at age 18, Andoni gathers together of fellow survivors to recreate and confront their own experiences of incarceration and torture.A powerful hybrid of documentary, fiction and experimental art film interspersed with lyrical and beautifully rendered animated sequences, Ghost Hunting is a unique and uncompromising work. The film also gives us space to reflect on the ethics and meaning of the re-enactment unfolding before us, and to question the complicity of both the filmmaker and the viewer themselves.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:Ghost Hunting (Istiyad Ashbah, 2017) presented from a brand new HD master of the film.An interview with director Raed Andoni filmed at the 2017 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.Booklet featuring new writing on the film by writer, curator and producer Gareth Evans.New English subtitle translation.Region free Blu-rayOriginal soundtrack 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and 2.0 Stereo LPCM (24-bit)
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Second Run Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
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Beguiling and decadent, Jaromil Jire Valerie and Her Week of Wonders mixes horror, fairytale, surrealism and Freudian symbolism to depict the phantasmagorical world inhabited by a young girl on the threshold of adulthood. Haunting and dreamlike, the film is a work of pure imagination, and has become a cult classic.With its stunning visuals and a remarkable, transcendent score by the great Lubo Fi er, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders casts a powerful spell and is one of the most enduring and influential fantasies ever made.Special Features:Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a týden div , 1970) presented from a brand new HD transfer of the film from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive.The Projection Booth audio commentary.Filmed introduction by film historian Michael Brooke.Interview with actor Jaroslava Schallerová.TrailerBooklet featuring writing by Peter Hames and Joseph A. GervasiNew and improved English subtitle translation.Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C)Original soundtrack in 2.0 Stereo 24-bit LPCM audioUK premiere on Blu-rayJaromil Jire short films:Uncle (Strejda, 1959)Footprints (Stopy, 1960)The Hall of Lost Footsteps (Sál ztracených krok , 1960)
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Second Run Ikarie XB 1
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Presented from the new 4K restoration of the film which premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Second Run are delighted to present a new Blu-ray Special Edition of Jind ich Polák s seminal work of fantasy cinema IKARIE XB 1.Polák s pioneering and much-imitated feature IKARIE XB 1 is one of the cornerstones of contemporary sci-fi cinema. It predates Star Trek and Kubrick s 2001: A Space Odyssey and was clearly an influence on both - and on almost every other science-fiction vehicle that followed.Adapted from Stanis aw Lem's novel The Magellanic Cloud , the film is set in 2163 and follows a mission deep into space in search of alien life. During their perilous journey the crew confront the effects of a malignant dark star, the destructive legacy of the 20th century and, ultimately, the limits of their own sanity. With outstanding design and cinematography, IKARIE XB 1 is imbued with a seriousness, intelligence and attention to detail rarely seen in science-fiction cinema of the period.Special Contents:Ikarie XB 1 presented from a new 4K restoration from original materials by the Czech National Film ArchiveShort film The Most Ordinary of Occupations (Nejv edn j í povolání, 1963)A filmed appreciation by Kim Newman.Alternative US version Voyage to the End of the Universe opening and end sceneBooklet featuring a substantial essay by writer and film historian Michael Brooke.Trailer.Voyage to the End of the Universe trailer.Photo galleryNew and improved English subtitle translation.Region Free Blu-ray (A/B/C)Original soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio....and more TBC.
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Second Run The War Trilogy - Three Films By Andrzej Wajda
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Second Run presents Andrzej Wajda's renowned 'War Trilogy' - the three films that first brought Wajda international attention and kickstarted the 'Polish Film School' movement. These works are powerful and often harrowing accounts of the Polish Resistance through World War II and after, a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the struggle for personal and national freedom. The set includes A Generation (Pokolenie, 1955), Kanał (1957), and Ashes and Diamonds (Popiół i Diament, 1958). These celebrated films are presented from stunning new 2K restorations, with A Generation being released for the first time ever on Blu-ray. A Generation (Pokolenie) Andrzej Wajda's debut feature chronicles the lives of a group of young friends who, having grown up in German-occupied Poland, find their places within the Resistance army fighting against their Nazi oppressors. Taking inspiration from the Italian neorealist movement, and brilliantly photographed by Jerzy Lipman, A Generation changed Polish cinema forever - delivering a brutal elegy to the human cost of war. Something really new was being born: a generation of young actors whose natural element would be the cinema. [...] I tried my best to show the great issues of those times reflected in the characters... they are real, not drawn on a heroic scale. Andrzej Wajda A film of tremendous importance. The whole of Polish cinema began with it. Roman Polański Kanał An unforgettable and harrowing depiction of the last days of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the invading German Nazis, Kanał follows a band of surviving Polish Home Army soldiers who take to the sewers to avoid capture. Wajda's second feature is both a thrilling WWII adventure and a vivid, melancholic testament to lives lost and martyr heroes born. Kanał remains strikingly fresh in conceit and execution, and presents Wajda's most potent mixture of lyricism and horror. 1957 Cannes Film Festival / Winner: Special Jury Prize We knew that we were the voice of our dead, that it was our duty to give testimony to those horrible years, horrible destruction, horrible fate that befell the best part of the Polish nation - Andrzej Wajda. Ashes and Diamonds (Popiół i Diament) Wajda's most renowned film and landmark of international cinema, Ashes and Diamonds takes place on the final day of WWII, as a young Resistance fighter is assigned to assassinate a Communist official. Perfectly realised, the film is also renowned for its electrifying, iconic, era-defining performance by Zbigniew Cybulski. This vision of Poland poised between the horrors of the recent past and an uncertain future, and the moral dilemmas faced by individuals in a time of transition, is arguably Wajda's greatest work. 1959 Venice Film Festival / Winner: FIPRESCI Prize 100 Best Films of World Cinema - Empire magazine 100 Greatest Foreign-Language Films - BBC Culture 100 Best Films of the 20th Century - Village Voice Critics' Poll I love these uncompromising young men and...
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Second Run My 20th Century Blu-ray
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From Ildikó Enyedi (whose latest film On Body and Soul scooped four major prizes - including the Golden Bear - at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival) this magical film spins a tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest on the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electric lightbulb to the world. The sisters are soon orphaned and separated in childhood, and follow different paths: one grows up to a naïvely idealistic, bomb-toting anarchist, the other a pampered, hedonistic courtesan who paths cross once again on the Orient Express on New Year's Eve 1899...Moving at a dizzy pace between Budapest, Hamburg, New York, Burma, Austria, Paris and Siberia, this is a film of dazzling beauty and acumen. It is a modernist fable, a fantasmagoria of scientific, political and sexual revolution and radicalism, the birth of cinema, and the joy of life. Shot in luminous monochrome by cinematographer Tibor Máthé, the multi-award-winning My 20thCentury attempts to claim back from the century of genocide the wonder of existence in a constantly changing world.Awards:1989 Cannes Film Festival / Winner: Camera d'Or - Ildikó Enyedi1989 Edinburgh International Film Festival / Winner: Jury Prize1989 Las Vegas International Film Festival / Winner: Special Jury Prize; Best Cinematography1990 Hungarian Film Week / Winner: Foreign Film Critics Award; Best Director; Best Actress; Best Cinematography1990 The New York Times '10 Best Films of the Year'Voted by critics in the Top 10 Hungarian films of all timeSpecial Features:My 20th Century (1989) - presented from a brand new HD restoration of the film by the Hungarian Digital Archive and Film Institute, supervised by director of photography Tibor Máthé and director Ildikó Enyedi.Original Hungarian soundtrack in original Mono 16-bit LPCM audioA new filmed interview with director Ildikó Enyedi, shot exclusively for this release by filmmaker Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio; The Duke of Burgundy).Booklet featuring a new essay on the film by author and academic Jonathan Owen.New and improved English subtitle translation.World premiere on Blu-ray.
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Second Run The Cremator
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This brilliantly chilling film, a unique mix of Psycho, Dr Strangelove and Repulsion, is set in Prague during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. It tells the story of one Karl Kopfrkingl (Rudolf Hrušínský), a professional cremator, for whom the political climate allows free rein to his increasingly perverse and deranged impulses for the 'salvation of the world'.Now more chillingly prescient than ever, The Cremator also contains another of master-composer Zdenek Liška's brilliantly inventive film scores.Presented from a new HD transfer this region-free Blu-ray special edition includes Herz's rarely-seen 1965 debut short film The Junk Shop (Sberné surovosti), a new audio commentary by Kat Ellinger and a filmed introduction by the Quay Brothers.
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Second Run El Mar La Mar
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A moving portrait of life in the US-Mexico border region, El Mar La Mar is a sensorily immersive, captivating and terrifying journey through the Sonoran Desert. The film weaves harrowing personal accounts of border crossings with the cruel rhetoric of the politicised American media, accompanied by striking footage of desert life and the remnants left behind by animals and people. Intense and mythic and utilising a rich polyphonic soundtrack to create a vivid exploration of the desert habitat, El Mar La Mar is an experience like nothing you&'ve seen, heard or felt before. Monumentally important protest art. It strives to unearth what the desert so conveniently wipes away: untold stories of sacrifice and struggle Little White Lies An unsettlingly topical portrait of the American southwest... plays more like a horror film than an exercise in journalistic nonfiction Sight and Sound One of the top 10 films of 2017... cinema and landscape come together as sites of inscription marked by an encounter between the human and nonhuman ArtForum El Mar La Mar (2017) presented from a brand new HD transfer of the film, approved by the directors Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki An exclusive newly-filmed appreciation by writer, curator and producer Gareth Evans. Trailer. 16-page booklet with a new essay by film writer Patrick Gamble. Original soundtrack in 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio & 2.0 Mono LPCM World premiere release on Blu-ray. Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C)
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Second Run Black Peter
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Presented from a brand new 4K restoration of the film from original materials, Second Run presents the debut feature film of the late, great Czech filmmaker Milos Forman.Black Peter is a wonderfully wry and provocative comedy about a young man growing up in a 1960s Czech provincial town. Taking the Best Film prize at the 1964 Locarno Film Festival, this early masterpiece of the emerging Czech New Wave brought to the screen something that Czechoslovak filmgoers weren t used to an authentic testimony about the lives of young people.Forman went on to become the most successful of all his Czech contemporaries, moving to America where he had huge international hits with films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest and Amadeus works that won him Best Director Academy Awards in 1976 and 1985 respectively. Forman made many important American films, but stayed true to his Czech roots. Black Peter, along with his other early works (which include his classic 1965 film A Blonde in Love), perfectly capture the authenticity and atmosphere of life in the eastern bloc during the early 60s, and the feelings of Czech teenagers in youthful rebellion on the cusp of the Prague Spring.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:Black Peter ( erný Petr, 1964) presented from a brand new 4K restoration of the film from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive.Life As It Is: Milos Forman on his Czech films: Part one of an archival film-by-film interview, newly edited for this release with never-before-seen footage.All-new audio commentary by film historian Michael BrookeTrailerBooklet featuring new writing on the film by an author, academic and programmer Jonathan OwenNew and improved English subtitle translation.Region freeOriginal soundtrack in 2.0 Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audioWorld Premiere on Blu-ray
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Second Run Mysterious Object At Noon
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The extraordinary films of Thai filmmaker and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul (BLISSFULLY YOURS, TROPICAL MALADY, SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY, Cannes Palme d'Or-winner UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES, CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR) have defined him as one of contemporary cinema's most unique voices.Apichatpong's hallucinatory debut feature MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON is an experimental documentary mix that wends its way through the landscapes and mindscapes of rural Thailand.A film crew travels from the Thai countryside to Bangkok, asking the people they encounter along the way to expand upon a story involving a wheelchair-bound young boy and his teacher. The resulting stories are later re-enacted by non-professional actors in dramatic re-creations of the freely associated narrative strokes supplied. The daisy-chain structure of interlocking vignettes is inspired by the surrealist game Exquisite Corpses, and its formal strategies are aligned with both documentary realism and the avant-garde, but this boldly original debut looks and feels like nothing else.Second Run present the film from a new 3K restoration by the Austrian Film Museum and Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation - and includes exclusive extra features.SPECIAL FEATURES• Presented from a new 3K restoration by the Austrian Film Museum and Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation.• Apichatpong Weerasethakul's short film Meteorites (Nimit, 2007)• New and exclusive filmed interview with director Apichatpong Weerasethakul.• Booklet featuring a new essay on the film by film historian and author Tony Rayns.• Original Thai soundtrack in DTS-HD master audio & 2.0 Stereo LPCM on the Blu-ray /5.1 Surround & 2.0 Stereo on the DVD.
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Second Run The Shop On The High Street
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing Edmund Burke Winner of the Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Feature in 1965, Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos THE SHOP ON THE HIGH STREET is one of the cornerstones of World Cinema, and perhaps the most internationally renowned film of the Czech New Wave. Antonin Tono Brtko is a poor carpenter appointed by his Nazi brother-in-law to be 'Aryan controller' of an old Jewish widow s sewing shop in a Nazi-occupied Slovakian town in 1942. The widow, Rozalie (Yiddish theatre legend Idá Kaminská, nominated here for a Best Actress Oscar® for her performance) is near deaf, isolated and partially sighted. Barely even registering there is a war going on, she fails to fully realize the implications of the context in which she lives. Believing Tono is simply her new assistant, the two develop a tentative friendship that sees him maintaining that fiction as he attempts to protect her from the encroaching Nazi horror. Moving effortlessly from drama to humour to tragedy, THE SHOP ON THE HIGH STREET is a complex political morality tale of common lives disturbed and destroyed by war. A story of loyalty, betrayal, cowardice and heroism, it is a scathing exploration of how minor compromises can lead to complicity in the horrors of a totalitarian regime. It asks every spectator: 'If it had been you, what would you have done?' BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS The Shop on the High Street (1965) presented from a brand new HD transfer of the film Original Slovak soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio New and improved English subtitle translation Booklet featuring a new essay
Second Run Love (Szerelem)
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Károly Makk's beloved film, based on the autobiographical writings of Tibor Déry, is a meditation on time, memory, love and loss.Two women await the return of political prisoner Janos. His elderly mother believes him to be working abroad; his devoted wife knows the painful truth of his absence... and fears she may never see him alive again.Beautifully played by two giants of Hungarian cinema, Lili Darvas and Mari Törõcsik, the film is a subtle yet powerful exploration of the consequences of life under totalitarian rule. Perfectly realised, Makk's tender masterpiece is a landmark of international cinema.Love (Szerelem) comes to Blu-ray for the first time anywhere in a gorgeous new 4K restoration.Love (Szerelem, 1971) presented from a new 4K restoration created by the National Film Institute - Film Archive, Hungary.Károly Makk on Love (2005): the renowned filmmaker discusses the film.Audio commentary with Károly Makk and professor Gábor Gelencsér.'Love' returns to Cannes (2016): a film on the history and restoration of Love.Archival newsreel footage of Hungarian film week in Sorrento, 1971.Trailers.20-page booklet with writing on the film by Graeme Hobbs and Agnes Sajti.New and improved English subtitle translation.World premiere on Blu-ray.Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C).
Second Run Desire / All My Good Countrymen
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Second Run present two films by Vojtech Jasny, one of Czechoslovak cinema's most renowned and influential film artists. Jasný is the spiritual father of the Czech New Wave Milos FormanDESIREJasny#39;s acclaimed and influential debut feature, Desire (Touha, 1958), poetically intertwines four stories of Czech rural life. A key film in the evolution of Czechoslovak cinema, Second Run present Desire for the first time anywhere on Blu-ray.1959 Cannes Film Festival / Winner: Special prize, Prix de la meilleure sélection After long years of deliberate stifling of form, Desire resurrected in Czech cinema the film poetry once upon a time introduced to it by Rovenský, Fric, Vancura, and Vávra ALL MY GOOD COUNTRYMENJasný#39;s autobiographical All My Good Countrymen (Vsichni dobrí rodáci, 1968) is one of the wonders of the Czech New Wave. Its deceptively simple narrative weaves a complex tapestry around the interwoven lives of a group of villagers immediately following the #39;socialization#39; of Czechoslovakia in 1948. The film remains a potent reminder of lives, friendships and idealism lost under totalitarian rule.Presented from a glorious new 4K restoration, All My Good Countrymen makes its world premiere on Blu-ray.1969 Cannes Film Festival / Winner: Best Director; Winner: Jury Prize An historic film for both its extraordinary poetic and social qualities and its position as the masterpiece of Vojtech Jasny New York Times/p>Special Edition Contents:Two-Disc Blu-ray Special Edition. Desire presented from a new HD transfer by the Czech National Film Archive.All My Good Countrymen presented from an HD transfer of the new 4K restoration by the Czech National Film Archive.Vojtech Jasny introduces All My Good Countrymen (2015).It's Not Always Cloudy (Není stále zamraceno, 1949): Jasny#39;s rediscovered feature-length semi-documentary graduation film, co-directed by Karel Kachyna.Bohemian Rhapsody (Ceská rapsodie, 1969): Jasny#39;s acclaimed short film.Interview with Vojtech Jasny (1988): an archival interview with the celebrated filmmaker made for the Channel 4 television series The Other Europe.An interview with actress Drahomíra Hofmanová (2015).Peter Hames on Vojtech Jasny (2015).A Projection Booth audio commentary on All My Good Countrymen with Mike White, Spencer Parsons and Chris Stachiw.Booklet featuring an expansive essay on Jasny by author Peter Hames. New and improved English subtitle translations.Reversible sleeve.World premieres on Blu-ray. Region Free (A/B/C) Blu-rays.
Second Run Neon Bull
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Gabriel Mascaro's sensual, subversive Neon Bull unfolds within the macho world of the vaquejada, a traditional Brazilian form of rodeo. Iremar is a bull wrangler, who aspires to being a fashion designer, and the film follows him and his friends as they travel from rodeo to rodeo dreaming of better days ahead.Balancing a provocative realism with improvisational drama, Neon Bull is a celebration of its characters and their everyday lives as well as their obstinate capacity to dream. It explores the lives of its protagonists in evocative tableaux of fierce, funny, sweaty intimacy which lyrically subverts its macho domain.SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTSNeon Bull (2015) - presented complete and uncut from a brand new transfer of the filmInterview with director Gabriel MascaraoExtended 'Making of' featuretteBooklet featuring writing on the film by Brazilian composer Caetano Veloso and Little White Lies editor-in-chief David JenkinsOriginal Portuguese soundtrack in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 stereoNew and improved English subtitle translation.
Second Run The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
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Often described as the Czech Méliès , visionary filmmaker Karel Zeman has been a profound influence on whole generations of film artists from Jan vankmajer to Tim Burton, the Quay Brothers to Terry Gilliam, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Wes Anderson. His ground-breaking innovations in the use of live-action and animation mark him as one of the great masters of 20th Century fantasy cinema, ranking alongside his more celebrated Western counterparts Willis O Brien and Ray Harryhausen. The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Baron Prá il) is perhaps Zeman s most beloved achievement.Still regarded as the finest film adaptation of Gottfried August Bürger s outlandish tales of Baron Munchausen (made famous in his 1786 book), Zeman s wildly inventive and outrageously fun take on the incredible adventures of the bragging Baron come to life in a film celebrating the courage and imagination of dreamers and poets. With its mind-bending melding of live-action, animation and extraordinary matte work, Zeman has crafted a timeless work that continues to astonish.SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTSThe Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1961) Presented from a new 4K restoration from original materials by the Karel Zeman Museum and the Czech National Film ArchiveNew and exclusive filmed appreciation by writer, editor and film historian Michael Brooke.Karel Zeman and the World featuretteThe Birth of a Film Legend featuretteWhy Zeman Made the Film featuretteThe CastZeman's Special Effects TechniquesKarel Zeman: The Legend Continues featuretteBooklet featuring a new essay on the film by journalist and critic Graham WilliamsonNew and improved English subtitle translation.Original Czech soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio
Second Run The Silence Before Bach / Mudanza
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In these two works by the radical Catalan filmmaker Pere Portabella, music, art and architecture take a pivotal role in fragmenting and unravelling the substance of history to comment on our modern world.The acclaimed, surreal documentary The Silence Before Bach (Die Stille vor Bach) comprises a series of filmed vignettes, united by the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Portabella's opulent reverie leads us through the centuries, investigating the profound, complex relationship between image and music.Mudanza quietly records the removal of furniture and objects from the home of poet Federico García Lorca, allowing visitors – and viewers - to move freely amongst its empty spaces, and to contemplate what is lost.2007 Barcelona Film Awards/ Winner: Audiovisual Prize2007 Gijón International Film Festival / Winner: Special Jury AwardSpecial Features:New High Definition, director-approved presentations of the of the films.An in-depth 2010 interview with Pere Portabella from the Spanish tv arts show #39;Sala 33#39; discussing The Silence Before Bach and Mudanza.Booklet featuring new writing on the films.DTS HD 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo audio.Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C).
Second Run The Lighthouse
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This elegiac, semi-autobiographical drama unfolds against the backdrop and legacy of the Caucasus wars of the early 1990s. Told with a dream-like intensity, a young woman returns to her home in a remote, war-ravaged Armenian village to persuade her grandparents to leave with her for safety in Moscow.Beautifully photographed and composed, and set to a hypnotic soundtrack, this poetic and moving film is in the great visual tradition of Tarkovsky and Paradjanov. An outstanding directorial debut by an immensely talented young filmmaker tragically taken too soon.
Second Run The Films of Kevin Jerome Everson
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The American artist Kevin Jerome Everson has created a remarkable body of moving image work that co-exists within film and art exhibition contexts. With a sense of place and history, his films, shot primarily on 16mm, combine scripted and documentary moments with touches of formalism. The focus is on craft and duration, and the gestures and tasks caused by certain physical and socio-economic conditions in the lives, labour and leisure of working-class Black Americans and people of African descent. They suggest not only the relentlessness of everyday life but also reveal its inherent beauty.This selection of four features and 17 short films, together with an 'image booklet' of photographs, has been specifically curated by the artist. Second Run are proud to present the first comprehensive collection to be released on Blu-ray of Everson's award-winning and critically acclaimed films.This Special Edition 2-disc Blu-ray Set includes the following films:Disc 1Features:Spicebush (2005)The Island of St. Matthews (2013)Tonsler Park (2017)Shorts:Fe26 (2014)Sound That (2014)Ears, Nose and Throat (2016)Disc 2Feature:Erie (2010)Shorts:Old Cat (2009)Company Line (2009)BZV (2010)Ten Five in the Grass (2012)Grand Finale (2015)Three Quarters (2015)Eason (2016)IFO (2017)Rams 23 Blue Bears 21 (2017)Polly One (2018)Round Seven (2018)Union (2019)Sanfield, (2020)Brown Thrasher (2020)BLU-RAY 2-DISC SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTSPresented from new digital transfers from original materials, approved by the director.BookletOriginal soundtracks in stereo 24-bit LPCM audioWorld Premiere on Blu-ray
Second Run Hungarian Masters
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Second Run presents a selection of essential works by Hungarian cinema's most renowned filmmakers. This special edition box set contains these celebrated films presented from stunning new 4K restorations and released for the first time ever on Blu-ray.The set includes Zoltán Fábri's Merry-Go-Round (Körhinta, 1955); István Gaál's Current (Sodrásban, 1963) and Miklós Jancsó's Agnus Dei (Égi bárány, 1970)Zoltán Fábri's beloved film is considered one of the finest in all of Hungarian cinema. A love story set against the rural backdrop of communist farming collectives, a young girl (the great Mari Törocsik in her film debut) falls for farm worker Máté, but is betrothed by her domineering father to another man. This pastoral take on Romeo and Juliet is a rich and achingly beautiful work, framed by the turbulent changes in society taking place at that time.Voted by international critics as one of the '10 Best Hungarian Films of All Time' The heroine of Zoltán Fábri's marvellous film should have the prize for the Best Actress... This is the big prize winner. This is my Palme d'Or. François Truffaut, Cannes 1956 It resounds with love Jean Cocteau Merry-Go-Round is the pinnacle of Hungarian cinema István SzáboCurrent (Sodrásban) A film by István GaálA group of young friends on the cusp of adulthood decide to spend one last idyllic day together by the river before they depart for jobs and university. When one of them goes missing, a frantic search begins - and recriminations ensue.Often cited as the first film of the Hungarian New Wave, István Gaál's haunting existential drama contemplates the transience of youth and the impermanence of memory. Echoing Antonioni's L'Avventura and Kurosawa's Rashomon, Current is a powerful and lyrical work that serves as a lament for a generation.Voted by international critics as one of the '10 Best Hungarian Films of All Time'1964 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival / Winner: Best Film1965 Hungarian Film Critics' Awards / Winner: Best Director, Best Cinematography A film of freshness and poetry in an unmistakably modern tone Pier Paolo PasoliniMiklós Jancsó's symbolic re-enactment of Hungary's 1919 revolution and counter-revolution is another virtuoso display of cinematic skill and artistry, turning history into theatre. The film explores political upheaval, oppression and the complicity of the Church, in this refined, complex allegory of the rise of fascism in Hungary. The dazzling Agnus Dei marks a transition from Jancsó's more traditional narrative films of the 1960s, to the more experimental and provocative works of the 1970s. Jancsó's most enigmatic film... a deeply mysterious and symbolic drama [Jancsó] has shown himself in the very forefront of international cinema... photographed by probably the most choreographic camera now at work anywhere: loving, stylized sweeps, caressing pans, circling movements around the actors, astonishing compositions Village VoiceMerry-Go-Round (Körhinta), Current (Sodrásban),...
Second Run Dawson City: Frozen Time
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Named as one of the best films of 2017 by more than 100 critics worldwide, Dawson City: Frozen Time pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of over 500 nitrate film prints dating from the early 1900s. Discovered buried deep in the permafrost beneath Dawson City, a former Klondike gold rush town, the story they reveal and Morrison's haunting found-footage documentary links that gold rush town to the dawn of cinema and the rise of the modern age.Bill Morrison's incredible film conjures the birth of the modern age through these unearthed newsreels, old silent movies (in some cases, the only copies in existence of films by D.W. Griffith and Tod Browning, among others) and documentary images of the town to create a unique kaleidoscope of cinema and history.SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:Dawson City Frozen Time presented from a new 4K masterNew and exclusive interview with filmmaker Bill MorrisonDawson City: PostscriptShort film The LetterSelections from the Dawson Film Find:British Canadian Pathé News 1919 (includes 1919 World Series),International News Vol. 1, Issue 52, 1919The Montreal Herald Screen Magazine 1919Pathé's Weekly #17, 1914The Butler and the Maid, Thomas A. Edison Inc., 1912Brutality, D.W. Griffith, Biograph Company, 1912The Exquisite Thief, r.2, director, Tod Browning, 1919The Girl of the Northern Woods, Thanhouser, 1910Booklet featuring a new essay on the film.TrailerEnglish subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.Region Free Blu-ray (A/B/C)DTS-HD 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Stereo 24-bit LPCM audio options.
Second Run Silence And Cry
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Silence And CryAn elliptical, claustrophobic drama shot in the brilliant, breathtaking long takes that are Jancsó s trademark, Silence and Cry is set after the fall of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919. A young Red soldier, fleeing the anti-Communist manhunt, takes refuge at the isolated farm of a peasant family, who are already under police scrutiny for being politically suspect... Working on a more intimate canvas, following the epic The Round-Up and The Red and the White (of which this film forms the final part of an unofficial trilogy ) Hungarian master Jancsó's film is still very much concerned with the terrible, tyrannical impact of power, politics and history.Features:Silence and Cry (1968) presented from a brand new 2K restoration of the film by theHungarian Digital Archive and Film Institute, supervised by the film's cinematographerJános Kende.Original Hungarian soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audioBooklet featuring a new essay on the film by critic and film historian Tony RaynsNew and improved English subtitle translation.World premiere on Blu-ray
Second Run The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
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Conceived by Shôhei Imamura, Kazuo Hara's audacious, deeply unsettling documentary feature follows Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old WW2 veteran who has fought tirelessly and often violently on a one-man mission to bring to justice Japan's Emperor Hirohito and the Army Commanders who he holds responsible for the countless deaths and other atrocities involving Japanese soldiers at the end of the war in the Pacific.Harrowing, unflinching and extraordinarily powerful, Hara's film pushes against the proprieties of Japanese society (the film remains unreleased in its home country), and forces us to question the relationship between documentary filmmaker, protagonist and spectator.I first saw The Emperor s Naked Army Marches On at the San Francisco Film Festival. Werner Herzog and I were sitting together. We couldn t believe it. Here was one of the weirdest, most dramatic stories ever. And the movie itself? What can I say? It s on my list of the 10 best movies ever Errol MorrisIt was like I had this soul brother in Japan... I was inspired, I was exhilarated. I had never seen anything like this. I had truly never seen anything like this. Michael MooreBlu-Ray Special Edition Contents:The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Yuki Yukite Shingun, 1987) from a new HD re-master and transfer from original materialsA new filmed interview with director Kazuo HaraBooklet featuring new writing on the filmNew and improved English subtitle translationRegion free Blu-ray (A/B/C)Original soundtrack in 2.0 Dual Mono 16-bit LPCM audioWorld premiere on Blu-ray
Second Run Adoption
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Márta Mészáros is without doubt one of the most significant female directors from Central Europe, with the majority of her outspoken work dealing frankly with issues of gender, politics and society.Adoption, one of her best-known works, is a story about the hushed rebellion of two strong women, one in her forties and one in her teens.43-year-old Kata longs to have a child of her own. Rejected by her married lover, Kata looks into adoption, and befriends orphaned teenager Anna, herself determined to start a new life for herself.Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear at the 1975 Berlin Film Festival, Márta Mészáros became the first woman filmmaker ever to receive the award. Seen today, Adoption, which features a single woman who constantly defies expectations, is powerful not just as a refreshing counterpoint to Europe's rising conservatism but, even more importantly, in the context of bold feminist cinema. Ela Bittencourt, Sight & Sound Adoption rings with a relevant message of self-empowerment and decisively taking control of one's fate in the face of a dour and uncaring society. Julia Ray, Cinema RediscoveredSpecial Features:Adoption (Örökbefogadás, 1975) presented from an HD transfer of the new restoration by the Hungarian National Digital Archive and Film InstituteA Conversation with Márta Mészáros (2009): an archival filmed interview with the directorTrailerBooklet with new writing on the film by Carmen GrayNew and improved English subtitle translationWorld premiere on Blu-rayRegion free Blu-ray (A/B/C)
Second Run The Party and the Guests
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A group of friends on an afternoon picnic are accosted by mysterious authority figures and compelled to join a lavish banquet in the woods. Jan Nemec's surreal and sinister fable is a barbed satire of authoritarianism and conformity, as each of the 'guests' find their place among the revellers, succumbing to the will of their menacing hosts.Distinguished by being 'banned forever' by Czech authorities, Nemec's disquieting film was considered the most politically dangerous film made during the short flowering of Czechoslovak cinema in the 1960's.Our edition of The Party and the Guests also contains Jirí Trnka's renowned animated short film The Hand (1965), another surreal and savage indictment of totalitarianism (again banned by Czech authorities), making its world premiere on Blu-ray.Bonus Features:The Party and the Guests (O slavnosti a hostech, 1966) presented from an HD transfer of the new 4K restoration by the Czech National Film Archive.The Hand (Ruka, 1965): Jirí Trnka's renowned animated film presented from a new HD restoration and for the first time ever on Blu-ray.Audio commentary by author Jonathan Owen.Projection Booth audio commentary with film historians Mike White, Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger.A filmed appreciation by Peter Hames24-page booklet featuring Michael Brooke's substantial essay on the film.New and improved English subtitle translation.World premiere on Blu-ray.
Second Run Tenderness
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Slovak filmmaker Martin ulík s striking debut feature is a rich and complex coming-of-age story set against a background of political upheaval and a country in the throws of transformation and revolution.Simon, a young student, is drawn into a relationship with an older couple, Maria and Viktor, the dynamics of which veer between passion and cruelty. Simon finds himself caught in a love/hate triangle he does not fully comprehend, the key to which is linked to the dark secrets of their past.Analysing human relations in the early years of post-communism, Tenderness presents a world still profoundly affected by the moral corruption characteristic of the years of following the Soviet invasion of 1968.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTSTenderness (Neha) (1990) presented from the new 2K restoration of the film from original materials supervised by the Slovak Film Institute and approved by the director.On Tenderness (2020) - a new documentary on the film and its legacy.Hurá (1989) - Martin ulík s acclaimed short film.Booklet featuring new writing on the film by author Peter Hames.Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C)1.0 Mono LPCM audio (48k/24-bit)World premiere on Blu-ray
Second Run Czechmate
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Epic, expansive, affectionate and deeply passionate, CzechMate In Search of Jiri Menzel is the definitive work on the Czechoslovak New Wave. This extraordinary documentary film, a labour of love by archivist and filmmaker Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, has a depth and scale unparalleled in the study of the Czechoslovak cinema.Jiri Menzel s debut film Closely Observed Trains (Ost e sledované vlaky, 1966) made a profound impression on young film student Dungarpur. Years later, he invited Menzel to meet him in a Prague café - and so began a conversation and a friendship that has culminated in this epic, seven-hour film that not only explores the deceptively whimsical comic films of Jiri Menzel, but all of the artists who strove to make films that whispered subversion and rebellion often at the risk of their livelihood, or even their lives.Filmed over a period of seven years, Dungarpur and his team interviewed filmmakers, actors, crew members, writers, historians and critics who had been touched by the New Wave - including V ra Chytilová, Milo Forman, Vojt ch Jasný, Ivan Passer, Ken Loach, Juraj Jakubisko, Jaromír ofr, Andrzej Wajda, Du an Hanák, tefan Uher, Jan N mec, and Miroslav Ond í ek among them.CzechMate In Search of Ji í Menzel reminds us of the genius, originality and bravery of the artists of the Czech Miracle , one of the most important and influential movements in the history of cinema.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTSCzechMate In Search of Jiri Menzel (2018) presented from a director-approved HD transferJiri Menzel short films:Prefabricated Houses (Domy z panel , 1960)Our Mr. Foerster Died (Um el nám pan Foerster, 1962)Image galleryBooklet featuring extracts from the diaries of filmmaker Shivendra Singh DungarpurRegion free Blu-ray (A/B/C)5.1 DTS-HD Master AudioWorld premiere on Blu-ray
Second Run Beauty and the Beast
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From Juraj Herz, director of The Cremator and Morgiana, come this singular adaption of the classic tale - an altogether darker interpretation than we're used to. Light years from Disney, Herz's Beauty and the Beast (also known more provocatively as The Virgin and the Monster) follows the familiar story - innocent girl presents herself as sacrifice to a cursed man-beast hiding in exile, and learns to live with, and eventually love her captor - but is transformed into something entirely more twisted and terrifying in Herz's macabre re-imagining.Aided by wonderful set and costume design, superb cinematography and evocative score, this is a fairy-tale-turned-horror story from Czechoslovak cinema's most wryly subversive artist. Herz's richly crafted retelling [...] is definitely no children's movie - but it is, with its arresting lyricism and striking style, an eminently worthy rival to the classic 1946 version by Jean Cocteau. Nick Pinkerton, Metrograph Perhaps the most beauteous film ever that's drawn from fairy-tale material... this is a very dark film that is also warm, sensuous and mysterious. Dennis GrunesAwards: 1978 Sitges Film Festival / Winner: Best Director 1978 Fantasporto Festival / Winner: Jury PrizeSpecial Features: Beauty and the Beast (Panna a netvor, 1978) presented complete and uncut from a new HD transfer from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive A newly-recorded Projection Booth audio commentary with Mike White, Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger František Hrubín (1964): a short film on the Czech writer and poet, and co-screenwriter of Beauty and the Beast 20-page booklet with new writing on the film by author Jonathan Owen New and improved English subtitle translation Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C)
Second Run Before Tonight Is Over
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Two female clerks using up their savings to enjoy a few days of carefree life, two plumbers looking for an erotic adventure, a building contractor determined to drink away all wages of his workers and a former major who became an alcoholic due to political persecution - these people meet in a ski resort bar somewhere in the High Tatras. During one night they gradually reveal their unfulfilled dreams, illusions and disappointments of average people of those times.
Second Run The Fifth Horseman is Fear
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Set in Prague, this powerful tale is informed as much by Czech resistance to Soviet impositions as it is by the torments of the Nazi era.A Jewish former doctor is compelled to work cataloguing the confiscated homes and possessions of fellow Jews. When asked to secretly treat a wounded resistance fighter he is plunged into a moral dilemma, and begins a nightmarish odyssey to save the man.Focussing on the intense anxiety, paranoia and terror prevalent in any totalitarian system, Zbynek Brynych’s The Fifth Horseman is Fear subverts its historical context, creating a frighteningly relevant portrait of a society ruled by fear.
Second Run Dragon’s Return
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Set at an unspecified past time in a world ruled by superstition, a reclusive potter nicknamed 'Dragon', is exiled from his isolated homestead. He returns years later, aiming to win back the trust of the villagers - but faces suspicion, guilt, and simmering violence.A key film from Slovak cinema's golden era, Eduard Grečner's film is a radical fusion of ancient folklore and experimental modernism. Shot in luminous monochrome and boasting an extraordinary score by Ilja Zeljenka, it is an elemental vision of a world lostin time. A jaw-dropping masterpiece, an exercise in pure cinematic storytelling that captivates, enchants and terrifies in each scene Graham Williamson, The Geek Show. An intersection between modern art and folk culture... an eternal ballad about the essence of life Peter Hames, Czech and Slovak Cinema.Dragon's Return (Drak sa vracia, 1967) presented from an HD transfer of the new 2K restoration supervised by the Slovak Film Institute.On 'Dragon's Return' (2022): a new and exclusive documentary on the film, with the special participation of director Eduard Grečner.A newly filmed introduction by Rastislav Steranka of the Slovak Film Institute.An exclusive, archival filmed appreciation of the film by Czech and Slovak cinema expert Peter Hames (2015).20-page booklet featuring an essay on the film and an interview with Eduard Grečner by author Jonathan Owen.New and improved English subtitle translations.World premiere on Blu-ray.Region Free (A/B/C) Blu-ray.
Second Run Liberté
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France 1774. Expelled from the puritanical court of Louis XVI, a group of aristocratic libertines pursue an ideal of enlightenment through the rejection of conventional morality. At a time when hypocrisy and false virtue reign, they seek a place to indulge their quest for pleasure, inhabiting a libidinous twilight world dedicated to realising unfulfilled desires. Albert Serras explicit and opulent exploration of the limits of the erotic imagination is one of the most radical and subversive works of recent times, making Liberté a singular cinematic experience.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS High Definition director-approved presentation of the complete uncut and uncensored version of the film. Introduction to the film by its director Albert Serra. An exclusive, newly-filmed interview with Albert Serra. Original theatrical trailer. 24-page booklet featuring a new essay by curator and author Jason Wood, and an interview with Albert Serra by film critic Manu Yáñez-Murillo. Original soundtrack 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and 2.0 Stereo LPCM (24-bit). World premiere on Blu-ray.
Second Run Witchhammer
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Otakar Vávra's Witchhammer, co-written by Ester Krumbachová (Daisies, Fruit of Paradise) from Václav Kaplický s 1963 novel, chronicles the series of notorious 17th Century Czech witch trials, undertaken using the infamous Malleus Maleficarum (the Witchhammer of the title), the Catholic treatise on witchcraft which endorses the extermination of witches and developed a detailed legal and theological theory for this purpose. Using genuine court transcripts from the forced confessions of those accused of sorcery and collusion with the Devil, it is a powerful and often shocking allegory of life under totalitarian rule.With echoes of Bergman and Franti ek Vlá il, and with literary antecedents in Arthur s Miller s The Crucible and Aldous Huxley s The Devils of Loudon, it is a disturbing political fable; and like Ken Russell's controversial, expressionistic adaptation of Huxley s text, The Devils (1971) and other films of the period such as Michael Reeves' Witchfinder General (1968) and Michael Armstrong's Mark of the Devil (1970), it serves as both grim genre film and compelling historical drama.
Second Run Luminous Procuress
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The only feature film by artist, mystic and polymath Steven Arnold, Luminous Procuress is a bold, experimental, mind-and-gender-bending odyssey of unabashed hedonism. A celebration of otherness, of pan-sexuality, and of the exotic, Luminous Procuress is a truly unique work of Art.Often compared to the works of Fellini and Kenneth Anger, and featuring the outrageous talents of San Francisco's avant garde drag troupe The Cockettes, as well as artist ruth weiss, the film was an underground sensation upon release, but disappeared from circulation for many years. Now fully restored in all its sensuous glory, Luminous Procuress is ready to be discovered anew.Luminous Procuress is presented from a glorious new 2K restoration and makes its world premiere on Blu-ray. An extraordinary, fantastic film Salvador Dalí A head trip... a West Coast Satyricon Molly Haskell, Village Voice A lush, richly textured Bosch-like collage of languid sensuality... resembles Fellini Satyricon and those two underground classics, Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures and Kenneth Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome Los Angeles TimesLuminous Procuress presented from an HD transfer of the complete and uncut version of the film from the new 2K restoration by the Pacific Film Archive and the Cinema Preservation Alliance.Producer Harry Tsvi Strauch on Steven Arnold and Luminous Procuress.Curator Steve Seid on the history and early restoration of Luminous Procuress.Booklet featuring new writing by film scholar and critic Elena Gorfinkel, and an essay by Steve Seid.World premiere on Blu-ray.
Second Run Diamonds Of The Night
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Presented from the new 4K restoration of the film which premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Second Run are delighted to present a new Blu-ray Special Edition of Jan N mec's masterful and harrowing Diamonds of the Night.N mec s debut feature is considered one of the most thrilling and startlingly original works of cinema. Told almost without dialogue, it chronicles the tense and desperate journey of two teenage boys who escape from a German train bound for a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.With its virtuoso cinematography, inspired editing and brilliantly utilised soundtrack, the film is a landmark of the Czechoslovak New Wave. Its themes of man s perpetual struggle to preserve human dignity in the face of unimaginable horrors remain fearsomely relevant today.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:Diamonds of the Night (Démanty noci, 196) presented from a new 4K restoration from original materials by the Czech National Film ArchiveJan N mec s debut short film A Loaf of Bread (Sousto, 1960)All-new audio commentary by film historian Michael Brooke.New filmed interview with Eva Lustigova, daughter of author Arno t Lustig.A filmed appreciation by Peter HamesBooklet featuring Michael Brooke's substantial essay on the film.Trailer (2018)New and improved English subtitle translation.World premiere on Blu-ray.Region Free Blu-ray (A/B/C)Original soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio.
Second Run Electra, My Love
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A parable for the idea that revolutionaries must continually renew themselves Miklós JancsóRevolutionary in form as well as content, Electra, My Love is one of the great Miklós Jancsó's finest works. Set amidst the open plains and grasslands of Hungary, and shot in twelve long, beautiful, intricately choreographed takes by cinematographer János Kende, it is a provocative call to arms against any system that rules without justice.An expert in the symbolic expression of forbidden political ideas, Jancsó here radically reworks the ancient Greek myth as a philosophical reflection on the dialectics of power and oppression. Electra (seeking revenge for the murder of her father, the former king) attempts to rouse a cowardly and apathetic population against the rule of usurper tyrant Aegisthus. Jancsó's film examines issues of law, justice and power; the deliberate distortion of myth and reality reflecting the real horrors that Hungary had endured - and was at that time still enduring. It's relevance for contemporary society is still potent and clear today.
Second Run Goodbye, Dragon Inn
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In Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. A meagre audience, the remaining few staff, and perhaps even a ghost or two, watch King Hu's wuxia classic Dragon Inn - each haunted by memories and desires evoked by cinema itself.An exquisite, wryly funny and tender tribute to the experience of movie-going, Tsai Ming-Liang's poignant love letter to cinema is one of the most beguiling and beloved dramas of modern times and is now widely regarded as a classic. Presented here in a new 4K restoration, the film is more ravishing and hypnotic than ever.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTSGoodbye, Dragon Inn (Bú sàn, 2003) presented from a brand new 4K restoration of the film.A new and exclusive filmed interview with director Tsai Ming-Liang.Madam Butterfly (2009, 36 mins): world home-video premiere of Tsai s remarkable modern-day interpretation of the classic story.Booklet featuring new essays by curator and critic Tony Rayns, plus a personal appreciation by filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.New and improved English subtitle translation.Original soundtrack in 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and 2.0 Stereo LPCM (24-bit)World premiere on Blu-ray.Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C)
Second Run The Ear
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In Karel Kachyna's remarkable The Ear, a Communist Party official and his wife find their home under surveillance and riddled with listening devices planted by his own bureau, and a harrowing night of dread and paranoia ensuesOne of the most courageous and innovative films of its time, fearlessly referring to many taboo subjects of the Stalinist era, The Ear was banned by the Czech authorities, and remained unseen for twenty years. This landmark film is an extraordinary mix of one of the most direct indictments of life under an oppressive totalitarian system and a not-so-private examination of a disintegrating marital relationship
Second Run Daisies
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Presented from newly remastered materials, Second Run are delighted to present a new Blu-ray Special Edition of one of our most popular tiles - the glorious Daisies.V ra Chytilová s classic of surrealist cinema is perhaps also the most adventurous and anarchic Czech movie of the 1960s.A satirical, wild and irreverent story of rebellion. Two young women revolt against a degenerate, decayed and oppressive society, attacking symbols of wealth and bourgeois culture.Defiant feminist statement? Nihilistic, avant-garde comedy? A riotous, punk-rock poem of a film that is both hilarious and mind-warpingly innovative, Daisies remains a cinematic enigma. Refreshingly uncompromising, it continues to provoke, stimulate and entertain audiences and its influence is still felt today.Features:Daisies (Sedmikrásky, 1966) presented from a new HD transfer from originalmaterials by the Czech National Film ArchiveAudio Commentary by Daughters of Darkness Samm Deighan and Kat EllingerAudio Commentary by film historians Daniel Bird and Peter HamesJourney (Cesta, 2004): Jasmina Bla evi s acclaimed documentary film portrait of director V ra ChytilováTrailerBooklet with writing on the film by author and film programmer Peter HamesNew and improved English subtitle translationRegion Free Blu-ray (A/B/C)Original soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio
Second Run Ghost Hunting
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Raed Andoni's highly original and harrowing documentary feature won the Silver Bear for 'Best Documentary' at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival.Recreating the infamous Al-Moskobiya prison, Israel s main interrogation centre, where he was himself jailed at age 18, Andoni gathers together of fellow survivors to recreate and confront their own experiences of incarceration and torture.A powerful hybrid of documentary, fiction and experimental art film interspersed with lyrical and beautifully rendered animated sequences, Ghost Hunting is a unique and uncompromising work. The film also gives us space to reflect on the ethics and meaning of the re-enactment unfolding before us, and to question the complicity of both the filmmaker and the viewer themselves.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:Ghost Hunting (Istiyad Ashbah, 2017) presented from a brand new HD master of the film.An interview with director Raed Andoni filmed at the 2017 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.Booklet featuring new writing on the film by writer, curator and producer Gareth Evans.New English subtitle translation.Region free Blu-rayOriginal soundtrack 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and 2.0 Stereo LPCM (24-bit)
Second Run Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
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Beguiling and decadent, Jaromil Jire Valerie and Her Week of Wonders mixes horror, fairytale, surrealism and Freudian symbolism to depict the phantasmagorical world inhabited by a young girl on the threshold of adulthood. Haunting and dreamlike, the film is a work of pure imagination, and has become a cult classic.With its stunning visuals and a remarkable, transcendent score by the great Lubo Fi er, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders casts a powerful spell and is one of the most enduring and influential fantasies ever made.Special Features:Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a týden div , 1970) presented from a brand new HD transfer of the film from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive.The Projection Booth audio commentary.Filmed introduction by film historian Michael Brooke.Interview with actor Jaroslava Schallerová.TrailerBooklet featuring writing by Peter Hames and Joseph A. GervasiNew and improved English subtitle translation.Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C)Original soundtrack in 2.0 Stereo 24-bit LPCM audioUK premiere on Blu-rayJaromil Jire short films:Uncle (Strejda, 1959)Footprints (Stopy, 1960)The Hall of Lost Footsteps (Sál ztracených krok , 1960)
Second Run Ikarie XB 1
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Presented from the new 4K restoration of the film which premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Second Run are delighted to present a new Blu-ray Special Edition of Jind ich Polák s seminal work of fantasy cinema IKARIE XB 1.Polák s pioneering and much-imitated feature IKARIE XB 1 is one of the cornerstones of contemporary sci-fi cinema. It predates Star Trek and Kubrick s 2001: A Space Odyssey and was clearly an influence on both - and on almost every other science-fiction vehicle that followed.Adapted from Stanis aw Lem's novel The Magellanic Cloud , the film is set in 2163 and follows a mission deep into space in search of alien life. During their perilous journey the crew confront the effects of a malignant dark star, the destructive legacy of the 20th century and, ultimately, the limits of their own sanity. With outstanding design and cinematography, IKARIE XB 1 is imbued with a seriousness, intelligence and attention to detail rarely seen in science-fiction cinema of the period.Special Contents:Ikarie XB 1 presented from a new 4K restoration from original materials by the Czech National Film ArchiveShort film The Most Ordinary of Occupations (Nejv edn j í povolání, 1963)A filmed appreciation by Kim Newman.Alternative US version Voyage to the End of the Universe opening and end sceneBooklet featuring a substantial essay by writer and film historian Michael Brooke.Trailer.Voyage to the End of the Universe trailer.Photo galleryNew and improved English subtitle translation.Region Free Blu-ray (A/B/C)Original soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio....and more TBC.
Second Run The War Trilogy - Three Films By Andrzej Wajda
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Second Run presents Andrzej Wajda's renowned 'War Trilogy' - the three films that first brought Wajda international attention and kickstarted the 'Polish Film School' movement. These works are powerful and often harrowing accounts of the Polish Resistance through World War II and after, a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the struggle for personal and national freedom. The set includes A Generation (Pokolenie, 1955), Kanał (1957), and Ashes and Diamonds (Popiół i Diament, 1958). These celebrated films are presented from stunning new 2K restorations, with A Generation being released for the first time ever on Blu-ray. A Generation (Pokolenie) Andrzej Wajda's debut feature chronicles the lives of a group of young friends who, having grown up in German-occupied Poland, find their places within the Resistance army fighting against their Nazi oppressors. Taking inspiration from the Italian neorealist movement, and brilliantly photographed by Jerzy Lipman, A Generation changed Polish cinema forever - delivering a brutal elegy to the human cost of war. Something really new was being born: a generation of young actors whose natural element would be the cinema. [...] I tried my best to show the great issues of those times reflected in the characters... they are real, not drawn on a heroic scale. Andrzej Wajda A film of tremendous importance. The whole of Polish cinema began with it. Roman Polański Kanał An unforgettable and harrowing depiction of the last days of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the invading German Nazis, Kanał follows a band of surviving Polish Home Army soldiers who take to the sewers to avoid capture. Wajda's second feature is both a thrilling WWII adventure and a vivid, melancholic testament to lives lost and martyr heroes born. Kanał remains strikingly fresh in conceit and execution, and presents Wajda's most potent mixture of lyricism and horror. 1957 Cannes Film Festival / Winner: Special Jury Prize We knew that we were the voice of our dead, that it was our duty to give testimony to those horrible years, horrible destruction, horrible fate that befell the best part of the Polish nation - Andrzej Wajda. Ashes and Diamonds (Popiół i Diament) Wajda's most renowned film and landmark of international cinema, Ashes and Diamonds takes place on the final day of WWII, as a young Resistance fighter is assigned to assassinate a Communist official. Perfectly realised, the film is also renowned for its electrifying, iconic, era-defining performance by Zbigniew Cybulski. This vision of Poland poised between the horrors of the recent past and an uncertain future, and the moral dilemmas faced by individuals in a time of transition, is arguably Wajda's greatest work. 1959 Venice Film Festival / Winner: FIPRESCI Prize 100 Best Films of World Cinema - Empire magazine 100 Greatest Foreign-Language Films - BBC Culture 100 Best Films of the 20th Century - Village Voice Critics' Poll I love these uncompromising young men and...
Second Run My 20th Century Blu-ray
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From Ildikó Enyedi (whose latest film On Body and Soul scooped four major prizes - including the Golden Bear - at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival) this magical film spins a tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest on the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electric lightbulb to the world. The sisters are soon orphaned and separated in childhood, and follow different paths: one grows up to a naïvely idealistic, bomb-toting anarchist, the other a pampered, hedonistic courtesan who paths cross once again on the Orient Express on New Year's Eve 1899...Moving at a dizzy pace between Budapest, Hamburg, New York, Burma, Austria, Paris and Siberia, this is a film of dazzling beauty and acumen. It is a modernist fable, a fantasmagoria of scientific, political and sexual revolution and radicalism, the birth of cinema, and the joy of life. Shot in luminous monochrome by cinematographer Tibor Máthé, the multi-award-winning My 20thCentury attempts to claim back from the century of genocide the wonder of existence in a constantly changing world.Awards:1989 Cannes Film Festival / Winner: Camera d'Or - Ildikó Enyedi1989 Edinburgh International Film Festival / Winner: Jury Prize1989 Las Vegas International Film Festival / Winner: Special Jury Prize; Best Cinematography1990 Hungarian Film Week / Winner: Foreign Film Critics Award; Best Director; Best Actress; Best Cinematography1990 The New York Times '10 Best Films of the Year'Voted by critics in the Top 10 Hungarian films of all timeSpecial Features:My 20th Century (1989) - presented from a brand new HD restoration of the film by the Hungarian Digital Archive and Film Institute, supervised by director of photography Tibor Máthé and director Ildikó Enyedi.Original Hungarian soundtrack in original Mono 16-bit LPCM audioA new filmed interview with director Ildikó Enyedi, shot exclusively for this release by filmmaker Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio; The Duke of Burgundy).Booklet featuring a new essay on the film by author and academic Jonathan Owen.New and improved English subtitle translation.World premiere on Blu-ray.
Second Run The Cremator
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This brilliantly chilling film, a unique mix of Psycho, Dr Strangelove and Repulsion, is set in Prague during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. It tells the story of one Karl Kopfrkingl (Rudolf Hrušínský), a professional cremator, for whom the political climate allows free rein to his increasingly perverse and deranged impulses for the 'salvation of the world'.Now more chillingly prescient than ever, The Cremator also contains another of master-composer Zdenek Liška's brilliantly inventive film scores.Presented from a new HD transfer this region-free Blu-ray special edition includes Herz's rarely-seen 1965 debut short film The Junk Shop (Sberné surovosti), a new audio commentary by Kat Ellinger and a filmed introduction by the Quay Brothers.
Second Run El Mar La Mar
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A moving portrait of life in the US-Mexico border region, El Mar La Mar is a sensorily immersive, captivating and terrifying journey through the Sonoran Desert. The film weaves harrowing personal accounts of border crossings with the cruel rhetoric of the politicised American media, accompanied by striking footage of desert life and the remnants left behind by animals and people. Intense and mythic and utilising a rich polyphonic soundtrack to create a vivid exploration of the desert habitat, El Mar La Mar is an experience like nothing you&'ve seen, heard or felt before. Monumentally important protest art. It strives to unearth what the desert so conveniently wipes away: untold stories of sacrifice and struggle Little White Lies An unsettlingly topical portrait of the American southwest... plays more like a horror film than an exercise in journalistic nonfiction Sight and Sound One of the top 10 films of 2017... cinema and landscape come together as sites of inscription marked by an encounter between the human and nonhuman ArtForum El Mar La Mar (2017) presented from a brand new HD transfer of the film, approved by the directors Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki An exclusive newly-filmed appreciation by writer, curator and producer Gareth Evans. Trailer. 16-page booklet with a new essay by film writer Patrick Gamble. Original soundtrack in 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio & 2.0 Mono LPCM World premiere release on Blu-ray. Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C)
Second Run Black Peter
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Presented from a brand new 4K restoration of the film from original materials, Second Run presents the debut feature film of the late, great Czech filmmaker Milos Forman.Black Peter is a wonderfully wry and provocative comedy about a young man growing up in a 1960s Czech provincial town. Taking the Best Film prize at the 1964 Locarno Film Festival, this early masterpiece of the emerging Czech New Wave brought to the screen something that Czechoslovak filmgoers weren t used to an authentic testimony about the lives of young people.Forman went on to become the most successful of all his Czech contemporaries, moving to America where he had huge international hits with films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest and Amadeus works that won him Best Director Academy Awards in 1976 and 1985 respectively. Forman made many important American films, but stayed true to his Czech roots. Black Peter, along with his other early works (which include his classic 1965 film A Blonde in Love), perfectly capture the authenticity and atmosphere of life in the eastern bloc during the early 60s, and the feelings of Czech teenagers in youthful rebellion on the cusp of the Prague Spring.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:Black Peter ( erný Petr, 1964) presented from a brand new 4K restoration of the film from original materials by the Czech National Film Archive.Life As It Is: Milos Forman on his Czech films: Part one of an archival film-by-film interview, newly edited for this release with never-before-seen footage.All-new audio commentary by film historian Michael BrookeTrailerBooklet featuring new writing on the film by an author, academic and programmer Jonathan OwenNew and improved English subtitle translation.Region freeOriginal soundtrack in 2.0 Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audioWorld Premiere on Blu-ray
Second Run Mysterious Object At Noon
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The extraordinary films of Thai filmmaker and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul (BLISSFULLY YOURS, TROPICAL MALADY, SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY, Cannes Palme d'Or-winner UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES, CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR) have defined him as one of contemporary cinema's most unique voices.Apichatpong's hallucinatory debut feature MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON is an experimental documentary mix that wends its way through the landscapes and mindscapes of rural Thailand.A film crew travels from the Thai countryside to Bangkok, asking the people they encounter along the way to expand upon a story involving a wheelchair-bound young boy and his teacher. The resulting stories are later re-enacted by non-professional actors in dramatic re-creations of the freely associated narrative strokes supplied. The daisy-chain structure of interlocking vignettes is inspired by the surrealist game Exquisite Corpses, and its formal strategies are aligned with both documentary realism and the avant-garde, but this boldly original debut looks and feels like nothing else.Second Run present the film from a new 3K restoration by the Austrian Film Museum and Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation - and includes exclusive extra features.SPECIAL FEATURES• Presented from a new 3K restoration by the Austrian Film Museum and Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation.• Apichatpong Weerasethakul's short film Meteorites (Nimit, 2007)• New and exclusive filmed interview with director Apichatpong Weerasethakul.• Booklet featuring a new essay on the film by film historian and author Tony Rayns.• Original Thai soundtrack in DTS-HD master audio & 2.0 Stereo LPCM on the Blu-ray /5.1 Surround & 2.0 Stereo on the DVD.
Second Run The Shop On The High Street
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing Edmund Burke Winner of the Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Feature in 1965, Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos THE SHOP ON THE HIGH STREET is one of the cornerstones of World Cinema, and perhaps the most internationally renowned film of the Czech New Wave. Antonin Tono Brtko is a poor carpenter appointed by his Nazi brother-in-law to be 'Aryan controller' of an old Jewish widow s sewing shop in a Nazi-occupied Slovakian town in 1942. The widow, Rozalie (Yiddish theatre legend Idá Kaminská, nominated here for a Best Actress Oscar® for her performance) is near deaf, isolated and partially sighted. Barely even registering there is a war going on, she fails to fully realize the implications of the context in which she lives. Believing Tono is simply her new assistant, the two develop a tentative friendship that sees him maintaining that fiction as he attempts to protect her from the encroaching Nazi horror. Moving effortlessly from drama to humour to tragedy, THE SHOP ON THE HIGH STREET is a complex political morality tale of common lives disturbed and destroyed by war. A story of loyalty, betrayal, cowardice and heroism, it is a scathing exploration of how minor compromises can lead to complicity in the horrors of a totalitarian regime. It asks every spectator: 'If it had been you, what would you have done?' BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS The Shop on the High Street (1965) presented from a brand new HD transfer of the film Original Slovak soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio New and improved English subtitle translation Booklet featuring a new essay
