HOLLANDS HOOP (DUTCH HOPE)

You reap what you sow
DVD and Blu-ray release on December 3, 2014
"Hollands Hoop is a highlight" - Het Parool
"Excellent TV series, the Breaking Bad from North East Groningen." - NRC Handelsblad
"A strong scenario... additionally a pleasant irony" - de Volkskrant
"Exciting and compelling, this story grabs you from the start by the throat" - VPRO Guide

The eight-part series are widely available on DVD and Blu-ray from 3 December on.

Directed by Dana Nechushtan, with Marcel Hensema, Kim van Kooten, Peter van den Begin, Martijn Lake Meier, Peter Paul Muller, and Cynthia Abma

A production of Lemming Film in co-production with VARA and VPRO NTR. The production was realized with the support of the Media Fund.

Synopsis

Fokke Augustine, a forensic psychiatrist with a dysfunctional family, stands at a crossroads in his life. When he inherited the farm from his father, he moved with his wife and children to the Groningen countryside. There appears farming a front for a criminal organization and slowly Fokke has a career as a drug dealer. 

What would you do if you have access to the full 100% of your brain capacity? It could undoubtedly hel^p us during the block period, but for the young student Lucy her studies arethe least of her worries. After contact with a new drug her brain has no limits and that delivers a truly phenomenal thriller that also was a real hit at the box office.

The ravishing Scarlett Johansson plays the title character and Oscar - winner Morgan Freeman makes an appearance in this dazzling film by Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, Leon, Taxi).

Lucy is available on Blu-ray ™, from December 6 DVD Steelbook Special Edition Combo and Video on Demand. The film is also available as a digital download.

SYNOPSIS

A student discovers that there are no limits to its intellectual development. She tries to use her brain to the limit and acquires unlimited powers.

BONUS MATERIALS

Cerebral Capacity: The True Science of Lucy
The Evolution of Lucy
Interview with Luc Besson and Prof. Yves AGID
Car Chases (Rue Rivoli)

DETAILS

Genre: Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Audio: English DD 5.1, French DD 5.1
Subtitles: French, Dutch
Running time: 85 minutes

The official release of the semi-official, legendary 1000 only vinyl from 1985, now a highly sought-after collectors piece. This album finds LAIBACH at their most powerful, orchestral and anthemic! Cold Spring released the CD version (2003, repressed 2006) and are now proud to release this gem on a stunning picture disc with new artwork, based on the traditional German ehrenscheibe style. Ltd x 1000 copies on full colour picture disc.

Tracks: A1. Vier Personen, A2. Nova Akropola, A3. Vade Retro Satanas, B1. Die Liebe, B2. Du Der Du Herausforderst, B3. Der Staat

AMOUR FOU IN CINEMAS 16th JANUARY 2015

A complex and exquisitely filmed exploration of a man's desire to find a woman willing to die with him - The Hollywood Reporter

A dryly amusing and ambiguously layered account of the famed double suicide of Heinrich von Kleist and Henriette Vogel. -Variety

Arrow Films, the distributors of The Hunt, A Hijacking and Love Is All You Need, are pleased to announce the release of the acclaimed Austrian feature, Amour Fou, which debuted in the Un Certain Regard strand at this year’s Cannes Film Festival to a host of positive reviews. Amour Fou is the follow up to director Jessica Hausner’s acclaimed 2009 picture Lourdes and will be released in UK cinemas on 16th January 2015.

Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich (Christian Friedel, White Ribbon) wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his sceptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. It is whilst coming to terms with this refusal, ineffably distressed by his cousin's insensitivity to the depth of his feelings, that Heinrich meets Henriette (Birte Schnoeink), the wife of a business acquaintance. Heinrich's subsequent offer to the beguiling young woman at first holds scant appeal that is until Henriette discovers she is suffering from a terminal illness. AMOUR FOU is a "romantic comedy" based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811.

Ken Takakura, who first rose to stardom in the 1960s playing yakuza outlaws, but later became Hollywood’s go-to actor for made-in-Japan films, died on Nov. 10 at age 83 of malignant lymphoma. A private funeral had already been held when the Japanese media broke the story today.

The legendary actor most recently starred in “Dearest” and Zhang Yimou’s “Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles.” Western audiences best know Takakura for his roles in Ridley Scott’s “Black Rain” and 1992′s “Mr. Baseball.”

Born on Feb. 16, 1931 in Fukuoka, Japan, Takakura entered the Toei studio in 1955 after graduating from Meiji University. His breakout role was as an escaped prisoner in Teruo Ishii’s 1965 hit “Abashiri Prison,” which was loosely based on Stanley Kramer’s 1958 “The Defiant Ones.” The film spawned a long-running series, while Takakura churned out hit after hit for Toei in the remainder of the decade and beyond. Usually playing stoic loners who move into action only after repeated provocations, Takakura became an iconic figure for a generation of Japanese moviegoers, much as Clint Eastwood did in Hollywood.

Takakura played a version of this character in Sydney Pollack’s 1974 “The Yakuza,” with a script co-written by yakuza movie aficionado Leonard Schrader, together with Pollack and Robert Towne. By this time, however, Japanese moviegoers had tired of Takakura’s brand of gang actioner, whose good guys followed a code of yakuza chivalry routinely disregarded by the more realistic hoods of Kinji Fukasaku’s popular 1973 “Battles without Honor and Humanity” and its sequels.

Even before leaving Toei in 1976 Takakura had begun moving away from his signature yakuza genre, playing a bankrupt-businessman-turned-extortionist in the 1975 Junya Sato thriller “The Bullet Train.” In the remainder of the 1970s and after he appeared in a succession of starring roles, including an ex-con journeying to reunite with his wife in Yoji Yamada’s 1977 hit “The Yellow Handkerchief.” Based on a story by Pete Hamill, the film was remade as a 2008 film of the same title by Udayan Prasad, with William Hurt starring in the Takakura role. Takakura also played a veteran dog handler in the 1983 Koreyoshi Kurahara smash “Antarctica,” which set a record as the highest-earning Japanese film of all-time that was only surpassed by Hayao Miyazaki’s animation “Princess Mononoke” in 1997. “Antarctica” was remade as the 2006 “Eight Below,” with Frank Marshall directing.

In 1989 Takakura appeared in “Black Rain” as a forbearing Japanese cop assigned to deal with Michael Douglas’s hot-tempered detective, who is after an escaped yakuza played by Yusaku Matsuda. He followed with a similar role as a pro baseball manager dealing with Tom Selleck’s spoiled former major leaguer in the 1992 Fred Schepisi comedy “Mr. Baseball.”

After the turn of the millennium, Takakura appeared only in a handful films, including 2005′s “Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles” and his 205th and last film, Yasuo Furuhata’s 2012 “Dearest,” playing a retired prison counselor making a journey of remembrance to the port where his deceased wife was born.

From 1959 until their divorce in 1971 Takakura was married to singer Chiemi Eri, but they had no children.

Source: Variety