Wild Bunch has a lot to offer the forthcoming weeks. They kick off with a complete DVD-box that features BEFORE SUNRISE (1995), BEFORE SUNSET (2004) and BEFORE MIDNIGHT (2013).
Synopsis Before Sunrise:
A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.
Synopsis Before Sunset:
Nine years after Jesse and Celine first met, they encounter each other again on the French leg of Jesse's book tour.
Synopsis Before Midnight:
We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.
Other new releases on Wild Bunch:
OMAR (10-04-2014) DVD + Video on Demand
DE DEAL (24-04-2014) DVD
GLORIA (01-05-2014) DVD, Blu-ray + Video on Demand
NYMPHOMANIAC I + II (15-05-2014) 2DVD, 2Blu-ray + Video on Demand
PARKLAND (19-06-2014) DVD, Blu-ray + Video on Demand
ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (19-06-2014) DVD, Blu-ray + Video on Demand
WE ARE THE BEST! (31-07-2014) DVD + Video on Demand
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (31-07-2014) DVD + Video on Demand
Entertainment One is proud to present their releases for May 2014. Here is what you can expect:
DELIVERY MAN
Out on 7th May 2014 on both DVD and Blu-ray.
Director:Ken Scott
Stars:Vince Vaughn, Chris Pratt, Cobie Smulders
Synopsis:
An affable underachiever finds out he's fathered 533 children through anonymous donations to a fertility clinic 20 years ago. Now he must decide whether or not to come forward when 142 of them file a lawsuit to reveal his identity.
ENDER’S GAME
Out on 21st May on both DVD and Blu-ray
Director:Gavin Hood
Stars:Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld
Synopsis:
Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, a genocidal alien race which nearly annihilated the human race in a previous invasion.
VENUS IN FUR
Out on 21st May on both DVD and Blu-ray
Director:Roman Polanski
Stars:Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric
Synopsis:
An actress attempts to convince a director how she's perfect for a role in his upcoming production.
ODD THOMAS
Out on 28th May on both DVD and Blu-ray
Director:Stephen Sommers
Stars:Anton Yelchin, Addison Timlin, Leonor Varela
Synopsis:
In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.
STREETDANCE 3: ALL STARS
Out on 28th May on both DVD and Blu-ray.
Director:Ben Gregor
Stars:Theo Stevenson, Akai Osei-Mansfield, Ashley Jensen
Synopsis:
Two kids look to throw an ambitious dance show in order to save their struggling youth center.
The awesome californian diva, Gitane Demone had recorded her new album "The reflecting Shadow" in Alone Prod's studio. Produced by Alone Prod and Manic Depression, this wonderful album is now available.
Wumpscut returns with Bulwark Bazooka, the dark, seething follow up to 2013's Madman Szpital. Layered synths and samples blend with string elements and atmospheric noises to build a sinister mood over the course of the ten tracks. Chock full of Wumpscut's trademark seething malice, Bulwark Bazooka is a fine addition to the :W: catalog.
TRACKLISTING
01. Rubber Corpse
02. Furunkel Lolita
03. Cross of Iron
04. Atrocity Dancer
05. Heresy
06. Supergurl
07. Vienna
08. Pagan Crusade
09. Flesh Trench
10. Rtl Hariti
Flicker Alley, in partnership with Blackhawk Films® and Cardoza Pictures, are pleased to announce the release of a new Blu-ray/DVD collection that celebrates the passion of do-it-yourself cinema: We're in the Movies: Palace of Silents & Itinerant Filmmaking. This unique set features two documentaries never before seen on home video, When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose and Palace of Silents, as well as five bonus films from early itinerant and local filmmakers. The collection is now available for pre-order on the Flicker Alley website.
Palace of Silents: The Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles (2010)
On Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles there is a 150-seat movie theater that for over sixty-eight years has doggedly dedicated itself to the exhibition of silent films. Built in 1942 by maverick film preservationist and collector John Hampton, the theater championed silent film at the very moment when the Hollywood studios across town were busily destroying their nitrate inventories. With hard chairs, phonograph-record accompaniments, and mostly original vintage prints, the dingy mom-and-pop operation was nonetheless a palace to the fanatical few who became its loyal audience. Through the theater's tumultuous years of operation, its owners and employees have struggled to keep a cherished art form alive, often paying a heavy price in the personal tragedies that have stemmed from this struggle: obscurity, financial ruin, and even murder.
Through interviews, archival footage and detailed research, Palace of Silents reveals the touching, twisted, and bloody history of one independent theater's successful attempt to stubbornly buck every cinematic trend in the hometown of American cinema.
When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose (1983)
In the early 1980s, documentary filmmaker Stephen Schaller was instrumental in the rediscovery and restoration of The Lumberjack (1914), the oldest surviving film made in Wisconsin, and produced by a group of itinerant filmmakers who traveled from town to town making "local talent" pictures. Schaller's lovely and sometimes deeply emotional, 63-minute journal/essay film offers a look at the making of the Wausau, Wisconsin classic, including interviews with the one surviving cast member and the relatives of others who appeared in the movie. His investigation includes moving remembrances of the people and town of Wausau as it was, and even reveals the on-set accidental death of one of The Lumberjack's top cameramen. More than just a piece of local history, When You Wore a Tulip is also of interest to anyone who cares about film history and preservation. Discovering Schaller's gentle, artful movie is just as exciting as finding a lost family album.
Bonus Materials
Bonus materials for We're in the Movies include an original essay by film historian David Shepard. Additionally, this Blu-ray/DVD combo set features five early examples of the cinematic tradition of itinerant filmmaking. The Lumberjack (1914) is the oldest film shot in Wisconsin that still exists in its original, complete form. Produced by an itinerant film company out of Omaha, Nebraska and cast with Wausau, Wisconsin locals, the short, silent one-reeler tells a romantic story set against the backdrop of the city's lumber mills. Our Southern Mountaineers (1918), In the Moonshine Country (1918), and Mountain Life are a trio of shorts that document the lives of some inhabitants living in the eastern mountains of Tennessee and in the 'moonshine country' of northern Georgia and Kentucky. Also included are Huntingdon's Hero (1934), a local talent film made in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and a newly-restored, 2012 selection for the National Film Registry, Melton Barker's The Kidnappers Foil (1937), which features a local troupe of children from Corsicana, Texas enacting Barker's basic story of child abduction and escape.
All are sourced from original nitrate or preserved 35mm stock, and feature the versatile musical accompaniment of The Ragtime Skedaddlers. The local talent films are presented by courtesy of the Wisconsin Center for Theatre and Film Research, the Academy Film Archive, and the Tennessee Archive of Moving Images and Sound.
