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Anger Me (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
ANGER ME - DVD
Directed by Elio Gelmini
Year of production : 2006
Running Time: 72 Minutes
Language: English
The story of Kenneth Anger, avant-garde filmmaker and Author of 'Hollywood Babylon".
Kenneth Anger was a major personality of the 1960’s and 1970’s who defined himself as a “cinematographic magician” and his “cinema” as a ritualistic form.
He is particularly well-known for his films “Fireworks” (1947), “Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome” (1954), “Scorpio Rising” ((1963) and “Lucifer Rising” (1970-1981). -
Brakhage (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
BRAKHAGE - DVD
A film by Jim Shedden
Year of production : 2004
Running Time: 106 Minutes
Language: English
Country: Canada
One of the greatest artists of our time. Stan Brakhage has constantly redefined the shape of film and art.
"Brakhage. A magnificent documentary homage to experimental film master Stan Brakhage that manages to make sense of the Colorado-based filmmaker’a elusive methodology."
The Boston Phoenix" -
Brand Upon the Brain (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! - DVD
Directed by Guy Maddin
Year of production : 2006
Running Time: 90 minutes
Language: English
Country: USA
“One of the years 10 best films.” - The New York Times
While father performed mysterious experiments in the lighthouse basement, Gu and his sister lived upstairs within the family run orphanage under the all-seeing, protective gaze of mother. Years later, upon returning to his childhood home, Guy plunges into repressed memories of a bizarre series of events involving strange marks on the orphans' heads, and the brother and sister detective team sent to uncover the mystery. Narrated by Isabella Rossellini, this homage to silent cinema is a ninety-minute plunge into the vast cinematic fever dream of Winnipeg native Guy Maddin.
Special Features
- Footsteps Upon the Brain!: Foley artists on location for live performances in Berlin and Mexico City
- Brand Impressions: A behind-the-scenes look at the directorial process shot and edited by multimedia artist Peter Conheim
- Alternative Narration Tracks: Guy Maddin, Louis Negin
- Interview with Director Guy Maddin from CBC's "The Hour"
Brand Upon the Brain was shot on Super 8mm and transferred to HD for editing and mastering. The correct aspect ratio is 1.78.1 non-anamorphic. -
Cannibal Girls (Library Rights)$300.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
CANNIBAL GIRLS (BLU RAY)
Directed by Ivan Reitman
Starring Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin
Year of production : 1973/ Restored to HD 2010
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Directed by Ivan Reitman
Starring Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin
Year of production : 1973/ Restored to HD 2010
Running Time: 107 Minutes
These Girls Eat Men!
SCTV regulars EUGENE LEVY and ANDREA MARTIN star in this Canadian horror spoof as a couple on a romantic holiday who settle into a quaint little bed-and-breakfast run by a trio of flesh-eating ladies who fancy them for tomorrow’s menu.
Having collaborated on several projects together while both were students at McMaster university, director IVAN REITMAN (Ghostbusters) and producer DANIEL GOLDBERG (The Hangover) wound up creating one of the most revered Canuxploitation films of the 1970s. And to complete the experience we’ve also unearthed the infamous “WARNING BELL!” audio track which was originally added by the titan of B-Movie distributors AIP for the film’s uS theatrical run.
Filmswelike is pleased to release this High-Def BluRay edition of Ivan Reitman’s CANNIBAL GIRLS mastered from the newly restored original film elements.
Special Features:- Interviews with EUGENE LEVY, IVAN REITMAN and DANIEL GOLDBERG
• ORIENTATION (1968), a 20 minute short film directed by Ivan Reitman, starring daniel Goldberg
• Alternate audio track featuring the “WARNING BELL!”
• Original Trailer
- Interviews with EUGENE LEVY, IVAN REITMAN and DANIEL GOLDBERG
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Comic Book Confidential (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL - DVD
A film by Ron Mann
Year of production : 1988
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Language: English
Country: Canada
Comic Book Confidential is a feature-length documentary that profiles twenty-two of the most significant artists and writers working in comic books, graphic novels and strip-art in North America today.
In an entertaining and informative combination of interviews, historical footage and state-of-the-art animation techniques, Comic Book Confidential provides a positive answer to that burning existential question of the late twentieth century first posed by Zippy the Pinhead: "Are we having fun yet?"
Featuring:
Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Sue Coe, Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, Al Feldstein, Shary Flenniken, William M. Gaines, Bill Griffith, Jaime Hernadez, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Stan Lee, Paul Mavrides, Frank Miller, Victor Moscoso, Francaise Mouly, Dan O'Neill, Harvey Pekar, Gilbert Shelton, Spain, Art Spiegelman -
Dance Party USA (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
DANCE PARTY USA - DVD
2 films by Aaron Katz
In Quiet City, Katz’s deceptively simple drama that has been called “a Terrence Malick
film for the new lost generation” (The Austin Chronicle), we meet twentysomething Jamie
(Erin Fisher) as she arrives in New York to visit a friend who never shows. On an empty sub-
way platform, she crosses paths with a kindly stranger named Charlie (Cris Lankenau), and
an unlikely connection is formed over the next 24 hours through city parks, abandoned
apartments, and art galleries in the heart of industrial Brooklyn.
Then in his impressionistic and tenderly heartbreaking debut, Dance Party, USA—
hailed as “one of the best films of the year” (The New York Sun)—apathetic teens Jes-
sica (Anna Kavan) and Gus (Cole Pennsinger) share a fleeting moment at a Fourth of July
party in Portland, but their relationship grows closer and more complex after Gus confronts
her with a troubling secret.
2-DISC DVD SET
DISC 1: QUIET CITY
•Director Commentary, with contributions from producers Ben Stambler and Brendan McFadden,
and cinematographer Andrew Reed
•Cast Commentary, with Erin Fisher and Cris Lankenau
•Joe Swanberg’s Quiet City: a short-film prank by the director of LOL
•The Music of Quiet City: clips and interview with composer Keegan Dewitt
•Footage from the NYC Premiere of Quiet City
•Quiet City trailer
DISC 2: DANCE PARTY, USA
•Director Commentary, with contributions from producers Brendan McFadden and Marc Ripper
•Cast Commentary with Anna Kavan, Cole Pennsinger, Ryan White, Brendan McFadden and
director Aaron Katz
•Alternative and Extended Scenes, with commentary by Aaron Katz and editor Zach Clark
•The Lunch Hour, an early short film by Aaron Katz, with commentary by Katz and star/compos-
er Keegan Dewitt
2-DISC DVD SET
“Beautiful! A fully realized work of mumblecore poetry.”
-Stephen Holden, THE NEW YORK TIMES
Quiet City (2007): 78 minutes, Color, Stereo, Optional English Subtitles, Anamorphic 1.78:1
Dance Party, USA (2006): 65 minutes, Color, Stereo, Optional English Subtitles, 1.85:1 -
DIG (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
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DIG! - DVD
Directed by Ondi Timoner
Year of production : 2003
Running Time: 105 Minutes
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by Ondi Timoner
DIG! is the feature-length documentary shot over seven years about musicians Anton Newcombe, leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Courtney Taylor, head of The Dandy Warhols – star-crossed friends and bitter rivals.
From the moment they met, The Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre quickly bonded over a desire to not conform to the tastes of the recording industry. Yet the bands’ choices over how to express their creativity and originality in a profit-driven industry eventually put them at irreconcilable odds.
Culled from 1,500 hours of footage and narrated by Courtney Taylor, DIG! follows the underground giant Anton Newcombe, unearthing him to be an important yet largely unnoticed artist of our time.
In 1996, Anton Newcombe and his band, Brian Jonestown Massacre - who in a decade independently released 11 albums, three recorded in one year – are hell-bent on staging a revolution in the music industry. They are convinced their friends, The Dandy Warhols, will join them to create a united front. But Anton’s creative psychosis takes him to the most remote areas of the human mind to find his original art, and as a result, he destroys every opportunity for financial success.
While tracking the destructive path of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, DIG! also accompanies the more ‘well-adjusted’ Warhols, lead by Courtney Taylor, as they navigate the corporate sea, trying to maintain their creative edge while starring in mega-budget music videos and entertaining crowds in the tens of thousands.
DIG! is about both musicians’ love and obsession, gigs and recordings, arrests and death threats, uppers and downers - their choices between art and industry. -
Dream Tower (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
DREAM TOWER - DVD
A film by Ron Mann
Year of production : 1994
Running Time: 47 Minutes
Language: English
Country: Canada
With artists and educators jousting for position with motorcycle gangs and dealers in the same high-rise, Rochdale became a focal point for the best and worst dreams of the Canadian generation of baby boomers.
Ron Mann, the acclaimed director of such pop culture documentaries as Twist and Comic Book Confidential has brought an ironic sensibility to the convoluted and colourful story of Rochdale. Set to the rock 'n roll that fuelled the hearts of a generation, and featuring fascinating archival material from the '60's--with narration by Paul Evitts, Rochdale's first student.
Dream Tower depicts the delirious construction and deconstruction of a building that harboured some of the freest spirits in Canada. -
Driver X 4: The Lost and Found Films of Sara Driver (Library Rights)$250.00DVD box Set (2x DVD)
A Collection of Films by SARA DRIVER
Language: English
Special Feature: Stummer, a vivid document of Joe Strummer composing and recording the musical soundtrack of "When Pigs Fly" in a studio in Rockfield, Wales with Sara Drive and Jim Jarmusch in attendance.
Estimated date of shipping: April 20, 2012
SLEEPWALK
75 min / 1986 / Colour / 1.85:1 / Mono / English
Shot in the summer of 1985 on location in New York City - 35mm / Colour / 78 min
Sleepwalk is the story of a computer typesetter who is given a manuscript of mysterious Chinese fairy tales to translate and transcribe. Slowly these tales begin to echo themselves in her life and the lives of the people around her and where the magic ends, coincidence takes over. Sleepwalk has the logic and landscape of a dream. An open-ended fairy tale set in the margins of an imaginary New York.
YOU ARE NOT I
48 min / 1981 / B/W / 1.33:1 (4x3) / Mono / English
You Are Not I is a short story by Paul Bowles from his Collected Stories 1939-1976. It is the story of a young woman, Ethel, who escapes from a mental hospital during the chaos of a nearby multiple-car accident. A rescue volunteer that finds her trying to place a stone in a dead woman’s mouth mistakes her for a shock victim. The volunteer drives her to her sister’ house. The sister is confused and angered by the sudden arrival of the psychotic Ethel. Not wishing to be alone in the house with her, the sister brings two neighbor women over. Finally the sister calls the hospital and finds out that Ethel “wasn’t released at all but somehow got out.” They nervously await the attendants from the hospital while Ethel, refusing to speak, formulates a plan to stay in the house. The women are terrified of her and appear relieved when the attendants arrive. As the men are ushering Ethel out, she takes one of the stones out of her pocket and pushes it into her sister’s mouth. The screen goes black. As it clears, the sister is being taken away while Ethel remains in the house: “For a moment I couldn’t see very clearly, but even during that moment I saw myself sitting on the sofa. As my vision cleared I saw that the men were holding my sister’s arms and she was putting up a terrific struggle. The strange thing, now that I think of it, was that no realized she was not I.”
WHEN PIGS FLY
94 min / 1993 / Colour / 1.85:1 / Stereo / English
When Pigs Fly is a film about a pair of ghosts, a jazz musician, a go-go dancer and a guy who gets what’s coming to him.
Set in a grim industrial town in a fading Irish American community, the film is in the tradition of Topper and the Canterville Ghost.
Two Ghosts, Lilly (Marianne Faithfull) and Ruthie (Rachel Bella), have been imprisoned for many years in rickety shed behind a seedy bar, the Rose of Erin. They are supernaturally connected to an old rocking chair stored there in which both had met their untimely deaths. Lilly was the wife of Frank (Seymour Cassel), the foul-tempered owner of the Rose of Erin. Ruthie is the ghost of a little girl from long ago.
Sheila (Maggie O’Neill), a go-go dancer in the Rose of Erin, acquires the rocking chair. She takes it home and leaves it a present for her landlord, Marty (Alfred Molina), a jazz musician in his early forties who lives with his dog, Dolphy, downstairs from her. Marty keeps to himself, he is out of place and out of time in the small community. The only contact he has with people are the few piano students he teaches to earn a living and a bewildered grey haired lady, Mrs. Cleary, from next door. Needless to say, he is perpetually “out to lunch” and hung-over until Lilly and Ruthie show up with the rocker and raise hell in his basement.
Marty and Sheila befriend the ghosts and ultimately, they become instruments of revenge for Lilly in the unfolding plot to get back at her jealous murdering husband, Frank. In the end Lilly gets her revenge. She and Ruthie are happily reunited with Lilly’s only daughter. Marty wakes up to the world and to Sheila.
THE BOWERY
10 min / 1994 / Colour / 1.33 :1 (4x3) / Mono / English
A short ten-minute movie about the Bowery, a street in lower Manhattan. A street known for its derelict past.
A Videotape by Sara Driver -
Four Eyed Monsters (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
FOUR EYED MONSTERS - DVD
Directed by Susan Buice & Arin Crumley
Year of production : 2005
Film Running Time: 71 Minutes
Total Running Time: 171 Minutes
Language: English
Country: USA
*DVD & CD Combo Collector's Edition
FOUR EYED MONSTERS tells the true story of how Susan and Arin met online, how Arin stalked her at her work, and then how they ended up dating but with a rule to never speak in person.
There lives and minds begin to meld and their fantasies and fears manifest as they become a living breathing Four Eyed Monster.
Content:
- Four Eyed Monsters Feature Film
- Episodes 1-8
(Original episodes that put the relationship on a global stage
- Episodes 9-13
Five new highly-anticipated episodes exposed the deteriorating relationship and provide the conclusion to the relationship and project.
- Exclusive CD Soundtrack
Music from the project including The Spinto Band, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Paper Jones, Apes and Androids and more...
- Exclusive Bonus
Filmmaker and Audience Video Blogs documenting the film's journey from a small apartment in Brooklyn to theatres all over the world. -
Grass (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
GRASS - DVD
A film by Ron Mann
Featuring Woody Harrelson
Year of production: 1999
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Language: English
Country: Canada
Years in the making...
Ron Mann's much-anticipated documentary presents a humorous and surprisingly balanced history of recreational MARIJUANA use in the late 20th century.
Those who remain pure will see the degradation you've been missing. Those who have succumbed to temptation will learn how a nice person like yourself became a dangerous criminal.
Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the twentieth century. Smoked by generations of musicians, students and workers to little discernible ill effect, it continues to be reviled by the vast majority of governments around the world. With his new film, Grass, veteran filmer Ron Mann brings his impeccable historical facility and story telling skills to recount how a relatively harmless drug has been demonized for decades.
With a rueful yet incisive script, deft editing and an impressive
soundtrack featuring original songs by Mark Mothersbaugh and a veritable pot-pourri of tunes ranging from the Swing Era's "Reefer Man" through Dylan's "Rainy Day Women" to the hippie lament "One Toke Over The Line," Ron Mann's Grass boasts extraordinary production values. Funny yet political, Grass charts the terrible loss in imprisoned lives and billions of dollars wasted fighting a drug that refuses to go away. -
Go Further (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
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GO FURTHER - DVD
A film by Ron Mann
Year of production: 2003
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Language: English
Country: Canada
“GO FURTHER”, explores the idea that the single individual is the key to large-scale transformational change.
The film follows actor Woody Harrelson as he takes a small group of friends on a bio-fuelled bus-ride down the Pacific Coast Highway. Their goal? To show the people they encounter that there are viable alternatives to our habitual, environmentally-destructive behaviors.
The travellers include a yoga-teacher, a raw food chef, a hemp-activist, a junk-food addict, and a college student who suspends her life to impulsively hop aboard. We see the hostility these pilgrims encounter, and watch as their ideas are challenged from within and without.
We meet an entrepreneur who runs a paper company that does not harm trees; an organic farmer who believes Nature is his partner; a man who teaches environmental activists to use humor as a strategic weapon. And throughout, we see Harrelson test his belief that the transformation of our planet begins with the small personal transformations that are within the grasp of each and every one of us, after which… we’ll go further. -
Greendale (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
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GREENDALE - DVD
A Neil Young Film
Directed by Bernard Shakey
Year of production : 2003
Running Time: 87 Minutes
Language: English
In essence, Greendale is a tale of collective awakening told through ten interlinking songs performed by Young and his longtime amigos Crazy Horse, who never appear in the film, but Neil’s distinctive voice is heard singing the story as well as the dialogue of his lip-synching actors.
It opens on the front porch of the Green family farmhouse, where Grandpa and cousin Jed are reading the morning paper and chatting, as Young begins to reveal his Greendale - "a little love and affection in everything you do – makes the world a better place.” As the story unfolds, a policeman is gunned down and Jed is taken to the jailhouse. A family and a town grieve. Grandpa fatally confronts the media’s intrusive onslaught in times of human misery.
Coming Up 3The old man’s granddaughter, Sun Green, moved by Grandpa’s idealism, becomes an activist on the day of his passing – first taking on the energy conglomerate Powerco, then heading off to Alaska to apply her passion to help save the wilderness. The film ends with an inspired, kick-ass performance of a rockin’ humanist anthem that urges us towards the vision: “Save the planet for another day… Be the river as it moves along… Be the Rain.”
In his review of the concert, Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune notes that Greendale is “…stuffed with ideas, in many ways a summation of everything Young has stood for in his fascinating career: the nurturing strength of family, respect for elders, the sacredness of nature and youth, the corrupt invasiveness of political and economic institutions, and the power of a really loud guitar to cut through all the distraction.
Technical Specifications:
• Encoding: All Regions
• Format: Color, Widescreen, DTS Surround Sound
• Aspect Ratio(s): 1.85:1
• Audio Encoding: DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
• Rated: NR
• Studio: Sanctuary
• DVD Release Date: July 27, 2004
• Run Time: 86
DVD Features:
• Available Audio Tracks: English (DTS), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Region 0 (NTSC format)
• Making of Greendale
• Family tree
• Characters
• Extra performance -
Guatemalan Handshake (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
THE GUATEMALAN HANDSHAKE - DVD
A film by Todd Rohal
Featuring: Cory McAbee, Ken Byrnes, Katy Haywood, Richard Schreiber
Year of production : 2005
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Language: English
Tech Specs: Color, Dolby Digital 5.1/2.0, In English w/optional subtitles, Anamorphic 2.35:1
“One of the coolest and most original indies of the last year.” - Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine
In the confusion following a massive power outage, an awkward demolition derby driver vanishes, setting in motion a series of events affecting his pregnant girlfriend, his helplessly car-less father, a pack of wild boy scouts, a lactose intolerant roller rink employee, an elderly woman in search of her lost dog, and his best friend – a ten-year-old girl named Turkeylegs.
Pieces of the mystery begin to come together as Turkeylegs sets out to find her missing friend. Cars drive circles in the dirt, a woman attends her own funeral, the sun rises sideways and an orange vehicle trades hands again and again. Everything eventually culminates in a massive demolition derby that throws all of the characters into different directions. -
The Horse Boy (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
THE HORSE BOY - DVD
A film by Michel O. Scott
Year of production : 2009
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Language: English
Tech Specs: 1:1:85 Aspect Ratio/ Colour/ English/ Stereo/ 16:9 Anamorphic Transfer Enhanced for Widescreen TVs
How far would you travel to heal someone you love? An intensely personal yet epic spiritual journey, The Horse Boy follows one Texas couple and their autistic son as they trek on horseback through Outer Mongolia in a desperate attempt to treat his condition with shamanic healing. When two-year-old Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson, a writer and former horse trainer, and his wife Kristin Neff, a psychology professor, sought the best possible medical care for their son—but traditional therapies had little effect. Then they discovered that Rowan has a profound affinity for animals—particularly horses—and the family set off on a quest for a possible cure….
The Horse Boy is part travel adventure, part insight into shamanic tradition and part intimate look at the autistic mind. In telling one family’s extraordinary story, the film gives voice to the thousands who display amazing courage and creativity everyday in the battle against this mysterious and heartbreaking epidemic. The filmic companion to Isaacson’s best-selling book of the same name and a festival favourite, this ravishing documentary odyssey gives insight into how, in life’s darkest moments, one can find the gateway to joy and wonder. -
Imagine the Sound (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
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IMAGINE THE SOUND - DVD
A film by Ron Mann
Year of production: 1981/ 2007
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Language: English
Country: Canada
IMAGINE THE SOUND brings together interviews and performance, the prime innovators of the once controversial free jazz movement of the 60s.
The first feature documentary by Ron Mann (GRASS, COMICBOOK CONFIDENTIAL) is an eloquent tribute to a group of highly celebrated artists that helped forge the avant-garde jazz of the 1960s.
Critic and film historian Jonathan Rosenbaum has said IMAGINE THE SOUND “may be the best documentary on free jazz that we have.”
The film features articulate interviews and dramatic performances by pianists Cecil Taylor and Paul Bley,
tenor saxophone Archie Shepp, and trumpet player Bill Dixon.
Not since Scorsese’s The Last Waltz has a music documentary been so thorough and compatible with its subject. Alongside the dynamic performances, the fi lm captures the diverse history and politicized roots of this unique musical genre.
IMAGINE THE SOUND is an important chapter in the history of the jazz documentary. -
Incident at Loch Ness (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
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INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS - DVD
A film by Zac Penn
Featuring: Werner Herzog
Year of production : 2004
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Language: English
In the Summer of 2003, acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog set out to make a documentary about Scotland's infamous Loch Ness, purported home of a prehistoric creature known as "Nessie." Herzog's stated intent was "to explore the origin and the necessity of the monster" rather than to look for the creature itself. The film was to be called "Enigma of Loch Ness."
At the time Herzog began production, noted cinematographer and filmmaker John Bailey was already directing a documentary about him, tentatively called "Herzog in Wonderland." This would not be the first time that Herzog would be profiled while making a film, but it would perhaps be the last.
What neither Bailey nor Herzog could have predicted is that “Enigma of Loch Ness” would never be completed. The chaos that had followed Herzog on his other epic quests would follow him to Loch Ness. The production ground to a halt after a boating accident just weeks into shooting. Charge of mismanagement, and even criminally negligent behavior, were leveled in multiple directions. For the first time in his career, Herzog would shut a film down for good.
In the fall of 2003, the unfinished "Enigma of Loch Ness" was combined with the footage John Bailey had shot for "Herzog in Wonderland." The resulting film, “Incident at Loch Ness,” was completed by editors Howard Smith and Abby Shwarzwalder, but due to numerous pending lawsuits, the credits for that film remain undecided.
In the ensuing legal fracas, a series of startling film clips made their way onto the internet. The footage was purported to be the clearest ever taken of the elusive monster, but it was accompanied by claims of a hoax. The answer as to the origin and validity of these clips remain unclear.
Incident at Loch Ness chronicles the story of the making (and unmaking) of Herzog's film, as well as the aftermath of that fateful effort. Shocking, controversial, and strangely humorous, the film raises many questions about where reality ends and fiction begins. It is also the portrait of a great adventurer on his most bizarre and tragic quest. -
In Stereovision (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
BLUE RODEO: IN STEREOVISION - DVD
A film by Ron Mann
Year of production : 2004
Running Time: 106 Minutes
Language: English
Country: Canada
IN STEREOVISION WINS THE 2005 JUNO AWARD FOR "MUSIC DVD OF THE YEAR"!
The DVD also goes triple platinum in Canada!!!
Blue Rodeo releases their first-ever DVD to celebrate their 20th anniversary as a band!
Ron's DVD celebrating 20 years of Blue Rodeo is now available. Featuring a reunion concert with the original 5 members i.e. Jim Cuddy, Greg Keelor, Bazil Donovan, Bob Wiseman and Cleave Anderson!
Directed by renowned Canadian filmmaker, Ron Mann, it features a reunion concert with the original 5 members i.e. Jim Cuddy, Greg Keelor, Bazil Donovan, Bob Wiseman and Cleave Anderson!
The DVD also includes twelve historic performances; an appreciation written by Paul Quarrington; two brand new songs; and even burning Snowmen!
Special Features & Track-listing:
Sweet Soul Music
An appreciation of Blue Rodeo by Paul Quarrington.
Burning Snowman
A party and then some. Featuring two new songs, Rena and Up On That Cloud.
The Original Five
The party continues with Blue Rodeo's Original Five band members (+ a special guest) playing: Heart Like Mine, Try, Diamond Mine, Love and Understanding, and Til I Am Myself Again. -
In the Moment (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
IN THE MOMENT - DVD
Directed by Sandra Chwialkowska
Year of production : 2008
Running Time: 83 Minutes
Language: English
Country: Canada
IN THE MOMENT follows six high school improv teams on their journey to compete for the gold at the Canadian Improv Games.
Told from the candid perspectives of the kids themselves, at practices and team sleepovers, the film captures what it's like to be a teenager today. Though the focus of the film is improv, the National Tournament becomes a dramatic backdrop for the bigger story about modern kids and their families.
Special Features:
DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Special Features: Deleted Scenes, Outtakes, Theatrical Trailer, Commentary -
Jandek on Corwood (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
JANDEK ON CORWOOD
A film by Chad Freidrichs
Year of production : 2003
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Language: English
Country: USA
"The longest-running, weirdest, loneliest enigma in popular music is a guy from Texas who calls himself Jandek."
So begins a 1997 Boston Phoenix article by Douglas Wolk. From the bluesy, atonal music and haunting lyrics, to the artist's steadfast seclusion and sheer longevity, everything about this man intrigues. Twenty-five years, 34 albums, and not a single live show or public appearance. Even the simple detail of the man's real name is a mystery.
Coming Up 3Jandek on Corwood is the 88-minute documentary that explores this man, his world and his music. Jandek released his first album, Ready for the House, in 1978 on his own record label, Corwood Industries (he is, of course, the only artist on this label). The release went relatively overlooked until a review by Phil Milstein appeared in Op magazine in 1980. Bolstered by that slight measure of notice, Jandek set about releasing at least one album per year over the next quarter century of his unique brand of cacophonous rock and suicide-note blues.
Slowly, word of Jandek spread, primarily through college radio stations and obscure fanzines.
In 1985, writer John Trubee was approached by the executive editor of a fledgling music magazine called Spin to submit an article about the artist of his choice. He immediately thought of Jandek, because "he's underground; nobody knew about him; he was doing things on a shoestring." This article spawned the only interview with the man behind the Jandek music and the Corwood Industries record label in which he speaks about the project. All subsequent attempts to glean any information on the subject have been respectfully declined.
Coming Up 3Jandek's music is difficult to describe. "I usually tell people that it's someone who has a completely untuned guitar and is just sort of meandering and yelling over it," says Angela Sawyer of Twisted Village Records in Cambridge Massachusetts. "That wouldn't tell a person who has a bunch of Jandek records what it sounds like but for someone who has a bunch of Toni Braxton records or some U2 records, that will help them out." Reviewers have an equally troubling time describing what a Jandek song sounds like. An Option magazine article refers to his "anguished, moaning, impassioned vocals." A mention in a 1998 book compares his guitar playing to "a deathbed Neil Young."
Certain words stick out in the multitude of reviews and articles that have appeared in various publications, like "spooky," "honest," and "wispy." Yet none can really capture the distinctiveness of Jandek's sound.
However, more attractive than the unique music is the impenetrable mystery. Who is this man who has persisted all this time, putting out at least an album a year, which 99% of the public will never hear? He refuses to promote his albums through live shows or interviews, and yet for years advertised in independent music publications such as Op magazine. Of course, his ads were as sparse and aloof as the man and his music. A white box with black type stating only "Jandek on Corwood; PO Box 15375, Houston, TX 77220." No graphics, no color, no information other than the artist's name, the label and the address.
Coming Up 3What is Corwood Industries? "Corwood Industries is an industrial giant in the Houston area dedicated entirely to manufacturing and disseminating Jandek musical material," muses writer Byron Coley. The only tangible evidence of the company is a post-office box. This ambiguity about the label raises the question of how the Jandek albums are financed. It is a safe assumption that he is not making a profit on the sales of these albums. Even if the only cost he has is the pressing of the records (or, since 1992, the CD's), which he has done at a small family-owned company called Houston Records, he gives away to radio stations, record stores, and music critics far more than he actually sells.
Nothing has garnered more speculation, however, than the appearance of other musicians on the albums. Before the fourth album, released in 1982, Jandek fans had grown accustomed to his music as a solitary endeavor. "I remember hearing about it much more than actually hearing it," reflects Sawyer. "I was much more interested in the idea there was this reclusive guy writing these songs that made no sense." And then suddenly, he has friends-or at least associates. When Coley first encountered the song title "Nancy Sings" on Jandek's fourth album, he initially thought, "It could be anything. It could be a song about Nancy singing. And then when you get there and it's actually a woman singing and you grab the album your looking at and it says 'Nancy Sings,' so you're like, 'I guess it's Nancy.". The same lyrics are used once again on the cut "John Plays Drums" when Jandek is joined by, you guessed it, a drummer. "I remember when I first heard the drums and how shocking that was because cumulatively you get the image of this guy alone in his room" reflects Milstein. The identities of the individuals are not revealed by any credits or liner notes with the albums (it should be pointed out that Jandek albums never contain any sort of credits or liner notes). Where did he meet these people? Who are they? John Trubee posed these questions to him in that infamous 1985 interview. He got no response.
Not only does the documentary Jandek on Corwood lay out these intriguing facts for its audience, it also explores their implications. How much does the mystery play into fans' appreciation of the music?
Why do fans from diverse backgrounds come to similar conclusions about Jandek's biography despite the lack of any biographical information in which to ground these convictions? How much can we infer about the man behind the music from odd style and tone of his art? How much, for that matter, about any artist? How much of each fan's image of Jandek is simply a reflection of him or herself?
One of the biggest questions that remain (besides the identity of the artist) is how the Jandek story will end. Music critic Douglas Wolk has been fooled three times about the end of Jandek. "He always sounds like he's about to sign off" Wolk reflects, "and then he never does quite. And then there's always another [album] that comes after it." Most Jandek fans hope he will keep releasing about an album a year forever. Perhaps not the most realistic prediction, but they just can't imagine the man behind the mystery putting a stop to it. Likewise, they can't imagine ever knowing the whole truth about this man, his life and his music.
As the man at Corwood Industries wrote to Jandek on Corwood's producers when they began the documentary, "You may not get all the answers you want. It's better that way."
SPECIAL FEATURES:
• Region-free NTSC, 16:9 Color, Stereo
• Audio Commentary by Director Chad Freidrichs & Producer Paul Fehler
• Music-only audio track
• Album cover featurette (approx. 20 min.): A Guided Tour of Jandek’s World
• Complete John Trubee interview (approx. 50 min.)
• Audio essay by music critic Douglas Wolk
• Selections from Jandek’s albums since Jandek on Corwood
• Extended audio interviews with Jandek scholars Byron Coley, Irwin Chusid & Phil Milstein
• Articles by Katy Vine & Richie Unterberger
• Reviews from Op Magazine
• Trailer
• Scene Selection -
Jerichow (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
JERICHOW - DVD
Directed by Christian Petzold
Starring: Benno Fürmann, Nina Hoss, Hilmi Sözer
Year of production : 2008
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Language: English
Country: Germany (In German with English Subtitles)Off the beaten path of life, three people stumble into a fateful encounter. Thomas, young and strong, as been dishonorably discharged from the army. Ali, an affable Turkish businessman, has seen some hard times, but now his primary concern is making sure the employees of his snack-bars don’t cheat on him. Laura, an attractive woman with a dark past, seems to find refuge in the shadows of her marriage to Ali.
Thomas, Ali, and Laura keep an eye on each other and keep their secrets to themselves. This love-triangle is a classic cinematic constellation but with a daring new interpretation: Caught between guilt and freedom, between passion and reason, there are wishes whose fulfillment can only mean escape. -
Joe Kidd on a Stingray (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
JOE KIDD ON A STINGRAY - DVD
Directed by John Swarr & Mark Eaton
Year of production : 2005
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Language: English
BMX is an acronym for Bicycle Motocross. This film documents the evolution of a sport created by kids who [in the 1970’s] began modifying their Schwinn Sting-Ray bicycles to look like motorcycles. This documentary is the first film to take a serious look at the history and evolution of BMX bicycle riding, from the streets of 1960s suburban neighborhoods to today's stadium-packed televised Dirt, Street & Halfpipe insanity.
The sport of BMX is driven by individual riders. BMX is not made by corporations; instead corporations base their advertising on the lifestyles of these riders. This film captures the kind of stories that cannot come from a marketing strategy, coaches or statistics buffs - but rather from the individual guys who turned common street bikes into instruments of grace, strength and personal
expression. The individuals who started races and freestyle contests themselves. It is the individualism and self-expression of these riders that makes the sport's history, and this film, so unique.
With people like Scot Breithaupt who started the first organized races in Long Beach in 1970, to Bob Haro, who pioneered BMX Freestyle riding, and created the first BMX freestyle bike, to Mat Hoffman, who’s personal sacrifices helped propel BMX stunt riding into the spotlight. These are some of the people who helped make BMX such a unique subculture.
Joe Kid on a Stingray –The History of BMX allows everyone from veteran Pro BMXers to modern day kids, a chance to relive these important moments and stories explained by the sport’s most influential riders so that they understand what really happened in the evolution of BMX.
The directors have assembled a 30yr timeline packed with rare archival footage and interesting interviews to create a film which explores the history, trends, stars, and current direction of BMX stunt riding and racing.
Joe Kid on a Sting-Ray delivers a historical perspective to the sport of BMX, but brings it to you in such a way that makes you feel like you were there. While in the midst of production, John and Mark began to wonder who would best represent what they considered a boldly individual and hardcore sport as narrator of the film. The only person that is currently in the spotlight that made sense was former BMX racer, Jesse James of Monster Garage. He embodies what BMX is all about and actually lived the BMX lifestyle. Fortunately former Freestyle BMX’er, Rockabilly Jay works at West Coast Choppers and he helped make it happen. John and Mark sent a trailer of the film to Jesse and when John called Jesse soon after, he wanted in. He not only wanted to narrate, but he became Executive Producer.
Special features:
* Bonus old school footage
* Special outtake interviews / cool stories
* Old school promotional film
* Full length Gold Cup BMX race from the 70's
* FUEL TV's Blue carpet Hollywood premiere
* Scene selections
Starring Legends:
* Brian Blyther
* Mike Buff
* Mike Dominguez
* Eddie Fiola
* Hugo Gonzales
* Bob Haro
* Mat Hoffman
* Woody Itson
* Kevin Jones
* Tinker Juarez
* Harry Leary
* Dennis McCoy
* Dave Mirra
* Ryan Nyquist
* RL Osborn
* John Purse
* Eric Rupe
* Dave Voelker
* Ron Wilkerson
* And many more.....
* Narrated by Jesse James -
Kenny (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
KENNY - DVD
A Jacobson Bros. film
Year of production : 2006
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Language: English
From the biggest festival to the smallest church social, Kenny Smyth delivers porta-loos to them all. Ignored and unappreciated, he is one of the cogs in society's machinery; a knight in shining overalls taking care of business with his faithful 'Splashdown' crew.
Follow Kenny as he tackles every septic challenge that comes his way, culminating in a pilgrimage to that Mecca of waste management, the International Pumper and Cleaner Expo in Nashville Tennessee - or as Kenny affectionately calls it, "Poo HQ".
With fly-on-the-wall honesty and wit, 'KENNY' lifts the lid on one of Australia's roughest diamonds as he juggles family tensions, fatherhood and sewage with charm, humour and unflinching dignity.
"It takes a certain kind of person to do what I do... No-one's ever impressed; no-one's ever fascinated... If you're a fireman, all the kids will want to jump on the back of the truck and follow you to a fire. There's going to be no kids willing to do that with me. So, I don't do it to impress people - it's a job, it's my trade, and I actually think I’m pretty good at it." - Kenny Smyth
Part philosopher, part comedian and all heart, KENNY is living proof that in sewage, like life, the best will always rise to the top. -
King of Prussia (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
IN THE KING OF PRUSSIA - VHS
A film by Emile de Antonio
Runtime: 103 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Mono
Synopsis: From French colonialism and rickshaws to the Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien Phu. And then, the origins and nature of the U.S. commitment from the end of WWII through the offensive of 1968. History, death, battle, ideas as only film can do it, a conspicuous example. -
Know Your Mushrooms (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS - DVD
A film by Ron Mann
Year of production: 2009
Running Time: 73 Minutes
Language: English
Country: Canada
KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS follows uber myco visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi.
Combining material filmed at the Telluride Mushroom Fest with animation and archival footage along with a neo-psychedelic soundtrack by the Flaming Lips, KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS opens the doors to perception, takes the audience on a longer, stranger trip and delivers them to a brave new world where the fungi might well guide humanity to a saner, safer place… with extra cheese…
CONSUMER WARNING: Don’t Go Into The Forest Without This Movie! -
LOL (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
LOL! - DVD
A film by Joe Swanberg
Year of production : 2007
Running Time: 81 Minutes
Language: English
Tech Specs: 2006/ USA/ Color/ Dolby Stereo/1.33:1 aspect ratio/In English, with optional subtitles/NTSC Region All
"The inability to connect in a hyper-wired world is old news given fresh voice in this tragicomic indie about the way we live." - Nathan Lee, The New York TImes
From acclaimed auteur Joe Swanberg (Hannah Takes the Stairs, Kissing on the Mouth), the SXSW Film Festival favorite LOL is a raw, witty and painfully intimate look at modern sexuality and the technology that either helps us click or turns us off.
Alex, Tim, and Chris view the women in their lives through the dimensions of a computer screen or the lens of a camera-phone, as they struggle to balance their online fantasies and addictions with the demands of real life.
Featuring a nonprofessional cast, video contributions from people all over the world, and original music by lead actor Kevin Bewersdorf, this funny and thoughtful film offers an honest portrait of how the latest tools of communication can either help us click or turn us off.
BONUS FEATURES
• Director Commentary, with contributions from Kevin Bewersdorf and C. Mason Wells transfer
• Cast Commentary with Joe Swanberg, Kevin Bewersdorf, C. Mason Wells, Greta Gerwig, and Tipper Newton
• Hissy Fits: a short film made as a test for LOL
• Kevin-Casts: video podcasts documenting the making of LOL
• Complete "Noisehead" Videos
• The Artwork of LOL
• Tipper Newton Casting Interview
• Additional Kevin Bewersdorf performance footage
• PLUS: "It's Not You, It's MySpace," a new essay -
Mana - Beyond Belief (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
MANA - BEYOND BELIEF: DVD
A film by Peter Friedman & Roger Manley
Year of production : 2004
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Language: English
Country: USA
All over the world, in every society, there are objects that have special power over people. People climb mountains or make pilgrimages just to see or touch them. They prostrate themselves or engage in rituals in their presence, caress them in the hopes of absorbing some of their magic, they enshrine them in temples or pass them on to descendants; wear them or store them in treasure houses or sometimes burn them. An individual object might hold power over only one group or even just one person, but the phenomenon of "power objects" is universal.
The central idea behind the new motion picture "MANA-beyond belief" is that the way people behave in the presence of these power objects reveals a process of the human mind which is fundamental and universal: belief. By filming power objects around the world-things that are precious because people believe they are-and revealing the myriad activities and behaviors that take place around them, this new feature film presents an exciting new way of looking at what is happening all around us, all the time. Belief is not just religion; it drives the stock market, it determines how we deal with history and our personal memories, it underlies racism and war. Bringing together diverse cultures, characters, visual styles, music and fascinating objects, MANA helps us see the essential, invisible element underlying them all.
Mana is the Polynesian word for the power that resides in things. Appropriately, a Maori priest filmed in a New Zealand rainforest sets the stage for an odyssey which takes us from the Arizona deserts through Asia, Africa and Europe and finally to a real-life time machine-with stops along the way at nuclear reactors, art museums, Burmese temples, Elvisland, relic smugglers, voodoo ceremonies and the halls of Congress. Shot in crisp, state-of-the-art High Definition video transferred to 35mm, "MANA-beyond belief" is an adventure, both across the globe and into the human mind. -
Mr Hoover and I (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
MR. HOOVER AND I
A film by Emile de Antonio
Year: 1989
Runtime: 86 min
Country: UK / USA
Language: English
Color: Color (DuArt) / Black and White
Sound Mix: Mono
Synopsis: Pursued by the FBI since a child, de Antonio reflects on his life as a radical filmmaker documenting art and politics during the cold war years. -
My Dinner with Jimi (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
MY DINNER WITH JIMI - DVD
A film by Bill Fishman
Written by Howard Kaylan
Produced by: Harold Bronson
Year of production : 2003
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Language: English
Country: USA
This is the story of Howard Kaylan and his band, The Turtles, as they explore the worlds of sex, drugs and rock and roll in the 1960's. Along the way, Howard meets Jim Morrison, Frank Zappa, Brian Jones, Mama Cass and a host of other pop luminaries; finds new and hilarious ways to avoid the Draft Board and, ultimately, ventures to swinging London to take on The Beatles and site through an amazing late-night repast with the legendary Jimi Hendrix himself. The colorful conclusion will never be erased from your memory. This film embodies the true spirit of sixties rock and the Summer of Love.
Special Features
- Audio Commentary with writer Howard Kaylan ad producer Harold Bronson
- The Turtles in London: documentary interviews
- Turtles Discography
- Theatrical Trailer -
Of Time and the City (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
OF TIME AND THE CITY - DVD
Directed by Terence Davies
Year of production : 2009
Running Time: 74 Minutes
Language: English
Country: UK
OF TIME AND THE CITY is both a love song and a eulogy to the director's birthplace of Liverpool. It is also a response to memory, reflection and the experience of losing a sense of place as the skyline changes and time takes it's toll.
Terence Davies returnes to his native liverpool and to his film making roots to caputure a sense of the City today and its influences on him growning up in the late 40's and early 50's.
LIVERPOOL's phoenix-like rise is portrayed like it's never been seen before; how a city can change itself and the people under its influence... -
Painters Painting (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
PAINTERS PAINTING - DVD
A film by Emile de Antonio
Year: 1973
Runtime: 116 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Sound Mix: Stereo
Originally released in 1973 but never before available on DVD, PAINTERS PAINTING is the definitive documentary on the New York School of painters, from 1940-1970. Director Emile de Antonio (Point of Order and Millhouse) interviews artists in their studios about their art from the period of Abstract Expressionism, through Hard Edge and Color Field painting to Pop Art.
Among the featured painters are Robert Rauschenberg, William de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Barnett Newman, Hans Hoffman, Jules Olitski, Philip Pavia, Larry Poons, Robert Motherwell, and Kenneth Noland.
PAINTERS PAINTING is newly digitally remastered and restored by the Museum of Modern Art (New York) and the University of Wisconsin Film Department.
Cast:
Andy Warhol, Leo Castelli, Helen Frankenthaler, Henry Geldzahler, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Barnett Newman, Hans Hofmann, Jules Olitski, Philip Pavia, Larry Poons, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland
Extras:
New Digital Transfer from the Original 35mm Print Negative
Emile de Antonio on Painters Painting
Doug Kellner's essay on American Art 1945-1970
Technical:
116 Mins | 4:3 Letterbox | stereo | Color | Not RatedArt. -
Poetry in Motion (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
POETRY IN MOTION - DVD
A film by Ron Mann
Year of production: 1982
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Language: English
Country: Canada
Called the "Woodstock of Poetry" by American Film, and "Dazzling" by the Los Angeles Times, Poetry in Motion is an unprecedented anthology of twenty-four leading North American poets who sing, chant, anything but "read" their work.
The result is a celebration of poetry's ancient oral tradition. And an energetic demonstration that verse is alive and thriving in the media-blitzed age.
Featuring: Charles Bukowski, Amiri Baraka, Anne Waldman, Kenward Elmslie, Helen Adam, Ted Berrigan, Ed Sanders, Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Robert Creely, Four Horsemen, Michael Ondaatje, Christopher Dewdney, John Giorno, Jayne Cortez, Ntozake Shange, Gary Snyder, Jim Carrol, Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Miguel Algarin, Ted Milton -
Quiet City (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
QUIET CITY - DVD
2 films by Aaron Katz
In Quiet City, Katz’s deceptively simple drama that has been called “a Terrence Malick
film for the new lost generation” (The Austin Chronicle), we meet twentysomething Jamie
(Erin Fisher) as she arrives in New York to visit a friend who never shows. On an empty sub-
way platform, she crosses paths with a kindly stranger named Charlie (Cris Lankenau), and
an unlikely connection is formed over the next 24 hours through city parks, abandoned
apartments, and art galleries in the heart of industrial Brooklyn.
Then in his impressionistic and tenderly heartbreaking debut, Dance Party, USA—
hailed as “one of the best films of the year” (The New York Sun)—apathetic teens Jes-
sica (Anna Kavan) and Gus (Cole Pennsinger) share a fleeting moment at a Fourth of July
party in Portland, but their relationship grows closer and more complex after Gus confronts
her with a troubling secret.
2-DISC DVD SET
DISC 1: QUIET CITY
•Director Commentary, with contributions from producers Ben Stambler and Brendan McFadden,
and cinematographer Andrew Reed
•Cast Commentary, with Erin Fisher and Cris Lankenau
•Joe Swanberg’s Quiet City: a short-film prank by the director of LOL
•The Music of Quiet City: clips and interview with composer Keegan Dewitt
•Footage from the NYC Premiere of Quiet City
•Quiet City trailer
DISC 2: DANCE PARTY, USA
•Director Commentary, with contributions from producers Brendan McFadden and Marc Ripper
•Cast Commentary with Anna Kavan, Cole Pennsinger, Ryan White, Brendan McFadden and
director Aaron Katz
•Alternative and Extended Scenes, with commentary by Aaron Katz and editor Zach Clark
•The Lunch Hour, an early short film by Aaron Katz, with commentary by Katz and star/compos-
er Keegan Dewitt
2-DISC DVD SET
“Beautiful! A fully realized work of mumblecore poetry.”
-Stephen Holden, THE NEW YORK TIMES
Quiet City (2007): 78 minutes, Color, Stereo, Optional English Subtitles, Anamorphic 1.78:1
Dance Party, USA (2006): 65 minutes, Color, Stereo, Optional English Subtitles, 1.85:1 -
Radical Saint (Library Rights)$1,000.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
CONTAINS RIGHTS FOR 4 FILMS ON DVD!
MIlLHOUSE: A WHITE COMEDY
UNDERGROUND
MR. HOOVER AND I
IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG
A film by Emile de Antonio
Runtime: 368 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 1.0 L/R
DISCS: 4
Synopsis: A radical leftist and legendary bon vivant, documentary filmmaker Emile de Antonio made some of the most important and powerful films of the past century. In addition to innovative works such as Millhouse: A White Comedy, Underground and 1990 Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee Mr. Hoover and I, Films of the Radical Saint includes the Oscar®-nominated* Vietnam War chronicle In the Year of the Pig, arguably his most controversial and de Antonio's personal favorite. This long-overdue collection of celebrated films amply shows why de Antonio is considered a revolutionary and inspirational figure in the development of post-war American cinema.
- Theatrical Trailer (Disc Two)
- Senator Richard Nixon's 1952 Checkers Speech (Disc Two)
- Alternative Views: The de Antonio Legacy (Pt.2) (Disc Two)
- Alternative Views: The de Antonio Legacy (Pt.3) (Disc Three)
- Trailer for POINT OF ORDER -
Rivers and Tides (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
RIVERS AND TIDES - DVD
A film by Thomas Riedelsheimer
Year of production : 2001
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Language: English
Country: Germany
"That rare film about an artist that is, in itself, a work of art, Rivers and Tides Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time is an extraordinary journey into the world and mind of Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy. A land-artist who uses materials from nature to make site-specific works, Goldsworthy allows the elements to have the last say in his beautiful creations, as his ingenious patterns of wood, leaves, stone and ice move and erode over time.
Coming Up 3German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer followed the artist for over a year in several outdoor locations, intimately documenting his improvisational process and capturing the serene spectacle of his works and their delicate changes.
Although Goldsworthy's private and often ephemeral pieces have been documented extensively in still photographs, this remarkable movie uses the artist's own voice to guide usthrough his process and help us "…see something you never saw before, that was always there but you were blind to it."
Coming Up 3Winner of the Golden Gate Award at the recent San Francisco International Film Festival, "Rivers and Tides is a sensual and poetic masterpiece." -
Richard Peterson.
Technical Specifications:
• Encoding: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
• Format: Color, Closed-captioned
• Rated: NR
• Studio: New Video Group
• DVD Release Date: September 28, 2004
• Run Time: 90 minutes
DVD Features:
• Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Seven never-before-seen short films: Storm King Wall, Leaf • Horn, Ice Arch, Garlic Leaf Line, Black Stone/Rain Shadow, Ice • Cake, Colored Leaf Hole
• Photo gallery
• Andy Goldsworthy biography
• Filmmaker biography -
Sir No Sir (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
SIR! NO SIR! - DVD
Directed by David Zeiger
Year of production : 2005
Running Time: 85 Minutes
Language: English
Sir! No Sir! energetically reveals the untold story of the GI movement to end the war in Vietnam. This is the story of one of the most vibrant and widespread upheavals of the 1960s – one that had a profound impact on American society, yet has been virtually obliterated from the collective memory of that time. This hidden history combines fast-paced archival footage with thoughtful interviews, “perfectly timed with new doubts about the Iraq War” (Variety). -
The Sun (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
THE SUN - DVD
A film by Alexander Sokurov
Running Time: 110 minutes
Format: NTSC
Languages: Japanese & English
THE SUN by acclaimed Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov is the third in a trilogy on pivotal historic figures that have held "ultimate power". Following Moloch (on Hitler) and Taurus (on Lenin), this bold new work takes as its subject Emperor Hirohito (Issey Ogata), in the summer of 1945 during the Allied occupation of Japan.
On the 15th of August, 1945 millions of Japanese heard the voice of their Emperor for the first time when he made an appeal to his army and his people to cease all fighting. He publicly renounced his divine lineage as the 124th descendant of the 'Goddess of Sun Amaterasu' thereby saving the lives of millions of Japanese who were prepared to die for their divine Emperor. The film reproduces the Emperor's meetings with the American Commander-in-chief, General Douglas MacArthur (Robert Dawson). In his memoirs, MacArthur wrote that the Emperor was prepared to accept responsibility for the actions of his government and his army * although he was well aware that the consequences for him would be trial and death.
Alexander Sokurov's unique style has been credited to visual splendour, hermetic intensity and a sense of suspended time found within his films. Sokurov has over 30 features, documentaries and shorts to his credit, including Russian Ark (2002). Hailed as a masterpiece, and set in The Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the film is a lush meditation on history, art and Russia, with all of the film's 97 minutes shot in one single, unyielding take. -
Superstar (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
SUPERSTAR IN A HOUSEDRESS - DVD/ BOOK
A film by Craig Highberger
Narrated by Lily Tomlin
Year of production : 2003
Running Time: 95 minutes
Country: USA
Languages: English
The sexually ambiguous Warhol superstar Jackie Curtis, who lived and performed sometimes as a man, sometimes as a woman is remembered by thirty friends and colleagues, including Harvey Fierstein, Holly Woodlawn, Paul Morrissey and Lily Tomlin.
Superstar in a Housedress examines the life and legend of Warhol transvestite superstar Jackie Curtis who was a poet, playwright,performer,and one of the great personalities of his time.
The film features on-camera interviews with actor Harvey Fierstein who played Jackie ’s mother in “Americka Cleopatra” when he was 18, Ellen Stewart, founder of LaMama Experimental Theater Club, John Vaccarro, founder of the Playhouse of the Ridiculous, Paul Morrissey, director of the Andy Warhol films and surviving superstars Holly Woodlawn and Joe Dallesandro, plus 24 other friends and colleagues of Jackie ’s.
The film includes never-before-seen video and film clips of Jackie performing in stage plays including ”Femme Fatale ”,and “Glamour, Glory and Gold ”, and cabarets including the legendary ”Cabaret in the Sky: An evening with Holly Woodlawn and Jackie Curtis ” (1974).
The music of jazz musician and composer Paul Serrato, who wrote and performed music for many of Jackie ’s productions, including ”Vain Victory ” is featured,as is the photography of Jack Mitchell who took more photo-graphs of Curtis and the Warhol crowd than any other professional. -
Tales of the Rat Fink (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
TALES OF THE RAT FINK - DVD
A film by Ron Mann
Featuring John Goodman
Year of production: 2006
Running Time: 78 Minutes
Language: English
Country: Canada
Ron Mann's wildly inventive bio about renaissance man Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, who engineered a shift in mid-twentieth century culture with his customized cars, "monster" T-shirts and America's alternative rodent - "Rat Fink".
This animated documentary features the voice talents of John Goodman, Ann-Margret, Jay Leno, Brian Wilson, Matt Groening, Tom Wolfe, Steve Austin, Robert Williams, Paul LeMat, Billy F Gibbons and The Smothers Brothers.
Special Features:
Big Daddy Lives! - Rare Interviews with Ed "Big Daddy" Roth
Rat Fink Reunion - Painting Jam with Ed Roth and Von Dutch
Big Daddy's Garage - Virtual Art Gallery
Interview with Director Ron Mann
Deleted Scene
Theatrical Trailer
Sadies music video -
Three Times (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
THREE TIMES - DVD
A film by Hou Hsiao Hsien
Running Time: 2 hours 9 minutes
Year: 2005
Format: NTSC
Languages: English
Country: USA
Three different time periods, 1966, 1911, 2005, three stories, and the same couple of actor and actress, Shu Qi and Chang Chen, play out the two lead roles, evoking a sentimental tale of a three-reincarnation of an unfinished love…
1966, KAOHSIUNG:A TIME FOR LOVE - Expecting to be called up for military service any day now, Chen meets May, who works at his favourite pool-hall. They play pool together, just before he enlists for service… On a day-release from the army, Chen comes to visit May at the pool-hall. But he finds out that she has quit her job and no one knows where she's gone…
1911, DADAOCHENG:A TIME FOR FREEDOM - Mr Chang has come to see his favourite courtesan. He tells her that he means to meet a Mr Liang. Couldn't it be the revolutionary from China who has escaped from persecutions in his own country ? - the courtesan wonders… On the next day, the owner of a tea plantation and his son come to discuss buying out a young courtesan's contract. Mr Chang finds out that the son has got her pregnant. He then steps in to hasten negotiations - the courtesan is now the tea plantation owner's concubine…
2005,TAIPEI: A TIME FOR YOUTH - Zhen and Jing are passionately in love. Jing was born prematurely and as a result has to take drugs to control her epilepsy, while she is losing sight in her right eye. She lives with her mother and grandmother and also has a woman lover: Micky. Zhen works in a digital photo shop and lives with his girlfriend Blue. When Blue finds out that Zhen has fallen for Jing, she hits the roof… Where can the four of them go from here? Maybe none of them will get any peace this side of the grave… -
Touch the Sound (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
TOUCH THE SOUND - DVD
A film by Thomas Riedelsheimer
Year of production : 2004
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Language: English
Country: Germany
At the heart of every life form there is rhythm, Movement, flow, change, renewal and repetition are all based on rhythm. It is only in rhythm, that we can experience time. Without vibration, without oscillation, there is statis. There is nothin. Stbility and solidity are illusions. Everything oscillates and vibrates - from the bridge of steel and concrete, to the energy shells around an atom. Even colours oscillate at different frequencies. We recognize and experience out world through rhuthm. Everything vbibrates - everything speaks. It is, in essence, a universe of sound.
Evelyn Glennnie lives in this universe in a way that almost no one else does. Together with her, this film dives in to the world of sound and rhythm - and into the world of our origins.
Hearing images, seeing sound...
Evenly Glennie embarks upon the recording of a new CD, within the four walls of a vast, decaying, industrial warehouse. She is the top classical, solo percussionist in the world - a role virtually of her own creation; a musician especially for whom an entire corpus of works has been written, yet, for this CD the pages of the score are blank. She sits in this light-filled space with Fred Frith - the great master of avant-garde music. together they will create a CD as an improvisational exploration of sound and image using the space around them, as well as their instuments and intuititve talent, they follow this twin-track route.
Hearing images. Seeing sound.
Accompanying Evelyn on her journey is filmmaker Thomas Reiedelsheimer - winner of the 2001 German cinematography pricze, the Golden Gate Award Grand Prize in San Francisco (2002), the Grand Prix Montreal (2002) and two German Film Prizes (best Camera, Best Documentary) in 2003 with RIVERS AND TIDES - a portrait of sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, working with time.
The starting point for Thomas's and Evelyn's journey is the sounds and rhythms that surround us in everyday life. And from there, the path delves deeper - sculpting the nature of sound itself, discovering its genesis and how the universe depends upon it. Thomas and Evelyn track the road from breath to heart beat. From silence to music. From hearing to seeing to feeling. From fluid vibration to solid matter.
Evelyn's ability to guide this exploration has little to do with an intimate knowledge of physics. Evelyn Glennie is profoundly deaf. She lives in balance between rhythm and matter; between sound and seeing. Her conversation with the drums is not so much perceived through the ears - it is, in fact felt; through every sense in her body. For her, hearing is a form of touch. Sound is palpable. The improvised musical journey, in this warehouse-recording studio, forms a road map. It becomes the backbone ofThomas Riedelsheimer's film. -
Town Called Panic (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
A TOWN CALLED PANIC - BLU RAY
Original Title: PANIQUE AU VILLAGE
Directed by Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar
Year of production : 2009
Running Time: 75 Minutes
In French with English Subtitles
"Animation is not only for children. It is also for adults who are on drugs."- Paul McCartney
Animated plastic toys like Cowboy, Indian and Horse have problems, too. Cowboy and Indian’s plan to surprise Horse with a homemade birthday gift backfires when they destroy his house instead. Surreal adventures take over as the trio travel to the center of the earth, trek across frozen tundra and discover a parallel underwater universe where pointy headed (and dishonest!) creatures live.
Special features:- pre-production animatics
- 18 Deleted Scenes
- 5 line tests
- the original a town called panic short film from 1991
- photo Gallery
- optional english subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
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Twist (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
TWIST - DVD
A film by Ron Mann
Year of production: 1989
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Language: English
Country: Canada
Combining rare and often hilarious archival footage with interviews, Twist chronicles the evolution of rock and roll dance.
From the time when moving hips marked you as a social degenerate, to a time when shaking your "thing" became the dance-form that rocked the world.
Featuring: Cholly Atkins, Hank Ballard, American Bandstand Dancers, Chubby Checker, Joey Dee, Gladys Horton, Dee Dee Sharp, Mama Lu Parks, The Parkettes -
Underground (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
UNDERGROUND - VHS
A film by Emile de Antonio
Year: 1976
Runtime: 87 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Sound Mix: Mono
Portrays the life of the Weather Underground Organization, which was near the top of the FBI’s Most Wanted list in the 1970s. The film juxtaposes interviews with the Underground collective with footage of the radical political movements of the time.
Underground combines interviews with and archival footage of the Weathermen to provide a picture of this group, their opinions on American society, and their hopes for the future. The filmmakers use the material from their interactions with the Weathermen Bill Ayers, Kathy Boudin, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jones and Cathy Wilkerson to structure its exploration of the formation and direction of the group.
The film begins by presenting images and words that describe the Weathermen’s process of being radicalized in the 1960’s through the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-war movement, and communist revolutionary struggles in Cuba, Russia and China, as well as historical struggles in the United States over Native American Rights and labor issues. The film moves on to discuss the Weathermen’s analysis of American society, addressing those who have inspired them, and further explaining the reasons behind their militancy, while also introducing the issue of tactics.
The final section of the film addresses the group’s use of property destruction as a way to bring about change and destabilize the current, and in their view, corrupt system. They state that “no revolution can take place successfully without an armed confrontation with the state.” While the radicals themselves are reluctant to discuss the specifics of their bombings due to their unstable position as underground fugitives, the filmmakers provide us with a list of actions which they have undertaken, thus showing the scope of these American revolutionaries. Underground provides an intimate look at the inner workings of the Weather Underground, and we see their discomfort with being filmed, their strong internal collective identity, and their isolation from society at large.
The filmmakers do not use the interviews and juxtaposed images to promote the group or support their actions, and it is apparent that their motives for the film differ from those of the subjects that they are presenting. In the end this film provides an unprecedented look at how a bunch of middle-class Americans became militant revolutionaries, raising questions not only about the merits of their struggle, but also about past and future radical actions. -
Wake of the Flood (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
IN THE WAKE OF THE FLOOD
A film by Ron Mann
Featuring Margaret Atwood
Year of production: 2010
Running Time: 47 Minutes
Language: English
Country: Canada
"Keep 'em flying!"A portion of the sales of this DVD will be donated to Nature Canada.
On the eve of her 70th birthday, Canadian writer Margaret Atwood set out on an international tour criss-crossing the British Isles and North America to celebrate the publication of her new dystopian novel, The Year of the Flood. Rather than mount a traditional tour to promote a book’s publication, Atwood conceived and executed something far more ambitious and revelatory—a theatrical version of her novel. Along the way she reinvented what a book tour could (and maybe should) be. But Atwood wasn't selling books as much as advocating an idea: how humanity must respond to the consequences of an environmentally compromised planet before her work of speculative fiction transforms into prophesy.
Special Features:- Entire performance of "The Year of the Flood" produced by Kingston BookFest
- "Born to Travel" produced by BirdLife International
- Music sampler from "The Year of the Flood" CD by Orville Stoeber and Margaret Atwood
- Original trailer
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Weather Underground (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND - DVD
A film by Sam Green & Bill Siegel
Year: 2002
Running Time: 92 minutes
Language: English
Country: USA
The U.S. Capitol was spared a violent attack on September 11, 2001.
But if you’ve forgotten, it was bombed 30 years earlier. In the middle of the night on February 28, 1971, a blast tore apart a ground-floor bathroom. The bomb harmed no one, but it struck fear in Washington and around the country, triggering calls for tighter security and a swift crackdown on anti-war radicals.
Coming Up 3The Capitol bombers belonged to the Weather Underground, who at the time enjoyed a certain mystique for their bravado and their willingness to test the limits of revolutionary ideology. They proudly proclaimed that its members could be found wherever “kids are making love, smoking dope and loading guns” --surely beating a dispatch from Al Qaeda.
Taking its name from the lyric in Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" ("You don't need a weatherman, To know which way the wind blows"), they were a small militant organization of mostly middle-class youth who split off from the Students for a Democratic Society, their methods placing them somewhere between pranksters and terrorists.
Youth, exuberance, sex, drugs; THEY WANTED ACTION.
Coming Up 3In October 1969, hundreds of young people, clad in football helmets and wielding pipes, marched through an upscale Chicago shopping district, pummelling parked cars and smashing shop windows in their path.
This was the first demonstration of the Weather Underground's "Days of Rage”. Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, they waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison, and evading one of the largest FBI manhunts in history. Although numerically tiny, the members were charismatic, provocative, articulate, and intelligent. They commanded news media attention with their brash rhetoric, violent actions, and, in the eyes of many, romantic allure.
The exploits of the Weathermen—and the former members’ reflections on those exploits now some 30 years later—is at the centre of the film.
Directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel, THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND traces the life and death of the organization. Full of fascinating vintage footage and interviews with former members, the documentary manages to convey the reasons for that mystique as it recognizes how 9/11 has made their crusade even less appealing than it was at the time.
Technical Specifications:
• Encoding: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
• Format: Color
• Audio Encoding: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: New Video Group
• DVD Release Date: May 25, 2004
• Run Time: 92
DVD Features:
• Available subtitles: Spanish
• Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Commentary by director Sam Green
• Commentary by former Weathermen Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers
• Original Weathermen audio communiques
• Bonus film on former Weatherman David Gilbert: A Lifetime of Struggle
• Excerpt from the Emile de Antonio film Underground
• Filmmaker biographies
• Filmmaker statement -
Woody Allen: A Documentary (Library Rights)$350.00DVD x2
Directed by Robert Weide
Year of production : 2011
Running Time: 195 mins + extras
Iconic writer, director, actor, comedian, and musician Woody Allen allows his life and creative process to be documented on-camera for the first time. With this unprecedented access, Emmy®-winning, Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Robert Weide follows the notoriously private film legend over a year and a half to create the ultimate film biography.
Beginning with Allen’s childhood, WOODY ALLEN: A DOCUMENTARY chronicles the trajectory and longevity of Allen’s career, from his work as a TV scribe, standup comedian and frequent TV talk show guest, to a writer-director averaging one film-per-year for more than 40 years. Director Weide covers Allen’s earliest film work in Take the Money and Run, Bananas, Sleeper, and Love and Death; frequent Oscar® favorites such as Annie Hall, Manhattan, Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, Purple Rose of Cairo, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Husbands & Wives, Bullets Over Broadway, and Mighty Aphrodite; and his recent globetrotting phase with Match Point, Vicky Cristina Barcelona and the recent success Midnight in Paris.
Features interviews with: Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Penelope Cruz, John Cusack, Larry David, Mariel Hemingway, Scarlett Johansson, Julie Kavner, Diane Keaton, Martin Landau, Louise Lasser, Sean Penn, Tony Roberts, Chris Rock, Mira Sorvino, Naomi Watts, Dianne Wiest and Owen Wilson, Dick Cavett and Martin Scorsese.
“In sum, you will see this legendarily private filmmaker up close and personal, charming and candid, and, yes, funny…a feast for all Woody fans and anyone else who is interested in a prolific, persistent artist’s creative world”
- San Francisco Chronicle
TECH SPECS:
- 84 Minutes
- Language: English
- Closed Captioned
- Dolby Digital 5.1
- Colour/ NTSC -
The World (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
THE WORLD - DVD
A film by Jia Zhang-ke
Year of production : 2004
Running Time: 133 Minutes
Language: Mandarin with English Subtitles
Country: China
THE WORLD focuses on a young dancer, her security-guard boyfriend and others who work at World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the Bejing suburbs. Daily lavish shows are performed amongst replicas of the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, St. Mark’s Square, Big Ben, the Pyramids and even the Twin Towers. But working beyond the kitsch potential, THE WORLD casts a compassionate eye on the daily loves, friendships and desperate dreams of these provincial workers.
Jia, whom THE VILLAGE VOICE calls “the world’s greatest filmmaker under 40,” has created his funniest, most inventive and touching work to date, from the sensational opening tracking shot to poetic flourishes of animation and clever use of text-messaging. -
YEAR OF THE PIG (Library Rights)$250.00(Non-Theatrical Rights)
IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG - DVD
A film by Emile de Antonio
Runtime: 103 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Mono
Synopsis: From French colonialism and rickshaws to the Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien Phu. And then, the origins and nature of the U.S. commitment from the end of WWII through the offensive of 1968. History, death, battle, ideas as only film can do it, a conspicuous example.
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