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Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
[ Madman / DVD - released 14/May/2020 ] France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and... |
Putuparri And The Rainmakers
[ Madman / DVD - released 8/Sep/2016 ] Putuparri and the Rainmakers is a universal story about the sacred relationship between people and place. It takes audiences on a rare and emotional journey to meet the traditional rainmakers of Australia's Great Sandy Desert who have fought a... |
A Quiet Passion
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 8/Mar/2018 ] Cynthia Nixon gives a career-best, tour-de-force performance as the legendary 19th Century poet Emily Dickinson in Terence Davies' A QUIET PASSION. Born into privilege in 1830, Dickinson spent most of her life on her parents' estate in Armherst,... |
Rams
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 15/Dec/2016 ] Who would have thought that a tale about sheep in rural Iceland could bring tears to your eyes? Grímur Hakonarson's RAMS does just that. Majestically shot in a spectacular, weather-swept valley, this wryly observed fable about two brothers who are... |
Reaching For The Moon
[ Madman / DVD - released 15/Jan/2015 ] Reaching for the Moon is the story of the unlikely and often tumultuous relationship between two extraordinary women: American poet Elizabeth Bishop (Miranda Otto) and Lota de Macedo Soares (Gloria Pires). Struggling with writer's block, Bishop opts... |
Risk
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 14/Sep/2017 ] From the Academy Award-winning director of CITIZENFOUR Filmed over six years, RISK is a character study that collides with a high stakes election year and its controversial aftermath. Cornered in a tiny building for half a decade, Julian Assange is... |
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
[ HiGloss / DVD - released 11/Apr/2019 ] "I want to make more music" was the reaction of Japanese composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto when he was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014. Not long after his treatment he started making a new album, async, which came out at the beginning of... |
Sami Blood
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 9/Aug/2018 ] A breakout critical discovery of the 2016 Venice International Film Festival, Swedish-Sami filmmaker Amanda Kernell's striking directorial debut is a female coming-of-age story told with emotional power. During the 1930s in Sweden, indigenous Sami... |
Silent Heart
[ Madman / DVD - released 12/Nov/2015 ] From two-time Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winner director Bille August (PELLE THE CONQUERER), SILENT HEART is an emotionally resonant drama. Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their... |
Skeleton Twins (Blu-Ray)
[ Sony Pictures / Blu-ray Disc - released 4/Feb/2015 ] When estranged twins Maggie and Milo feel that they're at the end of their ropes, an unexpected reunion forces them to confront why their lives went so wrong. As the twins reconnect, they realize the key to fixing their lives may just lie in... |
Snowtown
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 6/Oct/2011 ] Sixteen-year-old Jamie lives with his mother, Elizabeth, and two younger brothers, Alex and Nicholas, in a housing trust home in Adelaide's northern suburbs. Their home is but one of many sun-starved houses crammed together to cater for a... |
Starred Up
[ Madman / DVD - released 27/Nov/2014 ] Eric (Jack O'Connell) is a violent young offender prematurely thrown into the violent quicksand of adult prison. As he struggles to assert himself, he has to confront his own father, Nev (Ben Mendelsohn), who has spent most of his life in jail.... |
Stray
[ Madman Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 14/Mar/2019 ] Two damaged strangers fall into a complex intimate relationship in Dustin Feneley's beautiful and compelling debut feature film, set against the backdrop of the breathtaking Southern Alps. Jack (Kieran Charnock, 'The Rehearsal'), a young man on... |
Suburra
[ Madman / DVD - released 10/Nov/2016 ] A gangster known as the Samurai wants to turn the waterfront of a small town close to Rome into a new Atlantic City. A corrupt politician fond of young prostitutes and cocaine is protecting him with the help of a powerful cardinal. All the local mob... |
Summer 1993
[ Palace Films / DVD - released 10/Jan/2019 ] The breakout critical discovery of the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, where it was named Best First Feature, Carla Simón's autobiographical jewel is one of the most evocative and affecting depictions of childhood seen in years. In the summer of 1993,... |
Sunset Song
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 9/Mar/2017 ] Sunset Song is Terence Davies' intimate epic of hope, tragedy and love at the dawning of the Great War. A young woman's endurance against the hardships of rural Scottish life, based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, told with gritty poetic... |
Swiss Army Man
[ Madman / DVD - released 20/Oct/2016 ] A wholly original, enormously entertaining, and deeply heartfelt look at what it means to be human, SWISS ARMY MAN is the feature film debut of acclaimed music video directors Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan (collectively known as DANIELS, and... |
The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya (Studio Ghibli Collection)
[ Studio Ghibli / Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 23/Apr/2015 ] Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo, a tiny girl grows into an exquisite young lady, raised by an old bamboo cutter and his wife. From the countryside to the grand capital city, even unseen she enthralls all who encounter her, including five noble... |
Tales From Earthsea (Studio Ghibli Collection)
[ Studio Ghibli / Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 17/Oct/2007 ] In the land of Earthsea, crops are failing and livestock dying. Two dragons appear from the storm clouds and devour each other - an omen of impending disaster. The balance of the world is in peril of tearing apart. In his search for the cause of... |
The Teacher
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 9/Aug/2018 ] From Oscar-nominated writer/director Jan Hrebejk (Divided We Fall), THE TEACHER is a wildly entertaining black comedy inspired by the true story of a Communist-era school teacher who manipulated her pupils and their families for unprecedented... |
