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... |
Saint Amour
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 10/Aug/2017 ] Every year, Bruno (Benoît Poelvoorde), a disheartened cattle breeder, attends the Paris Agricultural Show. This year, his father, Jean, (Gérard Depardieu) joins him: he wants to finally win the competition with their bull and convince Bruno to take... |
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... |
Lo Scopone Scientifico
[ Directors Suite / DVD - released 11/Feb/2010 ] The Countess (Bette Davis), a wealthy American with an addiction to card games and a large real estate portfolio, has become an expert on the card games of all the countries where she owns houses. The regional favourite in Rome is a card game called... |
A Second Chance
[ Madman / DVD - released 8/Apr/2016 ] Detectives and best friends Andreas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Game of Thrones) and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting... |
See You Up There
[ Umbrella / DVD - released 21/Nov/2018 ] In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, Edouard Péricourt (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Glue) saves Albert Maillard's (Albert Dupontel, Irreversible) life. The two men have nothing in common but the war. By ordering a senseless assault,... |
Sky Sharks
[ Umbrella / DVD - released 17/Feb/2021 ] In the Arctic a team of geologists discovers a Nazi warship that was thought to be lost: the Himmelsfaust, a gigantic steel colossus from the Third Reich, brimming with unimaginable destruction machines. On that ship scientists researched top-secret,... |
Skylab
[ Hi Gloss / DVD - released 11/Jul/2013 ] Remember the '70s, Skylab falling, and the end of innocence? It's summer 1979 in Brittany, and a family gathers to celebrate the grandmother's 80th birthday. The extended family are a garrulous collection and there's a hint of tension in the air,... |
Slack Bay
[ Sharmill Films / DVD - released 13/Jun/2018 ] The bourgeois and extremely eccentric Van Peteghem family-among them Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi-have settled in for another summer at their cliff-top villa overlooking the picturesque Slack Bay. Their leisurely... |
A Song For Martin (Director's Suite)
[ Madman / DVD - released 14/Nov/2007 ] From one of the rare two-time winners of Cannes' Palme d'Or, Denmark's Bille August, comes a beautiful meditation on autumnal love. In midlife, two soul mates finally meet and their passion is fueled by their love of music. Famous composer... |
Soul Kitchen (Director's Suite)
[ Directors Suite / DVD - released 13/Jan/2011 ] From Fatih Akin, the director of Head On and The Edge of Heaven comes a comedy about family and friends, about love, trust, loyalty, and catering. Zinos' restaurant, Soul Kitchen, has certainly seen better days-more of a greasy spoon with its... |
Springtime In A Small Town
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 16/Feb/2005 ] An exquisitely constructed romantic drama, Springtime in a Small Town is the first film by Tian Zhuangzhuang since the controversial The Blue Kite in 1993. Set in a bomb-scarred Chinese town in the aftermath of World War II, the film tells the story... |
Subway
[ Directors Suite / Blu-ray Disc - released 9/Sep/2010 ] Forging ahead with his unique and visually creative style, director Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, Leon: The Professional) breaks new ground in the stylish urban odyssey, Subway. Fred (Christopher Lambert, Highlander) is a cavalier safe-blower whose... |
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... |
The Testament of Orpheus
[ Directors Suite / Studio Canal / DVD - released 2/Dec/2010 ] The third and concluding episode of surrealist Jean Cocteau's renowned Orphic trilogy is a panegyric to life as an artist. Returning to the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Cocteau looks back over his career as a poet, painter, playwright,... |
Thelma
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 10/Jan/2019 ] From heralded writer/director Joachim Trier (Reprise, Oslo August 31st), THELMA is a spine-tingling thriller with a deeply romantic heart, about a lonely young woman who discovers she may have supernatural powers. Brought up in rural Norway by her... |
The Third Wife
[ Madman / DVD - released 14/Mar/2020 ] In 19th century rural Vietnam, fourteen-year-old May is ready to become the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Little does she know that her hidden desires will take her by surprise and force her to make a choice between living in safety and being... |
Tonight, I'll Sleep at Yours
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 11/Feb/2010 ] Alex loves Laetitia. She is beautiful, funny, sparkling, radiant and she loves Alex. She even adores Jacques, Alex's best friend and publisher. In essence, she's the light and love of Alex's life, the future mother of his children, his reason for... |
Transit
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 11/Jul/2019 ] In Christian Petzold's (Barbara, Phoenix) haunting modern-day adaptation of Anna Seghers's 1942 novel Transit Visa, Georg, a German refugee (Franz Rogowski) flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is... |
Transylvania - Tony Gatlif / Directors Suite
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 12/Feb/2009 ] The latest musical odyssey from Tony Gatlif (Latcho Drom, Exils, Swing) sees Zingarina, played by the magnetic Asia Argento, arrive deep in the heart of Romania, looking for the man she loves. She had met him in France, but one day he left without a... |