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  • Alejandro Jodorowsky - Deluxe Colle…
  • 4DVD/2CD / Arthouse / R / $79.95
  • The Godfather of the ‘midnight movie’ fully-restored and released after 35 years. One of cinema’s most controversial and influential filmmakers Alejandro Jodorwosky’s 1968 debut feature Fando y Lis caused a riot in Mexico; El Topo dragged the hippy generation into the ‘70s and single-handedly invented the ‘midnight movie’ phenomenon; and, with the pop-alchemical The Holy Mountain, Jo… more
  • Alice (Repackaged)
  • DVD / Arthouse / M / $29.95
  • Following the White Rabbit into Wonderland, Alice begins an expedition into an astonishing landscape of childhood adventures, ultimately leading to her trial before the King and Queen of Hearts. Master Czech animator Jan Svankmajer’s brings to life Lewis Carroll’s hallucinatory adventure. Svankmajer's Alice remains true to the absurdity of Carroll's original, but bears the stamp of his own dis… more
  • Arranged
  • DVD / Arthouse / Drama / PG / $19.95
  • Arranged centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages.… more
  • Battle In Heaven (Re-release)
  • DVD / Arthouse / Drama / R / $19.95
  • A working-class man named Marcos and his wife kidnap a baby for ransom money, but it goes tragically wrong when the infant dies. In another world is Ana, the daughter of the general for whom he drives, who does sexual acts to any man for pleasure. Marcos confesses his guilt to her in his troubled search for relief, and then finds himself on his knees amid the multitude of believers moving slowly t… more
  • Boxing Day
  • 2DVD / Arthouse / MA / $34.95
  • Told in real time and shot as a single take, BOXING DAY documents the minute by minute events across the course of an afternoon in the life of Chris - a recovering alcoholic and alienated father. Living alone on home detention, Chris is preparing Christmas lunch for his teenage daughter when an old friend turns up and exposes the disturbing truth about his ex-wife's new boyfriend. The film documen… more
  • Bruce LaBruce Box Set (Re-release)
  • 4DVD / Arthouse Drama / R / $49.95
  • A collection from subversive auteur Bruce LaBruce featuring the films Otto, Hustler White, No Skin Off My Ass and Super 8 ½.… more
  • Choking Man
  • DVD / Arthouse / Drama / M / $19.95
  • Choking Man is an intense blend of psychological drama and magical realism that encapsulates the contemporary immigrant experience in America. Jorge (Octovio Gomez Berrios) is a shy Ecuadorian dishwasher toiling away in a shabby New York diner run by Rick (Mandy Patinkin). He works all day long in the shadow of the ever-present Heimlich Maneuver poster which hangs in the diner kitchen and pines fo… more
  • El Topo
  • DVD / Arthouse / R / $34.95
  • A landmark film that spawned a genre and defined the way a generation watched underground cinema. Championed by John Lennon El Topo started the ‘midnight movies’ phenomenon in 1970. Classic Americana and avant-garde European cinema sensibilities meet Zen Buddhism and the Bible as master gunfighter and cosmic mystic El Topo (played by Alejandro Jodorowsky) must defeat his four sharp-shooting ri… more
  • Ex-Drummer
  • DVD / Arthouse / R / $34.95
  • Every village has it's band of fools trying to get to the top, following their idols in drug habits but staying losers till the end of their pathetic days. They all do this in the name of rock & roll. Three disabled punks are looking for a drummer. Dries, a well known writer, seems the right guy for the job, were it not for the fact that his only handicap is that he can’t play the drums. He join… more
  • Films Of Carlos Reygadas, The
  • 3DVD / Arthouse / Drama / R / $34.95
  • From the new master of World Cinema come three masterpieces that have ignited the landscape of Modern Cinema. Hailed by H. Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Pans Labyrinth) and Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu (21 Grams, Babel) as Mexico’s greatest auteur, this is the first time all three films - Japon, Battle In Heaven and Silent Light - have been available in one deluxe edition. Compassionate, controver… more
  • Gozu
  • DVD / Arthouse / R / $29.95
  • One of the strangest pieces of Japanese cinema ever made, Gozu is a surreal and visceral film of cartoonish perversity from Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer). Minami is a low-level yakuza ordered to assassinate his eccentric boss, who also happens to be his closest friend. When his target disappears before he can do the job, Minami begins a search that leads him through an increasingly biz… more
  • Holy Mountain
  • DVD / Arthouse / R / $34.95
  • An outrageous and over-the-top journey that tears apart false mysticism and religious ideology. Funded by John Lennon, The Holy Mountain is a visual masterpiece, an iconic cult classic of surreal and bizarre imagery. A powerful group of individuals led by The Alchemist (played by Jodorowsky) undertake a quest for enlightenment that pits illusion against truth. A surreal flood of sacrilegious image… more
  • Hustler White (Re-release)
  • DVD / Arthouse / Drama / R / $19.95
  • Delving into the gutters of L.A, HUSTLER WHITE tells the story of angel-faced Santa Monica hustler Montgomery (Tony Ward) who is hiding out from the law following a hit and run accident that has left a fellow skinhead hustler an amputee. While on the run he meets a seedy lovelorn sociologist (Bruce La Bruce) who convinces Montgomery to act as his guide on a tour into the underbelly of the sex and … more
  • In My Skin
  • DVD / Arthouse / R / $34.95
  • In My Skin is a haunting and riveting exploration of the human body as a boundary - and a battleground - between the individual and the often unreachable world outside. After suffering deep gashes to her leg from an accidental fall, Esther (Marina de Van), a young research analyst, becomes preoccupied with her body and skin, especially her wounds. At first she merely caresses her arms, pinches h… more
  • Japon (Re-release)
  • DVD / Arthouse / Drama / MA / $19.95
  • A man leaves Mexico City for the remote countryside to prepare his death. There he finds lodging with an old Indian widow in her rickety home overlooking a desolate canyon. In the vastness of a wild, breathtaking nature, he confronts the old woman’s infinite humanity and oscillates between cruelty and lyricism. His dulled senses return to him, reawakening his desires and instincts for life and r… more
  • Keane
  • DVD / Arthouse / MA / $24.95
  • New York City. It's been six months since his six-year-old daughter was purportedly abducted in the Port Authority Bus Terminal while in his care and William Keane (Damian Lewis) is barely able to cope. Repeatedly drawn to the site of the abduction, Keane wanders the bus station as he struggles to maintain his sanity. Then one day he meets a financially strapped young woman, Lynn Bedik (Amy Ryan)… more
  • No Skin Off My Ass (Re-release)
  • DVD / Arthouse / Drama / R / $19.95
  • Previously banned in Australia where it was originally granted an X certificate, NO SKIN OFF MY ASS is now regarded a radical and important work in Queer cinema. Examining the boundaries in the relationship between master and slave NO SKIN OFF MY ASS tells of a punk hairdresser who picks up a skinhead in the local park. Locked into a guest room the skinhead is kept trapped and used to satisfy the … more
  • Old Joy
  • DVD / Arthouse / M / $29.95
  • OLD JOY is the story of two old friends, Kurt (Will Oldham) and Mark (Daniel London), who reunite for a weekend camping trip in the Cascade mountain range east of Portland, Oregon. For Mark, the weekend outing offers a respite from the pressure of his imminent fatherhood; for Kurt, it is part of a long series of carefree adventures. As the hours progress and the landscape evolves, the twin seekers… more
  • Otto (Or, Up With Dead People) (Re-…
  • DVD / Arthouse / Horror / R / $24.95
  • A young zombie named Otto appears on a remote highway. He has no idea where he came from or where he is going. After hitching a ride to Berlin and nesting in an abandoned amusement park, he begins to explore the city. Soon he is discovered by underground filmmaker Medea Yarn, who begins to make a documentary about him with the support of her girlfriend, Hella Bent, and her brother Adolf, who opera… more
  • Short Films Of Francois Ozon
  • 2DVD / Arthouse / MA / $34.95
  • This collection of short films by Francois Ozon allows us insight into an artist and filmmaker constantly evolving, intent on showing us the sexual and the intimate, who can make the ordinary seem extraordinary, who is eclectic in his choice of style and subject matter, ultimately Ozon is not afraid to delve beneath the surface to uncover the secrets of sex and obsession. From the loss of innoc… more
  • Silent Light (Re-release)
  • DVD / Arthouse / Drama / M / $19.95
  • A mesmerising and deeply moving tale of love and betrayal played out against the pastoral backdrop of the North Mexican Mennonite community. SILENT LIGHT tells the story of Johan, a married man who against the laws of his faith and traditional beliefs, falls in love with another woman, thus facing an internal dilemma, whether to betray his wife, the woman he once loved and disrupt the apparent sta… more
  • Super 8 1/2 (Re-release)
  • DVD / Arthouse / Drama / R / $19.95
  • Previously banned in Australia and very rarely seen, SUPER 8½ is the debut film from renowned gay provocateur Bruce La Bruce. Drawing again on his obsessions with pornography, the cinema of Godard and the queer taboo SUPER 8 ½ tells of a down-on-his-luck adult film star who sees a chance to make a comeback via a lesbian documentary film-maker. But she is exploiting him in order to get financial … more
  • Taxidermia
  • DVD / Arthouse / R / $34.95
  • A critical arthouse hit of last year’s Melbourne International Film Festival, Taxidermia is a work of artistic and cinematic brilliance. It was an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival 2006 and will screen at this year's Sydney Film Festival. Three generations of men from one Eastern-European family is the backdrop to this surreal and confronting film: An abused orderly desperate for af… more
  • Three Monkeys
  • DVD / Arthouse Drama / M / $29.95
  • After his critically acclaimed mood pieces DISTANT and CLIMATES, Nuri Bilge Ceylam moves in a more plot-driven direction while retaining his mastery of ambience, nuance and astonishing cinematography. Winner of the Best Director prize at the 2008 Cannes Film festival, THREE MONKEYS tells a twisty, noirish tale that opens with an ambitious politician fleeing a hit-and-run accident. Afraid of hurt… more
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