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COMING IN APRIL 2017
ON DVD & BLU-RAY
Olive Films is proud to announce the following APRIL 2017 releases:
FIRST TIME ON
BLU-RAY!
US+CANADA
PREBOOK: 3/21/17
STREET: 4/25/17
OPHÉLIA DVD
CAT: OF1336
UPC: 887090133616
SRP: $24.95
OPHÉLIA BD
CAT: OF1337
UPC: 887090133715
SRP: $29.95
OPHÉLIA
ALIDA VALLI
(The Third Man, Senso, 1900)
CLAUDE CERVAL
(Belle de Jour, The Milky Way, Bob le Flambeur)
ANDRÉ JOCELYN
(Les Cousins, Leda, The Seven Deadly Sins)
JULIETTE MAYNIEL
(Eyes Without a Face, Les Cousins, Assassination in Rome)
ROBERT BURNIER
(The Ways of Women, Blue Panther, The American Beauty)
Directed by
CLAUDE CHABROL
(Le Boucher, Madame Bovary, La Cérémonie)
Claude Chabrol’s career of bringing strong female characters (working regularly with Stéphane Audran and Isabelle Huppert) to the screen is on full display in his collaboration with Alida Valli (The Third Man) and Juliette Mayniel (Eyes Without a Face) in Ophélia.
YEAR: 1962
GENRE: DRAMA
LANGUAGE: FRENCH (with English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 104 mins
RATING: N/R
VIDEO: 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio; B&W
AUDIO: MONO
Claude Chabrol (Le Boucher) directs the inspired-by-Shakespeare cinematic gem Ophélia, starring Alida Valli (The Third Man).
Ivan (André Jocelyn, Les Cousins), a high-strung and intense young man of means, suspecting that his mother, Claudia (Valli), and Uncle Adrian (Claude Cerval, Belle de Jour) are responsible for the death of his father, sets out to reveal their foul deed.
Imagining himself a modern day Hamlet, Ivan goes about wooing Lucy (Juliette Mayniel, Eyes Without a Face), the beautiful daughter of his parents’ groundskeeper, convincing her to become the de facto Ophelia of the piece. Concocting a clever ruse to unmask the accused, Ivan’s fever dream of revenge takes a unexpected turn in Ophélia, Claude Chabrol’s witty and darkly comic reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, Hamlet.
Ophélia, directed by Claude Chabrol from a screenplay by Chabrol, Paul Gégauff
and Martial Matthieu, features stark black & white cinematography courtesy of Jean Rabier (Chabrol’s Le Boucher and Madame Bovary, Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Agnès Varda’s Cleo from 5 to 7) and a haunting score by Pierre Jansen (Le Boucher, The Lacemaker).
FIRST TIME ON
BLU-RAY!
US+CANADA
PREBOOK: 3/21/17
STREET: 4/25/17
THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL SWINDLERS
DVD
CAT: OF1338
UPC: 887090133814
SRP: $24.95
THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL SWINDLERS
BD
CAT: OF1339
UPC: 887090133913
SRP: $29.95
THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL SWINDLERS
JEAN SEBERG
(Breathless, Paint Your Wagon, Airport)
CATHERINE DENEUVE
(The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Repulsion, Belle de Jour)
JEAN-PIERRE CASSEL
(Murder on the Orient Express, Army of Shadows, The Three Musketeers)
FRANCIS BLANCHE
(Monsieur Gangster, Belle de Jour, Heaven Sent)
KEN MITSUDA
(Sansho the Bailiff, The Bad Sleep Well, Red Beard)
Directed by
CLAUDE CHABROL
(Le Boucher, Madame Bovary, La Cérémonie)
JEAN-LUC GODARD
(Breathless, Band of Outsiders, Histoire(s) du Cinema)
UGO GREGORETTI
(Ro.Go.Pa.G., Le belle famiglie, Omicron)
HIROMICHI HORIKAWA
(Kuroi gashu: Aru sarariman no shogen)
Jean-Luc Godard is among the directors guiding a cast that includes Academy Award nominee Catherine Deneuve (Best Actress, Indochine – 1993) through their paces in the entertaining soufflé of a film, The World’s Most Beautiful Swindlers.
YEAR: 1964
GENRE: DRAMA
LANGUAGE: FRENCH (with English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 95 mins
RATING: N/R
VIDEO: 2.35:1 Aspect Ratio; B&W
AUDIO: MONO
The World’s Most Beautiful Swindlers combines the talents of top-tier directors and actors from the world of American, French, Italian and Japanese cinema in an entertaining tale of sensational swindles taking place around the globe.
Claude Chabrol (Le Boucher) directs L’Homme qui vendit la Tour Eiffel, Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless) directs Le Grand escroc, Ugo Gregoretti (Ro.Go.Pa.G) directs La Feuille du Route, and Hiromichi Horikawa (Kuroi Gashu: Aru sarariman no shogen) directs Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko.
The eclectic cast of actors includes Jean Seberg (Breathless), Academy Award nominee Catherine Deneuve (Indochin – 1993), Jean-Pierre Cassel (Murder on the Orient Express), Francis Blanche (Monsieur Gangster) and Ken Mitsuda (Sansho the Bailiff).
Lending their considerable talents behind the camera are cinematographers Raoul Coutard (Breathless), Tonino Delli Colli (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), Asakazu Nakai (Ran) and Jean Rabier (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg).
NOTE: The Amsterdam segment, A River of Diamonds (directed by Roman Polanski), which was featured in original theatrical release of The World’s Most Beautiful Swindlers, has been removed from presentations of the film at the request of the director.
US+CANADA
PREBOOK: 3/21/17
STREET: 4/25/17
THEATRE OF MR. & MRS. KABAL DVD
CAT: OF1340
UPC: 887090134019
SRP: $24.95
THEATRE OF MR. & MRS. KABAL BD
CAT: OF1341
UPC: 887090134118
SRP: $29.95
THEATRE OF MR. & MRS. KABAL
PIERRE COLLET
(Greed in the Sun, Le Cercle Rouge, French Connection II)
LOUISETTE ROUSSEAU
(War of the Buttons, A Horse for Two, Run for Your Wife)
Directed by
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK
(Blanche; Immoral Tales; Goto, Isle of Love)
Walerian Borowczyk, the director of the controversial live action films Blanche, Immoral Tales and Lulu, would show his more playful side with his animated feature Theatre of Mr. & Mrs. Kabal.
YEAR: 1967
GENRE: ANIMATION COMEDY
LANGUAGE: FRENCH (with optional English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 78 mins
RATING: N/R
VIDEO: 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio; COLOR and B&W
AUDIO: MONO
Walerian Borowczyk’s (Blanche) Theatre of Mr. & Mrs. Kabal is a glimpse inside the weird and wonderful world of the theatrical Kabals. The henpecked Mr. Kabal, prone to ogling young females through his binoculars, is never quite beyond the reach of the statuesque and domineering Mrs. Kabal who flutters about (quite literally when butterflies appear inside of her stomach) in a connubial reign of terror. Although it may not always be le beau mariage, Mr. and Mrs. Kabal are nonetheless made for each other.
The years-in-the-making feature length animated film from the controversial director of Goto, Isle of Love and Immoral Tales, featuring the voice talents of Pierre Collet (Greed in the Sun) and Louisette Rousseau (War of the Buttons), is akin to other Borowczyk animated works such as The Astronauts, Renaissance and Angels’ Games.
US+CANADA
PREBOOK: 3/21/17
STREET: 4/25/17
GOTO, ISLE OF LOVE DVD
CAT: OF1342
UPC: 887090134217
SRP: $24.95
GOTO, ISLE OF LOVE BD
CAT: OF1343
UPC: 887090134316
SRP: $29.95
GOTO, ISLE OF LOVE
PIERRE BRASSEUR
(Port of Shadows, Eyes Without a Face, King of Hearts)
LIGIA BRANICE
(Blanche, La Jetée, Interno di un convento)
GUY SAINT-JEAN
(The Killing Game, Kiss Me General, Life Upside Down)
JEAN-PIERRE ANDREANI
(The Story of O, Carré blanc, A Kid)
Directed by
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK
(Blanche, Immoral Tales, The Beast)
Goto, Isle of Love is one of several collaborations (including Blanche and Interno di un convento) between director Walerian Borowczyk and leading actress and wife, Ligia Branice.
YEAR: 1968
GENRE: DRAMA
LANGUAGE: FRENCH (with English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 94 mins
RATING: N/R
ASPECT RATIO: 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio; COLOR / B&W
AUDIO: MONO
EXTRAS
With Goto, Isle of Love, director Walerian Borowczyk (Blanche) would cement his status as a visual stylist, weaver of erotic tales, and a filmmaker whose work would both confront and celebrate society’s taboos.
Goto, Isle of Love is a tale of infidelity, revenge, and repressed love, both chaste and illicit, starring Pierre Brasseur (Port of Shadows) as Goto III, an unstable and jealous dictator married to the beautiful Glossia (Ligia Branice, Blanche). Unbeknownst to Goto III, Glossia is carrying on an affair with one of his guards, the handsome Lieutenant Gono (Jean-Pierre Andreani, The Story of O). Also lusting after the dictator’s wife is Grozo (Guy Saint-Jean, The Killing Game), a petty thief who, by winning the confidence of Goto III, plans to win Glossia for himself. Simmering passions will boil over on the isle, leading to a surprising denouement.
Shot in haunting shades of black & white and color by cinematographer Guy Durban (Immoral Tales), Goto, Isle of Love is written for the screen by director Borowczyk with additional dialogue by Dominique Duvergé.
US+CANADA
PREBOOK: 3/21/17
STREET: 4/25/17
BLANCHE DVD
CAT: OF1344
UPC: 887090134415
SRP: $24.95
BLANCHE BD
CAT: OF1345
UPC: 887090134514
SRP: $29.95
BLANCHE
MICHEL SIMON
(L’Atalante, Port of Shadows, Bouda Saved from Drowning)
GEORGES WILSON
(The Three Musketeers, Not Here to be Loved, Les destinées)
LIGIA BRANICE
(Goto, Isle of Love; La Jetee; Interno di un convento)
JACQUES PERRIN
(Cinema Paradiso, Z, Brotherhood of the Wolf)
Directed by
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK
(The Beast, Immoral Tales, Love Rites)
Walerian Borowczyk’s Blanche, the winner of the Berlin International Film Festival’s Interfilm Grand Prix Award (1972) features actress and frequent collaborator Ligia Branice (Goto, Island of Love) in the lead role.
YEAR: 1971
GENRE: DRAMA
LANGUAGE: FRENCH (with English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 94 mins
RATING: N/R
VIDEO: 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio; COLOR
AUDIO: MONO
EXTRAS
Set in medieval France, an elderly noble baron (Michel Simon, L’Atalante) and his much younger bride, the beautiful Blanche (Ligia Branice, Goto, Isle of Love) welcome a visiting King (George Wilson, Les destinées) and his handsome page, Bartolomeo (Jacques Perrin, Cinema Paradiso) to their castle, and sets in motion accusations of disloyalty and marital infidelity, turning what should be a fairytale into a nightmare.
Walerian Borowczyk (The Beast), whose stylized vision of a bygone world, is key to the overall look and feel of Blanche, which despite its period surroundings, embraces very modern sensibilities.
Blanche, written and directed by Walerian Borowczyk (based on the poem Mazepa by Juliusz Slowacki), features performances by Jacques Perrin (Cinema Paradiso), Denise Péronne (Forbidden Games) and Lawrence Trimble (Meetings in theForest).
US+CANADA
PREBOOK: 3/21/17
STREET: 4/25/17
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK – SHORT FILMS COLLECTION
DVD
CAT: OF1346
UPC: 887090134613
SRP: $24.95
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK – SHORT FILMS COLLECTION
BD
CAT: OF1347
UPC: 887090134712
SRP: $29.95
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK – SHORT FILMS COLLECTION
Directed by
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK
(Theatre of Mr. & Mrs. Kabal, Blanche)
Borowcyzk’s The Concert (Le Concert de M. et Mme. Kabal) was the Special Jury Prize winner in 1963 at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
YEAR: 1959 - 1984
GENRE: DRAMA
LANGUAGE: FRENCH (with English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 152 mins.
RATING: N/R
ASPECT RATIO: 1.33 and 1.66 Aspect Ratios; COLOR / B&W
AUDIO: MONO
EXTRAS
SYNOPSIS:
Featuring fifteen of Walerian Borowczyk’s (Theatre de Monsieur & Madame Kabal) short films and animated treasures, the Short Films Collectionincludes:
The Concert (1962) aka Le Concert de M. et Mme. Kabal
The Astronauts (1959) aka Les Astronautes
Angels’ Games (1964) aka Les Jeux des Anges
Renaissance (1963)
Joachim’s Dictionary (1965) aka Le Dictionnaire de Joachim
The Greatest Love of All Time (1978) aka L’Amour Monstre de tous les temps
Diptyque (1967)
Grandma’s Encyclopedia (1963) aka L’encyclopedie de Grand-Maman
Venus on the Half-Shell (1975) aka Escargot de Venus
Gavotte (1967)
The Phonograph (1969) aka Le Phonograph
Rosalie (1966)
Scherzo Infernal (1984)
A Private Collection Uncensored aka Une Collection Particulière – Uncensored (1973)
A Private Collection Short Version aka Une Collection Particulière – Short Version (1973)
ON DVD & BLU-RAY
Olive Films is proud to announce the following APRIL 2017 releases:
- Ophélia (1962) - DVD/BD
- The World’s Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964) - DVD/BD
- Theatre Of Mr. & Mrs. Kabal (1967) - DVD/BD
- Goto, Isle Of Love (1968) - DVD/BD
- Blanche (1971) - DVD/BD
- Walerian Borowczyk – Short Films Collection (1959 – 1984) - DVD/BD
FIRST TIME ON
BLU-RAY!
US+CANADA
PREBOOK: 3/21/17
STREET: 4/25/17
OPHÉLIA DVD
CAT: OF1336
UPC: 887090133616
SRP: $24.95
OPHÉLIA BD
CAT: OF1337
UPC: 887090133715
SRP: $29.95
OPHÉLIA
ALIDA VALLI
(The Third Man, Senso, 1900)
CLAUDE CERVAL
(Belle de Jour, The Milky Way, Bob le Flambeur)
ANDRÉ JOCELYN
(Les Cousins, Leda, The Seven Deadly Sins)
JULIETTE MAYNIEL
(Eyes Without a Face, Les Cousins, Assassination in Rome)
ROBERT BURNIER
(The Ways of Women, Blue Panther, The American Beauty)
Directed by
CLAUDE CHABROL
(Le Boucher, Madame Bovary, La Cérémonie)
Claude Chabrol’s career of bringing strong female characters (working regularly with Stéphane Audran and Isabelle Huppert) to the screen is on full display in his collaboration with Alida Valli (The Third Man) and Juliette Mayniel (Eyes Without a Face) in Ophélia.
YEAR: 1962
GENRE: DRAMA
LANGUAGE: FRENCH (with English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 104 mins
RATING: N/R
VIDEO: 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio; B&W
AUDIO: MONO
Claude Chabrol (Le Boucher) directs the inspired-by-Shakespeare cinematic gem Ophélia, starring Alida Valli (The Third Man).
Ivan (André Jocelyn, Les Cousins), a high-strung and intense young man of means, suspecting that his mother, Claudia (Valli), and Uncle Adrian (Claude Cerval, Belle de Jour) are responsible for the death of his father, sets out to reveal their foul deed.
Imagining himself a modern day Hamlet, Ivan goes about wooing Lucy (Juliette Mayniel, Eyes Without a Face), the beautiful daughter of his parents’ groundskeeper, convincing her to become the de facto Ophelia of the piece. Concocting a clever ruse to unmask the accused, Ivan’s fever dream of revenge takes a unexpected turn in Ophélia, Claude Chabrol’s witty and darkly comic reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, Hamlet.
Ophélia, directed by Claude Chabrol from a screenplay by Chabrol, Paul Gégauff
and Martial Matthieu, features stark black & white cinematography courtesy of Jean Rabier (Chabrol’s Le Boucher and Madame Bovary, Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Agnès Varda’s Cleo from 5 to 7) and a haunting score by Pierre Jansen (Le Boucher, The Lacemaker).
FIRST TIME ON
BLU-RAY!
US+CANADA
PREBOOK: 3/21/17
STREET: 4/25/17
THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL SWINDLERS
DVD
CAT: OF1338
UPC: 887090133814
SRP: $24.95
THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL SWINDLERS
BD
CAT: OF1339
UPC: 887090133913
SRP: $29.95
THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL SWINDLERS
JEAN SEBERG
(Breathless, Paint Your Wagon, Airport)
CATHERINE DENEUVE
(The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Repulsion, Belle de Jour)
JEAN-PIERRE CASSEL
(Murder on the Orient Express, Army of Shadows, The Three Musketeers)
FRANCIS BLANCHE
(Monsieur Gangster, Belle de Jour, Heaven Sent)
KEN MITSUDA
(Sansho the Bailiff, The Bad Sleep Well, Red Beard)
Directed by
CLAUDE CHABROL
(Le Boucher, Madame Bovary, La Cérémonie)
JEAN-LUC GODARD
(Breathless, Band of Outsiders, Histoire(s) du Cinema)
UGO GREGORETTI
(Ro.Go.Pa.G., Le belle famiglie, Omicron)
HIROMICHI HORIKAWA
(Kuroi gashu: Aru sarariman no shogen)
Jean-Luc Godard is among the directors guiding a cast that includes Academy Award nominee Catherine Deneuve (Best Actress, Indochine – 1993) through their paces in the entertaining soufflé of a film, The World’s Most Beautiful Swindlers.
YEAR: 1964
GENRE: DRAMA
LANGUAGE: FRENCH (with English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 95 mins
RATING: N/R
VIDEO: 2.35:1 Aspect Ratio; B&W
AUDIO: MONO
The World’s Most Beautiful Swindlers combines the talents of top-tier directors and actors from the world of American, French, Italian and Japanese cinema in an entertaining tale of sensational swindles taking place around the globe.
Claude Chabrol (Le Boucher) directs L’Homme qui vendit la Tour Eiffel, Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless) directs Le Grand escroc, Ugo Gregoretti (Ro.Go.Pa.G) directs La Feuille du Route, and Hiromichi Horikawa (Kuroi Gashu: Aru sarariman no shogen) directs Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko.
The eclectic cast of actors includes Jean Seberg (Breathless), Academy Award nominee Catherine Deneuve (Indochin – 1993), Jean-Pierre Cassel (Murder on the Orient Express), Francis Blanche (Monsieur Gangster) and Ken Mitsuda (Sansho the Bailiff).
Lending their considerable talents behind the camera are cinematographers Raoul Coutard (Breathless), Tonino Delli Colli (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), Asakazu Nakai (Ran) and Jean Rabier (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg).
NOTE: The Amsterdam segment, A River of Diamonds (directed by Roman Polanski), which was featured in original theatrical release of The World’s Most Beautiful Swindlers, has been removed from presentations of the film at the request of the director.
US+CANADA
PREBOOK: 3/21/17
STREET: 4/25/17
THEATRE OF MR. & MRS. KABAL DVD
CAT: OF1340
UPC: 887090134019
SRP: $24.95
THEATRE OF MR. & MRS. KABAL BD
CAT: OF1341
UPC: 887090134118
SRP: $29.95
THEATRE OF MR. & MRS. KABAL
PIERRE COLLET
(Greed in the Sun, Le Cercle Rouge, French Connection II)
LOUISETTE ROUSSEAU
(War of the Buttons, A Horse for Two, Run for Your Wife)
Directed by
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK
(Blanche; Immoral Tales; Goto, Isle of Love)
Walerian Borowczyk, the director of the controversial live action films Blanche, Immoral Tales and Lulu, would show his more playful side with his animated feature Theatre of Mr. & Mrs. Kabal.
YEAR: 1967
GENRE: ANIMATION COMEDY
LANGUAGE: FRENCH (with optional English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 78 mins
RATING: N/R
VIDEO: 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio; COLOR and B&W
AUDIO: MONO
Walerian Borowczyk’s (Blanche) Theatre of Mr. & Mrs. Kabal is a glimpse inside the weird and wonderful world of the theatrical Kabals. The henpecked Mr. Kabal, prone to ogling young females through his binoculars, is never quite beyond the reach of the statuesque and domineering Mrs. Kabal who flutters about (quite literally when butterflies appear inside of her stomach) in a connubial reign of terror. Although it may not always be le beau mariage, Mr. and Mrs. Kabal are nonetheless made for each other.
The years-in-the-making feature length animated film from the controversial director of Goto, Isle of Love and Immoral Tales, featuring the voice talents of Pierre Collet (Greed in the Sun) and Louisette Rousseau (War of the Buttons), is akin to other Borowczyk animated works such as The Astronauts, Renaissance and Angels’ Games.
US+CANADA
PREBOOK: 3/21/17
STREET: 4/25/17
GOTO, ISLE OF LOVE DVD
CAT: OF1342
UPC: 887090134217
SRP: $24.95
GOTO, ISLE OF LOVE BD
CAT: OF1343
UPC: 887090134316
SRP: $29.95
GOTO, ISLE OF LOVE
PIERRE BRASSEUR
(Port of Shadows, Eyes Without a Face, King of Hearts)
LIGIA BRANICE
(Blanche, La Jetée, Interno di un convento)
GUY SAINT-JEAN
(The Killing Game, Kiss Me General, Life Upside Down)
JEAN-PIERRE ANDREANI
(The Story of O, Carré blanc, A Kid)
Directed by
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK
(Blanche, Immoral Tales, The Beast)
Goto, Isle of Love is one of several collaborations (including Blanche and Interno di un convento) between director Walerian Borowczyk and leading actress and wife, Ligia Branice.
YEAR: 1968
GENRE: DRAMA
LANGUAGE: FRENCH (with English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 94 mins
RATING: N/R
ASPECT RATIO: 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio; COLOR / B&W
AUDIO: MONO
EXTRAS
- Introduction by artist and Turner Prize nominee Craigie Horsfield
- The Concentration Universe: Goto, Isle of Love – Interview program featuring actor Jean-Pierre Andréani, co-writer Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin, cameraman Noël Véry and camera assistant Jean-Pierre Platel
With Goto, Isle of Love, director Walerian Borowczyk (Blanche) would cement his status as a visual stylist, weaver of erotic tales, and a filmmaker whose work would both confront and celebrate society’s taboos.
Goto, Isle of Love is a tale of infidelity, revenge, and repressed love, both chaste and illicit, starring Pierre Brasseur (Port of Shadows) as Goto III, an unstable and jealous dictator married to the beautiful Glossia (Ligia Branice, Blanche). Unbeknownst to Goto III, Glossia is carrying on an affair with one of his guards, the handsome Lieutenant Gono (Jean-Pierre Andreani, The Story of O). Also lusting after the dictator’s wife is Grozo (Guy Saint-Jean, The Killing Game), a petty thief who, by winning the confidence of Goto III, plans to win Glossia for himself. Simmering passions will boil over on the isle, leading to a surprising denouement.
Shot in haunting shades of black & white and color by cinematographer Guy Durban (Immoral Tales), Goto, Isle of Love is written for the screen by director Borowczyk with additional dialogue by Dominique Duvergé.
US+CANADA
PREBOOK: 3/21/17
STREET: 4/25/17
BLANCHE DVD
CAT: OF1344
UPC: 887090134415
SRP: $24.95
BLANCHE BD
CAT: OF1345
UPC: 887090134514
SRP: $29.95
BLANCHE
MICHEL SIMON
(L’Atalante, Port of Shadows, Bouda Saved from Drowning)
GEORGES WILSON
(The Three Musketeers, Not Here to be Loved, Les destinées)
LIGIA BRANICE
(Goto, Isle of Love; La Jetee; Interno di un convento)
JACQUES PERRIN
(Cinema Paradiso, Z, Brotherhood of the Wolf)
Directed by
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK
(The Beast, Immoral Tales, Love Rites)
Walerian Borowczyk’s Blanche, the winner of the Berlin International Film Festival’s Interfilm Grand Prix Award (1972) features actress and frequent collaborator Ligia Branice (Goto, Island of Love) in the lead role.
YEAR: 1971
GENRE: DRAMA
LANGUAGE: FRENCH (with English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 94 mins
RATING: N/R
VIDEO: 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio; COLOR
AUDIO: MONO
EXTRAS
- Introduction by director Leslie Megahey
- Ballad of Imprisonment: Blanche – Interview program featuring producer Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin, assistant director André Heinrich, camera operator Noël Véry and assistant Patrice Leconte
Set in medieval France, an elderly noble baron (Michel Simon, L’Atalante) and his much younger bride, the beautiful Blanche (Ligia Branice, Goto, Isle of Love) welcome a visiting King (George Wilson, Les destinées) and his handsome page, Bartolomeo (Jacques Perrin, Cinema Paradiso) to their castle, and sets in motion accusations of disloyalty and marital infidelity, turning what should be a fairytale into a nightmare.
Walerian Borowczyk (The Beast), whose stylized vision of a bygone world, is key to the overall look and feel of Blanche, which despite its period surroundings, embraces very modern sensibilities.
Blanche, written and directed by Walerian Borowczyk (based on the poem Mazepa by Juliusz Slowacki), features performances by Jacques Perrin (Cinema Paradiso), Denise Péronne (Forbidden Games) and Lawrence Trimble (Meetings in theForest).
US+CANADA
PREBOOK: 3/21/17
STREET: 4/25/17
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK – SHORT FILMS COLLECTION
DVD
CAT: OF1346
UPC: 887090134613
SRP: $24.95
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK – SHORT FILMS COLLECTION
BD
CAT: OF1347
UPC: 887090134712
SRP: $29.95
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK – SHORT FILMS COLLECTION
Directed by
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK
(Theatre of Mr. & Mrs. Kabal, Blanche)
Borowcyzk’s The Concert (Le Concert de M. et Mme. Kabal) was the Special Jury Prize winner in 1963 at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
YEAR: 1959 - 1984
GENRE: DRAMA
LANGUAGE: FRENCH (with English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 152 mins.
RATING: N/R
ASPECT RATIO: 1.33 and 1.66 Aspect Ratios; COLOR / B&W
AUDIO: MONO
EXTRAS
- Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam
- Film is not a Sausage: Borowczyk’s Short Films – Interview program featuring Borowczyk, producer Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin, assistant André Heinrich and composer Bernard Parmegiani
SYNOPSIS:
Featuring fifteen of Walerian Borowczyk’s (Theatre de Monsieur & Madame Kabal) short films and animated treasures, the Short Films Collectionincludes:
The Concert (1962) aka Le Concert de M. et Mme. Kabal
The Astronauts (1959) aka Les Astronautes
Angels’ Games (1964) aka Les Jeux des Anges
Renaissance (1963)
Joachim’s Dictionary (1965) aka Le Dictionnaire de Joachim
The Greatest Love of All Time (1978) aka L’Amour Monstre de tous les temps
Diptyque (1967)
Grandma’s Encyclopedia (1963) aka L’encyclopedie de Grand-Maman
Venus on the Half-Shell (1975) aka Escargot de Venus
Gavotte (1967)
The Phonograph (1969) aka Le Phonograph
Rosalie (1966)
Scherzo Infernal (1984)
A Private Collection Uncensored aka Une Collection Particulière – Uncensored (1973)
A Private Collection Short Version aka Une Collection Particulière – Short Version (1973)
