New Releases from Facets

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New Releases from Facets
Yesterday Girl • Bottom Land • Kamikaze Hearts • What’s Underground About Marshmallows?
Dany Laferriere: Films From a Poet’s Imagination • Real End of the Great War • In Desert and Wilderness
AK
ANDER KLUGE
YESTERDAY
GIRL
COLLECTIO
“Kluge . . .is not only a great filmmaker, but an intellectual, a storyteller,
and one of the great cultural critics of our time.”—SENSES OF CINEMA
GERMAN FILM AWARDS
GERMAN FILM AWARDS
Director, Actress, Supporting Actor
Director, Actress, Supporting Actor
Outstanding Feature
Film
Outstanding Feature Film
Debut Feature of the Founding
Father
of the New
German
Cinema
Outstanding Individual Achievement:
Outstanding Individual Achievement:
“...Yesterday Girl summed up the aspirations of a generation....”
—SIGHT & SOUND
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VENICE INTERNATIONAL
GERMAN FILM AWARDS
FILMOutstanding
FESTIVAL Feature Film
Special
Jury Prize
Outstanding
Individual Achievement:
OCIC Award:
Honorable
Mention
Director, Actress,
Supporting Actor
GERMAN FILM AWARDS
Outstanding Feature Film
Outstanding Individual Achievement:
Director, Actress, Supporting Actor
“
VENICE INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL
Special Jury Prize
OCIC Award: Honorable Mention
VENICE INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL
Special Jury Prize
OCIC Award: Honorable Mention
...[ K l uge ’s] mo st l ika bl e a nd a c ce ssibl e fi l m . ”
—Thomas Elsaesser, FILM COMMENT
VENICE INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL
Special Jury Prize
YESTERDAY
GIRL,
the Mention
stunning
OCIC Award:
Honorable
feature debut by Alexander Kluge,
launched the movement known as the New German Cinema after the
film’s triumph at the Venice International Film Festival when the press
hailed it as the rebirth of German film.
At the heart of YESTERDAY GIRL is the performance of Alexandra Kluge,
the director’s sister, who stars as a young East German woman named
Anita G. Carrying all of her belongings in a flimsy suitcase, Anita passes
through the Berlin Wall looking for a better life in the promised land of
West Germany. But, that dream eludes her because she can’t let go of
the childhood and past experiences that have determined her
unfortunate path.
Facets is proud to present THE ALEXANDER KLUGE COLLECTION, a
comprehensive retrospective of Kluge’s film and television work
comprising more than 15 features and 20 shorts.
YESTERDAY GIRL. Abschied von Gestern. Written and directed by Alexander Kluge. With Alexandra
Kluge, Gunther Mack, Eva Maria Meineke, Hans Horte, with Alexander Kluge as the narrator.
Cinematography by Edgar Reitz and Thomas Mauch. Edited by Beate Mainka-Jelinghaus. Produced
by Kairos-Film and Independent Film.
Germany/1966/Black & White/Fullscreen/88 mins. In German with English subtitles.
Special Features
• Brutality in Stone and An Experiment
in Love, two short films by Kluge
• News clip, “News from ’66 Venice
Film Festival”
YESTERDAY GIRL
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T HE
A L E X A NDE R K LUGE
C OL L EC T ION
“. . .next to Quo Vadis, the most popular film of 2001 in Poland.”
—Peter Gessner, INFO POLAND
Children’s
International
Film Festival
Best of the Fest
Before guiding X-Men Origins: Wolverine
to blockbuster glory, and steering Tsotsi
to award-winning success, Gavin Hood
directed this charming story based on a
novel by Poland’s premier writer, Henryk
Sienkiewicz.
While traveling with their parents who
are engineers on the Suez Canal, two
youngsters are kidnapped and taken
into the heart of the African desert.
They manage to escape the clutches of
their kidnappers, along with two African
children, to embark on the long journey
home. Lost deep inside the continent,
the kids experience a perilous adventure
fraught with excitement and danger as
they find their way back to civilization.
Along the way, they learn the meaning
of friendship and family.
IN DESERT AND WILDERNESS. W pustyni i w puszczy. Written and directed
by Gavin Hood, based on a novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz. With Karolina
Sawka, Adam Fidusiewicz, and Artur Zmijewski. Cinematography by Paul
Gilpin. Visual effects by Brett Manson. Music by Krzesimir Debski. Produced
by Waldemar Dziki and Desiree Markgraaff for Vision Film Distribution.
Poland/2001/Color/Widescreen/111 mins.
In Polish with English subtitles, or in English dubbed.
IN DESERT AND WILDERNESS
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Facets Limited Edition
“...the most interesting—and
disturbing—lesbian picture.”
—VILLAGE VOICE
“...vibrant...gritty...enthralling....”
—SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
KAMIKAZE HEARTS combines narrative
fiction with documentary techniques
to tell the tumultuous tale of Sharon
“Mitch” Mitchell and Tina “Tigr”
Mennett, two real-life lovers and
junkies. Mitch is an actress, and Tigr is
a producer—it’s a match made in hell.
Uncompromisingly underground and
fashionably feminist, KAMIKAZE HEARTS
will “drag you to a certain place,”
according to the L.A. Weekly, and that
place is “the world of lesbian-junkie
porn stars. If you’re excited by that
place . . . you’ll like this film because
it’s so resolutely inside the world of
naked bodies, make-believe, addiction,
despair, two-bit sleaze, and two-bit
dreams.”
KAMIKAZE HEARTS. Directed by Juliet Bashore. With Tigr Mennett,
Sharon Mitchell, Phae Bird, Hans Fuss, Mantra, and Mistress
Kat. Written by Juliet Bashore, Tigr Mennett, and John Knoop.
Cinematography by David Golia. Edited by John Knoop. Produced by
Sharon Hennessey, Heinz Legler, and Bob Rivkin.
U.S./1986/Color/Fullscreen/80 mins.
KAMIKAZE HEARTS
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preservation, the Facets Limited Edition
series offers rare, exclusive titles never
before available on DVD.
Facets Limited Edition
Best Film
Houston International
Film Festival
“...blunt and uncompromising....”
—LOS ANGELES TIMES
“...deeply moving....”—VARIETY
Three generations of males from one
family—a grandfather, father, and son—
are in emotional turmoil after the tragic
death of the young son’s mother.
BOTTOM LAND. Directed by Edward Radtke. With Richard Hyde,
Bryan Shane Allen, Ken West, Eva Woods, and Bo Saunders. Written
by Edward Radtke and M.S. Nieson. Cinematography by John
Inwood. Edited by Edward Radtke and Suzanne Boucher.
Produced by Edward Radtke with Adriana Rivera and M.S. Nieson.
U.S./1991/Color/Fullscreen/75 mins.
BOTTOM LAND
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Stephen Sommers returns home to the
family farm in southern Ohio six months
after the accident that killed his wife and
sent him to a mental hospital. He notices
that his elderly father and his young son
have bonded in his absence, creating a
rift among them during a time when they
should be healing. A powerful exploration
of three men incapable of expressing
emotion, BOTTOM LAND is a heartfelt tale
from the Heartland from indie director
Edward Radtke.
As part of our commitment to film
preservation, the Facets Limited Edition
series offers rare, exclusive titles never
before available on DVD.
Facets Limited Edition
“A lot of people say that Jack
[Smith] only had about 12 ideas,
but that they were the most
important 12 ideas of the last 25
years. He created a theatrical
universe that no one had ever seen
before, with himself at the center.”
—Ron Vawter
As part of our commitment to film
preservation, the Facets Limited Edition
series offers rare, exclusive titles never
before available on DVD.
WHAT’S UNDERGROUND ABOUT MARSHMALLOWS? Directed by Jill
Godmilow. With Ron Vawter. Written by Jack Smith based on Smith’s
What’s Underground About Marshmallows? Cinematography by Ellen
Kuras. Edited by Merril Stern. Music by Michael Sahl Produced by
Ted Hope, James Schamus and Marianne Weems.
U.S./1996/Color/Fullscreen/60 mins.
WHAT’S UNDERGROUND
ABOUT MARSHMALLOWS?
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WHAT’S UNDERGROUND ABOUT
MARSHMALLOWS? was the second
part of Ron Vawter’s highly acclaimed
theater piece Roy Cohn/Jack Smith,
first staged in 1989 in New York City
and then performed nationally until
Vawter’s death from AIDS in 1994. Jack
Smith was a vanguard underground
filmmaker, who was sometimes hailed
as the father of performance art. In his
later films and performances, such as the
one re-imagined here, Smith explored a
deceptively frivolous camp aesthetic that
transformed bits of Hollywood “B” movies
into socio-political critique and high art.
This complete, uninterrupted performance
of Jack Smith’s Marshmallows was
recorded at New York’s legendary
performance venue, The Kitchen—it was
Vawter’s last performance.
“[Conquer is] A shrewd, funny,
humane and very well-written
and acted comedy....”—Michael
Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“[Fever has] beautifully lensed local
color and a pleasing soupcon of
sensuality....”—Joe Leydon, VARIETY
Jutra Awards
(Montreal)
Nomination for Best Editing
The mystery and wonder of modern-day
Haiti come alive in this two-film, twodisc set based on the work of writerdirector Dany Laferrière.
In HOW TO CONQUER AMERICA IN ONE
NIGHT, handsome Gege, a Haitian in
his thirties, arrives in Montreal at the
doorstep of his Uncle Fanfan determined
to be successful by charming blondehaired women. During the course of one
night out on the town, Gege and Fanfan
discover fun, friendship, and fantasies—
with the help of twins Andree and Denise.
HOW TO CONQUER AMERICA IN ONE NIGHT. Comment conquerir l’Amerique.
Written and directed by Dany Laferrière. With Michel Mpambara, Maka Koto,
Sonia Vachon, and Sophie Faucher. Produced by Boreal Films.
Canada/2004/Color/ Widescreen/96 mins.
ON THE VERGE OF A FEVER. Le goût des jeunes filles . Directed by John
L’Ecuyer. With Lansana Kourouma, Koumba Ball, and Nehemie Dumay. Written
by Laferrière, based on his novel. Produced by Christiane Larouche with
Salvatore Barrera and Sara Morley for Productions Jeux d’Ombres.
Canada and Haiti/2004/Color/Widescreen/88 mins.
In French with English subtitles.
DANY LAFERRIERE:
FILMS FROM A POET’S IMAGINATION
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ON THE VERGE OF A FEVER is set in
1971, against the backdrop of Haiti’s
brutal dictatorship and features younger
incarnations of Fanfan and Gege, the
characters from HOW TO CONQUER
AMERICA. Fanfan finds himself in deep
trouble after an incident with the TontonMacoute, Haiti’s bloodthirsty military
police force. He holes up with a beautiful
neighbor in her house, where his life will
drastically change.
“One of the directors who
remade Polish cinema....”
—Stuart Klawans, THE NATION
“...the master cinematic
stylist of the Polish
cinema....”—FILM SOCIETY
OF LINCOLN CENTER
“...one of Poland’s most
important directors....”
—Frank Turaj, POST NEW
WAVE CINEMA IN THE SOVIET
UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE
Master director Jerzy Kawalerowicz (Quo
Vadis; Mother Joan of the Angels), who
along with Andrzej Wajda, helped define
the legendary Polish School of the 1950s
and 1960s, offers a melancholy meditation
on the impact of WWII and the Holocaust.
REAL END OF THE GREAT WAR. Prawdziwy Koniec Wielkieg Wojny. Directed
by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. With Lucyna Winnicka, Roland Glowacki, Andrzej
Szalawski, and Janina Sokolowska. Written by Jerzy Kawalerowicz and Jerzy
Zawieyski. Cinematography by Jerzy Lipman. Edited by Wieslawa Otocka and
Zenon Piorecki. Music by Adam Walacinski. Produced by ZRF Kadr.
Poland/1957/Black & White/Fullscreen/89 mins. In Polish with English subtitles.
REAL END OF THE GREAT WAR
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Roza and Juliusz, a talented young
architect, marry just before the outbreak
of war. When Juliusz is deported to a
concentration camp, Roza fears the worst.
Convinced he will never return, she falls
in love with another man and starts a new
life. After the war, Juliusz returns from the
camp physically drained and emotionally
disturbed by the torments he has suffered.
Reluctantly, Roza tries to care for him, but
her life has changed, and his scars are
too deep. REAL END OF THE GREAT WAR
explores the emotional and spiritual impact
of WWII, revealing that merely surviving the
war was not enough.
FACETS VIDEO May 2010
Kamikaze Hearts
$19.95
Yesterday Girl
$29.95
Bottom Land
$19.95
Dany Laferrière: Films From
a Poet’s Imagination $29.95
PRE-ORDER: 4/27/10
What’s Underground About
Marshmallows? $19.95
Real End of the
Great War $29.95
In Desert and Wilderness
$24.95
S T R E E T: 5 / 2 5 / 1 0
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