• Lionsgate has purchased the North American rights for Dark Blood, the last film starring River Phoenix (My Own Private Idaho) before he passed away in 1993. Directed and written by George Sluizer (The Vanishing), the upcoming thriller follows the story of Boy (Phoenix), a young widower living as a hermit on a nuclear testing site in the desert. While traveling solo on his “second” honeymoon, Boy discovers a stranded Hollywood couple. Desiring the woman, Boy decides to hold them captive because he finds himself under the impression that he can create a better world with her. The upcoming drama, set to be released via VOD,...
- 5/16/2014
- by Pamela Gocobachi
- EW - Inside Movies
DVD Release Date: Feb. 26, 2013
Price: DVD $30.99
Studio: Sony
Golshifteh Farahani and Mathieu Amalric star in Chicken with Plums.
The 2011 fantasy-fueled comedy-drama film Chicken with Plums is written and directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, the filmmakers behind the acclaimed 2008 animated film Persepolis.
Tehran, 1958: Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser Ali Khan (Mathieu Almaric, Wild Grass), one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death. As he hopes for its arrival, he plunges into deep reveries, with dreams as melancholic as they are joyous, taking him back to his youth and even to a conversation with Azrael (Edouard Baer), Angel of of Death, who reveals the future of his children. As pieces of the puzzle gradually fit together, the secret of his life comes to light: a story of love,...
Price: DVD $30.99
Studio: Sony
Golshifteh Farahani and Mathieu Amalric star in Chicken with Plums.
The 2011 fantasy-fueled comedy-drama film Chicken with Plums is written and directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, the filmmakers behind the acclaimed 2008 animated film Persepolis.
Tehran, 1958: Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser Ali Khan (Mathieu Almaric, Wild Grass), one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death. As he hopes for its arrival, he plunges into deep reveries, with dreams as melancholic as they are joyous, taking him back to his youth and even to a conversation with Azrael (Edouard Baer), Angel of of Death, who reveals the future of his children. As pieces of the puzzle gradually fit together, the secret of his life comes to light: a story of love,...
- 12/17/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Oct. 30, 2012
Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray $29.98
Studio: Mpi
Her name was Lola, she was a stripper: Salma Hayek stars in Americano.
Salma Hayek (Savages) stars as a stripper who helps a man uncover secrets about his late mother in the 2011 drama film Americano, directed and written by and starring Mathieu Demy (The Girl on the Train).
After receiving news of his mother’s death, Martin (Demy) leaves his girlfriend (Chiara Mastroianni, Park Benches) and home in Paris and sets off for his childhood home in Los Angeles to tie up the loose ends of his rocky maternal relationship. Arriving in the U.S., Martin digs into his mother’s past and discovers she had a hidden relationship with a beautiful woman named Lola (Hayek), who he finds at a seedy strip club in Tijuana called “The Americano.” While Lola recounts her affair with his mother, Martin realizes there...
Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray $29.98
Studio: Mpi
Her name was Lola, she was a stripper: Salma Hayek stars in Americano.
Salma Hayek (Savages) stars as a stripper who helps a man uncover secrets about his late mother in the 2011 drama film Americano, directed and written by and starring Mathieu Demy (The Girl on the Train).
After receiving news of his mother’s death, Martin (Demy) leaves his girlfriend (Chiara Mastroianni, Park Benches) and home in Paris and sets off for his childhood home in Los Angeles to tie up the loose ends of his rocky maternal relationship. Arriving in the U.S., Martin digs into his mother’s past and discovers she had a hidden relationship with a beautiful woman named Lola (Hayek), who he finds at a seedy strip club in Tijuana called “The Americano.” While Lola recounts her affair with his mother, Martin realizes there...
- 9/24/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
DVD Release Date: July 10, 2012
Price: DVD $29.99
Studio: Zeitgeist/KimStim
Chiara Mastroianni (r.) ties to make it work with Louis Garrel in Making Plans for Lena.
Chiara Mastroianni (Park Benches), Marie-Christine Barrault (Cousin Cousine) and Louis Garrel (The Dreamers) star in the 2009 French film drama Making Plans for Lena, directed by acclaimed auteur Christophe Honoré (Love Songs).
But it’s not all that easy: From the moment she arrives in Brittany, she is confronted with unwanted advice from her overly critical mother (Barrault) and pregnant sister (Marina Fois), character analysis (that borders on character assassination) and a few other unexpected surprises. But that’s what family is all about, right…?
Making Plans for Lena arrives on DVD following its well-received theatrical release in France, screenings at film festivals around the world and a limited theatrical run in theaters in the U.S. in August, 2010.
Presented in French with optional English subtitles,...
Price: DVD $29.99
Studio: Zeitgeist/KimStim
Chiara Mastroianni (r.) ties to make it work with Louis Garrel in Making Plans for Lena.
Chiara Mastroianni (Park Benches), Marie-Christine Barrault (Cousin Cousine) and Louis Garrel (The Dreamers) star in the 2009 French film drama Making Plans for Lena, directed by acclaimed auteur Christophe Honoré (Love Songs).
But it’s not all that easy: From the moment she arrives in Brittany, she is confronted with unwanted advice from her overly critical mother (Barrault) and pregnant sister (Marina Fois), character analysis (that borders on character assassination) and a few other unexpected surprises. But that’s what family is all about, right…?
Making Plans for Lena arrives on DVD following its well-received theatrical release in France, screenings at film festivals around the world and a limited theatrical run in theaters in the U.S. in August, 2010.
Presented in French with optional English subtitles,...
- 4/3/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Your capacity to enjoy Bruno Podalydés’ Park Benches will depend mostly on whether you enjoy people watching in real life. If no one’s done it yet, let this writer be the first to coin a term for this frustratingly and satisfyingly French film – “observational whimsy”. If the myopic cast of Paul Haggis’ Crash was too much for your palette, here is a lightweight dessert with just a hint of bitterness. Park Benches is an acquired taste though, testing your patience with a determined lack of focus and a cast so large that any fond hope of character development will shrivel up and die within the first half hour.
If there is a main character at the head of the purported cast of 90, it would be Lucie (Florence Muller), an office worker with a fish tank that she locks in a closet and a tendency to slack off. Along with her chatty co-workers,...
If there is a main character at the head of the purported cast of 90, it would be Lucie (Florence Muller), an office worker with a fish tank that she locks in a closet and a tendency to slack off. Along with her chatty co-workers,...
- 7/30/2011
- by Mark Zhuravsky
- JustPressPlay.net
Chicago – Episodic ensemble pieces in America often follow a contrived pattern typified by Paul Haggis’s “Crash.” Various diverse lives are juxtaposed and intersect while illustrating an overarching theme. What’s so refreshing about Bruno Podalydès’s 2009 French gem, “Park Benches,” is its utter lack of dramatic significance. It’s more interested in exploring the idiosyncrasies of humanity rather than preaching a self-important message.
Podalydès is a writer/director not known to most American moviegoers, but this thoroughly delightful comedy is bound to win the filmmaker many new fans. The vast majority of his screwball humor does not get lost in cultural translation, and produces countless moments that are laugh-out-loud funny. As a microcosm of Parisian society, “Benches” hops whimsically from one colorful scenario to the next, capturing vignettes as endearing as they are bittersweet.
DVD Rating: 4.0/5.0
What’s apparent right off the bat is the picture’s mammoth gallery of French stars.
Podalydès is a writer/director not known to most American moviegoers, but this thoroughly delightful comedy is bound to win the filmmaker many new fans. The vast majority of his screwball humor does not get lost in cultural translation, and produces countless moments that are laugh-out-loud funny. As a microcosm of Parisian society, “Benches” hops whimsically from one colorful scenario to the next, capturing vignettes as endearing as they are bittersweet.
DVD Rating: 4.0/5.0
What’s apparent right off the bat is the picture’s mammoth gallery of French stars.
- 7/29/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The contest is now over. Congratulations to the three winners (chosen by Random.org): Prakash Natarajan, Daniel Thornton Jr. and Susan Smoaks! Please email your mailing address to sam@discdish.com to claim your prize.
Thanks to everyone who entered. Keep check back for more giveaways.
Aaah, the wonderful Catherine Deneuve (Park Benches) and brilliant Gerard Depardieu (Inspector Bellamy) in a movie about women’s liberation in the 1970s. How can it go wrong? Potiche arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on July 19 from Music Box Films, and Disc Dish is giving away three copies to lucky readers.
If you’re into foreign films, especially French ones, you’ll be thrilled to know Potiche is directed by the fabulous filmmaker Fancois Ozon (Hideaway). If you aren’t familiar with his work, trust us, it’s worth it to take a look.
Potiche gets its name from the French word for...
Thanks to everyone who entered. Keep check back for more giveaways.
Aaah, the wonderful Catherine Deneuve (Park Benches) and brilliant Gerard Depardieu (Inspector Bellamy) in a movie about women’s liberation in the 1970s. How can it go wrong? Potiche arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on July 19 from Music Box Films, and Disc Dish is giving away three copies to lucky readers.
If you’re into foreign films, especially French ones, you’ll be thrilled to know Potiche is directed by the fabulous filmmaker Fancois Ozon (Hideaway). If you aren’t familiar with his work, trust us, it’s worth it to take a look.
Potiche gets its name from the French word for...
- 7/14/2011
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
The French comedy Potiche, a satire about the war between the sexes and classes by the prolific François Ozon (Hideaway), arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in the U.S. on July 19 from Music Box Films.
Starring French film legends Gerard Depardieu (Inspector Bellamy) and Catherine Deneuve (Park Benches), Potiche is a loose adaptation of the popular 1970s French stage play by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy (Cactus Flower).
Set in a provincial French town in 1977, the movie tells the story of Suzanne Pujot (Deneuve), who’s the housebound trophy wife of the tyrannical industrialist Robert Pjuol (Fabrice Luchini, Moliere). When the workers go on strike and her husband has a heart attack, Suzanne steps into the manager’s chair and proves herself a very capable woman of action. But when she gets romantically involved with her ex-beau, the union leader (Depardieu), things get complicated.
Incidentally, the title, Potiche, is a...
Starring French film legends Gerard Depardieu (Inspector Bellamy) and Catherine Deneuve (Park Benches), Potiche is a loose adaptation of the popular 1970s French stage play by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy (Cactus Flower).
Set in a provincial French town in 1977, the movie tells the story of Suzanne Pujot (Deneuve), who’s the housebound trophy wife of the tyrannical industrialist Robert Pjuol (Fabrice Luchini, Moliere). When the workers go on strike and her husband has a heart attack, Suzanne steps into the manager’s chair and proves herself a very capable woman of action. But when she gets romantically involved with her ex-beau, the union leader (Depardieu), things get complicated.
Incidentally, the title, Potiche, is a...
- 7/12/2011
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
DVD Playhouse—July 2011
By Allen Gardner
The Music Room (Criterion) Satyajit Ray’s 1958 masterpiece looks at the life of a fallen aristocrat as a metaphor for an India that is not only becoming Westernized, but modernized technologically and culturally beyond recognition. When the beloved music room, where he has hosted lavish concerts in the past, starts falling into disrepair as attendance drops steadily, the man realizes his way of life is vanishing. Stunningly shot in black & white, one of Ray’s finest works. Bonuses: Documentary on Ray from 1984 by Shyam Benegal; Interviews with Ray biographer Andrew Robinson and filmmaker Mira Nair; Excerpt from 1981 roundtable discussion between Ray, critic Michael Ciment, director Claude Sautet. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Full screen. Dolby 1.0 mono.
Beauty And The Beast (Criterion) Jean Cocteau’s sublime adaptation of the classic fairy tale become a beloved classic upon its 1946 release, and hasn’t faded since.
By Allen Gardner
The Music Room (Criterion) Satyajit Ray’s 1958 masterpiece looks at the life of a fallen aristocrat as a metaphor for an India that is not only becoming Westernized, but modernized technologically and culturally beyond recognition. When the beloved music room, where he has hosted lavish concerts in the past, starts falling into disrepair as attendance drops steadily, the man realizes his way of life is vanishing. Stunningly shot in black & white, one of Ray’s finest works. Bonuses: Documentary on Ray from 1984 by Shyam Benegal; Interviews with Ray biographer Andrew Robinson and filmmaker Mira Nair; Excerpt from 1981 roundtable discussion between Ray, critic Michael Ciment, director Claude Sautet. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Full screen. Dolby 1.0 mono.
Beauty And The Beast (Criterion) Jean Cocteau’s sublime adaptation of the classic fairy tale become a beloved classic upon its 1946 release, and hasn’t faded since.
- 7/7/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
The acclaimed 2009 French comedy film Park Benches (Bancs publics), an IFC film, will be released on DVD on July 26 by Entertainment One.
The DVD will carry a list price of $24.98.
Catherine Deneuve and Bruno Podalydès are two of dozens of performers in Park Benches.
Directed and co-written by Bruno Podalydès (the “Montmartre” segment of Paris, Je T’Aime) , the movie interweaves three primary narratives set in a wealthy Paris suburb—one involving a lonely man and the office workers across the way, another focusing on the people in a local park, and a third dealing with those in a nearby home-improvement store. The stories are set into motion via the aforementioned lonely guy, ultimately revealing that wealthy suburbanites aren’t always as happy as they appear to be.
Featuring nearly 90 speaking parts and an all-star cast that includes such well-known French actors as Catherine Deneuve (The Hunger), Mathieu Amalric (Wild...
The DVD will carry a list price of $24.98.
Catherine Deneuve and Bruno Podalydès are two of dozens of performers in Park Benches.
Directed and co-written by Bruno Podalydès (the “Montmartre” segment of Paris, Je T’Aime) , the movie interweaves three primary narratives set in a wealthy Paris suburb—one involving a lonely man and the office workers across the way, another focusing on the people in a local park, and a third dealing with those in a nearby home-improvement store. The stories are set into motion via the aforementioned lonely guy, ultimately revealing that wealthy suburbanites aren’t always as happy as they appear to be.
Featuring nearly 90 speaking parts and an all-star cast that includes such well-known French actors as Catherine Deneuve (The Hunger), Mathieu Amalric (Wild...
- 6/26/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
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