DVD Release Update, 6 January

Here are some DVD announcements from the past couple of weeks. Still, nothing super exciting, other than Kino's Blu-ray release of Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels, set for 16 March. They are in descending order of release.

- Cairo Station [Bab el hadid], 1958, d. Youssef Chahine, Typecast Releasing, 23 February
- Tapeheads, 1988, d. Bill Fishman, MGM, 9 March, w. John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Jessica Walter, Susan Tyrrell
- Broken Embraces [Los abrazos rotos], 2009, d. Pedro Almodóvar, also on Blu-ray, Sony, 16 March
- The Black Balloon, 2008, d. Elissa Down, Terra Entertainment, 23 March, w. Toni Collette
- Séraphine, 2008, d. Martin Provost, Music Box Films/MPI, 23 March
- Afghan Star, 2009, d. Havana Marking, Zeitgeist, 30 March
- The Killer, 1989, d. John Woo, also on Blu-ray, Dragon Dynasty/Weinstein Company, 30 March
- Sabu Double Feature [Savage Drums / Jungle Hell], 1951, 1956, d. William Berke, Norman A. Cerf, VCI, 30 March
- Sea Devils, 1953, d. Raoul Walsh, VCI, 30 March
- The Daisy Chain, 2008, d. Aisling Walsh, Image, 13 April, w. Samantha Morton, Steven Mackintosh
- Monamour, 2005, d. Tinto Brass, Cult Epics, 27 April
- The Voyeur [L'uomo che guarda], 1994, d. Tinto Brass, Cult Epics, 27 April
- Prodigal Sons, 2008, d. Kimberly Reed, First Run Features, 20 July

The Decade List: 50 (More) Honorable Mentions

I don't plan on offering realtime stats of the process of elimination I'm going to be going through, but I've officially axed 50 titles from the list that's now sitting at around 165. In previous months' updates, I'd included other honorable mentions that were certainly not going to make the 100, some annotates, some not. You can find them for 2000, 2001, 2002 and an assorted one including films from 2002-2004. These are not what one might assume to be 101-150, as I still have close to 70 more that I need to eliminate before finalizing the 100, but are of some merit nonetheless. Listed alphabetically.

20 Centimeters [20 centímetros], 2005, d. Ramón Salazar, Spain/France
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, 2007, d. Andrew Dominik, USA/Canada
Away from Her, 2006, d. Sarah Polley, Canada
Bad Education [La mala educación], 2004, d. Pedro Almodóvar, Spain
Beeswax, 2009, d. Andrew Bujalski, USA
Before I Forget [Avant que j'oublie], 2007, d. Jacques Nolot, France
The Boss of It All [Direktøren for det hele], 2006, d. Lars von Trier, Denmark/Sweden/Iceland/Italy/France/Norway/Finland/Germany
The Bridge, 2006, d. Eric Steel, USA/UK
Captain Ahab [Capitaine Achab], 2007, d. Philippe Ramos, France/Sweden
The Cats of Mirikitani, 2006, d. Linda Hattendorf, USA

City of God [Cidade de Deus], 2002, d. Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund, Brazil/France
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul [Istanbul hatirasi - Köprüyü geçmek], 2005, d. Fatih Akin, Turkey/Germany
Dave Chappelle's Block Party, 2005, d. Michel Gondry, USA
Enduring Love, 2004, d. Roger Michell, UK
The Exterminating Angels [Les anges exterminateurs], 2006, d. Jean-Claude Brisseau, France
Far from Heaven, 2002, d. Todd Haynes, USA/France
Fast Food Nation, 2006, d. Richard Linklater, USA/UK
The Girlfriend Experience, 2009, d. Steven Soderbergh, USA
Great World of Sound, 2007, d. Craig Zobel, USA
Home, 2008, d. Ursula Meier, Switzerland/France/Belgium

In the Loop, 2009, d. Armando Iannucci, UK
The Incredibles, 2004, d. Brad Bird, USA
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, 2006, d. Mary Jordan, USA
Jackass Number Two, 2006, d. Jeff Tremaine, USA
The King, 2005, d. James Marsh, UK/USA
Last Life in the Universe, 2003, d. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Thailand/Japan
Man Push Cart, 2005, d. Ramin Bahrani, USA
Manderlay, 2005, d. Lars von Trier, Denmark/Sweden/UK/France/Netherlands/Germany
Milk, 2008, d. Gus Van Sant, USA
Next Door [Naboer], 2005, d. Pål Sletaune, Norway/Sweden/Denmark

Punch-Drunk Love, 2002, d. Paul Thomas Anderson, USA
Quiet City, 2007, d. Aaron Katz, USA
Read My Lips [Sur mes lèvres], 2001, d. Jacques Audiard, France
Rejected, 2000, d. Don Hertzfeldt, USA
Requiem, 2006, d. Hans-Christian Schmid, Germany
Rubber Johnny, 2005, d. Chris Cunningham, UK
Silent Light [Stellet licht], 2007, d. Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/France/Netherlands/Germany
Solaris, 2002, d. Steven Soderbergh, USA
Somersault, 2004, d. Cate Shortland, Australia
Son frère, 2003, d. Patrice Chéreau, France

Starting Out in the Evening, 2007, d. Andrew Wagner, USA
Tetro, 2009, d. Francis Ford Coppola, USA/Italy/Spain/Argentina
Time of the Wolf [Le temps du loup], 2003, d. Michael Haneke, France/Austria/Germany
Times and Winds [Beş vakit], 2006, d. Reha Erdem, Turkey
Vinyan, 2008, d. Fabrice Du Welz, France/Belgium/UK/Australia
Wendy and Lucy, 2008, d. Kelly Reichardt, USA
X2, 2003, d. Bryan Singer, USA/Canada
XXY, 2007, d. Lucía Puenzo, Argentina/France/Spain
Yeast, 2008, d. Mary Bronstein, USA
Yella, 2007, d. Christian Petzold, Germany

All My Friends: Millennium Mambo, Take 1: Jason Huettner

Jason and I established a cyberspace amity based on two great mutual obsessions: PJ Harvey and queer cinema. He's my go-to man when it comes to PJ news and rumors, a job of no small importance for someone like me. He currently resides in New York City. I'm happy to have Jason as the first entry in this series. Neither of his lists are in preferential order.

On Music: "I hate lists that are aimed at developing some kind of consensus about art. Here are ten albums, in no particular order, released in the 00's that are essential to my 00's experience. This list isn't definitive at all (plenty of other 00's albums that I love).. but all are quality and have sentimental value. The music speaks for itself."

Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (DCBaltimore2012, 2001)
Diamanda Galás - Guilty, Guilty, Guilty (Mute, 2008)
Various Artists - Give Me Love: Songs of the Brokenhearted - Baghdad, 1925-1929 (Honest Jon's, 2008)
Scott Walker - The Drift (4AD, 2006)
Mayyors - Deads 12" (self-released, 2009)
A Frames - "1" (S-S Records, 2002)
Quasimoto - The Unseen (Stones Throw, 2000)
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline (Kranky, 2007)
The Thing (with Joe McPhee) - She Knows... (Smalltown Superjazz, 2002)
Power Douglas - Pentecostal Fangbread (FiveSix Media, 2008)

On Film: "Again, sentimentality plays a big part here. Picking just ten is hard. I am prone to alarming lapses of taste in films."

Bad Education [La mala educación], 2004, d. Pedro Almodóvar, Spain
Brick, 2005, d. Rian Johnson, USA
Children of Men, 2006, d. Alfonso Cuarón, UK/USA/Japan
Dancer in the Dark, 2000, d. Lars von Trier, Denmark/Netherlands/Germany/France/USA/UK/Sweden/Finland/Iceland/Norway
Eastern Promises, 2007, d. David Cronenberg, UK/Canada
O Fantasma, 2000, d. João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal
Mulholland Drive, 2001, d. David Lynch, France/USA
Notre musique, 2004, d. Jean-Luc Godard, France/Switzerland
Pan's Labyrinth [El laberinto del Fauno], 2006, d. Guillermo del Toro, Mexico/Spain/USA
The Proposition, 2005, d. John Hillcoat, Australia/UK
The Raspberry Reich, 2004, d. Bruce LaBruce, Germany/Canada
The Royal Tenenbaums, 2001, d. Wes Anderson, USA
Strange Circus, 2005, d. Sion Sono, Japan
There Will Be Blood, 2007, d. Paul Thomas Anderson, USA
Waltz with Bashir, 2008, d. Ari Folman, Israel/Germany/France/USA

My favorite time of year: John Waters' Top 10 of 2009

Not only does the end of each year bring me to want to relive my favorite Christmas movie (sorry Arnaud Desplechin, Bruce Willis), but it also marks the time when John Waters provides his Top 10 films of the year for Artforum. Last year his #1 was a tie between Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Christophe Honoré's Love Songs [Les chansons d'amour], both of which made my list too although there were quite a few of you who weren't as impressed. This year, it's Ulrich Seidl's Import/Export. The real joy of his lists though is the sentence or two that accompany the films. You can read it all at the link above, but the two highlights for me were Antichrist ("If Ingmar Bergman had committed suicide, gone to hell, and come back to earth to direct an exploitation/art film for drive-ins, this is the movie he would have made.") and In the Loop ("A smart, mean, foulmouthed British satire about the struggle for global power that asks the all-important question: How do you debate the invasion of Iraq if your gums start to bleed in the middle of your presentation?"). Ha!

1. Import/Export, d. Ulrich Seidl
2. Antichrist, d. Lars von Trier
3. In the Loop, d. Armando Iannucci
4. World's Greatest Dad, d. Bobcat Goldthwait (hello, Shakes the Clown!)
5. Brüno, d. Larry Charles
6. Lorna's Silence [Le silence de Lorna], d. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
7. Broken Embraces [Los abrazos rotos], d. Pedro Almodóvar
8. The Baader Meinhof Complex [Der Baader Meinhof Komplex], d. Uli Edel
9. Whatever Works, d. Woody Allen
10. The Headless Woman [La mujer sin cabeza], d. Lucrecia Martel

The Decade List: La mujer sin cabeza (2008)

La mujer sin cabeza [The Headless Woman] – dir. Lucrecia Martel

Of all of the decade’s notable directorial debuts, no other director found their footing as succinctly and skillfully as Lucrecia Martel, who managed to craft one of the striking masterpieces latter part of the ‘00s with her third film, The Headless Woman [La mujer sin cabeza]. Building upon the worlds of both La ciénaga and La niña santa, Martel molds The Headless Woman around a central mystery. Did bottle-blonde, affluent dentist Véro (María Onetto, brilliant in an extremely challenging role) run over and kill someone on an empty road? In a moment of panic, she drives away from the accident where something, whether a dog or a person, was fatally hit. It depends on who you ask what the answer to the cryptic puzzle is, but most will agree, nothing about The Headless Woman can be deduced in simple terms.

Martel’s films thrive on the peripheral; she spends no time introducing characters, all of whom seem to know or have blood relations to the those upon which she focuses and seem to flutter in and out during the course of her films. It’s a refreshing, if frequently disorienting, technique, and one she puts to masterful use in The Headless Woman. Following the accident, Véro suffers a strange bout of amnesia as she disassociates herself from the crash. After a visit to the hospital, she hides away in a hotel, not unlike La niña santa, which is owned by either one of her family members or close friends (forgive me for not remembering a lot of the factual details, even though I did just watch the film again this past Sunday).

It becomes apparent that what Véro is suffering isn’t just fleeting panic but something more psychologically severe during the scene where she walks into her place of work and sits herself down in the waiting room, clearly unaware of her own profession or why she’s even there. Martel gives us very few details about Véro before the crash, which happens within the first fifteen minutes of the film, placing the audience on the same level as the protagonist, blind to almost everything that’s come before the accident and just as startled at everything that follows. Véro’s actions following the crash seem mechanical; she knows which hotel to go to and which house is hers, but she lacks recognition of the people around her and the circumstances of her own life. At the hotel, she runs into Juan Manuel (Daniel Genoud), a face she recognizes, and has sex with him. It’s later revealed that Juan Manuel is the husband of Josefina (Claudia Cantero), who’s either Véro’s sister or her cousin (no review or person I talked to seemed to be really sure about which). Though the question as to whether the two were partaking in an ongoing affair or if it happened just the one night is never directly answered, Martel tells us all we need to know when Véro, then convinced she did in fact kill someone that day, and Juan Manuel face one another again at her house.

The emphasis on the peripheral in The Headless Woman is where Martel’s strength as a filmmaker reveals itself even more dynamically than in her previous efforts (after La niña santa, The Headless Woman is the second of her films that Pedro and Augustín Almodóvar co-produced). When used in the realm of characterization, the film shows a peculiar, surprising sense of humor. From Véro’s crazy tía Lala (María Vaner) who sees ghosts and Josefina’s hepatitis-ridden daughter Candita (the wonderful Inés Efron of XXY) who discloses her crush on Véro by groping her and stating at one point, “love letters are to be answered or returned,” the actual world of The Headless Woman is a bizarre one, even outside of Véro’s mental distress. The combined efforts of cinematographer Bárbara Álvarez (who also shot Rodrigo Moreno’s wonderful El custodio) and the entire sound department rival Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men in technical flawlessness and innovation.

(While I hate to keep harping on this particular subject, especially as I’ve argued against it many times before, it’s worth noting that I don’t think I could truly appreciate the film’s technical prowess until seeing it projected on the big screen, where it swallowed me whole. It probably also helped that I was seeing it for the second time, after watching it at home months prior. But without being encompassed by the film in a theatre, committing one’s self to it without the leisure of home viewing, The Headless Woman loses some of its power. Note also how several critics have admitted to not really "getting" what Martel was up to and changing their tune after seeing it a second time.)

Truly though, it’s the way Martel addresses the film’s central mystery that makes The Headless Woman such an uncompromising and incandescent film. The details surrounding the disappearance of a child (more than likely one of the boys we see running around the canal in the opening scene), a block in the canal after the big rainstorm that arrives just after the accident and Candita’s offhand mention of a murder are all revealed almost extrinsically. For those familiar with Martel’s work though, nothing can truly be described as extrinsic in her films. In a certain light, the elements described above nearly create a secondary narrative, but as Martel situates the film entirely in Véro’s perspective, they cannot be seen as mere red herrings. I think if you pay attention to not only the details but the way in which the men in Véro’s life—her husband Marcos (César Bordón), her brother Marcelo (Guillermo Arengo) and Juan Manuel—interact with her, there is an answer to what happened on the road that day. Add that to Josefina’s proclamation that all the women of their family eventually succumb to madness, recognize the division of class in the film and The Headless Woman becomes less opaque than it originally appears.

While certainly a difficult film to market, the fact that it took The Headless Woman over a year to make it to the United States after premiering at Cannes in 2008 can best be attributed to reported cat-calls and boos it received at the premiere. The film doesn’t have the beneficial shock factor of something like Antichrist, which was picked up for US distribution immediately, and it wasn’t until I saw the film top IndieWire’s poll of the best undistributed films of 2008 did I realize the jeers it received at Cannes were as unjustified as they tend to be at that particular festival. Think of them then as a nod to the reception Michelangelo Antonioni’s now classic L’avventura, which also surrounds a mystery without an expected resolution, received in 1960. For the perceptive viewer (or one that’s given the film more than one sitting), The Headless Woman is utterly brilliant filmmaking, the sort that will hopefully fuck with and perplex audiences for decades to come.

With: María Onetto, Claudia Cantero, César Bordón, Inés Efron, Daniel Genoud, Guillermo Arengo, María Vaner, Alicia Muxo, Pía Uribelarrea
Screenplay: Lucrecia Martel
Cinematography: Bárbara Álvarez
Country of Origin: Argentina/France/Italy/Spain
US Distributor: Strand Releasing

Premiere: 21 May 2008 (Cannes Film Festival)
US Premiere: 6 October 2008 (New York Film Festival)

Awards: FIPRESCI Prize (Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival)

Sony Pictures Classics Takes Lebanon

We knew it'd only be a matter of time before someone picked up Samuel Maoz's Lebanon, which won the Golden Lion at Venice a week ago, and Sony Pictures Classics were the winners of what was likely a bidding war. According to Variety, Israel has yet to announce their Academy Award submission yet, and it's between Lebanon and Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani's Ajami, which Kino recently acquired for a US release. SPC already has two titles in the running for Best Foreign-Language film in Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and Jacques Audiard's A Prophet; Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces will not be representing Spain in the foreign category, but look for a campaign for Penélope Cruz and Almodóvar's original screenplay... and, though it's probably a long-shot, Blanca Portillo in the Supporting Actress category.

The Decade List: Volver (2006)

Volver - dir. Pedro Almodóvar

[Though I've seen the film at least four times since writing this original piece, it sums up everything I have to say about the film.]

Though he only made one film with that particular title, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown could easily be the subtitle of most of Pedro Almodóvar films. Even if they’re not on their way to the nervous breakdown, they’re always on the verge of something. Few would argue with the statement that Almodóvar’s female characters are his forte, so who would be upset when he’s crafted a world where men, for better or worse, don’t exist? Returning to the form he used in All About My Mother, Almodóvar places us in a world where men only serve as catalysts for the actions of his women. These are not women that subsist in a world without men, but in a world where their dealings with men are always felt, but never actually seen. Almodóvar’s women are placed in situations where the weight of a patriarchal society (specifically a patriarchal Catholic society) has burnt itself into their lives. In Volver, Almodóvar introduces us to Raimunda (Penélope Cruz), her teenage daughter Paula (Yohana Cobo) and her sister Sole (Lola Dueñas), collectively dusting and cleaning off their mother’s grave in a lovely opening sequence, where not a single man is in sight. “The women here live longer than the men,” one character explains. In this world, the women are left to care for one another as the men have all seemingly passed away, whether by natural causes or, more likely, at the hands of their female counterparts.

To call Almodóvar a feminist filmmaker feels strange. As both a male and a homosexual, he regards these women in his own particular way. Though almost always the protagonists, the women do not frequently play the active roles in his films. The active roles are most often portrayed by offscreen characters or entities. In Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, the women are governed by the mostly unseen womanizer Iván. In both Women and Volver, Almodóvar is not concerned with showing us what happened as he is with showing us how these women react to what has happened. That nearly all of his women are fashion-savvy, beautiful and extremely feminine isn’t a sexist view in Almodóvar’s hands, but precisely the opposite. He’s not trying to change gender roles or stereotypes but to show his women in these elements and adore them in their various states of extremities. And, no one, in my mind, does it better.

After dying in a fire, Irene (Carmen Maura), mother of Raimunda and Sole, seemingly returns from the dead to right the wrongs she could not settle while alive. She first returns to care for her aging sister (Chus Lampreave, a favorite of Almodóvar) and then shacks up with Sole, keeping hidden from Raimunda, with whom she holds the strongest need to rectify her wrongs. Volver marks the first collaboration between Maura and Almodóvar since Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and while this is a welcome reunion, it’s Cruz who dazzles under his eye. Cursed with bad English-language film roles and a well-touted relationship with Tom Cruise, Cruz is finally given the opportunity to shine in the lead role (she’d prior acted in supporting roles with Almodóvar in Live Flesh and All About My Mother). Almodóvar’s camera adores Cruz, styled like a young Sophia Loren and fully equipped with butt implants, in every respect, making her look glamorous even as she’s cleaning up the dead body of her husband. If the eyes truly are the window to the soul, Cruz’s performance as the outwardly detached Raimunda would be one of the finer examples of this. Cruz hides the despair that becomes more clear in the last act of the film within her glassy eyes. Some might pick up the reason for her distant relationship with her mother early on through plot cues, but for me, it was through Cruz’s eyes. An actress that can convey all we need to know about her within her face and, especially, her eyes is a remarkable feat.

Volver may not be as layered with wonderful surprise as films like Talk to Her or Bad Education were, but we’re not the worse for it. Though certainly vivacious throughout, Volver is perhaps his most transparent picture out of the past four. The plot follows a rather steady current that may be offsetting to the more ecstatic Almodóvar fans, but this isn’t to say that he doesn’t make each shift in plot feel as effervescent and fresh as his other works. The emotions provoked in Volver are not new ones, but because Almodóvar is such a wonderful storyteller, you feel like you’re seeing this story for the first time. Though it took about thirty minutes into the film to work for me, Almodóvar swallowed me whole with Volver, turning my staunch cynicism into the blissful ignorance of a boy who has just discovered cinema. It’s not often that something like this happens, and I can’t make a guarantee that you’ll feel the same way, but it’s always nice to step away from the clinical, academic study of film to simply fall into the screen.

With: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave, Antonio de la Torre, María Isabel Díaz, Carlos Blanco, Neus Sanz, Leandro Rivera, Yolanda Ramos, Carlos García Cambero
Screenplay: Pedro Almodóvar
Cinematography: José Luis Alcaine
Music: Alberto Iglesias
Country of Origin: Spain
US Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Premiere: 10 March 2006 (Spain)
US Premiere: 2 September 2006 (Telluride Film Festival)

Awards: Best Actress - Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave, Best Screenplay (Cannes Film Festival); Best Director, Best Actress - Penélope Cruz, Best Cinematographer, Best Composer, Audience Award (European Film Awards); Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress - Penélope Cruz, Best Supporting Actress - Carmen Maura, Best Original Score (Goya Awards, Spain)

Żuławski's L'amour braque from Mondo Vision, Almodóvar and Other DVD Updates

Mondo Vision has announced the third of their nine Andrzej Żuławski releases, L'amour braque, for 15 October. Like La femme publique and L'important c'est d'aimer before it, there will be two versions to choose from: a standard edition and a limited Premium Signature edition. The film marked Żuławski's first collaboration with his then-muse Sophie Marceau, who would star in all of the rest of his French productions before they separated in 2001 after La fidélité. Francis Huster and Tchéky Karyo also star.

I've been told that Sony will be releasing all, or most, of the films from their ¡Viva Pedro! box set, released at the beginning of 2007. Law of Desire and Matador will become available individually for the first time in the US, and the remastered versions of both All About My Mother and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown will be back in circulation. I would imagine the same for Bad Education, Talk to Her and The Flower of My Secret, but unlike the other two, they were just repackaged into the set. All will/might(?) be out 3 November, just in time for Broken Embraces.

Some date changes: Water Bearer has moved the release of OMG/HaHaHa to 12 October and announced Philippe Vallois' We Were One Man [Nous étions un seul homme] for the same day. TLA has pushed their release of Shank from October to 8 December. And finally, Cinema Guild moved Jerichow's release date to 27 October.

The only Blu-ray release I came across that was of any interest was Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark from Lionsgate on 10 November. Expect that awful Twilight-looking cover art as well. The rest of the DVD announcements are below, in descending order of release.

- A Lady of Chance, 1928, d. Robert Z. Leonard, Warner Archive, 18 August, w. Norma Shearer
- Speedway, 1929, d. Harry Beaymont, Warner Archive, 18 August
- Shopping for Fangs, 1997, d. Quentin Lee, Justin Lin, Pathfinder, 6 October, w. John Cho
- West 32nd, 2007, d. Michael Kang, Pathfinder, 13 October, w. John Cho
- Carnal Uptopia [Sonhos e Desejos/O Balé da Utopia], 2006, d. Marcelo Santiago, Pathfinder, 20 October
- The Heartbreak Yakuza, 1987, d. Masato Harada, Cinema Epoch, 10 November
- Holes in My Shoes, 2006, d. David Wachs, Alive Mind, 10 November
- Hurt, 2009, d. Barbara Stepansky, Monterey, 10 November, w. Melora Walters, William Mapother
- The Merry Gentlemen, 2008, d. Michael Keaton, The Weinstein Company, 10 November, w. Michael Keaton, Kelly Macdonald
- Tora-San, Volume 1: Films 1-4, d. Yoji Yamada, Azuma Morisaki, Shun-ichi Kobayashi, AnimEigo, 10 November
- Rome, The Complete Series, 2005-2007, HBO, also on Blu-ray, 17 November
- Toi et moi, 2006, d. Julie Lopes-Curval, Koch Lorber, 24 November, w. Marion Cotillard, Julie Depardieu, Jonathan Zaccaï

The Big Region 2 Update for the UK, July '09-March '10

Instead of picking through which titles I listed last time around, I've simply narrowed this list of upcoming DVDs in the UK to the titles released after 1 July 09. Keep in mind that the release dates may change without notice (or be canceled), and the DVDs that begin with an asterisk are ones that have rolled over from the last update; the ones in bold are still unavailable in the US (or haven't set a firm release date). Some of the more exciting releases for the second half of 2009 include BFI's Blu-ray release of Visconti's The Leopard; Secondrun's release of Pedro Costa's The Blood; Artificial Eye's uncut (or so I've heard) releases of the two Jeanne la Pucelle films from Jacques Rivette; two Satyajit Ray films (Goddess, Two Daughters) from Mr. Bongo Films; Georges Franju's La tête contre les murs from Masters of Cinema; two early films from Sally Potter (London Story and The Gold Diggers with Julie Christie) from BFI; a Blu-ray of The Quay Brothers' Institute Benjamenta from BFI; and Palisades Tartan's first round of DVDs for the UK, including Tom Kalin's Swoon, Park Chan-wook's Thirst and a remastered edition of Ingmar Bergman's Fanny & Alexander. Please also note, just because a film doesn't have "also on Blu-ray" mentioned doesn't mean it won't happen; I just didn't find mention of one. The titles are in descending order of release.

* Blind Loves [Slepé lásky], 2008, d. Juraj Lehotský, ICA, 6 July
* Bronson, 2009, d. Nicolas Winding Refn, Vertigo Films, also on Blu-ray, 6 July
- Claire Dolan, 1998, d. Lodge H. Kerrigan, Artificial Eye, 6 July
* The Coffin Joe Trilogy [At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul / This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse / Awakening of the Beast], d. José Mojica Marins, Anchor Bay, 6 July
* Dream Boy, 2008, d. James Bolton, Peccadillo Pictures, 6 July
* Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts, 2007, d. Scott Hicks, Drakes Avenue, 6 July
- The Grocer's Son [Le fils de l'épicier], 2007, d. Eric Guirado, ICA, 6 July
- Immortal Love, 1972, d. Chusei Sone, HB Films, 6 July
* The Innocent Sleep, d. Scott Michell, Bluebell, 6 July
* Little Ashes, 2008, d. Paul Morrison, Spirit, 6 July

- Lola Montès, 1955, d. Max Ophüls, Second Sight, 6 July
* Meatball Machine, 2005, d. Yudai Yamaguchi, Jun'ichi Yamamoto, 4Digital Asia, 6 July
- The Red Shoes, 1948, d. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, ITV, also on Blu-ray, 6 July
* The Scarlet Tunic, 1998, d. Stuart St. Paul, Bluebell, 6 July
* Three Monkeys [Üç maymun], 2008, d. Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Drakes Avenue, 6 July
- A Woman Called Abé Sada, 1975, d. Noboru Tanaka, HB Films, 6 July
* Anti-Clock, 1980, d. Jane Arden, Jack Bond, BFI, also on Blu-ray, 13 July
* Brute Force, 1947, d. Jules Dassin, Arrow Films, 13 July
- Genova, 2008, d. Michael Winterbottom, Metrodome, 13 July
* High Art, 1998, d. Lisa Cholodenko, TLA Releasing, 13 July

* The Other Side of Underneath, 1972, d. Jane Arden, BFI, also on Blu-ray, 13 July
- Panic, 2000, d. Henry Bromell, Arrow, 13 July
* Separation, 1968, d. Jack Bond, BFI, also on Blu-ray, 13 July
* The Young Victoria, 2009, d. Jean-Marc Vallée, Momentum, also on Blu-ray, 13 July
* Diminished Capacity, 2008, d. Terry Kinney, Paramount, 20 July
- Man of Iron [Człowiek z żelaza], 1981, d. Andrzej Wajda, Mr. Bongo, 20 July
- Marlene, 1984, d. Maximilian Schell, Park Circus, 20 July
* Pedro, 2008, d. Nick Oceano, Metrodome, 20 July
- Requiem for Billy the Kid, 2006, d. Anne Feinsilber, Park Circus, 20 July
- Sirens, 1994, d. John Duigan, Arrow, 20 July

- Yellowbeard, 1983, d. Mel Damski, Optimum, 20 July
* Close My Eyes, 1991, d. Stephen Poliakoff, Film4, 27 July
* Comrades, 1986, d. Bill Douglas, BFI, also on Blu-ray, 27 July
* Il divo, 2008, d. Paolo Sorrentino, Artificial Eye, 27 July
* Gerry, 2002, d. Gus Van Sant , Film4, 27 July
* The Hal Hartley Collection [Trust / Henry Fool / The Girl from Monday], d. Hal Hartley, Artificial Eye, 27 July, available individually or as a set
* Hear My Song, 1991, d. Peter Chelsom, Film4, 27 July
* Modern Life [Profils paysans: La vie moderne], 2008, d. Raymond Depardon, Soda, 27 July
* Penny Points to Paradise / Let's Go Crazy, 1951, d. Anthony Young / Alan Cullimore, BFI, also on Blu-ray, 27 July
- House of Cards, 1993, d. Michael Lessac, Arrow, 3 August

- Insomnia, 1997, d. Erik Skjoldbjærg, Arrow, 3 August
* Let the Right One In [Låt den rätte komma in], 2008, d. Tomas Alfredson, Momentum, also on Blu-ray, 3 August
- Gate of Flesh, 1964, d. Seijin Suzuki, HB Films, 10 August
* O' Horten, 2007, d. Bent Hamer, Artificial Eye, 10 August
- Oasis, 2002, d. Lee Chang-dong, Third Window, 10 August
- The Watcher in the Attic, 1976, d. Noboru Tanaka, HB Films, 10 August
- The Fireman's Ball [Hoří, má panenko], 1967, d. Miloš Forman, Arrow, 17 August
- High Heels [Tacones lejanos], 1991, d. Pedro Almodóvar, Optimim, 17 August
- Orders to Kill, 1958, d. Anthony Asquith, Optimum, 17 August
- Pool of London, 1951, d. Basil Dearden, Studio Canal/Optimum, 17 August

- Sparrows Can't Sing, 1963, d. Joan Littlewood, Studio Canal/Optimum, 17 August
- All the Right Noises, 1969, d. Gerry O'Hara, BFI, also on Blu-ray, 24 August
- Les amants du Pont Neuf [Lovers on the Bridge], d. Leos Carax, Arrow, 24 August
- Beautiful Losers, 2008, d. Aaron Rose, Joshua Leonard, Revolver, 24 August
* La belle noiseuse / Divertimento, 1991, d. Jacques Rivette, Artificial Eye, 3-Disc Definitive Edition, 24 August
- Blue Eyelids [Párpados azules], 2007, d. Ernesto Contreras, Axiom, 24 August
- The Burning Plain, 2008, d. Guillermo Arriaga, High Fliers, 24 August
- Delta, 2008, d. Kornél Mundruczó, Drakes Avenue, 24 August
* Hannie Caulder, 1971, d. Burt Kennedy, Odeon, 24 August
- Herostratus, 1967, d. Don Levy, BFI, also on Blu-ray, 24 August

- In the Loop, 2009, d. Armando Iannucci, Optimum, also on Blu-ray, 24 August
* Jeanne la Pucelle: The Battles [Jeanne la Pucelle 1 - Les batailles], 1994, d. Jacques Rivette, Artificial Eye, 24 August
* Jeanne la Pucelle: The Prisons [Jeanne la Pucelle 2: Les prisons], 1994, d. Jacques Rivette, Artificial Eye, 24 August
* Lisbon Story, 1994, d. Wim Wenders, Axiom, 21 August
- Man in the Chair, 2007, d. Michael Schroeder, High Fliers, 24 August
- Man of Violence/The Big Switch, d. Pete Walker, BFI, also on Blu-ray, 24 August
- Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble, 1972, d. Maurice Pialat, Masters of Cinema/Eureka, 24 August
- Passe ton bac d'abord, 1979, d. Maurice Pialat, Masters of Cinema/Eureka, 24 August
* Secret défense, 1998, d. Jacques Rivette, Artificial Eye, 24 August
- The Sorrow and the Pity [Le chagrin et la pitié], 1969, d. Marcel Ophüls, Arrow, 24 August

- Footprints [Le orme], 1975, d. Luigi Bazzoni, Mario Fanelli, Shameless, 29 August
- Antarctica, 2008, d. Yair Hochner, Peccadillo Pictures, 31 August
- The Battle of Algiers [La battaglia di Algeri], 1965, d. Gillo Pontecorvo, Argent, 31 August
- The Big Knife, 1955, d. Robert Aldrich, Optimum, 31 August
- Conversations with My Gardener [Dialogue avec mon jardinier], 2007, d. Jean Becker, Cinefile, 31 August
* The Damned United, 2009, d. Tom Hooper, Sony, also on Blu-ray, 31 August
- Dead Snow [Død snø], 2009, d. Tommy Wirkola, E1, 31 August
* Diary for My Children [Napló gyermekeimnek], 1984, d. Márta Mészáros, Secondrun, 20 July
- Good, 2008, d. Vicente Amorim, Lionsgate, 31 August
- Joseph Andrews, 1977, d. Tony Richardson, Optimum, 31 August

- Look Back in Anger, 1958, d. Tony Richardson, Optimum, 31 August
- Mademoiselle, 1966, d. Tony Richardson, Optimum, 31 August
- The Stranger, 1946, d. Orson Welles, Optimum, 31 August
- Werner Herzog: Encounters in the Natural World Box Set [Encounters at the End of the World / Grizzly Man / The White Diamond / La Soufrière / The Flying Doctors of East Africa], d. Werner Herzog, Revolver, also on Blu-ray, 31 August
- Back to Normandy [Retour en Normandie], 2007, d. Nicolas Philibert, Artificial Eye, 7 September
- Butterfly Kiss, 1995, d. Michael Winterbottom, Second Sight, 7 September
- Chan Is Missing, 1982, d. Wayne Wang, Drakes Avenue, 7 September
- Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart, 1985, d. Wayne Wang, Drakes Avenue, 7 September
- Fermat's Room [La habitación de Fermat], 2007, d. Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo Sopeña, Revolver, 7 September
* Fifty Dead Men Walking, 2008, d. Kari Skogland, Metrodome, also on Blu-rau, 7 September

- The Girl Cut in Two [La fille coupée en deux], 2007, d. Claude Chabrol, Artificial Eye, 7 September
- Helen, 2008, d. Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy, Drakes Avenue, 7 September
- I, Pierre Rivière [Je suis Pierre Rivière], 1976, d. Christine Lipinska, Artificial Eye, 7 September
- The Inner Life of Martin Frost, 2007, d. Paul Auster, Axiom, 7 September
- Maradona by Kusturica [Maradona par Kusturica], 2008, d. Emir Kusturica, Optimum, 7 September
- Nelio's Story [Comédia Infantil], 1998, d. Solveig Nordlund, HB Films, 7 September
- Street of Joy, 1974, d. Tatsumi Kumashiro, HB Films, 7 September
- Time Regained [Le temps retrouvé], 1999, d. Raoul Ruiz, Second Sight, 7 September
- War Photographer, 2001, d. Christian Frei, Artefact, 7 September
- Atlantis, 1991, d. Luc Besson, Optimum, also on Blu-ray, 14 September

- Arrested Development, The Complete 3 Seasons, 2003-2006, Fox, 14 September
- La belle captive, 1983, d. Alain Robbe-Grillet, Second Sight, 14 September
- Beyond the Clouds [Al di là delle nuvole], 1995, d. Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders, Second Sight, 14 September
- The Big Blue [Le grand bleu], 1988, d. Luc Besson, Optimum, also on Blu-ray, 14 September
- Is Anybody There?, 2008, d. John Crowley, Optimum, also on Blu-ray, 14 September
- The Last Battle [Le dernier combat], 1983, d. Luc Besson, Optimum, also on Blu-ray, 14 September
- Murder on a Sunday Morning [Un couple idéal], 2001, d. Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Artefact, 15 September
- Nikita [La femme Nikita], 1990, d. Luc Besson, Optimum, also on Blu-ray, 14 September
- The Second Wind [Le deuxième souffle], 2007, d. Alain Corneau, Optimum, 14 September
- Sexy Killer [Sexykiller, morirás por ella], 2008, d. Miguel Martí, Momentum, 14 September

- Sounds Like Teen Spirit, 2008, d. Jamie Jay Johnson, Warner, 14 September
- Subway, 1985, d. Luc Besson, Optimum, also on Blu-ray, 14 September
- Wonderful Town, 2007, d. Aditya Assarat, Soda, 14 September
- Andy Warhol's Bad, 1977, d. Jed Johnson, Video International, 21 September
- The Art of Being Straight, 2008, d. Jesse Rosen, TLA Releasing, 21 September
- Big Man Japan, 2007, d. Hitoshi Matsumoto, Revolver, 21 September
- The Blood [O Sangue], 1989, d. Pedro Costa, Secondrun, 21 September
- Chéri, 2009, d. Stephen Frears, Pathé, 21 September
- Dynamic: 01, d. David Lynch, Scanbox, 21 September
- A Few Days in September [Quelques jours en septembre], 2006, d. Santiago Amigorena, High Fliers, 21 September

- The French Collection, Volume 3: Isabelle Huppert [The Piano Teacher / Merci pour le chocolat / Gabrielle], d. Michael Haneke / Claude Chabrol / Patrice Chéreau, Artificial Eye, 21 September
- The French Collection, Volume 4: Emmanuelle Béart [La belle noiseuse - Divertimento / Histoire de Marie et Julien / The Witnesses], d. Jacques Rivette, André Téchiné, Artificial Eye, 21 September
* Gimme Shelter, 1970, d. Albert and David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, Warner, 21 September
- Goddess [Devi], 1960, d. Satyajit Ray, Mr. Bongo, 21 September
- Greek Pete, 2009, d. Andrew Haigh, Peccadillo Pictures, 21 September
- Hatchet for the Honeymoon [Il rosso segno della follia], 1970, d. Mario Bava, Odeon, 21 September
- Lake Tahoe, 2008, d. Fernando Eimbcke, Yume, 21 September
- The Man Without a Past [Mies vailla menneisyyttä], 2002, d. Aki Kaurismäki, ICA, 21 September
- Mark of an Angel [L'empreinte de l'ange], 2008, d. Safy Nebbou, Metrodome, 21 September
- Mørke, 2005, d. Jannik Johansen, HB Films, 21 September

- Rider on the Rain [Le passager de la pluie], 1970, d. René Clément, 1970, Optimum, 21 September
- The September Issue, 2009, d. R.J. Cutler, Momentum, 21 September
- Sleepwalking Land [Terra Sonâmbula], 2007, d. Teresa Prata, HB Films, 21 September
- Sugar, 2008, d. Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Axiom, 21 September
- Sunrise, 1927, d. F.W. Murnau, Masters of Cinema/Eureka, also on Blu-ray, 21 September
- La tête contre les murs, 1959, d. Georges Franju, Masters of Cinema/Eureka, 21 September
- Three Daughters [Teen Kanya], 1961, d. Satyajit Ray, Mr. Bongo, 21 September
- A World Without Thieves, 2004, d. Feng Xiaogang, Palisades Tartan, 21 September
- Amsterdamned, 1988, d. Dick Maas, Nouveaux, 28 September
- Anything for Her [Pour elle], 2008, d. Fred Cavayé, Metrodome, 28 September

- Blood Rain, 2005, d. Kim Dae-seung, Palisades Tartan, 28 September
- Everlasting Moments [Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick], 2008, d. Jan Troell, Icon, 28 September
- The Exiles, 1961, d. Kent MacKenzie, BFI, 28 September
- Fireflies in the Garden, 2008, d. Dennis Lee, Universal, 28 September
* Not Forgotten, 2009, d. Dror Soref, Anchor Bay, also on Blu-ray, 28 September
* Presque rien [Come Undone], 2000, d. Sébastien Lifshitz, Peccadillo Pictures, 28 September
- Rage, 2009, d. Sally Potter, Spirit, 28 September
- Summer Scars, 2007, d. Julian Richards, Soda Pictures, 28 September
- Swoon, 1991, d. Tom Kalin, Palisades Tartan, 28 September
- Tony Manero, 2008, d. Pablo Larraín, Network, 28 September

- Tormented, 2009, d. Jon Wright, Pathé, 28 September
- Fanny & Alexander, 1982, d. Ingmar Bergman, Palisades Tartan, 5 October
- Just Another Love Story [Kærlighed på film], 2007, d. Ole Bornedal, Revolver, 5 October
- The Last Thakur, 2008, d. Sadik Ahmed, Artificial Eye, 5 October
- Piedras [Stones], 2002, d. Ramón Salazar, Arrow Films, 5 October
- Seven Sinners, 1940, d. Tay Garnett, Network, 5 October
- Sex, Party and Lies [Mentiras y gordas], 2009, d. Alfonso Albacete, David Menkes, Momentum, 5 October
- Sleep Furiously, 2008, d. Gideon Koppel, Drakes Avenue, 5 October
- The Uninvited, 2003, d. Lee Soo-youn, Palisades Tartan, 5 October
- The Vampires' Night Orgy [La orgía nocturna de los vampiros], 1973, d. León Klimovsky, HB Films, 5 October

- Vinyan, 2008, d. Fabrice Du Welz, Revolver, also on Blu-ray, 5 October
- Cherry Blossoms [Kirschblüten - Hanami], 2008, d. Doris Dörie, Dogwoof Pictures, 12 October
- Eddie Murphy: Delirious, 1983, d. Bruce Gowers, Anchor Bay, 25th Anniversary, 12 October
- Looking for Eric, 2009, d. Ken Loach, Icon, also on Blu-ray, 12 October
- Momma's Man, 2008, d. Azazel Jacobs, Diffusion, 12 October
- Poltergay, 2006, d. Eric Lavaine, Peccadillo Pictures, 12 October
- Synecdoche, New York, 2008, d. Charlie Kaufman, Revolver, also on Blu-ray, 12 October
- 10 Films from Michael Haneke [Caché / Time of the Wolf / The Piano Teacher / Funny Games / Funny Games U.S. / Code Unknown / The Seventh Continent / Benny's Video / 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance / The Castle], d. Michael Haneke, Artificial Eye, 19 October
- 35 Shots of Rum [35 rhums], 2008, d. Claire Denis, Drakes Avanue, 19 October
- The Agnès Varda Collection, Volume 1 [La pointe-courte / Cléo from 5 to 7 / Vagabond / La glaneurs et la glaneuse], d. Agnès Varda, Artificial Eye, 19 October

- Amos & Andrew, 1993, d. E. Max Frye, Arrow Films, 19 October
- Blood on Satan's Claw, 1971, d. Piers Haggard, Odeon, 19 October
- Die Screaming, Marianne, 1971, d. Pete Walker, Odeon, 19 October
- Frozen River, 2008, d. Courtney Hunt, Axiom, 19 October
- Johnny Stecchino, 1991, d. Roberto Benigni, Arrow, 19 October
- Katyn, 2007, d. Andrzej Wajda, Artificial Eye, 19 October
- The Pleasure Girls, 1965, d. Gerry O'Hara, Odeon, 19 October
- Rudo & Cursi, 2008, d. Carlos Cuarón, Optimum, 19 October
- Skin, 2008, d. Anthony Fabian, ICA, 19 October
- Before I Forget [Avant que j'oublie], 2007, d. Jacques Nolot, Peccadillo Pictures, 26 October

- District 13: Ultimatum [Banlieue 13: Ultimatum], 2009, d. Patrick Alessandrin, Momentum, also on Blu-ray, 26 October
- Drag Me to Hell, 2009, d. Sam Raimi, Lionsgate, also on Blu-ray, 26 October
* Ip Man, 2008, d. Wilson Yip, Shadowbox, also on Blu-ray, 26 October
- Jiang hû [Blood Brothers], 2004, d. Wong Ching-Po, Palisades Tartan, 26 October
- Mad, Sad & Bad, 2009, d. Avie Luthra, Soda, 26 October
- Public Enemies, 2009, d. Michael Mann, Universal, also on Blu-ray, 26 October
- Three Blind Mice, 2008, d. Matthew Newton, Soda Picutres, 26 October
- True Blood, Season 1, 2008, Warner, also on Blu-ray, 26 October
- Boogie, 2008, d. Radu Muntean, Dogwoof Pictures, 2 November
- Christiane F., 1981, d. Uli Edel, Arrow Films, 2 November

- I Sell the Dead, 2008, d. Glenn McQuaid, Anchor Bay, also on Blu-ray, 2 November
- Shank, 2009, d. Simon Pearce, TLA Releasing, 2 November
- The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, 2009, d. Rebecca Miller, Icon, 2 November
- Arranged, 2007, d. Diane Crespo, Stefan C. Schaefer, Soda Pictures, 9 November
- The Gold Diggers, 1983, d. Sally Potter, BFI, 9 November
- Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, 1995, d. The Quay Brothers, BFI, also on Blu-ray, 9 November
- London Story, 1980, d. Sally Potter, BFI, 9 November
- Playing Away, 1987, d. Horace Ové, BFI, 9 November
- La vallée, 1972, d. Barbet Schroeder, BFI, 9 November
- Young Soul Rebels, 1991, d. Isaac Julien, BFI, 9 November

- Burma VJ, 2008, d. Anders Østergaard, Dogwoof, 16 November
- For All Mankind, 1989, d. Al Reinert, Masters of Cinema/Eureka, also on Blu-ray, 16 November
- Soul Power, 2008, d. Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Masters of Cinema/Eureka, also on Blu-ray, 16 November
- Antichrist, 2009, d. Lars von Trier, Artificial Eye, also on Blu-ray, 23 November
- Coco Before Chanel [Coco avant Chanel], 2009, d. Anne Fontaine, Optimum Releasing, also on Blu-ray, 23 November
- Indochine, 1992, d. Régis Wargnier, Arrow Films, 23 November
- Orphan, 2009, d. Jaume Collet-Serra, Optimum Releasing, also on Blu-ray, 30 November
- All Over Me, 1997, d. Alex Sichel, Peccadillo Pictures, 7 December
- Thirst, 2009, d. Park Chan-wook, Palisades Tartan, 28 December
- The Hurt Locker, 2008, d. Kathryn Bigelow, Lionsgate, also on Blu-ray, 28 December

- Mesrine: Killer Instinct [L'instinct de la mort], 2008, d. Jean-François Richet, Momentum, also on Blu-ray, 28 December
- The Burmese Harp, 1956, d. Kon Ichikawa, Masters of Cinema/Eureka, 18 January 2010
- Cloud 9 [Wolke 9], 2008, d. Andreas Dresen, Soda Pictures, 25 January 2010
- À nos amours, 1983, d. Maurice Pialat, Masters of Cinema/Eureka, 15 February 2010
- Home, 2008, d. Ursula Meier, Soda Pictures, 29 March 2010
- Soi Cowboy, 2008, d. Thomas Clay, Network, 31 March 2010

Blu-ray

* 9 Songs, 2004, d. Michael Winterbottom, Optimum, 20 July
* Brick, 2005, d. Rian Johnson, Optimum, 20 July
* Elephant, 2003, d. Gus Van Sant, Optimum, 20 July
* The Grifters, 1990, d. Stephen Frears, Studio Canal/Optimum, 20 July
* The Pianist, 2002, d. Roman Polanski, Studio Canal/Optimum, 20 July
* Redacted, 2007, d. Brian De Palma, Optimum, 20 July
* Switchblade Romance [Haute tension/High Tension], 2003, d. Alexandre Aja, Optimum, 20 July
* Bill Douglas Trilogy [My Childhood / My Ain Folk / My Way Home], d. Bill Douglas, BFI, 27 July
* Gangster No. 1, 2000, d. Paul McGuigan, Film4, 27 July
- Bad Boy Bubby, 1993, d. Rolf de Heer, Eureka, 3 August

* Blue Thunder, 1983, d. John Badham, Sony, 3 August
- Go, 1999, d. Doug Liman, Sony, 3 August
* Angel Heart, 1987, d. Alan Parker, Studio Canal/Optimum, 17 August
* La haine, 1995, d. Mathieu Kassovitz, Studio Canal/Optimum, 17 August
- Near Dark, 1987, d. Kathryn Bigelow, Studio Canal/Optimum, 17 August
- Labyrinth, 1986, d. Jim Henson, Sony, 31 August
- Withnail and I, 1987, d. Bruce Robinson, Anchor Bay, 31 August
- Punch-Drunk Love, 2002, d. Paul Thomas Anderson, Sony, 7 September
- Finding Nemo, d. Andrew Stanton, Disney, 8 September
- Angel-A, 2005, d. Luc Besson, Optimum, 14 September

- Hero, 2002, d. Zhang Yimou, Miramax, 14 September
- Léon [The Professional], 1994, d. Luc Besson, Studio Canal/Optimum, 14 September
- The Black Shield of Falworth, 1954, d. Rudolph Maté, Eureka, 21 September
- The Dam Busters, 1954, d. Michael Anderson, Studio Canal/Optimum, 21 September
- Dead Man's Shoes, 2004, d. Shane Meadows, in2Film, 21 September
- Shaolin Soccer, 2001, d. Stephen Chow, Optimum, 21 September
* L'année dernière à Marienbad [Last Year at Marienbad], 1961, d. Alain Resnais, Studio Canal/Optimum, 28 September
* Belle de jour, 1967, d. Luis Buñuel, Studio Canal/Optimum, 28 September
* The Deer Hunter, 1978, d. Michael Cimino, Studio Canal/Optimum, 28 September
* The Go-Between, 1970, d. Joseph Losey, Studio Canal/Optimum, 28 September

* The Ladykillers, 1955, d. Alexander Mackendrick, Studio Canal/Optimum, 28 September
* The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum [Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann], 1975, d. Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Studio Canal/Optimum, 28 September
* Le mépris [Contempt], 1963, d. Jean-Luc Godard, Studio Canal/Optimum, 28 September
* Ran, 1985, d. Akira Kurosawa, Studio Canal/Optimum, 28 September
- Beaufort, 2007, d. Joseph Cedar, Trinity, 5 October
- I'm Not There, 2007, d. Todd Haynes, Paramount, 5 October
- Import/Export, 2007, d. Ulrich Seidl, Trinity, 5 October
- The Long Good Friday, 1980, d. John Mackenzie, Anchor Bay, 5 October
- Cabaret, 1972, d. Bob Fosse, Fremantle, 10 October
- The 39 Steps, 1935, d. Alfred Hitchcock, ITV, 12 October

- All Quiet on the Western Front, 1979, d. Delbert Mann, ITV, 12 October
- Bridget Jones's Diary, 2001, d. Sharon Maguire, Universal, 12 October
- Dances with Wolves, 1990, d. Kevin Costner, Warner, 12 October
- Hamlet, 1948, d. Laurence Olivier, ITV, 12 October
- Henry V, 1944, d. Laurence Olivier, ITV, 12 October
- Grizzly Man, 2005, d. Werner Herzog, Revolver, 19 October
- Night of the Living Dead, 1968, d. George A. Romero, Network, 19 October
- The Red Balloon [Le ballon rouge], 1956, d. Albert Lamorisse, Network, 19 October
- The White Diamond, 2004, d. Werner Herzog, Revolver, 19 October
* Wolf, 1994, d. Mike Nichols, Sont, 19 October

- Dawn of the Dead, 1978, d. George A. Romero, Arrow Films, 26 October
- The Leopard [Il gattopardo], 1963, d. Luchino Visconti, BFI, 9 November
- North by Northwest, 1959, d. Alfred Hitchcock, Warner, 16 November
- Hamburger Hill, 1987, d. John Irvin, Lionsgate, 7 December
- Cinema Paradiso, 1988, d. Giuseppe Tornatore, Arrow, 11 January 2010