Final Toronto '09 Titles: György Pálfi, Dogtooth, Ozon, von Trotta, Gitai

After weeks of slowly revealing its 2009 line-up, the final roster has been set, adding a number of notable world/North American premieres and some of the big names from Cannes and Venice. The Big Names: Claire Denis' White Material, Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, Lars von Trier's Antichrist, Marco Bellocchio's Vincere, Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth, Jaco Van Dormael's Mr. Nobody, Tales from the Golden Age. The world/North American premieres: György Pálfi's I Am Not Your Friend, Cesc Gay's V.O.S., Margarethe von Trotta's Vision, François Ozon's Le refuge, Amos Gitai's Carmel. All of the final additions are below. Check out TIFF's official site for all the titles, and expect the second round of posters soon.

Masters

- Antichrist - d. Lars von Trier
- Carmel - d. Amos Gitai
- Honeymoons [Medeni mesec] - d. Goran Paskaljevic (How Harry Became a Tree)
- Hotel Atlântico - d. Suzana Amaral
- Melody for a Street Organ - d. Kira Muratova (The Asthenic Syndrome)
- Le refuge - d. François Ozon - w. Isabelle Carré, Melvil Poupaud
- Vincere - d. Marco Bellocchio
- Vision [Vision - Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen] - d. Margarethe von Trotta - w. Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch
- White Material - d. Claire Denis
- The White Ribbon [Das weiße Band] - d. Michael Haneke
- The Window - d. Buddhadeb Dasgupta (A Tale of a Naughty Girl)

Contemporary World Cinema

- 25 Carats [25 kilates] - d. Patxi Amézcua
- Adrift - d. Bui Thac Chuyên (Living in Fear)
- Ajami - d. Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
- At the End of Daybreak - d. Ho Yuhang (Rain Dogs)
- Backyard [El traspatio] - d. Carlos Carrera (The Crime of Padre Amaro) - w. Jimmy Smits
- Balibo - d. Robert Connolly (The Bank) - w. Anthony LaPaglia
- Bran Nue Dae - d. Rachel Perkins (One Night the Moon) - w. Geoffrey Rush
- Castaway on the Moon - d. Lee Hey-jun
- Cell 211 [Celda 211] - d. Daniel Monzón (The Kovak Box) - w. Luis Tosar, Carlos Bardem
- Deliver Us from Evil [Fri os fra det onde] - d. Ole Bornedal (Nightwatch)
- Dogtooth - d. Yorgos Lanthimos
- The Double Hour [La doppia ora] - d. Giuseppe Capotondi
- Help Gone Mad - d. Boris Khlebnikov (Roads to Koktebel)
- I Am Not Your Friend [Nem vagyok a barátod] - d. György Pálfi (Taxidermia, Hukkle)
- If I Knew What You Said - d. Mike Sandejas (Just Like Before)
- Jean Charles - d. Henrique Goldman (Princesa)
- The Last Days of Emma Blank [De laatste dagen van Emma Blank] - d. Alex van Warmerdam (The Dress, Little Tony) - w. van Warmerdam
- My Year Without Sex - d. Sarah Watt (Look Both Ways)
- Le père de mes enfants - d. Mia Hansen-Løve (Tout est pardonné)
- Prince of Tears - d. Yonfan (Bishonen)
- Same Same But Different - d. Detlev Buck (23 Tage) - w. David Kross
- The Search - d. Wan Ma Cai Dan
- Tales from the Golden Age - d. Cristian Mungiu, Ioana Maria Uricaru, Hanno Hoefer, Razvan Marculescu, Constantin Popescu
- V.O.S. - d. Cesc Gay (Nico & Dani)

Discovery

- Crab Trap [El vuelco del Cangrejo] - d. Oscar Ruiz Navia
- Mall Girls [Galerianki] - d. Matarzyna Roslaniec
- The Man Beyond the Bridge - d. Laxmikant Shetgaonkar
- Nora - d. Alla Kovgan, David Hinton
- Saint Louis Blues [Un transport en commun] - d. Dyana Gaye

Others

- Mr. Nobody - d. Jaco Van Dormael [part of the Special Presentations section]
- She, a Chinese - d. Guo Xiaolu (How Is Your Fish Today?) - w. Huang Lu [part of the Vanguard section]

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 Decade List: Shadowboxer (2005)

Shadowboxer - dir. Lee Daniels

[Edited from an earlier post; I made unnecessary paragraph breaks to accommodate more screencaps from this beauty. Also, if anyone would be interested in, maybe, a live-blog of this film, holler my way!]

Shadowboxer is the sort of complete disaster that certainly doesn't come around very often. Even when they do, they seldom come in a way that could fool the most passive viewer into looking past the utter absurdity of the entire production. Shadowboxer doesn't ever crack that smile you're waiting for, and this is to its credit... or, more accurately, to our enjoyment (though Bradford did remind me that Vanessa Ferlito is watching Valley of the Dolls in all its camp glory when Helen Mirren walks into her room... it's even the scene where Susan Hayward sings "I'll Plant My Own Tree"). That his latest film, Precious, has been getting so many raves (even with Mo'Nique, Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz and Sherri Shepherd in the cast) this year makes me wonder if Shadowboxer was just a ruse.

The always-wonderful (even here) Mirren plays Rose, a cold assassin dying of cancer on her final mission with partner/lover Mikey (Cuba Gooding Jr., and yes, you read that correctly). Things don't work out as planned when Rose reclaims the compassion that's been missing in her life as she decides to deliver her hit's baby, instead of killing her. Yes, Mirren and her gun manage to scare the water right out of the pregnant Vickie (Ferlito, who probably kicked herself after thinking this would be her breakout role), and like a pro, Mirren gets that baby right out. Rose, Mikey, Vickie and the baby go into seclusion, forming a strange family alliance away from Vickie's crazy husband (Stephen Dorff), the one that hired the hit on her. Explaining what happens plot-wise in Shadowboxer is not where you find the magic; the unintentional marvel of Shadowboxer presents itself in the revoltingly gaudy and hysterically absurd ornaments that string the film together.

The most noticeable head-scratcher of Shadowboxer is its casting. One can only assume that Lee Daniels called in a few favors and threw those favors together any way he could. In addition to the coupling of Mirren and Gooding, he also pairs Joseph Gordon-Levitt with Mo'Nique. Somehow he also asks us to suspend disbelief in accepting Gordon-Levitt as a doctor and Mo'Nique as the crack-head nurse who put him through medical school. Dorff is expectedly awful as a hot head, but the real gem of this casting is Macy Gray as Vickie's sassy, alcoholic best friend Neisha. Gray, a one-hit wonder with a gravel voice, fully assumes her role in a way that makes you think she stumbled drunk onto the set, threw herself into the film, and miraculously ended up in the final cut. But you would be oh-so-wrong in that assumption, as Daniels blindly thinks that her character is actually essential to the film. She’s absolutely not, and that’s why she works so well here.

One can’t help but wonder if Daniels actually read the screenplay by first-time writer William Lipz, let alone questioned anything that happens within the pages. Who the fuck is Stephen Dorff’s character supposed to be? It’s never explained, nor is it explained why he shoves a broken pool stick up a guy’s ass, wants to kill his wife, or decides to go full-frontal in one of the most gratuitous nude scenes I’ve seen in a while. Why is Mo’Nique a crackhead, and why would someone cast a woman of her size as one? Unless, I suppose, she recently picked up the habit.

I can appreciate films that have no raison d'être, but films that naïvely assume they're important (coughCrashcough) really churn my stomach. Thankfully, Shadowboxer is so blissfully unnecessary, unimportant, misguided, and incoherent that I have no shame in saying it was one of the more pleasurable film experiences I’d had in a while. A friend of mine and I decided the most telling example of Shadowboxer’s perplexing appeal is a scene in which Cuba Gooding Jr. offers to buy Macy Gray a drink. She insists upon five drinks and turns to the only other person in the bar (extras are expensive) who happens to be the most toe-up nasty tranny Daniels could find and asks if she wants a drink as well. I could do my best Macy Gray impersonation, but that wouldn’t get the full effect.

And I don't even have the time to mention Cuba in drag or the zebra. One can’t help but admire Helen Mirren for emerging from this abysmal failure unscathed as she did in Teaching Mrs. Tingle. Donned in Vivienne Westwood, she still manages to be just as wonderful here as she’s ever been. Don’t let Mirren (or the lushly uneven cinematography, or straight-faced tone) fool you, Shadowboxer is a train wreck all its own, so astoundingly wrong in every way that we may have to ask Nomi Malone to pass on her crown.

With: Helen Mirren, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Vanessa Ferlito, Stephen Dorff, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mo'Nique, Macy Gray
Screenplay: William Lipz
Cinematography: M. David Mullen
Music: Mario Grigorov
Country of Origin: USA
US Distributor: Code Black Entertainment

Premiere: 9 September 2005 (Toronto International Film Festival)
US Premiere: 21 July 2006

Toronto, encore

New films from Alejandro Amenábar, Carlos Saura, Werner Herzog and (boo) Don Roos have been added to the slate. The concrete line-up will come sometime next week.

Gala

- Agora - d. Alejandro Amenábar
- Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky - d. Jan Kounen
- I, Don Giovanni [Io, Don Giovanni] - d. Carlos Saura
- Love & Other Impossible Pursuits - d. Don Roos - w. Natalie Portman, Lisa Kudrow
- The Men Who Stare at Goats - d. Grant Heslov
- Mother and Child - d. Rodrigo García - w. Samuel L. Jackson, Naomi Watts, David Morse, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington, Amy Brenneman, Tatyana Ali, Marc Blucas, Jimmy Smits
- Phantom Pain [Phantomschmerz] - d. Matthias Emcke - w. Til Schweiger, Stipe Erceg


Special Presentations

- Baarìa, la porta del vento - d. Giuseppe Tornatore
- L'affaire Farewell - d. Christian Carion (Joyeux Noël) - w. Emir Kusturica, Guillaume Canet, Willem Dafoe, Alexandra Maria Lara, Fred Ward
- The Joneses - d. Derrick Borte (directorial debut) - w. David Duchovony, Demi Moore, Amber Heard, Gary Cole, Glenne Headly, Lauren Hutton
- Les derniers jours du monde - d. Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu (To Paint or Make Love) - w. Mathieu Amalric, Sergi López, Catherine Frot, Clotilde Hesme, Serge Bozon, Jacques Nolot, Sabine Azéma
- My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done - d. Werner Herzog - w. Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, Michael Peña, Michael Shannon, Brad Dourif, Udo Kier, Grace Zabriskie, Irma P. Hall
- The Road - d. John Hillcoat
- Road, Movie - d. Dev Benegal
- A Single Man - d. Tom Ford
- The Traveller - d. Ahmed Maher
- The Waiting City - d. Claire McCarthy - w. Radha Mitchell, Joel Edgerton, Tillotama Shome
- Wheat - d. He Ping - w. Fan Bingbing
- Youth in Revolt - d. Miguel Arteta (Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl) - w. Michael Cera, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Long, Steve Buscemi, Ray Liotta, Ari Graynor, Feed Willard, Jean Smart, Mary Kay Place, M. Emmet Walsh

The Decade List: The White Diamond (2004)

The White Diamond - dir. Werner Herzog

If 2005's Grizzly Man displayed Herzog's wry meditation on the destructive, inalterable makeup of nature, The White Diamond offers the flip-side. Making himself a very involved presence (more visably than in Grizzly Man), Herzog joins Dr. Graham Dorrington, a British aerospace engineer, at the Kaieteur Falls of Guyana to test Dorrington's helium airship invention. The expedition comes with a shroud of melancholy and a suggested despondence as a similar excursion took the life of Dorrington's close friend Dieter Plage ten years prior.

Herzog, never the unbiased onlooker, finds a remarkably different view of the relationship between man and the natural world in The White Diamond. Chatting with the locals, filming Dorrington's bittersweet recollections of Plage as well as the team's oscillating failures and successes, Herzog discovers a sort of harmony Timothy Treadwell foolhardily believed to exist in this world. The White Diamond is sumptuously beautiful, visually of course, but the film's weight, a central theme both literally and figuratively, stems from Herzog's invigorating portrait of the healing and fortifying power that the natural world can (sometimes) provide.

Screenplay: Rudolph Herzog, Annette Scheurich; story by Rainer Bergomaz, Marion Pöllmann; commentary by Werner Herzog
Cinematography: Henning Brümmer, Klaus Scheurich
Music: Ernst Reijsiger, Eric Spitzer
Country of Origin: Germany/Japan/UK
US Distributor: Wellspring

Premiere: 13 November 2004 (Cinemanet Europe Opening Festival)
US Premiere: 30 April 2005 (San Francisco International Film Festival)

Criterion + IFC...

After cluing a release of Steven Soderbergh's Che in an earlier newsletter, it looks official that Criterion and IFC have struck a pack, announcing two IFC titles for November: Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale [Un conte de Noël] and Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah [Gomorra]. Surprisingly though, Gomorrah is the only Blu-ray release set for November. Also announced Michael Ritchie's Downhill Racer (which continues Criterion's irritating trend toward putting actors' names on the box!) and a box-set entitled The Golden Age of Television, which includes eight tele-plays originally aired on PBS. I'll be fine with the IFC deal as long as that means I never have to see Alexander the Last on their coming soon list.

Also be sure to check out Nathan Lee's Top 10 Criterion releases which gives the company kudos for "putting the bone in bonus since 1984."

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