New Releases for September 12 2023

FINAL CUT (2022)

An opening night selection at the Cannes Film Festival, this wacky horror comedy from Oscar winner Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), is a remake of Shin’ichirô Ueda’s cult hit One Cut of the Dead. It follows a director (Romain Duris, L’Auberge Espagnole) making a live, single-take, low-budget zombie flick in which the cast and crew, one by one, actually turn into zombies. Hazanavicius milks the film’s hilarious and meta-to-the-max premise for all it’s worth, while also crafting a sly love letter to the art of filmmaking. What’s on screen unfolds in typical cheesy B-movie fashion, while the off-screen hijinks offer a celebration of the unpredictable and collaborative nature of film sets. (BLU-RAY and DVD)

SEX, POWER, AND MONEY: FILMS BY BETH B

After defining the No Wave film movement of the New York underground of the 1970s and ’80s, Beth B emerged in the 1990s as a provocative multi-disciplinary artist, creating a series of confrontational visual works that explore the dynamics of sex, power, and money. Beth B’s stylistically adventurous work seduces the eye even as it shocks the mind with an emotional nakedness seldom found in contemporary cinema. With every film, Beth B challenges the viewer to hold her cinematic gaze as she explores themes of sexual desire, the justice system, gender identity, the Vietnam War, or the female body. Derived primarily from analog video elements, the films in this two-disc collection have been restored under the filmmaker’s supervision, and adapted to HD for theatrical and Blu-ray release. (BLU-RAY)

POKER FACE: SEASON 1 (2023)

The star-studded mystery, directed by Rian Johnson (Knives Out), follows four-time Emmy Nominee Natasha Lyonne's "Charlie," who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can't help but solve. (BLU-RAY and DVD)

WALKABOUT (1971) (Criterion Collection)

A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to cope in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg. Along the way, they meet an Aboriginal youth on his walkabout, a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone. Walkabout is a thrilling adventure as well as a provocative rumination on time and civilization.(BLU-RAY and 4K ULTRA HD)

IRWIN ALLEN: MASTER OF DISASTER

Weclome to disasterpiece theatre. This seven-film collection includes both television and theatrical films from director/writer/producer Irwin Allen, the master of the disaster film. From an overturned cruise liner and a bursting dam to collapsing caves, bridges, and more, all seven white-knuckle thrillers are presented with a new 2K scan from the interpositive. The films feature incredible all-star casts including Michael Caine, Paul Newman, Sally Field, Leslie Nielsen, Telly Savalas, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Shirley Jones, Roddy McDowall, and a huge roster of supporting screaming actors and actresses. It's the ultimate in high-octane entertainment!

This set includes: Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979), Cave-In! (1979), Fire (1977), Flood (1976), Hanging By a Thread (1979), The Night the Bridge Fell Down (1979) and When Time Ran Out... (1980). Each film rents separately (BLU-RAY)