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LIPS OF BLOOD (1975)

One of Jean Rollin’s best-loved films, Lips of Blood (Lèvres de sang) finds the master of the fantastiquemarshalling all his obsessions – ruined château, remote beaches, abandoned graveyards, mysterious twins, and female vampires.

When a photograph of a decrepit seaside château evokes a childhood vision of an encounter with a mysterious girl, is compelled to investigate. Soon, he uncovers a surreal and titillating netherworld of female vampirism from which he may not return. (BLU-RAY)

FLUX GOURMET (2022)

A dysfunctional sonic collective – a band devoted to the sounds of the culinary arts – navigates rivalries internal and external in this absurdly original feast for the senses. (BLU-RAY)

LIMBO (2021)

Hong Kong: Veteran cop Cham Lau and his rookie partner pursue an elusive serial killer who’s targeting ‘lost’ women throughout the city, cutting off their hands and dumping the bodies under piles of trash. But during the investigation, Cham Lau’s life is turned upside down when he crosses paths with Wong To, a criminal whose dark and terrible past is connected to Cham’s own. In a hopeful effort to gain Cham’s forgiveness and find her own form of redemption, Wong To offers to help the detectives find the serial killer. Now caught between his resentment for Wong To and the heavy consequences of their shared past, Cham must find a way to both stop the killer and save the one person who can save him too. (BLU-RAY and 4K ULTRA HD)

WAKING THE DEAD (2000)

From director Keith Gordon and executive producer Jodie Foster comes this taut psychological drama about love, ambition, and the thin line between heartbreak and insanity. After tragically losing his girlfriend Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) in a car bombing, aspiring politician Fielding (Billy Crudup) eventually pieces together his tattered life and runs for office. When Fielding begins seeing visions of Sarah on the campaign trail, he must decide if he has been driven mad by grief, or if the love of his life has finally returned. (BLU-RAY)

EPSTEIN AND FRIEDMAN COLLECTION: COMMON THREADS/WHERE ARE WE/PARAGRAPH 175 (1989-2002)

For more than 30 years, Oscar-winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have borne powerful witness to gay life, creativity, and activism — documenting lost aspects of LGBTQ+ history and chronicling unfolding events with humor, compassion, and fierce urgency. The Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman Collection includes three of their most essential works in new restorations: Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt (1989, winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature), Where Are We? Our Trip Through America (1992) and Paragraph 175 (2000). Common Threads uses the NAMES Project Memorial Quilt to explore the cross-section of identities affected by HIV/AIDS, as well as efforts to combat the stigma, misinformation, and political obstruction that deepened the crisis. Where Are We? Our Trip Through America follows Epstein and Friedman as they chronicle an 18-day road trip through the American south. They interview a large variety of people along the way, stopping to ask them questions about their hopes and regrets. Paragraph 175 fills a crucial gap in the historical record by revealing the lasting consequences of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals. (BLU-RAY)