Directors: Mikal Britt • Mike Brune • Josh Diamond
• Justin Lin • Mich Medvedoff • Terry Montlick 
• Yuta Okamura • Jessica Joy Wise

The Strange is a bizarre film experience that will accustom you to the kind of abnormal behavior you may have only heard or read about, but never seen. Why did the couple and the mime have a deadly standoff? What type of job interview traumatized that guy forever? What meal did that teenage girl request before she starred in a snuff film? Why do people drive hundreds of miles to see this obscure Vegas band? What lesson did the Samurai warrior learn from the computer geek who dragged him through a wormhole 100 years into the future? Why does that photographer secretly take pictures of beach people with his disposable camera and frame them like they're his family? The answers are in this odd DVD you hold in your hands. Justin Lin (Fast & Furious, Better Luck Tomorrow) co-directs this dark comedy.

UPC# 825307-923599
CAT# PH-92359 - $19.98

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DARK COMEDY
NR / 114 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English

Director: Mika Ronkainen
Cast: Petri Sirviöo, Mieskuoro Huutajat


Meet the choir of screaming men that travels from Finland to Tokyo with the goal of getting good photographs of their Japanese audience while performing Japanese national anthem. Meet the choir that screams the French national anthem La Marseillaise at the museum of modern art in Paris even though the museum and the embassy of Finland try to prevent them. Meet the choir that treats nationalism, fascism, and power – and can only be led by a total dictator.

The Finnish Screaming Male Choir, Mieskuoro Huutajat, dressed in black suits, white shirts, and rubber ties is a unique choir which performs its repertoire by shouting and screaming. Led by the conductor Petri Sirviö, the choir has travelled during 15 years of existence from an idea in a bar table all the way to the front line of modern European performing arts, receiving the same strong reaction everywhere: the audience has been mostly exalted, and sometimes also shocked and bewildered.

The appeal of the performance of Huutajat is based on combinations of strong contrasts. The disciplined and smartly dressed male choir shouts patriotic songs and marches as well as children’s songs in original languages. Exact articulation mixes with howling and comical turns into serious without a warning. Their versions of national anthems of different countries do not always make everybody happy. When Huutajat was performing at the museum of modern art in Paris, both the museum and the Finnish embassy tried to prevent them from performing the French national anthem. When Huutajat was performing in Iceland, where it is prohibited by the law to perform the national anthem in any other version than the original, they had to find another solution.

UPC# 825307-925098
CAT# PH-92509 - $24.98

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DOCUMENTARY
NR / 2003 / 76 minutes
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish

Director: Richard Zelniker
Cast: Lisa Collins, Gina La Piana, Burr Steers

They certainly don’t make them like this anymore. Two brothers. One blonde. Betrayal. Anguish. Pain. Sex. Everything goes to hell in this lost 90’s gem.

Winner of the Grand Jury Award, Best Picture and Most Daring Film at Panama’s Continental Festival. Shot on gorgeous 16mm, this Sex, Lies and Videotape-like piece of cinema, has remained unseen for 14 years... until now.

UPC# 825307-924992
CAT# PH-92499 - $24.98

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DRAMA
NR / 1997 / 95 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English

Director: Gregory C. Haynes
Cast: Michelle Michaels, Bernard Baski, Wendell Pace

For 20 years, Brent, Nick and Sue have been best friends. Now, they will face the truest test of their friendship... in Idaho. Sue left Idaho to pursue her dreams of becoming an actress in Hollywood, but Brent brought her back, in this stunning, unseen 90’s indie gem that must be seen to be believed.  

Shot on gorgeous 16mm, starring and directed by Gregory C.Haynes, “Share the Moon” is a dying breed of cinema, the kind of films that used to blow away film festival audiences on a regular basis. It is only a matter of time before “Share the Moon” becomes a cult favorite.

UPC# 825307-924893
CAT# PH-92489 - $24.98

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DRAMA
NR / 1994 / 94 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English

Director: Jean-Henri Roger
Cast: Elli Medeiros, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bruno Putzulu

Jean-Henri Roger’s “Lulu” stars Elli Medeiros as the title character, a transsexual caught in a love triangle. Lulu lives with John (Gerard Meylan). When a town drunk, a local at the bar where Lulu works, accuses her of murder, normal quickly gets out of hand.

A detective (Bruno Putzulu) starts a quirky investigation into the charge but gets nowhere. He believes Lulu is guilty and also wants her locked up for being who she is. A journalist (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) who is in love with Lulu is her only hope in this cinematic menage a trois.

UPC# 825307-924695
CAT# PH-92469 - $24.98

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DRAMA
NR / 2002 / 90 minutes
Country: Frence
Language: French w/ ON/OFF English subtitles
16 x 9 Anamorphic Video

Director: Serge Pénard
Cast: Francis Perrin, Henri Guybet, Guinal Barthélémy

Petit-Jean is 11 years old. He has discovered his two childish uncles, Arthur and Andre. Arthur is a model citizen. Andre has the most famous hands in town. Because they always take things, that don’t belong to him.

“When chickens in town go missing, Andre is suddenly arrested, but he denies it. That’s because Petit-Jean secretly commited the crime. When Arthur is thrown in jail without evidence, the entire town goes upside down, the towns people take sides, adultery is commited, and Petit Jean enjoys the most memorable time in his life in this Cannes Film Festival hit.”
-A&U Magazine

UPC# 825307-924794
CAT# PH-92479 - $24.98

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COMEDY
NR / 1993 / 90 minutes
Country: France
Language: French w/ ON/OFF English subtitles
letterboxed video.

Director: Alexandre Astruc
Cast: Gérard Barray, Claudine Auger, Antonio Passalia, Relja Basic, Raoul Saint-Yves

Two Yugoslavian patriots try to scuttle a seized warship from World War II rather than let it fall into the hands of the Germans. They contemplate sailing to England to use the boat in the fight against the Nazi invaders. The captain is bound to follow orders while a Nazi collaborator on board secretly plots to take over the vessel. When their alternative plans fail to materialize, the two friends vow they will take the ship apart one piece at a time rather than give it up.

UPC# 825307-924596
CAT# PH-92459 - $24.98

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WAR - Action Drama
NR / 1968 / 91 minutes
Country: France
Language: English (dubbed), French w/ ON/OFF English subtitles, Letterboxed Video.

Director: Tony Gatlif
Cast: Gérard Darmon, Muse Dalbray, Céline Militon, Concha Tavora

Nara is a gypsy who has thrown his wife out of the house because a social worker talked her into using birth control pills. Now he lives with his 80-year-old mother and young daughter. They both provide a balance for Nara's violent behavior and illegal activities, despite the constant threat of eviction.

"Les Princes" is the debut movie of Tony Gatlif (Latcho Drom). The portrait of a Gypsy family living in the almost abandoned and decaying outskirts of Paris.  

One of the most remarkable features of "Les Princes" is its use of carefully chosen locations to underline the squalid conditions Gypsies must live in. Urban landscapes, decaying housing developments, seedy bars, derelict factories, this is a version of Paris you've rarely seen on film.

"Gatlif's episodic study of tmodern France carries plentiful conviction, thanks no doubt to the fact that the director is himself of Romany stock"

-Time Out New York

UPC# 825307-924497
CAT# PH-92449 - $24.98

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DRAMA
NR / 1983 / 100 minutes
Country: France
Language: French w/ ON/OFF English subtitles

Director: Michiel van Erp
Cast: Arthur Japin, Dieuwke van Kreel

Filmmaker Michiel van Erp follows Amsterdam inhabitants who struggle with various anxiety disorders, as they attempt to overcome their fears... including a woman who must take really long showers to feel clean, another woman who was kidnapped by a terrorist group years ago and a man who is so terrified of heights, he can’t be near his window.

When released in Holland, “Angst” caused quite a commotion and attracted huge crowds. Regular people realized they were dealing with similar problems. “Angst” was sold out for many weeks, as people came face to face with their own mental illness. This film may change the way you see yourself.

UPC# 825307-924190
CAT# PH-92419 - $24.98

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NON-FICTION THRILLER
NR / 2009 / 95 minutes
Country: Netherlands
Language: Dutch w/ ON/OFF English subtitles

Director: Chris Butler
Cast: Ashley Kate Butler, Samantha Beard

Ashley has one week to plan a party to seduce a guy
she has a secret crush on and in her own words,
"do him". The problem: the guy barely knows she
exists.

This is Australian teenage subculture as it's never
been seen before. "Life With Ashley" is a cinematic
diary, with dresses, questions, music, sex, tears,
laughs and sitting around.

"Life With Ashley reveals how the creative types of today assume free sex as a natural part of life that will come to them..."
- lipmag.com

"The story of a girl (Ashley) and her quest to woo a boy by putting on a party and inviting him to come, and then spend the entire night trying to “do him”
- lesstalk.com

"As Disturbing as it is strangely engrossing"
- Sydney Underground Film Festival

UPC# 825307-924398
CAT# PH-92439 - $24.98

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TEEN COMEDY
NR / 2009 / 97 minutes
Country: Australia
Language: English

Director: Tom Hines
Cast: JR Bourne, Emily Wagner

Truman Korovin is a lonely, sharp-witted cab driver in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1980. The usual routine of picking up fares and spending his nights at his favorite bar, the Boatel, is disrupted when his girlfriend, Emily, dumps him on one of the coldest nights of the year.

After an acid trip, Truman winds up in the local ‘loony bin’. Imprisoned in a grueling therapy group, Truman gets re-acquainted with loonies who are his old cab fares, which includes a local stripper he has insulted more than once. In this world, Truman must find or lose himself.

"Tom Hines and Michael Kamsky's shaggy movie may be more potent than Great North Weed."
-Variety

"From Michael Kamsky's smart, sardonic screenplay, director Tom Hines musters exactly the kind of askew sensibility that takes dark subject matter and cracks it open without ever selling his characters short."
- Sundance Film Festival

UPC# 825307-923995
CAT# PH-92399 - $24.98

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DARK COMEDY
NR / 2008 / 98 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English

Director: Max Plettau
Cast: Jürgen Hartenstein

In a bleak attic in Munich, we find a German boxer, alone, pounding the bags. His name is Jürgen "The Rock" Hartenstein. He is aging. He is alone. He was once a champion.

Now, the boxer eschews women, alcohol and any creature comforts, earning his meager living as a pub bouncer. With no manager standing behind him, he is forced to train in city parks and in a dark, seedy attic with his African trainer, Markus Kone. Every week he phones matchmakers in the U.S., because this former German middleweight champion has a dream: he wants to make a comeback.

He needs a win against a US boxer to get back in the game, six years after massive losses forced him to retire. Finally, he "The Rock" gets his chance in Philadelphia, where the odds are heavily against him. This is his only chance for a comeback.

UPC# 825307-924091
CAT# PH-92409 - $24.98

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DOCUMENTARY
NR / 2007 / 90 minutes
Country: Germany
Language: English / German
with English subtitles