THE NEW YORK TIMES: ‘Belladonna of Sadness,’ a Bewitching Masterpiece
By Glenn Kenny May 5, 2016 To summarize this film is to present a solid argument that it’s one of the most unusual ever made: “Belladonna of Sadness,” making its New York premiere on Friday, is a 1973...
View ArticleROLLING STONE: Inside the Greatest X-Rated Animated Film You’ve Never Heard Of
By Jason Newman May 11, 2016 Long-lost 1973 erotic anime ‘Belladonna of Sadness’ gets the restoration treatment — and finally, the audience it deserves At the 1973 Berlin Film Festival,...
View ArticleINDIEWIRE: ‘Private Property’ Exclusive Trailer & Poster: Lost 1960s Noir...
By Vikram Murthi June 8, 2016 The film will anchor the The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Warren Oates Retrospective this July. Leslie Stevens’ 1960 film “Private Property” follows two Southern...
View ArticleINDIEWIRE: Cinelicious Restoring Japanese Queer Classic ‘Funeral Parade of...
By Vikram Murthi June 30, 2016 Exclusive: Cinelicious Restoring Japanese Queer Classic ‘Funeral Parade of Roses’ Cinelicious Pics and actor Elijah Wood’s production company SpectreVision will...
View ArticleTHE NEW YORK TIMES: Once Lost, ‘Private Property’ Is a Genuine Rediscovery
By Glenn Kenny June 30, 2016 This 1960 picture, long considered lost, and newly restored courtesy of the bold indie distributor Cinelicious Pics, is a sex-crime thriller that teeters on the edge of...
View ArticleINDIEWIRE: Cinelicious Pics Acquires Tim Sutton’s Critically Acclaimed...
By Kate Erbland September 28, 2016 Cinelicious Pics has acquired all North American rights to Tim Sutton’s critically acclaimed “Dark Night.” Billed as “an artfully understated critique of American...
View ArticleTHE NEW YORK TIMES: Two ’70s Movies on Video Enter the Valley of the Cult...
By J. Hoberman October 21, 2016 In late 1970, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s druggy, mystical western “El Topo” opened at the Elgin Theater in New York with no more fanfare than a small notice in The Village...
View ArticleDANGEROUS MINDS: ‘Private Property’ – Kinky, sexually tense—and long...
By Bart Bealmear June 30, 2016 The 1960 independent feature, Private Property, is a rarely seen, sexually tense thriller. Anyone who digs film noir, crime dramas, or vintage indie flicks is going to...
View ArticleA.V. CLUB: From martial arts to mumbling cowboys – The best re-released and...
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky Dec 5, 2016 Movie culture has always been sustained by rediscovery and revaluation—that infinite process of expanding and redefining canons. There are two important factors at...
View ArticleFANDOR: Great Restorations, Revelations, and Debuts of 2016
By Sean Axmaker Dec 13, 2016 Private Property (Cinelicious, theatrical and Blu-ray+DVD) Long considered lost until it was restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and rereleased in 2016,...
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