Indie Film Guide May-August 2008
News and upcoming titles being released May through August 2008 in indie film, focusing on foreign and arthouse.
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War doc launches Cinevolve slate
After forming last year, Cinevolve Studios will release its first title in June. Full story
Never Forever targets stereotypes
While teaching a Korean cinema class at Harvard University, filmmaker Gina Kim became aware of perceptions that Asian men weren’t thought of as sexual beings. She set out to change that with her melodrama Never Forever. Full story
Icarus Films forms new label
Independent distributor First Run/Icarus Films will launch its own home entertainment label this fall. Full story
Cinequest stays current
Cinequest is hoping current events will boost interest in its June and July titles. Full story
UPCOMING TITLES
AcornBased on the novel written as a prequel to Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea imagines how Mr. Rochester met and married his first wife, the madwoman in Jane Eyre. Street June 24, prebook May 27; DVD $24.99
BBC/WarnerThe natural wonders of one of the most enigmatic and oldest civilizations in the world are explored in the documentary Wild China. Street Aug. 5, prebook July 1; DVD $29.98, BD $39.99
Benten/RykoWinner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, The Free Will (Der Freie Wille) tells the unlikely love story between a recently released sexual predator and an abused woman; in German and French with English subtitles. Street June 24, prebook now; DVD $27.95
City LightsIn The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, a young boy living during the turbulent ’70s is left with his Jewish grandfather’s neighbor when his parents are forced to go underground; in Portuguese with English subtitles. Street July 15, prebook June 17; DVD $26.98
DisneyDouglas Silva and Darlan Cunha star as best friends coming of age in the gritty, gang-riddled streets of Rio de Janeiro in City of Men; in Portuguese with English subtitles. Street July 1, prebook May 20; DVD $29.99
Echo BridgeBased on a true story, the Australian film Razor Eaters is about a group that engages in a week-long, taped rampage against drug dealers, corrupt politicians and anyone else deemed to deserve it. Street June 10, prebook now; DVD $14.99
ErgoHill 24 Doesn’t Answer follows four young Zionists assigned to defend Hill 24 outside Jerusalem and maintain access to the besieged city during Israel’s War of Independence. Street May 30, prebook May 23; DVD $39.95
First RunWithout the King tells the story of Africa’s last monarch, King Mswati, who ruled by decree and lived in luxury with his 12 wives while his subjects suffered from the world’s highest HIV rate and crushing poverty. Street July 22, prebook June 17; DVD $24.95
Funimation/NavarreA young samurai is torn between honor and happiness when he is fated to avenge his father’s death but imagines a brighter future with the woman he loves in Hana; in Japanese with English subtitles. Street June 24, prebook May 20; DVD $24.98
IFC/GeniusCannes Film Festival winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days follows two college roommates as they finalize arrangements with a black-market doctor in Romania for an illegal abortion; in Romanian with English subtitles. Street June 17, prebook now; DVD $24.95
Liberation/GeniusShotgun Stories tracks a blood feud between two sets of half brothers in the cotton-field back roads of southeast Arkansas. Street July 1, prebook May 27; DVD $24.95
LionsgateThe divas of Europe arrive in The Catherine Deneuve 5-Film Collection, featuring Le Sauvage, Hôtel des Amériques, Manon 70, Le Choc and Fort Saganne, and The Sophia Loren 4-Film Collection, which contains I Girasoli, Carosello Napoletano, Attila and Madame Sans-Gene. Both street June 10, prebook now; three-disc sets $39.98 each
MicrocinemaCatching Out features several contemporary hobos who demonstrate against mainstream consumer culture by traveling for free on freight trains. Street June 24, prebook May 27; DVD $24.95
MVDIn Sixteen Days in China, Martin Atkins, band member of PiL, Pigface and Killing Joke, documents his 2006 trip to Beijing, China. Street July 8, prebook June 3; DVD $19.95
New YorkerSunflower follows three decades of the Zhang family in Beijing, centering on the tensions and misunderstandings between father and son; in Mandarin and English with English subtitles. Street July 1, prebook June 4; DVD $29.95
StrandA group of friends is faced with the dawn of a sexual revolution in the early ’80s in The Witnesses; in French with English subtitles. Street June 24, prebook May 29; DVD $27.99
TLAAn awkward teenager who is a target for bullies forms an unlikely friendship with a varsity jock in The Curiosity of Chance. Street July 15, prebook June 17; DVD $19.99
UniversalStarring Colin Farrell and Ralph Fiennes, In Bruges is a comedy about hit men in a tourist town. Street June 24, prebook May 20; DVD $29.98
Water BearerRight By Me follows the lives and loves of three college friends who are all in different stages of coming out to themselves and others; in Thai with English subtitles. Street June 24, prebook May 27; DVD $29.95
Weinstein/GeniusA renegade cop, a young officer and a veteran detective are thrown together to try to take down Hong Kong’s most lethal mercenary gang in Invisible Target; in Cantonese with English language track and subtitles. Street June 10, prebook now; DVD $24.95
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