From the Press Release
January 2, 2015
Li’l Quinquin (2014) dir. Bruno Dumont
Fandor will be debuting LI'L QUINQUIN in four parts. The fourth part will become available on January 2.
Part 1: "The Human Beast", Part 2: "The Heart of Evil", and Part 3: "The Devil Incarnate" are already available.
Bruno Dumont proves as eccentric and engaging a director of comedy as he is of enigmatic art house drama with LI'L QUINQUIN, a four-part miniseries with the strangest genre mix this side of "TWIN PEAKS". There is a tale of adolescent boredom and mischievous antics over a summer vacation in rural Northern France. Then there is the deadpan comedy of eccentric village behavior. And there is also a perverse murder mystery involving a serial killer, the severed remains of his victims and dead farm animals. Leading the investigation is a tetchy old investigator with bushy eyebrows, a symphony of facial tics and the manner of a classic movie clown, equal parts brilliant and bumbling as he sifts through a body count that builds with each episode. Dumont's penchant for casting non-professionals only adds to the mix of the serene, the surreal and the grotesque (but never at the expense of the actors or the characters). Call it an existential comedy about good and evil and the savage innocence of childhood.
January 9, 2015
Exhibition (2013) dir. Joanna Hogg
When D and H decide to sell the home they have loved and lived in for two decades, they begin a process of saying goodbye to their shared history under the same roof. The upheaval causes anxieties to surface, and wife and performance artist D struggles to control the personal and creative aspects of her life with H. Dreams, memories and fears have all imprinted themselves on their home, which exists as a container for their lives and has played such an important role in their relationship. Brief Description: When D and H decide to sell the home they have loved and lived in for two decades, they begin a process of saying goodbye to their shared history under the same roof.
January16, 2015
The Conformist (1970) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci's THE CONFORMIST returns in a dazzling new restoration supervised by the director and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro. One of the enduring masterpieces of the 1970s, Bertolucci's breakthrough film THE CONFORMIST is an elegant portrait of the death throes of Italian Fascism and a triumph of pure style. Adapted by Bertolucci (an Academy Award®-nominated screenplay) from Alberto Moravia's 1951 novel, it chronicles the life of secret police functionary Marcello Clerici, who is sent on a mission to assassinate his former teacher, Professor Quadri, a leftist activist in exile in Paris. Clerici uses his honeymoon with new wife Giulia as a cover for the job. But he soon becomes entranced by Quadri's sensuous, haunted wife Anna, and the Fascist tenets he once accepted without question begin to waver in his mind. Legendary cinematographer Storaro and production designer Fernando Scarfiotti make spectacular use of the Fascist-era brutalist architecture, its blandly symmetrical structures acting as another form of control. with a gorgeous score by Georges Delerue and incandescent performances by a star-studded cast, THE CONFORMIST is a towering accomplishment that for the past four decades has enraptured audiences and influenced filmmakers around the world.
January 22, 2015
The Hawk is Dying (2006) dir. Julian Goldberger
George Gattling finds little fulfillment as an auto upholsterer, the patriarch of a broken family, and the occasional lover of a lonely psychology student. When stricken with a family tragedy, George becomes obsessed with taming a wild, red-tail hawk. At his weakest moment, he locks himself into a battle of wills with a fierce creature that would rather die than succumb.
Criterion Collection:
FISH OUT OF WATER - Available Beginning:1/6/15
Series Includes: Alice in the Cities (1974), Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932), City Lights (1931), Fishing with John (1992), God's Country (1985), His Royal Slyness (1920), Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989), Stromboli (1950), and Walkabout (1971)
VENGEFUL WOMEN - Available Beginning: 1/13/15
Series Includes: Le ceremonie (1995), Diabolique (1955), Intentions of Murder (1964), Match Factory Girl (1990), Kuroneko (1968), Master of the House (1925), Sada (1998), and Tokaido yotsuya kaidan (1959)
THAT OLD TIME RELIGION - Available Beginning: 1/20/15
Series Includes: Andrei Rublev (1969), Flowers of St. Francis (1950), Haxan (1922), King of Kings (1927), Marketa Lazarova (1967), The Seventh Seal (1957), Simon of the Desert (1965), The Trail of Joan of Arc (1962), and Virgin Spring (1960).
TITLE CHAMPIONSHIP - Available Beginning: 1/27/15
Series Includes: Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Death Drums Along the River (1963), Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980), Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968), Kid for Two Farthings (1955), Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967), Love is Colder Than Death (1969), Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968), and Valarie and Her Week of Wonders (1970).
For information on this collection, visit: https://www.fandor.com/distributors/criterion