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MORE INDIE CLASSICS AND DOCS FOR GAY PRIDE MONTH
Todd Haynes’ heart-felt mini-feature oncoming-of-age in theI Love Lucy era.
“A Pop Art vision of ’50ssuburbia!” –THE VILLAGE VOICE
“A MILESTONE IN AMERICANINDEPENDENTFILM!”–Dennis Lim, THE NEW YORK TIMES
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DOTTIE GETSSPANKED
The true-life inspirationfor A Single Man: acharming doc on therelationship betweenwriter ChristopherIsherwood and painterDon Bachardy.
“Tender, extremely touching.” –NEW YORK TIMES
UPC 795975111133 CAT NO Z1111 SRP $29.99
CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY
Four of the greatestworks from the god-father of QueerCinema, includingTilda Swinton-starrers Caravaggioand Wittgenstein.
“A visionaryfilm maverick!” –VARIETY
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GLITTERBOXDEREK JARMAN X 4 (Four-Disc Set)
20th anniversary edition
From the Oscar®-nominated director ofFAR FROMHEAVENI’M NOT THEREand the new HBO mini-series MILDREDPIERCE
PoisonW I N N E R G R A N D J U R Y P R I Z ESUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
20th anniversary edition
A F I L M B Y
T O D D H A Y N E S
“HIP, SEXY AND THOROUGHLY ENTERTAINING!”–Ira Sachs, THE VILLAGE VOICE
PREBOOK 5/24/2011 • STREET 6/21/2011Cat. No. Z1135 • SRP $29.99 • UPC 795975113533
1991 • 85 MINUTES • U.S. • COLOR AND B&W • IN ENGLISH • 16:9 ASPECT RATIO • MONAURAL • NOT RATEDTO ORDER CALL 212-274-1989 OR CONTACT YOUR DISTRIBUTOR
V I D E O
“A MILESTONE IN AMERICANINDEPENDENT FILM and the inciting spark for what came to beknown as the New Queer Cinema.”–Dennis Lim, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“BOLDLY SELF CONSCIOUS,Poison switches channels among its three stylis-tically varied but thematically linked tales withcumulative, claustrophobic power.” –David Ansen, NEWSWEEK
“BRASH AND HAUNTING!”–Caryn James, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“ONE OF THE RARE AMERICANFILMMAKERS WILLING AND ABLETO ANATOMIZE THE SECRETRECESSES OF OUR NATIONALLIFE.”–John Powers, L.A. WEEKLY
“STARTLING AND IMPRESSIVE! There are three stories going on in Todd Haynes’landmark film Poison and you may want to seeit just as many times.”–Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
“INTENSELY SENSUOUS AND DISTURBINGLY VISCERAL....Poison has an extraordinary cumulative power.” –J. Hoberman, THE VILLAGE VOICE
“IMAGINATIVE, PROVOCATIVE….”–Dennis Harvey, SF WEEKLY
“A FUNNY AND DISTURBING weave of three separate and yet not-so-separatestories.... Whatever sum of money the NEA gaveHaynes to make Poison, it was well worth it.”–Jami Bernard, NEW YORK POST
“HE HAS RESTORED MY FAITH IN YOUTH.” –John Waters, director ofHairspray and Pink Flamingos
“AN UNMISTAKABLY RIGOROUS,PROVOCATIVE PIECE OF ART.”–Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS ZEITGEIST VIDEO • 247 CENTRE ST • 2ND FL • NEW YORK • NY 10013 • (212) 274-1989
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A LANDMARK FILM FROM A MAJOR INDIE DIRECTOR! Winner of the 1991 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, Todd Haynes’
controversial masterpiece is the most fervently debated film ofthe 1990s and a trailblazing landmark of Queer Cinema. Thefirst feature directed by the Oscar®-nominated filmmaker of Farfrom Heaven, I’m Not There and the new HBO mini-seriesMildred Pierce, this groundbreaking American indie is a thrillingwork of immense visual invention.
Inspired by the writings of Jean Genet, Poison deftly interweaves atrio of transgressive tales that build toward a devastating climax:“Hero,” shot in mock tabloid-TV style, tells a bizarre story of subur-ban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice; “Horror,” filmedlike a delirious ’50s B-movie melodrama, is a gothic tale of a madsex experiment gone awry; and “Homo” explores the obsessivesexual relationship between two prison inmates. A runaway hitwhich made national headlines when it was attacked by conserva-tive figures including Dick Armey, Ralph Reed and minister DonaldWildmon, Poison is audacious, unforgettable and thoroughly enter-taining.
THIS REMASTERED 20th ANNIVERSARY DVDFEATURES:H New HD transfer created from original film elements andenhanced for widescreen viewingH Sundance Q&A with Todd Haynes, producer ChristineVachon and executive producer James Schamus, for the20th Anniversary of the film's Grand Jury PrizeH Archival 1999 audio commentary by Haynes, Vachon, andstar/editor James LyonsH Original poster concepts and collages by HaynesH Rare on-set polaroids by filmmaker Kelly Reichardt(acclaimed director of Meek’s Cutoff and Wendy and Lucy)H Last Address, an elegiac short film by Ira Sachs (award-winning director of Married Life)H Original 1991 U.S. theatrical trailerH English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH)
PLUS: Collectible 20th Anniversary Digipak case and a 16-page booklet with archival press kit documents, J. Hoberman’s original Village Voice review and more
WINNER - TEDDY AWARD BERLIN INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL2010 THEATRICAL RE-RELEASE
IN OVER A DOZEN KEY U.S. MARKETS
“A HOMOEROTIC INTOLERANCE.”–Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
“BEAUTIFUL AND AUDACIOUS!”–David Ehrenstein, THE ADVOCATE
“IN BOTH FORM AND SUBJECT,POISON STILL FEELS DEFIANT.It’s the work of a young filmmaker who lookedat the world around him, saw the Americangovernment’s silence about the AIDS crisisand the void of visible gay people in the cul-ture and came up with this charged allegoryfor that moment.... It’s good to have Poisonback to remind us, all these years later, exactlyhow far the movies still have to go.”–Wesley Morris, THE BOSTON GLOBE
“AN OPENLY GAY MOVIE THATCHALLENGES AND REDEFINESTHE PARAMETERS OF CINEMATICFORM.”–Sally Irwin, SEATTLE GAY NEWS
“ONE OF THE MOST DAZZLINGLYCINEMATIC WORKS—GAY OROTHERWISE—OF THE YEAR....Poison bursts on the tepid cinematic scenewith breathtaking vitality and invention.” –Warren Sonbert, BAY AREA REPORTER
JUNE IS GAY PRIDE MONTH
H DIRECTED BY TODD HAYNES, the Oscar®-nominated filmmaker of the new HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce, starring Kate Winslet, Melissa Leo, Evan Rachel Wood and Guy Pearce
H AN ICONIC WORK OF NEW QUEER CINEMA, and one of the 1990s’ most controversial films
H A PERFECT TITLE FOR GAY PRIDE MONTH IN JUNE
H Other Todd Haynes features: I'm Not There, starring Cate Blanchett and Richard Gere; Far from Heaven and Safe,both starring Julianne Moore; and Velvet Goldmine, starring Christian Bale and Ewan McGregor
COMPS: Safe; Velvet Goldmine; I'm Not There;Swoon; Paris Is Burning; The Living End; My OwnPrivate Idaho; Mala Noche; Mysterious Skin; Howl
W I N N E R G R A N D J U R Y P R I Z ESUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
