The Official Arbelos Films Thread

[senseabove]

Happy to report that the only listed showing of Funeral Parade... at a local theater sold out, and/so they're adding additional showings.

I assume the additional screenings were arranged due to pre-sales, but I was not expecting that I'd need to buy tickets in advance for this!

[Fabs]

I'm just waiting for the Blu-ray announcement. Films like these never show in my city, unfortunately.

[Skorpius]

Please put Metalhead on Blu ray.

[Blu_Beard]

Originally Posted by Fabs

I'm just waiting for the Blu-ray announcement. Films like these never show in my city, unfortunately.

Every time I see this thread jump to the top, I get really excited that Spiffnme may have a BD update. Hopefully soon.

I'm very fortunate to have Funeral Parade of Roses playing this weekend just up the street, so that will have to suffice for now.

[Craig-Rogers]

Sorry it's been so quiet. We're hard at work on the FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES blu-ray. Release date will be announced soon.

Beyond that, there are very big things underway and a major announcement will be coming soon.

Stay tuned!

[Craig-Rogers]

That big announcement I keep teasing? I'm working on the press release now. Should drop next week. Yeah, I'm pretty damn excited.

[Craig-Rogers]

Picking up elements from the Academy for our next big project. Hmmm...what could it be? You'll find out on Tuesday!

[Craig-Rogers]

No guesses?

[Jobla]

May I assume that the film is not owned by a major Hollywood studio?

How about RETURN TO PRIVATE PROPERTY?

[SpiderBaby]

Originally Posted by spiffnme

No guesses?

So many possibilities, would be hard to guess without coming off as forcing something. So with that said, Hopper's The Last Movie.

[Blu_Beard]

I've been nervous to make any guess. I know I'll be a mile off. Here goes..

The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)

[senseabove]

*checks this thread*
*checks the Cinelicious website*
*checks Cinelicious on Twitter*
*checks Cinelicious on Facebook*




Oh, hey. Cinelicious is West Coast, too. I'm so used to all the studios being East Coast/U.K. and everything being announced by the time I make it to the office in the morning!

[tek8080]

Sooooo was anything ever announced?

[Tiberius]

Originally Posted by spiffnme

Picking up elements from the Academy for our next big project. Hmmm...what could it be? You'll find out on Tuesday!

It's Wednesday and there has been a serious lack of "finding out" in this thread.

[SpiderBaby]

Which Tuesday?

[Knaldskalle]

Spiffnme obviously meant to say: "Tuesday, 2018."

[gdenardo]

Considering nothing has been announced I'm going to say Elvira. :P

[bigshot]

Cinelicious? Cinespectral? It's that darn foil cover again!

[Craig-Rogers]

LOL, LOVE this!

Sorry gang, our press release has been pushed back to Friday (tomorrow)!

Originally Posted by senseabove

*checks this thread*
*checks the Cinelicious website*
*checks Cinelicious on Twitter*
*checks Cinelicious on Facebook*




Oh, hey. Cinelicious is West Coast, too. I'm so used to all the studios being East Coast/U.K. and everything being announced by the time I make it to the office in the morning!

[bruce holecheck]

FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES is slated for November 14th.

Long unavailable in the U.S., director Toshio Matsumoto's shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art and black mascara. No less than Stanley Kubrick cited the film as a direct influence on his own dystopian classic A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. An unknown club dancer at the time, transgender actor Peter (from Kurosawa's RAN) gives an astonishing Edie Sedgwick/Warhol superstar-like performance as hot young thing Eddie, hostess at Bar Genet where she's ignited a violent love-triangle with reigning drag queen Leda (Osamu Ogasawara) for the attentions of club owner Gonda (played by Kurosawa regular Yoshio Tsuchiya, from SEVEN SAMURAI and YOJIMBO). One of Japan's leading experimental filmmakers, Matsumoto bends and distorts time here like Resnais in LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD, freely mixing documentary interviews, Brechtian film-within-a-film asides, Oedipal premonitions of disaster, his own avant-garde shorts, and even on-screen cartoon balloons, into a dizzying whirl of image + sound. Featuring breathtaking black-and-white cinematography by Tatsuo Suzuki that rivals the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe, FUNERAL PARADE offers a frank, openly erotic and unapologetic portrait of an underground community of drag queens. Whether laughing with drunken businessmen, eating ice cream with her girlfriends, or fighting in the streets with a local girl gang, Peter's ravishing Eddie is something to behold. "She has bad manners, all she knows is coquetry," complains her rival Leda but in fact, Eddie's bad manners are simply being too gorgeous for this world. Her stunning presence, in bell-bottom pants, black leather jacket and Brian Jones hair-do, is a direct threat to the social order, both in the Bar Genet and in the streets of Tokyo. A key work of the Japanese New Wave and of queer cinema, FUNERAL PARADE has been restored in 4k from the original 35mm camera negative and sound elements for this 2017 re-release.

Special Features:
New 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative
8 newly remastered avant-garde short films by Toshio Matsumoto
Audio commentary by Chris D.
U.S. Theatrical Trailer
Original 1969 Japanese Theatrical Trailer
New essay by Hirofumi Sakamoto, Director of the Postwar Japan Moving Image Archive