Childhood takes on mythic dimensions in one of the defining works of postrevolutionary Iranian cinema. Inspired by director Amir Naderi’s own boyhood, The Runner is lit from within by Madjid Niroumand’s electrifying performance as a young orphan fending for himself on the streets of a port city, determined to rise above his circumstances—working odd jobs, passing time with friends, learning to read—and running, always running, toward the future. Water, fire, the human body in motion: in hypnotic images of lyrical power, Naderi finds unexpected glory in the world of a boy suspended between modernity and elemental natural forces as he chases his own path forward.

Special Features:

• New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Amir Naderi, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• New conversation between Naderi and filmmaker Ramin Bahrani
• Audio interview from 2022 with Naderi and actor Madjid Niroumand, moderated by programmer and Rialto Pictures founder Bruce Goldstein
• Waiting, a 1974 film by Naderi, featuring an afterword by the director
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by critic Ehsan Khoshbakht

The themes, images, and cultural vernacular of Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz continue to haunt David Lynch’s filmography—from his early short The Alphabet to his recent television series Twin Peaks: The Return. Arguably, no filmmaker has so consistently drawn inspiration—consciously or unconsciously—from a single work. Is Lynch trapped in the Land of Oz? If so, what can we learn about his body of work by taking a closer look at how it intersects and communicates with that legendary fantasy? In turn, what do Lynch’s films have to say about the enduring resonance of one of America’s most beloved classics? Through six distinct perspectives, Alexandre O. Philippe’s Lynch/Oz helps us reexperience and reinterpret The Wizard of Oz by way of David Lynch, delivering new appreciations of both.

• Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Alexandre O. Philippe
• Trailer

The all-American obsession with celebrity turns monstrous in this deliciously subversive (and disturbingly prescient) satire of our television-mediated, true-crime-obsessed age. In a career breakthrough, Nicole Kidman delivers a diabolical deconstruction of the girl next door as a local TV weather reporter whose perfectly perky facade belies a murderous heart, as her ruthless pursuit of fame ensnares three disaffected teens in a sordid, tabloid-ready scandal. Deftly deploying shifting perspectives, faux-documentary interviews, and a supporting cast featuring Joaquin Phoenix, Matt Dillon, and Casey Affleck, director Gus Van Sant adds provocative layers of meaning to this darkly funny examination of suburban sociopathy.

• New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Gus Van Sant and director of photography Eric Alan Edwards, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Audio commentary featuring Van Sant, Edwards, and editor Curtiss Clayton
• Deleted scenes
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Jessica Kiang

A raucous western comedy starring screen legends Clint Eastwood (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, High Plains Drifter) and Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou, Monte Walsh), Paint Your Wagon is punctuated by a classic score by the great Lerner and Loewe (My Fair Lady, Gigi), including “They Call the Wind Maria,” “I Talk to the Trees” and “Wand’rin’ Star.” The story of a gold-mining boomtown full of brawny men centers on the work-and-play partnership of prospectors Ben and Pardner (mischievous Marvin and earnest Eastwood). They share everything—the gold, the laughs, the songs…even their wife (spirited Jean Seberg, Breathless, Macho Callahan)! It’s the musical goldmine of ’69, directed by Joshua Logan (South Pacific, Camelot), shot by William A. Fraker (Bullitt, Tombstone) and adapted for the screen by Paddy Chayefsky (Marty, Network)!

Special Features:

DISC 1 (4KUHD):

• Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
• NEW Audio Commentary by Lee Marvin Biographer Dwayne Epstein and Screenwriter/Author C. Courtney Joyner

DISC 2 (BLU-RAY):

• Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
• NEW Audio Commentary by Lee Marvin Biographer Dwayne Epstein and Screenwriter/Author C. Courtney Joyner
• Theatrical Trailer

• 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
• Original Spanish mono audio
• Audio commentary with film historian and Mexican cinema specialist David Wilt (2024)
• Adventures in Mexicolour (2024): journalist, writer and indie editor of Belcebú, and formerly DC Comics, Mauricio Matamoros Durán examines the position of The Bat Woman within the Mexican and international pop and comic-book culture of the time
• Fantastique Creatures (2024): José Luis Ortega Torres, film critic, teacher, and author of the book Mostrología del cine mexicano, explores the representation of monsters in early Mexican genre cinema
• Original theatrical trailer
• Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
• New and improved English translation subtitles
• Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Dolores Tierney, archival essays by Doyle Greene and Andrew Coe, archival interviews with Maura Monti, and full film credits
• REGION-FREE

• NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM BY POWERHOUSE FILMS
• DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
• Three presentations of the film:
  • The original Australian theatrical version
  • The shortened US theatrical cut with American dubbing
  • Italian theatrical version, featuring an alternative score by Italian prog legends Goblin and presented with English subtitles for the first time
• Original mono audio
• Audio commentary with director Richard Franklin and screenwriter Everett De Roche (2002)
• On-Set Interview with Richard Franklin (1978): behind-the-scenes interview with the Patrick director conducted by Australian film critic Ivan Hutchinson
• Interview with Richard Franklin (2001): previously unseen interview in which the director discusses Patrick
• A Coffee Break with Antony I. Ginnane (2009): the renowned genre-film producer revisits Patrick
• 'Not Quite Hollywood' Interview Excerpts (2008): extensive selection of outtakes from Mark Hartley's acclaimed documentary on Australian cinema, featuring Franklin, De Roche, Ginnane, and stars Susan Penhaligon and Rod Mullinar
• Stephen Morgan on 'Patrick' (2023): appreciation by the academic and Australian cinema specialist
• Original Australian theatrical trailer
• Original US theatrical trailer
• TV spots
• Image gallery: promotional and publicity material, and behind the scenes
• New and improved English translation subtitles
• Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
• Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Alan Miller, exclusive extracts from director Richard Franklin and producer Anthony I Ginnane's unpublished memoirs; archival interviews with screenwriter Everett De Roche and special-effects supervisor Conrad Rothmann, and full film credits

Before he made his name in 'Lone Wolf' and 'Cub' Tomisaburô Wakayama starred in this triptych of violent samurai spectacles that draw on James Bond and Spaghetti Westerns for inspiration yet feature the familiar style and blood-spattering action of the period.

In director Shigehiro Ozawa's (The Streetfighter) "Killer's Mission", Wakayama stars as Doctor (and spy-for-hire) Shikoro Ichibei, who is hired to prevent the sale of firearms to a hostile Shogun.

In Eiichi Kudo's (13 Assassins) follow-up, "The Fort of Death", Ichibei is hired on a Seven Samurai-style mission to protect a village of farmers from a ruthless Lord.

The final film sees Ozawa return for "Eight Men to Kill", in which Ichibei is hired to recover a cache of stolen gold from the government's mine. Featuring an array of weapons and gadgets that would make Q proud (with Ichibei supported by a band of helpers including fellow spies, Ronin and female ninjas), the Bounty Hunter films deliver action thrills galore and deserve to sit alongside the celebrated action epics that followed.

Special Features:

• High-Definition digital transfer of each film presented on two discs, made available on Blu-ray (1080p) for the first time in the world
• Uncompressed mono PCM audio
• Audio commentary on Killer’s Mission by Tom Mes
• Interview with film historian and Shigehiro Ozawa expert Akihito Ito about the filmmaker
• Visual essay on Eiichi Kudo by Japanese cinema expert Robin Gatto
• Series poster and press image gallery
• Trailers
• Optional English subtitles
• Six postcards of artwork from the films
• Reversible sleeves featuring artwork based on original posters
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by samurai film expert Alain Silver, an obituary of Eiichi Kudo by Kinji Fukasaku and an interview piece on Shigehiro Ozawa after his retirement from filmmaking
• Limited Edition of 3000 copies, presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

14 Oscar-nominated shorts from the National Film Board of Canada

Long celebrated for its groundbreaking achievements in animation, the National Film Board of Canada has earned international acclaim and dozens of Oscar nominations for its animated shorts. During a particularly fertile period between 1965 and 1985, the NFB played an instrumental role in the medium’s rapid evolution, breaking new ground with a wildly varied and inventive run of films that are alternately abstract, eerie, entertaining, poetic, poignant, and psychedelic. An eye-opening overview of this seminal period in animated film history, Animation Night in Canada, Vol. 1 features 14 Oscar-nominated classics with style and personality to spare.

• Carlos Marchiori’s The Drag (1965, 9 min.)
• Les Drew and Kaj Pindal’s What on Earth! (1966, 10 min.)
• Ron Tunis’ The House That Jack Built (1967, 8 min.)
• Norman McLaren’s Pas de deux (1968, 13 min.)
• Ryan Larkin’s Walking (1968, 5 min.)
• Michael Mills’ Evolution (1971, 10 min.)
• Yvon Mallette’s The Family That Dwelt Apart (1973, 8 min.)
• Bernard Longpré and André Leduc’s Monsieur Pointu (1975, 13 min.)
• Caroline Leaf’s The Street (1976, 10 min.)
• Ishu Patel’s The Bead Game (1977, 5 min.)
• Co Hoedeman’s Oscar®-winning The Sand Castle (1977, 13 min.)
• Eunice Macaulay and John Weldon’s Oscar®-winning Special Delivery (1978, 7 n.)
• Ishu Patel’s Paradise (1984, 15 min.)
• Richard Condie’s The Big Snit (1985, 10 min.)

• Region A Blu-ray
• New hour-long video interview with director Houman Seyedi and co-writer Azad Jafarian, moderated by Dennis Bartok of Deaf Crocodile (In Persian with simultaneous English translation)
• New commentary by film critic Walter Chaw (Film Freak Central)
• Blu-ray authoring by David Mackenzie of Fidelity In Motion
• English subtitles

As the close of the 1980s drew nearer, Italy continued to turn out some of the weirdest and wildest entries the horror genre had to offer - and this set of atmospheric offerings, SPECTERS (1987) and MAYA (1989), from director Marcello Avallone, are no exception! Mixing sex, mythology and bloody supernatural slayings in a dizzying blend sure to please fans of 80s terror everywhere, these sacrificial slashers are finally unleashed in their Blu-ray world premieres, newly restored in 2K from their original 35mm camera negatives by the high priests of horror at Vinegar Syndrome, alongside a treasure trove of new bonus material.

SPECTERS: Whilst excavating the catacombs at an archaeological site in Rome, a team of researchers make an astonishing discovery when nearby drilling work in the subway system causes a wall to collapse, revealing a passageway leading to a series of hitherto unexplored tunnels. Delving deeper into the subterranean labyrinth, the team uncover a cavernous tomb filled with ominous inscriptions, as well as strange, unidentifiable skeletons and a crude, sacrificial weapon. Little do the archaeologists realize that the uncovering of this burial chamber, long-since sealed off from the world, has unleashed an ancient evil intent on wreaking bloody havoc.

MAYA: Lisa, a young woman from New York, arrives in a small Mexican seaside town to identify the body of her father, a researcher into Mayan culture who has been brutally murdered in a sacrificial-style killing. Determined to uncover the truth behind her father’s death, Lisa decides to stay in town, where she learns about the local folklore and superstitions with the help of Peter, a young American and friend of her father. As more people are found dead, all slaughtered in a similarly gruesome fashion, and the town’s celebrations of the dead loom, could the legend of a vengeful and bloodthirsty Mayan king returning from the dead prove to be true?

• 2-disc Region Free Blu-ray Set
• Newly scanned & restored in 2K from their 35mm original camera negatives
• Presented with their original English language mono* soundtracks, as well as their Italian language dub stereo soundtracks (untranslated)
• Audio commentary with film historians Troy Howarth and Eugenio Ercolani (Specters)
• "Little Roman Ghosts" (28 min) - an interview with director/co-writer Marcello Avallone (Specters)
• "Paranormal Roman Activity" (27 min) - an interview with producer/co-writer Maurizio Tedesco (Specters)
• "Little Specters, Little Demons" (27 min) - an interview with special effects artist Sergio Stivaletti (Specters)
• "A Horrific Anomaly" (31 min) - an interview with film historian Eugenio Ercolani (Specters)
• "Simply Emma" (13 min) - an audio interview with actress Erna Schürer (Specters)
• Audio commentary with film historians Troy Howarth, Nathaniel Thompson and Eugenio Ercolani (Maya)
• "The Mexican Connection" (20 min) - an interview with director/co-writer Marcello Avallone (Maya)
• "Second Time Around" (21 min) - an interview with producer/co-writer Maurizio Tedesco (Maya)
• "Scream Queen Memories" (27 min) - an interview with actress Mirella D'Angelo (Maya)
• "Mystical Mayan Melodies" (21 min) - an interview with composer Gabriele Ducros (Maya)
• Alternate Italian titles and credits for both films
• Reversible sleeve artwork
• English SDH subtitles

* Although both SPECTERS and MAYA were initially finished with an English stereo soundtrack, for reasons we are unclear of, the left channel of both stereo tracks suffered extreme and intermittent ringing and hiss resulting in their only ever having been distributed in mono. Despite our efforts to rectify these issues, we found that the tracks were irreparable and are therefore presenting the sound in mono, in accordance with all previous versions.

Blu-ray with Limited Edition Slipcover $34.95
Standard Blu-ray $29.95