Strand Releasing (Firm)
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Gregg Araki’s acclaimed Outlaw Couple romance has been totally revamped in The Living End: remixed and remastered. This take-no-prisoners story of two HIV-positive lovers on the run in 90’s America is even more powerful and politically charged than ever. Featuring 5.1 Dolby Stereo sound, this new version has been personally remastered, re-color-timed and remixed by the director, Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin, Totally F*** Up, The Doom Generation)....
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
From the original voice of British auteur Terence Davies comes a visual poem about the director’s life in Liverpool from 1945 to 1973. It is a very personal portrait of Liverpool, beyond its Beatles and its football clubs, the home of the writer’s birth, where youth and inspiration weave his own story into the recent history of the city with fascinating found footage and a lyrical soundtrack. ..The visual poem is played out against a backdrop...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Love is the Devil is John Maybury’s unflinching portrait of painter Francis Bacon (Derek Jacobi) and his tumultuous love affair with small-time crook George Dyer (Daniel Craig). Bacon is at the height of his fame in the 1960’s when the would-be thief breaks into his studio. Thus, begins a cruel romance in the greatest artist-as-monster film ever made.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic) at the Sundance Film Festival, PETER AND VANDY is a unique take on the exhilaration and frustration love can bring.. Most movie romances end when the relationship is beginning. Peter and Vandy's love story goes much further than that. The story shifts back and forth in time, whipping between their romantic beginnings and the inevitable struggles that follow.. With star-making performances by Jason Ritter...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The critically acclaimed, The Missing Picture, a 2014 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language film, is filmmaker Rithy Panh’s personal quest to re-imagine his childhood memories. From the time when the Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia between 1975 and 1979, the only recorded artifacts that remain are propaganda footage. Panh uses beautifully detailed sculpted clay figurines and elaborate dioramas to recreate the missing images from his memory. His...
6) Xenia
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Xenia follows two young brothers in search of their birth father across the colorful landscape of Greece. Dany, 16, leaves Crete to find his brother Odysseus who lives in Athens and they journey to Thessaloniki where they think their father is living. When the handsome Odysseus isn’t protecting his daydreaming, gay younger brother, he auditions for the television talent show Greek Star where he pursues his fantasy of becoming a singing star. A comic...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
This Academy Award nominated documentary is the first authorized film look at the life and work of the controversial Russian-born author Ayn Rand. The writer of such renowned novels as The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged is the subject of Michael Paxton’s first feature film. A flux of events, ideas, emotions and accomplishments combine to make Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life a portrait of one woman’s genius and point of view. ..Narrated by Emmy Award-winning...
8) Paper Dolls
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Paper Dolls" is a documentary film which explores changing patterns of global immigration and expanding notions of family through the prism of a community of Filipino transvestites who live illegally in Israel. Cast out by their families because of their sexual and gender preferences, these people work 6 days a week as live-in, 24 hour a day care givers (and in many cases as surrogate children) for elderly orthodox Jewish men, in order to earn money...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A new film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki explores the accidental movie career of Toshiro Mifune, one of the true giants of world cinema. Mifune made sixteen remarkable films with director Akira Kurosawa during the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema. Together they thrilled audiences and influenced filmmaking around the world, providing direct inspiration for The Magnificent Seven and Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood2s breakthrough, A...
10) The mountain
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Pierre, a Parisian engineer, goes to the Alps for his work. Irresistibly attracted by the beauty of the mountains, he sets up a campsite amidst the glaciers and feels no desire to return to civilization. As he opens himself to the mystical surroundings, he becomes close with Lea, a beautiful chef, and discovers a luminous life force emanating from deep within the mountain itself.
11) In the Fog
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
It is 1942 and the western edge of the USSR is under German occupation. In the region, local partisans are waging a brutal battle against their foreign enemies. Sushenya, an innocent rail worker, is arrested with a band of saboteurs when a train is derailed not far from his village. The German officer decides to set him free rather than hang him with the others, but rumors of Sushenya’s treason spread quickly and partisans Burov and Voitik seek...
12) The Kind Words
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This quirky and wry comedy follows three Jewish Israeli siblings – Dorona and brothers Netanel and Shai – who, in the wake of their mother’s death, learn the man who raised them is not their biological dad. The revelation sends them on a road trip from Israel across France to discover the truth about their real father. The sixth feature from writer-director Shemi Zarhin explores an unraveling family secret and the bittersweet journey of self-discovery...
13) Drown
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Len is a Surf Lifesaving champion, a legend in the cloistered surf club just like his father. When the younger, faster, and fitter Phil arrives at the club, Len's legendary status starts to crumble. The Len sees Phil arriving in the company of another man. Phil is gay. After the annual awards dinner, Len finds Phil in the Club House locker room and violently attacks him. But when Phil wins the annual Surf Lifesaving competition, Len's defeat is final....
14) Africa
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
עברית
Description
Struggling with post-retirement life, 68-year-old Meir goes out on a personal journey to reconstruct his shaken sense of meaning and vitality, in this cinematic experience of an aging parent crafted by the hands of his loving son.
15) Have A Nice Day
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In a desperate attempt to find money to save his fiancée’s failed plastic surgery, Xiao Zhang, a mere driver, steals a bag containing 1 million from his boss. News of the robbery spreads fast within the town and, over the course of one night, everyone starts looking for Xiao Zhang and his money… Nominated for Best Film at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. "*Have a Nice Day has the rough contours of an early Quentin Tarantino film with...
16) Volley
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Six twenty-something friends are spending New Year's Eve at a summer house at the river. The host, Nicolas, brings his ex-girlfriend Pilar with whom he just had a one-night stand. But, Nicolas hits on every other girl including the brooding Cata and the voluptuous Belen. When Nicolas unexpectedly falls into bed and in into love with the high-strung Manuela, who also happens to be his best friend's girlfriend, the last laugh in on him.
17) Tales of Mexico
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Told across eight different stories taking place in one 100-year-old rom, the film explores the secret lives of its inhabitants from the beginning of the twentieth century to the dawn of the new millennium. This intricately-woven film gives a compelling and profound portrait of modern Mexico from eight of the country's new breed of cinematic storytellers.
18) 17 girls
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
Inspired by events that took place in Massachusetts, Delphine and Muriel Coulin's provocative debut focuses on a group of bored teenage girls who all make an irrevocable pact. When Camille (Louise Grinberg, The Class) accidentally becomes pregnant, she encourages her friends and fellow high school classmates to follow suit. It's only a matter of time before 17 girls in the high school are pregnant and the town is thrown into a world of chaos. Set...
19) Girlhood
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the "boys' law" in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the gang. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection. Realizing this sort of lifestyle will never...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Claire (Lena Olin) lives a quiet domestic life in the Hamptons as the wife of celebrated artist Richard Smythson (Bruce Dern). Once a promising painter herself, Claire now lives in the shadow of her husband’s illustrious career. While preparing work for his final show, Richard’s moods become increasingly erratic, and he is diagnosed with dementia. As his memory and behavior deteriorate, she shields his condition from the art community while trying...