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The last film by the great Walerian Borowczyk, about the terrors of seduction.
When Hugo (Mathieu Carriere) meets Myriam (Marino Pierro), a prostitute who picks up her clients on the Paris metro, he soon becomes obsessed with her sultry beauty and follows her to a flat owned by the mysterious Sara Sand, where he consummates his passion. Suddenly he finds the rules of the game have changed as Myriam is now in charge of his body and his soul. A macabre love poem from the Director of The Beast and Immoral Tales.
LOVE RITES
A film by Walerian Borowczyk
DVD029 • France • 1988 •
97 / 87 Minutes
Release date: April 26, 2005 |
SPECIAL FEATURES
Includes Two Versions of the Film:
• Side A THE DIRECTOR’S CUT
• Side B THE COMPLETE VERSION
• Photo Gallery • Liner Notes |
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Once upon a time in the 18th century a beast lived in the woods of an aristocratic estate. And this beast, possessed of a giant phallus and an insatiable lust, set upon the beautiful young lady of the house. Two centuries later, the tale of the beast would return in the dreams of an American heiress contracted to carry the male descendant of the same crumbling aristocratic family and their secret.
Controversial rework of The Beauty And The Beast, which was forbidden for 25 years. Walerian Borowczyk's erotic masterpiece receives it's definitive presentation on Three discs, including a brand new Widescreen (16x9) transfer with optional French and English dialogue, Two Hours of Behind The Scenes, and the rare rediscovered Complete Version.
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Limited and Numbered Edition of 10,000 copies, includes the 52 page book: Beast Bis
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DISC I
THE BEAST (Director's Cut)
• Widescreen 1:85.1 (16x9 Enhanced)
• French and English language
• Optional English subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer
• Stills
• 94 Minutes |
DISC II
BEAST BIS
• Biography
• Interview (2003)
• The Making of (1974)
• French with Optional
English subtitles
• Stills
• 117 Minutes
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DISC III
THE BEAST (Complete Version)
• Widescreen
• French with English Subtitles
• Lobbycards
• 98 Minutes
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THE BEAST (LA BETE)
3-DISC LIMITED EDITION $39.95 • Director: Walerian Borowczyk
DVD027 • France • 1975 • Release date: November 16, 2004 |
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Once upon a time in the 18th century a beast lived in the woods of an aristocratic estate. And this beast, possessed of a giant phallus and an insatiable lust, set upon the beautiful young lady of the house. Two centuries later, the tale of the beast would return in the dreams of an American heiress contracted to carry the male descendant of the same crumbling artistocratic family and their secret.
The Beast is a controversial erotic reworking of the Beauty and the Beast. Forbidden for 25 years, and now available in the uncensored version. This erotic fable originally part of the Immoral Tales, was put aside due to it's controversial subject and later transformed into a full feature film, which became Borowczyk's erotic masterpiece.
"Raw and disturbing"
"Buñuelian tour de force of cruelty and liberation"
"Deliciously absurd fable that tweaks the boundaries between art and porn"
- LA Weekly
THE BEAST (LA BÊTE) - DVD
DVD008 (NTSC) • $24.95 • 94 minutes • 1975 • Color • 35mm • English Language • Widescreen • Not Rated
Director: Walerian Borowczyk |
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"Beatty makes porno into fetishistic film noir; imagine a kinky Louise Brooks, a sadistic Marlene Dietrich (who's the top?), and some nipple clamps and hot wax, and you're beginning to get the idea."
THE BLACK GLOVE
The flame of the candle that illuminates and torments, reveals the wondrous form of the willing slave, whose haunting wide eyes and full moist parted lips recall the classic silent screen goddesses Pola Negri and Louise Brooks.
This visionary erotic noir explores and crosses the boundaries of dominance and submission in its artful escalation of pleasure & pain, bondage & menace, fetishism & foot worship; culminating in the hot wax torture of the slave's most private parts... as she writhes in ecstasy!
Music by John Zorn • 1996 • 16mm • b&w • 30 minutes • Music/no subtitles
THE ELEGANT SPANKING
This 'post-modern romantic subversion' features the story of a unique lesbian S&M relationship between a mistress and her maid.
Enter their fantasy: a seductive chain of nostalgically hot images... role-play, mutual female masturbation, bare-bottom spanking, spike heel and foot worship in a totally new and classic approach to lesbian S&M erotica. One fetish sequence after another sucks you in on a tide, pulls you along in a climactic ride into the dream sequence finale.
Music by John Zorn • Language: English • 1995 • b&w • 45 mins • Subtitles: English, French, Swedish, Dutch, German, Spanish
SPECIAL DVD FEATURES
• Maria Beatty Trailers • DVD-Rom Weblink Features
MARIA BEATTY FETISH FILMS Volume 1 - DVD -
THE BLACK GLOVE/THE ELEGANT SPANKING
DVD018 (NTSC) • $29.95
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Venus in Furs is based on the famous 1869 novel by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, from whose name the term masochism derives.
This story about an obsessive relationship involves Severin, who makes a contract with a beautiful young woman, Wanda von Dunajew to become her servant and slave. While Severin expresses his sexual fantasies in his role as a masochist, Wanda acts out of love more than conviction. Leading to conflicts and a surprising conclusion that in effect creates a new definition of love. New version in the tradition of Histoire d'O and Marquis de Sade.
SPECIAL DVD FEATURES
• Feature film
• Interactive Pressbook with photos and text
• Scene selection
• Subtitles in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Danish and Japanese.
VENUS IN FURS - DVD
DVD007 (NTSC) • $29.95 • 70 minutes • 1994 • B&W • 35mm • English Language • Not Rated
Directors: Maartje Seyferth and Victor E. Nieuwenhuijs |
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Japan's Most Notorious Nun-Exploitation film: School of The Holy Beast (Sei Juu Gakuen) directed by sexploitation guru, Norifumi Suzuki, plunges into a maelstrom of hidden torture, secret masochistic desires, and blasphemous rites as Yumi Takigawa takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. When she finds out – with the help of lecherous archbishops, a lesbian mother superior and a line-up of fellow nuns ready to whip her (in the film's most deliriously over-the-top scene) with a gauntlet of rose-thorns - hell is loose.
Beautifully shot, shocking, unforgettable Masterpiece by the director of Beautiful Girl Hunter.
– Dario Argento meets the Marquis de Sade
REVIEWS:
"Believe the hype. This isn’t just the ultimate Japanese nunsploitation pic, it’s the ultimate nunsploitation film period.”- Upcoming Discs
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SCHOOL OF THE HOLY BEAST
A film by Norifumi Suzuki
DVD033 • $29.95 • Japan • 1974 • 94 Minutes • Not Rated • Widescreen
Japanese Language • Optional English Subtitles
Release date: August 30, 2005 |
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SPECIAL FEATURES
• New Transfer for 16x9 TV's
• Interview with Actress Yumi Takigawa
• Interview with Critic Risaku Kiridoushi
• Theatrical Trailer |
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