Tuesday Releases: Climax, Greta, & A Vigilante

Official Synopsis: Frances (Chloë Grace Moretz), a sweet, naïve young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, doesn’t think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is Greta (Isabelle Huppert), an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. Having recently lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to widowed Greta. The two become fast friends — but Greta’s maternal charms begin to dissolve and grow increasingly disturbing as Frances discovers that nothing in Greta’s life is what it seems in this suspense thriller directed by Academy Award winner Neil Jordan.

• Greta: Enemies and Friends – Featurette
• Deleted Scenes

Official Synopsis: Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field. In the mystery that follows, by turns terrifying and darkly funny, writer-director David Lynch burrows deep beneath the picturesque surfaces of small-town life. Driven to investigate, Jeffrey finds himself drawing closer to his fellow amateur sleuth, Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), as well as their person of interest, lounge singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini)—and facing the fury of Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper), a psychopath who will stop at nothing to keep Dorothy in his grasp. With intense performances and hauntingly powerful scenes and images, Blue Velvet is an unforgettable vision of innocence lost, and one of the most influential American films of the past few decades.

Director-Approved Special Edition Features

• New 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray, both supervised by director David Lynch
• Alternate original 2.0 surround sound­track
• The Lost Footage, fifty-three minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes assembled by Lynch
• “Blue Velvet” Revisited, a feature-length meditation on the making of the movie by Peter Braatz, filmed on-set during the production
• Mysteries of Love, a seventy-minute documentary from 2002 on the making of the film
• Interview from 2017 with composer Angelo Badalamenti
• It’s a Strange World: The Filming of “Blue Velvet,” a 2019 documentary featuring interviews with crew members and visits to the shooting locations
• Lynch reading from Room to Dream, a 2018 book he coauthored with Kristine McKenna
• PLUS: Excerpts by McKenna from Room to Dream

Cover by Fred Davis

Official Synopsis: In the early 1960s in Paris, two young women become friends. Pomme is an aspiring singer. Suzanne is a pregnant country girl unable to support a third child. Pomme lends Suzanne the money for an illegal abortion, but a sudden tragedy soon separates them. Ten years later, they reunite at a demonstration and pledge to keep in touch via postcard, as each of their lives is irrevocably changed by the women’s liberation movement. A buoyant hymn to sisterly solidarity rooted in the hard-won victories of a generation of women, One Sings, the Other Doesn’t is one of Agnès Varda’s warmest and most politically trenchant films, a feminist musical for the ages.

Director-Approved Special Edition Features

• New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Agnès Varda and cinematographer Charlie Van Damme, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda, a 1977 documentary directed by Katja Raganelli, featuring an interview with Varda shot during the making of the film, plus on-set interviews with actors Valérie Mairesse and Thérèse Liotard
• Réponse de femmes, a 1975 short film by Varda, on the question “What is a woman?”
• Plaisir d’amour en Iran, a 1976 short film by Varda, starring Mairesse and Ali Raffi
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin and excerpts from the film’s original press book

New cover by Michel Landi

Official Synopsis: From director Gaspar Noé (Enter the Void) and actress Sofia Boutella (Atomic Blonde) comes this hypnotic, shock-filled story of a party that descends into delirium over the course of one wintry night. In an empty and remote school building, a French dance troupe has gathered for rehearsal. The rehearsal morphs into a party—and then turns nightmarish as the dancers discover they’ve been drinking sangria laced with LSD. Passions and violence erupt as the night moves from jubilation to full-fledged anarchy.

• A Visceral Experience: Making Climax – Featurette
• Optional English SDH and Spanish subtitles for the main feature

Official Synopsis: Oslo, 1987: Seventeen-year-old Euronymous (Rory Culkin) is determined to escape his idyllic Scandinavian hometown and create “true Norwegian black metal” with his band, MAYHEM. He’s joined by equally fanatical youths – Dead (Jack Kilmer) and Varg (Emory Cohen). Believing that they’re on the cusp of a musical revolution, the group gets even darker, driven by the black metal dogma to spread evil. They begin burning down churches throughout the countryside and stealing tombstones for their record store. But when the press catches up with them and Euronymous takes more credit than he’s earned for the group’s violent acts, Varg, fresh out of jail, arranges a dark encounter to settle the score and ultimately determine who the darkest black metal musician is…

Official Synopsis: Give her a call, and she’ll give you justice. After escaping her violent husband, Sadie (Olivia Wilde) makes it her life’s mission to help free others in danger. Now, after months of rigorous training in survival skills, boxing, and lethal martial arts, Sadie is back with a vengeance in this fight-packed action-thriller.

• Catharsis: Creating A Vigilante – Featurette
• Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature