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Second Rund DVD 001
In The Land Of The Deaf
Second Rund DVD 002
Nighthawks
Second Rund DVD 003
Strip Jack Naked (Nighthawks II)
Second Rund DVD 004
Love (Szerelem)
Second Rund DVD 005
Mother Joan Of The Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniolow)
Second Rund DVD 006
Audition/Talent Competition (Konkurs)
Second Rund DVD 007
Interrogation
(Przesluchanie)Second Rund DVD 008
Another Way
(Egymasra Nezve)Second Rund DVD 009
Intimate Lighting (Intimní Osvêtlení)
Second Rund DVD 010
Portrait Of Jason
Second Rund DVD 011
David Holzman's Diary
Second Rund DVD 012
The Ear (Ucho)
Second Rund DVD 013
Blissfully Yours (Sud Sanaeha)
Second Rund DVD 014
The Red and The White (Csillagosok, Katonák)
Second Rund DVD 015
The Cremator (Spalovac Mrtvol)
Second Rund DVD 016
Every Little Thing (La Moindre Des Choses)
Second Rund DVD 017
Marketa Lazarová
Second Rund DVD 018
Passenger (Pasazerka)
Second Rund DVD 019
Knights of the Teutonic Order (Krzyzacy)
Second Rund DVD 020
The Party and the Guests (O Slavnosti A Hostech)
Second Rund DVD 021
A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda (Egy hét Pesten és Budán)
Second Rund DVD 022
Avenge But One of My Two Eyes (Nekam Achat Mishtey Eynay)
Second Rund DVD 023
The Third Part of the Night (Trzecia Czesc Nocy)
Second Rund DVD 024
My Way Home (Így jöttem)
Second Rund DVD 025
Diary For My Children
Second Rund DVD 026
Palms (Ladoni)
Second Rund DVD 027
Rat-Trap (Elippathayam)
Second Rund DVD 028
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Romeo, Julia a tma)
Second Rund DVD 029
The Round-Up (Szegénylegények)
Second Rund DVD 030
Partition
Second Rund DVD 031
TBA
Second Rund DVD 032
Black Sun
Second Rund DVD 033
TBA
Second Rund DVD 034
Tropical Malady (Sud Pralad)
Second Rund DVD 035
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a týden divu)
Second Rund DVD 036
Fighters / Real Money
Second Rund DVD 037
Divorce Iranian Style / Runaway
Second Rund DVD 038
Celia
Second Rund DVD 039
Daisies (Sedmikrásky)
Second Rund DVD 042
Lift / Travellers / Calais: The Last Border
Second Rund DVD 043
Blood (O Sangue)
NoShame
Second Run DVD
Second Run are a UK-based DVD company specialising in the release of important and award-winning films from all around the world.
In The Land Of The Deaf
Second Rund DVD 001
The films and methods of Nicolas Philibert, maker of Etre et avoir, have shown him to be one of contemporary cinema’s most acclaimed documentarists. In The Land of the Deaf is an elegantly spare and thoughtful portrait of the rich, diverse, but often isolated culture of the deaf community.
Street date: 8/1/2005
UPC: 5051083000109
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 001
Nighthawks
Second Rund DVD 002
OUT OF PRINT
Nighthawks is the story of Jim, a geography teacher at a London comprehensive school. Living alone in a cramped flat, his sexuality a half open secret to everyone but his pupils and his parents, he spends the evenings at gay bars and discos looking vainly for 'Mr Right'.
UPC: 5051083000116
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 002
Strip Jack Naked (Nighthawks II)
Second Rund DVD 003
OUT OF PRINT
Strip Jack Naked is a companion piece to Ron Peck's ground-breaking Nighthawks. Made thirteen years after Nighthawks, it is an autobiographical film that tells not only of the struggle to make Nighthawks but also of the director's life as a gay man growing up in late 20th century Britain.
UPC: 5051083000123
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 003
Love (Szerelem)
Second Rund DVD 004
Makk's haunting, atmospheric and beautifully performed film, brilliantly shot by Janos Toth, captures exactly the fear and uncertainty of the time. It is, above all, a treatise on how such times affect fidelity, faith, illusion, love. It deals specifically with Hungary but has an absolutely universal appeal... completely unsentimental, but catches precisely what its characters face and how they feel... an outstanding film.
Street date: 8/15/2005
UPC: 5051083000130
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 004
Mother Joan Of The Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniolow)
Second Rund DVD 005
One of the landmarks of Polish cinema, this film is based on the documented story of the ‘possession’ of a group of nuns that led to the burning of a priest at the stake in Loudun, France in 1634. Mother Joan of the Angels is a spare, visually rigorous, and profoundly disturbing exploration of faith, repression, fanaticism, and eros. Anyone who is a fan of classics of the strange will find much to savour in Mother Joan of the Angels.
Street date: 8/8/2005
UPC: 5051083000147
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 005
Audition/Talent Competition (Konkurs)
Second Rund DVD 006
Konkurs is Milos Forman's debut film and is considered to be the film that launched what became known internationally as the Czech New Wave. It was originall made as two separate 'featurettes' - but the style and themes were very similar and so they were released as one film.
Street date: 8/15/2005
UPC: 5051083000154
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 006
Interrogation (Przesluchanie)
Second Rund DVD 007
Based on a true story reflecting the Stalinist terror of the early 1950s, Ryszard Bugajski’s harrowing film was banned under martial law in Poland and only became available on underground VHS through a copy smuggled out by the director at great risk. Tonia (Krystyna Janda), a singer in a sleazy cabaret, is imprisoned without explanation. Days become weeks become months, varied only by the persuasion, intimidation and torture of interrogation. Janda’s outstanding depiction takes you to places few films are willing to explore.
Street date: 10/3/2005
UPC: 5060114150003
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 007
Another Way (Egymasra Nezve)
Second Rund DVD 008
The clash of sexuality and politics provide the basis for this tragic love story set in Hungary, 1958. In the offices of magazine The Truth, two female journalists tentatively embark on a clandestine, highly-charged affair, knowing that they face the wrath of the Stalinist regime if discovered. A brave and significant portrait of the effect totalitarianism has on the most intimate aspects of life, this film cleverly undercuts the expectations aroused by its milieu.
Street date: 10/3/2005
UPC: 5060114150010
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 008
Intimate Lighting (Intimní Osvêtlení)
Second Rund DVD 009
This wonderfully subtle comedy is the debut film of a great director and a signature work of the Czech New Wave. Ivan Passer's film concerns the dreams of two musician friends, one of whom, having left their small hometown to become successful, returns to visit the other who stayed behind at the local music school. Focussing on the humour of the ordinary and routine and expertly shot by Miroslav Ondricek, it shows true affection and understanding for all its characters to become that very rare thing in comedy.
Street date: 1/30/2006
UPC: 5060114150027
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 009
Portrait Of Jason
Second Rund DVD 010
Portrait of Jason is the raw record of a confessional conversation with an African-American gay hustler recounting his life and times. A distrubing and fascinating document, it unflinchingly observes Jason Holliday - conversing, performing, confessing, dissolving.
Street date: 10/3/2005
UPC: 5060114150034
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 010
David Holzman's Diary
Second Rund DVD 011
Shot in 1967, 'David Holzman's Diary' is a milestone in contemporary film history. Brilliantly conceived and executed, it manages to simultaneously be very much of its time and very many years ahead of its time. The film tells the story of David Holzman, a young man infatuated with film and film-making. Newly unemployed and beset with doubts and worries, Holzman thinks that filming his everyday existence will 'bring life into focus'. Staged to seem like a documentary of a real person's life, Holzman’s filming of his life starts to take over his life.
Street date: 1/30/2006
UPC: 5060114150041
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 011
The Ear (Ucho)
Second Rund DVD 012
Although made in 1970, The Ear (Ucho) was immediately banned by the Czech authorities and remained unseen for twenty years, being finally released only after the Velvet Revolution took place in Czechoslovakia. This landmark film is an extraordinary mix of one of the most direct indictments of life under an oppressive totalitarian system and a not-so-private examination of a disintegrating marital relationship.
Street date: 10/3/2005
UPC: 5060114150058
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 012
Blissfully Yours (Sud Sanaeha)
Second Rund DVD 013
Innovative and enigmatic, Blissfully Yours is a languid celebration of the pleasures of the moment. In Apichatpong’s heady, sensual and playful film, a leisurely road trip and a picnic in the jungle give way to uninhibited emotion and eroticism.
Street date: 5/1/2006
UPC: 5060114150065
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 013
The Red and The White (Csillagosok, Katonák)
Second Rund DVD 014
Set in 1919, during the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Miklós Jancsó’s The Red and the White is a war film unlike any other.
In the brutal Civil War which took place, Hungarian volunteers supported the ‘Red’ revolutionaries in a war of attrition against the ‘White’ counter-revolutionaries who were seeking to restore the old Czarist order.
Through its stylistic virtuosity, ritualistic power and sheer beauty, Jancsó invites us to study the mechanisms of power almost abstractly and with a cold eroticism that clearly portrays the utter futility of war. Although the film was an Hungarian-Russian co-production, the Russian authorities banned it from being shown anywhere in the Soviet Union.
Street date: 3/27/2006
UPC: 5060114150072
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 014
The Cremator (Spalovac Mrtvol)
Second Rund DVD 015
Juraj Herz’s film The Cremator has been described in many ways - as surrealist-inspired horror, as expressionist fantasy, as a dark and disturbing tale of terror.
This brilliantly chilling film, a mix of Dr Strangelove and Repulsion, is set in Prague during the Nazi occupation. It tells the story of Karl Kopfrkingl (Rudolf Hrusínský), a professional cremator, for whom the political climate allows free rein to his increasingly deranged impulses for the ’salvation of the world’.
Street date: 4/10/2006
UPC: 5060114150089
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 015
Every Little Thing (La Moindre Des Choses)
Second Rund DVD 016
The protagonists in this film are the patients and staff at the La Borde psychiatric institute in France. Each summer they perform a play on a stage set in the beautiful grounds of the chateau. The film charts the passage of this magical event and allows the viewer a glimpse at life in one of the world’s most highly regarded psychiatric institutions.
Street date: 5/1/2006
UPC: 5060114150096
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 016
Marketa Lazarová
Second Rund DVD 017
Voted the best Czech film of all time, Marketa Lazarová is a powerful and passionate medieval epic set in the 13th Century. Based on avant-garde writer Vladislav Vancura’s novel, it follows the rivalry between two warring clans and the doomed love affair of Mikoláš Kozlík and Marketa Lazarová.
UPC: 5060114150096
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 017
Passenger (Pasazerka)
Second Rund DVD 018
Described as "one of the most audacious fictions ever made about the Holocaust", Passenger is a classic of Polish cinema. Director Munk died, aged just 39, in a car crash in the middle of filmimng. His friend and colleague Witold Lesiewicz decided to complete the film to what he believed were Munk's intentions and assembled it using the existing footage, Munk's photographs and a voice-over narration.
Street date: 9/25/2006
UPC: 5060114150119
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 018
Knights of the Teutonic Order (Krzyzacy)
Second Rund DVD 019
Considered as one of the greatest and most popular Polish films of all time, this epic is a spectacular historical romance and war film set in the Middle Ages. Based on the best-selling book by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz (Quo Vadis), the epic scope of Knights compares with the best in Hollywood epics and is a film for viewers of all ages.
Street date: 10/26/2006
UPC: 5060114150126
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 019
The Party and the Guests (O Slavnosti A Hostech)
Second Rund DVD 020
Distinguished by being 'banned forever' in its native Czechoslovakia, Nemec's film is a masterpiece of barbed, darkly sinister wit. As a biting satire of authoritarianism and conformity and with its astute observations of human nature, the film's universal relevance continues to this day.
Street date: 3/19/2007
UPC: 5060114150133
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 020
A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda (Egy hét Pesten és Budán)
Second Rund DVD 021
A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda reunites Károly Makk with Mari Törõcsik and Iván Darvas, who starred in his classic film Love which was made over 30 years ago. With them, Makk recreates that finely tuned sense of place, history, and intimate human stories that characterize his best films, showing a director still working at the height of his talent. Emotionally mature and profoundly moving, the film reveals how, despite our best efforts, we can never quite escape the past.
Street date: 11/17/2006
UPC: 5060114150140
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 021
Avenge But One of My Two Eyes (Nekam Achat Mishtey Eynay)
Second Rund DVD 022
Shot in the Occupied Territories by Israeli director Avi Mograbi, this controversial documentary film draws parallels between the Israeli - Palestinian situation today and the enduring myths of Samson and Masada. Mograbi offers a powerful, at times chilling, lament of the continuing cycles of violence rooted in the past and threatening to engulf everyone's future. With the roots of so much real-world conflict left unexamined by today’s restless media, this film reminds us just how vital filmmakers like Avi Mograbi are.
Street date: 11/13/2006
UPC: 5060114150157
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 022
The Third Part of the Night (Trzecia Czesc Nocy)
Second Rund DVD 023
Andrzej Zulawski is one of the true mavericks of European cinema and his wild, imaginative and unique films have won awards at many international film festivals over the years. A nightmarish and surreal masterpiece, The Third Part of the Night is his highly influential debut feature film. Set during the time of the Nazi-occupation of Poland and rich with multilayered symbolism and apocalyptic imagery, it shows one of Europe's most uncompromising and visionary directors at his best.
Street date: 5/14/2007
UPC: 5060114150164
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 023
My Way Home (Így jöttem)
Second Rund DVD 024
In the final days of World War 2, a young Hungarian is making his way home, through countryside full of the debris of war, when he is captured and imprisoned by Russians. Left in the custody of a young Russian soldier, the two youths form a friendship in spite of not speaking each other's language. The Hungarian's attempts to continue his journey homeward provide the framework for this powerful film, considered Miklos Jancsó's first masterpiece.
Street date: 10/1/2007
UPC: 5060114150171
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 024
Diary For My Children
Second Rund DVD 025
Set in Hungary during the turbulent years between 1943 and 1956. Jan Nowicki plays a dual role as the factory-worker friend of revolutionary journalist Anna Polony, and as the political-prisoner father of teen-aged heroine Zsusza Czinkoczi. It is Czinkoczi's involvement with both of the men played by Nowicki, which bridges the film's time-frame. Writer/director Marta Meszaros based the events of DIARY FOR MY CHILDREN on her own wartime experiences (her father was a Communist artist who died under mysterious circumstances during a Stalinist purge).
Street date: 9/7/2009
UPC: 5060114150188
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 025
Palms (Ladoni)
Second Rund DVD 026
Palms is Aristakisyan's astonishing portrait of people who live on the margins of life and exist outside normal society. Profound, spiritual and hallucinatory, Palms is remarkable at every level and one of the most visionary films of recent years.
Street date: 8/27/2007
UPC: 5060114150195
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 026
Rat-Trap (Elippathayam)
Second Rund DVD 027
Arguably the true heir to Satyajit Ray, Adoor Gopalakrishnan is regarded as one of India’s most outstanding filmmakers and Rat-Trap was the first film to bring him widespread international acclaim. Remarkable for its focus on characterization and detail, Rat-Trap is set in rural Kerala. Its story concerns Unni, the last male-heir of a feudal and decaying joint family. His inability to accept the socio-economic changes of a new society result in his gradual withdrawal into a metaphorical rat-trap sprung from his own isolation and paranoia.
Street date: 6/23/2008
UPC: 5060114150201
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 027
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Romeo, Julia a tma)
Second Rund DVD 028
Arguably the true heir to Satyajit Ray, Adoor Gopalakrishnan is regarded as one of India’s most outstanding filmmakers and Rat-Trap was the first film to bring him widespread international acclaim. Remarkable for its focus on characterization and detail, Rat-Trap is set in rural Kerala. Its story concerns Unni, the last male-heir of a feudal and decaying joint family. His inability to accept the socio-economic changes of a new society result in his gradual withdrawal into a metaphorical rat-trap sprung from his own isolation and paranoia.
Street date: 2/19/2007
UPC: 5060114150218
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 028
The Round-Up (Szegénylegények)
Second Rund DVD 029
A profound influence on filmmakers from Sergio Leone to Béla Tarr, The Round-Up is widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of world cinema. Set in a detention camp in Hungary in 1869, at a time of guerilla campaigns against the ruling Austrians, Jancsó deliberately avoids conventional heroics to focus on the persecution and dehumanisation manifest in a time of conflict. Filmed in Hungary's desolate and burning landscape, Jancsó uses his formidable technique to create a remarkable and terrifying picture of war and the abuse of power that is still very relevant today.
Street date: 3/17/2008
UPC: 5060114150225
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 029
Partition
Second Rund DVD 030
The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent's partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken McMullen's complex and visually striking film. A lunatic asylum in the city of Lahore becomes a mirror image of events in the outside political world, with the same actors playing both inmates and rulers. Adapted by Tariq Ali and McMullen from famous Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto s short story Toba Tek Singh , Partition speaks for the countless millions that the usual British Raj films sweep out of sight. Released to mark the 60th anniversary of the partition of the Indian sub-continent, this is the film's first-ever release on DVD.
Street date: 1/21/2008
UPC: 5060114150232
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 030
Black Sun
Second Rund DVD 032
Gary Tarns remarkable film Black Sun, winner of many international awards and presented and produced by Alfonso Cuarón (Y tu mamá también, Children of Men) and John Battsek (One Day in September), tells the story of Hugues de Montalembert, a French artist and filmmaker living in New York, who was blinded during a violent assault in 1978.
Street date: 11/12/2007
UPC: 5060114150256
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 032
Tropical Malady (Sud Pralad)
Second Rund DVD 034
Garlanded with awards, Apichatpong’s visionary film exists in dual realms, exploring connected themes of love and desire in a radically different way. A fractured love story is interrupted by a feverish night-time odyssey into the heart of the jungle where shape-shifting spirits and tigers abound.
Street date: 7/28/2008
UPC: 5060114150270
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 034
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a týden divu)
Second Rund DVD 035
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders mixes horror, fairytale, surrealism and Freudian symbolism to depict the fantastical world inhabited by a young girl on the threshold of adulthood. Haunting and dreamlike, beguiling and magical, the film is a work of pure imagination, and has become a cult classic.
Street date: 8/25/2008
UPC: 5060114150287
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 035
Fighters / Real Money
Second Rund DVD 036
Fighters is often cited as the definitive documentary film on the subject of boxing. It brilliantly captures both the romanticism and the agonising, sweat-dripping discipline inherent in this hardest game of all. Real Money is an improvised drama film, acted by the boxers who appear in Fighters. It tells the parallel stories of young boxers lured into lives of crime and easy money, the trainer who is determined to help them, and the ruthless gangster who pulls the strings.
Street date: 10/27/2008
UPC: 5060114150300
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 036
Divorce Iranian Style / Runaway
Second Rund DVD 037
Divorce Iranian Style: A hilarious, tragic, stirring, fly-on-the-wall look at several weeks in an Iranian divorce court. It provides a unique window into the intimate circumstances of Iranian women's lives.
Runaway: Set in a refuge for girls in Tehran and follows the stories of five young runaway girls who arrive there, having fled their homes due to domestic discord. The film explores their experiences of male authority, their longing for freedom and respect, and their hopes for a more positive future.
Street date: 1/26/2009
UPC: 5060114150317
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 037
Celia
Second Rund DVD 038
Set in mid 1950s Australia, with the fear of communism in the air and the country's farmlands overrun by a plague of rabbits, the film depicts a long hot summer seen through the eyes and over-active imagination of nine year old Celia.
UPC: 5060114150324
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 038
Daisies (Sedmikrasky)
Second Rund DVD 039
A satirical, wild and irreverent story of rebellion, Věra Chytilová’s classic of surrealist cinema is perhaps also the most adventurous and anarchic Czech movie of the 1960s.
UPC: 5060114150331
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 039
Lift / Travellers / Calais: The Last Border
Second Rund DVD 042
All three of these films – Calais: The Last Border, Lift, Travellers – are based in transitional areas, pinch points, places through which people travel to go somewhere, or hope to. It is in these places that Isaacs sows questions that take people off-guard, reconnecting them with the deeper motivations and themes of their lives.
UPC: 5060114150362
Catalog: Second Rund DVD 042
Blood (O Sangue)
Second Rund DVD 043
Filmed in startling monochrome and demonstrating a love and knowledge of classical Hollywood and European art cinema, Blood is a lushly stylized romantic fable. It explores the plight of two brothers coming to terms with the death of their father and the legacy of violence and debt he has left behind. Languid and unsettling, beautiful and intimate, with echoes of Tourneur, Bresson, Ray and Straub-Huillet, Blood is both elusive and utterly mesmerising.
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Catalog: Second Rund DVD 043
