Production and Distribution
Our most recent production
is INSIDE/OUT (1997).
DISTRIBUTION
Cinema Parallel specializes in the theatrical and home video distribution of international and independent feature films in North America.
DEVILS, DEVILS by Dorota Kedzierswaska,
our next release
PRESENTLY IN THEATRICAL RELEASE AND 35mm RENTAL
TO HAVE (OR NOT) (1995) by Laetitia Masson. A festival hit at Toronto, Sarasota, Montreal Festival of New Cinema, and the Berlin Festival. An accomplished first film by a woman director who explores the dreams and hopes of a working class couple in Lyons, France. Starring the luminous Sandrine Kiberlain (Cesar-1995)
UP/DOWN/FRAGILE
(Haut bas fragile) (1995) by Jacques Rivette.
The most recent feature from Rivette has played theatrically in Chicago
at the Music Box, in NYC at Anthology Film, and presently at the Laemmle
Grand Theatre in Los Angeles and in Boston in July.
**** Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rivette
JLG/JLG (1995) by Jean-Luc Godard. A stunning self portrait by Godard which many critics believe is one of his major works. Godard performs as a fictional character musing over death...art and cinema in the middle of winter in Switzerland.
LIVING WITH AN IDIOT (1994)
by Alexandr Rogozhkin. A very black Russian comedy about what happens when
an intellectual invites an "idiot" to come and live with him and
his Proust reading wife. North American theatrical premiere in NYC at Anthology
Film Archives. Festival screenings at Toronto, Rotterdam, Sydney, and Hong
Kong International Film Festivals.
THE CHEKIST (1992) by
Alexandr Rogozhkin. A powerful drama about the CHEKA and how in 1917 through
total terror the Russian communists came to bloody power. One of the most
shocking and yet honest films in the history of international cinema. A
"hit" at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. North American premiere
at the Toronto Int. Film Festival.
THE SEVENTH CONTINENT(1989) by Michael Haneke. A provocative reflection on the
nature of despair and violence when a present day Austrian family is hollowed
out by the numbing repeat of urban life.
Haneke Reviews
TALKING TO STRANGERS (1988) by Rob Tregenza. A stylistically audacious and critically praised first feature. "Fresh and daring...a smart,wicked, formally audacious portrait of the artist as a young asshole." John Powers, LA Weekly **** " Masterpiece" Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader.
THE COW (KRAVA) (1994)
by Karel Kachyna. This "Beautiful, poignant and altogether captivating
Czech love story (Kevin Thomas, LA Times)"
celebrates the triumph of life and love over adversity.
Kachyna
HELAS POUR MOI (Oh Woe is Me) (1994) by Jean-Luc Godard stars Gerard Depardieu
in a staggeringly beautiful masterwork by one of the greatest directors
of all time. A poetic and profound quest for spiritual meaning.
Godard
FRENCH SHORTS(1996) a collection of six recent short films including
LA VIS winner of the 1995 best short film award by the French film industry.
SATANTANGO
(1994) by Bela Tarr. One of the master works
of recent cinema, this 7 and 1/2 hour black and white reflection on the
end of communism in a collective farm in Hungary has played in New York
at Anthology, Toronto at the Ontario Cinematheque, at the Walter ReadeTheatre.
Tarr Reviews
DAMNATION (1988) by Bela Tarr. Called by some wags SATANTANGO lite, this 90 minute drama shows where/how Bela Tarr developed his unique cinematic style.
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