No-one seems to have started a thread for this recent UK based outfit - Drakes Avenue.
web site here
Here are some highlights from their web site:
CAFÉ LUMIÈRE
KITCHEN STORIES - saw this in Norway and found it wonderfuly dry humour
KONTROLL - big Hungarian hit of 2003
SOPHIE SCHOLL
TURTLES CAN FLY - this film was abig disappointment for me and in no way compared to the earlier Time for Drunken Horses
The only film from this outfit that I posess is Sophie Scholl. The picture quality was crisp and clear, but unfotunately the aspect ratio is 4:3 (non-anamorphic). Still it is a powerful film and worth watching for the strength of the lead performances. Though apparently there is a fair bit of hagiography going on with the mythologising of Sophie.
Interested to hear feedback as to what others make of Drakes Avenue?
Drakes Avenue
- Gropius
- Joined: Thu Jun 29, 2006 5:47 pm
Drakes Avenue is the DVD publishing wing of the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), the London-based distributor for many foreign films which rarely make it to the provinces, and also a venue for fairly vacuous installation art. The DVDs are generally bare-bones affairs, but with acceptable transfer quality. The list of titles is somewhat eccentric, consisting of the sort of stuff not mopped up by Artificial Eye.
- Scharphedin2
- Joined: Fri May 19, 2006 7:37 am
- Location: Denmark/Sweden
- Kay Hoog
- Joined: Fri May 26, 2006 11:01 am
well, all I can say is that they already have brought out Hsiao-Hsien's Cafe Lumiere (2004)Scharphedin2 wrote:So Kay, would you say that there is a good chance that this outfit will bring Hsiao-hsien, Ming-liang, Anh Hung and the like to R2 UK within the next 2-3 years...
As to Anh Hung - the wonderful The Scent Of Green Papaya (1993) is already out on r2 - release by SECOND SIGHT FILMS LTD here
and At The Height Of Summer (2000) is out on AE here
- Clevinger
- Joined: Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:07 am
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Re: Drakes Avenue
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel) coming in July, Amazon Uk