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Posted: **Tue May 18, 2021 1:31 am**

We're celebrating the launch of our new online store with a flash sale! Buy any Blu-ray, DVD, LP or set and get 50% off (the already reduced price) of any second item! Sale ends at 11:59pm on Wednesday. Use code GhopShop21 at checkout or browse via this link

Picked up Francisca and Black Mother for under $21 each (40% off MSRP) before shipping

Posted: **Tue May 18, 2021 1:37 am**

There are bundles (Rocha, Sang-soo, etc.) at the bottom of the shop page that pair releases and also seem to work with the discount code.

Posted: **Mon May 24, 2021 8:24 pm**

Dear Grasshopper:

Our forum just named La flor and Academy of Muses, respectively, the 14th and 181st best films of the last decade. Therefore, you should give them Blu-rays. Thank you for your consideration.

Posted: **Mon May 24, 2021 9:41 pm**

swo17 wrote: Mon May 24, 2021 8:24 pm Dear Grasshopper:

Our forum just named La flor and Academy of Muses, respectively, the 14th and 181st best films of the last decade. Therefore, you should give them Blu-rays. Thank you for your consideration.

Great to see these on the list! LA FLOR is still up for blu-ray consideration. Nothing currently set for ACADEMY. But we've also got other blu announcements coming up in the weeks ahead.

Posted: **Mon May 24, 2021 9:46 pm**

More people also voted La flor as the best film of the decade than any other film, meaning it's officially the best. It's also the only film in the first third of the main list without a U.S. blu-ray release (yet)!

Posted: **Mon Jun 21, 2021 2:09 pm**

I knew it was coming but I didn't realize Grasshopper had a pre-order page up for Sicilia! and it does feature Costa's equally brilliant Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? as a supplement (no other supplements). I'm so glad they were able to pair the two for this release.

Posted: **Wed Jul 14, 2021 6:47 pm**

The Power of Kangwon Province pre-order is up.

Posted: **Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:07 am**

Grasshopper's next Blu-ray release (with absolutely no fanfare) is Sky Hopinka's Małni - Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore, coming out on October 21. This is the film I most regret not being able to see in a theater last year, so I'm very happy it's at least getting the Blu treatment. Special features are scant, but they include my favorite of his short films, Fainting Spells.

In more baffling news, Grasshopper have seemingly acquired Sion Sono's Red Post on Escher Street--again, without any publicity whatsoever--but will only make it available in virtual cinemas (starting tomorrow), with a DVD release to follow on December 14.

Posted: **Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:44 pm**

I preordered Malni from Grasshopper last month based on how much I loved his short films (Fainting Spells is my favorite, too). I just watched it on the Criterion Channel yesterday and was not disappointed. It sort of threads a line through Dislocation Blues and the more abstract shorts stylistically. It is, as expected, beautiful both visually and aurally, and very moving as well.

Posted: **Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:16 pm**

Grasshopper Film joining in on the Black Friday sales with 50% off all BDs and DVDs starting Friday 26th at 12am.

Posted: **Thu Nov 25, 2021 4:34 pm**

Grasshopper is giving a lot of love to their release of Tsai's Days

Pre-order: https://grasshopperfilm.myshopify.com/p ... ys-blu-ray

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TITLE IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER. IT IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THE HOLIDAY SALE DISCOUNT BUT SHIPPING FOR THIS ITEM IS FREE WHEN COMBINED WITH OTHER HOLIDAY ORDERS. SHIPS 1/25/22.

BLU-RAY DISC ONE

• Days (2020, 127 minutes), a film by Tsai Ming-liang
• Press Conference with Tsai Ming-liang, Lee Kang-sheng and Anong Houngheuangsy following the world premiere of Days at the 2020 Berlinale (33 minutes)
• U.S. Theatrical Trailer

BLU-RAY DISC TWO

• Afternoon (2015, 137 minutes), a feature documentary by Tsai Ming-liang with actor Lee Kang-sheng
• Wandering (2021, 34 minutes), a new short film by Tsai Ming-liang
• New video interview with director Tsai Ming-liang (30 minutes)
• “Director Tsai’s Cafe Gallerie,” an image gallery featuring exhibition posters and photographs from the Taiwanese cinema operated by Tsai Ming-liang between 2011 and 2014

Plus, a limited edition slipcase with alternate black & white poster art (1000 print run only)

Posted: **Thu Nov 25, 2021 5:02 pm**

Wonderful! I've been waiting for the Blu-ray before watching Days. I did rent Afternoon digitally, and I'm very glad they're including that here, along with many other lengthy extras. Can't wait for this one.

Posted: **Thu Nov 25, 2021 5:47 pm**

I guess I missed the fact that Nick Newman left but he just tweeted that this release was the final thing he worked on.

Posted: **Tue Nov 30, 2021 5:24 pm**

We just wanted to say thank you to everyone on here who took part and supported our holiday sale this year. It was also incredible to see all the interest in our DAYS release. We loved putting this set together and we definitely plan to do more such special editions going forward.

Posted: **Tue Nov 30, 2021 6:47 pm**

GrasshopperFilm wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 5:24 pm We just wanted to say thank you to everyone on here who took part and supported our holiday sale this year. It was also incredible to see all the interest in our DAYS release. We loved putting this set together and we definitely plan to do more such special editions going forward.

Thank you for having a sale! It seems like films with four-letter titles tend to do well. Words like:

Days
(La) Flor
(Academy of) Muse(s)

I'm just sayin'

Posted: **Tue Nov 30, 2021 6:48 pm**

GrasshopperFilm wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 5:24 pm We just wanted to say thank you to everyone on here who took part and supported our holiday sale this year. It was also incredible to see all the interest in our DAYS release. We loved putting this set together and we definitely plan to do more such special editions going forward.

A special edition of La Flor would make many of us very very happy.

edit: oh haha swo beat me to it.

Posted: **Tue Nov 30, 2021 6:59 pm**

More Tsai Ming-Liang on Blu would also be very welcome.

Posted: **Tue Nov 30, 2021 7:33 pm**

Dead Souls is also a title with a four letter word.

Posted: **Tue Nov 30, 2021 7:55 pm**

Grasshopper, since others have reinitiated the subject, six months ago (upthread) you mentioned La Flor was still “up for blu-ray consideration” in contrast to the other titles mentioned, and just curious if its status has changed (aka, is there still hope)?

Posted: **Tue Nov 30, 2021 8:16 pm**

Hold up, I just got a shipping confirmation for Days, which wasn't supposed to be available for months. Did they perhaps just print the shipping label and are now going to sit on it until 1/25/22?

Posted: **Tue Nov 30, 2021 9:05 pm**

swo17 wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 6:47 pm
GrasshopperFilm wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 5:24 pm We just wanted to say thank you to everyone on here who took part and supported our holiday sale this year. It was also incredible to see all the interest in our DAYS release. We loved putting this set together and we definitely plan to do more such special editions going forward.
Thank you for having a sale! It seems like films with four-letter titles tend to do well. Words like:

Days
(La) Flor
(Academy of) Muse(s)

I'm just sayin'

Yes, there does seem to be a pattern there!

Posted: **Wed Dec 01, 2021 3:41 am**

swo17 wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 8:16 pm Hold up, I just got a shipping confirmation for Days

Me too! I ordered a few other things so figured they split the order, but maybe not …?

Really looking foward to seeing new Tsai, and especially grateful for the extra films.

Posted: **Wed Dec 01, 2021 3:59 am**

I preordered Woman On the Beach/Hill of Freedom last December along with Right Now, Wrong Then. The shipping notification I received several days after ordering listed both titles, but only RN,WT actually shipped. The preorder didn’t ship until street date in February. Sorry to be a buzzkill.

Posted: **Wed Dec 01, 2021 4:17 am**

Same here. I actually emailed Grasshopper because Woman on the Beach was listed on the packing slip but wasn't in the shipment. They clarified that it would ship separately closer to the street date.

Posted: **Wed Dec 01, 2021 4:20 am**

Ha, checking my emails from last year the exact same thing happened to me too!

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