Synopsis: In the early 1970s, cult filmmaker Jess Franco-inspired by the Hammer horror films being made in the UK-revisited the iconic monsters of yesteryear, placing them in the castles and crypts of the Spanish countryside, and bracketing the thrills with scenes of frank eroticism.Daughter of Dracula was inspired by Sheridan LeFanu’s “Carmilla” (which was also the source of Hammer’s lesbian vampire trilogy), but as one might expect, Franco’s version was unlike any treatment the story had yet received. When the nude body of a murdered woman washes onto the beach, a police inspector (Alberto Dalbés) and a reporter (Fernando Bilbao) focus their attention on the castle of Count Max Karlstein (composer Daniel White) and his niece (Britt Nichols, The Demons), a beautiful woman who appears to be wrestling with an ancestral curse.

Special Features: English Subtitles, Audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas, Alternate “safe” footage (less sexually explicit), Original theatrical trailer

Llyn Foulkes: One Man Band (Kino Lorber, DVD)

DVD Street Date: October 11, 2016

DVD SRP: $29.95

Director: Tamar Halpern and Chris Quilty

Documentary/2014/NR/88 min.

Synopsis: During the seven years chronicles in Llyn Foulkes: One Man Band, artist and musician Llyn Foulkes creates, destroys, and recreates a pair of large-scale paintings — one of which costs him his marriage — until he is at last rediscovered by the international art world at age 77. With interviews from 1960s art scene vets Dennis Hopper and George Herms, and an appearance on The Tonight Show, the film reconstructs fifty years of his uncompromising, largely forgotten career. With music written and performed by Llyn Foulkes on his massive, fanciful, self-invented instrument called “The Machine.”

Volando Bajo (Sol y Luna, DVD)

DVD Street Date: October 11, 2016

DVD SRP: $19.95

Director: Beto Gómez

Starring: Gerardo Taracena, Rodrigo Oviedo, Ludwika Paleta, Sandra Echeverria, Rafael Inclan, Ana Brenda Contreras

Synopsis: Chuyin and Cornelio were the biggest duo in music and movies in the 80s. Known as “The Rosarito Goldfinches,” they enjoyed huge success – to the point of excess. Now, living well in Paris, with a successful solo career, Chuyin is releasing a new album and about to embark on an international tour. But upon receiving news of Cornelio’s sudden death, Chuyin is thrust into the past, reliving their musical adventures as “The Rosarito Goldfinches.”

Chuyín Venegas y Cornelio Barraza fueron las más grandes estrellas de la música y el cine popular de los años 80s. Como Los Jilgueros de Rosarito no tuvieron igual, pero tras diez años de éxito, tomaron caminos diferentes. Recluido ahora en una mansión en París, Chuyín está por lanzar nuevo disco y gira internacional. Pero los fantasmas del pasado y la soledad del presente harán que el exitoso solista cambie de planes y regrese al pueblo junto al mar donde él y Cornelio se conocieron siendo niños, para vivir la última aventura musical de Los Jilgueros de Rosarito.

Optional English and Spanish subtitles, 5.1 Surround Sound

Cambio de Ruta  (Sol y Luna, DVD)

We the People: The Market Basket Effect (Kino Lorber, DVD)

DVD Street Date: October 18, 2016

DVD SRP: $24.95

Director: Tommy Reid

Documentary/2015/NR/76 min.

Synopsis: We the People: The Market Basket Effecttraces the events that led 25,000 employees and 2 million customers across New England to stand behind embattled CEO Arthur T. Demoulas and wrest control of a multibillion dollar grocery empire from an activist board of directors led by Artie T.’s cousin, Arthur S. Demoulas. A vivid and thorough portrayal of the most memorable labor protest in recent American history, We the People investigates a question at the heart of ongoing economic debate: can regular people really band together to alter the balance of power in major corporations, or is the case of Market Basket a fairytale victory?

5.1 Surround Sound, Closed Captions

Serial Killer 1 (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray & DVD)
Blu-ray & DVD Street Date: October 18, 2016
Blu-ray SRP: $34.95
DVD SRP: $29.95
Director: Frédéric Tellier
Starring: Raphaël Personnaz, Olivier Gourmet, Michel Vuillermoz, Nathalie Baye, Christa Théret, Thierry Neuvic, Adama Niane, Chloé Stefani, William Nadylam, Marianne Denicourt
Drama/2014/NR/120 min.

Synopsis: Franck (Raphaël Personnaz) is an eager rookie homicide squad inspector. When a woman is found with her throat cut, he shrewdly unearths parallels between previously unrelated cases. Before he knows it, Franck is caught up in an eight-year obsessive hunt for Serial Killer 1, a man whose very existence is questioned by others. Loosely based on the investigation into real-life murderer Guy Georges, aka the Beast Of The Bastille (whose lurking disorder is deftly captured by Adama Niane), the story milks suspense from the procedural aspects of the manhunt, the false leads, dead ends, and the stifling bureaucracy of a police force hindered by dwindling budgets and a knee-jerk insistence on outdated, traditional methods.

English Subtitles, 5.1 Surround Sound

Who’s Driving Doug (Kino Lorber, DVD)
DVD Street Date: October 25, 2016
DVD SRP: $24.95
Director: David Michael Conley
Starring: RJ Mitte, Paloma Kwiatkowski, Daphne Zuniga, Ray William Johnson
Drama/2015/NR/95 min.

Synopsis: A sheltered college student named Doug (RJ Mitte, Breaking Bad) changes his life forever when he hires underachieving driver Scott (Ray William Johnson). In order to escape his oppressively loving mother (Daphne Zuniga,Melrose Place), Doug agrees to go on a spontaneous road trip with Scott and his college crush Stephanie (Paloma Kwiatkowski, Bates Motel). At the height of the journey, a tragic series of events tests their bond and opens the road to self discovery. Drugs, gambling, and romance await the three friends in this honest American coming of age drama.

5.1 Surround Sound, Closed Captions

All Work All Play (Kino Lorber, DVD)

DVD Street Date: October 25, 2016

DVD SRP: $24.95

Director: Patrick Creadon

Documentary/2015/NR/93 min.

Synopsis: There’s something happening in the world of video games. Thousands are flocking to arenas to watch tournaments unfold. Tens of millions are watching online. Not since the advent of television has a new entertainment medium so taken the world by storm. Now, a veteran team of tournament organizers is tackling their biggest challenge yet: Season Nine of the Intel Extreme Masters, a global pro-gaming tour that takes the hottest teams and players all around the world to compete for the championship title in their respective eSports. They guide the scene as it explodes around them, molding it into a phenomenon that can last. Meanwhile, players as young as seventeen are dropping everything to go pro, throwing all they have into a do-or-die race for the grand prize. Together, they have a common goal: to ensure that eSports remains more than a bright, burning fad. It’s up to them to turn it into the sport of the future.

Closed Captions, 5.1 Surround Sound

Special Features: Deleted Scenes, Trailer

Synopsis: Gaza. Synonymous to so many with conflict, destruction and despair but to Mohammed Assaf, and his sister Nour, Gaza is their home and their playground. It’s where they, along with their best friends Ahmad and Omar, play music, football and dare to dream big. Their band might play on second hand, beaten up instruments but their ambitions are sky-high. For Mohammed and Nour, nothing less than playing the world famous Cairo Opera Hall will do. It might take them a lifetime to get there but, as Mohammed will find out, some dreams are worth living for. Along the way, Mohammed will experience tragedy and loss. The world around him will shatter. Through it all, however, he will somehow retain the hope that his voice will somehow deliver him from the pain that surrounds him and bring joy to others. He sings at weddings and he drives a taxi to pay for his university studies. Even as the siege around Gaza intensifies, the prison around them ever more forbidding, Mohammed knows he has a rare gift. To make people smile and forget their troubles.

English Subtitles, 5.1 Surround Sound

78 Project (Kino Lorber, DVD)
DVD Street Date: October 25, 2016
DVD SRP: $29.95
Director: Alex Steyermark
Documentary/2014/NR/95 min.

Synopsis: The 78 Project is on a journey across America to make one-of-a-kind 78rpm records with musicians in their hometowns using a 1930s Presto direct-to-disc recorder. With one microphone. With one blank disc. In one 3-minute take. Along the way, a kaleidoscope of technologists, historians and craftsmen from every facet of field recording – Grammy-winning producers, 78 collectors, curators from the Library of Congress and Smithsonian – provide insights and history. In Tennessee, Mississippi, California, Louisiana, the folk singers, punk rockers, Gospel and Cajun singers in the film share their lives through intimate performances, and find in that adventure a new connection to our cultural legacy.

Closed Captions

Special Features: Additional Performances, Complete Performances, Trailer, Interview with Don Fleming (The Association for Cultural Equity)

Advanced Style (Kino Lorber, DVD)
DVD Street Date: October 25, 2016
DVD SRP: $29.95
Director: Lina Plioplyte
Documentary/2014/NR/72 min.

Synopsis: Acclaimed street style photographer Ari Seth Cohen and director Lina Plioplyte dive into the personal lives of New York City’s most fashionable seniors. In an industry obsessed with youth, these older women dispel conventional ideas about beauty and aging and prove that with age comes grace, confidence and new, unimagined opportunities for fame and fortune.

Closed Captions