Just over a week left on the ArrowFilmsVideo Easter Carnage Sale - with selected Second Run Blu-rays, Box Sets and DVDs on special offer until April 22nd!

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Víctor Erice's beautiful new film CLOSE YOUR EYES is in UK cinemas this Friday New Wave Films
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'In its playful games with narrative and film form, its excursions down surprisingly profound philosophical alleys and abidingly macabre tone [...] frequently laugh-out-loud funny' Michael Brooke reviews HAPPY END Sight and Sound magazine chrisb23.imgbb.com

CRITERION FORUM'S '2023 OTHER LABEL AWARDS' saw our JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI Box Set voted #2 'Best Overall Release' of 2023 + MORGIANA #2 in 'Best Upgrade' category. Michael Brooke's amazing commentary for Skolimowski's BARRIER was deservedly 'Best Commentary'. criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopi…

Second Run rebels with JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI: WALKOVER, BARRIER, DIALOGUE 20 40 60 + SHORT FILMS (review): cineventures.blogspot.com/2024/03/second… DVDCompare.net Second Run

'HAPPY END is a typically exhilarating Czech New Wave work, a film with an idea so bold and loopy, it can make you giddy... a conceptual brilliance that Christopher Nolan would have been proud of' BFI Online suggest '5 things to watch this Easter weekend' bfi.org.uk/lists/5-things…

'Hilarious, but in the most disconcerting way, HAPPY END is one of film history’s most mischievous experiments with narrative structure.' BFI Weekly Film Bulletin chooses HAPPY END in this week's 'Watchlist'
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HAPPY END reviewed - and highly recommended! - in Elliot Coen's latest round-up of Blu-ray & 4K UHD releases (and in great company alongside POOR THINGS, GREEN ROOM, POSSESSOR, and A KID FOIR TWO FARTHINGS + more)

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'Another splendid box set from Second Run... If you have any interest in either the Polish New Wave or clever/thought-provoking world cinema with lightly satirising + surreal touches- this is a must' JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI set reviewed musiquemachine.com
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Second Run Box Sets, Blu-rays and DVDs on offer in the ArrowFilmsVideo Easter Carnage Sale - on NOW until 22 April. Grab a bargain..!
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If you've never heard of Víctor Erice, or have only seen The Spirit of the Beehive, maybe you should come along to this talk BFI Southbank this evening and find out why many consider him one of our greatest filmmakers. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default…

'Skolimowski’s work is a maze, one that any fan of European cinema will be delighted to lose themselves in. Thanks to this box set from Second Run, we can see a few more paths through it.' TheGeekShow.co.uk dive into our JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI Box Set thegeekshow.co.uk/jerzy-skolimow…

'HAPPY END is genuinely profound...
It’s the kind of film that could spark or rekindle a lifelong obsession with Czech comedy... Second Run have given Lipský’s misunderstood film the happy ending it deserves' TheGeekShow.co.uk review thegeekshow.co.uk/happy-end-1967…

'This very strange and rather wonderful film... a real WTF viewing experience'
Colin Dibben Close-Up Film on HAPPY END

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'An uproariously funny film. Short, sharp and inventive, it’s an absolute treat. [...] It’s weird, wonderful and an absolute riot. Anyone with a taste for the unusual and absurd should pick this up as soon as possible.' Blueprint: Review on HAPPY END
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This brilliant back-to-front farce is out today, for the first time ever on Blu Ray! Release boasts a Projection Booth commentary, a video essay by Cerise Howard, and my booklet essay.

Oldřich Lipský's one-of-a-kind Czech black comedy HAPPY END is out on Blu-ray TODAY!! secondrundvd.com/release_happy.…
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'Second Run's Blu-ray is absolutely top-notch, and the inclusion of the Morrison interview and four of his short films makes this a seriously high quality release, and a must-have for fans of Morrison's previous work' Cine Outsider on THE VILLAGE DETECTIVE cineoutsider.com/reviews/bluray…

Angela Schanelec’s MUSIC Institute of Contemporary Arts 22- 28 March.
The Berlin award-winning feature MUSIC is another astonishing achievement from one of contemporary cinema's preeminent artists. The screening on Friday 22 March will be followed a Q&A with Angela Schanelec. ica.art/films/oc-music

KINOTEKA final week! Still plenty on offer - including ground breaking drama Woman of... (Kobieta z...) Institute of Contemporary Arts on 23 March, and Michał Waszyński's restored 1946 classic The Great Way (Wielka droga) POSK Polish Centre London on 27 March. kinoteka.org.uk/programme Polish Cultural Institute in London #Kinoteka24