DVD & Blu-ray: SAVING GRACE (1986) Starring Tom Conti

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Product Description: Director Robert M. Young (Alambrista!, Caught, Dominick and Eugene) skillfully brings Celia Gittleson's novel to life in Saving Grace, a touching drama celebrated for its poignancy and comedic subtlety. Tom Conti (Oppenheimer, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Reuben, Reuben) stars as the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, a down-to-earth man torn between the bureaucratic duties of his position and his longing to reconnect with real people one-on-one. When Leo accidentally locks himself out of the Vatican, he seizes t

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New on Blu-ray & 4k: Andrei Tarkovsky's NOSTALGHIA (1983)

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Product Description: Andrei Tarkovsky explained that in Russian the word “nostalghia” conveys “the love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being far away.” This debilitating form of homesickness is embodied in the film by Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky, The Mirror), a Russian intellectual doing research in Italy. He becomes obsessed with the Botticelli-like beauty of his translator Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano), as well as with the apocalyptic ramblings of a self-destructive wanderer named Domenico (Erland Josephson, The Sacrifice). Written with frequent Michelangelo Antonioni collaborator Tonino Guerra (L’Avventura) and newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative, Nostalghia is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide. As J. Hoberman wrote, “Nostalghia is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours.”

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Classic Movies: Andrei Tarkovsky's THE SACRIFICE (1986) - 4K Restoration

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Product Description: Andrei Tarkovsky’s final masterpiece, The Sacrifice (1986) is a haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation. As a wealthy Swedish family celebrates the birthday of their patriarch Alexander (Erland Josephson, Cries and Whispers), news of the outbreak of World War III reaches their remote Baltic island — and the happy mood turns to horror. The family descends into a state of psychological devastation, brilliantly evoked by Tarkovsky’s arresting palette of luminous grays washing over the bleak landscape around their home. The film’s masterful cinematography is by Sven Nykvist, Ingmar Bergman’s longtime collaborator. Made as he was dying of cancer, The Sacrifice is Tarkovsky’s closing artistic testament, a profoundly moving, redemptive tragedy steeped in unforgettable imagery and heart-wrenching emotion.

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