New on Blu-ray: MALFEASANCE - FOUR FILMS BY YVES BOISSET (1971-1982)

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Product Description: This collection features four films directed by thriller master Yves Boisset (The Cop, Dog Day).

ANGEL'S LEAP a.k.a. LE SAUT DE LANGE (1971)

You can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. An ex-gangster in Bangkok (Jean Yanne) leaps back to Marseille to exact revenge on his siblings' murderers. FBI man Sterling Hayden and femme fatale Senta Berger highlight this ultra-violent vendetta tale. Music by François de Roubaix (Le samouraï).

MAD ENOUGH TO KILL a.k.a. FOLLE A TUER (1975)

In this twisted thriller, a wealthy industrialist (Michael Lonsdale) hires a former psychiatric patient (Marlène Jobert) to look after his recently orphaned nephew. But the woman and the boy soon find themselves ensnared by a cold-blooded hit-man (Tomas Milian). Music by Philippe Sarde (Tess).

THE WOMAN COP a.k.a. LA FEMME FLIC (1980)

Miou-Miou is magnificent as Corinne Levasseur, a gritty city policewoman who is transferred to a small mining town where she battles sexism and a trail of corruption that leads to the town's most powerful family. Boisset based this intense depiction of "la femme flic" on actual events. Music by Philippe Sarde (Quest for fire).

RISE UP, SPY a.k.a. ESPION, LEVE-TOI (1982)

In a plum late-career role, Lino Ventura plays a sleeper agent in Switzerland who is activated after eight years of silence when the corpses start piling up. This paranoid pulse-pounder co-stars Michel Piccoli and Bruno Cremer. Music by Ennio Morricone (The Sicilain Clan).

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New on Blu-ray: ENTRE NOUS aka COUP DE FOUDRE (1983) Starring Isabelle Huppert and Miou-Miou

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Product Description: In this bittersweet, often funny, semi-autobiographical period drama, director Diane Kurys (PEPPERMINT SODA) reimagines the post-War years of her parents and the passionate friendship between two women. We first meet Léna (Isabelle Huppert, playing a role modeled after Kurys’ mother) in 1942, a young Jewish woman in an internment camp run by the Vichy authorities. She accepts a proposal of marriage by one of the camp workers in the hopes of escaping deportation to Nazi Germany. They escape on foot, crossing the Alps to Italy, and settle in Lyon after the war to raise two daughters. At a school event she meets another mother, Madeleine (Miou-Miou), a charismatic artist, and the two form a special bond that offers the promise of escaping the mundane domestic life they’ve grown dissatisfied with. “A bittersweet domestic epic that reconciles feminism with femininity.” - Time

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New on Blu-ray: GOING PLACES / LES VALSEUSES (1974) Starring Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou and Patrick Dewaere

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Product Description: In this controversial and notorious buddy film, director Bertrand Blier (GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS) created what critic Pauline Kael described as “an explosively funny erotic farce – both a celebration and a satire of men’s daydreams.” Gerard Depardieu (in the role that would make him an international star) and Patrick Dewaere portray Jean-Claude and Pierrot, two amoral drifters who travel the French countryside committing petty crimes and harassing the women they encounter, including Miou-Miou, Jeanne Moreau, and, in an early role, Isabelle Huppert. Perpetually on the run from the police and the women they encounter, the two are always just one step ahead of death or imprisonment as a result of their crime spree, but, as Kevin Thomas in the LA Times observes, ”Blier is interested more in Jean-Claude and Pierrot as sexual chauvinists than as petty criminals, and as they learn to become more considerate lovers they become more likable. Above all, they embody the sure-fire appeal of all movie anti-heroes, free-spirits who live entirely for the moment and at all times follow their impulses.” Graced with a justly famous score by Stéphane Grappelli, GOING PLACES remains as shocking and outrageous today as it did upon its initial release.

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DVD & Blu-ray: DOG DAY (1984) Starring Lee Marvin and Miou-Miou

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Product Description: The manhunt is on! Screen legend Lee Marvin (Prime Cut, Monte Walsh, Gorky Park) stars as American gangster Jimmy Cobb, on the lam in France with millions in stolen cash. The air and ground are swarming with police and Cobb’s old partners in crime, uniting for one purpose—to kill Cobb and take the loot. His only refuge is a seemingly innocent farm in the rural Beauce region. The heat of the Dog Day reaches a boiling point as two farmers hatch a sinister plan to bargain for Cobb’s life—and each wants a distinctly different form of payment. Like a hounded animal Cobb has nowhere to hide… his predators are always lurking in the violent inferno of the Dog Day. Stylishly directed by Yves Boisset (Dupont Lajoie) and featuring a haunting and beautiful score by legendary composer Francis Lai (Love Story). Based on a novel by Jean Herman (Farewell, Friend) and co-starring Miou-Miou (Going Places), Jean Carmet (Circle of Deceit), Victor Lanoux (Cousin Cousine), David Bennent (The Tin Drum) and Tina Louise (Day of the Outlaw).

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