New on Blu-ray: Radu Jude's DRACULA (2025) - Romanian Arthouse Satire

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Product Description: A frustrated filmmaker turns to an A.I. chatbot to help make his latest movie a hit. The result is a series of hilarious vignettes exploring the past, present, and future of the Dracula legend. Cinematic provocateur Radu Jude returns with another boundary-pushing epic featuring wild chases, thwarted romances, spooky creatures, lots of blood, and much more.

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"Dracula" is a Romanian satirical comedy written and directed by Radu Jude. The film stars Adonis Tanta, Oana Maria Zaharia, Gabriel Spahiu, Alexandra Harapu, Ana Dumitrascu, Alexandru Dabija, Ilinca Manolache, Claudiu Dumitru and Serban Pavlu. It premiered at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival where it was nominated for the Golden Leopard. In the US it was released in select theaters on October 29, 2025, and via streaming on January 2, 2026.

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New on Blu-ray: I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS (2018)

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Product Description: “I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians” - these were the words spoken by Romania’s military dictator Marshal Ion Antonescu in the Council of Ministers in the summer of 1941 that started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front.

One of contemporary Europe's most distinctive creators, Jude has come out with an ingeniously conceived film. While it unfolds slowly and in detail, it hits the viewer with a singular emotional punch.

“I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS” chronicles a young theatre director’s efforts to stage an accurate re-enactment of the Odessa Massacre - in which Romanian soldiers slaughtered tens of thousands of Ukrainian Jews - despite the municipal government’s attempt to censor the director’s efforts. Her choice angers a city official who threatens to close the production because of its “anti-Romanian” take on history. However, the reaction to the staged play is one that neither anticipated. This internationally- acclaimed dark satire is a timely statement about the consequences of selective and willful amnesia on a society fueled by populist sentiments.

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New on DVD & Blu-ray: AFERIM (2015)

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Product Description: Eastern Europe, 1835. Two riders cross a barren landscape in the middle of Wallachia. They are the gendarme Costandin and his son. Together they are searching for a gypsy slave who has run away from his nobleman master and is suspected of having an affair with the noble's wife. While the unflappable Costandin comments on every situation with a cheery aphorism, his son takes a more contemplative view of the world. On their odyssey they encounter people of different nationalities and beliefs: Turks and Russians, Christians and Jews, Romanians and Hungarians. Each harbors prejudices against the others which have been passed down from generation to generation. And even when the slave Carfin is found, the adventure is far from over...

Radu Jude's third feature has been aptly compared to films as diverse as THE SEARCHERS, THE LAST DETAIL and PULP FICTION (the latter for its rambling, coarse and endlessly entertaining dialogues), but the film is ultimately a moving parable about late-feudal Europe developed from historical documents and songs: its power structures and hierarchies, people's ideas of themselves and others, interaction with minorities and the resulting conflicts. A Balkan Western in black-and-white that brings the cacophony of the times strikingly to life and explores the thematic arcs that stretch into the present.

Jude, whose previous feature films (THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD and EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY) received accolades at numerous festivals in Europe and the US, is also known for a string of prize-winning short films, including THE TUBE WITH A HAT (2006), which took the top prize at Sundance and 15 other awards at festivals around the world. AFERIM! was produced by Ada Solomon's Hi Film, which also produced Golden Bear winner CHILD'S POSE (2013).

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