Dead Man (1995)
DEAD MAN (1995)
Jim Jarmusch


Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Johnny Depp, Lance Henriksen, Gary Farmer
Country: United States, Japan, Germany
Year: 1995
Running time: 121 minutes
Territory: Benelux
Format: 2K DCP
Language: English, Spanish
Subtitle options: Dutch
A mystical western starring Johnny Depp as William Blake, an accountant who goes west around 1850. There he meets an American Indian who takes him for the reincarnation of the English poet William Blake. The camera work is by Robby Müller.
Night On Earth (1991)
NIGHT ON EARTH (1991)
Jim Jarmusch


Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Roberto Benigni, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany
Year: 1991
Running time: 129 minutes
Territory: Benelux
Format: 2K DCP
Language: English, French, Finnish, German, Italian
Subtitle options: Dutch
What is a city without surly taxi drivers, those savvy students of human nature who know their way around the best and worst parts of town? Jim Jarmusch created five episodes situated in as many cities, with cab drivers and customers thrown together for the duration of the ride.
Mystery Train (1989)
MYSTERY TRAIN (1989)
Jim Jarmusch


Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Masatoshi Nagase, Youki Kudoh, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
Country: United States, Japan
Year: 1989
Running time: 113 minutes
Territory: Benelux
Format: 2K DCP
Language: English, Japanese
Subtitle options: Dutch
A trilogy featuring various humorous episodes involving Japanese and Italian guests in a Memphis hotel. The spirit of Elvis Presley is with them all.
Down By Law (1986)
DOWN BY LAW (1986)
Jim Jarmusch


Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni
Country: United States
Year: 1986
Running time: 88 minutes
Territory: Benelux
Format: 2K DCP
Language: English
Subtitle options: Dutch
Tom Waits (‘DJ Zack’), John Lurie (‘pimp Jack’) and Roberto Benigni (‘lost tourist’) escape from a prison in the bayou of Louisiana and try to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives.
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
STRANGER THAN PARADISE (1984)
Jim Jarmusch


Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson
Country: United States
Year: 1984
Running time: 88 minutes
Territory: Benelux
Format: 2K DCP
Language: English
Subtitle options: Dutch
Jarmusch’s first cinematic success is still regarded as a milestone in the history of the American indie film. Winner of the Golden Camera and the Golden Leopard. A deadpan comical portrait of a couple of post-punk twenty-somethings who don’t know what to do with their lives. With John Lurie in the lead role.
The Holy Mountain (1973)
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973)
Alejandro Jodorowsky


Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Cast: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders
Country: Mexico, United States
Year: 1973
Running time: 114 minutes
Territory: Benelux
Format: 4K DCP
Language: Spanish, English
Subtitle options: English, Dutch
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s mystical magnum opus The Holy Mountain firmly established the Chilean filmmaker as an auteur of Surrealist Cinema and sparked serious controversy at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival due to its sacrilegious imagery and raw existential symbolism. In this mystical masterpiece Jodorowsky himself plays The Alchemist, a guru who guides a troupe of pilgrims, each representing the planets in the solar system, on a magical quest to Lotus Island where they must ascend the Holy Mountain in search of spiritual enlightenment.
The Holy Mountain takes Jodorowsky’s psychedelic allegorical mastery to another level. Grotesque, transgressive and hypnotizing, it remains a mind-bending excursion into the meaning of earthly wealth and immortality and still serves as a counter-cultural influence on artists as diverse as Peter Gabriel, Erykah Badu and Marina Abramovic, as well as filmmakers such as David Lynch and Nicolas Winding Refn.
Using the original negative, this painstaking 4K transfer was restored in the original aspect ratio, with enhanced original surround-sound audio, and supervised and approved by Mr. Jodorowsky to celebrate the 50th anniversary and the definitive presentation of his legendary magnum opus.
El Topo (1970)
EL TOPO (1970)
Alejandro Jodorowsky


Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Cast: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta
Country: Mexico
Year: 1970
Running time: 125 minutes
Territory: Benelux
Format: 4K DCP
Language: Spanish
Subtitle options: English, Dutch
The 1970 “psychedelic western” El Topo follows a brazen gunslinger who abandons his young son in a quest to defeat four masters before being rescued by an underground cadre of little people, paraplegic and disfigured individuals who are shunned by society. Championed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the film started the “midnight movie” phenomenon, playing at the Elgin Theater in New York for years. The former Beatle would buy the rights to El Topo and secure funding for Jodorowsky’s next film, The Holy Mountain.
Classic Americana and avant-garde European sensibilities collide with Zen Buddhism and the Bible as the mystic title character (played by Alejandro Jodorowsky) takes a bizarre path to allegorical self-awareness and resurrection. As it seeks an alternative to the Hollywood mainstream, El Topo remains the most controversial and violent quasi-Western head trip ever made.
This stunning and vibrant 4K restoration, from the original negative, is presented in 4:3 as it was presented in theaters in 1970, but is also available for the first time in 1:85 widescreen, overseen by Mr. Jodorowsky, who originally envisioned El Topo as a widescreen presentation, in homage to Sergio Leone.
Fando y Lis (1968)
FANDO Y LIS (1968)
Alejandro Jodorowsky


Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Cast: Sergio Kleiner, Diana Mariscal, María Teresa Rivas
Country: Mexico
Year: 1968
Running time: 93 minutes
Territory: Benelux
Format: 4K DCP
Language: Spanish
Subtitle options: English
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s first feature, Fando y Lis, is a brutal and scathing examination of destructive co-dependence between two lovers conflicted by anguish and the demands they put on one another. Its grotesque and salacious imagery caused a riot at the 1968 premiere in Acapulco Film Festival which Jodorowsky narrowly escaped after having his life threatened, only to have his limousine pelted with rocks by moviegoers. The film was eventually banned in Mexico. Boasting some of his most disturbing images, Fando y Lis, is an extraordinarily ambitious and excessive adaptation of a controversial play by Fernando Arrabal, and sows the seeds for many thematic tropes and themes that Jodorowsky would explore in his later works.
This meticulous restoration, overseen by Mr. Jodorowsky, comes from two sources: the original 35mm negative and the one reel from the duplicate negative, making for the most pristine version of the film available.
Pierrot Le Fou (1965)
PIERROT LE FOU (1965)
Jean-Luc Godard


Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
Country: France
Year: 1965
Running time: 110 minutes
Territory: Netherlands
Format: 4K DCP
Subtitle options: English, Dutch
Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina), and leaves the bourgeois world behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: the tenth feature in six years by genius auteur Jean-Luc Godard is a stylish mash-up of anticonsumerist satire, au courant politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent, zigzag tale of, as Godard called them, “the last romantic couple.” With blissful color imagery by cinematographer Raoul Coutard and Belmondo and Karina at their most animated, Pierrot le fou is one of the high points of the French New Wave, and was Godard’s last frolic before he moved ever further into radical cinema.



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