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[Randy G Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Randy G]

Boy, mixed feelings there. A documentary I want in my collection, but it is from a label that's going to make it an expensive pain in the ass to get my hands on. Yay.

VS distributes them and their Canadian shipping is pretty reasonable.

[Darcy Parker Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Darcy Parker]

VS distributes them and their Canadian shipping is pretty reasonable.

I suppose it is better than SHOUT, and a shitload better than MPI getting it.

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GINA is coming in March.

https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collecti.../products/gina

A film both human and brutal

After being sent to rural Quebec to perform at a seedy motel, exotic dancer Gina (The Silent Partner’s Céline Lomez) establishes a friendship with a group of visiting documentary filmmakers and becomes aware of a lecherous Ski-Doo gang hiding out on an abandoned ship. Keenly aware of one another’s presence, Gina and the gang develop an antagonistic relationship that eventually leads to a horrific assault. But what these ski-masked snow deviants don’t realize is that Gina works for some of Montreal’s most dangerous criminals, and they’re on their way to enact an ugly revenge.

Three decades before winning the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for The Barbarian Invasions, Denys Arcand started his fiction filmmaking career with an informal trilogy (Dirty Money, Réjeanne Padovani, and Gina) that remains the high-water mark for Canadian crime cinema. Improbably fusing labor politics with an explosive exploitation narrative, Gina has a conviction and assurance that resists easy categorization. Part frigid hangout movie, part vicious revenge saga, this is a one-of-a-kind powerhouse that builds to a gruesome climax and the greatest snowmobile chase in movie history.

directed by: Denys Arcand
starring: Céline Lomez, Gabriel Arcand, Paule Baillargeon, Dorothée Berryman, Jocelyn Bérubé, Claude Blanchard, Frédérique Collin, Louise Cuerrier, Donald Lautrec, Roger Lebel, Jean-Pierre Saulnier, Serge Thériault
1975 / 95 min / 1.85:1 / French DTS-HD MA 1.0

Additional info:

Region Free Blu-ray
Scanned in 2K from a 35mm print by Éléphant - mémoire du cinéma québécois
Audio commentary featuring author/film historian Kier-La Janisse and writer/film programmer Justine Smith
The Exploitation of Gina (2022, 11 min.) – Video essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Directing Gina (2022, 21 min.) – New interview with director Denys Arcand
New audio interviews with cast members Gabriel Arcand (13 min.), Paule Baillargeon (8 min.), Dorothée Berryman (15 min.), and Marcel Sabourin (13 min.)
Trailers for Arcand’s Dirty Money (1972), Réjeanne Padovani (1973), and Gina (1975)
Booklet featuring a new essay by professor/author Jim Leach (The Films of Denys Arcand)
Reversible cover artwork
Alternate English language audio track
English SDH subtitles

[Randy G Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Randy G]

Very cool! Can't wait to see this release of Gina which was on my wishlist earlier in this thread.

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CIP is releasing A Christmas Martian soon!

https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collecti...istmas-martian

"Easily the most insane example of Canadian children's cinema ever conceived." - Canuxploitation.com

While out looking for a Christmas tree one winter day, siblings François (François Gosselin) and Katou (Catherine Leduc) encounter a bizarrely dressed entity (Dirty Money’s Marcel Sabourin) who emanates bubbles and shoplifts from a convenience store. With Katou convinced this “man” is really a Martian, the children follow his green trail all the way to a flying saucer. After confirming his alien identity, they form an instant bond and pool their efforts to fix the Martian’s damaged spaceship, so he can return to his home planet. Meanwhile, the police join forces with a vigilante mob to track down this mysterious visitor and put his antics to an end.

A viable contender for weirdest Canadian movie of all time, The Christmas Martian takes family-friendly holiday entertainment to imaginatively inspired new places. With a uniquely carefree and child-like approach, director Bernard Gosselin (making his one and only fiction feature) paved the way for producer Rock Demers’ celebrated Tales for All series and arguably even E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Available here in its original French version and the more outlandish English dub, The Christmas Martian Is a misunderstood (and underseen) holiday gift that keeps on giving.

directed by: Bernard Gosselin
starring: Catherine Leduc, François Gosselin, Marcel Sabourin, Guy L'Ecuyer, Roland Chenail, Paul Hébert
1975 / 61 min / 1.66:1 / French DTS-HD MA 1.0

Additional info:

Region A Blu-ray
-Scanned and restored in 2K from the 35mm original camera negative by Éléphant - mémoire du cinéma québécois
-Complete English and French versions of the film
-Audio commentary featuring Paul Corupe of Canuxploitation.com and film historian Jason Pichonsky
-Trailers for All (1971-1994, 32 min.) – Theatrical trailers for The Christmas Martian and the first 15 films in the Tales for All series
-Trailers for All commentary featuring Corupe and Pichonsky
-New audio interview with actor Marcel Sabourin (2023, 13 min.)
-The Joy of Winter (1962, 15 min.) – Documentary short directed by Gosselin and Martian producer Jean Dansereau
-The Beach (1978, 4 min.) – Animated short based on a story by Martian screenwriter Roch Carrier
-French theatrical trailer for The Christmas Martian
-Booklet featuring a new interview with NFB curator Marc St-Pierre and an essay on composer Jacques Perron by Fantasia programmer Marc Lamothe
-Reversible cover artwork
-English SDH subtitles

[Randy G Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Randy G]

I have a bootleg of this one that looks pretty damn good. It's terrible but fascinating, will probably be pulling the trigger on this, Dream Life and Dirty Money at least during the next sale.

[Darcy Parker Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Darcy Parker]

CIP is releasing A Christmas Martian soon!

https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collecti...istmas-martian

"Easily the most insane example of Canadian children's cinema ever conceived." - Canuxploitation.com

While out looking for a Christmas tree one winter day, siblings François (François Gosselin) and Katou (Catherine Leduc) encounter a bizarrely dressed entity (Dirty Money’s Marcel Sabourin) who emanates bubbles and shoplifts from a convenience store. With Katou convinced this “man” is really a Martian, the children follow his green trail all the way to a flying saucer. After confirming his alien identity, they form an instant bond and pool their efforts to fix the Martian’s damaged spaceship, so he can return to his home planet. Meanwhile, the police join forces with a vigilante mob to track down this mysterious visitor and put his antics to an end.

A viable contender for weirdest Canadian movie of all time, The Christmas Martian takes family-friendly holiday entertainment to imaginatively inspired new places. With a uniquely carefree and child-like approach, director Bernard Gosselin (making his one and only fiction feature) paved the way for producer Rock Demers’ celebrated Tales for All series and arguably even E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Available here in its original French version and the more outlandish English dub, The Christmas Martian Is a misunderstood (and underseen) holiday gift that keeps on giving.

directed by: Bernard Gosselin
starring: Catherine Leduc, François Gosselin, Marcel Sabourin, Guy L'Ecuyer, Roland Chenail, Paul Hébert
1975 / 61 min / 1.66:1 / French DTS-HD MA 1.0

Additional info:

Region A Blu-ray
-Scanned and restored in 2K from the 35mm original camera negative by Éléphant - mémoire du cinéma québécois
-Complete English and French versions of the film
-Audio commentary featuring Paul Corupe of Canuxploitation.com and film historian Jason Pichonsky
-Trailers for All (1971-1994, 32 min.) – Theatrical trailers for The Christmas Martian and the first 15 films in the Tales for All series
-Trailers for All commentary featuring Corupe and Pichonsky
-New audio interview with actor Marcel Sabourin (2023, 13 min.)
-The Joy of Winter (1962, 15 min.) – Documentary short directed by Gosselin and Martian producer Jean Dansereau
-The Beach (1978, 4 min.) – Animated short based on a story by Martian screenwriter Roch Carrier
-French theatrical trailer for The Christmas Martian
-Booklet featuring a new interview with NFB curator Marc St-Pierre and an essay on composer Jacques Perron by Fantasia programmer Marc Lamothe
-Reversible cover artwork
-English SDH subtitles

This is like a less-entertaining Gordon K. Murray kiddie film.