Blu-ray

A visionary masterwork from the renowned director of COLOSSAL YOUTH, Pedro Costa’s HORSE MONEY is a mesmerizing odyssey into real, imagined and nightmarish memories. HORSE MONEY is a self-reckoning, a moving memorialization of lives in danger of being forgotten, as well as a piercingly beautiful work of modern cinema.

With the return of their friend Ahmad from Germany, a group of old college pals (two married couples and a brother and sister, along with three young kids) decide to reunite for a weekend outing by the Caspian Sea. The fun starts right away as they quickly catch on to the plan of lively Sepideh, who has brought along Elly, her daughter’s kindergarten teacher, in hopes of setting her up with recently divorced Ahmad.

An astonishingly beautiful and gripping Western starring Viggo Mortensen, JAUJA (pronounced how-ha) begins in a remote outpost in Patagonia during the late 1800s. Featuring a superb performance from Mortensen, JAUJA (the name suggests a fabled city of riches sought by European explorers) is the story of a man’s desperate search for his daughter, a solitary quest that takes him to a place beyond time, where the past vanishes and the future has no meaning.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, Stray Dogs is an extraordinary film from Tsai Ming-liang, a haunting vision of a father and his two young children trying to survive on the streets of Taipei. Includes his latest film, the astounding Journey to the West, and exclusive to Blu-ray, a 70-minute master class with Tsai Ming-liang..

Never before released on home video, Thom Andersen's landmark documentary "Los Angeles Plays Itself," a fascinating look at the tangled relationship between the movies and their fabled hometown - as seen entirely through the films themselves - is finally available to own in a new remastered edition.

A film by Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez
A stunning documentary, set entirely inside a cable car, high above a jungle in Nepal, as it carries pilgrims, villagers and the occasional American tourist to an ancient Hindu temple. Produced at the Sensory Ethnography Lab (Leviathan, Sweetgrass).

An ode to friendship and the power of art to mirror and alter our lives, Jem Cohen's exquisite, critically-acclaimed Museum Hours is a tale of two adrift strangers who find refuge in Vienna's grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum. The Blu-ray includes 3 rare short films by Cohen, plus a 24-page booklet featuring an essay by noted writer Luc Sante.