PARADISE [DVD]Presented here in a new version completed in 2021, Michael Almereydas Paradise is a poignant and surprising sketchbook, a collection of brief episodes captured during a decade of travel. The film is marked by a sense of mystery, wonderment, and sly humor, reflecting a notion of life as a series of elusive, paradisiacal moments that are routinely taken for granted and always slipping away. SPECIAL FEATURES Three Short Films by Michael Almereyda What is

is an early masterwork from the prolific filmmaker

registering the anxieties

Cilaos (2013

and the place in-between as related to the Chinookan origin of death myth

a documentary by Claire Denis

from the intelligence with which they handle the medium of cinema

set against a visual prayer of indelible portraiture

On over two dozen Best Films of the Year lists

Rolling Stones

composed by Thaddeus Kelladst with two additional compositions from the film by Bobby Mercier and Ramiro Ramirez

culminating in a large scale recreation of the deportation itself on the exact day of its 100th anniversary

This bundle contains two films: Claire Denis' Towards Mathilde