From: Mark Toscano (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Feb 26 2009 - 21:07:34 PST
This is very exciting and amazing, but I still gotta give props (as they say) to Jeff Lambert and the NFPF: the Treasures IV DVD set, coming out this Tuesday 3/2/09, is ACTUALLY the first ever authorized DVD release of a film by Andy Warhol (containing Mario Banana #1)!
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--- On Thu, 2/26/09, Jay McBride <email suppressed> wrote:
> From: Jay McBride <email suppressed>
> Subject: [FRAMEWORKS] New Andy Warhol Plexifilm Release available through Microcinema International
> To: email suppressed
> Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 2:14 PM
> New Releases
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> Prebook Date: NOW!
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> Street Date: March 24, 2009
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> 13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen
> Tests
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> A Plexifilm Release Available at www.microcinemadvd.com
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> $US 34.99 SRP/EDU
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> European List Prices:
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> 34.99 Euros / 24.99 GBP
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> CATALOG # MC-976
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> UPC: 082354004828
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> Art / Artist
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> 1964 - 1966
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> 60 mins + 15 mins of extras
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> The first ever authorized DVD release of films by Andy
> Warhol!
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> Released in conjunction with The Andy Warhol Museum, 13
> Most
> Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests
> features 13 of Warhol's
> classic silent film portraits. Subjects include Nico, Lou
> Reed, Edie
> Sedgwick, Dennis Hopper, and more. Shot between 1964 and
> 1966 at Warhol's
> Factory studio in New York City, the Screen Tests are
> presented with newly
> commissioned soundtracks performed by Dean Wareham and
> Britta Phillips.
> Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen
> Tests, beautiful
> and revealing portraits of hundreds of different
> individuals, from the
> famous to the anonymous, all visitors to his studio, the
> Factory. Subjects
> were captured in stark relief by a strong keylight, and
> filmed by Warhol
> with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and
> white, 100-foot
> rolls of film. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film
> reels were then
> screened in slow motion, resulting in a fascinating
> collection of four
> minute masterpieces that startle and entrance, mesmerizing
> in the purest
> sense of the word.
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> Soundtrack & Performances:
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> Songwriters Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, formerly of
> the band Luna and
> currently recording as Dean & Britta, incorporated
> original compositions as
> well as cover songs to create new soundtracks for the 13
> films.
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> Additional Features:
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> The DVD is presented in a slipcovered hardbound package New
> transfers from
> Warhol's original 16mm negatives Behind the scenes
> making-of the new
> soundtrack and a video interview with Dean & Britta
> 40-page booklet with
> liner notes and biographies of the Screen Test subjects
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> Microcinema International
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> DVD - Over 500 International Titles
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> * Art and artist documentaries
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> * Animation
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> * Social/Political
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> * Short film and video compilations by award winning
> directors
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> * Ambient DVDs created for plasma TVs
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> * Fashion, typography, and motion design
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> * Family films
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> * Much more!
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> For wholesale orders: +1-415-447-9750, FAX:
> +1-509-351-1530,
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> Billing in USD, GBP, or EUR
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> Microcinema International
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