Arbelos is a boutique film distributor and digital film restoration company based in Los Angeles.
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We are a boutique film distributor and digital film restoration company based in Los Angeles.
New trailer for the first-ever North American release of FAR FROM HOME, Sohrab Shahid-Saless' resonant portrait of the immigrant experience in '70s Berlin. New 4K restoration coming to screens across the country this fall.
Far From Home 1975 / dir. Sohrab Shahid Saless / 91 min / New 4K Restoration Trailer
A major figure in twentieth century visual arts, TIME OF THE HEATHEN’s Director of Photography Ed Emshwiller produced work in pulp genre illustration and avant garde film, while often working as a cinematographer and ultimately a professor at CalArts.
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1. Time of the Heathen (1961)
2. Have Space Suit - Will Travel (1958)
3. Dance Chromatic (1959)
4. Lifelines (1960)
5. Hallelujah the Hills (1963)
6. Relativity (1966)
7. Pilobolus and Joan (1973)
8. Crossings and Meetings (1974)
9. Sunstone (1979)
10. Photo of Ed Emshwiller
"Newly excavated and restored, Peter Kass’s 1961 movie “Time of the Heathen,” full of trippy distortions and grim associations, gets its first New York run at Film at Lincoln Center." - New York Times
Opens Friday!
Long thought lost and newly restored in 4K, Film at Lincoln Center is pleased to present theater actor-director Peter Kass's only feature, a slow-dawning reckoning of collective guilt and complicity, a tense chase film, and a radical formal experiment.
New theatrical poster for TIME OF THE HEATHEN. Opening May 10th in NY. Designed by .
Before OPPENHEIMER there was TIME OF THE HEATHEN. Peter Kass' lost 60s Atomic bomb drama has been rediscovered and beautifully restored in 4K by UCLA Film & Television Archive and Lightbox Film Center, University of the Arts! Opens May 10th Film at Lincoln Center with more cities to follow!
Emerging from the void, mysterious drifter Gaunt (The Sting’s John Heffernan) wanders the upstate countryside in a daze with only his bible for company. But ...
Our April Showers Spring Sale is live! 50% off regular edition sets and posters, 40% off vinyl and 25% off nearly all limited edition sets and posters. No code necessary, discounts are applied in the cart. Sale ends Monday, April 15th at Midnight EST. https://shoparbelosfilms.com/
Peter Kass’ long-unseen American independent marvel TIME OF THE HEATHEN (1961) premieres on the West Coast this Saturday at the Festival of Preservation in a gorgeous new 4K restoration! Link in bio.
One of "The Greatest Independent Films of the Twentieth Century" (New Yorker) and currently rated 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, Wendell B. Harris Jr.'s indie marvel CHAMELEON STREET is now streaming on Peacock, Amazon, Kanopy, Criterion Channel and more!
An underseen masterstroke from a key Iranian filmmaker, we're thrilled to be bringing Sohrab Shahid Saless’ resonant portrait of immigrant life in '70s Berlin, FAR FROM HOME (1975), to North American audiences later this year!
Now available! Influential Hungarian auteur (and Béla Tarr collaborator) György Fehér’s genre-transcending existential murder mystery TWILIGHT is now shipping! The limited edition blu-ray for this much admired but long unavailable masterpiece comes with a new slipcase design and a collectable “giant” drawing as seen in the film.
Evening viewing recommendation!
"Thirty-five years on, Chameleon Street remains a classic-in-waiting, the lonely masterpiece of a prophetic voice."
A wonderful profile in The Guardian on the occasion of CHAMELEON STREET's streaming in the UK!
Chameleon Street, a true-crime comedy about the fraudster who purportedly passed as a lawyer, a surgeon and even a basketball-player, fell foul of a racist Hollywood. Can it now be a hit? We speak to its director
Now shipping! Celebrated auteur Wayne Wang’s genre-bending portrait of pre-handover Hong Kong LIFE IS CHEAP… BUT TOILET PAPER IS EXPENSIVE! This limited edition blu-ray set comes with a gold foil stamped slipcase and a collectable red envelope money bag. Link in bio!
QUEEN OF DIAMONDS joins the The Library of Congress' National Film Registry! Huge congratulations to Nina Menkes!
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/arts/apollo-13-bamboozled-national-film-registry.html?smid=tw-share
Our latest special edition blu-ray is influential Hungarian director (and Béla Tarr collaborator) György Fehér’s existential murder mystery Twilight (Szürkület).
This new limited edition set features a new 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative by the National Film Institute – Hungarian Film Archive and FilmLab supervised by DP Miklós Gurbán (Werckmeister Harmonies), new video interviews with Gurbán and editor Mária Czeilik, György Fehér's first two short films (Öregek and Tomikám), and a new essay by Hungarian film scholar Andrea Virginás.
The slipcase edition of Twilight, available exclusively through the Arbelos online store, is limited to 1000 copies and features a collectable "giant" drawing as seen in the film. Thanks to Letterboxd for premiering the new artwork!
Pre-order now during our Black Friday sale! https://shoparbelosfilms.com/
Our Black Friday sale starts tomorrow, November 24th, at 12:01AM EST! Up to 50% off the Arbelos online store, plus a new limited edition blu-ray release will be announced! https://shoparbelosfilms.com
Mark your calendars, our annual Black Friday online store sale starts November 24th at 12:01AM EST! https://shoparbelosfilms.com/
Celebrated auteur Wayne Wang’s genre-bending portrait of pre-handover Hong Kong LIFE IS CHEAP… BUT TOILET PAPER IS EXPENSIVE comes to Blu-ray for the first time!
Pre-orders (ships: Dec 12) for our new limited edition of this maverick tour de force features a new 4K restoration of Wang’s final cut, new video interviews with Wang and co-writer/co-director Spencer Nakasako, full length original chase sequence, and a new booklet essay by Aliza Ma.
The slipcase edition of LIFE IS CHEAP, available exclusively through the Arbelos online store, is limited to 1000 copies and features a gold foil cover design and collectable gold-stamped money bag.
Pre-order here: https://bit.ly/3S1axMU
Now shipping! Wendell B. Harris Jr’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner CHAMELEON STREET is a masterpiece of Black American cinema recently dubbed one of the “Greatest Independent Films of the Twentieth Century” by the New Yorker. This limited edition blu-ray set features the newly-restored film, a wealth of bonus materials, a gorgeous slipcase with UV light/invisible ink design and collectable foldout poster. https://shoparbelosfilms.com/products/le-chameleon-street-blu-ray
Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s lost masterpiece CHAMELEON STREET finally comes to blu-ray!
Our new special edition of the whip-smart dark comedy that won the 1990 Grand Jury Prize at Sundance features a new 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negatives, two brand new audio commentaries featuring Harris and Ashley Clark, and the original cast and crew, archival conversations featuring Harris and William Douglas Street Jr., two bonus featurettes (Marriage Counseling, So, You Say You Know Leadbelly…), Harris’ award-winning 1986 short film COLETTE VIGNETTE, and a 30-minute Making Of documentary (The Process).
The slipcase edition of CHAMELEON STREET, available exclusively through the Arbelos online store, is limited to 1,000 copies and features an invisible ink cover design and collector’s accordion foldout poster.
Pre-order: https://shoparbelosfilms.com/products/le-chameleon-street-blu-ray
A terrific conversation between IndieWire and the director of the Hungarian National Film Institute - Film Archive on the stunning restoration of György Fehér's TWILIGHT! Not to be missed on the big screen, the film opens LA tomorrow at the American Cinematheque and is touring nationwide.
IndieWire talks to the director of the Hungarian Film Archive about bringing Béla Tarr’s protégé György Fehér’s defiant detective story back to life.
György Fehér TWILIGHT is held over at Film at Lincoln Center
in NYC, with additional cities to follow!
A much admired but long unavailable masterpiece by influential Hungarian auteur and regular Béla Tarr collaborator György Fehér, 'Twilight' is at once an existential murder mystery and an expansive meditation on time and space.
"Kubrick is...a lofty comparison, but add to that rank the likes of Tarkovsky with STALKER and Tarr with SATANTANG0, and hidden somewhere amongst them lies TWILIGHT -- a dark, thoroughly unflinching vision with a manner all its own."
New 4K restoration continues at Film at Lincoln Center!
4K RESTORATION IN THEATERS! The opening shot of György Fehér's Twilight is not unlike the opening shot of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining—both are aerial perspectives that pan over vast stretches of woodland. But whereas Kubrick's camera moved with an anxious, supernatural haste, indicative of wha...
“György Fehér’s existentialist crime drama is drawn from the same cinematic DNA as Béla Tarr’s distinct body of work… The mood it builds is soul-shaking.”
New 4K restoration of TWILIGHT is now playing at Film at Lincoln Center!
Based on the same material that Sean Penn would later use for ‘The Pledge,’ the 1990 film is receiving its first U.S. release.
The The New York Times calls György Fehér’s TWILIGHT “an arresting and unique work of film noir.” New 4K restoration opens at Film at Lincoln Center tomorrow!
A retired detective returns to his job to hunt down a child killer in this distinctive and Béla Tarr-influenced film.
The Film Stage: "Those initial cultish whispers about a Hungarian hidden relic can finally become shouts of Hosanna as Fehér’s masterpiece rises from the dead."
György Fehér’s masterpiece TWILIGHT opens Film at Lincoln Center this Friday!
Upon completing duties as a debut screenwriter, Friedrich Dürrenmatt celebrated a job well done by promptly rewriting the whole thing. The Swiss playwright and novelist had bent to studio demands and relinquished control of his script, It Happened in Broad Daylight, to Hans Jacoby, a veteran Hollyw...
"TWILIGHT makes a great case for seeing films in theaters again... With its 4K restoration, the black and white film is gorgeous to look at... Let TWILIGHT wash over you. It's blissful."
A Screen Anarchy rave! TWILIGHT opens this Friday at Film at Lincoln Center with more theaters to follow.
Hungarian filmmaker György Fehér's seldom seen 1990 masterpiece, Twilight, gets a 4K restoration treatment by the Hungarian Film Institute and distributed by Arbelos. The LA-based distribution and restoration company is known for their 4K rerelease of such classics as Dennis...
Poster drop! Excited to share our new one-sheet for György Fehér’s long unseen masterwork TWILIGHT. 4K restoration opens Film at Lincoln Center 4/21 with nationwide theatrical tour to follow. Special edition Blu-ray coming this fall!
Thrilled to have IndieWire premiere our new trailer for TWILIGHT, the much admired but long unavailable masterpiece by Béla Tarr collaborator and mentor György Fehér. Coming to theaters later this spring!
The restoration of this moody must-see chiller from 1990, which premiered at the Berlinale, opens in New York City on April 21.
On the heels of the Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival World Premiere, we’re thrilled to be bringing György Fehér’s landmark but long unseen masterpiece TWLIGHT (Szürkület) to North America in a gorgeous new 4K restoration by the Hungarian National Film Institute (Nemzeti Filmintézet)!
Arbelos, a Los Angeles-based boutique film distribution company, has acquired North American rights to the new 4K restoration of Béla Tarr collaborator György Fehér’s landmark but long unseen Hunga…
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Before OPPENHEIMER there was TIME OF THE HEATHEN. Peter Kass’ lost 60s Atomic bomb drama has been rediscovered and beautifully restored in 4K by UCLA Film & Television Archive and Lightbox Film Center, University of the Arts! Opens May 10th @filmlinc with more cities to follow.
Our April Showers Spring Sale is live! 50% off regular edition sets and posters, 40% off vinyl and 25% off nearly all limited edition sets and posters. No code necessary, discounts are applied in the cart. Sale ends Monday, April 15th at Midnight EST. https://shoparbelosfilms.com/
Our latest special edition blu-ray is influential Hungarian director (and Béla Tarr collaborator) György Fehér’s existential murder mystery Twilight (Szürkület). This new limited edition set features a new 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative by the National Film Institute – Hungarian Film Archive and FilmLab supervised by DP Miklós Gurbán (Werckmeister Harmonies), new video interviews with Gurbán and editor Mária Czeilik, György Fehér's first two short films (Öregek and Tomikám), and a new essay by Hungarian film scholar Andrea Virginás. The slipcase edition of Twilight, available exclusively through the Arbelos online store, is limited to 1000 copies and features a collectable "giant" drawing as seen in the film. Thanks to Letterboxd for premiering the new artwork! Pre-order now during our Black Friday sale! https://shoparbelosfilms.com/
Our Black Friday sale starts tomorrow, November 24th, at 12:01AM EST! Up to 50% off the Arbelos online store, plus a new limited edition blu-ray release will be announced! https://shoparbelosfilms.com
"A must see" - Jonathan Rosenbaum Watch a clip from the newly 25th anniversary remaster of Nobuhiro Suwa’s stunning sophomore breakout 2/DUO. Opens today at Metrograph!
Our annual Black Friday Sale starts now! Ends Monday at 11:59PM PST. www.shoparbelosfilms.com
Watch a clip from the new 2K restoration of Mireille Dansereau's sensual and beguiling debut feature, and the first female-directed narrative fiction feature to come out of Quebec, DREAM LIFE. Opens Friday at Metrograph. First-ever U.S. release! https://metrograph.com/film/?vista_film_id=9999002989
Preview an exclusive clip! LIFE IS CHEAP...BUT TOILET PAPER IS EXPENSIVE, Wayne Wang's visually bracing and scorching critique of pre-Handover Hong Kong, opens Friday at BAM Film in a stunning new 4K restoration.
THE BLOODY CHILD opens in LA tomorrow at Los Feliz 3 with director Nina Menkes in attendance! Link to tickets: bit.ly/3Kz3Ric
A critically acclaimed feminist filmmaker whose visually stunning and singular work confronts violence, female subjectivity and isolation, @menkesfilm’s CINEMA IS SORCERY: The Films of Nina Menkes retrospective opens @bamfilmbrooklyn 3/4 + @am_cinematheque 3/12!
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