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One of the earliest shot-on-video horror movies, Sledgehammer will make its Blu-ray debut via Terror Vision.

This edition is limited to 1,500, with fewer than 800 copies remaining. Scheduled to ship in July, it costs $32.

The 1983 slasher has been newly transferred from a master tape. It comes with a slipcase, soundtrack CD, booklet, 11×17 poster, and postcard, all housed in a rigid box.

Special features:

Audio Commentary by Actor Ted Prior and Rights Holder Clint Kelly (new) Audio Commentary by Film Historian Yasmina Ketita and Terror Vision’s Brad Henderson (new) Audio Commentary by Actor Ted Prior and Rights Holder Clint Kelly Audio Commentary by Bleeding Skull’s Joseph A. Ziemba and Dan Budnik Interview with Actor Ted Prior (new) Interview with Actor Doug Matley (new) Interview with Actress Linda McGill (new) Interview with Actress Jeanine Scheer (new) Interview with Makeup Supervisor Robin Beauchense (new) Interview with “The Last Drive-In” Host Joe Bob Briggs...

At this year’s SXSW Film Festival, there was at least one attendee who made some people uncomfortable. Ousted Cinefamily owner Hadrian Belove came to Austin with a SXSW badge, six months after allegations of sexual abuse and harassment led to his departure from the Los Angeles independent cinema he founded.

No one suggested Belove did anything wrong at SXSW, but several women told IndieWire they thought his alleged transgressions provided reason enough to expel him. Lee Jameson, a longtime Cinefamily member and a former volunteer, tweeted March 14: “how can @sxsw claim to support #metoo and focus on tackling sexual harassment issues this year and still allow someone like Hadrian Belove to be an accredited attendee and make women feel unsafe?”

As the film community approaches the Tribeca Film Festival, Cannes, and other major film events to come this year, it’s an issue that’s bound to come...

On Los Angeles’s Fairfax Avenue, the Silent Movie Theatre will reportedly soon have a new tenant: Fairfax Theater, LLC. Cinefamily — a pulse point in the Southern California film community that showcased arthouse fare — operated the space for 10 years prior to August 2017, when its activities were suspended after sexual harassment allegations prompted resignations from executive director Hadrian Belove (a co-founder) and board member Shadie Elnashai.

According to Cinefamily Accountability — a website founded by longtime Cinefamily patron Jon Zerolnick — the fledgling Fairfax Theater was established in October by Cinefamily co-founder and former treasurer Dan Harkham, who had the foresight then to know that Cinefamily would permanently close, a fact locals learned the following month. Pre-scandal, Cinefamily’s Board of Directors included well-known industry personalities like Amazon Original Movies head of production Ted Hope, and “The Lego Movie” co-writer/director Phil Lord. Oscar-winning actress Brie Larson was a member of its advisory board,...

Cinefamily’s temporary closure is now permanent. Following the August resignations of executive director Hadrian Belove and board member Shadie Elnashai amid sexual harassment allegations, the nonprofit West Hollywood theater will not reopen, concluding a 10-year run.

A statement posted November 14 on its website states that the decision was the result of a months-long independent investigation. “While no victims emerged to corroborate the allegation of rape widely circulated in an anonymous email, the investigation identified serious concerns, including breaches of acceptable behavior alleged to have happened at Cinefamily offices and events; a climate that discouraged employees and volunteers from reporting distressing workplace incidents and/or made them feel unheard if they did so; and critical lapses in communication from the executive management and the board,” the statement reads. “We feel strongly that we have made the right decision.”

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For a decade, Cinefamily has served as a gathering spot for Los Angeles film aficionados whose tastes run toward the esoteric. But in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal this summer which in many ways presaged a storm that would soon engulf Hollywood, the non-profit repertory cinema has decided to cease all operations.

In a statement posted Tuesday to its website, the organization's board of directors announced that "exhaustive analysis" has led to a decision to "officially shut down The Cinefamily."

Cinefamily operations were suspended in August after two top executives — executive creative director Hadrian Belove...

By most estimations, The New York Times’ initial reporting on Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual harassment changed everything. That perspective includes the Times, which published a timeline on November 11 called “After Weinstein: A List of Men Accused of Sexual Misconduct and the Fallout for Each,” detailing the public outcry surrounding a range of public figures who have faced varying degrees of repercussions for their abhorrent treatment of women and men in recent weeks.

It’s a curious framing device, particular with regard to its start. While Weinstein may have been the tipping point, there was a palpable drum roll leading to his downfall.

From a broader cultural standpoint, the backlash against powerful men doing terrible things started with Hannibal Burress’ tossed-off remarks about Bill Cosby, and the ensuing process through which Cosby was shunned by the industry; later, the business threats to Fox News following reporting about years of...

Update (7:40 pm Pt): Devin Faraci has resigned from Alamo Drafthouse.

Yesterday evening, Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League acknowledged via a Facebook post that, earlier this year, he quietly rehired Devin Faraci to work from home. Eleven months ago, he’d fired the former editor-in-chief of Birth.Movies.Death., the Alamo Drafthouse film site, after Faraci was accused of sexual assault. Faraci entered a 12-step program for alcohol, and is said to be in recovery. (For more details and backstory, please see here. And here.)

To say that news of his employment did not go over well would be an understatement. While League positioned his statement as a bid for transparency, and some friends and peers voiced their support, the announcement created a tsunami of outrage from Alamo fans, the alleged victims, and League’s own staff.

Read More:Devin Faraci Steps Down As Eic of Birth.Movies.Death.

Following the resignations of executive director Hadrian Belove and board member and Shadie Elnashai, Cinefamily has closed, temporarily suspending “all Cinefamily activities in order to allow for the investigation and necessary restructure of management and the board.”

The Cinefamily board asked for the resignations last week after an anonymous email circulated claiming that Belove “has been accused of sexual harassment, assault, and abuse by former employees and volunteers” and accused Elnashai of “raping multiple women, all verbally threatened and scared into silence after the assaults.”

Read More:Hadrian Belove Resigns From Cinefamily After Anonymous Email Alleges Sexual Harassment

The Cinefamily announcement, which is posted prominently on its site and social media, also said it has “engaged an independent third party, Giles Miller at Lynx Insights & Investigations, to conduct a thorough investigation into any alleged impropriety.”

The letter, which is signed by “The Board of The Cinefamily,“ added: “We want to...

In the wake of sexual harassment allegations against staffers at Los Angeles independent theater Cinefamily, actress Brie Larson has commented on the dramatic events at the institution where she co-founded the Women of Cinefamily collective.

Larson and Tina Poppy co-founded the Women of Cinefamily group in 2014. After Poppy left Cinefamily, Alia Penner took the role of co-founder. A source close to both Larson and Penner said that they were planning to step back from involvement with the organization for the foreseeable future.

“The allegations at Cinefamily are upsetting to me personally, both as an advocate for sexual assault survivors and a member of the community,” Larson said, in a statement posted to her Twitter feed. “Firstly, I would like to thank the brave survivors who spoke up — I believe you. The responsibility of handling allegations of this nature should never fall on the assaulted. Cinefamily prides itself on being a...

As stories of sexual abuse and assault by well-known men grow more commonplace, a refrain has emerged, one that might sound like a plea: Listen to women. Believe women. Even when they speak out against someone that might be considered a genius or hero, don’t ignore their stories.

This week, “listen to women” became a roar. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” creator Joss Whedon’s ex-wife Kai Cole wrote frankly from her perspective about Whedon being a “fake feminist” and the years he allegedly spent cheating on her. Tig Notaro, in promoting the new season of her Amazon series “One Mississippi,” spoke out regarding sexual harrassment allegations made against Louis C.K.,who also serves as the show’s executive producer.

And after an anonymous letter went to hundreds of people in the indie film industry, accusing those who run Los Angeles-based nonprofit film society Cinefamily of enabling an atmosphere of...

Hadrian Belove has resigned as executive director of Cinefamily, the independent Los Angeles-based theater he co-founded in 2007, after an anonymous email circulated this week detailing sexual harassment allegations against him and the Cinefamily board.

The anonymous email, which went to hundreds of members of the independent film community and the media, said Belove “has been accused of sexual harassment, assault, and abuse by former employees and volunteers. It is a deep seated behavior pattern that many in the community are already aware of.”

The email included excerpts from a 2014 lawsuit filed against Belove and Cinefamily by a former employee that cited sexual harassment as well as work-rule violations. That case was settled out of court.

In addition to Belove, the Cinefamily board accepted the resignation of board vice president Shadie Elnashai, whom the email accused of “raping multiple women, all verbally threatened and scared into silence after the assaults.”

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Star Wars isn't just a movie. It's a way of life. Hell, J.J. Abrams even called it a religion. And anything that sacred is ripe for parody, rip-offs and all sorts of bizarre offshoots, just like all the more legitimate, and not so legitimate religions before it. This means there is an awful lot of Star Wars related video swimming around our own universe. Some of it is sanctioned by LucasFilm, a lot of it is not. But now, it is all being compiled into one brain-breaking mixtape called Star Wars Nothing But Star Wars.

This Mixtape does have a trailer, which shows off some of the best it has to offer. This lovely video tribute comes direct from Cinefamily. And we have it embedded below for your prying eyes to witness. All thanks to Youtube. Says Cinefamily about this truly unique and itchy experience.

"On May 25th, 1977, a film...

Roger Corman placed his hands in wet concrete outside the Vista Theater on Wednesday night. Joining the ranks of those with immortalized handprints in the front area of the Los Angeles theater (which some fans may remember as the site of Alabama and Clarence’s “Street Fighter” triple bill in “True Romance”), the 90-year-old legendary director and producer signed his name next to his fresh mark, adding in cursive below: “So great.”

That small inscription was an accurate prediction of the rest of the night’s festivities: a live read of the script for the long-gestating Corman biopic, “The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes.” Corman acolyte Joe Dante has been trying to bring the script to fruition for a decade, making it an ideal dual candidate for the new Cinefamily series “The Greatest Movies Never Made” and for a prominent event at the heart of SpectreFest 2016.

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The latest trailer for Dangerous Men promises that it's like nothing you've ever seen before. And while that is a pretty bold claim to make in 2015, after watching this 90 second sneak peek, you'll realize that this teaser is not lying. The new trailer arrives with 6 character posters for Drafthouse Films' Dangerous Men. It is the latest epic mind-melter from the curatorial force that brought us Miami Connection, The Visitor and Roar.&#160

In 1979, Iranian filmmaker John S. Rad moved to the U.S. to shoot his dream project, a rampaging gutter epic of crime, revenge, cop sex and raw power. Just 26 years later, he completed an American action film masterpiece that the world is still barely ready for today: Dangerous Men. After Mina witnesses her fianc&#233's brutal murder by beach thugs, she sets out on a venomous spree to eradicate all human trash from Los Angeles.

Armed with a knife,...

Drafthouse Films, the curatorial force behind exceptional repertory releases such as the ninja-blasting synth-rock monolith Miami Connection, the psychedelic sci-fi brainmelter The Visitor, and the most dangerous movie ever made, Roar, have announced the acquisition of their latest cult sensation, Dangerous Men, following a packed-house screening of the film at Fantastic Fest. The fanatical brainchild of Iranian polymath John Rad, Dangerous Men is a passion project that remained in obsessive production for nearly two decades before finally debuted in Californian theaters in 2005. An unflappably prodigious creative force, Rad handled much of the technical duties of the film, appearing multiple times in the film's credits as the director, writer, location scout, producer, executive producer, and more. You can finally get your first glimpse of this lost film in the first trailer.

Despite initially languishing at the box office during its limited theatrical release, and never finding a likeminded audience before Rad's...

Read More: 'Holy F*cking Sh*t' Discovery of 'Roar,' the Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made After finding much success with their distribution of "Roar" earlier this year, Drafthouse Films is once again taking a cult sensation in the making and giving it a theatrical re-distribution. "Dangerous Men," which spent nearly two decades in production, opened in California theaters back in 2005 and quietly died out at the box office, though that's all about to change if Drafthouse Films has anything to do with it. The film comes from the late John Rad, whose credits on the picture include director, writer, location scout, producer, executive producer and more. The movie never found a following in its initial run, though it slowly has become a cult hit in the years since Rad's 2007 death. Chief among its biggest fans is Hadrian Belove of The Cinefamily, who saw the film multiple times during...

Cinema Retro has received the following press release:

The Cinefamily presents

A Hal Hartley Film Retrospective

April 2nd - 4th, 2015

*Additional Saturday matinee screenings throughout April

• Featuring eight career spanning films, with Hal Hartley in attendance, April 2nd - 4th

• The Los Angeles premiere of his newest film Ned Rifle, with guest appearances by film's stars Aubrey Plaza, James Urbaniak and Liam Aiken

• An exhibition of limited edition photographic prints of stills from his films

• Retrospective is the kickoff of a weeklong Cinefamily run of Ned Rifle (April 3rd - April 9th)

"Unbelievable Truth". (Photo: copyright PossibleFilms).

Cinefamily presents the first-ever West Coast retrospective of the works of iconic film auteur Hal Hartley. Hartley’s stylized, deadpan screwball dramas, taut dialogue and offbeat characters helped define classic American independent filmmaking, and his films offered breakthrough roles to numerous actors, including Parker Posey, Edie Falco, Adrienne Shelley, Pj Harvey, and Martin Donovan.