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A quest to make dreams come true, linking these stories together thanks to the wonder of cinema.” – Shahram Mokri.  In Tajiki and Russian with English subtitles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecial Features\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eThree ultra-rare early Mokri short films:\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Dragonfly Storm (2002, 15m)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLimits of the Circle (2005, 15m)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAndo-C (2007, 15m)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew audio commentary by film programmer and critic Tori Potenza\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew visual essay \"The Maze: Entrances and Exits in Black Rabbit, White Rabbit\" by Stephen Broomer (13m)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew wrap artwork by Beth Morris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeluxe Edition Bonus Content\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\" aria-level=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHard slipcase featuring new artwork by Brian Level\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\" aria-level=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e60-page illustrated book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\" aria-level=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew essay by Walter Chaw\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\" aria-level=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\" aria-level=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew essay by Michelle Kisner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cstyle\u003e\na {\n    text-decoration: none;\n    color: #464feb;\n}\ntr th, tr td {\n    border: 1px solid #e6e6e6;\n}\ntr th {\n    background-color: #f5f5f5;\n}\n\u003c\/style\u003e","brand":"Deaf Crocodile","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53920085541174,"sku":null,"price":74.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7520\/9270\/files\/406964_front_1c3fa358-efcb-40fa-b617-1d23eed2e48a.jpg?v=1776464088"},{"product_id":"3-x-teuvo-tulio-deluxe-limited-edition-blu-ray-us","title":"3 x Teuvo Tulio (Deluxe Limited Edition) [Blu-ray] [US]","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date: January 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA mad, dreamlike combination of surrealist imagery and unhinged emotional intensity, the films of Finnish director Teuvo Tulio (1912-2000) are melodramas untethered from any sense of naturalism or narrative logic (or often good taste), operating in the same glorious, hallucinatory space as the subversive, Brechtian melodramas of Douglas Sirk and R.W. Fassbinder.  They are, in a word, wildly entertaining:  unearthly and operatic and totally addictive, streaked with film noir and near-Expressionist horror tropes, and doused with tears and booze, prostitution and poison.  His work has been rediscovered and restored in recent years by KAVI – the National Audiovisual Institute of Finland, for this first-ever worldwide Blu-ray release from Deaf Crocodile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCROSS OF LOVE (RAKKAUDEN RISTI)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e – 1946, 99 min.  Grizzled old lighthouse keeper \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOscar Tengström\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e spends his nights talking to his parrot, surrounded by German Expressionist shadows.  There are deeper shadows in his mind:  when he hears a drowning man out on the rocks, he grabs a rifle and shoots him!  We learn why he hates strangers as he reveals the story of his daughter Riitta (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRegina Linnanheimo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) who is swept off to the city by rakishly handsome Mauri (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVille Salminen)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e --in no time she’s a cigarette-smoking prostitute with a black beret and jaded wink.  She’s followed one day by a sensitive young man Henrik (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRauli Tuomi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) who turns out to be a painter and wants her to model – DEAR GOD – half-naked, tied to a cross with her dress torn open.  Later remade by Tulio as SENSUELA in 1973.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRESTLESS BLOOD (LEVOTON VERI)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e – 1946, 100 min.  Blonde wife Sylvi (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRegina Linnanheimo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) seems to have an ideal marriage to playboy doctor husband Valter (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEino Katajavuori\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), despite his “innocent” flirtation with her kid sister – until her young son is killed by a speeding bus.  She drinks poison in desperation – she survives but loses her sight.  Kid sister returns, and now the grieving husband is interested in more than flirting.  Look out:  once Sylvi downs a shot of poison and dons her weird black shades, ooowee!!  Features an intensely deranged performance by Linnanheimo in tailored suits and 1940s hairdos, sporting Peter Lorre-in-MAD LOVE sunglasses and giving the whole film a German Expressionist \/ neo-horror \/ neo-noir vibe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eSENSUELA\u003c\/b\u003e (1973, 104 min.)  Tulio’s notorious last film – and arguably his greatest achievement – SENSUELA opens on reindeer herder’s daughter Laila (\u003cb\u003eMarianne Mardi\u003c\/b\u003e) saving badly-wounded German WW2 pilot Hans (\u003cb\u003eMauritz Åkerman\u003c\/b\u003e).  Hans quickly seduces her off to the big city, where she descends into a polyester maelstrom of fabulous clothes and nudie photography and hippie orgies.  (Oh, the action mysteriously leaps forward 25 years to the Swinging 60s with no explanation, don’t ask why!)  What follows is an incredible mix of ethnographic reindeer herding docudrama, jawdropping John Waters-meets-Doug Sirk-meets Russ Meyer-meets-Anna Biller’s THE LOVE WITCH-style melodrama blending eye-popping Technicolor, softcore eroticism \/ sexploitation, and Mod 60’s \/ 70s Pop Art fashions and décor.  SENSUELA seems to have been beamed in from an alternate universe where any standards of good taste are completely inverted and\/or missing.  Note:  SENSUELA is intended for mature audiences and contains frequent onscreen nudity.All 3 films in Finnish with English subtitles.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpecial Features\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe only remaining fragments from Tulio’s early features STRUGGLE FOR THE HOUSE OF HEIKKILA (1936, 9 min. clip) and FALL ASLEEP WHEN YOUNG (1937, 22 min)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShort documentary A FRENCH DISCOVERY - NUORENA NUKKUNUT (2015, 7 min., dir. 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Her dream appears in the form of spotlessly clean Soda Pop Joe (Karel Fiala), who turns out to be a traveling sales rep for Kolaloka Soda (an entertaining pun meaning “a sip of Cola”), which he relentlessly hawks in the film’s barbed satire of Western consumerism.  (His rendition – dubbed by Karel Gott, one of the pop-stars of the era – of  \"Smith \u0026amp; Wessons on my hip \/ Nothing else comes near my lips ... 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