The film, though it hails from 1969, has never been distributed here.
During a trip to Paris in 1995, I was delegated by a distributor friend to contact sales agents and producers there about some noteworthy films they represented including the films of Kiarostami, none of which had been distributed here yet.
(It's distributed here by dGenerate Films, an indispensable source for contemporary Chinese independent films as well as for information about the film, the filmmaker, and his recent travails).
Only 50 of the Maybelline calendars are distributed here, and the imagery is a fluorescent fantasy with Wasson cast as heroine, swinging from gigantic mascara wands or bedecked in orange-and-black checked body paint.
But she said the Dodovs' 23-page letter, which was first filed as a complaint Aug. 17 and reported in the Sept. 13 edition of the Chilkat Valley News, "was distributed here".
In a public letter to be distributed here on Sunday, Mr. Chomsky urges Mr. Chávez to free from house arrest María Lourdes Afiuni, a judge arrested in December 2009 by the president's secret intelligence police.
The comprehensive retrospective of the films of Hong Sang-soo at Museum of the Moving Image, running today through June 19th, is one of the most important recent movie events, because Hong is one of the best filmmakers in the world but very few of his films have been distributed here or are even available on DVD or streaming.
Guédiguian, a marvelous filmmaker best known here for "Marius and Jeannette," has been working assiduously of late; it's his fifth new film since 2004, none of which has been distributed here (including the fascinating "The Last Mitterrand," which played at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2005); let's hope we get to see "L'Armé du Crime" here soon.
Tonight at seven, at French Institute Alliance Française, a movie that hasn't been distributed here: "Surviving With Wolves," directed by Véra Belmont, an adaptation of the book "Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years," which was published in 1997 as a memoir by Misha Defonseca about her experience as a young Belgian Jew who survived the Second World War in the forests of Europe.
