Tristana - BLU-RAY

Dalia (Ydalie Turk, who co-wrote) was looking for some out from her aimless life in London, even if it meant a family-forced journey to South Italy to check in on her cantankerous truffle hunter grandfather Igor (Umberto Orsini). Discovering that the oldster's on the precipice of losing his house, she must work with him and his sniffing dog (Birba) to root out a sufficient payday. Charming opus co-stars Margherita Buy, Frances Sholto-Douglas. 100 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack Italian; Subtitles English; featurettes; theatrical trailer. In Italian with English subtitles.

With The Trip, Roger Corman delves deep inside the mind of the artist. TV commercial director Paul Groves (Peter Fonda, The Wild Angels), with both his personal and professional life in crisis due to a crumbling marriage and stagnating career, begins to experiment with LSD to free himself artistically. Paul's trip provides the viewer with psychedelic and hallucinatory moments worthy of Fellini, as an onslaught of strange, beautiful and terrifying images flood Paul's subconscious and leads to a revelatory denouement. Featured in The Trip are Bruce Dern (co-star of the Corman directed The Wild Angels) as John, the self-proclaimed LSD guru who sends Paul on his trip; Susan Strasberg (Psych-Out) as Paul's estranged wife; and Dennis Hopper (Chattahoochee) as a drug-culture everyman. The Trip, written for the screen by Jack Nicholson (Psych-Out, Ironweed) would be one of several collaborations with mentor Roger Corman including The Little Shop of Horrors, The Raven and The Terror.

In the early '80s twilight of Argentine autocracy, privileged Buenos Aries school teacher Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez (Norma Aleandro) began to question the evasive half-explanations of her functionary husband (Héctor Alterio) about the parentage of their adoptive daughter (Analía Castro). Her own investigations, however, may cause irreparable damage to career and family. Gripping political drama that won 1986's Best Foreign Film Oscar also stars Hugo Arana. 114 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. Widescreen; Soundtrack Spanish; Subtitles English.