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THE NORTH AMERICAN BLU-RAY PREMIERES

Pere Portabella has been a pioneering movie producer and celebrated Spanish statesman, denounced by both the Franco dictatorship and The Vatican. But it s his subversive work as a director that has rewritten the rules of genre narrative. Or as The Museum of Modern Art says, The films of Portabella expand the expressive potential of cinema : In 1970, Portabella was invited by Jess Franco to make a behind-the-scenes documentary on the filming of COUNT DRACULA. Instead, VAMPIR-CUADECUC became a dreamlike deconstruction of myths, monsters and moviemaking featuring Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom and Soledad Miranda as you ve never seen them before. Christopher Lee also stars in Portabella s companion piece UMBRACLE, an unsettling journey through dread, violence and discontinuity with Lee at his most candid. Both films are now scanned in HD from Portabella s own vault elements for the first time ever in America.

FEATURES:
A Cinema Of Vampires: Pere Portabella, Jess Franco And The School Of Barcelona – Interview With Spanish Film Scholar Dr. Álex Mendíbil
VAMPIR-CUADECUC Trailer
Booklet Featuring Text By Pere Portabella And Film Critics Jonathan Rosenbaum And Federico Karstulovich