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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“We are the only humans who have existed that expect to have anything we want at any time.” A YEAR IN A FIELD is available on Blu-ray now through spectacularoptical.com (Canada) and severinfilms.com (US).

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

THIS SATURDAY in TORONTO! Sat. Aug 1, 3:00pm at Revue Cinema - Robert Downey Sr.'s 1969 advertising satire PUTNEY SWOPE - Toronto launch for our book TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER Editors @kierlajanisse.bsky.social & Clint Enns in person w/ contributors @stephenbroomer.bsky.social & more

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A YEAR IN A FIELD uses the lens of one standing stone to open into a conversation that spans from a single insect on a leaf all the way through what we know about our solar system and the very engines that run our planet. The film is available on Blu-ray now.

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

FRIDAY at @lalumierecollective in MTL! Robert Downey Sr's CHAFED ELBOWS introduced by Clint Enns and @kierlajanisse.bsky.social editors of the new book TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER - Books available at the screening for $30 CAD (cash/card) Info: lalumierecollective.org/2026/robert-...

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

MONTREAL! Three nights of Robert Downey Sr. coming your way this month with TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER co-editors @kierlajanisse.bsky.social and Clint Enns in person to intro each screening w/ books on hand - see details on our website spectacularoptical.com

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Kier-La Janisse @kierlajanisse.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

TORONTO! See you Sat. Aug 1 at the @vinsyn.bsky.social store w/ blu ray launch for A YEAR IN A FIELD, then across the street at The Revue for PUTNEY SWOPE w/ our book TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER details on spectacularoptical.com

Close up image of moss growing on a standing stone, with an inset 3D photo of the blu ray cover for A YEAR IN A FIELD depicting a blue painting of a standing stone. The following text appears within illustrated clouds: A YEAR IN A FIELD Blu ray launch & signing Sat Aug 1, 12:30-1:30 at Vinegar Syndrome Toronto, Kier-La Janisse in person with various items from the Spectacular Optical and Severin Films libraries.

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

MONTREAL! This week we'll be at la metropolitaine (Weds) w/ HUGO POOL, La Lumiere Collective (Fri) w/ CHAFED ELBOWS, Cinema au Cinoche (next Sunday) w/ AMERICA! Some rarities to celebrate our book TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER (also available at spectacularoptical.com)

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Despite their historical importance many of the thousands of megaliths scattered across the UK are inaccessible to the public, something organizations like @stoneclub.bsky.social are working to change. For more on the pictured standing stone see A YEAR IN A FIELD, available on Blu-ray now.

A standing stone in a green and yellow field at dawn.

A wideshot of the Merry Maidens stone circle on a foggy day.

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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Kier-La Janisse @kierlajanisse.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

My beautiful first blu ray has arrived! THANK YOU to everyone who has bought a blu ray - if you'll be at @fantasiafestival.com come by the @severinfilms.bsky.social table to get a copy in person! Or you can get it online from severinfilms.com (North America) or spectacularoptical.com (Canada only)

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Three excerpts from poems which evoke ancient standing stones and stone circles, including one written in a Wiltshire dialect! These poems are a part of a history of megalithic structures in art which director Christopher Morris continues in his film A YEAR IN A FIELD. Available on Blu-ray now.

Scarce images of life, one here, one there,
Lay vast and edgeways; like a dismal cirque
Of Druid stones, upon a forlorn moor,
When the chill rain begins at shut of eve,
In dull November, and their chancel vault,
The Heaven itself, is blinded throughout night.
Each one kept shroud, nor to his neighbour gave
Or word, or look, or action of despair.
"Hyperion" - John Keats
Book 2 lines 33-40

Now I can see certain simplicities
In the darkening rust and tarnish of the time,
And say over the certain simplicities,
The running water and the standing stone,
The yellow haze of the willow and the black
Smoke of the elm, the silver, silent light
Where suddenly, readying toward nightfall,
The sumac's candelabrum darkly flames.
And I speak to you now with the land's voice,
It is the cold, wild land that says to you
A knowledge glimmers in the sleep of things:
The old hills hunch before the north wind blows.
"A Spell Before Winter" - Howard Nemerov
Lines 8-19

An zom da think it wur tha sae
Wur our leetle lan da bide,
An that thase Stounes wur drifted up
Ta where they be we ocean's tide.

An zom da zay thay wur put up
Like martar, ael za slack an soft,
An ardened wie tha han a time,
An winds, an starms, an girt hard vrost.

But I da think as Uncle zed-
They mist av com wie thick woold fellar,
Vor, zomehow, I da zeem ta think
I yeard un under one o'm bellar.
"Gipsyun at Stounehenge" - Edward Slow
Lines 85-96

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Director Christopher Morris interviewed by Will Sheff for the US premiere of A YEAR IN A FIELD as included in the limited edition Blu-ray extras. Available now at spectacularoptical.com (Canada) and severinfilms.com (US).

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Director Christopher Morris and producer Denzil Monk discuss their film A YEAR IN A FIELD as part of the limited edition Blu-ray extras. Available now at spectacularoptical.com (Canada) and severinfilms.com (US).

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Happy Birthday Robert Downey, Sr.! One of the most hilarious and confounding directors of the American underground, born on this day in 1936. Read more about him in our book TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER, available at spectacularoptical.com

collage of three pics of Robert Downey Sr. One of him staring confrontationally into the camera as he leans against a brick wall in New York city, with a fire escape visible behind his head; one standing in the center of several people who are conferring amongst themselves (cast members of his movie POUND, including his then wife Elsie Downey and Downey regular Stan Gottlieb), with Downey again looking straight into the camera with one hand holding various documents and the other propped against his chin; and last a pic of him wearing a hat and gesticulating, on set directing.

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

June 21st is the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the longest day of the year. The day also serves as the midpoint for the journey of A YEAR IN A FIELD which spans from winter solstice to winter solstice. The film is available now on Blu-ray and digital.

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Just arrived to our shipper @screamandwrithe.bsky.social in Montreal! First-ever blu rays of A YEAR IN A FIELD. Canadian orders made direct from the Spectacular Optical website spectacularoptical.com start shipping today, all other orders ship via @severinfilms.bsky.social

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

New on the website: @kierlajanisse.bsky.social interviews legendary stuntman Gary Kent about the long-unseen film he directed, THE PYRAMID (1976). New restoration by AGFA plays LA this Thurs June 18th at Philosophical Research Society. spectacularoptical.com/articles/the...

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THE FIRE INSIDE: GARY KENT ON HIS 1976 FILM “THE PYRAMID”

Spectacular Optical Media is a Canadian small-press publisher of film and pop culture books and independent film producer/distributor.

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

A YEAR IN A FIELD showcases a year's worth of skies and seasons around Boscawen Ros, the ancient standing stone at its centre. This stunning, meditative film is available to order on Blu-ray now through severinfilms.com in the US and spectacularoptical.com in Canada.

The A Year in a Field box-set with the text "A Year in a Field Now on Blu-ray" overtop a collage of landscapes from the film.

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Title treatment by Andy Votel for Devon Deimler's chapter on GREASER'S PALACE in TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER. See the film tomorrow night (Weds June 3) at @viffest.bsky.social in Vancouver, w/ an intro by the book's co-editor @kierlajanisse.bsky.social Tix at viff.org/whats-on/gre...

psychedelic title treatment reading: "Come the Acid Western: Robert Downey in the Far out Frontier"

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

NOW LIVE: The new episode of @stephenbroomer.bsky.social's video essay series NORTHERN LIGHT exploring Canadian classics, hits + misfits: this time focused on Crawley Films' fungal farce AMANITA PESTILENS (1963) spectacularoptical.com/video-essays...

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THE DON JUAN OF THE LAWN: OBSESSION AND ESTRANGEMENT IN AMANITA PESTI…

Spectacular Optical Media is a Canadian small-press publisher of film and pop culture books and independent film producer/distributor.

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Whether ancient Druids used these stone monuments in their practice is debated, but stone circles and standing stones have remained a part of the spirituality of Neo-Druidry since its revival in the 18th century. See two of Cornwall's stone monuments in A YEAR IN A FIELD, blu ray pre-orders open now

One stone from the Merry Maidens Stone Circle

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

DON JUAN OF THE LAWN: Obsession and Estrangement in AMANITA PESTILENS - the latest in @stephenbroomer.bsky.social 's video essay series NORTHERN LIGHT focused on Canadian cinema classics, hits and misfits. See it June 1st at spectacularoptical.com

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Robert Downey, Sr.'s GREASER'S PALACE screens at @viffest.bsky.social in Vancouver Weds June 3rd with an introduction by co-editor @kierlajanisse.bsky.social who will be on hand with books for sale! Tix and details at: viff.org/whats-on/gre...

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Spectacular Optical founder @kierlajanisse.bsky.social will be at @viffest.bsky.social in Vancouver on Weds June 3 to present a screening of Robert Downey, Sr.'s messianic acid western GREASER'S PALACE with copies of our book for sale! Details here: spectacularoptical.com/events/greas...

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GREASER’S PALACE + TRUTH & SOUL Book Launch

Spectacular Optical Media is a Canadian small-press publisher of film and pop culture books and independent film producer/distributor.

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

According to a 2025 study by the University of Portsmouth, rural areas in the UK are disproportionately affected by litter pollution. These clips show some of a year’s litter in a field in West Cornwall as depicted in the documentary A YEAR IN A FIELD. Blu ray pre-orders are open. Streaming now.

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Le Guin’s words are taken from the foreword to her poetry collection LATE IN THE DAY, they also serve as the opening words to Christopher Morris’ A YEAR IN A FIELD. Using the landscapes of West Cornwall the meditative film explores our relationship with the natural world. Blu ray pre-orders open now

we need to relearn our being in it. - Ursula K. Le Guin

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Kier-La Janisse @kierlajanisse.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Me & Bill Ackerman (Supporting Characters podcast) hunt for the rural Georgia locations from Southern sleaze classic POOR PRETTY EDDIE (1975), joined by Klon Waldrip of the Late List podcast - full story and pics at: spectacularoptical.com/articles/poo...

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ON LOCATION: POOR PRETTY EDDIE (1975)

Spectacular Optical Media is a Canadian small-press publisher of film and pop culture books and independent film producer/distributor.

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Come hang out with an ancient standing stone in A YEAR IN A FIELD - now on TVOD in the US and available for pre-order on collectible blu ray in US from severinfilms.com (with exclusive perks) or in Canada (blu ray only) from spectacularoptical.com

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Buttercups and storm clouds earlier on Glastonbury Tor.

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Severin Films @severinfilms.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A YEAR IN A FIELD The first release from @spectacularoptical.bsky.social is BAFTA-winning documentarian Christopher Morris’ 2023 film A Year in a Field, a “thoughtful, meditative documentary”(The Guardian) and “a quietly devastating piece of work”(Cine Europa). [TRAILER LINK] youtu.be/LFHRp9OQyOI

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SPECTACULAR OPTICAL: A YEAR IN A FIELD (2026) TRAILER

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Congratulations to BOSENA bosena.co.uk , the producers of A YEAR IN A FIELD, on their certification as a B Corporation (TM) which means that they have joined the growing hive of businesses who are leading a global movement for an inclusive, equitable and regenerative economy. Read more at bcorp.com

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Some details from our blu ray wrap for Christopher Morris' A YEAR IN A FIELD, designed by Steven Key/Of Stick & Bone, who said: "Rewatching the film, I was particularly struck by the way it shifts between macro and micro viewpoints. [cont'd]

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Standing stones have lived in British art from Derek Jarman’s Avebury Series of paintings and film A JOURNEY TO AVEBURY, to Ben Nicholson’s relief “February 1956 (menhir).” A YEAR IN A FIELD continues this rich history, and creates a beautiful meditation on nature and our place in it. Now streaming.

A painting of several stones and pillars on a beige background

Several frames of stones and trees from A Journey to Avebury

A tall rectangular relief made up of several interior rectangles in shades of beige.

Several frames of a standing stone, the sky, and plants from A Year in a Field

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Get the MONOLITHS bundle featuring A YEAR IN A FIELD with a set of 4 ceramic standing stone coasters, designed by Sight Study Art & Design with pics taken by @kierlajanisse.bsky.social ! Limited edition and exclusively available at @severinfilms.bsky.social here: severinfilms.com/en-ca/collec...

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Severin Films @severinfilms.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

***NEW TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT*** A YEAR IN A FIELD [ORDER LINK & FULL SPECS] severinfilms.com/collections/...

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

SPECTACULAR OPTICAL RELEASES "A YEAR IN A FIELD" ON COLLECTORS’ EDITION BLU RAY - see all the details on extras, packaging and perks in this trailer we cut below! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjBb...

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A YEAR IN A FIELD - Collectors Edition Blu Ray Details and Specs

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

NEW ep of @stephenbroomer.bsky.social's NORTHERN LIGHT video essay series on Canadian classics, hits & misfits: THE NAKED FLAME (aka DEADLINE FOR MURDER, 1964), canuxploitation set in the fictional Alberta mining town of Little Creek. See it at spectacularoptical.com

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

FURNACES OF FREEDOM: ECSTASY AND ASSIMILATION IN THE NAKED FLAME - a new video essay by @stephenbroomer.bsky.social as part of our NORTHERN LIGHT series focused on Canadian classics, hits & misfits. See it May 1 at spectacularoptical.com

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Mariclare Costello, the sinister Emily/Abigail Bishop from LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH has passed away. The image of her emerging from the water to torment the fragile title character was imprinted onto the psyches of many a young horror fan, myself included.

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Thanks to the Olive Network for plugging our A YEAR IN A FIELD as its Earth Day Featured Story! A lot of great info here. olivenetwork.org/Issue/p-clas...

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A Year in a Field : Earth Day Featured Story

“A silent cry about the climate crisis and a penetrating meditation on what life is. A film..

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A YEAR IN A FIELD - now streaming on-demand on Youtube Premium (US & Canada) and Amazon Prime, Hoopla and Google Play (US), with more to come! Also screening on the BIG screen tonight at the Roxy Theatre in Saskatoon for Earth Day! Get in touch if you'd like to book it for your cinema or film club!

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 22/04/2026

"positions a Cornish standing stone as marker of the anthropocene’s beginning and end": for this Earth Day, Christopher Morris’ static yet activist film essay A YEAR IN A FIELD (2022) is now on US TVOD via @spectacularoptical.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2023/09/20/a...

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A Year In A Field (2023) - Projected Figures

Christopher Morris' film essay A YEAR IN A FIELD positions a Cornish standing stone as marker of the anthropocene's beginning and end

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This #earthday see A YEAR IN A FIELD on the big screen at the Roxy Theatre in Saskatoon! Weds April 22 ! If you love the mystery of standing stones, incredible folk music, the quiet wonder of nature and/or are very concerned about the climate crisis, this film is for you. Tix: www.roxysaskatoon.ca

A lone standing stone in silhouette, set against the backdrop of a sunset

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Shelf Life Books @shelflifebooks.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Photos from our reading yesterday with @kierlajanisse.bsky.social / @spectacularoptical.bsky.social 🎬 Thank you to our friends at the Calgary Underground Film Festival for making this happen!

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Today at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social in Calgary 4:00pm co-presented by Calgary Underground FF! I'll be talking about our Robert Downey Sr. book w/ some clips + reading from my book COCKFIGHT. The store will have these and other books in stock, like SATANIC PANIC, HOPW + YULETIDE TERROR!

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

"An ancient monolith stands sentinel in a Cornish field for millennia. Part provocation, part meditation, part invocation, BAFTA-winning documentarian Christopher Morris’s A YEAR IN A FIELD is a record of their brief interaction." Now booking in North America from spectacularoptical.com

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Spectacular Optical Media @spectacularoptical.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

SPECTACULAR OPTICAL LAUNCHES FILM DISTRIBUTION BRANCH - First Slate of Titles Includes new restorations of Waris Hussein’s MELODY (1971), Bert Deling’s PURE SHIT (1975) and Andrew Horn’s DOOMED LOVE (1984), plus BAFTA Award Winning Documentarian Christopher Morris’ A YEAR IN A FIELD (2023) and more

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Kier-La Janisse Moves Her Spectacular Optical Label Into Distribution

Spectacular Optical, the indie publishing imprint of Canadian genre veteran Kier-La Janisse, has expanded its remit to include distribution.

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