Back in the fall of 2018 we reported that DVD and Blu-ray editions of director Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline would be heading home in January of 2019 from Oscilloscope Laboratories.
As a background to that much-anticipated home entertainment packaged media arrival we reported that in February of 2014 filmmaker Josephine Decker was on a “cinematic high,” having not one, but two of her films being screened in back-to-back nights at The Berlin International Film Festival.
These were, Butter on the Latch, followed by Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, which set festival audiences abuzz with delight and critics bestowing accolades aplenty upon this new filmmaker. It was a golden moment for Josephine Decker.
And then came that “what next?” moment. A year went by. And then another. And another. Four years to the Sundance Film Festival and the debut of Madeline’s Madeline, it was nothing short of a sensation! A film festival triumph and an arthouse treasure.
But wait, harken back to The Berlin Film Festival in 2014, what about Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, the two feature films that established her as a filmmaker of note?
Oscilloscope Laboratories, responding to such inquiries, announced this past week that both films will be available as double-disc DVD or double-disc Blu-ray selections on Nov. 23. The wait is over!!
Butter on the Latch is a about old friends, Sarah (Sarah Small) and Isolde (Isolde Chae-Lawrence) reuniting at a music festival near Mendocino, which turns into a time of stories and music … and more. But when Sarah begins spending time with a festival attendee by the name of Steph (Charlie Hewson), the magic of the moments spent with Isolde are suddenly gone.
Bonus features include commentary with filmmaker Josephine Decker, actor Sarah Small and the director of Photography, Ashley Connor. Plus, there is an alternate opening to the film, outtakes and a short film on the music festival featured in the film.
The companion feature, Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, is a mind-trip thriller starring Sophie Traub (Daltry Calhoun — Daltry Calhoun, The Bend) as Sarah, a sexually repressed farm girl who navigates between a creepy father, Jeremiah (Robert Longstreet), and a deceitful hired hand, Akin (Joe Swanberg), who is hired on for the summer season because he is “single.”
As Decker unfolds the narative we soon learn that Sarah is as creepy — in more subtle ways — as her father and “invites” Akin to all but rape her. When Akin’s wife, Drew (Kristin Slaysman) shows up with their young son in tow things get both strange (or stranger) and dangerous.
Bonus features include commentary from filmmaker Josephine Decker and the director of photography, Ashley Connor, plus the audition tapes for Sophie Traub.
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