About Tartan Films/Tartan Video -

Established over 20 years ago, Tartan Video is the longest established and market leading independent UK DVD & Blu-ray distributor. Known for its diverse range of intelligent, challenging and cutting edge films, Tartan’s critical and commercial successes have thus far included Black Book, Fast Food Nation, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Little Fish, The Proposition, Lady Vengeance, The Woodsman, The Machinist, 2046, DiG!, Capturing the Friedmans, Oldboy, Sex & Lucia, Secretary, Mysterious Skin and many more. Titles set for release in 2008 include Harmony Korine’s unique and extraordinary Mr Lonely and Michael Haneke’s English language remake of his brutal and challenging Funny Games.  
 
With its library of over 300 titles Tartan Video’s ever-growing catalogue includes titles by celebrated auteurs such as Ingmar Bergman, Sergei Eisenstein, Yasujiro Ozu and Pier Paolo Pasolini, and features many highly collectible special editions and boxset releases of the work of these and other directors such as Alejandro Jodorowksy, Wong Kar-Wai and Michael Haneke.
 
Adding to the wealth of exciting and challenging contemporary world cinema titles, such as Irreversible, A Ma Soeur!, The Idiots and Taxidermia which Tartan distributes is the much-imitated, genre-defining Asia Extreme strand which Tartan established way back in 2001.  Showcasing a vast array of the best chillers, action movies and thrillers from Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand and Korea, the label’s runaway successes have included the Ringu trilogy, Hard Boiled and the Infernal Affairs trilogy, as well as the hugely popular films of Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Lady Vengeance and the soon-to-be-released fantasy I’m a Cyborg).  More recently, Tartan set up Grindhouse, a new home for some of history’s most notoriously nasty movies.
 
Tartan’s commitment to new and leading technologies has resulted in its first batch of Blu-ray Disc titles, and this September will see Paul Verhoeven’s war epic, Black Book, available to buy in Tartan’s own ‘Future Proof’ edition (featuring both the DVD & Blu-ray editions for the price of the Blu-ray disc).  While two more ‘Future Proof’ releases are set to follow in October, when Asia Extreme hit Oldboy and Ingmar Bergman’s all-time classic The Seventh Seal hit the shelves.