October Films

October Films was a major U.S. independent film production company^[1] and distributor founded in 1991 by Bingham Ray and Jeff Lipsky as a means of distributing the 1990 film Life Is Sweet. It is unrelated to the currently-trading London and New York-based television production company October Films Limited and its subsidiary, October Films Inc., founded in 1989.

A series of mergers and acquisitions began when Universal Pictures (then a division of the Seagram Company) bought a majority stake in October Films in 1997. Universal then sold its shares to Barry Diller in 1999, who renamed the company USA Films and merged it with Gramercy Pictures. Vivendi then acquired USA Films, who in 2002 acquired Good Machine and merged it with USA Films, forming Focus Features.

Filmography

1990s

Release Date	Films	Notes
August 21, 1992	The Living End
September 4, 1992	The Tune
June 25, 1993	Chain of Desire
October 8, 1993	Ruby in Paradise
August 19, 1994	Killing Zoe
May 5, 1995	Search and Destroy
October 6, 1995	The Addiction
December 7, 1995	Man with a Gun
June 18, 1996	Haunted
November 1, 1996	The Funeral
November 13, 1996	Breaking the Waves
February 21, 1997	Lost Highway
April 18, 1997	Traveller
April 25, 1997	Female Perversions
August 8, 1997	Career Girls
October 8, 1997	Year of the Horse
November 14, 1997	Kiss or Kill
February 20, 1998	The Apostle
May 1, 1998	Still Breathing
June 12, 1998	High Art
August 7, 1998	Safe Men
August 1998	The Naked Man
September 18, 1998	A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
January 15, 1999	Hilary and Jackie
April 2, 1999	Cookie's Fortune
April 30, 1999	Three Seasons
July 9, 1999	Autumn Tale
August 27, 1999	The Muse
September 10, 1999	Black Cat, White Cat
September 17, 1999	Sugar Town
September 24, 1999	Lucie Aubrac
November 5, 1999	Rosetta
December 15, 1999	Topsy-Turvy	distributed by USA Films

2000s

Release Date	Title	Notes
March 3, 2000	Agnes Browne	distributed by USA Films
March 10, 2000	Condo Painting	distributed by USA Films
April 28, 2000	The Idiots	distributed by USA Films
May 5, 2000	Up at the Villa	distributed by USA Films
May 26, 2000	Joe Gould's Secret	distributed by USA Films
June 21, 2000	Boricua's Bond	distributed by USA Films
August 30, 2000	Alice and Martin	distributed by USA Films
October 20, 2000	A Room for Romeo Brass	distributed by USA Films
March 2, 2001	Series 7: The Contenders	distributed by USA Films
April 27, 2001	One Night at McCool's	distributed by USA Films
June 8, 2001	Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?	distributed by USA Films
August 10, 2001	Session 9	distributed by USA Films

Distributor

• Rebro Adama (1990) (1992)
• Life Is Sweet (1990) (1991)
• Tous les matins du monde (1991) (1992)
• Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright (1992) (1993)
• Un coeur en hiver (1992) (1993)
• Bad Behaviour (1993)
• The Cement Garden (1993) (1994)
• Cronos (1993) (1994)
• The War Room (1993)
• Kika (1993) (1994)
• The Silence of the Hams (1994)
• The Last Seduction (1994)
• Dellamorte Dellamore (1994) (1996)
• Le Colonel Chabert (1994)
• Nadja (1994) (1995)
• Moving the Mountain (1994) (1995)
• Riget (1994) (1995)
• Pao Da Shuang Deng (1994) (1995)
• Kuang ye sheng si lian (1995)
• Search and Destroy (1995)
• When Night Is Falling (1995)
• Mécaniques célestes (1995) (1996)
• Someone Else's America (1995) (1996)
• Badkonake sefid (White Balloon) (1995) (1996)
• The Addiction (1995)
• Girls Town (1996)
• Small Faces (1996)
• Secrets & Lies (1996)
• Hollow Point (1996)
• Natural Enemy (1997)
• Kicked in the Head (1997)
• 24 7: Twenty Four Seven (1997) (1998)
• The Peacekeeper (1997)
• Riget II (1997)
• Thick as Thieves (1998)
• Crna macka, beli macor (1998)
• Testimone dello sposo, Il (1998) (1999)
• Festen (1998)
• Conte d'automne (1998) (1999)
• The Last Days (1998) (1999)
• The Best Man (1999/II film) (1999/II)
• Trippin' (1999)
• Detour (1999)
• Cherry Falls (2000)

Production company

• Juedi fanji (1997)
• The Death Train (1998)
• The Last Days (2001)

References

1. "Are the U.S.A.'s Independent Films a Distinct National Cinema?". TheFilmJournal.com. Retrieved 2013-08-12.

• October Films at IMDb
• Focus Features
• October Films UK