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NEW RELEASES ON DVD
CRIME STORIES (LAWSTORANT)
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BIG BRAWL (WIELKA WSYPA)
From Polish director Jan Lomnicki (Just Beyond the
Forest) comes this action-packed story of the rise and
fall of a notorious Polish criminal in the early years after
Communism. As the new Polish government and
economy struggle to stabilize, mobsters and crooks take
advantage of the financial chaos. Starring stage and
screen actor Jan Englert (Apple Tree of Paradise). In
Polish with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV95777 $29.95 Includes cast and diretor
biographies.
Jan Lomnicki, Poland, 1992, 98 mins.
Canadian director Philippe Falardeau toys with
coincidence, contrivance, and near-mystical encounters
in this comic drama with as many twists of fate as there
are twists of plot. When Michel (Olivier Gourmet), a failed
Belgian inventor, discovers he was adopted, he sets off
to find his birth parents in Canada. There he encounters
Louis (Paul Ahmarani), a kindred spirit who has much in
common with Michel. “...dramatic, ingenious,
sensitive...” (Michel Coulombe, Radio-Canada). With
Jean-Pierre Cassel and Gabriel Arcand. In French with
English subtitles.
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DVD: DV95775 $29.95 Letterboxed. Includes the
following featurettes: The Making of the Accident;
Homage to Raymond Deshales, Inventor; The Electric Car:
Fiction or Reality; and Atomium, Testicles of the King.
Philippe Falardeau, Canada/Belgium/France, 2006,
105 mins.
DOUBLE (DUBLERZY)
In this action-packed comedy, Max and Leon—two
hapless tourists from Warsaw— meet at a wedding in
Sicily, where they run into members of a powerful mafia
family. They inadvertently get pulled into the mob’s
problems, which follow them back to Warsaw. A great
cast of Polish actors and comedians, including Andrzej
Grabowski as Leon and Robert Gonera as Max, highlight
this fast-paced laugh fest, filled with chase scenes,
stunts, and dark humor. In Polish with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV96130 $24.95 Letterboxed.
Mikolaj Haremski, Poland, 2004, 104 mins.
Marcin Ziebinski, Poland, 2006, 110 mins.
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CONGORAMA
NEW!
Polish television star Zbigniew Buczkowski takes to the
big screen in this violent caper about a small-time crook
nicknamed “Lawstorant.” After years of planning behind
bars, he puts a plan for the perfect heist into action when
he hits the streets. To help him pull off the ultimate score,
he recruits a crack team of thieves and con men, one
played by the controversial Polish pop star Michal
Wisniewski. But just as quickly as you can say “Crime
doesn’t pay,” their plot goes awry due to girls, goons, and
greed. In Polish with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV95779 $24.95 Letterboxed.
EUROPEAN MUSLIMS AND EASTERN CHRISTIANS:
THE BROKEN MIRRORS
CUBA: AN AFRICAN ODYSSEY
This revealing French documentary adds to our
understanding of the Cold War through its least-known
context—Africa. From 1961 to 1991, the Dark Continent
was a battleground for four competing interests. The
Soviet Union wanted to extend its influence into a new
continent; the USA lusted after Africa’s natural resources;
former European empires felt their grip on the area
weaken; and newly formed African nations fought to
defend their recently won independence. When the latter
called on Cuban guerillas to aid in their struggle, Fidel
Castro stepped in to build a new offensive strategy, which
would have long-lasting influence on developing
countries in their battles against colonialism. From Che
Guevara’s efforts in the Congo to the triumphant battle at
Cuito Cuanavale, Cuba: Une Odyssee Africaine tells the
story of those internationalists who won their battles but
ultimately lost the war. In French, English, German,
Spanish, or Portuguese with optional English subtitles.
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DVD: DV96127 $29.95 Includes collectible booklet.
From Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina to Christians in
Lebanon, director Jacques Debs shows us two groups
long forgotten or overlooked. For centuries, Muslims in
Europe and Christians in the Middle East have lived side
by side in the old Ottoman Empire, despite experiencing
periodic setbacks, failures, and in the worst cases,
genocide. Debs uses his personal story as a Christian
from Lebanon as a starting point, then illuminates the
complexities of the modern Mediterranean area, making
the film at once personal and universal. “...a thrilling
journey...” (Le Monde). In English, French, or German with
English subtitles.
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DVD: DV95963 $29.95 Includes the short documentary
Liturgy: The Story of the Film’s Music, maps of the region,
and more.
Jihan El-Tahri, France, 2007, 190 mins.
All of Tehran is preparing to celebrate ChaharshanbeSoori, or the festival of fire, which falls on the last
Tuesday night before the Persian New Year. On this
auspicious evening, Rouhi (Taraneh Alidoosti), a young
woman from a poor neighborhood, is hired by a middle
class couple to clean their house. Sweet, naive, and soon
to be married, Rouhi’s innocence is shattered when she
finds herself in the middle of her employers’ domestic
dispute over accusations of infidelity. “Few Iranian films
have tried to realistically depict both the urban middle
and lower classes, and fewer still with the complexity of
story telling and depth of characterization in Asghar
Farhadi’s impressive third feature, Fireworks
Wednesday” (Deborah Young, Variety). Winner of the Gold
Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival. In Farsi
with optional English subtitles.
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FIREWORKS WEDNESDAY
Jacques Debs, France, 2006, 133 mins.
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FIREWORKS WEDNESDAY
Asghar Farhadi, Iran, 2006, 104 mins.
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GERMANY, PALE MOTHER
A beautiful, painfully moving account of writer-director
Helma Sanders-Brahms’ childhood, made to show her
own daughter a Germany beyond Hitler and the
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verite experience went on to win awards at the Chicago,
Edinburgh, and New York film festivals.
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DVD: DV95776 $29.95 B&W. Includes interviews with
filmmakers and more.
Holocaust. Deutschland Bleiche Mutter traces the history
of Germany from an extremely personal and distinctly
feminist point of view. The film begins on the eve of the
German invasion of Poland, as a newly-married young
woman (Eva Mattes) sees her husband (Ernst Jacobi) sent
off to the Eastern front. She and her daughter (Elisabeth
Stepanek) struggle for survival throughout the war, only
to face a husband who, when he returns, wreaks
emotional havoc on the family. “Sanders-Brahms records
life experiences which are gender-specific and typically
absent from the male version of history” (Anton Kaes,
The Oxford History of World Cinema. In German with
English subtitles.
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DVD: DV96124 $29.95
Newly-restored high-definition transfer.
Yuksel Yavuz, Germany, 2003, 97 mins.
Gordon Quinn/Gerald Temaner, USA, 1966, 80 mins.
MARC JACOBS AND LOUIS VUITTON
HORIZONTAL LANDSCAPE
The award-winning first feature from Polish writerdirector Janusz Kidawa. Three construction workers live
together in a tiny apartment while building a new factory.
When their foreman, Kolecki, is fired for neglecting his
professional duties, the trio bands together to keep the
production on course. With its focus on the dissatisfaction
of everyday life and the breakdown of moral values,
Kidawa’s film echoes the “cinema of moral concern”
associated with Krzysztof Kieslowski and Krzysztof
Zanussi. Pejzaz Horyzontalny offers a glimpse into an era
when Communism still dominated, but unrest signaled
changes ahead. In Polish with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV95900 $29.95 Includes director and cast bios.
Helma Sanders-Brahms, West Germany, 1980, 123 mins.
GERMANY,
PALE MOTHER
Janusz Kidawa, Poland, 1978, 86 mins.
With unprecedented access to one of the world’s hottest
and busiest designers, filmmaker Loic Prigent offers an
intimate and revealing portrait of the reclusive Marc
Jacobs and the world of haute couture. Whether in the
offices and workrooms of Paris and New York, the
backseat of his car, or backstage at a fashion show, we
see a genius at work. Jacobs endures unimaginable
pressure to chart new paths in fashion as he straddles
the demands of the Louis Vuitton conglomerate and his
own Marc Jacobs label. “...artfully told with humor and
panache...” (Vogue). Features Victoria Beckham, Naomi
Campbell, Sophia Coppola, Catherine Deneuve, Demi
Moore, Uma Thurman, Dita Von Teese and others. In
English, French or German with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV95780 $29.95 Includes behind-the-scenes
outtakes with Marc Jacobs.
Loic Prigent, France, 2007, 82 mins.
HOW I UNLEASHED WORLD WAR II, VOL. 3
The hilarious adventures of hapless Private Franek Dolas,
a Polish soldier during WWII who misses his train stop
and finds himself in Germany. In the third and final
episode of the series, Private Dolas dresses as a nurse
so he can stowaway onboard a medical ship headed for
Italy. When he is captured by Nazi officers, Dolas is
mistaken for a German soldier and sent to the front.
Through luck and coincidence, he finds his way back to
Poland where he is welcomed as a hero. This is the last
chapter of one of the wackiest series in Polish film
history. In Polish with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV95778 $24.95 Letterboxed.
GUSTAVE COURBET
The foremost painter in the Realist style, Gustave Courbet
was handsome, wealthy, and acclaimed in his youth, but
met his end an old, poor, and notorious figure. In Gustave
Courbet, French filmmaker Romain Goupil exposes this
legendary artist, uncovering what drove him to pursue
the controversial style he dubbed Realism. Painting with
passion and purpose, he walked a decidedly different
path than the majority of artists who upheld the academy
style that prevailed in his day. This enlightening
documentary is accompanied by two shorts, The Origin
of the World and Dead Man’s Place, which focus on two
of Courbet’s most (in)famous paintings. In French,
German or English with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV95781 $29.95 Letterboxed. Includes the short
documentary Behind the Scenes of an Exhibition: The
Spectacular Transfer of a Masterpiece.
JUST LOVE ME
Tadeusz Chmielewski, Poland, 1970, 73 mins.
NEW!
MARGARET GARNER
JUST LOVE ME (TYLKO MNIE KOCHAJ)
Modern-day Warsaw shines in this romantic comedy
about the love life of a young, hip architect. In his breakout role, popular Polish television star Maciej Zakoscielny
plays a handsome young professional torn between two
women. A soundtrack by Eastern European pop band
Goya highlights this second romantic romp from director
Ryszard Zatorski, whose Never Ever was a hit at the
Polish box office. In Polish with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV96129 $24.95 Letterboxed.
Ryszard Zatorski, Poland, 2006, 98 mins.
Romain Goupil, France, 2007, 108 mins.
A LITTLE BIT OF FREEDOM (KLEINE FREIHEIT)
In this spirited drama from Turkish-born, German-based
filmmaker Yuksel Yavuz, our hero, Baran (Cagdas
Bozkurt), is a Kurdish teen who makes bicycle deliveries
for a kebab shop while trying to outwit the German
authorities that denied him political asylum after leaving
Turkey. He strikes up a friendship with another outsider,
an illegal African immigrant who deals drugs, and
becomes the object of desire for his employer’s
daughter. Neither help him maintain a low profile. “Gritty
yet never sordid, lively and affecting” (Lisa Nesselson,
Variety). Nominated for the Max Ophuls Award at the Max
HOME FOR LIFE
“An extraordinarily moving documentary” (Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times), Home for Life depicts the
experiences of two elderly people in their first month at a
home for the aged. One is a woman whose struggle to
remain useful in her son and daughter-in-law’s home is
no longer appreciated. The other is a widower without a
family, who suddenly realizes he can no longer look after
himself. One of the first documentaries produced by
Kartemquin Films (Hoop Dreams), this emotional cinema
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Ophuls Festival. In German, Kurdish and Turkish with
English subtitles.
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Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison was inspired by
the true story of Margaret Garner in writing her novel
Beloved. Garner was a slave in pre-Civil War America who
escaped and killed her own daughter rather than see her
return to slavery. Morrison later wrote the libretto for
Margaret Garner, an opera composed by Richard
Danielpour and commissioned by the Michigan Opera
Theatre, the Cincinnati Opera and the Opera Company of
Philadelphia in 2005. By recounting Garner’s tale in
conjunction with the story behind this “black” opera and
the harsh Washington upbringing of its mezzo soprano,
Denyce Graves, the film Margaret Garner re-examines a
tragic historical moment while addressing race issues that
are still prevalent today. In French with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV95805 $29.95
Mustapha Hasnaoui, France, 2006, 52 mins.
MEXICO, THE FROZEN REVOLUTION
The most celebrated and controversial film by Argentine
documentary filmmaker Raymundo Gleyzer, who
founded the “third cinema” movement Cine de la Base
and was disappeared by Argentina’s military dictatorship
in 1976. Mexico: The Frozen Revolution is a socio-
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political analysis of the betrayal of the 1910 Mexican
Revolution. The director uses rare newsreel footage of
Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata in conjunction with
footage of the Tlatelolco massacre at the 1968 Olympic
Games in Argentina to comment on the failure of
revolution in his own time. A Special Prize-winner at the
1971 Locarno International Film Festival. In Spanish with
English subtitles.
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rough terrain, occupied by ruthless German soldiers,
desperate deserters, and dangerous gangs seeking easy
money. Starring acclaimed actors Kazimierz Opalinski
(Eroica) and Adam Paslikowski (Ashes and Diamonds),
Road to the West is a taut period drama from director
Bohdan Poreba, known for his historical epics based on
Poland’s past. In Polish with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV96126 $29.95
Includes director and cast biographies.
Raymundo Gleyzer, Mexico, 1971, 65 mins.
Bohdan Poreba, Poland, 1960, 79 mins.
THE OLD FAIRY TALE: WHEN THE SUN WAS GOD
Polish filmmaker Jerzy Hoffman followed With Fire and
Sword with another epic historical adventure. The Old
Fairy Tale, or Stara Basn, features a cast of renowned
Polish stars, including Daniel Olbrychski (The
Decalogue), Jerzy Trela (Three Colors: White), and Michal
Zebrowksi (The Pianist). Based on a novel by Jozef
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Ignacy Kraszewski, the complex narrative was culled
from ninth-century legends of Slavic tribes that existed
long before the Polish state was formed. In Polish with
English subtitles.
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DVD: DV95899 $24.95 Letterboxed.
Jerzy Hoffman, Poland, 2003, 135 mins.
NEW!
SCHINDLER’S HOUSES
Heinz Emigholz, the premier purveyor of architectural
oddities (D’Annunzio’s Cave; Goff in the Desert), offers a
stunning portrait of urban Los Angeles through the
houses of Austrian-American architect Rudolph
Schindler. Using no voiceover, archival photos, or other
conventions of standard documentaries, the film presents
beautifully composed shots of 40 of Schindler’s houses
in the order in which they were built. Emigholz’s style is
formal and subtle, but the cumulative effect is a
provocative meditation on Schindler’s ideas regarding
architecture and environment. “I would happily rank
Schindler’s Houses on the short list of essential modern
movies about our city’s physical and social geography”
(Scott Foundas, LA Weekly). Part of Emigholz’s
“Photography and Beyond” series. In German or English
with optional English subtitles.
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DVD: DV96174 $29.95 Includes 40 minutes of additional
footage and original press kit.
THE PROTEST
This fascinating film by Massoud Kimiayi, one of the few
active filmmakers from Iran’s pre-revolutionary period,
shows the personal effect on one man of the country’s
societal reforms. Amir (Dariush Arjmand) serves 12 years
in prison for killing his brother’s unfaithful fiancee—an
act he considers necessary to restore the family’s honor.
In jail he is treated as a hero, but upon his release Amir
finds that his country has changed considerably and his
murder is now considered barbaric. “Long time screen
presence Arjmand builds a subtle portrait of an alienated,
prematurely old man” (Robert Koehler, Variety). In Farsi
with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV96125 $29.95 Includes director biography and
photo gallery.
Heinz Emigholz, Germany, 2007, 99 mins.
SEVEN SONGS FROM THE TUNDRA
Filmmaker Anastasia Lapsui, a Nenet who hails from the
Russian tundra, has combined the legends of her
indigenous people with personal experiences in order to
convey life under Communist rule. Unfolding in seven
separate stories, 7 Songs from the Tundra (Seitseman
Laulua Tundralta) offers an impressionist view of an
ancient culture caught between nomadic traditions and
enforced modernity. Behind the film’s mythic allusions is
a story of identity and resistance. “It’s the small details
of Nenet life, captured in grainy B&W images, that
fascinate in this strangely beautiful film” Variety. Winner
of the Press Award at the Paris Film Festival. In Nenets
and Russian with optional English and French subtitles.
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DVD: DV95783 $29.95 Letterboxed. Includes About the
Nenets, an interview with Dominique Samson and
Normand de Chambourg, experts on the peoples of
Northwestern Siberia
Massoud Kimiayi, Iran, 2000, 102 mins.
Anastasia Lapsui/Markku Lehmuskallio, Finland, 2001,
85 mins.
NEW!
THE TRAITORS
Los Traidores is the only fiction work by Argentine
documentary filmmaker Raymundo Gleyzer, who founded
the revolutionary film collective Cine de la Base. The film
is a compelling political thriller about the life of a trade
union militant who is gradually corrupted by union
bureaucracy during the Peronist movement. “...genuinely
informative...a gracefully made film” (Time Out London).
In Spanish with English subtitles.
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ROAD TO THE WEST
NEW!
ROAD TO THE WEST (DROGA NA ZACHOD)
During the last days of WWII, an old railroad worker and
his assistant guide a train loaded with explosives to the
Western front. The journey is a perilous trek through
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DVD: DV96128 $29.95 Includes two short films by
Gleyzer: Pottery Makers (1965, 25 mins.) and Our
Malvinas Islands (1966, 25 mins.).
Raymundo Gleyzer, Argentina, 1973, 105 mins.
VIRUS
Or as they say in Poland, Wirus. This suspenseful story
follows a computer virus that’s eating its way through
Warsaw, and features Polish action stars Olaf
Lubaszenko, Jan Englert, and Cezary Pazura. After the
computer networks of a major bank and hospital are
compromised, Michal, a young hacker, is hired to combat
the virus before it completely cripples the institutions. As
he digs deeper into the code, he comes to believe his
brother, Stefan, might be the cyber terrorist. Michal’s
crush on the foxy bank manager isn’t helping either.
Wirus came a year after the wave of hacker movies (The
Net, Hackers, etc.) swept through the States. In Polish
with English subtitles.
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Jan Kidawa-Blonski, Poland, 1996, 97 mins.
BRITISH CINEMA
ALPHA MALE
Led by Danny Huston and Jennifer Ehle, this solid British
drama watches an upper-class English family fray after
the death of its great, warm patriarch, Jim (Huston).
Moving back and forth in time, Alpha Male shows him as
overbearing, yet tender with wife Alice (Ehle) and children
Jack (Mark Wells) and Elyssa (Amelia Warner). When the
film flashes forward to the time of Jack’s 21th birthday,
we find Alice remarried, Elyssa dejected, and all with
hidden resentments bubbling forth.
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DVD: DV95953 $27.98 Letterboxed. Closed-captioned.
Includes trailer.
Dan Wilde, Great Britain, 2006, 100 mins.
INTERNATIONAL CINEMA
NEW!
AVIDA
“Somewhere between Monty Python, Jacques Tati and a
slideshow of New Yorker cartoons” (Variety) lies this
surreal, black-and-white comedy from French
filmmakers Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern (Aaltra).
They also appear as two would-be kidnappers, whose
plan to snatch an obese wealthy woman’s dog unravels
when they are enlisted to assist her, Avida (Velvet
D’Amour), in her own death. Featuring Eric Martin, Claude
Chabrol, Fernando Arrabal, Mathieu Kassovitz, and JeanClaude Carriere. An Official Selection at Cannes. In
French, Spanish, and English with English subtitles.
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Benoit Delepine/Gustave Kervern, France, 2006, 83 mins.
BAMAKO
“The most politically urgent film in the 2006 NY Film
Festival combines a bracing indictment of the world
financial system with a subtle glimpse at daily life in
Africa” (A.O. Scott, The New York Times ). Directed by
Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako (Waiting
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for Happiness), Bamako’s experimental narrative veers
between the story of a young nightclub singer (Aissa
Maiga) and her boyfriend (Tiecoura Traore) on the verge
of a break-up, and scenes of a court case against the
IMF and World Bank being held in the courtyard of their
apartment complex. In French and Bambara with
English subtitles.
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richness of dramatic tales at once emotional and
elemental” (Time Out ). With Margarita Lozano, Omero
Antonutti, and Claudio Bigagli. In Italian with English
subtitles.
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DVD: DV93683 $26.98 Letterboxed (1.78:1). Digitally
restored and remastered. Includes trailer gallery.
Abderrahmane Sissako, Mali/France/USA, 2006, 118 mins.
MAFIOSO
Paolo Taviani/Vittorio Taviani, Italy, 1984, 182 mins.
This crime comedy from Alberto Lattuada (Il Bandito)
follows an upstanding Milan factory foreman (Alberto
Sordi) as he takes his wife (Norma Bengell) and children
on a vacation to his hometown in rural Sicily. The trip
from modernity back to his roots showcases the
director’s early flair for theatricality, which gives way to
the influence of neorealism as the family approaches the
village. There, he discovers some harsh realities about
his ancestors and their livelihoods. “At once a giddy
mixture of farce, satire and opera buffa and a closely
observed drama of social dislocation and cultural
confusion” (A.O. Scott, New York Times). In Italian with
English subtitles.
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DVD: DV93642 $29.95 Criterion Collection edition.
Letterboxed (1.85:1). Newly restored hi-def digital
transfer. Includes a 1996 interview with Lattuada by
filmmaker Daniele Luchetti; video interviews with
director’s son, Alessandro, and wife, Carla; Italian and
U.S. theatrical trailer; stills gallery of promotional
caricatures by artist Keiko Kimura; new and improved
English subtitle translation; and a booklet with new
essays by Phillip Lopate and Roberto Chiesi, and a 1982
interview with Lattuada.
ECLIPSE SERIES 9:
THE DELIRIOUS FICTIONS OF WILLIAM KLEIN
American-born, Paris-based independent filmmaker and
photographer William Klein is best known for his 1969
documentary Muhammad Ali the Greatest, but his
challenging fiction films rival la creme of the New Wave.
This set includes his first feature, Who Are You, Polly
Magoo? (Qui etes-vous, Polly Maggoo?, 1966, 101 mins.),
set in the world of high fashion and based on Klein’s time
spent as a photographer for Vogue, Mr. Freedom (1969,
92 mins.), an allegory of U.S. imperialism, and The Modern
Couple (Le Couple Temoin, 1977, 101 mins.), a comedy
about middle-class complacency that features Andre
Dussollier, Anemone, and Eddie Constantine (Alphaville).
In French with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV93643 $44.95 Eclipse from The Criterion
Collection. 3-DVD set. Letterboxed (1.66:1).
William Klein, France, 1966-1977, 293 mins.
FIORILE (WILD FLOWER)
In the orange groves of Italy, the Benedetti family
preserves their time-honored ways, including the curse
that has followed them for generations. In this
provocative tale, greed, lust, romance, and forbidden love
stalk the unsuspecting members of this clan in a warmly
nostalgic look at the process of history. “A sweeping and
sensuous fable...combines a confident narrative drive
with visual style that drinks in the beauty of the rolling
Tuscan landscape” (The New York Times). Nominated for
the Palme d’Or at Cannes. In Italian with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV93684 $26.98 Letterboxed (1.85:1). Digitally
restored and remastered. Includes 55-minute featurette
“The Boys from San Miniato: Meeting with Paolo and
Vittorio Taviani,” trailers, and more.
Alberto Lattuada, Italy, 1962, 102 mins.
Rolf de Heer, Australia, 1996, 93 mins.
DOCUMENTARIES
ANTONIO GAUDI
Compelling portrait of Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926), the
leading proponent of the Art Nouveau movement in
architecture in Spain, whose distinctive style is marked
by a fluidity of movement, rich color, and sensuality of
form and texture. Teshigahara’s camera examines
buildings designed by Gaudi, including Casa Vicens, Crypt
of the Colonia Guell and Park Guell, Casa Batlo, Casa Mila,
and Barcelona’s unfinished landmark, Templo de la
Sagrada Familia. “A visual symphony” (The Chicago
Tribune). In Japanese with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV63200 $39.95 2-DVD Criterion Collection edition.
Newly restored hi-def digital transfer. Includes video
interview with architect Arata Isozaki; Gaudi, Catalunya
1959, a short film by Hiroshi Teshigahara; Monitor: Antonio
Gaudi (1961), a short film essay by director Ken Russell;
VITA, a short film by Teshigahara on the sculpture work of
his father, Sofu; original theatrical trailer; improved English
subtitle translation; and a booklet featuring a new essay
by art historian Dore Ashton.
DIVA DOLOROSA
HALF MOON
NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS
HALF MOON (NIWEMANG)
This magical film by the Taviani Brothers is set on the night
of the Feast of St. Lawrence during the last days of World
War II. A woman recalls her beloved and an evening years
ago when, on another such night, a group of peasants fled
through the Tuscan countryside amid exploding shells
lighting up the sky instead of stars. The film is a beautiful
tapestry of fact, myth, and wartime memory, romantic and
intense. Winner of the Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes
and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best
Director. In Italian with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV70808 $26.98 Letterboxed (1.78:1). Digitally
restored and remastered. Includes 84-minute interview
“Talking about Cinema: Taviani Brothers,” trailer gallery,
and more.
From Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi (A Time for
Drunken Horses; Turtles Can Fly) comes this “fateful and
funny, haunting and magical” (New York Times) road
movie about a Kurdish musician (Ismail Ghaffari) who
travels with his sons from Iran to Iraq to perform for the
first time after the fall of Saddam. Like Syndromes and a
Century, Half Moon was commissioned by the New
Crowned Hope Festival. In Kurdish and Persian with
English subtitles.
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Bahman Ghobadi, Iraq/Iran, 2006, 107 mins.
KAOS
The Taviani Brothers adapted five short stories by Luigi
Pirandello to capture the Sicilian landscape “harboring a
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A unique exploration into the inner thoughts of a sevenyear-old girl. It is a world in which she has very little
control, for her parents’ marriage is disintegrating.
Through her silence, the child attempts to influence her
parents’ behavior and force them to communicate
properly with each other and with her. With the marriage
speeding toward total collapse, the child finds ways to
make her actions speak even louder and finds the means
to reconcile herself with the world.
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Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan, 1984, 72 mins.
Paolo Taviani/Vittorio Taviani, Italy, 1993, 105 mins.
NEW!
THE QUIET ROOM
Paolo Taviani/Vittorio Taviani, Italy, 1982, 103 mins.
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Dutch found-footage filmmaker Peter Delpeut (Lyrical
Nitrate) creates a collage of silent French and Italian
melodramas in this experimental documentary devoted
to opera and silent film heroines from a bygone era.
Featuring rare excerpts from La Donna Nuda,
Carnivalesca, Rapsodia Satanica, Tigre Reale, and other
films from 1913-1920, overwrought screen divas like
Lyda Borelli and Pina Menichelli are celebrated and
recontextualized, accompanied by a new orchestral score
by Loek Dikker. “A rhapsodic, heart-rendingly scored tone
poem about fin-de-siecle Black Romanticism...Anyone
with a weakness for the naked tragedy of frozen
cinematic time will plotz and them some” (Michael
Atkinson, The Village Voice). Dutch and Italian intertitles
with optional English subtitles.
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Includes essay by film scholar Angela Dalle Vacche,
director statement, and photo gallery.
Peter Delpeut, Netherlands, 1999, 70 mins.
LAKE OF FIRE
Seventeen years in the making, this mammoth
documentary from director Tony Kaye (American History
X) explores both sides of the abortion debate. Filmed in
black and white, Lake of Fire shares screen time with
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Sex Films). In Japanese with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV96267 $29.95 Letterboxed (2.35:1). Unrated.
Includes interview with lead actress Yuriko Hishimi,
interview with author J-Taro Sugisaku, commentary by
Sugisaku and cult director Takao Nakano, and liner notes
on the film’s history.
those on the far right (religious fundamentalists, Pat
Buchanan), left (feminists, Noam Chomsky), and in the
center of this hot-button issue, remaining strongly
impartial throughout. Nonetheless, Kaye’s film will
provoke you as it moves from interviews with survivors
of a clinic gun battle to footage of the aftermath of an
illegal abortion. “This is a brave, unflinching, sometimes
virtually unwatchable documentary that makes such an
effective case for both pro-choice and pro-life” (Roger
Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times).
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Teruo Ishii, Japan, 1973, 81 mins.
Sergio Grieco, Italy, 1977, 95 mins.
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Tony Kaye, USA, 2006, 152 mins.
WAR/DANCE
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary
in 2007, War Dance shares the inspiring story of three
orphaned children living in the Patongo refugee camp in
northern Uganda. Though the atrocities inflicted by rebels
have cast a shadow over the country for two decades,
the children are able to put aside their devastating
memories. At Patongo, they practice for a national music
and dance competition to be held in the nation’s capital.
Their joy when in song and moving to primal rhythms—
even if temporary—is infectious. “Visually ravishing”
(Stephen Holden, New York Times). In English and Acholi
with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV96141 $27.98 Letterboxed. Closed-captioned.
Includes deleted and extended scenes and trailer gallery.
BOHACHI BUSHIDO: CODE
OF THE FORGOTTEN EIGHT
THE DEL TENNEY COLLECTION
A Del Tenney triple feature. It kicks off with The Horror of
Party Beach (1964, 71 mins.), a drive-in classic about a
sea monster who wreaks havoc on bikini-clad teeny
boppers twisting on the beach. The Curse of the Living
Corpse (1963, 83 mins.) is a chilling, supernatural tale
about the uncovering of a dead man’s will. In the
document, Rufus Sinclair warns that he’ll come back to
life and make each of his heirs die a horrific death if they
don’t obey his wishes. Lastly, Violent Midnight (1963, 90
mins.), produced by Del Tenney and directed by Richard
Hilliard, is a stark and vicious B-thriller that’s sometimes
referred to as Psychomania. Lee Philips stars as Korean
War veteran-turned-painter Elliot Freeman, who’s
suspected of murder when one of his models (Kaye
Elhardt) turns up dead. With the help of his lawyer
(Sheppard Strudwick), Freeman sets out to clear his good
name. With Sylvia Miles, and Dick Van Patten.
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DVD: DV96103 $24.98 2-DVD set. Letterboxed. Includes
commentary tracks with Del Tenney, interview with
Tenney, photo gallery, trailers, English subtitles, and more.
Sean Fine/Andrea Nix, USA, 2007, 107 mins.
NEW!
WHO IS HENRY JAGLOM?
The director of Eating, Someone to Love, BabyFever,
Tracks and Last Summer in the Hamptons is the subject
of this irreverent documentary. With Orson Welles,
Candice Bergen, Louis Malle, Dennis Hopper, and Karen
Black. “A film that even Jaglom haters can love!” (New
York Post).
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DVD: DV96274 $24.95 Includes the bonus film Who Isn’t
Henry Jaglom? (2007, 32 mins.), in which Jaglom looks
back at the film.
Alex Rubin/Jeremy Workman, USA, 1997, 52 mins.
Del Tenney/Richard Hilliard, USA, 1963-1964, 255 mins.
CULT CINEMA
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LA SORELLA DI URSULA
(THE SISTER OF URSULA)
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BOHACHI BUSHIDO:
CODE OF THE FORGOTTEN EIGHT
Enzo Milioni, Italy, 1978, 95 mins.
NEW!
MAD DOG KILLER (BEAST WITH A GUN)
A murderous psychopath escapes from prison with three
violent thugs, intent on getting back at the police
inspector who sent him there. His brutal treatment of
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VIOLENT CITY
Charles Bronson co-stars with his wife Jill Ireland and
Telly Savalas in this action film whose many
screenwriters included Lina Wertmuller. Bronson plays a
hitman who takes revenge on the assassin who targeted
him in a double-cross. A powerful crime boss (Savalas)
decides this rogue gunman will have to join his
organization...or die. Also known as The Family, this
feature was cut by several minutes for its American
release. This is the complete, uncut version, using
restored scenes in Italian that were never dubbed in
English. Those scenes are presented with English
subtitles. Music by Ennio Morricone.
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DVD: DV68831 $14.95 Letterboxed. Closed-captioned.
Includes interview with Sergio Sollima, theatrical trailer,
poster and still gallery, talent bios. English (except
restored scenes), French and Italian audio options.
Sergio Sollima, Italy/France, 1970, 109 mins.
AMERICAN CINEMA
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD
Late in the game, Sidney Lumet delivered this nonlinear,
intellectual thriller marked by its formal precision, some
family drama befitting Greek tragedy, and expert
performances from Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke,
Marisa Tomei, and Albert Finney. Two brothers (Hoffman
and Hawke) conspire to rob their parents’ suburban jewelry
store, but the job goes horribly wrong, sending their lives
cascading towards disaster. “Lumet hasn’t lost one beat in
50 years” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). Nominated
for two Independent Spirit Awards.
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Letterboxed. Closed-captioned. Includes making-of
featurette with cast and crew interviews, director and
cast commentary, trailer, and more.
Sidney Lumet, USA, 2007, 117 mins.
Two sisters, Dagmar and Ursula, check into a luxurious
resort on the coast of Italy only to be terrorized by a
brutal, perverted killer. The twist? The killer stabs his
victims with a giant phallus. Graphic violence and sleazy
sex abound in this Italian thriller. In Italian with optional
English subtitles.
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DVD: DV72687 $29.95 Letterboxed. Includes interview
with director Enzo Milioni and theatrical trailer.
Like most pinky violence flicks, this entry in the eightfilm Joys of Torture series by Teruo Ishii goes by many
names: Porno Samurai Theater: Bohachi Code of Honor,
Porno Jidai-Geki, and Clan of the Forgotten Eight. It’s a
stylish, well-made softcore period film about a band of
brutish samurai who collect comely women for
enslavement in Edo’s sex trade. However, one such
swordsman, played by Tetsuro Tamba, revolts against the
corrupt shogunate, and many a limb is hacked off in his
wake. “Ishii’s cold, no-nonsense approach to sadistic
behavior makes these movies seem all the more
aberrant; in fact, these projects became known as EroGro (Erotic Grotesque) to describe the most perverse of
the S&M genre” (Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The
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lovely Marisa Mell is just the start of the rough stuff in
this ultra-violent crime film. Helmut Berger, best known
from Visconti’s The Damned and Ludwig, has a field day
as the crazed killer. Quentin Tarantino used clips from
this film in Jackie Brown. Also released as Beast with a
Gun and Street Killers. Dubbed in English.
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THE ICE STORM
Kevin Kline, Joan Allen and Sigourney Weaver turn in
stellar performances as members of two dysfunctional
families learning to cope with the unyielding forces of
nature and human nature in this emotionally charged tale
of suburban life in the ‘70s. When a self-centered
husband’s relationships with his wife and mistress grow
cold, it takes a wife-swapping “key party” and a freak
ice storm to clear the air and change their lives. With
Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, Adam Hann-Byrd, Tobey
Maguire and Jamey Sheridan.
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DVD: DV93644 $39.95 2-DVD Criterion Collection
edition. Letterboxed (1.85:1). Newly restored hi-def
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digital transfer, supervised and approved by Lee. Includes
audio commentary featuring Lee and producerscreenwriter James Schamus; new documentary
featuring interviews with actors Allen, Kline, Ricci, and
Wood; new video interview with novelist Rick Moody;
deleted scenes; footage from event honoring Lee and
Schamus at the Museum of the Moving Image;
production designs and sketches, with commentary by
the designers; theatrical trailer; and booklet with essay
by film critic Bill Krohn.
Ang Lee, USA, 1997, 113 mins.
NEW!
THE LIVING END
Gregg Araki’s breakthrough $20,000 feature is a
reworking of Godard’s Breathless, with a blunt, gay
veneer. The film is about two young men, a film critic and
a narcissistic drifter, both of them HIV-positive, who
undertake a mythic road journey after one kills a police
officer. “It has the power of honesty and originality” (The
New York Times). With Mike Dytri, Craig Gilmore, and
Mark Finch.
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DVD: DV93714 $27.99 Remastered. Unrated.
SWEENEY TODD:
THE DEMON BARBER
OF FLEET STREET
Gregg Araki, USA, 1992, 92 mins.
NEW!
THE LOW LIFE
This bittersweet, subtle and honest Generation X comedy
manages to capture both the absurd despair and humor
of the era’s entropic youth. The group of struggling Yale
grads at the center of The Low Life are played by Kyra
Sedgwick, Rory Cochrane, Sean Astin, Ron Livingston, J.T.
Walsh, and Renee Zellweger. “There are moments when
The Low Life suggests The Day of the Locust for the
slacker generation. Behind the movie’s wryly observant
surface, you can sense the characters’ pounding
desperation” (Stephen Holden, The New York Times).
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DVD: DV96257 $19.95 10th Anniversary Edition. Special
Director’s Cut. Letterboxed.
Letterboxed. Closed-captioned. Includes 5.1 sound,
behind-the-scenes footage, featurettes on the real
history of the Demon Barber, Sondheim’s musical,
Sweeney’s London, Grand Guignol, designs, as well as a
conversation with Tim Burton, and more.
Tim Burton, USA/Great Britain, 2007, 117 mins.
TRIGGER MAN
From director Ti West (The Roost) comes this barebones,
methodical, and purposefully excruciating horror-thriller
about three friends who head to the woods for a hunting
trip and have the tables irrevocably (and senselessly)
turned on them by a lone sniper. In real time, nonetheless!
“Devised for minimum fuss and maximum tension” (New
York Times). Starring Reggie Cunningham, Ray Sullivan,
and Sean Reid as Reggie, Ray, and Sean.
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DVD: DV93618 $24.95 Letterboxed. Includes
commentary from director West, sound designer Graham
Reznick and cast, videotaped Q&A from the Los Angeles
Film Festival, theatrical trailer, 5.1 sound, and more.
George Hickenlooper, USA, 1996, 96 mins.
NEW!
SWEENEY TODD:
THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
Tim Burton is known for directing exaggeratedly dark
films, but this movie musical based on Stephen
Sondheim’s dissonant Broadway production overshadows
them all. Johnny Depp plays the titular barber, who returns
to mid-19th century London from Australia to exact his
revenge on the man who had him imprisoned. Todd sets
up shop above Mrs. Lovett’s (Helena Bonham Carter) meat
pie parlor and waits with sharpened blade for his prey.
Even considering Burton’s expressionist bent and the
nuanced delivery of the vocal performances, Sweeney
Todd is decidedly untheatrical. And with the exception of
a throwaway subplot about young love, the only imagery
that cuts through the bleakness of Todd’s world is the
excessive, Hammer-esque blood that flows from his
customers’ necks...before they plummet to the meat
locker below for a proper mincing. An Oscar Nominee for
best actor (Depp), costume design (Colleen Atwood), and
art direction.
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Ti West, USA, 2007, 80 mins.
GAY/LESBIAN CINEMA
CINEMA CLASSICS
THE DRAGON PAINTER
In this long-lost silent classic, Japanese-American star
Sessue Hayakawa (The Bridge on the River Kwai) plays a
mad, but gifted painter living in the mountains of Japan.
Hayakawa’s real-life wife, Tsuru Aoki, plays his muse,
who must lure him back to civilization. “The Dragon
Painter was one of the first films to present a Japanese
aesthetic to an American audience” (Stephen Gong,
Pacific Film Archive). Based on a novel by Mary McNeil
Fenollosa. Beautifully filmed in Yosemite Valley. Silent
with a new music score by composer Mark Izu.
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DVD: DV93623 $29.95 Deluxe Edition. Restored by the
George Eastman House from a rediscovered French
distribution print. Includes the full-length feature The
Wrath of the Gods (Thomas Ince, 1914, 60 mins.) with
Sessue Hayakawa, original script from The Wrath of the
Gods, 1921 comedy short Screen Snapshots (5 mins.)
with Hayakawa and Fatty Arbuckle, stills gallery, and a
DVD-ROM with an essay on “Hollywood’s First Asian Film
Cycle” by film historian Brian Taves, Mary Mcneil
Fenollosa’s novel The Dragon Painter, and more.
William Worthington, USA, 1919, 53 mins.
TONGUES UNTIED
The late Marlon Riggs was internationally acclaimed for
such groundbreaking films as Color Adjustment. Poetry,
personal testimony, rap, performance, and dance are
combined in this singular exploration of the racism and
homophobia that black men face daily. Broadcast on the
PBS series P.O.V., its beauty and power generated
outrage from right-wing politicians. Even so, it remains
unmatched for its eloquence.
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Marlon Riggs, USA, 1989, 55 mins.
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GEORGES MELIES:
FIRST WIZARD OF CINEMA (1896-1913)
This exhaustive collection includes nearly all the surviving
films of French inventor, machinist, stage designer, and
illusionist Georges Melies, who in 1896, became a motion
picture pioneer, laying the groundwork for the modern
fantasy genre. Quickly moving beyond street actualities,
Melies started experimenting with trick photography and
in-camera effects, giving his films a magical quality.
Fantasy shorts like A Trip to the Moon wowed audiences
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for years, but changing tastes led to his financial ruin in
the teens. First Wizard of Cinema, comprising 173 rare
and rediscovered Melies films from archival and private
holdings in eight countries, starts with one of his first
movies, Partie de Cartes (1896), and concludes with his
last, Voyage de la Famille Bourrichon (1913). Also
contained are his most famous works, including The
Impossible Voyage, The Kingdom of Fairies, The Merry
Frolics of Satan, The Palace of the Arabian Nights, The
Conquest of the Pole, and yes, A Trip to the Moon. Silent
with new musical accompaniment.
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DVD: DV93689 $89.95 5-DVD set. Includes introductory
film, Le Grand Melies (Georges Franju, France, 1953, 30
mins.), and a booklet with essays by Norman McLaren
and John Frazer and annotated film index.
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Georges Melies, France, 1896-1913, 782 mins.
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HOUDINI: THE MOVIE STAR
A three-DVD collection including all but one of the silent
films starring the legendary escape artist and magician,
Harry Houdini. His first true acting role came with The
Master Mystery (Burton L. King, 1919, 238 mins.), a serial
in which Houdini played a government agent whose
investigation into a corrupt patent company leads to his
capture and subsequent torture—a perfect setup for
Harry’s craft. By far his most lavish production, Terror
Island (James Cruze, 1920, 55 mins.) has Houdini piloting
a submarine to a desert island, where he swashbuckles
way to rescuing his father and flame. In The Man from
Beyond (King, 1922, 68 mins.), Artic explorers discover a
shipwreck from 1820 and a frozen sailor whom they
revive. Not much survives of The Grim Game (Irvin Willat,
1919, 5 mins.), but what does is footage of two planes
accidentally colliding in mid-air. Houdini’s last film,
Haldane of the Secret Service (Harry Houdini, 1923, 84
mins.), again has the escape artist playing an undercover
agent, this time trying to infiltrate counterfeiters in New
York’s Chinatown. Though portions of The Master of
Mystery and Terror Island are missing, the reels
presented here represent all the existing footage.
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DVD: DV93695 $39.95 3-DVD set. Includes an
examination of scenes deleted from The Master Mystery
by the New York Censor Board, correspondence with the
NY Censor Board, filmed records of Houdini escapes from
1907-1923, the illusion “Metamorphosis” performed by
Harry’s brother Hardeen, a 1914 audio recording of
Houdini introducing his “Water Torture Cell,” a short
comedy inspired by Houdini called “Slippery Jim” (1910),
image galleries, and film notes.
Burton King/James Cruze/Irvin Willat/Harry Houdini, USA,
1919-1923, 450 mins.
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CONGORAMA
MARC JACOBS AND LOUIS VUITTON
MARGARET GARNER
GUSTAVE COURBET
HOME FOR LIFE
A LITTLE BIT OF FREEDOM
SEVEN SONGS FROM THE TUNDRA
BIG BRAWL
CRIME STORIES
HOW I UNLEASHED WORLD WAR II, VOL. 3
HALF MOON
ANTONIO GAUDI
THE ICE STORM
MAFIOSO
GEORGES MELIES: FIRST WIZARD OF CINEMA
THE QUIET ROOM
THE DRAGON PAINTER
BAMAKO
LAKE OF FIRE
THE LOW LIFE
ECLIPSE SERIES 9: WILLIAM KLEIN
TRIGGER MAN
THE DEL TENNEY COLLECTION
SWEENEY TODD: DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
WHO IS HENRY JAGLOM
ALPHA MALE
TONGUES UNTIED
EUROPEAN MUSLIMS AND EASTERN CHRISTIANS
HORIZONTAL LANDSCAPE
MEXICO, THE FROZEN REVOLUTION
THE OLD FAIRY TALE: WHEN THE SUN WAS GOD
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DV96103
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DV96274
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DV93658
DV95963
DV95900
DV95964
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$29.95
$29.95
$29.95
$29.95
$29.95
$29.95
$29.95
$29.95
$24.95
$24.95
$27.99
$39.95
$39.95
$29.95
$89.95
$9.99
$29.95
$29.95
$27.98
$19.95
$44.95
$24.95
$24.98
$32.99
$24.95
$27.98
$24.99
$29.95
$29.95
$29.95
$24.95
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DV96127
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DV96125
DV96128
DV96126
DV96129
DV96130
DV93714
$24.95
$29.95
$14.95
$14.95
$29.95
$29.99
$26.98
$26.98
$26.98
$26.98
$39.95
$27.98
$27.98
$29.95
$29.95
$29.95
$29.95
$29.95
$29.95
$29.95
$24.95
$24.95
$27.99
1-800-888-0775
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