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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.
ALL MY GOOD COUNTRYMEN
One of the wonders of the Czech New Wave, All My Good
Countrymen is also one of the least-known films from
this miraculous era of Czech filmmaking. The reason is
obvious: completed barely before the Soviet invasion of
Czechoslovakia in 1968, it was immediately banned and
never shown. Despite this, the film won the Special Jury
Prize of the Cannes Film Festival, and stylistically is a
work of great lyricism, humor and originality. It weaves
magical—and very funny—stories about a group of
characters in a small Moravian village, immediately
following the socialization of Czechoslovakia in 1948.
“The film and the milieu it so precisely evokes are not so
much nostalgic as they are powerfully remembered and
irrevocably lost....All My Good Countrymen reflects the
curdled fury of a former true believer” (J. Hoberman, The
Village Voice). In Czech with English subtitles.
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Includes Facets Cine-Notes booklet.
Philippe Falardeau, Canada/Belgium/France, 2006,
105 mins.
CRIME STORIES (LAWSTORANT)
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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Vojtech Jasny, Czechoslovakia, 1968, 114 mins.
HORIZONTAL
LANDSCAPE
Mikolaj Haremski, Poland, 2004, 104 mins.
EUROPEAN MUSLIMS AND EASTERN CHRISTIANS:
THE BROKEN MIRRORS
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.
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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Includes cast and diretor biographies.
Jacques Debs, France, 2006, 133 mins.
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
Jan Lomnicki, Poland, 1992, 98 mins.
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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.
Romain Goupil, France, 2007, 108 mins.
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
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.
Gordon Quinn/Gerald Temaner, USA, 1966, 80 mins.
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.
Janusz Kidawa, Poland, 1978, 86 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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Tadeusz Chmielewski, Poland, 1970, 73 mins.
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A LITTLE BIT OF FREEDOM (KLEINE FREIHEIT)
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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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 Ophuls Festival. In German,
Kurdish and Turkish with English subtitles.
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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 sociopolitical 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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Yuksel Yavuz, Germany, 2003, 97 mins.
MARC JACOBS AND LOUIS VUITTON
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.
Raymundo Gleyzer, Mexico, 1971, 65 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
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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Loic Prigent, France, 2007, 82 mins.
Jerzy Hoffman, Poland, 2003, 135 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
MARGARET GARNER
MARGARET GARNER
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
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Anastasia Lapsui/Markku Lehmuskallio, Finland, 2001,
85 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
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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
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” (The New York Times ). Directed by Mauritanian
filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako (Waiting 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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Abderrahmane Sissako, Mali/France/USA, 2006, 118 mins.
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? (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 (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.
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LIFE IS A BED OF ROSES (LA VIE EST UN ROMAN)
FIORILE (WILD FLOWER)
Alain Resnais pays tribute to three influential French
filmmakers—Georges Melies, Marcel L’Herbier, and Eric
Rohmer—with this lighthearted film about happiness and
the power of the imagination. Set in a chateau that was
dedicated to happiness in the 1920s and has since
become a progressive school, the film weaves together
three stories that shift between the past, present, and
the imagined, creating a compelling and entertaining
mixture of drama, satire, comedy, fantasy, and music. In
French with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV70873 $29.95 Letterboxed (1.66:1). Includes
original theatrical trailer and a making-of documentary.
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....” (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.
Alain Resnais, France, 1983, 110 mins.
Paolo Taviani/Vittorio Taviani, Italy, 1993, 105 mins.
I WANT TO GO HOME
(JE VEUX RENTRER A LA MAISON)
Alberto Lattuada, Italy, 1962, 102 mins.
French director Alain Resnais paired with American writer
Jules Feiffer (Carnal Knowledge ) for this satire of French
and Yankee culture. An American cartoonist (Adolph
Green) travels to Paris to attend a comic-strip exhibition,
but the trip is actually an excuse for him to reconcile with
his estranged daughter, a student at the Sorbonne.
Experiencing immense culture shock, the American
wants to go home until he meets his daughter’s professor
(Gerard Depardieu). A fan of the cartoonist’s work, the
professor invites them all to his mother’s country house
where hilarity results. Also stars Linda Lavin and Laura
Benson. In French with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV93663 $29.95 Letterboxed (1.66:1). Includes
original theatrical trailer and interview with producer
Marin Karmitz.
MELO
Adapted from a 1929 play by Henry Bernstein, Melo
marked the first time that director Alain Resnais had ever
handled his own screenplay. The film tells the story of
two lifelong friends and violinists, Marcel and Pierre.
When Marcel goes on to stardom, Pierre settles into a
contented family life unaware that his wife is sleeping
with Marcel. Plagued by guilt, Pierre’s wife eventually
takes deadly measures to end the affair. “An
incomparable masterpiece” (Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader). In French with English subtitles.
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Marin Karmitz.
Alain Resnais, France/Italy, 1989, 101 mins.
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Five adapted short stories by Luigi Pirandello to capture
the Sicilian landscape “harboring a 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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LOVE UNTO DEATH (L’AMOUR A MORT)
Acclaimed director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima Mon Amour)
explores themes of love and death in this bleak and
anguishing drama. Pierre Arditi and Sabina Azema (both
of La Vie Est un Roman) star as Simon and Elizabeth, an
affectionate couple that lives happily in love until Simon
experiences a sudden and seemingly fatal seizure. When
he revives miraculously, Simon grows increasingly
obsessed with his brush with death until another seizure
ends his life. Resnais dresses his lead actors in symbolic
colors and uses musical interludes (by Hans Werner
Henze) and other formal devices to press his
philosophical themes. The result is an underrated
accomplishment from one of cinema’s most talented
directors. In French with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV93662 $29.95 Letterboxed (2.35:1). Includes
original theatrical trailer and an interview with producer
Marin Karmitz.
Paolo Taviani/Vittorio Taviani, Italy, 1984, 182 mins.
KHADAK
“Beautiful and mysterious” (New York Magazine ), Khadak
is a Fellini-esque fable set against the frozen steppes of
Mongolia and featuring a cast of non-professionals. Bagi,
a young nomadic shepherd, is told by a shaman that he
possesses a powerful inner eye. Before long, a plague
strikes their village, and officials relocate his family to a
nasty mining town. There, his world is depicted as an
eerie dreamscape, composed of Soviet-era barracks,
massive industrial mines, and a sacred tree. When he
reluctantly embraces his inner voice, it leads him to
Zolzaya, a beautiful and rebellious coal thief. Learning
the plague was fabricated, together they start a
revolution. Winner of the Luigi De Laurentiis Award at the
Venice Film Festival. In Mongolian with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV93633 $24.98 Letterboxed. Includes making-of
featurette, theatrical trailer, and slideshow.
Alain Resnais, France, 1984, 92 mins.
MAFIOSO
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
Peter Brosens/ Jessica Hope Woodworth, Belgium/
Germany/Netherlands, 2006, 85 mins.
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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.
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France,
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MY BEAUTIFUL JINJIIMAA
A tragic love story set against the Mongolian steppes. Six
years ago, Jin Jii-Maa, a deaf woman, was raped by a
local official. Though she shot him in self-defense, her
male friend Sukhee had bravely taken the blame for her
crime. This hopeful film begins upon his release from
prison, returning to his beautiful Jin Jii-Maa. In Mongolian
with English subtitles.
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Ochir Mashbat, Mongolia, 2006, 80 mins.
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NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS
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.
Paolo Taviani/Vittorio Taviani, Italy, 1982, 103 mins.
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Dragons. So a stay-at-home dad named Skip becomes
Bannor of Laconia and physically leads his forces against
Keldar of Mordom, a mere office worker. It’s not a big deal,
but it makes for fascinating subcultural documentary.
Audience Award Winner at SXSW Film Festival.
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DVD: DV96020 $26.98 Letterboxed. Includes directors’
commentary, commentary by Bannor and Keldar,
outtakes, deleted scenes, and original theatrical trailer.
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SOPHIA LOREN CLASSICS (TWO WOMEN /
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW)
Two of Sophia Loren’s finest performances, both directed
by neorealist progenitor Vittorio De Sica. Loren won an
Academy Award for her portrayal of a mother ravaged by
war in Two Women (1961, 99 mins.). In this heartwrenching film, she and her 13-year old daughter
become the focus of attack by retreating German
soldiers. In the Oscar-winning Yesterday, Today, and
Tomorrow (1964, 119 mins.), Loren stars alongside
Marcello Mastroianni star in three different comic stories.
She is great as the skilled temptress who uses sex to get
what she wants, and her striptease remains a steamy,
unforgettable film achievement. Dubbed in English.
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Luke Meyer/Andrew Neel, USA, 2006, 90 mins.
DIVA DOLOROSA
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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DVD: DV93657 $29.99 Includes essay by film scholar
Angela Dalle Vacche, director statement, and photo gallery.
Vittorio De Sica, Italy, 1961/1964, 218 min.
SOPIA LOREN CLASSICS:
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
Peter Delpeut, Netherlands, 1999, 70 mins.
NEW!
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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Includes deleted and extended scenes and trailer gallery.
Sean Fine/Andrea Nix, USA, 2007, 107 mins.
DOCUMENTARIES
FEAST OF DEATH:
THE DARK PLACES OF JAMES ELLROY
ANTONIO GAUDI
James Ellroy has emerged as one of the most prominent
figures on the current American literary scene. His
fragmentary writing style, pessimistic worldview, and
colorful biography distinguish him from the crowded field
of crime writing. This in-depth look at Ellroy’s life and
work follows the writer as he tags along with the LAPD
and examines a number of unsolved cases. The film
focuses in particular on Ellroy’s fascination with Elizabeth
Short—The Black Dahlia—whose gruesome killing bore
similarities to Ellroy’s mother’s own murder.
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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.
Vikram Jayanti, USA, 2001, 90 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
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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Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan, 1984, 72 mins.
DARKON
A touching, respectful documentary that quests to the land
of live-action role-playing (LARP). Leaving the ten-sided
die in basement, hundreds of weekend warriors take to
forests, soccer fields, and campus quads with homemade
armor and foam covered medieval weapons in search of
the glory not afforded them in their nine-to-five realm.
Darkon juxtaposes players’ normal, somewhat dull lives
with their rich fantasy personas, all of which are pretty
tangible in comparison to alternate realities like Second
Life, World of Warcraft, and traditional Dungeons &
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CULT CINEMA
THE BLOODSTAINED SHADOW
A great score performed by Goblin (Susperia) highlights
this giallo horror feature from the director of Watch Me
When I Kill. A college professor returns home to visit with
his Catholic priest brother just as a series of horrible
killings occur within the community. The brothers try to
uncover the identity of the monster behind the slaughters
while also working through their own tormented
memories of an unspeakable childhood trauma. Dubbed
in English.
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DVD: DV96066 $14.95
Letterboxed (16x9). Includes interview with the director,
filmography, and theatrical trailer.
Antonio Bido, Italy, 1978, 109 mins.,
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A BLOODY ARIA
A South Korean shocker about an opera student (Cha Yeryun) who takes a trip through the countryside with her
music professor (Lee Byuong-jun). Not only is he getting
excessively touchy-feely, but a group of young toughs
starts harassing them to boot. She takes off into the
woods and comes across a state patrolman, accepting a
ride back to civilization. Bad news: his idea of civilization
is taking her back to the creeps and acting out a series
of sadistic tortures. “...a commentary about authority and
violence in Korean society...” (Village Voice). In Korean
with English subtitles.
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Shin-yeon Won, South Korea, 2006, 115 mins.
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restored hi-def transfer. Letterboxed (1.85:1). Includes
international trailer, US trailer, TV and radio spots, poster
and stills gallery, “Back to the Morgue” featurette with
Jorge Grau, and interviews with Grau, star Ray Lovelock,
special effects artist Giannetto De Rossi.
THE CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS
The stunning Edwige Fenech stars in The Case of the
Bloody Iris, in which a beautiful young model is stalked by
a mysterious killer. As you might expect with Ms. Fenech
in the lead, there’s a good deal of sex appeal to go along
with the expected bloodletting. Dubbed in English.
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DVD: DV96067 $14.95 Letterboxed (2.35:1). Includes
alternate stabbing scene, theatrical trailer, and Anthony
Ascott filmography.
Jorge Grau, Italy/Spain, 1974, 93 mins.
Aldo Lado, Italy, 1972, 94 mins.
NEW!
SHOGUN ASSASSIN 4:
FIVE FISTFULS OF GOLD
Giuliano Carnimeo, Italy, 1972, 95 mins.
The fifth film in the extremely violent, but glorious Lone
Wolf and Cub franchise was released dubbed in the States
as the fourth movie in the Shogun Assassin line,
alternately titled Baby Cart at the River Styx and Baby Cart
in the Land of Demons. Ogami Itto, a dishonored assassin,
roves the countryside with his child in a cart filled with
weapons. When five warriors hire Ogami to protect their
clan, he must first prove himself by defeating each in
combat. Then comes the gold. “Typically imaginative and
exciting swordplay” (BBC). Dubbed in English.
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DVD: DV96192 $19.98 Letterboxed. Digitally restored.
THE DEL TENNEY COLLECTION (THE CURSE OF THE
LIVING CORPSE / THE HORROR OF BEACH PARTY /
VIOLENT MIDNIGHT)
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.
Kenji Misumi,
INTERNATIONAL
Japan,
1973,
89
mins.,
KOCH
SHORT NIGHT OF GLASS DOLLS
A reporter presumed dead, whose mind is actually still
alive, is taken to the local morgue, where his thoughts
run wild as he tries to piece together the terrifying events
that led to his present condition. Bergman favorite Ingrid
Thulin tops the cast of this suspenseful thriller, also
starring Mario Adorf (The Tin Drum), model/actress
Barbara Bach, and Jean Sorel in the lead role of the
reporter. Also known as Paralyzed and Malastrana.
Dubbed in English.
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DVD: DV69195 $14.95 Letterboxed (2.35:1).
Includes interview with the director, filmography,
and theatrical trailer.
Del Tenney/Richard Hilliard, USA, 1963-1964, 255 mins.
Aldo Lado, Italy/West Germany/Yugoslavia, 1971, 97 mins.
THE VOYEUR
A fine example of sophisticated smut from the director of
Caligula, Tinto Brass. Set in Rome, a literature professor,
Dodo (Francesco Casale), gets abandoned by his sexually
adventurous wife (Katarina Vasilissa). Grief-stricken and
lovesick, he visits his father, who already has his hands
full with a sexy nurse and a series of lady callers. This
sets off sessions of Dodo peeping on others sexual
escapades in hopes of recharging his mojo. “...fleshpeddling is clearly his main mission” (Variety ).
ADULTS ONLY.
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DVD: DV96068 $24.95 Uncut Italian Director’s Cut. 100
mins. Letterboxed. Includes director interview, trailers,
photo gallery, and more.
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DVD: DV96078 $24.95 English Producer’s Cut. 91 mins.
Letterboxed. Includes director interview, trailers, photo
gallery, and more.
A BLOODY ARIA
THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE
If the dead were just allowed to rest in peace, we would
never have gruesome zombie movies like this one. A
scientific experiment to control insect populations
through a high frequency sound system goes haywire
and accidentally reanimates the dead. As the zombies
snack on the living, a disbelieving police detective (Arthur
Kennedy, a long way from Bend of the River and
Champion) tries to pin the killings on an innocent hippie.
“Without a doubt one of the all-time great European
zombie movies” (William Cappa, MovieThing.com). Also
known as Let Sleeping Corpses Lie and Don’t Open the
Window. In English.
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Tinto Brass, Italy, 1994, 100 mins.
WHO SAW HER DIE?
One-time James Bond George Lazenby (On Her Majesty’s
Secret Service) stars as a grieving father who
investigates the murder of his young daughter. The truth
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is more horrifying than he could have ever imagined. An
underrated giallo, prime for rediscovery. Ennio Morricone
composed the memorable score. Also known as The
Child. Dubbed in English.
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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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DVD: DV93656 $27.98
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.
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
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.
THE LAST EMPEROR
Bernardo Bertolucci’s multiple Academy Award winner,
set and shot in Beijing’s Forbidden City, and starring John
Lone as Pu Yi, the last emperor of China who, at the age
of three, became the “Lord of 10,000 Years,” China’s last
emperor. “A staggering and singular movie experience”
(Los Angeles Times). Co-starring Joan Chen and Peter
O’Toole. Cinematography by Vittorio Storaro (The
Conformist). In English.
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Special Edition. Letterboxed. Includes newly restored hidef digital transfer of the theatrical(163 mins.) and
extended television versions (218 mins.); audio
commentary by Bertolucci, producer Jeremy Thomas,
composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, and screenwriter Mark
Peploe; The Italian Traveler, a documentary by Fernand
Mozskowicz exploring Bertolucci’s journey from Parma
to China; The Making of The Last Emperor, a new doc
featuring Storaro, editor Gabriella Cristiana, costume
designer James Acheson, and art director Gianni
Silvestre; Postcards from China, video images taken by
Bertolucci while on preproduction; The Late Show: Face
to Face, a 30-minute BBC interview with Bertolucci from
1989; new video interviews with composers David Byrne
and Sakamoto; theatrical trailer; and a booklet featuring
essays by David Thomson and excerpts from script
supervisor Fabien Gerard’s journals from the production.
enter their conversations, but this changes when Noam
has a fling with a Palestinian man, who is invited to stay
in their flat illegally. Before long, larger social realities
threaten their utopian bubble. “Fox’s mix-and-match
sampling of apparently incompatible genres nails the
nervous blend of vitality and desperation that is Israel
today” (The Village Voice). In Hebrew and Arabic with
English subtitles.
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DVD: DV96061 $27.99 Letterboxed. Unrated. Includes
theatrical trailers, making-of featurette, and more.
Eytan Fox, Israel, 2006, 117 mins.
NEW!
SONJA
A “sincere nostalgia trip” says The Village Voice about
this autobiographical German drama directed by Finnish
actress Kirsi Liimatainen. Sonja is your typical 16-yearold girl, dealing with angst and boys. When she meets
Julia one summer day, though, their playful conversations
about sex with boys lead to something wholly different.
In German with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV96040 $26.95 Letterboxed. Includes photo
gallery, theatrical trailer, and more.
Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy/USA, 1987, 163 mins.
Kirsi Liimatainen, Germany, 2006, 75 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.
TRIGGER MAN
CINEMA CLASSICS
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.
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.
Ti West, USA, 2007, 80 mins.
GAY/LESBIAN CINEMA
THE BUBBLE (HA BUAH)
From Eytan Fox, director of Walk on Water, comes this
intelligent, erotic Israeli film about Tel Aviv hipsters who
seem far removed from the religious conflicts that taking
lives around them. Lulu (Daniella Wircer) and her two gay
roommates, Yali and Noam (Alon Friedmann and Ohad
Knoller), like to party, gossip, and date. Politics rarely
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EMPRESS WU ZETIAN / DREAM OF THE
RED CHAMBER
Two classic films from a tumultuous era in Chinese
history. Empress Wu Zetian (Peilin Fang, 1939) is a
socially-conscious biopic based on the legendary
Empress Wu, who took the title of Emperor away from
the patriarchy during the Tang Dynasty. This is followed
by Dream of the Red Chamber (Wancang Bu, 1944), a
romantic costume drama set during the 1700s and based
on arguably the greatest work in Chinese fiction. Also
known as Hong Lou Meng, it remains one of the earliest
filmed versions of the novel. In Mandarin with newly
translated English subtitles.
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Peilin Fang/Wancang Bu, China, 1939/1944, 220 mins.
GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM COLLECTION (THE
CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI / THE HANDS OF ORLAC
/ SECRETS OF A SOUL / WARNING SHADOWS)
Shadows come alive, landscapes distort, and interior
thoughts beget haunting exteriors. This is German
expressionism, perfectly exemplified by four silent classics
from the Weimar era: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert
Wiene, 1920, 72 mins.), The Hands of Orlac (Wiene, 1924,
110 mins.), Secrets of a Soul (G.W. Pabst, 1926, 75 mins.),
and Warning Shadows (Arthur Robison, 1923, 85 mins.).
Silent with music track and English intertitles.
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Robert Wiene/G.W. Pabst/Arthur Robison, Germany, 19201926, 342 mins.
NEW!
MYRIAD OF LIGHTS /
ALONG THE SUNGARI RIVER
A double feature of classic Chinese films that grew out of
the devastation of World War II. Myriad of Lights (Shen
Fu, 1948), also known as The Lights of Ten Thousand
Homes, was suppressed by the Communist party for its
portrayal of a poor family dealing with unemployment
and harsh living conditions in the slums of Shanghai.
Authorities had no reason to take issue with Along the
Sungari River (Jin Shan, 1947), an anti-Japanese war
film about the hardships faced by a young woman whose
parents were killed during the Japanese invasion. In
Mandarin with English subtitles.
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Shen Fu, China, 1948/1947, 230 mins.
NEW!
ORPHAN ON THE STREETS / THE WATCH
Two 1949 films from the Chinese Film Classics Collection.
An Orphan on the Streets (Zhao Ming/Yan Gong), also
known as San mao liu lang ji and The Winter of Three
Hairs, is a Kunlun Film Company production about the
comic misadventures of a street urchin. The Watch,
based on a story by famed author Lu Xun, is film that
follows the path of a stolen timepiece as it changes hands
and changes lives. In Mandarin with English subtitles.
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Zhao Ming/Yan Gong, China, 1949, 178 mins.
William Worthington, USA, 1919, 53 mins.
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THE BLOODSTAINED SHADOW
THE CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS
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THE VOYEUR
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ALL MY GOOD COUNTRYMEN
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BIG BRAWL
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KHADAK
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2/5/08
2/5/08
2/12/08
2/12/08
2/12/08
2/13/08
2/13/08
2/14/08
2/19/08
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2/19/08
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2/21/08
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2/26/08
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3/4/08
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3/18/08
3/18/08
3/11/08
3/25/08
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4/1/08
4/1/08
4/1/08
4/15/08
4/15/08
ORPHAN ON THE STREETS/THE WATCH
MYRIAD OF LIGHTS/ALONG THE SUNGARI RIVER
SHOGUN ASSASSIN 4: FIVE FISTFULS OF GOLD
ANTONIO GAUDI
THE ICE STORM
MAFIOSO
THE DRAGON PAINTER
BAMAKO
LAKE OF FIRE
ECLIPSE SERIES 9: WILLIAM KLEIN
FEAST OF DEATH: JAMES ELLROY
TRIGGER MAN
THE DEL TENNEY COLLECTION
ALPHA MALE
TONGUES UNTIED
EUROPEAN MUSLIMS AND EASTERN CHRISTIANS
HORIZONTAL LANDSCAPE
MEXICO, THE FROZEN REVOLUTION
THE OLD FAIRY TALE: WHEN THE SUN WAS GOD
VIRUS
DIVA DOLOROSA
FIORILE
KAOS
NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD
WAR/DANCE
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