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ATTRACTIVE MALE SEEKING WOMAN
Romance goes awry in Atrakcyjny Pozna Pania, an
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outrageous tale about confirmed bachelor Stasio
Tuchala, who may be a little long in the tooth but still
eager to find love. His friends persuade him to run an ad
in the newspaper’s personals column so that he can find
his centerfold dream girl, but only a few senior-aged
ladies rise to the occasion. Theatre director and
playwright Marek Rebacz (Wieruszka; Egzekutor) makes
his feature-film debut with this delightful comedy
starring veteran Polish actors Roman Klosowski (Eroica;
Cellulose) and Andrzej Grabowski (Strike). In Polish with
English subtitles.
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ALL MY GOOD
COUNTRYMEN
Marek Rebacz, Poland, 2004, 96 mins.
ALL MY GOOD COUNTRYMEN
AUTOMATONS
“Automatons is what happens when Eraserhead and
Tetsuo the Iron Man bong themselves into oblivion and
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.
collaborate on a minimalist avant-garde sci-fi cheapie
shot in a toolshed” (Nathan Lee, Village Voice). In a postapocalyptic future, a lone girl (Christine Spencer) tends
to a decaying band of robot soldiers fighting in a
generations-old war sparked by humans over conflicting
ideologies. As the Enemy Leader (Brenda Cooney) beams
destructive video signals into her compound, the Girl tries
to discern the origins of the war by watching a video diary
left by the Scientist, played by Angus Scrimm (Phantasm).
By filming in “Robo-Monstervision”—a black-and-white,
8-millimeter ode to ‘60s sci-fi—this ingenious allegory
about the War on Terror becomes strangely familiar.
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DVD: DV95561 $24.95 Includes Death to the Automatons
featurette, camera tests and theatrical trailer.
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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
CONGORAMA
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.
James Felix McKenney, USA, 2006, 83 mins.
Vojtech Jasny, Czechoslovakia, 1968, 114 mins., FACETS
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ARTS AND MYTHS
This Arte France television production takes viewers into
the heart of the “first arts,” introducing major artistic
pieces from African, Oceania, South America, and Asia.
Each of the six half-hour segments in the Arts du Mythe
series explores the myths behind a magnificent work of
art, including a horse-head fiddle from Mongolia, a white
headdress from the Kayapo Indians of the Amazon, and a
jade pendant from the Maoris of New Zealand. The
programs offer insight into the creation of the pieces, their
uses, history, and cultural significance then and now.
According to co-director Ludovic Segarra, “I would like
these films to send a shiver...to send a shock of the same
order as when primitive African art exploded on the scene
between 1910 and 1920, creating a revolution in art.” In
English, French and German with English subtitles.
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Philippe Truffault/Ludovic Segarra/Jean-Loic Portron,
France, 2006, 156 mins.
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CRIME STORIES (LAWSTORANT)
DVD: DV95963 $29.95 Includes the short documentary
Liturgy: The Story of the Film’s Music, maps of the region,
and more.
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.
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
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.
Mikolaj Haremski, Poland, 2004, 104 mins.
D’ANNUNZIO’S CAVE (D’ANNUNZIOS HOHLE)
Heinz Emigholz, the premiere purveyor of architectural
oddities (Sullivan’s Bridges, Goff in the Desert),
meticulously documents 15 rooms of the enormous Villa
Cargnacco in Lombardy, Italy, designed by proto-fascist
poet Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938). The controversial
figure spent 17 years designing the Vittoriale, a state
museum on Lake Garda, and furnishing the Villa
Cargnacco, which is part of the grand complex. This
unusual documentary resulted from a photography
session in the villa, when four friends—
cinematographers Irene von Alberti, Elfi Mikesch, Klaus
Wyborny and Heinz Emigholz—simultaneously filmed the
rooms and furnishings of the villa in their own specific
styles. In German with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV95634 $29.95 Includes Jam Session (60 mins.),
compiled from the extra footage of the four
cinematographers.
Tadeusz Chmielewski, Poland, 1970, 73 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.
Tadeusz Chmielewski, Poland, 1970, 73 mins.
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.
Heinz Emigholz, Germany, 2005, 52 mins.
DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT
This finely acted, detailed and probing film centers around
the assassination of the first elected President of the
Republic of Poland in 1922. During the country’s period of
interwar rebirth, Professor Gabriel Narutowicz (Zdzislaw
Mrozewski) is elected president despite extensive turmoil
between the nationalists and the minorities. Five days
later, the historic leader is assassinated by a fanatic at
the opening of an art exhibit. “An historical document
coming to life” (Variety), Smierc Prezydenta is a vivid,
psychoanalytical look at political assassins and their
makeup. In Polish with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV95613 $29.95 Includes director and cast bios.
Gordon Quinn/Gerald Temaner, USA, 1966, 80 mins.
HOME FOR LIFE
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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.
Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Poland, 1978, 145 mins.
NEW!
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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he is even farther away from Poland! This is the second
and most exotic of a three-part series featuring Private
Dolas that was a popular hit in Poland. In Polish with
English subtitles.
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DVD: DV95616 $24.95 Letterboxed.
Janusz Kidawa, Poland, 1978, 86 mins.
The hilarious adventures of hapless Private Franek Dolas,
a Polish soldier during WWII who misses his train stop
and finds himself in Germany. In this episode, he is hiding
on a ship that gets attacked by an enemy submarine.
When Dolas is eventually rescued by the French, he’s
forced into the Foreign Legion and taken to Syria. Now,
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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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DVD: DV95782 $29.95 Letterboxed.
Yuksel Yavuz, Germany, 2003, 97 mins.
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LOS MUERTOS
Gorgeously shot in the Argentine jungle, Los Muertos is a
hypnotic and austere investigation of the boundaries
between nature and civilization—and the violence that
lurks within both. A man named Vargas (Argentino Vargas)
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is released from prison and goes into the wild. He
methodically relieves himself of clothing and money,
allowing the jungle to reclaim him. Filmmaker Lisandro
Alonso (La Libertad) refuses to explain his themes (the
isolation of the jungle; the path from guilt to absolution;
the convict’s reintegration into society), preferring to
bathe his viewers in the sensual sights and sounds of the
tropics, while hinting at the unsettling implications of
such a journey. “The Dead is an ironic appellation for a
movie so fiercely alive, though perfectly apt for what
turns out to be a strange sort of horror film” (Nathan Lee,
Village Voice). Winner of the International Critics Prize at
the Venice Film Festival. In Spanish with English subtitles.
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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.
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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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DVD: DV95964 $29.95
Lisandro Alonso, Argentina, 2004, 82 mins.
LOS MUERTOS
Raymundo Gleyzer, Mexico, 1971, 65 mins.
MEXICO, THE FROZEN REVOLUTION: THE FILMS OF
RAYMUNDO GLEYZER
Documentary filmmaker Raymundo Gleyzer was the
founder of Cine de la Base in Argentina, a group with
close ties to Grupo Cine Liberacion and other “third
cinema” movements of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. They
were dedicated to bringing revolutionary films to the
people, and aesthetics and entertainment were
secondary. In 1976, Gleyzer was abducted and
disappeared by Argentina’s military dictatorship. This
three-disc retrospective of his films includes Mexico: The
Frozen Revolution (1971, 65 mins.), a socio-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 to
comment on the failure of revolution in his own time. The
Traitors (1973, 105 mins.), Gleyzer’s only fiction 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. These films are joined by
eight shorts that reflect Gleyzer’s commitment to social
change in Latin America: The Land Burns (1964, 12
mins.); Pottery Makers (1965, 25 mins.); It Happened in
Hualfin (1966, 50 mins.), which comprises three shorts;
Our Malvinas Islands (1966, 25 mins.); Swift (1971, 12
mins.); Don’t Forgive, Don’t Forget (1973, 30 mins.); The
AAA Are the Armed Forces (1977, 28 mins.); and They
Kill Me If I Don’t Work and If I Work, They Kill Me (1974,
20 mins.). In Spanish with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV95369 $59.95 3-DVD set. Includes filmographies
and related press.
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.
Loic Prigent, France, 2007, 82 mins.
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 the harsh Washington upbringing of
its mezzo soprano, Denyce Graves, the film Margaret
Garner re-examines a tragic historical moment while
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Raymundo Gleyzer, Argentina, 1964-1977, 372 mins.
NEW!
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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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
Anastasia Lapsui/Markku Lehmuskallio, Finland, 2001,
85 mins.
SEVEN SONGS
FROM THE TUNDRA
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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.
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BRITISH CINEMA
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INTERNATIONAL CINEMA
ALPHA MALE
ASHIK KERIB
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.
Ashik Kerib is a wandering minstrel, who, forbidden to
marry the daughter of a powerful merchant, travels for
one thousand days to finance his wedding. In
Paradjanov’s hands, Mikhail Lermontov’s folk tale
becomes a visual opera of costumes, movement and
music, in which surreal framing, icons, and mystical
symbols fill a living tableau with images that are simply
miraculous. Dedicated to Andrei Tarkovsky, the theme of
Ashik Kerib is the transformative power of art and the
tragedy of the artist. Cinematography by Albert Yavuryan.
With Yiur Mgoyan, Veronikia Metonidze and Levan
Natroshvili. In Georgian with optional English and
Spanish subtitles.
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DVD: DV93526 $29.95 Includes documentaries on Sergei
Paradjanov and Mikhail Lermontov, the featurette “The
Minstrel’s Song,” biography of Lermontov, cast and crew
filmographies, photo album, trailers, and 5.1 sound.
Dan Wilde, Great Britain, 2006, 100 mins.
THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT
A luscious visual banquet. It’s as though Greenaway
staged a Restoration comedy inside a Caravaggio
painting. It’s the way of the world, the plot proposes, that
the landowning gentry hire artists to commemorate their
property and acquisitions. And in Greenaway’s effective
irony, a patron’s most recent acquisition is the artist
himself. “What we have here is a tantalizing puzzle,
wrapped in eroticism and presented with the utmost
elegance. I have never seen a film quite like it” (Roger
Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). With Anthony Higgins and
Janet Suzman.
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DVD: DV63150 $29.95 Letterboxed (1.66:1). Closedcaptioned. Restored from hi-def elements. Includes
director commentary and video introduction, four deleted
scenes, behind-the-scenes footage and on-set
interviews, interview with composer Michael Nyman,
restoration demonstration, production photo and sketch
galleries, original theatrical trailer and more.
Sergei Paradjanov/Dodo Abashidze, USSR, 1988, 74 mins.
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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 Muhammed 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).
Peter Greenaway, Great Britain, 1982, 108 mins.
JEAN-LUC GODARD BOX SET
A collection of four late films from New Wave pioneer JeanLuc Godard, available for the first time on DVD: Passion
(1982, 88 mins.), Godard’s satire of filmmaking and
lovemaking; First Name: Carmen (1983, 85 mins.), a guncrazy romance that reexamines the entire femme fatale
tradition; Detective (1985, 95 mins.), “a cross between a
Grand Hotel for the 1980s and film noir” according to Tony
Rayns; and Oh, Woe Is Me (1994, 84 mins.), starring Gerard
Depardieu. In French with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV95967 $34.98 4-DVD set. Includes an exclusive
documentary, Jean Luc Godard: A Riddle Wrapped in
an Enigma.
Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1982-1994, 414 mins.
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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 that the
government fabricated the plague, 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.
Peter Brosens/Jessica Hope Woodworth, Belgium/
Germany/Netherlands, 2006, 85 mins.
KHADAK
William Klein, France, 1966-1977, 293 mins.
THE FILMS OF SERGEI PARADJANOV
The long career of Caucasus-born filmmaker Sergei
Paradjanov was not necessarily prolific, with several
stays in prisons and camps interrupting his provocative
work. His four major accomplishments—Shadows of
Forgotten Ancestors (1964, 97 mins.), The Color of
Pomegranates (1969, 88 mins.), Legend of Suram
Fortress (with Dodo Abashidze, 1984, 83 mins.) and Ashik
Kerib (with Dodo Abashidze, 1988, 74 mins.)—are
eclectic masterpieces that defy stylistic and ethnic
categorization, and wield great influence over Russian
and international cinema. This four-disc set includes the
aforementioned films, plus a documentary portrait of the
director, titled Paradjanov: A Requiem (Ron Holloway,
1994, 57 mins.). In Russian, Ukranian and Georgian with
optional English subtitles.
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DVD: DV93525 $79.95 4-DVD set. Includes hours of
bonus features.
THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT
A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS
This film is an erotic, beautiful, disturbing, absurdist and
metaphorical achievement that uses the Zoo as the
background against which to pose timeless questions
about life and love. “The boldest and arguably the best of
Peter Greenaway’s fiction features...Definitely a one-ofa-kind movie” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader).
Cinematography by Sacha Vierny.
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DVD: DV63151 $29.95 Letterboxed (1.66:1). Closedcaptioned. Restored from hi-def elements. Includes
director commentary and video introduction, behind-thescenes footage by Philip Hoffman, six “Decay”
sequences, original theatrical trailer and more.
Sergei Paradjanov/Dodo Abashidze, USSR, 1964-1994,
400 mins.
Peter Greenaway, Great Britain, 1985, 115 mins.
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THE LEGEND OF SURAM FORTRESS
Based on a Georgian folk tale, Legend of Suram Fortress
was the first feature completed by Sergei Paradjanov after
being released from prison. The story hangs on the selfsacrifice of a young man who agrees to be bricked up in
a fortress wall in order to make it impregnable against
invaders. The film is divided into a series of tableaux, once
again using minimal dialogue and searing imagery in a
film of surreal, almost hypnotic power. In Georgian with
optional English, French and Spanish subtitles.
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DVD: DV93504 $29.95 Includes interview with Svetlana
Scherbatyuk, Paradjanov’s wife, the documentary Actress
Veriko Andzhaparidze, the featurette “The Architecture of
Ancient Georgia,” photo album, cast and crew
filmographies, trailers, and more.
Sergei Paradjanov/Dodo Abashidze, USSR, 1984, 83 mins.
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MAFIOSO
Karina; “A Pierrot Primer,” a new video program with
audio commentary; Godard, l’amour, la poesie, a 50minute French doc; archival interview excerpts with
Godard; theatrical trailer; improved English subtitle
translation; and a booklet featuring a new essay by critic
Richard Brody.
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.
Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1965, 110 mins.
Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan, 1984, 72 mins.
SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS
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.
Sergei Paradjanov, USSR, 1964, 97 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 &
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.
Luke Meyer/Andrew Neel, USA, 2006, 90 mins.
DOCUMENTARIES
Alberto Lattuada, Italy, 1962, 102 mins.
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9 STAR HOTEL
The Israeli documentary Malon 9 Kochavim “possesses a
brutal immediacy, unfolding like a Middle Eastern Grapes
of Wrath” (Time Out NY). Filmmaker Ido Haar gained the
trust of a group of young Palestinian men who illegally
cross the border into Israel every night in search of
construction work. Hiding from police and struggling to
survive, they sleep in makeshift hovels ironically referred
to as a Nine Star Hotel. The portrait that emerges is both
painful but fascinating. A nominee for the Documentary
Prix Arte at the European Film Awards, and an Official
Selection at the Tribeca film festival. In Arabic and
Hebrew with English subtitles.
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DVD: DV95998 $26.98 Includes interview with director
and original theatrical trailer.
MAFIOSO
PIERROT LE FOU
One of the high points of 20th century cinema. Ravishing
and moving, the story features Jean-Paul Belmondo as
Ferdinand, who one evening leaves his wife in the middle
of a boring party. He meets a girl with whom he was in
love five years earlier, and who is involved with a gang of
criminals. After Ferdinand finds a dead man in her room,
they leave Paris for a deserted island. One of Godard’s
most poetic films, full of the anguish of love, aptly
summarized in his own words over the first images of
the film, “At the age of fifty, Velasquez no longer painted
precise objects; he painted what lay between precise
objects.” The final murder-suicide sequence on the island
is one of the most brilliant Godard has ever created. In
French with optional English subtitles.
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DVD: DV60597 $39.95 2-DVD Criterion Collection
edition. Letterboxed (2.35:1). Newly restored hi-def
digital transfer, supervised and approved by Raoul
Coutard. Includes new video interview with actor Anna
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Sergei Paradjanov’s masterpiece, a brilliant, operatic
story of starcrossed lovers set against the ethnographic
panorama of the Carpathian Mountains. The film is a
visual tour-de-force of symbols, metaphor, lyrical
photography and active camera, interweaving myth and
narrative into an elliptical, seamless work of art. “...a
deeply psychological film...one whose sophistication
makes the Pavlovian tactics of Eisenstein’s montage
seem almost primitive by comparison” (David Cook, A
History of Narrative Film). With Ivan Nikolaichuk and
Larisa Kadochnikova. In Ukrainian with optional English,
French and Spanish subtitles.
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DVD: DV93499 $29.95 Letterboxed (2.35:1). Includes
the documentary Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei
Paradjanov (2003, 40 mins.), the featurette “Songs of
the Ukraine,” (1985, 8 mins.), Paradjanov photo album,
stills gallery, cast and crew filmographies, trailers, and
Dolby 5.1 sound.
Ido Haar, Israel, 2006, 78 mins.
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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
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DARKON
EXCELLENT CADAVERS
Based on the book by Italian-American author Alexander
Stille (also the basis for the eponymous film starring F.
Murray Abraham) and featuring the photos of Sicilian
photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, this encompassing
documentary chronicles the recent history of the Italian
Mafia and its integral—and seemingly ineradicable—
relationship to postwar Italian politics. “A superb
documentary...worthy of Greek tragedy...People who
enjoy mafia movies owe it to themselves to see it” (San
Francisco Chronicle).
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DVD: DV93615 $24.95 Includes photo gallery, film notes,
biographies and more.
Marco Turco, Italy/France, 2005, 92 mins.
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FEAST OF DEATH:
THE DARK PLACES OF JAMES ELLROY
James Ellroy has emerged as one of the most prominent
figures on the current American literary scene. His
fragmentary writing style, pessimistic worldview, and
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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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AMERICAN CINEMA
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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DVD: DV96065 $29.95 2-DVD Special Edition. Fully
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.
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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DVD: DV95952 $27.98 Unrated. Letterboxed. Closedcaptioned. Includes theatrical trailer.
Jorge Grau, Italy/Spain, 1974, 93 mins.
THE CASE OF THE
BLOODY IRIS
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THE BLOODSTAINED SHADOW
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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.
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.
Antonio Bido, Italy, 1978, 109 mins.
THE CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS
Giuliano Carnimeo, Italy, 1972, 95 mins.
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Ang Lee, USA, 1997, 113 mins.
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THE INNER LIFE OF MARTIN FROST
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
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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DVD: DV69196 $14.95 Letterboxed (2.35:1).
Includes interview with the director, filmography,
and theatrical trailer.
Aldo Lado, Italy, 1972, 94 mins.
Paul Auster, USA/Portugal, 2007, 93 mins.
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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.
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; deleted scenes; production designs and sketches;
theatrical trailer; booklet; and much more.
In this off-kilter and clever drama, David Thewlis, better
known as the wolfen professor from the Harry Potter
movies, plays Martin Frost, a novelist holed up in a
secluded cabin. After he begins his work on a new book,
Martin awakens one morning to find a mysterious woman
(Irene Jacob) sleeping beside him, claiming to be the
niece of the cabin’s owner. Their unsettling love affair is
made stranger still when an aspiring writer (Michael
Imperioli) offers up his troubled daughter to Martin.
“Weird and whimsical” (Salon.com). Written and directed
by Paul Auster, acclaimed author of The New York Trilogy
and filmmaker of Blue in the Face.
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DVD: DV93616 $29.95 Letterboxed (16x9). Includes
making-of featurette, Q&A with Paul Auster and Michael
Imperioli, trailer, and more.
Aldo Lado, Italy/West Germany/Yugoslavia, 1971, 97 mins.
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Not to be confused with the 2006 horror film about
female spelunkers, Descent is a shocker of a different
variety. This NC-17 rape-revenge thriller stars Rosario
Dawson as Maya, a bright college student who is
brutalized and sexually assaulted by a once-amiable
acquaintance (Chad Faust). Over the course of the
picture, the unreported attack comes to dominate her,
physically and psychologically, forcing Maya to question
her sexual and ethnic identity. As she makes a full-blown
descent to her attacker’s level, the story culminates in a
truly excruciating finale. “The film’s brutality never plays
like a stunt, thanks to Ms. Dawson’s revelatory
performance and Ms. Lugacy’s adventurous
direction...Hard to watch but essential to see” (Matt Zoller
Seitz, New York Times ).
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DVD: DV95954 $26.98 Letterboxed. Includes
commentary with director and Rosario Dawson,
interviews, deleted scenes, Spanish subtitles and more.
Talia Lugacy, USA, 2007, 104 mins.
Tony Kaye, USA, 2006, 152 mins.
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DESCENT
WHO SAW HER DIE?
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transfer, approved by Alex Cox. Includes audio
commentary by Cox and Rudy Wurlitzer; Dispatches from
Nicaragua, an original doc about Walker; On
Moviemaking and the Revolution, reminiscences twenty
years later from an extra on the film; behind-the-scene
photos; and a booklet with writings by film critic Graham
Fuller, Wurlitzer, and Linda Sandoval.
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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DVD: DV60752 $59.95 4-DVD Criterion Collection
Special Edition. Letterboxed. Includes newly restored hidef digital transfer of the theatrical(163 mins.) and
extended televison 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.
Alex Cox, USA, 1987, 94 mins.
CINEMA CLASSICS
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THE HANDS OF ORLAC (ORLACS HANDE)
This expressionist horror classic from the director of The
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was the first version of a story
brought to the screen again in 1935 (as Mad Love) and
1961, with countless other variations on the theme. The
hands of a brilliant concert pianist (Conrad Veidt) are
severed in a train wreck. A surgeon with dubious motives
gives the pianist new hands...the hands of a killer! Soon
the musician comes to believe he is possessed with the
murderous thoughts of the hands’ original owner. Silent
with music score and English intertitles.
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DVD: DV75191 $29.95 Newly mastered high-def transfer
from a 35mm print restored by the F.W. Murnau
Foundation and supplemented with additional footage
from the Raymond Rohauer Collection. Includes scene
comparisons of domestic and international cuts, excerpts
of Maurice Renard’s novel, an essay by John Soister,
trailer for Mad Love (1935), and image gallery.
Robert Wiene, Austria/Germany, 1924, 110 mins.
THE HANDS OF ORLAC
Ernst Lubitsch, USA, 1929-1932, 366 mins.
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Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy/USA, 1987, 163 mins.
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ECLIPSE SERIES 8: LUBITSCH MUSICALS
In Hollywood, he brought “the Lubitsch touch” to
comedies like The Shop Around the Corner and helped
create the modern movie musical by combining his
mastery of film form with his love for European operettas.
This set includes four of Ernst Lubitsch’s pre-Code
musicals: The Love Parade (1929, 109 mins.), Monte
Carlo (1930, 90 mins.), The Smiling Lieutenant (1931, 89
mins.), and One Hour with You (1932, 78 mins.).
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Collection. 4-DVD set.
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WALKER
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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Ed Harris inhabits the role of the political adventurer
William Walker, an American who invaded Nicaragua in
1855 with 58 men and won a dubious place in history.
Director Alex Cox (Sid and Nancy) plays the story for
political irony and bizarre humor. “Witty,
provocative...Walker is something very rare in American
movies these days. It has some nerve” (New York Times).
With Peter Boyle, Rene Auberjonois, and Marlee Matlin
as Ellen Martin. Written by Rudy Wurlitzer (Pat Garrett &
Billy the Kid). Music by Joe Strummer (ex-The Clash).
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DVD: DV93646 $39.95 Criterion Collection edition.
Letterboxed (1.85:1). Newly restored hi-def digital
Robert Wiene/G.W. Pabst/Arthur Robison, Germany, 19201926, 342 mins.
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SECRETS OF A SOUL
A professor is driven into a state of terror by a nightmare
in which he attempts to stab his wife in this remarkable
work that joins social realism with the fantastic extremes
of expressionism. Using Freud’s theories of
psychoanalysis to craft the professor’s dreams, G.W.
Pabst plunges viewers into his demented psyche with
superimpositions, symbolic images of razors and knives,
and menacing shadows. Starring Werner Krauss and Jack
Trevor. Two of Sigmund Freud’s followers, psychologists
Karl Abraham and Hanns Sachs, collaborated on the
story. Silent with music track and English intertitles.
Prebook:01/22/08 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Street:02/19/08
DVD: DV93617 $29.95 Restored by the Munich Film
Museum and the F.W. Murnau Foundation. Includes
illustrated film notes detailing controversies surrounding
the project.
G.W. Pabst, Germany, 1926, 75 mins.
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LEGEND OF SURAM FORTRESS
THE FILMS OF SERGEI PARADJANOV
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GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM COLLECTION
SECRETS OF A SOUL
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THE LAST EMPEROR
THE INNER LIFE OF MARTIN FROST
DARKON
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