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The Hands of Orlac
HANDS OF ORLAC is a deliciously twisted thriller that blends grand guignol thrills with the visual and performance styles of German Expressionism. |
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Anna Boleyn
A groundbreaking historical epic from legendary director Ernst Lubitsch. The tragic story of the second wife of England’s Henry VIII is given first-class treatment, complete with opulent sets, beautiful cinematography, and a bravura performance by Emil Jannings (THE LAST LAUGH, THE BLUE ANGEL) as Henry. |
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Casting About
CASTING ABOUT is a lyrical documentary that illuminates the grit, mystery and raw emotion behind the process of casting actors. Shot from the filmmaker’s point of view, the viewer encounters many of the 350 diverse actresses who test for a trio of roles in a dramatic film, in auditions held in Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London and Los Angeles. Deftly weaving together interviews, monologues, private moments, the film creates an impressionistic and moving collage of the casting experience. |
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Falling
A Film by Barbara Albert - Five independent women are reunited for the funeral of a beloved teacher. From the director of FREE RADICALS! |
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The Castle
Michael Haneke's adaptation of Franz Kafka's THE CASTLE is an ingenious, faithful interpretation evoking Kafka's vision of a dystopian society hobbled by paperwork and bled dry by conformism and convolution. |
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The Lottery Bride
Jeanette MacDonald suffers the perils of mail order married life when she discovers her new husband is the brother of her one true love. An amusing and forgotten musical treat set among the Norwegian Alps. |
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Be Yourself
Broadway star Fanny Brice belts out show
tunes as a nightclub singer while her rival
suitors duke it out in this entertaining, sentimental romance featuring Ms. Brice's final
starring film performance. |
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La Revue des Revues
Josephine Baker is only one of the legends in this vintage 1927 collection of sexy and tres
risque Le Jazz Hot performances from the notorious nightclubs of Montmartre. |
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Old Joy
"A true American independent film" (Boston Globe), Kelly Reichardt's achingly exquisite Old Joy has been hailed at film festivals worldwide for its unparalleled beauty, profound insight into the human condition and transcendent, meditative narrative, creating "a shared adult experience of lost possibilities and present realities" (Entertainment Weekly). With an original soundtrack by YO LA TENGO. |
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Reel Baseball - Baseball Films from the Silent Era
As featured in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED - A cornucopia of early - and, in many cases, extremely rare - baseball films, offering privileged peeks into early twentieth century American lifestyles and values. |
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Sumurun
A rebellious harem girl rejects the old sheikh and instead falls for a charming clothing merchant in this exotic spectacle that is one of the key early works of the celebrated director. The cast includes Pola Negri as a traveling dancer and Lubitsch himself as a hunchbacked clown. |
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The Wildcat
A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers. |
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To the Left of the Father
One of the most original and emotionally complex Brazilian films in the last decade. After running away from his Lebanese-Brazilian abode, Pedro has to choose between a life of utopian freedom, removed from past connections, or, should he decide to return home, a re-engagement with strict patriarchal norms. |
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Psychopathia Sexualis (Unrated Director's Cut)
A dreamlike depiction of turn-of-the-century sexual deviance, from the pages of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's notorious medical text. |
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Psychopathia Sexualis (R-Rated)
Psychopathia Sexualis is a dreamlike depiction of turn-of-the-century sexual deviance, from the pages of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's notorious medical text. Director Approved R-Rated Version. |
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Siberiade
An epic chronicling six decades of 20th century Russia through the experiences of three generations in a Siberian hamlet. |
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Harvest Time
Winner of a Golden Plaque award at the Chicago International Film Festival "for its complex and poetic evocation of an ambiguous period in Soviet history," Marina Razbezhkina's debut film Harvest Time is a beautiful portrait of a woman living in a small Russian village after World War II. "HARVEST TIME depicts rural Russia as both brutal and astonishingly beautiful." - Telluride Film Festival Catalogue |
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Animated Soviet Propaganda
A landmark four disc Box Set. Unearthed from Moscow's legendary Soyuzmultfilm Studios, the 41 films in ANIMATED SOVIET PROPAGANDA span sixty years of Soviet history (1924-1984), and have never been available before in the U.S. |
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In the Pit
Juan Carlos Rulfo's In the Pit is a powerful documentary about the personal struggles behind the construction of a massive elevated freeway. With lyricisim and compassion,
this Sundance Film Festival prize-winning film reveals the medieval nightmare underneath an ambitious utopian dream: Mexico City's Periferico Beltway, more than ten miles of elevated reinforced concrete, supported by massive towers, that has been planned to both soar above and link the city's densely gridlocked urban neighborhoods. But while the roadway is a spectacular miracle of modern architectural design, it comes with a human cost. |
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Battleship Potemkin
For eight decades, Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece has remained the most influential silent film of all time. Yet each successive generation has seen BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN subjected to censorship and recutting, its unforgettable power diluted in unauthorized public domain editions from dubious sources. Until now. |
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Love Comes Lately
Based on three short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yentl), Love Comes Lately braids fiction, fantasy, and autobiography into a bittersweet comedy-drama pitting the self-renewing power of male ego and libido against the inevitable physical decline of age. |
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A Throw of Dice
A lavish silent super-production comprising 10,000 extras, a thousand horses, and scores of elephants, A Throw of Dice is the climax of German film pioneer Franz Osten's richly cinematic sojourn in India. |
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The Outlaw and His Wife
A masterpiece of the Swedish silent cinema, Victor Sjöström's THE OUTLAW
AND HIS WIFE is a film of remarkable psychological complexity, which bore a
profound influence on the work of Ingmar Bergman and Carl Theodor Dreyer. DVD includes the bonus feature-length documentary VICTOR SJÖSTRÖM. |
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Eagle Shooting Heroes
Executive produced by Wong Kar-Wai, Jeffrey Lau's "absurd 1993
masterpiece" (Austin Chronicle) Eagle Shooting Heroes is a fast, funny,
flamboyant, and wildly imaginative martial arts farrago. |
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Gospel According to Harry
Years before THE LORD OF THE RINGS catapulted him to international superstardom, Viggo Mortensen played Wes, a young husband locked in co-dependent discontent with his beautiful and needy wife. Combining the theatrical surrealism of Beckett and Ionesco, the the playfulness of Richard Lester, and the scathing social critique and imagery for which Majewski is renowned, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO HARRY is a wholly original cinematic tour de force. Available here for the first time on DVD. Poland. |
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Glass Lips
A kaleidoscope of surreal, provocative, and resonant imagery, in GLASS LIPS Majewski explores a hidden human frontier where memory, madness, and imagination meet. Composed of 33 short films entitled Blood of a Poet, the film opened the 2006 Lech Majewski Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A year later, the Venice Biennale presented it on multiple screens, prior to the theatrical release in the feature form offered here. |
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The Films of Morris Engel (with Ruth Orkin)
Available on DVD for the first time, LITTLE FUGITIVE (remastered), LOVERS AND LOLIPOPS, WEDDINGS AND BABIES, plus more. |
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Times and Winds
Winner of the Best Film and FIPRESCI prizes at the Istanbul International Film Festival, Reha Erdem's TIMES AND WINDS is a film
"bewitched by the rhythms of everyday life" (The Village Voice). "MAGNIFICENT...A humanist epic!" - LA Weekly. |
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Monsieur Hire
At last on DVD! Touching, lyrical, erotic, suspenseful and enigmatic, Monsieur Hire is both "a
twisted love story and a tragic thriller" (London Sunday Times). |
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Nosferatu (Ultimate Edition)
F.W. Murnau's NOSFERATU is triumphantly
reborn in this breathtaking new restoration by the F.W. Murnau Foundation. |
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In Between Days
Award winner at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, IN BETWEEN DAYS conveys "an extraordinary sense of intimacy" in depicting a young Korean immigrant's journey toward self-discovery. |
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Beaufort
Oscar Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, BEAUFORT chronicles the final days of an Israeli army unit's tense, painful withdrawal in 2000 from a strategic bunker inside a 12th century Crusader fortress near the Lebanese border, marking the end of nearly two decades of controversial occupation. |
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Houdini: The Movie Star
Deluxe 3-DVD set includes of Houdini's surviving films as an actor, rare footage of actual handcuff and straitjacket escapes, and a wealth of
historical information. |
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Trigger Man
Ti West's Trigger Man leads the charge in a new wave of stripped down, scary movies fueled by seat-of-the-pants filmmaking ingenuity. |
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My Father My Lord
"An astonishing debut feature."(Variety). The son of a respected elder in a cloistered hasidic enclave unwittingly runs afoul of his father's strict religious doctrine when childhood life prompts questions outside the confines of tradition. A family holiday at the seashore brings the ideological rift to a dramatically tragic climax. |
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Blind Mountain
In his first film since the acclaimed Blind Shaft, director Li Yang turns from corruption of China's illegal
mining to the even more horrifying illegal trade of prostitution. |
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The Garden of Earthly Delights
Based on his own novel Metaphysics, Lech Majewski crafts intimate passion plays and creates "a luminous, highly erotic treatise on art, love and death" (Chicago Reader).
When a terminally-ill art historian meets an engineer, it is love and lust at first sight. But their love is threatened by her looming illness. With her remaining days on earth numbered, she chooses to fan the flames of her obsession by taking her lover on a trip to Venice, where the artist's work becomes the background for their physical passion and emotional discovery. |
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Scarlet Street
When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson) rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty (Joan Bennett) from the rain slicked gutters of Greenwich Village, he plunges headlong into a whirlpool of lust, larceny, and revenge. SCARLET STREET is Fritz Lang's 1945 remake of Jean Renoir's 1931 LA CHIENNE. |
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La Ronde
Years before making the beloved midnight movie classic BARBARELLA, French Svengali Roger Vadim lured American sex kitten Jane Fonda overseas to collaborate on this charming, smart, and decorous sex farce based on Arthur Schnitzler's famously plotted "circle of love" stage play. Before shooting even began, director and star became lovers and when the romantic film went before the cameras, life and art intermingled freely, resulting in a bed-hopping farce that provides a vivid counterpoint to Max Ophls' 1950 version. |
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A Double Tour
A DOUBLE TOUR, Claude Chabrol's third film, is his debut psychological thriller, a genre he subsequently transformed in films like LES BONNES FEMMES and L'ENFER. Through "expert use of flashbacks and vignettes," (NY TIMES) Chabrol creates a lurid and disturbing melodrama of infidelity, obsession and murder at a vineyard in rural Provence. |
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Therese Raquin
Star-crossed lovers Thérèse (Simone Signoret - LES DIABOLIQUES) and Laurent (Raf Vallone - BITTER RICE) think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakling husband "falls" from a speeding train. But it's only a matter of time before the law, their passion, or blind chance trip them up. Closer in spirit to the neorealist noir of Visconti's OSSESSIONE than its eponymous ��mile Zola source novel, TH��R��SE RAQUIN is perhaps legendary director Marcel Carné's (CHILDREN OF PARADISE) last great film, made ripe for rediscovery in this newly subtitled version. |
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Look Both Ways
A lonely artist who literally envisions disasters around every corner and an emotionally distant photojournalist meet in the aftermath of a train accident and soon their lives are transformed. This romantic comedy about love, life and death marks the live action feature debut of Australian animator Sarah Watt. Winner of Best Film and Director at the Australian Film Institute awards. |
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La Petite Jerusalem
Winner of the script prize at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, Karin Albou's La Petite Jérusalem pits intimacy against sex and ideology against divinity, "with candor, sympathy and excellent cinematography," (Nathan Lee, The New York Times). Offering an unusual glimpse into an unseen, cloistered world, the film sensitively lays bare the souls and passions of two sisters in search of sexual and spiritual identity. |
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Iron Island
A critically acclaimed theatrical release, Rasoulof's beautiful allegory takes place on an abandoned Iranian oil tanker whose Captain Nemat commands not only his ship, but also the floating community that has taken refuge on board. |
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House By The River
In 1949, at Republic Pictures, Fritz Lang (self-proclaimed "master of the unusual") created HOUSE BY THE RIVER, a shocking and mordant thriller of passion and murder. Boasting an ingenious script by SPIRAL STAIRCASE scribe Mel Dinelli and evocative photography by Edward Cronjager (I WAKE UP SCREAMING), HOUSE... is an underrated American "Grand Guignol" that transcends its modest origins and affirms Lang's genius. |
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The President's Last Bang
Imaginatively recreating the 1979 assassination of South Korean President Park Chung-hee, writer-director Im Sang-soo dares to make complex, realistically neurotic characters out of the most polarizing figures in modern Korean political history. |
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Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
From Elem Klimov (COME AND SEE), comes the story of Grigory Rasputin, the wandering Siberian monk whose messianic influence upon Russia's monarch led its people, like lambs to the slaughter, blind and headlong into World War I and revolution. |
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The Harold Lloyd Collection 2
Harold Lloyd might just be the funniest actor you've never seen -- a silent screen comedian so often placed in the shadow of Chaplin and Keaton -- but he continues to shine in some of the most enduring short and feature length comedies ever offered audiences. Kino's second volume of Lloyd material contains 10 short films. |
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The Charley Chase Collection 2
The man who elevated situation comedy to a hilarious art form, Charley Chase was the proverbial comic with good looks, who most always got the girl (he usually had her at the beginning). He was what the '20s were all about. Carefree, frivolous, wild and woolly, he was the "Good Time Charley" we all wished we could be. |
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The Oliver Hardy Collection
Better known as the rotund half of the classic comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, Oliver Hardy had an early career as a silent comic, often as a "heavy" in madcap supporting roles. This new collection celebrates one of the great geniuses of silent comedy. |
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Lorna Doone
Tourneur's adaption of Richard Blackmore's perennially loved romance stars John Bowers as a yeoman farmer who valiantly rescues a kidnapped princess. This edition was transferred from an original print at 18fps and features a new score for piano and strings by Japanese singer/songwriter and composer Mari LiJima. |
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Chronicle of a Disappearance
Expatriate Elia Suleiman returned to his native Palestine after a decade in New York to search for his roots, producing a biting, satiric look at living within perhaps the world's most tempestuous region of political deadlock. "A certifiable masterpiece." - Film Comment |
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Hit Man File
Equal parts violent and sensual, HIT MAN FILE is a flashy new Asian action film with a distinctive Thai identity. |
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Prix de Beauté
Prix de Beauté is Louise Brooks's last starring role in a feature, and her only film made in France. It tells the deceptively simple story of Lucienne, a high-spirited Parisian typist who leads a mundane life which is dramatically changed when she enters a beauty pageant. |
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The Second Circle
Returning to the marriage of minimalism and sense of deep bereavement he is known for, Sokurov presents an unforgettable drama of filial regret. As a son grapples with his father's threadbare last rites, the mundane details of loss are elevated to a level of poetic dignity -- in a manner that has reminded many of Tarkovsky at his most profound. |
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Asphalt
Joe May's Sensual Drama of Life in the Berlin Underworld. |
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Warning Shadows
Arthur Robison's classic take of psychological horror, celebrated for its outrageous visual style and notorious for its attempt to make a purely visual feature film. |
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Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (Restored Authorized Edition)
A truly legendary silent film, Fritz Lang's "Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler" had a major impact on the development of the crime thriller. This authorized edition is also the longest available version. |
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Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque
Celebrates the man who cultivated cinema's future by protecting its past. "A MOVIEGOER'S TREAT AND A CINEPHILE'S DELIGHT!"- CHICAGO TRIBUNE |
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The Last Mogul: The Life and Times of Lew Wasserman
Documentary about Lew Wasserman, the mogul who mastered the art of the deal with a ruthlessness and style all his own. |
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Billy Wilder Speaks
Billy Wilder Speaks is a lively lesson in filmmaking, from one of its undisputed masters. |
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Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen (plus Isle of Forgotten Sins)
Double-feature DVD includes documentary plus Isle of Forgotten Sins. |
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Sky Fighters
SKY FIGHTERS is an adrenaline-fueled, full-throttle supersonic thrill ride that out guns TOP GUN. |
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Dead Man's Bluff
A Molotov cocktail of gruesome carnage, eccentric characters, and
off-beat humor, Dead Man's Bluff casts a bracingly cynical eye on recent
Eastern European history. |
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Cops vs. Thugs
In his 1975 masterpiece COPS VS. THUGS, director Kinji Fukasaku (BATTLE ROYALE) paints a dynamic portrait of flourishing corruption and unchecked greed using gritty 70s cop movie elan and true crime expose' detail. Brimming with irresistibly brutal vitality, COPS VS. THUGS demonstrates why Fukasaku counts filmmakers Takeshi Kitano, Quentin Tarantino and Takeshi Miike as devoted acolytes. |
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The Seventh Continent
With no explanation, young Eva Schober pretends to lose her eyesight -- and soon after, her blasé middle class Austrian family begins to unravel. In Haneke's feature film debut, all of the acclaimed director's signature elements are already visisble: an unflinching eye towards modern alienation in the mode of Bresson and Antonioni; a challenging, elliptical narrative style; and an unsettling anti-psychological approach into the darkest hallways of human behavior. |
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Benny's Video
The bored 14 year old son of an affluent Viennese family escapes from his mundane life into the titillating solitude of his video-equipped bedroom, where he relives a number of shockingly violent acts on playback. Without lapsing into didacticism or waiving his own complicity, Haneke makes one of the cinema's most powerful investigations into the nature of our mediated world and the seemingly insatiable appetite for bloodly spectacle. |
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71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
Following a savage Christmas Eve killing spree by a university student, a series of disjointed vignettes leading up to the massacre unfold like a puzzle -- one which leaves many questions unanswered even when "completed." This is the final installment of Haneke's trilogy of Austria's "emotional glaciation," which commenced with THE SEVENTH CONTINENT and BENNY'S VIDEO. |
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Funny Games
The summer home of a vacationing couple and their son is infiltrated by a seemingly urbane pair of men -- who proceed to hold the family hostage and initiate a series of violent and diabolically sadistic "games." In his characteristic style, director Haneke leaves most of the bloodshed to the viewer's imagination, making this film a more harrowing experience than any splatter film. |
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The Saga of Gosta Berling
The Saga of Gösta Berling -- the film that made Greta Garbo a star -- has been restored to its proper luster by the Swedish Film Institute.
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Sir Arne's Treasure
A key film from Sweden's first golden age of filmmaking, Sir Arne's Treasure (Herr Arnes pengar) has long ranked among the most famous -- and famously hard-to-find -- classics of the silent era. Now restored by the Swedish Film Institute and featuring a magnificent orchestral score by Matti Bye and Fredrik Emilson, this landmark work by master filmmaker Mauritz Stiller can finally be seen in its glory. |
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Erotikon
Labeled an "insolent romp" in a recent article by THE VILLAGE VOICE and praised for its "risque wit and cheerful amorality" in John Wakeman's WORLD FILM DIRECTORS, EROTIKON is quite possibly the cinematic granddaddy of all sophisticated comedies and one of the finest achievements of Swedish director Mauritz Stiller. |
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Stalker
One of Andrei Tarkovsky’s (Solaris, The Sacrifice) most acclaimed films, Stalker is an unforgettable film experience that evokes the spiritual lucidity of Carl Dreyer and the unbridled imagination of Phillip K. Dick. Since its release in 1979, Stalker has inspired filmmakers as diverse as David Lynch and Steven Spielberg and ensnared audiences in a labyrinth of striking imagery revealing the familiar in the strange, the poetic in the disturbing and the mythic in the mordant.
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Derek
Written and narrated by Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, this documentary blends vintage clips from Jarman's groundbreaking experimental works, never-before-seen footage from his films, and candid interviews shot shortly before his death in 1994. |
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Barking Water
A uniquely delicate and moving road movie, Barking Water uses the ruggedly beautiful backdrop of rural Oklahoma to tell the story of a proud Native American attempting to reconnect with his estranged family. |
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Chan is Missing
Acclaimed filmmaker Wayne Wang’s first feature film Chan is Missing follows the adventures of two cabbies on their search through San Francisco’s Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with $4,000 of their money. |
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Dim Sum
Acclaimed director Wayne Wayne directs an all-star cast in this endearing tale. A Chinese immigrant widow faces the New Year with apprehension after it was foretold that it would be the year she would die. |
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Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
A thoughtful and moving story of a sixteen year old boy who learns to deal with the unique difficulties of becoming an adult in Sarajevo in the 1960’s. |
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Flanders
A twist of fate puts the two men side by side in combat where their undeclared personal war and the one they are fighting tragically merge. |
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The Kingdom: Series One
Acclaimed director Lars von Trier (Dogville, Dancer in the Dark) delves into the world of the supernatural with the acclaimed series that inspired Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital. |
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The Kingdom: Series Two
Acclaimed director Lars von Trier (Dogville, The Five Obstructions) presents Series Two of his supernatural thriller set inside Denmark's most esteemed but cursed medical institution. |
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Making Of
Twenty-five-year-old Bahta (Lotfi Abdelli) has no job, no degree and no prospects. His one passion is breakdancing, but even that outlet is regularly repressed by the cops. After attracting the attention of group of fundamentalists, Bahta is drawn into the violent and dangerous world of terrorism. |
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Save the Green Planet
Lee Byeong-Gu (Shin Ha-Gyun, JSA) is a sensitive, blue collar sad sack hopped up on conspiracy theories and sci-fi films whose life has been derailed by one bad break after another. Yet he knows there's no such thing as bad luck. The only thing that could have made such a mess of his life are...aliens. |
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Cautiva
Cristina Quadri’s life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school in Buenos Aires and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the ‘70s. |
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Allegro
Ulrich Thomsen and Helena Christensen star in this mind-bending exploration of love and memory inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky’s classic science-fiction film, Stalker. |
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The Soldier's Tale
Stravinsky's legendary fable comes alive in this Emmy-winning animated program. When the common man is faced with the devil's temptation, can he make a deal with the devil and win? |
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9 Star Hotel
This unflinching documentary follows Ahmed and Muhammad, two of the many Palestinians who illegally cross the border into the Israeli city of Modi�in in search of work. |
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Comedy of Power
The latest thriller from French New Wave veteran Claude Chabrol is a timely and provocative account of corporate and political corruption was inspired by a real-life scandal involving a French oil giant and several top-level politicians. |
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Syrian Bride
Shot on location in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, The Syrian Bride is a powerful film about physical, mental and emotional borders and the courage it takes to cross them. |
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Triple Agent
True lies are given a historical spin in Eric Rohmer's invigoratingly ambitious Triple Agent. |
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Moloch
In an ominous fortress perched high above the clouds, everything seems in order for a reposing 24 hour retreat. It is the spring of 1942 and Eva Braun is the only voice that dares to contradict the Fuhrer. |
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Divine Intervention
At the center of the Middle East conflict, hearts beat in tragic comedy and deadpan irony. |
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The Five Obstructions
Lars von Trier now enters the world of documentary filmmaking alongside his idol, Danish filmmaker Jørgen Leth. In 1967, Leth made a 12 minute feature film called The Perfect Human. In the year 2000, von Trier challenged Jørgen Leth to remake his film five times, each time with a new obstruction to force Leth to rethink the story and characters of the original film. |
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Takva: A Man's Fear of God
Muharrem (Erkan Can) lives a solitary existence, strictly adhering to the most severe Islamic doctrines. To his surprise, a religious leader hires him as a rent collector, where he is given Western-style suits, a cell phone and a car with a driver. |
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Taxi Blues
In a world filled with hustlers and black marketers, Shlykov, a hard-working, anti-semitic taxi driver, is pushed over the edge when Lyosha, a Jewish saxophonist who personifies everything he despises, stiffs him for a fare. |
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Film Socialisme
Legendary director Jean-Luc Godard (Contempt) triumphantly returns to the screen with FILM SOCIALISME, "a remarkable and beautiful and challenging" (Glenn Kenny, MSN) essay on the state of Mediterranean life, culture and history. |
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Gaumont Treasures (1908-1916)
The premiere French film company during the early cinema, the Gaumont Film Company played a key role in the growth of cinema into a sophisticated art form. Gaumont was also a place of great
technical innovation. Included in this collection are revolutionary experiments in color (the
Trichromie process) and synchronized sound (the Phonoscenes). Virtually unseen in the USA,
this splendid three-disc DVD set showcases the pioneer filmmakers who shaped the art of animation, slapstick, drama, and even the Western! More than 10 hours of groundbreaking films. (note, will not ship to French language Canada). |
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Charlotte Rampling: The Look
THE LOOK features Charlotte Rampling in a series of reflective conversations with artists, friends, and one-time collaborators such as novelist Paul Auster and photographers Peter Lindbergh and Juergen Teller, revealing the personality and philosophies of one of our most iconic screen stars. |
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Blank City
BLANK CITY is an "absorbing snapshot of a daring time" (LA Times) when a disparate crew of renegade filmmakers emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history. |
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Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
This documentary provides a vivid introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: Avant-garde cinema. In its exploration of this expansive domain, FREE RADICALS privileges rare interviews with filmmakers in the avant-garde tradition and includes several films in their entirety. |
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Fear and Desire
Virtually unseen since its theatrical premiere in 1953,
FEAR AND DESIRE was the ambitious first feature film by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. |
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David Holzman's Diary
This landmark 1967 faux-documentary finds recently dumped David Holzman (L. M. Kit Carson) unloading comic-neurotic monologues straight to the camera. Filmed like cinema verite, it’s a well-disguised fiction about the deceptions of cinematic illusionism and the lies we tell ourselves in order to live. New York Times Critics Pick. |
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Great Directors
Ten of the greatest filmmakers in the world passionately discuss their craft in Angela Ismailos' hugely entertaining documentary GREAT DIRECTORS. Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles open up about their extraordinary careers with unexpected candor and humor. |
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The Complete Metropolis
The Complete Metropolis, the most comprehensive restoration of Fritz Lang's classic with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage and the original Gottfried Huppertz score. |
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The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun
Worlds collide and tempers flare when Mr. Vig, an 82-year-old recluse who has never known love, and Sister Amvrosija, a headstrong nun, join forces to transform Mr. Vig's run-down castle into a Russian Orthodox monastery. |
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The Pornographer
In this explicit and controversial film by Bertrand Bonello, Jacques, a popular pornographer in the 1970s, returns to the industry where he made his reputation. |
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The Red and the Black
Handsome and ambitious, Julien Sorel (Kim Rossi Stuart) is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins and make something of his life by adopting the code of hypocrisy by which his society operates. |
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Tiresia
Based on the Greek myth of Tiresias, the blind prophet who was both male and female... |
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Water Lilies
During a summer in Paris, a love triangle develops between three girls in this provocative and perceptive portrait of teen angst and nascent sexuality. |
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When Father Was Away on Business
In the tumultuous 1950’s, as Tito’s Yugoslavia resists the pressures of Stalinism, a young boy narrates the story of his family’s troubled world. |
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Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
NIGHTMARES IN RED, WHITE AND BLUE is a comprehensive history of
the American horror film. Starting with Thomas Edison’s version of Frankenstein
and slashing its way through to Saw and beyond, this incisive documentary
examines how these monstrous creations were gruesome reflections of their time.
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American Grindhouse
AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE explores the history of exploitation films. From the early “Nudie Cuties” to the Blaxploitation boom in the 70s,AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE boasts interviews with film critics Herschell Gordon Lewis, Joe Dante, Larry Cohen, John Landis, Fred Williamson, Kim Morgan and many more, and features over 200 clips. |
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Drew: The Man Behind The Poster
DREW: THE MAN BEHIND THE POSTER is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the career of poster artist Drew Struzan, whose most popular works include the Indiana Jones, Back to the Future and Star Wars movie posters. |
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A Slave of Love
While awaiting the arrival of her
missing co-star husband on the set of a Russian film, silent film diva Olga becomes enmeshed in a romance with handsome young cameraman Pototsky. But what begins as a casual dalliance becomes an awakening as Olga’s lover reveals his true allegiance. |
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War Requiem
British cinema's enfant terrible teams with his muse Tilda Swinton and Laurence Olivier, for a spectacular and moving interpretation of composer Benjamin Britten's 1961 orchestral masterpiece. |
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The Finances of the Grand Duke (Restored Authorized Edition)
In Murnau's playful espionage thriller reminiscent of Ernst Lubitsch (who had recently left Germany for Hollywood), Harry Liedtke stars as a benevolent dictator who must preserve the tiny nation of Abacco by fending off creditors, wooing a wealthy Russian princess, and evading a band of demonic conspirators. |
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The Haunted Castle (Restored Authorized Edition)
Before plumbing the depths of horror and despair with such films as Faust and The Last Laugh, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau tested the waters with this moody drama of a storm-bound manor and the grim mystery that lurks within. |
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Tehilim
From director Raphael Nadjari. In contemporary Jerusalem, an average middle class Jewish family balances the rituals of family, friends, religion and workaday life. But when middle-aged father and husband Eli (Shmuel Vilozni) unaccountably vanishes after a fluke car accident, the ensuing legal and emotional crisis gradually immerses Eli's spouse and two young sons in a muted real-life nightmare redefining the boundaries of everything they know, love and believe. |
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Los Bastardos
Award winning film about two undocumented Mexican day-laborers in L.A. Each day they stand on the corner at the home improvement store seeking employment. Today, the job they are given is well paid compared to their poor usual wages. Today, one of them carries a shotgun inside his backpack. |
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Laila's Birthday
Bursting with mordant wit and alive with urgent real-life dramatic
energy, Rashid Masharawi's Laila's Birthday is a "fleet, dark urban comedy,"
(New York Times) that "moves at a brisk clip, ticking incidents like a meter
on overtime" (Time Out New York). |
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Happy Together
Newly remasted from a High-Definition master, Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together is a stunning display of filmmaking style and a touching story of love on the brink of dissolution. |
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Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
An incredible true story that unfolds like "a ripping good yarn... with an uproarious, impossible Hollywood ending" (Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com), HARVARD BEATS YALE 29-29 is filmmaker Kevin Rafferty's (The Atomic Cafe) acclaimed documentary depicting one of the most legendary games in the history of sports. |
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Faust (Restored Deluxe Edition)
Newly restored. Inspired by the German legend and by Goethe's classic tale, Murnau's Faust tells the story of an alchemist (played by Gösta Ekman) who, struggling with his faith amidst a devastating plague, is offered the power to cure and the gift of youth ... in exchange for his soul. As the diabolical Mephisto, Emil Jannings (The Last Laugh) delivers a performance of operatic scale and intensity, by turns charming, comical, and horrific. |
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Momma's Man
One of the most acclaimed films of this year's Sundance Film Festival, Azazel Jacobs' third feature is both a tribute to his parents (and to the lost New York of his childhood) and an acutely perceptive, deeply personal take on a universal experience: the fear of growing up. |
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The Last Laugh | Restored Deluxe Edition
Newly restored edition of F.W. Murnau's THE LAST LAUGH with the original score. One of the crowning achievements of the German expressionist movement. THE LAST LAUGH stars Emil Jannings as an aging
doorman whose happiness crumbles when he is relieved of the duties and
uniform which had for years been the foundation of his happiness and pride.
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Liberty Kid
LIBERTY KID captures with compassion and street-smart humor the spirit and pain of America transformed by 9-11. Two young friends struggle to survive after losing their jobs at the Statue of Liberty tourist site due to 9/11. Director Ulya Chaiken "makes us feel for her characters" (NY Post), and evokes simple and memorable human truths about life on society's margins. |
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D.W. Griffith: Father of Film
Acclaimed three-part documentary tells the proud, sad story of D.W. Griffith: the man who first brought artistry and ambition to the movies, and then, having dragged a reluctant American film industry to international prominence, found it had no more use for him. |
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Abraham Lincoln
Returning to the historic era of his greatest success, Griffith paid homage to the sixteenth President in this moving drama starring Walter Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre). |
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The Avenging Conscience
Griffith indulged his lifelong fascination with Edgar Allan Poe in one tragedy-laden narrative of a young man who yearns to escape from his overbearing, one-eyed uncle. Includes Griffith's 1909 short film EDGAR ALLAN POE. |
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One Day You'll Understand
As the trial of Klaus Barbie is being televised throughout France a family is forced to confront its past in Nazi occupied France. Victor discovers that his mother Rivka (Jeanne Moreau) has been hiding a terrible secret. As Victor searches to find the truth about his family history, particularly the fate of his maternal grandparents his mother tells him that "Some day you will understand". Directed by famed Israeli director Amos Gitai (KADOSH, KIPPUR) and based on the autobiographical novel "LATER" by Jerome Clement.
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Wonderful Town
Aditya Assarat's "delicate, delightful, and nearly note-perfect debut feature" (Salon.com). An architect from Bangkok pulls up to a motel in a nearby ghost town of deserted streets. His obscured past finds symmetry in the repressed history of the girl he meets and pursues. |
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Tempest
An epic romance set in Russia during the final days of the Tsarist autocracy, Barrymore stars as Sgt. Ivan Markov, a dedicated soldier who defies the rigid class system to receive an officer's commission. But even as he rises through the ranks of military and society, he must contend with resentment from the aristocratic officers-including the monocled Ullrich Haupt, who delivers a sinister performance worthy of Erich von Stroheim, himself an uncredited screenwriter on the project. Piano score by William P. Perry. |
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Sherlock Holmes
One of Barrymore's most prestigious early roles, this rarely seen film also presents screen debuts of William Powell & Roland Young. When a young prince is accused of a crime that could embroil him in international scandal, debonair supersleuth Sherlock Holmes comes to his aid, and quickly discovers that behind the incident lurks a criminal mastermind eager to reduce Western civilization to anarchy. |
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Reel Injun
An entertaining and provocative look at Hollywood's depiction of Native Americans, REEL INJUN journeys through a century of cinema to set the record straight. Traveling through the heartland of the U.S., to the Black Hills and Monument Valley, Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond examines how the myth of the movie "Injun" has influenced the world's understanding - and misunderstanding - of Natives. |
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Alan Berliner Collection (educational edition w PPR)
Alan Berliner's uncanny ability to combine experimental cinema, artistic purpose, and popular appeal in compelling film essays has made him one of America’s most acclaimed independent filmmakers. Titles available include: The Family Album, Intimate Stranger, Nobody's Sound and The Sweetest Sound. |
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Battleship Potemkin (Blu-ray)
All new restoration - Sergei Eisenstein's BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN with the original Meisel Orchestral Score. |
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The Sun
The final portrait in a series on the lives of dictators by Alexander Sokurov, THE SUN is a re-imagining of Emperor Hirohito's final days in power during the waning days of WWII. Hirohito wanders through his palace in a child-like state of denial. But reality soon intrudes as American soldiers overrun his manicured gardens and visions of Hiroshima invade his dreams. No longer a God among men, Hirohito is forced accept the terms of the occupation and, even more dramatically, the renunciation of his divinity. |
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Tony Manero
As Augusto Pinochet holds Chile in the grip of dictatorship,
a fifty year old man obsessed with John Travolta's character from Saturday Night Fever imitates his idol each weekend in a small bar
on the outskirts of Santiago. A stinging allegory for the
corruption and egomania of Augusto Pinochet. "An indelible portrait of a sociopath with the soul of a zombie." - The New York Times.
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Two in the Wave
Directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut changed the face of cinema forever as members of the French New Wave. TWO IN THE WAVE documents their intensely combative and creative relationship. |
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Home
A family enjoys an idyllic existence in their isolated, ramshackle home, which edges onto an abandoned highway. Almost entirely cut off from society at large, they forge their own Utopia, but everything changes when city trucks roll in to complete the road’s construction, allowing rush hour traffic to start rumbling by. Stars Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher). |
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Five Evenings
During a brief visit to late 50’s Moscow, Alexander Volodin rings the bell at a
threshold he hasn’t crossed since before the war. Wistful nostalgia collides with kitchen-sink reality when the dawning love Alexander left behind 17 years before, answers
the door. Reunited, the couple struggles to rekindle a still gestating romance with
neither the mature bond of trust nor the blind hope of youth to guide them. |
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Nollywood Babylon
This documentary chronicles the wild world of "Nollywood," a term coined in the early '90s to describe the world’s fastest-growing national cinema based in Lagos, surpassed only by Bollywood in volume. Peppered with outrageously juicy movie clips and buoyed by a rousing score fusing Afropop and traditional sounds, this film celebrates the distinctive voice of Nigerian cinema. |
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Son of Man
"Extraordinary and powerful" (Roger Ebert). In the state of Judea in southern Africa, violence, poverty and sectarianism are endemic. As civil war reaches new heights, a divine child is born to a lowly couple. The critically acclaimed SON OF MAN is a powerful retelling of the life of Christ set in contemporary South Africa. |
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A History of Israeli Cinema
Raphaël Nadjari’s extraordinary two-part documentary weaves together clips from more than 70 years of Israeli film with commentary from filmmakers, scholars and critics |
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The Vanished Empire
Emotionally acute, grittily realistic, and surprisingly lyrical, THE VANISHED EMPIRE is a "wise, elegiac film" (The New York Times) that depicts a teenage boy's stumbling journey into adulthood from the streets of early 70's Soviet Moscow, to a lost city in the timeless Uzbekistan desert, to a post-communist Russian future that seemed impossible during the height of the cold war. |
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Marlene
An Oscar nominee for Best Documentary and winner of the 1986 New York Film Critic's Circle non-fiction film prize, Marlene is a "portrait of a remarkably strong-willed woman, stage-managing her career right up to the bitter end" (New York Times) that brilliantly lifts the veil on a movie star of the brightest magnitude as she is fading into twilight. |
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Gaumont Treasures (1897-1913)
By arrangement with Gaumont Films, Kino International is proud to announce an important new Box Set featuring over 75 restored early Gaumont productions. |
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Chinese Odyssey 2002
A movie that "packs a lot of laughs and action into a beautifully shot 105 minutes" (Variety), Chinese Odyssey 2002 follows royal heirs Princess Wushuang (Asian pop diva and Chungking Express heroine Faye Wong) and future Emperor Zheng De (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's Chen Chang) as they escape the Forbidden City to taste life among Ming Dynasty China's have-nots. Combining swordfights, slapstick, satire, songs, and genuine sentiment into a lightning-paced big-screen farrago of "identity changes and gender confusions; plot contortions, clever puns and a great punchline" (Time Out London). |
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I Can See You
When the three-man staff of a boutique ad firm trades their Brooklyn home base for a rural backwater campsite, a classic "city slickers in peril" scare-film set-up is reborn. But in I Can See You, Graham Reznick's "surprising horror debut" (Village Voice), nothing is what it seems for even the blink of an eye. |
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Avant-Garde Volume 3 Experimental Cinema from 1922-1954
Kino's 3rd collection of Avant-Garde films from the collection of THE GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE and from THE RAYMOND ROHAUER COLLECTION. |
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Secrets of the Soul
What is the soul? Is it genetically encoded in our DNA or the product of centuries of religious teachings dealing with our mortality? Secrets of the Soul provides a window into the provocative question of what happens when we die. Many believe that something transcends our physical body - for some there might be a scientific answer, for others it�s simply a matter of faith. |
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As it is in Heaven
Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 2005 Academy Awards, As It Is In Heaven is the story of Daniel, a successful international conductor who returns to his childhood village in Sweden. |
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Without Witness
While watching TV at home alone, a woman receives a visit from her now remarried ex-husband. But as banalities about old friends, old times, and their absent teenage son give way to increasingly confrontational verbal barbs, the threadbare camouflage of hospitality and cheap nostalgia masking the couple's raw wounds and harsh agendas is ripped away. |
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The Keeper
A deft, often chilling look at the unexploded dynamite of guard/prisoner relations, The Keeper is a searing psychological drama stunningly acted by Giancarlo Esposito (Do the Right Thing, Fresh, Malcolm X), African superstar Isaach De Bankole (Night on Earth, Chocolat) and Regina Taylor (I'll Fly Away, A Family Thing). Like the best work of Charles Burnett and Spike Lee, Joe Brewster's film looks beyond the stylish mayhem of "hood" cinema.
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On Our Merry Way
A rediscovered gem from the Golden Age of Cinema, On Our Merry Way (aka A Miracle Can Happen) is a delectable, lighthearted comedy interweaving four different narratives, featuring Hollywood's brightest stars. |
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Orphans of the Storm
Two delicate souls (Lillian and Dorothy Gish) are caught in the tempest of the French Revolution. |
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The Penalty (Deluxe Collector's Edition)
In a role that established him as one of the most dynamically terrifying performers of the silent screen, Lon Chaney stars in THE PENALTY, a grotesque thriller from director Wallace Worsley. |
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Que Viva Mexico!
Eisenstein's epic celebration of Mexico's history and people was never completed due to financial problems. Fifty years after its initial production, this great work was faithfully assembled by the master director's editor, 80-year old Grigory Alexandrov. Digitally remastered edition. |
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Railroaded
John Ireland and Hugh Beaumont star in this gritty drama of one cop's crusade to avenge the death of a fellow officer. Violent, dark, and tight as a drum, Railroaded established Mann's reputation as a master of noir and set the stage for his fruitful collaboration with d.p. John Alton. |
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The Red And The White
This powerful film witnesses the senseless brutality of the Prussian Civil War of 1918 as the Red and White Armies battle in the hills along the Volga river. Dir. Miklos Jansco. Hungary. 1968. 92 min. B&W. Letterboxed. Hungarian w/English subt. |
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Oblomov
Based upon the classic novel by Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov follows the travails of I. I. Oblomov, a good-natured and indolent elite landowner with the mind of a reasonable man and the ambition of a giant slug. Masterfully directed, the picture won the Best Foreign Film award from the National Board of Review. Digitally Remastered. |
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Nosferatu
This new presentation of Murnau's classic is mastered from original German material recently made available to Kino and is the most complete version available. An expressionist retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula so faithful to the original tale of vampirism that Stoker's widow sued. |
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Life On A String
The harsh, breathtaking central Chinese plains provide the backdrop for this fable of a young blind boy who is tutored on life's higher truths by a wizened old man. |
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Man With A Movie Camera
This dawn-to-dusk view of the Soviet Union offers a montage of urban Russian life, showing the people of the city at work and at play Considered one of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era. USSR. 1929. 68min. B&W. |
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The Mirror
Nostalgic visions of the director's childhood combine with stunning slow motion dream sequences and stark WWII newsreels to form a complex, poetic, and personal view of his own life and hardships. |
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Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears
A wonderful and insightful romantic comedy, MOSCOW DOES NOT BELIEVE IN TEARS is a charming story of three country girls who move to the city in search of happiness. |
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Sudden Fear
Joan Crawford delivers an emotionally charged performance as a playwright who uses her plotting skills to save her own life. The supporting cast, headed by a young Jack Palance and tartish Gloria Grahame, plus a rousing Elmer Bernstein score, combine for a jolting climax. |
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Tchaikovsky
Unlike the Hollywood biographies of the great composer's life, director Igor Talankin avoids the sentimentality and cliché creating a distinctive clarity and freshness of perspective. Emphasis is placed upon two of Tchaikovsky's important relationships and their impact upon his professional and emotional life. See and hear Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Eugin Onigin and more. |
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Those Who Love Me Can Take The Train
The students of a charismatic yet tyrannical painter arrive for his funeral in this celebration of new life blossoming from tragic loss. |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novelization of the harsh realities of slavery was
a catalyst for the anti-slavery movement and remains a landmark in American
literature. This 1927 film adaptation |
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Way Down East
Griffith billed this film as a "simple tale of plain people." This modest remark does little to convey the scale and significance of one of this director's most ambitious works and his most popular after Birth of a Nation. |
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The Wonderful, Horrible Life Of Leni Riefenstahl
A spellbinding account of the career of the most renowned woman director, best known as Hitler's moviemaker. Studded with fascinating clips from her work: Triumph of the Will, Olympia, The Blue Light, Tiefland and more. |
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Zero Kelvin
Visually stunning and psychologically intense, ZERO KELVIN is a one-of-a-kind achievement, an existential thriller played out against the bleakly beautiful landscapes of Greenland. |
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Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Standard Edition)
Buster is caught between two feuding riverboat owners and a brewing hurricane. |
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Sally Of The Sawdust
W. C. Fields stars as a lovable con man who becomes the unlikely guardian of an orphaned circus waif (Carol Dempster). |
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Scandal In Paris
A rediscovered classic from legendary director Douglas Sirk (Imitation Of Life), A Scandal In Paris (aka Thieves Holiday) is an irresistibly clever and wicked melodrama that observes the romantic and criminal pursuits of the debonair thief Francois Eugene Vidocq (George Sanders). U.S. 1946. 100 mins. B&W.
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She (Standard B&W Edition)
Producer Merian C. Cooper (King Kong) employed 5,000 actors and stunt people, huge sets and every special effect to create this epic adventure, in which a man (Randolph Scott) searches for the flame of eternal life in the middle of arctic Asia.
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Siberian Lady Macbeth
In what might be termed Russo-Shakespearean noir, a ruthless woman's adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk. |
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Kadosh
"Incandescent" portrayals by two Israeli actresses illuminate the plight of women within Orthodox Judaism today. Using superb cinematography, ethnic music, and authentic Jerusalem locations, Israel's best known filmmaker renders a heartbreaking chamber story of two sisters and their broken marriages. Hands down the most internationally acclaimed and popular film ever from Israel. |
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Yeelen
From one of the master African film directors, the story of Nianankoro, a young African warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father and inevitably himself. |
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Zou Zou
Co-starring with Jean Gabin, Baker plays a talented Cinderella who takes the place of the lead on opening night of a musical review. With five great musical numbers including "Haiti". |
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Kaspar Hauser
The winner of the German “Oscar” for Best Actor, Director and Picture, and acclaimed by critics upon its U.S. theatrical release, Kaspar Hauser is a powerful mix of social commentary and moody, evocative filmmaking. It boasts the visual splendor and sweep of an historical drama while exploring one of the most notorious mysteries of German culture. "Amazing! A tour-de-force of wit, originality and poignancy." - Kevin Thomas The Los Angeles Times |
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Adoption
Winner of the Grand Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, this story of a lonely woman who finds love in the companionship of a young girl is a masterpiece of the cinema. |
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Broken Blossoms
The heartbreaking story of a waterfront waif (Lillian Gish) from the Limehouse district of London who escapes the abuse of her father (Donald Crisp) through a doomed relationship with a Chinese immigrant (Richard Barthelmess). |
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Brother
Set in contemporary St. Petersburg, Alexei Balabanov's Brother is an American-style gangster flick mixed with pointed social consciousness. As Daniiella, the principal young contract killer, Sergei Bodrov Jr. gives a star-making performance. |
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The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
A masterpiece of psychological horror and the film that has come to epitomize the mysterious highly stylized German Expressionist cinema. A demented hypnotist and his ghastly henchman spread death througout the German countryside. Newly remastered from the archival German material and tinted according to original instructions with evocative score. Germany. 1919. 73 min. Color tinted. |
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Cabiria
Set amidst the splendor of ancient Rome, this film quickly became the most spectacular of the italian cinema's epic, historical genre. Restored using newly mastered materials, variable speed projection and a thrilling piano score. |
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Come And See
A crowning achievement of the 1980�s Soviet Cinema revived in 2001 to great acclaim. COME AND SEE is perhaps the ultimate WWII film. With haunting imagery, this stark testimonial to the madness of grief of war recounts the nightmarish journeys of an adolescent boy during the Nazi occupation of Byelorussia. |
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Les Bonnes Femmes
Claude Chabrol, a key New Wave filmmaker and considered the French Hitchcock" focuses on everyday lives of four young women longing for better things to create onoe of his best and most disturbing fims. France. 1960. 95 min. B&W. French w/English subtitles. Letterboxed. |
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The Blue Kite
The most acclaimed and controversial film of
the new Chinese cinema, THE BLUE KITE
traces the fate of a Beijing boy and his family
as they experience the political and social upheavals
in 1950s and '60s China. |
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Blood And Sand
Rudolph Valentino stars as a matador who falls into the clutches of a beautiful, insincere society woman. This version also includes a rare Valentino short. |
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Battling Butler (Standard Edition)
A love-stricken spoiled rich boy must win the heart of Sally O'Neill by stepping into the boxing ring. Includes THE HAUNTED HOUSE (1921) and FROZEN NORTH (1922). |
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Before The Nickelodeon
Noted film historian Charles Musser co-wrote and directed this definitive tribute to Edwin S. Porter, the mechanic and cameraman for Thomas Edison, now recognized as a major contributor to the evolution of film structure. From the time of The Great Train Robbery in 1903 until Griffith started at Biograph (1908), Porter held center stage in early US cinema. Narrated by Blanche Sweet, the documentary features eighteen complete films including Life of an American Fireman, Jack and the Beanstalk and more. U.S. 1982. B/W & Color. 60 min. |
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The Belle of Amherst
Julie Harris gives a luminous portrayal as Emily Dickinson, the first woman of American letters, in this reprise of the production that won her a Tony Award. "There is no actress more magical than Julie Harris." - Rex Reed . |
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The Black Pirate
In this quintessential Technicolor swashbuckler epic buoyed by spectacular action sequences, Fairbanks stars as a wealthy nobleman who infiltrates a band of pirates in order to avenge the death of his father. |
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Contraband
An excellent spy story from the sterling team of Powell and Pressburger. Danish freighter captain Conrad Veidt is detained in wartime Contraband Control, then must trail temptress Valerie Hobson through the demi-monde of a blacked out London. |
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Daughters of The Dust
A hauntingly beautiful tale set at the turn of the century on the Sea Islands off the Georgia coast. DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST portrays the unique culture of the Gullah people by focusing on the extended Peazant family as its members struggle with the decision to leave their island and move north. On the eve of their departure, memories of their Gullah history and its African roots come rising to the surface. |
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The Hitch-hiker
The only true film noir ever directed by a woman, this tour-de-force thriller (considered by many, including Lupino herself, to be her best film) is a classic, tension-packed, three-way dance of death about two middle-class American homebodies (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) who stumble upon a psychopathic hitchhiker. |
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Hour of the Star
With only hope and fantasy, a young woman who moves from the impoverished rural countryside to bustling São Paulo copes with the harsh realities of urban life in this bittersweet, widely-acclaimed film. |
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Il Grido
In this rare early film from Michelangelo Antonioni (L'avventura and Blowup), a man struggles with his inability to relate to those around him. |
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Intolerance
D.W. Griffith had a vision of the movies as the greatest spiritual force the world had ever known. Just one year after the huge success of THE BIRTH OF A NATION, he was emboldened to prove his faith in the new medium with the superproduction INTOLERANCE. |
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Halfaouine
A charming tale of a young boy's sexual awakening in Muslim Tunisia. Boughedir's style is sensual and full of joy, celebrating the pleasures of everyday life. |
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The General (Standard Edition)
Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton's The General is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with every viewing. |
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Dersu Uzala
In this Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Japanese director Akira Kurosawa stages an extraordinary adventure of comradeship and survival. |
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Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
This first great American horror film follows the transformation of a prominent London physician, Dr. Jeckyll, into the murderous Mr. Hyde while he explores the dual nature of man. |
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Eva
Cut by the producer and unseen for three decades, Joseph Losey described this original European version as "almost an orgasm." This enchanting story of an author's romance with a mod courtesan stars Stanley Baker and Jeanne Moreau. |
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Father
A fable of post war Hungary in which a youth with only the skimpiest memories of his now dead father weaves fantasies which he comes to believe. Shows great understanding of the complexities of childhood. |
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Devarim
DEVARIM is the first of Gitai's acclaimed trilogy of films about life in Israel's major cities (YOM YOM is set in Haifa and KADOSH is set in Jerusalem). Set in Tel Aviv during one very hot summer, it follows the intersecting lives of three young men: a photographer, a would-be musician, and a lawyer. |
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Yom Yom
In YOM YOM, the second film in Amos Gitai's (DEVARIM, KADOSH) celebrated "City Trilogy," Israel's preeminent writer-director weaves, "a darkly comic tale of characters driven by divided loyalties and neurotic inhibitions" (THE VILLAGE VOICE) in the mixed nationality Mediterranean port city of Haifa. |
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The Return
In this hauntingly beautiful drama two brothers lives are forever changed when the father who abandoned them suddenly reappears. |
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Alila
Amos Gitai's ALILA tells the story of over a dozen distinct characters who inhabit an apartment complex located in a rundown neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel. |
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Free Radicals
A group of friends in a suburban Austrian town reexamine their lives after the unexpected death of a young woman who appeared to be leading a charmed life. |
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Take Care of My Cat
A surprise hit at festivals from Rotterdam to Toronto, this first time film by a young Korean woman is an original and engaging look at young women trying to navigate the traumatic journey to adulthood. |
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L'Age D'or
L'AGE D'OR, the surrealist masterpiece of 20th century cinema is now available on DVD to challenge, arouse, unnerve, amuse, and galvanize the uninitiated for generations to come. |
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Asylum: A film by Peter Robinson
A truly unique documentary that examines the controversial ideas of psychiatrist and philosopher R. D. Laing. ASYLUM is both an exploration of Laing's alternative theories on schizophrenia and an invaluable record of the day-to-day lives of some forgotten members of society. |
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Circle of Deceit
Set in Beirut during the 1970s Civil War, Bruno Ganz and Hanna Schygulla star in this extraordinary film about how the West in general and jouralists in particular confront terrorism in the Middle East. This film has only become more relevant with age. |
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Dementia (plus Daughter of Horror)
An entirely unique and utterly bizarre rediscovery, John J. Parker's DEMENTIA is a 1950s-style foray into the mind of psycho-sexual madness. Set entirely in a nocturnal twilight zone that blends dream imagery with the cinematic stylings of film noir, the film follows the tormented existence of a young woman haunted by the horrors of her youth, which transformed her into a stiletto-wielding, man-hating beatnik. |
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The Thief of Bagdad
Highlighted by majestic set design by William Cameron Menzies, this awe-inspiring jaunt through exotic Arabia follows a young thief who faces supernatural challenges to win the heart of his beloved princess. Accompanied by a score by the Mont Alto Orchestra, this is the definitive version of Fairbanks' magical fantasy. |
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Robin Hood
Determined to make the most visually spectacular film ever made, Douglas Fairbanks constructed a full-size castle and populated it with a legion of sword-wielding soldiers and delicate maidens. As the defiant "Prince of Thieves", Fairbanks bounds through the lavish scenery with unparalleled magnetism, stealing from the rich, giving to the poor, and sealing his reputation as cinema's most energetic and appealing adventurer. |
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The Last Days Of Pompeii
An influential Italian epic that paved the way for the elaborate costume drama, The Last Days Of Pompeii romanticizes the final hours of those ill-fated souls living in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. |
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Chi-hwa-seon
Im Kwon-Taek's ninety-fifth film tells the story of renowned nineteenth-century painter Jang Seung-up (Choi Min-Sik), an artist whose revolutionary work - and persona - forever changed the face of Korean art. Sweeping yet personal, Chihwaseon paints its pictures in passionate brushstrokes, befitting the life of a tumultuous artist with a lust for ife. |
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Biograph Shorts (Special Edition)
The selection of motion pictures featured in this two-disc set traces D. W. Griffith's rapid, unparalleled development as a filmmaker during his five year stint at the Biograph Company -- a development that contributed substantially to the emergence of film as a powerful form of cultural expression. |
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The Red Kimona
This film is based on the infamous true story of a young girl who is tricked into a life of prostitution in New Orleans and goes on trial for murdering her pimp/lover. Producer and co-director Dorothy Davenport Reid became a director after the tragic death of her husband matinee idol Wallace Reid in 1923 from an accidental drug overdose. |
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Young Dr. Freud
Observes the struggling young medical student as he wrestles with his tremendous ambition, his penniless family, flirtatious fiancee, and pre WW-I Vienna. |
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Watermarks
Debut helmer Yaron Zilberman's WATERMARKS is the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Vienna sports club Hakoah, a wildly victorious Jewish organization created in response to Austrian anti-Semitism. Alternating between historical footage and contemporary interviews with the women, the film reconnects the lives and memories of those who challenged the status quo -- and lived to tell of it. |
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Siren of the Tropics
Available only as a fragment for decades, Baker's first film debut establishes the rags to riches fairy tale from which her subsequent films would be cut - this time set in a conspicuously Parisian Antilles. Among the crew was a very young Luis Buñuel! |
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Happily Ever After
Writer-director Yvan Attal takes a "funny, observant, evanescent approach to the mysteries of human desire" (Jami Bernard, NY DAILY NEWS) in HAPPILY EVER AFTER, a bittersweet comedy about the battle of the married sexes. |
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
"I get 50,000 Yen a day, plus expenses," growls tough-talking detective Maiku "Mike" Hama (Masatoshi Nagase) in The Stairway to the Distant Past, the second part of director Kaizo Hayashi's stylish modern-day Japanese film noir trilogy. Picking up where The Most Terrible Time in My Life left off, Stairway delivers a knockout combination of widescreen color visuals and savvy pulp storytelling more luridly violent, outrageously ironic and sincerely affecting than its predecessor. |
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Edison: The Invention of the Movies
An unprecedented collaboration of Kino International and the Museum of Modern Art, together with the Library of Congress. EDISON: THE INVENTION OF THE MOVIES is a four-disc box set featuring 140 complete Edison Co. films from 1891 to 1918, all restored and newly remastered. This deluxe set also includes 200+ scans of artifacts from MoMA's Edison collection, film-by-film program notes, and two hours of interviews with early film experts. |
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I Have Found It
A Bollywood retelling of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. |
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Days of Being Wild
In his first hypnotic backward glance at Hong Kong in 1960, Wong Kar-Wai follows its half dozen characters through their individual searches for intimacy. With Leslie Cheung (FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE) and Maggie Cheung (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE). |
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As Tears Go By
WKW's impressive first feature ably converts the director's now celebrated
visual style into an incendiary "Heroic Bloodshed" street opera á la John Woo. |
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Life and Nothing But
One of director Tavernier's most ambitious films. With this gorgeously photographed anti-war epic, Tavernier examines the emotional hurdles that separate rich from poor, men from women, history from truth and regret from hope. Stars Philippe Noiret.(Cinema Paradiso). |
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Let Joy Reign Supreme
LET JOY REIGN SUPREME is an extraordinarily detailed and character dense look at French monarchy, diplomacy and debauchery on the threshold of a bloody insurrection. Philippe Noiret plays the infamous Phillipe d'Orleans, uncrowned king of France, a nation divided by poverty and riddled with greed and conspiricy. |
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Untold Scandal
Combining bold erotica, historical detail, and eloquent tragedy, Untold Scandalroots Choderlos de Laclo' Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 19th Century Korea. Previously set in pre-revolutionary France (Dangerous Liaisons) and in a wealthy New York prep school (Cruel Intentions), this version of the timeless Gallic tale of treachery, lust, and sacrifice "may even be the best of the lot" (The Los Angeles Times). |
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Spies (Restored Authorized Edition)
Previously seen in the U.S. in a severely truncated form, Fritz Lang's elaborate superspy thriller is at last restored to its proper length. This newly restored edition of Spies is composed of the best surviving 35mm film elements, assembled from archives throughout the world. It is more than 50 minutes longer than any version previously released on video. |
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Sex in Chains
Brimming with visual invention and breathless erotic angst, Sex in Chains uniquely combines gorgeous cinematic craftsmanship with bold subject matter. |
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Different from the Others
One of the first gay-themed films in the history of cinema. Different From the Others was banned at the time of its release, later burned by Nazis and was believed lost for more than forty years. Now recovered, this brave effort to repeal Germany's Paragraph 175 - which sentenced thousands of accused German homosexuals to jail terms for "unnatural vice between men" - is suprisingly progressive, even by today's standards. Starring Conrad Veidt (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari). |
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The Trap
In love for the first time, cases booked solidly for months and a brand
new fax machine prodding his office into the nineties, down-on-his-luck
private eye Maiku "Mike" Hama has the world on a string at last. Or does he?
In The Trap, things are not what they seem. When a hooded stranger appears
in his office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama
is drawn into a string of bizarre serial murders that have Yokohama's police
baffled and the city terrified. |
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25 Fireman's Street
Hungary's postwar history told through the dreams, nightmares, and memories of the inhabitants of an old house on the eve of it's destruction. |
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Time Regained
Catherine Deneuve and John Malkovich head a brilliant cast in Ruiz's brilliant adaptation of the final installment of Marcel Proust's multi-volume Remembrance of Things Past. Time, memory, and the blending of reality and fiction combine to create an unforgettable cinematic experience, as Proust looks back on his life from his deathbed. |
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Time of Favor
Winner of six Israeli Academy Awards including Best Picture, TIME OF FAVOR is a taut thriller about the volatile relationship between Orthodox nationalists and the Israeli army. Stars Assi Dayan as a charismatic West Bank Rabbi. |
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Three Sisters
Anton Chekhov's classic play about the lives of three sisters living in a remote Russian village is given the all-star treatment by director and star Laurence Olivier. |
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Sebastiane
Derek Jarman's feature film debut is a historical drama which lays bare the latent homoeroticism that has always lurked beneath the glossy surface of Hollywood biblical epics, audaciously spoken in Latin and supported by one of Brian Eno's best music scores. |
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The Piano Teacher (Unrated Director's Cut)
Winner of three major awards at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, THE PIANO TEACHER features a tour-de-force performance by Isabelle Huppert as Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed music professor who becomes obsessed with one of her young students. |
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The Man in the Glass Booth
A New York-based Jewish real estate tycoon is suddenly accused of being a Nazi war criminal. At his trial in Israel, he adopts a shocking defense which raises more questions than it answers. Based on Robert Shaw's book and play. |
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Waxworks
In this rarely seen masterwork of German expressionism, a trilogy of terror is woven around the wax figures of a carnival side show. Jack the Ripper (Werner Krauss); Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt), and Haroun al Raschid all spring to life through a variety of visual techniques. |
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A Year of the Quiet Sun
Golden Lion (Best Film) winner at the 1984 Venice Film Festival, this quietly brilliant gem is set in Poland during the aftermath of WWII. A tragic love affair develops between an American sergeant (Scott Wilson) and a freightened Polish widow (Maja Komorowska). |
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
one of the landmarks of 1960's world cinema in a new transfer that restores Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors in all the extravagant color, vivid tragedy, and lucid anthropological detail that stunned audiences when it first premiered. |
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Genesis
A visual retelling of the biblical story of the house of Abraham from an African perspective, the film portrays the bitter rivalry between brothers Jacob and Esau which threatens to engulf both clans in a never-ending cycle of violence. |
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Boesman & Lena
The acclaimed final film of blacklist survivor John Berry (Claudine) showcases Danny Glover and Angela Bassett in stellar performances as a South African couple whose relationship has changed dramatically under the oppression of Apartheid. Based on the play by Athol Fugard, and filmed in South Africa. |
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Metropolis (2002 Restoration)
METROPOLIS can now be appreciated in its full glory! It is, as A. O. Scott of THE NEW YORK TIMES declared, "A fever dream of the future. At last we have the movie every would-be cinematic visionary has been trying to make since 1927." |
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The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD is the timeless story of an aristocratic
Russian family torn apart by buried secrets and changing times. Stars Alan Bates and
Charlotte Rampling.
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The Love Trap / Directed by William Wyler
Wyler's fascinating silent/talkie stars Laura La Plante (The Cat and the Canary) as a dancer fired from her job, menaced by a womanizer (Robert Ellis), who is finally rescued by a wealthy young businessman (Neil Hamilton). Also includes the acclaimed documentary DIRECTED BY WILLIAM WYLER. |
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Lovefilm (aka A Film About Love)
The 1956 Russian invasion of Hungary provides the backdrop for this story of young lovers whose lives are forever changed by the political events around them. From the director of Mephisto, Colonel Redl, and Hanussen. |
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Tartuffe
A fable of religious hypocrisy, in which a faithful wife (Lil Dagover) tries to convince her husband (Werner Krauss) that their morally superior guest, Tartuffe (Emil Jannings), is in fact a lecherous hypocrite with a taste for the grape. |
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Galileo
Based on the play by Bertolt
Brecht (originally translated
by Charles Laughton),
GALILEO explores not
merely the infamous historical
figure, but the philosophical
concepts for which
he was both celebrated and
condemned. |
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Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Kino's presentation of AFT's Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris is proof of this celebrated modern troubadour's timeless relevance and enduring passion.
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A Christmas Past
A CHRISTMAS PAST offers a nostalgic peek into the Yuletide pleasures of the early 1900s. Evoking the Victorian charm of Currier and Ives prints, these picturesque comedies and tender dramas were produced as cinematic Christmas cards offered to moviegoers of the silent era. |
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The European Pioneers
From the archives of the British Film Institute, this collection features forty distinctive works from cinema's infancy, produced by such Euro pioneers as R.W. Paul, George Edward Smith, Fran Mottershaw, Walter Haggar & Sons, and James Bamforth, as well as by acknowledged innovators like the Lumière brothers and Méliès. Includes Demolition of a Wall (1896), Exiting the Factory (1895), and Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (circa 1895). |
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Experimentation and Discovery
EXPERIMENTATION AND DISCOVERY (vol. 3 of THE MOVIES BEGIN)
Dir. (various). U.S. and Europe. 1898-1910. Color-tinted, B&W.
Frequently comical, often risque, and sometimes just plain baffling, the twenty films of this anthology challenged the precepts of the visual representation of narrative, thereby inventing the photographic and editing techniques that would quickly become accepted as cinematic syntax. Includes Peeping Tom (1901), History of a Crime (1901), How It Feels to be Run Over (1900), and The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906). |
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The Magic of Méliès
Tribute is paid to the screen's first special effects wizard in this special collection of marvelously restored prints. In addition to more than a dozen of his early trompes l'oeil - such as Untamable Wiskers, Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer, and The Mermaid - this volume boasts the illuminating documentary, Georges Méliès, Cinema Magician and a rare hand-tinted print of the fantastic spectacle An Impossible Voyage. |
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Hell's Highway (plus Signal 30, Highways of Agony, Options to Live)
This unique documentary recounts the history of the shock-value driver's education films that haunted American teens. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, these grisly movies used unflinching color footage of fatal accidents to scare young drivers. |
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Faust (Standard Edition)
The legend of Faust is a masterpiece
of world literature
that inspired literary giants
from Goethe and Shakespeare
to Thomas Mann. Murnau’s
classic dramatization brings
the legend to life that ranks
alongside Fritz Lang’s
Metropolis as the greatest
achievement of the German silent cinema. Gosta
Ekman stars as the titular alchemist who, struggling
with his faith amidst a devastating plague, is offered
the power to cure and the gift of youth...in exchange for his soul. The diabolical Mephisto is by turns charming, comical, and horrific. |
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The Last Laugh
An unqualified maserwork of the silent cinema, the Kino edition is fully restored and mastered from a 35mm archive negative, with an orchestral score by Timothy Brock recorded in digital stereo. |
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Kippur
Acclaimed filmmaker Amos Gitai's semi-autobiographical account of the 1973 Yom Kippur war from the point of view of a young soldier. Kippur is not a traditional "blood, guts and glory" war film.
There are no men in battle, only the rescue crews trying to pick up the
broken pieces. Kippur is the shell-shocked memoir of the director Gitai, himself a participant in the conflict, and of the days that changed his life forever. |
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The Iceman Cometh
Considered the definitive film version of one of Eugene O'Neill's greatest plays, this simple tale of a birthday celebration at a saloon takes a devastating look at disillusionment and dashed hopes. |
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The Homecoming
A professor returns home after a long absence to introduce his wife to his father and two brothers, but the family reunion has unexpected and disturbing consequences. Based on one of Harold Pinter's greatest plays. |
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The Golem
Recognized as the source of the Frankenstein myth, an ancient Hebrew legend provides the substance for one of the most adventurous films of the early German cinema and a landmark in the evolution of the horror film. Suffering under the tyrannical rule of a merciless despot, a 16th century Talmudic rabbi creates a giant clay warrior that comes to life in a grand scale climax. |
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Butley
Alan Bates turns his Tony-winning role into one of his greatest film performances as a lecturer who experiences a truly awful day. |
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A Delicate Balance
An invasion of friends and family pushes the repressed problems of a complacent marriage to the fore in this exceptional adapatation of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. |
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A Fool There Was
The original "Vamp," Theda Bara stars as an exotic temptress who lures a once faithful man away from his wife. Only a handful of Bara's films survive today, but this is the drama for which she is best remembered. The film shocked audiences and brought something unexpected to the silent screen: an unrepentant woman with a voracious sexual appetite. |
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Comedy, Spectacle, and New Horizons
This edition explores the establishment of cinematic genres in the first years of the 20th Century, offering rare glimpses of the innovative visual comedy of Max Linder, the pioneering Italian epic NERO - or THE BURNING OF ROME, the phenomenal animation of Windsor McCoy, the social realism of Alice Guy Blaché's MAKING OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, D. W. Griffith's early melodrama A GIRL AND HER TRUST, and more! . |
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