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Betty Blue (1986)
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
Country: France
Duration: 185 minutes
Language: French
Spine #1002
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Blue Notes and Bungalows, an hour-long documentary from 2013 featuring Beineix, actors Jean-Hugues Anglade and Béatrice Dalle, associate producer Claudie Ossard, cinematographer Jean-François Robin, and composer Gabriel Yared
Making of “Betty Blue,” a short video featuring Beineix and author Philippe Djian
Le chien de Monsieur Michel, a short film by Beineix from 1977
French television interview from 1986 with Beineix and Dalle
Dalle screen test
Trailers
PLUS: An essay by critic Chelsea Phillips-Carr
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The Daytrippers (1996)
Directed by Greg Mottola
Country: United States, Canada
Duration: 87 minutes
Language: English
Spine #1001
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New audio commentary featuring Mottola, editor Anne McCabe, and producer Steven Soderbergh
New interviews with Mottola and actors Hope Davis, Parker Posey, Liev Schreiber, and Campbell Scott
The Hatbox, a 1985 short film by Mottola, with audio commentary by the director
PLUS: An essay by critic Emily Nussbaum
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Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954-1975
Spine #1000
DVD BOX SET FEATURES
High-definition digital transfers of all fifteen Godzilla films made between 1954 and 1975, released together for the first time, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
High-definition digital transfers of Godzilla, King of the Monsters, the 1956 U.S.-release version of Godzilla; and the 1962 Japanese-release version of King Kong vs. Godzilla, presented with its original 4.0 surround soundtrack.
Audio commentaries from 2011 on Godzilla and Godzilla, King of the Monsters featuring film historian David Kalat
International English-language dub tracks for Invasion of Astro-Monster, Son of Godzilla, Destroy All Monsters, Godzilla vs. Megalon, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, and Terror of Mechagodzilla
Directors Guild of Japan interview with director Ishiro Honda, conducted by director Yoshimitsu Banno in 1990
Featurette detailing Godzilla’s photographic effects
Toho Unused Special Effects Complete Collection, a 1986 documentary featuring archival making-of footage; scenes deleted from films including Destroy All Monsters, King Kong vs. Godzilla, and Mothra vs. Godzilla; and interviews with Honda, producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, special-effects director Teruyoshi Nakano, and others
New interview with filmmaker Alex Cox about his admiration for the Showa-era Godzilla films
New and archival interviews with cast and crew members, including actors Bin Furuya, Tsugutoshi Komada, Haruo Nakajima, and Akira Takarada; composer Akira Ifukube; and effects technicians Yoshio Irie and Eizo Kaimai
Interview with critic Tadao Sato from 2011
Illustrated audio essay from 2011 about the real-life tragedy that inspired Godzilla
Trailers
PLUS: A lavishly illustrated deluxe hardcover book featuring an essay by cinema historian Steve Ryfle, notes on the films by cinema historian Ed Godziszewski, and new illustrations by Arthur Adams, Sophie Campbell, Becky Cloonan, Jorge Coelho, Geof Darrow, Simon Gane, Robert Goodin, Benjamin Marra, Monarobot, Takashi Okazaki, Angela Rizza, Yuko Shimizu, Bill Sienkiewicz, Katsuya Terada, Ronald Wimberly, and Chris Wisnia
FILMS INCLUDED IN THE BOX SET
Godzilla (1954)
Directed by Ishiro Honda
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 minutes
Language: Japanese
Spine #594
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New high-definition digital restoration of Godzilla, King of the Monsters, Terry Morse’s 1956 reworking of the original, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Audio commentary for both movies by film historian David Kalat
New interviews with actors Akira Takarada and Haruo Nakajima and special effects technicians Yoshio Irie and Eizo Kaimai
Interview with legendary Godzilla score composer Akira Ifukube
Featurette detailing Godzilla’s photographic effects, introduced by special effects director Koichi Kawakita and special effects photographer Motoyoshi Tomioka
New interview with Japanese-film critic Tadao Sato
The Unluckiest Dragon, an illustrated audio essay featuring historian Greg Pflugfelder describing the tragic fate of the fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryu Maru, a real-life event that inspired Godzilla
Trailers for Godzilla and Godzilla, King of the Monsters
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic J. Hoberman
"GODZILLA" (a.k.a. "GOJIRA") (c) 1954 Toho Co., Ltd. "GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS" (c) 1956 Toho Co., Ltd. Godzilla, Gojira, the character designs and King of the Monsters are trademarks of Toho Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.
Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
Directed by Motoyoshi Oda
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 minutes
Language: Japanese
King Kong vs Godzilla (1963)
Directed by Ishiro Honda
English Version Directed by Thomas Montgomery
Country: Japan, United States
Duration: 91 minutes
Language: English, Japanese
Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
Directed by Ishiro Honda
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 minutes
Language: Japanese
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
Directed by Ishiro Honda
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 minutes
Language: Japanese
Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
Directed by Ishiro Honda
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 minutes
Language: Japanese
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
Directed by Jun Fukuda
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 minutes
Language: Japanese
Son of Godzilla (1967)
Directed by Jun Fukuda
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 minutes
Language: Japanese
Destroy All Monsters (1968)
Directed by Ishiro Honda
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 minutes
Language: Japanese
All Monsters Attack (1969)
Directed by Ishiro Honda
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 minutes
Language: Japanese
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)
Directed by Yoshimitsu Banno
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 minutes
Language: Japanese
Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
Directed by Jun Fukuda
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 minutes
Language: Japanese
Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
Directed by Jun Fukuda
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 minutes
Language: Japanese
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
Directed by Jun Fukuda
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 minutes
Language: Japanese
Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
Directed by Ishiro Honda
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 minutes
Language: Japanese
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Matewan (1987)
Directed by John Sayles
Country: United States
Duration: 133 minutes
Language: English
Spine #999
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2013 featuring Sayles and cinematographer Haskell Wexler
Two new documentaries on the making of the film featuring Sayles, producer Maggie Renzi, production designer Nora Chavooshian, and actors Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham, and David Strathairn
New interview with composer Mason Daring
Short documentary on the impact that Matewan’s production had on West Virginia
New program on the film’s production design featuring Chavooshian
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic A. S. Hamrah
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When We Were Kings (1996)
Directed by Leon Gast
Country: United States
Duration: 87 minutes
Language: English
Spine #998
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Soul Power, a 2008 documentary about the Zaïre 74 music festival directed by Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte
New interview with producer David Sonenberg
Interview from 1997 with director Leon Gast
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Kelefa Sanneh
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Cluny Brown (1946)
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Country: United States
Duration: 100 minutes
Language: English
Spine #997
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation between film critics Molly Haskell and Farran Smith Nehme on unconventional female characters in Ernst Lubitsch’s films
New video essay by film scholar Kristin Thompson
The Lubitsch Touch, an interview with film scholar Bernard Eisenschitz from 2004
Screen Directors Playhouse radio adaptation of the film from 1950, featuring Dorothy McGuire and Charles Boyer
PLUS: An essay by novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt
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The Circus (1928)
Directed by Charles Chaplin
Country: United States
Duration: 72 minutes
Silent
Spine #996
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New audio commentary featuring Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance
Interview with Chaplin from 1969
New interview with Chaplin’s son Eugene Chaplin
In the Service of the Story, a new program on the film’s visual effects and production design by film scholar Craig Barron
Chaplin Today: “The Circus,” a 2003 documentary on the film featuring filmmaker Emir Kusturica
Excerpted audio interview from 1998 with Chaplin musical associate Eric James
Unused café sequence with new score by composer Timothy Brock, and related outtakes with narration by comedy choreographer Dan Kamin
Newly discovered outtakes featuring the Tramp and the circus rider
Excerpts from the original recording session for the film’s opening song, “Swing Little Girl”
Footage of the film’s 1928 Hollywood premiere
Rerelease trailers
PLUS: An essay by critic Pamela Hutchinson
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Polyester (1981)
Directed by John Waters
Country: United States
Duration: 86 minutes
Language: English
Spine #995
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary featuring Waters from the 1993 Criterion laserdisc release of the film
New conversation between Waters and critic Michael Musto
New program featuring interviews with Waters collaborators Tab Hunter, Dennis Dermody, Pat Moran, Vincent Peranio, Mink Stole, Mary Garlington, and Greer Yeaton
Interviews from 1993 with crew members Moran, Peranio, and Van Smith
Archival interviews with Waters, Moran, and actors Divine and Edith Massey, featuring footage from the making of the film
Twenty minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Elena Gorfinkel, a foldout poster of the cover, and a scratch-and-sniff Odorama™ card
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Local Hero (1983)
Directed by Bill Forsyth
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 111 minutes
Language: English
Spine #994
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2018 featuring director Bill Forsyth and film critic Mark Kermode
New conversation between Forsyth and film critic David Cairns
Shooting from the Heart, a 1985 documentary about the work of cinematographer Chris Menges
Episode of The South Bank Show from 1983 about the production of the film
The Making of “Local Hero,” a documentary made during the film’s production, featuring interviews with actors Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster
I Thought Maybe I’d Get to Meet Alan Whicker, a 1983 interview with Forsyth
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Jonathan Murray
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The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
Directed by Ritwik Ghatek
Country: India
Duration: 127 minutes
Language: Bengali
Spine #993
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation between filmmakers Saeed Akhtar Mirza and Kumar Shahani
Stills gallery featuring rare photographs related to director Ritwik Ghatak’s life and work, curated by writer and photographer Nabarupa Bhattacharjee
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ira Bhaskar
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Through the Olive Trees (1994)
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Country: Iran
Duration: 103 minutes
Language: Persian
Spine #992
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with director Abbas Kiarostami’s son Ahmad Kiarostami
New conversation between scholar Jamsheed Akrami and critic Godfrey Cheshire
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And Life Goes On (1992)
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 minutes
Language: Persian
Spine #991
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New audio commentary featuring Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum, coauthors of Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams, a 1994 documentary
New interview with scholar Hamid Naficy
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Where Is the Friend's House? (1987)
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Country: Iran
Duration: 83 minutes
Language: Persian
Spine #990
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Homework (1989), a feature-length documentary by director Abbas Kiarostami, newly restored
Conversation from 2015 between Kiarostami and programmer Peter Scarlet
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The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952)
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 minutes
Language: Japanese
Spine #989
DVD BONUS FEATURES
What Did the Lady Forget?, a 1937 feature by Yasujiro Ozu
New video essay by film scholar David Bordwell
Ozu & Noda, a new documentary by Daniel Raim on Ozu’s longtime collaboration with screenwriter Kogo Noda
PLUS: An essay by scholar Junji Yoshida
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The Inland Sea (1991)
Directed by Lucille Carra
Country: United States
Duration: 56 minutes
Language: Japanese, English
Spine #988
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with Carra
New conversation between filmmaker Paul Schrader and cultural critic Ian Buruma on author Donald Richie
Interview with Richie from 1991
PLUS: An essay by author Arturo Silva
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Klute (1971)
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Country: United States
Duration: 114 minutes
Language: English
Spine #987
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with actor Jane Fonda, conducted by actor Illeana Douglas
New program about Klute and director Alan J. Pakula by filmmaker Matthew Miele, featuring interviews with film scholar Annette Insdorf, filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, and actor Charles Cioffi, along with archival interviews with Pakula
The Look of “Klute,” a new interview with writer Amy Fine Collins
Archival interviews with Pakula and Fonda
“Klute” in New York, a short documentary made during the shooting of the film
PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Harris and excerpts from a 1972 interview with Pakula
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The Baker's Wife (1938)
Directed by Marcel Pagnol
Country: France
Duration: 134 minutes
Language: French
Spine #986
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New selected-scene audio commentary featuring Marcel Pagnol scholar Brett Bowles
Introduction by Pagnol from 1967
Excerpt from a 1966 interview with Pagnol for the French television series Cinéastes de notre temps
Short French news program from 1976 revisiting the village of Le Castellet, where the film was shot
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
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Europa Europa (1990)
Directed by Agnieszka Holland
Country: Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 112 minutes
Language: Polish, Russian, German
Spine #985
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2008 featuring Holland
New interviews with Holland and actor Marco Hofschneider
New interview with Salomon Perel, on whose autobiography the film is loosely based
New video essay by film scholar Annette Insdorf
PLUS: An essay by film critic Amy Taubin
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1984 (1984)
Directed by Michael Radford
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 110 minutes
Language: English
Spine #984
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Two scores: one by Eurythmics and one by composer Dominic Muldowney
New interviews with director Michael Radford and Deakins
New interview with David Ryan, author of George Orwell on Screen
Behind-the-scenes footage
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by writer and performer A. L. Kennedy
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War and Peace (1966)
Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 422 minutes
Language: Russian
Spine #983
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interviews with cinematographer Anatoly Petritsky and filmmaker Fedor Bondarchuk, son of director Sergei Bondarchuk
Two documentaries, from 1966 and 1969, about the making of the film
Television program from 1967 on actor Ludmila Savelyeva, featuring Sergei Bondarchuk
New program with historian Denise J. Youngblood (Bondarchuk’s “War and Peace”: Literary Classic to Soviet Cinematic Epic) detailing the cultural and historical contexts for the film
Janus Films rerelease trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Ella Taylor
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Directed by John Cameron Mitchell
Country: United States
Duration: 91 minutes
Language: English
Spine #982
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2001 featuring Mitchell and DeMarco
New conversation among members of the cast and crew
New conversation between composer and lyricist Stephen Trask and rock critic David Fricke about the soundtrack
Documentary from 2003 tracing the development of the project
Close look at the film’s Adam and Eve sequence
New programs exploring Hedwig's creation, look, and legacy through its memorabilia
Deleted scenes with commentary by Mitchell and DeMarco
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek, and (on the Blu-ray) portraits of Hedwig by photographer Mick Rock, illustrations by animator Emily Hubley, and excerpts from two texts that inspired the film: Plato’s Symposium and The Gospel of Thomas
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L'humanité (1999)
Directed by Bruno Dumont
Country: France
Duration: 148 minutes
Language: French
Spine #981
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with Dumont
Conversation between Dumont and critic Philippe Rouyer from 2014
Segment from a 2000 episode of the French television program Tendances featuring actress Séverine Caneele
Segment from a 1999 French television-news program featuring Dumont
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Nicholas Elliott
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La vie de Jésus (1997)
Directed by Bruno Dumont
Country: France
Duration: 96 minutes
Language: French
Spine #980
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with Dumont
Conversation between Dumont and critic Philippe Rouyer from 2014
Excerpts from two 1997 episodes of the French television program Le cercle de minuit
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Nicholas Elliott
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Swing Time (1936)
Directed by George Stevens
Country: United States
Duration: 103 minutes
Language: English
Spine #979
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 1986 featuring John Mueller, author of Astaire Dancing: The Musical Films
Archival interviews with performers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and choreographer Hermes Pan
New interview with George Stevens Jr.
In Full Swing, a new program on the film’s choreography and soundtrack featuring jazz and film critic Gary Giddins, dance critic Brian Seibert, and Dorothy Fields biographer Deborah Grace Winer
New interview with film scholar Mia Mask on the “Bojangles of Harlem” number
PLUS: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith
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All About Eve (1950)
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Country: United States
Duration: 138 minutes
Language: English
Spine #1003
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Two audio commentaries from 2010, one featuring actor Celeste Holm, director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s son Christopher Mankiewicz, and author Kenneth L. Geist; the other featuring author Sam Staggs
All About Mankiewicz, a feature-length documentary from 1983 about the director
Episodes of The Dick Cavett Show from 1969 and 1980 featuring actors Bette Davis and Gary Merrill
New interview with costume historian Larry McQueen
Hollywood Backstories: “All About Eve,” a 2001 documentary featuring interviews with Davis and others about the making of the film
Documentaries from 2010 about Mankiewicz’s life and career; “The Wisdom of Eve,” the 1946 short story on which the film is based, and its real-world inspiration; and a real-life Sarah Siddons Society based on the film’s fictional organization
Radio adaptation of the film from 1951
Promotion for the film featuring Davis
Plus: An essay by critic Terrence Rafferty and “The Wisdom of Eve”