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Blue Velvet (1986)
Directed by David Lynch
Country: United States
Duration: 120 minutes
Language: English
Spine #977
DVD BONUS FEATURES
The Lost Footage, fifty-three minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes assembled by Lynch
“Blue Velvet” Revisited, a feature-length meditation on the making of the movie by Peter Braatz, filmed on-set during the production
Mysteries of Love, a seventy-minute documentary from 2002 on the making of the film
Interview from 2017 with composer Angelo Badalamenti
It’s a Strange World: The Filming of “Blue Velvet,” a 2019 documentary featuring interviews with crew members and visits to the shooting locations
Lynch reading from Room to Dream, a 2018 book he coauthored with Kristine McKenna
PLUS: Excerpts by McKenna from Room to Dream
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Let the Sunshine In (2017)
Directed by Claire Denis
Country: France
Duration: 95 minutes
Language: French
Spine #976
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interviews with director Claire Denis and actor Juliette Binoche
Voilà l’enchaînement (2014), a short film directed by Denis and adapted from a text by Let the Sunshine In cowriter Christine Angot, featuring actors Norah Krief and Alex Descas
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek
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Funny Games (1997)
Directed by Michael Haneke
Country: Austria
Duration: 109 minutes
Language: German
Spine #975
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interviews with Haneke and actor Arno Frisch
New interview with film historian Alexander Horwath
Press conference from the 1997 Cannes Film Festival featuring Haneke and actors Susanne Lothar and Ulrich Mühe
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Bilge Ebiri
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The Heiress (1949)
Directed by William Wyler
Country: United States
Duration: 115 minutes
Language: English
Spine #974
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation between screenwriter Jay **** and film critic Farran Smith Nehme
New program about the film’s costumes featuring costume collector and historian Larry McQueen
The Costume Designer, a restored 1950 short film featuring costume designer Edith Head
Appearance by actor Olivia de Havilland on a 1986 episode of The Paul Ryan Show
Excerpts from a 1973 tribute to director William Wyler on The Merv Griffin Show, featuring Wyler, de Havilland, and actors Bette Davis and Walter Pidgeon
Wyler’s acceptance speech from the American Film Institute’s 1976 Salute to William Wyler
Interview with actor Ralph Richardson filmed in 1981 for the documentary Directed by William Wyler
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Pamela Hutchinson
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My Brilliant Career (1979)
Directed by Gillian Armstrong
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 minutes
Language: English
Spine #973
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2009 featuring Armstrong
New interview with Armstrong
Interview from 1980 with actor Judy Davis
New interview with production designer Luciana Arrighi
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Carrie Rickey
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Police Story 2 (1988)
Directed by Jackie Chan
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 122 minutes
Language: Cantonese
Spine #972
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Alternate English-dubbed soundtracks
Alternate version of Police Story 2, presented in a 2K digital transfer for the first time from a subtitled 35 mm Hong Kong–release print
New interview with filmmaker Edgar Wright and a 2017 podcast conversation between Wright and actor-director Jackie Chan
New programs on Chan’s screen persona and action-filmmaking techniques featuring author and New York Asian Film Festival cofounder Grady Hendrix
Episode of Son of the Incredibly Strange Film Show from 1989 featuring interviews with Chan and actor Maggie Cheung
Archival interviews with Chan and actor and stuntman Benny Lai
Excerpts from Jackie Chan: My Stunts, a 1999 documentary codirected by and starring Chan
Excerpt from a 2017 television program reuniting Chan with the original members of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team
Television program from 1964 detailing the rigors of Beijing-opera training, akin to the education that Chan received as a child
Chan stunt reel
Trailers
PLUS: An essay by critic Nick Pinkerton
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Police Story (1985)
Directed by Jackie Chan
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 minutes
Language: Cantonese
Spine #971
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Alternate English-dubbed soundtracks
Alternate version of Police Story 2, presented in a 2K digital transfer for the first time from a subtitled 35 mm Hong Kong–release print
New interview with filmmaker Edgar Wright and a 2017 podcast conversation between Wright and actor-director Jackie Chan
New programs on Chan’s screen persona and action-filmmaking techniques featuring author and New York Asian Film Festival cofounder Grady Hendrix
Episode of Son of the Incredibly Strange Film Show from 1989 featuring interviews with Chan and actor Maggie Cheung
Archival interviews with Chan and actor and stuntman Benny Lai
Excerpts from Jackie Chan: My Stunts, a 1999 documentary codirected by and starring Chan
Excerpt from a 2017 television program reuniting Chan with the original members of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team
Television program from 1964 detailing the rigors of Beijing-opera training, akin to the education that Chan received as a child
Chan stunt reel
Trailers
PLUS: An essay by critic Nick Pinkerton
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A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Directed by Elia Kazan
Country: United States
Duration: 126 minutes
Language: English
Spine #970
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with Ron Briley, author of The Ambivalent Legacy of Elia Kazan
New interview with Andy Griffith biographer Evan Dalton Smith
Facing the Past, a 2005 documentary featuring actors Griffith, Patricia Neal, and Anthony Franciosa; screenwriter Budd Schulberg; and film scholars Leo Braudy and Jeff Young
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic April Wolfe, excerpts from director Elia Kazan’s introduction to the film’s published screenplay, and a 1957 New York Times Magazine profile of Griffith
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Diamonds of the Night (1964)
Directed by Jan Němec
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 67 minutes
Language: Czech, German
Spine #969
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Interview from 2009 with director Jan Němec
A Loaf of Bread, Němec’s 1960 student thesis film, based on a short story by Arnošt Lustig
Arnošt Lustig Through the Eyes of Jan Němec, a short documentary from 1993
New interview with film programmer Irena Kovarova
New video essay on the film’s stylistic influences by scholar James Quandt
PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Atkinson
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Japón (2002)
Directed by Carlos Reygadas
Country: Mexico
Duration: 134 minutes
Language: Spanish
Spine #968
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation between Reygadas and filmmaker Amat Escalante
Video diary shot by actor Alejandro Ferretis during the film’s production
Adulte, a 1998 short film by Reygadas
Deleted scene
Trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by novelist Valeria Luiselli, behind-the-scenes photographs, and a selection of Reygadas’s original storyboards
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Country: United States
Duration: 99 minutes
Language: English
Spine #967
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation among Zemeckis, Gale, and executive producer Steven Spielberg
New interview with actors Nancy Allen and Marc McClure
Audio commentary from 2004 featuring Zemeckis and Gale
The Lift (1972) and A Field of Honor (1973), two early short films by Zemeckis
Trailer and radio spots
PLUS: An essay by critic Scott Tobias
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Detour (1945)
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
Country: United States
Duration: 69 minutes
Language: English
Spine #966
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen, a 2004 documentary featuring interviews with actor Ann Savage and filmmakers Roger Corman, Joe Dante, and Wim Wenders
New interview with film scholar Noah Isenberg, author of Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins
New program about the restoration
Janus Films rerelease trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic and poet Robert Polito
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Wanda (1970)
Directed by Barbara Loden
Country: United States
Duration: 103 minutes
Language: English
Spine #965
DVD BONUS FEATURES
I Am Wanda, an hour-long documentary by Katja Raganelli featuring an interview with director Barbara Loden filmed in 1980
Audio recording of Loden speaking to students at the American Film Institute in 1971
Segment from a 1971 episode of The Dick Cavett Show featuring Loden
The Frontier Experience (1975), a short educational film about a pioneer woman’s struggle to survive, directed by and starring Loden
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film critic Amy Taubin
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The Kid Brother (1927)
Directed by Ted Wilde
Country: United States
Duration: 82 minutes
Language: English
Spine #964
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Orchestral score by composer Carl Davis from 1989
Alternate archival organ score performed by Gaylord Carter
Audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker and Harold Lloyd archivist Richard Correll, film historian Annette D’Agostino Lloyd, and Harold Lloyd’s granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd
Harold’s Leading Ladies, a new conversation between author Cari Beauchamp and Suzanne Lloyd
Anatomy of a Gag: Monkeyshoes, a new video essay by critic and filmmaker David Cairns
Behind-the-scenes stills gallery curated by Harold Lloyd archivist Richard Simonton Jr.
Close to Home, a new video essay on the film’s shooting locations by author John Bengtson
Dutch television interview with Lloyd from 1962
Featurette from 2005 about Greenacres, Lloyd’s estate, hosted by Suzanne Lloyd
Two restored rare early Lloyd shorts: Over the Fence (1917) and That’s Him (1918), with new Wurlitzer theater pipe organ scores and a discussion of their early film formats by archivist Dino Everett
New tour of the Wurlitzer organ with composer Nathan Barr and organist Mark Herman
PLUS: An essay by critic Carrie Rickey
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To Sleep with Anger (1990)
Directed by Charles Burnett
Country: United States
Duration: 102 minutes
Language: English
Spine #963
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Of Family and Folklore, a new interview program, featuring Burnett, actors Danny Glover and Sheryl Lee Ralph, and associate producer Linda Koulisis
A Walk with Charles Burnett, a new hour-long conversation between Burnett and filmmaker Robert Townsend that revisits Burnett’s films and shooting locations
Short video tribute to Burnett produced for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governors Awards ceremony in 2017
PLUS: An essay by critic Ashley Clark
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Death in Venice (1971)
Directed by Luchino Visconti
Country: Italy
Duration: 131 minutes
Language: English
Spine #962
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel, a 2008 documentary about the director, featuring Visconti; actors Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, and Marcello Mastroianni; filmmakers Francesco Rosi and Franco Zeffirelli; and others
Alla ricerca di Tadzio, a 1970 short film by Visconti about his efforts to cast the role of Tadzio
New program featuring literature and cinema scholar Stefano Albertini
Interview from 2006 with costume designer Piero Tosi
Excerpt from a 1990 program about the music in Visconti’s films, featuring Bogarde and actor Marisa Berenson
Interview with Visconti from 1971
Visconti’s Venice, a short 1970 behind-the-scenes documentary featuring Visconti and Bogarde
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Dennis Lim
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Shame (1968)
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 minutes
Language: Swedish
Spine #961
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Interviews with director Ingmar Bergman and a brief excerpt from a press conference for the film, recorded in 1967 and ’68 for Swedish television
New interview with actor Liv Ullmann
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman, a 1968 documentary made during the film’s production, featuring an extensive interview with Bergman
PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Sragow
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La vérité (1960)
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Country: France
Duration: 128 minutes
Language: French
Spine #960
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Le scandale Clouzot, a sixty-minute documentary from 2017 on director Henri-Georges Clouzot
Interview from 1960 with Clouzot
Interview with actor Brigitte Bardot from the 1982 documentary Brigitte Bardot telle qu’elle
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
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In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Directed by Norman Jewison
Country: United States
Duration: 110 minutes
Language: English
Spine #959
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interviews with director Norman Jewison and actor Lee Grant
Segment from a 2006 American Film Institute interview with actor Sidney Poitier
New interview with Aram Goudsouzian, author of Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon
Audio commentary from 2008 featuring Jewison, Grant, actor Rod Steiger, and cinematographer Haskell Wexler
Turning Up the Heat: Movie-Making in the ’60s, a 2008 program about the production of the film and its legacy, featuring Jewison, Wexler, producer Walter Mirisch, and filmmakers John Singleton and Reginald Hudlin
Quincy Jones: Breaking New Sound, a 2008 program about Jones’s innovative soundtrack, including the title song sung by Ray Charles, featuring interviews with Jones, lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and musician Herbie Hancock
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic K. Austin Collins
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Directed by Cristian Mungiu
Country: Romania
Duration: 113 minutes
Language: Romanian
Spine #958
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with Mungiu
New interview with film critic Jay Weissberg on the New Romanian Cinema
The Romanian Tour, a short documentary from 2007 on the film’s reception in Romania
Press conference from the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, featuring Mungiu; director of photography Oleg Mutu; and actors Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, and Alexandru Potocean
Alternate and deleted scenes
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Ella Taylor
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Mikey and Nicky (1976)
Directed by Elaine May
Country: United States
Duration: 106 minutes
Language: English
Spine #957
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New program on the making of the film featuring interviews with distributor Julian Schlossberg and actor Joyce Van Patten
New interviews with critics Richard Brody and Carrie Rickey
Audio interview from 1976 with actor Peter Falk
Trailer and TV spot
PLUS: An essay by critic Nathan Rabin
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24 Frames (2017)
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Country: Iran
Duration: 114 minutes
Spine #956
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with director Abbas Kiarostami’s son Ahmad Kiarostami, who helped finish the film after his father’s death
New conversation between Iranian film scholar Jamsheed Akrami and film critic Godfrey Cheshire
New short documentary about the making of the film by Abbas Kiarostami collaborator Salma Monshizadeh
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri
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Panique (1946)
Directed by Julien Duvivier
Country: France
Duration: 98 minutes
Language: French
Spine #955
DVD BONUS FEATURES
The Art of Subtitling, a new short documentary by Bruce Goldstein, founder and copresident of Rialto Pictures, about the history of subtitles
New interview with author Pierre Simenon, the son of novelist Georges Simenon
Conversation from 2015 between critics Guillemette Odicino and Eric Libiot about director Julien Duvivier and the film’s production history
Rialto Pictures rerelease trailer
PLUS: Essays by film scholar James Quandt and Borger
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Forty Guns (1957)
Directed by Samuel Fuller
Country: United States
Duration: 80 minutes
Language: English
Spine #954
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with director Samuel Fuller’s widow, Christa Lang Fuller, and daughter, Samantha Fuller
A Fuller Life (2013), a feature-length documentary by Samantha Fuller about her father, featuring filmmakers Wim Wenders, William Friedkin, and Monte Hellman; actors Mark Hamill, James Franco, Jennifer Beals, Bill Duke, and Constance Towers; and others
Audio interview with Samuel Fuller at London’s National Film Theatre from 1969
New interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith, author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City
Stills gallery
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Lisa Dombrowski and a chapter from Fuller’s posthumously published 2002 autobiography, A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking
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One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977)
Directed by Agnès Varda
Country: France
Duration: 121 minutes
Language: French
Spine #978
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda, a 1977 documentary directed by Katja Raganelli, featuring an interview with Varda shot during the making of the film, plus on-set interviews with actors Valérie Mairesse and Thérèse Liotard
Réponse de femmes, a 1975 short film by Varda, on the question “What is a woman?”
Plaisir d’amour en Iran, a 1976 short film by Varda, starring Mairesse and Ali Raffi
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin and excerpts from the film’s original press book