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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Directed by Orson Welles
Country: United States
Duration: 88 minutes
Language: English
Spine #952
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Two audio commentaries, featuring scholars Robert L. Carringer and James Naremore and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
New interviews with film historians Simon Callow and Joseph McBride
New video essay on the film’s cinematographers by scholar François Thomas
New video essays by scholars François Thomas and Christopher Husted
Director Orson Welles on The Dick Cavett Show in 1970
Segment from a 1925 silent adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons
Audio from a 1978 AFI symposium on Welles, and audio interviews with Welles conducted by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
Two Mercury Theatre radio plays: Seventeen (1938), an adaptation of another Booth Tarkington novel by Welles, and The Magnificent Ambersons (1939)
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Molly Haskell
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True Stories (1986)
Directed by David Byrne
Country: United States
Duration: 89 minutes
Language: English
Spine #951
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New documentary about the film’s production, featuring Byrne, Lachman, screenwriter Stephen Tobolowsky, executive producer Edward Pressman, coproducer Karen Murphy, fashion-show costume designer Adelle Lutz, casting director Victoria Thomas, consultant Christina Patoski, actor Jo Harvey Allen, and artist and songwriter Terry Allen
Real Life (1986), a short documentary by Pamela Yates and Newton Thomas Sigel made on the set of the film
No Time to Look Back, a new homage to Virgil, Texas, the fictional town where True Stories is set
New documentary about designer Tibor Kalman and his influence on Byrne and work on the film, featuring Byrne and artist Maira Kalman, Tibor’s widow
Deleted scenes
Trailer
PLUS: Essays by critic Rebecca Bengal and journalist and author Joe Nick Patoski, A 1986 piece by actor Spalding Gray on the film’s production; and a selection of production photography, along with Byrne’s tabloid clippings and writing about the film’s visual motifs
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Some Like It Hot (1959)
Directed by Billy Wilder
Country: United States
Duration: 121 minutes
Language: English
Spine #950
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 1989 featuring film scholar Howard Suber
New short program on Orry-Kelly’s costumes for the film, featuring costume designer and historian Deborah Nadoolman Landis and costume historian and archivist Larry McQueen
Three behind-the-scenes documentaries
Appearances by director Billy Wilder on The Dick Cavett Show from 1982
Conversation from 2001 between actor Tony Curtis and film critic Leonard Maltin
French television interview from 1988 with actor Jack Lemmon
Radio interview from 1955 with actor Marilyn Monroe
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by author Sam Wasson
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Richard Jewell with Clint Eastwood and Scott Cooper (Ep. 245)
Director Clint Eastwood discusses his new film, Richard Jewell, with fellow director Scott Cooper. The film tells the true story of Jewell, an American security guard who saved thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics. But his life starts to unravel when he becomes the FBI's prime suspect in the bombing attempt and is vilified by press and public alike. Please note spoilers are included.
See photos and a summary of this event below:
https://www.dga.org/Events/2020/Feb2020/RichardJewell_QnA_1219.aspx
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Just Mercy with Destin Daniel Cretton and Anna Boden (Ep. 244)
Director Destin Daniel Cretton discusses his new film, Just Mercy, with fellow director Anna Boden. Based on a true story, the film follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson's effort to overturn the murder conviction of Walter McMillian, who was sentenced to die for the murder of an 18-year-old girl despite ample evidence proving his innocence. Please note spoilers are included.
See photos and a summary of this event below:
https://www.dga.org/Events/2020/Feb2020/JustMercy_QnA_1219.aspx
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A Story from Chikamatsu (1954)
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 minutes
Language: Japanese
Spine #949
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with actor Kyoko Kagawa
Mizoguchi: The Auteur Behind the “Metteur-en-scène,” a new illustrated audio essay by film scholar Dudley Andrew
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Haden Guest
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The Princess Bride (1987)
Directed by Rob Reiner
Country: United States
Duration: 98 minutes
Language: English
Spine #948
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 1996 featuring director Rob Reiner, screenwriter William Goldman, producer Andrew Scheinman, and actors Billy Crystal and Peter Falk
Edited 1987 audiobook reading of Goldman’s novel The Princess Bride by Reiner
New program about Goldman’s screenplay
New program about Goldman’s tapestry based on his novel
Archival interviews with Reiner, Goldman, and actors Crystal, Cary Elwes, Christopher Guest, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Fred Savage, and Robin Wright
New interview with art director Richard Holland
Programs about makeup, fencing, and fairy tales
On-set video diary filmed and narrated by Elwes
Five behind-the-scenes videos with commentaries from 1996 by Reiner, Scheinman, and Crystal
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by author Sloane Crosley and, for the Blu-ray edition, Goldman’s introduction to his Princess Bride script from his collection Four Screenplays, in a lavishly illustrated, clothbound book
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Shampoo (1975)
Directed by Hal Ashby
Country: United States
Duration: 110 minutes
Language: English
Spine #947
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation between critics Mark Harris and Frank Rich
Excerpt from a 1998 appearance by producer, cowriter, and actor Warren Beatty on The South Bank Show
PLUS: An essay by Rich
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Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972)
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Country: Germany
Duration: 495 minutes
Language: German
Spine #946
DVD BONUS FEATURES
“Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day”: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion, a 2017 documentary directed by Juliane Lorenz, featuring interviews with actors Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Wolfgang Schenck, and Hans Hirschmüller
New interview with film scholar Jane Shattuc
PLUS: An essay by scholar Moira Weigel
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A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Directed by Daniel Petrie
Country: United States
Duration: 128 minutes
Language: English
Spine #945
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Interview from 1961 with playwright/screenwriter Lorraine Hansberry
New interview with Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine
Episode of Theater Talk from 2002 featuring producer Philip Rose and actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis
Excerpt from Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement (1978), with a new introduction by director Woodie King Jr.
New interview with film scholar Mia Mask, coeditor of Poitier Revisited
Interview from 2002 with director Daniel Petrie
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by scholar Sarita Cannon and author James Baldwin’s 1969 tribute to Hansberry, “Sweet Lorraine”
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Cold Water (1994)
Directed by Olivier Assayas
Country: France
Duration: 95 minutes
Language: French
Spine #944
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with Assayas
New interview with cinematographer Denis Lenoir
Excerpt from a 1994 French television program on the film featuring Assayas and actors Virginie Ledoyen and Cyprien Fouquet
PLUS: An essay by critic Girish Shambu
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Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Country: Cuba
Duration: 98 minutes
Language: Spanish
Spine #943
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interviews with film critics B. Ruby Rich and José Antonio Évora
New interview with novelist and screenwriter Edmundo Desnoes
Titón: From Havana to “Guantanamera,” a 2008 feature-length documentary on director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s life and career
Segment from a 1989 audio interview with Gutiérrez Alea
Segments from 2017 interviews with actor Daisy Granados and editor Nelson Rodríguez from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Visual History Program collection
Trailer
Plus: An essay by author Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
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The Tree of Life (2011)
Directed by Terrence Malick
Country: United States
Duration: 139 minutes
Language: English
Spine #942
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New extended version of the film featuring an additional fifty minutes of footage
Exploring “The Tree of Life,” a 2011 documentary featuring collaborators and admirers of Malick’s, including filmmakers David Fincher and Christopher Nolan
New interviews with actor Jessica Chastain and senior visual-effects supervisor Dan Glass
New video essay by critic Benjamin B about the film’s cinematography and style, featuring audio interviews with Lubezki, production designer Jack Fisk, and other crew members
New interview with critic Alex Ross about Malick’s use of classical music
Video essay from 2011 by critic Matt Zoller Seitz and editor Serena Bramble
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones and (Blu-ray only) a 2011 piece on the film by critic Roger Ebert
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Smithereens (1982)
Directed by Susan Seidelman
Country: United States
Duration: 93 minutes
Language: English
Spine #941
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2004 featuring Seidelman
New interviews with Seidelman and actor Susan Berman
And You Act Like One Too (1976) and Yours Truly, Andrea G. Stern (1979), two early shorts by Seidelman, with new introductions by the director
PLUS: An essay by critic Rebecca Bengal
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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982)
Directed by Robert M. Young
Country: United States
Duration: 106 minutes
Language: English, Spanish
Spine #940
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with actor and producer Edward James Olmos
New interview with Chon A. Noriega, author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema
Cast-and-crew panel from 2016 including Olmos; director Robert M. Young; producer Moctesuma Esparza; cinematographer Reynaldo Villalobos; and actors Bruce McGill, Tom Bower, Rosanna DeSoto, and Pepe Serna
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Charles Ramírez Berg
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A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 104 minutes
Language: English
Spine #939
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Interview from 2008 with filmmaker Martin Scorsese
Audio commentary from 2009 featuring film scholar Ian Christie
New interview with editor Thelma Schoonmaker, director Michael Powell’s widow
New short documentary on the film’s special effects featuring film historian Craig Barron and visual-effects artist Harrison Ellenshaw
The Colour Merchant, a 1998 short film featuring cinematographer Jack Cardiff
The South Bank Show: “Michael Powell,” a 1986 television program featuring Powell
Restoration demonstration
PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek
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sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Country: United States
Duration: 100 minutes
Language: English
Spine #938
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 1998 featuring Soderbergh in conversation with filmmaker Neil LaBute
New introduction by Soderbergh
Interviews with Soderbergh from 1990 and 1992
New documentary about the making of the film, featuring actors Peter Gallagher, Andie MacDowell, and Laura San Giacomo
Interview from 1989 with actor James Spader
New conversation between sound editor/re-recording mixer Larry Blake and composer Cliff Martinez
Deleted scene with commentary by Soderbergh
Demonstration of sound restorations through the years
Trailers
PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin and (Blu-ray only) excerpts from Soderbergh’s 1990 book about the film
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Dragon Inn (1967)
Directed by King Hu
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 111 minutes
Language: Mandarin
Spine #937
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with actor Shangkuan Ling-fung
Interview from 2016 with actor Shih Chun
New scene analysis by author and New York Asian Film Festival cofounder Grady Hendrix
Newsreel footage of the film’s 1967 premiere in Taipei, Taiwan
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Andrew Chan
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Bull Durham (1988)
Directed by Ron Shelton
Country: United States
Duration: 108 minutes
Language: English
Spine #936
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Two audio commentaries, featuring Shelton and actors Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins
New conversation between Shelton and film critic Michael Sragow
Program from 2001 featuring interviews with cast and crew, including Shelton, Costner, Robbins, and actor Susan Sarandon
Appreciation of the film from 2008 featuring former players, broadcasters, and sports-film aficionados
NBC Nightly News piece from 1993 on the final season of baseball at Durham Athletic Park, where Bull Durham takes place and was shot
Interview with Max Patkin, known as the Clown Prince of Baseball, from a 1991 episode of NBC’s Today
Trailer
PLUS: Excerpts from a 1989 piece by longtime New Yorker baseball writer Roger Angell, with new comments from the author
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The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
Country: United States
Duration: 79 minutes
Language: English
Spine #935
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Blonde Venus (1932)
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
Country: United States
Duration: 94 minutes
Language: English
Spine #934
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Shanghai Express (1932)
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
Country: United States
Duration: 82 minutes
Language: English
Spine #933
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Dishonored (1931)
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
Country: United States
Duration: 91 minutes
Language: English
Spine #932
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Morocco (1930)
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
Country: United States
Duration: 92 minutes
Language: English
Spine #931
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A Dry White Season (1989)
Directed by Euzahn Palcy
Country: United States
Duration: 106 minutes
Language: English
Spine #953
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with director Euzhan Palcy by film critic Scott Foundas
Five Scenes, a new program featuring Palcy
Interview from 1989 with actor Donald Sutherland
Excerpt from a 1995 interview Palcy conducted with Nelson Mandela
Footage of Palcy receiving the highest distinction for foreign dignitaries at the 2017 South African National Orders awards
PLUS: An essay by filmmaker and scholar Jyoti Mistry