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Female Trouble (1974)
Directed by John Waters
Country: United States
Duration: 97 minutes
Language: English
Spine #929
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2004 featuring Waters
New conversation between Waters and critic Dennis Lim
New and archival interviews with cast and crew members Mink Stole, Pat Moran, Vincent Peranio, Susan Lowe, Mary Vivian Pearce, Hilary Taylor, and Van Smith
Interview from 1975 featuring Waters and cast members Divine, Stole, and David Lochary
Deleted scenes and alternate takes
Rare on-set footage
PLUS: An essay by film critic Ed Halter
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Bowling for Columbine (2002)
Directed by Michael Moore
Country: United States
Duration: 120 minutes
Language: English
Spine #928
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Michael Moore Makes a Movie, a new documentary featuring Moore, chief archivist Carl Deal, field producers Jeff Gibbs and Meghan O’Hara, and supervising producer Tia Lessin
Programs covering Moore’s return to Colorado in 2002, his 2003 Oscar win, and three film-festival interviews with Moore
Excerpt from a 2002 episode of The Charlie Rose Show featuring Moore
Corporate Cops, a 2000 segment from Moore’s television series The Awful Truth II
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Eric Hynes
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El Sur (1983)
Directed by Victor Erice
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 minutes
Language: Spanish
Spine #927
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Interview from 2003 with director Víctor Erice
New program on the making of the film, featuring interviews from 2012 with actors Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, and Icíar Bollaín; cinematographerJosé Luis Alcaine; and camera operator Alfredo Mayo
Hour-long episode of ¡Qué grande es el cine! from 1996, featuring film critics Miguel Marías, Miguel Rubio, and Juan Cobos discussing El Sur
PLUS: An essay by novelist and critic Elvira Lindo, and a new edition of the 1985 novella by Adelaida García Morales on which the film is based
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Manila in the Claws of Light (1975)
Directed by Lino Brocka
Country: Philippines
Duration: 125 minutes
Language: Tagalog
Spine #926
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Introduction by filmmaker Martin Scorsese
Signed: Lino Brocka, a 1987 documentary about the director by Christian Blackwood
“Manila” . . . A Filipino Film, a 1975 documentary about the making of the film, featuring Brocka and actors Hilda Koronel and Rafael Roco Jr.
New interview with critic, filmmaker, and festival programmer Tony Rayns
PLUS: An essay by film scholar José B. Capino
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Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Directed by John Schlesinger
Country: United States
Duration: 113 minutes
Language: English
Spine #925
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 1991 featuring director John Schlesinger and producer Jerome Hellman
New video essay with commentary by Holender
New photo gallery with commentary by photographer Michael Childers
The Crowd Around the Cowboy, a 1969 short film made on location for Midnight Cowboy
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey, an Academy Award–nominated documentary from 1990 by Eugene Corr and Robert Hillmann
Two short documentaries from 2004 on the making and release of Midnight Cowboy
Interview with actor Jon Voight on The David Frost Show from 1970
Voight’s original screen test
Interview from 2000 with Schlesinger for BAFTA Los Angeles
Excerpts from the 2002 BAFTA Los Angeles tribute to Schlesinger
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Harris
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Graduation (2016)
Directed by Cristian Mungiu
Country: Romania
Duration: 127 minutes
Language: Romanian
Spine #924
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with Mungiu
Press conference from the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, featuring Mungiu and actors Adrian Titieni, Maria Drăguș, Mălina Manovici, and Rareș Andrici
Deleted scenes
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri
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Beyond the Hills (2012)
Directed by Cristian Mungiu
Country: Romania
Duration: 152 minutes
Language: Romanian
Spine #923
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with Mungiu
The Making of “Beyond the Hills,” a documentary from 2013, produced by Mungiu
Press conference from the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, featuring Mungiu and actors Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuţă, and Dana Tapalagă
Deleted scenes
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Doru Pop
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The Other Side of Hope (2017)
Directed by Aki Kaurismäki
Country: Finland
Duration: 100 minutes
Language: Finnish
Spine #922
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with actor Sherwan Haji
Footage from the press conference for the film’s premiere at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival, featuring Kaurismäki, Haji, and actor Sakari Kuosmanen
Aki and Peter, a new video essay by filmmaker Daniel Raim, based on a 1997 essay by critic Peter von Bagh, to whom The Other Side of Hope is dedicated
Music videos
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Girish Shambu
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Moonrise (1948)
Directed by Frank Borzage
Country: United States
Duration: 90 minutes
Language: English
Spine #921
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation between author Hervé Dumont (Frank Borzage: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Romantic) and film historian Peter Cowie
PLUS: An essay by critic Philip Kemp
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The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Directed by Sofia Coppola
Country: United States
Duration: 97 minutes
Language: English
Spine #920
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interviews with Coppola, Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson
Making of “The Virgin Suicides,” a 1998 documentary directed by Eleanor Coppola and featuring Sofia Coppola; Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola; actors Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner, and James Woods; Eugenides; and more
Lick the Star, a 1998 short film by Coppola
Music video for Air’s soundtrack song “Playground Love,” directed by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola
Trailers
PLUS: An essay by novelist Megan Abbott
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Dead Man (1995)
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Country: United States
Duration: 121 minutes
Language: English
Spine #919
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New Q&A in which Jarmusch responds to questions sent in by fans
Rarely seen footage of Neil Young composing and performing the film’s score
New interview with actor Gary Farmer
New readings of William Blake poems by members of the cast, including Mili Avital, Alfred Molina, and Iggy Pop
New selected-scene audio commentary by production designer Bob Ziembicki and sound mixer Drew Kunin
Deleted scenes
Jarmusch’s location scouting photos
PLUS: Essays by film critic Amy Taubin and music journalist Ben Ratliff
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The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
Directed by Sergei Parajanov
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 minutes
Language: Armenian, Georgian
Spine #918
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New audio commentary featuring critic, filmmaker, and festival programmer Tony Rayns
The Color of Armenian Land, a rarely seen 1969 documentary by Mikhail Vartanov featuring footage of director Sergei Parajanov at work
New video essay on the film’s symbols and references, featuring scholar James Steffen
New interview with Steffen on the production of the film
Documentaries from 1977 and 2003 on Armenian poet Sayat-Nova and Parajanov
The Last Film, a 2015 experimental short documentary by Martiros M. Vartanov
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ian Christie
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The Awful Truth (1937)
Directed by Leo McCarey
Country: United States
Duration: 91 minutes
Language: English
Spine #917
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with critic Gary Giddins about director Leo McCarey
New video essay by film critic David Cairns on Cary Grant’s performance
Illustrated 1978 audio interview with actor Irene Dunne
Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1939, starring Grant and Claudette Colbert
PLUS: An essay by film critic Molly Haskell
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Women in Love (1969)
Directed by Ken Russell
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 131 minutes
Language: English
Spine #916
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Two audio commentaries from 2003, one featuring director Ken Russell and the other screenwriter and producer Larry Kramer
Segments from a 2007 interview with Russell for the BAFTA Los Angeles Heritage Archive
A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible, Russell’s 1989 biopic on his own life and career
Interview from 1976 with actor Glenda Jackson
Interviews with Kramer and actors Alan Bates and Jennie Linden from the set
New interviews with director of photography Billy Williams and editor Michael Bradsell
Second Best, a 1972 short film based on a D. H. Lawrence story, produced by and starring Bates
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by scholar Linda Ruth Williams
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King of Jazz (1930)
Directed by John Murray Anderson
Country: United States
Duration: 98 minutes
Language: English
Spine #915
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New audio commentary featuring jazz and film critic Gary Giddins, music and cultural critic Gene Seymour, and musician and bandleader Vince Giordano
New introduction to the film by Giddins
New interview with musician and pianist Michael Feinstein
Four new video essays by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and making of King of Jazz
Deleted scenes and alternate opening title sequence
All Americans, a 1929 short film featuring a version of the “Melting Pot” number that was restaged for King of Jazz
I Know Everybody and Everybody’s Racket, a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
Two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from King of Jazz
PLUS: An essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme
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Baal (1970)
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 minutes
Language: German
Spine #914
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Interviews from 1973 and 2015 with Schlöndorff
New conversation between actor Ethan Hawke and playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman about the play and adaptation
New interview with actor and filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta
New interview with film historian Eric Rentschler
PLUS: An essay by critic Dennis Lim
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The Age of Innocence (1993)
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Country: United States
Duration: 138 minutes
Language: English
Spine #913
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interviews with Scorsese, coscreenwriter Jay ****, production designer Dante Ferretti, and costume designer Gabriella Pescucci
Innocence and Experience, a 1993 documentary on the making of the film
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film critic Geoffrey O’Brien
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An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 minutes
Language: Japanese
Spine #912
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Rare 1999 Directors Guild of Japan interview with director Kon Ichikawa, conducted by film critic Yuki Mori
New interview with critic, filmmaker, and festival programmer Tony Rayns
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Sragow and a 1955 article by Ichikawa on the beginnings of his work in an anamorphic widescreen format
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The Hero (1966)
Directed Satyajit Ray
Country: India
Duration: 117 minutes
Language: Bengali
Spine #911
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New program featuring an interview from 2008 with actor Sharmila Tagore
New program featuring film scholar Meheli Sen
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by author Pico Iyer and a 1980 tribute to actor Uttam Kumar by director Satyajit Ray
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Tom Jones (1963)
Directed by Tony Richardson
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 128 minutes
Language: English
Spine #910
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New program on the film’s cinematography featuring Lassally
New interview with film scholar Duncan Petrie on the movie’s impact on British cinema
Excerpt from a 1982 episode of The Dick Cavett Show featuring actor Albert Finney
New interview with actor Vanessa Redgrave on her former husband, director Tony Richardson
Illustrated archival audio interview with composer John Addison on his Oscar-winning score for the film
New interview with the editor of the director’s cut, Robert Lambert
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Neil Sinyard
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Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Directed by George Romero
Country: United States
Duration: 96 minutes
Language: English
Spine #909
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Night of Anubis, a never-before-presented work-print edit of the film
New program featuring filmmakers Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, and Robert Rodriguez
Never-before-seen 16 mm dailies reel
New program featuring Russo on the commercial and industrial-film production company where key Night of the Living Dead filmmakers got their start
Two audio commentaries from 1994 featuring Romero, Russo, producer Karl Hardman, actor Judith O’Dea, and others
Archival interviews with Romero and actors Duane Jones and Judith Ridley
New programs about the film’s style and score
New interview program about the direction of ghouls, featuring members of the cast and crew
New interviews with Gary Streiner and Russell Streiner
Newsreels from 1967
Trailer, radio spots, and TV spots
PLUS: An essay by critic Stuart Klawans
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Kameradschaft (1931)
Directed by G. W. Pabst
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 minutes
Language: German, French
Spine #908
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with film scholar Hermann Barth on the film’s production
Interview from 1988 with editor Jean Oser, featuring footage from the French version of the film
Interview from 2016 with film scholar Jan-Christopher Horak on the historical context of the film
PLUS: An essay by author and critic Luc Sante and the 1930 text by Karl Otten that the film was based on
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Westfront 1918 (1930)
Directed by G. W. Pabst
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 minutes
Language: German
Spine #907
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Hour-long French television broadcast of World War I veterans reacting to the film in 1969
Interview from 2016 with film scholar Jan-Christopher Horak
New restoration demonstration featuring Martin Koerber and Julia Wallmüller of the Deutsche Kinemathek
Brief audio interview from 1988 with editor Jean Oser
PLUS: An essay by author and critic Luc Sante
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I, Daniel Blake (2016)
Directed by Ken Loach
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 100 minutes
Language: English
Spine #906
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2016 featuring Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty
How to Make a Ken Loach Film, a 2016 documentary on the production of I, Daniel Blake
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach, a 2016 documentary directed by Louise Osmond
Deleted scenes
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Girish Shambu
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Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood
Spine #930
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interviews with film scholars Janet Bergstrom and Homay King; director Josef von Sternberg’s son, Nicholas; Deutsche Kinemathek curator Silke Ronneburg; and costume designer and historian Deborah Nadoolman Landis
New documentary about actor Marlene Dietrich’s German origins, featuring film scholars Gerd Gemünden and Noah Isenberg
New documentary on Dietrich’s status as a feminist icon, featuring film scholars Mary Desjardins, Amy Lawrence, and Patricia White
The Legionnaire and the Lady, a 1936 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Morocco, featuring Dietrich and actor Clark Gable
New video essay by critics Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin
The Fashion Side of Hollywood, a 1935 publicity short featuring Dietrich and costume designer Travis Banton
Television interview with Dietrich from 1971
PLUS: A book featuring essays by critics Imogen Sara Smith, Gary Giddins, and Farran Smith Nehme