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Election (1999)
Directed by Alexander Payne
Country: United States
Duration: 103 minutes
Language: English
Spine #904
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 1999 featuring Payne
New interview with actor Reese Witherspoon
The Passion of Martin, Payne’s 1990 UCLA thesis film, with a new introduction by the director
TruInside: “Election,” a 2016 documentary featuring on-set footage and interviews with cast and crew
Omaha local-news reports on the film’s production
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Dana Stevens
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Jabberwocky (1977)
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 105 minutes
Language: English
Spine #903
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2001 featuring Gilliam and actor Michael Palin
New documentary on the making of the film, featuring Gilliam, Palin, producer Sandy Lieberson, and actor Annette Badland
New interview with Valerie Charlton, designer of the film's creature, the Jabberwock, featuring her collection of rare behind-the-scenes photographs
Audio interview with cinematographer Terry Bedford from 1998
Selection of Gilliam’s storyboards and sketches • Original UK opening sequence
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Scott Tobias
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Desert Hearts (1985)
Directed by Donna Deitch
Country: United States
Duration: 91 minutes
Language: English
Spine #902
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2007 featuring director Donna Deitch
New conversation between Deitch and actor Jane Lynch
New interviews with actors Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau
Remembering Reno, a new program featuring Deitch, Elswit, and production designer Jeannine Oppewall
Excerpt from Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule, a 1994 documentary about the author of Desert of the Heart, the 1964 novel on which the film is based
PLUS: An essay by critic B. Ruby Rich
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The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Directed by George Cukor
Country: United States
Duration: 112 minutes
Language: English
Spine #901
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film scholar Jeanine Basinger
In Search of Tracy Lord, a new documentary about the origin of the character and her social milieu
New piece about actor Katharine Hepburn’s role in the development of the film
Two full episodes of The Dick Cavett Show from 1973, featuring rare interviews with Hepburn, plus an excerpt of a 1978 interview from that show with director George Cukor
Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1943, featuring an introduction by filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille
Restoration demonstration
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme
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100 Years of Olympic Films 1912-2012
Duration: 6253 minutes
Spine #900
DVD SPECIAL EDITION COLLECTOR'S SET FEATURES
53 newly restored films from 41 editions of the Olympic Games, presented together for the first time
Landmark 4K restorations of Olympia, Tokyo Olympiad, and Visions of Eight, among other titles
New scores for the silent films, composed by Maud Nelissen, Donald Sosin, and Frido ter Beek
A lavishly illustrated, 216-page hardcover book, featuring notes on the films by cinema historian Peter Cowie, along with a letter from Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, a short history of the project by restoration producer Adrian Wood, and hundreds of photographs from a century of Olympic Games
FILMS INCLUDED IN THE SPECIAL EDITION COLLECTOR'S SET
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Stockholm 1912
The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 (dir. Adrian Wood • 2016 • 170 minutes)
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Chamonix 1924
The Olympic Games Held at Chamonix in 1924 (dir. Jean de Rovera • 1924 • 37 minutes)
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Paris 1924
The Olympic Games as They Were Practiced in Ancient Greece (dir. Jean de Rovera • 1924 • 8 minutes)
The Olympic Games in Paris 1924 (dir. Jean de Rovera • 1924 • 174 minutes)
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St. Moritz 1928
The White Stadium (dirs. Arnold Fanck, Othmar Gurtner • 1928 • 124 minutes)
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Amsterdam 1928
The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam (dir. unknown • 1928 • 251 minutes)
The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928 (dir. Wilhelm Prager; supervisor Jules Perel • 1928 • 192 minutes)
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936
Youth of the World (dir. Carl Junghans • 1936 • 38 minutes)
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Berlin 1936
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (dir. Leni Riefenstahl • 1938 • 127 minutes)
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (dir. Leni Riefenstahl • 1938 • 103 minutes)
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St. Moritz 1948
Fight Without Hate (dir. André Michel • 1948 • 91 minutes)
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London 1948
XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport (dir. Castleton Knight • 1948 • 138 minutes)
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Oslo 1952
The VI Olympic Winter Games, Oslo 1952 (dir. Tancred Ibsen • 1952 • 103 minutes)
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Helsinki 1952
Where the World Meets (dir. Hannu Leminen • 1952 • 101 minutes)
Gold and Glory (dir. Hannu Leminen • 1953 • 97 minutes)
Memories of the Olympic Summer of 1952 (dir. unknown • 1954 • 50 minutes)
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Cortina d’Ampezzo 1956
White Vertigo (dir. Giorgio Ferroni • 1956 • 96 minutes)
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Melbourne/Stockholm 1956
Olympic Games, 1956 (dir. Peter Whitchurch • 1956 • 60 minutes)
The Melbourne Rendez-vous (dir. René Lucot • 1957 • 106 minutes)
Alain Mimoun (dir. Louis Gueguen • 1959 • 24 minutes)
The Horse in Focus (dir. unknown • 1956 • 16 minutes)
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Squaw Valley 1960
People, Hopes, Medals (dir. Heribert Meisel • 1960 • 93 minutes)
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Rome 1960
The Grand Olympics (dir. Romolo Marcellini • 1961 • 147 minutes)
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Innsbruck 1964
IX Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1964 (dir. Theo Hörmann • 1964 • 90 minutes)
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Tokyo 1964
Tokyo Olympiad (dir. Kon Ichikawa • 1965 • 170 minutes)
Sensation of the Century (prod. Taguchi Suketaro, supervisor Nobumasa Kawamoto • 1966 • 156 minutes)
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Grenoble 1968
13 Days in France (dirs. Claude Lelouch, François Reichenbach • 1968 • 112 minutes)
Snows of Grenoble (dirs. Jacques Ertaud, Jean-Jacques Languepin • 1968 • 97 minutes)
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Mexico City 1968
The Olympics in Mexico (dir. Alberto Isaac • 1969 • 160 minutes)
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Sapporo 1972
Sapporo Winter Olympics (dir. Masahiro Shinoda • 1972 • 167 minutes)
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Munich 1972
Visions of Eight (dirs. Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling • 1973 • 110 minutes)
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Innsbruck 1976
White Rock (dir. Tony Maylam • 1977 • 77 minutes)
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Montreal 1976
Games of the XXI Olympiad (dirs. Jean-Claude Labrecque, Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, Georges Dufaux • 1977 • 118 minutes)
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Lake Placid 1980
Olympic Spirit (dirs. Drummond Challis, Tony Maylam • 1980 • 27 minutes)
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Moscow 1980
O Sport, You Are Peace! (dir. Yuri Ozerov • 1981 • 149 minutes)
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Sarajevo 1984
A Turning Point (dir. Kim Takal • 1984 • 82 minutes)
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Los Angeles 1984
16 Days of Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 1986 • 284 minutes)
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Calgary 1988
Calgary ’88: 16 Days of Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 1989 • 202 minutes)
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Seoul 1988
Seoul 1988 (dir. Lee Kwang-soo • 1989 • 139 minutes)
Hand in Hand (dir. Im Kwon-taek • 1989 • 119 minutes)
Beyond All Barriers (dir. Lee Ji-won • 1989 • 92 minutes)
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Albertville 1992
One Light, One World (dirs. Joe Jay Jalbert, R. Douglas Copsey • 1992 • 104 minutes)
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Barcelona 1992
Marathon (dir. Carlos Saura • 1993 • 130 minutes)
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Lillehammer 1994
Lillehammer ’94: 16 Days of Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 1994 • 209 minutes)
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Atlanta 1996
Atlanta’s Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 1997 • 206 minutes)
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Nagano 1998
Nagano ’98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 1998 • 119 minutes)
Olympic Glory (dir. Kieth Merrill • 1999 • 42 minutes)
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Sydney 2000
Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 2001 • 117 minutes)
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Salt Lake City 2002
Salt Lake City 2002: Bud Greenspan’s Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 2003 • 119 minutes)
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Athens 2004
Bud Greenspan’s Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 2005 • 96 minutes)
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Turin 2006
Bud Greenspan’s Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 2007 • 88 minutes)
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Beijing 2008
The Everlasting Flame (dir. Gu Jun • 2010 • 101 minutes)
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Vancouver 2010
Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory (prods. Bud Greenspan, Nancy Beffa • 2010 • 116 minutes)
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London 2012
First (dir. Caroline Rowland • 2012 • 109 minutes)
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Stockholm 1912
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Personal Shopper (2016)
Directed by Olivier Assayas
Country: France
Duration: 105 minutes
Language: English, French
Spine #899
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with Assayas
2016 Cannes Film Festival press conference featuring actor Kristen Stewart and other members of the film’s cast and crew
Theatrical trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Glenn Kenny
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Directed by David Lynch
Country: United States
Duration: 135 minutes
Language: English
Spine #898
DVD BONUS FEATURES
The Missing Pieces, ninety minutes of deleted and alternate scenes from the film, assembled by Lynch
Interview from 2014 by Lynch with actors Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, and Grace Zabriskie
New interviews with Lee and composer Angelo Badalamenti
Trailers
PLUS: Excerpts from an interview with Lynch from Lynch on Lynch, a 1997 book edited by filmmaker and writer Chris Rodley
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Barry Lyndon (1975)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Duration: 185 minutes
Language: English
Spine #897
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New documentary featuring cast and crew interviews as well as audio excerpts from a 1976 interview with director Stanley Kubrick
New program about the film’s groundbreaking visuals, featuring focus puller Douglas Milsome and gaffer Lou Bogue as well as excerpts from a 1980 interview with cinematographer John Alcott
New program featuring historian Christopher Frayling on Academy Award–winning production designer Ken Adam
New interview with editor Tony Lawson
French television interview from 1976 with Ulla-Britt Söderlund, who codesigned the film’s Oscar-winning costumes
New interview with critic Michel Ciment
New interview with actor Leon Vitali about the 5.1 surround soundtrack, which he cosupervised
New piece analyzing the fine-art-inspired aesthetics of the film with curator Adam Eaker
Trailers
PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and two pieces about the look of the film from the March 1976 issue of American Cinematographer
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The Lure (2015)
Directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 minutes
Language: Polish
Spine #896
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New program about the making of the film, featuring interviews with director Agnieszka Smoczyńska, actors Marta Mazurek and Michalina Olszańska, screenwriter Robert Bolesto, Kijowski, composers Barbara and Zuzanna Wrońskie, sound designer Marcin Lenarczyk, and choreographer Kaya Kołodziejczyk
Deleted scenes
Aria Diva (2007) and Viva Maria! (2010), two short films by Smoczyńska
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by novelist, playwright, and storyteller Angela Lovell
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David Lynch: The Art Life (2016)
Directed by Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, and Olivia Neergaard-Holm
Country: United States, Denmark
Duration: 88 minutes
Language: English
Spine #895
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with codirector Jon Nguyen
Trailer
PLUS: A new essay by critic Dennis Lim
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The Piano Teacher (2001)
Directed by Michael Haneke
Country: France
Duration: 130 minutes
Language: French
Spine #894
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with Haneke
New interview with actor Isabelle Huppert
Selected-scene commentary from 2001 featuring Huppert
Behind-the-scenes footage featuring Haneke and Huppert
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by scholar Moira Weigel
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Certain Women (2016)
Directed by Kelly Reichardt
Country: United States
Duration: 107 minutes
Language: English
Spine #893
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interviews with Reichardt and executive producer Todd Haynes
New interview with Maile Meloy, author of the stories on which the film is based
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Ella Taylor
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Festival (1967)
Directed by Murray Lerner
Country: United States
Duration: 98 minutes
Language: English
Spine #892
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New reconstruction and remastering of the soundtrack from the original concert and field recordings, approved by Lerner
Making “Festival,” a new program featuring Lerner, associate editor Alan Heim, and assistant editor Gordon Quinn
When We Played Newport, a new program featuring archival interviews with Lerner, music festival producer George Wein, and musicians Joan Baez, John Cohen, Judy Collins, Phil Ochs, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow, and others
Selection of unreleased performances by Clarence Ashley, Johnny Cash, Elizabeth Cotten, John Lee Hooker, Odetta, and Tom Paxton
Optional captions identifying artists and song titles
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Amanda Petrusich and artist biographies by folk music expert Mary Katherine Aldin
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La poison (1951)
Directed by Sacha Guitry
Country: France
Duration: 85 minutes
Language: French
Spine #891
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with filmmaker Olivier Assayas on writer-director Sacha Guitry’s influence on French cinema
Sixty-minute episode of Cinéastes de notre temps from 1965 featuring interviews with some of Guitry’s collaborators
On Life On-screen: Miseries and Splendour of a Monarch, a sixty-minute documentary from 2010 on the collaboration of Guitry and actor Michel Simon
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a tribute to Guitry by filmmaker François Truffaut
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Meantime (1984)
Directed by Mike Leigh
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 107 minutes
Language: English
Spine #890
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation between Leigh and musician Jarvis Cocker
New conversation between actor Marion Bailey and critic Amy Raphael
Interview from 2007 with actor Tim Roth
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Sean O’Sullivan
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The Breaking Point (1950)
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Country: United States
Duration: 97 minutes
Language: English
Spine #889
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with critic Alan K. Rode (Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film)
New piece featuring actor and acting instructor Julie Garfield on her father, actor John Garfield
New video essay by Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou analyzing Curtiz’s methods
Excerpts from a 1962 episode of Today showing contents of the Ernest Hemingway House in Key West, Florida, including items related to To Have and Have Not, the novel on which The Breaking Point is based
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek
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Stalker (1979)
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 161 minutes
Language: Russian
Spine #888
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with Geoff Dyer, author of Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
Interviews from 2000 with set designer Rashit Safiullin and composer Eduard Artemyev
Interview from the mid-1990s with cinematographer Alexander Knyazhinsky
PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Le Fanu
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Lost in America (1985)
Directed by Albert Brooks
Country: United States
Duration: 91 minutes
Language: English
Spine #887
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation with Brooks and filmmaker Robert Weide
New interviews with actor Julie Hagerty, executive producer Herb Nanas, and filmmaker and screenwriter James L. Brooks
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Scott Tobias
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L'argent (1983)
Directed by Robert Bresson
Country: France
Duration: 84 minutes
Language: French
Spine #886
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Press conference from the 1983 Cannes Film Festival
“L’argent,” A to Z, a new video essay by film scholar James Quandt
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Adrian Martin and a newly expanded 1983 interview with director Robert Bresson by critic Michel Ciment
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 91 minutes
Spine #885
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Downhill, another 1927 feature directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Ivor Novello, in a 2K digital restoration and with a new piano score by Brand
New interview with film scholar William Rothman on Hitchcock’s visual signatures
New video essay by art historian Steven Jacobs about Hitchcock’s use of architecture
Excerpts from audio interviews with Hitchcock by filmmakers François Truffaut (1962) and Peter Bogdanovich (1963 and 1972)
Radio adaptation of The Lodger from 1940, directed by Hitchcock
New interview with Brand on composing for silent film
PLUS: Essays on The Lodger and Downhill by critic Philip Kemp
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César (1936)
Directed by Marcel Pagnol
Country: France
Duration: 141 minutes
Language: French
Spine #884
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Fanny (1932)
Directed by Marc Allégret
Country: France
Duration: 127 minutes
Language: French
Spine #883
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Marius (1931)
Directed by Alexander Korda
Country: France
Duration: 127 minutes
Language: French
Spine #882
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The Marseille Trilogy
Spine #881
DVD BOX SET FEATURES
New introduction by filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier
New interview with Nicolas Pagnol, grandson of writer-director Marcel Pagnol
Segments from Marcel Pagnol: Morceaux choisis, a 1973 documentary series on Pagnol’s life and work
Marseille, a short 1935 documentary about the Marseille harbor produced by Pagnol
Archival interviews with actors Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay, and Robert Vattier
Pagnol’s Poetic Realism, a new video essay by scholar Brett Bowles
French television clip from 2015 about the restoration of the trilogy
Theatrical rerelease trailer
PLUS: PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Atkinson and excerpts from Pagnol’s introductions to his plays and screenplays
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The Breakfast Club (1985)
Directed by John Hughes
Country: United States
Duration: 97 minutes
Language: English
Spine #905
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2008 featuring actors Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson
New interviews with actors Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy
New video essay featuring director John Hughes’s production notes, read by Nelson
Documentary from 2008 featuring interviews with cast and crew
Fifty minutes of never-before-seen deleted and extended scenes
Rare promotional and archival interviews
Excerpts from a 1985 American Film Institute seminar with Hughes
1999 radio interview with Hughes
Segment from a 1985 episode of NBC’s Today featuring the film’s cast
Audio interview with Ringwald from a 2014 episode of This American Life
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by author and critic David Kamp