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Taipei Story (1985)
Directed by Edward Yang
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 110 minutes
Language: Hokkien, Mandarin
Spine #879
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Law of the Border (1966)
Directed by Lütfi Ö. Akad
Country: Turkey
Duration: 76 minutes
Language: Turkish
Spine #878
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Limite (1931)
Directed by Mário Peixoto
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 minutes
Spine #877
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Revenge (1989)
Directed by Ermek Shinarbaev
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 99 minutes
Language: Russian
Spine #876
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Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Country: Thailand
Duration: 89 minutes
Language: Thai
Spine #875
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Insiang (1976)
Directed by Lino Brocka
Country: Philippines
Duration: 94 minutes
Language: English, Tagalog
Spine #874
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Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 2
Spine #873
DVD BOX SET FEATURES
Remastered digital soundtrack for Limite, created from archival recordings
New introductions to the films by World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese
New interview programs featuring film historian Pierre Rissient (on Insiang), director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (on Mysterious Object at Noon), director Ermek Shinarbaev (on Revenge), filmmaker Walter Salles (on Limite), film producer Mevlüt Akkaya (on Law of the Border), and filmmakers Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edmond Wong in conversation (on Taipei Story, which Hou cowrote and acted in)
Three Blu-rays and six DVDs, with all content available in both formats
PLUS: A booklet featuring an introduction and essays on the films by Phillip Lopate, Dennis Lim, Kent Jones, Fábio Andrade, Bilge Ebiri, and Andrew Chan
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Ghost World (2001)
Directed by Terry Zwigoff
Country: United States
Duration: 111 minutes
Language: English
Spine #872
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary featuring Zwigoff, Ghost World comic creator and film cowriter Daniel Clowes, and producer Lianne Halfon
New interviews with actors Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, and Illeana Douglas
Extended excerpt from Gumnaam (1965) featuring the Bollywood number that appears in Ghost World’s opening title sequence, with commentary
Deleted scenes
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Howard Hampton, a 2001 piece by Zwigoff on the film’s soundtrack, and reprinted excerpts from Clowes’s comic Ghost World
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Dheepan (2015)
Directed by Jacques Audiard
Country: France
Duration: 114 minutes
Language: Tamil, French, English
Spine #871
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2015 featuring Audiard and coscreenwriter Noé Debré
New interview with Audiard
New interview with actor Antonythasan Jesuthasan
Deleted scenes with audio commentary from 2015 by Audiard and Debré
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Atkinson
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Othello (1952)
Directed by Orson Welles
Country: United States
Duration: 93 minutes
Language: English
Spine #870
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 1995 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich and Orson Welles scholar Myron Meisel
Filming “Othello,” Welles’s last completed film, a 1979 essay-documentary
Return to Glennascaul, a 1953 short film made by actors Micheál MacLiammóir and Hilton Edwards during a hiatus from shooting Othello
New interview with Welles biographer Simon Callow
Souvenirs d’“Othello,” a 1995 documentary about actor Suzanne Cloutier by François Girard
New interview with Welles scholar François Thomas on the two versions
New interview with Ayanna Thompson, author of Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America
Interview from 2014 with scholar Joseph McBride
PLUS: An essay by film critic Geoffrey O’Brien
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Rumble Fish (1983)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Country: United States
Duration: 94 minutes
Language: English
Spine #869
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary featuring Coppola
New interviews with Coppola, author and coscreenwriter S. E. Hinton, associate producer Roman Coppola, and actors Matt Dillon and Diane Lane
New conversation between Burum and production designer Dean Tavoularis
Pieces from 2005 about the film’s score and production
Interviews from 1983 with Dillon, Lane, actor Vincent Spano, and producer Doug Claybourne
French television interview from 1984 with actor Mickey Rourke
Locations: Looking for Rusty James, a 2013 documentary by Alberto Fuguet about the impact of Rumble Fish
New piece about the film’s existentialist elements
“Don’t Box Me In” music video
Deleted scenes, with a new introduction by Coppola
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Glenn Kenny
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Tampopo (1985)
Directed by Juzo Itami
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 minutes
Language: Japanese
Spine #868
DVD BONUS FEATURES
The Making of “Tampopo,” a ninety-minute documentary from 1986, narrated by director Juzo Itami
New interview with actor Nobuko Miyamoto
New interview with food stylist Seiko Ogawa
New interviews with ramen scholar Hiroshi Oosaki and chefs Sam White, Rayneil De Guzman, Jerry Jaksich, and Ivan Orkin
Rubber Band Pistol, Itami’s 1962 debut short film
New video essay by filmmakers Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos on the film’s themes of self-improvement and mastery of a craft
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by food and culture writer Willy Blackmore
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Woman of the Year (1942)
Directed by George Stevens
Country: United States
Duration: 112 minutes
Language: English
Spine #867
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with George Stevens Jr.
1967 audio interview with George Stevens
New interview with George Stevens biographer Marilyn Ann Moss
New interview with writer Claudia Roth Pierpont on actor Katharine Hepburn
George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey, a 112-minute 1984 documentary by George Stevens Jr.
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn, an eighty-six-minute documentary from 1986
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek
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Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
Directed by Wim Wenders
Country: United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Cuba
Duration: 105 minutes
Language: English, Spanish
Spine #866
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 1999 featuring director Wim Wenders
New interview with Wenders
Interview from 1998 with musician Compay Segundo on his career and the world of Cuban music
Radio interviews from 2000 featuring musicians Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo, and others
Additional scenes
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by author and geographer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
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Blow-Up (1966)
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 111 minutes
Language: English
Spine #865
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New pieces about director Michelangelo Antonioni’s artistic approach, featuring photography curators Walter Moser and Philippe Garner and art historian David Alan Mellor
Blow Up of “Blow Up,” a 2016 documentary on the making of the film
Conversation from 2016 between Garner and actor Vanessa Redgrave
Archival interviews with Antonioni and actors David Hemmings and Jane Birkin
Trailers
PLUS: A book featuring an essay by film scholar David Forgacs, an updated 1966 account of the film’s shooting by Stig Björkman, the questionnaires the director distributed to photographers and painters while developing the film, and the 1959 Julio Cortázar short story on which the film is loosely based
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Being There (1979)
Directed by Hal Ashby
Country: United States
Duration: 130 minutes
Language: English
Spine #864
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with members of the production team
Excerpts from a 1980 American Film Institute seminar with director Hal Ashby
Author Jerzy Kosinski in a 1979 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show
Appearances from 1980 by actor Peter Sellers on NBC’s Today and on The Don Lane Show
Promo reel featuring Sellers and Ashby
Trailer and TV spots
Deleted scene, outtakes, and alternate ending
PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Harris
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Multiple Maniacs (1970)
Directed by John Waters
Country: United States
Duration: 96 minutes
Language: English
Spine #863
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New audio commentary featuring Waters
New interviews with cast and crew members Pat Moran, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe, George Figgs, and Vincent Peranio
New video essay by scholar Gary Needham
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Linda Yablonsky
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)
Directed by Felipe Cazals
Country: Mexico
Duration: 115 minutes
Language: Spanish
Spine #862
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New introduction by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro
New conversation between filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and Cazals
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Fernanda Solórzano
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45 Years (2015)
Directed by Andrew Haigh
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 95 minutes
Language: English
Spine #861
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary featuring Haigh and producer Tristan Goligher
New documentary featuring interviews with Haigh, Goligher, actors Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay, editor Jonathan Alberts, and director of photography Lol Crawley
New interview with David Constantine, author of the short story on which the film is based
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Ella Taylor
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Mildred Pierce (1945)
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Country: United States
Duration: 111 minutes
Language: English
Spine #860
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation with critics Molly Haskell and Robert Polito
Excerpt from a 1970 episode of The David Frost Show featuring actor Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star, a 2002 feature-length documentary
Q&A with actor Ann Blyth from 2006, presented by Marc Huestis and conducted by film historian Eddie Muller at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco
Segment from a 1969 episode of the Today show featuring Mildred Pierce novelist James M. Cain
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith
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Before Midnight (2013)
Directed by Richard Linklater
Country: United States
Duration: 109 minutes
Language: English
Spine #859
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New audio commentary featuring Linklater and actors Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke
After Before, a new documentary by Athina Rachel Tsangari about the movie’s production in Greece
“Love Darkens and Deepens,” an episode of the radio program Fresh Air featuring host Terry Gross, Linklater, Delpy, and Hawke
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Before Sunset (2004)
Directed by Richard Linklater
Country: United States
Duration: 80 minutes
Language: English
Spine #858
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, a feature-length 2016 documentary about the director by Louis Black and Karen Bernstein
Linklater // On Cinema & Time, a 2016 video essay by filmmaker :: kogonada
Behind-the-scenes footage from the film’s production
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Before Sunrise (1995)
Directed by Richard Linklater
Country: United States
Duration: 101 minutes
Language: English
Spine #857
DVD BONUS FEATURES
The Space In Between, a new piece in which Linklater and actor-cowriters Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke discuss the trilogy, moderated by critic Kent Jones
3x2, a new conversation between scholars Dave Johnson and Rob Stone about Linklater’s work
Behind-the-scenes footage from the film’s production
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The Before Trilogy
Spine #856
DVD BOX SET FEATURES
New discussion featuring Linklater and actors Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, moderated by critic Kent Jones
Behind-the-scenes footage and interviews from the productions of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset
Audio commentary on Before Midnight by Delpy, Linklater, and Hawke
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, a feature-length 2016 documentary by Louis Black and Karen Bernstein
After Before, a new documentary by Athina Rachel Tsangari about the making of Before Midnight in Greece
New conversation between scholars Dave Johnson and Rob Stone about Linklater’s work
Episode of the radio program Fresh Air featuring host Terry Gross, Linklater, Delpy, and Hawke
Linklater // On Cinema & Time, a 2016 video essay by filmmaker :: kogonada
PLUS: An essay on the trilogy by critic Dennis Lim
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They Live by Night (1948)
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Country: United States
Duration: 95 minutes
Language: English
Spine #880
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary featuring film historian Eddie Muller and actor Farley Granger
New video interview with film critic Imogen Sara Smith
Short piece from 2007 with film critic Molly Haskell, filmmakers Christopher Coppola and Oliver Stone, and film noir specialists Alain Silver and James Ursini
Illustrated audio interview excerpts from 1956 with producer John Houseman
PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Bernard Eisenschitz