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The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Directed by Ermanno Olmi
Country: Italy
Duration: 186 minutes
Language: Bergamasque
Spine #854
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Alternate Italian-language soundtrack
New introduction by filmmaker Mike Leigh
Ermanno Olmi: The Roots of the Tree, an hour-long 1981 episode of The South Bank Show, featuring an interview with Olmi on the film and a visit to the farm where it was shot
New program featuring cast and crew discussing the film at the Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna, Italy, in 2016
Interviews with Olmi from 1978 and 2008
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film critic Deborah Young
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Cameraperson (2016)
Directed by Kirsten Johnson
Country: United States
Duration: 102 minutes
Language: English, Bosnian, Arabic, Dari
Spine #853
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Editing “Cameraperson,” a new program featuring director Kirsten Johnson, producers Marilyn Ness and Danielle Varga, and editors Nels Bangerter and Amanda Laws
In the Service of the Film, a roundtable conversation with Johnson, producer Gini Reticker, and sound recordists Wellington Bowler and Judy Karp
Excerpts from two 2016 film festival talks with Johnson, including one between her and filmmaker Michael Moore
The Above, a 2015 short film by Johnson
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda and reprinted writings by Johnson
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Black Girl (1966)
Directed by Ousmane Sembène
Country: Senegal, France
Duration: 59 minutes
Language: French, Wolof
Spine #852
DVD BONUS FEATURES
4K restoration of the short film Borom sarret, director Ousmane Sembène’s acclaimed 1963 debut
New interviews with scholars Manthia Diawara and Samba Gadjigo
Excerpt from a 1966 broadcast of JT de 20h, featuring Sembène accepting the Prix Jean Vigo for Black Girl
New interview with actor M’Bissine Thérèse Diop
Sembène: The Making of African Cinema, a 1994 documentary about the filmmaker by Diawara and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Alternate color sequence
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Ashley Clark
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Fox and His Friends (1975)
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Country: Germany
Duration: 124 minutes
Language: German
Spine #851
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with actor Harry Baer
New interview with filmmaker Ira Sachs
Excerpt from a 1975 interview with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Excerpts from a 1981 interview with composer Peer Raben
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Koresky
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Something Wild (1961)
Directed by Jack Garfein
Country: United States
Duration: 113 minutes
Language: English
Spine #850
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation between Garfein and critic Kim Morgan
New interview with actor Carroll Baker
Behind the Method, a new interview with scholar Foster Hirsch on the Actors Studio
Master Class with Jack Garfein, excerpts from a 2014 recording of one of the director’s world-famous lectures on acting technique
PLUS: An essay by critic Sheila O’Malley
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His Girl Friday (1940)
Directed by Howard Hawks
Country: United States
Duration: 92 minutes
Language: English
Spine #849
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration of The Front Page, made from a recently discovered print of director Lewis Milestone’s preferred version, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
New interview with film scholar David Bordwell about His Girl Friday
Archival interviews with His Girl Friday director Howard Hawks
Featurettes from 1999 and 2006 about Hawks, actor Rosalind Russell, and the making of His Girl Friday
Radio adaptation of His Girl Friday from 1940
New piece about the restoration of The Front Page
New piece about playwright and screenwriter Ben Hecht
Radio adaptations of the play The Front Page from 1937 and 1946
His Girl Friday trailers
Plus: An insert featuring essays on His Girl Friday and The Front Page by film critics Farran Smith Nehme and Michael Sragow
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Roma (1972)
Directed by Federico Fellini
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 minutes
Language: Italian
Spine #848
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary featuring Frank Burke, author of Fellini’s Films
Deleted scenes
New interview with filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino on the lasting influence of director Federico Fellini
New interview with poet and Fellini friend Valerio Magrelli
Images from the Felliniana archive of collector Don Young
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Forgacs
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Directed by John Huston
Country: United States
Duration: 112 minutes
Language: English
Spine #847
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2004 by film historian Drew Casper, featuring archival recordings of actor James Whitmore
Pharos of Chaos, a 1983 documentary about actor Sterling Hayden
New interviews with film noir historian Eddie Muller and cinematographer John Bailey
Archival footage of writer-director John Huston discussing the film
Episode of the television program City Lights from 1979 featuring Huston
Audio excerpts of archival interviews with Huston
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien
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Heart of a Dog (2015)
Directed by Laurie Anderson
Country: United States
Duration: 75 minutes
Language: English
Spine #846
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Alternate no-music soundtrack
New conversation between director Laurie Anderson and coproducer Jake Perlin
Footage of Anderson’s 2016 Concert for Dogs
Deleted scenes
Lolabelle’s video Christmas card
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film critic Glenn Kenny
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The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Directed by Noah Baumbach
Country: United States
Duration: 81 minutes
Language: English
Spine #845
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interviews with Baumbach and actors Jeff Daniels, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, and Laura Linney
New conversation about the score and other music in the film between Baumbach and composers Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips
Behind “The Squid and the Whale,” a 2005 documentary featuring on-set footage and cast interviews
Audition footage
Trailers
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones and a 2005 interview of Baumbach by novelist Jonathan Lethem
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One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Directed by Marlon Brando
Country: United States
Duration: 141 minutes
Language: English
Spine #844
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New introduction by Scorsese
Excerpts from voice recordings director and star Marlon Brando made during the development of the film’s script
New video essays on the film’s production history and on its potent combination of the stage and screen icon Brando with the classic Hollywood western genre
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film critic Howard Hampton
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Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Country: United States
Duration: 95 minutes
Language: English
Spine #843
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Blossoms & Blood, a short 2002 piece by Anderson featuring Adam Sandler and Emily Watson, along with music by Jon Brion
New interview with Brion
New piece featuring behind-the-scenes footage of a recording session for the film’s soundtrack
New conversation between curators Michael Connor and Lia Gangitano about the art of Jeremy Blake, used in the film
Additional artwork by Blake
Cannes Film Festival press conference from 2002
NBC News interview from 2000 with David Phillips, the “pudding guy”
Twelve Scopitones
Deleted scenes
Mattress Man commercial
Trailers
PLUS: An essay by filmmaker, author, and artist Miranda July
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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 minutes
Language: Japanese
Spine #842
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New audio commentary featuring film scholar Stephen Prince
Making of “Dreams” (1990), a 150-minute documentary shot on set and directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
New interview with production manager Teruyo Nogami
New interview with assistant director Takashi Koizumi
Kurosawa’s Way (2011), a fifty-minute documentary by Kurosawa’s longtime translator Catherine Cadou, featuring interviews with filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Martin Scorsese, Hayao Miyazaki, and others
Trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri and Kurosawa’s script for a never-filmed ninth dream, introduced by Nogami
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Lone Wolf and Cub
Spine #841
DVD BOX SET FEATURES
High-definition presentation of Shogun Assassin, a 1980 English-dubbed reedit of the first two Lone Wolf and Cub films
New interview with Kazuo Koike, writer of the Lone Wolf and Cub manga series and screenwriter on five of the films
Lame d’un père, l’âme d’un sabre, a 2005 documentary about the making of the series
New interview in which Sensei Yoshimitsu Katsuse discusses and demonstrates the real Suio-ryu sword techniques that inspired the ones depicted in the manga and films
New interview with biographer Kazuma Nozawa about Kenji Misumi, director of four of the six films
Silent documentary from 1939 about the making of samurai swords, with an optional new ambient score by Ryan Francis
Trailers
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay and film synopses by Japanese pop-culture writer Patrick Macias
FILMS INCLUDED IN THE BOX SET
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
Directed by Kenji Misumi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 minutes
Language: Japanese
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
Directed by Kenji Misumi
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 minutes
Language: Japanese
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)
Directed by Kenji Misumi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 minutes
Language: Japanese
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
Directed by Buichi Saito
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 minutes
Language: Japanese
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)
Directed by Kenji Misumi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 minutes
Language: Japanese
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974)
Directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 minutes
Language: Japanese
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The Executioner (1963)
Directed by Luis García Berlanga
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 minutes
Language: Spanish
Spine #840
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar
New program on director Luis García Berlanga, featuring interviews with his son José Luis Berlanga; film critic Carlos F. Heredero; writers Fernando R. Lafuente and Bernardo Sánchez Salas; and director of the Berlanga Film Museum Rafael Maluenda
Spanish television program from 2012 on The Executioner, featuring archival interviews with Berlanga
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film critic David Cairns
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Boyhood (2014)
Directed by Richard Linklater
Country: United States
Duration: 165 minutes
Language: English
Spine #839
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New audio commentary featuring Linklater and nine members of the film’s cast and crew
New documentary chronicling the film’s production, featuring footage shot over the course of its twelve years
New discussion featuring Linklater and actors Patricia Arquette and Ellar Coltrane, moderated by producer John Pierson
New conversation between Coltrane and actor Ethan Hawke
New video essay by critic Michael Koresky about time in Linklater’s films, narrated by Coltrane
Collection of portraits of the cast and crew by photographer Matt Lankes, narrated with personal thoughts from Linklater, Arquette, Hawke, Coltrane, and producer Cathleen Sutherland
PLUS: An essay by novelist Jonathan Lethem
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Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Country: Spain
Duration: 119 minutes
Language: Spanish
Spine #838
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary by del Toro from 2007
New interview with del Toro by novelist Cornelia Funke about fairy tales, fantasy, and Pan’s Labyrinth
New interview with actor Doug Jones
Four 2007 making-of documentaries examining the characters, special effects, themes, and music of the film
Interactive director’s notebook
Footage of actor Ivana Baquero’s audition for the film
Animated comics featuring prequel stories for the film’s menagerie of creatures
Programs comparing selected production storyboards and del Toro’s thumbnail sketches with the final film; visual effects work for the Green Fairy; and elements of the film’s score
Trailers and TV spots
PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Atkinson
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Dekalog (1988)
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
Country: Poland
Duration: 583 minutes
Language: Polish
Spine #837
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Selection of archival interviews with director Krzysztof Kieślowski, taken from a 1987 television piece on the production of Dekalog: Two, excerpts from the 1995 documentary A Short Film About “Dekalog,” and a 1990 audio recording from the National Film Theatre in London
New program on the formal and thematic patterns of Dekalog by film studies professor Annette Insdorf
New and archival interviews with Dekalog cast and crew, including cowriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz, thirteen actors, three cinematographers, editor Ewa Smal, and Kieślowski confidante Hanna Krall
Trailers
PLUS: A book featuring an essay and capsules on the films by cinema scholar Paul Coates, along with excerpts from Kieślowski on Kieślowski
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
Directed by Russ Meyer
Country: United States
Duration: 109 minutes
Language: English
Spine #836
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2003 featuring screenwriter Roger Ebert
Audio commentary from 2006 featuring actors Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Harrison Page, John LaZar, and Erica Gavin
New interview with filmmaker John Waters
Episode from 1988 of The Incredibly Strange Film Show on director Russ Meyer
Q&A about the film from 1992 featuring Meyer, Ebert, LaZar, and Read; and actors David Gurian, Charles Napier, Michael Blodgett, and Edy Williams, with host Michael Dare
Interview with cast members from 2005
Above, Beneath, and Beyond the Valley; Look On Up at the Bottom; The Best of Beyond; Sex, Drugs, Music & Murder; and Casey & Roxanne, five documentaries from 2006 about the making of the film, featuring the cast and crew
Screen tests
Trailers
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Glenn Kenny and excerpts from a 1970 account in the UCLA Daily Bruin of a visit to the film’s set
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Valley of the Dolls (1967)
Directed by Mark Robson
Country: United States
Duration: 123 minutes
Language: English
Spine #835
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2006 featuring actor Barbara Parkins and journalist Ted Casablanca
New interviews with writer Amy Fine Collins about author Jacqueline Susann and the costumes in the film
New video essay by critic Kim Morgan
Footage from Sparkle Patty Sparkle!, a 2009 gala tribute to actor Patty Duke at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco
A World Premiere Voyage and Jacqueline Susann and “Valley of the Dolls,” two promotional films from 1967
Episode of the television program Hollywood Backstories from 2001 on the film
Screen tests
Trailers
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Glenn Kenny
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Blood Simple (1984)
Directed by Joel Coen
Country: United States
Duration: 95 minutes
Language: English
Spine #834
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation between Sonnenfeld and the Coens about the film’s look, featuring Telestrator video illustrations
New conversation between author Dave Eggers and the Coens about the film’s production, from inception to release
New interviews with composer Carter Burwell, sound mixer Skip Lievsay, and actors Frances McDormand and M. Emmet Walsh
Trailers
PLUS: An essay by novelist and critic Nathaniel Rich
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Cat People (1942)
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Country: United States
Duration: 73 minutes
Language: English
Spine #833
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film historian Gregory Mank, with excerpts from an audio interview with actor Simone Simon
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows, a 2008 feature-length documentary that explores the life and career of the legendary Hollywood producer
Interview with director Jacques Tourneur from 1979
New interview with cinematographer John Bailey about the look of the film
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien
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The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 minutes
Language: Japanese
Spine #832
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with critic Phillip Lopate about the evolution of director Kenji Mizoguchi’s style
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Dudley Andrew
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The Immortal Story (1968)
Directed by Orson Welles
Country: France
Duration: 58 minutes
Language: French, English
Spine #831
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Alternate French-language version of the film
Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film scholar Adrian Martin
Portrait: Orson Welles, a 1968 documentary directed by François Reichenbach and Frédéric Rossif
New interview with actor Norman Eshley
Interview from 2004 with cinematographer Willy Kurant
New interview with Welles scholar François Thomas
PLUS: An essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 minutes
Language: Spanish
Spine #855
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interviews with Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, and actor Carmen Maura
New discussion by film scholar Richard Peña of the film’s impact in Spain and abroad
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by novelist and critic Elvira Lindo