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A Taste of Honey (1961)
Directed by Tony Richardson
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 100 minutes
Language: English
Spine #829
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interviews with actors Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin
Audio interview with director and coscreenwriter Tony Richardson from the 1962 Cannes Film Festival
Excerpt from a 1960 television interview with A Taste of Honey playwright Shelagh Delaney
Interview from 1998 with cinematographer Walter Lassally
Remaking British Theater: Joan Littlewood and “A Taste of Honey,” a new piece about the film’s stage origins, featuring an interview with theater scholar Kate Dorney
Momma Don’t Allow (1956), a Free Cinema short film by Richardson, shot by Lassally
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe
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Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015)
Directed by Stig Björkman
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 minutes
Language: Swedish
Spine #828
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with Björkman
Selection of 8 mm home movies shot by Bergman in the 1930s
Two deleted scenes, showing Bergman’s daughters reading an essay she wrote at age seventeen and an interview with film historian and Bergman scholar Rosario Tronnolone
Extended versions of scenes featuring interviews with actors Sigourney Weaver and Liv Ullmann and Bergman’s daughter Isabella Rossellini and with the three Rossellini siblings
Clip from the 1932 film Landskamp, featuring Bergman in her first screen role
Outtakes from Bergman’s 1936 film On the Sunny Side
Music video for Eva Dahlgren’s song “The Movie About Us,” which is included on the film’s soundtrack
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Jeanine Basinger
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Directed by Robert Altman
Country: United States
Duration: 121 minutes
Language: English
Spine #827
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2002 featuring director Robert Altman and producer David Foster
New making-of documentary, featuring members of the cast and crew
New conversation about the film and Altman’s career between film historians Cari Beauchamp and Rick Jewell
Featurette from the film’s 1970 production
Art Directors Guild Film Society Q&A from 1999 with production designer Leon Ericksen
Excerpts from archival interviews with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond
Gallery of stills from the set by photographer Steve Schapiro
Excerpts from two 1971 episodes of The Dick Cavett Show featuring Altman and film critic Pauline Kael
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by novelist and critic Nathaniel Rich
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The New World (2005)
Directed by Terrence Malick
Country: United States
Duration: 172 minutes
Language: English, Algonquin
Spine #826
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interviews with actors Colin Farrell and Q’orianka Kilcher
New program about the making of the film, featuring interviews with producer Sarah Green, production designer Jack Fisk, and costume designer Jacqueline West
Making “The New World,” a documentary shot during the production of the film in 2004, directed and edited by Austin Jack Lynch
New program about the process of cutting The New World and its various versions, featuring interviews with editors Hank Corwin, Saar Klein, and Mark Yoshikawa
Trailers
PLUS: A book featuring an essay by film scholar Tom Gunning, a 2006 interview with Lubezki from American Cinematographer, and a selection of materials that inspired the production
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A Touch of Zen (1971)
Directed by King Hu
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 180 minutes
Language: Mandarin
Spine #825
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Documentary from 2012 about director King Hu
New interviews with actors Hsu Feng and Shih Chun
New interview with filmmaker Ang Lee
New interview with film scholar Tony Rayns
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Bordwell and notes by Hu from a 1975 Cannes Film Festival press kit
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Muriel, or The Time of Return (1963)
Directed by Alain Resnais
Country: France
Duration: 116 minutes
Language: French
Spine #824
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Excerpt from the 1980 documentary Une approche d’Alain Resnais, révolutionnaire discret
Excerpt from a 1969 interview with actor Delphine Seyrig
Interview with composer Hans Werner Henze from 1963
New interview with film scholar François Thomas, author of L’atelier d’Alain Resnais
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film scholar James Quandt
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The In-Laws (1979)
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Country: United States
Duration: 103 minutes
Language: English
Spine #823
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2003 featuring director Arthur Hiller, actors Alan Arkin and Peter Falk, and writer Andrew Bergman
New interview with Arkin
In Support of “The In-Laws,” a new interview program featuring actors Ed Begley Jr., Nancy Dussault, James Hong, and David Paymer
Trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by comedy writer Stephen Winer and a 2011 recollection of the making of the film by Hiller
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Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Directed by Olivier Assayas
Country: France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 124 minutes
Language: English, French, German
Spine #822
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Beyond Time, a new interview with director Olivier Assayas
Parallel Lives, a new program featuring actors Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart on their roles in the film
Cloud Phenomena of Maloja, a silent 1924 documentary by Arnold Fanck that is seen in the film
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Molly Haskell
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Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Duration: 95 minutes
Language: English
Spine #821
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interviews with Stanley Kubrick scholars Mick Broderick and Rodney Hill; archivist Richard Daniels; cinematographer and camera innovator Joe Dunton; camera operator Kelvin Pike; and David George, son of Peter George, on whose novel Red Alert the film is based
Excerpts from a 1966 audio interview with Kubrick, conducted by physicist and author Jeremy Bernstein
Four short documentaries, about the making of the film, the sociopolitical climate of the period, the work of actor Peter Sellers, and the artistry of Kubrick
Interviews from 1963 with Sellers and actor George C. Scott
Excerpt from a 1980 interview with Sellers from NBC’s Today show
Trailers
PLUS: An essay by scholar David Bromwich and a 1994 article by screenwriter Terry Southern on the making of the film
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Fantastic Planet (1973)
Directed by René Laloux
Country: France, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 72 minutes
Language: French
Spine #820
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Alternate English-language soundtrack
Les temps morts (1965) and Les escargots (1966), two early short films by director René Laloux and illustrator Roland Topor
Laloux sauvage, a 2009 documentary on Laloux
Episode of the French television program Italiques from 1974 about Topor’s work
Interview with Topor from 1973
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Brooke
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Directed by Alexander Hall
Country: United States
Duration: 94 minutes
Language: English
Spine #819
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation between critic Michael Sragow and filmmaker/distributor Michael Schlesinger
Audio interview from 1991 in which actor Elizabeth Montgomery discusses her father, actor Robert Montgomery
Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Here Comes Mr. Jordan from 1942 starring Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, and James Gleason
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme
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La chienne (1931)
Directed by Jean Renoir
Country: France
Duration: 96 minutes
Language: French
Spine #818
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Introduction to the film from 1961 by director Jean Renoir
New interview with Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner
New restoration of On purge bébé (1931), Renoir’s first sound film, also starring Michel Simon
Jean Renoir le patron: “Michel Simon” a ninety-five-minute 1967 French television program featuring a conversation between Renoir and Simon, directed by Jacques Rivette
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
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Le amiche (1955)
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 minutes
Language: Italian
Spine #817
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation with scholars David Forgacs and Karen Pinkus on the film’s themes
New interview with scholar Eugenia Paulicelli on the importance of fashion in Antonioni’s work
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Tony Pipolo
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Kings of the Road (1976)
Directed by Wim Wenders
Country: Germany
Duration: 176 minutes
Language: German
Spine #816
DVD BONUS FEATURES
German-language audio commentary featuring Wenders
Outtakes from the film
New interviews with actors Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, and Lisa Kreuzer
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Wrong Move (1975)
Directed by Wim Wenders
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 minutes
Language: German
Spine #815
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary featuring Wenders
New interview with Wenders, directed and conducted by filmmaker Michael Almereyda
New interviews with actors Rüdiger Vogler and Lisa Kreuzer
Super 8 footage from the film’s production
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Alice in the Cities (1974)
Directed by Wim Wenders
Country: Germany
Duration: 113 minutes
Language: German
Spine #814
DVD BONUS FEATURES
German-language audio commentary featuring Wenders and actors Rüdiger Vogler and Yella Rottländer
New interviews with Vogler, Rottländer, and actor Lisa Kreuzer
Outtakes from the film
Restoring Time, a 2015 short about the restoration work done by the Wim Wenders Foundation
Same Player Shoots Again (1967) and Silver City Revisited (1968), two newly restored early short films by Wenders
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Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy
Spine #813
DVD BOX SET FEATURES
Audio commentaries on all three films
New interview with Wenders, directed and conducted by filmmaker Michael Almereyda
New interviews with actors Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer, and Hanns Zischler
Outtakes and Super 8 footage
Restoring Time, a 2015 short about the restoration work done by the Wim Wenders Foundation
Same Player Shoots Again (1967) and Silver City Revisited (1968), two newly restored early short films by Wenders
More!
PLUS: A book featuring essays on the films by Almereyda, filmmaker Allison Anders, author James Robison, and critic Nick Roddick
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The Player (1992)
Directed by Robert Altman
Country: United States
Duration: 124 minutes
Language: English
Spine #812
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 1992 featuring director Robert Altman, writer Michael Tolkin, and cinematographer Jean Lépine
Interview with Altman from 1992
New interviews with Tolkin, actor Tim Robbins, associate producer David Levy, and production designer Stephen Altman
Cannes Film Festival press conference from 1992 with cast and crew
Robert Altman’s Players, a short documentary about the shooting of the film’s fund-raiser scene
Map to the Stars, a gallery dedicated to the cameo appearances in the film
Deleted scenes and outtakes
The film’s opening shot, with alternate commentaries by Altman, Lépine, and Tolkin
Trailers and TV spots
More
PLUS: An essay by author Sam Wasson
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The Naked Island (1960)
Directed by Kaneto Shindo
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 minutes
Language: Japanese
Spine #811
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Video introduction by director Kaneto Shindo, recorded for a 2011 retrospective of his work
Audio commentary recorded in 2000, featuring Shindo and composer Hikaru Hayashi
New appreciation of the film by actor Benicio Del Toro
New interview with film scholar Akira Mizuta Lippit
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Haden Guest
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In a Lonely Place (1950)
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Country: United States
Duration: 93 minutes
Language: English
Spine #810
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New audio commentary featuring film scholar Dana Polan
I’m a Stranger Here Myself, a 1975 documentary about director Nicholas Ray, slightly condensed for this release
New interview with biographer Vincent Curcio about actor Gloria Grahame
Piece from 2002 featuring filmmaker Curtis Hanson
Radio adaptation from 1948 of the original Dorothy B. Hughes novel, broadcast on the program Suspense
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith
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Phoenix (2014)
Directed by Christian Petzold
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 minutes
Language: German
Spine #809
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation between director Christian Petzold and actor Nina Hoss
New interview with cinematographer Hans Fromm
The Making of “Phoenix,” a 2014 documentary featuring interviews with Petzold, Hoss, actors Nina Kunzendorf and Ronald Zehrfeld, and production designer K. D. Gruber
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Koresky
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The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates
Directed by Robert Drew
Country: United States
Duration: 170 minutes
Language: English
Spine #808
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Primary 1960 • 53 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio
Adventures on the New Frontier 1961 • 52 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio
Crisis 1963 • 53 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio
Faces of November 1964 • 12 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratioAlternate, twenty-six-minute cut of Primary, edited by filmmaker Richard Leacock
Audio commentary on Primary, featuring excerpts from a 1961 conversation between Leacock, filmmakers Robert Drew and D. A. Pennebaker, and film critic Gideon Bachmann
Robert Drew in His Own Words, a new documentary featuring archival interview footage
New conversation between Pennebaker and Jill Drew, general manager of Drew Associates and Robert Drew’s daughter-in-law
Outtakes from Crisis, along with a discussion by historian Andrew Cohen, author of Two Days in June
New conversation about Crisis featuring former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder and Sharon Malone, Holder’s wife and the sister of Vivian Malone, one of the students featured in Crisis
New interview with Richard Reeves, author of President Kennedy: Profile of Power
Footage from a 1998 event at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, featuring Drew, Pennebaker, Leacock, and filmmaker Albert Maysles
PLUS: An essay by documentary film curator and writer Thomas Powers
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Barcelona (1994)
Directed by Whit Stillman
Country: United States
Duration: 101 minutes
Language: English
Spine #807
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2002 featuring Stillman and actors Chris Eigeman and Taylor Nichols
New video essay by film critic Farran Smith Nehme about the trilogy made up of Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco
The Making of “Barcelona,” a short documentary from 1994 featuring behind-the-scenes footage and on-set interviews with Stillman and cast members
Deleted scenes and alternate ending, with commentary by Stillman, Eigeman, and Nichols
Segment from a 1994 episode of the Today show featuring Stillman
Episode of The Dick Cavett Show from 1991 with Stillman
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Haden Guest
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Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Directed by Howard Hawks
Country: United States
Duration: 121 minutes
Language: English
Spine #806
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio excerpts from a 1972 conversation between filmmakers Howard Hawks and Peter Bogdanovich
New interview with film critic David Thomson
Howard Hawks and His Aviation Movies, a new program featuring film scholars Craig Barron and Ben Burtt
Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1939, starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, Richard Barthelmess, and Thomas Mitchell, and hosted by filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Sragow
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Chimes at Midnight (1966)
Directed by Orson Welles
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 minutes
Language: English
Spine #830
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary featuring film scholar James Naremore, author of The Magic World of Orson Welles
New interview with actor Keith Baxter
New interview with director Orson Welles’s daughter Beatrice Welles, who appeared in the film at age nine
New interview with actor and Welles biographer Simon Callow
New interview with film historian Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
Interview with Welles while at work editing the film, from a 1965 episode of The Merv Griffin Show
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Michael Anderegg