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A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974) Directed by Les Blank Country: United States Duration: 90 minutes Language: English Spine #805 DVD BONUS FEATURES New conversation between musician Leon Russell and Harrod Blank Excerpts from a 2013 Q&A with Les Blank A Film’s Forty-Year Journey: The Making of “A Poem Is a Naked Person,” a new documentary featuring interviews with Harrod Blank, assistant editor and sound recordist Maureen Gosling, and artist Jim Franklin Out in the Woods, a short documentary by Gosling Trailers PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones

A Brighter Summer Day (1991) Directed by Edward Yang Country: Taiwan Duration: 237 minutes Language: Mandarin, Taiwanese Spine #804 DVD BONUS FEATURES New audio commentary featuring critic Tony Rayns New interview with actor Chen Chang Our Time, Our Story, a 113-minute documentary from 2002 about the New Taiwan Cinema movement, featuring interviews with Yang and filmmakers Hou Hsiao-hsien, Sylvia Chang, and Tsai Ming-liang, among others Videotaped performance of director Edward Yang’s 1992 play Likely Consequence PLUS: An essay by critic Godfrey Cheshire and a 1991 director’s statement by Yang

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Directed by John Frankenheimer Country: United States Duration: 126 minutes Language: English Spine #803 DVD BONUS FEATURES Audio commentary from 1997 featuring director John Frankenheimer New interview with actor Angela Lansbury New piece featuring filmmaker Errol Morris discussing his appreciation for The Manchurian Candidate Conversation between Frankenheimer, screenwriter George Axelrod, and actor Frank Sinatra from 1987 New interview with historian Susan Carruthers about the Cold War brainwashing scare Trailer

Paris Belongs to Us (1961) Directed by Jacques Rivette Country: France Duration: 141 minutes Language: French Spine #802 DVD BONUS FEATURES New interview with Richard Neupert, author of A History of the French New Wave Cinema Jacques Rivette’s 1956 short film Le coup du berger, featuring cameos by fellow French New Wave directors Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, and François Truffaut PLUS: An essay by critic Luc Sante

I Knew Her Well (1965) Directed by Antonio Pietrangeli Country: Italy Duration: 115 minutes Language: Italian Spine #801 DVD BONUS FEATURES New interview with actor Stefania Sandrelli New interview with film scholar Luca Barattoni about the career of director Antonio Pietrangeli Archival footage of Sandrelli's audition Trailer PLUS: An essay by journalist and author Alexander Stille

The Graduate (1967) Directed by Mike Nichols Country: United States Duration: 106 minutes Language: English Spine #800 DVD BONUS FEATURES Audio commentary from 2007 featuring Nichols in conversation with filmmaker Steven Soderbergh Audio commentary from 1987 featuring film scholar Howard Suber New interview with actor Dustin Hoffman New conversation between producer Lawrence Turman and screenwriter Buck Henry New interview with film writer and historian Bobbie O’Steen about editor Sam O’Steen’s work on The Graduate Students of “The Graduate,” a short documentary from 2007 on the film’s influence “The Graduate” at 25, a 1992 featurette on the making of the film Interview with Nichols by Barbara Walters, from a 1966 episode of NBC’s Today show Excerpt from a 1970 appearance by singer-songwriter Paul Simon on The Dick Cavett Show Screen tests Trailer PLUS: An essay by journalist and critic Frank Rich

The Kid (1921) Directed by Charles Chaplin Country: United States Duration: 53 minutes Language: English Spine #799 DVD BONUS FEATURES New audio commentary featuring Chaplin historian Charles Maland Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star, a new video essay by Chaplin historian Lisa Haven A Study in Undercranking, a new program featuring silent-film specialist Ben Model Interviews with Coogan and actor Lita Grey Chaplin Excerpted audio interviews with cinematographer Rollie Totheroh and film distributor Mo Rothman Deleted scenes and titles from the original 1921 version of The Kid “Charlie” on the Ocean, a 1921 newsreel documenting Chaplin’s first return trip to Europe Footage of Chaplin conducting his score for The Kid Nice and Friendly, a 1922 silent short featuring Chaplin and Coogan, presented with a new score by composer Timothy Brock Trailers PLUS: An essay by film scholar Tom Gunning

Death by Hanging (1968) Directed by Nagisa Oshima Country: Japan Duration: 118 minutes Language: Japanese Spine #798 DVD BONUS FEATURES New interview with critic Tony Rayns New high-definition digital transfer of director Nagisa Oshima’s 1965 experimental short documentary Diary of Yunbogi Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Howard Hampton and a 1968 director's statement by Oshima

The New Land (1972) Directed by Jan Troell Country: Sweden Duration: 202 minutes Language: Swedish Spine #797 DVD BONUS FEATURES New introduction by theater and film critic John Simon New conversation between film scholar Peter Cowie and director Jan Troell New interview with actor Liv Ullmann To Paint with Pictures, an hour-long documentary from 2005 on the making of the films, featuring archival footage as well as interviews with Troell, Ullmann, producer and coscreenwriter Bengt Forslund, actor Eddie Axberg, and composer Georg Oddner Trailers PLUS: An essay by critic Terrence Rafferty

The Emigrants (1971) Directed by Jan Troell Country: Sweden Duration: 191 minutes Language: Swedish Spine #796 DVD BONUS FEATURES New introduction by theater and film critic John Simon New conversation between film scholar Peter Cowie and director Jan Troell New interview with actor Liv Ullmann To Paint with Pictures, an hour-long documentary from 2005 on the making of the films, featuring archival footage as well as interviews with Troell, Ullmann, producer and coscreenwriter Bengt Forslund, actor Eddie Axberg, and composer Georg Oddner Trailers PLUS: An essay by critic Terrence Rafferty

Gilda (1946) Directed by Charles Vidor Country: United States Duration: 110 minutes Language: English Spine #795 DVD BONUS FEATURES Audio commentary from 2010 by film critic Richard Schickel New interview with film noir historian Eddie Muller Piece from 2010 featuring filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Baz Luhrmann discussing their appreciation for Gilda Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Sheila O’Malley

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Country: United States Duration: 104 minutes Language: English Spine #794 DVD BONUS FEATURES New audio commentary featuring authors Robert Christgau, David Hajdu, and Sean Wilentz New conversation between filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and the Coen brothers about the evolution of their approach Inside “Inside Llewyn Davis” (2013), a forty-three-minute documentary Another Day, Another Time (2013), a 101-minute concert documentary celebrating the music of Inside Llewyn Davis, featuring Joan Baez, Marcus Mumford, Punch Brothers, Gillian Welch, Jack White, and others New conversation between music producer T Bone Burnett and the Coens about folk music, with illustrations by Drew Christie New piece about the early sixties Greenwich Village folk scene, featuring music writer and historian Elijah Wald Sunday, a short film by Dan Drasin documenting a 1961 clash between folk musicians and police in Washington Square Park Trailers PLUS: An essay by film critic Kent Jones

The American Friend (1977) Directed by Wim Wenders Country: Germany Duration: 126 minutes Language: English, French, German Spine #793 DVD BONUS FEATURES Audio commentary from 2002 featuring Wenders and actor Dennis Hopper New interview with Wenders New interview with actor Bruno Ganz Deleted scenes with audio commentary by Wenders Trailer PLUS: An essay by author Francine Prose

Bitter Rice (1949) Directed by Giuseppe De Santis Country: Italy Duration: 109 minutes Language: Italian Spine #792 DVD BONUS FEATURES Giuseppe De Santis, a 2008 documentary by screenwriter Carlo Lizzani Interview with Lizzani from 2003 Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Pasquale Iannone

Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance (1974) Directed by Toshiya Fujita Country: Japan Duration: 89 minutes Language: Japanese Spine #791 DVD BONUS FEATURES New interviews with Kazuo Koike, the writer of the manga that inspired the films, and screenwriter Norio Osada Trailers PLUS: An essay by critic Howard Hampton

Lady Snowblood (1973) Directed by Toshiya Fujita Country: Japan Duration: 97 minutes Language: Japanese Spine #790 DVD BONUS FEATURES New interviews with Kazuo Koike, the writer of the manga that inspired the films, and screenwriter Norio Osada Trailers PLUS: An essay by critic Howard Hampton

Burroughs: The Movie (1983) Directed by Howard Brookner Country: United States Duration: 90 minutes Language: English Spine #789 DVD BONUS FEATURES New audio commentary by filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, who was a sound recordist on the film Audio interview with director Howard Brookner from 1985, conducted by William S. Burroughs biographer Ted Morgan New interview with Brookner’s nephew, filmmaker Aaron Brookner, who oversaw the film’s restoration Rare outtakes Footage from the 2014 New York Film Festival premiere of the film’s restoration, featuring a Q&A with Jarmusch, Aaron Brookner, filmmaker Tom DiCillo, and Burroughs’s friend and fellow writer James Grauerholz Thirty-minute experimental edit of the film from 1981 by inventor and photographer Robert E. Fulton III PLUS: An essay by critic Luc Sante and collage artwork by artist Alison Mosshart

Speedy (1928) Directed by Ted Wilde Country: United States Duration: 86 minutes Language: English Spine #788 DVD BONUS FEATURES Musical score by composer Carl Davis from 1992, synchronized and restored under his supervision and presented in uncompressed stereo on the Blu-ray New audio commentary featuring Bruce Goldstein, director of repertory programming at New York’s Film Forum, and Turner Classic Movies director of program production Scott McGee In the Footsteps of “Speedy,” a new short documentary by Goldstein about the film’s New York shoot Selection of rare archival footage from UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Hearst Newsreel Collection of baseball legend Babe Ruth, who has a cameo in the film, presented by David Filipi, director of film and video at the Wexner Center for the Arts New visual essay featuring stills of deleted scenes from the film and narrated by Goldstein Selection of actor Harold Lloyd’s home movies, narrated by his granddaughter, Suzanne Lloyd Bumping into Broadway, a 1919 Lloyd two-reeler, newly restored and with a 2004 score by Robert Israel PLUS: An essay by critic Phillip Lopate

Jellyfish Eyes (2013) Directed by Takashi Murakami Country: Japan Duration: 101 minutes Language: Japanese Spine #787 DVD BONUS FEATURES New interview with director Takashi Murakami Making F.R.I.E.N.D.s, a new piece on the creation of the film’s creatures Takashi Murakami: The Art of Film, a new behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the film Trailer for Jellyfish Eyes 2 PLUS: An essay by critic Glen Helfand

Don't Look Back (1967) Directed by D. A. Pennebaker Country: United States Duration: 96 minutes Language:English Spine #786 DVD BONUS FEATURES Audio commentary from 1999 featuring Pennebaker and tour manager Bob Neuwirth 65 Revisited, a 2006 documentary by Pennebaker Audio excerpt from a 2000 interview with Bob Dylan for the documentary No Direction Home, cut to previously unseen outtakes from Dont Look Back New documentary about the evolution of Pennebaker’s filming style Daybreak Express (1953), Baby (1954), and Lambert & Co. (1964), three short films by Pennebaker New conversation between Pennebaker and Neuwirth about their work together Snapshots from the Tour, a new piece featuring never-before-seen outtakes from Dont Look Back New interview with musician Patti Smith Conversation between music critic Greil Marcus and Pennebaker from 2010 Alternate version of the film’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” cue card sequence Five audio recordings of Dylan songs not used in the film Trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic and poet Robert Polito

Apur Sansar (1959) Directed by Satyajit Ray Country: India Duration: 106 minutes Language: Bengali Spine #785 DVD BONUS FEATURES New interview program with actors Soumitra Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore “The Apu Trilogy”: A Closer Look, a new program featuring filmmaker, producer, and teacher Mamoun Hassan Footage of director Satyajit Ray receiving an honorary Oscar in 1992 New programs on the restoration of The Apu Trilogy by filmmaker :: kogonada

Aparajito (1956) Directed by Satyajit Ray Country: India Duration: 110 minutes Language: Bengali Spine #784 DVD BONUS FEATURES The Small Details, a new interview with film writer Ujjal Chakraborty Audio recording from 1958 of a conversation between director Satyajit Ray and film historian Gideon Bachmann Making “The Apu Trilogy”: Satyajit Ray’s Epic Debut, a new video essay by Ray biographer Andrew Robinson The Creative Person: “Satyajit Ray,” a 1967 half-hour documentary by James Beveridge, featuring interviews with Ray, several of his actors, members of his creative team, and film critic Chidananda Das Gupta

Pather Panchali (1955) Directed by Satyajit Ray Country: India Duration: 125 minutes Language: Bengali Spine #783 DVD BONUS FEATURES Audio recording from 1958 of director Satyajit Ray reading his essay “A Long Time on the Little Road” New interviews with actors Soumitra Chatterjee and Shampa Srivastava and camera assistant Soumendu Roy Excerpts from the 2003 documentary The Song of the Little Road, featuring The Apu Trilogy composer Ravi Shankar

The Apu Trilogy Spine #782 DVD BOX SET FEATURES Audio recordings from 1958 of director Satyajit Ray reading his essay “A Long Time on the Little Road” and in conversation with film historian Gideon Bachmann New interviews with actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Shampa Srivastava, and Sharmila Tagore; camera assistant Soumendu Roy; and film writer Ujjal Chakraborty Making “The Apu Trilogy”: Satyajit Ray’s Epic Debut, a new video essay by Ray biographer Andrew Robinson “The Apu Trilogy”: A Closer Look, a new program featuring filmmaker, producer, and teacher Mamoun Hassan Excerpts from the 2003 documentary The Song of the Little Road, featuring composer Ravi Shankar The Creative Person: “Satyajit Ray,” a 1967 half-hour documentary by James Beveridge, featuring interviews with Ray, several of his actors, members of his creative team, and film critic Chidananda Das Gupta Footage of Ray receiving an honorary Oscar in 1992 New programs on the restorations by filmmaker :: kogonada PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Girish Shambu, as well as a selection of Ray’s storyboards for Pather Panchali

In Cold Blood (1967) Directed by Richard Brooks Country: United States Duration: 134 minutes Language: English Spine #781 DVD BONUS FEATURES New interview with cinematographer John Bailey about director of photography Conrad Hall’s work in the film New interview with film historian Bobbie O’Steen on the film’s editing New interview with film critic and jazz historian Gary Giddins about Quincy Jones’s music for the film New interview with writer Douglass K. Daniel on director Richard Brooks Interview with Brooks from a 1988 episode of the French television series Cinéma cinemas With Love from Truman, a short 1966 documentary featuring novelist Truman Capote, directed by Albert and David Maysles Two archival NBC interviews with Capote: one following the author on a 1966 visit to Holcomb, Kansas, and the other conducted by Barbara Walters in 1967 Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara