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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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