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Le silence de la mer (1949)
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
Country: France
Duration: 87 minutes
Language: French
Spine #755
DVD BONUS FEATURES
The short 24 Hours in the Life of a Clown (1946), director Jean-Pierre Melville’s first film
New interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
Code Name Melville (2008), a seventy-six-minute documentary on Melville’s time in the French Resistance and his films about it
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows (2010), a forty-two-minute documentary about Le silence de la mer
Interview with Melville from 1959
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and a selection from Rui Nogueira’s 1971 book Melville on Melville
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Odd Man Out (1947)
Directed by Carol Reed
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 116 minutes
Language: English
Spine #754
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with British cinema scholar John Hill, author of Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics
Postwar Poetry, a new short documentary about the film
New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score
Home, James, a 1972 documentary featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown
Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O’Herlihy
PLUS: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith
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The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Directed by Errol Morris
Country: United States
Duration: 102 minutes
Language: English
Spine #753
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with Morris
New interview with Joshua Oppenheimer, director of The Act of Killing
NBC report from 1989 covering Randall Adams’s release from prison
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Charles Musser
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Vernon, Florida (1981)
Directed by Errol Morris
Country: United States
Duration: 56 minutes
Language: English
Spine #752
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Two new interviews with Morris
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980), a twenty-minute film by Les Blank featuring Herzog fulfilling a bet intended to inspire Morris to complete his first feature
Footage of Herzog professing his admiration for Gates of Heaven at the 1980 Telluride Film Festival
PLUS: An essay by critic Eric Hynes
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Gates of Heaven (1978)
Directed by Errol Morris
Country: United States
Duration: 83 minutes
Language: English
Spine #751
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Two new interviews with Morris
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980), a twenty-minute film by Les Blank featuring Herzog fulfilling a bet intended to inspire Morris to complete his first feature
Footage of Herzog professing his admiration for Gates of Heaven at the 1980 Telluride Film Festival
PLUS: An essay by critic Eric Hynes
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Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
Directed by Robert Montgomery
Country: United States
Duration: 101 minutes
Language: English
Spine #750
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary featuring film noir historians Alain Silver and James Ursini
New interview with Imogen Sara Smith, author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City
Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1947, featuring Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, and Thomas Gomez
PLUS: An essay by filmmaker and writer Michael Almereyda
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The Soft Skin (1964)
Directed by François Truffaut
Country: France
Duration: 117 minutes
Language: French
Spine #749
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary by screenwriter Jean-Louis Richard and François Truffaut scholar Serge Toubiana
New video essay by filmmaker and critic Kent Jones
Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock, a 1999 documentary by film historian Robert Fischer
Interview with Truffaut from 1965 about the film
PLUS: An essay by critic Molly Haskell
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Watership Down (1978)
Directed by Martin Rosen
Country: United States
Duration: 92 minutes
Language: English
Spine #748
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with director Martin Rosen
New interview with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro about the film’s importance in animation history
Four film-to-storyboard scene comparisons
Defining a Style, a 2005 featurette about the film’s aesthetic
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by comic book writer Gerard Jones
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Picture-in-picture storyboards for the entire film
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Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Directed by Federico Fellini
Country: Italy
Duration: 130 minutes
Language: Italian
Spine #747
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary featuring an adaptation of Eileen Lanouette Hughes’s memoir On the Set of “Fellini Satyricon”: A Behind-the-Scenes Diary
Ciao, Federico!, Gideon Bachmann’s hour-long documentary shot on the set of Fellini Satyricon
Archival interviews with director Federico Fellini
New interview with Rotunno
New documentary about Fellini’s adaptation of Petronius’s work, featuring interviews with classicists Luca Canali, a consultant on the film, and Joanna Paul
New interview with photographer Mary Ellen Mark about her experiences on the set and her iconic photographs of Fellini and his film
Felliniana, a presentation of Fellini Satyricon ephemera from the collection of Don Young
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Michael Wood
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A Day in the Country (1936)
Directed by Jean Renoir
Country: France
Duration: 41 minutes
Language: French
Spine #746
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Introduction by director Jean Renoir from 1962
The Road to “A Day in the Country,” a new interview with Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner about the film’s production
Renoir at Work, a new video essay by Faulkner on Renoir’s methods
Un tournage à la campagne, an eighty-nine-minute 1994 compilation of outtakes from the film
Interview with producer Pierre Braunberger from 1979
Screen tests
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Gilberto Perez
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Don't Look Now (1973)
Directed by Nicolas Roeg
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 110 minutes
Language: English
Spine #745
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation between editor Graeme Clifford and film writer and historian Bobbie O’Steen
“Don’t Look Now,” Looking Back, a short 2002 documentary featuring Roeg, Clifford, and cinematographer Anthony Richmond
Death in Venice, a 2006 interview with composer Pino Donaggio
Something Interesting, a new piece on the writing and making of the film, featuring recent interviews with Richmond, actors Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, and coscreenwriter Allan Scott
Nicolas Roeg: The Enigma of Film, a new piece on Roeg’s style, featuring recent interviews with filmmakers Danny Boyle and Steven Soderbergh
Q&A with Roeg from 2003 at London’s Ciné Lumière
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film critic David Thompson
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Every Man for Himself (1980)
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Country: France
Duration: 88 minutes
Language: French
Spine #744
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Scénario de “Sauve qui peut (la vie)” (1979), a short video created by director Jean-Luc Godard to secure financing for Every Man for Himself
New video essay by critic Colin MacCabe
New interviews with actor Isabelle Huppert and producer Marin Karmitz
Archival interviews with actor Nathalie Baye, cinematographers Renato Berta and William Lubtchansky, and composer Gabriel Yared
Two back-to-back 1980 appearances by Godard on The Dick Cavett Show
Godard 1980, a short film by Jon Jost, Donald Ranvaud, and Peter Wollen, featuring Godard
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin
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La Ciénaga (2001)
Directed by Lucrecia Martel
Country: Argentina
Duration: 101 minutes
Language: Spanish
Spine #743
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with Martel
New interview with filmmaker Andrés Di Tella about Martel and the film
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Oubiña
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The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Directed by Preston Sturges
Country: United States
Duration: 88 minutes
Language: English
Spine #742
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with writer and film historian James Harvey about director Preston Sturges
New interview with actor and comedian Bill Hader about Sturges
Safeguarding Military Information, a 1941 World War II propaganda short written by Sturges
Screen Guild Theater radio adaptation of the film from March 1943
PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek
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My Winnipeg (2007)
Directed by Guy Maddin
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 minutes
Language: English
Spine #741
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation between Maddin and art critic Robert Enright
"My Winnipeg” Live in Toronto, a 2008 featurette
Four 2014 cine-essays by filmmaker Evan Johnson and Maddin on various Winnipegiana
Five Maddin shorts, the first three with new introductions by the director: Spanky: To the Pier and Back (2008), Sinclair (2010), Only Dream Things (2012), The Hall Runner (2014), and Louis Riel for Dinner (2014)
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Wayne Koestenbaum
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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Country: West Germany
Duration: 125 minutes
Language: German
Spine #740
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interviews with Ballhaus and actors Margit Carstensen, Eva Mattes, Katrin Schaake, and Hanna Schygulla
New interview with film scholar Jane Shattuc
Role Play: Women on Fassbinder, a 1992 German television documentary by Thomas Honickel featuring interviews with Carstensen, Schygulla, and actors Irm Hermann and Rosel Zech
PLUS: An essay by critic Peter Matthews
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Safe (1995)
Directed by Todd Haynes
Country: United States
Duration: 119 minutes
Language: English
Spine #739
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary featuring Haynes, actor Julianne Moore, and producer Christine Vachon
New conversation between Haynes and Moore
The Suicide, a 1978 short film by Haynes
New interview with Vachon
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Dennis Lim
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Tootsie (1982)
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Country: United States
Duration: 116 minutes
Language: English
Spine #738
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary featuring director Sydney Pollack
New interviews with actor Dustin Hoffman and comedy writer Phil Rosenthal
Interview with Dorothy Michaels by film critic Gene Shalit
Making of “Tootsie” (1982) and A Better Man: The Making of “Tootsie” (2007), two documentaries featuring interviews with cast and crew
Screen and wardrobe test footage
Deleted scenes and trailers
PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Sragow
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Les Blank: Always for Pleasure (1968)
Directed by Les Blank
Country: United States
Duration: 563 minutes
Language: English
Spine #737
FILMS INCLUDED IN THE BOX SET
The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins (1968 • 31 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio) Soon after founding his production company, Flower Films, Les Blank got up close to the legendary Texas blues musician Lightnin’ Hopkins for this rollicking film.
God Respects Us When We Work, but Loves Us When We Dance (1968 • 20 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio) Blank took his camera to the historic 1967 Easter Sunday love-in in Los Angeles for this immersive, even spiritual collage of a film.
Spend It All (1971 • 43 minutes • Color • Monaural • In English and French with English subtitles • 1.33:1 aspect ratio) Blank journeys down the bayous and byways of Southwest Louisiana in this riveting portrait of the region’s Cajun community.
A Well Spent Life (1971 • 44 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio) Musician Mance Lipscomb commands the screen in Blank’s vivid sketch of a man some consider the greatest blues guitarist who ever lived.
Dry Wood (1973 • 37 minutes • Color • Monaural • In English and French with English subtitles • 1.33:1 aspect ratio) Blank ventured back to Southwest Louisiana for this work of ramshackle beauty, an immersion in the region’s black Creole community that teems with delightful detail.
Hot Pepper (1973 • 54 minutes • Color • Monaural • In English and French with English subtitles • 1.33:1 aspect ratio) This is an energetic portrait of the Grammy-winning Creole musician Clifton Chenier, a.k.a. the King of Zydeco; Blank beautifully captures his music’s propulsive, foot-tapping joy.
Always for Pleasure (1978 • 57 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio) Blank’s raucous tribute to the sights, sounds, and flavors of New Orleans is perhaps his most sustained representation of pure joy.
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980 • 50 minutes • Color • Monaural • In English and Spanish with English subtitles • 1.33:1 aspect ratio) More than just a nonfiction lark, Blank’s highly personal film ode to the “stinking rose” is a loving tribute both to a food that unites the most disparate of cuisines and to the East Bay, California, community that appears on-screen.
Sprout Wings and Fly (1983 • 30 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio) This is a warm depiction of the life of old-time fiddler Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
In Heaven There Is No Beer? (1984 • 49 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio) A cinematic jamboree, this film finds Blank in a characteristically jubilant mode as he explores “polka happiness” and the Polish American polka subculture.
Gap-Toothed Women (1987 • 31 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio) Blank breezily questions our commonly accepted standards of beauty with this paean to women with extra-wide dental spaces.
Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking (1990 • 31 minutes • Color • Monaural • In English and French with English subtitles • 1.33:1 aspect ratio) Accordionist Marc Savoy and his family and friends show us how to make goo courtbouillon, gumbo, étouffée, boudin, and other Cajun and Creole delights.
The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists (1994 • 53 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio) This portrait of the free-spirited painter and singing cowboy Gerald Gaxiola is a testament to creativity unencumbered by commerce.
Sworn to the Drum: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella (1995 • 34 minutes • Color • Stereo • In English and Spanish with English subtitles • 1.33:1 aspect ratio) The impassioned rhythms of Francisco Aguabella’s conga propel this portrait of the great Afro-Cuban percussionist.Excerpt from Les Blank: A Quiet Revelation, a film project by Harrod Blank and Gina Leibrecht
New interviews with Blank’s sons, Harrod and Beau; Blank documentary subject Gerald Gaxiola (a.k.a. the Maestro); Blank’s friends and collaborators Skip Gerson, Maureen Gosling, Taylor Hackford, Werner Herzog, Susan Kell, Tom Luddy, David Silberberg, and Chris Simon; and chef and author Alice Waters
Related shorts by Blank: The Sun’s Gonna Shine (1968), More Fess (1978), Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge (1991), My Old Fiddle: A Visit with Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge (1994), and The Maestro Rides Again (2005)Two outtake performances from The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Andrew Horton
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It Happened One Night (1934)
Directed by Frank Capra
Country: United States
Duration: 105 minutes
Language: English
Spine #736
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Screwball Comedy?, a new conversation between critics Molly Haskell and Phillip Lopate
Interview with Frank Capra Jr. from 1999
Frank Capra’s American Dream, a 1997 feature-length documentary about the director’s life and career
New digital transfer of Capra’s first film, the 1921 silent short Fultah Fisher’s Boarding House, with a new score composed and performed by Donald Sosin
American Film Institute tribute to Capra from 1982
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme
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Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)
Directed by Monte Hellman
Country: United States
Duration: 82 minutes
Language: English
Spine #735
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentaries on both films, featuring Hellman and film historians Bill Krohn and Blake Lucas
New interviews with actors John Hackett, B. J. Merholz, Millie Perkins, and Harry Dean Stanton, assistant director Gary Kurtz, and chief wrangler Calvin Johnson, all in conversation with Hellman
New conversation between actor Will Hutchins and film programmer Jake Perlin
New video appreciation of actor Warren Oates by critic Kim Morgan
PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Atkinson
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The Shooting (1966)
Directed by Monte Hellman
Country: United States
Duration: 81 minutes
Language: English
Spine #734
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentaries on both films, featuring Hellman and film historians Bill Krohn and Blake Lucas
New interviews with actors John Hackett, B. J. Merholz, Millie Perkins, and Harry Dean Stanton, assistant director Gary Kurtz, and chief wrangler Calvin Johnson, all in conversation with Hellman
New conversation between actor Will Hutchins and film programmer Jake Perlin
New video appreciation of actor Warren Oates by critic Kim Morgan
PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Atkinson
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La dolce vita (1960)
Directed by Federico Fellini
Country: Italy
Duration: 174 minutes
Language: Italian
Spine #733
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, an assistant director on the film
New interview with scholar David Forgacs about the period in Italian history when the film was made
New interview with Italian journalist Antonello Sarno
Interview with director Federico Fellini from 1965
Audio interview with actor Marcello Mastroianni from the early 1960s
Felliniana, a presentation of La dolce vita ephemera from the collection of Don Young
New visual essay by filmmaker : : kogonada
PLUS: An essay by critic Gary Giddins
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My Darling Clementine (1946)
Directed by John Ford
Country: United States
Duration: 97 minutes
Language: English
Spine #732
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New audio commentary featuring John Ford biographer Joseph McBride
New interview with western historian Andrew C. Isenberg about the real Wyatt Earp
Comparison of the two versions by film preservationist Robert Gitt
New video essay by Ford scholar Tag Gallagher
Bandit’s Wager, a 1916 silent western short costarring Ford and directed by his brother, Francis Ford, featuring new music composed and performed by Donald Sosin
NBC television reports from 1963 and 1975 about the history of Tombstone and Monument Valley
Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from 1947 starring Henry Fonda and Cathy Downs
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic David Jenkins
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Limelight (1952)
Directed by Charles Chaplin
Country: United States
Duration: 137 minutes
Language: English
Spine #756
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Chaplin’s “Limelight”: Its Evolution and Intimacy, a new video essay by Charlie Chaplin biographer David Robinson
New interviews with actors Claire Bloom and Norman Lloyd
Chaplin Today: “Limelight,” a 2002 documentary on the film
Archival audio recording of Chaplin reading two short excerpts from his novella Footlights
Two short films by Chaplin: A Night in the Show (1915) and the uncompleted The Professor (1919)
Outtake and two trailers
PLUS: An essay by critic Peter von Bagh and excerpts from an on-set piece by journalist Henry Gris