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Breaking the Waves (1996)
Directed by Lars von Trier
Country: Denmark
Duration: 159 minutes
Language: English
Spine #705
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Selected-scene audio commentary featuring von Trier, editor Anders Refn, and location scout Anthony Dod Mantle
New interview with filmmaker and critic Stig Björkman
New interviews with actors Emily Watson and Stellan Skarsgård
Interview from 2004 with actor Adrian Rawlins
Excerpts from Watson’s audition tape, with commentary by von Trier
Deleted and extended scenes, with commentary by von Trier
Deleted scene featuring the late actor Katrin Cartlidge
Cannes Film Festival promotional clip
Trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic David Sterritt and an excerpt from the 1999 book Trier on von Trier
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Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
Directed by Don Siegel
Country: United States
Duration: 80 minutes
Language: English
Spine #704
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New audio commentary by film scholar Matthew H. Bernstein
Excerpts from the director’s 1993 autobiography, A Siegel Film, read by his son Kristoffer Tabori
Excerpts from Stuart Kaminsky’s 1974 book Don Siegel: Director, read by Tabori
Excerpts from the 1953 NBC radio documentary series The Challenge of Our Prisons
PLUS: An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara, a 1954 article by producer Walter Wanger, and a 1974 tribute to Siegel by filmmaker Sam Peckinpah
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The Freshman (1925)
Directed by Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer
Country: United States
Duration: 76 minutes
Language: English
Spine #703
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary featuring director and Harold Lloyd archivist Richard Correll, film historian Richard Bann, and film critic Leonard Maltin
On-camera introduction to The Freshman by Lloyd and a clip reel, both from Harold Lloyd’s Funny Side of Life (1966)
Three newly restored Lloyd shorts: The Marathon (1919), with a new piano score by Gabriel Thibaudeau, and An Eastern Westerner and High and Dizzy (both 1920), with new orchestral scores by Davis
Harold Lloyd: Big Man on Campus, a new visual essay on the film’s locations by Lloyd author John Bengtson
Conversation between Correll and film historian Kevin Brownlow
Footage from a 1963 Delta Kappa Alpha tribute to Lloyd, featuring comedian Steve Allen, director Delmer Daves, and actor Jack Lemmon
Lloyd’s 1953 appearance on the television show What’s My Line?
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Stephen Winer
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The Great Beauty (2013)
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Country: Italy
Duration: 142 minutes
Language: Italian
Spine #702
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation between Sorrentino and Italian cultural critic Antonio Monda
New interview with actor Toni Servillo
New interview with screenwriter Umberto Contarello
Deleted scenes
Trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Phillip Lopate
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Persona (1966)
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 minutes
Language: Sweidsh
Spine #701
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New visual essay on the film’s prologue by Ingmar Bergman scholar Peter Cowie
New interviews with actor Liv Ullmann and filmmaker Paul Schrader
Excerpted archival interviews with Bergman, Ullmann, and actor Bibi Andersson
On-set footage, with audio commentary by Bergman historian Birgitta Steene
Liv & Ingmar, a 2012 feature documentary directed by Dheeraj Akolkar
Trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Thomas Elsaesser, an excerpt from the 1970 book Bergman on Bergman, and an excerpted 1977 interview with Andersson
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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Directed by Wes Anderson
Country: United States
Duration: 87 minutes
Language: English
Spine #700
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary featuring Anderson
Storyboard animatic for the entire film
Footage of the actors voicing their characters, puppet construction, stop-motion setups, and the recording of the score
Interviews with cast and crew
Puppet animation tests
Photo gallery of puppets, props, and sets
Animated awards acceptance speeches
Audio recording of author Roald Dahl reading the book on which the film is based
Fantastic Mr. Dahl, an hour-long 2005 documentary about the author
Gallery of Dahl’s original manuscripts
Discussion and analysis of the film
Stop-motion Sony robot commercial by Anderson
PLUS: An essay by critic Erica Wagner
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A 2002 article on Dahl’s Gipsy House by Anderson; White Cape, a comic book used as a prop in the film; and drawings, original paintings, and other ephemera
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A Brief History of Time (1991)
Directed by Errol Morris
Country: United States
Duration: 84 minutes
Language: English
Spine #699
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with Morris
New interview with Bailey
PLUS: An essay by critic David Sterritt, a chapter from Stephen Hawking’s 2013 memoir My Brief History, and an excerpt from Hawking’s 1988 book A Brief History of Time
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King of the Hill (1993)
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Country: United States
Duration: 103 minutes
Language: English
Spine #698
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interviews with Soderbergh and source memoir author A. E. Hotchner
Against Tyranny, a new video essay by :: kogonada exploring Soderbergh’s unique approach to narrative
The Underneath (1995), Soderbergh’s follow-up feature to King of the Hill, with an interview with the director
Trailers
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Peter Tonguette, a 1993 interview with Soderbergh, and an excerpt from Hotchner’s 1972 memoir
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Tess (1979)
Directed by Roman Polanski
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 171 minutes
Language: English
Spine #697
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Once Upon a Time . . . “Tess,” a 2006 documentary about the film
Three programs on the making of the film—From Novel to Screen, Filming “Tess,” and “Tess”: The Experience—featuring interviews with Polanski, actors Nastassja Kinski and Leigh Lawson, producer Claude Berri, costume designer Anthony Powell, composer Philippe Sarde, and others
Interview with Polanski from a 1979 episode of The South Bank Show
Forty-five-minute documentary shot on location for French television during the making of the film
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Colin MacCabe
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Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Country: United States
Duration: 120 minutes
Language: English
Spine #696
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New piece on the film’s special effects by visual effects expert Craig Barron
Hollywood Propaganda and World War II, a new interview with writer Mark Harris
Interview with director Alfred Hitchcock from a 1972 episode of The Dick Cavett Show
Radio adaptation of the film from 1946, starring Joseph Cotten
“Have You Heard? The Story of Wartime Rumors,” a 1942 Life magazine “photo-drama” by Hitchcock
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film scholar James Naremore
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Blue is the Warmest Color (2013)
Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
Country: France
Duration: 179 minutes
Language: French
Spine #695
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Trailer and TV spot
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic B. Ruby Rich
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The Long Day Closes (1992)
Directed by Terence Davies
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 85 minutes
Language: English
Spine #694
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary by Davies and Coulter
Episode of the British television series The South Bank Show from 1992, featuring Davies, footage from the film’s production, and interviews with cast and crew
New interviews with executive producer Colin MacCabe and production designer Christopher Hobbs
Trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Koresky
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La vie de bohème (1992)
Directed by Aki Kaurismäki
Country: Finland, France
Duration: 103 minutes
Language: French
Spine #693
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Where Is Musette?, an hour-long documentary on the making of the film
New interview with actor André Wilms
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Luc Sante
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Directed by Stanley Kramer
Country: United States
Duration: 163 minutes
Language: English
Spine #692
DVD BONUS FEATURES
2013 audio commentary featuring It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World aficionados Mark Evanier, Michael Schlesinger, and Paul Scrabo
2013 documentary on the film’s visual and sound effects, featuring interviews with visual-effects specialist Craig Barron and sound designer Ben Burtt
Excerpt from a 1974 talk show hosted by director Stanley Kramer and featuring Mad World actors Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, and Jonathan Winters
Press interview from 1963 featuring Kramer and cast members
Excerpts about the influence of the film from the 2000 AFI program 100 Years . . . 100 Laughs
Two-part 1963 episode of the TV program Telescope that follows the film’s press junket and premiere
The Last 70 mm Film Festival, a 2012 program featuring Mad World cast and crew, hosted by actor Billy Crystal
Selection of humorist and voice-over artist Stan Freberg’s original TV and radio ads for the film, with a 2013 introduction by Freberg
Trailers and radio spots
PLUS: An essay by film critic Lou Lumenick and illustrations by legendary cartoonist Jack Davis
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Thief (1981)
Directed by Michael Mann
Country: United States
Duration: 124 minutes
Language: English
Spine #691
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary featuring Mann and actor James Caan
New interviews with Mann, Caan, and Johannes Schmoelling of the band Tangerine Dream, which contributed the film’s soundtrack
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Nick James
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The Housemaid (1960)
Directed by Kim Ki-young
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 minutes
Language: Korean
Spine #690
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Trances (1981)
Directed by Ahmed El Maânouni
Country: Morocco
Duration: 88 minutes
Language: Arabic
Spine #689
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Dry Summer (1964)
Directed by Metin Erksan
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 minutes
Language: Turkish
Spine #688
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A River Called Titas (1973)
Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 156 minutes
Language: Bengali
Spine #687
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Redes (1936)
Directed by Emilio Gómez Muriel and Fred Zinnemann
Country: Mexico
Duration: 59 minutes
Language: Spanish
Spine #686
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Touki bouki (1973)
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty
Country: Senegal
Duration: 89 minutes
Language: Wolof
Spine #685
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Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project
Spine #684
DVD BOX SET FEATURES
New introductions to the films by World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese
New interview programs featuring filmmakers Abderrahmane Sissako (on Touki bouki), Kumar Shahani (on A River Called Titas), Metin Erksan and Fatih Akın (on Dry Summer), and Bong Joon-ho (on The Housemaid)
New visual essay on Redes by filmmaker and critic Kent Jones
New program on Trances featuring interviews with director Ahmed El Maânouni, producer Izza Génini, musician Omar Sayed, and Scorsese
PLUS: A booklet featuring a foreward by Jones and essays on the films by Richard Porton, Charles Ramirez Berg, Adrian Martin, Bilge Ebiri, Sally Shafto, and Kyung Hyun Kim
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Nashville (1975)
Directed by Robert Altman
Country: United States
Duration: 160 minutes
Language: English
Spine #683
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary featuring director Robert Altman
New documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with actors Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Michael Murphy, Allan Nicholls, and Lily Tomlin; screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury; assistant director Alan Rudolph; and Altman’s widow, Kathryn Reed Altman
Three archival interviews with Altman
Behind-the-scenes footage
Demo of Carradine performing his songs from the film
Trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Molly Haskell
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
Directed by Elio Petri
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 minutes
Language: Italian
Spine #682
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Archival interview with director Elio Petri, conducted by critic and filmmaker Alexandre Astruc
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005), a ninety-minute documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers
New interview with film scholar Camilla Zamboni
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté (2008), a fifty-minute documentary about actor Gian Maria Volonté
Music in His Blood, an interview with composer Ennio Morricone from 2010, conducted by film critic Fabio Ferzetti
Trailers
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Evan Calder Williams and excerpts from a 2001 book by screenwriter Ugo Pirro
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Master of the House (1925)
Directed by Carl Th. Dreyer
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 minutes
Language: Danish
Spine #706
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with Carl Theodor Dreyer historian Casper Tybjerg
New visual essay on Dreyer’s innovations by film historian David Bordwell
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu