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Frances Ha (2013) Directed by Noah Baumbach Country: United States Duration: 86 minutes Language: English Spine #681 DVD BONUS FEATURES New conversation between filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich and Baumbach New conversation between actor and filmmaker Sarah Polley and the film’s cowriter and star, Greta Gerwig New conversation about the look of Frances Ha between Baumbach, director of photography Sam Levy, and Pascal Dangin, who did the film’s color mastering Trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by playwright Annie Baker

City Lights (1931) Directed by Charles Chaplin Country: United States Duration: 86 minutes Language: English Spine #680 DVD BONUS FEATURES New audio commentary by Charlie Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance Chaplin Today: “City Lights,” a 2003 documentary on the film, featuring Aardman Animations cofounder Peter Lord Chaplin Studios: Creative Freedom by Design, a new interview program featuring visual effects expert Craig Barron Archival footage from the production of City Lights, including film from the set, with audio commentary by Chaplin historian Hooman Mehran; a costume test; a rehearsal; and a complete scene not used in the film Excerpt from Chaplin’s short film The Champion (1915), along with footage of the director with boxing stars at Chaplin Studios in 1918 Trailers PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Gary Giddins and a 1966 interview with Chaplin

Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman Spine #679 DVD BOX SET FEATURES The Blind Swordsman, a 1978 documentary about Zatoichi portrayer and filmmaker Shintaro Katsu, along with a new interview with its director, John Nathan New interview with Asian-film critic Tony Rayns Trailers PLUS: A book featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien; synopses of the films by critic, novelist, and musician Chris D.; “The Tale of Zatoichi,” the original short story by Kan Shimozawa; and twenty-five new illustrations inspired by the films, by twenty-five different artists FILMS INCLUDED IN THE BOX SET The Tale of Zatoichi (1962) Directed by Kenji Misumi Country: Japan Duration: 96 minutes Language: Japanese The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (1962) Directed by Kazuo Mori Country: Japan Duration: 72 minutes Language: Japanese New Tale of Zatoichi (1963) Directed by Tokuzo Tanaka Country: Japan Duration: 91 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi the Fugitive (1963) Directed by Tokuzo Tanaka Country: Japan Duration: 86 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi on the Road (1963) Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda Country: Japan Duration: 87 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (1964) Directed by Kazuo Ikehiro Country: Japan Duration: 82 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi's Flashing Sword (1964) Directed by Kazuo Ikehiro Country: Japan Duration: 82 minutes Language: Japanese Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964) Directed by Kenji Misumi Country: Japan Duration: 87 minutes Language: Japanese Adventures of Zatoichi (1964) Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda Country: Japan Duration: 86 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi's Revenge (1965) Directed by Akira Inoue Country: Japan Duration: 83 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi and the Doomed Man (1965) Directed by Kazuo Mori Country: Japan Duration: 77 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965) Directed by Kenji Misumi Country: Japan Duration: 87 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966) Directed by Tokuzo Tanaka Country: Japan Duration: 82 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (1966) Directed by Kazuo Ikehiro Country: Japan Duration: 82 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi's Cane Sword (1967) Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda Country: Japan Duration: 93 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967) Directed by Satsuo Yamamoto Country: Japan Duration: 95 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi Challenged (1967) Directed by Kenji Misumi Country: Japan Duration: 86 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi and the Fugitives (1968) Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda Country: Japan Duration: 82 minutes Language: Japanese Samaritan Zatoichi (1968) Directed by Kenji Misumi Country: Japan Duration: 82 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970) Directed by Kihachi Okamoto Country: Japan Duration: 115 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970) Directed by Kenji Misumi Country: Japan Duration: 96 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman (1971) Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda Country: Japan Duration: 94 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi at Large (1972) Directed by Kazuo Mori Country: Japan Duration: 90 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi in Desperation (1972) Directed by Shintaro Katsu Country: Japan Duration: 95 minutes Language: Japanese Zatoichi's Conspiracy (1973) Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda Country: Japan Duration: 88 minutes Language: Japanese

La notte (1961) Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni Country: Italy Duration: 122 minutes Language: Italian Spine #678 DVD BONUS FEATURES New interview with film critic Adriano Aprà and film historian Carlo di Carlo New interview with professor Giuliana Bruno on the role of architecture in La notte Trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Richard Brody and a 1961 article by director Michelangelo Antonioni

The Uninvited (1944) Directed by Lewis Allen Country: United States Duration: 99 minutes Language: English Spine #677 DVD BONUS FEATURES New visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda Two radio adaptations, from 1944 and 1949, both starring Ray Milland Trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme and a 1997 interview with director Lewis Allen

I Married a Witch (1942) Directed by René Clair Country: United States Duration: 77 minutes Language: English Spine #676 DVD BONUS FEATURES Audio interview with director René Clair Trailer PLUS: An essay by filmmaker Guy Maddin (REISSUE) Plus a 1970 interview with Clair

Journey to Italy (1954) Directed by Roberto Rossellini Country: Italy Duration: 85 minutes Language: English Spine #675 DVD BONUS FEATURES Introduction by director Roberto Rossellini Audio commentary by film scholar Laura Mulvey New interview with film critic Adriano Aprà Short film featuring footage of the Rossellinis during the production of Journey to Italy New interview with filmmaker Martin Scorsese Living and Departed, a new visual essay by Rossellini scholar Tag Gallagher on the evolution of the director’s style in the trilogy Ingrid Bergman Remembered, a 1995 documentary on the actress’s life, narrated by her daughter Pia Lindstrom (REISSUE) New interview with Rossellini and actress Ingrid Bergman’s daughters, Ingrid Rossellini and Isabella Rossellini Surprised by Death, a new visual essay by film critic James Quandt on the historical and artistic themes of the trilogy Rossellini Through His Own Eyes, a 1992 documentary on the director’s approach to cinema, featuring archival interviews with Rossellini and Bergman New interview with G. Fiorella Mariani, Rossellini’s niece, featuring Bergman’s home movies My Dad Is 100 Years Old, a 2005 short film directed by Guy Maddin and starring Isabella Rossellini The Chicken, a 1952 short film directed by Rossellini and starring Bergman

Europe '51 (1952) Directed by Roberto Rossellini Country: Italy Duration: 109 minutes Language: English Spine #674 DVD BONUS FEATURES Introduction by director Roberto Rossellini New interview with film critic Adriano Aprà New interview with film historian Elena Dagrada on the different versions of the film New interview with Rossellini and actress Ingrid Bergman’s daughters, Ingrid Rossellini and Isabella Rossellini My Dad Is 100 Years Old, a 2005 short film directed by Guy Maddin and starring Isabella Rossellini New interview with G. Fiorella Mariani, Rossellini’s niece, featuring Bergman’s home movies The Chicken, a 1952 short film directed by Rossellini and starring Bergman

Stromboli (1950) Directed by Roberto Rossellini Country: Italy Duration: 106 minutes Language: English Spine #673 DVD BONUS FEATURES Introduction by director Roberto Rossellini New interview with film critic Adriano Aprà Rossellini Under the Volcano, a 1998 documentary that returns to Stromboli fifty years after the making of the film Surprised by Death, a new visual essay by film critic James Quandt on the historical and artistic themes of the trilogy Rossellini Through His Own Eyes, a 1992 documentary on the director’s approach to cinema, featuring archival interviews with Rossellini and actress Ingrid Bergman

3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman Spine #672 Introductions to all three films by director Roberto Rossellini Rossellini Under the Volcano, a 1998 documentary that returns to Stromboli fifty years after the making of the film New interview with film historian Elena Dagrada on the different versions of Europe ’51 Audio commentary on Journey to Italy by film scholar Laura Mulvey Short film featuring footage of the Rossellinis during the production of Journey to Italy New interviews with film critic Adriano Aprà about all three films Surprised by Death, a new visual essay by film critic James Quandt on the historical and artistic themes of the trilogy Living and Departed, a new visual essay by Rossellini scholar Tag Gallagher on the evolution of the director’s style in the trilogy New interview with filmmaker Martin Scorsese New interview with Rossellini and actress Ingrid Bergman’s daughters, Ingrid Rossellini and Isabella Rossellini Rossellini Through His Own Eyes, a 1992 documentary on the director’s approach to cinema New interview with G. Fiorella Mariani, Rossellini’s niece, featuring Bergman’s home movies Ingrid Bergman Remembered, a 1995 documentary on the actress’s life, narrated by her daughter Pia Lindstrom My Dad Is 100 Years Old, a 2005 short film directed by Guy Maddin and starring Isabella Rossellini The Chicken, a 1952 short film directed by Rossellini and starring Bergman PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by Richard Brody, Dina Iordanova, Dagrada, Fred Camper, and Paul Thomas; letters between Bergman and Rossellini; a 1950 article by Rossellini; and two interviews with the director, from 1954 and 1963

La Cage aux Folles (1978) Directed by Edouard Molinaro Country: France Duration: 96 minutes Language: French Spine #671 DVD BONUS FEATURES New interview with director Edouard Molinaro Archival footage featuring actor Michel Serrault and Jean Poiret, writer and star of the original stage production of La Cage aux Folles New interview with Laurence Senelick, author of The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre French and U.S. trailers PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic David Ehrenstein

To Be or Not to Be (1942) Directed by Ernst Lubitsch Country: United States Duration: 99 minutes Language: English Spine #670 DVD BONUS FEATURES Audio commentary from 2013 featuring film historian David Kalat Pinkus’s Shoe Palace, a 1916 German silent short directed by and starring Ernst Lubitsch, with a piano score by Donald Sosin Lubitsch le patron, a 2010 French documentary on the director’s career Two episodes of The Screen Guild Theater, a radio anthology series: Variety (1940), starring Jack Benny, Claudette Colbert, and Lubitsch, and To Be or Not to Be (1942), an adaptation of the film, starring William Powell, Diana Lewis, and Sig Ruman PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien (REISSUE) A 1942 New York Times op-ed by Lubitsch

Charulata (1964) Directed by Satyajit Ray Country: India Duration: 119 minutes Language: Bengali Spine #669 DVD BONUS FEATURES New interview program with actors Madhabi Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee Adapting Tagore, a new interview program featuring Indian film scholar Moinak Biswas and Bengali cultural historian Supriya Chaudhuri Archival audio interview with director Satyajit Ray, conducted by film historian Gideon Bachmann PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Philip Kemp and a 1980s interview with Ray by his biographer Andrew Robinson

The Big City (1963) Directed by Satyajit Ray Country: India Duration: 135 minutes Language: Bengali Spine #668 DVD BONUS FEATURES New interview with actor Madhabi Mukherjee Satyajit Ray and the Modern Woman, a new interview with Ray scholar Suranjan Ganguly The Coward (Kapurush, 1965), a short feature by Ray that also addresses modern female identity and stars Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee Satyajit Ray (1974), a documentary short by B. D. Garga PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by scholar Chandak Sengoopta and a 1980s interview with Ray by his biographer Andrew Robinson

Seconds (1966) Directed by John Frankenheimer Country: United States Duration: 107 minutes Language: English Spine #667 DVD BONUS FEATURES Audio commentary featuring director John Frankenheimer New interview with actor Alec Baldwin Excerpts from Hollywood on the Hudson, a 1965 television program featuring on-set footage and an interview with actor Rock Hudson New program on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Evans Frankenheimer, the director’s widow, and actor Salome Jens Interview with Frankenheimer from 1971 New visual essay by film scholars R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic David Sterritt

The Devil's Backbone (2001) Directed by Guillermo del Toro Country: Mexico, Spain Duration: 108 minutes Language: Spanish Spine #666 DVD BONUS FEATURES Audio commentary featuring Del Toro Video introduction by Del Toro from 2010 New and archival interviews with Del Toro about the creation of his film ¿Que es un fantasma?, a 2004 making-of documentary Interactive director’s notebook Four deleted scenes, with commentary by del Toro New interview with scholar Sebastiaan Faber about the film’s depiction of the Spanish Civil War Program comparing Del Toro’s thumbnail sketches and Carlos Giménez’s storyboards with the final film Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Kermode (REISSUE) Selected on-screen presentation of Del Toro’s thumbnail sketches

Babette's Feast (1987) Directed by Gabriel Axel Country: Denmark Duration: 104 minutes Language: Danish, French, Swedish Spine #665 DVD BONUS FEATURES New interviews with director Gabriel Axel and actor Stéphane Audran Karen Blixen—Storyteller, a 1995 documentary about the author of the film’s source story, who wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen New visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda New interview with sociologist Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson about the significance of cuisine in French culture Trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu (REISSUE) Dinesen’s 1950 story

The Life of Oharu (1952) Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi Country: Japan Duration: 136 minutes Language: Japanese Spine #664 DVD BONUS FEATURES New audio commentary for the opening of the movie by film scholar Dudley Andrew Mizoguchi’s Art and the Demimonde, an illustrated audio essay featuring Andrew The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka, a 2009 film by Koko Kajiyama documenting the actor’s 1949 goodwill tour of the United States PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Gilberto Perez

Shoah (1985) Directed by Claude Lanzmann Country: France Duration: 550 minutes Language: French, Italian, German, Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, English Spine #663 DVD BONUS FEATURES Three additional films by director Claude Lanzmann: A Visitor from the Living (1999, 68 minutes); Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001, 102 minutes); and The Karski Report (2010, 49 minutes) New conversation between Lanzmann and critic Serge Toubiana Interview with Lanzmann from 2003 about A Visitor from the Living and Sobibór New interview with Caroline Champetier, assistant camera person on Shoah, and filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin Trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones and writings by Lanzmann

Safety Last! (1923) Directed by Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor Country: United States Duration: 73 minutes Silent Spine #662 DVD BONUS FEATURES Musical score by composer Carl Davis from 1989 Alternate score by organist Gaylord Carter from the late 1960s Audio commentary featuring film critic Leonard Maltin and director and Harold Lloyd archivist Richard Correll Introduction by Suzanne Lloyd, Lloyd’s granddaughter and the president of Harold Lloyd Entertainment Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius, a 108-minute documentary from 1989 Three newly restored Lloyd shorts: Take a Chance (1918), Young Mr. Jazz (1919), and His Royal Slyness (1920), with commentary by Correll and film writer John Bengtson Locations and Effects, a new documentary featuring Bengtson and visual-effects expert Craig Barron New interview with Davis PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Ed Park

Marketa Lazarová (1967) Directed by František Vláčil Country: Czechoslovakia Duration: 165 minutes Language: Czech, German Spine #661 DVD BONUS FEATURES New interviews with actors Magda Vášáryová, Ivan Palúch, and Vlastimil Harapes and costume designer Theodor Pištěk New interviews with film historian Peter Hames and journalist and film critic Antonín Liehm In the Web of Time, a short documentary from 1989 by cinematographer František Uldrich, in which director František Vláčil discusses his filmmaking process Interview with Universal Production Partners technical director Ivo Marák about the film’s restoration Gallery of storyboards by Vláčil Trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film scholar Tom Gunning and translator Alex Zucker and a 1969 interview with Vláčil

Things to Come (1936) Directed by William Cameron Menzies Country: United Kingdom Duration: 97 minutes Language: English Spine #660 DVD BONUS FEATURES Audio commentary featuring film historian and writer David Kalat New interview with writer and cultural historian Christopher Frayling on the film’s design New visual essay by film historian Bruce Eder on Arthur Bliss’s musical score Unused special effects footage by artist László Moholy-Nagy, along with a video installation piece by Jan Tichy incorporating that footage Audio recording from 1936 of a reading from H. G. Wells’s writing about the Wandering Sickness, the plague in Things to Come PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien

Life is Sweet (1990) Directed by Mike Leigh Country: United Kingdom Duration: 103 minutes Language: English Spine #659 DVD BONUS FEATURES New audio commentary featuring director Mike Leigh Audio recording of a 1991 interview with Leigh at the National Film Theatre in London Five short films written and directed by Leigh for the proposed television series Five-Minute Films, with a new audio introduction by Leigh Plus: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic David Sterritt

Medium Cool (1969) Directed by Haskell Wexler Country: United States Duration: 110 minutes Language: English Spine #658 DVD BONUS FEATURES Two audio commentaries, one featuring Wexler, editorial consultant Paul Golding, and actor Marianna Hill, and the other featuring historian Paul Cronin New interview with Wexler Extended excerpts from “Look Out Haskell, It’s Real!,” a documentary by Cronin about the making of Medium Cool, featuring interviews with Wexler; Golding; actors Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, and Robert Forster; Chicago historian Studs Terkel; and others Excerpts from Sooner or Later, Cronin’s documentary about Harold Blankenship, who plays Harold in the film “Medium Cool” Revisited, a new half-hour video by Wexler about the Occupy movement’s protests against the 2012 NATO summit in Chicago Trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic and programmer Thomas Beard

3:10 to Yuma (1957) Directed by Delmer Daves Country: France Duration: 92 minutes Language: English Spine #657 DVD BONUS FEATURES New interviews with author Elmore Leonard and actor Glenn Ford’s son and biographer, Peter Ford Plus: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Kent Jones