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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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