BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 Chronicle of a Summer (1961) Directed by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin Country: France Duration: 90 minutes Language: French Spine #648 DVD BONUS FEATURES Un été + 50 (2011), a seventy-five-minute documentary featuring outtakes from the film, along with new interviews with codirector Edgar Morin and some of the film’s participants Archival interviews with codirector Jean Rouch and Marceline Loridan, one of the film’s participants New interview with anthropology professor Faye Ginsburg, the organizer of several Rouch retrospectives PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by scholar Sam Di Iorio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 Ministry of Fear (1944) Directed by Fritz Lang Country: United States Duration: 87 minutes Language: English Spine #649 DVD BONUS FEATURES New interview with Fritz Lang scholar Joe McElhaney Trailer PLUS: A new essay by critic Glenn Kenny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 A Man Escaped (1956) Directed by Robert Bresson Country: France Duration: 101 minutes Language: French Spine #650 DVD BONUS FEATURES “Bresson: Without a Trace,” a 1965 episode of the television program Cinéastes de notre temps in which the director gives his first on-camera interview The Road to Bresson, a 1984 documentary featuring interviews with filmmakers Louis Malle, Paul Schrader, and Andrei Tarkovsky The Essence of Forms, a documentary from 2010 in which collaborators and admirers of Bresson’s, including actor François Leterrier and director Bruno Dumont, share their thoughts about the director and his work Functions of Film Sound, a new visual essay on the use of sound in A Man Escaped, with text by film scholars David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson Trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Tony Pipolo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 Badlands (1973) Directed by Terrence Malick Country: United States Duration: 94 minutes Language: English Spine #651 DVD BONUS FEATURES Making “Badlands,” a 2012 documentary featuring actors Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek and art director Jack Fisk Interviews from 2012 with associate editor Billy Weber and executive producer Edward Pressman “Charles Starkweather,” a 1993 episode of the television program American Justice, about the real-life story on which the film was loosely based Trailer PLUS: An essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 Monsieur Verdoux (1947) Directed by Charles Chaplin Country: United States Duration: 124 minutes Language: English Spine #652 DVD BONUS FEATURES Chaplin Today: “Monsieur Verdoux,” a 2003 documentary on the film’s production and release, featuring filmmaker Claude Chabrol and actor Norman Lloyd Charlie Chaplin and the American Press, a new documentary featuring the director of the Chaplin company Roy Export, Kate Guyonvarch, and author Charles Maland Illustrated audio interview with actor Marilyn Nash Radio advertisements and trailers PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky and reprinted pieces by Chaplin and critic André Bazin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 Gate of Hell (1953) Directed by Teinosule Kinugasa Country: Japan Duration: 89 minutes Language: Japanese Spine #653 DVD BONUS FEATURE PLUS: A new essay by film historian Stephen Prince Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 Repo Man (1984) Directed by Alex Cox Country: United States Duration: 92 minutes Language: English Spine #654 DVD BONUS FEATURES Audio commentary featuring Cox, executive producer Michael Nesmith, casting director Victoria Thomas, and actors Sy Richardson, Zander Schloss, and Del Zamora New interviews with musicians Iggy Pop and Keith Morris and actors Dick Rude, Olivia Barash, and Miguel Sandoval Deleted scenes and trailers Roundtable discussion about the making of the film, featuring Cox, producers Peter McCarthy and Jonathan Wacks, Zamora, Richardson, and Rude Conversation between actor Harry Dean Stanton and McCarthy Cox’s “cleaned-up” television version of the film Trailers PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Sam McPheeters (REISSUE) An illustrated production history by Cox, and a 1987 interview with real-life repo man Mark Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 Pierre Etaix Spine #655 DVD BOX SET FEATURES New video introductions to the films by director Pierre Etaix Pierre Etaix, un destin animé (2011), a portrait of the life and work of the director by his wife, Odile Etaix PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic David Cairns FILMS INCLUDED IN THE BOX SET The Suitor (1963) Directed by Pierre Etaix Country: France Duration: 84 minutes Language: French Yoyo (1965) Directed by Pierre Etaix Country: France Duration: 98 minutes Language: French As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966) Directed by Pierre Etaix Country: France Duration: 68 minutes Language: French Le grand amour (1969) Directed by Pierre Etaix Country: France Duration: 87 minutes Language: French Land of Milk and Honey (1971) Directed by Pierre Etaix Country: France Duration: 76 minutes Language: French Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 Jubal (1956) Directed by Delmer Daves Country: United States Duration: 101 minutes Language: English Spine #656 DVD BONUS FEATURES PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Kent Jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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