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10 on Ten
Abbas Kiarostami | | Included on the TEN DVD, 10 ON TEN is a feature-length cinematic master-class in which Abbas Kiarostami discusses his filmmaking. More... |
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The Acid House
Paul McGuigan | | A surreal triptych adapted by TRAINSPOTTING author Irvine Welsh from his own collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, THE ACID HOUSE plunges the viewer into increasingly bizarre situations. More... |
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Aimée & Jaguar
Max Färberböck | | An unforgettable film about love, passion and the triumph of the human spirit. In the darkest days of World War II a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women: Lilly (aka “Aimée”), a married woman and an exemplar of Nazi motherhood, and Felice (aka “Jaguar”), a member of the Jewish underground. This award-winning film brings their incredible true story to life. More... |
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Archangel
Guy Maddin | | This weird, wild and extraordinary film is both melodrama and deadpan parody. With striking black and white cinematography and stylized set design, Maddin tells a tale of obsessive love in the arctic Russian town of Archangel during World War I. More... |
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Ballets Russes
Dayna Goldfine, Dan Geller | | This entrancing ode to the revolutionary twentieth-century dance troupes known collectively as the Ballets Russes treats modern audiences to a rare glimpse of the singularly remarkable merger of performers, choreographers, composers and designers who transformed the art of dance for generations to come. More... |
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Billy the Kid
Jennifer Venditti | | Jennifer Venditti's award-winning documentary is a provocative coming-of-age story—an odyssey into the soul of an American teenager. More... |
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Brakhage
Jim Shedden | | This definitive, impressionistic portrait of cinematic visionary Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) features vintage and contemporary interviews with the filmmaker and tons of clips from some of his most notable works. More... |
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Calendar
Atom Egoyan | | In this beautiful and evocative film Atom Egoyan himself stars as a photographer sent to Armenia to document historic churches for a calendar commission. He takes along his wife as a translator but their relationship begins to unravel as she becomes more and more drawn to her ethnic roots and to their Armenian guide. More... |
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Caravaggio
Derek Jarman | | Derek Jarman’s most profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld. Starring Nigel Terry, Tilda Swinton (MICHAEL CLAYTON) and Sean Bean (THE LORD OF THE RINGS). First time on DVD in the USA. More... |
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Chain Camera
Kirby Dick | | From Kirby Dick, director of the Oscar-nominated TWIST OF FAITH. An expressive and poignant audio-visual chain letter that doubles as a portrait of 21st-century young America. More... |
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China: A Century of Revolution
Sue Williams | | As seen on PBS, this award-winning six-hour documentary series on the history of 20th-century China uses never-before-seen footage and remarkable first-hand interviews to document the epic struggle of the Chinese people to build a unified, modern nation. More... |
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Chris & Don. A Love Story
Guido Santi, Tina Mascara | A documentary portrait of one of the most extraordinary and unconventional relationships of the past century, between British writer Christopher Isherwood and American portrait artist Don Bachardy. A joyful celebration of a most extraordinary couple.
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Climates
Nuri Bilge Ceylan | | Winner of the prestigious Fipresci Award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, CLIMATES is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner DISTANT. More... |
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The Corporation
Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar | | One of the most successful political documentaries of all time, THE CORPORATION is a timely, critical inquiry that invites CEOs, whistle-blowers, brokers, gurus, spies, players, pawns and pundits on a graphic and engaging quest to reveal the corporation's inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures. More... |
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Cowards Bend the Knee
Guy Maddin | | Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation, COWARDS BEND THE KNEE is jam-packed with enough kinetically photographed action to seem like a never-ending cliffhanger. In this twisted and poisoned wish-fulfillment, the mythomaniacal Maddin casts 'himself' (actually, Darcy Fehr) as a hockey sniper made lily-livered by mother and daughter femme fatales. More... |
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Daddy and the Muscle Academy
Ilppo Pohjola | Tom of Finland is one of the major icons of the gay world.
Tom's erotic drawings of uniformed and leather-clad beefcake have become a permanent fixture of 20th-century iconography. This definitive documentary of the man and the artist combines interviews with Tom himself, commentary from his "leather men," hundreds of original drawings and steamy fantasy scenes inspired by his work. More... |
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Derrida
Amy Ziering Kofman, Kirby Dick | | One of the most influential and iconoclastic figures of the 20th century, French philosopher and father of “deconstruction” Jacques Derrida has single-handedly altered the way we look at history, language, art and film. More... |
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Diva Dolorosa
Peter Delpeut | | A mesmerizing collage of early Italian film clips from the director of LYRICAL NITRATE. Peter Delpeut captures the spirit of the diva dolorosa, the Italian silent film heroine who teetered dangerously between a capricious indulgence in sexual passion and a hysteric remorse at her own cruelty. A beautiful, vibrantly-tinted compilation film. More... |
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Divan
Pearl Gluck | | As a teenager, filmmaker Pearl Gluck left her Orthodox Jewish clan in Brooklyn for secular life in Manhattan. Years later, in order to mend the breach with her family, she travels to Hungary to retrieve a turn-of-the-century family heirloom. Nimbly clever and intensely illuminating, DIVAN is a visual parable that offers the possibility of personal reinvention and cultural re-upholstery. More... |
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Dottie Gets Spanked
Todd Haynes | | Another dazzling suburban phantasm from writer-director Todd Haynes, DOTTIE GETS SPANKED is a stylized, bittersweet nod to his childhood fascination with I Love Lucy. More... |
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Downtown 81
Edo Bertoglio | | Legendary painter, graffiti artist, poet and musician Jean-Michel Basquiat was only 19 years old when he played the lead in DOWNTOWN 81, a striking "lost" film that chronicles the explosive early-'80s Manhattan art and music scene. Shot on location, DOWNTOWN 81 not only captures one of the most important and provocative artists of the 20th-century as he is poised for worldwide fame, but is also a vivid snapshot of a New York City that no longer exists. More... |
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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
Guy Maddin | | After garnering widespread acclaim with his mini-masterpiece THE HEART OF THE WORLD, red hot cult auteur Guy Maddin (THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD) has taken on the world’s most adapted horror tale and concocted his most original and ravishingly stylized cinematic creation yet. More... |
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The Draughtsman's Contract
Peter Greenaway | | A re-release of the Peter Greenaway classic. Greenaway became a director of international renown with this witty, stylized, erotic country-house murder mystery set on an apparently idyllic 17th-century estate. Extravagant costumes, a twisted plot, elegantly barbed dialogue and a score by Michael Nyman make the film a treat for ear, eye and mind. More... |
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The Essential Egoyan Box Set
Atom Egoyan | | THE ESSENTIAL EGOYAN: a four-disc box set with four feature films and three rare shorts—plus audio commentaries, deleted scenes, photo essays, video interviews, behind-the-scenes material and a documentary—from Atom Egoyan, the four-time Cannes Film Festival winner and Oscar-nominated writer and director of THE SWEET HEREAFTER, EXOTICA and WHERE THE TRUTH LIES. More... |
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Family Viewing
Atom Egoyan | | Winner of numerous awards at major film festivals, FAMILY VIEWING (1987) established Egoyan as one of the most striking new directors of our time. In this black comedy a young man discovers that his childhood home videos have been erased to make room for his father’s homemade sex tapes. More... |
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A Film About a Woman Who...
Yvonne Rainer | | Yvonne Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger. More... |
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Flag Wars
Laura Poitras, Linda Goode Bryant | | Filmed over four years, FLAG WARS is a clear-eyed look inside the conflicts that surface in one inner-city Columbus, Ohio, community. A rare and extraordinarily intimate account of the social and human consequences of capitalism and the pursuit of the “American Dream” told through the lives of residents in a community confronted by gentrification. More... |
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The Forbidden Quest
Peter Delpeut | | A pair of landmark films by found-footage maestro Peter Delpeut that showcase the inimitable beauty and fragility of the cinematic medium. THE FORBIDDEN QUEST reconstructs found footage to tell a Shackleton-esque adventure story in the tradition of Joseph Conrad and Jack London. More... |
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The Gleaners and I
Agnès Varda | | Grande Dame of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda's award-winning "wandering-road documentary" begins with the famous Jean-François Millet painting of women gathering wheat left over from a harvest. Her fascinating and poignant investigation leads us from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off. More... |
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Glitterbox: Derek Jarman x 4
Derek Jarman | | Containing four feature-length films never before released on DVD in the US: THE ANGELIC CONVERSATION (1985), CARAVAGGIO (1986), WITTGENSTEIN (1992) and BLUE (1993) as well as the posthumous Jarman film GLITTERBUG (1994). More... |
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Greenaway: The Early Films
Peter Greenaway | | A two-disc box set containing eight early films by Peter Greenaway. Contains both GREENAWAY: THE SHORTS and GREENAWAY: THE FALLS. More... |
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Greenaway: The Falls
Peter Greenaway | | Peter Greenaway’s magnum opus THE FALLS details 92 case histories of people who have been affected by the VUE (Violent Unknown Event)—a mysterious, apocalyptic phenomenon related to birds, flying, and bizarre invented languages. More... |
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Greenaway: The Shorts
Peter Greenaway | | Six highly inventive early films from the brilliant and controversial director Peter Greenaway. More... |
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The Heart of the World
Guy Maddin | | Commissioned for the 25th Anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival, Maddin’s acclaimed, award-winning short THE HEART OF THE WORLD is a brilliant, breathless parody of silent Soviet propaganda films. More... |
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I Remember Me
Kim A. Snyder | | Fueled by the same rage at an unresponsive system that has inspired many a great social documentary, filmmaker Kim Snyder has taken up the fight for the more than 800,000 people living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) in the U.S. today. More... |
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In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Martina Kudlácek | | Deemed "Fellini and Bergman wrapped in one gloriously possessed body," Maya Deren is arguably the most important and innovative avant-garde filmmaker in the history of American cinema. Documentarian Martina Kudlácek has fashioned not only a fascinating portrait of this groundbreaking and influential artist, but a pitch-perfect introduction to her strikingly beautiful and poetic body of work. More... |
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The Inner Tour
Ra'anan Alexandrowicz | | Controversially divisive in the Israeli press for its sympathetic portrayal of Palestinian citizens, THE INNER TOUR is a fascinating and humanistic portrait of ordinary people caught up in one of the most emotionally painful and seemingly intractable national conflicts of our time. More... |
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Into Great Silence
Philip Gröning | | An impressionistic and meditative chronicle of a year in and around the Grand Chartreuse, a monastery in the French Alps. This definitive two-disc, director authorized special edition boasts a breathtaking 16:9 anamorphic transfer and contains a whole disc of extras, including behind-the-scenes footage, additional scenes (including a segment on the preparation of the Carthusian’s world-famous Chartreuse liqueur), a guide to the monastery, extensive audio and photo galleries, and much more. More... |
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Irma Vep
Olivier Assayas | | Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (Ashes of Time Redux, In the Mood for Love) plays herself in haute auteur Olivier Assayas’ spiky satire of the French film industry. More... |
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James' Journey to Jerusalem
Ra'anan Alexandrowicz | | A cannily droll mix of social commentary and modern fable, Israeli filmmaker Ra'anan Alexandrowicz's debut feature follows the adventures of young James, a devout wide-eyed Christian attempting a pilgrimage from his African village to the Holy Land. More... |
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Jellyfish
Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret | | Winner of the Camera d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, JELLYFISH tells the story of three very different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. More... |
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Journeys from Berlin/1971
Yvonne Rainer | | To explore the ramifications of terrorism, Yvonne Rainer employs an extended therapy session--in which an American woman speaks to a series of psychiatrists--to evoke the daily experiences of power and repression. More... |
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Kristina Talking Pictures
Yvonne Rainer | | Yvonne Rainer continued her preoccupation with the contradictions between public and private personas with this story of a female lion tamer from Budapest who comes to New York to become a choreographer. More... |
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Late August, Early September
Olivier Assayas | | French filmmaking sensation Olivier Assayas' follow-up to his much-loved IRMA VEP centers on a cadre of thirty-something Parisians coming to grips with romantic uncertainty, professional upheaval and the looming spectre of their own mortality. More... |
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