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Title	Director	Publisher	Price
Something Wild	Jonathan Demme	Criterion Collection	$27.50 ($29.98 list)
Read more and comment...	<<•>> w/ Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels and Ray Liotta <<•>> Demme's masterpiece, and one of the undisputed classics of '80s American cinema, Something Wild is also the film that put Ray Liotta on the map and remains his most affecting performance. Beautifully shot by the one and only Tak Fujimoto, and featuring The Feelies as a high school cover band performing Bowie's "Fame" at a reunion dance, this one of a kind work, which is perhaps the only film to successfully combine screwball comedy and violent thriller, is now available in a Criterion edition offering a new, restored digital transfer supervised by Tak Fujimoto and that features new interviews with Demme and screenwriter E Max Frye and a booklet that includes an essay by David Thompson.
Pale Flower	Masahiro Shinoda	Criterion Collection	$27.50 ($29.98 list)
Read more and comment...	This DVD that brings back into print (and that is a vast improvement over the previous edition) the late-noir classic that was the breakthrough film for the director of Double Suicide is also among this month's new releases from Criterion. Originally released in 1964, Pale Flower is a gangster romance noir that is shot in black and white (natch!) and features a soundtrack by the world renowned composer Toru Takemitsu. It tells the tale of a yakuza just out of prision who falls hard for a femme fatale; what looks good gets bad (and so, as film noir, gets better). Features include: new high-definition digital transfer; new and improved subtitle translation; new video interview with Shinoda; booklet with essay by Chuck Stephens.
By Brakhage, Volume 2	Stan Brakhage	Criterion Collection	$34.95 ($39.98 list)
Read more and comment...	By Brakhage, Volume 2 << • >> Here we have it: a whopping seven and a half hours of work by the undisputed master of independent American experimental cinema, selected by his widow, Marilyn Brakhage, and expertly transferred to digital media by the Criterion Collection Crew. While most movie-goers have never even heard of him, it's hard to over-estimate Brakhage's impact on the history of film. Beginning in the 1950s, he opened up a whole new way of thinking about and working with film. It could be said (and so, we will) that what Einstein was to Newton in the realm of physics, Brakhage was to Eisenstein in the realm of film. Learn quite a bit about what's on this 3-disc set by reading this in-depth essay by Ms. Brakhage.
The Golden Age of Television	John Frankenheimer, Rod Serling	Criterion Collection	$44.44 ($49.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This three-disc extravaganze from Criterion features some of the finest television dramas ever produced and in the process captures an era. Rod Serling looms large here, in his pre-Twilight Zone persona of heavy hitting director. Also, John "Manchurian Candidate" Frankenheimer, and script writer Paddy Chayefsky. Actors include Jack Palance, Mickey Rooney, Piper Laurie, Cliff Robertson, Kim Hunter and many,many more. 485 minutes of complete classic television dramas, all originally broadcast from 1953 to 1958, plus plenty of the great bonuses we have all come to expect from Criterion.
Last Year at Marienbad	Alain Resnais	Criterion Collection	$34.95 ($39.98 list)
Read more and comment...	directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet w/ Delphine Seyrig and Giorgio Albertazzi <<<•>>> There are few truly one-of-a-kind films. By any measure, Last Year at Marienbad is clearly one of them. A film that is successful like none other in recreating a mental landscape, that shows the inner workings of a restless mind and haunted memory, that employs the language of cinema to probe the interior twists and turns of consciousness, that demonstrates how thought is action in a manner that, while tempermentally quite different from, may yet be considered the most successful translation of the Proustian approach to narrative in any film yet realized. Here, in L'année dernière à Marienbad, like in Á la recherche du temps perdue, we are confronted with a life turned inside out. Robbe-Grillet, Resnais & Co. managed a feat that has yet to be repeated, and now we are presented with the – for now – definitive DVD edition, courtesy of The Criterion Collection (who else?). This is a two-disc edition with some interesting and worthwhile extras – including two short Resnais documentaries from 1956 & 1958 – but all pale next to the glory of the restored high-definition transfer of the film itself. Your film education is incomplete until you've seen this film. And this is also one film that can quite decidedly stand up to repeated viewings, as its aesthetic pleasures and intellectual challenges are not easily exhausted.
By Brakhage	Stan Brakhage	Criterion Collection	$35.00 ($39.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This is it! The definitive Brakhage DVD collection. Two DVD set includes the films: The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes Black Ice Cat’s Cradle Commingled Containers Crack Glass Eulogy The Dante Quartet The Dark Tower Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse Desistfilm Dog Star Man Eye Myth For Marilyn The Garden of Earthly Delights I…Dreaming Kindering Love Song Mothlight The Stars are Beautiful Stellar Study in color and Black and White Three hand-painted films: •Nightmusic •Rage Net •Glaze of Cathexis Wedlock House: An Intercourse Window Water Baby Moving The Wold Shadow New high-definition digital transfers of all films, approved by Stan Brakhage Interview with the filmmaker Essay by Brakhage expert Fred Camper Film Info 243 minutes Color/Black and white 1.33:1 Dolby Digital Mono 1.0 Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition To learn more about Stan Brakhage, the films that he has made, and his writings on film and other topics, the best web resource is Fred Camper's Stan Brakhage on the Web.
Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta delgi Spiriti)	Federico Fellini	Criterion Collection	$25.95 ($29.95 list)
Read more and comment...	The most lushly beautiful and haunting of all of Fellini's films, the climax of Federico Fellini's artistic collaboration with his life-long partner, actress Giulietta Masina, an experience that can never be forgotten, Juliet of the Spirits is now available on DVD from the Criterion Collection! In Juliet of the Spirits, the processes involved in identity formation -- specifically those that involve the family dynamic and religious aspirations -- are shown to involve spirits of the past which, while they typically are encountered during the process of "growing up" as the values which are transmitted through the generations, are more real than that and manifest themselves in a variety of other ways. While these processes occur primarily during childhood and adolescence, they continue throughout adult life as well; although most adults seem oblivious to this fact -- but not Giulietta! She is open to the life of the spirit world, and by being so is able to come to terms with her existence. Juliet of the Spirits is a film of intense self-discovery: the layers of illusion and self-delusion peel away one after another as slowly but surely the film makes its way to the core of human being, leading finally to a profoundly satisfying conclusion that frees the individual to face the future on her own terms.
John Cassavetes: Five Films	John Cassavetes	Criterion Collection	$99.50 ($124.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	(8-DVD box featuring Shadows, Faces, A Woman Under the Influence; The Killing of a Chinese Bookie; Opening Night; A Constant Forge - The Life and Art of John Cassavetes; and many, many bonus extras including another, and totally different -- and 27 minutes longer -- version of Chinese Bookie, two hours of new video interviews, rare footage from the Cassavetes-Lane Drama Workshop from which Shadows emerged and much more!
Videodrome	David Cronenberg	Criterion Collection	$33.97 ($39.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Cronenberg's masterpiece and probably the most profound meditation on the effects of a lifetime of television viewing on human consciousness ever rendered in film. 2-Disc set w/documentaries and shorts Disc Features DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION: High-definition digital transfer of the unrated version (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack) Two audio commentaries: David Cronenberg and director of photography Mark Irwin, and actors James Woods and Deborah Harry Camera (2000), a short film starring Videodrome’s Les Carlson, written and directed by Cronenberg Forging the New Flesh, a new half-hour documentary featurette by filmmaker Michael Lennick about the creation of Videodrome’s video and prosthetic makeup effects Effects Men, a new audio interview with special makeup effects creator Baker and video effects supervisor Lennick Bootleg Video: the complete footage of Samurai Dreams and seven minutes of transmissions from “Videodrome,” presented in their original, unedited form with filmmaker commentary Fear on Film, a 26-minute roundtable discussion from 1982 between filmmakers Cronenberg, John Carpenter, John Landis, and Mick Garris Original theatrical trailers and promotional featurette Stills galleries featuring hundreds of rare behind-the-scenes production photos, special effects makeup tests, and publicity photos A booklet featuring essays by writers Carrie Rickey, Tim Lucas, and Gary Indiana
The Lower Depths	Jean Renoir, Akira Kurosawa	Criterion Collection	$33.97 ($39.95 list)
Read more and comment...	A 2-Disc, 2-Film set: Les Bas-fonds (Jean Renoir; 1936; 89 min) & Donzoko (Akira Kurosawa; 1957; 125 min) both adapting the Maxim Gorky play, The Lower Depths.
Mamma Roma	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Criterion Collection	$33.97 ($39.95 list)
Read more and comment...	2-Disc set includes La Ricotta w/ Orson Welles & more
I Vitelloni	Federico Fellini	Criterion Collection	$25.47 ($29.95 list)
Read more and comment...	His classic coming-of-age drama
Stranger than Paradise	Jim Jarmusch	Criterion Collection	$33.97 ($39.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Accompanying the aforementioned release of Night on Earth is the film in which Jarmusch first forged his idiosyncratic, humorous and insightful brand of alienation and came into his own. Stranger than Paradise established Jarmusch on the indy film scene and its success enabled him to pursue his vision; which he has vigorously done ever since, creating a singular body of work that includes some of the most memorable films of the last twenty years. Also included on this 2-disc Criterion edition is Permanent Vacation (1980), Jarmusch's first feature film, which has never been widely distributed and will be first seen here by most.
Night on Earth	Jim Jarmusch	Criterion Collection	$33.97 ($39.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Our favorite Jarmusch film at last makes it to DVD, in this bonus-laden Criterion edition. Five cities. Five taxis. One night. One film. Watch it. Night on Earth is a true pleasure; one that presents us with a world -- so different from the one we seem stuck in today -- in which a variety of people of different stripes manage to share their fundamental humanity with each other, all at once, all over the world, and we, the audience, can believe that we too are part of it. Finishing the film you will feel more hopeful that this day (or should we say night?) will come again.
The Documentaries of Louis Malle DVD Box Set	Louis Malle	Criterion Collection	$67.77 ($79.98 list)
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WR: Mysteries of the Organism		Criterion Collection	$34.95 ($39.95 list)
Read more and comment...	One of the greatest films of the era, WR revealed the outlying contours of western civilization as it reared up against the borders of anarchy and chaos, social as well as sexual, and in the process helped define the end product of "the sixties." It has ever before been released on DVD, and now is available in a high quality, bonus-laden edition from The Criterion Collection. Perfect timing, we'd say.
If....		Criterion Collection	$34.95 ($39.95 list)
Read more and comment...	One of the greatest films of the era, If.... revealed the outlying contours of western civilization as it reared up against the borders of anarchy and chaos, social as well as sexual, and in the process helped define the end product of "the sixties." It has ever before been released on DVD, and now is available in a high quality, bonus-laden edition from The Criterion Collection. Perfect timing, we'd say.
La Jetée / Sans Soleil	Chris Marker	Criterion Collection	$34.44 ($39.98 list)
Read more and comment...	While separated by twenty years and superficially very different -- La Jetée is a half hour "science fiction" tale of time travel told entirely in still images (think comics, as Marker surely was) while Sans Soleil is a 100 minute "travelogue" of a journey to Africa and Japan -- these two masterworks of cinema are, at their core, both focused on a space where time and memory intertwine and united in their fearless experimentation and stunning creative vision. Here on this new Criterion release, both films have been restored, received high-definition digital transfers, and are accompanied by loads of cool bonus materials.

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