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Disc 1 contains Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (93 minutes) on 4K Ultra HD, presented in its original 1.66:1 aspect ratio with HDR10, English and French DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono soundtracks and English SDH subtitles. Disc 2 is the Blu-ray disc, which carries the film and its special features. Dyanne Thorne is back as Ilsa, more ruthless than ever. Now keeper of the harem of a depraved sheik, she and her lethal guards run the Middle East's most sadistic slave operation. But when an American diplomat moves to expose what goes on inside Ilsa's domain, she answers with a holy war of sexual violence and brutal rebellion. The second entry in the infamous Ilsa series, Harem Keeper is every bit as shocking and controversial as the original.

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After a decade as one of Paramount's biggest stars, Alan Ladd went freelance and took his box-office clout to Warner Bros. for this Technicolor life story of legendary frontiersman Jim Bowie. Ladd's Bowie is a country boy mastering the manners of 1825 Southern high society — the tailored suits, the business deals, the gambling tables — while keeping at hand the meteorite-tempered blade that would make his name immortal. But the heart may undo him: he has fallen for the beautiful Jubalon de Bornay (Virginia Mayo), courted by wealthy men from Natchez to New Orleans. Can her beauty prove mightier than the Bowie knife itself?

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The final feature from Australian writer-director Ann Turner is a Hitchcock-style thriller that shows off her gift for upending genre expectations. Sophie Hartley (Sarandon) is sure she is being stalked, and grows convinced that Mara (Blunt), her husband's gorgeous co-worker, is after her children, her husband and her entire life. Nobody believes her. Driven to prove she isn't losing her mind, Sophie spirals into paranoia and obsession — until, stalking Mara herself, she uncovers something worse than anything she had feared.

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Drawn from Katsura Morimura's bestselling 1966 travelogue, Nobuhiko Obayashi's coming-of-age story unfolds like a retreat to the white sands of New Caledonia. Teenager Mari (Tomoyo Harada) travels alone to the archipelago to fulfill the dream of her late father (YMO's Yukihiro Takahashi), who had promised to take her to 'the island closest to heaven.' Wandering beyond the usual tourist stops, she befriends locals along the way, including islander Taro (Ryoichi Takayanagi) and the free-spirited tour guide Yuichi. Among Obayashi's gentlest films, steeped in old-Hollywood romanticism, it traces a young girl's path to self-discovery — and to her own small piece of heaven.

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Bette Davis and Leslie Howard had already proven their dramatic power together in Of Human Bondage (1934) and The Petrified Forest (1936). For their third and final pairing, the mood turns to sparkling comedy. Starry-eyed Marsha West (Olivia de Havilland) doesn't mind a bit that celebrated actor Basil Underwood (Howard) behaves rudely and vainly while a guest at her family's estate — what she can't see is that Basil is only performing the cad, hoping she'll lose interest and turn back to her devoted Henry (Patric Knowles). Meanwhile Basil's tempestuous co-star and on-again, off-again fiancée Joyce Arden (Davis) may yet spring a surprise in this screwball send-up of romance and the theatre.

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In AD 30, crowds are watching eagerly for the promised Messiah - and although Jesus is not the figure they expected, there is clearly something extraordinary about him. John, James, Andrew, Peter and their companions begin following him on an unexpected journey. Told through the eyes of his young friend the Apostle John, this hand-drawn animated film follows Jesus from the start of his ministry through the crucifixion and resurrection, showing how he changed the world forever and continues to change lives today.

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In a near-future America run as a police state, one hundred teenage boys are chosen each year for a walking contest whose single prize is anything the winner wants for the rest of his life. The rules could hardly be simpler: keep moving at four miles per hour and never stop. Fall off the pace and you are warned; collect three warnings and you are eliminated for good.

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In a near-future America run as a police state, one hundred teenage boys are chosen each year for a walking contest whose single prize is anything the winner wants for the rest of his life. The rules could hardly be simpler: keep moving at four miles per hour and never stop. Fall off the pace and you are warned; collect three warnings and you are eliminated for good.

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Paris in the late 1800s: respected surgeon and sculptor Dr. Georges Bonnet conceals an astonishing secret. He is 104 years old but looks to be in his mid-thirties, having long ago found the key to eternal youth - at a horrifying price. Every ten years he must undergo an operation that requires the parathyroid gland of a living victim. When his aging friend and longtime collaborator Professor Ludwig Weiss can no longer perform the procedure, Bonnet abducts his former lover Janine Dubois to blackmail her new love, Dr. Pierre Gerrard, into taking Weiss's place.

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At a convent in Spain's Mira Flores valley stands a revered statue of the Madonna - until, one day, the statue steps down and takes human form. Postulant nun Teresa (Carroll Baker) abandons the convent to follow the British soldier she loves (Roger Moore) and throws in her lot with a band of gypsies led by Roca (Katina Paxinou) and Flaco (Walter Slezak). While Teresa tastes the hardships of the world outside, the Madonna miraculously assumes her place behind the convent walls - and Teresa's difficult journey ultimately leads her toward repentance and a changed life.

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Composer, performer and interdisciplinary artist Meredith Monk ranks among the great artistic innovators of our era, though the scale of her influence remains widely unrecognized. Built around her music and incorporating interviews with Björk and David Byrne, this documentary is assembled as a mosaic echoing the structure of Monk's own compositions, shining a light on her singular vocabulary of sound and image.

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Keira Knightley stars in this adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel. On first meeting the wealthy, handsome Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen), Elizabeth Bennet is certain he is the last man she could ever marry. But as their paths keep crossing, she finds herself drawn to the very person she vowed to despise forever - in a love story critics praised for making audiences believe in true love and happily-ever-after.

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Vietnam, 1968. Vulture Squad, an elite recon unit, is dispatched into a remote jungle valley to learn what happened to a missing Green Beret platoon. What the soldiers find waiting for them in the valley is something no army could have prepared them for: they are not alone.

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Kino Lorber's second French Noir Collection brings together four French crime dramas from 1953 to 1961 in StudioCanal's 2021 restorations. In Rhine Virgin, a Strasbourg shipping boss believed killed in the war returns to take back his company from the wife and partner who prospered without him. The Beast Is Loose stars Lino Ventura as an ex-gangster set up by the intelligence service he refused to help. In Trapped by Fear, Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a journalist who risks everything for the army buddy who once saved his life. The Passion of Slow Fire, adapted from Georges Simenon, finds a professor suspected of murder when a young American guest is killed at his villa.

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To all appearances, Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch) have it all: successful careers, a loving marriage, and great kids. But under the polished surface of their seemingly perfect life, trouble is brewing — when Theo's career falls apart just as Ivy's ambitions begin to soar, the rivalry and buried grievances between them ignite into open warfare. The Roses reimagines the 1989 classic The War of the Roses, based on Warren Adler's novel.

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Disc 2 contains Sisters (2006) on Blu-ray, with an audio commentary by director Douglas Buck and Severin Films' David Gregory, an archival audio commentary by Douglas Buck, deleted and extended scenes, an archival making-of documentary, two trailers, the Glass Eye Pix audio play Tales From Beyond the Pale: 'Hidden Records' by Douglas Buck, a promo for Buck's unmade feature The Broken Imago, and the Buck-directed music video 'Electric Blue' by Pornographie Exclusive (the set's 4K Ultra HD disc is Disc 1 and its soundtrack CD is Disc 3). Douglas Buck's reimagining of the Brian De Palma classic pushes its themes of twisted bloodlines to startling new extremes. A determined reporter (Chloë Sevigny) looks into the work of a controversial doctor (Stephen Rea) and uncovers a case involving murder, manifestation, and identical twins (Lou Doillon, in her American film debut) who are hiding a horrific secret. Dallas Roberts and William B. Davis co-star.

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Disc 1 contains Sisters (2006) in 4K Ultra HD, with an audio commentary by director Douglas Buck and Severin Films' David Gregory, an archival audio commentary by Douglas Buck, and two trailers (the set's Blu-ray is Disc 2 and its soundtrack CD is Disc 3). Douglas Buck's reimagining of the Brian De Palma classic pushes its themes of twisted bloodlines to startling new extremes. A determined reporter (Chloë Sevigny) looks into the work of a controversial doctor (Stephen Rea) and uncovers a case involving murder, manifestation, and identical twins (Lou Doillon, in her American film debut) who are hiding a horrific secret. Dallas Roberts and William B. Davis co-star.

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Disc 2 contains Sleepless (2001) on Blu-ray, with an audio commentary by film historians Nathaniel Thompson and Troy Howarth and the set's interview featurettes with Dario Argento, Chiara Caselli, Stefano Dionisi, Franco Ferrini, Gabriele Lavia and other cast and crew (the combo's 4K Ultra HD disc is Disc 1). A string of brutal killings in Turin has authorities worried that a copycat is recreating a murder spree from seventeen years earlier. That earlier case was blamed on Vincenzo de Fabritiis, a writer with dwarfism who has since died, which effectively closed the investigation. Now Ulisse Moretti, the detective who led the original inquiry, is pulled out of retirement and, alongside young Giacomo Gallo — whose mother was one of the supposed 'Dwarf Killer's' victims — tries to solve the new murders as the mutilated bodies keep piling up. With Sleepless (2001), Dario Argento returned to the mood and themes of his landmark giallo Deep Red (1975), a homecoming to the subgenre that made his name. The film stars Max von Sydow and features elaborate Grand Guignol set pieces by practical-effects artist Sergio Stivaletti, plus a driving score by Goblin, who reunited for the occasion. Vinegar Syndrome presents the film on UHD for the first time, in a new 4K restoration taken from the original camera negative, with a host of new and archival bonus features.

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Disc 1 contains Sleepless (2001) in 4K Ultra HD (high-bitrate UHD100), presented in Dolby Vision HDR, with an audio commentary by film historians Nathaniel Thompson and Troy Howarth (the combo's Blu-ray is Disc 2). A string of brutal killings in Turin has authorities worried that a copycat is recreating a murder spree from seventeen years earlier. That earlier case was blamed on Vincenzo de Fabritiis, a writer with dwarfism who has since died, which effectively closed the investigation. Now Ulisse Moretti, the detective who led the original inquiry, is pulled out of retirement and, alongside young Giacomo Gallo — whose mother was one of the supposed 'Dwarf Killer's' victims — tries to solve the new murders as the mutilated bodies keep piling up. With Sleepless (2001), Dario Argento returned to the mood and themes of his landmark giallo Deep Red (1975), a homecoming to the subgenre that made his name. The film stars Max von Sydow and features elaborate Grand Guignol set pieces by practical-effects artist Sergio Stivaletti, plus a driving score by Goblin, who reunited for the occasion. Vinegar Syndrome presents the film on UHD for the first time, in a new 4K restoration taken from the original camera negative, with a host of new and archival bonus features.

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Reeling from a breakup, small-town Gemma relocates to Los Angeles determined to make it as an actress. To support herself, she works nights at Somnium, an experimental sleep clinic claiming it can make clients' dreams come true, while spending her days in the cutthroat grind of Hollywood auditions. As the pressure builds, she begins experiencing strange, unsettling phenomena and slips into a nightmarish spiral as she uncovers the darkness lurking inside the clinic.

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Disc 2 contains Trapped by Fear (1960) and The Passion of Slow Fire (1961), with a new audio commentary for Trapped by Fear by filmmaker/film historian Mike Siegel and a new audio commentary for The Passion of Slow Fire by mystery writer/filmmaker Max Allan Collins and film historian Heath Holland (Disc 1 of the set contains Rhine Virgin and The Beast Is Loose, listed separately). Trapped by Fear (1960): Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul Frapier, a Paris reporter and photographer who shelters Laurent (Claude Brasseur), a comrade from his army days in Algeria, after Laurent accidentally kills a police officer and goes on the run. Alexandra Stewart, Sylva Koscina, and Mireille Darc co-star. The Passion of Slow Fire (1961): When Belle (Alexandra Stewart), a young American boarding at Professor Blanchon's villa near Geneva, is found strangled, suspicion lands on Blanchon (Jean Desailly), even though he is innocent. In the course of the investigation he realizes Belle had secretly been in love with him — a revelation that forces him to face the emptiness of his marriage and his mediocre life. Édouard Molinaro directs, adapting Georges Simenon's novel.

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Disc 2 contains Tromeo & Juliet (1996) on Blu-ray, presented in its director's cut (the combo's 4K Ultra HD disc is Disc 1). The Que and Capulet families have been locked in a feud so bitter that each side has forbidden its children any contact with the other. When Tromeo Que, a lovable, smut-obsessed slacker, crashes a lavish party thrown by the chaste Juliet Capulet, the two fall for each other instantly. Forced to hide their passion — especially since Juliet's father has promised her to a meat-obsessed business associate — their secret love threatens to tear both families apart and sparks mayhem and bloodshed all around them. Lloyd Kaufman's first official Shakespeare adaptation, Tromeo & Juliet is a wild punk take on the Bard's doomed romance, complete with copious gore, nudity, and mutant genitalia of unusual size. Set among the outcasts of a squalid New Jersey standing in for Verona, it was co-written by a young James Gunn and features Debbie Rochon, Sean Gunn in his screen debut, Motörhead's Lemmy, and Will Keenan as Tromeo. Vinegar Syndrome presents the director's cut in a new 4K restoration from the film's original camera negative, with hours of new and archival extras.

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Disc 1 contains Tromeo & Juliet (1996) in 4K Ultra HD, presented in Dolby Vision HDR and in its director's cut (the combo's Blu-ray is Disc 2). The Que and Capulet families have been locked in a feud so bitter that each side has forbidden its children any contact with the other. When Tromeo Que, a lovable, smut-obsessed slacker, crashes a lavish party thrown by the chaste Juliet Capulet, the two fall for each other instantly. Forced to hide their passion — especially since Juliet's father has promised her to a meat-obsessed business associate — their secret love threatens to tear both families apart and sparks mayhem and bloodshed all around them. Lloyd Kaufman's first official Shakespeare adaptation, Tromeo & Juliet is a wild punk take on the Bard's doomed romance, complete with copious gore, nudity, and mutant genitalia of unusual size. Set among the outcasts of a squalid New Jersey standing in for Verona, it was co-written by a young James Gunn and features Debbie Rochon, Sean Gunn in his screen debut, Motörhead's Lemmy, and Will Keenan as Tromeo. Vinegar Syndrome presents the director's cut in a new 4K restoration from the film's original camera negative, with hours of new and archival extras.

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A chance meeting in the desert sparks an unexpected friendship between a young girl and a fearsome alien creature, and together they set out on a journey that tests the boundary between good and evil.

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Disc 1 contains episode 1, “In Order to Be Free (May 1754 – May 1775)”. Thirteen American colonies join together in revolt, fight an eight-year war to win their independence, and create a new kind of government that would go on to inspire democratic movements in America and around the world. What starts as a political dispute between the colonists and the British government escalates into a bloody conflict that draws in more than two dozen nations and changes the world forever.

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Disc 2 contains episode 2, “An Asylum for Mankind (May 1775 – July 1776)”. Thirteen American colonies join together in revolt, fight an eight-year war to win their independence, and create a new kind of government that would go on to inspire democratic movements in America and around the world. What starts as a political dispute between the colonists and the British government escalates into a bloody conflict that draws in more than two dozen nations and changes the world forever.

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Disc 3 contains episode 3, “The Times That Try Men's Souls (July 1776 – January 1777)”. Thirteen American colonies join together in revolt, fight an eight-year war to win their independence, and create a new kind of government that would go on to inspire democratic movements in America and around the world. What starts as a political dispute between the colonists and the British government escalates into a bloody conflict that draws in more than two dozen nations and changes the world forever.

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Disc 4 contains episode 4, “Conquer by a Drawn Game (January 1777 – February 1778)”. Thirteen American colonies join together in revolt, fight an eight-year war to win their independence, and create a new kind of government that would go on to inspire democratic movements in America and around the world. What starts as a political dispute between the colonists and the British government escalates into a bloody conflict that draws in more than two dozen nations and changes the world forever.

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Disc 5 contains episode 5, “The Soul of All America (December 1777 – May 1780)”. Thirteen American colonies join together in revolt, fight an eight-year war to win their independence, and create a new kind of government that would go on to inspire democratic movements in America and around the world. What starts as a political dispute between the colonists and the British government escalates into a bloody conflict that draws in more than two dozen nations and changes the world forever.

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Disc 6 contains episode 6, “The Most Sacred Thing (May 1780 – Onward)”. Thirteen American colonies join together in revolt, fight an eight-year war to win their independence, and create a new kind of government that would go on to inspire democratic movements in America and around the world. What starts as a political dispute between the colonists and the British government escalates into a bloody conflict that draws in more than two dozen nations and changes the world forever.

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The Americas explores the remarkable landscapes and wildlife of North and South America — lands full of wonder and inspiring moments, and the creatures that call them home. Using cutting-edge technology, the series uncovers animal behaviors never filmed before and tells extraordinary, previously untold wildlife stories that will resonate with audiences around the world. Five years in the making and filmed across 180 expeditions, it reveals the spectacular scenery of Earth's most diverse landmass, the only one to stretch from pole to pole. With unprecedented scale and ambition, the series delivers remarkable world firsts: new species, intimate courtship rituals, dramatic deep-sea hunts, and some of nature's strangest stories, including a frog that appears to defy death every day.

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The Americas explores the remarkable landscapes and wildlife of North and South America — lands full of wonder and inspiring moments, and the creatures that call them home. Using cutting-edge technology, the series uncovers animal behaviors never filmed before and tells extraordinary, previously untold wildlife stories that will resonate with audiences around the world. Five years in the making and filmed across 180 expeditions, it reveals the spectacular scenery of Earth's most diverse landmass, the only one to stretch from pole to pole. With unprecedented scale and ambition, the series delivers remarkable world firsts: new species, intimate courtship rituals, dramatic deep-sea hunts, and some of nature's strangest stories, including a frog that appears to defy death every day.

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This is only for the bonus disc and contains the long-lost workprint of A Better Tomorrow II (2:21:39, featuring over 30 minutes of never-before-seen footage) and the Taiwanese cut of A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (2:09:57, incorporating ten minutes of additional footage not in the theatrical cut), each presented in 1080p with newly prepared optional English subtitles.

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Disc 2 contains A Better Tomorrow (1986) on Blu-ray, with an audio commentary by James Mudge, Hong Kong film critic at easternKicks, and the special features 'Better Than the Best' (interview with director John Woo), 'Between Friends' (interview with producer Terence Chang), 'When Tomorrow Comes' (interview with screenwriter Chan Hing-ka), 'Thoughts on the Future' (interview with filmmaker Gordon Chan) and 'Better and Bombastic' (interview with filmmaker Gareth Evans), plus trailers and an image gallery. John Woo's groundbreaking A Better Tomorrow walks the fine line between the two sides of the law with unmistakable style and intensity. A Triad member tries to go straight and make peace with his brother, a policeman, but his journey toward the light is blocked by the seemingly unbreakable bonds tying him to the gang he left behind. Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung and the immortal Chow Yun-fat star.

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Disc 1 contains A Better Tomorrow (1986) in 4K Ultra HD — a 4K scan from the original camera negative presented in Dolby Vision, with newly translated optional English subtitles and an audio commentary with James Mudge, Hong Kong film critic at easternKicks (the set's Blu-ray of the film is Disc 2; the bonus Blu-ray with the A Better Tomorrow II workprint and the A Better Tomorrow III Taiwanese cut is Disc 7). A former gangster who has gone straight tries to rebuild his relationship with his estranged younger brother, now a policeman — but his old ties to the gang prove hard to leave behind.

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Disc 4 contains A Better Tomorrow II (1987) on Blu-ray — a 4K scan from the original camera negative, with newly translated optional English subtitles, an audio commentary with James Mudge, Hong Kong film critic at easternKicks, the interviews 'A Tumultuous Tomorrow' with director John Woo and 'Better Than Ever' with film historian Frank Djeng, trailers and an image gallery (the set's 4K disc of the film is Disc 3; the long-lost workprint cut is on the Disc 7 bonus Blu-ray). A restaurant owner joins forces with a police officer and the officer's ex-convict brother to take revenge for the killing of a friend's daughter.

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Disc 3 contains A Better Tomorrow II (1987) in 4K Ultra HD — a 4K scan from the original camera negative presented in Dolby Vision, with newly translated optional English subtitles and an audio commentary with James Mudge, Hong Kong film critic at easternKicks (the set's Blu-ray of the film is Disc 4; the long-lost workprint cut of the film is on the Disc 7 bonus Blu-ray). A restaurant owner joins forces with a police officer and the officer's ex-convict brother to take revenge for the killing of a friend's daughter.

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Disc 6 contains A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (1989) on Blu-ray — a 4K scan from the original camera negative, with newly translated optional English subtitles, an audio commentary with critic and author David West, the interviews 'Third Time Lucky' with screenwriters Yiu-Ming Leung and Foo Ho Tai, 'All Our Tomorrows' with Hong Kong filmmaker and academic Gilbert Po and 'Nam Flashbacks' with Vietnam War researcher Dr. Aurélie Basha i Novosejt, the theatrical trailer and an image gallery (the set's 4K disc of the film is Disc 5; the Taiwanese cut is on the Disc 7 bonus Blu-ray). With Vietnam on the brink of war with America, a man travels from China to Saigon to bring his uncle and cousin home, but the mission grows complicated when he falls for a woman gangster whose ex is dangerous.

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Disc 5 contains A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (1989) in 4K Ultra HD — a 4K scan from the original camera negative presented in Dolby Vision, with newly translated optional English subtitles and an audio commentary with critic and author David West (the set's Blu-ray of the film is Disc 6; the Taiwanese cut of the film is on the Disc 7 bonus Blu-ray). With Vietnam on the brink of war with America, a man travels from China to Saigon to bring his uncle and cousin home, but the mission grows complicated when he falls for a woman gangster whose ex is dangerous.

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Disc 1 contains seven early films: Bread and Alley (1970), Breaktime (1972), Experience (1973), The Traveler (1974), Two Solutions for One Problem (1975), So Can I (1975) and Colors (1976). Years before he was recognized as one of world cinema's most celebrated artists, Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami started out at Tehran's Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon), where his characteristic style and concerns first took shape. In his first decades he ranged freely across documentary, fiction and even animation, from joyful shorts made for children to subtle studies of adolescents' struggles, often turning the classroom into a laboratory for probing the social and political tensions of Iranian society in the turbulent years around the 1979 revolution. From his very first short, Bread and Alley — which he called the 'mother of all my films' — through underseen early works like Experience and The Traveler to nonfiction landmarks such as Homework, these graceful, warm and playful films locate moments of transcendent poetry in everyday life, using deceptively simple premises to voice universal truths about the human condition.

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Disc 2 contains seven films: A Wedding Suit (1976), Tribute to Teachers (1977), Solution No. 1 (1978), First Case, Second Case (1979), Toothache (1980), Orderly or Disorderly (1981) and The Chorus (1982). Years before he was recognized as one of world cinema's most celebrated artists, Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami started out at Tehran's Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon), where his characteristic style and concerns first took shape. In his first decades he ranged freely across documentary, fiction and even animation, from joyful shorts made for children to subtle studies of adolescents' struggles, often turning the classroom into a laboratory for probing the social and political tensions of Iranian society in the turbulent years around the 1979 revolution. From his very first short, Bread and Alley — which he called the 'mother of all my films' — through underseen early works like Experience and The Traveler to nonfiction landmarks such as Homework, these graceful, warm and playful films locate moments of transcendent poetry in everyday life, using deceptively simple premises to voice universal truths about the human condition.

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Disc 3 contains three films: Fellow Citizen (1983), First Graders (1984) and Homework (1989). Years before he was recognized as one of world cinema's most celebrated artists, Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami started out at Tehran's Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon), where his characteristic style and concerns first took shape. In his first decades he ranged freely across documentary, fiction and even animation, from joyful shorts made for children to subtle studies of adolescents' struggles, often turning the classroom into a laboratory for probing the social and political tensions of Iranian society in the turbulent years around the 1979 revolution. From his very first short, Bread and Alley — which he called the 'mother of all my films' — through underseen early works like Experience and The Traveler to nonfiction landmarks such as Homework, these graceful, warm and playful films locate moments of transcendent poetry in everyday life, using deceptively simple premises to voice universal truths about the human condition.

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This fiendish story of love gone wrong, by Spanish surrealist master Luis Buñuel, ranks among the most perverse and unsettling films of his two decades in Mexican exile. Adapting Mercedes Pinto's autobiographical novel and folding in his own neuroses, Buñuel shapes an expressionistically stylized nightmare in which a young wife (Delia Garcés) learns that her new husband's (Arturo de Córdova) polished sophistication conceals disturbing depths of jealousy and paranoia. A typically raw attack on religious and social hypocrisy, Él is Buñuel's greatest excursion into melodrama — a vivid portrait of a society unable to rein in the irrational urges of the human id.

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Disc 1 contains Él (1953) in 4K Ultra HD (the combo's Blu-ray, with the film and the special features, is Disc 2). This fiendish story of love gone wrong, by Spanish surrealist master Luis Buñuel, ranks among the most perverse and unsettling films of his two decades in Mexican exile. Adapting Mercedes Pinto's autobiographical novel and folding in his own neuroses, Buñuel shapes an expressionistically stylized nightmare in which a young wife (Delia Garcés) learns that her new husband's (Arturo de Córdova) polished sophistication conceals disturbing depths of jealousy and paranoia. A typically raw attack on religious and social hypocrisy, Él is Buñuel's greatest excursion into melodrama — a vivid portrait of a society unable to rein in the irrational urges of the human id.

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A landmark of adventure filmmaking and a monument to Howard Hughes’s audacious, spend-whatever-it-takes ambition, this aviation epic still thrills with its daredevil flying sequences and pre-Code edge. When World War I begins, two British brothers join the Royal Flying Corps (Ben Lyon and James Hall), but opposite temperaments toward the war — and their shared love for the same woman (Jean Harlow, in the role that made her a star) — strain their relationship. Made over a famously lengthy and hazardous production that claimed the lives of several crew members, Hell’s Angels pioneered early sound and color techniques and captured some of the most spectacular aerial combat ever put on film.

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Disc 1 contains the film on 4K UHD; the set’s Blu-ray disc, which carries the film and the special features, is not included. A landmark of adventure filmmaking and a monument to Howard Hughes’s audacious, spend-whatever-it-takes ambition, this aviation epic still thrills with its daredevil flying sequences and pre-Code edge. When World War I begins, two British brothers join the Royal Flying Corps (Ben Lyon and James Hall), but opposite temperaments toward the war — and their shared love for the same woman (Jean Harlow, in the role that made her a star) — strain their relationship. Made over a famously lengthy and hazardous production that claimed the lives of several crew members, Hell’s Angels pioneered early sound and color techniques and captured some of the most spectacular aerial combat ever put on film.

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Paranormal investigators Kris and Celina, together with their cameraman Jay, head out to document what they expect will be a routine haunting full of the usual scares. Instead, their shoot is unexpectedly diverted to a spotless, empty house hidden deep in the forest, where the night brings experiences unlike anything they have faced. Eerie conduct, crew members who vanish, and a growing sense of dread point to something far older at work in the house.

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Disc 1 contains the film on 4K UHD with an audio commentary by film critics Wade Major and Lael Lowenstein; the set’s two Blu-ray discs — the film on Blu-ray and a bonus-features disc with interviews, featurettes and trailers — are not included. Merchant Ivory’s celebrated adaptation of E. M. Forster’s novel follows three families in 1910 England whose lives collide across class lines: the rich, business-minded Wilcoxes; the idealistic, charitable Schlegel sisters; and the struggling Basts. Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter play Margaret and Helen Schlegel, whose fates become bound up with the Wilcox family — led by Henry (Anthony Hopkins) — and with the impoverished Bast household.

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Disc 1 contains the film, 30 audio commentaries by the cast, crew and former guests of The George Lucas Talk Show, and deleted and extended scenes. For a decade, comedian Connor Ratliff — creator of the Dead Eyes podcast — has played filmmaker George Lucas in The George Lucas Talk Show, a cult live comedy act co-hosted by Griffin Newman (The Tick) with guests booked by producer Patrick Cotnoir, among them Saturday Night Live’s Heidi Gardner and Severance’s Zach Cherry. The show lets Ratliff celebrate and rib the world of Lucas and Star Wars in equal measure, but he has begun to wonder whether it is worth continuing, given the strain it causes and how little money or career progress it brings. The documentary turns inward, examining Ratliff’s sense of self, his past, and what he believes his work is worth.

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Disc 2 contains extended interviews with Connor Ratliff, Griffin Newman, Patrick Cotnoir, Bill and Gretta Ratliff, Bobby Moynihan, Shaun Diston, Zach Cherry and Alex Song-xia; an Alamo Drafthouse introduction; an Alamo Drafthouse Q&A with comedian Paul Scheer; and the complete 2019 Star Wars Day show with John Hodgman, Marina Cockenberg, Ethan Slater and Julie Cohen. For a decade, comedian Connor Ratliff — creator of the Dead Eyes podcast — has played filmmaker George Lucas in The George Lucas Talk Show, a cult live comedy act co-hosted by Griffin Newman (The Tick) with guests booked by producer Patrick Cotnoir, among them Saturday Night Live’s Heidi Gardner and Severance’s Zach Cherry. The show lets Ratliff celebrate and rib the world of Lucas and Star Wars in equal measure, but he has begun to wonder whether it is worth continuing, given the strain it causes and how little money or career progress it brings. The documentary turns inward, examining Ratliff’s sense of self, his past, and what he believes his work is worth.