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This music-business drama traces the rise of Casablanca Records and producer Neil Bogart during the disco era.

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Over the last two decades, a rise in physical attacks and verbal assaults on Jews has been recorded in many countries across Europe. At the same time an increasingly fractured world has exposed deep political, social, and racial division, especially in France. SPIRAL is the story of how a cycle of fear, hatred, and violence has taken hold. In portraying the resurgence of anti-Semitism in France and in the wider world, the film trains its gaze on individuals, witnesses on all sides of the conflicts that have fueled this escalation.

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August, 1944. With the American Eighth Air Force poised to strike over Nazi Germany, British Intelligence learns that they could be flying into a deadly trap. With only hours to spare, Flight Lieutenant Edward Barnes must fly a life-or-death mission over Berlin in his unarmed Spitfire to obtain photographic evidence and save the lives of 1,200 Airmen. Featuring breathtaking aerial footage and a viscerally engaging tale of bravery, heroism and heart-stopping suspense, Spitfire Over Berlin is a cinematic spectacle you cannot miss. Bonus Content: Audio Commentary with Director Callum Burn, Producer Andrew Burn and Director of Photography Sam Parsons Theatrical Trailer

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After dreaming of her dead twin sister, Gong Do-hee (Yoon Jeong-hee), a thriving corporate tycoon, drives to the seaside — but the trip turns nightmarish when she is kidnapped and made to live with a rough island fisherman who insists she is his runaway wife. Carrying a pointed message about political oppression that slipped past the era's strict censors, Kim Soo-yong's daring modernist film ranks among the boldest Korean works of the 1970s, the darkest decade in the country's cinema.

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All-American college athlete Danny Stetson is innocently drawn into Homeland, a youth-oriented religious cult, by a beautiful young woman, and is programmed by its charismatic leader to believe his new life has the meaning his old one lacked. When Danny's anguished parents fail to talk him out of it, they hire Charles Pratt, a kidnapper and deprogrammer, to abduct Danny and undo the brainwashing so he can return to his family.

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Based on the bestselling memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, the film is a heartwarming, funny and life-affirming story of how a couple's relationship is transformed and deepened when one of them falls ill. Bonus Content: Includes Blu-ray, DVD and a digital copy of Spoiler Alert (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.) Deleted Scenes Spoiler Alert: From Memoir to Movie

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The Boston Globe's Spotlight investigative team digs into the Boston archdiocese's cover-up of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests — an investigation that rocks the city and causes a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions.

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Disc 1 contains the feature film on 4K UHD. Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, and Rachel McAdams head the cast of this true story about the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation that shook one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. Following up allegations of abuse inside Boston's Catholic Archdiocese, the Boston Globe's Spotlight team uncovers a cover-up spanning decades and reaching into the highest ranks of the city's religious, legal, and government establishments. Critics have praised the film's acting and direction, calling it the All the President's Men of its generation.

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Successful doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes), his wife Clara (Neve McIntosh) and their two daughters are seeking shelter from the Nazis storming Poland. They find a safe house in the farm of Emilia (Kelly Harrison), their local grocer who is all alone after her husband fought for his country and never returned. Amidst the horrors of the war that surrounds them, an impossible love triangle erupts as Emelia uncontrollably falls in love with Artur. Such a fragile arrangement is sustained by love - or is it just the will to survive? The answer to that question may not even be made known to those who make it out alive

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Marcus, a broke and struggling filmmaker, travels to Spring Lakes to search for his missing sister and runs into strange, mysterious happenings tied to a satanic cult. He has to find her before he, too, is swallowed by the living forest and meets the same fate as his sister, Shiela.

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Italian neorealism meets the coal-mining country of southeast Ohio in this little-seen wonder of 1960s American independent cinema. Director J.L. Anderson, a film professor at the University of Ohio, utilized non-professional actors, on-location photography, a shoestring budget, and a passionate knowledge of international film to create what Richard Brody of The New Yorker calls a tense, myth-drenched drama of liberation and retribution. Carl (Ted Heimerdinger) and Jessie (Larue Hall) are half siblings who feel trapped by the existential and economic pressures of living in the small mining town of Canaan, Ohio. Their shared rebellion soon takes on the form of an illicit love affair depicted in interwoven sequences of lusty poeticism and ethnographic vérité. When Jessie becomes pregnant, the tension between the couple s youthful vitality and the dire realities of rural society leads to consequences both despairing and hopeful. Bumped from its premiere slot at the 1968 New York Film Festival to make room for John Cassavetes Faces, the fate of Spring Night Summer Night was nearly sealed when its original distributor insisted that it be recut as an exploitation film under the title Miss Jessica Is Pregnant. Fortunately, thanks to the brilliant restoration efforts of Peter Conheim and Ross Lipman along with the generous support of director Nicholas Winding Refn s byNWR the film was scanned in 4K resolution from the 35mm camera negative, and carefully reconstructed according to J.L. Anderson s original vision. BONUS MATERIALS INCLUDE: The Bluegrass Trilogy - Three early short films from director J.L. Anderson and Franklin Miller: Football As It Is Played Today (1961), How Swived (1962), and Cheers (1963). In the Middle of the Nights: From Arthouse to Grindhouse and Back Again (2020) - Ross Lipman presents Spring Night Summer Night in contrast to the recut exploitation film, Miss Jessica Is Pregnant. I m Goin to Straitsville (2020) - Peter Conheim explores the locations of Spring Night Summer Night fifty years later. 16mm Behind-the-Scenes Footage (1967) - Rare and previously unseen material from the film s production (featuring an optional commentary track by producer and co-writer Franklin Miller). Spring Night Summer Night: 50 Years Later (2020) - Glenn Litton interviews cast and crew of Spring Night Summer Night, discussing the legacy of the film and the challenges it faced theatrically. Cleveland Cinematheque Q&A (2016): Blu-ray only - A panel discussion with original cast and crew before its 2016 Cleveland, Ohio screening. Slideshow Gallery - Images by photographer Jon Webb taken during production. Collector s Edition Souvenir Booklet - Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Ian Mantgani, Glenn Litton s memories of director Joseph Anderson, Peter Conheim on the film s restoration, a look at the career of distributor Joseph L Brenner, an overview of critical responses, and film credits. Subtitles: English SDH.

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Jeremy Allen White stars in this intimate film about the making of Bruce Springsteen’s acoustic album “Nebraska.” On the cusp of global superstardom, the young musician struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past. “Nebraska” marked a pivotal time in the Boss’s life and is considered one of his most enduring works.

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Jeremy Allen White stars in this intimate film about the making of Bruce Springsteen’s acoustic album “Nebraska.” On the cusp of global superstardom, the young musician struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past. “Nebraska” marked a pivotal time in the Boss’s life and is considered one of his most enduring works.

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The cornerstone of director Richard Linklater’s career‑long exploration of cinematic time, this celebrated three-part romance captures a relationship as it begins, begins again, deepens, and strains over the course of almost two decades. Chronicling the love of Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke), from their first meeting as idealistic twentysomethings to the disillusionment they face together in middle age, The Before Trilogy also serves as a document of a boundary-pushing and extraordinarily intimate collaboration between director and actors, as Delpy and Hawke imbue their characters with a sense of lived-in experience, and age on-screen along with them. Attuned to the sweeping grandeur of time’s passage as well as the evanescence of individual moments, the Before films chart the progress of romantic destiny as it navigates the vicissitudes of ordinary life. DIRECTOR-APPROVED THREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New, restored 2K digital transfers of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset and a 2K digital master of Before Midnight, approved by director Richard Linklater, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on Before Sunrise and 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks on Before Sunset and Before Midnight New discussion featuring Linklater and actors Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, moderated by critic Kent Jones Behind-the-scenes footage and interviews from the productions of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset Audio commentary on Before Midnight by Delpy, Linklater, and Hawke Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, a feature-length 2016 documentary by Louis Black and Karen Bernstein After Before, a new documentary by Athina Rachel Tsangari about the making of Before Midnight in Greece New conversation between scholars Dave Johnson and Rob Stone about Linklater’s work Episode of the radio program Fresh Air featuring host Terry Gross, Linklater, Delpy, and Hawke Linklater // On Cinema & Time, a 2016 video essay by filmmaker :: kogonada English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay on the trilogy by critic Dennis Lim BEFORE SUNRISE An exquisitely understated ode to the thrill of romantic possibility, the inaugural installment of The Before Trilogy opens with a chance encounter between two solitary young strangers. After they hit it off on a train bound for Vienna, the Paris university student Celine and the scrappy American tourist Jesse impulsively decide to spend a day together before he returns to the U.S. the next morning. As the pair roam the streets of the stately city, Richard Linklater’s tenderly observant gaze captures the uncertainty and intoxication of young love, from the first awkward stirrings of attraction to the hopeful promise that Celine and Jesse make upon their inevitable parting. BEFORE SUNSET In the breathtaking follow-up to Before Sunrise, Celine tracks down Jesse, now an author, at the tail end of his book tour in Paris, with only a few hours left before he is to board a flight back home to the States. Meeting almost a decade after their short-lived romance in Vienna, the pair find their chemistry rekindled by increasingly candid exchanges about professional setbacks, marital disappointments, and the compromises of adulthood. Impelled by an urgent sense of the transience of human connection, Before Sunset remains Richard Linklater’s most seductive experiment with time’s inexorable passage and the way love can seem to stop it in its tracks. BEFORE MIDNIGHT The conclusion of The Before Trilogy finds Celine and Jesse several years into a relationship and in the midst of a sun-dappled Greek retreat with their twin daughters and a group of friends. The couple soon find their vacation upended, however, by long-simmering problems that come to a boil. Marked by the emotional depth, piercing wit, and conversational exuberance that Linklater and his actors honed over two decades of abiding with these characters, Before Midnight grapples with the complexities of long-term intimacy, and asks what becomes of love when it has no recourse to its past illusions.

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The cornerstone of director Richard Linklater’s career‑long exploration of cinematic time, this celebrated three-part romance captures a relationship as it begins, begins again, deepens, and strains over the course of almost two decades. Chronicling the love of Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke), from their first meeting as idealistic twentysomethings to the disillusionment they face together in middle age, The Before Trilogy also serves as a document of a boundary-pushing and extraordinarily intimate collaboration between director and actors, as Delpy and Hawke imbue their characters with a sense of lived-in experience, and age on-screen along with them. Attuned to the sweeping grandeur of time’s passage as well as the evanescence of individual moments, the Before films chart the progress of romantic destiny as it navigates the vicissitudes of ordinary life. DIRECTOR-APPROVED THREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New, restored 2K digital transfers of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset and a 2K digital master of Before Midnight, approved by director Richard Linklater, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on Before Sunrise and 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks on Before Sunset and Before Midnight New discussion featuring Linklater and actors Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, moderated by critic Kent Jones Behind-the-scenes footage and interviews from the productions of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset Audio commentary on Before Midnight by Delpy, Linklater, and Hawke Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, a feature-length 2016 documentary by Louis Black and Karen Bernstein After Before, a new documentary by Athina Rachel Tsangari about the making of Before Midnight in Greece New conversation between scholars Dave Johnson and Rob Stone about Linklater’s work Episode of the radio program Fresh Air featuring host Terry Gross, Linklater, Delpy, and Hawke Linklater // On Cinema & Time, a 2016 video essay by filmmaker :: kogonada English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay on the trilogy by critic Dennis Lim BEFORE SUNRISE An exquisitely understated ode to the thrill of romantic possibility, the inaugural installment of The Before Trilogy opens with a chance encounter between two solitary young strangers. After they hit it off on a train bound for Vienna, the Paris university student Celine and the scrappy American tourist Jesse impulsively decide to spend a day together before he returns to the U.S. the next morning. As the pair roam the streets of the stately city, Richard Linklater’s tenderly observant gaze captures the uncertainty and intoxication of young love, from the first awkward stirrings of attraction to the hopeful promise that Celine and Jesse make upon their inevitable parting. BEFORE SUNSET In the breathtaking follow-up to Before Sunrise, Celine tracks down Jesse, now an author, at the tail end of his book tour in Paris, with only a few hours left before he is to board a flight back home to the States. Meeting almost a decade after their short-lived romance in Vienna, the pair find their chemistry rekindled by increasingly candid exchanges about professional setbacks, marital disappointments, and the compromises of adulthood. Impelled by an urgent sense of the transience of human connection, Before Sunset remains Richard Linklater’s most seductive experiment with time’s inexorable passage and the way love can seem to stop it in its tracks. BEFORE MIDNIGHT The conclusion of The Before Trilogy finds Celine and Jesse several years into a relationship and in the midst of a sun-dappled Greek retreat with their twin daughters and a group of friends. The couple soon find their vacation upended, however, by long-simmering problems that come to a boil. Marked by the emotional depth, piercing wit, and conversational exuberance that Linklater and his actors honed over two decades of abiding with these characters, Before Midnight grapples with the complexities of long-term intimacy, and asks what becomes of love when it has no recourse to its past illusions.

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The cornerstone of director Richard Linklater’s career‑long exploration of cinematic time, this celebrated three-part romance captures a relationship as it begins, begins again, deepens, and strains over the course of almost two decades. Chronicling the love of Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke), from their first meeting as idealistic twentysomethings to the disillusionment they face together in middle age, The Before Trilogy also serves as a document of a boundary-pushing and extraordinarily intimate collaboration between director and actors, as Delpy and Hawke imbue their characters with a sense of lived-in experience, and age on-screen along with them. Attuned to the sweeping grandeur of time’s passage as well as the evanescence of individual moments, the Before films chart the progress of romantic destiny as it navigates the vicissitudes of ordinary life. DIRECTOR-APPROVED THREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New, restored 2K digital transfers of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset and a 2K digital master of Before Midnight, approved by director Richard Linklater, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on Before Sunrise and 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks on Before Sunset and Before Midnight New discussion featuring Linklater and actors Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, moderated by critic Kent Jones Behind-the-scenes footage and interviews from the productions of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset Audio commentary on Before Midnight by Delpy, Linklater, and Hawke Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, a feature-length 2016 documentary by Louis Black and Karen Bernstein After Before, a new documentary by Athina Rachel Tsangari about the making of Before Midnight in Greece New conversation between scholars Dave Johnson and Rob Stone about Linklater’s work Episode of the radio program Fresh Air featuring host Terry Gross, Linklater, Delpy, and Hawke Linklater // On Cinema & Time, a 2016 video essay by filmmaker :: kogonada English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay on the trilogy by critic Dennis Lim BEFORE SUNRISE An exquisitely understated ode to the thrill of romantic possibility, the inaugural installment of The Before Trilogy opens with a chance encounter between two solitary young strangers. After they hit it off on a train bound for Vienna, the Paris university student Celine and the scrappy American tourist Jesse impulsively decide to spend a day together before he returns to the U.S. the next morning. As the pair roam the streets of the stately city, Richard Linklater’s tenderly observant gaze captures the uncertainty and intoxication of young love, from the first awkward stirrings of attraction to the hopeful promise that Celine and Jesse make upon their inevitable parting. BEFORE SUNSET In the breathtaking follow-up to Before Sunrise, Celine tracks down Jesse, now an author, at the tail end of his book tour in Paris, with only a few hours left before he is to board a flight back home to the States. Meeting almost a decade after their short-lived romance in Vienna, the pair find their chemistry rekindled by increasingly candid exchanges about professional setbacks, marital disappointments, and the compromises of adulthood. Impelled by an urgent sense of the transience of human connection, Before Sunset remains Richard Linklater’s most seductive experiment with time’s inexorable passage and the way love can seem to stop it in its tracks. BEFORE MIDNIGHT The conclusion of The Before Trilogy finds Celine and Jesse several years into a relationship and in the midst of a sun-dappled Greek retreat with their twin daughters and a group of friends. The couple soon find their vacation upended, however, by long-simmering problems that come to a boil. Marked by the emotional depth, piercing wit, and conversational exuberance that Linklater and his actors honed over two decades of abiding with these characters, Before Midnight grapples with the complexities of long-term intimacy, and asks what becomes of love when it has no recourse to its past illusions.

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This collection features three pugilistic film noir classics: FLESH AND FURY (1952) – Screen legend Tony Curtis (Some Like It Hot) sizzles in the knock-out boxing film noir Flesh and Fury from director Joseph Pevney (The Midnight Story). Gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow (Jan Sterling, Ace in the Hole) and retired fight manager Pop Richardson (Wallace Ford, He Ran All the Way) take deaf-mute boxer Paul Callan (Curtis) under their wing. Now Paul is all but unstoppable…until reporter Ann Hollis (Mona Freeman, Angel Face) appears and falls for the handsome prizefighter. With a three-way bout under way for influence over Paul, he takes matters into his own hands, but learns the hard way that getting what he wants isn’t necessarily a happy ending. Flesh and Fury features rousing boxing sequences, gripping drama and an exceptional cast: Curtis excels in one of his first starring roles, and Sterling is sensational as the money-hungry bombshell. Featuring Harry Guardino (Madigan) as Lou Callan, Paul’s brother. THE SQUARE JUNGLE (1955) – Tony Curtis (The Vikings) stars as a grocery clerk turned prizefighter in the riveting film noir The Square Jungle. Eddie Quaid (Curtis), in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie (Pat Crowley, There’s Always Tomorrow) through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing. His cop friend McBride (Paul Kelly, Crossfire) finances him; ex-con Bernie Browne (Ernest Borgnine, Marty) trains him. Three years later, he’s a challenger for the championship, and Julie re-enters his life. Can she win him back from a predatory blonde? And why does the prospect of Eddie’s winning worry Bernie more than his losing? Directed by Jerry Hopper (Naked Alibi) and featuring a fine supporting cast that includes Jim Backus (Bright Victory), David Janssen (Macho Callahan), John Marley (I Want to Live!), Leigh Snowden (Outside the Law) and real-life heavyweight champ Joe Louis. WORLD IN MY CORNER (1956) – Screen great Audie Murphy (To Hell and Back) is a scrappy young fighter named Tommy Shea — “born in a dump, educated in an alley” — in the electrifying film noir World in My Corner. The up-and-coming boxer catches the eye of the wealthy Robert Mallinson (Jeff Morrow, Captain Lightfoot), who allows him to train at his Long Island estate. Shea soon falls for Mallinson’s daughter, Dorothy (Barbara Rush, Magnificent Obsession), but fears he doesn’t have the money to support her in proper style. To get this money, he decides to work for crooked promoter Harry Cram (Howard St. John, Strange Bedfellows), even though this means dropping his honest manager, Dave Bernstein (John McIntire, Johnny Stool Pigeon). As the big fight approaches, however, he begins to have second thoughts. Directed by Jesse Hibbs (Ride a Crooked Trail), World in My Corner is a bang-up drama with a hard-hitting performance by Murphy. Special Features: • Brand New 2K Masters • NEW Audio Commentary for FLESH AND FURY by Film Historian/Filmmaker Daniel Kremer • NEW Audio Commentaries for THE SQUARE JUNGLE and WORLD IN MY CORNER by Film Historian Eddy Von Mueller • Theatrical Trailer (World in My Corner) • Optional English Subtitles

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Re-creates the 1954-62 Algerian fight for independence from the French. Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.

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With excruciating honesty, The Squid and the Whale chronicles the experiences of two young brothers growing up in 1980s Park Slope, Brooklyn, as they navigate the jagged contours of the divorce of their parents, both writers. The acclaimed third feature by Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming, Frances Ha) marked a critical development for the filmmaker as he turned toward an increasingly personal style a move that garnered him an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay. Shot in Super 16 mm and featuring a quartet of nuanced, understated performances from Jeff Daniels (Something Wild), Laura Linney (Mystic River), Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), and Owen Kline, this comic and poignant drama, peppered with autobiographical elements, deftly captures the heartache and confusion of a fracturing family. DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES - New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Robert Yeoman and director Noah Baumbach, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack - New interviews with Baumbach and actors Jeff Daniels, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, and Laura Linney - New conversation about the score and other music in the film between Baumbach and composers Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips - Behind The Squid and the Whale, a 2004 documentary featuring on-set footage and cast interviews - Audition footage - Trailers

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Disc 2 contains the film in 1080p HD (Blu-ray version) and the special features: audio commentary with Eugenio Ercolani and Nanni Cobretti; 'Sadistically Yours, Sergio G.' interview with director Sergio Garrone; 'SSadist SSound' interview with music historian Pierpaolo De Sanctis; 'The Alabiso Dynasty' interview with editor Eugenio Alabiso; 'Framing Exploitation' interview with cinematographer Maurizio Centini; Italian opening and closing titles; and the original trailer. Late in the Second World War, prisoners of war are subjected to experiments meant to perfect the Aryan race.

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Disc 1 contains the film in 4K Ultra HD and the special features: audio commentary with Eugenio Ercolani and Nanni Cobretti; 'Sadistically Yours, Sergio G.' interview with director Sergio Garrone; 'SSadist SSound' interview with music historian Pierpaolo De Sanctis; 'The Alabiso Dynasty' interview with editor Eugenio Alabiso; 'Framing Exploitation' interview with cinematographer Maurizio Centini; Italian opening and closing titles; and the original trailer. Late in the Second World War, prisoners of war are subjected to experiments meant to perfect the Aryan race.

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Abner Procane, a top Los Angeles burglar, discovers that someone has stolen his plans for his next ambitious heist. He hires Raymond St. Ives, a writer of crime books, to negotiate the return of the documents.

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Seven friends, recent college graduates, are searching for a place in the real world, as they face issues of career and commitment. Leslie and Alec (Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson) try to save a crumbling romance. Wendy (Mare Winningham), a shy virgin, hides a love for Billy (Rob Lowe), a reluctant father/husband still searching for goals. Kevin (Andrew McCarthy) is a cynical writer who scorns love until he realizes he's in love with his best friend's girl. Kirbo (Emilio Estevez), a law student, obsessively pursues an older woman. The beautiful, neurotic Jules (Demi Moore) paints a poignant picture of life in the fast lane. Against the backdrop of St. Elmo's, their local hang-out, they save, betray and love one another as only the closest of friends can.

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Seven friends fresh out of college are trying to find their footing in the adult world of careers and commitment. Leslie and Alec struggle to keep a crumbling romance alive. Wendy, a shy virgin, quietly loves Billy, a reluctant husband and father who is still searching for a purpose. Kevin, a cynical writer who scorns love, realizes he has fallen for his best friend's girl. Kirbo, a law student, obsessively pursues an older woman, while the beautiful, neurotic Jules races through life in the fast lane. Around their hangout, St. Elmo's, the group saves, betrays, and loves one another the way only the closest of friends can.

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The cornerstone of director Richard Linklater’s career‑long exploration of cinematic time, this celebrated three-part romance captures a relationship as it begins, begins again, deepens, and strains over the course of almost two decades. Chronicling the love of Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke), from their first meeting as idealistic twentysomethings to the disillusionment they face together in middle age, The Before Trilogy also serves as a document of a boundary-pushing and extraordinarily intimate collaboration between director and actors, as Delpy and Hawke imbue their characters with a sense of lived-in experience, and age on-screen along with them. Attuned to the sweeping grandeur of time’s passage as well as the evanescence of individual moments, the Before films chart the progress of romantic destiny as it navigates the vicissitudes of ordinary life. DIRECTOR-APPROVED THREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New, restored 2K digital transfers of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset and a 2K digital master of Before Midnight, approved by director Richard Linklater, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on Before Sunrise and 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks on Before Sunset and Before Midnight New discussion featuring Linklater and actors Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, moderated by critic Kent Jones Behind-the-scenes footage and interviews from the productions of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset Audio commentary on Before Midnight by Delpy, Linklater, and Hawke Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, a feature-length 2016 documentary by Louis Black and Karen Bernstein After Before, a new documentary by Athina Rachel Tsangari about the making of Before Midnight in Greece New conversation between scholars Dave Johnson and Rob Stone about Linklater’s work Episode of the radio program Fresh Air featuring host Terry Gross, Linklater, Delpy, and Hawke Linklater // On Cinema & Time, a 2016 video essay by filmmaker :: kogonada English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay on the trilogy by critic Dennis Lim BEFORE SUNRISE An exquisitely understated ode to the thrill of romantic possibility, the inaugural installment of The Before Trilogy opens with a chance encounter between two solitary young strangers. After they hit it off on a train bound for Vienna, the Paris university student Celine and the scrappy American tourist Jesse impulsively decide to spend a day together before he returns to the U.S. the next morning. As the pair roam the streets of the stately city, Richard Linklater’s tenderly observant gaze captures the uncertainty and intoxication of young love, from the first awkward stirrings of attraction to the hopeful promise that Celine and Jesse make upon their inevitable parting. BEFORE SUNSET In the breathtaking follow-up to Before Sunrise, Celine tracks down Jesse, now an author, at the tail end of his book tour in Paris, with only a few hours left before he is to board a flight back home to the States. Meeting almost a decade after their short-lived romance in Vienna, the pair find their chemistry rekindled by increasingly candid exchanges about professional setbacks, marital disappointments, and the compromises of adulthood. Impelled by an urgent sense of the transience of human connection, Before Sunset remains Richard Linklater’s most seductive experiment with time’s inexorable passage and the way love can seem to stop it in its tracks. BEFORE MIDNIGHT The conclusion of The Before Trilogy finds Celine and Jesse several years into a relationship and in the midst of a sun-dappled Greek retreat with their twin daughters and a group of friends. The couple soon find their vacation upended, however, by long-simmering problems that come to a boil. Marked by the emotional depth, piercing wit, and conversational exuberance that Linklater and his actors honed over two decades of abiding with these characters, Before Midnight grapples with the complexities of long-term intimacy, and asks what becomes of love when it has no recourse to its past illusions.

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One of the last lighthearted collaborations between Gloria Swanson and Allan Dwan, Stage Struck (1925) is a sweetly funny account of a small-town girl with dreams of fame. Swanson plays Jenny Hagen, a diner waitress who fantasizes about a life on stage. Her heart belongs to Orme Wilson (Lawrence Gray), an expert pancake flipper, who only has eyes for the women in movie magazines. So when a river showboat comes to town, he only has eyes for the star, Lillian Lyons (Gertrude Astor). Inflamed with jealousy, Jenny is determined to get on stage herself, by any means necessary. Special Features: -Brand New 2K Master -Audio commentary by Frederic Lombardi, author of Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios -Booklet essay by film historian Farran Smith Nehme -Includes Original two-strip Technicolor prologue and epilogue -Piano score composed and performed by Andrew Simpson

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A cross-section of strangers traveling by stagecoach through dangerous territory face outlaws, prejudice, and personal reckoning.

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The legendary star and director of 1950’s Sunset Boulevard—William Holden and Billy Wilder—re-teamed three years later for the gripping World War II drama, Stalag 17. The result was a 1953 Best Director Oscar nomination for Wilder, and the elusive Best Actor Oscar for Holden. The iconic star of The Bridges at Toko-Ri and The Bridge on the River Kwai portrays the jaded, scheming Sergeant J.J. Sefton, a P.O.W. at the notorious German prison camp, who spends his days dreaming up rackets and trading with the Germans for special privileges. But when two prisoners are killed in an escape attempt, it becomes obvious that there is a spy among them. Is it Sefton? Famed filmmaker Otto Preminger (Rosebud) tackles a rare acting role as the camp’s commandant; Robert Strauss (The Seven Year Itch) earned the film’s third Oscar® nomination (Best Supporting Actor) for his role as “Animal.” Here’s “the granddaddy of all World War II P.O.W. films” (Leonard Maltin), a powerful antiwar classic from the brilliant creator of Five Graves to Cairo, A Foreign Affair, Sabrina, Some Like It Hot and The Apartment. Special Features: • Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative • NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Steve Mitchell and Combat Films: American Realism Author Steven Jay Rubin • NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Joseph McBride, Author of Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge • Audio Commentary by Actors Richard Erdman and Gil Stratton with Co-Playwright Donald Bevan • Stalag 17 – From Reality to Screen: Featurette (22:01) • The Real Heroes of Stalag XVII B: Featurette (24:49) • Dual-Layered BD50 Disc • Optional English Subtitles

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The legendary star and director of 1950’s Sunset Boulevard—William Holden and Billy Wilder—re-teamed three years later for the gripping World War II drama, Stalag 17. The result was a 1953 Best Director Oscar nomination for Wilder, and the elusive Best Actor Oscar for Holden. The iconic star of The Bridges at Toko-Ri and The Bridge on the River Kwai portrays the jaded, scheming Sergeant J.J. Sefton, a P.O.W. at the notorious German prison camp, who spends his days dreaming up rackets and trading with the Germans for special privileges. But when two prisoners are killed in an escape attempt, it becomes obvious that there is a spy among them. Is it Sefton? Famed filmmaker Otto Preminger (Rosebud) tackles a rare acting role as the camp’s commandant; Robert Strauss (The Seven Year Itch) earned the film’s third Oscar® nomination (Best Supporting Actor) for his role as “Animal.” Here’s “the granddaddy of all World War II P.O.W. films” (Leonard Maltin), a powerful antiwar classic from the brilliant creator of Five Graves to Cairo, A Foreign Affair, Sabrina, Some Like It Hot and The Apartment. Special Features: DISC 1 (4KUHD): • Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative • NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Steve Mitchell and Combat Films: American Realism Author Steven Jay Rubin • NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Joseph McBride, Author of Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge • Audio Commentary by Actors Richard Erdman and Gil Stratton with Co-Playwright Donald Bevan • Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc • Optional English Subtitles DISC 2 (BLU-RAY): • Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative • NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Steve Mitchell and Combat Films: American Realism Author Steven Jay Rubin • NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Joseph McBride, Author of Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge • Audio Commentary by Actors Richard Erdman and Gil Stratton with Co-Playwright Donald Bevan • Stalag 17 – From Reality to Screen: Featurette (22:01) • The Real Heroes of Stalag XVII B: Featurette (24:49) • Dual-Layered BD50 Disc • Optional English Subtitles

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Laurel and Hardy, one of the world's greatest comedy teams, set out on a variety hall tour of Britain in 1953. Diminished by age and with their golden era as the kings of Hollywood comedy now behind them, they face an uncertain future. As the charm and beauty of their performances shines through, they re-connect with their adoring fans. Even as the tour becomes a hit, Stan and Ollie can't quite shake the specter of Laurel and Hardy's past; the long-buried ghosts, coupled with Oliver's failing health, start to threaten their precious partnership. A portrait of the most tender and poignant of creative marriages, they are aware that they may be approaching their swan song, trying to rediscover just how much they mean to each other.

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Based on a true story, a dedicated math teacher inspires his East Los Angeles students to conquer calculus and exceed expectations.

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Four young friends find the remains of a missing teenager in this first-rate adaptation of Stephen King's The Body. Starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell and Kiefer Sutherland. Directed by Rob Reiner.

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Product Description Swedish master Ingmar Bergman penned this loving tribute to his parent's epic romance. In 1909, poor, idealistic theology student Henrik Bergman falls in love with Anna Åkerbloom, the intelligent, educated daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After their wedding Henrik becomes a priest in the north of Sweden. Urbane Anna can't stand living in the rural county and grows increasingly restless. She returns to Uppsala and the couple's love and commitment are put to the test. Review WINNER - Palme d'Or - Cannes Film Festival WINNER - Best Actress - Cannes Film Festival WINNER - Best Screenplay - Guldbagge Awards WINNER - Best Actress - Guldbagge Awards WINNER - Best Actress - National Society of Film Critics Awards WINNER - Best Foreign Language Film - National Society of Film Critics Awards - --- Mr. Bergman's straightforward screenplay is a reminder of how much of what he has expressed as a director goes beyond words. --Janet Maslin, The New York Times In her role, [Pernilla] August displays an emotional range that is Himalayan. Appealing as she is accomplished, the actress charms the audience as easily as Anna seduces Henrik. --Rita Kempley, The Washington Post

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Four young friends find the remains of a missing teenager in this first-rate adaptation of Stephen King's The Body. Starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell and Kiefer Sutherland. Directed by Rob Reiner.

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The Optimists tells the story of a street performer named Sam, who with a unique outlook on life befriends two children and teaches them to look at life from a new perspective. The novelty of having a song and dance man as a friend soon turns into something much deeper, as Sam realizes that the children have just as much to teach him about life as he does them. Set amongst a wonderful London backdrop, comedy legend Peter Sellers (The Party, After the Fox) stars in one of his most charming, tender and rare dramatic roles. Based on a novel by Anthony Simmons (Little Sweetheart) who also directed this heart-warming classic with a screenplay by Tudor Gates (Barbarella, Danger: Diabolik) and music by legendary Beatles producer George Martin. Special Features: Trailers

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After a viral plague decimated 99% of the world's population, a few survivors felt themselves compelled for pilgrimages to either the Boulder compound of wise centenarian Mother Abagail Freemantle (Whoopi Goldberg)... or the Vegas stronghold of cruelly charismatic Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård). Expansive second take on Stephen King's apocalyptic chiller co-stars Greg Kinnear, James Marsden, J.K. Simmons, Amber Heard, Heather Graham, Odessa Young. 8 1/2 hrs. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.

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Stephen King's apocalyptic tale pits survivors of a devastating plague against one another in a final struggle between good and evil.

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After a viral plague decimated 99% of the world's population, a few survivors felt themselves compelled for pilgrimages to either the Boulder compound of wise centenarian Mother Abagail Freemantle (Whoopi Goldberg)... or the Vegas stronghold of cruelly charismatic Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård). Expansive second take on Stephen King's apocalyptic chiller co-stars Greg Kinnear, James Marsden, J.K. Simmons, Amber Heard, Heather Graham, Odessa Young. 8 1/2 hrs. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.

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A troubled teenage delinquent is pushed toward adulthood through the efforts of judges, counselors and his own hard-won self-awareness.

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A struggling stand-up comic returns home and forms an unlikely friendship with an alcoholic dermatologist facing his own regrets.

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A psychological study at Stanford spirals out of control as student volunteers sink into the roles of prisoners and guards.

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Threatened by an intergalactic superpower, humankind's last hope for survival depends upon the help of an alien civilization. The crew of Space Battleship Yamato has one year to seek out a device that will breathe life back into their home planet. Bonus Content: Disc 1 - Star Blazers Space Battleship Yamato 2199 - The Complete Series: The Newest Frontier: Star Blazers: Space Batteship Yamato 2199 The Newest Frontier Continued: Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Episode 9 Commentary Episode 16 Commentary Illustrating Space Battleship Yamato Promo

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Threatened by an intergalactic superpower, humankind's last hope for survival depends upon the help of an alien civilization. The crew of Space Battleship Yamato has one year to seek out a device that will breathe life back into their home planet. Bonus Content: Disc 1 - Star Blazers Space Battleship Yamato 2199 - The Complete Series: The Newest Frontier: Star Blazers: Space Batteship Yamato 2199 The Newest Frontier Continued: Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Episode 9 Commentary Episode 16 Commentary Illustrating Space Battleship Yamato Promo

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Threatened by an intergalactic superpower, humankind's last hope for survival depends upon the help of an alien civilization. The crew of Space Battleship Yamato has one year to seek out a device that will breathe life back into their home planet. Bonus Content: Disc 1 - Star Blazers Space Battleship Yamato 2199 - The Complete Series: The Newest Frontier: Star Blazers: Space Batteship Yamato 2199 The Newest Frontier Continued: Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Episode 9 Commentary Episode 16 Commentary Illustrating Space Battleship Yamato Promo

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Threatened by an intergalactic superpower, humankind's last hope for survival depends upon the help of an alien civilization. The crew of Space Battleship Yamato has one year to seek out a device that will breathe life back into their home planet. Bonus Content: Disc 1 - Star Blazers Space Battleship Yamato 2199 - The Complete Series: The Newest Frontier: Star Blazers: Space Batteship Yamato 2199 The Newest Frontier Continued: Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Episode 9 Commentary Episode 16 Commentary Illustrating Space Battleship Yamato Promo

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Following Kodai's fated encounter with Teresa, Gatlantis's past is revealed, and the Yamato's crew is enlivened with renewed purpose. Meanwhile, the White Comet Empire advances toward Earth, and the Wave Motion Gun Fleet is all that stands between Zworder and humanity's annihilation. Even with Teresa and the Time fault on their side, humankind must find answers, from within themselves, if they're to have any hope against such deep-seated hatred. Bonus Content: Disc 1 - Star Blazers Space Battleship Yamato 2202 – Part Two: Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Conversation with the Cast Episode 23 Commentary Textless Songs

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Following Kodai's fated encounter with Teresa, Gatlantis's past is revealed, and the Yamato's crew is enlivened with renewed purpose. Meanwhile, the White Comet Empire advances toward Earth, and the Wave Motion Gun Fleet is all that stands between Zworder and humanity's annihilation. Even with Teresa and the Time fault on their side, humankind must find answers, from within themselves, if they're to have any hope against such deep-seated hatred. Bonus Content: Disc 1 - Star Blazers Space Battleship Yamato 2202 – Part Two: Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Conversation with the Cast Episode 23 Commentary Textless Songs ]]>

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Producer David O. Selznick turned his attention to Hollywood with this 1937 original classic directed by William A. Wellman. Its Academy Award-winning screenplay co-written by Dorothy Parker tells the story of hopeful, young would-be actress Esther Blodgett (Academy Award winner Janet Gaynor) whose career is launched by movie star Norman Maine (Academy Award winner Fredric March), who also wins the young actress' heart. Esther becomes leading lady Vicki Lester and Mrs. Norman Maine, but as Maine's career flounders, he sinks into an abyss of alcoholism. Esther chooses to sacrifice her stardom to care for her husband, but he will not allow Esther to abandon her dreams for him. Remade three times in years ahead, this original version has at long last been meticulously restored and remastered from its original Technicolor camera negatives. The result is a sterling presentation of a landmark in film history for its first studio-authorized home entertainment release.

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Star is Born, A: The Encore: EXT Cut (Blu-ray)

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Seasoned musician Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) discovers—and falls in love with—struggling artist Ally (Lady Gaga). She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer… until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally’s career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jack fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons A Digital Copy is a digital version of the full-length movie that you get when you own specially-marked Blu-ray/DVD discs bearing the “Digital” logo. Owning the digital version of the movie extends your enjoyment because it enables you to download or stream your movie to a computer, mobile device, internet-connected TV, Blu-ray player, or set-top box.