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The proudly erotic drawings of artist Touko Laaksonen, known to the world as Tom of Finland, shaped the fantasies of a generation of gay men, in uencing art and fashion before crossing over into the wider cultural consciousness. But who was the man behind the leather? Dome Karukoski s stirring biopic Tom of Finland follows his life from the trenches of WWII and repressive Finnish society of the 1950s through his struggle to get his work published in California, where he and his art were nally embraced amid the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Tom s story is one of love, courage and perseverance, mirroring the gay liberation movement for which his leather- clad studs served as a de ant emblem. Special Features: Deleted Scenes, Discussion at Tom s House, I Am Tom of Finland Campaign Featurette, Interviews with Durk Dehner, co-founder of the Tom of Finland Company, Television Special, Trailers

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The Who's classic rock opera is brought energetically to life by an outstanding cast including manyof music's biggest stars. Roger Daltrey is Tommy and Elton John portrays the Pinball Wizard. Appearances by Tina Turner and Jack Nicholson.

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Told through the music of The Who, this rock opera follows Tommy, who as a small boy sees his mother and her lover murder his father. Ordered to forget what he witnessed, the traumatized child retreats into his own mind and becomes deaf, dumb and blind. Ken Russell brings the story to the screen with an energetic cast drawn largely from the world of rock music.

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Angolan-Portuguese director Carlos Conceição’s audacious and enigmatic Tommy Guns invokes the ghosts of Angola’s colonial past while embracing the symbolic power of genre filmmaking. The story begins in 1974, just one year before the country’s independence from decades of Portuguese rule. Wealthy colonists are fleeing the country as Angolan revolutionaries gradually claim their land back. A tribal girl discovers love and danger when her path crosses that of a Portuguese soldier. Another group of soldiers, completely cut off from the outside world, blindly follow the brutal orders of their commander in the name of serving their country. But nothing stays fixed in this genre-shifting cinematic puzzle, which playfully swerves from art house drama to war film to zombie flick to escape thriller with exhilarating control. Winner of Best European Film and the Youth Jury Award at the Locarno Film Festival, Tommy Guns has elicited comparisons to the work of Claire Denis, Miguel Gomes, and even M. Night Shyamalan, and announces a bold and exciting new voice in Portuguese and Angolan filmmaking. Special Features: • Audio commentary by director Carlos Conceição • Deleted Scenes • Theatrical Trailer

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In 1934, Jean Renoir stepped off the soundstage and headed to the South of France, where he captured vivid human drama amid the bucolic splendor and everyday social rituals of the countryside. Based on a true story and set in a community of immigrants living, working, and loving on the margins of French society, Toni follows the eponymous Italian migrant (Charles Blavette), whose tempestuous affairs with two women—the faithful Marie (Jenny Hélia) and the flirtatious Josefa (Celia Montalván)—unleash a wave of tragedy. Making use of nonprofessional actors, on-location shooting, and the resources of the great Marcel Pagnol’s Provence studio, Renoir crafts a marvel of poetic feeling that became a precursor to Italian neorealism and a favorite of the directors of the French New Wave. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • Audio commentary from 2006 featuring critics Kent Jones and Phillip Lopate • Introduction by director Jean Renoir from 1961 • Episode of Cinéastes de notre temps from 1967 on Renoir, directed by Jacques Rivette and featuring a conversation with actor Charles Blavette about the film • New video essay about the making of Toni by film scholar Christopher Faulkner • New English subtitle translation • PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau

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A practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach.

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This collection includes three classic comedies starring screen legend Tony Curtis. THE PERFECT FURLOUGH (1958) From Blake Edwards, the acclaimed director of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Pink Panther, A Shot in the Dark, The Great Race, The Party and Victor Victoria, comes this romantic comedy starring screen legends Tony Curtis (The Great Impostor) and Janet Leigh (The Vikings). In The Perfect Furlough, the fun begins when the Army’s top brass meet to discuss the morale problems occurring at an outpost in the remote Arctic. It seems that the 104 bachelors stationed there for the past seven months are going utterly stir crazy. Military psychologist Lieutenant Vicki Loren (Leigh) proposes a solution: one lucky guy will receive a perfect furlough, complete with exotic destinations and a beautiful movie star. Much to the psychologist’s chagrin, a scheming corporal (Curtis) with a personnel file that reads like a stag movie rigs the raffle and wins the trip. So, it’s off to Paris for three weeks of fun and romance—and constant supervision by Lieutenant Loren and a pack of Hollywood press agents who are fighting to keep both the Army’s and the movie star’s reputations intact. But things get really complicated when the lieutenant finds herself falling for the hot-blooded corporal. Sharply written by Stanley Shapiro (Pillow Talk) and co-starring Keenan Wynn (Dr. Strangelove), Linda Cristal (Mr. Majestyk) and Elaine Stritch (Monster-in-Law). THE GREAT IMPOSTOR (1960) From Robert Mulligan, the outstanding director of To Kill a Mockingbird, Love with the Proper Stranger, Baby the Rain Must Fall, Summer of ’42 and The Nickel Ride, comes this wild account of the world’s greatest big-time masquerader, Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. (Tony Curtis, The Perfect Furlough). The incredible but true story tells of how the untrained, uneducated yet brilliant young man assumes the identity of a college professor, Trappist monk, prison warden and surgeon in the Canadian Navy. Always one step ahead of exposure, Demara attempts to outwit and outrun the FBI, the police, a priest and several girlfriends. Mixing suspense with humor, The Great Impostor was beautifully shot by Robert Burks (To Catch a Thief), features a wonderful score by the great Henry Mancini (Charade) and co-stars Karl Malden (Billion Dollar Brain), Edmond O’Brien (The Hitch-Hiker), Arthur O’Connell (Man of the West), Gary Merrill (Witness to Murder), Joan Blackman (Visit to a Small Planet), Raymond Massey (Reap the Wild Wind) and Jeanette Nolan (Macbeth). 40 POUNDS OF TROUBLE (1962) From Norman Jewison, the legendary director of The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!, In the Heat of the Night, The Thomas Crown Affair, Fiddler on the Roof, A Soldier’s Story and Moonstruck, comes this classic comedy starring Tony Curtis (The Great Impostor). After escaping from his greedy ex-wife in California, savvy Lake Tahoe hotel/casino manager Steve McCluskey (Curtis) has had enough of women. His sabbatical is sabotaged, however, when hotel owner Bernie Friedman (Phil Silvers, Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell) orders him to chaperone the venue’s new headliner, Friedman’s beautiful niece Chris (Suzanne Pleshette, Support Your Local Gunfighter). As if that’s not enough, McCluskey inherits a pint-sized problem in young Penny (Claire Wilcox, Wives and Lovers), a five-year-old recently abandoned by her debt-ridden father. Soon charmed by his two charges, he risks crossing the Nevada border to take them to Disneyland. It’s not long before the incognito trio is discovered by his ex’s detectives and a wild chase through the park’s attractions begins. Written by Marion Hargrove (The Music Man) based on the story “Little Miss Marker” and featuring a hilarious cast that includes Larry Storch (TV’s F Troop), Howard Morris (High Anxiety), Stubby Kaye (Guys and Dolls), Mary Murphy (A Man Alone), Edward Andrews (Send Me No Flowers), Karen Steele (Ride Lonesome), Kevin McCarthy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and Warren Stevens (Madame X). 40 Pounds of Trouble, the first feature film ever to be shot in (and above) Disneyland, is an irresistible romantic comedy and a treat for the whole family. Special Features: -NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian David Del Valle (The Perfect Furlough) -NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Kat Ellinger (The Great Imposter) -NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Kat Ellinger and Mike McPadden (40 Pounds of Trouble) -Theatrical Trailers -Optional English Subtitles

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John Cassavetes' second feature — and his first for a major studio after the independent Shadows — is a gritty drama about jazz musicians. Bobby Darin plays a bandleader scraping from gig to gig, determined to keep himself and his band alive without selling out his music. Stella Stevens plays a would-be singer with a troubled past who meets Darin at a party and joins the group. They fall deeply in love, but everything falls apart after a bar fight in which Darin, paralyzed by fear, cannot fight back; humiliated, he turns away from her and from his bandmates. The cast also includes Vince Edwards and Cassavetes regular Seymour Cassel.

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Driving on a dark, lonely highway one night, Jane and Alan Palmer have a bag full of cash, meant for someone else, tossed into their back seat by a passing stranger. Alan wants to turn the money over to the police, but Jane is determined to keep it, and when sleazy Danny Fuller shows up claiming the money is his, she proves willing to go to any lengths — including murder — to hold on to it.

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Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection Volume 5 (All The King's Men / On The Waterfront / A Man For All Seasons / Tootsie / The Age of Innocence / Little Women) (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital) Complete your Columbia Classics Collection with Volume 5! Limited edition gift set. Featuring six movies debuting on 4K Ultra HD disc, including three Best Picture winners: ALL THE KING'S MEN, ON THE WATERFRONT, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, TOOTSIE, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and LITTLE WOMEN (2019) Includes over 20 hours of new and archival special features, with commentaries, deleted scenes, making-ofs and much more! Plus an exclusive bonus disc featuring four rare Columbia Pictures films from the 1920s! - Columbia Classics Collection Volume 5 (All The King's Men / On The Waterfront / A Man For All Seasons / Tootsie / The Age of Innocence / Little Women) - UHD/Blu-ray/Digital Gift Set.

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Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection Volume 5 (All The King's Men / On The Waterfront / A Man For All Seasons / Tootsie / The Age of Innocence / Little Women) (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital) Complete your Columbia Classics Collection with Volume 5! Limited edition gift set. Featuring six movies debuting on 4K Ultra HD disc, including three Best Picture winners: ALL THE KING'S MEN, ON THE WATERFRONT, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, TOOTSIE, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and LITTLE WOMEN (2019) Includes over 20 hours of new and archival special features, with commentaries, deleted scenes, making-ofs and much more! Plus an exclusive bonus disc featuring four rare Columbia Pictures films from the 1920s! - Columbia Classics Collection Volume 5 (All The King's Men / On The Waterfront / A Man For All Seasons / Tootsie / The Age of Innocence / Little Women) - UHD/Blu-ray/Digital Gift Set.

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A meticulous dramatization of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, recounting the events and misjudgments leading up to the strike from both the American and the Japanese points of view.

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From two-time Palme d’Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium—from Cameroon and Benin, respectively—whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the side, while balancing the demands of an indifferent bureaucracy. When Lokita is held captive in a marijuana grow house, events spiral out of control. Winner of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, the latest humanist drama from the Dardenne brothers is a heart-stopping thriller that casts an unflinching eye on the trials of the young and dispossessed. INCLUDES Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Trailer

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An American scientist appears to defect to East Germany, leaving his fiancée unsure whether she can trust him.

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Cecil B. DeMille's final film was this grand-scale religious epic starring Charlton Heston as Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince chosen by God to abandon a life of luxury and lead his fellow Israelites out of slavery. The flight from Egypt, the parting of the Red Sea, and Moses' receiving of the Commandments are among this classic film's many highlights. With Edward G. Robinson, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Yvonne de Carlo, and a cast of thousands. 3 3/4 hrs. Also includes the bonus feature "The Ten Commandments" (1923). Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English DTS HD 5.1 Master Audio, French, Spanish, Portuguese; Subtitles: English (SDH), French, Spanish, Portuguese. Three-disc set.

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Take the conventions of the American teen movie, transpose them to Los Angeles’s freaky fringes, anchor them in an unapologetic vision of sexual fluidity, and top it all off with heavy doses of Gen X disillusionment, gonzo violence, and hallucinogenic surrealism, and you’ll end up with something like these audacious transgressions from New Queer Cinema renegade Gregg Araki. Gleefully mixing slacker irony with raw sincerity, Godardian cool with punk scuzz, the savagely subversive, hormone-fueled films that make up the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy pushed 1990s indie cinema into bold new aesthetic realms, while giving blistering expression to adolescent rage and libidinal desire. DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 2K digital restoration of Totally F***ed Up and new 4K digital restorations of The Doom Generation and Nowhere, supervised and approved by director Gregg Araki, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks One 4K UHD disc of The Doom Generation and Nowhere and two Blu-rays with all three films and the special features New conversation between director Gregg Araki and filmmaker Richard Linklater New audio commentary on Nowhere with Araki and actors James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton, Jordan Ladd, Sarah Lassez, Guillermo Diaz, and Jaason Simmons Audio commentary on Totally F***ed Up with Araki, Duval, and actor Gilbert Luna Audio commentary on The Doom Generation with Araki, Duval, and actors Rose McGowan and Johnathon Schaech New documentary on the trilogy’s visual style featuring Araki, Duval, producer Andrea Sperling, cinematographer Jim Fealy, costume designers Cathy Cooper and SaraJane Slotnick, production designer Patti Podesta, art director Michael Krantz, and hair and makeup artist Jason Rail James Duval’s Teen Apocalypse Archive, a new conversation between Araki and Duval Q&As with Araki, moderated by filmmakers Gus Van Sant and Andrew Ahn The Doom Generation video comic book Trailers English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by critic Nathan Lee TOTALLY F***ED UP A delirious mix of punk nihilism and deadpan irony, the first film in Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy puts an audaciously queer spin on Jean-Luc Godard’s classic Masculin féminin. Across fifteen jagged episodes, Totally F***ed Up plunges headlong into the lives of a group of queer, disaffected Los Angeles teenagers who form a kind of makeshift family as they navigate desire and heartbreak, societal and familial rejection, and the alienation of growing up gay in an era of relentless moralizing. Both a defiantly raw anthem of outsiderhood and a furious reckoning with all-American homophobia, Araki’s answer to the 1980s teen comedy captures youthful angst with an immediacy that still bruises. THE DOOM GENERATION Gregg Araki takes a road trip to hell in this wild, meth- and fast-food-fueled joyride through the margins of a menacing American wasteland. When they inadvertently link up with a dangerously alluring drifter (Johnathon Schaech), a chilled-out Cali bro (James Duval) and his spiky, foulmouthed girlfriend (Rose McGowan) find themselves on an increasingly violent, kinky, and darkly comic journey in which erotic tensions rise along with the body count. Working with a significant budget for the first time, Araki employs boldly stylized lighting and art direction to create a heightened sense of unreality in a shocking, shoegaze-soundtracked chronicle of young lives careening toward oblivion. NOWHERE You can practically smell the pheromones wafting off this kaleidoscopic odyssey, which finds director Gregg Araki crossing soap-operatic elements with blasts of science fiction, indie-kid cool, and shiny pop-art subversion. On the day when the world is foretold to end, a group of terminally horny, disillusioned, zonked-out teens in Los Angeles see their lives explode in a glitter bomb of drugs, sex, death, and alien abduction. Bisexual lust, vaporizing Valley girls, sinister televangelists, nipple-ring S&M, murder by Campbell’s-soup can—Araki folds it all into an anarchic orgy that brings his Teen Apocalypse Trilogy to an explosively caustic close.

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After he conceals a hunting accident in which he killed an old hermit, a hunter is tormented by paranoia and hallucinations. Unable to keep his darkest impulses buried any longer, he turns on his wife and daughter. A psychological horror story in the vein of 'The Shining' and 'Jacob's Ladder'.

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In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in the whirlwind of preparations for her terminally ill father's birthday party, led by her mother, aunts and other relatives. As the day builds to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol and her family begin to understand the gravity of this year's celebration — a warmly observed, poignantly funny study of the ways a family copes with grief.

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A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents, Touch follows one man's emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago before his time runs out.

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Directed by Hollywood legend Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, The Stranger, The Lady from Shanghai), Touch of Evil is a film noir masterpiece whose Hollywood backstory is as unforgettable as the movie itself. Starring Charlton Heston (The Big Country, Ben-Hur), Janet Leigh (The Manchurian Candidate, Psycho) and Welles himself, this dark portrait of corruption and morally compromised obsessions tells the story of a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot. With its iconic ticking-bomb opening shot, shadowy cinematography by Russell Metty (Spartacus), evocative score by Henry Mancini (Arabesque) and memorable supporting turns by Akim Tamiroff (The General Died at Dawn) and Marlene Dietrich (Desire), Touch of Evil is a stylistic triumph that stands the test of time. This 3-disc special edition features 4K restorations of three versions of the film: the Theatrical version, the Preview version and the Reconstructed version based on Orson Welles’ original vision.

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Directed by Orson Welles, Touch of Evil is a film noir masterpiece whose Hollywood backstory is as unforgettable as the movie itself. Starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Orson Welles, this dark portrait of corruption and morally compromised obsessions tells the story of a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as part of an intricate criminal plot. Featuring three versions of the film – the Preview version, the Theatrical version and the Reconstructed version based on Orson Welles' original vision, Touch of Evil is a "a stylistic masterpiece!" (Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide) that stands the test of time. Bonus Content: Bringing Evil to Life Evil Lost and Found Theatrical Trailer Reconstructed Version Commentary with Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, and Reconstruction Producer Rick Schmidlin Reconstructed Version Commentary with Reconstruction Producer Rick Schmidlin Theatrical Version Commentary with Writer/Filmmaker F.X. Feeney Preview Version Commentary with Orson Welles Historians Jonathan Rosenbaum and James Naremore

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Jacques Becker’s (Le Trout) Touches Pas Au Grimsby occupies a significant part in French cinema history; it exerted a huge influence on subsequent directors such as Jean-Pierre Melville (Le Doulas), Henri Vermeil (The Sicilian Clan) and Claude Sautee (Classed Toups Risqué). Max (Jean Gabon, Port of Shadows) is an aging gangster who manages to pull off his final heist, a spectacular gold bullion robbery at Olly airport. All is well until Max’s former girlfriend Joys (Jeanne Moreau, Viva Maria! ) tips off a rival gangster, Angelo (Lion Ventura, Rizzio Sur La Chou). Angelo kidnaps Max’s partner and best friend and threatens to kill him unless Max hands over the loot from his robbery. Touches Pas Au Grimsby was the birth the French policer, a European transposition of the fantastic American gangster films and film noirs of the 1940s. Based on a book by Albert Simon in (Cold Sweat) and beautifully shot in striking black-and-white by Pierre Montage (Hi-Jack Highway). Special Features: -Audio Commentary by Film Critic Nick Pinkerton -Interview with filmmaker Jean Becker -Interview with actress Jeanne Moreau -Interview with Professor/Film Critic Guenette Vincentia -Theatrical Trailer

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A massage therapist is unable to do her job when stricken with a mysterious and sudden aversion to bodily contact.

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Frank (Johnny Depp), a mild-mannered American on vacation in Venice, Italy, is befriended by Elise (Angelina Jolie), a breathtakingly beautiful woman with a mysterious secret. Soon, their playful romantic dalliance turns into a complicated web of dangerous deceit as they are chased by Interpol, the Italian police, and Russian hit men in this suspense-filled, international action thriller.

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Academy Award® winner Ben Affleck writes, directs and stars in this crime drama/romance. Based on the novel The Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan, Affleck's film follows a career criminal (Affleck) who finds himself romantically involved with the manager of a bank (Rebecca Hall) he held up. A high-stakes love triangle develops when an equally infatuated FBI agent (Mad Men's Jon Hamm) arrives in the pursuit of justice. Stolen cash and a stolen heart lead to a relationship that could destroy this prince of thieves. Top

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In this carefully crafted suspense thriller, a group of problem students at an exclusive Northeastern prep school band together to wage a desperate and deadly campaign against terrorists who lay siege to their school in an effort to free a Colombian drug lord from an American prison. Newly remastered and includes the original theatrical trailer.

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The Terror: Infamy, chronicles a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese American community.

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Taking a hauntingly intimate approach to an often sensationalized subject, the singular Testament depicts one family’s daily life in the wake of nuclear devastation. After an atomic attack near her small California town, Carol Wetherly (Jane Alexander, in a fearlessly vulnerable, Oscar-nominated performance) must find the strength to care for her three children as the family contend with radiation sickness and the realization that their close-knit community will never be the same. With a diaristic focus on the emotional toll of unimaginable events, director Lynne Littman puts forth a wrenchingly humane vision of what it means to go on living in a shattered world. DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Lynne Littman and director of photography Steven Poster, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New conversation between Littman and author Sam Wasson Two documentaries by Littman, made in collaboration with anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff: Number Our Days (1976) and In Her Own Time (1985) “Testament” at 20 and Nuclear Thoughts, archival programs featuring interviews with cast and crew members and nuclear-science experts Audio recording of actor Jane Alexander reading the short story “The Last Testament,” on which the film is based Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by author and film curator Michael Koresky Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews Testament (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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Based on the true story of an award-winning investigative journalist—and avowed atheist—who applies his well-honed journalistic and legal skills to disprove the newfound Christian faith of his wife…with unexpected, life-altering results. Bonus Content: Includes a digital copy of The Case for Christ (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.) The Heart of The Case for Christ Houston Baptist University The Case for Christ - JT Murrell Believe - Seacoast Worship The Evidence - New Hope Oahu Great and Mighty - Justin Land of Stonecreek Worship I Believe - Cindy Cruse Ratcliff (of Lakewood Church) Our Great God - NewSpring Worship I Believe You Are Christ - Faith Life Church (feat. Open Heaven) Draw Near - The Church Vessel Your Love Is Chasing Me - Soulfire Revolution (of G12 Church) Your Moment Has Come - Christian Ross (HERIAM) Lee Strobel Interview Leslie Strobel Interview Brian Bird Interview Jon Gunn Interview Mike Vogel Interview Erika Christensen Interview Lee's Flashback Funeral Park with Alfie Living Room Argument Pastor Hybels Time Magazine Info on Dr. Craig Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews The Case for Christ [Blu-ray]

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The Terror: Infamy, chronicles a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese American community.

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Marcell Jankovics, the Hungarian animator behind Son of the White Mare, spent 23 years making this vast animated epic, which follows Adam, Eve and Lucifer on an endless struggle through the whole of human history. Adapted from Imre Madách's 19th-century dramatic poem — a work often set alongside Goethe's Faust and Milton's Paradise Lost — the film unfolds as a nonstop animated scroll of demons, cave paintings come to life, barbarian warriors, pharaohs, knights, martyrs and prophets, one brutal era dissolving into the next like pages of a flipbook. Lucifer, a shape-shifting antagonist who appears as everything from the Devil to Anubis, guides and manipulates Adam and Eve as they search for a purpose to human existence, if one exists at all. The film's 15 episodes were produced one at a time as funding allowed, each in a different visual style drawn from world art and ritual: in Egypt, slaves' bodies form the very blocks of the pyramids; in Greece, backgrounds crack like pottery; in Rome, mosaic gladiators come alive; in the Middle Ages, zealots turn into warring churches. The result is a surreal, psychedelic, operatic vision of human 'progress' — a Bosch-like Hell on Earth, lit by brief glimpses of grace and love that hint at hope.

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In Edinburgh, heroin addict Mark Renton drifts through life with his mates — Sick Boy, Spud, Begbie and Tommy — cycling between getting high, getting into trouble and repeatedly trying to get clean. Danny Boyle's kinetic adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel follows Renton as he struggles to break away from his friends, his addiction and the deadening banality of modern existence.

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Disc 1 contains Trainspotting in 4K Ultra HD (the set's Blu-ray copy of the film, with the special features, is on Disc 2). In Edinburgh, heroin addict Mark Renton drifts through life with his mates — Sick Boy, Spud, Begbie and Tommy — cycling between getting high, getting into trouble and repeatedly trying to get clean. Danny Boyle's kinetic adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel follows Renton as he struggles to break away from his friends, his addiction and the deadening banality of modern existence.

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A filmmaker's train journey morphs into a self-reflexive crime fantasy about smuggling, desire, and storytelling.

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Screen icons Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry), Tony Curtis (The Vikings) and Gina Lollobrigida (Woman of Straw) form a troubled love triangle in the realistic, suspenseful film shot in the actual Cirque d'Hiver in Paris. Young American acrobat Tino Orsini (Curtis) is an aspiring trapeze artist who comes to Paris in search of Mike Ribble (Lancaster), a former aerialist who has retired after injuring himself attempting a triple somersault. Mike agrees to teach Tino the triple after circus performer Rosa O'Flynn (Katy Jurado, One-Eyed Jacks) convinces him to stop feeling sorry for himself and try to recapture some of the fame that eluded him. But when two men both fall in love with the beautiful Lola (Lollobrigida) who uses them both to further her own ambitions the triangle threatens the dreams of them all. Trapeze, directed by the great Carol Reed (The Third Man, The Fallen Idol) is highlighted by great performances and high drama, and all the actors performed most of their own stunts (Lancaster had previously been an acrobat in real life). Two of the film's best features are the terrific Scope photography by Robert Krasker (El Cid, Brief Encounter) and the hauntingly beautiful score by Malcolm Arnold (The Bridge on the River Kwai). The wonderful Thomas Gomez (Key Largo) co-stars in this classic romantic drama. Special Features: -Audio Commentary by Film Historian Kat Ellinger -Original Theatrical Trailer

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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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Before making Hollywood epics such as Tora! Tora! Tora! And 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, director Richard Fleischer started his career with a series of low-budget B-features, often taking ripped-from-the-headlines tales of crime stories and spinning them into noir gold...

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A comedy of improbable encounters and unlikely language lessons, A Traveler's Needs marks the third collaboration between Hong and Huppert (following 2012's In Another Country and 2017's Claire's Camera). This time Huppert plays Iris, a woman who finds herself adrift in Seoul and without any means to make ends meet, turns to teaching French via a very peculiar method. Through a series of encounters, as we grow to know more about Iris and her situation, the mysteries of her circumstances only deepen. A charming troupe of Hong regulars complete the cast, including Lee Hyeyoung as one of Huppert's students and Kwon Haehyo as her flirty husband. A film about meaning and connection and the comfort of makgeolli, A Traveler's Needs, offers a surprising take on inter-continental rendezvous and continues one of the most unique actor-director collaborations in contemporary cinema.

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Neurotic prep school English teacher Jake Singer (Chris Eigeman, Metropolitan) seeks therapy after he gets dumped. Along the way, he meets and woos a gorgeous and wealthy widow (Famke Janssen, GoldenEye) while his shrink (Ian Holm, The Lord of the Rings) – who may or may not be real – badgers him with Freudian mind games. Director Oren Rudavsky’s witty and sexy romantic comedy, based on a novel by Daniel Menaker, won Best Narrative Feature in the Made In New York section of the Tribeca Film Festival. Special Features: • Deleted Scenes • Featurette: Psychotherapists discuss the film • Theatrical trailer

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Four decades into an already legendary career, Terrence Malick realized his most rapturous vision to date, tracing a story of childhood, wonder, and grief to the outer limits of time and space. Reaching back to the dawn of creation, Malick sets a story of boyhood memories on a universal scale, charting the coming of age of an awestruck child (newcomer Hunter McCracken) in Texas in the 1950s, as he learns to navigate the extremes of nature and grace represented by his bitter, often tyrannical father (Brad Pitt) and his ethereal, nurturing mother (Jessica Chastain, in her breakout role). Shot with nimble attention to life’s most fleeting moments by Emmanuel Lubezki, the Palme d’Or–winning The Tree of Life marks the intimately personal, cosmically ambitious culmination of Malick’s singular approach to filmmaking. DIRECTOR-APPROVED TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Terrence Malick and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack • New extended version of the film featuring an additional fifty minutes of footage • Exploring “The Tree of Life,” a 2011 documentary featuring collaborators and admirers of Malick’s, including filmmakers David Fincher and Christopher Nolan • New interviews with actor Jessica Chastain and visual-effects supervisor Dan Glass • Interview from 2011 with composer Alexandre Desplat about the film, and a new interview with music critic Alex Ross about Malick’s approach to music • Video essay from 2011 by critic Matt Zoller Seitz • Trailer • More! • PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones and a 2011 piece on the film by critic Roger Ebert

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The strength and convictions of an idealistic young woman, Valerie Alston (Joanne Whalley), are put to the test when she is selected to sit on a jury at the murder trial of a notorious New York mob boss.

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Master of social discomfort Ruben Östlund trains his unsparing lens on the world of wealth, beauty, and privilege in this audacious, Palme d’Or–winning satire of our status-obsessed culture. A model-influencer couple (Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean) get a ticket to the luxe life when they’re invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish—but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down. Pushing each provocative set piece to its outré extreme, Östlund maps the shifting social hierarchies with the irreverence of a modern-day Luis Buñuel and the incisiveness of a cinematic anthropologist. DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital master, approved by director Ruben Östlund, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features New interview with Östlund and filmmaker and actor Johan Jonason Two new programs: one about the film’s special effects and one about a challenging day on set Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by film critic A. S. Hamrah

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Eddie Weinbauer, a bullied teenage metalhead, idolizes rock star Sammi Curr — and when Curr dies in a hotel fire, a sympathetic DJ gives Eddie the only copy of Curr's final, unreleased album. Playing the record backwards lets Eddie commune with Sammi's spirit, which at first helps him turn the tables on his tormentors. But the ghost is malevolent and seizes more and more control, until Eddie has to fight back before Sammi's vengeance turns the Halloween dance into a massacre.

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Dalia (Ydalie Turk, who co-wrote) was looking for some out from her aimless life in London, even if it meant a family-forced journey to South Italy to check in on her cantankerous truffle hunter grandfather Igor (Umberto Orsini). Discovering that the oldster's on the precipice of losing his house, she must work with him and his sniffing dog (Birba) to root out a sufficient payday. Charming opus co-stars Margherita Buy, Frances Sholto-Douglas. 100 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Italian; Subtitles: English; featurettes; theatrical trailer. In Italian with English subtitles.

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Paul Groves, a television commercial director whose marriage is falling apart, decides to experiment with LSD to free up his thinking. Guided by his friend John while Max keeps watch, his first trip becomes a mind-bending passage through surreal imagery and stroboscopic light — a journey of extreme beauty and sheer terror.

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A richly textured and triumphant tale of an elderly woman's journey home, The Trip to Bountiful stars Geraldine Page (What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?) in the performance of a lifetime and a role that won her an Academy Award® for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Funny, adventurous and suspenseful, The Trip to Bountiful is perfect on just about every level and is a demonstration of the human spirit. Carrie Watts (Page) is an elderly woman with a weak heart, but of strong determination. Trapped in a tiny apartment under the care of her cowardly son and his shrewish wife, Carrie is determined to escape and return to her girlhood home. Seizing her chance and her meager Social Security check, Carrie sets out on an unforgettable quest to make peace with her past—and the secrets of her heart that draw her ever homeward. Peter Masterson (Full Moon in Blue Water) directed this endearing and uplifting drama co-starring John Heard (Deceived) and Rebecca De Mornay (Runaway Train). Legendary writer Horton Foote (Tender Mercies) wrote the Oscar®-nominated screenplay based on his own play. Special Features: -Return to Bountiful - Documentary -Theatrical Trailer

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In Atlanta, a gang of criminals and corrupt cops is blackmailed by the Russian-Israeli mafia into carrying out an impossible heist. Their plan hinges on staging a 'triple 9' - the police code for an officer down - by murdering rookie cop Chris Allen across town to draw every officer away from the target. But Chris's uncle, Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen, is investigating the crew, and the job begins to unravel.

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Orphaned by her mother's death, Tristana is taken in by her guardian Don Lope, a respected older man whose respectable front eventually gives way as he seduces the young woman in his care. She repays him many times over, feeding on his jealousy and tormenting him with cruel, perverse whims.