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Classics Box The ultimate collection for the ultimate fan. Experience these six essential films from Columbia Pictures like never before, now fully remastered and debuting on 4K Ultra HD. With hours of special features and an exclusive 80-page book, the Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection is truly the best way to watch these legendary films. Mr. Smith Goes to Hollywood James Stewart takes o

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Brutal Savagery in a Future World ! AKA - Una gota de sangre para morir amando, Clockwork Terror, To Love, Perhaps to Die In a violent, dystopian consumer-fed future, David (Chris Mitchum - Summertime Killer) blackmails nurse Ana (Sue Lyon - Stanley Kubrick's Lolita) after witnessing her commit a murder. When Ana and Victor (Jean Sorel - Perversion Story) discover David is a known gang member with an extensive criminal past, they make a plan to turn the tables and use him for their own clandestine purposes. In 1971 Stanley Kubrick changed dystopian cinema forever with A Clockwork Orange. Two years later, transgressive Spanish genre director Eloy de la Iglesia unleashed this thought provoking and beautifully shot future-world that was also known as A Clockwork Terror. Now Available For the first time on Blu-ray, Cauldron Films presents a new, eye popping 2K restoration of the Spanish producer's cut. Details Blu-ray 2K restoration of the Spanish Producer's cut from the negative / 1080p presentation English audio with optional English SDH subtitles Spanish audio with optional English subtitles Newly edited Archival interview with Chris Mitchum Dubbing in a Blue World Video essay by Film Scholar Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes Commentary by Film Historian Kat Ellinger Image Gallery 1973 / Spain / Thriller / Director - Eloy de la Iglesia / 2.40:1 / 97 min. /

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Alain Resnais s Muriel, or The Time of Return, the director s follow-up to Last Year at Marienbad, is as radical a reflection on the nature of time and memory as its predecessor. The always luminous Delphine Seyrig (Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles) stars as an antique shop owner and widow in Boulogne-sur-Mer, whose past comes back to haunt her when a former lover reenters her life. Meanwhile, her stepson is tormented by his own ghosts, related to his service in France s recently ended war in Algeria. Featuring a multilayered script by Jean Cayrol, and inventively edited to evoke its middle-class characters political and personal realities, the fragmented, emotionally powerful Muriel reminds viewers that the past is always present. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES - New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack - Excerpt from the 1980 documentary Une approche d Alain Resnais, révolutionnaire discret - Excerpt from a 1969 interview with actor Delphine Seyrig - Interview with composer Hans Werner Henze from 1963 - New interview with film scholar François Thomas, author of L atelier d Alain Resnais - Trailer - New English subtitle translation - PLUS: An essay by film scholar James Quandt

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The Accountant (4K Ultra HD) Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world’s most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department’s Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King (J.K. Simmons), starting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk (Anna Kendrick) has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise. .

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After his billionaire industrialist boss is murdered in front of him, Cole Reed is set up to take the fall for the crime— leaving him on the run as he works to uncover an international conspiracy.

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After his billionaire industrialist boss is murdered in front of him, Cole Reed is set up to take the fall for the crime— leaving him on the run as he works to uncover an international conspiracy.

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Product Description My Afternoons with Margueritte is the story of life's random encounters. In a small French town, Germain (Depardieu), a nearly illiterate man in his fifties and considered to be the village idiot by his friends at the local bistro, takes a walk to the park one day and happens to site beside Margueritte, a little old lady who is reading excerpts from her novel aloud. She's articulate, highly intelligent and frail. Between Germain and Margueritte, there are 40 years and 200 pounds difference. Germain is lured by Margueritte's passion for life and the magic of literature from which he has always felt excluded. As Margueritte broadens his mind via reading excerpts from her novel, Germain realizes that he is more of an intellectual than he has ever allowed himself to be. Review It's determined to look on the bright side. The film isn't about the actor's intelligence. It's about his emotional radiance. --Boston Globe excellent…a pleasure to watch --The New York Times a movie of heart, soul and love --The Huffington Post

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Bertrand Tavernier's personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures.

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Nana (1926) is Jean Renoir’s (The Rules of the Game) second feature, and one of his most ambitious productions, presented here in a new 4K restoration. It is an elaborately mounted adaptation of Émile Zola’s novel that tracks the doomed romances of its title character—an actress who would go on to be the most notorious courtesan of her era. When her father dies, a young girl is sent to live with her uncle. Mistreated, she runs away to lead a vagabond’s life in the forest. When she is found, she becomes Nana, a fashionable actress of loose morals, becoming first the mistress of a count, and then of the Emperor’s chamberlain. Nana’s love affairs are set against gorgeously mounted sets designed by Claude Autant-Lara. Special Features: -Audio commentary by film critic Nick Pinkerton -Before-and-After Restoration Comparison -Music composed and performed by Antonio Coppola

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Caught trespassing in a cemetery, a young horror fan is trapped by an old grave keeper who shares a series of disturbing tales inspired by the dead buried there.

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FROM THE NEON UNDERWORLD OF EARLY 1980s PARIS COME TWO STYLISH, ATMOSPHERIC FILM NOIR CLASSICS… JULIET BERTO & JEAN-HENRI ROGER'S NEIGE & CHRISTINE PASCAL'S THE BITCH. NEIGE (SNOW): This drama about a barmaid caught up in events beyond her control is the first film directed by Juliet Berto, and was also based on her own concept for the story. The barmaid, played by Berto, has been trying to take care of Bobby, a teenage drug pusher who is in over his head. Before she can put him back on track and get him out of the drug underworld, the young man is killed while being chased by a narcotics agent. Depressed by his death but not derailed, she finds herself trying to help out a gay user who depended on Bobby for his supply of drugs. She decides to procure some drugs for the desperate addict, and is trapped in the bathroom of a bar - with the drugs - when narcotics agents burst upon the scene. Her boyfriend rushes to help her but is killed by an agent who shoots first and thinks later. The barmaid does not face a very optimistic future as the narc arrests her - but releases a parish minister who had been helping her find a source for the drugs. THE BITCH (LA GARCE): One evening, Police Detective Lucien Sabatier (Richard Berry) picks up seventeen-year-old Aline (Isabelle Hupert) on the road and assaults her. The following day, the teenager reports the offence. Sabatier is arrested and sentenced to six years in prison. When he gets out, he becomes a private detective and finds Aline, who is hiding under an assumed name.

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Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud, starring the luminous Emmanuelle Beard (Mission: Impossible), is the profoundly moving final lm from masterful French director Claude Sautee (Un Coeur end hiver). Nelly (Beard), 25, is stuck in a loveless marriage while barely making ends meet. A friend introduces her to the wealthy and much older Arnaud (Michel Perrault, La Cage aux Follies) in order to help him write his memoirs. Thus begins a playful, tentative flirtation that is forever threatening to bloom into a romance. But instead Nelly gets involved with Arnaud’s charming editor (Jean-Hughes An glade, La Femme Nikita). Arnaud and Nelly get stuck in a silent dance of sideways glances and off-hand gestures, the secret choreography of unrequited love. Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud, winner of Best Actor (Michel Perrault) and Best Director at the Cesar Awards, is a poignant, bittersweet, and beautifully performed romance that stands as an exquisite capstone to Sauté's brilliant career. Special Features: AUDIO COMMENTARY BY FILM HISTORIAN KAT ELLINGER BOOKLET ESSAY BY FILM CRITIC JONATHAN ROSENBAUM ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TRAILER

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In his last starring role, comedy legend W.C. Fields (It’s a Gift, My Little Chickadee, The Bank Dick) plays himself in a takeoff on the eccentricities of filmmaking. It’s a harum-scarum collection of song, slapstick and thumbnail sketches, the likes of which defy dramatic law! The focus of the story is on Fields’ presentation of an imaginative script for a new picture at Esoteric Pictures, Inc. The script turns out to be a vehicle for himself—a hero who makes Superman look like a wimp. It’s a Fields-day on a vaudeville bill, with the bulbous-nosed star in every act! In one he is a Russian mujik sampling fermented goat’s milk; elsewhere he drops 2,000 feet from a cliff; in another he goes a-wooing in a tailcoat requiring two flunkies to carry the tails. He even embarks on a frantic car chase, in vintage Keystone Cops style. The mayhem was staged by the great Edward F. Cline, the director of many classic Buster Keaton shorts and features, including One Week, Convict 13, The Haunted House, The Boat and Three Ages. Special Features: Audio Commentary by Film Historian Eddy Von Mueller Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look at W.C. Fields: Vintage Documentary Trailers

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A 1970s revival of The Flintstones and The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show featuring prehistoric family comedy adventures.

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Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten are an ill-suited couple staying in the cottage next to happy newlyweds Casey Adams and Jean Peters near Niagara Falls. While sightseeing, the newlyweds see Monroe kissing her young lover (Richard Allen) and hear them plot to kill her husband, making it look like suicide. When the latter goes missing, Monroe is asked to identify a body and discovers it's her lover. Her husband's vengeance threatens them all.

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Stylish, futuristically surreal and a departure from director Jean Rollin's familiar vampire territory, THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTED is Rollin's contribution the excess of the 1980's horror genre, complete with plenty of sex and gore. In the not-so-distant future, the residents of a skyscraper asylum are suffering with insanity and collective amnesia. As blank-eyed inmates wander the halls and empty rooms of the "Black Tower", the tension rises... as does the body count!

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Ivan The Russian Butcher Kraschinsky (Jean-Claude Van Damme, Hard Target, Double Impact) faces off with Jason Kid Karate Stillwell (Kurt McKinney, Sworn to Justice) in a do-or-die battle between good and evil. Jason is an avid admirer of Bruce Lee, but has suffered countless defeats. At his lowest emotional ebb Jason is visited by Bruce Lee s spirit (Kim Tai Chong, Game of Death) offering to teach him all his closely guarded secrets. Jason s training is quickly put to it's ultimate test when a crime syndicate threatens to take over Seattle as the fate of Jason s karate school hangs in the balance. Jason is forced to submit to a trial by combat against the syndicate champion, Ivan, an unstoppable butcher who has made mincemeat out of all the black belts he s faced before and there s no retreat and no surrender. Directed by action-great Corey Yuen (The Transporter and Jet LI s The Legend and The Legend II).

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Rollin’s second feature, and his first in colour, The Nude Vampire (La Vampire nue) finds the master of the fantastique combining his trademark erotic-vampire themes with an homage to the mystery serials of his youth. One Rollin’s most eccentric and effective works.

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Director Philippe de Broca (King of Hearts, On Guard) and actor Jean-Paul Belmondo's (Breathless) most successful collaborations, That Man From Rio was a riotous cut above the James Bond spoofs of the day and Up to His Ears, its follow-up, notched up the action even higher. Set against the beauty of Brazil, Belmondo and Francoise Dorleac are in hot pursuit of a stolen Amazonian statuette, while others pursue them for the same treasure. This recognized inspiration for Raiders of the Lost Ark was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay. In Up to His Ears, Belmondo plays a bored and recently bankrupted millionaire who is convinced to allow someone to murder him so that he can leave the insurance money is his will. He's fine with the plan until he meets a stunning stripper (Ursula Andress) and tries to reverse his deal, setting off a madcap chase across China and Tibet. Bonus Content: Disc 1 - That Man From Rio: The Adventures of Adrien: The Catalin Affair Silly and Serious: The Collaboration of George Delerue and Phillipe de Broca Brothers of Cinema: The Collaboration of Jean-Paul Rappeneau and Phillipe de Broca Original Release Trailer 2014 Re-release Trailer Disc 2 - Up to His Ears: That Man from Hong Kong From Cartouche to Cavaleur: The Collaboration of Jean Rochefort and Phillipe de Broca Original Release Trailer 2014 Re-release Trailer

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This underwater documentary showcases coral reefs and sea life with immersive photography and educational narration.

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The Accountant (4K Ultra HD) Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world’s most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department’s Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King (J.K. Simmons), starting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk (Anna Kendrick) has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise. .

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Six of Europe's finest directors trace the evolution of prostitution from the Stone Age to the Space Age in The Oldest Profession (Le plus vieux me tier du monde, 1967), a saucy, star-studded omnibus film made up of: Franco Indovina's The Prehistoric Era - Michele Mercier seduces Neanderthal Man with cave paint as makeup; Mauro Bolognini's Roman Nights - The Emperor discovers that he is paying for what his wife, Elsa Martinelli, is selling; Philippe de Broca's Mademoiselle Mimi - Jeanne Moreau's latest client is more interested in the guillotine than her charms; Michael Pfleghar's The Gay Nineties - Raquel Welch masquerades as an honest woman for the love and wallet of an elderly banker; Claude Autant-Lara's Paris Today - France Anglade and Nadia Gray turn tricks by ambulance; Jean-Luc Godard's Anticipation - A man from outer space is taught in the ways of sentimental love by Anna Karina. Special Features: -U.S. Cut of the feature (English dub, 93 minutes) -Trailer

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A buoyant hymn to sisterly solidarity rooted in the hard-won victories of a generation of women, One Sings, the Other Doesn't is one of Agnes Varda's warmest and most politically trenchant films, a feminist musical for the ages. Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews One Sings, The Other Doesn't (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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Electrified by the verbal wit and visual craftsmanship of the great Howard Hawks (Red River), Only Angels Have Wings stars Jean Arthur (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) as a traveling entertainer who gets more than she bargained for during a stopover in a South American port town. There she meets a handsome yet aloof daredevil pilot, played by Cary Grant (Notorious), who runs an airmail company, staring down death while servicing towns in treacherous mountain terrain. Both attracted to and repelled by his romantic sense of danger, she decides to stay on, despite his protestations. This masterful and mysterious adventure, featuring Oscar-nominated special effects, high-wire aerial photography, and Rita Hayworth (Gilda) in a small but breakout role, explores Hawks s recurring themes of masculine codes and the strong-willed women who question them. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES - New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack - Audio excerpts from a 1972 conversation between filmmakers Howard Hawks and Peter Bogdanovich - New interview with film critic David Thomson - Howard Hawks and His Aviation Movies, a new program featuring film scholars Craig Barron and Ben Burtt - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1939, starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, Richard Barthelmess, and Thomas Mitchell, and hosted by director Cecil B. DeMille - Trailer - PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Sragow

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Electrified by the verbal wit and visual craftsmanship of the great Howard Hawks (Red River), Only Angels Have Wings stars Jean Arthur (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) as a traveling entertainer who gets more than she bargained for during a stopover in a South American port town. There she meets a handsome yet aloof daredevil pilot, played by Cary Grant (Notorious), who runs an airmail company, staring down death while servicing towns in treacherous mountain terrain. Both attracted to and repelled by his romantic sense of danger, she decides to stay on, despite his protestations. This masterful and mysterious adventure, featuring Oscar-nominated special effects, high-wire aerial photography, and Rita Hayworth (Gilda) in a small but breakout role, explores Hawks s recurring themes of masculine codes and the strong-willed women who question them. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES - New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack - Audio excerpts from a 1972 conversation between filmmakers Howard Hawks and Peter Bogdanovich - New interview with film critic David Thomson - Howard Hawks and His Aviation Movies, a new program featuring film scholars Craig Barron and Ben Burtt - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1939, starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, Richard Barthelmess, and Thomas Mitchell, and hosted by director Cecil B. DeMille - Trailer - PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Sragow

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This 1950 update of the Orphic myth by Jean Cocteau (Beauty and the Beast) depicts a famous poet (Jean Marais) scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife Eurydice (Marie Déa) and a mysterious princess (Maria Casarès). Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead through Cocteau’s famous mirrored portal. Orpheus represents the legendary Cocteau at the height of his abilities for peerless visual poetry and dreamlike storytelling.

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Across nearly thirteen hours, two theater groups and a gallery of wanderers drift through post-1968 Paris in Rivette’s sprawling puzzle-box epic.

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Jacques Deray (The Outsider) directed this gritty seventies action-classic featuring an iconic cast which includes Jean-Louis Trintignant (The Conformist), Ann-Margret (52 Pick-Up), Roy Scheider (Marathon Man), Angie Dickinson (Dressed to Kill), Michel Constantin (The Cop), Umberto Orsini (Violent City) and Ted de Corsia (The Killing) as they battle each other for their lives from the back alleys of downtown Los Angeles to the posh mansions of Beverly Hills. Trintignant is a hit man imported from Paris to kill L.A.’s biggest mafia boss. His unknown employer: the mafia boss’s own son and the son’s beautiful wife (Dickinson). Having done his job, the hit man looks for his reward. It comes, in the form of another hit man (Scheider), sent in to kill him and thus remove any links to the murder. Sexy Ann-Margret is Trintignant’s only ally as he and Scheider play a murderous game of cat-and-mouse. Nail-biting suspense, exciting high-speed chases and one of the most unique and climactic gun battles ever filmed are only part of The Outside Man, boasting an ultra-cool score by Michel Legrand (The Thomas Crown Affair). This special edition includes both the English and French versions of the 1970s thriller. Special Features: • Newly Restored – From 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative • NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson • Includes the Uncut Versions of THE OUTSIDE MAN (In English) and UN HOMME EST MORT (In French) • Theatrical Trailers (Both Versions) • Two Dual-Layered BD50 Discs • Optional English Subtitles

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From Jacques Defray, the legendary director of The Swimming Pool, Borsalino, The Outside Man and Flic Story. Screen legend Jean-Paul Belmond (Le Professional, Le Doulas) stars as Commissaries Philippe Jordan, a rogue French detective in Marseille infiltrating a network of drug traffickers and their crime boss, Saver Meccacci (Henry Silva, Shark's Machine, Code of Silence). Two of the film’s best features are the terrific color photography by Xavier Schwarzenegger (Veronica Voss, Lili Marleen) and the musical score by composer extraordinaire Enno Morricone (For a Few Dollars More, The Sicilian Clan). The stellar cast includes Cheeky Kayo (La Femme Nikita), Roger Dumas (That Man from Rio), Michel Robin (Amelie) and Jean-Claude Dreyfus (Delicatessen). Special Features: -Audio Commentary by Film Historian Sam Dhegihan -Theatrical Trailer Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews The Outsider aka Le Marginal [Blu-ray]

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A raucous western comedy starring screen legends Clint Eastwood (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, High Plains Drifter) and Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou, Monte Walsh), Paint Your Wagon is punctuated by a classic score by the great Lerner and Loewe (My Fair Lady, Gigi), including “They Call the Wind Maria,” “I Talk to the Trees” and “Wand’rin’ Star.” The story of a gold-mining boomtown full of brawny men centers on the work-and-play partnership of prospectors Ben and Pardner (mischievous Marvin and earnest Eastwood). They share everything—the gold, the laughs, the songs…even their wife (spirited Jean Seberg, Breathless, Macho Callahan)! It’s the musical goldmine of ’69, directed by Joshua Logan (South Pacific, Camelot), shot by William A. Fraker (Bullitt, Tombstone) and adapted for the screen by Paddy Chayefsky (Marty, Network)! Special Features: • Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative • NEW Audio Commentary by Lee Marvin Biographer Dwayne Epstein and Screenwriter/Author C. Courtney Joyner • Theatrical Trailer • Dual-Layered BD50 Disc • 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio • Optional English Subtitles

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A raucous western comedy starring screen legends Clint Eastwood (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, High Plains Drifter) and Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou, Monte Walsh), Paint Your Wagon is punctuated by a classic score by the great Lerner and Loewe (My Fair Lady, Gigi), including “They Call the Wind Maria,” “I Talk to the Trees” and “Wand’rin’ Star.” The story of a gold-mining boomtown full of brawny men centers on the work-and-play partnership of prospectors Ben and Pardner (mischievous Marvin and earnest Eastwood). They share everything—the gold, the laughs, the songs…even their wife (spirited Jean Seberg, Breathless, Macho Callahan)! It’s the musical goldmine of ’69, directed by Joshua Logan (South Pacific, Camelot), shot by William A. Fraker (Bullitt, Tombstone) and adapted for the screen by Paddy Chayefsky (Marty, Network)! 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 Lee Marvin Biographer Dwayne Epstein and Screenwriter/Author C. Courtney Joyner • Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc • 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio • 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 Lee Marvin Biographer Dwayne Epstein and Screenwriter/Author C. Courtney Joyner • Theatrical Trailer • Dual-Layered BD50 Disc • 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio • Optional English Subtitles

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Product Description In this wry parable, a kingdom is divided into the three castes: the impeccably painted Alldunns who reside in a majestic palace; the Halfies who the Painter has left incomplete; and the untouchable Sketchies, simple charcoal outlines who are banished to the cursed forest. Chastised for her forbidden love for an Alldunn and shamed by her unadorned face, Halfie Claire runs away into the forest. Her beloved Ramo and best friend Lola journey after her, passing between the forbidden Death Flowers that guard the boundaries of the forest and arriving finally at the very edge of the painting - where they tumble through the canvas and into the Painter's studio. The abandoned workspace is strewn with paintings, each containing its own animated world - and in a feast for both the

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A 70th anniversary release of this rediscovered masterpiece by one of French cinema's giants, Jean Cocteau. In this heartbreaking drama based on Cocteau's highly successful stage play, a mother (Josette Day) smothers her grown son with boyish love. When the son (played by Cocteau regular Jeasn Marais) meets a girl and leaves the family circle, the mother flies into a rage. But when the boy tells his father it sets off another drama - she is none other than the girl the father has been secretly seeing. Tragedy strikes in this time-honoured tale of fledglings leaving the family nest.

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One of the original critics turned filmmakers who helped jump-start the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette (La belle noiseuse) began shooting his debut feature in 1957, well before that cinema revolution officially kicked off with The 400 Blows and Breathless. Ultimately released in 1961, the rich and mysterious Paris Belongs to Us offers some of the radical flavor that would define the movement, with a particularly Rivettian twist. The film follows a young literature student (Betty Schneider) who befriends the members of a loose-knit group of twentysomethings in Paris, united by the apparent suicide of an acquaintance. Suffused with a lingering post World War II disillusionment while evincing a playful temperament, Rivette s film marked the provocative start to a brilliant directorial career. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES - New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack - New interview with Richard Neupert, author of A History of the French New Wave Cinema - Jacques Rivette s 1956 short film Le coup du berger, featuring cameos by fellow French New Wave directors Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, and François Truffaut - New English subtitle translation - PLUS: An essay by critic Luc Sante

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Product Description Perversion Story - What is the most incredible thing a woman ever did for $1,000,000? Dr. George Dumurrier is looking for money to expand the San Francisco based clinic he runs with his brother. He is also having an affair with Jane, a glamorous fashion photographer. When Dumurrier's wife Susan dies following an asthma attack, leaving him a million dollar insurance pay-out, it seems that all his problems are solved - until an anonymous phone call sends him to the Roaring 20s strip club where he is astonished to discover that its featured performer, the dangerously desirable Monica Weston, looks exactly like his dead wife. As he tries to unravel this mystery, George learns that the police are now investigating his wife's death and that he is under suspicion of murder. Masterfully directed by Lucio Fulci, PREVERSION STORY just predates LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN and is equally compelling, mysterious and seductive. This fully restored Blu-ray release is the longest version available. SPECIAL FEATURES: HD transfer from original negative. Full extended European version. Interview with star Jean Sorel. Interview with star Elsa Martinelli. Interview with writer Stephen Thrower. Original artwork by Justin Coffee. English/Italian language choice. Original trailer. Mondo Macabro previews. Review A sharp, fast-paced slice of psychedelic sleaze. --Maitland Macdonagh, TV Guide It's well-acted, full of twists and turns and, frankly, it's one that fans simply must see. --tasteofcinema.com Stylish direction by Lucio Fulci transports viewers into an incredibly glam, Swinging Sixties parallel universe. --The Spinning Image, Andrew Pragasam Top Similar From the Brand Reviews Perversion Story

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Peter Rabbit and family wreak havoc in hopes to win back the Manor House of Old McGregor and the affections of their neighbor, Bea.

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Peter Rabbit and family wreak havoc in hopes to win back the Manor House of Old McGregor and the affections of their neighbor, Bea.

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New York is in trouble and only one boy can save it in this heart-thumping animated adventure from the Academy Award®-nominated directors of A Cat in Paris. When Leo discovers he has the power to leave his body and float about New York as a ghost, the 11-year-old superhero befriends Alex, a cop who was injured while trying to capture The Face, a mysterious new villain. When the gangster threatens to unleash a virus that will plunge the city into chaos, Leo and Alex have 24 hours to stop the evil plot before New York is brought to its knees! Bonus Content: Includes a digital copy of Phantom Boy (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.) Interview with Alain Gagnol & Jean-Loup Felicioli One Heck of a Plan The Making of Phantom Boy Theatrical Trailer More from GKIDS The Making of Phantom Boy

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A sophisticated Parisian wife drifts into an affair while navigating the fragile balance of marriage, desire, and modern relationships.

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Based on S.S. Van Dine’s bestselling novels, these classic Pre-Code murder-mysteries showcase the case-cracking prowess of the debonair detective Philo Vance, as portrayed by cinema’s icon of gentlemanly sleuthing, William Powell (The Thin Man, Take One False Step). THE CANARY MURDER CASE (1929) – Who silenced The Canary? A scheming showgirl known as The Canary turns up dead, and so does the lone witness to the killing. Only Philo Vance stands a chance at cracking this case. Directed by Malcolm St. Clair (A Woman of the World); co-starring screen great Jean Arthur (Easy Living) and the legendary Louise Brooks (Beggars of Life) as the conniving Canary. THE GREENE MURDER CASE (1929) – Members of the wealthy but loathsome Greene family gather at a spooky old castle to establish the terms of a will, only to be mysteriously murdered one-by-one. Philo Vance scrutinizes the clues and suspects. Directed by Frank Tuttle (This Gun for Hire); co-starring the dazzling Jean Arthur (A Foreign Affair) and Florence Eldridge (An Act of Murder). THE BENSON MURDER CASE (1930) – When a ruthless, crooked stockbroker croaks at his luxurious country estate, Philo Vance just so happens to be there to investigate. Directed by Frank Tuttle (Lucky Jordan); co-starring acting ace Paul Lukas (By Candlelight) with William “Stage” Boyd (The Locked Door) and one of Powell’s Thin Man suspects, Natalie Moorhead (Private Detective 62). Special Features: • Brand New 4K Restorations of THE CANARY MURDER CASE and THE GREENE MURDER CASE • 2K Restoration of THE BENSON MURDER CASE • NEW Audio Commentaries for THE CANARY MURDER CASE and THE GREENE MURDER CASE by Novelist/Critic Kim Newman and Writer/Journalist Barry Forshaw • NEW Audio Commentary for THE BENSON MURDER CASE by Professor and Film Scholar Jason A. Ney • Optional English Subtitles

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This incomparable story of crime and redemption from the French master Robert Bresson follows Michel, a young pickpocket who spends his days working the streets, subway cars, and train stations of Paris. As his compulsive pursuit of the thrill of stealing grows, however, so does his fear that his luck is about to run out. A cornerstone of the career of this most economical and profoundly spiritual of filmmakers, Pickpocket is an elegantly crafted, tautly choreographed study of humanity in all its mischief and grace, the work of a director at the height of his powers. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Audio commentary featuring film scholar James Quandt Introduction by writer-director Paul Schrader The Models of Pickpocket, a 2003 documentary by Babette Mangolte that features interviews with actors from the film Interview with director Robert Bresson from a 1960 episode of the French television program Cinépanorama Q&A on Pickpocket from 2000, featuring actor Marika Green and filmmakers Paul Vecchiali and Jean-Pierre Améris Footage of the sleight-of-hand artist and Pickpocket consultant Kassagi from a 1962 episode of the French television show La piste aux étoiles Trailer PLUS: An essay by novelist and critic Gary Indiana

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Petty crook Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) has his eyes fixed on the big score. When the cocky three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy (Jean Peters), he finds a more spectacular haul than he could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. information. Tailed by manipulative Feds and the unwitting courier’s Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption, right against Red, and passion against self-preservation. With its dazzling cast and writer-director Samuel Fuller’s signature hard-boiled repartee and raw energy, Pickup on South Street is a true film noir classic by one of America’s most passionate cinematic craftspeople. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • New interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith, author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City • Interview from 1989 with director Samuel Fuller, conducted by film critic Richard Schickel • Cinéma cinémas: Fuller, a 1982 French television program in which the director discusses the making of the film • Trailers • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing • PLUS: An essay by critic Angelica Jade Bastién and a chapter from Fuller’s posthumously published 2002 autobiography, A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking

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Petty crook Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) has his eyes fixed on the big score. When the cocky three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy (Jean Peters), he finds a more spectacular haul than he could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. information. Tailed by manipulative Feds and the unwitting courier’s Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption, right against Red, and passion against self-preservation. With its dazzling cast and writer-director Samuel Fuller’s signature hard-boiled repartee and raw energy, Pickup on South Street is a true film noir classic by one of America’s most passionate cinematic craftspeople. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • New interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith, author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City • Interview from 1989 with director Samuel Fuller, conducted by film critic Richard Schickel • Cinéma cinémas: Fuller, a 1982 French television program in which the director discusses the making of the film • Trailers • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing • PLUS: An essay by critic Angelica Jade Bastién and a chapter from Fuller’s posthumously published 2002 autobiography, A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking

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Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina), and leaves the bourgeois world behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: the tenth feature in six years by genius auteur Jean-Luc Godard is a stylish mash-up of anticonsumerist satire, au courant politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent, zigzag tale of, as Godard called them, “the last romantic couple.” With blissful color imagery by cinematographer Raoul Coutard and Belmondo and Karina at their most animated, Pierrot le fou is one of the high points of the French New Wave, and was Godard’s last frolic before he moved ever further into radical cinema. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Interview with actor Anna Karina from 2007 A “Pierrot” Primer, a video essay from 2007 written and narrated by filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin Godard, l’amour, la poésie, a fifty-minute French documentary from 2007, directed by Luc Lagier, about director Jean-Luc Godard and his work and marriage with Karina Excerpts of interviews from 1965 with Godard, Karina, and actor Jean-Paul Belmondo Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Richard Brody, along with a 1969 review by Andrew Sarris and a 1965 interview with Godard Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews Pierrot le fou (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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Let me bring you up to speed. We know nothing. Now you are up to speed. Thus is the bumbling, deadpan persona of Inspector Clouseau, as re-invented by Steve Martin, best summed up. In this sequel to the 2006 remake of the classic Peter Sellers films, Martin gets crisper direction and a smarter script than he did the first time out. Martin, to his great credit, has never been afraid to make himself look foolish or to take pratfalls--and if the viewer finds these remakes to be less satirical than the original Sellers films, he will still be letting our great laughs and chuckles through the course of the film. And what a cast! Martin is joined by John Cleese, Jeremy Irons, Lily Tomlin, Jean Reno, Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai, Emily Mortimer, Alfred Molina, and Andy Garcia--all of whom seem to be having a delightful romp--a feeling thatǃÙs contagious. The story picks up where the last film ended, with ClouseauǃÙs having saved the precious Pink Panther diamond in Paris. Since then, Clouseau has been reassigned to parking-ticket duty, to keep him off the frayed nerves of Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Cleese). But a band of international thieves is wreaking havoc on the worldǃÙs treasures, and, before you can say "minkey", the priceless Pink Panther goes missing, again. If plotǃÙs a bit predictable, itǃÙs no matter, since the "phun" is in the haplessness of Clouseau and the rings of nuclear fallout that surround him. And you may never pronounce "hamburger" the same way. "Evair"!--"A.T. Hurley"

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From Cecil B. DeMille, the iconic director of The Sign of the Cross, Union Pacific, Reap the Wild Wind, Unconquered and The Ten Commandments, comes this classic western starring screen great Gary Cooper (Beau Geste, High Noon) as legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickok. Teaming up with his lover Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur, A Foreign Affair, The More the Merrier), as well as Buffalo Bill Cody (James Ellison, The Undying Monster), Hickok helps to pacify the frontier in a period of immense change for the Old West.

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A pilot finds himself caught in a war zone after he's forced to land his commercial aircraft during a terrible storm.

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A pilot finds himself caught in a war zone after he's forced to land his commercial aircraft during a terrible storm.

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Pasolini's provocative satire intertwines a modern industrial heir's rebellion with a medieval tale of savagery and social decay.

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Army deserter Jean (Jean Gabin) fled to the seedy docks of Le Havre in search of a new life, and found love at first sight with young runaway Nelly (Michèle Morgan). The budding relationship, however, faced threats in the form of her overbearing, unsavory guardian (Michel Simon) and her ex-boyfriend's hood crony (Pierre Brasseur). Marcel Carné's atmospheric take on Pierre Mac Orlan's "Le Quai des Brumes" co-stars Édouard Delmont, Raymond Aimos. 91 min. Standard; Soundtrack: French; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; documentary; more. In French with English subtitles. Two-disc set. Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews Port of Shadows (Le Quai Des Brumes)