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Release: April 22, 2014

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A tyrannical husband learns humility after his exhausted wife collapses and the family maid teaches him a hard lesson.

Release: July 18, 2023

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Danish film master Carl Theodor Dreyer's Michael is a mature and visually elegant period romance that remains one of the earliest and most compassionate overtly gay-themed films in movie history. Based upon Herman Bang's 1902 novel, Dreyer's Michael refashions the classical Greek myth of Jupiter and Ganymede into a love triangle between an aging artist, Zoret (director Benjamin Christensen), his protagonist Michael (Walter Slezak, Lifeboat) and Princess Zamikoff (Nora Gregor, Rules of the Game), an aristocratic femme fatale as entranced by Michael’s youthful beauty as Zoret is. Co-written by Fritz Lang’s wife and collaborator Thea von Harbou (M, Metropolis), this intimate and compelling film possesses a bold level of emotional detail and depicts the twilight of a male-male romance with unusual daring and subtlety. Special Features: • Audio commentary by Amanda Doxtater and Maxine Savage, scholars of Scandinavian cinema

Release: March 20, 2018

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Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent masterpieces of the silent era. Chronicling the trial of Joan of Arc in the days leading up to her execution, Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer depicts her torment with startling immediacy, employing an array of techniques including expressionistic lighting, interconnected sets, and painfully intimate close-ups to immerse viewers in her subjective experience. Anchoring Dreyer's audacious formal experimentation is a legendary performance by Renée Falconetti, whose haunted face channels both the agony and the ecstasy of martyrdom. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES - New high-definition digital restoration of the film by Gaumont, presented at 24 frames per second - Alternate presentation of the film at 20 frames per second with original Danish intertitles - Three scores: Richard Einhorn's VOICES OF LIGHT, a choral and orchestral work performed by vocal group Anonymous 4, soloist Susan Narucki, and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Choir; another by Goldfrapp's Will Gregory and Portishead's Adrian Utley; and the third composed and performed by pianist Mie Yanashita - Audio commentary from 1999 by film scholar Casper Tybjerg - New interview with Einhorn - New conversation between Gregory and Utley - New video essay by Tybjerg exploring the debate over the film's frame rate - Interview from 1995 with actor Renée Falconetti's daughter and biographer, Hélène Falconetti - Version history - Production design archive - New English subtitle translation - PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Le Fanu, a 1929 director's statement by Carl Theodor Dreyer, and the full libretto for VOICES OF LIGHT

Release: October 3, 2017

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With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer channeled his genius for creating mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, unsettling imagery into the horror genre. The result a chilling film about a student of the occult who encounters supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside Paris is nearly unclassifiable. A host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creates a mood of dreamlike terror. With its roiling fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, Vampyr is one of cinema's greatest nightmares. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES - High-definition digital transfer of the original German version of the film, from the 1998 restoration by Martin Koerber and the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack - Alternate version with English text - Audio commentary featuring film scholar Tony Rayns - Carl Th. Dreyer, a 1966 documentary by Jorgen Roos chronicling Dreyer's career - Video essay by scholar Casper Tybjerg on Dreyer's influences in creating Vampyr - Radio broadcast from 1958 of Dreyer reading an essay about filmmaking - PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Mark Le Fanu and Kim Newman, a piece by Koerber on the restoration, and a 1964 interview with producer and actor Nicolas de Gunzburg - AND: A book featuring Dreyer and Christen Jul's original screenplay and Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 story 'Carmilla,'; a source for the film