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Police Story / Police Story 2 ...The set pieces fly fast and furious in these inventive action comedies two sma... The set pieces fly fast and furious in these inventive action comedies two smash hits that made Jackie Chan a worldwide icon of daredevil spectacle and established the director/star/one-man stunt machine as a performer of unparalleled grace and daring... more
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Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Su...Four-disc set includes: Half A Loaf Of Kung Fu (1978)The humor that is the hal... Four-disc set includes: Half A Loaf Of Kung Fu (1978)The humor that is the hallmark of Jackie Chan s cinematic work first appeared in this light-hearted costume actioner in which Chan is a member of an elite bodyguard corps charged with safely... more
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Death in Venice (Criterion Col...Based on the classic novella by Thomas Mann this late-career masterpiece from ... Based on the classic novella by Thomas Mann this late-career masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art the allure of beauty and the inescapability of death. A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert Gustav von... more
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World of Wong Kar Wai (Criteri...Seven-disc set includes: As Tears Go By (1988)The directorial debut of filmmak... Seven-disc set includes: As Tears Go By (1988)The directorial debut of filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai this crime drama blends what would become his trademark lyricism and romance with the Hong Kong action style. Tough Triad hood Wah (Andy Lau) finds himself... more
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Town Bloody Hall (Criterion Co...On April 30 1971 a standing-room-only crowd of New York s intellectual elite p... On April 30 1971 a standing-room-only crowd of New York s intellectual elite packed the city s Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer fresh from the controversy over his essay The Prisoner of Sex and the backlash it received from leaders of the women s... more
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In the Heat of the Night (Crit...Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta Mississippi Philadelphia detectiv... Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta Mississippi Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger) who faces mounting pressure from... more
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Defending Your Life (Criterion...In this warm witty comedy writer/director/star Albert Brooks is killed in an a... In this warm witty comedy writer/director/star Albert Brooks is killed in an auto accident and arrives at a most unusual afterlife: Judgment City an ethereal resort with great food. There he s put on trial for his life on Earth. If he wins he moves on... more
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Beasts of No Nation (Criterion...Separated from his family as the government of his West African nation fell yo... Separated from his family as the government of his West African nation fell young Agu (Abraham Attah) fled into the clutches of a rebel militia headed up by the brutal Commandant (Idris Elba). Assimilated into the battalion and indoctrinated in their... more
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The Rainer Werner Fassbinder B...In 1977 German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was thirty-two years old and ... In 1977 German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was thirty-two years old and had already directed more than twenty-five feature films. That summer he embarked on a project to trace the postwar history of West Germany in a series of films told from the... more
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Mandabi (Criterion Collection)...This second feature by Ousmane Sembene was the first movie ever made in the Wo... This second feature by Ousmane Sembene was the first movie ever made in the Wolof language a major step toward the realization of the trailblazing Senegalese filmmaker s dream of creating a cinema by about and for Africans. After jobless Ibrahima Dieng... more
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Smooth Talk (Criterion Collect...Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world a ... Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting vision of innocence lost. Based on the celebrated short story Where Are You Going Where Have You Been? by... more
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Death in Venice (Criterion Col...Based on the classic novella by Thomas Mann this late-career masterpiece from ... Based on the classic novella by Thomas Mann this late-career masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art the allure of beauty and the inescapability of death. A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert Gustav von... more
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The Baker s Wife (Criterion Co...The warmth and wit of celebrated playwright turned cinema auteur Marcel Pagnol... The warmth and wit of celebrated playwright turned cinema auteur Marcel Pagnol shine in this enchanting slice-of-life comedy. Returning to the Provencal countryside he knew intimately Pagnol draws a vivid portrait of a close-knit village where the... more
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The Signifyin Works of Marlon ...There has never been a filmmaker like Marlon Riggs (1957-1994): an unapologeti... There has never been a filmmaker like Marlon Riggs (1957-1994): an unapologetic gay Black man who defied a culture of silence and shame to speak his truth with resounding joy and conviction. An early adopter of video technology who had a profound... more
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Police Story / Police Story 2 ...The set pieces fly fast and furious in these inventive action comedies two sma... The set pieces fly fast and furious in these inventive action comedies two smash hits that made Jackie Chan a worldwide icon of daredevil spectacle and established the director/star/one-man stunt machine as a performer of unparalleled grace and daring... more
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Merrily We Go to Hell (Criteri...Heiress Joan Prentice (Sylvia Sidney) was charmed enough by handsome but hard-... Heiress Joan Prentice (Sylvia Sidney) was charmed enough by handsome but hard-drinking reporter Jerry Corbett (Fredric March) to steer him to the altar. She believed that she could get him to embrace his dream of being a playwright-and to let go of the... more
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Memories of Murder (Criterion ...As a rural South Korean town in the mid-1980s was rocked by the brutal and unp... As a rural South Korean town in the mid-1980s was rocked by the brutal and unprecedented efforts of a serial murderer the instinctive but overmatched local cop (Song Kang-ho) in charge finds his methodologies clashing-ultimately tragically-with those... more
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La Piscine (The Swimming Pool)...Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and Marianne (Romy Schneider) had been enjoying the su... Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and Marianne (Romy Schneider) had been enjoying the sun the scenery-and one another-while vacationing at a friend s French Riviera villa. After the arrival of her record producer ex Harry (Maurice Ronet) who brought his teenage... more
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Bl...When a young woman spends the night with an alleged terrorist her quiet ordere... When a young woman spends the night with an alleged terrorist her quiet ordered life falls into ruins. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum portrays an anxious era in West Germany amid a crumbling postwar political consensus. Katharina though apparently... more
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Come and See (Criterion Collec...This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering pl... This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko in a searing depiction of anguish)... more
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