Breathless Is Back

This spring, you’ll have a chance to luxuriate in Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg’s cinema-altering love affair on the big screen when Godard’s Breathless returns, in a newly restored 35 mm print. Rialto Pictures will premiere the theatrical rerelease of this kiss-kiss-bang-bang benchmark of the French New Wave at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in L.A. in late April, and then open the film at New York’s Film Forum, followed by a national rollout. Click here for more info. Read more

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Kurosawa’s Birthday Month, Day 8

Contests

Congratulations to Tuesday’s prize recipients, Matt V and Kyle, for their Kurosawa-related anagrams! See the winning wordplay and read today’s prompt here.

Make Way for More Praise

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The special edition DVD of the exquisite Make Way for Tomorrow has critics sitting up and taking notice (after wiping away tears). “Dry eyes are not an option for this 1937 Depression-era masterpiece,” says Time Out. Read more raves here.

George Bernard Shaw on Film

Bruce Eder

The witty movies in our latest Eclipse set make it “an essential addition to the shelves of classic film lovers,” according to Home Theater Forum. Read about George Bernard Shaw’s reluctant screen career in these essays by historian Bruce Eder.

For All Mankind

For All Mankind

Al Reinert

Onibaba

Onibaba

Kaneto Shindo

Overlord

Overlord

Stuart Cooper

Solaris

Solaris

Andrei Tarkovsky

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Che

Steven Soderbergh

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Yojimbo

Akira Kurosawa

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