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Howards End

James Ivory

1992

142 minutes

Color

2.35:1

English

The pinnacle of the decades-long collaboration between producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, Howards End is a luminous vision of E. M. Forster’s cutting 1910 novel about class divisions in Edwardian England.

23 Feb 2010

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DVD

2 Discs

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$23.96

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Hunger

Steve McQueen

2008

96 minutes

Color

2.35:1

English

Featuring an intense performance by Michael Fassbender, Hunger, about IRA member Bobby Sands’s 1981 prison hunger strike, is an unflinching, transcendent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure to be heard.

16 Feb 2010

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1 Disc

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Lola Montès

Max Ophuls

1955

115 minutes

Color

2.55:1

English, German, French

Max Ophuls’s final film, Lola Montès is at once a magnificent romantic melodrama, a meditation on the lurid fascination with celebrity, and a one-of-a-kind movie spectacle.

16 Feb 2010

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2 Discs

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Make Way for Tomorrow

Leo McCarey

1937

92 minutes

Black and White

1.33:1

English

Leo McCarey’s Make Way for Tomorrow is one of the great unsung Hollywood masterpieces, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap.

23 Feb 2010

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Revanche

Götz Spielmann

2008

122 minutes

Color

1.85:1

German

A gripping thriller and a tragic drama of nearly Greek proportions, Revanche is the stunning, Oscar-nominated international breakthrough of Austrian filmmaker Götz Spielmann, a tense, existential, and surprising portrait of vengeance and redemption.

16 Feb 2010

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These are the three films that put Portuguese director Pedro Costa on the map: spare, painterly portraits of battered, largely immigrant lives in the slums of Fontainhas, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon.

30 Mar 2010

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DVD

4 Discs

SRP: $79.95

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$63.96

507

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Bigger Than Life

Nicholas Ray

1956

95 minutes

Color

2.35:1

English

When a suburban teacher and father (James Mason) is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug. This Eisenhower-era throat-grabber, shot in expressive CinemaScope, is an excoriating take on the nuclear family.

23 Mar 2010

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1 Disc

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506

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Dillinger Is Dead

Marco Ferreri

1969

95 minutes

Color

1.66:1

Italian

In this magnificently inscrutable late-sixties masterpiece, Marco Ferreri, one of European cinema’s most idiosyncratic auteurs, takes us through the looking glass to one seemingly routine night in the life of an Italian gas mask designer, played by Michel Piccoli.

16 Mar 2010

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Vivre sa vie

Jean-Luc Godard

1962

83 minutes

Black and White

1.33:1

French

Vivre sa vie was a turning point for Jean-Luc Godard and remains one of his most dynamic films, combining brilliant visual design with a tragic character study. Anna Karina plays Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress but instead ends up a prostitute.

20 Apr 2010

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Ride with the Devil

Ang Lee

1999

148 minutes

Color

2.35:1

English

With this new director’s cut, Ang Lee reconstructs his original vision for his Civil War epic, Ride with the Devil, an intimate, harrowing look at a country torn in half, told from a daringly unorthodox perspective, starring Tobey Maguire and Jeffrey Wright.

27 Apr 2010

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The Fugitive Kind

Sidney Lumet

1960

121 minutes

Black and White

1.66:1

English

Four Academy Award–winning actors—Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, and Maureen Stapleton—sink their teeth into this enthralling drama, which brings together the legendary talents of director Sidney Lumet and writer Tennessee Williams.

27 Apr 2010

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Summer Hours

Olivier Assayas

2008

99 minutes

Color

1.85:1

French

Three siblings must decide what to do with the country estate and objects they’ve inherited from their mother. From this simple story, Olivier Assayas creates a nuanced, exquisitely made drama about the material of globalized modern living.

20 Apr 2010

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