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  • Grand Illusion (Essential Art House DVD)

    Grand Illusion

    Jean Renoir
    1937 • 114 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
    Spine: #1  Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets

    Jean Renoir’s antiwar masterpiece Grand Illusion, hailed as one of the greatest films ever made, stars Jean Gabin and Pierre Fresnay as French soldiers held in a World War I German prison camp.

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  • The 400 Blows (Essential Art House DVD)

    The 400 Blows

    François Truffaut
    1959 • 99 minutes • 2.35:1 • France
    Spine: #5  Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets

    François Truffaut sensitively re-creates the trials of his own difficult childhood in The 400 Blows, the film that marked his emergence as one of Europe’s most brilliant auteurs and signaled the beginning of the French New Wave.

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  • Beauty and the Beast (Essential Art House DVD)

    Beauty and the Beast

    Jean Cocteau
    1946 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
    Spine: #6  Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets

    The spectacular visions of enchantment, desire, and death in Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) have become timeless icons of cinematic wonder.

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  • Lord of the Flies (Essential Art House DVD)

    Lord of the Flies

    Peter Brook
    1963 • 90 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
    Spine: #43  Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Online

    William Golding’s classic fable, about a swarm of young boys who, without adult supervision, devolve into chaos after crash landing on a remote island during wartime, becomes an unforgettable work of cinematic horror by Peter Brook.

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  • Black Orpheus (Essential Art House DVD)

    Black Orpheus

    Marcel Camus
    1959 • 107 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
    Spine: #48  Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets, Online

    Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.

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  • The 39 Steps (Essential Art House DVD)

    The 39 Steps

    Alfred Hitchcock
    1935 • 86 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
    Spine: #56  Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets

    A heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps follows Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) as he stumbles upon a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.

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  • Brief Encounter (Essential Art House DVD)

    Brief Encounter

    David Lean
    1945 • 86 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom
    Spine: #76  Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets

    After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) enter into a muted but passionate, ultimately doomed, love affair.

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  • Variety Lights (Essential Art House DVD)

    Variety Lights

    Federico Fellini and Alberto Lattuada
    1950 • 97 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy
    Spine: #81  Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets

    A beautiful ingenue joins a tawdry music hall troupe and quickly becomes its feature attraction in Federico Fellini’s stunning debut film (directed in collaboration with neorealist filmmaker Alberto Lattuada).

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  • Pygmalion (Essential Art House DVD)

    Pygmalion

    Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard
    1938 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
    Spine: #85  Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets

    Cranky Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) takes a bet that he can turn Cockney guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) into a “proper lady” in a mere six months in this delightful comedy of bad manners, based on the play by George Bernard Shaw.

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    L’avventura

    Michelangelo Antonioni
    1960 • 145 minutes • 1.77:1 • Italy
    Spine: #98  Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Online

    A girl mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair. Antonioni’s penetrating study of the idle upper class offers stinging observations on spiritual isolation and the many meanings of love.

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  • The Hidden Fortress (Essential Art House DVD)

    The Hidden Fortress

    Akira Kurosawa
    1958 • 139 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan
    Spine: #116  Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets

    A general and a princess must dodge enemy clans while smuggling the royal treasure out of hostile territory with two bumbling, conniving peasants at their sides; it’s a spirited adventure that only Akira Kurosawa could create.

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  • Rashomon (Essential Art House DVD)

    Rashomon

    Akira Kurosawa
    1950 • 88 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
    Spine: #138  Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets

    The murder of a man and the rape of his wife in a forest grove—seen from four different perspectives. Akira Kurosawa’s meditation on the nature of “truth” transformed narrative cinema as we know it.

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  • Wild Strawberries (Essential Art House DVD)

    Wild Strawberries

    Ingmar Bergman
    1957 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden
    Spine: #139  Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets

    Professor Isak Borg (Victor Sjöström) is forced to face his past in the film that catapulted Ingmar Bergman to the forefront of world cinema.

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  • 8½ (Essential Art House DVD)

    8½

    Federico Fellini
    1963 • 138 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy
    Spine: #140  Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets

    One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ (Otto e mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema.

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  • Loves of a Blonde (Essential Art House DVD)

    Loves of a Blonde

    Milos Forman
    1965 • 82 minutes • 1.33:1 • Czech Republic
    Spine: #144  Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets

    A tender and humorous look at a young woman’s journey from the first pangs of romance to its inevitable disappointments, Loves of a Blonde immediately became a classic of the Czech New Wave and earned Milos Forman the first of his Academy Award nominations.

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