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10 Years of Rialto Pictures
Edition: DVD

This special gift box set, in celebration of Rialto’s tenth anniversary, features ten films that display the breadth of its collection, including works by Rialto favorites, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel, and Jean-Pierre Melville.

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AK 100:
25 Films by Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa
Japan
Edition: DVD

On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, the Criterion Collection is proud to present this deluxe box set celebrating Akira Kurosawa’s astonishing career.

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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Simon Callow
1991 • 100 minutes • 1.77:1 • United Kingdom
Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

Merchant Ivory’s The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, based on the novella by Carson McCullers and the play by Edward Albee, is both a grotesque black comedy and a prime slice of Southern Gothic set in a poverty-stricken rural community dominated by the curious, androgynous Miss Amelia.

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Bombay Talkie

James Ivory
1970 • 112 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States
Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

Starring Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal, Bombay Talkie is Merchant Ivory’s affectionate, bemused view of Bollywood—India’s huge dream factory. Cameraman Subrata Mitra’s ravishing photography has never been surpassed in any other of James Ivory’s films.

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The Bostonians

James Ivory
1984 • 122 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States
Edition: DVD

In Boston in the aftermath of the Civil War, gifted young orator Verena Tarrant has attracted the attention of Olive Chancellor (Vanessa Redgrave), who wishes to nurture Verena for the Women’s Movement. But Basil Ransom (Christopher Reeve), a handsome male chauvinist, wants Verena as his wife.

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The Courtesans of Bombay

Ismail Merchant
1983 • 73 minutes • 1.33:1 • India
Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus
The Courtesans of Bombay is Merchant Ivory’s intriguing docudrama about Pavan Pool, the enclosed area where the city’s singing and dancing courtesans ply their trade. It’s a portrait of a unique location both exotic and tawdry.

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The Deceivers

Nicholas Meyer
1988 • 102 minutes • 1.77:1 • United Kingdom
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India, 1825: The country is being ravaged by the Thugees, cult members also known as the “Deceivers,” who commit robbery and ritualistic murder. Appalled by their activities, English officer William Savage (Pierce Brosnan) disguises himself and infiltrates their ranks.

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The Europeans

James Ivory
1979 • 91 minutes • 1.78:1 • United Kingdom
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This entertaining film, from a delicious early novel by Henry James, takes place in a New England Arcadia that stands for everything beautiful, pure, and good. Into this Eden come a sophisticated European brother and sister who turn up unexpectedly on the doorstep of their staid American cousins.

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Heat and Dust

James Ivory
1983 • 130 minutes • 1.78:1 • United Kingdom
Edition: DVD

Blending east with west, and moving effortlessly between vibrant modern-day India and the splendors of the Raj, Heat and Dust concerns Anne, a young woman drawn to India by her desire to unravel the scandal surrounding her great-aunt’s seduction in the 1920s by a handsome Indian prince.

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The Householder

James Ivory
1963 • 101 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
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The Householder, the first collaboration between Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, is the story of a young, underpaid Delhi schoolteacher (Shashi Kapoor) who marries and then, little by little, gets to know his young wife, Indu (Leela Naidu), during their first year together.

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Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures

James Ivory
1978 • 83 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Edition: DVD

Peggy Ashcroft and Larry Pine play rapacious art collectors who come to the decaying Art Deco palace of a young Maharaja (Victor Banerjee) to examine a legendary collection of Indian miniature paintings.

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I Live in Fear

Akira Kurosawa
1955 • 103 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

I Live in Fear presents Toshiro Mifune as an elderly, stubborn businessman so fearful of a nuclear attack that he resolves to move his reluctant family to South America. Kurosawa depicts a society emerging from the shadows but still terrorized by memories of the past and anxieties for the future.

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The Idiot

Akira Kurosawa
1951 • 166 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

The Idiot, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece about a wayward, pure soul’s reintegration into society—updated by Kurosawa to capture Japan’s postwar aimlessness—was a victim of studio interference and public indifference. Today, this “folly” looks ever more fascinating.

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In Custody

Ismail Merchant
1993 • 125 minutes • 1.77:1 • United Kingdom
Edition: DVD

Based on the Booker Prize–nominated novel by Anita Desai, In Custody, the debut of Ismail Merchant as a director, is a wry, lyrical, comic drama about contemporary Indian culture, society, and domestic life.

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