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Paddle to the Sea

William Mason
1966 • 28 minutes • 1.33:1 • Canada
Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets

Based on Holling C. Holling’s beloved, Caldecott-awarded children’s book, William Mason’s stunning film follows the adventures of a tiny, wood-carved canoe as it forges its own path from Lake Superior through the Great Lakes and down to the Atlantic Ocean.

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The Red Balloon

Albert Lamorisse
1956 • 34 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Albert Lamorisse’s exquisite The Red Balloon remains one of the most beloved children’s films of all time. In this deceptively simple, nearly wordless tale, a young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris.

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White Mane

Albert Lamorisse
1952 • 39 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

In the south of France, in a vast plain region called the Camargue, lives White Mane, a magnificent stallion and the leader of a herd of wild horses too proud to let themselves be broken by humans. Only Folco, a young fisherman, manages to tame him.

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Murderous Maids

Jean-Pierre Denis
2000 • 93 minutes • 2.35:1 • France
Edition: Collector’s Sets

More than seventy years on, the case of the Papin sisters, the servants who murdered and mutilated their mistress and her daughter in pre-World War II Le Mans, remains an enigma. Jean-Pierre Denis’s film is the definitive screen version.

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Shakespeare Wallah

James Ivory
1965 • 120 minutes • 1.78:1 • India
Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

Elegiac and atmospheric, Shakespeare Wallah put Merchant Ivory Productions on the international movie map. The film was inspired by in the real-life adventures of a traveling family theater group in India during the final days of English colonial rule.

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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 Perfect Murder

Zafar Hai
1988 • 93 minutes • 1.77:1 • India
Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

Inspector Ghote of the Bombay police has just been assigned his most perplexing case: a savage attack on a rich industrialist’s private secretary. Based on the award-winning novel by H.R.F. Keating, Merchant Ivory Productions’ The Perfect Murder is an entertaining, exotic detective thriller.

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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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