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The Samurai Trilogy

Hiroshi Inagaki
Japan
Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The Samurai Trilogy, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring the inimitable Toshiro Mifune, was one of Japan’s most successful exports of the 1950s, a rousing, emotionally gripping tale of combat and self-discovery.

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La Jetée/Sans Soleil

Chris Marker
France
Spine: #387 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

One of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made and a mind-bending free-form travelogue, La Jetée and Sans Soleil couldn’t seem more different—yet they’re the twin pillars of an unparalleled and uncompromising career in cinema.

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Fanny and Alexander Box Set

Ingmar Bergman
Sweden
Spine: #261 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Ingmar Bergman intended Fanny and Alexander as his swan song, and it is the legendary director’s warmest and most autobiographical film, a four-time Academy Award–winning triumph that combines his trademark melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality.

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The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
United States
Spine: #167 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

On a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love, the first and only Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll.

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Yojimbo/Sanjuro
Box Set

Akira Kurosawa
Japan
Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Thanks to perhaps the most indelible character in Akira Kurosawa’s oeuvre, Yojimbo surpassed even Seven Samurai in popularity when it was released. Made one year later, Sanjuro matches _Yojimbo_’s storytelling dexterity, and brings the duo to a thrilling and unforgettable conclusion.

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By Brakhage: An Anthology,
Volumes One and Two

Stan Brakhage
United States
Spine: #518 Edition: Blu-ray

Working outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of “birth, sex, death, and the search for God,” he turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even autopsy.

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America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
United States
Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Like the rest of America, Hollywood was ripe for revolution in the late sixties. Cinema attendance was down; what had once worked seemed broken. Enter Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner, who would form form BBS Productions, a company that was also a community.

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The Complete Jean Vigo
France
Spine: #578 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Even among cinema’s legends, Jean Vigo stands apart. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine.

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Three Colors

Krzysztof Kieślowski
France
Spine: #587 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

This boldly cinematic trio of stories about love and loss from Krzysztof Kieślowski was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 1990s.

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David Lean Directs Noël Coward
United Kingdom
Spine: #603 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In the 1940s, the wit of playwright Noël Coward and the craft of filmmaker David Lean melded harmoniously in one of cinema’s greatest writer-director collaborations.

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Trilogy of Life

Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy
Spine: #631 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In the early 1970s, the great Italian poet, philosopher, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini brought to the screen a trio of masterpieces of medieval literature.

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The Qatsi Trilogy

Godfrey Reggio
United States
Spine: #639 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Astonishingly photographed, and featuring unforgettable, cascading scores by Philip Glass, these are immersive sensory experiences that meditate on the havoc humankind’s obsession with technological advancement has wreaked on our world.

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Pierre Etaix

Pierre Etaix
France
Spine: #655 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

A French comedy master whose films went unseen for decades as a result of legal tangles, director-actor Pierre Etaix is a treasure the cinematic world has rediscovered and embraced with relish.

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