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The Only Son/There Was a Father:
Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu

Yasujiro Ozu
Japan
Spine: #524 Edition: DVD

These rare early films from Yasujiro Ozu, The Only Son and There Was a Father , are considered by many to be two of the Japanese director’s finest works, paving the way for a career among the most sensitive and significant in film history.

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The Orphic Trilogy

Jean Cocteau
France
Spine: #66 Edition: DVD

In The Blood of a Poet, Orpheus, and Testament of Orpheus, Cocteau utilizes the Orphic myth to explore the complex relationships between the artist and his creations, reality and the imagination.

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Paul Robeson:
Portraits of the Artist
Spine: #369 Edition: DVD

The son of an escaped slave, Robeson managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America, headlining everything from fellow pioneer Oscar Micheaux’s silent drama Body and Soul to British studio showcases to socially engaged documentaries.

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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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Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes:
3 Films by Shohei Imamura

Shohei Imamura
Japan
Spine: #471 Edition: DVD

With the three films in this set, Shoehi Imamura, one of the leading figures of the Japanese new wave, truly emerged as an auteur, bringing to his national cinema an anthropological eye and a heretofore unseen taste for the irreverent.

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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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Rebel Samurai:
Sixties Swordplay Classics
Japan
Edition: DVD

These four classic films, from four masters of Japanese cinema, turn a genre upside down, redefining for a modern generation the meaning of loyalty and honor, as embodied by the iconic figure of the samurai.

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Roberto Rossellini’s
War Trilogy

Roberto Rossellini
Spine: #500 Edition: DVD

Roberto Rossellini is one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. And it was with his trilogy of films made during and after World War II—Rome Open City, Paisan, and Germany Year Zero—that he left his first transformative mark on cinema.

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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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Six Moral Tales

Eric Rohmer
France
Spine: #342 Edition: DVD

Eric Rohmer stood apart from his New Wave contemporaries, like François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, with his patented brand of gently existential, hyperarticulate character studies set against vivid seasonal landscapes. The “Six Moral Tales” unleashed a new voice onto the film world.

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Stage and Spectacle:
Three Films by Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir
France
Spine: #241 Edition: DVD

Near the end of his long and celebrated career, master filmmaker Jean Renoir indulged his lifelong obsession with life-as-theater and directed three majestic films infatuated with the past, love, and artifice.

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Three Children’s Classics
from Janus Films
Edition: DVD

Buy all three children’s classics from Janus Films—The Red Balloon, White Mane, and Paddle to the Sea—and save.

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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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Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
Spine: #392 Edition: DVD

Hiroshi Teshigahara found his spiritual partner in novelist and screenwriter Kobo Abe, with whom he collaborated on these Kafkaesque portraits of identities in peril, films that captivated mainstream audiences while also touching the edges of the Japanese avant-garde.

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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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Wrong Men & Notorious Women: Five Hitchcock Thrillers 1935–1946

Alfred Hitchcock
Edition: DVD

A supreme technician and innovative stylist, Alfred Hitchcock always left his indelible stamp on his productions.

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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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