Criterion Collection Films
A list of Criterion Films from 1998 to the present ranging from avant-garde, classics, and cult films.
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- DirectorJean RenoirStarsJean GabinDita ParloPierre FresnayDuring WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.Audio Commentary by Film Historian Peter Cowie
Rare Theatrical Trailer in which Jean Renoir discusses both Grand Illusion and his personal war experiences
Archival Radio Presentation: Rainer and Erich von Stroheim accept Grand Illusion's Best Foreign Films honors at the 1938 New York Film Critics Awards - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTakashi ShimuraKeiko TsushimaFarmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.Audio Commentary by Japanese film expert Michael Jeck
Audio Commentary by film scholars David Desser, Joan Mellen, Stephen Prince, Tony Rayns, and Donald Ritchie
Original U.S. Theatrical Trailer
50-minute documentary on the making of Seven Samurai, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
My Life in Cinema, a 2-hour video conversation from 1993 between Directors Akira Kurosawa and Nagisa Oshima
Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences, a documentary looking at the samurai traditions and films that helped shape Kurosawa's masterpiece - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsMargaret LockwoodMichael RedgravePaul LukasWhile travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.Audio Commentary by film historian Bruce Eder
Crook's Tour, a 1941 feature-length adventure film starring Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne as Charters and Caldicott, their beloved characters from The Lady Vanishes
Excerpts from Francois Truffaut's legendary 1962 audio interview with Alfred Hitchcock
Mystery Train, a video essay about Hitchcock and The Lady Vanishes by Hitchcock scholar Leonard Leff
Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos and promotional art - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMagali NoëlBruno ZaninPupella MaggioA series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.Audio Commentary by film scholars Peter Brunette and Frank Burke
American release trailer
Deleted scene
Fellini's Homecoming, a 45 minute documentary on the complicated relationship between the celebrated director, his hometown, and his past
Interview with star Magali Noel
Fellini's drawings of characters in the film
Felliniana, a presentation of ephemera devoted to Amarcord, from the collection of Don Young
Archival audio interviews of Fellini and his friends and family, by critic Gideon Bachmann - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudAlbert RémyClaire MaurierA young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.Audio Commentary by film scholar Brian Stonehill
Audio Commentary by co-screenwriter Marcel Moussy and François Truffaut's lifelong friend Robert Lachenay
Theatrical trailers
Rare audition footage of Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick Auffay, and Richard Kanayan
Newsreel footage from the film's showing at Cannes
Excerpt from a 1965 interview with Truffaut in which he discusses his youth, his critical writings, and the origins of the character Antoine Doinel
Excerpt from a 1960 interview with Truffaut about the global reception of The 400 Blows and his own critical view of the film - DirectorJean CocteauRené ClémentStarsJean MaraisJosette DayMila ParélyA beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.Audio Commentary by critic Arthur Knight
Audio Commentary by writer and cultural historian Sir Christopher Frayling
A documentary on the movie and the fable
The original fable translated into English
Philip Glass' opera La Belle et la Bete, as an alternate soundtrack
Screening at the Majestic, a 1995 documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew
Interview with cinematographer Henri Alekan
Rare behind-the-scenes photos and publicity stills
Original trailer, directed and narrated by Jean Cocteau and the 1995 restoration trailer - DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsKenneth MoreRonald AllenRobert AyresOn her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.Audio Commentary by Don Lynch and Ken Marshall, author and illustrator of "Titanic": An Illustrated History
The Making of "A Night to Remember" (1993), a 60 minute documentary featuring producer William MacQuitty's rare behind-the-scenes footage
Archival interview with Titanic survivor Eva Hart
En natt att minnas (1962), a half-hour Swedish documentary featuring interviews with Titanic survivors
The Iceberg That Sank the "Titanic" (2006), a 60 minute BBC documentary
Trailer - DirectorJohn WooStarsChow Yun-FatDanny LeeSally YehA disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded.Audio Commentary by John Woo and production executive Terence Chang
Deleted Scenes
Theatrical trailer - DirectorJohn WooStarsChow Yun-FatTony Leung Chiu-waiTeresa MoA tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew.Audio Commentary by John Woo, producer Terence Chang, filmmaker Roger Avary, and critic Dave Kehr
Trailers for eleven of Woo's Hong Kong films
A student film by Woo
Guide to Hong Kong crime films - DirectorNicolas RoegStarsJenny AgutterDavid GulpililLuc RoegTwo city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.Audio Commentary by Nicolas Roeg and Jenny Agutter
Original, unedited director's cut
Long and short theatrical trailers
Video interviews with Agutter and actor Luc Roeg
Gulpilil--One Red Blood (2002), an hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowGunnar BjörnstrandBengt EkerotA knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.Audio Commentary by film historian Peter Cowie
Theatrical trailer with optional english subtitles
An annotated, illustrated Bergman filmography, featuring excerpts from Wild Strawberries and The Magician with commentary
Introduction by Ingmar Bergman, recorded in 2003
Bergman Island (2006), an 83-minute documentary on Bergman by Marie Nyerod, featuring in-depth and revealing interviews with the director
Archival audio interview with Max von Sydow
A 1989 tribute to Bergman by filmmaker Woody Allen
Bergman 101, a selected video filmography tracing Bergman's career, narrated by Cowie - DirectorRob ReinerStarsRob ReinerMichael McKeanChristopher GuestSpinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.Audio Commentary by Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer
Audio Commentary by Rob Reiner, producer Karen Murphy, and editors Robert Leighton and Kent Beyda
Original industry and theatrical trailers
20 minute demo reel, Spinal Tap: The Final Tour
Promotional shorts: Heavy Metal Memories and "Hell Hole"
The Cutting Room Floor: More than one hour of deleted scenes, abandoned subplots, and alternate takes - DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsJodie FosterAnthony HopkinsScott GlennA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.Audio Commentary by director Jonathan Demme, stars Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, screenwriter Ted Tally and FBI agent John Douglas
Seven deleted scenes
Film-to-storyboard comparison and storyboards
FBI crime classification manual
Voices of Death: word-for-word statements of convicted serial killers
New interview with critic Maitland McDonagh
Four documentaries featuring hours of interviews with cast and crew
Behind the scenes featurette
Trailer - DirectorHiroshi InagakiStarsToshirô MifuneMariko OkadaRentarô MikuniDepicts the early life of the legendary warrior Musashi Miyamoto; his years as an aspiring warrior, an outlaw and finally a true samurai.New interviews with translator and historian William Scott Wilson about the real-life Musashi Miyamoto, the inspiration for the hero of the films
On Musashi Miyamoto Part 1
Trailers - DirectorHiroshi InagakiStarsToshirô MifuneMariko OkadaKôji TsurutaMusashi Miyamoto returns to Kyoto after years of absence. After a series of fights against the Yoshioka School, he challenges its master to a duel.New interviews with translator and historian William Scott Wilson about the real-life Musashi Miyamoto, the inspiration for the hero of the films
On Musashi Miyamoto Part 2
Trailer - DirectorHiroshi InagakiStarsToshirô MifuneMariko OkadaKôji TsurutaMusashi Miyamoto is challenged to a duel by a confident swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. He agrees to fight him in a year's time.New interviews with translator and historian William Scott Wilson about the real-life Musashi Miyamoto, the inspiration for the hero of the films
On Musashi Miyamoto Part 3
Trailer - DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsPaolo BonacelliGiorgio CataldiUberto Paolo QuintavalleIn World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture."Saló": Yesterday and Today, a 33 minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend Nineto Davoli
Fade to Black, a 23 minute documentary featuring directors Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, and John Maybury, as well as scholar David Forgacs
The End of "Saló", a 40 minute documentary about the film's production
Video interviews with set designer Dante Feretti and director and film scholar Jean-Pierre Gorin
Theatrical Trailer - DirectorSamuel FullerStarsConstance TowersAnthony EisleyMichael DanteA former prostitute relocates to a buttoned-down suburb, determined to fit in with mainstream society. But perverse secrets simmer beneath the wholesome surface.New video interview with star Constance Towers by film historian and filmmaker Charles Dennis
Excerpts from a 1983 episode of The South Bank Show dedicated to director Samuel Fuller
Interview with Samuel Fuller from a 1967 episode of the French television series Cinéastes de notre temps
Interview with Fuller from a 1987 episode of the French television series Cinéma cinémas
Original theatrical trailer - DirectorSamuel FullerStarsPeter BreckConstance TowersGene EvansBent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.New video interview with Constance Towers by film historian and filmmaker Charles Dennis
The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera, Adam Simon's 1996 documentary on director Samuel Fuller
Original theatrical trailer - DirectorAlex CoxStarsGary OldmanChloe WebbDavid HaymanThe relationship between Sid Vicious, bassist for British punk group Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen is portrayed.Audio Commentary by writer 'Abbe Wool,' actors Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, cultural historian Greil Marcus, filmmakers Julien Temple and Lech Kowalski, and musician Elliot Kidd
Audio Commentary by co-writer, director Alex Cox and actor Andrew Schofield
England's Glory, a 1987 documentary about the making of Sid and Nancy
The infamous 1976 Bill Grundy interview with the "Sex Pistols"
A rare telephone interview with Sid Vicious
Interviews with Sid and Nancy from the 1980 documentary D.O.A.: A Right of Passage
Archival interviews and footage
2016 interview with Alex Cox
The London Weekend Show - November 1976
Excerpt from 2016's Sad Vacation
Trailer - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJeremy IronsGeneviève BujoldHeidi von PalleskeTwin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.Audio Commentary by director David Cronenberg, actor Jeremy Irons, editor Ron Sanders, production designer Carol Spier and cinematographer Peter Suchitzky
The original designs of the opening title sequence
"Mathematics in Metal" and "Instruments for Operating on Mutant Women": A still gallery of drawings and photographs of the sculptures and medical instruments designed for the film
Twinning effect/motion control footage
The electronic press kit, including a trailer and a featurette - DirectorDavid LeanStarsKatharine HepburnRossano BrazziIsa MirandaAn American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome--but married--Italian man while vacationing in Venice.Original theatrical trailer
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsPeter WellerNancy AllenDan O'HerlihyIn a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.The unrated director's cut, including "excessively violent" shots cut from the theatrical release to avoid an X rating
Audio Commentary by director Paul Verhoeven, co-writer Edward Neumeier, executive producer Jon Davison, and RoboCop expert Paul M Sammon
Film-to-storyboard comparison
Storyboards
Theatrical and teaser trailers - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneYutaka SadaTatsuya NakadaiAn executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.Audio Commentary by Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
A 37 minute documentary on the making of High and Low, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
Rare interview with actor Toshiro Mifune from 1984
Interview with actor Tsutomu Yamazaki
Theatrical trailers from Japan and the U.S. - DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsEddie ConstantineAnna KarinaAkim TamiroffA U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.
- DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsBob HoskinsHelen MirrenPaul FreemanAn up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.The original British and American theatrical trailers
- DirectorPaul MorrisseyAntonio MargheritiStarsJoe DallesandroUdo KierDalila Di LazzaroBaron Frankenstein creates two "zombies" - one male, one female - planning to mate them in order to create a master race.Audio Commentary by Paul Morissey, star Udo Kier, and film historian Maurice Yacowar
- DirectorPaul MorrisseyStarsJoe DallesandroUdo KierVittorio De SicaAn ailing vampire count travels to Italy with his servant to find a bride.Audio Commentary by Paul Morissey, star Udo Kier, and film historian Maurice Yacowar
- DirectorPeter WeirStarsRachel RobertsAnne-Louise LambertVivean GrayDuring a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.Extended interview with Peter Weir
New piece on the making of the film, featuring interviews from 2003 with executive producer Patricia Lovell, producers Hal McElroy and Jim McElroy, and cast members
New introduction by film scholar David Thomson, author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
A Recollection...Hanging Rock 1900 (1975), an on-set documentary hosted by Lovell and featuring interviews with Weir, actor Rachel Roberts and source novel author Joan Lindsay
Homesdale (1971), an award-winning black comedy by Weir
Trailer - DirectorFritz LangStarsPeter LorreEllen WidmannInge LandgutWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.Audio Commentary by German film scholars Anton Kaes, author of the BFI Film Classics volume on M, and Eric Rentschler, author of The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife
Conversation with Fritz Lang, a 50 minute film by William Friedkin
Claude Chabrol's M le Maudit, a short film inspired by M, plus a video interview with Chabrol about Lang's filmmaking techniques
Video interview with Harold Nebenzal, son of M producer Seymour Nebenzal
Classroom audiotapes of editor Paul Falkenberg discussing the film and its history, set to clips from the film
Documentary on the physical history of M, from production to distribution to digital restoration
Galleries of behind-the-scenes photographs and production sketches - DirectorDavid LeanStarsJohn MillsValerie HobsonTony WagerA humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.The original theatrical trailer
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsRobert NewtonAlec GuinnessKay WalshIn Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home.The original theatrical trailer
- DirectorRobert J. FlahertyStarsAllakariallakAlice NevalingaCunayouIn this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.Excerpts from the television documentary Flaherty and Film, featuring interviews with the filmmaker's widow and Nanook co-editor Frances Flaherty
Stills gallery of Flaherty's photographs of life in the Arctic - DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAnatoliy SolonitsynIvan LapikovNikolay GrinkoThe life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.Audio Commentary by Harvard film professor Vlada Petric over select scenes
Rare film interviews with Tarkovsky, with a general essay on Tarkovsky's work by Professor Petric
The Passion According to Andrei, the original 205 minute version of the film
The Steamroller and the Violin, Tarkovsky's 1961 student thesis film
The Three Andreis, a 1966 documentary about the writing of the film's script
On the Set of "Andrei Rublev," a 1966 documentary about the making of the film
Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev": A Journey, a new documentary by filmmakers Seán Martin and Louise Milne, featuring interviews with actor Nikolai Burlyaev, cinematographer Vadim Yusov, Tarkovsky's assistant Olga Surkova and others
New interview with film scholar Robert Bird
New video essay by filmmaker Daniel Raim - DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsSimone SignoretVéra ClouzotPaul MeurisseThe wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.Selected-scene Commentary by French-film scholar Kelley Conway
New video introduction by Serge Bromberg, co-director of Henri-Georges Clouzot's "Inferno"
New video interview with novelist and film critic Kim Newman
Original theatrical trailer - DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsYves MontandCharles VanelPeter van EyckIn a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.New video interviews with assistant director Michel Romanoff and Henri-Georges Clouzot biographer Marc Godin
Interview with Yves Montand from 1988
Henri-Georges Clouzot: An Enlightened Tyrant, a 2004 documentary on the director's career
Censored, an analysis of cuts to the film made for the 1955 U.S. release - DirectorTerry GilliamStarsSean ConneryShelley DuvallJohn CleeseA young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.Audio Commentary by director Terry Gilliam, co-writer and actor Michael Palin, and actors John Cleese, David Warner and Craig Warnock
Theatrical trailer
New piece, narrated by film writer David Morgan, featuring production designer Milly Burns and costume designer James Acheson discussing the creation of the film's various historical periods and fantasy worlds
Conversation between Gilliam and film scholar Peter von Bagh, recorded at the 1998 Midnight Sun Film Festival
Appearance by actor Shelley Duvall on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow show from 1981
Gallery of rare photographs from the set - DirectorSeijun SuzukiStarsJô ShishidoMariko OgawaAnnu MariAfter a botched assignment, a rice-fetishizing hitman finds himself in conflict with his organization, and one mysterious, dangerous fellow-hitman in particular.Seijun Suzuki interview
Video piece featuring new interviews with director Seijun Suzuki and assistant director Masami Kuzuu
New interview with actor Joe Shishido
Trailer - DirectorSeijun SuzukiStarsTetsuya WatariChieko MatsubaraHideaki NitaniAfter his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.Seijun Suzuki interview
Video piece featuring new interviews with director Seijun Suzuki and assistant director Masami Kuzuu
Trailer - DirectorMichael BayStarsBruce WillisBilly Bob ThorntonBen AffleckAfter discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas will impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet.Audio Commentary by director Michael Bay, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, actors Bruce Willis, and Ben Affleck
Audio Commentary by cinematographer John Schwartzman, NASA consultant Dr. Joe Allen, and asteroid consultant Ivan Bekey
Michael Bay's gag reel
Deleted scenes compiled by Michael Bay
Storyboards and production design drawings
Analyses of the special effects by visual effects supervisors Richard Hoover, Pat McClung, and Hoyt Yeatman
Production designer Michael White on the look of Armageddon
Trailer, teaser, and television spots
The Aerosmith music video "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing," plus interviews with band members - DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsLaurence OlivierRobert NewtonLeslie BanksIn the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.Audio Commentary by film historian Bruce Eder
Theatrical trailer
"Shakespearean Royalty": A chronology of England's rulers - CreatorJosh SeligStarsJohn LurieWillem DafoeRobb WebbMusician John Lurie knows nothing about fishing, but that doesn't stop him from embarking on fishing in exotic locations with friends.Audio Commentary by writer/director/musician John Lurie
"Big Heart" music video by John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards - DirectorPeter BrookStarsJames AubreyTom ChapinHugh EdwardsSchoolboys marooned on a Pacific island create their own savage civilization.Audio Commentary by director Peter Brook, producer Lewis Allen, director of photography Tom Hollyman, and cameraman/editor Gerald Feil
Excerpts from the novel, read by author William Golding
A deleted scene, with a reading by Golding and commentary
Original theatrical trailer, with commentary
Production scrapbook, home movies, and outtakes
Excerpts from Gerald Feil's 1972 documentary The Empty Space, showing Brook's methods for creating theater
Interview with Brook from 2008
Excerpt from a 1980 episode of The South Bank Show
New interview with Feil
Living "Lord of the Flies," a piece composed of never-before-seen footage shot by the boy actors during production, with new voice-over by actor Tom Gaman
Trailer - DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsAnton WalbrookMarius GoringMoira ShearerA young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.Audio Commentary by film historian Ian Christie, interviews with Marius Goring and Moira Shearer, cinematographer Jack Cardiff, composer Brian Easdale, and Martin Scorsese
Jeremy Irons reads excerpts from Powell and Pressburger's novelization of "The Red Shoes" and the original Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale
Martin Scorsese's collection of "Red Shoes" memorabilia
Publicity and behind-the-scenes production stills
The Red Shoes Sketches: animated film of Hein Heckroth's painted storyboards, with a comparison to "The Red Shoes" ballet
Powell and Pressburger filmography, including film clips and stills
Trailer
Profile of "The Red Shoes," a documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with members of the production team
Video interview with director Michael Powell's widow, Thelma Schoonmaker Powell, from the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, in which she discusses Powell, the film, and the restoration - DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHomayoun ErshadiAbdolhosein BagheriAfshin Khorshid BakhtiariAn Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.Theatrical trailer
Rare interview with filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami by Iranian film scholar Dr. Jamsheed Akrami - DirectorIrving PichelErnest B. SchoedsackStarsJoel McCreaFay WrayLeslie BanksA psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.Audio Commentary by film historian Bruce Eder
- DirectorErik SkjoldbjærgStarsStellan SkarsgårdSverre Anker OusdalMaria MathiesenIn a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle a Swedish murder investigator has been brought in on a special case. Sleep deprived, he makes a horrible mistake which is discovered by the killer he has been hunting.Norwegian trailer and TV spot, both with optional English subtitles
New conversation between director Erik Skjoldbjærg and actor Stellan Skarsgård
Two short films by Skjoldbjærg: Near Winter (1993) and Close to Home (1994)
Trailer - DirectorMarcel CamusStarsBreno MelloMarpessa DawnLourdes de OliveiraA retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.Archival interviews with director Marcel Camus and actress Marpessa Dawn
New video interviews with Brazilian cinema scholar Robert Stam, jazz historian Gary Giddins, and Brazilian author Ruy Castro
Looking for "Black Orpheus," a French documentary about Black Orpheus' cultural and musical roots and its resonance in Brazil today
Theatrical trailer - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsGiulietta MasinaFrançois PérierFranca MarziA waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.Uncut, restored theatrical re-release version features the never-before-seen 7 minute "man with a sack" sequence
Exclusive video interview with former Fellini assistant Dominique Delouche
Audio interview with producer Dino De Laurentiis
The original and re-release theatrical trailers
Excerpt from Fellini's The White Sheik, in which Masina makes her first appearance as Cabiria - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsFreddie JonesBarbara JeffordVictor PolettiIn 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJonathan PryceKim GreistRobert De NiroA bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.Audio Commentary by director Terry Gilliam
Production Notes
Theatrical trailer(s)
Interview with co-writer Tom Stoppard
Production and publicity stills
The Production Notebook, screenwriters Tom Stoppard and Charles McKeown illuminate the script's development through 3 drafts and 3 treatments. Production designer Norman Garwood displays his design's for Brazil's unique sets. Costume designer James Acheson explores the couture of fashion, fantasy and fascism. Terry Gilliam's original dream sequences, in storyboards, include hundreds of shots that never made it to the screen. Composer Michael Kames unveils the sources of his score. A study of the special effects includes footage of unused effects.
What is "Brazil?", Rob Hedden's rare 30 minutes witty on-set documentary features Terry Gilliam and other key members of the cast and crew
The Battle of "Brazil": A Video History, "Battle of Brazil" author Jack Matthews reassembles the players in the famous battle of Brazil's U.S. release in this original 1996 Criterion documentary. Terry Gilliam, producer Arnon Milchan, and several studio executives close the book on one of the noisiest, most unusual, and most instructive controversies in Hollywood history.
"Brazil: The Love Conquers All Version", with audio annotation by David Morgan, this 94 minute version of "Brazil", rearranged in the hope of making the film commercial, stands as a fascinating document of the power of editing to change a movie - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneEijirô TônoTatsuya NakadaiA crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.Audio Commentary by film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
A 45-minute documentary on the making of Yojimbo, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create, featuring Kurosawa, actor Tatsuya Nakadai, production designer Yoshiro Muraki, and longtime Kurosawa collaborator Teruyo Nogami
Theatrical teaser and trailer
Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTatsuya NakadaiKeiju KobayashiA crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.Audio Commentary by film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
A 35-minute documentary on the making of Sanjuro, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create, featuring Kurosawa, actor Tatsuya Nakadai, production designer Yoshiro Muraki, and longtime Kurosawa collaborator Teruyo Nogami
Theatrical teaser and trailer
Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos - DirectorAl ReinertStarsJim LovellKen MattinglyRussell SchweickartAn in-depth look at various NASA moon landing missions, starting with Apollo 8.Audio Commentary by producer-director Al Reinert and Apollo 17 commander Eugene A. Cerman, the last man to set foot on the moon
Paintings, with audio commentary, by Apollo 12 and Skylab astronaut Alan L. Bean
NASA audio highlights and liftoff footage
Optional onscreen identification of astronauts and mission control specialists
An Accidental Gift: The Making of “For All Mankind,” a new documentary featuring interviews with Reinert, Apollo 12 and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean, and NASA archive specialists
On Camera, a collection of excerpted on-screen interviews with fifteen of the Apollo astronauts - DirectorPhilip KaufmanStarsDaniel Day-LewisJuliette BinocheLena OlinCentral Europe, 1968: A Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.Audio Commentary by director Philip Kaufman, co-writer Jean-Claude Carriere, editor Walter Murch, and actor Lena Olin
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsRobert DonatMadeleine CarrollLucie MannheimA man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.Audio Commentary by Hitchcock scholar Marian Keane
Production notes
The complete 1937 broadcast of the Lux Radio Theatre adaptation performed by Robert Montgomery and Ida Lupino
The Art of Film: Vintage Hitchcock, the complete Janus Films documentary detailing the director's British period
Original footage from British broadcaster Mike Scott's 1966 television interview with Hitchcock
New visual essay by Hitchcock scholar Leonard Leff
Audio excerpts from François Truffaut's 1962 interviews with Hitchcock - DirectorStanley DonenStarsCary GrantAudrey HepburnWalter MatthauRomance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?Audio Commentary by Stanley Donen and screenwriter Peter Stone
The Films of Stanley Donen: A selected filmography, with an introduction by Donen biographer Stephen M. Silverman
Peter Stone's career highlights
Original theatrical trailer - DirectorMichael PowellStarsKarlheinz BöhmAnna MasseyMoira ShearerA young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.Audio Commentary by film theorist Laura Mulvey
Stills gallery of rare behind-the-scenes production photos
A Very British Psycho, directed by Chris Rodley: the Channel 4 U.K. documentary about the life of screenwriter Leo Marks, as well as the making and critical reception of Peeping Tom
Original theatrical trailer - DirectorLiliana CavaniStarsDirk BogardeCharlotte RamplingPhilippe LeroyA concentration camp survivor rekindles her sadomasochistic relationship with her lover, a former SS officer - now working as a night porter at a Vienna hotel - but his former Nazi associates begin stalking them.New interview with director Liliana Cavani
Women of the Resistance, a fifty-minute 1965 documentary by Cavani composed of interviews with female partisans who survived the German invasion of Italy, with an introduction by the filmmaker - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsIngrid BergmanLiv UllmannLena NymanA devoted wife is visited by her mother, a successful concert pianist who had little time for her when she was young.Audio Commentary by film historian Peter Cowie, author of Ingmar Bergman: A Critical Biography
Theatrical trailer
Introduction by Ingmar Bergman from 2003
The Making of “Autumn Sonata,” a three-and-a-half-hour program examining every aspect of the production
New interview with actor Liv Ullmann
A 1981 conversation between actor Ingrid Bergman and critic John Russell Taylor at the National Film Theatre in London - DirectorTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseMichael PalinBorn on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.Audio Commentary by Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, and Terry Jones
Audio Commentary by John Cleese and Michael Palin
Original theatrical trailer
Five rarely seen deleted scenes with audio commentary by the Pythons
Four original British radio ads
Documentary film The Pythons, shot on location during the making of Life of Brian - DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsMaria FalconettiEugene SilvainAndré BerleyIn 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.Audio Commentary by Casper Tybjerg, Dreyer scholar from the University of Copenhagen
Production notes
The film is accompanied by Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light, an original orchestral work inspired by the film and performed by renowned choral ensemble Anonymous 4, the Nederlands Radio Choir and the Nederlands Radio Philharmonic
Notes on Voices of Light, including interviews, essays, photographs and medieval texts used for the libretto
Interactive essay on the film's production and the life and trial of Joan of Arc
Multimedia history of the film's many versions
New interview with Einhorn
New conversation between Gregory and Utley
New video essay by Tybjerg exploring the debate over the film’s frame rate
Interview from 1995 with actor Renée Falconetti’s daughter and biographer, Hélène Falconetti - DirectorHerk HarveyStarsCandace HilligossFrances FeistSidney BergerAfter a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.Selected-scene Audio Commentary by screenwriter John Clifford and director Herk Harvey
The Movie That Wouldn't Die! The Story of the Carnival of Souls, a documentary on the 1989 reunion of the cast and crew
More than 45 minutes of rare outtakes accompanied by Gene Moore's organ score
Theatrical trailer
An illustrated history of the Saltair resort in Salt Lake City
The Carnival Tour, a video update on the film's locations
One hour of excerpts from films made by the Centron corporation, an industrial film company based in Lawrence, Kansas that employed Harvey and Clifford for over 30 years
New interview with writer and comedian Dana Gould
New video essay by film critic David Cairns - DirectorCarol ReedStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenAlida ValliPulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.Audio Commentary by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Tony Gilroy
Audio Commentary by film scholar Dana Polan
Video introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich
Abridged recording of Graham Greene's treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke
The Third Man on the radio: (1) the 1951 "A Ticket to Tangiers" episode of The Lives of Harry Lime series, written and performed by Orson Welles; and (2) the 1951 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of The Third Man
Joseph Cotten's alternate opening voiceover narration for the U.S. version
Archival footage of composer Anton Karas and the film's famous sewer location
A collection of rare behind-the-scenes photos, with a brief production history
Original and re-release theatrical trailers
Shadowing "The Third Man" (2005), a ninety-minute feature documentary on the making of the film
"Graham Greene: The Hunted Man," an hour-long, 1968 episode of the BBC's Omnibus series, featuring a rare interview with the novelist
Who Was the Third Man? (2000), a thirty-minute Austrian documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew - DirectorWes AndersonStarsJason SchwartzmanBill MurrayOlivia WilliamsA teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a much older teacher and befriends a middle-aged industrialist. Later, he finds out that his love interest and his friend are having an affair, which prompts him to begin a vendetta.Audio Commentary by co-writer/director Wes Anderson, co-writer Owen Wilson and star Jason Schwartzman
Production notes
Theatrical trailer(s)
Wes Anderson's Hand-Drawn Storyboards, Plus a Film-To-Storyboard Comparison
Cast Audition Footage: Jason Schwartzman, Sara Tanaka, Stephen McCole, Ronnie & Keith McCawley and Mason Gamble
Featurettes: The Making of Rushmore, an exclusive behind-the-scenes documentary by Eric Chase Anderson & The Charlie Rose Show, featuring Wes Anderson and Bill Murray
Max Fischer Players Present: Theatrical "adaptations" of Armageddon, The Truman Show & Out of Sight, stage especially for the 1999 MTV Movie Awards - DirectorJean CocteauStarsEnrique RiveroElizabeth Lee MillerPauline CartonTold in four episodes - an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios.A collection of rare behind-the-scenes photos
Edgardo Cozarinsky’s renowned 66-minute 1984 documentary Cocteau: Autoportrait d’un Inconnu (Autobiography of an Unknown)
A transcript of Cocteau’s lecture given at a 1932 screening of Blood of a Poet, and a 1946 essay by Cocteau
A Cocteau bibliofilmography - DirectorJean CocteauStarsJean MaraisFrançois PérierMaría CasaresA poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.Audio Commentary by French-film scholar James S. Williams
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown (1984), a feature-length documentary
Jean Cocteau and His Tricks (2008), a video interview with assistant director Claude Pinoteau
40 Minutes with Jean Cocteau (1957), an interview with the director
In Search of Jazz (1956), an interview with Cocteau on the use of jazz in the film
La villa Santo-Sospir (1951), a 16 mm color film by Cocteau
Gallery of images by French-film portrait photographer Roger Corbeau
Raw newsreel footage from 1950 of the Saint-Cyr military academy ruins, a location used in the film
Theatrical trailer - DirectorJean CocteauStarsJean CocteauFrançoise ArnoulClaudine AugerThe Poet looks back over his life and work, recalling his inspirations and obsessions.Villa Santo Sospir, a 16 mm color film by Cocteau featuring many of the locations used in The Testament of Orpheus
A collection of Cocteau’s writings on the film
A Cocteau bibliofilmography - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsWillem DafoeHarvey KeitelBarbara HersheyThe life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.Audio Commentary by director Martin Scorsese, actor Willem Dafoe, and writers Paul Schrader and Jay Cocks
Galleries of production stills, research materials, and costume designs
Location production footage shot by Scorsese
Interview with composer Peter Gabriel, with a stills gallery of traditional instruments used in the score - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsUlrik ColdJosef KöstlingerIrma UrrilaThe story of the prince Tamino and his zestful sidekick Papageno, who are sent on a mission to save a beautiful princess from the clutches of evil.Interview with director Ingmar Bergman recorded in 1974 for Swedish television
New interview with film scholar Peter Cowie
Tystnad! Tagning! Trollflöjten! (1975), a feature-length documentary produced for Swedish television about the making of the film - DirectorRené ClairStarsAnnabellaRené LefèvreJean-Louis AllibertAn impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.A rare American television interview with René Clair
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsCorinne MarchandAntoine BourseillerDominique DavrayCleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.Remembrances (2005), a documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Varda and actors Corinne Marchand and Antoine Bourseiller
Gallery of paintings by Hans Baldung Grien, whose work inspired the character of Cléo
Excerpt from a 1993 French television program featuring Madonna and Varda talking about the film
Cléo's Real Path Through Paris (2005), a short film retracing, on a motorcycle, Cléo's steps through Paris
Les fiancés du pont Macdonald (1961), a short film directed by Varda, featuring some of her new wave colleagues, with Varda explaining why the film was featured in Cléo
L’opéra Mouffe (1958), an early short by Varda, with a score by Georges Delerue
Theatrical trailer - DirectorAgnès VardaStarsSandrine BonnaireMacha MérilStéphane FreissA young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.Remembrances (2003), a documentary on the making of the film, including interviews with Sandrine Bonnaire and other cast members
The Story of an Old Lady (2003), a short piece in which Varda revisits actress Marthe Jarnias, who plays the old aunt in the film
Music and Dolly Shots, (2003), a conversation between Varda and composer Joanna Bruzdowicz
A 1986 radio interview with Varda and writer Nathalie Sarraute, who inspired the film
Theatrical trailer - DirectorKevin SmithStarsBen AffleckJoey Lauren AdamsEthan SupleeHolden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.Scene-specific Audio Commentary by Kevin Smith, actors Ben Affleck and Jason Mewes, associate producer Robert Hawk, Miramax executive Jon Gordon, and View Askew historian Vincent Pereira
Ten deleted scenes, plus outtakes
Trailer
Special video introductions from the cast and crew
The Askewniverse Legend: a guide to the characters in the “New Jersey Trilogy” - DirectorDavid LeanStarsCelia JohnsonTrevor HowardStanley HollowayMeeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.Audio Commentary by film historian Bruce Eder
Interview from 2012 with Noël Coward scholar Barry Day
A Profile of “Brief Encounter,” a short documentary from 2000 on the making of the film
David Lean: A Self Portrait, a 1971 television documentary on Lean’s career
Restored theatrical trailer - DirectorRoger VadimStarsBrigitte BardotCurd JürgensJean-Louis TrintignantIn sunny St. Tropez, a young woman loves one brother but marries the other.U.S. theatrical trailer
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsW.C. FieldsCora WitherspoonUna MerkelHenpecked Egbert Sousé has comic adventures as a substitute film director and unlikely bank guard.
- StarsW.C. FieldsW. C. Fields's six gems that feature the comic genius at his peak: The Golf Specialist, Pool Sharks (silent), The Pharmacist, The Fatal Glass of Beer, The Barber Shop, and The Dentist.The Pool Sharks (1915)
The Golf Specialist (1930)
The Dentist (1932)
The Pharmacist (1933)
The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)
The Barber Shop (1933) - DirectorLars von TrierStarsMichael ElphickEsmond KnightMe Me LaiA cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor.Stig Björkman’s critically acclaimed 52-minute documentary Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier (1997), with optional English subtitles
Trailer - DirectorFederico FelliniAlberto LattuadaStarsPeppino De FilippoCarla Del PoggioGiulietta MasinaA beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
- DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsLaurence OlivierJean SimmonsJohn LauriePrince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.
- DirectorPerry HenzellStarsJimmy CliffJanet BartleyCarl BradshawWishing to become a successful reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.Audio Commentary by Perry Henzell and star Jimmy Cliff
Exclusive video interview with Island Records founder Chris Blackwell - DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsKeiji SadaYoshiko KugaChishû RyûTwo boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.I Was Born, But . . ., Yasujiro Ozu’s 1932 silent comedy, with a 2008 score by Donald Sosin
New interview with film scholar David Bordwell
New video essay on Ozu’s use of humor by critic David Cairns
Fragment of A Straightforward Boy, a 1929 silent film by Ozu - DirectorAnthony AsquithLeslie HowardStarsLeslie HowardWendy HillerWilfrid LawsonA phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinDmitriy VasilevStarsNikolay CherkasovNikolai OkhlopkovAndrei AbrikosovThe story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.Audio Commentary by film scholar David Bordwell, author of The Cinema of Eisenstein
Russell Merritt’s multimedia essay on the Eisenstein-Prokofiev collaboration
A reconstruction of Eisenstein’s unfinished film Bezhin Meadow by the Eisenstein Museum’s Naum Kleiman, plus scholar Jay Leyda’s photos and documents from the set
Drawings and production stills - DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovLyudmila TselikovskayaSerafima BirmanDuring the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.Multimedia essay on the history of Ivan the Terrible by Joan Neuberger, director of the Center for Soviet Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
Deleted scenes
Drawings and production stills - DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovSerafima BirmanPavel KadochnikovAs Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.Multimedia essay on Eisenstein's visual vocabulary by Yuri Tsivian, art history professor at the University of Chicago
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsMargot KidderJennifer SaltCharles DurningA small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.A 1973 interview with De Palma on the making of SISTERS
Rare Study of Siamese Twins in the Soviet, the 1966 LIFE magazine article that inspired De Palma
Excerpts from the original press book, including ads and posters
New interview with actor Jennifer Salt
Interviews from 2004 with De Palma, actors Bill Finley and Charles Durning, editor Paul Hirsch, and producer Edward R. Pressman
Audio from a 1973 discussion with De Palma at the American Film Institute
Appearance from 1970 by actor Margot Kidder on The Dick Cavett Show - DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsRentarô MikuniMichiyo AratamaMisako WatanabeA collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.Audio Commentary by film historian Stephen Prince
Interview with Kobayashi from 1993, conducted by filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda
New interview with assistant director Kiyoshi Ogasawara
New piece about author Lafcadio Hearn, on whose versions of Japanese folktales Kwaidan is based
Trailers - DirectorIrvin S. Yeaworth Jr.Russell S. Doughten Jr.StarsSteve McQueenAneta CorsautEarl RoweAn alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.Audio Commentary by producer Jack H. Harris and film historian Bruce Eder
Audio Commentary by director Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. and actor Robert Fields
Trailer
Blobabilia!, a gallery of collector Wes Shank’s rare trove of stills, posters, props (including the blob itself!), and other ephemera - DirectorArthur CrabtreeStarsMarshall ThompsonTerry KilburnMichael BalfourA scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller.Audio Commentary by executive producer Richard Gordon and genre film writer Tom Weaver
Illustrated essay on British sci-fi/horror filmmaking by film historian Bruce Eder
A collection of trailers from Gordon Films: Fiend without a Face, The Haunted Strangler, Corridors of Blood, First Man into Space, and The Atomic Submarine
Rare still photographs and ephemera, with commentary
Vintage advertisements and lobby cards - DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsDeborah KerrDavid FarrarFlora RobsonA group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.Audio Commentary by Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese
Painting with Light, a new video documentary on Jack Cardiff and Black Narcissus by Craig McCall, produced exclusively for this release
A collection of rare behind-the-scenes production stills
Video introduction by filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier
The Audacious Adventurer, a video piece in which Tavernier discusses the film and Powell
Profile of “Black Narcissus,” a documentary featuring members of the Archers’ production team
Original theatrical trailer - DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsWendy HillerRoger LiveseyPamela BrownA young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.Audio Commentary by film historian Ian Christie
Behind-the-scenes stills, narrated by Thelma Schoonmaker Powell
The 1994 documentary I Know Where I’m Going! Revisited, by Mark Cousins
Excerpts from Michael Powell’s 1937 feature The Edge of The World, with commentary, and the 1978 documentary Return to the Edge of the World
Photo essay by I Know Where I’m Going! aficionado Nancy Franklin, who explores the locations used in the film
Home movies from one of Michael Powell’s Scottish expeditions, narrated by Thelma Schoonmaker Powell - DirectorDouglas SirkStarsJane WymanRock HudsonAgnes MooreheadAn upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.Audio Commentary by film scholars John Mercer and Tamar Jeffers-McDonald
Excerpts from Behind the Mirror: A Profile of Douglas Sirk, a 1979 BBC documentary featuring rare interview footage with the director
"Imitation of Life: On the Films of Douglas Sirk": a seminal essay by Sirk admirer and filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, illustrated with rare ephemera
A stills archive with production photos and vintage lobby cards
Rock Hudson’s Home Movies (1992), a groundbreaking essay film about the actor by Mark Rappaport
French television interview with director Douglas Sirk from 1982
Contract Kid: William Reynolds on Douglas Sirk, a 2007 interview with the actor, who costarred in three Sirk films, including All That Heaven Allows
Trailer - DirectorDouglas SirkStarsRock HudsonLauren BacallRobert StackAlcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's nymphomaniac sister.The Melodrama Archive: An annotated filmography of director Douglas Sirk with hundreds of behind-the-scenes and production photos, plus vintage lobby cards
Original theatrical trailers for Written on the Wind and All That Heaven Allows - DirectorSpike LeeStarsDanny AielloOssie DavisRuby DeeOn the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.Audio Commentary by director Spike Lee, production designer Wynn Thomas, and actor Joie Lee
New video introduction by Spike Lee
St. Clair Bourne's 60-minute documentary The Making of "Do the Right Thing"
Spike Lee and line producer John Kilik revisit the film's Bed-Stuy locations
Public Enemy's video for "Fight the Power," directed by Spike Lee
The 1989 Cannes Film Festival press conference with Spike Lee, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, and Joie Lee
Spike Lee's behind-the-scenes footage, from rehearsal to wrap
Original storyboards for the riot sequence
New video interview with editor Barry Brown
Theatrical trailer and TV spots
Spike's Last Words
New interviews with costume designer Ruth E. Carter, New York City Council Member Robert Cornegy Jr., writer Nelson George, and filmmaker Darnell Martin
Three programs from 2000 and 2009, featuring Lee and cast and crew members Barry Alexander Brown, Chuck D, Dickerson, Richard Edson, Frankie Faison, Jon Kilik, Kevin Ladson, Steve Park, Rosie Perez, Luis Ramos, Monty Ross, John Savage, Roger Guenveur Smith, and John Turturro - DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsGabriele FerzettiMonica VittiLea MassariA woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.Audio Commentary by film historian Gene Youngblood
Theatrical trailer
Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials, a 58 minute documentary by Gianfranco Mingozzi from 1966
Writings by director Michelangelo Antonioni, read by Jack Nicholson -- plus Nicholson's recollection of the director
Reprint of Antonioni's statements about L'avventura, circulated after the film's premiere at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival
Olivier Assayas on “L’avventura,” an analysis of the film in three parts - DirectorAlbert MayslesDavid MayslesCharlotte ZwerinStarsMick JaggerKeith RichardsMick TaylorWhen three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco's Altamont Speedway, the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment was immortalized on this film.Audio Commentary by directors Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, and collaborator Stanley Goldstein
Never-before-seen performances of the Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden in 1969, including "Little Queenie," "Oh Carol," and "Prodigal Son," plus backstage outtakes
Excerpts from KSAN Radio's Altamont wrap-up, recorded December 7, 1969, with new introduction by then-DJ, Stefan Ponek
Altamont stills gallery, featuring the work of renowned photographers Bill Owens and Beth Sunflower
Original and rerelease theatrical trailers, plus trailers for Maysles Films' classics Grey Gardens and Salesman
Filmographies for Maysles Films and Charlotte Zwerin - DirectorEvan BernardAdam BernsteinTamra DavisStarsAdam HorovitzAdam YauchMike DA compilation of video clips by the Beastie Boys.Audio Commentary by the band and the directors, including Adam Bernstein, Evan Bernard, Tamra Davis, Spike Jonze, Ari Marcropoulos, and David Perez
Eighteen videos: "Intergalactic," "Shake Your Rump," "Gratitude," "Something’s Got to Give," "Sure Shot," "Hey Ladies," "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun," "Body Movin’," "So What’Cha Want," "Sabotage," "Shadrach," "Three MCs and One DJ," "Ricky’s Theme," "Pass the Mic," "Holy Snappers," "Root Down," "Netty’s Girl," and "Alive."
Over 100 video angles and audio tracks switchable at any time during playback.
More than forty remixes by Beastie Boys, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Fred C., Mario Caldato, Joey Chavez, Colleone & Webb, Count Bass D, DJ Cheapshot, Dj J-Rocc & Dj Truly OdD, DJ Moe Love, DJ Strictnine and Paranorm, Dub Hackers, Egon & Jon Doe, Evidence, Fatboy Slim, Kut Masta Kurt, Large Professor, Latch Brothers, Madlib, Micky Finn & Special K, Moby, Mum’s the word, Mike Nardone, DJPaul Nice, OD, Peanut Butter Wolf, Shawn J. Period & Wizdom Life, Prince Paul, Prisoners of Technology, Prunes, J Rawls, Sam Sever & Johnathan Hoffman, Soul Assassins, and T- Ray, including many new remixes created exclusively for this release.
The world-premiere director’s cut of Nathanial Hornblower’s “Intergalactic” spin-off “The Robot vs. the Octopus Monster Saga.”
Interview with the cast of “Sabotage”
Still photographs
Storyboards
Special collectible poster
A cappella versions - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsHarriet AnderssonLiv UllmannKari SylwanWhen a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.Ingmar Bergman: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love with Erland Josephson (2000), a fifty-two-minute interview with Bergman and his longtime collaborator Erland Josephson, originally broadcast on Swedish television
Introduction by director Ingmar Bergman from 2001
New interview with actor Harriet Andersson, conducted by historian Peter Cowie
On Solace, a new video essay by filmmaker :: kogonada
Behind-the-scenes footage with commentary by Cowie
Trailer