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Another small label with an assortment of exclusives and other features of interest, especially to Rossellini fans. You can even find John Ford silents and a Kurosawa martial arts film! Some films are packaged with short subjects by the same director, or with restored sequences -- look for details.


(Note that the titles that do not have a checkbox next to them are not available through our databases) Repriced! Available at $29.99 each:

A Nous la Liberte
Bizarre Bizarre
Carnival in Flanders
Day in the Country
Gervaise
Miracle, The
Quiet One
Zero for Conduct


Also in the collection:

Age of the Medici
Roberto Rossellini. Color.
Art, money, and politics, in Renaissance Florence.
Italy, 1972, filmed in English, 255 min., $129.99

Anatahan
Josef von Sternberg's last film. B&W.
Japanese soldiers and one woman on a desert island. Plus: The Town, a 1944 Sternberg documentary, 12 min.
Japan, 1954, 104 min., $59.99

I Bambini Ci Guardano (The Children Are Watching Us)
Vittorio De Sica. B&W.
A little boy suffers as his parents' marriage dissolves. De Sica's most heartrending film; a critical look at Mussolini's Italy.
Italy, 1942, subtitled, 84 min., $59.99

Le Beau Serge
Claude Chabrol. B&W.
Young Parisian comes home to Auvergne -- the first New Wave film.
France, 1958, subtitled, 97 min., $59.99

La Bete Humaine (The Human Beast)
Jean Renoir. Jean Gabin, Simone Simon.
Zola, adultery, murder.
France, 1938, subtitled, 100 min., $29.99

Blaise Pascal
Roberto Rossellini. Color
A detailed depiction of 17th century French mores; one of the best history films ever.
in original French, 1971, subtitled, 130 min., $75.99

Chikamatsu Monogatari (The Crucified Lovers)
Kenji Mizoguchi. B&W
In 17th-century Japan illicit love leads to tragedy.
1954, subtitled, 110 min., $59.99

Culloden and Wargame
Peter Watkins.
"You Are There" style enactment of Bonnie Prince Charlie's battle in 18th-century Scotland, plus his famed portrait of life after nuclear war.
England, 123 min., $59.95

Les Cousins
Claude Chabrol.
A provincial finds bitter truths in Paris.
France, 1958, subtitled, 110 min., $59.99

Era Notte a Roma
Roberto Rossellini. B&W. Giovanna Ralli, Leo Glenn.
Allied POWs hide in occupied Rome during WW2.
Italy, 1961, subtitled, 140 min., $75.99

Exile, The
Max Ophuls. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Swashbuckler as Charles II.
US, 1946, 90 min., $29.99

Fear
Roberto Rossellini. B&W. With Ingrid Bergman.
In Germany, an unfaithful wife is blackmailed.
in English (Note: Fear was shot first in English, then in German.), 1954, $59.99

Francesco Giullare Di Dio (Francis, God's Jester)
Roberto Rossellini. B&W.
Neo-realist recreation of Francis of Assisi -- one of Rossellini's major masterpieces. (Note: Includes a sequence missing from earlier editions)
Italy, 1950, subtitled, 88 min., $59.99

Germany Year Zero
Roberto Rossellini. B&W.
Ex-Hitler Youth, 12, confronts postwar horrors. (Note: This is the original edition in German with English subtitles, not the Italian dubbing (not overseen by Rossellini) released later.)
Germany-Italy, 1947, subtitled, $59.99

Liebelei
Max Ophuls. With Magda Schneider.
One of the best and most popular of pre-war German films; a tragic love story that established Ophuls's reputation. Plus: Ophuls' Valse Brillante (1936).
Germany, 1932, 90 min., subtitled, $59.99

Listen To Britain
True Story of Lili Marlene; Diary for Timothy; Cumberland Story; Humphrey Jennings. Poetic documentaries set during World War II.
England, 1942-47, 120 min., $59.99

La Marseillaise
Jean Renoir
A Popular Front reading of the French revolution, and the end of Louis XVI.
France, 1937, subtitled, 140 min., $29.99

Ordet
Carl Th. Dreyer.
Two puritanical families.
Denmark, 1955, subtitled, 125 min., $34.99

Paisan
Roberto Rossellini.
6 episodes during Italy's WW2 liberation.
Italy, 1946, subtitled, 120 min., $29.99

Le Plaisir
Max Ophuls. With Jean Gabin, Daniele Darrieux.
3 DeMaupassant tales.
France, 1951, subtitled, $29.99

La Prise De Pouvoir Par Louis XIV (The Taking of Power by Louis XIV)
Roberto Rossellini. Color.
A detailed reconstruction of 17th century France.
France, 1966, subtitled, 102 min., $59.99

Sanshiro Sugata (Judo Saga)
Akira Kurosawa (his first film).
Ju-jitsu masters oppose intro of judo.
Japan, 1943, subtitled, 80 min., $29.99

Sansho The Bailiff
Kenji Mizoguchi.
Noble children, sold into slavery, persevere in virtue.
Japan, 1954, subtitled, 125 min., $34.99

Sin Heike Monogatari (Tara Clan Saga)
Kenji Mizoguchi. Color.
Samurai family struggles for power in medieval Japan. One of two Mizoguchi films in color.
Japan, 1955, subtitled, 108 min., $59.99

Shoeshine (Sciuscia)
Vittorio De Sica.
Orphaned boys in postwar Italy.
Italy, 1946, subtitled, 90 min., $59.99

La Signora Di Tutti
Max Ophuls
Among the greatest of all pre-war films.
Italy, 1933, subtitled, 90 min., $39.99

The Sisters Of The Gion (Gion no shimai)
Kenji Mizoguchi.
Two geisha sisters contrast new and traditional morality.
Japan, 1936, subtitled, 66 min., $59.99

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
Kenji Mizoguchi
The life of a Kubuki actor.
Japan, 1939, subtitled, 142 min., $79.99

Straight Shooting
John Ford. Harry Carey
First feature by America's greatest director.
Plus: Blazing the Trail -- Thomas Ince; 101 Bison 1912, with Francis Ford; Under the Stars and Bars -- 1910; Melies Star -- made in Texas, Francis Ford directs and stars; Unmasked -- 1917 reissue of Black Masks (Universal, 1913), by Francis Ford & Grace Cunard.
US, ca. 1917, with music, 60 min. $59.99

Stromboli
Ingrid Bergman plays a refugee trapped by marriage on a primitive island. Rossellini's own, drastically different, shot-in-English edition. (Note: *not* the RKO release.)
Italy, 1949, 105 min., $59.99

La Terra Trema
Luchino Visconti
Neo-realist saga of Sicilian fishermen.
Italy, 1948, subtitled, 161 min., $49.99

Vanina Vanini
Roberto Rossellini. Color.
Stendhal's story of love.
Italy, 1961, subtitled, 125 min., $59.99

I Vitelloni
Federico Fellini. With Franco Sordi.
Shiftless youths in Ravenna.
Italy, 1953, subtitled, 104 min., $59.99

Voyage In Italy
Roberto Rossellini. With Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders.
Shot in English.
Italy, 1953, 88 min., $29.99



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