Ingmar Bergman's Cinema - Set Blu-ray
Dietrich and von Sternberg in Hollywood Morocco, Dishonored, Shanghai Express, Blonde Venus, The Scarlet Empress, The Devil Is a Woman The Criterion Collection Blu-ray
Suffused with frank sexuality and worldly irony, these deliriously entertaining masterpieces are landmarks of cinematic artifice. Despite production difficulties courtesy of the hays office, the director’s baroque visual style shines, as do one of the most memorable musical numbers in all of cinema and a parade of visionary costumes by von Sternberg and Dietrich’s longtime collaborator Travis Banton.
New documentary about actor Marlene Dietrich's German origins, featuring film scholars Gerd Gemünden and Noah Isenberg. The fashion side of hollywood, a 1935 publicity short featuring Dietrich and costume designer Travis Banton. Tasked by studio executives with finding the next great screen siren, visionary Hollywood director Josef von Sternberg joined forces with rising German actor Marlene Dietrich, kicking off what would become one of the most legendary partnerships in cinema history.
Ever the ornate visual stylist, von sternberg evokes Spanish culture with a touch of the luridly fantastic, further elevated by Travis Banton’s opulent costume design and award-winning cinematography by von Sternberg himself. The devil is a woman josef von sternberg and marlene dietrich went out with a bang in their final film together, The Devil Is a Woman, a surreal tale of erotic passion and danger set amid the tumult of carnival in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Spain.
Adopting the codename x-27, dietrich’s wily heroine devotes her gifts for seduction and duplicity—as well as her musical talents—to the patriotic cause, until she finds a worthy adversary in a roguish Russian colonel Victor McLaglen, who draws her into a fatal game of cat and mouse and tests the strength of her loyalties.
War and Peace The Criterion Collection Blu-ray
1 surround dts-hd master audio soundtrack • new interviews with cinematographer anatoly petritsky and filmmaker Fedor Bondarchuk, son of Sergei Bondarchuk • Two 1966 documentaries about the making of the film • Television program from 1967 profiling actor Ludmila Savelyeva, and featuring Sergei Bondarchuk • New program with historian Denise J.
. The fashion side of hollywood, a 1935 publicity short featuring Dietrich and costume designer Travis Banton. Youngblood bondarchuk’s “war and peace”: literary classic to soviet cinematic Epic detailing the cultural and historical contexts for the film • Janus rerelease trailer • New English subtitle translation • PLUS: An essay by critic Ella Taylor Shrink-wrapped.
At the height of the cold war, good-hearted pierre; the heroically tragic prince andrei; and the radiant, the Soviet film industry set out to prove it could outdo Hollywood with a production that would dazzle the world: a titanic, awe-inspiring adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic tome in which the fates of three souls—the blundering, tempestuous Natasha—collide amid the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars.
Employing a cast of thousands and an array of innovative camera techniques, director Sergei Bondarchuk conjures a sweeping vision of grand balls that glitter with rococo beauty and breathtaking battles that overwhelm with their expressionistic power. New documentary about actor Marlene Dietrich's German origins, featuring film scholars Gerd Gemünden and Noah Isenberg.
Plus: a book featuring essays by critics Imogen Sara Smith, Gary Giddins, and Farran Smith Nehme.
The Passion of Joan of Arc The Criterion Collection Blu-ray
Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent masterpieces of the silent era. Blu-ray special edition features: New 2K or 4K digital restorations of all six films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks. Plus: a book featuring essays by critics Imogen Sara Smith, Gary Giddins, and Farran Smith Nehme.
Anchoring dreyer's audacious formal experimentation is a legendary performance by Renée Falconetti, whose haunted face channels both the agony and the ecstasy of martyrdom. Blu-ray special edition features- new high-definition digital restoration of the film by gaumont, a choral and orchestral work performed by vocal group anonymous 4, presented at 24 frames per second- alternate presentation of the film at 20 frames per second with original danish intertitles- three scores: richard einhorn's VOICES OF LIGHT, soloist Susan Narucki, Hélène Falconetti- Version history- Production design archive- New English subtitle translation- PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Le Fanu, and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Choir; another by Goldfrapp's Will Gregory and Portishead's Adrian Utley; and the third composed and performed by pianist Mie Yanashita- Audio commentary from 1999 by film scholar Casper Tybjerg- 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, a 1929 director's statement by Carl Theodor Dreyer, and the full libretto for VOICES OF LIGHT Shrink-wrapped.
New documentary on dietrich's status as a feminist icon, Amy Lawrence, featuring film scholars Mary Desjardins, and Patricia White. The legionnaire and the lady, a 1936 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Morocco, featuring Dietrich and actor Clark Gable.
The Magnificent Ambersons The Criterion Collection Blu-ray
Plus: a book featuring essays by critics Imogen Sara Smith, Gary Giddins, and Farran Smith Nehme. Bray shrink-wrapped. Shrink-wrapped. Blu-ray special edition features: New 2K or 4K digital restorations of all six films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks. New documentary on dietrich's status as a feminist icon, Amy Lawrence, featuring film scholars Mary Desjardins, and Patricia White.
The legionnaire and the lady, a 1936 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Morocco, featuring Dietrich and actor Clark Gable. New documentary about actor Marlene Dietrich's German origins, featuring film scholars Gerd Gemünden and Noah Isenberg. Shrink-wrapped. Television interview with Dietrich from 1971. New video essay by critics Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López.
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The BRD Trilogy Marriage of Maria Braun / Lola / Veronika Voss The Criterion Collection Blu-ray
Shrink-wrapped. Television interview with Dietrich from 1971. As their unlikely relationship develops, Robert comes to discover the dark secrets that brought about the decline of Veronika’s career. Fassbinder’s the marriage of maria braun, both at home and abroad, and Lola—The BRD Trilogy—would garner him his greatest commercial success, Veronika Voss, and cement his position as one of the foremost figures of the New German Cinema.
In 1977, german director rainer Werner Fassbinder was thirty-two years old and had already directed more than twenty-five feature films. W. New video essay by critics Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López. Based on the true story of a world war ii Ufa star, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss is wicked satire disguised as 1950s melodrama.
Blu-ray special edition features: New 2K or 4K digital restorations of all six films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks.
Andrei Rublev Blu-ray
Shrink-wrapped. Television interview with Dietrich from 1971. New documentary on dietrich's status as a feminist icon, featuring film scholars Mary Desjardins, Amy Lawrence, and Patricia White. The legionnaire and the lady, a 1936 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Morocco, featuring Dietrich and actor Clark Gable.
The fashion side of hollywood, a 1935 publicity short featuring Dietrich and costume designer Travis Banton. Blu-ray special edition features: New 2K or 4K digital restorations of all six films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks. New documentary about actor Marlene Dietrich's German origins, featuring film scholars Gerd Gemünden and Noah Isenberg.
This dreamlike and remarkably tactile film follows andrei rublev as he passes through a series of poetically linked scenes—snow falls inside an unfinished church, naked pagans stream through a thicket during a torchlit ritual, a boy oversees the clearing away of muddy earth for the forging of a gigantic bell—gradually emerging as a man struggling mightily to preserve his creative and religious integrity.
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Until the End of the World The Criterion Collection Blu-ray
1 surround dts-hd master audio soundtrack • new introduction by wenders • new interview with wenders about the film’s soundtrack • new conversation between wenders and musician david byrne • behind-the-scenes program detailing the creation of the film’s high-definition sequences • Interview with Wenders from 2001 • Up Down Under Roma, a 1993 interview with Wenders on his experiences in Australia • The Song, a short film by Uli M Schueppel detailing the recording of “I’ll Love You Till the End of the World” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds • Deleted scenes • Trailer • PLUS: Essays by critics Bilge Ebiri and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on the film and its soundtrack Shrink-wrapped.
New interviews with film scholars janet bergstrom and Homay King; director Josef von Sternberg's son, Nicholas; Deutsche Kinemathek curator Silke Ronneburg; and costume designer and historian Deborah Nadoolman Landis. The fashion side of hollywood, a 1935 publicity short featuring Dietrich and costume designer Travis Banton.
New documentary on dietrich's status as a feminist icon, Amy Lawrence, featuring film scholars Mary Desjardins, and Patricia White. The legionnaire and the lady, a 1936 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Morocco, featuring Dietrich and actor Clark Gable. Shrink-wrapped. Shrink-wrapped.
Do the Right Thing The Criterion Collection Blu-ray
Clair bourne • New interviews with costume designer Ruth E. Shrink-wrapped. Carter, camera assistant Darnell Martin, New York City Council Member Robert Cornegy Jr. With remarks from rapper chuck d • behind-the-scenes footage • cannes film festival press conference from 1989 • deleted and extended scenes • original storyboards, and writer nelson George • Interview with editor Barry Alexander Brown from 2000 • Programs from 2000 and 2009 featuring Lee and members of the cast and crew • Music video for Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power, ” directed by Lee, and TV spots • PLUS: An essay by critic Vinson Cunningham, trailer, and extensive excerpts from the journal Lee kept during the preparation for and production of the film Shrink-wrapped.
The fashion side of hollywood, a 1935 publicity short featuring Dietrich and costume designer Travis Banton. New documentary about actor Marlene Dietrich's German origins, featuring film scholars Gerd Gemünden and Noah Isenberg. Shrink-wrapped. Set on one block of brooklyn’s bed-stuy do or die neighborhood, at the height of summer, this 1989 masterpiece by Spike Lee confirmed him as a writer and filmmaker of peerless vision and passionate social engagement.
Director-approved two-blu-ray special edition features • new 4k digital restoration, approved by cinematographer Ernest Dickerson, with 5.
Blue Velvet The Criterion Collection Blu-ray
Shrink-wrapped. Shrink-wrapped. New interviews with film scholars janet bergstrom and Homay King; director Josef von Sternberg's son, Nicholas; Deutsche Kinemathek curator Silke Ronneburg; and costume designer and historian Deborah Nadoolman Landis. Shrink-wrapped. New documentary on dietrich's status as a feminist icon, featuring film scholars Mary Desjardins, Amy Lawrence, and Patricia White.
The legionnaire and the lady, a 1936 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Morocco, featuring Dietrich and actor Clark Gable. New documentary about actor Marlene Dietrich's German origins, featuring film scholars Gerd Gemünden and Noah Isenberg. New video essay by critics Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López.
. Television interview with Dietrich from 1971. Plus: a book featuring essays by critics Imogen Sara Smith, Gary Giddins, and Farran Smith Nehme.