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DEAL OF OCTOBER 2004

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DEAL OF SEPT 2004

These are the same transfers as the existing Image DVDs. The Essanay discs are $22.49 each (X3) and the Mutual discs are $26.99 each (X3) - this boxset for $63.00 is a super deal!

 

  

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March

 

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Week of March 4th

 


Arrowsmith (John Ford 1931) MGM

The Barbary Coast (Howard Hawks 1935) MGM

Bright Future (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2003) Palm Pictures

Charly (Ralph Nelson 1968) MGM

Columbo - The Complete Second Season (1972) Universal

Come and Get It (Wyler/Hawks 1936) MGM

Dead End (Wyler 1937) MGM

Dolls (Takeshi Kitano, 2002) Palm Pictures

Enchantment (Reis 1948) MGM

The Hairdresser's Husband (Patrice Leconte, 1991) Second Sight [R2-UK]

Intervista (Federico Fellini, 1985) Koch Lorber
Moloch (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1999) Koch Lorber
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2004) Bandai Visual [R2-Japan]

Le Parfum d'Yvonne (Patrice Leconte, 1994) Second Sight [R2-UK]

Stella Dallas (King Vidor 1937) MGM

Tango (Patrice Leconte, 1993) Second Sight [R2-UK]

We Live Again (Rouben Mamoulian 1934) MGM


Week of March 13th

 


Call Northside 777
(Hathaway 1948) Fox

Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1943) Optimum [R2-UK]
Deep Crimson (Arturo Ripstein, 1996) Home Vision
L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962) Criterion

House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller 1955) Fox

Laura (Rouben Mamoulian, Otto Preminger 1944) Fox

Masculin, féminin (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) Nouveaux Pictures [R2-UK]

The Classic Musicals Collection - Broadway to Hollywood (Easter Parade Two Disc Special Edition / The Band Wagon Two Disc Special Edition / Bells Are Ringing / Finian's Rainbow / Brigadoon)

Panic in the Streets (Kazan 1950) Fox
The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966) Criterion

Two Or Three Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966) Nouveaux [R2-UK]

Vivre sa vie (My Life to Live) (Jean-Luc Godard, ) Nouveaux Pictures [R2-UK]
Young Törless (Volker Schlöndorff, 1966) Criterion



Week of March 20th

 

 


Un Condamné à mort c'est echappé (A Man Escaped)/Lancelot du lac/Le Diable probablement (The Devil Probably) (Robert Bresson, 1956/1974/1976) Gaumont [R2-France] (no English subs, also available separately)

Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1965) Arte [R2-France] (no English subs)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974) MGM

Distant (Uzak) (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002) New Yorker

The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966) Eureka/Moc [R2-UK]
Intimate Strangers (Patrice Leconte, 2004) Fox [R2-Uk]

Land and Freedom (Ken Loach, 1995) Artificial Eye [R2-UK]

Look at Me (Agnes Jaoui, 2004) [R2-UK] Pathe

Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1966) Arte [R2-France] (no English subs)

Not on the Lips (Pas sur la bouche) (Alain Resnais, 2003) Wellspring

Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1962) Eureka/Moc [R2-UK]


Week of March 27th

 

 


Anatomy of Hell (Catherine Breillat, 2004) Tartan [R2-UK]

Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer, 1998) Artificial Eye [R2-UK]

A Bell from Hell (Claudio Guerín Hill, 1973) Pathfinder
Confession (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1998) Facets
Eroica (Andrzej Munk, 1957) Facets

Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard, 1985) Jef Film Inc
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1962) bfi [R2-UK]

House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou, 2004) Columbia TriStar
I Live in Fear (aka Record of a Living Being) (Akira Kurosawa) bfi [R2-UK]

Jules and Jim (François Truffaut, 1962) Criterion

Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa, 1980) Criterion

The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941) Universal [R2-UK]

Lady in a Cage (Grauman 1964) Paramount
The Last Supper (Fereydoun Jeyrani, 2002) Tartan [R2-UK]
Pearls of the Deep (aka Pearls Down Below) (Véra Chytilová/Jaromil Jires/Jirí Menzel/Jan Nemec/Evald Schorm, 1965) Facets
Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1945) Arrow Film Distributors [R2-UK]

Save the Green Planet (Jeong Jun-hwan, 2003) Tartan [R2-UK]
The Silence Between Two Thoughts (Babak Payami, 2003) Artificial Eye [R2-UK]

Sixth Happiness (Warris Hussein, 1997) bfi [R2-UK]

Sonic Outlaws (Craig Baldwin, 1995) Facets
Spectres of the Spectrum (Craig Baldwin, 1999) Facets
Spiritual Voices (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1995) Facets
Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturge, 1941) Universal [R2-UK]

A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer, 1996) Artificial Eye [R2-UK]
Tale of Winter (Eric Rohmer, 1992) Artificial Eye [R2-UK]

Three War Films: A Generation/Kanal/Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1955/1957/1958) Criterion
Triple Agent (Eric Rohmer, 2004) Artificial Eye [R2-UK]

Vera Drake (Mike Leigh, 2004) New Line
I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini, 1953) Image

Viy (Georgi Kropachyov, 1967) Hanzibar Films [R2-UK]
 

April

Week of
April 3rd

 

 


The Corporation (Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar, 2003) Zeitgeist

Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) Universal [R2-UK]

Dragonwyck (Joseph Mankiewicz, 1946) Optimum Releasing [R2-UK]

Jean-Luc Godard DVD Collection Vol. 2: Pierrot le fou/Made in U.S.A./Prenom Carmen
(Godard, 1965/1966/1983) Warner [R2-UK]

Jean Cocteau DVD Collection: Blood of a Poet/Testament of Orpheus (Cocteau, 1930/1960) Warner [R2-UK]
Jean-Pierre Melville DVD Collection: Bob le Flambeur/Un Flic (Melville, 1955/1972) Warner [R2-UK]

Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954) Universal [R2-UK]

Jubal (Delmer Daves 1956) Columbia Tri-Star

Luis Buñuel DVD Collection Vol. 2: The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie/Phantom of Liberty/That Obscure Object of Desire (Buñuel, 1972/1974/1977) Warner [R2-UK]

Lust for Gold (S. Sylvan Simon 1949) Columbia Tri-Star

The Mirror (Jafar Panahi, 1997) Kino
More (Barbet Schroeder, 1969) Home Vision
Primer (Shane Carruth, 2003) Warner

Seventeen Years (Zhang Yuan, 1999) Kino
Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004) Fox

Leaves From Satan's Book (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1919) Image
A Talking Picture (Manoel de Olivera, 2003) Kino

The Violent Men (Rudolph Maté 1955) Columbia Tri-Star

Week of
April 10th

 


Asphalt (Joe May, 1929) Eureka/MoC [R2-UK]

Bad Education (La Mala educación) (Pedro Almodóvar, 2004) Columbia TriStar

The Crook (Claude Lelouch, 1970) MGM

Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (Emir Kusturica, 1981) Koch Lorber

The Flower of My Secret (Pedro Almodóvar, 1995) Columbia TriStar
Hindle Wakes (Maurice Elvey, 1927) Milestone

Jess Franco Collection (4 disc- Female Vampire, Virgin Among the Living Dead, The Sadistic Baron von Klaus, Oasis of the Zombies - Jess Franco - Image Entertainment)

Spione (Spies) (Fritz Lang, 1928) Eureka/MoC [R2-UK]
When Father Was Away On Business (Emir Kusturica, 1985) Koch Lorber

Week of
April 17th

 


All About Eve (Joseph Mankiewicz, 1950) Fox [R2-UK]
Devils On the Doorstep (Wen Jiang, 2000) Home Vision

The Errol Flynn Signature Collection (Captain Blood / The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex / The Sea Hawk / They Died with Their Boots On / Dodge City / The Adventures of Errol Flynn) Warner (also available separately)

Genealogies of a Crime (Raul Ruiz, 1997) Strand
Jacques Cousteau Odyssey (Cousteau, 1977-81) Warner

No Rest For the Brave (Alain Guiraudie, 2003) TLA

 

Week of April 25th

 


 

Divorce Italian Style - Marcello Mastroianni - Criterion Collection
F for Fake - Orson Welles - Criterion Collection

Francesco giullare di Dio (Francis, God's Jester) (Roberto Rossellini, 1950) Eureka/MoC [R2-UK]

Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka, 1937) Eureka/MoC [R2-UK]
Joy of Madness (Hana Makhmalbaf, 2003) Tartan [R2-UK]

The Plot Against Harry (Michael Roemer, 1969) New Yorker

Total Balalaika Show (Aki Kaurismäki, 1993) Facets
Vera Drake (Mike Leigh, 2004) Momentum [R2-UK]

 

May

Week of May 1st

 


The Big Red One - The Reconstruction (Samuel Fuller, 1980) Warner

Go Further (Ron Mann, 2003) Home Vision

Microcosmos (Claude Nuridsany & Marie Pérennou, France) Miramax
Red Hollywood (Thom Andersen and Noel Burch, 1995)

Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004) Fox [R2-UK]

 

Week of May 8th

 


Burden of Dreams (Les Blank 1982) Criterion

La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) Optimum [R2-UK]

Controversial Classics Collection: Advise and Consent/The Americanization of Emily / Bad Day at Black Rock/Blackboard Jungle / A Face in the Crowd/Fury / I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Preminger/Hiller / J. Sturges/Brooks /Kazan /Lang /LeRoy) Warner (also available separately)
Détective (Jean-Luc Godard, 1985) [R2-UK] Optimum [R2-UK]
Donkey Skin (Jacques Demy, 1970) Koch Lorber
Fatherland (Ken Loach, 1986) Cinema Club [R2-UK]

Hoop Dreams (Steve James 1994) Criterion

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, 2004) Criterion

Week of
May 15th

 


Abouna (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2002) Home Vision

Charisma (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1999) Home Vision
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961) Optimum [R2-UK]
Lukas Moodysson Box Set (Moodysson) Metrodome [R2-UK]

Seance (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2000) Home Vision
Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette, 2003) Wellspring


Week of
May 22nd

 


2046 (Wong Kar-wai, 2004) Tartan [R2-UK]

L'Argent (Robert Bresson, France) Artificial Eye [R2-UK]

Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa, 1975) Arrow Film Distributors [R2-UK]
Eric Rohmer Box Set: The Aviator's Wife/Full Moon in Paris/A Good Marriage/The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert)/Love in the Afternoon/Marquis of O/My Girlfriend's Boyfriend/Pauline at the Beach/ (Rohmer) Arrow Film Distributors [R2-UK]
Heimat 2 (Edgar Reitz, 1992) Tartan [R2-UK]

Howard Zinn: You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train (Dennis Mueller & Deb Ellis, 2004) First Run Features
The Isle (Kim Ki-duk, 2000) Tartan [R2-UK]
Kasaba/Clouds of May (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 1998/2000) Artificial Eye
[R2-UK]

Koktebel (Alexei Popgrebsky and Boris Khlebnikov, 2003) Artificial Eye [R2-UK]

Ozu Box Set 2: The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice/Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu, 1952/1947) Tartan [R2-UK]

The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel 1974) Criterion

Samaritan Girl (aka Samaria) (Kim Ki-duk, 2004) TLA Releasing

Week of May 29th

 


House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou, 2004) Pathé [R2-UK]
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955) Warner

 

June

Week of June 5th


House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller, 1955) Fox
Daddy Nostalgia (Bertrand Tavernier, 1990) Koch Lorber
La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954) Optimum Releasing [R2-UK]


Week of
June 12th


Scum (BBC and Theatrical versions) (Alan Clarke, 1977/1979) Odyssey Quest [R2-UK]

Week of
June 19th

 


The Idiot (Akira Kurosawa, 1951) Eureka/MoC [R2-UK]
Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo, 1960) Eureka/MoC [R2-UK]

The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar, 2004) [R2-UK]
Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura, 1979) Eureka/MoC [R2-UK]

Week of
June 26th

 


9 Songs (Michael Winterbottom, 2004) Optimum Releasing [R2-UK]
The Silence Between Two Thoughts (Babak Payami, 2003) Artificial Eye [R2-UK]