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ESSENTIAL DVDS  (in alphabetical order)

 

 Film/DVD Title

 

 

 

2001: A Space Odyssey 

directed by Stanley Kubrick

Distributor  

Warner - Region 1 - NTSC 

Status
Available individually or in Kubrick Box Set!
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The Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection 

directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Distributor  

Universal - Region 1 - NTSC . 

Status
Available at Amazon.com
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L'Avventura 

directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

Distributor  

Criterion Collection Spine #98 - Region 1 - NTSC . 

Status
Available at Amazon.com

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Bicycle Thieves 

directed by Vittorio De Sica

Distributor  

Criterion - Region 1 - NTSC 

Status
AVAILABLE at Amazon.com
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The Best Years of Our Lives 

directed by William Wyler

Distributor  

HBO - Region 1 - NTSC 

Status
Out of Print! Try HERE
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Black Narcissus 

directed by Michael Powell + Emeric Pressburger

Distributor  

Warner Home Vidéo - Region 2 - PAL

Status
Available from Amazon France
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Trois couleurs: Bleu 

directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski

Distributor  

Artificial Eye - Region 2 - PAL

Status
Available from Amazon.UK
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Children of Paradise 

directed by Marcel Carné

Distributor  

Criterion Collection # 141 - Region 1 - NTSC 

Status
Available at Amazon

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City Lights 

directed by Charles Chaplin

Distributor  

Image Entertainment - Region 0 - NTSC 

Status
Out of Print Try HERE!
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The Decalogue 

directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski

Distributor  

Warner (Poland) - Region 2 - PAL . 

Status
Available from ISDVD.pl

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L'Eclisse 

directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

Distributor  

Criterion - Region 0 - NTSC 

Status
Available from Amazon.com

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Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales 

directed by Eric Rohmer

Distributor  

Criterion - Region 1- NTSC

Status
Available from Amazon.com

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The Gospel According to St. Matthew 

directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Distributor  

Tartan - Region 2 - PAL . 

Status
Available from Amazon.uk

Comparisons/Reviews     

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Hou Hsiao-Hsien Limited Edition Boxset ( 83' - 86' )

directed by Hou Hsio-Hsien

Distributor  

Sinomovie - Region 0 - NTSC 

Status
Limited to 3000 - available at YesAsia.com

Comparisons/Reviews      

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I Fidanzati 

directed by Ermanno Olmi

Distributor  

Criterion - Region 0 - NTSC 

Status
Double set- at Amazon.com

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In The Mood For Love 

directed by Wong Kar-wai

Distributor  

TF1 Vidéo / Océan Films - Region 2 - PAL 

Status
Double set- at Amazon.fr

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It's a Wonderful Life 

directed by Frank Capra

Distributor  

Republic Studious - Region 1 - NTSC 

Status
Out of Print - Try HERE!
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Late Spring 

directed by Yasujiro Ozu

Distributor  

Criterion - Region 1 - NTSC . 

Status
Available at Amazon.com
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Magnolia 

directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Distributor  

New Line Home Video - Region 1 - NTSC . 

Status
Available at Amazon.com
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Metropolis 

directed by Fritz Lang

Distributor  

Eureka (MoC # 8) - Region 2 - PAL 

Status
Available as of January 2005 at Amazon.UK

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Mirror (Zerkalo) 

directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Distributor  

Artificial Eye - Region 2 - PAL 

Status
Available -make sure you get the optional mono soundtrack! CLICK HERE

Comparisons/Reviews     

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Mouchette 

directed by Robert Bresson

Distributor  

Criterion Collection # 363 - Region 1 - NTSC 

Status
Available from Amazon HERE
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Ordet 

directed by Carl Th. Dryer

Distributor  

Criterion Collection # 126 - Region 1 - NTSC 

Status
Part of Carl Th. Dryer Boxset - available HERE
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The Passion of Joan of Arc 

directed by Carl Th. Dryer

Distributor  

Criterion Collection # 62 - Region 1 - NTSC  

Status
Available at Amazon
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Pickpocket 

directed by Robert Bresson

Distributor  

Criterion - Region 1 - NTSC 

Status
Available at Amazon

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Rosetta (with La Promesse) 

directed by Dardenne Brothers

Distributor  

Artificial Eye - Region 2 - PAL . 

Status
Available at Amazon.co.uk

Comparisons/Reviews 

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Le Samourai 

directed by Jean-Pierre Melville

Distributor  

Criterion - Region 1 - NTSC 

Status
Available at Amazon
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The Scent of Green Papaya (includes 'Cyclo') 

directed by Anh Hung Tran

Distributor  

Arte - Region 2 - PAL 

Status
Available at Amazon.fr

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Seven Samurai

directed by Akira Kurosawa

Distributor  

Criterion (REISSUE 3-disc) - Region 1- NTSC

Status
Available at Amazon

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 

directed by Jacques Demy

Distributor  

France Video Distribution LE - Region 2 - PAL 

Status
Single Disc -Out of Print!, Double set- at Amazon.fr

Comparisons/Reviews     

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Ugetsu Monogatori 

directed by Kenji Mizoguchi

Distributor  

Criterion - Region 1 - NTSC . 

Status   NOTE: New MGM-SE has out of sync audio
Available at Amazon HERE!
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West Side Story 

directed by Robert Wise

Distributor  

MGM - Region 1 - NTSC . 

Status   NOTE: New MGM-SE has out of sync audio
Out of Print! Try HERE!
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The Wind Will Carry Us 

directed by Abbas Kiarostami

Distributor  

MK2 - Region 2 - PAL . 

Status
Available at Amazon.fr
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Winter Light 

directed by Ingmar Bergman

Distributor  

Tartan Home Video (UK) - Region 2 - PAL 

Status
Available at Amazon.UK
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Woman in the Dunes 

directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Distributor  

BFI - Region 2 - PAL . 

Status
Available at Amazon.UK

Comparisons/Reviews     

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FUTURE WEEK'S DVD and Blu-ray RELEASES

(February 13th - March 5th, 2012)

 

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February 13th, 2011

 

 

388 Arletta Avenue [Blu-ray] (Randall Cole, 2011) RB UK Optimum

All Quiet on the Western Front [Blu-ray] (Lewis Milestone, 1930) Universal (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Big Trail [Blu-ray] (Raoul Walsh, 1930) RB FR

Boeing Boeing [Blu-ray] (John Rich, 1965) Olive Films (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics III - My Name is Julia Ross (1945), The Mob (1951), Tight Spot (1955), Drive a Crooked Road (1964), The Burglar (1957) - Sony (BEAVER REVIEW)

Elite Squad [Blu-ray] (José Padilha, 2007) New Video Group

The Geisha Boy [Blu-ray] (Frank Tashlin, 1958) Olive Films (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Getting of Wisdom (Bruce Beresford, 1978) R2 UK Contemporary Films

The Lorax [Blu-ray] (Hawley Pratt, 1972) Warner

The Man in the Iron Mask (James Whale, 1939) HensTooth Video (BEAVER REVIEW)

Mozart's Sister [Blu-ray] (Rene Feret, 2011) Music Box Films (BEAVER REVIEW)

Penitentiary (Jamaa Fanaka, 1979 82') R2 UK Arrow Films (BEAVER REVIEW)

Rock-a-Bye Baby [Blu-ray] (Frank Tashlin, 1958) Olive Films (BEAVER REVIEW)

Take Shelter [Blu-ray] (Jeff Nichols, 2011) Sony

Tales From the Golden Age (Cristian Mungiu, 2009) Zeitgeist Films

Three Outlaw Samurai (Hideo Gosha, 1964) Criterion
Three Outlaw Samurai [
Blu-ray] (Hideo Gosha, 1964) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

Tiny Furniture (Lena Dunham, 2010) Criterion
Tiny Furniture [
Blu-ray] (Lena Dunham, 2010) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

We Need to Talk About Kevin [Blu-ray] (Lynne Ramsay, 2011) RB UK Artificial Eye (BEAVER REVIEW)

Woody Allen: A Documentary (Robert Weide, 2011) Docudrama

 

February 20th, 2012

 

 

Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959) Criterion
Anatomy of a Murder [
Blu-ray] (Otto Preminger, 1959) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

Blank City (Celine Danhier, 2010) Lorber Films

Contagion [Blu-ray] (Steven Soderbergh, 2011) Region Free DE Warner (BEAVER REVIEW)

Fort Apache [Blu-ray] (John Ford, 1948) Warner (BEAVER REVIEW)

La grande illusion [Blu-ray] (Jean Renoir, 1937) RB FR StudioCanal

Her Private Hell [Blu-ray] (Norman J. Warren, 1968) RB UK BFI

The Insect Woman/ Nishi-Ginza Station [Blu-ray] (Shohei Imamura) - Dual Format RB UK Masters of Cinema (BEAVER REVIEW)

J. Edgar [Blu-ray] (Clint Eastwood, 2011) Warner

Kansas City Confidential / The Stranger (Karlson / Welles) [Blu-ray] - Film Chest Inc. (BEAVER REVIEW) (BEAVER REVIEW)

Martha Marcy May Marlene [Blu-ray] (Sean Durkin, 2011) 20th Century Fox (BEAVER REVIEW)

October (Diego Vega Vidal, 2010) New Yorker Films

On The Bowery - The Films of Lionel Rogosin, Vol. 1 [Blu-ray] (Lionel Rogosin, 1956) Milestone

Puss in Boots [Blu-ray] (Chris Miller, 2011) DreamWorks

Puzzle of a Downfall Child [Blu-ray] (Jerry Schatzberg, 1970) RB FR Carlotta

Repo Man [Blu-ray] (Alex Cox, 1984) RB UK Masters of Cinema (BEAVER REVIEW)

Repo Man [Blu-ray] (LTD Edition Steelbook) (Alex Cox, 1984) RB UK Masters of Cinema (BEAVER REVIEW)

The Student Comedies (The Ozu Collection) - Days of Youth, 1929, I Flunked, But... 1930, The Lady and the Beard, 1931, Where Now are the Dreams of Youth, 1932 - R2 UK BFI

To Be or Not to Be [Blu-ray] (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) RB FR StudioCanal

Underdog: The Complete Series - Shout! Factory

The Way [Blu-ray] (Emilio Estevez, 2011) ARC Entertainment

Who Pays the Ferryman? (Michael J. Bird, 1977) R2 UK Eureka Entertainment (BEAVER REVIEW)

World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973) Criterion
World on a Wire [
Blu-ray] (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973) Criterion (BEAVER REVIEW)

 

February 27th, 2012

 

 

Automobile / L'Automobile - Raro Video USA Ltd

Baba Yaga [Blu-ray] (Corrado Farina, 1973) Blue Underground

Beneath the Darkness [Blu-ray] (Martin Guigui, 2011) Image Entertainment

The Buccaneer [Blu-ray] (Anthony Quinn, 1958) Olive Films

The Conformist [Blu-ray] (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) RB UK Arrow Video

Hugo [Blu-ray] (Martin Scorsese, 2011) Paramount Studios

I Melt with You [Blu-ray] (Mark Pellington, 2011) Magnolia

InSight (Richard Gabai, 2011) Phase 4 Films

Johnny English Reborn [Blu-ray] (Oliver Parker, 2011) Universal Pictures

The Killing Fields [Blu-ray] (Roland Joffém, 1984) RB UK Optimum

The Little Death (Bret Wood, 2010) Kino

Mandrill [Blu-ray] (Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, 2009) Magnolia

Margin Call [Blu-ray] (J.C. Chandor, 2011) RB DE Koch

The Mizoguchi Collection [Blu-ray] - Osaka Elegy (1936), The Story Of The Last Crysanthemum (1939), Sisters Of The Gion (1936), Utamaro And His Five Wives (1946) - RB UK Artificial Eye

The Mountain [Blu-ray] (Edward Dmytryk, 1956) Olive Films

Nijinsky [Blu-ray] (Herbert Ross, 1980) Olive Films

Against All Flags [Blu-ray] (George Sherman, 1952) RB DE Koch Media

Runaway Jury [Blu-ray] (Gary Fleder, 2003) Fox

Scarlet Street [Blu-ray] (Fritz Lang, 1945) Kino

Sleeping Beauty [Blu-ray] (Julia Leigh, 2011) RB UK Revolver Entertainment

Spiders (Fritz Lang, 1919) Kino

The Theo Angelopoulos Collection Vol 3 - The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991) Ulysses' Gaze (1995) Eternity and a Day (1998) The Weeping Meadow (2004) and The Dust of Time (2008) - R2 UK Artificial Eye

Tomboy [Blu-ray] (Céline Sciamma, 2011) RB UK Peccadillo Pictures

Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle, 1994) Criterion
Vanya on 42nd Street [
Blu-ray] (Louis Malle, 1994) Criterion

Where Love Has Gone [Blu-ray] (Edward Dmytryk, 1964) Olive Films

 

March 5th, 2012

 

 

Chung Kuo China (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1972) - US Mr Bongo

Columbus Circle [Blu-ray] (George Gallo, 2010) Universal Studios

Dead in the Water [Blu-ray] (Bill Condon, 1991) Timeless Media Group

The Deer Hunter [Blu-ray] (Michael Cimino, 1978) Universal

Dracula: Prince of Darkness [Blu-ray] (Terence Fisher, 1966) RB UK Optimum

Evil Roy Slade & Brother's O'Toole - Double Feature [Blu-ray] - Timeless Media Group

Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988) Section 23

Harvey [Blu-ray] (Henry Koster, 1950) Universal

Jesus of Nazareth [Blu-ray] (Franco Zeffirelli, 1977) RB DE Koch Media

King of Devil's Island (Marius Holst, 2010) Film Movement

The Man from Snowy River [Blu-ray] (George Miller, 1982) Fox

Meet the Parents [Blu-ray] (Jay Roach, 2000) Universal

Monty Python and the Holy Grail [Blu-ray] (Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, 1975) Sony

Reindeer Games [Blu-ray] (John Frankenheimer, 2000) Miramax Lionsgate

Requiem for the Damned [Blu-ray] (Johnny Bones, 2011) Hannover House

The Search for One-eye Jimmy [Blu-ray] (Sam Henry Kass, 1994) Lorber Films

The Skin I Live in [Blu-ray] (Pedro Almodovar, 2011) Sony Pictures

To Catch a Thief [Blu-ray] (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955) Paramount

Weekend [Blu-ray] (Andrew Haigh, 2011) RB UK Peccadillo Pictures

Who Dares Wins [Blu-ray] (Ian Sharp, 1982) RB Arrow Video

 

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