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	Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini’s notorious final film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . . . it’s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, >>> 112 minutes   Color   1.85:1   Italy	8/26/2008
		2-Disc Set SRP $39.95 Criterion Store price $31.96

	La ronde Max Ophuls, 1950 Simone Signoret, Anton Walbrook, and Simone Simon lead a roundelay of French stars in Max Ophuls's delightful, acerbic adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's controversial turn-of-the-century play Reigen. Soldiers, chambermaids, poets, prostitutes, aristocrats—all >>> 97 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   France	September
		Single Disc SRP $39.95 Criterion Store price $31.96

	Le plaisir Max Ophuls, 1952 Roving with his dazzlingly mobile camera around the decadent ballrooms, bucolic countryside retreats, urban bordellos, and painter's studios of late nineteenth-century French life, Max Ophuls brings his astonishing visual dexterity and >>> 97 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   France	September
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	The Earrings of Madame de... Max Ophuls, 1953 French master Max Ophuls's most cherished work, The Earrings of Madame de . . . is an emotionally profound, cinematographically adventurous tale of false opulence and tragic romance. When the aristocratic >>> 100 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   France	September
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	An Autumn Afternoon Yasujiro Ozu, 1962 Yasujiro Ozu's final film was also his final masterpiece, the gently heartbreaking story of a man's dignified resignation to both life's ever-shifting currents and society's gradual modernization. Though widower Shuhei Hirayama >>> 113 minutes   Color   1.33:1   Japan	September
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	Le doulos Jean-Pierre Melville, 1962 The backstabbing criminals in the shadowy underworld of Jean-Pierre Melville's Le doulos have only one guiding principle: “Lie or die.” A stone-faced Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as enigmatic gangster Silien, who may >>> 109 minutes   Black and white   1.66:1   France	October
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	Le deuxieme souffle Jean-Pierre Melville, 1966 With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, director Jean-Pierre Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal Gu (the inimitable Lino Ventura), escaped from prison and roped into >>> 144 minutes   Black and white    1.66:1   France	October
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	A Woman Under the Influence John Cassavetes, 1974 John Cassavetes’ devastating drama details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. Starring Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands (in two of the >>> 147 minutes   Color   1.85:1   USA	October
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	The Killing of a Chinese Bookie John Cassavetes, 1976 John Cassavetes engages film noir in his own inimitable style with The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Ben Gazzara brilliantly portrays gentlemen’s club owner Cosmo Vitelli, a man dedicated to pretenses >>> 135 minutes   Color   1.85:1   USA	October
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	Short Cuts Robert Altman, 1993 NOW AVAILABLE FOR ONLY $29.95! The visions of two great American artists merge in Short Cuts, maverick director Robert Altman’s kaleidoscopic adaptation of Raymond Carver short stories. Epic in scale yet meticulously >>> 183 minutes   Color   2.35:1   USA	October
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	Missing Costa-Gavras, 1982 Missing is political filmmaker extraordinaire Costa-Gavras's compelling, controversial dramatization of the search for American filmmaker and journalist Charles Horman, who mysteriously disappeared during the 1973 coup in Chile. Jack Lemmon and >>> 122 minutes   Color   1.85:1   USA	October
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	Fanfan la Tulipe Christian-Jaque, 1952 Legendary French star Gérard Philipe swashbuckled his way into film history as the peasant soldier Fanfan in Christian-Jaque’s devil-may-care romantic action-comedy. In eighteenth-century France, Fanfan joins King Louis XV’s army to >>> 99 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   France	November
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	Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Martin Ritt, 1965 John Le Carré’s acclaimed bestselling novel, about a Cold War spy on one final, dangerous mission, is every bit as precise and ruthless onscreen in this adaptation directed by Martin Ritt. >>> 112 minutes   Black and White   1.85:1   USA	November
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	Bottle Rocket Wes Anderson, 1996 Wes Anderson first illustrated his lovingly detailed, slightly surreal cinematic vision in this witty and warm portrait of three young middle-class misfits. Fresh out of a mental hospital, gentle Anthony (Luke >>> 91 minutes   Color   1.85:1   USA	November
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	Chungking Express Wong Kar-wai , 1994 The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong >>> 102 minutes   Color   1.66:1   Hong Kong	November
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	Bottle Rocket Wes Anderson, 1996 Wes Anderson first illustrated his lovingly detailed, slightly surreal cinematic vision in this witty and warm portrait of three young middle-class misfits. Fresh out of a mental hospital, gentle Anthony (Luke >>> 91 minutes   Color   1.85:1   USA	November
		Single Disc SRP $39.95 Criterion Store price $31.96

	Chungking Express Wong Kar-wai , 1994 The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong >>> 102 minutes   Color   1.66:1   Hong Kong	November
		Single Disc SRP $39.95 Criterion Store price $31.96

	The Third Man Carol Reed, 1949 Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime--and thus begins this legendary tale of >>> 104 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   UK	November
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	The Man Who Fell to Earth Nicolas Roeg, 1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth is a daring exploration of science fiction as an art form. The story of an alien on an elaborate rescue mission provides the launching pad >>> 139 minutes   Color   2.35:1   UK	November
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	The Last Emperor Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor won nine Academy Awards, unexpectedly sweeping every category in which it was nominated—quite a feat for a challenging, multilayered epic directed by an Italian and starring >>> 165 minutes   Color   2.00:1   UK	November
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