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	Twenty-Four Eyes Keisuke Kinoshita, 1954 Keisuke Kinoshita’s Twenty-Four Eyes (Nijushi no hitomi) is an elegant, emotional chronicle of a teacher’s unwavering commitment to her students, her profession, and her sense of morality. Set in a remote, >>> 156 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   Japan	8/19/2008
		Single Disc SRP $29.95 Criterion Store price $23.96

	The Small Back Room Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1949 After the lavish Technicolor spectacle of The Red Shoes, British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger retreated into the inward, shadowy recesses of this moody, crackling character study. Based on the >>> 107 minutes   Black & White   1.33:1   UK	8/19/2008
		Single Disc SRP $39.95 Criterion Store price $31.96

	Brand upon the Brain! Guy Maddin, 2006 In the weird and wonderful supercinematic world of Canadian cult filmmaker Guy Maddin, personal memory collides with movie lore for a radical sensory overload. This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses >>> 99 minutes   Black & White/Color   1.85:1   Canada	8/12/2008
		Single Disc SRP $39.95 Criterion Store price $31.96

	Vampyr Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932 With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer's brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery (The Passion of Joan of Arc and Day of Wrath) was for once applied >>> 73 minutes   Black & White   1.19:1   Denmark	7/22/2008
		2-Disc Set SRP $39.95 Criterion Store price $31.96

	High and Low Akira Kurosawa, 1963 Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa’s highly influential High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku). >>> 143 minutes   Black and White   2.35:1   Japan	7/22/2008
		2-Disc Set SRP $39.95 Criterion Store price $31.96

	Trafic Jacques Tati, 1971 In Jacques Tati's Trafic, the bumbling Monsieur Hulot, outfitted as always with tan raincoat, beaten brown hat, and umbrella, takes to Paris's highways and byways. For this, his final outing, Hulot >>> 97 minutes   Color   1.33:1   France	7/15/2008
		2-Disc Set SRP $39.95 Criterion Store price $31.96

	Mon oncle Antoine Claude Jutra, 1971 Claude Jutra's evocative portrait of a boy's coming of age in wintry 1940s rural Quebec has been consistently cited by critics and scholars as the greatest Canadian film of all time. >>> 104 minutes   Color   1.66:1   Canada	7/8/2008
		2-Disc Set SRP $39.95 Criterion Store price $28.76

	Patriotism Yukio Mishima, 1966 Playwright and novelist Yukio Mishima foreshadowed his own violent suicide with this ravishing short feature, his only foray into filmmaking, yet made with the expressiveness and confidence of a true cinema >>> 27 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   Japan	7/1/2008
		Single Disc SRP $24.95 Criterion Store price $19.96

	Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters Paul Schrader, 1985 Paul Schrader's visually stunning, collagelike portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted an impossible >>> 120 minutes   Color/Black and White   1.85:1   USA	7/1/2008
		2-Disc Set SRP $39.95 Criterion Store price $31.96

	Before the Rain Milcho Manchevski, 1994 The first film made in the newly independent Republic of Macedonia, Milcho Manchevski's Before the Rain crosscuts the stories of an orthodox Christian monk (Grégoire Colin), a British photo agent (Katrin >>> 113 minutes   Color   1.78:1   Republic of Macedonia	6/24/2008
		Single Disc SRP $39.95 Criterion Store price $31.96

	The Furies Anthony Mann, 1950 Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston are at their fierce finest in master Hollywood craftsman Anthony Mann’s crackling western melodrama The Furies. In 1870s New Mexico Territory, megalomaniacal widowed ranch owner T. >>> 109 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   USA	6/24/2008
		Single Disc SRP $39.95 Criterion Store price $31.96

	Classe tous risques Claude Sautet, 1960 After hiding out in Milan for nearly a decade, fugitive gangland chief Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) sneaks back to Paris with his children despite a death sentence hanging over his head. >>> 108 minutes   Black and White   1.66:1   France	6/17/2008
		Single Disc SRP $29.95 Criterion Store price $23.96

	The Thief of Bagdad Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell & Tim Whelan, 1940 Legendary producer Alexander Korda's marvel The Thief of Bagdad, inspired by The Arabian Nights, is one of the most spectacular fantasy films ever made, an eye-popping effects pioneer brimming with imagination >>> 106 minutes   Color   1.33:1   UK	5/27/2008
		2-Disc Set SRP $39.95 Criterion Store price $31.96