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455 East Nees Avenue, Apartment 263
Fresno, California 93720
455 East Nees Avenue, Apartment 263
Fresno, California 93720
Classic DVDs and Blu-rays for sale at bargain prices. Discs, cases, artwork, booklets, and slipcases as new. Postage at cost via USPS Media Mail. Payment via PayPal.
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THE UNDESIRABLE. Hungarian, 1914. Multi-tinted. Directed by Mihaly Kertesz (later Michael Curtiz). With Masri Jaszai. English intertitles. Olive. DVD. Region 1. $5.
THE KID. American, 1921. Directed by Charlie Chaplin. With Charlie Chaplin, Jack Coogan. MK2 / Warner. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $5.
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS IN ROBIN HOOD. American, 1922. Multi-tinted. Directed by Allan Dwan. With Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery. Kino. DVD. Region 1. $5.
WHERE THE NORTH BEGINS. American, 1923. Tinted. Directed by Chester M. Franklin. With Rin-tin-tin, Claire Adams. Grapevine. DVD. Region 1. Out of print. $5.
THE COVERED WAGON. American, 1923. Directed by James Cruze. With J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson. . Kino. DVD. Region 1. $5.
STRIKE. Soviet Union, 1925. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Brilliant debut feature, very nearly avant-garde. English intertitles. Image Entertainment. DVD. Region 1. $5.
MASTER OF THE HOUSE. Danish, 1925. Directed by Carl Th. Dreyer. With Johannes Meyer. English intertitles. BFI. DVD. Region 2. $8.
THE GOLD RUSH. American, 1925. Directed by Charlie Chaplin. With Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain. Plus 1942 revised version, narrated by Charles Chaplin. MK2 / Warner. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $5.
THE BLACK PIRATE. American, 1926. Technicolor. Directed by Albert Parker. With Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove. Kino. DVD. Region 1. $5.
BEGGARS OF LIFE. American, 1928. Directed by William A. Wellman. With Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks. Kino. DVD. Region 1. Out of print. $8.
THE CIRCUS. American, 1928. Directed by Charlie Chaplin. With Charlie Chaplin, Merna Kennedy. MK2 / Warner. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $5.
THE IRON MASK. American, 1929. Directed by Allan Dwan. With Douglas Fairbanks, William Bakewell. Sequel to The Three Musketeers. Kino. DVD. Region 1. Out of print. Retail Price: $25. Sale Price: $8.
PICCADILLY. British, 1929. Multi-tinted. Directed by E. A. Dupont. With Anna May Wong in her greatest role. BFI. DVD. Region 2. $9.
THE SILENT ENEMY. American, 1930. Multi-tinted. Produced by W. Douglas Burden. Directed by H. P. Carver. With Chief Yellow Robe, Molly Spotted Elk, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. Plus Kevin Brownlow interview with W. Douglas Burden. Milestone / Image Entertainment. DVD. Region 1. Out of print. Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $10.
THE COMPLETE JEAN VIGO: A PROPOS DE NICE. French, 1930. Avant-garde documentary on Nice. LA NATATION PAR JEAN TARIS CHAMPION DE FRANCE (SWIMMING BY JEAN TARIS FRENCH CHAMPION). French, 1931. Avant-garde documentary. ZERO DE CONDUITE: JEUNES DIABLES AU COLLEGE (ZERO FOR CONDUCT). French, 1933. With Jean Daste. First feature. L’ATALANTE. French, 1934. With Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Daste. Last feature. Artificial Eye. DVD. Two-disc set. Region 2. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $10.
THE FRONT PAGE. American, 1931. Directed by Lewis Milestone. With Adolphe Menjou. As visually dazzling as Milestone’s All Quiet on the Western Front. Kino. DVD. Region 1. $5.
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME. American, 1932. Directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. With Fay Wray and Joel McCrea. Grisly thriller made on RKO’s King Kong set! Criterion Collection. DVD. New. Sealed. Region 1. $9.
DESIGN FOR LIVING. American, 1932. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton. Lubitsch comedy gem. Criterion Collection. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $9.
THE DEVIL HORSE. American, 1932. Directed by Otto Brower. With Harry Carey, Noah Beery, Frankie Darro. Twelve-chapter Mascot serial. Serial Squadron. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $13. Sale Price: $8.
THE WOLF DOG. American, 1933. Directed by Colbert Clark and Harry Frazer. With Rin-Tin-Tin Jr., Frankie Darro, Henry B. Walthall. Twelve-chapter Mascot serial. Serial Squadron. DVD. Two-disc set. Region 1. Retail Price: $15. Sale Price: $8.
THE TARZAN COLLECTION: THE SIX ORIGINAL M-G-M FEATURE FILMS. TARZAN THE APE MAN / TARZAN AND HIS MATE / TARZAN ESCAPES / TARZAN FINDS A SON! / TARZAN’S SECRET TREASURE / TARZAN’S NEW YORK ADVENTURE. American, 1932-1942. With Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan. Plus documentary, three shorts, trailers. Warner. DVD. Four-disc slipcased boxed set. Region 1. Out of print. Retail Price: $90. Sale Price: $35.
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA. American, 1935. Directed by Sam Wood. With the Marx Bros., Margaret Dumont. Warner. DVD. Region 1. $5.
RUSTLERS OF RED DOG. American, 1935. Directed by Louis Friedlander. With John Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton. Twelve-chapter Universal serial. VCI. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $10.
THE VIGILANTES ARE COMING. American, 1936. Produced by Republic Pictures Corporation. Directed by Mack V. Wright and Ray Taylor. With Robert Livingston, Guinn (Big Boy) Williams, Raymond Hatton. Twelve-chapter Republic serial. VCI. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $10.
SACHA GUITRY FOUR FILMS, 1936-1938: LE NOUVEAU TESTAMENT (THE NEW TESTAMENT) / MON PERE AVAIT RAISON (MY FATHER WAS RIGHT) / FAISONS UN REVE . . . (LET’S MAKE A DREAM . . .) / REMONTONS LES CHAMPS-ELYSEES (LET’S GO UP THE CHAMPS-ELYSEES. Four terrific French comedies directed by and starring the inimitable Sacha Guitry. French dialogue with English subtitles. Plus 56-page illustrated book. Tour de force! Arrow Academy. Blu-ray. Four-disc slipcased boxed set. Region A. Retail: $60. Sale: $25.
RED BARRY. American, 1938. Directed by Ford Beebe and Alan James. With Larry (Buster) Crabbe. Thirteen-chapter Universal serial. VCI. DVD. Two-disc set. Region 1. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $10.
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON. American, 1939. Directed by Frank Capra. With Jean Arthur, James Stewart. Columbia. DVD. Region 1. $5.
THE GREAT DICTATOR. American, 1940. Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie. MK2 / Warner. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $5.
CASABLANCA. American, 1942. Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman. Warner. DVD. Region 2. $5.
THE BIG SLEEP. American, 1946. Directed by Howard Hawks. With Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall. Plus 1945 pre-release version. Warner. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $5.
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE. American, 1946. Directed by Frank Capra. With James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore. Republic. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $15. Sale Price: $5.
OUT OF THE PAST. American, 1947. Directed by Jacques Tourneur. With Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas. Warner. DVD. Region 2. $5.
STAGE FRIGHT. American, 1950. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Alastair Sim. Warner. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $15. Sale Price: $7.
ON DANGEROUS GROUND. American, 1951. Directed by Nicholas Ray. With Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond. Classic film noir. Warner. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $15. Sale Price: $7.
TOKYO STORY. Japanese, 1954. Directed by Yasujiro Ozu. With Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara. English subtitles. Criterion Collection. DVD. Region 1. $7.
THE BIG HEAT. American, 1953. Directed by Fritz Lang. With Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin. Classic film noir! Columbia. DVD. Region 1. $5.
I CONFESS. American, 1953. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden. Warner. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $28. Sale Price: $7.
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER. American, 1955. Wide screen, its correct aspect ratio. Directed by Charles Laughton. With Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish. 2K restoration. Plus CHARLES LAUGHTON DIRECTS THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER: THE EPIC THAT WAS. American, 2002. Eight hours of rushes and outtakes yielded a unique account of Laughton directing The Night of the Hunter. Criterion Collection. Blu-ray. Two-disc set. Region A. 2K restoration. The discs are fine, but the cardboard tray and slipcase are worn at the extremities, hence only $5.
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER. American, 1955. Wide screen, its correct aspect ratio. Directed by Charles Laughton. With Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish. 2K restoration. Plus CHARLES LAUGHTON DIRECTS THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER: THE EPIC THAT WAS. American, 2002. Eight hours of rushes and outtakes yielded a unique account of Laughton directing The Night of the Hunter. Criterion Collection. DVD. Two-disc set. Region 1. $8.
THE SEVENTH SEAL. Swedish, 1957. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. With Gunnar Bjornstrand, Max von Sydow. English subtitles. Criterion Collection. DVD. Region 1. $8.
WILD STRAWBERRIES. American, 1957. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. With Victor Sjostrom. English subtitles. Criterion Collection. DVD. Region 1. $8.
THE MAGICIAN. Swedish, 1958. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. With Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin. English subtitles. Tartan. DVD. Region 2. $5.
AKIRA KUROSAWA SAMURAI DOUBLE FEATURE: YOJIMBO. Japanese, 1961 Tohoscope. With Toshiro Mifune. English subtitles. Plus SANJURO. Japanese, 1962. Tohoscope. With Toshiro Mifune. English subtitles. Criterion Collection. DVD. Two-disc slipcased set. Region 1. $15.
SUNA NO ONNA (WOMAN OF THE DUNES). Japanese, 1964. Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. With Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida. English subtitles. BFI. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $8.
THE MAN WITH NO NAME TRILOGY: FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (Italian, 1964) / FOR A FEW DOLLARES MORE (Italian, 1965) / THE GOOD, THE BAND AND THE UGLY (Italian, 1966). Color. Wide screen. Directed by Sergio Leone. With Clint Eastwood. Tons of extras! MGM. Blu-ray. Three-disc set. Region A. $10.
A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS. Italian-Spanish, 1964. Color. Wide screen. Directed by Sergio Leone. With Clint Eastwood. MGM. DVD, slipcased. Region 2. $5.
FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE. Italian-Spanish, 1965. Color. Wide screen. Directed by Sergio Leone. With Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef. MGM. DVD, slipcased. Region 2. $5.
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY. Italian-Spanish, 1966. Color. Wide screen. Directed by Sergio Leone. With Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef. Kino. DVD. Region 1. $5.
LE SAMOURAI. French-Italian, 1967. Eastmancolor. Wide screen. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. With Alain Delon. English subtitles. Criterion Collection. DVD. Region 1. $8.
SHAME Swedish, 1968. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. With Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann. English subtitles. MGM. DVD. Region 1. Out of print. $7.
THE CREMATOR. Czechoslovakian, 1969. Wide screen. Directed by Juraj Herz. With Rudolf Hrusinsky. Masterpiece from the Czech New Wave! English subtitles. Criterion Collection. DVD. Region 1. $8.
L’ARMEE DES OMBRES. French-Italian, 1969. Eastmancolor. Wide screen. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. With Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Simone Signoret. English subtitles. BFI. DVD. Region 1. $8.
THAT’S THE WAY IT IS. American, 1970. Metrocolor. Panavision. Directed by Denis Sanders. Elvis Presley concert documentary. Plus ELVIS: THAT’S THE WAY IT IS. American, 2000. Metrocolor. Panavision. Reconstruction of the original release, using alternate takes and discarded material to create a different and much more complete concert. Warner. DVD, slipcased. Region 1. $7.
FANNY AND ALEXANDER. Swedish, 1982. Eastmancolor. Wide screen. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. With Kristina Adolphson. Theatrical release. English subtitles. Plus 1983 four-episode complete made-for-Swedish-television version. English subtitles. Criterion Collection. DVD, slipcased. Region 1. $10.
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS. American, 2009. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. With Oscar Isaac, John Goodman. Sony. Blu-ray. Region A. Retail Price: $16. Sale Price: $8.
Walt Disney Treasures
WALT DISNEY TREASURES: MICKEY MOUSE IN BLACK AND WHITE. Four volumes, two discs in each volume, tons of extras, many Easter eggs, collectible art print. Every theatrical Mickey Mouse cartoon ever made! Disney. DVD. Two-disc set. Limited, numbered edition. Each volume comes in a special silver metal can. Out of print. Region 1. Retail Price: $120. Sale Price: $50.
WALT DISNEY TREASURES: MICKEY MOUSE IN BLACK AND WHITE: VOLUME TWO. Four volumes, two discs in each volume, tons of extras, many Easter eggs. collectible art print. Every theatrical Mickey Mouse cartoon ever made! Disney. DVD. Two-disc set. Limited, numbered edition. Each volume comes in a special silver metal can. Out of print. Region 1. Retail Price: $120. Sale Price: $50.
WALT DISNEY TREASURES: MICKEY MOUSE IN LIVING COLOR: VOLUME TWO. Four volumes, two discs in each volume, tons of extras, many Easter eggs, collectible art print. Every theatrical Mickey Mouse cartoon ever made! Disney. DVD. Two-disc set. Limited, numbered edition. Each volume comes in a special silver metal can. Out of print. Region 1. Retail Price: $120. Sale Price: $50.
WALT DISNEY TREASURES: SILLY SYMPHONIES. Two volumes, two discs in each volume, tons of extras, many Easter eggs, collectible art print. Every Silly Symphonies cartoon ever made! Disney. DVD. Two-disc set. Limited, numbered edition. Each volume comes in a special silver metal can. Out of print. Region 1. Retail Price: $120. Sale Price: $50.
WALT DISNEY TREASURES: MORE SILLY SYMPHONIES: VOLUME TWO. Two volumes, two discs in each volume, tons of extras, many Easter eggs, collectible art print. Every Silly Symphonies cartoon ever made! Disney. DVD. Two-disc set. Limited, numbered edition. Each volume comes in a special silver metal can. Out of print. Region 1. Retail Price: $120. Sale Price: $50.
WALT DISNEY TREASURES: THE COMPLETE PLUTO. Two volumes, two discs in each volume, tons of extras, many Easter eggs, collectible art print. Every theatrical Pluto cartoon ever made! Disney. DVD. Two-disc set. Limited, numbered edition. Each volume comes in a special silver metal can. Out of print. Region 1. Retail Price: $180. Sale Price: $50.
WALT DISNEY TREASURES: THE COMPLETE PLUTO: VOLUME TWO. Two volumes, two discs in each volume, tons of extras, many Easter eggs, collectible art print. Every theatrical Pluto cartoon ever made! Disney. DVD. Two-disc set. Limited, numbered edition. Each volume comes in a special silver metal can. Out of print. Region 1. Retail Price: $180. Sale Price: $50.
WALT DISNEY TREASURES: THE CHRONOLOGICAL DONALD. Four volumes (of which I have the first three), two discs in each volume, tons of extras, many Easter eggs, collectible art print. Every theatrical Donald Duck cartoon ever made! Disney. DVD. Two-disc set. Limited, numbered edition. Each volume comes in a special silver metal can. Out of print. Region 1. Retail Price: $90. Sale Price: $50.
WALT DISNEY TREASURES: THE CHRONOLOGICAL DONALD: VOLUME TWO. Four volumes (of which I have the first three), two discs in each volume, tons of extras, many Easter eggs, collectible art print. Every theatrical Donald Duck cartoon ever made! Disney. DVD. Two-disc set. Limited, numbered edition. Each volume comes in a special silver metal can. Out of print. Region 1. Retail Price: $90. Sale Price: $50.
Blu-rays
ELVIS. American-Australian, 2022. Color. Panavision. Directed by Baz Luhrmann. With Austin Butler, Tom Hanks. Plus documentaries. Warner. Blu-ray + DVD dual edition. Two-disc set. Slipcased. Region A/1. Retail Price: $29. Sale Price: $10.
Eureka! Masters of Cinema
PHANTOM. German, 1922. Multi-tinted. Directed by F. W. Murnau. With Alfred Abel, Lya de Putti. Plus DIE FINANZEN DES GROSSHERZOGS (THE GRAND DUKE’S FINANCES). German, 1924. Multi-tinted. Directed by F. W. Murnau. With Harry Liedtke, Max Schreck. German intertitles with optional English subtitles. Plus David Kalat commentary, 40-page booklet. Eureka! Masters of Cinema. DVD. Out of print. Region 2. Retail Price: $25. Sale Price: $10.
LENI RIEFENSTAHL DOUBLE FEATURE: DER HEILIGE BERG (THE HOLY MOUNTAIN). German, 1926. Multi-tinted. Directed by Dr. Arnold Fanck. With Leni Riefenstahl, Louis Trenker. German intertitles with optional English subtitles. Plus Ray Muller’s definitive three-hour Riefenstahl documentary, DIE MACHT DER BILDER: LENI RIEFENSTAHL (THE POWER OF IMAGES: LENI RIEFENSTAHL / THE WONDERFUL HORRIBLE LIFE OF LENI RIEFENSTAHL) (German, 1993). English narration, German dialogue with English subtitles. Plus booklet. Eureka! Masters of Cinema. DVD. Two-disc set. Region 2. Retail Price: $22. Sale Price: $8.
Criterion Collection
LE QUAI DES BRUMES (PORT OF SHADOWS). French 1938. Directed by Marcel Carne. With Jean Gabin, Michele Morgan, Michel Simon. Poetic-realism classic from Marcel Carne and Jacques Prevert. French dialogue with optional English subtitles. Restored. Plus trailer, 32-page booklet. Criterion Collection. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $8.
LE CORBEAU (THE RAVEN). French, 1942. Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. With Pierre Fresnay. French dialogue with optional English subtitles, Plus interviews, trailer, 16-page booklet. Criterion Collection. DVD. Out of print. Region 1. Retail Price: $66. Sale Price: $7.
QUAI DES ORFEVRES. French, 1947. Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. With Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair. French dialogue with optional English subtitles. Classic film noir! Plus 1971 interviews with Clouzot and cast, trailer, booklet. Criterion Collection. DVD. Region A. Retail Price: $60. Sale Price: $9.
RASHOMON. Japanese, 1950. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura. Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles. Plus introduction, commentary, documentary, trailer, 28-page booklet. Criterion Collection. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $10.
IKIRU (TO LIVE). Japanese, 1952. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Takashi Shimura. Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles. Plus commentary, two documerntaries, trailer. Criterion Collection. DVD. Two-disc set. Region 1. Retail Price: $22.50. Sale Price: $7.
LE SALAIRE DE PEUR (THE WAGES OF FEAR). French, 1953. Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. With Yves Montand, Charles Vanel. Restored. French dialogue with optional English subtitles. Plus interviews, documentaries, 24-page booklet Criterion Collec-tion. DVD. Two-disc set. Region 1. Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $9.
TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI (HANDS OFF THE LOOT!). French, 1954. Directed by Jacques Becker. With Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Jeanne Moreau. Noir at its best! French dialogue with optional English subtitles. Plus interviews, documentary, trailer. Criterion Collection. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $40. Sale Price: $9.
SEVEN SAMURAI. Japanese, 1954. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura. Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles. Magnificent samurai epic! Restored. Plus commentaries, trailers, documentaries, two-hour Kurosawa interview, 56-page booklet. Criterion Collection. DVD. Three-disc set, slipcased. Region 1. Retail Price: $50. Sale Price: $10.
THRONE OF BLOOD. Japanese, 1958. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Toshio Mifune, Isuzu Yamada. Macbeth in feudal Japan! Restored. Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles. Plus commentary, trailer, 16-paqge booklet. Criterion Collection. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $10.
KAKUSHI TORIDE NO SAN-AKUNIN (THE HIDDEN FORTRESS). Japanese, 1959. Tohoscope. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara. Action-adventure epic! Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles. Restored. Plus interview, trailer, booklet. Criterion Collection. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $9.
SEPPUKU (HARAKIRI). Japanese, 1962. Shochiku GrandScope. Directed by Masaki Kobayashi. With Tatsuya Nakadai. Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles. Plus Donald Richie introduction, Kobayashi interview, additional interviews, trailer, 32-page booklet. Criterion Collection. DVD. Two-disc set. Region 1. Retail Price: $40. Sale Price: $9.
HIGH AND LOW. Japanese, 1963. Hand-colored sequence. Tohoscope. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Toshio Mifune. Film noir thriller! Luminous restoration. Criterion Collec-tion. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $10.
KAGEMUSHA. Japanese-American, 1980. Eastmancolor. Panavision. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Tatsuya Nakadai. Action-adventure epic! Restored. Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles. Plus commentary, trailers, documentaries (on Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa, and on Kurosawa’s paintings and storyboards), Kurosawa’s Suntory Whiskey commercials, 48-page booklet. Criterion Collection. DVD. Two-disc set. Region 1. Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $10.
Silent Cinema
PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FILMMAKERS—THE FORGOTTEN FILMS OF WRITER & DIRECTOR JULIA CRAWFORD IVERS. THE INTRIGUE. American, 1916. Multi-tinted. With Lenore Ulrich. Plus THE MAJESTY OF THE LAW. (American, 1915, multi-tinted), A SON OF ERIN (American, 1916, multi-tinted), and BEN BLAIR (American, 1916, multi-tinted). All restored. Plus commentary, booklet essay. Kino DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $8.
DIE SPINNEN (THE SPIDERS). Fritz Lang’s two-part exotic adventure epic: DIE SPINNEN: ERSTES ABENTEUER—DER GOLDENE SEE (THE SPIDERS: EPISODE ONE—THE GOLDEN SEA) and DIE SPINNEN: ZWEITES ABENTEUER—DAS BRIL-LANTENSCHIFF (THE SPIDERS: EPISODE TWO—THE DIAMOND SHIP). German,
1919 and 1920. With Carl de Vogt, Lil Dagover. Restored. English intertitles. Kino DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $9.
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. American, 1923. Multi-tinted. Directed by Wallace Worsley. With Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller. Plus Michael F. Blake commentary, 18-page booklet with Michael F. Blake essay and original 1923 souvenir program, original 3-D stills and two pairs of 3-D glasses., footage of Chaney on the set. Image Entertainment. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $50. Sale Price: $8.
POIL DE CAROTTE (CARROT TOP). French, 1926. Multi-tinted sequences. Directed by Julien Duvivier. With Henry Krauss, Charlotte Barbier-Krauss, Andre Heuze. French intertitles with optional English subtitles. Plus introduction, documentaries. Arte France. DVD. Region 0 (NTSC). Retail Price: $35. Sale Price: $7.
LE MYSTERE DE LA TOUR EIFFEL (THE MYSTERY OF THE EIFFEL TOWER). French, 1928. Directed by Julien Duvivier. With Tramel, Gaston Jacquet. Dutch intertitles with no subtitles. Filmmuseum. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $22. Sale Price: $5.
MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG (PEOPLE ON SUNDAY). German, 1929. Avant-garde semi-documentary classic from Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Billie Wilder, and Fred Zinnemann. German intertitles with optional English suntitles. Plus documentary, 12-page booklet. BFI. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $22. Sale Price: $7.
AU BONHEUR DES DAMES (THE LADIES’ PARADISE). French, 1930. Directed by Julien Duvivier. With Dita Parlo, Ginette Maddie. French intertitles with optional English subtitles. Plus introduction, documentaries. Arte France. DVD. Region 0 (NTSC). Retail Price: $60. Sale Price: $7.
MODERN TIMES. American, 1936. Directed by Charlie Chaplin. With Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard. Plus introduction, documentary, deleted scenes, three shorts, trailers. MK2 / Warner. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $4.
Serials
GANG BUSTERS. American, 1942. Directed by Ray Taylor and Noel Smith. With Kent Taylor. Thirteen-chapter Universal serial. 4K restoration. VCI. DVD Region 1. Retail Price: $25.00. Sale Price: $10.
Studio Ghibli
TONARI NO TOTORO (MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO). Japanese, 1988. Fujicolor. Wide screen. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Classic Studio Ghibli animation. Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles. Plus storyboards, documentaries, trailers. Studio Ghibli. DVD. Two-disc set. Region 2. Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $6.
POM POKO. Japanese, 1994. Fujicolor. Wide screen. Directed by Isao Takahata. Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles. Classic Studio Ghibli animation. Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles. Plus storyboards, documentaries, trailers. Studio Ghibli. DVD. Two-disc set. Region 2. Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $6.
American Cinema
THE COCOANUTS. American, 1929. Directed by Joseph Santley and Robert Florey. With The Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont. Image Entertainment. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $10. Sale Price: $4.
ANIMAL CRACKERS. American, 1930. Directed by Victor Heerman. With The Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont. Image Entertainment. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $10. Sale Price: $4.
MONKEY BUSINESS. American, 1931. Directed by Norman McLeod. With The Four Marx Brothers, Thelma Todd. Image Entertainment. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $10. Sale Price: $4.
HORSE FEATHERS. American, 1932. Directed by Norman McLeod. With The Four Marx Brothers, Thelma Todd. Image Entertainment. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $4.
DUCK SOUP. American, 1933. Directed by Leo McCarey. With The Four Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont. Image Entertainment. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $10. Sale Price: $4.
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS. American, 1937. Technicolor. Produced by Walt Disney. Animation. Plus documentary, music video, and more. Disney. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $3.
DUMBO. American, 1941. Technicolor. Produced by Walt Disney. Animation. Plus documentary, cartoon, music videos. Disney. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $3.
BAMBI. American, 1942. Technicolor. Produced by Walt Disney. Animation. Plus documentaries (Walt’s story development meetings), deleted sequences, and more. Plus trailers. Disney. DVD. Two-disc set. Region 2. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $3.
MR. & MRS. SMITH. American, 1941. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery. Plus documentary. Warner Archive. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $13. Sale Price: $6.
MONSIEUR VERDOUX. American, 1947. Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Martha Raye. A Chaplin masterpiece. Plus introduction, documentary trailers. MK2 / Warner. DVD. Slipcased. Region 2. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $5.
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN. American, 1951. Directed by Gene Kelly. With Gene Kelly, Donald
O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds. Warner. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $15. Sale Price: $4.
LIMELIGHT. American, 1952. Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom. Chaplin’s last masterpiece. Plus introduction, documentary deleted scene, uncompleted short, home movies, trailers. MK2 / Warner. DVD. Slipcased. Region 2. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $5.
TO CATCH A THIEF. American, 1955. Technicolor. VistaVision. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Cary Grant, Grace Kelly. Plus commentary, interviews, five documentaries, interactive travelogue, trailer. Paramount. DVD. Two-disc set. Region 1. Retail Price: $25. Sale Price: $6.
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. American, 1962. Wide screen. Directed by John Frankenheimer. With Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury. Plus John Frankenheimer commentary, interviews, trailer. MGM. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $15. Sale Price: $5.
THE SERPENT’S EGG / DAS SCHLANGENEI. American–West German, 1977. Eastmancolor. Wide screen. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. With Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Froebe. Bergman’s second English-language film. Plus documentaries and trailer. MGM. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $29. Sale Price: $7.
SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET. American-British, 1997. Color. Wide screen. Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. With Brad Pitt, David Thewlis. Plus documentary, trailers. Mandalay. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $10. Sale Price: $3.
ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE. American, 2001. Color. Wide screen. Delightful Walt Disney Pictures animation. Plus commentary, deleted scene, and more. Disney. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $15. Sale Price: $3.
LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFE. American, 2003. Color. Wide screen. Directed by Jan De Bont. With Angelina Jolie. “This cradle rocks!” Plus commentary, deleted scenes, documentaries, screen test, music videos. Paramount. DVD. Region 1. Retail price: $15. Sale Price: $3.
ALEXANDER REVISITED: THE FINAL CUT. American-British-German-Dutch-French, 2007. Color. Wide screen. Directed by Oliver Stone. With Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Plummer. Longer than the director’s cut of Stone’s 2004 Alexander epic. Warner. DVD. Two-disc set. Region 1. Retail Price: $15. Sale Price: $3.
THE KITE RUNNER. American-Chinese-British, 2007. Color. Wide screen. Directed by Marc Forster. With Khalid Abdalla, Homayoun Ershadi. “Astonishingly affecting perfor-mances.” Paramount. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $10. Sale Price: $3.
British Cinema
SCROOGE. British, 1935. Directed by Henry Edwards. With Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop. A Christmas Carol! Image Entertainment. DVD. Out of print. Region 1. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $5.
NOTTING HILL. British-American, 1999. Color. Wide screen. Directed by Roger Michell. With Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant. Plus ABOUT A BOY. British-American-French-German, 2002. Color. Wide screen. Directed by Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz. With Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult. Universal. DVD. Two-disc set, slipcased. Out of print. Region 2. Retail Price: $25. Sale Price: $3.
ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE. British-American-French-German, 2007. Color. Wide screen. Directed by Shekhar Kepur. With Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush. Lavish study of the Virgin Queen and Walter Raleigh. Plus four documentaries. Universal. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $10. Sale Price: $3.
Chinese Cinema
As five of Zhang Yimou’s finest pictures appear on this list, it is perhaps not
inappropriate to mention that Zhang is considered by many to be the world’s
greatest living film director and one of cinema’s finest pictorial stylists.
inappropriate to mention that Zhang is considered by many to be the world’s
greatest living film director and one of cinema’s finest pictorial stylists.
HONG GAO LIANG (RED SORGHUM). Chinese, 1988. Eastmancolor. Wide screen. Directed by Zhang Yimou. With Gong Li, Jing Wen. Mandarin dialogue with optional English subtitles. Drakes Avenue. DVD. Region 0 (PAL). Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $4.
JU DOU. Chinese-Japanese, 1990 . Technicolor. Directed by Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang. With Gong Li, Li Baotian. Mandarin dialogue with optional English subtitles. MagicPlay. DVD. Region 0 (NTSC). Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $4.
QIU JU DE GUAN SI (THE STORY OF QIU JU). Hong Kong–Chinese, 1992. Color. Wide screen. Directed by Zhang Yimou. With Gong Li, Lei Kesheng. Mandarin dialogue with optional English subtitles. Sony. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $25. Sale Price: $4.
HUOZHE (TO LIVE). Hong Kong–Chinese, 1994. Color. Panavision. Directed by Zhang Yimou. With Ge You, Gong Li. Mandarin dialogue with optional English subtitles. Plus trailer. MGM. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $23. Sale Price: $4.
YAO A YAO, YAO DAO WAIPO QIAO (SHANGHAI TRIAD). Chinese-French, 1995. Color. Wide screen. Directed by Zhang Yimou. With Gong Li, Li Baotian. Mandarin dialogue with optional English subtitles. Plus trailers. Sony. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $10. Sale Price: $4.
YE YAN (THE BANQUET). Chinese, 2006. Technicolor. Super 35 wide screen. Directed by Feng Xiaogang. With Ziyi Zhang, Ge You. Dazzling martial arts reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Plus documentary, trailer. Mandarin dialogue with optional English subtitles. Metrodome. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $10. Sale Price: $4.
LONG MEN FEI JIA (FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE). Chinese, 2011. Color. Wide screen. Directed by Tsui Hark. With Jet Li, Zhou Xun. Mind-blowing action! Mandarin dialogue with optional English subtitles. Revolver. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $10. Sale Price: $3.
YANG MEN NU JIANG ZHI JUN LING RU SHAN (LEGENDARY AMAZONS). Chinese, 2011. Color. Wide screen. Directed by Frankie Chan. With Cecelia Cherung, Richie Jen. Mandarin dialogue with English subtitles. Action epic set in ancient China. Plus commentary, documentary, trailers. Cine Asia. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $25. Sale Price: $3.
XUEHUA YU MISHAN (SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN). Chinese, 2011. Color. Wide screen. Directed by Wayne Wang. With Gianna Jun, Li Bing Bing. From the director of The Joy Luck Club. Mandarin dialogue with optional English subtitles. Fox. DVD. Region 2. Retail price: $15. Sale Price: $3.
French Cinema
LA REGLE DU JEU (THE RULES OF THE GAME). French, 1939. Directed by Jean Renoir. With Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Jean Renoir. French dialogue with English subtitles. BFI. DVD. Out of print. Region 2. Retail Price: $25. Sale Price: $5.
LE JOUR SE LEVE (DAYBREAK). French, 1939. Directed by Marcel Carne. With Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty. Poetic-realism noir classic from Marcel Carne and Jacques Prevert. French dialogue with optional English subtitles. Plus interviews, documentary, trailer. Studio Canal. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $7.
DU RIFIFI CHEZ LES HOMMES (RIFIFI). French, 1955. Directed by Jules Dassin. With Jean Servais. Noir perfection! French dialogue with English subtitles. Stunning restoration. Plus Dassin interviews, trailer. Arrow. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $7.
BOB LE FLAMBEUR (BOB THE GAMBLER). French, 1956. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. With Isabel Corey, Duchesne. Classic film noir! French dialogue with English subtitles. Plus introduction. Optimum/Studio Canal. DVD. Out of print. Region 2. Retail Price: $12. Sale Price: $5.
LE DOULOS (THE FINGER MAN). French, 1962. Wide screen. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani. French neo-noir classic! French dialogue with optional English subtitles. Plus commentary, introduction, interview, trailer. BFI. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $15. Sale Price: $5.
LE CERCLE ROUGE (THE RED CIRCLE). French-Italian, 1970. Eastmancolor. Wide screen. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. With Alain Delon, Yves Montand. Classic neo-noir! Plus introduction, commentary, interview, trailer. BFI. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $7.
UN FLIC (A COP). French, 1972. Wide screen. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. With Alain Delon, Catherine Derneuve. French neo-noir classic! French dialogue with optional English subtitles. Plus trailer. Studio Canal / Anchor Bay. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $8.
LE DERNIER METRO (THE LAST METRO). French, 1980. Fujicolor. Wide screen. Directed by Francois Truffaut. With Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu. French dialogue with English subtitles. Plus interviews, commentary, deleted scene, trailer. Tartan. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $6.
CYRANO DE BERGERAC. French, 1990. Color. Panavision. Directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau. With Gerard Depardieu, Jacques Weber, Anne Brochet. Finest performance of Depardieu’s career. Plus trailer. MGM. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $38. Sale Price: $7.
INDOCHINE. French, 1992. Color. Wide screen. Directed by Regis Wargnier. With Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez. French and Vietnamese dialogue with optional English subtitles. Visually stunning. Arrow. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $15. Sale Price: $3.
UN VIE DE CHAT (A CAT IN PARIS). French, 2010. Color. Wide screen. Directed by Alain Gagnol & Jean-Loup Felicioli. French dialogue with optional English subtitles. Academy Award–nominated animation. Plus optional English-language version. Soda Pictures. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $25. Sale Price: $3.
German Cinema
STURME UBER DEM MONTBLANC (STORM OVER MONT BLANC). German, 1930. Directed by Dr. Arnold Fanck. With Sepp Rist, Leni Riefenstahl, Ernst Udet. German dialogue with no subtitles. Plus feature-length documentary on Mont Blanc. 101 Pixel. DVD. Two-disc set. Region 2. Retail Price: $30. Sale Price: $3.
MADCHEN IN UNIFORM (GIRLS IN UNIFORM). German, 1931. Directed by Leontine Sagan. With Emilia Unda, Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele. German dialogue with no subtitles. Kinowelt. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $26. Sale Price: $3.
DER KONGRESS TANZT (CONGRESS DANCES). German, 1931. Directed by Erik Charell. With Lilian Harvey, Willi Fritsch, Conrad Veidt. Plus documentary, trailers. German dialogue with no subtitles. Ufa. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $3.
SOS EISBERG (SOS ICEBERG). German, 1933. Directed by Dr. Arnold Fanck. With Leni Riefenstahl, Ernst Udet, Gustav Diessl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland. German dialogue with no subtitles. Plus trailers. Ufa. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $32. Sale Price: $3.
DIE GOLDENE STADT. German, 1942. Agfacolor. Directed by Veit Harlan. With Kristina Soderbaum, Eugen Klopfer. German dialogue with no subtitles. Black Hill. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $15. Sale Price: $3.
Italian Cinema
CRISTO SI E FERMATO A EBOLI (CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI). Italian-French, 1979. Color. Directed by Francesco Rosi. With Gian Maria Volonte. Neo-realist classic, the exile of anti-fascist intellectual Carlo Levi. Italian dialogue with optional English subtitles. Plus portrait of director Rosi. Infinity Arthouse. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $3.
UN TE CON MUSSOLINI (TEA WITH MUSSOLINI). Italian-British, 1999. Technicolor. Wide screen. Directed by Franco Zefferelli. With Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Lily Tomlin. English and subtitled Italian dialogue. Universal. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $15. Sale Price: $3.
Japanese Cinema
KAGEMUSHA (KAGEMUSHA: THE SHADOW WARRIOR). Japanese, 1980. Eastmancolor. Panavision. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki. Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles. Fox. DVD. Region 2. Retail Price: $15. Sale Price: $4.
RAN. French-Japanese, 1985. Eastmancolor. Panavision. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Tatsuya Nakadai. King Lear in feudal Japan. Kurosawa’s greatest master-piece! Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles. Plus commentaries, trailers. Studio Canal. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $10.
YUME (DREAMS). Japanese-American, 1990. Eastmancolor. Panavision Super 35. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Martin Scorsese as Vincent Van Gogh. Visionary, deeply personal series of eight episodes on war and nuclear power. Mainly Japanese dialogue with English subtitles. Warner. DVD. Region 1. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $8.
GOJOE. Japanese, 2006. Color Wide screen. Directed by Sogo Ishii. With Ryu Daisuke, Tadanobu Asano. Spectacular choreography and cinematography. Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles. Optimum. DVD. Region 2. Retail price: $15. Sale Price: $3.
Russian Cinema
VOYNA I MIR (WAR AND PEACE): 5 DISC COLLECTOR’S EDITION. Soviet Union, 1965-1967. Directed by Sergei Bondachuk. With Liudmila Savelyeva, Sergei Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov. PART ONE: ANDREI BOLKONSKY. PART TWO: NATACHA ROSTOVA. PART THREE: THE YEAR 1812. PART FOUR: PIERRE BEZUKHOV. Cinema’s definitive historical spectacle. Breathtaking battle sequences. Russian dialogue with English subtitles. Plus interviews; making-of, Sergei Bondarchuk, and Leo Tolstoy documentaries; trailers. Artificial Eye. DVD. Five-disc, slipcased set. Region 2. Retail Price: $43. Sale Price: $4.
Swedish Cinema
AUS DEM LEBEN DER MARIONETTEN (FROM THE LIFE OF THE MARIONETTES). West German–Swedish, 1980. Color sequences. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. With Robert Atzorn, Heinz Bennent. German dialogue with English subtitles. Made in Germany during Bergman’s Swedish tax exile. Plus trailer. Tartan. DVD. Region Free. Retail Price: $20. Sale Price: $6.
