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- DirectorTobias NölleStarsGeorg FriedrichTilde von OverbeckKamil KrejcíA lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as 'telephone walking'. Fascinated by her voice, Aloys discovers an imaginary universe that allows him to break out of his isolation.(Blu-ray/DVD Double Play)
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsCraig WassonMelanie GriffithGregg HenryA young actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences.(Blu-ray/DVD Double Play)
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJacqueline BissetJean-Pierre LéaudFrançois TruffautA committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.– The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray/DVD Double Play)
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsKeith GordonJohn StockwellAlexandra PaulA nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.(Blu-ray/DVD Double Play)
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsRay MillandSam ElliottJoan Van ArkA group of helpless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles.(Blu-ray and DVD)
- DirectorAlex ProyasStarsBrenton ThwaitesNikolaj Coster-WaldauGerard ButlerMortal hero Bek teams with the god Horus in an alliance against Set, the merciless god of darkness, who has usurped Egypt's throne, plunging the once peaceful and prosperous empire into chaos and conflict.(Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray and DVD)
- DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsKen KanekoMasanobu AndôLeo MorimotoDropping out of high school, two friends at first find success, one as a up-and-coming boxer and one as a low level gangster. Yet, their life decisions still find a way of catching up with them.(Blu-ray)
- DirectorRick MoralesStarsFrank WelkerMatthew LillardGrey GriffinThe Scooby gang try to rescue an old movie studio, which is not only threatened by developers, but a series of movie monsters too.(Blu-ray and DVD)
- DirectorPeter MiddletonJames SpinneyStarsJohn M. HullMarilyn HullMiranda Beinart-SmithIn the summer of 1983, just days before the birth of his first son, writer and theologian John Hull went blind. In order to make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began keeping a diary on audiocassette. Upon their publication in 1990, Oliver Sacks described the work as 'the most extraordinary, precise, deep and beautiful account of blindness I have ever read. It is to my mind a masterpiece.' With exclusive access to these original recordings, NOTES ON BLINDNESS encompasses dreams, memory and imaginative life, excavating the interior world of blindness.(DVD)
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsHarry BelafonteRobert RyanGloria GrahameIn need of quick money, a fallen former cop recruits a hard-bitten ex-con and a debt-ridden nightclub singer to pull off a bank job. But as the animosity between them boils over, the entire plan threatens to implode.(Blu-ray/DVD Double Play)
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsRaquel WelchJohn RichardsonPercy HerbertPrehistoric man Tumak is banished from his savage tribe and meets pretty Loana, who belongs to a gentler coastal tribe, but he must fight caveman Payto to win her favors.(Blu-ray/DVD Double Play – Restored)
- DirectorMartin RittStarsPaul NewmanJoanne WoodwardSidney PoitierDuring the 1960s, two American expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls.(Blu-ray/DVD Double Play)
- DirectorSatoshi KonStarsJunko IwaoRica MatsumotoShinpachi TsujiA pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past.(Blu-ray Steel Book)
- StarsJimmy MarshallFlorence McClainFrank MontgomeryTwo Actors try their hands at stage comedy.PIONEERS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN CINEMA
Below is a list of the complete contents of this collection.
Disc One (Total Running Time 282 minutes):
Two Knights of Vaudeville
Ebony Film Co., 1915. 11 minutes. Music by Donald Sosin
Mercy the Mummy Mumbled (BLU-RAY ONLY)
Ebony Film Co., 1918. 12 minutes. Music by the Alloy Orchestra.
A Reckless Rover
Ebony Film Co., 1918. 14 minutes. Music by Donald Sosin.
Within Our Gates
Oscar Micheaux, 1920. 73 minutes. Music by DJ Spooky.
The Symbol of the Unconquered: A Story of the KKK
Oscar Micheaux, 1920. 59 minutes. Music by Max Roach.
By Right of Birth
Lincoln Motion Picture Co., 1921. 4 minutes. Music by Donald Sosin.
Body and Soul
Oscar Micheaux, 1925. 93 minutes. Music by DJ Spooky.
Screen Snapshots (Micheaux footage, 1920, 1 minute)
Bonus: An Introduction (7 minutes)
Bonus: The Films of Oscar Micheaux (8 minutes)
Disc Two (Total Running Time - 259 minutes):
Regeneration
Richard E. Norman, 1923. 11 minutes. Music by Donald Sosin.
The Flying Ace
Richard E. Norman, 1928. 65 minutes. Music by Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
Ten Nights in a Bar Room
CPFC, 1926. 64 minutes. Music by Donald Sosin.
Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies
Rev. Solomon Sir Jones, 1924-1926. 16 minutes. Music by Andrew Simpson.
The Scar of Shame
Frank Peregini, 1929. 86 minutes. Music by Makia Matsumura
Bonus: The Color Line (5 minutes)
Bonus: Ten Nights in a Bar Room - An Introduction (4 minutes)
Bonus: About the Restoration (8 minutes)
Disc Three (Total Running Time - 253 minutes):
Eleven P.M.
Richard Maurice, 1928. 60 minutes. Music by Rob Gal.
Hell-Bound Train
James and Eloyce Gist, 1930. 50 minutes.
Restored by S. Torriano Berry. Music by Samuel Waymon.
Verdict Not Guilty
James and Eloyce Gist, 1934. 8 minutes.
Restored by S. Torriano Berry. Music by Samuel Waymon.
Heaven-Bound Travels (BLU-RAY ONLY)
James and Eloyce Gist, 1935. 15 minutes.
Restored by S. Torriano Berry. Music by Samuel Waymon.
The Darktown Revue
Oscar Micheaux, 1931. 18 minutes.
The Exile
Oscar Micheaux, 1931. 78 minutes.
Hot Biskits
Spencer Williams, 1931. 10 minutes.
Disc Four (Total Running Time - 272 minutes):
The Girl from Chicago
Oscar Micheaux, 1932. 70 minutes.
Ten Minutes to Live
Oscar Micheaux, 1932. 58 minutes.
Veiled Aristocrats
Oscar Micheaux, 1932. 48 minutes.
Birthright
Oscar Micheaux, 1938. 73 minutes.
Bonus: Veiled Aristocrats Trailer (4 minutes)
Bonus: Birthright Trailer (4 minutes)
Bonus: We Work Again (BLU-RAY ONLY) - WPA Documentary (1937, 15 minutes)
Disc Five (Total Running Time - 243 minutes):
The Bronze Buckaroo
Richard Kahn, 1939. 58 minutes.
Zora Neale Hurston Fieldwork Footage (excerpt)
Zora Neale Hurtston, 1928. 3 minutes.
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (excerpt)
Zora Neale Hurston, 1940. 15 minutes.
The Blood of Jesus
Spencer Williams, 1941. 56 minutes.
Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.
Spencer Williams, 1946. 60 minutes.
Moses Sisters Interview
Pearl Bowser, 1978. 32 minutes.
Bonus: Texas Tyler Promo Film with Ossie Davis (1985, 6 minutes)
Bonus: The Films of Zora Neale Hurston (2 minutes)
Bonus: The Films of Spencer Williams (7 minutes)
Bonus: The End of an Era (4 minutes) - DirectorOmer FastStarsCush JumboEd SpeleersTom SturridgeA large black box crashes through the sky, landing on a man's head. He spends months recovering, having lost all memory. After a multi-million pound settlement, he becomes increasingly extravagant in enacting fragments of memory.(Blu-ray and DVD)
- DirectorDarren Lynn BousmanAxelle CarolynAdam GieraschStarsAdrienne BarbeauHunter SmitCameron EastonTen stories are woven together by their shared theme of Halloween night in an American suburb, where ghouls, imps, aliens and axe murderers appear for one night only to terrorize unsuspecting residents.(Blu-ray and DVD)
- DirectorDave GreenStarsMegan FoxWill ArnettTyler PerryThe Turtles get into another battle with their enemy the Shredder, who has acquired new allies: the mutant thugs Bebop and Rocksteady and the alien being Krang.(Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray and DVD)
- DirectorBen FalconeStarsMelissa McCarthyKristen BellPeter DinklageA titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.(Blu-ray and DVD)
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsFares FaresTrine DyrholmUlrich ThomsenA story about the clash between personal desires, solidarity and tolerance in a Danish commune in the 1970s.DVD
- DirectorNicolas RoegStarsDavid BowieRip TornCandy ClarkAn alien must pose as a human to save his dying planet, but a woman and greed of other men create complications.(Blu-ray/DVD and Audio CD 40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition))
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenJean-Paul BelmondoRaf ValloneIn WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.(Blu-ray/DVD)
- DirectorRob CohenStarsVin DieselAsia ArgentoMarton CsokasThe US government recruits extreme sports athlete Xander Cage to infiltrate a Russian criminal ring, which is plotting the destruction of the world.XXX and XXX2 Blu-ray