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The Seventh Seal The Long Good Friday Flesh for Frankenstein Blood for Dracula Oliver Twist Great Expectations Grand Illusion |
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The Seventh Seal"A magically powerful film." -- Pauline Kael After a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight challenges Death to a fateful game of chess. The Seventh Seal launched the international career of its director, Ingmar Bergman, and made a star of its 27-year-old leading actor, Max von Sydow. Forty years later, Bergman' s stunning allegory of man's apocalyptic search for meaning remains a textbook on the art of filmmaking and an essential building block in any collection. Special features:
1 disc / $39.95 / 1957 / street date: NOVEMBER 1998 |
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The Long Good Friday"The Long Good Friday takes its rightful place with the best gangster movies of all time." -- Leonard Maltin Bob Hoskins, in his breakthrough film role, stars as a London racketeer fast losing control of his gangland empire; Helen Mirren shines as his classy moll. A marriage of gangster flicks from both sides of the Atlantic, John Mackenzie's noirish thriller crackles with electricity. Criterion presents The Long Good Friday in an exclusive widescreen transfer. Special Features:
1 disc / $29.95 / 1979 / street date: NOVEMBER 1998 |
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Flesh for FrankensteinMaverick filmmaker Paul Morrissey's Flesh for Frankenstein reevaluates the horror film, infusing it with satiric wit and sexuality. Morrissey's tale of the mad Baron Frankenstein and his perverse creative urges was heavily edited upon initial release; Criterion presents the restored director's cut -- fully intact after 20 years -- in a new widescreen transfer. Special features:
1 disc / $39.95 / 1973 / street date: OCTOBER 1998 |
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Blood for DraculaPaul Morrissey's brash mixture of humor, horror, and sex is a bitingly funny satire of modern values -- and a revelation to fans of the horror film. In Blood for Dracula, the infamous count searches Italy for "pure" blood. Criterion presents the long-suppresses director's cut of this outrageous cult classic in a new widescreen transfer. Special features:
$39.95 / 1974 / street date: OCTOBER 1998 |
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Oliver Twist"A brilliant, fascinating movie, no less a classic than the Dickens novel which brings it to life" -- Time
Expressionistic noir photography suffuses David Lean's Oliver Twist with a nightmarish
quality, fitting its bleak, industrial setting. In Dickens's classic tale, an orphan wneds
his way from creal apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home. Here Alec Guinness
is the quintessential Fagin, his controversial performace fully restored in Criterion's new
digital transfer.
1 disc / $39.95 / 1948 / street date: SEPT 1998 |
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Great Expectations"Visually flawless, perfectly paced, it's a small masterpiece." -- Time Out Film Guide One of the great translations of literature into film, David Lean brings Charles Dickens' masterpiece to robust onscreen life. Pip, Magwitch, Miss Havisham, and Estella populate Lean's magnificent miniature, beautifully photographed by Guy Green and designed by John Bryan. Great Expectations was transfered in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1. This new digital transfer was created from a 35mm composite fine-grain master. 1 disc / $39.95 / 1946 / street date: SEPT 1998 |
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Grand Illusion"If I could save only one film, it would be Grand Illusion." Perhaps the greatest film ever made, this humanist masterpiece by Jean Renoir, son of the Impressionist painter August, is both a startling entertainment and a harsh critique of war and aristocracy. In French with optional English subtitles. "The story is true. It was told to me by my friends in the war . . . notably by Pinsard, who flew fighter planes. I was in the reconnaissance squadron. He saved my life many times when the German fighters became too persistent. He himself was shot down seven times. His escapes are the basis for the story."
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$39.95 / 1938 / street date: August 1998 |