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	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 $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	July
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	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 (Tengoko to jigoku). >>> 143 minutes   Black and White   2.35:1   Japan	July
		2-Disc Set 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	July
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	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	August
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	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	August
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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	August
		Single Disc SRP $29.95 Criterion Store price $23.96

	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	August
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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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	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, and aristocrats, >>> 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 Parisian society, Max Ophuls brings his astonishing visual dexterity and >>> 97 minutes   Black and White   1.33:1   France	September
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	An Autumn Afternoon Yasujiro Ozu, 1962 Yasujiro Ozu's final film is 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
		Single Disc SRP $29.95 Criterion Store price $23.97