La Guerre Est Finie

$19.95 | 121 minutes

Oscar, Best Screenplay(Nominee)

For an aging friend of the revolution, it seems time to hang up the combat boots and let the new generation have their turn. When he meets a student involved in terrorist activities, it re-ignites the flame of fight until he meets catastrophe. This film is an exciting example of the French New Wave&hellip…

A Time For Burning

$21.95 | 58 minutes

Best Documentary, Features(Nominee)

This award-winning documentary explores the white, middle-class Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska, which in 1966 struggled to reach out to the black community in their city. The congregation was divided between those who wanted to accept social change and those who thought the time&hellip…

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

$17.95 | 142 minutes

Un Award(Nominee)

Christ's life is presented with respect for the traditional religious doctrine of the Church, but Pasolini's trademark naturalism "humanizes" his subject and makes him his own. The documentary-style camera captures Christ's meetings with the men who were to become his disciples, the Last Supper, the betrayal&hellip…

Weekend

$23.95 | 100 minutes

Golden Berlin Bear(Nominee)

THIS TITLE IS ON MORATORIUM AND CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. The master of the French New Wave indicts consumerism and elaborates on his personal vision of Hell with this raucous, biting satire. A nasty, scheming bourgeois Parisian couple embarks on a journey through the countryside to her father's house&hellip…

Signs of Life

$23.95 | 95 minutes

Silver Berlin Bear, Special Prize
Golden Berlin Bear(Nominee)

Werner Herzog made his directing debut with this meditation on war and madness. During World War II, three German soldiers--one of them wounded--take refuge on a small Greek island that remains relatively untouched by the fighting. The boredom of their isolated&hellip…

Les Biches

$15.95 | 100 minutes

Silver Berlin Bear, Best Actress

Claude Chabrol crafts a complex social allegory in LES BICHES, a subtle and intricate tale of desire, despair, and murder. Released in March of 1968, just months before the May 1968 student revolts in Paris, Chabrol filtered the ever-increasing class struggle in France into the compelling tale&hellip…

This film is currently on backorder, please allow 3-5 weeks for delivery.

National Film Board of Canada - Nobody Waved Good-bye

$14.95 | 80 minutes

First Prize

A story of teenage conflict -- the predicament of a youth who rebels against his parents' middle-class goals and conventions but finds the world, away from home and high school, a cold place to go it alone. Ideals are no defense when the need for money leads to shady practices. This feature film is a study of the sources&hellip…

Signs of Life

$23.95 | 95 minutes

Film Award in Silver, Outstanding Feature Film

Werner Herzog made his directing debut with this meditation on war and madness. During World War II, three German soldiers--one of them wounded--take refuge on a small Greek island that remains relatively untouched by the fighting. The boredom of their isolated post and meaningless&hellip…

I Am Curious...: 2-Disc Set

$34.95 | 328 minutes

Best Actress

Two groundbreaking, naturalistic films from Swedish director Vilgot Sjoman are included in this collection. I AM CURIOUS (BLUE) and I AM CURIOUS (YELLOW) were intended as companion pieces and both are contained in this two disc set. Please see individual titles for further details&hellip&hellip…

This film is currently on backorder, please allow 3-5 weeks for delivery.

Oedipus Rex

$17.95 | 110 minutes

Silver Ribbon, Best Production Design
Silver Ribbon, Best Producer

Pier Paolo Pasolini's dreamlike rendering of Sophocles' ageless tragedy about a man who unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother. Shifting between stark Moroccan desertscapes and contemporary Bolognian settings, Pasolini incorporates eclectic strains&hellip…

This film is currently on backorder, please allow 3-5 weeks for delivery.

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

$17.95 | 142 minutes

Best Foreign Director

Christ's life is presented with respect for the traditional religious doctrine of the Church, but Pasolini's trademark naturalism "humanizes" his subject and makes him his own. The documentary-style camera captures Christ's meetings with the men who were to become his disciples, the Last Supper, the betrayal&hellip…

Les Carabiniers

$16.95 | 80 minutes

Best Foreign Film(Nominee)

A bizarre, surreal, and potent antiwar film, Jean-Luc Godard's LES CARABINIERS is a complex tale of two riflemen who travel the world in the service of "The King." Recruited by two other members of the army, Michel-Ange and Ulysses leave their wives, Cleopatra and Venus, to wander as far as Egypt and&hellip…

The Shop on Main Street

$25.95 | 125 minutes

Audience Award, Most Popular Film

In World War II Slovakia, an easygoing carpenter, Tono (Jozef Króner) is pressured to move up in the world by his ostentatious wife and fascist brother-in-law. He takes the job of "Aryan comptroller" in a button shop owned by an aging Jewess, Rosalie (Ida Kaminska) who barely seems aware that&hellip…

This film is currently on backorder, please allow 3-5 weeks for delivery.

John Cassavetes: Five Films

$107.95 | 900 minutes

Golden Lion(Nominee)
Volpi Cup, Best Actor

Considered by many to be the father of independent film, John Cassavetes left behind a body of work which has become essential viewing for anyone interested in the art of narrative filmmaking. Peopled with average people, down-and-out types, and low-level criminals, his humanist vision&hellip…

This film is currently on backorder, please allow 3-5 weeks for delivery.

Teorema

$21.95 | 98 minutes

Volpi Cup
Golden Lion(Nominee)

The eccentric Italian director's atmospheric tale of a prominent, dysfunctional Milanese family which engineers its own destruction when a spiritually minded stranger moves in on them&hellip&hellip…