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Akerman, Chantal Borowczyk, Walerian Breillat, Catherine
Bresson, Robert Carax, Leos Carne, Marcel
Chabrol, Claude Chereau, Patrice Clement, Rene
Clair, Rene Clouzot, Henri-Georges Cocteau, Jean
Dumont, Bruno Feuillade, Louis Gatlif, Tony
Godard, Jean-Luc Denis, Claire Malle, Louis
Marker, Chris Melies, Georges Melville, Jean-Pierre
Ophuls, Max Ozon, Francois Pagnol, Marcel
Renoir, Jean Resnais, Alain Rivette, Jacques
Rohmer, Eric Rouch, Jean Ruiz, Raul
Tati, Jacques Tavernier, Bertrand Techine, Andre
Truffaut, Francois Vigo, Jean Varda, Agnes
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10 YEARS OF RIALTO PICTURES
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Rialto Pictures, "the gold standard of reissue distributors," according to       film critic Kenneth Turan, has been circulating glorious, restored 35mm prints   of classic films since 1997. Celebrate their ten year anniversary with this      set of ten films that demonstrate the depth of the Rialto collection: Army  of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969, 145 mins., French with English      subtitles), Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966, 96 mins., French  with English subtitles), Band of Outsiders (Jean Luc Godard, 1964, 95      mins., French with English subtitles), Billy Liar (John Schlesinger,     1963, 98 mins.), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel,     1972, 101 mins., French with English subtitles), Mafioso (Alberto        Lattuada, 1962, 102 mins., Italian with English subtitles), Murderous         Maids (Jean-Pierre Denis, 2000, 94 mins., French with English subtitles),   Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955, 118 mins., French with English subtitles),   The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949, 104 mins.), and Touchez Pas au       Grisbi (Jacques Becker, 1954, 96 mins., French with English subtit  les).
100% ARABICA
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In this light-hearted musical comedy with a message, a North African pop group   called Rap Oriental uses music to triumph over the bigotry and violence in       their housing project on the outskirts of Paris. The band and their devoted      fans are pitted against religiously conservative elders who want to stop the   music. The film features Khaled and Cheb Mami, two real-life stars of rai      music--a combination of North African sounds and western-style rap. The pair   offers a message with a beat as they rock, groove, and ultimately soothe their   'hood with their unique sound. In French with English subtitles.               Mahmoud Zemmouri---France/Belgium/Switzerland---1997---85 mins.
13 TZAMETI
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With the festival success of this slick black-and-white crime thriller,          writer-director Gela Babluani has become the Georgian filmmaker to watch.        13 Tzameti tensely tracks Sebastien (Georges Babluani), a poor twenty      something immigrant from the steppes, who overhears his French neighbors       talking about a package that will bring them riches. Intercepting the parcel,  Sebastien's life is thrown into utter chaos as he follows cryptic clues that   lead him to a world of depraved gambling, where millions are won and lives are   lost. "Playfully wicked. As a brutal metaphor for the global economy, 13    Tzameti takes care of business" (Village Voice). Winner at Sundance,  the European Film Awards, and the Venice Film Festival. In French with English Gela Babluani---France/Georgia---2005---90 mins.
2 FILMS BY WILLIAM KLEIN

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2/ TWO DAYS IN PARIS
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Julie Delpy, the female lead in Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise and     Before Sunset, returns to similar territory with 2 Days in Paris  ,  a romantic comedy she wrote, directed, and stars in alongside Adam Goldberg.     Attempting to salvage their relationship by going on a European vacation, the  quirky pair spends their two remaining days in Paris, where they fight over    jealousy issues, politics, and culture, then make-up and repeat. Instead of    the short, dreamlike romances in Linklater's movies, 2 Days in Paris       shows the harsh (and humorous) results of long exposure to an incompatible     mate. "What [Delpy] has done here is avoid all temptation to recycle the usual lovers-in-Paris possibilities" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). In      English and French with English subtitles.                                       Julie Delpy---France---2007---100 mins.
3 FILMS BY LOUIS MALLE
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Three semi-autobiographical coming-of-age films by Louis Malle, a director who   emerged from the French New Wave and went on to amass a filmography of           staggering breadth, depth, and feeling. Includes Murmur of the Heart       (1971, 118 mins.), an affectionate and controversial portrait of a 14-year-old from a bourgeois home who develops complicated feelings for his mother.        Lacombe, Lucien (1974, 138 mins.) is a brilliant, poetic work that tells of a French peasant, rejected by the French resistance, who joins the Gestapo    instead. Malle's devastating depiction of the amorality of power inflamed      French audiences. Finally, Au Revoir les Enfants (1987, 101 mins.) tells the heartrending story of a friendship between two schoolboys, one Jewish and  the other Catholic, during the Nazi occupation of France.                        Louis Malle---France---1971-1987---357 mins.
35 SHOTS OF RUM
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From Claire Denis comes this warm family drama focusing on the relationship between an African immigrant and his college-age daughter in Paris.
4 BY AGNES VARDA
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A collection of key films by Varda, including Cleo from 5 to 7, which spends 90 minutes in the life of a singer as she awaits the results of a cancer test.
4 MUSKETEERS
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This is Pierre Aknine's dark reworking of Alexandre Dumas' tale of three         musketeers and their recklessly romantic compatriot, D'Artagnan, played here     by Vincent Elbaz. As aired on French TV, this production is quite possibly the   most sinister of the Musketeers adaptations, ripe with evil,             supernatural forces all the swashbuckling. With Emmanuelle Beart, Tcheky       Karyo, and Heino Ferch. In French with English subtitles.                      Pierre Aknine---France---2005---190 mins.
4 SHORT FILMS JEAN-LUC GODARD
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Godard once stated, "One could make a good film in twenty seconds." With that    logic, one could make a great film in the measure of a short, and Godard has     certainly done so time and time again.  This collection includes his video       short Sarajevo (1993), two pieces co-directed by Anne-Marie              Mieville--Liberty and Homeland (2002) and the experimental documentary   The Old Place (1998)--as well as The Origin of the 21st Century,   commissioned by the Cannes Film Festival to commemorate a second century of      movie magic. Shown on opening night in 2000, Godard's collage included footage of Nazi war atrocities, torture, rape, violence, and pornography, interspersed with images of children from films like The Shining and Los           Olvidades, and a clip from his own Breathless. "Although it goe  s down like a draft of hemlock, Origin of the 21st Century is an antidote to    the celebratory inventories that marked the century's end" (The Village     Jean-Luc Godard/Anne-Marie Mieville---France---1993-2002---85 mins.
400 BLOWS (CRITERION)
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One of the landmarks of cinema, which introduced the character of Antoine Doinel, played by Jean-Pierre Leaud, to the world, as the 12-year-old boy left to his own devices in an indifferent adult world. An uncompromising film, winner of innumerable awards. In French with English subtitles.                Francois Truffaut---France---1959---97 mins.
5 X 2 (OZON)
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Talented French director Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool) structures this     intimate chamber drama in reverse chronological order, charting the              dissolution of a young couple's marriage from the finalization of their          divorce to their initial romantic encounter. The principal characters          (excellently played by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and Stephane Freiss) experience  affection, inertia, anger, and pain as they fumble towards the realization     that reconciliation is no longer possible. "It integrates ordinary pleasures,    anxiety, joy, doubt and loneliness into a slightly melancholy portrait that's  deceptively simple but never dull" (Variety). In French with English     Francois Ozon---France---2005---90 mins.
56 RUE PIGALLE
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With Georges Ulmer's song "Pigalle" placed front and center, director Willy      Rozier weaves a shadowy tale about a French gentleman who skips town with the    wife of his blackmailed boss after the boss' servant is found murdered. A dark   romantic thriller about love, murder, and deception. With Jacques Dumesnil,    Marie Dea, Aime Clariond, and Raymond Cordy. In French with English subtitles. Willy Rozier---France---1949---84 mins.
8 WOMEN (DENEUVE)
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Three generations of fabulous French actresses are featured in Francois Ozon's   musical mystery comedy. When a wealthy industrialist is found murdered, eight    women close to him become the most likely suspects. Catherine Deneuve,           Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Beart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen, Danielle   Darrieux, Ludivine Sagnier, and Firmine Richard are the glamorous leading      ladies. "Decked out in full '50s Technicolor, the film marries an Agatha       Christie murder mystery to Sirkian melodrama, vintage pop musical numbers, and   Ozon's own mischievous wit, which sneaks a few dark twists into an otherwise   bubbly affair" (Scott Tobias, The Onion A.V. Club). In French with       Francois Ozon---France---2002---111 mins.
A LA MODE
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An adorable French romantic comedy tells the rags-to-riches tale of a talented   young fashion designer who turns Paris on its ear at the same time that he's     winning the hearts of the city's loveliest women. French with English            Remy Duchemin---France---1993---89 mins.
A NOS AMOURS (CRITERION)
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Winner of France's Cesar Award for Best Film of 1983, A Nos Amours is a    powerful, moving study of a working-class girl of 15 who enters a series of      casual sexual relationships while looking for the love she has been denied at    home. Sandrine Bonnaire immediately established herself as one of the top      talents in French cinema with her performance in this raw and affecting        masterpiece. In French with English subtitles.                                 Maurice Pialat---France---1983---102 mins.
A NOUS LA LIBERTE
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Rene Clair's imaginative satire of the industrial revolution was a key inspiration for Chaplin's Modern Times.
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In this intrepid drama by Benoit Jacquot (The Disenchanted, The         School of the Flesh), Isild Le Besco plays Lili, a young, beautiful, bored    art student who impetuously falls in love with a small-time hood, Bada           (Ouassini Embarek).  After a botched bank robbery that ends in murder, Lili    agrees to flee Paris with her wanted boyfriend. Disentranced and on the lam,   she soon finds herself in compromising situations, both physical and           metaphysical. This adaptation of Elisabeth Fanger's memoir When I Was 19 is partly a tale of youthful naivety gone awry, but also, with its plot and    setting in mind, an homage to the French New Wave, especially Elevator to   the Gallows, Les Bonnes Femmes, and Breathless. "Gorgeous       black-and-white photography lends the movie a chilly documentary realism   . . . Small, nearly perfect film" (Stephen Holden, The New York Times). In     Benoit Jacquot---France---2004---95 mins.
ABEL GANCE'S BEETHOVEN
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The monumental epic from the director of Napoleon, Abel Gance's            Beethoven offers an extraordinary vision of the romantic artist as a       tragic hero. This symphonic film, full of magnificent sequences, features        Gance's return to the visual freedom of the silent cinema, while using sound   in a daring, expressionistic manner. With Harry Baur, Jean-Louis Barrault,     Marcel Dallio. French with English subtitles.                                  Abel Gance---France---1936---116 mins.
ACCIDENTAL HERO, THE
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A troubled teen copes with tumultuous life changes in this coming-of-age story   from the acclaimed French TV movie series The Rebel Years. Tom Maillard    (Alexandre Hamidi, Code Unknown) is prone to angry outbursts that          overwhelm his harried single mother. But when one of their arguments leads to  a horrible car accident, their lives will forever be changed. Laurent Jaoui's  intricate drama hews closely to themes of identity, memory, and family. With   Anne Coesens (Ma Vie en Rose) and Isabelle Renauld (Monsieur            Ibrahim). In French with English subtitles.                                 Laurent Jaoui---France---2002---90 mins.