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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).
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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.
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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.
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AND GOD CREATED WOMAN (1956)
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The film that made Brigitte Bardot an international sex symbol, Roger Vadim's directorial debut stars the amazing Bardot as an 18-year-old orphan with an unbridled sexual appetite. With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Christian Marquand and Curt Jurgens. "[Bardot] is undeniably a creation of superlative craftsmanship" (Bosley Crowther, New York Times). In French with English subtitles.
Roger Vadim---France---1956---91 mins.
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AVANT LE DELUGE ( BEFORE THE D
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A tight-knit band of Parisian teens concoct a plan to establish a utopian community on a deserted island in this well-observed social drama from director Andre Cayatte and screenwriter Charles Spaak (Justice is Done). In order to bankroll their plans, the boys pull off a string of robberies, which significantly derails their intended purpose. With Marina Vlady, Bernard Blier, and Isa Miranda. In French WITHOUT English subtitles. Andre Cayatte---France---1954---140 mins.
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BATTLELINES: WWII IN EUROPE - AN EXCLUSIVE FACETS 2-PACK
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A collection of two classic films that convey how the horrors of World War II affected ordinary men, women, and children on European soil. La Bataille du Rail (France, 1946, 85 mins.), a courageous film from noted French director Rene Clement (Forbidden Games), was completed during the final months of WWII under extremely dangerous conditions. Using a cast of non-professionals, Clement tells the story of French railway workers who bravely battle the Nazis on many fronts, making possible the Allied invasion of 1944. Shot in a gritty semi-documentary style, Clement's film has been compared to Rossellini's groundbreaking neorealist masterpiece Open City. "The most important film [...] about the French resistance" (The Guardian). In French with English subtitles. This is joined by Somewhere in Europe (Hungary, 1947, 100 mins.), Geza von Radvanyi's gritty postwar drama that tells of a graying musician (Artur Somlay) who adopts misfit children orphaned by the war. Hiding out together in a bombed-out castle, the refugees come to rely on one another for friendship and survival. In Hungarian with English subtitles. 2-DVD set.
Rene Clement/Geza von Radvanyi---France/Hungary---1946/1947---185 mins.
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BLOOD OF THE BEASTS
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Contrasting peaceful views of a Parisian suburb with unflinching scenes from a slaughterhouse, this film is a masterpiece that impacted documentary film practice worldwide. Disturbing in its honesty, it challenges a number of banal conceptions seemingly integral to everyday life. French with English Georges Franju---France---1949---22 mins.
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CASQUE D'OR (JACQUES BECKER)
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One of the truly great French films: Jacques Becker's "elegant masterwork is a glowingly nostalgic evocation of the Paris of the Impressionists." Serge Reggiani plays a carpenter who is drawn into the underworld of pimps and thieves and eventually driven to murder because of his great love for Marie, a gangster's moll, in a glowing performance from Simone Signoret. Signoret brings a remarkable sensuality to her role in a film that is filled with the sun, open air and a kind of transcendence. In French with English subtitles. Jacques Becker---France---1952---94 mins.
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CHARTERHOUSE OF PARME
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Stendahl's novel of the same name about a young Archbishop in love is adapted for the screen in this vintage French epic starring Gerard Philipe (Les Liaisons Dangereuses). When he wishes to break his vows, an ambitious aunt intervenes to ensure his continued progress at the Italian court. In French with English subtitles. Christian Jacque---France---1948---170 mins.
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ECLIPSE SERIES 22: PRESENTING SACHA GUITRY
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Sacha Guitry was a seminal influence in French films as an actor, author and producer of over 120 plays, and as a director, screenwriter and actor in 32 movies.
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ECLIPSE SERIES 34: JEAN GREMILLON DURING THE OCCUPATION
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Though he made films in the silent era and would make numerous documentaries, Jean Gremillon’s best dramatic work was produced during the German Occupation of France. In Remorques (Stormy Waters, 1941, 84 mins.), Jean Gabin stars as the tough captain of a rescue ship, who has an affair with a beautiful woman (Michele Morgan) after rescuing her during a fierce gale. Their romance is interrupted when Gabin's wife falls critically ill. Lumiere d’Ete (1943, 110 mins.), written by Jacques Prevert (Children of Paradise), is a tragicomic tale about an opulent mountaintop hotel filled with guests who are literally and figuratively living on the edge. Gremillon’s dark portrayal of the ruling classes did not go unnoticed, as the film was banned until after the Occupation. This was followed by Le Ciel Est a Vous (The Woman Who Dared, 1944, 107 mins.), a lovely film about a working class woman (Madeleine Renaud) who becomes obsessed with flying and, with the support of her ex-fighter pilot husband, breaks the world’s record for a non-stop flight. To make an airplane film with scant aerial photography is daring, but to imply that women should strive for more in Vichy France is downright brave. In French with English subtitles.
Jean Gremillon---France---19431-1944---300 mins.
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ESPOIR
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The only film directed by the French writer, art critic, and political activist, Andre Malraux, Espoir (Sierra de Teruel) is a docu-drama based on episodes from one of Malraux's best known books, Man's Hope. Like th e book, the film is a fictional account of the author's own experiences as an organizer and member of the Loyalist Air Force, for whom he flew combat missions against the fascists during the Spanish Civil War. Shot in Barcelona in 1938, the film is an interesting blend of the documentary techniques of Robert Flaherty and classical narrative strategies. In Spanish with English Andre Malraux---France/Spain---1938---76 mins.
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FABULOUS VERSAILLES, THE
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Shot on location, this stunning recreation of the inhabitants and visitors of Versailles features Orson Welles, Claudette Colbert, Edith Piaf, Sacha Guitry and Jean Marais. Three hundred years of the French monarchy comes to life with such figures as Mme. de Pompadour, Ben Franklin (Welles), Louis XIV (Guitry) and many more. Welles also narrates. Dubbed in English. Sacha Guitry---France---1954---103 mins.
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FANFAN LA TULIPE
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Gerard Philipe and Gina Lollobrigida star in this funny and satirical look at military exploits set in the time of Louis XV. Gerard's character narrowly escapes a wedding and finds a new beloved--the army. It seems he was promised both an illustrious career and even a royal match. Oddly enough, his luck holds and he wins more success than even his greatest fans could have imagined. Winner Best Director at Cannes. In French with English subtitles. Christian Jacque---France/Italy---1952---99 mins.
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FANNY TRILOGY, THE (PAGNOL)
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French playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol's charming humanist trilogy set amidst the seaside beauty of Marseilles is presented in its entirety in this impressive boxed set. The first entry, Marius (Alexander Korda, 1931, 120 mins.), introduces Marius, son of the cafe owner, Cesar, who longs to go to sea in spite of his love for Fanny. In Fanny (Marc Allegret, 1931, 120 mins.), the abandoned love discovers that she is pregnant by Marius, now at sea. She reluctantly accepts a marriage offer from an older man when Marius reappears. In the final film, Cesar (Marcel Pagnol, 1936, 121 mins.), set twenty years after Marius, Fanny's husband, and also Cesar's best friend, has died and her son is at last told about his true father, the legendary Marius. All films in French with English subtitles.
Marcel Pagnol---France---1931/1931/1936
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GIRL IN THE BIKINI ( BARDOT )
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Long before becoming an icon of French sexuality in And God Created Woman, a teenage Brigitte Bardot played a lighthouse keeper's daughter frolicking along the Mediterranean in this romantic adventure. Released in Great Britain as The Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter. In French and Spanish with optional French, Spanish, and English subtitles. Willy Rozier---France---1952---86 mins.
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JOSEPHINE BAKER COLLECTION
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Straddling silent and sound, sexy and sophisticated, American and European, Josephine Baker defined the jazz age in Paris. This collection includes three of her music hall star vehicles: Zou Zou (Marc Allegret, 1934, 92 mins.), a Warners-style backstage musical in which a talented Cinderella takes the place of the lead on opening night and saves the show; Princess Tam Tam (Edmond T. Greville, 1935, 77 mins.), an exotic Pygmalion-like musical comedy about a French author who goes to North Africa to write a novel, but becomes distracted--then entranced--by a native girl; and Siren of the Tropics (Mario Nalpas/Henri Etievant, 1927, 86 mins.), the jazz singer's silent screen debut as a naive young girl from the tropics who arrives in Europe and immediately falls in love with a handsome gentleman. France---1927-1935---255 mins.
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JUSTICE EST FAITE ( IS DONE )
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A prize winner at the Berlin and Venice International Film Festivals, this masterful collaboration between director Andre Cayatte and screenwriter Charles Spaak is a landmark social drama. Valentine Tessier stars as Marceline, a young woman who's charged with murder after fulfilling her ill lover's desire to end his life. Cayatte focuses on the woman's contentious court case in a keenly observed film that's one of the finest works ever made about the moral and legal implications of euthanasia. In French WITHOUT Andre Cayatte---France---1950---95 mins.
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LA FILLE DE L'EAU/ LA PETITE
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Jean Renoir's first solo directorial assignment was this expressive silent melodrama, alternately titled Whirlpool of Fate. Catherine Hessling stars as Virginia Rosaert, an orphan who is offered shelter first by a bohemian family and later by the father of a man who adores her. Virginia's avaricious uncle causes her torment, however, by usurping her inheritance and stealing from her new foster family. Tinged with elements of surrealism, La Fille de L'eau hints forcefully at the mastery of mature Renoir. Silent with French intertitles. WITHOUT English subtitles. Jean Renoir---France---1925
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LE GOLEM LEGEND OF PRAGUE
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The first sound version of the Jewish folk legend of the rabbi who brings the Golem back to life in order to frighten the emperor was shot on location in Prague and features a first-rate performance from Harry Baur as the Emperor, along with Roger Karl and Charles Dorat. In French with English subtitles. Julien Duvivier---France---1935---96 mins.
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