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Italian director Mario Camerini directs Gina Lollobrigida and Gino Cervi in this tale of a poor 18th Century musician who hires a local beauty to impersonate his wife. In order to attract investors, specifically a local rich count, he believes that a woman with good looks will help separate the wealthy man from his money. This story became the plot of the 1964 Billy Wilder film called Kiss Me, Stupid!DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1:33Additional Release Material: Saturday Matinee Shorts - 1. Rome Symphony Orchestra playing Barber of Seville
and Beethoven's Prometheus Overture



















2. Report on Love
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In this simple family drama from Iran, two children invent an intricate plan to conceal the loss of a pair of shoes. Ali (Amir Farrokh Hashemian) and his sister Zhara (Bahare Seddiqi) are living in a poor neighborhood. Their mother is suffering from illness and their father is overworked and underpaid. When Ali is sent out to pick up his sister's shoes, a blind street peddler accidentally swipes them. Afraid that he will get a beating if his parents find out, he and Zhara concoct a plan by which she will wear Ali's sneakers to school in the morning and he will wear them to school in the afternoon. But the plan has its flaws because Ali is late to school everyday and his principal threatens to expel him. In a final act of determination, Ali enters a race to win the third place prize, a new pair of sneakers. Majidi's acclaimed film is an example of a current trend in Iranian cinema where children are used as central characters in order to circumvent censorship issues. His later film THE COLOR OF PARADISE about a little blind boy received similar international critical attention. CHILDREN OF HEAVEN received an Academy Award Nomination in 1998 for Best Foreign Film.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 1.85:1Interactive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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This double-feature of groundbreaking Soviet films from the mid-to-late 1920's offers some extremely controversial material. BED AND SOFA essentially focuses on a love triangle between a woman and two men. CHESS FEVER focuses on more wholesome material, being about a Moscow chess tournament. See individual titles for more details.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Audio: Dolby Digital 5.0 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Julian Graffy - Professor of Russian Literature and Cinema
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Vovochka is a young boy with his heart set on adventure. Arriving in a sleepy suburb of Moscow on New Years eve, Vovochka proceeds to wreak lighthearted havoc everywhere he goes. A delightful tale, with parallels to HOME ALONE, this is a coming-of-age movie seen from a uniquely childlike viewpoint.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - RussianAdditional Release Material: Production Interview - 1. Igor Muzhzhukhin - Director Making Of - 1. Documentary
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Luis Bunuel's second film is a surreal attack on bourgeios ideals that incited a riot when first released and still retains its power to shock. Bunuel began the film as a collaboration with Salvador Dali, but after a few days working together the two had a falling out and Bunuel made the film himself, incorporating many of Dali's ideas. Its narrative follows two nameless characters, a man and a woman, through a series of scenes connected by dreamlike logic as they try, unsuccessfully, to make love. One memorable sequence finds the couple writhing around on a cliff when a mob of socialites comes upon them and pries them apart. Frustrated, the man sees a yelping poodle and kicks it into the air. L'AGE D'OR is not only an attack on bourgeois life but also a doctrine that directs humanity to live as the surrealists believed they should: that is, by placing love before everything else in life, such as the church, status, and family. Funny, disturbing, and thoroughly bizarre, Bunuel's film is a purposefully blasphemous and corrosive work that attacks social institutions with such vigor and imagination that one cannot help but be entertained.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Robert ShortText/ Photo Gallery Still Gallery Filmography - 1. Luis Bunuel
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