Blu-rays and DVDs

World cinema

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  Science is Fiction / The Sounds of Science: The Films of Jean Painlevé

  Two-disc set featuring a selection from 50 years of passionate scientific enquiry by Jean Painlevé, poetic pioneer of science films.

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  Shadows

  John Cassavetes, directorial debut follows the relationship between a mixed-race woman and a white man.

  John Cassavetes

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  Shirin

  100 women are deeply absorbed in watching a film we never see, as we observe instead how the drama plays out on their faces.

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  Silent Waters

  Documentary filmmaker Sabiha Sumar’s first film explores the political evolution of Pakistan, the advent of fundamentalism and the fragile rights of ordinary women.

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  Still Life

  Jia Zhangke’s Golden Lion winner tells two contemplative and compassionate stories of a man and woman searching for absent spouses in an ancient town on the Yangtze River.

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  Stray Dog

  A masterful mix of film noir and police thriller set on the sweltering mean streets of occupied Tokyo.

  Akira Kurosawa

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  Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song

  Landmark classic of black cinema and independent filmmaking, following a street hustler who goes on the run after fighting back against two racist cops.

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  Syndromes and a Century

  Spellbinding Buddhist meditation on the mysteries of love and attraction, the workings of memory, and the ways in which happiness is triggered.

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  La Terra Trema

  A fishing family attempts to escape poverty and exploitation by becoming the owner of its own boat in Luchino Visconti’s work of uncompromising realism.

  Luchino Visconti

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  Tess

  Superb restoration of Roman Polanski’s acclaimed 1979 adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic.

   

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