The Luc Moullet Collection (6 Films): Anatomie d’un rapport / Anatomy of a Relationship (1976), Genese d’un repas / Origins of a Meal (1979), Parpaillon / Up and Down (1993), Brigitte et Brigitte / Brigitte and Brigitte (1966), Les contrebandieres / The Smugglers (1968), Une aventure de Billy le Kid / A Girl Is a Gun (1971) 3 x DVD9

This comprehensive set collects some of French New Wave director Luc Moullet's greatest films, including: THE SMUGGLERS, an imaginative and low-budget slapstick about a pair of criminals; A GIRL IS A GUN, a wild and very French take on the Western starring Truffaut muse Jean-Pierre Leaud as a Billy the Kid-like outlaw; BRIGITTE AND BRIGITTE, in which two identically-named women move to Paris to study film (allowing for cameos by legendary directors Sam Fuller, Claude Chabrol, and Eric Rohmer); UP AND DOWN, an absurdist look at a group of cyclists racing through the French Alps; ANATOMY OF A RELATIONSHIP, a playful examination of Moullet's marriage and nonfunctional sex life; and GENESIS OF A MEAL which follows the journey -- from creation to consumption -- of four essential parts of this unique director's diet: a banana, an omelet, a can of tuna, and a reel of 35mm film.

3 x DVD9 | NTSC | 480 minutes | 22.4 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Sport, Western, Documentary

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Russian Idea: History of Russian cinema by Sergey Selyanov / Русская идея: История русского кино от Сергея Сельянова (1995) DVD5

A documentary film commissioned by the British Film Institute as part of a large-scale commemoration of the Century of Cinema. Among the other participants of the commemoration project are Martin Scorsese, Jean-Luc Godard, Stephen Frears, and others.
The film uses material of from the classics of 20th-century Russian and Soviet cinema and develops the authors' notion of "the Russian idea". Director Sergei Selyanov links Russia's cinema to the national character, with its desire for revolution and search for Utopia. The film uses excerpts of the book The Russian Idea by Nikolai Berdyaev, and footage from films by Sergey Eisenstein, Alexander Dovzhenko, Dziga Vertov, Abram Room, Boris Barnet, Sergey Yutkevich, Andrey Tarkovsky, and others.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 00:51:13 | 2.48 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary

Director: Sergey Selyanov
Cast: Aleksey Petrenko
Country: Russia
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Marele jaf comunist / The Great Communist Bank Robbery (2004), Reconstituirea / Reconstruction (1960) DVD9

The Great Communist Bank Robbery is a riveting documentary about crime, deceit, government propaganda, and the historical events surrounding a 1959 Romanian bank robbery. The Romanian communist government produced a film of criminals robbing a National Bank in Bucharest titled Reconstruction (also featured on this disc) that highlighted their theft and prosecution from start to finish. As a result of a tightly run communist government, many of the factual events surrounding the film were not included in its original production due to the subjective views of the government.
Director Alexandru Solomon provides an objective view of Reconstruction and the robbery event by detailing the historical facts. In the documentary The Great Communist Bank Robbery, he tells the story of the Reconstruction film through voices of the former secret police, prison cellmates of the criminals, and members of the original film crew. The director integrates a unique approach by piecing the historical event of the original film together with supplementary unbiased historical facts in straightforward sections that culminates in an intriguing true story.

DVD9 | PAL | 01:15:07 + 00:58:01 | 6.90 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Romanian
Subtitles: English, Francais
Genre: Documentary

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Die Architekten / The Architects (1990) DVD9

Architect Daniel Brenner (Kurt Naumann) is still trying to pursue a career at age 37. He's designed almost nothing of consequence while building in East Germany has been confined to the same industrially-sanctioned dull plans used for decades. Daniel complains to one of his old professors and is given the opportunity to compete for an important new cultural and shopping center to enliven a drab Berlin suburb; he picks a crack team of equally frustrated talent, many of whom gave up architecture for other pursuits long ago.
The design process forms a new professional family for Brenner while his own wife Wanda (Rita Feldmeier) is stifled by the lack of excitement in her life; she soon announces plans to leave Daniel for an old beau in Switzerland, taking their young daughter Johanna.

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:42:33 | 7.90 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch
Subtitles: English, Francais, Espanol
Genre: Drama

Director: Peter Kahane
Cast: Kurt Naumann, Rita Feldmeier, Uta Eisold
Country: East Germany
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Kamikaze 1989 (1982) DVD5

Fassbinder's final acting role casts him as an alcoholic police lieutenant (garbed in a leopard-skin suit) tasked with foiling a bomb threat in West Germany's near future. Adapted by Gremm and Robert Katz (The Cassandra Crossing) from Per Wahloo's dystopian novel Murder on the 31st Floor, Kamikaze '89 imagines a totalitarian society ruled by a corporation ("The Combine") that controls the media and suppresses all murmurs of dissent or unhappiness. Featuring Franco Nero as a journalist and Brigitte Mira (in her last collaboration with Fassbinder) as a director of personnel, Kamikaze '89 filters dystopian parables like the concurrent Blade Runner through the West Berlin punk scene, resulting in a uniquely chilling prophecy.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 106 min | 4.32 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch
Subtitles: English hardcoded
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller

Director: Wolf Gremm
Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Gunther Kaufmann, Boy Gobert
Country: West Germany
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Le grand alibi / The Great Alibi (2008) DVD9

Like every weekend senator Henri Pages and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around, things go awry: Pierre Collier, a psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer, is brutally murdered. Claire, his wife, dazed and confused by his corpse, with a smoking gun still in her hand, seems to be the ideal culprit. She no doubt had reasons for seeking revenge on her fickle husband. But appearances may be misleading. The weapon is not the one used to commit the crime, and each guest becomes a potential suspect. Pierre's mistress Esther, Lea his humiliated former girlfriend, Philippe his rival... they all have a motive. And then there's the senator himself, who is crazy about guns. Captain Grange finds himself confronted by this complex affair - which then becomes even murkier when another murder takes place.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:29:00 | 7.54 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais
Subtitles: English
Genre: Mystery

Director: Pascal Bonitzer
Cast: Miou-Miou, Lambert Wilson, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Country: France
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Nettoyage a sec / Dry Cleaning (1997) DVD5

Sexual tension seeps from the sprockets of every frame of film in "Dry Cleaning," a French import about a 40-something husband and wife on the verge of mutual midlife crises who are seeking some way to revive and rivet their humdrum lives.
Their desires start out simply enough -- the wife (Miou-Miou) just wants to take a little vacation -- but with her workaholic husband pinching pennies, she starts locally by dragging him someplace exotic they would never otherwise go, a local cabaret featuring cross-dressing, lip-syncing strippers.
But more deeply buried urges find their simple visit to said cabaret leading to a bizarre live-in relationship with one of the ambiguously bisexual performers that upsets the balance of their marriage and begets melancholy, discontent, restrained jealousy, rage and eventually tragedy.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:33:02 | 4.12 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais
Subtitles: English hardcoded
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Director: Anne Fontaine
Cast: Miou-Miou, Charles Berling, Stanislas Merhar
Country: France, Spain
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CrimeBroker / Crime Broker / Corrupt Justice (1993) DVD5

Holly McPhee (Jacqueline Bisset) is a woman leading two lives. Most people know her as a well-regarded judge and faithful wife, but only a few realize she is also the brains and beauty behind a crime ring responsible for a string of daring robberies.
After her latest bank robbery, a Japanese criminalist (Masaya Kato) who is helping the police discovers the truth and draws her further into a tangled web of passion, deception and murder!

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:39:55 | 3.96 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Director: Ian Barry
Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Masaya Kato, Peter Boswell
Country: Australia, Japan
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