World Cinema (Classics) pre 1980
Product
Smiles of a Summer Night - dvd
Ingmar Bergman’s melancholy comedy concerning the 19th-century romantic entanglements of three couples over a weekend at a country estate.Lustful lawyer Frederick is living in a platonic marriage with his virginal wife Anne. Henrik, Frederik’s son...
Solaris (1972) (2disc) - dvd
Released: 6 November 2006The Solaris mission has established a base on a planet that appears to host some kind of intelligence... (imdb)
Sorrow and the Pity (2 disc) - dvd
Released: 4 Aug 2007
From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 interviews of a German officer and of collaborators and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the natu...
Spirits of the Dead - dvd
Three of Europe's finest filmmakers - Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini - direct compelling remakes of Edgar Allan Poe stories. Louis Malle's take on William Wilson features Alain Delon as an officer troubled by a mysterious ...
Stalker (2 Disc) - dvd
Released 2 July 2007
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers. Over his wife's numerous objections, a man rises in the dead of night: he's a stalker, one of a handful who have the mental gifts (and who risk imprisonm...
Stavisky - dvd
released 3 Sept 2008
Stavisky was a man haunted by his father's desire to be accepted by French society. Stavisky pushed his Russian Jewish father's dream to its extreme. A charmer, a gambler and a crook, he became the darling of French High Society. But when ...
Storm Over Asia - dvd
Full Frame 4x3 DD2 (restored by film historian David Shepard)
From Russia
Stray Dog - dvd
Rookie detective Murakumi (Toshiro Mifune) is pick-pocketed on a bus and his police pistol is stolen. A frantic search for the gun leads him to the Tokyo underworld. The gun has been passed to a gangster who uses it in the murder of a woma...
Strike! - dvd
4x3 Full frame DD2mono (also commentary describing Eisenstein's images)
From Russia
Sunrise - dvd
4x3 / DD2 ( Commentary by Cinwmatographer John Bailey, doco by R.Dixon Smith, original screenplay, 4 devils reconstruction, stills trailer, restoration notes)
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