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"Essential  Art  House  —  50  Years  of  Janus  Films"

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Janus Films Essential Art House 50-disk set
Janus/Criterion b&w and color DVD box set [10/2006] 50 disks & book for $764.99
FIFTY FILMS including Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky" [Russia 1938]; Wajda's "Ashes and Diamonds" [Poland 1958]; Antonioni's "L'Avventura" [Italy 1960]; "Ballad of A Soldier" [Russia 1959]; Cocteau's "Beauty and The Beast" [France 1946]; "Black Orpheus" [Brasil 1959]; "Brief Encounter" [U.K. 1945]; "The Fallen Idol" [U.K. 1948]; Ichikawa's "Fires On The Plain" [Japan 1959]; Ozu's "Floating Weeds" [Japan 1959]; Clément's "Forbidden Games"
[France 1952]; Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" [France 1959]; Renoir's "Grand Illusion" [1937]; "Häxan" [1922 silent]; Kurosawa's "Ikiru" [Japan 1952]; "The Importance of Being Earnest" [U.K. 1952]; Eisenstein's "Ivan The Terrible, Part II" [Russia 1958]; "Le Jour se Lève" [France 1939]; Truffaut's "Jules and Jim" [France 1962]; "Kind Hearts and Coronets" [U.K. 1949] starring Alec Guinness; Polanski's "Knife In The Water" [Poland 1962]; Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes" [U.K. 1938]; "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" [U.K. 1943]; Forman's "The Loves of A Blonde" [Czech 1965]; Fritz Lang's "M" [Germany 1931] starring Peter Lorre; Jacques Tati's "Mr. Hulot's Holiday"
[France 1953]; "Miss Julie" [Sweden 1951]; Pabst's "Pandora's Box" [Germany 1929] starring Louise Brooks; "Pépé le Moko" [France 1937] starring Jean Gabin; Olmi's "Il Posto" [Italy 1961]; "Pygmalion" [U.K. 1938]; Kurosawa's "Rashomon" [Japan 1950]; Olivier's "Richard III" [U.K. 1955]; Renoir's "The Rules of The Game" [France 1939]; Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" [Japan 1954]; Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" [Sweden 1957]; "The Spirit of The Bee-hive" [Spain 1973]; Fellini's "La Strada" [Italy 1954]; David Lean's "Summertime" [U.K. 1955] starring Katharine Hepburn & Rossano Brazzi; "The Third Man" [1949] starring Orson Welles; Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" [U.K. 1935]; Mizoguchi's "Ugetsu" [Japan 1953]; De Sica's "Umberto D." Italy 1952]; Bergman's "The Virgin Spring"
[Sweden 1960]; Buñuel's "Viridiana" [Spain 1961]; Clouzot's "The Wages of Fear" [France 1953]; Fellini's "The White Sheik" [Italy 1952]; Bergman's "Wild Strawberries" [Sweden 1957]; and 3 documentaries by Saul J. Turell

"Essential  Art  House  Films"
on DVD  from  Criterion
Essential Art House DVD box sets from Criterion


Volume 1: Criterion Collection DVD set [9/2008] 6 disks for $89.99
contains Cocteau's "Beauty and The Beast" [France 1946]; Renoir's "Grand Illusion" [1937]; Polanski's "Knife In The Water" [Poland 1962]; "Lord of The Flies" [1963] (not in 50-disk set above); Kurosawa's "Rashomon"
[Japan 1950]; and Bergman's "Wild Strawberries" [Sweden 1957]
Volume 2: Criterion Collection DVD set DVD [2/2009] 6 disks for $89.99
contains "Black Orpheus" [Brasil 1959]; Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" [France 1959]; Kurosawa's "Ikiru" [Japan 1952]; Fellini's "La Strada" [Italy 1954]; "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" [U.K. 1943]; and "Pygmalion"
[U.K. 1938]
Volume 3: Criterion Collection DVD set [6/2009] 6 disks for $74.99
contains Wajda's "Ashes and Diamonds" [Poland 1958]; Clément's "Forbidden Games" [France 1952]; Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress" [Japan 1958] (not in 50-disk set above); "Last Holiday" [1950] starring Alec Guiness (not in 50-disk set above); Olivier's "Richard III" [U.K. 1955]; and Fellini's "Variety Lights" [1950] (not in 50-disk set above)
Volume 4: Criterion Collection DVD set [9/2009] 6 disks for $74.99
contains René Clément's "Gervaise" [France 1956] starring Maria Schell (not in 50-disk set above); Marcel Carné’s dark masterwork "Le Jour se Leve (Daybreak)" [France 1939] starring Jean Gabin; Anatole Litvak’s tragic romance "Mayerling" [France 1936], starring Charles Boyer & Danielle Darrieux (not in 50-disk set above); "The Tales of Hoffman" [U.K. 1951] in Technicolor, directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Press- burger, starring Moira Shearer; Hitchcock’s "The 39 Steps" [U.K. 1935] starring Robert Donat & Madeleine Carroll; Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood (Kumonosu jo)" [Japan 1957] starring Toshiro Mifune & Isuzu Yamada (not in 50-disk set above)
Volume 5: Criterion Collection DVD set [4/2010] 6 disks for $66.23
contains "Brief Encounter" [U.K. 1945] directed by David Lean; "Floating Weeds" in Technicolor [Japan 1959] by Yasujiro Ozu; Gillo Pontecorvo's "Kapo" [1960] (not in 50-disk set above); François Truffaut's "Jules and Jim" [France 1962]; "Fellini's 8½" [Italy 1963] starring Marcello Mastroianni (not in 50-disk set above); and "Loves of A Blonde" [Czech 1965] by Milos Forman

Official Rejection documentary poster "Official Rejection" [indep; festival circuit & DVD release 2009]
107-minute color documentary following a group of filmmakers who take their independent feature Ten 'til Noon [2006] along the film festival circuit – showing the politics, pitfalls, triumphs & comic tragedies they encounter & endure along the way, a report on the indie world and what happens when the shooting is over. (The two-disk version contains 2 hours of bonus features.) Co-produced, written & directed by and co-starring Paul Osborne; co-produced by and co-starring Scott Storm & Paul J. Alessi; co-starring Brian Osborne
Shut Up & Shoot Pictures widescreen color DVD [11/2009] 2 disks for $18.99
Shut Up & Shoot Pictures widescreen color DVD [11/2009] for $13.99
full credits at IMDb • official movie site

Story of the Sundance Film Festival    "Party In A Box: The Story of The Sundance Film Festival" [1999]
by Lory Smith {a co-founder of the Sundance Festival}
Gibbs Smith Publrs 9¼x6¼ pb [10/99] out of print/used

International Film Festival Guide    "International Film Festival Guide" [3rd edition 2000]
Edited by Shael Stolberg
Hushion House 9x6 pb [2/2000] out of print/used

Sundance To Sarajevo    "Sundance To Sarajevo: Film Festivals & The World They Made" [2002]
by film critic Kenneth Turan
Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [11/2003] for $12.44
Univ CA Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2002] for $35.00

Sundance Festival Virgin's Guide    "Sundance: A Festival Virgin's Guide - Surviving Park City & Thriving At America's Most Important Film Festival" [2005]
by Benjamin Craig
Cinemagine Media Publng 8x5¾ pb [10/2005] for $17.13

Cannes Festival Virgin's Guide    "Cannes: A Festival Virgin's Guide - Attending The Cannes Film Festival For Filmmakers & Film Industry Professionals" [5th edition 2006]
by Benjamin Craig
Cinemagine Media Publng 8¼x5¾ 5th edition pb [1/2006] for $18.94

Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide    "Chris Gore's Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide: The Essential Companion For Filmmakers & Festival-Goers" [orig 2000, rev 2009]
iFilm/Lone Eagle 4th edition 9x6 pb [9/2009] for $16.46
iFilm/Lone Eagle 3rd edition 8¾x6 pb [9/2004] out of print/used
iFilm/Lone Eagle 2nd edition 9x6pb [3/2001] out of print/used

Software

Discovered in late 2011: A company called Festival Genius has designed a two-part system for film festivals.
The background part is that they help festivals big & small organize & promote, and {optionally} build an interface
on their website; the foreground part is the PDA/phone apps that allow attendees to buy tickets and organize running
around at the film festival in real time. Recent customers include Austin F/F, Little Rock F/F, London
Short F/F, Slamdance F/F, Sundance F/F, and Traverse City F/F.

	"Party In A Box: The Story of The Sundance Film Festival" [1999] by Lory Smith {a co-founder of the Sundance Festival} Gibbs Smith Publrs 9¼x6¼ pb [10/99] out of print/used
	"International Film Festival Guide" [3rd edition 2000] Edited by Shael Stolberg Hushion House 9x6 pb [2/2000] out of print/used
	"Sundance To Sarajevo: Film Festivals & The World They Made" [2002] by film critic Kenneth Turan Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [11/2003] for $12.44 Univ CA Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2002] for $35.00
	"Sundance: A Festival Virgin's Guide - Surviving Park City & Thriving At America's Most Important Film Festival" [2005] by Benjamin Craig Cinemagine Media Publng 8x5¾ pb [10/2005] for $17.13
	"Cannes: A Festival Virgin's Guide - Attending The Cannes Film Festival For Filmmakers & Film Industry Professionals" [5th edition 2006] by Benjamin Craig Cinemagine Media Publng 8¼x5¾ 5th edition pb [1/2006] for $18.94
	"Chris Gore's Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide: The Essential Companion For Filmmakers & Festival-Goers" [orig 2000, rev 2009] iFilm/Lone Eagle 4th edition 9x6 pb [9/2009] for $16.46 iFilm/Lone Eagle 3rd edition 8¾x6 pb [9/2004] out of print/used iFilm/Lone Eagle 2nd edition 9x6pb [3/2001] out of print/used

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