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“Magic ally c ompelling . . . the fullest blossoming yet of Anderson’s tale nts.”

—Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

“Love and death, comedy and tragedy, comfort and adventure-one of the ten best movies of the decade.”

-Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“Gorgeous . . . Anderson’s most heartfelt feature film yet.”—Stephanie Zacharek, Salon

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ThE DARjEELIng LImITED

“A riotously colorful journey . . . Moving and funny.”

—Glenn kenny, Premiere

A COMIC, POIGNANT VOYAGE TO INDIA FROM THE DIRECTOR OF RUSHMORE

In The Darjeeling Limited, from director WEs ANDERsON (Rushmore, Fantastic Mr. Fox), three estranged american brothers reunite for a meticulously planned, soul-searching train voyage across India, one year after the death of their father. For reasons involving over-the-counter painkillers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray, the brothers eventually find themselves stranded alone in the middle of the desert—where a new, unplanned chapter of their journey begins. Featuring a sensational cast, including OWEN WILsON (Armageddon, Wedding Crashers), ADRIEN BRODY (The Thin Red Line, The Pianist), JAsON sCHWARTzMAN (Rushmore, Hbo’s Bored to Death), and ANJELICA HUsTON (Prizzi’s Honor, The Grifters), The Darjeeling Limited is a visually dazzling and hilarious film that takes anderson’s work to richer, deeper places than ever before.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED sPECIAL EDITION FEATUREs• new high-definition digital transfer, supervised and

approved by director Wes anderson, with DtS-HD Master audio on the blu-ray edition

• anderson’s short film Hotel Chevalier (part one of The Darjeeling Limited), starring natalie Portman, with commentary by anderson

• audio commentary featuring anderson and cowriters Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola

• behind-the-scenes documentary by barry braverman

• anderson and filmmaker James Ivory discussing the film’s music

• anderson’s american express commercial

• on-set footage shot by Coppola and actor Waris ahluwalia

• audition footage, deleted and alternate scenes, and stills galleries

• original theatrical trailer

• PLUS: a booklet featuring an essay by critic Richard brody and original illustrations by eric anderson

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2007 • 91 mInUTEs • CoLoR • sURRoUnD • 2.40:1 AspECT RATIo

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StaRRInG oWen WILSon, aDRIen bRoDY, anD JaSon SCHWaRtzMan

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1977

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HoUsE

“Must see now! Delirious, deranged, gonzo, or just gone, baby, gone— no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to House.”

—Manohla Dargis, New York Times

“Insanely entertaining.”—The Seattle Times

“The ultimate midnight movie.”—Matt Singer, IFC.com

THE COMIC-HORROR CULT SENSATION— DIRECT FROM ITS SMASH MIDNIGHT THEATRICAL RUN!

How to describe NOBUHIkO OBAYASHI’s indescribable 1977 movie House (Hausu)? as a psychedelic

ghost tale? a stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? an episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario

bava? any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six

classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home and comes face-to-face with evil spirits, a demonic

house cat, a bloodthirsty piano, and other ghoulish visions, all realized by obayashi via a series of mattes,

animation, and collage effects. equal parts absurd and nightmarish, House might have been beamed to

earth from some other planet. never before available on home video in the United States, it’s one of the

most exciting cult discoveries in years.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES• new, restored high-definition digital transfer,

with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the blu-ray edition

• Constructing a House, a new video piece featuring interviews with director nobuhiko obayashi, story scenarist and daughter of the director Chigumi obayashi, and screenwriter Chiho katsura

• Emotion, a 1966 experimental film by obayashi

• new video appreciation by director ti West (House of the Devil)

• theatrical trailer

• new and improved english subtitle translation

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1977 • 88 mInUtEs • CoLoR • monAURAL • In JApAnEsE wItH EngLIsH sUBtItLEs • 1.33:1 AspECt RAtIo

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ThE MAgIcIAn

“Bergman’s chilling exploration of charlatanism is one of his most genuinely enjoyable films.”

—Geoff Andrew, Time Out

“Exquisite . . . Full of extraordinary thrills.”—New York Times

A BEWITCHING TALE OF THE SINISTER AND THE SUPERNATURAL,

FROM THE BRILLIANT INGMAR BERGMAN!

The Magician (Ansiktet), directed by INGMAR BERGMAN (The Seventh Seal, Fanny and Alexander), is an

engaging, brilliantly conceived tale of deceit from one of cinema’s premier illusionists. MAx vON SyDOW

(The Virgin Spring, The Exorcist) stars as Dr. Vogler, a mid-nineteenth-century traveling mesmerist and

peddler of potions whose magic is put to the test by a small town’s cruel, eminently rational minister

of health, Dr. Vergerus (Wild Strawberries’ GUNNAR BjORNSTRAND). The result is a diabolically clever

battle of wits that’s both frightening and funny, shot in rich, gorgeously gothic black and white.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New, restored high-definition digital transfer,

with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition

• New visual essay by Bergman scholar Peter Cowie

• Brief 1967 video interview with director Ingmar Bergman about the film

• New and improved English subtitle translation

• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoff Andrew, a reprinted essay by Assayas, and an excerpt from Bergman’s autobiography Images: My Life in Film

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1958 • 101 MInUTEs • BLAck & WhITE • MonAURAL • In sWEDIsh WITh EngLIsh sUBTITLEs • 1.33:1 AspEcT RATIo

WINNER SPECIAL JURy PRIzE,

VENICE FILm FESTIVAL, 1959

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PAths of GLoRY

“This masterpiece still packs a wallop.”—Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

“Terrifying, devastating . . . A great antiwar film that has lost none of its power.”

—Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

“It may be the best movie ever to come out of Hollywood.”

—David Shipman

STANLEY KUBRICK’S SHATTERING CLASSIC WAR DRAMA, STARRING KIRK DOUGLAS—

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AMERICAN FILMS EvER MADE!

A pivotal work by STANLEY KUBRICK (2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange), Paths of Glory is

among the most powerful antiwar films ever made. A fiery KIRK DOUGLAS (Ace in the Hole, Spartacus)

stars as a French colonel serving in World War I who goes head-to-head with the army’s ruthless top

brass when his men are accused of cowardice after being unable to carry out an impossible mission. This

haunting, exquisitely photographed dissection of the military machine in all its absurdity and capacity

for dehumanization (a theme Kubrick would continue to explore throughout his career) is assembled

with its legendary director’s customary precision, from its tense trench warfare sequences to its gripping

courtroom climax to its ravaging final scene.

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• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition

• New audio commentary by critic Gary Giddins

• Television interview from 1979 with star Kirk Douglas

• New video interviews with Kubrick’s longtime executive producer Jan Harlan, Paths of Glory producer James B. Harris, and actress Christiane Kubrick

• Excerpt from a French television program about real-life World War I executions similar to the events dramatized in Paths of Glory

• Theatrical trailer

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1957 • 88 mInUtEs • BLAck & WhItE • monAURAL • 1.66:1 AsPEct RAtIo

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SEVEN SAmURAI

“Not only a great film in its own right but the source of a genre that would flow through the rest of the century.”

—Roger Ebert

“The greatest action movie ever made.”—Washington Post

CRITERION’S BEST-SELLING EDITION OF AKIRA KUROSAWA’S MASTERPIECE,

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One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. This three-hour ride from AKIRA KUROSAWA (Rashomon, Yojimbo, Ran)—featuring legendary actors TOShIRO MIFUNE (Stray Dog, Yojimbo) and TAKAShI ShIMURA (Ikiru, The Hidden Fortress)—seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate human emotions and relentless action, into a rich, evocative, and unforgettable tale of courage and hope.

TWO-DISC BLU-RAy SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES• Restored, high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed

monaural soundtrack

• Two audio commentaries: one by film scholars David Desser, Joan Mellen, Stephen Prince, Tony Rayns, and Donald Richie and the other by Japanese film expert Michael Jeck

• Fifty-minute documentary on the making of Seven Samurai

• My Life in Cinema, a two-hour video conversation between directors Akira Kurosawa and Nagisa Oshima

• “Seven Samurai”: Origins and Influences, a documentary that looks at the samurai traditions and films that helped shape Kurosawa’s masterpiece

• Theatrical trailers and teaser

• Gallery of rare posters and behind-the-scenes and production stills

• PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by Kenneth Turan, Peter Cowie, Philip Kemp, Peggy Chiao, Alain Silver, Stuart Galbraith, Arthur Penn, and Sidney Lumet, and an interview with Toshiro Mifune from 1993

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1954 • 207 mINUtES • BLAck & WhItE • mONAURAL • IN JApANESE WIth ENgLISh SUBtItLES • 1.33:1 ASpEct RAtIO

WINNER SILvER LION, vENICE FILM FESTIvAL, 1954NOMINEE bEST ART DIRECTION, bEST COSTUME DESIGN,

ACADEMy AwARDS, 1956

Under exclusive license from Toho Co., Ltd. © 1954 Toho Co., Ltd. English-subtitled version © 2006 Toho Co., Ltd. Oscar®, Academy Award®, and Academy Awards® are the registered trademarks and service marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Summary and design © 2010 The Criterion Collection. www.criterion.com