Essential Art House, Volume 1, Akira Kurosawa, DVD

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Beauty and the Beast
1. Once Upon a Time [3:22]
2. Wicked Sisters [3:53]
3. La Belle [3:48]
4. Enchanted Forest [5:33]
5. La B�te [8:33]
6. The Price of a Rose [2:22]
7. Beauty Meets Beast [8:55]
8. A Strange Proposal [3:50]
9. Observations [5:07]
10. A Broken Heart [10:35]
11. Stripped of Everything [1:32]
12. Belle's Promise [4:41]
13. A Tearful Reunion [2:31]
14. Riches to Rags [4:11]
15. Old Ways Anew [7:57]
16. The Sisters Revenge [3:27]
17. Mirror Images [4:39]
18. Closing In [2:50]
19. Miracles [5:31]
1. Color Bars [:00]
Disc #2 -- Grand Illusion
1. Logos/ Opening Credits [2:07]
2. Shot Down in Germany [5:36]
3. First Taste of Prison Camp [9:22]
4. The Tunnel [9:24]
5. Dressing Up [2:51]
6. The Sound of Marching [:39]
7. Putting On a Show [9:35]
8. Frustration at the Eleventh Hour [5:49]
9. Ending Up at Wintersborn [3:09]
10. Touring the Property [8:14]
11. Officers and Aristocrats [2:13]
12. Preparing the Escape [13:14]
13. The Magic Flute [11:45]
14. De Boeldieu a Hero [4:29]
15. Refuge at the Farm [12:56]
16. A Christmas Romance [4:11]
17. The Parting [7:21]
1. Color Bars [:00]
Disc #3 -- Knife in the Water
1. The Hitchhiker [7:21]
2. The Dock [7:44]
3. "Are We Moving?" [6:20]
4. The Reeds [2:32]
5. Noon [6:30]
6. Lunch [5:04]
7. In Circles [5:22]
8. Sailing [6:17]
9. Aground [3:20]
10. Forfeit [11:43]
11. Light Sleepers [7:44]
12. Overboard [6:40]
13. "You're Just Like Him" [9:09]
14. "Where Are We Going?" [8:17]
1. Color Bars [:00]
Disc #4 -- Lord of the Flies
1. Opening Credits [4:04]
2. Piggy and Ralph [3:43]
3. The Conch [6:49]
4. "Who Knows we're here?" [7:40]
5. Signal Fire [6:43]
6. "We Need Meat!" [4:38]
7. Assembly [7:56]
8. The Beast [5:41]
9. Faces in the Dark [4:51]
10. Two Tribes [9:23]
11. "Who'll Join My Tribe?" [3:44]
12. Kill the Beast! [4:21]
13. "It Wasn't What You Said" [2:39]
14. Last Attempt at Reason [9:26]
15. The Hunters and the Hunted [8:40]
1. Color Bars [:00]
Disc #5 -- Rashomon
1. Rashomon Gate [7:38]
2. Evidence of a Crime [3:51]
3. The Trial Begins [4:01]
4. Tajomaru's Story [20:57]
5. Lies [2:23]
6. The Woman's Story [9:55]
7. Confusion [1:56]
8. The Dead Man's Story [10:19]
9. Frustration [:00]
10. The Woodcutter's Story [2:44]
11. The Way of the World [14:38]
12. Redemption [5:06]
1. Color Bars [4:15]
Disc #6 -- Wild Strawberries
1. Isak Borg [2:18]
2. Opening Credits [1:13]
3. A Weird Dream [4:33]
4. Change of Plans [5:03]
5. A Revealing Ride [4:33]
6. Wild Strawberries [6:57]
7. Family Meal [3:31]
8. Tears and Song [2:51]
9. Sara, Anders and Viktor [3:08]
10. Hysteria and Catholicism [5:53]
11. Old Friends [2:51]
12. Philosophy and Lunch [3:01]
13. Visiting Mother [7:24]
14. Looking in the Mirror [5:24]
15. Examination [6:38]
16. Loneliness [5:30]
17. Evald and Marianne [4:13]
18. Marianne's Decision [3:14]
19. At Evald's [2:03]
20. The Ceremony [2:26]
21. No Intimacies [3:53]
22. Father and Son [2:03]
23. Childhood Memories [2:14]
1. Color Bars [:00]

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Editorial Reviews

The most hauntingly beautiful road-trip movie ever made, Wild Strawberries is at once profound and simple. This 1957 Ingmar Bergman masterpiece offers a portrait of a man's life within the events of a single day. An elderly doctor, Isak Borg (famed Swedish director Victor Sjöström), ventures off in the car with his daughter-in-law Marianne (Ingrid Thulin) to attend a ceremony honoring his 50 years of medical service. Rather than using a linear narrative, Bergman enhances the doctor's journey with reminders of his past: The people and places he encounters along the way trigger memories and reveries that bring him face-to-face with the meaning of his life (and his impending death). Bergman's remarkable dexterity with unconscious material makes the film's several dream sequences subtly chilling; they affect the rest of the narrative, and have inspired filmmakers ever since. This simple afternoon drive acquires the qualities of a daydream. With its unique combination of sharp, revelatory dialogue, evocative imagery, and careful symbolism, Wild Strawberries has a liquid clarity that is unforgettable. Gregory Baird, Barnes & Noble

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The most hauntingly beautiful road-trip movie ever made, Wild Strawberries is at once profound and simple. This 1957 Ingmar Bergman masterpiece offers a portrait of a man's life within the events of a single day. An elderly doctor, Isak Borg (famed Swedish director Victor Sjöström), ventures off in the car with his daughter-in-law Marianne (Ingrid Thulin) to attend a ceremony honoring his 50 years of medical service. Rather than using a linear narrative, Bergman enhances the doctor's journey with reminders of his past: The people and places he encounters along the way trigger memories and reveries that bring him face-to-face with the meaning of his life (and his impending death). Bergman's remarkable dexterity with unconscious material makes the film's several dream sequences subtly chilling; they affect the rest of the narrative, and have inspired filmmakers ever since. This simple afternoon drive acquires the qualities of a daydream. With its unique combination of sharp, revelatory dialogue, evocative imagery, and careful symbolism, Wild Strawberries has a liquid clarity that is unforgettable. Gregory Baird

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With ringing moments of intensity and a radical manipulation of time, Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon stands legitimately alongside Citizen Kane as one of the movies that altered the rules of cinematic storytelling. Based on two short stories by author Ryunosuke Akutagawa ("In a Grove" and "Rashomon"), the movie is set in 12th-century Kyoto and centers around a trial in a prison courtyard. Four defendants -- the bandit Tajomaru (Toshiro Mifune); a young woman, Masago (Machino Kyo); the spirit of her samurai husband, Takehiro (Masayuki Mori); and a woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) -- each offer varied and often contradictory versions of an incident, the only certain elements of which are a rape, a death, and an ambush. Teasing and hooking a viewer at the same time, Kurosawa mines the fallibility of memory, in the process framing human unpredictability, selfishness, and weakness with multiple points of view. The movie is also distinguished by superior performances by Mifune and Kyo. Filmmakers have chased Kurosawa's achievement for years -- recent movies like Memento, The Usual Suspects, and Jim Jarmusch's overt homage Ghost Dog all pay some tariff to Rashomon's unusual pulse and rhythm. The Criterion Collection DVD edition of this classic boasts a glistening restored image and adds two fantastic extras to the mix: The World of Kazuo Miyagawa, a documentary on Rashomon's painstaking, passionate cinematographer, plus a moving tribute from Robert Altman. Eddy Crouse

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One of the greatest war films ever made -- and the first foreign film to get an Oscar nomination for Best Picture -- Grand Illusion contains not a single battle scene. Instead, Jean Renoir's 1937 masterpiece about a group of French officers trying to escape from a German POW camp during World War I focuses on how the extraordinary circumstances of war bridge the differences of class and nationality between people, if only temporarily. Banned by the Nazis, this paean to tolerance is a triumph of ensemble acting. Renoir's supple, unobtrusive camera allows each of the characters to emerge as fully realized individuals. French superstar Jean Gabin is the sympathetic proletarian; Marcel Dalio is a Jewish banker; Pierre Fresnay is the aristocratic French career officer; and Erich von Stroheim is the equally aristocratic German commandant who, for all his class-bound formality, emerges as a sympathetic and poignant character. The titular "illusion" here refers to many things, but mostly it denotes the false assumption that any single person or group can avoid being a victim in times of war. With a sensitivity that never veers into forced sentimentality, Renoir creates a moving meditation on the essential humanity that binds even enemies together. Kryssa Schemmerling

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Jean Cocteau's most popular film, this 1946 masterpiece is perhaps the most faithful of the many film versions of the 1756 fairy tale written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Though the ending is a bit on the strange side -- the Beast morphs into a prince who looks exactly like Belle's hapless suitor, and her disappointment is unmistakable -- the film features tight, economical storytelling and enough visual fireworks (including many stunningly executed optical effects) to enrapture viewers from beginning to end. The actors are uniformly wonderful: Josette Day makes a stunning Belle, and Cocteau regular Jean Marais excels in a triple role that includes the magnificent Beast. The real stars of the film, though, are Cocteau himself, who gives the film a shimmering, romantic look, and the brilliant costume and set design. The Beast's make-up, in particular, works beautifully; it's just realistic enough to be convincing, while allowing Marais to emote through his eyes and subtle facial tics. The unforgettable sets, which include human arm candelabras and moving statues, are a marvel of impressionistic romanticism, filled with symbolism that hints at the story's darker implications. Forget Disney -- this is the closest anyone's come to capturing the essence of a fairy tale on film. Mark Pittillo

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After directing a string of acclaimed shorts, the young Roman Polanski assembled a small crew and mostly unprofessional cast in his native Poland to shoot this full-length thriller. The spare, tense film remains one of Polanski's most striking efforts, a cool, detached character study with stark, high-contrast black-and-white visuals to match. Polanski may have seen himself in the character of the cunning, disaffected drifter, a possibility bolstered by the fact that he dubbed his own voice over Zygmunt Malanowicz's for the film's final cut. Though Polanski was obviously taking cues from the late 1950s/early 1960s work of Michelangelo Antonioni and even Ingmar Bergman, the movie retains a hip, modern feel all its own; throughout his career, Polanski would revisit the concept of the disaffected anti-hero and his tortured relations with women. Knife in the Water brought Polanski to the attention of the European film community, as well as the American Motion Picture Academy, who nominated the film against Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 for Best Foreign Language Film in 1964. Michael Hastings

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Peter Brooks' big-screen adaptation of William Golding's classic Lord of the Flies adheres closely to the source material. After a plane accident, 30 school-age boys find themselves stranded on an island. The boys decide that the disciplined Ralph (James Aubrey) will be their leader. Jack (Tom Chapin) heads up a group who will hunt and butcher the local population of pigs for food. Also on the island is the mature, intelligent Piggy (Hugh Edwards). Eventually Ralph and Jack become the center of a war for leadership on the island. The story was filmed with less success in 1990. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

UPC: 715515031929
Source: CRITERION
Region Code: 1
Aspect Ratio: Pre-1954 Standard (1.33.1)
Presentation: B&W
Sound: Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles: English
Time: 9:30:00
Sales Rank: 5,161

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Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Beauty and the Beast
1. Once Upon a Time [3:22]
2. Wicked Sisters [3:53]
3. La Belle [3:48]
4. Enchanted Forest [5:33]
5. La B�te [8:33]
6. The Price of a Rose [2:22]
7. Beauty Meets Beast [8:55]
8. A Strange Proposal [3:50]
9. Observations [5:07]
10. A Broken Heart [10:35]
11. Stripped of Everything [1:32]
12. Belle's Promise [4:41]
13. A Tearful Reunion [2:31]
14. Riches to Rags [4:11]
15. Old Ways Anew [7:57]
16. The Sisters Revenge [3:27]
17. Mirror Images [4:39]
18. Closing In [2:50]
19. Miracles [5:31]
1. Color Bars [:00]
Disc #2 -- Grand Illusion
1. Logos/ Opening Credits [2:07]
2. Shot Down in Germany [5:36]
3. First Taste of Prison Camp [9:22]
4. The Tunnel [9:24]
5. Dressing Up [2:51]
6. The Sound of Marching [:39]
7. Putting On a Show [9:35]
8. Frustration at the Eleventh Hour [5:49]
9. Ending Up at Wintersborn [3:09]
10. Touring the Property [8:14]
11. Officers and Aristocrats [2:13]
12. Preparing the Escape [13:14]
13. The Magic Flute [11:45]
14. De Boeldieu a Hero [4:29]
15. Refuge at the Farm [12:56]
16. A Christmas Romance [4:11]
17. The Parting [7:21]
1. Color Bars [:00]
Disc #3 -- Knife in the Water
1. The Hitchhiker [7:21]
2. The Dock [7:44]
3. "Are We Moving?" [6:20]
4. The Reeds [2:32]
5. Noon [6:30]
6. Lunch [5:04]
7. In Circles [5:22]
8. Sailing [6:17]
9. Aground [3:20]
10. Forfeit [11:43]
11. Light Sleepers [7:44]
12. Overboard [6:40]
13. "You're Just Like Him" [9:09]
14. "Where Are We Going?" [8:17]
1. Color Bars [:00]
Disc #4 -- Lord of the Flies
1. Opening Credits [4:04]
2. Piggy and Ralph [3:43]
3. The Conch [6:49]
4. "Who Knows we're here?" [7:40]
5. Signal Fire [6:43]
6. "We Need Meat!" [4:38]
7. Assembly [7:56]
8. The Beast [5:41]
9. Faces in the Dark [4:51]
10. Two Tribes [9:23]
11. "Who'll Join My Tribe?" [3:44]
12. Kill the Beast! [4:21]
13. "It Wasn't What You Said" [2:39]
14. Last Attempt at Reason [9:26]
15. The Hunters and the Hunted [8:40]
1. Color Bars [:00]
Disc #5 -- Rashomon
1. Rashomon Gate [7:38]
2. Evidence of a Crime [3:51]
3. The Trial Begins [4:01]
4. Tajomaru's Story [20:57]
5. Lies [2:23]
6. The Woman's Story [9:55]
7. Confusion [1:56]
8. The Dead Man's Story [10:19]
9. Frustration [:00]
10. The Woodcutter's Story [2:44]
11. The Way of the World [14:38]
12. Redemption [5:06]
1. Color Bars [4:15]
Disc #6 -- Wild Strawberries
1. Isak Borg [2:18]
2. Opening Credits [1:13]
3. A Weird Dream [4:33]
4. Change of Plans [5:03]
5. A Revealing Ride [4:33]
6. Wild Strawberries [6:57]
7. Family Meal [3:31]
8. Tears and Song [2:51]
9. Sara, Anders and Viktor [3:08]
10. Hysteria and Catholicism [5:53]
11. Old Friends [2:51]
12. Philosophy and Lunch [3:01]
13. Visiting Mother [7:24]
14. Looking in the Mirror [5:24]
15. Examination [6:38]
16. Loneliness [5:30]
17. Evald and Marianne [4:13]
18. Marianne's Decision [3:14]
19. At Evald's [2:03]
20. The Ceremony [2:26]
21. No Intimacies [3:53]
22. Father and Son [2:03]
23. Childhood Memories [2:14]
1. Color Bars [:00]

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Akira Kurosawa		Director
Roman Polanski		Director
Ingmar Bergman		Director
Jean Cocteau		Director
Jean Renoir		Director
Peter Brook		Director

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