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• Die Oberhausener : provokation der wirklichkeit
  "In 1962, the proclamation of the Oberhausen Manifesto marked the beginning of the New German Film. This 2-dsc DVD set presents 19 short films from 1958-1964 produced, directed, photopgraphed or edited by one or more of the filmmakers who signed the manifesto."--Provided by publisher
• Von Morgens bis Mitternachts : Drama in 5 Akten / von Georg Kaiser ; künstlerische Leitung Karlheinz Martin
  A cashier in a bank in a small German town is alerted to the power of money by the visit of a rich Italian lady. He embezzles 60,000 marks and leaves for the capital city, where he attempts to find satisfaction in politics, sport, love and religion
• Westend / Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film ; Kai Künnemann Filmproduktion zeigt ; Produzent, Kai Künnemann ; ein Film von Markus Mischkowski und Kai Maria Steinkühler
  Two unemployed persons living in the industrial part of Cologne spend their days drinking beers. A friend offers them a job and so they open a bar on the outskirts of town, but despite having jobs they feel that they are excluded from the modern work force
• Darling ; The L-shaped room / [for Darling] a Joseph Janni Production ; screenplay by Frederick Raphael ; produced by Joseph Janni ; directed by John Schlesinger ; [for The L-Shaped Room] a British Lion release ; a Romulus Production ; produced by James Woolf and Richard Attenborough ; screenplay and directed by Bryan Forbes
  Darling: A London photographer's model proceeds from an immature marriage into a series of shady affairs-- first with a television talker, then with a slick promotion man, and ultimately in a palazzo as the loveless wife of an Italian prince. After becoming a prisoner of her own success through these disastrous affairs, she realizes the awful price she has paid for happiness. This is a slashing social satire and a devastating spoof of the television-advertising age
• A kind of loving / a Joseph Janni production
  Drama about a young draughtsman, Vic Brown, whose life comes apart at the seams when he begins a relationship with typist Ingrid Rothwell. Ingrid falls pregnant and thanks to the interference of their friends, neighbours and - worst of all - her tyrannical mother, they are forced into marriage
• Part-time work of a domestic slave = Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin / Kinowelt ; Kairos-Film ; written by Hans Drawe and H.D. Muller ; directed by Alexander Kluge
  Rosewitha Bronski is a woman trying to make her way in a hostile society. She is a wife and mother, a local abortionist, and a factory worker turned union activist. Rosewitha's life is chaotic: her children scream for attention; her demanding husband is unemployed; the factory is in the midst of relocating; and doctors don't pay their referral fees. Her story is told in a cool, episodic style that makes use of voiceover and inserts to comment on her choices
• A raisin in the sun / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; a Paman-Doris production ; screen play by Lorraine Hansberry ; produced by David Susskind and Philip Rose ; directed by Daniel Petrie
  Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money
• Andreĭ Rubli︠o︡v = Andrei Rublev / produced by "Mosfilm" Studio ; direction, Andrei Tarkovsky ; scenario, Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky and Andrei Tarkovsky ; producer, T. Ogoroknikova
  Tracing the life of a renowned icon painter, Andrei Tarkovsky's second feature conjures the murky world of medieval Russia. The film follows Andrei Rublev as he passes through a series of poetically linked scenes, gradually emerging as a man struggling to preserve his creative and religious integrity
• The lion king / Walt Disney Pictures presents ; directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff ; produced by Don Hahn ; screenplay by Irene Mecchi and Jonathan Roberts and Linda Woolverton
  Simba, a lion cub who cannot wait to be king, searches for his destiny in the great "Circle of Life" in this coming-of-age adventure
• Georgy girl / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; a Robert Goldston, Otto Plaschkes production ; screenplay by Margaret Forster and Peter Nichols ; produced by Robert A. Goldston and Otto Plaschkes ; directed by Silvo Narizzano
  A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate
• Darling / an Anglo Amalgamated presentation ; a Joseph Janni production for Vic Films ; produced by Joseph Janni ; screenplay by Frederic Raphael ; directed by John Schlesinger
  A London photographer's model proceeds from an immature marriage into a series of shady affairs--first with a television talker, then with a slick promotion man, and ultimately in a palazzo as the loveless wife of an Italian prince. After becoming a prisoner of her own success through these disastrous affairs, she realizes the awful price she has paid for happiness. This is a slashing social satire and a devastating spoof of the television-advertising age
• The loneliness of the long distance runner / Seven Arts Productions in association with Bryanston presents a Woodfall Film ; screenplay by Alan Sillitoe ; produced and directed by Tony Richardson
  Colin, a young rebel and promising distance runner, is chosen to represent his reform school in a track race. However, the opposition for Colin isn't another runner, it's the Establishment
• Girl with green eyes / Samuel Goldwyn Company ; a Woodfall film ; screenplay by Edna O'Brien ; produced by Oscar Lewenstein ; directed by Desmond Davis
  Kate and Baba move to the big city in search of fun, excitement, and men, but then Kate falls for an older, educated man and finds herself escaping into a world she's always dreamed of
• Yesterday girl : Abschied von gestern (Anita G.) / Produzent, Kairos - Film, Independent Film, Alexander Kluge ; written and directed by Alexander Kluge
  A young German girl passes through the Berlin Wall to look for a better life in West Germany. Unfortunately her dreams elude her because she can't let go of the past. Includes two short films and a news clip from the Venice Film Festival in 1966
• My man Godfrey / director, Gregory La Cava
  A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler ... but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye
• Katz und maus / Ein Film von Hansjürgen Pohland ; Eine Hansjürgen Pohland Produktion der Modern Art Film GmbH
  
• Dzhim Shvantė (Solʹ Svanetii) / proizvodstva tresta Goskinprom Gruzii ; rezhisser-operator, M. Kalatozov. Gvozdʹ v sapoge / Goskinprom Gruzii ; rezhisser, M. Kalatozov
  Dzhim Shvantė (Salt for Svanetia): An ethnographic treasure that documents the harsh conditions of life in the isolated mountain village of Ushkul
• The tree of life / Fox Searchlight Pictures and River Road Entertainment present ; written and directed by Terrence Malick ; produced by Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Grant Hill
  The impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith
• Cold water = L 'eau froide / Georges Benayoun et Paul Rozenberg présentent ; una production IMA Films ; en association avec IMA Productions, La Sept/Arte, SFP Production ; écrit et réalisé par Olivier Assayas ; produit par Georges Benayoun
  The acclaimed early film by Olivier Assayas about teenage lovers in the outskirts of Paris in the early '70s, whose rebellions against family and society threaten to tear them apart. With memorable party sequences and a rock soundtrack evoking the period, it is a heartbreaking tale of the emotional tumult of being young
• Smithereens / a film by Susan Seidelman ; produced and directed by Susan Seidelman ; screenplay by Ron Nyswaner and Peter Askin
  After escaping New Jersey, the quintessentially punk Wren, a sparkplug in fishnets who lives dangerously downtown, moves to the city with the mission of becoming famous. When not pasting up flyers for herself or hanging at the Peppermint Lounge, she is getting involved with Paul, the nicest guy to ever live in a van next to the highway, and Eric, an aloof rocker