SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961) - Blu-ray Release of Elia Kazan's Classic Starring Natalie Wood & Warren Beatty

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Product Description: Deanie (Natalie Wood in an Oscar nominated performance that marked a career turning point toward complex adult roles) is a teenager eager to do what's right in her 1920s Kansas town. But the emotions she shares with boyfriend Bud (Warren Beatty's screen debut) are too strong. Soon the conflict between respectable behavior and human desire will push Bud to a physical collapse and Deanie to madness. Director Elia Kazan encouraged Pulitzer-Prize winner William Inge (Bus Stop, Picnic) to turn a true story he heard during his Midwest youth into an Academy Award -winning screenplay. The result, Splendor in the Grass remains as poetic, penetrating and powerful today as it was decades ago.

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New on Blu-ray: THE VISITORS (1972) Starring James Woods, Patrick McVey and Patricia Joyce

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Product Description: In the haunting home invasion thriller The Visitors, James Woods (Videodrome) stars as a Vietnam veteran trying to raise his family while blocking out the past. But when two of his menacing ex-army buddies show up on his doorstep (Steve Railsback and Chico Martinez), there is a reckoning for their history of violence. Directed by the legendary Elia Kazan (A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront).

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New on Blu-ray: THE LAST TYCOON (1976) Starring Robert De Niro

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Product Description: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s (The Great Gatsby) fascinating tale of studio politics in early Hollywood is breathtakingly brought to the screen by director Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront) and scriptwriter Harold Pinter (The Homecoming). Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver) fronts a powerhouse cast as studio head Monroe Stahr, a thinly disguised Irving Thalberg character in command of his studio but haunted by a love lost to the past. Dana Andrews, Ingrid Boulting, Tony Curtis, Anjelica Huston, Ray Milland, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Donald Pleasence, Theresa Russell and Jack Nicholson contribute stirring supporting performances to this richly detailed ’30s-era gem. It leaves little doubt that Fitzgerald knew every side of Tinseltown, from the glitter to the gutter.

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New on Blu-ray: BABY DOLL (1956) Starring Karl Malden, Carroll Baker & Eli Wallach

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Product Description: Times are tough for cotton miller Archie (Karl Malden), but at least he has his child bride (Carroll Baker), who will soon be his wife in title and truth. The one year agreement keeping them under the same roof, yet never in the same bed, is about to end. But a game with a sly business rival (Eli Wallach) is about to begin. In Baby Doll, as in A Streetcar Named Desire, director Elia Kazan and writer Tennessee Williams broke new ground in depicting sexual situations, earning condemnation from the then powerful Legion of Decency. They earned laurels too: four Academy Award® nominations, Golden Globe® Awards for Baker and Kazan, and a British Academy Award for Wallach. Watch this funny, steamy classic that, as Leonard Maltins Movie Guide proclaims, still sizzles.

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New on Blu-ray: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951) Starring Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando

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Product Description: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE: THE ORIGINAL RESTORED VERSION is the film moviegoers would have seen in 1951 had not Legion of Decency censorship occurred at the last minute. Elia Kazan masterfully directs Tennessee Williams masterpiece s tarring Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and Kim Hunter. Nominated for an unprecedented 12 Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, and a winner of four,* its contributions to film continue to be celebrated, and it holds a place on the AFI s list of Top 100 Films.

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DVD & Blu-ray: A FACE IN THE CROWD (1957) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: A Face in the Crowd chronicles the rise and fall of Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes (Andy Griffith), a boisterous entertainer discovered in an Arkansas drunk tank by Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal), a local radio producer with ambitions of her own. His charisma and cunning soon shoot him to the heights of television stardom and political demagoguery, forcing Marcia to grapple with the manipulative, reactionary monster she has created. Directed by Elia Kazan from a screenplay by Budd Schulberg, this incisive satire features an extraordinary debut screen performance by Griffith, who brandishes his charm in an uncharacteristically sinister role. Though the film was a flop on its initial release, subsequent generations have marveled at its eerily prescient diagnosis of the toxic intimacy between media and politics in American life.

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New on Blu-Ray : A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951)

Synopsis: A Streeetcar Named Desire: The Original Director's Version is the Elia Kazan/Tennessee Williams film moviegoers would have seen had not Legion of Decency censorship occurred at the last minute. It features three minutes of previously unseen footage underscoring, among other things, the sexual tension between Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), and Stella Kowalski's (Kim Hunter) passion for husband Stanley. Catch all of the classic - nominated for 12 Academy Awards including Best Picture and winner of 4 - that introduced a new era of filmmaking. Step aboard this Streetcar.