Vittorio De Sica's SHOESHINE (1946) - New Criterion Collection DVD, Blu-ray & 4K Ultra HD Release

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Product Description: An international breakthrough for neorealism, Vittorio De Sica’s Academy Award–winning film is an indelible fable of innocence lost amid the hardscrabble reality of 1940s Italy. On the streets of Rome, two boys—best friends Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smordoni) and Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi)—set out to raise the money to buy a horse by shining shoes. When they are inadvertently caught up in a robbery and sent to a brutal juvenile detention center, their loyalty to each other is severely tested. A devastating portrait of economic struggle made all the more haunting by its child’s-eye perspective, Shoeshine stands as one of the defining achievements of postwar Italian filmmaking.

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THE AMOROUS ADVENTURES OF MOLL FLANDERS (1965) - Blu-ray Release of Period Comedy Starring Kim Novak

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Product Description: It’s marry Olde England when Moll comes to London! The ravishing Kim Novak (Vertigo) stars in The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, a bawdy comedy based on the novel by Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe). An all-star supporting cast—including Angela Lansbury, Vittorio De Sica, Leo McKern, George Sanders, Lilli Palmer and Cecil Parker—joins the fun as Moll sets out on her (ahem) well-laid plan to make schemes come true in 18th-century London. She masquerades as a rich widow to land a wealthy nobleman (Richard Johnson), never dreaming that he’s actually a penniless scoundrel posing to win the presumably rich Moll. What a perfect match! Lavishly directed by Terence Young (From Russia with Love, Cold Sweat), the fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders add up to a rollicking, ribald cinematic romp! This new restoration by Paramount gives us the home entertainment debut of the 131-minute uncut and uncensored version of the film.

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New on Blu-ray: ANDY WARHOL PRESENTS - BLOOD FOR DRACULA (1974)

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Product Description: Immediately after completing FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN, writer/director Paul Morrissey and star Udo Kier created what remains sumptuously depraved Euroshocker, cunning political allegory and "wickedly funny horror that obliterates the line between art and bad taste" (Pop Culture Beast): Desperate for virgin blood, Count Dracula - Kier in the performance Flavorwire calls "one of cinema's Top 5 Best Draculas" - journeys to an Italian villa only to discover the family's three young daughters are also coveted by the estate's Marxist stud (Joe Dallesandro of Morrissey's FLESH, TRASH and HEAT). Stefania Casini (SUSPIRIA) and BICYCLE THIEVES director Vittorio De Sica co-star - with an unforgettable cameo by Roman Polanski - in "one of the most unique vampire films in history" (Oh! The Horror), now scanned uncut in 4K from the original negative for the first time ever.

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DVD & Blu-ray: MIRACLE IN MILAN / MIRACOLO A MILANO (1951) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: Renowned filmmaker Vittorio De Sica followed up his international triumph Bicycle Thieves with this enchantingly playful neorealist fairy tale, in which he combines his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy. On the outskirts of Milan, a band of vagabonds work together to form a shantytown. When it is discovered that the land they occupy contains oil, however, it’s up to the cherubic orphan Totò (Francesco Golisano)—with some divine help—to save their community from greedy developers. Tipping their hats to the imaginative whimsy of Charles Chaplin and René Clair, De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, adapting his own novel, craft a bighearted ode to the nobility of everyday people.

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DVD & Blu-ray: THE WONDERS OF ALADDIN (1961) Starring Donald O'Connor

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Product Description: Brand New 4K Master! Let the magic carpet glide you back to ancient Baghdad! Meet Aladdin (Donald O’Connor, Singin’ in the Rain) and follow him through a maze of wild adventures with Amazon queens, desert bandits, magicians, princes, paupers and—last but not least—an adorable 9-foot-tall genie (Vittorio De Sica, A Farewell to Arms), who will grant the young man three wishes if he sets him free from his lamp, which has held him prisoner for 12,000 years. Mario Bava (Kill, Baby… Kill!) and Henry Levin (Journey to the Center of the Earth) co-directed this classic tale of sweeping entertainment for the whole family, co-starring Terence Hill (Man of the East) and Michèle Mercier (Black Sabbath).

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DVD & Blu-ray: WOMAN TIMES SEVEN (1967) Starring Shirley MacLaine

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Product Description: From Vittorio De Sica, the legendary director of The Bicycle Thief, Umberto D., After the Fox, Marriage Italian Style, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, comes this classic comedy starring screen legend Shirley MacLaine (Irma La Douce, Gambit, Sweet Charity). MacLaine lights up the screen in this collection of seven sexy stories of love and adultery set against the romantic backdrop of Paris. Whether she’s playing an amorous widow, a meek housewife gone wild or a socialite who will literally kill for a dress, MacLaine displays the irresistible charm, beauty and humor that catapulted her to stardom. This tour-de-force performance earned MacLaine a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress – Comedy or Musical. The all-star cast includes Peter Sellers (The Party), Michael Caine (The Ipcress File), Alan Arkin (The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!) and many others!

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New on Blu-ray: INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE (1953) Starring Jennifer Jones and Montgomery Clift

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Product Description: From Vittorio De Sica, the legendary director of The Bicycle Thief, Umberto D., Two Women, Marriage Italian Style, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, comes this heartrending romantic drama starring screen icons Jennifer Jones (Portrait of Jennie, Gone to Earth, Duel in the Sun) and Montgomery Clift (Red River, A Place in the Sun, Judgment at Nuremberg). An American housewife (Jones) vacationing in Italy reluctantly decides to put an end to her brief affair with an Italian academic (Clift). She flees to Rome’s Stazione Termini, where she bids him farewell, but he begs her to stay. The film’s plot is simple; its production was not. The troubled collaboration between De Sica and producer David O. Selznick (Gone with the Wind) resulted in two cuts of the same film. De Sica’s version, Terminal Station, was screened at a length of one-and-a-half hours, but after disappointing previews, Selznick severely re-edited it and changed the title to Indiscretion of an American Wife without De Sica’s permission. This Special Edition includes both versions of this controversial release. Indiscretion of an American Wife was fully restored in 4K; Terminal Station was restored in 2K from the best surviving film elements. Oscar nominee for Costume Design (Black-and-White).

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DVD & Blu-ray: BICYCLE THIEVES (1948) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for his work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and profoundly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodies the greatest strengths of the Italian neorealist movement: emotional clarity, social rectitude, and brutal honesty.

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