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WORLD CINEMA Streaming Video Collection More than 740 classic and contemporary feature films from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and the United States. This unique collection includes the best of the silent • Unlimited access from any location— era, groundbreaking international directors, American on-site or off and European masterpieces from the mid-20th century, • Public performance rights and no award-winning contemporary films from Global Lens, copyright infringement worries and films from Africa and the African diaspora from ArtMattan Productions. The collection shines a light on • Includes masterpieces and award the history of cinema while also providing a glimpse winners directed by: into the cultures and issues of countries around the Fritz Lang Ousmane Sembène world, making it perfect for populations with Georges Méliès Federico Fellini diverse cultures and multicultural programs. Jean Renoir Roberto Rossellini All foreign language Luis Buñuel films are accompanied Zhang Yimou by English subtitles. The Akira Kurosawa King Hu World Cinema Collection Yasujiro Ozu Glauber Rocha is an exciting compan- Sergei Eisenstein Yilmaz Güney ion to Access Video On Alfred Hitchcock Satyajit Ray Demand—the ultimate streaming video resource Ida Lupino Roy William Neill for your entire community. Michael Powell Mahamat Saleh Ask for a free trial of both Dana Rotberg Haroun today! Frank Capra …and many more! Some World Cinema titles contain mature themes or content; viewer discretion is advised. CALL: (800) 322-8755 [email protected] FREE TRIAL: www.Infobase.com/Trial FAX: (212) 313-9456 www.Infobase.com • www.Films.com 1018 More than 740 feature films from around the globe. Contact us for a FREE TRIAL today! WORLD CINEMA Streaming Video Collection Soviet, Eastern European, and Chinese-language film—the 1993 Highlights include: Central Asian film—10 films by Sergei Cannes Palme d’Or winner Farewell My Eisenstein (including Battleship Potemkin, Concubine (Chen Kaige), Spring in a Small October, Strike, and Ivan the Terrible), Town (Fei Mu), films by King Hu (Dragon and award-winning contemporary films Gate Inn, Touch of Zen, The Fate of Lee from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Khan, and Raining in the Mountain), Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Croatia, Albania, Zhang Yimou’s most famous films (The Serbia, Macedonia, and Georgia Story of Qiu Ju, Red Sorghum, and Ju (including When Father Was Away Dou), as well as films by Tsai Ming-Liang on Business, Fine Dead Girls, and (The River and Vive L’Amour). A Wonderful Night in Split). Latin American film—classics from British film—the pre-Hollywood work Glauber Rocha (Black God, White Devil; German film—Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and of major British directors like Alfred Antonio Das Mortes; and Entranced M, Josef Von Sternberg’s The Blue Angel, Hitchcock (including The 39 Steps, The Earth), 12 of Luis Buñuel’s Mexico-based Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin: Symphony of a Lady Vanishes, and The Man Who Knew productions (including Cannes Palme Metropolis, multiple films by F. W. Murnau Too Much) and Michael Anderson d’Or winner Viridiana, The Exterminating and G. W. Pabst (including Pandora’s Box (1984 and The Naked Edge). Angel, and Simon of the Desert), and and Diary of a Lost Girl), as well as films award-winning films by directors from by Paul Leni, Robert Siodmak, and Robert Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, Argentina, Wiene. Uruguay, Peru, Cuba, Chile, and Ecuador. French film—Georges Méliès’s seminal Turkish and Middle Eastern film—seven work A Trip to the Moon, as well as films films by Turkish director Yilmaz Güney by Jean Renoir (Rules of the Game and (including Cannes Palme d’Or winner Diary of a Chambermaid), Luis Buñuel’s The Way a.k.a. Yol, and Hope a.k.a. Umut) France-based work (including An as well as award-winning films from Iran, Andalusian Dog, Tristana, and The Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Israel, and Palestine Golden Age), and René Clair (The Million). African film—Cairo Station by Youssef (including The Kite, The White Meadows, Chahine, six films by Ousmane Sembène and Toll Booth). Japanese film—16 films by Akira (including Black Girl a.k.a. La Noire Kurosawa (including Rashomon, Drunken de…, and The Curse a.k.a. Xala), two Angel, and Stray Dog), 21 films by films by Flora Gomes (Those Whom Kenji Mizoguchi (including The Story of Death Refused and Tree of Blood), and the Last Chrysanthemums, Sansho the acclaimed contemporary films. Bailiff, and Ugetsu), 16 films by Yasujiro Ozu (including Tokyo Story; I Was Born, Italian film—classics from Vittorio De But…; and Late Spring), and films by Sica (including The Bicycle Thief and contemporary directors such as Juzo Itami Two Women), Federico Fellini (including and Kazuyoshi Okuyama. La Dolce Vita and Variety Lights), and Roberto Rossellini (including Paisan; Caribbean film—contemporary films American film—multiple titles from Rome, Open City; and Journey to Italy), from Curaçao, Cuba, Haiti, and Trinidad Buster Keaton (including The General as well as films by Luchino Visconti, and Tobago distributed by ArtMattan and Steamboat Bill Jr.), D. W. Griffith Michelangelo Antonioni, and Giuseppe Productions, a leading distributor of films (including The Birth of a Nation and De Santis. from the African diaspora. Intolerance), Charlie Chaplin, and others representing the best of early American Indian film—14 films by Satyajit Ray cinema, plus films by Douglas Sirk, Alfred (including Pather Panchali, The World of Hitchcock, Frank Capra, Ida Lupino, Apu, Aparajito, and The Big City), as well Orson Welles, Busby Berkeley, and more as films by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Partho covering the golden age of Hollywood. Sen-Gupta, and Rajesh Shera. CALL: (800) 322-8755 [email protected] FREE TRIAL: www.Infobase.com/Trial FAX: (212) 313-9456 www.Infobase.com • www.Films.com 1018.
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