10 Years of Rialto Pictures (DVD)

Since 1997, Rialto Pictures has been helping to keep classic cinema alive and invigorated by bringing the world's greatest films to theaters across the United States, in phenomenal restored 35 mm prints. This special gift box set, in celebration of Rialto's tenth anniversary, features ten films that display the breadth of its collection, including works by Rialto favorites, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson, Luis Bunuel, and Jean-Pierre Melville.

Army of Shadows
Jean-Pierre Melville's masterpiece about the French resistance went unreleased in the United States for thirty-seven years, before its triumphant debut release in 2006. Atmospheric and gripping, Army of Shadows is Melville's most personal film, featuring Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and the incomparable Simone Signoret as intrepid underground fighters who must grapple with their own brand of honor in their fight against evil.
1969 • 145 minutes • Color • Monaural • In French with Optional English Subtitles • 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio

Au hasard Balthazar
A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, director Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of man. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly. Through Bresson's unconventional approach to composition, sound, and narrative, this seemingly simple story becomes a moving parable of purity and transcendence.
1966 • 96 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In French with English Subtitles • 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio

Band of Outsiders
Two restless young men enlist the object of their desire to help them commit a robbery - in her own home. French New Wave pioner Jean-Luc Godard takes to the streets of Paris to re-imagine the gangster genre, spinning an audacious yarn that's at once sentimental and insouciant, romantic and melancholy. The Criterion Collection is proud to present the convention-flaunting postmodern classic "Band of Outsiders."
1964 • 95 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In French with English Subtitles • 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio

Billy Liar
Billy Fisher is a daydreamer stuck at a dead end job selling funeral furnishing. Spinning lie after lie, which includes stringing two fiancees and claiming to be a comedy writer, Billy's wish to escape his life becomes a possibility when he meets Liz, a free spirited icon of rebellion.
1963 • 98 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 2.35:1 Aspect Ratio

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
In Luis Bunuel's deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined. Perhaps his greatest film, Bunuel's absurdist view of the upper class is a timeless satire about consumerism and class privilege in a late capitalist world. Fernando Rey, Stephane Audran, Delphine Seyrig, and Jean-Pierre Cassel head an extraordinary cast.
1972 • 101 minutes • Color • Monaural • In French with Optional English Subtitles • 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio

Mafioso
In Alberto Lattuada's brilliant dark comedy Mafioso, auto-factory foreman Nino (Alberto Sordi) takes his proper, modern wife (Norma Bengell) and two blonde daughters from industrial Milan to antiquated rural Sicily to visit his family and get back in touch with his roots. But Antonio gets more than he bargained for when he discovers some harsh truths about his ancestors - and himself. The first Italian film to dramatize the modern mafia, Lattuada's devastatingly funny character study is equal parts culture-clash farce and existential nightmare.
1962 • 102 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In Italian and Sicilian with Optional English Subtitles • 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio

Murderous Maids
Class struggle, incest, and murder are at the heart of France's most horrific crime of the 20th century. Director Jean-Pierre Denis paints a provocative portrait of the notorious Papin sisters that is sympathetic yet unapologetic. The sisters, Christine and Lea, are forced into servitude by their self-absorbed mother and become increasingly outraged by the injustice of their position. The sisters find solace in each other, and their relationship becomes all-consuming. When their secret is threatened, they lash out.
2000 • 94 minutes • Color-Stereo • In French with Optional English Subtitles • 2.35:1 Aspect Ratio

Rififi
After helming such American noir classics as "The Naked City" and "Brute Force," blacklisted director Jules Dassin moved to Paris and embarked on his masterpiece: a twisting, turning tale of four ex-cons who hatch one last glorious heist in the City of Lights. At once naturalistic and expressionistic, this melange of suspense, brutality and dark humor was an international hit and earned Dassin the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
1955 • 118 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In French with English Subtitles • 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio

The Third Man
Cynical pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime, and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder. Thanks to brilliant performances by Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles; Anton Karas's evocative zither score; Graham Greene's razor-sharp dialogue; and Robert Krasker's haunting deep focus shots, off-kilter angles, and dramatic use of light and shadow, The Third Man, directed by the inimitable Carol Reed, only grows in stature as the years pass.
1949 • 104 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio

Touchez pas au grisbi
Jean Gabin ("Pepe le Moko," "Port of Shadows") is at his most wearily romantic as aging gangster Max in the Jacques Becker gem Touchez pas au grisbi (Hands Off the Loot!). Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend. But when Riton, Max's hapless partner and best friend, lets word of the loot slip to loose-lipped, two-timing Josy (Jeanne Moreau), Max is reluctantly drawn back into the underworld. An important touchstone of the gangster-film genre, which also includes the original trailer, plus video interviews with actors Lino Ventura and Daniel Cauchy, and composer Jean Wiener.
1954 • 96 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In French with Optional English Subtitles • 1.33:1

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Running Time: 1048 minutes