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Since the late 1970s, the identical twin Quay Brothers have made a unique contribution to animation in general, and the puppet film in particular. Filtering arcane visual, literary, musical, cinematic and philosophical influences through their own utterly distinctive sensibility, each quay film rivets the attention through hypnotic control of decor, music and movement, evoking half-remembered dreams and long-suppressed childhood memories, fascinating and deeply unsettling in turn.

A selection of tracks from some of Jean-Luc Godard's earliest and most memorable films including À bout de souffle (Breathless), Une femme est une femme (A Woman Is A Woman), Vivre sa vie (To Live One's Life), Le Mépris (Contempt). With works from the legendary composers Martial Solal, Michel Legrand, and Georges Delerue, this is an essential collection of music from the films of one of the most important directors of the French New Wave.

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Manny Farber, one of the most important critics in movie history, championed the American action film—the bravado of Howard Hawks, the art brut styling of Samuel Fuller, the crafty, sordid entertainments of Don Siegel—at a time when other critics dismissed the genre.

A man's obsession with the mystery surrounding his wife's disappearance furnishes a fascinating study in denial in Romanian director Andrei Gruzsniczki's oblique, near-minimalist feature bow, "The Other Irene." Like a cross between "The Vanishing" and "Jeanne Dielman," the pic follows its unassuming nice-guy protagonist through the minutiae of his rounds as night watchman, as devoted husband and finally as dogged seeker of an acceptable "truth," steadily building emotion through detail and a tautly restrained perf by Andi Vasluianu. "Irene" may not be at the forefront of the new Romanian cinema, but it reps proof of its depth and vitality.