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...Weighing in at 13 lbs., 12 oz., Essential Art House is a whole film school in a really big box. It comprises 52 films that Janus either originally released in theaters or picked up after their initial runs for distribution to repertory theaters, 16mm film programs and the more enlightened TV stations. The A list of foreign films is here: Rashomon and Pandora's Box, The 400 Blows and Viridiana, The Third Man and The Lady Vanishes-the basics of an educated person's film education...
...have to say it drives me nuts that these discs don't include any of the extras I've extolled; a Criterion disc without all the cool Easter eggs is missing something... essential. But the box is a testament not to Criterion but to Janus; indeed, to serious lovers of serious films. As such, there's not a richer gift (if you happen to be rich) for someone ready to experience the wonders of movies beyond Hollywood than this sumptuous...
...maybe, after all those years, we of the first film generation weren't so easily excited.) And the art houses that regularly played exotics from abroad switched to Sundance-type indie movies. Foreign-film revenue gradually dropped from its '60s high of about 5% of the total U.S. box office. Today it is .5% - one-tenth what...
...combing through his threadbare later output for one more masterpiece. With the beautiful reconstruction a few years ago of Touch of Evil they found one. This DVD set may not convince you that there's another one lurking in Mr. Arkadin. But drop into this fun house of a box and it'll be days before you come...
...have been quick to capitalize on the trend. Admissions companies, ranging from those catering to would-be transfers to others focusing solely on low-income students, have been created by current undergrads, recent graduates, and even a teaching fellow. The Harvard start-ups have attempted to think outside the box to create imaginative companies that stretch the limits of “college consulting” and work to provide new options for struggling students.But are they thinking outside the box just to put prospective students in another one? As the college consulting business on campus grows, undergraduate admissions entrepreneurs...