The Red Spectacles

Jigoku no banken: akai megane
Japan, 1987
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Starring: Shigeru Chiba, Machiko Washio, Hideyuki Tanaka

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Videodrome

Canada, 1983
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits

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Capone Cries a Lot

Kapone oi ni naku
Japan, 1985
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Starring: Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Yuko Tanaka, Kenji Sawada, Akira Emoto, Kirin Kiki

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Six-String Samurai

USA, 1998
Director: Lance Mungia
Starring: Jeffrey Falcon, Justin McGuire, Kim De Angelo

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Melancholia

Denmark, 2011
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Udo Kier

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Farewell My Concubine

Ba wang bie ji
Hong Kong, 1993
Director: Kaige Chen
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong

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Goonies

USA, 1985
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green

Illustration by Noriyoshi Ohrai

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Splendor in the Grass

USA, 1961
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle

Poster for the 1972 release

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Pierrot le fou

France, 1965
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani

Poster for the 1983 release

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Perfect Education: Maid, for You

Kanzen naru shiiku: Meido, for you
Japan, 2010
Director: Kenta Fukasaku
Starring: Ayano, Kotaro Yanagi, Ken Maeda, Mei Kurokawa, Naoto Takenaka

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Woods Are Wet

Onna jigoku: mori wa nureta
Japan, 1973
Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro
Starring: Hiroko Isayama, Rie Nakagawa, Hatsuo Yamaya, Moeko Ezawa, Yuri Yamashina

For the 1996 re-release

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Face to Face

Ansikte mot ansikte
Sweden, 1976
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Aino Taube

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Interstellar

USA, 2014
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, Casey Affleck

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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

USA, 2014
Director: Robert Rodriguez / Frank Miller
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Eva Green, Jessica Alba, Bruce Willis, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rosario Dawson, Jaime King, Juno Temple, Jamie Chung

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The Petrified Forest

Kaseki no mori
Japan, 1973
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Starring: Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Sayoko Ninomiya, Masako Yagi

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The Fountain

USA, 2006
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Sean Patrick Thomas, Ellen Burstyn

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A Streetcar Named Desire

USA, 1951
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden

Poster for the 1972 release

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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

USA, 2001
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Greg Stebner, Woody Allen, John Tormey, Elizabeth Berkley, Helen Hunt, Charlize Theron

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Vivre Sa Vie

Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux
France, 1962
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, Andre S. Labarthe

Poster enhanced with silver ink for the 1994 release

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

USA, 1974
Director: Tobe Hooper
Starring: Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal

Rare first release poster from 1975

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Tesis

Spain, 1996
Director: Alejandro Amenabar
Starring: Ana Torrent, Fele Martinez, Eduardo Noriega

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Phantasm

USA, 1979
Director: Don Coscarelli
Starring: A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister

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A Chinese Ghost Story

Sien nui yau wan
Hong Kong, 1987
Director: Siu-Tung Ching
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Joey Wang, Ma Wu, Elvis Tsui

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Fantasia

USA, 1940
Director: Norman Ferguson
Starring: Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor, Corey Burton

Poster for the 50th anniversary release in 1990

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Vengeance is Mine

Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari
Japan, 1979
Director: Shohei Imamura
Starring: Ken Ogata, Rentaro Mikuni, Chocho Miyako, Mitsuko Baisho, Mayumi Ogawa

Won 6 awards at the Japanese Academy Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Screenplay

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