ARABY [DVD]Andre, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go to Cristianos house to pick up clothes and documents, Andre stumbles on a notebook, and its here that Araby begins or, rather, transforms. As Andre reads from the journal entries, we are plunged into Cristianos life, into stories of his wanderings, adventures, and loves. Beautifully written and

is the story of The Bread Factory

a factory worker

despite her intellectual gifts

At the same time

one thinks of Goya and Velasquez

Repeatedly drawn to the site of the abduction

• Booklet featuring an essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chen passes through a mysterious town where distinctions between past

almost all banned in their country of production

In Vanda’s Room) brilliantly reworked Jacques Tourneur’s classic I Walked with a Zombie into a reflection on his country’s colonial legacy

a collective of three Italian filmmakers known for their politically acute cinema—Pietro Marcello (Martin Eden)

filmed in 1971 by Nathan Farb