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An astonishingly beautiful and gripping Western starring Viggo Mortensen, JAUJA (pronounced how-ha) begins in a remote outpost in Patagonia during the late 1800s. Featuring a superb performance from Mortensen, JAUJA (the name suggests a fabled city of riches sought by European explorers) is the story of a man’s desperate search for his daughter, a solitary quest that takes him to a place beyond time, where the past vanishes and the future has no meaning.

An astonishingly beautiful and gripping Western starring Viggo Mortensen, JAUJA (pronounced how-ha) begins in a remote outpost in Patagonia during the late 1800s. Featuring a superb performance from Mortensen, JAUJA (the name suggests a fabled city of riches sought by European explorers) is the story of a man’s desperate search for his daughter, a solitary quest that takes him to a place beyond time, where the past vanishes and the future has no meaning.

A director asks his actress whether she’s comfortable doing a nude scene. As long as its justified, she says. Don’t worry, he replies. So begins Corneliu Porumboiu’s deliciously witty new film.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, Stray Dogs is an extraordinary film from Tsai Ming-liang, a haunting vision of a father and his two young children trying to survive on the streets of Taipei. DVD includes Tsai's latest film, the astounding Journey to the West (featuring a memorable cameo by Denis Lavant).

An enthralling tale of love, temptation and betrayal directed by major post-New Wave auteur Philippe Garrel (Regular Lovers) and starring his son, actor Louis Garrel (The Dreamers, Saint Laurent). Shot in lustrous, widescreen black-and-white by the great Willy Kurant (Masculin Feminin, Under Satan's Sun).

An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced into a harsh prison sentence; a mother and her two children wander the countryside looking for some kind of redemption. Lav Diaz's epic reimagining of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is both an intimate human drama and a cosmic treatise on the origin of evil.

An ode to friendship and the power of art to mirror and alter our lives, Jem Cohen's exquisite, critically-acclaimed Museum Hours is a tale of two adrift strangers who find refuge in Vienna's grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum. The Blu-ray includes 3 rare short films by Cohen, plus a 24-page booklet featuring an essay by noted writer Luc Sante.