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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. Includes his latest film, the astounding Journey to the West, and exclusive to Blu-ray, a 70-minute master class with Tsai Ming-liang..

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.

Based on true events, Jaochim Laffose's suspenseful, multi-layered dissection of an unorthodox family unit features an extraordinary performance by Emilie Dequenne (Rosetta), for which she won a Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and stars Tahar Rahim and Niels Arestrup (both from A Prophet).