The Life Of Oharu - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)

The Life Of Oharu - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society, Kenji Mizoguchi had already been directing movies for decades when he made The Life of Oharu in 1952. But this epic portrait of an inexorable fall from grace, starring the astounding Kinuyo Tanaka as an imperial lady in waiting who gradually descends to street prostitution, was the movie that gained

Thelonious Monk was a little-known figure on the New York City bebop scene when Blue Note founder Alfred Lion discovered and fell in love with the pianist's utterly unique music and offered Monk his first opportunity to record as a leader

Music and effects tracks for The Flame of New Orleans

French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering

Celebrating the magick of the natural realm

0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray

Fatoumata Diawara

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Sonny Clark seemed to arrive fully formed on his supremely swinging debut album

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Paying tribute to this art form

Nina Soul reversions the slack rocksteady anthem Barb Wire

A rousing exploration of the blues and jazz music that formed much of American popular music culture