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Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider

Filmed in Morocco and featuring exclusive interviews with cultural icons such as Allen Ginsberg, Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider explores the life of the man who wrote the The Sheltering Sky, one of the most influential novels of the 20th century. In a series of intimate conversations, Bowles speaks candidly about his writing, his music, his use of drugs and his array of friends – including W.H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, Aaron Copland, Gertrude Stein, and Allen Ginsberg. Interwoven with rare archival footage, photos and interviews, The Complete Outsider reveals a man who has made a life of living by his own rules.

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Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures

1942: Johann, a young German opposed to Hitler’s war, travels the dusty roads of northeastern Brazil selling a new wonder drug, Aspirin, to peasants and farmers. Along the way he picks up a hitchhiker, the sharp-tongued Ranulpho, who has left the drought and suffering of his region in search of a better life. The two men form an unlikely friendship, but as Brazil enters the war against Germany and Johann is ordered back home, each must decide his own fate.

Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures is part of The Global Lens Collection.

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Howling with the Angels

In March 1939, Hitler’s army marched into Prague, Czechoslovakia. Jan Bodon, a young captain in the Czech Army - who also happened to be blond-haired, blue-eyed and fluent in German - was “asked” to join the Nazis. He promptly fled and joined the Czech Resistance Movement instead, and was selected to help in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the “Butcher of Prague.” In this powerful documentary directed by Jan’s son, Jean Bodon uncovers the truth not only about Jan’s wartime experiences, but also discovers that his father was secretly a Jew in a country which underwent one of the largest extermination campaigns of the war.

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The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin

In this ground-breaking comedy - one of the most popular films in the history of Cuban cinema - Juan Quin Quin, a poor but shrewd farmer, lives on his wits in pre-revolutionary Cuba as a circus performer, a bull-fighter, a coffee planter, even playing the part of Christ with a traveling theatre company. Then a comic series of injustices leads Juan to the Sierra - to become a guerrilla leader in the Revolution!

The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin is part of The Cuban Masterworks Collection.

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A Successful Man

Cuba’s history before the Revolution is chronicled through the story of two brothers, one a revolutionary man of action, the other an unscrupulous politician trying to steer a treacherous middle path between opposing political ideas. From the acclaimed director of Lucia, one of the most influential Cuban films of all time.

A Successful Man is part of The Cuban Masterworks Collection.

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The GFI Latin America Collection contains six films from The Global Lens Collection, including the new release Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (Brazil) above, as well as Whisky (Uruguay), Mango Yellow (Brazil), Nada+ (Cuba), Today & Tomorrow (Argentina), and Margarette's Feast (Brazil), bundled together at one low price.

This collection will be further discounted through the month of August, specially priced at $81.22 - that's 35% off the bundle, and almost 50% off retail!

Read more about the six titles included in the GFI Latin America Collection.

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Enter for a chance to win Hot Summer on DVD! Dubbed the East German Grease, this beach blanket is being pitched on the Baltic Sea and East German pop stars are singin' and dancin', lovin' and fightin'. Resurrected in the 90's as a cult item, Hot Summer is definitely unique - a bit goofy, a bit naive, but a genuine cultural artifact nonetheless.

QUESTION: The 1978 film Grease was released in Mexico under what name?

Send your response via email to contest@firstrunfeatures.com with GREASE CONTEST in the subject line by Friday, August 3. One lucky winner will be chosen at random.

Congratulations to Diana D. from Ithaca, NY, who correctly answered last month's trivia question (According to the First Run Features MySpace page, how old is First Run? Answer: 28) and won a $25 First Run Features gift certificate!