If you’re in the mood for some hard-to-find gems not currently available on disc, we’ve got you covered this week with Cinema Rarities, our free festival on Hulu. From Australian horror-comedy to a French literary adaptation, this selection of little-seen treasures includes Milton Rosmer and Luis Trenker’s The Challenge, Masaki Kobayashi’s Beautiful Days, Arne Sucksdorff’s My Home Is Copacabana, Nagisa Oshima’s Boy, François Truffaut’s Two English Girls, Peter Weir’s The Cars That Ate Paris, and Víctor Erice’s El Sur.
Also in this stellar lineup is Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1955 period drama Princess Yang Kwei-fei, a collaboration between Japan’s Daiei Film and Hong Kong’s Shaw Brothers Studio. Set in eighth-century China, this visually exquisite tragedy features the great Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyo (who starred in Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon five years earlier) as a Tang Dynasty emperor and his concubine. Magnificently shot by renowned cinematographer Kohei Sugiyama, Mizoguchi’s first color film demonstrates his breathtaking technical mastery.
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