THE CRITERION COLLECTION http://www.criterion.com/ 12 Angry Men http://www.criterion.com/films/27871-12-angry-men Sidney Lumet 1957 • 96 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system that is as riveting as it is spare, this iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose’s teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the dissenting member on a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her http://www.criterion.com/films/1333-2-or-3-things-i-know-about-her Jean-Luc Godard 1967 • 87 minutes • 2.35:1 • France In 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her , Jean-Luc Godard beckons us ever closer, whispering in our ears as narrator. About what? Money, sex, fashion, the city, love, language, war: in a word, everything. 3 Films by Louis Malle http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/397-3-films-by-louis-malle Louis Malle France Laced with autobiographical details, Murmur of the Heart; Lacombe, Lucien; and Au revoir les enfants tell stories of youth, set against the tumult of World War II and postwar France. 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/982-3-films-by-roberto-rossellini-starring-ingrid-bergman Roberto Rossellini Italy In the late 1940s, the incandescent Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman found herself so stirred by the revolutionary neorealist films of Roberto Rossellini that she sent the director a letter, introducing herself and offering her talents. 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/744-3-silent-classics-by-josef-von-sternberg Josef von Sternberg United States Vienna-born, New York–raised Josef von Sternberg directed some of the most influential, extraordinarily stylish dramas ever to come out of Hollywood. The titles in this collection, made on the cusp of the sound age, are three of Sternberg’s greatest works. 3 Women http://www.criterion.com/films/712-3-women Robert Altman 1977 • 124 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States In a dusty California resort rown, a naïve Southern waif finds her role model in a fellow nurse, but her hero-worship evolves into something stranger and more sinister than either could have anticipated. Robert Altman’s dreamlike masterpiece careens from the humorous to the chilling to the surreal. The 39 Steps http://www.criterion.com/films/234-the-39-steps Alfred Hitchcock 1935 • 86 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom A heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps follows Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) as he stumbles upon a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors. 3:10 to Yuma http://www.criterion.com/films/27910-3-10-to-yuma Delmer Daves 1957 • 92 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States In this beautifully shot, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw (played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glenn Ford) to the train that will deliver him to prison. 4 by Agnès Varda http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/8-4-by-agnes-varda Agnès Varda France Agnès Varda used the skills she honed early in her career as a photographer to create some of the most nuanced, thought-provoking films of the past fifty years. The 400 Blows http://www.criterion.com/films/151-the-400-blows François Truffaut 1959 • 99 minutes • 2.35:1 • France Told through the eyes of François Truffaut’s cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel, The 400 Blows sensitively re-creates the trials of Truffaut’s own childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, and petty crime. 49th Parallel http://www.criterion.com/films/520-49th-parallel Michael Powell 1941 • 123 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom A Nazi U-boat crew, headed by the ruthless Eric Portman, is stranded in Canada during the thick of World War II in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s quick-witted wartime thriller, 49th Parallel . 8½ http://www.criterion.com/films/150-8 Federico Fellini 1963 • 138 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ ( Otto e mezzo ) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/369-i-a-story-of-floating-weeds-floating-weeds-i-two-films-by-yasujiro-ozu Yasujiro Ozu Japan An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunities with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all, in Yasujiro Ozu’s 1934 silent classic and his 1959 color remake. ¡Alambrista! http://www.criterion.com/films/28101-alambrista Robert M. Young 1977 • 96 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young’s take is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie, a political work that never loses sight of the complex man at its center. Ace in the Hole http://www.criterion.com/films/829-ace-in-the-hole Billy Wilder 1951 • 111 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Kirk Douglas gives the fiercest performance of his career as Chuck Tatum, an amoral newspaper reporter who washes up in dead-end Albuquerque, happens upon the scoop of a lifetime, and will do anything to keep getting the lurid headlines. The Adventures of Antoine Doinel http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/346-the-adventures-of-antoine-doinel François Truffaut France With The Adventures of Antoine Doinel, Criterion is proud to present François Truffaut’s celebrated saga in its entirety: the feature films The 400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, and Love on the Run, and the 1962 short subject, Antoine and Colette, in a special edition box set. Adventures of Zatoichi http://www.criterion.com/films/28308-adventures-of-zatoichi Kimiyoshi Yasuda 1964 • 86 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan The blind swordsman wanders into a town to celebrate the New Year. There, he befriends a young woman whose father has gone missing; as he tries to help her find him, he becomes entangled in a web of corruption and a series of tragic twists of fate. Alexander Nevsky http://www.criterion.com/films/341-alexander-nevsky Sergei Eisenstein 1938 • 112 minutes • 1.33:1 • Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein drew on history, Russian folk narratives, and the techniques of Walt Disney to create this broadly painted epic of Russian resilience, the story of Teutonic knights vanquished by Prince Alexander Nevsky’s tactical brilliance. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul http://www.criterion.com/films/152-ali-fear-eats-the-soul Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1974 • 93 minutes • 1.37:1 • Germany The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows. All That Heaven Allows http://www.criterion.com/films/635-all-that-heaven-allows Douglas Sirk 1955 • 89 minutes • 1.75:1 • United States A profoundly felt film about class and conformity in small-town America, All That Heaven Allows is a pinnacle of expressionistic Hollywood melodrama. All That Jazz http://www.criterion.com/films/28561-all-that-jazz Bob Fosse 1979 • 123 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Assembled with visionary editing that makes dance come alive on-screen as never before, and overflowing with sublime footwork, All That Jazz pushes the musical genre to personal depths and virtuosic aesthetic heights. Alphaville http://www.criterion.com/films/207-alphaville Jean-Luc Godard 1965 • 99 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Eddie Constantine stars as intergalactic hero Lemmy Caution, on a mission to kill the inventor of fascist computer Alpha 60, in Jean-Luc Godard’s irreverent, cockeyed fusion of science fiction, pulp characters, and surrealist poetry. Amarcord http://www.criterion.com/films/208-amarcord Federico Fellini 1973 • 123 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy Federico Fellini satirizes his youth in this carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy in the fascist period. The Academy Award–winning Amarcord remains one of cinema’s enduring treasures. America Lost and Found: The BBS Story http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/769-america-lost-and-found-the-bbs-story United States Like the rest of America, Hollywood was ripe for revolution in the late sixties. Cinema attendance was down; what had once worked seemed broken. Enter Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner, who would form form BBS Productions, a company that was also a community. Anatomy of a Murder http://www.criterion.com/films/27901-anatomy-of-a-murder Otto Preminger 1959 • 161 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States This gripping envelope-pusher, the most popular film by Hollywood provocateur Otto Preminger, was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex—but more than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. And Everything Is Going Fine http://www.criterion.com/films/27874-and-everything-is-going-fine Steven Soderbergh 2010 • 89 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States After the death in 2004 of American theater actor and monologist Spalding Gray, director Steven Soderbergh pieced together a narrative of Gray’s life to create the documentary And Everything Is Going Fine. And God Created Woman http://www.criterion.com/films/616-and-god-created-woman Roger Vadim 1956 • 92 minutes • 2.35:1 • France Brigitte Bardot stars as Juliette, an 18-year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St. Tropez; her sweet but naïve husband Michel (Jean-Louis Trintignant) endures beatings, insults, and mambo in his attempts to tame her wild ways. And the Ship Sails On http://www.criterion.com/films/587-and-the-ship-sails-on Federico Fellini 1984 • 127 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy In Federico Fellini’s quirky, imaginative fable, a motley crew of European aristocrats (and a lovesick rhinoceros!) board a luxurious ocean liner on the eve of World War I to scatter the ashes of a beloved diva. André Gregory & Wallace Shawn: 3 Films http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1110-andre-gregory-wallace-shawn-3-films United States Gregory and Shawn’s unique contributions to the cinematic landscape are shape-shifting, challenging, and entertaining works about the process of creation. Andrei Rublev http://www.criterion.com/films/300-andrei-rublev Andrei Tarkovsky 1969 • 185 minutes • 2.35:1 • Soviet Union Immediately suppressed by the Soviets in 1966, Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic masterpiece is a sweeping medieval tale of Russia’s greatest icon painter. Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/528-andrzej-wajda-three-war-films Andrzej Wajda Poland These three groundbreaking films helped usher in the Polish School movement and have often been regarded as a trilogy. But each boldly stands on its own—a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the struggle for personal and national freedom. An Angel at My Table http://www.criterion.com/films/742-an-angel-at-my-table Jane Campion 1990 • 158 minutes • 1.78:1 • New Zealand With An Angel at My Table, Academy Award–winning filmmaker Jane Campion brings to the screen the harrowing true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand’s most distinguished author. Angel beautifully captures the color and power of the New Zealand landscape. Antichrist http://www.criterion.com/films/27524-antichrist Lars von Trier 2009 • 108 minutes • 2.35:1 • Denmark In this graphic psychodrama, a grief-stricken man and woman—a searing Willem Dafoe and Cannes best actress winner Charlotte Gainsbourg—retreat to their cabin deep in the woods after the death of their infant son, only to find terror and violence at the hands of nature and, ultimately, each other. Antonio Gaudí http://www.criterion.com/films/536-antonio-gaudi Hiroshi Teshigahara 1984 • 72 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan A unique, enthralling cinematic experience, Teshigahara’s Antonio Gaudí , less a documentary than a visual poem, takes viewers on a tour of Gaudí’s truly spectacular architecture. Arabian Nights http://www.criterion.com/films/28374-arabian-nights Pier Paolo Pasolini 1974 • 130 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy Pier Paolo Pasolini traveled to Africa, India, and the Middle East to realize this ambitious cinematic treatment of a selection of stories from the legendary The Thousand and One Nights. Armageddon http://www.criterion.com/films/578-armageddon Michael Bay 1998 • 153 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States Bruce Willis and an all-star cast of roughneck oil drillers blast off on a mission to save the planet in Michael Bay’s doomsday space epic. Army of Shadows http://www.criterion.com/films/153-army-of-shadows Jean-Pierre Melville 1969 • 145 minutes • 1.85:1 • France Atmospheric and gripping, Army of Shadows is Melville’s most personal film, featuring Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and the incomparable Simone Signoret as intrepid underground fighters who must grapple with their conception of honor in their battle against Hitler’s regime. As Long as You’ve Got Your Health http://www.criterion.com/films/28399-as-long-as-you-ve-got-your-health Pierre Etaix 1966 • 68 minutes • 1.66:1 • France In this endlessly diverting compendium of four short films, Pierre Etaix regards the 1960s from his askew but astute perspective. The Atomic Submarine http://www.criterion.com/films/804-the-atomic-submarine Spencer G. Bennet 1959 • 72 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States When a nuclear-powered submarine, the Tiger Shark, sets out to investigate a series of mysterious disappearances near the Arctic Circle, its fearless crew finds itself besieged by electrical storms, an Unidentified Floating Saucer, and lots of hairy tentacles. Au hasard Balthazar http://www.criterion.com/films/455-au-hasard-balthazar Robert Bresson 1966 • 95 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel, but all with motivations beyond his understanding—a profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema. Au revoir les enfants http://www.criterion.com/films/549-au-revoir-les-enfants Louis Malle 1987 • 105 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Based on events from writer-director Louis Malle’s own childhood, Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. An Autumn Afternoon http://www.criterion.com/films/784-an-autumn-afternoon Yasujiro Ozu 1962 • 113 minutes • 1.37:1 • Japan The last film by Yasujiro Ozu was also his final masterpiece, a gently heartbreaking story about a man’s dignifed resignation to life’s shifting currents and society’s modernization. Autumn Sonata http://www.criterion.com/films/605-autumn-sonata Ingmar Bergman 1978 • 93 minutes • 1.66:1 • Sweden Autumn Sonata was the only collaboration between cinema’s two great Bergmans: Ingmar, the iconic director of The Seventh Seal, and Ingrid, the monumental star of Casablanca. Babette’s Feast http://www.criterion.com/films/27894-babette-s-feast Gabriel Axel 1987 • 104 minutes • 1.66:1 • Denmark At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette’s Feast is a deeply beloved treasure of cinema. The Bad Sleep Well http://www.criterion.com/films/765-the-bad-sleep-well Akira Kurosawa 1960 • 150 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan A young executive hunts down his father’s killer in director Akira Kurosawa’s scathing The Bad Sleep Well. Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa combines elements of Hamlet and American film noir to chilling effect. Bad Timing http://www.criterion.com/films/744-bad-timing Nicolas Roeg 1980 • 122 minutes • 2.35:1 • United Kingdom Amid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna, psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the elusive Milena Flaherty (Theresa Russell) in Nicolas Roeg’s masterful, deeply disturbing foray into the dark world of sexual obsession. Badlands http://www.criterion.com/films/28406-badlands Terrence Malick 1973 • 94 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Badlands announced the arrival of a major talent: Terrence Malick. His impressionistic take on the notorious Charles Starkweather killing spree of the late 1950s uses a serial-killer narrative as a springboard for an oblique teenage romance. The Bakery Girl of Monceau http://www.criterion.com/films/786-the-bakery-girl-of-monceau Eric Rohmer 1963 • 23 minutes • 1.33:1 • France In the first of Rohmer’s “Moral Tales,” a law student (Barbet Schroeder) with a roving eye and a large appetite stuffs himself full of sugar cookies and pastries daily in order to garner the attentions of the pretty brunette who works in a quaint Paris bakery. Ballad of a Soldier http://www.criterion.com/films/343-ballad-of-a-soldier Grigori Chukhrai 1959 • 89 minutes • 1.33:1 • Soviet Union A milestone in Russian cinema, Grigori Chukhrai’s Ballad of a Soldier follows Alyosha as he journeys home once he is granted a visit with his mother after single-handedly fending off two enemy tanks. The Ballad of Narayama http://www.criterion.com/films/28240-the-ballad-of-narayama Keisuke Kinoshita 1958 • 98 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Filmed almost entirely on cunningly designed studio sets, in brilliant color and widescreen, The Ballad of Narayama is a stylish and vividly formal work from Japan’s cinematic golden age, directed by the dynamic Keisuke Kinoshita. Band of Outsiders http://www.criterion.com/films/291-band-of-outsiders Jean-Luc Godard 1964 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Four years after Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard reimagined the gangster film even more radically with Band of Outsiders . In it, two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of both of their fancies (Anna Karina) to help them commit a robbery—in her own home. The Bank Dick http://www.criterion.com/films/617-the-bank-dick Edward Cline 1940 • 72 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States W.C. Fields stars as an unemployed, henpecked drunk who spends most of his time at the Black Pussy Cat café. Things take a turn for the absurd when he unwittingly captures a bank robber and lands a job as a security guard. The Battle of Algiers http://www.criterion.com/films/248-the-battle-of-algiers Gillo Pontecorvo 1966 • 121 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy One of the most influential political films in history, The Battle of Algiers, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. The Beales of Grey Gardens http://www.criterion.com/films/666-the-beales-of-grey-gardens Albert Maysles and David Maysles 2006 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States The filmmakers of Grey Gardens went back to their vaults of footage to create part two, The Beales of Grey Gardens, a tribute both to these indomitable women, Big and Little Edie Beale, and to the landmark documentary’s legions of fans, who have made them counterculture icons. Beastie Boys Video Anthology http://www.criterion.com/films/638-beastie-boys-video-anthology Various 2000 • minutes • 1.33:1 • United States The Beastie Boys are among the most influential groups of the last two decades. As their music has opened hip-hop to a wider audience and changed the parameters of its sound, their ambitious music videos have carried the medium to new levels of artistic expression. Le beau Serge http://www.criterion.com/films/27817-le-beau-serge Claude Chabrol 1958 • 99 minutes • 1.33:1 • France The remarkable and stark Le beau Serge heralded the arrival of a cinematic titan who would go on to craft provocative, entertaining films for five more decades. Beauty and the Beast http://www.criterion.com/films/177-beauty-and-the-beast Jean Cocteau 1946 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • France The spectacular visions of enchantment, desire, and death in Beauty and the Beast ( La Belle et la Bête ) have become timeless icons of cinematic wonder. Bed and Board http://www.criterion.com/films/733-bed-and-board François Truffaut 1970 • 97 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Lightly comic, with a touch of the burlesque, the fourth installment in François Truffaut’s chronicle of the ardent, anachronistic Antoine Doinel, Bed and Board, is a bittersweet look at the travails of young married life and the fine line between adolescence and adulthood. Before the Rain http://www.criterion.com/films/858-before-the-rain Milcho Manchevski 1994 • 113 minutes • 1.78:1 • Macedonia Milcho Manchevski’s Before the Rain crosscuts the stories of an orthodox Christian monk, a British photo agent, and a native Macedonian war photographer to paint a portrait of simmering ethnic and religious hatred about to reach its boiling point. Being John Malkovich http://www.criterion.com/films/28055-being-john-malkovich Spike Jonze 1999 • 113 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Or, more specifically, have you ever wanted to crawl through a portal hidden in an anonymous office building and thereby enter the cerebral cortex of John Malkovich for fifteen minutes, before being spat out on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike? Belle de jour http://www.criterion.com/films/27949-belle-de-jour Luis Buñuel 1967 • 100 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Catherine Deneuve’s porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of the actress’s most iconic roles: Séverine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her after­noon hours working in a bordello. Bergman Island http://www.criterion.com/films/556-bergman-island Marie Nyreröd 2006 • 83 minutes • 1.77:1 • Sweden The most breathtakingly candid series of interviews that the famously reclusive director ever took part in, Bergman Island features legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman sitting down just four years before his death with Swedish documentarian Marie Nyreröd in his home on Fårö Island. Berlin Alexanderplatz http://www.criterion.com/films/839-berlin-alexanderplatz Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1980 • 940 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour-plus epic follows the hulking, childlike ex-convict Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht) as he attempts to “become an honest soul” amid the corrosive urban landscape of Weimar-era Germany. La bête humaine http://www.criterion.com/films/773-la-bete-humaine Jean Renoir 1938 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Based on the classic Emile Zola novel, Jean Renoir’s La bête humaine , a suspenseful journey into the tormented psyche of a workingman, was one of the director’s greatest popular successes—and earned star Jean Gabin a permanent place in the hearts of his countrymen. Bicycle Thieves http://www.criterion.com/films/210-bicycle-thieves Vittorio De Sica 1948 • 89 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves , directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema. The Big Chill http://www.criterion.com/films/28610-the-big-chill Lawrence Kasdan 1983 • 105 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States After the shocking suicide of their friend, a group of thirtysomethings reunite for his funeral and end up spending the weekend together, reminiscing about their shared past as children of the sixties and confronting the uncertainty of their lives as adults of the eighties. The Big City http://www.criterion.com/films/28448-the-big-city Satyajit Ray 1963 • 135 minutes • 1.33:1 • India The Big City follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family. Big Deal on Madonna Street http://www.criterion.com/films/652-big-deal-on-madonna-street Mario Monicelli 1958 • 106 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy An all-star cast and jazzy score highlight this charming comedy, a deft satire of classic caper films like Rififi. Big Deal on Madonna Street hilariously details the plight of a sad-sack group of bumbling thieves and their desperate attempts to pull off the perfect heist. Bigger Than Life http://www.criterion.com/films/1929-bigger-than-life Nicholas Ray 1956 • 95 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States When a suburban teacher and father (James Mason) is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug. This Eisenhower-era throat-grabber, shot in expressive CinemaScope, is an excoriating take on the nuclear family. Billy Liar http://www.criterion.com/films/662-billy-liar John Schlesinger 1963 • 93 minutes • 2.35:1 • United Kingdom Tom Courtenay is Billy Fisher, the underachieving undertaker’s assistant whose constant daydreams and truth-deficient stories earn him the nickname “Billy Liar.” Deftly veering from gritty realism to flamboyant fantasy, Billy Liar is a dazzling and uproarious classic. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant http://www.criterion.com/films/27953-the-bitter-tears-of-petra-von-kant Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1972 • 125 minutes • 1.37:1 • West Germany One of the first and best-loved films of this period in his career is The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director’s roots in experimental theater. Black Moon http://www.criterion.com/films/27627-black-moon Louis Malle 1975 • 100 minutes • 1.66:1 • France This Freudian tale of adolescent sexuality set in a postapocalyptic world of shifting identities and talking animals is one of Malle’s most experimental films and a cinematic daydream like no other. Black Narcissus http://www.criterion.com/films/632-black-narcissus Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1947 • 101 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom This explosive work about the conflict between the spirit and the flesh is the epitome of the sensuous style of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Black Orpheus http://www.criterion.com/films/344-black-orpheus Marcel Camus 1959 • 107 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus ( Orfeu negro ) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. The Black Stallion http://www.criterion.com/films/28685-the-black-stallion Carroll Ballard 1979 • 117 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States This remarkable adaptation of Walter Farley’s classic children’s novel by Carroll Ballard is a cinematic tour de force. Les Blank: Always for Pleasure http://www.criterion.com/films/28658-les-blank-always-for-pleasure Les Blank 563 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Seemingly off-the-cuff yet poetically constructed, these films are humane, sometimes wry, always engaging tributes to music, food, and all sorts of regionally specific delights. Blast of Silence http://www.criterion.com/films/538-blast-of-silence Allen Baron 1961 • 77 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Swift, brutal, and black-hearted, Allen Baron’s New York City noir Blast of Silence is a sensational surprise, a low-budget, carefully crafted portrait of a hit man on assignment in Manhattan during Christmastime. Blithe Spirit http://www.criterion.com/films/28156-blithe-spirit David Lean 1945 • 96 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom David Lean’s delightful film version of Noël Coward’s theater sensation stars Rex Harrison as a novelist who cheekily invites a medium to his house to conduct a séance, hoping the experience will inspire a book he’s working on. The Blob http://www.criterion.com/films/630-the-blob Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. 1958 • 82 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States One of the great cult classics, The Blob melds ’50s schlock sci-fi and teen delinquency pics even as it transcends these genres with strong performances and ingenious special effects. The Blob helped launch the careers of superstud Steve McQueen and composer Burt Bacharach. Blood for Dracula http://www.criterion.com/films/564-blood-for-dracula Paul Morrissey 1974 • 103 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States In Paul Morrissey’s brash mixture of humor, horror, and sex, Blood for Dracula, the infamous count searches Italy for virgin blood. The Blood of a Poet http://www.criterion.com/films/609-the-blood-of-a-poet Jean Cocteau 1930 • 50 minutes • 1.33:1 • France One of cinema’s great experiments, this first installment of the “Orphic Trilogy” stretches the medium to its limits in an effort to capture the poet’s obsession with the struggle between the forces of life and death. Blow Out http://www.criterion.com/films/27561-blow-out Brian De Palma 1981 • 108 minutes • 2.40:1 • United States In the enthralling Blow Out, brilliantly crafted by Brian De Palma, John Travolta gives one of his greatest performances, as a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. Blue Is the Warmest Color http://www.criterion.com/films/28603-blue-is-the-warmest-color Abdellatif Kechiche 2013 • 179 minutes • 2.35:1 • France The colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young woman’s experiences of first love and sexual awakening. Bob le flambeur http://www.criterion.com/films/690-bob-le-flambeur Jean-Pierre Melville 1956 • 102 minutes • 1.33:1 • France An aging gambler navigates the treacherous world of pimps, moneymen, and naive associates while plotting one last score in Jean-Pierre Melville’s Bob le flambeur , which melds the toughness of American gangster films with Gallic sophistication, laying the road map for the French New Wave. Body and Soul http://www.criterion.com/films/809-body-and-soul Oscar Micheaux 1925 • 79 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Body and Soul , directed by the legendary African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, is a direct critique of the power of the cloth, casting Paul Robeson in dual roles as a jackleg preacher and a well-meaning inventor. Le bonheur http://www.criterion.com/films/525-le-bonheur Agnès Varda 1965 • 80 minutes • 1.66:1 • France A young husband and father finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker in Le bonheur , one of Agnès Varda’s most provocative films. Border Radio http://www.criterion.com/films/802-border-radio Allison Anders , Dean Lent and Kurt Voss 1987 • 83 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States A low-key postpunk diary that took four years to complete, Allison Anders’ Border Radio features legendary rocker Chris D. as a singer/songwriter who has stolen loot from a club and gone missing, leaving his wife, a no-nonsense rock journalist, to track him down with the help of his friends. Borderline http://www.criterion.com/films/810-borderline Kenneth Macpherson 1930 • 65 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Edition: Collector’s Sets Borderline , the sole feature of British film theorist Kenneth Macpherson, boldly blends Eisensteinian montage and domestic melodrama, and features Paul Robeson and his wife, Eslanda, as lovers caught up in a tangled web of interracial affairs. Bottle Rocket http://www.criterion.com/films/594-bottle-rocket Wes Anderson 1996 • 91 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Wes Anderson first illustrated his lovingly detailed, slightly surreal cinematic vision (with cowriter Owen Wilson) in this visually witty and warm portrait of three young misfits. Boudu Saved from Drowning http://www.criterion.com/films/756-boudu-saved-from-drowning Jean Renoir 1932 • 84 minutes • 1.33:1 • France In Jean Renoir’s satire of the bourgeoisie, Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, whose family decides to take in the irrepressible bum. Brand upon the Brain! http://www.criterion.com/films/746-brand-upon-the-brain Guy Maddin 2006 • 99 minutes • 1.85:1 • Canada This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Guy Maddin’s mad, imaginary childhood is a silent, black-and-white comic science-fiction nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Black Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Guy Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother. Branded to Kill http://www.criterion.com/films/576-branded-to-kill Seijun Suzuki 1967 • 91 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan When Japanese New Wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki delivered this brutal, hilarious, and visually inspired masterpiece to the executives at his studio, he was promptly fired. Brazil http://www.criterion.com/films/211-brazil Terry Gilliam 1985 • 142 minutes • 1.78:1 • United Kingdom In the dystopian masterpiece Brazil, Jonathan Pryce plays a daydreaming everyman who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy. The BRD Trilogy http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/138-the-brd-trilogy Rainer Werner Fassbinder Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun , Lola , and Veronika Voss —the BRD (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) Trilogy—would garner him the international acclaim he had always yearned for and place his name foremost in the canon of New German Cinema. Breaking the Waves http://www.criterion.com/films/28350-breaking-the-waves Lars von Trier 1996 • 159 minutes • 2.35:1 • Denmark Lars von Trier became an international sensation with this galvanizing realist fable about sex and spiritual transcendence. Breathless http://www.criterion.com/films/268-breathless Jean-Luc Godard 1960 • 90 minutes • 1.33:1 • France With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, Breathless helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same. The Bridge http://www.criterion.com/films/27972-the-bridge Bernhard Wicki 1959 • 103 minutes • 1.37:1 • Germany Bernhard Wicki’s astonishing The Bridge was the first major antiwar film to come out of Germany after World War II, as well as the nation’s first postwar film to be widely shown internationally, even securing an Oscar nomination. Brief Encounter http://www.criterion.com/films/345-brief-encounter David Lean 1945 • 86 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) enter into a muted but passionate, ultimately doomed, love affair. A Brief History of Time http://www.criterion.com/films/28559-a-brief-history-of-time Errol Morris 1991 • 84 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Errol Morris turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs. Broadcast News http://www.criterion.com/films/27535-broadcast-news James L. Brooks 1987 • 132 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States James L. Brooks’s witty, gently prophetic film is a captivating transmission from an era in which ideas on relationships and the media were rapidly changing. The Browning Version http://www.criterion.com/films/873-the-browning-version Anthony Asquith 1951 • 90 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom Michael Redgrave gives the performance of his career in Anthony Asquith’s adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s unforgettable play. Redgrave portrays Andrew Crocker-Harris, an embittered, middle-aged schoolmaster who begins to feel that his life has been a failure. Brute Force http://www.criterion.com/films/820-brute-force Jules Dassin 1947 • 98 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States As hard-hitting as its title, Brute Force was the first of Jules Dassin’s forays into the crime genre, a prison melodrama that takes a critical look at American society as well, starring Burt Lancaster. Burden of Dreams http://www.criterion.com/films/546-burden-of-dreams Les Blank 1982 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Les Blank documents acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog’s ambitious and troubled production of Fitzcarraldo , the story of one man’s attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. The Burmese Harp http://www.criterion.com/films/817-the-burmese-harp Kon Ichikawa 1956 • 116 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan In Kon Ichikawa’s eloquent meditation on beauty coexisting with death, an Imperial Japanese Army regiment surrenders to British forces in Burma at the close of World War II and finds harmony through song, while a private disguises himself as a Buddhist monk. By Brakhage: An Anthology, http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/722-by-brakhage-an-anthology-volumes-one-and-two Volumes One and Two Stan Brakhage United States Working outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of “birth, sex, death, and the search for God,” he turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even autopsy. By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One http://www.criterion.com/films/731-by-brakhage-an-anthology-volume-one Stan Brakhage 243 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Working completely outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of “birth, sex, death, and the search for God,” he has turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even autopsy. By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two http://www.criterion.com/films/23953-by-brakhage-an-anthology-volume-two Stan Brakhage 454 minutes • United States In our first volume of By Brakhage, we brought twenty-six astonishing works by the avant-garde film pioneer Stan Brakhage to home video. In this second installment, we are proud to present thirty more of Brakhage’s visionary creations, from 1950s films to his final work, from 2003. La Cage aux Folles http://www.criterion.com/films/28045-la-cage-aux-folles Edouard Molinaro 1978 • 96 minutes • 1.66:1 • France A breakout art-house smash in America, Edouard Molinaro’s La Cage aux Folles inspired a major Broadway musical and the blockbuster remake The Birdcage. But with its hilarious performances and ahead-of-its-time social message, there’s nothing like the audacious, dazzling original movie. A Canterbury Tale http://www.criterion.com/films/785-a-canterbury-tale Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1944 • 124 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom Set amid the tumult of World War II, yet with a rhythm as delicate as a lullaby, Powell and Pressburger’s classic follows three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer’s pilgrims waylaid in the English countryside en route to the mythical town of Canterbury and forced to solve a bizarre village crime. The Canterbury Tales http://www.criterion.com/films/28106-the-canterbury-tales Pier Paolo Pasolini 1972 • 111 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy Eight of Geoffrey Chaucer’s lusty tales come to life on-screen in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s gutsy and delirious The Canterbury Tales, which was shot in England and offers a remarkably earthy re-creation of the medieval era Carl Th. Dreyer—My Metier http://www.criterion.com/films/667-carl-th-dreyer-my-metier Torben Skjødt Jensen 1995 • 94 minutes • 1.66:1 • Denmark Torben Skjødt Jensen’s elegant documentary is a collage of memories and reflections on one of cinema’s greatest directors. Visually rich and densely layered, Carl Th. Dreyer—My Metier illuminates an artist too little understood and too important to overlook. Carl Theodor Dreyer http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/254-carl-theodor-dreyer-box-set Box Set Denmark Criterion is proud to present these Dreyer masterpieces on DVD for the first time, with brand new digital transfers. Each is an intense exploration of the clash between individual desire and social expectations, with Dreyer’s famously perfectionist attention to detail shining throughout. Carlos http://www.criterion.com/films/27818-carlos Olivier Assayas 2010 • 339 minutes • 2.35:1 • France Carlos, directed by Olivier Assayas, is an epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sanchez—also known as Carlos the Jackal. Carnival of Souls http://www.criterion.com/films/607-carnival-of-souls Herk Harvey 1962 • 83 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States In Herk Harvey’s macabre masterpiece, Mary Henry survives a drag race in a rural Kansas town, then takes a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En route, she becomes haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her to an abandoned lakeside pavilion. Casque d’or http://www.criterion.com/films/942-casque-d-or Jacques Becker 1952 • 94 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Jacques Becker lovingly evokes the belle epoque Parisian demimonde in this classic tale of doomed romance. When gangster’s moll Marie (Simone Signoret) falls for reformed criminal Manda (Serge Reggiani), their passion incites an underworld rivalry that leads inexorably to treachery and tragedy. Le cercle rouge http://www.criterion.com/films/628-le-cercle-rouge Jean-Pierre Melville 1970 • 140 minutes • 1.85:1 • France Alain Delon plays a master thief, fresh out of prison, who crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic ex-cop (Yves Montand). The unlikely trio plot a heist, against impossible odds, until a relentless inspector and their own pasts seal their fates. Certified Copy http://www.criterion.com/films/28353-certified-copy Abbas Kiarostami 2010 • 106 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy What seems at first to be a straightforward tale of two people—played by Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche and opera singer William Shimell—getting to know each other over the course of an afternoon gradually reveals itself as something richer, stranger, and trickier. Charade http://www.criterion.com/films/603-charade Stanley Donen 1963 • 113 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States In this comedic thriller, a trio of crooks relentlessly pursue a young American, played by Audrey Hepburn in gorgeous Givenchy, through Paris in an attempt to recover the fortune her dead husband stole from them. Charulata http://www.criterion.com/films/28447-charulata Satyajit Ray 1964 • 119 minutes • 1.33:1 • India Based on a novella by the great Rabindranath Tagore, Charulata is a work of subtle textures, a delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the first steps toward establishing her own voice. Chasing Amy http://www.criterion.com/films/615-chasing-amy Kevin Smith 1997 • 113 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Cult comic-book artist Holden (Ben Affleck) falls in love with fellow artist Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams), only to be thwarted by her sexuality. Chasing Amy offers Kevin Smith’s unique ear for dialogue and insight into relationships. Che http://www.criterion.com/films/20987-che Steven Soderbergh 2008 • 261 minutes • United States Daring in its refusal to make the socialist leader into an easy martyr or hero, Che paints a vivid, naturalistic portrait of the man himself (Benicio del Toro), from his overthrow of the Batista dictatorship to his 1964 United Nations trip to the end of his short life. The Children Are Watching Us http://www.criterion.com/films/772-the-children-are-watching-us Vittorio De Sica 1944 • 84 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child in The Children Are Watching Us , a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration. Children of Paradise http://www.criterion.com/films/683-children-of-paradise Marcel Carné 1945 • 190 minutes • 1.37:1 • France Poetic realism reached sublime heights with Children of Paradise, widely considered one of the greatest French films of all time. A Christmas Tale http://www.criterion.com/films/474-a-christmas-tale Arnaud Desplechin 2008 • 152 minutes • 2.35:1 • France In Arnaud Desplechin’s beguiling A Christmas Tale , Catherine Deneuve brings her legendary poise to the role of Junon, matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together at Christmas after she learns she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative. Chronicle of a Summer http://www.criterion.com/films/28394-chronicle-of-a-summer Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin 1961 • 90 minutes • 1.37:1 • France The fascinating result of a collaboration between filmmaker-anthropologist Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin, this vanguard work of what Morin would term cinéma verité is a brilliantly conceived and realized sociopolitical diagnosis of the early sixties in France. Chungking Express http://www.criterion.com/films/226-chungking-express Wong Kar-wai 1994 • 102 minutes • 1.66:1 • Hong Kong Two heartsick Hong Kong cops cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye works. Chungking Express is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai an instant icon. La Ciénaga http://www.criterion.com/films/28113-la-cienaga Lucrecia Martel 2001 • 101 minutes • 1.85:1 • Argentina With a radical take on narrative, disturbing yet beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a decaying bourgeois family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. City Lights http://www.criterion.com/films/27558-city-lights Charles Chaplin 1931 • 86 minutes • 1.19:1 • United States The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street (a magical Virginia Cherrill) and mistakes him for a millionaire. Claire’s Knee http://www.criterion.com/films/793-claire-s-knee Eric Rohmer 1970 • 106 minutes • 1.33:1 • France “Why would I tie myself to one woman if I were interested in others?” says Jerôme, even as he plans on marrying a diplomat’s daughter by summer’s end. Before then, Jerôme spends his July at a lakeside boardinghouse nursing crushes on the sixteen-year-old Laura and her blonde stepsister, Claire. Classe tous risques http://www.criterion.com/films/591-classe-tous-risques Claude Sautet 1960 • 108 minutes • 1.66:1 • France A character study of a career criminal at the end of his rope, this rugged noir from Claude Sautet is a thrilling highlight of sixties French cinema, starring Lino Ventura and Jean-Paul Belmondo. Clean, Shaven http://www.criterion.com/films/551-clean-shaven Lodge Kerrigan 1994 • 79 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States Lodge Kerrigan’s raw, ravaging Clean, Shaven is a headfirst dive into the mindscape of a schizophrenic as he tries to track down his daughter after he is released from an institution. Close-up http://www.criterion.com/films/1092-close-up Abbas Kiarostami 1990 • 98 minutes • 1.33:1 • Iran Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and the fiction-documentary hybrid Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. Closely Watched Trains http://www.criterion.com/films/212-closely-watched-trains Jiří Menzel 1966 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • Czechoslovakia At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Wry and tender, Jirí Menzel’s Academy Award-winning Closely Watched Trains is a masterpiece of human observation. La collectionneuse http://www.criterion.com/films/792-la-collectionneuse Eric Rohmer 1967 • 87 minutes • 1.33:1 • France In Rohmer’s first color film, a bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men. Colossal Youth http://www.criterion.com/films/439-colossal-youth Pedro Costa 2006 • 156 minutes • 1.33:1 • Portugal Many of the lost souls of Ossos and In Vanda’s Room return in the spectral landscape of Colossal Youth, which brings to Pedro Costa’s Fontainhas films a new theatrical, tragic grandeur. This time, Costa focuses on Ventura, an elderly immigrant from Cape Verde living in Lisbon. La commare secca http://www.criterion.com/films/940-la-commare-secca Bernardo Bertolucci 1962 • 93 minutes • 1.66:1 • Italy In Bernardo Bertolucci’s stunning debut, the brutalized corpse of a Roman prostitute is found along the banks of the Tiber River. The police round up a handful of possible suspects and interrogate them, one by one, each account bringing them closer to the killer. The Complete Jacques Tati http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati Jacques Tati France With a background in music hall and mime performance, Tati steadily built an ever-more-ambitious movie career that ultimately raised sight-gag comedy to the level of high art. The Complete Jean Vigo http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/819-the-complete-jean-vigo France Even among cinema’s legends, Jean Vigo stands apart. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. The Complete Monterey Pop Festival http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/326-the-complete-monterey-pop-festival United States On a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love, the first and only Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. The Complete Mr. Arkadin http://www.criterion.com/films/767-the-complete-mr-arkadin Orson Welles 1955 • 105 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Orson Welles’s Mr. Arkadin (a.k.a. Confidential Report ) tells the story of an elusive billionaire who hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold-war European landscape. The Confession http://www.criterion.com/films/27873-the-confession Costa-Gavras 1970 • 138 minutes • 1.66:1 • France The master of the political thriller, Costa-Gavras became an instant phenomenon after the mammoth success of Z, and he quickly followed it with the equally riveting The Confession. A Constant Forge http://www.criterion.com/films/956-a-constant-forge Charles Kiselyak 2000 • 200 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Charles Kiselyak’s A Constant Forge—The Life and Art of John Cassavetes is a detailed journey through the career of one of film’s greatest pioneers and iconoclasts, assembled from candid interviews with Cassavetes’ collaborators and friends, rare photographs, and archival footage. Contempt http://www.criterion.com/films/239-contempt Jean-Luc Godard 1963 • 103 minutes • 2.35:1 • France In Jean-Luc Godard’s subversive Contempt, Michel Piccoli is a screenwriter torn between the demands of a proud European director, a crude, arrogant American producer, and his disillusioned wife, Camille (Brigitte Bardot), as he attempts to doctor the script for a new film version of The Odyssey. Le Corbeau http://www.criterion.com/films/684-le-corbeau Henri-Georges Clouzot 1943 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • France A mysterious writer of poison-pen letters plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community’s calm surface. Corridors of Blood http://www.criterion.com/films/806-corridors-of-blood Robert Day 1959 • 87 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton (Boris Karloff) dares to dream the unthinkable: to operate on patients without causing pain. Unfortunately, the road to general anesthesia is blocked by a ruthless killer (Christopher Lee), as well as Bolton’s devastating addiction to his own chemical experiments. Coup de grâce http://www.criterion.com/films/737-coup-de-grace Volker Schlöndorff 1976 • 98 minutes • 1.66:1 • Germany A startling tale of heartbreak and violence set against the backdrop of bloody revolution, Volker Schlöndorff’s Coup de grâce is a powerful film that explores the interrelation of private passion and political commitment. Coup de torchon http://www.criterion.com/films/647-coup-de-torchon Bertrand Tavernier 1981 • 128 minutes • 1.66:1 • France An inspired rendering of Jim Thompson’s pulp novel Pop. 1280, Bertrand Tavernier’s Coup de torchon ( Clean Slate ) deftly transplants the story of an inept police chief turned heartless killer and his scrappy mistress from the American South to French West Africa. Les cousins http://www.criterion.com/films/27816-les-cousins Claude Chabrol 1959 • 109 minutes • 1.33:1 • France In Les cousins, Claude Chabrol crafts a sly moral fable about a provincial boy who comes to live with his sophisticated bohemian cousin in Paris. This dagger-sharp drama won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and was an important early entry in the French New Wave. The Cranes Are Flying http://www.criterion.com/films/547-the-cranes-are-flying Mikhail Kalatozov 1957 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • Soviet Union Veronica and Boris are blissfully in love, until the eruption of World War II tears them apart. The Soviet cinema classic The Cranes Are Flying won the Palme d’Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. Crazed Fruit http://www.criterion.com/films/872-crazed-fruit Kô Nakahira 1956 • 86 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan Adapted from the controversial novel by Shintarô Ishihara, and critically savaged for its lurid portrayal of the postwar sexual revolution among Japan’s young and privileged, Crazed Fruit is an anarchic outcry against tradition and the older generation. Cría cuervos . . . http://www.criterion.com/films/519-cria-cuervos Carlos Saura 1976 • 109 minutes • 1.66:1 • Spain In Carlos Saura’s exquisite Cría cuervos . . . , Ana Torrent (the dark-eyed beauty from The Spirit of the Beehive ) portrays the disturbed eight-year-old Ana, living in Madrid with her two sisters and mourning the death of her mother, whom she conjures as a ghost (an ethereal Geraldine Chaplin). Cries and Whispers http://www.criterion.com/films/237-cries-and-whispers Ingmar Bergman 1972 • 91 minutes • 1.66:1 • Sweden An intensely felt film that is one of Bergman’s most striking formal experiments, Cries and Whispers (which won an Oscar for the extraordinary color photography of Sven Nykvist) is a powerful depiction of human behavior in the face of death. Cronos http://www.criterion.com/films/27534-cronos Guillermo del Toro 1993 • 92 minutes • 1.78:1 • Mexico Guillermo del Toro made an auspicious, audacious feature debut with Cronos, a highly unorthodox tale about the seductiveness of the idea of immortality. Cronos is a dark, visually rich, and emotionally captivating fantasy. Crumb http://www.criterion.com/films/2104-crumb Terry Zwigoff 1995 • 120 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Terry Zwigoff’s landmark 1995 film is an intimate documentary portrait of the underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art. Cul-de-sac http://www.criterion.com/films/27658-cul-de-sac Roman Polanski 1966 • 112 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom Roman Polanski orchestrates a mental ménage à trois in this slyly absurd tale of paranoia from the director’s golden 1960s period. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button http://www.criterion.com/films/1584-the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button David Fincher 2008 • 165 minutes • 2.40:1 • United States Brad Pitt is a man who is born in his eighties and ages backward and Cate Blanchett is the woman he is destined to love forever in David Fincher’s monumental, Academy Award–winning The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a powerful testament to life and death, love and loss. Les dames du Bois de Boulogne http://www.criterion.com/films/451-les-dames-du-bois-de-boulogne Robert Bresson 1945 • 84 minutes • 1.33:1 • France This unique love story follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex-lover and a prostitute. With his second feature film, director Robert Bresson was already forging his singularly brilliant filmmaking technique. Danton http://www.criterion.com/films/555-danton Andrzej Wajda 1983 • 136 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Gérard Depardieu and Wojciech Pszoniak star in Andrzej Wajda’s powerful depiction of the ideological clash between the earthy, man-of-the-people Georges Danton and icy Jacobin extemist Maximilien Robespierre, both key figures of the French Revolution. The Darjeeling Limited http://www.criterion.com/films/27520-the-darjeeling-limited Wes Anderson 2007 • 91 minutes • 2.40:1 • United States In director Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited, three estranged American brothers reunite for a meticulously planned, soul-searching train voyage across India one year after the death of their father. David Lean Directs Noël Coward http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/861-david-lean-directs-noel-coward United Kingdom In the 1940s, the wit of playwright Noël Coward and the craft of filmmaker David Lean melded harmoniously in one of cinema’s greatest writer-director collaborations. A Day in the Country http://www.criterion.com/films/28072-a-day-in-the-country Jean Renoir 1936 • 41 minutes • 1.37:1 • France This bittersweet film from Jean Renoir, based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, is a tenderly comic idyll about a city family’s picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two local men. Day of Wrath http://www.criterion.com/films/442-day-of-wrath Carl Th. Dreyer 1943 • 97 minutes • 1.33:1 • Denmark The young wife of an older pastor falls in love with her stepson when he returns to their small seventeenth-century village, where stepping outside the bounds of the village’s harsh moral code has disastrous results. Carl Dreyer’s Day of Wrath remains an intense, unforgettable experience. Days of Heaven http://www.criterion.com/films/213-days-of-heaven Terrence Malick 1978 • 94 minutes • 1.77:1 • United States A timeless American idyll and a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor, Terrence Malick’s glorious period tragedy Days of Heaven features Oscar-winning cinematography by Nestor Almendros. Dazed and Confused http://www.criterion.com/films/314-dazed-and-confused Richard Linklater 1993 • 102 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Among the best teen films ever made, Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused eavesdrops on a group of seniors-to-be and incoming freshmen. Dead Ringers http://www.criterion.com/films/541-dead-ringers David Cronenberg 1988 • 115 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States Jeremy Irons gives a tour-de-force performance as identical twin gynecologists—suave Elliot and sensitive Beverly, bipolar sides of one personality—who descend into a whirlpool of sexual confusion, drugs, and madness in David Cronenberg’s chilling tale. Death of a Cyclist http://www.criterion.com/films/537-death-of-a-cyclist Juan Antonio Bardem 1955 • 87 minutes • 1.33:1 • Spain Upper-class geometry professor Juan and his wealthy, married mistress, Maria José, driving back from a late-night rendezvous, accidentally hit a cyclist, and run. Juan Antonio Bardem’s charged melodrama Death of a Cyclist was a direct attack on 1950s Spanish society under Franco’s rule. The Decameron http://www.criterion.com/films/28105-the-decameron Pier Paolo Pasolini 1971 • 111 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy Pier Paolo Pasolini weaves together a handful of Giovanni Boccaccio’s fourteenth-century moral tales in this picturesque free-for-all. The Decameron explores the delectations and dark corners of an earlier and, as the filmmaker saw it, less compromised time. Design for Living http://www.criterion.com/films/27872-design-for-living Ernst Lubitsch 1933 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Gary Cooper, Fredric March, and Miriam Hopkins play a trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult “gentleman’s agree­ment” in this continental pre-Code comedy, freely adapted by Ben Hecht from a play by Noël Coward and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Le deuxième souffle http://www.criterion.com/films/760-le-deuxieme-souffle Jean-Pierre Melville 1966 • 144 minutes • 1.66:1 • France With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, director Jean-Pierre Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal Gu (Lino Ventura), escaped from prison and roped into one last robbery, and the suave inspector, Blot (Paul Meurisse), relentlessly seeking him. The Devil and Daniel Webster http://www.criterion.com/films/622-the-devil-and-daniel-webster William Dieterle 1941 • 106 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States After a streak of bad luck tempts a hard-working farmer to bargain with the Devil, he enlists the aid of the legendary orator and politician Daniel Webster. William Dieterle’s stylish film features an unforgettable score by Bernard Herrmann and a truly diabolical performance from Walter Huston. The Devil’s Backbone http://www.criterion.com/films/27914-the-devil-s-backbone Guillermo del Toro 2001 • 108 minutes • 1.85:1 • Spain Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The Devil’s Backbone tells the tale of a twelve-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Diabolique http://www.criterion.com/films/575-diabolique Henri-Georges Clouzot 1955 • 117 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Before Psycho, Peeping Tom, and Repulsion, there was Diabolique, a heart-grabbing benchmark in horror filmmaking, featuring outstanding performances by Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, and Paul Meurisse. Diary of a Chambermaid http://www.criterion.com/films/656-diary-of-a-chambermaid Luis Buñuel 1964 • 98 minutes • 2.35:1 • France In Luis Buñuel’s wicked adaptation of the Octave Mirbeau novel, Jeanne Moreau is Celestine, a beautiful Parisian domestic who, upon arrival at her new job at an estate in provincial 1930s France, entrenches herself in sexual hypocrisy and scandal with her philandering employer. Diary of a Country Priest http://www.criterion.com/films/452-diary-of-a-country-priest Robert Bresson 1951 • 115 minutes • 1.33:1 • France A new priest arrives in a French country village to attend to his first parish, but after encountering immediate rejection, he relays his crisis of faith into his diary. Robert Bresson’s fourth film strips away all inessential aesthetic elements, exacting a purity of image and sound. Dillinger Is Dead http://www.criterion.com/films/21641-dillinger-is-dead Marco Ferreri 1969 • 95 minutes • 1.66:1 • Italy In this magnificently inscrutable late-sixties masterpiece, Marco Ferreri, one of European cinema’s most idiosyncratic auteurs, takes us through the looking glass to one seemingly routine night in the life of an Italian gas mask designer, played by Michel Piccoli. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie http://www.criterion.com/films/310-the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie Luis Buñuel 1972 • 102 minutes • 1.66:1 • France In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric Oscar winner, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined. Divorce Italian Style http://www.criterion.com/films/877-divorce-italian-style Pietro Germi 1961 • 104 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy In Pietro Germi’s hilarious and cutting satire of Sicilian male-chauvinist culture, Baron Ferdinando Cefalù (Marcello Mastroianni) longs to marry his nubile young cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli), but one obstacle stands in his way: his fatuous and fawning wife, Rosalia (Daniela Rocca). Do the Right Thing http://www.criterion.com/films/286-do-the-right-thing Spike Lee 1989 • 120 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States The hottest day of the year explodes on-screen in this vibrant look at a day in the life of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Spike Lee’s powerful portrait of urban racial tensions sparked controversy while earning popular and critical praise. The Docks of New York http://www.criterion.com/films/1942-the-docks-of-new-york Josef von Sternberg 1928 • 75 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Fog-shrouded cinematography by Harold Rosson ( The Wizard of Oz ), expressionist set design by Hans Dreier ( Sunset Boulevard ), and sensual performances by Bancroft and Compson make this one of Josef von Sternberg’s finest works, and one of the most exquisitely crafted films of its era. Dodes’ka-den http://www.criterion.com/films/1083-dodes-ka-den Akira Kurosawa 1970 • 144 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa’s Dodes’ka-den follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Kurosawa’s gloriously shot first color film displays all of his hopes, fears, and artistic passion. La dolce vita http://www.criterion.com/films/28619-la-dolce-vita Federico Fellini 1960 • 174 minutes • 2.35:1 • Italy The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, La dolce vita rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success—ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. Don't Look Now http://www.criterion.com/films/27928-don-t-look-now Nicolas Roeg 1973 • 110 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom A masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg, Don’t Look Now, adapted from a story by Daphne du Maurier, is a brilliantly disturbing tale of the supernatural. The Double Life of Véronique http://www.criterion.com/films/214-the-double-life-of-veronique Krzysztof Kieślowski 1991 • 97 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Krzysztof Kieślowski’s international breakthrough remains one of his most beloved films, a ravishing, mysterious rumination on identity, love, and human intuition. The Double Life of Véronique is an unforgettable symphony of feeling. Double Suicide http://www.criterion.com/films/640-double-suicide Masahiro Shinoda 1969 • 104 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan In Masahiro Shinoda’s striking adaptation of a Bunraku puppet play (featuring the music of famed composer Toru Takemitsu), a paper merchant sacrifices family, fortune, and ultimately life for his erotic obsession with a prostitute. Le doulos http://www.criterion.com/films/759-le-doulos Jean-Pierre Melville 1962 • 109 minutes • 1.66:1 • France A stone-faced Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as enigmatic gangster Silien, who may or may not be responsible for squealing on Faugel, just released from the slammer and already involved in what should have been a simple heist. Le doulos is one of the filmmaker’s most gripping crime dramas. Down by Law http://www.criterion.com/films/719-down-by-law Jim Jarmusch 1986 • 107 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States Director Jim Jarmusch followed up his brilliant breakout film Stranger Than Paradise with another, equally beloved portrait of loners and misfits in the American landscape Downhill Racer http://www.criterion.com/films/20391-downhill-racer Michael Ritchie 1969 • 101 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States In a beautifully understated performance, Redford is David Chappellet, a ruthlessly ambitious skier competing for Olympic gold with an underdog American team in Europe, and Gene Hackman provides tough support as the coach who tries to temper the upstart’s narcissistic drive for glory. Drive, He Said http://www.criterion.com/films/27530-drive-he-said Jack Nicholson 1970 • 90 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Jack Nicholson’s enormously irreverent directorial debut, Drive, He Said, free-spirited and sobering by turns, is a sketch of the exploits of a disaffected college basketball player and his increasingly radical roommate. Drunken Angel http://www.criterion.com/films/845-drunken-angel Akira Kurosawa 1948 • 98 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan In this powerful early noir from the great Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune bursts onto the screen as a volatile, tubercular criminal who strikes up an unlikely relationship with Takashi Shimura’s jaded physician. Dry Summer http://www.criterion.com/films/28410-dry-summer Metin Erksan 1964 • 90 minutes • 1.33:1 • Turkey Metin Erksan’s wallop of a melodrama follows the machinations of an unrepentantly selfish tobacco farmer who builds a dam to prevent water from flowing downhill to his neighbors’ crops. Early Summer http://www.criterion.com/films/875-early-summer Yasujiro Ozu 1951 • 125 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan The Mamiya family is seeking a husband for their daughter, Noriko, but when she impulsively chooses her childhood friend, she fulfills her family’s desires while tearing them apart. Early Summer is a nuanced examination of life’s changes across three generations. The Earrings of Madame de . . . http://www.criterion.com/films/571-the-earrings-of-madame-de Max Ophuls 1953 • 100 minutes • 1.33:1 • France The most cherished work from French master Max Ophuls, The Earrings of Madame de . . . is a profoundly emotional, cinematographically adventurous tale of deceptive opulence and tragic romance. Easy Rider http://www.criterion.com/films/27528-easy-rider Dennis Hopper 1969 • 95 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States As Billy and “Captain America,” Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda motored down the highway on their Harley Davidsons to the roaring strains of Steppenwolf’s “Born to Be Wild,” and the definitive counterculture blockbuster was born. Eating Raoul http://www.criterion.com/films/27767-eating-raoul Paul Bartel 1982 • 83 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States A mix of hilarious, anything-goes slapstick and biting satire of me-generation self-indulgence, Eating Raoul marked the end of the sexual revolution with a thwack. Eisenstein: The Sound Years http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/204-eisenstein-the-sound-years Sergei Eisenstein Soviet Union This trio of rousing action epics reveals a deeply unsettling portrait of the Soviet Union under Stalin, and provided battle-scene blueprints for filmmaking giants from Laurence Olivier in Henry V to Akira Kurosawa in Seven Samurai. The Element of Crime http://www.criterion.com/films/619-the-element-of-crime Lars von Trier 1984 • 104 minutes • 1.85:1 • Denmark Lars von Trier’s stunning debut film, influenced equally by Hitchcock and science fiction, is the story of Fisher, an exiled ex-cop who returns to his old beat to catch a serial killer with a taste for young girls. Elena and Her Men http://www.criterion.com/films/937-elena-and-her-men Jean Renoir 1956 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy stars Ingrid Bergman in her most sensual role as a beautiful, but impoverished, Polish princess who drives men of all stations to fits of desperate love. Elevator to the Gallows http://www.criterion.com/films/778-elevator-to-the-gallows Louis Malle 1957 • 92 minutes • 1.66:1 • France A touchstone of the careers of both its star and director, Louis Malle’s debut feature, Elevator to the Gallows , starring Jeanne Moreau, is a richly atmospheric thriller of murder and mistaken identity unfolding over one restless Parisian night. The Emperor Jones http://www.criterion.com/films/807-the-emperor-jones Dudley Murphy 1933 • 105 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Of all Paul Robeson’s starring film performances, by far his most iconic was his breakthrough in the big-screen adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones , in which he plays Brutus Jones, a Pullman porter who powers his way to the rule of a Caribbean island. Empire of Passion http://www.criterion.com/films/1288-empire-of-passion Nagisa Oshima 1978 • 105 minutes • 1.66:1 • Japan Set in a Japanese village at the end of the nineteenth century, Empire of Passion details the downfall of a married woman and her lover after they murder her husband and dump his body in a well. With eroticism and horror, Oshima plunges the viewer into a nightmarish tale of guilt and retribution. Les enfants terribles http://www.criterion.com/films/758-les-enfants-terribles Jean-Pierre Melville 1950 • 106 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Jean Cocteau and Jean-Pierre Melville joined forces for this adaptation of Cocteau’s wicked novel about the wholly unholy relationship between a brother and sister, Elisabeth and Paul, who close themselves off from the world by playing an increasingly intense series of mind games. Equinox http://www.criterion.com/films/780-equinox Jack Woods 1970 • 82 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Deep within the woods and canyons of California, four teenagers happen upon an ancient book containing the secrets of a strange, malevolent world that coexists with that of mankind. This $6,500-budget wonder from Dennis Muren is an homage to the creature features of yore. Eraserhead http://www.criterion.com/films/28382-eraserhead David Lynch 1977 • 89 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. The Essential Jacques Demy http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1055-the-essential-jacques-demy Jacques Demy French director Jacques Demy didn’t just make movies—he created an entire cinematic world. Demy launched his glorious feature filmmaking career in the sixties, a decade of astonishing invention in his national cinema. Europa http://www.criterion.com/films/768-europa Lars von Trier 1991 • 107 minutes • 2.35:1 • Denmark Lars von Trier’s hypnotic Europa is a fever dream in which American pacifist Leopold Kessler stumbles into a job as a sleeping-car conductor for the Zentropa railways in a Kafkaesque 1945 postwar Frankfurt. Europa is one of the great Danish filmmaker’s weirdest and most wonderful works. Europe ’51 http://www.criterion.com/films/28108-europe-51 Roberto Rossellini 1952 • 109 minutes • 1.37:1 • Italy Ingrid Bergman plays a wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite racked by guilt over the shocking death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Everlasting Moments http://www.criterion.com/films/21118-everlasting-moments Jan Troell 2008 • 131 minutes • 1.85:1 • Sweden Swedish master Jan Troell, director of the beloved classics The Emigrants and The New Land , returns triumphantly with Everlasting Moments, a vivid, heartrending story of a woman liberated through art at the beginning of the twentieth century. Every Man for Himself http://www.criterion.com/films/28549-every-man-for-himself Jean-Luc Godard 1980 • 88 minutes • 1.66:1 • France After a decade in the wilds of avant-garde and early video experimentation, Jean-Luc Godard returned to commercial cinema with this star-driven work of social commentary, while remaining defiantly intellectual and formally cutting-edge. The Exterminating Angel http://www.criterion.com/films/1076-the-exterminating-angel Luis Buñuel 1962 • 94 minutes • 1.33:1 • Mexico A group of bourgeois cosmopolitans are invited to a mansion for dinner and inexplicably find themselves unable to leave, in Luis Buñuel’s daring masterpiece. Made one year after his international sensation Viridiana, this is a furthering of Buñuel’s wicked takedown of the frivolous upper classes. Eyes Without a Face http://www.criterion.com/films/950-eyes-without-a-face Georges Franju 1960 • 90 minutes • 1.66:1 • France At his secluded chateau in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor (Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured countenance—at a horrifying price. F for Fake http://www.criterion.com/films/908-f-for-fake Orson Welles 1975 • 88 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In F for Fake, a free-form sort-of documentary by Orson Welles, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully reengages with the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous lines between illusion and truth, art and lies. The Face of Another http://www.criterion.com/films/828-the-face-of-another Hiroshi Teshigahara 1966 • 124 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan In this staggering work of existential science fiction, Okuyama (Tatsuya Nakadai), after being burned and disfigured in an industrial accident and estranged from his family and friends, agrees to his psychiatrist’s radical experiment: a face transplant, created from the mold of a stranger. Faces http://www.criterion.com/films/915-faces John Cassavetes 1968 • 130 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States Faces confronts modern alienation and the battle of the sexes with a brutal honesty and compassion rarely matched in cinema. The Fallen Idol http://www.criterion.com/films/346-the-fallen-idol Carol Reed 1948 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom Elegantly balancing suspense and farce, Carol Reed and Graham Greene’s tale of the fraught relationship between a boy and the beloved butler he suspects of murder is a delightfully macabre thriller of the first order and a visually and verbally dazzling knockout. Fanfan la Tulipe http://www.criterion.com/films/750-fanfan-la-tulipe Christian-Jaque 1952 • 99 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Legendary French star Gérard Philipe swashbuckled his way into film history as the peasant soldier Fanfan in Christian-Jaque’s devil-may-care romantic action-comedy, which remains one of France’s all-time most beloved films. Fanny and Alexander — The Television Version http://www.criterion.com/films/626-fanny-and-alexander-the-television-version Ingmar Bergman 1982 • 312 minutes • 1.66:1 • Sweden Ingmar Bergman described Fanny and Alexander as “the sum total of my life as a filmmaker.” And in this, the full-length (312-minute) version of his triumphant valediction, his vision is expressed at its fullest. Fanny and Alexander — The Theatrical Version http://www.criterion.com/films/201-fanny-and-alexander-the-theatrical-version Ingmar Bergman 1982 • 188 minutes • 1.66:1 • Sweden Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden. Fanny and Alexander Box Set http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/206-fanny-and-alexander-box-set Ingmar Bergman Sweden Ingmar Bergman intended Fanny and Alexander as his swan song, and it is the legendary director’s warmest and most autobiographical film, a four-time Academy Award–winning triumph that combines his trademark melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality. Fantastic Mr. Fox http://www.criterion.com/films/28565-fantastic-mr-fox Wes Anderson 2009 • 87 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States A compulsive chicken thief turned newspaper reporter, Mr. Fox settles down with his family in a new foxhole in a beautiful tree—directly adjacent to three enormous poultry farms owned by three ferociously vicious farmers: Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Mr. Fox simply cannot resist. Fat Girl http://www.criterion.com/films/548-fat-girl Catherine Breillat 2001 • 86 minutes • 1.85:1 • France Fat Girl is not only a portrayal of female adolescent sexuality and the complicated bond between siblings but also a shocking assertion by the always controversial Catherine Breillat that violent oppression exists at the core of male-female relations. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas http://www.criterion.com/films/215-fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas Terry Gilliam 1998 • 119 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States Director Terry Gilliam and an all-star cast headlined by Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro show no mercy in bringing Hunter S. Thompson’s excoriating dissection of the American way of life to the screen, creating a film both hilarious and savage. Fellini Satyricon http://www.criterion.com/films/28038-fellini-satyricon Federico Fellini 1969 • 130 minutes • 2.35:1 • Italy Federico Fellini’s career achieved new levels of eccentricity and brilliance with this remarkable, controversial, extremely loose adaptation of Petronius’s classical Roman satire, written during the reign of Nero. Fiend Without a Face http://www.criterion.com/films/631-fiend-without-a-face Arthur Crabtree 1958 • 92 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom A scientist’s thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller, directed by Arthur Crabtree. Fight, Zatoichi, Fight http://www.criterion.com/films/28307-fight-zatoichi-fight Kenji Misumi 1964 • 87 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan While on the road, Zatoichi befriends a young mother right before she is savagely murdered. Promising her that he will hand over her baby to its father, the blind masseur embarks on an adventure both sentimental and beset by perilous action. Fighting Elegy http://www.criterion.com/films/945-fighting-elegy Seijun Suzuki 1966 • 86 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan High schooler Kiroku Nanbu yearns for the prim, Catholic Michiko, but her only desire is to reform Kiroku’s sinful tendencies. Hormones raging, Kiroku channels his unsatisfied lust into the only outlet available: savage, crazed violence. A Film Trilogy http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/89-a-film-trilogy-by-ingmar-bergman by Ingmar Bergman Sweden Utilizing a new cameraman—the incomparable Sven Nykvist—Bergman unleashed Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, and The Silence in rapid succession, exposing moviegoers worldwide to a new level of intellectual and emotional intensity. The Fire Within http://www.criterion.com/films/540-the-fire-within Louis Malle 1963 • 108 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Unsparing in its portrait of the inner turmoil of a self-destructive writer who resolves to kill himself, The Fire Within is one of Louis Malle’s darkest and most personal films. The Firemen’s Ball http://www.criterion.com/films/688-the-firemen-s-ball Miloš Forman 1967 • 73 minutes • 1.33:1 • Czechoslovakia A milestone of the Czech New Wave, Milos Forman’s first color film, The Firemen’s Ball ( Horí, má panenko ), is both a dazzling comedy and a provocative political satire that chronicles a firemen’s ball where nothing goes right. Fires on the Plain http://www.criterion.com/films/347-fires-on-the-plain Kon Ichikawa 1959 • 104 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan An agonizing portrait of desperate Japanese soldiers stranded in a strange land during World War II, Kon Ichikawa’s Fires on the Plain is a compelling descent into psychological and physical oblivion, and one of the most powerful works from one of Japanese cinema’s most versatile filmmakers. First Man into Space http://www.criterion.com/films/803-first-man-into-space Robert Day 1959 • 77 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States In this interstellar cautionary tale, brash U.S. Navy test pilot Dan Prescott, hungry for fame, rockets himself beyond Earth’s atmosphere, only to become encrusted with cosmic dust and return a blood-drinking monster. Fish Tank http://www.criterion.com/films/27541-fish-tank Andrea Arnold 2009 • 122 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom British director Andrea Arnold won the Cannes Jury Prize for the intense and invigorating Fish Tank, about a fifteen-year-old girl, Mia (electrifying newcomer Katie Jarvis), who lives with her mother and sister in the housing projects of Essex. The Fisher King http://www.criterion.com/films/28719-the-fisher-king Terry Gilliam 1991 • 138 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States A fairy tale grounded in poignant reality, the magnificent, Manhattan-set The Fisher King, by Terry Gilliam, features Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams in two of their most brilliant roles. Fishing with John http://www.criterion.com/films/580-fishing-with-john John Lurie 1992 • 147 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States John Lurie knows absolutely nothing about fishing, but that doesn’t stop him from undertaking the adventure of a lifetime in Fishing with John. Featuring Jim Jarmusch, Willem Dafoe, and Tom Waits. Fists in the Pocket http://www.criterion.com/films/348-fists-in-the-pocket Marco Bellocchio 1965 • 108 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions in this astonishing 1965 debut from Marco Bellocchio. Five Easy Pieces http://www.criterion.com/films/27529-five-easy-pieces Bob Rafelson 1970 • 98 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Jack Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper-middle-class childhood home, blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black, in an Oscar-nominated role) in tow. Flesh for Frankenstein http://www.criterion.com/films/562-flesh-for-frankenstein Paul Morrissey 1973 • 95 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States Maverick filmmaker Paul Morrissey’s Flesh for Frankenstein reevaluates the horror film, infusing it with satiric wit and sexuality. Morrissey’s tale of the mad Baron Frankenstein and his perverse creative urges was heavily edited upon initial release; this is the restored director’s cut. The Flowers of St. Francis http://www.criterion.com/films/874-the-flowers-of-st-francis Roberto Rossellini 1950 • 87 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis’s time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery, Rossellini’s The Flowers of St. Francis is a timeless and moving portrait of the search for spiritual enlightenment. Following http://www.criterion.com/films/28030-following Christopher Nolan 1999 • 70 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom Before he became a sensation with the twisty revenge story Memento, Christopher Nolan fashioned this low-budget, 16 mm black-and-white neonoir with comparable precision and cunning. For All Mankind http://www.criterion.com/films/599-for-all-mankind Al Reinert 1989 • 79 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Al Reinert’s visually dazzling documentary For All Mankind is the story of the twenty-four men who traveled to the moon—told in their words, in their voices, using the images of their experiences. Forbidden Games http://www.criterion.com/films/350-forbidden-games René Clément 1952 • 86 minutes • 1.33:1 • France A timeless evocation of childhood innocence corrupted, René Clément’s mythical and heartbreakingly real Forbidden Games tells the story of a young girl orphaned by war and the farm boy she joins in a fantastical world of macabre play. Foreign Correspondent http://www.criterion.com/films/27692-foreign-correspondent Alfred Hitchcock 1940 • 120 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States A full-throttle espionage thriller, starring Joel McCrea as a green Yank reporter sent to Europe to get the scoop on the imminent war, it’s wall-to-wall witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists, and brilliantly mounted suspense set pieces. The Forgiveness of Blood http://www.criterion.com/films/28379-the-forgiveness-of-blood Joshua Marston 2011 • 109 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States In The Forgiveness of Blood, American director Joshua Marston turns his camera on another corner of the world: contemporary northern Albania, a place still troubled by the ancient custom of interfamilial blood feuds. The Four Feathers http://www.criterion.com/films/27555-the-four-feathers Zoltán Korda 1939 • 115 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom This Technicolor spectacular, directed by Zoltán Korda, is considered the finest of the many adaptations of A. E. W. Mason’s classic 1902 adventure novel about the British empire’s exploits in Africa, and a crowning achievement of Alexander Korda’s legendary production company, London Films. Frances Ha http://www.criterion.com/films/28560-frances-ha Noah Baumbach 2013 • 86 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Greta Gerwig is radiant as Frances, a woman in her late twenties in contemporary New York trying to sort out her ambitions, her finances, and, above all, her intimate but shifting bond with her best friend, Sophie (Mickey Sumner). French Cancan http://www.criterion.com/films/891-french-cancan Jean Renoir 1955 • 105 minutes • 1.33:1 • France French Cancan , Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge, is a Technicolor tour de force starring Jean Gabin as a wily impresario juggling the love of two beautiful women in nineteenth-century Paris. The Freshman http://www.criterion.com/films/28510-the-freshman Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer 1925 • 76 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Harold Lloyd’s biggest box-office hit was this silent comedy gem, featuring the befuddled everyman at his eager best as a new college student. The Friends of Eddie Coyle http://www.criterion.com/films/1426-the-friends-of-eddie-coyle Peter Yates 1973 • 102 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. The Fugitive Kind http://www.criterion.com/films/17998-the-fugitive-kind Sidney Lumet 1960 • 121 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States Four Oscar–winning actors—Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, and Maureen Stapleton—sink their teeth into this enthralling film, which brings together the legendary talents of director Sidney Lumet and writer Tennessee Williams. The Furies http://www.criterion.com/films/596-the-furies Anthony Mann 1950 • 109 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston are at their fierce finest in master Hollywood craftsman Anthony Mann’s crackling western melodrama The Furies , sophisticated in its view of frontier settlement and ablaze with searing domestic drama. The Game http://www.criterion.com/films/28058-the-game David Fincher 1997 • 128 minutes • 2.40:1 • United States This multilayered, noirish descent into one man’s personal hell is also a surreal, metacinematic journey that, two years after the phenomenon Se7en, further demonstrated that director David Fincher was one of Hollywood’s true contemporary visionaries. Gate of Flesh http://www.criterion.com/films/863-gate-of-flesh Seijun Suzuki 1964 • 90 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a band of prostitutes eke out an existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. Gate of Hell http://www.criterion.com/films/28199-gate-of-hell Teinosuke Kinugasa 1953 • 89 minutes • 1.37:1 • Japan A winner of Academy Awards for best foreign-language film and best costume design, Gate of Hell is a visually sumptuous, psychologically penetrating work from Teinosuke Kinugasa. Gates of Heaven/Vernon, Florida http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1097-gates-of-heaven-vernon-florida Errol Morris United States With his trademark mixture of empathy and scrutiny, Errol Morris has changed the face of documentary filmmaking in the United States, and his career began with two remarkable tales of American eccentricity. General Idi Amin Dada http://www.criterion.com/films/545-general-idi-amin-dada Barbet Schroeder 1974 • 90 minutes • 1.33:1 • France In 1971, self-styled dictator General Idi Amin Dada took control of Uganda; director Barbet Schroeder turns his cameras on the dynamic, charming, and appallingly dangerous tyrant. Il Generale Della Rovere http://www.criterion.com/films/1085-il-generale-della-rovere Roberto Rossellini 1959 • 132 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy A magnetic Vittorio De Sica is Bardone, an opportunistic rascal in wartime Genoa forced by the Nazis to impersonate a dead partisan general in prison to extract information from fellow inmates. Roberto Rossellini’s gripping drama is among his most commercially popular films. A Generation http://www.criterion.com/films/921-a-generation Andrzej Wajda 1955 • 87 minutes • 1.33:1 • Poland Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity. George Washington http://www.criterion.com/films/691-george-washington David Gordon Green 2000 • 90 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States An ambitiously constructed, elegantly photographed meditation on adolescence, the first full-length film by director David Gordon Green features remarkable performances from an award-winning ensemble cast. Germany Year Zero http://www.criterion.com/films/297-germany-year-zero Roberto Rossellini 1948 • 71 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin shown through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy. Gertrud http://www.criterion.com/films/443-gertrud Carl Th. Dreyer 1964 • 119 minutes • 1.33:1 • Denmark Carl Dreyer’s last film is a meditation on tragedy, individual will, and the refusal to compromise. A woman leaves her unfulfilling marriage and embarks on a search for ideal love—but neither a passionate affair with a younger man nor the return of an old romance can provide the answer she seeks. Gimme Shelter http://www.criterion.com/films/637-gimme-shelter David Maysles , Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 1970 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Called the greatest rock film ever made, this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour. Godzilla http://www.criterion.com/films/27755-godzilla Ishiro Honda 1954 • 96 minutes • 1.37:1 • Japan Godzilla is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama made in Japan at a time when the country was still reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing. The Gold Rush http://www.criterion.com/films/27565-the-gold-rush Charles Chaplin 72 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Charlie Chaplin’s comedic masterwork—which charts a prospector’s search for fortune in the Klondike and his discovery of romance (with the beautiful Georgia Hale)—forever cemented the iconic status of Chaplin and his Little Tramp character. The Golden Age of Television http://www.criterion.com/films/3560-the-golden-age-of-television 485 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive “teleplays” constituted an artistic high for the medium, bringing Broadway-quality drama to all of America. These award-winning programs feature such stars as Paul Newman and Mickey Rooney. The Golden Coach http://www.criterion.com/films/889-the-golden-coach Jean Renoir 1953 • 103 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Set to the music of Antonio Vivaldi, Jean Renoir’s ravishing, sumptuous tribute to the theater involves a viceroy who receives an exquisite golden coach and gives it to the tempestuous star of a touring commedia dell’arte company (the vivacious Anna Magnani). Gomorrah http://www.criterion.com/films/1590-gomorrah Matteo Garrone 2008 • 137 minutes • 2.35:1 • Italy In this tour de force adaptation of Roberto Saviano’s best-selling exposé of Naples’ Mafia underworld, director Matteo Garrone links five disparate tales in which men and children are caught up in a corrupt system that extends from the housing projects to the world of haute couture. Good Morning http://www.criterion.com/films/624-good-morning Yasujiro Ozu 1959 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan Ozu’s hilarious Technicolor reworking of his silent I Was Born, But . . . , Good Morning ( Ohayô ) is the story of two young boys in suburban Tokyo who take a vow of silence after their parents refuse to buy them a television set. Le grand amour http://www.criterion.com/films/28398-le-grand-amour Pierre Etaix 1969 • 87 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Despite having a loving and patient wife at home, a good-natured suit-and-tie man, played by writer-director Pierre Etaix, finds himself hopelessly attracted to his gorgeous new secretary in this gently satirical tale of temptation. Grand Illusion http://www.criterion.com/films/351-grand-illusion Jean Renoir 1937 • 114 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Jean Renoir’s antiwar masterpiece Grand Illusion , hailed as one of the greatest films ever made, stars Jean Gabin and Pierre Fresnay as French soldiers held in a World War I German prison camp. Gray’s Anatomy http://www.criterion.com/films/28351-gray-s-anatomy Steven Soderbergh 1997 • 79 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States One of the great raconteurs of stage and screen, Spalding Gray, came together with one of cinema’s boldest image-makers, Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh, for Gray’s Anatomy, a spellbinding adaptation of Gray’s 1993 monologue of the same name. Great Adaptations http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/575-great-adaptations Edition: DVD Criterion presents four classic literary adaptations together in a single set at a special price. The Great Beauty http://www.criterion.com/films/28604-the-great-beauty Paolo Sorrentino 2013 • 142 minutes • 2.35:1 • Italy Featuring sensuous cinematography, a lush score, and an award-winning central performance by the great Toni Servillo, this transporting experience by the brilliant Italian director Paolo Sorrentino is a breathtaking Felliniesque tale of decadence and lost love. The Great Dictator http://www.criterion.com/films/27605-the-great-dictator Charles Chaplin 1940 • 125 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Great Expectations http://www.criterion.com/films/566-great-expectations David Lean 1946 • 118 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom One of the great translations of literature into film, David Lean’s Great Expectations brings Charles Dickens’s masterpiece to robust on-screen life. Green for Danger http://www.criterion.com/films/815-green-for-danger Sidney Gilliat 1946 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural English hospital. But was the death accidental? A delightful and wholly unexpected murder mystery, British writer/director Sidney Gilliat’s Green for Danger features Trevor Howard and Sally Gray. Grey Gardens http://www.criterion.com/films/664-grey-gardens Albert Maysles , David Maysles , Ellen Hovde … 1976 • 94 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion. Grey Gardens http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/591-grey-gardens-the-beales-of-grey-gardens-box-set The Beales of Grey Gardens Box Set United States Edition: DVD Meet Big and Little Edie Beale—high-society dropouts, mother and daughter, reclusive cousins of Jackie O.—thriving together amid the decay and disorder of their ramshackle East Hampton mansion. La haine http://www.criterion.com/films/216-la-haine Mathieu Kassovitz 1995 • 97 minutes • 1.85:1 • France Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Hamlet http://www.criterion.com/films/621-hamlet Laurence Olivier 1948 • 153 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Hands over the City http://www.criterion.com/films/799-hands-over-the-city Francesco Rosi 1963 • 100 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi’s Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. Harakiri http://www.criterion.com/films/743-harakiri Masaki Kobayashi 1962 • 133 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Following the collapse of his clan, unemployed samurai Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to commit ritual suicide on his property in Masaki Kobayashi’s fierce evocation of individual agency in the face of a corrupt and hypocritical system. Hard Boiled http://www.criterion.com/films/523-hard-boiled John Woo 1992 • 126 minutes • 1.85:1 • Hong Kong Chow Yun-fat is jaded detective “Tequila” Yuen in John Woo’s dizzying odyssey through the world of Hong Kong Triads, undercover agents, and frenzied police raids; the brilliant, passionate Hard Boiled is violence as poetry, rendered by a master. A Hard Day’s Night http://www.criterion.com/films/28547-a-hard-day-s-night Richard Lester 1964 • 87 minutes • 1.75:1 A Hard Day’s Night, in which the bandmates play cheeky comic versions of themselves, captured the astonishing moment when they officially became the singular, irreverent idols of their generation and changed music forever. The Harder They Come http://www.criterion.com/films/623-the-harder-they-come Perry Henzell 1973 • 103 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States Reggae superstar Jimmy Cliff is Ivan, a rural Jamaican musician who journeys to the city of Kingston in search of fame and fortune in The Harder They Come , which brought the catchy and subversive rhythms of the Rastas to the U.S. in the early 1970s. Harlan County USA http://www.criterion.com/films/777-harlan-county-usa Barbara Kopple 1976 • 103 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award–winning Harlan County USA unflinchingly documents a grueling coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners’ sometimes violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police, and company thugs. Harold and Maude http://www.criterion.com/films/27896-harold-and-maude Hal Ashby 1971 • 91 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States With the idiosyncratic American fable Harold and Maude, countercultural director Hal Ashby fashioned what would become the cult classic of its era. The Haunted Strangler http://www.criterion.com/films/805-the-haunted-strangler Robert Day 1958 • 79 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Nineteenth-century English author James Rankin (Boris Karloff) believes that the wrong man was hanged twenty years earlier for a series of murders, but his investigations lead him to a horrible and, for him, gruesomely inescapable secret. Le Havre http://www.criterion.com/films/28352-le-havre Aki Kaurismäki 2011 • 93 minutes • 1.85:1 • Finland In this warmhearted comic yarn from Aki Kaurismäki, fate throws the young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a kindly old bohemian who shines shoes for a living in the French harbor city Le Havre. Häxan http://www.criterion.com/films/352-haxan Benjamin Christensen 1922 • 87 minutes • 1.33:1 • Denmark Benjamin Christensen’s legendary silent film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. Häxan is a witches’ brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous. Head http://www.criterion.com/films/27527-head Bob Rafelson 1968 • 85 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States Hey, hey, it’s the Monkees . . . being catapulted through one of American cinema’s most surreal sixties odysseys. Hearts and Minds http://www.criterion.com/films/711-hearts-and-minds Peter Davis 1974 • 112 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States A startling and courageous film, Peter Davis’s landmark 1974 documentary Hearts and Minds unflinchingly confronted the United States’ involvement in Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it. Heaven Can Wait http://www.criterion.com/films/878-heaven-can-wait Ernst Lubitsch 1943 • 112 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Deceased playboy Henry Van Cleve presents himself to the outer offices of Hades, where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of hell. Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime of wooing and pursuing women, his long, happy marriage to Martha notwithstanding. Heaven’s Gate http://www.criterion.com/films/28036-heaven-s-gate Michael Cimino 1980 • 216 minutes • 2.40:1 • United States A breathtaking depiction of the promise and perils of America’s western expansion, Heaven’s Gate , directed by Michael Cimino, is among Hollywood’s most ambitious and unorthodox epics. Henry V http://www.criterion.com/films/579-henry-v Laurence Olivier 1944 • 137 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom This sumptuous Technicolor rendering of Shakespeare’s play features a thrilling re-creation of the battle of Agincourt, and Sir Laurence Olivier in his prime as director and actor. Here is Your Life http://www.criterion.com/films/28552-here-is-your-life Jan Troell 1966 • 169 minutes • 1.66:1 • Sweden This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. The Hidden Fortress http://www.criterion.com/films/655-the-hidden-fortress Akira Kurosawa 1958 • 139 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan The Hidden Fortress delivers Kurosawa’s trademark deft blend of wry humor, breathtaking action, and compassionate humanity. High and Low http://www.criterion.com/films/543-high-and-low Akira Kurosawa 1963 • 143 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novel King’s Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on contemporary Japanese society. Hiroshima mon amour http://www.criterion.com/films/217-hiroshima-mon-amour Alain Resnais 1959 • 90 minutes • 1.37:1 • France A cornerstone of the French New Wave, the first feature from Alain Resnais is one of the most influential films of all time. The Hit http://www.criterion.com/films/1285-the-hit Stephen Frears 1984 • 98 minutes • 1.77:1 • United Kingdom Terence Stamp is Willie, a gangster’s henchman turned “supergrass” (informer) trying to live in peaceful hiding in a Spanish village. Sun-dappled bliss turns to nerve-racking suspense, however, when two hit men—played by John Hurt and Tim Roth—come a-calling to bring Willie back for execution. Hobson’s Choice http://www.criterion.com/films/1078-hobson-s-choice David Lean 1954 • 108 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom An unsung comic triumph from David Lean, Hobson’s Choice stars the legendary Charles Laughton as the harrumphing Henry Hobson, the owner of a boot shop in late Victorian northern England whose haughty, independent daughter decides to forge her own path, romantically and professionally. A Hollis Frampton Odyssey http://www.criterion.com/films/27945-a-hollis-frampton-odyssey Hollis Frampton 266 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States An icon of the American avant-garde, Hollis Frampton made rigorous, audacious, brainy, and downright thrilling films, leaving behind a body of work that remains unparalleled. Homicide http://www.criterion.com/films/3558-homicide David Mamet 1991 • 101 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States In this nightmarish urban odyssey, inner-city police detective Bobby Gold (Joe Mantegna), is following the murder of an elderly Jewish candy-shop owner, which leads him down a path of obscure encounters and clues, as well as a profound reckoning with his own self and identity. The Honeymoon Killers http://www.criterion.com/films/582-the-honeymoon-killers Leonard Kastle 1970 • 107 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States A woman strikes up a correspondence with a suave, charismatic smooth talker who could be the man of her dreams—or a wicked con artist. Based on a true story, Leonard Kastle’s The Honeymoon Killers is a stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go to find true love. Hoop Dreams http://www.criterion.com/films/906-hoop-dreams Steve James 1994 • 172 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States This landmark film, which documents the journeys of two remarkable families, continues to educate and inspire viewers, and it is widely considered one of the great works of American nonfiction cinema. Hopscotch http://www.criterion.com/films/717-hopscotch Ronald Neame 1980 • 105 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States One of the CIA’s top international operatives, Miles Kendig (Walter Matthau) suddenly finds himself relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, Kendig writes a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The Horse’s Mouth http://www.criterion.com/films/695-the-horse-s-mouth Ronald Neame 1958 • 95 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom In Ronald Neame’s film of Joyce Cary’s classic novel, Alec Guinness transforms himself into one of cinema’s most indelible comic figures: the lovably scruffy painter Gulley Jimson. House http://www.criterion.com/films/27523-house Nobuhiko Obayashi 1977 • 88 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie House ( Hausu )? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? House might have been beamed to Earth from some other planet. House of Games http://www.criterion.com/films/831-house-of-games David Mamet 1987 • 102 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States David Mamet’s witty tale of a therapist and best-selling author who must confront her own obsessions when she meets an attractive cardsharp is as psychologically acute as it is full of twists and turns, a rich character study told with the cold calculation of a career criminal. The Housemaid http://www.criterion.com/films/28409-the-housemaid Kim Ki-young 1960 • 108 minutes • 1.60:1 • South Korea A torrent of sexual obsession, revenge, and betrayal is unleashed under one roof in this venomous melodrama from South Korean master Kim Ki-young. How to Get Ahead in Advertising http://www.criterion.com/films/660-how-to-get-ahead-in-advertising Bruce Robinson 1988 • 94 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom Richard E. Grant is the endlessly suave Dennis Bagley, a high-strung advertising executive whose shoulder sprouts an evil, talking boil. This caustic satire reunites the talented team behind the cult classic Withnail and I to create a tour de force of verbal jousting and physical comedy. Howards End http://www.criterion.com/films/1515-howards-end James Ivory 1992 • 142 minutes • 2.35:1 • United Kingdom The pinnacle of the decades-long collaboration between producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, Howards End is a luminous vision of E. M. Forster’s cutting 1910 novel about class divisions in Edwardian England. The Human Condition http://www.criterion.com/films/2106-the-human-condition Masaki Kobayashi 1959 • 574 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Masaki Kobayashi’s mammoth humanist drama is one of the most staggering achievements of Japanese cinema. A raw indictment of its nation’s wartime mentality as well as a personal existential tragedy, Kobayashi’s riveting, gorgeously filmed epic is novelistic cinema at its best. Hunger http://www.criterion.com/films/477-hunger Steve McQueen 2008 • 96 minutes • 2.35:1 • United Kingdom Featuring an intense performance by Michael Fassbender, Hunger , about IRA member Bobby Sands’s 1981 prison hunger strike, is an unflinching, transcendent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure to be heard. I Am Curious . . . http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/338-i-am-curious-box-set Box set Vilgot Sjöman Sweden I Am Curious—Yellow, one of the most controversial films of all time, is presented here for the first time with its companion piece, I Am Curious—Blue. This landmark document of Swedish society during the sexual revolution has been declared both obscene and revolutionary. I Am Curious—Blue http://www.criterion.com/films/729-i-am-curious-blue Vilgot Sjöman 1967 • 97 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden A parallel film to Vilgot Sjöman’s controversial I Am Curious—Yellow, I Am Curious—Blue also follows young Lena on her journey of self-discovery. In Blue, Lena confronts issues of religion, sexuality, and the prison system, while at the same time exploring her own relationships. I Am Curious—Yellow http://www.criterion.com/films/728-i-am-curious-yellow Vilgot Sjöman 1967 • 121 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden This landmark document of Swedish society during the sexual revolution has been declared both obscene and revolutionary. It tells the story of a searching and rebellious young woman’s personal quest to understand the social and political conditions in 1960s Sweden, and her own sexual identity. I fidanzati http://www.criterion.com/films/739-i-fidanzati Ermanno Olmi 1962 • 77 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy Ermanno Olmi’s masterful feature is the tender story of two Milanese fiancés whose strained relationship is tested when the man accepts a new job in Sicily. With the separation come loneliness, nostalgia, and, perhaps, some new perspectives that might rejuvenate their love. I Know Where I’m Going! http://www.criterion.com/films/633-i-know-where-i-m-going Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1945 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s stunningly photographed comedy, Wendy Hiller stars as a headstrong young woman who travels to the remote Scottish Hebrides to marry a rich lord. I Married a Witch http://www.criterion.com/films/27771-i-married-a-witch René Clair 1942 • 77 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Veronica Lake casts a seductive spell as a charmingly vengeful sorceress in this supernatural screwball classic. I vitelloni http://www.criterion.com/films/966-i-vitelloni Federico Fellini 1953 • 103 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy In Fellini’s semiautobiographical masterpiece, five young men linger in a postadolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small seacoast town. They while away their time spending the lira doled out by their indulgent families on drink, women, and nights at the pool hall. The Ice Storm http://www.criterion.com/films/336-the-ice-storm Ang Lee 1997 • 113 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States With clarity, subtlety, and a dose of wicked humor, Academy Award–winning director Ang Lee renders Rick Moody’s acclaimed novel of upper-middle-class American malaise as a trenchant, tragic cinematic portrait of lost souls. Identification of a Woman http://www.criterion.com/films/27629-identification-of-a-woman Michelangelo Antonioni 1982 • 130 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy Michelangelo Antonioni’s Identification of a Woman is a body- and soul-baring voyage into one man’s artistic and erotic consciousness. If.... http://www.criterion.com/films/825-if Lindsay Anderson 1968 • 112 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom Before Kubrick made his mischief iconic in A Clockwork Orange, Malcolm McDowell made a hell of an impression as the insouciant Mick Travis, who, along with his school chums, trumps authority at every turn, finally emerging as a violent savior. Ikiru http://www.criterion.com/films/353-ikiru Akira Kurosawa 1952 • 143 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan An aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer decides to strip the veneer off his existence and find meaning in his final days. Considered by some to be Akira Kurosawa’s greatest achievement, Ikiru offers a multifaceted look at a life through a prism of perspectives. The Importance of Being Earnest http://www.criterion.com/films/355-the-importance-of-being-earnest Anthony Asquith 1952 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom Oscar Wilde’s enduringly hilarious story of two young women who think themselves engaged to the same nonexistent man is given the grand Technicolor treatment. Seldom has a classic stage comedy been so engagingly transferred to the screen. In the Mood for Love http://www.criterion.com/films/198-in-the-mood-for-love Wong Kar-wai 2000 • 98 minutes • 1.66:1 • Hong Kong With its aching musical soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past decade of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career. In the Realm of the Senses http://www.criterion.com/films/1287-in-the-realm-of-the-senses Nagisa Oshima 1976 • 102 minutes • 1.66:1 • Japan A graphic portrayal of insatiable sexual desire, In the Realm of the Senses , set in 1936 and based on a true incident, depicts a man and a woman consumed by a transcendent, destructive love while living in an era of ever escalating imperialism and governmental control. In Vanda’s Room http://www.criterion.com/films/20820-in-vanda-s-room Pedro Costa 2000 • 171 minutes • 1.33:1 • Portugal With the intimate feel of a documentary and the texture of a Vermeer painting, Pedro Costa’s In Vanda’s Room takes an unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but is centered around the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte. In Which We Serve http://www.criterion.com/films/28185-in-which-we-serve David Lean and Noël Coward 1942 • 114 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom In the midst of World War II, the renowned playwright Noël Coward engaged a young film editor named David Lean to help him realize his vision for an action drama about a group of Royal Navy sailors (roles that would be filled by Coward himself, Bernard Miles, and John Mills, among others) fighting Indiscretion of an American Wife http://www.criterion.com/films/586-indiscretion-of-an-american-wife Vittorio De Sica 1953 • 72 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy An American housewife (Jennifer Jones) vacationing in Italy reluctantly decides to put an end to her brief affair with an Italian academic (Montgomery Clift) in this troubled collaboration between director Vittorio De Sica and producer David O. Selznick. Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie http://www.criterion.com/films/608-ingmar-bergman-makes-a-movie Vilgot Sjöman 1962 • 145 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden Vilgot Sjöman’s five-part television documentary on the making of Bergman’s 1961 Winter Light includes views of Bergman’s creative process and intimate conversations with the great director and members of his cast and crew. Ingmar Bergman: http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/576-ingmar-bergman-four-masterworks Four Masterworks Ingmar Bergman Sweden Edition: DVD Legendary auteur Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) emerged in the 1950s as an art-house icon and remained one for more than four decades. Here, together in one box set, Criterion presents four of the unforgettable works that helped establish his international preeminence. The Innocents http://www.criterion.com/films/28569-the-innocents Jack Clayton 1961 • 100 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States This genuinely frightening, exquisitely made supernatural gothic stars Deborah Kerr as an emotionally fragile governess who comes to suspect that there is something very, very wrong with her precocious new charges. The Insect Woman http://www.criterion.com/films/1430-the-insect-woman Shohei Imamura 1963 • 123 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Born in a rural farming village in 1918, Tomé survives decades of Japanese social upheaval, as well as abuse and servitude at the hands of various men. Yet Shohei Imamura refuses to make a victim of her, instead observing Tomé as a fascinating, pragmatic creature of twentieth-century Japan. Insignificance http://www.criterion.com/films/27618-insignificance Nicolas Roeg 1985 • 108 minutes • 1.78:1 • United Kingdom Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room for this compelling, visually inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson’s play, from director Nicolas Roeg. Insomnia http://www.criterion.com/films/585-insomnia Erik Skjoldbjærg 1997 • 97 minutes • 1.85:1 • Norway The success of Erik Skjoldbjærg’s chilling procedural anticipated the international hunger for Scandinavian noirs and serial- killer fictions, and the film features one of Skarsgård’s greatest performances. Intentions of Murder http://www.criterion.com/films/1431-intentions-of-murder Shohei Imamura 1964 • 150 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Sadako (Masumi Harukawa), cursed by generations before her and neglected by her common-law husband, falls prey to a brutal home intruder. But rather than become a victim, she forges a path to her own awakening. Intentions of Murder is gripping and audacious. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion http://www.criterion.com/films/27911-investigation-of-a-citizen-above-suspicion Elio Petri 1970 • 115 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s most internationally acclaimed work is this Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector (a commanding Gian Maria Volonté) investigating a heinous crime—which he himself committed. Island of Lost Souls http://www.criterion.com/films/27861-island-of-lost-souls Erle C. Kenton 1932 • 70 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States A twisted treasure from Hollywood’s pre-Code horror heyday, Island of Lost Souls is a cautionary tale of science run amok, adapted from H. G. Wells’s novel The Island of Dr. Moreau. It Happened One Night http://www.criterion.com/films/27900-it-happened-one-night Frank Capra 1934 • 105 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States It Happened One Night is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World http://www.criterion.com/films/28579-it-s-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world Stanley Kramer 1963 • 163 minutes • 2.76:1 • United States It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, about a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure, is the most grandly harebrained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast. Ivan the Terrible, Part I http://www.criterion.com/films/625-ivan-the-terrible-part-i Sergei Eisenstein 1944 • 103 minutes • 1.33:1 • Soviet Union Visually stunning and powerfully acted, Ivan the Terrible charts the rise to power and descent into terror of this veritable dictator. Ivan the Terrible, Part II http://www.criterion.com/films/354-ivan-the-terrible-part-ii Sergei Eisenstein 1958 • 88 minutes • 1.33:1 • Soviet Union Visually stunning and powerfully acted, Ivan the Terrible charts the rise to power and descent into terror of this veritable dictator. Stalin detested the portrait in the second film—with its summary executions and secret police—and promptly banned it. Ivan’s Childhood http://www.criterion.com/films/830-ivan-s-childhood Andrei Tarkovsky 1962 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • Soviet Union The debut feature by the great Andrei Tarkovsky, Ivan’s Childhood is a poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles http://www.criterion.com/films/302-jeanne-dielman-23-quai-du-commerce-1080-bruxelles Chantal Akerman 1975 • 201 minutes • 1.66:1 • Belgium Whether seen as an exacting character portrait or one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing, compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and argued over for decades. Jericho http://www.criterion.com/films/812-jericho Thornton Freeland 1937 • 75 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom Edition: Collector’s Sets Jericho features Paul Robeson, in what turned out to be his most satisfying film role, as a World War I officer who escapes his fate as a black man by fleeing to Africa and creating a new world for himself. La Jetée http://www.criterion.com/films/329-la-jetee Chris Marker 1963 • 27 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Chris Marker’s La Jetée is one of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made, a tale of time travel told in still images. La Jetée/Sans Soleil http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/77-la-jetee-sans-soleil Chris Marker France One of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made and a mind-bending free-form travelogue, La Jetée and Sans Soleil couldn’t seem more different—yet they’re the twin pillars of an unparalleled and uncompromising career in cinema. Jigoku http://www.criterion.com/films/797-jigoku Nobuo Nakagawa 1960 • 101 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan After a young theology student flees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by a mysterious, diabolical doppelgänger. But all possible escape routes lead straight to hell—literally. The gory Jigoku created aftershocks that are still reverberating in contemporary world horror cinema. Jimi Plays Monterey & Shake! Otis at Monterey http://www.criterion.com/films/722-jimi-plays-monterey-shake-otis-at-monterey D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus 1986 • 63 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Jimi Plays Monterey and Shake! Otis at Monterey , acclaimed documentarian D. A. Pennebaker’s Monterey Pop companion pieces, feature the entire sets by these legendary musicians, performances that have entered rock-and-roll mythology. John Cassavetes: Five Films http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films United States John Cassavetes was a genius, a visionary, and the progenitor of American independent film, but that doesn’t begin to get at the generosity of his art. Journey to Italy http://www.criterion.com/films/28081-journey-to-italy Roberto Rossellini 1954 • 85 minutes • 1.37:1 • Italy Among the most influential films of the postwar era, Roberto Rossellini’s Journey to Italy ( Viaggio in Italia ) charts the declining marriage of a couple from England (Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders) on a trip in the countryside near Naples. Jubal http://www.criterion.com/films/28492-jubal Delmer Daves 1956 • 101 minutes • 2.55:1 • United States A trio of exceptional performances by Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, and Rod Steiger form the center of Jubal, an overlooked Hollywood treasure from genre master Delmer Daves. Jubilee http://www.criterion.com/films/736-jubilee Derek Jarman 1978 • 106 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom With Jubilee, legendary British filmmaker Derek Jarman channeled political dissent and artistic daring into a revolutionary blend of history and fantasy, musical and cinematic experimentation, satire and anger, fashion and philosophy. Judex http://www.criterion.com/films/28047-judex Georges Franju 1963 • 97 minutes • 1.66:1 Combining stylish sixties modernism with silent-cinema touches and even a few unexpected sci-fi accents, Judex is a delightful bit of pulp fiction and a testament to the art of illusion. Jules and Jim http://www.criterion.com/films/218-jules-and-jim François Truffaut 1962 • 106 minutes • 2.35:1 • France Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, Jules and Jim charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession. Juliet of the Spirits http://www.criterion.com/films/689-juliet-of-the-spirits Federico Fellini 1965 • 137 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy Giulietta Masina plays a betrayed wife whose inability to come to terms with reality leads her along a hallucinatory journey of self-discovery in Fellini’s first color feature, a kaleidoscope of dreams, spirits, and memories. Kagemusha http://www.criterion.com/films/948-kagemusha Akira Kurosawa 1980 • 180 minutes • 1.85:1 • Japan In his late, color masterpiece, Akira Kurosawa returns to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his career—the play between illusion and reality. Sumptuously reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a meditation on the nature of power. Kanal http://www.criterion.com/films/916-kanal Andrzej Wajda 1957 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • Poland “Watch them closely, for these are the last hours of their lives,” announces a narrator, foretelling the tragedy that unfolds as a war-ravaged company of Home Army resistance fighters tries to escape the Nazis through the sewers of Warsaw. Kanal was the first film about the Warsaw Uprising. Kes http://www.criterion.com/films/27560-kes Ken Loach 1970 • 99 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom Named one of the ten best British films of the century by the British Film Institute, Ken Loach’s Kes, concerns Billy, a fifteen-year-old miner’s son whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead-end life. Kicking and Screaming http://www.criterion.com/films/795-kicking-and-screaming Noah Baumbach 1995 • 96 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Paralyzed by postgraduation ennui, a group of college friends remain on campus, patching together a community for themselves in order to deny the real-world futures awaiting them, in Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Noah Baumbach’s hilarious and touching directorial debut. The Kid with a Bike http://www.criterion.com/films/28405-the-kid-with-a-bike Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne 2011 • 87 minutes • 1.85:1 • Belgium Spare and unsentimental but deeply imbued with a heart-rending tenderness, The Kid with a Bike is an arresting work from the great Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, masters of the empathetic action film. Kill! http://www.criterion.com/films/763-kill Kihachi Okamoto 1968 • 114 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan In this pitch-black action comedy by Kihachi Okamoto, based on the same source novel as Akira Kurosawa’s Sanjuro, a pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. The Killer http://www.criterion.com/films/231-the-killer John Woo 1989 • 110 minutes • 1.85:1 • Hong Kong Chow Yun-fat stars as a killer with a conscience in John Woo’s exquisite dissection of morals in a corrupt society. Replete with balletic, slow-motion gun battles on the streets of Hong Kong, The Killer mixes genres from both the East and the West. The Killers http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/334-the-killers United States Ernest Hemingway’s simple but gripping short tale “The Killers” is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features. The Killers http://www.criterion.com/films/724-the-killers Robert Siodmak 1946 • 103 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Edition: Collector’s Sets The first screen incarnation of Ernest Hemingway’s short story “The Killers” came in 1946, when director Robert Siodmak unleashed The Killers , helping to define the film noir style and launching the careers of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner. The Killers http://www.criterion.com/films/725-the-killers Don Siegel 1964 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Edition: Collector’s Sets Ernest Hemingway’s gripping short story “The Killers” has fascinated readers and filmmakers for generations. In 1964, Don Siegel took it on, creating the first-ever made-for-TV feature, which would prove too violent for American audiences in the wake of JFK’s assassination. The Killing http://www.criterion.com/films/27751-the-killing Stanley Kubrick 1956 • 84 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States Stanley Kubrick’s account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood’s tautest, twistiest noirs. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie http://www.criterion.com/films/958-the-killing-of-a-chinese-bookie John Cassavetes 1976 • 135 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States John Cassavetes engages with film noir in his own inimitable style with The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Ben Gazzara brilliantly portrays a gentleman’s club owner, Cosmo Vitelli, desperately committed to maintaining a facade of suave gentility despite the seediness of his environment. Kind Hearts and Coronets http://www.criterion.com/films/357-kind-hearts-and-coronets Robert Hamer 1949 • 106 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom Dennis Price is sublime as an embittered young commoner determined to avenge his mother’s unjust disinheritance by ascending to her family’s dukedom in one of Ealing Studios’ greatest triumphs, and one of the most wickedly black comedies ever made. The King of Kings http://www.criterion.com/films/949-the-king-of-kings Cecil B. DeMille 1927 • 155 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. The King of Marvin Gardens http://www.criterion.com/films/27532-the-king-of-marvin-gardens Bob Rafelson 1972 • 104 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern play estranged siblings David and Jason, the former a depressive late-night-radio talk show host, the latter an extroverted con man; when Jason drags his younger brother to a dreary Atlantic City and into a real-estate scam, events spiral toward tragedy. King of the Hill http://www.criterion.com/films/27965-king-of-the-hill Steven Soderbergh 1993 • 103 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States This evocative period piece, faithfully adapted from the A. E. Hotchner memoir, is among the versatile Soderbergh’s most touching and surprising films. Kiss Me Deadly http://www.criterion.com/films/27620-kiss-me-deadly Robert Aldrich 1955 • 106 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States Brazen and bleak, Kiss Me Deadly is a film noir masterwork as well as an essential piece of cold war paranoia, and it features as nervy an ending as has ever been seen in American cinema. Knife in the Water http://www.criterion.com/films/219-knife-in-the-water Roman Polanski 1962 • 94 minutes • 1.33:1 • Poland A husband, a wife, a stranger, a knife: Roman Polanski sets them all adrift on a weekend filled with simmering resentments and gut-churning suspense in his seminal psychological thriller, still one of the greatest feature debuts in film history. Koko: A Talking Gorilla http://www.criterion.com/films/782-koko-a-talking-gorilla Barbet Schroeder 1978 • 80 minutes • 1.33:1 • France In 1977, acclaimed director Barbet Schroeder entered the universe of the world’s most famous primate to create the entertaining, troubling, and still relevant documentary Koko: A Talking Gorilla. Koyaanisqatsi http://www.criterion.com/films/28034-koyaanisqatsi Godfrey Reggio 1983 • 86 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi shuttles viewers from one jaw-dropping vision to the next, moving from images of untouched nature to others depicting human beings’ increasing dependence on technology. Kuroneko http://www.criterion.com/films/27628-kuroneko Kaneto Shindo 1968 • 99 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a malevolent spirit has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. Onibaba, Kuroneko (Black Cat) is a spectacularly eerie twilight tale. Kwaidan http://www.criterion.com/films/629-kwaidan Masaki Kobayashi 1965 • 161 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales in which terror thrives and demons lurk. Adapted from traditional Japanese ghost stories, this lavish, widescreen production drew extensively on Kobayashi’s own training as a student of painting and fine arts. L’Atalante http://www.criterion.com/films/27758-l-atalante Jean Vigo 1934 • 89 minutes • 1.33:1 • France In Jean Vigo’s hands, an unassuming tale of conjugal love becomes an achingly romantic reverie of desire and hope. L’avventura http://www.criterion.com/films/209-l-avventura Michelangelo Antonioni 1960 • 143 minutes • 1.77:1 • Italy Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. L’eclisse http://www.criterion.com/films/928-l-eclisse Michelangelo Antonioni 1962 • 126 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy The concluding chapter of Michelangelo Antonioni’s informal trilogy on contemporary malaise, L’eclisse tells the story of a young woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) and drifts into a relationship with another (Alain Delon). L’enfance nue http://www.criterion.com/films/2337-l-enfance-nue Maurice Pialat 1968 • 83 minutes • 1.66:1 • France The singular French director Maurice Pialat puts his distinctive stamp on the lost-youth film with this devastating portrait of a damaged foster child. Lacombe, Lucien http://www.criterion.com/films/776-lacombe-lucien Louis Malle 1974 • 138 minutes • 1.66:1 • France One of the first French films to address the issue of collaboration during the German occupation, Louis Malle’s brave and controversial Lacombe, Lucien traces a young peasant’s journey from potential Resistance member to Gestapo recruit. The Lady Eve http://www.criterion.com/films/639-the-lady-eve Preston Sturges 1941 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States In one of Sturges’s most clever and beloved romantic comedies, a conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune—a wealthy but naïve snake enthusiast—and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. The Lady Vanishes http://www.criterion.com/films/358-the-lady-vanishes Alfred Hitchcock 1938 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom In Alfred Hitchcock’s most quick-witted and devilish comic thriller, a young woman finds herself drawn into a complex web of mystery and high adventure while traveling across Europe by train. The Lady Vanishes remains one of the master filmmaker’s purest delights. Land of Milk and Honey http://www.criterion.com/films/28397-land-of-milk-and-honey Pierre Etaix 1971 • 76 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Pierre Etaix’s most radical film, and perhaps unsurprisingly the one that effectively ended his career in cinema, Land of Milk and Honey is a fascinating investigative documentary about post–May ’68 French society. The Last Command http://www.criterion.com/films/6721-the-last-command Josef von Sternberg 1928 • 88 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Emil Jannings won the first best actor Academy Award for his performance as a sympathetic tyrant: an exiled Russian general turned Hollywood extra who lands a role playing a version of his former czarist self, bringing about his emotional downfall. The Last Days of Disco http://www.criterion.com/films/2954-the-last-days-of-disco Whit Stillman 1998 • 113 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States The Last Days of Disco , from director Whit Stillman, is a cleverly comic look at the early 1980s Manhattan party scene from the vantage point of the late nineties. The Last Emperor http://www.criterion.com/films/254-the-last-emperor Bernardo Bertolucci 1987 • 160 minutes • 2.00:1 • China Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor , about the life of Emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne at age three, in 1908, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval, won nine Academy Awards, unexpectedly sweeping every category in which it was nominated. The Last Metro http://www.criterion.com/films/1084-the-last-metro François Truffaut 1980 • 131 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve star as members of a French theater company living under the German occupation during World War II in François Truffaut’s gripping character study. Equal parts romance, historical tragedy, and even comedy, this is Truffaut’s tribute to art overcoming adversity. The Last Picture Show http://www.criterion.com/films/27533-the-last-picture-show Peter Bogdanovich 1971 • 126 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal film in the career of the invaluable director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich. The Last Temptation of Christ http://www.criterion.com/films/612-the-last-temptation-of-christ Martin Scorsese 1988 • 163 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States The Last Temptation of Christ, by Martin Scorsese, is a towering achievement. Though it initially engendered enormous controversy, the film can now be viewed as the remarkable, profoundly personal work of faith that it is. The Last Wave http://www.criterion.com/films/685-the-last-wave Peter Weir 1977 • 106 minutes • 1.77:1 • Australia In Peter Weir’s The Last Wave , Richard Chamberlain stars as Australian lawyer David Burton, who takes on the defense of a group of aborigines accused of killing one of their own. Last Year at Marienbad http://www.criterion.com/films/1517-last-year-at-marienbad Alain Resnais 1961 • 94 minutes • 2.35:1 • France A surreal fever dream, or perhaps a nightmare, Last Year at Marienbad , written by the radical master of the New Novel, Alain Robbe-Grillet, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman who may or may not have met a year ago. Late Spring http://www.criterion.com/films/298-late-spring Yasujiro Ozu 1949 • 108 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan One of the most powerful of Yasujiro Ozu’s family portraits, Late Spring ( Banshun ) tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter. Léon Morin, Priest http://www.criterion.com/films/27660-leon-morin-priest Jean-Pierre Melville 1961 • 117 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Jean-Paul Belmondo delivers a subtly sensual performance in the hot-under-the-collar Léon Morin, Priest , directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. The French superstar plays a devoted man of the cloth who is desired by all the women of a small village in Nazi-occupied France. The Leopard http://www.criterion.com/films/790-the-leopard Luchino Visconti 1963 • 185 minutes • 2.21:1 • Italy An epic on the grandest possible scale, Visconti’s opulent masterpiece stars Burt Lancaster as an aging prince watching his culture and fortune wane in the face of a new generation during the tumultuous years of Italy’s Risorgimento. Letter Never Sent http://www.criterion.com/films/27673-letter-never-sent Mikhail Kalatozov 1959 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • Soviet Union The great Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov, known for his virtuosic, emotionally gripping films, perhaps never made a more visually astonishing one than Letter Never Sent. Letters from Fontainhas: http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/704-letters-from-fontainhas-three-films-by-pedro-costa Three Films by Pedro Costa Pedro Costa Portugal These are the three films that put Portuguese director Pedro Costa on the map: spare, painterly portraits of battered, largely immigrant lives in the slums of Fontainhas, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp http://www.criterion.com/films/359-the-life-and-death-of-colonel-blimp Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1943 • 163 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom Considered by many to be the finest British film ever made, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is a stirring masterpiece like no other. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou http://www.criterion.com/films/741-the-life-aquatic-with-steve-zissou Wes Anderson 2004 • 118 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew, Team Zissou, set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou’s partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. Life During Wartime http://www.criterion.com/films/27659-life-during-wartime Todd Solondz 2010 • 97 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States In Life During Wartime, independent filmmaker Todd Solondz explores contemporary American existence and the nature of forgiveness with his customary dry humor and queasy precision. Life Is Sweet http://www.criterion.com/films/27982-life-is-sweet Mike Leigh 1990 • 103 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom This invigorating film from Mike Leigh was his first international sensation. Melancholy and funny by turns, it is an intimate portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London. The Life of Oharu http://www.criterion.com/films/27705-the-life-of-oharu Kenji Mizoguchi 1952 • 136 minutes • 1.37:1 • Japan 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 the director international attention, ushering in a new golden period for him. Like Someone in Love http://www.criterion.com/films/28616-like-someone-in-love Abbas Kiarostami 2012 • 109 minutes • 1.66:1 Kiarostami has constructed an enigmatic but crystalline investigation of affection and desire as complex as his masterful Close-up and Certified Copy in its engagement with the workings of the mercurial human heart. Limelight http://www.criterion.com/films/27557-limelight Charles Chaplin 1952 • 137 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States Charlie Chaplin’s masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer-director’s most touching films. Chaplin plays Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. Lola http://www.criterion.com/films/595-lola Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1981 • 113 minutes • 1.66:1 • Germany In Fassbinder’s satiric tribute to capitalism, Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute, launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Lola Montès http://www.criterion.com/films/938-lola-montes Max Ophuls 1955 • 115 minutes • 2.55:1 • France Max Ophuls’s final film, Lola Montès is at once a magnificent romantic melodrama, a meditation on the lurid fascination with celebrity, and a one-of-a-kind movie spectacle. Lonesome http://www.criterion.com/films/28212-lonesome Paul Fejos 1928 • 69 minutes • 1.19:1 • United States A buried treasure from Hollywood’s golden age, Lonesome is the creation of a little-known but audacious and one-of-a-kind filmmaker, Paul Fejos (also an explorer, anthropologist, and doctor!). The Long Day Closes http://www.criterion.com/films/27984-the-long-day-closes Terence Davies 1992 • 85 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom Suffused with both enchantment and melancholy, this autobiographical film takes on the perspective of a quiet, lonely boy growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s. The Long Good Friday http://www.criterion.com/films/559-the-long-good-friday John Mackenzie 1979 • 114 minutes • 1.77:1 • United Kingdom Bob Hoskins, in his breakthrough film role, stars as a London racketeer fast losing control of his gangland empire; Helen Mirren shines as his classy moll. Lord of the Flies http://www.criterion.com/films/563-lord-of-the-flies Peter Brook 1963 • 90 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding’s legendary novel about the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum http://www.criterion.com/films/726-the-lost-honor-of-katharina-blum Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta 1975 • 106 minutes • 1.77:1 • Germany When Katharina Blum spends the night with an alleged terrorist, her quiet, ordered life falls into ruins. Suddenly a suspect, Katharina is subject to a vicious smear campaign by the police and a ruthless tabloid journalist, testing the limits of her dignity and her sanity. Louie Bluie http://www.criterion.com/films/27509-louie-bluie Terry Zwigoff 1985 • 60 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Crumb director Terry Zwigoff’s first film is a true treat: a documentary about the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. Love in the Afternoon http://www.criterion.com/films/794-love-in-the-afternoon Eric Rohmer 1972 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • France In the luminous final chapter to Rohmer’s “Moral Tales,” the bourgeois business executive Frédéric, though happily married to an adoring wife, cannot banish from his mind the multitude of attractive Parisian women who pass him every day. Then arrives Chloé, an audacious, unencumbered old flame. Love on the Run http://www.criterion.com/films/734-love-on-the-run François Truffaut 1979 • 95 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Antoine Doinel strikes again! In the final chapter of François Truffaut’s saga, we find Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), now in his thirties, convivially concluding his marriage, enjoying moderate success as a novelist, and clinging to his romantic fantasies. Love Streams http://www.criterion.com/films/28032-love-streams John Cassavetes 1984 • 141 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States The electric filmmaking genius John Cassavetes and his brilliant wife and collaborator Gena Rowlands give luminous, fragile performances as two closely bound, emotionally wounded souls who reunite after years apart. The Lovers http://www.criterion.com/films/539-the-lovers Louis Malle 1958 • 90 minutes • 2.35:1 • France A deeply felt and luxuriously filmed fairy tale for grown-ups, The Lovers presents Jeanne Moreau as a restless bourgeois wife whose eye wanders from both her husband and her lover to an attractive passing stranger. Loves of a Blonde http://www.criterion.com/films/246-loves-of-a-blonde Miloš Forman 1965 • 82 minutes • 1.33:1 • Czechoslovakia A tender and humorous look at a young woman’s journey from the first pangs of romance to its inevitable disappointments, Loves of a Blonde immediately became a classic of the Czech New Wave and earned Milos Forman the first of his Academy Award nominations. The Lower Depths http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/487-the-lower-depths Two unique versions of Maxim Gorky’s classic proletariat play, adapted by two of cinema’s greatest directors: Jean Renoir and Akira Kurosawa. The Lower Depths http://www.criterion.com/films/857-the-lower-depths Akira Kurosawa 1957 • 125 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan Working with his most celebrated actor, Toshiro Mifune, Akira Kurosawa faithfully adapts Maxim Gorky’s classic proletariat play, keeping the original’s focus on the conflict between illusion and reality. The Lower Depths http://www.criterion.com/films/870-the-lower-depths Jean Renoir 1936 • 89 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Jean Renoir’s adaptation of Gorky’s classic proletariat play takes license with the dark nature of its source material, softening the play’s bleak outlook in a reaction to the rise of Hitler and the Popular Front in 1930s France. M http://www.criterion.com/films/558-m Fritz Lang 1931 • 110 minutes • 1.19:1 • Germany Peter Lorre stars as serial killer Hans Beckert in Fritz Lang’s harrowing masterwork M , a suspenseful panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller. Macbeth http://www.criterion.com/films/28020-macbeth Roman Polanski 1971 • 140 minutes • 2.35:1 • United Kingdom Roman Polanski imbues his unflinchingly violent adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy of ruthless ambition and murder in medieval Scotland with grit and dramatic intensity. Made in U.S.A http://www.criterion.com/films/2109-made-in-u-s-a Jean-Luc Godard 1966 • 85 minutes • 2.35:1 • France Like a Looney Tunes rendition of The Big Sleep gone New Wave, this chaotic crime thriller and acidly funny critique of consumerism features Anna Karina as the most brightly dressed private investigator in film history, searching for a former lover who might have been assassinated. Mafioso http://www.criterion.com/films/527-mafioso Alberto Lattuada 1962 • 102 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy Auto-factory foreman Nino (Alberto Sordi) takes his proper, modern wife and daughters from industrial Milan to rural Sicily to visit his family and get back in touch with his roots in Alberto Lattuada’s devastatingly funny character study—equal parts culture-clash farce and existential nightmare. The Magic Flute http://www.criterion.com/films/613-the-magic-flute Ingmar Bergman 1975 • 135 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden Ingmar Bergman puts his indelible stamp on Mozart’s exquisite opera in this sublime rendering of one of the composer’s best-loved works: a celebration of love, forgiveness, and the brotherhood of man. The Magician http://www.criterion.com/films/27521-the-magician Ingmar Bergman 1958 • 101 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden Ingmar Bergman’s The Magician ( Ansiktet ) is an engaging, brilliantly conceived tale of deceit from one of cinema’s premier illusionists, a diabolically clever battle of wits that’s both frightening and funny. Magnificent Obsession http://www.criterion.com/films/973-magnificent-obsession Douglas Sirk 1954 • 108 minutes • 2.00:1 • United States In one of Douglas Sirk’s most flamboyant master classes in melodrama, reckless playboy Bob Merrick (Rock Hudson) and a local doctor’s widow, Helen (Jane Wyman), find themselves inextricably linked amid a series of increasingly wild twists, turns, trials, and tribulations. Maîtresse http://www.criterion.com/films/554-maitresse Barbet Schroeder 1973 • 112 minutes • 1.66:1 • France A young provincial in search of adventure stumbles into the subterranean world of sadomasochism when he is implicated in a burglary of a Paris apartment in Barbet Schroeder’s Maîtresse . Make Way for Tomorrow http://www.criterion.com/films/2350-make-way-for-tomorrow Leo McCarey 1937 • 92 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Make Way for Tomorrow, by Leo McCarey, is one of the great unsung Hollywood masterpieces, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. The Making of Fanny and Alexander http://www.criterion.com/films/627-the-making-of-fanny-and-alexander Ingmar Bergman 1982 • 110 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden Directed by Ingmar Bergman himself, this feature-length documentary chronicles the methods of one of cinema’s true luminaries as he labors to realize his crowning production. The Makioka Sisters http://www.criterion.com/films/27619-the-makioka-sisters Kon Ichikawa 1983 • 140 minutes • 1.85:1 • Japan This graceful study of a family at a turning point in history is a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs, shot in rich, vivid colors. Mala Noche http://www.criterion.com/films/253-mala-noche Gus Van Sant 1985 • 78 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States A romantic deadbeat has a wayward crush on a handsome Mexican immigrant in Mala Noche , Gus Van Sant’s important prelude to the New Queer Cinema of the nineties and a fascinating capsule from a period and place that continues to haunt its director’s work. Mamma Roma http://www.criterion.com/films/375-mamma-roma Pier Paolo Pasolini 1962 • 110 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy In Pier Paolo Pasolini’s neorealist take on society’s marginalized and dispossessed, Anna Magnani delivers a powerhouse performance as a middle-aged prostitute who attempts to extricate herself from her sordid past for the sake of her son. Man Bites Dog http://www.criterion.com/films/718-man-bites-dog Rémy Belvaux , André Bonzel and Benoit Poelvoorde 1992 • 96 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Controversial winner of the International Critics’ Prize at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, Man Bites Dog stunned audiences worldwide with its unflinching imagery and biting satire of media violence. A Man Escaped http://www.criterion.com/films/27848-a-man-escaped Robert Bresson 1956 • 101 minutes • 1.33:1 • France With the simplest of concepts and sparest of techniques, Robert Bresson made one of the most suspenseful jailbreak films of all time in A Man Escaped. The Man Who Fell to Earth http://www.criterion.com/films/755-the-man-who-fell-to-earth Nicolas Roeg 1976 • 139 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States The Man Who Fell to Earth is a daring exploration of science fiction as an art form. The story of an alien on an elaborate rescue mission provides the launching pad for Nicolas Roeg’s visual tour de force, a formally adventurous examination of alienation in contemporary life. The Man Who Knew Too Much http://www.criterion.com/films/27999-the-man-who-knew-too-much Alfred Hitchcock 1934 • 75 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom This fleet and gripping film is the first of the early thrillers the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, made during the fertile phase of his career spent at the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation. Marketa Lazarová http://www.criterion.com/films/27876-marketa-lazarova František Vlácil 1967 • 165 minutes • 2.35:1 • Czechoslovakia Based on a novel by Vladislav Vančura, this stirring and poetic depiction of a feud between two rival medieval clans is a fierce, epic, and meticulously designed evocation of the clashes between Christianity and paganism, humankind and nature, love and violence. The Marriage of Maria Braun http://www.criterion.com/films/592-the-marriage-of-maria-braun Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1978 • 120 minutes • 1.66:1 • West Germany After her husband disappears in the last days of World War II, Maria uses her beauty and ambition to prosper in 1950s Germany. The first part of Fassbinder’s “postwar trilogy” is a heartbreaking character study as well as a pointed metaphorical attack on a society determined to forget its past. Martha Graham: Dance on Film http://www.criterion.com/films/835-martha-graham-dance-on-film Nathan Kroll 1959 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States One of the great artistic forces of the twentieth century, performer, choreographer, and teacher Martha Graham influenced dance worldwide. A Dancer’s World , Appalachian Spring , and Night Journey are signature Graham works and tributes to the art of the human body. Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1021-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project The mission of the WCP is to preserve and present marginalized and infrequently screened films from regions generally ill equipped to preserve their own cinema history. Masculin féminin http://www.criterion.com/films/508-masculin-feminin Jean-Luc Godard 1966 • 110 minutes • 1.33:1 • France With Masculin féminin, ruthless stylist and iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard introduces the world to “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola,” through a gang of restless youths engaged in hopeless love affairs with music, revolution, and each other. A Master Builder http://www.criterion.com/films/28646-a-master-builder Jonathan Demme 2014 • 127 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States Brought pristinely to the screen by Jonathan Demme, this compellingly abstract reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s Bygmester Solness features Shawn (who also wrote the adaptation) as a visionary but tyrannical middle-aged architect haunted by figures from his past, Master of the House http://www.criterion.com/films/27804-master-of-the-house Carl Th. Dreyer 1925 • 107 minutes • 1.33:1 • Denmark Before he turned to the story of Joan of Arc, the Danish cinema genius Carl Theodor Dreyer fashioned this ahead-of-its-time examination of domestic life. Medium Cool http://www.criterion.com/films/28426-medium-cool Haskell Wexler 1969 • 110 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States It’s 1968, and the whole world is watching. With the U.S. in social upheaval, famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler decided to make a film about what the hell was going on. Medium Cool , his debut feature, plunges us into the moment. The Merchant of Four Seasons http://www.criterion.com/films/27960-the-merchant-of-four-seasons Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1971 • 88 minutes • 1.37:1 In this anguished yet mordantly funny film, Fassbinder charts the decline of a self-destructive former policeman and war veteran struggling to make ends meet for his family by working as a fruit vendor. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence http://www.criterion.com/films/27512-merry-christmas-mr-lawrence Nagisa Oshima 1983 • 123 minutes • 1.78:1 • Japan In this captivating, skewed World War II drama from Nagisa Oshima, David Bowie regally embodies the character Celliers, a British officer interned by the Japanese as a POW . This was one of Oshima’s greatest successes. Metropolitan http://www.criterion.com/films/774-metropolitan Whit Stillman 1990 • 99 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States One of the great American independent films of the 1990s, the surprise hit Metropolitan, by writer-director Whit Stillman, is a sparkling comedic chronicle of a young man’s romantic misadventures while trying to fit in to New York City’s debutante society. The Mikado http://www.criterion.com/films/27551-the-mikado Victor Schertzinger 1939 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States The legendary Gilbert and Sullivan troupe the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company joined forces with Hollywood for this 1939 Technicolor version of the beloved comic opera The Mikado, the first work by the famed duo to be adapted for the screen. The Milky Way http://www.criterion.com/films/832-the-milky-way Luis Buñuel 1969 • 101 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Two French beggars, present-day pilgrims en route to Spain’s holy city of Santiago de Compostela, serve as narrators for an anticlerical history of heresy, told with absurdity and filled with images that rank among Luis Buñuel’s most memorable. A hotly debated work from cinema’s greatest skeptic. Le million http://www.criterion.com/films/614-le-million René Clair 1931 • 81 minutes • 1.33:1 • France By turns charming and inventive, René Clair’s lyrical masterpiece about the journey of a winning lottery ticket had a profound impact on not only the Marx Brothers and Charlie Chaplin but the American musical as a whole. Ministry of Fear http://www.criterion.com/films/28065-ministry-of-fear Fritz Lang 1944 • 87 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States Suffused with dread and paranoia, this Fritz Lang adaptation of a novel by Graham Greene is a plunge into the eerie shadows of a world turned upside down by war. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters http://www.criterion.com/films/588-mishima-a-life-in-four-chapters Paul Schrader 1985 • 120 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Paul Schrader’s visually stunning, collagelike portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted an impossible harmony between self, art, and society. Miss Julie http://www.criterion.com/films/361-miss-julie Alf Sjöberg 1951 • 90 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden Swedish filmmaker Alf Sjöberg’s visually innovative, Cannes Grand Prix-winning adaptation of August Strindberg’s renowned 1888 play brings to scalding life the excoriating words of the stage’s preeminent surveyor of all things rotten in the state of male-female relations. Missing http://www.criterion.com/films/769-missing Costa-Gavras 1982 • 122 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek, Missing is political filmmaker extraordinaire Costa-Gavras’s compelling, controversial dramatization of the search for American filmmaker and journalist Charles Horman, who mysteriously disappeared during the 1973 coup in Chile. Modern Times http://www.criterion.com/films/27526-modern-times Charlie Chaplin 1936 • 87 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin’s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). The Moment of Truth http://www.criterion.com/films/27674-the-moment-of-truth Francesco Rosi 1965 • 107 minutes • 2.35:1 • Italy The Moment of Truth, from director Francesco Rosi, is a visceral plunge into the life of a famous torero—played by real-life bullfighting legend Miguel Mateo, known as Miguelín. Mon oncle http://www.criterion.com/films/650-mon-oncle Jacques Tati 1958 • 116 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Mon oncle is a supremely amusing satire of mechanized living and consumer society that earned the director the Academy Award for best foreign-language film. Mon oncle Antoine http://www.criterion.com/films/590-mon-oncle-antoine Claude Jutra 1971 • 104 minutes • 1.66:1 • Canada Claude Jutra’s evocative portrait of a boy’s coming of age in wintry 1940s rural Quebec has been consistently cited by critics and scholars as the greatest Canadian film of all time. Mona Lisa http://www.criterion.com/films/648-mona-lisa Neil Jordan 1986 • 104 minutes • 1.77:1 • United Kingdom Bob Hoskins (who snagged an Oscar nomination for his performance) plays George, a small-time loser employed as a chauffeur to an enigmatic, high-class call girl in writer-director Neil Jordan’s brilliant, noir-infused love story. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday http://www.criterion.com/films/360-monsieur-hulot-s-holiday Jacques Tati 1953 • 87 minutes • 1.37:1 • France Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Monsieur Verdoux http://www.criterion.com/films/27574-monsieur-verdoux Charles Chaplin 1947 • 124 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Charlie Chaplin plays shockingly against type in his most controversial film, a brilliant and bleak black comedy about money, marriage, and murder. Monsoon Wedding http://www.criterion.com/films/2364-monsoon-wedding Mira Nair 2001 • 114 minutes • 1.85:1 • India Cultures and families clash in Mira Nair’s exuberant Monsoon Wedding, a mix of comedy and chaotic melodrama concerning the preparations for the arranged marriage of a modern upper-middle-class Indian family’s only daughter. Monsters and Madmen http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/434-monsters-and-madmen United States Launching us from a grave past to a space-age future, these two thrilling double features, from producers Richard and Alex Gordon, spin classic tales of hair-raising homicidal mania and intrepid, death-defying exploration. Monterey Pop http://www.criterion.com/films/720-monterey-pop D. A. Pennebaker 1967 • 78 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States In 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love, the first and only Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Monterey would launch the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, but they were just a few. Monty Python’s Life of Brian http://www.criterion.com/films/606-monty-python-s-life-of-brian Terry Jones 1979 • 94 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom Blind faith, virgin birth, crucifixion—nothing is sacred in Monty Python’s epic send-up of ancient times, which draws on the cornball biblical blockbusters of the 1950s to lampoon celebrity culture in any era. Moonrise Kingdom http://www.criterion.com/films/28757-moonrise-kingdom Wes Anderson 2012 • 94 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States An island off the New England coast, summer of 1965. Two twelve-year-olds, Sam and Suzy, fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness The Most Dangerous Game http://www.criterion.com/films/584-the-most-dangerous-game Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel 1932 • 63 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States One of the best and most literate movies from the great days of horror, The Most Dangerous Game stars Leslie Banks as a big-game hunter with a taste for the world’s most exotic prey—his houseguests. Mouchette http://www.criterion.com/films/456-mouchette Robert Bresson 1967 • 78 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Faced with a dying mother, an absent, alcoholic father, and a baby brother in need of care, the teenage Mouchette seeks solace in nature and daily routine, a respite from her economic and pubescent turmoil. Bresson’s hugely empathetic drama is an essential work of French filmmaking. Murmur of the Heart http://www.criterion.com/films/775-murmur-of-the-heart Louis Malle 1971 • 118 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Louis Malle’s critically acclaimed Murmur of the Heart gracefully combines elements of comedy, drama, and autobiography in a candid portrait of a precocious adolescent boy’s sexual maturation. Both shocking and deeply poignant, this is one of the finest coming-of-age films ever made. The Music Room http://www.criterion.com/films/27657-the-music-room Satyajit Ray 1958 • 99 minutes • 1.33:1 • India An incandescent depiction of the clash between tradition and modernity, and a showcase for some of India’s most popular musicians of the day, The Music Room is a defining work by the great Bengali filmmaker. My Beautiful Laundrette http://www.criterion.com/films/28044-my-beautiful-laundrette Stephen Frears 1985 • 97 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom Stephen Frears was at the forefront of the British cinematic revival of the mid-1980s, and the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the period. My Darling Clementine http://www.criterion.com/films/28570-my-darling-clementine John Ford 1946 • 97 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States John Ford takes on the legend of the O.K. Corral shoot-out in this multilayered, exceptionally well-constructed western, one of the director’s very best films. My Dinner with André http://www.criterion.com/films/1093-my-dinner-with-andre Louis Malle 1981 • 110 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States In Louis Malle’s captivating and philosophical My Dinner with André, actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with friend and theater director André Gregory at an Upper West Side restaurant, and the two proceed into a confessional on love, death, money, and all the superstition in between. My Life as a Dog http://www.criterion.com/films/727-my-life-as-a-dog Lasse Hallström 1985 • 101 minutes • 1.66:1 • Sweden My Life as a Dog is the story of Ingemar, a working-class twelve-year-old sent to live with his uncle in a country village when his mother falls ill. There, with the help of the warmhearted eccentrics who populate the town, the boy finds both refuge from his misfortunes and unexpected adventure. My Man Godfrey http://www.criterion.com/films/653-my-man-godfrey Gregory La Cava 1936 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States The definitive screwball comedy, My Man Godfrey follows the madcap antics of a wealthy and eccentric family when they hire a down-and-out “forgotten man” as their butler. My Night at Maud’s http://www.criterion.com/films/791-my-night-at-maud-s Eric Rohmer 1969 • 111 minutes • 1.33:1 • France In the brilliantly accomplished centerpiece of Rohmer’s “Moral Tales” series, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays Jean-Louis, a pious Catholic engineer who unwittingly spends the night at the apartment of the bold, brunette divorcée Maud, where his rigid ethical standards are challenged. My Own Private Idaho http://www.criterion.com/films/249-my-own-private-idaho Gus Van Sant 1991 • 104 minutes • 1.77:1 • United States River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves star in Gus Van Sant’s haunting tale of two young street hustlers: Mike Waters, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott Favor, the wayward son of the mayor of Portland and object of Mike’s desire. My Winnipeg http://www.criterion.com/films/27969-my-winnipeg Guy Maddin 2007 • 80 minutes • 1.33:1 • Canada A work of memory and imagination, the film burrows into what the filmmaker calls “the heart of the heart” of the continent, conjuring a city as delightful as it is fearsome, populated by sleepwalkers and hockey aficionados. Mystery Train http://www.criterion.com/films/2057-mystery-train Jim Jarmusch 1989 • 110 minutes • 1.77:1 • United States Made with its director’s customary precision and wit, Jim Jarmusch’s Mystery Train is a triptych of stories that pay playful tribute to the home of Stax Records, Sun Studio, Graceland, Carl Perkins, and, of course, the King himself, who presides over the film like a spirit. Naked http://www.criterion.com/films/220-naked Mike Leigh 1993 • 131 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom Leigh’s depiction of England’s underbelly is an amalgam of black comedy and doomsday prophecy that took the best director and best actor prizes at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. The Naked City http://www.criterion.com/films/818-the-naked-city Jules Dassin 1948 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Master noir craftsman Jules Dassin’s dazzling police procedural The Naked City was shot entirely on location in New York. As influenced by Italian neorealism as American crime fiction, this double Academy Award winner remains a benchmark for naturalism in noir. The Naked Kiss http://www.criterion.com/films/533-the-naked-kiss Samuel Fuller 1964 • 90 minutes • 1.75:1 • United States The setup is pure pulp: A former prostitute (a crackerjack Constance Towers) relocates to a buttoned-down suburb, determined to fit in with mainstream society. Naked Lunch http://www.criterion.com/films/634-naked-lunch David Cronenberg 1991 • 115 minutes • 1.78:1 • Canada In this adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s hallucinatory, once-thought-unfilmable novel Naked Lunch, directed by David Cronenberg, a part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict named Bill Lee (Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish Interzone. The Naked Prey http://www.criterion.com/films/848-the-naked-prey Cornel Wilde 1966 • 96 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States After an ivory-hunting safari offends an African tribe, the colonialists are captured and hideously tortured. Only Cornel Wilde’s marksman is released, without clothes or weapons, to be hunted for sport. This stripped-to-the-bone narrative is a meditation on the notion of civilization. Nanook of the North http://www.criterion.com/films/574-nanook-of-the-north Robert Flaherty 1922 • 79 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Robert Flaherty’s classic film tells the story of Inuit hunter Nanook and his family as they struggle to survive in the harsh conditions of Canada’s Hudson Bay region. Naqoyqatsi http://www.criterion.com/films/28418-naqoyqatsi Godfrey Reggio 2002 • 89 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States Through a variety of cinematic techniques, including slow motion, time-lapse, computer- generated imagery, and found footage, the film tells of a world that has completed the transition from the natural to the artificial. Nashville http://www.criterion.com/films/28427-nashville Robert Altman 1975 • 160 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States This cornerstone of 1970s American moviemaking from Robert Altman is a panoramic view of the country’s political and cultural landscapes, set in the nation’s music capital. Native Land http://www.criterion.com/films/814-native-land Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand 1942 • 89 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Edition: Collector’s Sets With Paul Robeson’s narration and songs, Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz’s beautifully shot and edited political semidocumentary exposes violations of Americans’ civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country. New Tale of Zatoichi http://www.criterion.com/films/28302-new-tale-of-zatoichi Tokuzo Tanaka 1963 • 91 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Zatoichi is back—and in color! Hoping to leave violence behind, the blind masseur wanders to a village, where he meets an old friend fallen on hard times. Night and Fog http://www.criterion.com/films/238-night-and-fog Alain Resnais 1955 • 31 minutes • 1.33:1 • France One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Alain Resnais’ documentary Night and Fog ( Nuit et Brouillard ) contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps’ quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage. Night and the City http://www.criterion.com/films/933-night-and-the-city Jules Dassin 1950 • 101 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian aches for a life of ease and plenty. Trailed by a history of go-nowhere schemes, he stumbles upon a chance of a lifetime in the form of legendary wrestler Gregorius the Great. But there is no easy money in this underworld of shifting alliances and pummeled flesh. The Night of the Hunter http://www.criterion.com/films/27525-the-night-of-the-hunter Charles Laughton 1955 • 93 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States The Night of the Hunter is truly a stand-alone masterwork. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic is cinema’s most eccentric rendering of the battle between good and evil. Night on Earth http://www.criterion.com/films/227-night-on-earth Jim Jarmusch 1991 • 128 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States Five cities. Five taxicabs. Jim Jarmusch’s lovingly askew view of humanity from the passenger seat makes for one of his most charming and beloved films. The Night Porter http://www.criterion.com/films/604-the-night-porter Liliana Cavani 1974 • 118 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her former torturer and lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. A Night to Remember http://www.criterion.com/films/521-a-night-to-remember Roy Ward Baker 1958 • 123 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom On April 14, 1912, just before midnight, the “unsinkable” Titanic struck an iceberg. In less than three hours, it had plunged to the bottom of the sea. This is cinema’s subtlest and best dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe. Night Train to Munich http://www.criterion.com/films/25039-night-train-to-munich Carol Reed 1940 • 90 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom This captivating, long-overlooked adventure—with a clever screenplay by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, best known for writing Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes —is a deftly concocted spy game that could give the master of suspense a run for his money. Nights of Cabiria http://www.criterion.com/films/243-nights-of-cabiria Federico Fellini 1957 • 110 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Nights of Cabiria is the tragic story of a naive prostitute searching for true love in the seediest sections of Rome. El Norte http://www.criterion.com/films/972-el-norte Gregory Nava 1983 • 140 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States A brother and sister flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. A work of social realism imbued with dreamlike imagery, El Norte is a lovingly rendered, heartbreaking story of hope and survival. À nos amours http://www.criterion.com/films/779-a-nos-amours Maurice Pialat 1983 • 102 minutes • 1.66:1 • France In a revelatory film debut, the dynamic, fresh-faced Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a fifteen-year-old Parisian who embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing, beloved father. À nos amours is one of Maurice Pialat’s greatest achievements. Notorious http://www.criterion.com/films/682-notorious Alfred Hitchcock 1946 • 102 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States In Hitchcock’s Notorious, a beautiful woman with a tainted past (Ingrid Bergman) is enlisted by American agent Devlin (Cary Grant) to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage work becomes life-threatening after she marries the most debonair of the Nazi ring, Alex (Claude Rains). La notte http://www.criterion.com/films/28111-la-notte Michelangelo Antonioni 1961 • 122 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau star as a novelist and his frustrated wife, who, over the course of one night, confront their alienation from each other and the achingly empty bourgeois Milan circles in which they travel. Le notti bianche http://www.criterion.com/films/868-le-notti-bianche Luchino Visconti 1957 • 101 minutes • 1.66:1 • Italy In Luchino Visconti’s exquisite Dostoyevsky adaptation, Marcello Mastroianni is a lonely city transplant and Maria Schell is a sheltered girl haunted by a lover’s promise who meet by chance on a canal bridge and begin a tentative romance that entangles them in a web of longing and self-delusion. À nous la liberté http://www.criterion.com/films/714-a-nous-la-liberte René Clair 1931 • 81 minutes • 1.33:1 • France One of the all-time comedy classics, René Clair’s À nous la liberté tells the story of Louis, an escaped convict who becomes a wealthy industrialist. Unfortunately, his past returns (in the form of old jail pal Emile) to upset his carefully laid plans. Odd Man Out http://www.criterion.com/films/28173-odd-man-out Carol Reed 1947 • 116 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed’s psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Oliver Twist http://www.criterion.com/films/567-oliver-twist David Lean 1948 • 116 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom An orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home in David Lean’s rendition of Dickens’s classic tale. Olivier’s Shakespeare http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/577-olivier-s-shakespeare Laurence Olivier United Kingdom Edition: DVD Laurence Olivier directed only five films in his sixty-year career, yet his three Shakespeare adaptations, presented here together on DVD for the first time, are still widely considered the definitive film adaptations. On the Waterfront http://www.criterion.com/films/27899-on-the-waterfront Elia Kazan 1954 • 108 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this masterpiece of urban poetry. Onibaba http://www.criterion.com/films/665-onibaba Kaneto Shindo 1964 • 103 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan In Kaneto Shindo’s chilling folktale, a mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a desperate existence in the lonely marshes of war-torn medieval Japan. When a neighbor returns from the skirmishes, lust, jealousy, and rage—and a horrifying fate at the hands of an ominous, ill-gotten demon mask—ensue. The Only Son http://www.criterion.com/films/2606-the-only-son Yasujiro Ozu 1936 • 82 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan Yasujiro Ozu’s first talkie, the uncommonly poignant The Only Son is among the Japanese director’s greatest works, a simple story about a good-natured mother who gives up everything to ensure her son’s education and future. The Only Son/There Was a Father: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/730-the-only-son-there-was-a-father-two-films-by-yasujiro-ozu Yasujiro Ozu Japan These rare early films from Yasujiro Ozu, The Only Son and There Was a Father , are considered by many to be two of the Japanese director’s finest works, paving the way for a career among the most sensitive and significant in film history. Opening Night http://www.criterion.com/films/957-opening-night John Cassavetes 1977 • 144 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States While in the midst of rehearsals for her latest play, Broadway actor Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands) witnesses the accidental death of an adoring young fan, after which she begins to confront the chaos of her own life. Ordet http://www.criterion.com/films/441-ordet Carl Th. Dreyer 1955 • 125 minutes • 1.33:1 • Denmark In Carl Dreyer’s Ordet , a farmer’s family is torn apart by faith, sanctity, and love—one child believes he’s Jesus Christ, a second proclaims himself agnostic, and the third falls in love with a fundamentalist’s daughter. The Organizer http://www.criterion.com/films/27612-the-organizer Mario Monicelli 1963 • 130 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy This historical drama by Mario Monicelli, brimming with humor and honesty, is a beautiful and moving ode to the power of the people. Orpheus http://www.criterion.com/films/610-orpheus Jean Cocteau 1950 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Jean Cocteau’s update of the Orpheus myth depicts a famous poet (Jean Marais), scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife, Eurydice (Marie Déa), and a mysterious princess (Maria Casarès). The Orphic Trilogy http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/155-the-orphic-trilogy Jean Cocteau France In The Blood of a Poet, Orpheus, and Testament of Orpheus, Cocteau utilizes the Orphic myth to explore the complex relationships between the artist and his creations, reality and the imagination. Ossos http://www.criterion.com/films/21942-ossos Pedro Costa 1997 • 98 minutes • 1.66:1 • Portugal After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father. The first film in Pedro Costa’s transformative trilogy about Fontainhas, an impoverished quarter of Lisbon, Ossos is a tale of young lives torn apart by desperation. Overlord http://www.criterion.com/films/550-overlord Stuart Cooper 1975 • 84 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage with a fictional narrative, this immersive account of one twenty-year-old’s journey from basic training to the front lines of D-Day brings to life all the terrors and isolation of war with jolting authenticity. Paisan http://www.criterion.com/films/2415-paisan Roberto Rossellini 1946 • 120 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy Roberto Rossellini’s follow-up to his breakout Rome Open City was the ambitious, enormously moving Paisan , which consists of six episodes set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II, taking place across the country, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. Pale Flower http://www.criterion.com/films/27604-pale-flower Masahiro Shinoda 1964 • 96 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan In this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful and enigmatic gambling addict; what at first seems a redemptive relationship ends up leading him further down the criminal path. The Palm Beach Story http://www.criterion.com/films/28103-the-palm-beach-story Preston Sturges 1942 • 88 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States A mix of the witty and the utterly absurd, The Palm Beach Story is a high watermark of Sturges’s brand of physical comedy and verbal repartee, featuring sparkling performances. Pandora’s Box http://www.criterion.com/films/362-pandora-s-box Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1929 • 133 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany Sensationally modern, G. W. Pabst’s lurid, controversial melodrama follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu (Louise Brooks), whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone she comes in contact with. Paris, Texas http://www.criterion.com/films/1502-paris-texas Wim Wenders 1984 • 147 minutes • 1.78:1 • Germany New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders ( Wings of Desire ) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard. The Passion of Joan of Arc http://www.criterion.com/films/228-the-passion-of-joan-of-arc Carl Th. Dreyer 1928 • 82 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc , in which Renée Falconetti gives one of the greatest performances ever recorded on film, convinced the world that movies could be art. Paths of Glory http://www.criterion.com/films/27522-paths-of-glory Stanley Kubrick 1957 • 88 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory is among the most powerful antiwar films ever made. This is a haunting, exquisitely photographed dissection of the military machine in all its absurdity and capacity for dehumanization. Patriotism http://www.criterion.com/films/589-patriotism Yukio Mishima and Domoto Masaki 1966 • 27 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan Playwright and novelist Yukio Mishima foreshadowed his own violent suicide with this ravishing short feature, which depicts the seppuku of an army officer. Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/443-paul-robeson-portraits-of-the-artist The son of an escaped slave, Robeson managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America, headlining everything from fellow pioneer Oscar Micheaux’s silent drama Body and Soul to British studio showcases to socially engaged documentaries. Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist http://www.criterion.com/films/808-paul-robeson-tribute-to-an-artist Saul J. Turell 1979 • 30 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Saul J. Turell’s Academy Award-winning documentary short Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist , narrated by Sidney Poitier, traces his career through his activism and his socially charged performances of his signature song, “Ol’ Man River.” Peeping Tom http://www.criterion.com/films/235-peeping-tom Michael Powell 1960 • 101 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom A frank exploration of voyeurism and violence, Michael Powell’s extraordinary film is the story of a psychopathic cameraman—his childhood traumas, sexual crises, and murderous revenge as an adult. People on Sunday http://www.criterion.com/films/27625-people-on-sunday Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer 1930 • 73 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany People on Sunday, an effervescent, sunlit silent, about a handful of city dwellers (a charming cast of nonprofessionals) enjoying a weekend outing, offers a rare glimpse of Weimar-era Berlin, would influence generations of film artists around the world. Pépé le moko http://www.criterion.com/films/363-pepe-le-moko Julien Duvivier 1937 • 94 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Pépé le moko is a wanted man: women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him, and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn. On the lam, Pépé is safe from the clutches of the police, until a Parisian playgirl compels him to risk his life. Pépé le moko is a landmark of poetic realism. Persona http://www.criterion.com/films/28491-persona Ingmar Bergman 1966 • 83 minutes • 1.37:1 • Sweden By the midsixties, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema’s most unforgettable images. But with the radical Persona, this supreme artist attained new levels of visual poetry. The Phantom Carriage http://www.criterion.com/films/27630-the-phantom-carriage Victor Sjöström 1921 • 106 minutes • 1.37:1 • Sweden Based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, this extraordinarily rich and innovative silent classic (which inspired Ingmar Bergman to make movies) is a Dickensian ghost story and a deeply moving morality tale, as well as a showcase for groundbreaking special effects. The Phantom of Liberty http://www.criterion.com/films/905-the-phantom-of-liberty Luis Buñuel 1974 • 104 minutes • 1.85:1 • France Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem The Phantom of Liberty , featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right under their noses. Pickpocket http://www.criterion.com/films/229-pickpocket Robert Bresson 1959 • 76 minutes • 1.37:1 • France A cornerstone of the career of this most economical and profoundly spiritual of filmmakers, Pickpocket is an elegantly crafted, tautly choreographed study of humanity in all its mischief and grace, the work of a director at the height of his powers. Pickup on South Street http://www.criterion.com/films/446-pickup-on-south-street Samuel Fuller 1953 • 80 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States In Sam Fuller’s hardboiled classic, a petty crook and an unsuspecting woman find themselves on the run from Communists in a precarious gambit. Picnic at Hanging Rock http://www.criterion.com/films/565-picnic-at-hanging-rock Peter Weir 1975 • 107 minutes • 1.78:1 • Australia This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Pierre Etaix http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/947-pierre-etaix Pierre Etaix France A French comedy master whose films went unseen for decades as a result of legal tangles, director-actor Pierre Etaix is a treasure the cinematic world has rediscovered and embraced with relish. Pierrot le fou http://www.criterion.com/films/149-pierrot-le-fou Jean-Luc Godard 1965 • 110 minutes • 2.35:1 • France Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina), and leaves the bourgeoisie behind in Pierrot le fou , one of the high points of the French New Wave. Pigs and Battleships http://www.criterion.com/films/1428-pigs-and-battleships Shohei Imamura 1962 • 108 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan A dazzling, unruly portrait of postwar Japan, Pigs and Battleships details, with escalating absurdity, the desperate power struggles between small-time gangsters in the port town of Yokosuka. The film is shot in gorgeously composed, bustling cinemascope. Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/613-pigs-pimps-prostitutes-3-films-by-shohei-imamura Shohei Imamura Japan With the three films in this set, Shoehi Imamura, one of the leading figures of the Japanese new wave, truly emerged as an auteur, bringing to his national cinema an anthropological eye and a heretofore unseen taste for the irreverent. Pina http://www.criterion.com/films/28404-pina Wim Wenders 2011 • 103 minutes • 1.85:1 • Germany The boundless imagination and physical marvels of the work of the German modern-dance pioneer Pina Bausch leap off the screen in this exuberant tribute by Wim Wenders. Pitfall http://www.criterion.com/films/827-pitfall Hiroshi Teshigahara 1962 • 97 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan Hiroshi Teshigahara’s debut feature and first collaboration with novelist Kobo Abe, Pitfall is many things: a mysterious, unsettling ghost story, a portrait of human alienation, and a compellingly surreal critique of soulless industry, shot in elegant black and white. Le plaisir http://www.criterion.com/films/572-le-plaisir Max Ophuls 1952 • 97 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Max Ophuls brings his astonishing visual dexterity and storytelling bravura to this triptych of tales by Guy de Maupassant about the limits of spiritual and physical pleasure. PlayTime http://www.criterion.com/films/651-playtime Jacques Tati 1967 • 124 minutes • 1.78:1 • France Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology reached their apotheosis with PlayTime, a lasting record of a modern era tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion. The Pornographers http://www.criterion.com/films/602-the-pornographers Shohei Imamura 1966 • 127 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family in controversial director Shohei Imamura’s comic treatment of voyeurism and incest. Port of Shadows http://www.criterion.com/films/947-port-of-shadows Marcel Carné 1938 • 90 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Jean Gabin stars as an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life in Marcel Carné’s stark portrayal of an underworld of lonely souls wrestling with their own destinies. Port of Shadows is a quintessential example of poetic realism from the golden age of French cinema. Il Posto http://www.criterion.com/films/364-il-posto Ermanno Olmi 1961 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy When young Domenico ventures from the small village of Meda to Milan in search of employment, he finds himself on the bottom rung of the bureaucratic ladder in a huge, faceless company in Ermanno Olmi’s tender coming-of-age story. Powaqqatsi http://www.criterion.com/films/28033-powaqqatsi Godfrey Reggio 1988 • 99 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Five years after Godfrey Reggio stunned audiences with Koyaanisqatsi, he again joined forces with composer Philip Glass and other collaborators for a second chapter. Here, Reggio turns his sights on third-world nations in the Southern Hemisphere. La promesse http://www.criterion.com/films/28073-la-promesse Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne 1996 • 94 minutes • 1.66:1 • Belgium La promesse is the breakthrough feature from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, who would go on to become a force in world filmmaking. This is a brilliantly economical and observant tale of a boy’s troubled moral awakening. À propos de Nice http://www.criterion.com/films/27752-a-propos-de-nice Jean Vigo and Boris Kaufman 1930 • 23 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Edition: Collector’s Sets Jean Vigo was twenty-five when he made this, his debut film, a silent cinematic poem that reveals, through a thrilling and ironic use of montage, the economic reality hidden behind the facade of the Mediterranean resort town of Nice. The Proud Valley http://www.criterion.com/films/813-the-proud-valley Pen Tennyson 1940 • 76 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom As David Goliath, in the popular British drama The Proud Valley , Paul Robeson is the quintessential everyman, an American sailor who joins rank-and-file Welsh miners organizing against the powers that be. Purple Noon http://www.criterion.com/films/27810-purple-noon René Clément 1960 • 117 minutes • 1.66:1 • France This ripe, colorful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s vicious novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, directed by the versatile René Clément, stars Delon as Tom Ripley, a duplicitous American charmer in Rome. Pygmalion http://www.criterion.com/films/365-pygmalion Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard 1938 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom Cranky Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) takes a bet that he can turn Cockney guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) into a “proper lady” in a mere six months in this delightful comedy of bad manners, based on the play by George Bernard Shaw. The Qatsi Trilogy http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/934-the-qatsi-trilogy Godfrey Reggio United States Astonishingly photographed, and featuring unforgettable, cascading scores by Philip Glass, these are immersive sensory experiences that meditate on the havoc humankind’s obsession with technological advancement has wreaked on our world. Quadrophenia http://www.criterion.com/films/27775-quadrophenia Franc Roddam 1979 • 120 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom The Who’s classic rock opera Quadrophenia was the basis for this invigorating coming-of-age movie and depiction of the defiant, drug-fueled mod subculture of early 1960s London. Quai des Orfèvres http://www.criterion.com/films/738-quai-des-orfevres Henri-Georges Clouzot 1947 • 106 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Blacklisted for his daring “anti-French” masterpiece Le corbeau, Henri-Georges Clouzot returned to cinema four years later with the 1947 crime-fiction adaptation Quai des Orfèvres, set within the vibrant dance halls and crime corridors of 1940s Paris. Ran http://www.criterion.com/films/754-ran Akira Kurosawa 1985 • 160 minutes • 1.85:1 • Japan With Ran , legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa’s late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war. Rashomon http://www.criterion.com/films/307-rashomon Akira Kurosawa 1950 • 88 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice Rashomon is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Ratcatcher http://www.criterion.com/films/716-ratcatcher Lynne Ramsay 1999 • 94 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom Set during Scotland’s national garbage strike of the mid-1970s, Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher explores the experiences of a poor adolescent boy as he struggles to reconcile his dreams and his guilt with the abjection that surrounds him. Rebecca http://www.criterion.com/films/680-rebecca Alfred Hitchcock 1940 • 130 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States In Hitchcock’s romantic, suspenseful, elegant film, a young woman believes her every dream has come true when her whirlwind romance with the dashing Maxim de Winter culminates in marriage. But she soon realizes that Rebecca, her husband’s late first wife, haunts the de Winter mansion, Manderley. Rebel Samurai: Sixties Swordplay Classics http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/382-rebel-samurai-sixties-swordplay-classics Japan Edition: DVD These four classic films, from four masters of Japanese cinema, turn a genre upside down, redefining for a modern generation the meaning of loyalty and honor, as embodied by the iconic figure of the samurai. Red Beard http://www.criterion.com/films/713-red-beard Akira Kurosawa 1965 • 185 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan A testament to the goodness of humankind, Akira Kurosawa’s Red Beard chronicles the tumultuous relationship between an arrogant young doctor and a compassionate clinic director (Toshiro Mifune, in his last role for Kurosawa). Red Desert http://www.criterion.com/films/1454-red-desert Michelangelo Antonioni 1964 • 117 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events. Red Desert, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal, and confirms Antonioni as cinema’s preeminent poet of the modern age. Red River http://www.criterion.com/films/28046-red-river Howard Hawks 1948 • 127 minutes • 1.37:1 No matter what genre he worked in, Howard Hawks played by his own rules, and never was this more evident than in his first western, the rowdy and whip-smart Red River. The Red Shoes http://www.criterion.com/films/233-the-red-shoes Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1948 • 133 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom The Red Shoes , the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema’s quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the most glorious Technicolor feasts ever concocted for the screen. Redes http://www.criterion.com/films/28408-redes Emilio Gómez Muriel and Fred Zinnemann 1936 • 59 minutes • 1.33:1 • Mexico In this vivid, documentary-like dramatization of the daily grind of men struggling to make a living by fishing on the Gulf of Mexico (mostly played by real- life fishermen), one worker’s terrible loss instigates a political awakening among him and his fellow laborers. Repo Man http://www.criterion.com/films/28051-repo-man Alex Cox 1984 • 92 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States A quintessential cult film of the 1980s, Alex Cox’s singular sci-fi comedy stars the always captivating Harry Dean Stanton as a weathered repo man in a desolate Los Angeles, and Emilio Estevez as the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. Repulsion http://www.criterion.com/films/404-repulsion Roman Polanski 1965 • 105 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom Roman Polanski followed up Knife in the Water with this controversial tale of psychosis. Catherine Deneuve is Carol, a fragile, frigid young beauty cracking up in her London flat when left alone by her vacationing sister. Repulsion is one of cinema’s most shocking psychological thrillers. Revanche http://www.criterion.com/films/85-revanche Götz Spielmann 2008 • 122 minutes • 1.85:1 • Austria A gripping thriller and a tragic drama of nearly Greek proportions, Revanche is the stunning, Oscar-nominated international breakthrough of Austrian filmmaker Götz Spielmann, a tense, existential, and surprising portrait of vengeance and redemption. Richard III http://www.criterion.com/films/366-richard-iii Laurence Olivier 1955 • 158 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom In Richard III , director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier brings Shakespeare’s masterpiece of Machiavellian villainy to ravishing cinematic life Ride the Pink Horse http://www.criterion.com/films/28066-ride-the-pink-horse Robert Montgomery 1947 • 101 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States With its relentless pace, expressive cinematography by the great Russell Metty, and punchy, clever script by Charles Lederer and Ben Hecht, this is an overlooked treasure from the heyday of 1940s film noir. Ride with the Devil http://www.criterion.com/films/17282-ride-with-the-devil Ang Lee 1999 • 148 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States With this new director’s cut, Ang Lee reconstructs his original vision for Ride with the Devil, a harrowing, unorthodox Civil War epic, starring Tobey Maguire and Jeffrey Wright. Rififi http://www.criterion.com/films/654-rififi Jules Dassin 1955 • 118 minutes • 1.33:1 • France After making such American noir classics as Brute Force and The Naked City, the blacklisted director Jules Dassin went to Paris and embarked on his masterpiece: a twisting, turning tale of four ex-cons who hatch one last glorious robbery in the City of Light. Riot in Cell Block 11 http://www.criterion.com/films/28551-riot-in-cell-block-11 Don Siegel 1954 • 80 minutes • 1.37:1 Early in his career, Don Siegel made his mark with this sensational and high-octane but economically constructed drama set in a maximum-security penitentiary. The River http://www.criterion.com/films/679-the-river Jean Renoir 1951 • 99 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the Bengal river around which their daily lives unfold. A River Called Titas http://www.criterion.com/films/28411-a-river-called-titas Ritwik Ghatak 1973 • 156 minutes • 1.37:1 • Bangladesh The Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak’s stunningly beautiful, elegiac saga concerns the tumultuous lives of people in fishing villages along the banks of the Titas River in pre-Partition East Bengal. Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/689-roberto-rossellini-s-war-trilogy Roberto Rossellini Roberto Rossellini is one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. And it was with his trilogy of films made during and after World War II— Rome Open City, Paisan, and Germany Year Zero —that he left his first transformative mark on cinema. Robinson Crusoe on Mars http://www.criterion.com/films/821-robinson-crusoe-on-mars Byron Haskin 1964 • 110 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States Robinson Crusoe on Mars tells the story of U.S. astronaut Commander “Kit” Draper (Paul Mantee), who must fight for survival when his spaceship crash-lands on the barren waste of Mars, a pet monkey his only companion. RoboCop http://www.criterion.com/films/542-robocop Paul Verhoeven 1987 • 103 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States A grown-up superhero fantasy come to vivid, bloody life, Paul Verhoeven’s special effects-laden cult phenomenon features a resurrected hero (Peter Weller) in a new, supercharged cyborg body, struggling to reclaim his memory and avenge his own death. The Rock http://www.criterion.com/films/649-the-rock Michael Bay 1996 • 136 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States A highly decorated, retired U.S. Marine general (Ed Harris) seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with eighty-one tourists as hostages on the San Francisco Bay isle, in Michael Bay’s fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat thriller, also starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage. Rome Open City http://www.criterion.com/films/975-rome-open-city Roberto Rossellini 1945 • 100 minutes • 1.37:1 • Italy This was Roberto Rossellini’s revelation, a harrowing drama about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against it. Rome Open City is a shockingly authentic experience, conceived and directed amid the ruin of World War II. La ronde http://www.criterion.com/films/573-la-ronde Max Ophuls 1950 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Soldiers, chambermaids, poets, prostitutes, aristocrats—all are on equal footing in Max Ophuls’s multicharacter merry-go-round of love and infidelity. The Rose http://www.criterion.com/films/28572-the-rose Mark Rydell 1979 • 134 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Bette Midler exploded onto the screen with her take-no-prisoners performance in this quintessential film about fame and addiction from director Mark Rydell. Rosemary’s Baby http://www.criterion.com/films/27927-rosemary-s-baby Roman Polanski 1968 • 136 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States In the decades of occult cinema that Polanski’s ungodly masterpiece has spawned, it has never been outdone for sheer psychological terror. Rosetta http://www.criterion.com/films/28056-rosetta Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne 1999 • 93 minutes • 1.66:1 • Belgium The Belgian filmmaking team of brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne turned heads with Rosetta, an intense vérité drama that closely follows a poor young woman struggling to hold on to a job to support herself and her alcoholic mother. The Royal Tenenbaums http://www.criterion.com/films/230-the-royal-tenenbaums Wes Anderson 2001 • 110 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States Wes Anderson’s hilarious, touching, and brilliantly stylized study of melancholy and redemption centers around a dysfunctional family of geniuses. The Rules of the Game http://www.criterion.com/films/295-the-rules-of-the-game Jean Renoir 1939 • 106 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Considered one of the greatest films ever made, The Rules of the Game ( La règle du jeu ), by Jean Renoir, is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners. The Ruling Class http://www.criterion.com/films/678-the-ruling-class Peter Medak 1972 • 154 minutes • 1.77:1 • United Kingdom Peter O’Toole gives a tour-de-force performance as Jack, a man “cured” of believing he’s God—only to become Jack the Ripper incarnate. Based on Peter Barnes’s irreverent play, this darkly comic indictment of Britain’s class system peers behind the closed doors of English aristocracy. Rushmore http://www.criterion.com/films/333-rushmore Wes Anderson 1998 • 93 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States Tenth grader Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) is Rushmore Academy’s most extracurricular student, and its least scholarly, in Wes Anderson’s dazzling sophomore effort—equal parts coming-of-age story, French New Wave homage, and screwball comedy. Safe http://www.criterion.com/films/28548-safe Todd Haynes 1995 • 119 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States This revelatory drama was named the best film of the 1990s in a Village Voice poll of more than fifty critics. A Safe Place http://www.criterion.com/films/27531-a-safe-place Henry Jaglom 1971 • 92 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States In this delicate, introspective drama, laced with fantasy elements, Tuesday Weld stars as a fragile young woman in New York, unable to reconcile her ambiguous past with her unmoored present. Safety Last! http://www.criterion.com/films/28446-safety-last Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor 1923 • 73 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. Chaplin is the sweet innocent, Keaton the stoic outsider, but Lloyd—the modern guy striving for success—is us. And with its torrent of perfectly executed gags and astonishing stunts, Safety Last! is the perfect introduction to him. Salesman http://www.criterion.com/films/663-salesman Albert Maysles , David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 1968 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States While laboring to sell a gold-embossed version of the Good Book, Paul Brennan and his colleagues target the beleaguered masses—then face the demands of quotas and the frustrations of life on the road. A landmark American documentary. Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom http://www.criterion.com/films/532-salo-or-the-120-days-of-sodom Pier Paolo Pasolini 1976 • 116 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy Pier Paolo Pasolini’s notorious transposition of the Marquis de Sade’s eighteenth-century opus of torture and degradation to Fascist Italy in 1944 remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, Salvatore Giuliano http://www.criterion.com/films/687-salvatore-giuliano Francesco Rosi 1961 • 125 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy The true story of the death of Italy’s most wanted criminal and celebrated hero, Francesco Rosi’s groundbreaking political film is a startling exposé of Sicily and the tangled relations between its citizens, the Mafia, and government officials. Samaritan Zatoichi http://www.criterion.com/films/28316-samaritan-zatoichi Kenji Misumi 1968 • 82 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Hired by a yakuza boss to eliminate an accused debtor, Zatoichi fulfills his task, only to witness the victim’s sister paying the owed amount minutes later. When the crime lord tries to possess the woman along with the cash, the blind swordsman wrestles with the injustice he has caused. Le Samouraï http://www.criterion.com/films/184-le-samourai Jean-Pierre Melville 1967 • 105 minutes • 1.85:1 • France In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture, maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterpiece Le Samouraï defines cool. Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto http://www.criterion.com/films/529-samurai-i-musashi-miyamoto Hiroshi Inagaki 1954 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan In the first part of the epic Samurai Trilogy, Toshiro Mifune thunders onto the screen as the iconic title character. Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple http://www.criterion.com/films/530-samurai-ii-duel-at-ichijoji-temple Hiroshi Inagaki 1955 • 103 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan Toshiro Mifune furiously embodies swordsman Musashi Miyamoto as he comes into his own in the action-packed middle section of the Samurai Trilogy. Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island http://www.criterion.com/films/531-samurai-iii-duel-at-ganryu-island Hiroshi Inagaki 1956 • 104 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan A disillusioned Musashi Miyamoto (Toshiro Mifune) has turned his back on the samurai life, becoming a farmer in a remote village, while his nemesis Kojiro (Koji Tsuruta) now works for the shogun. Samurai Rebellion http://www.criterion.com/films/753-samurai-rebellion Masaki Kobayashi 1967 • 121 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Toshiro Mifune stars as an aging swordsman in director Masaki Kobayashi’s Samurai Rebellion , the gripping story of a peaceful man who finally decides to take a stand against injustice. Samurai Spy http://www.criterion.com/films/762-samurai-spy Masahiro Shinoda 1965 • 100 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of swordsmen is thrown into turmoil. The Samurai Trilogy http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/40-the-samurai-trilogy Hiroshi Inagaki Japan The Samurai Trilogy, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring the inimitable Toshiro Mifune, was one of Japan’s most successful exports of the 1950s, a rousing, emotionally gripping tale of combat and self-discovery. Sanders of the River http://www.criterion.com/films/811-sanders-of-the-river Zoltán Korda 1935 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom Paul Robeson moved his family to London in 1928, headlining six British films in twelve years. Robeson’s first British production, Zoltán Korda’s Sanders of the River , however, ended up an embarrassment, its story of an African tribal leader transformed into a celebration of the British Empire. Sanjuro http://www.criterion.com/films/598-sanjuro Akira Kurosawa 1962 • 96 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan In Kurosawa’s sly companion piece to Yojimbo, jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan’s evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a “proper” samurai on its ear. Sansho the Bailiff http://www.criterion.com/films/823-sansho-the-bailiff Kenji Mizoguchi 1954 • 124 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan Under Kenji Mizoguchi’s dazzling direction, this classic Japanese story became one of cinema’s greatest masterpieces, a monumental, empathetic expression of human resilience in the face of evil. Sawdust and Tinsel http://www.criterion.com/films/842-sawdust-and-tinsel Ingmar Bergman 1953 • 92 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden The story of the charged relationship between a turn-of-the-century traveling circus owner and his performer girlfriend, Ingmar Bergman’s film features dreamlike detours and twisted psychosexual power plays that presage the director’s Smiles of a Summer Night and The Seventh Seal . Scanners http://www.criterion.com/films/28043-scanners David Cronenberg 1981 • 103 minutes • 1.78:1 • Canada A trademark Cronenberg combination of the visceral and the cerebral, this phenomenally gruesome and provocative film about the expanses and limits of the human mind was the Canadian director’s breakout hit in the United States. The Scarlet Empress http://www.criterion.com/films/431-the-scarlet-empress Josef von Sternberg 1934 • 104 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Filmmaker-svengali Josef von Sternberg escalates his obsession with screen legend Marlene Dietrich in this lavish depiction of sex and deceit in the eighteenth-century Russian court, a self-proclaimed “relentless excursion into style.” Scenes from a Marriage http://www.criterion.com/films/710-scenes-from-a-marriage Ingmar Bergman 1973 • 169 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden Scenes from a Marriage chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners. Schizopolis http://www.criterion.com/films/740-schizopolis Steven Soderbergh 1996 • 96 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Fletcher Munson has a doppelgänger in dentist Dr. Jeffrey Korchek. Steven Soderbergh presents a deranged comedy of confused identity, doublespeak, and white-knuckled corporate intrigue, confirming his status as one of America’s most daring and unpredictable filmmakers. Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé http://www.criterion.com/films/1286-science-is-fiction-23-films-by-jean-painleve Jean Painlevé 315 minutes • 1.33:1 • France The mesmerizing, utterly unclassifiable science films of Jean Painlevé (1902-89) have to be seen to be believed: delightful, surrealist-influenced dream works that are also serious science. This anthology features twenty-three of Painlevé’s shorts. Seconds http://www.criterion.com/films/28428-seconds John Frankenheimer 1966 • 107 minutes • 1.75:1 • United States Seconds, directed by John Frankenheimer, concerns a middle-aged banker who, dissatisfied with his suburban existence, elects to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life. Secret Honor http://www.criterion.com/films/955-secret-honor Robert Altman 1984 • 90 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Based on the original play by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, and starring Philip Baker Hall in a tour de force solo performance, Robert Altman’s Secret Honor is a searing interrogation of the Richard Nixon mystique and an audacious depiction of unchecked paranoia. The Secret of the Grain http://www.criterion.com/films/1344-the-secret-of-the-grain Abdellatif Kechiche 2007 • 154 minutes • 1.85:1 • France The winner of four César awards, including best picture and director, Abdellatif Kechiche’s The Secret of the Grain is a stirring drama about the daily joys and struggles of a bustling French-Arab family. Secret Sunshine http://www.criterion.com/films/27750-secret-sunshine Lee Chang-dong 2007 • 142 minutes • 2.35:1 • South Korea A master of intensely emotional human dramas, director Lee Chang-dong is a luminary of contemporary Korean cinema, and his place on the international stage was cemented by this stirring and unpredictable work examining grief and deliverance. Seduced and Abandoned http://www.criterion.com/films/796-seduced-and-abandoned Pietro Germi 1964 • 117 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy Shotgun weddings, kidnapping, attempted murder, emergency dental work—the things Don Vincenzo will do to restore his family’s honor! Pietro Germi’s Seduced and Abandoned was the follow-up to his sensation Divorce Italian Style , and in many ways it’s even more audacious. Senso http://www.criterion.com/films/27543-senso Luchino Visconti 1954 • 123 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy This lush, Technicolor tragic romance from Luchino Visconti stars Alida Valli as a nineteenth-century Italian countess who, during the Austrian occupation of her country, puts her marriage and political principles on the line by engaging in a torrid affair with a dashing Austrian lieutenant. Seven Samurai http://www.criterion.com/films/165-seven-samurai Akira Kurosawa 1954 • 207 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan In Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai ( Shichinin no samurai ), sixteenth-century villagers hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. This thrilling three-hour ride is one of the most beloved movie epics of all time. The Seventh Seal http://www.criterion.com/films/173-the-seventh-seal Ingmar Bergman 1957 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden Much studied, imitated, even parodied, but never outdone, Bergman’s stunning allegory of man’s search for meaning was one of the benchmark foreign imports of America’s 1950s art house heyday, pushing cinema’s boundaries and ushering in a new era of moviegoing. Shadows http://www.criterion.com/films/500-shadows John Cassavetes 1959 • 82 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States John Cassavetes’s directorial debut revolves around a romance in New York City between Lelia (Lelia Goldoni), a light- skinned black woman, and Tony (Anthony Ray), a white man. Shallow Grave http://www.criterion.com/films/27981-shallow-grave Danny Boyle 1994 • 93 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom In Shallow Grave, three self-involved Edinburgh roommates take in a brooding boarder, and when he dies of an overdose, leaving a suitcase full of money, the trio embark on a series of very bad decisions, with extraordinarily grim consequences for all. Shoah http://www.criterion.com/films/27968-shoah Claude Lanzmann 1985 • 550 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Over a decade in the making, Claude Lanzmann’s nine-hour-plus opus is a monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Shock Corridor http://www.criterion.com/films/534-shock-corridor Samuel Fuller 1963 • 101 minutes • 1.75:1 • United States Seeking a Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck) has himself committed to a mental hospital to investigate a murder. As he closes in on the killer, insanity closes in on him. Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor masterfully charts the uneasy terrain between sanity and madness. Shoot the Piano Player http://www.criterion.com/films/764-shoot-the-piano-player François Truffaut 1960 • 81 minutes • 2.35:1 • France Part thriller, part comedy, part tragedy, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour) as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. The Shooting/Ride in the Whirlwind http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1073-the-shooting-ride-in-the-whirlwind Monte Hellman In the midsixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. Dreamlike and gritty by turns, these films would prove their maker’s adeptness at brilliantly deconstructing genre. The Shop on Main Street http://www.criterion.com/films/669-the-shop-on-main-street Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos 1965 • 125 minutes • 1.33:1 • Czechoslovakia An inept Czech peasant is torn between greed and guilt when the Nazi-backed bosses of his town appoint him “Aryan controller” of an old Jewish widow’s button shop. Humor and tragedy fuse in this scathing exploration of one cowardly man’s complicity in the horrors of a totalitarian regime. Short Cuts http://www.criterion.com/films/376-short-cuts Robert Altman 1993 • 187 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States Epic in scale yet meticulously observed, maverick director Robert Altman’s Short Cuts interweaves the lives of twenty-two characters struggling to find solace and meaning in contemporary Los Angeles. Sid & Nancy http://www.criterion.com/films/535-sid-nancy Alex Cox 1986 • 111 minutes • 1.75:1 • United Kingdom Director Alex Cox balances a bleak evocation of star-crossed love with surreal humor and genuine tenderness in this portrait of the brief, intense attachment of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. The Silence http://www.criterion.com/films/570-the-silence Ingmar Bergman 1963 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden Regarded as one of the most sexually provocative films of its day, Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence follows two sisters as they travel by train with Anna’s young son to a foreign country seemingly on the brink of war. Le silence de la mer http://www.criterion.com/films/27979-le-silence-de-la-mer Jean-Pierre Melville 1949 • 87 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Jean-Pierre Melville began his superb feature filmmaking career with this powerful adaptation of an influential underground novel written during the Nazi occupation of France. The Silence of the Lambs http://www.criterion.com/films/528-the-silence-of-the-lambs Jonathan Demme 1991 • 118 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Anthony Hopkins’s Hannibal Lecter matches wits with Jodie Foster’s heroic FBI agent Clarice Starling in Jonathan Demme’s taut psychological thriller. Simon of the Desert http://www.criterion.com/films/1077-simon-of-the-desert Luis Buñuel 1965 • 45 minutes • 1.33:1 • Mexico Simon of the Desert is Luis Buñuel’s wicked and wild take on the life of devoted ascetic Saint Simeon Stylites, who waited atop a pillar surrounded by a barren landscape for six years, six months, and six days, in order to prove his devotion to God. Sisters http://www.criterion.com/films/377-sisters Brian De Palma 1973 • 93 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States A stylish paean to female destructiveness, De Palma’s first foray into horror voyeurism is a stunning amalgam of split-screen effects, bloody birthday cakes, and a chilling score by frequent Hitchcock collaborator Bernard Herrmann. Six Moral Tales http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/417-six-moral-tales Eric Rohmer France Eric Rohmer stood apart from his New Wave contemporaries, like François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, with his patented brand of gently existential, hyperarticulate character studies set against vivid seasonal landscapes. The “Six Moral Tales” unleashed a new voice onto the film world. Slacker http://www.criterion.com/films/408-slacker Richard Linklater 1991 • 100 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Shooting on 16 mm for a mere $3,000, writer-producer-director Linklater and his crew of friends threw out any idea of a traditional plot, choosing instead to create a tapestry of over a hundred characters, each as compelling as the last. The Small Back Room http://www.criterion.com/films/747-the-small-back-room Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1949 • 107 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom The Small Back Room details the travails of troubled research scientist and military bomb-disposal expert Sammy Rice, who, while struggling with a complex relationship with secretary girlfriend Susan, is hired by the government to advise on a dangerous new German weapon. Smiles of a Summer Night http://www.criterion.com/films/849-smiles-of-a-summer-night Ingmar Bergman 1955 • 108 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden In turn-of-the-century Sweden, four men and four women attempt to navigate the laws of attraction. During a weekend in the country, the women collude to force the men’s hands in matters of the heart. The Soft Skin http://www.criterion.com/films/27640-the-soft-skin François Truffaut 1964 • 117 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Truffaut made The Soft Skin at a time when he was immersing himself in the work of Alfred Hitchcock, and that master’s influence can be felt throughout this complex, insightful, and underseen French New Wave treasure. Solaris http://www.criterion.com/films/553-solaris Andrei Tarkovsky 1972 • 166 minutes • 2.35:1 • Soviet Union With Solaris, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky created a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself. Sólo con tu pareja http://www.criterion.com/films/798-solo-con-tu-pareja Alfonso Cuarón 1991 • 94 minutes • 1.78:1 • Mexico Alfonso Cuarón made his mark on Mexican cinema with the lightning-quick Sólo con tu pareja. Don Juan–ish yuppie Tomás Tomás spends his nights juggling so many beautiful women that he can’t keep their names straight—until a spurned nurse gives him a taste of his own medicine. Something Wild http://www.criterion.com/films/27603-something-wild Jonathan Demme 1986 • 113 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States Featuring a killer soundtrack and electric performances from Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, and Ray Liotta, Something Wild, directed by oddball American auteur Jonathan Demme, is both a kinky comic thriller and a radiantly off-kilter love story. Il sorpasso http://www.criterion.com/films/28429-il-sorpasso Dino Risi 1962 • 105 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy The ultimate Italian road comedy, Il sorpasso stars the unlikely pair of Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant as, respectively, a waggish, freewheeling bachelor and the straitlaced law student he takes on a madcap trip from Rome to Tuscany. Spartacus http://www.criterion.com/films/449-spartacus Stanley Kubrick 1960 • 196 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States Stanley Kubrick directed a cast of screen legends—including Kirk Douglas as the indomitable gladiator that led a Roman slave revolt—in the sweeping epic that defined a genre and ushered in a new Hollywood era. Spellbound http://www.criterion.com/films/681-spellbound Alfred Hitchcock 1945 • 111 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States When the mysterious Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck) becomes the new chief of staff at her institution, the bookish and detached Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) plummets into a whirlwind of tangled identities and feverish psychoanalysis. Spellbound is classic Hitchcock. The Spirit of the Beehive http://www.criterion.com/films/367-the-spirit-of-the-beehive Víctor Erice 1973 • 99 minutes • 1.66:1 • Spain Widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s, Victor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive is a visually arresting, bewitching portrait of a child’s haunted inner life. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold http://www.criterion.com/films/860-the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold Martin Ritt 1965 • 112 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States The acclaimed, best-selling novel by John le Carré, about a Cold War spy on one final dangerous mission in East Germany, is transmuted by director Martin Ritt into a film every bit as precise and ruthless as the book. Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/540-stage-and-spectacle-three-films-by-jean-renoir Jean Renoir France Near the end of his long and celebrated career, master filmmaker Jean Renoir indulged his lifelong obsession with life-as-theater and directed three majestic films infatuated with the past, love, and artifice. Stagecoach http://www.criterion.com/films/980-stagecoach John Ford 1939 • 96 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States This is where it all started. John Ford’s smash hit and enduring masterpiece Stagecoach revolutionized the western, elevating it from B movie to the A-list. State of Siege http://www.criterion.com/films/28048-state-of-siege Costa-Gavras 1972 • 121 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Costa-Gavras puts the United States’ involvement in Latin American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. Still Walking http://www.criterion.com/films/27540-still-walking Hirokazu Kore-eda 2008 • 114 minutes • 1.85:1 • Japan The lyrical, profoundly moving Still Walking ( Aruitemo aruitemo ) is contemporary Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda’s most personal work to date, an extraordinary portrayal of the ties that bind us. Stolen Kisses http://www.criterion.com/films/732-stolen-kisses François Truffaut 1968 • 91 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Jean-Pierre Léaud returns in the third installment in the Antoine Doinel series. It is now 1968, and the mischievous and perpetually love-struck Doinel has been dishonorably discharged from the army and released onto the streets of Paris, where he embarks on a series of misadventures. Story of a Prostitute http://www.criterion.com/films/862-story-of-a-prostitute Seijun Suzuki 1965 • 96 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan In Seijun Suzuki’s tragic love story, Harumi, volunteering as a “comfort woman” on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita’s direct subordinate. A Story of Floating Weeds http://www.criterion.com/films/752-a-story-of-floating-weeds Yasujiro Ozu 1934 • 86 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all, in Yasujiro Ozu’s 1934 silent classic. La strada http://www.criterion.com/films/185-la-strada Federico Fellini 1954 • 108 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy Federico Fellini’s wife Giulietta Masina plays Gelsomina, a naive girl sold into the employ of a brutal strongman in a traveling circus, in this poetic fable of love and cruelty, winner of the 1956 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Stranger Than Paradise http://www.criterion.com/films/252-stranger-than-paradise Jim Jarmusch 1984 • 89 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States With its delicate humor and dramatic nonchalance, Jim Jarmusch’s one-of-a-kind minimalist masterpiece, Stranger Than Paradise , forever transformed the landscape of American independent cinema. Straw Dogs http://www.criterion.com/films/730-straw-dogs Sam Peckinpah 1971 • 117 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States A young American mathematician, David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman), and his English wife, Amy (Susan George), move to a Cornish village, seeking the quiet life. But beneath the seemingly peaceful isolation of the pastoral village lies a savagery and violence that threatens to destroy the couple. Stray Dog http://www.criterion.com/films/788-stray-dog Akira Kurosawa 1949 • 122 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan When a pickpocket steals a rookie detective’s gun on a hot, crowded bus, the cop goes undercover in a desperate attempt to right the wrong. Kurosawa’s thrilling noir probes the squalid world of postwar Japan and the nature of the criminal mind. Stromboli http://www.criterion.com/films/28082-stromboli Roberto Rossellini 1950 • 106 minutes • 1.37:1 • Italy The first collaboration between Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman is a devastating portrait of a woman’s existential crisis, set against the beautiful and forbidding backdrop of a volcanic island. The Suitor http://www.criterion.com/films/28395-the-suitor Pierre Etaix 1963 • 84 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Pierre Etaix’s first feature introduces the droll humor and oddball charm of its unique writer-director-star. Sullivan’s Travels http://www.criterion.com/films/657-sullivan-s-travels Preston Sturges 1941 • 90 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States This comic masterpiece by Preston Sturges is among the finest Hollywood satires and a high-water mark in the career of one of the industry’s most revered funnymen. Summer Hours http://www.criterion.com/films/473-summer-hours Olivier Assayas 2008 • 99 minutes • 1.85:1 • France Three siblings must decide what to do with the country estate and objects they’ve inherited from their mother. From this simple story, Olivier Assayas creates a nuanced, exquisitely made drama about the material of globalized modern living. Summer Interlude http://www.criterion.com/films/27782-summer-interlude Ingmar Bergman 1951 • 96 minutes • 1.37:1 • Sweden Touching on many of the themes that would define the rest of his legendary career—isolation, performance, the inescapability of the past—Ingmar Bergman’s tenth film was a gentle drift toward true mastery. Summer with Monika http://www.criterion.com/films/27638-summer-with-monika Ingmar Bergman 1953 • 97 minutes • 1.37:1 • Sweden Inspired by the earthy eroticism of Harriet Andersson, in the first of her many roles for him, Ingmar Bergman had a major international breakthrough with this sensual and ultimately ravaging tale of young love. Summertime http://www.criterion.com/films/368-summertime David Lean 1955 • 100 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States In David Lean’s visually enchanting Summertime , Katharine Hepburn plays a lonely American spinster whose dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome—but married—Italian man while vacationing in Venice. Sunday Bloody Sunday http://www.criterion.com/films/28025-sunday-bloody-sunday John Schlesinger 1971 • 110 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom Sunday Bloody Sunday depicts the romantic lives of two Londoners, a middle-aged doctor and a prickly thirtysomething divorcée—played with great sensitivity by Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson—who are sleeping with the same handsome young artist. Sundays and Cybèle http://www.criterion.com/films/27912-sundays-and-cybele Serge Bourguignon 1962 • 111 minutes • 2.35:1 • France A psychologically damaged war veteran and a neglected child begin a startlingly intimate friendship—one that ultimately ignites the suspicion and anger of his friends and neighbors in suburban Paris. Suzanne’s Career http://www.criterion.com/films/787-suzanne-s-career Eric Rohmer 1963 • 55 minutes • 1.33:1 • France In Rohmer’s second “Moral Tale,” Bertrand bides his time in a casually hostile and envious friendship with college chum Guillaume. But when ladies’ man Guillaume seems to be making a play for the spirited, independent Suzanne, Bertrand watches bitterly with disapproval and jealousy. Sweet Movie http://www.criterion.com/films/552-sweet-movie Dušan Makavejev 1974 • 98 minutes • 1.66:1 • France With its lewd abandon and sketch-comedy perversity, Makavejev’s cult staple Sweet Movie is a full-throated shriek in the face of bourgeois complacency and movie watching. Sweet Smell of Success http://www.criterion.com/films/27542-sweet-smell-of-success Alexander Mackendrick 1957 • 96 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States In the swift, cynical Sweet Smell of Success, Burt Lancaster stars as the vicious Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent Hunsecker ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister. Sweetie http://www.criterion.com/films/749-sweetie Jane Campion 1989 • 99 minutes • 1.85:1 • New Zealand Though she went on to create a string of brilliant films, Jane Campion will always be remembered for her stunning debut feature, Sweetie, which focuses on the hazardous relationship between the buttoned-down, superstitious Kay and her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, Sweetie. The Sword of Doom http://www.criterion.com/films/925-the-sword-of-doom Kihachi Okamoto 1966 • 121 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Tatsuya Nakadai and Toshiro Mifune star in the story of a wandering samurai who exists in a maelstrom of violence. A gifted swordsman plying his craft during the turbulent final days of shogunate rule in Japan, Ryunosuke (Nakadai) kills without remorse or mercy. Sword of the Beast http://www.criterion.com/films/761-sword-of-the-beast Hideo Gosha 1965 • 85 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha’s Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His comrades then turn on him and, his sense of honor shaken, he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm http://www.criterion.com/films/751-symbiopsychotaxiplasm William Greaves 1968 • 75 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States In his one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One , director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York’s Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they’re making. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV http://www.criterion.com/films/971-the-taking-of-power-by-louis-xiv Roberto Rossellini 1966 • 100 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy Filmmaking legend Roberto Rossellini brings his passion for realism and unerring eye for the everyday to this portrait of the early years of the reign of France’s “Sun King,” and in the process reinvents the costume drama. The Tale of Zatoichi http://www.criterion.com/films/28300-the-tale-of-zatoichi Kenji Misumi 1962 • 96 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan The epic saga of Zatoichi begins. The Tale of Zatoichi Continues http://www.criterion.com/films/28301-the-tale-of-zatoichi-continues Kazuo Mori 1962 • 72 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Zatoichi is hired to give a massage to a powerful political official who, he discovers, is mentally ill—a secret that the nobleman’s retinue is determined to keep at any cost. The Tales of Hoffmann http://www.criterion.com/films/748-the-tales-of-hoffmann Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1951 • 127 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom A poet dreams of three women—a mechanical performing doll, a bejeweled siren, and the consumptive daughter of a famous composer—all of whom break his heart in different ways. Powell and Pressburger create a phantasmagoric marriage of cinema and opera in this one-of-a-kind classic. Tanner ’88 http://www.criterion.com/films/952-tanner-88 Robert Altman 1988 • 353 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their media campaign as a cross between a soap opera and TV news. Taste of Cherry http://www.criterion.com/films/242-taste-of-cherry Abbas Kiarostami 1997 • 99 minutes • 1.66:1 • Iran Middle-aged Mr. Badii drives through the hilly outskirts of Tehran, searching for someone to rescue or bury him, in Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami’s emotionally complex meditation on life and death. Tess http://www.criterion.com/films/28594-tess Roman Polanski 1979 • 171 minutes • 2.35:1 • United Kingdom This multiple-Oscar-winning film by Roman Polanski is an exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse http://www.criterion.com/films/721-the-testament-of-dr-mabuse Fritz Lang 1933 • 121 minutes • 1.19:1 • Germany In Fritz Lang’s landmark of mystery and suspense, Berlin’s star detective must connect the fragmented clues of an insane criminal mastermind’s last will: a manifesto establishing a future empire of crime. Testament of Orpheus http://www.criterion.com/films/611-testament-of-orpheus Jean Cocteau 1959 • 80 minutes • 1.33:1 • France In his last film, Jean Cocteau portrays an 18th-century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. Testament of Orpheus brings full circle the journey Cocteau began in The Blood of a Poet, an exploration of the torturous relationship between the artist and his creations. That Hamilton Woman http://www.criterion.com/films/3559-that-hamilton-woman Alexander Korda 1941 • 125 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth century, That Hamilton Woman is a gripping account of the scandalous adulterous affair between the British Royal Navy officer Lord Horatio Nelson (Laurence Olivier) and the renowned beauty Emma, Lady Hamilton (Vivien Leigh). That Obscure Object of Desire http://www.criterion.com/films/686-that-obscure-object-of-desire Luis Buñuel 1977 • 104 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Luis Buñuel’s final film explodes with eroticism, bringing full circle the director’s lifelong preoccupation with the darker side of desire. Buñuel regular Fernando Rey plays Mathieu, an urbane widower, tortured by his lust for the elusive Conchita. There Was a Father http://www.criterion.com/films/22839-there-was-a-father Yasujiro Ozu 1942 • 87 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan Yasujiro Ozu’s frequent leading man Chishu Ryu is riveting as Shuhei, a widowed high school teacher who finds that the more he tries to do what is best for his son’s future, the more they are separated. Thief http://www.criterion.com/films/28024-thief Michael Mann 1981 • 124 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States The revered American auteur Michael Mann burst out of the gate with his bold artistic sensibility fully formed with Thief, his first theatrical feature. The Thief of Bagdad http://www.criterion.com/films/544-the-thief-of-bagdad Ludwig Berger , Michael Powell and Tim Whelan 1940 • 106 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom Prince Ahmad, cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place and the heart of a princess in Alexander Korda’s The Thief of Bagdad , an eye-popping special-effects pioneer and one of the most spectacular fantasy films ever made. Thieves’ Highway http://www.criterion.com/films/939-thieves-highway Jules Dassin 1949 • 94 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Thieves’ Highway vividly depicts the perilous world of “long-haul boys,” who drive by night to bring their goods to the markets of America’s cities. Richard Conte stars as ex-G.I. Nick Garcos, a tyro trucker bent on satisfaction from the man responsible for crippling his father. The Thin Blue Line http://www.criterion.com/films/28355-the-thin-blue-line Errol Morris 1988 • 102 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States A work of meticulous journalism and gripping drama, it recounts the disturbing tale of Randall Dale Adams, a drifter who was charged with the murder of a Dallas police officer and sent to death row, despite evidence that he did not commit the crime. The Thin Red Line http://www.criterion.com/films/27513-the-thin-red-line Terrence Malick 1998 • 171 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States Terrence Malick’s visionary adaptation of James Jones’s 1962 novel about the World War II battle for Guadalcanal is one of the most deeply philosophical films ever released by a major Hollywood studio, a thought-provoking meditation on man, nature, and violence. Things to Come http://www.criterion.com/films/27552-things-to-come William Cameron Menzies 1936 • 97 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom A landmark collaboration between writer H. G. Wells, producer Alexander Korda, and designer and director William Cameron Menzies, Things to Come is a science fiction film like no other, a prescient political work that predicts a century of turmoil and progress. The Third Man http://www.criterion.com/films/236-the-third-man Carol Reed 1949 • 104 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime—and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder. This Happy Breed http://www.criterion.com/films/28144-this-happy-breed David Lean 1944 • 111 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom David Lean brings to vivid emotional life Noël Coward’s epic chronicle of a working-class family in the London suburbs over the course of two decades. This Is Spinal Tap http://www.criterion.com/films/317-this-is-spinal-tap Rob Reiner 1984 • 82 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States Following the ill-fated American comeback tour of an aging heavy-metal group, Rob Reiner’s cult phenomenon (and first “rockumentary”) This Is Spinal Tap has joined the ranks of the greatest comedies ever made. This Sporting Life http://www.criterion.com/films/853-this-sporting-life Lindsay Anderson 1963 • 134 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom One of the finest British films ever made, this benchmark of “kitchen-sink realism” follows the self-defeating professional and romantic pursuits of a miner turned rugby player eking out an existence in drab Yorkshire, played by an astonishing Richard Harris. Three Colors http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/844-three-colors Krzysztof Kieślowski France This boldly cinematic trio of stories about love and loss from Krzysztof Kieślowski was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 1990s. Three Colors: Blue http://www.criterion.com/films/27731-three-colors-blue Krzysztof Kieślowski 1993 • 98 minutes • 1.85:1 • France In the devastating first film of the Three Colors trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic deaths of her husband and young daughter. Three Colors: Red http://www.criterion.com/films/27733-three-colors-red Krzysztof Kieślowski 1994 • 99 minutes • 1.85:1 • France Krzysztof Kieślowski closes his Three Colors trilogy in grand fashion with an incandescent meditation on fate and chance, starring Irène Jacob as a sweet-souled yet somber runway model in Geneva whose life intersects with that of a bitter retired judge, played by Jean‑Louis Trintignant. Three Colors: White http://www.criterion.com/films/27732-three-colors-white Krzysztof Kieślowski 1994 • 91 minutes • 1.85:1 • France The most playful and also the grittiest of Kieślowski’s Three Colors films follows the adventures of Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a Polish immigrant living in France. White is both a dark comedy about the economic inequalities of Eastern and Western Europe and a reverie about twisted love. Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/458-three-films-by-hiroshi-teshigahara Hiroshi Teshigahara Japan Hiroshi Teshigahara found his spiritual partner in novelist and screenwriter Kobo Abe, with whom he collaborated on these Kafkaesque portraits of identities in peril, films that captivated mainstream audiences while also touching the edges of the Japanese avant-garde. Three Outlaw Samurai http://www.criterion.com/films/27734-three-outlaw-samurai Hideo Gosha 1964 • 93 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan This first film by the legendary Hideo Gosha is among the most canonized chambara (sword-fighting) films. The Threepenny Opera http://www.criterion.com/films/834-the-threepenny-opera Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1931 • 110 minutes • 1.19:1 • Germany Set in the impoverished back alleys of Victorian London, The Threepenny Opera follows underworld antihero Mackie Messer (a.k.a. Mack the Knife) as he tries to woo Polly Peachum and elude the authorities. Set to Kurt Weill’s irresistible score, this film remains a benchmark of early sound cinema. Throne of Blood http://www.criterion.com/films/735-throne-of-blood Akira Kurosawa 1957 • 109 minutes • 1.37:1 • Japan A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan. Through a Glass Darkly http://www.criterion.com/films/568-through-a-glass-darkly Ingmar Bergman 1961 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden Winner of the 1962 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Ingmar Bergman’s Through a Glass Darkly presents an unflinching vision of a family’s near disintegration and a tortured psyche further taunted by God’s intangible presence. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! http://www.criterion.com/films/28593-tie-me-up-tie-me-down Pedro Almodóvar 1990 • 102 minutes • 1.85:1 • Spain A highly unconventional romance that came on the spike heels of Almodóvar’s international sensation Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, this is a splashy, sexy central work in the career of one of the world’s most beloved and provocative auteurs. Time Bandits http://www.criterion.com/films/232-time-bandits Terry Gilliam 1981 • 116 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom In this fantastic voyage through time and space from Terry Gilliam, a boy named Kevin (Craig Warnock) escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarfs. The Times of Harvey Milk http://www.criterion.com/films/27549-the-times-of-harvey-milk Robert Epstein 1984 • 88 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States The Oscar-winning The Times of Harvey Milk, was as groundbreaking as its subject. One of the first feature documentaries to address gay life in America, it’s a work of advocacy itself, bringing Milk’s message of hope and equality to a wider audience. The Tin Drum http://www.criterion.com/films/789-the-tin-drum Volker Schlöndorff 1979 • 163 minutes • 1.66:1 • Germany The Tin Drum, is Volker Schlöndorff’s visionary adaptation of Nobel laureate Günter Grass’s acclaimed novel, characterized by surreal imagery, arresting eroticism, and clear-eyed satire. Tiny Furniture http://www.criterion.com/films/28317-tiny-furniture Lena Dunham 2010 • 99 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States As painfully confessional as it is amusing, Tiny Furniture is an authentic, incisive portrait of a young woman at a crossroads. To Be or Not to Be http://www.criterion.com/films/27690-to-be-or-not-to-be Ernst Lubitsch 1942 • 99 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch stars Jack Benny and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous spy plot. Tokyo Drifter http://www.criterion.com/films/577-tokyo-drifter Seijun Suzuki 1966 • 82 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Tetsu’s attempt to go straight is thwarted when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. Tokyo Olympiad http://www.criterion.com/films/709-tokyo-olympiad Kon Ichikawa 1965 • 170 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Utilizing glorious widescreen cinematography, Kon Ichikawa examines the beauty and rich drama on display at the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo. A spectacle of magnificent proportions, Tokyo Olympiad ranks among the greatest documents of sport ever committed to film. Tokyo Story http://www.criterion.com/films/284-tokyo-story Yasujiro Ozu 1953 • 137 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, Tokyo Story is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujiro Ozu. Tootsie http://www.criterion.com/films/28609-tootsie Sydney Pollack 1982 • 116 minutes • 2.40:1 • United States This multilayered comedy from Sydney Pollack follows the elaborate deception of a down-on-his-luck New York actor who poses as a woman to get a soap opera gig. Topsy-Turvy http://www.criterion.com/films/27550-topsy-turvy Mike Leigh 1999 • 160 minutes • 1.78:1 • United Kingdom The world of Gilbert and Sullivan comes to vivid life in director Mike Leigh’s extraordinary dramatization of the staging of the duo’s legendary 1885 comic opera The Mikado. Topsy-Turvy is an unexpected period delight from one of contemporary cinema’s great artists. Touchez pas au grisbi http://www.criterion.com/films/941-touchez-pas-au-grisbi Jacques Becker 1954 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend. But when Max’s hapless partner lets word of the loot slip to loose-lipped, two-timing Josy (Jeanne Moreau), Max is reluctantly drawn back into the underworld. Touki bouki http://www.criterion.com/films/28412-touki-bouki Djibril Diop Mambéty 1973 • 89 minutes • 1.37:1 • Senegal With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. Tout va bien http://www.criterion.com/films/929-tout-va-bien Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin 1972 • 96 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin’s free-ranging assault on consumer capitalism and the establishment left tells the story of a wildcat strike at a sausage factory as witnessed by an American reporter (Jane Fonda) and her has-been New Wave film director husband (Yves Montand). Traffic http://www.criterion.com/films/381-traffic Steven Soderbergh 2000 • 147 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States With an innovative color-coded cinematic treatment to distinguish his interwoven stories, Steven Soderbergh embroils viewers in the lives of a newly appointed drug czar and his family, a West Coast kingpin’s wife, a key informant, and police officers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Trafic http://www.criterion.com/films/859-trafic Jacques Tati 1971 • 97 minutes • 1.37:1 • France In this, his final outing, Hulot is employed as an auto company’s director of design, and accompanies his new product (a “camping car” outfitted with absurd gadgetry) to an auto show in Amsterdam. Trances http://www.criterion.com/films/28413-trances Ahmed El Maânouni 1981 • 88 minutes • 1.66:1 • Morocco The beloved Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane is the dynamic subject of this captivating musical documentary. Trilogy of Life http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/916-trilogy-of-life Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy In the early 1970s, the great Italian poet, philosopher, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini brought to the screen a trio of masterpieces of medieval literature. Le trou http://www.criterion.com/films/668-le-trou Jacques Becker 1960 • 131 minutes • 1.66:1 • France In a Paris prison cell, five inmates use every ounce of their tenacity and ingenuity in an elaborate attempt to tunnel to freedom. Based on the novel by José Giovanni, Jacques Becker’s Le trou ( The Hole ) balances lyrical humanism with a tense, unshakable air of imminent danger. Trouble in Paradise http://www.criterion.com/films/723-trouble-in-paradise Ernst Lubitsch 1932 • 82 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States When thief Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall) meets his true love in pickpocket Lily (Miriam Hopkins), they embark on a scam to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet (Kay Francis). Legendary director Ernst Lubitsch’s masterful touch is in full flower in Trouble in Paradise. Tunes of Glory http://www.criterion.com/films/659-tunes-of-glory Ronald Neame 1960 • 106 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom A lifetime officer and an educated scion of an old military family battle each other to win the loyalties of a peacetime Scottish battalion. Ronald Neame’s portrayal of the rigid hierarchy of military life also examines the institutional contradictions and class divisions of English society. Twenty-Four Eyes http://www.criterion.com/films/745-twenty-four-eyes Keisuke Kinoshita 1954 • 156 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan One of Japan’s most popular and enduring classics, Keisuke Kinoshita’s Twenty-Four Eyes is an elegant, emotional chronicle of a teacher’s unwavering commitment to her students, her profession, and her sense of morality. The Two of Us http://www.criterion.com/films/757-the-two-of-us Claude Berri 1967 • 87 minutes • 1.66:1 • France A young Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied Paris is sent by his parents to the countryside to live with an elderly Catholic couple until France’s liberation. Forced to hide his identity, the eight-year-old, Claude, bonds with the irascible, staunchly anti-Semitic Grampa (Michel Simon). Two-Lane Blacktop http://www.criterion.com/films/847-two-lane-blacktop Monte Hellman 1971 • 103 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States With its gorgeous widescreen compositions and sophisticated look at American male obsession, this stripped-down narrative from maverick director Monte Hellman is one of the artistic high points of 1970s cinema, and possibly the greatest road movie ever made. Ugetsu http://www.criterion.com/films/369-ugetsu Kenji Mizoguchi 1953 • 97 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan Derived from stories by Akinari Ueda and Guy de Maupassant, Ugetsu, a ghost story like no other, is surely the Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi’s supreme achievement and one of the most beautiful films ever made. Umberto D. http://www.criterion.com/films/371-umberto-d Vittorio De Sica 1952 • 88 minutes • 1.37:1 • Italy This neorealist masterpiece by Vittorio De Sica follows an elderly pensioner as he strives to make ends meet during Italy’s postwar economic recovery. The Unbearable Lightness of Being http://www.criterion.com/films/600-the-unbearable-lightness-of-being Philip Kaufman 1988 • 172 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States Philip Kaufman achieves a delicate, erotic balance with his screen version of Milan Kundera’s “unfilmable” novel about a womanizing surgeon (Daniel Day-Lewis), his free-spirited mistress (Lena Olin), and his childlike wife (Juliette Binoche). Under the Roofs of Paris http://www.criterion.com/films/715-under-the-roofs-of-paris René Clair 1930 • 92 minutes • 1.33:1 • France In René Clair’s irrepressibly romantic portrait of the crowded tenements of Paris, a street singer and a gangster vie for the love of a beautiful young woman. An international sensation upon its release, Under the Roofs of Paris is an exhilarating celebration of filmmaking. Under the Volcano http://www.criterion.com/films/837-under-the-volcano John Huston 1984 • 112 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States John Huston’s ambitious tackling of Malcolm Lowry’s towering, “unadaptable” novel Under the Volcano follows the final day in the life of self-destructive British consul Geoffrey Firmin (Albert Finney, in an Oscar-nominated tour de force), on the eve of World War II. Underworld http://www.criterion.com/films/21766-underworld Josef von Sternberg 1927 • 81 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States Josef von Sternberg’s riveting breakthrough is widely considered the film that launched the American gangster genre as we know it. Unfaithfully Yours http://www.criterion.com/films/876-unfaithfully-yours Preston Sturges 1948 • 105 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States In this pitch-black comedy from Preston Sturges, Rex Harrison stars as a world-famous symphony conductor consumed with the suspicion that his wife is having an affair. Unfaithfully Yours is a brilliantly performed mixture of razor-sharp dialogue and uproarious slapstick. The Uninvited http://www.criterion.com/films/27964-the-uninvited Lewis Allen 1944 • 99 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States A pair of siblings from London (Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey) purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price—and soon they’re caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. Vagabond http://www.criterion.com/films/245-vagabond Agnès Varda 1985 • 105 minutes • 1.66:1 • France Sandrine Bonnaire won the Best Actress César for her portrayal of the defiant young drifter Mona in Agnès Varda’s sparse, poetic Vagabond . Valerie and Her Week of Wonders http://www.criterion.com/films/27860-valerie-and-her-week-of-wonders Jaromil Jireš 1970 • 76 minutes • 1.37:1 • Czechoslovakia A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Vampyr http://www.criterion.com/films/661-vampyr Carl Th. Dreyer 1932 • 73 minutes • 1.19:1 • Denmark With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer’s brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result is nearly unclassifiable. Vampyr is one of cinema’s great nightmares. The Vanishing http://www.criterion.com/films/677-the-vanishing George Sluizer 1988 • 106 minutes • 1.66:1 • Netherlands A young man embarks on an obsessive search for the girlfriend who mysteriously disappeared while the couple were taking a sunny vacation trip, and his three-year investigation draws the attention of her abductor, a mild-mannered professor with a clinically diabolical mind. Vanya on 42nd Street http://www.criterion.com/films/28022-vanya-on-42nd-street Louis Malle 1994 • 119 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States Vanya on 42nd Street is as memorable and emotional a screen version of Chekhov’s masterpiece as one could ever hope to see. This film, which turned out to be Malle’s last, is a tribute to the playwright’s devastating work as well as to the creative process itself. Variety Lights http://www.criterion.com/films/620-variety-lights Federico Fellini and Alberto Lattuada 1950 • 97 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy A beautiful ingenue joins a tawdry music hall troupe and quickly becomes its feature attraction in Federico Fellini’s stunning debut film (directed in collaboration with neorealist filmmaker Alberto Lattuada). Vengeance Is Mine http://www.criterion.com/films/822-vengeance-is-mine Shohei Imamura 1979 • 140 minutes • 1.66:1 • Japan Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story—about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic family—into a cold, perverse, and at times diabolically funny examination of the primitive coexisting with the modern. Veronika Voss http://www.criterion.com/films/593-veronika-voss Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1982 • 104 minutes • 1.78:1 • Germany Once-beloved Third Reich–era starlet Veronika Voss lives in obscurity in postwar Munich. She meets a sportswriter, and the two develop an unlikely relationship. Based on the true story of a World War II UFA star, Veronika Voss is wicked satire disguised as 1950s melodrama. Videodrome http://www.criterion.com/films/240-videodrome David Cronenberg 1983 • 87 minutes • 1.85:1 • Canada When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome . This is one of David Cronenberg’s most provocative works, fusing social commentary with shocking sex and violence. La vie de bohème http://www.criterion.com/films/28086-la-vie-de-boheme Aki Kaurismäki 1992 • 103 minutes • 1.85:1 • France This deadpan tragicomedy about a group of impoverished, outcast artists living the bohemian life in Paris is among the most beguiling films by Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki. The Virgin Spring http://www.criterion.com/films/372-the-virgin-spring Ingmar Bergman 1960 • 89 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden. Viridiana http://www.criterion.com/films/373-viridiana Luis Buñuel 1961 • 90 minutes • 1.66:1 • Spain Novice nun Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism. Luis Buñuel’s irreverent vision of life as a beggar’s banquet is regarded by many as his masterpiece. Les visiteurs du soir http://www.criterion.com/films/27685-les-visiteurs-du-soir Marcel Carné 1942 • 121 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Two strangers dressed as minstrels (Arletty and Alain Cuny) arrive at a castle in advance of court festivities—and are revealed to be emissaries of the devil, dispatched to spread heartbreak and suffering. Their plans, however, are thwarted by an unexpected intrusion: human love. Vivre sa vie http://www.criterion.com/films/3060-vivre-sa-vie Jean-Luc Godard 1962 • 83 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Vivre sa vie was a turning point for Jean-Luc Godard and remains one of his most dynamic films, combining brilliant visual design with a tragic character study. Anna Karina plays Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress but instead ends up a prostitute. W. C. Fields—Six Short Films http://www.criterion.com/films/618-w-c-fields-six-short-films Monte Brice , Clyde Bruckman , Edwin Middleton … 1933 • 115 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States W. C. Fields’s prolific career placed him at the forefront of slapstick comedy. Gathered here are six gems that feature the comic genius at his peak. The Wages of Fear http://www.criterion.com/films/370-the-wages-of-fear Henri-Georges Clouzot 1953 • 147 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route—a white-knuckle ride from France’s legendary master of suspense, Henri-Georges Clouzot. Walkabout http://www.criterion.com/films/522-walkabout Nicolas Roeg 1971 • 100 minutes • 1.78:1 • Australia A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to cope in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg. Walker http://www.criterion.com/films/526-walker Alex Cox 1987 • 94 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, Alex Cox’s Walker tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who became a soldier of fortune and dictator of Nicaragua. The War Room http://www.criterion.com/films/28029-the-war-room Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker 1993 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States The 1992 presidential election was a triumph not only for Bill Clinton but also for the new breed of strategists who guided him to the White House—and changed the face of politics in the process. Watership Down http://www.criterion.com/films/28620-watership-down Martin Rosen 1978 • 92 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States This is a faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits under terrible threat from modern forces. Weekend http://www.criterion.com/films/27783-weekend Andrew Haigh 2011 • 97 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom Rarely has a film been as honest about sexuality—in both depiction and discussion—as this tale of a one-night stand that develops into a weekend-long idyll for two very different young men (exciting screen newcomers Tom Cullen and Chris New) in the English Midlands. Weekend http://www.criterion.com/films/28441-weekend Jean-Luc Godard 1967 • 104 minutes • 1.66:1 • France This scathing late-sixties satire from Jean-Luc Godard is one of cinema’s great anarchic works. Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs http://www.criterion.com/films/816-when-a-woman-ascends-the-stairs Mikio Naruse 1960 • 111 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan When a Woman Ascends the Stairs might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse’s finest hour—a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko (Hideko Takamine), who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo’s very modern postwar Ginza district, and entertains businessmen after work. White Dog http://www.criterion.com/films/861-white-dog Samuel Fuller 1982 • 90 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States Kristy McNichol stars as a young actress who adopts a lost German shepherd, only to discover through a series of horrifying incidents that the dog has been trained to attack black people. White Dog is Samuel Fuller’s throat-grabbing exposé on American racism. White Material http://www.criterion.com/films/27559-white-material Claire Denis 2009 • 105 minutes • 2.35:1 • France Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, unwilling to give up her family’s crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. White Material is a gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind. The White Sheik http://www.criterion.com/films/374-the-white-sheik Federico Fellini 1952 • 86 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy The style and themes which made Federico Fellini world famous are already apparent in this charming comedy (his first solo directorial effort), featuring such long-time collaborators as his wife, actress Giulietta Masina, and composer Nino Rota. Wild Strawberries http://www.criterion.com/films/175-wild-strawberries Ingmar Bergman 1957 • 92 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden Traveling to accept an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg—masterfully played by veteran director Victor Sjöström—is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching death. Wings of Desire http://www.criterion.com/films/200-wings-of-desire Wim Wenders 1987 • 127 minutes • 1.66:1 • Germany Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, dreams—of all the people living below. Wings of Desire forever made the name Wim Wenders synonymous with film art. Winter Light http://www.criterion.com/films/569-winter-light Ingmar Bergman 1962 • 80 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden In Ingmar Bergman’s stark depiction of spiritual crisis, small-town pastor Tomas Ericsson (Gunnar Björnstrand) performs his duties mechanically before a dwindling congregation. Winter Light is beautifully photographed by Sven Nykvist. Wise Blood http://www.criterion.com/films/1424-wise-blood John Huston 1979 • 105 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States In this acclaimed adaptation of the novel by legendary Southern writer Flannery O’Connor, John Huston brings to life a world of vivid, poetic American eccentricity. Brad Dourif, in an impassioned performance, is Hazel Motes, who, fresh out of the army, attempts to open the Church Without Christ. Withnail and I http://www.criterion.com/films/658-withnail-and-i Bruce Robinson 1986 • 108 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom Two unemployed actors drown their frustrations in booze, pills, and lighter fluid. When an uncle offers his cottage, they escape the squalor of their flat for a week in the country. Bruce Robinson’s semi-autobiographical cult favorite is intelligent, superbly acted, and hilarious. Woman in the Dunes http://www.criterion.com/films/826-woman-in-the-dunes Hiroshi Teshigahara 1964 • 147 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan In this art-house sensation, an amateur entomologist has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle that resides in a remote, vast desert; when he misses his bus back to civilization, he spends the night with a young widow who lives at the bottom of a sand dune. A Woman Is a Woman http://www.criterion.com/films/854-a-woman-is-a-woman Jean-Luc Godard 1961 • 84 minutes • 2.35:1 • France Director Jean-Luc Godard’s sly, playful “neorealist musical—that is, a contradiction in terms” finds his signature wit and intellectual acumen applied to the story of an exotic dancer attempting to have a child with her unwilling lover. A Woman Under the Influence http://www.criterion.com/films/510-a-woman-under-the-influence John Cassavetes 1974 • 147 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States John Cassavetes’ devastating drama details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. This is one of the benchmark films of American independent cinema—a heroic document from a true maverick director. World on a Wire http://www.criterion.com/films/27742-world-on-a-wire Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1973 • 212 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany Originally made for German television, this recently rediscovered, three-and-a-half-hour labyrinth is a satiric and surreal look at the world of tomorrow from one of cinema’s kinkiest geniuses. WR: Mysteries of the Organism http://www.criterion.com/films/824-wr-mysteries-of-the-organism Dušan Makavejev 1971 • 85 minutes • 1.33:1 • Yugoslavia What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions) in his surreal documentary-fiction collision WR: Mysteries of the Organism . Written on the Wind http://www.criterion.com/films/636-written-on-the-wind Douglas Sirk 1956 • 99 minutes • 1.77:1 • United States Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Wrong Men & Notorious Women: Five Hitchcock Thrillers 1935–1946 http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/898-wrong-men-notorious-women-five-hitchcock-thrillers-1935-1946 Alfred Hitchcock Edition: DVD A supreme technician and innovative stylist, Alfred Hitchcock always left his indelible stamp on his productions. Y tu mamá también http://www.criterion.com/films/28005-y-tu-mama-tambien Alfonso Cuarón 2001 • 106 minutes • 1.85:1 • Mexico This smash road comedy from Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón is a funny and moving look at human desire. Yi Yi http://www.criterion.com/films/781-yi-yi Edward Yang 2000 • 173 minutes • 1.85:1 • Taiwan The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi ( A One and a Two . . . ), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Yojimbo http://www.criterion.com/films/597-yojimbo Akira Kurosawa 1961 • 110 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune) turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage in Akira Kurosawa’s visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo. Yojimbo/Sanjuro http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/590-yojimbo-sanjuro-box-set Akira Kurosawa Japan Thanks to perhaps the most indelible character in Akira Kurosawa’s oeuvre, Yojimbo surpassed even Seven Samurai in popularity when it was released. Made one year later, Sanjuro matches _Yojimbo_’s storytelling dexterity, and brings the duo to a thrilling and unforgettable conclusion. Young Mr. Lincoln http://www.criterion.com/films/766-young-mr-lincoln John Ford 1939 • 100 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States In John Ford’s Young Mr. Lincoln, Henry Fonda gives one of the finest performances of his career, as the young president-to-be, struggling with an incendiary murder case as a novice lawyer. Compassionate and assured, this is an indelible piece of Americana. Young Törless http://www.criterion.com/films/926-young-torless Volker Schlöndorff 1966 • 87 minutes • 1.77:1 • Germany At an Austrian boys’ boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Törless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, doing nothing to help a victimized classmate—until the torture goes too far. Young Törless is adapted from Robert Musil’s acclaimed novel. Youth of the Beast http://www.criterion.com/films/946-youth-of-the-beast Seijun Suzuki 1963 • 92 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo’s underworld explodes with violence. Youth of the Beast was a breakthrough for director Seijun Suzuki, introducing the flamboyant colors, hallucinatory images, and striking compositions that would become his trademark. Yoyo http://www.criterion.com/films/28454-yoyo Pierre Etaix 1965 • 98 minutes • 1.66:1 • France This elaborately conceived and brilliantly mounted comedy is Pierre Etaix’s most beloved movie, as well as his personal favorite. Z http://www.criterion.com/films/1400-z Costa-Gavras 1969 • 127 minutes • 1.66:1 • France A pulse-pounding political thriller, Greek expatriate director Costa-Gavras’s Z was one of the cinematic sensations of the late sixties, and is a technically audacious and emotionally gripping masterpiece. Zatoichi and the Chess Expert http://www.criterion.com/films/28311-zatoichi-and-the-chess-expert Kenji Misumi 1965 • 87 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Kenji Misumi, who directed the first installment of the Zatoichi series, returns with this tale in which the blind swordsman once again finds himself the protector of a child: a little girl pursued by both devious family members and bloodthirsty ruffians. Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold http://www.criterion.com/films/28305-zatoichi-and-the-chest-of-gold Kazuo Ikehiro 1964 • 82 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan After arriving in a small village, Zatoichi finds himself accused of stealing the citizens’ hefty tax payments. To clear his name, he must face off against a corrupt official, a succession of hired blades, and a bullwhip-wielding titan. Zatoichi and the Doomed Man http://www.criterion.com/films/28310-zatoichi-and-the-doomed-man Kazuo Mori 1965 • 77 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan An elderly prisoner accused of murder begs Zatoichi to find evidence of his innocence. The blind swordsman, for the first time, chooses not to help, but fate has other plans for him. Zatoichi and the Fugitives http://www.criterion.com/films/28315-zatoichi-and-the-fugitives Kimiyoshi Yasuda 1968 • 82 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan The wandering swordsman finds himself in a small village that serves as hideout for a band of fugitives who control the town officials and enforce brutal slave labor in the local silk mill. Zatoichi at Large http://www.criterion.com/films/28586-zatoichi-at-large Kazuo Mori 1972 • 90 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Zatoichi comes across a pregnant woman dying from sword wounds and helps deliver her baby. Her final request to him: take the boy to see his father. Zatoichi Challenged http://www.criterion.com/films/28314-zatoichi-challenged Kenji Misumi 1967 • 86 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan A dying woman begs Zatoichi to reunite her son with the father he has never met, but when the blind masseur searches for the man, he discovers that he has been forced by a local yakuza boss to pay off his gambling debts in an unusual way: by painting illegal erotica. Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival http://www.criterion.com/films/28584-zatoichi-goes-to-the-fire-festival Kenji Misumi 1970 • 96 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Cowritten by star Shintaro Katsu, this adventure pits Zatoichi against one of his most diabolical foes: a blind yakuza boss whose reign of terror and exploitation has made him nearly mythic. Zatoichi in Desperation http://www.criterion.com/films/28587-zatoichi-in-desperation Shintaro Katsu 1972 • 95 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Star Shintaro Katsu sits in the director’s chair for this psychedelic and unremittingly bleak entry in the Zatoichi series, which is unlike any other in its grind-house grimness. Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman http://www.criterion.com/films/28585-zatoichi-meets-the-one-armed-swordsman Kimiyoshi Yasuda 1971 • 94 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan It’s East meets East when one of Japan’s action idols crosses paths with an iconic kung-fu hero from Hong Kong. Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo http://www.criterion.com/films/28582-zatoichi-meets-yojimbo Kihachi Okamoto 1970 • 115 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s become a living hell, plagued by feuding father and son yakuza as well as the younger crime boss’s bodyguard—Toshiro Mifune’s scruffy, smart-mouthed, cash-hungry Yojimbo of legend. Zatoichi on the Road http://www.criterion.com/films/28304-zatoichi-on-the-road Kimiyoshi Yasuda 1963 • 87 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan The itinerant Zatoichi comes across a dying man, who begs the masseur to escort a young woman back to her family in Edo. The honorable swordsman agrees, but in so doing, he catapults himself between two warring yakuza clans, each with its own interest in kidnapping the girl. Zatoichi the Fugitive http://www.criterion.com/films/28303-zatoichi-the-fugitive Tokuzo Tanaka 1963 • 86 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Zatoichi triumphs at a village wrestling match, much to the chagrin of his yakuza opponents. The defeated gang members pay a hotheaded ronin to take out the masseur; unbeknownst to them, the hired assassin is married to a former flame of Zatoichi’s, further complicating matters. Zatoichi the Outlaw http://www.criterion.com/films/28583-zatoichi-the-outlaw Satsuo Yamamoto 1967 • 96 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Zatoichi arrives in a town where a gambling house is kidnapping its poor, debt-ridden patrons. A rival establishment moves to pay those debts and free the peasants, but this second house’s seemingly altruistic boss is actually laying the groundwork for a ruthless money-grabbing scheme. Zatoichi's Cane Sword http://www.criterion.com/films/28313-zatoichi-s-cane-sword Kimiyoshi Yasuda 1967 • 93 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Wearying of his wandering lifestyle, Zatoichi yearns to settle down; unfortunately, when he does so it’s in a town overrun by yakuza. He has an eye-opening encounter with the town’s blacksmith, who reveals himself to be the apprentice of the man who forged Zatoichi’s legendary cane sword. Zatoichi's Flashing Sword http://www.criterion.com/films/28306-zatoichi-s-flashing-sword Kazuo Ikehiro 1964 • 82 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan The blind swordsman is shot and nursed back to health by kind strangers. He soon discovers that his saviors are caught between sparring crime lords; bound by honor, Zatoichi stays to ensure their safety. Zatoichi's Pilgrimage http://www.criterion.com/films/28318-zatoichi-s-pilgrimage Kazuo Ikehiro 1966 • 82 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Troubled by his violent past, Zatoichi begins a journey to a series of shrines for a dose of cleansing spirituality. But as always, trouble isn’t far behind, and the blind swordsman soon finds himself defending a widow from the self-interest of ruthless thugs and despicable townsfolk. Zatoichi's Revenge http://www.criterion.com/films/28309-zatoichi-s-revenge Akira Inoue 1965 • 83 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Nearing the village of his sensei, Zatoichi decides to pay the teacher a visit, only to learn that he has been murdered and his daughter forced into prostitution. Zatoichi's Vengeance http://www.criterion.com/films/28312-zatoichi-s-vengeance Tokuzo Tanaka 1966 • 82 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Zatoichi encounters a dying man, who asks the itinerant masseur to deliver a bag of money to his young son; he agrees to fulfill the request, finding the boy in a village terrorized by criminals. Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1012-zatoichi-the-blind-swordsman Japan The colossally popular Zatoichi films make up the longest-running action series in Japanese history and created one of the screen’s great heroes: an itinerant blind masseur who also happens to be a lightning-fast swordsman. Zatoichi’s Conspiracy http://www.criterion.com/films/28588-zatoichi-s-conspiracy Kimiyoshi Yasuda 1973 • 88 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan Capping off Zatoichi’s feature film era before he made the transition to television in 1974, this chapter is suffused with melancholy, closing the series on a note of seriousness and emotional heft that it has well earned. Zazie dans le métro http://www.criterion.com/films/27626-zazie-dans-le-metro Louis Malle 1960 • 92 minutes • 1.33:1 • France Based on a popular novel by Raymond Queneau that had been considered unadaptable, Malle’s audacious Zazie dans le métro, made with flair on the cusp of the French New Wave, is a bit of stream-of-consciousness slapstick, wall-to-wall with visual gags, editing tricks, and effects. Zéro de conduite http://www.criterion.com/films/27757-zero-de-conduite Jean Vigo 1933 • 44 minutes • 1.19:1 • France So effervescent and charming that one can easily forget its importance in film history, Jean Vigo’s enormously influential portrait of prankish boarding-school students is one of cinema’s great acts of rebellion.