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John Cassavetes: Five Films (1959-78) Criterion Collection
Considered by many to be the father of independent film, John Cassavetes left behind a body of work which has become essential viewing for anyone interested in the art of narrative filmmaking. Peopled with average people, down-and-out types, and low-level criminals, his humanist vision is never flashy ... more info >>
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Insomnia Criterion Collection
Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard (BREAKING THE WAVES, GOOD WILL HUNTING) gives a compelling performance as Jonas Engstrom, an exiled Swedish city detective working in Norway who travels to the small coastal town of Tromso in order to investigate the murder of a teenage girl. When he makes a fatal mistake ... more info >>
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Ingmar Bergman: Four Masterworks (1955-1960) Criterion Collection
The films of director Ingmar Bergman are among the most celebrated in cinematic history. Skilled at dealing with philosophical issues without forsaking human drama, his intense and poetic films are as intellectually rigorous as they are deeply felt. Bergman's prolific career was largely forged on the ... more info >>
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Vanishing Criterion Collection
Three years after the mysterious abduction of his girlfriend while the two were on vacation, a man tracks down her kidnapper. The abductor, a seemingly normal professor who contacts the young man through the mail, is actually a cold-hearted clinician of terror. When her kidnapper promises to reveal the ... more info >>
Umberto D. Criterion Collection
UMBERTO D., from director Vittorio De Sica, is a simple, heartbreaking tale about the life of an elderly pensioner. Penniless and alone, with only the maid (Lina Genneri) from his rooming house and a devoted dog for companionship, the old man (Carlo Battisti) contemplates suicide. But then one day, a ... more info >>
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Walker (1987) Criterion Collection
This offbeat historical drama is another in a line of hard-to-categorize films from cult director Alex Cox. Ed Harris stars as William Walker, an idealistic doctor, lawyer, and journalist who, at age 32, led a bloody revolution and installed himself as president of Nicaragua under orders from Cornelius ... more info >>
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Carl Theodor Dreyer Collection Criterion Collection
DAY OF WRATH: Dreyer's horrifying masterpiece based on Hans Wiers Jenssen's play which, in turn, was based on actual records of witch trials during the 1600s. An old woman curses the local clergyman and his family as she is burned at the stake in this sobering and ghastly study of religious fanaticism ... more info >>
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Most Dangerous Game (Special Edition) Criterion Collection
After a shipwreck, a big game hunter washes up on a remote island only to discover that its owner, also a hunter, has tired of tracking animals and has developed a taste for a new prey...humans. Co-Director Shoedsack performed the same duty on KING KONG, as did producer Cooper. The film also used the ... more info >>
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Le Trou Criterion Collection
The story of five prisoners who meticulously plan their escape, only to learn that one of them is scheduled to be pardoned a few days before the jail-break. One of the "prison" genre's most unforgettable films. more info >>
Rebel Samurai: Sixties Sword Play (1965-1968) Criterion Collection
The reliably excellent Criterion Collection presents these four diverse and intriguing 1960s samurai films. Not as well known as those of, for instance, Akira Kurosawa, these movies nevertheless make important contributions to the genre in their own ways, and they play with its conventions even as they ... more info >>
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Vengeance Is Mine (1979) Criterion Collection
Based on police records and a prize-winning book by Ryuzo Saki, VENGEANCE IS MINE chronicles the terrifying crime spree of Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata), a hollow man with no kokoro, which means either "self" or "heart" in Japanese. A dissatisfied public relations employee, Enokizu kills ... more info >>
High And Low Criterion Collection
Based on KING'S RANSOM, a crime novel by Ed McBain, HIGH AND LOW stars Toshirô Mifune as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy, hardworking businessman. As Gondo plans a coup that will secure his position as the head of his Yokohama shoe company, he is contacted by a criminal who informs him that he's kidnapped his ... more info >>
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I Fidanzati Criterion Collection
After taking a welding job in Sicily, a young man realizes he misses his fiancee who remains in Milan. In his loneliness, the young man stumbles across ways to rejuvinate their passion. Known for his humanism and his political content, director Ermanno Olmi (TREE OF THE WOODEN CLOGS) reached the heights ... more info >>
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Shop On Main Street Criterion Collection
In World War II Slovakia, an easygoing carpenter, Tono (Jozef Króner) is pressured to move up in the world by his ostentatious wife and fascist brother-in-law. He takes the job of "Aryan comptroller" in a button shop owned by an aging Jewess, Rosalie (Ida Kaminska) who barely seems aware that ... more info >>
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3 Films by Louis Malle (Criterion) Criterion Collection
From his origins in the 1960s French New Wave to his death in 1995, Gallic director Louis Malle produced a cinematic oeuvre of emotional complexity and diverse subject matter. This collection presents a trio of Malle films loosely connected through themes of childhood innocence and the hypocrisies of ... more info >>
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Under the Volcano (1984) Criterion Collection
A boozing ex-British consulate, his estranged wife and his half-brother suffer in a private hell in Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1939, on "El Dia De Los Muertos" (The Day of the Dead). From Malcolm Lowry's 1947 novel. Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Actor--Albert Finney. more info >>
Ruling Class (Special Edition) Criterion Collection
THE RULING CLASS runs the full gamut of British entertainment--beautiful costumes, fabulous sets, serial killers, witty dialogue, burlesque striptease, opera and aristocracy, romance and insanity, jealousy and drama, comedy and theology. upper classes. With its outlandish situational dialogue, and with ... more info >>
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Summertime Criterion Collection
Based on Arthur Laurent's play THE TIME OF THE CUCKOO, Lean's beautiful, classic romantic drama tells the tale of an American spinster (Hepburn) on holiday in Venice who has an affair with a handsome, and not altogether honest, merchant (Brazzi). Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Director ... more info >>
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49th Parallel (1941) Criterion Collection
A taut, suspenseful World War II drama about Nazi servicemen trying to reach neutral American land after their U-boat is sunk in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Picture, Best Screenplay. Academy Awards: Best Original Story. more info >>
Green for Danger (1946) Criterion Collection
In a rural British hospital, Inspector Cockrill must determine whodunit when the head nurse is done away with after revealing that the death of a patient under anesthesia was no accident. The hospital is full of suspicious doctors and staff and the interrogation brings them all into question. more info >>
Divorce, Italian Style (1962) Criterion Collection
A bored upper-class Sicilian (Mastroianni) has grown tired of his wife and would rather marry his attractive cousin. Unfortunately, divorce is illegal in Italy. Therefore, he decides to find a lover for his wife and murder her out of "jealousy". A hilarious farce about love and marriage. Academy ... more info >>
Kagemusha (1980) Criterion Collection
In this dazzling epic from Akira Kurosawa, a petty thief named Kagemusha (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets saved from a death sentence because he resembles the warlord Shingen Takeda (also Nakadai). The warlord has been fighting two other leaders for control of 16th-century Japan and impersonators often take his ... more info >>
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Woman Is a Woman (1960) Criterion Collection
With A WOMAN IS A WOMAN, French director Jean-Luc Godard pays tribute to American musicals in much the same way that his debut feature, the critical and commercial smash hit BREATHLESS, did to American gangster films. The story follows the beautiful Angela (Anna Karina), a strip-tease artist who wants ... more info >>
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Down By Law (Special Edition) Criterion Collection
Jim Jarmusch's quirky follow-up to his groundbreaking STRANGER THAN PARADISE is a comic fable about finding the American dream in the most unlikely of places. After being thrown out of the house by his girlfriend, Zack (Tom Waits), an out-of-work DJ, takes a job driving a stolen car with a body in the ... more info >>
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Slacker (Special Edition/1991) Criterion Collection
Texan filmmaker Richard Linklater's debut independent feature takes an original approach to traditional narrative, creating an entirely new form of cinema in the process. Shot at a leisurely pace with a style similar to Robert Bresson, SLACKER follows the unmotivated inhabitants of Austin, Texas, over ... more info >>
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