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[ATTACH] Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler, this film based on a hit stage adaptation of Henry James’s Washington Square...

[ATTACH] Michael Haneke’s most notorious provocation, Funny Games spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held...

[ATTACH] The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and screenwriter David Mamet sat in the director’s chair for the first time for this sly,...

[ATTACH] Two luminaries of French cinema, Claire Denis and Juliette Binoche, unite for the first time in this piercing look at the elusive...

[ATTACH] In the early 1960s in Paris, two young women become friends. Pomme is an aspiring singer. Suzanne is a pregnant country girl unable to...

[ATTACH] Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field. In the...

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[ATTACH] Five cities. Five taxicabs. A multitude of strangers in the night. Jim Jarmusch assembled an extraordinary international cast of actors...

[ATTACH] With this breakout film, Jim Jarmusch established himself as one of the most exciting voices in the burgeoning independent-film scene,...

[ATTACH] With this simultaneously harrowing and lyrical debut feature, Jan Němec established himself as the most uncompromising visionary among...

[ATTACH] A Face in the Crowd chronicles the rise and fall of Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes (Andy Griffith), a boisterous entertainer discovered in an...

[ATTACH] The jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in these breathtakingly inventive action comedies, two smash hits that made Jackie...

[ATTACH] For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin’s novel, a celebrated...

And here we go with the annual laundry list. Revisiting my prior lists, regardless of reality, and noting that some of the items from the last...

The image accompanying Criterion's Happy New Year message. [img] Let the guessing begin... That's not a sled, but 'Citizen Cane'? Astaire and...

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Virtually all of the Criterion films on iTunes are on sale in HD for $9.99!!! Amazing! This rarely happens! This includes 34 of Ingmar Bergman's...

[ATTACH] Silent-comedy legend Harold Lloyd goes west in this irresistible blend of action, romance, and slapstick invention. The bespectacled...

[ATTACH] This scintillating screen version of Mozart’s beloved opera showcases Ingmar Bergman’s deep knowledge of music and gift for expressing...

[ATTACH] From Poverty Row came a movie that, perhaps more than any other, epitomizes the dark fatalism at the heart of film noir. As he...

[ATTACH] With her first and only film—a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in—Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of...

[ATTACH] On February 9, 1964, the Beatles made their first live appearance on American television on The Ed Sullivan Show, ratcheting up the...

[ATTACH] In this preternaturally assured feature debut by Carlos Reygadas, a man (Alejandro Ferretis) travels from Mexico City to an isolated...

This year I purchased 247 films and I think it has been the greatest year ever for film collecting, since I started with VHS in the early 1980's....

B&N 50% Off The Criterion Collection - Online Only 12/13 through 12/16 (EDITED TO CORRECT DATES) And now for something somewhat different "For...

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Sold Out. I ordered this from B&N a week before release. The store received two copies, and neither was for me. Amazon is saying that this will...

[IMG] NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 16, 2018 [IMG] We are incredibly touched and encouraged by the flood of support we’ve been receiving since the...

[ATTACH] Ingmar Bergman’s Shame is at once an examination of the violent legacy of World War II and a scathing response to the escalation of the...

[ATTACH] Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau (Brigitte Bardot) came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to...