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William Wyler has always been one of my most revered filmmakers, and his 1949 The Heiress, for Paramount, is a magnificent part of his...

[ATTACH] As World War II splits Europe, sixteen-year-old German Jew Salomon (Marco Hofschneider) is separated from his family after fleeing with...

[ATTACH] In 1977, German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was thirty-two years old and had already directed more than twenty-five feature...

[ATTACH] With her Oscar-winning turn in Klute, Jane Fonda arrived full-fledged as a new kind of movie star. Bringing nervy audacity and...

[ATTACH] The warmth and wit of celebrated playwright turned cinema auteur Marcel Pagnol shine in this enchanting slice-of-life comedy. Returning...

[ATTACH] This masterly adaptation of George Orwell’s chilling parable about totalitarian oppression gives harrowing cinematic expression to the...

[ATTACH] Set on one block of Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy Do or Die neighborhood, at the height of summer, this 1989 masterpiece by Spike Lee confirmed...

Josh Steinberg submitted a new blog post Notorious (1946) Blu-ray Review (Criterion Collection) [IMG] Continue reading the Original Blog Post.

I'm new here but a longtime lover of classic films. Could someone who has the new Criterion Blu-ray Disc of Detour (1945) please do me a quick...

If the moderator can please erase this whole thread please. I thought I was being informative....but by the comment below I refuse to be...

This company essentially invented the alternate-track audio commentary with its laser disc releases. Since then, they've commissioned innumerable...

[ATTACH] In 1960, Swedish director Ingmar Bergman began work on three of his most powerful and representative films, eventually recognized as a...

[ATTACH] In this irresistible musical, the legendary dancing duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are at the pinnacle of their art as a feckless...

[ATTACH] The transcendent second feature by Bruno Dumont probes the wonder and horror of the human condition through the story of a profoundly...

[ATTACH] With his stunning debut feature, the risk-taking auteur Bruno Dumont immediately established his reputation as both a spiritual heir to...

[ATTACH] With this trailblazing musical, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature...

[ATTACH] At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet film industry set out to prove it could outdo Hollywood with a production that would dazzle...

I have some extra discs that I'm looking to sell. All are in like new condition and watched only once (unless noted as sealed, in which case it's...

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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...

Robert Harris submitted a new blog post A few words about...™ In the Heat of the Night re-dux (Criterion) - in Blu-ray [IMG] Continue reading...

[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...