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Passion brews quietly between an artist and her subject, until they together create a space in which it can briefly flourish, in this sumptuous eighteenth-century romance from Céline Sciamma, one of contemporary French cinema’s most acclaimed auteurs. Summoned to an isolated seaside estate on a...

A spectacle of magnificent proportions and remarkable intimacy, Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad remains one of the greatest films ever made about sports. Supervising a team of hundreds of technicians using more than a thousand cameras, Ichikawa captured the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo in glorious...

This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguish) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather...

One of the great American musicals, the 1936 Show Boat, with massive talent in the leads, including one of the finest voices ever recorded, Paul Robeson, and original cast member, Helen Morgan. Derived from a safety fgm, Criterion's new Blu, is the best I've ever seen this film look. Gorgeous...

Robert Harris submitted a new blog post A few words about...™ Leave Her to Heaven - in Blu-ray Continue reading the Original Blog Post.

R. Dixon Smith 455 East Nees Avenue, Apartment 263 Fresno, California 93720 Film historian R. Dixon Smith offers classic DVDs for sale at bargain prices: CRITERION COLLECTION, MASTERS OF CINEMA, SILENT CINEMA, ALFRED HITCHCOCK, MARLENE DIETRICH, & ANIMATION. Discs, cases, artwork...

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There was a time, as a late teen, before I learned to speak fillum, that I might confuse, or conjoin George Cukor's wonderful 1938 romantic comedy Holiday, with Leo McCarey's wonderful The Awful Truth, produced the year previous. Both star Cary Grant, while Awful feature him with Irene Dunn...

Take a look at the credits for Ronald Neame's Tunes of Glory, an extraordinary character study of officers in a Scottish Battalion, released in 1960. In the leads, Alec Guinness and John Mills, two of England's finest. A young Susannah York in her first role. Malcolm Arnold created the score...

Now, Voyager, is quintessential Davis, at the peak of her Warner Bros. years. Rightfully, famous for the work of the leads - Ms Davis, along with Paul Henried and Claude Rains and Gladys Cooper, the film has never before been available on Blu-ray, although it has been around for years on other...

My initial thought regarding Shout Factory's new Anne Bancroft Collection was "why?" Over the decades Ms Bancroft appeared in over fifty films. This is a pleasant, but incomplete survey of her career, and there's very little new. Here's the breakdown. Eight films. Don't Bother to Knock -...

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Before his convention-shattering debut, Breathless, had even premiered, Jean-Luc Godard leapt into the making of his second feature, a thriller that would tackle the most controversial subject in France: the use of torture in the Algerian War. Despite his lack of political convictions...

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. A smoldering, snakeskin-jacketed Brando is Val Xavier, a...

This unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military’s chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Working from a contemporary best seller...

This Oscar-winning melodrama, one of Pedro Almodóvar’s most beloved films, provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. In an instant, nurse Manuela (Cecilia Roth) loses the teenage son she raised on her own. Grief-stricken, she sets out to search for the boy’s long-lost...

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Film historian R. Dixon Smith offers classic DVDs for sale at bargain prices, including CLASSIC ANIMATION, CRITERION COLLECTION, MASTERS OF CINEMA, MARCEL PAGNOL, FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT, ROBERT BRESSON, LUIS BUNUEL, SERGEI BONDARCHUK, HUNGARIAN CINEMA, CZECH CINEMA, CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD, and SILENTS...

DVD SALES LIST. Film historian R. Dixon Smith has issued a list of classic DVDs for sale at bargain prices, including CRITERION COLLECTION, EUREKA / MASTERS OF CINEMA, JAPANESE CINEMA, GERMAN CINEMA, RUSSIAN CINEMA, SILENTS, and SERIALS. Such friends as Kevin Brownlow, Jon C. Mirsalis, Richard...

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I saw Klute on its opening day and was crazy about it and went back about six times during the run. The style of it, the direction, photography, music - was completely unique. And the performances were absolutely incredible. I've seen it a few times over the years and it's always riveting...

Back in 1933, after appearing in Dancing Lady for M-G-M, Fred Astaire, who received 6th billing, just beneath Winnie Lightner, made a move to RKO, and so began a series of classic musicals that fans have been waiting to appear on Blu-ray. There were ten films in the series, and the first to...

Some Criterion for sale: On Blu, OOP The Confession Blu - $50 Last Year at Marienbad Blu - $80 Chungking Express Blu - $100 On DVD, OOP Port of Shadows DVD - $30 The Life of Brian - $15 The Rock - $15 On Blu, in print: If... - $15 Videodrome - $15 On DVD, in print: Loves of a Blonde - $10...

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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 filmography. Olivia De Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, and Miriam Hopkins (she's been discussed quite a bit lately), are the leads, and the film...

Josh Steinberg submitted a new blog post Notorious (1946) Blu-ray Review (Criterion Collection) 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 favor by popping it in the player and checking something? I'm seeing a slight jump in the video at time index 10:42 during the sentence, ". . . but...