From the Criterion Collection

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  • Demon Pond
    Movie + 2 extras

    Demon Pond

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Masahiro Shinoda • 1979 • Japan
    Starring Tamasaburo Bando, Go Kato, Tsutomu Yamazaki

    Japanese New Wave renegade Masahiro Shinoda transforms a classic Kabuki tale with his own extravagant visual style in this dimension-shattering folk-horror fantasia. When a lone traveler (Tsutomu Yam...

  • The Trial
    Movie + 4 extras

    The Trial

    Movie + 4 extras

    Directed by Orson Welles • 1962 • France, Italy, Yugoslavia
    Starring Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Elsa Martinelli

    A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka’s novel, Orson Welles’s THE TRIAL casts Anthony Perkins as the bewildered office drone Josef K., whose arrest for an unspecified crime pl...

  • Thief
    Movie + 4 extras

    Thief

    Movie + 4 extras

    Directed by Michael Mann • 1981 • United States
    Starring James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky

    The contemporary American auteur Michael Mann’s bold artistic sensibility was already fully formed when he burst out of the gate with THIEF, his debut feature. James Caan stars, in one of his most ri...

  • The Last Picture Show
    Movie + 10 extras

    The Last Picture Show

    Movie + 10 extras

    Directed by Peter Bogdanovich • 1971 • United States
    Starring Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybil Shepherd

    THE LAST PICTURE SHOW is one of the key films of the American cinema renaissance of the seventies. Set during the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a movi...

  • Crossing Delancey
    Movie + 2 extras

    Crossing Delancey

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1988 • United States
    Starring Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, David Hyde Pierce

    Joan Micklin Silver’s wonderfully affectionate spin on the romantic comedy infuses the genre with a fresh, personal perspective, following an unmarried Jewish woman’s search for fulfillme...

  • Mississippi Masala
    Movie + 5 extras

    Mississippi Masala

    Movie + 5 extras

    Directed by Mira Nair • 1991 • United States, Uganda
    Starring Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth

    The vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South come together in Mira Nair’s MISSISSIPPI MASALA, a luminous look at the complexities of love in the modern melting pot. Yea...

  • Chilly Scenes of Winter

    Movie + 3 extras

    Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1979 • United States
    Starring John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert

    The trailblazing Joan Micklin Silver—one of only a handful of women to direct a film for a major Hollywood studio in the 1970s—digs fearlessly into the psychology of a thorny relationship in...

  • Teen Apocalypse Trilogy

    2 seasons

    This savagely subversive, hormone-fueled triptych pushed 1990s indie cinema into bold new aesthetic realms, while giving blistering expression to adolescent rage and libidinal desire.

  • Lost Highway
    Movie + 5 extras

    Lost Highway

    Movie + 5 extras

    Directed by David Lynch • 1997 • United States
    Starring Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty

    “We’ve met before, haven’t we?” A mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity, LOST HIGHWAY, David Lynch’s seventh feature film, is one of the filmmaker’s most potent cinemati...

  • To Die For
    Movie + 3 extras

    To Die For

    Movie + 3 extras

    Directed by Gus Van Sant • 1995 • United States, United Kingdom
    Starring Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix

    The all-American obsession with celebrity turns monstrous in this deliciously subversive (and disturbingly prescient) satire of our television-mediated, true-crime-obsessed age. I...

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    Movie + 7 extras

    Directed by David Lynch • 1992 • United States

    In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets, but no one more than Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, foll...

  • David Lynch: The Art Life

    Movie + 3 extras

    Directed by Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, and Olivia Neergaard-Holm • 2016 • United States, Denmark

    A rare glimpse into the mind of one of cinema’s most enigmatic visionaries, DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE offers an absorbing portrait of the artist, as well as an intimate encounter with the man himself. ...

  • Hunger
    Movie + 4 extras

    Hunger

    Movie + 4 extras

    Directed by Steve McQueen • 2008 • Ireland, United Kingdom
    Starring Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Liam Cunningham

    With HUNGER, British filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen has turned one of history’s most controversial acts of political defiance into a jarring, unforgettable cinematic experie...

  • A Face In the Crowd
    Movie + 3 extras

    A Face In the Crowd

    Movie + 3 extras

    Directed by Elia Kazan • 1957 • United States
    Starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau

    A FACE IN THE CROWD chronicles the rise and fall of Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes (Andy Griffith), a boisterous entertainer discovered in an Arkansas drunk tank by Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal), a loc...

  • Still Walking
    Movie + 4 extras

    Still Walking

    Movie + 4 extras

    Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda • 2008 • Japan
    Starring Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, You

    The lyrical, profoundly moving STILL WALKING (ARUITEMO ARUITEMO) is contemporary Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda's most personal work to date. Created as a tribute to his late mother, the film depicts one day...

  • Take Out
    Movie + 5 extras

    Take Out

    Movie + 5 extras

    Directed by Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou • 2004 • United States
    Starring Charles Jang, Jeng-Hua Yu, Wang-Thye Lee

    The American dream has rarely seemed so far away as in Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou’s raw, vérité TAKE OUT, an immersion in the life of an undocumented Chinese immigrant struggli...

  • Dont Look Back
    Movie + 13 extras

    Dont Look Back

    Movie + 13 extras

    Directed by D. A. Pennebaker • 1967 • United States

    Bob Dylan is captured on-screen as he never would be again in this groundbreaking film from D. A. Pennebaker. The legendary documentarian finds Dylan in England during his 1965 tour, which would be his last as an acoustic artist. In this wildly...

  • A Hard Day’s Night
    Movie + 10 extras

    A Hard Day’s Night

    Movie + 10 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #711

    Directed by Richard Lester • 1964 • United Kingdom

    Meet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the U.S. scene with their Ed Sullivan Show appearance, John, Paul, George, and Ringo began working on a project that would bring their revolutionary tal...

  • Multiple Maniacs
    Movie + 5 extras

    Multiple Maniacs

    Movie + 5 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #863

    Directed by John Waters • 1970 • United States
    Starring Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce

    The gloriously grotesque second feature directed by John Waters is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema’s most memorably b...

  • Not a Pretty Picture
    Movie + 2 extras

    Not a Pretty Picture

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Martha Coolidge • 1975 • United States
    Starring Michele Manenti, Jim Carrington, Anne Mundstuk

    Trailblazing filmmaker Martha Coolidge made her feature debut with this unflinchingly personal hybrid of documentary and fiction. Centered on an intense reenactment of Coolidge’s experienc...

  • Onibaba
    Movie + 3 extras

    Onibaba

    Movie + 3 extras

    Directed by Kaneto Shindo • 1964 • Japan
    Starring Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato

    Deep within the wind-swept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. Forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings...

  • Häxan
    Movie + 4 extras

    Häxan

    Movie + 4 extras

    Directed by Benjamin Christensen • 1922 • Denmark
    Starring Benjamin Christensen, Astrid Holm, Karen Winther

    Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary silent film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that th...

  • A Room with a View
    Movie + 2 extras

    A Room with a View

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by James Ivory • 1986 • United Kingdom
    Starring Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Day-Lewis

    Merchant Ivory Productions, led by director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, became a household name with A ROOM WITH A VIEW, the first of their extraordinary adaptations of E. ...

  • A Woman Under the Influence

    Movie + 5 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #253

    Directed by John Cassavetes • 1974 • United States
    Starring Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk

    This uncompromising portrait of domestic turmoil details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. Gena Rowlands and ...