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  • Certified Copy
    Movie + 3 extras

    Certified Copy

    Movie + 3 extras

    Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 2010 • Italy
    Starring Juliette Binoche, William Shimell

    The great Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami travels to Tuscany for a luminous and provocative romance in which nothing is as it appears. What seems at first to be a straightforward tale of two people—played by...

  • Beyond the Hills
    Movie + 5 extras

    Beyond the Hills

    Movie + 5 extras

    Directed by Cristian Mungiu • 2012 • Romania
    Starring Cristina Flutur, Cosmina Stratan

    With this arresting drama based on notorious real-life events, Cristian Mungiu mounts a complex inquiry into faith, fanaticism, and indifference. At a desolate Romanian monastery, a young novice nun, Voichita ...

  • Phoenix
    Movie + 3 extras

    Phoenix

    Movie + 3 extras

    Directed by Christian Petzold • 2014 • Germany
    Starring Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf

    This evocative and haunting drama, set in rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish-German identity. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer (Ni...

  • A Master Builder
    Movie + 3 extras

    A Master Builder

    Movie + 3 extras

    Directed by Jonathan Demme • 2014 • United States
    Starring Wallace Shawn, Julie Hagerty, Lisa Joyce

    Twenty years after their brilliant cinema-theater experiment VANYA ON 42ND STREET, Wallace Shawn and André Gregory reunited to produce another idiosyncratic film version of a classic play, this t...

  • Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

    Movie + 6 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #535

    Directed by Nagisa Oshima • 1983 • Japan
    Starring David Bowie, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tom Conti

    In this captivating, skewed World War II drama from Nagisa Oshima, David Bowie regally embodies Celliers, a British officer interned by the Japanese as a POW. Rock star R...

  • Limelight
    Movie + 9 extras

    Limelight

    Movie + 9 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #756

    Directed by Charles Chaplin • 1952 • United States
    Starring Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce

    Charlie Chaplin’s masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer-director’s most touching films. Chaplin plays Calvero, a ...

  • This Sporting Life
    Movie + 3 extras

    This Sporting Life

    Movie + 3 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #417

    Directed by Lindsay Anderson • 1963 • United Kingdom
    Starring Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel

    One of the finest British films ever made, this benchmark of kitchen-sink realism follows the self-defeating professional and romantic pursuits of a miner t...

  • A Canterbury Tale
    Movie + 6 extras

    A Canterbury Tale

    Movie + 6 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #341

    Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger • 1944 • United Kingdom
    Starring Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price

    Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s beloved classic A CANTERBURY TALE is a profoundly personal journey to Powell’s bucolic birthplace o...

  • Every Man for Himself
    Movie + 10 extras

    Every Man for Himself

    Movie + 10 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #744

    Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1980 • France
    Starring Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye

    After a decade in the wilds of avant-garde and early video experimentation, Jean-Luc Godard returned to commercial cinema with this star-driven work of social ...

  • The Ruling Class
    Movie + 1 extra

    The Ruling Class

    Movie + 1 extra

    Criterion Collection Edition #132

    Directed by Peter Medak • 1972 • United Kingdom
    Starring Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe

    Peter O’Toole gives a tour-de-force performance as Jack, a man “cured” of believing he’s God—only to become Jack the Ripper incarnate. Based on Peter Barnes's irre...

  • Panique
    Movie + 4 extras

    Panique

    Movie + 4 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #955

    Directed by Julien Duvivier • 1946 • France
    Starring Michel Simon, Viviane Romance, Paul Bernard

    Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire (Michel Simon) has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he f...

  • I vitelloni
    Movie + 3 extras

    I vitelloni

    Movie + 3 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #246

    Directed by Federico Fellini • 1953 • Italy

    Five young men linger in a postadolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small seacoast town. They while away their time spending the lira doled out by their indulgent families on drink, women, and...

  • Make Way for Tomorrow
    Movie + 2 extras

    Make Way for Tomorrow

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Leo McCarey • 1937 • United States
    Starring Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter

    MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW, by Leo McCarey, is one of the great unsung Hollywood masterpieces, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. Be...

  • The Tin Drum
    Movie + 9 extras

    The Tin Drum

    Movie + 9 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #234

    Directed by Volker Schlöndorff • 1979 • Germany
    Starring David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler

    Oskar is born in Germany in 1924 with an advanced intellect. Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, he refuses to grow older af...

  • Cameraperson
    Movie + 6 extras

    Cameraperson

    Movie + 6 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #853

    Directed by Kirsten Johnson • 2016 • United States

    A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home with the director: Kirsten Johnson weaves these scenes and others i...

  • Tampopo
    Movie + 8 extras

    Tampopo

    Movie + 8 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #868

    Directed by Juzo Itami • 1985 • Japan
    Starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Koji Yakusho

    The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this rapturous “ramen western” by Japa...

  • The Great Beauty
    Movie + 5 extras

    The Great Beauty

    Movie + 5 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #702

    Directed by Paolo Sorrentino • 2013 • Italy
    Starring Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli

    For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, h...

  • Burroughs: The Movie
    Movie + 10 extras

    Burroughs: The Movie

    Movie + 10 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #789

    Directed by Howard Brookner • 1983 • United States

    Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet filmed over the course of five years, Howard Brookner’s 1983 documentary about William S. Burroughs was for decades mainly the stuff of le...

  • Wanda
    Movie + 5 extras

    Wanda

    Movie + 5 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #965

    Directed by Barbara Loden • 1970 • United States
    Starring Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins

    With her first and only feature film—a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in—Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bri...

  • Boyhood
    Movie + 6 extras

    Boyhood

    Movie + 6 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #839

    Directed by Richard Linklater • 2014 • United States
    Starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke

    There has never been another movie like BOYHOOD, from director Richard Linklater. An event film of the utmost modesty, it was shot over the course of tw...

  • Town Bloody Hall
    Movie + 6 extras

    Town Bloody Hall

    Movie + 6 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #1039

    Directed by Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker • 1979 • United States
    Starring Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer, Jacqueline Ceballos

    On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York’s intellectual elite packed the city’s Town Hall theater to see Norman Ma...

  • White Material
    Movie + 6 extras

    White Material

    Movie + 6 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #560

    Directed by Claire Denis • 2009 • France
    Starring Isabelle Huppert, Christophe Lambert, Bankolé Isaach De

    In WHITE MATERIAL, the great contemporary French filmmaker Claire Denis, known for her restless, intimate dramas, introduces an unforgettably crazed charac...

  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes by William Greaves

    Movie + 4 extras

    Directed by William Greaves • 1968 • United States
    Starring William Greaves, Patricia Ree Gilbert, Don Fellows

    In his one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE, the pioneering William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York’s Central Park, leaving...

  • Andrei Rublev
    Movie + 9 extras

    Andrei Rublev

    Movie + 9 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #34

    Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • 1966 • Soviet Union
    Starring Anatoly Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko

    Tracing the life of a renowned icon painter, the second feature by Andrei Tarkovsky vividly conjures the murky world of medieval Russia. This dreamlike a...