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Revanche
Movie + 4 extras
Directed by Götz Spielmann • 2008 • Austria
Starring Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Ursula StraussA gripping thriller and a tragic drama of nearly Greek proportions, REVANCHE is the stunning, Oscar-nominated international breakthrough of Austrian filmmaker Götz Spielmann. In a ragged section...
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Certified Copy
Movie + 3 extras
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 2010 • Italy
Starring Juliette Binoche, William ShimellThe 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...
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Beyond the Hills
Movie + 5 extras
Directed by Cristian Mungiu • 2012 • Romania
Starring Cristina Flutur, Cosmina StratanWith 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 ...
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Phoenix
Movie + 3 extras
Directed by Christian Petzold • 2014 • Germany
Starring Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina KunzendorfThis 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...
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A Master Builder
Movie + 3 extras
Directed by Jonathan Demme • 2014 • United States
Starring Wallace Shawn, Julie Hagerty, Lisa JoyceTwenty 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...
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Movie + 6 extras
Criterion Collection Edition #535
Directed by Nagisa Oshima • 1983 • Japan
Starring David Bowie, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tom ContiIn 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...
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Limelight
Movie + 9 extras
Criterion Collection Edition #756
Directed by Charles Chaplin • 1952 • United States
Starring Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel BruceCharlie 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 ...
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This Sporting Life
Movie + 3 extras
Criterion Collection Edition #417
Directed by Lindsay Anderson • 1963 • United Kingdom
Starring Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan BadelOne 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...
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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 PriceMichael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s beloved classic A CANTERBURY TALE is a profoundly personal journey to Powell’s bucolic birthplace o...
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Every Man for Himself
Movie + 10 extras
Criterion Collection Edition #744
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1980 • France
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie BayeAfter 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 ...
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The Ruling Class
Movie + 1 extra
Criterion Collection Edition #132
Directed by Peter Medak • 1972 • United Kingdom
Starring Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur LowePeter 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...
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Panique
Movie + 4 extras
Criterion Collection Edition #955
Directed by Julien Duvivier • 1946 • France
Starring Michel Simon, Viviane Romance, Paul BernardProud, 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...
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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...
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Make Way for Tomorrow
Movie + 2 extras
Directed by Leo McCarey • 1937 • United States
Starring Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay BainterMAKE 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...
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The Tin Drum
Movie + 9 extras
Criterion Collection Edition #234
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff • 1979 • Germany
Starring David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela WinklerOskar 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...
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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...
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Tampopo
Movie + 8 extras
Criterion Collection Edition #868
Directed by Juzo Itami • 1985 • Japan
Starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Koji YakushoThe 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...
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The Great Beauty
Movie + 5 extras
Criterion Collection Edition #702
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino • 2013 • Italy
Starring Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina FerilliFor 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...
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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...
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Wanda
Movie + 5 extras
Criterion Collection Edition #965
Directed by Barbara Loden • 1970 • United States
Starring Barbara Loden, Michael HigginsWith 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...
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Boyhood
Movie + 6 extras
Criterion Collection Edition #839
Directed by Richard Linklater • 2014 • United States
Starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan HawkeThere 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...
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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 CeballosOn 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...
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White Material
Movie + 6 extras
Criterion Collection Edition #560
Directed by Claire Denis • 2009 • France
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Christophe Lambert, Bankolé Isaach DeIn WHITE MATERIAL, the great contemporary French filmmaker Claire Denis, known for her restless, intimate dramas, introduces an unforgettably crazed charac...
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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes by William Greaves
Movie + 4 extras
Directed by William Greaves • 1968 • United States
Starring William Greaves, Patricia Ree Gilbert, Don FellowsIn 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...