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  • The Daytrippers
    Movie + 5 extras

    The Daytrippers

    Movie + 5 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #1001

    Directed by Greg Mottola • 1996 • United States
    Starring Parker Posey, Hope Davis, Liev Schreiber

    With its droll humor and bittersweet emotional heft, the feature debut of writer-director Greg Mottola announced the arrival of an unassumingly sharp-witted new t...

  • Harlan County USA
    Movie + 12 extras

    Harlan County USA

    Movie + 12 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #334

    Directed by Barbara Kopple • 1976 • United States

    Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award-winning HARLAN COUNTY USA unflinchingly documents a grueling coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners’ somet...

  • For All Mankind
    Movie + 8 extras

    For All Mankind

    Movie + 8 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #54

    Directed by Al Reinert • 1989 • United States

    In July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy’s challenge of “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget ...

  • 45 Years
    Movie + 4 extras

    45 Years

    Movie + 4 extras

    Directed by Andrew Haigh • 2015 • United Kingdom
    Starring Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay

    In this exquisitely calibrated film, Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay perform a subtly off-kilter pas de deux as Kate and Geoff, an English couple who, on the eve of an anniversary celebration, find t...

  • Le Havre
    Movie + 5 extras

    Le Havre

    Movie + 5 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #619

    Directed by Aki Kaurismäki • 2011 • France, Finland
    Starring Blondin Miguel, André Wilms

    In this warmhearted comic yarn from Aki Kaurismäki, fate throws the young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a kindly old ...

  • Amarcord
    Movie + 11 extras

    Amarcord

    Movie + 11 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #4

    This carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the fascist period, the most personal film from Federico Fellini, satirizes the director’s youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfu...

  • The Passion of Joan of Arc

    Movie + 10 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #62

    Directed by Carl Th. Dreyer • 1928 • France
    Starring Renée Falconetti, Eugène Silvain, André Berley

    Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent masterpieces of the silent era. Chronicling the trial of J...

  • Elevator to the Gallows

    Movie + 9 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #335

    Directed by Louis Malle • 1958 • France
    Starring Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly

    For his feature debut, twenty-four-year-old Louis Malle brought together a mesmerizing performance by Jeanne Moreau, evocative cinematography by Henri Decaë, and a n...

  • David Lynch: The Art Life

    Movie + 3 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #895

    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 intima...

  • Stalker
    Movie + 6 extras

    Stalker

    Movie + 6 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #888

    Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • 1979 • Soviet Union
    Starring Alisa Freindlikh, Aleksandr Kaidnovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphys­ical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic ex...

  • Heart of a Dog
    Movie + 6 extras

    Heart of a Dog

    Movie + 6 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #846

    Directed by Laurie Anderson • 2015 • United States

    HEART OF A DOG marks the first feature film in thirty years by multimedia artist Laurie Anderson. A cinematic tone poem that flows from a sustained meditation on death and other forms of absence, the film seaml...

  • War and Peace

    1 season

    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 the world: a titanic, awe-inspiring adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic tome in which the fates of three souls—the blundering, good-hearted Pierre; the heroically trag...

  • Yojimbo
    Movie + 4 extras

    Yojimbo

    Movie + 4 extras

    Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1961 • Japan
    Starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa

    The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa’s visually stunning and darkly comic YOJIMBO. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war...

  • Grey Gardens
    Movie + 9 extras

    Grey Gardens

    Movie + 9 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #123

    Directed by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer • 1976 • United States

    Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together amid the decay...

  • The Times of Harvey Milk

    Movie + 17 extras

    Directed by Robert Epstein • 1984 • United States

    A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised peop...

  • Smithereens
    Movie + 6 extras

    Smithereens

    Movie + 6 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #941

    Directed by Susan Seidelman • 1982 • United States

    Susan Seidelman established her distinctive vision of New York City with this debut feature, the lo-fi original for her vibrant portraits of women reinventing themselves. After escaping New Jersey, the quintess...

  • The Spirit of the Beehive

    Movie + 6 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #351

    Directed by Víctor Erice • 1973 • Spain
    Starring Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería, Fernando Fernán Gómez

    Criterion is proud to present Víctor Erice’s spellbinding THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (EL ESPÍRITU DE LA COLMENA), widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of...

  • Overlord
    Movie + 9 extras

    Overlord

    Movie + 9 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #382

    Directed by Stuart Cooper • 1975 • United Kingdom
    Starring Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball

    Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage with a fictional narrative, this immersive account of one twenty-year-old’s journey from basic training to the fr...

  • Tom Jones
    Movie + 7 extras

    Tom Jones

    Movie + 7 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #910

    Directed by Tony Richardson • 1963 • United Kingdom
    Starring Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith

    In the early 1960s, at the height of the British New Wave, director Tony Richardson and playwright John Osborne set out for more fanciful territory than the...

  • Desert Hearts
    Movie + 7 extras

    Desert Hearts

    Movie + 7 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #902

    Directed by Donna Deitch • 1985 • United States
    Starring Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau

    Donna Deitch's swooning and sensual first narrative feature, DESERT HEARTS, was groundbreaking upon its release in 1985: a love story about two women, made entirely inde...

  • Tokyo Story
    Movie + 5 extras

    Tokyo Story

    Movie + 5 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #217

    Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1953 • Japan
    Starring Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara

    A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, TOKYO STORY is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujiro Ozu. The film, whi...

  • The Hidden Fortress
    Movie + 2 extras

    The Hidden Fortress

    Movie + 2 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #116

    Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1958 • Japan
    Starring Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki

    A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make one, THE HIDDEN FORTRESS stars the inimitable Toshiro Mifune as a general charged with guarding his defeated ...

  • Judex
    Movie + 5 extras

    Judex

    Movie + 5 extras

    Directed by Georges Franju • 1963 • France
    Starring Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob

    This effortlessly cool crime caper, directed by Georges Franju, is a marvel of dexterous plotting and visual invention. Conceived as an homage to Louis Feuillade’s 1916 cult silent serial of the same...

  • My Brilliant Career
    Movie + 5 extras

    My Brilliant Career

    Movie + 5 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #973

    Directed by Gillian Armstrong • 1979 • Australia
    Starring Judy Davis, Sam Neill

    For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin’s novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-ag...