Directed by Peyton Reed • 2003 • United States
Starring Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, David Hyde Pierce

A playfully postmodern take on the Doris Day/Rock Hudson sex comedy, this giddily inventive update delights in the midcentury style and clothes while offering a fresh perspective on the genr...

Directed by Steve Gordon • 1981 • United States
Starring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud

Dudley Moore delights as the world’s richest and most lovable drunk in this giddy, bubbly modern screwball. He stars as Arthur, a spoiled, perpetually soused New York City millionaire whose family ...

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson • 2017 • United States
Starring Daniel Day Lewis, Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville

Amid the the glamour of 1950s London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing ro...

Directed by Norman Jewison • 1987 • United States
Starring Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia

A full moon, a New York City night, and love and music in the air . . . One of the most enchanting romantic comedies of all time assembles a flawless ensemble cast for a tender and boisterously funny ...

Directed by Douglas Sirk • 1951 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Douglas

Intrigue unfolds within the cloistered world of a convent in this atmospheric mystery-melodrama from Douglas Sirk. A torrential rainstorm forces convicted murderer Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth)—who ...

Directed by Miloš Forman • 1975 • United States
Starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito

In an insane world, who’s to say who is mad? One of the defining films of the New Hollywood, Miloš Forman’s electrifying tale of oppression and rebellion stars a live-wire Jack Nicholson in wha...

Directed by Steven Spielberg • 2002 • United States
Starring Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton

It’s 2054, a future in which psychic “precogs” are able to envision murders before they happen. When he’s pegged as the soon-to-be killer of a man he doesn’t know, detective John Anderton (Tom...

Directed by Stanley Kubrick • 1999 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Sydney Pollack

Stanley Kubrick’s final magnum opus, an adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s “Dream Story,” is one of the great late films—an unsettlingly enigmatic journey into erotic fantasy and...

Directed by Peter Weir • 1998 • United States
Starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris

An instant classic that anticipated the rise of reality TV, Peter Weir’s brilliantly meta marvel of a movie—part media satire, part thought-provoking exploration of the very nature of consciousness—feature...

Directed by Cameron Crowe • 2000 • United States
Starring Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand

Writer-director Cameron Crowe drew from his own extraordinary teenage experiences for this vivid and heartfelt 1970s-set coming-of-age odyssey, which follows fifteen-year-old William Miller (P...

Directed by Andrew Niccol • 1997 • United States
Starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law

One of the most intelligent and thought-provoking science fiction films of the 1990s, this engrossing thriller unfolds in a not-too-distant future where a society obsessed with genetic perfection divides...

Directed by Frank Oz • 2004 • United States
Starring Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler

The dark side of suburban conformity comes into focus in this black-comic remake of the 1970s suspense classic, which downplays the horror of the original in favor of winking satire. After moving ...

Directed by Christopher Nolan • 2000 • United States
Starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Ann Moss, Joe Pantoliano

A virtuoso high-wire act of nonlinear storytelling, Christopher Nolan’s breakthrough second feature deploys a complex time-hopping structure to evoke the fractured psyche of Leonard Shelby (...

Directed by John Waters • 1990 • United States
Starring Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Iggy Pop

John Waters blends nostalgia with camp irreverence in this irresistible spoof of the 1950s delinquent-youth movie. In the role that began his transition from teen idol to movie star, Johnny Depp plays Wade ...

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1941 • United States
Starring Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Nigel Bruce

Alfred Hitchcock discovered dark new shades in Cary Grant’s star persona with this classic thriller, the director and actor’s first collaboration. Handsome, charming, well-liked Johnnie Aysgarth (...

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1951 • United States
Starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker

Widely considered one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest movies, this classic suspense tale taps into the evil that lies hidden just beneath the surface of each of us. When two strangers—tennis sta...

Directed by John Waters • 1994 • United States
Starring Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake

Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) is the picture-perfect, all-American housewife, leading a modern “Leave It to Beaver” life in suburban Baltimore with her husband (Sam Waterston) and two kids (Ric...

Directed by John Waters • 1988 • United States
Starring Ricki Lake, Sonny Bono, Divine

John Waters scored one of the biggest commercial and critical successes of his career with this affectionately outrageous musical satire that found the filmmaker bringing his outsider vision into the mainstrea...

Directed by Barbra Streisand • 1983 • Untied States
Starring Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving

Barbra Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major Hollywood film with this charming, gender-bending musical adaptation of an Isaac Bashevis Singer story....

Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1982 • United States
Starring Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Sandra Bernhard

Welcome to the disturbing world of Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro), the psychotic aspiring comedian who believes that all he needs is one appearance on the late-night talk show hosted by Jerry...

Directed by Sidney Lumet • 2007 • United States
Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke

Renowned director Sidney Lumet brought five decades of cinematic mastery to bear in his final film, a riveting thriller that achieves the weight of Greek tragedy. A typically virtuosic Phil...

Criterion Collection Edition #779

A love story in the city of dreams . . .
Blonde Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia (Laura Harring). Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s ident...

Directed by Leo McCarey • 1939 • United States
Starring Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya

Golden-age Hollywood’s humanist master Leo McCarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema’s most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Char...

Directed by Albert Lewin • 1951 • United States
Starring James Mason, Ava Gardner

This timeless romance based on the legend of the Flying Dutchman features sumptuous color cinematography by Jack Cardiff. Ava Gardner, one of the most beautiful screen goddesses of all time, plays Pandora, a wom...