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The Cloud-Capped Star (Criteri...Directed by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak The Cloud-Capped Sta... Directed by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak The Cloud-Capped Star tells the story of a family that has been uprooted by the Partition of India and come to depend on it s eldest daughter the self-sacrificing Neeta (Supriya Choudhury). She... more
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Me and You and Everyone We Kno...With this compassionate startling comedy that could have come from no other ar... With this compassionate startling comedy that could have come from no other artistic sensibility the brilliant Miranda July reveals a world both familiar and strange an original vision of creativity sexuality childhood and loneliness through a series... more
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The Great Escape (Criterion Co...One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told this action epic recounts t... One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told this action epic recounts the planning execution and aftermath of a daring true-life escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II in which 250 men attempted to tunnel their way to... more
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Betty Blue (Criterion Collecti...When the easygoing would-be novelist Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) meets the temp... When the easygoing would-be novelist Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) meets the tempestuous Betty (Beatrice Dalle in a magnetic breakout performance) in a sunbaked French beach town it s the beginning of a whirlwind love affair that sees the pair turn their... more
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Smooth Talk (Criterion Collect...Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world a ... Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting vision of innocence lost. Based on the celebrated short story Where Are You Going Where Have You Been? by... more
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Adoption (Criterion Collection...Award-winning tale of two women from Hungary centering around the unlikely fri... Award-winning tale of two women from Hungary centering around the unlikely friendship that develops between Kata (Katalin Berek) a middle-aged widow whose married lover won t give her the child she wants and Anna (Gyöngyvér Vigh) a teenage ward of... more
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Written on the Wind (Criterion...Sweeping Douglas Sirk melodrama traces the lives loves and tragedies of a Texa... Sweeping Douglas Sirk melodrama traces the lives loves and tragedies of a Texas oil family. Rock Hudson stars as Mitch Wayne the adopted son whose attraction to Lucy Hadley (Lauren Bacall) the wife of a spoiled scion (Robert Stack) leads to a violent... more
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La Llorona (Criterion Collecti...Found guilty for committing unspeakable atrocities against the Mayan people a ... Found guilty for committing unspeakable atrocities against the Mayan people a former Guatemalan dictator (Julio Diaz) manages to avoid imprisonment much to the horror of the citizenry. He may yet pay for his crimes however when it appears as though his... more
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Police Story / Police Story 2 ...The set pieces fly fast and furious in these inventive action comedies two sma... The set pieces fly fast and furious in these inventive action comedies two smash hits that made Jackie Chan a worldwide icon of daredevil spectacle and established the director/star/one-man stunt machine as a performer of unparalleled grace and daring... more
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Merrily We Go to Hell (Criteri...Heiress Joan Prentice (Sylvia Sidney) was charmed enough by handsome but hard-... Heiress Joan Prentice (Sylvia Sidney) was charmed enough by handsome but hard-drinking reporter Jerry Corbett (Fredric March) to steer him to the altar. She believed that she could get him to embrace his dream of being a playwright-and to let go of the... more
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Memories of Murder (Criterion ...As a rural South Korean town in the mid-1980s was rocked by the brutal and unp... As a rural South Korean town in the mid-1980s was rocked by the brutal and unprecedented efforts of a serial murderer the instinctive but overmatched local cop (Song Kang-ho) in charge finds his methodologies clashing-ultimately tragically-with those... more
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La Piscine (The Swimming Pool)...Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and Marianne (Romy Schneider) had been enjoying the su... Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and Marianne (Romy Schneider) had been enjoying the sun the scenery-and one another-while vacationing at a friend s French Riviera villa. After the arrival of her record producer ex Harry (Maurice Ronet) who brought his teenage... more
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Bl...When a young woman spends the night with an alleged terrorist her quiet ordere... When a young woman spends the night with an alleged terrorist her quiet ordered life falls into ruins. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum portrays an anxious era in West Germany amid a crumbling postwar political consensus. Katharina though apparently... more
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Come and See (Criterion Collec...This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering pl... This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko in a searing depiction of anguish)... more
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The Furies (Criterion Collecti...Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston go head-to-head in Anthony Mann’s ruthles... Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston go head-to-head in Anthony Mann’s ruthless western melodramaSophisticated in its view of frontier settlement and ablaze with searing domestic drama The Furies is an often-overlooked treasure of American filmmaking... more
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The Rainer Werner Fassbinder B...In 1977 German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was thirty-two years old and ... In 1977 German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was thirty-two years old and had already directed more than twenty-five feature films. That summer he embarked on a project to trace the postwar history of West Germany in a series of films told from the... more
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Mandabi (Criterion Collection)...This second feature by Ousmane Sembene was the first movie ever made in the Wo... This second feature by Ousmane Sembene was the first movie ever made in the Wolof language a major step toward the realization of the trailblazing Senegalese filmmaker s dream of creating a cinema by about and for Africans. After jobless Ibrahima Dieng... more
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Mirror (Criterion Collection) ...Combining autobiographical accounts of life during World War II political alle... Combining autobiographical accounts of life during World War II political allegory dream sequences and newsreel footage maverick Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky creates a haunting cinematic vision in this internationally acclaimed drama. A... more
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Three Films by Luis Buñuel (C...Three-disc set includes: The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (1972)Luis Buñ... Three-disc set includes: The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (1972)Luis Buñuel s classic satire is filled with savage wit and some of the director s most surrealistic images. The gatherings of groups of bourgeois friends and the dreams of various... more
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Touki Bouki (Criterion Collect...Having met in Dakar and fallen deeply in love cycle-riding cowherd Mory (Magay... Having met in Dakar and fallen deeply in love cycle-riding cowherd Mory (Magaye Niang) and university student Anta (Myriam Niang) dreamed of fleeing Senegal and starting afresh in Paris. As the disaffected duo embark on a ill-fated string of petty... more
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