The Criterion Collection
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Pie, Please
Criterion’s Chef du Cinema whips up a sweet treat, using a recipe from a star of one of his favorite films in the collection, Wes Anderson’s candy-colored The Royal Tenenbaums.
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Three Reasons: Vanya on 42nd Street
Louis Malle films André Gregory directing a group of actors’ actors performing Chekhov by way of Mamet: Vanya is pure theater on the screen.
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Monsters!
Godzilla’s not the only big reptile in the collection. These lounge lizards from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas wreak their own brand of havoc. Check out some of the scary creatures that stalk Criterion.
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Blu Marker
The unforgettable images of Chris Marker’s most famous memory meditations—the time-travel masterpiece La Jetée and the travelogue documentary Sans Soleil (right)—are now even more vivid, on Blu-ray.
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Coming Soon
World on a Wire
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Harold and Maude
Hal Ashby
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Three Outlaw Samurai
Hideo Gosha
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The Last Temptation of Christ
Martin Scorsese
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¡Alambrista!
Robert M. Young
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Letter Never Sent
Mikhail Kalatozov
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Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave
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Vanya on 42nd Street
Louis Malle
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David Lean Directs Noël Coward
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Tiny Furniture
Lena Dunham
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Anatomy of a Murder
Otto Preminger
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A Hollis Frampton Odyssey
Hollis Frampton
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Late Spring
Yasujiro Ozu
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A Night to Remember
Roy Ward Baker
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The War Room
Chris Hegedus…
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The Organizer
Mario Monicelli
New Releases
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The Rules of the Game
Jean Renoir
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Branded to Kill
Seijun Suzuki
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Traffic
Steven Soderbergh
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The Moment of Truth
Francesco Rosi
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La Jetée/Sans Soleil
Chris Marker
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The Lady Vanishes
Alfred Hitchcock
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Three Colors
Krzysztof Kieślowski
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Belle de jour
Luis Buñuel
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Design for Living
Ernst Lubitsch
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12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet
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Eclipse 30: Sabu!
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Rushmore
Wes Anderson
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Tokyo Drifter
Seijun Suzuki
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Jean-Pierre Gorin
Jean-Pierre Gorin
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Godzilla
Ishiro Honda
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Film Essays
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The Moment of Truth: The Blood of Beasts
By Peter Matthews • 25 January 2012 • 0 Comments
A beautifully brutal tale of the exploitation of society’s have-nots, Francesco Rosi’s film is one of his very best. Read more » -
Godzilla: Poetry After the A-Bomb
By J. Hoberman • 24 January 2012 • 1 Comment
Ishiro Honda’s mega monster movie is also a mournful elegy for war-ravaged Japan. Read more » -
Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin
By Kent Jones • 18 January 2012 • 3 Comments
The works that the French filmmaker made in California constitute an unclassifiable, exhilarating “language” trilogy. Read more »
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