The Criterion Collection
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Spotlight
Explore Chantal Akerman
Her Jeanne Dielman is one of the truly individual masterpieces of film. Learn about Akerman’s other bold cinematic visions here.
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Press Notes: Pale Flower
According to Paste, the “Hitchcockian” Pale Flower is “one of the darker noir films ever made.” Read more critics’ reviews of Shinoda’s thriller here.
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Alain Resnais Is Eighty-Nine
In honor of its director’s eighty-ninth birthday, acquaint yourself (unless you’ve met it before?) with Last Year at Marienbad, Alain Resnais’s intricate puzzle of a masterpiece.
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The World According to Godard
Godard’s latest intensely personal and political work, Film socialisme, opens in select theaters this week. Explore his others, including Made in U.S.A (pictured).
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Coming Soon
The Complete Jean Vigo
Jean Vigo
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Eclipse 28: Koreyoshi Kurahara
Koreyoshi Kurahara
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Beauty and the Beast
Jean Cocteau
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Secret Sunshine
Lee Chang-dong
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Eclipse 27: Raffaello Matarazzo
Raffaello Matarazzo
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Léon Morin, Priest
Jean-Pierre Melville
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Zazie dans le métro
Louis Malle
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The Killing
Stanley Kubrick
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Orpheus
Jean Cocteau
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Insignificance
Nicolas Roeg
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Kiss Me Deadly
Robert Aldrich
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The Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo
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The Music Room
Satyajit Ray
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Life During Wartime
Todd Solondz
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The Makioka Sisters
Kon Ichikawa
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Cul-de-sac
Roman Polanski
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Black Moon
Louis Malle
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High and Low
Akira Kurosawa
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If....
Lindsay Anderson
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People on Sunday
Robert Siodmak…
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Naked
Mike Leigh
New Releases
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Fat Girl
Catherine Breillat
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Le cercle rouge
Jean-Pierre Melville
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Smiles of a Summer Night
Ingmar Bergman
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The Times of Harvey Milk
Robert Epstein
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Topsy-Turvy
Mike Leigh
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Blow Out
Brian De Palma
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Terry Gilliam
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Diabolique
Henri-Georges Clouzot
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Pale Flower
Masahiro Shinoda
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The Great Dictator
Charles Chaplin
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White Material
Claire Denis
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Yi Yi
Edward Yang
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Kes
Ken Loach
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Something Wild
Jonathan Demme
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The Mikado
Victor Schertzinger
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Solaris
Andrei Tarkovsky
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Au revoir les enfants
Louis Malle
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Eclipse 26: Silent Naruse
Mikio Naruse
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Sweetie
Jane Campion
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Film Essays
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The Great Dictator: The Joker and the Madman
By Michael Wood • 24 May 2011 • 0 Comments
More than just a mustache unites the two polar characters in Chaplin’s deliriously daring wartime comedy. Read more » -
Pale Flower: Loser Take All
By Chuck Stephens • 17 May 2011 • 2 Comments
Death is on a winning streak in Masahiro Shinoda’s dark-as-night gambling drama—the Japanese New Wave gone noir. Read more » -
Diabolique: Murder Considered
as One of the Fine ArtsBy Terrence Rafferty • 16 May 2011 • 0 Comments
Clouzot dove into the deep end and came up with a most delectably sordid film—and a horror classic. Read more »
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