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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid United States1973106 minutesColor2.35:1EnglishDirected by Sam PeckinpahSPINE #1224 4K UHD+Blu-rayBLU-RAY JULY 2, 2024 Sam Peckinpah’s cycle of genre-redefining westerns came to a close with this blood- and dust-caked elegy for the American West, which marries his renegade style with a fatalistic sense of finality. As newly minted lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) stalks the outlaw Billy the Kid (Kris … Read More Criterion: July 2024 Titles Announced

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas United States1998118 minutesColor2.35:1/2.39:1EnglishDirected by Terry GilliamSPINE #175 4K UHD+Blu-rayBLU-RAYDVD JUNE 4, 2024 It is 1971, and journalist Raoul Duke barrels toward Las Vegas—accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his slightly unhinged Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo—to cover a motorcycle race. What should be a cut-and-dried journalistic assignment quickly descends into a feverish psychedelic odyssey. Director Terry Gilliam and … Read More Criterion: June 2024 Titles Announced

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Criterion: May 2024 Titles Announced

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A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu Japan1934 – 1959JapaneseDirected by Yasujiro OzuSPINE #232 A Story of Floating Weeds193486 minutesBlack & White1.33:1 Floating Weeds1959119 minutesColor1.37:1 BLU-RAYDVD MAY 7, 2024 In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent classic A Story of Floating Weeds in color with celebrated cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. Setting his later version in a seaside location, … Read More Criterion: May 2024 Titles Announced

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Criterion: April 2024 Titles Announced

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La haine France199597 minutesBlack & White1.85:1FrenchDirected by Mathieu KassovitzSPINE #381 4K UHD+Blu-rayBLU-RAYDVD APRIL 2, 2024 Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent … Read More Criterion: April 2024 Titles Announced

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Criterion: March 2024 Titles Announced

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All That Money Can Buy (a.k.a. The Devil and Daniel Webster) United States1941106 minutesBlack & White1.37:1EnglishDirected by William DieterleSPINE #214 BLU-RAYDVD MARCH 12, 2024 Jabez Stone is a hardworking farmer trying to make an honest living, but a streak of bad luck tempts him to do the unthinkable: bargain with the devil himself. In exchange for seven years of good fortune, Stone promises “Mr. … Read More Criterion: March 2024 Titles Announced

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Criterion: February 2024 Titles Announced

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McCabe & Mrs. Miller United States1971121 minutesColor2.40:1EnglishDirected by Robert AltmanSPINE #827 4K UHD+Blu-rayBLU-RAYDVD FEBRUARY 6, 2024 This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema. It stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as two newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, who join forces to provide the … Read More Criterion: February 2024 Titles Announced

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Criterion: January 2024 Titles Announced

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THE APU TRILOGY India1955-1959BengaliBlack & White1.37:1Directed by Satyajit RaySPINE #782 Pather Panchali1955125 minutesSPINE #783 Aparajito1956110 minutesSPINE #784 Apur Sansar1959106 minutesSPINE #785 4K UHD+Blu-rayBLU-RAYDVD JANUARY 2, 2024 A breathtaking milestone that brought India into the golden age of international art-house film, Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy follows one indelible character, a free-spirited child in rural Bengal who matures into an adolescent urban student and, finally, … Read More Criterion: January 2024 Titles Announced

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Criterion: December 2023 Titles Announced

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Blast of Silence United States196177 minutesBlack & White1.85:1 | 1.33:1EnglishDirected by Allen BaronSPINE #428 BLU-RAY DECEMBER 5, 2023 Swift, brutal, and blackhearted, Allen Baron’s New York City noir Blast of Silence is a sensational surprise. This low-budget, carefully crafted portrait of a hit man on assignment in Manhattan during Christmastime follows its stripped-down narrative with mechanical precision, yet also with an eye and ear … Read More Criterion: December 2023 Titles Announced

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Criterion: November 2023 Janus Contemporaries Titles Announced

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Godland Iceland, Denmark2022143 minutesColor1.33:1Icelandic, DanishDirected by Hlynur Pálmason Blu-rayDVD NOVEMBER 21, 2023 The struggle between the strictures of religion and humankind’s brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychological epic from director Hlynur Pálmason. In the late nineteenth century, Danish priest Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove) makes the perilous trek to Iceland’s southeastern coast with the … Read More Criterion: November 2023 Janus Contemporaries Titles Announced

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Criterion: November 2023 Titles Announced

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Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar Hong Kong1978-1985ColorSPINE #1197 Half a Loaf of Kung Fu197896 minutes2.35:1CantoneseDirected by Chan Chi-hwa Spiritual Kung Fu197898 minutes2.39:1MandarinDirected by Lo Wei The Fearless Hyena197997 minutes2.39:1CantoneseDirected by Jackie Chan Fearless Hyena II198391 minutes2.39:1CantoneseDirected by Chan Chuen The Young Master1980105 minutes2.39:1CantoneseDirected by Jackie Chan My Lucky Stars198596 minutes1.78:1CantoneseDirected by Sammo Hung Blu-ray NOVEMBER 7, 2023 Originally tapped as a potential successor … Read More Criterion: November 2023 Titles Announced

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Criterion: October 2023 Janus Contemporaries Titles Announced

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EO Poland, Italy202288 minutesColor1.33:1PolishDirected by Jerzy Skolimowski Blu-rayDVD OCTOBER 17, 2023 Legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski created one of his freest and most visually inventive films yet with this story of a gray donkey named EO. After being removed from an itinerant circus, EO begins a trek across the countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness from a cast of characters including an Italian countess (Isabelle Huppert) … Read More Criterion: October 2023 Janus Contemporaries Titles Announced

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Criterion: October 2023 Titles Announced

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Don’t Look Now United Kingdom, Italy1973110 minutesColor1.85:1EnglishDirected by Nicolas RoegSPINE #745 4K UHD+Blu-rayBLU-RAY OCTOBER 3, 2023 Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie mesmerize as a married couple on an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences. A masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg, Don’t Look Now, adapted from a … Read More Criterion: October 2023 Titles Announced

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Criterion: September 2023 Titles Announced

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The Princess Bride United States198798 minutesColor1.85:1EnglishDirected by Rob ReinerSPINE #948 4K UHD+Blu-rayBLU-RAYDVD SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 A high-spirited adventure that pits true love against inconceivable odds, The Princess Bride has charmed legions of fans with its irreverent gags, eccentric ensemble, and dazzling swordplay. A kid (Fred Savage), home sick from school, grudgingly allows his grandfather (Peter Falk) to read him a dusty storybook—which is how … Read More Criterion: September 2023 Titles Announced

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Criterion: August 2023 Titles Announced

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Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams Japan, United States1990120 minutesColor1.85:1JapaneseDirected by Akira KurosawaSPINE #842 4K UHD+Blu-rayBLU-RAYDVD AUGUST 8, 2023 Unfolding in a series of eight mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa was inspired by the beloved director’s own nighttime visions, along with stories from Japanese folklore. In a visually sumptuous journey through the master’s imagination, tales of childlike wonder give way to apocalyptic apparitions: a … Read More Criterion: August 2023 Titles Announced

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Criterion: July 2023 Titles Announced

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AFTER HOURS United States198597 minutesColor1.85:1EnglishDirected by Martin ScorseseSPINE #1185 4K UHD+Blu-rayBLU-RAY JULY 11, 2023 Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman (Rosanna Arquette). So begins the wildest night of his life, as bizarre occurrences—involving underground-art punks, a distressed waitress, a crazed Mister Softee truck driver, and a bagel-and-cream-cheese … Read More Criterion: July 2023 Titles Announced

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Criterion: June 2023 Titles Announced

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The Rules of the Game France1939106 minutesBlack & White1.37:1FrenchDirected by Jean RenoirSPINE #216 4K UHD+Blu-rayBLU-RAYDVD JUNE 6, 2023 Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis’s country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group … Read More Criterion: June 2023 Titles Announced

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Criterion: May 2023 Titles Announced

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Wings of Desire Germany1987127 minutesBlack and White/Color1.66:1German, English, FrenchDirected by Wim WendersSPINE #490 4K UHD+Blu-rayBLU-RAYDVD MAY 2, 2023 Wings of Desire is one of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he … Read More Criterion: May 2023 Titles Announced

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Criterion: April 2023 Titles Announced

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The Fisher King United States1991138 minutesColor1.85:1EnglishDirected by Terry GilliamSPINE #764 4K UHD+Blu-rayBLU-RAYDVD APRIL 11, 2023 A fairy tale grounded in poignant reality, Terry Gilliam’s magnificent, Manhattan-set The Fisher King features Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams in two of their most brilliant roles. Bridges plays a former radio shock jock reconstructing his life after a scandal, and Williams a homeless man on a quest for … Read More Criterion: April 2023 Titles Announced

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Criterion: March 2023 Titles Announced

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Mildred Pierce United States1945111 minutesBlack & White1.37:1EnglishDirected by Michael CurtizSPINE #860 4K UHD+Blu-rayBLU-RAYDVD MARCH 7, 2023 Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Joan Crawford’s iconic performance as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford’s career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as … Read More Criterion: March 2023 Titles Announced

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Criterion: February 2023 Titles Announced

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Three Colors Color1.85:1Directed by Krzysztof KieślowskiSPINE #587 THREE COLORS: BLUEFrance199398 minutesFrenchSPINE #588 THREE COLORS: WHITEPoland, France199491 minutesFrench, PolishSPINE #589 THREE COLORS: REDSwitzerland, France199499 minutesFrenchSPINE #590 4K UHD+Blu-rayBLU-RAYDVD FEBRUARY 7, 2023 This boldly cinematic trio of stories about love and loss, from Krzysztof Kieślowski was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 1990s. The films are named for the colors of the French … Read More Criterion: February 2023 Titles Announced

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Criterion: January 2023 Titles Announced

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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen United Kingdom1998126 minutesColor1.85:1EnglishDirected by Terry GilliamSPINE #1166 4K UHD+Blu-rayBLU-RAY JANUARY 3, 2023 The boundless imagination of Terry Gilliam yields a dazzling fantasy of epic proportions. Inspired by the extravagant exploits of the fabled Baron Munchausen, this spectacle—born of a famously turbulent production—follows the whimsical eighteenth-century nobleman (John Neville) as he embarks on an outlandish quest that takes him from … Read More Criterion: January 2023 Titles Announced

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Criterion: December 2022 Titles Announced

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WALL-E United States200898 minutesColor2.39:1EnglishDirected by Andrew StantonSPINE #1161 4K UHD+Blu-ray Combo *NOVEMBER 22, 2022 A high-water mark of digital animation, this prescient vision of a dystopian future is packaged within a dazzling pop-science-fiction love story, making for an urgent fable for our troubled millennium. It’s the twenty-ninth century, and humans have long since fled Earth for outer space, leaving WALL•E, the last functioning trash-compacting … Read More Criterion: December 2022 Titles Announced

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Criterion: November 2022 Titles Announced

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DAISIES Czechoslovakia196676 minutesColor1.37:1CzechDirected by Vera ChytilováSPINE #1157 BLU-RAY NOVEMBER 1, 2022 If the entire world is bad, why shouldn’t we be? Adopting this insolent attitude as their guiding philosophy, a pair of hedonistic young women (Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová), both named Marie, embark on a gleefully debauched odyssey of gluttony, giddy destruction, and antipatriarchal resistance, in which nothing is safe from their nihilistic … Read More Criterion: November 2022 Titles Announced

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Criterion: October 2022 Titles Announced

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Night of the Living Dead United States196896 minutesBlack & White1.37:1EnglishDirected by George A. RomeroSPINE #909 4K UHD+BLU-RAYBLU-RAYDVD OCTOBER 4, 2022 Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became … Read More Criterion: October 2022 Titles Announced

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Criterion: September 2022 Titles Announced

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Blow Out United States1981108 minutesColor2.40:1EnglishDirected by Brian De PalmaSPINE #562 4K UHD+BLU-RAY SEPTEMBER 6, 2022 In the enthralling Blow Out, brilliantly crafted by Brian De Palma, John Travolta gives one of his greatest performances, as a film sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. To uncover the truth, he enlists the help of a possible eyewitness to the crime (Nancy … Read More Criterion: September 2022 Titles Announced

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Criterion: August 2022 Titles Announced

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Frownland United States2007106 minutesColor1.66:1EnglishDirected by Ronald BronsteinSPINE #1137 BLU-RAY AUGUST 16, 2022 A nightmare transmission from the grungiest depths of the New York indie underground, the visceral, darkly funny, and totally sui generis debut feature from Ronald Bronstein is a dread-inducing vision of misfit alienation at its unhinged extreme. In a maniacal performance of almost frightening commitment, Dore Mann plays Keith, a disturbingly maladjusted … Read More Criterion: August 2022 Titles Announced

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Criterion: July 2022 Titles Announced

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OKJA United States, South Korea2017121 minutesColor2.39:1Korean, EnglishDirected by Bong Joon HoSPINE #1133 4K ULTRA HD,BLU-RAY,& DVD JULY 5, 2022 Master genre exploder Bong Joon Ho swirls pathos, dark satire, action, and horror into an exhilarating twenty-first-century fairy tale. An all-star cast including Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Steven Yeun, and Jake Gyllenhaal is led by An Seo Hyun as Mija, a South Korean girl growing … Read More Criterion: July 2022 Titles Announced

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Criterion: June 2022 Titles Announced

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The Tales of Hoffmann United Kingdom | 1951 | 133 min | Color | EnglishDirected by Michael Powell and Emeric PressburgerSPINE #317 BLU-RAY JUNE 7, 2022 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger create a phantasmagoric marriage of cinema and opera in this one-of-a-kind take on a classic story. In Jacques Offenbach’s fantasy opera The Tales of Hoffmann, a poet dreams of three women—a mechanical performing … Read More Criterion: June 2022 Titles Announced

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MAY 10, 2022 MR. KLEIN France | 1976 | 123 min | Color | FrenchDirected by Joseph LoseySPINE #1123 BLU-RAY One of the crowning achievements of blacklisted Hollywood director Joseph Losey’s European exile, the spellbinding modernist mystery Mr. Klein puts a chilling twist on the wrong-man thriller. Alain Delon delivers a standout performance as Robert Klein, a decadent art dealer in Paris during World … Read More Criterion: May 2022 Titles Announced

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APRIL 2, 2022 WALKER United States | 1987 | 94 min | Color | EnglishDirected by Alex CoxSPINE #423 BLU-RAY A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, Walker, from British director Alex Cox, tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and, … Read More Criterion: April 2022 Titles Announced

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MARCH 8, 2022 Adoption Hungary | 1975 | 86 min | Black & White | HungarianDirected by Márta MészárosSPINE #1115 BLU-RAY & DVD Trailblazing auteur Márta Mészáros gives aching expression to the experiences of women in 1970s Hungary in this sensitive and absorbing drama, which became the first film directed by a woman to win the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Through … Read More Criterion: March 2022 Titles Announced

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Written on the Wind United States | 1956 | 99 min | Color | EnglishDirected by Douglas SirkSPINE #96 ** AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 1ST, 2022 ** <<< BLU-RAY >>> Douglas Sirk’s Technicolor expressionism reached a fever pitch with this operatic tragedy, which finds the director pushing his florid visuals and his critiques of American culture to their subversive extremes. Alcoholism, nymphomania, impotence, and deadly jealousy—these … Read More Criterion: February 2022 Titles Announced

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THE CELEBRATION Denmark | 1998 | 105 min | Color | DanishDirected by Thomas VinterbergSPINE #1108 ** AVAILABLE JANUARY 11th 2022 ** <<< BLU-RAY >>> The Danish Dogme 95 movement that struck world cinema like a thunderbolt began with The Celebration, the international breakthrough by Thomas Vinterberg, a lacerating chamber drama that uses the economic and aesthetic freedoms of digital video to achieve annihilating … Read More Criterion: January 2022 Titles Announced

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Criterion: December 2021 Titles Announced

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THE LEARNING TREE United States | 1969 | 107 min | Color | EnglishDirected by Gordon ParksSPINE #1107 ** AVAILABLE DECEMBER 14, 2021 ** <<< BLU-RAY | DVD >>> With this tender and clear-eyed coming-of-age odyssey, the renowned photographer turned filmmaker Gordon Parks not only became the first Black American director to make a Hollywood studio film, he also served as writer, producer, and … Read More Criterion: December 2021 Titles Announced

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Criterion: November 2021 Titles Announced

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LA STRADA Italy | 1954 | 108 min | Black & White | ItalianDirected by Federico FelliniSPINE #219 ** AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 2, 2021 ** With this breakthrough film, Federico Fellini launched both himself and his wife and collaborator Giulietta Masina to international stardom, breaking with the neorealism of his early career in favor of a personal, poetic vision of life as a bittersweet carnival. … Read More Criterion: November 2021 Titles Announced

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Criterion: October 2021 Titles Announced

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ONIBABA Japan | 1964 | 102 min | Black & White | JapaneseDirected by Kaneto ShindoSPINE #226 ** AVAILABLE OCTOBER 5, 2021 ** Deep in the windswept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished older woman and her daughter-in-law murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for the most meager of sustenance. When a bedraggled neighbor returns from battle, lust, jealousy, and rage threaten … Read More Criterion: October 2021 Titles Announced

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MONA LISA United Kingdom | 1986 | 104 min | Color | EnglishDirected by Neil JordanSPINE #107 ** AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 14, 2021 ** The brilliant breakthrough film by writer-director Neil Jordan journeys into the dark heart of the London underworld to weave a gripping, noir-infused love story. Bob Hoskins received a multitude of honors—including an Oscar nomination—for his touchingly vulnerable, not-so-tough-guy portrayal of George, … Read More Criterion: September 2021 Titles Announced

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Criterion: August 2021 Titles Announced

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AFTER LIFE Japan | 1998 | 119 min | Color | JapaneseDirected by Hirokazu Kore-edaSPINE #1089 ** AVAILABLE AUGUST 10, 2021 ** If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That’s the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo … Read More Criterion: August 2021 Titles Announced

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Criterion: July 2021 Titles Announced

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MIRROR Russia | 1975 | 106 min | Black & White + Color | RussianDirected by Andrei TarkovskySPINE #1084 ** AVAILABLE JULY 6, 2021 ** A subtly ravishing passage through the halls of time and memory, this sublime reflection on twentieth-century Russian history by Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker) is as much a poem composed in images, or a hypnagogic hallucination, as it is a work … Read More Criterion: July 2021 Titles Announced

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Criterion: June 2021 Titles Announced

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THE HUMAN CONDITION Japan | 1959 | 575 min | Black & White | JapaneseDirected by Masaki KobayashiSPINE #480 ** AVAILABLE JUNE 8, 2021 ** This mammoth humanist drama by Masaki Kobayashi is one of the most staggering achievements of Japanese cinema. Originally filmed and released in three installments of two parts each, the nine-and-a-half-hour The Human Condition, adapted from Junpei Gomikawa’s six-volume novel, … Read More Criterion: June 2021 Titles Announced

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Criterion: May 2021 Titles Announced

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TRANCES Morocco | 1981 | 88 min | Color | ArabicDirected by Ahmed El MaanouniSPINE #689 ** AVAILABLE MAY 4, 2021 ** The groundbreaking Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane is the dynamic subject of this captivating, one-of-a-kind documentary by Ahmed El Maanouni, who filmed the four musicians during a series of electrifying live performances in Tunisia, Morocco, and France; on the streets of Casablanca; … Read More Criterion: May 2021 Titles Announced

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