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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
