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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: 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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Criterion: May 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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Criterion: April 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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Criterion: March 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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Criterion: February 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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Criterion: January 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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Criterion: September 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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