CRITERION COLLECTION

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The Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films, is dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements. Criterion began with a mission to pull the treasures of world cinema out of the film vaults and put them in the hands of collectors. All of the films published under the Criterion banner represent cinema at its finest. In our seventeen years, we've seen a lot of things change, but one thing has remained constant: our commitment to publishing the defining moments of cinema in the world's best digital editions.

Eclipse
Eclipse is a selection of lost, forgotten, or overshadowed classics in simple, affordable editions. Each series is a brief cinematheque retrospective for the adventurous home viewer. Once a month, Eclipse will present a set of these films, usually from three to five titles, focusing on a particular director or theme. Our goal is to make available to the public many important works that until now have been impossible to see outside of the theatrical revival-house circuit. These range from some of the most sought-after titles from the world's greatest filmmakers to eye-opening discoveries from around the world. We are proud to present these classic works, which represent the full breadth and depth of cinema history.

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Robinson Crusoe on Mars [Criterion Collection]

Spun from Daniel DeFoe's tale of the titular character, this sci-fi story involves a spaceship commander, Chris Draper (Paul Mantee) in a similar situation to the original Robinson Crusoe -- but rather than being stranded on an island, our hero is on a hostile planet. Draper, Colonel Dan McReady (Adam… more info >>

Release Date: 09/18/2007

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Mafioso [Criterion Collection]

In this crime comedy with heavy neorealist influence, Antonio (Alberto Sordi) is a Sicilian auto plant worker who has almost completely forsaken his southern Italian roots by marrying a fair-haired girl from the north and conceiving two children with her. As the movie opens, Antonio prepares to… more info >>

Release Date: 03/18/2008

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Samourai [Criterion Collection]

Long considered a classic of European film noir, this existential gangster drama from French director Jean-Pierre Melville was released in the United States only in a severely truncated, re-edited, and overdubbed version entitled The Godson. Thirty years after its initial public airing, Le Samourai… more info >>

Release Date: 10/25/2005

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Monsters and Madmen [4 Discs] [Criterion Collection]

Something a little different from Criterion - a four DVD set with four 50's films from producers Richard and Alex Gordon, subtitled "Four Chilling Tales of Inner Torment and Outer Space." None of the four films, "The Atomic Submarine," "First Man Into Space," "The Haunted Strangler," and "Corridors… more info >>

Release Date: 01/23/2007

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Elevator to the Gallows [2 Discs] [Criterion Collection]

The feature-film debut of famed director Louis Malle is an interesting, modern film noir with the classic theme of lovers plotting to kill the husband and make it look like suicide (reminiscent of The Postman Always Rings Twice). Jeanne Moreau, as Florence Carala, gives an astonishing performance,… more info >>

Release Date: 04/25/2006

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Mon Oncle Antoine [2 Discs] [Special Edition] [Criterion Collection]

French Canadian director and actor Claude Jutra enjoyed his greatest critical success with this evocative and loving (but unsentimental) look at a few memorable days in the life of a boy on the verge of manhood in a small Quebec mining community in the 1940's. Benoit (Jacques Gagnon) is an orphan just… more info >>

Release Date: 07/08/2008

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Divorce, Italian Style [2 Discs] [Criterion Collection]

To fully appreciate the international box-office bonanza Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio All'Italiana), one must remember that back in 1962, divorce was illegal in Italy. Ferdinando Cefalu(Marcello Mastroianni) would love to unload his demanding, sex-starved, monumentally unappealing wife, Rosalia… more info >>

Release Date: 04/26/2005

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Harlan County USA [Criterion Collection]

Director Barbara Kopple's look at a 13-month coal miners' strike that took place between 1973 and 1974 in Harlan County, KY, is one of the great films about labor troubles, though not for a sense of objectivity. Kopple lived among the miners and their families off and on during the four years the entire… more info >>

Release Date: 05/23/2006

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Clean, Shaven [Criterion Collection]

In this psychological thriller, what at first seem to be the wholly insane (and gruesome) self-mutilations of a madman who is also probably a murderer are gradually revealed as the quite logical actions of a frantic man driven by circumstances to incredible extremes. Peter Winter (Peter Greene) is the… more info >>

Release Date: 10/17/2006

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Alexander Korda's Private Lives [Criterion Collection] [4 Discs]

Great Britain's film industry was not held in especially high respect through most of the silent era and the earliest days of sound, but producer and director Alexander Korda helped change that his 1933 feature The Private Life of Henry VIII; the film's sharp but intelligent wit and cheeky perspective… more info >>

Release Date: 05/12/2009

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul [Criterion Collection]

Rainer Werner Fassbinder not only directed Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf), but also scripted the film, designed the sets, and produced. Brigitte Mira heads the cast as a lonely German cleaning woman, who enters into an affair with equally lonely--and much, much younger--Moroccan mechanic… more info >>

Release Date: 06/24/2003

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The Seventh Seal [Criterion Collection]

Endlessly imitated and parodied, Ingmar Bergman's landmark art movie The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) retains its ability to hold an audience spellbound. Bergman regular Max von Sydow stars as a 14th century knight named Antonius Block, wearily heading home after ten years' worth of combat. Disillusioned… more info >>

Release Date: 06/16/2009

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Chantal Akerman in the Seventies [Criterion Collection] [3 Discs]

Over the past four decades, Belgian director Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles) has created one of cinemas most distinctive bodies of workformally daring, often autobiographical films about people and places, time and space. In this collection, we present the early… more info >>

Release Date: 01/19/2010

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Videodrome [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Hardcore pornography, sadomasochism, mind control, and living televisions all play crucial roles in Videodrome, one of director David Cronenberg's explorations of dangerous sexuality and technological obsession. The morally questionable hero of the tale is one Max Renn (James Woods), a television executive… more info >>

Release Date: 12/07/2010

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Paris, Texas [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) is wandering through the Texas desert, a bit shaky and in desperate need of water, when he stumbles into a bar and collapses. A German doctor of dubious credentials finds a phone number in Travis' wallet, which belongs to his brother, Walt (Dean Stockwell). Walt is shocked… more info >>

Release Date: 01/26/2010

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Wings of Desire [Criterion Collection]

Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are angels who watch over the city of Berlin. They don't have harps or wings (well, they usually don't have wings) and they prefer overcoats to gossamer gowns. But they can travel unseen through the city, listening to people's thoughts, watching their actions… more info >>

Release Date: 11/03/2009

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The Secret of the Grain [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Though it is seldom discussed (or acknowledged) in the West, modern-day France incorporates a substantial number of immigrant communities, with many indigenes from North Africa populating the bucolic regions of southern Gaul. Abdel Kechiche's La Graine et le Mulet hones in on one such community, located… more info >>

Release Date: 07/27/2010

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The Magician [Criterion Collection]

Much better known in the U.S. as The Magician, this award-winning, surreal, evocative drama stars Max von Sydow as the title character and features several of Sweden's top performers. Set in the 1840s in Stockholm, the mystery and enigma of life and death itself are embodied in Vogler, the magician… more info >>

Release Date: 10/12/2010

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Criterion Collection: Le Cercle Rouge [Blu-ray]

Corey (Alain Delon) is the young gun in the French underworld who has just been released from prison. Escaped convict Vogel (Gian-Maria Volonte) hides in the trunk of Corey's car. The two enlist the help of an alcoholic former cop (Yves Montand) for an elaborate jewelry-store robbery. Police inspector… more info >>

Release Date: 04/12/2011

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The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou [Criterion Collection]

The first effort from director Wes Anderson since his critically beloved The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou finds the filmmaker re-teaming with a number of familiar faces, including Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, and Seymour Cassel. Murray plays Steve Zissou, an eccentric… more info >>

Release Date: 05/16/2006

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Army of Shadows [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

In this war drama set during the French Resistance of WW II, a courageous fighter escapes Gestapo headquarters and returns to Marseille. There he and his gang capture a traitor and throttle him. They then try to rescue a Resistance fighter in Lyons. As they do so, the hero is again captured and his… more info >>

Release Date: 01/11/2011

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Secret Sunshine - Criterion Collection

A master of intensely emotional human dramas, director Lee Chang-dong (Poetry) is a leading light of contemporary Korean cinema, and his place on the international stage was cemented by this stirring and unpredictable work examining grief and deliverance. An effortless mix of light and uncompromising… more info >>

Release Date: 08/23/2011

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Three Colors Trilogy (Criterion Collection)[Blu-ray]

Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy, Jean-Louis Trintignant. Each film in Krzysztof Kieslowski's "color" trilogy dealing with life and love in modern-day Paris is named after the colors of the French flag: Blue (1993/98 min.), White (1993/91 min.) and Red (1994/99 min.). In Polish and French with English… more info >>

Release Date: 11/15/2011

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Island Of Lost Souls (Criterion Collection)

Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi. Hiding deep in the jungle, a mad scientist creates frighteningly evil, half-human beasts, but quickly suffers consequences for altering nature from what it was intended to be. 1932/b&w/70 min/NR/fullscreen.

Release Date: 10/25/2011

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America Lost and Found: The BBS Story [Criterion Collection] [9 Discs]

Like the rest of America, Hollywood was ripe for revolution in the late sixties. Cinema attendance was down; what had once worked seemed broken. Enter Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner, who knew that what Hollywood needed was new audiences - namely, young people - and that meant cultivating… more info >>

Release Date: 12/14/2010