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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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10 Years Of Rialto Pictures
Dedicated to celebrating classic cinema, Rialto Pictures has long worked to provide American theaters with remastered 35mm prints of legendary international films. This magnificent collection pays tribute to Rialto's first decade of existence, and brings together 10 of the French and Italian masterpieces… more info >>
Release Date: 10/28/2008
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3 Films by Louis Malle (Criterion) Criterion Collection
From his origins in the 1960s French New Wave to his death in 1995, Gallic director Louis Malle produced a cinematic oeuvre of emotional complexity and diverse subject matter. This collection presents a trio of Malle films loosely connected through themes of childhood innocence and the hypocrisies of… more info >>
Release Date: 03/28/2006
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3 Penny Opera (1931) Criterion Collection
This classic musical tells the story of a debonair gangster and his cohorts. Often voted by European audiences as one of world cinema's shining achievements, THE THREEPENNY OPERA was directed by famous director G.W. Pabst, composed by the legendary Kurt Weill, and stars Weill's wife, the incomparable… more info >>
Release Date: 09/18/2007
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3 Women Criterion Collection
Robert Altman delivers one of his most startlingly enigmatic pictures with 3 WOMEN. Inspired by a dream Altman had in which he was shooting a film in the desert, the film tells the story of a shy, quiet girl named Pinky (Sissy Spacek), who starts working in a nursing home and strikes up a friendship… more info >>
Release Date: 04/20/2004
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39 Steps
A classic British spy mystery, and one of Hitchcock's best, THE 39 STEPS is the story of an innocent man who struggles to prove his innocence. Robert Donat gets more than he bargained for when he brings home a mysterious woman (Lucie Mannheim) who confesses to be a British agent on the hot trail of… more info >>
Release Date: 09/15/2009
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39 Steps (Special Edition/ Criterion) Criterion Collection
A classic British spy mystery, and one of Hitchcock's best, THE 39 STEPS is the story of an innocent man who struggles to prove his innocence. Robert Donat gets more than he bargained for when he brings home a mysterious woman (Lucie Mannheim) who confesses to be a British agent on the hot trail of… more info >>
Release Date: 10/26/1999
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4 X Agnes Varda (1956) Criterion Collection
From her debut in 1956, filmmaker Agnès Varda made films that foreshadowed the coming of the French New Wave, eventually crafting one of the movement's most indelible films, CLEO FROM 5 TO 7. Characterized by a remarkable synthesis of documentary and fiction, this collection presents the director's… more info >>
Release Date: 01/22/2008
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400 Blows
Director François Truffaut's first feature film, THE 400 BLOWS, is a landmark in French cinema. Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a 13-year-old boy who can't seem to do anything right. His parents yell at him and then bribe him for his love and his promises to work harder in school. Meanwhile, his… more info >>
Release Date: 02/10/2009
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400 Blows
Director François Truffaut's first feature film, THE 400 BLOWS, is a landmark in French cinema. Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a 13-year-old boy who can't seem to do anything right. His parents yell at him and then bribe him for his love and his promises to work harder in school. Meanwhile, his… more info >>
Release Date: 03/24/2009
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400 Blows (1959) Criterion Collection
Director François Truffaut's first feature film, THE 400 BLOWS, is a landmark in French cinema. Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a 13-year-old boy who can't seem to do anything right. His parents yell at him and then bribe him for his love and his promises to work harder in school. Meanwhile, his… more info >>
Release Date: 05/09/2006
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49th Parallel (1941) Criterion Collection
A taut, suspenseful World War II drama about Nazi servicemen trying to reach neutral American land after their U-boat is sunk in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Picture, Best Screenplay. Academy Awards: Best Original Story.
Release Date: 02/20/2007
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8 1/2 (Special Edition) Criterion Collection
Federico Fellini's Oscar-nominated 8 1/2 is a masterpiece of storytelling and cinema. The most autobiographical of Fellini's films, the plot of which concerns a 43-year-old film director who is having a midlife crisis, it is a career benchmark for this magnificent Italian New Wave director. Beautifully… more info >>
Release Date: 11/13/2001
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A Nos Amours (1983) Criterion Collection
A lovely young girl engages in a series of casual sexual affairs in an attempt to gain the love and attention she lacked as a child at home. Recipient of the 1983 French "Cesar" for Best Film.
Release Date: 06/06/2006
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A Nous La Liberte Criterion Collection
Two prisoners attempt an escape, but only one makes it. He becomes a successful business man and when his friend finally gets out of jail he hires his old escape partner. Many madcap adventures happen everywhere they go. Academy Award Nominations: Best Interior Decoration.
Release Date: 08/20/2002
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A Tout de Suite (2005)
Parisian art student Lili (Isild Le Besco) is charmed by a Moroccan criminal, Bada (Ouassini Embarek), who robs a bank in a messy undertaking that leaves two people dead, all while thinking he will come out a hero. Smitten nonetheless, Lili sacrifices everything for him, following him as he goes on… more info >>
Release Date: 12/12/2006
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Ace in the Hole (1951) Criterion Collection (2D)
Billy Wilder, even before the deeply cynical ACE IN THE HOLE, was well-known as one of American film's best satirists. He earned his reputation with SUNSET BOULEVARD and THE APARTMENT, but in ACE IN THE HOLE, one of his personal favorites of his many films, he failed at the box office. The film, although… more info >>
Release Date: 07/17/2007
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Criterion Collection
A deceivingly simple film about the uncomfortable romantic relationship between a 60-year-old German cleaning woman named Emmi and a 40-year-old Moroccan immigrant named Ali, ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL is one of director R.W. Fassbinder's most powerful pictures. Brought together by a jeering barmaid, Emmi… more info >>
Release Date: 06/24/2003
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All About Lily Chou-Chou (2002)
Ah, to be young again and experience anew the horror show that is youth. In Shunji Iwai's ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU there is nothing redeeming about the adolescent years. It's an out-and-out war among teen peers. If viewers were shocked at the frank depiction of sexuality and violence in Larry Clark's… more info >>
Release Date: 02/15/2005
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All That Heaven Allows (Special Edition) Criterion Collection
In ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, Douglas Sirk's haunting suburban morality play, Jane Wyman plays Cary Scott, a wealthy middle-aged widow in love with a younger man considered by those around her to be far below her social standing. Her torrid affair with Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson), a handsome, earthy gardener,… more info >>
Release Date: 06/19/2001
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Allegro Non Troppo
Animated masterpiece which is set to the music of six classical works which include Ravel's "Bolero," and Stravinsky's "Firebird." Comic live action is interspersed between animated segments.
Release Date: 02/03/2004
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Alphaville Criterion Collection
With 1965's ALPHAVILLE--part sci-fi action film, part noir thriller--the acclaimed French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard achieves a stunningly clinical futurism using absolutely no special visual effects. The result is a moving, original film that, with its abstract, political, and intellectual themes,… more info >>
Release Date: 09/29/1998
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Amarcord (2D/Criterion)
Federico Fellini's AMARCORD, an acclaimed semiautobiographical episodic drama, examines life in a small Adriatic village just before Mussolini's reign in the 1930s. As the weather changes and spring arrives, the village holds a festival in which it burns a symbolic bonfire and celebrates new life. This… more info >>
Release Date: 09/05/2006
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And God Created Woman (1956) Criterion Collection
In Roger Vadim's directorial debut, his then-wife, Brigitte Bardot, plays Juliette, a sumptuous orphan beauty who sparks an incendiary and erotically charged love triangle between herself and three men who desire her. Spending her days barefoot and barely working in the town tabac, Juliette loves to… more info >>
Release Date: 06/13/2000
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And The Ship Sails On Criterion Collection
Fellini takes the viewer on a sea voyage in 1914, complete with a collection of passengers of every description - an Austrian duke, peasant refugees, and members of the cast of an Italian opera company, who are transporting the ashes of a departed friend to her homeland. As it is the eve of WWI, the… more info >>
Release Date: 06/29/1999
