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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.

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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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Essential Art House, Vol. 1 [Criterion Collection] [6 Discs]

Janus Films was one of the premiere U.S. distributors of classic European cinema in the 1950s and 60s, bringing key works by Ingmar Bergman, Francois Truffaut, Federico Fellini, Roman Polanski and Akira Kurosawa to American audiences when viewers in the United States were just beginning to discover… more info >>

Release Date: 09/09/2008

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Essential Art House, Vol. 2 [Criterion Collection] [6 Discs]

Release Date: 02/10/2009

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Essential Art House, Vol. 3 [Criterion Collection] [6 Discs]

Release Date: 06/16/2009

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Essential Art House, Vol. 4 [Criterion Collection] [6 Discs]

Release Date: 09/15/2009

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Essential Art House: Ashes and Diamonds [Criterion Collection]

This is the last film in the trilogy that began Andrzej Wajda's career as a director. Preceding this wartime drama are Pokolenie (1955) and Kanal (1957). Once again, Wajda presents a strong anti-war statement, this time in the personae of two men who are given orders on the last day of World War II… more info >>

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Essential Art House: Beauty and the Beast [Criterion Collection]

Jean Cocteau's adaptation of Beauty and the Beast (originally released in France as La Belle et la Bête) stars Josette Day as Beauty and Jean Marais as the Beast. When a merchant (Marcel André) is told that he must die for picking a rose from the Beast's garden, his courageous daughter (Day) offers… more info >>

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Essential Art House: Black Orpheus [Criterion Collection] [2 Discs]

Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro) is literally what its title suggests: a retelling of the "Orpheus and Eurydice" legend enacted by black performers. This time the setting is the annual Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Orpheus (Breno Mello) is a streetcar conductor; Eurydice (Marpessa Dawn) has just jilted her… more info >>

Release Date: 02/10/2009

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Essential Art House: Gervaise [Criterion Collection]

This DVD marks the first appearance of Rene Clement's critically-acclaimed Gervaise in any high-end video format outside of France (where it was released several years ago). The Essential Art House Collection is a creation of Janus Films, the company behind The Criterion Collection, and the name "essential… more info >>

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Essential Art House: Hidden Fortress [Criterion Collection]

Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (original Japanese title: Kakushi Toride No San Akunin) stars Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara as a pair of misfit soldiers. Running from the enemy after a disastrous defeat, the two soldiers fall in with general Toshiro Mifune, who is in search of a huge cache… more info >>

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Essential Art House: Ikiru [Criterion Collection]

Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru details the existential struggle of one ordinary man in his desperate search for purpose. Upon learning he has terminal stomach cancer, a low-level government bureaucrat (Takashi Shimura) leaves his job of thirty years without a word to find meaning in the year he has left to… more info >>

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Essential Art House: La Strada [Criterion Collection]

Acclaimed Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini drew on his own circus background for the 1954 classic La Strada. Set in a seedy travelling carnival, this symbolism-laden drama revolves around brutish strongman Zampano (Anthony Quinn), his simple and servile girlfriend Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina, Fellini's… more info >>

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Essential Art House: Last Holiday [Criterion Collection]

Informed that he has only a short time to live, salesman Alec Guinness decides to enjoy his last months to the fullest. He withdraws all his savings from the bank and heads to a posh hotel. Here he makes more contacts and opens more professional doors than he'd ever done before, thanks to his willingness--at… more info >>

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Essential Art House: Le Jour Se Leve [Criterion Collection]

Marcel Carne and Jacques Prevert's classic of French poetic realism stars Jean Gabin in one of his most famous roles as Francois, a rough, barrel-chested loner who hides out in his apartment awaiting for the police to arrive. Francois has killed a man in a crime of passion, the slimy lothario Valentin… more info >>

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Essential Art House: Mayerling [Criterion Collection]

Based on Idol's End, a novel by Claude Anet, the French Mayerling is based on the tragic real-life story of Hapsburg Crown Prince Rudolph and his mistress, Baroness Marie Vetsera. Since the details of Rudolph and Marie's lives and deaths are clouded in controversy, much of the film is romanticized speculation-with… more info >>

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Essential Art House: Pygmalion [Criterion Collection]

Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller star in Anthony Asquith's and Leslie Howard's classic version of George Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy. Henry Higgins (Howard) is an upper class phonetics professor who encounters low-class guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Hiller) and bets his friend Colonel Pickering (Scott… more info >>

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Essential Art House: Richard III [Criterion Collection]

Laurence Olivier was the director, co-screenwriter (with Alan Dent), and star of this robust adaptation of Shakespeare's drama, which, as Bruce Eder has written, "was the final, crowning glory of the British studio system and the end of the great cycle of British films aimed at international audiences."… more info >>

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Essential Art House: The 39 Steps [Criterion Collection]

This classic British thriller was one of Alfred Hitchcock's first major international successes, and it introduced a number of the stylistic and thematic elements that became hallmarks of his later work. Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), a Canadian rancher on vacation in England, attends a music hall performance… more info >>

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Essential Art House: The 400 Blows [Criterion Collection]

For his feature-film debut, critic-turned-director François Truffaut drew inspiration from his own troubled childhood. The 400 Blows stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel, Truffaut's preteen alter ego. Misunderstood at home by his parents and tormented in school by his insensitive teacher (Guy Decomble),… more info >>

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Essential Art House: The 400 Blows [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Release Date: 03/24/2009

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Essential Art House: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp [Criterion Collection]

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's much-lauded epic Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, which satirizes British traditionalism, stirred up impassioned hostilities and indignations among the Brits when released in 1943. It so infuriated Winston Churchill, in fact, that he refused to allow its exportation… more info >>

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Essential Art House: The Tales of Hoffmann [Criterion Collection]

Most baby-boomers are familiar with the Powell-Pressburger production of the Offenbach opera Tales of Hoffman only through the full-color stills from the film which were reproduced in the "Motion Picture" section of The World Book Encyclopedia. If this is your only memory of the film, we advise you… more info >>

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Essential Art House: Throne of Blood [Criterion Collection]

Macbeth is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan in director Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy. Familiar with Orson Welles's more faithful adaptation, Kurosawa chose to place a more personal stamp on his version by translating the events and characters to historical… more info >>

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Essential Art House: Variety Lights [Criterion Collection]

Federico Fellini's directorial debut (co-directed with veteran Alberto Lattuada), Luci del Varietà is a bittersweet drama about a bunch of misfits in a traveling vaudeville troupe. The group of actors, dancers, and performers struggle to make it from town to town, playing to minimal crowds. Their comedic… more info >>

Release Date: 06/16/2009

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Europa [WS] [Criterion Collection]

Europa (retitled Zentropa for the American release) is an hallucinatory Danish film set in postwar Germany. Jean-Marc Barr plays a young German who aspires for a job as a street conductor. But this is no mere "Joe Job;" Barr's adventures on the line are designed as a metaphor for the emergence of the… more info >>

Release Date: 12/09/2008

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Exterminating Angel [Criterion Collection]

Luis Bunuel's wicked, ambiguous tale of a bourgeois dinner party gone rather remarkably wrong has finally become available on DVD in North America in an excellent edition from the Criterion Collection. El Angel Exterminador (aka The Exterminating Angel) has been transferred to disc in its original full-frame… more info >>

Release Date: 02/10/2009