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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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General Idi Amin Dada (A Self Portrait) [Criterion Collection]

Fascinating, surreal, funny, horrifying, and ultimately mind-boggling when one tries to figure out how director Barbet Schroeder and his crew managed to capture "self-styled" dictator General Idi Amin in all his infamous glory. From scenes of the notorious butcher playing an accordion for the amusement… more info >>

Release Date: 05/14/2002

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Generale Della Rovere [Criterion Collection]

After winning worldwide acclaim as a pioneer of the neorealist style with Open City (1945), Paisan (1946) and Germany Year Zero (1948), director Roberto Rossellini avoided the subject of war, fearful of repeating himself, but when he returned to the theme of Italy struggling with fascism from within… more info >>

Release Date: 03/31/2009

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George Washington [Criterion Collection]

David Gordon Green's award winning debut feature George Washington comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. English subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials… more info >>

Release Date: 03/12/2002

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Gimme Shelter [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

This musical documentary concerns the Rolling Stones and their tragic free concert at Altamont Speedway near San Francisco in early December 1969. The event was all but destroyed by violence that marked the end of the peace and love euphoria of the 1960s. The night began smoothly, with the supercharged… more info >>

Release Date: 12/01/2009

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Golden Age of Television [Criterion Collection] [3 Discs]

Release Date: 11/24/2009

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Gomorrah [Criterion Collection] [2 Discs]

Five stories weave together to form director Matteo Garrone's Gomorra, a violent look at the cruel reality endured by the residents of the Province of Naples. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Release Date: 11/24/2009

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Gomorrah [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Five stories weave together to form director Matteo Garrone's Gomorra, a violent look at the cruel reality endured by the residents of the Province of Naples. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Release Date: 11/24/2009

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Good Morning [Criterion Collection]

Master Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu's satirical family comedy Good Morning comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer. The Japanese soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. English subtitles are accessible. There are no special features on this release, but this film is of a high enough… more info >>

Release Date: 08/22/2000

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Grand Illusion [Criterion Collection]

Frequently cited as both one of the greatest films about war and one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion is an often witty, sometimes poignant, frequently moving examination of the futility of war. During World War I, twoFrench airmen are shot down while taking surveillance… more info >>

Release Date: 09/09/2008

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Grand Illusion [Special Edition] [Criterion Collection]

Few movies have spoken of the folly and futility of war with the eloquence of Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion, and after releasing a special edition DVD of the film that's loaded with extras, the Criterion Collection have made the picture available in a simpler and more affordable edition. This version… more info >>

Release Date: 11/16/1999

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Great Adaptations [4 Discs] [Criterion Collection]

With this box set, The Criterion Collection has packaged together four films based on some of the most respected novels of all time. David Lean's Great Expectations and his Oliver Twist, Lord of the Flies, and The Most Dangerous Game are each presented in the original theatrical aspect ratio. English… more info >>

Release Date: 09/07/2004

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Great Expectations [Criterion Collection]

Immediately grabbing the audience's attention with a heart-stopping opening scene in a dark graveyard, acclaimed British director David Lean fully realizes the cinematic potential of Charles Dickens' classic 1861 novel, and the result is not only one of the finest literary adaptations ever made but… more info >>

Release Date: 01/05/1999

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Green for Danger [Criterion Collection]

This clever and well-crafted British thriller, set during the height of World War II and featuring a marvelous turn by Alistair Sim as a eccentric police detective, has been given an overdue DVD release in the United States by the Criterion Collection. Green For Danger has been transferred to disc in… more info >>

Release Date: 02/13/2007

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Grey Gardens [2 Discs] [Criterion Collection]

Albert and David Maysles, pioneers in the cinéma vérité movement of documentary filmmaking, chose for their subjects of this film a mother and daughter with celebrity connections. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edie (or, as they are called by the brothers, Big Edie and Little Edie), are… more info >>

Release Date: 12/05/2006

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Grey Gardens [Criterion Collection]

Filmmaker brothers David Maysles and Al Maysles bring their unique vision to Grey Gardens. Criterion has done a fine job on this 1.33:1 full-frame transfer, which sports decent colors and a minimal amount of dirt and grain. While this could have been a sharper transfer, overall, this is very nice-looking… more info >>

Release Date: 07/31/2001

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Haine [Criterion Collection]

While to most outsiders Paris seems the very picture of beauty and civility, France has had a long and unfortunate history of intolerance toward outsiders, and this powerful drama from filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz takes an unblinking look at a racially diverse group of young people trapped in the Parisian… more info >>

Release Date: 04/17/2007

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Hamlet [Criterion Collection]

Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's decision to excise large portions of the text, his cinematic version of Hamlet is widely considered the best out of several dozens (and counting). Hamlet (Olivier) is a medieval Danish… more info >>

Release Date: 09/19/2000

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Hands Over the City [2 Discs] [Special Edition] [Criterion Collection]

A corrupt city councilman seeks a huge profit in a suburban real estate deal. Nottola (Rod Steiger) manipulates corrupt local government officials in the political instability that plagues Italy following World War II. The only councilman who tries to block the shady deals in defense of the people is… more info >>

Release Date: 10/03/2006

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Harlan County USA [Criterion Collection]

Barbara Kopple's Harlan County, USA was one of the most important and powerful political documentaries of the 1970s, a startling and compelling look at a bitter coal miner's strike in Kentucky in the early '70s, and this DVD release of the film from The Criterion Collection treats Kopple's work like… more info >>

Release Date: 04/25/2006

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Haxan - Witchcraft through the Ages [Criterion Collection]

Considered by many to be one of the truly great (and peculiar) silent films ever, Häxan is part documentary, part horror film, part social commentary, and always fascinating. Originally directed by Benjamin Christensen, the film regained a whole new audience in 1967 when British filmmaker Antony Balch… more info >>

Release Date: 10/16/2001

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Hearts & Minds [Criterion Collection]

One of the first successful documentaries to take a clear eyed look at the United States' involvement in the Vietnam war, Hearts % Minds comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital… more info >>

Release Date: 06/25/2002

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Heaven Can Wait [Criterion Collection]

On the day of his death in 1943, the spirit of Henry Van Cleave (Don Ameche) obligingly heads for the place where so many people had previously told him to go. The immaculately dressed septuagenarian arrives at the outer offices of Hades, where he is greeted by His Excellency (Laird Cregar), the most… more info >>

Release Date: 06/14/2005

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Hidden Fortress [Criterion Collection]

Criterion continues their tradition of fine discs with the DVD of Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress. Other than a few forgettable moments that show the age of the film, the image quality is outstanding and far better than it has been outside of theaters. The movie is framed at the original aspect… more info >>

Release Date: 05/22/2001

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High and Low [2 Discs] [Special Edition] [Criterion Collection]

Akira Kurosawa was arguably Japan's greatest filmmaker and certainly the nation's most influential, and though he was most celebrated for historical epics such as Rashomon, Shichinin no samurai (aka The Seven Samurai) and Kakushi Toride No San-Akunin (aka The Hidden Fortress), he also made a number… more info >>

Release Date: 07/22/2008

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High and Low [Criterion Collection]

Akira Kurosawa's High and Low, and adaptation of Ed McBain's King's Ransom, comes to DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1. The Japanese soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. English subtitles are accessible. There are no supplemental materials… more info >>

Release Date: 08/25/1998