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  • The Long Goodbye

    Movie

    Directed by Robert Altman • 1973 • United States
    Starring Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden

    Robert Altman updates Raymond Chandler for the liberated, hedonistic 1970s in this brilliantly idiosyncratic adaptation of one of the writer’s most renowned novels. Elliott Gould brings a ...

  • Godland
    Movie + 2 extras

    Godland

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Hlynur Pálmason • 2022 • Iceland, Denmark
    Starring Elliott Crosset Hove, Vic Carmen Sonne, Ingvar Sigurdsson

    The struggle between the strictures of religion and our own brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychol...

  • The Daytrippers
    Movie + 5 extras

    The Daytrippers

    Movie + 5 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #1001

    With its droll humor and bittersweet emotional heft, the feature debut of writer-director Greg Mottola announced the arrival of an unassumingly sharp-witted new talent on the 1990s indie film scene. When she discovers a love letter written to her husband (Stanl...

  • Tampopo
    Movie + 8 extras

    Tampopo

    Movie + 8 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #868

    The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this rapturous “ramen western” by Japanese director Juzo Itami is an entertaining, genre-bending adventure underpinned by a deft satir...

  • Godzilla
    Movie + 13 extras

    Godzilla

    Movie + 13 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #594

    GODZILLA (a.k.a. GOJIRA) is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific. Its rampaging radioactive be...

  • PlayTime
    Movie + 11 extras

    PlayTime

    Movie + 11 extras

    Directed by Jacques Tati • 1967 • France
    Starring Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Georges Montant

    Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology reached their apotheosis with PLAYTIME. For this monumental achievement, a nearly three-y...

  • Wings of Desire
    Movie + 9 extras

    Wings of Desire

    Movie + 9 extras

    Directed by Wim Wenders • 1987 • Germany, France
    Starring Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk

    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 peopl...

  • Police Story
    Movie + 8 extras

    Police Story

    Movie + 8 extras

    Directed by Jackie Chan • 1985 • Hong Kong
    Starring Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung

    The jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in Jackie Chan’s breathtakingly inventive martial-arts comedy, a smash hit that made him a worldwide icon of daredevil action spectacle. The director/star...

  • Night on Earth
    Movie + 7 extras

    Night on Earth

    Movie + 7 extras

    Directed by Jim Jarmusch • 1991 • France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Japan
    Starring Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Rosie Perez

    Five cities. Five taxicabs. A multitude of strangers in the night. Jim Jarmusch assembled an extraordinary international cast of actors (including Gena Rowlan...

  • Cure
    Movie + 7 extras

    Cure

    Movie + 7 extras

    Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa • 1997 • Japan

    Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s arresting international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of an emerging new wave of Japanese horror while pushing the genre into uncharted realms of philosophical and existential exploration. A string of shocking, s...

  • House
    Movie + 5 extras

    House

    Movie + 5 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #539

    How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie HOUSE (HAUSU)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of “Scooby-Doo” as directed by Mario Bava? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip abou...

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    Movie + 7 extras

    Directed by David Lynch • 1992 • United States

    In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets, but no one more than Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, foll...

  • Persona
    Movie + 10 extras

    Persona

    Movie + 10 extras

    Directed by Ingmar Bergman • 1966 • Sweden
    Starring Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson

    By the midsixties, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema’s most unforgettable images. But with the radical PERSONA, he attained new levels of visual poetry. In the first of a series of legendary perf...

  • Eraserhead
    Movie + 17 extras

    Eraserhead

    Movie + 17 extras

    Directed by David Lynch • 1977 • United States
    Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Judith Anna Roberts

    David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, ERASERHEAD, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick El...

  • Jane B. par Agnès V.
    Movie + 3 extras

    Jane B. par Agnès V.

    Movie + 3 extras

    Directed by Agnès Varda • 1988 • France
    Starring Jane Birkin, Agnès Varda, Charlotte Gainsbourg

    The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a ye...

  • Stalker
    Movie + 6 extras

    Stalker

    Movie + 6 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #888

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphys­ical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide—the Stalker—leads a writer and a professor into the heart of the Zone, the restric...

  • Come and See
    Movie + 10 extras

    Come and See

    Movie + 10 extras

    Directed by Elem Klimov • 1985 • Soviet Union

    This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguish)...

  • Paris, Texas
    Movie + 11 extras

    Paris, Texas

    Movie + 11 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #501

    New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders (WINGS OF DESIRE) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in PARIS, TEXAS, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard. PARIS, TEXAS follows the mysterious...

  • Breathless
    Movie + 7 extras

    Breathless

    Movie + 7 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #408

    There was before BREATHLESS, and there was after BREATHLESS. Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspired him as a writer for “Cahiers du cinèma.” With its lack of polish,...

  • Cléo from 5 to 7
    Movie + 6 extras

    Cléo from 5 to 7

    Movie + 6 extras

    Directed by Agnès Varda • 1962 • France
    Starring Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray

    Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of ...

  • 8½
    Movie + 15 extras

    Movie + 15 extras

    Directed by Federico Fellini • 1963 • Italy
    Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Bruno Agostini, Sandra Milo

    Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ (Otto...

  • Rashomon
    Movie + 8 extras

    Rashomon

    Movie + 8 extras

    Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1950 • Japan
    Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori

    A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, RASHOMON is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Four people give different accou...

  • Black Narcissus
    Movie + 6 extras

    Black Narcissus

    Movie + 6 extras

    Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger • 1947 • United Kingdom
    Starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar

    This explosive work about the conflict between the spirit and the flesh is the epitome of the sensuous style of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. A group of nuns—played by som...

  • The Seventh Seal
    Movie + 6 extras

    The Seventh Seal

    Movie + 6 extras

    Directed by Ingmar Bergman • 1957 • Sweden
    Starring Max von Sydow, Inga Landgré, Gunnar Björnstrand

    Returning exhausted from the Crusades to find medieval Sweden gripped by the Plague, a knight (Max von Sydow) suddenly comes face-to-face with the hooded figure of Death, and challenges him to a g...