From the Criterion Collection
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The Last Temptation of Christ
Movie + 3 extras
Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1988 • United States
Starring Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara HersheyTHE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, by Martin Scorsese, is a towering achievement. Though it initially engendered enormous controversy, the film can now be viewed as the remarkable, profoundly per...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Movie + 16 extras
Directed by Terry Gilliam • 1998 • United States
Starring Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Ellen BarkinIt is 1971, and journalist Raoul Duke barrels toward Las Vegas—accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his slightly unhinged Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo—to cover a motorcycle race. What shoul...
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The Silence of the Lambs
Movie + 10 extras
Directed by Jonathan Demme • 1991 • United States
Starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott GlennIn this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: ser...
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Bigger Than Life
Movie + 4 extras
Directed by Nicholas Ray • 1956 • United States
Starring James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter MatthauThough ignored at the time of its release, Nicholas Ray’s BIGGER THAN LIFE is now recognized as one of the great American films of the 1950s. When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father...
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High Art
Movie + 5 extras
Directed by Lisa Cholodenko • 1998 • United States
Starring Radha Mitchell, Gabriel Mann, Ally SheedyIn a revelatory performance, Ally Sheedy stars in writer-director Lisa Cholodenko’s debut feature, a wry and incisive look at the politics of the New York art scene wrapped in the guise of an em...
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Ghost World
Movie + 5 extras
Directed by Terry Zwigoff • 2001 • United States
Starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve BuscemiTerry Zwigoff’s first fiction film, adapted from a cult-classic comic by Daniel Clowes, is an idiosyncratic portrait of adolescent alienation that is at once bleakly funny and wholly endearin...
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Something Wild
Movie + 2 extras
Directed by Jonathan Demme • 1986 • United States
Starring Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels, Ray LiottaA straitlaced businessman meets a quirky, free-spirited woman at a downtown New York greasy spoon. Her offer of a ride back to his office results in a lunchtime motel rendezvous—just the beginni...
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The Darjeeling Limited
Movie + 12 extras
Directed by Wes Anderson • 2007 • United States
Starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason SchwartzmanIn director Wes Anderson’s THE DARJEELING LIMITED, three estranged brothers reunite for a meticulously planned, soul-searching train voyage across India one year after the death of their father....
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Repo Man
Movie + 8 extras
Directed by Alex Cox • 1984 • United States
Starring Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey WalterA quintessential cult film of the 1980s, Alex Cox’s singular sci-fi comedy stars the always captivating Harry Dean Stanton as a weathered repo man in a desolate Los Angeles, and Emilio Estevez ...
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Fresh Kill
Movie + 5 extras
Directed by Shu Lea Cheang • 1994 • United States
Starring Sarita Choudhury, Erin McMurtry, Abraham LimA disturbingly prescient ecofeminist parable and a brain-wave-scrambling cyberpunk fantasia, the debut feature from new-media pioneer Shu Lea Cheang merges a bold vision of resistance with an ...
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After Hours
Movie + 5 extras
Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1985 • United States
Starring Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna BloomDesperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman (Rosanna Arquette). So begins the...
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Sullivan’s Travels
Movie + 7 extras
Directed by Preston Sturges • 1941 • United States
Starring Joel McCrea, Veronica LakeTired of churning out lightweight comedies, Hollywood director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) decides to make O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?—a serious, socially responsible film about human suffering. After his pr...
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Touki bouki
Movie + 5 extras
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty • Senegal • 1973
Starring Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Aminata FallWith a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a fractured portrait of the disenchantment of postindependence Senegal in the early 1970s. In this picaresque f...
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Él
Movie + 4 extras
Directed by Luis Buñuel • 1953 • Mexico
Starring Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora WalkerSpanish surrealist master Luis Buñuel’s fiendish tale of love gone wrong is among the most perverse and unsettling films he made during his two decades of exile in Mexico. Folding his own neuroses int...
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Woman of the Year
Movie + 6 extras
Directed by George Stevens • 1942 • United States
Starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay BainterGeorge Stevens’s WOMAN OF THE YEAR, conceived to build on the smashing comeback Katharine Hepburn had made in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, marked the beginning of the personal and professional uni...
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Cat People
Movie + 6 extras
Criterion Collection Edition #833
The first of the horror films producer Val Lewton made for RKO Pictures redefined the genre by leaving its most frightening terrors to its audience’s imagination. Simone Simon stars as a Serbian émigré in Manhattan who believes that, because of an ancient curse,...
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His Girl Friday
Movie + 11 extras
Directed by Howard Hawks • 1940 • United States
Starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph BellamyOne of the fastest, funniest, and most quotable films ever made, HIS GIRL FRIDAY stars Rosalind Russell as reporter Hildy Johnson, a standout among cinema’s powerful women. Hildy is matched in fo...
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Martha Graham: Dance on Film
1 season
One of the great artistic forces of the twentieth century, performer, choreographer, and teacher Martha Graham influenced dance worldwide. Criterion presents a sampling of her stunning craft, all collaborations with television arts-programming pioneer Nathan Kroll. A DANCER’S WORLD (1957), narrat...
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Return to Reason
Movie + 2 extras
Directed by Man Ray • 2023 • France
The swirling surrealist dreams of Man Ray are high-water marks of 1920s avant-garde cinema, a nexus of cryptic themes, dark eroticism, and playful abstraction. Seemingly plucked from an unconscious realm, these four shorts—LE RETOUR À LA RAISON, EMAK BAKIA, L’...
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Tiny Furniture
Movie + 8 extras
Criterion Collection Edition #597
Lena Dunham got her start making YouTube videos, but she emerged as a major talent thanks to the breakthrough success of this exceptionally sharp comedy, which garnered the twenty-four-year-old writer-director-actor comparisons to the likes of Woody Allen. Dunha...
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Drive My Car
Movie + 3 extras
Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi • 2021 • Japan
Starring Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, Reika KirishimaOnly Ryusuke Hamaguchi, with his extraordinary sensitivity to the mysterious resonances of human interactions, could sweep up international awards (including the Oscar for Best International Fe...
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Desert Hearts
Movie + 7 extras
Criterion Collection Edition #902
Directed by Donna Deitch • 1985 • United States
Starring Helen Shaver, Patricia CharbonneauDonna Deitch's swooning and sensual first narrative feature, DESERT HEARTS, was groundbreaking upon its release in 1985: a love story about two women, made entirely inde...
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Movie + 8 extras
Criterion Collection Edition #958
Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu shot to international prominence with this rigorously realistic Palme d’Or–winning second feature. In 1987, during the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu, college roommates Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) and Găbița (Laura Vasiliu) ...
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Gomorrah
Movie + 10 extras
Directed by Matteo Garrone • 2008 • Italy
Starring Toni Servillo, Salvatore Abruzzese, Gianfelice ImparatoMatteo Garrone’s GOMORRAH—presented here in its 2020 New Edition director’s cut—is a stark, shocking vision of contemporary gangsterdom, and one of cinema’s most authentic depictions of org...