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  • Close-up
    Movie + 6 extras

    Close-up

    Movie + 6 extras

    Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1990 • Iran
    Starring Hossein Sabzian, Abolfazi Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah

    Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and CLOSE-UP is his most radical, brilliant...

  • The Palm Beach Story
    Movie + 4 extras

    The Palm Beach Story

    Movie + 4 extras

    Directed by Preston Sturges • 1942 • United States
    Starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor

    This wild tale of wacky wedlock from Preston Sturges takes off like a rocket and never lets up. Joel McCrea and Claudette Colbert play Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple on the skids, fin...

  • Visions of Eight
    Movie + 4 extras

    Visions of Eight

    Movie + 4 extras

    Directed by Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, and Mai Zetterling • 1973 • United States

    In Munich in 1972, eight renowned filmmakers each brought their singular artistry to the spectacle of the Olympic Games, capturing the j...

  • Purple Noon
    Movie + 5 extras

    Purple Noon

    Movie + 5 extras

    Directed by René Clément • 1960 • France, Italy
    Starring Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt

    Alain Delon was at his most impossibly beautiful when PURPLE NOON was released and made him an instant star. This ripe, colorful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s vicious novel “The Talented Mr. R...

  • Black God, White Devil

    Movie + 5 extras

    Directed by Glauber Rocha • 1964 • Brazil Starring Geraldo Del Rey, Yoná Magalhães, Othon Bastos

    Myth, mysticism, and revolution collide in a blistering existential western from Glauber Rocha, a pioneer of B...

  • Girlfight
    Movie + 4 extras

    Girlfight

    Movie + 4 extras

    Directed by Karyn Kusama • 2000 • United States
    Starring Michelle Rodriguez, Jaime Tirelli, Paul Calderon

    Bullied by her father at home and feeling adrift at school, Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez) finds refuge in an unexpected pocket of her native Brooklyn—a timeworn boxing gym, where she lea...

  • I Am Cuba
    Movie + 4 extras

    I Am Cuba

    Movie + 4 extras

    Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov • 1964 • Cuba, Soviet Union
    Starring Raquel Revuelta, Luz María Collazo, José Gallardo

    Both a landmark of radical political cinema and one of the most visually ravishing films ever made, this legendary hymn to revolution shimmers across the screen like a fever dream...

  • Nothing but a Man
    Movie + 3 extras

    Nothing but a Man

    Movie + 3 extras

    Directed by Michael Roemer • 1964 • United States
    Starring Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris

    Michael Roemer’s groundbreaking first feature, sensitively shot by his close collaborator Robert M. Young, is a still-resonant expression of humanity in the face of virulent prejudice. Made at the...

  • 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012

    1 season

    Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Games, 100 YEARS OF OLYMPIC FILMS: 1912–2012 is the culmination of a massive, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of restorations by the International Olympic Committee. The documentaries collected here cast a cinema...

  • Personal Shopper
    Movie + 2 extras

    Personal Shopper

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Olivier Assayas • 2016 • France
    Starring Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz

    With this intimate supernatural drama, the celebrated French filmmaker Olivier Assayas conjures a melancholy ghost story set in the world of celebrity and haute couture. Starring Kristen Stewart, ...

  • Werckmeister Harmonies

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky • 2000 • Hungary
    Starring Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla

    This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, WERCKMEISTER HARMONIE...

  • Mulholland Dr.
    Movie + 6 extras

    Mulholland Dr.

    Movie + 6 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #779

    A love story in the city of dreams . . .
    Blonde Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia (Laura Harring). Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s ident...

  • Bergman Island
    Movie + 3 extras

    Bergman Island

    Movie + 3 extras

    Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve • 2021 • France
    Starring Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth, Mia Wasikowska

    Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve embarks on a luminous summertime odyssey to the home of Ingmar Bergman for her seventh feature, a graceful, shape-shifting tale about the interplay of life and art and the ...

  • Love Affair
    Movie + 6 extras

    Love Affair

    Movie + 6 extras

    Directed by Leo McCarey • 1939 • United States
    Starring Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya

    Golden-age Hollywood’s humanist master Leo McCarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema’s most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Char...

  • Farewell Amor
    Movie + 6 extras

    Farewell Amor

    Movie + 6 extras

    Directed by Ekwa Msangi • 2020 • United States
    Starring Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson

    In her luminous feature debut, filmmaker Ekwa Msangi chronicles a broken family’s journey to wholeness with empathy and insight. Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil wa...

  • The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1952 • Japan
    Starring Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Keiko Tsushima

    One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, THE FLAVOR OF GREEN TEA OVER RICE is a sublimely piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secre...

  • An Autumn Afternoon
    Movie + 4 extras

    An Autumn Afternoon

    Movie + 4 extras

    Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1962 • Japan
    Starring Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada

    The last film by Yasujiro Ozu was also his final masterpiece, a gently heartbreaking story about a man’s dignifed resignation to life’s shifting currents and society’s modernization. Though the widower Shuhei...

  • The Only Son
    Movie + 2 extras

    The Only Son

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1936 • Japan
    Starring Choko Iida, Shinichi Himori, Masao Hayama

    Yasujiro Ozu’s first talkie, the uncommonly poignant THE ONLY SON is among the Japanese director’s greatest works. In its simple story about a good-natured mother who gives up everything to ensure her son’...

  • Early Summer
    Movie + 2 extras

    Early Summer

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1951 • Japan
    Starring Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chikage Awashima

    The Mamiya family is seeking a husband for their daughter, Noriko, but she has ideas of her own. Played by the extraordinary Setsuko Hara, Noriko impulsively chooses her childhood friend, at once fulfilli...

  • Late Spring
    Movie + 2 extras

    Late Spring

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1949 • Japan
    Starring Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka

    One of the most powerful of Yasujiro Ozu’s family portraits, LATE SPRING (BANSHUN) tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter. Eminent Ozu players Chishu...

  • There Was a Father
    Movie + 1 extra

    There Was a Father

    Movie + 1 extra

    Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1942 • Japan
    Starring Chishu Ryu, Haruhiko Tsugawa, Shuji Sano

    Yasujiro Ozu’s frequent leading man Chishu Ryu is riveting as Shuhei, a widowed high school teacher who finds that the more he tries to do what is best for his son’s future, the more they are separated. Tho...

  • Floating Weeds
    Movie + 1 extra

    Floating Weeds

    Movie + 1 extra

    Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1959 • Japan
    Starring Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyo, Ayako Wakao

    In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent classic A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS in color with the celebrated cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (RASHOMON, UGETSU). Setting his later version in a seaside locati...

  • A Story of Floating Weeds

    Movie + 1 extra

    Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1934 • Japan
    Starring Takeshi Sakamoto, Choko Iida, Koji (Hideo) Mitsui

    In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent classic A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS in color with the celebrated cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (RASHOMON, UGETSU). Setting his later version in a seaside...

  • Drylongso
    Movie + 8 extras

    Drylongso

    Movie + 8 extras

    Directed by Cauleen Smith • 1998 • United States
    Starring Toby Smith, April Barnett, Will Power

    A rediscovered treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith’s DRYLONGSO embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rat...