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  • The Clay Bird

    Movie

    Directed by Tareque Masud • 2002 • Bangladesh
    Starring Nurul Haque, Russell Farazi, Jayanto Chattopadhyay

    Set during the turbulent late-1960s period leading up to Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan, this lyrical drama tells the story of a family torn apart by religion and war. Anu (Nurul Is...

  • Three Wishes for Cinderella

    Movie

    Directed by Václav Vorlíček • 1973 • Czechoslovakia
    Starring Libuše Šafránková, Pavel Trávníček, Carola Braunbock

    This enchanting Czech Christmas classic has become a Central European yuletide staple thanks to its perennial presence on television each holiday season. A charming, spirited twist o...

  • The Rink

    Movie

    Directed by Charles Chaplin • 1916 • United States

    In this two-reel delight, Charlie Chaplin’s havoc-wreaking Little Tramp serves up mayhem while working as a waiter in a posh restaurant (witness his unique, full-body cocktail-mixing skills). However, it’s not until he straps on a pair of skates...

  • The Pied Piper

    Movie

    Directed by Jacques Demy • 1972 • United Kingdom, United States
    Starring Donovan, Diana Dors, Donald Pleasence

    The classic story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin comes to life courtesy of French New Wave magician Jacques Demy. Psych-folk legend Donovan plays the titular, magic-flute-playing troubado...

  • Being Two Isn’t Easy

    Movie

    Directed by Kon Ichikawa • 1962 • Japan
    Starring Hirro Suzuki, Fujiko Yamamoto, Eiji Funakoshi

    You can say that again! The days leading up to a toddler’s second birthday are seen alternately from the adorable youngster’s point of view and from the perspective of his anxious parents as they navig...

  • Time Bandits
    Movie + 4 extras

    Time Bandits

    Movie + 4 extras

    Directed by Terry Gilliam • 1981 • United Kingdom
    Starring John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall

    In this fantastic voyage through time and space from Terry Gilliam, a boy named Kevin (Craig Warnock) escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarfs. Armed with a map...

  • The Importance of Being Earnest

    Movie

    Directed by Anthony Asquith • 1952 • United Kingdom
    Starring Michael Redgrave, Joan Greenwood, Dame Edith Evans

    Oscar Wilde’s comic jewel sparkles in Anthony Asquith’s film adaptation of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. Featuring brilliantly polished performances by Michael Redgrave, Joan Greenw...

  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

    Movie

    Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz • 1947 • United States
    Starring Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders

    In early-1900s England, independent-minded widow Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) rents a house by the ocean that she soon discovers is haunted by the ghost of a cantankerous sea captain (Rex Harr...

  • Oliver Twist

    Movie

    Directed by David Lean • 1948 • United Kingdom
    Starring Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh

    Following the success of GREAT EXPECTATIONS, David Lean applied his sterling craftsmanship to another beloved Charles Dickens classic and once again set the standard for all future screen adaptations....

  • An Inn in Tokyo

    Movie

    Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1935 • Japan

    The final still-extant silent film directed by Yasujiro Ozu is an exquisitely tender portrait of everyday survival in 1930s Japan. Anticipating the neorealist poetry of BICYCLE THIEVES, AN INN IN TOKYO follows unemployed ne’er-do-well Kihachi (Takeshi Saka...

  • Aparajito
    Movie + 4 extras

    Aparajito

    Movie + 4 extras

    Directed by Satyajit Ray • 1956 • India
    Starring Pinaki Sengupta, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee

    Satyajit Ray had not planned to make a sequel to PATHER PANCHALI, but after the film’s international success, he decided to continue Apu’s narrative. APARAJITO picks up where the first film leaves of...

  • Androcles and the Lion

    Movie

    Directed by Chester Erskine • 1952 • United Kingdom

    George Bernard Shaw's breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable, about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion's paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act, was written as a meditation on mode...

  • Georges Méliès: Fairy Tales in Color

    1 season

    The inexhaustibly imaginative magician of early cinema, Georges Méliès created some of the medium’s very first fantasies through his revolutionary use of trick photography, special effects, and exquisite hand-painted color. Beautifully restored by Lobster Films, these whimsical wonders—including ...

  • The Steamroller and the Violin

    Movie

    Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • 1961 • Soviet Union

    When Sasha, a seven-year-old violin protégé, meets Sergei, a steamroller working in his neighborhood, he starts to open up from his strictly imposed routine of practice. Made as a thesis film for the VGIK Soviet film school, this early work by A...

  • The Ghost Goes West

    Movie

    Directed by René Clair • 1935 • United Kingdom
    Starring Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette

    An old-world ghost gets a taste of new-world values in this sly supernatural satire. When an ancient Scottish castle is taken down and moved to Florida to be rebuilt brick by brick, the new America...

  • Journey to the Beginning of Time

    Movie + 7 extras

    Directed by Karel Zeman • 1955 • Czechoslovakia
    Starring Petr Herrmann, Vladimír Bejval, Josef Lukáš

    A beguiling mix of natural history and science fiction, this early feature by Karel Zeman follows four schoolboys on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes an...

  • The Kid
    Movie + 14 extras

    The Kid

    Movie + 14 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #799

    Charlie Chaplin was already an international star when he decided to break out of the short-film format and make his first full-length feature. THE KID doesn't merely show Chaplin at a turning point, when he proved that he was a serious film director, it remains...

  • The Incredible Shrinking Man

    Movie + 10 extras

    Directed by Jack Arnold • 1957 • United States
    Starring Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent

    This existential science-fiction drama boasts some of the most ingenious special effects of the 1950s, as well as a surprisingly sophisticated philosophical underpinning. While catching some rays on ...

  • City Lights
    Movie + 12 extras

    City Lights

    Movie + 12 extras

    Directed by Charles Chaplin • 1931 • United States
    Starring Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers

    CITY LIGHTS, the most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin, is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dra...

  • Pygmalion

    Movie

    Directed by Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard • 1938 • United Kingdom
    Starring Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller

    Cranky Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) takes a bet that he can turn Cockney guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) into a “proper lady” in a mere six months in this delightful c...

  • The White Balloon

    Movie

    Directed by Jafar Panahi • 1995 • Iran
    Starring Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kafili, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy

    Jafar Panahi’s revelatory debut feature is a child’s-eye adventure in which a young girl’s quest to buy a goldfish leads her on a detour-filled journey through the streets of Tehran on the ...

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel

    Movie

    Directed by Harold Young • 1934 • United Kingdom
    Starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey

    Prestige producer Alexander Korda applies his seal of quality to this rip-roaring swashbuckler, a rollickingly entertaining adaptation of the classic novel by Baroness Orczy, which introduced th...

  • Destroy All Monsters
    Movie + 2 extras

    Destroy All Monsters

    Movie + 2 extras

    Directed by Ishiro Honda • 1968 • Japan

    The original Godzilla team of director Ishiro Honda, special-effects supervisor Eiji Tsuburaya, and composer Akira Ifukube reunited for this kaiju extravaganza, which features no fewer than eleven monsters. Set in the remote future of 1999, when the peop...

  • Good Morning
    Movie + 4 extras

    Good Morning

    Movie + 4 extras

    Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1959 • Japan
    Starring Masahiko Shimazu, Koji Shidara, Kuniko Miyake

    A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, GOOD MORNING tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after t...