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This monumental forty-film box set celebrates forty years of the Criterion Collection by gathering an electrifying mix of classic and contemporary films, and presenting them with all their special features and essays in a deluxe clothbound, slipcased edition. CC40’s eclectic selection includes the releases most frequently chosen by the hundreds of filmmakers, actors, writers, and other movie-loving luminaries who have visited Criterion over the years, as documented in our popular Closet Picks video series. Neither a historical survey nor a top-forty compilation, this exciting, personal, unpredictable anthology reflects the cinematic joys and inspirations of the creative community that makes the Criterion Collection possible.
| Drama | 100% |
| Foreign | 83% |
| Romance | 18% |
| Surreal | 15% |
| Film-Noir | 15% |
| Psychological thriller | 13% |
| Dark humor | 5% |
| Period | 5% |
| Horror | 5% |
| Mystery | 4% |
| War | 3% |
| Music | 3% |
| Crime | 3% |
| Coming of age | 2% |
| Biography | 2% |
| History | 2% |
| Teen | 1% |
| Supernatural | 1% |
| Melodrama | 1% |
| Comedy | 1% |
| Sport | 1% |
| Epic | Insignificant |
| Sci-Fi | Insignificant |
| Adventure | Insignificant |
| Fantasy | Insignificant |
| Musical | Insignificant |
| Thriller | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
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Warner Bros. | 1979 | 130 min | Rated PG | Feb 03, 2009 | Kenneth Brown
A simple, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics.
Comedy / Drama

20th Anniversary Edition
Universal Studios | 1989 | 120 min | Rated R | Jun 30, 2009 | Casey Broadwater
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Comedy / Drama

Special Restoration Edition
ITV DVD | 1948 | 135 min | Rated BBFC: U | Oct 05, 2009 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A young ballerina is torn between her art and her romance with a young composer.
Drama / Music / Romance

Otto e mezzo / Federico Fellini's 8½
Criterion | 1963 | 139 min | Not rated | Jan 12, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Troubled Italian filmmaker Guido Anselmi struggles with creative stasis as he attempts to get a new movie off the ground. Overwhelmed by his work and personal life, the director retreats into his thoughts, which often focus on his loves, both past and present, and frequently wander into fantastical territory. As he tries to sort out his many entanglements, romantic and otherwise, Anselmi finds his production becoming more and more autobiographical.
Drama / Fantasy / Foreign / Surreal

Criterion | 1948 | 135 min | Not rated | Jul 20, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A young ballerina is torn between her art and her romance with a young composer.
Drama / Music / Romance

And Your Mother Too
Icon Productions | 2001 | 102 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Jul 26, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Foreign / Coming of age

東京物語 / Tôkyô monogatari / The Ozu Collection / Blu-ray + DVD
BFI Video | 1953 | 136 min | Rated BBFC: U | Jul 19, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
An aging couple journey to visit their grown children in bustling postwar Tokyo.
Drama / Foreign / Melodrama

ハウス / Hausu
Criterion | 1977 | 88 min | Not rated | Oct 26, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A schoolgirl travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt's creaky country home and comes face-to-face with evil spirits, a demonic house cat, a bloodthirsty piano, and other ghoulish visions.
Fantasy / Horror / Dark humor / Supernatural / Foreign / Surreal

Criterion | 1955 | 93 min | Not rated | Nov 16, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A demented preacher relentlessly torments two small children in the Depression-era Bible Belt in order to get at their dead father's stolen fortune.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Psychological thriller

一一
Criterion | 2000 | 174 min | Not rated | Mar 15, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Each member of a middle class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.
Drama / Foreign

Criterion | 1957 | 97 min | Not rated | Feb 22, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.
Drama / Film-Noir

Warner Bros. | 1975 | 185 min | Rated PG | May 31, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
Redmond Barry is an Irish country boy who falls in love with a well-to-do local girl and is subsequently tricked by her family into leaving town. Disillusioned with love, the brokenhearted youngster embarks on an adventure which sees him serve in the Seven Years War, earn a living as a professional gambler, and eventually move into the higher ranks of society, when he meets and marries the beautiful Lady Lyndon. Despite the luck that has brought him such riches, it is this final move, the cynical choice to marry for social advancement rather than love, which brings about his downfall.
Adventure / Drama / History / War / Epic / Period

Criterion | 1993 | 132 min | Not rated | Jul 12, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
An unemployed Mancunian vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Drama / Dark humor

La battaglia di Algeri
Criterion | 1966 | 122 min | Not rated | Aug 09, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to 1950s Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
Drama / History / War / Foreign

Criterion | 1977 | 124 min | Rated PG | Sep 13, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In a dusty, underpopulated California resort town, a naive southern waif, Pinky Rose, idolizes and befriends her fellow nurse, the would-be sophisticate and "thoroughly modern" Millie Lammoreaux. When Millie takes Pinky in as her roommate, Pinky's hero worship evolves into something far stranger and more sinister than either could have anticipated.
Drama / Surreal

Les chaussons rouges / édition collector
Carlotta Films | 1948 | 133 min | Not rated | Nov 09, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A young ballerina is torn between her art and her romance with a young composer.
Drama / Music / Romance

Masters of Cinema
Eureka Entertainment | 1984 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 92 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Feb 20, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A down-and-out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most-wanted '64 Chevy.
Crime / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Dark humor

La battaglia di Algeri
Argent Films | 1966 | 121 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jul 09, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to 1950s Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
Drama / History / War / Foreign

Criterion | 1986 | 107 min | Not rated | Jul 17, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
When fate lands three hapless men—an unemployed disc jockey, a small-time pimp, and a strong-willed Italian tourist—in a New Orleans prison, their mutual confinement launches a grand adventure toward escape and freedom.
Comedy / Crime / Drama

花樣年華 / Faa yeung nin wa
Criterion | 2000 | 99 min | Rated PG | Oct 02, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them.
Drama / Romance / Foreign / Melodrama / Period

Criterion | 1971 | 110 min | Rated R | Oct 23, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
Drama / Romance

The John Cassavetes Collection / Blu-ray + DVD
BFI Video | 1974 | 147 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Sep 17, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family's struggle to save her from herself.
Drama

Week End
Criterion | 1967 | 104 min | Not rated | Nov 13, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them.
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Dark humor / Foreign / Surreal

1.66:1, 1.85:1, and 1.33:1 aspect ratio presentations
Criterion | 1954 | 108 min | Not rated | Feb 19, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Dockworker Terry Malloy had been an up-and-coming boxer until powerful local mob boss Johnny Friendly persuaded him to throw a fight. When a longshoreman is murdered before he can testify about Friendly's control of the Hoboken waterfront, Terry teams up with the dead man's sister Edie and the streetwise priest Father Barry to testify himself, against the advice of Friendly's lawyer, Terry's older brother Charley.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller

Theatrical and Television Versions
Criterion | 1984 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 92 min | Rated R | Apr 16, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A down-and-out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most-wanted '64 Chevy.
Crime / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Dark humor

Criterion | 1966 | 107 min | Rated R | Aug 13, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A middle-aged banker, dissatisfied with his suburban existence, elects to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life.
Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Psychological thriller

Criterion | 1974 | 147 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family's struggle to save her from herself.
Drama

東京物語 / Tôkyô monogatari / Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1953 | 137 min | Not rated | Nov 19, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
An aging couple journey to visit their grown children in bustling postwar Tokyo.
Drama / Foreign / Melodrama

Federico Fellini's 8½
Argent Films | 1963 | 138 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Nov 11, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Troubled Italian filmmaker Guido Anselmi struggles with creative stasis as he attempts to get a new movie off the ground. Overwhelmed by his work and personal life, the director retreats into his thoughts, which often focus on his loves, both past and present, and frequently wander into fantastical territory. As he tries to sort out his many entanglements, romantic and otherwise, Anselmi finds his production becoming more and more autobiographical.
Drama / Fantasy / Foreign / Surreal

Jules et Jim / Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1962 | 106 min | Rated PG | Feb 04, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim. Both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine, but it's Jules who wins her hand. After the war, Jim visits Jules, Catherine, and their daughter in their Austrian home and discovers not only that his feelings for Catherine are unchanged, but also that they're reciprocated.
Drama / Romance / Foreign

Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1966 | 84 min | Not rated | Mar 25, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Famed stage actress Elisabet Vogler suffers a moment of blankness during a performance and the next day lapses into total silence. Advised by her doctor to take time off to recover from what appears to be an emotional breakdown, Elisabet goes to a beach house on the Baltic Sea with only Alma, a nurse, as company. Over the next several weeks, as Alma struggles to reach her mute patient, the two women find themselves experiencing a strange emotional convergence.
Drama / Foreign / Surreal

Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1951 | 111 min | Not rated | May 06, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A frustrated former big-city journalist, now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper, exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career.
Drama / Film-Noir

The Big Carnival / Masters of Cinema / Blu-ray + DVD
Eureka Entertainment | 1951 | 111 min | Rated BBFC: PG | May 05, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A frustrated former big-city journalist, now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper, exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career.
Drama / Film-Noir

Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1959 | 76 min | Not rated | Jul 15, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Michel is a young pickpocket who spends his days working the streets, subway cars, and train stations of Paris. As his compulsive pursuit of the thrill of stealing grows, so does his fear that his luck is about to run out.
Crime / Drama / Foreign

Jules and Jim
Artificial Eye | 1962 | 106 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Jul 28, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim. Both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine, but it's Jules who wins her hand. After the war, Jim visits Jules, Catherine, and their daughter in their Austrian home and discovers not only that his feelings for Catherine are unchanged, but also that they're reciprocated.
Drama / Romance / Foreign

Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 2001 | 106 min | Unrated | Aug 19, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Foreign / Coming of age

Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1979 | 123 min | Rated R | Aug 26, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
When not planning for his upcoming stage musical or working on his Hollywood film, choreographer/director Joe Gideon is popping pills and sleeping with a seemingly endless line of women. The physical and mental stress begins to take a toll on the ragged perfectionist. Soon, he must decide whether his non-stop work schedule and hedonistic lifestyle are worth risking his life.
Drama / Fantasy / Musical / Surreal

Criterion | 1995 | 119 min | Not rated | Dec 09, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Carol White lives with her husband and son in suburban comfort until she collapses one day for no apparent reason. Her condition worsens in the weeks that follow as she suffers from coughing fits, exhaustion, and spontaneous nose bleeds, triggered by sources as disparate as car exhaust, cologne, and the sun. Failing to find any medical explanation for her maladies, her doctor refers her to a psychiatrist, who suggests that her physical ailments are psychosomatic—a theory echoed by her callous and increasingly frustrated husband.
Drama / Period

Arrow Academy
Arrow | 1941 | 91 min | Rated BBFC: PG | May 26, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A director decides to hit the road disguised as a hobo. Along the way, he finds himself in more trouble than he ever imagined.
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Romance

The Swamp
Criterion | 2001 | 101 min | Not rated | Jan 27, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A series of surreal moments and twisted family relationships is revealed as two large families spend a torpid summer together in a faded resort town in Northwest Argentina.
Comedy / Drama / Foreign

Warner Bros. | 2000 | 125 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 03, 2015 | Michael Reuben
Monica and Quincy spent their lives bonding over their mutual love of basketball, but something always got in the way of them being together. This time, Monica's not letting go so easily. It's just the two of them, one on one, and the stakes have never been higher.
Drama / Romance / Sport / Teen

Criterion | 1941 | 91 min | Not rated | Apr 14, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A director decides to hit the road disguised as a hobo. Along the way, he finds himself in more trouble than he ever imagined.
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Romance

Arrow Academy
Arrow | 1957 | 96 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Mar 30, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.
Drama / Film-Noir

Arrow Academy
Arrow | 1977 | 124 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Jul 13, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In a dusty, underpopulated California resort town, a naive southern waif, Pinky Rose, idolizes and befriends her fellow nurse, the would-be sophisticate and "thoroughly modern" Millie Lammoreaux. When Millie takes Pinky in as her roommate, Pinky's hero worship evolves into something far stranger and more sinister than either could have anticipated.
Drama / Surreal

Criterion | 1991 | 104 min | Rated R | Oct 06, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Mike Waters is a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him. Scott Favor is the wayward son of the mayor of Portland and the object of Mike's desire. Navigating a volatile world of junkies, thieves, and johns, Mike takes Scott on a quest along the grungy streets and open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
Adventure / Drama / Surreal

Masters of Cinema / Blu-ray + DVD
Eureka Entertainment | 1966 | 107 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Oct 26, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A middle-aged banker, dissatisfied with his suburban existence, elects to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life.
Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Psychological thriller

Ladri di biciclette
Criterion | 1948 | 89 min | Not rated | Mar 29, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
Drama / Foreign

Criterion | 1979 | 130 min | Rated PG | Mar 21, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A simple, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics.
Comedy / Drama

Criterion | 1975 | 185 min | Rated PG | Oct 17, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Redmond Barry is an Irish country boy who falls in love with a well-to-do local girl and is subsequently tricked by her family into leaving town. Disillusioned with love, the brokenhearted youngster embarks on an adventure which sees him serve in the Seven Years War, earn a living as a professional gambler, and eventually move into the higher ranks of society, when he meets and marries the beautiful Lady Lyndon. Despite the luck that has brought him such riches, it is this final move, the cynical choice to marry for social advancement rather than love, which brings about his downfall.
Adventure / Drama / History / War / Epic / Period

50th Anniversary Edition / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1968 | 96 min | Not rated | Oct 03, 2017 | Martin Liebman
A disparate group of individuals takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour.
Horror

Theatrical and Workprint versions
Criterion | 1968 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 97 min | Not rated | Feb 13, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A disparate group of individuals takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour.
Horror

ハウス / Hausu | Masters of Cinema
Eureka Entertainment | 1977 | 88 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Feb 12, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A schoolgirl travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt's creaky country home and comes face-to-face with evil spirits, a demonic house cat, a bloodthirsty piano, and other ghoulish visions.
Fantasy / Horror / Dark humor / Supernatural / Foreign / Surreal

4K Restoration | La battaglia di Algeri | Collector's Edition / Blu-ray + DVD
Cult Films | 1966 | 122 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Mar 19, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to 1950s Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
Drama / History / War / Foreign

Director's Cut
Criterion | 1985 | 121 min | Not rated | May 22, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A portrait of the acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima that investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted the impossible task of finding harmony among self, art, and society. Taking place on the last day of Mishima's life, when he famously committed public seppuku, the film is punctuated by extended flashbacks to the writer's past as well as gloriously stylized evocations of his fictional works.
Biography / Drama / Foreign

Le week-end
Artificial Eye | 1967 | 104 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Jul 30, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them.
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Dark humor / Foreign / Surreal

Criterion | 1970 | 103 min | Not rated | Mar 19, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, and shot in an intensely intimate vérité style, the film takes up with distant and soft-spoken Wanda, who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, and callously mistreated by a series of men—including a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme.
Crime / Drama

Criterion | 1989 | 120 min | Rated R | Jul 23, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Comedy / Drama

Cléo de 5 à 7
Criterion | 1962 | 89 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy.
Drama / Romance / Foreign

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 1989 | 120 min | Rated R | Feb 02, 2021 | Martin Liebman
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Comedy / Drama

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 1989 | 120 min | Rated R | Feb 02, 2021 | Randy Miller III
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Comedy / Drama

花樣年華 | Faa yeung nin wa | Remastered
Criterion | 2000 | 99 min | Rated PG | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them.
Drama / Romance / Foreign / Melodrama / Period

Зеркало / Zerkalo
Criterion | 1975 | 107 min | Not rated | Jul 06, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Writer-director Andrei Tarkovsky draws on episodes from his own life in this story of a dying man reflecting on his relationships with his parents, wife and son. The film includes a number of reflections on the Russian people and their history, using the life of one man to consider the Russian experience from the Second World War through to the end of the Stalinist period.
Biography / Drama / History / Foreign

Criterion | 1999 | 94 min | Not rated | Oct 19, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Set during Scotland's national garbage strike of the mid-1970s, a poor adolescent boy struggles to reconcile his dreams and his guilt with the abjection that surrounds him.
Drama / Coming of age

Criterion | 2000 | 126 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 21, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Monica and Quincy spent their lives bonding over their mutual love of basketball, but something always got in the way of them being together. This time, Monica's not letting go so easily. It's just the two of them, one on one, and the stakes have never been higher.
Drama / Romance / Sport / Teen

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1948 | 135 min | Not rated | Dec 14, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A young ballerina is torn between her art and her romance with a young composer.
Drama / Music / Romance

Jules & Jim / Jules et Jim
BFI Video | 1962 | 106 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Apr 25, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim. Both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine, but it's Jules who wins her hand. After the war, Jim visits Jules, Catherine, and their daughter in their Austrian home and discovers not only that his feelings for Catherine are unchanged, but also that they're reciprocated.
Drama / Romance / Foreign

Otto e mezzo | Federico Fellini's 8½ | 4K restoration
Criterion | 1963 | 139 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Troubled Italian filmmaker Guido Anselmi struggles with creative stasis as he attempts to get a new movie off the ground. Overwhelmed by his work and personal life, the director retreats into his thoughts, which often focus on his loves, both past and present, and frequently wander into fantastical territory. As he tries to sort out his many entanglements, romantic and otherwise, Anselmi finds his production becoming more and more autobiographical.
Drama / Fantasy / Foreign / Surreal

Theatrical (UHD/BD) and Workprint (BD) versions / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1968 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 97 min | Not rated | Oct 04, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A disparate group of individuals takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour.
Horror

花樣年華 | Faa yeung nin wa | includes 2021 remastered BD / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 2000 | 99 min | Rated PG | Nov 01, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them.
Drama / Romance / Foreign / Melodrama / Period

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Kino Lorber | 1955 | 92 min | Not rated | May 30, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A demented preacher relentlessly torments two small children in the Depression-era Bible Belt in order to get at their dead father's stolen fortune.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Psychological thriller

Theatrical (4K/BD) and Television (BD) Versions / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1984 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 92 min | Rated R | Sep 03, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A down-and-out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most-wanted '64 Chevy.
Crime / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Dark humor

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 1954 | 108 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown
Dockworker Terry Malloy had been an up-and-coming boxer until powerful local mob boss Johnny Friendly persuaded him to throw a fight. When a longshoreman is murdered before he can testify about Friendly's control of the Hoboken waterfront, Terry teams up with the dead man's sister Edie and the streetwise priest Father Barry to testify himself, against the advice of Friendly's lawyer, Terry's older brother Charley.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller

Otto e mezzo / Federico Fellini's 8½ / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1963 | 138 min | Not rated | Dec 10, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Troubled Italian filmmaker Guido Anselmi struggles with creative stasis as he attempts to get a new movie off the ground. Overwhelmed by his work and personal life, the director retreats into his thoughts, which often focus on his loves, both past and present, and frequently wander into fantastical territory. As he tries to sort out his many entanglements, romantic and otherwise, Anselmi finds his production becoming more and more autobiographical.
Drama / Fantasy / Foreign / Surreal

Director's Cut / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1985 | 121 min | Not rated | Jun 03, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A portrait of the acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima that investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted the impossible task of finding harmony among self, art, and society. Taking place on the last day of Mishima's life, when he famously committed public seppuku, the film is punctuated by extended flashbacks to the writer's past as well as gloriously stylized evocations of his fictional works.
Biography / Drama / Foreign

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1975 | 185 min | Rated PG | Jul 08, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Redmond Barry is an Irish country boy who falls in love with a well-to-do local girl and is subsequently tricked by her family into leaving town. Disillusioned with love, the brokenhearted youngster embarks on an adventure which sees him serve in the Seven Years War, earn a living as a professional gambler, and eventually move into the higher ranks of society, when he meets and marries the beautiful Lady Lyndon. Despite the luck that has brought him such riches, it is this final move, the cynical choice to marry for social advancement rather than love, which brings about his downfall.
Adventure / Drama / History / War / Epic / Period