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    Love, Kiarostami Style

    Nothing is what it seems in Certified Copy, the provocative sort-of romance by the great Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, starring Juliette Binoche, who won best actress at Cannes for her performance.

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    Downey and Anderson

    The filmmakers and friends Robert Downey Sr. and Paul Thomas Anderson came to the office for a chat about the wild films in our upcoming Eclipse set Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr. Here’s part one of four.

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    Carlos Fuentes on Luis Buñuel

    The great man of letters Carlos Fuentes died this week at the age of eighty-three. We were fortunate enough to work with Fuentes in 2007 for our release of Buñuel’s The Milky Way, for which he wrote an illuminating essay.

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    August Titles Announced!

    There will be so much to dig into this August, including Andrew Haigh’s smashing romance Weekend, two by the Dardennes, three by Norman Mailer, the early Hollywood treasure Lonesome, The Royal Tenenbaums on Blu, and even the Who!

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Coming Soon

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  • The 39 Steps (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The 39 Steps

    Alfred Hitchcock

     
  • The Gold Rush (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Gold Rush

    Charles Chaplin

     
  • Summer with Monika (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Summer with Monika

    Ingmar Bergman

     
  • The Royal Tenenbaums (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Royal Tenenbaums

    Wes Anderson

     
  • Summer Interlude (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Summer Interlude

    Ingmar Bergman

     
  • Lonesome (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Lonesome

    Paul Fejos

     
  • Metropolitan (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Metropolitan

    Whit Stillman

     
  • Down by Law (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Down by Law

    Jim Jarmusch

     
  • La promesse (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    La promesse

    Luc Dardenne…

     
  • The Last Days of Disco (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Last Days of Disco

    Whit Stillman

     
  • Shallow Grave (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Shallow Grave

    Danny Boyle

     
  • Certified Copy (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Certified Copy

    Abbas Kiarostami

     
  • Quadrophenia (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Quadrophenia

    Franc Roddam

     
  • Le Havre (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Le Havre

    Aki Kaurismäki

     
  • Eclipse Series 35: Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer (Eclipse DVD)

    Eclipse Series 35: Norman Mailer

    Norman Mailer

     
  • And Everything Is Going Fine (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    And Everything Is Going Fine

    Steven Soderbergh

     
  • Eclipse Series 34: Jean Grémillon During the Occupation (Eclipse DVD)

    Jean Grémillon

    Jean Grémillon

     
  • Weekend (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Weekend

    Andrew Haigh

     
  • Gray’s Anatomy (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Gray’s Anatomy

    Steven Soderbergh

     
  • Eclipse Series 33: Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr. (Eclipse DVD)

    Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr.

     
  • The Samurai Trilogy (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Samurai Trilogy

    Hiroshi Inagaki

     
  • Harold and Maude (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Harold and Maude

    Hal Ashby

     
  • Rosetta (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Rosetta

    Luc Dardenne…

     
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New Releases

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  • A Night to Remember (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    A Night to Remember

    Roy Ward Baker

     
  • La haine (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    La haine

    Mathieu Kassovitz

     
  • Vanya on 42nd Street (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Vanya on 42nd Street

    Louis Malle

     
  • Letter Never Sent (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Letter Never Sent

    Mikhail Kalatozov

     
  • Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave (Eclipse DVD)

    Pearls of the Czech New Wave

     
  • The War Room (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The War Room

    Chris Hegedus…

     
  • Being John Malkovich (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Being John Malkovich

    Spike Jonze

     
  • A Hollis Frampton Odyssey (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    A Hollis Frampton Odyssey

    Hollis Frampton

     
  • Late Spring (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Late Spring

    Yasujiro Ozu

     
  • ¡Alambrista! (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    ¡Alambrista!

    Robert M. Young

     
  • David Lean Directs Noël Coward (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    David Lean Directs Noël Coward

     
  • The Last Temptation of Christ (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Last Temptation of Christ

    Martin Scorsese

     
  • The Organizer (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Organizer

    Mario Monicelli

     
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