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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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    Enter Malkovich

    Spike Jonze’s surreal comedy Being John Malkovich gets a brand-new identity this week on Criterion Blu-ray and DVD.

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  • Spotlight

    Three Reasons: The Gold Rush

    Charlie Chaplin can warm your heart in even the most frigid temperatures. Take a look at some of the iconic moments that The Gold Rush, his comic expedition to the Klondike, is brimming with.

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Coming Soon

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  • Rosetta (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Rosetta

    Luc Dardenne…

     
  • Quadrophenia (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Quadrophenia

    Franc Roddam

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

    Eclipse Series 35: Norman Mailer

    Norman Mailer

     
  • Summer Interlude (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Summer Interlude

    Ingmar Bergman

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

    And Everything is Going Fine

    Steven Soderbergh

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

    The Last Days of Disco

    Whit Stillman

     
  • Certified Copy (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Certified Copy

    Abbas Kiarostami

     
  • The Gold Rush (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Gold Rush

    Charles Chaplin

     
  • La promesse (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    La promesse

    Luc Dardenne…

     
  • Weekend (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Weekend

    Andrew Haigh

     
  • Harold and Maude (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Harold and Maude

    Hal Ashby

     
  • Le Havre (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Le Havre

    Aki Kaurismäki

     
  • Lonesome (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Lonesome

    Paul Fejos

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

    Jean Grémillon

    Jean Grémillon

     
  • The 39 Steps (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The 39 Steps

    Alfred Hitchcock

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

    Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr.

     
  • Gray's Anatomy (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Gray's Anatomy

    Steven Soderbergh

     
  • The Samurai Trilogy (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Samurai Trilogy

    Hiroshi Inagaki

     
  • Summer with Monika (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Summer with Monika

    Ingmar Bergman

     
  • Metropolitan (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Metropolitan

    Whit Stillman

     
  • Down by Law (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Down by Law

    Jim Jarmusch

     
  • Shallow Grave (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Shallow Grave

    Danny Boyle

     
  • The Royal Tenenbaums (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Royal Tenenbaums

    Wes Anderson

     
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New Releases

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

    Pearls of the Czech New Wave

     
  • The Organizer (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Organizer

    Mario Monicelli

     
  • A Night to Remember (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    A Night to Remember

    Roy Ward Baker

     
  • Anatomy of a Murder (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Anatomy of a Murder

    Otto Preminger

     
  • World on a Wire (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    World on a Wire

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder

     
  • A Hollis Frampton Odyssey (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    A Hollis Frampton Odyssey

    Hollis Frampton

     
  • The War Room (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The War Room

    Chris Hegedus…

     
  • ¡Alambrista! (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    ¡Alambrista!

    Robert M. Young

     
  • Late Spring (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Late Spring

    Yasujiro Ozu

     
  • Being John Malkovich (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Being John Malkovich

    Spike Jonze

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

    Vanya on 42nd Street

    Louis Malle

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

    David Lean Directs Noël Coward

     
  • La haine (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    La haine

    Mathieu Kassovitz

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

    The Last Temptation of Christ

    Martin Scorsese

     
  • Letter Never Sent (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Letter Never Sent

    Mikhail Kalatozov

     
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