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    Criterion on Hulu on Criterion!

    By popular demand: You can now browse the more than 800 Criterion films available to stream on Hulu Plus—by title, director, year, or country.

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    Baumbach’s Beginnings

    With his critically acclaimed new comedy Frances Ha now in theaters, check out Noah Baumbach’s hilarious debut, Kicking and Screaming, which also concerns twentysomethings trying to (or trying not to) grow up.

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    Three Reasons: Medium Cool

    Haskell Wexler’s documentary-like tale of social unrest thrusts the viewer into late-1960s America.

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    August Titles!

    Introducing two American masterpieces (John Frankenheimer’s suspenseful Seconds and Ernst Lubitsch’s satirical To Be or Not to Be) and two richly humane Satyajit Ray classics (The Big City, Charulata). Plus, The Earrings of Madame de . . . turns Blu and Early Fassbinder on Eclipse.

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Coming Soon

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  • The Devil’s Backbone (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Devil’s Backbone

    Guillermo del Toro

     
  • Medium Cool (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Medium Cool

    Haskell Wexler

     
  • Safety Last! (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Safety Last!

    Fred Newmeyer…

     
  • Shoah (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Shoah

    Claude Lanzmann

     
  • Marketa Lazarová (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Marketa Lazarová

    František Vlácil

     
  • Lord of the Flies (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Lord of the Flies

    Peter Brook

     
  • The Earrings of Madame de . . . (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Earrings of Madame de . . .

    Max Ophuls

     
  • The Big City (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Big City

    Satyajit Ray

     
  • Wild Strawberries (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Wild Strawberries

    Ingmar Bergman

     
  • Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder (Criterion DVD)

    Early Fassbinder

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder

     
  • The Ice Storm (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Ice Storm

    Ang Lee

     
  • Seconds (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Seconds

    John Frankenheimer

     
  • To Be or Not to Be (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    To Be or Not to Be

    Ernst Lubitsch

     
  • Babette’s Feast (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Babette’s Feast

    Gabriel Axel

     
  • Things to Come (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Things to Come

    William Cameron Menzies

     
  • The Life of Oharu (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Life of Oharu

    Kenji Mizoguchi

     
  • Life Is Sweet (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Life Is Sweet

    Mike Leigh

     
  • Charulata (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Charulata

    Satyajit Ray

     

New Releases

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  • Sansho the Bailiff (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Sansho the Bailiff

    Kenji Mizoguchi

     
  • Richard III (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Richard III

    Laurence Olivier

     
  • Naked Lunch (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Naked Lunch

    David Cronenberg

     
  • Band of Outsiders (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Band of Outsiders

    Jean-Luc Godard

     
  • Ministry of Fear (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Ministry of Fear

    Fritz Lang

     
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    Michael Powell…

     
  • A Man Escaped (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    A Man Escaped

    Robert Bresson

     
  • Jubal (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Jubal

    Delmer Daves

     
  • Badlands (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Badlands

    Terrence Malick

     
  • Eclipse Series 38: Masaki Kobayashi Against the System (Eclipse DVD)

    Kobayashi Against the System

    Masaki Kobayashi

     
  • Gate of Hell (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Gate of Hell

    Teinosuke Kinugasa

     
  • Repo Man (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Repo Man

    Alex Cox

     
  • Monsieur Verdoux (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Monsieur Verdoux

    Charles Chaplin

     
  • 3:10 to Yuma (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    3:10 to Yuma

    Delmer Daves

     
  • On the Waterfront (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    On the Waterfront

    Elia Kazan

     
  • The Blob (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Blob

    Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.

     
  • Pierre Etaix (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Pierre Etaix

    Pierre Etaix

     
  • Chronicle of a Summer (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Chronicle of a Summer

    Jean Rouch…

     

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