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    Fritz Lang on M

    In May 1931, the serial-killer masterpiece M premiered in a Berlin reeling from a series of recent murders. At the time, director Fritz Lang wrote a newspaper article about the responsibilities that came with loosely basing a film on actual events.

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    Three Reasons: Shallow Grave

    Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle burst onto the scene in 1994 with this nightmarish Hitchcockian morality tale, starring a fresh-faced Ewan McGregor—coming soon to Criterion DVD and Blu-ray.

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    Up with Downey

    Our latest Eclipse series, Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr., spotlights five of the irreproachably irreverent underground movie maven’s best, including Putney Swope (right).

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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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Coming Soon

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  • Gray’s Anatomy (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Gray’s Anatomy

    Steven Soderbergh

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

    The Last Days of Disco

    Whit Stillman

     
  • Le Havre (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Le Havre

    Aki Kaurismäki

     
  • Summer Interlude (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Summer Interlude

    Ingmar Bergman

     
  • Down by Law (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Down by Law

    Jim Jarmusch

     
  • Rosetta (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Rosetta

    Luc Dardenne…

     
  • Shallow Grave (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Shallow Grave

    Danny Boyle

     
  • Harold and Maude (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Harold and Maude

    Hal Ashby

     
  • Quadrophenia (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Quadrophenia

    Franc Roddam

     
  • The Gold Rush (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Gold Rush

    Charles Chaplin

     
  • Lonesome (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Lonesome

    Paul Fejos

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

    Jean Grémillon

    Jean Grémillon

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

    And Everything Is Going Fine

    Steven Soderbergh

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

    Eclipse Series 35: Norman Mailer

    Norman Mailer

     
  • The 39 Steps (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The 39 Steps

    Alfred Hitchcock

     
  • La promesse (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    La promesse

    Luc Dardenne…

     
  • The Royal Tenenbaums (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Royal Tenenbaums

    Wes Anderson

     
  • Metropolitan (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Metropolitan

    Whit Stillman

     
  • Summer with Monika (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Summer with Monika

    Ingmar Bergman

     
  • Weekend (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Weekend

    Andrew Haigh

     
  • The Samurai Trilogy (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Samurai Trilogy

    Hiroshi Inagaki

     
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New Releases

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  • Letter Never Sent (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Letter Never Sent

    Mikhail Kalatozov

     
  • Certified Copy (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Certified Copy

    Abbas Kiarostami

     
  • The Organizer (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Organizer

    Mario Monicelli

     
  • ¡Alambrista! (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    ¡Alambrista!

    Robert M. Young

     
  • The War Room (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The War Room

    Chris Hegedus…

     
  • Late Spring (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Late Spring

    Yasujiro Ozu

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

    Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr.

     
  • A Hollis Frampton Odyssey (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    A Hollis Frampton Odyssey

    Hollis Frampton

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

    Vanya on 42nd Street

    Louis Malle

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

    The Last Temptation of Christ

    Martin Scorsese

     
  • Being John Malkovich (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Being John Malkovich

    Spike Jonze

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

    Pearls of the Czech New Wave

     
  • La haine (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    La haine

    Mathieu Kassovitz

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

    David Lean Directs Noël Coward

     
  • A Night to Remember (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    A Night to Remember

    Roy Ward Baker

     
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