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

    To Be or Not to Be

    Ernst Lubitsch

     
  • The Ice Storm (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Ice Storm

    Ang Lee

     
  • Seconds (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Seconds

    John Frankenheimer

     
  • Marketa Lazarová (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Marketa Lazarová

    František Vlácil

     
  • Charulata (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Charulata

    Satyajit Ray

     
  • Medium Cool (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Medium Cool

    Haskell Wexler

     
  • The Life of Oharu (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Life of Oharu

    Kenji Mizoguchi

     
  • Wild Strawberries (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Wild Strawberries

    Ingmar Bergman

     
  • Babette’s Feast (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Babette’s Feast

    Gabriel Axel

     
  • Things to Come (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Things to Come

    William Cameron Menzies

     
  • Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder (Criterion DVD)

    Early Fassbinder

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder

     
  • Safety Last! (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Safety Last!

    Fred Newmeyer…

     
  • Life Is Sweet (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Life Is Sweet

    Mike Leigh

     
  • Shoah (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Shoah

    Claude Lanzmann

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

    The Devil’s Backbone

    Guillermo del Toro

     
  • 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

     
  • Lord of the Flies (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Lord of the Flies

    Peter Brook

     

New Releases

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  • 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…

     
  • Sansho the Bailiff (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Sansho the Bailiff

    Kenji Mizoguchi

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

    3:10 to Yuma

    Delmer Daves

     
  • Naked Lunch (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Naked Lunch

    David Cronenberg

     
  • Monsieur Verdoux (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Monsieur Verdoux

    Charles Chaplin

     
  • Badlands (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Badlands

    Terrence Malick

     
  • Richard III  (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Richard III

    Laurence Olivier

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

    Kobayashi Against the System

    Masaki Kobayashi

     
  • Repo Man (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Repo Man

    Alex Cox

     
  • Pierre Etaix (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Pierre Etaix

    Pierre Etaix

     
  • Jubal (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Jubal

    Delmer Daves

     
  • On the Waterfront (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    On the Waterfront

    Elia Kazan

     
  • Band of Outsiders (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Band of Outsiders

    Jean-Luc Godard

     
  • The Blob (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Blob

    Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.

     
  • Chronicle of a Summer (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Chronicle of a Summer

    Jean Rouch…

     
  • A Man Escaped (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    A Man Escaped

    Robert Bresson

     
  • Gate of Hell (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Gate of Hell

    Teinosuke Kinugasa