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Walkabout Criterion DVD

Walkabout

Nicolas Roeg

1971

100 minutes

Color

1.78:1

English

A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to cope in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg.

18 May 2010

Criterion

DVD

2 Discs

SRP: $39.95

Criterion Store Price

$31.96

508

Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa Criterion DVD

These are the three films that put Portuguese director Pedro Costa on the map: spare, painterly portraits of battered, largely immigrant lives in the slums of Fontainhas, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon.

30 Mar 2010

Criterion

DVD

4 Discs

SRP: $79.95

Criterion Store Price

$63.96

507

Bigger Than Life Criterion DVD

Bigger Than Life

Nicholas Ray

1956

95 minutes

Color

2.35:1

English

When a suburban teacher and father (James Mason) is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug. This Eisenhower-era throat-grabber, shot in expressive CinemaScope, is an excoriating take on the nuclear family.

23 Mar 2010

Criterion

DVD

1 Disc

SRP: $39.95

Criterion Store Price

$31.96

506

Dillinger Is Dead Criterion DVD

Dillinger Is Dead

Marco Ferreri

1969

95 minutes

Color

1.66:1

Italian

In this magnificently inscrutable late-sixties masterpiece, Marco Ferreri, one of European cinema’s most idiosyncratic auteurs, takes us through the looking glass to one seemingly routine night in the life of an Italian gas mask designer, played by Michel Piccoli.

16 Mar 2010

Criterion

DVD

1 Disc

SRP: $29.95

Criterion Store Price

$23.96

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Vivre sa vie Criterion DVD

Vivre sa vie

Jean-Luc Godard

1962

83 minutes

Black and White

1.33:1

French

Vivre sa vie was a turning point for Jean-Luc Godard and remains one of his most dynamic films, combining brilliant visual design with a tragic character study. Anna Karina plays Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress but instead ends up a prostitute.

20 Apr 2010

Criterion

DVD

1 Disc

SRP: $39.95

Criterion Store Price

$31.96

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Ride with the Devil Criterion DVD

Ride with the Devil

Ang Lee

1999

148 minutes

Color

2.35:1

English

With this new director’s cut, Ang Lee reconstructs his original vision for Ride with the Devil, a harrowing, unorthodox Civil War epic, starring Tobey Maguire and Jeffrey Wright.

27 Apr 2010

Criterion

DVD

1 Disc

SRP: $39.95

Criterion Store Price

$31.96

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The Fugitive Kind Criterion DVD

The Fugitive Kind

Sidney Lumet

1960

121 minutes

Black and White

1.66:1

English

Four Oscar–winning actors—Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, and Maureen Stapleton—sink their teeth into this enthralling film, which brings together the legendary talents of director Sidney Lumet and writer Tennessee Williams.

27 Apr 2010

Criterion

DVD

2 Discs

SRP: $39.95

Criterion Store Price

$31.96

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Summer Hours Criterion DVD

Summer Hours

Olivier Assayas

2008

99 minutes

Color

1.85:1

French

Three siblings must decide what to do with the country estate and objects they’ve inherited from their mother. From this simple story, Olivier Assayas creates a nuanced, exquisitely made drama about the material of globalized modern living.

20 Apr 2010

Criterion

DVD

2 Discs

SRP: $39.95

Criterion Store Price

$31.96

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By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two Criterion DVD

By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two

Stan Brakhage

454 minutes

Color, Black and White

In our first volume of By Brakhage, we brought twenty-six astonishing works by the avant-garde film pioneer Stan Brakhage to home video. In this second installment, we are proud to present thirty more of Brakhage’s innovative creations, from 1950s films to his final work, from 2003.

25 May 2010

Criterion

DVD

3 Discs

SRP: $39.95

Criterion Store Price

$31.96

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Stagecoach Criterion DVD

Stagecoach

John Ford

1939

96 minutes

Black and White

1.37:1

English

This is where it all started. John Ford’s smash hit and enduring masterpiece Stagecoach revolutionized the western, elevating it from B movie to the A-list.

25 May 2010

Criterion

DVD

2 Discs

SRP: $39.95

Criterion Store Price

$31.96