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Life Is Sweet

Mike Leigh
1990 • 103 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #659 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

This invigorating film from Mike Leigh was his first international sensation. Melancholy and funny by turns, it is an intimate portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London.

28 May 2013 Learn more »
Wild Strawberries

Ingmar Bergman
1957 • 92 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden
Spine: #139 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Traveling to accept an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg—masterfully played by veteran director Victor Sjöström—is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching death.

11 Jun 2013 Learn more »
Safety Last!

Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
1923 • 73 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States
Spine: #662 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. Chaplin is the sweet innocent, Keaton the stoic outsider, but Lloyd—the modern guy striving for success—is us. And with its torrent of perfectly executed gags and astonishing stunts, Safety Last! is the perfect introduction to him.

18 Jun 2013 Learn more »
Things to Come

William Cameron Menzies
1936 • 97 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #660 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

A landmark collaboration between writer H. G. Wells, producer Alexander Korda, and designer and director William Cameron Menzies, Things to Come is a science fiction film like no other, a prescient political work that predicts a century of turmoil and progress.

18 Jun 2013 Learn more »
Marketa Lazarová

František Vlácil
1967 • 165 minutes • 2.35:1 • Czechoslovakia
Spine: #661 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, iTunes

Based on a novel by Vladislav Vančura, this stirring and poetic depiction of a feud between two rival medieval clans is a fierce, epic, and meticulously designed evocation of the clashes between Christianity and paganism, humankind and nature, love and violence.

18 Jun 2013 Learn more »
Shoah

Claude Lanzmann
1985 • 550 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #663 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Over a decade in the making, Claude Lanzmann’s nine-hour-plus opus is a monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis.

25 Jun 2013 Learn more »
The Life of Oharu

Kenji Mizoguchi
1952 • 136 minutes • 1.37:1 • Japan
Spine: #664 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

This epic portrait of an inexorable fall from grace, starring the astounding Kinuyo Tanaka as an imperial lady-in-waiting who gradually descends to street prostitution, was the movie that gained the director international attention, ushering in a new golden period for him.

9 Jul 2013 Learn more »
Lord of the Flies

Peter Brook
1963 • 90 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #43 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding’s legendary novel about the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center.

16 Jul 2013 Learn more »
Babette’s Feast

Gabriel Axel
1987 • 104 minutes • 1.66:1 • Denmark
Spine: #665 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette’s Feast is a deeply beloved treasure of cinema.

23 Jul 2013 Learn more »
The Ice Storm

Ang Lee
1997 • 113 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #426 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

With clarity, subtlety, and a dose of wicked humor, Academy Award–winning director Ang Lee renders Rick Moody’s acclaimed novel of upper-middle-class American malaise as a trenchant, tragic cinematic portrait of lost souls.

23 Jul 2013 Learn more »
The Devil’s Backbone

Guillermo del Toro
2001 • 108 minutes • 1.85:1 • Spain
Spine: #666 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The Devil’s Backbone tells the tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets.

30 Jul 2013 Learn more »
The Earrings of Madame de . . .

Max Ophuls
1953 • 100 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #445 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

The most cherished work from French master Max Ophuls, The Earrings of Madame de . . . is a profoundly emotional, cinematographically adventurous tale of deceptive opulence and tragic romance.

6 Aug 2013 Learn more »
Seconds

John Frankenheimer
1966 • 107 minutes • 1.75:1 • United States
Spine: #667 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Seconds, directed by John Frankenheimer, concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who elects to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life.

13 Aug 2013 Learn more »
The Big City

Satyajit Ray
1963 • 135 minutes • 1.33:1 • India
Spine: #668 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The Big City follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family.

20 Aug 2013 Learn more »
Charulata

Satyajit Ray
1964 • 118 minutes • 1.33:1 • India
Spine: #669 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Based on a novella by the great Rabindranath Tagore, Charulata is a work of subtle textures, a delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the first steps toward establishing her own voice.

20 Aug 2013 Learn more »
To Be or Not to Be

Ernst Lubitsch
1942 • 99 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States
Spine: #670 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch stars Jack Benny and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous spy plot.

27 Aug 2013 Learn more »