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Lonesome

Paul Fejos
1928 • 69 minutes • 1.19:1 • United States
Spine: #623 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The early Hollywood gem Lonesome is the creation of a little-known but audacious and one-of-a-kind auteur, Paul Fejos (a filmmaker/explorer/anthropologist/doctor!), who bridged the gap between the silent and sound eras.

28 Aug 2012 Learn more »
The 39 Steps

Alfred Hitchcock
1935 • 86 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #56 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets

A heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps follows Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) as he stumbles upon a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.

26 Jun 2012 Learn more »
Summer Interlude

Ingmar Bergman
1951 • 96 minutes • 1.37:1 • Sweden
Spine: #613 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Touching on many of the themes that would define the rest of his legendary career—isolation, performance, the inescapability of the past—Ingmar Bergman’s tenth film was a gentle drift toward true mastery.

29 May 2012 Learn more »
Summer with Monika

Ingmar Bergman
1953 • 97 minutes • 1.37:1 • Sweden
Spine: #614 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Inspired by the earthy eroticism of Harriet Andersson, in the first of her many roles for him, Ingmar Bergman had a major international breakthrough with this sensual and ultimately ravaging tale of young love.

29 May 2012 Learn more »
Harold and Maude

Hal Ashby
1971 • 91 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #608 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

With the idiosyncratic American fable Harold and Maude, countercultural director Hal Ashby fashioned what would become the cult classic of its era.

12 Jun 2012 Learn more »
Quadrophenia

Franc Roddam
1979 • 120 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #624 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The Who’s classic rock opera Quadrophenia was the basis for this invigorating coming-of-age movie and depiction of the defiant, drug-fueled London of the early 1960s.

28 Aug 2012 Learn more »
Down by Law

Jim Jarmusch
1986 • 107 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States
Spine: #166 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Director Jim Jarmusch followed up his brilliant breakout film Stranger Than Paradise with another, equally beloved portrait of loners and misfits in the American landscape

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Metropolitan

Whit Stillman
1990 • 99 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States
Spine: #326 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

One of the great American independent films of the 1990s, the surprise hit Metropolitan by writer-director Whit Stillman is a sparkling comedic chronicle of a middle-class young man’s romantic misadventures in New York City’s debutante society.

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Shallow Grave

Danny Boyle
1994 • 93 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #616 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In Shallow Grave, three self-involved Edinburgh roommates take in a brooding boarder, and when he dies of an overdose, leaving a suitcase full of money, the trio embark on a series of very bad decisions, with extraordinarily grim consequences for all.

12 Jun 2012 Learn more »
La promesse

Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
1996 • 94 minutes • 1.66:1 • Belgium
Spine: #620 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

This is the breakthrough feature from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, who would go on to become a force in world filmmaking. La promesse is a brilliantly economical and observant tale of a boy’s troubled moral awakening.

14 Aug 2012 Learn more »
Gray's Anatomy

Steven Soderbergh
1997 • 79 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #618 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

One of the great raconteurs of stage and screen, Spalding Gray, came together with one of cinema’s boldest image-makers, Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh, for Gray’s Anatomy, a spellbinding adaptation of Gray’s 1993 monologue of the same name.

19 Jun 2012 Learn more »
The Last Days of Disco

Whit Stillman
1998 • 113 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States
Spine: #485 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The Last Days of Disco is a cleverly comic return to an early 1980s Manhattan party scene from director Whit Stillman.

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Rosetta

Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
1999 • 93 minutes • 1.66:1 • Belgium
Spine: #621 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The Belgian filmmaking team of brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne turned heads with Rosetta, an intense vérité drama that closely follows a poor young woman struggling to hold on to a job to support herself and her alcoholic mother.

14 Aug 2012 Learn more »
The Royal Tenenbaums

Wes Anderson
2001 • 110 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #157 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Wes Anderson’s hilarious, touching, and brilliantly stylized study of melancholy and redemption centers around a dysfunctional family of geniuses.

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Certified Copy

Abbas Kiarostami
2010 • 106 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy
Spine: #612 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

What seems at first to be a straightforward tale of two people—played by Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche and opera singer William Shimell—getting to know each other over the course of an afternoon gradually reveals itself as something richer, stranger, and trickier.

22 May 2012 Learn more »
And Everything is Going Fine

Steven Soderbergh
2010 • 89 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #617 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

After the death in 2004 of American theater actor and monologist Spalding Gray, director Steven Soderbergh pieced together a narrative of Gray’s life to create the documentary And Everything Is Going Fine.

19 Jun 2012 Learn more »
Le Havre

Aki Kaurismäki
2011 • 93 minutes • 1.85:1 • Finland
Spine: #619 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In this warmhearted comic yarn from Aki Kaurismäki, fate throws the young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a kindly bohemian who shines shoes for a living, in the French harbor city Le Havre.

31 Jul 2012 Learn more »
Weekend

Andrew Haigh
2011 • 97 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #622 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Rarely has a film been as honest about sexuality—in both depiction and discussion—as this tale of a one-night-stand that develops into a weekend-long idyll for two very different young men (exciting newcomers Tom Cullen and Chris New) in Midlands England.

21 Aug 2012 Learn more »
The Samurai Trilogy

Hiroshi Inagaki
Japan
Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The Samurai Trilogy, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring the inimitable Toshiro Mifune, was one of Japan’s most successful exports of the 1950s, a rousing, emotionally gripping tale of combat and self-discovery.

26 Jun 2012 Learn more »
The Gold Rush

Charles Chaplin
72 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #615 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Charlie Chaplin’s comedic masterwork—which charts a prospector’s search for fortune in the Klondike and his discovery of romance (with the beautiful Georgia Hale)—forever cemented the iconic status of Chaplin and his Little Tramp character.

12 Jun 2012 Learn more »