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12 Angry Men

Sidney Lumet
1957 • 96 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States
Spine: #591 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system that is as riveting as it is spare, this iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose’s teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the dissenting member on a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father.

22 Nov 2011 Learn more »
Belle de jour

Luis Buñuel
1967 • 100 minutes • 1.66:1 • France
Spine: #593 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Catherine Deneuve’s porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of the actress’s most iconic roles: Séverine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello.

17 Jan 2012 Learn more »
Branded to Kill

Seijun Suzuki
1967 • 91 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan
Spine: #38 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Online

When Japanese New Wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki delivered this brutal, hilarious, and visually inspired masterpiece to the executives at his studio, he was promptly fired.

13 Dec 2011 Learn more »
Design for Living

Ernst Lubitsch
1933 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #592 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Gary Cooper, Fredric March, and Miriam Hopkins play a trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult “gentleman’s agreement” in this continental pre-Code comedy, freely adapted by Ben Hecht from a play by Noël Coward and directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

6 Dec 2011 Learn more »
Fanny and Alexander Box Set

Ingmar Bergman
Sweden
Spine: #261 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Ingmar Bergman intended Fanny and Alexander as his swan song, and it is the legendary director’s warmest and most autobiographical film, a four-time Academy Award–winning triumph that combines his trademark melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality.

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Godzilla

Ishiro Honda
1954 • 96 minutes • 1.37:1 • Japan
Spine: #594 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Godzilla is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama made in Japan at a time when the country was still reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing.

24 Jan 2012 Learn more »
La Jetée/Sans Soleil

Chris Marker
France
Spine: #387 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

One of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made and a mind-bending free-form travelogue, La Jetée and Sans Soleil couldn’t seem more different—yet they’re the twin pillars of an unparalleled and uncompromising career in cinema.

7 Feb 2012 Learn more »
The Lady Vanishes

Alfred Hitchcock
1938 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #3 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets

In Alfred Hitchcock’s most quick-witted and devilish comic thriller, a young woman finds herself drawn into a complex web of mystery and high adventure while traveling across Europe by train. The Lady Vanishes remains one of the master filmmaker’s purest delights.

6 Dec 2011 Learn more »
The Moment of Truth

Francesco Rosi
1965 • 107 minutes • 2.35:1 • Italy
Spine: #595 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The Moment of Truth, from director Francesco Rosi, is a visceral plunge into the life of a famous torero—played by real-life bullfighting legend Miguel Mateo, known as Miguelín.

24 Jan 2012 Learn more »
The Rules of the Game

Jean Renoir
1939 • 106 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #216 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets

Considered one of the greatest films ever made, The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu), by Jean Renoir, is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners.

15 Nov 2011 Learn more »
Rushmore

Wes Anderson
1998 • 93 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #65 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Tenth grader Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) is Rushmore Academy’s most extracurricular student, and its least scholarly, in Wes Anderson’s dazzling sophomore effort—equal parts coming-of-age story, French New Wave homage, and screwball comedy.

22 Nov 2011 Learn more »
Three Colors

Krzysztof Kieślowski
France
Spine: #587 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

This boldly cinematic trio of stories about love and loss from Krzysztof Kieślowski was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 1990s.

15 Nov 2011 Learn more »
Tokyo Drifter

Seijun Suzuki
1966 • 82 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan
Spine: #39 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Tetsu’s attempt to go straight is thwarted when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang.

13 Dec 2011 Learn more »
Traffic

Steven Soderbergh
2000 • 147 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States
Spine: #151 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

With an innovative color-coded cinematic treatment to distinguish his interwoven stories, Steven Soderbergh embroils viewers in the lives of a newly appointed drug czar and his family, a West Coast kingpin’s wife, a key informant, and police officers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

17 Jan 2012 Learn more »