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Robert M. Young
1977 • 96 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States
Spine: #609 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young’s take is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie, a political work that never loses sight of the complex man at its center.

17 Apr 2012 Learn more »
Anatomy of a Murder

Otto Preminger
1959 • 161 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #600 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

This gripping envelope-pusher, the most popular film by Hollywood provocateur Otto Preminger, was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex—but more than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words.

21 Feb 2012 Learn more »
Being John Malkovich

Spike Jonze
1999 • 113 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #611 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Or, more specifically, have you ever wanted to crawl through a portal hidden in an anonymous office building and thereby enter the cerebral cortex of John Malkovich for fifteen minutes, before being spat out on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike?

15 May 2012 Learn more »
David Lean Directs Noël Coward
United Kingdom
Spine: #603 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In the 1940s, the wit of playwright Noël Coward and the craft of filmmaker David Lean melded harmoniously in one of cinema’s greatest writer-director collaborations.

27 Mar 2012 Learn more »
La haine

Mathieu Kassovitz
1995 • 97 minutes • 1.85:1 • France
Spine: #381 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts.

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A Hollis Frampton Odyssey

Hollis Frampton
266 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #607 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

An icon of the American avant-garde, Hollis Frampton made rigorous, audacious, brainy, and downright thrilling films, leaving behind a body of work that remains unparalleled.

24 Apr 2012 Learn more »
The Last Temptation of Christ

Martin Scorsese
1988 • 163 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #70 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The Last Temptation of Christ, by Martin Scorsese, is a towering achievement. Though it initially engendered enormous controversy, the film can now be viewed as the remarkable, profoundly personal work of faith that it is.

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Late Spring

Yasujiro Ozu
1949 • 108 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
Spine: #331 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

One of the most powerful of Yasujiro Ozu’s family portraits, Late Spring (Banshun) tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter.

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Letter Never Sent

Mikhail Kalatozov
1959 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • Soviet Union
Spine: #601 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The great Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov, known for his virtuosic, emotionally gripping films, perhaps never made a more visually astonishing one than Letter Never Sent.

20 Mar 2012 Learn more »
A Night to Remember

Roy Ward Baker
1958 • 123 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #7 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

On April 14, 1912, just before midnight, the “unsinkable” Titanic struck an iceberg. In less than three hours, it had plunged to the bottom of the sea. This is cinema’s subtlest and best dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe.

27 Mar 2012 Learn more »
The Organizer

Mario Monicelli
1963 • 130 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy
Spine: #610 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

This historical drama by Mario Monicelli, brimming with humor and honesty, is a beautiful and moving ode to the power of the people.

24 Apr 2012 Learn more »
Vanya on 42nd Street

Louis Malle
1994 • 119 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States
Spine: #599 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Vanya on 42nd Street is as memorable and emotional a screen version of Chekhov’s masterpiece as one could ever hope to see. This film, which turned out to be Malle’s last, is a tribute to the playwright’s devastating work as well as to the creative process itself.

28 Feb 2012 Learn more »
The War Room

Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker
1993 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #602 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The 1992 presidential election was a triumph not only for Bill Clinton but also for the new breed of strategists who guided him to the White House—and changed the face of politics in the process.

20 Mar 2012 Learn more »
World on a Wire

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1973 • 212 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
Spine: #598 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Originally made for German television, this recently rediscovered, three-and-a-half-hour labyrinth is a satiric and surreal look at the world of tomorrow from one of cinema’s kinkiest geniuses.

21 Feb 2012 Learn more »