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Walkabout

Nicolas Roeg
1971 • 100 minutes • 1.78:1 • Australia
Spine: #10 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

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.

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Videodrome

David Cronenberg
1983 • 87 minutes • 1.85:1 • Canada
Spine: #248 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. This is one of David Cronenberg’s most provocative works, fusing social commentary with shocking sex and violence.

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Naked Lunch

David Cronenberg
1991 • 115 minutes • 1.78:1 • Canada
Spine: #220 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In this adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s hallucinatory, once-thought-unfilmable novel Naked Lunch, directed by David Cronenberg, a part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict named Bill Lee (Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish Interzone.

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The Last Emperor

Bernardo Bertolucci
1987 • 160 minutes • 2.00:1 • China
Spine: #422 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor, about the life of Emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne at age three, in 1908, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval, won nine Academy Awards, unexpectedly sweeping every category in which it was nominated.

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Paris, Texas

Wim Wenders
1984 • 147 minutes • 1.78:1 • Germany
Spine: #501 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard.

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Monsoon Wedding

Mira Nair
2001 • 114 minutes • 1.85:1 • India
Spine: #489 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Cultures and families clash in Mira Nair’s exuberant Monsoon Wedding, a mix of comedy and chaotic melodrama concerning the preparations for the arranged marriage of a modern upper-middle-class Indian family’s only daughter.

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Sweetie

Jane Campion
1989 • 99 minutes • 1.85:1 • New Zealand
Spine: #356 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Though she went on to create a string of brilliant films, Jane Campion will always be remembered for her stunning debut feature, Sweetie, which focuses on the hazardous relationship between the buttoned-down, superstitious Kay and her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, Sweetie.

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Brazil

Terry Gilliam
1985 • 142 minutes • 1.78:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #51 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In the dystopian masterpiece Brazil, Jonathan Pryce plays a daydreaming everyman who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy.

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Naked

Mike Leigh
1993 • 131 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #307 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Leigh’s depiction of England’s underbelly is an amalgam of black comedy and doomsday prophecy that took the best director and best actor prizes at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.

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The Red Shoes

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1948 • 133 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #44 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, iTunes

The Red Shoes, the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema’s quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the most glorious Technicolor feasts ever concocted for the screen.

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The 39 Steps

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

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.

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The Third Man

Carol Reed
1949 • 104 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #64 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime—and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder.

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The Lady Vanishes

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

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.

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1943 • 163 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #173 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets, iTunes

Considered by many to be the finest British film ever made, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is a stirring masterpiece like no other.

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Richard III

Laurence Olivier
1955 • 158 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #213 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus, iTunes

In Richard III, director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier brings Shakespeare’s masterpiece of Machiavellian villainy to ravishing cinematic life

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Repulsion

Roman Polanski
1965 • 105 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #483 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Roman Polanski followed up Knife in the Water with this controversial tale of psychosis. Catherine Deneuve is Carol, a fragile, frigid young beauty cracking up in her London flat when left alone by her vacationing sister. Repulsion is one of cinema’s most shocking psychological thrillers.

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Hunger

Steve McQueen
2008 • 96 minutes • 2.35:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #504 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Featuring an intense performance by Michael Fassbender, Hunger, about IRA member Bobby Sands’s 1981 prison hunger strike, is an unflinching, transcendent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure to be heard.

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A Night to Remember

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

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.

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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.

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Black Narcissus

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1947 • 101 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #93 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

This explosive work about the conflict between the spirit and the flesh is the epitome of the sensuous style of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

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If....

Lindsay Anderson
1968 • 112 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #391 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Before Kubrick made his mischief iconic in A Clockwork Orange, Malcolm McDowell made a hell of an impression as the insouciant Mick Travis, who, along with his school chums, trumps authority at every turn, finally emerging as a violent savior.

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Howards End

James Ivory
1992 • 142 minutes • 2.35:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #488 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

The pinnacle of the decades-long collaboration between producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, Howards End is a luminous vision of E. M. Forster’s cutting 1910 novel about class divisions in Edwardian England.

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Days of Heaven

Terrence Malick
1978 • 94 minutes • 1.77:1 • United States
Spine: #409 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

A timeless American idyll and a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor, Terrence Malick’s glorious period tragedy Days of Heaven features Oscar-winning cinematography by Nestor Almendros.

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Terry Gilliam
1998 • 119 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #175 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Director Terry Gilliam and an all-star cast headlined by Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro show no mercy in bringing Hunter S. Thompson’s excoriating dissection of the American way of life to the screen, creating a film both hilarious and savage.

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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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Dazed and Confused

Richard Linklater
1993 • 102 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #336 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Among the best teen films ever made, Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused eavesdrops on a group of seniors-to-be and incoming freshmen.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Naked Kiss

Samuel Fuller
1964 • 90 minutes • 1.75:1 • United States
Spine: #18 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

The setup is pure pulp: A former prostitute (a crackerjack Constance Towers) relocates to a buttoned-down suburb, determined to fit in with mainstream society.

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Shock Corridor

Samuel Fuller
1963 • 101 minutes • 1.75:1 • United States
Spine: #19 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

Seeking a Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck) has himself committed to a mental hospital to investigate a murder. As he closes in on the killer, insanity closes in on him. Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor masterfully charts the uneasy terrain between sanity and madness.

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Bottle Rocket

Wes Anderson
1996 • 91 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #450 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Wes Anderson first illustrated his lovingly detailed, slightly surreal cinematic vision (with cowriter Owen Wilson) in this visually witty and warm portrait of three young misfits.

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For All Mankind

Al Reinert
1989 • 79 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #54 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Al Reinert’s visually dazzling documentary For All Mankind is the story of the twenty-four men who traveled to the moon—told in their words, in their voices, using the images of their experiences.

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Charade

Stanley Donen
1963 • 113 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #57 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In this comedic thriller, a trio of crooks relentlessly pursue a young American, played by Audrey Hepburn in gorgeous Givenchy, through Paris in an attempt to recover the fortune her dead husband stole from them.

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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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The Blob

Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
1958 • 82 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States
Spine: #91 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

One of the great cult classics, The Blob melds ’50s schlock sci-fi and teen delinquency pics even as it transcends these genres with strong performances and ingenious special effects. The Blob helped launch the careers of superstud Steve McQueen and composer Burt Bacharach.

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Gimme Shelter

David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
1970 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #99 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Called the greatest rock film ever made, this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour.

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3 Women

Robert Altman
1977 • 124 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #230 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In a dusty California resort rown, a naïve Southern waif finds her role model in a fellow nurse, but her hero-worship evolves into something stranger and more sinister than either could have anticipated. Robert Altman’s dreamlike masterpiece careens from the humorous to the chilling to the surreal.

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Down by Law

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

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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Monterey Pop

D. A. Pennebaker
1967 • 78 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #168 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets

In 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love, the first and only Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Monterey would launch the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, but they were just a few.

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Jimi Plays Monterey & Shake! Otis at Monterey

D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus
1986 • 63 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #169 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets

Jimi Plays Monterey and Shake! Otis at Monterey, acclaimed documentarian D. A. Pennebaker’s Monterey Pop companion pieces, feature the entire sets by these legendary musicians, performances that have entered rock-and-roll mythology.

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The Man Who Fell to Earth

Nicolas Roeg
1976 • 139 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #304 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The Man Who Fell to Earth is a daring exploration of science fiction as an art form. The story of an alien on an elaborate rescue mission provides the launching pad for Nicolas Roeg’s visual tour de force, a formally adventurous examination of alienation in contemporary life.

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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 young man’s romantic misadventures while trying to fit in to New York City’s debutante society.

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Robinson Crusoe on Mars

Byron Haskin
1964 • 110 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #404 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Robinson Crusoe on Mars tells the story of U.S. astronaut Commander “Kit” Draper (Paul Mantee), who must fight for survival when his spaceship crash-lands on the barren waste of Mars, a pet monkey his only companion.

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Two-Lane Blacktop

Monte Hellman
1971 • 103 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #414 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

With its gorgeous widescreen compositions and sophisticated look at American male obsession, this stripped-down narrative from maverick director Monte Hellman is one of the artistic high points of 1970s cinema, and possibly the greatest road movie ever made.

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Stagecoach

John Ford
1939 • 96 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States
Spine: #516 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

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.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

David Fincher
2008 • 165 minutes • 2.40:1 • United States
Spine: #476 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Brad Pitt is a man who is born in his eighties and ages backward and Cate Blanchett is the woman he is destined to love forever in David Fincher’s monumental, Academy Award–winning The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a powerful testament to life and death, love and loss.

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Bigger Than Life

Nicholas Ray
1956 • 95 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #507 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

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.

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Mystery Train

Jim Jarmusch
1989 • 110 minutes • 1.77:1 • United States
Spine: #521 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Made with its director’s customary precision and wit, Jim Jarmusch’s Mystery Train is a triptych of stories that pay playful tribute to the home of Stax Records, Sun Studio, Graceland, Carl Perkins, and, of course, the King himself, who presides over the film like a spirit.

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Crumb

Terry Zwigoff
1995 • 120 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #533 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Terry Zwigoff’s landmark 1995 film is an intimate documentary portrait of the underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art.

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