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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Chantal Akerman
1975 • 201 minutes • 1.66:1 • Belgium
Spine: #484 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

Whether seen as an exacting character portrait or one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing, compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and argued over for decades.

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Kiss Me Deadly

Robert Aldrich
1955 • 106 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States
Spine: #568 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Brazen and bleak, Kiss Me Deadly is a film noir masterwork as well as an essential piece of cold war paranoia, and it features as nervy an ending as has ever been seen in American cinema.

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Short Cuts

Robert Altman
1993 • 187 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #265 Edition: DVD

Epic in scale yet meticulously observed, maverick director Robert Altman’s Short Cuts interweaves the lives of twenty-two characters struggling to find solace and meaning in contemporary Los Angeles.

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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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Tanner ’88

Robert Altman
1988 • 353 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #258 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their media campaign as a cross between a soap opera and TV news.

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Secret Honor

Robert Altman
1984 • 90 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #257 Edition: DVD

Based on the original play by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, and starring Philip Baker Hall in a tour de force solo performance, Robert Altman’s Secret Honor is a searing interrogation of the Richard Nixon mystique and an audacious depiction of unchecked paranoia.

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Border Radio

Allison Anders, Dean Lent and Kurt Voss
1987 • 83 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #362 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

A low-key postpunk diary that took four years to complete, Allison Anders’ Border Radio features legendary rocker Chris D. as a singer/songwriter who has stolen loot from a club and gone missing, leaving his wife, a no-nonsense rock journalist, to track him down with the help of his friends.

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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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This Sporting Life

Lindsay Anderson
1963 • 134 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #417 Editions: DVD, iTunes

One of the finest British films ever made, this benchmark of “kitchen-sink realism” follows the self-defeating professional and romantic pursuits of a miner turned rugby player eking out an existence in drab Yorkshire, played by an astonishing Richard Harris.

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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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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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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Wes Anderson
2004 • 118 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #300 Edition: DVD

Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew—Team Zissou—set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent “jaguar shark” that killed Zissou’s partner in Oscar-nominated writer-director Wes Anderson’s adventure-comedy.

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The Darjeeling Limited

Wes Anderson
2007 • 91 minutes • 2.40:1 • United States
Spine: #540 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In director Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited, three estranged American brothers reunite for a meticulously planned, soul-searching train voyage across India one year after the death of their father.

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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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L’avventura

Michelangelo Antonioni
1960 • 145 minutes • 1.77:1 • Italy
Spine: #98 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

A girl mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair. Antonioni’s penetrating study of the idle upper class offers stinging observations on spiritual isolation and the many meanings of love.

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L’eclisse

Michelangelo Antonioni
1962 • 126 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy
Spine: #278 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

The conclusion of Michelangelo Antonioni’s informal trilogy on modern malaise, L’eclisse (The Eclipse) tells the story of a young woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) only to drift into a relationship with another (Alain Delon).

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Red Desert

Michelangelo Antonioni
1964 • 117 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy
Spine: #522 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events. Red Desert, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal, and confirms Antonioni as cinema’s preeminent poet of the modern age.

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Identification of a Woman

Michelangelo Antonioni
1982 • 130 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy
Spine: #585 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

Michelangelo Antonioni’s Identification of a Woman is a body- and soul-baring voyage into one man’s artistic and erotic consciousness.

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Fish Tank

Andrea Arnold
2009 • 122 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #553 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

British director Andrea Arnold won the Cannes Jury Prize for the intense and invigorating Fish Tank, about a fifteen-year-old girl, Mia (electrifying newcomer Katie Jarvis), who lives with her mother and sister in the housing projects of Essex.

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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.

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The Importance of Being Earnest

Anthony Asquith
1952 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #158 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, iTunes

Oscar Wilde’s enduringly hilarious story of two young women who think themselves engaged to the same nonexistent man is given the grand Technicolor treatment. Seldom has a classic stage comedy been so engagingly transferred to the screen.

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Pygmalion

Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard
1938 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #85 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Cranky Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) takes a bet that he can turn Cockney guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) into a “proper lady” in a mere six months in this delightful comedy of bad manners, based on the play by George Bernard Shaw.

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The Browning Version

Anthony Asquith
1951 • 90 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #294 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Michael Redgrave gives the performance of his career in Anthony Asquith’s adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s unforgettable play. Redgrave portrays Andrew Crocker-Harris, an embittered, middle-aged schoolmaster who begins to feel that his life has been a failure.

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Carlos

Olivier Assayas
2010 • 339 minutes • 2.35:1 • France
Spine: #582 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Carlos, directed by Olivier Assayas, is an epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sanchez—also known as Carlos the Jackal.

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Summer Hours

Olivier Assayas
2008 • 99 minutes • 1.85:1 • France
Spine: #513 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Three siblings must decide what to do with the country estate and objects they’ve inherited from their mother. From this simple story, Olivier Assayas creates a nuanced, exquisitely made drama about the material of globalized modern living.

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