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Shoah

Claude Lanzmann
1985 • 550 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #663 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Over a decade in the making, Claude Lanzmann’s nine-hour-plus opus is a monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis.

25 Jun 2013 Learn more »
The Life of Oharu

Kenji Mizoguchi
1952 • 136 minutes • 1.37:1 • Japan
Spine: #664 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

This epic portrait of an inexorable fall from grace, starring the astounding Kinuyo Tanaka as an imperial lady-in-waiting who gradually descends to street prostitution, was the movie that gained the director international attention, ushering in a new golden period for him.

9 Jul 2013 Learn more »
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, iTunes

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.

16 Jul 2013 Learn more »
Babette’s Feast

Gabriel Axel
1987 • 104 minutes • 1.66:1 • Denmark
Spine: #665 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette’s Feast is a deeply beloved treasure of cinema.

23 Jul 2013 Learn more »
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.

23 Jul 2013 Learn more »
The Devil’s Backbone

Guillermo del Toro
2001 • 108 minutes • 1.85:1 • Spain
Spine: #666 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The Devil’s Backbone tells the tale of a twelve-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets.

30 Jul 2013 Learn more »
The Earrings of Madame de . . .

Max Ophuls
1953 • 100 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #445 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

The most cherished work from French master Max Ophuls, The Earrings of Madame de . . . is a profoundly emotional, cinematographically adventurous tale of deceptive opulence and tragic romance.

6 Aug 2013 Learn more »
Seconds

John Frankenheimer
1966 • 107 minutes • 1.75:1 • United States
Spine: #667 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Seconds, directed by John Frankenheimer, concerns a middle-aged banker who, dissatisfied with his suburban existence, elects to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life.

13 Aug 2013 Learn more »
The Big City

Satyajit Ray
1963 • 135 minutes • 1.33:1 • India
Spine: #668 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The Big City follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family.

20 Aug 2013 Learn more »
Charulata

Satyajit Ray
1964 • 119 minutes • 1.33:1 • India
Spine: #669 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Based on a novella by the great Rabindranath Tagore, Charulata is a work of subtle textures, a delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the first steps toward establishing her own voice.

20 Aug 2013 Learn more »
Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Germany
Edition: DVD

From the very beginning of his incandescent career, the New German Cinema enfant terrible Rainer Werner Fassbinder refused to play by the rules.

27 Aug 2013 Learn more »
To Be or Not to Be

Ernst Lubitsch
1942 • 99 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States
Spine: #670 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch stars Jack Benny and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous spy plot.

27 Aug 2013 Learn more »
La Cage aux Folles

Edouard Molinaro
1978 • 96 minutes • 1.66:1 • France
Spine: #671 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

A modest French comedy that became a breakout art-house smash in America, Edouard Molinaro’s La Cage aux Folles inspired a major Broadway musical and the blockbuster remake The Birdcage.

10 Sep 2013 Learn more »
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Martin Ritt
1965 • 112 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #452 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The acclaimed, best-selling novel by John le Carré, about a Cold War spy on one final dangerous mission in East Germany, is transmuted by director Martin Ritt into a film every bit as precise and ruthless as the book.

10 Sep 2013 Learn more »
Slacker

Richard Linklater
1991 • 100 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #247 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Shooting on 16 mm for a mere $3,000, writer-producer-director Linklater and his crew of friends threw out any idea of a traditional plot, choosing instead to create a tapestry of over a hundred characters, each as compelling as the last.

17 Sep 2013 Learn more »
Autumn Sonata

Ingmar Bergman
1978 • 93 minutes • 1.66:1 • Sweden
Spine: #60 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Autumn Sonata was the only collaboration between cinema’s two great Bergmans—Ingmar, the iconic director of The Seventh Seal, and Ingrid, the monumental star of Casablanca.

17 Sep 2013 Learn more »
3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman

Roberto Rossellini
Italy
Spine: #672 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In the late 1940s, the incandescent Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman found herself so moved by the revolutionary neorealist films of Roberto Rossellini that she sent the director a letter, introducing herself and offering her talents.

24 Sep 2013 Learn more »