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3:10 to Yuma

Delmer Daves
1957 • 92 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #657 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In this beautifully shot, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw (played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glenn Ford) to the train that will deliver him to prison.

14 May 2013 Learn more »
Band of Outsiders

Jean-Luc Godard
1964 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #174 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets

Four years after Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard reimagined the gangster film even more radically with Band of Outsiders. In it, two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of both of their fancies (Anna Karina) to help them commit a robbery—in her own home.

7 May 2013 Learn more »
Eclipse Series 38: Masaki Kobayashi Against the System

Masaki Kobayashi
Japan
Edition: DVD

These are unforgettable depictions of a postwar Japan troubled by identity crises and moral corruption on scales both intimate and institutional.

16 Apr 2013 Learn more »
Gate of Hell

Teinosuke Kinugasa
1953 • 89 minutes • 1.37:1 • Japan
Spine: #653 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

A winner of Academy Awards for best foreign-language film and best costume design, Gate of Hell is a visually sumptuous, psychologically penetrating work from Teinosuke Kinugasa.

9 Apr 2013 Learn more »
Jubal

Delmer Daves
1956 • 101 minutes • 2.55:1 • United States
Spine: #656 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

A trio of exceptional performances by Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, and Rod Steiger form the center of Jubal, an overlooked Hollywood treasure from genre master Delmer Daves.

14 May 2013 Learn more »
Life Is Sweet

Mike Leigh
1990 • 103 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #659 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

This invigorating film from Mike Leigh was his first international sensation. Melancholy and funny by turns, it is an intimate portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London.

28 May 2013 Learn more »
A Man Escaped

Robert Bresson
1956 • 101 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #650 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

With the simplest of concepts and sparest of techniques, Robert Bresson made one of the most suspenseful jailbreak films of all time in A Man Escaped.

26 Mar 2013 Learn more »
Marketa Lazarová

František Vlácil
1967 • 165 minutes • 2.35:1 • Czechoslovakia
Spine: #661 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Based on a novel by Vladislav Vančura, this stirring and poetic depiction of a feud between two rival medieval clans is a fierce, epic, and meticulously designed evocation of the clashes between Christianity and paganism, humankind and nature, love and violence.

18 Jun 2013 Learn more »
Medium Cool

Haskell Wexler
1969 • 110 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #658 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

It’s 1968, and the whole world is watching. With the U.S. in social upheaval, famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler decided to make a film about what the hell was going on. Medium Cool, his debut feature, plunges us into the moment.

21 May 2013 Learn more »
Monsieur Verdoux

Charles Chaplin
1947 • 124 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #652 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Charlie Chaplin plays shockingly against type in his most controversial film, a brilliant and bleak black comedy about money, marriage, and murder.

26 Mar 2013 Learn more »
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.

9 Apr 2013 Learn more »
Pierre Etaix

Pierre Etaix
France
Spine: #655 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

A French comedy master whose films went unseen for decades as a result of legal tangles, director-actor Pierre Etaix is a treasure the cinematic world has rediscovered and embraced with relish.

23 Apr 2013 Learn more »
Repo Man

Alex Cox
1984 • 92 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States
Spine: #654 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

A quintessential cult film of the 1980s, Alex Cox’s singular sci-fi comedy stars the always captivating Harry Dean Stanton as a weathered repo man in a desolate Los Angeles, and Emilio Estevez as the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing.

16 Apr 2013 Learn more »
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

23 Apr 2013 Learn more »
Safety Last!

Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
1923 • 73 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States
Spine: #662 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. Chaplin is the sweet innocent, Keaton the stoic outsider, but Lloyd—the modern guy striving for success—is us. And with its torrent of perfectly executed gags and astonishing stunts, Safety Last! is the perfect introduction to him.

18 Jun 2013 Learn more »
Things to Come

William Cameron Menzies
1936 • 97 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #660 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

A landmark collaboration between writer H. G. Wells, producer Alexander Korda, and designer and director William Cameron Menzies, Things to Come is a science fiction film like no other, a prescient political work that predicts a century of turmoil and progress.

18 Jun 2013 Learn more »
Wild Strawberries

Ingmar Bergman
1957 • 92 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden
Spine: #139 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Traveling to accept an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg—masterfully played by veteran director Victor Sjöström—is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching death.

11 Jun 2013 Learn more »