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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.

9 Apr 2013 Learn more »
Chronicle of a Summer

Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin
1961 • 90 minutes • 1.37:1 • France
Spine: #648 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

The fascinating result of a collaboration between filmmaker-anthropologist Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin, this vanguard work of what Morin would term cinéma verité is a brilliantly conceived and realized sociopolitical diagnosis of the early sixties in France.

26 Feb 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Sansho the Bailiff

Kenji Mizoguchi
1954 • 124 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
Spine: #386 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

Under Kenji Mizoguchi’s dazzling direction, this classic Japanese story became one of cinema’s greatest masterpieces, a monumental, empathetic expression of human resilience in the face of evil.

26 Feb 2013 Learn more »
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.

19 Mar 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 »
Ministry of Fear

Fritz Lang
1944 • 87 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States
Spine: #649 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Suffused with dread and paranoia, this Fritz Lang adaptation of a novel by Graham Greene is a plunge into the eerie shadows of a world turned upside down by war.

12 Mar 2013 Learn more »
Badlands

Terrence Malick
1973 • 94 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #651 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Badlands announced the arrival of a major talent: Terrence Malick. His impressionistic take on the notorious Charles Starkweather killing spree of the late 1950s uses a serial-killer narrative as a springboard for an oblique teenage romance.

19 Mar 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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.

12 Mar 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 »