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10 Years of Rialto Pictures
Edition: DVD

This special gift box set, in celebration of Rialto’s tenth anniversary, features ten films that display the breadth of its collection, including works by Rialto favorites, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel, and Jean-Pierre Melville.

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3 Films by Louis Malle

Louis Malle
France
Spine: #327 Edition: DVD

Laced with autobiographical details, Murmur of the Heart; Lacombe, Lucien; and Au revoir les enfants tell stories of youth, set against the tumult of World War II and postwar France.

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3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg

Josef von Sternberg
United States
Spine: #528 Edition: DVD

Vienna-born, New York–raised Josef von Sternberg directed some of the most influential, extraordinarily stylish dramas ever to come out of Hollywood. The titles in this collection, made on the cusp of the sound age, are three of Sternberg’s greatest works.

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4 by Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda
France
Spine: #418 Edition: DVD

Agnès Varda used the skills she honed early in her career as a photographer to create some of the most nuanced, thought-provoking films of the past fifty years.

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A Story of Floating Weeds/Floating Weeds: Two Films by
Yasujiro Ozu

Yasujiro Ozu
Japan
Spine: #232 Edition: DVD

An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunities with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all, in Yasujiro Ozu’s 1934 silent classic and his 1959 color remake.

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The Adventures of Antoine Doinel

François Truffaut
France
Spine: #185 Edition: DVD

With The Adventures of Antoine Doinel, Criterion is proud to present François Truffaut’s celebrated saga in its entirety: the feature films The 400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, and Love on the Run, and the 1962 short subject, Antoine and Colette, in a special edition box set.

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AK 100:
25 Films by Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa
Japan
Edition: DVD

On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, the Criterion Collection is proud to present this deluxe box set celebrating Akira Kurosawa’s astonishing career.

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America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
United States
Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Like the rest of America, Hollywood was ripe for revolution in the late sixties. Cinema attendance was down; what had once worked seemed broken. Enter Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner, who would form form BBS Productions, a company that was also a community.

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Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films

Andrzej Wajda
Poland
Spine: #282 Edition: DVD

These three groundbreaking films helped usher in the Polish School movement and have often been regarded as a trilogy. But each boldly stands on its own—a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the struggle for personal and national freedom.

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The BRD Trilogy

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Spine: #203 Edition: DVD

Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun, Lola, and Veronika Voss—the BRD (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) Trilogy—would garner him the international acclaim he had always yearned for and place his name foremost in the canon of New German Cinema.

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Carl Theodor Dreyer
Box Set
Denmark
Spine: #124 Edition: DVD

Criterion is proud to present these Dreyer masterpieces on DVD for the first time, with brand new digital transfers. Each is an intense exploration of the clash between individual desire and social expectations, with Dreyer’s famously perfectionist attention to detail shining throughout.

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The Complete Jean Vigo
France
Spine: #578 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Even among cinema’s legends, Jean Vigo stands apart. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine.

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The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
United States
Spine: #167 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

On a beautiful June weekend 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.

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David Lean Directs Noël Coward
United Kingdom
Spine: #603 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In the 1940s, the wit of playwright Noël Coward and the craft of filmmaker David Lean melded harmoniously in one of cinema’s greatest writer-director collaborations.

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Eclipse Series 10:
Silent Ozu—Three Family Comedies

Yasujiro Ozu
Japan
Edition: DVD

In these three droll domestic films—Tokyo Chorus, I Was Born, But . . . , and Passing Fancy—Ozu movingly and humorously depicts middle-class struggles and the resentments between children and parents.

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Eclipse Series 11:
Larisa Shepitko

Larisa Shepitko
Soviet Union
Edition: DVD

A true artist who had deftly used the Soviet film industry to make statements both personal and universal, Shepitko remains one of the greatest unsung filmmakers of all time.

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Eclipse Series 12:
Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Trilogy

Aki Kaurismäki
Finland
Edition: DVD

In these three films, something like social-realist farces, Kaurismäki surveys the working-class outcasts of his native Finland with detached yet disarming amusement.

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Eclipse Series 13:
Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women

Kenji Mizoguchi
Japan
Edition: DVD

In these four lacerating works of social consciousness—two prewar, two postwar—Mizoguchi introduces an array of compelling female protagonists, crushed or resilient, who are forced by their conditions and culture into compromising positions.

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Eclipse Series 14:
Rossellini’s History Films—Renaissance and Enlightenment

Roberto Rossellini
Italy
Edition: DVD

This selection of Rossellini’s history films presents Blaise Pascal, the three-part The Age of the Medici, and Cartesius—works that don’t just enliven the past but illuminate the ideas that brought us to where we are today.

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Eclipse Series 15:
Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu

Hiroshi Shimizu
Japan
Edition: DVD

A curious, compassionate storyteller who was fascinated by characters on the outskirts of society, Hiroshi Shimizu used his trademark graceful traveling shot to peek around the corners of contemporary Japan.

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Eclipse Series 16:
Alexander Korda’s Private Lives
United Kingdom
Edition: DVD

A producer, writer, and director who navigated toward subjects of major historical significance and mythical distinction, Alexander Korda specialized in stately period drama with surprising satire. These films are exemplars of grand 1930s moviemaking.

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Eclipse Series 17:
Nikkatsu Noir
Japan
Edition: DVD

This bruised and bloody collection represents a standout cross section of the nimble nasties Nikkatsu had to offer, action potboilers modeled on the western, comedy, gangster, and teen-rebel genres.

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Eclipse Series 18:
Dušan Makavejev—Free Radical

Dušan Makavejev
Yugoslavia
Edition: DVD

Makavejev’s films about political and sexual liberation were revolutionary, raucous, and ribald. Across these first three films, he investigates love, death, and work; the legacy of war and the absurdity of daily life in a Communist state; criminology and hypnosis; strudels and strongmen.

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Eclipse Series 19:
Chantal Akerman
in the Seventies

Chantal Akerman
Edition: DVD

Over the past four decades, Belgian director Chantal Akerman has created one of cinema’s most distinctive bodies of work—formally daring, often autobiographical films about people and places, time and space.

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Eclipse Series 1:
Early Bergman
Sweden
Edition: DVD

These early films, which show the stirrings of the genius to come, remain the hidden treasures of a European cinema on the cusp of a golden age.

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