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The Orphic Trilogy

Jean Cocteau
France
Spine: #66 Edition: DVD

In The Blood of a Poet, Orpheus, and Testament of Orpheus, Cocteau utilizes the Orphic myth to explore the complex relationships between the artist and his creations, reality and the imagination.

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Eisenstein: The Sound Years

Sergei Eisenstein
Spine: #86 Edition: DVD

This trio of rousing action epics reveals a deeply unsettling portrait of the Soviet Union under Stalin, and provided battle-scene blueprints for filmmaking giants from Laurence Olivier in Henry V to Akira Kurosawa in Seven Samurai.

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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 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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The Killers
United States
Spine: #176 Edition: DVD

Ernest Hemingway’s gripping short story “The Killers” has fascinated readers and filmmakers for generations. The Criterion Collection presents all three film versions of this classic tale of amorality.

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I Am Curious . . .
Box set

Vilgot Sjöman
Sweden
Spine: #179 Edition: DVD

I Am Curious—Yellow, one of the most controversial films of all time, is presented here for the first time with its companion piece, I Am Curious—Blue. This landmark document of Swedish society during the sexual revolution has been declared both obscene and revolutionary.

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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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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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A Film Trilogy
by Ingmar Bergman
Sweden
Spine: #208 Edition: DVD

Utilizing a new cameraman—the incomparable Sven Nykvist—Bergman unleashed Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, and The Silence in rapid succession, exposing moviegoers worldwide to a new level of intellectual and emotional intensity.

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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 Lower Depths
Spine: #239 Edition: DVD

Two unique versions of Maxim Gorky’s classic proletariat play, adapted by two of cinema’s greatest directors: Jean Renoir and Akira Kurosawa.

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Stage and Spectacle:
Three Films by Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir
France
Spine: #241 Edition: DVD

Near the end of his long and celebrated career, master filmmaker Jean Renoir indulged his lifelong obsession with life-as-theater and directed three majestic films infatuated with the past, love, and artifice.

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John Cassavetes: Five Films
United States
Spine: #250 Edition: DVD

John Cassavetes has been called a genius, a visionary, and the father of independent film. The five films included here represent his works made outside the Hollywood studio system, on which he was afforded complete control.

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Fanny and Alexander Box Set

Ingmar Bergman
Sweden
Spine: #261 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Ingmar Bergman intended Fanny and Alexander as his swan song, and it is the legendary director’s warmest and most autobiographical film, a four-time Academy Award–winning triumph that combines his trademark melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality.

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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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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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Six Moral Tales

Eric Rohmer
France
Spine: #342 Edition: DVD

Eric Rohmer stood apart from his New Wave contemporaries, like François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, with his patented brand of gently existential, hyperarticulate character studies set against vivid seasonal landscapes. The “Six Moral Tales” unleashed a new voice onto the film world.

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Monsters and Madmen
United States
Spine: #364 Edition: DVD

Launching us from a grave past to a space-age future, these two thrilling double features, from producers Richard and Alex Gordon, spin classic tales of hair-raising homicidal mania and intrepid, death-defying exploration.

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Paul Robeson:
Portraits of the Artist
Spine: #369 Edition: DVD

The son of an escaped slave, Robeson managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America, headlining everything from fellow pioneer Oscar Micheaux’s silent drama Body and Soul to British studio showcases to socially engaged documentaries.

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La Jetée/Sans Soleil

Chris Marker
France
Spine: #387 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

One of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made and a mind-bending free-form travelogue, La Jetée and Sans Soleil couldn’t seem more different—yet they’re the twin pillars of an unparalleled and uncompromising career in cinema.

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Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
Spine: #392 Edition: DVD

Hiroshi Teshigahara found his spiritual partner in novelist and screenwriter Kobo Abe, with whom he collaborated on these Kafkaesque portraits of identities in peril, films that captivated mainstream audiences while also touching the edges of the Japanese avant-garde.

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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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Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes:
3 Films by Shohei Imamura

Shohei Imamura
Japan
Spine: #471 Edition: DVD

With the three films in this set, Shoehi Imamura, one of the leading figures of the Japanese new wave, truly emerged as an auteur, bringing to his national cinema an anthropological eye and a heretofore unseen taste for the irreverent.

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Roberto Rossellini’s
War Trilogy

Roberto Rossellini
Spine: #500 Edition: DVD

Roberto Rossellini is one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. And it was with his trilogy of films made during and after World War II—Rome Open City, Paisan, and Germany Year Zero—that he left his first transformative mark on cinema.

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Letters from Fontainhas:
Three Films by Pedro Costa

Pedro Costa
Portugal
Spine: #508 Edition: DVD

These are the three films that put Portuguese director Pedro Costa on the map: spare, painterly portraits of battered, largely immigrant lives in the slums of Fontainhas, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon.

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