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Short Cuts

Robert Altman
1993 • 187 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #265 Edition: DVD

Epic in scale yet meticulously observed, maverick director Robert Altman’s Short Cuts interweaves the lives of twenty-two characters struggling to find solace and meaning in contemporary Los Angeles.

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3 Women

Robert Altman
1977 • 124 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #230 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In a dusty California resort rown, a naïve Southern waif finds her role model in a fellow nurse, but her hero-worship evolves into something stranger and more sinister than either could have anticipated. Robert Altman’s dreamlike masterpiece careens from the humorous to the chilling to the surreal.

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Tanner ’88

Robert Altman
1988 • 353 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #258 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their media campaign as a cross between a soap opera and TV news.

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Secret Honor

Robert Altman
1984 • 90 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #257 Edition: DVD

Based on the original play by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, and starring Philip Baker Hall in a tour de force solo performance, Robert Altman’s Secret Honor is a searing interrogation of the Richard Nixon mystique and an audacious depiction of unchecked paranoia.

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Border Radio

Allison Anders, Dean Lent and Kurt Voss
1987 • 83 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #362 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

A low-key postpunk diary that took four years to complete, Allison Anders’ Border Radio features legendary rocker Chris D. as a singer/songwriter who has stolen loot from a club and gone missing, leaving his wife, a no-nonsense rock journalist, to track him down with the help of his friends.

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If....

Lindsay Anderson
1968 • 112 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #391 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Before Kubrick made his mischief iconic in A Clockwork Orange, Malcolm McDowell made a hell of an impression as the insouciant Mick Travis, who, along with his school chums, trumps authority at every turn, finally emerging as a violent savior.

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This Sporting Life

Lindsay Anderson
1963 • 134 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #417 Editions: DVD, iTunes

One of the finest British films ever made, this benchmark of “kitchen-sink realism” follows the self-defeating professional and romantic pursuits of a miner turned rugby player eking out an existence in drab Yorkshire, played by an astonishing Richard Harris.

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The Royal Tenenbaums

Wes Anderson
2001 • 110 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #157 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Wes Anderson’s hilarious, touching, and brilliantly stylized study of melancholy and redemption centers around a dysfunctional family of geniuses.

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Rushmore

Wes Anderson
1998 • 93 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #65 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Tenth grader Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) is Rushmore Academy’s most extracurricular student, and its least scholarly, in Wes Anderson’s dazzling sophomore effort—equal parts coming-of-age story, French New Wave homage, and screwball comedy.

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Bottle Rocket

Wes Anderson
1996 • 91 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #450 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Wes Anderson first illustrated his lovingly detailed, slightly surreal cinematic vision (with cowriter Owen Wilson) in this visually witty and warm portrait of three young misfits.

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Wes Anderson
2004 • 118 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #300 Edition: DVD

Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew—Team Zissou—set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent “jaguar shark” that killed Zissou’s partner in Oscar-nominated writer-director Wes Anderson’s adventure-comedy.

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The Importance of Being Earnest

Anthony Asquith
1952 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #158 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, iTunes

Oscar Wilde’s enduringly hilarious story of two young women who think themselves engaged to the same nonexistent man is given the grand Technicolor treatment. Seldom has a classic stage comedy been so engagingly transferred to the screen.

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Pygmalion

Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard
1938 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #85 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Cranky Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) takes a bet that he can turn Cockney guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) into a “proper lady” in a mere six months in this delightful comedy of bad manners, based on the play by George Bernard Shaw.

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The Browning Version

Anthony Asquith
1951 • 90 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #294 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Michael Redgrave gives the performance of his career in Anthony Asquith’s adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s unforgettable play. Redgrave portrays Andrew Crocker-Harris, an embittered, middle-aged schoolmaster who begins to feel that his life has been a failure.

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A Night to Remember

Roy Ward Baker
1958 • 123 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #7 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, iTunes

On April 14, 1912, just before midnight, the “unsinkable” Titanic struck an iceberg. In less than three hours, it had plunged to the bottom of the sea. This is cinema’s subtlest and best dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe.

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Blast of Silence

Allen Baron
1961 • 77 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #428 Edition: DVD

Swift, brutal, and black-hearted, Allen Baron’s New York City noir Blast of Silence is a sensational surprise, a low-budget, carefully crafted portrait of a hit man on assignment in Manhattan during Christmastime.

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Kicking and Screaming

Noah Baumbach
1995 • 96 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #349 Edition: DVD

Paralyzed by postgraduation ennui, a group of college friends remain on campus, patching together a community for themselves in order to deny the real-world futures awaiting them, in Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Noah Baumbach’s hilarious and touching directorial debut.

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Armageddon

Michael Bay
1998 • 153 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #40 Edition: DVD

Bruce Willis and an all-star cast of roughneck oil drillers blast off on a mission to save the planet in Michael Bay’s doomsday space epic.

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The Rock

Michael Bay
1996 • 136 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #108 Edition: DVD

A highly decorated, retired U.S. Marine general (Ed Harris) seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with eighty-one tourists as hostages on the San Francisco Bay isle, in Michael Bay’s fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat thriller, also starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage.

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The Atomic Submarine

Spencer G. Bennet
1959 • 72 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #366 Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus, iTunes

When a nuclear-powered submarine, the Tiger Shark, sets out to investigate a series of mysterious disappearances near the Arctic Circle, its fearless crew finds itself besieged by electrical storms, an Unidentified Floating Saucer, and lots of hairy tentacles.

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The Thief of Bagdad

Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell and Tim Whelan
1940 • 106 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #431 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

Prince Ahmad, cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place and the heart of a princess in Alexander Korda’s The Thief of Bagdad, an eye-popping special-effects pioneer and one of the most spectacular fantasy films ever made.

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The Last Emperor

Bernardo Bertolucci
1987 • 160 minutes • 2.00:1 • China
Spine: #422 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor, about the life of Emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne at age three, in 1908, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval, won nine Academy Awards, unexpectedly sweeping every category in which it was nominated.

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Burden of Dreams

Les Blank
1982 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #287 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Les Blank documents acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog’s ambitious and troubled production of Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man’s attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle.

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By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One

Stan Brakhage
243 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #184 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets

Working completely outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of “birth, sex, death, and the search for God,” he has turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even autopsy.

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W. C. Fields—Six Short Films

Monte Brice, Clyde Bruckman, Edwin Middleton…
1933 • 115 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #79 Edition: DVD

W. C. Fields’s prolific career placed him at the forefront of slapstick comedy. Gathered here are six gems that feature the comic genius at his peak.

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