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Amarcord

Federico Fellini
1973 • 123 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy
Spine: #4 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Online

Federico Fellini satirizes his youth in this carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy in the fascist period. The Academy Award–winning Amarcord remains one of cinema’s enduring treasures.

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The Beales of Grey Gardens

Albert Maysles and David Maysles
2006 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #361 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Online

The filmmakers of Grey Gardens went back to their vaults of footage to create part two, The Beales of Grey Gardens, a tribute both to these indomitable women, Big and Little Edie Beale, and to the landmark documentary’s legions of fans, who have made them counterculture icons.

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Black Orpheus

Marcel Camus
1959 • 107 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #48 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets, Online

Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.

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Bombay Talkie

James Ivory
1970 • 112 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States
Editions: DVD, Online

Starring Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal, Bombay Talkie is Merchant Ivory’s affectionate, bemused view of Bollywood—India’s huge dream factory. Cameraman Subrata Mitra’s ravishing photography has never been surpassed in any other of James Ivory’s films.

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Branded to Kill

Seijun Suzuki
1967 • 91 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan
Spine: #38 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Online

When Japanese New Wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki delivered this brutal, hilarious, and visually inspired masterpiece to the executives at his studio, he was promptly fired.

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Burden of Dreams

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

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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Carnival of Souls

Herk Harvey
1962 • 83 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #63 Editions: DVD, Online

In Herk Harvey’s macabre masterpiece, Mary Henry survives a drag race in a rural Kansas town, then takes a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En route, she becomes haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her to an abandoned lakeside pavilion.

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Clean, Shaven

Lodge Kerrigan
1994 • 79 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States
Spine: #354 Editions: DVD, Online

Lodge Kerrigan’s raw, ravaging Clean, Shaven is a headfirst dive into the mindscape of a schizophrenic as he tries to track down his daughter after he is released from an institution.

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Closely Watched Trains

Jiří Menzel
1966 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • Czech Republic
Spine: #131 Editions: DVD, Online

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Wry and tender, Jirí Menzel’s Academy Award-winning Closely Watched Trains is a masterpiece of human observation.

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Cléo from 5 to 7

Agnès Varda
1962 • 89 minutes • 1.66:1 • France
Spine: #73 Editions: Collector’s Sets, Online

A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

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The Cranes Are Flying

Mikhail Kalatozov
1957 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • Soviet Union
Spine: #146 Editions: DVD, Online

Veronica and Boris are blissfully in love, until the eruption of World War II tears them apart. The Soviet cinema classic The Cranes Are Flying won the Palme d’Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.

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Cría cuervos . . .

Carlos Saura
1976 • 109 minutes • 1.66:1 • Spain
Spine: #403 Editions: DVD, Online

In Carlos Saura’s exquisite Cría cuervos . . ., Ana Torrent (the dark-eyed beauty from The Spirit of the Beehive) portrays the disturbed eight-year-old Ana, living in Madrid with her two sisters and mourning the death of her mother, whom she conjures as a ghost (an ethereal Geraldine Chaplin).

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Deep Crimson

Arturo Ripstein
1996 • 111 minutes • 1.85:1 • Mexico
Edition: Online

In this alternately macabre and mirthful thriller, based on a true-crime story, renowned Mexican director Arturo Ripstein brings a stylish audacity to the tale of the “Lonely Hearts Killers,” a couple who, in the 1940s, posed as brother and sister to lure and murder unsuspecting widows.

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Divorce Italian Style

Pietro Germi
1961 • 104 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy
Spine: #286 Editions: DVD, Online

In Pietro Germi’s hilarious and cutting satire of Sicilian male-chauvinist culture, Baron Ferdinando Cefalù (Marcello Mastroianni) longs to marry his nubile young cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli), but one obstacle stands in his way: his fatuous and fawning wife, Rosalia (Daniela Rocca).

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Equinox Flower

Yasujiro Ozu
1958 • 118 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Online

Later in his career, Ozu started becoming increasingly sympathetic with the younger generation, a shift that was cemented in Equinox Flower, his gorgeously detailed first color film, about an old-fashioned father and his newfangled daughter.

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Eyes Without a Face

Georges Franju
1960 • 90 minutes • 1.66:1 • France
Spine: #260 Editions: DVD, Online

Secluded in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured face—but at a horrifying price. At once ghastly and lyrical, Eyes Without a Face is a true rarity of horror cinema.

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Fat Girl

Catherine Breillat
2001 • 86 minutes • 1.85:1 • France
Spine: #259 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Online

Fat Girl is not only a portrayal of female adolescent sexuality and the complicated bond between siblings but also a shocking assertion by the always controversial Catherine Breillat that violent oppression exists at the core of male-female relations.

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Fists in the Pocket

Marco Bellocchio
1965 • 108 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy
Spine: #333 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Online

Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions in this astonishing 1965 debut from Marco Bellocchio.

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For All Mankind

Al Reinert
1989 • 79 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #54 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Online

Al Reinert’s visually dazzling documentary For All Mankind is the story of the twenty-four men who traveled to the moon—told in their words, in their voices, using the images of their experiences.

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General Idi Amin Dada

Barbet Schroeder
1974 • 90 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #153 Editions: DVD, Online

In 1971, self-styled dictator General Idi Amin Dada took control of Uganda; director Barbet Schroeder turns his cameras on the dynamic, charming, and appallingly dangerous tyrant.

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Grey Gardens

Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde…
1976 • 94 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #123 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Online

In Albert and David Maysles’s 1976 cult classic, Grey Gardens, meet Big and Little Edie Beale—high-society dropouts, mother and daughter, reclusive cousins of Jackie O.—thriving together amid the decay and disorder of their ramshackle East Hampton mansion.

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Harakiri

Masaki Kobayashi
1962 • 133 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan
Spine: #302 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Online

Following the collapse of his clan, unemployed samurai Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to commit ritual suicide on his property in Masaki Kobayashi’s fierce evocation of individual agency in the face of a corrupt and hypocritical system.

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Harlan County USA

Barbara Kopple
1976 • 103 minutes • 1.78:1 • United States
Spine: #334 Editions: DVD, Online

Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award–winning Harlan County USA unflinchingly documents a grueling coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners’ sometimes violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police, and company thugs.

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Heat and Dust

James Ivory
1983 • 130 minutes • 1.78:1 • United Kingdom
Editions: DVD, Online

Blending east with west, and moving effortlessly between the vibrant world of modern-day India and the splendors of the Raj, Heat and Dust concerns Anne, a young woman drawn to India by her desire to unravel the scandal surrounding her great-aunt’s seduction in the 1920s by a handsome Indian prince.

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The Honeymoon Killers

Leonard Kastle
1970 • 107 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #200 Editions: DVD, Online

A woman strikes up a correspondence with a suave, charismatic smooth talker who could be the man of her dreams—or a wicked con artist. Based on a true story, Leonard Kastle’s The Honeymoon Killers is a stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go to find true love.

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