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Amarcord

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

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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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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The American Soldier

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1970 • 80 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Fassbinder’s experimental noir is a subversive, self-reflexive gangster movie full of unexpected asides and stylistic flourishes, and featuring an audaciously bonkers final shot and memorable turns from many of the director’s rotating gallery of players.

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El amor brujo

Carlos Saura
1986 • 103 minutes • 1.66:1 • Spain
Edition: Collector’s Sets

A modern take on composer Manuel de Falla’s gypsy ballet, dressed up in pink sunsets and hellishly red fires. El amor brujo, set in a dusty Andalusian village, is a seductive melodrama of a man (Antonio Gades) whose beloved is haunted by the ghost of another.

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Anatomy of a Murder

Otto Preminger
1959 • 161 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #600 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

This gripping envelope-pusher, the most popular film by Hollywood provocateur Otto Preminger, was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex—but more than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words.

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And Everything Is Going Fine

Steven Soderbergh
2010 • 89 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #617 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

After the death in 2004 of American theater actor and monologist Spalding Gray, director Steven Soderbergh pieced together a narrative of Gray’s life to create the documentary And Everything Is Going Fine.

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And God Created Woman

Roger Vadim
1956 • 92 minutes • 2.35:1 • France
Spine: #77 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

Brigitte Bardot stars as Juliette, an 18-year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St. Tropez; her sweet but naïve husband Michel (Jean-Louis Trintignant) endures beatings, insults, and mambo in his attempts to tame her wild ways.

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And the Ship Sails On

Federico Fellini
1984 • 127 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy
Spine: #50 Edition: DVD

In Federico Fellini’s quirky, imaginative fable, a motley crew of European aristocrats (and a lovesick rhinoceros!) board a luxurious ocean liner on the eve of World War I to scatter the ashes of a beloved diva.

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Andrei Rublev

Andrei Tarkovsky
1969 • 185 minutes • 2.35:1 • Soviet Union
Spine: #34 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

Immediately suppressed by the Soviets in 1966, Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic masterpiece is a sweeping medieval tale of Russia’s greatest icon painter.

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Androcles and the Lion

Chester Erskine
1952 • 98 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values.

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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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An Angel at My Table

Jane Campion
1990 • 158 minutes • 1.78:1 • New Zealand
Spine: #301 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

With An Angel at My Table, Academy Award–winning filmmaker Jane Campion brings to the screen the harrowing true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand’s most distinguished author. Angel beautifully captures the color and power of the New Zealand landscape.

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Antichrist

Lars von Trier
2009 • 108 minutes • 2.35:1 • Denmark
Spine: #542 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In this graphic psychodrama, a grief-stricken man and woman—a searing Willem Dafoe and Cannes best actress winner Charlotte Gainsbourg—retreat to their cabin deep in the woods after the death of their infant son, only to find terror and violence at the hands of nature and, ultimately, each other.

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Antonio Gaudí

Hiroshi Teshigahara
1984 • 72 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
Spine: #425 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus, iTunes

A unique, enthralling cinematic experience, Teshigahara’s Antonio Gaudí, less a documentary than a visual poem, takes viewers on a tour of Gaudí’s truly spectacular architecture.

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Apart from You

Mikio Naruse
1933 • 60 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

In this gently devastating drama, a critical breakthrough for Naruse, he contrasts the life of an aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, with that of her youthful counterpart, a lovely young girl resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy.

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Arabian Nights

Pier Paolo Pasolini
1974 • 130 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy
Spine: #634 Edition: Collector’s Sets

Pier Paolo Pasolini traveled to Africa, India, and the Middle East to realize this ambitious cinematic treatment of a selection of stories from the legendary The Thousand and One Nights.

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Ariel

Aki Kaurismäki
1988 • 72 minutes • 1.85:1 • Finland
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

In Kaurismäki’s drolly existential crime drama, a coal miner attempts to leave behind a provincial life of inertia and economic despair, only to get into ever deeper trouble. Yet a minor-key romance with a hilariously dispassionate meter maid might provide a light at the end of a very dark tunnel.

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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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Army of Shadows

Jean-Pierre Melville
1969 • 145 minutes • 1.85:1 • France
Spine: #385 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets

Atmospheric and gripping, Army of Shadows is Melville’s most personal film, featuring Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and the incomparable Simone Signoret as intrepid underground fighters who must grapple with their conception of honor in their battle against Hitler’s regime.

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As Long as You’ve Got Your Health

Pierre Etaix
1966 • 68 minutes • 1.66:1 • France
Edition: Collector’s Sets

In this endlessly diverting compendium of four short films, Pierre Etaix regards the 1960s from his askew but astute perspective.

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The Ascent

Larisa Shepitko
1976 • 111 minutes • 1.33:1 • Soviet Union
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Larisa Shepitko’s overwhelming final film, set during World War II, won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and has been hailed around the world as the finest Soviet film of its decade.

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Ashes and Diamonds

Andrzej Wajda
1958 • 103 minutes • 1.66:1 • Poland
Spine: #285 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

On the last day of World War II, Polish exiles of war and the occupying Soviet forces confront the beginning of a new day and a new Poland. In this incendiary environment, we find Home Army soldier Maciek Chelmicki, who has been ordered to assassinate an incoming commissar.

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L’Atalante

Jean Vigo
1934 • 89 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
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In Jean Vigo’s hands, an unassuming tale of conjugal love becomes an achingly romantic reverie of desire and hope.

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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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Au hasard Balthazar

Robert Bresson
1966 • 95 minutes • 1.66:1 • France
Spine: #297 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel, but all with motivations beyond his understanding—a profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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