The Criterion Collection

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

Jean-Luc Godard

3 Films by Louis Malle

Louis Malle

CSM126: “My introduction to the joys of Malle.”

4 by Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda

CSM126: “This release introduced me to Agnes Varda and changed my life. Cinema will never look the same through eyes re-programmed by this master's ouvre.”

All That Heaven Allows

Douglas Sirk

CSM126: “Great Christmas movie or Greatest Christmas movie?”

Amarcord

Federico Fellini

CSM126: “Fellini's magical childhood memories make everyone else's life seem lackluster by comparison. A dazzling, candy-colored dream of a film.”

America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

CSM126: “My buddies call this the "Easy Rider boxset", but while I do love Easy Rider, every film here stands on it's own as a unique slice of the era.”

And Everything Is Going Fine

Steven Soderbergh

An Angel at My Table

Jane Campion

CSM126: “An agonizing life of private pain becomes an overwhelmingly beautiful and sumptuously visual epic in the hands of the inimitable Campion. Gorgeous.”

Antichrist

Lars von Trier

CSM126: “Terrifying and beautiful all at once. Also very painful to watch if you're a man. Yowza!”

Au hasard Balthazar

Robert Bresson

An Autumn Afternoon

Yasujiro Ozu

L’avventura

Michelangelo Antonioni

CSM126: “My first criterion disc blind-buy, and the point where I truly discovered foreign cinema. This movie is a watershed in my own life and I love it madly”

Before the Rain

Milcho Manchevski

CSM126: “One of the best films to ever view war through the tapestry of disparate lives. It's a quiet film and yet it speaks so loudly.”

Being John Malkovich

Spike Jonze

Belle de jour

Luis Buñuel

Bicycle Thieves

Vittorio De Sica

CSM126: “The totality of human existence is captured in the story of a man who lost his bicycle. Only de Sica could make something this profound.”

Bigger Than Life

Nicholas Ray

CSM126: “One of the most acid films of the Fifties. Ray scorches everyone in this blistering, fiery masterpiece. The family unit will never look the same.”

Black Narcissus

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

CSM126: “Perhaps the greatest film of faith - and faith lost. Jack Cardiff's Technicolor photography is beautiful as ever, and paints a story all it's own.”

Blast of Silence

Allen Baron

CSM126: “Cynical and deeply bitter and gritty as hell - This is one of my favorite Christmas movies because it refuses to romanticize the season at all.”

Border Radio

Allison Anders, Dean Lent and Kurt Voss

CSM126: “I won't lie - this is the worst movie Criterion have ever released and I regret buying it. Amateurish and sloppy as hell. Sorry, guys.”

Bottle Rocket

Wes Anderson

CSM126: “Early Wes isn't my favorite Wes, but it's still a joy to watch. He made great leaps forward in the coming years, though.”

Brand upon the Brain!

Guy Maddin

CSM126: “Thank God for people like Guy Maddin. He'll throw things against the wall not caring if they stick. This insane silent masterpiece sticks like glue.”

Breathless

Jean-Luc Godard

CSM126: “The very definition of cool.”

Brief Encounter

David Lean

Broadcast News

James L. Brooks

Burden of Dreams

Les Blank

CSM126: “Werner Herzog is certifiably insane and willing to do unspeakable things to make his movies. This doc captures his madness in terrifying close-up.”

By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two

Stan Brakhage

CSM126: “Radical, free-form, transcendent, indescribable. These words all fit the works of Stan Brakhage. Awe-inspiring is a good fit, too.”

Chasing Amy

Kevin Smith

CSM126: “The most heartfelt and sincere movie Kevin Smith will ever make. Also the best. I could watch this movie a million times and love it always.”

Che

Steven Soderbergh

Chungking Express

Wong Kar-wai

Clean, Shaven

Lodge Kerrigan

CSM126: “Kerrigan dives headlong into the subjective experience of a schizophrenic and forces his audience to share the pain. Agonizing and haunting masterwork”

Close-up

Abbas Kiarostami

CSM126: “Forget blurring the line between fiction and reality - this film shatters the line. An endlessly fascinating journey through a shattered looking glass”

The Complete Monterey Pop Festival

CSM126: “Great music and enormously fun snapshots of the 60's hippie generation. I have such a good time with these films.”

The Complete Monterey Pop Festival

The Complete Mr. Arkadin

Orson Welles

CSM126: “One of the many Welles films that isn't truly complete - but Criterion made one hell of an effort to fix it. This set takes you down the rabbit hole.”

Contempt

Jean-Luc Godard

Cries and Whispers

Ingmar Bergman

CSM126: “An exhausting, devastating, painful journey into death as only Bergman could paint it. This is the master's greatest work by a mile.”

Cronos

Guillermo del Toro

CSM126: “Deliciously weird and lurid with a tremendous sense of just having fun - this is a kooky joy from start to finish.”

Crumb

Terry Zwigoff

CSM126: “Crumb is an almost frighteningly strange man, and yet he is so utterly captivating to watch. The movie is just as weird as he is, too.”

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

David Fincher

CSM126: “A glorious and deeply moving epic with all the beauty of an old-time Hollywood production. One of Fincher's finest hours.”

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

David Fincher

Les dames du Bois de Boulogne

Robert Bresson

The Darjeeling Limited

Wes Anderson

CSM126: “"Look at those assholes". Perhaps a perfect quote to sum-up it's own movie. And I say that with love, because the Whitman boys are lovable assholes.”

Days of Heaven

Terrence Malick

Days of Heaven

Terrence Malick

Dazed and Confused

Richard Linklater

The Double Life of Véronique

Krzysztof Kieślowski

CSM126: “A shimmering metaphysical masterwork. Also a fine testament to the radiant beauty of Irene Jacob.”

Downhill Racer

Michael Ritchie

CSM126: “Robert Redford plays the only skier who's soul is colder and more desolate than the slopes he conquers. A disquieting existential classic.”

The Earrings of Madame de . . .

Max Ophuls

CSM126: “Both devastating and playful, and oh so beautiful.”

Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko

Larisa Shepitko

Eclipse Series 12: Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Trilogy

Aki Kaurismäki

CSM126: “The bitter awfulness of life has never been so funny as it is through the eyes of Aki Kaurismaki.”

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

Roberto Rossellini

Eclipse Series 15: Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu

Hiroshi Shimizu

Eclipse Series 19: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies

Chantal Akerman

Eclipse Series 31: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin

Jean-Pierre Gorin

Eclipse Series 33: Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr.

Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu

Yasujiro Ozu

Empire of Passion

Nagisa Oshima

Equinox

Jack Woods

CSM126: “Who could have imagined that a $6,000 backyard home movie would launch so many famous careers? And heck, it's a lot of fun to watch!”

Europa

Lars von Trier

CSM126: “This movie is the closest thing to a nightmare captured on celluloid - strange and frightening and oddly seductive.”