The Criterion Collection

Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé

Jean Painlevé

Fanny and Alexander Box Set

Ingmar Bergman

Jarred: “Quite possibly Bergman's best work, with enough extravagant visuals, painful meditations, and complex characters to satisfy the intelligent audience. ”

A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman

Jarred: “Bergman's bleakest films are all here. My faith was challenged, my intellect was deepened, and my heart was torn. ”

Three Colors

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Jarred: “Easily some of the greatest films I've ever seen, intensely compassionate, achingly human, and powerfully symbolic. ”

By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two

Stan Brakhage

Jarred: “I continually dive back in, again and again. You can never really find a stopping point, nor will you ever be free of mystery, with Brakhage. ”

A Hollis Frampton Odyssey

Hollis Frampton

Jarred: “The audaciousness of Frampton's monumental work makes it difficult for me to choose between him or Brakhage. I've preordered this and can't wait!”

Eclipse Series 25: Basil Dearden’s London Underground

Basil Dearden

Jarred: “These noir films, separately and all together, are just too damn cool. Nothing else needs to be said. ”

The Complete Jean Vigo

Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Hiroshi Teshigahara

America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

Pierre Etaix

Pierre Etaix

AK 100: 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa

Carl Theodor Dreyer Box Set

La Jetée/Sans Soleil

Chris Marker

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Carl Th. Dreyer

M

Fritz Lang

Jarred: “Peter Lorre will always be my favorite choice as the creepiest actor of all time. ”

Vampyr

Carl Th. Dreyer

Jarred: “One of the most dizzying spectacles of special effects and masterful uses of filmic imagery I have ever seen. ”

The 39 Steps

Alfred Hitchcock

Jarred: “The beginning of Hitchcock's "wrong man" theme cannot be overlooked.”

Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin

Jarred: “Chaplin is a master at making you laugh hysterically and weep soulfully. A grand storyteller. ”

The Lady Vanishes

Alfred Hitchcock

The Rules of the Game

Jean Renoir

Jarred: “One line sums up the weight of this film for me: "Everyone has their reasons."”

Stagecoach

John Ford

Notorious

Alfred Hitchcock

Hamlet

Laurence Olivier

Jarred: “Laurence Olivier's masterpiece is the most haunting and memorable of the adaptations of Shakespeare's greatest play. ”

The Red Shoes

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Jarred: “What a passionate, exquisite film this is. Life imitates art with rapturous beauty and color, long before Aronofsky's "Black Swan." ”

Bicycle Thieves

Vittorio De Sica

Jarred: “De Sica's neorealism is bleak and tearjerking. I'm impressed by how much meaning he was able to cram into simple, everyday sequences.”

The Third Man

Carol Reed

Jarred: “One of the movies that got me into film in the first place. ”

Late Spring

Yasujiro Ozu

Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa

Jarred: “A rewarding and frustrating "courtroom drama," and an interesting insight into the darkness of humanity. ”

Ace in the Hole

Billy Wilder

Jarred: “Billy Wilder's brutal, scathing, dark carnivalesque film indicting America's exploitation news hysteria features Douglas' best performance. ”

Umberto D.

Vittorio De Sica

Tokyo Story

Yasujiro Ozu

Jarred: “If you don't cry for at least a second; if you don't at least shed one tear, you might not be a human being. ”

Sawdust and Tinsel

Ingmar Bergman

Jarred: “No work of Bergman's should go unnoticed; certainly not one so heartbreaking as this film. ”

The Earrings of Madame de . . .

Max Ophuls

Jarred: “In my humble opinion, one of the greatest of all films. Emotionally ravishing, the spirit dances with Ophuls' ever-moving camera. ”

The Wages of Fear

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Ugetsu

Kenji Mizoguchi

La strada

Federico Fellini

Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa

Jarred: “Too epic for words. ”

On the Waterfront

Elia Kazan

Jarred: “Kazan's social realism is poignant, lonely, but ultimately triumphant. A glorious film, at last in the Collection!”

Sansho the Bailiff

Kenji Mizoguchi

Diabolique

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Jarred: “It is easy to see why Hitchcock was jealous of this script. ”

The Night of the Hunter

Charles Laughton

Jarred: “Mitchum's performance lends a raw power to the screen that I have never seen in another classic film. ”

Richard III

Laurence Olivier

Jarred: “Olivier's performance as one of the most dastardly evil villains in history is a grand study in sinister aesthetics. ”

Kiss Me Deadly

Robert Aldrich

Jarred: “Film noir meets anarchism meets sci-fi meets apocalyptic Cold War insanity. ”

The Killing

Stanley Kubrick

Jarred: “I love Kubrick to a fault, but I don't care. This is still one of my favorite noir and heist films. ”

The Red Balloon

Albert Lamorisse

Jarred: “The greatest children's film of all time! I have nothing else to say but Hooray!”

A Man Escaped

Robert Bresson

The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman

Jarred: “One of the few films that literally changed my life. ”

Wild Strawberries

Ingmar Bergman

Jarred: “I hope I take my life as seriously in reflection, when I reach this man's age. ”

Paths of Glory

Stanley Kubrick

Jarred: “This is a perfectly-made film. Just watch it already. ”

Sweet Smell of Success

Alexander Mackendrick

Jarred: “Mackendrick's typically smooth, slick direction, Bernstein's jazzy score, and Lancaster's acid words all add up to exceptional film noir. ”

Elevator to the Gallows

Louis Malle

Jarred: “What easily could have been a boring, gimmicky murder tale is transformed by Malle and Co. into a memorably atmospheric, jazzy night. ”

12 Angry Men

Sidney Lumet

Jarred: “Claustrophobic, bitter, darkly honest. Sidney Lumet is a brilliant curmudgeon. ”

The Magician

Ingmar Bergman

Jarred: “It is difficult to pinpoint a single Bergman film as having the most pathos, but I think this may be it. ”

Hiroshima mon amour

Alain Resnais

Jarred: “Resnais' rhythmic, crushing frame narrative offers up many philosophical questions while presenting a portrait of suffocating love and tragedy.”

The 400 Blows

François Truffaut

Jarred: “Truffaut's work about a misunderstood boy is one of the most resonant childhood films, immersive in atmosphere and compassionate in storytelling.”

Anatomy of a Murder

Otto Preminger

Spartacus

Stanley Kubrick

Jarred: “To call this Kubrick's weakest film is not really a criticism, but merely an admiration of his entire ouvre. ”

Breathless

Jean-Luc Godard

Jarred: “The sexiest, most vibrant film ever made. ”

L’avventura

Michelangelo Antonioni

Jarred: “Antonioni's frustratingly elusive film deals masterfully with loneliness, ennui, and distractive love. I think I love and hate it at the same time.”