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Stalker

A hired guide leads a writer and a professor through a desolate postapocalyptic landscape in Andrei Tarkovsky’s visually captivating final Soviet feature, now available on Blu-ray and DVD.
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October Titles!

Two idiosyncratic masters headline this month’s announcement, with David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon joining the collection. Also in October: films by Orson Welles, Olivier Assayas, Carl Theodor Dreyer, and Agnieszka Smoczyńska.
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L’argent

French master Robert Bresson capped off his career with this uncompromising, formally rigorous portrait of a world beyond redemption, now available on Blu-ray and DVD.
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Yoshitaro Nomura on FilmStruck

Versatile genre auteur Yoshitaro Nomura made his mark with a string of impeccably constructed thrillers. Watch five of his best now on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck.
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Stalker: Meaning and Making

By Mark Le Fanu • 18 July 2017 • 3 comments
During a period of personal turmoil, Andrei Tarkovsky created this enigmatic masterpiece, which explores spiritual and metaphysical mysteries through the prism of a science-fiction epic. Read more »
L’argent: The Weight of the World

By Adrian Martin • 11 July 2017 • 1 comment
A forged note brings chaos and corruption to the lives of everyone it touches in Robert Bresson’s devastating final film. Read more »
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog: The First True Hitchcock Movie

By Philip Kemp • 27 June 2017 • 3 comments
After nearly a decade of honing his craft, Alfred Hitchcock firmly established his reputation with this silent thriller.
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A Cinema of Conscience: Ken Loach and Paul Laverty at Karlovy Vary
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