The Criterion Collection

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  The 39 Steps

  Alfred Hitchcock
  1935 • 86 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
  Spine: #56  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, Collector’s Sets, iTunes

  A heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps follows Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) as he stumbles upon a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.

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  The 400 Blows

  François Truffaut
  1959 • 99 minutes • 2.35:1 • France
  Spine: #5  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, Collector’s Sets, iTunes

  Told through the eyes of François Truffaut’s cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel, The 400 Blows sensitively re-creates the trials of Truffaut’s own childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, and petty crime.

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  49th Parallel

  Michael Powell
  1941 • 123 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
  Spine: #376  Editions: DVD, iTunes

  A Nazi U-boat crew, headed by the ruthless Eric Portman, is stranded in Canada during the thick of World War II in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s quick-witted wartime thriller, 49th Parallel.

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  8½

  Federico Fellini
  1963 • 138 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy
  Spine: #140  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, Collector’s Sets, iTunes

  One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ (Otto e mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema.

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  Adventures of Zatoichi

  Kimiyoshi Yasuda
  1964 • 86 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan
  Editions: Collector’s Sets, iTunes

  The blind swordsman wanders into a town to celebrate the New Year. There, he befriends a young woman whose father has gone missing; as he tries to help her find him, he becomes entangled in a web of corruption and a series of tragic twists of fate.

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  Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  1974 • 93 minutes • 1.37:1 • Germany
  Spine: #198  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes

  The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows.

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  Amarcord

  Federico Fellini
  1973 • 123 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy
  Spine: #4  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, 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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  The American Friend

  Wim Wenders
  1977 • 126 minutes • 1.66:1 • Germany
  Spine: #793  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes

  Wim Wenders pays loving homage to rough-and-tumble Hollywood film noir with The American Friend, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel Ripley’s Game.

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  Le amiche

  Michelangelo Antonioni
  1955 • 106 minutes • 1.37:1 • Italy
  Spine: #817  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes

  This major early achievement by Michelangelo Antonioni bears the first signs of the cinema-changing style for which he would soon be world-famous.

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  Anatomy of a Murder

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

  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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  An Angel at My Table

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

  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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  Antonio Gaudí

  Hiroshi Teshigahara
  1984 • 72 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
  Spine: #425  Editions: DVD, 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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  Ashes and Diamonds

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

  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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  The Atomic Submarine

  Spencer G. Bennet
  1959 • 72 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
  Spine: #366  Editions: Collector’s Sets, 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, iTunes

  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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  An Autumn Afternoon

  Yasujiro Ozu
  1962 • 113 minutes • 1.37:1 • Japan
  Spine: #446  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes

  The last film by Yasujiro Ozu was also his final masterpiece, a gently heartbreaking story about a man’s dignifed resignation to life’s shifting currents and society’s modernization.

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  Babette’s Feast

  Gabriel Axel
  1987 • 104 minutes • 1.66:1 • Denmark
  Spine: #665  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes

  At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette’s Feast is a deeply beloved treasure of cinema.

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  Bad Timing

  Nicolas Roeg
  1980 • 122 minutes • 2.35:1 • United Kingdom
  Spine: #303  Editions: DVD, iTunes

  Amid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna, psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the elusive Milena Flaherty (Theresa Russell) in Nicolas Roeg’s masterful, deeply disturbing foray into the dark world of sexual obsession.

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  The Ballad of Narayama

  Keisuke Kinoshita
  1958 • 98 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan
  Spine: #645  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes

  Filmed almost entirely on cunningly designed studio sets, in brilliant color and widescreen, The Ballad of Narayama is a stylish and vividly formal work from Japan’s cinematic golden age, directed by the dynamic Keisuke Kinoshita.

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  The Battle of Algiers

  Gillo Pontecorvo
  1966 • 121 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy
  Spine: #249  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes

  One of the most influential political films in history, The Battle of Algiers, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s.

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  Beauty and the Beast

  Jean Cocteau
  1946 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
  Spine: #6  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, Collector’s Sets, iTunes

  The spectacular visions of enchantment, desire, and death in Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) have become timeless icons of cinematic wonder.

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  Belle de jour

  Luis Buñuel
  1967 • 100 minutes • 1.66:1 • France
  Spine: #593  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes

  Catherine Deneuve’s porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of the actress’s most iconic roles: Séverine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her after­noon hours working in a bordello.

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