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Clouds of Sils Maria

Olivier Assayas
2014 • 124 minutes • 2.40:1
Spine: #822 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

This multilayered, immensely entertaining drama from the great contemporary French director Olivier Assayas is a singular look at the intersection of high art and popular culture.

28 Jun 2016 Learn more »
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Stanley Kubrick
1964 • 95 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States
Spine: #821 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

Stanley Kubrick’s painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is without a doubt one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood.

28 Jun 2016 Learn more »
Fantastic Planet

René Laloux
1973 • 72 minutes • 1.66:1 • France
Spine: #820 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction.

21 Jun 2016 Learn more »
La chienne

Jean Renoir
1931 • 96 minutes • 1.19:1 • France
Spine: #818 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

Jean Renoir’s ruthless love triangle tale, his second sound film, is a true precursor to his brilliantly bitter The Rules of the Game, displaying all of the filmmaker’s visual genius and fully imbued with his profound sense of humanity.

14 Jun 2016 Learn more »
Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Alexander Hall
1941 • 94 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #819 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

A sophisticated supernatural Hollywood comedy whose influence continues to be felt, Here Comes Mr. Jordan stars the eminently versatile Robert Montgomery as a working-class boxer and amateur aviator whose plane crashes in a freak accident.

14 Jun 2016 Learn more »
Le amiche

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

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

7 Jun 2016 Learn more »
Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy

Wim Wenders
Germany
Spine: #813 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

In the middle of the 1970s, Wim Wenders embarked on a three-film journey that took him from the wide roads of Germany to the endless highways of the United States and back again.

31 May 2016 Learn more »
The Player

Robert Altman
1992 • 124 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #812 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

A Hollywood studio executive with a shaky moral compass (Tim Robbins) finds himself caught up in a criminal situation that would be right at home in one of his movie projects, in this biting industry satire from Robert Altman.

24 May 2016 Learn more »
The Naked Island

Kaneto Shindo
1960 • 96 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan
Spine: #811 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, Hulu Plus

Director Kaneto Shindo’s documentary-like, dialogue-free portrayal of daily struggle is a work of stunning visual beauty and invention.

17 May 2016 Learn more »
In a Lonely Place

Nicholas Ray
1950 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #810 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

When a gifted but washed-up screenwriter with a hair-trigger temper—Humphrey Bogart, in a revelatory, vulnerable performance—becomes the prime suspect in a brutal Tinseltown murder, the only person who can supply an alibi for him is a seductive neighbor (Gloria Grahame) with her own troubled past.

10 May 2016 Learn more »
Easy Rider

Dennis Hopper
1969 • 95 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #545 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, Collector’s Sets

The down-and-dirty directorial debut of former clean-cut teen star Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider heralded the arrival of a new voice in film, one pitched angrily against the mainstream.

3 May 2016 Learn more »
Brief Encounter

David Lean
1945 • 86 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #76 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, Collector’s Sets, iTunes

After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) begin a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair.

26 Apr 2016 Learn more »
The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates

Robert Drew
170 minutes • United States
Spine: #808 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

Seeking to invigorate the American documentary format, which he felt was rote and uninspired, Robert Drew brought the style and vibrancy he had fostered as a Life magazine correspondent to filmmaking in the late fifties.

26 Apr 2016 Learn more »
Phoenix

Christian Petzold
2014 • 98 minutes • 2.35:1 • Germany
Spine: #809 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer (Nina Hoss, in a dazzling, multilayered performance) has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.

26 Apr 2016 Learn more »
Barcelona

Whit Stillman
1994 • 101 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #807 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, Collector’s Sets

Set during the eighties, Barcelona explores topics both heady and hilarious while remaining a constantly witty delight, featuring a sharp young cast that includes Taylor Nichols, Chris Eigeman, and Mira Sorvino.

19 Apr 2016 Learn more »
A Whit Stillman Trilogy: Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco

Whit Stillman
United States
Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

Over the course of the 1990s, writer-director Whit Stillman made a trilogy of films about the acid tongues and broken hearts of some haplessly erudite young Americans in New York and abroad.

19 Apr 2016 Learn more »
Only Angels Have Wings

Howard Hawks
1939 • 121 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States
Spine: #806 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

Electrified by crackling dialogue and visual craftsmanship of the great Howard Hawks, Only Angels Have Wings stars Jean Arthur as a traveling entertainer who gets more than she bargained for during a stopover in a South American port town.

12 Apr 2016 Learn more »
Bicycle Thieves

Vittorio De Sica
1948 • 89 minutes • 1.37:1 • Italy
Spine: #374 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes

Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema.

29 Mar 2016 Learn more »
A Poem Is a Naked Person

Les Blank
1974 • 90 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #805 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes

A Poem Is a Naked Person is a work of rough beauty that serves as testament to Les Blank’s cinematic daring and Leon Russell’s immense musical talents.

29 Mar 2016 Learn more »