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A Brighter Summer Day

Edward Yang
1991 • 237 minutes • 1.85:1 • Taiwan
Spine: #804 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

Among the most praised and sought-after titles in all contemporary film, this singular masterpiece of Taiwanese cinema, directed by Edward Yang, finally comes to home video in the United States.

22 Mar 2016 Learn more »
The Manchurian Candidate

John Frankenheimer
1962 • 126 minutes • 1.75:1 • United States
Spine: #803 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

The rare film that takes aim at the frenzy of the McCarthy era while also being suffused with its Cold War paranoia, The Manchurian Candidate remains potent, shocking American moviemaking.

15 Mar 2016 Learn more »
Paris Belongs to Us

Jacques Rivette
1961 • 141 minutes • 1.37:1 • France
Spine: #802 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Suffused with a lingering post–World War II disillusionment while also evincing the playfulness and fascination with theatrical performance and conspiracy that would become hallmarks for the director, Paris Belongs to Us marked the provocative start to a brilliant directorial career.

8 Mar 2016 Learn more »
I Knew Her Well

Antonio Pietrangeli
1965 • 115 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy
Spine: #801 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes

A character study that never strays from its complicated central figure, while keeping us at an emotional remove, I Knew Her Well is one of the most overlooked films of the sixties, by turns funny, tragic, and altogether jaw-dropping.

23 Feb 2016 Learn more »
The Graduate

Mike Nichols
1967 • 106 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #800 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

One of the most beloved American films of all time, The Graduate earned Mike Nichols a best director Oscar, brought the music of Simon & Garfunkel to a wider audience, and introduced the world to a young actor named Dustin Hoffman.

23 Feb 2016 Learn more »
Death by Hanging

Nagisa Oshima
1968 • 118 minutes • 1.85:1 • Japan
Spine: #798 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Genius provocateur Nagisa Oshima, an influential figure in the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s, made one of his most startling political statements with the compelling pitch-black satire Death by Hanging.

16 Feb 2016 Learn more »
The Kid

Charlie Chaplin
1921 • 53 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #799 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, Hulu Plus

Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan make a miraculous pair in this nimble marriage of sentiment and slapstick, a film that is, as its opening title card states, “a picture with a smile—and perhaps, a tear.”

16 Feb 2016 Learn more »
The Emigrants/The New Land

Jan Troell
Sweden
Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

This monumental mid-nineteenth-century epic from Jan Troell charts, over the course of two films, a Swedish farming family’s voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world.

9 Feb 2016 Learn more »
Inside Llewyn Davis

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
2013 • 104 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #794 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

The visionary chroniclers of eccentric Americana Joel and Ethan Coen present one of their greatest creations in Llewyn Davis, a singer barely eking out a living on the peripheries of the flourishing Greenwich Village folk scene of the early sixties.

19 Jan 2016 Learn more »
Gilda

Charles Vidor
1946 • 110 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #795 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

An ever-shifting battle of the sexes set on a Buenos Aires casino’s glittering floor and in its shadowy back rooms, Gilda is among the most sensual of all Hollywood noirs.

19 Jan 2016 Learn more »
Bitter Rice

Giuseppe De Santis
1949 • 109 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy
Spine: #792 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

This early smash for producer extraordinaire Dino De Laurentiis and director Giuseppe De Santis is neorealism with a heaping dose of pulp.

12 Jan 2016 Learn more »
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.

12 Jan 2016 Learn more »
The Complete Lady Snowblood

Toshiya Fujita
Japan
Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

A young woman (Meiko Kaji), trained from childhood as an assassin and hell-bent on revenge for the murders of her father and brother and the rape of her mother, hacks and slashes her way to gory satisfaction.

5 Jan 2016 Learn more »