The Criterion Collection

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  100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012

  6253 minutes
  Spine: #900  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

  Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Summer and Winter Games, this one-of-a-kind collection assembles, for the first time, a century’s worth of Olympic films.

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  12 Angry Men

  Sidney Lumet
  1957 • 96 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States
  Spine: #591  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

  A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system that is as riveting as it is spare, this iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose’s teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the dissenting member on a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father.

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  3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman

  Roberto Rossellini
  Italy
  Spine: #672  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

  In the late 1940s, the incandescent Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman found herself so stirred by the revolutionary neorealist films of Roberto Rossellini that she sent the director a letter, introducing herself and offering her talents.

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  3 Women

  Robert Altman
  1977 • 124 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
  Spine: #230  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

  In a dusty California resort rown, a naïve Southern waif finds her role model in a fellow nurse, but her hero-worship evolves into something stranger and more sinister than either could have anticipated. Robert Altman’s dreamlike masterpiece careens from the humorous to the chilling to the surreal.

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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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  3:10 to Yuma

  Delmer Daves
  1957 • 92 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
  Spine: #657  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

  In this beautifully shot, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw (played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glenn Ford) to the train that will deliver him to prison.

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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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  45 Years

  Andrew Haigh
  2015 • 95 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom
  Spine: #861  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

  Andrew Haigh carries the tradition of British realist cinema to artful new heights in this exquisitely calibrated film, which features Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay as an English couple on the eve of an anniversary celebration.

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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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  ¡Alambrista!

  Robert M. Young
  1977 • 96 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States
  Spine: #609  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

  Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young’s take is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie, a political work that never loses sight of the complex man at its center.

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  Ace in the Hole

  Billy Wilder
  1951 • 111 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
  Spine: #396  Edition: Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD

  Kirk Douglas gives the fiercest performance of his career as Chuck Tatum, an amoral newspaper reporter who washes up in dead-end Albuquerque, happens upon the scoop of a lifetime, and will do anything to keep getting the lurid headlines.

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  Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams

  Akira Kurosawa
  1990 • 120 minutes • 1.85:1 • Japan
  Spine: #842  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

  Unfolding in a series of eight mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa was inspired by the beloved director’s own nighttime visions, along with stories from Japanese folklore.

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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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  All That Heaven Allows

  Douglas Sirk
  1955 • 89 minutes • 1.75:1 • United States
  Spine: #95  Edition: Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD

  A profoundly felt film about class and conformity in small-town America, All That Heaven Allows is a pinnacle of expressionistic Hollywood melodrama.

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  All That Jazz

  Bob Fosse
  1979 • 123 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
  Spine: #724  Editions: Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD, DVD

  Assembled with visionary editing that makes dance come alive on-screen as never before, and overflowing with sublime footwork, All That Jazz pushes the musical genre to personal depths and virtuosic aesthetic heights.

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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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  America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

  United States
  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

  Like the rest of America, Hollywood was ripe for revolution in the late sixties. Cinema attendance was down; what had once worked seemed broken. Enter Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner, who would form form BBS Productions, a company that was also a community.

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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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  And Everything Is Going Fine

  Steven Soderbergh
  2010 • 89 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
  Spine: #617  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

  After the death in 2004 of American theater actor and monologist Spalding Gray, director Steven Soderbergh pieced together a narrative of Gray’s life to create the documentary And Everything Is Going Fine.

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  André Gregory & Wallace Shawn: 3 Films

  United States
  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

  Gregory and Shawn’s unique contributions to the cinematic landscape are shape-shifting, challenging, and entertaining works about the process of creation.

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  Antichrist

  Lars von Trier
  2009 • 108 minutes • 2.35:1 • Denmark
  Spine: #542  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

  A grief-stricken man and woman—a searing Willem Dafoe and Cannes best actress winner Charlotte Gainsbourg—retreat to their cabin deep in the woods after the accidental death of their son, only to find terror and violence at the hands of nature and, ultimately, each other.

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  The Apu Trilogy

  Satyajit Ray
  India
  Spine: #782  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

  Two decades after its original negatives were burned in a fire, Satyajit Ray’s breathtaking milestone of world cinema rises from the ashes in a meticulously reconstructed new restoration.

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  Army of Shadows

  Jean-Pierre Melville
  1969 • 145 minutes • 1.85:1 • France
  Spine: #385  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, Collector’s Sets

  Atmospheric and gripping, Army of Shadows is Melville’s most personal film, featuring Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and the incomparable Simone Signoret as intrepid underground fighters who must grapple with their conception of honor in their battle against Hitler’s regime.

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