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We are proud to present a selection of spellbinding music and dance, Criterion-style. Please hold your applause until the intermission.

There are eight million stories in the Naked City. Here are some of them.

There’s more in the collection than just the spine-numbered titles. Check out the releases that include short films as supplemental treasures.

The history of cinema: one hundred years of do-overs. But no matter how hard the remakers try, no one can surpass these originals.

Predators, prey, objects of study, companions. Here are the animals in the Criterion menagerie.

Jul 7, 2010 — Two of Criterion’s 2010 releases were honored at last week’s Il Cinema Ritrovato festival, organized by the Cineteca di Bologna: By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two won the top prize for DVD of the year, while Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy...

Jun 29, 2010 — We know that one of the most discussed aspects of a Criterion release is its cover art. So we wanted to draw your attention to a fascinating, entertaining blog post by Sam Smith, who designed the packaging for our new...

This Japanese visionary played chaos like jazz in his movies, which included anything-goes yakuza thrillers and daring postwar dramas of human frailty.

Mar 24, 2010 — Congratulations to the winner of our final Kurosawa birthday giveaway, Dan Thompson! He responded to our challenge to craft a single persuasive sentence for getting a friend who is unfamiliar with Kurosawa to watch one of his films with the...

The Criterion Collection is bursting with films that have earned Hollywood’s prestigious little golden guy.