Criterion Collector’s Sale

New & Ex-Rentals from cinema�s most prestigious DVD imprint, plus other special collector editions

66 Films.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998): Wildly hallucinatory version of Hunter S. Thompson's counter–culture novel, does away with the ersatz social satire but thankfully hits the…; DVD ~~$45~~ $33.75 (Near New Criterion Print)
Last Days of Disco (1998): Not so much a nostalgia trip as a literate comedy of manners a la 1980s Manhattan, dissecting the sashays on the social dancefloor among a troupe of…; DVD ~~$45~~ $33.75
For All Mankind (1989): A rousing, near avant–garde meditation on the story of the first lunar landing and the 24 men who traveled to the moon and back. Edited…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (as new ~ Criterion)
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses, Total Balalaika Show) (1989): Laconic, often funny road movie follows an awful Soviet rock group with outlandish hairstyles across backwater USA. Director is Europe's answer to…; DVD ~~$39.95~~ $29.95 (3-disc set w/ "Meet Moses" & "Total Balalaika Show")
My Life As a Dog (1985): A young boy is taken away from his ill mother to a rural village where he confronts the likes of death, soccer, guilt and his first love. Ultimately…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (near new)
Secret Honor (1984): A fictionalized monologue adapted from the stage by playwrights Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, with the great Philip Baker Hall as former…; DVD ~~$50~~ $37.50
À Nos Amours (To Our Loves) (1983): One of dir. Pialat's most satisfying dramas, this concerns a journey of a teenage girl (Bonnaire, in a stunning debut) when her family life turns…; DVD ~~$45~~ $33.75 (near new)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV Series) (1980): This monolithic tome set in Weimar–era Germany represented the peak of dir. Fassbinder's filmmaking career. Across 15 hours, it details the…; DVD ~~$100~~ $75 (near new)
Wise Blood (1978): Brad Dourif plays the obsessed leader of the 'Church Without Christ' in this marvellous satire on contemporary evangelism in the American South. From…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (ex-rental Criterion)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977): Masterpiece of loopy morals, terrorist attacks and chastity belts that turns that age old loves–me–loves–me–not story once…; DVD ~~$45~~ $33.75 (as new)
Magic Flute, The (1975): An immaculately delivered version of Mozart's operatic fairytale, filmed on a special replica of the original 18th century stage. At its simplest,…; DVD ~~$45~~ $33.75 (2-disc w/ Blu-Ray ~ BFI Edition)
Amarcord (1974): Fellini's last bonafide masterpiece – an inspired recreation of his memories of growing up in small–town Italy during the Fascist 1930s…; DVD ~~$45~~ $33.75 (as new)
F for Fake (1974): Ostensibly a documentary, on unrepentant art–forger Elmyr de Hory and 'fake biographer' Clifford Irving, this material is cunningly subverted…; DVD ~~$35~~ $26.25 (damaged sleeve)
General Idi Amin Dada (A Self Portrait) (1974): General Idi Amin Dada’s narcissism is serviced willingly by an intrigued Barbet Schroeder, focusing his camera on the lunatic dictator during his…; DVD ~~$25~~ $18.75 (as new)
Straw Dogs (1971): With dir. Sam Peckinpah in top form, this powerful study of male territorial instincts pushed out the boundaries of movie violence in the…; DVD ~~$50~~ $37.50 (as new ~ 2-disc)
Double Suicide (Shinjû: Ten no amijima) (1969): A landmark of avant–garde Japanese cinema aims to replicate the startling aesthetic of traditional 'bunraku' puppetry in its enactment of an…; DVD ~~$35~~ $26.25 (as new)
If.... (1968): An angry yet sublimely poetic counter–cultural work in which events both real and imagined culminate in a violent revolt at a repressive public…; DVD ~~$50~~ $37.50
Salesman (1968): Devastating look at the borderline existence of four door–to–door bible salesman, as they go their round from coffee–shop,…; DVD ~~$39.95~~ $29.95
Le Samourai (The Samurai) (1967): Alain Delon plays an ultra–cool assassin whose flawless disposition is impenetrable to the Gendarmerie but not to a sexy key witness. Steely…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30
Mouchette (1967): An impoverished young girl in rural France bears the brunt of hard times in this perfectly formed study, taken from the novel by George Bernanos.…; DVD ~~$50~~ $37.50
Masculin Feminin (1966): Godard steers toward the political with this bittersweet social comment about the Parisian youth culture of '65 through a series of oddly connected…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30
Pierrot Le Fou (Crazy Pete) (1965): A striking example of the French New Wave. It's kiss, kiss, bang, bang all the way with Jean Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina as maverick intellectual…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30
Simon of the Desert (1965): A short surrealist fantasy concerning the life of Simon Stylites (Claudio Brook), an early Christian ascetic, who stood for years atop a column in…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30
Bande a Part (Band of Outsiders) (1964): One of the dir.’s more accessible films follows the carefree criminal adventures of Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey, while still…; DVD ~~$35~~ $26.25 (near new)
Naked Kiss, The (1964): Redemptive prostitute Constance Towers assimilates into smalltown USA, only to unwittingly bait trouble and dredge up unspeakable secrets. This…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (near new)
Red Desert (il Deserto Rosso) (1964): Housewife Monica Vitti embarks on a casual affair with Richard Harris following a nervous breakdown. Set amidst an oppressive industrial landscape,…; DVD ~~$30~~ $22.50 (BFI Edition ~ sealed)
High and Low (1963): Adapted from a crime–novel by Ed McBain, this kidnapping–thriller is a central work in dir. Kurosawa’s series of film noirs, combining…; DVD ~~$49.95~~ $37.45 (Out-of-print, sealed)
Le Mepris (Contempt) (1963): An insecure screen–writer struggles with vulgar producers as well as his movie–star wife on the set of Homer's Odyssey. Brigitte Bardot,…; DVD ~~$60~~ $45 (Out-of-print, as new)
Shock Corridor (1963): An unsolved slaying in a mental hospital prompts over–ambitious journalist Peter Breck to pose as a 'lunatic', so as to find the killer. Alas,…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (near new)
This Sporting Life (1963): Richard Harris gives a star–making performance as a roguish rugby player with a no less gruelling personal life. Intense melodrama edifies the…; DVD ~~$50~~ $37.50
Divorce Italian Style (1962): Italy’s archaic marital laws – where divorce was still illegal in the sixties – are the star in this devious satire of an unhappy…; DVD ~~$45~~ $33.75
Knife in the Water (1962): The old adage 'three is a crowd' is chillingly played out in Polanski's directing debut about a couple's troubled yachting weekend with a…; DVD ~~$45~~ $33.75 (near new)
L'Avventura (1960): The quintessential Euro–arthouse film of the 60s – a rambling yet elegant voyage through the sterile lives of the bourgeiousie, following…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (near new)
Peeping Tom (1960): While Hitchcock's PSYCHO received raves reviews and general acceptance, Michael Powell's equally contentious but brilliant film was condemned as…; DVD ~~$55~~ $41.25 (as new)
Ballad of a Soldier (1959): Soviet poetic realism brings a contemplative tone to the theatre of war, following a soldier’s pilgrimage back home after being granted leave for…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (near new)
Black Orpheus (1959): Get caught up in the rhythms and colour of Rio De Janiero at Carnival time for an exotic, utterly unique spin on the Greek legend of doomed lovers…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (as new)
Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) (1959): A rapturous remake of his silent 1934 film, A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS, that tells the story of an aging actor who returns with his troupe to his…; DVD ~~$59.95~~ $44.95 (Out-of-print, sealed 2-disc)
Umberto D. (1959): A pensioner struggles to make ends meet in post–war Italy. Gloomy neo–realist piece wrenches the heart through a compassionate lead…; DVD ~~$35~~ $26.25 (As New)
Nights of Cabiria (1957): Giulietta Masina is marvelous as a waifish prostitute dreaming of a rich, wonderful life but always finding sorrow. Tragicomic masterpiece won an…; DVD ~~$35~~ $26.25 (as new)
Written On the Wind (1956): Douglas Sirk’s strident Texas oil–dynasty drama about a pair of spoiled and wayward heirs to the family fortune and the…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30
Bob Le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler) (1955): Superb French noir from the dir. of LE SAMOURAI, here debuting with a taut plan to rob the Deauville casino, that grows ever more perilous for…; DVD ~~$45~~ $33.75 (as new)
Seven Samurai, The (1954): Kurosawa's classic 'Eastern Western' about a village who hire an elite band of warriors to fend off marauders. Compassionate storytelling with combat…; DVD ~~$50~~ $37.50 (scuffs on sleeve)
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Hands Off the Loot) (1954): Laid–back though influential French noir chronicling a wealthy, retired racketeer (Gabin) who is pulled back into the life of crime when his…; DVD ~~$35~~ $26.25
I Vitelloni (1953): This neo–realist Fellini combines humour and pathos for a truthful study of aimless youths either ill–equipped or unwilling to embrace…; DVD ~~$45~~ $33.75
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953): Stories by the 18th century writer Akinari Ueda are woven into an odyssey of civil–war misfortune, in which two peasant–potters and their…; DVD ~~$50~~ $37.50 (2-disc ~ as new)
Importance of Being Earnest (1952): Screen version of Oscar Wilde's brilliant comedy of manners starring a host of British stage thesps.; DVD ~~$39.95~~ $29.95
Ace in the Hole (The Big Carnival) (1951): Cast in a hole until recently, this scathing editorial on media sensationalism and the human spectacle stars Kirk Douglas (never fiercer) as a…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30
River, The (1951): A sublime and serene drama set on the banks of India's holy Bengal River in the 1920s, where a trio of young English girls come under the spell of a…; DVD ~~$45~~ $33.75
Tales of Hoffmann, The (1951): Boldly visual imagining of Offenbach's 1880 opera which takes three tales of magic and deception by E.T. Hoffmann and weaves them into a disquieting…; DVD ~~$50~~ $37.50 (as new)
Thieves' Highway (1949): One of dir. Dassin's early noir triumphs, this has Conte seeking to avenge his father's maiming at the hands of a corrupt Californian fruit…; DVD ~~$50~~ $37.50
Third Man, The (1949): Superb romantic thriller about a writer in post–war Vienna whose old friend fails to meet him – under mysterious circumstances. Justly…; DVD ~~$59.95~~ $44.95 (Out-of-print, sealed)
Les Enfants Terribles (The Strange Ones) (1948): A poetic drama–fantasy from the pen of Jean Cocteau (who also directed several scenes), that centres round the narcissistic,…; DVD ~~$50~~ $37.50 (as new)
Green for Danger (1946): Sly whodunit finds Trevor Howard and Sally Gray prime suspects in the death of a hospital patient. Cue Scotland Yard’s finest (Alistair Sim), whose…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (as new)
Notorious (1946): Sexy, suspenseful romantic thriller with Ingrid Bergman at her most radiant as an American spy who unwittingly falls in love with her contact, Cary…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945): A headstrong Wendy Hiller seeks marriage and wealth on the Scottish Hebrides, but is sidetracked by true romance. The powerful landscapes and lyrical…; DVD ~~$50~~ $37.50
Spellbound (1945): Beguiling Hitchcock, with Ingrid Bergman psychoanalyzing murder suspect Gregory Peck. Famed dream sequence by Salvador Dali.; DVD ~~$49.95~~ $37.45 (Out-of-print, sealed)
Henry V (1944): Brimming with zest, this Shakespeare adaption became an instant classic when released, featuring Laurence Olivier in full sail as the youthful…; DVD ~~$35~~ $26.25 (as new ~ Criterion)
Thief of Bagdad, The (1940): Sabu stars in this magical, intoxicating vision of the Arabian Nights, some twenty years before the genre was revived in SINBAD. Romance, tragedy,…; DVD ~~$30~~ $22.50 (as new)
La Regle Du Jeu (Rules of the Game) (1939): Considered one the greatest films in history, this downbeat yet incisive satire centres around weekend shooting party that results in a myriad of…; DVD ~~$45~~ $33.75
Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932): Renoir's joyfully anarchic attack on the bourgeoisie in which vagrant Michel Simon wreaks emotional havoc in the orderly household that have offered…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30
Trouble in Paradise (1932): Perhaps dir. Lubitsch's most celebrated comedy, this concerns a pair of endearing swindlers (Marshall and Hopkins) whose partnership in romance and…; DVD ~~$45~~ $33.75 (near new)
Threepenny Opera, The (1931): The ever–pointed satire of Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill's musical, in its London dockland setting of thiefs, beggars and bobbies, is given a…; DVD ~~$35~~ $26.25
Pandora's Box (1928): Louise Brooks become a star and influenced a million haircuts as the voluptuous call–girl, Lulu, whose misdeeds meet with an appropriate fate.; DVD ~~$50~~ $37.50 (2-disc ~ as new)
Passion of Joan of Arc (1928): An intense recreation of Joan of Arc’s trial and sentence that qualifies as one of cinema’s most transcendental achievements. Consisting…; Blu-Ray ~~$49.95~~ $37.45 (Masters of Cinema Ed.)
Carl Theodor Dreyer: Master Filmmaker (Master of the House, Day of Wrath, Ordet, Gerturd, My Metier.) (1925-1995): Fetching boxset featuring four films – MASTER OF THE HOUSE, DAY OF WRATH, ORDET, GERTRUD – by admired but often underrated Danish film…; DVD ~~$80~~ $60 (as new (4 films only))
Nanook of the North (1922): Landmark early documentary that was also dir. Flaherty's debut, depicting life for a plucky Eskimo family who use all their ingenuity to survive in…; DVD ~~$50~~ $37.50 (as new ~ Criterion (OOP))

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