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El Norte (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

El Norte (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. It s a story that happens every day, but until Gregory Nava’s groundbreaking El Norte (The North), the [...]

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Last Year at Marienbad (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Last Year at Marienbad (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais’ epochal visual poem has been puzzling appreciative viewers for decades. A surreal fever dream, or perhaps a nightmare, Last Year at Marienbad (L’année dernière à [...]

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The Last Metro (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

The Last Metro (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] François Truffaut s first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut s cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), The 400 Blows sensitively re-creates the trials of Truffaut s own difficult childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, and petty crime. The film marked [...]

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A Christmas Tale (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

A Christmas Tale (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] In Arnaud Desplechin’s beguiling A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël), Catherine Deneuve brings her legendary poise to the role of Junon, matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together at Christmas after she learns she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative. That simple [...]

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Sanjuro (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Sanjuro (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Akria Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed SANJURO. In this sly companion piece to Yojimbo, the jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan’s evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a: [...]

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