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The Complete Monterey Pop Festival- (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] On a beautiful June weekend in 1967 at the height of the so-called “summer of love,” the first and only Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward – capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Monterey would launch the careers [...]

Jimi Plays Monterey & Shake! Otis At Monterey- (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding arrived in California virtually unknown. Returning stateside from London, where he had moved to launch his musical career, Hendrix exploded at Monterey, flooring an unsuspecting audience with his maniacal six-string pyrotechnics. Redding, venerable star of Memphis’ Stax record [...]

The Magician (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] THE MAGICIAN (Ansiktet), directed by Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Fanny and Alexander), is an engaging, brilliantly conceived tale of deceit from one of cinema’s premier illusionists. Max von Sydow (The Virgin Spring, The Exorcist) stars as Dr. Vogler, a mid-nineteenth-century traveling mesmerist and peddler of potions whose magic [...]

Che (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Far from a conventional biopic, Steven Soderberghs film about Che Guevara is a fascinating exploration of the revolutionary as icon. Daring in its refusal to make the socialist leader into an easy martyr or hero, Che paints a vivid, naturalistic portrait of the man himself (with a stunning, Cannes-award-winning performance [...]

The Wages Of Fear (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their expensive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, [...]