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The criterion collection presents cold water

In 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni (L'avventura) transplanted his existentialist ennui to the streets of swinging London for this international sensation, the Italian filmmaker's English-language debut. A countercultural masterpiece about the act of seeing...

New German Cinema icon Rainer Werner Fassbinder (World on a Wire) kicked off a new phase of his young career when he made the startling The Merchant of Four Seasons. In this despairing yet mordantly funny film, Fassbinder charts the decline of a...

Hollywood actor turned idiosyncratic auteur Robert Montgomery (Here Comes Mr. Jordan) directs and stars in this striking crime drama based on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes. He plays a tough-talking former GI who comes to a small New Mexico town to shake...

12 ANGRY MEN, by Sidney Lumet, may be the most radical big-screen courtroom drama in cinema history. A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Roses teleplay stars Henry Fonda as...

Le Deuxieme Souffle DVD

This offbeat historical drama is another in a line of hard-to-categorize films from cult director Alex Cox. Ed Harris stars as William Walker, an idealistic doctor, lawyer, and journalist who, at age 32, led a bloody revolution and installed himself as...

Director Franco Zeffirelli's exceptional version of the bard's immortal tragedy-often cited as the greatest adaptation of Shakespeare ever made-casts young unknowns Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey as the teenage Veronese lovers, Romeo Montague and...

The bloody two-year rule of 1850s Nicaragua by lunatic American man-at-arms William Walker is the basis for Alex Cox's ("Sid & Nancy") deliberately anachronistic and darkly funny parallel of 19th-century history with Reagan-era politics. Ed Harris stars...

Three years after Saigon's fall, Japanese journalist George Lam (Shiomi Akutagawa)-who'd been evenhanded in his coverage of the Viet Cong-was invited back to chronicle the improvements under the new regime. Feeling that what he'd been presented was...

In 1974, Leon Gast (Our Latin Thing) traveled to Africa to film Zaire 74, a music festival planned to accompany an unprecedented sports spectacle: the Rumble in the Jungle, in which late-career underdog Muhammad Ali would contend with the younger...

Jim Jarmusch assembled an extraordinary international cast of actors for these transitory tales of urban displacement and existential angst, all staged as encounters between cabbies and their fares. Spanning time zones, continents, and languages, Night...