Comedies

Jock Andrew (Emilio Estevez), nerd Brian (Anthony Michael Hall), hood John (Judd Nelson), princess Claire (Molly Ringwald), and weird-girl Allison (Ally Sheedy) each had their reasons for having to spend Saturday in high school detention. The long and...

After Hours/Bd Blu-Ray

Before Katharine Hepburn ever met Spencer Tracy, she wanted him as her costar in this film. George Stevens's Woman of the Year, conceived to build on the smashing comeback Hepburn had made in The Philadelphia Story, is the story of rival newspaper...

The first feature-length comedy by Charlie Chaplin (MODERN TIMES)-which charts a hapless prospectors search for fortune in the Klondike and his discovery of romance (with the beautiful Georgia Hale)- forever cemented the iconic status of Chaplin and his...

Tampopo/Bd Blu-Ray

With it's droll humor and bittersweet emotional heft, the feature debut of writer-director Greg Mottola announced the arrival of an unassumingly sharp-witted new talent on the 1990s indie scene. When she discovers a love letter written to her husband...

Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin's last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). with it's barrage of unforgettable gags and sly...

Melding melodrama with screwball farce, this Academy Award-nominated black comedy was Pedro Almod?var's international breakthrough and secured his place at the vanguard of modern Spanish cinema. Continuing the auteur's exploration of the female psyche,...

Wes Anderson first illustrated his lovingly detailed, slightly surreal cinematic vision (with co writer Owen Wilson) in this visually witty and warm portrait of three young misfits. Best friends Anthony (Luke Wilson), Dignan (Owen Wilson), and Bob...

PEOPLE ON SUNDAY (MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG) represents an astonishing confluence of talent an early collaboration by a group of German filmmakers who would all go on to become major Hollywood players, including eventual noir masters Robert Siodmak (THE...

In his notorious masterpiece THE GREAT DICTATOR, Charlie Chaplin (CITY LIGHTS, MODERN TIMES) offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin (in his first pure talkie) brings his sublime physicality...

Beatlemania is sweeping the Criterion Collection! This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles' beloved musical comedy a HARD DAY'S NIGHT, and to commemorate it we're releasing a jam-packed special edition of the film, featuring a new 4K...