Drama

Alain Resnais's Muriel, or The Time of Return, the director's follow-up to Last Year at Marienbad, is as radical a reflection on the nature of time and memory as it's predecessor. The always luminous Delphine Seyrig (Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce,...

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (MISHIMA's Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura (THE PORNOGRAPHERS) turns this fact-based story-about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from...

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Henry Fonda takes the title role in John Ford's fanciful yet inspiring screen treatment of the Great Emancipator's early life. Having just hung his shingle in Springfield, Illinois, the inexperienced backwoods lawyer must rely on little more than faith...

Criterion white material in WHITE MATERIAL, the great contemporary French filmmaker Claire Denis (CHOCOLAT, BEAU TRAVAIL), known for her restless, intimate dramas, introduces an unforgettably crazed character. Played ferociously by Isabelle Huppert...

Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of brutal aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an...

With his third feature film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, Alfred Hitchcock took a major step toward greatness and made what he would come to consider his true directorial debut. This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young...

Clouds of Sils Maria (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Olivier Assayas (Director) This multilayered, immensely entertaining drama from the great contemporary French director Olivier Assayas is a singular look at the...

This bittersweet film from Jean Renoir, based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, is a tenderly comic idyll about a city family's picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two local men. Conceived as a short...

Set on one block of Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy Do or Die neighborhood, at the height of summer, this 1989 masterpiece by Spike Lee confirmed him as a writer and filmmaker of peerless vision and passionate social engagement. Over the course of a single day, the...

Federico Fellini's career achieved new levels of eccentricity and brilliance with this remarkable, controversial, extremely loose adaptation of Petronius's classical Roman satire, written during the reign of Nero. An episodic barrage of sexual...

Though she went on to create a string of brilliant films, Jane Campion (THE PIANO, BRIGHT STAR) will always be remembered for her knockout debut feature, SWEETIE, which focuses on the hazardous relationship between the buttoned-down, superstitious Kay...