Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley shines in Criterion’s stunning release, a must-have for movie lovers seeking a dark, stylish, and unforgettable cinematic experience.
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See what movie stars and directors pick in the Criterion Closet. A joyful YouTube series that inspires new must-watch lists and celebrates cinema.
Experience all 10 Wes Anderson films in stunning 4K UHD with The Criterion Collection’s $500 deluxe box set—packed with 25+ hours of exclusive bonus content.
The Big Heat (1953) is a hard-boiled noir classic, restored by Criterion. Gritty, explosive, and unforgettable—this film still scorches decades later.
Experience unrelenting tension in The Wages of Fear, a cinematic masterpiece of suspense by Henri-Georges Clouzot, restored to thrill a new generation.
The Criterion Collection: The Roaring Twenties showcases the enduring appeal of film noir, with the legendary Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney, both stalwarts of the genre, taking center stage.
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is a modern reimagining of the classic tale of the Wooden Boy transcends the boundaries of storytelling and uproots into the realms of personal fantasy.
In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he’d honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. The Girl Can’t Help It bops along to a parade of performances by rock-and-roll trailblazers—including Little Richard, Fats Domino, Julie London, Eddie Cochran, the Platters, and Gene Vincent—who light up the screen with the uniquely American sound that was about to conquer the world.
Out this week is The Criterion Collection: Walker on Blu-ray. This movie not only has Joe Strummer as an actor but Strummer also composed the whole soundtrack. Inspired by the music of the area where the movie was shot, this is a fine film to add to your collection. It takes liberties as a timepiece movie to play with accuracy. An unconventional retelling of the life of William Walker, a 19th-century American mercenary leader who became the president of Nicaragua. All can be forgiven for a great little film.
The Flight of the Phoenix - The Criterion Collection: James Stewart, Hardy Krüger, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, and Ernest Borgnine star in this saga of a group of men who are stranded in the Sahara when their plane crashes. A rescue is unlikely, and their numbers are already starting to dwindle. Now, their only chance of making it out of the desert alive rests with the long shot plan of cobbling together a working aircraft out of what's left of theirs. Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser co-star; based on the novel by Elleston Trevor.
Federico Fellini’s La Strada views like a modern-day fairytale. True fairytales always end in cruelty. The movie's backdrop is a poverty ravished war-torn Italy in the 50s. Way before Clint Eastwood tried his hand at spaghetti westerns, both Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart paved the way for American actors to work in Italian cinema. What was viewed as a downgrade or career suicide, La Strada turned into movie gold for both actors. From this movie, Italy and America enjoyed cross-pollination in the movie industry that inspired many years to come after La Strada.
I am a big film noir buff. The Criterion Collection is releasing Pickup on South Street (1953) this June 29, 2021.
With its 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 (Stanley Tucci) by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza (Hope Davis) turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice. Soon the entire clan—strong-willed mom (Anne Meara), taciturn dad (Pat McNamara), and jaded sister (Parker Posey) with pretentious boyfriend (Liev Schreiber) in tow—has squeezed into a station wagon and headed into Manhattan to find out the truth, kicking off a one-crazy-day odyssey full of unexpected detours and life-changing revelations.