Sanjuro (Criterion Collection)
 From Amazon.com: Akira Kurosawa's sequel to Yojimbo is more lighthearted and less cynical, a rousing adventure with Toshirô Mifune reprising his role as the scruffy mercenary who becomes an unlikely big brother to a troupe of nine naive samurai. [... more]
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Mamma Roma (Criterion Collection)
Figlio Di Puttana - A PG-13 Review: That's pretty much what this film is about. For those of you who don't know "figlio di puttana" is Italian for "a whore's son" or "son of a whore". It is a common everyday Italian insult. [... more]
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The Lower Depths (1957) (Criterion Collection)
Amazon.com Essential Video: In faithfully adapting Maxim Gorky's classic play The Lower Depths, Akira Kurosawa incorporated themes from several of his better-known films. Transplanted from the play's Russian setting to Japan's Edo (pre-Tokyo) period, the [... more]
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The Rules of the Game (Criterion Collection)
Amazon.com essential video: Consistently cited by critics worldwide as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's bittersweet drama of life, love, class, and the social code of manners and behavior ("the rules of the game") is a savage [... more]
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The Wages of Fear (Criterion Collection) (1953)
From Amazon.co.uk: Henri-Georges Clouzot's gripping 1953 thriller, The Wages of Fear, throws four men into a primal struggle against the jungle armed with modern machinery and their own nerves and endurance. The squalid, isolated South American town of [... more]
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Diary of a Chambermaid (Criterion Collection)
From Amazon.com: Considered surrealist Luis Buñuel most linear film, Diary of a Chambermaid is an excellent introduction to this director's dark satirical world of social criticism. Loosely based on Mirbeau's Journal D'Une Femme de Chambre, Bu& [... more]
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Brazil (Criterion Collection) (Single Disc Edition)
Amazon.com Essential Video: If Franz Kafka had been an animator and film director--oh, and a member of Monty Python's Flying Circus--this is the sort of outrageously dystopian satire one could easily imagine him making. However, Brazil was made by Terry [... more]
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Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films (Criterion Collection)
From Amazon.com: Andrzej Wajda's first three features form a landmark in Polish cinema, and a monument of that great decade of European movies, the 1950s. Working mostly during a thaw in Soviet control over his homeland, Wajda and his collaborators [... more]
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The Man Who Fell to Earth (Criterion Collection)
From Amazon.com: While other films directed by Nicolas Roeg have attained similar cult status (including Walkabout and Don't Look Now), none has been as hotly debated as this languid but oddly fascinating adaptation of the science fiction novel by Walter [... more]
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Burden Of Dreams (Criterion Collection)
The Definitive "Making Of" Documentary: By any standards, "Burden of Dreams" is unforgettable. It's a documentary about director Werner Herzog's attempts to make his film "Fitzcarraldo." A difficult project, Herzog, filming [... more]
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Equinox (Criterion Collection)
From Amazon.com: It is truly wondrous that Criterion selected the obscure sci-fi cult gem, Equinox, to bestow with classic status. Filmed in Bronson Canyon, Los Angeles, three teens used their college funds to make the $6500 film about four kids who [... more]
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Dazed And Confused (Criterion Collection)
From Amazon.com essential video: You remember high school? Really remember? If you think you do, watch this film: it'll all really come racing back. After changing the world with the generation-defining Slacker, director Richard Linklater turned his free- [... more]
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