The world of Gilbert and Sullivan comes to vivid life in director Mike Leigh's extraordinary dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera The Mikado. Topsy-Turvy is an unexpected period delight from one of contemporary cinema's great artists.
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The world of Gilbert and Sullivan comes to vivid life in director Mike Leigh's extraordinary dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera The Mikado. Topsy-Turvy is an unexpected period delight from one of contemporary cinema's great artists.
The world of Gilbert and Sullivan comes to vivid life in director Mike Leigh's extraordinary dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera The Mikado. Topsy-Turvy is an unexpected period delight from one of contemporary cinema's great artists.
updated 13 years ago
The world of Gilbert and Sullivan comes to vivid life in director Mike Leigh's extraordinary dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera The Mikado. Topsy-Turvy is an unexpected period delight from one of contemporary cinema's great artists.
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In the last days of World War II, a Japanese platoon sustains morale through the Burma campaign by singing traditional songs, accompanied by the delicate harp-playing of Private Mizushima (Shoji Yasui). After the unit surrenders to British forces, Mizushima is tasked with convincing a holdout of cave-dwelling Japanese soldiers to lay down their arms; when his mission fails, he is counted among the dead. Mizushima survives, however, and becomes a monk who dedicates his life to providing proper burials for his fallen comrades. Meanwhile, his former platoon attempts to track him down by using music to express a shared sense of separation and longing for home. Adapted from Michio Takeyama’s classic novel, and renowned for legendary composer Akira Ifukube’s haunting score, Kon Ichikawa’s THE BURMESE HARP is an epic humanist masterpiece—a profound contemplation of suffering, redemption, and spiritual fortitude during the darkest periods of violence.
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In honor of our 40th anniversary, we’re taking the Criterion Closet on the road – and we're opening the door to everyone! FIRST STOP: the 62nd New York Film Festival! The Criterion Collection Mobile Closet will be coming to Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center during NYFF opening and centerpiece weekends (September 28-29 and October 5-6). Come in, explore the Collection, and make your own closet video!
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This amazing new Blu-ray box set celebrates forty years of the Criterion Collection by gathering an electrifying mix of classic and contemporary films, and presenting them with all their special features and essays in a deluxe new edition. CC40’s eclectic selection includes the releases most frequently chosen by the hundreds of filmmakers, actors, writers, and other movie-loving luminaries who have visited Criterion over the years, as documented in our popular Closet Picks video series. Neither a historical survey nor a top-forty compilation, this exciting, personal, unpredictable anthology reflects the cinematic joys and inspirations of the creative community that makes the Criterion Collection possible.
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The inextricable link between cinema and photography has long made the latter a subject of intense fascination for filmmakers, who have found in the adjacent medium a means to explore heady themes of voyeurism and obsession, perception and identity, and the relationship between art and reality. In REAR WINDOW, a photographer’s confinement to his apartment transforms him into an unwitting observer of his neighbors’ secret lives; in BLOW-UP, a fashion photographer inadvertently captures a potential crime; and ONE HOUR PHOTO hauntingly portrays a photo technician’s fixation with a family whose pictures unlock his deep isolation and yearning. By turns provocative, perverse, and thrilling, these films reach deep into our compulsive relationship with images and, by extension, with cinema itself.
The great cinematic mythmaker of the San Fernando Valley, stages uniquely American tales of ambition, destiny, downfall, and redemption on an epic scale—all stamped with his unique feeling for the ways in which the forces of fate and chance govern human lives.
Featuring:
MAGNOLIA (1999)
PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (2002)
THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007)
THE MASTER (2012)
LICORICE PIZZA (2021)
Unlucky vacationers discover that crime doesn’t take a holiday in these deceptively sunny, seductively dark thrillers set amid scenic beaches, luxury resorts, and picture-postcard locales. With gorgeous scenery, swimsuit-clad stars, and shadowy intrigue, these lusciously overheated entertainments are the perfect summer escape—no sunscreen required.
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LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (John M. Stahl, 1945)
DESERT FURY (Lewis Allen, 1947)
THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (Orson Welles, 1947)
BRIGHTON ROCK (John Boulting, 1948)
HIS KIND OF WOMAN (John Farrow, 1951)
KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (Phil Karlson, 1952)
DANGEROUS CROSSING (Joseph M. Newman, 1953)
INFERNO (Roy Ward Baker, 1953)
NIAGARA (Henry Hathaway, 1953)
FEMALE ON THE BEACH (Joseph Pevney, 1955)
PURPLE NOON (RENÉ CLÉMENT, 1960)
LA PISCINE (JACQUES DERAY, 1969)
THE LAST OF SHEILA (HERBERT ROSS, 1973)
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Once the sound of the future, now awesomely retro, synth soundtracks add a splash of otherworldly atmosphere to some of the coolest movies ever made. Using state-of-the-art analog and digital technologies, pioneering musicians like Bebe and Louis Barron (FORBIDDEN PLANET), Wendy Carlos (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE), Sun Ra (SPACE IS THE PLACE), Tangerine Dream (THIEF), Vangelis (MISSING), and Ryuichi Sakamoto (MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE) created immersive soundscapes that expanded cinematic storytelling and forever changed the art of movie soundtracking. Alternately eerie, icy, pulse-pounding, and thrillingly emotional, these scores tunnel into your eardrums at ecstatic frequencies hitherto unexplored.
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FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
SOLARIS (1972)
THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE (1973)
MESSIAH OF EVIL (1973)
SPACE IS THE PLACE (1974)
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976)
THE LAST WAVE (1977)
STALKER (1979)
SHOGUN ASSASSIN (1980)
SCANNERS (1981)
THIEF (1981)
LIQUID SKY (1982)
MISSING (1982)
NEXT OF KIN (1982)
TENEBRAE (1982)
MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE (1983)
DELTA SPACE MISSION (1984)
MANHUNTER (1986)
FOR ALL MANKIND (1989)
The best ensemble cast movies feature virtuosic performers inhabiting dynamic and complex characters who play off one another like a great band at the height of their chemistry. Under the deft direction of filmmakers like George Cukor (THE WOMEN), Spike Lee (SCHOOL DAZE), Mike Nichols (THE BIRDCAGE), and Wes Anderson (THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS), these sprawling showcases command our attention with multidimensional storylines that keep us engaged and engrossed in each well-hewn dramatic arc.
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THE WOMEN (1939)
THE BIG CHILL (1983)
SCHOOL DAZE (1988)
NOISES OFF (1992)
DAZED AND CONFUSED (1993)
THE BIRDCAGE (1996)
CAN’T HARDLY WAIT (1998)
STATE AND MAIN (2000)
THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001)
THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS (2003)
ANOTHER ROUND (2020)
In anticipation of his latest opus, OH, CANADA, we’re revisiting the films of one of American cinema’s most provocative moral philosophers. For over forty years, Paul Schrader has probed the guilty soul of the modern world in a relentless search for existential meaning. Raised in a strict Calvinist household—a rigorous upbringing that would influence his cinematic philosophy and his study of the “transcendental” styles of directors like Yasujiro Ozu and Robert Bresson—Schrader exploded onto the scene with his screenplay for Martin Scorsese’s TAXI DRIVER, an anguished howl of urban alienation that established him as one of the leading figures of the 1970s New American Cinema. Specializing in explorations of damaged souls driven to shocking extremes in their search for salvation, he has experimented with a range of styles, genres, and tones—ranging from the profoundly serious to the coolly ironic to the self-consciously sleazy—in daring works like HARDCORE, MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS, and AUTO FOCUS. Grappling with weighty themes of faith, violence, sin, and redemption, Schrader’s films are fascinating windows into his personal obsessions.
Featuring
BLUE COLLAR (1978)
HARDCORE (1979)
CAT PEOPLE (1982)
MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS (1985)
PATTY HEARST (1988)
THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS (1990)
LIGHT SLEEPER (1992)
AFFLICTION (1997)
TOUCH (1997)
AUTO FOCUS (2002)
THE CANYONS (2013)
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Watch a collection of midcentury classics from the studio that produced some of the most ambitious big-screen productions of the 1950s.
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FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
ON THE WATERFRONT
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
BONJOUR TRISTESSE
3:10 TO YUMA
SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER
A RAISIN IN THE SUN
PICNIC
BORN YESTERDAY
These portraits of social and psychological collapse capture the tenor of the '60s while ushering in a new era of cinematic experimentation.
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THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
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SECONDS
LILITH
TARGETS
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
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POINT BLANK
THE WORLD'S GREATEST SINNER
PRESSURE POINT
PRETTY POISON
BRAINSTORM
THE CHASE
UPTIGHT
FACES
These sensuous tales of dreams, nightmares, and intrigue immortalize one of the world’s most unique destinations. Watch a collection of mesmerizing films by Nicolas Roeg, Luchino Visconti, Paul Schrader, and much more.
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DON'T LOOK NOW
DEATH IN VENICE
THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS
ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS
A LITTLE ROMANCE
THE HONEY POT
SENSO
SUMMERTIME
EVA
IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN
A true original, Shirley MacLaine has, over the course of a legendary, nearly seven-decade film career, breathed life into some of the most unforgettable characters ever conjured on-screen.
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THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY
ARTISTS AND MODELS
THE APARTMENT
CAN-CAN
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR
IRMA LA DOUCE
WHAT A WAY TO GO!
GAMBIT
SWEET CHARITY
THE OTHER HALF OF THE SKY: A CHINA MEMOIR
BEING THERE
MADAME SOUSATZKA
POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE
GUARDING TESS
BERNIE
Bringing together art-house favorites, Hollywood hits, and new cult classics, this extraordinary batch of films is a cinematic time capsule that takes us back to the premillennial, pre-smartphone, dial-up moment just before the world as we knew it seemed to change forever.
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BEAU TRAVAIL
BRINGING OUT THE DEAD
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB
BYE BYE AFRICA
FOLLOWING
GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI
GIRL, INTERRUPTED
GO
THE INSIDER
THE LIMEY
RATCATCHER
THE STRAIGHT STORY
SUMMER OF SAM
TRICK
THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
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