Criterion Collector’s Sale

High quality prints from Americas most prestigious physical media distrubutor. Often these are the only copies of a title availavle on DVD. Multi-zone DVD players will be required for items labelled (R1).

30 Films.

An Angel at My Table (1990): Multi–award winning adaptation of Janet Frame's three autobiographies, deserving of its big reputation through compassionate storytelling and…; DVD ~~$30~~ $20 (As New)
Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate) (1981): Mordantly humourous suspense set in dusty French Senegal, with Noiret playing a much–abused police chief who begins to have dreams of…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (As New)
Days of Heaven (1979): The mid–western wheat–fields provide a magnificent backdrop for this poignant tale of two disparate bachelors who vie for the same woman.…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977): Masterpiece of loopy morals, terrorist attacks and chastity belts that turns that age old loves–me–loves–me–not story once…; DVD ~~$35~~ $26.25 (As New)
F for Fake (1974): Ostensibly a documentary, on unrepentant art–forger Elmyr de Hory and 'fake biographer' Clifford Irving, this material is cunningly subverted…; DVD ~~$35~~ $26.25 (As New - 2 Disc)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971): Ambling across a relentless roadscape of diners and gas stations, young petrol–heads James Taylor (yes, the pop singer) and Dennis Wilson (yes,…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (As New - 2 Disc)
Closely Observed Trains (Closely Watched Trains) (1966): Oscar–winning Czech film about a lonely train guard's attempt to lose his virginity while his country copes with the German occupation. The…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30
Made in U.S.A (1966): Further political horseplay from Godard in the skin of a Nouvelle Vague alternate reality: this time, Anna Karina plays a war journalist on the hunt…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (As New)
Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963): Fellini's most revered film is a self–analytical exercise casting Marcello Mastroianni as a troubled director trapped by his own visions and…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (New - 2 Disc)
Le Mepris (Contempt) (1963): An insecure screen–writer struggles with vulgar producers as well as his movie–star wife on the set of Homer's Odyssey. Brigitte Bardot,…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (As New - 2 Disc)
Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales (The Bakery Girl of Monceau, Suzanne’s Career, My Night at Maud’s, La collectionneuse, Claire’s Knee, Love in the Afternoon) (1962-1972): A succession of encounters between fragile men and the women who tempt them, Six Moral Tales unleashed on the film world a new voice, one that was at…; DVD ~~$120~~ $90 (As New)
Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live) (1962): While filtered through dir. Godard's preoccupations with genre, this series of twelve vignettes about a Parisian woman's marriage breakup and gradual…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (As New)
Femme Est Une Femme, Une (A Woman is a Woman) (1961): Godard flirts with the Hollywood musical, and any other idea that takes his fancy to tell his buoyant tale of a free–spirited stripper who…; DVD ~~$35~~ $26.25 (As New)
Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim) (1961): Jeanne Moreau stars in this famous New Wave melodrama caught up in the spirit of its swinging times. A twenty–year love triangle, lightening…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (As New - 2 Disc)
Classe Tous Risques (Consider All Risks) (1960): French–Italian gangster film following the exploits of a French mobster (Lino Ventura, based on a real life henchman for the French Gestapo)…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (As New)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960): Melancholic masterpiece from a largely overshadowed figure in Japanese cinema: concerning the post–war ‘water trade’ of bar hostesses in…; DVD ~~$35~~ $26.25 (As New)
Adventures Of Antoine Doinel, The (400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, Love on the Run) (1959-1979): Francois Truffaut's most enduring cinematic creation, the irrepressible Antoine Doinel (played synonymously by Jean–Pierre Leaud) is…; DVD ~~$100~~ $75 (As New)
Le Notti Bianche (White Nights) (1957): A departure from neo–realist beginnings, this surreal Visconti masterwork adapts Dostoyevsky’s ‘White Nights’ through dreamlike art…; DVD ~~$35~~ $26.25 (As New)
Paths of Glory (1957): Kubrick's muscular drama deals frankly with the hypocrisy and inhumanity of military ethics, based on a true incident in WWI France. Following a…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (As New)
Man Escaped, A (1956): Bresson's films are all extremely controlled in style: no suspense, no histrionics, flat acting, spare and simple camerawork, yet this is an…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (As New - 2 Disc)
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot) (1953): Jacques Tati fine–tunes the virtues of JOUR DE FETE to create his most eponymous character. The first of four Hulot features follows the…; DVD ~~$35~~ $26.25 (As New)
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953): Stories by the 18th century writer Akinari Ueda are woven into an odyssey of civil–war misfortune, in which two peasant–potters and their…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (2 disc - Near New)
Casque d'Or (Golden Marie) (1952): A gangster’s moll falls in love with a reformed criminal, igniting underworld violence, in this lush, overwhelming tragi–romance set in Paris…; DVD ~~$35~~ $26.25 (As New)
Third Man, The (1949): Superb romantic thriller about a writer in post–war Vienna whose old friend fails to meet him – under mysterious circumstances. Justly…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (As New)
Fallen Idol, The (1948): Celebrated, tasteful British thriller about the muddled attempt of an 8–year–old ambassador's son to protect the embassy butler (Ralph…; DVD ~~$35~~ $26.25 (As New)
Red Shoes, The (1948): Beloved dance classic is a strikingly realised story of a young ballerina who, in an echo of the Hans Christian Andersen story, becomes torn between…; DVD ~~$30~~ $20 (As New)
Brief Encounter (1946): Controlled rendering of Noel Coward's touching story about a romance that evolves between two happily married strangers. This much loved British…; DVD ~~$30~~ $22.50 (As New)
Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy (Rome Open City, Paisan, Germany: Year Zero) (1945-1948): Shot in battle–ravaged Italy and Germany, featuring largely nonprofessional casts, real war ravaged locations, and unorthodox approaches to…; DVD ~~$100~~ $75 (As New)
Le Corbeau (Raven, the) (1943): Fascinating as a wartime allegory made under the German Occupation of France, a small town becomes a hot–bed of paranoia following a rash of…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (As New)
La Regle Du Jeu (Rules of the Game) (1939): Considered one the greatest films in history, this downbeat yet incisive satire centres around weekend shooting party that results in a myriad of…; DVD ~~$40~~ $30 (As New - 2 Disc)

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