Criterion Collection

"America Lost and Found" featuring the independent cinema of America circa late 60's, early 70's

This morning I woke up to this amazing impromptu review by Joseph Lally of "America Lost and Found" . I'm so grateful for this find. Eternal thanks Joseph!

"Pale Flower" is the story of a yakuza, who falls into a relationship with a beautiful gambling addict

It may have been filed for years in the "crime film" category, but Masahiro Shinoda's "Pale Flower" is such a cool and precise piece of image-making, it may well serve to reposition Mr. Shinoda 's name alongside the giants of Japanese cinema.

"Gomorrah" is art taken to a high point of conscience and conscientiousness.

Martin Scorcese declared Matteo Garrone's "Gomorrah" , "the greatest Mafia film ever made". Artforum in a long essay in 2008 by Alexander Stille gauged the film as "an adaptation that manages to be a compelling work in its own right and indeed one of the best crime movies Italy has produced in decades."

Director Hiroshi Teshigahara was a pivotal figure of the Japanese new wave

"The film ... manages to take on new meaning in our current culture where people are willing to give up their individuality by having plastic surgery in order to obtain what they consider “perfect” looks or to hide the unstoppable signs of age."

Kimberly Lindbergs

Nothing could be further from gray, hungry postwar London than the India imagined by Powell and Pressburger

Chic English nuns driven mad by sexual repression hurling themselves off Himalayan mountain-tops.....

I'll say it again. This film is THE apothesis of intellectual French glamour

I have a bad reputation for playing this movie each and every time I have guests over.

Pier Paolo Pasolini's brutal indictment of a film has been re-released by Criterion