The Criterion Collection
November 2013
Lose yourself in our huge Zatoichi gift set. Then get lost in various cityscapes with some loveable folks: a little Tramp, a young woman finding herself, and an elderly couple visiting the kids.
The novelist and nonfiction writer, whose most recent book is Zona, a personal journey with Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker, talks about his love for outer space and inner landscapes.
View Dyer’s selections »Paolo Sorrentino’s spectacular The Great Beauty, a Janus Films release, opens in more cities all across the U.S. on November 29. The film has been getting some pretty amazing reviews: the New York Times says it’s “outlandishly entertaining”; Time calls it “the year’s grandest, most exhilarating film”; and the Los Angeles Times says it’s “a radiant work . . . luxuriously, seductively, stunningly cinematic.”
Click here for more reviews and a list of theaters it’s opening at this weekend. »On Hulu:
Good things come in small packages this week: short films by Les Blank, Pierre Etaix, Jean-Luc Godard, David Lynch, Eric Rohmer, and some Czech New Wave masters on Hulu.
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A boldly silent film in the talkie era, Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights has a grace that has never been equaled. Gary Giddins writes eloquently on this exquisite film.
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