| Here's one highly subjective (if utterly incomplete) approach to the canon. These films all advanced the art and craft of cinematic storytelling in significant ways. (Happily, most of them are also wildly entertaining.) | ||
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| Our Hospitality/Sherlock, Jr.
$22.49 If you prize the artfulness of physical comedy, you must either hold Buster Keaton already close to your heart -- or you have ... | The Passion of Joan of Arc (Criterion Colle...
$30.49 Is Falconetti's performance here the greatest in all of film history? (And is this the best biopic ever made?) Cocteau called ... | Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
$11.49 The claims are true. Citizen Kane was a perfect storm in Hollywood — an elegant, forceful collision of mercurial director (Ors... |
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| Sullivan's Travels - Criterion Collection
$27.99 Sly and hilarious Preston Sturges comedy about a movie director who resolves to make only serious, meaningful pictures. (He fa... | Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Editi...
$11.99 A self-conscious -- and marvelously entertaining -- history of the MGM musical. (All but two of the songs here were written fo... | Maya Deren: Experimental Films
$23.49 Working in the 1940s and 50s, Deren was the first giant of American experimental filmmaking. Her short films anticipated the w... |
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| La Jetee/Sans Soleil (Criterion Collection)
$35.49 La Jetee’s fans insist that it’s the finest science fiction film ever made, and why not? It’s a truly unique, mind-bending sto... | Persona
$20.99 After his death earlier this year, critics were still repeating the old lines about Ingmar Bergman being an old-fashioned, sta... | Blow Up
$17.49 Did he or didn't he? Or better yet -- is he or isn't he? Every question is valid in Michelangelo Antonioni's original illusory... |
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