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    Search and Restore

    Hitchcock’s classic thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much was in need of new source elements and a delicate cleanup job. Let us walk you through this major project.

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    The Beat Goes On

    The Tin Drum, Volker Schlöndorff’s singular, Oscar-winning allegorical work about Germany during World War II, is now available from Criterion—on Blu-ray and DVD—in an extended director’s cut.

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    April Titles!

    Need more reasons to look forward to spring? Presenting the joyous films of Pierre Etaix; the cult pleasures of Naked Lunch on Blu-ray and Repo Man (right); the glorious colors of Gate of Hell and Richard III; and Kobayashi on Eclipse.

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    Never Too Much

    We can’t get enough of Peter Lorre, who does his usual great work as a phenomenally creepy heavy in Alfred Hitchcock’s comic-suspense classic The Man Who Knew Too Much, restored and available this week on Blu-ray and DVD.

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Coming Soon

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  • Chronicle of a Summer (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Chronicle of a Summer

    Jean Rouch…

     
  • Pina (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Pina

    Wim Wenders

     
  • Monsieur Verdoux (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Monsieur Verdoux

    Charles Chaplin

     
  • Badlands (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Badlands

    Terrence Malick

     
  • A Man Escaped (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    A Man Escaped

    Robert Bresson

     
  • Repo Man (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Repo Man

    Alex Cox

     
  • Pierre Etaix (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Pierre Etaix

     
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    Michael Powell…

     
  • The Kid With a Bike (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Kid With a Bike

    Jean-Pierre Dardenne…

     
  • On the Waterfront (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    On the Waterfront

    Elia Kazan

     
  • Gate of Hell (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Gate of Hell

    Teinosuke Kinugasa

     
  • Ivan’s Childhood (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Ivan’s Childhood

    Andrei Tarkovsky

     
  • Sansho the Bailiff (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Sansho the Bailiff

    Kenji Mizoguchi

     
  • Naked Lunch (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Naked Lunch

    David Cronenberg

     
  • Richard III (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Richard III

    Laurence Olivier

     
  • Ministry of Fear (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Ministry of Fear

    Fritz Lang

     
  • The Ballad of Narayama (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Ballad of Narayama

    Keisuke Kinoshita

     
  • Eclipse Series 38: Masaki Kobayashi Against the System (Eclipse DVD)

    Kobayashi Against the System

    Masaki Kobayashi

     
  • The Blob (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Blob

    Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.

     
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New Releases

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  • Brazil (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Brazil

    Terry Gilliam

     
  • Sunday Bloody Sunday (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    John Schlesinger

     
  • Purple Noon (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Purple Noon

    René Clément

     
  • Rashomon (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Rashomon

    Akira Kurosawa

     
  • Weekend (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Weekend

    Jean-Luc Godard

     
  • Rosemary’s Baby (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Rosemary’s Baby

    Roman Polanski

     
  • Trilogy of Life (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Trilogy of Life

    Pier Paolo Pasolini

     
  • Heaven’s Gate (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Heaven’s Gate

    Michael Cimino

     
  • Following (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Following

    Christopher Nolan

     
  • Two-Lane Blacktop (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    Two-Lane Blacktop

    Monte Hellman

     
  • The Tin Drum (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Tin Drum

    Volker Schlöndorff

     
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Man Who Knew Too Much

    Alfred Hitchcock

     
  • The Qatsi Trilogy (Criterion Blu-Ray)

    The Qatsi Trilogy

    Godfrey Reggio

     
  • Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku (Eclipse DVD)

    Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku

     
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