This monumental forty-film box set celebrates forty years of the Criterion Collection by gathering an electrifying mix of classic and contemporary films, and presenting them with all their special features and essays in a deluxe clothbound, slipcased edition.
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’s eclectic selection includes the releases most frequently chosen by the hundreds of filmmakers, actors, writers, and other movie-loving luminaries who have visited Criterion over the years, as documented in our popular Closet Picks video series. Neither a historical survey nor a top-forty compilation, this exciting, personal, unpredictable anthology reflects the cinematic joys and inspirations of the creative community that makes the Criterion Collection possible.
The set features:
Digital restorations of all forty films
Hundreds of hours of supplemental features
Alternate soundtracks and dubbed tracks
Audio commentaries
Extensive documentaries and making-of programs
Interviews with casts and crews
Outtakes and deleted scenes
Trailers and TV spots
English subtitles and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Selection of Criterion Closet Picks videos
And more!
PLUS: Deluxe packaging with a lavishly illustrated 216-page book featuring essays on the films by critics, scholars, and authors
Featured Movies:
8 1/2
Tokyo Story
All That Jazz
Bicycle Thieves
Repo Man
Naked
Jules and Jim
Being There
Weekend
Yi Yi
The Night of the Hunter
Pickpocket
Sweet Smell of Success
On the Waterfront
Do the Right Thing
Ratcatcher
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Mirror
Barry Lyndon
Safe
Seconds
His Girl Friday
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Y tu mamá también
My Own Private Idaho
Love & Basketball
Night of the Living Dead
Ace in the Hole
3 Women
The Red Shoes
Down by Law
La Ciénaga
Wanda
House
Sullivan's Travels
The Battle of Algiers
A Woman Under the Influence
Cléo from 5 to 7
Persona
In the Mood for Love