The Criterion Collection December 2014 Movie Releases

The Criterion Collection has released its December DVD/Blu-Ray releases. Check it out below

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  Safe

  Todd Haynes
  1995 • 119 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
  Spine: #739  Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray

  This revelatory drama was named the best film of the 1990s in a Village Voice poll of more than fifty critics.

  9 Dec 2014 Learn more »

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  Time Bandits

  Terry Gilliam
  1981 • 116 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom
  Spine: #37  Edition: DVD

  In Terry Gilliam’s fantastic voyage through time and space, a young boy escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarves.

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  The Night Porter

  Liliana Cavani
  1974 • 118 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy
  Spine: #59  Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

  In Liliana Cavani’s scintillating drama, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her ex-torturer/lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as a night porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna.

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• Eclipse Series 41: Kinoshita and World War II

  Keisuke Kinoshita
  Japan
  Edition: DVD

  This collection of Kinoshita’s first films—four made while the war was going on and one shortly after Japan’s surrender—demonstrates the way the filmmaker’s humanity and exquisite cinematic technique shone through, even in the darkest of times.

  16 Dec 2014 Learn more »