The Criterion Collection – August Titles Announced

The Criterion Collection has shared 5 films that will Release on Blu-Ray And DVD in August. Check Below for the list

• The Earrings of Madame de . . .

  Max Ophuls
  1953 • 100 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
  Spine: #445  Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

  The most cherished work from French master Max Ophuls, The Earrings of Madame de . . . is a profoundly emotional, cinematographically adventurous tale of deceptive opulence and tragic romance.

  6 Aug 2013 Learn more »

• Seconds

  John Frankenheimer
  1966 • 107 minutes • 1.75:1 • United States
  Spine: #667  Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

  Seconds, directed by John Frankenheimer, concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who elects to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life.

  13 Aug 2013 Learn more »

• The Big City

  Satyajit Ray
  1963 • 135 minutes • 1.33:1 • India
  Spine: #668  Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

  The Big City follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family.

  20 Aug 2013 Learn more »

• Charulata

  Satyajit Ray
  1964 • 118 minutes • 1.33:1 • India
  Spine: #669  Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

  Based on a novella by the great Rabindranath Tagore, Charulata is a work of subtle textures, a delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the first steps toward establishing her own voice.

  20 Aug 2013 Learn more »

• Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  Germany
  Edition: DVD

  From the very beginning of his incandescent career, the New German Cinema enfant terrible Rainer Werner Fassbinder refused to play by the rules.

  27 Aug 2013 Learn more »

• To Be or Not to Be

  Ernst Lubitsch
  1942 • 99 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States
  Spine: #670  Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

  As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch stars Jack Benny and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous spy plot.

  27 Aug 2013 Learn more »