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This just in from Criterion...

Dear Criterion collectors,

Looking to beef up your DVD and Blu-ray collections and get a great deal at the same time? Head on over to Barnes & Noble, either a store or online, and dive in to their 50% off bonanza on all Criterion movies. Every Criterion and Eclipse title, Blu-ray or DVD, is on sale, including exciting new releases like Kiss Me Deadly, People on Sunday, Black Moon, and Raffaello Matarazzo’s Runaway Melodramas. The sale runs through August 1.

Here are my Soul Food picks from the collection...

Andrei Rublev, Solaris and more by Andrei Tarkovsky
Au Hasard Balthazar and more by Robert Bresson
The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theodor Dreyer box set
The Flowers Of St. Francis, War Trilogy (incl Rome Open City and Paisan) by Roberto Rossellini
Metropolitan, The Last Days Of Disco by Whit Stillman
Four Masterworks (incl The Seventh Seal, Virgin Spring, Wild Strawberries), A Film Trilogy (Through A Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence) and more by Ingmar Bergman

49th Parallel
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Bicycle Thieves
Black Narcissus
By Brakhage
Close-Up
Days Of Heaven
George Washington
Ikiru
The Killer (John Woo)
The King Of Kings (1927)
The Last Days Of Disco
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Last Wave
Leon Morin, Priest
Magnificent Obsession
Make Way For Tomorrow
Monty Python's Life of Brian
My Dinner With Andre
My Night At Maud's (in "Six Moral Tales")
The Night of the Hunter
Picnic At Hanging Rock
Red Beard
Revanche
Salesman
Secret Sunshine
La Strada
Sullivan's Travels
Wings Of Desire
Wise Blood
Yi-Yi

Tons of other great titles too, of course - I'm a big fan of their new release, the nasty Kiss Me Deadly, for example, but it's hardly Soul Food, now, is it?

Search the Soul Food Movies blog for reviews of a number of the above titles