The Criterion Collection Complete

COEN, Joel (United States) The Man Who Wasn't There [2001] Spine #1301 Blu-ray The Coen brothers peer into the existential abyss of the atomic age in this coolly riveting, drolly profound noir thriller. In a performance of masterfully calibrated understatement, Billy Bob Thornton stars as a disaffected barber in 1940s California whose suspicion that his wife (Frances McDormand) is cheating on him leads him down a crooked path of blackmail and murder. Fusing the expressionistic black and white and hard-boiled poetry of classic noir with their own idiosyncratic feeling for sinister, surreal Americana, Joel and Ethan Coen craft an arresting vision of the cruelty of fate and the mystery of our place in the cosmos. 116 minutes 5.0 Surround Black and White 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Joel Coen  was 47 when he directed The Man Who Wasn't There . Other Coen films in the Collection: #834: Blood Simple (1984) #1112: Miller's Crossing (1990) The Film Film Rating (0-...

LUMET, Sidney (United States) Network [1976] Spine #1300 Blu-ray This media satire, directed by Sidney Lumet from a brilliantly incisive script by Paddy Chayefsky, is an X-ray of the corrupted soul of a corporate-dominated America, startlingly prescient in its anticipation of today’s outrage-driven news cycle. At a struggling television network, ambitious executive Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) finds herself with a hit on her hands when disgruntled newscaster Howard Beale (Peter Finch) goes off script, transforming himself into a mad-as-hell prophet railing against the ills of modern society. But can she control the populist revolution they have unleashed on the airwaves? Garnering four Oscars, including for Dunaway, Finch, and Chayefsky, this no-holds-barred New Hollywood classic remains as fearlessly funny as it is unnervingly relevant. 121 minutes Monaural Color 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Sidney Lumet  was 52 when he directed Network . Other Lumet films in...