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, slip-cased edition. CC40'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 FILMS 8½ • 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.

Follow the quest of a young swashbuckler (Cary Elwes) to rescue the beautiful title heroine (Robin Wright) from her sinister husband-to-be (Chris Sarandon), in director Rob Reiner's fun and fetching fairy tale for the whole family. Along the way, our hero encounters a host of colorful characters, including a wily mastermind (Wallace Shawn), a gentle giant (Andre the Giant), and a noble Spanish swordsman (Mandy Patinkin). With Christopher Guest, Peter Falk, and Billy Crystal. 98 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack English DTS HD 5.1 Master Audio; Subtitles English (SDH); audio commentary by Reiner, Crystal, others; featurettes; interviews; theatrical trailer; essay; more. Two-disc set.

Andrei Tarkovsky s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide the Stalker leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one s most deeply held desires. Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky created an immersive world with a wealth of material detail and a sense of organic atmosphere. A religious allegory, a reflection of contemporaneous political anxieties, a meditation on film itself Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings.