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Now that 'Deadwood' lies murdered in the mud, Shakespeare is the only solace.

Three new Criterion titles demonstrate how far fascism's castor-oil cocktail will travel down the throat of its native filmmakers before it comes back up twice as Azzurri.

'Tempest' in a jailhouse, and its implications

The former, an arthouse darling, was lauded at Cannes and numerous international festivals; the latter received scant attention during its meager release

Tsui Hark's wide-screen riot of color, movement, and sound

The films found in this box set are beautiful examples of a new direction in Japanese filmmaking, one that used the aesthetic and technical language of the swordplay films to expose and attack the culture that had lionized them

It could be the series' best

An escapist romp from 1976, it's determined to have a good time, and what's wrong with that?

This most impolite of directors attacks the most polite of genres in a way that makes it feel like her own creation, and pays tribute to her source by bringing it so ferociously to life

The two-disc 'Collected Shorts' spans 27 years, and while some of the films don't fully cross the CGI generational divide, you can see in all of them why animators like Tim Burton have been so strongly influenced by Svankmajer's work

'The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Complete Second Season' and 'Too Close for Comfort: The Complete Second Season'

The 1975 film 'Hustle' is a great modern love story disguised as a neo-noir police procedural. Largely unappreciated at the time of its release, the situation has not improved greatly if we are to judge by this no-frills DVD release.

Is it possible that one of the greatest (if not the greatest) sports-related films of all time is not only from Japan, but also about pingpong?

Ernst Lubitsch's first effort in Technicolor shimmers like Champagne in crystal: all bubbles, trifles, and blithe sophistication

A one-of-a-kind essay centered on art forgery and hoaxes that is built from spare parts, questionable coverage, obvious overdubbing, and outright bluff, 'F for Fake' is a masterwork most often hailed for its hijacking of documentary form to tease cinema's capacity for making truth out of bullshit

Some kind of first for nearly everyone involved, the incredible 'Carrie' is done justice by its incredible DVD extras

Getting to the gist of screwball's golden age

The 1990s were a golden era for intelligent, uniquely designed superhero animation series

'Life sucks, and then you die. And then it still sucks.'

Period horror comedies were virtually unheard of in 1967, and although all of Roman Polanski's work up to that year had shone a flair for blacker-than-pitch grave-digger humor, this would be the first time he had experimented with outright comedy

The Criterion connection, Renoir-style

It came to Robert Altman in a dream, and that much is clear

Subsequent to both The Warriors and Mad Max, yet predating Blade Runner by a year, Escape From New York laid the groundwork for John Carpenter and Kurt Russell's ensuing masterpiece, 1982's The Thing

Jerri Blank makes me "moist as a snack cake down there"

Every girl's a sucker for a disheveled goofball who's crying on the inside.

Numbers 215 and 218 of the Criterion Collection DVD series were more celebrated recently, Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water and Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge, yet the unheralded No. 214 was the true devil in the woodpile.