Includes:

· Beauty and the Beast
· Grand Illusion
· Knife in the Water
· Lord of the Flies
· Rashomon
· Wild Strawberries

Indispensable cinema classics from Janus Films and the Criterion Collection. For the devoted cinephile, these are the must-own fundamentals; for the novice film-lover, this is precisely where to begin. For Volume 1, we present six films from directors Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Roman Polanski, Peter Brook, Jean Cocteau, and Jean Renoir.

“The Janus Films icon—the black-and-white image, the lettering, the two faces on the seemingly ancient coin—meant that you were going to see something special, something new, something completely different from anything you’d ever seen before.” —Martin Scorsese