This week's column explores a collection of films by Jacques Demy and the classics "A Hard Day's Night" and "The Big Chill."

This week's column continues visiting the 1936 version of the landmark musical Show Boat.

This week's column visits the 1936 film adaptation of the landmark musical Show Boat.

This month we watch the British documentary "Theatreland," Billy Wilder's "Ace in the Hole," Harold Lloyd's "The Freshman" and David O. Russell's "American Hustle."

This month's column focuses on Joel and Ethan Coen's "Inside Llewyn Davis," Jean-Luc Gerard's "Breathless" and the Ruth Gordon/Lee Strasberg "Boardwalk."

This month's column focuses on Alfred Hitchcock's early World War II thriller "Foreign Correspondent" and "Throne of Blood," Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of Macbeth.

This week we watch Stanley Kramer's "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," starring Spencer Tracy and dozens of top comedians (including Phil Silvers, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar and Ethel Merman), and Jules Dassin's 1955 film noir classic "Rififi."

This month's column screens Robert Altman's 1975 classic "Nashville" and Woody Allen's 2013 instant classic "Blue Jasmine."

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This month's column is led by two favorite classics that we happily return to again and again. This time, though, we've got them in new Blu-ray editions. This doesn't make the films better, but it further enhances the viewing experience, and we'd like to think that each time a major new release comes along, more viewers are apt to discover these films.

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This month's column looks at the bubbly René Clair fantasy "I Married a Witch," the World War II epic "From Here to Eternity," and the Ethan Hawke/Julie Delpy charmer "Before Midnight."

This month's column looks at "La Cage aux Folles," the French-language film which launched that title on the international level and prepared the world for the Broadway musical that soon followed, and Richard Burton (with Claire Bloom) in Martin Ritt's 1965 Cold War thriller "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold."

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This month's column looks at the controversial 1993 miniseries "Tales of the City," with said tales from San Francisco novelist Armistead Maupin; and two new Blu-rays from the Criterion Collection, Peter Brook's 1963 "Lord of the Flies" and Gabriel Axel's 1987 "Babette's Feast."

This month's column looks at the obscure talkie "Perfect Understanding," with Gloria Swanson and Laurence Olivier; Harold Lloyd's silent classic "Safety Last!"; Kevin Spacey in "House of Cards" and a complete box set of the early '60s sitcom, "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis."

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This month's column looks at Blu-ray releases of the Chaplin classic, "Monsieur Verdoux"; Laurence Olivier's stunning "Richard III"; and the Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckler, "The Thief of Bagdad."

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This month's column looks at Baz Luhrmann's "Strictly Ballroom"; the recent documentary "Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy"; the Judi Dench sitcom, "A Fine Romance"; and Anthony Andrews and Ian McKellen in the 1982 version of the swashbuckling "Scarlet Pimpernel."

This month's column looks at the international blockbuster "Les Misérables"; Jessica Chastain in "Zero Dark Thirty"; Fritz Lang's "Ministry of Fear"; "Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"; a Bea Lillie comedy, "On Approval"; and the documentary "Hands on a Hardbody."

This month's column screens two early television musicals — Alfred Drake as "Marco Polo" and Jo Sullivan or Barbara Cook as "Babes in Toyland" (though not together) — plus the 1952 Oscar-winner, "The Quiet Man."

Oscar Season has officially approached, and with it new Blu-ray releases of at least four of the 84 Best Picture winners (thus far).

This month's column looks at the Blu-ray release of the Trevor Nunn-Susan Stroman Oklahoma! starring Hugh Jackman; the first season of the TV series "Smash"; rarities from Mel Brooks; and Alfred Hitchcock's 1934 classic, "The Man Who Knew Too Much."

"Rashomon," "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "Brazil," a collection of Frank Capra films and Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life" are screened in this month's column, offering some last-minute holiday gift ideas.

This month we watch the 1956 telecast of Harold Arlen's Bloomer Girl; the Blu-ray release of the 1986 film version the stage musical Little Shop of Horrors; and holiday box sets celebrating Universal Studios and Quentin Tarantino.

This month, we screen Marcel Carné's backstage masterpiece "Children of Paradise"; Groucho Marx in The Mikado and Alfred Drake & Barbara Cook in Yeomen of the Guard; plus the fifth season of "Mad Men."

This month, we watch the Othello-based backstage film noir "A Double Life"; Elaine May's "A New Leaf"; Steven Spielberg's classic "E.T."; highlights from "The Carol Burnett Show"; and John Huston's version of the Broadway musical Annie.

This month we watch three unconventional and unlikely movies, each of which creates a world of its own: Wes Anderson's "The Royal Tenenbaums," Whit Stillman's "Metropolitan" and a wacky 1932 comedy called "Million Dollar Legs."

This month we watch new Blu-ray releases of Jean Renoir's 1937 classic "La Grande Illusion" and Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss in Steven Spielberg's "Jaws," plus new editions of "Newsies," "Evita" and "Sister Act."

Watching Paul Newman and Robert Redford in "The Sting," Jean Dujardin in Michel Hazanavicius' "The Artist," and Charles Chaplin's "The Gold Rush," gloriously transferred to Blu-ray.

This month we watch John Malkovich in "Being John Malkovich," Julie Andrews and Robert Preston in "Victor Victoria," a TV version of Rodgers & Hart's "Dearest Enemy," and David Craig's master classes.

This month we watch a new set of films from Noel Coward and David Lean, including "Brief Encounter"; the Titanic tale, "A Night to Remember"; Louis Malle's "Vanya on 42nd Street"; Fred Astaire in "The Sky's the Limit"; and more.

This month's selection of new releases includes Daniel Craig in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," James Stewart in Otto Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder" and Derek Jacobi in the BBC series "I, Claudius."

This month's column looks at Shakespeare on screen in "Anonymous" and "Shakespeare in Love"; newly-mastered releases of David O. Selznick's "A Star Is Born" and "Nothing Sacred"; and three manufactured-on-demand attractions.

This month's column discusses the 50th anniversary Blu-ray of "To Kill a Mockingbird"; new releases of Hitchcock's "Rebecca," "Spellbound" and "Notorious"; Woody Allen's "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan"; and more.

Screening Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris"; Jean Renoir's classic "The Rules of the Game"; Ernst Lubitsch and Ben Hecht's overhaul of Noel Coward's Design for Living; and Viola Davis in "The Help."

Screening the 50th Anniversary Blu-ray of "West Side Story"; "Top Banana" with Phil Silvers; the Blu-ray of "Blue Velvet"; a set of Jean Harlow films; and Alfred Drake and John Raitt in "Bell Telephone Hour" compilations.

Screening the iconic thriller "The Bad Seed"; two celebrated British miniseries; a deluxe gift box of "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory"; "The World of Sholom Aleichem" with Zero Mostel and more.

Screening the 50th anniversary edition of the award-laden "Ben-Hur"; new Blu-ray remasterings of Disney's "The Lion King" and Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction"; and second-season sets of "Glee" and "Modern Family."

Screening the 70th anniversary edition of Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane"; Danny Kaye in the mirthful musical "The Inspector General"; and Carrie Fisher's "Wishful Drinking."

Screening 1955 TV adaptations of the vintage musicals A Connecticut Yankee and The Desert Song; early '90s comedies "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Honeymoon in Vegas"; and the pre-"Mad Men" picture, "The Hucksters."

Screening early films with stage stars Jeanne Eagels ("The Letter") and Helen Hayes ("The Sin of Madelon Claudet"), plus Fred Astaire in "A Damsel in Distress" and Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast."

We screen the film version of Herb Gardner's A Thousand Clowns; the movie adaptation of Hair; the pre-stage "Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"; and Martin Scorsese's "New York, New York."

We screen Chaplin's "The Great Dictator"; Wilder's "Some Like It Hot"; Bergman's "Smiles of a Summer Night"; the thrillers "Diabolique" and "The Manchurian Candidate"; Arthur Miller's "The Misfits; and more.

We view 1950s TV adaptations of Kiss Me, Kate and Anything Goes; the 40th Anniversary Blu-ray of "Fiddler on the Roof"; "The Ernie Kovacs Collection"; and TV's vintage sitcom "Car 54 Where Are You?"

We screen the iconic television series "Upstairs, Downstairs"; the legendary film "Sweet Smell of Success"; Disney's new musical "Tangled," plus an enhanced release of "Bambi"; Mike Leigh's "Topsy-Turvy" and much more.

We screen the classics "All About Eve" and "An Affair to Remember"; John Gielgud's Shakespearean recital series; Alan Ayckbourn's Norman trilogy; Woody Allen's latest; and "Glee: Season Two Volume One."

We screen Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas in "Two-Faced Woman"; Vincente Minnelli's "Two Weeks in Another Town"; Sam Fuller's "The Naked Kiss"; James L. Brooks' "Broadcast News"; and Stephen Spielberg's "The Color Purple."

We screen As You Like It, Love's Labour's Lost and Romeo and Juliet from Shakespeare's Globe in London; a five-DVD Rita Hayworth collection; seven hours of Leonard Bernstein concerts; and "Ocean's 11."

We screen Blu-ray editions of Charles Chaplin's "Modern Times" and Charles Laughton's "The Night of the Hunter"; M-G-M's "Mutiny on the Bounty"; a collector's edition "Elf"; the New York Philharmonic's birthday concert for Sondheim and more.

We screen the first-time-on-anything release of "Evening Primrose"; Blu-ray releases of "The Sound of Music" and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"; and a compilation of Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers classics.

We screen Blu-ray releases of the delicious Canadian series "Slings & Arrows," and the Japanese classic "Seven Samurai," plus a restoration of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast," and "Glee: The Complete First Season."

We screen three superb silents by Joseph von Sternberg; Cecil B. DeMille's 1927 silent version of "Chicago"; Robert Altman's star-filled Hollywood satire, "The Player"; an amazing Helen Mirren in "Prime Suspect"; and the short-lived sitcom "The Mothers-in-Law."

We screen the almost astonishing appearance of Marilyn Miller in two Jerome Kern musicals from the 1920s, "Sally" and "Sunny"; the Blu-ray release of Broadway's "Victor/Victoria" starring Julie Andrews; and Kenneth Branagh's full-length "Hamlet."