Plus ‘The Little Prince,’ ‘The Parallax View,’ ‘The Ascent,’ ‘Nationtime’, ‘Jazz on a Summer’s Day,’ ‘The Kiss Before the Mirror,’ and ‘Shutter Island.’

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Another month begins, another announcement from the Criterion Collection, with all the wares they’ll be hocking in the new year. The company has released thousands of classic films over the years, but even deep into their massive collection, still find more masterpieces to add. Their February line-up is lead by a masterpiece of ’70s paranoia, Alan J. Pakula‘s thriller, “The Parallax View,” starring Warren Beatty and shot by one of the greatest cinematographers of all time, Gordon Willis.

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Watch: 5-Minute Video Essay Explores The Darkness Of Cinematographer Gordon Willis

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In addition to producing 300 pictures, and directing 50, the mild-mannered Corman also apprenticed and mentored some filmmakers you may have heard of, such as Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme, Peter Bogdonavich, Monte Hellman and Curtis Hanson, just to name a few, and launched the acting careers of Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, David Carradine, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Pam Grier, and Robert DeNiro, among others.

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