Tag: Criterion Collection
Criterion Collection: The Immortal Story | Blu-ray Review
In retrospect, The Immortal Story (1968) is a fitting capstone to Orson Welles’ illustrious yet highly compromised directorial career, a filmography lodged beneath the...
Criterion Collection: Woman in the Dunes | Blu-ray Review
Arguably one of the most enigmatic figures associated with the loosely defined Japanese New Wave of the 1950s and 1960s is Hiroshi Teshigahara, who...
Criterion Collection: Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words | Blu-ray Review
Three time Academy Award winner Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight; Anastasia; Murder on the Orient Express), one of the most revered, versatile actors celebrated both as...
Criterion Collection: Muriel, or The Time of Return | Blu-ray Review
War, in some shape, way, or form, was infused in most of the famed early works of New Wave auteur Alain Resnais, who broke...
La Chienne | Criterion Blu-ray Review
Popular discussions of Jean Renoir tend to highlight his most renowned titles from particular periods of his career, though his greatest contributions and considerable...
Criterion Collection: Le Amiche | Blu-ray Review
Many forget Michelangelo Antonioni had been directing films for over a decade by the time 1960’s L’avventura was booed at Cannes, eventually solidifying his...
Criterion Collection: Wim Wenders’ The Road Trilogy | Blu-ray Review
For the first time ever, Wim Wenders’ famed Road Trilogy, a major cornerstone of the New German Wave, has at last been made available...
Criterion Collection: The Naked Island | Blu-ray Review
In the US, Japanese auteur Kaneto Shindo is best remembered for a small handful of titles, a mere fraction of his prolific output as...
Criterion Collection: The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates | Blu-ray Review
"It's not an exaggeration to say that before Primary, documentary as we know it today - the art of candid observation - didn't exist. Not...
Criterion Collection: Phoenix | Blu-ray Review
German auteur Christian Petzold makes his bow in the esteemed Criterion collection with his outstanding seventh feature, Phoenix, which is also his sixth...
The Criterion Collection: The Manchurian Candidate | Blu-ray Review
As we go through another round of sensationalized presidential campaigns with various candidates claiming altruism in the name of power, John Frankenheimer's classic political thriller The...
Criterion Collection: A Poem is a Naked Person | Blu-ray Review
Criterion snags documentarian Les Blanks’ heretofore lost title A Poem is a Naked Person for their collection, a portrait of singer-songwriter Leon Russell filmed...
Criterion Collection: Paris Belongs to Us | Blu-ray Review
For the first time in the US, Jacques Rivette’s 1961 directorial debut, Paris Belongs to Us is available thanks to an accomplished new restoration...
Criterion Collection: The Emigrants/The New Land | Blu-ray Review
Following last summer’s restoration of Swedish auteur Jan Troell’s directorial debut Here is Your Life (1966), Criterion presents the director’s most notable accomplishment from...
Criterion Collection: I Knew Her Well | Blu-ray Review
Love is most definitely not a many splendored thing in the bedazzled artifice of Rome’s swinging 60s, at least as far as the good...
Criterion Collection: The Kid | Blu-ray Review
Outfitted with a new score and title sequence, reedited sans several scenes involving the woman, and rereleased in 1972, Charlie Chaplin's first feature length...
Criterion Collection: Death by Hanging | Blu-ray Review
Before he would come to be known as one of cinema’s most controversial provocateurs with his most infamous title, 1976’s In the Realm of...
Criterion Collection: Inside Llewyn Davis | Blu-ray Review
Anyone who's ever had their musical ambitions crushed by the ever oppressive forces of real life will find a great sense of empathy within...
Criterion Collection: Bitter Rice | Blu-ray Review
Criterion digs Bitter Rice out of obscurity this month, a pulpy mix of social drama and dime store pathos from director and screenwriter Giuseppe...
Criterion Collection: Burroughs: The Movie | Blu-ray Review
Looking for a worthy project to complete for his thesis film at NYU back in 1978, with his genuine sense of interest and weasily...
Criterion Collection: Jellyfish Eyes | Blu-ray Review
Criterion adds Jellyfish Eyes to its collection, the directorial debut of prolific Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. Known for his multi-faceted platforms of painting, sculpture,...
Criterion Collection: Dont Look Back | Blu-ray Review
Considered amongst the very greatest documentaries ever made and selected by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," D.A. Pennebaker's veritable...
Criterion Collection: Downhill Racer | Blu-ray Review
The Hollywood sports drama has long been an indubitable cinematic staple, albeit a genre trapped in its own particular movements and formulaic flourishes. Tendencies...
Criterion Collection: Ikiru | Blu-ray Review
In six decades of filmmaking and thirty plus titles in his filmography, it’s nearly impossible to determine the weighted importance concerning a number of...
Criterion Collection: My Own Private Idaho| Blu-ray Review
Patching together portraits of his beloved Portland streets, bits of Shakespeare's Henry IV via Welles' tumultuous Chimes at Midnight, and vignettes of a narcoleptic vagabond hustler whose motherless anxieties...
Criterion Collection: A Special Day | Blu-ray Review
A testament to the importance of restoration, the new digital transfer of Ettore Scola’s 1977 title A Special Day is a beauty to behold....
Criterion Collection: Blind Chance | Blu-ray Review
Polish auteur Krzysztof Kieslowski’s fascination with allegorical intersections took full flight with his 1987 title Blind Chance, a three tiered narrative metaphor for Poland’s...
Criterion Collection: Dressed to Kill | Blu-ray Review
Criterion beautifully restores Brian De Palma’s early masterpiece, Dressed to Kill, his 1980 title often lumped in with a quartet of other films categorized...
Criterion Collection: Two Days, One Night | Blu-ray Review:
Premiering at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where it went home empty handed from the Jane Campion headed jury, Belgian directing duo Jean-Pierre and...
Criterion Collection: Eclipse Series 43: Agnès Varda in California | DVD Review
In the wake of the wild success of Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, the idiosyncratic French filmmaker was lured by Hollywood move to southern California to produce...
Criterion Collection: The French Lieutenant’s Woman | Blu-ray Review
In the decades since its premiere, The French Lieutenant’s Woman is now most commonly discussed for its placement in the extensive awards resume of...
Criterion Collection: Here is Your Life | Blu-ray Review
Criterion brings Jan Troell’s masterful debut feature Here is Your Life into their fold. It’s the Swedish auteur’s second film to join the collection,...
Criterion Collection: Hiroshima Mon Amour | Blu-ray Review
Criterion digitally restores its previous edition of Alain Resnais’ landmark directorial debut, Hiroshima Mon Amour, a jagged cornerstone of the French New Wave, which...
Criterion Collection: The Killers | Blu-ray Review
Criterion digitally restores this earlier release, a combination offering of Robert Siodmak’s 1946 film noir masterpiece The Killers paired with Don Siegel’s retro 1964...
Criterion Collection: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Blu-ray Review
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) is an obscure fantasia from the fading days of the Czech New Wave. One could argue that...
Criterion Collection: The Fisher King | Blu-ray Review
It’s hard to believe something like 1991’s The Fisher King was a studio backed effort. An anomaly both as a mainstream cinematic event and...
Criterion Collection: The Bridge | Blu-ray Review
Criterion releases actor turned director Bernhard Wicki’s feature film debut The Bridge for the very first time on Region 1. Though he directed a...
Criterion Collection: A Master Builder | Blu-ray Review
The third experimental cinematic endeavor from the writing/acting duo of Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, A Master Builder, at last reaches a notable platform...
Criterion Collection: The Confession|Blu-ray Review
Criterion adds two more early works of auteur Costa-Gavras to the collection, rounding out his early trilogy of political thrillers headlined by Yves Montand...
Criterion Collection: The Merchant of Four Seasons |Blu-ray Review
“We’re all pigs,” remarks a character late in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1971 classic The Merchant of Four Seasons, on observation one could apply to...
Criterion Collection: Limelight | Blu-ray Review
Though he would actually direct other features, including the ill received 1967 A Countess From Hong Kong, wherein Marlon Brando decided to be a...
Criterion Collection: Make Way For Tomorrow | Blu-Ray Review
One can’t ignore a certain irony that Leo McCarey, director of one of the most irrefutably sorrowful motion pictures with 1937’s Make Way For...
Criterion Collection: Le Silence de la Mer | Blu-ray Review
Available for the first time in the US on Blu-ray and DVD is Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterful directorial debut, 1949’s Le Silence de la Mer...
Criterion Collection: The River | Blu-ray Review
Criterion repackages Jean Renoir’s 1951 classic The River for Blu-ray, one of the master filmmaker’s several titles in the collection (fans may recall that...
Criterion Collection: Hoop Dreams | Blu-ray Review
"This is one of the best films about American life that I have ever seen", Roger Ebert famously stated during the first of many...
Criterion Collection: Gates of Heaven / Vernon, Florida | Blu-ray Review
Long before he developed the still controversial cinematic technique of utilizing reenactments in The Thin Blue Line or his confessional-esque straight-to-lens Interrotron which was...
Criterion Collection: Cries and Whispers | Blu-ray Review
Criterion repackages one of its earlier Ingmar Bergman inclusions this month, restoring his brilliant, enigmatic 1972 masterpiece Cries and Whispers for Blu-ray release. Financed...
The Criterion Collection: Ride the Pink Horse | Blu-ray Review
Robert Montgomery’s 1947 sophomore film, Ride the Pink Horse is an exciting film noir gem ripe for rediscovery, available on Blu-ray for the first...
Criterion Collection: The Soft Skin | Blu-ray Review
This month, Criterion marches out a little know title from Francois Truffaut, 1964’s The Soft Skin. Technically his fifth feature, and following behind the...
Criterion Collection: Fellini Satyricon | Blu-ray Review
Considered amongst the few surviving ancient novels as one of the best depictions of the wild debauchery that seized early Roman society, Petronius’s episodically...
