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....