Tag: Criterion Collection
Criterion Collection: An Autumn Afternoon | Blu-Ray Review
The Criterion Collection refurbishes its previous release of Yasujiro Ozu’s 1962 swan song, An Autumn Afternoon for a new digital restoration Blu-ray transfer. The...
Criterion Collection: Don’t Look Now | Blu-Ray Review
Criterion brings British auteur Nicolas Roeg’s most famous title to the fold, 1973’s enigmatic Don’t Look Now, a title that has influenced generations of...
Criterion Collection: La Ciénaga | Blu-ray Review
Murky swimming pools, bored adolescents, oblivion drinking and signs of the apocalypse are just some of the issues plaguing two chaotic Argentinean families in...
Criterion Collection: My Winnipeg | Blu-ray Review
You certainly can and probably should go home again, at least according to the faux approximation of himself in the 2007 pseudo-documentary/experimental homage My...
Criterion Collection: The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant | Blu-ray Review
Premiering at the Berlin Film Festival in the summer of 1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant didn’t open to...
Criterion Collection: Time Bandits | Blu-ray Review
Terry Gilliam’s second solo directorial effort, Time Bandits, remains an oddly hilarious bridge between his work with the Monty Python gang and his subsequent...
Criterion Collection: Safe | Blu-Ray Review
Todd Haynes receives his first entry in the Criterion collection with a beautiful restoration of his landmark 1995 sophomore feature, Safe, the film that launched...
Criterion Collection: Les Blank: Always for Pleasure | Blu-ray Review
Many people may know Les Blank most for his association with Werner Herzog, who he filmed while on the brink of creative madness in...
Criterion Collection: L’avventura | Blu-ray Review
In the decades of cinema that have transpired since Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 film L’avventura, one cannot overlook its seminal status not only within the...
Criterion Collection: It Happened One Night | Blu-ray Review
Winner of five Oscars, Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night remains an outstanding entertainment, and a touchstone of Hollywood’s most enduring cinematic genre: the...
Criterion Collection: The Complete Jacques Tati | Blu-ray Review
With only six feature films to his name, four of which featured his iconic onscreen alter ego, the cinema of Jacques Tati remains an...
Criterion Collection: La Dolce Vita | Blu-ray Review
“The most miserable life is better, believe me, than an existence protected by a society where everything’s organized and planned for and perfect,” says...
Criterion Collection: The Vanishing | Blu-ray Review
Remastered just in time for Halloween, Criterion dusts off George Sluizer’s classic psychological thriller The Vanishing for a Blu-ray release. The Dutch-French co-production stands...
Criterion Collection: My Darling Clementine | Blu-ray Review
John Ford’s My Darling Clementine is a prime example of the Great American Western, embodying all that is good and right and just about...
Criterion Collection: Sundays and Cybèle | Blu-ray Review
Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1963, Serge Bourguignon’s Sundays and Cybèle has finally been issued in an official North...
Criterion Collection: Eraserhead | Blu-ray Review
There was a time, not very long ago, when obtaining a decent copy of David Lynch’s first masterpiece, Eraserhead, was problematic. Selected in 2004...
Criterion Collection: The Innocents | Blu-ray Review
Being that director Jack Clayton grew up with the misfortune of having no father figure, he grew up with a deep affinity for the...
Criterion Collection: Love Streams | Blu-ray Review
John Cassavetes’ magnificent swan song, Love Streams receives the Criterion treatment this month, an addendum to the previously released five-title collection from the auteur....
Criterion Collection: Y Tu Mamá También | Blu-ray Review
After a decade floating around the Hollywood back lots trading dignity for cash and technical experience on A Little Princess and Great Expectations, Alfonso...
Criterion Collection: Insomnia | Blu-ray Review
Erik Skjoldbjaerg’s 1997 directorial debut, Insomnia is a prescient prototype of what would now be termed Nordic Noir in today’s global film market. At...
Criterion Collection: Hearts and Minds | Blu-ray Review
As a historical cinematic document that depicts the horrors of the Vietnam War with unflinching nerve and political consternation, Peter Davis’s Academy Award winning...
Criterion Collection: A Hard Day’s Night | Blu-ray Review
Let’s be honest, who doesn’t have a deep seeded love for the fab four? How could anyone resist those Liverpool lovelies, with their matching...
Criterion Collection: L’Eclisse | Blu-ray Review
After finally securing 1961’s La Notte as part of the Criterion line-up, we’re treated to a new restoration and Blu-ray transfer of Michelangelo Antonioni’s...
Criterion Collection: Ace in the Hole | Blu-ray Review
A resounding flop upon its release, which saw it recut and rereleased as The Big Carnival without any greater success, Criterion remasters Billy Wilder’s...
Criterion Collection: Riot on Cell Block 11 | DVD Review
The inspiration behind the making of Riot in Cell Block 11 is as equally fascinating as the end product. Producer Walter Wanger (who famously...
Criterion Collection: Il Sorpasso | Blu-ray Review
In the spirit of spring, Dino Rici’s tragicomedy Il Sorpasso from 1962 has been given a vibrant rebirth courtesy of Criterion. Rarely seen and...
Criterion Collection: Master of the House | Blu-ray Review
While he’ll always be best known for his 1928 silent masterpiece, The Passion of Joan Arc (or for his atmospheric 1932 horror film, Vampyr),...
Criterion Collection: Persona | Blu-ray Review
Ingmar Bergman’s Persona is now available in a sharp and stunning Blu-ray from Criterion. This 1966 production has attained a special place in critics’...
Criterion Collection: The Great Beauty | Blu-ray Review
In Paolo Sorrentino’s lavishly received Italian crime potboiler Il Divo, the stage is set with a world building montage that places us in a...
Criterion Collection: The Hidden Fortress | Blu-ray Review
Criterion re-releases Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 adventure The Hidden Fortress for a ravishing blu-ray update this month, following hot on the heels of a similar...
Criterion Collection: A Brief History of Time | Blu-ray Review
In wake of the massive non-fiction success that was The Thin Blue Line, singular director Errol Morris really could have done any number of...
Criterion Collection: George Washington | Blu-ray Review
As director David Gordon Green returns to the mind frame of independent cinema with a duo of films like Prince Avalanche and (especially) the...
Criterion Collection: Breathless | Blu-ray Review
Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless gave France’s nascent La nouvelle vague a solid international underpinning and it has remained a vibrant, stylish and entertaining influence on...
Criterion Collection: Blue is the Warmest Color | Blu-ray Review
Not quite a year after its memorable premiere at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it would snatch the Palme d’Or from the Steven...
Criterion Collection: King of the Hill | Blu-ray Review
After a pair of edgy indies and a Palme d’Or to boot, Steven Soderbergh was given his first opportunity to bed down with the...
Criterion Collection: Fantastic Mr. Fox | Blu-ray Review
No one was surprised when it was announced in the wake of The Darjeeling Limited that Wes Anderson’s next endeavor would be wholly animated...
Criterion Collection: Foreign Correspondent | Blu-ray Review
Criterion adds another illustrious Alfred Hitchcock title to the collection this month with Foreign Correspondent, which followed hot on the heels of Rebecca in...
Criterion Collection: The Long Day Closes | Blu-ray Review
The inimitable Terence Davies gets his first Criterion treatment this month with his 1992 title, The Long Day Closes, a superb memory poem drenched...
Criterion Collection: La Vie De Boheme | Blu-ray Review
As an entry into Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismaki’s filmography, his 1992 film La Vie De Boheme, which is loosely based on Henri Murger’s Scenes...
Criterion Collection: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | Blu-ray Review
Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film in 1970, as well as the Grand Jury and FIPRESCI Prize Winner at the Cannes Film Festival,...
Criterion Collection: City Lights | Blu-ray Review
The biggest surprise about this month’s release of Charles Chaplin’s City Lights (1931) is that it wasn’t already a part of Criterion’s prestigious collection....
Criterion Collection: Tokyo Story | Blu-ray Review
Yasujirô Ozu’s Tokyo Story from 1953, now available in a superbly packaged Blu-ray edition from Criterion, is a film that subtly captures the dynamics...
Criterion Collection: 3 Films By Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman | Blu-ray Review
While their scandalous love affair and subsequent marriage eclipsed the five collaborative films they made together, this month Criterion brings Roberto Rossellini’s Ingrid Bergman...
Criterion Collection: Autumn Sonata | Blu-ray Review
Two of the 20th Century’s best actresses team up – or square off, to be more precise – in Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata from...
Criterion Collection: Seconds | Blu-ray Review
Selected for the Main Comp at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966, John Frankenheimer’s Seconds is a grim, nightmarish thriller that embodies many distinctive...
Criterion Collection: The Big City | Blu-ray Review
Criterion brings two of auteur Satyajit Ray’s early 60s works to the collection this month with Charulata (1964) and The Big City (1963), both...
Criterion Collection: Babette’s Feast | Blu-ray Review
Babette’s Feast won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1987 and was the first Danish production to ever take the prestigious award....
Criterion Collection: The Life of Oharu | Blu-ray Review
After remastering Mizoguchi’s Sansho the Bailiff earlier this year for Blu-ray, Criterion unleashes another of the auteur’s trio of early 50’s Venice prize winners...
Criterion Collection: Shoah | Blu-ray Review
Simply titled the Hebrew word for 'Holocaust', Claude Lanzmann's monolithic collage of memory and mind's eye elicitation looks at the Nazi's Final Solution via...
Criterion Collection: Safety Last! | Blu-ray Review
The timeless comic genius of Harold Lloyd shines through in Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor's 1923 classic Safety Last!, one more silent film championed...
