Tag: Criterion Collection
Criterion Collection: Wild Strawberries | Blu-ray Review
Produced fifty-six years ago, Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries remains a venerable warhorse in the hallowed halls of Arthouse. But unlike this reviewer, who shares...
Criterion Collection: Marketa Lazarova | Blu-ray Review
You’ll be hard pressed to make a more exciting discovery than Criterion’s digital transfer of Frantisek Vlacil’s 1967 Czech classic, Marketa Lazarova. Voted the...
Criterion Collection: Jubal | Blu-ray Review
Following the release of over a dozen films and just a year before the release of his pinnacle endeavor, Delmar Daves utilized his love...
Criterion Collection: Life is Sweet | Blu-ray Review
1990’s Life is Sweet is generally considered - when it’s considered at all - one of the lesser lights in writer/director Mike Leigh’s constellation...
Criterion Collection: Richard III | Blu-ray Review
More than 500 years later, historians and archaeologists have unearthed, and then validated the skeleton remains of the two-year term King of England, and...
Criterion Collection: Gate of Hell | Blu-ray review
Teinosuke Kinugasa’s glorious and vibrant masterpiece, Gate of Hell, excitingly receives a Criterion digital remastering this month, a certifiable occasion because this not only...
Criterion Collection: Monsieur Verdoux | Blu-ray Review
People tend to forget that Charlie Chaplin was more than The Tramp, his iconic mute character of physical peculiarity. Seven years after his baffoonic...
Criterion Collection: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Blu-ray Review
Before the legendary British filmmaking duo of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger lensed the classics The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus or A Matter of...
Criterion Collection: Badlands | Blu-ray Review
1973’s Badlands marked the first feature film from writer/director Terrence Malick and it squarely put him on the path to his current cinematic sainthood....
Criterion Collection: Ministry of Fear | Blu-ray Review
Fritz Lang aficionados can rejoice this month with Criterion’s release of his 1944 title, Ministry of Fear, the first time it sees a DVD...
Criterion Collection: Sansho the Bailiff | Blu-ray review
While less known than his equally revered contemporaries Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu, the filmography of Kenji Mizoguchi may arguably be the more successfully...
Criterion Collection: Chronicle of a Summer | Blu-ray Review
1961’s Chronicle of a Summer is generally credited with inspiring what became known as Cinéma-vérité; a style of narrative filmmaking that both copied and...
Criterion Collection: The Ballad of Narayama | Blu-ray Review
Keisuke Kinoshita’s 1958 classic The Ballad of Narayama gets the Criterion treatment, an experimental film featuring the use of one of Japan’s signature cultural...
Criterion Collection: The Kid with a Bike | Blu-ray Review
There’s an extraordinary moment in Rosetta, the Dardenne Brothers’ Palme d’Or winning slice of grungy life from 1999. About 22 minutes in, Emilie Dequenne’s...
Criterion Collection: Pina | Blu-ray Review
Wim Wenders' long imagined a Pina Bausch documentary with Bausch herself, a dear friend of the director, personally collaborating on the project. It was...
Criterion Collection: The Tin Drum | Blu-ray Review
The Tin Drum is a story of Europe’s nasty history in the first half of the 20th Century and, like that tortured history, the...
Criterion Collection: Following | DVD Review
Over the last decade, Christopher Nolan has established himself as one of the most noteworthy mainstream directors working in the industry, mostly due to...
Criterion Collection: Purple Noon | Blu-ray Review
Remade forty years later as The Talented Mr. Ripley, René Clément’s Purple Noon from 1960 was the first attempt to bring amorphic rogue Tom...
Criterion Collection: Trilogy of Life Blu-Ray
His life tragically and brutally cut short by a still unknown assassin, Italian auteur Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last completed project, known as the Trilogy...
Criterion Collection: Weekend | Blu-ray Review
Weekend capped Jean-Luc Godard’s insanely productive year of 1967, and can rightly be considered the director’s Götterdämmerung. Both projects make their respective points with...
Criterion Collection: The Forgiveness of Blood | Blu-ray Review
Joshua Marston, the director of the 2004 Oscar nominated Maria Full of Grace finally returns with his next feature length narrative, the Silver Berlin...
Criterion Collection: Umberto D. | Blu-ray Review
Perhaps remembered foremost for directing what is considered by many to be one of the best films of all time, Bicycle Thieves (1948), one...
Criterion Collection: Les Visiteurs Du Soir | Blu-ray Review
Known for creating some of the most important films in French history, and during Nazi Occupation, no less, Criterion issues two of Marcel Carne’s...
Criterion Collection: La Promesse | Blu-ray Review
La Promesse, newly released on Blu-ray by Criterion, introduced the world to the filmmaking team of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, and their patented brand...
Criterion Collection: Rosetta | Blu-ray Review
While there have been many coming of age films about teenage girls, it’s safe to say none have been quite like Rosetta, Luc and...
Criterion Collection: Le Havre | Blu-ray Review
Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre is a charming and engrossing fable - a sort of Fractured Fairy Tale for adults - that interprets one of...
Criterion Collection: Metropolitan Blu-ray Review
With this past Spring’s release of Damsels In Distress, his first new title in thirteen years, the Criterion Collection has refurbished two Whit Stillman...
Criterion Collection: La Haine | Blu-ray Review
In 1995, Mathieu Kassovitz's exceptional debut, La Haine, was a shocking realization of the unjust ghettoizing of immigrants taking place in France, and the...
Criterion Collection: David Lean Directs Noel Coward | Blu-ray Review
Before directing some of the greatest epic films ever made, David Lean’s directorial career began in the 1940’s, when he collaborated with playwright Noel...
Criterion Collection: Vanya on 42nd Street | Blu-ray Review
Perhaps one of the most intriguing and experimental film adaptations of Anton Chekov’s work happens to be the last film of a legendary filmmaker,...
Criterion Collection: Letter Never Sent | Blu-ray Review
Bergman and Nykvist, Bertolucci and Storaro, Welles and Toland; the history of cinema is replete with great partnerships between directors and cinematographers. Through potent...
Criterion Collection: Three Outlaw Samurai | Blu-ray Review
Three Outlaw Samurai, newly available on a gorgeous blu-ray disc from Criterion, is a rousing action adventure from 1964. Directed by Hideo Gosha, a...
Criterion Collection: La Jetee and Sans Soleil | Blu-ray Review
Little defense is needed for these two works by Chris Marker. While neither the first nor last films that he made, La Jetée (1962)...
Criterion Collection: Godzilla | Blu-ray Review
1954’s Godzilla is the paterfamilias of the giant monster from the sea concept, spawning a half century’s worth of remakes, reboots and rip-offs. Directed...
