Tag: 4k
Jet Li Goes 4K
Now this is cool. Image above: Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh in Tai Chi Master. Image courtesy of Jet Li and Shout! Studios. In the very late 90s, when I finally discovered Hong Kong cinema, Jet Li was one of...
THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY 4K Review: Bob Hoskins in Seminal Gangster Flick
Bob Hoskins, joined by Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan, gives an intense performance of religious proportions in classic London crime film.
Akira Kurosawa's SEVEN SAMURAI Gets a 4K Upgrade From Criterion
Sammo Hung, Akira Kurosawa, and the Coen Brothers all get new releases from Criterion!
SNAKE EYES Headlines Kino Lorber's 4K Roundup
Streaming might be the future, but physical media is still the present. It's also awesome, depending on the title, the label, and the release, so join us as we take a look at the new 4K UHDs, Blu-rays, and DVDs...
I AM CUBA 4K Review: Near Perfect, A Reeling Contradiction
Director Mikhail Kalatozov's enigmatic look at pulsating revolutionary Cuba is "reality through bombast."
REAL LIFE 4K Review: Birth of a Comic Legend
Albert Brooks made his directorial debut with a sharp-eyed, witty satire starring Charles Grodin and Frances Lee McCain, now on 4K and Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK 4K Review: Wow. Wow. Wow.
Peter Weir's magical mystery tour from 1975 looks like it was released today in the incredible-looking Criterion Collection 4K edition. This is why Australia is called "Oz."
THE HEROIC TRIO / EXECUTIONERS 4K Review: Hong Kong Action Symphony in Two Movements
Maggie Cheung, Anita Mui and Michelle Yeoh star; Johnnie To and Ching Siu-tung direct. Now in 4K from the Criterion Collection.
LONE STAR 4K Review: John Sayles' Texas Tale Shines Bright with Criterion
Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Kris Kristofferson and Matthew McConaughey star in John Sayles' layered tale of injustice and reconciliation.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO 4K Review: An Honest to Goodness Great Film
Ewan McGregor, Gregory Mann, Tilda Swinton, David Bradley, and Christoph Waltz star in the award-winning stop-motion take on the dark fairy tale.
Criterion in April 2024: LA HAINE, I AM CUBA, PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK in 4K
The Criterion Collection reaches out to encompass more radical works of cinema in April 2024, led by Mathieu Kassovitz's completely unsettling La Haine (1995); the seminal Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), described by Criterion as "a hypnotic parable of societal collapse from...
MEAN STREETS 4K Review: Martin Scorsese Takes On His Home Turf
Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel ignite Scorsese's breakthrough movie, now on 4K from Criterion.
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW 4K Review: Peter Bogdanovich's American Elegy
The film feels startlingly timeless. The Criterion Collection pulls every conceivable supplement and special feature for this 3-disc set, including 'Texasville.'
THE RANOWN WESTERNS: FIVE FILMS DIRECTED BY BUDD BOETTICHER 4K Review: Riding on Criterion
Randolph Scott Lee Van Cleef, James Coburn, Henry Silva, and Claude Akins star in these five outstanding films.
DREAMS 4K Review: Criterion Honours Akira Kurosawa with Inaugural UHD
Earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival, 80-year-old Martin Scorsese told Deadline that he finally understood the words of Akira Kurosawa who, upon accepting his honorary Academy award in 1990, said: “I’m only now beginning to see the possibility...
AFTER HOURS, BREATHLESS, ONE FALSE MOVE: Criterion in July 2023
July 2023 will sizzle no matter where you live, judging by what the Criterion Collection plans to release that month. Martin Scorsese's After Hours, Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, and Carl Franklin's One False Move are all significant films that are getting...
TIME BANDITS and Pasolini: Catching Up on Criterion in June 2023
Yes, I know I'm late, I'm late to a very important date, but yet, there is still plenty of time for all physical-media devotees to smash piggybanks, turn over mattresses, and otherwise plan June 2023 orders from The Criterion Collection,...
THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN 4K Review: Deliriously, Exhaustingly Exhausting
Available from The Criterion Collection, director Terry Gilliam's ambitious and pricey yarn stars Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, and John Neville.
Kino Lorber End of Year: Best of 2022
Looking back on the physical releases sent to me for review over the past year is a good personal reminder about the importance of physical media. True, I stream a great deal. Still, it seems far more cost effective to...
Criterion in September 2022: EXOTICA, SOUND OF METAL, TAKE OUT Lead the Pack
Brian De Palma's 'Blow Out' should blow everyone away in 4K, as should new editions of Henri-Georges Clouzot's 'Le Corbeau' and Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project.
