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Screen Anarchy Last Minute Holiday Gift Guide 2024: Vol. 1. Home Entertainment Releases.
Welcome to the last minute gift guide for 2024. It’s a bit later than I wanted due to some audio issues. But now that those are fixed I wanted to be sure to highlight the great physical releases, books, records...
Criterion in March 2025: GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE, NIGHT MOVES, THIEF and More
Some months, it's very hard to choose which new delectable upcoming Criterion release to highlight, and March 2025 is just such a month. I must say: the king of monsters wins. Directed by Kazuki Omori, Godzilla Vs. Biollante (1989) kicked...
I AM CUBA 4K Review: Near Perfect, A Reeling Contradiction
Director Mikhail Kalatozov's enigmatic look at pulsating revolutionary Cuba is "reality through bombast."
REPO MAN 4K Review: This Criterion Release Rocks
For those who like a good dose of honesty and chaos, the 1984 punk cult classic debut from Alex Cox (Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell), Repo Man is out in a 4K/Blu-ray combo. The release is beautiful; from the...
EASTERN CONDORS and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN Lead Criterion in December 2024
From Sammo Hung's Far East to the Coen Brothers' West (Texas), plus on 4K: Wim Wenders' 'Paris, Texas' and Fellini's '8 1/2.'
GODZILLA (GOJIRA), SEVEN SAMURAI, THE SHAPE OF WATER, PAPER MOON, Original SCARFACE, All in 4K: Criterion in November 2024
Look, I'm not advocating selling the farm -- wait, do any of you own a farm?! -- or mortgaging the kids -- please don't do that -- but I am suggesting that if you don't have a 4K player and...
PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID 4K UHD Review: Sam Peckinpah Unmasked
Sam Peckinpah's got James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, and Bob Dylan's number in a new edition from the Criterion Collection.
DEMON POND, GUMMO, Val Lewton, PANDORA'S BOX: Criterion in October 2024
Folk horror from Japan! Angelic and devilish souls from rural America (US)! Val Lewton horror from Hollywood! Melodrama from Germany! In October 2024, Criterion plans to release a rich collection of horror-month appropriate titles from across the world. To be...
QUERELLE Blu-ray Review: Docking with the Criterion Collection
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's final feature is visually inventive and darkly queer.
MOONAGE DAYDREAM 4K UHD Review: Rocking Criterion
Filmmaker Brett Morgen interprets David Bowie's many ch-ch-changes in a deeply transcendent, experimental immersion film.
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.
MICHAEL HANEKE: TRILOGY Review: Cooly Unsettling
Criterion collects Michael Haneke's first features, which form a rewardingly challenging triptych.
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.
DIM SUM: A LITTLE BIT OF HEART Blu-ray Review: Casualties of Chinese Culture
Wayne Wang directs Laureen Chew, Kim Chew and Victor Wong in a gently stirring family drama.
Criterion in October 2023: VIDEODROME, THE OTHERS, DON'T LOOK NOW
Plus: 'Nanny' and 'Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers.'
THELMA & LOUISE Blu-ray Review: Soaring Into the Criterion Collection
Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis star; Ridley Scott directed. An American studio masterpiece has never looked better.
DIM SUM: A LITTLE BIT OF HEART, Kurosawa's 4K DREAMS: Criterion in August 2023
Let's start with a little dim sum before night falls and dreams begin. In August 2023, The Criterion Collection will release Wayne Wang's Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart on Blu-ray and Akira Kurosawa's Dreams in 4K, which makes...
HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE Blu-ray Review: Ramshackle Comedy Made Its Mark
Robert Townsend directed the independent Black comedy, first released in 1987, and now on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection.
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,...
