Tag: criterion

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,...

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.

Blu-ray Review: Criterion Ventures Into EVE'S BAYOU

Samuel L. Jackson and Jurnee Smollett star in Kasi Lemmons' mysterious family drama, set in America's Deep South.