Tag: criterioncollection
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE and More Sizzlers Coming to Criterion in July 2025
In 4K: Traffaut's 'The Adventures of Antoine Doinel,' Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon,' Lang's 'The Big Heat,' and Lonergan's 'You Can Count on Me.'
NIGHT MOVES Gets the Criterion Treatment, Celebrating Its Dark Noir Brilliance
A Gene Hackman classic comes to 4K UHD from Criterion, and its sad perfection only hits harder since losing him earlier this year.
UGETSU 4K Review: Kenji Mizoguchi's Masterpiece
Our friends at the Criterion Collection continue to be champions of world cinema and film preservation. They recently released the new 4K/Blu-ray combo pack for Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 masterpiece, Ugetsu. I reviewed Ugetsu the last time around in 2017, back...
Criterion in June 2025: SORCERER, THE WIZ, BRAZIL, More
Just when I thought I was out (of money), Criterion pulled me back in (with their June 2025 release slate). How about William Friedkin's awesome Sorcerer for starters? Plus Terry Gilliam's great Brazil. Plus Paul Schrader's Mishima. Plus four more...
Criterion: KILLER OF SHEEP Headlines May 2025 Releases
Plus: 'Withnail and I,' 'How to Get Ahead in Advertising,' 'The Wind Will Carry Us,' 'The Three Musketeers/The Four Musketeers,' and in 4K: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,' 'In the Heat of the Night.'
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!
4K Review: Criterion's GODZILLA Release Reigns
Our friends at Criterion have always been huge Godzilla supporters. They’ve got tons of titles for sale and streaming on their channel (there are more than 30 sequels!), so it’s no surprise that they recently released the film that started...
THE LAST EMPEROR 4K Review: Sweeper of Oscars, Prisoner of History
Bernardo Bertolucci's Best Picture winner arrives to Criterion 4K UHD.
ALL OF US STRANGERS 4K Review: Andrew Haigh's Ghostly Film of Queer Isolation
Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, and Jamie Bell star in Andrew Haigh's acclaimed 2023 drama.
HAPPINESS 4K Review: Todd Solondz' Confrontational Black Comedy Gets a Gorgeous Upgrade
The Criterion Collection plays hero once again with their recent 4K UHD release of Todd Solondz’s 1998 sophomore feature, Happiness. The film had long languished on a pitiful non-anamorphic window-boxed DVD from Lionsgate and fans have been clamoring for an...
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.
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...
BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL Blu-ray Review: Stop Swindling Me
Glauber Rocha's trail-blazing existential Western paints deserts and hinterlands in black and white. And red. Now available 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...
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Blu-Ray Review: A Monumental Story of the Personal and Historical
It's extremely rare for Criterion Collection to produce a television series; so when one does make the cut, you know it's special. And that's just the least of the adjectives that could be used to describe The Underground Railroad, Barry...
VICTIMS OF SIN Blu-ray Review: Dance Hall Girl with a Baby in Highly-Charged Melodrama
Ninon Sevilla stars in the dazzling picture, directed by Emilio Fernandez and shot by Gabriel Figueroa, now on the Criterion Collection.
BOUND 4K Review: "Criterion Closet Picks" Just Got a Whole Lot Less Closeted
The Wachowskis finally take their place in The Criterion Collection with this week's release of their debut feature in a gleaming new transfer.
GIRLFIGHT Blu-ray Review: Rage Harnessed and Powerful
It's easy to get blasé about dramas that follow an individual as they learn a new sport/activity that becomes the centre of their world, giving their life deeper meaning; it's a common enough trope through cinema. But if you can...
Criterion in August 2024: Albert Brooks, Albert Brooks, Martha Coolidge, THE LAST EMPEROR in 4K
Plus: two long-suppressed features by Ukrainian filmmaker Kira Muratova.
