Tag: criterioncollection
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.
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."
TO DIE FOR 4K Review: This Film Kills
Nicole Kidman, Joaquin Phoenix, and Casey Affleck commit murder for fame and sex in Gus Van Sant's frigid satire.
Criterion in July 2024: FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE and PERFECT DAYS Coming Soon
Also: 'Black God, White Devil' from Brazil, 'Pat Garret and Billy the Kid' from Sam Peckinpah, 'Risky Business' from Paul Brickman, 'Le samourai' from Melville in 4K.
Criterion in June 2024: BOUND, QUERELLE, VICTIMS OF SIN, THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Plus: 'Blue Velvet' and 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' get 4K upgrades.
ERIC ROHMER'S TALES OF THE FOUR SEASONS Blu-ray Review
Four films make up a year's worth of light drama from French New Wave icon Éric Rohmer in a new set from the Criterion Collection.
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.
Criterion in May 2024: Ousmane Sembène, ANATOMY OF A FALL, GIRLFIGHT, Ozu Goes Blu, PEEPING TOM in 4K
The Criterion Collection follows an auteur-based diet of cinema, offering a wondrous variety of films from all over the world to sate your appetite. Case in point, consider what May 2024 will bring from the home video label. (All verbiage...
CHANTAL AKERMAN Blu-ray Review: Criterion Showcases Early Masterworks
Chantal Akerman left us far too soon. Her work was singular and extraordinary; certainly, it's an incredible achievement to have made one of the greatest films of all time at the tender age of 25. (Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du...
