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There are films you watch because they happened in history, and then there are films you watch to understand history itself. All the President’s Men is one of the latter — an electrifying, meticulously crafted piece of cinema that doesn’t just dramatize the Watergate scandal, it immerses you in it. More than 45 years after its release, this investigative masterpiece still […]
Two Academy Award winning films, 1959’s religious epic Ben-Hur and 1976’s biographical political thriller All the President’s Men, will be available for the first time for purchase Digitally in 4K Ultra HD and on 4K UHD Blu-ray Disc on February 17. The films will be available to purchase on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc online […]
In February, Joyce Chopra’s Smooth Talk, a troubling and profound coming-of-age story starring Laura Dern in her breakout performance, will join the Criterion Collection in a new 4K restoration supervised by the director. Ousmane Sembène satirizes the greed and dysfunction of postcolonial Senegalese society in his bitterly ironic second feature, Mandabi, newly restored in 4K. Warren Beatty stars […]
That time of year is upon us again, as we take a look at films that have still yet to arrive on Blu-ray in the year 2020. Looking ahead to next year, there are STILL so many terrific and worthy films of the format upgrade. Things seem to be shifting too, and we are in […]
When the summer heats up this July, the Criterion Collection will celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Spike Lee’s 1989 masterpiece Do the Right Thing with a definitive director-approved edition, featuring a new 4K restoration. Jane Fonda gives one of the most electrifying performances of her career as a sex worker in peril in Alan J. Pakula’s Klute, appearing on […]
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