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Trouble in Paradise stands as one of the clearest expressions of Ernst Lubitsch’s elegant and mischievous filmmaking style. A German-born director who helped shape Hollywood sophistication in the early sound era, Lubitsch moved seamlessly from silent cinema into musicals like The Love Parade and Monte Carlo before refining his voice in polished comedies such as […]
Coming in April: John Singleton’s Hood Trilogy, three indelible tales of Black urban life from a vital auteur; Point Blank, a stylized revenge thriller set in 1960s Los Angeles, directed by John Boorman; Monty Python’s Life of Brian, a blockbuster biblical epic from a legendary British comedy troupe; Trouble in Paradise, a pre-Code jewel glittering with innuendo and sophistication, directed by Ernst Lubitsch; Gilda, the most sensual of […]
Coming in February to the Criterion Collection: Network, a prescient X-ray of the corrupted soul of a corporate-dominated America, directed by Sidney Lumet; The Man Who Wasn’t There, Joel and Ethan Coen’s existential noir thriller set in 1940s California; Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals, four elegant, bawdy pre-Code movie musicals from Ernst Lubitsch; and, fresh from theaters, Cloud, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s […]
This September, John Waters’ first studio picture, Polyester, the trash maestro’s delirious take on the Douglas Sirk-style melodrama, will appear in an edition complete with a scratch-and-sniff Odorama card. Jennifer Jones stars in the topsy-turvy comedy Cluny Brown, the final film by Ernst Lubitsch, long unavailable on home video. Ritwik Ghatak’s family tragedy The Cloud-Capped Star, a masterpiece of Bengali cinema, will […]
This August, The Tree of Life, visionary filmmaker Terrence Malick’s magnum opus starring Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain, will join the Criterion Collection in an edition featuring a new cut that includes nearly fifty minutes of additional footage. And fifty years after its initial release put Cuban cinema on the map, Memories of Underdevelopment, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s long-unavailable masterpiece […]