January 15th, 2025 by Aaron Neuwirth
Coming in April: Anora from The Criterion Collection, a whirlwind anti–Cinderella story, and Prince of Broadway, a moving exploration of the illusory nature of the American dream, from the singular modern auteur Sean Baker; Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring, a sprawling tale of greed and betrayal amid the French countryside, directed by Claude Berri; and Basquiat, Julian Schnabel’s impressionistic […]
August 15th, 2018 by Aaron Neuwirth
This November, the Criterion Collection will present Orson Welles’s elegiac second feature, The Magnificent Ambersons, in its first-ever Blu-ray release, an edition packed with supplemental features. Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis star in Billy Wilder’s gender-bending Some Like It Hot, a pinnacle of Hollywood comedy, appearing in a new 4K restoration. David Byrne explores the wild, wild […]
July 2nd, 2017 by Aaron Neuwirth
Here’s a tale of love, family, and ambition set during a time of war. That would seemingly be the kind of film anyone would be able to relate to. I am admittedly less familiar with Kenji Mizoguchi, compared to other acclaimed Japanese filmmakers, but Ugetsu was a movie with a level of acclaim I could […]
March 15th, 2017 by Aaron Neuwirth
This June, Criterion will bring three of the most beloved classics of French cinema to Blu-ray for the first time with a newly restored edition of Marcel Pagnol‘s Marseille Trilogy, a sweeping saga set in the author’s native Provence that tracks the lives and loves of its characters over the course of a generation. A […]
