Columns 10 disks to pick up during Criterion’s October 2023 flash sale From pristine new 4K rereleases to complete compendiums of classic queer filmmakers, there’s a lot to blow your money on over the next 24 hours...
Columns 13 must-get Blu-rays, 4Ks, and DVDs for the March 2023 Criterion Flash Sale By: Clint Worthington Just in time for this month's Criterion Flash Sale, here are a baker's dozen box sets, new releases, and 4K upgrades to purchase.
Columns Criterion Corner: Shaft remains a bad mutha, on a great 4K upgrade The first Black superhero in cinema history gets a groovy 4K release, packed with extras (and the film's sequel).
Columns Criterion Corner: The Learning Tree, One Night in Miami… Two astonishing debuts from Black filmmakers populate Criterion's December offerings.
Columns Criterion Corner: Mona Lisa, Love & Basketball, Throw Down Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa, Johnnie To's judo drama, and Gina Prince-Bythewood's ode to Black love pepper Criterion's September releases.
Columns Criterion Corner: Ashes and Diamonds, Company, Beasts of No Nation Netflix original Beasts of No Nation, Sondheim musical doc Company, and Andrzej Wajda's postwar masterpiece dot August's Criterion releases.
Columns Criterion Corner: “Memories of Murder”, “Irma Vep” April's Criterion releases include an early classic by Bong Joon-ho and a dizzying, meta-critique of French cinema from Olivier Assayas.
Columns Criterion Corner: “Secrets & Lies”, “Defending Your Life” Mike Leigh's kitchen-sink drama and Albert Brooks' droll afterlife comedy are two of Criterion's stellar March releases.
Columns Criterion Corner: “Parallax View”, “Mandabi”, “Smooth Talk” '70s conspiracy thrillers, African social dramas, and Laura Dern's breakout performance number among Criterion's February lineup.
Columns Criterion Corner: Luis Buñuel, “Minding the Gap”, “Rolling Thunder Revue” January's Criterion offerings include a box set of Bunuel's final films, Martin Scorsese on Bob Dylan, and Bing Liu's astonishing doc debut.
Columns Criterion Corner: “Crash”, “Amores Perros”, “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm” William Greaves' avant-garde meta-doc, David Cronenberg's work of grand theft autoerotica, and Innaritu's dizzying debut mark this month's Criterion entries.
Columns Criterion Corner: “Claudine”, “Parasite” October's Criterion offerings include one of the most soulful depictions of Black life in the '70s, and Bong Joon-ho's Oscar-winning 2019 masterpiece.
Columns Criterion Corner: Beau Travail, The Naked City, Brute Force Claire Denis' hypnotic masterpiece and two rough-and-ready Jules Dassin crime pics pepper this month's Criterion releases.
Columns Criterion Corner: The Complete Films of Agnès Varda One of cinema's greatest pioneers receives a comprehensive, curatorial box set courtesy of The Criterion Collection.
Columns Criterion Corner: “Tokyo Olympiad” Blu-Ray Re-release Kon Ichikawa's seminal sports documentar about the 1964 Tokyo Olympics receives a pristine 4K restoration courtesy of The Criterion Collection.
Columns Criterion Corner: “Antonio Gaudi” “Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman” A re-release of an architecture doc and a thrilling box set of Karel Zeman's imaginative special effects work number among Criterion's offerings this month.
Columns Criterion Corner: “The Story of Temple Drake”, “Until the End of the World” The scandalous pre-Code melodrama The Story of Temple Drake and Wim Wenders' sci-fi road movie Until the End of the World get the Criterion treatment.
Columns Criterion Corner: “Now, Voyager” Bette Davis' 1942 melodrama masterpiece Now, Voyager, directed by Irving Rapper, gets a pristine rerelease courtesy of The Criterion Collection.
Columns Criterion Corner: “Polyester” “The Circus” Two masters of the absurd get new Criterion releases - one (The Circus) Chaplin's last great silent, the other (Polyester) uproarious John Waters vulgarity.
Columns Criterion Corner: “An Angel At My Table,” “The Koker Trilogy,” ’50s Ozu Jane Campion's Janet Frame biopic, a trilogy of fables from Abbas Kiarostami, and one of Ozu's lesser-known melodramas fill Criterion's August slate.
Columns Criterion Corner: “Do the Right Thing”, “1984”, “Klute”, “The BRD Trilogy” Race, control, and patriarchy reign in July's offerings from Criterion.