Category: Criterion Corner

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October 29, 2020

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.
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September 11, 2020

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.
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August 19, 2020

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.
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June 23, 2020

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.
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January 20, 2020

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.
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December 23, 2019

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.
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November 26, 2019

Criterion Corner: “Now, Voyager”

Bette Davis' 1942 melodrama masterpiece Now, Voyager, directed by Irving Rapper, gets a pristine rerelease courtesy of The Criterion Collection.
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September 24, 2019

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.
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August 20, 2019

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.
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July 19, 2019

Criterion Corner: “Do the Right Thing”, “1984”, “Klute”, “The BRD Trilogy”

Race, control, and patriarchy reign in July's offerings from Criterion.