Despite occasional hiccups in the source elements, these HD transfers look incredibly good.
The disc includes both Imamura’s preferred director’s cut and the original theatrical version.
Dwan’s 1949 war film gets a marvelous visual upgrade.
Baker’s awards darling Anora gets the red-carpet treatment from Criterion.
Review: Claude Berri’s ‘Jean de Florette’ and ‘Manon of the Spring’ on Criterion Blu-ray
Berri’s gorgeous, acidic diptych of rural greed looks flawless on Criterion’s release.
The film is one of Wong’s purest evocations of love’s excitement and heartbreak.
The native 4K presentation makes this the best-ever home video presentation of the film.
Review: Erich von Stroheim and Rupert Julian’s ‘Merry-Go-Round’ on Flicker Alley Blu-Ray
Perhaps inevitably, Merry-Go-Round plays like a Cliff’s Notes version of a von Stroheim film.
This masterpiece of world cinema has never looked or sounded better.
Review: ‘Hardboiled: Three Pulp Thrillers by Alain Corneau’ on Radiance Films Blu-ray
This is one of the best releases that Radiance Films has put out to date.
The America of the film is a jealous god requiring ritual sacrifice to achieve one’s destiny.
Review: Arthur Penn’s ‘Night Moves,’ Starring Gene Hackman, on Criterion 4K UHD Blu-ray
Penn’s Night Moves is one of the great revisionist noirs.
Visually speaking, The 10th Victim is, at bottom, a Pop Art melting pot.
4K UHD Blu-ray Review: Ōmori Kazuki’s ‘Godzilla vs. Biollante’ on the Criterion Collection
This release does justice to one of the finest installments in the Godzilla franchise.
For Chaplin, the film was a dream project that defied expectations.
Review: Oldřich Lipský’s ‘Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians’ on Deaf Crocodile Blu-ray
Beneath all the japery, there are some serious matters that are being sent up.
Review: Jiří Weiss’s Black-and-White Fairy Tale ‘The Golden Fern’ on Deaf Crocodile Blu-ray
Weiss’s film is a haunting fable about arrogance and infidelity.
The film is an unnerving portrait of labyrinthine bureaucracy and existential despair.
There’s a sentimental heart to Mann’s films, as much as his fans might not like to hear about it.
Whannell’s film consistently struggles to overcome the obviousness of its story construction.
Clouzot’s brutally tense thriller looks better than ever on Criterion’s release.