Tag: The Criterion Collection
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Blu-ray Review: Two Years Later, BOYHOOD Ends On Criterion
Almost as soon as Boyhood was released in June of 2014, Richard Linklater was promising audiences that a Criterion Collection release was forthcoming – which made fans of the collection all the more disappointed when an (admittedly decent) studio Blu-ray appeared instead. And although Patricia Arquette went on to win the Oscar for Best Supporting…
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Blu-ray Review: A TOUCH OF ZEN Comes to the Criterion Collection
Halfway through a year already crammed full of impressive releases (with no sign of slowing down… Dekalog for September!), The Criterion Collection has also taken advantage of the recent 4K remaster of King Hu’s seminal A Touch of Zen, adding it to their collection on Blu-ray as spine #825.
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Blu-ray Review: CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA is a Misty New Classic
The disc boasts cover art that makes the film look like either a mountaineering murder mystery or an Adrian Lyne sex thriller. It’s neither, though I’d certainly pay to see the B-side of this movie, same team and cast, which takes a crack at that. Instead, the majority of the film surrounds two women –…
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Blu-ray Review: I Can Think Of At Least One Thing Wrong With The Title Of Shindo Kaneto’s THE NAKED ISLAND
Simpsons jokes and expectations of foreign film exoticism notwithstanding, Shindo Kaneto’s 1960 film The Naked Island has arrived on Blu-ray by way of the Criterion Collection (spine #811). Shindo’s follow-up to that film, Onibaba, remains one of my favourite movies from the Criterion label, so I was eager to check out this title – which…
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Blu-ray Review: Mega-Length, Little-Seen A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY Arrives On Criterion
Fellow TwitchFilm writer Kurt Halfyard knows of my overwhelming fondness for cinematic experiences of unusual length. He and I will often seek out the one ticket in the Toronto International Film Festival’s annual program that will see us sitting in the darkened Cinema 4 till our posteriors have gone numb and most normal folks would…
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Blu-ray Review: DOWNHILL RACER Snaps Into Sharp Focus On Criterion
Here’s what the Criterion Collection is good for: equal parts enshrining of significant milestones in the art of film (see last week’s review of Ikiru), and the championing of striking works of filmcraft that have somehow slipped from the narrative of classic works.