Ryan’s Criterion Link Collection: Tuesday, November 25th 2014

There’s a lot going on this week, Criterion-wise. New releases out today (L’avventura and Les Blank: Always For Pleasure), Criterion Designs, the final week of the Barnes & Noble sale, and Black Friday!

Criterion Designs Links

Here are three great links, if you want to see more of the interior of Criterion Designs

News

IFC will release two of Borowczyk’s films, which leads us to ask: will Criterion release a Borowczyk box set similar to Arrow’s?

IFC Midnight will bring “The Beast” to cinemas on December 5th, with “Immoral Tales” following on December 12th.

Tales Of Hoffman is coming to Blu-ray (in Europe)

StudioCanal will bring to Blu-ray Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Tales of Hoffmann (1951), starring Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina, and Robert Helpmann. The release will be available for purchase on March 23, 2015.

Reviews

Criterion On The Brain has posted their review of Il Sorpasso

Il Sorpasso is a reminder that films needn’t subscribe to one genre, one tone, or even one viewpoint. Fun can be fun, even when it leads to tragedy.

Over at Blu-ray.com, Dr. Svet reviews the new Arrow Blu-ray for The Killers

This is the release of Robert Siodmak’s The Killers which English-speakers residing in Region-B territories should have in their collections. The technical presentation of the film is just as good as that of French label Carlotta Films, but obviously all of the supplemental features are in English. It is great that we finally have this film on Blu-ray.

For Senses On Cinema, Shaun Scott writes about Touchez Pas Au Grisbi

It remains a fascinating window into an intergenerational directorial career positioned just between the glory days of the Parisian studio system and the impending heyday of the ’60s cinematic Visigoths who eventually sacked the city.