While the premise underlying Kiarostami’s 24 Frames may look strange on paper — in this, his final film, he animates 24 still images and presents them one-by-one — the result is a surprisingly rich work that explores beauty and time and allows its audience amply space to meditate amidst its beauty.
For this episode of The CriterionCast, Scott, David, and Trevor join to discuss Ingmar Bergman’s Persona.
Earlier this year The Criterion Collection released Ron Shelton’s Bull Durham, giving us a great opportunity to revisit a maligned classic. The film, though, doesn’t deserve derision. It’s a delicate, and often funny, look at quietly desperate lives playing in rhythm with a baseball season.
After decades of obscurity, Olivier Assayas’s Cold Water is finally available in a lovely edition from The Criterion Collection. This is as it should be. The film is a masterpiece.
The Criterion Collection’s new Blu-ray of Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring is a shimmering presentation that makes the film — a dark exploration of faith, murder, and revenge — new again.
John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy is always going to be remembered as the first and only X-rated film to win the Best Picture Academy Award. But beyond this bit of trivia, and despite some of its flaws, Midnight Cowboy is a powerful film that deserves to be revisited again and again. The Criterion Collection presents it with a stacked package in their recent home video release.
Sergei Parajanov’s 1969 film The Color of Pomegranates is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece of poetic cinema. The new Criterion Collection edition has a beautiful presentation of the film alongside several supplements that really delve into the film’s riches.
Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence is a tremendous story, and Martin Scorsese’s adaptation presents an immaculately constructed world by lovingly utilizing early-filmmaking techniques. Hopefully the new Criterion release, which sparkles, will help bring the film more attention it deserves.
Criterion’s two-disc release of Tony Richardson’s Tom Jones is a superb presentation of a film that deserves attention, in no small part because it succeeds in entertaining with an intoxicating combination of irreverence and purity of heart.
Using an excellent 4K restoration and adding a scholarly audio commentary from Joseph McBride, The Criterion Collection has upgraded their home video release of John Ford’s 1939 film Young Mr. Lincoln.
After many years, our hopes for a Blu-ray upgrade of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï have paid off with Criterion’s new release of the classic crime thriller, starring the image of quiet cool, Alain Delon.
For this episode of The CriterionCast, Trevor is joined by David and Scott to talk about Jack Clayton’s The Innocents, adapted from Henry James’s classic ghost story The Turn of the Screw.
The Criterion Collection continues to highlight controversial, difficult-to-watch films that are nevertheless important and worth exploring with its release of Michael Haneke’s multi-award-winning, deeply disturbing, even cringe-inducing film from 2001: The Piano Teacher.
Michael Curtiz’s The Breaking Point, an adaptation from one of Hemingway’s lesser known novels, is a solid noir, thrilling and beautifully constructed. Criterion’s new release will hopefully give the film the light it deserves.
The Criterion Collection presents Robert Bresson’s final, nihilistic film, the masterpiece L’argent.
In this episode, Trevor Berrett and Scott Nye venture into the mysteries of the Zone, discussing Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 film Stalker.