From a historic box set to a musical unlike any other, 2018 has been a special year in physical media, and these are the five best releases.
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Joshua Brunsting
Wacky New Years Drawing Hints At The Criterion Collection’s 2019 Line-Up
Let's pick apart this years' drawing.
Ryan Gallagher
Ten Best Films Of 2018 [Joshua’s List]
From another Orson Welles masterpiece to a new Alice Rohrwacher-directed gem, these are the ten best films of 2018.
Home Video Releases for the Week of January 1st, 2019
Collecting the best Blu-rays and DVDs of the week.
Criterion Reflections – Episode 42 – A Ten-Year Retrospective
David reminisces about his past 10 years of blogging and podcasting about the Criterion Collection.
David Blakeslee
Criterion Now – Episode 77 – March 2019 Announcements, StudioCanal to Kino
Peter Labuza from The Cinephiliacs joins Aaron and Mark to catch up on the latest.
Aaron West
Episode 195 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2018
Ryan is joined by David, Arik, and Jordan to discuss their Criterion Collection releases from 2018.
Joshua Reviews Adam McKay’s Vice [Theatrical Review]
Adam McKay returns with another political satire, this time skewering one of the most controversial figures pf post-2000 politics.
Joshua Reviews Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War [Theatrical Review]
Ida director Pawil Pawlikowski returns with a haunting film about doomed love under chaotic times.
Scott Reviews Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War [Theatrical Review]
Its slight 85-minute running time gives the further impression of time slipping away, how moments stretch out, only for you to blink and a year’s gone by.
Scott Nye
Joshua Reviews Wang Bing’s Dead Souls [Theatrical Review]
Despite being a nearly nine-hour documentary, Wang Bing returns with maybe 2018's most important and powerful non-fiction feature film.
Joshua Reviews Aleksey German’s Khrustalyov, My Car! [Theatrical Review]
20 years after its initial release, Aleksey German's 1998 masterpiece arrives in theaters in an essential new restoration from Arrow Films.
Criterion Now – Episode 76 – FilmStruck, Fandor, and the state of home media
Fritzi Kramer and Jill Blake join to discuss the big week with the end of FilmStruck, potential end of Fandor, and all of the implications.
Criterion Reflections – Episode 41 – 1970 Short Films/Season Finale
David and guests wrap up Season 2 of the podcast with conversations about 1970 films from Stan Brakhage, Hollis Frampton, David Lynch, Stuart Cooper and Ingmar Bergman.
Episode 194 — Ingmar Bergman’s Persona
For this episode of The CriterionCast, Scott, David, and Trevor join to discuss Ingmar Bergman's Persona.
Trevor Berrett