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NewsCriterion Announces Blu-ray! Click here for more info. Return of The Human Condition Masaki Kobayashi’s legendary, nearly ten-hour trilogy The Human Condition will return to the big screen, after two decades, this Friday, July 18, in new 35 mm prints from Janus Films. Opening at New York’s Film Forum before traveling around the country, the epic puts Japanese superstar Tatsuya Nakadai center stage as a pacifist forced to fight for his country in World War II and also features well known (and frequently Criterion-featured) actors Chishu Ryu and Hideko Takamine. Click here for more information on present and upcoming playdates. Visconti in Ontario On Friday, July 18, the Cinematheque Ontario begins its thirteen-film retrospective of all the major works of Italian maestro Luchino Visconti. Operatic and baroque, while intimately concerned with eroticism and repressed sexuality, Visconti’s films (including Le notti bianche and The Leopard) are some of cinema’s most voluptuous. Click here for more info, including how to buy tickets.
THE MERCHANT IVORY COLLECTIONProducer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala collaborated to create brilliant dramas of colliding cultures, trapped souls, and passionate romances for more than forty years. Click here to explore their body of work.THREE CHILDREN'S CLASSICS FROM JANUS FILMS
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New from Eclipse Now available from Eclipse, Series 9: The Delirious Fictions of William Klein, featuring three outlandish masterworks from famed photographer and documentarian William Klein: Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, Mr. Freedom, and The Model Couple.
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ON FIVE: The Criterion BlogHe Is an IslandThe locations for many of Ingmar Bergman’s most dramatically spare films have existed for so long in moviegoers’ minds as stark black-and-white dream states that to walk through them in living, vibrant color is truly transformative. Imagine the harsh, pebbled beaches of Persona’s summer escape (shot on the same spot where Bergman eventually built his own house) suddenly buffeted by crystal blue waves. Or the setting for Shame’s detached, ash gray apocalypse made verdant by expanses of lush farmland pasture. To be amid the splendor of Fårö, the Swedish island where Bergman lived for decades and is now buried, sheds new light (often literally) on the works of this most forbidding and visually influential of film artists. Additionally, being there for the fifth annual Bergmanveckan, or Bergman Week, the first since his death in July 2007, has made me reassess my notions of what defines a film festival. Click here to read more from the Criterion blog, On Five. PRESS NOTES Trafic "rewards repeat viewings" . . . Vampyr in Fangoria . . . Trafic reviewed in DVD Town . . . Mishima and Patriotism at GreenCine Guru . . . Glenn Kenny on Trafic . . . "Intellectually rigorous" Mishima . . . Mishima a "true work of art" . . . Mishima and Patriotism in Boston Globe . . . Classe tous risques reviewed in Entertainment Weekly . . . Trafic in New York Sun . . . "Mishima Joins Ranks of All-Time Best DVD Covers" . . . Huston "a delightful hoot," "seductively robust" Stanwyck in The Furies . . . "Tense and moving" Before the Rain 50 YEARS OF JANUS FILMS In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Janus Films, we're proud to offer Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films, a magnificent linen-bound box set featuring fifty classic films on DVD and a 240-page illustrated book. Click here for details. Our DealAt the Criterion store each DVD is already discounted 20% every day, with free shipping on domestic orders over $50. Register for an account with a valid email address and you'll get a $50 gift certificate for every $500 you spend! |
