Year-end roundups
We're thrilled that such a wide variety of Criterion titles have been featured on so many publications' year-end "best of" lists. Time's Richard Corliss placed Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist at #2, calling the box set "a fitting tribute to a grand and tragic figure." Also highly ranked are Ingmar Bergman: Four Masterworks and Berlin Alexanderplatz, which "comes to DVD in a restoration of startling clarity and power." In "The Best Non-Theatrical Debuts of '07," Michael Atkinson at IFC News made note of Hiroshi Teshigahara's Pitfall and Raymond Bernard's Wooden Crosses (Eclipse), calling Pitfall "the most impressive film debut of 1962" and Wooden Crosses "arguably the greatest of the early talkie WWI antiwar sagas...peerlessly cynical about military life and its purpose."
