The Criterion Collection

Marco Ferreri’s delightfully confounding late-sixties film Dillinger Is Dead, never before on home video, is now available on Criterion Collection special edition DVD, and critics finally have the chance to wrestle with it. Dennis Lim writes about the “black-comic oddity” for the Los Angeles Times, informing us that it “has a reputation as one of Ferreri’s most incendiary political statements” before praising the “riot of colors, its pop art flair, its modernist design,” and, of course, “the great Michel Piccoli.” The AV Club’s Scott Tobias, meanwhile, is also thrilled, calling Dillinger “transfixing” and a “surreal bomb-thrower of a film.” And at DVD Town, Christopher Long deems this “finely calibrated exercise in inspired lunacy” a “one-of-a-kind experience” and “pretty damned brilliant.”

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