The Criterion Collection
Sneak Peeks
May 19, 2015 — Those are our three reasons. What are yours?
Tech Corner
May 8, 2015 — Repertory PicksIn 1993, the original negatives of Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy were burned in a massive nitrate fire at a laboratory in London. Even though there were no technologies available at the time capable of fully restoring such badly...
In Theaters
May 4, 2015 — Two decades after its original negatives were burned in a fire, Satyajit Ray’s breathtaking milestone of world cinema The Apu Trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, and Apur Sansar) is returning to theaters across the country, in a meticulously reconstructed new 4K...
Sneak Peeks
Apr 26, 2015 — Those are our three reasons. What are yours?
Sneak Peeks
Mar 20, 2015 — Those are our three reasons. What are yours?
Sneak Peeks
Jan 19, 2015 — Those are our three reasons. What are yours?
Jan 14, 2015 — Legendary German-born cinematographer Michael Ballhaus (Broadcast News, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas) broke through in film working with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. After shooting Whity and Beware of a Holy Whore for the filmmaker, Ballhaus was enlisted to visualize The...
Jan 6, 2015 — Those are our three reasons. What are yours?
Sneak Peeks
Dec 11, 2014 — Italian director Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter, about the sadomasochistic bond reignited after World War II between a former Nazi commandant (Dirk Bogarde) and a concentration camp prisoner (Charlotte Rampling)—shocked audiences on its release in 1974 for its eroticism and...
Production Notes
Nov 19, 2014 — While revisiting the films for their Criterion release, director Monte Hellman returned to shooting locations, many of which are now underwater; found and interviewed Calvin Johnson, the chief wrangler on both films; and discovered something new in a take of...