The Criterion Collection

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As physical media collectors well know, The Criterion Collection can be rather eclectic with their selections. Sometimes you get your true Hollywood classic. Sometimes you get a great piece of French of Japanese cinema. Occasionally you get one hell of an incredible box set. But every once in a while they stack their slate with a smorgasbord of cult classics, fan favorites, and one of the best gangster flicks to come out of England (and there are a lot of those!). So lets get into it -

• Repo Man 4k
• All of Us Strangers 4k
• The Long Good Friday 4k
• Gregg Araki's Teen Apocalypse Trilogy 4K
• Happiness 4k

Tech specs at Blu-ray.com

• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 4K Blu-ray
• Risky Business 4K Blu-ray
• Le Samouraï 4K Blu-ray
• Farewell My Concubine 4K Blu-ray
• Perfect Days 4K Blu-ray
• Black God, White Devil

They are:

• Cronos
• Following
• Stalker
• Diabolique
• The Piano Teacher
• Blow Out
• Paris, Texas
• Days of Heaven
• On the Waterfront
• Quadrophenia
• Pale Flower
• Woman in the Dunes
• La Haine
• My Life as a Dog
• Naked
• Do The Right Thing
• Brazil
• Cries and Whispers
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• Le Samourai

It's a solid eclectic mix but what are your favourites?

David Lynch’s landmark 1986 neo-noir horror film, which marked his first collaboration with Laura Dern alongside her future “Twin Peaks: The Return” co-star Kyle McLachlan, will be re-released by Criterion with a new 4K transfer. It joins Lynch’s “Eraserhead,” “Mulholland Drive,” “Lost Highway,” “Inland Empire,” “The Elephant Man,” and “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me” in the Criterion 4K library.

Also getting the 4K treatment is Terry Gilliam’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” which sees Johnny Depp playing Hunter S. Thompson stand-in Raoul Duke in a psychedelic adaptation of the landmark countercultural novel.

New additions to the collection include Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s “Bound,” Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Querelle,” Emilio Fernández’s “Victims of Sin,” and Barry Jenkins’ “The Underground Railroad.”

Tech specs

Anyone get anything good?

They are:

• Cronos
• Following
• Stalker
• Diabolique
• The Piano Teacher
• Blow Out
• Paris, Texas
• Days of Heaven
• On the Waterfront
• Quadrophenia
• Pale Flower
• Woman in the Dunes
• La Haine
• My Life as a Dog
• Naked
• Do the Right Thing
• Brazil
• Cries and Whispers
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• Le Samourai

These are:

• All That Money Can Buy (1941) 4k
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022).
• The Runner (1984)
• Saint Omer (2022)
• To Die For (1995) 4k

Tech specs: Blu-ray.com

The Red Balloon and Other Stories: Five Films by Albert Lamorisse Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio (4K) Blast of Silence

This is probably the best Criterion Closet video of the year or maybe ever. Or maybe I'm just a huge fan of Patton.

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=33149

The Criterion Collection has announced three new Janus Contemporaries releases. They are: Godland (2022), The Eight Mountains (2022), and Tori and Lokita (2022).

https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1691486939872997384

• Jackie Chan boxset
• Mean Streets (4K)
• La Ceremonie
• Days of Heaven (4K)
• Last Picture Show (4K)