The Criterion Collection Complete

JENKINS, Barry (United States) The Servant [2008] Spine #1183 Blu-ray One of the great debut features of the twenty-first century, Barry Jenkins’s captivating, lo-fi romance  Medicine for Melancholy  unfolds against the backdrop of a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco, where a one-night stand between two young bohemians, Micah (Wyatt Cenac) and Jo’ (Tracey Heggins), spins off into a woozy daylong affair marked by moments of tenderness, friction, joy, and intellectual sparring as they explore their relationships to each other, the city, and their own Blackness. Shooting on desaturated video, Jenkins crafts an intimate exploration of alienation and connection graced with the evocative visual palette and empathetic emotional charge that has come to define his work. 88 Minutes Color 5.1 Surround 1:78:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writer Barry Jenkins was 29 when he wrote and directed Medicine for Melancholy . The Film a Film Rating (0-60): 60 The Extras The Booklet Commentar...

LOSEY, Joseph (United Kingdom) The Servant [1963] Spine #1182 Blu-ray The prolific, ever provocative Joseph Losey, blacklisted from Hollywood and living in England, delivered a coolly modernist shock to the system of that nation’s cinema with this mesmerizing dissection of class, sexuality, and power. A dissolute scion of the upper crust (James Fox) finds the seemingly perfect manservant (a diabolical Dirk Bogarde, during his transition from matinee idol to art-house icon) to oversee his new London town house. But not all is as it seems, as traditional social hierarchies are gradually, disturbingly destabilized. Lustrously disorienting cinematography and a masterful script by playwright Harold Pinter merge in  The Servant,  a tour de force of mounting psychosexual menace. 115 Minutes Black and White Monaural 1:66:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writer Joseph Losey was 54 when he wrote and directed The Servant . Other Losey films in the Collection: #1123: Mr. Klein (1976) ...

SCIAMMA, Céline (France) Petite maman [2021] Spine #1181 Blu-ray Céline Sciamma’s follow-up to  Portrait of a Lady on Fire  transcends time and space to weave a delicately emotional fable about grief, family, and connection across generations. In the wake of her grandmother’s death, eight-year-old Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) accompanies her distraught mother (Nina Meurisse) to her childhood home. There, Nelly’s encounter with another young girl (Gabrielle Sanz) brings mother and daughter together in a way neither could have ever imagined. Evoking childhood’s perpetual state of wonder through luminous, richly textured images,  Petite maman  takes viewers on a journey inward for a quietly miraculous tale of emotional time travel. 73 Minutes Color 5.1 Surround 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writer Céline Sciamma was 43 when she wrote and directed  Petite maman . Other Sciamma films in the Collection: #1034: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) The Film a Film Ra...

SCOTT, Ridley (United States) Thelma & Louise [1991] Spine #1180 Blu-ray Two women, a turquoise Thunderbird, the ride of a lifetime. With this pop-culture landmark, screenwriter Callie Khouri and action auteur Ridley Scott rewrote the rules of the road movie, telling the story of two best friends who find themselves transformed into accidental fugitives during a weekend getaway gone wrong—leading them on a high-speed Southwest odyssey as they elude police and discover freedom on their own terms. Propelled by irresistible performances from Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis (plus Brad Pitt in a sexy, star-making turn)—and nominated for six Academy Awards, winning one for Khouri—the exhilaratingly cathartic  Thelma & Louise  stands as cinema’s ultimate ode to ride-or-die female friendship. 129 Minutes Color 5.1 Surround 2:39:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writer Ridley Scott was 54 when he wrote directed  Thelma & Louise . The Film a Film Rating (0-60): 60 The...

BOGDANOVICH, Peter (United States) Targets [1968] Spine #1179 Blu-ray Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. Produced by Roger Corman, this chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror-movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man (Tim O’Kelly) on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass media and mass violence,  Targets  is a model of maximally effective filmmaking on a minimal budget and a potent first statement from one of the defining voices of the American New Wave. 90 Minutes Color Monaural 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writer Peter Bogdanovich was 29 when he wrote directed  Targets . Other Bogdanovich films in the Collection: #549: The Last Picture Show (1971) #1241: Paper Moon (1973) ...