The Criterion Collection Complete

FRANKLIN, Carl (United States) One False Move [1992] Spine #1187 Blu-ray A small-town police chief (Bill Paxton) concealing an explosive secret. A pair of ruthless drug dealers (coscreenwriter Billy Bob Thornton and Michael Beach) who leave a bloody trail in their wake as they make their way from Los Angeles to Arkansas. And an enigmatic woman (Cynda Williams) caught in the middle. The way these desperate lives converge becomes a masterclass in slow-burn tension thanks to the nuanced direction of Carl Franklin, whose haunting film travels a crooked road across America’s most fraught divisions—urban and rural, Black and white — while imbuing noir conventions with a wrenching emotional depth. 105 Minutes Color 2.0 Surround 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writer Carl Franklin was 43 when he directed One False Move . Other Franklin films in the Collection: #1135: Devil in a Blue Dress [1995] The Film a Film Rating (0-60): 60 The Extras The Booklet Commentary Video tribute Documen...

BOETTICHER, Budd (United States) Comanche Station [1960] Spine #1186e Blu-ray The last collaboration between Budd Boetticher and Randolph Scott brings the Ranown westerns full circle, reexamining many of the films’ key themes and tropes: greed, loyalty, hidden motivations, and the fine moral line that separates heroes from villains. Scott stars as the enigmatic Jefferson Cody, who rescues a woman kidnapped by Comanches for reasons that may have nothing to do with the bounty offered for her return. But before he can bring her to safety, he’ll have to contend with the dangers of the Comanche warpath and a trio of bounty hunters who have designs on the reward. 73 Minutes Color Monaural 2:35:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writer Budd Boetticher was 44 when he directed Comanche Station . Other Boetticher films in the Collection: #1186a: The Tall T [1957] #1186b: Decision at Sundown [1957] #1186c: Buchanan Rides Alone [1958] #1186d: Ride Lonesome [1959] The Film a Film Rating (0-60): 6...

BOETTICHER, Budd (United States) Ride Lonesome [1959] Spine #1186d Blu-ray Mysterious motivations drive taciturn bounty hunter Ben Brigade (Randolph Scott) to capture a wanted murderer—but his quest is complicated when he is accosted by a pair of outlaws who have their own inscrutable reasons for riding along. Masterfully scripted by Burt Kennedy, who weaves a complex web of ambiguous loyalties and motives, and featuring supporting turns by genre icons James Coburn (in his film debut) and Lee Van Cleef, the first of the Ranown westerns to be shot in CinemaScope makes striking use of the enlarged frame—with a final shot that stands as perhaps the single most unforgettable image in the series. 73 Minutes Color Monaural 2:35:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writer Budd Boetticher was 43 when he directed Ride Lonesome . Other Boetticher films in the Collection: #1186a: The Tall T [1957] #1186b: Decision at Sundown [1957] #1186c: Buchanan Rides Alone [1958] #1186e: Comanche Station [196...

BOETTICHER, Budd (United States) Buchanan Rides Alone [1958] Spine #1186c Blu-ray Welcome to Agry Town, a corrupt border outpost presided over by a pair of rival brothers whose bottomless greed corrupts everything in their orbit. Into this moral cesspool rides drifter Tom Buchanan (Randolph Scott), who soon finds himself railroaded for murder and, alongside a vengeful young Mexican vaquero, forced to take a stand for justice. The noir-tinged narrative—replete with twists, double crosses, and the kind of richly drawn villains who are hallmarks of the Ranown westerns—moves with entertaining economy toward a memorably ironic climax. 79 Minutes Color Monaural 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writer Budd Boetticher was 42 when he directed Buchanan Rides Alone . Other Boetticher films in the Collection: #1186a: The Tall T [1957] #1186b: Decision at Sundown [1957] #1186d: Ride Lonesome [1959] #1186e: Comanche Station [1960] The Film a Film Rating (0-60): 60 The Extras The Booklet Com...

BOETTICHER, Budd (United States) Decision at Sundown [1957] Spine #1186b Blu-ray Randolph Scott boldly subverts his upstanding image in this stark, often startlingly bleak tale of revenge and a man’s misguided quest for redemption. He plays the mysterious stranger who, consumed by hatred for the man he blames for his wife’s suicide, rides into the corrupt town of Sundown hell-bent on vengeance. There, both he and the townspeople face a reckoning that forces them to confront disturbing truths about themselves. All but annihilating the myth of the righteous western hero,  Decision at Sundown  edges the Ranown films into increasingly dark, despairing territory. 77 Minutes Color Monaural 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writer Budd Boetticher was 41 when he directed Decision at Sundown . Other Boetticher films in the Collection: #1186a: The Tall T [1957] #1186c: Buchanan Rides Alone [1958] #1186d: Ride Lonesome [1959] #1186e: Comanche Station [1960] The Film a Film Rating...

BOETTICHER, Budd (United States) The Tall T [1957] Spine #1186a Blu-ray Based on a story by Elmore Leonard, this collaboration between director Budd Boetticher, actor Randolph Scott, and screenwriter Burt Kennedy is a model of elegantly economical storytelling charged with psychological tension. Here, Scott is the easygoing rancher who, along with the newlywed daughter (Maureen O’Sullivan) of a wealthy mining baron, must use his wits to stay alive when he is taken hostage by a band of ruthless stagecoach robbers. He is memorably matched by Richard Boone’s dangerously charming, nearly sympathetic villain in a performance that exemplifies the fine moral shading that distinguishes the Ranown westerns. 78 Minutes Color Monaural 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writer Budd Boetticher was 41 when he directed The Tall T . Other Boetticher films in the Collection: #1186b: Decision at Sundown [1957] #1186c: Buchanan Rides Alone [1958] #1186d: Ride Lonesome [1959] #1186e: Comanche Stati...

BOETTICHER, Budd (United States) The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher [1957-60] Spine #1186 Blu-ray The five briskly entertaining, vividly performed westerns made by director Budd Boetticher and strapping star Randolph Scott in the second half of the 1950s transcend their B-movie origins to become rich, unexpectedly profound explorations of loyalty, greed, honor, and revenge. Often grouped under the name Ranown (after producer Harry Joe Brown and Scott’s production company) and colorfully scripted by Burt Kennedy and Charles Lang, these films seem to unfold in a world unto themselves, staking a claim between traditional westerns and the subversive genre revisionism of the 1960s—and representing the crowning achievement of the underappreciated auteur Boetticher. Criterion Release 2023 #1185a: The Tall T [1957] #1185b: Decision at Sundown [1957] #1185c: Buchanan Rides Alone [1958] #1185d: Ride Lonesome [1959] #1185e: Comanche Station [1960] By Director By Spine #...

SCORSESE, Martin (United States) After Hours [1985] Spine #1185 Blu-ray Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman (Rosanna Arquette). So begins the wildest night of his life, as bizarre occurrences—involving underground-art punks, a distressed waitress, a crazed Mister Softee truck driver, and a bagel-and-cream-cheese paperweight—pile up with anxiety-inducing relentlessness and thwart his attempts to get home. With this Kafkaesque cult classic, Martin Scorsese—abetted by Michael Ballhaus’s kinetic cinematography and scene-stealing supporting turns by Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, Catherine O’Hara, and John Heard—directed a darkly comic tale of mistaken identity, turning the desolate night world of 1980s SoHo into a bohemian wonderland of surreal menace. 97 Minutes Color Monaural 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writer Martin Scorsese was 43 when he directed After ...

DUNYE, Cheryl (United States) The Watermelon Woman [1996] Spine #1184 Blu-ray The wry, incisive debut feature by Cheryl Dunye gave cinema something bracingly new and groundbreaking: a vibrant representation of Black lesbian identity by a Black lesbian filmmaker. Dunye stars as Cheryl, a video-store clerk and aspiring director whose interest in forgotten Black actresses leads her to investigate an obscure 1930s performer known as the Watermelon Woman, whose story proves to have surprising resonances with Cheryl’s own life as she navigates a new relationship with a white girlfriend (Guinevere Turner). Balancing breezy romantic comedy with a serious inquiry into the history of Black and queer women in Hollywood,  The Watermelon Woman  slyly rewrites long-standing constructions of race and sexuality on-screen, introducing an important voice in American cinema. 84 Minutes Color 3.0 Surround 1:33:1 Criterion Release 2023 Director/Writer Cheryl Dunye was 30 when she wrote and dire...

TATÒ, Anna Maria (Italy) Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember [1997] Spine #0000C Blu-ray Documentary about the actor Marcello Mastroianni . 198 Minutes Black and White/Color Dolby SR 1:37:1 Criterion Release 2020 Anna Maria Tatò was 57 when she directed Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember . The Film The 198-minute running time scared me. But this beautiful, loving documentary held my attention for its entire length. Mastroianni is fleshed out as a real human being, not the prototype “Latin Lover,” which annoyed him for so many years. In addition to the six Fellini films he acted in: La Dolce Vita (1960) 8½ (1963) Roma (1972) City of Women (1980) Ginger and Fred (1986) Intervista (1987) Tatò includes clips from many of the other 141 films he made (“many bad,” MM admits), or admired: FREELAND: Flying Down to Rio (1933) MONICELLI: Padri e Figli i Compagni (1957) GOLDFARB: Fellini — a Director’s Notebook (1969) MICHALKOV: Oci Ciornie (1987) BEMBERG: De Eso No Se Habla (1993) GERMI: Divor...