The Criterion Collection Complete

SAVOCA, Nancy (United States) Dogfight [1991] Spine #1216 Blu-ray An ineffably bittersweet portrait of youth in the 1960s, Nancy Savoca’s funny, sensitive tale of love and war etches two vividly alive characters: aspiring San Francisco folk singer Rose (Lili Taylor) and hotheaded, Vietnam-bound marine Eddie (River Phoenix), who meet on the occasion of a cruelly misogynistic party where men compete to bring the most unattractive dates they can find. But what begins as a night to forget unexpectedly develops into something far more meaningful. Featuring music by folk legends Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Pete Seeger,  Dogfight  captures the miracle of human connection while gracefully subverting ideas surrounding machismo, patriotic duty, and the very meaning of America itself. 93 minutes 2.0 Surround Color 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2024 Director/Writer Nancy Savoca  was 32 when she directed Dogfight . The Film a Film Rating (0-60): 60 The Extras The Booklet Commentary Video tr...

TARR, Béla and HRANITZKY, Ágnes (Hungary) Werckmeister Harmonies [2000] Spine #1215 Blu-ray This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai,  Werckmeister Harmonies  unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus — complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince — arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably toward violence. In thirty-nine hypnotic long takes engraved in ghostly black and white, auteur Béla Tarr and codirector-editor Ágnes Hranitzky conjure an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty. 145 minutes Monaural Black and White in Hungarian 1:66:1 Criterion Release 2024   Directors/Writers Béla Tarr  was 45 and Ágnes Hranitzky was 55 when they directed Werckmeister Harmonies . Screenplay by Lás...

KALATOZOV, Mikhail (Cuba) I Am Cuba [1964] Spine #1214 Blu-ray Both a landmark of radical political cinema and one of the most visually ravishing films ever made, this legendary hymn to revolution shimmers across the screen like a fever dream of rebellion. The result of an extraordinarily ambitious collaboration between the Soviet and Cuban film industries, director Mikhail Kalatozov’s  I Am Cuba  unfolds in four explosive vignettes that capture Cuban life on the brink of transformation, as crushing economic exploitation and inequality give way to a working-class uprising. Backed by Carlos Fariñas’s stirring score, the dazzling camera work by Sergei Urusevsky—an inspiration for generations of filmmakers to follow—gives flight to the movie’s message of liberation. 141 minutes Monaural Black and White in Spanish 1:33:1 Criterion Release 2024 Director/Writer Mikhail Kalatozov  was 61 when he directed I Am Cuba . Other Kalatozov films in the Collection: #146: The Cranes Are...