The Criterion Collection has released its April DVD/Blu-Ray releases. Check it out below
Sullivan’s Travels
Preston Sturges
1941 • 90 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States
Spine: #118 Edition: DVDHollywood director Joel McCrea, tired of churning out lightweight comedies, decides to make O Brother, Where Art Thou, a serious, socially responsible film about human suffering. After his producers point out that he knows nothing of hardship, he hits the road as a hobo.
Odd Man Out
Carol Reed
1947 • 116 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #754 Editions: DVD, Blu-RayTaking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed’s psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong.
14 Apr 2015 Learn more »
The River
Jean Renoir
1951 • 99 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #276 Editions: Blu-Ray, Hulu Plus, iTunesBased on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold.
21 Apr 2015 Learn more »
Eclipse Series 42: Silent Ozu—Three Crime Dramas
Yasujiro Ozu
Japan
Edition: DVDDuring his first decade at Shochiku studios, where he dabbled in many genres, Ozu put out a trio of precisely rendered, magnificently shot and edited silent crime films
21 Apr 2015 Learn more »
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Peter Yates
1973 • 102 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #475 Edition: DVDWorld-weary and living hand to mouth, Coyle works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld. In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in Peter Yates’s The Friends of Eddie Coyle.
Le silence de la mer
Jean-Pierre Melville
1949 • 99 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #755 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, Hulu PlusLe silence de la mer is a fascinating tale of moral ambiguity that points the way toward Melville’s later films about resistance and the occupation.
28 Apr 2015 Learn more »
