The Criterion Collection has released its February releases for their films in 2014. Check it out below. I know I will be picking up Alfred Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent
Jules and Jim
François Truffaut
1962 • 105 minutes • 2.35:1 • France
Spine: #281 Editions: Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD, DVD, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus, iTunesHailed as one of the finest films ever made, Jules and Jim charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession.
4 Feb 2014 Learn more »
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Abdellatif Kechiche
2013 • 179 minutes • 2.35:1 • France
Spine: #695 Editions: DVD, Blu-RayThe colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young woman’s experiences of first love and sexual awakening.
11 Feb 2014 Learn more »
Foreign Correspondent
Alfred Hitchcock
1940 • 120 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States
Spine: #696 Editions: Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD, Hulu PlusA full-throttle espionage thriller, starring Joel McCrea as a green Yank reporter sent to Europe to get the scoop on the imminent war, it’s wall-to-wall witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists, and brilliantly mounted suspense set pieces.
18 Feb 2014 Learn more »
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson
2009 • 87 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #700 Edition: DVDA compulsive chicken thief turned newspaper reporter, Mr. Fox settles down with his family at a new foxhole in a beautiful tree directly adjacent to three enormous poultry farms—owned by three ferociously vicious farmers: Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Mr. Fox simply cannot resist.
18 Feb 2014 Learn more »
King of the Hill
Steven Soderbergh
1993 • 103 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #698 Edition: Dual Format Blu-ray/DVDThis evocative period piece, faithfully adapted from the memoir by the novelist A. E. Hotchner, is among the ever versatile Steven Soderbergh’s most touching and surprising films.
25 Feb 2014 Learn more »
Tess
Roman Polanski
1979 • 172 minutes • 2.35:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #697 Edition: Dual Format Blu-ray/DVDThis multiple-Oscar-winning film by Roman Polanski is an exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
25 Feb 2014 Learn more »
Breathless
Jean-Luc Godard
1960 • 90 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #408 Editions: Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD, Hulu Plus, iTunesWith its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, Breathless helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same.
25 Feb 2014 Learn more »
