The Criterion Collection has released its January releases for their films. Check it out below. I know I will be picking up Throne of Blood
Eclipse Series 40: Late Ray
Satyajit Ray
India
Edition: DVDThe films directed by the great Satyajit Ray in the last ten years of his life have a unique dignity and drama. Each is a complex, political, and humane portrait of a world both corrupt and indescribably beautiful, constructed with Ray’s characteristic elegance and imbued with autumnal profundity.
7 Jan 2014 Learn more »
Throne of Blood
Akira Kurosawa
1957 • 109 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
Spine: #190 Editions: Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD, DVD, Collector’s Sets, Hulu PlusAkira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood reimagines Macbeth in feudal Japan. Starring Kurosawa’s longtime collaborator Toshiro Mifune and the legendary Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife, the film tells of a valiant warrior’s savage rise to power and his ignominious fall.
7 Jan 2014 Learn more »
Thief
Michael Mann
1981 • 124 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #691 Edition: Dual Format Blu-ray/DVDThe revered American auteur Michael Mann burst out of the gate with his bold artistic sensibility fully formed with Thief, his first theatrical feature.
14 Jan 2014 Learn more »
Rififi
Jules Dassin
1955 • 118 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #115 Editions: Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD, Collector’s SetsAfter making such noir classics as Brute Force and The Naked City, the blacklisted director Jules Dassin went to Paris and embarked on his masterpiece: a twisting, turning tale of four ex-cons who hatch one last glorious robbery in the City of Light.
14 Jan 2014 Learn more »
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Stanley Kramer
1963 • 159 minutes • 2.76:1 • United States
Spine: #692 Edition: Dual Format Blu-ray/DVDIt’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, about a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure, is the most grandly harebrained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast.
21 Jan 2014 Learn more »
La vie de bohème
Aki Kaurismäki
1992 • 103 minutes • 1.85:1 • France
Spine: #693 Edition: Dual Format Blu-ray/DVDThis deadpan tragicomedy about a group of impoverished, outcast artists living the bohemian life in Paris is among the most beguiling films by Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki.
21 Jan 2014 Learn more »
The Long Day Closes
Terence Davies
1992 • 85 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #694 Edition: Dual Format Blu-ray/DVDBursting with both enchantment and melancholy, this autobiographical film takes on the perspective of a quiet boy growing up lonely in Liverpool in the 1950s.
28 Jan 2014 Learn more »
