The Criterion Collection Just released its June Release Line up of movies. Check them out below.
Wild Strawberries
Ingmar Bergman
1957 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • Sweden
Spine: #139 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Hulu PlusProfessor Isak Borg (Victor Sjöström) is forced to face his past in the film that catapulted Ingmar Bergman to the forefront of world cinema.
Things to Come
William Cameron Menzies
1936 • 97 minutes • 1.37:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #660 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu PlusA landmark collaboration between writer H. G. Wells, producer Alexander Korda, and designer and director William Cameron Menzies, Things to Come is a science fiction film like no other, a prescient political work that predicts a century of turmoil and progress.
18 Jun 2013
Marketa Lazarová
František Vlácil
1967 • 159 minutes • 2.35:1 • Czechoslovakia
Spine: #661 Editions: DVD, Blu-rayBased on a novel by Vladislav Vancura, this stirring and poetic depiction of a feud between two rival medieval clans is a fierce, epic, and meticulously designed evocation of the clashes between Christianity and paganism, humankind and nature, love and violence.
18 Jun 2013
Safety Last!
Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
1923 • 84 minutes • 1.37:1 • United States
Spine: #662 Editions: DVD, Blu-rayThe comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. Chaplin was the sweet innocent, Keaton the stoic outsider, but Lloyd—the modern guy striving for success—is us. And with its torrent of perfectly executed gags and astonishing stunts, Safety Last! is the perfect introduction to him.
18 Jun 2013
Shoah
Claude Lanzmann
1985 • 503 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #663 Editions: DVD, Blu-rayOver a decade in the making, Claude Lanzmann’s nine-hour-plus opus is a monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis.
25 Jun 2013