The Criterion Collection has released its January 2016 DVD/Blu-Ray releases. Check it out below
The Complete Lady Snowblood
Toshiya Fujita
Japan
Editions: DVD, Blu-RayA young woman (Meiko Kaji), trained from childhood as an assassin and hell-bent on revenge for her father’s murder and her mother’s rape, hacks and slashes her way to gory satisfaction.
5 Jan 2016 Learn more »
Bitter Rice
Giuseppe De Santis
1949 • 109 minutes • 1.33:1 • Italy
Spine: #792 Editions: DVD, Blu-Ray, Hulu PlusThis early smash for producer extraordinaire Dino De Laurentiis and director Giuseppe De Santis is neorealism with a heaping dose of pulp.
12 Jan 2016 Learn more »
The American Friend
Wim Wenders
1977 • 127 minutes • 1.66:1 • Germany
Spine: #793 Editions: DVD, Blu-RayWim Wenders pays loving homage to rough-and-tumble Hollywood film noir with The American Friend, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel Ripley’s Game.
12 Jan 2016 Learn more »
Inside Llewyn Davis
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
2013 • 104 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #794 Editions: DVD, Blu-RayThe visionary chroniclers of eccentric Americana Joel and Ethan Coen present one of their greatest creations in Llewyn Davis, a singer barely eking out a living on the peripheries of the flourishing Greenwich Village folk scene of the early sixties.
19 Jan 2016 Learn more »
Gilda
Charles Vidor
1946 • 110 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #795 Editions: DVD, Blu-RayAn ever-shifting battle of the sexes set on a Buenos Aires casino’s glittering floor and in its shadowy back rooms, Gilda is among the most sensual of all Hollywood noirs.
19 Jan 2016 Learn more »