Posts Tagged ‘Criterion’
Criterion Coll: Black Orpheus [DVD] [1959] [US Import] Marcel Camus’s 1959 update of the Greek myth features an all-black cast and a story set in the frenetic energy of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Orpheus, a trolley car conductor and superb samba dancer, is engaged to Mira but in love with Eurydice. For his change [...]
Criterion Collection: Naked Lunch [DVD] [1991] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] You are now entering Interzone, William S Burroughs’ phantasmagorical land of junk, paranoia and crawly things. Best travel advice: “Exterminate all rational thought”. In David Cronenberg’s superbly shot, unnerving warp on the Burroughs novel, Naked Lunch, the novelist himself becomes a main character (played [...]
The Seventh Seal – Criterion Collection [DVD] [1957] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] Ingmar Bergman’s 1956 film, The Seventh Seal has been parodied by everyone from Woody Allen to Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, but it remains one of the strangest and richest classics of world cinema. Max Von Sydow plays a knight returning from [...]
Criterion Collection: Kwaidan [DVD] [1965] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] Lafcadio Hearn, the Greek-Irish-American author turned Japanese citizen, was one of the most singular writers of the 19th century, and from his collection of traditional Japanese ghost stories the director Masaki Kobayashi fashioned one of the most eerily beautiful films ever made. Kwaidan was Kobayashi’s [...]
Throne of Blood – Criterion Collection [DVD] [1957] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] A champion of illumination and experimental shading, Kurosawa brings his unerring eye for indelible images to Shakespeare in this 1957 adaptation of Macbeth. By changing the locale from Birnam Wood to 16th-century Japan, Kurosawa makes an oddball argument for the trans-historicity of [...]

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![Criterion Collection: Robinson Crusoe on Mars [Blu-ray] [1964] [US Import]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51u%2Bda4j95L._SL160_.jpg)
![Criterion Collection: Ugetsu [DVD] [1953] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GDXRX0A0L._SL160_.jpg)
![Criterion Collection: Naked Lunch [DVD] [1991] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VXX7KVDEL._SL160_.jpg)
![The Seventh Seal – Criterion Collection [DVD] [1957] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/716A37B9C5L._SL160_.gif)
![Criterion Collection: Carnival of Souls [DVD] [1962] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61A7HYVRS0L._SL160_.jpg)
![Criterion Collection: Kwaidan [DVD] [1965] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513HtjPP7HL._SL160_.jpg)
![Criterion Collection: Repulsion [Blu-ray] [1965] [US Import]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41EsvWmn6hL._SL160_.jpg)
![Throne of Blood – Criterion Collection [DVD] [1957] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HWC1MGPWL._SL160_.jpg)
![Criterion Collection: Wr – Mysteries of the [DVD] [1971] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jUj32WcGL._SL160_.jpg)
