I have the Arrow three film Shohei Imamura set & kept waiting for Criterion to release another film by him on blu-ray. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge comes out from another company...crickets from Criterion. Still, only Vengeance is Mine. I do hope they can get the rights to Dr Akagi because I really like that film. It almost seemed like a prequel to Black Rain.
Agreed, I have the Arrow set as well. Radiance just released 'The Eel'.
Criterion had an OOP three-film dvd set of his earlier work- Insect Woman, Pigs and Battleships, Intentions of Murder(the best of the three). His new-waveish earlier work from the 60's into the 50's is terrific as well, but no official home video releases as yet.
Truly unique director, even though his movies are downbeat, he adds macbre humor that's off putting, even some grotesqueness as well; while often giving a sly commentary on post-war Japan culture(particularly in 'Insect Woman')
I just rewatched my dvd copy of his documentaries and they were still stirring after all these years, with A Man Vanishes being haunting.
Market is there for his stuff to be rediscovered, I think.
The Love That Remains / Ástin Sem Eftir Er
Hlynur Pálmason, 2025, Iceland/Denmark/Sweden/France, 109m
Icelandic, English, Swedish, and French with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere
Charting the gradual evolution of a family in the midst of an irreparable fracture, The Love That Remains is a poignant, crisply pointillistic domestic drama that observes life’s changes with humor and whimsy, set against the majestic, ever-shifting Icelandic landscape. Visual artist Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir) and fisherman Magnús (Sverrir Guðnason) were teenage sweethearts but have recently grown apart, and Magnús has moved out of the house. As long as the newly estranged parents put on a good face, the children—and their adorable sheepdog Panda (who won the prestigious Palme Dog award at Cannes)—seem to take the split in stride. Yet as Magnús becomes increasingly alienated from his domestic life, harsh reality can’t help but bubble to the surface. Hlynur Pálmason’s follow-up to his austere 19th-century drama Godland is a constantly surprising film with an immaculate sense of framing and pacing—and an evocative, dulcet piano score by Harry Hunt—dotted with idiosyncratic flights of fancy that never detract from the central emotional authenticity. A Janus Films release
Magellan / Magalhães
Lav Diaz, 2025, Portugal/Spain/France/Philippines/Taiwan, 160m
Portuguese, Spanish, Tagalog, and French with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere
Every astonishing visual composition carries historical and political weight in the monumental new film from singular Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz (Norte, The End of History, NYFF51). Gael García Bernal brilliantly subordinates his stardom to Diaz’s discerning camera, disappearing into the role of the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who, at the start of the 16th century, navigated a crew to Southeast Asia after convincing the Spanish crown to fund his journey. Rather than retell the mythical, received narratives of the Age of Discovery, Diaz mounts an impressive and absorbing story of colonial conquest and obsession, depicting Magellan’s charted course to the Malayan Archipelago as a pitiless reckoning with human frailty and brutal violence as much as an evocation of overwhelming natural beauty. A Janus Films release.
Peter Hujar’s Day
Ira Sachs, 2025, U.S., 76m
New York Premiere
The photographer Peter Hujar, whose images exist in an important lineage and dialogue with the work of groundbreaking gay artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe and David Wojnarowicz, forms the center of the latest movie by fearless independent American filmmaker Ira Sachs (Passages). Based on rediscovered transcripts from an unused 1974 interview by nonfiction writer Linda Rosenkrantz (played by Rebecca Hall), in which she asked Hujar (Ben Whishaw) to narrate the events of the previous day in minute detail, Sachs’s film is a mesmerizing time warp, an illustration of the life of the creative mind, the quotidian and the imaginative at once, fully and lovingly inhabited by its two brilliant actors. With this engrossing and wholly unexpected film, Sachs shuttles us back to a specific moment in New York queer cultural history and a still-influential art scene that lives on in words as much as images. A Janus Films release.
Resurrection / 狂野时代
Bi Gan, 2025, China/France, 156m
Chinese with English subtitles
New York Premiere
This phantasmagoric dream machine from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (Long Day’s Journey Into Night, NYFF56) is an elusive yet monumental love letter to a century of cinema. Unfolding over five chapters that feature a dazzling array of styles, Resurrection is a cascade of imagery united by a luminous mythopoetic conceit: in a sci-fi-coded world where people have lost the desire to dream in the hopes of prolonging life, rogue “fantasmers” continue to stoke their imaginations and exist within unreality. From this magical premise, the film sends its ever-morphing protagonist (Jackson Yee) through a series of genres, from Méliès-inflected silent fantasy to wartime thriller to con-artist buddy picture to millennial vampire romance—the latter depicted in one of Bi’s customary, and ever astonishing, single takes. Even within genre parameters, the director never takes the road well-traveled, offering jolts and marvels around every corner. Resurrection is one of the most audacious and ambitious gifts for cinematic thrill-seekers in many a moon. A Janus Films release.
Two Prosecutors
Sergei Loznitsa, 2025, France/Germany/Netherlands/Latvia/Romania/Lithuania, 118m
Russian with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere
The latest film from the great Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa (My Joy, NYFF48) is a scalpel-precise tale of the horrors of totalitarian bureaucracy. Adapting a novel by Soviet writer and political prisoner Georgy Demidov, set in the Soviet Union in 1937, Loznitsa follows the attempts of an idealistic government-appointed prosecutor (Alexander Kuznetsov) to expose the mistreatment of a dissident Bolshevik writer who has been jailed and tortured without evidence of wrongdoing. As he gradually comes to realize, the lack of cause for the man’s imprisonment is hardly unique under Stalin’s regime, and the neophyte lawyer may be putting himself in danger by exposing his own moral righteousness. Loznitsa constructs his story with a patient yet unmistakable sense of mounting dread, focusing on the devastating minutiae that allows fascism to function in our world. A Janus Films release.
That is crazy. I’m hoping they drop Umbrellas Of Cherbourg back to 24.99. I missed it by hours.
Personally when I miss a month long sale by hours, it means I don't really want to buy that movie...
In any case, it's the regular 50% off sale price so it will be back to that price in the Criterion one day sale in October and the B&N sale in November.
I know it’s been stated before, but a lot of Criterions are still 50% off on Amazon. I’ve been buying a ton of movies that are on my wishlist, and movies I’m curious about, just to take advantage of it.
Personally when I miss a month long sale by hours, it means I don't really want to buy that movie...
In any case, it's the regular 50% off sale price so it will be back to that price in the Criterion one day sale in October and the B&N sale in November.
Well actually, it was my birthday this month and it was on my list of titles my wife might get me but she completely forgot to order. Given this, I was going to do so before the price on Amazon changed but as I said, it changes hours before I was going to order.
So I received an order of 5 criterion titles I ordered from Amazon and, of course, even with that many they still shipped in a stupid bag. Anita was beat to sh—. My wife also received a package today from Amazon. She had ordered 2 small plastic desk signs and wouldn’t you know, those actually shipped in a box. Unbelievable.
Kid'n Play revealed in this interview (at the 9:15 mark) that Criterion will be releasing House Party on 4K in November. Will update once it is officially announced with the specs.
We’re going to be upgrading some of the most popular titles as well as producing brand-new sets, and we’ll be kicking off the series relaunch with a new release of Abbas Kiarostami’s early films. This deep dive into the prolific and wide-ranging first two decades of the director’s career will include playful shorts made for children, probing feature-length documentaries on education, and exquisite narrative masterpieces about adolescent longing and disappointment.
In the coming months, you can look forward to Eclipse sets of the six extraordinary features directed by Kinuyo Tanaka, Japan’s first successful woman director; and five searingly radical documentaries from the husband-and-wife team of Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi. And we’ll get you singing and dancing with Blu-ray upgrades of Carlos Saura’s electrifying Flamenco Trilogy and Ernst Lubitsch’s joyously risqué pre-Code musicals. Also in the pipeline are sets devoted to the early films of Ruben Östlund and the revolutionary cinema of Sara Gómez.
With the relaunch of the Eclipse line, Criterion reaffirms its commitment to making the full richness of film history accessible with the reliable permanence of physical media. Each release will use the best available materials and feature an essay in which an expert shares historical context and insight about the films.
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