Check out Robert Hunt’s illustrations and paintings for his work on the new cover art for the upcoming Criterion Collection re-release of Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata
Guillermo Del Toro’s sketches for Pacific Rim
Hideo Gosha’s 1985 film, Tracked (Usugesho) is now featured on the Criterion Collection’s 101 Days Of Summer Hulu Plus channel.
When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous crimes—or the detectives hot on his trail.
Photographs from the set of Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries
Then it struck me: supposing I make a film of someone coming along, perfectly realistically, and suddenly opening a door and walking into his childhood? And then opening another door and walking out into reality again? And then walking round the corner of the street and coming into some other period of his life, and everything still alive and going on as before? That was the real starting point of Wild Strawberries.
Available today on Blu-ray, order on Amazon.
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Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries is finally available today on Blu-ray, from the Criterion Collection.
Traveling to accept an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg—masterfully played by veteran director Victor Sjöström—is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching death.
A 3D look at the cover art for the Criterion Collection release of Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be Or Not To Be
To Be or Not to Be is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled
Juraj Herz’s The Cremator (Spalovač mrtvol) is now featured on the Criterion Collection’s 101 Days Of Summer Hulu Plus channel
A Czechoslovakian man who loves working at his crematorium begins to take the advice of an old war buddy concerning the importance of his German heritage and the issue of his half Jewish wife.
Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout is now featured on Criterion’s 101 Days Of Summer Hulu Plus channel.
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to cope in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg.
Packaging shots of the Oscilloscope Blu-ray for Todd Berger’s It’s A Disaster
Eight friends meet for their monthly “couples brunch.” But what starts as an impromptu therapy session / airing of domestic grievances takes a sudden, catastrophic turn when the city falls victim to a mysterious attack. Trapped in the house and unsure of their fates, these seemingly normal people become increasingly unhinged to hilarious, surprising, and revealing results.
Hiroshi Matsuno’s The Living Skeleton is now featured on Criterion’s 101 Days Of Summer Hulu Plus channel.
In this atmospheric tale of revenge from beyond the watery grave, a pirate-ransacked freighter’s violent past comes back to haunt a young woman living in a seaside town.
Buy Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku on Amazon.
Roberto Rossellini’s Rome Open City is now being featured on Criterion’s 101 Days Of Summer Hulu Plus channel.
Though told with more melodramatic flair than the other films that would form this trilogy and starring some well-known actors—Aldo Fabrizi as a priest helping the partisan cause and Anna Magnani in her breakthrough role as the fiancée of a resistance member—Rome Open City (Roma città aperta) is a shockingly authentic experience, conceived and directed amid the ruin of World War II, with immediacy in every frame.
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