Tag: Criterion

Blu-ray Review: The Mikado

Criterion | 1939 | 91 mins. | NR Making its debut at the Savoy Theater in 1885, Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado was an immediate hit and went on to become one of their most enduring comic operas. Producer Richard…

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Blu-ray Review: The Times of Harvey Milk

Criterion | 1984 | 88 mins. | NR Winner of the 1984 Oscar for Best Documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk is a gripping film that works on almost every level. Informative without being entirely one-sided, it’s also funny and…

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Blu-ray Review: Au revoir les enfants

Criterion | 1987 | 104 mins. | PG Set in occupied France in the early months of 1944, the students at a Catholic boarding school in Vichy, France live a somewhat sheltered life, largely shut off from the rest of…

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Criterion Announces July Blu-ray Slate

The Criterion Collection has announced three films for release on Blu-ray. On July 20, the studio will release two Technicolor classics directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger: Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948). One week later, it…

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