Best Criterion Blu Rays - April 2024

Night of the Living Dead (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time. A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls, Romero's claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gru... [Read More]

• ASIN: B077H8N7PP
• UPC: 715515210119
• ASIN: B077H8N7PP
• Brand: Criterion
• Manufacturer: Criterion Collection

Seven Samurai (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

• ASIN: B003KGBISY
• UPC: 715515054911
• ASIN: B003KGBISY
• Brand: Criterion
• Manufacturer: Criterion Collection

Shock Corridor (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

In Shock Corridor, the great American writer-director-producer Samuel Fuller (The Naked Kiss, The Big Red One) masterfully charts the uneasy terrain between sanity and dementia. Seeking a Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck) has himself committed to a mental hospital to investigate a murder. As he closes in on the killer, madness closes in on him. Constance Towers (The Naked Kiss) costars as Johnny’s coolheaded stripper girlfriend. With its startling commentary on race in sixties America and daring photography by Stanley Cortez (The Night of the Hunter), Shock Corridor is no... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0047P5FT0
• UPC: 715515066914
• ASIN: B0047P5FT0
• Brand: Criterion
• Manufacturer: Criterion Collection

Mulholland Dr. [Blu-ray]

A love story in the city of dreams . . . Blonde Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia (Laura Harring). Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project. David Lynch’s seductive and scary vision of Los Angeles’s dream factory is one of the true masterpieces of the new millennium, a tale of love, jealousy, and revenge like no other. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New, restore... [Read More]

• ASIN: B011SDC25S
• UPC: 715515159319
• ASIN: B011SDC25S
• Brand: Criterion
• Manufacturer: Criterion Collection

Repulsion (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

A Belgian manicurist hallucinates in London and kills anyone who comes near her. Director Roman Polanski's first English-language film.

• ASIN: B0026VBOJ2
• UPC: 715515047814
• ASIN: B0026VBOJ2
• Brand: Criterion
• Manufacturer: Criterion Collection

The Manchurian Candidate (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

The name John Frankenheimer (Seconds) became forever synonymous with heart-in-the-throat filmmaking when this quintessential sixties political thriller was released. Set in the early fifties, this razor-sharp adaptation of the novel by Richard Condon concerns the decorated U.S. Army sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), who as a prisoner during the Korean War is brainwashed into being a sleeper assassin in a Communist conspiracy, and a fellow POW (Frank Sinatra) who slowly uncovers the sinister plot. In an unforgettable, Oscar-nominated performance, Angela Lansbury plays Raymond s villainou... [Read More]

• ASIN: B019HTRRVE
• UPC: 715515170215
• ASIN: B019HTRRVE
• Brand: Criterion
• Manufacturer: Criterion Collection (Direct)

Criterion Collection: City Lights [Blu-ray]

The most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin (Modern Times) is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street (a magical Virginia Cherrill) and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive beauty of the pre-talkie form. The result was the epitome of his art and the crowning achievem... [Read More]

• ASIN: B019WMTUWU
• UPC: 715515172516
• ASIN: B019WMTUWU
• Brand: Criterion
• Manufacturer: Criterion Collection

The Princess Bride [Blu-ray]

From celebrated director Rob Reiner ( When Harry Met Sally ) and Oscar (r) -winning* screenwriter William Goldman ( Chaplin ) comes "an enchanting fantasy" ( Time ) filled with adventure, romance and plenty of "good-hearted fun" (Roger Ebert)! Featuring a spectacular cast thatincludes Robin Wright ( Forrest Gump ), Cary Elwes ( Liar, Liar ), Mandy Patinkin ( Dick Tracy ) and Billy Crystal ( City Slickers ), this wonderful fairy tale about a Princess named Buttercup and her beloved is "a real dream of a movie" ( People )! *1969: OriginalScreenplay, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1976: Adapt... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07FMHCMT2
• UPC: 715515222518
• ASIN: B07FMHCMT2
• Brand: Criterion
• Manufacturer: Criterion Collection

High and Low (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Toshiro Mifune (Seven Samurai) is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku), the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosowa (Rashomon). Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novel "King’s Ransom", Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on class and contemporary Japanese society.

• ASIN: B004WPYO3I
• UPC: 715515085915
• ASIN: B004WPYO3I
• Brand: Criterion Collection
• Manufacturer: Criterion Collection

Rosemary's Baby (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Terrifying and darkly comic, Rosemary’s Baby marked the Hollywood debut of Roman Polanski (Repulsion). This wildly entertaining nightmare, faithfully adapted from Ira Levin’s best seller, stars a revelatory Mia Farrow (Hannah and Her Sisters) as a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her overfriendly elderly neighbors, played by Sidney Blackmer (High Society) and an Oscar-winning Ruth Gordon (Harold and Maude), and self-involved husband (actor and filmmaker John Cassavetes) are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby. In the decades of occult cinema Polanski�... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008MPQ0G8
• UPC: 715515100717
• ASIN: B008MPQ0G8
• Brand: Criterion
• Manufacturer: Criterion Collection

Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Stanley Kubrick s painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is without a doubt one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter Peter Sellers (The Pink Panther) plays three wildly different roles: Air Force Captain Lionel Mandrake, timidly trying to stop a nuclear attack on the USSR ordered by an unbalanced general (The Killing s Sterling Hayden); the ineffectual and perpetually dumbfounded President Merkin Muffley, who must deliver the very bad news to the Soviet premier; and the titular Strangelove himself, a wheelchair-bound presidential a... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01D3LBCQS
• UPC: 715515179515
• ASIN: B01D3LBCQS
• Brand: Criterion
• Manufacturer: Criterion Collection

12 Angry Men (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

12 Angry Men, by Sidney Lumet, may be the most radical big-screen courtroom drama in cinema history. A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose’s teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the initially dissenting member of a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. What results is a saga of epic proportions that plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room. Lumet’s electrifying snapshot of 1950s America on the verge of change is one of the g... [Read More]

• ASIN: B005HK13P4
• UPC: 715515089210
• ASIN: B005HK13P4
• Brand: Criterion
• Manufacturer: Criterion Collection

Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

The colossally popular Zatoichi films make up the longest-running action series in Japanese history and created one of the screen s great heroes: an itinerant blind masseur who also happens to be a lightning-fast swordsman. As this iconic figure, the charismatic and earthy Shintaro Katsu became an instant superstar, lending a larger-than-life presence to the thrilling adventures of a man who lives staunchly by a code of honor and delivers justice in every town and village he enters. The films that feature him are variously pulse-pounding, hilarious, stirring, and completely off-the-wall. This ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01H66WAPS
• UPC: 715515170611
• ASIN: B01H66WAPS
• Brand: Criterion
• Manufacturer: Criterion Collection

Rashomon (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, Rashomon is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife, which director Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai) presents with striking imagery and an ingenious use of flashbacks. This eloquent masterwork and international sensation revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema—and a commanding new star by the name of Toshiro Mifune (Yojimbo)—to the Western world.

• ASIN: B008Y5OWO8
• UPC: 715515100915
• ASIN: B008Y5OWO8
• Brand: Criterion
• Manufacturer: Criterion Collection

The Graduate (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

One of the most beloved American films of all time, The Graduate earned Mike Nichols a best director Oscar, brought the music of Simon & Garfunkel to a wider audience, and introduced the world to a young actor named Dustin Hoffman. Benjamin Braddock (Hoffman) has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother (Anne Bancroft) of the young woman he s dating (Katharine Ross). Visually imaginative and impeccably acted, with a clever, endlessly quotable script by Buck Henry (based on ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0184DLI28
• UPC: 715515168212
• ASIN: B0184DLI28
• Brand: Criterion
• Manufacturer: Criterion Collection (Direct)

The Tree of Life (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

Four decades into an already legendary career, Terrence Malick realized his most rapturous vision to date, tracing a story of childhood, wonder, and grief to the outer limits of time and space. Reaching back to

• UPC: 231312233
• Model: CRIBRCC2934BD
• Rating: 5.0

Scanners (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

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• UPC: 199023764
• Model: CRIBRCC2861
• Rating: 5.0

The Best of Me (Blu-ray)

Based on the bestselling novel by acclaimed author Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me tells the story of Dawson and Amanda, two former high school sweethearts who find themselves reunited after 20 years apart, when

• UPC: 40438079
• Color: YOther
• Rating: 5.0

Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954-1975 (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954-1975 (Criterion Collection)

• UPC: 339703787

House (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashis indescribable 1977 movie HOUSE (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? a stream of consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? Any of the above will

• UPC: 15715495
• Color: YOther
• Rating: 5.0

CRITERION COLLECTION: The Complete Monterey Pop Festival (Blu-ray)

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• UPC: 265386656
• Model: CRIBRCC2829

Red River (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

Psychologically complex and visually stunning western from Howard Hawks showcases John Wayne as Thomas Dunson, a ruthless rancher moving a huge herd of cattle down the Chisholm Trail to Abilene, Texas. Causing friction is Dunsons

• UPC: 835660883
• Model: CRIBRCC2893BD

My Man Godfrey (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

Carole Lombard and William Powell dazzle in this definitive screwball comedy, directed by Gregory La Cava a potent cocktail of romantic repartee and Depression-era social critique. Irene (Lombard), an eccentric Manhattan socialite, wins a society-ball

• UPC: 879024042
• Model: CRIBRCC2944BD

The Thin Red Line (Blu-ray)

A powerful all-star cast explodes in this hauntingly realistic view of military and moral chaos in the Pacific during World War

• UPC: 29014959
• Color: YOther
• Rating: 5.0

Naked Lunch (Blu-ray)

A bug exterminator hallucinates, kills his wife and becomes an Interzone writer. Directed by David Cronenberg. From the 1959 William S. Burroughs

• UPC: 23708296
• Color: YOther
• Rating: 5.0

Roma (Blu-ray, 2020 CRITERION) NETFLIX Best Film 2018 oscar award Alfonso Cuaron

• UPC: 233540028289
• Category: DVDs & Blu-ray Discs
• Price: 32 USD

Umberto D. (Blu-ray, Criterion, Ranked As The 189th Best Picture Of All Time)

• UPC: 143018357104
• Category: DVDs & Blu-ray Discs
• Price: 29 USD