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Criterion announces Sorcerer, The Wiz, Brazil, and more for June

Posted 3 months ago

Criterion is opening the vaults and releasing 4K Blu-rays of some legit genre classics.

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Eastern Condors: The Sammo Hung war film is set to have a Criterion Collection Blu-ray release

Posted 9 months ago

Sammo Hung's martial arts ode to The Dirty Dozen gets an all-new 2K restoration and will be released by Criterion later this year.

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No Country for Old Men coming to Criterion Collection in December

Posted 9 months ago

The Coen Bros.' 2007 Best Picture winner No Country for Old Men will join The Criterion Collection this December.

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The Criterion Closet is hitting the road! What are your top Criterion picks?

Posted 9 months ago

The famed Criterion Closet, known for a place for guests to pick their favorite films, has been transformed into a van.

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The Criterion Collection releasing massive 40-film box set for 40th anniversary

Posted 10 months ago

The Criterion Collection narrowed down their choices via the most-selected films in their Closet Picks series.

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Pixar’s Wall-E entering the Criterion Collection

Posted 3 years ago

Pixar’s Oscar-winning WALL-E (2008) is coming to The Criterion Collection this November, marking an unexpected but welcome collaboration between the animation giant and boutique home video label. WALL-E will be spine #1161. As per The Criterion Collection: We’re proud to...

Cool Videos: How they made the guy’s head explode in Scanners

Posted 11 years ago

It was 1981, when movies still used practical effects and David Cronenberg gave us perhaps the most infamous sci-fi horror scenes of all time. You might have never seen SCANNERS, but there’s a good chance you’ve seen the well-known scene...