Since its inception in 1984, the Criterion Collection has served as a revered sanctuary for cinephiles, passionately curating classic films and hidden treasures with unwavering dedication. Meticulously selecting each addition to its catalogue, Criterion ensures that every film represents a significant contribution to the cinematic landscape. Through their dedication to restoration and presentation, these films are not only preserved but also elevated to a higher plane of appreciation, enriched further by an abundance of extras and additional content. Over the decades, Criterion has transcended mere collection status to become a cultural institution, a beacon of excellence, and a boundless source of inspiration for movie buffs and aspiring filmmakers alike.

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Thelma & Louise

 

Two women, a turquoise Thunderbird, the ride of a lifetime. With this pop-culture landmark, screenwriter Callie Khouri and action auteur Ridley Scott rewrote the rules of the road movie, telling the story of two best friends who find themselves transformed into accidental fugitives during a weekend getaway gone wrong—leading them on a high-speed southwestern odyssey as they elude police and discover freedom on their own terms. Propelled by irresistible performances from Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis (plus Brad Pitt in a sexy, star-making turn)—and nominated for six Academy Awards, winning one for Khouri—the exhilaratingly cathartic Thelma & Louise stands as cinema’s ultimate ode to ride-or-die female friendship.

 

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Ridley Scott, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features

• Two audio commentaries, featuring Scott, screenwriter Callie Khouri, and actors Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon

• New interviews with Scott and Khouri

• Documentary featuring Davis; Khouri; Sarandon; Scott; actors Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald, and Brad Pitt; and other members of the cast and crew

• Boy and Bicycle (1965), Scott’s first short film, and one of his early commercials

• Storyboards and deleted and extended scenes, including an extended ending with director’s commentary

• PLUS: Essays by critics Jessica Kiang and Rachel Syme and journalist Rebecca Traister

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Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio

 

A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker—which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature—daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means to be human through his experiences of war, death, and sacrifice. Featuring the voices of Ewan McGregor, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, and Christoph Waltz, this Pinocchio imbues the oft-told tale with a bold new resonance about living with courage and compassion.

 

• 4K digital master, supervised by directors Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, with Dolby Atmos

• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features

• Handcarved Cinema, a new documentary featuring del Toro, Gustafson, and cast and crew, including the film’s puppet creators, production designers, and animation supervisor

• Directing Stop-Motion, a new program featuring del Toro and Gustafson

• New conversation between del Toro and film critic Farran Smith Nehme

• New interview with curator Ron Magliozzi on The Museum of Modern Art’s 2022 exhibition devoted to the film

• New program on the eight rules of animation that informed the film’s production

• Panel discussion featuring del Toro, Gustafson, production designer Guy Davis, composer Alexandre Desplat, and sound designer Scott Martin Gershin, moderated by filmmaker James Cameron

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The Last Picture Show

 

One of the key films of the American seventies cinema renaissance, The Last Picture Show is set in the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a movie screen. This aching portrait of a dying West, adapted from Larry McMurtry’s novel, focuses on the daily shuffles of three futureless teens—enigmatic Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), wayward jock Duane (Jeff Bridges), and desperate-to-be-adored rich girl Jacy (Cybill Shepherd)—and the aging lost souls who bump up against them in the night like drifting tumbleweeds. Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal work in the career of invaluable film historian and director Peter Bogdanovich.

 

• 4K digital restoration of the director’s cut, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features

• Two audio commentaries, featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall

• Three documentaries about the making of the film

• Screen tests and location footage

• Excerpts from a 1972 television interview with filmmaker François Truffaut about the New Hollywood

• Trailer

• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• PLUS: An essay by film critic Graham Fuller

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One False Move

 

A small-town police chief (Bill Paxton) concealing an explosive secret. A pair of ruthless drug dealers (cowriter Billy Bob Thornton and Michael Beach) who leave a bloody trail in their wake as they make their way from Los Angeles to Arkansas. And an enigmatic woman (Cynda Williams) caught in the middle. The way these desperate lives converge becomes a masterclass in slow-burn tension thanks to the nuanced direction of Carl Franklin, whose haunting film travels a crooked road across America’s most fraught divisions—urban and rural, Black and white—while imbuing noir conventions with a wrenching emotional depth.

 

• New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Carl Franklin, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features

• Audio commentary from 1999 featuring Franklin

• New conversation between Franklin and cowriter-actor Billy Bob Thornton

• Trailer

• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• PLUS: An essay by author William Boyle

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In the Mood for Love

 

Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-Wan (Chungking Express’s TONY LEUNG CHIU-WAI) and Su Li-Zhen (Irma Vep’s MAGGIE CHEUNG MAN-YUK) move into neighbouring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, WONG KAR WAI’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by CHRISTOPHER DOYLE and MARK LEE PING-BING, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past two decades of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.

 

• 4k Digital restoration with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, both supervised and approved by director Wong Kar Wai

• Documentary from 2001 by Wong, chronicling the making of the film

• Hua yang de nian hua (2000), a short film by Wong

• Interview and cinema lesson from 2001 featuring Wong

• Press conference from the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival with actors Maggie Cheung Man-yuk and Tony Leung Chiu-wai

• Interview from 2012 with critic Tony Rayns about the soundtrack

• Deleted scenes with optional commentary by Wong

• PLUS: A new essay by novelist Charles Yu

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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

 

The boundless imagination of Terry Gilliam yields a dazzling fantasy of epic proportions. Inspired by the extravagant exploits of the fabled Baron Munchausen, this spectacle—born of a famously turbulent production—follows the whimsical eighteenth-century nobleman (John Neville) as he embarks on an outlandish quest that takes him from faraway lands to the moon to the belly of a sea monster and beyond, meanwhile waging battle against a vengeful sultan and the tyranny of logic. Packed frame to frame with special effects, mischievous wit, and colorful performances—including a young Sarah Polley as the Baron’s no-nonsense sidekick—the Oscar-nominated The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a lavish celebration of the triumph of make-believe over reality.

 

• New 4K digital restoration, approved by writer-director Terry Gilliam, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

• Audio commentary featuring Gilliam and his coscreenwriter, Charles McKeown

• Documentary on the making of the film

• New video essay by critic and filmmaker David Cairns about the history of the Baron Munchausen character

• Behind-the-scenes footage of the film’s special effects, narrated by Gilliam

• Deleted scenes with commentary by Gilliam

• Storyboards for unfilmed scenes, narrated by Gilliam and McKeown

• Original marketing materials including a trailer and electronic-press-kit featurettes, as well as preview cards and advertising proposals read by Gilliam

• Miracle of Flight (1974), an animated short film by Gilliam

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Le Samourai

 

In a career-defining performance, ALAIN DELON (Purple Noon) plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armour of fedora and trench coat can protect him. An elegantly stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE (Army of Shadows), Le samouraï is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese lone warrior mythology.

 

• New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

• Interviews with Rui Nogueira, editor of Melville on Melville, and Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean Pierre Melville: An American in Paris

• Archival interviews with Melville and actors Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier

• Melville-Delon: D’Honneur et de nuit (2011), a short documentary exploring the friendship between the director and the actor and their iconic collaboration on this film

• PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Thomson. The Blu-ray also features an appreciation by filmmaker John Woo and excerpts from Melville on Melville

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With her ravishingly sensual take on HERMAN MELVILLE’s Billy Budd, Sailor, CLAIRE DENIS (White Material) firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poets of our time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant (Mauvais sang’s DENIS LAVANT) sows the seeds of his own ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit (35 Shots of Rum’s GRÉGOIRE COLIN) plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of BENJAMIN BRITTEN. Denis and cinematographer AGNÈS GODARD (Let the Sunshine In) fold military and masculine codes of honor, colonialism’s legacy, destructive jealousy, and repressed desire into shimmering, hypnotic images that ultimately explode in one of the most startling and unforgettable endings in all of modern cinema.

 

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Agnès Godard and approved by director Claire Denis, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack 

• New conversation between Denis and filmmaker Barry Jenkins 

• New selected scene commentary with Godard 

• New interviews with actors Denis Lavant and Grégoire Colin 

• New video essay by film scholar Judith Mayne

• New English subtitle translation 

• PLUS: An essay by critic Girish Shambu

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Roma

 

With his eighth and most personal film, ALFONSO CUARÓN (Children of Men) recreated the early-1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo (YALITZA APARICIO, in a revelatory screen debut), the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals. Written, directed, shot, and coedited by Cuarón, Roma is a labour of love with few parallels in the history of cinema, deploying monumental black and white cinematography, an immersive soundtrack, and a mixture of professional and nonprofessional performances to shape its author’s memories into a world of enveloping texture, and to pay tribute to the woman who nurtured him.

 

• 4K digital master, supervised by director Alfonso Cuarón, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack on the Blu-ray

• Road to “Roma,” a new documentary about the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and an interview with Cuarón

• Snapshots from the Set, a new documentary featuring actors Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira, producers Gabriela Rodríguez and Nicolás Celis, production designer Eugenio Caballero, casting director Luis Rosales, executive producer David Linde, and others

• New documentaries about the film’s sound and postproduction processes, featuring Cuarón; Sergio Diaz, Skip Lievsay, and Craig Henighan from the postproduction sound team; editor Adam Gough; post production supervisor Carlos Morales; and finishing artist Steven J. Scott

• New documentary about the film’s ambitious theatrical campaign and social impact in Mexico, featuring Celis and Rodríguez

• Nothing at Stake, a new video essay by filmmaker :: kogonada

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Punch-Drunk Love

 

Chaos lurks in every corner of this giddily off-kilter foray into romantic comedy by Paul Thomas Anderson. Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty-toilet-plunger salesman Barry Egan (Adam Sandler, demonstrating remarkable versatility in his first dramatic role) spends his days collecting frequent-flyer-mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters. The promise of a new life emerges when Barry inadvertently attracts the affection of a mysterious woman named Lena (Emily Watson), but their budding relationship is threatened when he falls prey to the swindling operator of a phone sex line and her deranged boss (played with maniacal brio by Philip Seymour Hoffman). Fueled by the careening momentum of a baroque-futurist score by Jon Brion, the Cannes-award-winning Punch-Drunk Love channels the spirit of classic Hollywood and the whimsy of Jacques Tati into an idiosyncratic ode to the delirium of new romance.

 

• Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Paul Thomas Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

• Blossoms & Blood, a short 2002 piece by Anderson featuring Adam Sandler and Emily Watson, along with music by Jon Brion

• New interview with Brion

• New piece featuring behind-the-scenes footage of a recording session for the film’s soundtrack

• New conversation between curators Michael Connor and Lia Gangitano about the art of Jeremy Blake, used in the film

• Additional artwork by Blake

• Cannes Film Festival press conference from 2002

• NBC News interview from 2000 with David Phillips, the “pudding guy”

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

 

Fantastic Mr. Fox is the story of a clever, quick, nimble, and exceptionally well dressed wild animal. A compulsive chicken thief turned newspaper reporter, Mr. Fox settles down with his family at a new foxhole in a beautiful tree directly adjacent to three enormous poultry farms—owned by three ferociously vicious farmers: Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Mr. Fox simply cannot resist. This adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel from WES ANDERSON (The Royal Tenenbaums) is a meticulous work of stop-motion animation featuring vibrant performances by George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Michael Gambon, and Bill Murray.

 

• New digital master, approved by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

• Audio commentary featuring Anderson

• Storyboard animatics for the entire film

• Footage of the actors voicing their characters, puppet construction, stop motion setups, and the recording of the score

• Interviews with cast and crew

• Photo gallery of puppets, props, and sets

• Animated awards acceptance speeches

• Audio recording of author Roald Dahl reading the book on which the film is based

• Stop-motion Sony robot commercial by Anderson

• PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay; a 2002 article on Dahl’s Gipsy House by Anderson; White Cape, a comic book used as a prop in the film; and drawings, original paintings, and other ephemera

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The Irishman

 

MARTIN SCORSESE’s cinematic mastery is on full display in this sweeping crime saga, which serves as an elegiac summation of his six-decade career. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran (Taxi Driver’s ROBERT DE NIRO) looks back from a nursing home on his life’s journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino (Goodfellas’ JOE PESCI) to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa (The Godfather’s AL PACINO) to the rift that forced him to choose between the two. An intimate story of loyalty and betrayal writ large across the epic canvas of mid-twentieth-century American history, The Irishman (based on the real-life Sheeran’s confessions, as told to writer Charles Brandt for the book I Heard You Paint Houses) is a uniquely reflective late-career triumph that balances its director’s virtuoso set pieces with a profoundly personal rumination on aging, mortality, and the decisions and regrets that shape a life.

 

• New 4K digital master, approved by director Martin Scorsese, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack

• Newly edited roundtable conversation among Scorsese and actors Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, originally recorded in 2019 

• New documentary about the making of the film featuring Scorsese; the lead actors; producers Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Jane Rosenthal, and Irwin Winkler; director of photography Rodrigo Prieto; and others from the cast and crew 

• New video essay written and narrated by film critic Farran Smith Nehme about The Irishman’s synthesis of Scorsese’s singular formal style 

• The Evolution of Digital De-aging, a 2019 programme on the visual effects created for the film 

• Archival interview excerpts with Frank “the Irishman” Sheeran and International Brotherhood of Teamsters trade union leader Jimmy Hoffa

• PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien

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Written on the Wind

 

The Technicolor expressionism of Douglas Sirk reached a fever pitch with this operatic tragedy, which finds the director pushing his florid visuals and his critiques of American culture to their subversive extremes. Alcoholism, nymphomania, impotence, and deadly jealousy—these are just some of the toxins coursing through a massively wealthy, degenerate Texan oil family. When a sensible secretary (Lauren Bacall) has the misfortune of marrying the clan’s neurotic scion (Robert Stack), it drives a wedge between him and his lifelong best friend (Rock Hudson) that unleashes a maelstrom of psychosexual angst and fury. Featuring an unforgettably debauched, Oscar-winning supporting performance by Dorothy Malone and some of Sirk’s most eye-popping mise-en-scène, Written on the Wind is as perverse a family portrait as has ever been splashed across the screen.

 

• ONew 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

• Acting for Douglas Sirk, a 2008 documentary featuring archival interviews with Sirk; actors Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone; and producer Albert Zugsmith

• New interview with film scholar Patricia White about the film and melodrama

• Trailer

• Trailer for All That Heaven Allows

• The Melodrama Archive: An annotated filmography of director Douglas Sirk with hundreds of behind-the-scenes and production photos, plus vintage lobby cards

• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• PLUS: An essay by filmmaker and critic Blair McClendon

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The Damned

 

The most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur LUCHINO VISCONTI (The Leopard) employs the mechanics of deliriously stylized melodrama to portray Nazism’s total corruption of the soul. In the wake of Hitler’s ascent to power, the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family and their associates – including the scheming social climber Friedrich (The Night Porter’s DIRK BOGARDE), the incestuous matriarch Sophie (Winter Light’s INGRID THULIN), and the perversely cruel heir Martin (The Godfather: Part III’s HELMUT BERGER, memorably donning Dietrich-like drag in his breakthrough role)—descend into a self-destructive spiral of decadence, greed, perversion, and all consuming hatred as they vie for power, over the family business and over one another. The heightened performances and Visconti’s luridly expressionistic use of Technicolor conjure a garish world of decaying opulence in which one family’s downfall comes to stand for the moral rot of a nation.

 

• New 2K digital restoration by the Cineteca di Bologna and Institut Lumière, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

• Alternate Italian-language soundtrack

• Interview from 1970 with director Luchino Visconti about the file

• Archival interviews with actors Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, and Charlotte Rampling

• Visconti: Man of Two Worlds, a 1969 behind-thescenes documentary

• New interview with scholar Stefano Albertini about the sexual politics of the film

• New English subtitle translation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• PLUS: An essay by scholar D. A. Miller

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The cornerstone of director Richard Linklater’s career‑long exploration of cinematic time, this celebrated three-part romance captures a relationship as it begins, begins again, deepens, and strains over the course of almost two decades. Chronicling the love of Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke), from their first meeting as idealistic twentysomethings to the disillusionment they face together in middle age, The Before Trilogy also serves as a document of a boundary-pushing and extraordinarily intimate collaboration between director and actors, as Delpy and Hawke imbue their characters with a sense of lived-in experience, and age on-screen along with them. Attuned to the sweeping grandeur of time’s passage as well as the evanescence of individual moments, the Before films chart the progress of romantic destiny as it navigates the vicissitudes of ordinary life.

 

• New, restored 2K digital transfers of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset and a 2K digital master of Before Midnight, approved by director Richard Linklater, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Before Sunrise Blu-ray and 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks on the Before Sunset and Before Midnight Blu-rays

• New discussion featuring Linklater and actors Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, moderated by critic Kent Jones

• Behind-the-scenes footage and interviews from the productions of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset

• Audio commentary on Before Midnight by Delpy, Linklater, and Hawke

• Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, a feature-length 2016 documentary by Louis Black and Karen Bernstein

• After Before, a new documentary by Athina Rachel Tsangari about the making of Before Midnight in Greece

 

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In Cold Blood

 

Truman Capote’s best seller, a breakthrough narrative account of real-life crime and punishment, became an equally chilling film in the hands of writer-director RICHARD BROOKS (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof). Cast for their unsettling resemblances to the killers they play, ROBERT BLAKE (Lost Highway) and SCOTT WILSON (The Great Gatsby) give authentic, unshowy performances as Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, who in 1959 murdered a family of four in Kansas during a botched robbery. Brooks brings a detached, documentary-like starkness to this uncompromising view of an American tragedy and its aftermath; at the same time, stylistically In Cold Blood is a filmmaking master class, with clinically precise editing, chiaroscuro black-and-white cinematography by the great CONRAD L. HALL (American Beauty), and a menacing jazz score by Quincy Jones.

 

• New 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack • New interview with cinematographer John Bailey on the film’s cinematography

• New interview with film historian Bobbie O’Steen on the film’s editing • New interview with film critic and jazz historian Gary Giddins on the film’s music by Quincy Jones

• New interview with writer Douglass Daniel on director Richard Brooks • Interview with Brooks from 1988 from the French television series Cinéma cinemas

• Interview with actor Robert Blake from 1968 from the British television series Good Evening with Jonathan King

• With Love from Truman, a short 1966 documentary featuring novelist Truman Capote, directed by Albert and David Maysles

• Two archival NBC interviews with Capote: one following the author on a 1966 visit to Holcomb, Kansas, and the other conducted by Barbara Walters in 1967

• PLUS: An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara

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Death in Venice

 

Based on the classic novella by Thomas Mann, this late-career masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde, in an exquisitely nuanced performance) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Setting Mann’s story of queer desire and bodily decay against the sublime music of Gustav Mahler, Death in Venice is one of cinema’s most exalted literary adaptations, as sensually rich as it is allegorically resonant.

 

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray

• Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel, a 2008 documentary about the director, featur­ing Visconti; actors Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, and Marcello Mastroianni; filmmakers Francesco Rosi and Franco Zeffirelli; and others

• Alla ricerca di Tadzio, a 1970 short film by Visconti about his efforts to cast the role of Tadzio

• New program featuring literature and cinema scholar Stefano Albertini

• Interview from 2006 with costume designer Piero Tosi

• Excerpt from a 1990 program about the music in Visconti’s films, featuring Bogarde and actor Marisa Berenson

• Interview with Visconti from 1971

• Visconti’s Venice, a short 1970 behind-the-scenes documentary featuring Visconti and Bogarde

• PLUS: An essay by critic Dennis Lim

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The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

 

Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew, Team Zissou, set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou’s partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined on their voyage by a young airline copilot (Owen Wilson), a pregnant journalist (Cate Blanchett), and Zissou’s estranged wife (Anjelica Huston). Wes Anderson has assembled an all-star cast that also includes Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Noah Taylor, Seu Jorge, and Bud Cort for this wildly original adventure-comedy.

 

• New, restored 4K digital film transfer, approved by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray

• Audio commentary by Anderson and cowriter Noah Baumbach

• This Is an Adventure, a documentary chronicling the film’s production

• Mondo Monda, an Italian talk show featuring an interview with Anderson and Baumbach

• Interview with composer Mark Mothersbaugh

• Singer-actor Seu Jorge performing David Bowie songs in Portuguese

• Intern video journal by actor Matthew Gray Gubler

• Interviews with the cast and crew

• Deleted scenes

• PLUS: An insert featuring a conversation between Wes and Eric Chase Anderson conducted in 2005

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Vivre sa Vie

 

Vivre sa vie was a turning point for Jean-Luc Godard and remains one of his most dynamic films, combining brilliant visual design with a tragic character study. The lovely Anna Karina, Godard’s greatest muse, plays Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress but instead ends up a prostitute; her downward spiral is depicted in a series of discrete tableaux of daydreams and dances. Featuring some of Karina and Godard’s most iconic moments— from her movie theatre vigil with The Passion of Joan of Arc to her seductive pool-hall strut—Vivre sa vie is a landmark of the French New Wave that still surprises at every turn.

 

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

• Audio commentary featuring film scholar Adrian Martin

• Video interview with film scholar Jean Narboni, conducted by historian Noël Simsolo

• Television interview from 1962 with actress Anna Karina

• Excerpts from a 1961 French television exposé on prostitution

• Illustrated essay on La prostitution, the book that served as inspiration for the film

• Stills gallery

• Director Jean-Luc Godard’s original theatrical trailer

• New and improved English subtitle translation

• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Atkinson, interviews with Godard, a reprint by critic Jean Collet on the film’s soundtrack, and Godard’s original scenario

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The Big Chill

 

After the shocking suicide of their friend, a group of thirtysomethings reunite for his funeral and end up spending a weekend together, reminiscing about their shared pasts as children of the sixties and confronting the uncertainty of their lives as adults of the eighties. Poignant and warmly humorous in equal measure, this 1983 baby boomer milestone made a star of writer-director LAWRENCE KASDAN (Body Heat) and is perhaps the decade’s defining ensemble film, featuring memorable performances by TOM BERENGER (Platoon), GLENN CLOSE (Fatal Attraction), JEFF GOLDBLUM (The Fly), WILLIAM HURT (Broadcast News), KEVIN KLINE (The Ice Storm), MARY KAY PLACE (Being John Malkovich), MEG TILLY (Agnes of God), and JOBETH WILLIAMS (Poltergeist). And with its playlist of hit songs from the sixties, The Big Chill all but invented the consummately curated soundtrack.

 

• New, restored 4K digital film transfer, supervised by director of photography John Bailey and approved by director Lawrence Kasdan, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray

• Alternate remastered 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray

• New interview with Kasdan

• Reunion of cast and crew from the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, including Kasdan and actors Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams

• Documentary from 1998 on the making of the film

• Deleted scenes

• Trailer

• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• PLUS: An essay by writer and filmmaker Lena Dunham and a 1983 piece by critic Harlan Jacobson

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The Great Dictator

 

In his notorious masterpiece The Great Dictator, CHARLIE CHAPLIN (City Lights, Modern Times) offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin (in his first pure talkie) brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish “Tomanian” dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring JACK OAKIE (Thieves’ Highway, Lover Come Back) and PAULETTE GODDARD (Modern Times, The Women) in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.’s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin’s famously impassioned plea for tolerance.

 

• New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

• New audio commentary by Charlie Chaplin historians Dan Kamin and Hooman Mehran

• The Tramp and the Dictator (2001), a documentary narrated by filmmaker Kenneth Branagh and featuring interviews with author Ray Bradbury, director Sidney Lumet, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., screenwriter Budd Schulberg, and a host of others

• Two new visual essays, by Chaplin archivist Cecilia Cenciarelli and Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance

• On-set, colour production footage shot by Chaplin’s half-brother, Sydney

• Deleted scene from Chaplin’s 1919 film Sunnyside

• Theatrical trailer

• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Wood and a 1940 article by Chaplin on the film

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Black Girl

 

OUSMANE SEMBÈNE (Xala, Faat Kiné) was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century— but his name deserves to be better known in the rest of the world. He made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally—into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by M’BISSINE THÉRÈSE DIOP, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement—and one of the essential films of the 1960s.

 

• New 4K digital restoration, done by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project with Cineteca di Bologna, along with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

• 4K restoration of Borom sarret, Ousmane Sembène’s 1963 debut short film

• New interviews with scholars Manthia Diawara and Samba Gadjigo

• Excerpt from a 1966 broadcast of JT 20h, featuring Sembène discussing his Prix Jean Vigo win for Black Girl

• New interview with actor M’Bissine Thérèse Diop

• Sembène: The Making of African Cinema, a 1994 documentary by Diawara and wa Thiong’o

• Trailer

• New English subtitle translation

• PLUS: Essay by critic Ashley Clark

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Pale Flower

 

In this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful yet enigmatic gambling addict; what at first seems a redemptive relationship ends up leading him further down the criminal path. Bewitchingly shot and edited and laced with a fever-dreamlike score by Toru Takemitsu (Woman in the Dunes, Ran), this breakthrough gangster romance from Masahiro Shinoda (Samurai Spy, Double Suicide) announced an idiosyncratic major filmmaking talent. The pitch-black Pale Flower (Kawaita hana) is an unforgettable excursion into the underworld.

 

• New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition

• New video interview with director Masahiro Shinoda

• Selected-scene audio commentary by film scholar Peter Grilli, co producer of Music for the Movies: Toru Takemitsu

• Original theatrical trailer

• New and improved English subtitle translation

• PLUS: A new essay by film critic Chuck Stephens

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Love Affair

 

Golden-age Hollywood’s humanist master Leo McCarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema’s most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer are chic strangers who meet and fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for New York. Though they are both involved with other people, they make a pact to reconnect six months later at the top of the Empire State Building—until the hand of fate throws their star-crossed affair tragically off course. Swooning passion and gentle comedy coexist in perfect harmony in the exquisitely tender Love Affair (nominated for six Oscars), a story so timeless that it has been remade by multiple filmmakers over the years—including McCarey himself, who updated it as the no less beloved An Affair to Remember.

 

• New 4K digital restoration by The Museum of Modern Art and Lobster Films, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray

• New interview with film critic Farran Smith Nehme about the movie’s complicated production history

• New interview with Serge Bromberg, founder of Lobster Films, about the restoration

• Two radio adaptations, featuring actors Irene Dunne, William Powell, and Charles Boyer

• Two short films by Leo McCarey starring silent comedian Charley Chase: Looking for Sally (1925) and Mighty Like a Moose (1926)

• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• PLUS: An essay by author Megan McGurk

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