Criterion February Releases

December 10, 2015January 7, 2016

This February, Criterion is thrilled to welcome their first Mike Nichols film into the collection, and it’s a doozy — the Oscar-winning, generation-defining comedy “The Graduate,” which introduced the world to Dustin Hoffman. February also brings director Jan Troell’s monumental, two-part masterpiece about Swedish immigrants coming to America in the 19th century, “The Emigrants” and “The New Land,” starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann; these are among the most requested titles Criterion has ever released, and they’re coming to DVD and Blu-ray for the first time in the United States. Charlie Chaplin returns to the collection with his hilarious, astonishingly accomplished first feature, “The Kid,” in a jam-packed edition sure to thrill all Chaplin lovers. Finally, there are two remarkable rediscoveries from the incredible cinematic sixties: Antonio Pietrangeli’s “I Knew Her Well,” about a party girl trying to find herself in decadent modern Rome, and Nagisa Oshima’s “Death by Hanging,” a pitch-black surreal comedy about an execution in Japan gone bizarrely wrong.