Criterion December Releases

 
night-porterThis December, Criterion will introduce the brilliant and daring director Todd Haynes into the collection. With transgressive films like “Poison,” “Velvet Goldmine” and “Far from Heaven,” he has proven to be among contemporary cinema’s most audacious figures, and perhaps none of his films shows off his extraordinary talents so well as 1995’s “Safe.” In an unforgettable performance, Julianne Moore plays a Southern California housewife who comes down with a mysterious sickness; from this premise, Haynes creates an amazing dissection of American society. Also this month, Criterion presents new and expanded Blu-ray and DVD editions of Liliana Cavani’s controversial twisted romance “The Night Porter,” with Charlotte Rampling and Dirk Bogarde, and Terry Gilliam’s delightful fantasy classic “Time Bandits,” one of Criterion’s most popular titles, a skewed time-travel saga starring Sean Connery and Shelley Duvall.

With the Eclipse line over the years, Criterion has drawn attention to some less widely known cinema from internationally renowned Japanese directors like Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, and Masaki Kobayashi. This month, Criterion has announced the first five films from the hugely popular Keisuke Kinoshita, whose beautiful and beloved “Twenty-Four Eyes” and “The Ballad of Narayama” are available from the Criterion Collection. The fascinating titles in this new series, “Kinoshita and World War II,” show the artistic blossoming of a young filmmaker who made lyrical, humane work within the constraints of a wartime film industry obliged to include propagandistic messages in its output. These rarely screened films have never before been on DVD in the U.S.

December 9: The Night Porter (1974)
December 9: Safe (1995)
December 9: Time Bandits (1981)
December 16: Eclipse Series 41: Kinoshita and World War II

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