This October, the beloved fairy-tale classic The Princess Bride will join the Criterion Collection in a clothbound storybook Blu-ray edition packed with special features — as you wish! Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s long-unavailable television series Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day, a working-class soap opera suffused with affection and solidarity, will appear in a new 2K restoration. Warren Beatty stars in Shampoo — a sly send-up of sex and politics in the 1960s directed by Hal Ashby — making its Blu-ray debut. Brian De Palma’s Sisters, the virtuoso director’s twisted and terrifying first foray into Hitchcock territory, will appear in a new 4K restoration. And there’s more: Cornel Wilde plumbs primal terror and colonialist violence in the stripped-down action film The Naked Prey, on Blu-ray for the first time.
October 2: The Naked Prey
October 9: Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
October 16: Shampoo
October 23: Sisters
October 30: The Princess Bride
