
This May, Criterion will present a special edition of Orson Welles’s
Othello, featuring two different versions of this visually astonishing Shakespeare adaptation as well as a host of special features chronicling its tumultuous production. Our second
World Cinema Project collector’s set will feature restorations of hard-to-see classics from the Philippines (
Insiang), Thailand (
Mysterious Object at Noon), Soviet Kazakhstan (
Revenge), Brazil (
Limite), Turkey (
Law of the Border), and Taiwan (
Taipei Story), along with introductions by Martin Scorsese and interviews with renowned film figures including Hou Hsiao-hsien, Pierre Rissient, and Walter Salles. For the title character of
Dheepan and his makeshift family, the flight from war-torn Sri Lanka to the banlieues
of Paris is just the beginning of a dramatic, genre-bending story brought viscerally to life in Jacques Audiard’s 2015 Palme d’Or winner. Yasujiro Ozu’s wistfully comic
Good Morning presents a gentler portrait of family life in postwar Japan, reworking the scenario of his silent classic
I Was Born, But . . ., also included in this release. Bringing it all back home, our edition of Terry Zwigoff’s
Ghost World – a cult favorite sketching the coming-of-age foibles of two sardonic teens (Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson) against a backdrop of all-American kitsch – features new interviews with the cast. Plus: a Blu-ray upgrade of
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Chantal Akerman’s revolutionary study of a woman’s work.
Note that the existing DVD editions of Good Morning and Jeanne Dielman are being replaced with new SKUS.
My 9: JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES
May 16: GOOD MORNING
May 23: DHEEPAN
May 23: OTHELLO
May 30; GHOST WORLD
May 30: MARTIN SCORSESE’S WORLD CINEMA PROJECT NO. 2












