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The Criterion Column: Volume One

21 December 2009 6:36 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

2010 is quickly approaching, and the timing seems right to begin a new endeavor: The Criterion Column. At least once a month, this column will provide information about upcoming releases from The Criterion Collection and highlight titles that may be of interest to Twitch readers. This column will also be complimented by timely reviews of upcoming Criterion and Eclipse releases as well as discussions of gems in the company's back catalog.

This first volume of this column is dedicated to a list of all announced releases for January, February and March of 2010. The data fields are in the following order: Director, Title, Format(s), Street Date, and Regional Availability. Each title is linked to the relevant entry at The Criterion Collection website. This list will be updated as new titles are announced.

January 2010

Federico Fellini, 8 ½, Bd, 1/12/10, Us & Canada

Steven Soderbergh, Che, DVD & Bd, 1/19/10, Us only

Wim Wenders, Paris, Texas, DVD &  Bd, »

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cinemadaily | Criterion, Denver, and the Decade

16 November 2009 11:13 AM, PST | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »

Some exciting news from Criterion: Max Ophuls’ lavish biopic “Lola Montès” and Leo McCarey’s 30s tearjerker “Make Way for Tomorrow” will join the collection in February. Also on tap for the Criterion treatment are two recent films: Steve McQueen’s “Hunger” and Götz Spielmann’s “Revanche.” More from The Playlist. Out this week from Criterion is the 1969 skiing drama, “Downhill Racer,” starring Robert Redford. “If the movie often feels like a vaguely … »

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Torino Glbt Film Festival 2009: Ferzan Ozpetek

26 April 2009 1:39 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

2009 Torino Glbt Film Festival: Filmmaker Ferzan Ozpetek (above, with festival director Giovanni Minerba) presents "the films of his life." Ozpetek’s quotes below are from the festival’s press release. "I couldn’t have been happier when Giovanni Minerba made this proposition to me. I wanted to start out with a series of ‘Madames,’ ranging from the splendid Madame X, by David Lowell Rich, with Lana Turner, to Madame Rosa, [starring] Simone Signoret, and then on to Madame Sousatzka by John Schlesinger, with the intriguing Shirley MacLaine, and finishing off with Madame de… directed by Max Ophüls, in 1953. "Unfortunately there were problems in getting the films, so the only remaining ‘madame’ belongs to Ophüls himself, a film which had literally enraptured me [because of] its camera movement! There is another ‘mama’ that I dearly loved as a child: Auntie Mame by Morton Da Costa [made in] 1958. [...] »

- Andre Soares

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2009 | 2008 | 1997

3 articles from 2009

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