Criterion lavishes a major upgrade to its older box set celebrating the first major rock concert event, the ‘California Dreamin’ idyll that some say marked the beginning of the Summer of Love. Get ready to hear and see some history-making performances from Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and The Who. Plus two more features and a bundle of ‘extra’ music sets . . . including Tiny Tim.
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 167
1968 / Color / 1:33 flat / 79 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date December 12, 2017 / 69.95
Cinematography: James Desmond, Barry Feinstein, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, Roger Murphy, D.A. Pennebaker
Film Editor: Nina Schulman
Original Music: The Animals, The Association, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Byrds, Canned Heat, Country Joe and the Fish, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Al Kooper, Hugh Masekela, Jefferson Airplane, The Mamas and the Papas, Laura Nyro, Otis Redding, The Quicksilver Messenger Service,...
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 167
1968 / Color / 1:33 flat / 79 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date December 12, 2017 / 69.95
Cinematography: James Desmond, Barry Feinstein, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, Roger Murphy, D.A. Pennebaker
Film Editor: Nina Schulman
Original Music: The Animals, The Association, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Byrds, Canned Heat, Country Joe and the Fish, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Al Kooper, Hugh Masekela, Jefferson Airplane, The Mamas and the Papas, Laura Nyro, Otis Redding, The Quicksilver Messenger Service,...
- 12/9/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The restoration of a newly rediscovered director’s cut of the 1931 The Front Page prompts this two-feature comedy disc — Lewis Milestone’s early talkie plus the sublime Howard Hawks remake, which plays a major gender switch on the main characters of Hecht & MacArthur’s original play.
His Girl Friday / The Front Page
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 849
Available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date January 10, 2017 / 39.96
His Girl Friday:
1940 / B&W /1:37 flat Academy / 92 min.
Starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, Ernest Truex, Cliff Edwards, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe Karns, Frank Jenks, Regis Toomey, Abner Biberman, Frank Orth, John Qualen, Helen Mack, Alma Kruger, Billy Gilbert, Marion Martin.
Cinematography Joseph Walker
Film Editor Gene Havelick
Original Music Sidney Cutner, Felix Mills
Written by Charles Lederer from the play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
Produced and Directed by Howard Hawks
The Front Page:...
His Girl Friday / The Front Page
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 849
Available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date January 10, 2017 / 39.96
His Girl Friday:
1940 / B&W /1:37 flat Academy / 92 min.
Starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, Ernest Truex, Cliff Edwards, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe Karns, Frank Jenks, Regis Toomey, Abner Biberman, Frank Orth, John Qualen, Helen Mack, Alma Kruger, Billy Gilbert, Marion Martin.
Cinematography Joseph Walker
Film Editor Gene Havelick
Original Music Sidney Cutner, Felix Mills
Written by Charles Lederer from the play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
Produced and Directed by Howard Hawks
The Front Page:...
- 1/3/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Joel and Ethan Coen drop most of the sarcasm for their deeply felt character study. Everything's a big problem for Llewyn: a girl (Carey Mulligan), various agents, fellow performers, and a cat. I find Oscar Isaac's Llewyn to be wholly sympathetic, and that cat business is deeper than it looks. The terrific extras include a complete concert docu. Inside Llewyn Davis Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 794 2013 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 104 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date January 19, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, Ethan Phillips, Robin Bartlett Pappi Corsicato, Max Casella, Jerry Grayson, Jeanine Seralles, Adam Driver, Stark Sands, John Goodman, F. Murray Abraham. Cinematography Bruno Delbonnel Executive Music Producer T Bone Burnett Produced by Scott Rudin, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Written and Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
If I'm not mistaken this is the first Criterion release of Coen Brothers movie.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
If I'm not mistaken this is the first Criterion release of Coen Brothers movie.
- 2/16/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
D.A. Pennbaker still remembers the man with the wiry gray hair and the sunglasses, sitting across from him in his office and posing an innocent enough question. "He asked, 'Would you like to come along on a tour with my client? His name is Bob Dylan.' It sort of rang a bell." The 90-year-old filmmaker lets out a raspy chuckle before continuing to speak at his customary rapid clip. "He had one song, 'The Times They Are A-Changin',' that had been playing on the radio...
- 11/27/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Meredith Brody reports back on Day Four of The Morelia International Film Festival in Patzcuaro, Mexico:Last May I saw The Arbor, by Clio Barnard, on the next-to-last day of the San Francisco International Film Festival. I was enchanted, disturbed, beguiled, and excited – it was my favorite film of the Festival. Which made me sad, because for the duration of the festival people had been continually asking what I’d seen that I liked, and this was the film that I would have liked to tell them about. Here in Morelia I was getting another chance. I strongly urged my breakfast mates at the Hotel Los Juaninos--Peter Becker and Kim Hendrickson of the essential Criterion Collection, Steve Ujlaki, Dean of the Loyola-Marymount School of Film and ...
- 10/26/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
That's right! Just in time for Comic-Con, the kind folks over at Relativity Films have given us an exclusive poster premiere for Haywire. The film is the latest from acclaimed director, Steven Soderbergh, and stars newcomer and Mma fighting champion Gina Carano. Director Steven Soderbergh also wanted to provide a personal quote on the Haywire poster and specifically the acclaimed designer Neil Kellerhouse (www.kellerhouse.com). Here’s the quote from Soderbergh... "When we were working on Bubble, I wanted to make sure we came up with a one-sheet that was…well, as odd as the movie. Or as 'distinctive.' Whatever. So I was looking at some of the Criterion Collection dvds which had really striking artwork, and I called Kim Hendrickson and asked who did the...
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- 7/21/2011
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Steven Soderbergh on location shooting Che
Photo: IFC Films Last night I cracked open the forthcoming two-disc Blu-ray set of Steven Soderbergh's Che, due on Criterion DVD and Blu-ray next Tuesday, January 19. Before firing up my second viewing of the film I decided to check out the 49-minute making-of documentary included on disc one and while listening to the story of the eight year process of bringing the film together was fascinating, the quotes from Soderbergh at the end of the piece are simply too good to save for my review alone.
The last five minutes of the doc discuss the difficulty in selling the film and getting distribution as it made its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival while only weeks earlier five independent film distributors shut their doors leaving the film with few options. As a result, and at Soderbergh's encouragement with IFC's help, a roadshow distribution...
Photo: IFC Films Last night I cracked open the forthcoming two-disc Blu-ray set of Steven Soderbergh's Che, due on Criterion DVD and Blu-ray next Tuesday, January 19. Before firing up my second viewing of the film I decided to check out the 49-minute making-of documentary included on disc one and while listening to the story of the eight year process of bringing the film together was fascinating, the quotes from Soderbergh at the end of the piece are simply too good to save for my review alone.
The last five minutes of the doc discuss the difficulty in selling the film and getting distribution as it made its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival while only weeks earlier five independent film distributors shut their doors leaving the film with few options. As a result, and at Soderbergh's encouragement with IFC's help, a roadshow distribution...
- 1/14/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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