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- Welcome! :: Criterion Forum
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- Review Listing :: Criterion Forum
Criterion Forum offers in-depth reviews and details on Criterion Collection releases, including special features, restorations, and high-definition presentations
- Barry Lyndon Review :: Criterion Forum
Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of brutal aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray In picaresque detail, <I>Barry Lyndon< I> chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O’Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years’ War and the
- Mean Streets Review :: Criterion Forum
Picture 9 10 Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets receives a brand new 4K restoration and comes to 4K UHD through The Criterion Collection, presented in Dolby Vision on a triple-layer disc in its original aspect ratio of 1 85:1 A 1080p presentation of the film can be found on the included dual-layer Blu-ray disc alongside this release’s special features The new restoration was sourced from the
- Gummo Review :: Criterion Forum
Disappointingly, Criterion includes only a handful of supplements, consisting mostly of interviews with Harmony Korine from various points in his career The most recent is a newly recorded 11-minute interview where Korine briefly discusses his early life and his introduction to cinema before shifting to Gummo
- Sorcerer Review :: Criterion Forum
Criterion also includes a newly edited 36-minute piece constructed from audio interviews Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan conducted with screenwriter Walon Green and editor Bud Smith while researching her 2003 Friedkin book The audio plays over a simple image of a recorder, with a few film clips cut in for context
- Eyes Wide Shut Details :: Criterion Forum
Stanley Kubrick’s career-capping Eyes Wide Shut unfolds in a dreamscape vision of New York City, where doctor Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) and his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), confront the unconscious desires, jealousies, and fears threatening their marriage A Christmastime odyssey into a surreal sexual underworld whose hidden power structures are laid frighteningly bare, the film marks the
- The Princess Bride Review :: Criterion Forum
The Criterion Collection upgrades their previous Blu-ray edition of Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride to 4K UHD, presenting it in its original aspect ratio of 1 85:1 on a dual-layer, BD-66 disc The 2160p 24hz ultra high-definition encode is presented in Dolby Vision, sourced from the same 4K restoration used for Criterion’s Blu-ray edition
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