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Nagisa Oshima’s – Empire of Passion (Ai no borei)

Jason Robert Black — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:59:08 +0000

New Criterion Collection version of Nagisa Oshima’s nightmarish and poetic 1978 Japanese ghost story Empire of Passion.

Criterion Eclipse – Late Ozu

admin — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:55:29 +0000

If you know anything about movies you have probably heard about the Criterion Collection; dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions of the highest quality, but you might not have heard about their new line called Eclipse. Criterion Eclipse presents a selection of lost, forgotten, or overshadowed classics in simple editions. Just released is the third in the series and contains the late films of master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. Ozu made fifty three films over his career but it wasn’t till the end that he entered his artistic prime. This five-disc set includes, Early Spring 1956, Tokyo Twilight 1957, Equinox Flower 1958, Late Autumn 1960, and The End of Summer 1961.

Essential Art House: 50 YEARS OF JANUS FILMS

admin — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:11:31 +0000

If you have even seen a Criterion Collection movie you will most likely notice the Janus logo at the beginning of a lot of their movies. In fact Janus actually started the Criterion Collection so their box set covering fifty years includes many existing Criterion Collection movies, but what sets Fifty years, Fifty films apart is the packaging. All bound together in the nice booklet allows easy browsing to find that prefect movie. Icludes movies from, Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Renoir, Akira Kurosawa, Luis Buñuel, Yasujiro Ozu, Ingmar Bergman, Henri-Georges Clouzot and Federico Fellini.