The Criterion Collection has announced the date and released artwork for a variety of great titles for April including The Virgin Diaries, Dead Man and The Awful Truth amongst others. Click on the link below or image to the left to check out the features and artwork.
The Criterion Collection has announced the April 2018 line-up See below for details on each.
INGRID BERGMAN’S SWEDISH YEARS
MSRP $69.95 | April 10, 2018
Synopsis: Ingrid Bergman appeared in ten films in her native Sweden before the age of twenty-five, and while that work tends to be overshadowed by her time in Hollywood, it showcases the actor summoning an impressive depth of emotion to deliver astute, passionate performances. Under the guidance of filmmakers including the prolific studio director Gustaf Molander, Bergman embraced a range of roles and worked with some of the most celebrated actors in the Swedish film industry, including Gösta Ekman, Karin Swanström, Victor Sjöström, and Lars Hanson. Comedies, romances, and thrillers, the six fascinating films collected here-including Intermezzo, the movie that brought Bergman to America-exhibit the precociously assured talent of a young artist with an illustrious international career ahead of her.
Titles Include:
- The Count of the Old Town (1935)
- Walpurgis Night (1935)
- Intermezzo (1936)
- Dollar (1938)
- A Woman’s Face (1938)
- June Night (1940)
THE AWFUL TRUTH
MSRP $39.95 (Blu-ray), $29.95 (DVD) | April 17, 2018
Synopsis: Cary Grant (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other’s infidelities, resolve to file for divorce. Try as they each might to move on, the mischievous Jerry can’t help but meddle in Lucy’s ill-matched engagement to a corn-fed Oklahoma businessman (Ralph Bellamy), and a mortified Lucy begins to realize that she may be saying goodbye to the only dance partner capable of following her lead.
1937 * 91 minutes * Black & White * Monaural * 1.37:1 aspect ratio
MSRP $39.95 (Blu-ray), $29.95 (DVD) | April 17, 2018
* PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ian Christie
MSRP $39.95 (Blu-ray), $29.95 (DVD) | April 24, 2018
* PLUS: Essays by critic Amy Taubin and music journalist Ben Ratliff
THE VIRGIN DIARIES
MSRP $39.95 (Blu-ray), $29.95 (DVD) | April 24, 2018
Synopsis: The Virgin Suicides conjures the ineffable melancholy of teenage longing and ennui in its story of the suicides of the five Lisbon sisters, stifled by the rules of their overprotective religious parents—as told through the collective memory of a group of boys who yearn to understand what happened.
Special Edition Features:
* New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Ed Lachman and approved by director Sofia Coppola, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
* New interviews with Coppola, Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson
* Making of “The Virgin Suicides,” a 1998 documentarydirected by Eleanor Coppola and featuring Sofia Coppola; Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola; actors Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner, and James Woods; Eugenides; and more
* Lick the Star, a 1998 short film by Coppola
* Official music video for Air’s soundtrack song “Playground Love,” directed and shot by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola
* Trailer
* PLUS: An essay by novelist Megan Abbott
1999 * 97 minutes * Color * 5.1 surround * 1.66:1 aspect ratio
