The Emperor’s Blu Clothes
Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor, a visually sumptuous journey into the Forbidden City, won nine Oscars, including for best picture, cinematography, art direction, costumes, sound, and score. Now you can experience these awesome accomplishments to the hilt with Criterion’s new Blu-ray edition, featuring documentaries, a crew commentary, interviews, and a pristine digital transfer supervised and approved by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro. Find out more here!
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VideoNew to the new criterion.com? Take a guided tour through all we have to offer with this orientation video from our friend with the pen Jason Polan!
Fuller Season
Lisa DombrowskiThe author of The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I’ll Kill You! invites you to join the cult of Sam Fuller, if you haven’t already, in this Current-exclusive essay.
The Lady Vanishes Revisited
Robin Wood“If I had not seen The Lady Vanishes at the age of seven I might never have become a film critic,” writes Robin Wood in this account of an early awakening.
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