The Criterion Collection always kicks off its releases for a new calendar year with a couple of big titles. And 2024 starts off very strong for the boutique DVD series, with Danny Boyle‘s “Trainspotting” leading the way. Criterion released Boyle’s modern classic on Laserdisc in 1997, but the film didn’t re-enter the Collection as a spine number until now. In other words, that’s big news for CC collectors.

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Move over, Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, there’s a new director at the top of BFI‘s “Greatest Films Of All Time” critics’ poll. And it’s none other than Chantal Akerman, whose 1975 “Jean Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” now sits atop the esteemed list. Conducted only once a decade, the poll is the largest of its kind, with many considering its results an authoritative canon since it first started in 1952.

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20 Great Debut Films From Female Directors

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Review: 'Almayer's Folly' Another Brilliant, Mesmerizing Film From Chantal Akerman

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