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‘The Rules Of The Game’ Trailer: 4K Restoration Of Jean Renoir’s Satirical Sendup Of Power & Privilege To Hit Theaters Later This Month

Rosa Martinez — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 15:18:21 +0000

“Let the game begin:” Considered one of the greatest films ever made by the likes of Robert Altman, Wim Wenders, and Francois Truffaut, who deemed it “the film of films,” Jean Renoir’s “The Rules of the Game” is set to hit theaters this month in a stunning 4K restoration. A scathing critique of the French bourgeois, it is difficult to believe that this masterpiece was once feared lost forever.

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The 13 Best Movies To Buy Or Stream This Week: ‘The King of Staten Island,’ ‘The Burnt Orange Heresy’ & More

Jason Bailey — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:45:20 +0000

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Two potentially major productions caught in the wheels of the lockdown hit disc and (reasonable) VOD this week, alongside a Sundance doc on Apple TV+, a lovely new musical bio-doc, and the usual bushel of marvelous catalog titles from Criterion, Warner Archive, and Kino-Lorber.

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The 10 Best Jean Renoir Films

Nikola Grozdanovic — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 18:20:56 +0000

The son of French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste, director Jean Renoir’s life-long involvement with creativity might have been a foregone conclusion. But there was no way to envision that he would become one of the true director’s directors, loved and admired by the likes of Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson and all the then-young guns of the emerging French New Wave. Yet it’s understandable, as in so many ways Renoir is the progenitor of various techniques and movements that would go on to change cinema forever.

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‘Dr. Strangelove,’ Antonioni’s ‘Le amiche,’ ‘Clouds Of Sils Maria’ & More Headed To Criterion In June

The Playlist Staff — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 23:02:08 +0000

'Dr. Strangelove,' Antonioni's 'Le amiche,' 'Clouds Of Sils Maria' & More Headed To Criterion In June

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Criterion Makes Your Art House Film School Essentials All The More Affordable And Tolerable

Spencer Martin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:50:00 +0000

The prestigious DVD company The Criterion Collection recently announced that they will be re-releasing what they consider to be the unimpeachable cinema classics of the 20th century — or the six foreign black-and-white masterworks that won’t put you to sleep (Criterion does not guarantee nor endorse this assertion). Due Sept 9, The “Essential Art House” Collection consists of six films from such legends as Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Roman Polanski, Peter Brook, Jean Cocteau and Jean Renoir.

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