The good folks at The Criterion Collection keep coming up with ways to get us to part with our hard earned dollar, and their April lineup is designed to do just that. So let’s roll up our sleeves and dive right in…
Kicking things off is Jim Jarmusch‘s cult favorite “Dead Man.” The Johnny Depp starring existential western won’t be overflowing with extras — poetry readings, interviews, select scene audio commentary — but you’ll want to pay top dollar for the new, 4K restoration so you can soak up every frame of Robby Müller‘s exquisite cinematography, and hear every note of Neil Young‘s score.
Sofia Coppola logs her first entry in The Criterion Collection with the dreamy “The Virgin Suicides.” Again, this one is going to look great with a dazzling new 4K restoration, and will come with some decent extras too including a documentary about the making of the movie, Coppola’s short film “Lick The Star,” and the music video for Air‘s “Playground Love” directed by Sofia and Roman Coppola.
If you’re looking to get screwball, Leo McCarey‘s classic “The Awful Truth” starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should do the trick. The extras are limited, but the laughs will be unending.
To sate your arthouse appetite, Criterion will let Sergei Parajanov‘s “The Color Of Pomegranates” fill the void. The gorgeous film will also come packed with two documentaries: 2003’s “Sergei Parajanov: The Rebel” and 1977’s “The Life of Sayat-Nova.”
Lastly, Ingrid Bergman fans are going to flip for the Eclipse set, “Ingrid Bergman’s Swedish Years.” These are special feature free but the chance to own the great actresses’ early works including “The Count Of The Old Town,” “Dollar,” “Intermezzo,” “Walpurgis Night,” “A Woman’s Face,” and “June Night” can’t be passed up.
