By Celebrated boutique home video label the Criterion Collection has announced CC40, a new Blu-ray box set with forty different titles from the collection.
The collection was inspired by their Criterion Closet videos with titles in the new collection the ones picked up the most by those who get to visit and pick their favorite releases.
The result is filmmakers ranging from past icons like Godard, Fellini, Kubrick and Powell & Pressburger, to more modern auteur greats like Wong Kar-wai, Spike Lee, Alfonso Cuaron, Gus van Sant, and Lynne Ramsey.
The box-set includes digital restorations of all forty films, hundreds of hours of supplemental features, and a 216-page book featuring essays on each film by critics, scholars, and authors.
The list of complete titles in the set are as follows:
– 3 Women (1977)
– 8½ (1963)
– A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
– Ace in the Hole (1951)
– All That Jazz (1979)
– Barry Lyndon (1975)
– Being There (1979)
– Bicycle Thieves (1948)
– Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
– Do the Right Thing (1989)
– Down by Law (1986)
– His Girl Friday (1940)
– House (1977)
– In the Mood for Love (2000)
– Jules and Jim (1962)
– La Ciénaga (2001)
– Love & Basketball (2000)
– Mirror (1975)
– Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
– My Own Private Idaho (1991)
– Naked (1993)
– Night of the Living Dead (1968)
– On the Waterfront (1954)
– Persona (1966)
– Pickpocket (1959)
– Ratcatcher (1999)
– Repo Man (1984)
– Safe (1995)
– Seconds (1966)
– Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
– Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
– Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
– The Battle of Algiers (1966)
– The Night of the Hunter (1955)
– The Red Shoes (1948)
– Tokyo Story (1953)
– Wanda (1970)
– Weekend (1967)
– Y tu mamá también (2001)
– Yi Yi (2000)
The CC40 box set will be available for purchase on November 19th.
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