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Film Friday: Your DVDs Are Rotting

Like the autumn tomato left on your window sill or the miniature pumpkin forgotten on the mantel until November, your DVD collection is rotting. Maybe not physically deteriorating like fall fruit (although some people worry about that, too) but deteriorating in the way that all media seems to: by sitting still as technology marches past. You can’t easily play the video games of your youth, peruse a defunct web site, listen to an 8-track tape found in the attic, or, at this point, even play an audio cassette or a VHS video in many households. The DVD is headed for...  read more

Y Tu Mama Tambien , Che, More Coming to Criterion Collection

Thanks to a new pact with IFC Films, Che, A Christmas Tale, Christopher Nolan’s Following, Y Tu Mama Tambien and a host of other films will have new Criterion editions in the coming months....  read more

The Seventh Seal

It’s fitting that for Criterion’s sterling new edition of...  read more

Criterion offers streaming movies for $5

As streaming films became more commonplace online, the drive was to offer the highest-profile titles possible to entice consumers to the new format. But Netflix and other providers seem to have concluded that the titles themselves are only half the allure, and have also focused on new platforms—streaming video for TiVo users, in one instance....  read more

Rhymes With Five: Judging films by their covers

In addition to the staggering visual impression of their full catalog, I was struck by just how many great films I'm wildly unfamiliar with-- so, in celebration, here are my five favorite Criterion covers of movies I've never seen (that I probably should soon). What are yours?  read more