Martin Scorsese gatthers his lead actors of The Irishman, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, in The Irishman featurette about their acting methods.
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Netflix has made the Criterion Making the Irishman featurette available to watch for free in its entire 30-minute runtime on YouTube.
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Our latest round-up of new Blu-ray releases includes Deadpool 2, Hereditary, The Tree of Life, Upgrade and The Terror.
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Our latest round-up of new Blu-ray releases includes A Quiet Place, You Were Never Really Here, Bowling for Columbine and more.
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Check out the cover art for the Before trilogy Criterion Collection release. Richard Linklater's three-part romance gets released as a box set in 2017.
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Director Richard Linklater confirmed his latest film, Boyhood, will be getting feature packed Criterion release. Read more about the Boyhood Criterion here
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Skywalker Ranch, the Pixar Campus, Quentin Tarantino's home theater, Stanley Kubrick's estate: all places a film fan would kill to visit, but few ever get the chance to see. Another spot undoubtedly on that list is Bleak House. That's what Guillermo del Toro calls the additional house he bought to devote to his collection of…
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Criteron fans who saw the artwork for this week's release of Alex Cox's cult film Repo Man and thought, "That looks familiar" might have been 100% right. The work, commissioned by Criterion, was done by two of Mondo's familiar and talented artists: Jay Shaw and Tyler Stout. You can get the artwork on the Criterion release, out…
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Briefly: Take any plans you have this weekend and flush them down the toilet. All of the Criterion Collection titles currently available on Hulu will be free to watch all weekend. Available films include Seven Samurai, Breathless, Cronos, The Hidden Fortress, Wings of Desire, The Blob, Modern Times, City Lights, The Seventh Seal, The 400 Blows. Eraserhead,…
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Wes Anderson's unique aesthetic may be more in vogue than ever, but since real life doesn't come with production designers and cinematographers it can be rather difficult to duplicate the look at home. Until now! As part of their Blu-ray release of The Royal Tenenbaums, the Criterion Collection has unveiled the covers of various book…
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Fans of monster movies and/or the Criterion Collection probably recall that a couple of months back, rumors began surfacing of a Criterion Collection release of Godzilla -- an unusual, though not unprecedented, pick by a video distributor that generally favors artsy pictures over genre flicks. So today's news won't come as a surprise, but rather…
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In this episode, Dave, Devindra, and Adam wonder about the future of creative storytelling, try to parse David O. Russell's thoughts on Uncharted, debate the merits of The Fifth Element, and explain why I Am Number Four is a huge steaming pile of number two. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave…
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And with this, Hulu Plus is suddenly an essential subscription. Criterion added 150 titles to the paid subscription service yesterday, and will soon have 800 of the company's library titles available to stream for those who pay $7.99 per month. Eight. Hundred. Films available now include Hausu, Ikiru, La Strada, Jules and Jim, L'Avventura, The…
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I love the Zatoichi movies. Love 'em. One of my shelves has a pile of Zatoichi DVDs thirty cases high. The tale of a blind swordsman with amazing moves and a penchant for gambling certainly has no shortage of material for the dedicated fan: it spawned twenty-seven films and a one hundred and twelve-episode TV…
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