Wednesday, December 29, 2021
A landmark coming-of-age film, a defining moment in Black culture and civil rights history, and a singular Technicolor fantasia
THE CRITERION COLLECTION
DECEMBER 28, 2021 | | | |
| Academy Award–winning actor Regina King imagines four icons—Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke—as they bare their souls and grapple with their places within the sweeping change of the civil rights movement.
Special Features: A new conversation between King and filmmaker Kasi Lemmons; a new program featuring King and actors Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, and Leslie Odom Jr.; and more. | | | | This landmark, semi-autobiographical film by renowned photographer turned filmmaker Gordon Parks is a tender and clear-eyed coming-of-age odyssey of a young Black man in 1920s rural Kansas.
Special Features: A new documentary on the making of the film, featuring curator Rhea L. Combs and filmmakers Ina Diane Archer, Ernest R. Dickerson, and Nelson George; a 1969 documentary made on the set of the film, narrated by Gordon Parks Jr.; and more. | | | | Dazzlingly restored and now available in 4K UHD, this singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is cinema's quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the most glorious Technicolor feasts ever concocted for the screen.
Special Features: A restoration demonstration featuring filmmaker Martin Scorsese; a 2000 documentary on the making of the film; an interview with Powell's widow, editor Thelma Schoonmaker Powell; and more. | | | | | | |
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