Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Fires on the Plain, The Burmese Harp, Cairo Station, Shoeshine, A Confucian Confusion / Mahjong: Two Films by Edward Yang, Saving Face, Compensation, and Vermiglio
THE CRITERION COLLECTION
AUGUST 26, 2025 | | | |
| A compelling descent into psychological and physical oblivion, Kon Ichikawa's agonizing portrait of desperate soldiers stranded in a strange land during World War II remains one of the most powerful works from one of Japanese cinema's most versatile filmmakers.
Special Features: 4K UHD release, an introduction by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie, a program featuring interviews with Ichikawa and actor Mickey Curtis, and more | | | | One of Japanese cinema's most overwhelming antiwar films, Kon Ichikawa's eloquent meditation on beauty coexisting with death centers on an Imperial Japanese Army regiment that surrenders to British forces in Burma at the close of World War II and finds harmony through song.
Special Features: 4K UHD release, interviews with Ichikawa and actor Rentaro Mikuni, an essay by critic and historian Tony Rayns, and more | | | | A disabled newspaper hawker's obsession with a sultry drink seller leads to tragedy on the streets of Cairo in Youssef Chahine's provocative noir-melodrama, one of the most influential and celebrated works in all of Arab cinema.
Special Features: A newly restored short documentary by Chahine, with an introduction by film scholar Joseph Fahim; a new interview with Fahim; a documentary about the director and the film; and more | | | | An indelible fable of innocence lost set amid the hardscrabble reality of 1940s Italy, Vittorio De Sica's Academy Award–winning neorealist breakthrough follows two boys who set out to raise money by shining shoes on the streets of Rome.
Special Features: 4K UHD release, a new program about the film and Italian neorealism featuring film scholars Paola Bonifazio and Catherine O'Rawe, a documentary marking the film's seventieth anniversary, and more | | | | These sharp, sprawling satires from Edward Yang—one of Taiwan's most celebrated filmmakers—capture the anything-can-happen mood of Taipei at the end of the 20th century.
Special Features: New 4K restorations, an excerpted interview with Yang, a new interview with editor Chen Po-wen, a new conversation between scholar Michael Berry and critic Justin Chang, and more | | | | A queer romantic comedy set in vibrant, multicultural New York City, Alice Wu's irresistible feature debut is a bighearted ode to the Chinese American diaspora that combines a swooning love story with a poignant narrative about a mother and daughter coming to terms with each other.
Special Features: Audio commentary featuring Wu, new interviews with Wu and actor Joan Chen, deleted scenes with commentary by Wu, a behind-the-scenes featurette, and more | | | | A groundbreaking story of inclusion and visibility, Zeinabu irene Davis's poignant portrait of Deaf African Americans at both ends of the 20th century is a landmark of American independent cinema that confronts the social forces and prejudices that hinder love.
Special Features: Audio commentary featuring Davis, screenwriter Marc Arthur Chéry, and director of photography Pierre H. L. Désir Jr.; Q&As with the cast and crew; two short films by Davis; and more | | | | Secrets swirl beneath the surface of a remote Italian community in Maura Delpero's exquisite wartime drama, in which a family undergoes a profound shift after a mysterious soldier arrives fleeing the front lines of World War II. Includes: Meet the Filmmakers: Maura Delpero, a Criterion Channel original interview "One of the top 10 films of the year. Entrancing." —Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair | | | | | | |
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