The Criterion Collection unveils its February releases which includes McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons, The Heroic Trio/Executioners, Nothing but a Man, and the Roaring Twenties.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Perhaps the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema, Robert Altman’s unorthodox dream western stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as newcomers to a mining town in the Pacific Northwest.
Special Features: 4K UHD release, audio commentary with Altman, a making-of documentary featuring cast and crew, a conversation between film historians Cari Beauchamp and Rick Jewell, interviews with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, and more.
Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons
The seasons may change, but the follies of the heart are constant in this ineffably lovely quartet of films by one of cinema’s most perceptive chroniclers of the pangs and perils of romance.
Special Features: A new program featuring interviews with cinematographer Diane Baratier, producer Françoise Etchegaray, and others; excerpts of radio interviews with Rohmer conducted by critics Michel Ciment and Serge Daney; and more.
The Heroic Trio / Executioners
Cinema icons Maggie Cheung, Anita Mui, and Michelle Yeoh join forces as a team of blade-throwing, shotgun-toting, kung fu–fighting heroines who battle evildoers in these gloriously unrestrained action joyrides from auteur Johnnie To and action choreographer Ching Siu-tung.
Special Features: 4K UHD release, new interviews with actor Anthony Wong and film critic Samm Deighan, trailers, and more.
Nothing but a Man
Made at the height of the civil rights movement, Michael Roemer’s landmark of American cinema reveals the toll of systemic racism through its honest portrait of a southern Black railroad worker confronting the daily challenges of discrimination and economic precarity.
Special Features: A new interview program featuring Roemer; a conversation between Roemer and coproducer and cinematographer Robert M. Young; interviews with actors Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, and Julius Harris; and more.
The Roaring Twenties
One of the greatest and most influential crime films of all time, Hollywood master Raoul Walsh’s dynamic, nostalgia-tinged drama stars James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart as army buddies whose fortunes rise and fall as their fates intersect.
Special Features: 4K UHD release, audio commentary with film historian Lincoln Hurst, a new interview with critic Gary Giddins, an excerpt from a 1973 interview with director Raoul Walsh, and more.
Original texts are taken from the latest newsletter by The Criterion Collection.