August releases from the Criterion Collection

Brief Encounters / The Long Farewell: Two Films by Kira Muratova, The Last Emperor, Not a Pretty Picture, Real Life, and more! THE CRITERION COLLECTION AUGUST 27, 2024 Our August Releases [Brief Encounters / The Long Farewell: Two Films by Kira Muratova]( Long suppressed by Soviet authorities, the first two solo features from this uncompromising Ukrainian iconoclast are fragmented portraits of women navigating work, romance, and family life. Special Features: Interviews with scholars Elena Gorfinkel and Isabel Jacobs, archival interview with Muratova, and more [The Last Emperor]( Bernardo Bertolucci’s powerful epic recreates Qing-dynasty China with astonishing detail and craftsmanship, revealing an intimate character study of Emperor Puyi, who took the throne in 1908, at age three. Special Features: 4K UHD release, audio commentary featuring Bertolucci and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, 218-minute television version, making-of documentaries, and more [Not a Pretty Picture]( Trailblazing filmmaker Martha Coolidge’s unflinchingly personal hybrid of documentary and fiction is a high-stakes experiment in metacinema that broke new ground with its uncompromising examination of date rape. Special Features: An interview with Coolidge by filmmaker Allison Anders; Old-Fashioned Woman (1974), a documentary by Coolidge about her grandmother; and more [Real Life]( Decades before reality television reigned supreme, there was Albert Brooks’s debut feature, a brilliantly deadpan, stylistically innovative satire about a narcissistic Hollywood filmmaker who plans to spend the year capturing an American family’s ordinary day-to-day. Special Features: 4K UHD release, new interviews with Brooks and actor Frances Lee McCain, a 3D trailer directed by Brooks, and more [Mother]( A twice-divorced, struggling sci-fi novelist (Albert Brooks) resolves to figure out where his life went wrong, and hits on an unorthodox solution: moving back in with his relentlessly disapproving, cheerfully passive-aggressive mother (Debbie Reynolds). Special Features: 4K UHD release, new interviews with Brooks and actor Rob Morrow, a teaser directed by Brooks, and more For further information on Criterion and our products, please visit our website at [criterion.com.]( To start streaming the Criterion Channel, please visit [criterionchannel.com.]( If you are not already on our mailing list and would like to be added, please [click here]( to register at [criterion.com.]( To unsubscribe, [click here.]( © 2024 The Criterion Collection :: 215 Park Ave S. New York, NY 10003