September releases from the Criterion Collection

A four-film tribute to Melvin Van Peebles, a 2000s coming-of-age romance, and an homage to judo and Kurosawa THE CRITERION COLLECTION SEPTEMBER 28, 2021 Our September Releases [Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films]( This four-film collection pays tribute to the late renegade genius Melvin Van Peebles, whose caustic social observation, radical formal innovation, and uncompromising vision established a new cinematic model for Black creative independence. Special Features: Extensive interviews with Van Peebles; conversations featuring filmmakers, scholars, and Van Peebles’s son Mario Van Peebles; three short films by Van Peebles; and more. [Mona Lisa]( The brilliant breakthrough film by writer-director Neil Jordan is a noir-infused love story set in the dark heart of the London underworld, starring Bob Hoskins, Michael Caine, and Cathy Tyson. Special Features: Audio commentary by Jordan and Hoskins, a conversation with Jordan and Tyson moderated by critic Ryan Gilbey, and more. [Love & Basketball]( Sparks fly both on and off the court in this groundbreaking feature debut by writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood, starring Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps, who make for one of the most iconic screen couples of the 2000s. Special Features: Audio commentaries by Prince-Bythewood, Lathan, and composer Terence Blanchard; a new making-of documentary featuring Prince-Bythewood, Lathan, Epps, and Alfre Woodard; deleted scenes; and more. [Throw Down]( One of the most personal films by the prolific Hong Kong auteur Johnnie To is a thrilling love letter to both the cinema of Akira Kurosawa and the art of judo, set amid the neon-drenched nightclubs and gambling dens of Hong Kong’s nocturnal underworld. Special Features: An interview with To; a short documentary featuring To and actors Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok, Cherrie Ying, and Tony Leung Ka-fai; and more. [The Damned]( Iconoclastic auteur Luchino Visconti’s deliriously stylized, savagely subversive film chronicles the wealthy industrialist von Essenbeck family as it descends into self-destruction in the wake of Hitler’s ascent to power. Special Features: Interview with Visconti from 1970; alternate Italian-language soundtrack; interviews with actors Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, and Charlotte Rampling; 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.]( © 2021 The Criterion Collection :: 215 Park Ave S. New York, NY 10003