May releases from the Criterion Collection

THE CRITERION COLLECTION MAY 30, 2023 Our May Releases [Wings of Desire]( Made not long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, director Wim Wenders’s stunning tapestry of sounds and images, shot in black and white and color by the legendary Henri Alekan, is one of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies. Special Features: 4K UHD release with a new restoration of the film; audio commentary featuring Wenders and actor Peter Falk; an interview with Alekan; deleted scenes and outtakes; and more [Branded to Kill]( Japanese New Wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki is at his most extreme with this brutal, hilarious, and visually inspired masterpiece about a yakuza assassin (superstar Joe Shishido) who botches a job and ends up a target himself. Special Features: 4K UHD release with a new restoration of the film; interviews with Suzuki, Shishido, and assistant director Masami Kuzuu; and more [Targets]( Peter Bogdanovich’s provocative, chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as an aging horror-movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Special Features: Audio commentary and an introduction to the film by Bogdanovich; a new interview with filmmaker Richard Linklater; an audio interview with production designer Polly Platt; and more [Petite maman]( In this delicate, quietly miraculous fable about grief, family, and connection across generations, director Céline Sciamma evokes childhood’s perpetual state of wonder through luminous, richly textured images. Special Features: A new conversation between Sciamma and filmmaker Joachim Trier; My Life as a Zucchini (2016), a stop-motion animated film directed by Claude Barras and cowritten by Sciamma; and more [Thelma & Louise]( Screenwriter Callie Khouri and action auteur Ridley Scott rewrote the rules of the road movie with this pop-culture landmark starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis as best friends transformed into accidental fugitives. Special Features: Audio commentaries featuring Khouri, Scott, Sarandon, and Davis; new interviews with Khouri and Scott; storyboards and deleted and extended scenes; a music video; 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.]( © 2023 The Criterion Collection :: 215 Park Ave S. New York, NY 10003