Criterion Newsletter: Tarkovsky’s inferno, Albert Brooks’s America, and more

The Criterion Collection July 2017 This month, our summer journeys took us to the postapocalyptic wasteland of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker and the Reagan-era heartland of Albert Brooks’s Lost in America. Also new: Robert Bresson’s final masterpiece, L’argent, and a Blu-ray upgrade of Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy. [New Releases]( [L’argent »]( [Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy »]( [Stalker »]( [Lost in America »]( [Coming Soon]( [Meantime »]( [Hopscotch »]( [The Breaking Point »]( [La poison »]( [Sid & Nancy »]( [Just Announced]( [Barry Lyndon »]( [Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me »]( [Personal Shopper »]( [The Lure »]( [Othello »]( [Vampyr »]( [Flashback: Jeanne Moreau]( Today we mourn the passing of one of French cinema’s most iconic actresses. In a tribute we published last year, critic Peter Cowie looks back on her eight-decade career and her collaborations with masters such as Louis Malle and Orson Welles. [The crime thrillers of Yoshitaro Nomura »]( [L’argent: The Weight of the World »]( [The Taviani brothers on Roberto Rossellini »]( [Joshua Z Weinstein’s Top 10]( With his debut narrative feature, the Sundance hit Menashe, now playing in theaters, director Joshua Z Weinstein shares a list of some of his favorite titles in our collection, including works by Satyajit Ray, Spike Lee, and Vittorio De Sica. [Breaking Ground: A Conversation with Donna Deitch]( Ahead of our rerelease of Desert Hearts, we spoke with the film’s director about this trailblazing work of LGBT cinema and its refreshingly modern twist on the Hollywood love story. [Geoff Dyer on the miracle of Stalker »]( [Amy Wright goes wild in Wise Blood »]( [Lost in America with Albert Brooks »]( [Adventures in Moviegoing]( On the Criterion Channel at FilmStruck, Academy Award–winning director and animator Brad Bird (Ratatouille, The Incredibles) chats about falling in love with cinema and curates a series of six favorite films. If you haven’t checked out our streaming home, sign up for [a free 14-day trial!]( [Dark Passages: Fatal Women and the Fate of Women]( [Stalker is now on iTunes!]( [Join us on Facebook »]( [Follow us on Twitter »]( [Forward to a friend »]( For further information on Criterion and our products, please visit our website at [Criterion.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.]( © 2017 The Criterion Collection.