April releases from the Criterion Collection

Our April Releases

We are extending the Criterion store price of 30% off SRP through May 31 on all in-stock and upcoming releases.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Wes Anderson brings his dry wit and visual inventiveness to this exquisite caper set amid the old-world splendor of Europe between the world wars, gathering an all-star ensemble that includes Ralph Fiennes, Adrien Brody, Saoirse Ronan, Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Mathieu Amalric, Tilda Swinton, and Bill Murray.

Special Features: Audio commentary with Anderson, interviews with the cast and crew, storyboard animatics, and more

Me and You and Everyone We Know

Playful and profoundly transgressive, Miranda July’s startling debut feature is a comedy like no other, offering a compassionate, poetic look at the tortuous routes we take to intimacy in an isolating world.

Special Features: Short films by July, a new documentary featuring a conversation between July and filmmaker Lena Dunham, footage from the Sundance Directors Lab, deleted scenes, and more

The Cremator

One of cinema’s most trenchant and disturbing portraits of the banality of evil, Czechoslovak New Wave iconoclast Juraj Herz’s expressionistic black comedy stars Rudolf Hrušínský as a pathologically morbid crematorium manager recruited by the Nazis in 1930s Prague.

Special Features: A short film by Herz; interviews with Herz, Hrušínský, and film programmer Irena Kovarova; and a documentary about composer Zdeněk Liška

Destry Rides Again

Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart ride high in this superb comedic western, an irresistible, oft-imitated marvel of studio-era craftsmanship in which Dietrich shed her exotic love-goddess image and Stewart cemented his amiable everyman persona.

Special Features: Interviews with director George Marshall, critic Imogen Sara Smith, and James Stewart biographer Donald Dewey and a 1945 radio adaptation of the film

Army of Shadows

The most personal film by the underworld poet Jean-Pierre Melville, this tragic masterpiece recounts the struggles and sacrifices of those who fought in the French Resistance, channeling the director’s exquisite minimalism to create an unsparing tale of defiance in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

Special Features: Interviews with the cast and crew, the 1944 documentary Le journal de la Résistance, on-set footage, and more

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