May 2020. releases from the Criterion Collection

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Our May Releases

Husbands

By turns painfully funny and woundingly perceptive, this “comedy about life, death, and freedom” by the trailblazing independent auteur John Cassavetes stands as perhaps the most fearless, harrowingly honest deconstruction of American manhood ever committed to film.

Special Features: Audio commentary with critic Marshall Fine, a new video essay by Daniel Raim, interviews with the cast and crew, and more.

Dance, Girl, Dance

Dorothy Arzner, the sole woman to work as a director in the Hollywood studio system of the 1930s and early ’40s, brings a subversive feminist sensibility to this juicily entertaining backstage melodrama starring Maureen O’Hara and Lucille Ball.

Special Features: A new introduction by critic B. Ruby Rich and a new interview with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola.

Scorsese Shorts

Touching on many of Martin Scorsese’s key themes—Italian American identity, family, his beloved New York City—these early short films are hilarious, candid, and illuminating works from the pre­eminent American filmmaker of our time.

Special Features: A new conversation between Scorsese and critic Farran Smith Nehme, a discussion among filmakers Ari Aster and Josh and Benny Safdie, and a 1970 radio interview with Scorsese.

The Great Escape

An all-star cast led by Steve McQueen, the expert direction of John Sturges, Elmer Bernstein’s eminently hummable score, and an exhilarating true story come together in what may just be the most spectacularly entertaining prison-break movie of all time.

Special Features: Two audio commentaries, documentaries on the true story behind the film, a new interview with critic Michael Sragow, and more.

Wildlife

Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal star in Paul Dano’s remarkable directorial debut, a coming-of-age story that poignantly illuminates the complex ways in which families function, fall apart, and find their way.

Special Features: New interviews with the cast and crew, a program on the film’s postproduction, and a 2018 conversation between Dano and author Richard Ford.

Six Moral Tales

Now on Blu-ray: Eric Rohmer’s audacious and wildly influential series Six Moral Tales was one of the greatest triumphs of the French New Wave, unleashing a voice that was at once sexy, philosophical, modern, daring, nonjudgmental, and liberating.

Special Features: Interviews and conversations with cast and crew members, short films by Rohmer, and more.

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