APRIL 7, 2026
GILDA
United States • 1946 • 110 minutes • Black & White • 1.37:1 • English • Directed by Charles Vidor
SPINE #795
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“Gilda, are you decent?” Rita Hayworth tosses her hair back and slyly responds, “Me?” in one of the great star entrances in movie history. Gilda, directed by Charles Vidor, features a sultry Hayworth in her most iconic role, as the much-lusted-after wife of a criminal kingpin (George Macready), as well as the former flame of his bitter henchman (Glenn Ford), and she drives them both mad with desire and jealousy. An ever-shifting battle of the sexes set on a Buenos Aires casino’s glittering floor and in its shadowy back rooms, Gilda is among the most sensual of all Hollywood noirs.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary by film critic Richard Schickel
- Interview with film-noir historian Eddie Muller
- Program featuring filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Baz Luhrmann discussing their appreciation for Gilda
- “The Odyssey of Rita Hayworth,” a 1964 episode of the television show Hollywood and the Stars
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Plus: An essay by critic Sheila O’Malley
Cover by Jessica Hische and Eric Skillman
APRIL 14, 2026
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
United Kingdom • 1979 • 94 minutes • Color • 1.85:1 • English • Directed by Terry Jones
SPINE #61
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The anarchic irreverence of British comedy legends Monty Python is at its most inspired in this brilliant send-up of the blockbuster biblical epic. In a stable in ancient Jerusalem, a child is born—a child who will grow up to be . . . Brian (Graham Chapman), an ordinary Judean who goes on to live an extraordinary life, becoming entangled in a plot to overthrow the Roman empire and being mistaken for the Messiah, among other unlikely events. Featuring ribald Roman puns, sharp political commentary, and an audacious crucifixion-themed musical number, the Pythons’ most ambitious film is a hilarious satire of dogma and blind faith in which nothing is sacred.
PYTHON-APPROVED 4K-UHD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised by Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the special features
- Two audio commentaries featuring Pythons Gilliam, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin
- The Story of Brian (2007), a making-of documentary
- The Pythons (1979), a documentary about Monty Python filmed on location for Life of Brian
- Behind-the-scenes Super 8 film shot by Palin
- Five deleted scenes with commentary by the Pythons
- Original British radio ads starring Mrs. Cleese, Mrs. Gilliam, Mrs. Idle, and Palin’s dentist
- Original illustrated recording by the Pythons of an early version of their screenplay
- Animated stills gallery
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri
Cover based on an original theatrical poster by Terry Gilliam
APRIL 14, 2026
Trouble in Paradise
United States • 1932 • 82 minutes • Black & White • 1.37:1 • English • Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
SPINE #170
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Ernst Lubitsch’s famed touch is on exquisite display in this sexy pre-Code jewel, glittering with witty innuendo and elegant comic invention. It’s love at first swindle when high-society thief Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall) and pickpocket Lily Vautier (Miriam Hopkins) cross paths amid the canals of Venice while attempting to con each other—and then it’s off to Paris, where the pair meet their match in their latest mark, the très chic Madame Colet (Kay Francis), whose fabulous fortune is exceeded only by her powers of seduction. With its delightfully risqué dialogue, swoonworthy couture, and high deco style, Trouble in Paradise is a pinnacle of comic-romantic sophistication that fizzes like the finest champagne.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring Scott Eyman, biographer of director Ernst Lubitsch
- Introduction by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
- New video essay by critic David Cairns
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme
New cover by Simone Massoni
APRIL 21, 2026
Point Blank
United States • 1967 • 92 minutes • Color • 2.35:1 • English • Directed by John Boorman
SPINE #1306
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Director John Boorman brought the gangster drama into new realms of modernist abstraction with this stylized revenge thriller, which transforms hard-edged pulp into a kaleidoscopic psychological puzzle. Lee Marvin is iconically cool as the enigmatic Walker, who, after he’s betrayed and left for dead by his best friend during a robbery, embarks on a brutal quest for vengeance, aided by a jaded ex-moll (a sensational Angie Dickinson) who has her own complex motives for helping him. Capturing Los Angeles locales with a surreal pop-art eye, Boorman locates the existential dread lurking beneath the city’s sunlit surface.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director John Boorman, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring Boorman and filmmaker Steven Soderbergh
- Interview with Boorman conducted by author Geoff Dyer
- New interview with critic Mark Harris
- New reflections on the film by filmmaker Jim Jarmusch
- New program on the midcentury Los Angeles architecture featured in the film, with historian Alison Martino
- The Rock (1967), a short documentary on Alcatraz and the making of the film
- Interview with Marvin from a 1970 episode of The Dick Cavett Show
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by Dyer
New cover by Jay Shaw
APRIL 21, 2026
Resurrection
China, France • 2025 • 159 minutes • Color • 1.33:1, 1:85:1, 2.39:1 • Mandarin • Directed by Bi Gan
CRITERION
PREMIERE
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With his ravishing third feature, visionary director Bi Gan takes his deepest plunge yet into the realm of pure dreamscape. In a world where humans have forsaken dreams in exchange for immortality, a dreaming monster (Jackson Yee) embarks on a shape-shifting odyssey through illusion, beauty, and terror that takes him across a century of cinema and to the end of time. Unfolding in five dazzlingly imagined chapters that encompass everything from silent-era expressionism to film noir to a delirious vampire love story shot in one of Bi’s signature long takes, Resurrection is a work of breathtaking imagination in which cinema is the ultimate portal to the unconscious mind.
INCLUDES
- Meet the Filmmakers: Bi Gan, a Criterion Channel original interview
- Trailer
- Notes by film critic Siddhant Adlakha
APRIL 28, 2026
John Singleton’s Hood Trilogy
(Boyz n the Hood / Poetic Justice / Baby Boy)
United States • 1991-2001 • 112/109/130 minutes • Color • 1.85:1 • English • Directed by John Singleton
SPINE #1307
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With his electrifying debut feature, Boyz n the Hood, John Singleton brought his South Central Los Angeles community to the screen with a bracing immediacy that rocked 1990s American cinema and popular culture. Poetic Justice and Baby Boy completed what the director considered his Hood Trilogy, a series of richly nuanced films that constitute a dramatic universe all their own. Featuring remarkable performances from supernova talents like Cuba Gooding Jr., Angela Bassett, Regina King, Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, and Taraji P. Henson, these indelible tales of urban life explore the experience of growing up Black and searching for one’s place in the world.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 4K digital restoration of Boyz n the Hood, supervised and approved by director John Singleton, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack and alternate Dolby Atmos soundtrack
- New 4K digital restorations of Poetic Justice (with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack) and Baby Boy (with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack)
- In the 4K UHD edition: Three 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the special features
- Audio commentaries on all three films featuring Singleton
- New conversation between filmmakers Ryan Coogler and Regina King
- New documentary on Singleton’s filmmaking process featuring publicist Cassandra Butcher, casting director Kimberly Hardin, and collaborator Paul Hall
- New audio interviews with actors Taraji P. Henson and Tyrese Gibson
- Archival interviews with cast and crew
- Press conference from 1991
- Deleted scenes, audition footage, music videos, and trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Julian Kimble
New cover by Ngabo “El’Cesart” Desire Cesar
APRIL 28, 2026
Eclipse Series 48: Kinuyo Tanaka Directs
(Love Letter / The Moon Has Risen / Forever A Woman / The Wandering Princess /
Girls Of The Night / Love Under The Crucifix)
Japan • 1953-1962 • 98/102/110/102/92/101 minutes • Color/Black and White • 1.37:1/2.39:1 • Japanese • Directed by Kinuyo Tanaka
| 3-DISC BLU-RAY SET |
Kinuyo Tanaka was already one of Japan’s greatest actors—celebrated for her collaborations with auteurs such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Mikio Naruse—when she took a brave leap by embarking on a directing career in a studio system that actively discouraged female filmmakers. The six features she made over the course of a decade center on women characters who refuse to conform to restrictive roles as they seek independence. With compassion and insight, Tanaka critiques the social conditions and forces that shape her heroines’ struggles: sex work and social shaming, the expectation of passively entering arranged marriages, taboos surrounding illness and the female body, imperialism, and religious persecution and forbidden love.
Special Features
- An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith
