Pina: Criterion Collection

More than 20 years in the making, Pina (2011) was originally conceived by filmmaker Wim Wenders as a documentary about famous choreographer and dancer Pina Bausch. However, he couldn’t figure out how to translate the artistry and elegance of the performers... 

Comic Book Confidential: 20th Anniversary Edition

Often regarded as just for kids, comic books finally gained a modicum of respectability in the mid to late 1980s with the rise in popularity of titles like Watchmen, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Maus to name but only a few. Harlan Ellison’s seminal... 

And Everything Is Going Fine: Criterion Collection

American actor and playwright Spalding Gray died in 2004 and was widely considered to be one of the greatest monologists ever to tackle the medium. He is primarily known for his four films that depict monologues about various topics but chief among them,... 

Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel

The rise and fall and redemptive arcs of rock musicians are the stuff that MTV Behind the Music specials are made of. You know the drill: a musician works their way up to dizzying heights of fame and fortune; they blow their money on any number of vices;... 

Mandelson: The Real PM?

The politically notorious Peter Mandelson is known as the Prince of Darkness, and former party leader Neil Kinnock once claimed that those who called Mandelson ‘Labour’s evil genius’ were only half right. So, who is the real man beneath the Machiavellian... 

On Any Sunday

As a youngster, the revered director of surf movies, Bruce Brown, was inspired to get his first bike by Steve McQueen’s motorcycle memorable scenes in The Great Escape. Brown turned to the sport of motorcycle racing in 1971. This quintessential motorcycle... 

The Royal Wedding Celebration

ITV Studios Home Entertainment wasted no time in releasing The Royal Wedding, following the laudable royal nuptials on 29 April 2011. It is bound to be a real crowd pleaser on the back of the months’ worth of anticipation preceding and surrounding the... 

The Times of Harvey Milk: Criterion Collection

With the release of Gus Van Sant’s superb biopic Milk (2008), which featured an Academy Award-winning performance by Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, there was renewed interest in the inspiring human rights activist and one of the earliest openly gay American... 

Crumb: Criterion Collection

Underground comic book artist Robert Crumb rose to prominence in the 1960s thanks to the creation of popular characters like Mr. Natural and Fritz the Cat, his most famous character (much to his chagrin). Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff knew Crumb personally... 

Louie Bluie: Criterion Collection

Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff got his start making documentaries and Louie Bluie (1985) was his first film. In the mid-1970s, he worked at the Department of Social Services in San Francisco and during his off-hours played in the Cheap Suit Serenaders, a band... 

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