Black Orpheus - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)

Black Orpheus - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign language film and the Cannes Film Festivals Palme dOr, Marcel Camus Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi fis across America

Hearts and Minds is an overwhelming emotional experience and the most important nonfiction film ever made about this devastating period in history

Here is Jack Nicholson at the height of his powers

chilli peppers and wild herbs

An ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan’s master of crime

cerebral talent

a new movement emerged from the chaos- one which preached hatred for politicians and love for the fatherland

Published on the much respected Belgian imprint Lannoo

in the year following its release the album came to define the emerging Britpop scene

and the jet set

Detailed captions and richly illustrated essays on the significance of photography in the context of Mondrian’s work make this book an extraordinary document of his time

Susan Sontag and Knut Ove Knausgaard are among those who come under her scrutiny

The Worldwide Classic about a tiny island and larger love