Criterion Announces March Releases
HomeCriterion Announces March Releases
Posted December 15, 2025 07:18 PM by Webmaster
The Criterion Collection has announced its March batch of 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray releases. They are: The Big Risk a.k.a. Classe tous risques (1960), Testament (1983), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), The Blade (1995), Viridiana (1961), and A Man and a Woman (1966).
The Big Risk a.k.a. Classe tous risques 4K Blu-ray
Description: After hiding out in Milan for nearly a decade, fugitive gangland chief Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) sneaks back to Paris with his children, despite a death sentence hanging over his head. Accompanied by appointed guardian Eric Stark (Jean-Paul Belmondo, fresh off his star turn in Breathless) and beset by backstabbing former friends, Abel begins a throat-grabbing, soul-searching journey through the postwar Parisian underworld. A character study of a career criminal at the end of his rope, this rugged noir from Claude Sautet is a highlight of 1960s French cinema.
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Testament
Desciption: Taking a hauntingly intimate approach to an often sensationalized subject, the singular Testament depicts one family's daily life in the wake of nuclear devastation. After an atomic attack near her small California town, Carol Wetherly (Jane Alexander, in a fearlessly vulnerable, Oscar-nominated performance) must find the strength to care for her three children as the family contend with radiation sickness and the realization that their close-knit community will never be the same. With a diaristic focus on the emotional toll of unimaginable events, director Lynne Littman puts forth a wrenchingly humane vision of what it means to go on living in a shattered world.
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Killers of the Flower Moon 4K Blu-ray
Description: An epic elegy of greed, betrayal, and murder, Martin Scorsese's masterly adaptation of David Grann's true-crime best seller unfolds in 1920s Oklahoma, where the discovery of oil brings extraordinary wealth to the Osage people. Into their world comes ne'er-do-well army veteran Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), who joins his duplicitous uncle (Robert De Niro) in a horrifying scheme to rob the Osage of their money and land. Lily Gladstone charges the film with her transcendent performance as Burkhart's Osage wife, Mollie Kyle, gradually awakening to the evil that surrounds her. With Killers of the Flower Moon, Scorsese brings a dark chapter of American history to the screen with gripping narrative power and a profound feeling for the weight of systemic injustice.
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The Blade 4K Blu-ray
Description: Among the boldest accomplishments of Hong Kong cinema's golden age, this uniquely visceral martial-arts movie puts a gritty new spin on the story of the one-armed swordsman, an iconic figure from the moment he was introduced by the Shaw Brothers studio in 1967. Composed in a whirlwind of immersive close-ups and fractured editing, The Blade follows the young sword-maker Ding On (Vincent Zhao), who, after losing an arm in an ambush, transforms himself into a furious avenger. With its intentionally disorienting stylization and starkly brutal tone, The Blade was a rare commercial disappointment for Tsui Hark, but it has since been reclaimed as one of the director's most radical visions—a tour de force of action expressionism, and a scathing reappraisal of the wuxia genre's code of masculinity, that achieves a feverish intensity.
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Viridiana 4K Blu-ray
Description: Banned in Spain and denounced by the Vatican upon its premiere, Luis Buñuel's irreverent vision of life as a beggar's banquet is regarded by many as his masterpiece. In it, novice nun Viridiana (Silvia Pinal) does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle (Fernando Rey) and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, Viridiana is as audacious today as ever.
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A Man and a Woman
Description: Claude Lelouch's Academy Award–winning international sensation is a paragon of swooning cinematic romanticism and 1960s chic. Against the rain-swept backdrop of the Normandy coast, two widowed single parents—race-car driver Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and film-script supervisor Anne (Anouk Aimée)—find themselves falling for each other. But are they ready to move on from the shadows of their former lovers? Reveling in its stars' chemistry and unfolding as a sublime swirl of shifting film stocks, whirling camera work, and time- and space-collapsing editing—all set to Francis Lai's unforgettable score—A Man and a Woman endures as one of the most intoxicating love stories ever told.
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The Big Risk a.k.a. Classe tous risques 4K Blu-ray
Description: After hiding out in Milan for nearly a decade, fugitive gangland chief Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) sneaks back to Paris with his children, despite a death sentence hanging over his head. Accompanied by appointed guardian Eric Stark (Jean-Paul Belmondo, fresh off his star turn in Breathless) and beset by backstabbing former friends, Abel begins a throat-grabbing, soul-searching journey through the postwar Parisian underworld. A character study of a career criminal at the end of his rope, this rugged noir from Claude Sautet is a highlight of 1960s French cinema.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- Excerpts from Claude Sautet, ou La magie invisible, a 2003 documentary on the director by N. T. Binh and Dominique Rabourdin
- Interview with Classe tous risques novelist and coscreenwriter José Giovanni
- Archival interview footage featuring actor Lino Ventura discussing his career<
- Trailers
- PLUS: Essays by filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier and Binh, a reprinted interview with Sautet, and a 1962 tribute by Jean-Pierre Melville
Testament
Desciption: Taking a hauntingly intimate approach to an often sensationalized subject, the singular Testament depicts one family's daily life in the wake of nuclear devastation. After an atomic attack near her small California town, Carol Wetherly (Jane Alexander, in a fearlessly vulnerable, Oscar-nominated performance) must find the strength to care for her three children as the family contend with radiation sickness and the realization that their close-knit community will never be the same. With a diaristic focus on the emotional toll of unimaginable events, director Lynne Littman puts forth a wrenchingly humane vision of what it means to go on living in a shattered world.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION, supervised and approved by director Lynne Littman and director of photography Steven Poster, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New conversation between Littman and author Sam Wasson
- Two documentaries by Littman, made in collaboration with anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff: Number Our Days (1976) and In Her Own Time (1985)
- "Testament" at 20 and Nuclear Thoughts, archival programs featuring interviews with cast and crew members and nuclear-science experts
- Audio recording of actor Jane Alexander reading the short story "The Last Testament," on which the film is based
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author and film curator Michael Koresky
Killers of the Flower Moon 4K Blu-ray
Description: An epic elegy of greed, betrayal, and murder, Martin Scorsese's masterly adaptation of David Grann's true-crime best seller unfolds in 1920s Oklahoma, where the discovery of oil brings extraordinary wealth to the Osage people. Into their world comes ne'er-do-well army veteran Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), who joins his duplicitous uncle (Robert De Niro) in a horrifying scheme to rob the Osage of their money and land. Lily Gladstone charges the film with her transcendent performance as Burkhart's Osage wife, Mollie Kyle, gradually awakening to the evil that surrounds her. With Killers of the Flower Moon, Scorsese brings a dark chapter of American history to the screen with gripping narrative power and a profound feeling for the weight of systemic injustice.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K MASTER, approved by director Martin Scorsese, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack
- DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- New documentary featuring Scorsese, actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone, author David Grann, Osage Nation Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear, Osage cultural consultant John Williams, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, and other members of the cast and crew
- "WahZhaZhe": A Song for the Osage, a new documentary illuminating the film's final shot, featuring Scorsese, Chief Standing Bear, and six members of the Osage Nation
- Excerpted archival interview with director of photography Rodrigo Prieto
- Excerpts from the 2023 Cannes Film Festival press conference featuring Scorsese, DiCaprio, Gladstone, Chief Standing Bear, and actor Robert De Niro
- Short program on Noah Kemohah's cover art
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing and English descriptive audio
- PLUS: Essays by critic Vinson Cunningham and film programmer Adam Piron
The Blade 4K Blu-ray
Description: Among the boldest accomplishments of Hong Kong cinema's golden age, this uniquely visceral martial-arts movie puts a gritty new spin on the story of the one-armed swordsman, an iconic figure from the moment he was introduced by the Shaw Brothers studio in 1967. Composed in a whirlwind of immersive close-ups and fractured editing, The Blade follows the young sword-maker Ding On (Vincent Zhao), who, after losing an arm in an ambush, transforms himself into a furious avenger. With its intentionally disorienting stylization and starkly brutal tone, The Blade was a rare commercial disappointment for Tsui Hark, but it has since been reclaimed as one of the director's most radical visions—a tour de force of action expressionism, and a scathing reappraisal of the wuxia genre's code of masculinity, that achieves a feverish intensity.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- New audio commentary featuring Hong Kong cinema expert and producer Frank Djeng
- Action et vérité (2006), a documentary featuring director Tsui Hark, coscreenwriter Koan Hui, and actor Xiong Xin-xin
- New video essay by filmmakers Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou (Every Frame a Painting)
- New York Asian Film Festival Q&A with Tsui from 2011
- Alternate English-dubbed track
- English-version opening and end credits
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by author Lisa Morton
Viridiana 4K Blu-ray
Description: Banned in Spain and denounced by the Vatican upon its premiere, Luis Buñuel's irreverent vision of life as a beggar's banquet is regarded by many as his masterpiece. In it, novice nun Viridiana (Silvia Pinal) does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle (Fernando Rey) and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, Viridiana is as audacious today as ever.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATION, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Interviews with actor Silvia Pinal and film scholar Richard Porton
- Excerpts from a 1964 episode of Cinéastes de notre temps on director Luis Buñuel's early career
- Trailer
- Plus: An essay by film scholar Michael Wood and an interview with Buñuel
A Man and a Woman
Description: Claude Lelouch's Academy Award–winning international sensation is a paragon of swooning cinematic romanticism and 1960s chic. Against the rain-swept backdrop of the Normandy coast, two widowed single parents—race-car driver Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and film-script supervisor Anne (Anouk Aimée)—find themselves falling for each other. But are they ready to move on from the shadows of their former lovers? Reveling in its stars' chemistry and unfolding as a sublime swirl of shifting film stocks, whirling camera work, and time- and space-collapsing editing—all set to Francis Lai's unforgettable score—A Man and a Woman endures as one of the most intoxicating love stories ever told.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 2K RESTORATION, supervised and approved by director Claude Lelouch, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New interview with Lelouch
- Making-of documentary shot on location
- Archival footage of Lelouch at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival
- C'était un rendez-vous (1976), a short film by Lelouch, with a new introduction by the director
- Trailers
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Carrie Rickey
