Criterion Collection Releases for May 2009

#470 is John Huston's film adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's first novel of the same name, Wise Blood (1979). A young Brad Dourif plays Hazel Motes.



#471, 472, 473, 474 constitute Pigs, Pimps, & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura. The 3 films are Pigs and Battleships (1962), The Insect Woman (1963), and Intentions of Murder (1964).


Imamura also directed Criterion #207, The Pornographers (1966) and Criterion #384, Vengeance Is Mine (1979)


#475 is The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1974), directed by Peter Yates.

Picking Up Where I Left Off...

First Thing's First: Criterion Releases announced for this coming April...

#466 is Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses (1976)



#467 is another film by Oshima, Empire of Passion (1978)



#468 (this one looks particularly interesting to me) is Science is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé



#469 is Stephen Frears' The Hit, a little-known film with a tremendous cast: Terence Stamp, Tim Roth, and John Hurt