Criterion movies

The Criterion Collection has a new two disc version of the Third Man on the way. As this is my favorite movie, I am considering picking this up despite already owning the single disc Criterion edition. There is quite a bit of new content included related radio stories and documentaries. One fun feature in both editions is the ability to compare the British voiceover and the American one, performed by Joseph Cotten. I am a fan of Cotten, but the British intro is head and shoulders superior to his. Fans of the movie should read Philip Kerr's homage A German Requiem.

Criterion releases movies of historical import and one key trend of the 70s was the shocking art film. That has to include Sweet Movie, the description of which contains this line: Sweet Movie tackles the limits of personal and political freedom with kaleidoscopic feverishness, shuttling viewers from a gynecological beauty pageant to a grotesque food orgy with scatological, taboo-shattering glee.

I am most excited about Army of Shadows, a movie about the French Resistance in WW2.