The Criterion Collection has revealed its January releases which will include Trainspotting, Lone Star, The Apu Trilogy, and more.
The Big Picture Cinephiles and collectors heads up, Criterion Collection is adding some gems to its collection come the new year. This has been a good year for movie buffs as the distribution company added an array of modern classics, and restored fan favorites from around the world. January 2024 won’t be any different as Criterion adds features like Trainspotting, Lone Star, Mudbound, and more to its collection.
Kicking things off in January is Indian cinema legend Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy, the movies follow a young free-spirited boy, Apu, from Bengal and chronicles his life as he matures into an adolescent student and, finally, a sensitive family man navigating the world – across three films. Shot over five years, the story which starts with the movie Pather Panchali which puts the trilogy on a radiant journey.
Coming up next is Joel and Ethan Coen’s directorial debut Blood Simple, the 1984 film follows a detective hired by a saloon owner to kill his younger wife and her bartender lover. However, the detective has his own agenda. The movie features John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, and M. Emmet Walsh in leading roles and was a critical hit cementing the foundation of the Coen brothers’ eerie work in years to come.
'Lone Star' and 'Chantal Akerman Masterpieces' Will be Included in the Upcoming Collection Available from mid-January is John Sayles’ neo-western mystery Lone Star which follows lawman Sam Deeds , who investigates a skeleton found in the desert, however, things change when the investigation starts taking a toll on his personal life and on all of Rio County, a place still coming to terms with its history of racial violence.
Also, Criterion's upcoming release will include the full collection of Chantal Akerman Masterpieces, 1968–1978, writer-director Dee Rees’ Mudbound, and Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting. You can pre-order the January collection here.
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