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Last Hurrah for Chivalry, one of the first feature films from action maestro John Woo, just recently got added to the Criterion Collection. The good folks at Criterion sent me a copy of the film to check out. Before he became known as the master of the bullet-riddled heroic tragedy, John Woo sharpened his trademark themes and kinetic action choreography with 1979’s Last Hurrah for Chivalry. Unaware they are caught in a deadly game of…

Krzysztof Kieślowski’s 1994 landmark trilogy, Three Colors, recently got a 4k release. The good folks at Criterion sent me a copy of the box set to check out. From Krzysztof Kieślowski comes the Three Colors trilogy, a defining event of the art-house boom of the 1990s. The films are named for the colors of the French flag and stand for the tenets of the French Revolution—liberty, equality, and fraternity—but that hardly begins to explain their…

John M. Stahl’s 1934 melodrama Imitation of Life is the latest film to enter the Criterion Collection. The good folks at Criterion sent me a copy to check out. Adapted from Fannie Hurst’s 1933 novel of the same name, the film looks at the friendship between two struggling single mothers: Beatrice (Claudette Colbert) a working-class white woman, and Delilah {Louise Beavers), her Black housekeeper and closest friend. The two open up a successful pancake shop…