Clayton Dillardġ00 Years of Olympic Films: 1912-2012, The Criterion CollectionĬriterion’s output has come to be known over the years as “film school in a box” by fans and filmmakers alike. (Our only regret before compiling our list of the year’s best Blu-ray and DVD releases is that we didn’t get a chance to check out Synapse Films’s new 4K restoration and steelbook Blu-ray of Suspiria, which sold out mere days after it became available for preorders online.) If the booming industry of boutique home-video distribution trends in the same upward direction in 2018, we’ll all need personal assistants just to keep track. And elsewhere, smaller distributors like Kino Lorber, Olive Films, Flicker Alley, Twilight Time, Cohen Media Group, and Blue Underground, when not giving a necessary makeover to classics already in their impressive libraries, brought under-heralded films by our greatest auteurs and criminally unseen works by cinema’s pioneers to home video for the first time. Arrow Video officially cemented its status as a titan of home-video restoration and distribution with a wide array of discs-many released under their Arrow Academy label-devoted to bringing genre works to greater prominence. The Criterion Collection capped one of their most exciting and prolific years to date with the release of 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912-2012, a box set for the ages that spans 53 films and 41 editions of the Olympic Games. In 2017, keeping up with all of the notable Blu-ray and DVD premieres became a full-time job.
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