The titles included within the Criterion April 2025 lineup have been introduced, together with Sean Baker’s Anora. The comedy-drama, which starred Mikey Madison because the titular intercourse employee, obtained favorable field workplace numbers regardless of the restricted theatrical run final 12 months.
The Anora 4K UHD + Blu-ray particular version will likely be coming into the Criterion assortment on April 29, 2025. The particular options embrace audio commentaries with the forged and crew, a brand new making-of documentary, interviews with the director and Madison, some deleted scenes, and extra.
The movie revolves round Anora, an erotic dancer and intercourse employee from Brooklyn who all of a sudden will get a one-in-a-lifetime probability at a fairytale story when she meets and ultimately marries a younger Russian consumer named Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn). However when Ivan’s oligarch household from Russia finds out about their marriage, they cease at nothing to get it annulled, threatening Anora’s Cinderella story.
Criterion described Anora as “a whirlwind neorealist screwball comedy with an aching coronary heart.” The characteristic has earned a number of nominations from numerous award-giving our bodies, together with Gotham Awards, Movie Impartial Spirit Awards, Critics Alternative Awards, and Golden Globe. The director additionally bagged the Palme d’Or award on the 2024 Cannes Movie Competition.
Anora additionally stars Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Aleksei Serebryakov, Darya Ekamasova, Lindsey Normington, and extra.
What are the films included within the Criterion April 2025 lineup?
Along with Anora, different films included in Criterion’s April 2025 lineup are Kenji Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu (out on April 1), Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Scorching (April 8), Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Specific (April 15), Claude Berri’s Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring (April 22), Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat (April 29), and Baker’s 2008 drama movie Prince of Broadway (April 29).
You possibly can take a look at Criterion’s official web site for extra particulars and see the Criterion poster for Anora down under:
