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Charlie Chaplin, Wong Kar-wai & Arthur Penn from Criterion UK in April

4 February 2025

Spirit Entertainment has announced The Criterion Collection UHD and Blu-ray UK releases for April, which include Charlie Chaplin’s silent masterpiece A Woman of Paris, Wong Kar-wai classic Chunking Express, and Arthur Penn’s haunting neo-noir, Night Moves.

 

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A WOMAN OF PARIS (USA 1923)

Blu-ray | 7 April 2025

Remarkable for its psychological nuance and its boldly modern perspective on an independent woman’s search for fulfillment, Charlie Chaplin’s long-overlooked silent masterpiece A Woman of Paris is a revelation. Chaplin confounded 1923 audiences with this unexpected foray into serious drama, and by ceding the spotlight to his longtime screen partner Edna Purviance. She is captivating as the vivacious Marie St. Clair, a “woman of fate” who leaves behind her small-minded village for the glamour of Paris, where she finds herself at the center of a Jazz Age whirl of champagne soirees, luxurious pleasure-seeking, romance, and tragedy. Putting aside his Little Tramp persona, Chaplin’s second feature proved that, beyond being a comic genius, he was an artist of immense sensitivity and human understanding.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

  • New 4K digital restoration of the 1976 rerelease version, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack featuring a score composed by director Charlie Chaplin
  • Alternate score from 2005 created by conductor Timothy Brock, based on music by Chaplin, presented in uncompressed stereo
  • Introduction by Chaplin scholar David Robinson
  • New video essay by Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance
  • Chaplin Today: A Woman of Paris, featuring interviews with actor Liv Ullmann and filmmaker Michael Powell
  • Archive Commentary: About A Woman of Paris, a documentary by Arnold Lozano, managing director of Roy Export S.A.S.
  • Excerpts from an audio interview with Chaplin Studios cinematographer Roland Totheroh
  • Deleted shots from the original 1923 film
  • Archival footage
  • Trailers
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Pamela Hutchinson and notes by Brock on the 2005 score
  • New cover by Thomas Pittides

 

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CHUNKING EXPRESS (Hong Kong 1994)

4K UHD & Blu-ray | Blu-ray | 21 April 2025

The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung Chiu Wai), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out food stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works.

Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas & the Papas’ California Dreamin’ into tokens of romantic longing.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD & BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

  • 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, both supervised and approved by director Wong Kar Wai
  • [UHD ONLY] One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • Interview from 2002 with cinematographer Christopher Doyle
  • Episode of Moving Pictures from 1996 featuring interviews with Wong and Doyle
  • Deleted scenes
  • Trailer
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin
  • Cover by Sarah Habibi, based on an original design by Nessim Higson

 

Night Moves UHD cover art

NIGHT MOVES (USA 1975)

4K UHD | Blu-ray | 28 April 2025

Arthur Penn’s haunting neonoir reimagines the hard-boiled detective film for the disillusioned, paranoid 1970s. In one of his greatest performances, Gene Hackman oozes world-weary cynicism as a private investigator whose search for an actress’s missing daughter (Melanie Griffith) leads him from the Hollywood Hills to the Florida Keys, where he is pulled into a sordid family drama and a sinister conspiracy he can hardly grasp.

Bolstered by Alan Sharp’s genre-scrambling script and Dede Allen’s elliptical editing, the daringly labyrinthine Night Moves is a defining work of post-Watergate cinema—a silent scream of existential dread and moral decay whose legend has only grown with time.

4K UHD & BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

  • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • [UHD ONLY] One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • New audio commentary by Matthew Asprey Gear, author of Moseby Confidential
  • New audio interview with actor Jennifer Warren
  • Interview with director Arthur Penn from a 1975 episode of Cinema Showcase
  • Interview with Penn from the 1995 documentary Arthur Penn: A Love Affair with Film
  • The Day of the Director, a behind-the-scenes featurette
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Harris
  • New cover by Greg Manchess