The Criterion Collection and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment are delighted to confirm the titles to be released on Blu-ray in June 2022.
On 13th June comes DEAD MAN, JIM JARMUSCH's first period piece. Jarmusch imagined the nineteenth-century American West as an existential wasteland, delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization, the country's legacy of violence and prejudice, and the natural cycle of life and death.
Following on 27th June, OUSMANE SEMBÈNE BLACK GIRL. The film follows a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally. It's a complex layered critique of the lingering colonialist mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world.
Also on 27th June arrives SHAFT. A vivid time capsule of seventies Manhattan in all its gritty glory, the film has inspired sequels and multimedia reboots galore, the original Shaft is studded with indelible elements - from Roundtree's sleek leather fashions to the iconic funk and soul score by ISAAC HAYES.