The March Criterion Collection Line Up Will Be 'Dreamy & Delirious'

2025 is here and it’s very COLD, things will get better especially in March. The Criterion Collection reveals it’s UK releases which they describe as ‘Dreamy & Delirious‘.

All things kick-off on 3rd March with Performance, starring Mick Jagger. This is considered his most magnetic narrative-film performance, from Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg. This visionary collaboration is a daringly transgressive, endlessly influential journey to the dark side of bohemia.

Following on 10th March, Gus Van Sant’s dreamy, drifty, deadpan second feature, Drugstore Cowboy arrives. The film cemented the director’s status as a preeminent poet of outsiderhood, capturing the zonked-out textures and almost surreal absurdity of a life lived fix to fix.

Finally on 24th March, Godzilla vs. Biollante is released. This second film of the Godzilla franchise’s 1980s resurgence showcased the towering beast for a new generation of fans and stands as a high point in the ever-evolving mythology of the King of the Monsters.

Performance – Out on 3rd March New 4K Digital Restoration

The grimy criminal underworld and hedonistic rock-and-roll counterculture of late-1960s London collide in this mind-scrambling, kaleidoscopic freak-out. On the run from his vengeful boss, a ruthless gangster (James Fox) hides out in the Notting Hill home of a reclusive rock star (Mick Jagger) and his companions (Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton), who open the doors of his perception as the lines between reality and fantasy, male and female, persona and self, dissolve in a hallucinogenic haze. Built around Jagger’s most magnetic narrative-film performance, this visionary collaboration between Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg is a daringly transgressive, endlessly influential journey to the dark side of bohemia.

4K UHD & BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 4K digital restoration, approved by producer Sandy Lieberson, with uncompressed monaural original-UK-version 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
Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance (1998), a documentary by Kevin Macdonald and Chris Rodley
Influence and Controversy: Making “Performance” (2007), a documentary about the making of the film
The True Story of David Litvinoff, a new visual essay by Keiron Pim, biographer of dialogue coach and technical adviser David Litvinoff
Performers on “Performance,” a documentary featuring actors James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and others
The Two Cockneys of Harry Flowers, a program on the dialogue overdubbing done for the U.S. version of the film
Memo from Turner, a program featuring behind-the-scenes footage
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by film critic Ryan Gilbey and a 1995 article by filmmaker and scholar Peter Wollen
New cover by Fred Davis

Buy on 4K UHD – AMAZON, HMV, RAREWAVES and ZAVVI
Buy on Blu-Ray – AMAZON, HMV, RAREWAVES and ZAVVI

Drugstore Cowboy – Out on 10th March New 4K Digital Restoration

Gus Van Sant’s dreamy, drifty, deadpan second feature—an addiction drama based on James Fogle’s autobiographical novel—captures the zonked-out textures and almost surreal absurdity of a life lived fix to fix. Swinging between dope-fueled disconnection and edgy paranoia, Matt Dillon plays the leader of a ragtag crew (also featuring Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham, and James Le Gros) that robs pharmacies for pills, coasting across the 1970s Pacific Northwest while trying to outrun sobriety and fate. With a brilliant supporting turn from counterculture high priest William S. Burroughs and a lyrical feeling for the streetscapes of Van Sant’s hometown of Portland, Oregon, Drugstore Cowboy cemented the director’s status as a preeminent poet of outsiderhood.

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

New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Gus Van Sant and director of photography Robert Yeoman, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack
[UHD ONLY] One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
Audio commentary featuring Van Sant and actor Matt Dillon
The Making of “Drugstore Cowboy,” featuring interviews with Van Sant and members of the cast and crew
New interviews with Yeoman and actor Kelly Lynch
Deleted scenes
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by author and screenwriter Jon Raymond
New cover by F. Ron Miller

Buy on 4K UHD – AMAZON, HMV, RAREWAVES and ZAVVI
Buy on Blu-Ray – AMAZON, HMV, RAREWAVES and ZAVVI

Godzilla vs. Biollante – Out on 24th March New 4K Digital Restoration

Diving into delirious realms of imagination, this second film of the Godzilla franchise’s 1980s resurgence showcased the towering beast for a new generation of fans. This time, Godzilla’s foe is one of the series’ most wondrously strange kaiju creations: Biollante—a mutant plant genetically engineered from the cells of a rose, a renegade scientist’s dead daughter, and Godzilla itself. With a wild plot encompassing spies, psychic children, and bonkers biotechnology—and some of the coolest special effects in the history of Japanese cinema—Godzilla vs. Biollante stands as a high point in the ever-evolving mythology of the King of the Monsters.

4K UHD & BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 4K digital restoration, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
[UHD ONLY] One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
New audio commentary featuring film historian Samm Deighan, host of the podcast Eros + Massacre and coeditor of the book Revolution in 35mm
Making-of program from 1993 featuring director Kazuki Omori and special-effects director Koichi Kawakita, among others
Short documentary from 1993 about the Biollante and Super X2 vehicle concepts
Deleted special effects
TV spots and trailers
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by science-fiction and horror film expert Jim Cirronella
New cover by Eric Powell

Available on 4K UHD – AMAZON, HMV, RAREWAVES and ZAVVI
Available on Blu-Ray – AMAZON, HMV, RAREWAVES andZAVVI