Larisa Shepitko: Wings/The Ascent (2 Discs) (Criterion Collection)

Wings The Criterion Collection releases the Larisa Shepitko collection, Volume 11 in the Eclipse series, Criterion’s specialty line of very rare, underground films. Shepitko, a Russian filmmaker from the Cold War-era, had a unique and powerful voice which only spoke through four pieces before her untimely death in a 1979 car accident that occurred while scouting locations for what would be her next film. Though she died at the young age of 40 and was just a child when World War II concluded, ...more