Time (The Criterion Collection) 11/25 Blu-ray (Rental)

What does the weight of time’s passage feel like for a family caught in the jaws of a brutal carceral system? Both a breathtaking cinematic love story and a bruising indictment of American injustice, the Academy Award–nominated feature documentary debut of Garrett Bradley traces the decades-long quest of Sibil Fox Richardson, an indefatigable mother of six and a fiercely outspoken prison abolitionist, to free her husband from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where he is serving a sixty-year sentence for robbery. Gracefully interweaving twenty years’ worth of Richardson’s own intimate home movies with luminously expressive monochrome footage of her present-day joys and struggles, Bradley crafts in Time a transcendentally poetic, soul-shaking look at the devastating toll of mass incarceration and one family’s extraordinary efforts to stay whole. DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital master, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack New audio commentary featuring director Garrett Bradley New interview with Time’s subjects, Sibil Fox and Robert Richardson New conversation between Bradley and critic and author Hilton Als Alone (2017), a short documentary by Bradley, with optional 2021 commentary by the film’s subject, Aloné Watts Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing English descriptive audio PLUS: An essay by critic Doreen St. Félix