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Curtis Tsui

Curtis Tsui is a producer at the Criterion Collection.

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The Evolution of a “Superpig”: Designing Okja, from Start to Finish

Both intimidatingly massive and deeply sympathetic, the creature at the heart of Bong Joon Ho’s meat-industry fable is the product of a close collaboration between the director and artist Jang Hee Chul.

By Curtis Tsui

Production Notes— Jul 14, 2022
10 Things I Learned: Memories of Murder

The producer of our edition of this unnerving procedural shares details about director Bong Joon Ho’s approach to visual style, his commitment to verisimilitude, and the lengths to which actor Kim Sang Kyung went in order to portray his character.

By Curtis Tsui

Production Notes— Apr 22, 2021
10 Things I Learned: The Color of Pomegranates

Did you know director Sergei Parajanov also created many of the costumes for this visually spectacular masterpiece? Producer Curtis Tsui digs into this and other fascinating facts about the making of the long-hard-to-see film.

By Curtis Tsui

Production Notes— May 9, 2018
10 Things I Learned: Rumble Fish
1. Before Rumble Fish became a novel, S. E. Hinton wrote an early version of it as a short story, which was published in 1968 in the University of Tulsa literary magazine, Nimrod. Two details were inspired by her pets: the…

By Curtis Tsui

Production Notes— Apr 26, 2017
10 Things I Learned: Black Girl
3. Having received a scholarship to the Gorky Film Institute, Sembène studied film from 1962 to 1963 in the Soviet Union under the tutelage of director Mark Donskoy (The Childhood of Maxim Gorky) and derived much of his knack for creating po…

By Curtis Tsui

Production Notes— Jan 26, 2017
A Tribute to Michael Cimino

In honor of the director, we look back at his quintessentially American narratives.

By Curtis Tsui

Production Notes— Jul 8, 2016
10 Things I Learned: A Brighter Summer Day
1. This week, we’re proud to release our long-awaited 4K restoration of Edward Yang’s 1991 masterpiece A Brighter Summer Day. Long unavailable on home video in the United States, this incomparable work of Taiwanese cinema is now…

By Curtis Tsui

Production Notes— Mar 21, 2016
Peter Yates, 1928–2011
I was deeply saddened by today’s news of the passing of Peter Yates, whom I had the honor to meet while producing Criterion’s DVD for his great seventies crime picture The Friends of Eddie Coyle. His death marks the loss of a warm, generous indiv…

By Curtis Tsui

Production Notes— Jan 10, 2011
A Visit to James Mangold’s Office
If you’ve read Faber & Faber’s 1998 publication of the Sweet Smell of Success screenplay, you already know from the book’s afterword that director James Mangold (Girl, Interrupted; Walk the Line) studied under the late filmmaker Alexander M…

By Curtis Tsui

Production Notes— Dec 13, 2010
Cop 223 Gets Lucky

Okay, quiz time. What does the music video for Justin Timberlake’s “SexyBack” have to do with the Criterion Collection? Give up? Well, it was shot by none other than ace director of photography Christopher Doyle, whose work is being brought

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By Curtis Tsui

Production Notes— Oct 14, 2008
Mann Crush
Sometimes it’s pretty tough for me to divorce my inner fanboy from the (probably unrealistic) ideal of a business-only, detached producer. One such moment was when I saw that Anthony Mann’s The Furies was a part of our Paramount deal. I think the…

By Curtis Tsui

Production Notes— Jul 7, 2008