I'LL REMIND YOU OF EVERYTHING: THE FILMS OF MIKE MILLS (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) [BEGINNERS / 20TH CENTURY WOMEN / C'MON C'MON] [4K UHD]

The legacies we inherit, and the ones we pass on, form the heart of writer-director Mike Mills''''s family portraits, inspired by his own experience. Both personal and panoramic, the films collected here'Beginners, 20th Century Women, and C''''mon C''''mon'set their stories of parents and children against the backdrop of a changing America, from the 1970s to the present. Anchored by performances of depth and wit from the likes of Christopher Plummer, Ewan McGregor, Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning, Joaquin Phoenix, and Gaby Hoffmann, these three films compose a mosaic of Mills''''s own life, from boyhood to fatherhood, and of the people, places, music, and memories that marked him along the way. DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital masters of Beginners and 20th Century Women, supervised and approved by director Mike Mills, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks New 4K digital master of C''''mon C''''mon, supervised and approved by Mills, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack Three 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and three Blu-rays with the films and special features Audio commentaries on all three films featuring Mills New documentary featuring Mills in conversation with filmmaker Kirsten Johnson Making-of programs for each film Music videos directed by Mills for Air''''s 'All I Need" and Talking Heads'''' 'Psycho Killer" Additional films by Mills: Deformer (1996), Eating Sleeping Waiting and Playing (1999), The Architecture of Reassurance (2000), A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought Alone (2013), and I Am Easy to Find (2019) Trailers English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An appreciation by filmmaker Joachim Trier and an interview with Mills about his work outside of feature filmmaking BEGINNERS Filmmaker Mike Mills was inspired by his own father''''s coming out late in life to shape a clear-eyed look at how our family histories quietly inform all of our relationships. When Hal (Christopher Plummer, in an Academy Award'winning performance) reveals he is gay at the age of seventy-five, his son, Oliver (Ewan McGregor), gets the chance to know a more vulnerable version of his father. In the second of the film's two interwoven time periods, Oliver meets Anna (Melanie Laurent) soon after his father''''s death, beginning a romance that is informed by the risks and honesty of Hal''''s final years. Balancing dry humor and DIY charm, Beginners extends an uncommon generosity to its characters'still figuring themselves out at all stages of life. 20TH CENTURY WOMEN The changing social currents of the 1970s sweep through an unconventional Santa Barbara, California, household in Mike Mills''''s tender, wryly funny reflection on his own upbringing. Annette Bening shines as Dorothea, a strong-willed professional and single mother who, unsure of how to connect with her teenage son (Lucas Jade Zumann), turns to two younger women: politically engaged photographer Abbie (Greta Gerwig) and restless, rebellious high schooler Julie (Elle Fanning), who both initiate him into a world of punk rock, sexual discovery, and emerging feminist thought. Animated by love for its idiosyncratic characters, 20th Century Women is a story about a young man''''s coming of age that is just as much about the extraordinary women who guide him. C''''MON C''''MON Having excavated his past in Beginners and 20th Century Women, Mike Mills looks toward the future with this compassionate, cathartic story about listening to and learning from the next generation. Shot by acclaimed cinematographer Robbie Ryan in luminous monochrome, C''''mon C''''mon follows radio journalist Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) as he volunteers to look after his sensitive nine-year-old nephew, Jesse (Woody Norman), while his mother, Viv (Gaby Hoffmann), Johnny''''s sister, deals with a personal crisis. As Johnny''''s work takes him across the country'from Los Angeles to New York to New Orleans'he forges a bond with Jesse that proves surprisingly transformative. Turning his own experience of fatherhood into soul-enriching art, Mills offers a graceful meditation on caretaking and the connections that sustain us.