Carlos (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

CARLOS, directed by Olivier Assayas, is an epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - also known as Carlos the Jackal. One of the twentieth centurys most-wanted fugitives, Carlos was committed to violent left-wing activism throughout the seventies and eighties, orchestrating bombings, kidnappings, and hijackings in Europe and the Middle East. Assayas portrays him not as a criminal mastermind but as a symbol l of seismic political shifts around the world, and the magnetic Idgar Rammrez (THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM) brilliantly embodies him as a swaggering global gangster. Criterion presents the complete, uncut, director-approved, five-and-a-half-hour version of CARLOS.

Starring: Ahmad Kaabour, Alejandro Arroyo, Edgar Ramirez, Nora von Waldstatten, Rami Farah, Rodney El Haddad, Zeid Hamdan, Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Nora Von Waldstätten, Christoph Bach, Julia Hummer, André Marcon, Fadi Abi Samra, Jean-Baptiste Malartre, Juana Acosta, Jule Bowe, Katharina Schuttler, Martha Higareda, Olivier Cruveiller, Talal El Jourdi, Aljoscha Stadelmann

Director: Daniel Leconte