Tiny Furniture - The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)

Lena Dunham got her start making YouTube videos, but she emerged as a major talent thanks to the breakthrough success of this exceptionally sharp comedy, which garnered the twenty-four-year-old writer-director-actor comparisons to the likes of Woody Allen. The filmmaker herself plays Aura, a recent college graduate who returns to New York and moves back in with her mother and sister (played by their real-life counterparts). Though Aura is gripped by stasis and confusion about her future, Dunham locates endless sources of refreshing humor in her plight. As painfully confessional as it is endlessly amusing, Tiny Furniture is an authentic, incisive portrait of a young woman at a crossroads.

• United States
• 98 minutes
• Color
• 2.35:1
• English
• Spine #597
• 2010

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

- New, restored high-definition digital transfer with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- New video introduction by filmmaker Paul Schrader
- New interview with Dunham
- Short films by Dunham
- Behind-the-scenes footage
- Theatrical trailer
- PLUS: An essay by author Phillip Lopate