The Criterion Collection

[MovieBuff647]

Originally Posted by themp3000

Monday is a holiday.

Forgot about that! Probably today, then. I doubt they wait until Tuesday.

[Brad1963]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I wonder if their 30% off sale ending on the 17th is a sort of sign that their announcements won't be till the 18th. Otherwise their new annoucmements will also be part of the sale. Guess we'll know in a few hours or less.

That is a good point.

[kwillard37]

Originally Posted by Brad1963

Fingers crossed for announcements today, and the Flash Sale on Tuesday.

I would love for it to be this week, but it's the day after their current 30% off sale ends, and might potentially be the day of may announcements since Monday is a holiday. I feel like they'll want to put some distance between this 30% off sale. I'm thinking March 11th or 18th. But would not mind being wrong!

[Brad1963]

Originally Posted by kwillard37

I would love for it to be this week, but it's the day after their current 30% off sale ends, and might potentially be the day of may announcements since Monday is a holiday. I feel like they'll want to put some distance between this 30% off sale. I'm thinking March 11th or 18th. But would not mind being wrong!

I was trying to think of what new releases they may want to have it land on. They usually time the sale with a day of major new releases. Now looking at it, I'm thinking now that it may be March 18th when Godzilla vs. Biollante and A Woman of Paris are released.

[The Sovereign]

Some I'm hoping for:

Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Gunga Din
Wise Blood (upgrade)
The Year of Living Dangerously

[tama]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I wonder if their 30% off sale ending on the 17th is a sort of sign that their announcements won't be till the 18th. Otherwise their new annoucmements will also be part of the sale. Guess we'll know in a few hours or less.

Oof. Think you're right.

[DukeTogo84]

Well, it is Valentine's Day. Would be nice for Criterion to give us some love on this day and not wait until next wee. Still, with it being Criterion...it will probably be the 18th.

[MifuneFan]

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/films/2793...s-of-cherbourg

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by Ciné-Tamaris and approved by Mathieu Demy, director Jacques Demy’s son, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Alternate uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Once Upon a Time . . . “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” a 2008 documentary
• Interview with film scholar Rodney Hill
• French television interview from 1964 featuring Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand discussing the film
• Archival audio interviews with Legrand and actor Catherine Deneuve at the National Film Theatre in London
• Demonstration of the 2013 restoration
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by critic Jim Ridley

New illustration by Michael Phillip Dunbabin

[Shane Rollins]

Originally Posted by Scottie

Guesses

Barry Lyndon 4K
Eyes Wide Shut 4K, BD
The King of Comedy 4K, BD
The Night of the Hunter 4K
The Time Masters 4K, BD
Viridiana BD

Originally Posted by The Sovereign

Some I'm hoping for:

Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Gunga Din
Wise Blood (upgrade)
The Year of Living Dangerously

Either one of these looks like a July or November slate, but I seriously hope a slate like this comes soon. All of these titles are long overdue.

[MifuneFan]

Withnail and I 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/films/658-withnail-and-i

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Peter Hannan, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Two audio commentaries, one from 2020 featuring writer-director Bruce Robinson, and the other from 2001 featuring actors Ralph Brown and Paul McGann
• New short program featuring Robinson and actor Richard E. Grant
• Withnail and Us (1999), a documentary on the making of the film
• British Film Institute Q&A from 2017 with Robinson and Grant
• Stills gallery featuring photographs by artist Ralph Steadman
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic David Cairns

Illustration by Ralph Steadman

[Shane Rollins]

Nice slate. July is going to be a hella expensive month for me. And I love it.

[MifuneFan]

In The Heat of the Night 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/films/2945...t-of-the-night

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Interviews with director Norman Jewison and actor Lee Grant
• Segment from a 2006 American Film Institute interview with actor Sidney Poitier
• Interview with Aram Goudsouzian, author of Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon
• Audio commentary featuring Jewison, Grant, actor Rod Steiger, and cinematographer Haskell Wexler
• Turning Up the Heat: Movie-Making in the ’60s, a program about the production of the film and its legacy, featuring Jewison, Wexler, producer Walter Mirisch, and filmmakers John Singleton and Reginald Hudlin
• Quincy Jones: Breaking New Sound, a program about Jones’s innovative soundtrack, including the title song sung by Ray Charles, featuring interviews with Jones, lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and musician Herbie Hancock
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic K. Austin Collins

Cover by Sean Phillips

[MifuneFan]

How To Get Ahead in Advertising Blu-ray


https://www.criterion.com/films/660-...in-advertising

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• 2K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Peter Hannan, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• New documentary featuring interviews with writer-director Bruce Robinson and actor Richard E. Grant
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic David Cairns

New illustration by Jaxon Northon

[MifuneFan]

The Wind Will Carry Us Blu-ray

https://www.criterion.com/films/3036...-will-carry-us

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• 4K restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• A Week with Kiarostami (1999), a documentary by Yuji Mohara on the making of the film
• Interview from 2002 with director Abbas Kiarostami
• New video essay presenting Kiarostami’s poetry narrated by Massoumeh Lahiji, a longtime translator and creative collaborator of the director’s
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by poet and novelist Kaveh Akbar

New cover by Eric Skillman

[MifuneFan]

The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers: Two Films by Richard Lester 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/79...richard-lester

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restorations, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
• In the 4K UHD edition: Two 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the films and special features
• Two for One, a new documentary by critic David Cairns
• The Saga of the Musketeers (2002), a two-part documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew members
• The Making of “The Three Musketeers,” a 1973 featurette with behind-the-scenes footage of director Richard Lester
• Trailers
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Stephanie Zacharek

New illustration by Mattias Adolfsson

[MifuneFan]

Killer of Sheep 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/films/34233-killer-of-sheep

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Charles Burnett, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Audio commentary featuring Burnett and film scholar Richard Peña
• New interviews with Burnett and actor Henry Gayle Sanders
• New appreciation by filmmaker Barry Jenkins
• Two short films by Burnett: Several Friends (1969) and The Horse (1973), with a new introduction to the latter by Burnett
• Excerpt from the 2010 UCLA LA Rebellion Oral History Project, featuring an interview with Burnett by film scholar Jacqueline Stewart
• A Walk with Charles Burnett (2019), a documentary by Robert Townsend
• Cast reunion from 2007
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Danielle Amir Jackson

Package design by Slang Inc. with Eric Skillman

[Brad1963]

IMO, May is a great line up of titles. Now, let the complaining begin!

[JoelGoodsen]

Originally Posted by Brad1963

IMO, May is a great line up of titles. Now, let the complaining begin!

I'll always feel like complaining with every passing month of no SubUrbia (1996) or Eyes Wide Shut.

[MovieBuff647]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/films/2793...s-of-cherbourg

If this is SDR, are there at least screencaps from promotional material for the screenings comparing it to the BD?

[Azores26]

Wow, another month with seven releases. I wonder if that'll be the new norm for Criterion? Great slate by the way, "Killer of Sheep" is finally getting the home video release it deserves (though I wonder if 4K is overkill for such a low-budget film). I'm also curious to see how the Criterion "In The Heat of the Night" compares to the previous Kino version.