The Criterion Collection

[dwk]

They are starting to go up:

Fires on the Plain UHD
Burmese Harp UHD

[MifuneFan]

The Burmese Harp 4K

https://www.criterion.com/films/817-the-burmese-harp

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Interviews with director Kon Ichikawa and actor Rentaro Mikuni
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by critic and historian Tony Rayns

[MifuneFan]

Fires on the Plain 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/films/347-fires-on-the-plain

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Introduction by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie
• Program featuring interviews with director Kon Ichikawa and actor Mickey Curtis
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by critic Chuck Stephens

Cover by Michael Boland

[MifuneFan]

Shoeshine 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/films/34329-shoeshine

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Sciuscià 70 (2016), a documentary by Mimmo Verdesca, made to mark the film’s seventieth anniversary
• New program on Shoeshine and children in Italian neorealism featuring film scholars Paola Bonifazio and Catherine O’Rawe
• Radio broadcast from 1946 featuring director Vittorio De Sica
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Forgacs and “Shoeshine, Joe?,” a 1945 photo-documentary by De Sica

[MifuneFan]

A Confucian Confusion / Mahjong: Two Films by Edward Yang

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/81...by-edward-yang

TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restorations, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks
• Excerpts of director Edward Yang speaking after a 1994 screening of A Confucian Confusion
• New interview with editor Chen Po-wen
• New conversation between Chinese-cultural-studies scholar Michael Berry and film critic Justin Chang
• Performance of Yang’s 1992 play Likely Consequence
• PLUS: An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim and a 1994 director’s note on A Confucian Confusion

New cover by Tori Huynh

[MifuneFan]

Saving Face

https://www.criterion.com/films/32820-saving-face

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• High-definition digital master, approved by director Alice Wu, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Audio commentary featuring Wu
• New interviews with Wu and actor Joan Chen
• Deleted scenes with optional commentary by Wu
• Behind-the-scenes featurette
• Program featuring Wu and members of the cast at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Phoebe Chen

New cover by Ping Zhu

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Fires on the Plain 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/films/347-fires-on-the-plain

AHHHDHFHDFHKDHKKFKDKFJKDKJFJJK!!!!!

NICE!

Criterion, gets a 4 month pass from me baby! Love this film.

[KurtLazyhammer]

Crossing my fingers for a Makioka Sisters announcement as I just started reading the book and am really enjoying it.

[MifuneFan]

Cairo Station (1958)

https://www.criterion.com/films/32722-cairo-station

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• New 2K digital restoration of Cairo as Seen by Chahine (1991), a short documentary by Youssef Chahine, with an introduction by film scholar Joseph Fahim
• New interview with Fahim
• Chahine . . . Why? (2009), a documentary on the director and Cairo Station
• Excerpt from Chahine’s appearance at the 1998 Midnight Sun Film Festival
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by Fahim

New cover by Mariam El-Reweny

[MifuneFan]

Compensation

https://www.criterion.com/films/31494-compensation

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Zeinabu irene Davis, in collaboration with the UCLA Film & Television Archive and Wimmin with a Mission Productions, and in conjunction with the Sundance Institute, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack
• Audio commentary featuring Davis, screenwriter Marc Arthur Chéry, and director of photography Pierre H. L. Désir Jr.
• Q&As with members of the cast and crew
• Two short films by Davis, Crocodile Conspiracy (1986) and Pandemic Bread (2023), the latter with audio commentary featuring Davis and cast and crew members and descriptive audio
• Interview with Davis from 2021
• New program about select archival photographs and adinkra and vèvè symbols in the film
• Trailer
• English subtitles and intertitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, and English descriptive audio
• PLUS: An essay by film scholar Racquel Gates, a director’s note, and a conversation between Davis and artist Alison O’Daniel about the process of captioning the film

New cover by Polly Dedman

[HipsterTrash]

Hell. Yes. Gimme dat Edward Yang twofer!

[DimitriL]

This is the most international release month in ages. How many of these are new to HD? Seems like a lot.

[professorwho]

Kon Ichikawa (in 4K no less!) AND Edward Yang?! What a time to be alive! Easily the best announcements in a long, long time!

[HipsterTrash]

Actually damn. I just realized the Yang set doesn't have Tapei Story. I wonder why they're holding it hostage in one of the (wonderful) World Cinema Project sets.

[borntorun_intheusa]

Awesome to see Shoeshine get a release. Would love to see a Blu or 4K upgrade of The Children Are Watching Us. The more De Sica the better.

[kokone]

Cairo Station is an absolute banger btw, so happy to see it released

[Cremildo]

Cairo Station, Shoeshine and an Edward Yang boxset? My long-dormant blind-buy tendencies are stirring once again.

Definitely in for The Burmese Harp.

[themp3000]

That August slate is insane.

This kind of month is why I love Criterion.

[Smegma]

Weak ass month

[RevolverOcelScott]

Not a single thing for me, but happy to see folks excited.