The Criterion Collection

[georgec]

Dammit, Criterion - you're going to make me broke. 2014 has a HOT start.

[JJJ225]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Mulholland Drive was never hinted at as far as I know.

Nope. Criterion tweeted a tidbit about the production (as they do with many films they never release) and everyone was automatically assuming they were releasing it. I'm not saying they never will, but there's been literally no clue that they are planning on it.

[dorothyv]

Originally Posted by blkhrt

Criterion no longer has the rights to Peeping Tom.

I've been hoping for a US BD release ever since the Optimum release came out in the UK and got such rave reviews for its PQ.

[kuro_sawa]

Originally Posted by dorothyv

I've been hoping for a US BD release ever since the Optimum release came out in the UK and got such rave reviews for its PQ.

Get the Hong Kong bd. It has no special features but is region A.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by JJJ225

Nope. Criterion tweeted a tidbit about the production (as they do with many films they never release) and everyone was automatically assuming they were releasing it. I'm not saying they never will, but there's been literally no clue that they are planning on it.

I think Pro-B might be to blame there. I don't know if the same thing happened at other sites, but certainly he was the catalyst on this site with the premature thread he created based on that little production tidbit. Unless he knows something we don't of course.

[Clare2904]

Originally Posted by pedromvu

And Y tu Mama Tambien

Seems there is always some of the new year newsletter titles that take much more time than expected. I Think Wild Strawberries took a lot longer too.

Going as far back as the Newsletter from January this year, which films from the clues have not been announced??

[Edward J Grug III]

Originally Posted by Ausjdm

How is Peeping Tom btw? I've wanted to buy it eBay heard good and bad reviews.

My wife really likes the film and insisted we order the UK edition.

I liked it a lot, though less than the P&P movies I have seen. It LOOKS as good, but the three of their movies on Blu Ray from Criterion are just so spectacular, that the griminess of the movie just was a little less to my taste.

Having said that, P&P are among my very favourites in the collection, so just enjoying something less than them isn't exactly a damning review.

It's worth your time, and I know it's a film I will be happy to revisit. I can't believe it ended Powell's career - It's so miserable to think of what might have been had he been able to keep producing movies.

[blkhrt]

Originally Posted by Ausjdm

How is Peeping Tom btw? I've wanted to buy it eBay heard good and bad reviews.

It is a fantastic movie. I have the Criterion DVD, and would be thrilled if they could ever get the rights back.

[Judex]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I think Pro-B might be to blame there. I don't know if the same thing happened at other sites, but certainly he was the catalyst on this site with the premature thread he created based on that little production tidbit. Unless he knows something we don't of course.

Found it.

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=11468

[pedromvu]

Originally Posted by dorothyv

I've been hoping for a US BD release ever since the Optimum release came out in the UK and got such rave reviews for its PQ.

I searched a little bit more before ordering the UK release and found that the reviews are a actually mixed in PQ, i think blubeaver gave it thumbs down, but since Svet gave 5 stars i still ordered, from the screenshots all i can notice is it lacks a little grain but doesn't look over-processed.

[pedromvu]

Originally Posted by Clare2904

Going as far back as the Newsletter from January this year, which films from the clues have not been announced??

from the original guesses:

http://criterioncast.com/art/wacky/w...-2013-line-up/

Le Samourai, The Kid, Eraserhead, Boy, Scanners, The Tennant.

Unless someone knows which of those are already discarded by other releases that i am not aware.

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by StonesEGF

In other news, Raro is releasing Antonioni's I vinti in May.

I've yet to see it, but exciting news!

Definitely, very exciting news

The Italian DVD from Minerva looks nice, but with a new transfer this film can look very beautiful on Blu-ray.





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Pro-B

[Clare2904]

Originally Posted by pedromvu

from the original guesses:

http://criterioncast.com/art/wacky/w...-2013-line-up/

Le Samourai, The Kid, Eraserhead, Boy, Scanners, The Tennant.

Unless someone knows which of those are already discarded by other releases that i am not aware.

Thanks

I need to pay more attention to the comments made when each newsletter clue is released.

[Edward J Grug III]

Snuck a B&N order in even though we have a bunch of unwatched Blus from various end of year sales... They won't arrive till next year anyway.

Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Trilogy
Earrings of Madame De...
Modern Times
Safety Last
A Man Escaped
Pale Flower

[KrugerIndustrial]

Originally Posted by Edward J Grug III

Snuck a B&N order in even though we have a bunch of unwatched Blus from various end of year sales... They won't arrive till next year anyway.

Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Trilogy
Earrings of Madame De...
Modern Times
Safety Last
A Man Escaped
Pale Flower

You can buy the Kaurismäki films on English friendly Blu-ray's.

Ariel
The Match Factory Girl

Shadows in Paradise seems to be out of stock. Shipping to the US is only 2.95€(~$4.00).

[pro-bassoonist]

FINAL PRESS SHEET:

GEORGE WASHINGTON (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
Over the course of one hot summer, a group of children in the decaying rural South must confront a tangle of difficult choices. An ambitiously constructed, elegantly photographed meditation on adolescence, the first full-length film by director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express) features remarkable performances from an award-winning ensemble cast. George Washington is a startling and distinct work of contemporary American independent cinema.

2000 • 90 minutes • Color • 2.0 surround • 2.35:1 aspect ratio

DIRECTOR-APPROVED DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• Restored high-definition digital transfer, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Commentary by director David Gordon Green, cinematographer Tim Orr, and actor Paul Schneider
• Deleted scene, with commentary by Green, Orr, and Schneider
• Two student shorts by Green: Pleasant Grove (1997), with commentary by Green, Orr, and Schneider; and Physical Pinball (1998)
• Charlie Rose interview with Green from 2001
• Interviews with cast members
• Clu Gulager’s 1969 short film A Day with the Boys, an influence on George Washington
• Trailer
• One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Armond White and a director’s statement

TITLE: GEORGE WASHINGTON (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
CAT. NO: CC2341BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11421-9
ISBN: 978-1-60465-829-3
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 3/11/14


A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
Errol Morris (The Fog of War) turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs. An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triumph, and cosmological inquiry, Morris’s documentary examines the way the collapse of Hawking’s body has been accompanied by the untrammeled broadening of his imagination. Telling the man’s incredible story through the voices of his colleagues and loved ones, while making dynamically accessible some of the theories in Hawking’s best-selling book of the same name, A Brief History of Time is at once as small as a single life and as big as the ever-expanding universe.

1991 • 84 minutes • Color • 5.1 surround • 1.85:1 aspect ratio

DIRECTOR-APPROVED DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New, restored 4K digital film transfer, supervised by director of photography John Bailey and approved by director Errol Morris, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New interview with Morris
• New interview with Bailey
• One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic David Sterritt, a chapter from Stephen Hawking’s 2013 memoir My Brief History, and a short excerpt from Hawking’s 1988 book A Brief History of Time

TITLE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
CAT. NO: CC2343BD
UPC: 7-15515-11331-1
ISBN: 978-1-60465-811-8
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 3/18/14


THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai) could make one, The Hidden Fortress stars the inimitable Toshiro Mifune (Yojimbo) as a general charged with guarding his defeated clan’s princess (a fierce Misa Uehara) as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. Accompanying them are a pair of bumbling, conniving peasants who may or may not be their friends. This rip-roaring ride is among the director’s most beloved films and was a primary influence on George Lucas’s Star Wars. The Hidden Fortress delivers Kurosawa’s trademark deft blend of wry humor, breathtaking action, and compassionate humanity.

1958 • 139 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In Japanese with English subtitles • 2.35:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack preserving the original Perspecta simulated stereo effects, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray
• New audio commentary by film historian Stephen Prince, author of The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa
• Documentary from 2003 on the making of the film, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
• Interview from 2001 with filmmaker George Lucas about Kurosawa
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Catherine Russell

TITLE: THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
CAT. NO: CC2344BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11321-2
ISBN: 978-1-60465-810-1
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 3/18/14


THE FRESHMAN (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
Harold Lloyd’s biggest box-office hit was this silent comedy gem, featuring the befuddled everyman at his eager best as a new college student. Though he dreams of being a big man on campus, the freshman’s careful plans inevitably go hilariously awry, be it on the football field or at the Fall Frolic. But he gets a climactic chance to prove his mettle—and impress the sweet girl he loves—in one of the most famous sports sequences ever filmed. This crowd-pleaser is a gleeful showcase for Lloyd’s slapstick brilliance and incandescent charm, and it’s accompanied here by a new orchestral score by Carl Davis (Napoleon).

1925 • 76 minutes • Black & White • Silent • 1.33:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital transfer from a restoration by the UCLA Film and Television Archive
• New orchestral score, composed and conducted by Carl Davis, presented in uncompressed stereo on the Blu-ray
• Audio commentary featuring director and Harold Lloyd archivist Richard Correll, film historian Richard Bann, and film critic and historian Leonard Maltin
• Lloyd’s prologue to the film, created for the 1966 rerelease
• Three newly restored Lloyd shorts: The Marathon (1919), with a new score by Gabriel Thibaudeau, and An Eastern Westerner and High and Dizzy (both 1920), with new scores composed and conducted by Davis
• Big Man on Campus, a new visual essay on the film’s locations by silent-film historian John Bengtson
• Conversation between Correll and film historian Kevin Brownlow
• Footage from a 1963 Delta Kappa Alpha tribute to Lloyd, featuring comedian Steve Allen, director Delmer Daves, and actor Jack Lemmon
• Lloyd’s 1953 appearance on the television show What’s My Line?
• One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Stephen Winer

TITLE: THE FRESHMAN (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
CAT. NO: CC2346BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11291-8
ISBN: 978-1-60465-808-8
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 2/25/14
STREET: 3/25/14


THE GREAT BEAUTY (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city’s literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the lavish nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome itself, in all its monumental glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. Featuring sensuous cinematography, a lush score, and an award-winning central performance by the great Toni Servillo (Gomorrah), this transporting experience from the brilliant Italian director Paolo Sorrentino (Il divo) is a breathtaking Fellini-esque tale of decadence and lost love.

2013 • 141 minutes • Color • 5.1 surround • In Italian with English subtitles • 2.35:1 aspect ratio

DIRECTOR-APPROVED DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 2K digital transfer, approved by director Paolo Sorrentino, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Conversation between Sorrentino and Italian cultural critic Antonio Monda
• New interview with actor Toni Servillo
• New interview with screenwriter Umberto Contarello
• Deleted scenes
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Philip Lopate

TITLE: THE GREAT BEAUTY (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
CAT. NO: CC2345BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11301-4
ISBN: 978-1-60465-809-5
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 2/25/14
STREET: 3/25/14


PERSONA (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
By the mid-sixties, Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal) had already conjured many of the cinema’s most unforgettable images. But with the radical Persona, this supreme artist attained new levels of visual poetry. In the first of a series of legendary performances for Bergman, Liv Ullmann (Scenes from a Marriage) plays an actress who has inexplicably gone mute; an equally mesmerizing Bibi Andersson (Wild Strawberries) is the garrulous young nurse caring for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema’s most influential ideas. Acted with astonishing nuance and shot in stark shadows and soft light by the great Sven Nykvist (Cries and Whispers), Persona is a penetrating, dreamlike work of profound psychological depth.

1966 • 83 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In Swedish with English subtitles • 1.37:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New, 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New visual essay on the film’s prologue by Ingmar Bergman scholar Peter Cowie
• New interviews with actor Liv Ullmann and filmmaker Paul Schrader
• Excerpted archival interviews with Bergman and actors Bibi Andersson and Ullmann
• On-set footage, with audio commentary by Bergman historian Birgitta Steene
• Liv & Ingmar, a 2012 feature documentary directed by Dheeraj Akolkar
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Thomas Elsaesser, an excerpted 1969 interview with Bergman, and an excerpted 1977 conversation with Andersson

TITLE: PERSONA (dual-format Blu-ray and DVD edition)
CAT. NO: CC2342BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11341-0
ISBN: 978-1-60465-812-5
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 3/25/14

Attention Canada: PERSONA, GEORGE WASHINGTON and THE HIDDEN FORTRESS are available in English-speaking Canada only. A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME and THE GREAT BEAUTY are US only releases. THE FRESHMAN is an all Canada release.

Pro-B

[Clare2904]

Attention Canada: PERSONA, GEORGE WASHINGTON and THE HIDDEN FORTRESS are available in English-speaking Canada only. A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME and THE GREAT BEAUTY are US only releases. THE FRESHMAN is an all Canada release.

I have obviously missed something along the way, I can buy Criterion's in Canada??

[Edward J Grug III]

Originally Posted by KrugerIndustrial

You can buy the Kaurismäki films on English friendly Blu-ray's.

Ariel
The Match Factory Girl

Shadows in Paradise seems to be out of stock. Shipping to the US is only 2.95€(~$4.00).

Thanks, I guess I'll see how I enjoy them. (I'm in Australia though)

[JoeBuck]

Originally Posted by Clare2904

Attention Canada: PERSONA, GEORGE WASHINGTON and THE HIDDEN FORTRESS are available in English-speaking Canada only. A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME and THE GREAT BEAUTY are US only releases. THE FRESHMAN is an all Canada release.

I have obviously missed something along the way, I can buy Criterion's in Canada??

HMV/independant shops are your best bets and some Best Buys and Futureshops occasionally have the bigger titles.

[Clare2904]

Originally Posted by JoeBuck

HMV/independant shops are your best bets and some Best Buys and Futureshops occasionally have the bigger titles.

Oh dear. Whilst it will be great to buy a Criterion in person, my credit card will not enjoy the experience