The Criterion Collection

[atfree]

Originally Posted by mikeyhitchfan

ok, i'll be the first this month to say 'meh', nothing for me.

+1

[malakaheso]

Love Streams is a huge announcement. It was only available on dvd in France with hard subs for a while there.

[blkhrt]

Originally Posted by dtyner92

This was posted on Criterions tumblr page, I believe last year.

But that should not be read as a clue. The often post images and things from movies that they will never be able to release.

[Brad1963]

I'll have to have a 8 1/2 and All That Jazz double feature in late Aug.

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by bwdowiak

I guess my answer is here.

Polaroid - please don't make me dislike David Lynch.

Haha

[Blu2u]

It's nice to have a month off. Now, there is that horrible wait until June 15th...

[dorothyv]

I'm excited for both Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! and Y Tu Mama Tambien.

But, I am puzzled as to why both are being released as a 3-disc BD/DVD combo pack and as a 2-disc DVD pack. Why can't Criterion stick with either just the combo packs or separate BD and DVD releases? They better have the 3-disc plastic cases ready by then.

[Polaroid]

Ughh

Criterion site is all messed up for me :/ like all the boxes are everywhere....

See attached pictures, ad on other parst I have to move nag bars around to see entire thing

[Judex]

Originally Posted by blkhrt

But that should not be read as a clue. The often post images and things from movies that they will never be able to release.

Exactly, they frequently do it. They did it with The Birds & Pulp Fiction too...but as people take them as hints. I guess we can expect Criterion releases of them in the future.

[Hazel Motes]

Love Streams is the most exciting criterion announcement for me in years. Can't wait!

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by octagon

Another month without The Ghost and Mr Chicken

There's still a chance. They only announced five titles, so there must be another one still to come.

[Edward J Grug III]

Not extremely enthusiastic about any of these. Definitely passing on Vengance and Tie Me Up...

Never seen the other three, but All That Jazz and Love Streams seems like two I might pick up. Not sure about Y...

[Polaroid]

Wanted to watch 'belle de jour' which came today in post (stunning artwork!) but after all this Twin Peaks news I've decide I HAVE to watch Fire Walk With Me!!!

Also really want to see Scanners and Picnic packaging so badly haha - the wait is torture!

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by dorothyv

I'm excited for both Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! and Y Tu Mama Tambien.

I'm excited for all of them, but especially All That Jazz because I never would've expected it. I wonder if this means they've got a licensing deal with Fox now. Can't wait to hear all the songs in lossless audio.

But, I am puzzled as to why both are being released as a 3-disc BD/DVD combo pack and as a 2-disc DVD pack. Why can't Criterion stick with either just the combo packs or separate BD and DVD releases? They better have the 3-disc plastic cases ready by then.

Yeah. Their explanation for going the dual-format route made sense, if they didn't want to press a separate DVD run. But having dual-format and DVD issues makes no sense. Especially when they seem to be increasing the number of them from month to month.

[pro-bassoonist]

FINAL PRESS SHEET:

LOVE STREAMS – Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD Edition & DVD Only Edition

The electric filmmaking genius John Cassavetes (Shadows) and his brilliant wife and collaborator Gena Rowlands (A Woman Under the Influence) give luminous, fragile performances as two closely bound, emotionally wounded characters who reunite after years apart. Exhilarating and risky, mixing sober realism with surreal flourishes, Love Streams is a remarkable film that comes at the viewer in a torrent of beautiful, erratic feeling. This inquiry into the nature of love in all its forms was Cassavetes’s last truly personal work.

1984 • 141 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.85:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT 1-BLU-RAY/2-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New audio commentary featuring writer Michael Ventura
• New video essay on actor Gena Rowlands by film critic Sheila O’Malley
• New interviews with executive producer and director of photography Al Ruban and actor Diahnne Abbott
• Interview from 2008 with actor Seymour Cassel
• “I’m Almost Not Crazy . . .”—John Cassavetes: The Man and His Work (1984), a sixty-minute documentary by Ventura on the making of Love Streams
• Trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Dennis Lim and a 1984 piece by Cassavetes on the film from the New York Times

TITLE: LOVE STREAMS (DUAL-FORMAT 1-BLU-RAY AND 2-DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2386BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-12431-7
ISBN: 978-1-60465-876-7
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 8/12/14


TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! - Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD Edition & DVD Only Edition

Pedro Almodóvar’s colorful and controversial tribute to the pleasures and perils of Stockholm syndrome, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! is a rambunctious dark comedy starring Antonio Banderas (Philadelphia) as an unbalanced but alluring former mental patient and Victoria Abril (Kika) as the B-movie and porn star he takes prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him. A highly unconventional romance that came on the spike heels of Almodóvar’s international sensation Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, this is a splashy, sexy central work in the career of one of the world’s most beloved and provocative auteurs, radiantly shot by the director’s great cinematographer José Luis Alcaine (Volver).

1990 • 101 minutes • Color • 5.1 surround • In Spanish with English subtitles • 1.85:1 aspect ratio

DIRECTOR-APPROVED DUAL-FORMAT 1-BLU-RAY/2-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Pedro Almodóvar and executive producer Agustín Almodóvar, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New documentary on the making of the film including interviews with Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar; actors Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Loles Léon, Rossy de Palma, and Penélope Cruz; production manager Esther García; editor José Salcedo; and cinematographer José Luis Alcaine
• New interview with Almodóvar collaborator and Sony Pictures Classics copresident Michael Barker
• Conversation from 2003 between Almodóvar and Banderas
• Footage from the film’s 1990 premieres in Madrid and New York
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring a 1990 piece about the film by Almodóvar, a conversation between filmmaker Wes Anderson and critic Kent Jones, and an interview with Almodóvar from 1989

TITLE: TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! (DUAL-FORMAT 1-BLU-RAY AND 2-DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2364BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11751-7
ISBN: 978-1-60465-846-0
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 8/19/14

Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN - Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD Edition & DVD Only Edition

Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN - Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD Edition & DVD Only Edition
The smash road comedy from the Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity) is that rare movie to combine raunchy subject matter and emotional warmth. Gael García Bernal (Amores perros) and Diego Luna (Milk) shot to international stardom as a pair of horny Mexico City teenagers from different classes who, after their girlfriends jet off to Italy for the summer, are bewitched by a gorgeous older Spanish woman (Belle époque’s Maribel Verdú) they meet at a wedding. When she agrees to accompany them on a trip to a faraway beach, the three form an increasingly intense and sensual alliance that ultimately strips them both physically and emotionally bare. Shot with elegance and dexterity by the great Emmanuel Lubezki (The Tree of Life), Y tu mamá también is a funny and moving look at human desire.

2001 • 106 minutes • Color • 5.1 surround • In Spanish with English subtitles • 1.85:1 aspect ratio

DIRECTOR-APPROVED DUAL-FORMAT 1-BLU-RAY/2-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki and approved by director Alfonso Cuarón, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• On “Y tu mamá también”: Then and On “Y tu mamá también”: Now, two new pieces on the making of the film, featuring interviews with actors Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, and Maribel Verdú; Cuarón; cowriter Carlos Cuarón; and Lubezki
• New interview with philosopher Slavoj Žižek about the film
• On-set documentary from 2001
• Deleted scenes
• You Owe Me One (2002), a short film by Carlos Cuarón
• Trailers
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Charles Taylor and character biographies by Carlos Cuarón

TITLE: Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN (DUAL-FORMAT 1-BLU-RAY AND 2-DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2384BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-12411-9
ISBN: 978-1-60465-874-3
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 8/19/14

ALL THAT JAZZ - Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD Edition & DVD Only Edition

ALL THAT JAZZ - Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD Edition & DVD Only Edition
The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse (Cabaret) turned the camera on his own life for this madly imaginative, self-excoriating musical masterpiece. Roy Scheider (Jaws) gives the performance of his career as Joe Gideon, whose exhausting work schedule—mounting a Broadway production by day and editing his latest movie at night—and routine of amphetamines, booze, and sex are putting his health at serious risk. Fosse burrows into Gideon’s (and his own) mind, rendering his interior world as phantasmagoric spectacle. Assembled with visionary editing that makes dance come alive on-screen as never before, and overflowing with sublime footwork by the likes of Ben Vereen, Leland Palmer, and the awesomely leggy Ann Reinking, All That Jazz pushes the musical genre to personal depths and virtuosic aesthetic heights.

1979 • 123 minutes • Color • 3.0 surround • 1.85:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT 1-BLU-RAY/2-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed 3.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Two audio commentaries: a feature-length one with editor Alan Heim and a scene-specific one with actor Roy Scheider
• Razzle-Dazzle, a new video essay on the film by critic Matt Zoller Seitz
• Episode from 1980 of the television talk show Tomorrow, featuring director Bob Fosse and choreographer Agnes de Mille
• New interview with Heim
• New interview with Fosse biographer Sam Wasson
• Interview excerpts and footage from the set, featuring Fosse and Scheider
• Portrait of a Choreographer, a 2007 documentary on Fosse
• The Soundtrack: Perverting the Standards, a 2007 documentary about the music in the film
• Interview from 2007 with George Benson about his song “On Broadway,” which opens the film
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by theater critic Hilton Als
• More!

TITLE: ALL THAT JAZZ (DUAL-FORMAT 1-BLU-RAY AND 2-DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2388BDDVD
UPC: CC2388BDDVD
ISBN: 978-1-60465-878-1
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 8/26/14


VENGEANCE IS MINE - Blu–ray Edition

VENGEANCE IS MINE - Blu–ray Edition
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Mishima’s Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura (The Pornographers) turns this fact-based story—about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic family—into a cold, perverse, and at times diabolically funny examination of the primitive coexisting with the modern. More than just a true-crime tale, Vengeance Is Mine bares humanity’s snarling id.

1979 • 140 minutes • Color • Monaural • In Japanese with English subtitles • 1.66:1 aspect ratio

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• Restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Audio commentary from 2005 featuring critic Tony Rayns
• Excerpts from a 1999 interview with director Shohei Imamura, produced by the Directors Guild of Japan
• Trailer and teaser
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Atkinson, a 1994 interview with Imamura by writer Toichi Nakata, and writings by Imamura on Vengeance Is Mine and his approach to filmmaking

TITLE: VENGEANCE IS MINE (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2383BD
UPC: 7-15515-12401-0
ISBN: 978-1-60465-873-6
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 8/26/14

Attention Canada: Y tu mamá también is a US Only release. Tie me Up! Tie Me Down! and Vengeance Is Mine are available in English-speaking Canada only. All That Jazz is available in all Canada.

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[Snicket]

I had to work late and just saw the announcements. have to be happy to see Y Tu Mama Tambien in there at long last. Love streams also sounds interesting.

Solid month I would say.

Are we really that confident in those 3 disc plastic cases at this point?

EDIT: Also I just received Persona in the mail.

[jw007]

I am ecstatic about a new Cassavetes release (stand-alone no less). I just had recently watched all his films in the "Five Films" box set and enjoyed them thoroughly. This is one of his later films (if not, last "good" film) and makes for a splendid book-end to the Five Films set.

The other releases I don't care as much for but I'll probably take another good look at Y Tu Mama Tambien (been so many years since I've seen it).

A pretty decent month.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by jayembee

There's still a chance. They only announced five titles, so there must be another one still to come.

Don't tease me

[Ausjdm]

Cuarón and Almodóvar in same month, Brilliant! Plus Cassavetes and Fosse can't ask for more. When Lynch finally gets CC treatment this year, what will be left to complain about lol?? No Ridley Scott or Tarantino etc !

[octagon]

Originally Posted by Ausjdm

When Lynch finally gets CC treatment this year, what will be left to complain about lol?? No Ridley Scott or Tarantino etc !

Moar Lynch is the obvious one but beyond that, we'll think of something.

We always do.