The Criterion Collection

[jonali]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

Sun Ra’s Space is the Place (1974) opens on the Criterion Channel with the Criterion and Janus logos!

This might be included in an Afrofuturist collection alongside Welcome II the Terrordome (announced in 2020) and The Brother From Another Planet, which Sayles himself told will be released by Criterion.

[MifuneFan]

Just noticed Criterion have added packaging photos to their pages for Isle of Dogs, and The French Dispatch:

[dex14]

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
https://www.criterion.com/films/3487...-big-adventure

Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray
https://www.criterion.com/films/3410...lms-by-man-ray

Salaam Bombay!
https://www.criterion.com/films/33028-salaam-bombay

David Byrne’s American Utopia
https://www.criterion.com/films/3273...merican-utopia

I Know Where I’m Going!
https://www.criterion.com/films/3410...lms-by-man-ray

His Girl Friday
https://www.criterion.com/films/27903-his-girl-friday

[BBC Enthusiast]

New releases are up

[MifuneFan]

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/films/3487...-big-adventure

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

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Tim Burton, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Audio commentary by Burton and actor-cowriter Paul Reubens
• Audio commentary by composer Danny Elfman (over a music-only soundtrack to the film)
• New interview with Burton and actor-filmmaker Richard Ayoade
• New interviews with cowriter Michael Varhol, editor Billy Weber, production designer David L. Snyder, and producer Richard Abramson, conducted by critic Mark Olsen
• Interview from 2005 with Reubens
• Excerpts from the fortieth anniversary screening of the film presented by Nostalgic Nebula and hosted by comedian Dana Gould
• Deleted scenes
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by radio and podcast host Jesse Thorn

New cover by Luigi Olivadot

[MifuneFan]

I Know Where I’m Going! 4K UHD


https://www.criterion.com/films/633-...here-i-m-going

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration by the BFI National Archive and The Film Foundation, supervised by filmmaker Martin Scorsese and editor Thelma Schoonmaker Powell, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Audio commentary featuring film historian Ian Christie
• Restoration demonstration with an introduction by Scorsese and commentary by Schoonmaker Powell
• Behind-the-scenes stills narrated by Schoonmaker Powell
• “I Know Where I’m Going!” Revisited, a 1994 documentary by Mark Cousins
• Photo-essay by writer Nancy Franklin exploring the locations used in the film
• Home movies from one of director Michael Powell’s Scottish expeditions, narrated by Schoonmaker Powell
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith

New cover by Thinh Dinh

[queen_kitty]

The Pee-Wee cover is so much fun!!

[MifuneFan]

His Girl Friday 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/films/27903-his-girl-friday

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration of His Girl Friday, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film, The Front Page, and the special features
• 4K digital restoration of The Front Page, made from a recently discovered print of director Lewis Milestone’s preferred version, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Interview with film scholar David Bordwell
• Archival interviews with His Girl Friday director Howard Hawks
• Featurettes from 1999 and 2006 about Hawks and actor Rosalind Russell
• Radio adaptation of His Girl Friday from 1940
• Program about the restoration of The Front Page
• Program about playwright and screenwriter Ben Hecht
• Radio adaptations of the play The Front Page from 1937 and 1946
• Trailers
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Plus: Essays on His Girl Friday and The Front Page by film critics Farran Smith Nehme and Michael Sragow

Cover by Randy Glass

[MifuneFan]

David Byrne’s American Utopia 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/films/3273...merican-utopia

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

• 4K digital master, supervised by director of photography Ellen Kuras, with 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
• New documentary featuring Kuras, musician-producer David Byrne, dancer-vocalist Tendayi Kuumba, director Spike Lee, choreographer and musical stager Annie-B Parson, lighting designer Rob Sinclair, and bassist Bobby Wooten III
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing and English descriptive audio
• PLUS: An essay by critic K. Austin Collins and an appreciation by critic Jia Tolentino

New cover based on a collage by Annie-B Parson

[Watershipdownisgood]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/films/3487...-big-adventure

Criterion putting out Pee Wees Big Adventure, and House Party in the same year is amazing I don't think this would've ever happened in the past for Criterion, but here we are. Also His Girl Friday is a classic flick, and I hear I Know Where I'm Going! is great too I've heard about it so much on here so I'm in for these three flicks.

[Cremildo]

The art for I Know Where I'm Going! deserves a poster.

[MifuneFan]

Salaam Bombay! 4K UHD

https://www.criterion.com/films/33028-salaam-bombay

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

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Mira Nair, 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
• Audio commentaries featuring Nair and director of photography Sandi Sissel
• New conversation between Nair and composer L. Subramaniam
• Archival interviews with screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala and actors Aneeta Kanwar, Bernard Sissel, Shafiq Syed, and Hansa Vithal
• Program about the Salaam Baalak Trust and its mission to support the street children of Mumbai
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Devika Girish

[Scottie]

Salaam Bombay is so exciting to see.

Will add the database entries in a bit, unless someone doesn’t mind helping.

[javy]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

[CENTER]I Know Where I’m Going! 4K UHD


https://www.criterion.com/films/633-...here-i-m-going

You predicted and it came true! Nice! And the cover is beautiful! 🖤

Also in for Salaam Bombay and the Man Ray collection.

Very very awesome month.

[MifuneFan]

Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray Blu-ray

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restorations of all four films, featuring a score by SQÜRL presented in 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio
• Interview with Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan, who form the avant-rock band SQÜRL
• Concert from 2023 featuring SQÜRL performing its semi-improvised score to Man Ray’s films
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by author Mark Polizzotti

New cover by Fred Davis

The swirling surrealist dreams of Man Ray are high-water marks of 1920s avant-garde cinema, a nexus of cryptic themes, dark eroticism, and playful abstraction. Seemingly plucked from an unconscious realm, these four shorts—Le retour à la raison, Emak bakia, L’étoile de mer, and Les mystères du château du dé—find the visionary artist experimenting with the limitless possibilities of montage, superimposition, distortion, and even the application of objects directly onto celluloid. Set here to an ethereal score by the Jim Jarmusch–Carter Logan collaboration SQÜRL, these cine-poems are optical carnival rides that surprise, delight, and unsettle with each tantalizing frame.

[queen_kitty]

I Know Where I’m Going! is going to be a blind-buy for me, I've never heard of it but it sounds right up my alley! I just bought Pee-wee on bluray, but the art and extras look great and I don't think I can resist buying it again.

[Winslow Leach]

Yay!

[Ned Brainard]

Well, so much for a 90th anniversary salute for Captain Blood. My money is safe for another month.

[softunderbelly]

Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray Blu-ray
Thanks MifuneFan. Really looking forward to this.

[DimitriL]

Okay, question: has Criterion ever done a commentary over the music-only track before? Sort of fascinated by that on the Pee-Wee listing.

Also, so happy about I Know Where I'm Going arriving at last. I know a lot of people here were despairing that it - or any other Powell & Pressburger films - were ever going to show up again.