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[Scottie]

http://www.criterion.com/films/28549...an-for-himself

After a decade in the wilds of avant-garde and early video experimentation, Jean-Luc Godard returned to commercial cinema with this work of social commentary, star-driven and narrative while remaining defiantly intellectual and visually cutting-edge. Every Man for Himself, featuring a script by Jean-Claude Carrière and Anne-Marie Miéville, looks at the sexual and professional lives of three people—a television producer (Jacques Dutronc), his ex-girlfriend (Nathalie Baye), and a prostitute (Isabelle Huppert)—to create a meditative story about work, relationships, and the notion of freedom. Made twenty years into his career, the film was, according to Godard, a second debut.

Disc Features
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Le scénario (1979), a short video created by director Jean-Luc Godard to secure financing for Every Man for Himself
New video essay by critic Colin MacCabe
New interviews with actor Isabelle Huppert and producer Marin Karmitz
Archival interviews with actor Nathalie Baye, cinema*tographers Renato Berta and William Lubtchansky, and composer Gabriel Yared
Two back-to-back 1980 appearances by Godard on The Dick Cavett Show
Godard 1980, a short film by Jon Jost, Donald Ranvaud, and Peter Wollen, featuring Godard
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin

http://www.criterion.com/films/28072...in-the-country

This bittersweet work from Jean Renoir, based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, is a tenderly comic idyll about a city family’s picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two local men. Conceived as part of a larger project that was never completed, shot in 1936, and released ten years later, the warmly humanist vignette A Day in the Country ranks among Renoir’s most lyrical films, with a love for nature imbuing its every beautiful frame.

Disc Features
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Introduction by director Jean Renoir from 1962
New interview with Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner about the film’s production
New video essay by Faulkner on Renoir’s methods
Un tournage à la campagne, an 89-minute 1994 compilation of outtakes from the film
Interview with producer Pierre Braunberger from 1979
Screen tests
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Gilberto Perez

http://www.criterion.com/films/27928-don-t-look-now

Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie mesmerize as a married couple on an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences. A masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg, Don’t Look Now, adapted from a story by Daphne du Maurier, is a brilliantly disturbing tale of the supernatural, as renowned for its innovative editing and haunting cinematography as its explicit eroticism and unforgettable denouement, one of the great endings in horror history.

Disc Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED EDITION:

New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Nicolas Roeg, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New conversation between the film’s editor, Graeme Clifford, and film writer Bobbie O’Steen
“Don’t Look Now,” Looking Back, a short 2002 documentary featuring Roeg, Clifford, and cinematographer Anthony Richmond
Death in Venice, a 2006 interview with composer Pino Donaggio
Something Interesting, a new documentary on the writing and making of the film, featuring interviews with Richmond, actors Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, and coscreenwriter Allan Scott
Nicolas Roeg: The Enigma of Film, a new documentary on Roeg’s style, featuring interviews with filmmakers Danny Boyle and Steven Soderbergh
Q&A with Roeg at London’s Ciné Lumière from 2003
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film critic David Thompson

Federico Fellini’s career achieved new levels of eccentricity and brilliance with this remarkable, controversial, extremely loose adaptation of Petronius’s classical Roman satire, written during the reign of Nero. An episodic barrage of sexual licentiousness, godless violence, and eye-catching grotesquerie, Fellini Satyricon follows the exploits of two pansexual young men—the handsome scholar Encolpius and his vulgar, insatiably lusty friend Ascyltus—as they move through a landscape of free-form pagan excess. Creating apparent chaos with exquisite control, Fellini constructs a weird old world that feels like science fiction.

Disc Features
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary featuring an adaptation of Eileen Lanouette Hughes’s memoir On the Set of “Fellini Satyricon”: A Behind-the-Scenes Diary
Ciao, Federico!, Gideon Bachmann’s hour-long documentary shot on the set of Fellini Satyricon
Archival interviews with director Federico Fellini
New interview with cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno
New documentary about Fellini’s adaptation of Petronius’s work, featuring interviews with classicists Luca Canali, a consultant on the film, and Joanna Paul
New interview with photographer Mary Ellen Mark about her experiences on the set and her iconic photographs of Fellini and his film
Felliniana, a presentation of Fellini Satyricon ephemera from the collection of Don Young
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Wood

http://www.criterion.com/films/28620-watership-down

With this passion project, screenwriter-producer-director Martin Rosen brilliantly achieved what was thought difficult, if not impossible: a faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits seeking safety and happiness after their warren comes under terrible threat. With its naturalistic hand-drawn animation, dreamily expressionistic touches, gorgeously bucolic background design, and elegant voice work from such superb English actors as John Hurt, Ralph Richardson, Richard Briers, and Denholm Elliott, Watership Down is an emotionally arresting, dark-toned allegory about freedom amid political turmoil.

Disc Features
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New interview with director Martin Rosen
New appreciation of the film by director Guillermo del Toro
Picture-in-picture storyboard for the entire film (Blu-ray); four film-to-storyboard scene comparisons (DVD)
Defining a Style, a 2008 featurette about the film’s aesthetic
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by comic book writer Gerard Jones

[jw007]

It's a strong month of releases but February is usually a strong month for Criterion from historical patterns.

Watership Down has me the most intrigued. I haven't seen this film yet and plan to rent/borrow it first but I'm thinking this is an instant buy for me.

[StLouisRibs]

A Day in the Country is a 40 minute short - does this mean budget release?

[Brad1963]

http://www.playbuzz.com/willsr10/whi...rector-are-you.

Something fun.

I'm Jean-Luc Godard

[jhiggy23]

Only Ozu for me. Great month in terms of directors, albeit not their strongest works.

[Namuhana]

I just watched Watership Down yesterday and quite liked it, so I may pick up that one. I haven't heard of any of the other titles, though, but I do like Godard, Ozu, and Fellini.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by jhiggy23

Only Ozu for me. Great month in terms of directors, albeit not their strongest works.

What do you think is Roeg's strongest work? It's definitely not Don't Look Now, so I agree with you on that.

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by StLouisRibs

A Day in the Country is a 40 minute short - does this mean budget release?

Probably

Originally Posted by Brad1963

http://www.playbuzz.com/willsr10/whi...rector-are-you.

Something fun.

I'm Jean-Luc Godard

Ditto!

[Polaroid]

Im so excited and happy about February - we got A LOT of film everyone has asked for

And more Fellini on bluray!

[SammyJankis]

Ha. Don't Look Now is my favorite of his, and I don't even have to think about it.

Eager to see more of his work, though. Just jazzed that this film is finally getting its blu release.

[shadedpain4]

Any month with an Ozu is an excellent month.

[themp3000]

The first month in some time that I can easily say I'll pick up all of them.

[jw007]

Originally Posted by SammyJankis

Ha. Don't Look Now is my favorite of his, and I don't even have to think about it.

Eager to see more of his work, though. Just jazzed that this film is finally getting its blu release.

For me, its definitely Insignificance. I don't have to bat an eye for that. Such an interesting film.

[Polaroid]

Im wondering how Watership Down will look transfer wise - I've seen some of the Disney films remastered and they look horrible and really bad.

Not seen Criterion handle cartoon animated films so be a nice surprise I guess

[spargs]

What a month! Definitely buying Don't Look Now, Fellini Satyricon and Watership Down. Don't Look Now has been one of my Top 5 wanted films on Blu-ray for years!

I admittedly don't know too much about Godard's post-70s work, but considering I love his '60s films through Weekend, and being his return to more "commercial" films I might give Every Man for Himself a blind buy.

Ozu is one of those directors I haven't explored yet... maybe in the future, just not yet. I just finally got into Fellini by purchasing his films during the recent Criterion and B&N sales, and Antonioni is probably next on my list to "discover." It never ends! LOL

[Scottie]

Don't Look Now, Fellini Satyricon, and Watership Down have been removed from the list.

I will be watching A Day in the Country and Watership Down prior to committing to a purchase of them. Don't Look Now (seen) is a definite purchase as is An Autumn Afternoon (blind). Being that I cannot see Every Man for Himself or Fellini Satyricon ahead of time, I assume I will be blinding these two as well.

Originally Posted by SammyJankis

Ha. Don't Look Now is my favorite of his, and I don't even have to think about it.

Eager to see more of his work, though. Just jazzed that this film is finally getting its blu release.

It is mine, without a doubt, as well.

[Brad1963]

Originally Posted by iScottie

Probably



Ditto!

[SammyJankis]

Figured this was worth sharing.

[StLouisRibs]

A Day in the Country is full price - an interesting decision...

[Scottie]

http://www.criterion.com/films/28072...in-the-country

This bittersweet work from Jean Renoir, based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, is a tenderly comic idyll about a city family’s picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two local men. Conceived as part of a larger project that was never completed, shot in 1936, and released ten years later, the warmly humanist vignette A Day in the Country ranks among Renoir’s most lyrical films, with a love for nature imbuing its every beautiful frame.

Disc Features
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Introduction by director Jean Renoir from 1962
New interview with Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner about the film’s production
New video essay by Faulkner on Renoir’s methods
Un tournage à la campagne, an 89-minute 1994 compilation of outtakes from the film
Interview with producer Pierre Braunberger from 1979
Screen tests
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Gilberto Perez