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[spargs]

Definitely in on The Asphalt Jungle.

[MikeZ.]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I'm all in for The Asphalt Jungle, and that will be a day one purchase.

Same here.

[MifuneFan]

Loving the cover for Roma

https://www.criterion.com/films/28039-roma

• New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Audio commentary featuring Frank Burke, author of Fellini’s Films
• Deleted scenes
• New interview with filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino on the lasting influence of director Federico Fellini
• New interview with Italian poet and Fellini friend Valerio Magrelli
• Images from the Felliniana archive of collector Don Young
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Forgacs

[kuro_sawa]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I'm all in for The Asphalt Jungle, and that will be a day one purchase.

Me too, I can't wait. It also helps that the disc is STACKED!

[MifuneFan]

One more off that list of Warner titles that went OOP at the same time a year or so ago. Klute and Blow Up seem like certainties at this point..And the Magnificent Ambersons too hopefully

Originally Posted by Yami

Warner Archive said last year that it was "under consideration" for Blu, but since then their DVD release has went OOP so I wouldn't be surprised at all if it went to Criterion. In fact, back in November, it was noted that these went OOP at around the same time:

Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)
Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Breaking Point (Michael Curtiz)
Barcelona (Whit Stillman)
Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)
A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan)
Klute (Alan Pakula)
Day for Night (Francois Truffaut)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)

Day for Night and the Before Trilogy have already been confirmed as future Criterion releases, and Whit Stillman has made no secret of wanting Criterion to release Barcelona so that's also likely.

[belcherman]

I'm very excited about the The Asphalt Jungle, especially since it includes the Sterling Hayden documentary Pharos of Chaos. Sterling Hayden was an unforgettable character who was more wild and unpredictable than any character he portrayed. Day 1 for me, I just hope it coincides with a sale or a coupon.

While I'm disappointed there was no His Girl Friday announcement, this makes up for it nicely.

[Gerby]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

One more off that list of Warner titles that went OOP at the same time a year or so ago. Klute and Blow Up seem like certainties at this point..And the Magnificent Ambersons too hopefully

All 5 of those possibilities are must buys. I hope we see them all get released.

[bwdowiak]

happy about the Bunuel and the John Huston film.

pretty darn good year for Criterion releases.

[pedromvu]

Wow was really hoping for The Before Trilogy, but The Exterminating Angel is enough to make my day, thanks Criterion

[belcherman]

Originally Posted by Gerby

All 5 of those possibilities are must buys. I hope we see them all get released.

Not that this means anything, but Curtiz and Pakula have phantom pages. The others, of course, have real pages.

[theater dreamer]

Yeah, that occurred to me after I posted it. But, to me, it's two different points in the plus column. I want to explore his silent films, and I want to familiarize myself more with his British period. I figured that there might be some people out there who are interested in Hitch, and didn't know he did all his silent film work in England.

Originally Posted by Knaldskalle

I share your love for The Lodger (by far his best silent movie, imo) and was foolish enough to post that Hitch's original was better than the remake when Kino announced the release of John Brahms' 1944 version a few months ago.

But I have to say that "one of his best silent films, and it's from his British period" is a bit redundant; all his silent movies are from his British period.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

One more off that list of Warner titles that went OOP at the same time a year or so ago. Klute and Blow Up seem like certainties at this point..And the Magnificent Ambersons too hopefully

I think I might go even battier over A Face in the Crowd than I have over The Asphalt Jungle.

And that's saying something.

[Pequod]

Asphalt Jungle! YES!

[pro-bassoonist]

Criterion Announces December Titles

THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL

A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and inexplicably find themselves unable to leave in The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador), a daring masterpiece from Luis Buñuel (Belle de jour, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie). Made just one year after his international sensationViridiana, this film, full of eerie, comic absurdity, furthers Buñuel's wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes.

1962 * 94 minutes * Black & White * Monaural * In Spanish with English subtitles * 1.33:1 aspect ratio

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

Restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel, a 2008 documentary featuring writer Jean-Claude Carrière and filmmaker Juan Luis Buñuel
Interviews with actor Silvia Pinal and filmmaker Arturo Ripstein from 2006
Trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Marsha Kinder and an interview with director Luis Buñuel from the 1970s

BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
STREET 12/6/16
CAT. NO. CC2708BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-236-6
UPC 7-15515-19031-2

HEART OF A DOG

Heart of a Dog marks the first feature film by multimedia artist Laurie Anderson in over thirty years. A cinematic tone poem that flows from a sustained meditation on death and other forms of absence, the film seamlessly weaves together thoughts on Tibetan Buddhism, reincarnation, the modern surveillance state, and the artistic lives of dogs, with an elegy for the filmmaker's beloved rat terrier, Lolabelle, at its heart. Narrated by Anderson with her characteristic wry wit, and featuring a plaintive, free-form score by the filmmaker, the tender and provocative Heart of a Dog continues Anderson's five-decade career of imbuing the everyday with a sense of dreamlike wonder.

2015 * 75 minutes * Color * 5.1 surround * 1.78:1 aspect ratio

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

High-definition digital master, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New conversation between director Laurie Anderson and coproducer Jake Perlin
Footage of Anderson's 2016 Concert for Dogs
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by film critic Glenn Kenny

BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
STREET 12/6/16
CAT. NO. CC2709BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-237-3
UPC 7-15515-19041-1


THE ASPHALT JUNGLE

In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American Midwest, an aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a plan for a million-dollar jewel heist and draws a wealthy lawyer and a cherry-picked trio of outlaws into his carefully devised but inevitably doomed scheme. Anchored by an abundance of nuanced performances from a gifted ensemble-including a tight-jawed Sterling Hayden (Dr. Strangelove) and a sultry Marilyn Monroe (Some Like It Hot) in her breakout role-this gritty crime classic by John Huston (The Maltese Falcon) climaxes in a meticulously detailed anatomy of a robbery that has reverberated through the genre ever since. An uncommonly naturalistic view of a seamy underworld, The Asphalt Jungle painstakingly depicts the calm professionalism and toughness of its gangster heroes while evincing a remarkable depth of compassion for their all-too-human fragility, and it showcases a master filmmaker at the height of his powers.

1950 * 112 minutes * Black & White * Monaural * 1.37:1 aspect ratio

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary from 2004 by film historian Drew Casper, featuring recordings of actor James Whitmore
New interviews with film noir historian Eddie Muller and cinematographer John Bailey
Archival footage of writer-director John Huston discussing the film
Pharos of Chaos, a 1983 documentary about actor Sterling Hayden
Episode of the television program City Lights from 1979 featuring John Huston
Audio excerpts of archival interviews with Huston
Excerpts from footage of the 1983 AFI Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony honoring Huston, featuring actor Sam Jaffe and the filmmaker
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien
More!

BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
STREET 12/13/16
CAT. NO. CC2711BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-239-7
UPC 7-15515-19061-9

ROMA

Travelogue, memoir, and outrageous cinematic spectacle converge in this kaleidoscopic valentine to the Eternal City, composed by one of its most iconic inhabitants. Leisurely one moment and breathless the next, this urban fantasia by Federico Fellini (8 1/2, La dolce vita) interweaves recollections of the director's young adulthood in the era of Mussolini with an impressionistic portrait of contemporary Rome, where he and his film crew are gathering footage of the bustling cityscape. The material delights of sex, food, nightlife, and one hallucinatory ecclesiastical fashion show are shot through with glimmers of a monumental past: the Colosseum encircled by traffic, ancient frescoes unearthed in a subway tunnel, a pigeon-befouled statue of Caesar. With a head-spinning mix of documentary immediacy and extravagant artifice, Roma penetrates the myth and mystique of Italy's storied capital, a city Fellini called "the most wonderful movie set in the world."

1972 * 120 minutes * Color * Monaural * In Italian with English subtitles * 1.85:1 aspect ratio

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary featuring Frank Burke, author of Fellini's Films
Deleted scenes
New interview with filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino on the lasting influence of director Federico Fellini
New interview with Italian poet and Fellini friend Valerio Magrelli
Images from the Felliniana archive of collector Don Young
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Forgacs

BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
STREET 12/13/16
CAT. NO. CC2713BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-241-0
UPC 7-15515-19081-7

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[theater dreamer]

Wow!!!!!!! The Asphalt Jungle!!!!! Fanfreakingtastic!!!!!!



"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!!!!!"

So, this is how getting your "#1 most wanted film on blu-ray" knocked off the list feels like? I love it. This just made my day. Thank you, Criterion. Fantastic film, and I'm absolutely pumped to see that the disc is going to be loaded up with extras!

More Fellini and Luis Buñuel, too. Awesome. What a month!

[theater dreamer]

You're not kidding. Overjoyed, really.

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

Without spoiling the title...Theater Dreamer is going to be very happy with today's announcements...

[scottpcusa]

Originally Posted by ShellOilJunior

Yes, sir:

[Show spoiler]

I'm so excited about this! I have been wanting this and "Discreet Charm" for a long time!

[mrjohnnyb]

Wow!

I am stoked!

The Exterminating Angel and The Asphalt Jungle are my absolute favorite choices by Criterion this year!

The world needs more Luis Buñuel and John Huston!

[Sifox211]

A great month! But no love for Laurie Anderson? I remember seeing her in concert on her Home of the brave tour back in the mid 80s - an exhilarating, unforgettable experience.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by Sifox211

A great month! But no love for Laurie Anderson? I remember seeing her in concert on her Home of the brave tour back in the mid 80s - an exhilarating, unforgettable experience.

I love her work. I went on a big Laurie Anderson kick in college (thanks Peter Gabriel!) and especially fell in love with Big Science. That record continues to be a favorite to this day.

I'm curious about the film though (especially after Snicket's praise of it and Robert Christgaus enthusiastic reaction to the score)