The Criterion Collection

[MifuneFan]

Ugetsu is up!

https://www.criterion.com/films/369-ugetsu

Disc Features

New 4K digital restoration undertaken by The Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary by filmmaker, critic, and festival programmer Tony Rayns
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975), a 150-minute documentary by Kaneto Shindo
Two Worlds Intertwined, a 2005 appreciation of Ugetsu by filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda
Process and Production, a 2005 interview with Tokuzo Tanaka, first assistant director on Ugetsu
Interview from 1992 with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa
Trailers
An essay by film critic Phillip Lopate (Blu-ray and DVD) and three short stories that influenced Mizoguchi in making the film (Blu-ray only)

Cover by Michael Boland

[MifuneFan]

Straw Dogs

https://www.criterion.com/films/730-straw-dogs

Disc Features

New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary from 2003 by Stephen Prince, author of Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies
Mantrap: “Straw Dogs”—The Final Cut, a 2003 documentary about the making of the film, featuring cast and crew
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron, a 1993 documentary about the director featuring actors Kris Kristofferson, Jason Robards, Ali MacGraw, and many others
New conversation between film critic Michael Sragow and filmmaker Roger Spottiswoode, who worked as one of the editors on the film
New interview with film scholar Linda Williams about the controversies surrounding the film
Archival interviews with actor Susan George, producer Daniel Melnick, and Peckinpah biographer Garner Simmons
Behind-the-scenes footage
TV spots and trailers
PLUS: An essay by scholar and critic Joshua Clover

Cover based on a theatrical poster

[SammyJankis]

Um, yes please!

[Akijama]

Solid month.

[Abdrewes]

That cover!

Edit: Those covers

[Polaroid]

Lol no Le Samourai .. what a tease XD

[themp3000]

Just They Live By Night and Straw Dogs for me!

[Scottie]

The second I stop refreshing.

[The Great Owl]

Oh my dear sweet Lord, Criterion is going to get ahold of my wallet in June. Actually, they'll get it at the next B&N sale, but, same thing.

I'm all in for...

They Live By Night
The Lodger
Straw Dogs
Ugetsu

The extras on They Live By Night look spectacular.

I'm really glad that we're getting Downhill (When Boys Leave Home) as an extra on The Lodger release.

[MifuneFan]

Hitchcock's The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

https://www.criterion.com/films/2800...the-london-fog

Disc Features

2K digital restoration, with a new score by composer Neil Brand, performed by the Orchestra of Saint Paul’s
Downhill, director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 feature film starring Ivor Novello, in a 2K digital restoration with a new piano score by Brand
New interview with film scholar William Rothman on Hitchcock’s visual signatures
New video essay by art historian Steven Jacobs about Hitchcock’s use of architecture
Excerpts from audio interviews with Hitchcock by filmmakers François Truffaut (1962) and Peter Bogdanovich (1963)
Radio adaptation of The Lodger from 1940, directed by Hitchcock
New interview with Brand on composing for silent film
PLUS: Essays on The Lodger and Downhill by critic Philip Kemp

New cover by Geoff Grandfield

[jedidarrick]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Straw Dogs

https://www.criterion.com/films/730-straw-dogs

Pretty strong meat there from (sniff) Sam Peckinpah.

[xxnomad]

Ohhhh lawdy. This makes 2 months in a row where I'm getting all titles.

[Kolm14]

Hmmm so should I go out to Barnes and Noble and grab Le Samourai since it's sold out everywhere online, or just be patient and bet on a blu-ray coming soon?

[Hoke Moseley]

Man, that They Live by Night cover is pretty sweet.

[MifuneFan]

Here are the details for The Marseille Trilogy

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/12...seille-trilogy

In the 1930s, Marcel Pagnol, a leading light of the Paris theater, set out for new horizons as a filmmaker in his native Provence. His early masterpieces Marius, Fanny, and César mix theatrical stagecraft with realistic location photography to create an epic love story from the fabric of everyday life. Gruff, sentimental César (music-hall star Raimu) owns a waterfront bar in the old port of Marseille, where his son, Marius (Pierre Fresnay), wipes down tables and dreams of a life at sea. The prosperous, middle-aged sailmaker Panisse (Fernand Charpin), wanting to wed Marius’s sweetheart, Fanny (Orane Demazis), sets up a generation-spanning romantic triangle, the story of which unfolds in a series of fateful twists in the films of The Marseille Trilogy, which first earned Pagnol his place in cinema history. “If Pagnol is not the greatest auteur of the sound film,” critic André Bazin wrote, “he is in any case something akin to its genius.”

Disc Features

New 4K digital restorations of all three films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays
New introduction by filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier
New interview with Nicolas Pagnol, writer-director Marcel Pagnol’s grandson
Segments of Marcel Pagnol: Morceaux de choisis, a 1973 documentary series on Pagnol’s life and work
Short documentary on the Marseille harbor by Pagnol
Archival interviews with actors Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay, and Robert Vattier
Pagnol’s Poetic Realism, a new video essay by scholar Brett Bowles
French television clip about the restoration of the trilogy
Theatrical rerelease trailer
New English subtitle translations
More!
PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Atkinson and excerpts from Pagnol’s memoirs

New cover by Manuele Fior

[lilboyblu]

They Live By Night and Straw Dogs for me.

[CRM 114]

Can't wait to pick up The Lodger.

[JoeBuck]

Hot damn is that a slate or WHAT! Great cover art on all releases too!
I'll take them all!

[Scottie]

Yeah, we can easily say the artwork for They Live by Night is one of the studio's best...even if it does remind me a bit of the Drive poster.

[jw007]

This is a great month for people who like older movies (mid 1920s-early 1970s), but for those who wanted more contemporary and modern movies, this is not their month! Good to see a couple of upgrades though!