I haven`t heard any buzz on more Peckinpah, but a Criterion Alfredo Garcia would make me ecstatic.
Criterion has stated in the past that this is not one of the titles they licensed from MGM. It seems like they are licensing more from the studio, so it's possible we'll see a release in the future. I personally doubt it. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia already has a commentary and excellent picture quality. There certainly is more that could be done with it but Criterion seems to be targeting titles that were previously barebones and had image/audio problems.
Trust me...I'd much rather see Criterion release it than Fox...but what are the chances of Fox giving them the BD rights?
Are there any Fox titles on Criterion BD currently? I know that Eureka! released both Sunrise and City Girl (both Fox titles), but these are silents and don't have the same mass appeal as The King of Comedy.
Bigger than Life, The Leopard, The Thin Red Line, The Darjeeling Limited....
What a difference a couple months makes. I remember being really angry with Criterion's August Blu-Ray lineup of only Crumb and Black Orpheus and missing out on so many DVD only exclusives.
Now between September and November we get a total of 20 films, every single one available on both Blu and DVD. Seems like Criterion is finally taking Blu-Ray seriously.
The blu-ray sales during the B&N sale must have been promising enough to increase blu-ray production by a lot. I never imagined seeing 10 blu discs released in a month from Criterion.
Yeah, I believe it was some popular hip beer in the 70's-80's maybe. I'm not sure. Wasn't born yet. All I know is it isn't popular anymore, unless your a fan of Blue Velvet.
Clearly you've never been to a bar frequented by hipsters
The blu-ray sales during the B&N sale must have been promising enough to increase blu-ray production by a lot. I never imagined seeing 10 blu discs released in a month from Criterion.
I asked the B&N manager at my store if they'll have a Criterion sale in Nov and he said, maybe if we still exist by then, WTF??? (There not going out of business, are they?!?) THE CRITERION SALE IS THE ONLY REASON I SHOP THERE!!!
I asked the B&N manager at my store if they'll have a Criterion sale in Nov and he said, maybe if we still exist by then, WTF??? (There not going out of business, are they?!?) THE CRITERION SALE IS THE ONLY REASON I SHOP THERE!!!
I work in the stock market for a living and have seen nothing to indicate Barnes & Noble is any danger of bankruptcy. Their stock is doing no worse than the market as a whole over the past couple years. In fact their stock is up a good deal over the past month or so.
I work in the stock market for a living and have seen nothing to indicate Barnes & Noble is any danger of bankruptcy. Their stock is doing no worse than the market as a whole over the past couple years. In fact their stock is up a good deal over the past month or so.
Criterion has stated in the past that this is not one of the titles they licensed from MGM. It seems like they are licensing more from the studio, so it's possible we'll see a release in the future. I personally doubt it. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia already has a commentary and excellent picture quality. There certainly is more that could be done with it but Criterion seems to be targeting titles that were previously barebones and had image/audio problems.
I can sympathize with that sentiment, I guess. It's nice to want things and all that, but damnit if I don't want to see Warren Oates poor some liquor on his crotch in high def!
I work in the stock market for a living and have seen nothing to indicate Barnes & Noble is any danger of bankruptcy. Their stock is doing no worse than the market as a whole over the past couple years. In fact their stock is up a good deal over the past month or so.
What market is that? Australian? The reason the stock is up is that they put themselves on the chopping block and want to find a buyer for the company...
Lars von Trier (Europa, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark) shook up the film world when he premiered Antichrist at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In this graphic psychodrama, a grief-stricken man and woman—a searing Willem Dafoe (Platoon, The Last Temptation of Christ) and Cannes best actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (Jane Eyre, 21 Grams)—retreat to a cabin deep in the woods after the accidental death of their infant son, only to find terror and violence at the hands of nature and, ultimately, each other. But this most confrontational work yet from one of contemporary cinema’s most controversial artists is no mere provocation. It is a visually sublime, emotionally ravaging journey to the darkest corners of the possessed human mind; a disturbing battle of the sexes that pits rational psychology against age-old superstition; and a profoundly effective horror film.
2009 • 108 minutes • Color/Black & White • Surround • 2.35:1 aspect ratio
DIRECTOR APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Lars von Trier and supervised by director of photography Anthony Dod Mantle, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary by von Trier and professor Murray Smith
• Video interviews with von Trier and actors Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg
• A collection of video pieces delving into the production of Antichrist, including interviews with von Trier and key members of his filmmaking team as well as behind-the-scenes footage
• Chaos Reigns at the Cannes Film Festival 2009, a documentary on the film’s world premiere, plus press interviews with Dafoe and Gainsbourg
• Three theatrical trailers
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ian Christie
The Night of the Hunter—incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a standalone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum (Cape Fear, The Friends of Eddie Coyle) as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters (A Place in the Sun, The Diary of Anne Frank) are uncovered by her terrified young children. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic—also featuring the contributions of actress Lillian Gish (Intolerance, Duel in the Sun) and writer James Agee—is cinema’s quirkiest rendering of the battle between good and evil.
1955 • 93 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.66:1 aspect ratio
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary featuring assistant director Terry Sanders, film critic F. X. Feeney, archivist Robert Gitt, and author Preston Neal Jones
• Charles Laughton Directs “The Night of the Hunter,” a two-and-a-half-hour archival treasure trove of outtakes from the film
• New documentary featuring interviews with producer Paul Gregory, Sanders, Jones, and author Jeffrey Couchman
• New video interview with Simon Callow, author of Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor
• Clip from the The Ed Sullivan Show, in which cast members perform live a scene that was deleted from the film
• Fifteen-minute episode of the BBC show Moving Pictures about the film
• Archival interview with cinematographer Stanley Cortez
• Gallery of sketches by author Davis Grubb
• New video conversation between Gitt and film critic Leonard Maltin about Charles Laughton Directs “The Night of the Hunter”
• Original theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Michael Sragow
TITLE: The Night of the Hunter (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1955BD
UPC: 7-15515-06451-4
ISBN: 978-1-60465-349-6
SRP: $49.95
STREET: 11/16/10
MODERN TIMES – BLU-RAY
Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin’s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). With its barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary on class struggle during the Great Depression, Modern Times—though made almost a decade into the talkie era and containing moments of sound (even song!)—is a timeless showcase of Chaplin’s untouchable genius as a director of silent comedy.
1936 • 87 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• New audio commentary by Chaplin biographer David Robinson
• Two new visual essays, by Chaplin historians John Bengtson and Jeffrey Vance
• New program on the film’s visual and sound effects, with experts Craig Barron and Ben Burtt
• Interview from 1992 with Modern Times music arranger David Raksin
• Chaplin Today: “Modern Times” (2004), a half-hour program with filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• Two segments removed from the film
• Three theatrical trailers
• All at Sea (1933), a home movie by Alistair Cooke featuring Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, and Cooke, plus a new score by Donald Sosin and a new interview with Cooke’s daughter, Susan Cooke Kittredge
• The Rink (1916), a Chaplin two-reeler highlighting his skill on wheels
• For the First Time (1967), a Cuban documentary short about a projectionist who shows Modern Times to first-time moviegoers
• More!
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Saul Austerlitz and a piece by film scholar Lisa Stein that includes excerpts from Chaplin’s writing about his travels in 1931 and 1932
TITLE: Modern Times (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1957BD
UPC: 7-15515-06471-2
ISBN: 978-1-60465-351-9
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 11/16/10
AMERICA LOST AND FOUND: THE BBS STORY –
*Blu-ray out on 11/23 & DVD out on 12/14
HEAD
Hey, hey, it’s the Monkees . . . being catapulted through one of American cinema’s
most surreal sixties odysseys. In it, Mickey Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith,
and Peter Tork become trapped in a kaleidoscopic satire that’s movie homage,
media send-up, concert movie, and antiwar cry all at once. Head escaped
commercial success on its release but has since been reclaimed as one of the great
cult objects of its era.
1968 • 85 minutes • Color • Monaural/Surround • 1.78:1 aspect ratio
Special Features
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and
uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary featuring Monkees Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork
• New video interview with director Bob Rafelson
• New documentary about BBS, featuring critic David Thomson and historian
Douglas Brinkley
• More!
EASY RIDER
This is the definitive counterculture blockbuster. The former clean-cut teen star
Dennis Hopper’s down-and-dirty directorial debut, Easy Rider heralded the arrival of
a new voice in film, one planted firmly, angrily against the mainstream. After Easy
Rider’s cross-country journey—with its radical, New Wave–style editing, outsider-
rock soundtrack, revelatory performance by a young Jack Nicholson, and explosive
ending—the American road trip would never be the same.
1969 • 96 minutes • Color • Surround • 1.85:1 aspect ratio
Special Features
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary featuring director Dennis Hopper
• Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage, a 1999 documentary featuring behind-the-scenes
footage
• Footage of Hopper and star Peter Fonda at Cannes in 1969
• New video interview with BBS’s Steve Blauner
• More!
FIVE EASY PIECES
Jack Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirtysomething
oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of romantic or familial
responsibility, who returns to his childhood home to see his ailing estranged father,
his blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black, like Nicholson nominated for an Oscar) in tow.
Moving in its simplicity and gritty in its textures, Bob Rafelson’s Five Easy Pieces is a
lasting example of early 1970s American alienation.
1970 • 98 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.85:1 aspect ratio
Special Features
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural
soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary featuring director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby
Rafelson
• Soul Searching in Five Easy Pieces, a 2009 video piece in which Rafelson discusses
the film
• BBStory, a 2009 documentary
• Excerpts from an audio recording of Rafelson at the American Film Institute in 1976
DRIVE, HE SAID
Based on the best-selling novel by Jeremy Larner, Drive, He Said is free-spirited and
sobering by turns, a sketch of the exploits of a disaffected college basketball player
and his increasingly radical roommate, a feverishly shot and edited snapshot of the
early seventies (some of it was filmed during an actual campus protest). Jack
Nicholson’s audacious comedy (starring Bruce Dern and Karen Black) is a startling
howl direct from the zeitgeist.
1970 • 90 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.85:1 aspect ratio
Special Features
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural
soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom, a 2009 video piece
in which director Jack Nicholson discusses the experience of making this film
• Theatrical trailer
• More!
A SAFE PLACE
In this delicate, introspective drama, laced with fantasy elements, Tuesday Weld
stars as a fragile young woman in New York unable to reconcile her ambiguous past
with her unmoored present; Orson Welles as an enchanting Central Park magician
and Jack Nicholson as a mysterious ex-lover round out the cast. A Safe Place was
directed by independent cinema icon Henry Jaglom.
1971 • 92 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.85:1 aspect ratio
Special Features
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural
soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary featuring director Henry Jaglom
• Henry Jaglom Finds “A Safe Place,” a 2009 video piece in which the director
discusses the film
• Notes on the New York Film Festival, a 1971 video piece featuring an interview
conducted by critic Molly Haskell with directors Peter Bogdanovich and Jaglom
about their films The Last Picture Show and A Safe Place
• Deleted scene and screen tests
• Theatrical trailer
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
The Last Picture Show is one of the key films of the American cinema renaissance of
the seventies. Set during the early fifties in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever
dust up a movie screen, this aching portrait of a dying West, adapted from Larry
McMurtry’s novel, focuses on the daily shuffles of three futureless teens—enigmatic
Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), wayward jock Duane (Jeff Bridges), and desperate-to-
be-adored rich girl Jacy (Cybil Shepherd)—and the aging lost souls who bump up
against them in the night like drifting tumbleweeds. This hushed depiction of
crumbling American values remains the pivotal film in the career of the invaluable
director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich.
1971 • 126 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.85:1 aspect ratio
Special Features
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural
soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Two audio commentaries, one featuring director Peter Bogdanovich and the other
featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman,
and Frank Marshall
• Picture This, a 1990 documentary by George Hickenlooper
• “The Last Picture Show”: A Look Back, an hour-long 1999 documentary
• 2009 interview with Bogdanovich
• Screen tests and location footage
• Theatrical trailers and more!
THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS
For his electrifying follow-up to the smash success of Five Easy Pieces, Bob
Rafelson dug even deeper into the crushed dreams of wayward America. Jack
Nicholson and Bruce Dern play estranged siblings David and Jason, the former a
depressive late-night radio talk show host, the latter an extroverted con man; when
Jason drags his younger brother to a dreary Atlantic City and into a real-estate
scam, events spiral into tragedy.
1972 • 104 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.85:1 aspect ratio
Special Features
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural
soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Selected-scene audio commentary featuring director Bob Rafelson
• Reflections of a Philosopher King, a 2009 documentary about the making of the film
• Afterthoughts, a short 2002 documentary about the film, produced by Rafelson
• Theatrical trailer
TITLE: America Lost and Found: The BBS Story (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1948BD
UPC: 7-15515-06441-5
ISBN: 978-1-60465-348-9
SRP: $124.95
STREET: 11/23/10
TITLE: America Lost and Found: The BBS Story (DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1959D
UPC: 7-15515-06581-8
ISBN: 978-1-60465-361-8
SRP: $99.95
STREET: 12/14/10 *please note the later date for DVD only
Pro-B
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i presume im not the only person clicking refresh on the criterion homepage every minute since like 2 hours ago lol
Do you people have no jobs?! Or are you lucky enough to have a job that involves a computer and internet access?! I stand at a cash register, and I had to race home on my lunch break today just to check Criterion and see what films were announced, then rush back. Came home to about 20 pages on here to read through.
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and Criterion usually charges a good deal more than other onlien retailers.
Really? A single disc release is $31.96 while Amazon charges around $35-37 unless you manage to catch the few hours they list them at $27.99. And even at $28, for $4 more you get to purchase directly from Criterion, and you get a $50 gift card after a while.
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Also, no one isn't complaining about Modern Times' cover art?
I don't like it. I really like the idea, but I just don't like how it was pulled off. I've always been a fan of the cover art such as Night Train to Munich and Stagecoach. It reminds me of show fliers and such.
A poor audience response at an August 1968 screening in Los Angeles eventually forced the producers to edit the picture down from its original 110-minute length. The 86-minute Head premiered in New York City on November 6, 1968. (The film later debuted in Hollywood on November 20.) It was not a commercial success. This was in part because Head, being an antithesis of The Monkees TV show, comprehensively demolished the group's carefully-groomed public image, while the older, hipper audience they'd been reaching for rejected the Monkees' efforts out of hand.
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The reason the stock is up is that they put themselves on the chopping block and want to find a buyer for the company...
Monkee's "Head"
Guess they couldn't find those 25 minutes. 
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