The Criterion Collection

[captveg]

Originally Posted by Gremal

I think there was a rumor SS would be coming from Criterion at some point soon.

Not a rumor. Criterion confirmed they plan to release it later in 2010.

[SpiderBaby]

Well for the crying babies, Everlasting Moments and Close-up is now on blu. Wish enough people e-mailed them about Dillinger and maybe we would have a blu of that. Night Train to Munich is the only one in June without a blu.

[ccfixx]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

Well for the crying babies, Everlasting Moments and Close-up is now on blu.

And "Close-Up."

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[Old Geezer]

Just ordered "Repulsion" and "Revanche" from Criterion using the 25% off code. Worked for me and I'm looking forward to seeing these two movies. Also have "Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro", along with "Walkabout" and "Stagecoach" on pre-order from Amazon. Rats! I'm hooked.

[Kevtronn]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

Well for the crying babies, Everlasting Moments and Close-up is now on blu. Wish enough people e-mailed them about Dillinger and maybe we would have a blu of that. Night Train to Munich is the only one in June without a blu.

I would have loved to have Dilinger is Dead on blu-ray! I really can not believe that Criterion went ahead and added those two making five titles in June on blu-ray. Did enough people really complain?

[Belloche]

Does anyone have any info on who owns the rights to Nights of Cabiria ? It seems funny that it would disappear from the collection without somebody planning to release it. I would love to add it to my collection, but I don't want to shell out the money for the OOP Criterion DVD.

[Clamps]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

Well for the crying babies, Everlasting Moments and Close-up is now on blu. Wish enough people e-mailed them about Dillinger and maybe we would have a blu of that. Night Train to Munich is the only one in June without a blu.

YES! Great news! Everlasting Moments is a stunning looking movie that deserves a Blu release!

[kfish23]

Now we just need Night Train to Munich on Blu

[captveg]

Anyone that thinks complaints had anything to do with those two Blu-rays being added is deluding themselves. These releases take more than 3 months of planning.

That being said, they are welcome additions.

[captveg]

Originally Posted by Belloche

Does anyone have any info on who owns the rights to Nights of Cabiria ? It seems funny that it would disappear from the collection without somebody planning to release it. I would love to add it to my collection, but I don't want to shell out the money for the OOP Criterion DVD.

Studio Canal I believe.

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by captveg

Anyone that thinks complaints had anything to do with those two Blu-rays being added is deluding themselves. These releases take more than 3 months of planning.

That being said, they are welcome additions.

True, but whining to Criterion about getting all future Criterions released on Blu just might work is getting more of them.

[jcs913]

Originally Posted by fdm

Anyone know where? I recall seeing it at one point, but just now wasted a lot of time, in vain, trying to find it.

If I remember correctly, reallyagi made it. I assume he might be gracious enough to post the artwork, or allow us to get it through a PM.

[kndy]

Three months into the New Year and here is my latest update since the New Year of how the Criterion Collection is going. Suffice to say that I have outgrown my shelves and had to go with a temporary solution...yes, Home Depot....buying wood used for fences and purchasing a big long 12 ft. of wood and cutting it into sixteen blocks. And it has become my temporary Criterion, KINO, Masters of Cinema shelf unit (and also Blu-rays that have also exhausted my other shelf unit).



For those who want a larger view, can click here.

[reallyagi]

Close-Up



Everlasting Moments

[reallyagi]

For someone who has worked in the printing business for almost ten years now, I can appreciate the cover art for Close-Up.

[reallyagi]

Originally Posted by fdm

Anyone know where? I recall seeing it at one point, but just now wasted a lot of time, in vain, trying to find it.

wiza_gab has a link to the Benjamin Button cover I made on page 229 of this thread.

[Schonfelder]

Originally Posted by CassavetesGodard

Well for the crying babies, Everlasting Moments and Close-up is now on blu. Wish enough people e-mailed them about Dillinger and maybe we would have a blu of that.

Well, i don't think it depends on that. It has more to do with the quality of the digital master, if they have it in high-definition or not. Even for today's standards it's still very expensive to make a new digital master, and i don't think these titles that are being released in SD only will be released in BD soon.

About Close-Up, Don't know why they haven't mentioned it being released in blu yesterday, maybe it was Criterion's Rick Roll

[pro-bassoonist]

Direct:

MYSTERY TRAIN – BLU-RAY EDITION
Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of dreams—which, in Mystery Train, from Jim Jarmusch (Stranger Than Paradise, Night on Earth), is Memphis. Made with its director’s customary precision and wit, Mystery Train is a triptych of stories that pay playful tribute to the home of Stax Records, Sun Studio, Graceland, Carl Perkins, and, of course, the King himself, who presides over the film like a spirit.Mystery Train is one of Jarmusch’s very best movies, a boozy and beautiful pilgrimage to an iconic American ghost town and a paean to the music it gave the world.

1989 • 110 minutes • Color • Monaural • in English and Japanese with English subtitles • 1.77:1 aspect ratio

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
• Q&A with Jarmusch, in which he responds to questions sent in by fans
• Original documentary on Mystery Train’s locations and Memphis’s rich social and musical history
• On-set photos by Masayoshi Sukita, and behind-the-scenes photos
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by writers Peter Guralnick and Dennis Lim, as well as a collectible poster

TITLE: Mystery Train (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1901BD
UPC: 7-15515-05881-0
ISBN: 978-1-60465-283-3
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 5/18/10
STREET: 6/15/10

CLOSE-UP - BLU-RAY EDITION
Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, Ten) has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up continues to resonate with viewers around the world.

1990 • 98 minutes • Color • Monaural • In Farsi with English subtitles • 1.33:1 aspect ratio

SPECIAL EDITION BD SET FEATURES
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer
• Audio commentary by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum, authors of Abbas Kiarostami
• The Traveler, a notable early feature by director Abbas Kiarostami
• “Close-up” Long Shot, a forty-five-minute documentary on Close-up’s central figure, Hossein Sabzian, five years after Kiarostami’s film
• A Walk with Kiarostami (2003), a thirty-two minute documentary portrait of the director by Iranian film professor Jamsheed Akram
• New video interview with Kiarostami
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Godfrey Cheshire


TITLE: Close-up (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1914BD
UPC: 715515060318
ISBN: 978-1-60465-281-9
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 5/25/10
STREET: 6/22/10

RED DESERT – BLU-RAY
Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and Red Desert, his first color film, remains one of his greatest. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age—about a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by Antonioni muse Monica Vitti (L’avventura), wandering through a bleak industrial landscape beset by power plants and environmental toxins, and tentatively flirting with her husband’s coworker, played by Richard Harris (This Sporting Life)—continues to exert force over viewers. With one startling, painterly composition after another—of abandoned fishing cottages, electrical towers, overwhelming docked ships—Red Desert creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema’s preeminent poet of the modern age.

1964 • 117 minutes • Color • Monaural • In Italian with English subtitles • 1.85:1 aspect ratio

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary by Italian film scholar David Forgacs
• Archival video interviews with director Antonioni and actress Monica Vitti
• Outtakes from the film’s production
• Original theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Mark Le Fanu, an interview with Antonioni by Jean-Luc Godard, and a reprinted essay by Antonioni on his use of color

TITLE: Red Desert (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1895BD
UPC: 7-15515-05821-6
ISBN: 978-1-60465-277-2
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 5/25/10
STREET: 6/22/10

NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH -- DVD ONLY
A twisting, turning, cloak-and-dagger delight, Night Train to Munich is a gripping, occasionally comic confection from writers Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat (Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes) and director Carol Reed (The Fallen Idol, The Third Man). Paced like an out-of-control locomotive, Night Train takes viewers on a World War II–era journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps, as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter (Margaret Lockwood, of The Lady Vanishes), who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent, played by Rex Harrison (Major Barbara, My Fair Lady). This captivating, long-overlooked adventure—which also features Casablanca’s Paul
Henreid—mixes comedy, romance, and thrills with enough skill and cleverness to give the master of suspense himself pause.

1940 • 95 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio

DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer
• New video conversation between film scholars Peter Evans and Bruce Babington about director Carol Reed, screenwriters Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, and the social and political climate in which Night Train to Munich was made
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Philip Kemp

TITLE: Night Train to Munich (DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1903D
UPC: 7-15515-05901-5
ISBN: 978-1-60465-285-7
SRP: $29.95
PREBOOK: 5/25/10
STREET: 6/22/10

EVERLASTING MOMENTS – BLU-RAY EDITION
Swedish master Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land) returns triumphantly with Everlasting Moments, a vivid, heartrending story of a woman liberated through art at the beginning of the twentieth century. Though poor and abused by her alcoholic husband, Maria Larsson (Maria Heiskanen, in a beautifully nuanced portrayal) finds an outlet in photography, which opens up her world for the first time. With a burnished bronze tint that evokes faded photographs, and a broad empathetic palette, Everlasting Moments—based on a true story—is a miraculous tribute to the power of image making.

2008 • 131 minutes • Color • Stereo • In Swedish with English subtitles • 1.85:1 aspect ratio

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DVD SET FEATURES
• New high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Jan Troell
• Jan Troell’s Magic Mirror, an hour-long documentary about Troell’s life and career
• Short documentary on the making of Everlasting Moments, featuring interviews with Troell, cast, and crew
• Documentary featuring photographs by the real Maria Larsson, accompanied by narration telling her story
• Theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Armond White

TITLE: Everlasting Moments (BD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1915BD
UPC: 715515060417
ISBN:
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 6/1/10
STREET: 6/29/10

THE LEOPARD – BLU-RAY EDITION
An epic on the grandest scale, Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (Il gattopardo)
re-creates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years of Italy’s Risorgimento, when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a unified, democratic Italy. Burt Lancaster (The Killers, Brute Force) stars as an aging prince watching his culture and fortune wane in the face of a new generation, represented by the gorgeous Alain Delon (Purple Noon, Le samouraï) and Claudia Cardinale (8 ½, Once Upon a Time in the West). The Criterion Collection is proud to present The Leopard in two distinct versions: Visconti’s original and the English-language one released in America.

1963 • 185 minutes • Color • Monaural • In Italian with English subtitles • 2.21:1 aspect ratio

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES
• Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• The 161-minute American release, with English-language dialogue, including actor Burt Lancaster’s own voice
• Audio commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie
• A Dying Breed: The Making of “The Leopard,” an hour-long documentary featuring interviews with actress Claudia Cardinale, screenwriter Suso Ceccho D’Amico, Rotunno, filmmaker Sydney Pollack, and many others
• Video interview with producer Goffredo Lombardo
• Video interview with film scholar Millicent Marcus on the history behind The Leopard
• Original theatrical trailers and newsreels
• Stills gallery of rare behind-the-scenes production photos
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Michael Wood

TITLE: The Leopard (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1913BD
UPC: 7-15515-06021-9
ISBN: 978-1-60465-301-4
SRP: $49.95
PREBOOK: 6/1/10
STREET: 6/29/10

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[Codyblaze]

5...this is an expensive hobby

[pro-bassoonist]

Originally Posted by Codyblaze

5...this is an expensive hobby

It is one that promotes intellectual health as well

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