The Criterion Collection

[Brad1963]

Originally Posted by iScottie

http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...ncements&csz=1

That is good. This should be at the top of this forum's page.

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Yes!

No, she plays a Lake-lookalike. (Lake-alike?)

"You look better than Veronica Lake" says Bud.

[JackTwist]

It doesn't state on the official page, but can we assume the new transfer of [I]A Woman Under the Influence[I/] is of the Film Foundation restoration unlike the BFI edition?

[Hawkguy]

Originally Posted by iScottie

http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...ncements&csz=1

That's only over 30 days away

[pro-bassoonist]

A Blu-ray release of Alain Resnais' Hiroshima, mon amour from the recent 4K resto is on the horizon in France (later this year).

I would expect the resto to land in the U.S. as well.

Pro-B

[JackTwist]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

A Blu-ray release of Alain Resnais' Hiroshima, mon amour from the recent 4K resto is on the horizon in France (later this year).

I would expect the resto to land in the U.S. as well.

Pro-B

That might be the best news I've heard in months. I'm so bummed I'm missing the print at MOMA by a day when visiting NYC in a few weeks. It's by far one of the most unexpected and astounding cinematic experiences I've ever felt. A 4k restoration is just what the doctor ordered..

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by NoirFan

No, she plays a Lake-lookalike. (Lake-alike?)

"You look better than Veronica Lake" says Bud.

That's what I meant to say in my post, I just didn't word it well. Basinger's character does not do justice to Veronica Lake because she is modified to make herself look like the actress for her occupation.

[RandyK]

So is I Married a Witch more of "family friendly" comedy like Bewitched or more geared towards older audiences?

[Brad1963]

Originally Posted by COLD_COBRA_

Isn't November the heavy hitter month?

Yes. The past few years there was a Box Set Collection.

2012 Pasolini's Trilogy of Life

2011 Three Colors Trilogy

2010 The BBS Story

If there is going to be Cronenberg Collection it would most likely be in November.

[pro-bassoonist]

FINAL PRESS SHEET:

I MARRIED A WITCH – BD
Veronica Lake (Sullivan’s Travels) casts a seductive spell as a charmingly vengeful sorceress in this supernatural screwball classic. Many centuries after cursing the male descendants of the Salem puritan who sent her to the stake, this blonde bombshell with a broomstick finds herself drawn to one of them—a prospective governor (Design for Living’s Fredric March) about to marry a spoiled socialite (I Want to Live’s Susan Hayward). This most delightful of the films the innovative French director René Clair (Le million) made in Hollywood is a comic confection bursting with playful special effects and sparkling witticisms.

1942 • 77 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio interview with director René Clair
• Trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by filmmaker Guy Maddin and a 1970 interview with Clair

TITLE: I Married a Witch (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2314BD
UPC: 7-15515-11091-4
ISBN: 978-1-60465-783-8
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 9/10/13
STREET: 10/8/13


EYES WITHOUT A FACE – BD

At his secluded chateau in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor (Children of Paradise’s Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured countenance—at a horrifying price. Eyes Without a Face, directed by the supremely talented Georges Franju (Judex), is rare in horror cinema for its odd mixture of the ghastly and the lyrical, and it has been a major influence on the genre in the decades since its release. There are images here—of terror, of gore, of inexplicable beauty—that once seen are never forgotten.

1960 • 90 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • In French with English subtitles • 1.66:1 aspect ratio

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• New high-definition digital restoration of Blood of the Beasts, Georges Franju’s 1949 documentary about the slaughterhouses of Paris
• Archival interviews with Franju on horror, cinema, and the making of Blood of the Beasts
• New interview with actor Edith Scob
• Excerpts from Les grand-pères du crime, a 1985 documentary about Eyes Without a Face writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
• Trailers
• PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by novelist Patrick McGrath and film historian David Kalat

TITLE: Eyes Without a Face (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2313BD
UPC: 7-15515-11081-5
ISBN: 978-1-60465-782-1
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 9/17/13
STREET: 10/15/13


John Cassavetes: Five Films

John Cassavetes was a genius, a visionary, and the progenitor of American independent film, but that doesn’t begin to get at the generosity of his art. A former theater actor fascinated by the power of improvisation, Cassavetes brought his search for truth in performance to the screen. The five films in this collection—all of which the director maintained total control over by financing them himself and making them outside the studio system—are electrifying and compassionate creations, populated by all manner of humanity: beatniks, hippies, businessmen, actors, housewives, strippers, club owners, gangsters, children. Cassavetes has often been called an actor’s director, but this body of work—even greater than the sum of its extraordinary parts—shows him to be an audience’s director.

SHADOWS
John Cassavetes’s directorial debut revolves around a romance in New York City between Lelia (Lelia Goldoni), a light-skinned black woman, and Tony (Anthony Ray), a white man. The relationship is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh (Hugh Hurd), and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was. Shot on location in Manhattan with a mostly nonprofessional cast and crew, Shadows is a penetrating work that is widely considered the forerunner of the American independent film movement.
1959 · 82 minutes · Black & White · Monaural · 1.33:1 aspect ratio

FACES
John Cassavetes puts a disintegrating marriage under the microscope in the searing Faces. Shot in high-contrast 16 mm black and white, the film follows the futile attempts of the captain of industry Richard (The Godfather’s John Marley) and his wife, Maria (Taking Off’s Lynn Carlin), to escape the anguish of their empty relationship in the arms of others. Featuring astonishingly nervy performances from Marley, Carlin, and Cassavetes regulars Gena Rowlands (A Woman Under the Influence) and Seymour Cassel (Rushmore), Faces confronts modern alienation and the battle of the sexes with a brutal honesty and compassion rarely matched in cinema.
1968 · 130 minutes · Black & White · Monaural · 1.66:1 aspect ratio

A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
This uncompromising portrait of domestic turmoil details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. Gena Rowlands (Faces) and Peter Falk (Wings of Desire) give unforgettably harrowing performances as a married couple deeply in love but unable to express their ardor in terms the other can understand. This landmark American film is perhaps the most beloved work from the extraordinary John Cassavetes.
1974 · 147 minutes · Color · Monaural · 1.85:1 aspect ratio

THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE
John Cassavetes engages with film noir in his own inimitable style with The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Ben Gazzara (Anatomy of a Murder) brilliantly portrays a gentleman’s club owner, Cosmo Vitelli, desperately committed to maintaining a facade of suave gentility despite the seediness of his environment and his own unhealthy appetites. When he runs afoul of loan sharks, Cosmo must carry out a terrible crime or lose his way of life. Mesmerizing and idiosyncratic, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is a provocative examination of masculine identity. It is presented here in two versions: Cassavetes’s original 1976 edit and his 1978 one, nearly thirty minutes shorter.
1976 version · 135 minutes · Color · Monaural · 1.85:1 aspect ratio
1978 version · 108 minutes · Color · Monaural · 1.85:1 aspect ratio

OPENING NIGHT
While in the midst of rehearsals for her latest play, Broadway actor Myrtle Gordon (A Woman Under the Influence’s Gena Rowlands) witnesses the accidental death of an adoring young fan, after which she begins to confront the chaos of her own life. Headlined by a virtuoso performance by Rowlands, John Cassavetes’s Opening Night lays bare the drama of a performer who, at great personal cost, makes a part her own, and it functions as a metaphor for the director’s singular, wrenched-from-the-heart creative method.
1977 · 144 minutes · Color · Monaural · 1.85:1 aspect ratio

FIVE-DISC BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• High-definition digital restorations of all five films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
• High-definition digital restoration of Cassavetes’s 108-minute 1978 version of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
• A Constant Forge: The Life and Art of John Cassavetes (2000), a 200-minute documentary by Charles Kiselyak
• Interviews with actor Lelia Goldoni and associate producer Seymour Cassel about Shadows
• Silent footage from the Cassavetes-Lane Drama Workshop, from which Shadows emerged
• Restoration demonstration for Shadows
• Alternate eighteen-minute opening sequence for Faces
• Episode of the French television series Cinéastes de notre temps from 1968, dedicated to Cassavetes
• Making “Faces,” a 2004 documentary featuring interviews with actors Cassel, Lynn Carlin, and Gena Rowlands and director of photography Al Ruban
• Al Ruban on Lighting and Shooting “Faces,” a new program
• Audio commentary for A Woman Under the Influence by sound recordist and composer Bo Harwood and camera operator Mike Ferris
• Conversation between Rowlands and actor Peter Falk from 2004 about A Woman Under the Influence
• Interviews with actor Ben Gazzara and Ruban on The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
• Conversation between Rowlands and Gazzara from 2004 about Opening Night
• Interview with Ruban from 2004 about Opening Night
• Audio interviews with Cassavetes from the 1970s about A Woman Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and Opening Night
• Trailers for Shadows, A Woman Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and Opening Night
• Stills and poster galleries
• PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by Gary Giddins, Kent Jones, Charles Kiselyak, Stuart Klawans, Dennis Lim, and Phillip Lopate; writings by and interviews with Cassavetes; and tributes to the filmmaker by director Martin Scorsese; actor and writer Elaine Kagan, Cassavetes’s former secretary; and novelist Jonathan Lethem

TITLE: John Cassavetes: Five Films (5-BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2322BD
UPC: 7-15515-11171-3
ISBN: 978-1-60465-791-3
SRP: $124.95
PREBOOK: 9/24/13
STREET: 10/22/13


THE UNINVITED - BD

A pair of siblings (Ministry of Fear’s Ray Milland and The Philadelphia Story’s Ruth Hussey) from London purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price; soon they’re caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. Rich in atmosphere, The Uninvited, directed by Lewis Allen (Suddenly), was groundbreaking for the seriousness with which it treated the haunted-house genre, and it remains an elegant and eerie experience, featuring a classic score by Victor Young (Written on the Wind). A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night—this gothic Hollywood classic has it all.

1944 • 99 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.37:1 aspect ratio

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 2K digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• New visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme

TITLE: The Uninvited (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2328BD
UPC: 7-15515-11181-2
ISBN: 978-1-60465-797-5
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 9/24/13
STREET: 10/22/13


LA NOTTE – BD

This psychologically acute, visually striking modernist work was director Michelangelo Antonioni’s follow-up to the epochal L’avventura. Marcello Mastroianni (Divorce Italian Style) and Jeanne Moreau (Jules and Jim) star as a novelist and his frustrated wife who, over the course of one night, confront their alienation from each other and the achingly empty bourgeois Milan circles in which they travel. Antonioni’s muse Monica Vitti (Red Desert) smolders as an industrialist’s tempting daughter. Moodily sensual cinematography and subtly expressive performances make La notte an indelible illustration of romantic and social deterioration.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• New interview with film critic Adriano Aprà and film historian Carlo Di Carlo
• New interview with professor Giuliana Bruno on the role of architecture in La notte
• Trailer
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Richard Brody and a 1961 article by director Michelangelo Antonioni

TITLE: La notte (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2292BD
UPC: 7-15515-10841-6
ISBN: 978-1-60465-755-5
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 10/1/13
STREET: 10/29/13

Attention Canada: I MARRIED A WITCH & Cassavetes set are available in US only. LA NOTTE & EYES WITHOUT A FACE are available in English-Speaking Canada only. THE UNINVITED is available in all Canada.

Pro-B

[Brad1963]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

A Blu-ray release of Alain Resnais' Hiroshima, mon amour from the recent 4K resto is on the horizon in France (later this year).

I would expect the resto to land in the U.S. as well.

Pro-B

That would be great.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Randyman94

So is I Married a Witch more of "family friendly" comedy like Bewitched or more geared towards older audiences?

I Married a Witch strikes me as a movie that might have been a risque comedy for its time, but is probably quite family-friendly these days. From what I know, it's a good eye candy movie across the board.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by iScottie

You got so excited about new Antonioni that you couldn't sleep, eh?

That's one way to put it Actually, I just have a bunch of studying to do

[pro-bassoonist]

Criterion's announcement is somewhat unclear. The JC set is listed as having five discs, but Charles Kiselyak's A Constant Forge is also listed. It is unclear where it is placed as it is approximately 200 minutes long. If it is an entirely separate bonus disc, and it looks like it is, it isn't listed as such.

Pro-B

[Scottie]

Frances Ha will more than likely come in November. I can feel it!

[RandyK]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I Married a Witch strikes me as a movie that might have been a risque comedy for its time, but is probably quite family-friendly these days. From what I know, it's a good eye candy movie across the board.

Just watching the trailer it seemed more like it focused on the comedy than any horror elements. That's okay though. I'm interested in checking it out.

[The Great Owl]

I'll probably sell off my DVD of Eyes Without a Face this month and put the cash into another 50% off Criterion title at Barnes & Noble.

The cool thing about this October lineup is that good sale prices are soon to follow. As much as I've always wanted the John Cassavetes: Five Films set, there's no way I'm springing for it unless I can get it for at least half price.

[SammyJankis]

Originally Posted by iScottie

Frances Ha will more than likely come in November. I can feel it!

You shut your mouth!

In all seriousness, I'm beginning to think that clue wasn't for Frances. I could be wrong. I hope I'm not.

[Show spoiler]

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by SammyJankis

You shut your mouth!

In all seriousness, I'm beginning to think that clue wasn't for Frances. I could be wrong. I hope I'm not.

[Show spoiler]

Haters gonna hate!

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by iScottie

Haters gonna hate!

Frances Ha will get a BluRay release this fall, so I hope that spot goes to a catalogue title.