The Criterion Collection

[octagon]

Originally Posted by retablo

More people should get up on that horse and check out the view,..."

It's freaking awesome. I can see my guest house from up here.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Indeed! I'm glad that I gave the 2012 French Pathe Blu-ray a chance, but Le Samourai deserves a Rolls Royce treatment from Criterion.

Nicely put. I can totally imagine a fresh faced college kid picking it up during a sale, watching it, then changing his major the following day. One is changed for life after seeing that movie

[Hawkguy]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

Nicely put. I can totally imagine a fresh faced college kid picking it up during a sale, watching it, then changing his major the following day. One is changed for life after seeing that movie

Still haven't seen it

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by Grethiwha

Hopefully we'll see the rumoured Lynch films soon.

I really hope they're planning a huge box set with:

• The Alphabet (Short)
• The Amputee (Short)
• Eraserhead
• The Grandmother (Short)
• Inland Empire
• Lost Highway
• Mulholland Drive
• Premonition Following An Evil Deed (Short)
• Six Figures Getting Sick (Short)
• The Straight Story
• Wild At Heart

Blue Velvet is already licensed by MGM, Dune by Universal, The Elephant Man will be out as part of a Mel Brooks set, and Twin Peaks / Twin Peaks: FWWM will be out this year together, so I would like the others greatly by Criterion.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by CoopFilm

Still haven't seen it

Have you seen The American? Those two would make a great double feature.

[Hawkguy]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

Have you seen The American? Those two would make a great double feature.

Yeah! We talked about it last week-ish, remember? I really liked that film a lot more than I expected

[hoytereden]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I had a feeling that you'd enjoy The Last Picture Show. I'd love to read your thoughts about the film.

Ditto.

[vertigo12314]

I didn't get L'Avventura dammit! But at least I got Nashville!

[retablo]

Originally Posted by iScottie

I really hope they're planning a huge box set with:

• The Alphabet (Short)
• The Amputee (Short)
• Eraserhead
• The Grandmother (Short)
• Inland Empire
• Lost Highway
• Mulholland Drive
• Premonition Following An Evil Deed (Short)
• Six Figures Getting Sick (Short)
• The Straight Story
• Wild At Heart

Blue Velvet is already licensed by MGM, Dune by Universal, The Elephant Man will be out as part of a Mel Brooks set, and Twin Peaks / Twin Peaks: FWWM will be out this year together, so I would like the others greatly by Criterion.

You forgot The Cowboy & The Frenchman, his TV ads & music videos, and Dumbland/Rabbits

[brandon_260]

Nothing I was particularly excited for coming from the December announcement, but it certainly gives me some exploring to do. That WCP set is enticing, but it'll definitely have to wait until a 50% off sale.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by vertigo12314

I didn't get L'Avventura dammit! But at least I got Nashville!

"the waiting is the hardest part."

[JoeBuck]

Originally Posted by retablo

You forgot The Cowboy & The Frenchman, his TV ads & music videos, his Lumiere & Co short, and Dumbland/Rabbits

Premonition is his Lumiere short though!

[retablo]

Originally Posted by JoeBuck

Premonition is his Lumiere short though!

Yep, my bad! Ok just the others then *fixed

[Antonmassacre1]

Originally Posted by iScottie

I really hope they're planning a huge box set with:

• The Alphabet (Short)
• The Amputee (Short)
• Eraserhead
• The Grandmother (Short)
• Inland Empire
• Lost Highway
• Mulholland Drive
• Premonition Following An Evil Deed (Short)
• Six Figures Getting Sick (Short)
• The Straight Story
• Wild At Heart

Blue Velvet is already licensed by MGM, Dune by Universal, The Elephant Man will be out as part of a Mel Brooks set, and Twin Peaks / Twin Peaks: FWWM will be out this year together, so I would like the others greatly by Criterion.

Wow, David Lynch is a director too? I'm only familiar with his dinnerware.
http://www.bernardaud150.com/lynch

Nashville is an amazing film but personally I would give the edge to McCabe & Mrs. Miller.

[pro-bassoonist]

FINAL PRESS SHEET:

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITION)
The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector (A Fistful of Dollars’s Gian Maria Volonté, in a commanding performance) investigating a heinous crime—which he committed himself. Both a penetrating character study and a disturbing commentary on the draconian crackdowns by the Italian government in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Petri’s kinetic portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable rendering of controlled chaos.

1970 • 115 minutes • COLOR • Monaural • In Italian with English subtitles • 1.85:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration by the Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Archival interview with director Elio Petri, conducted by critic and filmmaker Alexandre Astruc
• Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005), a ninety-minute documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers
• New interview with film scholar Camilla Zamboni
• Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté (2008), a fifty-minute documentary about actor Gian Maria Volonté
• Music in His Blood, an interview with composer Ennio Morricone from 2010, conducted by film critic Fabio Ferzetti
• Trailers
• New English subtitle translation
• One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Evan Calder Williams and excerpts from a 2001 book by author and screenwriter Ugo Pirro

TITLE: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2310BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11031-0
ISBN: 978-1-60465-779-1
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 12/3/13


Nashville (DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITION)
This cornerstone of 1970s American moviemaking from Robert Altman (Short Cuts) is a panoramic view of the country’s political and entertainment landscapes, set in the nation’s music capital. Nashville weaves the stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—into a cinematic tapestry that is equal parts comedy, tragedy, and musical. Many members of the astonishing cast wrote and performed their own songs live on location, which lends another layer to the film’s quirky authenticity. Altman’s ability to get to the heart of American life via its eccentric byways was never put to better use than in this grand, rollicking triumph, which barrels forward to an unforgettable conclusion.

1975 • 160 minutes • Color • 5.1 surround • 2.35:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 2K digital film restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Audio commentary featuring director Robert Altman
• New documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with actors Keith Carradine, Michael Murphy, Allan Nicholls, and Lily Tomlin; assistant director Alan Rudolph; and screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury
• Archival interviews with Altman
• Behind-the-scenes footage
• Demos of Carradine singing his songs from the film
• Trailer
• One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all format available in both editions
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Molly Haskell

TITLE: Nashville (DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2321BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11161-4
ISBN: 978-1-60465-790-6
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 12/3/13



Grey Gardens (BLU-RAY EDITION)
Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot. An impossibly intimate portrait, this 1976 documentary by Albert and David Maysles (Salesman), codirected by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen. This special edition also features the 2006 follow-up to the film, The Beales of Grey Gardens, constructed from hours of extra footage in the filmmakers’ vaults.

1976 • 94 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 2K digital film restoration, approved by codirector Albert Maysles, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• The Beales of Grey Gardens, the 2006 sequel to the film
• Audio commentary for Grey Gardens, featuring Maysles and codirectors Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, along with associate producer Susan Froemke
• Introduction to The Beales of Grey Gardens by Maysles
• Audio excerpts from a 1976 interview with Little Edie Beale, conducted by Kathryn G. Graham
• Interviews with fashion designers Todd Oldham and John Bartlett on the continuing influence of Grey Gardens
• Behind-the-scenes photographs
• Trailers
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Hilton Als

TITLE: Grey Gardens (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2332BD
UPC: 7-15515-11221-5
ISBN: 978-1-60465-801-9
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 12/10/13


Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project (3-BLU-RAY/6-DVD DUAL-FORMAT EDITION)
Established by Martin Scorsese in 2007, the World Cinema Project expands the horizons of moviegoers everywhere. The mission of the WCP is to preserve and present marginalized and infrequently screened films from regions of the world ill equipped to provide funding for major restorations. This collector’s set brings together six superb films from various countries, including Bangladesh/India (A River Called Titas), Mexico (Redes), Morocco (Trances), Senegal (Touki bouki), South Korea (The Housemaid), and Turkey (Dry Summer); each is a cinematic revelation, depicting a culture not often seen by outsiders.

TOUKI BOUKI
With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. In this French New Wave–influenced fantasy-drama, two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of Europe, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical. Marked by dazzling imagery and music, the alternately manic and meditative Touki bouki is widely admired as one of the most important African films ever made.

1973 · 89 minutes · Color · Monaural · In Wolof with English subtitles · 1.37:1 aspect ratio

REDES
Early in his career, the Austrian-born, future Oscar winner Fred Zinnemann (From Here to Eternity) codirected with Emilio Gómez Muriel the politically and emotionally searing Redes. In this vivid, documentary-like dramatization of the daily grind of men struggling to make a living by fishing on the Gulf of Mexico (mostly played by real-life fishermen), one worker’s terrible loss instigates a political awakening among him and his fellow laborers. A singular coming together of stunning talents, Redes, commissioned by a progressive Mexican government, was gorgeously shot and cowritten by the legendary photographer Paul Strand.

1936 · 59 minutes · Black & White · Monaural · In Spanish with English subtitles · 1.33:1 aspect ratio

A RIVER CALLED TITAS
The Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak’s stunningly beautiful, elegiac saga concerns the tumultuous lives of people in fishing villages along the banks of the Titas River in pre-Partition East Bengal. Focusing on the tragic intertwining fates of a series of fascinating characters, in particular the indomitable widow Basanti, Ghatak tells the poignant story of an entire community’s vanishing way of life. Made soon after Bangladesh became an independent nation, the elliptical, stylized, painterly A River Called Titas is a grand epic from a director who has had a devoted following for decades.

1973 · 156 minutes · Black & White · Monaural · In Bengali with English subtitles · 1.37:1 aspect ratio

DRY SUMMER
Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear at the 1964 Berlin International Film Festival, Metin Erksan’s wallop of a melodrama concerns the machinations of an unrepentantly selfish tobacco farmer who builds a dam to prevent water from flowing downhill to nourish his neighbors’ crops. Alongside this tale of soul-devouring competition is one of overheated desire, as a love triangle develops between the farmer, his more decent brother, and the beautiful villager the latter takes as his bride, resulting in a Cain and Abel–like struggle. A benchmark of Turkish cinema, this is a visceral, innovatively shot and vibrantly acted depiction of the horrors of greed.

1964 · 90 minutes · Black & White · Monaural · In Turkish with English subtitles · 1.33:1 aspect ratio

TRANCES
The beloved Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane is the dynamic subject of this captivating musical documentary. Storytellers through song, some with a background in political theater, the band’s members became an international sensation (Western rock critics have often referred to them as “the Rolling Stones of North Africa”), thanks to their political lyrics and sublime, fully acoustic sound, which draws on the Moroccan trance music tradition. Both a concert movie and a free-form audiovisual experiment, Ahmed El Maânouni’s Trances is cinematic poetry.

1981 · 88 minutes · Color · Monaural · In Arabic with English subtitles · 1.66:1 aspect ratio

THE HOUSEMAID
A torrent of sexual obsession, revenge, and betrayal is unleashed under one roof in this venomous melodrama from South Korean master Kim Ki-young. Immensely popular in its home country when it was released, The Housemaid is the thrilling, at times jaw-dropping story of the devastating effect an unstable housemaid has on the domestic cocoon of a bourgeois, morally dubious music teacher, his devoted wife, and their precocious young children. Grim and taut yet perched on the border of the absurd, Kim’s film is an engrossing tale of class warfare and familial disintegration that has been hugely influential on the new generation of South Korean directors.

1960 · 108 minutes · Black & White · Monaural · In Korean with English subtitles · 1.66:1 aspect ratio

DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New high-definition digital restorations of all six films, undertaken by the World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays
• New introductions to the films by World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese
• New interview programs featuring filmmakers Abderrahmane Sissako (on Touki bouki), Kumar Shahani (on A River Called Titas), Metin Erksan and Fatih Akın (on Dry Summer), and Bong Joon-ho (on The Housemaid)
• New visual essay on Redes by filmmaker and critic Kent Jones
• New interview program on Trances featuring filmmaker Ahmed El Maânouni, producer Izza Génini, and musician Omar Sayed
• New English subtitle translations
• Three Blu-rays and six DVDs, with all content available in both formats
• PLUS: A booklet featuring essays on the films by Charles Ramirez Berg, Bilge Ebiri, Kyung Hyun Kim, Adrian Martin, Richard Porton, and Sally Shafto

TITLE: Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project (3-BLU-RAY/6-DVD DUAL-FORMAT EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC2333BDDVD
UPC: 7-15515-11231-4
ISBN: 978-1-60465-802-6
SRP: $124.95
STREET: 12/10/13

Attention Canada: All titles are available in all Canada, except for GREY GARDENS, which is available in English-Speaking Canada only.

Pro-B

[lordmorpheus72]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

FINAL PRESS SHEET:

[Show spoiler]

Pro-B

Thanks for this Pro-B! Looks like some good features on these. I've only seen one of these, and it happens to be in the WCF Collection (The Housemaid). I wish it was a single release, but thinking I may blind buy the set for the right price and take my chances. I've read up on Nashville, since many people are excited, and it has peeked my interest as well.

As for the rest... not sure but always willing to watch something new/old. I'm also interested to see the size of the new combo packages... hoping they aren't too thick. but that's just me, since I'm running out of space.

[vertigo12314]

I've seen Dry Summer which I liked more than The Housemaid but that's it. It's not something I'll plunk down hard cash for.

[octagon]

Tell me if this is petty...

When Grey Gardens was first teased I wasn't exactly intrigued but I was at least curious. Then several months later there was an off-hand reference to it/them in an episode of Bored to Death (the main character didn't want to let somebody see his messy apartment and demured by saying 'it's very grey gardens in here right now') and it really turned me off.

It gave the whole thing a sort of trendy/New York/hipster kind of vibe.

Is that petty? Cause it sounds pretty petty even to me.

[lordmorpheus72]

Originally Posted by iScottie

I really hope they're planning a huge box set with:

• The Alphabet (Short)
• The Amputee (Short)
• Eraserhead
• The Grandmother (Short)
• Inland Empire
• Lost Highway
• Mulholland Drive
• Premonition Following An Evil Deed (Short)
• Six Figures Getting Sick (Short)
• The Straight Story
• Wild At Heart

Blue Velvet is already licensed by MGM, Dune by Universal, The Elephant Man will be out as part of a Mel Brooks set, and Twin Peaks / Twin Peaks: FWWM will be out this year together, so I would like the others greatly by Criterion.

That would be a nice box set! One can only hope...

[SilentDawn]

Hey guys,

Can anyone here recommend Hunger? I wanted to check it out before 12 Years A Slave hits cinemas.

Who here can seen it and is it as good as everyone says it is?

Any help is greatly appreciated,

Silent.