The Criterion Collection

[MifuneFan]

The Big Chill

[jayembee]

Pickpocket (Bresson)
Scanners (Cronenberg)
Insomnia (Skjoldbjærg)
The Essential Jacques Demy
The Big Chill (Kasdan)

[Illy Scorsese]

Originally Posted by kuro_sawa

Scanners
pickpocket
insomnia
the big chill
jacques demy box

Ehhh...

Doesn't do much for me.

[Fellini912]

Originally Posted by Edward J Grug III

http://www.criterion.com/films/229-pickpocket

Alright, now we are talking

[natureboy]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

The Essential Jacques Demy

Box set no less:

http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/105...l-jacques-demy

[Visco.]

That Scanners cover! :droll:

[RandyK]

Yay Scanners!

Cover art is total rubbish though.

[movieben1138]

Well, I need everything released that month...

[Polaroid]

Originally Posted by RandyK

Yay Scanners!

Cover art is total rubbish though.

It's ok, don't like the typography - and annoying you can't see the logo stuff

[Clare2904]

I go out and they announce :lol:

[alien2010]

Originally Posted by Illy Scorsese

Ehhh...

Doesn't do much for me.

With the exception of Scanners (which I won't buy immediately) there is not much for me. Insomnia and Pickpocket I'll give a rental. Not a fan of the The Big Chill I'm afraid.

[KrugerIndustrial]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

The Big Chill

Personally, I much more prefer Les petits mouchoirs.

[jw007]

This might be one of the greatest months in years... these are all films people have been waiting for a while. Scanners, The Big Chill, an upgrade to Insomnia and another Bresson title (with a Demy box set). Wow.

Strong month!

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by RandyK

Yay Scanners!

Cover art is total rubbish though.

Yeah, not crazy about the artwork there

[Polaroid]

Ooh scanners is digipak - yay going to be filled with loads of artwork then :-)

[Sinep]

Snoozer month for me, but Scanners fans can finally rejoice ... happy for them but the cover is .. ca-ca

[mport5150]

Big Chill and Scanners for me at the very least....

[Visco.]

No Y Tu Mama makes Visco a dull boy.

[Scottie]

Release Date: July 15, 2014

This incomparable story of crime and redemption from French master Robert Bresson follows Michel, a young pickpocket who spends his days working the streets, subway cars, and train stations of Paris. As his compulsive pursuit of the thrill of stealing grows, however, so does his fear that his luck is about to run out. A cornerstone in the career of this most economical and profoundly spiritual of filmmakers, Pickpocket is an elegantly crafted, tautly choreographed study of humanity in all its mischief and grace, the work of a director at the height of his powers.

New, 2K digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary by film scholar James Quandt
Introduction by writer-director Paul Schrader
The Models of “Pickpocket,” a 2003 documentary by Babette Mangolte that features actors from the film
Interview from 1960 with director Robert Bresson, from the French television program Cinépanorama
Q&A on Pickpocket from 2000 with actor Marika Green and filmmakers Paul Vecchiali and Jean-Pierre Améris
Footage of the sleight-of-hand artist and Pickpocket consultant Kassagi from a 1962 episode of the French television show La piste aux étoiles
Trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by novelist and critic Gary Indiana

Cover based on theatrical poster

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Release Date: July 15, 2014

With Scanners, David Cronenberg plunges us into one of his most terrifying and thrilling sci-fi worlds. After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them. A trademark Cronenberg combination of the visceral and the cerebral, this phenomenally gruesome and provocative film about the expanses and limits of the human brain was the Canadian director’s breakout hit in the United States.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED EDITION:

New, restored 2K digital film transfer, supervised by director David Cronenberg, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
The “Scanners” Way, a new documentary on the film’s special effects
New interview with actor Michael Ironside
The Ephemerol Diaries, a 2012 interview with actor and artist Stephen Lack
Excerpt from a 1981 interview with Cronenberg on the CBC’s The Bob McLean Show
Stereo (1969), Cronenberg’s first feature film
Trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kim Newman

New cover by Connor Willumsen

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Release Date: July 22, 2014

In this elegantly unsettling murder mystery, Stellan Skarsgård plays an engimatic Swedish detective with a checkered past who arrives in a small town in northern Norway to investigate the death of a teenage girl. As he digs deeper into the heinous killing, his own demons and the tyrannical midnight sun begin to take a toll. Erik Skjoldbjærg’s chilling procedural anticipated the international hunger for Scandinavian noirs and serial killer fictions, and features one of Skarsgård’s greatest performances.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED EDITION:

New 4K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New conversation between director Erik Skjoldbjærg and actor Stellan Skarsgård
Trailer and TV spot
One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Jonathan Romney

New cover by Fred Davis

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Release Date: July 22, 2014

French director Jacques Demy didn’t just make movies—he created an entire cinematic world. Demy launched his glorious feature filmmaking career in the sixties, a decade of astonishing invention in his national cinema. He stood out from the crowd of his fellow New Wavers, however, by filtering his self-conscious formalism through deeply emotional storytelling. Fate and coincidence, doomed love, and storybook romance surface throughout his films, many of which are further united by the intersecting lives of characters who either appear or are referenced across titles. Demy’s films—which range from musical to melodrama to fantasia—are triumphs of visual and sound design, camera work, and music, and they are galvanized by the great stars of French cinema at their centers, including Anouk Aimée, Catherine Deneuve, and Jeanne Moreau. The works collected here, made from the sixties to the eighties, touch the heart and mind in equal measure.

New 2K digital restorations of all six films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays of Lola and Bay of Angels/ and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 surround soundtracks on the Blu-rays of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Young Girls of Rochefort, Donkey Skin, and Une chambre en ville
Two documentaries by filmmaker Agnès Varda: The World of Jacques Demy (1995) and The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)
Four short films by director Jacques Demy: Les horizons morts (1951), Le sabotier du Val de Loire (1956), Ars (1959), and La luxure (1962)
Jacques Demy A to Z, a new visual essay by film critic James Quandt
Two archival interviews from French television with Demy and composer Michel Legrand, one on The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and the other on The Young Girls of Rochefort
French television interview from 1962 with actor Jeanne Moreau on the set of Bay of Angels
Once Upon a Time . . . “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” a 2008 documentary
French television program about the making of Donkey Skin
“Donkey Skin” Illustrated, a video program on the many versions of Charles Perrault’s fairy tale
“Donkey Skin” and the Thinkers, a video program on the themes of the film, featuring critic Camille Tabouley
New video conversation with Demy biographer Jean-Pierre Berthomé and costume designer Jacqueline Moreau
New interviews with author Marie Colmant and film scholar Rodney Hill
Q&A with Demy from the 1987 Midnight Sun Film Festival, as well as an audio Q&A with him from the American Film Institute in 1971
Archival audio recordings of interviews with Demy, Legrand, and actor Catherine Deneuve at the National Film Theatre in London
Interview with actor Anouk Aimée conducted by Varda in 2012
Interview from 2012 with Varda on the origin of Lola’s song
Video programs on the restorations of Lola, Bay of Angels, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and Une chambre en ville
Trailers
New English subtitle translations
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Ginette Vincendeau, Terrence Rafferty, Jim Ridley, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Anne Duggan, and Geoff Andrew, and a postscript by Berthomé

New covers by Jason Hardy

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Release Date: July 29, 2014

After the shocking suicide of their friend, a group of thirtysomethings reunite for his funeral and end up spending a weekend together, reminiscing about their shared pasts as children of the sixties and confronting the uncertainty of their lives as adults of the eighties. Poignant and warmly humorous in equal measure, this 1983 baby boomer milestone made a star of writer-director Lawrence Kasdan and is perhaps the decade’s defining ensemble film, featuring memorable performances by Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams. And with its playlist of hit songs from the sixties, The Big Chill all but invented the consummately curated soundtrack.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED EDITION:

New, restored 4K digital film transfer, supervised by cinematographer John Bailey and approved by director Lawrence Kasdan, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Alternate remastered 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray
Reunion with cast and crew, including Kasdan, actors Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams, from the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival
Documentary from 1998 on the making of the film
Deleted scenes
Trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by writer, director, and actor Lena Dunham

New cover by Eric Skillman

[kuro_sawa]

Originally Posted by Fellini912

Alright, now we are talking

Yes sir. We agree on something now

I'm so glad I didn't wait for Scanners. We'll have to see what that documentary holds because the Second Sight release has interviews that cover a ton about the special effects. I would've put money down they got a commentary from Cronenberg.