To quote some of these posters' user "reviews" on here about films and laugh. Seriously guys, reviews shouldn't be about "The picture wasn't made for blu" or "That Godard dude is pretty cool". I read them. There that bad. Go look for yourself. Search for a Criterion film and read the user reviews.
Right now the CF Fat Albert gang is fighting over the Black Swan movie. They are just as bad.
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But if Criterion didn't release anything popular for you (whoever feels this is about them, then it is), don't worry. I can prob bet you April will be another Nov for popular studio titles and re-releases just for you. Hey, The Game is already confirmed I believe. Good for you. Next month's announcements is what I am scared of, not these.
Can someone explain to me why a Janus release of Dillinger is Dead doesn't get a blu release, but a throw in title in The Mikado just to pair it up with Topsy-Turvy does? Criterion? Anyone?
Because they obviously have increased their Blu-ray capacity since then. They're now at the point that I would be pretty surprised to see many DVD-only releases going forward.
But if Criterion didn't release anything popular for you (whoever feels this is about them, then it is), don't worry. I can prob bet you April will be another Nov for popular studio titles and re-releases just for you. Hey, The Game is already confirmed I believe. Good for you. Next month's announcements is what I am scared of, not these.
Just curious...where did you hear about The Game being announced next month for April? That is one title (among many others) I would like.
This intensely personal film from LOUIS MALLE (The Lovers, My Dinner with André) tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, Au revoir les enfants (Goodbye, Children) is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.
1987 • 105 minutes • Color • Monaural • In French with English subtitles • 1.66:1 aspect ratio
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• Restored digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Renato Berta, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Video interviews with biographer Pierre Billard and actress Candice Bergen, director Louis Malle’s widow
• Joseph: A Character Study, a profile of the provocative character from Au revoir les enfants
• The Immigrant, Charlie Chaplin’s 1917 short comedy, featured in the film
• Audio excerpts from a 1988 AFI interview with Malle
• Original theatrical trailer and teaser
• PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film critic Philip Kemp and historian Francis J. Murphy
TITLE: Au revoir les enfants
CAT. NO: CC1985BD
UPC: 7-15515-06851-2
ISBN: 978-1-60465-392-2
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 3/15/11
Yi Yi
The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two . . .), directed by the late Taiwanese master EDWARD YANG (A Brighter Summer Day), follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-age father NJ’s tentative flirtations with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yang’s attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera, the filmmaker deftly imbues every gorgeous frame with a compassionate clarity. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century.
2000 • 173 minutes • Color • 2.0 Surround • In Mandarin with English subtitles • 1.85:1 aspect ratio
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• Newly restored digital transfer, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Audio commentary by writer-director Edward Yang and Asian-cinema critic Tony Rayns
• Video interview with Rayns about Yang and the New Taiwan Cinema movement
• U.S. theatrical trailer
• Original English subtitle translation by Yang and Rayns
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film writer Kent Jones and notes from the director
TITLE: Yi Yi
CAT. NO: CC1993BD
UPC: 7-15515-06941-0
ISBN: 978-1-60465-404-2
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 3/15/11
The Mikado
The legendary GILBERT AND SULLIVAN troupe the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company joined forces with Hollywood for this 1939 Technicolor version of the fabled comic opera, the first complete work by the famed duo to be adapted for the screen, directed by musician and Oscar-nominated filmmaker VICTOR SCHERTZINGER (One Night of Love, Road to Singapore). The result is a lavish cinematic retelling of the British political satire set in exotic Japan, with such enduringly popular numbers as “A Wandering Minstrel I” and “Three Little Maids from School Are We,” and featuring performances by American singer Kenny Baker as well as a host of renowned D’Oyly Carte actors, including Martyn Green and Sydney Granville.
1939 • 91 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• Newly remastered digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• New video interview with Topsy-Turvy director Mike Leigh on The Mikado and its adaptation for the screen
• New video interview with Mikado scholars Josephine Lee and Ralph MacPhail Jr., tracing the 1939 filmed version of the opera back to its 1885 stage debut
• Short silent film promoting the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company’s 1926 stage performance of The Mikado
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien
The world of GILBERT AND SULLIVAN comes to vivid life in this extraordinary dramatization of the staging of their legendary 1885 comic opera The Mikado from MIKE LEIGH (Naked, Secrets and Lies). JIM BROADBENT (Moulin Rouge, Iris) and ALLAN CORDUNER (Yentl, Vera Drake) brilliantly inhabit the roles of the world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, respectively, who, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production. A lushly produced epic about the harsh realities of creative expression, featuring bravura performances and Oscar-winning costume design and makeup, Topsy-Turvy is an unexpected period delight from one of contemporary cinema’s great artists.
1999 • 160 minutes • Color • Surround • 1.78:1 aspect ratio
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• Director-approved digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Dick Pope, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary featuring director Mike Leigh
• New video conversation between Leigh and the film’s musical director, Gary Yershon
• A Sense of History, Leigh’s 1992 short film written by and starring actor Jim Broadbent
• Deleted scenes
• Featurette from 1999 including interviews with Leigh, stars Broadbent and Allan Corduner, and other cast members
• Theatrical trailer and TV spots
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Amy Taubin
A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and the first openly gay U.S. politician elected to public office; even after his assassination, in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world. The Oscar-winning The Times of Harvey Milk, directed by ROBERT EPSTEIN (The Celluloid Closet, Paragraph 175) and produced by RICHARD SCHMIECHEN, was, like its subject, groundbreaking. One of the first feature documentaries to address gay life in America, it’s a work of advocacy itself, bringing Milk’s message of hope and equality to a wider audience. This exhilarating trove of archival footage and heartfelt interviews is as much a vivid portrait of a time and place (San Francisco’s historic Castro District in the seventies) as a testament to the legacy of a political visionary.
1984 • 88 minutes • Color • 2.0 surround • 1.37:1 aspect ratio
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• Director-approved digital transfer, from the meticulous UCLA Film and Television Archive restoration, with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary featuring director Robert Epstein, coeditor Deborah Hoffmann, and photographer Daniel Nicoletta
• New interview with documentary filmmaker and UC Berkeley professor Jon Else
• New program about The Times of Harvey Milk and Gus Van Sant’s Milk, featuring
Epstein, Van Sant, actor James Franco, and Milk friends Cleve Jones, Anne Kronenberg, and Nicoletta
• Postscript containing interview clips not used in the film
• Rare collection of audio and video recordings of Harvey Milk
• Interview excerpts from Epstein’s research tapes
• Footage from the film’s Castro Theatre premiere and the 1984 Academy Awards ceremony
• Panel discussion on Supervisor Dan White’s controversial trial
• Excerpts from the twenty-fifth anniversary commemoration of Milk’s and Mayor George Moscone’s assassinations
• Original theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic B. Ruby Rich, a tribute by Milk’s nephew Stuart Milk, and a piece on the film’s restoration by the UCLA Film and Television Archive’s Ross Lipman
TITLE: The Times of Harvey Milk
CAT. NO: CC1987BD
UPC: 7-15515-06871-0
ISBN: 978-1-60465-394-6
SRP: $39.95
STREET: 3/22/11
Eclipse Series 26: Silent Naruse
MIKIO NARUSE (Floating Clouds, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs) was one of the most popular directors in Japan, a crafter of exquisite melodramas, mostly about women confined by their social and domestic circumstances. Though often compared with Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi for his style and treatment of characters, Naruse was a unique artist, making heartrending, brilliantly photographed and edited films about the impossible pursuit of happiness. From the outset of his career, with his silent films of the early thirties, Naruse zeroed in on the lives of the kinds of people—geisha, housewives, waitresses—who would continue to fascinate him for the next three decades. Though he made two dozen silent films, only five remain in existence; these works—poignant, dazzlingly made dramas all—are collected here, newly restored and on DVD for the first time, and featuring optional new scores by noted musicians Robin Holcomb and Wayne Horvitz.
FIVE-DVD BOX SET INCLUDES:
Flunky, Work Hard (Koshiben ganbare)
Mikio Naruse’s earliest film in circulation is a charming, breezy short about an impoverished insurance salesman, Okabe, who is desperate to sell a policy to a wealthy family, and his scrappy young son, whose fisticuffs among the other boys of their village put Okabe’s livelihood in jeopardy. This rare Naruse film about a father and son hints at some of the fluid technical experimentation that would come to define his first films.
1931 · 28 minutes · Black & White · Japanese intertitles with English subtitles · Silent with optional score · 1.33:1 aspect ratio
No Blood Relation (Nasanu naka)
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim the daughter she abandoned years before—with the help of her gangster brother. Yet the child’s father, and especially her nurturing new stepmother, won’t give in to the mother’s demands so easily. With its mix of maternal melodrama and expressionistic flourish, No Blood Relation is a gripping example of Mikio Naruse’s cinematic boldness, and features a screenplay by Ozu’s famed collaborator Kogo Noda.
1932 · 79 minutes · Black & White · Japanese intertitles with English subtitles · Silent with optional score · 1.33:1 aspect ratio
Apart from You (Kimi to wakarete)
For Apart from You, Mikio Naruse turned his camera on the lives of working women, which he would continue to do throughout his long career. Here, he contrasts the life of an aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her career, with that of her youthful counterpart, a lovely young girl resentful of her family for selling her into a life of ignominy. This gently devastating evocation of women’s limited options in Depression-era Japan was a critical breakthrough for the director.
1933 · 60 minutes · Black & White · Japanese intertitles with English subtitles · Silent with optional score · 1.33:1 aspect ratio
Every-Night Dreams (Yogoto no yume)
A single mother works tirelessly as a Ginza bar hostess to ensure a better life for her young son. Her long-lost husband returns, vowing to find work and take care of both her and the child, yet his presence only complicates matters in this atmospheric study of lower-class life set in the dockside neighborhoods of Tokyo. Mikio Naruse’s Every-Night Dreams is a formally ravishing drama about the desperation of daily living.
1933 · 65 minutes · Black & White · Japanese intertitles with English subtitles · Silent with optional score · 1.33:1 aspect ratio
Street Without End (Kagirinaki hodo)
Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car. Featuring vividly drawn characters and an audacious commentary on politics and class in 1930s Japan, Street Without End is a grandly entertaining melodrama that brought Naruse deftly into the sound era.
1934 · 88 minutes · Black & White · Japanese intertitles with English subtitles · Silent with optional score · 1.33:1 aspect ratio
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