The Criterion Collection

[demonknight]

Originally Posted by Polaroid

Check Amazon!!! they may have accidentally released info ??

Nope. Maybe this is their revenge for getting the May titles early.

[bluesilo]

Picnic at Hanging Rock http://www.criterion.com/films/565-p...t-hanging-rock

[Clare2904]

http://www.criterion.com/films/565-p...t-hanging-rock

[kuro_sawa]

Originally Posted by bluesilo

Picnic at Hanging Rock http://www.criterion.com/films/565-p...t-hanging-rock

So no theatrical version, but we get Homesdale in HD. I might hang onto the uk bd for a while. Awesome release though, I'm really glad they finally did it

[captveg]

[alien2010]

Originally Posted by Clare2904

http://www.criterion.com/films/565-p...t-hanging-rock

Boring! (For me anyway) Next

[Infernal King]

Originally Posted by alien2010

Boring! (For me anyway) Next

lol

[MTRodaba2468]

About time that one was upgraded...

[Scottie]

June 17

This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Set at the turn of the twentieth century, Picnic at Hanging Rock concerns a small group of students from an all-female college and a chaperone, who vanish while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society, Weir’s gorgeous, disquieting film is a work of poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED EDITION:

Remastered high-definition digital film transfer, supervised and approved by director Peter Weir, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Extended interview with Weir
New piece on the making of the film, featuring interviews from 2003 with executive producer Patricia Lovell, producers Hal McElroy and Jim McElroy, and cast members
New introduction by film scholar David Thomson, author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
A Recollection . . . Hanging Rock 1900 (1975), an on-set documentary hosted by Lovell and featuring interviews with Weir, actor Rachel Roberts, and source novel author Joan Lindsay
Homesdale (1971), an award-winning black comedy by Weir
Trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by author Megan Abbott and an excerpt from film critic Marek Haltof’s 1996 book Peter Weir: When Cultures Collide; a new paperback edition of Lindsay’s original novel, previously out of print in the U.S.

New cover by Eric Skillman

http://www.criterion.com/films/565-p...t-hanging-rock

[Clare2904]

http://www.criterion.com/films/928-l-eclisse

[Scottie]

I just shouted...OMG YES OUT LOUD!!!

http://www.criterion.com/films/928-l-eclisse

[alien2010]

Originally Posted by Clare2904

http://www.criterion.com/films/928-l-eclisse

Now this is more like it Won't get it straight away though. Shame there's no sign of The Passenger yet. Still L'eclisse is a sensational film

[Show spoiler]Especially the last fifteen minutes

[Judex]

Originally Posted by iScottie

I just shouted...OMG YES OUT LOUD!!!

[Show spoiler]

http://www.criterion.com/films/928-l-eclisse

YES!

[chris_sc77]

Originally Posted by alien2010

Boring! (For me anyway) Next

+1 already have the region 2 3 disk dvd so I dont need this.

It looks like a damn good set though if you dont have it already though

[Scottie]

I literally shouted "oh my God" out loud...like it was bad...hahaha...

/nerd

[Fellini912]

Originally Posted by alien2010

Boring! (For me anyway) Next

I would have been a bit more polite about your statement, but then again you have a Ted icon.

[Scottie]

This heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s American mores by Douglas Sirk follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow (Jane Wyman) and her handsome and earthy younger gardener (Rock Hudson). After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others. With the help of ace cinematographer Russell Metty, Sirk imbued nearly every shot with a vivid and distinct emotional tenor. A profoundly felt film about class and conformity in small-town America, All That Heaven Allows is a pinnacle of expressionistic Hollywood melodrama.

Disc Features
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary featuring John Mercer, coauthor of Melodrama: Genre, Style, Sensibility, and film scholar Tamar Jeffers-McDonald
Rock Hudson’s Home Movies (1992), a groundbreaking essay film about the actor by Mark Rappaport
French television interview with Sirk from 1982
Excerpts from Behind the Mirror: A Profile of Douglas Sirk, a 1979 BBC documentary featuring rare interview footage with the director
Contract Kid: William Reynolds on Douglas Sirk, a 2007 interview with the actor, who costarred in three Sirk films, including All That Heaven Allows
Trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Laura Mulvey and an excerpt from a 1971 essay by filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder on Sirk

New cover by Robert Hunt

http://www.criterion.com/films/635-a...-heaven-allows

[kuro_sawa]

Originally Posted by iScottie

I literally shouted "oh my God" out loud...like it was bad...hahaha...

/nerd

If someone posts a link to l'avventura next, just dont do anything too drastic lol

Originally Posted by iScottie

So nice....Ali fear eats the soul now ?.......

[AndersonVision]

Originally Posted by iScottie

http://www.criterion.com/films/635-a...-heaven-allows

Hells yes.

[Cinemach]

With just these three titles, this might already the best announcement since I've been paying attention.