Criterion News and Discussion

[Alexandro]

How many years will it take for the criterion guys to launch their Fanny & Alexander five discs boxset BLU RAY??

Do it guys!!

[edison]

    * New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
    * Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
    * Archival interviews with director Marcel Camus and actress Marpessa Dawn
    * New video interviews with Brazilian cinema scholar Robert Stam, jazz historian Gary Giddins, and Brazilian author Ruy Castro
    * À la recherche d’“Orfeu negro,” a feature-length documentary about Black Orpheus’s cultural and musical roots and its resonance in Brazil today
    * Theatrical trailer
    * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Atkinson


    *  New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Terry Zwigoff, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
    * Two audio commentaries, one from 2010 with Zwigoff, and one from 2006, featuring Zwigoff and critic Roger Ebert
    * Outtakes and deleted scenes
    * Stills gallery
    * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum


    *  New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Terry Zwigoff
    * Audio commentary featuring Zwigoff
    * Outtakes and deleted scenes
    * Illustrations by Howard Armstrong
    * Stills gallery
    * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Sragow




    * New, restored high-definition digital transfer
    * L’amour existe, director Maurice Pialat’s 1960 short film about life on the outskirts of Paris
    * Choses vues, autour de “L’enfance nue,” a fifty-minute documentary shot just after the film’s release
    * Excerpts from a 1973 French television interview with Pialat
    * New visual essay by critic Kent Jones on the film and Pialat’s cinematic style
    * Video interview with Pialat collaborators Arlette Langmann and Patrick Grandperret
    * New and improved English subtitle translation
    * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Phillip Lopate


    *  New, restored high-definition digital transfers
    * Six scores: one by Robert Israel for each film; two by the Alloy Orchestra, for Underworld and The Last Command; and a piano and voice piece by Donald Sosin for The Docks of New York
    * Two new visual essays: one by UCLA film professor Janet Bergstrom and the other by film scholar Tag Gallagher
    * 1968 Swedish television interview with director Josef von Sternberg, covering his entire career
    * PLUS: A ninety-six-page booklet featuring essays by film critic Geoffrey O’Brien, film scholar Anton Kaes, and author Luc Sante; the original film treatment for Underworld by Ben Hecht; and an excerpt from Sternberg’s autobiography, Fun in a Chinese Laundry, on Emil Jannings

[Champion Souza]

I'm glad I put off buying Crumb for so long.  Curious to see Louie Bluie too.

[tpfkabi]

via Facebook:

Out of Print Announcement
 Today at 2:39pm
Dear Criterion collectors,


The following titles are going out of print effective June 30:



Billy Liar
Bob le flambeur
Diary of A Chambermaid
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Man Who Fell to Earth (DVD and Blu-ray editions)
The Milky Way
The Phantom of Liberty
That Obscure Object of Desire
Touchez pas au grisbi
A Woman Is a Woman



We will be selling copies only while supplies last, so order yours soon. As ever, we will try to relicense the films so that they can rejoin the collection sometime in the future.

[Gold Trumpet]

Ever wanted to know the process to making a cover for a Criterion DVD? Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments DVD is explained here:

http://samsmyth.blogspot.com/2010/06/process-everlasting-moments-dvd-cover.html

[socketlevel]

I'm so stoked for the criterion release of The Thin Red Line, easily my favorite anti-war film. it might be too much to ask for the 4 hour cut with nearly half the cast restored, but i'mma geek out on the thought of it for a bit.

[socketlevel]

Ever wanted to know the process to making a cover for a Criterion DVD? Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments DVD is explained here:

http://samsmyth.blogspot.com/2010/06/process-everlasting-moments-dvd-cover.html

seems like a lot of shots in the dark until you hit the target. it also seems like it would be a fun job, smoke a joint and get on photoshop for a bit; navel gazing as you go.  lol ok i'm simplifying it, but it would still be fun.

[Ravi]

The following titles are going out of print effective June 30:



Billy Liar
Bob le flambeur
Diary of A Chambermaid
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Man Who Fell to Earth (DVD and Blu-ray editions)
The Milky Way
The Phantom of Liberty
That Obscure Object of Desire
Touchez pas au grisbi
A Woman Is a Woman

Are these all going to StudioCanal?

[Sleepless]

Ever wanted to know the process to making a cover for a Criterion DVD? Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments DVD is explained here:

http://samsmyth.blogspot.com/2010/06/process-everlasting-moments-dvd-cover.html

I want to design posters and DVD covers now

[edison]

    * New, restored high-definition master (with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
    * The Oshima Gang, an original making-of featurette
    * New video interviews with producer Jeremy Thomas, screenwriter Paul Mayersberg, actor Tom Conti, and actor-composer Ryuichi Sakamoto
    * Hasten Slowly, an hour-long documentary about author and adventurer Laurens van der Post, whose autobiographical novel is the basis for the film
    * Original theatrical trailer
    * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film writer Chuck Stephens and a 1983 interview with director Nagisa Oshima by Japanese film writer Tadao Sato


    * New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Terrence Malick and cinematographer John Toll (with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
    * New audio commentary featuring Toll, production designer Jack Fisk, and producer Grant Hill
    * Outtakes from the film
    * Video interviews with several of the film’s actors, including Kirk Acevedo, Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, Tom Jane, Elias Koteas, Dash Mihok, and Sean Penn
    * New video interview with casting director Dianne Crittenden, featuring original audition footage
    * New interview with composer Hans Zimmer
    * New video piece featuring interviews with editors Billy Weber, Leslie Jones, and Saar Klein
    * An interview with writer James Jones’s daughter Kaylie Jones
    * World War II newsreels featuring footage from Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands
    * Original theatrical trailer
    * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt and a 1963 essay by James Jones on war films

[Pubrick]

Oh noes! the awkward C has finally done it. It's been threatening to devour the cover art since its creation, and now the thin red line has become its first casualty.

also, "Outtakes from the film" better not mean a blooper reel..

[S.R.]

Can't wait to see Terry Malick get punk'd!

"Oh, you guys!"

[Ravi]

I love Box Art Coming Soon.  I imported a Region 2 DVD of it a while back.

also, "Outtakes from the film" better not mean a blooper reel..

[Fernando]

Ever wanted to know the process to making a cover for a Criterion DVD? Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments DVD is explained here:

http://samsmyth.blogspot.com/2010/06/process-everlasting-moments-dvd-cover.html

thanks for posting that, it would be awesome if more designers blog about that process, also would be great if criterion encourage designers to do that.

[modage]

Ever wanted to know the process to making a cover for a Criterion DVD? Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments DVD is explained here:

http://samsmyth.blogspot.com/2010/06/process-everlasting-moments-dvd-cover.html

thanks for posting that, it would be awesome if more designers blog about that process, also would be great if criterion encourage designers to do that.

This guy has been doing it for a while.  I remember seeing the Berlin Alexanderplatz one about 2 years ago.

http://ericskillman.blogspot.com/search/label/design%20process