Criterion News and Discussion

[w/o horse]

Art:

BTW, who else is counting down the days until the Imamura box is released?

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ha. ha.

I want to replace my Criterion Collection DVDs with new Blu-ray editions. Do you have an upgrade program?
We offer a $20 Blu-ray upgrade program for customers who have already bought the equivalent edition on DVD. Just mail your disc, along with a check or money order for $20 (plus $5 shipping and handling), made payable to the Criterion Collection, to:

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for just $25 i can upgrade to a blu-ray from a regular dvd?!

[Ghostboy]

Art:

BTW, who else is counting down the days until the Imamura box is released?

A friend of mine shot the special features for this. Afterwards, he got to go into the Criterion library and take his pick of titles! Best freelance job ever.

[SiliasRuby]

Thats really fucking cool.

[edison]

A friend of mine shot the special features for this. Afterwards, he got to go into the Criterion library and take his pick of titles! Best freelance job ever.

Did your friend get any scoop on future releases?

[edison]

-New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by producer-director Al Reinert (with a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
-Audio commentary featuring Reinert and Apollo 17 commander Eugene A. Cernan, the last man to set foot on the moon
-An Accidental Gift: The Making of "For All Mankind," a new documentary featuring interviews with Reinert, Apollo 12 and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean, and NASA archive specialists Don Pickard, Mike Gentry, Morris Williams, and Chuck Welch
-On Camera, a collection of excerpted on-screen interviews with fifteen of the Apollo astronauts
-New video program about Bean's artwork, accompanied by a gallery of his paintings
-NASA audio highlights and liftoff footage
-Optional on-screen identification of astronauts and mission control specialists
-PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film critic Terrence Rafferty and Reinert


-New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with an uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
-Audio commentary featuring director Roman Polanski and actress Catherine Deneuve
-A British Horror Film (2003), a documentary on the making of Repulsion, featuring interviews with Polanski, producer Gene Gutowski, and cinematographer Gil Taylor
-A 1964 television documentary filmed on the set of Repulsion, featuring rare footage of Polanski and Deneuve at work
-Theatrical trailer
-PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar and curator Bill Horrigan


FOUR-DISC SPECIAL EDITION:
-New, restored high-definition digital transfer
-Excerpt from a rare Directors Guild of Japan video interview with director Masaki Kobayashi, conducted by filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda (Double Suicide)
-New video interview with actor Tatsuya Nakadai
-Video appreciation of Kobayashi and The Human Condition featuring Shinoda
-Japanese theatrical trailers
-New and improved English subtitle translation
-PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Philip Kemp


-New, restored high-definition digital transfer
-Interviews with stars Anna Karina and Lászlo Szábó
-A video piece on the personal and the political in Made in U.S.A and 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, featuring Godard biographers Richard Brody and Colin MacCabe
-A visual essay cataloguing the multiple references in the film
-Original and rerelease theatrical trailers
-New and improved English subtitle translation
-PLUS: A new essay by film critic J. Hoberman

[SiliasRuby]

Very happy about 'repulsion' and 'Made in USA'

[Gold Trumpet]

Made in USA is the big annoucement. Repulsion has already been available and is good to just see on Criterion, but it's release isn't moving me very much. On the other hand, Made in USA has been unavailable in the United States since it was originally made in 1966. It resembles an Army of Shadows situation where a film by a major artist was (for whatever reason) just never released here. The film was made at the same time as 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (which is the Godard title I want most on DVD) and was done as a favor by Godard to one of his producers, but it's another great day in cinema that this is getting a formal DVD release. The theatrical debut of this film happened in the United States just last month and it's nice to see Criterion doing such a quick follow up with the DVD.

[SiliasRuby]

I've been waiting for this Godard piece for a while. This and Contempt on Blu-ray. GT, have you heard any updates on the blu-ray version of 'Contempt'? Or do I buy the original and just upgrade. I LOVE 'contempt'. So, GT, any news on that or any future Nicolas Roeg?

[Gold Trumpet]

I've been waiting for this Godard piece for a while. This and Contempt on Blu-ray. GT, have you heard any updates on the blu-ray version of 'Contempt'? Or do I buy the original and just upgrade. I LOVE 'contempt'. So, GT, any news on that or any future Nicolas Roeg?

No new information (that I know of) of Contempt on Blu-ray. Criterion wants to release a good amount of their library onto Blu-Ray, but it's not the most simple transition. There are always blockers of some kind so expect new Blu-Ray transfers of old DVDs to just trickle in over time.

And no information about Roeg. I wouldnt expect news immediately at all. Whenever Criterion breaks through on a deal with a studio, it always takes time to release the first assumed titles. Criterion is just releasing the Last Metro, but that film was bandied about immediately when Criterion had come to terms with Fox (which was years ago). People just assumed Criterion would release it immediately because they finally could, but things take time.

[bonanzataz]

Thank god Fincher finally gets the Criterion treatment, even though each of his DVD releases has been up to that quality anyways.  The Game is of course the exception.

fincher and crew criterion "the game" commentary track
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1B5CXTJ5

criterion LD special features
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MHCLQF62

don't say old tazzy never did anything for ya...


have a few other oop commentaries. say the word and they're yours...

[SiliasRuby]

I've been waiting for this Godard piece for a while. This and Contempt on Blu-ray. GT, have you heard any updates on the blu-ray version of 'Contempt'? Or do I buy the original and just upgrade. I LOVE 'contempt'. So, GT, any news on that or any future Nicolas Roeg?

No new information (that I know of) of Contempt on Blu-ray. Criterion wants to release a good amount of their library onto Blu-Ray, but it's not the most simple transition. There are always blockers of some kind so expect new Blu-Ray transfers of old DVDs to just trickle in over time.

And no information about Roeg. I wouldn't expect news immediately at all. Whenever Criterion breaks through on a deal with a studio, it always takes time to release the first assumed titles. Criterion is just releasing the Last Metro, but that film was bandied about immediately when Criterion had come to terms with Fox (which was years ago). People just assumed Criterion would release it immediately because they finally could, but things take time.

I'm a patient man, especially for any truffaut, roeg, and Godard. Although, I've been anxiously awaiting 'Insignificance'....which I guess is on the waiting list with 'the game', 'two or three things I know' and others.

[john]

Just saw Made in U.S.A.

Pretty tedious. Almost like a satire of a Godard film. It gets sporadically interesting, but mostly just seems muddled, unfocused, and obnoxiously antagonistic. Which was a shame because I was really looking forward to it.

If I could ask Godard one question, I'd ask him how someone who claims to love cinema so much can hate cinema so much.

Pretty good cover, though.

Also... Repulsion... fuck yeah.

[edison]

-New, restored high-definition digital transfer
-Archival television interviews: the first featuring actress Marina Vlady on the set of the film, the second with Jean-Luc Godard engaged in debate with a government official on the subject of prostitution
-New video interview with Godard friend Antoine Bourseiller
-A visual essay cataloguing the multiple references in the film
-New and improved English subtitle translation
-PLUS: A new essay by Sasha Frere-Jones

[Gold Trumpet]

YES! Long over due considering the timing of its theatrical release, but very very welcome. I still not am a huge Godard fan on any level, but he is growing on me more and more. One of my more exciting projects is that I am preparing to lecture on Breathless at university level for the next coming semesters, but even still, I'm a quasi fan. I love some of his films (Breathless) but don't understand the appeal of others at all (Alphaville). All that being said, the discussion of 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her has always fascinated me and it's the one Godard I've been pining for.