Criterion

De blu ray versie is al uit, de DVD box staat voor December 14 2010 op de agenda.

De hoofdrol in deze releases is weggelegd voor Jack Nicholson.

Heb inmiddels op dvd Five Easy Pieces gezien, via alternatieve kanalen.
Leuke extra´s

# BBStory, a 2009 documentary about the BBS era, with Rafelson, actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Ellen Burstyn, and directors Peter Bogdanovich and Henry Jaglom, among others.

Criterion Blu-ray in April:

Blow Out
* New hour-long interview with De Palma, conducted by filmmaker Noah Baumbach
* New interview with star Nancy Allen
* Cameraman Garrett Brown on the Steadicam shots featured in the film within the film
* Select on-set photos from photographer Louis Goldman
* Original theatrical trailer
* A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Sragow and Pauline Kael's original New Yorker review



Le cercle rouge
* Excerpts from Cinéastes de notre temps: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
* Video interviews with assistant director Bernard Stora and Rui Nogueria, the author of Melville on Melville
* Thirty minutes of rare on-set and archival footage, featuring interviews with director Jean-Pierre Melville and stars Alain Delon, Yves Montand, and André Bourvil
* Original theatrical trailer and 2003 Rialto Pictures rerelease trailer
* A booklet featuring essays by film critics Michael Sragow and Chris Fujiwara, excerpts from Melville on Melville, a reprinted interview with composer Eric Demarsan, and an appreciation from director John Woo



Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
* Audio commentaries:
o Terry Gilliam
o Stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro and producer Laila Nabulsi
o Author Hunter S. Thompson
* Deleted scenes, with optional commentary by Gilliam
* Selection of Thompson correspondence, read on camera by Depp
* Hunter Goes to Hollywood, a short documentary by filmmaker Wayne Ewing
* A look at the controversy over the screenwriting credit
* Profile of Oscar Zeta Acosta, the inspiration for Dr. Gonzo
* Collection of artwork by illustrator Ralph Steadman
* Audio excerpt from the 1996 spoken-word CD Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, featuring filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and actor Maury Chaykin
* Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood, a 1978 BBC documentary with Thompson and Steadman
* Storyboards, production designs, stills gallery, theatrical trailer, and TV spots
* A booklet featuring an essay by critic J. Hoberman and two pieces by Thompson



Kes
* Making "Kes," a new documentary featuring Loach, Menges, producer Tony Garnett, and actor David Bradley
* The Southbank Show: "Ken Loach" (1993), a profile of the filmmaker, featuring Loach, Garnett, directors Stephen Frears and Alan Parker, and other Loach collaborators
* Cathy Come Home (1967), a feature directed by Loach and produced by Garnett, with an introduction by film writer Graham Fuller
* Original theatrical trailer
* A booklet featuring an essay by Fuller



Sweetie
* Audio commentary featuring Jane Campion, director of photoraphy Sally Bongers, and screenwriter Gerard Lee
* Making "Sweetie," a video conversation between stars Genevieve Lemon and Karen Colston
* Campion's early short films An Exercise in Discipline: Peel, Passionless Moments, and A Girl's Own Story
* Jane Campion: The Film School Years, a 1989 video conversation between Campion and critic Peter Thompson
* Gallery of behind-the-scenes photos and production stills
* Original theatrical trailer
* A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Dana Polan



White Material
* New interviews with Clare Denis and actors Isabelle Huppert and Isaach de Bankolé
* Short documentary by Denis on the film's premiere at the Écrans Noirs Film Festival 2010 in Cameroon
* Deleted scene
* Theatrical trailer
* A booklet featuring a new essay by film writer Amy Taubin

The Criterion Collection has announced a record seven titles for Blu-ray release in May. On May 3, it will release Fat Girl (À ma soeur; Catherine Breillat, 2001) and Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende; Ingmar Bergman, 1955). A week later, it will release Something Wild (Jonathan Demme, 1986). On May 17, the studio will put out Diabolique (Les diaboliques; Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1954) and Pale Flower (Kawaita Hana; Masahiro Shinoda, 1964). And last but not least, May 24 will see BD releases for The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin, 1940) and Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972).

The transfer of Fat Girl has been director approved. Something Wild is approved by director of photography Tak Fujimoto.

Nieuwe BR Criterion's in juli:




Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Mike Leigh, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
Audio commentary by Leigh and actors David Thewlis and Katrin Cartlidge
Exclusive video interview with director Neil LaBute
An episode of the BBC program The Art Zone in which author Will Self interviews Leigh
The Short and Curlies, a short comedy from 1982 directed by Leigh and starring Thewlis, with audio commentary by Leigh
Original theatrical trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film critics Derek Malcolm and Amy Taubin




Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
High-definition digital transfer from restored film elements, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Composer Philip Glass's opera La Belle et la Bête, presented in 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio as an alternate soundtrack
Two commentaries: one by film historian Arthur Knight and one by writer and cultural historian Sir Christopher Frayling
Screening at the Majestic, a 1995 documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew
Interview with cinematographer Henri Alekan
Rare behind-the-scenes photos and publicity stills
Film restoration demonstration
Original trailer, directed and narrated by director Jean Cocteau, plus restoration trailer from 1995
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Geoffrey O'Brien, a piece on the film by Cocteau, excerpts from Francis Steegmuller's 1970 book Cocteau: A Biography, and an introduction to Glass's opera by the composer




The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958)
New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Satyajit Ray (1984), a feature documentary by Shyam Benegal that chronicles Ray's career and includes interviews with the filmmaker, family photographs, and extensive clips from his films
New interview with filmmaker Mira Nair
New interview in which Ray biographer Andrew Robinson discusses the making of The Music Room and the film's cultural significance
Excerpt from a 1981 French roundtable discussion with Ray, film critic Michel Ciment, and filmmaker Claude Sautet
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Philip Kemp as well as reprints of a 1963 essay by Ray and a 1986 interview with the director about the film's music




High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
High-definition digital restoration, with original four-track surround sound presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
Audio commentary by Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
Documentary on the making of High and Low, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
Rare video interview with actor Toshiro Mifune
Video interview with actor Tsutomu Yamazaki, who plays the kidnapper
Theatrical trailers from Japan and the U.S.
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien and a reprinted on- set account by Japanese film scholar Donald Richie




Léon Morin, Priest (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1961)
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Archival interview with director Jean-Pierre Melville and actor Jean-Paul Belmondo
Visual essay by French film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
Original theatrical trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic and novelist Gary Indiana




Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz, 2010)
New digital transfer, supervised and approved by director of photography Ed Lachman, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
Ask Todd, an audio Q&A with director Todd Solondz
Making "Life During Wartime," a new documentary featuring interviews with actors Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, Michael Lerner, Paul Reubens, Ally Sheedy, and Michael Kenneth Williams, and on-set footage of the actors and crew
New video piece in which Lachman discusses his work on the film
Original theatrical trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt

Bron

November BR-releases van Criterion:

Eventueel Rushmore, mar daar heb ik de dvd al van.

La Règle du Jeu Ben nu blij dat ik gewacht heb met die te zien. Al ziet de transfer van de Franse blu-ray er niet al te best uit. De dvd van La Règle du Jeu was echter ook al minder scherp dan die van La Grande Illusion.

Kunnen we weer even vooruit.

Nieuwe aankondigingen:

De aankondigingen voor Mei:

Die Robert Downey Sr. box komt er zeker in! De rest sla ik over...

Qua hoezen heb ik weleens betere maanden gezien, qua titels ook trouwens.

Er moet blijkbaar geld binnenkomen. Criterion gata qua titels nogal lijken op de Quality Film Collection. Alleen niet 3 voor 25€. Alleen de Eclipse boxen zijn nog merendeel de moeite.

De aankondigingen voor juni:
















Ten slotte wordt ook The Samurai Trilogy op BD uitgebracht. Voor Criterion hun doen waren de DVD's toendertijd van zeer matige transfers. En dan heb ik het nog zachtjes uitgedrukt.

Zit niets interesants tussen. De hoezen zijn wel erg mooi, maar ik ga geen van deze titels kopen!

Heb een ongelofelijk vette serie aan fake criterion posters gevonden, door Midgnight Marauder:

Vol 1.
Vol 2.
Vol 3.
Vol 4.
Vol 5.

Geweldig!

Er zitten erbij die beter zijn dan veel uit de reeks. Als ze pakweg ooit Black Swan releasen zou ik niet verder kijken, gewoon meteen deze nemen. Een van de mooiste van het hele stel.

Ik zou dit ook wel willen kunnen eigenlijk.

Zitten een paar lelijke posters tussen maar het overgrote deel is werkelijk prachtig. Ik hoop dat Criterion dit aantal ook ontdekt en misschien een paar posters gebruiken voor toekomstige releases

Hier nog meer (1 & 2).

Wat ik er zo van zie toch allemaal van een (veel) lager niveau.

Criterion heeft voor juli Kindergarten Cop bevestigd:



Informatie

Unieke foto's waar Stanley Kubrick en Akira Kurosawa samen te zien zijn met Arnold Schwarzenegger:

dagje te laat?

Huh?

Haha!

De titels voor juli zijn aangekondigd:

Mij Criterion collectie op laserdisc

Bij de DVDBeaver quiz/contest elke week kans op een gratis Criterion...



PS
Clip uit welke Criterion release trouwens?

Wow Reinbo, hoe cool!

@Reinbo : Jawadde !