1954 AVAILABLE on BLU-RAY AND DVD!
THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS Diabolique CLOUZOT S INFLUENTIAL SUSPENSE MASTERPIECE RETURNS TO THE CRITERION COLLECTION IN BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITIONS WITH ALL NEW BONUS FEATURES! Before Psycho, Peeping Tom, and Repulsion, there was Diabolique. This thriller from Henri Georges Clouzot (Le corbeau, The Wages of Fear), which shocked audiences in Europe and the U.S., is the story of two women the fragile wife and the willful mistress of a sadistic school headmaster who hatch a daring revenge plot. With its unprecedented narrative twists and unforgettably scary images, Diabolique is a heart-grabbing benchmark in horror filmmaking, featuring outstanding performances by Simone Signoret (Casque d or, Army of Shadows), Vera Clouzot (The Wages of Fear), and Paul Meurisse (Le deuxième souffle, Army of Shadows). The best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made! Directly inspired both Vertigo and Psycho. Time Out New York Delicious chills... A murder thriller, ghost story, and character play rolled into one. The New York Times 1954 116 minutes Black & White Monaural In French with English subtitles 1.33:1 aspect ratio BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 Prebook 4/19/11 Street 5/17/11 Cat. no. CC2002BD ISBN 978-1-60465-414-1 UPC 7-15515-07081-2 DVD EDITION SRP $29.95 Prebook 4/19/11 Street 5/17/11 Cat. no. CC2003D ISBN 978-1-60465-415-8 UPC 7-15515-07091-1 SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition Selected-scene commentary by French-film scholar Kelley Conway New video interview with Serge Bromberg, codirector of Henri-Georges Clouzot s Inferno New video interview with horror film expert Kim Newman New and improved English subtitle translation PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty WINNER Prix Louis Delluc, 1954 WINNER Best Foreign-Language Film, New York Film Critics Circle, 1954 Summary and design 2011 The Criterion Collection. www.criterion.com
2001 now AVAILABLE in a BLU-RAY edition!
THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS Fat Girl CATHERINE BREILLAT S JOLTING TALE OF ADOLESCENT SEXUALITY NOW on BLU-RAY! WINNER Manfred Salzgeber Award, Berlin International Film Festival, 2001 WINNER Best Film, Chicago International Film Festival, 2001 Twelve-year-old Anaïs is fat. Her sister, fifteen-year-old Elena, is a beauty. While the girls are on vacation with their parents, Anaïs tags along while Elena explores the dreary seaside town. Elena meets Fernando, an Italian law student; he seduces her with promises of love, and the ever watchful Anaïs bears witness to the corruption of her sister s innocence. Fat Girl (À ma soeur!) is not only a portrayal of female adolescent sexuality and the complicated bond between siblings but also a shocking assertion by the always controversial Catherine Breillat (Romance, The Last Mistress) that violent oppression exists at the core of male-female relations. Few movies have so effectively conveyed the alienation of adolescence. Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune It will knock you for a loop. Michael O Sullivan, The Washington Post BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 Prebook 4/5/11 Street 5/3/11 Cat. no. CC2006BD ISBN 978-1-60465-418-9 UPC 7-15515-08021-7 director-approved Blu-ray SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES High-definition digital restoration, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack Behind-the-scenes footage from the making of Fat Girl Two interviews with director Catherine Breillat, one conducted the night after the film s world premiere at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival, the other a look back at the film s production and alternate ending French and U.S. theatrical trailers Plus: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau, a 2001 interview with Breillat, and a piece by Breillat on the title 2001 86 minutes Color Surround In French with English subtitles 1.85:1 aspect ratio Summary and design 2011 The Criterion Collection. www.criterion.com
1940 AVAILABLE on BLU-RAY AND DVD!
THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS The Great Dictator CHARLIE CHAPLIN S WORLD WAR II ERA CLASSIC COMES TO THE CRITERION COLLECTION IN BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITIONS! In his notorious masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin (City Lights, Modern Times) offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin (in his first pure talkie) brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish Tomanian dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Oakie (Thieves Highway, Lover Come Back) and Paulette Goddard (Modern Times, The Women) in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S. s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin s famously impassioned plea for tolerance. Chaplin s bravest moment... Remains wicked and subversive. David Thomson Timeless... A profound work of conscience. San Francisco Chronicle 1940 125 minutes Black & White Monaural 1.33:1 aspect ratio BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 Prebook 4/26/11 Street 5/24/11 Cat. no. CC2010BD ISBN 978-1-60465-422-6 UPC 7-15515-08061-3 SPECIAL edition FEATURES New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition New audio commentary by Charlie Chaplin historians Dan Kamin and Hooman Mehran The Tramp and the Dictator (2001), a documentary narrated by filmmaker Kenneth Branagh and featuring interviews with author Ray Bradbury, director Sidney Lumet, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., screenwriter Budd Schulberg, and a host of others Two new visual essays, by Chaplin archivist Cecilia Cenciarelli and Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance On-set, color production footage shot by Chaplin s half-brother, Sydney Deleted scene from Chaplin s 1919 film Sunnyside Theatrical trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Wood and a 1940 article by Chaplin on the film 2-dvd EDITION SRP $29.95 Prebook 4/26/11 Street 5/24/11 Cat. no. CC2011D ISBN 978-1-60465-423-3 UPC 7-15515-08071-2 nominee Best Picture/Best Actor/ Best Screenplay, Academy Awards, 1940 WINNER Best Actor, New York Film Critics Circle Awards, 1940 Summary and design 2011 The Criterion Collection. Oscar, Academy Award, and Academy Awards are the registered trademarks and service marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. www.criterion.com
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THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS Pale Flower THE MOODY CRIME BREAKTHROUGH FROM ONE OF THE MASTERS OF THE JAPANESE NEW WAVE IN CRITERION BLU-RAY AND DVD EDITIONS! In this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful yet enigmatic gambling addict; what at first seems a redemptive relationship ends up leading him further down the criminal path. Bewitchingly shot and edited and laced with a fever-dreamlike score by Toru Takemitsu (Woman in the Dunes, Ran), this breakthrough gangster romance from Masahiro Shinoda (Samurai Spy, Double Suicide) announced an idiosyncratic major filmmaking talent. The pitch-black Pale Flower (Kawaita hana) is an unforgettable excursion into the underworld. Arguably the most respected, and innovative, of yakuza films. The Wall Street Journal The best of Shinoda s New Wave films. Donald Richie BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 Prebook 4/19/11 Street 5/17/11 Cat. no. CC2012BD ISBN 978-1-60465-424-0 UPC 7-15515-08081-1 DVD EDITION SRP $29.95 Prebook 4/19/11 Street 5/17/11 Cat. no. CC2013D ISBN 978-1-60465-425-7 UPC 7-15515-08091-0 SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition New video interview with director Masahiro Shinoda Selected-scene audio commentary by film scholar Peter Grilli, coproducer of Music for the Movies: Toru Takemitsu Original theatrical trailer New and improved English subtitle translation PLUS: A new essay by film critic Chuck Stephens 1964 96 minutes Black & White Monaural In Japanese with English subtitles 2.35:1 aspect ratio Summary and design 2011 The Criterion Collection. www.criterion.com
Smiles of a Summer Night a film by ingmar bergman 1955 now AVAILABLE in a BLU-RAY edition!
THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS Smiles of a Summer Night BERGMAN S BEGUILING, MOONLIT ROMANTIC COMEDY NOW ON BLU-RAY! After fifteen films that received mostly local acclaim, the 1955 comedy Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende) at last ushered in an international audience for Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries). In turn-of-the-century Sweden, four men and four women of different classes attempt to navigate the laws of attraction. During a weekend in the country, the women collude to force the men s hands in matters of the heart, exposing their pretensions and insecurities along the way. Chock-full of flirtatious propositions and sharp witticisms delivered by such Swedish screen legends as Gunnar Björnstrand (The Seventh Seal, Winter Light) and Harriet Andersson (Through a Glass Darkly, Cries and Whispers), Smiles of a Summer Night is one of cinema s great erotic comedies. Magical, shimmering beauty... Enchanting. Time Out Blu-ray SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES Digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Video introduction to the film by director Ingmar Bergman One of the few classics of carnal comedy... Raises boudoir farce to elegance and lyric poetry. Pauline Kael 1955 108 minutes Black & White Monaural In Swedish with English subtitles 1:33.1 Aspect ratio Video conversation between Bergman scholar Peter Cowie and writer Jörn Donner, executive producer of Fanny and Alexander Original theatrical trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by theater and film critic John Simon and a 1961 review by film critic Pauline Kael BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 Prebook 4/5/11 Street 5/3/11 Cat. no. CC2007BD ISBN 978-1-60465-413-4 UPC 7-15515-07071-3 WINNER Special Award, Cannes Film Festival, 1956 Summary and design 2011 The Criterion Collection. www.criterion.com
0000 AVAILABLE in new BLU-RAY AND DVD editions!
THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS Solaris THE MIND-BLOWING SCIENCE FICTION MASTERPIECE BY ANDREI TARKOSVKY RETURNS TO THE CRITERION COLLECTION IN NEW BLU-RAY and dvd EDITIONs! Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness. In Solaris, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (Ivan s Childhood, Andrei Rublev) gives us a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself. Stands with the greatest science-fiction movies ever made. David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor A dazzlingly imaginative work with awesome production values and special effects that bear comparison to those of 2001. Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 Prebook 4/26/11 Street 5/24/11 Cat. no. CC1978BD ISBN 978-1-60465-385-4 UPC 7-15515-06781-2 2-dvd EDITION SRP $29.95 Prebook 4/26/11 Street 5/24/11 Cat. no. CC2029D ISBN 978-1-60465-447-9 UPC 7-15515-08361-4 SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition Audio essay by Andrei Tarkovsky scholars Vida Johnson and Graham Petrie, coauthors of The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue Nine deleted and alternate scenes Video interviews with actress Natalya Bondarchuk, cinematographer Vadim Yusov, art director Mikhail Romadin, and composer Eduard Artemyev Excerpt from a documentary about Stanislaw Lem, the author of the film s source novel PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Phillip Lopate and an appreciation by director Akira Kurosawa WINNER Grand Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival, 1972 1972 167 minutes Color Monaural In Russian with English subtitles 2.35:1 aspect ratio Summary and design 2011 The Criterion Collection. www.criterion.com
1986 AVAILABLE on BLU-RAY AND DVD!
THE CRITERION COLLECTION PRESENTS Something Wild JONATHAN DEMME S 1980s NOIRISH SCREWBALL COMEDY, STARRING JEFF DANIELS AND MELANIE GRIFFITH BRIGHTER THAN EVER IN NEW BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITIONS! A straitlaced businessman meets a quirky, free-spirited woman at a downtown New York greasy spoon. Her offer of a ride back to his office results in a lunchtime motel rendezvous just the beginning of a capricious interstate road trip that brings the two face-to-face with their hidden selves. Featuring a killer soundtrack and electric performances from Jeff Daniels (Terms of Endearment, The Squid and the Whale), Melanie Griffith (Body Double, Working Girl), and Ray Liotta (Field of Dreams, Goodfellas), Something Wild, directed by oddball American auteur Jonathan Demme (Stop Making Sense, The Silence of the Lambs), is both a kinky comic thriller and a radiantly off-kilter love story. Quite a movie. Demme is a master of finding the bizarre in the ordinary. Roger Ebert It has wit, originality, color, warmth and formal intelligence... Superbly unpredictable. Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New, restored digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Tak Fujimoto and approved by director Jonathan Demme, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition New video interviews with Demme and writer E. Max Frye Original theatrical trailer 1986 114 minutes Color Stereo 1.77:1 aspect ratio BLU-RAY EDITION SRP $39.95 Prebook 4/12/11 Street 5/10/11 Cat. no. CC2008BD ISBN 978-1-60465-419-6 UPC 7-15515-08031-6 DVD EDITION SRP $29.95 Prebook 4/12/11 Street 5/10/11 Cat. no. CC2009D ISBN 978-1-60465-420-2 UPC 7-15515-08041-5 PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic David Thompson WINNER Best Supporting Actor (Ray Liotta), Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, 1986 nominee Best Actor (Jeff Daniels) and Actress (Melanie Griffith) in a Comedy or Musical, Golden Globe Awards, 1986 Summary and design 2011 The Criterion Collection. www.criterion.com