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New Criterion Blu-ray Announcements: Hunger, Lola Montès, Revanche

It’s another one of those magnificent Mondays where the Criterion Collection reveals another series of additions to their line up of glorious Blu-ray discs. Details and trailers below:

REVANCHE
(February 16, 2010 - MSRP $39.95)
Video: 1.85:1 1080p
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio

Special Features:

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Götz Spielmann (with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
• New video interview with Spielmann
• The Making of “Revanche,” a half-hour documentary shot on the film’s set
• Foreign Land, Spielmann’s award-winning student short film, with an introduction by the director
• U.S. theatrical trailer
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Wood

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HUNGER
(February 16, 2010 - MSRP $39.95)
Video: 2.35:1 1080p
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio

Special Features:

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Steve McQueen (with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
• Video interviews with McQueen and actor Michael Fassbender
• A short documentary on the making of Hunger, including interviews with McQueen, Fassbender, actors Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, and Brian Milligan, writer Enda Walsh, and producer Robin Gutch
• “The Provo’s Last Card?” a 1981 episode of the BBC program Panorama, about the causes and effects of the IRA hunger strikes at the Maze prison and the political and civilian reactions across Northern Ireland
• Theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Chris Darke

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LOLA MONTÈS
(February 16, 2010 - MSRP $39.95)
Video: 2.55:1 1080p
Audio: uncompressed stereo

Special Features:

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
• Audio commentary featuring Max Ophuls scholar Susan White
• “Max Ophuls ou le plaisir de tourner,” a 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps, featuring interviews with many of Ophuls’s collaborators
• Max by Marcel, a new documentary by Marcel Ophuls about his father and the making of Lola Montès
• Silent footage of actress Martine Carol demonstrating the various glamorous hairstyles in Lola Montès
• Theatrical rerelease trailer from Rialto Pictures
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Gary Giddins

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