This is the part of the month that gets me most excited – the new Criterion Collection announcements are here! August will see the release of Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus, a groundbreaking Brazilian film with an incredible score by bossa nova legend Antônio Carlos Jobim, and Terry Zwigoff‘s documentary portrait of legendary underground comic book creator Robert Crumb in his aptly-named film, Crumb. Both works are stunning and deserve to make it to the top of your must-buy list for August. Details below:
BLACK ORPHEUS
(August 17, 2010 – MSRP $39.95)
Video: 1.33:1 1080
Audio: Uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Special Features:
- 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
CRUMB
(August 10, 2010 – MSRP $39.95)
Video: 1.33:1 1080
Audio: Uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Special Features:
- 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
- More than fifty minutes of unused footage
- Stills gallery
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
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