God help me but I’m going to be completely broke by the end of this year if this keeps up. I’m sorry to sing the same song over and over again but Criterion proves month after month that they can read my mind, choosing some of my favourite films to bring to Blu-ray. And this batch of announcements, all due out this coming September is no exception. From Godard to Malick, Donen to Oshima – these are all incredible movies and I need to own them all on Blu-ray! Details below:
PS: See, I told you Criterion was preparing The Thin Red Line for Blu-ray disc!
PPS: If you love Godard, as I do, rush out and grab up the Breathless Blu-ray as soon as it hits the shelves. It’s licensed from Studio Canal and, for all we know, could end up going Out Of Print sooner than we suspect, just as other Criterion titles have of late.
CHARADE
(September 21, 2010 – MSRP $39.95)
Video: 1.85:1 1080p
Audio: TBA
Special Features:
- New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound and enhanced for widescreen telelvisions
- Audio commentary: A conversation with Stanley Donen and screenwriter Peter Stone
- The Films of Stanley Donen: A selected filmography, with an introduction by Donen biographer Stephen M. Silverman
- Peter Stone’s career highlights
- Original theatrical trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
BREATHLESS
(September 14, 2010 – MSRP $39.95)
Video: 1.33:1 1080p
Audio: TBA
Special Features:
- Restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director of photography Raoul Coutard
- Archival interviews with director Jean-Luc Godard, and actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, and Jean-Pierre Melville
- New video interviews with Coutard, assistant director Pierre Rissient, and filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker
- New video essays: filmmaker and critic Mark Rappaport’s “Jean Seberg” and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum’s “Breathless as Film Criticism”
- Chambre 12, Hotel de suede, an eighty-minute French documentary about the making of Breathless, with members of the cast and crew
- Charlotte et son Jules, a 1959 short film by Godard, starring Belmondo
- French theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring writings from Godard, film historian Dudley Andrew, François Truffaut’s original film treatment, and Godard’s scenario
MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE
(September 28, 2010 – MSRP $39.95)
Video: 1.78:1 1080p
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio
Special Features:
- New, restored high-definition master with DTS-HD Master Audio
- The Oshima Gang, an original making-of featurette
- New video interviews with producer Jeremy Thomas, screenwriter Paul Mayersberg, actor Tom Conti, and actor-composer Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Hasten Slowly, an hour-long documentary about author and adventurer Laurens van der Post, whose autobiographical novel is the basis for the film
- Original theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film writer Chuck Stephens and a 1983 interview with director Nagisa Oshima by Japanese film writer Tadao Sato
THE THIN RED LINE
(September 28, 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 Terrence Malick and cinematographer John Toll (with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
- New audio commentary featuring Toll, production designer Jack Fisk, and producer Grant Hill
- Outtakes from the film
- Video interviews with several of the film’s actors, including Kirk Acevedo, Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, Tom Jane, Elias Koteas, Dash Mihok, and Sean Penn
- New video interview with casting director Dianne Crittenden, featuring original audition footage
- New interview with composer Hans Zimmer
- New video piece featuring interviews with editors Billy Weber, Leslie Jones, and Saar Klein
- An interview with writer James Jones’s daughter Kaylie Jones
- World War II newsreels featuring footage from Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands
- Original theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt and a 1963 essay by James Jones on war films
the thin red line is my fav movie ever. glad criterion is making the blu-ray of it. when are they going to make a badlands blu-ray?
Hi Dennis! No word on Badlands yet for Region A. I’ll write up a post the minute I hear something.